Posts Tagged ‘spain’

Secret Passage (2004)

Monday, May 7th, 2007
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Countries: Italy | Luxembourg | Portugal
Actors: Turturro, John | Harrington, Richard
Directors: Kenovic, Ademir
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Isabel and Clara are growing up in a time of terror. It is 1492, and Spain has decreed that all Jews must either convert to Catholicism, go into exile or face trial and execution. Although forcibly baptized, the sisters are chased through Christendom until they arrive in Venice. It is in this great maritime empire, where opulence rhymes with tolerance, that Isabel organizes secret passages for refugees fleeing the Inquisition while Clara falls in love with a Venetian noble, Paolo Zane. Isabel intends for her family to go to Istanbul, the only place where Jews can live freely, but Clara is reluctant to leave. She challenges Isabel’s authority and is prepared to break her family ties and sacrifice her faith for love. Caught in this battle of wills is Clara’s daughter, Victoria, who finds she is about to be married into the same faith that murdered her father.

Catch Me If You Can (2002)

Monday, May 7th, 2007
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: DiCaprio, Leonardo | Hanks, Tom | Walken, Christopher | Sheen, Martin | Baye, Nathalie | Adams, Amy | Brolin, James | Howe, Brian | Hughes, Frank John | Eastin, Steve | Ellis, Chris | Finn, John | Garner, Jennifer | Lenehan, Nancy | Pompeo, Ellen
Directors: Spielberg, Steven
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An FBI agent tracks down and catches a young con artist who successfully impersonated an airline pilot, doctor, assistant attorney general and history professor, cashing more than $2.5 million in fraudulent checks in 26 countries.

Mission: Impossible II (2000)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Hopkins, Anthony | Cruise, Tom | Scott, Dougray | Newton, Thandie | Rhames, Ving | Roxburgh, Richard | Polson, John | Gleeson, Brendan | Serbedzija, Rade | Mapother, William | Purcell, Dominic | Wilkinson, Matthew | Bell, Nicholas | Brogers, Cristina | Chan, Kee | Fleming, Kim
Directors: Woo, John
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IMF agent Ethan Hunt has been sent on a mission to retrieve and destroy the supply of a genetically created disease called ‘Chimera’. His mission is made impossible due to the fact that he is not the only person after samples of the disease. He must also contest with a gang of international terrorists headed by a turned bad former IMF agent who has already managed to steal the cure called ‘Bellerophon’ and now need ‘Chimera’ to complete their grand plan of infecting the whole world. In order to infiltrate and locate the terrorist group he relies on the help of an international thief Nyah of whom he quickly develops a love interest. Time is not only running out for Agent Hunt to find and destroy ‘Chimera’ before the terrorists get their hands on it, but he must also find ‘Bellerophon’ so as to save his love interest who has already become infected by the disease from a terrible and rapid death.

Gladiator (2000)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Crowe, Russell | Phoenix, Joaquin | Nielsen, Connie | Reed, Oliver | Harris, Richard | Jacobi, Derek | Hounsou, Djimon | Schofield, David | Shrapnel, John | Arana, Tomas | Moeller, Ralf | Clark, Spencer Treat | Hemmings, David | Flanagan, Tommy | Thorsen, Sven-Ole
Directors: Scott, Ridley
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Maximus is a powerful Roman general, loved by the people and the aging Emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Before his death, the Emperor chooses Maximus to be his heir over his own son, Commodus, and a power struggle leaves Maximus and his family condemned to death. The powerful general is unable to save his family, and his loss of will allows him to get captured and put into the Gladiator games until he dies. The only desire that fuels him now is the chance to rise to the top so that he will be able to look into the eyes of the man who will feel his revenge.