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Prefect (from the Latin praefectus, perfect participle of praeficere: "make in front", i.e., put in charge) is a magisterial title of varying definition.
A prefect's office, department, or area of control is called a prefecture, but in various post-Roman cases there is a prefect without a prefecture or vice versa. The words "prefect" and "prefecture" are also used, more or less conventionally, to render analogous words in other languages, especially Romance languages.
Praefectus, often with a further qualification, was the formal title of many, fairly low to high-ranking, military or civil officials in the Roman Empire, whose authority was not embodied in their person (as it was with elected Magistrates) but conferred by delegation from a higher authority. They did have some authority in their prefecture such as controlling prisons and in civil administration.
The Praetorian prefect (Praefectus praetorio) began as the military commander of a general's guard company in the field, then grew in importance as the Praetorian Guard became a potential kingmaker during the Empire. From the Emperor Diocletian's tetrarchy (c. 300) they became the administrators of the four Praetorian prefectures, the government level above the (newly created) dioceses and (multiplied) provinces.
Actors: Brian Grazer (producer), Alfred Molina (actor), Jean-Pierre Marielle (actor), Chris Wilson (actor), Denis Podalydès (actor), Jean Reno (actor), Tom Hanks (actor), Paul Bettany (actor), Ian McKellen (actor), Jürgen Prochnow (actor), Francesco Carnelutti (actor), Jean-Yves Berteloot (actor), Etienne Chicot (actor), Akiva Goldsman (writer), Ron Howard (producer),
Plot: Symbologist Robert Langdon is thrown into a mysterious and bizarre murder. Alongside Langdon is the victims granddaughter and cryptologist Sophie Neveu, who with Robert discovers clues within Da Vinci's paintings. To further find the truth, Robert and Sophie travel from Paris to London, whilst crossing paths with allies and villains such as Sir Leigh Teabing and Silas. Wherever their path takes them, their discovery which is about to be revealed could shake the foundations of mankind.
Keywords: 1st-century, 2000s, 21st-century, 4th-century, airplane, airport, albino, american, american-in-the-uk, anagramActors: Benoît Mathieu (miscellaneous crew), John Dunsworth (actor), Eric Peterson (actor), Richard Donat (actor), Jonathan Goldsmith (composer), Karl Pruner (actor), Nigel Bennett (actor), Nicholas Campbell (actor), Stephen J. Cannell (actor), Robert Bockstael (actor), Jeremy Akerman (actor), Marcel Sabourin (actor), Brian Heighton (actor), Gary Levert (actor), Allan F. Nicholls (actor),
Plot: Born into privilege and wealth, Pierre Trudeau was a boy who grew to value something more in his life. Disgusted with the tyrannical regime of Maurice Duplesis' governance of Quebec with the eager approval of the Catholic Church, Trudeau gains his basic ideals of rights and justice as he joins the fight for a more open society. Although initially hampered by his naive zealousness and his indulgent playboy habits, we see Trudeau gain the skills and the contacts that would help him become the Prime Minister that would redefine a nation.
Keywords: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, canada, canadian, character-name-in-title, civil-liberties, civil-rights, conscriptionActors: David Walliams (actor), Ralph Brown (actor), Clifford De Spenser (miscellaneous crew), Mohamed Benhmamane (miscellaneous crew), David Arnold (composer), Stephen Woolley (producer), Stephen Woolley (director), Tuva Novotny (actress), David Morrissey (actor), Elizabeth Tremblay (miscellaneous crew), Paddy Considine (actor), Jane Trower (miscellaneous crew), Paula Jack (miscellaneous crew), Ben Whishaw (actor), Simon Chandler (actor),
Plot: Fact-based story about the drug-addled and sordid life of The Rolling Stones founder Brian Jones. Unfortunately the story moves so quickly into the sensationalized decadence and drug-induced state of Jones, that the unknowing viewer has to wonder why anyone would care. There are only a few framing sequences with members of The Stones, particularly Keith Richards, that show they had a great respect for him and tried to bring him back into the band as he drifted away. Mixed into the destruction of Jones is a common builder, Frank Thorogood, who is given the unenviable task of trying to please Jones by rebuilding his estate and to watch him per Jones' manager's instructions. Thorogood's life is so far removed from all of the sex and drugs that he sees, that he envies and desires the tawdry life as well, but never quite fits in. Unfortunately, at least according to this film and according to a supposed death bed confessional of Thorogood in 1993, it led to Thorogood's murder of Jones in a swimming pool "accident".
Keywords: 1960s, accountant, acid-the-drug, american-flag, anita-pallenberg, antichrist, archive-footage, asthma, attempt-to-save-life, bandActors: Antonio Chavarrías (producer), Dolores Heredia (actress), Álvaro Rodríguez (actor), Gustavo Montiel Pagés (producer), Alfonso Ortiz (actor), Edgardo Román (actor), Fabio Rubiano (actor), Nicolás Uribe (composer), Diego Vélez (actor), John Álex Toro (actor), Federico Durán (editor), Federico Durán (producer), Federico Durán (writer), Santiago García (actor), Gabriel Baudet (editor),
Plot: In 1945, in the Train Station of Bogota, Colombia, a dead girl is found in a trunk. The case is assigned to Detective Mariano Corzo, and he has to deal with the yellow journalist Hipólito Mosquera meanwhile he solves the mystery case, besides nobody knows who the girl is, or who put she in the trunk either. The things turn worst when Mosquera says in a newspaper that the trunk is pink, when it is actually brown and wooden. With the help of the bar tender Martina Quijano, Corzo will find an answer for the question: Who killed the girl and why?
Keywords: dead-girl, train, trunkActors: Isabelle Huppert (actress), Olivier Assayas (writer), Maryline Even (actress), Julie Depardieu (actress), Emmanuelle Béart (actress), Dominique Reymond (actress), André Marcon (actor), Victor Garrivier (actor), Louis-Do de Lencquesaing (actor), Jean-Pierre Gos (actor), Georges Wilson (actor), Didier Flamand (actor), Roger Dumas (actor), Olivier Assayas (director), Charles Berling (actor),
Plot: In late nineteenth century Charante, Protestant minister Jean Barnery causes local disquiet when he arranges a separation from his obsessive wife - and more talk when he decides to take her back. By this time he has been drawn to Pauline, niece of a Cognac distiller, and this precipitates him divorcing his wife, settling on her and his daughter the shares he owns in his family's porcelain factory. He resigns the ministry, marries Pauline, and moves to Switzerland and a tranquil life. On the death of his father he agrees to return home to save the factory, knowing the problems it will bring will change his life completely. So it proves, with service in the Great War having a further profound impact on him and those around him.
Keywords: 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, based-on-novel, brandy, cognac, divorce, factory, family-businessActors: Sándor Horváth (actor), François Vila (miscellaneous crew), Péter Andorai (actor), Brian Eno (composer), Ferenc Kardos (producer), Janine Souchon (actress), Mari Nagy (actress), Serge Merlin (actor), Joël Farges (producer), János Másik (composer), Mária Rigó (editor), Hubert Koundé (actor), Péter Miskolczi (producer), Juliette Grandmont (producer), Péter Halász (actor),
Plot: A crime is committed in Paris, and the police are clueless. They call in Simon, a sorcerer with supernatural powers. After helping the police break the case, Simon's old adversary challenges him to a contest: the two sorcerers must be buried for three days. And so the real challenge becomes whether or not Simon has the power to unlock his soul from death.
Keywords: character-name-in-title, sorcerer, surrealistActors: Roberto Benigni (director), Nicola Piovani (composer), Danilo Donati (costume designer), Marisa Paredes (actress), Roberto Benigni (writer), Vincenzo Cerami (writer), Richard Sammel (actor), Roberto Benigni (actor), Omero Antonutti (actor), Horst Buchholz (actor), Hannes Hellmann (actor), Gina Rovere (actress), Pietro De Silva (actor), Roberto Benigni (miscellaneous crew), Simona Paggi (editor),
Plot: In 1930s Italy, a carefree Jewish book keeper named Guido starts a fairy tale life by courting and marrying a lovely woman from a nearby city. Guido and his wife have a son and live happily together until the occupation of Italy by German forces. In an attempt to hold his family together and help his son survive the horrors of a Jewish Concentration Camp, Guido imagines that the Holocaust is a game and that the grand prize for winning is a tank.
Keywords: 1930s, 1940s, anvil, automobile, bicycle, blockbuster, bookstore, cake, character's-point-of-view-camera-shot, charadesActors: Eileen Atkins (actress), John Osborne (actor), John Osborne (writer), Sophie Ward (actress), Alan Howard (actor), Frank Cvitanovich (director), Frank Cvitanovich (producer), Spencer Banks (actor), Lloyd Shirley (producer), Daniel Beales (actor), Neil McPherson (actor), Gary Capelin (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Takis Miliadis (actor), Eleni Anousaki (actress), Erricos Andreou (director), Nikos Garofallou (actor), Kakia Panagiotou (actress), Nikos Papahristos (actor), Nikos Tzogias (actor), Giorgos Kimoulis (actor), Kakia Igerinou (actress), Soula Pierakou (writer), Yorgos Geogleris (actor), Grigorios Xenopoulos (writer), Byron Kolasis (actor), Maria Tsombanaki (actress), Afroditi Govani (actress),
Genres: Drama, Romance,Actors: Henry Kolker (actor), Michael Mark (actor), Ward Bond (actor), Reginald Barlow (actor), Maurice Black (actor), Murray Kinnell (actor), John Davidson (actor), Curley Dresden (actor), Preston Foster (actor), Alan Hale (actor), Winston Hibler (actor), Louis Calhern (actor), Thomas E. Jackson (actor), Frank Conroy (actor), Edwin Maxwell (actor),
Plot: Peaceloving blacksmith Marcus refuses lucrative offers to fight in the arena...until his wife dies for lack of medical care. His life as a gladiator coarsens him, and shady enterprises make him the richest man in Pompeii, while his son Flavius (who met Jesus on a brief visit to Judaea) is as gentle as Marcus once was. The final disaster of Marcus and Flavius's cross purposes is interrupted by the eruption of Vesuvius.
Keywords: adopted-son, amman, ancient-rome, ancient-times, arena, based-on-novel, blacksmith, born-again-christian, building-collapse, christian