Posts Tagged ‘slave’

10,000 BC (2008)

Saturday, October 11th, 2008
Genres: Adventure
Countries: New Zealand | USA
Actors: Strait, Steven | Belle, Camilla | Curtis, Cliff | Virgel, Joel | Ben Badra, Affif | Zinal, Mo | Baring, Nathanael | Hammond, Mona | Khan, Marco | Ritchie, Reece | Fry, Joel | Sharif, Omar | Beazley, Kristian | Oliphant, Junior | Tu'u, Louise
Directors: Emmerich, Roland
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A prehistoric epic that follows a young mammoth hunter named D’Leh’s journey through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe. When a band of mysterious horse-riding warlords raid the Yaghal camp and kidnaps his heart’s desire - the beautiful Evolet along with many others, D’Leh is forced to lead a small group of hunters south to pursue the warlords to the end of the world to save her. Driven by destiny, the unlikely band of warriors must battle saber-toothed cats and terror birds in the Levant.

Army of Darkness (1992)

Monday, May 19th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Campbell, Bruce | Davidtz, Embeth | Gilbert, Marcus | Abercrombie, Ian | Grove, Richard | Quill, Timothy Patrick | Reid, Michael Earl | Fonda, Bridget | Tallman, Patricia | Raimi, Ted | Anderson, Deke | Thomas, Bruce | Shearer, Sara | Gordon, Shiva | Bryan, Billy
Directors: Raimi, Sam
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In this sequel to the Evil Dead films, a discount-store employee (”Name’s Ash. Housewares.”) is time-warped to a medieval castle beset by monstrous forces. Initially mistaken for an enemy, he is soon revealed as the prophecised savior who can quest for the Necronomicon, a book which can dispel the evil. Unfortunately, he screws up the magic words while collecting the tome, and releases an army of skeletons, led by his own Deadite counterpart. What follows is a thrilling, yet tongue-in-cheek battle between Ash’s 20th Century tactics and the minions of darkness.

Beguiled, The (1971)

Friday, March 28th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller | War | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Eastwood, Clint | Page, Geraldine | Hartman, Elizabeth | Harris, Jo Ann | Carr, Darleen | Mercer, Mae | Ferdin, Pamelyn | Scott, Melody Thomas | Drier, Peggy | Mattick, Patricia | Briggs, Charlie | Dunn, George | Martin, Charles | Clark, Matt | Culliton, Patrick
Directors: Siegel, Don
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During the civil war, injured Yankee soldier, John McBurney is rescued on the verge of death by a teenage girl from a southern boarding school. She manages to get him back to the school, and at first the all-female staff and pupils are scared. As he starts to recover, one by one he charms them and the atmosphere becomes filled with jealousy and deceit.

Fantastic Planet, The (1973)

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Genres: Animation | Sci-Fi
Countries: Czechoslovakia | France
Actors: Drake, Jennifer | Baugin, Eric | Topart, Jean | Valmont, Jean | Lenoir, Sylvie | Chahan, Michèle | Barsacq, Yves | de Lapparent, Hubert | Hernandez, Gérard | Joseph, Claude | Ogouz, Philippe | Ruisseau, Jacques | Bostwick, Barry | Gruner, Mark | Miller, Marvin
Directors: Laloux, René
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La Planète sauvage AKA Fantastic Planet is a surrealist story based on the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia. Set in a far distant world human beings or “Oms”have been domesticated by the gigantic Draags. Wild Oms however are a problem and are exterminated by the dozen. One domesticated om Terr is able to escape his masters with a headset that puts information directly into the brain. Armed now with the Draags technology he leads the Oms in an attempt to make life better for them…But will the deomizing destroy them?

Stardust (2007)

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Cox, Charlie | Danes, Claire | De Niro, Robert | Miller, Sienna | Pfeiffer, Michelle | Flemyng, Jason | Barnes, Ben | Burns, Mark | Buxton, Adam | Cavill, Henry | Curran, Jake | David, Elwin 'Chopper' | Ellis, Frank | Everett, Rupert | Fletcher, Dexter
Directors: Vaughn, Matthew
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“Stardust,” based on the best-selling novel by Neil Gaiman illustrated by Charles Vess, takes audiences on an adventure that begins in a village in England and ends up in a magical world. A young man named Tristan (Charlie Cox) tries to win the heart of village beauty Victoria (Sienna Miller) by promising to bring her a falling star. His journey takes him beyond the walls of his village to a mysterious and forbidden land.

When Tristan finds the star, he is stunned to discover that it is, not a lump of meteoric rock, but an angry, injured girl named Yvaine (Claire Danes) – who has no desire to be dragged across the world and presented to anyone’s girlfriend. But Tristan is not the only one seeking the star. A dying king’s (Peter O’Toole) four sons – not to mention the ghosts of their three dead brothers – all need the star as they vie for the throne. Three evil witches, led by the murderous Lamia (Michelle Pfeiffer) seek the star’s heart to make them young again.
Tristan and Yvaine are forced to flee together, encountering the captain of a flying pirate ship (Robert De Niro) and a shady trader named Ferdy the Fence (Ricky Gervais) along the way. As they travel Tristan discovers the meaning of true love, but does not realise he’s leading Yvaine into even more danger…

Scalphunters, The (1968)

Sunday, December 9th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Lancaster, Burt | Winters, Shelley | Savalas, Telly | Davis, Ossie | Coleman, Dabney | Picerni, Paul | Vadis, Dan | Silvestre, Armando | Cravat, Nick | Epper, Tony | Roberson, Chuck | Epper, John | Williams, Jack | Acosta, Gregorio | Aguilar, Pedro
Directors: Pollack, Sydney
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Trapper Joe is on his way to the town with all of his gain of hides of the last winter. However a group of Indians stops him and takes all of his hides, leaving him the escaped slave Joseph instead. But Joe has no use for Joseph and is determined to get his property back and follows them. Before he can do anything, the Indians are raided themselves by a group of scalphunters under the greedy Howie. Not only the hides, but also Joseph falls into their hands. Now Joe follows them alone and tries to trick the numerical superior group out of his hides.

American Haunting, An (2005)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Canada | Romania | UK
Actors: Sutherland, Donald | Spacek, Sissy | D'Arcy, James | Hurd-Wood, Rachel | Marsh, Matthew | Fell, Thom | Thorne, Zoe | Brown, Gaye | Alexander, Sam | Brown, Miquel | Dobtcheff, Vernon | Shim, Shauna | Stan, Madalina | Hurdwood, Philip | Cruceru, Vlad
Directors: Solomon, Courtney
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In 2006, in Red River, Tennessee, a teenager has frequent nightmares. Her mother reads an old letter from 1817 written by her ancestor, Lucy Bell. After a dispute of lands judged by the church, her husband John Bell is cursed by his opponent Kathe Batts, who has a fame of being a witch. From this moment on, an entity threatens John and her daughter Betsy Bell, attacking the girl during the nights. With the support of Betsy’s school teacher Richard Powell, who tries to find rational explanations for the manifestation; her brother John Bell Jr.; and their friend James Johnston, who unsuccessfully tries to exorcize the entity from the house, the family does their best to protect Betsy in the haunted house.

Planet of the Apes (2001)

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
Genres: Action | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Wahlberg, Mark | Roth, Tim | Bonham Carter, Helena | Duncan, Michael Clarke | Giamatti, Paul | Warren, Estella | Tagawa, Cary-Hiroyuki | Warner, David | Kristofferson, Kris | Avari, Erick | Elliott, Lucas | Parke, Evan | Shadix, Glenn | Shen, Freda Foh | Ellis, Chris
Directors: Burton, Tim
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It is the year 2029: Astronaut Leo Davidson (Mark Wahlberg) boards a pod cruiser on a Space Station for a “routine” reconnaissance mission. But an aburupt detour through a space time wormhole lands him on a strange planet where talking apes rule over the human race. With the help of a sympathetic chimpanzee activist named Ari (Helena Bonham-Carter) and a small band of human rebels, Leo leads the effort to evade the advancing Gorilla Army led by General Thade (Tim Roth) and his most trusted warrior Attar (Michael Clarke Duncan). Now the race is on to reach a sacred temple within the planet’s Forbidden Zone to discover the shocking secrets of mankind’s past - and the key to its future.

Proposition, The (2005)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: Australia | UK
Actors: Pearce, Guy | Budge, Tom | Watson, Emily | Winstone, Ray | Wenham, David | Hurt, John | Wilson, Richard | Morgan, Robert
Directors: Hillcoat, John
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Rural Australia in the late nineteenth century: Capt. Stanley and his men capture two of the four Burns brothers, Charlie and Mike. Their gang is held responsible for attacking the Hopkins farm, raping pregnant Mrs. Hopkins and murdering the whole family. Arthur Burns, the eldest brother and the gang’s mastermind, remains at large has and has retreated to a mountain hideout. Capt. Stanley’s proposition to Charlie is to gain pardon and - more importantly - save his beloved younger brother Mike from the gallows by finding and killing Arthur within nine days.

Alamo, The (2004)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama | History | War | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Erickson, Craig | Quaid, Dennis | Thornton, Billy Bob | Patric, Jason | Wilson, Patrick | Echevarría, Emilio | Mollà, Jordi | Rippy, Leon | Davidson, Tom | Blucas, Marc | Prentiss, Robert | Page, Kevin | Stevens, Joe | Bruton, Stephen | Clifton, Laura | Chavira, Ricardo
Directors: Hancock, John Lee
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Historical drama detailing the 1835-36 Texas revolution before, during, and after the famous siege of the Alamo (February 23-March 6, 1836) where 183 Texans (American-born Texans) and Tejanos (Mexican-born Texans) commanded by Colonel Travis, along with Davey Crockett and Jim Bowie, were besieged in an abandoned mission outside San Antonio by a Mexican army of nearly 2,000 men under the personal command of the dictator of Mexico, General Santa Anna, as well as detailing the Battle of San Jacinto (April 21, 1836) where General Sam Houston’s rag-tag army of Texans took on and defeated Santa Anna’s army which led to the indepedence of Texas.