Posts Tagged ‘1940s’

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.

Saving Private Ryan (1998)

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Tom Hanks | Tom Sizemore | Edward Burns | Barry Pepper | Adam Goldberg | Vin Diesel | Giovanni Ribisi | Jeremy Davies | Matt Damon | Ted Danson | Paul Giamatti | Dennis Farina | Joerg Stadler | Steven Martini | Dylan Bruno
Directors: Steven Spielberg
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Opening with the Allied invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944, members of the 2nd Ranger Battalion under Cpt. Miller fight ashore to secure a beachhead. Amidst the fighting, two brothers are killed in action. Earlier in New Guinea, a third brother is KIA. Their mother, Mrs. Ryan, is to receive all three of the grave telegrams on the same day. The United States Army Chief of Staff, George C. Marshall, is given an opportunity to alleviate some of her grief when he learns of a fourth brother, Private James Ryan, and decides to send out 8 men (Cpt. Miller and select members from 2nd Rangers) to find him and bring him back home to his mother…

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The Great Escape (1963)

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Steve McQueen | James Garner | Richard Attenborough | James Donald | Charles Bronson | Donald Pleasence | James Coburn | Hannes Messemer | David McCallum | Gordon Jackson | John Leyton | Angus Lennie | Nigel Stock | Robert Graf | Jud Taylor
Directors: John Sturges
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Based on a true story, “The Great Escape” deals with the largest Allied escape attempt from a German POW camp during the Second World War. The first part of the film focuses on the escape efforts within the camp and the process of secretly digging an escape tunnel. The second half of the film deals with the massive effort by the German Gestapo to track down the over 70 escaped prisoners who are at this point throughout the Third Reich attempting to make their way to England and various neutral countries.

The Notebook (2004)

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Tim Ivey | Gena Rowlands | Starletta DuPois | James Garner | Anthony-Michael Q. Thomas | Ed Grady | Renée Amber | Jennifer Echols | Geoffrey Knight | Kevin Connolly | Ryan Gosling | Heather Wahlquist | Rachel McAdams | Andrew Schaff | Matt Shelly
Directors: Nick Cassavetes
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An old man in a nursing home reads a story to an old woman each day. The story he reads follows two young lovers named Allie Hamilton and Noah Calhoun. They met one evening at a carnival many years ago. Allie’s parents separate Noah and Allie. They disapprove of Noah’s lack of wealth, and move Allie away. After waiting for Noah to write her for several years, Allie meets and becomes engaged to a handsome young soldier named Lon. In a local newspaper, Noah’s picture catches Allie’s eye. He is standing in front of a fully restored, 200 year old home. The article is filled with praise for his accomplishments. Allie’s heart nearly bursts. The last time she saw this house it was a rotted decaying shamble. She stood enfolded in Noah’s arms in the great entryway and listened to his plans to buy and restore this house. Just the way she wanted it. With her love for Noah still alive, the picture pulls at her heart. She has to go back, see if Noah is okay, and tell him about her marriage. They both think the echo deep in their hearts, the one that has lasted all these years, is not shared by the other. The cry they could not stifle. It wasn’t over for me.

The Others (2001)

Monday, March 17th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: France | Spain | USA
Actors: Nicole Kidman | Fionnula Flanagan | Christopher Eccleston | Alakina Mann | James Bentley | Eric Sykes | Elaine Cassidy | Renée Asherson | Gordon Reid | Keith Allen | Michelle Fairley | Alexander Vince | Ricardo López | Aldo Grilo
Directors: Alejandro Amenábar
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A woman named Grace (Kidman) is living with her two children Anne and Nicholas (Mann and Bentley) on an almost empty island in their huge mansion. Grace’s husband is a soldier in WWII and Grace has given her husband up for dead. Everything seems peaceful for her, but when three mysterious servants are given jobs at the house, terrifying secrets are unlocked that even Grace cannot handle.

Papillon (1973)

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Biography | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Steve McQueen | Dustin Hoffman | Victor Jory | Don Gordon | Anthony Zerbe | Robert Deman | Woodrow Parfrey | Bill Mumy | George Coulouris | Ratna Assan | William Smithers | Val Avery | Gregory Sierra | Vic Tayback | Mills Watson
Directors: Franklin J. Schaffner
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Based on the true story of Henri Charriere, also known as Papillon, which is French for ‘butterfly’ (the character even sports a large tattoo of a butterfly. A petty criminal, Papillon is wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to life in a French penal colony in ‘Guiane’ (French Guiana, South America). Papillon is determined to escape but attempt after attempt meets with difficulty, resulting in eventual recapture. He continues his attempts to escape despite incarcerations in solitary confinement as punishment.

Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)

Friday, February 15th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Spencer Tracy | Robert Ryan | Anne Francis | Dean Jagger | Walter Brennan | John Ericson | Ernest Borgnine | Lee Marvin | Russell Collins | Walter Sande | Harry Harvey | Francis McDonald
Directors: John Sturges
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John J. Macreedy doesn’t know it, but when he steps off the train at the jerkwater town of Black Rock, he will soon find himself the object of fear, hatred, and even a murder plot! The altruistic Macreedy came to Black Rock to hand over a posthumous military award to a local man whose son had died gallantly in the Second World War. What Macreedy couldn’t know when he stepped off of that train was that the town had a shameful secret, one that must be kept at all costs.

Atonement (2007)

Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance | War
Countries: France | UK
Actors: Saoirse Ronan | Brenda Blethyn | Julia West | James McAvoy | Harriet Walter | Keira Knightley | Juno Temple | Felix von Simson | Charlie von Simson | Alfie Allen | Patrick Kennedy | Benedict Cumberbatch | Peter Wight | Peter O'Connor | Daniel Mays
Directors: Joe Wright
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In the summer of 1935, 13-year-old Briony Tallis observes a flirtation between a servant’s son, Robbie, and her older sister, Cecilia, that she childishly misconstrues. Briony’s misunderstanding leads to a terrible crime whose consequences follow them through World War II.

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | War
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: William Holden | Jack Hawkins | Alec Guinness | Sessue Hayakawa | James Donald | Geoffrey Horne | André Morell | Peter Williams | John Boxer | Percy Herbert | Harold Goodwin | Ann Sears | Heihachiro Okawa | Keiichiro Katsumoto | M.R.B. Chakrabandhu
Directors: David Lean
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The film deals with the situation of British prisoners of war during World War II who are ordered to build a bridge to accommodate the Burma-Siam railway. Their instinct is to sabotage the bridge but, under the leadership of Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness), they are persuaded that the bridge should be constructed as a symbol of British morale, spirit and dignity in adverse circumstances. At first, the prisoners admire Nicholson when he bravely endures torture rather than compromise his principles for the benefit of the Japanese commandant Saito (Sessue Hayakawa). He is an honorable but arrogant man, who is slowly revealed to be a deluded obsessive. He convinces himself that the bridge is a monument to British character, but actually is a monument to himself, and his insistence on its construction becomes a subtle form of collaboration with the enemy. Unknown to him, the Allies have sent a mission into the jungle, led by Warden (Jack Hawkins) and an American, Shears (William Holden), to blow up the bridge.

Evita (1996)

Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Madonna | Antonio Banderas | Jonathan Pryce | Jimmy Nail | Victoria Sus | Julian Littman | Olga Merediz | Laura Pallas | Julia Worsley | María Luján Hidalgo | Servando Villamil | Andrea Corr | Peter Polycarpou | Gary Brooker | Maite Yerro
Directors: Alan Parker
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Based on the incredible true story, Eva (Evita) Peron, starts out life as a poor girl who goes on to become an actress and then become the wife of the president of Argentina, Juan Peron. The musical is a story of love and politics, showing all the battles and triumphs Evita has in her short, but amazing life.