Posts Tagged ‘marriage-proposal’

The Sound of Music (1965)

Friday, March 12th, 2010
Genres: Biography | Drama | Family | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Julie Andrews | Christopher Plummer | Richard Haydn | Peggy Wood | Anna Lee | Portia Nelson | Ben Wright | Daniel Truhitte | Norma Varden | Marni Nixon | Gilchrist Stuart | Evadne Baker | Doris Lloyd | Charmian Carr | Nicholas Hammond
Directors: Robert Wise
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Captain Baron von Trapp is a widowed ex-naval officer with seven children who serve only to remind him of his deceased wife. The Von Trapp home is thus turned into a gloomy place of order and discipline, until the arrival of a new governess: Frauline Marie who is from a nearby Salzburg abbey. Marie shows the Von Trapp children the miracle of the Sound of Music, and teaches them how to sing. Captain von Trapp’s heart opens up to feelings he had forgotten and he and Marie fall in love. Marie and Georg von Trapp are married, only to have their world brought down around them by the 1938 Anschluss of Austria, where Nazi Germany takes control of the country and demands that Captain von Trapp assume a position in the German Navy.

Annie Hall (1977)

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Diane Keaton | Tony Roberts | Carol Kane | Paul Simon | Shelley Duvall | Janet Margolin | Colleen Dewhurst | Christopher Walken | Donald Symington | Helen Ludlam | Mordecai Lawner | Joan Neuman | Jonathan Munk | Ruth Volner
Directors: Woody Allen
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After breaking up with his girlfriend Annie Hall, neurotic comedian Alvy Singer goes on a stream of conciousness journey through his memories of their relationship, trying to find out what caused them to part ways. He often breaks the fourth wall, speaking to the camera, entering peoples’ stories, and even using animation.

How to Steal a Million (1966)

Monday, June 8th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Audrey Hepburn | Peter O'Toole | Eli Wallach | Hugh Griffith | Charles Boyer | Fernand Gravey | Marcel Dalio | Jacques Marin | Moustache | Roger Tréville | Edward Malin | Bert Bertram | Georg Stanford Brown | Rémy Longa | Jacques Ramade
Directors: William Wyler
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Charles Bonnet, the latest in a long line of master art forgers, loans one of his best works, a faux Cellini Venus, to a Paris museum despite his daughter Nicole’s objections. Later, Nicole surprises a tuxedo-clad burglar in her father’s workshop. She can’t call the police because her father’s hobby might be discovered, so she ends up driving the man—Simon Dermott—back to his hotel. Dermott is actually an inspector who is gathering evidence against Bonnet, but his attraction to Nicole complicates the assignment. Nicole learns that the museum plans to conduct a test on the Venus for insurance purposes, which she knows will expose the statue as a fake. To save her father from jail, she asks Simon to steal it, unaware of his true identity. Simon, intrigued by the challenge and now smitten with Miss Bonnet, agrees to the proposal.

Vanity Fair (2004)

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Gabriel Byrne | Angelica Mandy | Roger Lloyd-Pack | Ruth Sheen | Kate Fleetwood | Reese Witherspoon | Lillete Dubey | Romola Garai | Tony Maudsley | Deborah Findlay | John Franklyn-Robbins | Paul Bazely | Rhys Ifans | Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Charlie Beall
Directors: Mira Nair
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The British Empire flowers; exotic India colors English imaginations. Becky Sharp, the orphaned daughter of a painter and a singer, leaves a home for girls to be a governess, armed with pluck, a keen wit, good looks, fluent French, and an eye for social advancement. Society tries its best to keep her from climbing. An episodic narrative follows her for 20 years, through marriage, Napoleonic wars, a child, loyalty to a school friend, the vicissitudes of the family whose daughters she instructed, and attention from a bored marquess who collected her father’s paintings. Honesty tempers her schemes. No aristocrat she, nor bourgeois, just spirited, intelligent, and irrepressible.

Team America: World Police (2004)

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Animation | Comedy
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Matt Stone
Directors: Trey Parker
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Team America follows an international police force dedicated to maintaining global stability. Learning that power hungry dictator Kim Jong Il (Parker) is out to destroy the world, the team recuits Broadway star Gary Johnston (Parker) to go undercover. With the help of Team America (Stone, Miller, Masasa, Parker, and Norris), Gary manages to slip into an arms dealer’s hideout to uncover the plan to destroy the world. Will Team America be able to save the world?

Amadeus (1984)

Monday, April 6th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: F. Murray Abraham | Tom Hulce | Elizabeth Berridge | Roy Dotrice | Simon Callow | Christine Ebersole | Jeffrey Jones | Charles Kay | Kenneth McMillan | Kenny Baker | Lisabeth Bartlett | Barbara Bryne | Martin Cavina
Directors: Milos Forman
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Antonio Salieri believes that Mozart’s music is divine. He wishes he was himself as good a musician as Mozart so that he can praise the Lord through composing. But he can’t understand why God favored Mozart, such a vulgar creature, to be his instrument. Salieri’s envy has made him an enemy of God whose greatness was evident in Mozart. He is set to take revenge.

The Strangers (2008)

Friday, March 27th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Alex Fisher | Peter Clayton-Luce | Scott Speedman | Liv Tyler | Gemma Ward | Kip Weeks | Laura Margolis | Glenn Howerton
Directors: Bryan Bertino
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After returning from a wedding reception, a couple staying in an isolated vacation house receive a knock on the door in the mid-hours of the night. What ensues is a violent invasion by three strangers, their faces hidden behind masks. The couple find themselves in a violent struggle, in which they go beyond what either of them thought capable in order to survive.

Edison (2005)

Sunday, March 1st, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Kevin Spacey | Morgan Freeman | Justin Timberlake | LL Cool J | Dylan McDermott | John Heard | Damien Wayans | Françoise Yip | Garfield Wilson | Andrew Jackson | Marco Sanchez | Darryl Quon | Timothy Paul Perez | Robert Miano | B.J. Harrison
Directors: David J. Burke
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Josh Pollack, a naive and ambitious reporter, is convinced the F.R.A.T., an elite force within the Edison Police Department, is corrupted. Working on a homicide case, he begins to unearth evidence which suggests that the entire justice system is willingly turning a blind eye to the abuses of the this force. When his life and that of his girlfriend are threatened from his research, he join forces with his editor, a once-famous reporter, and a renown private detective to bring down the F.R.A.T. and every one behind it.

Deliver Us from Eva (2003)

Monday, February 9th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: LL Cool J | Gabrielle Union | Duane Martin | Essence Atkins | Robinne Lee | Meagan Good | Mel Jackson | Dartanyan Edmonds | Kym Whitley | Royale Watkins | Matt Winston | Ruben Paul | Dorian Gregory | Kenya Moore | Yuri Brown
Directors: Gary Hardwick
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Eva Dandridge is a very uptight young woman who constantly meddles in the affairs of her sisters and their husbands. Her in-laws, who are tired of Eva interfering in their lives, decide to set her up with someone so she can leave them alone. They end up paying Ray, the local “playboy,” $5,000 to date her. The plan goes by smoothly, but troubles comes when Ray actually falls in love with Eva.

Bell Book and Candle (1958)

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: James Stewart | Kim Novak | Jack Lemmon | Ernie Kovacs | Hermione Gingold | Elsa Lanchester | Janice Rule | Philippe Clay | Bek Nelson | Howard McNear | The Brothers Candoli | Monty Ash | Joe Barry | Wolfe Barzell | William Bloom
Directors: Richard Quine
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Gillian Holroyd is just your average, modern-day, witch, living in a New York apartment with her Siamese familiar, Pyewacket. But one day a handsome publisher, Shep Henderson walks into her building and Gillian decides she wants him—especially as it turns out he’s marrying Merle Kittridge, an old poison penpal from Gillian’s college days. So, Gillian casts a spell over Shep. But her powers are in danger of being exorcised by something stronger than the bell-book-and-candle routine: Love.