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Adventure |
Biography |
Drama |
History |
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| Actors: |
Gérard Depardieu |
Armand Assante |
Sigourney Weaver |
Loren Dean |
Ángela Molina |
Fernando Rey |
Michael Wincott |
Tchéky Karyo |
Kevin Dunn |
Frank Langella |
Mark Margolis |
Kario Salem |
Billy L. Sullivan |
John Heffernan |
Arnold Vosloo |
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Ridley Scott |
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Plot Summary:
Big budget account of Christopher Columbus' discovery of the Americas. Released in 1992 to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the discovery. Shows the disastrous effects the Europeans had on the original inhabitants, and Columbus' struggle to civilize the New World.
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Drama |
Family |
History |
Musical |
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| Actors: |
William Daniels |
Howard Da Silva |
Ken Howard |
Donald Madden |
John Cullum |
Roy Poole |
David Ford |
Ron Holgate |
Ray Middleton |
William Hansen |
Blythe Danner |
Virginia Vestoff |
Emory Bass |
Ralston Hill |
Howard Caine |
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Peter H. Hunt |
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Plot Summary:
The film version of the Broadway musical comedy of the same name. In the days leading up to July 4, 1776, Continental Congressmen John Adams and Benjamin Franklin coerce Thomas Jefferson into writing the Declaration of Independence as a delaying tactic as they try to persuade the American colonies to support a resolution on independence. As George Washington sends depressing messages describing one military disaster after another, the businessmen, landowners and slave holders in Congress all stand in the way of the Declaration, and a single "nay" vote will forever end the question of independence. Large portions of spoken and sung dialog are taken directly from the letters and memoirs of the actual participants.
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Action |
Drama |
History |
War |
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Gerard Butler |
Lena Headey |
Dominic West |
David Wenham |
Vincent Regan |
Michael Fassbender |
Tom Wisdom |
Andrew Pleavin |
Andrew Tiernan |
Rodrigo Santoro |
Giovani Cimmino |
Stephen McHattie |
Greg Kramer |
Alex Ivanovici |
Craig Kelly |
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Zack Snyder |
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It is spring 480 BC, Persian King Xerxes, continuing his father Darius' master plan to conquer the Hellenic city-states, arrives in Hellas. The previous Persian invasion and diplomatic attempts have already turned most northern Hellas tribes and states to the Persian side. But the people of Athens and Sparta, the largest Hellenic powers at the time, feel quite insulted by the Persian emissaries' request to surrender to Xerxes, and so slay them. In Sparta, King Leonidas consults the local oracle, who gives two options: Either a spartan king will have to be sacrificed, or Sparta will be burned to the ground. A year earlier (481, BC) a Panhellenic consortium of all southern city-states had already recognized the superiority of the Spartan army (the best organized and trained army at the time) and had declared King Leonidas as supreme commander of the combined Hellenic army. It is then decided that a small force should block Xerxes' way to southern Hellas in the Thermopylae passage. This passage was, at that time, 12 meters wide. The great historian Herodotus, possibly exaggerating, states that there were 1,700,000 Persians (their true number could have been anywhere from 100,000 to 1,000,000) against 7,000 Hellenic hoplites and slaves, including the 300 men of the Spartan King elite guard. King Xerxes waited four days for the Hellenes to be frightened and eventually surrender and was quite astonished by his opponents' complete apathy. Xerxes tried to convince Leonidas to drop weapons, give up his position, kneel before him and live on as a local governor under Xerxes. King Leonidas replied "molon lave," which means "Come and get them." The three-day battle began, with the 300 Spartans and 700 Thespians (the other Hellenes where sent by Leonidas to protect passages to their flanks) slaying thousands of Persians with minimal losses. The whole Persian campaign would have failed if it hadn't been for Efialtes, who showed Xerxes a secret passage to the Hellenic flanks. After a final battle led by King Xerxes himself, the Hellenic force was slain and their heroism and glory was written forever in history. From the beginning of the battle, the Hellenes buried their dead in the spot where they fell. Then battle signs where made for the dead of each Hellenic faction. For the Pelloponisians, (including the 300 Spartans) the sign generally read (free translation) "In this place 4,000 Pelloponisians fought 30 millions)." For the 300 Spartans (Lakaedaemonians), the sign reads (free translation) "Oh foreigner, tell the Lakaedaemonians that we are buried here obeying their laws," meaning that they never hesitated and never retreated from the enemy. The impact of the battle was enormous for both sides. The Persians' morale dropped to zero, and the Hellenes lost their fear for the Persian conqueror and organized their defense. After several successful battles, the Hellenes ultimately defeated the Persian army and repelled their invasion in the Battle of Plataea in 479 BC.
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Adventure |
Drama |
History |
War |
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| Actors: |
Richard Egan |
Ralph Richardson |
Diane Baker |
Barry Coe |
David Farrar |
Donald Houston |
Anna Synodinou |
Kieron Moore |
John Crawford |
Robert Brown |
Laurence Naismith |
Anne Wakefield |
Ivan Triesault |
Charles Fawcett |
Michalis Nikolinakos |
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Rudolph Maté |
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Essentially true story of how Spartan king Leonidas led an extremely small army of Greek Soldiers (300 of them his personal body guards from Sparta) to hold off an invading Persian army more than 20 times as large. The actual heroism of those who stood (and ultimately died) with Leonidas helped shape the course of Western Civilization, allowing the Greek city states time to organize an army which repelled the Persians. Set in 480 BC.
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Drama |
History |
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Charlton Heston |
Rex Harrison |
Diane Cilento |
Harry Andrews |
Alberto Lupo |
Adolfo Celi |
Venantino Venantini |
John Stacy |
Fausto Tozzi |
Maxine Audley |
Tomas Milian |
Alec McCowen |
Furio Meniconi |
Adolfo Pezzini |
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Carol Reed |
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Pope Julius is eager to leave behind works by which he will be remembered. To this end he cajoles Michelangelo into painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. When not on the battlefield uniting Italy, the Pope nags Michelangelo to speed up his painful work on the frescoes.
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Drama |
History |
War |
Western |
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| Actors: |
Craig Erickson |
Dennis Quaid |
Billy Bob Thornton |
Jason Patric |
Patrick Wilson |
Emilio Echevarría |
Jordi Mollà |
Leon Rippy |
Tom Davidson |
Marc Blucas |
Robert Prentiss |
Kevin Page |
Joe Stevens |
Stephen Bruton |
Laura Clifton |
Ricardo Chavira |
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John Lee Hancock |
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Historical drama detailing the 1835-36 Texas revolution before, during, and after the famous siege of the Alamo (February 23-March 6, 1836) where 183 Texans (American-born Texans) and Tejanos (Mexican-born Texans) commanded by Colonel Travis, along with Davey Crockett and Jim Bowie, were besieged in an abandoned mission outside San Antonio by a Mexican army of nearly 2,000 men under the personal command of the dictator of Mexico, General Santa Anna, as well as detailing the Battle of San Jacinto (April 21, 1836) where General Sam Houston's rag-tag army of Texans took on and defeated Santa Anna's army which led to the indepedence of Texas.
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Amistad
[1997,
USA] from $1.99
Freedom is not given. It is our right at birth. But there are some moments when it must be taken.
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Drama |
History |
Mystery |
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| Actors: |
Morgan Freeman |
Nigel Hawthorne |
Anthony Hopkins |
Djimon Hounsou |
Matthew McConaughey |
David Paymer |
Pete Postlethwaite |
Stellan Skarsgård |
Razaaq Adoti |
Abu Bakaar Fofanah |
Anna Paquin |
Tomas Milian |
Chiwetel Ejiofor |
Derrick N. Ashong |
Geno Silva |
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Steven Spielberg |
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AMISTAD is about a 1839 mutiny onboard a slave ship that is traveling towards the Northeast Coast of America. Much of the story involves a court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt.
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Drama |
History |
Horror |
Mystery |
Thriller |
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| Actors: |
James Brolin |
Margot Kidder |
Rod Steiger |
Don Stroud |
Murray Hamilton |
John Larch |
Natasha Ryan |
K.C. Martel |
Meeno Peluce |
Michael Sacks |
Helen Shaver |
Amy Wright |
Val Avery |
Irene Dailey |
Marc Vahanian |
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Stuart Rosenberg |
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George and Kathy Lutz, a newly married couple with three children, movie into their beautiful new house in Amityville, New York, only to discover the house already has demonic inhabitants.
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Action |
Biography |
Crime |
Drama |
History |
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| Actors: |
Martina Gedeck |
Moritz Bleibtreu |
Johanna Wokalek |
Nadja Uhl |
Jan Josef Liefers |
Stipe Erceg |
Niels-Bruno Schmidt |
Vinzenz Kiefer |
Simon Licht |
Alexandra Maria Lara |
Hannah Herzsprung |
Tom Schilling |
Daniel Lommatzsch |
Sebastian Blomberg |
Eckhard Dilssner |
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| Directors: |
Uli Edel |
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Germany in the 1970s: Murderous bomb attacks, the threat of terrorism and the fear of the enemy inside are rocking the very foundations of the yet fragile German democracy. The radicalised children of the Nazi generation lead by Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin are fighting a violent war against what they perceive as the new face of fascism: American imperialism supported by the German establishment, many of whom have a Nazi past. Their aim is to create a more human society but by employing inhuman means they not only spread terror and bloodshed, they also lose their own humanity. The man who understands them is also their hunter: the head of the German police force Horst Herold. And while he succeeds in his relentless pursuit of the young terrorists, he knows he's only dealing with the tip of the iceberg.
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| Genres: |
Biography |
Drama |
History |
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| Actors: |
Richard Burton |
Peter O'Toole |
John Gielgud |
Gino Cervi |
Paolo Stoppa |
Donald Wolfit |
David Weston |
Martita Hunt |
Pamela Brown |
Siân Phillips |
Felix Aylmer |
Percy Herbert |
Inigo Jackson |
Niall MacGinnis |
Christopher Rhodes |
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Peter Glenville |
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