Posts Tagged ‘1910s’

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.

Mary Poppins (1964)

Monday, April 14th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Julie Andrews | Dick Van Dyke | David Tomlinson | Glynis Johns | Hermione Baddeley | Reta Shaw | Karen Dotrice | Matthew Garber | Elsa Lanchester | Arthur Treacher | Reginald Owen | Ed Wynn | Jane Darwell | Arthur Malet | Robert Banas
Directors: Robert Stevenson
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The movie combines a diverting story, songs, color and sequences of live action blended with the movements of animated figures. Mary Poppins is a kind of Super-nanny who flies in with her umbrella in response to the request of the Banks children and proceeds to put things right with the aid of her rather extraordinary magical powers before flying off again.

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.

The African Queen (1951)

Sunday, December 9th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Romance | War
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Humphrey Bogart | Katharine Hepburn | Robert Morley | Peter Bull | Theodore Bikel | Walter Gotell | Peter Swanwick | Richard Marner | Errol John | Gerald Onn | John von Kotze
Directors: John Huston
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At the start of World War 1, Charlie Allnut is using his old steamer, The African Queen, to ferry supplies to villages in East Africa. When the Rev. Samuel Sayer dies, Charlie agrees to take Sayers’ sister, Rose, back to civilization. taking on the Germans at the same time.

Flyboys (2006)

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Romance | War
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Jesse James | Reiley McClendon | Stephen Baldwin | Tom Sizemore | J. Todd Adams | Dallen Gettling | Jennifer Slimko | Robert Costanzo | Vince Cecere | Frank D'Amico | Harrison Young | Blaire Baron | Tommy Hinkley | Joanne Baron | Dylan Kasch
Directors: Rocco DeVilliers
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Two kids from a small town accidentally stow away aboard an airplane owned by the mob.

Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventure (2001)

Saturday, August 25th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Drama | Family | Musical
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Scott Wolf | Alyssa Milano | Chazz Palminteri | Jeff Bennett | Jodi Benson | Bill Fagerbakke | Mickey Rooney | Bronson Pinchot | Cathy Moriarty | Mary Kay Bergman | Debi Derryberry | Barbara Goodson | Nick Jameson | Tress MacNeille | Andrew McDonough
Directors: Darrell Rooney
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Secondhand Lions (2003)

Friday, August 24th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Family | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Michael Caine | Robert Duvall | Haley Joel Osment | Kyra Sedgwick | Nicky Katt | Josh Lucas | Michael O'Neill | Deirdre O'Connell | Eric Balfour | Christian Kane | Kevin Haberer | Emmanuelle Vaugier | Adam Ozturk | Jennifer Stone | Mitchel Musso
Directors: Tim McCanlies
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13 year old Walter has had a hard life, with his no good floozy of a mother getting together with many equally despicable men. Before going on yet another husband-hunting trip, she drops him off at the house of his great-uncles Hub and Garth. They disappeared for quite a while in their youth, and are rumored to have acquired a great fortune, which Walter’s mother hopes to get her hands on if he can ingratiate himself enough to the two cantankerous men. Though reluctant to put up with him at first, Hub and Garth grow to accept Walter, and even tell him fantastic stories of what they were up to while they went missing. When his mother returns, Walter must take charge of his own life, and decide what he’s going to do with it.

The Aviator (2004)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: Germany | Japan | USA
Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio | Cate Blanchett | Kate Beckinsale | John C. Reilly | Alec Baldwin | Alan Alda | Ian Holm | Danny Huston | Gwen Stefani | Jude Law | Adam Scott | Matt Ross | Kelli Garner | Frances Conroy | Brent Spiner
Directors: Martin Scorsese
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The script begins as a young Hughes directs one of Scorsese’s favorite films, Hell’s Angels. Hughes was so obsessed with perfection in the aerial sequences that he waits forever for perfect conditions, right down to cloud formations. The Aviator ends in 1946, when Hughes was still a dashing young man and romancing actresses like Ava Gardner and Katharine Hepburn.

Legends of the Fall (1994)

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Brad Pitt | Anthony Hopkins | Aidan Quinn | Julia Ormond | Henry Thomas | Karina Lombard | Gordon Tootoosis | Christina Pickles | Paul Desmond | Tantoo Cardinal | Robert Wisden | John Novak | Kenneth Welsh | Bill Dow | Sam Sarkar
Directors: Edward Zwick
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Set in the Rocky Mountains of Montana in the early 1900s, this is a tale of love, betrayal, and brotherhood. After being discharged, Colonel Ludlow decides to raise his three sons in the wilds of Montana, where they can grow up away from the government and society he has learned to dispise. The three brothers mature and seem to have an unbreakable bond, until Susanna enters their lives. When Samuel, the youngest of the three, returns from college he brings with him his beautiful fiance, Susanna. The eldest son, Alfred, soon finds himself in love with his brother’s fiance, and things get worse when he discovers a growing passion between Susanna and Tristan. Colonel Ludlow’s favorite son, Tristan is willful and as wild as the mountains. As the brothers set out to fight a war in Europe, suspicion and jelousy threatens to tear apart their once indestructable bond.

The Fifth Element (1997)

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: France
Actors: Bruce Willis | Gary Oldman | Ian Holm | Milla Jovovich | Chris Tucker | Luke Perry | Brion James | Tom 'Tiny' Lister Jr. | Lee Evans | Charlie Creed-Miles | Tricky | John Neville | John Bluthal | Mathieu Kassovitz | Christopher Fairbank
Directors: Luc Besson
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Two hundred and fifty years in the future, life as we know it is threatened by the arrival of Evil. Only the fifth element (played by Milla Jovovich) can stop the Evil from extinguishing life, as it tries to do every five thousand years. She is helped by ex-soldier, current-cab-driver, Corben Dallas (played by Bruce Willis), who is, in turn, helped by Prince/Arsenio clone, Ruby Rhod. Unfortunately, Evil is being assisted by Mr. Zorg (Gary Oldman), who seeks to profit from the chaos that Evil will bring, and his alien mercenaries.