Posts Tagged ‘london-england’

FairyTale: A True Story (1997)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Family | Fantasy | Mystery
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Keitel, Harvey | Salkey, Jason | O'Toole, Peter | Morgan, Lara | Franks, Adam | Witcher, Guy | May, Joseph | Bradley, John | Chancellor, Anna | Hoath, Florence | Nicholls, Phoebe | Kavanagh, Leonard | Earl, Elizabeth | McGann, Paul | Lesser, Anton
Directors: Sturridge, Charles
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Based on factual accounts, this is the story of two young girls that, somehow, have the ability to take pictures of winged beings… which certainly causes quite a stir throughout England during the time of the first World War. Everyone, except the girls who think it’s quite normal, are excited about this “photographic proof” that fairies exist… even the great Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini pay the girls a visit.

Notes on a Scandal (2006)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Dench, Judi | Blanchett, Cate | Georgeson, Tom | Maloney, Michael | Scanlan, Joanna | Parkes, Shaun | Kennedy, Emma | Kumar, Syreeta | Simpson, Andrew | Davis, Philip | Nottingham, Wendy | Empson, Tameka | Skinner, Leon | Nighy, Bill | Temple, Juno
Directors: Eyre, Richard
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Barbara Covett is a veteran and cynical schoolteacher who is close to retirement. She is barely tolerated by her less brilliant and acerbic colleagues who know nothing about her private life which consists mainly of taking care of Portia, her aging cat, and spending countless hours alone. The only means she has found to take the edge off her desperate loneliness is writing in her journal. When Sheba Hart, a younger, attractive woman, joins the faculty as an art teacher, Barbara watches her from afar and has nothing but caustic things to say in her diary about her clothing and her care-free manner. Despite her disdain for this woman, Barbara finds herself reaching out to her. Sheba responds by inviting her to dinner at her house to meet Sheba’s lecturer husband, who is twenty years her senior, and their two children, a sexy and rebellious 16-year-old daughter and a younger boy with Downs Syndrome. Instead of opening herself to these people, Barbara immediately sees them as competition to be beaten in the battle for Sheba’s attention. Later, when Barbara discovers her new friend in a classroom having sex with Steven, a 15-year-old from the school who has artistic talent; she realizes that knowledge of this secret gives her power over Sheba which she can use for her own purposes. Barbara promises to not tell anyone but insists that the affair must end immediately. Sheba says she will but finds herself drawn back to the boy again and again. Sheba seems uneasy with Barbara’s friendship and is appalled when she discovers the older woman might have a sexual interest in her. The tenuous relationship between the two women reaches a crisis point when Barbara’s cat is dying and she asks Sheba to go with her to the vet. She chooses to go with her family to see their son in a play instead. In revenge, Barbara sets in motion the scandal that will rock both their lives in ways they never imagined.

Scoop (2006)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Mystery
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Jackman, Hugh | Johansson, Scarlett | Bell, Geoff | Fulford, Christopher | Lindsay, Nigel | McShane, Ian | Woolgar, Fenella | Mantle, Doreen | Schneider, David | Syal, Meera | McNally, Kevin | Kerr, Robyn | Stirling, Richard | Dunk, Jim | Garai, Romola
Directors: Allen, Woody
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A young journalist student, Sondra Pransky, travels from America to England to interview a famous actor. After the not-so-complete interview her friend and she go to a magic show. When selected to take part in one of the acts Sondra is contacted by a recently deceased famous journalist who is determined to give her his last scoop. He tells her that the son of Lord Lyman, Peter Lyman, is the tarot card killer. Dragging along Sid Waterman, a kooky magician, Sondra attempts to discover who Peter Lyman really is and if he is a killer. What she doesn’t realize is that while she is trying to protect the country of England her heart might be what is really in jeopardy.

Jackal, The (1997)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Crime | Thriller
Countries: France | Germany | Japan | UK | USA
Actors: Willis, Bruce | Gere, Richard | Poitier, Sidney | Venora, Diane | May, Mathilda | Simmons, J.K. | Lineback, Richard | Cunningham, John | Black, Jack | Harper, Tess | Phillips, Leslie | Spinella, Stephen | Okonedo, Sophie | Hayman, David | Bassett, Steve
Directors: Caton-Jones, Michael
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Russian mobster Terek Murad has declared open season on the Russian militia and the FBI over the shooting of his brother in a Moscow nightclub. He hires the Jackal, a nasty assassin whom nobody has even seen, to kill the Director of the FBI. With nowhere else to turn (except a woman who used to work with the Basque separatists, who is now in the USA but whose exact whereabouts in unknown to all save Mulqueen), FBI Deputy Director Carter Preston (who was present at the Moscow shooting) and Major Valentina Koslova of the Russian milita (who pulled the trigger in that shooting) enlist the reluctant services of Declan Mulqueen, an imprisoned IRA sniper, to track the Jackal down, for Declan is the only other person who can positively identify the Jackal.

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.

Elephant Man, The (1980)

Monday, December 7th, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Hopkins, Anthony | Hurt, John | Bancroft, Anne | Gielgud, John | Hiller, Wendy | Jones, Freddie | Elphick, Michael | Gordon, Hannah | Ryan, Helen | Standing, John | Fletcher, Dexter | Dunlop, Lesley | Nicholls, Phoebe | Gorman, Pat | Davenport, Claire
Directors: Lynch, David
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Based on the true story of Joseph Merrick, a 19th-century Englishman afflicted with a disfiguring congenital disease. With the help of kindly Dr. Frederick Treves, Merrick attempts to regain the dignity he lost after years spent as a side-show freak.

Finding Neverland (2004)

Friday, December 4th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Depp, Johnny | Winslet, Kate | Christie, Julie | Mitchell, Radha | Hoffman, Dustin | Highmore, Freddie | Prospero, Joe | Roud, Nick | Spill, Luke | Macdonald, Kelly | Crook, Mackenzie | Essell, Eileen | Gardner, Jimmy | Fox, Oliver
Directors: Forster, Marc
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London, 1903: four lads, three women, and J.M. Barrie in the year he writes “Peter Pan.” After one of his plays flops, Barrie meets four boys and their widowed mother in the park. During the next months, the child-like Barrie plays with the boys daily, and their imaginative games give him ideas for a play. Simultaneously, a friendship deepens with Sylvia, the lads’ mother, to the chagrin of his wife Mary, with whom he spends little time (separate bedrooms), the widow’s mother, and high society, which gossips about his attraction to the widow and to her sons. As Sylvia’s health worsens, Barrie’s ties to the boys strengthen and he must find a way to take his muse to Neverland.

Illusionist, The (2006)

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
Countries: Czech Republic | USA
Actors: Norton, Edward | Giamatti, Paul | Biel, Jessica | Sewell, Rufus | Marsan, Eddie | Wood, Jake | Fisher, Tom | Johnson, Aaron | Tomlinson, Eleanor | Johnson, Karl | Franklin, Vincent | Blane, Nicholas | McGough, Philip | Redman, Erich | Carter, Michael
Directors: Burger, Neil
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A magician in turn-of-the-last-century Vienna falls in love with a woman well above his social standing. When she becomes engaged to the crown prince, the magician uses his powers to free her and undermine the stability of the royal house of Vienna.

Prestige, The (2006)

Friday, July 10th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Jackman, Hugh | Bale, Christian | Caine, Michael | Perabo, Piper | Hall, Rebecca | Johansson, Scarlett | Mahurin, Samantha | Bowie, David | Serkis, Andy | Davis, Daniel | Piddock, Jim | Neame, Christopher | Ryan, Mark | Rees, Roger | Harris, Jamie
Directors: Nolan, Christopher
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A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy — full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences. From the time that they first met as young magicians on the rise, Robert Angier and Alfred Borden were competitors. However, their friendly competition evolves into a bitter rivalry making them fierce enemies-for-life and consequently jeopardizing the lives of everyone around them. Set against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century London.

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.