Posts Tagged ‘obsession’

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951)

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Romance
Countries: UK
Actors: James Mason | Ava Gardner | Nigel Patrick | Sheila Sim | Harold Warrender | Mario Cabré | Marius Goring | John Laurie | Pamela Mason | Patricia Raine | Margarita D'Alvarez | La Pillina | Abraham Sofaer | Francisco Igual | Guillermo Beltrán
Directors: Albert Lewin
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In 1930, singer Pandora Reynolds, gorgeous, enigmatic, and fascinated by danger and destruction, has the men of a small Spanish town in despair. Just when race driver Stephen Cameron thinks he’s won her, a mysterious yacht appears in the bay whose eerie captain may be the legendary Flying Dutchman. Stephen has an apparently more dangerous rival in the form of an arrogant bullfighter; but Pandora’s friendship with the Dutchman may lead them both to a rendezvous with Fate…

Adaptation. (2002)

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Nicolas Cage | Meryl Streep | Chris Cooper | Cara Seymour | Tilda Swinton | Bill Livingston | Brian Cox | Maggie Gyllenhaal | Judy Greer | Jim Beaver | Litefoot | Jim Tavaré | Doug Jones | Stephen Tobolowsky | Roger Willie
Directors: Spike Jonze
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Frequently cynical screenwriter Charlie Kaufman has just taken on a new assignment. That is, to adapt writer Susan Orlean’s “The Orchid Thief” into a screenplay, all of it based on the life of the eccentric John Laroche, an exotic plant collector based out of Florida. While his easygoing twin brother Donald, is writing scripts with ease, Charlie finds himself on a perpetual struggle that never seems to end.

Rohtenburg (2006)

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Germany
Actors: Keri Russell | Thomas Kretschmann | Thomas Huber | Rainier Meissner | Angelika Bartsch | Alexander Martschewski | Nils Dommning | Marcus Lucas | Pascal Andres | Stefan Gebelhoff | Jonas Gruber | Bojan Heyn | Nikolai Kinski | Jörg Reimers | André Reissig
Directors: Martin Weisz
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In Germany, as graduate student Katie Armstrong researches cannibal killer Oliver Hagen for her thesis, she becomes obsessed with her subject and ultimately plunges into a lifestyle similar to Hagen’s and the thousands of people like him.

I Am Sam (2001)

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Sean Penn | Richard Schiff | Brad Silverman | Joseph Rosenberg | Stanley DeSantis | Doug Hutchison | Ken Jenkins | Mason Lucero | Scott Paulin | Bobby Cooper | Michael B. Silver | Chase MacKenzie Bebak | Rafer Weigel | Brent Spiner | David Nathan Schwartz
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Sam Dawson has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old. He works at a Starbucks and is obsessed with the Beatles. He has a daughter with a homeless woman; she abandons them as soon as they leave the hospital. He names his daughter Lucy Diamond (after the Beatles song), and raises her. But as she reaches age 7 herself, Sam’s limitations start to become a problem at school; she’s intentionally holding back to avoid looking smarter than him. The authorities take her away, and Sam shames high-priced lawyer Rita Harrison into taking his case pro bono. In the process, he teaches her a great deal about love, and whether it’s really all you need.

Mighty Aphrodite (1995)

Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Woody Allen | F. Murray Abraham | Donald Symington | Michael Rapaport | David Ogden Stiers | Jack Warden | Peter Weller | Steven Randazzo | Jeffrey Kurland | Tucker Robin | Nolan Tuffy | Jimmy McQuaid | Gary Alper | Peter McRobbie | Kenneth Edelson
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Lenny and Amanda have an adopted son Max who turns out to be brilliant. Lenny becomes obsessed with finding Max’s real parents because he believes that they too must be brilliant. When he finds that Linda Ash is Max’ real mother, Lenny is disappointed. Linda is a prostitute and porn star. On top of that, she is quite possibly the dumbest person Lenny has ever met. Interwoven is a Greek chorus linking the story with the story of Oedipus.

Christine (1983)

Friday, April 25th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Keith Gordon | John Stockwell | Alexandra Paul | Robert Prosky | Harry Dean Stanton | Christine Belford | Roberts Blossom | William Ostrander | David Spielberg | Malcolm Danare | Steven Tash | Stuart Charno | Kelly Preston | Marc Poppel | Robert Darnell
Directors: John Carpenter
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Arnie Cunningham is a typical high school nerd who is picked on, overruled by his parents, and has very few friends. Until he meets Christine, a run-down 1958 Plymouth Fury and buys her. Arnie learns that Christine has a thing for him and devotes his time to restoring her to Mint Condition. But overtime, Arnie begins to change and becomes disconnected with reality and his friends. Arnie’s girlfriend Leigh and best friend Dennis find out that Christine’s previous owner cared about nothing else when he bought her and find out that Arnie is becoming just like him. The only way they can bring Arnie back to reality is to destroy Christine, But Arnie and Christine are ready to destroy them first and any one else who gets in their way.

Kicking & Screaming (2005)

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Will Ferrell | Robert Duvall | Mike Ditka | Kate Walsh | Musetta Vander | Dylan McLaughlin | Josh Hutcherson | Steven Anthony Lawrence | Jeremy Bergman | Elliott Cho | Erik Walker | Dallas McKinney | Francesco Liotti | Alessandro Ruggiero | Sammy Fine
Directors: Jesse Dylan
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Family man Phil Weston, a lifelong victim of his father’s competitive nature, takes on the coaching duties of a kids’ soccer team, and soon finds that he’s also taking on his father’s dysfunctional way of relating…

Bee Movie (2007)

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Jerry Seinfeld | Renée Zellweger | Matthew Broderick | Patrick Warburton | John Goodman | Chris Rock | Kathy Bates | Barry Levinson | Larry King | Ray Liotta | Sting | Oprah Winfrey | Larry Miller | Megan Mullally | Rip Torn
Directors: Steve Hickner
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Barry B. Benson, a bee who has just graduated from college, is disillusioned at his lone career choice: making honey. On a special trip outside the hive, Barry’s life is saved by Vanessa, a florist in New York City. As their relationship blossoms, he discovers humans actually eat honey, and subsequently decides to sue us.

To Die For (1995)

Friday, March 21st, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Nicole Kidman | Matt Dillon | Joaquin Phoenix | Casey Affleck | Illeana Douglas | Alison Folland | Dan Hedaya | Wayne Knight | Kurtwood Smith | Holland Taylor | Susan Traylor | Maria Tucci | Tim Hopper | Michael Rispoli | Buck Henry
Directors: Gus Van Sant
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Suzanne Stone (Maretto) knows exactly what she wants. She wants to be a television newscaster and she is willing to do ANYTHING to get what she wants. What she lacks in intelligence, she makes up for in cold determination and diabolical wiles. As she pursues her goal with relentless focus, she is forced to destroy anything and anyone that may stand in her way, regardless of the ultimate cost or means necessary.

The ‘burbs (1989)

Friday, March 21st, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Tom Hanks | Bruce Dern | Carrie Fisher | Rick Ducommun | Corey Feldman | Wendy Schaal | Henry Gibson | Brother Theodore | Courtney Gains | Gale Gordon | Dick Miller | Robert Picardo | Cory Danziger | Franklyn Ajaye | Rance Howard
Directors: Joe Dante
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This story takes place in a typical American neighborhood, when some new neighbors come to live in the house next to Ray Peterson. These new people are really strange; nobody has ever seen them, their house is a real mess, and during the night you can hear weird noises from their basement. The only thing they know is their name: Klopeks. One day Walter (an old man of the neighborhood) suddenly disappears and everyone starts to suspect the Klopeks…