Passchendaele (2008)

Actors: Gil Bellows (actor), Paul Gross (writer), Paul Gross (actor), Cynthia Amsden (miscellaneous crew), Wendy Partridge (costume designer), Krista Johnston (miscellaneous crew), Jan A.P. Kaczmarek (composer), Paul Gross (producer), Paul Gross (director), Niv Fichman (producer), Brian Dooley (actor), Jason Cermak (actor), Tom Carey (actor), Robert C. Yu (miscellaneous crew), Chantal Teasdale (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: In 1917, in World War I, the veteran Sergeant, Michael Dunne, is wounded at the front and nursed by Sarah Mann. He is diagnosed as neurasthenic and returns to his hometown, Calgary, to work in the recruitment section. When Sarah's asthmatic brother, David, is enlisted and demands that this be recognized by the father of his girlfriend, Cassie Walker. Sarah believes that Michael is responsible, and blames him for the engagement of her brother in the army. Michael re-enlists, using his mother last name, in order to protect David and they are sent to the no man's land at the front line of the Battle of Passchendaele.

Keywords: 1910s, alberta-canada, army-life, asthma, battle, battle-fatigue, battlefield, bloodbath, blown-to-pieces, bombardment
Genres: Drama, History, Romance, War,
Taglines: in love, there is only one rule... don't die.

Quotes:

[repeated line]::Michael Dunne: I'm not a good storyteller...

David Mann: I came here to kill Germans!::Michael Dunne: No. You came here to kill your father.

German Machine Gunner: [Extends hand towards Dunne] Kamerad...::[Dunne stabs him in the forehead]

Dobson-Hughes: [insulting the Germans] Gas... even a Boer wouldn't sink so low to use gas.::Michael Dunne: I believe we're using gas, sir.::Dobson-Hughes: [after a pause] Quite right.

Sarah Mann: There's only one rule: don't die.

Michael Dunne: Do you think maybe I could accompany you to a dance, or...?::Sarah Mann: I don't dance with soldiers.::Michael Dunne: I could lose the uniform.::Sarah Mann: I don't dance with naked soldiers.

Dobson-Hughes: While I was born under the sun of the British Empire, you were born under the cloud of Germany!

Michael Dunne: [leads two horses towards Sarah] I know you don't dance with soldiers, miss. But would you go riding with one?

Sarah Mann: [about her brother's enlistment] Dunne didn't recruit him?::Cassie Walker: No. He barely had anything to do with it. It was the other man, the British one.

Nursing Matron: [Dunne doesn't know Nurse Mann's name] It's Sarah. Her name is Sarah.

Les mystères de Paris (1962)

Actors: Jean Le Poulain (actor), Lucien Frégis (actor), Guy Henry (actor), Henri Lambert (actor), Raoul Billerey (actor), Guy Delorme (actor), Henri Guégan (actor), Georges Chamarat (actor), Charles Bouillaud (actor), Gabriel Gobin (actor), Henri Coutet (actor), Alain Bouvette (actor), Robert Dalban (actor), Louis Bugette (actor), Jean Marais (actor),

Genres: Action, Adventure,

Sette piccole croci (1957)

Actors: Alessandro De Stefani (writer), Renato De Carmine (actor), Ivo Garrani (actor), Georges Simenon (writer), Vittorio Cottafavi (director), Tino Bianchi (actor), Carlo Bagno (actor), Gianni Santuccio (actor), Carlo Alighiero (actor), Antonio Cannas (actor), Gianni Tonolli (actor), Sergio Failoni (writer), Mario Rovati (actor), Sergio Santernecchi (actor),

Genres: Crime,

Boudu sauvé des eaux (1932)

Actors: Michel Simon (producer), Marguerite Renoir (editor), Max Dalban (actor), Jean Dasté (actor), Jean Renoir (director), Albert Valentin (writer), Michel Simon (actor), Jean Renoir (writer), Jane Pierson (actress), Jacques Becker (actor), Suzanne de Troeye (editor), Charles Granval (actor), Marcelle Hainia (actress), Jean Gehret (actor), René Fauchois (writer),

Plot: Boudu, a tramp, jumps into the Seine. He is rescued by Mr Lestingois, a gentle and good bookseller, who gives shelter to him. Mrs Lestingois and the maid Anne-Marie (Mr Lestingois' mistress) are far from delighted, for Boudu is lazy, dirty and salacious...

Keywords: based-on-play, character-name-in-title, drowning, homelessness, paris-france, rescue-from-drowning, suicide-attempt, tramp
Genres: Comedy,

Quotes:

Chloë Anne Marie, la bonne: Why have a piano if no one plays it?::Édouard Lestingois: Even so, we have a piano because we are respectable people.

Édouard Lestingois: The man who spits in Balzac's "Physiology of Marriage" is less than nothing to me.::Priape Boudu: Who is that man?::Édouard Lestingois: Ask my wife.