Montag, 26. August 2013

youre next

Also Known As: Cacería macabra

Company: HanWay Films / Snoot Entertainment

Aspect Ratio: 2.35 : 1

Plot: When a gang of masked, ax-wielding murderers descend upon the Davison family reunion, the hapless victims seem trapped... until an unlikely guest of the family proves to be the most talented killer of all.

Cast and Character: Sharni Vinson as Erin / Nicholas Tucci as Felix / Wendy Glenn as Zee / AJ Bowen as Crispian / Joe Swanberg as Drake / Margaret Laney as Kelly / Amy Seimetz as Aimee / Ti West as Tariq / Rob Moran as Paul / Barbara Crampton as Aubrey / L.C. Holt as Lamb Mask / Simon Barrett as Tiger Mask / Lane Hughes as Fox Mask

Creators: n/A

Description: When the Davison family comes under attack during their wedding anniversary getaway, the gang of mysterious killers soon learns that one of victims harbors a secret talent for fighting back.

Directors: Adam Wingard

Genres: Horror / Thriller

Location: Columbia, Missouri, USA

MPAA: Rated R for strong bloody violence, language and some sexuality/nudity

Opening Weekend: $7,050,000

Poster: posters/1853739.jpg

Rating: 7.1

Release Date: 23 August 2013 (USA)

Runtime: 94 min

Seasons: n/A

Sound Mix: Datasat / Dolby Digital

Tagline: The Animals Will Hunt You

Title: You're Next

Trailer:

Url: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1853739/

Votes: 2,367

Writers: Simon Barrett

Year: 2011


You're Next got rated 7.1.

About the movie: When a gang of masked, ax-wielding murderers descend upon the Davison family reunion, the hapless victims seem trapped... until an unlikely guest of the family proves to be the most talented killer of all.


Riddick got rated n/A.

About the movie: Betrayed by his own kind and left for dead on a desolate planet, Riddick fights for survival against alien predators and becomes more powerful and dangerous than ever before. Soon bounty hunters from throughout the galaxy descend on Riddick only to find themselves pawns in his greater scheme for revenge. With his enemies right where he wants them, Riddick unleashes a vicious attack of vengeance before returning to his home planet of Furya to save it from destruction.


You're Next got rated 7.1.

About the movie: When a gang of masked, ax-wielding murderers descend upon the Davison family reunion, the hapless victims seem trapped... until an unlikely guest of the family proves to be the most talented killer of all.


The Adjuster got rated 6.8.

About the movie: A reflection about what makes everyone's life unique, through the story of Noah's family. Noah is an adjuster, having sex with his customers. His wife Hera watches pornographic movies for the Board of Censors. They live with their son Simon and Hera's sister in a show-flat. One day, they meet Bubba, who wants to make a movie in their house.

Sonntag, 25. August 2013

The World of Apu reviewed

The Warriors

Also Known As: Les guerriers de la nuit

Company: Paramount Pictures

Aspect Ratio: 1.78 : 1

Plot: Cyrus, the leader of the most powerful gang in New York City, the Gramercy Riffs, calls a midnight summit for all the area gangs, with all asked to send nine unarmed representatives for the conclave. A gang called The Warriors are blamed for killing Cyrus as he gives his speech. They now have to cross the territory of rivals in order to get to their own 'hood. The Warriors slowly cross the dangerous Bronx and Manhattan territories, narrowly escaping police and other gangs every step of the way.

Cast and Character: Michael Beck as Swan / James Remar as Ajax / Dorsey Wright as Cleon / Brian Tyler as Snow / David Harris as Cochise / Tom McKitterick as Cowboy / Marcelino Sánchez as Rembrandt / Terry Michos as Vermin / Deborah Van Valkenburgh as Mercy / Roger Hill as Cyrus / David Patrick Kelly as Luther / Lynne Thigpen as D.J. / Ginny Ortiz as Candy Store Girl / Mercedes Ruehl as Policewoman / John Snyder as Gas Station Man

Trailer: n/A

Creators: n/A

Description: In 1979 a charismatic leader summons the street gangs of New York City in a bid to take it over. When he is killed, The Warriors are falsely blamed and now must fight their way home while every other gang is hunting them down to kill them.

Directors: Walter Hill

Genres: Action / Thriller

Location: 72nd St. IRT Station, 72nd and Broadway, New York City, New York, USA

MPAA: Rated R for violence and language

Opening Weekend: n/A

Poster: posters/0080120.jpg

Rating: 7.6

Release Date: 9 February 1979 (USA)

Runtime: 92 min

Seasons: n/A

Sound Mix: Mono

Tagline: They are 60,000 strong.

Title: The Warriors

Trailer:

Url: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080120/

Votes: 48,509

Writers: Sol Yurick / David Shaber

Year: 1979


The Warriors got rated 7.6.

About the movie: Cyrus, the leader of the most powerful gang in New York City, the Gramercy Riffs, calls a midnight summit for all the area gangs, with all asked to send nine unarmed representatives for the conclave. A gang called The Warriors are blamed for killing Cyrus as he gives his speech. They now have to cross the territory of rivals in order to get to their own 'hood. The Warriors slowly cross the dangerous Bronx and Manhattan territories, narrowly escaping police and other gangs every step of the way.


The War Game got rated 7.9.

About the movie: The War Game is a fictional, worst-case-scenario docu-drama about nuclear war and its aftermath in and around a typical English city. Although it won an Oscar for Best Documentary, it is fiction. It was intended as an hour-long program to air on BBC 1, but it was deemed too intense and violent to broadcast. It went to theatrical distribution as a feature film instead. Low-budget and shot on location, it strives for and achieves convincing and unflinching realism.


Videodrome got rated 7.3.

About the movie: Max Renn runs a TV channel, and when looking for new material to show--he discovers "Videodrome." His girlfriend, Nicki Brand, goes to audition for the show, and Max gets drawn into the underlying plot that uses the show as its front for a global conspiracy.


Trust got rated 6.9.

About the movie: A suburban family is torn apart when fourteen-year-old Annie (Liana Liberato) meets her first boyfriend online. After months of communicating via online chat and phone, Annie discovers her friend (Chris Henry Coffey) is not who he originally claimed to be. Shocked into disbelief, her parents (Clive Owen and Catherine Keener) are shattered by their daughter's actions and struggle to support her as she comes to terms with what has happened to her once innocent life.

The Tree of the Wooden Clogs

Also Known As: The Tree of Wooden Clogs

Company: Radiotelevisione Italiana (RAI) / Ital-Noleggio Cinematografico

Aspect Ratio: 1.33 : 1

Plot: The life inside a farm in Italy at the beginning of the century. Many poor country families live there, and the owner pays them by their productivity. One of the families has a very clever child. They decide to send him to school instead of make him help them, although this represents a great sacrifice. The boy has to wake up very early and walk several miles to get to the school. One day the boy's shoes break when returning home, but they do not have money to buy other. What can they do?

Cast and Character: Luigi Ornaghi as Batistì / Francesca Moriggi as Batistina / Omar Brignoli as Minec / Antonio Ferrari as Tuni / Teresa Brescianini as Widow Runk / Giuseppe Brignoli as Anselmo / Carlo Rota as Peppino / Pasqualina Brolis as Teresina / Massimo Fratus as Pierino / Francesca Villa as Annetta / Maria Grazia Caroli as Bettina / Battista Trevaini as Il Finard / Giuseppina Langalelli as La Moglie Finarda / Lorenzo Pedroni as Il nonno Finard / Felice Cervi as Uslì

Creators: n/A

Description: The life inside a farm in Italy at the beginning of the century. Many poor country families live there, and the owner pays them by their productivity. One of the families has a very clever ...

Directors: Ermanno Olmi

Genres: Drama / History

Location: Cividate al Piano, Bergamo, Lombardia, Italy

MPAA: n/A

Opening Weekend: n/A

Poster: posters/0077138.jpg

Rating: 7.7

Release Date: 1 June 1979 (USA)

Runtime: 186 min

Seasons: n/A

Sound Mix: Mono

Tagline: Once in a generation, a work of art appears as if by magic, to move and inspire its audience. A work that returns to a exhausted humanity the possibility of simple grandeur. We invite you to visit a time and place when life was still a sacred matter. When the family of man was still - a family.

Title: L'albero degli zoccoli

Trailer:

Url: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077138/

Votes: 2,524

Writers: Ermanno Olmi

Year: 1978


L'albero degli zoccoli got rated 7.7.

About the movie: The life inside a farm in Italy at the beginning of the century. Many poor country families live there, and the owner pays them by their productivity. One of the families has a very clever child. They decide to send him to school instead of make him help them, although this represents a great sacrifice. The boy has to wake up very early and walk several miles to get to the school. One day the boy's shoes break when returning home, but they do not have money to buy other. What can they do?


The Treasure of the Sierra Madre got rated 8.4.

About the movie: Fred C. Dobbs and Bob Curtin, both down on their luck in Tampico, Mexico in 1925, meet up with a grizzled prospector named Howard and decide to join with him in search of gold in the wilds of central Mexico. Through enormous difficulties, they eventually succeed in finding gold, but bandits, the elements, and most especially greed threaten to turn their success into disaster.


Top Hat got rated 7.7.

About the movie: Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale Tremont below. She goes upstairs to complain and the two are immediately attracted to each other. Complications arise when Dale mistakes Jerry for Horace.


Three Comrades got rated 7.4.

About the movie: A love story centered around the lives of three young German soldiers in the years following World War I. Their close friendship is strengthened by their shared love for the same woman who is dying of tuberculosis.

The Third Generation reviewed

The Ruling Class

Also Known As: La clase dirigente

Company: Keep Films

Aspect Ratio: 1.78 : 1

Plot: A member of the House of Lords dies in a shockingly silly way, leaving his estate to his son. Unfortunately, his son is insane: he thinks he is Jesus Christ. The other somewhat-more respectable members of their family plot to steal the estate from him. Murder and mayhem ensues.

Cast and Character: Peter O'Toole as Jack Arnold Alexander Tancred Gurney - 14th Earl of Gurney / Hugh Owens as Toastmaster / Harry Andrews as 13th Earl of Gurney / Arthur Lowe as Tucker / William Mervyn as Sir Charles / Coral Browne as Lady Claire / James Villiers as Dinsdale / Alastair Sim as Bishop Lampton / Hugh Burden as Matthew Peake / Michael Bryant as Dr. Herder / Henry Woolf as Inmate / Griffith Davies as Inmate / Oliver MacGreevy as Inmate / Kay Walsh as Mrs. Piggot-Jones / Patsy Byrne as Mrs. Treadwell

Trailer: n/A

Creators: n/A

Description: A member of the House of Lords dies in a shockingly silly way, leaving his estate to his son. Unfortunately, his son is insane: he thinks he is Jesus Christ. The other somewhat-more ...

Directors: Peter Medak

Genres: Comedy / Drama / Music

Location: Cliveden Estate, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

MPAA: R

Opening Weekend: n/A

Poster: posters/0069198.jpg

Rating: 7.4

Release Date: 10 May 1972 (France)

Runtime: 154 min

Seasons: n/A

Sound Mix: Mono

Tagline: n/A

Title: The Ruling Class

Trailer:

Url: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069198/

Votes: 3,650

Writers: Peter Barnes / Peter Barnes

Year: 1972


The Ruling Class got rated 7.4.

About the movie: A member of the House of Lords dies in a shockingly silly way, leaving his estate to his son. Unfortunately, his son is insane: he thinks he is Jesus Christ. The other somewhat-more respectable members of their family plot to steal the estate from him. Murder and mayhem ensues.


Ruggles of Red Gap got rated 7.7.

About the movie: While visiting Paris in 1908, upper class Lord Burnstead loses his butler playing poker. Egbert and Effie Floud bring Ruggles back to Red Gap, Washington. Effie wants to take advantage of Ruggles' upper class background to influence Egbert's hick lifestyle. However, Egbert is more interested in partying and he takes Ruggles to the local 'beer bust'. When word gets out that "Colonel Ruggles is staying with his close friends" in the local paper, the butler becomes a town celebrity. After befriending Mrs. Judson, a widow who he impresses with his culinary skills, Ruggles decides to strike out on his own and open a restaurant. His transition from servant to independent man will depend on its success.


Roger & Me got rated 7.5.

About the movie: A documentary about the closure of General Motors' plant at Flint, Michigan, which resulted in the loss of 30,000 jobs. Details the attempts of filmmaker Michael Moore to get an interview with GM CEO Roger Smith.


Reservoir Dogs got rated 8.4.

About the movie: Six criminals, who are strangers to each other, are hired by a crime boss Joe Cabot to carry out a diamond robbery. Right at the outset, they are given false names with an intention that they won't get too close and concentrate on the job instead. They are completely sure that the robbery is going to be a success. But when the police show up right at the time and the site of the robbery, panic spreads amongst the group members and one of them is killed in the subsequent shootout along with a few policemen and civilians. When the remaining people assemble at the premeditated rendezvous point (a warehouse), they begin to suspect that one of them is an undercover cop.

The Red Badge of Courage

Also Known As: Alma de valiente

Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Aspect Ratio: 1.37 : 1

Plot: Plot centers around how a young recruit (Audie Murphy) faces the horrors of war. Character vascilates between wanting to fight and doubting his own courage. In midst of first bloody encounter, Youth runs away. After seeing dead and wounded, sense of shame leads him back to his unit, where he distinguishes himself in the next battle. Having overcome his fear of "the great Death" he knows e can face whatever comes. Somewhat sentimental "coming of age" tale was pet project of John Huston, who fought MGM over casting of Murphy and Bill Mauldin in lead roles.

Cast and Character: Audie Murphy as The Youth / Bill Mauldin as The Loud Soldier / Douglas Dick as The Lieutenant / Royal Dano as The Tattered Man / John Dierkes as The Tall Soldier / Arthur Hunnicutt as Bill Porter / Tim Durant as The General / Andy Devine as The Cheery Soldier / Robert Easton as Thompson

Trailer: n/A

Creators: n/A

Description: Truncated adaptation of Stephen Crane's novel about a Civil War Union soldier who stuggles to find the courage to fight in the heat of battle.

Directors: John Huston

Genres: Drama / War

Location: Bidwell Park - Manzanita Avenue, Chico, California, USA

MPAA: Approved

Opening Weekend: n/A

Poster: posters/0043961.jpg

Rating: 7.2

Release Date: 16 March 1951 (USA)

Runtime: 69 min

Seasons: n/A

Sound Mix: Mono

Tagline: M-G-M, the Company that Released "Gone With the Wind", Presents a New Drama of the War Between the States!

Title: The Red Badge of Courage

Trailer:

Url: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043961/

Votes: 2,392

Writers: Stephen Crane / John Huston

Year: 1951


The Red Badge of Courage got rated 7.2.

About the movie: Plot centers around how a young recruit (Audie Murphy) faces the horrors of war. Character vascilates between wanting to fight and doubting his own courage. In midst of first bloody encounter, Youth runs away. After seeing dead and wounded, sense of shame leads him back to his unit, where he distinguishes himself in the next battle. Having overcome his fear of "the great Death" he knows e can face whatever comes. Somewhat sentimental "coming of age" tale was pet project of John Huston, who fought MGM over casting of Murphy and Bill Mauldin in lead roles.


Rebel Without a Cause got rated 7.8.

About the movie: Jim Stark is the new kid in town. He has been in trouble elsewhere; that's why his family has had to move before. Here he hopes to find the love he doesn't get from his middle-class family. Though he finds some of this in his relation with Judy, and a form of it in both Plato's adulation and Ray's real concern for him, Jim must still prove himself to his peers in switchblade knife fights and "chickie" games in which cars race toward a seaside cliff.


Rain Man got rated 8.0.

About the movie: Charles Sanford "Charlie" Babbit is a self-centered Los Angeles-based automobile dealer/hustler/bookie who is at war with his own life. Charlie, as a young teenager, used his father's 1948 Buick convertible without permission and as a result, he went to jail for two days on account that his father reported it stolen. It is then that Charlie learns that his estranged father died and left him from his last will and testament a huge bed of roses and the car while the remainder will of $3 Million goes into a trust fund to be distributed to someone. Charlie seemed pretty angry by this and decides to look into this matter. It seems as if that "someone" is Raymond, Charlie's unknown brother, an autistic savant who lives in a world of his own, resides at the Walbrook Institute. Charlie then kidnaps Raymond and decides to take him on a lust for life trip to the west coast as a threat to get the $3 Million inheritance. Raymond's acts and nagging, including repeated talks of "Abbott & Costello",...


The Prisoner got rated 5.9.

About the movie: A New Yorker awakens to find himself in a place called The Village run by a man known as Two. As everyone in The Village is referred to only by a number, everyone in The Village refers to him as Six - despite he himself knowing that he has another name - and seems to know who he is. He is told he lives in The Village and that The Village is the only reality there is. Six's mission becomes to find out where The Village is, who Two is and why he is seemingly keeping him prisoner in The Village (despite Two stating that Six is a free man), and how he can escape to his life back in New York. Six has to learn who among the Villagers he can trust - who include a doctor named 313, a cab driver named 147, and Two's own son named 11-12 - in his quest to escape from The Village. Six also has recurring memories of his life in New York, including an encounter with a woman named Lucy, which may be part of the key to discovering why he's in The Village.

Ponette

Also Known As: I mikri Ponette

Company: Les Films Alain Sarde / Rhône-Alpes Cinéma / Centre Européen Cinématographique Rhône-Alpes

Aspect Ratio: 1.66 : 1

Plot: An extremely captivating movie on how a little girl copes with her mother's death. She withdraws from all the people around her, waiting for her mother to come back. She tries waiting, and when her mother still doesn't appear, tries magic chants, praying to God, and then becoming a child of God, to have some power over Him. All to no avail. But then, when she is in despair, her mother does come back ...

Cast and Character: Victoire Thivisol as Ponette / Delphine Schiltz as Delphine / Matiaz Bureau Caton as Matiaz / Léopoldine Serre as Ada / Marie Trintignant as La mère / Xavier Beauvois as Le père / Claire Nebout as La tante / Aurélie Vérillon as Aurélie / Henri Berthon as L'Instituteur / Carla Ibled as Carla / Luckie Royer as Luce / Antoine du Merle as Antoine / Marianne Favre as Marianne / Hadrien Bouvier as Extra / Benjamin Lemaire as Anthony

Creators: n/A

Description: An extremely captivating movie on how a little girl copes with her mother's death. She withdraws from all the people around her, waiting for her mother to come back. She tries waiting, and ...

Directors: Jacques Doillon

Genres: Drama

Location: Saint-Auban-sur-l'Ouvèze, Drôme, France

MPAA: n/A

Opening Weekend: n/A

Poster: posters/0117359.jpg

Rating: 7.4

Release Date: 14 March 1997 (USA)

Runtime: 97 min

Seasons: n/A

Sound Mix: Stereo

Tagline: n/A

Title: Ponette

Trailer:

Url: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117359/

Votes: 2,908

Writers: Jacques Doillon / Brune Compagnon

Year: 1996


Ponette got rated 7.4.

About the movie: An extremely captivating movie on how a little girl copes with her mother's death. She withdraws from all the people around her, waiting for her mother to come back. She tries waiting, and when her mother still doesn't appear, tries magic chants, praying to God, and then becoming a child of God, to have some power over Him. All to no avail. But then, when she is in despair, her mother does come back ...


À bout portant got rated 6.8.

About the movie: Samuel Pierret (Gilles Lellouche) is a nurse who saves the wrong guy -- a thief (Roschdy Zem) whose henchmen take Samuel's pregnant wife (Elena Anaya) hostage to force him to spring their boss from the hospital. A race through the subways and streets of Paris ensues, and the body count rises. Can Samuel evade the cops and the criminal underground and deliver his beloved to safety?


The Pink Panther got rated 5.3.

About the movie: When the coach of the France soccer team is killed by a poisoned dart in the stadium in the end of a game, and his expensive and huge ring with the diamond Pink Panther disappears, the ambitious Chief Insp. Dreyfus assigns the worst police inspector Jacques Clouseau to the case. His intention is to give a diversion to the press, while he uses his best men to chase the killer and thief. He assigns Gendarme Gilbert Ponton to work with Closeau and inform each step of the investigation. When Clouseau is nominated with honor to the highest prize in France, Dreyfus decides to humiliate Clouseau and take him out of the case. However Clouseau has already solved the mystery.


Payday got rated 8.9.

About the movie: n/A

The Parallax View

Also Known As: Ubice i svedoci

Company: Doubleday Productions / Gus / Harbor Productions

Aspect Ratio: 2.35 : 1

Plot: Joe Frady is a determined reporter who often needs to defend his work from colleagues. After the assassination of a prominent U.S. senator, Frady begins to notice that reporters present during the assassination are dying mysteriously. After getting more involved in the case, Frady begins to realize that the assassination was part of a conspiracy somehow involving the Parallax Corporation, an enigmatic training institute. He then decides to enroll for the Parallax training himself to discover the truth.

Cast and Character: Warren Beatty as Joseph Frady / Paula Prentiss as Lee Carter / William Daniels as Austin Tucker / Walter McGinn as Jack Younger / Hume Cronyn as Bill Rintels / Kelly Thordsen as Sheriff L.D. Wicker / Chuck Waters as Thomas Richard Linder / Earl Hindman as Deputy Red / William Joyce as Senator Charles Carroll / Bettie Johnson as Mrs. Charles Carroll / Bill McKinney as Parallax Assassin / Jo Ann Harris as Chrissy - Frady's Girl / Ted Gehring as Schecter - Hotel Clerk / Lee Pulford as Shirley - Salmontail Bar Girl / Doria Cook-Nelson as Gale from Salmontail

Creators: n/A

Description: An ambitious reporter gets in way-over-his-head trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corporation behind every event in the worlds headlines.

Directors: Alan J. Pakula

Genres: Thriller

Location: Gorge Dam, Skagit River, Washington, USA

MPAA: R

Opening Weekend: n/A

Poster: posters/0071970.jpg

Rating: 7.2

Release Date: 14 June 1974 (USA)

Runtime: 102 min

Seasons: n/A

Sound Mix: Mono

Tagline: As American as apple pie.

Title: The Parallax View

Trailer:

Url: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071970/

Votes: 7,820

Writers: David Giler / Lorenzo Semple Jr.

Year: 1974


The Parallax View got rated 7.2.

About the movie: Joe Frady is a determined reporter who often needs to defend his work from colleagues. After the assassination of a prominent U.S. senator, Frady begins to notice that reporters present during the assassination are dying mysteriously. After getting more involved in the case, Frady begins to realize that the assassination was part of a conspiracy somehow involving the Parallax Corporation, an enigmatic training institute. He then decides to enroll for the Parallax training himself to discover the truth.


Paisà got rated 7.7.

About the movie: Six vignettes follow the Allied invasion from July 1943 to winter 1944, from Sicily north to Venice. Communication is fragile. A woman leads an Allied patrol through a mine field; she dies protecting a G.I., but the Yanks think she killed him. A street urchin steals shoes from a G.I. who tracks him to a shanty town. A G.I. meets a woman the day Rome is liberated; in six months they meet again: he's cynical, she's a prostitute. A US nurse braves the trip across the Arno into German fire in search of a partisan she loves. Three chaplains, including a Jew, call on a monastery north in the Apennines. Allied soldiers and partisans try to escape capture in the marshes of the Po.


Ordinary People got rated 7.8.

About the movie: Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad is overcome by grief and misplaced guilt to the extent of a suicide attempt. He is in therapy. Beth had always preferred his brother and is having difficulty being supportive to Conrad. Calvin is trapped between the two trying to hold the family together.


On the Beach got rated 7.2.

About the movie: In 1964, atomic war wipes out humanity in the northern hemisphere; one American submarine finds temporary safe haven in Australia, where life-as-usual covers growing despair. In denial about the loss of his wife and children in the holocaust, American Captain Towers meets careworn but gorgeous Moira Davidson, who begins to fall for him. The sub returns after reconnaissance a month (or less) before the end; will Towers and Moira find comfort with each other?

La Nuit De Varennes

Also Known As: A Noite de Varennes

Company: Gaumont / France 3 (FR 3) / Opera Film Produzione

Aspect Ratio: 1.66 : 1

Plot: In June of 1791, a group of passengers in a stagecoach find themselves caught up in the events of the French Revolution, when they find themselves in the city of Varennes when revolutionists arrest the fleeing King Louis.

Cast and Character: Jean-Louis Barrault as Nicolas Edmé Restif de la Bretonne / Marcello Mastroianni as Casanova, Chevalier de Seingalt / Hanna Schygulla as Countess Sophie de la Borde / Harvey Keitel as Thomas Paine / Jean-Claude Brialy as Monsieur Jacob / Andréa Ferréol as Madame Adélaïde Gagnon / Michel Vitold as De Florange / Laura Betti as Virginia Capacelli / Enzo Jannacci as Italian clown / Pierre Malet as Emile Delage, student revolutionary / Daniel Gélin as De Wendel / Hugues Quester as Jean-Louis Romeuf / Dora Doll as Nanette Precy / Caterina Boratto as Madame Faustine / Didi Perego as Madame Sauce

Trailer: n/A

Creators: n/A

Description: In June of 1791, a group of passengers in a stagecoach find themselves caught up in the events of the French Revolution, when they find themselves in the city of Varennes when ...

Directors: Ettore Scola

Genres: Drama / History

Location: Senlis, Oise, France

MPAA: R

Opening Weekend: n/A

Poster: posters/0084423.jpg

Rating: 7.0

Release Date: 16 February 1983 (USA)

Runtime: 122 min

Seasons: n/A

Sound Mix: Mono

Tagline: n/A

Title: La nuit de Varennes

Trailer:

Url: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084423/

Votes: 1,065

Writers: Sergio Amidei / Ettore Scola

Year: 1982


La nuit de Varennes got rated 7.0.

About the movie: In June of 1791, a group of passengers in a stagecoach find themselves caught up in the events of the French Revolution, when they find themselves in the city of Varennes when revolutionists arrest the fleeing King Louis.


Notorious got rated 6.4.

About the movie: NOTORIOUS is the story of Christopher Wallace. Through raw talent and sheer determination, Wallace transforms himself from Brooklyn street hustler (once selling crack to pregnant women) to one of the greatest rappers of all time; THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. Follow his meteoric rise to fame and his refusal to succumb to expectations - redefining our notion of "The American Dream."


Night of the Living Dead got rated 8.0.

About the movie: Barbra and her brother Johnny travel by car from Pittsburgh to the countryside to visit the gravestone of their father in the cemetery. Out of the blue, they are attacked by a strange man and Johnny is murdered. Barbra runs and releases the brake of Johnny's car since the keys are in his pocket, and flees to an isolated farmhouse, where she locks herself inside. Barbra is in shock and soon she finds a man, Ben, who is also escaping from the inhuman creatures and he reinforces the doors, windows and openings in the house. He also finds a shotgun and a radio and they learn that the radiation from a satellite that was returning from Venus has somehow reactivated the brain of the dead. Then they find five humans hidden in the basement: Harry Cooper, his wife Helen and their daughter Karen that is sick; and Tom and his girlfriend Judy. Harry has an argument with Ben, since he believes that the basement is the safest place for them and Harry goes not agree. Along the night, the tension ...


My Man Godfrey got rated 8.0.

About the movie: In the depths of the Depression, a party game brings dizzy socialite Irene Bullock to the city dump where she meets Godfrey, a derelict, and ends by hiring him as family butler. He finds the Bullocks to be the epitome of idle rich, and nutty as the proverbial fruitcake. Soon, the dramatizing Irene is in love with her 'protege'...who feels strongly that a romance between servant and employer is out of place, regardless of that servant's mysterious past...

Mutiny on the Bounty

Also Known As: Motín a bordo

Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) / Arcola Pictures

Aspect Ratio: 2.76 : 1

Plot: The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Captain Bligh will do anything to get there as fast as possible, using any means to keep up a strict discipline. When they arrive at Tahiti, it is like a paradise for the crew, something completely different than the living hell aboard the ship. On the way back to England, officer Fletcher Christian becomes the leader of a mutiny.

Cast and Character: Marlon Brando as 1st Lt. Fletcher Christian / Trevor Howard as Captain William Bligh / Richard Harris as Seaman John Mills / Hugh Griffith as Alexander Smith / Richard Haydn as William Brown / Tarita as Maimiti / Percy Herbert as Seaman Matthew Quintal / Duncan Lamont as John Williams / Gordon Jackson as Seaman Edward Birkett / Chips Rafferty as Michael Byrne / Noel Purcell as Seaman William McCoy / Ashley Cowan as Samuel Mack / Eddie Byrne as John Fryer / Frank Silvera as Minarii / Tim Seely as Midshipman Edward 'Ned' Young

Creators: n/A

Description: The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Captain Bligh will do anything to get there as fast as possible, using any means to keep up a ...

Directors: Lewis Milestone

Genres: Adventure / Drama / History / Romance

Location: Bora Bora, Leeward Islands, French Polynesia

MPAA: Approved

Opening Weekend: n/A

Poster: posters/0056264.jpg

Rating: 7.1

Release Date: 8 November 1962 (USA)

Runtime: 178 min

Seasons: n/A

Sound Mix: 70 mm 6-Track / 4-Track Stereo / Stereo / Mono

Tagline: The greatest adventure ever lived becomes the greatest adventure ever filmed!

Title: Mutiny on the Bounty

Trailer:

Url: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056264/

Votes: 8,177

Writers: Charles Lederer / Charles Nordhoff

Year: 1962


Mutiny on the Bounty got rated 7.1.

About the movie: The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Captain Bligh will do anything to get there as fast as possible, using any means to keep up a strict discipline. When they arrive at Tahiti, it is like a paradise for the crew, something completely different than the living hell aboard the ship. On the way back to England, officer Fletcher Christian becomes the leader of a mutiny.


Mulholland Dr. got rated 7.9.

About the movie: A bright-eyed young actress travels to Hollywood, only to be ensnared in a dark conspiracy involving a woman who was nearly murdered, and now has amnesia because of a car crash. Eventually, both women are pulled into a psychotic illusion involving a dangerous blue box, a director named Adam Kesher, and the mysterious night club Silencio.


Moonlighting got rated 7.5.

About the movie: The top model Maddie Hayes was betrayed by her investment adviser who flew with all her money to South-America and began the hard life of a Casino owner. All the unfaithful manager has left Maddie is her house, her unbelievable beauty and intelligence and the run-down detective-agency "City Angels" (renamed by Maddie into "Blue Moon"). Because of her lack of money, she wants to sell the agency, but the houses only detective David Addison tries to convince her to join the agency as the new boss. So Maddie Hayes becomes involved in the work of a real private detective, which means so hard work as to spy upon unfaithful husbands, find missing people or murderers, foil attempts on VIP's lives, stop killers, help lovers and by the way save the world's peace and existence. While doing this Maddie and David try to get used to each other and this way they recognize their complete difference in life-style, humour, amusement and of course in the way how to run a detective agency. Maybe this is ...


Les Misérables got rated 7.7.

About the movie: Jean Valjean, known as Prisoner 24601, is released from prison and breaks parole to create a new life for himself while evading the grip of the persistent Inspector Javert. Set in post-revolutionary France, the story reaches resolution against the background of the June Rebellion.

Metropolitan

Also Known As: Azok a New York-i báléjszakák

Company: Allagash Films / Westerly Film

Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1

Plot: In an apartment on Manhattan a couple of friends from the New York upper-class meet almost every night to talk about social mobility, play bridge and discuss Fourier's socialism; the cynic Nick, the philosophical Charlie, party girl Sally and austenite Audrey. They are joined by Tom. His background is much simpler and he is critical of their way of life. But he finds a soul mate in Audrey, who without his knowledge falls in love with him.

Cast and Character: Carolyn Farina as Audrey Rouget / Edward Clements as Tom Townsend / Chris Eigeman as Nick Smith / Taylor Nichols as Charlie Black / Allison Parisi as Jane Clark / Dylan Hundley as Sally Fowler / Isabel Gillies as Cynthia McLean / Bryan Leder as Fred Neff / Will Kempe as Rick Von Sloneker / Ellia Thompson as Serena Slocum / Stephen Uys as Victor Lemley / Roger W. Kirby as Man at Bar / Alice Connorton as Mrs. Townsend / Linda Gillies as Mrs. Rouget / John Lynch as Allen Green

Trailer: n/A

Creators: n/A

Description: A group of young upper-class Manhattanites are blithely passing through the gala debutante season, when an unusual outsider joins them and stirs them up.

Directors: Whit Stillman

Genres: Comedy / Drama / Romance

Location: Cornwall, New York, USA

MPAA: PG-13

Opening Weekend: n/A

Poster: posters/0100142.jpg

Rating: 7.2

Release Date: 3 August 1990 (USA)

Runtime: 98 min

Seasons: n/A

Sound Mix: Stereo

Tagline: Finally... A film about the downwardly mobile.

Title: Metropolitan

Trailer:

Url: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100142/

Votes: 5,161

Writers: Whit Stillman

Year: 1990


Metropolitan got rated 7.2.

About the movie: In an apartment on Manhattan a couple of friends from the New York upper-class meet almost every night to talk about social mobility, play bridge and discuss Fourier's socialism; the cynic Nick, the philosophical Charlie, party girl Sally and austenite Audrey. They are joined by Tom. His background is much simpler and he is critical of their way of life. But he finds a soul mate in Audrey, who without his knowledge falls in love with him.


The Men got rated 7.1.

About the movie: Ex-GI Ken who as a result of a war wound is paralyzed below the waist. In the hospital back home, he passes through an initial period of depression with the help of a sympathetic Dr. Brock and his faithful fiancée Ellen. Ken's bitter isolation is also overcome with the help of his fellow patients, especially the intelligent young cynic Norm, the witty Leo and serious young Angel. Soon Ken throws himself into the work rehabilitation and after a long period of physical therapy even suspects he may regain the use of his limbs. With the approval and help of the doctor, he and Ellen marry, but on their wedding night both have misgivings about the marriage: the full realization of Ellen's new responsibilities frighten her and makes her more uncertain than ever, and Ken reverts to self-pity. There is a violent argument, and he goes back to the hospital. But his blazing anger finds no sympathy from his buddies, and after a surprising conversation with Dr. Brock, Ken realizes that he must ...


Mary Poppins got rated 7.7.

About the movie: The movie combines songs, color and sequences of live action blended with the movements of animated figures. Mary Poppins is a kind of Super-nanny who flies in with her umbrella in response to the request of the Banks children and proceeds to put things right with the aid of her rather extraordinary magical powers.


Man Hunt got rated 7.4.

About the movie: British hunter Thorndike vacationing in Bavaria has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by German agents and aided by a young woman.