Posts Tagged ‘1900s’

The Time Machine (1960)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Rod Taylor | Alan Young | Yvette Mimieux | Sebastian Cabot | Tom Helmore | Whit Bissell | Doris Lloyd | Bob Barran | Paul Frees | James Skelly | Josephine Powell
Directors: George Pal
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From the book by H.G. Wells, a scientist and tinkerer builds a time machine and uses it to explore the distant future where there are two races, a mild gentle race, and a cannibalistic one living underground. His machine is stolen by the underground race and he must risk being captured (and eaten) to return to his own time.

Peter Pan (2003)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Jason Isaacs | Jeremy Sumpter | Richard Briers | Geoffrey Palmer | Harry Newell | Freddie Popplewell | Theodore Chester | Rupert Simonian | George MacKay | Harry Eden | Patrick Gooch | Lachlan Gooch | Mathew Waters | Alan Cinis | Frank Whitten
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In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime tales of swordplay, swashbuckling and the fearsome Captain Hook. But the children become the heroes of an even greater story, when Peter Pan flies into their nursery one night and leads them over moonlit rooftops through a galaxy of stars and to the lush jungles of Neverland. Wendy and her brothers join Peter and the Lost Boys in an exhilarating life—free of grown-up rules—while also facing the inevitable showdown with Hook and his bloodthirsty pirates.

The Prestige (2006)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Hugh Jackman | Christian Bale | Michael Caine | Piper Perabo | Rebecca Hall | Scarlett Johansson | Samantha Mahurin | David Bowie | Andy Serkis | Daniel Davis | Jim Piddock | Christopher Neame | Mark Ryan | Roger Rees | Jamie Harris
Directors: Christopher Nolan
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A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy — full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences. From the time that they first met as young magicians on the rise, Robert Angier and Alfred Borden were competitors. However, their friendly competition evolves into a bitter rivalry making them fierce enemies-for-life and consequently jeopardizing the lives of everyone around them. Set against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century London.

Finding Neverland (2004)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Johnny Depp | Kate Winslet | Julie Christie | Radha Mitchell | Dustin Hoffman | Freddie Highmore | Joe Prospero | Nick Roud | Luke Spill | Kelly Macdonald | Mackenzie Crook | Eileen Essell | Jimmy Gardner | Oliver Fox
Directors: Marc Forster
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London, 1903: four lads, three women, and J.M. Barrie in the year he writes “Peter Pan.” After one of his plays flops, Barrie meets four boys and their widowed mother in the park. During the next months, the child-like Barrie plays with the boys daily, and their imaginative games give him ideas for a play. Simultaneously, a friendship deepens with Sylvia, the lads’ mother, to the chagrin of his wife Mary, with whom he spends little time (separate bedrooms), the widow’s mother, and high society, which gossips about his attraction to the widow and to her sons. As Sylvia’s health worsens, Barrie’s ties to the boys strengthen and he must find a way to take his muse to Neverland.

The Red Baron (2008)

Monday, January 26th, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Biography | Drama | Romance | War
Countries: Germany | UK
Actors: Matthias Schweighöfer | Til Schweiger | Lena Headey | Joseph Fiennes | Volker Bruch | Maxim Mehmet | Steffen Schroeder | Hanno Koffler | Tino Mewes | Ralph Misske | Axel Prahl | Gitta Schweighöfer | Jan Vlasák | Radek Bruna | Brian Caspe
Directors: Nikolai Müllerschön
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Baron Manfred von Richthofen (Schweighöfer) is the most feared and celebrated pilot of the German air force in World War I. To him and his companions, air combats are events of sporty nature, technical challenge and honorable acting, ignoring the terrible extent of war. But after falling in love with the nurse Käte (Headey), Manfred realizes he is only used for propaganda means. Caught between his disgust for the war, and the responsibility for his fighter wing, von Richthofen sets out to fly again.

Fiddler on the Roof (1971)

Thursday, December 18th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Family | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Topol | Norma Crane | Leonard Frey | Molly Picon | Paul Mann | Rosalind Harris | Michele Marsh | Neva Small | Paul Michael Glaser | Ray Lovelock | Elaine Edwards | Candy Bonstein | Shimen Ruskin | Zvee Scooler | Louis Zorich
Directors: Norman Jewison
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Film version of the stage musical, based on the stories of Sholom Aleichem. Tevye the Milkman is a Jewish peasant in pre-Revolutionary Russia, coping with the day-to-day problems of ’shtetl’ life, his Jewish traditions, his family (wife and daughters), and state-sanctioned pogroms.

North to Alaska (1960)

Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: John Wayne | Stewart Granger | Ernie Kovacs | Fabian | Mickey Shaughnessy | Karl Swenson | Joe Sawyer | John Qualen | Stanley Adams | Mark Bailey | Rayford Barnes | Oscar Beregi Jr. | Peter Bourne | Alan Carney | Richard Collier
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Sam (John Wayne) and George (Stewart Granger) strike gold in Alaska. George sends Sam to Seattle to bring George’s fiance back to Alaska. Sam finds she is already married, and returns instead with Angel (Capucine). Sam, after trying to get George and Angel together, finally romances Angel, who, in the meantime, is busy fighting off the advances of George’s younger brother, Billy (Fabian). Frankie (Ernie Kovacs) is a con man trying to steal the partner’s gold claim.

Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)

Friday, April 25th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Benjamin Bratt | Gina Bernard Forbes | Giovanna Mezzogiorno | Javier Bardem | Marcela Mar | Juan Ángel | Liliana Gonzalez | Catalina Botero | Miguel Angel Pazos Galindo | Maria Cecilia Herrera | Luis Fernando Hoyos | Carlos Duplat | Francisco Raul Linero | Unax Ugalde | Liev Schreiber
Directors: Mike Newell
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In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a telegraph boy, falls in love with Fermina Daza, the daughter of a mule trader. Ariza is persistent, writing her constantly, serenading, speaking poetically of love. Her father tries to keep them apart, and then, one day, she sees this love as an illusion. She’s soon married to Urbino, a cultured physician, and for years, Ariza carries a torch, finding solace in the arms of women, loving none. After Urbino’s fall, are Ariza’s hopes delusional?

The Godfather: Part II (1974)

Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Al Pacino | Robert Duvall | Diane Keaton | Robert De Niro | John Cazale | Talia Shire | Lee Strasberg | Michael V. Gazzo | G.D. Spradlin | Richard Bright | Gastone Moschin | Tom Rosqui | Bruno Kirby | Frank Sivero | Francesca De Sapio
Directors: Francis Ford Coppola
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The continuing saga of the Corleone crime family tells the story of a young Vito Corleone growing up in Sicily and in 1910s New York; and follows Michael Corleone in the 1950s as he attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.

Miss Potter (2006)

Monday, April 7th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Renée Zellweger | Ewan McGregor | Emily Watson | Barbara Flynn | Bill Paterson | Matyelok Gibbs | Lloyd Owen | Anton Lesser | David Bamber | Patricia Kerrigan | Judith Barker | Chris Middleton | Lucy Boynton | Oliver Jenkins | Richard Mulholland
Directors: Chris Noonan
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Thirty years old and single, Beatrix Potter lives in London with her social-climbing parents, who are exasperated that she has turned down any number of eligible young men. Her only real friends are the animals which since childhood she has lovingly drawn and made up stories about. She finally succeeds in selling a book of the stories, and it becomes Norman Warne’s first project. He quickly falls in love with both the book and Beatrix and together they carefully arrange publication. This proves the first of many successes, offering her the possibility of escaping from both her parents’ way of life and London.