Against the Grain (2013)

Actors: Samuel Lynn Comer (writer), Samuel Lynn Comer (producer), Samuel Lynn Comer (director), Samuel Lynn Comer (editor), Carrie B. Thompson (actress), Randy W. Thompson (actor), Laura Miller (miscellaneous crew),

Genres: Horror, Short,

Pájaros volando (2010)

Actors: Luis Luque (actor), Marcelo Schapces (producer), Juan Carlos Mesa (actor), Verónica Llinás (actress), Atilio Pozzobon (actor), Damián Dreizik (writer), Damián Dreizik (actor), Diego Capusotto (actor), Alejandra Flechner (actress), Lola Berthet (actress), Pablo Borghi (composer), Vanessa Weinberg (actress), Néstor Montalbano (director), Norberto Verea (actor), Eduardo Calvo (actor),

Genres: Comedy,

Midsummer Madness (2007)

Actors: Tobias Moretti (actor), Detlev Buck (actor), Alexander Hahn (writer), Dominique Pinon (actor), Norman Hudis (writer), Alexander Hahn (director), Maria de Medeiros (actress), Alexander Hahn (actor), Klaus Hundsbichler (composer), Daniil Spivakovskiy (actor), Roland Düringer (actor), Yevgeni Sitokhin (actor), Chulpan Khamatova (actress), Thomas Oláh (costume designer), Thomas Oláh (actor),

Plot: Janu Nakts (St. John's Night) is a traditional Latvian celebration during which family and friends gather to build bonfires, barbecue, drink and generally have a good time. According to legend, lovers and those who would like to fall in love, can search the woods for the "magic fern" on this night. This magic fern serves as the focus and pivotal point of the six stories in "Midsummer Madness" It is also a metaphor for the film's underlying theme - finding love. "MIDSUMMER MADNESS " is reflected in the recurring element of the magic fern, a metaphor (both in the film and in real life) for love. The question posed by the film is: can a search for love ever be successful? Each story deals with this question. An answer is provided at the film's conclusion in a humorous and unforgettable way: we see the legendary fern, glowing magically in a meadow. It exists after all! Then a cow ambles along and eats it. The deeper message, which is not obvious to the audience, is therefore: Yes, a search for love can be successful, though we are generally unaware of how to deal with it.

Keywords: airport, american-overseas, austrian, businessman, car, celebration, chaika, cult-film, cultural-diversity, culture-clash
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance,

Revelation (2001)

Actors: Celia Imrie (actress), Vernon Dobtcheff (actor), Derek Jacobi (actor), Ron Moody (actor), John Charles (miscellaneous crew), Udo Kier (actor), Terence Stamp (actor), Pip Torrens (actor), Oliver Ford Davies (actor), Liam Cunningham (actor), James D'Arcy (actor), Heathcote Williams (actor), Earl Cameron (actor), Patrick Isherwood (miscellaneous crew), Stuart Urban (director),

Plot: Dating back to the time of Jesus Christ, an ancient relic known as the Loculus has been fought over by the forces of light and darkness down the centuries. Created in 50 AD, the wood panels of the Loculus are emblazoned with two images: the Ankh symbol - a looped crucifix - and the Caduceus - a rod entwined with two serpents. On its perilous journey through history, the Loculus was further adorned with more arcane mystical imagery including pentagrams, hexagrams, a crucified serpent, the naked human form divine and a hermaphrodite. And many have tried to unlock the secret of the sacred artefact - a secret only a chosen few know contains profound and overwhelming ramifications for mankind. In 1299 a Jewish alchemist's attempts to unravel the enigma ended in disaster. And in 1710 Sir Isaac Newton, discoverer of the laws of gravity and a foremost member of the Masonic Order of the Knights Templar, also strove to answer the riddle. But with the art of science in its infancy, Newton realised the Underground Stream of research needed to solve the puzzle would have to flow for several more centuries before the prophesied ultimate Great Work could be wrought in all its glory. Now, the Loculus, missing for hundreds of years, has reappeared again... Revelation tells the story of the final search for the Loculus and its effect on the Martel family and the whole world.

Keywords: alchemy, apocalypse, astrology, christianity, conspiracy, cryptography, freemason, geometry, legend, metaphysical
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller,

Quotes:

Curé at Rennes-le-Chateau: Curiosity strangled the cat.

O-bi, O-ba - Koniec cywilizacji (1985)

Actors: Elzbieta Kurkowska (editor), Henryk Bista (actor), Adam Ferency (actor), Ryszard Kotys (actor), Wlodzimierz Musial (actor), Leon Niemczyk (actor), Jan Nowicki (actor), Jerzy Stuhr (actor), Marcin Tronski (actor), Marek Walczewski (actor), Krystyna Janda (actress), Mariusz Dmochowski (actor), Jerzy Satanowski (composer), Kalina Jedrusik (actress), Krzysztof Majchrzak (actor),

Plot: Set in an underground dungeon inhabited by bundled, ragged human beings, after the nuclear holocaust. The story follows the wanderings of a hero through the situations of survival. People wait for the Ark to arrive and rescue them while their habitat falls apart.

Keywords: airplane, balloon, bible, cellar, dome, dungeon, dystopia, frozen-body, hangar, hope
Genres: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi,

Bombasi (1973)

Actors: Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic (actor), Boro Begovic (actor), Boro Begovic (actor), Bogdan Jakus (actor), Miroljub Leso (actor), Veljko Mandic (actor), Veljko Mandic (actor), Predrag Golubovic (director), Mirjana Ostojic (costume designer), Predrag Golubovic (writer), Ljubisa Samardzic (actor), Abdurrahman Shala (actor), Ratko Djurovic (writer), Marinko Sebez (actor), Vlatko Gilic (writer),

Plot: Two buddies, Partisans, bombers, have been made for a very difficult, very important and dangerous mission. The offensive in the doorway, they need to blow up all the bunkers, which are at the a very important the strategic track, for the Germans and the Partisans.

Keywords: battle, bombing-squad, bunker, commando, explosion, fear, german, girl, hospital, injury
Genres: Drama, War,

Voyna i mir (1966)

Actors: Nikolay Trofimov (actor), Vyacheslav Tikhonov (actor), Georgiy Millyar (actor), Aleksei Smirnov (actor), Oleg Tabakov (actor), Nikolay Smorchkov (actor), Nikita Mikhalkov (actor), Stanislav Chekan (actor), Sergey Nikonenko (actor), Nikolay Grinko (actor), Oleg Efremov (actor), Vladislav Strzhelchik (actor), Sergey Bondarchuk (actor), Sergey Bondarchuk (writer), Irina Skobtseva (actress),

Plot: Eight-hour epic based on the book of the same name by 'Leo Tolstoy' (qv). Two main story-lines are complex and intertwined. One is the love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov, who is unhappy in his marriage. Another is the "Great Patriotic War" of 1812 against the invading Napoleon's Armies. The people of Russia from all classes of society stand up united against the enemy. The 500,000 strong Napoleon's army moves through Russia and causes much destruction culminating in the battle of Borodino. The Russian army has to retreat. Moscow is occupied, looted and burned down, but soon Napoleon loses control and has to flee. Both sides suffer tremendous losses in the war, and Russian society is left irrevocably changed.

Keywords: 1810s, 19th-century, 70mm-film, admiration, amputation, aristocracy, ballerina, based-on-novel, battle, betrayal
Genres: Drama, History, Romance, War,

Quotes:

Narrator: On 12th June, 1812, the forces of western Europe crossed the frontiers of Russia and war began. In other words, an event took place that was contrary to all human reason and human nature.

[Prince Andrei is dying]::Prince Andrei Bolkonsky: Natasha... I love you too much. More than anything in the world.::Natasha Rostova: And I! But why too much?::Prince Andrei Bolkonsky: Why too much? Well, what do you think? What do you feel in your soul, deep in your soul? Shall I live? What do you think?::Natasha Rostova: I'm sure of it.::Prince Andrei Bolkonsky: How good that would be.

Narrator: And not for this day and hour alone were the mind and conscience of this man darkened, on whom the burden of events weighed more heavily than on all the others who took part in it. Never, to the end of his life, had he the least comprehension of goodness, of beauty or of truth, or of the significance of his actions, which were too contrary to goodness and truth, too remote from everything human for him ever to understand their meaning. He could not disavow his deeds, lauded as they were by half the world, and so he was obliged to renounce truth and goodness and all humanity.

[the Battle of Borodino drags on]::Narrator: Enough, enough, men. Stop, consider, what are you doing? Into the minds of tired and hungry men on both sides, a flicker of doubt began to creep. Were they to go on slaughtering one another? Kill whom you like, do what you like, but I've had enough. Yet some inexplicable, mysterious power continued to control them, and the terrible business went on, carried out not by the will of individual men.

Narrator: A moral victory which compels the enemy to recognize the moral superiority of his opponent and his own impotence was won by the Russians at Borodino. The direct consequence of the Battle of Borodino was Napoleon's flight from Moscow, the destruction of the invading army of 500,000 men, and the destruction of Napoleonic France, on which was laid for the first time, at Borodino, the hand of an opponent stronger in spirit!

Narrator: I want only to say that it is always the simplest ideas which lead to the greatest consequences. My idea, in its entirety, is that if vile people unite and constitute a force, then decent people are obliged to do likewise; just that.

Narrator: Thoughts that have important consequences are always simple.All my thinking could be summed up with these words: Since corrupt people unite among themselves to constitute a force,honest people must do the same.It's as simple as that.

Tushin: Uncertainty, that's what one fears most.

Narrator: According to a popular belief, the fewer people know about the suffering of a woman in labor the less is her suffering.

Prince Andrei Bolkonsky: How can you be sure what will do harm to another man?. Personally, I know of only two real evils in life: Remorse and sickness.And happiness is the absence of those two evils.

Just My Luck (1957)

Actors: Leslie Phillips (actor), John Warwick (actor), Ian Wilson (actor), Robert Rietty (actor), Bill Fraser (actor), Fred Griffiths (actor), Michael Ward (actor), Frank Atkinson (actor), Michael Brennan (actor), Sam Kydd (actor), Cyril Chamberlain (actor), Ballard Berkeley (actor), Edward Chapman (actor), Peter Copley (actor), Norman Wisdom (actor),

Plot: Norman works in a jewellers workshop and fantasises (in the nicest way) about meeting the window dresser across the road from his workshop. He wants to buy her a diamond pendant but calculates it will take him over 100 years to save up for it. He is talked into betting a pound on a six horse accumulator at the Goodwood races with a slightly shady bookmaker. When he has won on the first five races, the bookie owes him over 16,000 pounds and everyone begins to worry. Everyone's future depends on a single race ... what can be done ?

Keywords: actor-shares-first-name-with-character, based-on-novel, betting-on-horse, three-word-title
Genres: Comedy,

Quotes:

Norman Hackett: Well, shall I go and get the tea now then?::Powell: Tea? We don't have tea till half three. Half an hour to go yet.::Norman Hackett: I thought, you know, perhaps you might like it early today, cos it being so hot and all that, and on account of the heat making us all so parched and everything. Nothing like a nice hot cup of tea to unparch it is there? You imagine it: all running round your mouth inside and then it goes down to your throat and then it gives you all that lovely feeling inside your stomach. You imagine it now with all all sugar and all milk and no tealeaves and it's very good for you. Nice hot strong tea and when you get the cup in your hand it makes you feel as if perhaps life really is worth living after all...::Powell: G-Go and get it!

Barabbas (1953)

Actors: Ulf Johansson (actor), Jarl Kulle (actor), Gösta Gustafson (actor), Erik Hell (actor), Anders Henrikson (actor), Tor Isedal (actor), Olle Hilding (actor), Eric Gustafson (actor), Erik Forslund (actor), Sven-Eric Gamble (actor), Hugo Björne (actor), Göthe Grefbo (actor), Åke Grönberg (actor), Manne Grünberger (actor), Torsten Lilliecrona (actor),

Genres: Drama,

Mlodosc Chopina (1952)

Actors: Juliusz Lubicz-Lisowski (actor), Lech Ordon (actor), Emil Karewicz (actor), Stanislaw Michalski (actor), Hanna Skarzanka (actress), Aleksander Ford (writer), Aleksander Ford (director), Ryszard Barycz (actor), Jan Ciecierski (actor), Jerzy Kaczmarek (actor), Feliks Chmurkowski (actor), Tadeusz Bialoszczynski (actor), Henryk Rzetkowski (actor), Henryk Modrzewski (actor), Wanda Jakubinska (actress),

Plot: A story of the formative years in Chopin's life between 1825 and 1831, a time of social unrest throughout Europe, of rising nationalism, and of cries for reform. Chopin, an outstanding student in music, and inflamed with the revolutionary spirit in his native Poland, gives a number of concerts which are praised by the aristocracy. His fame growing, he sets out on tour and, while in Vienna, hears of the November uprising in Warsaw. He makes an attempt to return and join the fight but his carriage breaks down, and his is brought back ill. Warned by his doctor, he settles down to a quieter life in Paris, and continues his work.

Keywords: 1820s, 1830s, aristocracy, aristocrat, austria, based-on-novel, character-name-in-title, church, composer, concert
Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War,