Posts Tagged ‘1950s’

Hannibal Rising (2007)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Czech Republic | France | Italy | UK
Actors: Thomas, Aaran | Ulliel, Gaspard | Gong, Li | Tachovská, Helena-Lia | Leaf, Richard | West, Dominic | Ifans, Rhys | Wade, Michele | Brake, Richard | Hub, Martin | McKidd, Kevin | Dapkunaite, Ingeborga | Stadler, Joerg | Walters, Stephen | Marevich, Ivan
Directors: Webber, Peter
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Based on Thomas Harris’ book of the same name, this prequel shows a young Hannibal Lecter in three different phases of his life from childhood in Lithuania to his ten years in England up to his time in Russia before his capture by FBI agent Will Graham in Red Dragon.

Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Abbott, Bud | Costello, Lou | Guild, Nancy | Franz, Arthur | Jergens, Adele | Leonard, Sheldon | Frawley, William | Muir, Gavin | Balter, Sam | Daheim, John | Maxey, Paul | Appler, Walter F. | Banks, Howard | Barber, Bobby | Bartell, Richard
Directors: Lamont, Charles
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Boxer Tommy Nelson is accused of killing his manager. While detectives Bud and Lou investigate they come across an invisibility formula with which Tommy injects himself rather than face the police. This sparks an idea for trapping gangster Morgan by having Lou fight champ Rocky Hanlon, with Tommy’s invisible help.

Fido (2006)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada
Actors: Connolly, Billy | Skorzewski, Jan | Moss, Carrie-Anne | Baker, Dylan | Tyell, Kevin | Ray, K'Sun | Czerny, Henry | Nelson, Tim Blake | Bennett, Sonja | Clement, Jennifer | Kepinski, Raphael | Brown, Aaron | Olds, Brandon | Fast, Alexia | Cuffling, Bernard
Directors: Currie, Andrew
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Timmy Robinson’s best friend in the whole wide world is a six-foot tall rotting zombie named Fido. But when FIDO eats the next-door neighbor, Mom and Dad hit the roof, and Timmy has to go to the ends of the earth to keep Fido a part of the family. A boy-and-his-dog movie for grown ups, “FIDO” will rip your heart out.

Walker, The (2007)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Harrelson, Woody | Scott Thomas, Kristin | Bacall, Lauren | Beatty, Ned | Bleibtreu, Moritz | Hurt, Mary Beth | Tomlin, Lily | Dafoe, Willem | Hope, William | Francis, Geff | Hartley, Steven | Hagon, Garrick | Reynolds, Michael J. | Lidkey, Allen | Alexander, Stewart
Directors: Schrader, Paul
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An escort (Harrelson) who caters to Washington D.C.’s society ladies becomes involved in a murder case.

Incredibles, The (2004)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Animation | Family | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Newton, Thandie | Nelson, Craig T. | Hunter, Holly | Jackson, Samuel L. | Lee, Jason | Dominique R. Louis | Newton, Teddy | Sincere, Jean | Fucile, Eli | Andrews, Maeve | Shawn, Wallace | Fox, Spencer | Romano, Lou | Canney, Wayne | Vowell, Sarah | Bird, Michael
Directors: Bird, Brad
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Mr. Incredible (A.K.A. Bob Parr), and his wife Helen (A.K.A. Elastigirl), are the world’s greatest famous crime-fighting superheroes in Metroville. Always saving lives and battling evil on a daily basis. But fifteen years later, they have been forced to adopt civilian identities and retreat to the suburbs where they have no choice but to retire of being a superhero and force to live a “normal life” with their three children Violet, Dash and Jack-Jack (who were secretly born with superpowers). Itching to get back into action, Bob gets his chance when a mysterious communication summons him to a remote island for a top secret assignment. He soon discovers that it will take a super family effort to rescue the world from total destruction.

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Hauer, Rutger | Roberts, Julia | Westley, Jennifer Rae | Clark, Dick | Rockwell, Sam | Sweeney, Michelle | Barrymore, Drew | Ceci, Chelsea | Pitt, Brad | Damon, Matt | Cera, Michael | Rose Ambroziak, Aimee | Blais, Isabelle | Carter, Melissa | Hall, Jennifer | Elkin, Ilona | Tucker, Sean | Morgan, Jaye P. | Gyllenhaal, Maggie | Hirsh, David Julian
Directors: Clooney, George
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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.

Chicken Run (2000)

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Family
Countries: UK
Actors: Daniels, Phil | Ferguson, Lynn | Gibson, Mel | Haygarth, Tony | Horrocks, Jane | Richardson, Miranda | Sawalha, Julia | Spall, Timothy | Staunton, Imelda | Whitrow, Benjamin | Sharian, John | Allen, Jo | Kay, Lisa | Strachan, Laura
Directors: Lord, Peter
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Ginger is one of the chicken at the Tweety Egg Farm, who is capable of escaping (and desperately wants to) but is constantly being held back by her incompetent partners. One night, feeling failed and depressed after a chicken is axed, she wanders out to the gate, where she sees a rooster triumphantly flying through the air. After crashing and injuring his wing, Ginger takes him in and learns he’s Rocky Rhodes, a cocky American who enjoys freedom - in fact, he escaped from a circus when she found him. In exchange for protecting him when the circus arrives asking for him, Ginger makes a deal with Rocky that he will teach them to fly so they can escape. Taking advantage of the situation, Rocky woos the chicken, irritating Ginger “Doll-Face” and organizer Officer Fowler, formerly of the Royal Air Force, in the process. Meanwhile, the Tweetys have purchased a machine to make chicken pies out of, intending to cook every last one of them.

Hounddog (2007)

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Clayton-Luce, Oliver | Hanford, Cody | Morse, David | Omilami, Afemo | Pelton, Ryan | Prather, Ron | Sanders, Christoph | Taylor, Frank Hoyt | Thompson, Jody | Wallace, Sean Andrew | Yelton, William Smith | Fanning, Dakota | Fuhrman, Isabelle | Laurie, Piper | McIntyre, Chandler
Directors: Kampmeier, Deborah
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A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.

Clue (1985)

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Brennan, Eileen | Curry, Tim | Kahn, Madeline | Lloyd, Christopher | McKean, Michael | Mull, Martin | Warren, Lesley Ann | Camp, Colleen | Ving, Lee | Henderson, Bill | Wiedlin, Jane | Kramer, Jeffrey | Nakahara, Kellye | Nye, Will | Goldman, Rick
Directors: Lynn, Jonathan
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Here is the murderously funny movie based on the world-famous Clue board game. Was it Colonel Mustard in the study with a gun? Miss Scarlet in the billiard room with the rope? Or was it Wadsworth the butler? Meet all the notorious suspects and discover all their foul play. You’ll love their dastardly doings as the bodies and the laughs pile up before your eyes. Features three surprise endings!!

Way We Were, The (1973)

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Streisand, Barbra | Redford, Robert | Dillman, Bradford | Chiles, Lois | O'Neal, Patrick | Lindfors, Viveca | McLerie, Allyn Ann | Hamilton, Murray | Edelman, Herb | Ewing, Diana | Kirkland, Sally | Jones, Marcia Mae | Keefer, Don | Gaynes, George | Boles, Eric
Directors: Pollack, Sydney
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Katie and Hubbell are students in the same college but with very different lives. She is a communist compromised against the civil war in Spain and the rise of Hitler in Europe, and has to work to pay her studies. He is more interested in sports a and sceptic about politics. However, Katie is impressed by his charm and she still is when they meet some years after.