Posts Tagged ‘tuberculosis’

Constant Gardener, The (2005)

Friday, March 6th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: Germany | UK
Actors: Fiennes, Ralph | Weisz, Rachel | Koundé, Hubert | Huston, Danny | Harford, Daniele | Ngugi, Packson | Agweyu, Damaris Itenyo | Oduor, Bernard Otieno | McSorley, Gerard | Nighy, Bill | Pearson, Keith | Sibi-Okumu, John | Sumpter, Donald | Panjabi, Archie | Reding, Nick
Directors: Meirelles, Fernando
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British diplomat Justin Quayle meets the impulsive activist Tessa, marries her quickly at her behest and takes her on diplomatic mission in Kenya. When Tessa is brutally murdered, Justin decides to investigate her death against the strong wish of his superiors to let the matter quietly disappear. He discovers a powerful mystery involving the members of the British High Commission and the not-so-savory business practices of the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry. In the process of learning the secrets of his powerful enemies, Justin must learn all of his wife’s many secrets as well.

Of Human Bondage (1934)

Friday, February 27th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Howard, Leslie | Davis, Bette | Dee, Frances | Johnson, Kay | Denny, Reginald | Hale, Alan | Sheffield, Reginald | Owen, Reginald | Roberts, Desmond | Allen, Harry | Atchley, Ray | Baker, Frank | Gordon, Douglas | Grandetta, Frankie | Hughes, Tommy
Directors: Cromwell, John
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Abandoning artistic ambitions, sensitive and club-footed Philip Carey enrolls in medical school and falls in love with illiterate waitress Mildred Rogers. She rejects him, runs off with a salesman and returns unmarried and pregnant. Philip gets her an apartment and they become engaged. Mildred runs off with another medical student. Philip takes her back again when she returns with her baby. She wrecks his apartment and burns the securities he needs to pay tuition. He gets a job as a salesman, has surgery on his foot, receives an inheritance, and returns to school where he learns Mildred is dying.

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)

Thursday, December 25th, 2008
Genres: Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Lancaster, Burt | Douglas, Kirk | Fleming, Rhonda | Van Fleet, Jo | Ireland, John | Bettger, Lyle | Faylen, Frank | Holliman, Earl | de Corsia, Ted | Hopper, Dennis | Bissell, Whit | Mathews, George | Hudson, John | Kelley, DeForest | Milner, Martin
Directors: Sturges, John
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After the long career of lawman that made him a legend, Wyatt Earp deciedes to quit and join his brothers in Tombstone, Arizona. There he would see them in feud with Clantons, local clan of thugs and cattle thieves. When the showdown becomes inevitable, the help will come from Doc Holliday, terminally-ill gambler who happens to be another Wild West legend.

Honkytonk Man (1982)

Monday, August 4th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Eastwood, Clint | Eastwood, Kyle | John McIntire | Clark, Matt | Corbin, Barry | Hardin, Jerry | Thomerson, Tim | McCalman, Macon | Regalbuto, Joe | Grubbs, Gary | Gimble, Johnny | Boelsen, Jim | Walter, Tracey | Russell, John | Cyphers, Charles
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As the film opens on an Oklahoma farm during the depression, two simultaneous visitors literally hit the Wagoneer home: a ruinous dust storm and a convertible crazily driven by Red, the missus’ brother. A roguish country-western musician, he has just been invited to audition for the Grand Ole Opry, his chance of a lifetime to become a success. However, this is way back in Nashville, Red clearly drives terribly, and he’s broke and sick with tuberculosis to boot. Whit, 14, seeing his own chance of a lifetime to avoid “growing up to be a cotton picker all my life,” begs Ma to let him go with Uncle Red as driver and protege. Thus begins a picaresque journey both hilarious and poignant.

Ask the Dust (2006)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Farrell, Colin | Hayek, Salma | Sutherland, Donald | Atkins, Eileen | Menzel, Idina | Kirk, Justin | Crutchley, Jeremy | France, Ronald | Basco, Dion | Mosley, Donna | Rylander, Paul | Staples, Natasha | Harrison, Wayne | Yasuhiro, Yoshimura | Sid
Directors: Towne, Robert
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L.A. in the early 1930’s: racism, poverty, and disease color the Bunker Hill neighborhood where Arturo Bandini, a lover of men and beasts alike, has arrived from Colorado to write the great Los Angeles novel. After six months and down to his last nickel, he orders a cup of coffee, served by Camilla Lopez, beautiful, self-possessed, and Mexican. Arturo gets advice, encouragement, and an occasional check from H.L. Mencken, so he keeps writing and he keeps seeing Camilla. But, he’s mean to her for no apparent reason, so the relationship sputters. A housekeeper from back East suggests a way out of his jealously and fears. “Camilla Bandini”: is it in the cards?

Tombstone (1993)

Monday, May 7th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | Romance | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Russell, Kurt | Kilmer, Val | Elliott, Sam | Paxton, Bill | Boothe, Powers | Biehn, Michael | Heston, Charlton | Priestley, Jason | Tenney, Jon | Lang, Stephen | Church, Thomas Haden | Delany, Dana | Malcomson, Paula | Collins, Lisa | Wheeler-Nicholson, Dana
Directors: Cosmatos, George P.
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After success cleaning up Dodge City, Wyatt Earp moves to Tombstone, Arizona, and wishes to get rich in obscurity. He meets his brothers there, as well as his old friend Doc Holliday. A band of outlaws that call themselves The Cowboys are causing problems in the region with various acts of random violence, and inevitably come into confrontation with Holliday and the Earps, which leads to a shoot-out at the OK Corral.

Moulin Rouge! (2001)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Musical | Romance
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Kidman, Nicole | McGregor, Ewan | Leguizamo, John | Broadbent, Jim | Roxburgh, Richard | McDonald, Garry | Koman, Jacek | Whittet, Matthew | Walker, Kerry | O'Connor, Caroline | Anu, Christine | Jackson Mendoza, Natalie | Mulcahy, Lara | Wenham, David | Minogue, Kylie
Directors: Luhrmann, Baz
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Christian, a young wannabe Bohemian poet living in 1899 Paris, defies his father by joining the colorfully diverse clique inhabiting the dark, fantastical underworld of Paris’ now legendary Moulin Rouge. In this seedy but glamorous haven of sex, drugs and newly-discovered electricity, the poet-innocent finds himself plunged into a passionate but ultimately tragic love affair with Satine, the club’s highest paid star and the city’s most famous courtesan. Their romance is played out against the infamous club - a meeting place of high life and low, where slumming aristocrats and the fashionably rich mingled with workers, artists, Bohemians, actresses and courtesans.