Posts Tagged ‘illegitimate-son’

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Sunday, November 16th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Biography | Drama | War
Countries: UK
Actors: O'Toole, Peter | Guinness, Alec | Quinn, Anthony | Hawkins, Jack | Sharif, Omar | Ferrer, José | Quayle, Anthony | Rains, Claude | Kennedy, Arthur | Wolfit, Donald | Johar, I.S. | Ratib, Gamil | Ray, Michel | Dimech, John | Mohyeddin, Zia
Directors: Lean, David
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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.

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.

Sleeping Dictionary, The (2003)

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Alba, Jessica | Blethyn, Brenda | Dancy, Hugh | Hoskins, Bob | Ian, Christopher Ling Lee | Inocian, Junix | Jessing Langgi, Michael | Maniam, Mano | Moggie, K.K. | Mortimer, Emily | Richard, Cicilia Anak | Rogers, Malcolm | Salleh, Eugene | Taylor, Noah | White, Kate Helen
Directors: Jenkin, Guy
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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.

Superman Returns (2006)

Sunday, August 26th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Routh, Brandon | Bosworth, Kate | Spacey, Kevin | Marsden, James | Posey, Parker | Langella, Frank | Huntington, Sam | Saint, Eva Marie | Brando, Marlon | Penn, Kal | Leabu, Tristan Lake | Fabrizio, David | Roberts, Ian | Stone, Vincent | Larson, Jack
Directors: Singer, Bryan
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After eliminating General Zod & the other Kryptonian arch-villains, Ursa & Non, Superman leaves Earth to try to find his former home world of Krypton after astronomers have supposedly found it. When he finds nothing but remnants, he returns home to Earth - to find out that Lois Lane is engaged to a relative of his boss, and that Lex Luthor is at it again - after swindling an elderly, terminally ill woman. The psychopathic Luthor, whose plans to destroy California failed because of Superman’s heroics, vows vengeance against the Man of Steel and contrives a new sinister plot - using the crystals of Krypton to build a continent that will wipe out most of North America! Embedded in the continent’s structure is Kryptonite - the lethal substance that is Superman’s only weakness. Upon learning of Luthro’s sinister scheme, Superman must again race against time to stop the psychopathic Luthor before millions - possibly billions - are killed.

War and Peace (1956)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Drama | History | Romance | War
Countries: Italy | USA
Actors: Hepburn, Audrey | Fonda, Henry | Ferrer, Mel | Gassman, Vittorio | Lom, Herbert | Homolka, Oskar | Ekberg, Anita | Dantine, Helmut | Carminati, Tullio | Jones, Barry | Vitale, Milly | Seidl, Lea | Ferrero, Anna-Maria | Lawson, Wilfrid | Britt, May
Directors: Vidor, King
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At the beginning of the 19th century, Napoleon’s forces controlled much of Europe. In Russia, one of the few countries still unconquered, the army prepares to face Napoleon’s troops in Austria. Among the soldiers are Nicholas Rostov (Jeremy Brett) and Prince Andrei Bolkonsky (Mel Ferrer). Pierre Bezukhov (Henry Fonda), a friend of Andrei’s and self-styled intellectual who “knows what’s right but still does wrong,” is not interested in fighting. Pierre’s life changes when his father dies, leaving him a vast inheritance. He is attracted to Natasha Rostov (Audrey Hepburn), Nicholas’s sister, but gives in to baser desires and marries the shallow, materialistic Princess Helene (Anita Ekberg). The marriage quickly ends when Pierre discovers his wife’s true nature. Andrei is captured and later released by the French, and returns home only to watch his wife die in childbirth. During a visit to the country months later, Pierre and Andrei meet again. Andrei sees Natasha and falls in love, but his father will only permit the marriage if they postpone it for one year. While Andrei is away in Poland on a military mission, Natasha is drawn to Anatole Kuragin (Vittorio Gassmann), a scoundrel and libertine. Pierre tells Natasha of Anatole’s past before she can elope with him. Napoleon (Herbert Lom) invades Russia. Pierre visits Andrei on the eve of the battle, and observes the battle that follows. Traumatized by the carnage, he vows to kill Napoleon himself.

Godfather: Part III, The (1990)

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Pacino, Al | Keaton, Diane | Shire, Talia | Garcia, Andy | Wallach, Eli | Mantegna, Joe | Hamilton, George | Fonda, Bridget | Coppola, Sofia | Vallone, Raf | D'Ambrosio, Franc | Donnelly, Donal | Bright, Richard
Directors: Coppola, Francis Ford
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In the final instalment of the Godfather Trilogy, an aging Don Michael Corleone seeks to legitimize his crime family’s interests and remove himself from the violent underworld but is kept back by the ambitions of the young. While he attempts to link the Corleone’s finances with the Vatican, Michael must deal with the machinations of a hungrier gangster seeking to upset the existing Mafioso order and a young protoge’s love affair with his daughter.

Count of Monte Cristo, The (2002)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Ireland | UK | USA
Actors: Caviezel, James | Pearce, Guy | Harris, Richard | Frain, James | Dominczyk, Dagmara | Wincott, Michael | Guzmán, Luis | Adamson, Christopher | Blanc, JB | Carleton, Guy | Norton, Alex | Cassin, Barry | Cavill, Henry | Corrigan, Briana | Costello, Brendan
Directors: Reynolds, Kevin
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‘The Count of Monte Cristo’ is a remake of the Alexander Dumas tale by the same name. Dantes, a sailor who is falsely accused of treason by his best friend Fernand, who wants Dantes’ girlfriend Mercedes for himself. Dantes is imprisoned on the island prison of Chateau d’If for 13 years, where he plots revenge against those who betrayed him. With the help of another prisoner, he escapes the island and proceeds to transform himself into the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo as part of his plan to exact revenge.