Tuesday, 30 July 2013

Love Story

Love Story
Genres: Romance / Drama 
Year: 1970
Director: Arthur Hiller
Cast: Ryan O'Neal / Ali MacGraw / Charlotte Ford / Andrew Duncan / John Merensky / Tommy Lee Jones / Walker Daniels / Robert Modica / Sydney Walker / Katharine Balfour / Russell Nype / Ray Milland / John Marley /  Sudie Bond / Julie Garfield
Harvard Law student Oliver Barrett IV and music student Jennifer Cavilleri share a chemistry they cannot deny - and a love they cannot ignore. Despite their opposite backgrounds, the young couple put their hearts on the line for each other. When they marry, Oliver's wealthy father threatens to disown him. Jenny tries to reconcile the Barrett men, but to no avail. Oliver and Jenny continue to build their life together.

Sunday, 28 July 2013

L'adolescente

L'adolescente
Genres: Drama / Adult
Year:  1979
Director:Jeanne Moreau
Cast: Simone Signoret / Francis Huster / Laetitia Chauveau / Edith Clever / Jacques Weber / Jean-François Balmer / Hugues Quester / Roger Blin / Frank MuthMaurice Baquet / Nadine Basile
The summer of 1939. Marie, at 13, goes with her parents to visit her grandmother in a small town near Avignon. Although rumors of war reach the countryside, it's an idyllic place. Marie's parents are constantly making love. Surrounded by sexual frankness, Marie fancies herself a woman and develops a crush on Alexander, the town's young Jewish doctor. She's despondent when he treats her as if she were a child. After Marie's father abruptly leaves for a few weeks to assist with a relative's harvest, Marie's mother and the doctor disappear into the woods for hours at a time. Marie tries to spy on them..... 
 

La Bamba

La Bamba
Genres: Drama /  Music  / Biography
Year: 1987
Director:Luis Valdez
Cast: Lou Diamond Phillips / Esai MoralesRosanna DeSoto / Elizabeth Peña / Danielle von Zerneck / Joe Pantoliano / Rick Dees / Marshall Crenshaw / Howard Huntsberry / Brian Setzer
This is the true story of Ritchie Valens, a young rock and roll singer who tragically died in a plane crash at age 17. The film follows Ritchie from his days in Pacoima, California where he and his family make a meager living working on farms to his rise as a star. The film also focuses on Ritchie's friendship and rivalry with his older brother Bob Morales and his relationship with Donna Ludwig, his girlfriend.


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Return to the Blue Lagoon

Return to the Blue Lagoon
Genres: Adventure / Drama / Romance
Year:1991
Director: William A. Graham
Cast: Milla Jovovich / Brian Krause / Lisa Pelikan /Courtney Barilla / Garette Ratliff Henson / Emma James / Jackson Barton / Nana Coburn / Alexander Petersons
While the general theme of this film resembles "The Blue Lagoon" (the film for which this is a sequel), the basic plot is quite different. We open the film with a ship finding the craft with our original characters in it, Richard and Emmeline dead and Paddy alive. Established in the first film, the only word Paddy ever says is "Richard", so the crew assumes Richard is the infant's name. Taken in by Sarah, a widow with an infant baby girl Lilli, Richard (Paddy) is cared for in a return to civilization....

Friday, 26 July 2013

Dangerous Beauty

Dangerous Beauty
Genres: Biography / Drama / Romance
Year:1998
Director: Marshall Herskovitz
Cast: Catherine McCormack / Rufus Sewell / Oliver Platt /
Fred Ward / Naomi Watts / Moira Kelly / Jacqueline Bisset /
Jeroen Krabbé / Joanna Cassidy / Melina Kanakaredes
In 16th century Venice, courtesans enjoy unique privileges: dressed richly in red, they read, compose poetry and music, and discuss affairs of state with the men who govern the Republic. When Veronica Franco comes of age, she cannot marry Marco Venier, whom she loves, because she is well born but penniless. Her choice: cloister or courtesan. She steels her heart, and with beauty and intelligence becomes the best. She's a heroine when she helps convince France to aid Venice in war with Turkey, but when plague descends, the Church charges her with witchcraft. 


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Thursday, 25 July 2013

Good Luck Chuck

Good Luck Chuck
Genres: Comedy / Drama / Fantasy
Year: 2007
Director: Mark Helfrich
Cast: Connor Price / Dane Cook / Dan Fogler / Troy Gentile /
Sasha Pieterse / Mackenzie Mowat / Sasha Pieterse / Caroline Ford / Chelan Simmons / Dan Fogler / Natalie Morris
Early thirty-something dentist Dr. Charlie Logan has never experienced true love, despite having had a number of girlfriends over the years. After an announcement by one of his ex-girlfriends as such at her wedding, Charlie gets a reputation as being a good luck charm. Every woman he has slept with has met and married her dream man immediately following. He is encouraged to exploit this reputation by his long time best friend, Dr. Stu Klaminsky, a sex obsessed, sex starved schlub who became a plastic surgeon just so that he could masturbate over the sight of women's breasts.


Wednesday, 24 July 2013

Matilda

Matilda
Genres: Comedy / Fantasy
Year: 1996
Director: Danny DeVito
Cast: Mara Wilson / Danny DeVito / Rhea Perlman / Embeth Davidtz / Pam FerrisPaul Reubens / Tracey Walter /R.D.Robb
A grouchy couple are parents to a very sweet girl, Matilda. Unlike her bratty brother and mean parents, Matilda becomes a very sweet and extremely intelligent 6 year old girl, who is very keen to go to school and read books. After a while, her parents send her to school with the worst principal in the world, a very sweet teacher, and good friends. While trying to put up with her parents' and principal's cruelty, she starts to unwittingly unleash telekinetic powers, destroying a television and making a newt fly onto the principal. With enough practice, Matilda starts to learn to control her telekinetic powers and soon using them on her principal so she can drive her away from the school.

 

Bewitched

Bewitched
Genres: Comedy / Fantasy / Romance
Year: 2005
Director:Nora Ephron
Cast: Nicole Kidman / Will Ferrell / Shirley MacLaine / Michael Caine / Jason Schwartzman / Kristin Chenoweth / Heather Burns
Out in California's San Fernando Valley, Isabel is trying to reinvent herself. A naïve, good-natured witch, she is determined to disavow her supernatural powers and lead a normal life. At the same time, across town, Jack Wyatt a tall, charming actor is trying to get his career back on track. He sets his sights on an updated version of the beloved 1960s situation comedy Bewitched, re-conceived as a starring vehicle for himself in the role of the mere-mortal Darrin. Fate steps in when Jack accidentally runs into Isabel.

Sunday, 21 July 2013

The Princess Diaries

The Princess Diaries
Genres: Comedy / Family / Romance
Year: 2001
Director:Garry Marshall
Cast: Julie Andrews / Anne Hathaway / Hector Elizondo / Heather Matarazzo / Mandy Moore / Caroline Goodall / Robert Schwartzman / Erik von Detten / Sean O'Bryan
Mia Thermopolis is the average teenager - sweet, a little geeky and pretty much invisible to everyone with the exception of her mother, best friend Lilly and Lilly's older brother Michael. Making it through high school without throwing up is a challenge in itself for Mia, so it doesn't come as welcome news when her estranged grandmother shows up out of the blue and calmly informs her that she is in fact the heir to the throne of a European country called Genovia. Suddenly Mia's life is thrown into complete overload.

Goodbye Emmanuelle

Goodbye Emmanuelle
Genres: Drama  / Adult
Year: 1977
Director: Francis Leterrier
Cast: Sylvia Kristel / Umberto Orsini / Jean-Pierre Bouvier / Alexandra Stewart / Olga Georges-Picot / Charlotte Alexandra / Caroline Laurence / Sylvie Fennec / Radiah Frye / Erik Colin


Storyline : 

Emmanuelle and her architect husband continue their amoral lifestyle in the Seychelles. But when a casual dilliance between her and a film director starts to turn serious her husband shows very traditional signs of jealousy.

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Dance with Me

Dance with Me
Genres: Drama / Romance / Music
Year: 1998
Director:Randa Haines
Cast: Vanessa Williams / Chayanne / Kris Kristofferson / Joan PlowrightJane Krakowski / Beth Grant / Harry Groener / William Marquez / Scott Paetty / Rick Valenzuela
Young Cuban Rafael just buried his mother, and comes to Houston to meet his father John for the first time. The difficult part is that John doesn't know he is Rafael's father. John runs a dance studio, and everyone prepares for the World Open Dance championship in Las Vegas. It soon becomes clear Rafael is a very good dancer, and Ruby is the biggest hope for the studio at the championship...

Saturday, 20 July 2013

Aliens

Aliens
Genres: Adventure / Action / Sci-Fi
Year: 1986
Director: James Cameron
Cast: Jenette Goldstein / Bill Paxton / Lance Henriksen / Paul Reiser / Michael Biehn / Carrie Henn / Sigourney Weaver / William Hope / Al Matthews / Mark Rolston / Ricco Ross / Colette Hiller / Daniel Kash / Cynthia Dale Scott / Tip Tipping
Fifty-odd years after Ellen Ripley survived her disastrous ordeal, her escape vessel is recovered after drifting across the galaxy as she slept in cryogenic stasis. Back on earth, nobody believed her story about the "Aliens" on the planet LV-426. After the "Company" orders the colony on LV-426 to investigate, however, all communication with the colony is lost.

Notorious

Notorious
Genres:Film-Noir / Romance / Thriller
Year: 1946
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Cary Grant / Ingrid Bergman / Claude Rains / Louis Calhern / Leopoldine Konstantin / Reinhold Schünzel / Moroni Olsen / Ivan Triesault / Alex Minotis / Wally Brown / Charles Mendl / Ricardo Costa / Eberhard Krumschmidt / Fay Baker
Following the conviction of her German father for treason against the U.S., Alicia Huberman takes to drink and men. She is approached by a government agent (T.R. Devlin) who asks her to spy on a group of her father's Nazi friends operating out of Rio de Janeiro. A romance develops between Alicia and Devlin, but she starts to get too involved in her work.

Maverick

Maverick
Genres: Action / Adventure / Comedy
Year: 1994
Director: Richard Donner
Cast: Mel Gibson / Jodie Foster / James Garner / Graham Greene / Alfred Molina / James Coburn / Dub Taylor / Geoffrey Lewis / Paul L. Smith / Dan Hedaya / Dennis Fimple / Denver Pyle / Clint Black / Max Perlich 
Maverick is recreated from the character James Garner created in the 1950s TV program. Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them. He needs an additional three thousand dollars in order to enter a Winner Take All poker game that begins in a few days. He tries to win some, tries to collect a few debts, and recover a little loot for the reward, all with a light hearted air. He joins forces with a woman gambler with a marvelous, though fake, southern accent as the two both try and enter the game.

Tootsie

Tootsie
Genres: Romance / Drama / Comedy
Year: 1982
Director: Sydney Pollack
Cast:Dustin Hoffman / Debra Mooney / Ronald L. Schwary / Lynne Thigpen / Peter Gatto / Ellen Foley / Doris Belack / Geena Davis / George Gaynes / Sydney Pollack / Bill Murray / Charles Durning / Dabney Coleman / Teri Garr / Jessica Lange / 
Michael Dorsey is an unemployed actor with an impossible reputation. In order to find work and fund his friend's play he dresses as a woman, Dorothy Michaels, and lands the part in a daytime drama. Dorsey loses himself in this woman role and essentially becomes Dorothy Michaels, captivating women all around the city and inspiring them to break free from the control of men and become more like Dorsey's initial identity.

Wednesday, 17 July 2013

Closer

Closer
Genres: Romance / Drama
Year: 2004
Director: Mike Nichols
Cast: Nick Hobbs / Clive Owen / Natalie Portman / Jude Law / Julia Roberts / Colin Stinton
Smart-but-ineffectual journalist Dan "We use euphemisms!" cant decide between his girlfriend, loving-but-clingy waitress Alice, or his lover cold-but-intellectual photographer Anna. Anna herself cant decide between Dan and honest-but-thuggish "You're bloody gorgeous!" doctor Larry. The film, as Tarantino might put it, puts the four leading characters in a box and then takes them apart.

Striptease

Striptease
Genres: Crime / Drama / Thriller
Year: 1996 
Director: Andrew Bergman
Cast: Demi Moore / Burt Reynolds / Armand Assante /
 Ving Rhames / Robert Patrick / Paul Guilfoyle / Jerry Grayson / Rumer Willis / Robert Stanton / William HillStuart Pankin
Erin Grant loses care and custody of her daughter when she's divorced from her husband Darrell, a small-time thief. Struggling for money, she is a dancer at a nightclub, where one night Congressman Dilbeck (in disguise) attacks another member of the audience. A spectator, who recognizes Dilbeck and is fond of Erin, offers to get back her daughter by blackmailing Dilbeck. Things do not work out as planned, though.

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Forrest Gump

Forrest Gump
Genres: Romance / Drama / Comedy  
Year: 1994
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cast:Tom Hanks / Margo Moorer / Sam Anderson / John Randall / Bob Penny / George Kelly / Harold G. Herthum / Michael Conner Humphreys / Sally Field / Rebecca Williams /  Ione M. Telech / Christine Seabrook / John Worsham  

Forrest, Forrest Gump is a simple man with a low IQ but good intentions. He is running through childhood with his best and only friend Jenny. His 'mama' teaches him the ways of life and leaves him to choose his destiny. Forrest joins the army for service in Vietnam, finding new friends called Dan and Bubba, he wins medals, creates a famous shrimp fishing fleet, inspires people to jog, starts a ping-pong craze, create the smiley,...

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Fame

Fame
Genres: Comedy / Drama / Family / Musical
Year: 2009
Director: Kevin Tancharoen
Cast: Kay Panabaker / Walter Perez / Naturi Naughton / Asher Book / Kherington Payne / Collins Pennie / Kristy Flores / Paul McGill / Bebe Neuwirth / Paul Iacono / Charles S. Dutton / Cody Longo / Kelsey Grammer / Anna Maria Perez de Tagle / Megan Mullally
An updated version of the 1980 musical, which centered on the students of the New York Academy of Performing Arts.

Monday, 15 July 2013

Dangerous Liaisons

Dangerous Liaisons
Genres: Drama  / Romance
Year: 2012
Director: Jin-ho Hur
Cast: Cecilia Cheung / Dong-gun Jang / Ziyi Zhang / Shawn Dou / Lisa Lu / Dan Tong Han / Rong Rong / Candy WangShuli Xiao / Zhang Yun
In Shanghai, an aging socialite's infatuation with her ex-boyfriend manifests itself as a risky game, where her former lover agrees to seduce, then abandon a naive young woman.
 
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Thursday, 11 July 2013

Mata Hari

Mata Hari
Genres: Drama / Thriller / War / Adult
Year: 1985
Director: Curtis Harrington
Cast: Sylvia Kristel / Christopher Cazenove / Oliver Tobias / Gaye Brown / Gottfried John / William Fox / Michael Anthony / Brian Badcoe / Tutte Lemkow / Taylor Ryan / Victor Langley
Based loosely on the real-life story of the World War I spy. The exotic dancer uses her contacts in European high society, along with her seductive charm, to collect military secrets during the war. She successfully plays both sides against each other until at last her deceptions catch up with her.


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Wednesday, 10 July 2013

Waiting for Forever

Waiting for Forever
Genres: Romance / Drama
Year: 2010
Director: James Keach
Cast: Larry Filion / Christel Edwards / K.C. Clyde / Jamey Anthony / Roz Ryan / Richard Gant / Nelson Franklin / Nikki Blonsky / Jaime King / Scott Mechlowicz / Matthew Davis / Blythe Danner / Richard Jenkins / Tom Sturridge / Rachel Bilson
A Hollywood-set romantic tale of a guy who is content to live his life without a job yet with the love of his life, a young actress.

Listen to Your Heart

Listen to Your Heart
Genres : Drama / Music / Romance
Year: 2010
Director: Matt Thompson
Cast : Alexia Rasmussen / Kent Moran / Cybill Shepherd / Shirley Knight / Frank Watson / Ernie Sabella /  Lisa Benner / Amy Lockwood / Matthew Albrecht
Danny  has an apartment as small as his paychecks, no family, and a struggling music career. But with unwaivering optimism, for Danny, "every day is a great day to be alive." It's love at first sight when Danny meets Ariana , a wealthy hearing-impaired girl from Greenwich, CT who tragically cannot hear the music she inspires him to write. Ariana is torn between hanging onto the shelter her controlling mother  provides and fighting for a love that, if just given the chance, might just change her life....

The Blues Brothers

The Blues Brothers
Genres:Music / Comedy / Action
Year:1980
Director: John Landis
Cast:John Belushi / Dan Aykroyd / Carrie Fisher / Alan Rubin / Matt Murphy / Lou Marini / Tom Malone / Willie Hall / Murphy Dunne / Donald Dunn / Steve Cropper / Aretha Franklin / Ray Charles / Cab Calloway / James Brown 
After the release of Jake Blues from prison, he and brother Elwood go to visit "The Penguin", the last of the nuns who raised them in a boarding school. They learn the Archdiocese will stop supporting the school and will sell the place to the Education Authority. The only way to keep the place open is if the $5000 tax on the property is paid within 11 days.....

Sunday, 7 July 2013

Un homme et une femme

Un homme et une femme
Genres: Drama / Romance
Year: 1966
Director: Claude Lelouch
Cast: Anouk Aimée / Jean-Louis Trintignant / Pierre Barouh / Valérie Lagrange / Antoine Sire / Souad Amidou / Henri Chemin / Yane Barry / Paul Le Person / Simone Paris
A man and a woman meet by accident on a Sunday evening at their childrens' boarding school. Slowly they reveal themselves to each other, finding that each is a widow/widower. Each is slow to reveal anything personal so that each revelation is hidden by a misperception. They become friends, then close friends, and then she reveals that she can't have a lover because, for her, her husband's memory is still too strong...

Saturday, 6 July 2013

Les bien-aimés

Les bien-aimés
Genres : Drama  / Musical / Romance
Year : 2011
Director: Christophe Honoré
Cast : Catherine Deneuve / Ludivine Sagnier / Chiara Mastroianni / Louis Garrel / Milos Forman / Paul Schneider 

In London, a mother and daughter navigate their respective romances; Madeline rekindles an affair from thirty years earlier, while her daughter Vera is caught between a musician who cannot commit and her ex, who still pines for her.

Thursday, 4 July 2013

Lie with Me

Lie with Me 
Genres: Drama / Romance / Adult
Year: 2005
Director: David Greene
Cast: Lauren Lee Smith / Eric Balfour / Polly Shannon / Mayko Nguyen / Michael Facciolo / Kate Lynch / Ron White / Kristin Lehman / Don Francks / Richard Chevolleau  / Frank Chiesurin 
In Toronto, the nymphomaniac Leila spends the nights dancing and having sex with men to satisfy her sex drive. Leila learns that her parents are divorcing and she is affected by their decision. When Leila meets David, she has a torrid affair with him. David is an artist that lives with his father, who is very dependent on David. Leila and David have a complicated relationship since he is a possessive man that demands commitment but Leila does not know how to love a man and has the need of different partners in her sex life.

Wednesday, 3 July 2013

Viva Maria

Viva Maria
Genres : Adventure / Comedy / Romance
Year : 1965
Director: Louis Malle
Cast :  Brigitte Bardot / Jeanne Moreau / George Hamilton / Paulette Dubost / Claudio Brook / Carlos López Moctezuma
Somewhere in Middle America, 1907: Maria II, the daugther of an Irish terrorist, meets after the dead of her father Maria I, the singer of an circus. She decided to stay with the circus. On her debue as a singer, she accidently invented strip-tease, that made the circus famous. But accidently they meet an sozialist revolutionair and finding themselves leading this revolution against the dictaor, the capitalists and the church.

Tuesday, 2 July 2013

The Rose

The Rose
Genres: Drama / Music
Year: 1979
Director: Mark Rydell
Cast: Bette Midler / Alan Bates / Frederic Forrest / Harry Dean Stanton / Barry Primus / David Keith / Sandra McCabe / Will Hare / Rudy Bond / Don Calfa / James Keane / Doris Roberts / Sandy Ward / Michael Greer / Claude Sacha
Bette Midler plays "Rose", an artist strikingly similar to Janis Joplin. The film follows Rose's career during her last tour. Her rock and roll lifestyle of Drugs, Sex, and Rock and Roll and constant touring lead her to an inevitable breakdown.