Posts Tagged ‘american’

Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957)

Monday, February 18th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | War
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Holden, William | Hawkins, Jack | Guinness, Alec | Hayakawa, Sessue | Donald, James | Horne, Geoffrey | Morell, André | Williams, Peter | Boxer, John | Herbert, Percy | Goodwin, Harold | Sears, Ann | Okawa, Heihachiro | Katsumoto, Keiichiro | Chakrabandhu, M.R.B.
Directors: Lean, David
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The film deals with the situation of British prisoners of war during World War II who are ordered to build a bridge to accommodate the Burma-Siam railway. Their instinct is to sabotage the bridge but, under the leadership of Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness), they are persuaded that the bridge should be constructed as a symbol of British morale, spirit and dignity in adverse circumstances. At first, the prisoners admire Nicholson when he bravely endures torture rather than compromise his principles for the benefit of the Japanese commandant Saito (Sessue Hayakawa). He is an honorable but arrogant man, who is slowly revealed to be a deluded obsessive. He convinces himself that the bridge is a monument to British character, but actually is a monument to himself, and his insistence on its construction becomes a subtle form of collaboration with the enemy. Unknown to him, the Allies have sent a mission into the jungle, led by Warden (Jack Hawkins) and an American, Shears (William Holden), to blow up the bridge.

All Together, The (2007)

Monday, February 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: UK
Actors: Freeman, Martin | Johnson, Corey | Topic, Velibor | Dyer, Danny | Harrington, Richard | Abbington, Amanda | Kenna, Jamie | Edwards, Charles | Ryland, Jonathan | Thompson, Ian | Hutchison, Nicholas | Bamber, David | Gilbreath, Alexandra | Marcia Warren | Brown, Wendy Mae
Directors: Claxton, Gavin
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Martin Freeman plays Chris, a frustrated TV producer who is forced to leave his unreliable flatmate Bob played by Velibor Topic in charge of showing a series of real estate agents around the house he is trying to sell. Worried by Bob’s habit of spending all day working in the basement playing loud music, Chris asks his friend to listen out for the door bell and show anyone who comes calling inside. Bob promises to do exactly that and for once, not to let him down. Over the course of the day, whilst Chris struggles to cope with his insane TV presenter colleague Jerry, played by Richard Harrington - back at the house it is soon clear that bonkers Bob is taking his promise to Chris rather too literally. Bob has indeed, allowed anyone inside, including a couple of gun-toting gangsters - an incompetent young Brit played by Danny Dyer and an incontinent American played by Corey Johnson. That evening, Chris is surprised to return home and find his flatmate, four estate agents, two Jehovah’s Witnesses, a corpse and a terrified children’s entertainer in what remains of his flooded kitchen. Of course, a roomful of water and broken furniture doesn’t mean the end of the world - but the half-crazed American sitting outside the toilet with a gun, just might.

Hostel: Part II (2007)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: German, Lauren | Phillips, Bijou | Bart, Roger | Burgi, Richard | Jordanova, Vera | Matarazzo, Heather | Ianevski, Stanislav | Knazko, Milan | Furak, Ivan | Geislerová, Zuzana | Hernandez, Jay | Ladd, Jordan | Malacova, Monika | Devenuto, Davide | Vancura, Petr
Directors: Roth, Eli
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3 beautiful college students are tricked into entering a hostel where the ‘hosts’ like to torture, rape and murder. Following a geographical tour of Slovakia, three women are lured into a hostel by a handsome young man who sells them to the twisted masters, who tie them up and bring upon an unthinkable world of pain…

Good German, The (2006)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Thompson, Jack | Roeder, John | Clooney, George | Maguire, Tobey | Blanchett, Cate | Comperatore, Dominic | Power, Dave | Curran, Tony | Isyanov, Ravil | Boehmer, J. Paul | Korosec, Igor | Kievsky, Boris | Kulikov, Vladimir | Narovlyanskiy, Yevgeniy | Sountsov, Aleksandr
Directors: Soderbergh, Steven
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Berlin, July, 1945. Journalist Jake Geismer arrives to cover the Potsdam conference, issued a captain’s uniform for easier passage. He also wants to find Lena, an old flame who’s now a prostitute desperate to get out of Berlin. He discovers that the driver he’s assigned, a cheerful down-home sadist named Corporal Tully, is Lena’s keeper. When the body of a murdered man washes up in Potsdam (within the Russian sector), Jake may be the only person who wants to solve the crime: U.S. personnel are busy finding Nazis to bring to trial, the Russians and the Americans are looking for German rocket scientists, and Lena has her own secrets.

Flyboys (2006)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Romance | War
Countries: France | USA
Actors: James, Jesse | McClendon, Reiley | Baldwin, Stephen | Sizemore, Tom | Adams, J. Todd | Gettling, Dallen | Slimko, Jennifer | Costanzo, Robert | Cecere, Vince | D'Amico, Frank | Young, Harrison | Baron, Blaire | Hinkley, Tommy | Baron, Joanne | Kasch, Dylan
Directors: DeVilliers, Rocco
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Two kids from a small town accidentally stow away aboard an airplane owned by the mob.

Babel (2006)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: France | Mexico | USA
Actors: Pitt, Brad | Blanchett, Cate | Akhzam, Mohamed | Wight, Peter | Walter, Harriet | Martin, Trevor | Gibbs, Matyelok | Bousquet, Georges | Acs, Claudine | Oumansky, André | Maloney, Michael | Crowley, Dermot | Nottingham, Wendy | Maratray, Henry | Broughton, Linda
Directors: González Iñárritu, Alejandro
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Richard and Susan are a couple from San Diego, California who are vacationing in Morocco while their two children are at home with their Mexican housekeeper, Amelia. A rifle finds its way into the hands of a local herdsman’s young sons, who recklessly take a shot at a tour bus and hit Susan in the shoulder, causing her severe injury. The distraught Richard calls home to tell Amelia of the situation, who shortly departs for Mexico to attend her son’s wedding, with Richard and Susan’s children in tow. Disaster thus multiplies, with the situation in Morocco ascribed to terrorists in the media, while Amelia meets with trouble at the Mexican border when she attempts to return to San Diego with Richard and Susan’s children. Meanwhile, in Tokyo, a widower tied to the rifle in question, a complex shift of ownership to which the audience is privy, attempts to deal with the memories of his recently deceased wife and his strained relationship with his deaf teenage daughter.

Beerfest (2006)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Gainey, M.C. | Soter, Paul | Stolhanske, Erik | Leachman, Cloris | Prochnow, Jürgen | Scher, Cameron | Yeoman, Owain | Tate, Tom | Graf, Allan | Moss, Chris | Johnson, Bjorn | Heffernan, Kevin | Lemme, Steve | Thornton, Collin
Directors: Chandrasekhar, Jay
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Two brothers travel to Germany for Oktoberfest, only to stumble upon secret, centuries-old competition described as a “Fight Club” with beer games.

Wimbledon (2004)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance | Sport
Countries: France | UK
Actors: Dunst, Kirsten | Bettany, Paul | Hyde, Kyle | Robert Lindsay | Imrie, Celia | Ryder, Penny | Leventon, Annabel | Walker, Amanda | McAvoy, James | Hill, Bernard | Bron, Eleanor | Morgan, Marina | Jackson, Barry | Coster-Waldau, Nikolaj | Neill, Sam
Directors: Loncraine, Richard
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In just two summer weeks, a British tennis player who was ranked 119th in the world (Bettany), and generally considered to be on his last legs as a professional player, gets his one last chance to win both the All-England Lawn Tennis Championships on the grassy courts of Wimbledon… and the heart of the rising star “bad girl of tennis” (Dunst) as well…

Great Raid, The (2005)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | War
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Bratt, Benjamin | Franco, James | Mammone, Robert | Martini, Max | Carpinello, James | Consuelos, Mark | McLachlan, Craig | Farnsworth, Freddie Joe | Macintosh, Laird | Callaghan, Jeremy | McLean, Scott | Montalban, Paolo | Crawford, Clayne | Worthington, Sam | Innes, Royston
Directors: Dahl, John
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Set in the Philippines in 1945 towards the end of WWII, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Henry Mucci and Captain Robert Prince, the 6th Ranger Battalion undertake a daring rescue mission against all odds. Traveling thirty miles behind enemy lines, they intend to liberate over 500 American Soldiers from the notorious Cabanatuan Japanese POW camp in the most audacious rescue ever.

Da Vinci Code, The (2006)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Hanks, Tom | Tautou, Audrey | McKellen, Ian | Bettany, Paul | Reno, Jean | Chicot, Etienne | Molina, Alfred | Carter, Clive | Gabel, Seth | Doidge-Hill, Daisy
Directors: Howard, Ron
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Professor Robert Langdon is in Paris on business when he’s summoned to The Louvre. A dead body has been found, setting Langdon off on an adventure as he attempts to unravel an ancient code and uncover the greatest mystery of all time.