Monday, 31 December 2012

She Waits

She Waits
Genres: Horror
Year: 1972
Director: Delbert Mann

Cast:  Patty Duke / David McCallum / Dorothy McGuire / Lew Ayres / Beulah Bondi

 A murdered woman seeks revenge, possesses her husband's new wife.

Saturday, 29 December 2012

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Genres: Drama / Romance
Year: 1967
Director: Stanley Kramer
Cast: Spencer Tracy / Sidney Poitier / Katharine Hepburn / Katharine Houghton / Cecil Kellaway / Beah Richards / Roy Glenn / Isabel Sanford / Virginia Christine / Alexandra Hay / Barbara Randolph / D'Urville Martin / Tom Heaton / Grace Gaynor / Skip Martin
Joey Drayton brings her fiancé, Dr. John Prentice, home to sunny San Francisco to meet her affluent parents. Their liberal persuasions are now put to the test, for although the young man is an ideal choice (he's highly and internationally respected in the medical field, and he's impeccably mannered, handsome, well dressed and of a respectable California family), he's black. The film, which covers one busy day in the Drayton home, is essentially a drawing-room comedy, a series of cross-conversations between the young doctor and the girl's parents, and finally between all sets of parents and offspring. A simple dinner is extended to include the doctor's parents, who fly up from Los Angeles for the evening, and the crusty but benevolent old Irish priest, a friend of the family. Thus, the title of the film . . .

To Sir With Love

To Sir With Love
Genres : Drama
Year : 1967
Director:James Clavell
Cast :  Sidney Poitier / Judy Geeson / Christian Roberts / Suzy Kendall / Ann Bell / Geoffrey Bayldon / Faith Brook / Chris Chittell / Patricia Routledge
 Engineer Mark Thackeray arrives to teach a totally undisciplined class at an East End school. Still hoping for a good engineering job, he's hopeful that he won't be there long. He starts implementing his own brand of classroom discipline: forcing the pupils to treat each other with respect. Inevitably he begins getting involved in the students' personal lives, and must avoid the advances of an amorous student while winning over the class tough. What will he decide when the engineering job comes through? 

The Last of the Mohicans

The Last of the Mohicans
Director: Michael Mann
Cast: Pete Postlethwaite / Dennis Banks / Justin M. Rice / Tracey Ellis / Terry Kinney / Edward Blatchford / Patrice Chéreau / Maurice Roëves / Wes Studi / Steven Waddington / Jodhi May / Eric Schweig / Russell Means / Madeleine Stowe / Daniel Day-Lewis
British and French troops do battle in colonial America, with aid from various native American war parties. The British troops enlist the help of local colonial militia men, who are reluctant to leave their homes undefended. A budding romance between a British officer's daughter and an independent man who was reared as a Mohican complicates things for the British officer, as the adopted Mohican pursues his own agenda despite the wrath of different people on both sides of the conflict.


The Patriot

The Patriot
Genres: War / Drama / Action
Year: 2001
Director: Roland Emmerich
Cast:Mel Gibson / Joey D. Vieira / Gregory Smith Jay Arlen Jones / Adam Baldwin / Leon Rippy / Donal Logue / Tom Wilkinson / Lisa Brenner / Rene Auberjonois / Tchéky Karyo / Chris Cooper / Jason Isaacs / Joely Richardson / Heath Ledger
It is 1776 in colonial South Carolina. Benjamin Martin, a French-Indian war hero who is haunted by his past, now wants nothing more then to live peacefully on his small plantation, and wants no part of a war with the most powerful nation in the world, Great Britain. Meanwhile, his two eldest sons, Gabriel and Thomas, can't wait to enlist in the newly formed "Continental Army." When South Carolina decides to join the rebellion against England, Gabriel immediately signs up to fight...without his father's permission. But when Colonel William Tavington, British dragoon, infamous for his brutal tactics, comes and burns the Martin Plantation to the ground, tragedy strikes.


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Hook

Hook
Year : 1991 
Director: Steven Spielberg
Writers: J.M. Barrie (books), J.M. Barrie (play), and 4 more credits »
Stars: Dustin Hoffman / Robin Williams  / Julia Roberts
Peter Pan (Williams) has grown up to be a cut-throat merger and acquisitions lawyer, and is married to Wendy's granddaughter. Captain Hook (Hoffman) kidnaps his children, and Peter returns to Never Land with Tinkerbell (Roberts). With the help of her and the Lost Boys, he must remember how to be Peter Pan again in order to save his children by battling with Captain Hook once again.

Friday, 28 December 2012

The Babysitter

The Babysitter
Genres : Drama / Thriller
Year : 1980
Director: Peter Medak
Writer: Jennifer Miller
Stars: Patty Duke / William Shatner  / Quinn Cummings
Overprotective mother Liz Benedict meets 18 year-old orphan Joanna Redwine and hires her as house help and live-in companion to rambunctious daughter Tara. Liz's husband Jeff isn't too thrilled with the arrangement, and his fears soon prove justified when Joanna begins to manipulate everyone and to slowly destroy the family. Meanwhile next-door neighbor Dr. Linquist investigates and discovers Joanna has a disturbing past. 


Wednesday, 26 December 2012

Walking Tall

    
Walking Tall
Genres : Crime | Drama | Thriller
Year : 1973
Director: Phil Karlson
Writers: Mort Briskin, Stephen Downing
Stars: Joe Don Baker, Elizabeth Hartman and Leif Garrett
Buford Pusser's a wrestler, whose wife wants him to settle down, so they go to his home town in Tennessee, where he plans to get into business with his father. But he is shocked to discover all sorts of graft and corruption going on. And when he is a victim of it and decides to strike back by running against the corrupt sheriff. And he wins and wages his own little war against them.


Gunpoint

Gunpoint
Genres :Western
Year : 1966
Director: Earl Bellamy
Writers: Mary Willingham, Willard W. Willingham
Stars: Audie Murphy, Joan Staley and Warren Stevens
A Colorado sheriff pursues a ruthless gang of train robbers into New Mexico, where he has no official jurisdiction. Accompanying him is a motley posse, including a sharp-shooting gambler whose fiancee the gang has kidnapped.

Anything Goes

Anything Goes 
Genres : Musical
Year 1956 
Director:Robert Lewis
Cast : Bing Crosby / Donald O'Connor  / Zizi Jeanmaire / Mitzi Gaynor / Phil Harris / Kurt Kasznar / Richard Erdman / Walter Sande
Bill Benson and Ted Adams are to appear in a Broadway show together and, while in Paris, each 'discovers' the perfect leading lady for the plum female role. Each promises the prize role to the girl they selected without informing the other until they head back across the Atlantic by liner - with each man having brought his choice along! It becomes a stormy crossing as each man has to tell his 'find' that she might not get the role after all.

Marjorie Morningstar

Marjorie Morningstar
Genres : Drama / Romance
Year : 1958
Director: Irving Rapper
Writers: Everett Freeman (screenplay), Herman Wouk (novel)
Stars: Gene Kelly, Natalie Wood and Claire Trevor
While working as a counselor at a summer camp, college-student Marjorie Morgenstern falls for 32-year-old Noel Airman, a would-be dramatist working at a nearby summer theater. Like Marjorie, he is an upper-middle-class New York Jew (born 'Ehrman'), but has fallen away from his roots, and Marjorie's parents object among other things to his lack of a suitable profession, such as medicine or law. Noel himself warns Marjorie repeatedly that she's much too naive and conventional for him, but they nonetheless fall in love. As they pursue an on-again-off-again relationship, Marjorie completes her studies at Hunter College, and works to establish an acting career, while Noel first leaves the theater for a job with an advertising agency, but later completes a musical he'd started writing before he and Marjorie had first met. Meanwhile, their relationship deepens (though, consistent with '50s Hollywood mores...

GREAT MUSICAL'S


Les Girls

Les Girls
Genres : Comedy | Musical
Year : 1957
Director: George Cukor
Writers: John Patrick (screenplay), Vera Caspary (story)
Stars: Gene Kelly, Mitzi Gaynor and Kay Kendall | See full cast and crew
After writing a tell-all book about her days in the dance troupe "Barry Nichols and Les Girls", Sybil Wren (Kay Kendall) is sued for libeling her fellow dancer Angele (Taina Elg). A Rashômon-style narrative presents the story from three points of view. Sybil accuses Angele of having an affair with Barry (Gene Kelly), while Angele insists that it was actually Sybil who was having the affair. Finally, Barry gives his side of the story.

Saturday, 1 December 2012

Troy

Troy
Genres :  Adventure / Drama / History
Year : 2004
Language : English
Director:Wolfgang Petersen
Cast : Brad Pitt / Eric Bana / Orlando Bloom / Julian Glover / Brian Cox / Nathan Jones / Adoni Maropis / Jacob Smith / John Shrapnel / Brendan Gleeson
It is the year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age. Two emerging nations begin to clash after Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband, Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnon to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power. So they set off with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks to Troy. With the help of Achilles, the Greeks are able to fight the never before defeated Trojans. But they come to a stop by Hector, Prince of Troy.

Out of Africa


Out of Africa
Genres: Biography / Adventure / Drama
Year: 1985
Language : Spanish
Director: Sydney Pollack
Cast:Robert Redford / Meryl Streep / Leslie Phillips / Graham Crowden / Rachel Kempson / Suzanna Hamilton / Michael Gough / Stephen Kinyanjui / Joseph Thiaka / Malick Bowens / Michael Kitchen / Klaus Maria Brandauer  / Shane Rimmer / Mike Bugara / Job Seda
Follows the life of Karen Blixen, who establishes a plantation in Africa. Her life is Complicated by a husband of convenience (Bror Blixen), a true love (Denys), troubles on the plantation, schooling of the natives, war, and catching VD from her husband.

Footloose

Footloose
Genres:Romance / Music / Drama 
Year: 1984
Director: Herbert Ross
Cast:Kevin Bacon / Lori Singer / Douglas Dirkson / Jim Youngs / Frances Lee McCain / Elizabeth Gorcey / John Laughlin / Sarah Jessica Parker / Chris Penn / Dianne Wiest / John Lithgow /  Lynne Marta / Arthur Rosenberg / Timothy Scott / Alan Haufrect

Classic tale of teen rebellion and repression features a delightful combination of dance choreography and realistic and touching performances. When teenager Ren and his family move from big-city Chicago to a small town in the West, he's in for a real case of culture shock. Though he tries hard to fit in, the streetwise Ren can't quite believe he's living in a place where rock music and dancing are illegal. There is one small pleasure, however: Ariel, a troubled but lovely blonde with a jealous boyfriend. and a Bible-thumping minister, who is responsible for keeping the town dance-free. Ren and his classmates want to do away with this ordinance, especially since the senior prom is around the corner, but only Ren has the courage to initiate a battle to abolish the outmoded ban and revitalize the spirit of the repressed townspeople. Fast-paced drama is filled with such now-famous hit songs as the title track and "Let's Hear It for the Boy."