 | Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
CARMEN MAURA ANTONIO BANDERAS JULIETA SERRANO ROSSY DE PALMA MARíA BARRANCO Director:PEDRO ALMODóVAR
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my introduction to the world of Pedro Almodovar......:Pedro Almodovar, an internationally and critically acclaimed Spanish director, takes eccentricity and neuroses to new heights in WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN, one of his most well known films. Pepa (Carmen Maura)... |
 | Music Lovers
RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN GLENDA JACKSON MAX ADRIAN CHRISTOPHER GABLE KENNETH COLLEY Director:KEN RUSSELL
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Furious, violently bombastic, terribly unsettling, Ken Russell's 1970 biography of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky (Richard Chamberlain) is a portrait of artistic brilliance beset by the Russian composer's mounting guilt over, well, everything: his homosexuality, his marriage to the incr... |
 | The Lighthorsemen
PETER PHELPS NICK WATERS JOHN LARKING JOHN HEYWOOD DI O'CONNOR Director:SIMON WINCER
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Must see movie:This is one of the most exciting war time epics I have ever seen. Visually stunning with a memorable score by Mario Millo. This is the true story of the last mounted charge in history. Australian Lighthorsemen attack the German-Turkish stronghold at Beersheba durin... |
 | I, Claudius
DEREK JACOBI JOHN HURT SIâN PHILLIPS BRIAN BLESSED GEORGE BAKER
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This superbly acted, mordantly funny romp through 70 years or so of Roman history is one of the best-loved miniseries ever made, and deservedly so. Derek Jacobi plays Roman Emperor Claudius, who reflects in old age on his life and his remarkable family, giving us a history lesso... |
 | Harold & Maude (Aniv)
HARVEY BRUMFIELD ERIC CHRISTMAS BUD CORT CYRIL CUSACK GORDON DEVOL
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Black comedies don't come much blacker than this cult favorite from 1972, and they don't come much funnier, either. It seemed that director Hal Ashby was the perfect choice to mine a mother lode of eccentricity from the original script by Colin Higgins, about the unlikely romance... |
 | Lord of Flies (1963)
JAMES AUBREY TOM CHAPIN HUGH EDWARDS ROGER ELWIN TOM GAMAN Director:PETER BROOK
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The brilliant theater director Peter Brook brings William Golding's macabre novel to the screen in the original film adaptation of Lord of the Flies. Stranded on a remote and desolate island, a group of British schoolboys try to organize themselves into a law-abiding society: "A... |
 | Emmanuelle
SYLVIA KRISTEL ALAIN CUNY MARIKA GREEN DANIEL SARKY JEANNE COLLETIN Director:JUST JAECKIN
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Interesting Film, better than what you can find now days:An Adult, not rated, film
This is the first film in a trilogy (there are actually some other films that followed, just like Asimov's Foundation "Trilogy" ended up being more than three books) that stars Sylvia Kristel as E... |
 | Sodom & Gomorrah
STEWART GRANGER PIER ANGELI STANLEY BAKER ROSSANA PODESTà RIK BATTAGLIA Director:ROBERT ALDRICH
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Serious departure from original story:When I saw that this film was almost 150 minutes in length, I was curious to see how the film-makers expanded on a story that is only a few pages long in the book of Genesis. As it turns out, I'm kinda sorry I found out. Why? Because the s... |
 | Until the End of the World
WILLIAM HURT SOLVEIG DOMMARTIN PIETRO FALCONE ENZO TURRIN CHICK ORTEGA Director:WIM WENDERS
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Shot on location in numerous countries, this ambitious Wim Wenders fantasy takes Sam Neill, Solveig Dommartin, William Hurt, and a ragtag group in pursuit around the world and back again. Though set in 1999 under the shadow of impending disaster as a wobbly nuclear satellite thr... |
 | All About My Mother
ELOY AZORíN CARMEN BALAGUé (II) YAEL BARNATáN TONI CANTó PENéLOPE CRUZ
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After her son is killed in an accident, Manuela (Cecilia Roth) leaves Madrid for her old haunts in Barcelona. She reconnects with an old friend, a pre-op transsexual prostitute named La Agrado (Antonia San Juan), who introduces her to Rosa (Penélope Cruz), a young nun who turns ... |
 | Private Life of Henry VIII
CHARLES LAUGHTON; ROBERT DONAT; MERLE OBERON Director:ALEXANDER KORDA
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Henry's first wife, Catherine of Aragon was dispensed with:in the opening credits. She was a good, pious woman therefore, boring. We find wife # 2, Anne, about to lose her head. She was accused of adultry & incest. The charges were probably bogus. The real problem was that Henry... |
 | Bond: For Your Eyes Only
ROGER MOORE CAROLE BOUQUET TOPOL JULIAN GLOVER Director:JOHN GLEN
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After a ship sunk off the coast of Albania, the world's superpowers begin a feverish search for its valuable lost cargo: the powerful ATAC system, which will give its bearer unlimited control over Polaris nuclear submarines. As Bond joins the search, he suspects the suave Kristat... |
 | The Nasty Girl
LENA STOLZE MONIKA BAUMGARTNER ELISABETH BERTRAM MICHAEL GAHR Director:MICHAEL VERHOEVEN
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Filmmaker Michael Verhoeven (not to be confused with Showgirls director Paul Verhoeven) made one of the best films of the '80s with this bold, 1989 German production about an adolescent girl, Sonja (Lena Stolze of Verhoeven's The White Rose), who researches the history of her hom... |
 | A Pure Formality
GéRARD DEPARDIEU ROMAN POLANSKI SERGIO RUBINI NICOLA DI PINTO TANO CIMAROSA Director:GIUSEPPE TORNATORE
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An Utter Classic:Starring an ugly fat guy and an alleged child rapist no longer allowed into the USA, this stunning movie about self-seeking and introspection is worth ANY price. One has to wonder why the USA only produces god-awful excrement like "Legally Blond" and appalling an... |
 | Hobson's Choice
CHARLES LAUGHTON JOHN MILLS BRENDA DE BANZIE DAPHNE ANDERSON PRUNELLA SCALES Director:DAVID LEAN
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David Lean backs up vicious wit with tender romance in this thrilling adaptation of Harold Brighouse's play. As Henry Hobson, a tyrannical bootshop owner, Charles Laughton (Mutiny on the Bounty, Ruggles of Red Gap) is a comical drunk of Falstaffian proportions. When Hobson forb... |
 | Sense and Sensibility
EMMA THOMPSON HUGH GRANT ALAN RICKMAN KATE WINSLET Director:ANG LEE
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Emma Thompson scores a double bull's-eye with this marvelous adaptation of Jane Austen's novel. Not only does Thompson turn in a strong (and gently humorous) performance as one of the Dashwood sisters--the one with "sense"--she also wrote the witty, wise screenplay. Austen's tale... |
 | Ciao, Professore!
PAOLO VILLAGGIO ISA DANIELI GIGIO MORRA SERGIO SOLLI ESTER CARLONI Director:LINA WERTMüLLER
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From Academy Award(R)-nominated director Lina Wertmuller (Best Director -- SEVEN BEAUTIES; SWEPT AWAY) comes this spirited comedy hailed by critics coast-to-coast for its vitality and raunchy good humor. CIAO, PROFESSORE! is the story of an upper-class teacher from conservative N... |
 | Building Strength with Susan Powter
SUSAN POWTER
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Good strength workout for all fitness levels...:I had this video years ago but didn't keep it. I decided to get it again adn revisit it. I am an intermediate exerciser who primarily uses The Firm. I was pleasantly surprised by this routine, it's a good strength workout!
Susan... |
 | Captain Horatio Hornblower
GREGORY PECK VIRGINIA MAYO ROBERT BEATTY MOULTRIE KELSALL TERENCE MORGAN Director:RAOUL WALSH
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The much-loved novels of C.S. Forester come to life in Captain Horatio Hornblower, a solid, engrossing seafaring tale. Forester himself worked on the script for the 1951 film, which mines its plot from three Hornblower books. Set during the Napoleonic era, the movie kicks off by ... |
 | Verdi - La Traviata / Levine, Stratas, Domingo
TERESA STRATAS PLáCIDO DOMINGO CORNELL MACNEIL ALLAN MONK PINA CEI Director:FRANCO ZEFFIRELLI
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A mixed bag:Domingo sings beautifully, Stratas less so but looks and acts the part. The biggest problem is there are so many cuts and shortened arias that you could almost call this "extended highlights". And Zeferelli over-produces, particularly with camera work. If you want a m... |
