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Orlando (1992)
Genre:
Drama,
Fantasy,
Period Film,
Feminist Film.
Director:
Sally Potter.
Actors:
Tilda Swinton,
Billy Zane,
Lothaire Bluteau,
John Wood,
Charlotte Valandrey,
Quentin Crisp,
Heathcote Williams,
Peter Eyre,
Jimmy Somerville,
Dudley Sutton,
Simon Russell Beale,
John Byrne,
Sarah Crowden,
Robert Demeger,
John Grillo,
Roger Hammond,
Barbara Hicks,
Thom Hoffman,
Kathryn Hunter,
Toby Jones,
Mary McLeod,
Ned Sherrin,
Jerome Willis.
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Independent filmmaker Sally Potter's gender-bending epic, which views four centuries of sexual politics through the eyes of a sex-switching main character, is based on the 1928 novel by Virginia Woolf. The androgynous title character is played with delicate quietude by Tilda Swinton. The story begins during the reign of the aging Queen Elizabeth I (Quentin Crisp, in a droll turn recalling his The ...
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Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira examines the life of 17th century priest and activist Father Antonio Vieira in this biographical drama based on Vieira's own writings. As the film opens, Vieira (Ricardo Trepa) is a missionary working in Brazil who, in addition to spreading the word about Christianity, is passionately devoted to eliminating slavery and bettering the lives of blacks and indig ...
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Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
Genre:
Drama,
Fantasy,
Fairy Tales & Legends,
War Drama,
Period Film.
Director:
Guillermo del Toro.
Actors:
Ariadna Gil,
Ivana Baquero,
Sergi López,
Maribel Verdú,
Doug Jones,
Alex Angulo,
Manolo Solo,
Cesar Vea,
Roger Casamajor,
Ivan Massague,
Gonzalo Martin Uriarte,
Eusebio Lazaro,
Paco Vidal,
Juanjo Cucalon,
Lina Mira,
Mario Zorilla,
Sebastian Haro,
Mila Espiga,
Pepa Pedroche,
María Jesús Gatoo,
Ana Saez,
Chani Martin,
Milo Taboada,
Fernando Albizu,
Pedro G. Marzo,
Jose Luis Torrijos,
Inigo Garces,
Fernando Tielve,
Federico Luppi,
Chicho Campillo,
Brittney Bush,
Elizabeth Irastorza,
Shirley Cheechoo,
Chong Che Leung.
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Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro returns to the phantasmagorical cinema that defined such early fare as Cronos and The Devil's Backbone with this haunting fantasy-drama set in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War and detailing the strange journeys of an imaginative young girl who may be the mythical princess of an underground kingdom. Her mother, Carmen (Ariadna Gil), recently remarried to s ...
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Paradise (1982)
Genre:
Romance,
Drama,
Romantic Adventure,
Teen Movie,
Period Film.
Director:
Stuart Gillard.
Actors:
Willie Aames,
Phoebe Cates,
Richard Curnock,
Tuvia Tavi,
Neil Vipond,
Aviva Marks,
Joseph Shiloach.
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A "The Blue Lagoon" set in the Sahara Desert, this romantic adventure is set at the turn of century and chronicles the story of two beautiful teens who end up traveling alone from Bagdad to Damascus after their respective parents are killed by a the henchmen of a sheik who wants the girl for himself. During their travels the youths learn about life, love and the joys of sex.
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Parineeta (2005)
Genre:
Drama,
Romantic Drama,
Period Film.
Director:
Pradeep Sarkar.
Actors:
Sanjay Dutt,
Saif Ali Khan,
Vidya Balan,
Diya Mirza,
Raima Sen,
Sabyasachi Chakraborty,
Achyut Potdar,
Rekha,
Biplab Chatterjee,
Surinder Kaur.
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Sarat Chandra Chattopadhye's beloved novel is brought to the screen in this lavish adaptation, which moves the story to the heady days of 1962 in Calcutta. Lolita (Vidya Balan) is a beautiful young woman who is taken in by her uncle after the tragic death of her parents. She grows up in a household of love and support despite her unfortunate circumstances, and as a child she makes friends with She ...
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Pathfinder (2007)
Genre:
Adventure,
Adventure Drama,
Sword-and-Sandal,
Period Film.
Director:
Marcus Nispel.
Actors:
Karl Urban,
Moon Bloodgood,
Russell Means,
Clancy Brown,
Jay Tavare,
Nathaniel Arcand,
Ralf Moeller,
Kevin Loring,
Wayne C. Baker,
Michelle Thrush,
Nicole Muñoz,
Burkely Duffield,
Ray G. Thunderchild,
Duane Howard,
Brandon Oakes,
Alain Hudon,
Cyler Point,
Stefany Mathias,
John Mann,
Ken Jones,
Mike Dopud,
Woody Jeffreys,
André Todorovic,
Marcel Petit.
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The sole survivor of a Viking "dragon" vessel shipwrecked on Eastern shores of the New World fifteen years ago provides the only hope for the a Native American tribe faced with certain destruction by Norse berserkers in director Marcus Nispel's (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) dark action adventure. Reared by the Wampanoag Tribe following a failed attempt by the Vikings to raid coastal vill ...
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Persuasion (2007)
Genre:
Drama,
Romantic Drama,
Period Film.
Director:
Adrian Shergold.
Actors:
Sally Hawkins,
Rupert Penry-Jones,
Alice Krige,
Marion Bailey,
Julia Davis,
Amanda Hale,
Sam Hazeldine,
Anthony Head,
Jennifer Higham,
Tobias Menzies,
Peter Wight.
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Sally Hawkins and Rupert Penry-Jones star in this adaptation of the Jane Austin classic about a lovelorn woman who receives a second chance for true happiness. Anne Elliot was just nineteen when she fell hopelessly in love with dashing naval officer Frederick Wentworth, so when her family attempted to convince her that she was making a terrible mistake the smitten young woman hastily broke off her ...
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Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
Genre:
Horror,
Costume Horror,
Gothic Film,
Period Film.
Director:
Roger Corman.
Actors:
Vincent Price,
John Kerr,
Barbara Steele,
Luana Anders,
Anthony Carbone,
Patrick Westwood,
Lynn Bernay,
Larry Turner,
Mary Menzies,
Charles Victor.
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American-International's standing "haunted castle" set is exhibited to peak advantage in Roger Corman's Pit & the Pendulum. Save for the climax, Richard Matheson's script bears but little resemblance to the Edgar Allen Poe original, though there are pronounced echoes throughout of Poe's The Premature Burial. Vincent Price stars as Nicholas Medina, the son of a notorious Spanish Inqui ...
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Pride & Prejudice (2005)
Genre:
Comedy,
Romance,
Romantic Comedy,
Period Film,
Comedy of Manners.
Director:
Joe Wright.
Actors:
Keira Knightley,
Matthew MacFadyen,
Brenda Blethyn,
Donald Sutherland,
Tom Hollander,
Rosamund Pike,
Jena Malone,
Judi Dench,
Kelly Reilly,
Claudie Blakley,
Peter Wight,
Rupert Friend,
Tamzin Merchant,
Cornelius Booth,
Sylvester Morand,
Rosamund Stephen,
Janet Whiteside,
Sinead Matthews,
Roy Holder,
Meg Wynn Owen,
Samantha Bloom,
Moya Brady,
Pip Torrens,
Jay Simpson,
Carey Mulligan,
Talulah Riley,
Penelope Wilton,
Simon Woods.
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Jane Austen's perennially popular story of the game of love among the British upper classes returns to the screen in this polished film adaptation. The Bennetts (Brenda Blethyn and Donald Sutherland) are the parents of five daughters near the close of the 18th century. Comfortable within their means but well short of rich, Mr. and Mrs. Bennett are looking for suitable husbands for their girls, and ...
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Rashomon (1951)
Genre:
Drama,
Period Film,
Crime Drama,
Samurai Film.
Director:
Akira Kurosawa.
Actors:
Toshiro Mifune,
Masayuki Mori,
Machiko Kyo,
Takashi Shimura,
Minoru Chiaki,
Kichijiro Ueda,
Fumiko Homma,
Daisuke Kato.
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This landmark film is a brilliant exploration of truth and human weakness. It opens with a priest, a woodcutter, and a peasant taking refuge from a downpour beneath a ruined gate in 12th-century Japan. The priest and the woodcutter, each looking stricken, discuss the trial of a notorious bandit for rape and murder. As the retelling of the trial unfolds, the participants in the crime — th ...
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Remember the Daze (2007)
Genre:
Comedy,
Teen Movie,
Period Film.
Director:
Jess Manafort.
Actors:
Amber Heard,
Alexa Vega,
Leighton Meester,
Melonie Diaz,
Lyndsy Fonseca,
Wesley Jonathan,
Shahine Ezell,
Max Hoffman,
Christopher Marquette,
Brie Larson,
Charles Chen,
Katrina Begin,
Jess Heard,
Aaron Himelstein,
Belinda Keller,
Moira Kelly,
Stella Maeve,
Sean Marquette,
Marnette Patterson,
Sean Patterson,
John Robinson,
Christopher Shand,
Douglas Smith,
Khleo Thomas,
Josh Waters,
Michael Welch.
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The feature debut from writer/director Jess Manafort, this bittersweet teen comedy centers on a group of kids on the last day of school in 1999. With an ensemble cast featuring Lyndsy Fonseca, Amber Heard, and Alexa Vega, the film follows several students as they relish the advent of summer vacation and struggle with drugs, sex, and the unpredictability of the future before them. The Beautiful Ord ...
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A woman who has come to a strange land is torn between the life she knows and the new life around her in this epic-scale historical drama. In 1854, New Zealand's indigenous Maori tribes were engaged in an ongoing battle to drive away European settlers eager to establish colonies in the nation's wilderness, which the Maori saw as a threat to their way of life. However, some outsiders had made a hom ...
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Road to Perdition (2002)
Genre:
Crime,
Drama,
Crime Drama,
Period Film,
Gangster Film.
Director:
Sam Mendes.
Actors:
Tom Hanks,
Paul Newman,
Jude Law,
Jennifer Jason Leigh,
Stanley Tucci,
Daniel Craig,
Tyler Hoechlin,
Liam Aiken,
Dylan Baker,
Ciarán Hinds,
Mina Badie,
Lance Baker,
Ian Barford,
Dylan Barker,
Michael Brockman,
Nicholas Cade,
Jack Callahan,
Jobe Cerny,
Kevin Chamberlin,
David Darlow,
Diane Dorsey,
Stephen P. Dunn,
Maurie Gallagher,
James Greene,
Harry Groener,
Timothy Hendrickson,
Marty Higginbotham,
John Judd,
Kathleen Keane,
Ed Kross,
Keith Kupferer,
Lawrence MacGowan,
Rob Maxey,
Brendan McKinney,
The Monte Carlos,
Jackie Moran,
Kurt Naebig,
Heidi Jayne Netzley,
Kieran O'Hare,
Roderick Peeples,
Lara Phillips,
Phil Ridarelli,
Peggy Roeder,
Lee Roy Rogers,
Michael Sassone,
Jon Sattler,
Duane Sharp,
John Sierros,
Craig Spidle,
Doug Spinuzza,
John Sterchi,
Christian Stolte,
Paul Turner.
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The acclaimed graphic novel from crime writer Max Allan Collins becomes this big budget Dreamworks drama from director Sam Mendes and screenwriter David Self. Tom Hanks stars as Michael Sullivan, a morally conflicted Depression-era hit man committing murder in the name of his employer, John Rooney (Paul Newman). A kindly, aging Irish crime boss who raised Sullivan as his surrogate son, Rooney is a ...
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Rock Star (2001)
Genre:
Drama,
Musical Drama,
Period Film.
Director:
Stephen Herek.
Actors:
Mark Wahlberg,
Jennifer Aniston,
Timothy Olyphant,
Jason Flemyng,
Timothy Spall,
Dominic West,
Dagmara Dominczyk,
Matthew Glave,
Stephan Jenkins,
Beth Grant,
Jason Bonham,
Heidi Mark,
Michael Shamus Wiles,
Jeff Pilson,
Zakk Wylde,
Blas Elias,
Nick Catanese,
Brian Vander Ark,
Rachel Hunter.
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Loosely inspired by the true story of the heavy metal band Judas Priest, this music industry fable from director Stephen Herek is based on a script by actor-turned-writer/director John Stockwell. Mark Wahlberg stars as Chris Cole, a wannabe rock star who works by day as a copy machine repairman and by night as the lead singer of Blood Pollution, a Pennsylvania tribute band that imitates the best-s ...
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A bloody trail of mutilated corpses leaves a remote village frozen with fear in this full moon tale of terror starring Julian Sands and directed by El Segundo Nombre's Francisco Plaza. When authorities discover a number of bodies bearing wounds of surgical precision mixed with savage gashes deep within the nearby forest, the citizens of Allariz vow never again to set foot in the dreaded woods. Tho ...
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Rosenstrasse (2003)
Genre:
Drama,
Period Film,
War Drama.
Director:
Margarethe von Trotta.
Actors:
Katja Riemann,
Maria Schrader,
Martin Feifel,
Jürgen Vogel,
Jutta Lampe,
Doris Schade,
Fedja van Huêt,
Carola Regnier,
Svea Lohde,
Jutta Wachowiak,
Jan Decleir,
Thekla Reuten,
Lilian Schiffer,
Lena Stolze,
Isolde Barth,
Fritz Lichtenhahn,
Nina Kunzendorf,
Martin Wuttke.
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German filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta directs the war drama Rosenstrasse, based on the plight of "mixed marriages" between Jewish men and non-Jewish women during the Holocaust. In contemporary New York, Jewish matriarch Ruth (Jutta Lampe) practices Orthodox mourning traditions for her late husband, to the dismay of her daughter Hannah (Maria Schrader). At the wake, Ruth's cousin Rachel ...
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Saint Ralph (2004)
Genre:
Comedy Drama,
Period Film,
Coming-of-Age.
Director:
Michael McGowan.
Actors:
Adam Butcher,
Campbell Scott,
Gordon Pinsent,
Jennifer Tilly,
Shauna MacDonald,
Michael Kanev,
Tamara Hope,
Henry Alessandroni,
Boyd Banks,
Brandon Barre,
Jeff Baxter,
John Blakey,
Michael David Brown,
Frank Crudele,
Sean Cullen,
Naomi Emmerson,
Ben Gans,
Keir Gilchrist,
Jonathan Higgins,
Fiona Highet,
Daniel Karasik,
Lubica Kucerova,
Joan Massiah,
Jock McLeod,
Gerard Parkes,
Chris Ploszczansky,
Paulette Sinclair,
Rob Smith,
Barry Stilwell,
Jonathan Walker,
Jonathan Wilson.
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A young man with big dreams sets out to do the seemingly impossible in this bittersweet comedy drama. Ralph Walker (Adam Butcher) is a 14-year-old boy growing up in Hamilton, Ontario, in 1954. Ralph is convinced he's cut out to do something remarkable some day, but he hasn't quite decided what, and at the moment he has other things to worry about. Ralph's father has recently died, as have his gran ...
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San Francisco (1936)
Genre:
Drama,
Period Film,
Disaster Film,
Romantic Drama.
Director:
W.S. Van Dyke.
Actors:
Clark Gable,
Jeanette MacDonald,
Spencer Tracy,
Jack Holt,
Jessie Ralph,
Ted Healy,
Shirley Ross,
Margaret Irving,
Harold Huber,
Al Shean,
William Ricciardi,
Kenneth Harlan,
Roger Imhof,
Charles Judels,
Russell Simpson,
Bert Roach,
Warren Hymer,
Jean Acker,
Maude Allen,
Oscar Apfel,
Sam Ash,
Gertrude Astor,
Irving Bacon,
King Baggot,
Jane Barnes,
Vince Barnett,
Jack Baxley,
Nyas Berry,
Sidney Bracey,
James Brewster,
Fritzi Brunette,
Tommy Bupp,
Orrin Burke,
Richard Carle,
Helene Chadwick,
Naomi Childers,
George Pat Collins,
Adrienne D'Ambricourt,
Nigel de Brulier,
Vernon Dent,
Tom Dugan,
Edward Earle,
Jim Farley,
Flora Finch,
Chester Gan,
Bud Geary,
Ruth Gillette,
George Guhl,
Sherry Hall,
Edward Hearn,
John Kelly,
Cy Kendall,
Edgar Kennedy,
Jack Kennedy,
Ralph Lewis,
Wilbur Mack,
James Macklin,
George Magrill,
Frank Mayo,
Tom McGuire,
Bob McKenzie,
John Miller,
Belle Mitchell,
Bruce Mitchell,
Harry Myers,
William Newell,
Bill O'Brien,
Spec O'Donnell,
Dennis O'Keefe,
Pat O'Malley,
John Pearson,
Jason Robards, Sr.,
Beatrice Roberts,
Henry Roquemore,
Don Rowan,
Frank Sheridan,
Helen Shipman,
Carl Stockdale,
Harry Strang,
Charles Sullivan,
Ben Taggart,
Rosemary Thebv,
David Thursby,
Tudor Williams,
Otho Wright.
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The MGM historical "spectacular" San Francisco was allegedly based on a three-sentence synopsis, submitted verbally to producer B.F. Zeidman by studio troubleshooter Bob Hopkins. The story begins on the Barbary Coast on New Year's Eve, 1906, as rakish but likeable political boss Blackie Norton (Clark Gable) hires demure young singer Mary Blake (Jeanette MacDonald) to perform at his rowdy ...
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Savage Grace (2007)
Genre:
Crime,
Crime Drama,
Family Drama,
Docudrama,
Period Film.
Director:
Tom Kalin.
Actors:
Julianne Moore,
Stephen Dillane,
Eddie Redmayne,
Hugh Dancy,
Elena Anaya,
Unax Ugalde,
Belén Rueda,
Barney Clark,
Anne Reid.
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Adapted from the nonfiction book by Natalie Robins and Steven M.L. Aronson, Tom Kalin's Savage Grace recounts the true crime tale of the death of Barbara Baekeland. Stephen Dillane stars as Brooks Baekeland, the son of the man who invented Bakelite, one of the early forms of plastic. As the family fortune begins to decrease after years of wealth, Brooks marries Barbara (Julianne Moore), who desire ...
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Seabiscuit (2003)
Genre:
Drama,
Period Film,
Sports Drama.
Director:
Gary Ross.
Actors:
Tobey Maguire,
Jeff Bridges,
Chris Cooper,
Elizabeth Banks,
Gary Stevens,
William H. Macy,
Kingston DuCoeur,
Eddie Jones,
Ed Lauter,
Michael O'Neill,
Michael Angarano,
Royce D. Applegate,
Annie Corley,
Valerie Mahaffey,
David McCullough,
Clif Alvey,
Michelle Arthur,
Catherine M. Baeza,
George Baker,
Mariah Bess,
Robin Bissell,
Samuel Bottoms,
Cameron Bowen,
Ben Campisi,
Dyllan Christopher,
Jay Cohen,
Raul Cuellar,
Dan Daily,
Aerial Delarosa,
David Doty,
Shay Duffin,
James DuMont,
Gina A. Duran,
Michael Ensign,
Roger E. Fanter,
Borden Flanagan,
Cynthia Reifler Flores,
Monica Fogelquist,
Maria Luisa Fregosa,
Matthew Gillies,
Ruby Guiterrez,
Gary A. Hecker,
Eric Hernandez,
Jesse Hernandez,
José García Hernández,
Julio Hernandez,
Pedro Hernandez,
Sylvia N. Hinojosa,
William Hollick,
Hans Howes,
Michael Hunter,
Peter Jason,
Javier Juarequi,
James Keane,
Paige King,
Anthony Klingman,
Jacqui Larsson,
Noah Luke,
Ken Magee,
Kevin Mangold,
Daniel Martinez,
Chris McCarron,
Gary McGurk,
Dennis Meade,
Matt Miller,
Frank Mirahmadi,
Fernando Moreno,
Mariana Nanez,
Paul Vincent O'Connor,
Leticia Olmos,
Laura Pena,
Jose Ramirez,
Jamie Lee Redmon,
Richard Reeves,
Joe Rocco Jr.,
Gary Ross,
Gianni Russo,
Camilia Sanes,
Andrew Schatzberg,
Michael B. Silver,
Pat Skipper,
Joshua Stanley,
Danny Strong,
Karla Tovar,
Tony Volu,
John Walcutt,
Michael White,
Ivan Wild.
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For his sophomore effort, director Gary Ross re-teams with Tobey Maguire and William H. Macy, stars of his directorial debut Pleasantville, for this depression-era sports drama about the legendary racehorse, Seabiscuit. Unlike 1949's fictionalized The Story of Seabiscuit starring Shirley Temple, this version attempts to present a factual account of the story, which centers around the three men who ...
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Sense and Sensibility (1995)
Genre:
Comedy Drama,
Romance,
Period Film,
Comedy of Manners,
Romantic Drama.
Director:
Ang Lee.
Actors:
Emma Thompson,
Alan Rickman,
Kate Winslet,
Hugh Grant,
James Fleet,
Greg Wise,
Harriet Walter,
Oliver Ford Davies,
Emile Francois,
Robert Hardy,
Alexander John,
Hugh Laurie,
Richard Lumsden,
Imelda Staunton,
Imogen Stubbs,
Tom Wilkinson,
Gemma Jones,
Elizabeth Spriggs.
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The recipient of seven Oscar® nominations, this film version of Jane Austen's classic 1811 novel stars Emma Thompson as Elinor Dashwood. With her mother and sisters, Elinor struggles financially after the death of her father, who bequeathed the Dashwood estate to his oafish son by an earlier marriage. While sorting out the family's affairs, the shy, self-sacrificing Elinor secretly falls for her s ...
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Seraphim Falls (2006)
Genre:
Western,
Revisionist Western,
Action Thriller,
Period Film.
Director:
David Von Ancken.
Actors:
Liam Neeson,
Pierce Brosnan,
Anjelica Huston,
Michael Wincott,
Robert Baker,
Ed Lauter,
Tom Noonan,
Kevin J. O'Connor,
John Robinson.
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Frequent television director David Von Ancken (Oz and The Shield) offers a thrilling meditation on the true nature of revenge with this post-Civil War era tale of a one man's quest to put his nemesis in the ground, and another man's struggle to survive at any cost. Deep in the snowy mountains of the American West, a lone man named Gideon (Pierce Brosnan) basks, lost in thought, in the warm glow of ...
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Silk (2007)
Genre:
Drama,
Romantic Drama,
Period Film.
Director:
François Girard.
Actors:
Michael Pitt,
Keira Knightley,
Koji Yakusho,
Alfred Molina,
Miki Nakatani,
Mark Rendall,
Sei Ashina,
Kenneth Welsh,
Jun Kunimura,
Callum Keith Rennie,
Carlo Cecchi,
Toni Bertorelli.
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Francois Girard's adaptation of Alessandro Baricco's novel Silk stars Michael Pitt as a young Frenchman who travels to Japan at the request of a wealthy silkworm magnate who asks him to smuggle back some new worms. The mission succeeds, and this allows the man to live in great comfort with his wife (Keira Knightley). After a few years, they are unable to conceive a child, a situation that leads to ...
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In this stark drama based on actual events in a small French town in the early '30s, a pair of repressed sisters slowly lose their grip on reality, leading to horrific consequences at the home where they're employed as maids. Christine (Joely Richardson), a domestic servant in the home of haughty widow Madame Danzard (Julie Walters), takes pride in her efficiency and deference. Raised by nuns, Chr ...
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Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
Genre:
Adventure,
Science Fiction,
Sci-Fi Action,
Period Film,
Master Criminal Films,
Tech Noir.
Director:
Kerry Conran.
Actors:
Gwyneth Paltrow,
Jude Law,
Angelina Jolie,
Giovanni Ribisi,
Michael Gambon,
Bai Ling,
Omid Djalili,
Laurence Olivier,
Trevor Baxter,
Julian Curry.
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Directed by Kerry Conran, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow revolves around the mysterious disappearance of some of the world's most revered scientists. When an investigation is launched, Polly Perkins (Gwyneth Paltrow), reporter for the prestigious Chronicle, and Sky Captain (Jude Law), resident flying ace, are at the forefront of the case. Though the mission's perks include traveling around ...
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Some Things That Stay (2004)
Genre:
Drama,
Period Film,
Coming-of-Age.
Director:
Gail Harvey.
Actors:
Katie Boland,
Stuart Wilson,
Kevin Zegers,
Alberta Watson,
Jack Knight,
Jordan Allison,
Yannick Bisson,
Megan Park,
Nadia Litz,
Peter MacNeill,
Geraint Wyn Davies,
Julian Richings,
Ken James,
Barry Flatman.
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Gail Harvey's Some Things That Stay stars Katie Boland as a teenager whose adolescence is complicated by her bohemian family and their resistance to the cultural mores of Eisenhower-era America.
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Son of Rambow (2007)
Genre:
Comedy Drama,
Childhood Drama,
Period Film,
Coming-of-Age.
Director:
Garth Jennings.
Actors:
Bill Milner,
Will Poulter,
Jules Sitruk,
Jessica Stevenson,
Neil Dudgeon,
Anna Wing,
Ed Westwick,
Adam Godley,
Adam Buxton,
Eric Sykes,
Charlie Thrift.
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As the summer sun shines down on England in the early 1980s, two boys who couldn't be more different are brought together by a mutual love of cinema and a desire to emulate their favorite action movie icon. Will Proudfoot (Bill Milner) is a well-mannered schoolboy being raised in an ultra-religious community that deplores such corruptive distractions as television and seeks to maintain its purity ...
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Sophie's Choice (1982)
Genre:
Drama,
Psychological Drama,
Period Film,
Romantic Drama.
Director:
Alan J. Pakula.
Actors:
Meryl Streep,
Kevin Kline,
Peter MacNicol,
Rita Karin,
Stephen D. Newman,
Greta Turken,
Josh Mostel,
Günther Maria Halmer,
Katharina Thalbach,
Karlheinz Hackl,
Ulli Fessl,
Melanie Pianka,
Robin Bartlett,
Armand Dahan,
Alixe Gordin,
Vida Jerman,
Adrian Kalitka,
Jennifer Lawn,
Joseph Leon,
Eugene Lipinski,
Eugeniusz Priwieziencew,
Marcell Rosenblatt,
Moishe Rosenfeld,
John Rothman,
Josef Sommer,
Joseph Tobin,
David Wohl.
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The year is 1947. Aspiring southern author Stingo (Peter MacNichol) heads to New York to seek his fortune. Moving into a dingy Brooklyn boarding house, Stingo strikes up a friendship with research chemist Nathan Landau (Kevin Kline) and Nathan's girlfriend, Polish refugee Sophie Zawistowska (Oscar-winner Meryl Streep). There is something unsettling about the relationship; Nathan is subject to viol ...
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Talk to Me (2007)
Genre:
Comedy Drama,
Biography [feature],
Period Film.
Director:
Kasi Lemmons.
Actors:
Don Cheadle,
Chiwetel Ejiofor,
Cedric the Entertainer,
Taraji P. Henson,
Mike Epps,
Martin Sheen,
Vondie Curtis-Hall,
J. Miles Dale,
Jeff Kassel,
Sean MacMahon.
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Don Cheadle stars as outspoken ex-convict and iconic radio personality Ralph Waldo "Petey" Greene in a powerful biopic detailing the life and career of a media figure whose voice instilled the black community with hope during the turbulent 1960s. After talking his way onto the Washington, D.C. airwaves in the era of free love, a man emboldened by the inspirational soul music and rapidly- ...
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The Age of Innocence (1993)
Genre:
Romance,
Drama,
Period Film,
Romantic Drama.
Director:
Martin Scorsese.
Actors:
Daniel Day-Lewis,
Michelle Pfeiffer,
Winona Ryder,
Miriam Margolyes,
Richard E. Grant,
Alec McCowen,
Geraldine Chaplin,
Mary Beth Hurt,
Stuart Wilson,
Sian Phillips,
Michael Gough,
Alexis Smith,
Norman Lloyd,
Jonathan Pryce,
Carolyn Farina,
Robert Sean Leonard,
Thomas Barbour,
Claire Bloom,
W.B. Brydon,
Brian Davies,
Patricia Dunnock,
Tracey Ellis,
Howard Erskine,
Henry Fehren,
Clement Fowler,
Thomas Gibson,
John McLoughlin,
Catherine Scorsese,
Charles Scorsese,
Domenica Scorsese,
Martin Scorsese,
June Squibb,
Joanne Woodward,
Zoe.
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In Martin Scorsese's adaptation of Edith Wharton's 1920 novel, romance between an upper-class gentleman and an ostracized lady is doomed by 19th century New York society. Shortly after his engagement to blandly genteel May Welland (Winona Ryder), Newland Archer (Daniel Day-Lewis) is reacquainted with May's scandalous cousin Ellen Olenska (Michelle Pfeiffer). As the head of an esteemed family, Arch ...
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The Art of Crying (2006)
Genre:
Drama,
Period Film,
Family Drama.
Director:
Peter Schønau Fog.
Actors:
Jannik Lorenzen,
Jesper Asholt,
Julie Kolbeck,
Hanne Hedelund,
Thomas Knuth-Winterfeldt,
Gitte Siem Christensen,
Rita Angela,
Bjarne Henriksen,
Sune Thomsen,
Tue Frisk Petersen.
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An 11-year-old boy who is desperate to maintain peace in his explosive homestead and prevent the family business from being stolen out from under his father's nose blithely commits a series of atrocious acts in director Peter Schønau Fog's dark family drama. Allan's father is a psychotic milkman. When the intrusion of a rival family threatens to deepen Allan's already fathomless woes by plunging h ...
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A World Without Thieves director Feng Xiaogang shifts his focus from modern-day con artists to tenth century intrigue with this tale of internal turmoil in the age of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms starring Zhang Ziyi, Daniel Wu, and Ge You. Her empire on the verge of a massive revolution as storms begin to brew both within the royal court as well as in the outlying kingdoms, the entrancing Empre ...
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The Beguiled (1970)
Genre:
Drama,
Melodrama,
Period Film.
Director:
Don Siegel.
Actors:
Clint Eastwood,
Geraldine Page,
Elizabeth Hartman,
Jo Ann Harris,
Darlene Carr,
Mae Mercer,
Charlie Briggs,
Matt Clark,
Pat Culliton,
Peggy Drier,
George Dunn,
Pamelyn Ferdin,
Pattye Mattick,
Melody Thomas,
Buddy Van Horn.
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The Beguiled is a Freudian mood piece from the team of actor Clint Eastwood and director Don Siegel. Eastwood plays Corp. John McBurney, a wounded Union soldier during the Civil War, who takes refuge in a prim-and-proper Southern girl's school run by Martha Farnsworth (Geraldine Page). Chauvinistic, insensitive and conceited, McBurney takes full advantage of the women by bedding each successively ...
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The Cider House Rules (1999)
Genre:
Drama,
Coming-of-Age,
Romantic Drama,
Americana,
Period Film.
Director:
Lasse Hallström.
Actors:
Tobey Maguire,
Charlize Theron,
Delroy Lindo,
Paul Rudd,
Michael Caine,
Jane Alexander,
Kathy Baker,
Erykah Badu,
Kieran Culkin,
Kate Nelligan,
Heavy D,
K. Todd Freeman,
Paz de la Huerta,
Lonnie Farmer,
Erik Per Sullivan.
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John Irving scripted this screen adaptation of his 1985 novel. Set during World War II, The Cider House Rules concerns Homer Wells (Tobey Maguire), an orphan who spent most of his childhood at the St. Cloud Orphanage in rural Maine, where he grew up under the strong but affectionate care of Dr. Wilbur Larch (Michael Caine). Larch has passed along his medical education to Homer, and the young man h ...
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The Color Purple (1985)
Genre:
Drama,
Period Film,
Feminist Film,
Marriage Drama,
Rural Drama.
Director:
Steven Spielberg.
Actors:
Danny Glover,
Whoopi Goldberg,
Margaret Avery,
Oprah Winfrey,
Willard E. Pugh,
Akosua Busia,
Desreta Jackson,
Adolph Caesar,
Dana Ivey,
Carl Anderson,
Clarence Avant,
Susan Beaubian,
Drew Bundi Brown,
Donna Buie,
Reuben Cannon,
Rae Dawn Chong,
Marcus Covington,
Lillian Njoki Distefano,
Laurence Fishburne,
Margaret Freeman,
Bennet Guillory,
John Hart,
Leonard Jackson,
Hawthorne James,
Jadili Johnson,
Peto Kinsaka,
Lechanda Lathrap,
Marcus Liles,
Lelo Masamba,
Maurice Moore,
Carrie Murray,
April Myers,
Daphaine Oliver,
John Patton, Jr.,
Juliet Poe,
Jeris Poindexter,
Leon Rippy,
Job Seda,
Katie Simon,
Howard Starr,
Phillip Strong,
Ethel Taylor,
David Thomas,
James Tillis,
Arnold Turner.
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Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker, The Color Purple spans the years 1909 to 1949, relating the life of Celie (Whoopi Goldberg), a Southern black woman virtually sold into a life of servitude to her brutal husband, sharecropper Albert (Danny Glover). Celie pours out her innermost thoughts in letter form to her sister Nettie (Akousa Busia), but Albert has been hiding the lett ...
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The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys brings Chris Fuhrman's well-received, posthumously published teen novel to the screen. Set in the 1970s, the film concerns two rebellious Catholic schoolboys — bashful, pensive Francis (Emile Hirsch) and whip-smart, impulsive Tim (Kieran Culkin) — who spend their free time pulling elaborate pranks and creating a comic book featuring themselves ...
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Guillermo del Toro, who quickly became one of the most talked-about directors in contemporary horror films with his first two features, Chronos and Mimic, takes on a more subtle tale of terror with this psychological suspense piece. Casares (Federico Luppi) and Carmen (Marisa Paredes) operate a small home for orphans in a remote part of Spain during the Spanish Civil War. Helping the couple mind t ...
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The Elephant Man (1980)
Genre:
Drama,
Biography [feature],
Medical Drama,
Period Film.
Director:
David Lynch.
Actors:
Anthony Hopkins,
John Hurt,
Anne Bancroft,
John Gielgud,
Wendy Hiller,
Freddie Jones,
Michael Elphick,
Hannah Gordon,
Helen Ryan,
John Standing,
Dexter Fletcher,
Lesley Dunlop,
Phoebe Nicholls,
Kenny Baker,
Robert Bush,
Kathleen Byron,
Fanny Carby,
Maggie Cartier,
Gerald Case,
Teresa Codling,
Dierdre Costello,
Claire Davenport,
Peter Davidson,
Robert Day,
Roy Evans,
Pat Gorman,
Chris Greener,
Carole Harrison,
Patricia Hodge,
Richard Hunter,
Eiji Kusuhara,
Tony London,
Hugh Manning,
Bernadette Milnes,
Orla Pederson,
Marcus Powell,
Pauline Quirke,
John Rapley,
David Ryall,
Lisa & Teri Scobie,
William Morgan Sheppard,
Patsy Smart,
Stromboli,
Frederick Treves,
Tommy Wright.
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The English Patient (1996)
Genre:
Drama,
Romance,
Romantic Epic,
Period Film,
War Romance,
Romantic Adventure.
Director:
Anthony Minghella.
Actors:
Ralph Fiennes,
Juliette Binoche,
Willem Dafoe,
Kristin Scott Thomas,
Naveen Andrews,
Colin Firth,
Julian Wadham,
Samy Azaiez,
Phillipa Bay,
Sondess Belhassen,
Lothaire Bluteau,
Nino Castelnuovo,
Habib Chetoui,
Raymond Coulthard,
Jason Done,
Fritz Eggert,
Matthew Ferguson,
Abdellatif Hamrouni,
Torri Higginson,
Geordie Johnson,
Paul Kant,
Dominic Mafham,
Sonia Mankai,
Clive Merrison,
Salah Miled,
Roger Morlidge,
Clive Morrison,
Jürgen Prochnow,
Liisa Repo-Martell,
Lee Ross,
Hichem Rostom,
Sebastian Rudolph,
Peter Ruhring,
Sebastian Schipper,
Thoraya Sehill,
Simon Sherlock,
Anthony Smee,
Rim Turki,
Amanda Walker,
Kevin Whately,
Philip Whitchurch.
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Anthony Minghella wrote and directed this award-winning adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's novel about a doomed and tragic romance set against the backdrop of World War II. In a field hospital in Italy, Hana (Juliette Binoche), a nurse from Canada, is caring for a pilot who was horribly burned in a plane wreck; he has no identification and cannot remember his name, so he's known simply as "the ...
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When a loyal member of a crime syndicate volunteers to take the heat off his gang and go into temporary exile after a volatile conflict with a rival clan, the young warrior finds that his sacrifice isn't honored in this historical kung fu epic. Upon returning from his stint as a scapegoat, Iron Panther finds that his gang has joined with the enemy gang his comrades were fighting when he left. With ...
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Legendary martial arts stars Jackie Chan and Jet Li come together onscreen for the first time ever in director Rob Minkoff's time-traveling take on the Monkey King fable that finds an American teen transported back to ancient China after wandering into a pawn shop and discovering the king's fighting stick. Once there, the adventurous teen joins an army of fierce warriors who have sworn to free the ...
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The Glenn Miller Story (1954)
Genre:
Drama,
Biography [feature],
Musical Drama,
Period Film.
Director:
Anthony Mann.
Actors:
James Stewart,
June Allyson,
Charles Drake,
George Tobias,
Henry Morgan,
Frances Langford,
Barton MacLane,
Louis Armstrong,
Gene Krupa,
Ben Pollack,
Marion Ross,
Irving Bacon,
Kathleen Lockhart,
Phil Garris,
James Bell,
Katherine Warren,
Barney Bigard,
William Challee,
Cozy Cole,
Robert Davis,
Hal K. Dawson,
Bonnie Kay Eddy,
Lisa Gaye,
Ruth Hampton,
Harry Harvey,
Paula Kelly,
Dayton Lummis,
The Modernaires,
Leo Mostovoy,
Marty Napoleon,
Damian O'Flynn,
Gaylord "Steve" Pendleton,
Sig Rumann,
Dick Ryan,
Archie Savage,
Arvell Shaw,
Anthony Sydes,
Nino Tempo,
Carl Vernell,
Carleton Young,
Trummy Young.
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The Glenn Miller Story traces Miller's rise from pit-orchestra trombone player to leader of the most successful big band of his era. June Allyson is on hand as Miller's wife, Helen, who learns the value of patience when Glenn spends his wedding night jamming with Gene Krupa and Louis Armstrong. Given an officer's commission during World War II, Miller helms the swingin'est military band ever heard ...
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The Good German (2006)
Genre:
Mystery,
Drama,
War Drama,
Period Film.
Director:
Steven Soderbergh.
Actors:
George Clooney,
Cate Blanchett,
Tobey Maguire,
Beau Bridges,
Tony Curran,
Leland Orser,
Jack Thompson,
Robin Weigert,
Ravil Isyanov,
Christian Oliver,
Dave Power,
Don Pugsley,
Dominic Comperatore,
John Roeder,
J. Paul Boehmer,
Igor Korosec,
Boris Kievsky,
Vladimir Kulikov,
Yevgeniy Narovlyanskiy,
Aleksandr Sountsov,
Dean Misch,
Justin Misch,
Justin Pugsley,
Tom Cummins,
Brandon Keener,
Gianfranco L'Amore Tordi,
David Willis.
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A U.S. Army war correspondent is drawn into a deadly mystery in post-war Berlin as he seeks out his wartime mistress in this adaptation of author Joseph Kanon's best-selling novel. The war is over, and Jake Geismar (George Clooney) is an American journalist assigned the task of covering the peace in Berlin — but he was once lovers with a mysterious woman named Lena Brandt (Cate Blanchett ...
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The Good Shepherd (2006)
Genre:
Spy Film,
Drama,
Unglamorized Spy Film,
Period Film,
Political Drama.
Director:
Robert De Niro.
Actors:
Matt Damon,
Angelina Jolie,
Alec Baldwin,
Tammy Blanchard,
Billy Crudup,
Robert De Niro,
Keir Dullea,
Michael Gambon,
Martina Gedeck,
William Hurt,
Timothy Hutton,
Mark Ivanir,
Gabriel Macht,
Lee Pace,
Joe Pesci,
Eddie Redmayne,
John Sessions,
Oleg Stefan,
John Turturro.
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One man bears witness to the secret history of America during the Cold War in this drama directed by celebrated actor Robert De Niro. In 1939, Edward Wilson (Matt Damon) is a young man with a bright future ahead of him — he's a top student at Yale and the protégé of one of the school's leading English professors, Dr. Fredericks (Michael Gambon). But Wilson's life changes dramatically whe ...
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The Great Debaters (2007)
Genre:
Drama,
Period Film.
Director:
Denzel Washington.
Actors:
Denzel Washington,
Forest Whitaker,
Nate Parker,
Jurnee Smollett,
Denzel Whitaker,
Jermaine Williams,
Gina Ravera,
John Heard,
Kimberly Elise,
Devyn Tyler,
Trenton McClain Boyd,
Ritchie Montgomery,
Jackson Walker,
Tim Parati,
Robert X. Golphin,
Justice Leak,
Glen Powell Jr.,
Brad Watkins,
Brian Smiar,
Damien Leake,
Voltaire Rico Sterling,
Steve Rider,
Gordon Daniels,
Donny Boaz,
Sam Whisnant,
Bonnie Johnson,
Charissa Allen,
Michael Beasley,
Gary Mathis,
George Wilson,
Fahnlohnee R. Harris,
Harold Evans,
J.D. Evermore,
Sharon Jones,
Kelvin Payton,
Southey Blanton,
Michael Mattison,
Jeff Braun,
Milton R. Gipson,
Frank Ridley,
Jeremiah Kissel,
Jack Radosta,
Marcus Brown,
Alvin Youngblood Hart,
Dominique Flemons,
Justin Robinson,
Rhiannon Giddens,
Ahmad Powell,
Gregory Nicotero,
Gino Crognale,
Michael Deak,
Alex Diaz.
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Drawing inspiration from the true story of a temperamental debate coach who molded the students of a small East Texas college into a formidable team that gave even Harvard's elite squad a run for their money, Denzel Washington's The Great Debaters features the director himself as the ambitious educator, and Forest Whitaker as the resentful father of a student whose loyalties now lie almost exclusi ...
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The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005)
Genre:
Drama,
Sports Drama,
Period Film.
Director:
Bill Paxton.
Actors:
Shia LaBeouf,
Stephen Dillane,
Josh Flitter,
Peyton List,
Elias Koteas,
Marnie McPhail,
Stephen Marcus,
Peter Firth,
Michael Weaver,
James Paxton,
Matthew Knight,
Justin Ashforth,
Luke Askew,
George Asprey,
Marc James Beauchamp,
Melanie Beauline,
Pierre Boudreau,
Nicole Braber,
James Bradford,
Paul Cagelet,
Len Cariou,
Melissa Carter,
Alexina Cowan,
Charles S. Doucet,
Eugenio Esposito,
Scott Faulconbridge,
Frank Fontaine,
Johnny Griffin,
Jonathan Higgins,
Arthur Holden,
Peter Hurley,
Joe Jackson,
Marcel Jeannin,
Max Kasch,
Luke Kirby,
Armand Laroche,
Steven Wallace Lowe,
Kyle Macdougall,
Danette MacKay,
Walter Massey,
Jamie Merling,
Mike Nahrgang,
Tim Peper,
Philip Pretten,
Tom Rack,
Jesse Rath,
Terry Reid,
Howard Ryshpan,
Domenico Salvaggio,
James Scovone,
Michael Sinelnikoff,
Stephen Spreekmeester,
Dennis St. John,
Gregory Terlecki,
Jeremy Thibodeau,
Amanda Tilson,
Dawn Upshaw,
Patrick Whitebean,
Robin Wilcock,
Brian Wrench,
Nicolas Wright.
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The true story of an upset victory that helped change the sport of golf forever provides the basis for this period drama. Francis Ouimet (played by Shia LaBeouf) was born in 1893 to a working-class family in Massachusetts, and grew up fascinated by golf. However, at that time golf was considered a pastime of the wealthy and privileged, and British and Scottish players dominated the professional ga ...
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The History Boys (2006)
Genre:
Comedy Drama,
Coming-of-Age,
Ensemble Film,
Psychological Drama,
Period Film.
Director:
Nicholas Hytner.
Actors:
Richard Griffiths,
Frances de la Tour,
Stephen Campbell Moore,
Samuel Barnett,
Dominic Cooper,
James Corden,
Clive Merrison,
Jamie Parker,
Russell Tovey,
Samuel Anderson,
Sacha Dhawan,
Andrew Knott,
Penelope Wilton,
Adrian Scarborough.
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An unruly collection of clever but crass Thatcher-era English high-school students seek to earn the scores needed to enroll in Oxford and Cambridge in director Nicholas Hytner and screenwriter Alan Bennett's screen adaptation of Bennett's Tony-winning play. The History Boys focuses on a group of eight students, all of them deemed by their overeager headmaster (Clive Merrison) to be the best and th ...
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The Hours (2002)
Genre:
Drama,
Psychological Drama,
Feminist Film,
Period Film.
Director:
Stephen Daldry.
Actors:
Meryl Streep,
Julianne Moore,
Nicole Kidman,
Ed Harris,
Toni Collette,
Claire Danes,
Jeff Daniels,
Stephen Dillane,
Allison Janney,
John C. Reilly,
Miranda Richardson,
Eileen Atkins,
Margo Martindale,
Linda Bassett,
Jack Rovello,
Daniel Brocklebank,
Christian Coulson,
Michael Culkin,
Carmen de Lavallade,
George Loftus,
Lyndsay Marshal,
Charley Ramm,
Colin Stinton,
Sophie Wyburd.
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Three women, separated by a span of nearly 80 years, find themselves weathering similar crises, all linked by a single work of literature in this film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Michael Cunningham. In 1923, Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman) is attempting to start work on her novel Mrs. Dalloway, in which she chronicles one day in the life of a troubled woman. But Virginia has d ...
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