Posts Tagged ‘emperor’

Amadeus (1984)

Monday, April 6th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: F. Murray Abraham | Tom Hulce | Elizabeth Berridge | Roy Dotrice | Simon Callow | Christine Ebersole | Jeffrey Jones | Charles Kay | Kenneth McMillan | Kenny Baker | Lisabeth Bartlett | Barbara Bryne | Martin Cavina
Directors: Milos Forman
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Antonio Salieri believes that Mozart’s music is divine. He wishes he was himself as good a musician as Mozart so that he can praise the Lord through composing. But he can’t understand why God favored Mozart, such a vulgar creature, to be his instrument. Salieri’s envy has made him an enemy of God whose greatness was evident in Mozart. He is set to take revenge.

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.

Flash Gordon (1980)

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Sam J. Jones | Melody Anderson | Max von Sydow | Topol | Ornella Muti | Timothy Dalton | Brian Blessed | Peter Wyngarde | Mariangela Melato | John Osborne | Richard O'Brien | John Hallam | Philip Stone | Suzanne Danielle
Directors: Mike Hodges
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Flash Gordon is an American football player who along with Dale Arden are returning to New York City after a long vacation, until the plane they are passengers on crashes into the laboratory of Russian scientist Dr. Hans Zarkov. Both Flash and Dale become unwilling passengers on-board Zarkov’s rocket-ship as Zarkov sets a course for the planet Mongo. Arriving on Mongo, Flash and his companions find the planet is under the ruler-ship of the evil Emperor Ming the Merciless and Ming is attacking Earth with natural disasters as he bids to destroy Earth. Realising that Earth and the human race is in mortal danger, Flash decides to unite the kingdoms of Mongo and combine the forces of rivals Prince Baron and Prince Vultan to rescue Dale, who is to become Ming’s wife and defeat Ming and save Earth from annihilation.

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

Friday, March 14th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Mark Hamill | Harrison Ford | Carrie Fisher | Billy Dee Williams | Anthony Daniels | David Prowse | Peter Mayhew | Kenny Baker | Frank Oz | Alec Guinness | Jeremy Bulloch | John Hollis | Jack Purvis | Des Webb | Clive Revill
Directors: Irvin Kershner
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Fleeing the evil Galactic Empire, the rebels abandon their new base on Hoth. Princess Leia, Han Solo and the droids R2-D2 and C-3P0 escape in the damaged Millenium Falcon, but are later captured by Lord Darth Vader on Bespin. Skywalker, meanwhile, follows Ben Kenobi’s posthumous command and receives Jedi training by Yoda on Dagobah. Will Skywalker manage to rescue his friends from the dark lord?

Curse of the Golden Flower (2006)

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Romance
Countries: China | Hong Kong
Actors: Yun-Fat Chow | Li Gong | Jay Chou | Ye Liu | Dahong Ni | Junjie Qin | Man Li | Jin Chen
Directors: Yimou Zhang
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China, Later Tang Dynasty, 10th Century. On the eve of the Chong Yang Festival, golden flowers fill the Imperial Palace. The Emperor (Chow Yun Fat) returns unexpectedly with his second son, Prince Jai (Jay Chou). His pretext is to celebrate the holiday with his family, but given the chilled relations between the Emperor and the ailing Empress (Gong Li), this seems disingenuous. For many years, the Empress and Crown Prince Wan (Liu Ye), her stepson, have had an illicit liaison. Feeling trapped, Prince Wan dreams of escaping the palace with his secret love Chan (Li Man), the Imperial Doctor’s daughter. Meanwhile, Prince Jai, the faithful son, grows worried over the Empress’s health and her obsession with golden chrysanthemums. Could she be headed down an ominous path? The Emperor harbors equally clandestine plans; the Imperial Doctor (Ni Dahong) is the only one privy to his machinations. When the Emperor senses a looming threat, he relocates the doctor’s family from the Palace to a remote area. While they are en route, mysterious assassins attack them. Chan and her mother, Jiang Shi (Chen Jin) are forced back to the palace. Their return sets off a tumultuous sequence of dark surprises. Amid the glamour and grandeur of the festival, ugly secrets are revealed. As the Imperial Family continues its elaborate charade in a palatial setting, thousands of golden armored warriors charge the palace. Who is behind this brutal rebellion? Where do Prince Jai’s loyalties lie? Between love and desire, is there a final winner? Against a moonlit night, thousands of chrysanthemum blossoms are trampled as blood spills across the Imperial Palace.

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Ewan McGregor | Natalie Portman | Hayden Christensen | Ian McDiarmid | Samuel L. Jackson | Jimmy Smits | Frank Oz | Anthony Daniels | Christopher Lee | Keisha Castle-Hughes | Silas Carson | Jay Laga'aia | Bruce Spence | Wayne Pygram | Temuera Morrison
Directors: George Lucas
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A maturing Anakin Skywalker goes to the dark side of The Force and becomes Sith Lord Darth Vader. We experience the transformation in a dark, scary yet thrilling climax. The story here logically sets up the events of Episode IV, the original 1977 Star Wars movie in which Darth Vader goes to war against his own children, Luke and Leia.

Dune (1984)

Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Francesca Annis | Leonardo Cimino | Brad Dourif | José Ferrer | Linda Hunt | Freddie Jones | Richard Jordan | Kyle MacLachlan | Virginia Madsen | Silvana Mangano | Everett McGill | Kenneth McMillan | Jack Nance | Siân Phillips | Jürgen Prochnow
Directors: David Lynch
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In the far future, a duke and his family are sent by the Emperor to a sand world from which comes a spice that is essential for interstellar travel. The move is designed to destroy the duke and his family, but his son escapes and seeks revenge as he uses the world’s ecology as one of his weapons.

Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Mark Hamill | Harrison Ford | Carrie Fisher | Billy Dee Williams | Anthony Daniels | Peter Mayhew | Sebastian Shaw | Ian McDiarmid | Frank Oz | James Earl Jones | David Prowse | Alec Guinness | Kenny Baker | Michael Pennington | Kenneth Colley
Directors: Richard Marquand
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Darth Vader and the Empire are building a new, indestructible Death Star. Meanwhile, Han Solo has been imprisoned, and Luke Skywalker has sent R2D2 and C3PO to try and free him. Princess Leia - disguised as a bounty hunter - and Chewbacca go along as well. The final battle takes place on the moon of Endor, with its natural inhabitants, the Ewoks, lending a hand to the rebels. Will Darth Vader and the dark side overcome the rebels and take over the universe ?

The Last Emperor (1987)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Biography | Drama | History
Countries: China | France | Italy | UK
Actors: John Lone | Joan Chen | Peter O'Toole | Ruocheng Ying | | Dennis Dun | Ryuichi Sakamoto | Maggie Han | Ric Young | Vivian Wu | Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa | Jade Go | Fumihiko Ikeda | Richard Vuu | Tsou Tijger
Directors: Bernardo Bertolucci
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A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People’s Republic.

Caligula (1979)

Thursday, February 15th, 2007
Genres: Drama | History
Countries: Italy | USA
Actors: Malcolm McDowell | Teresa Ann Savoy | Helen Mirren | Peter O'Toole | John Steiner | Guido Mannari | Paolo Bonacelli | Leopoldo Trieste | Giancarlo Badessi | Mirella D'Angelo | Anneka Di Lorenzo | Lori Wagner | Adriana Asti | John Gielgud | Bruno Brive
Directors: Tinto Brass | Bob Guccione
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The rise and fall of the notorious Roman Emperor Caligula, showing the violent methods that he employs to gain the throne, and the subsequent insanity of his reign - he gives his horse political office and humiliates and executes anyone who even slightly displeases him. He also sleeps with his sister, organises elaborate orgies and embarks on a fruitless invasion of England before meeting an appropriate end. There are various versions of the film, ranging from the heavily- truncated 90-minute version to the legendary 160-minute hardcore version which leaves nothing to the imagination (though the hardcore scenes were inserted later and do not involve the main cast members).