Posts Tagged ‘deportation’

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.

Babel (2006)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: France | Mexico | USA
Actors: Brad Pitt | Cate Blanchett | Mohamed Akhzam | Peter Wight | Harriet Walter | Trevor Martin | Matyelok Gibbs | Georges Bousquet | Claudine Acs | André Oumansky | Michael Maloney | Dermot Crowley | Wendy Nottingham | Henry Maratray | Linda Broughton
Directors: Alejandro González Iñárritu
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Richard and Susan are a couple from San Diego, California who are vacationing in Morocco while their two children are at home with their Mexican housekeeper, Amelia. A rifle finds its way into the hands of a local herdsman’s young sons, who recklessly take a shot at a tour bus and hit Susan in the shoulder, causing her severe injury. The distraught Richard calls home to tell Amelia of the situation, who shortly departs for Mexico to attend her son’s wedding, with Richard and Susan’s children in tow. Disaster thus multiplies, with the situation in Morocco ascribed to terrorists in the media, while Amelia meets with trouble at the Mexican border when she attempts to return to San Diego with Richard and Susan’s children. Meanwhile, in Tokyo, a widower tied to the rifle in question, a complex shift of ownership to which the audience is privy, attempts to deal with the memories of his recently deceased wife and his strained relationship with his deaf teenage daughter.

Up in Smoke (1978)

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Cheech Marin | Tommy Chong | Strother Martin | Edie Adams | Harold Fong | Richard Novo | Jane Moder | Pam Bille | Arthur Roberts | Marian Beeler | Donald Hotton | John Ian Jacobs | Christopher Joy | Ray Vitte | Michael Caldwell
Directors: Lou Adler
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Two directionless musicans, a Chicano guitarist (Cheech Marin) and a White drummer (Tommy Chong), meet up in a chance encounter and embark on a series of odd adventures, including being the unwitting partcipants of a bizarre marijuana smuggling plot.

Bread and Roses (2000)

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: France | Germany | Italy | Spain | Switzerland | UK
Actors: Pilar Padilla | Adrien Brody | Elpidia Carrillo | Jack McGee | Monica Rivas | Frankie Davila | Lillian Hurst | Mayron Payes | Maria Orellana | Melody Garrett | Gigi Jackman | Beverly Reynolds | Eloy Méndez | Elena Antonenko | Olga Gorelik
Directors: Ken Loach
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Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Rosa gets Maya a job as a janitor: a non-union janitorial service has the contract, the foul-mouthed supervisor can fire workers on a whim, and the service-workers’ union has assigned organizer Sam Shapiro to bring its “justice for janitors” campaign to the building. Sam finds Maya a willing listener, she’s also attracted to him. Rosa resists, she has an ailing husband to consider. The workers try for public support; management intimidates workers to divide and conquer. Rosa and Maya as well as workers and management may be set to collide.

The Pianist (2002)

Thursday, February 1st, 2007
Genres: Biography | Drama | Music | War
Countries: France | Germany | Poland | UK
Actors: Adrien Brody | | Frank Finlay | Maureen Lipman | Emilia Fox | Ed Stoppard | Julia Rayner | Jessica Kate Meyer | Michal Zebrowski | Wanja Mues | Richard Ridings | Nomi Sharron | Anthony Milner | Lucy Skeaping | Roddy Skeaping
Directors: Roman Polanski
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The true story of Wladyslaw Szpilman who, in the 1930s, was known as the most accomplished piano player in all of Poland, if not Europe. At the outbreak of the Second World War, however, Szpilman becomes subject to the anti-Jewish laws imposed by the conquering Germans. By the start of the 1940s, Szpilman has seen his world go from piano concert halls to the Jewish Ghetto of Warsaw and then must suffer the tragedy of his family deported to a death camp, while Szpilman is conscripted into a forced German Labor Compound. At last deciding to escape, Szpilman goes into hiding as a Jewish refugee where he is witness to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 and the Warsaw City Revolt in August/October 1944.