1930s movies

Sound of Music, The (1965)

Friday, March 12th, 2010
Genres: Biography | Drama | Family | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Andrews, Julie | Plummer, Christopher | Haydn, Richard | Wood, Peggy | Lee, Anna | Nelson, Portia | Wright, Ben | Truhitte, Daniel | Varden, Norma | Nixon, Marni | Stuart, Gilchrist | Baker, Evadne | Lloyd, Doris | Carr, Charmian | Hammond, Nicholas
Directors: Wise, Robert
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Captain Baron von Trapp is a widowed ex-naval officer with seven children who serve only to remind him of his deceased wife. The Von Trapp home is thus turned into a gloomy place of order and discipline, until the arrival of a new governess: Frauline Marie who is from a nearby Salzburg abbey. Marie shows the Von Trapp children the miracle of the Sound of Music, and teaches them how to sing. Captain von Trapp’s heart opens up to feelings he had forgotten and he and Marie fall in love. Marie and Georg von Trapp are married, only to have their world brought down around them by the 1938 Anschluss of Austria, where Nazi Germany takes control of the country and demands that Captain von Trapp assume a position in the German Navy.

King Kong (1976)

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Fantasy | Romance | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Watts, Naomi | Black, Jack | Brody, Adrien | Kretschmann, Thomas | Hanks, Colin | Serkis, Andy | Parke, Evan | Bell, Jamie | Chan, Lobo | Sumner, John | Hall, Craig | Chandler, Kyle | Hadlow, Mark | Brophy, Geraldine | Denis, David
Directors: Singer, Bryan | Jackson, Peter
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The owner of the oil company Petrox Corporation, Fred Wilson, invests all his possessions searching oil in an unexplored island. The vessel leaves Surubaya, in Indonesia, with the stowaway Jack Prescott, who wants to protect an ape called Kong. While traveling, they find the castaway Dwan in the middle of nowhere in a rescue boat in the ocean and bring her on board. The group finds that the island is inhabited and the local natives worship a huge gorilla called Kong. They abduct Dwan to offer her in a sacrifice to Kong. The crew hikes into the jungle trying to rescue Dwan. King Kong falls in love with Dwan and protects her against a huge serpent. When Fred finds that the oil in the island is not ready for exploitation, he decides to capture Kong and bring him to New York for exhibition. In the middle of a show, King Kong escapes, bringing panic to the locals.

Schindler’s List (1993)

Thursday, July 30th, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama | History | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Neeson, Liam | Kingsley, Ben | Fiennes, Ralph | Goodall, Caroline | Sagall, Jonathan | Davidtz, Embeth | Gebel, Malgoscha | Levy, Shmuel | Ivanir, Mark | Macola, Béatrice | Seweryn, Andrzej | von Thun, Friedrich | Luft, Krzysztof | Nehring, Harry | Weisser, Norbert
Directors: Spielberg, Steven
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“Schindler’s List” is the based-on-truth story of Nazi Czech business man Oskar Schindler, who uses Jewish labor to start a factory in occupied Poland. As World War II progresses, and the fate of the Jews becomes more and more clear, Schindler’s motivations switch from profit to human sympathy and he is able to save over 1100 Jews from death in the gas chambers.

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Wednesday, July 29th, 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.

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)

Wednesday, July 29th, 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.

Thirteenth Floor, The (1999)

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
Genres: Mystery | Romance | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Bierko, Craig | Mueller-Stahl, Armin | Mol, Gretchen | D'Onofrio, Vincent | Haysbert, Dennis | Steven Schub | Roberts, Jeremy | Hutton, Rif | Rippy, Leon | MacLachlan, Janet | Henke, Brad William | Bulos, Burt | Valentino, Venessia | Miller, Howard S. | Texada, Tia
Directors: Josef Rusnak
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Computer scientist Hannon Fuller has discovered something extremely important. He’s about to tell the discovery to his colleague, Douglas Hall, but knowing someone is after him, the old man leaves a letter in his computer generated parallel world that’s just like the 30’s with seemingly real people with real emotions. Fuller is murdered in our real world the same night, and his colleague is suspected. Douglas discovers a bloody shirt in his bathroom and he cannot recall what he was doing the night Fuller was murdered. He logs into the system in order to find the letter, but has to confront the unexpected. The truth is harsher than he could ever imagine…

Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, The (2006)

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Brewster, Jordana | Handley, Taylor | Baird, Diora | Bomer, Matthew | Tergesen, Lee | Ermey, R. Lee | Bryniarski, Andrew | Evans, Terrence | Lamkin, Kathy | Marich, Marietta | Batten, Cyia | Temple, Lew | De Zarn, Tim | Larroquette, John | Nelson, Marcus H.
Directors: Liebesman, Jonathan
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Prequal to the 2003 version of ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ is set in 1969, the height of the Vietnam War. Two young men are spending a last weekend with their girlfriends before being shipped overseas to the war. At the same time in a small Texas town, the only major business (a meat-packing plant and slaughterhouse) goes out of business forcing the town’s inhabitants to move on to greener pastures. One of the men who works in the plant is Thomas Hewitt, a deformed, demented psychopath (who will become known as Leatherface). When Hewitt finds out what is happening, he savagely murders the foreman of the plant. Meanwhile, the two young men and their girlfriends are headed down a lonely highway towards the town when they are involved in an car accident that cripples their vehicle. Soon they encounter the local sheriff, who is not really the sheriff, but the homicidal Charlie Hewitt, the uncle of Leatherface who has murdered the sheriff and taken his job and police car knowing that with the town deserted, no one will notice. Uncle Charlie/Sheriff Hoyt kidnaps three of the teens and takes them to his home where he, Leatherface Hewitt, the senile Uncle Monty, and Charlie’s sister, Luda Mae, reside. Charlie wants the developing monster ‘Leatherface’ to “refine” his murderous abilities. The one girl, Chrissie, who escaped unnoticed attempts to rescue them with the help of a biker whose girlfriend was killed by ‘Sheriff Hoyt’. What follows is a night of sheer terror at the hands of a family of cannibalistic, inbred psychopaths…

Color Purple, The (1985)

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Glover, Danny | Goldberg, Whoopi | Avery, Margaret | Winfrey, Oprah | Pugh, Willard E. | Busia, Akosua | Jackson, Desreta | Caesar, Adolph | Chong, Rae Dawn | Ivey, Dana | Jackson, Leonard | Guillory, Bennet | Patton Jr., John | Anderson, Carl | Beaubian, Susan
Directors: Spielberg, Steven
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This film follows the life of Celie, a young black girl growing up in the early 1900’s. The first time we see Celie, she is 14 – and pregnant – by her father. We stay with her for the next 30 years of her tough life…

Doctor Zhivago (1965)

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Sharif, Omar | Christie, Julie | Chaplin, Geraldine | Steiger, Rod | Guinness, Alec | Courtenay, Tom | McKenna, Siobhan | Richardson, Ralph | Tushingham, Rita | Rockland, Jeffrey | Sharif, Tarek | Kay, Bernard | Kinski, Klaus | Tichy, Gérard | Willman, Noel
Directors: Lean, David
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A Russian epic, the movie traces the life of surgeon-poet Yury Zhivago before and during the Russian Revolution. Married to an upper-class girl who is devoted to him, yet in love with an unfortunate woman who becomes his muse, Zhivago is torn between fidelity and passion. Sympathetic with the revolution but shaken by the wars and purges, he struggles to retain his individualism as a humanist amid the spirit of collectivism.

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.