Posts Tagged ‘india’

Razor’s Edge, The (1946)

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Power, Tyrone | Tierney, Gene | Payne, John | Baxter, Anne | Webb, Clifton | Marshall, Herbert | Watson, Lucile | Latimore, Frank | Lanchester, Elsa | Kortner, Fritz | Wengraf, John | Humphreys, Cecil | Pilcer, Harry | Wright Sr., Cobina | Adrian, George
Directors: Goulding, Edmund
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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.

Secret Garden, The (1993)

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Family
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Maberly, Kate | Prowse, Heydon | Knott, Andrew | Smith, Maggie | Crossley, Laura | Lynch, John | Sparrow, Walter | Jacob, Irène | Baker, Frank | Hill, Valerie | Pickering, Andrea | Moreton, Peter | Spreckley, Arthur | Bruce, Colin | Singh, Parsan
Directors: Holland, Agnieszka
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After losing her self-indulging parents in an earthquake, a bitter young girl named Mary Lennox is sent to live in England with her reclusive Uncle. Eventually she discovers her bedridden cousin and a ’secret garden’ that once belonged to her deceased aunt. With the help of her cousin, the kindly Dikon, and a little ‘magic’, can Mary find a way to bring love back to her family?

Sharpe’s Challenge (2006)

Friday, April 18th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | War
Countries: UK
Actors: Bean, Sean | O'Malley, Daragh | Stephens, Toby | Lakshmi, Padma | Recoing, Aurélien | Brown, Lucy | Cochrane, Michael | Khan, Aly | Daly, Peter-Hugo | Hancisse, Thierry | Panthaky, Karan | Vyas, Shruti | Symonds, Peter | McTavish, Graham | Dunnington, Gary
Directors: Clegg, Tom
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Sean Bean is back as the swashbuckling hero in Sharpe’s Challenge, an action packed mini-series to be shot on location in Rajasthan, India. Two years after the Duke of Wellington crushes Napoleon at Waterloo, dispatches from India tell of a local Maharaja, Khande Rao, who is threatening British interests there. Wellington sends Sharpe to investigate on what turns out to be his most dangerous mission to date. When a beautiful general’s daughter is kidnapped by the Indian warlord, the tension mounts, leaving Sharpe no option but to pursue the enemy right into its deadly lair. Deep in the heart of enemy territory he also has to keep at bay the beautiful but scheming Regent, Madhuvanthi, who is out to seduce him. The fate of an Empire and the life of a General’s daughter lie in one man’s hands…

Darjeeling Limited, The (2007)

Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Wilson, Owen | Brody, Adrien | Schwartzman, Jason | Karan, Amara | Wolodarsky, Wallace | Ahluwalia, Waris | Khan, Irfan | Schroeder, Barbet | Rutherford, Camilla | Murray, Bill | Huston, Anjelica | Singh, Mr. A.P. | Pallana, Kumar | Singh, Dalpat | Matthys, Trudy
Directors: Anderson, Wes
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Three American brothers who have not spoken to each other in a year set off on a train voyage across India with a plan to find themselves and bond with each other — to become brothers again like they used to be. Their “spiritual quest”, however, veers rapidly off-course (due to events involving over-the-counter pain killers, Indian cough syrup, and pepper spray), and they eventually find themselves stranded alone in the middle of the desert with eleven suitcases, a printer, and a laminating machine. At this moment, a new, unplanned journey suddenly begins.

Bourne Supremacy, The (2004)

Sunday, December 9th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Damon, Matt | Potente, Franka | Cox, Brian | Stiles, Julia | Urban, Karl | Mann, Gabriel | Allen, Joan | Csokas, Marton | Gallop, Tom | Bedford Lloyd, John | Sandler, Ethan | Monaghan, Michelle | Roden, Karel | Arana, Tomas | Akinshina, Oksana
Directors: Greengrass, Paul
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When a CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent—who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne (Damon) and Marie (Potente) have been living under assumed names—the pair collapse their lives and head out. Bourne, who promised retaliation should anyone from his former life attempt contact, is forced to once again take up his life as a trained assassin to survive.

Alexander (2004)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Biography | Drama | War
Countries: France | Germany | Netherlands | UK | USA
Actors: Leto, Jared | Hopkins, Anthony | Farrell, Colin | Bedella, David | Kamm, Jessie | Jolie, Angelina | Kilmer, Val | O'Shaughnessy, Fiona | Paolo, Connor | Carroll, Patrick | Blessed, Brian | Williamson, Peter | Ferris, Morgan Christopher | Earley, Robert | Gordon, Aleczander | Plummer, Christopher | Stretch, Gary
Directors: Stone, Oliver
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Alexander (Farrell), the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians he leads his Army across the then known world venturing further than any Westerner had ever gone all the way to India.

Moulin Rouge! (2001)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Musical | Romance
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Kidman, Nicole | McGregor, Ewan | Leguizamo, John | Broadbent, Jim | Roxburgh, Richard | McDonald, Garry | Koman, Jacek | Whittet, Matthew | Walker, Kerry | O'Connor, Caroline | Anu, Christine | Jackson Mendoza, Natalie | Mulcahy, Lara | Wenham, David | Minogue, Kylie
Directors: Luhrmann, Baz
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Christian, a young wannabe Bohemian poet living in 1899 Paris, defies his father by joining the colorfully diverse clique inhabiting the dark, fantastical underworld of Paris’ now legendary Moulin Rouge. In this seedy but glamorous haven of sex, drugs and newly-discovered electricity, the poet-innocent finds himself plunged into a passionate but ultimately tragic love affair with Satine, the club’s highest paid star and the city’s most famous courtesan. Their romance is played out against the infamous club - a meeting place of high life and low, where slumming aristocrats and the fashionably rich mingled with workers, artists, Bohemians, actresses and courtesans.

Fourth Angel, The (2001)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Canada | UK
Actors: Irons, Jeremy | Whitaker, Forest | Priestley, Jason | Glassco, Briony | Rampling, Charlotte | Maxwell, Lois | West, Timothy | Pitts, Joel | Maguire, Anna | Boyd, Holly | Weber, Kal | McNeice, Ian | Armstrong, William | Hagon, Garrick | Soric, Serge
Directors: Irvin, John
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Jack Elgin is the European editor of The Economist, which is based in London, England. Jack has a wife named Maria and three kids named Joanne, Julia, and Andrew. Jack subtly changes the family vacation from a lazy week of Mediterranean fun and sun in Corfu, Greece, to a tour of India, because of a story he has to cover. Maria is not as impressed by this as the kids are. Jack himself envisioned a chance to simultaneously work an easy reporting assignment and spend a little quality time with his family. But on the way to India, the airplane, a 747 owned by AM Air, an American airline, makes an unscheduled stopover in Limassol Cyprus, because of a mechanical problem. After a while of waiting inside the Limassol airport, everyone gets back on the plane — which is then hijacked by a group of terrorists known as the August 15th Movement, led by a Serbian man named Ivanic Loyvek and his right-hand man Karadan Maldic. And they are demanding $50,000,000 from the US State Department in one hour, or everyone on the airplane will die. The demand is met, and Loyvek and Maldic start releasing the women and children, with the men to go last. But as soon as a front passenger door is opened, a local police team gunning for the terrorists opens fire. The flight attendants frantically open the rest of the airplane’s doors and start getting passengers out, but the terrorists start killing passengers, leading to an explosion. Maria, Joanne, and Julia get out of the airplane, and then Jack, holding Andrew, gets out — only to watch Maria, Joanne, and Julia get shot by the terrorists. Jack tries to hide Andrew’s face so he can’t see it. Maria and Joanne are dead, and Julia is still alive — but Julia burns to death while crying for help. Jack and Andrew survive. In all, a total of 15 passengers die, and Loyvek and Maldic, the surviving terrorists, escape, knowing that they now have the $50,000,000. The hijacking would never have ended this way if the police team had waited until after the passengers were released from the airplane before getting trigger happy. Back in London, an absolutely devastated Jack is told that the terrorists were captured, but they were released and deported secretly, with no charges and no arrest, the result of some awfully compromised politics. Jack is understandably enraged that Loyvek and Maldic got off scot-free. While helping Andrew cope, Jack tries all the legal ways to ensure justice for his family, but to no avail. Jack even pays a visit to Henry Davidson, a CIA agent who works at the American Embassy in London. Davidson tells Jack that there’s little that can be done. Obviously, the American and British governments are completely impotent when it comes to going after Loyvek and Maldic, so Jack has absolutely no choice in the matter. He must do it himself. With the help of his ex-intelligence operative friend Kate Stockton, who is well-schooled in the finer points of international intelligence, Jack becomes a one-man anti-terrorist squadron, searching for Loyvek and Maldich. Dogging Jack’s trail is FBI agent Jules Bernard, who’s cooperating with Scotland Yard on anti-terrorist activities, and who suspects that Jack is the man who has been killing anyone involved in the hijacking. But as it turns out, Jules is on Jack’s side, and he’s willing to help Jack make those responsible pay for the deaths of his family and the other people who died in Cyprus.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Depp, Johnny | Highmore, Freddie | Kelly, David Patrick | Bonham Carter, Helena | Taylor, Noah | Pyle, Missi | Fox, James | Roy, Deep | Lee, Christopher | Godley, Adam | Troegner, Franziska | Robb, AnnaSophia | Winter, Julia | Fry, Jordan | Wiegratz, Philip
Directors: Burton, Tim
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Charlie Bucket comes from a poor family, and spends most of his time dreaming about the chocolate that he loves but usually can’t afford. Things change when Willy Wonka, head of the very popular Wonka Chocolate empire, announces a contest in which five gold tickets have been hidden in chocolate bars and sent throughout the country. The kids who find the tickets will be taken on a tour of Wonka’s chocolate factory and get a special glimpse of the wonders within. Charlie miraculously finds a ticket, along with four other children much naughtier than him. The tour of the factory will hold more than a few surprises for this bunch…

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Dreyfuss, Richard | Truffaut, François | Garr, Teri | Dillon, Melinda | Balaban, Bob | McNamara, J. Patrick | Kemmerling, Warren J. | Blossom, Roberts | Dodds, Philip | Guffey, Cary | Bishop, Shawn | Campbell, Adrienne | Dreyfuss, Justin | Henriksen, Lance | Connally, Merrill
Directors: Spielberg, Steven
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Cableman Roy Neary is one of several people who experience a close encounter of the first kind, witnessing UFOs flying through the night sky. He is subsequently haunted by a mountainlike image in his head and becomes obsessed with discovering what it represents, putting severe strain on his marriage. Meanwhile, government agents around the world have a close encounter of the second kind, discovering physical evidence of otherworldly visitors in the form of military vehicles that went missing decades ago suddenly appearing in the middle of nowhere. Roy and the agents both follow the clues they have been given to reach a site where they will have a close encounter of the third kind: contact.