Posts Tagged ‘spanish-inquisition’

1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992)

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Biography | Drama | History
Countries: France | Spain | UK
Actors: Depardieu, Gérard | Assante, Armand | Weaver, Sigourney | Dean, Loren | Molina, Ángela | Rey, Fernando | Wincott, Michael | Karyo, Tchéky | Dunn, Kevin | Langella, Frank | Margolis, Mark | Salem, Kario | Sullivan, Billy L. | Heffernan, John | Vosloo, Arnold
Directors: Scott, Ridley
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Big budget account of Christopher Columbus’ discovery of the Americas. Released in 1992 to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the discovery. Shows the disastrous effects the Europeans had on the original inhabitants, and Columbus’ struggle to civilize the New World.

Fountain, The (2006)

Friday, October 19th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Jackman, Hugh | Weisz, Rachel | Burstyn, Ellen | Margolis, Mark | McHattie, Stephen | Hernandez, Fernando | Curtis, Cliff | Thomas, Sean Patrick | Murphy, Donna | Suplee, Ethan | McMillan, Richard | Brass, Lorne | Aronofsky, Abraham | Asofsky, Renee | Majumdar, Anish
Directors: Aronofsky, Darren
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Three stories - one each from the past, present, and future - about men in pursuit of eternity with their love. A conquistador in Mayan country searches for the tree of life to free his captive queen; a medical researcher, working with various trees, looks for a cure that will save his dying wife; a space traveler, traveling with an aged tree encapsulated within a bubble, moves toward a dying star that’s wrapped in a nebula; he seeks eternity with his love. The stories intersect and parallel; the quests fail and succeed.

Secret Passage (2004)

Monday, May 7th, 2007
Genres:
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.