Posts Tagged ‘tavern’

Fiddler on the Roof (1971)

Thursday, December 18th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Family | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Topol | Crane, Norma | Frey, Leonard | Picon, Molly | Mann, Paul | Harris, Rosalind | Marsh, Michele | Small, Neva | Glaser, Paul Michael | Lovelock, Ray | Edwards, Elaine | Bonstein, Candy | Ruskin, Shimen | Scooler, Zvee | Zorich, Louis
Directors: Jewison, Norman
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Film version of the stage musical, based on the stories of Sholom Aleichem. Tevye the Milkman is a Jewish peasant in pre-Revolutionary Russia, coping with the day-to-day problems of ’shtetl’ life, his Jewish traditions, his family (wife and daughters), and state-sanctioned pogroms.

Beauty and the Beast (1991)

Monday, December 1st, 2008
Genres: Animation | Drama | Family | Fantasy | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Benson, Robby | Corti, Jesse | Everhart, Rex | Lansbury, Angela | O'Hara, Paige | Orbach, Jerry | Pierce, Bradley | Stiers, David Ogden | White, Richard | Worley, Jo Anne | Bergman, Mary Kay | Cummings, Brian | Epstein, Alvin | Jay, Tony | Murphy, Alec
Directors: Trousdale, Gary | Wise, Kirk
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Belle is a girl who is dissatisfied with life in a small provincial French town, constantly trying to fend off the misplaced “affections” of conceited Gaston. The Beast is a prince who was placed under a spell because he could not love. A wrong turn taken by Maurice, Belle’s father, causes the two to meet.

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951)

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Romance
Countries: UK
Actors: Mason, James | Gardner, Ava | Patrick, Nigel | Sim, Sheila | Warrender, Harold | Cabré, Mario | Goring, Marius | Laurie, John | Mason, Pamela | Raine, Patricia | D'Alvarez, Margarita | La Pillina | Sofaer, Abraham | Igual, Francisco | Beltrán, Guillermo
Directors: Lewin, Albert
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In 1930, singer Pandora Reynolds, gorgeous, enigmatic, and fascinated by danger and destruction, has the men of a small Spanish town in despair. Just when race driver Stephen Cameron thinks he’s won her, a mysterious yacht appears in the bay whose eerie captain may be the legendary Flying Dutchman. Stephen has an apparently more dangerous rival in the form of an arrogant bullfighter; but Pandora’s friendship with the Dutchman may lead them both to a rendezvous with Fate…

Mamma Mia! (2008)

Sunday, November 16th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Musical | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Streep, Meryl | Brosnan, Pierce | Firth, Colin | Skarsgård, Stellan | Walters, Julie | Cooper, Dominic | Amanda Seyfried | Baranski, Christine | Di Pace, Juan Pablo | Georgiou, George | Jarvis, Chris | Michael, Philip | Squillino Jr., Enzo | Turner, Dylan | Atallah, Norma
Directors: Lloyd, Phyllida
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Set on a colorful Greek island, the plot serves as a background for a wealth of great ABBA songs which are used in remarkably appropriate ways. A young woman about to be married discovers that any one of three men could be her father. She invites all three to the wedding without telling her mother, Donna, who was once the lead singer of Donna and the Dynamos. In the meantime, Donna has invited her backup singers, Rosie and Tanya.

King Arthur (2004)

Sunday, November 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | History | War
Countries: Ireland | USA
Actors: Owen, Clive | Gruffudd, Ioan | Mikkelsen, Mads | Edgerton, Joel | Dancy, Hugh | Winstone, Ray | Stevenson, Ray | Knightley, Keira | Dillane, Stephen | Skarsgård, Stellan | Schweiger, Til | Gilder, Sean | Kinevane, Pat | Marescotti, Ivano | Stott, Ken
Directors: Fuqua, Antoine
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The Roman Empire is stretched across many nations, including Britain. In their conquest for more land, the Romans went into Sarmatia where they fought the very brave Sarmatian cavalery. The Romans, impressed by the Sarmatian’s weaponery and fighting skills, included them into their army as knights. After 15 years of serving and fighting for the Roman Empire the Sarmatian Knights, lead by Arthur/Artorious Castus, are about to receive their freedom as the Romans are leaving Britain. But the Knights must carry out one final order before they are free. A Roman priest and his family, especially his son Alecto, must be rescued from the invading Saxons. But there is another danger lurking on the road to freedom - the Woads, British rebels who hate the Romans.

Willow (1988)

Monday, November 10th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Hayes, Patricia | Davis, Warwick | Kilmer, Val | Joanne Whaley | Jean Marsh | Barty, Billy
Directors: Howard, Ron
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Willow, a small farmer/apprentice magician, meets Madmartigan, a great swordsman, and together they journey through a war-torn land of magic and monsters, to save a baby princess from death at the hands of an evil queen.

Scarlet Claw, The (1944)

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Rathbone, Basil | Bruce, Nigel | Hamer, Gerald | Cavanagh, Paul | Hohl, Arthur | Harding, Kay | Mander, Miles | Clyde, David | Wolfe, Ian | Horne, Victoria | Allen, Harry | Billings, Ted | Cartledge, Bill | Francis, Charles | Hytten, Olaf
Directors: Neill, Roy William
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A village in Canada has an old legend about a phantom that years ago killed three villagers. Many residents are afraid that the monster has come back, because some of them have seen strange luminous shapes, and then some sheep were found with their throats slashed. Their worst fears seem to be confirmed when Lady Penrose is found killed in the same way. Meanwhile, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are in Quebec, attending a meeting of the Royal Canadian Occult Society, where they are involved in a sharp debate with Lord Penrose about his village’s legend. Not long after Lord Penrose receives word of his wife’s death, Holmes receives a letter that the dead woman had written before she died, begging for his help and protection. When Holmes goes to the village to investigate, he finds himself hunting a determined murderer who is also a master of disguise.

Wicker Man, The (2006)

Friday, November 9th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Cage, Nicolas | Burstyn, Ellen | Beahan, Kate | Conroy, Frances | Parker, Molly | Sobieski, Leelee | Delano, Diane | Wiseman, Michael | Gair, Erika-Shaye | Campbell, Christa | Holmes, Emily | Gosling, Zemphira | Walker, Matthew | Black, Mary | Willes, Christine
Directors: LaBute, Neil
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While recovering from a tragic accident on the road, the patrolman Edward Malus receives a letter from his former fiancée Willow, who left him years ago without any explanation, telling that her daughter Rowan is missing. Edward travels to the private island of Summerisle, where Willow lives in an odd community that plant fruits, and she reveals that Rowan is actually their daughter. Along his investigation with the hostile and unhelpful dwellers, Edward discloses that the locals are pagans, practicing old rituals to improve their harvest, and Rowan is probably alive and being prepared to be sacrificed. When he locates the girl, he finds also the dark truth about the wicker man.

Shakespeare in Love (1998)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Rush, Geoffrey | Wilkinson, Tom | O'Donnell, Steve | McMullen, Tim | Fiennes, Joseph | Beard, Steven | Sher, Antony | Barlow, Patrick | Clunes, Martin | Reinton, Sandra | Callow, Simon | Dench, Judi | McConnell, Bridget | Glen, Georgie | Boulton, Nicholas
Directors: Madden, John
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Romantic comedy set in London in the late 16th century: Young playwright William Shakespeare struggles with his latest work “Romeo and Ethel the Pirate’s Daughter”. A great fan of Shakespeare’s plays is young, wealthy Viola who is about to be married to the cold-hearted Lord Wessex, but constantly dreams of becoming an actress. Women were not allowed to act on stage at that time (female roles were played by men, too), but dressed up as a boy, Viola successfully auditions for the part of Romeo. Soon she and William are caught in a forbidden romance that provides rich inspiration for his play.