Posts Tagged ‘england’

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Biography | Drama | War
Countries: UK
Actors: O'Toole, Peter | Guinness, Alec | Quinn, Anthony | Hawkins, Jack | Sharif, Omar | Ferrer, José | Quayle, Anthony | Rains, Claude | Kennedy, Arthur | Wolfit, Donald | Johar, I.S. | Ratib, Gamil | Ray, Michel | Dimech, John | Mohyeddin, Zia
Directors: Lean, David
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T. E. Lawrence is a young maladjusted lieutenant in the British Army in North Africa during World War One. Unhappy with his current assignment coloring maps, he is ecstatic when he is offered a job as an observer in what is now Arabia. At this point, the story of his life becomes the stuff that legends are made of.

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Flemyng, Jason | Fletcher, Dexter | Moran, Nick | Statham, Jason | Mackintosh, Steven | Rowe, Nicholas | Marcq, Nick | Forbes, Charlie | Jones, Vinnie | McLean, Lenny | McNicholl, Peter | Moriarty, P.H. | Harper, Frank | Sweeney, Steve | Leaver, Huggy
Directors: Ritchie, Guy
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Four Jack-the-lads find themselves heavily - seriously heavily - in debt to an East End hard man and his enforcers after a crooked card game. Overhearing their neighbours in the next flat plotting to hold up a group of out-of-their-depth drug growers, our heros decide to stitch up the robbers in turn. In a way the confusion really starts when a pair of antique double-barrelled shotguns go missing in a completely different scam.

Lion in Winter, The (1968)

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | History
Countries: UK
Actors: O'Toole, Peter | Hepburn, Katharine | Hopkins, Anthony | Castle, John | Terry, Nigel | Dalton, Timothy | Merrow, Jane | Stock, Nigel | Ives, Kenneth | Whitehead, O.Z. | Stafford, Fran | More, Ella | Griffith, Kenneth | Woolf, Henry | Hagar, Karol
Directors: Harvey, Anthony
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In 1183 Henry II summonses his sons Richard, John, and Geoffrey to join him and his prison-bound wife Eleanor at Chinon for a family Christmas, along with King Philip II of France and his sister Alais, Henry’s mistress. Philip is insisting Alais now marries John as agreed years before else he wants her dowry, the lands of the Vexen, back. As Eleanor has already given the province of Aquitaine to Richard, the outcome of this may decide the very future of England. Everyone present except perhaps Alais are masters of double-dealing and deceipt, so it could be a lively Yuletide.

Titanic (1997)

Saturday, July 11th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: DiCaprio, Leonardo | Winslet, Kate | Zane, Billy | Bates, Kathy | Fisher, Frances | Stuart, Gloria | Paxton, Bill | Hill, Bernard | Warner, David | Garber, Victor | Hyde, Jonathan | Amis, Suzy | Abernathy, Lewis | Cascone, Nicholas | Sagalevitch, Dr. Anatoly M.
Directors: Cameron, James
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Titanic, the ship of dreams. Is also known as Unsinkable, and it was unsinkable on its departure on April 10th, 1912. And on its epic journey a poor artist named Jack Dawson and a rich girl Rose DeWitt Bukator fall in love, until one night, their fairytale love for one another turns into a struggle for survival on a ship about to founder to the bottom of the North Atlantic. Rose leaves her fiancée Caledon Hockley for this poor artist, but when the Titanic collides with the Iceberg on April 14th, 1912, and then when the ship sinks on April 15th, 1912 at 2:20 in the morning, Jack dies and Rose survives and 84 years later Rose tells the story about her life on Titanic to her grand daughter and friends on the Keldysh and explains the first sight of Jack that falls into love, then into a fight for survival. When Rose gets saved by one lifeboat that comes back, they take her to the Carpathia with the 6 saved with Rose and the 700 people saved in the lifeboats. The Carpathia Immigration Officer asks Rose what her name is and she loved Jack so much she says her name is not Rose DeWitt Bukator, but her name is Rose Dawson. She seen Cal looking for her, but he doesn’t see her, and they never ended up together, her mom, Cal, and friends of the family has know choice but to think that she died on the Titanic. But in the crash of 1929, Cal is married, but then he put a pistol in his mouth and committed suicide. So Rose is an actress in the 20’s, and now 84 years later Rose Calvert is 100 years old and tells her grand daughter Lizzy Calvert, Brock Lovett, Lewis Bodine, Bobby Buell, and Anatoly Mikailavich the whole story from departure until the death of Titanic on its first and last voyage, and then to Rose all Titanic and the real love of her life Jack Dawson is all an existence inside of her memory, and Titanic is to rest in peace at the bottom of the North Atlantic from 1912 until the end of time.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

Saturday, July 11th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Comedy
Countries: UK
Actors: Chapman, Graham | Cleese, John | Idle, Eric | Jones, Terry | Palin, Michael | Booth, Connie | Cleveland, Carol | Innes, Neil | Duffell, Bee | Young, John | Davies, Rita | Stewart, Avril | Kinghorn, Sally | Zycon, Mark
Directors: Gilliam, Terry
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The movie starts out with Arthur, King of the Britons, looking for knights to sit with him at Camelot. He finds many knights including Sir Galahad the pure, Sir Lancelot the brave, the quiet Sir Bedevere, and Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-as-Sir Lancelot. They do not travel on horses, but pretend they do and have their servants bang coconuts to make the sound of horse’s hooves. Through satire of certain events in history (witch trials, the black plague) they find Camelot, but after literally a quick song and dance they decide that they do not want to go there. While walking away, God (who seems to be grumpy) come to them from a cloud and tells them to find the Holy Grail. They agree and begin their search…

Tragedy of Macbeth, The (1971)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Finch, Jon | Annis, Francesca | Shaw, Martin | Bayler, Terence | Stride, John | Selby, Nicholas | Chase, Stephan | Shelley, Paul | MacFarquhar, Maisie | Taylor, Elsie | Rimmington, Noelle | Davis, Noel | Bromley, Sydney | Pearson, Richard | Mason, Patricia
Directors: Polanski, Roman
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Roman Polanski’s version of Shakespeare’s tragedy about a Scottish lord who murders the king and ascends the throne. His wife then begins hallucinating as a result of her guilt complex and the dead king’s son conspires to attack MacBeth and expose him for the murderer he is.

Italian Job, The (1969)

Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime
Countries: UK
Actors: Wahlberg, Mark | Theron, Charlize | Sutherland, Donald | Statham, Jason | Green, Seth | Def, Mos | Norton, Edward | Callegarini, Fausto | Petronelli, Stefano | Scarpa, Fabio | Bonora, Cristiano | Greco, Tiberio | Shubert, Jimmy | Cubilette, Tammi | Portser, Mary
Directors: Gray, F. Gary
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Charlie has just left prison, and now wants to do a ‘big job’. The job is to steal $4m of gold arriving in Italy from China. Charlie’s job needs financing, so he goes to Mr Bridger (a Mafia-type boss) who is in prison (Charlie has to break in !). In Italy, a clever plan is used to distract the authorities, while the raiders make their get-away in three Minis. This leads to an excellent car chase sequence through Italian streets, buildings, rivers, sewers,

Vanity Fair (2004)

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Byrne, Gabriel | Mandy, Angelica | Lloyd-Pack, Roger | Sheen, Ruth | Fleetwood, Kate | Witherspoon, Reese | Dubey, Lillete | Garai, Romola | Maudsley, Tony | Findlay, Deborah | Franklyn-Robbins, John | Bazely, Paul | Ifans, Rhys | Rhys Meyers, Jonathan | Beall, Charlie
Directors: Nair, Mira
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The British Empire flowers; exotic India colors English imaginations. Becky Sharp, the orphaned daughter of a painter and a singer, leaves a home for girls to be a governess, armed with pluck, a keen wit, good looks, fluent French, and an eye for social advancement. Society tries its best to keep her from climbing. An episodic narrative follows her for 20 years, through marriage, Napoleonic wars, a child, loyalty to a school friend, the vicissitudes of the family whose daughters she instructed, and attention from a bored marquess who collected her father’s paintings. Honesty tempers her schemes. No aristocrat she, nor bourgeois, just spirited, intelligent, and irrepressible.

Persuasion (2007)

Thursday, May 28th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Penry-Jones, Rupert | Hawkins, Sally | Krige, Alice | Head, Anthony | Davis, Julia | Fenton Stevens, Michael | Stockley, Mary | Wight, Peter | Bailey, Marion | Hale, Amanda | Higham, Jennifer | Stephen, Rosamund | Stella Gonet | Hazeldine, Sam | Shergold, Louis
Directors: Shergold, Adrian
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On the brink of financial ruin, the Elliot family is forced to vacate their ancestral home in order to recover their debts and avoid losing face amongst their parish. The task of organizing their effects falls to levelheaded Anne Elliot, destined for spinsterhood at age 27 after being persuaded eight years earlier to refuse the proposal of Frederick Wentworth, a dashing (but destitute) naval officer…

From Hell (2001)

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Genres: Crime | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Depp, Johnny | Graham, Heather | Holm, Ian | Coltrane, Robbie | Richardson, Ian | Flemyng, Jason | Cartlidge, Katrin | Harvey, Terence | Lynch, Susan | Rhys, Paul | Sharp, Lesley | Skornik, Estelle | McGaughey, Nicholas | Apsion, Annabelle | Page, Joanna
Directors: Hughes, Albert
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The infamous Jack the Ripper case set in London of 1888. The Ripper has been running amok in the Whitechapel district murdering and dissecting prostitutes. Scotland Yard Inspector Fred Abberline, aided by his partner, Peter Godley, are on the case to figure out who this serial killer is and why he is killing these women in such a brutal manner. Abberline is an opium addict and when “chasing the dragon” he is able to have visions of the future, a certain psychic ability that allows him to solve cases. As Abberline and Godley investigate the crimes, they become acquainted with the prostitutes who were friends and colleagues of the victims. Abberline begins to fall in love with Mary Kelly, one of the prostitutes, or as the nobles called them “unfortunates”, being hunted down by Jack the Ripper. Abberline digs deeper and deeper into the conspiracy and attempts to solve the case before Mary Kelly is the next victim.