Posts Tagged ‘1930s’

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: UK
Actors: David Alexander | Ciarán Hinds | Lee Pace | Tom Payne | Tim Potter | Matt Ryan | Mark Strong | Mo Zinal | Chris Mansfield
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Guinevere Pettigrew, a middle-aged London governess, finds herself unfairly dismissed from her job. An attempt to gain new employment catapults her into the glamorous world and dizzying social whirl of an American actress and singer, Delysia Lafosse.

Everyone’s Hero (2006)

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Sport
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: William H. Macy | Rob Reiner | Brian Dennehy | Robert Wagner | Richard Kind | Jason Harris | Jake T. Austin | Joe Torre | Mandy Patinkin | Forest Whitaker | Ritchie Allen | Jesse Bronstein | Ralph Coppola | Ed Helms | Ray Iannicelli
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“Everyone’s Hero” is a heartwarming comedy-adventure, telling the story of a young boy’s thousand-mile journey to help Babe Ruth and the New York Yankees win the World Series. The project’s theme of perseverance against all odds was inspired by the film’s originating director and executive producer, Christopher Reeve.

Honkytonk Man (1982)

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Clint Eastwood | Kyle Eastwood | John McIntire | Matt Clark | Barry Corbin | Jerry Hardin | Tim Thomerson | Macon McCalman | Joe Regalbuto | Gary Grubbs | Johnny Gimble | Jim Boelsen | Tracey Walter | John Russell | Charles Cyphers
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As the film opens on an Oklahoma farm during the depression, two simultaneous visitors literally hit the Wagoneer home: a ruinous dust storm and a convertible crazily driven by Red, the missus’ brother. A roguish country-western musician, he has just been invited to audition for the Grand Ole Opry, his chance of a lifetime to become a success. However, this is way back in Nashville, Red clearly drives terribly, and he’s broke and sick with tuberculosis to boot. Whit, 14, seeing his own chance of a lifetime to avoid “growing up to be a cotton picker all my life,” begs Ma to let him go with Uncle Red as driver and protege. Thus begins a picaresque journey both hilarious and poignant.

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Rutger Hauer | Julia Roberts | Jennifer Rae Westley | Dick Clark | Sam Rockwell | Michelle Sweeney | Drew Barrymore | Chelsea Ceci | Brad Pitt | Matt Damon | Michael Cera | Aimee Rose Ambroziak | Isabelle Blais | Melissa Carter | Jennifer Hall | Ilona Elkin | Sean Tucker | Jaye P. Morgan | Maggie Gyllenhaal | David Julian Hirsh
Directors: George Clooney
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Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind” is the story of a legendary showman’s double life - television producer by day, CIA assassin by night. At the height of his TV career, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA and trained to become a covert operative. Or so Barris said.

Frida (2002)

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: Canada | Mexico | USA
Actors: Salma Hayek | Mía Maestro | Amelia Zapata | Alejandro Usigli | Diego Luna | Alfred Molina | Lucia Bravo | Valeria Golino | Patricia Reyes Spíndola | Loló Navarro | Roger Rees | Fermín Martínez | Roberto Medina | Ashley Judd | Antonio Banderas
Directors: Julie Taymor
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“Frida” chronicles the life Frida Kahlo (Salma Hayek) shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina), as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and controversial affair with Leon Trotsky, to her provocative and romantic entanglements with women, Frida Kahlo lived a bold and uncompromising life as a political, artistic, and sexual revolutionary.

Youth Without Youth (2007)

Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Genres: Romance | Thriller
Countries: France | Germany | Italy | Romania | USA
Actors: Tim Roth | Alexandra Maria Lara | Bruno Ganz | André Hennicke | Marcel Iures | Adrian Pintea | Alexandra Pirici | Florin Piersic Jr. | Zoltan Butuc | Adriana Titieni | Mircea Albulescu | Dan Astileanu | Cristian Balint | Dragos Bucur | Matt Damon
Directors: Francis Ford Coppola
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A love story wrapped in a mystery. Set in Europe before WWII, a timid professor is changed by a cataclysmic event and explores the mysteries of life.

Great Debaters, The (2007)

Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Jackson Walker | Roger Dillingham Jr. | Ron Auguste | Andrew Bamberg | Michael Beasley | Andrew Benjamin | Southey Blanton | Matt Bourgeois | Trenton McClain Boyd | Marcus Lyle Brown | Antravian D. Carter | Eric Conover | Sean Paul Cormier | Brian D. Evans | J.D. Evermore
Directors: Denzel Washington
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Marshall, Texas, described by James Farmer, Jr. as “the last city to surrender after the Civil War,” is home to Wiley College, where, in 1935-36, inspired by the Harlem Renaissance and his clandestine work as a union organizer, Professor Melvin Tolson coached the debate team to a nearly-undefeated season that included the first debate between students from white and Negro colleges and ended with an invitation to face Harvard University’s national champions. The team of four, which included a female student and a very young James Farmer, is tested in a crucible heated by Jim Crow, sexism, a lynch mob, an arrest and near riot, a love affair, jealousy, and a national radio audience.

Cinderella Man (2005)

Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Russell Crowe | Renée Zellweger | Paul Giamatti | Craig Bierko | Paddy Considine | Bruce McGill | David Huband | Connor Price | Ariel Waller | Patrick Louis | Rosemarie DeWitt | Linda Kash | Nicholas Campbell | Gene Pyrz | Chuck Shamata
Directors: Ron Howard
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During the Great Depression, a common-man hero, James J. Braddock—a.k.a. the Cinderella Man—was to become one of the most surprising sports legends in history. By the early 1930s, the impoverished ex-prizefighter was seemingly as broken-down, beaten-up and out-of-luck as much of the rest of the American populace who had hit rock bottom. His career appeared to be finished, he was unable to pay the bills, the only thing that mattered to him—his family—was in danger, and he was even forced to go on Public Relief. But deep inside, Jim Braddock never relinquished his determination. Driven by love, honor and an incredible dose of grit, he willed an impossible dream to come true. In a last-chance bid to help his family, Braddock returned to the ring. No one thought he had a shot. However Braddock, fueled by something beyond mere competition, kept winning. Suddenly, the ordinary working man became the mythic athlete. Carrying the hopes and dreams of the disenfranchised on his shoulders, Braddock rocketed through the ranks, until this underdog chose to do the unthinkable: take on the heavyweight champ of the world, the unstoppable Max Baer, renowned for having killed two men in the ring.

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure
Countries: USA
Actors: Harrison Ford | Karen Allen | Paul Freeman | Ronald Lacey | John Rhys-Davies | Denholm Elliott | Alfred Molina | Wolf Kahler | Anthony Higgins | Vic Tablian | Don Fellows | William Hootkins | Bill Reimbold | Fred Sorenson | Patrick Durkin
Directors: Steven Spielberg
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The year is 1936. A professor who studies archeology named Inidana Jones is venturing in the jungles in South America searching for a golden statue. Unfortunately, he sets off a deadly trap doing so, miraculously, he escapes. Then, Jones hears from a museum curator named Marcus Brody about a biblical artifact called The Ark of the Covenant, which can hold the key to humanly existence. Jones has to venture to vast places such as Nepal and Egypt to find this artifact. However, he will have to fight his enemy Renee Belloq and a band of Nazis in order to reach it.

Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Warren Beatty | Faye Dunaway | Michael J. Pollard | Gene Hackman | Estelle Parsons | Denver Pyle | Dub Taylor | Evans Evans | Gene Wilder | Harry Appling | Owen Bush | Patrick Cranshaw | Garry Goodgion | Clyde Howdy | Russ Marker
Directors: Arthur Penn
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A bored small-town girl and a small-time bank robber leave in their wake a string of violent robberies and newspaper headlines that catch the imagination of the Depression-struck Mid-West in this take on the legendary crime spree of these archetypal lovers on the run.