Released Date:
1992-11-21
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA, Hungary, Russia
Runtime:
172 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (1658 Reviews)
Director:
Ivan PasserJosef Stalin rises from his rejection as being physically unfit in the Czar's army during world War I to undisputed head of the huge Soviet empire of the 1950s. After the success of the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 he vies with arch-rival Leon Trotsky for power under the acknowledged leader, Vladimir Lenin. After Lenin's stroke, the merciless Georgian's ruthless methods soon eliminates all rivals and his cruel paranoia and overt sadism help him maintain power by eliminating every possible rival including many former comrades.
Released Date:
1993-09-17
Languages:
English
Countries:
Netherlands, France, UK, Germany
Runtime:
122 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (3015 Reviews)
Director:
Peter GreenawayA movie about the corruption in all levels of society. A baby is born from a supposed-to-be virgin woman, so a chain of hysteria about divine intervention in the birth takes place.
Released Date:
1995-01-13
Languages:
English, Cornish
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
133 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.5 (102882 Reviews)
Director:
Edward ZwickSusan Shilliday (screenplay)
William D. Wittliff (screenplay)
Jim Harrison (novel)
Set in the Rocky Mountains of Montana in the early 1900s, this is a tale of love, betrayal, and brotherhood. After being discharged, Colonel Ludlow decides to raise his three sons in the wilds of Montana, where they can grow up away from the government and society he has learned to despise. The three brothers mature and seem to have an unbreakable bond, until Susanna enters their lives. When Samuel, the youngest of the three, returns from college he brings with him his beautiful fiancèe, Susanna. The eldest son, Alfred, soon finds himself in love with his brother's fiancèe, and things get worse when he discovers a growing passion between Susanna and Tristan. Colonel Ludlow's favorite son, Tristan is willful and as wild as the mountains. As the brothers set out to fight a war in Europe, suspicion and jealousy threatens to tear apart their once indestructible bond.
Released Date:
1995-12-15
Languages:
English, French
Countries:
Germany, USA
Runtime:
127 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
6.2 (27923 Reviews)
Director:
Sydney PollackSamuel A. Taylor (play)
Billy Wilder (earlier screenplay)
Samuel A. Taylor (earlier screenplay)
Ernest Lehman (earlier screenplay)
Barbara Benedek (screenplay)
David Rayfiel (screenplay)
While she was growing up, Sabrina Fairchild spent more time perched in a tree watching the Larrabee family than she ever did on solid ground. As the chauffeur's daughter on their lavish Long Island estate, Sabrina was invisible behind the branches, but she knew them all below... There is Maude Larrabee, the modern matriarch of the Larrabee Corporation; Linus Larrabee, the serious older son who expanded a successful family business into the world's largest communications company; and David, the handsome, fun-loving Larrabee, who was the center of Sabrina's world until she was shipped off to Paris. After two years on the staff of Vogue magazine, Sabrina has returned to the Larrabee estate but now she has blossomed into a beautiful and sophisticated woman. And she's standing in the way of a billion dollar deal.
Released Date:
1999-02-20
Languages:
Russian, English, French, German
Countries:
Russia, France, Italy, Czech Republic
Runtime:
180 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.9 (8604 Reviews)
Director:
Nikita MikhalkovNikita Mikhalkov (story)
Rustam Ibragimbekov (screenplay)
Nikita Mikhalkov (screenplay)
Rospo Pallenberg (in cooperation with)
Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the wilds of Siberia. Jane is his assistant, who falls in love with a young Russian officer, Andrè, and spends the next 10 years perfecting the harvester and pursuing her love, who has been exiled to Siberia.
Released Date:
1997-02-28
Languages:
English, Inuktitut
Countries:
Denmark, Germany, Sweden
Runtime:
121 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (11401 Reviews)
Director:
Bille AugustPeter Hèeg (novel)
Ann Biderman (screenplay)
Based on Peter Hoeg's bestseller, this film is set in snowy Copenhagen where a small boy is found dead after he fell off a roof. Smilla Jasperson, a close friend who lives in the same house begins to suspect murder because she knows that the boy was afraid of heights and would not have played on the roof. As she begins to investigate, she is pulled deeper and deeper into a conspiracy that could very well mean her death.
Released Date:
1999-10-03
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA, UK
Runtime:
91 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
(4504 Reviews)
Director:
John StephensonGeorge Orwell (novel)
Alan Janes (teleplay)
Martyn Burke (teleplay)
A satire of Stalinist Russia, Animal Farm tells of the revolt of the animals of Manor Farm against their human masters. Led by the pigs Snowball (Lenin) and Napoleon (Stalin), the animals attempt to create a utopian society. Soon, however, Napoleon gets a taste for power, drives out Snowball, and establishes a totalitarian regime as brutal and corrupt as any human society. Manor Farm becomes a world where all animals are equal--but some are more equal than others.
Released Date:
2001-04-22
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian
Countries:
UK, USA, Canada
Runtime:
121 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (712 Reviews)
Director:
Lionel ChetwyndAfter witnessing the treatment of Jews in Nazi territory made him physically sick, cultured American gentleman Varian Fry starts en emergency rescue commission to raise funds and lobby to help intellectuals and artists, especially Jews, escape from Vichy France -where the Pètain government avoid occupation only by utter collaboration- to the US, and for lack of a better volunteer personally sets out in search of them. First lady Eleanor Roosevelt personally overcomes the reticence of the State Department. In Marseille he finds the people he specifically looked for, such as Marc Chagall, already housed by Harry Bingham, a Jewish US consulate official so he starts screening less obvious candidates and examines with Miriam Davenport and a German social democrat they pass for US clergyman Beamish how some can be rescued legally, others via a clandestine route, while colonel Joubert's State Police is at their trace...
Released Date:
2008-12-25
Languages:
English, Russian, French
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
166 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
7.8 (419658 Reviews)
Director:
David FincherEric Roth (screenplay)
Eric Roth (story)
Robin Swicord (story)
F. Scott Fitzgerald (short story)
On the day that Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans, elderly Daisy Williams (nee Fuller) is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life, the primary unusual aspect of which was his aging backwards, being diagnosed with several aging diseases at birth and thus given little chance of survival, but who does survive and gets younger with time. Abandoned by his biological father, Thomas Button, after Benjamin's biological mother died in childbirth, Benjamin was raised by Queenie, a black woman and caregiver at a seniors home. Daisy's grandmother was a resident at that home, which is where she first met Benjamin. Although separated through the years, Daisy and Benjamin remain in contact throughout their lives, reconnecting in their forties when in age they finally match up. Some of the revelations in Benjamin's diary are difficult for Caroline to read, especially as it relates to the time past this reconnection between Benjamin and Daisy, when Daisy gets older and Benjamin grows younger into his childhood years.
Released Date:
2008-07-02
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA, Canada
Runtime:
101 min
Rated:
G
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (4473 Reviews)
Director:
Patricia RozemaAnn Peacock
Valerie Tripp (Kit Kittredge stories)
'Kit Kittredge: An American Mystery' centers around a young girl living in the struggles of the Great Depression. 10 year old Kit lives in a boarding house her parents own in Cincinnati, Ohio. She has a passion for writing, & dreams of having something of hers put in the local paper someday. With the help of her friends, Sterling & Ruthie, will her dream finally come true?
Released Date:
2009-01-24
Languages:
Spanish, English
Countries:
France, Spain, USA
Runtime:
134 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (36251 Reviews)
Director:
Steven SoderberghPeter Buchman (screenplay)
Ernesto 'Che' Guevara (memoir "Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War")
The Argentine, begins as Che and a band of Cuban exiles (led by Fidel Castro) reach the Cuban shore from Mexico in 1956. Within two years, they mobilized popular support and an army and toppled the U.S.-friendly regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista.
Released Date:
2007-07-27
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
105 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
3.6 (22377 Reviews)
Director:
Chris SivertsonAubrey Fleming is a regular high school student with friends and family. One night, she unexpectedly disappears. Two weeks later she is found unconscious in the middle of the woods. When spoken to, her loved ones realize she has forgotten her identity and the personality living in her body is Dakota Moss, a character that Aubrey created in one of her stories for an English assignment. Dakota denies ever being Aubrey knowing that they look identical. Now, Dakota must try to unravel the mystery of how her and Aubrey co-exist and find out who abducted Aubrey that night.
Released Date:
2010-02-06
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
107 min
Rated:
TV-PG
IMDB Ratings:
8.4 (17765 Reviews)
Director:
Mick JacksonTemple Grandin (based on the book: "Emergence")
Margaret Scariano (based on the book: "Emergence")
Temple Grandin (based on the book: "Thinking in Pictures")
Christopher Monger (screenplay)
Merritt Johnson (screenplay)
Biopic of Temple Grandin, an autistic woman who overcame the limitations imposed on her by her condition to become a Ph.D. and expert in the field of animal husbandry. She developed an interest in cattle early in life while spending time at her Aunt and Uncle's ranch. She did not speak until age four and had difficulty right through high school, mostly in dealing with people. Her mother was very supportive as were some of her teachers. She is noted for creating her 'hug box', widely recognized today as a way of relieving stress in autistic children, and her humane design for the treatment of cattle in processing plants, which have been the subject of several books and won an award from PETA. Today, she is a professor at Colorado State University and well-known speaker on autism and animal handling.
Released Date:
2011-12-23
Languages:
English, French
Countries:
UK, USA
Runtime:
99 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
(67686 Reviews)
Director:
Simon CurtisAdrian Hodges (screenplay)
Colin Clark (books)
Sir Laurence Olivier is making a movie in London. Young Colin Clark, an eager film student, wants to be involved and he navigates himself a job on the set. When film star Marilyn Monroe arrives for the start of shooting, all of London is excited to see the blonde bombshell, while Olivier is struggling to meet her many demands and acting ineptness, and Colin is intrigued by her. Colin's intrigue is met when Marilyn invites him into her inner world where she struggles with her fame, her beauty and her desire to be a great actress.
Released Date:
2013-07-18
Languages:
English
Countries:
Canada
Runtime:
94 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (10873 Reviews)
Director:
Jennifer Chambers LynchDamian O'Donnell (based on a screenplay by)
Jennifer Chambers Lynch (screenplay)
This movie is about A cab driver called Bob (Vincent D'Onofrio) who picks up women and takes them to his house where he kills them. But on this one day he picks up a woman and her 9 year old son Tim. Bob then makes Tim live in the house with him all while he keeps killing women. Tim grows up there, watching, seeing all that happens. Bob wants to make him his protègè. Will Tim carry on the legacy?
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