Sep 18
Plot:
Alexander (Farrell), the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians he leads his Army across the then known world venturing further than any Westerner had ever gone all the way to India.
IMDB rating: 5.40 out of 10.0 (30272 votes) Continue reading »
Tags:
3rd-century-b.c.,
4th-century-b.c.,
alexandria-egypt,
ancient-egypt,
ancient-greece,
archery,
arena,
army,
assassination,
babylon,
battle,
battle-scene,
bear,
bisexual,
bisexuality,
cavalry,
cave,
cave-painting,
character-name-in-title,
chariot,
combat,
dance,
death-of-hero,
death-of-protagonist,
desert,
doctor,
eagle,
elephant,
epic,
euthanasia,
executing-the-wounded,
execution,
face-slap,
father-son-relationship,
female-nudity,
gay-interest,
general,
gift,
gladiator,
gore,
greek-mythology,
harem,
historical,
homosexual-love,
homosexuality,
honor,
impalement,
india,
jealousy,
king,
loss-of-father,
lost-love,
macedonia,
male-nudity,
melodrama,
metaphor,
monkey,
mother-son-relationship,
oedipus-complex,
persia,
poison,
political,
princess,
profanity,
psychedelic,
queen,
ring,
shield,
snake,
snake-bite,
stabbing,
sword,
sword-and-sandal,
thunderstorm,
tiger,
told-in-flashback,
treason,
unhappy-marriage,
wedding,
wedding-night,
wrestling
Sep 15
Plot:
The daughter of an actor with a high-society woman, Domino Harvey, bored with her life, decides to join the team of Ed Mosley and becomes a bounty hunter. But she gets in trouble when the Mafia’s money is stolen from an armored truck, while Mosley and his crew are in action participating of a reality show produced by Mark Heiss. The situation becomes out of control when the sons of a rival mobster are kidnapped while FBI is monitoring the two gangs of mobsters.
IMDB rating: 5.90 out of 10.0 (14928 votes) Continue reading »
Tags:
afghanistan,
arrest,
autograph,
black-humor,
blood-disease,
blood-splatter,
bomb,
bounty-hunter,
casino,
character-name-in-title,
dead-man-switch,
dismemberment,
dog,
double-cross,
drug-abuse,
drugged-drink,
exotic-dancer,
exploding-truck,
explosive,
fast-motion,
fbi,
federal-bureau-of-investigation,
flashback-sequence,
funeral,
gag,
girl,
goldfish,
grandmother,
gun,
handcuffs,
handgun,
helicopter,
helicopter-crash,
interrogation,
kidnap,
knife-throwing,
lap-dance,
las-vegas-nevada,
latino,
laundry,
machine-gun,
mafia,
mask,
mescaline,
model,
motel,
murder,
nun,
nunchauks,
outdoor-sex,
pistol,
raid,
reality-tv,
religion,
road-trip,
satire,
shooting,
shootout,
shot-in-the-chest,
shot-in-the-head,
shot-to-death,
shotgun,
sorority,
split-screen,
strip-club,
surveillance-camera,
swat-team,
swimming-pool,
talk-show,
title-spoken-by-character,
toilet,
topless,
traffic-accident,
tragedy,
underwater,
violence,
violent-movie,
voice-over-narration,
vulgarity,
wiretapping
Sep 13
Plot:
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.
IMDB rating: 8.50 out of 10.0 (39269 votes) Continue reading »
Tags:
1930s,
1940s,
anti-semitism,
atrocity,
attic,
based-on-autobiography,
bathtub-scene,
blood,
bloody-body-of-child,
child-murder,
concert,
contraband,
corpse,
dead-child,
death-of-child,
deportation,
desaturated-colors,
execution,
fire,
flame-thrower,
freight-train,
fugitive-from-nazi,
genocide,
gestapo,
ghettoization,
grand-piano,
grenade-launcher,
hiding-place,
historical,
hit-in-the-head-with-a-rifle,
holocaust,
hospital,
humiliation,
hunger,
jaundice,
jewish,
luggage,
mass-murder,
massacre,
mistaken-identity,
molotov-cocktail,
murder,
Music,
musician,
nazi,
nazi-occupied-poland,
panzer,
pianist,
piano,
piano-concerto,
poland,
police-brutality,
polish-resistance,
prisoner-of-war,
pyre,
radio-broadcasting,
restaurant,
rooftop,
ruins,
separation-from-family,
shot-in-the-forehead,
shot-in-the-head,
ss,
starvation,
tank,
thrown-through-window,
tinnitus,
underground-resistance,
violence,
wall,
war-crimes,
warsaw,
warsaw-ghetto,
warsaw-poland,
wheelchair,
whipping,
wwii
Sep 13
Plot:
A biopic of the meteoric rise of John Forbes Nash Jr., a math prodigy able to solve problems that baffled the greatest of minds. And how he overcame years of suffering through schizophrenia to win the Nobel Prize.
IMDB rating: 7.80 out of 10.0 (67284 votes) Continue reading »
Tags:
1940s,
1950s,
1960s,
1970s,
1990s,
bar,
based-on-book,
based-on-true-story,
bathtub-scene,
blockbuster,
boston-massachusetts,
boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship,
car-chase,
chase,
child,
child-nudity,
classroom,
code-breaking,
cold-war,
college,
creativity,
cryptography,
economics,
epiphany,
face-slap,
family-relationship,
famous-score,
flashback-sequence,
flirting,
friendship,
game-of-go,
genius,
government-agent,
guilt,
harvard,
humiliation,
husband-wife-relationship,
hypodermic-needle,
imaginary-friend,
implant,
infant-nudity,
insulin-coma-therapy,
ivy-league,
lecture,
library,
loner,
marriage,
marriage-proposal,
massachusetts-institute-of-technology,
mathematician,
mathematics,
medication,
mental-illness,
necktie,
new-jersey,
no-opening-credits,
nobel-prize,
paranoia,
paranoid-schizophrenia,
parent-child-relationship,
parental-relationship,
pen,
pentagon-building,
picnic,
pool-game,
prank,
princeton,
profanity,
professor,
psychiatric-hospital,
psychiatrist,
psychological-drama,
rainstorm,
reception,
restaurant,
rivalry,
rooftop,
roommate,
schizophrenia,
school,
school-teacher,
schoolteacher,
self-mutilation,
shock-therapy,
shootout,
speech,
spy,
star-gazing,
stockholm-sweden,
surreal,
teacher-student-relationship,
thorazine,
tool-shed,
top-secret,
visual-hallucination,
wedding,
window
Sep 13
Plot:
In 1964, a brash new pro boxer, fresh from his olympic gold medal victory, explodes on to the scene, Cassius Clay. Bold and outspoken, he cuts an entirely new image for African American’s in sport with his proud public self confidence with his unapologetic belief that he is the greatest boxer of all time. To his credit, he sets out to prove that with his highly agile and forceful style soon making him a formidable boxer who soon claims the heavyweight championship. His personal life is no less noteworthy with his allegiance to the Nation of Islam, his friendship with the controversial Malcolm X and his abandonment of his slave name in favour of Muhammad Ali stirring up controversy. Yet, at the top of his game, both Ali’s personal and professional lives face the ultimate test with the military draft rules are changed, making him eligible for military induction during the Vietnam War. Despite the fact that he could easily agree to a sweetheart deal that would have meant an easy tour of duty for himself, Ali refuses to submit on principle to cooperate in an unjust war for a racist nation that treated his people so poorly. The cost of that stand is high as he finds himself unable to legally box in his own country while his case is contested in court. What follows is a battle for a man who would sacrifice so much for what he believes in and a comeback that would cement his legend as one of the great sports figures of all time.
IMDB rating: 6.40 out of 10.0 (15492 votes) Continue reading »
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1960s,
1970s,
adultery,
africa,
african-american,
boxer,
boxing,
character-name-in-title,
comeback,
conscientious-objection,
conscientious-objector,
conscription,
draft-evasion,
draft-refuser,
draftee,
heavyweight-champion,
infidelity,
islam,
malcolm-x,
martin-luther-king,
military-draft,
moslem,
nation-of-islam,
racial-slur,
shot-in-the-chest,
title-spoken-by-character,
zaire
Sep 13
Plot:
Harvey Pekar is file clerk at the local VA hospital. His interactions with his co-workers offer some relief from the monotony, and their discussions encompass everything from music to the decline of American culture to new flavors of jellybeans and life itself. At home, Harvey fills his days with reading, writing and listening to jazz. His apartment is filled with thousands of books and LPs, and he regularly scours Cleveland’s thrift stores and garage sales for more, savoring the rare joy of a 25-cent find. It is at one of these junk sales that Harvey meets Robert Crumb, a greeting card artist and music enthusiast. When, years later, Crumb finds international success for his underground comics, the idea that comic books can be a valid art form for adults inspires Harvey to write his own brand of comic book. An admirer of naturalist writers like Theodore Dreiser, Harvey makes his American Splendor a truthful, unsentimental record of his working-class life, a warts-and-all self portrait. First published in 1976, the comic earns Harvey cult fame throughout the 1980s and eventually leads him to the sardonic Joyce Barber, a partner in a Delaware comic book store who end ups being Harvey’s true soul mate as they experience the bizarre byproducts of Harvey’s cult celebrity stature.
IMDB rating: 7.70 out of 10.0 (14326 votes) Continue reading »
Tags:
1950s,
1960s,
1970s,
1980s,
adopted-daughter,
adoption,
airport,
anger,
art-house,
bakery,
based-on-autobiography,
based-on-comic,
based-on-comic-book,
bathroom,
bitterness,
book-signing,
breaking-the-fourth-wall,
cancer,
cartoonist,
celebrity,
chemotherapy,
clerk,
cleveland-ohio,
comic-book,
comic-book-art,
comic-book-shop,
coupon,
depression,
diner,
donut,
dysfunctional-family,
eating-disorder,
garage-sale,
graffiti,
hair-loss,
halloween,
halloween-costume,
holding-hands,
hospital,
hotel-room,
ice-skating,
illustrator,
interview,
jazz-music,
jelly-bean,
letter,
loneliness,
loud-shirt,
low-self-esteem,
luggage,
marriage,
movie-reality-crossover,
mtv,
nerd,
neurotic,
obsessive-compulsive,
part-animated,
play-within-film,
prison,
psychoanalysis,
recital,
record-collector,
restaurant,
retirement,
school-bus,
scratching,
self-referential,
shower,
supermarket,
talk-show,
talk-to-mirror,
tape-recorder,
teacher,
television-studio,
theatrical,
throat-doctor,
toilet,
train-station,
trick-or-treat,
underwear,
veterans-hospital,
voice-over,
vomit
Sep 12
Plot:
An FBI agent tracks down and catches a young con artist who successfully impersonated an airline pilot, doctor, assistant attorney general and history professor, cashing more than $2.5 million in fraudulent checks in 26 countries.
IMDB rating: 7.60 out of 10.0 (70535 votes) Continue reading »
Tags:
1960s,
1970s,
airplane,
airport,
animated-credits,
animated-title-sequence,
arrest,
atlanta-georgia,
attempted-jailbreak,
attorney,
bank,
bank-fraud,
banquet,
bar,
based-on-book,
based-on-true-story,
blockbuster,
braces,
california,
candy-striper,
caper,
chase,
check-bouncing,
check-fraud,
chinese-food,
christmas,
christmas-eve,
cockpit,
con-artist,
con-man,
courtroom,
dancing,
dental-braces,
diner,
divorce,
divorced-parents,
doctor,
dog,
egypt,
emergency-room,
engagement,
engagement-party,
europe,
extramarital-affair,
father-son-relationship,
fbi,
fbi-agent,
florida,
forgery,
france,
franco-american,
fraud,
fugitive,
half-sister,
handcuffs,
high-school,
hospital,
hotel,
impostor,
james-bond-spoof-scene,
job-interview,
judge,
label,
laundromat,
lawyer,
loan-officer,
los-angeles-california,
loss-of-father,
loss-of-virginity,
louisiana,
lutheran,
madrid-spain,
marseilles-france,
miami-florida,
money,
motel,
movie-theater,
name-change,
narrated,
necklace,
new-job,
new-orleans-louisiana,
new-york-city,
overhead-camera-shot,
paris-france,
parole,
party,
pendant,
perry-mason-spoof-scene,
pilot,
police,
pool,
prayer,
premarital-sex,
prison,
prosecutor,
prostitution,
railway-station,
redemption,
rotary-club,
runaway,
sex,
shreveport-louisiana,
spain,
stewardess,
substitute-teacher,
suitcase,
swimming-pool,
tarmac,
tax-fraud,
taxi,
taxicab,
teenage-boy,
telephone-box,
tragedy,
underage-sex,
used-car-dealer,
voice-over,
vomiting,
wwii-veteran
Sep 12
Plot:
A pre-fame Beatles head for the seedy clubs of Hamburg in search of success. The band meet up with a group of trendy German beatniks, one of whom (Astrid Kircherr) bass guitarist Stuart Sutcliffe falls in love with. Whilst best friend John Lennon can only watch, Sutcliffe has to choose between rock ‘n roll and a new life in Germany…
IMDB rating: 6.60 out of 10.0 (1368 votes) Continue reading »
Tags:
1960s,
art-student,
artist,
beatles,
germany,
hamburg-germany,
harbor,
historical,
hofner-bass-guitar,
homosexual-subtext,
independent-film,
john-lennon,
liverpool,
love-triangle,
music-history,
northern-germany,
painter,
paul-mccartney,
pete-best,
photographer,
pop-music,
red-light-district,
reeperbahn,
river-elbe,
rock-and-roll,
rock-music,
sex,
silver-beatles,
st.-pauli,
stuart-sutcliffe,
student,
what-happened-to-epilogue
Sep 12
Plot:
The script begins as a young Hughes directs one of Scorsese’s favorite films, Hell’s Angels. Hughes was so obsessed with perfection in the aerial sequences that he waits forever for perfect conditions, right down to cloud formations. The Aviator ends in 1946, when Hughes was still a dashing young man and romancing actresses like Ava Gardner and Katharine Hepburn.
IMDB rating: 7.60 out of 10.0 (41695 votes) Continue reading »
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1910s,
1920s,
1930s,
1940s,
actress,
airfield,
airline-industry,
airplane,
airplane-accident,
aviation,
based-on-history,
based-on-true-story,
bathing,
billionaire,
blackmail,
bonfire,
breakup,
bribery,
burn-victim,
california,
car-accident,
celebrity,
cgi,
child-nudity,
chrysler-building-new-york,
cleavage,
compassion,
congress,
congressional-hearing,
connecticut,
corporate-executive,
crutches,
dating,
desert,
domestic-violence,
eccentric,
epic,
fbi,
film-in-film,
film-making,
film-premiere,
film-producer,
film-studio,
filmmaking,
finance,
flashback-sequence,
flashbulb,
flirting,
flying-boat,
genius,
golf,
government-hearing,
grauman's-chinese-theater,
hearing-loss,
heir,
historical,
hollywood,
hospital,
howard-hughes,
impersonation,
inheritance,
inventor,
jealousy,
los-angeles-california,
love,
maine,
male-nudity,
marriage-proposal,
mental-illness,
millionaire,
mother-son-relationship,
movie-director,
movie-producer,
movie-star,
movie-studio,
movie-theater,
nervous-breakdown,
new-york-city,
newsreel-footage,
nightclub,
no-opening-credits,
nostalgic,
obsessive-compulsive,
paranoia,
person-on-fire,
phobia,
pilot,
plane-crash,
plane-crash-victim,
plane-wreck,
playboy,
political,
political-corruption,
profanity,
professor,
restroom,
rise-and-fall,
rivalry,
Romance,
scandal,
screening-room,
seaplane,
senator,
shaving,
spruce-goose,
test-flight,
test-pilot,
testifying-before-congress,
title-spoken-by-character,
tourette's-syndrome,
urine,
waitress,
washington-d.c.,
wrap-party,
wwii
Sep 12
Plot:
In 1412, a young girl called Jeanne is born in Domrémy, France. The times are hard: The Hunderd Years war with England has been going on since 1337, English knights and soldiers roam the country. Jeanne develops into a very religious young woman, she confesses several times a day. At the age of 13, she has her first vision and finds a sword. When coming home with it, she finds the English leveling her home town. Years after that, in 1428, she knows her mission is to be ridding France of the English and so sets out to meet Charles, the Dauphin. In his desperate military situation, he welcomes all help and gives the maiden a chance to prove her divine mission. After the successful liberation of Orléans and Reims, the Dauphin can be crowned traditionally in the cathedral of Reims - and does not need her anymore, since his wishes are satisfied. Jeanne d’Arc gets set up in his trap and is imprisoned by the Burgundians. In a trial against her under English law, she can’t be forced to tell about her divine visions she has had continuously since childhood. Being condemned of witchcraft and being considered as relapsed heretic, she is sentenced to death. Jeanne d’Arc is burnt alive in the marketplace of Rouen on May 30th, 1431, at only 19 years of age.
IMDB rating: 6.20 out of 10.0 (11867 votes) Continue reading »
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1400s,
1420s,
army,
axe,
battle,
betrayal,
burned-at-the-stake,
burning-city,
castle,
combat,
coronation,
crossbow,
decapitation,
dream-sequence,
duke,
epic,
fantasy-sequence,
flaming-arrow,
france,
heresy,
heretic,
heroine,
historical,
horse,
hundred-years-war,
impalement,
joan-of-arc,
king,
kingdom,
murder,
political,
priest,
rain,
rape,
retreat,
severed-arm,
severed-foot,
severed-head,
siege,
sword,
sword-fight,
throat-slitting,
time-lapse-photography,
torch,
trebuchet,
violence,
wolf