Posts Tagged ‘faith’

Babe (1995)

Friday, November 28th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Family | Fantasy
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Christine Cavanaugh | Miriam Margolyes | Danny Mann | Hugo Weaving | Miriam Flynn | Russi Taylor | Evelyn Krape | Michael Edward-Stevens | Charles Bartlett | Paul Livingston | Roscoe Lee Browne | James Cromwell | Magda Szubanski | Zoe Burton | Paul Goddard
Directors: Chris Noonan
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Farmer Hoggett wins a runt piglet at a local fair and young Babe, as the piglet decides to call himself, befriends and learns about all the other creatures on the farm. He becomes special friends with one of the sheepdogs, Fly. With Fly’s help, and Farmer Hoggett’s intuition, Babe embarks on a career in sheepherding with some surprising and spectacular results.

The Body (2001)

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: Germany | Israel | USA
Actors: Antonio Banderas | Olivia Williams | John Shrapnel | Derek Jacobi | Jason Flemyng | John Wood | Lillian Hurst | Makram Khoury | Vernon Dobtcheff | Ian McNeice | Muhamed Bakri | Yoav Dekelbaum | Sami Samir | Jordan Licht | Limor Goldstein
Directors: Jonas McCord
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An ancient skeleton has been discovered in Jerusalem in a rich man’s tomb. Colouration of the wrist and leg bones indicates the cause of death was crucifiction. other signs, include a gold coin bearing the marks of Pontius Pilate and faint markings around the skull, lead authorities to suspect that these could be the bones of Christ. Politicians, clerics, religious extremists and those using terror as a means to an end, find their beliefs and identities test while risking their lives to unearth the truth

21 Grams (2003)

Monday, September 15th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Sean Penn | Naomi Watts | Danny Huston | Carly Nahon | Claire Pakis | Benicio Del Toro | Nick Nichols | Charlotte Gainsbourg | John Rubinstein | Eddie Marsan | Loyd Keith Salter | Antef A. Harris | Melissa Leo | Marc Musso | Teresa Delgado
Directors: Alejandro González Iñárritu
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This is the story of three gentle persons: Paul Rivers (Penn) an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English emigré (Gainsbourg), Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married and mother of two little girls, and Jack Jordan (Del Toro), an ex-convict who has found in his Christian faith the strength to raise a family. They will be brought together by a terrible accident that will change their lives. By the final frame, none of them will be the same as they will learn harsh truths about love, faith, courage, desire and guilt, and how chance can change our worlds irretrievably, forever.

Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: Italy | USA
Actors: Diane Lane | Sandra Oh | Lindsay Duncan | Raoul Bova | Vincent Riotta | Mario Monicelli | Roberto Nobile | Anita Zagaria | Evelina Gori | Giulia Steigerwalt | Pawel Szajda | Valentine Pelka | Sasa Vulicevic | Massimo Sarchielli | Claudia Gerini
Directors: Audrey Wells
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Academy Award nominee ‘Diane Lane (I)’ (qv) stars as ‘Frances Mayes’ (qv), a 35-year-old San Francisco writer whose perfect life has just taken an unexpected detour. Her recent divorce has left her with terminal writer’s block and extremely depressed, and her best friend, Patti, is beginning to think she might never recover. Frances decides to take a break and she buys a villa in the beautiful Tuscan countryside and decides to begin anew. Restoring her new home, she eventually finds the fulfillment she was searching for, including love. Based on ‘Frances Mayes’ (qv)’ memoir of the same name.

Fearless (1993)

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Jeff Bridges | Isabella Rossellini | Rosie Perez | Tom Hulce | John Turturro | Benicio Del Toro | Deirdre O'Connell | John de Lancie | Spencer Vrooman | Daniel Cerny | Eve Roberts | Robin Pearson Rose | Debra Monk | Cynthia Mace | Randle Mell
Directors: Peter Weir
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After a terrible air disaster, survivor Max Klein emerges a changed person. Unable to connect to his former life or to wife Laura, he feels godlike and invulnerable. When psychologist Bill Perlman is unable to help Max, he has Max meet another survivor, Carla Rodrigo, who is racked with grief and guilt since her baby died in the crash which she and Max survived.

Orgazmo (1997)

Monday, March 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Dian Bachar | Robyn Lynne Raab | Michael Dean Jacobs | Ron Jeremy | Andrew Kemler | David Dunn | Matt Stone | Toddy Walters | Chasey Lain | Juli Ashton | Masao Maki | Joseph Arsenault | Jeff Schubert | Desi Singh
Directors: Trey Parker
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Joe Young is a young Mormon actor who preaches the word of God in LA and can’t get anything from it. One day he stumbles on the set of new porno movie shot by well known porn director Maxxx Orbison. Maxxx chooses Joe for the title part in his new movie Captain Orgazmo. Joe soon befriends short and skinny Ben Chapleski (his sidekick in the film), who invented a ray-gun which emits a light beam that causes the most intense orgasm in whoever it hits (called Orgasmorator). Unexpectedly movie Captain Orgazmo becomes a cult hit, and Joe’s girlfriend Lisa accidentally sees the movie in the video store - and the problems begin.

Walk to Remember, A (2002)

Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Daryl Hannah | Shane West | Mandy Moore | Peter Coyote | Jonathan Parks Jordan | Lauren German
Directors: Adam Shankman
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Each spring in the little port town of Beaufort, North Carolina, Landon Carter remembers his senior year at Beaufort High and Jamie Sullivan, the girl who changed his life. Serious and conservative, Jamie was as far from cool as she could possibly be, and didn’t care. Landon hung with the in-crowd an aimless, moody, reckless guy who breezed through school on looks and bravado and had no plans, no future and no faith in himself. When a prank goes terribly wrong landing a kid in the hospital, Landon is assigned to tutor a young student on the weekends and participate in the Drama Club’s spring play. Clearly in over his head with both assignments, Landon is forced to ask Jamie for help. Soon, against his own expectations and the scorn of his friends, Landon finds himself falling in love with this outwardly plain girl who possesses a passion for life he never imagined possible.

The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)

Sunday, December 9th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Laura Linney | Tom Wilkinson | Campbell Scott | Jennifer Carpenter | Colm Feore | Joshua Close | Kenneth Welsh | Duncan Fraser | JR Bourne | Mary Beth Hurt | Henry Czerny | Shohreh Aghdashloo | Steve Archer | Arlene Belcastro | David Berner
Directors: Scott Derrickson
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The nineteen years old Catholic college girl Emily Rose (Jennifer Carpenter) dies a couple of days after being submitted to an exorcism carried out by her parish priest, Father Moore (Tom Wilkinson). Emily believed she was possessed by six demons, and although authorized by Emily and he parents, Father Moore is accused of negligent homicide, since he had suggested Emily to interrupt the use of medications for epilepsy. In order to avoid a scandal, the Archdiocese hires the successful, ambitious and agnostic lawyer Erin Bruner (Laura Linney), and the prosecution assigns the religious prosecutor Ethan Thomas (Campbell Scott). Along the days, there is a battle between science and religion in the court.

The Reaping (2007)

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Hilary Swank | David Morrissey | Idris Elba | AnnaSophia Robb | Stephen Rea | William Ragsdale | John McConnell | David Jensen | Yvonne Landry | Samuel Garland | Myles Cleveland | Andrea Frankle | Mark Lynch | Stuart Greer | Lara Grice
Directors: Stephen Hopkins
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The death of a child in mysterious circumstances; sparks of a series of events that seem to represent biblical plagues, start occurring in of all places a town called *Haven* located deep in the bowels of bible belt country in the bayous of Louisiana. A former Christian missionary turned religious phenomena debunker and her top open minded student turned personnel assistant is sent to investigate.

Children of Men (2006)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Japan | UK | USA
Actors: Juan Gabriel Yacuzzi | Michelle Hussain | Rob Curling | Jon Chevalier | Rita Davies | Kim Fenton | Chris Gilbert | Phoebe Hawthorne | Rebecca Howard | Atalanta White | Laurence Woodbridge | Clive Owen | Maria McErlane | Michael Haughey | Paul Sharma
Directors: Alfonso Cuarón
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With this dystopian world ravished by war, paranoia and the frustrations of Man the Orwellian vision of Nineteen Eighty-Four, the totalitarian future is now complete and amongst us. With female fertility becoming obsolete, Man cannot reproduce, and no child has been born on the face of the planet for eighteen years. Man, and his future, is dying. Soon he shall be extinct. Theo, the beaten, downtrodden and middle-aged ex-political activist will, unwittingly, become involved in a war of an underground revolt. Here he is active once more, in the perilous journey across England’s Home Counties, with a young girl, Kee, who, to Theo’s bewilderment is pregnant. The first pregnant woman for more than eighteen years. This secret must be protected, at all cost, and mother and child must flee to the mysterious and enigmatic Human Project, across the seas. Their flight is a constant fight for survival. Who can be trusted? Who can keep a secret?