Posts Tagged ‘epic’

Schindler’s List (1993)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama | History | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Liam Neeson | Ben Kingsley | Ralph Fiennes | Caroline Goodall | Jonathan Sagall | Embeth Davidtz | Malgoscha Gebel | Shmuel Levy | Mark Ivanir | Béatrice Macola | Andrzej Seweryn | Friedrich von Thun | Krzysztof Luft | Harry Nehring | Norbert Weisser
Directors: Steven Spielberg
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“Schindler’s List” is the based-on-truth story of Nazi Czech business man Oskar Schindler, who uses Jewish labor to start a factory in occupied Poland. As World War II progresses, and the fate of the Jews becomes more and more clear, Schindler’s motivations switch from profit to human sympathy and he is able to save over 1100 Jews from death in the gas chambers.

Titanic (1997)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio | Kate Winslet | Billy Zane | Kathy Bates | Frances Fisher | Gloria Stuart | Bill Paxton | Bernard Hill | David Warner | Victor Garber | Jonathan Hyde | Suzy Amis | Lewis Abernathy | Nicholas Cascone | Dr. Anatoly M. Sagalevitch
Directors: James Cameron
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Titanic, the ship of dreams. Is also known as Unsinkable, and it was unsinkable on its departure on April 10th, 1912. And on its epic journey a poor artist named Jack Dawson and a rich girl Rose DeWitt Bukator fall in love, until one night, their fairytale love for one another turns into a struggle for survival on a ship about to founder to the bottom of the North Atlantic. Rose leaves her fiancée Caledon Hockley for this poor artist, but when the Titanic collides with the Iceberg on April 14th, 1912, and then when the ship sinks on April 15th, 1912 at 2:20 in the morning, Jack dies and Rose survives and 84 years later Rose tells the story about her life on Titanic to her grand daughter and friends on the Keldysh and explains the first sight of Jack that falls into love, then into a fight for survival. When Rose gets saved by one lifeboat that comes back, they take her to the Carpathia with the 6 saved with Rose and the 700 people saved in the lifeboats. The Carpathia Immigration Officer asks Rose what her name is and she loved Jack so much she says her name is not Rose DeWitt Bukator, but her name is Rose Dawson. She seen Cal looking for her, but he doesn’t see her, and they never ended up together, her mom, Cal, and friends of the family has know choice but to think that she died on the Titanic. But in the crash of 1929, Cal is married, but then he put a pistol in his mouth and committed suicide. So Rose is an actress in the 20’s, and now 84 years later Rose Calvert is 100 years old and tells her grand daughter Lizzy Calvert, Brock Lovett, Lewis Bodine, Bobby Buell, and Anatoly Mikailavich the whole story from departure until the death of Titanic on its first and last voyage, and then to Rose all Titanic and the real love of her life Jack Dawson is all an existence inside of her memory, and Titanic is to rest in peace at the bottom of the North Atlantic from 1912 until the end of time.

10,000 BC (2008)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Adventure
Countries: New Zealand | USA
Actors: Steven Strait | Camilla Belle | Cliff Curtis | Joel Virgel | Affif Ben Badra | Mo Zinal | Nathanael Baring | Mona Hammond | Marco Khan | Reece Ritchie | Joel Fry | Omar Sharif | Kristian Beazley | Junior Oliphant | Louise Tu'u
Directors: Roland Emmerich
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A prehistoric epic that follows a young mammoth hunter named D’Leh’s journey through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe. When a band of mysterious horse-riding warlords raid the Yaghal camp and kidnaps his heart’s desire - the beautiful Evolet along with many others, D’Leh is forced to lead a small group of hunters south to pursue the warlords to the end of the world to save her. Driven by destiny, the unlikely band of warriors must battle saber-toothed cats and terror birds in the Levant.

The Wild Bunch (1969)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Action | Drama | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: William Holden | Ernest Borgnine | Robert Ryan | Edmond O'Brien | Warren Oates | Jaime Sánchez | Ben Johnson | Emilio Fernández | Strother Martin | L. Q. Jones | Albert Dekker | Bo Hopkins | Dub Taylor | Paul Harper | Jorge Russek
Directors: Sam Peckinpah
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A few months before World War I, an aging band of outlaws led by Pike Bishop rob a Texas bank intent on using the money to retire. When the robbery goes wrong, the gang is forced to flee to Mexico with Bishop’s reformed ex-partner, Deke Thornton, in hot pursuit. With nothing to show for the failed robbery, Bishop’s gang agrees to steal a shipment of guns for General “Mapache” Juerta, to restore their fortunes. With Thornton closing in, and their association with the evil Juerta trying their conscience, Bishop and co. prepare for their lawless past to catch up with them.

Traffic (2000)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Benicio Del Toro | Jacob Vargas | Andrew Chavez | Michael Saucedo | Tomas Milian | Jose Yenque | Emilio Rivera | Michael O'Neill | Michael Douglas | Russell G. Jones | Lorene Hetherington | Eric Collins | Beau Holden | Peter Stader | James Lew
Directors: Steven Soderbergh
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A modern day look at America’s war on drugs told through four separate stories that are connected in one way or another. A conservative politician who’s just been appointed as the US drug czar learns that his daughter is a drug addict. A trophy wife struggles to save her husband’s drug business, while two DEA agents protect a witness with inside knowledge of the spouse’s business. In Mexico, a corrupt, yet dedicated cop struggles with his conscience when he learns that his new boss may not be the anti-drug official he made himself out to be.

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Biography | Drama | War
Countries: UK
Actors: Peter O'Toole | Alec Guinness | Anthony Quinn | Jack Hawkins | Omar Sharif | José Ferrer | Anthony Quayle | Claude Rains | Arthur Kennedy | Donald Wolfit | I.S. Johar | Gamil Ratib | Michel Ray | John Dimech | Zia Mohyeddin
Directors: David Lean
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T. E. Lawrence is a young maladjusted lieutenant in the British Army in North Africa during World War One. Unhappy with his current assignment coloring maps, he is ecstatic when he is offered a job as an observer in what is now Arabia. At this point, the story of his life becomes the stuff that legends are made of.

Cold Mountain (2003)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Jude Law | Nicole Kidman | Renée Zellweger | Eileen Atkins | Brendan Gleeson | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Natalie Portman | Giovanni Ribisi | Donald Sutherland | Ray Winstone | Kathy Baker | James Gammon | Charlie Hunnam | Jack White | Ethan Suplee
Directors: Anthony Minghella
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Jude Law plays a leading role as Inman, a wounded confederate soldier who is on a perilous journey home to his mountain community, hoping to reunite with his prewar sweetheart, Ada, played by Nicole Kidman.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: John Cleese | Alan Rickman | Rupert Grint | Emma Watson | Daniel Radcliffe | Maggie Smith | Robbie Coltrane | Saunders Triplets | Richard Harris | Fiona Shaw | Harry Melling | Richard Griffiths | Derek Deadman | Ian Hart | Ben Borowiecki | Warwick Davis | Verne Troyer | John Hurt | Richard Bremmer
Directors: Chris Columbus
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone is the first film in the Harry Potter series based off the novels by J.K. Rowling. It is the tale of Harry Potter, an ordinary 11-year-old boy serving as a sort of slave for his aunt and uncle who learns that he is actually a wizard and has been invited to attend the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry is snatched away from his mundane existence by Hagrid, the grounds keeper for Hogwarts, and quickly thrown into a world completely foreign to both him and the viewer. Famous for an incident that happened at his birth, Harry makes friends easily at his new school. He soon finds, however, that the wizarding world is far more dangerous for him than he would have imagined, and he quickly learns that not all wizards are ones to be trusted.

The Robe (1953)

Friday, May 8th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Richard Burton | Jean Simmons | Victor Mature | Michael Rennie | Jay Robinson | Dean Jagger | Torin Thatcher | Richard Boone | Betta St. John | Jeff Morrow | Ernest Thesiger | Dawn Addams | Leon Askin | Michael Ansara | Jan Arvan
Directors: Henry Koster
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Marcellus is a tribune in the time of Christ. He is in charge of the group that is assigned to crucify Jesus. Drunk, he wins Jesus’ homespun robe after the crucifixion. He is tormented by nightmares and delusions after the event. Hoping to find a way to live with what he has done, and still not believing in Jesus, he returns to Palestine to try and learn what he can of the man he killed.

The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)

Friday, May 8th, 2009
Genres: Drama | History
Countries: USA
Actors: Charlton Heston | Rex Harrison | Diane Cilento | Harry Andrews | Alberto Lupo | Adolfo Celi | Venantino Venantini | John Stacy | Fausto Tozzi | Maxine Audley | Tomas Milian | Alec McCowen | Furio Meniconi | Adolfo Pezzini
Directors: Carol Reed
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Pope Julius is eager to leave behind works by which he will be remembered. To this end he cajoles Michelangelo into painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. When not on the battlefield uniting Italy, the Pope nags Michelangelo to speed up his painful work on the frescoes.