Empire of the Sun
19.09.07Filed Under: War movies, Drama movies with 0 Comments
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| Plot Summary: | An aristocratic British youth is seperated from his family at the start of World War II after the Japanese Army invades British controlled areas of China. Reduced to living on the street and fighting for food, the youth is eventually interned in a Japanese POW camp for British civilians. Here, admiration quickly develops both for captured American pilots and the Japanese themselves. When the war ends, the boy torn from everything he knew attempts to again find his parents. |
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House of Sand and Fog
16.09.07Filed Under: Drama movies with 0 Comments
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| Taglines: | 1: Some dreams can’t be shared. |
| Plot Summary: | Massoud Amir Behrani, an Iranian immigrant, has spent most of his savings trying to enhance his daughter’s chances of a good marriage. Once she is married, he spends the remaining funds on a house at an auction, unwittingly putting himself and his family in the middle of a legal tussle with the house’s former owner. What begins as a legal struggle turns into a personal confrontation, with tragic results. |
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Fahrenheit 9/11
15.09.07Filed Under: War movies, Documentary movies with 0 Comments
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| Taglines: | 1: Controversy…What Controversy? 2: The temperature where freedom burns! 3: This July the fireworks will fly 4: This summer Michael Moore turns up the heat. 5: Your country. Your future. Your movie. |
| Plot Summary: | In this film, muckraker Michael Moore turns his eye on George W. Bush and his War on Terrorism agenda. He illustrates his argument about how this failed businessman with deep connections to the royal house of Saud of Saudia Arabia and the Bin Ladins got elected on fraudulent circumstances and proceeded to blunder through his duties while ignoring warnings of the looming betrayal by his foreign partners. When that treachery hits with the 9/11 attacks, Moore explains how Bush failed to take immediate action to defend his nation, only to later cynically manipulate it to serve his wealthy backers’ corrupt ambitions. Through facts, footage and interviews, Moore illustrates his contention of how Bush and his cronies have gotten America into worse trouble than ever before and why Americans should not stand for it. |
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Dogville
11.09.07Filed Under: Mystery movies, Thriller movies, Drama movies with 0 Comments
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| Taglines: | 1: A quiet little town not far from here. |
| Plot Summary: | The beautiful fugitive, Grace (Nicole Kidman), arrives in the isolated township of Dogville on the run from a team of gangsters. With some encouragement from Tom (Paul Bettany), the self-appointed town spokesman, the little community agrees to hide her and in return, Grace agrees to work for them. However, when a search sets in, the people of Dogville demand a better deal in exchange for the risk of harbouring poor Grace and she learns the hard way that in this town, goodness is relative. But Grace has a secret and it is a dangerous one. Dogville may regret it ever began to bare its teeth… |
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Pianist, The
05.09.07Filed Under: Music movies, War movies, Biography movies, Drama movies with 0 Comments
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| Taglines: | 1: Music was his passion. Survival was his masterpiece. |
| Plot Summary: | The true story of Wladyslaw Szpilman who, in the 1930s, was known as the most accomplished piano player in all of Poland, if not Europe. At the outbreak of the Second World War, however, Szpilman becomes subject to the anti-Jewish laws imposed by the conquering Germans. By the start of the 1940s, Szpilman has seen his world go from piano concert halls to the Jewish Ghetto of Warsaw and then must suffer the tragedy of his family deported to a death camp, while Szpilman is conscripted into a forced German Labor Compound. At last deciding to escape, Szpilman goes into hiding as a Jewish refugee where he is witness to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 and the Warsaw City Revolt in August/October 1944. |
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Once Upon a Time in the West
04.09.07Filed Under: Western movies, Action movies, Drama movies with 0 Comments
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| Taglines: | 1: There were three men in her life. One to take her… one to love her… and one to kill her. |
| Plot Summary: | Brett McBain is preparing a welcoming feast for the woman he married last month in New Orleans when he and his three children are gunned down by desperadoes. Frank, the most hardened villain, works for the railroad that will pass through the land Jill McBain has inherited. Will auctioning off the land quickly increase her odds of surviving? Harmonica gets the money for the high bid by turning in Cheyenne for the $5,000 award. And he keeps Jill, too, but seems more interested in settling an old score with Frank than either the land or the lovely widow. |
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City of God
03.09.07Filed Under: Thriller movies, Crime movies, Drama movies with 0 Comments
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| Taglines: | 1: 15 miles from paradise…one man will do anything to tell the world everything. 2: Based on a true story. 3: Drugs Guns Music Love 4: Fight and you’ll never survive….. Run and you’ll never escape. 5: If you run it will get you. If you stay it will eat you. |
| Plot Summary: | Cidade de Deus (City of God) is a housing project built in the 1960’s that—in the early 80’s—became one of the most dangerous places in Rio de Janeiro. The tale tells the stories of many characters whose lives sometimes intersect. However, all is seen through the eyes of a singular narrator: Busca-Pe, a poor black youth too frail and scared to become an outlaw but also to smart to be content with underpaid, menial jobs. He grows up in a very violent environment. The odds are all against him. But Busca-Pe soon discovers that he can see reality differently than others. His redemption is that he’s been given an artist’s point of view as a keen-eyed photographer. As Busca-Pe is not the real protagonist of the film—only the narrator—he is not the one who makes the decisions that will determine the sequence of events. Nevertheless, not only his life is attached to what happens in the story, but it is also through Busca-Pe’s perspective of life that one can understand the complicated layers and humanity of a world, apparently condemned to endless violence. |
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