1940s movies

Annie Hall (1977)

Thursday, July 30th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Keaton, Diane | Roberts, Tony | Kane, Carol | Simon, Paul | Duvall, Shelley | Margolin, Janet | Dewhurst, Colleen | Walken, Christopher | Symington, Donald | Ludlam, Helen | Lawner, Mordecai | Neuman, Joan | Munk, Jonathan | Volner, Ruth
Directors: Allen, Woody
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After breaking up with his girlfriend Annie Hall, neurotic comedian Alvy Singer goes on a stream of conciousness journey through his memories of their relationship, trying to find out what caused them to part ways. He often breaks the fourth wall, speaking to the camera, entering peoples’ stories, and even using animation.

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.

Time Machine, The (1960)

Thursday, July 30th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Taylor, Rod | Young, Alan | Mimieux, Yvette | Cabot, Sebastian | Helmore, Tom | Bissell, Whit | Lloyd, Doris | Barran, Bob | Frees, Paul | Skelly, James | Powell, Josephine
Directors: Pal, George
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From the book by H.G. Wells, a scientist and tinkerer builds a time machine and uses it to explore the distant future where there are two races, a mild gentle race, and a cannibalistic one living underground. His machine is stolen by the underground race and he must risk being captured (and eaten) to return to his own time.

Hannibal Rising (2007)

Thursday, July 30th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Czech Republic | France | Italy | UK
Actors: Thomas, Aaran | Ulliel, Gaspard | Gong, Li | Tachovská, Helena-Lia | Leaf, Richard | West, Dominic | Ifans, Rhys | Wade, Michele | Brake, Richard | Hub, Martin | McKidd, Kevin | Dapkunaite, Ingeborga | Stadler, Joerg | Walters, Stephen | Marevich, Ivan
Directors: Webber, Peter
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Based on Thomas Harris’ book of the same name, this prequel shows a young Hannibal Lecter in three different phases of his life from childhood in Lithuania to his ten years in England up to his time in Russia before his capture by FBI agent Will Graham in Red Dragon.

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.

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.

Black Book (2006)

Monday, June 8th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Thriller | War
Countries: Belgium | Germany | Netherlands
Actors: Stott, Ken | Price, Claire | Cavanah, Robert | Black, Jennifer | Robb, David | Lowe, Bryan | Baxter, Lynsey | Collier, Sarah | Grieve, Ian | McQuarrie, Stuart | Bett, John | Cooper, Rowena | Grant, James
Directors: Gartland, Roger
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In 1944, in the occupied Holland, the Jewish Rachel Stein is hiding from the Nazis in a house of a Christian family. When her hiding place is bombed, Rachel escapes by chance, but she is found by a stranger called Van Gein that invites her to join a group of Jews in a boat to escape to Belgium on the next night. He advises her to bring money and jewels for her survival and very few luggage. Rachel visits lawyer and friend of her family Wim Small that gives her a large amount for her travel. When she meets the refugees, she finds that her family is in the group. While crossing the swamp, a Nazi patrol boat arrives and kills the fugitives, but Rachel is the only one to survive. Later she joins a cell of resistance leaded by the Dutch Gerben Kuipers under the identity of Ellis de Vries; after meeting the Nazi Officer Ludwig Müntze in a train, Kuipers proposes Ellis to work as a spy seducing Müntze. During her assignment, Rachel recognizes Günther Franken as the commander of the attack to the boat of refugees and later she discovers that the murders are part of a scheme with a traitor in the resistance team.

Delta of Venus (1995)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: England, Audie | Mandylor, Costas | Da Silva, Eric | Snow, Raven | Campbell, Rory | Moore, Emma Louise | Zette, Bernard | Vasut, Marek | Hrubesová, Markéta | Leza, Daniel | Halbert, Stephen | Wyatt, Dale | Ded, Jirí | Zawadská, Valerie | Donahower, James
Directors: King, Zalman
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An American writer in Paris starts writing erotic fiction. From encouragement from her friends, her lover, and her publisher she gets involved in nude modeling and progresses onward through many other forms of voyeuristic and participatory sexual adventures. Contains full frontal nudity and simulated sex, lots of sexual dialogue and profanity.

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.

Five People You Meet in Heaven, The (2004)

Monday, May 4th, 2009
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Actors: Voight, Jon | Burstyn, Ellen | Daniels, Jeff | Dominczyk, Dagmara | Grayhm, Steven | Imperioli, Michael | Rennie, Callum Keith | Jenkins, Rebecca | Brebner, Callahan | Weigel, Nicaela | Weigel, Shelbie | Cadman, Darcy | O'Halloran, Tim | Santiago, Zak | Aneke, Emy
Directors: Kramer, Lloyd
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Eddie is the responsible for the maintenance of the Ruby Pier amusement park and a veteran of World War II. While trying to save a five year old girl from an accident with ride that is falling after rupturing the wire, Eddie dies. He awakes in Heaven, and the Blue Man explains him that he will have a journey meeting five people in their heavens that will show the importance of his life before he goes to the next level.