The Conspirator (2010)

Actors: Andrew Arrasmith (actor), John Bankson (actor), Walter Bankson (actor), Peter Bannon (actor), Chris Bauer (actor), Gerald Bestrom (actor), Brett Brooks (actor), Aric Bruggeworth (actor), Kevin Buttimer (actor), Brandon Carroll (actor), Dennis Clark (actor), Russell Cook (actor), Craig Crumpton (actor), John Cullum (actor), David Andrews (actor),

Plot: In the wake of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, seven men and one woman are arrested and charged with conspiring to kill the President, the Vice-President, and the Secretary of State. The lone woman charged, Mary Surratt, 42, owns a boarding house where John Wilkes Booth and others met and planned the simultaneous attacks. Against the ominous back-drop of post-Civil War Washington, newly-minted lawyer, Frederick Aiken, a 28-year-old Union war-hero, reluctantly agrees to defend Surratt before a military tribunal. As the trial unfolds, Aiken realizes his client may be innocent and that she is being used as bait and hostage in order to capture the only conspirator to have escaped a massive manhunt, her own son.

Keywords: abuse-of-power, alcoholic, american-civil-war, andrew-johnson, arrest, assassination-of-president, bag-over-head, betrayal, boarder, boarding-house
Genres: Crime, Drama, History,
Taglines: One bullet killed the President. But not one man.

Quotes:

Edwin Stanton: Damn the rebels. Damn them to hell!

Frederick Aiken: Why are you here?::Sarah Weston: I'm trying to understand why you're here.

Reverdy Johnson: Freddie, she's not your mother. If John Surratt won't give himself up for her, then why should you?

Mary Surratt: Have you ever believed in something far greater than yourself?

Frederick Aiken: You're my witness! Should I not expect you to tell me the truth?

Edwin Stanton: Young man... always indebted to you for your courage in the field, but you must learn to tread lightly.::Frederick Aiken: Tread lightly? I will not tread lightly. You have predetermined her fate.::Edwin Stanton: Mary Surratt's fate rests entirely with the Commission. My concern is preserving our Union.::Frederick Aiken: Why did I fight for the Union if my rights aren't assured? You tell me.::Edwin Stanton: Fine words for rallying the troops, not for running a nation. They assassinated our president, and someone must be held accountable. The people want that.::Frederick Aiken: It's John Surratt you want. You don't even want Mary.::Edwin Stanton: I'll settle for either one.

Joseph Holt: One bullet killed our beloved president. One bullet but not one man!

Frederick Aiken: She built the nest that hatched this plot. President Johnson said it himself.::Reverdy Johnson: Well, I know this goes hard with you, Freddie, but... but what they're plannin', which is a military trial of civilians, is an atrocity.::Frederick Aiken: No, no. What she did is an atrocity.::Reverdy Johnson: There is no presumption of innocence, no burden of proof, no jury of your peers and no appeal.::Frederick Aiken: Alright, you were one of Lincoln's pallbearers too. How can you represent her?::Reverdy Johnson: She's entitled to a defense, Freddie, so I shall defend her.

Mary Surratt: So, have you handled cases like this before?::Frederick Aiken: There's never been a case like this before.

Frederick Aiken: Anna, your brother does not need too be saved now. Your mother does!

Hunger Point (2003)

Actors: Stan Carew (actor), Andrew Fowler (actor), Jim Fowler (actor), John Fulton (actor), John Getz (actor), Art G.S. James (actor), Gordon Jocelyn (actor), John Maclaren (actor), Jack Mather (actor), Alec McClure (actor), Loren Paul (actor), Jim Swansburg (actor), Erik Van Wyck (actor), Emmy Alcorn (actress), Jeremy Akerman (actor),

Plot: The Hunter family is dominated by endless, extreme dieting, due to mother's frustration over a fat-making upbringing by her parents. One daughter rebels to have a life as a nurse, but feels guilty. Then her perfect-considered sister, a workaholic law student, has to be interned for an eating disorder. After mother resists therapy, demanding her release home, a fatal incident occurs and the parents' marriage is wrecked. The surviving sister is consumed by guilty feelings, like the mother, and breaks up her relationship with a young doctor at the clinic, yet lets her grandfather set up dates with his buddy's grandson Charlie, a lawyer.

Keywords: anorexia, based-on-novel, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, bulimia, bumper-car, cemetery, cheating-wife, date, death-of-daughter, death-of-sister
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: It's hard to feel normal when you are trying to be perfect.

Solid Geometry (2002)

Actors: James Lyon (actor), Ewan McGregor (actor), Frank Miller (actor), John Murtagh (actor), Jonathan Watson (actor), Stuart Wilkinson (actor), Angela Darcy (actress), Beth Marshall (actress), Ruth Millar (actress), Lawrence Henry (producer), Stella Maris (producer), Gary Parry (producer), Gill Parry (producer), Carole Sheridan (producer), Peter Capaldi (actor),

Plot: Solid Geometry is about Phil whose life is changed when he receives 41 volumes of his great grandfather's diaries. The diaries becomes an obsession and alienates himself away from his wife Maisie. In the diaries, Phil comes across "the plane without a surface," a geometrical figure that operates as a one-way ticket to another dimension. He creates the figure and tests it on Maisie.

Genres: Drama, Mystery, Short,

Crossroads Revisited (1985)

Actors: Tony Adams (actor), Ronald Allen (actor), Phillip Bowman (actor), Bill Buckley (actor), Paul Henry (actor), Angus Lennie (actor), Roger Tonge (actor), Joy Andrews (actress), Elisabeth Croft (actress), Ann George (actress), Noele Gordon (actress), Susan Hanson (actress), Sue Lloyd (actress), Jane Rossington (actress), Brian Lewis (producer),

Genres: Documentary,

No Sex Please: We're British (1973)

Actors: Robin Askwith (actor), Michael Bates (actor), John Bindon (actor), Sydney Bromley (actor), Ronnie Corbett (actor), Stephen Greif (actor), Fred Griffiths (actor), Deryck Guyler (actor), Victor Harrington (actor), Lloyd Lamble (actor), Eric Longworth (actor), Arthur Lowe (actor), Ian Ogilvy (actor), Joe Reah (actor), Bart Allison (actor),

Plot: Porn store owner Pete orders some new stuff from his supplier Niko but Niko mixes up the address with the address of the local Barclays Bank. Here, newly-weds David (the bank's assistant manager) and Penny Hunter is shocked when first photos, then films and then finally two girls are sent to them in the Bank's flat. They, and their friend, head cashier Brian Runnicles (who slowly starts to have a nervous breakdown), have to deal with getting rid of the porn without letting their boss, Mr. Bromley - the bank's manager (who's very anti-porn), the local police in the form of Inspector Paul, and David's mother, Bertha Hunter, in on what is happening...

Keywords: based-on-play, independent-film
Genres: Comedy,

Quotes:

Mr. Bromley: It's not enough to boggle David, actions speak louder than boggles!

Mr. Bromley: Well, I must thrust my passion onto you.

Mr. Bromley: That's my wife, she's very heavy-handed with deers.::Brian Runnicles: So's mine, infact she's very heavy-handed with everything.

Crossroads: A Celebration (1971)

Actors: Ronald Allen (actor), Deke Arlon (actor), John Bentley (actor), David Lawton (actor), Roger Tonge (actor), Carl Wayne (actor), Elisabeth Croft (actress), Ann George (actress), Noele Gordon (actress), Jane Rossington (actress), Reg Watson (producer), Michala Crees (writer), Peter Ling (writer), Jack Barton (director),

Plot: To celebrate 1500 episodes of UK soap opera "Crossroads" (1964) a special 'episode' aired in place of one of the usual serial. The celebration episode ditched the usual high drama for more comedy. This included the return of one of the "forgotten" characters; Benny Wilmott who had gone out for some sugar in 1966 and failed - until this special - to return. The show was a send up of the usual Crossroads, and none of the 'plots' featured were discussed or followed up in the following more regular editions of the soap.

Genres: Drama,

Crossroads (1964)

Actors: Raymond Adamson (actor), Robert Alders (actor), Ronald Allen (actor), Ian Anderson (actor), Keith Anderson (actor), Carl Andrews (actor), Michael Anthony (actor), Deke Arlon (actor), Graham Armitage (actor), Sydney Arnold (actor), Harvey Ashby (actor), Paul Ashe (actor), Graham Ashley (actor), Al Ashton (actor), William Abney (actor),

Genres: Drama,

24 Hours of a Woman's Life (1952)

Actors: Mark Baker (actor), Gordon Bell (actor), Jacques B. Brunius (actor), Trader Faulkner (actor), Leo Genn (actor), Peter Hobbes (actor), Peter Illing (actor), Peter Jones (actor), Moultrie Kelsall (actor), Stephen Murray (actor), Rene Poirier (actor), Peter Reynolds (actor), Cyril Smith (actor), Richard Todd (actor), Robert Ayres (actor),

Plot: Writer Robert Sterling is visiting a café, when suddenly a scandal becomes known. To keep the others from overreacting, Sterling tells them about something similar that he saw happen years ago. He had been in Monte Carlo, and was playing host to a young widow whom he knew well. When he persuaded her to visit the casino one night, she became irresistibly attracted to a desperate young man who became suicidal after losing all his money at roulette. Sterling describes how they fell deeply in love, and how both of them then had to face difficult decisions about the future.

Keywords: based-on-novel, casino, compassion, foreign-language-adaptation, gambler, gambling, gambling-addiction, gambling-debt, gambling-problem, gun
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: The most daring LOVE GAMBLE a woman ever made! How Many Women Would Do What Linda Venning Did? She knew the kind of man he was... but this was Monte Carlo... his arms were paradise... and nothing mattered but the chance that she could hold him!

Quotes:

The Young Man: You've been talking all night to a gambler and a thief. I put the word 'thief' second, notice? All my life I've been a gambler. No, don't go... listen to me. I think you should hear what sort of a mudpie you've dipped your ladylike fingers into. I was born in Ireland where my father owned a racing stable. At the age of 6 I was saving pennies to back horses for the local bookmaker. Then when I came to England and school, I stopped backing horses and taught the other kids how to play poker. I used to win. At Oxford I got in with the racing set again, and I lost a packet, more than I could ask my father for, so I was sent down. My old man put me into his business in Dublin, providing I promised never to gamble again. So for five years I neither touched a card nor made a bet. I thought I'd got the devil out of my system. As a reward, my father sent me to France to stay with my uncle in Paris. He had a business there. One afternoon we all went to Longshore. They didn't realize that to me, gambling was a disease, a disease which had lain dormant like a cancer for five long years. I knew nothing about form, but luck was with me. That day and the next and the next after, I won a packet. But I didn't really find what was to give me complete and utter satisfaction until I walked through the glass doors of the casino. The sight of the green baize, the scented atmosphere of the room made me drunk, reeling drunk. I was mad to gamble. I can remember my fingers twitching as I picked up the plaques from the cashier's desk and sat down like a drunken man and played. For five nights in succession I won. Some of them advised me to quit, but it was like asking a drug addict to give up dope. I couldn't quit. On the sixth night I had my return ticket into Paris, that was all. I found that my uncle had gone to London and my aunt had gone with him, so I was alone in my apartment without a sou in my pocket. But luck was with me this time. A few weeks before, my aunt had asked me to get something from the safe. And I knew where she kept the key, so I opened it... borrowed a pair of diamond earrings.::Linda Venning: You mean you stole them.::The Young Man: Call it what you like, but if I had won last night, I'd have gone back to the pawnbroker and nobody would have been any the wiser. I told you you were dipping your fingers into a mudpie.::Linda Venning: I followed you last night because I wanted to help you, but you seem to be beyond help.::The Young Man: If you'd known anything, you'd have recognized that fact in the first place. I'm through, and I've got the sense to know it. You're only delaying the end of the story.

The Blue Peter (1928)

Actors: Cameron Carr (actor), A. Bromley Davenport (actor), Esmond Knight (actor), Matheson Lang (actor), Mary Dibley (actress), Gladys Frazin (actress), Vivian Thompson (writer), E. Temple Thurston (writer), Arthur Rooke (director),

Genres: Adventure,

Women Men Love (1920)

Actors: William Desmond (actor), Denton Vane (actor), Josephine Dempsey (actress), Alice Fleming (actress), Evan Burroughs Fontaine (actress), Martha Mansfield (actress), Marguerite Marsh (actress), Charlotte Naulting (actress), Baby Doris Noldie (actress), Charles T. Dazey (writer), Frank Mitchell Dazey (writer), Samuel R. Bradley (director),

Genres: Drama,