bittersweet movies

Annie Hall (1977)

Friday, September 25th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Keaton, Diane | Roberts, Tony | Kane, Carol | Simon, Paul | Duvall, Shelley | Margolin, Janet | Dewhurst, Colleen | Walken, Christopher | Symington, Donald | Ludlam, Helen | Lawner, Mordecai | Neuman, Joan | Munk, Jonathan | Volner, Ruth
Directors: Allen, Woody
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After breaking up with his girlfriend Annie Hall, neurotic comedian Alvy Singer goes on a stream of conciousness journey through his memories of their relationship, trying to find out what caused them to part ways. He often breaks the fourth wall, speaking to the camera, entering peoples’ stories, and even using animation.

Dogma (1999)

Friday, September 25th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Rock, Chris | Hayek, Salma | Rickman, Alan | Morissette, Alanis | Cort, Bud | Hackney, Barret | Pfennigwerth, Jared | Sakurai, Kitao | Carlin, George | Aberlin, Betty | Damon, Matt | Affleck, Ben | Etheridge, Dan | Fiorentino, Linda | Milosavljevic, Derek | Braden, Lesley | O'Halloran, Brian | O'Brien, Marie Elena | Garofalo, Janeane
Directors: Smith, Kevin
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The great grand niece of Jesus Christ is enlisted to prevent two angels from reentering Heaven and thus undoing the fabric of the universe. Along the way, she is aided by two prophets, Jay and Silent Bob. With the help of Rufus, the 13th Apostle, they must stop those who stand in their way and prevent the angels from entering Heaven.

Snow Cake (2006)

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: Canada | UK
Actors: Rickman, Alan | Weaver, Sigourney | Moss, Carrie-Anne | Fox, David | Eastwood, Jayne | Hampshire, Emily | Allodi, James | Goltz, Johnny | Jones, Robert Smith | McKinney, Mark | Rennie, Callum Keith | Brown, Jackie | Cadell, Selina | Rorts, Nia | Stewart, Julie
Directors: Evans, Marc
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Alex Hughes, an ex-convict, is on a road trip to Winnipeg to see an old friend. Along the way, he meets the annoying, but vivacious, Vivienne Freeman who manages to bum a ride with him. Just as he begins to warm to this eccentric girl, Alex’s vehicle is in a serious automobile accident that kills Vivienne. After his meeting with the police, Alex decides to speak with Vivienne’s mother. Upon arrival at her home, Alex discovers that the mother, Linda, is a barely functional autistic who convinces him to stay long to take out the garbage the day after the funeral he agrees to arrange. In those few days, Alex discovers new friends and learns more about the uniqueness of Linda even as he struggles to come to terms with his own grief.

Titanic (1997)

Saturday, July 11th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: DiCaprio, Leonardo | Winslet, Kate | Zane, Billy | Bates, Kathy | Fisher, Frances | Stuart, Gloria | Paxton, Bill | Hill, Bernard | Warner, David | Garber, Victor | Hyde, Jonathan | Amis, Suzy | Abernathy, Lewis | Cascone, Nicholas | Sagalevitch, Dr. Anatoly M.
Directors: Cameron, James
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Titanic, the ship of dreams. Is also known as Unsinkable, and it was unsinkable on its departure on April 10th, 1912. And on its epic journey a poor artist named Jack Dawson and a rich girl Rose DeWitt Bukator fall in love, until one night, their fairytale love for one another turns into a struggle for survival on a ship about to founder to the bottom of the North Atlantic. Rose leaves her fiancĂ©e Caledon Hockley for this poor artist, but when the Titanic collides with the Iceberg on April 14th, 1912, and then when the ship sinks on April 15th, 1912 at 2:20 in the morning, Jack dies and Rose survives and 84 years later Rose tells the story about her life on Titanic to her grand daughter and friends on the Keldysh and explains the first sight of Jack that falls into love, then into a fight for survival. When Rose gets saved by one lifeboat that comes back, they take her to the Carpathia with the 6 saved with Rose and the 700 people saved in the lifeboats. The Carpathia Immigration Officer asks Rose what her name is and she loved Jack so much she says her name is not Rose DeWitt Bukator, but her name is Rose Dawson. She seen Cal looking for her, but he doesn’t see her, and they never ended up together, her mom, Cal, and friends of the family has know choice but to think that she died on the Titanic. But in the crash of 1929, Cal is married, but then he put a pistol in his mouth and committed suicide. So Rose is an actress in the 20’s, and now 84 years later Rose Calvert is 100 years old and tells her grand daughter Lizzy Calvert, Brock Lovett, Lewis Bodine, Bobby Buell, and Anatoly Mikailavich the whole story from departure until the death of Titanic on its first and last voyage, and then to Rose all Titanic and the real love of her life Jack Dawson is all an existence inside of her memory, and Titanic is to rest in peace at the bottom of the North Atlantic from 1912 until the end of time.

I Dreamed of Africa (2000)

Saturday, July 11th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Basinger, Kim | Perez, Vincent | Aiken, Liam | Strommen, Garrett | Saint, Eva Marie | Craig, Daniel | Reddick, Lance | Chiume, Connie | Ngobese, James | Scott, Joko | Boraine, Nick | Danford, Susan | Roberts, Ian | Monteregge, Susan | Perritt, Jessica
Directors: Hudson, Hugh
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Kuki, a divorced Italian socialite, changes her life after a serious car crash. She accepts a marriage proposal from Paolo Gallmann, a man she doesn’t know well, and she moves to Kenya with him and her young son to start a cattle ranch. Challenges beset her, not the least of which is Paulo’s love of danger and his leaving for days on end to hunt and fish with pals. She must face fierce storms, roving lions, venomous snakes, and murderous poachers, and she must find accommodation with a neighboring tribe. Her mother entreats her to return home. Can Kuki live her dream, tame Paolo, guide her son safely past the perils and errors of youth, and serve Africa?

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Shatner, William | Kelley, DeForest | Doohan, James | Takei, George | Koenig, Walter | Nichols, Nichelle | Butrick, Merritt | Morris, Phil | McGinnis, Scott | Hooks, Robert | Curtis, Robin | Steven, Carl | Potenza, Vadia
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Admiral Kirk’s defeat of Khan and the creation of the Genesis planet are empty victories. Spock is dead and McCoy is, seemingly inexplicably, being driven insane. Then an unexpected visit from Sarek, Spock’s father, provides a startling revelation: McCoy is harboring Spock’s living essence. With one friend alive and one not, but both in pain, Kirk attempts to help his friends by stealing the Enterprise and defying Starfleet’s Genesis quarantine. But the Klingons have also learned of Genesis and race to meet Kirk in a deadly rendezvous.

Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (1982)

Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Shatner, William | Nimoy, Leonard | Kelley, DeForest | Doohan, James | Koenig, Walter | Takei, George | Nichols, Nichelle | Besch, Bibi | Butrick, Merritt | McBride, Jeff | Winfield, Paul | Alley, Kirstie | Montalban, Ricardo | Eisenmann, Ike | Vargas, John
Directors: Meyer, Nicholas
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It is the 23rd Century. The Federation Starship U.S.S. Enterprise is on routine training maneuvers, and Admiral James T. Kirk seems resigned to the fact that this may well be the last space mission of his career. But Khan is back. Aided by his exiled band of genetic supermen, Khan—brilliant renegade of 20th Century Earth—has raided Space Station Regula One, stolen a top secret device called Project Genesis, wrested control of another Federation starship, and now schemes to set a most deadly trap for his old enemy Kirk . . . with the threat of a universal Armageddon!

Transformers: The Movie, The (1986)

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Animation | Family | Sci-Fi
Countries: Japan | USA
Actors: Alden, Norman | Angel, Jack | Bell, Michael | Berger, Gregg | Blu, Susan | Burghardt, Arthur | Burton, Corey | Carmel, Roger C.
Directors: Shin, Nelson
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It is the year 2005. The war between The Autobots and Decepticons has escalated all the way to Cybertron, which the Decepticons have reclaimed. The Autobots, without Optimus Prime after a conflict on Earth takes his life, must now face a destiny they know nothing of. Megatron and a group of forsaken Decepticons have been reformed by the ultimate transformer, a planet consuming demon known as Unicron into even deadlier warriors. Now Galvatron, Scourge and Cyclonus must destroy The Autobot Matrix of Leadership for Unicron’s glory or suffer the horrific destruction of Cybertron. However, Optimus Prime has decreed that an Autobot will rise from his rank and use the power of The Matrix to light the darkest hour of the Autobots. With Hot Rod facing responsibility for Prime’s death, he feels he may be able to use the power of the Matrix to turn the tide of the Cybertronian Wars and stop Unicron. Until all are one, the future of the Autobots and Decepticons is uncertain.

Radio Flyer (1992)

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Bracco, Lorraine | Heard, John | Baldwin, Adam | Wood, Elijah | Mazzello, Joseph | Johnson, Ben | Baca, Sean | Munic, Robert | Ratliff Henson, Garette | Nicholas, Thomas Ian | Verduzco, Noah | Ocampo, Isaac | Romero, Kaylan | Verduzco, Abraham | Evans, T.J.
Directors: Donner, Richard
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A loving father explains the value of promise and believing to his two boys trough the story of young Mike and his kid brother Bobby, who being abandoned by their dad had to move with ma and German shepherd Shane to a rural town where the local kids, lorded by abusive older scamp Victor Hernandez, consider them intruders ’stealing’ their predecessors’ place. Alas the friendly sheriff Daugherty, whose protection they politely wave, will have to act against a far worse bully, ma’s new lover who expects to be called the king and belts Bobby’s back brutally when drunk in the garage, a secret the boys want to keep secret for finally happy ma. The superstitious brothers spend their time exploring, pulling a wheeled red wagon called Radio Flyer, which name finally inspires a desperate ‘magical escape’ attempt…

Way We Were, The (1973)

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Streisand, Barbra | Redford, Robert | Dillman, Bradford | Chiles, Lois | O'Neal, Patrick | Lindfors, Viveca | McLerie, Allyn Ann | Hamilton, Murray | Edelman, Herb | Ewing, Diana | Kirkland, Sally | Jones, Marcia Mae | Keefer, Don | Gaynes, George | Boles, Eric
Directors: Pollack, Sydney
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Katie and Hubbell are students in the same college but with very different lives. She is a communist compromised against the civil war in Spain and the rise of Hitler in Europe, and has to work to pay her studies. He is more interested in sports a and sceptic about politics. However, Katie is impressed by his charm and she still is when they meet some years after.

Persuasion (2007)

Thursday, May 28th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Penry-Jones, Rupert | Hawkins, Sally | Krige, Alice | Head, Anthony | Davis, Julia | Fenton Stevens, Michael | Stockley, Mary | Wight, Peter | Bailey, Marion | Hale, Amanda | Higham, Jennifer | Stephen, Rosamund | Stella Gonet | Hazeldine, Sam | Shergold, Louis
Directors: Shergold, Adrian
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On the brink of financial ruin, the Elliot family is forced to vacate their ancestral home in order to recover their debts and avoid losing face amongst their parish. The task of organizing their effects falls to levelheaded Anne Elliot, destined for spinsterhood at age 27 after being persuaded eight years earlier to refuse the proposal of Frederick Wentworth, a dashing (but destitute) naval officer…

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Tracy, Spencer | Poitier, Sidney | Hepburn, Katharine | Houghton, Katharine | Kellaway, Cecil | Richards, Beah | Glenn, Roy | Sanford, Isabel | Christine, Virginia | Hay, Alexandra | Randolph, Barbara | Martin, D'Urville | Heaton, Tom | Gaynor, Grace | Martin, Skip
Directors: Kramer, Stanley
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Joey Drayton brings her fiancĂ©, Dr. John Prentice, home to sunny San Francisco to meet her affluent parents. Their liberal persuasions are now put to the test, for although the young man is an ideal choice (he’s highly and internationally respected in the medical field, and he’s impeccably mannered, handsome, well dressed and of a respectable California family), he’s black. The film, which covers one busy day in the Drayton home, is essentially a drawing-room comedy, a series of cross-conversations between the young doctor and the girl’s parents, and finally between all sets of parents and offspring. A simple dinner is extended to include the doctor’s parents, who fly up from Los Angeles for the evening, and the crusty but benevolent old Irish priest, a friend of the family. Thus, the title of the film . . .

Stepmom (1998)

Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Roberts, Julia | Sarandon, Susan | Harris, Ed | Malone, Jena | Aiken, Liam | Whitfield, Lynn | Larson, Darrell | Wilson, Mary Louise | Blake, Andre B. | Russell, Herbert | Eagle, Jack | Sierra, Lu Celania | Zemzare, Lauma | Schenck, Holly | Stone, Michelle
Directors: Columbus, Chris
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Anna and Ben, the two children of Jackie and Luke, have to cope with the fact that their parents divorced and that there is a new woman in their father’s life: Isabel, a successful photographer. She does her best to treat the kids in a way that makes them still feel at home when being with their dad, but also loves her work and does not plan to give it up. But Jackie, a full-time mother, regards Isabel’s efforts as offensively insufficient. She can’t understand that work can be important to her as well as the kids. The conflict between them is deepened by the sudden diagnose of cancer, which might may be deadly for Jackie. They all have to learn a little in order to grow together.

Escape to Witch Mountain (1975)

Thursday, February 19th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Albert, Eddie | Milland, Ray | Pleasence, Donald | Richards, Kim | Eisenmann, Ike | Barnes, Walter | Shaw, Reta | Pyle, Denver | Ryder, Alfred | Montaigne, Lawrence | Wilson, Terry | Chandler, George | Downs, Dermott | Sanders, Shepherd | Brodie, Don
Directors: Hough, John
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Tia (Kim Richards) and Tony (Ike Eisenmann) are two orphaned youngsters with extraordinary powers. Lucas Deranian (Donald Pleasence) poses as their uncle in order to get the kids into the clutches of Deranian’s megalomaniacal boss, evil millionaire Aristotle Bolt (Ray Milland), who wants to exploit them. Jason (Eddie Albert), a cynical widower, helps Tia and Tony “escape to witch mountain,” while at the same time Tia and Tony help Jason escape the pain of the loss of his wife.

Lucas (1986)

Monday, February 16th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Haim, Corey | Green, Kerri | Sheen, Charlie | Thorne-Smith, Courtney | Ryder, Winona | Hodges, Tom | Poppiti, Ciro | Boyd, Guy | Piven, Jeremy | Wixted, Kevin | Seltzer, Emily | Leigh, Erika | Ryan, Anne | Alderman, Jason | Mackie, Tom
Directors: Seltzer, David
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Lucas is a promising kid, bright, inquisitive, knowledgeable, industrious, but for a boy aged 14 those qualities don’t count for much socially, his daily life in high school is a brave but hopeless struggle against cruel ridicule (nicknamed ‘leukoplakia’) and abuse on account of his frail figure, ‘miniature’ size and athletic ineptitude, while any demonstration of precocious erudition is frowned upon by his ignorant, dumber peers and seniors, fortunately with one remarkable exception: the studly football team captain, generally known as Cappie, gallantly protects the ’shrimp’ and as soon as he gets to know Lucas appreciates his mind and courage, eager to learn from him. The arrival of an attractive new girl in his school and neighborhood proves a mixed blessing: Maggie becomes his best friend and companion, admiring his many talents, but inevitably she soon falls for Cappie the other way, so now his ‘big brother’ and protector seems little Lucas’s rival, however hard the hunk tries to stay friends…

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