Posts Tagged ‘wwi’

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.

The Razor’s Edge (1946)

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Tyrone Power | Gene Tierney | John Payne | Anne Baxter | Clifton Webb | Herbert Marshall | Lucile Watson | Frank Latimore | Elsa Lanchester | Fritz Kortner | John Wengraf | Cecil Humphreys | Harry Pilcer | Cobina Wright Sr. | George Adrian
Directors: Edmund Goulding
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Well-to-do Chicagoan, Larry Darrell, breaks off his engagement to Isabel and travels the world seeking enlightenment, eventually finding his guru India. Isabel marries Gray, and following the crash of 1929, is invited to live in Paris with her rich, social climbing, Uncle Elliot. During a sojurn there, Larry, having attained his goal, is reunited with Isabel. While slumming one night Larry, Isabel and company are shocked to discover Sophie, a friend from Chicago. Having lost her husband and child in a tragic accident, Sophie is living the low-life with the help of drugs an abusive brute. Larry tries to rehabilitate her, but his efforts are sabotaged by Isabel who has tried in vain to reignite Larry’s interest in her.

Leatherheads (2008)

Monday, August 4th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: George Clooney | John Krasinski | Jonathan Pryce | Stephen Root | Wayne Duvall | Keith Loneker | Malcolm Goodwin | Matt Bushell | Tommy Hinkley | Tim Griffin | Robert Baker | Nick Paonessa | Nicholas Bourdages | Jack Thompson | Jason Drago
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A romantic comedy set against the backdrop of America’s nascent pro-football league in 1925. Dodge Connolly, a charming, brash football hero, is determined to guide his team from bar brawls to packed stadiums. But after the players lose their sponsor and the entire league faces certain collapse, Dodge convinces a college football star to join his ragtag ranks. The captain hopes his latest move will help the struggling sport finally capture the country’s attention. Welcome to the team Carter Rutherford, America’s favorite son. A golden-boy war hero who single-handedly forced multiple German soldiers to surrender in WWI, Carter has dashing good looks and unparalleled speed on the field. This new champ is almost too good to be true, and Lexie Littleton aims to prove that’s the case. A cub journalist playing in the big leagues, Lexie is a spitfire newswoman who suspects there are holes in Carter’s war story. But while she digs, the two teammates start to become serious off-field rivals for her fickle affections. As the new game of pro-football becomes less like the freewheeling sport he knew and loved, Dodge must both fight to keep his guys together and to get the girl of his dreams. Finding that love and football have a surprisingly similar playbook, however, he has one maneuver he will save just for the fourth quarter…

Twelve Monkeys (1995)

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Joseph Melito | Bruce Willis | Jon Seda | Michael Chance | Vernon Campbell | H. Michael Walls | Bob Adrian | Simon Jones | Carol Florence | Bill Raymond | Ernest Abuba | Irma St. Paule | Madeleine Stowe | Joey Perillo | Bruce Kirkpatrick | Brad Pitt | Christopher Plummer
Directors: Terry Gilliam
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An unknown and lethal virus has wiped out five billion people in 1996. Only 1% of the population has survived by the year 2035, and is forced to live underground. A convict (James Cole) reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to 1996 to gather information about the origin of the epidemic (who he’s told was spread by a mysterious “Army of the Twelve Monkeys”) and locate the virus before it mutates so that scientists can study it. Unfortunately Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990, six years earlier than expected, and is arrested and locked up in a mental institution, where he meets Dr. Kathryn Railly, a psychiatrist, and Jeffrey Goines, the insane son of a famous scientist and virus expert.

The African Queen (1951)

Sunday, December 9th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Romance | War
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Humphrey Bogart | Katharine Hepburn | Robert Morley | Peter Bull | Theodore Bikel | Walter Gotell | Peter Swanwick | Richard Marner | Errol John | Gerald Onn | John von Kotze
Directors: John Huston
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At the start of World War 1, Charlie Allnut is using his old steamer, The African Queen, to ferry supplies to villages in East Africa. When the Rev. Samuel Sayer dies, Charlie agrees to take Sayers’ sister, Rose, back to civilization. taking on the Germans at the same time.

Flyboys (2006)

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Romance | War
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Jesse James | Reiley McClendon | Stephen Baldwin | Tom Sizemore | J. Todd Adams | Dallen Gettling | Jennifer Slimko | Robert Costanzo | Vince Cecere | Frank D'Amico | Harrison Young | Blaire Baron | Tommy Hinkley | Joanne Baron | Dylan Kasch
Directors: Rocco DeVilliers
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Two kids from a small town accidentally stow away aboard an airplane owned by the mob.

Secondhand Lions (2003)

Friday, August 24th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Family | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Michael Caine | Robert Duvall | Haley Joel Osment | Kyra Sedgwick | Nicky Katt | Josh Lucas | Michael O'Neill | Deirdre O'Connell | Eric Balfour | Christian Kane | Kevin Haberer | Emmanuelle Vaugier | Adam Ozturk | Jennifer Stone | Mitchel Musso
Directors: Tim McCanlies
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13 year old Walter has had a hard life, with his no good floozy of a mother getting together with many equally despicable men. Before going on yet another husband-hunting trip, she drops him off at the house of his great-uncles Hub and Garth. They disappeared for quite a while in their youth, and are rumored to have acquired a great fortune, which Walter’s mother hopes to get her hands on if he can ingratiate himself enough to the two cantankerous men. Though reluctant to put up with him at first, Hub and Garth grow to accept Walter, and even tell him fantastic stories of what they were up to while they went missing. When his mother returns, Walter must take charge of his own life, and decide what he’s going to do with it.

The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Will Smith | Matt Damon | Charlize Theron | Bruce McGill | Joel Gretsch | J. Michael Moncrief | Lane Smith | Peter Gerety | Michael O'Neill | Thomas Jay Ryan | Trip Hamilton | Dermot Crowley | Harve Presnell | Danny Nelson | Bob Penny
Directors: Robert Redford
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Rannulph Junnah is the best golfer in Savannah. He’s living well and has a girl, Adele Invergordon, who’s the daughter of a wealthy landowner. The First World War starts, though, and Junnah goes to Europe to fight. The only survivor of a dangerous mission, Junnah doesn’t return to Savannah for 15 years. In 1930, he returns, and Adele’s father has already committed suicide during the Depression. Pressured by tax collectors to sell the golf course her father built to pay off debts, Adele, now older, vows to bring to Savannah the greatest match ever played on the greatest golf course, her late father’s. She’s able to round up the 2 greatest golfers of their time, Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen to play for $10,000. The townspeople insist on having “one of their own” compete also, and Rannulph Junnah is rounded up. Junnah now hangs out with bums and is an alcoholic, as he has lost his authentic swing from 15 years ago. At first he turns down the offer. He gets his old clubs and balls and starts practicing. He has lost his ability. Suddenly, Bagger Vance shows up. He offers to be Junnahs’s caddy and help him regain his “authentic swing”. He does, and Junnah agrees to play in the big match.

Legends of the Fall (1994)

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Brad Pitt | Anthony Hopkins | Aidan Quinn | Julia Ormond | Henry Thomas | Karina Lombard | Gordon Tootoosis | Christina Pickles | Paul Desmond | Tantoo Cardinal | Robert Wisden | John Novak | Kenneth Welsh | Bill Dow | Sam Sarkar
Directors: Edward Zwick
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Set in the Rocky Mountains of Montana in the early 1900s, this is a tale of love, betrayal, and brotherhood. After being discharged, Colonel Ludlow decides to raise his three sons in the wilds of Montana, where they can grow up away from the government and society he has learned to dispise. The three brothers mature and seem to have an unbreakable bond, until Susanna enters their lives. When Samuel, the youngest of the three, returns from college he brings with him his beautiful fiance, Susanna. The eldest son, Alfred, soon finds himself in love with his brother’s fiance, and things get worse when he discovers a growing passion between Susanna and Tristan. Colonel Ludlow’s favorite son, Tristan is willful and as wild as the mountains. As the brothers set out to fight a war in Europe, suspicion and jelousy threatens to tear apart their once indestructable bond.