Posts Tagged ‘1930s’

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)

Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Hauer, Rutger | Roberts, Julia | Westley, Jennifer Rae | Clark, Dick | Rockwell, Sam | Sweeney, Michelle | Barrymore, Drew | Ceci, Chelsea | Pitt, Brad | Damon, Matt | Cera, Michael | Rose Ambroziak, Aimee | Blais, Isabelle | Carter, Melissa | Hall, Jennifer | Elkin, Ilona | Tucker, Sean | Morgan, Jaye P. | Gyllenhaal, Maggie | Hirsh, David Julian
Directors: Clooney, George
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Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind” is the story of a legendary showman’s double life - television producer by day, CIA assassin by night. At the height of his TV career, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA and trained to become a covert operative. Or so Barris said.

Frida (2002)

Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: Canada | Mexico | USA
Actors: Hayek, Salma | Maestro, Mía | Zapata, Amelia | Usigli, Alejandro | Luna, Diego | Molina, Alfred | Bravo, Lucia | Golino, Valeria | Reyes Spíndola, Patricia | Navarro, Loló | Rees, Roger | Martínez, Fermín | Medina, Roberto | Judd, Ashley | Banderas, Antonio
Directors: Taymor, Julie
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“Frida” chronicles the life Frida Kahlo (Salma Hayek) shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina), as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and controversial affair with Leon Trotsky, to her provocative and romantic entanglements with women, Frida Kahlo lived a bold and uncompromising life as a political, artistic, and sexual revolutionary.

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)

Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: UK
Actors: Alexander, David | Hinds, Ciarán | Pace, Lee | Payne, Tom | Potter, Tim | Ryan, Matt | Strong, Mark | Zinal, Mo | Mansfield, Chris
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Guinevere Pettigrew, a middle-aged London governess, finds herself unfairly dismissed from her job. An attempt to gain new employment catapults her into the glamorous world and dizzying social whirl of an American actress and singer, Delysia Lafosse.

Everyone’s Hero (2006)

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Sport
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Macy, William H. | Reiner, Rob | Dennehy, Brian | Wagner, Robert | Kind, Richard | Harris, Jason | Austin, Jake T. | Torre, Joe | Patinkin, Mandy | Whitaker, Forest | Allen, Ritchie | Bronstein, Jesse | Coppola, Ralph | Helms, Ed | Iannicelli, Ray
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“Everyone’s Hero” is a heartwarming comedy-adventure, telling the story of a young boy’s thousand-mile journey to help Babe Ruth and the New York Yankees win the World Series. The project’s theme of perseverance against all odds was inspired by the film’s originating director and executive producer, Christopher Reeve.

Honkytonk Man (1982)

Monday, August 4th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Eastwood, Clint | Eastwood, Kyle | John McIntire | Clark, Matt | Corbin, Barry | Hardin, Jerry | Thomerson, Tim | McCalman, Macon | Regalbuto, Joe | Grubbs, Gary | Gimble, Johnny | Boelsen, Jim | Walter, Tracey | Russell, John | Cyphers, Charles
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As the film opens on an Oklahoma farm during the depression, two simultaneous visitors literally hit the Wagoneer home: a ruinous dust storm and a convertible crazily driven by Red, the missus’ brother. A roguish country-western musician, he has just been invited to audition for the Grand Ole Opry, his chance of a lifetime to become a success. However, this is way back in Nashville, Red clearly drives terribly, and he’s broke and sick with tuberculosis to boot. Whit, 14, seeing his own chance of a lifetime to avoid “growing up to be a cotton picker all my life,” begs Ma to let him go with Uncle Red as driver and protege. Thus begins a picaresque journey both hilarious and poignant.

Youth Without Youth (2007)

Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Genres: Romance | Thriller
Countries: France | Germany | Italy | Romania | USA
Actors: Roth, Tim | Lara, Alexandra Maria | Bruno Ganz | Hennicke, André | Iures, Marcel | Pintea, Adrian | Pirici, Alexandra | Piersic Jr., Florin | Butuc, Zoltan | Titieni, Adriana | Albulescu, Mircea | Astileanu, Dan | Balint, Cristian | Bucur, Dragos | Damon, Matt
Directors: Coppola, Francis Ford
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A love story wrapped in a mystery. Set in Europe before WWII, a timid professor is changed by a cataclysmic event and explores the mysteries of life.

Great Debaters, The (2007)

Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Walker, Jackson | Dillingham Jr., Roger | Auguste, Ron | Bamberg, Andrew | Beasley, Michael | Benjamin, Andrew | Blanton, Southey | Bourgeois, Matt | Boyd, Trenton McClain | Brown, Marcus Lyle | Carter, Antravian D. | Conover, Eric | Cormier, Sean Paul | Evans, Brian D. | Evermore, J.D.
Directors: Washington, Denzel
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Marshall, Texas, described by James Farmer, Jr. as “the last city to surrender after the Civil War,” is home to Wiley College, where, in 1935-36, inspired by the Harlem Renaissance and his clandestine work as a union organizer, Professor Melvin Tolson coached the debate team to a nearly-undefeated season that included the first debate between students from white and Negro colleges and ended with an invitation to face Harvard University’s national champions. The team of four, which included a female student and a very young James Farmer, is tested in a crucible heated by Jim Crow, sexism, a lynch mob, an arrest and near riot, a love affair, jealousy, and a national radio audience.

Cinderella Man (2005)

Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Crowe, Russell | Zellweger, Renée | Giamatti, Paul | Bierko, Craig | Considine, Paddy | McGill, Bruce | Huband, David | Price, Connor | Waller, Ariel | Louis, Patrick | DeWitt, Rosemarie | Kash, Linda | Campbell, Nicholas | Pyrz, Gene | Shamata, Chuck
Directors: Howard, Ron
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During the Great Depression, a common-man hero, James J. Braddock—a.k.a. the Cinderella Man—was to become one of the most surprising sports legends in history. By the early 1930s, the impoverished ex-prizefighter was seemingly as broken-down, beaten-up and out-of-luck as much of the rest of the American populace who had hit rock bottom. His career appeared to be finished, he was unable to pay the bills, the only thing that mattered to him—his family—was in danger, and he was even forced to go on Public Relief. But deep inside, Jim Braddock never relinquished his determination. Driven by love, honor and an incredible dose of grit, he willed an impossible dream to come true. In a last-chance bid to help his family, Braddock returned to the ring. No one thought he had a shot. However Braddock, fueled by something beyond mere competition, kept winning. Suddenly, the ordinary working man became the mythic athlete. Carrying the hopes and dreams of the disenfranchised on his shoulders, Braddock rocketed through the ranks, until this underdog chose to do the unthinkable: take on the heavyweight champ of the world, the unstoppable Max Baer, renowned for having killed two men in the ring.

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Ford, Harrison | Allen, Karen | Freeman, Paul | Lacey, Ronald | Rhys-Davies, John | Elliott, Denholm | Molina, Alfred | Kahler, Wolf | Higgins, Anthony | Tablian, Vic | Fellows, Don | Hootkins, William | Reimbold, Bill | Sorenson, Fred | Durkin, Patrick
Directors: Spielberg, Steven
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Spring 1936. In the thick jungle of the South American continent, a renowned archeologist and expert on the occult is studying fragments of a map, when one of his exploration party pulls a gun. The archeologist pulls out a bullwhip and with such disarms the turncoat, sending him running - thus does Dr. Henry “Indiana” Jones stay alive. He and a guide enter a dank and oppressively vast cave that contains several traps created by the ancient race which hid inside a famous handheld statue; Indy barely escapes such traps but is cornered by native tribesmen served by Belloq, an old enemy who arrogantly makes off with the statue, while Indy must flee for his life and escape on a friend’s seaplane. Back in the US two agents from US Army intelligence tell him of Nazi German activities in archeology, including a gigantic excavation site in Egypt - a site that an intercepted cable indicates to Indy is the location of the Ark of the Covenant, the powerful chest bearing the Ten Commandments, that the Nazis can use to obliterate any enemy. Indy must recruit a former girlfriend (the daughter of his old professor) and an old chum in Cairo to infiltrate the Nazi site and make off with the Ark, but along the way Indy gets involved in a series of fights, chases, and traps, before the Nazis learn the full power of the Ark.

Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Beatty, Warren | Dunaway, Faye | Pollard, Michael J. | Hackman, Gene | Parsons, Estelle | Pyle, Denver | Taylor, Dub | Evans, Evans | Wilder, Gene | Appling, Harry | Bush, Owen | Cranshaw, Patrick | Goodgion, Garry | Howdy, Clyde | Marker, Russ
Directors: Penn, Arthur
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A bored small-town girl and a small-time bank robber leave in their wake a string of violent robberies and newspaper headlines that catch the imagination of the Depression-struck Mid-West in this take on the legendary crime spree of these archetypal lovers on the run.