Fortune-telling

Going to Mecca (2013)

Actors: Jason Wingard (writer), Jason Wingard (director), Jason Wingard (editor), Peter Slater (actor), David Isaac (writer), Aqib Khan (actor), Walli Ullah (producer), Michael Elliott (producer), Jim Mooney (producer), Tom Binns (actor), Anna Brown (editor),

Plot: The film is a comedy short about two young brothers Pete (15) and Omar (17) who decide to go to Blackpool and scatter their dad's ashes (Pete's biological and Omar's surrogate). Once in Blackpool they decide to call round on Omar's biological father, who Omar has never met. Armed with a birth certificate, a photograph and their mum's diary extracts, the boys confront him.

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Short,

Crossing Over (2012)

Actors: Stephanie Donnelly (editor), Stephanie Donnelly (producer), Stephanie Donnelly (director), Stephanie Donnelly (writer), Shalom Kolontarov (actor), Johnny Alicea (actor), Tomo Koizumi (actor), Nancy Bekaert (actor), Jeff Cumberlin (actor),

Genres: Comedy, Sci-Fi, Short,

Cesare deve morire (2012)

Actors: Vittorio Taviani (director), William Shakespeare (writer), Paolo Taviani (writer), Vittorio Taviani (writer), Paolo Taviani (director), Roberto Perpignani (editor), Giuliano Taviani (composer), Grazia Volpi (producer), Donatella Palermo (producer), Donatella Palermo (producer), Carmelo Travia (composer), Agnese Fontana (producer), Salvatore Striano (actor), Cecilia Valmarana (producer), Anonimadisegni (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: In Rebibbia Prison in Italy, its inmate theatre program puts on a well received production of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. The film goes back several months earlier as the coordinators announces the play as the program's production of the year. With that project set, we see its creation as the cast is auditioned and selected for this artistic challenge. As they rehearse, the prisoners, many of whom are long termers and lifers for serious crimes, find that the classic play has both a striking resonance and contrast to their confined lives.

Keywords: acting, based-on-play, character-name-in-title, claim-in-title, convict, freedom, high-security, life-sentence, mafioso, maximum-security
Genres: Drama,

The Gypsy (2010)

Actors: Jon Navarro (writer), Jon Navarro (director), Jon Navarro (actor), Jon Navarro (producer), Jon Navarro (producer), Jon Navarro (editor), Emily Turner (actress), Emily Turner (actress), Tiara Colon (actress), Tiara Colon (miscellaneous crew), Tiara Colon (actress), Ilona Mayzen (miscellaneous crew), Susan Bermeo (actress), Ilona Mayzen (actress), Ilona Mayzen (actress),

Genres: Crime, Mystery, Short, Thriller,

Wit's End (2005)

Actors: Udo Kier (actor), Rue McClanahan (actress), Jim Cummings (actor), Isaac C. Singleton Jr. (actor), William Sanderson (actor), Darryl Cox (miscellaneous crew), Darryl Cox (actor), Tom Weaver (miscellaneous crew), Roger Goff (miscellaneous crew), Angie Bolling (actress), Gary Don Rhodes (director), Gary Don Rhodes (editor), Gary Don Rhodes (actor), Gary Don Rhodes (producer), Gary Don Rhodes (writer),

Genres: Comedy,

Xin buliao qing (1994)

Actors: Peter Chan (actor), Jamie Luk (actor), Herman Yau (actor), Sylvia Chang (actress), Bo-Bo Fung (actress), Woon Ling Hau (actress), Carina Lau (actress), Carrie Ng (actress), Anita Yuen (actress), Tung-Shing Yee (writer), Tung-Shing Yee (director), Tung Cho 'Joe' Cheung (actor), Paul Chun (actor), Paul Chun (actor), Ching Wan Lau (actor),

Genres: Drama, Romance,

Bi gui zhuo (1986)

Actors: Lap Ban Chan (actress), Jing Wong (writer), Wai-Man Chan (actor), Joey Wang (actress), Charlie Cho (actor), Shui-Fan Fung (actor), Biu Gam (actor), Pak-Kwong Ho (actor), Tony Leung Hung-Wah (actor), Tau Wan Yue (actor), Hung Lu (actress), Ta Lei (actor), Yue Fong (actress), Gwa-pau Sai (actor), Wai Shum (actor),

Plot: A dinner party at a Hong Kong high-rise goes awry when party guest Judy Hsu (Shu-Yuan Hsu) becomes a victim of poltergeists and, as a result, her spirit returns to carry out the sinister plans of the evil presence. Security guards Chu Bong (Jing Wong) and Fan Pien-Chou (Shui-Fan Fung) later discover that their office high-rise is haunted by demons of the Japanese war dead from World War II. The evil spirits plan to seek revenge by claiming the lives of humans frequenting the building that were born on a certain year and time. Bong and Chou are on the victims list and, fearing for their lives, seek the help of Taoist priestess (Joyce Godenzi) to vanquish the ghosts.

Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror,

Champagne for Caesar (1950)

Actors: Mel Blanc (actor), Herbert Lytton (actor), Ronald Colman (actor), Peter Brocco (actor), Jack Daly (actor), Art Linkletter (actor), John Eldredge (actor), Douglas Evans (actor), James Conaty (actor), Byron Foulger (actor), Jack George (actor), John Hart (actor), Sayre Dearing (actor), Robert Clarke (actor), George Meader (actor),

Plot: What happens when the man who knows everything goes on a quiz show that doubles your cash prize every time a you answer a question correctly? Beauregard Bottomly is that man & what happens is you end up with 40 million dollars at stake.

Keywords: albert-einstein, brother-sister-relationship, champagne, character-name-in-title, costume, drive-in-movie, emcee, engagement, fictional-game-show, genius
Genres: Comedy, Romance,
Taglines: ...the bubbliest, frothiest, tickliest comedy!

Quotes:

Burnbridge Waters: We have a Frankenstein on our hands, and a very well-informed Frankenstein. He must be stopped.

[Burnbridge Waters is interviewing Beauregard Bottomley for a job]::Burnbridge Waters: I'm thinking of introducing onto the market an all-purpose cake of soap that can also be used to clean teeth.::Beauregard Bottomley: [laughs] I see, sort of a foaming at the mouth approach, eh?::Burnbridge Waters: [not amused at all] You would have started tomorrow.::Beauregard Bottomley: That would have been fine, but aren't we using a strange tense - would have?::Burnbridge Waters: No sir, we are not.

Caesar (voice): Let's get loaded. [hiccup]::Burnbridge Waters: Don't worry. We will...

Beauregard Bottomley: If it is noteworthy and rewarding to know that 2 and 2 make 4 to the accompaniment of deafening applause and prizes, then 2 and 2 making 4 will become the top level of learning.

Burnbridge Waters: I have an idea. I want to find what the average man thinks of it. Then when we've found out what he thinks of it, we'll change his thinking.

Burnbridge Waters: I loathe humor, and you are humorous.

Burnbridge Waters: How DARE you fall in love on my time. This is dishonest, treacherous and UN-american.

[Burnbridge Waters is attempting to dissuade Beauregard Bottomley from taking his winnings]::Burnbridge Waters: Oh, don't thank me, Beauregard. Just stay as you are. Walk out of here into the sunshine of a carefree world, wise in the knowledge that I have bestowed on you. For it is my sincere conviction that the only way to be happy is to be poor.::Beauregard Bottomley: My dear Burnbridge, I see your point. I am about to make you the happiest man in the world.

Gerald: Does Polly want a cracker?::Caesar (voice): Polly wants a drink, let's get loaded.*hiccup*::Gerald: He says the darnest things, doesn't he?::Caesar (voice): How about a short one, how about a short one?::Beauregard Bottomley: [to Caesar] You've had your quarter for the day. As I told you before, Gerald, neither I nor my sister taught him these expressions. His former master must have been the greatest reprobate since the emperor Nero.::Gwenn Bottomley: We found him one night leaning up against a lamppost. He couldn't remember where he lived.::Beauregard Bottomley: He still can't.::Gwenn Bottomley: Now we have him down to two drinks a day... soon we'll have him down to no drinks a day.::Caesar (voice): SQUAWK.::Beauregard Bottomley: Now you have frightened him. Caesar, Caesar...::Caesar (voice): CHAMPAGNE.::Beauregard Bottomley: No, no, sorry, you must rough it for a while.

Happy Hogan: You have five seconds to tell us the Japanese word for goodbye. 1... 2...::Beauregard Bottomley: Siyonara. Not to be confused with cyanide, which is, of course, goodbye in any language.

Christopher Strong (1933)

Actors: Max Steiner (composer), David O. Selznick (producer), Sherry Hall (actor), Margaret Lindsay (actress), Pandro S. Berman (producer), Ralph Forbes (actor), Desmond Roberts (actor), Pat Somerset (actor), Jack La Rue (actor), Agostino Borgato (actor), Billie Burke (actress), Miki Morita (actor), Katharine Hepburn (actress), Tiny Jones (actress), Walter Plunkett (costume designer),

Plot: At a party for Bright Young Things, a "treasure hunt" for attractive yet virtuous people nets Sir Christopher Strong, M.P., and Lady Cynthia Darrington, dashing aviatrix. Their acquaintance is innocent at first; but after he sees her in a spectacular silver moth costume, virtue begins to wane. Against their wills, they are drawn into an affair whose consequences threaten Strong's happy marriage and both their careers.

Keywords: airplane-accident, around-the-world-flight, aviator, based-on-novel, boat-ride, cannes, car-accident, character-name-in-title, contest, england
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: Higher and higher! Faster and faster! She gave herself to the great god Speed, and tried to run away from the fires within her! She gave herself to the great god Speed and tried to run away from the fires within her! The personal story of a million daughters!

Quotes:

Lady Cynthia Darrington: I wouldn't have loved you if you'd been a usual man. And you wouldn't have loved me if I'd been a woman who didn't take this kind of thing seriously.

Palmy Days (1931)

Actors: Edmund Mortimer (actor), Betty Grable (actress), Eddie Cantor (actor), Arthur Hoyt (actor), Spencer Charters (actor), Busby Berkeley (actor), Virginia Grey (actress), Bill Elliott (actor), George Raft (actor), Herbert Rawlinson (actor), Harry Woods (actor), Sam Lufkin (actor), Charles Middleton (actor), Samuel Goldwyn (producer), Toby Wing (actress),

Plot: Musical comedy antics in an art deco bakery (motto: "Glorifying the American Doughnut") with Eddie Cantor as an assistant to a phoney psychic, who is mistaken for an efficiency expert and placed in charge. Complications ensue when the psychic and his gang attempt to rub the payroll.

Keywords: bakery, blackface, chase, con-artist, dancer, detective, disguise, dog, doughnut, duck
Genres: Comedy, Musical, Romance,
Taglines: Oh, Miss Martin You Simply Carry Me Away!