Darc (2009)

Actors: Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (actor), DMX (actor), Jeff Fahey (actor), Ice-T (actor), Michael Madsen (actor), Armand Assante (actor), Lucas Vidal (composer), David Sakurai (actor), Keith Middlebrook (actor), Chris McGuinness (editor), Tony Schiena (producer), Tony Schiena (writer), Tony Schiena (actor), Michael Tadross Jr. (producer), Laura De Casto (producer),

Genres: Action,
Taglines: A gritty action thriller with spectacular martial arts action.

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

Actors: Tim Burton (director), Richard Morrison (miscellaneous crew), Walter F. Parkes (producer), Derek Frey (producer), Richard D. Zanuck (producer), Brendan Gunn (miscellaneous crew), Nick Thomas-Webster (actor), Alan Rickman (actor), Helena Bonham Carter (actress), Sacha Baron Cohen (actor), Timothy Spall (actor), Anthony Head (actor), Johnny Depp (actor), Colleen Atwood (costume designer), Dean Wares (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: In the Victorian London, the barber Benjamin Barker is married to the gorgeous Lucy and they have a lovely child, Johanna. The beauty of Lucy attracts the attention of the corrupt Judge Turpin, who falsely accuses the barber of a crime that he did not commit and abuses Lucy later after gaining custody of her. After fifteen years in exile, Benjamin returns to London under the new identity of Sweeney Todd, seeking revenge against Turpin. He meets the widow Mrs. Lovett who is the owner of a meat pie shop who tells him that Lucy swallowed arsenic many years ago, and Turpin assigned himself tutor of Johanna. He opens a barber shop above her store, initiating a crime rampage against those who made him suffer and lose his beloved family.

Keywords: 1850s, 19th-century, abuse-of-power, accomplice, adopted-daughter, ale, assault, asylum, baker, bakery
Genres: Drama, Horror, Musical, Thriller,
Taglines: Never Forget. Never Forgive. Beware! Sweeney Todd is coming. This Christmas. Johnny Depp is THE BARBER. Helena Bonham Carter is THE BAKER.

Quotes:

[from trailer]::Sweeney Todd: I can guarantee the closest shave you'll ever know.

Signor Adolfo Pirelli: [to Sweeney] May the good Lord smile on you... until we meet again.

[from trailer]::Judge Turpin: [as he sentences boy prisoner] May the Lord have mercy on your soul.

Sweeney Todd: [holding up one of his razors] At last! My arm is complete again!

[singing]::Sweeney Todd: Alright! You, sir? How about a shave? Come and visit your good friend Sweeney! You sir! Too, sir. Welcome to the grave... I will have vengeance. I will have salvation... Who, sir? You sir!No one's in the chair. Come on, come on! Sweeney's waiting. I want you bleeders. You sir? Anybody? Gentlemen, now don't be shy. Not one man... No, nor ten men... Nor a hundred can assuage me. I will have you! And I will get him back even as he gloats; In the meantime I'll practice on less honorable throats... And my Lucy lies in ashes, and I'll never see my girl again. But the work waits! I'm alive at last, and I'm full of joy!

Sweeney Todd: Noooooo! Would no one have mercy on her?::Mrs. Lovett: So it's you. Benjamin Barker::Sweeney Todd: Where's Lucy? Where's my wife?::Mrs. Lovett: She poisoned herself, arsenic from the apothecary round the corner, I tried to stop her, but she wouldn't listen to me, and he's got your daughter.::Sweeney Todd: He? Judge Turpin?::Mrs. Lovett: [nods] Adopted her like his own.::Sweeney Todd: 15 years sweating, and living hell, for a false charge. 15 years dreaming I might come home to a wife and child.::Mrs. Lovett: Well, I can't say the years have been particularly kind to you, Mr. Barker.::Sweeney Todd: No, not Barker. That man is dead. It's Todd now. Sweeney Todd... and he will have his revenge.

Sweeney Todd: [sung] They all deserve to die. Tell you why, Mrs. Lovett, tell you why! Because in all of the whole human race, Mrs. Lovett, there are two kinds of men and only two. There's the one staying put in his proper place and one with his foot in the other one's face. Look at me, Mrs Lovett! Look at you! No, we all deserve to die... Even you, Mrs Lovett, even I! Because the lives of the wicked should be made brief. For the rest of us death will be a relief. We all deserve to die... And I'll never see Johanna, no I'll never hug my girl to me... FINISHED!

Sweeney Todd: [sung to his razor] You there, my friend... /Come, let me hold you...::Mrs. Lovett: [sung] I'm your friend too, Mr. Todd... /If you only knew, Mr Todd...::Sweeney Todd: Now, with a sigh / You grow warm in my hand.::Mrs. Lovett: [unison] Ooh, Mr. Todd, / You're warm in my hand.::Sweeney Todd: My friend.::Mrs. Lovett: [unison] You've come home.::Sweeney Todd: My clever friend.::Mrs. Lovett: [unison] Always had a fondness for you, I did.

Mrs. Lovett: That lad is drinking me out o' house an' home.

Sweeney Todd: What is that?::Mrs. Lovett: It's fop, / Finest in the shop. / Or we have shepherd's pie peppered with actual shepherd on top. And I've just begun. Here's the politician, so oily it's served on a doily, have one.

La vie de chantier (2004)

Actors: Dany Boon (actor), Zinedine Soualem (actor), Dany Boon (writer), Dany Boon (director), Dominique Segall (miscellaneous crew), Mimi Lempicka (costume designer), Christian Zanetti (actor), Frédéric Bouraly (actor), Marie-Sophie L. (actress), Jean-François Elberg (actor), Julia Duchaussoy (actress), Patrice Bazerque (editor), Séverine Thibaut (miscellaneous crew), Christian Auxéméry (director),

Genres: Comedy,

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in Concert (2001)

Actors: Patti LuPone (actress), Jeremy Kasten (editor), Neil Patrick Harris (actor), Jeff Thorsen (producer), Hugh Wheeler (writer), George Hearn (actor), Gary Bradley (editor), Ellen Krass (producer), Victoria Clark (actress), Lonny Price (director), Cheryl Mergaert (miscellaneous crew), Iris Merlis (producer), Davis Gaines (actor), Morton Swinsky (producer), Chase Mishkin (producer),

Plot: This movie is a recorded performance in concert. It all begins when Benjamin Barker( George Hearn), a mysterious,quiet,and subtle barber, returns to his hometown in London after escaping from a prison in Australia with help from a young sailor named Anthony. Now Sweeney Todd, he returns to his home where he and his wife Lucie and daughter Johanna used to live. When he arrives he meets Mrs. Nellie Lovett(Patti Lupone), a lonely woman who owns a down and out pie shop, and discovers that his wife has poisoned herself and the judge that unfairly punished him is responsible and the judge also has his daughter. So then Sweeney plots his revenge on the judge and his accomplice the Beadle and with help from Mrs. Lovett he re-opens his barber shop and vows to give the judge the closest shave he will ever know and give Mrs. Lovett a tasty new ingredient for her homemade meat pies.

Keywords: based-on-book, character-name-in-title
Genres: Crime, Drama, Horror, Musical, Thriller,

Quotes:

Mrs. Lovett: And who says the week's out yet? It's only Friday.

Beadle: Mr. Todd. Strange, sir. It seems your face is known to me.::Mrs. Lovett: Him? [laughs] That's a laugh, him being me uncle's cousin and arrived from Birmingham only yesterday.::Sweeney Todd: And yet already, I have heard Beadle Bamford spoken of with great respect.::Beadle: Well, sir, I do try for my neighbors. Fleet Street, eh? Above your pie shop, ma'am?::Mrs. Lovett: That's it, sir.::Beadle: Then, Mr. Todd, you shall surely be seing me before the week is out.::Sweeney Todd: You will be welcome, Beadle Bamford, and I guarantee to give you, without a penny's charge, the closest shave you will ever know.

Air America (1990)

Actors: Mario Kassar (producer), Ernie Lively (actor), Lane Smith (actor), Richard Nixon (actor), Tim Thomerson (actor), Mel Gibson (actor), Robert Downey Jr. (actor), David Bowe (actor), Ken Jenkins (actor), Michael Dudikoff (actor), Burt Kwouk (actor), Marshall Bell (actor), Art LaFleur (actor), Charles Gross (composer), Andrew G. Vajna (producer),

Plot: Air America was the CIA's private airline operating in Laos during the Vietnam War, running anything and everything from soldiers to foodstuffs for local villagers. After losing his pilot's license, Billy Covington is recruited into it, and ends up in the middle of a bunch of lunatic pilots, gun-running by his friend Gene Ryack, and opium smuggling by his own superiors.

Keywords: 1960s, abandoned-factory, air-base, airplane-accident, arms-smuggling, aviation, based-on-book, based-on-novel, battle, cambodia
Genres: Action, Comedy,
Taglines: The Few. The Proud. The Totally Insane. Anything. Anywhere. Anytime.

Quotes:

Gene Ryack: Well down here at Crazy Gene's Used Airplanes, people think we're out of our minds since we slashed the prices on our used C-123's!

Rob Diehl: Hey Gene, You will remember what I said?... Shhhh!::Gene Ryack: Well the problem is Rob, you and I weren't here, this conversation never happened, so I cant remember what the fuck you didn't tell me!

Rob Diehl: You know more about it than American intelligence Gene!::Gene Ryack: Rob, I wish you wouldn't use the words American Intelligence to describe what it is you do!

Gene Ryack: Here at Air America, what's considered psychotic behavior anywhere else is company policy.

Billy Covington: [Gene is loading a machine gun] Excuse me, is that an Uzi?::Gene Ryack: (glances at Babo & Billy) You know, that would make a great TV commercial? 'Excuse me, is that an Uzi?' 'Why, yes it is. Hey, self-defense is no laughing matter! That why when I want number one I pack an Uzi... accept no substitutes.'

Billy Covington: How often do you guys go on a bender like this?::Babo: Bender? This isn't a bender, this is night-time!

Billy Covington: Jesus! Who the hell is shooting at us?::Jack Neely: Over here, everybody shots at us.

Billy Covington: I don't wanna crash twice in one day!::Gene Ryack: Don't worry, I crash better that anyone I know.

[to Billy]::Gene Ryack: Why don't you go home huh? Look at me, look at Neely, we're all a bunch of trouble junkies, we've been mainlining danger and adrenaline for so long nothing else gets us off, it's kind a sick. [pause] Before you pick up the habit and you will pick up the habit. Go back to L.A. and be the weirdest guy in the room again. Whada you think?

Gene Ryack: I've seen things here that I could never possibly have imagined, and I've got a pretty broad imagination.

Pray for Death (1985)

Actors: James Booth (actor), Robert Ito (actor), Moshe Diamant (producer), James Booth (writer), Parley Baer (actor), Michael Constantine (actor), Matthew Faison (actor), Lonnie Ramati (miscellaneous crew), Bill Butler (editor), Thomas Chase (composer), Gordon Hessler (director), Norman Burton (actor), Steve Rucker (composer), Woody Watson (actor), Buckley Norris (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: Akira Saito, a Japanese businessman lives in Tokyo with his Japanese-American wife Aiko and their children, Takeshi and Tomoya. When the family has a chance to move to the United States so that Aiko can teach the children about their American heritage, they pack up and head for Houston, Texas and run a restaurant. This is where the trouble begins. A band of crooked cops store stolen goods in the back room of the restaurant and unknown to the Saitos family, a priceless necklace (the Van Atta necklace), is wanted by a local syndicate. When one of the dirty cops decide to take the necklace for himself, the syndicate goes after the previous owner of the restaurant, then after the Saitos'. When one of the boys is kidnapped by top thug Limehouse, Akira quietly rescues him. However, when Aiko and Tomoya are run down by Limehouse in an effort to get the necklace, Akira has had enough. For years, Akira has kept a dark secret. Akira finally decides to unleash his dark side.

Keywords: arrow-in-chest, bicycle, blood, blood-splatter, blowgun, bow-and-arrow, chainsaw, child-martial-arts, child-murder, circular-saw
Genres: Action, Drama,
Taglines: The Master Ninja is Back. They shattered his American dream.

Quotes:

Limehouse: I'm going to burn your kid like a roman candle.

Aiko: They were watching the black ninja again.::Akira: Why do you watch it boys, when your mother tells you not to?

Limehouse: [after killing Sam Green] Shall we give the old fucker a Viking funeral?

Akira: [holding a knife to Limehouse's neck] Stay away from the Saito family. They don't know anything about the Van Atta neckalace. If you don't, I promise you, you will pray for death.

Limehouse: I'm going to rip your stinking guts out.

Kaga: You must remove the guilt from your mind, for one day, it will kill you.

Kaga: Akira, I want you to have this.::Akira: No! When I leave Japan, I will put my shadows behind me!::Kaga: You cannot escape your shadows, my son. You will always be a ninja!

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1982)

Actors: Angela Lansbury (actress), Harold Prince (miscellaneous crew), Terry Hughes (director), Archer King (producer), George Hearn (actor), Hugh Wheeler (writer), Jimmy B. Frazier (editor), Edmund Lyndeck (actor), Bonnie Burns (producer), Franne Lee (costume designer), Sal Mistretta (actor), Calvin Remsberg (actor), Larry Fuller (miscellaneous crew), Patricia Parker (actress), Walter Charles (actor),

Plot: It's 1846. Sweeney Todd and Anthony Hope, greeted only by a crazed beggar woman, sail into London, where Todd implies he has been before but not in quite some time. Todd heads to his old stomping grounds of Fleet Street, where he runs across the pie shop belonging to Mrs. Nellie Lovett, who professes to make the worst meat pies in London due to the high cost of meat. The upstairs of her building has sat empty since no one wants to rent a space that is considered haunted by its long ago tenant, barber Benjamin Barker who was falsely accused and ultimately sentenced by the sadistic Judge Turpin and who was shipped away to prison in Australia, leaving his wife Lucy and infant daughter Johanna alone in the world. Todd comes to an agreement with Mrs. Lovett to rent the upstairs of her building so that he can open his own barber shop. A series of incidents, including one with rival barber Senor Pirelli, make Todd change his focus slightly away from having a choice encounter with Judge Turpin and his equally sadistic henchman Beadle Bamford, which was one of the reasons he returned to London. Mrs. Lovett believes this change can only help her pie shop. Meanwhile, upon sighting each other, Anthony and Johanna fall in love at first sight. Johanna is now the ward of Judge Turpin, who has his own incompatible wants with her. Todd and Mrs. Lovett's collaboration as well as Anthony's pursuit of Johanna take marked turns with a number of revelations, most specifically about the crazed beggar woman and Mrs. Lovett's motivations.

Keywords: 19th-century, adoption, assumed-identity, asylum, barber, based-on-stage-musical, betrayal, black-comedy, blackmail, burned-alive
Genres: Drama, Horror, Musical, Thriller,

Quotes:

Judge Turpin: [singing] What more can man require than love sir?::Sweeney Todd: [singing] More than love sir.::Judge Turpin: [singing] What sir?::Sweeney Todd: [singing] Women.::Judge Turpin: [singing] Ah yes, women.::Sweeney Todd: [singing] Pretty women.

Nellie Lovett: [singing] Mrs Mooney has a pie shop. Does a business, but I notice something weird - lately all her neighbour's cats have disappeared.

Nellie Lovett: [singing, after Sweeney Todd has bitten into one of Mrs Lovett's pies] Is that just disgusting? You have to conceed it. It's nothing but crusting, here drink this - you'll need it.

Sweeney Todd: [singing] There's a hole in the world like a great black pit/ And the vermin of the world inhabit it/ And its morals aren't worth what a pig could spit/ And it goes by the name of London.

[first lines]::Man: [singing] Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd. His skin was pale and his eye was odd. He shaved the faces of gentlemen who never thereafter were heard of again. He trod a path that few have trod, Did Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

Company: [singing] Swing your razor wide, Sweeney! Hold it to the skies! Freely flows the blood of those who moralize...

Sweeney Todd: [singing] Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd...::Company: [singing] Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd...::Sweeney Todd: [singing] He served a dark and a vengeful god...::Company: [singing] He served a dark and a vengeful god...::Sweeney Todd: [singing] What happened then? Well, that's the play and he wouldn't want us to give it away. Not Sweeney...::Todd, Company: [singing] Not Sweeney Todd... the demon barber of Fleet... Street.

Sweeney Todd: [singing] There was a barber and his wife, and she was beautiful. A foolish barber and his wife. She was his reason and his life, And she was beautiful. And she was virtuous. And he was - Naive. There was another man who saw that she was beautiful, a pious vulture of the law, who, with a gesture of his claw removed the barber from his plate. Then there was nothing but to wait and she would fall, so soft, so young, so lost, and oh, so beautiful!::Anthony Hope: [speaking] And the lady, sir-did she-succumb?::Sweeney Todd: [singing] Oh, that was many years ago... I doubt if anyone would know.

Sweeney Todd: [singing] You there, my friend. Come, let me hold you. Now, with a sigh you grow warm in my hand, my friend, my clever friend. Rest now, my friends. Soon I'll unfold you. Soon you'll know splendors you never have dreamed all your days, my lucky friends. Till now your shine was merely silver. Friends you shall drip rubies...::Nellie Lovett: [singing] [simultaneously] I'm your friend too, Mr. Todd. If you only knew, Mr. Todd - Ooh, Mr. Todd, you're warm in my hand. You've come home. Always had a fondness for you, I did. Never you fear, Mr. Todd, you can move in here, Mr. Todd. Splendors you never have dreamed All your days will be yours. I'm your friend. Don't they shine beautiful? Silver's good enough for me, Mr. T.::Sweeney Todd: [singing] You'll soon drip precious rubies...::Sweeney Todd: [holds up his razor]::Sweeney Todd: [singing] At last, my right arm is complete again!

Johanna: [singing] Green finch and linnet bird, mightingale, blackbird, how is it you sing? how can you jubilate, sitting in cages, never taking wing? Outside the sky waits, beckoning, beckoning, just beyond the bars. How can you remain, staring at the rain, maddened by the stars?

La proprietà non è più un furto (1973)

Actors: Elio Petri (director), Mario Scaccia (actor), Ugo Tognazzi (actor), Ada Pometti (actress), Elio Petri (writer), Ugo Pirro (writer), Ennio Morricone (composer), Flavio Bucci (actor), Luigi Antonio Guerra (actor), Julien Guiomar (actor), Jacques Herlin (actor), Gigi Proietti (actor), Salvo Randone (actor), Orazio Orlando (actor), Daria Nicolodi (actress),

Genres: Comedy, Drama,

This Town Will Never Be the Same (1969)

Actors: John Beal (actor), Roy Scheider (actor), David Susskind (producer), William Devane (actor), Vincent Gardenia (actor), Barry Sullivan (actor), E.G. Marshall (actor), Paul Collins (actor), William Roerick (actor), Paul McGrath (actor), Fred J. Scollay (actor), Staats Cotsworth (actor), Edward DeBlasio (writer), David Pressman (director), Frank Keating (actor),

Genres: Drama,

One Night with You (1948)

Actors: Martin Miller (actor), Terence Young (director), Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia (writer), John Warren (actor), Cyril Smith (actor), Stanley Holloway (actor), Percy Walsh (actor), Christopher Lee (actor), Andreas Malandrinos (actor), Miles Malleson (actor), Robert Rietty (actor), Ferdy Mayne (actor), Guy Middleton (actor), Judith Furse (actress), Richard Hearne (actor),

Plot: Two strangers meet when they both miss their trains, and end up spending a penniless day and night together. An English version of 'It Happened One Night'.

Keywords: based-on-play, opera
Genres: Comedy, Musical,