Posts Tagged ‘catholic’

Evelyn (2002)

Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: Germany | Ireland | UK | USA
Actors: Sophie Vavasseur | Niall Beagan | Hugh McDonagh | Pierce Brosnan | Mairead Devlin | Frank Kelly | Claire Mullan | Alvaro Lucchesi | Garrett Keogh | Daithi O'Suilleabhain | Andrea Irvine | Marian Quinn | Karen Ardiff | Julianna Margulies | Bosco Hogan
Directors: Bruce Beresford
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Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children, Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice, make it clear to the authorities that his is an untenable situation. The Catholic Church and the Irish courts decide to put the Doyle children into Church-run orphanages. Although a sympathetic judge assures Desmond that when his financial situation reverses, he will be able to get his children back; money is hard to come by. During that time, Evelyn and her brothers suffer the abuses of living in orphanages while Desmond struggles to secure finances. Now he must battle the courts to get his children back.

The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (2005)

Monday, May 7th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Julianne Moore | Woody Harrelson | Laura Dern | Trevor Morgan | Ellary Porterfield | Simon Reynolds | Monté Gagné | Robert Clark | Michael Seater | Erik Knudsen | Jake Scott | Jordan Todosey | Ryan Price | Shae Norris | Abigail Falle
Directors: Jane Anderson
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This true-story-based bittersweet drama follows Evelyn Ryan (Julianna Moore) who was a housewife and a devoted mother of 10. Her remarkable ingenuity and an uncommon wit had success at the jingle contests staged by corporations to promote their products. Evelyn had found the way to keep her family together, notwithstanding an alcoholic husband and the other difficult circumstances.

Stigmata (1999)

Monday, May 7th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Patricia Arquette | Gabriel Byrne | Jonathan Pryce | Nia Long | Thomas Kopache | Rade Serbedzija | Enrico Colantoni | Dick Latessa | Portia de Rossi | Patrick Muldoon | Ann Cusack | Shaun Toub | Tom Hodges | Lydia Hazan | Shaun Duke
Directors: Rupert Wainwright
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A priest from the Vatican is sent in to investigate claims that a small town in Brazil has a church where statues bleed from the eyes. Meanwhile, a young woman in the U.S. begins to show signs of stigmata, the wounds of Christ. The priest from the Vatican links up with her and cares for her as she is increasingly afflicted by the stigmata. Her ranting and raving finally begins to make sense to the priest who starts to question what his religion has stood for for the last 1900 years.

Chocolat (2000)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Juliette Binoche | Alfred Molina | Johnny Depp | Carrie-Anne Moss | Judi Dench | Aurelien Parent Koenig | Antonio Gil-Martinez | Hélène Cardona | Harrison Pratt | Gaelan Connell | Elisabeth Commelin | Ron Cook | Guillaume Tardieu | Hugh O'Conor | John Wood | Lena Olin | Peter Stormare | Leslie Caron
Directors: Lasse Hallström
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1960, small town France. Vianne Rocher and her pre-teen daughter move into town and open a chocolate shop just as lent is beginning. The town’s small-minded mayor can’t accept this and does his best to shut her down, but her warm personality and incredible chocolates manage to win over many townsfolk. Things get shaken up even more when a group of river drifters, led by Roux, stop into town (to the even greater distress of the mayor) and Vianne takes up with him. Meanwhile, she’s been helping Josephine out of her abusive marriage and her equally freethinking landlord, Amande Voisin, get together with her grandson, Luc, whose mother doesn’t approve of Amande’s ways.

Bee Season (2005)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Richard Gere | Juliette Binoche | Flora Cross | Max Minghella | Kate Bosworth | Corey Fischer | Sam Zuckerman | Joan Mankin | Piers Mackenzie | Lorri Holt | Brian Leonard | Kathy McGraw | John Evans | Alisha Mullally | Olivia Charles
Directors: Scott McGehee | David Siegel
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11-year-old Eliza Naumann comes from an odd family; they all divert their emotional frustrations into secret channels. When Eliza unexpectedly begins winning spelling bees, what had been a stable dynamic within the family becomes disrupted; long held secrets emerge, and a latent spiritual yearning is awakened in her withdrawn father Saul and compulsive mother Miriam. As Eliza moves closer and closer to the national spelling bee, the Naumann family finds itself in a spiral of surprising discovery and jarring uncertainty…

Auto Focus (2002)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Greg Kinnear | Willem Dafoe | Rita Wilson | Maria Bello | Ron Leibman | Bruce Solomon | Michael E. Rodgers | Kurt Fuller | Christopher Neiman | Lyle Kanouse | Donnamarie Recco | Ed Begley Jr. | Michael McKean | Cheryl Lynn Bowers | Don McManus
Directors: Paul Schrader
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Capitalizing on his fame as the star of “Hogan’s Heroes,” Bob Crane (Greg Kinnear) dove into the freewheeling spirit of the 60s and 70s with relish, having affairs with numerous women. Eventually, Crane teamed up with video technician John Carpenter to document his exploits, an association that may very well have led to his murder in a Scottsdale, Arizona motel room in 1978, which remains officially unsolved to this day.

The Game of Their Lives (2005)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Drama | History | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Gerard Butler | Wes Bentley | Richard Jenik | Jay Rodan | Louis Mandylor | Jimmy Jean-Louis | Zachery Ty Bryan | Nelson Vargas | John Rhys-Davies | Gavin Rossdale | Maria Bertrand | Terry Kinney | Joe Erker
Directors: David Anspaugh
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In 1950, few soccer players in the United States played the game with any particular degree of expertise. Most Americans had heard about the soccer only by hearsay, even though it was the world’s most popular sport, and when the United States was invited to compete in the World Cup in Brazil, the country turned out to have no soccer team to call their own. The U.S. set out to recruit players in the soccer breeding ground of St. Louis, Missouri, where they found a group of young friends with almost absolute lack of an appropriate experience, only an unabashed love of the game.

The Godfather (1972)

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Marlon Brando | Al Pacino | James Caan | Richard S. Castellano | Robert Duvall | Sterling Hayden | Richard Conte | Al Lettieri | Diane Keaton | Abe Vigoda | Talia Shire | Gianni Russo | John Marley | Rudy Bond
Directors: Francis Ford Coppola
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The story begins as “Don” Vito Corleone, the head of a New York Mafia “family”, oversees his daughter’s wedding. His beloved son Michael has just come home from the war, but does not intend to become part of his father’s business. Through Michael’s life the nature of the family business becomes clear. The business of the family is just like the head of the family, kind and benevolent to those who give respect, but given to ruthless violence whenever anything stands against the good of the family. Don Vito lives his life in the way of the old country, but times are changing and some don’t want to follow the old ways and look out for community and “family”. An up and coming rival of the Corleone family wants to start selling drugs in New York, and needs the Don’s influence to further his plan. The clash of the Don’s fading old world values and the new ways will demand a terrible price, especially from Michael, all for the sake of the family.

Daredevil (2003)

Thursday, February 15th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Ben Affleck | Jennifer Garner | Colin Farrell | Michael Clarke Duncan | Jon Favreau | Scott Terra | Ellen Pompeo | Joe Pantoliano | Leland Orser | Lennie Loftin | Erick Avari
Directors: Mark Steven Johnson
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Fate deals young orphan Matt Murdock a strange hand when he is doused with hazardous waste. The accident leaves Matt blind but also gives him a heightened “radar sense” that allows him to “see” far better than any man. Years later Murdock has grown into a man and becomes a respected criminal attorney. But after he’s done his “day job” Matt takes on a secret identity as “The Man Without Fear,” Daredevil, the masked avenger that patrols the neighborhood of Hell’s Kitchen and New York City to combat the injustice that he cannot tackle in the courtroom.

Ladder 49 (2004)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jay Hernandez | Joaquin Phoenix | John Travolta | Jacinda Barrett | Morris Chestnut | Billy Burke | Balthazar Getty | Tim Guinee | Kevin Chapman | Kevin Daniels | Steve Maye | Robert Patrick | Brooke Hamlin | Spencer Berglund
Directors: Jay Russell
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Under the watchful eye of his mentor Captain Mike Kennedy (Travolta), probationary firefighter Jack Morrison (Phoenix) matures into a seasoned veteran at a Baltimore fire station. Jack has reached a crossroads, however, as the sacrifices he’s made have put him in harm’s way innumerable times and significantly impacted his relationship with his wife and kids. Responding to the worst blaze in his career, he becomes trapped inside a 20-story building. And as he reflects on his life, now Assistant Chief Kennedy frantically coordinates the effort to save him.