Posts Tagged ‘ballet’

American in Paris, An (1951)

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
Genres: Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Kelly, Gene | Caron, Leslie | Levant, Oscar | Guétary, Georges | Foch, Nina | American In Paris Ballet, The | Ames, Robert | Bastin, Charles | Bieber, Rodney | Bolognese, Dino | Borden, Eugene | Camlin, Peter | Charisse, Andre | Chatham, Bill
Directors: Minnelli, Vincente
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Jerry Mulligan, a struggling American painter in Paris, is “discovered” by an influential heiress with an interest in more than Jerry’s art. Jerry in turn falls for Lise, a young French girl already engaged to a cabaret singer. Jerry jokes, sings and dances with his best friend, an acerbic would-be concert pianist, while romantic complications abound.

Suspiria (1977)

Friday, December 19th, 2008
Genres: Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Italy
Actors: Harper, Jessica | Casini, Stefania | Bucci, Flavio | Miguel Bosé | Magnolfi, Barbara | Javicoli, Susanna | Axén, Eva | Schündler, Rudolf | Kier, Udo | Valli, Alida | Bennett, Joan | Horowitz, Margherita | Mariani, Jacopo | Mingozzi, Fulvio | Scagnetti, Franca
Directors: Argento, Dario
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A young American dancer travels to Europe to join a famous ballet school. As she arrives, the camera turns to another young woman, who appears to be fleeing from the school. She returns to her apartment where she is gruesomely murdered by a hideous creature. Meanwhile, the young American is trying to settle in at the ballet school, but hears strange noises and is troubled by bizarre occurrences. She eventually discovers that the school is merely a front for a much more sinister organization.

Fame (1980)

Friday, December 19th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Barth, Eddie | Cara, Irene | Curreri, Lee | Dean, Laura | Franceschi, Antonia | Gaines, Boyd | Hague, Albert | Hughes, Tresa | Inwood, Steve | McCrane, Paul | Meara, Anne | Merlin, Joanna | Miller, Barry | Moody, Jim | Ray, Gene Anthony
Directors: Parker, Alan
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At the New York City High School for the Performing Arts, students get specialized training that often leads to success as actors, singers, etc. This movie follows four students from the time when they audition to get into the school, through graduation. They are the brazen Coco Hernandez, shy Doris Finsecker, sensitive gay Montgomery MacNeil, and brash, abrasive Raul Garcia.

Waterloo Bridge (1940)

Monday, December 15th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Leigh, Vivien | Taylor, Robert | Watson, Lucile | Field, Virginia | Ouspenskaya, Maria | Smith, C. Aubrey | Shaw, Janet | Waldo, Janet | Duna, Steffi | Carroll, Virginia | Nicova, Leda | Baker, Florence | Manning, Margery | MacInerney, Frances | Stewart, Eleanor
Directors: LeRoy, Mervyn
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On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front. Myra stayed with him past curfew and is thrown out of the corps de ballet. She survives on the streets of London, falling even lower after she hears her true love has been killed in action. But he wasn’t killed. Those terrible years were nothing more than a bad dream is Myra’s hope after Roy finds her and takes her to his family’s country estate.

Bon Cop, Bad Cop (2006)

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Countries: Canada
Actors: Beaudry, Michel | Bélanger, Patrice | Boudreau, Pierre | Boylan, Sarain | Brunelle, Manon | Canuel, Nicolas | Chevrette-Landesque, Hugolin | Jean, Fayolle | Feore, Colm | Fournier, Ron | Goulem, Alain | Grenier, Amélie | Houde, Louis-José | Houde, Pierre | Howland, Richard
Directors: Canuel, Erik
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When a crime is committed on the border of Quebec and Ontario, everyone is forced to come together, whether they want to or not. As the investigation gets underway, we meet David Bouchard and Martin Ward, members of their respective provincial police forces who are forced to work together. The two men couldn’t be more different. In fact, the only thing they appear to have in common is that they are both cops, albeit cops with totally different styles.

They Do It with Mirrors (1991)

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery
Countries: UK
Actors: Hickson, Joan | Simmons, Jean | Ackland, Joss | Brook, Faith | Barge, Gillian | Swettenham, Neal | Horovitch, David | Brimble, Ian | Villiers, Christopher | Villiers, Jay | Aird, Holly | Boyce, Todd | Reichlin, Saul | Cottle, Matthew | Bott, John
Directors: Stone, Norman
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Miss Marple is invited to London to see her old friend Ruth. Miss Marple was a sort of traveling companion to Ruth and her sister, Carrie Louise. Ruth is worried about Carrie Louise. She doesn’t know why, though. Ruth asks Miss Marple to come with her to her sister’s estate, Stonygates. Stonygates is a huge manor house, and some of the buildings and the grounds are used by Carrie Louises’ current husband, Lewis, as a reformatory for juvenile criminals. Miss Marple meets the people who live there - Carrie Louise’s grand-daughter Gina and her malcontent American husband Walter; Stephen and Alex Restarick, Carrie Louise’s stepsons by her first marriage; Edgar Lawson, Lewis’ mentally unstable secretary; and Carrie Louise’s daughter, Mildred, who is jealous of Gina. Soon, Carrie Louise’s stepson by her second marriage shows up. He is Christian Guldbrandsen, and he runs the trust which contributes a fraction of the funds used to run Stonygates. He and Lewis talk in private. Later that night, Edgar begins waving a gun around and ranting that Lewis is his father. Lewis takes him to his office where the argument becomes even more heated. After a few minutes, two shots are heard, and then hysterical crying. The door opens to reveal Lewis, unhurt. Edgar missed him. However, the body of Christian Guldbrandsen is discovered, shot. Miss Marple sets out to find the murderer before it is too late for her good friend Carrie Louise.

Multiplicity (1996)

Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Keaton, Michael | MacDowell, Andie | Duhame, Zack | Schlossberg, Katie | Yulin, Harris | Masur, Richard | Levy, Eugene | Cusack, Ann | de Lancie, John | Kahan, Judith | Doyle-Murray, Brian | Babatundé, Obba | Bowen, Julie | Maxey, Dawn | Coleman, Kari
Directors: Ramis, Harold
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Michael Keaton and Andie MacDowell star in this comedy about a man who clones himself to save his marriage, and then almost loses his wife— to himself! Overworked and overscheduled, contractor Doug Kinney never has enough time for his wife and family. So when a helpful geneticist offers to “xerox” Doug, it seems like the perfect solution— until the clones begin to take over his home, his job, and his bed. Keaton takes on four distinct roles.

White Nights (1985)

Monday, January 28th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Baryshnikov, Mikhail | Hines, Gregory | Skolimowski, Jerzy | Mirren, Helen | Page, Geraldine | Rossellini, Isabella | Glover, John | Gryff, Stefan | Hootkins, William | Rimmer, Shane | Faure, Florence | Savile, David | Liston, Ian | Young, Benny | Drake, Hilary
Directors: Hackford, Taylor
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Nikolai Rochenko, a Russian ballet dancer who 8 years ago defected to the West. He is in a plane flying over Russia when all of a sudden, a malfunction forces the plane to land in Russia. The KGB tells everyone that his injuries are so severe that he has to remain confide for a while. But in reality they want him to return to them, so they bring him to his old apartment and an American, Raymond Greenwood, who himself defected to Russia several years ago, is placed there to keep an eye on him. However, Rochenko is not about to give in and is determined to escape. So with help from his former lover, he gets word to the Americans. And even Raymond is started to be disillusioned with Russia, and he has to decide if he is going to do what he was sent to do or help Rochenko.

Step Up (2006)

Friday, August 24th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Music | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Tatum, Channing | Dewan, Jenna | Radcliff, Damaine | Washington, De'Shawn | Mario | Sidora, Drew | Griffiths, Rachel | Henderson, Josh | Lacatena, Tim | Stoner, Alyson | Heavy D | Lovejoy, Deirdre | Beard, Jane | Pelzman, Richard | Peck, Carlyncia S.
Directors: Fletcher, Anne
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Everyone deserves a chance to follow their dreams, but some people only get one shot. Tyler Gage is a rebel from the wrong side of Baltimore¹s tracks ­ and the only thing that stands between him and an unfulfilled life are his dreams of one day making it out of there. Nora is a privileged ballet dancer attending Baltimore¹s ultra-elite Maryland School of the Arts — and the only thing standing in the way of her obviously brilliant future is finding a great dance partner for her senior showcase. When trouble with the law lands Tyler with a community service gig at Maryland School of the Arts, he arrives as an angry outsider, until his skills as a gifted street dancer draw Nora¹s attention. Now, as sparks fly between them, both on and off stage, Tyler realizes he has just one performance to prove that he can step up to a life far larger than he ever imagined.

Outrageous Fortune (1987)

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Long, Shelley | Midler, Bette | Coyote, Peter | Prosky, Robert | Schuck, John | Carlin, George | Heald, Anthony | Cumbuka, Ji-Tu | Stanley, Florence | Zaks, Jerry | DiSanti, John | Bellamy, Diana | Morgan, Gary | McDonald, Christopher | Smith, J.W.
Directors: Hiller, Arthur
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Lauren and Sandy are total opposites who end up in the same acting class and who don’t know they are sharing a lover. When he disappears under mysterious circumstances they refuse to believe that he is dead and are the only ones who are searching for him across several states. Ending up in the western US., they discover he had other interests as they find their lives in danger.