Posts Tagged ‘1940s’

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.

1941 (1979)

Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Dan Aykroyd | John Candy | Warren Oates | Christopher Lee | Toshiro Mifune | Robert Stack | Nancy Allen | Treat Williams | John Belushi | Ned Beatty | Samuel Fuller
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Hysteria grips California in the wake of the bombing of Pearl harbour as an assorted group of defenders attempt to make the coast defensible against an imagined Japanese invasion in this big budget, big cast comedy. Members of a Japanese submarine crew scout out the madness.

Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The (2005)

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Georgie Henley | Skandar Keynes | William Moseley | Anna Popplewell | Tilda Swinton | James McAvoy | Jim Broadbent | Kiran Shah | James Cosmo | Judy McIntosh | Elizabeth Hawthorne | Patrick Kake | Shane Rangi | Brandon Cook | Cassie Cook
Directors: Andrew Adamson
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Based on the classic novel by ‘CS Lewis’ (qv). Four London children are sent to a professor’s country home in order for protection during World War II. There they find a magic wardrobe which leads to a mystical land called Narnia, which is being ruled by an evil witch. To defeat the witch, they must join forces with Aslan, the lion God of Narnia.

Seabiscuit (2003)

Sunday, May 4th, 2008
Genres: Drama | History | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: David McCullough | Jeff Bridges | Paul Vincent O'Connor | Chris Cooper | Michael Ensign | James Keane | Valerie Mahaffey | David Doty | Carl M. Craig | Michael O'Neill | Annie Corley | Michael Angarano | Cameron Bowen | Noah Luke | Mariah Bess
Directors: Gary Ross
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In an era when Americans were in great need of heroic figures to help them forget their troubles, SEABISCUIT comes to the rescue. The picture relates a moving story of friendship and devotion in rehabilitating the main characters’fractured lives, as it interweaves the interactions between horse, jockey, trainer and owner and their adoring fans. The film accurately portrays the real people and events of those troubled times and how Seabiscuit “fixed us, every one of us.”

Godfather: Part II, The (1974)

Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Al Pacino | Robert Duvall | Diane Keaton | Robert De Niro | John Cazale | Talia Shire | Lee Strasberg | Michael V. Gazzo | G.D. Spradlin | Richard Bright | Gastone Moschin | Tom Rosqui | Bruno Kirby | Frank Sivero | Francesca De Sapio
Directors: Francis Ford Coppola
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The continuing saga of the Corleone crime family tells the story of a young Vito Corleone growing up in Sicily and in 1910s New York; and follows Michael Corleone in the 1950s as he attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.

Saving Private Ryan (1998)

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Tom Hanks | Tom Sizemore | Edward Burns | Barry Pepper | Adam Goldberg | Vin Diesel | Giovanni Ribisi | Jeremy Davies | Matt Damon | Ted Danson | Paul Giamatti | Dennis Farina | Joerg Stadler | Steven Martini | Dylan Bruno
Directors: Steven Spielberg
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Opening with the Allied invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944, members of the 2nd Ranger Battalion under Cpt. Miller fight ashore to secure a beachhead. Amidst the fighting, two brothers are killed in action. Earlier in New Guinea, a third brother is KIA. Their mother, Mrs. Ryan, is to receive all three of the grave telegrams on the same day. The United States Army Chief of Staff, George C. Marshall, is given an opportunity to alleviate some of her grief when he learns of a fourth brother, Private James Ryan, and decides to send out 8 men (Cpt. Miller and select members from 2nd Rangers) to find him and bring him back home to his mother…

Great Escape, The (1963)

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Steve McQueen | James Garner | Richard Attenborough | James Donald | Charles Bronson | Donald Pleasence | James Coburn | Hannes Messemer | David McCallum | Gordon Jackson | John Leyton | Angus Lennie | Nigel Stock | Robert Graf | Jud Taylor
Directors: John Sturges
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Based on a true story, “The Great Escape” deals with the largest Allied escape attempt from a German POW camp during the Second World War. The first part of the film focuses on the escape efforts within the camp and the process of secretly digging an escape tunnel. The second half of the film deals with the massive effort by the German Gestapo to track down the over 70 escaped prisoners who are at this point throughout the Third Reich attempting to make their way to England and various neutral countries.

Notebook, The (2004)

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Tim Ivey | Gena Rowlands | Starletta DuPois | James Garner | Anthony-Michael Q. Thomas | Ed Grady | Renée Amber | Jennifer Echols | Geoffrey Knight | Kevin Connolly | Ryan Gosling | Heather Wahlquist | Rachel McAdams | Andrew Schaff | Matt Shelly
Directors: Nick Cassavetes
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The movie focuses on an old man reading a story to an old woman in a nursing home. The story he reads follows two young lovers named Allie Hamilton and Noah Calhoun, who meet one evening at a carnival. But they are separated by Allie’s parents who dissaprove of Noah’s unwealthy family, and move Allie away. After waiting for Noah to write her for several years, Allie meets and gets engaged to a handsome young soldier named Lon. Allie, then, with her love for Noah still alive, stops by Noah’s 200-year-old home that he restored for her, “to see if he’s okay”. It is evident that they still have feelings for each other, and Allie has to choose between her fiancé and her first love.

Others, The (2001)

Monday, March 17th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: France | Spain | USA
Actors: Nicole Kidman | Fionnula Flanagan | Christopher Eccleston | Alakina Mann | James Bentley | Eric Sykes | Elaine Cassidy | Renée Asherson | Gordon Reid | Keith Allen | Michelle Fairley | Alexander Vince | Ricardo López | Aldo Grilo
Directors: Alejandro Amenábar
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A woman named Grace (Kidman) is living with her two children Anne and Nicholas (Mann and Bentley) on an almost empty island in their huge mansion. Grace’s husband is a soldier in WWII and Grace has given her husband up for dead. Everything seems peaceful for her, but when three mysterious servants are given jobs at the house, terrifying secrets are unlocked that even Grace cannot handle.