Posts Tagged ‘Romance’

Iris (2001)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Winslet, Kate | Bonneville, Hugh | Dench, Judi | Broadbent, Jim | Bron, Eleanor | Morant, Angela | Wilton, Penelope | Hayes, Siobhan | Aubrey, Juliet | Bakewell, Joan | Carroll, Nancy | Marshall, Kris | Mannion, Tom | Hutchinson, Derek | West, Samuel
Directors: Eyre, Richard
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A moving and tender depiction of the novelist Iris Murdoch’s descent into Alzheimer’s Disease, covering the period from just before her marriage to intellectual John Bayley until her death. The film is based on the two books by John Bayley (Iris, Iris & The Friends).

He Was a Quiet Man (2007)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Slater, Christian | Gulager, John | Jones, Jamison | DeLuise, Michael | Ramsey, K.C. | Wells, David | Mantooth, Randolph | Whitney, Sewell | Macy, William H. | Baker, Greg | Lohmann, Brian | Roberts, Paul D. | Hardy, Bobby | Rothbard, Bill | Hall, Stanley C.
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A troubled loner, Bob Maconel, imagines blowing up the tower in Los Angeles where he works. He takes a revolver to his office intent on killing colleagues, and then himself. At home, he holds conversations with his fish, who encourage him to do it. His supervisor picks on him. As he’s screwing his courage to the sticking place, he drops a bullet; while on the floor looking for it, another colleague does exactly what Bob has been planning. Bob emerges a hero and the one colleague he likes, a woman with a bright smile, is severely wounded. Can Bob help her through despair and find himself and joy in life? Or, as everyone says, is this impossible for a man like him?

10,000 BC (2008)

Monday, October 26th, 2009
Genres: Adventure
Countries: New Zealand | USA
Actors: Strait, Steven | Belle, Camilla | Curtis, Cliff | Virgel, Joel | Ben Badra, Affif | Zinal, Mo | Baring, Nathanael | Hammond, Mona | Khan, Marco | Ritchie, Reece | Fry, Joel | Sharif, Omar | Beazley, Kristian | Oliphant, Junior | Tu'u, Louise
Directors: Emmerich, Roland
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A prehistoric epic that follows a young mammoth hunter named D’Leh’s journey through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe. When a band of mysterious horse-riding warlords raid the Yaghal camp and kidnaps his heart’s desire - the beautiful Evolet along with many others, D’Leh is forced to lead a small group of hunters south to pursue the warlords to the end of the world to save her. Driven by destiny, the unlikely band of warriors must battle saber-toothed cats and terror birds in the Levant.

Tremors (1990)

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Horror | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Bacon, Kevin | Ward, Fred | Carter, Finn | Gross, Michael | McEntire, Reba | Jayne, Robert | Stewart, Charlotte | Genaro, Tony | Richards, Ariana | Marcus, Richard | Wong, Victor | Parker, Sunshine | Wagner, Michael Dan | Bachmann, Conrad | Besch, Bibi
Directors: Underwood, Ron
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Val (’Kevin Bacon’ (qv)) and Earl (’Fred Ward (I)’ (qv)) plan to put behind their days as handymen in a small dust bowl town called Perfection. Before they can get to civilization though, they encounter numerous victims of monsters that burrow through the ground. Soon the whole town is camped out on their roofs as Val and Earl lead them to safety.

Beauty and the Beast (1991)

Monday, December 1st, 2008
Genres: Animation | Drama | Family | Fantasy | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Benson, Robby | Corti, Jesse | Everhart, Rex | Lansbury, Angela | O'Hara, Paige | Orbach, Jerry | Pierce, Bradley | Stiers, David Ogden | White, Richard | Worley, Jo Anne | Bergman, Mary Kay | Cummings, Brian | Epstein, Alvin | Jay, Tony | Murphy, Alec
Directors: Trousdale, Gary | Wise, Kirk
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Belle is a girl who is dissatisfied with life in a small provincial French town, constantly trying to fend off the misplaced “affections” of conceited Gaston. The Beast is a prince who was placed under a spell because he could not love. A wrong turn taken by Maurice, Belle’s father, causes the two to meet.

Iron Man (2008)

Monday, December 1st, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Downey Jr., Robert | Howard, Terrence | Bridges, Jeff | Paltrow, Gwyneth | Bibb, Leslie | Toub, Shaun | Tahir, Faran | Badreya, Sayed | Smitrovich, Bill | Gregg, Clark | Guinee, Tim | Lyman, Will | Khan, Marco | Foster, Kevin | Noel, Garret
Directors: Favreau, Jon
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Tony Stark is the complete playboy who also happens to be an engineering genius. While in Afghanistan demonstrating a new missile he’s captured and wounded. His captors want him to assemble a missile for them but instead he creates an armored suit and a means to prevent his death from the shrapnel left in his chest by the attack. He uses the armored suit to escape. Back in the U.S. he announces his company will cease making weapons and he begins work on an updated armored suit only to find that Obadiah Stane, his second in command at Stark industries has been selling Stark weapons to the insurgents. He uses his new suit to return to Afghanistan to destroy the arms and then to stop Shane from misusing his research.

This Christmas (2007)

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Lindo, Delroy | Elba, Idris | Devine, Loretta | Brown, Chris | Robinson, Keith | Alonso, Laz | Short, Columbus | Leal, Sharon | London, Lauren | Ontiveros, Lupe | Stroup, Jessica | Phifer, Mekhi | King, Regina | Banner, David | Harris, Ricky
Directors: Whitmore II, Preston A.
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A Christmastime drama centered around the Whitfield family’s first holiday together in four years.

Big Trouble in Little China (1986)

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Russell, Kurt | Cattrall, Kim | Dun, Dennis | Hong, James | Wong, Victor | Burton, Kate | Li, Donald | Wong, Carter | Kwong, Peter | Pax, James | Pai, Suzee | Chi, Chao Li | Imada, Jeff | Mor, Rummel | Ng, Craig
Directors: Carpenter, John
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Somewhere in the 80s, trucker Jack Burton arrives in a small town to deliver his cargo and win a few bucks playing cards with the locals down at the Chinese market. Practically bankrupting nearly all of his opponents, his friend Wang bets him a game of “double or nothing” to try and regain his cash and loses. Jack wants his well earned money, but Wang explains he doesn’t have the cash on him and that’ll he pay later because he’s due to pick up a long, lost girlfriend from the airport. Convinced Wang’s pulling something sly, Jack insists he drive Wang to the airport so they can stick together. However, at the airport Wang’s girlfriend is captured by the Lords of Death, a streetwise Chinatown gang. She is essential for an upcoming plan to revive a thousand year old Chinese sorcerer and bring him back to the world as a mortal again. So begins a daring adventure to rescue Wang’s girl and stop the ruthless operation that’s going on down in Little China. Teaming up with a cast of very different individuals, Jack and Wang delve deep into an uncovering conspiracy in which everything’s not exactly as it seems. Here comes big trouble…

All the Pretty Horses (2000)

Friday, October 10th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Damon, Matt | Thomas, Henry | Cruz, Penélope | Young, J.D. | Poe, Laura | Shepard, Sam | Patrick, Robert | Black, Lucas | Diaz, Yvette | Colindres, Imelda | Solis, Augustin | Blades, Rubén | Ibarra, Elizabeth | Colon, Miriam | Rodriguez, Lonnie
Directors: Thornton, Billy Bob
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Two young Texas cowboys on the cusp of manhood ride into 1940’s Mexico in search of experience. What they find is a country as chaotic as it is beautiful, as cruel and unfeeling as it is mysterious, where death is a constant, capricious companion.

Montana Sky (2007)

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Williams, Ashley | Ross, Charlotte | Ladd, Diane | Mennell, Laura | Arcand, Nathaniel | Pearl, Aaron | Carey, Tom | Corbett, John | Heindl, Scott | Baker, James | Workun, Donovan | Hair, Stephen | Hopkin, James D. | MacCallum, Heather Lea | Dugan, James
Directors: Robe, Mike
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The wealthy stock dealer bequeaths his Montana farm to the three daughters provided they would live there together at least for a year.