Posts Tagged ‘ship’

Apocalypto (2006)

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Youngblood, Rudy | Hernández, Dalia | Brewer, Jonathan | Birdyellowhead, Morris | Báez, Carlos Emilio | Ramírez, Amilcar | Contreras, Israel | Ríos, Israel | Díaz, María Isabel | Acosta Cache, Espiridion | Serbulo, Mayra | Larios, Iazua | Hernández, Lorena | Gutierrez, Itandehui | Gutierrez, Sayuri
Directors: Gibson, Mel
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Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man’s idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent invading force, he is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression where a harrowing end awaits him. Through a twist of fate and spurred by the power of his love for his woman and his family he will make a desperate break to return home and to ultimately save his way of life.

King and I, The (1956)

Monday, April 21st, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Family | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Kerr, Deborah | Brynner, Yul | Moreno, Rita | Benson, Martin | Saunders, Terry | Thompson, Rex | Rivas, Carlos | Adiarte, Patrick | Mowbray, Alan | Toone, Geoffrey | Banas, Robert | Bonilla, Dennis | Bonilla, Thomas | Fuentes, Reuben | Irwin, Charles
Directors: Lang, Walter
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After the death of her husband, Anna Owens moves from England to Siam with her son Louis to become a teacher for the children of the king of Siam. She finds Siamese customs to be quite different from English ones, which brings her often in conflict with the king. However, after some time they find themselves getting along much better.

Papillon (1973)

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Biography | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: McQueen, Steve | Hoffman, Dustin | Jory, Victor | Gordon, Don | Zerbe, Anthony | Deman, Robert | Parfrey, Woodrow | Mumy, Bill | Coulouris, George | Assan, Ratna | Smithers, William | Avery, Val | Sierra, Gregory | Tayback, Vic | Watson, Mills
Directors: Schaffner, Franklin J.
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Based on the true story of Henri Charriere, also known as Papillon, which is French for ‘butterfly’ (the character even sports a large tattoo of a butterfly. A petty criminal, Papillon is wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to life in a French penal colony in ‘Guiane’ (French Guiana, South America). Papillon is determined to escape but attempt after attempt meets with difficulty, resulting in eventual recapture. He continues his attempts to escape despite incarcerations in solitary confinement as punishment.

Pursuit to Algiers (1945)

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Crime | Drama | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Rathbone, Basil | Bruce, Nigel | Riordan, Marjorie | Ivan, Rosalind | Lowry, Morton | Vincent, Leslie | Kosleck, Martin | Evans, Rex | Abbott, John | Hamer, Gerald | Davis, William 'Wee Willie' | Dillon, Tom | Worlock, Frederick | Borg, Sven Hugo | Benge, Wilson
Directors: Neill, Roy William
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Holmes and Watson are recruited in a serpentine fashion to escort the heir to a European throne back to his native country following his father’s assassination. Because the prince has been educated in Great Britain, Holmes persuades him to masquerade as Watson’s nephew Nicolas on a ocean liner bound for Algiers. Unfortunately the ship is filled with red herrings as well as real assassins, and Holmes is challenged to outwit them all and deliver his charge to his destination. Among the suspects are a knife-throwing circus performer, two shadowy archaeologists, a hulking deaf mute, an enigmatic ship’s steward, a chanteuse with a mysterious song case, and a gun-toting British dowager.

Beowulf (2007)

Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Winstone, Ray | Wright Penn, Robin | Hopkins, Anthony | Bilezikjian, John | Martin, Brice | Fortag, Sonje | Baker-Bernard, Sharisse | Salt, Charlotte | Renee, Julene | Ellis, Greg | Young, Rik | Roché, Sebastian | Harter Zemeckis, Leslie | Malkovich, John | Schultz, Woody
Directors: Zemeckis, Robert
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The warrior Beowulf must fight and defeat the monster Grendel who is terrorizing towns, and later, Grendel’s mother, who begins killing out of revenge.

Deep Rising (1998)

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Genres: Action | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Williams, Treat | Janssen, Famke | Heald, Anthony | O'Connor, Kevin J. | Studi, Wes | O'Connor, Derrick | Flemyng, Jason | Curtis, Cliff | Powell, Clifton | Goddard, Trevor | Hounsou, Djimon | Damon, Una | Curtis, Clint | Takeuchi, Warren | Banks, Linden
Directors: Sommers, Stephen
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A gang of jewel thieves board an empty luxury liner in the South Seas to find that the crew and passengers have been killed by a monster that kills its victims and sucks the water from their bodies that looks like a mix of a giant squid and the monster from “Aliens”.

Reap the Wild Wind (1942)

Sunday, December 16th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Milland, Ray | Wayne, John | Goddard, Paulette | Massey, Raymond | Preston, Robert | Overman, Lynne | Hayward, Susan | Bickford, Charles | Hampden, Walter | Beavers, Louise | O'Driscoll, Martha | Risdon, Elisabeth | Hopper, Hedda | Kilian, Victor | Polk, Oscar
Directors: DeMille, Cecil B.
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In 1840, there’s work on the Florida Keys for honest salvagers (like the Claibornes) and outright pirates like King Cutler, who bribes sailors to cause wrecks. When Capt. Stuart’s ship is wrecked, Loxi Claiborne rescues him, falls for him, and travels to Charleston to convince the owners the wreck wasn’t his fault; company lawyer Steve Tolliver returns with them to Key West to investigate. Tolliver and Stuart’s rivalry for Loxi’s hand complicates their swashbuckling adventures in pursuit of Cutler, ending in a trial and a dangerous dive for evidence.

Amistad (1997)

Sunday, December 16th, 2007
Genres: Drama | History | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Freeman, Morgan | Hawthorne, Nigel | Hopkins, Anthony | Hounsou, Djimon | McConaughey, Matthew | Paymer, David | Postlethwaite, Pete | Skarsgård, Stellan | Adoti, Razaaq | Fofanah, Abu Bakaar | Paquin, Anna | Milian, Tomas | Ejiofor, Chiwetel | Ashong, Derrick N. | Silva, Geno
Directors: Spielberg, Steven
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AMISTAD is about a 1839 mutiny onboard a slave ship that is traveling towards the Northeast Coast of America. Much of the story involves a court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt.

Troy (2004)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | History | Romance
Countries: Malta | UK | USA
Actors: Glover, Julian | Cox, Brian | Jones, Nathan | Maropis, Adoni | Smith, Jacob | Pitt, Brad | Shrapnel, John | Gleeson, Brendan | Kruger, Diane | Bana, Eric | Bloom, Orlando | Svegler, Siri | Barat, Lucie | Bones, Ken | Cauchi, Manuel
Directors: Petersen, Wolfgang
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It is the year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age. Two emerging nations begin to clash after Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnom to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power. So they set off with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks to Troy. With the help of Achilles, the Greeks are able to fight the never before defeated Trojans. But they come to a stop by Hector, Prince of Troy. The whole movie shows their battle struggles, and the foreshadowing of fate in this remake by Wolfgang Petersen of Homer’s “The Iliad.”

Tarzan (1999)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Drama | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Goldwyn, Tony | Driver, Minnie | Close, Glenn | Blessed, Brian | Hawthorne, Nigel | Henriksen, Lance | Knight, Wayne | Linz, Alex D. | O'Donnell, Rosie | Dempsey, Taylor | Marsden, Jason | Angel, Jack | Ashton, Joseph | Bergen, Bob | Bumpass, Rodger
Directors: Buck, Chris
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The movie is about the life of Tarzan. Tarzan was a small orphan who was raised by an ape named Kala since he was a child. He believed that this was his family, but on an expedition Jane Porter is rescued by Tarzan. He then finds out that he’s human. Now Tarzan must make the decision as to which family he should belong to…