Posts Tagged ‘historical’

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Saturday, November 29th, 2008
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.

Hotel Rwanda (2004)

Saturday, November 29th, 2008
Genres: Drama | History | Thriller | War
Countries: Italy | South Africa | UK | USA
Actors: Xolani Mali | Don Cheadle | Desmond Dube | Hakeem Kae-Kazim | Tony Kgoroge | Rosie Motene | Neil McCarthy | Mabutho 'Kid' Sithole | Nick Nolte | Fana Mokoena | Jeremiah Ndlovu | Sophie Okonedo | Lebo Mashile | Antonio David Lyons | Leleti Khumalo
Directors: Terry George
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Ten years ago some of the worst atrocities in the history of mankind took place in the country of Rwanda–and in an era of high-speed communication and round the clock news, the events went almost unnoticed by the rest of the world. In only three months, one million people were brutally murdered. In the face of these unspeakable actions, inspired by his love for his family, an ordinary man summons extraordinary courage to save the lives of over a thousand helpless refugees, by granting them shelter in the hotel he manages.

Titanic (1997)

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
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.

Mobsters (1991)

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Christian Slater | Costas Mandylor | Richard Grieco | Jeremy Schoenberg | Miles Perlich | Alan Charof | Patrick Dempsey | Anto Nolan | Rodney Eastman | Andy Romano | Bianca Rossini | Stevie Restivo | Caroline Gillette | Robert Z'Dar | Michael Gambon
Directors: Michael Karbelnikoff
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The story of a group of friends in turn of the century New York, from their early days as street hoods to their rise in the world of organized crime. As their crime empire expands, they have to deal with many problems, including their own differing opinions on how to run their business, the local Godfather, and the psychotic Mad Dog Coll.

Bronx Tale, A (1993)

Monday, September 29th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Robert De Niro | Chazz Palminteri | Lillo Brancato | Francis Capra | Taral Hicks | Kathrine Narducci | Clem Caserta | Alfred Sauchelli Jr. | Frank Pietrangolare | Joe Pesci | Robert D'Andrea | Eddie Montanaro | Fred Fischer | Dave Salerno | Joe D'Onofrio
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Gangster Sonny is the big man in Calogero’s Bronx neighborhood. A shooting witnessed by Calogero is the starting point of a lasting bond between the gangster and the small boy. Father (bus driver Lorenzo), however, disap- proves. Calogero grows up under the wings of both men, torn between his own natural honesty and his fascination with Sonny. C’s neighborhood cronies get involved in theft, use of guns, racial fights. When C meets girl, things don’t become easier. C’s leap to manhood is marked by tragedy, but also by his recognition of the many faces of love.

Silk (2007)

Monday, August 4th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: Canada | France | Italy | Japan | UK
Actors: Michael Pitt | Tony Vogel | Toni Bertorelli | Kenneth Welsh | Alfred Molina | Michael Golding | Carlo Cecchi | Marc Fiorini | Leslie Csuth | Toru Tezuka | Hiroya Morita | Akinori Ando | Jun Kunimura | Kanata Hongô | Kôji Yakusho
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Based on the Alessandro Baricco’s novel this is the story of a married silkworm smuggler, Herve Joncour, in 19th Century France who travels to Japan to collect his clandestine cargo. While there he spots a beautiful Japanese woman, the concubine of a local baron, with whom he becomes obsessed. Without speaking the same language, they communicate through letters until war intervenes. Their unrequited love persists however, and Herve’s wife Helene begins to suspect.

Rob Roy (1995)

Monday, June 9th, 2008
Genres: Action | Biography | Drama | Romance | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Liam Neeson | Jessica Lange | John Hurt | Tim Roth | Eric Stoltz | Andrew Keir | Brian Cox | Brian McCardie | Gilbert Martin | Vicki Masson | Gilly Gilchrist | Jason Flemyng | Ewan Stewart | David Hayman | Brian McArthur
Directors: Michael Caton-Jones
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In the highlands of Scotland in the 1700s, Rob Roy tries to lead his small town to a better future, by borrowing money from the local nobility to buy cattle to herd to market. When the money is stolen, Rob is forced into a Robin Hood lifestyle to defend his family and honour.

Emma (1996)

Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Gwyneth Paltrow | James Cosmo | Greta Scacchi | Alan Cumming | Denys Hawthorne | Sophie Thompson | Jeremy Northam | Toni Collette | Kathleen Byron | Phyllida Law | Edward Woodall | Brett Miley | Brian Capron | Karen Westwood | Paul Williamson
Directors: Douglas McGrath
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Emma is a very beautiful young woman who decides to devote her life in finding the right mate for the people around her. But, her cause will come to contestation when she will find love in the face of a much sought after man.

Saving Private Ryan (1998)

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Tom Hanks | Tom Sizemore | Edward Burns | Barry Pepper | Adam Goldberg | Vin Diesel | Giovanni Ribisi | Jeremy Davies | Matt Damon | Ted Danson | Paul Giamatti | Dennis Farina | Joerg Stadler | Steven Martini | Dylan Bruno
Directors: Steven Spielberg
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Opening with the Allied invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944, members of the 2nd Ranger Battalion under Cpt. Miller fight ashore to secure a beachhead. Amidst the fighting, two brothers are killed in action. Earlier in New Guinea, a third brother is KIA. Their mother, Mrs. Ryan, is to receive all three of the grave telegrams on the same day. The United States Army Chief of Staff, George C. Marshall, is given an opportunity to alleviate some of her grief when he learns of a fourth brother, Private James Ryan, and decides to send out 8 men (Cpt. Miller and select members from 2nd Rangers) to find him and bring him back home to his mother…

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The Sleeping Dictionary (2003)

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Jessica Alba | Brenda Blethyn | Hugh Dancy | Bob Hoskins | Christopher Ling Lee Ian | Junix Inocian | Michael Jessing Langgi | Mano Maniam | K.K. Moggie | Emily Mortimer | Cicilia Anak Richard | Malcolm Rogers | Eugene Salleh | Noah Taylor | Kate Helen White
Directors: Guy Jenkin
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In 1936, the expatriated young and naive just-graduated British John Truscott (Hugh Dancy) arrives to the Sarawak, a British colony, to work in the Iban society. The beautiful Selima (Jessica Alba) is assigned to be his “sleeping dictionary”, to live and sleep with him and teach him the language and habits of the locals. The reluctant John and Selima fall in love for each other in a forbidden romance.