Posts Tagged ‘royalty’

Dragonheart (1996)

Friday, January 18th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Connery, Sean | Quaid, Dennis | Christie, Julie | Thewlis, David | Postlethwaite, Pete | Meyer, Dina | Isaacs, Jason | Thompson, Brian | Oakes, Lee | Christian, Wolf | O'Neill, Terry | Vejmelková, Eva | Bahúl, Milan | Hric, Peter | Kovacicova, Sandra | Cohen, Kyle | Baker, Thom
Directors: Cohen, Rob
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Set in the 10th Century, a man (Bowen) teams up with the last dragon to remind the people of a long lost code of honor, and inspire them to fight for their freedom from a tyrannical king.

Queen, The (2006)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: France | Italy | UK
Actors: Mirren, Helen | Cromwell, James | Jennings, Alex | Allam, Roger | Syms, Sylvia | McMullan, Tim | Soans, Robin | Peploe, Lola | Reith, Douglas | Henderson, Joyce | Laffan, Pat | Hadingue, Amanda | McGlynn, John | O'Brien, Gray | MacLennan, Dolina
Directors: Frears, Stephen
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The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair during their struggle, following the death of Diana, to reach a compromise between what was a private tragedy for the Royal family and the public’s demand for an overt display of mourning.

Patriot Games (1992)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Ford, Harrison | Archer, Anne | Bergin, Patrick | Bean, Sean | Birch, Thora | Fox, James | Jackson, Samuel L. | Walker, Polly | Freeman, J. E. | Jones, James Earl | Harris, Richard | Norton, Alex | Fraser, Hugh | Threlfall, David | Armstrong, Alun
Directors: Noyce, Phillip
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Jack Ryan, the hero of Tom Clancy’s techno-thriller series, returns in the sequel to _The Hunt for Red October_. Ryan is on vacation in England when he spoils an assassination attempt on an important member of the Royal Family. Ryan gets drawn back into the CIA when the same splinter faction of the IRA targets him and his family.

King Ralph (1991)

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Goodman, John | O'Toole, Peter | Hurt, John | Coduri, Camille | Griffiths, Richard | Phillips, Leslie | Villiers, James | Richardson, Joely | O'Brien, Niall | Glover, Julian | Parfitt, Judy | Stobart, Ed | Heller, Gedren | Walker, Rudolph | Johnson, Michael
Directors: Ward, David S.
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When an accident obliterates the British royal family and most of its branches, a desperate geneological search discovers the next king: Ralph, a sleazy American lounge singer. Can Ralph measure up to the job, even with the help of loyal aristocrat Willingham?

Princess Diaries, The (2001)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Andrews, Julie | Hathaway, Anne | Elizondo, Hector | Matarazzo, Heather | Moore, Mandy | Goodall, Caroline | Schwartzman, Robert | von Detten, Erik | Flueger, Patrick | O'Bryan, Sean | Oh, Sandra | Marshall, Kathleen | Burbano, Mindy | Smith, Kimleigh | Garrison, Beth Anne
Directors: Marshall, Garry
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A socially awkward but very bright 15-year-old girl being raised by a single mom discovers that she is the princess of a small European country because of the recent death of her long-absent father, who, unknown to her, was the crown prince of Genovia. She must make a choice between continuing the life of a San Francisco teen or stepping up to the throne. While Mia makes up her mind, she’s pressed into taking princess lessons from her grandmother.

Last Emperor, The (1987)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Biography | Drama | History
Countries: China | France | Italy | UK
Actors: Lone, John | Chen, Joan | O'Toole, Peter | Ying, Ruocheng | | Dun, Dennis | Sakamoto, Ryuichi | Han, Maggie | Young, Ric | Wu, Vivian | Tagawa, Cary-Hiroyuki | Go, Jade | Ikeda, Fumihiko | Vuu, Richard | Tijger, Tsou
Directors: Bertolucci, Bernardo
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A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People’s Republic.

What a Girl Wants (2003)

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Family | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Bynes, Amanda | Firth, Colin | Preston, Kelly | Atkins, Eileen | Chancellor, Anna | Pryce, Jonathan | James, Oliver | Cole, Christina | Syms, Sylvia | McGhee, Soleil | Reeves, Peter | Greene, James | Osborne, Steven | Toller, Mike | Penn, Tom
Directors: Gordon, Dennie
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Daphne, a seventeen-year-old girl from New York goes to England in search of her father, who does not know he had a child with an American girlfriend he met while working in Morocco, and whose aristocratic family did not approve of the woman.