Posts Tagged ‘marriage’

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.

The Astronaut’s Wife (1999)

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Johnny Depp | Charlize Theron | Joe Morton | Clea DuVall | Donna Murphy | Nick Cassavetes | Samantha Eggar | Gary Grubbs | Blair Brown | Tom Noonan | Tom O'Brien | Lucy Lin | Michael Crider | Jacob Stein | Timothy Wicker
Directors: Rand Ravich
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Astronaut Spencer Armacoust was on a mission when he suddenly lost contact. When he got home, to friends he was the same, but to his wife he was different. She becomes pregnant, but as time progresses she begins to feel like the lives inside of her are not of this world.

The Lion in Winter (1968)

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | History
Countries: UK
Actors: Peter O'Toole | Katharine Hepburn | Anthony Hopkins | John Castle | Nigel Terry | Timothy Dalton | Jane Merrow | Nigel Stock | Kenneth Ives | O.Z. Whitehead | Fran Stafford | Ella More | Kenneth Griffith | Henry Woolf | Karol Hagar
Directors: Anthony Harvey
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In 1183 Henry II summonses his sons Richard, John, and Geoffrey to join him and his prison-bound wife Eleanor at Chinon for a family Christmas, along with King Philip II of France and his sister Alais, Henry’s mistress. Philip is insisting Alais now marries John as agreed years before else he wants her dowry, the lands of the Vexen, back. As Eleanor has already given the province of Aquitaine to Richard, the outcome of this may decide the very future of England. Everyone present except perhaps Alais are masters of double-dealing and deceipt, so it could be a lively Yuletide.

My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988)

Saturday, July 11th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Dan Aykroyd | Kim Basinger | Jon Lovitz | Alyson Hannigan | Joseph Maher | Seth Green | Ann Prentiss | Wesley Mann | Tony Jay | Peter Bromilow | Nina Henderson | Harry Shearer | Adrian Sparks | Juliette Lewis | Tanya Fenmore
Directors: Richard Benjamin
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Widowed astronomer Steven Mills accidentally sends a great surge of energy out into space, threatening life on another world. They respond by dispatching one of their race disguised in deliberately attractive human form (Celeste Martin) to Earth to sort things out, accompanied by a rather less attractive superior (Bag). Steven is indeed attracted, as is his untrustworthy brother, while Celeste becomes increasingly fond of Steven’s young daughter.

Spawn (1997)

Saturday, July 11th, 2009
Genres: Action | Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Michael Jai White | John Leguizamo | Martin Sheen | Theresa Randle | Nicol Williamson | D.B. Sweeney | Melinda Clarke | Miko Hughes | Sydni Beaudoin | Michael Papajohn | Frank Welker | Robia LaMorte | John Cothran Jr. | Caroline Gibson | Tony Haney
Directors: Mark A.Z. Dippé
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The movie adaptation of Todd McFarlane’s mega-cult comic! Al Simmons is a hitman who works for the government. One day, someone sets him up and he gets killed. Of course, he goes to Hell, where Malebolgia - the Devil himself - offers him a deal. Al will come back to life with a certain amount of “energy”, but when it runs out, he will return to Hell as a Hellspawn, and help in the war against Heaven. Al accepts the offer, because of the love for his wife Wanda, but when he arrives to Earth he sees that the Devil has cheated him… His face is horribly distorted, his body covered with a living suit, and the worst of all; he finds Wanda married with his best friend. Shattered, the Spawn starts wandering in New York’s alleys…

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.

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Duane Jones | Judith O'Dea | Karl Hardman | Marilyn Eastman | Keith Wayne | Judith Ridley | Kyra Schon | Charles Craig | S. William Hinzman | George Kosana | Frank Doak | Bill 'Chilly Billy' Cardille | A.C. McDonald
Directors: George A. Romero
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Chaos descends upon the world as the brains of the recently deceased become inexplicably reanimated, causing the dead to rise and feed on human flesh. Speculation rests on a radiation-covered NASA satellite returning from Venus, but it only remains a speculation. Anyone who dies during the crisis of causes unrelated to brain trauma will return as a flesh-eating zombie, including anyone who has been bitten by a zombie. The only way to destroy the zombies is to destroy the brain. As the catastrophe unfolds, a young woman visiting her father’s grave takes refuge in a nearby farmhouse, where she is met by a man who protects her and barricades them inside. They both later discover people hiding in the basement, and they each attempt to cope with the situation. Their only hope rests on getting some gasoline from a nearby pump into a truck that is running on empty, but this requires braving the hordes of ravenous walking corpses outside. When they finally put their plans into action, panic and personal tensions only add to the terror as they try to survive.

The Age of Innocence (1993)

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis | Michelle Pfeiffer | Winona Ryder | Alexis Smith | Geraldine Chaplin | Mary Beth Hurt | Alec McCowen | Richard E. Grant | Miriam Margolyes | Robert Sean Leonard | Siân Phillips | Jonathan Pryce | Michael Gough | Joanne Woodward | Stuart Wilson
Directors: Martin Scorsese
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Society scion Newland Archer is engaged to May Welland, but his well-ordered life is upset when he meets May’s unconventional cousin, the Countess Olenska. At first, Newland becomes a defender of the Countess, whose separation from her abusive husband makes her a social outcast in the restrictive high society of late-19th Century New York, but he finds in her a companion spirit and they fall in love.

Doctor Zhivago (1965)

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Omar Sharif | Julie Christie | Geraldine Chaplin | Rod Steiger | Alec Guinness | Tom Courtenay | Siobhan McKenna | Ralph Richardson | Rita Tushingham | Jeffrey Rockland | Tarek Sharif | Bernard Kay | Klaus Kinski | Gérard Tichy | Noel Willman
Directors: David Lean
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A Russian epic, the movie traces the life of surgeon-poet Yury Zhivago before and during the Russian Revolution. Married to an upper-class girl who is devoted to him, yet in love with an unfortunate woman who becomes his muse, Zhivago is torn between fidelity and passion. Sympathetic with the revolution but shaken by the wars and purges, he struggles to retain his individualism as a humanist amid the spirit of collectivism.

Indecent Proposal (1993)

Monday, June 8th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Robert Redford | Demi Moore | Woody Harrelson | Seymour Cassel | Oliver Platt | Billy Bob Thornton | Rip Taylor | Billy Connolly | Joel Brooks | Pierre Epstein | Danny Zorn | Kevin West | Pamela Holt | Tommy Bush | Mariclare Costello
Directors: Adrian Lyne
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A young couple very much in love are married and have started their respective careers, she as a real estate broker, he as an architect. She finds the perfect spot to build his dream house, and they get loans to finance it. When the recession hits, they stand to lose everything they own, so they go to Vegas to have one shot at winning the money they need. After losing at the tables, they are approached by a millionaire who offers them a million dollars for a night with the wife. Though the couple agrees that this is a way out of their financial dilemma, it threatens to destroy their relationship.