Chal Chalein (2009)

Actors: Mukesh Khanna (actor), Rati Agnihotri (actress), Mithun Chakraborty (actor), Ilayaraja (composer), Vishwajeet Pradhan (actor), Kanwaljit Singh (actor), Aseem Sinha (editor), Darshan Jariwala (actor), Dev Malhotra (actor), Anup Soni (actor), Jaya Bhattacharya (actress), Balwant Bansal (actor), Smita Sinha (actress), Anand Abhyankar (actor), Shankar Sachdev (actor),

Plot: An all-boys group from Allahabad's St. Joseph's College is thrilled when a new-comer from Mumbai, Vaishnavi, joins them. Most of the students' time is spent in college, then in coaching classes, and finally they return home to stern parents who want them to complete their homework and ensure they secure good marks and become doctors, engineers, and IAS officers. Some even go to the extent of forcing their children to take up Science instead of Arts - killing whatever talent and initiative their children may have. Unable to handle the pressure as well as convince his parents to let him take arts - Navneet Singh kills himself. Devastated by his death, his friends approach Advocate Sanjay to sue not only Navneet's but also their respective parents. The Police refuse to register a complaint, and Sanjay files this matter in a Trial Court naming the parents as well as the Government of India as defendants. Many other students approach him and add themselves as plaintiffs- bringing the total to over one Lakh nine thousand. The argument from the Government is that this is a personal issue, strongly supported by parents who assert that they only want a better future for their children. With the media and politicians taking an interest in this scenario - the debate taking place is how will an already overburdened and openly corrupt judicial system - that has matters pending for decades - will address - leave alone resolve - this issue within the students' lifetime.

Genres: Drama,

Lyon King (2004)

Actors: William B. Davis (actor), Lawren Bancroft-Wilson (producer), Mark McGuckin (editor), Mark McGuckin (writer), Mark McGuckin (director), Mark McGuckin (actor), Martin Lachance (composer), Gail Oelkers (actress), Amanda Lockitch (actress), Chris Dingwall (actor),

Genres: Comedy, Short,
Taglines: He's on a mission to save his namesake's legacy.

Mandela and de Klerk (1997)

Actors: Tina Lifford (actress), David Wicht (producer), Regardt van den Bergh (actor), Benjamin A. Weissman (editor), Joseph Sargent (director), Diana Cilliers (costume designer), Desmond Tutu (actor), Sidney Poitier (actor), Ian Roberts (actor), John Carson (actor), Michael Caine (actor), Andre Jacobs (actor), Graham Clarke (actor), Jonathan Pienaar (actor), Terry Edinger (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: On June 12, 1964, Nelson Mandela, along with a number of political detainees, was sentenced to life imprisonment in what remains the most sensational treason trial in the history of South Africa. The incarceration of Mandela and other political prisoners on Robben Island would become a symbol of the struggle to end apartheid and win freedom for the black majority in South Africa. On February 2, 1990, President F.W. De Klerk stood before Parliament and announced the legalization of the African National Congress and a host of other banned political organizations. At the same time, he announced that Nelson Mandela, having served 27 years in prison, would be released within 7 days. Yet the world, and indeed most South Africans, knew little about how this momentous occasion came to pass. Until now. Mandela & De Klerk was filmed in South Africa. Most of the locations are those where the actual events took place, and the dramatized sequences are augmented with newsreel footage to ensure the most accurate portrayal possible of recent historical events.

Keywords: african-national-congress, apartheid, blacks-whites, character-name-in-title, house-arrest, prison, racism, south-africa
Genres: Drama,

Ten' (1991)

Actors: Mikhail Kozakov (actor), Vyacheslav Nevinnyy (actor), Hans Christian Andersen (writer), Mikhail Kozakov (writer), Vladimir Dashkevich (composer), Mikhail Kozakov (director), Spartak Mishulin (actor), Marina Neyolova (actress), Marina Dyuzheva (actress), Yevgeni Shvarts (writer), Konstantin Raykin (actor), Konstantin Raykin (actor), Larisa Dolina (actress), Aleksandr Tsekalo (actor), Sergey Nikitin (actor),

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Musical, Romance,

Zabí král (1991)

Actors: Nina Divísková (actress), Michal Dlouhý (actor), Juraj Herz (director), Vítezslav Jandák (actor), Wilhelm Grimm (writer), Jacob Grimm (writer), Jirí Sovák (actor), Iris Berben (actress), Michael Degen (actor), Concha Cuetos (actress), Linda Rybová (actress), Therese Herz (actress), Ladislav Lakomý (actor), Bernd Fiedler (writer), Oldrich Slavík (actor),

Plot: When a moody royal Prince's party of court brats pulls a few pranks too many in the woods, a mean fairy lays a cruel spell. She turns one into a frog, who can only become human again by a loving kiss. This alters several lives through relationships, some of dynastic relevance.

Keywords: dancing, party, picnic, pool, prank, ritual
Genres: Fantasy,

Passion Flower (1986)

Actors: Barbara Hershey (actress), Andrew Gottlieb (producer), Jon McBride (miscellaneous crew), Miles Goodman (composer), Bruce Boxleitner (actor), Dick O'Neill (actor), John Waters (actor), Joseph Sargent (director), Nicol Williamson (actor), George Jay Nicholson (editor), Chan Mahon (producer), Lindsay Jones (actor), Doris Keating (producer), Richard A. Guttman (writer), Carolyn Nelson (actress),

Plot: The movers and shakers in Singapore get involved in behind-the-scenes political and business activities, romantic entanglements, and murder. Nicol Williamson plays the wealthiest man in Southeast Asia. Barbara Hershey is his married antagonistic daughter who starts an affair with an ambitious American banker (Bruce Boxleitner) and who also seems to have the attention of her father. John Waters plays Hershey's totally despicable husband.

Genres: Crime, Drama,

Ten' (1971)

Actors: Georgiy Vitsin (actor), Hans Christian Andersen (writer), Zinoviy Gerdt (actor), Yuri Volyntsev (actor), Lyudmila Gurchenko (actress), Sergey Filippov (actor), Andrey Mironov (actor), Marina Neyolova (actress), Konstantin Adashevsky (actor), Valeri Frid (writer), Yevgeni Shvarts (writer), Vladimir Etush (actor), Anastasiya Vertinskaya (actress), Yuli Dunsky (writer), Oleg Dal (actor),

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance,

The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)

Actors: Otto Hoffman (actor), Herbert Heywood (actor), Halliwell Hobbes (actor), Raymond Brown (actor), George Beranger (actor), Wheaton Chambers (actor), Richard Alexander (actor), Frank Darien (actor), Eddie Dew (actor), Bill Elliott (actor), Alphonse Ethier (actor), William Burress (actor), Otto Fries (actor), Porter Hall (actor), Walter Kingsford (actor),

Plot: In 1860 Paris, chemist Louis Pasteur is considered a quack within the medical community for advocating that doctors and surgeons wash their hands and boil their instruments to destroy microbes that can kill their patients. He came across this belief when discovering microscopic organisms in sour wine, the organisms which could be killed if heated sufficiently. The belief among the scientific community at large is that the organisms are the result of disease and not the cause. This belief is despite the fact that thirty percent of women die in childbirth due to child bed disease, accounting for twenty thousand annual deaths in Paris alone. The debate takes Pasteur all the way to a meeting with Emperor Napoleon III and his physician, Dr. Charbonnet, who is one of the leading opponents of Pasteur. Several years later - France now a republic - much of Pasteur's reputation changes as a government sanctioned experiment with anthrax and sheep shows that a vaccine created by Pasteur proves effective. As Pasteur begins work on finding the cause and a cure for rabies, which proves a more difficult challenge, he still has his detractors, including Dr. Charbonnet. This continuing debate brings about his biggest challenge: proving that microbes are the cause of all disease. Through it all, he is supported not only by his family, but Dr. Jean Martel, who was once a junior physician in the emperor's court and a physician within the republic's government, but who now works with Pasteur and is his son-in-law. But an act of bravado by Charbonnet may ultimately prove to be the breakthrough for which Pasteur is looking. Moving the experimental treatments from animals to humans proves a bigger obstacle, as is Charbonnet's need to win at all cost in the court of public opinion.

Keywords: 1800s, 1860s, 19th-century, académie-nationale-de-médecine, anthrax, bacteriologist, boiling-water, caged-animal, carriage, ceremony
Genres: Biography, Drama, History,

Quotes:

Dr. Louis Pasteur: Jean, how many dogs have we left?::Dr. Jean Martel: Ten.::Dr. Louis Pasteur: Are they well? Healthy?::Dr. Jean Martel: In perfect condition. They've never been exposed.::Dr. Louis Pasteur: Give them hydrophobia.::Dr. Jean Martel: [in disbelief] You mean...?::Dr. Louis Pasteur: Give them hydrophobia.

[about Pasteur]::Dr. Charbonnet: You remember a few years ago, he was the cause of a slight controversy on the subject of sour wine.::Napoleon III: Oh, yes, I recall.::Dr. Charbonnet: He claimed to have found little animals in it... infinitesimal beasts.::Napoleon III: But are there such creatures? Do they really exist?::Dr. Charbonnet: Your Majesty, microscopic organisms have long been observed. They spring into being of their own accord wherever there is putrid matter or fermentation. They are the result rather than the cause of disease. By heating wine to certain temperature, Monsieur Pasteur was able to destroy them. I presume he plans to cure blood poisoning in the same manner: namely, by boiling our blood.::Napoleon III: Heaven forbid.::Dr. Charbonnet: It's not unlikely, I assure you.::Napoleon III: But, I won't have it, Charbonnet. I won't tolerate such practices. We're not living in the Middle Ages. This is France... Paris... the nineteenth century.::Empress Eugenie: I think Monsieur Pasteur should be allowed to defend himself.::Dr. Charbonnet: But, your Majesty...::Empress Eugenie: I, too, have read the pamphlet, Doctor Charbonnet. It said nothing about boiling blood - merely to boil the instruments that you surgeons use.::Dr. Charbonnet: Your Majesty, if I did anything so absurd as to boil my instruments or scrub my hands, they'd think I was a witch doctor resorting to charms and laugh me out of the hospital.::Empress Eugenie: That would be a novelty, Monsieur. Most people who go to hospitals are CARRIED out... dead.::Napoleon III: Yes, Cahrbonnet. Why?

Dr. Louis Pasteur: [to his assistants] Remember our aim: Find the microbe - kill the microbe.

Dr. Louis Pasteur: [speaking to the Emperor] Sire, the hospitals of Paris are pesthouses. There's scarcely a doctor in the city who's not carrying death on his hands and instruments.::Dr. Charbonnet: Because of microbes, Monsieur? Your private menagerie of invisible beasts?::Dr. Louis Pasteur: Exactly. Doctor Charbonnet could see them for himself if he took the trouble to use his microscope. He could watch them multiply into murderous millions. They breed in filth. They may start from the gutters of Paris tonight and by tomorrow claim some mother from this very court.::Dr. Charbonnet: Preposterous! To think that a human being could be destroyed by an animal ten thousand times smaller than a flea. It's as though an army of ants were to overthrow your Majesty's empire.

Dr. Louis Pasteur: Will you try and explain to Dr. Radisse what we are doing? [sarcastically] He's a member of the Academy of Medicine, so you'll have to use very simple language.::Dr. Emile Roux: We're convinced, Doctor - after eight years of experimenting - that this vaccine, when injected into the animal, will set up an immunity.::Dr. Radisse: Ridiculous! It would take eighty years to convince me.::Dr. Louis Pasteur: Eighty? Aren't you a little optimistic?

[last lines]::[addressing The Academy of Medicine - directing his remarks to the young men in the balcony]::Dr. Louis Pasteur: You young men - doctors and scientists of the future - do not let yourselves be tainted by apparent skepticism; nor discouraged by the sadness of certain hours that creep over nations. Do not become angry at your opponents, for no scientific theory has ever been accepted without opposition. Live in the serene peace of libraries and laboratories. Say to yourselves, first, "What have I done for my instruction?" And as you gradually advance, "What am I accomplishing?" Until the time comes when you may have the immense happiness of thinking that you have contributed in some way to the welfare and progress of mankind.

Land Without Music (1936)

Actors: Edward Rigby (actor), Derrick De Marney (actor), Andreas Malandrinos (actor), Mike Johnson (actor), Jimmy Durante (actor), June Clyde (actress), Walter Forde (director), Evelyn Ankers (actress), George Carney (actor), Ben Williams (actor), Esme Percy (actor), Oscar Straus (composer), George Hayes (actor), Rudolph Bernauer (writer), Robert Nainby (actor),

Plot: Allegedly true story from early 19th Century involving a Ruritanian singer, a Princess who dislikes his music, and a Police Chief with a sideline in smuggling musical instruments.

Genres: Comedy,

Ronny (1931)

Actors: Lucien Baroux (actor), Lucien Callamand (actor), Käthe von Nagy (actress), Günther Stapenhorst (producer), Emeric Pressburger (writer), Reinhold Schünzel (writer), Reinhold Schünzel (director), Georges Deneubourg (actor), Guy Sloux (actor), Marc Dantzer (actor), Heinz Lingen (miscellaneous crew), Roger Le Bon (director), Gustave Huberdeau (actor), Fernand Frey (actor), Charles Fallot (actor),

Genres: Comedy, Musical,