Executioner

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)

Actors: Martin Moszkowicz (producer), Tom Tykwer (writer), Corinna Harfouch (actress), Bernd Eichinger (producer), Samuel Hadida (producer), Bernd Eichinger (writer), Dustin Hoffman (actor), John Hurt (actor), Fermí Reixach (actor), Jaume Najarro (actor), Miquel Bordoy (actor), David Calder (actor), Alan Rickman (actor), Tom Tykwer (composer), Julio Fernández (producer),

Plot: Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of eighteenth century Paris, develops a superior olfactory sense, which he uses to create the world's finest perfumes. His work, however, takes a dark turn as he tries to preserve scents in the search for the ultimate perfume.

Keywords: 1700s, 1730s, 1740s, 18th-century, accidental-killing, angel, apple, baby-boy, bad-smell, bare-breasts
Genres: Crime, Drama, Fantasy,
Taglines: He lived to find beauty. He killed to possess it. Based on the best-selling novel Enter an intoxicating world of passion, obsession and murder Obsession can cause the unthinkable.

Quotes:

Antoine Richis: [to his daughter] Last night I dreamt you were dead

Antoine Richis: [to his daughter] Whatever his insane scheme is... it will surely be incomplete without you

Jean-Baptiste Grenouille: I can make Amour and Psyche for you. Now.::Giuseppe Baldini: And you think I'd just let you sop around in my laboratory? With essential oils that are worth are fortune?::Jean-Baptiste Grenouille: Yes.::Giuseppe Baldini: Pay attention! What's your name, anyway?::Jean-Baptiste Grenouille: Jean-Baptiste Grenouille.::Giuseppe Baldini: Well, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, you will have the opportunity now to prove yourself. And your grandoise failure will also be a lesson in humility.::Jean-Baptiste Grenouille: How much do you want me to make?::Giuseppe Baldini: How much of what?::Jean-Baptiste Grenouille: How much Amour and Psyche do you want me to make? Shall I fill this flask? [He picks up a large jar]::Giuseppe Baldini: No, you shall not! You may fill this one. [He hands Grenouille a small bottle]::Jean-Baptiste Grenouille: Yes, Master.

Jean-Baptiste Grenouille: That's a really good perfume. [he holds the bottle out to Baldini, who turns away] Don't you want to smell it, Master?::Giuseppe Baldini: I'm not in the mood to test it now. I have other things on my mind.::Jean-Baptiste Grenouille: But Master...::Giuseppe Baldini: Go! Now!::Jean-Baptiste Grenouille: Can I come to work for you, Master, can I?::Giuseppe Baldini: Let me think about it.::Jean-Baptiste Grenouille: Master! I have to learn how to keep smell.

Laura Richis: Papa, what's the matter?::Antoine Richis: We're going home. Now.::Laura Richis: But why? I'm enjoying myself.::Antoine Richis: Don't argue with me, Laura! [he starts to drag Laura away]::Laura Richis: Stop it! I'm grown up! [Antoine slaps her. She runs away from him]::Antoine Richis: [chasing after her] Laura! Laura!

Narrator: In the period of which we speak, there reigned in the cities a stench barely conceivable to us modern men and women. Naturally, the stench was foulest in Paris, for Paris was the largest city in Europe. And nowhere in Paris was that stench more profoundly repugnant than in the city's fish-market. It was here then, on the most putrid spot in the whole kingdom, that Jean-Baptiste Grenouille was born on the 17th of July, 1738. It was his mothers fifth birth, she delivered them all here under her fish-stand, and all had been stillbirths or semi-stillbirths. And by evening the whole mess had been shoveled away with the fish-guts into the river. It would be much the same today, but then... Jean-Baptiste chose differently.

Antoine Richis: Forgive me... my son.

Executioner: He's innocent!

Various: He's an angel!

Giuseppe Baldini: Because it's a legend, you numbskull.

Nouvelle-France (2004)

Actors: Monique Mercure (actress), Micky Sébastian (actress), Vincent Perez (actor), Irène Jacob (actress), Michael Rudder (actor), David La Haye (actor), Michael Maloney (actor), Gérard Depardieu (actor), Philippe Dormoy (actor), Roc LaFortune (actor), Tim Roth (actor), Colm Meaney (actor), Jason Isaacs (actor), Patrick Doyle (composer), Samuel Hadida (producer),

Plot: Prejudice, perfidy, love, and bravery in Québec. In 1779, a priest on his deathbed receives a young woman. Flash back 20 years: Marie-Loup, an herb-dispensing peasant, falls for François, a man of property. The priest's perfidy and the treachery of a soldier separate the lovers and set in motion a chain of events leading to a death, a trial, and an execution. The action unfolds against a backdrop of England's take-over of French-Canada, the Church's manipulations to maintain spiritual hegemony, and the limited rights of woman and indigenous peoples. Watching it all is Marie-Loup's daughter, named France, who, when grown, is the dying priest's visitor in prelude and coda.

Keywords: 1750s, 1760s, 18th-century, acadian, adult-illiteracy, assault, attempted-rape, battle, battlefield, bear-trap
Genres: Drama, History, Romance, War,
Taglines: Rise. Unite. Fight.

The Trial (1993)

Actors: Jason Robards (actor), Leon Lissek (actor), David Schneider (actor), Roger Lloyd-Pack (actor), Kyle MacLachlan (actor), Alfred Molina (actor), Jirí Schmitzer (actor), Tony Haygarth (actor), Don Henderson (actor), Paul Brooke (actor), Anthony Hopkins (actor), Karel Augusta (actor), Robert Lang (actor), Michael Kitchen (actor), David Thewlis (actor),

Plot: Joseph K. awakes one morning, to find two strange men in his room, telling him he has been arrested. Joseph is not told what he is charged with, and despite being "arrested," is allowed to remain free and go to work. But despite the strange nature of his arrest, Joseph soon learns that his trial, however odd, is very real, and tries desperately to spare himself from the court's judgement.

Keywords: arrest, based-on-novel, based-on-unfinished-work, bureaucrat, confusion, courtroom, criminal, czech-republic, independent-film, kafka-esque
Genres: Drama, Thriller,

Nutcracker Fantasy (1979)

Actors: Kô Nishimura (actor), Kin'ya Aikawa (actor), Hiroyuki Nagato (actor), Roddy McDowall (actor), Arihiro Fujimura (actor), Jack Angel (actor), Roddy McDowall (actor), Jack Angel (actor), Hisao Dazai (actor), Jack Angel (actor), Christopher Lee (actor), Christopher Lee (actor), Christopher Lee (actor), Christopher Lee (actor), Kô Nishimura (actor),

Genres: Animation, Family, Fantasy,
Taglines: Let Yourself Believe that Once Upon A Time Good Prevailed Where Evil Existed and Puppets Walked Without Strings [us]

At Sword's Point (1952)

Actors: Lucien Littlefield (actor), Ed Hinton (actor), Fred Aldrich (actor), Fred Kohler Jr. (actor), Eric Alden (actor), Tristram Coffin (actor), Edmund Breon (actor), Boyd Davis (actor), Robert Douglas (actor), Barry Brooks (actor), Art Dupuis (actor), Gregg Barton (actor), Alan Hale Jr. (actor), Holmes Herbert (actor), George Magrill (actor),

Plot: France, 1648: Richelieu and Louis XIII are dead, the new king is a minor, and the Duc de Lavalle is in virtually open rebellion, scheming to seize power. As a last resort, Queen Anne summons the heirs of the original Musketeers to her aid...including Claire, daughter of Athos, who when she chooses can miraculously pass as a boy, and wields as fine a sword as any. All their skills will be needed for a battle against increasing odds. One for all and all for one!

Keywords: 1600s, arms-tied-overhead, bare-chested-male, bare-chested-male-bondage, based-on-novel, boy, branding-iron, chandelier, countess, duke
Genres: Adventure,

Quotes:

[first lines]::Narrator: The year 1648 was a grim one for France. With the death of the great Cardinal Richelieu, the strong hand holding the country together was gone. Terror and violence ruled as the power-hungry nobles plotted to gain control.

Soldier: [holding back his attack] I'll not fight with a lady.::Claire: [thrusting her rapier at the soldier] I'm no lady when I fight!

D'Artagnan: You sent for me, Mother?::Madame D'Artagnan: A messenger has just brought this, my son.::D'Artagnan: The Queen's ring!::Madame D'Artagnan: Her Majesty must be in great danger, else she would not have sent that.::D'Artagnan: Then I must go at once - for my father. Planchet, saddle my horse!

[D'Artagnan's mother has given her son her husband's famous sword]::D'Artagnan: My father's sword! Now I have a legend to live up to.::Madame D'Artagnan: Use it well and wisely.::D'Artagnan: I will use it as my father would have - with honor and in the Queen's name.

D'Artagnan: A moment, monsieurs. Why do you follow me?::Regent Guard: We do not follow you.::D'Artagnan: Then let me put it this way... why is it that I always seem to be a little ahead of you?::Second Regent's Guardsman at Fallen Tree: Perhaps it is because we happen to be going your way.::D'Artagnan: And which way is that, Monsieur?::Third Regent's Guardsman at Fallen Tree: Bordeaux.::D'Artagnan: Bordeaux? You lie! The road to Bordeaux is half a league back.::Regent Guard: Regent's Guards are not accustomed to being called liars!::D'Artagnan: And the King's Musketeer is not accustomed to being followed... by liars!

Old Porthos: Ah, it is useless. I had hoped to ride with you, but I cannot. Devil take this gout! And yet, young D'Artagnan and Aramis ride in their fathers' steeds.::Porthos: Then I shall ride for you!::Old Porthos: Then one for all!::D'Artagnan, Aramis, Porthos: One for all!::Old Porthos: And all for one!::D'Artagnan, Aramis, Porthos: All for one!::Old Porthos: Ride hard and fast, my lads!

[D'Artagnan has just rescued the Dauphin from the Duke de LaValle, who was holding the Prince hostage]::D'Artagnan: And now your Grace, hide behind your sword!

[last lines]::D'Artagnan: God bless the King!::The King's Musketeers: God bless the King!

Duc de Lavalle: [to D'Artagnan] You stood pain well, monsieur. Now we'll see how you can face death.

D'Artagnan: My father used to say: who hunts the eagle does not notice the sparrow.

Lost in a Harem (1944)

Actors: James Dime (actor), Douglass Dumbrille (actor), Harry Cording (actor), Bud Abbott (actor), Jimmy Conlin (actor), Lou Costello (actor), Eric Alden (actor), Robert Barron (actor), John Berkes (actor), Richard Alexander (actor), Jimmy Ames (actor), Heinie Conklin (actor), Harry Burns (actor), Feodor Chaliapin Jr. (actor), Eddie Dunn (actor),

Plot: Pete Johnson and Harvey D. Garvey, two inept magicians on tour in the Middle Eastern kingdom of Barabeeha, help disenfranchised young Prince Ramo regain his throne from his devious Uncle Nimativ, who uses two magical hypnotic rings and ruthless methods to maintain his power. By posing as Hollywood talent scouts the boys break out of a dank dungeon with a deranged derelict, evade palace guards, elude the palace executioner, and avoid detection in the forbidden royal harem.

Keywords: abbott-and-costello, acrobat, american-abroad, applause, arab, bullwhip, cafe, camel, campfire, caravan
Genres: Comedy,
Taglines: A Show That Chases the Blues From Start to Finish! Were You Ever In a Harem? WOW! Music! Maidens! Merriment! MEET THE SHEIKS IN NIGHTSHIRTS! (original print ad - all caps) TWO ARABIAN KNIGHTS! (original print ad - all caps) THEY'RE NUTTIER THAN EVER! (original print ad - all caps)

Quotes:

The Derelict: Pokomoko! Slowly I turn, step by step...

Harvey Garvey: Have you a reservation here?::Jailer and clerk: No.::Harvey Garvey: Then I have to take my business someplace else. [he starts to leave but is restrained by guards] I changed my mind. I'll take the room.::Jailer and clerk: What's your name?::Harvey Garvey: Harvey D. Garvey.::Jailer and clerk: Where born?::Harvey Garvey: Under a sink.::Jailer and clerk: How do you know?::Harvey Garvey: I heard the water runnin'.

Peter Johnson: You love her? [laughs derisively] Oh, come on, you wouldn't get to first base with a beautiful girl like that.::Harvey Garvey: Yes, I would.::Peter Johnson: Did you ever take a good look in the mirror?::Harvey Garvey: No.::Peter Johnson: Why not?::Harvey Garvey: Why should I hurt my own feelings?::Peter Johnson: Never mind!

Prince Ramo: [from inside his jail cell] Don't worry! I'll get you out!::Peter Johnson: [being locked up in a nearby cell] Who's gonna get YOU out?

Harvey Garvey: Do I have to especially go now?::Peter Johnson: You just split an infinitive!::Harvey Garvey: Well, I mean that... [feeling his own rear end] Does it show?

The Derelict: I know a secret passage that will take us out.::Harvey Garvey: Swell!::The Derelict: [to Harvey] Shhh!::Harvey Garvey: [to Pete] Shhh!::Peter Johnson: [whispering] Go ahead.::The Derelict: Follow me.::Peter Johnson: Go ahead - follow him.::Harvey Garvey: Okay.::Peter Johnson: [impatiently] Go ahead.::The Derelict: Where are you taking me?

The Derelict: Quiet! People will think you're crazy.::Harvey Garvey: Oh, and I suppose you're all right?::The Derelict: Of course!::Harvey Garvey: Of course?::The Derelict: I have a brother who is crazy - [screaming] but I'm all right!::Harvey Garvey: [gasping] Who told you?::The Derelict: My brother!::Harvey Garvey: That does it, brother!

The Derelict: Gentleman... He called me a gentleman! Thank you.::The Derelict: [to Pete] Thank you.::Peter Johnson: That's all right.::The Derelict: Those are the first kind words I've heard in years. You see i always haven;t been a derelict... [pointing to Harvey] like you!::Harvey Garvey: Hey, now, don't call me those kind of bad names.::The Derelict: Would you like to hear my story?::Harvey Garvey: No.::The Derelict: Very well, then I'll tell it to you.

Peter Johnson: We've got to outsmart Uncle Nimativ. You go in and outwit him.::Harvey Garvey: Why should I go out with him? I'm afraid of that man!::Peter Johnson: Not to go out with him. Go in and outwit him.::Harvey Garvey: Why should I go in and go out wth him? I mean, he don't appeal to me!

Yövartija vain... (1940)

Actors: Eero Leväluoma (actor), Otto Noro (actor), Aku Korhonen (actor), Yrjö Norta (editor), Matti Aulos (actor), Yrjö Norta (director), Vilho Siivola (actor), T.J. Särkkä (producer), Unto Salminen (actor), Evald Terho (actor), Kyösti Käyhkö (actor), Arvi Tuomi (actor), Toppo Elonperä (actor), Kaisu Leppänen (actress), Martti Similä (composer),

Genres: Drama,

A Tale of Two Cities (1935)

Actors: Sam Flint (actor), Harold Entwistle (actor), Walter Catlett (actor), Barlowe Borland (actor), Jimmy Aubrey (actor), Norman Ainsley (actor), Richard Alexander (actor), Billy Bevan (actor), E.E. Clive (actor), Ronald Colman (actor), John Davidson (actor), Frank Dawson (actor), Nigel De Brulier (actor), Burr Caruth (actor), Christian J. Frank (actor),

Plot: An elaborate adaptation of Dickens' classic tale of the French Revolution. Dissipated lawyer Sydney Carton defends emigre Charles Darnay from charges of spying against England. He becomes enamored of Darnay's fiancée, Lucie Manette, and agrees to help her save Darnay from the guillotine when he is captured by Revolutionaries in Paris.

Keywords: 1790s, 18th-century, assassination, based-on-novel, charles-dickens, dead-woman-on-floor, dead-woman-with-eyes-open, evil-woman, execution, father-daughter-relationship
Genres: Drama, History, Romance,
Taglines: The most dramatic love story in the history of literature! The Immortal Story of Love and Intrigue During French Revolution!

Quotes:

Sydney Carton: It's a far, far better thing I do than I have ever done. It's a far, far better rest I go to than I have ever known.

[after Darnay is acquitted, Jarvis Lorry, Jr. shakes his hand]::Jarvis Lorry Jr.: My boy, never for a moment did I doubt your innocence.::Sydney Carton: So, Mr. Lorry, respectable men of business may speak to Mr. Darnay in public, now he's acquitted.::Jarvis Lorry Jr.: You have mentioned that before, sir. We men of business must think of the house we serve more than ourselves.::Sydney Carton: Yes, yes. Banking, of course, imposes its own restrictions and silences.::Jarvis Lorry Jr.: And, indeed, sir, I don't know that it is any of your business.::Sydney Carton: Oh, bless you, I have no business.::Jarvis Lorry Jr.: And if you had, sir, perhaps you would attend to it.::Sydney Carton: Lord love you, no I wouldn't!

C.J. Stryver: [in court] Mr. Barsad, have you ever been kicked?::Barsad: Certainly not.::C.J. Stryver: Come, come, Mr. Barsad, weren't you one time kicked downstairs?::Barsad: Well, once I was kicked at the top of the stairs, but I fell down the stairs of my own will and wolition.

Miss Pross: Mr. Carton, the infant has expressed a desire to say good night to you.::Sydney Carton: The infant's desire shall be gratified immediately, Prossy. [he goes]::Jarvis Lorry Jr.: I suppose it's none of my business, but I wouldn't allow that fellow to handle a child of mine.::Miss Pross: As to that, you haven't got one... and from the looks of you, you're not likely to have one.

[after the Marquis' coach runs over and kills a peasant child, he gets out of the coach and speaks to the onlookers]::Marquis St. Evremonde: It's extraordinary to me that you people cannot take care of yourselves and your children. One or the other of you is forever in the way. How do you know what injury you might do to my horses?

[the mercenary troops are marching through Paris]::Jacques ll6: How many thousands of these foreign soldiers are they bringing in?::Madame Defarge: It doesn't matter how many; it will do them no good.::The Vengeance: It will do them no good. Ha!::Madame Defarge: The starving people of Paris might wait a long time before rising up to fight French soldiers; but against hired, foreign troops... any day... any hour...::The Vengeance: Any minute!

Lucie Manette: You know, Sydney, sometimes it's the part of a friend to criticize, too.::Sydney Carton: Oh, when there's any hope of reformation, yes; but with me, it's hopeless.::Lucie Manette: I don't believe it. I refuse to believe it.::Sydney Carton: Oh, I admit that once when... when I first knew you, the sight of you and your home stirred old shadows that I thought had died out of me. I had unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, fighting out the abandoned fight. A dream that ended in nothing, but you inspired it.::Lucie Manette: Must it end in nothing?::Sydney Carton: I'm afraid so. But for that inspiration, and for that dream, I shall always be grateful to you, Lucie.::Lucie Manette: I feel in you still such possibilities.::Sydney Carton: No, they'll never be realized. I am like one who died young.::Lucie Manette: I'll never give up my hopes for you, Sydney. Never.::Sydney Carton: I know myself better. But, this I know, too: I would embrace any sacrifice for you and for those dear to you. Will you hold me in your mind as being ardent and sincere in this one thing? Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life to keep a life you love beside you?::Lucie Manette: Thank you, Sydney. God grant that it may never be necessary.

Title Card: Unheralded, Unexpected, Frenchmen in uniform joined Frenchmen in rags... and rebellion turned to revolution

Sydney Carton: Yours is a long life to look back on, Mr. Lorry?::Jarvis Lorry Jr.: I'm 78.::Sydney Carton: Long life... useful one.::Jarvis Lorry Jr.: A solitary bachelor - nobody would weep for me.::Sydney Carton: Wouldn't SHE weep for you? [refers to Lucie]::Jarvis Lorry Jr.: Yes, thank God. I didn't quite mean what I said.::Sydney Carton: It is a thing to thank God for, isn't it. Tell me, if you looked back on that long life and saw that you had gained neither love, gratitude nor respect of any human being... it would be a bitter reflection, wouldn't it?::Jarvis Lorry Jr.: Why yes, surely.

[Madame DeFarge has come looking for Lucie and the child. Miss Pross bars her way out]::Miss Pross: Oh no you don't!::Madame Defarge: Let me pass.::Miss Pross: Never! I know what you want. I know what you're after. And thank heaven I'm put here to stop you - for stop you I will!::Madame Defarge: In the name of the Republic...::Miss Pross: In the name of no one, you evil woman. You've killed many innocent people. No doubt you'll kill many more; but my ladybird you shall never touch.::Madame Defarge: No? Do you know who I am?::Miss Pross: You might - from your appearance - be the wife of Lucifer; yet you shall not get the better of me. I'm an Englishwoman! I'm your match!::Madame Defarge: Pig, get out of my way or I'll break you in pieces.::Miss Pross: Break away, then. I don't care an English tuppence for myself; but I know that the longer I keep you here... the greater hope there is for my ladybird.::[they fight]