The Monuments Men (2014)

Actors: George Clooney (producer), John Goodman (actor), Bill Murray (actor), Cate Blanchett (actress), Luc Feit (actor), Justus von Dohnányi (actor), Stuart Matthews (actor), Hugh Bonneville (actor), Adrian Bouchet (actor), Matt Damon (actor), Bob Balaban (actor), George Clooney (actor), Jean Dujardin (actor), Henning Molfenter (producer), Grant Heslov (producer),

Plot: Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on an unlikely World War II platoon, tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. It would be an impossible mission: with the art trapped behind enemy lines, and with the German army under orders to destroy everything as the Reich fell, how could these guys - seven museum directors, curators, and art historians, all more familiar with Michelangelo than the M-1 - possibly hope to succeed? But as the Monuments Men, as they were called, found themselves in a race against time to avoid the destruction of 1000 years of culture, they would risk their lives to protect and defend mankind's greatest achievements. From director George Clooney, the film stars George Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, John Goodman, Jean Dujardin, Bob Balaban, Hugh Bonneville, and Cate Blanchett. The screenplay is by George Clooney & Grant Heslov, based on the book by Robert M. Edsel with Bret Witter. Produced by Grant Heslov and George Clooney.

Genres: Action, Biography, Drama, War,
Taglines: It was the greatest art heist in history

War Horse (2011)

Actors: Philippe Nahon (actor), David Thewlis (actor), Gerard McSorley (actor), Benedict Cumberbatch (actor), Peter Mullan (actor), Hinnerk Schönemann (actor), David Dencik (actor), Pat Laffan (actor), Lasco Atkins (actor), Niels Arestrup (actor), Nicolas Bro (actor), Liam Cunningham (actor), Eddie Marsan (actor), Emily Watson (actress), Pip Torrens (actor),

Plot: Dartmoor,1914: To his wife's dismay farmer Narracott buys a thoroughbred horse rather than a plough animal, but when his teenaged son Albert trains the horse and calls him Joey, the two becoming inseparable. When his harvest fails, the farmer has to sell Joey to the British cavalry and he is shipped to France where, after a disastrous offensive he is captured by the Germans and changes hands twice more before he is found, caught in the barbed wire in No Man's Land four years later and freed. He is returned behind British lines where Albert, now a private, has been temporarily blinded by gas, but still recognizes his beloved Joey. However, as the Armistice is declared Joey is set to be auctioned off. After all they have been through will Albert and Joey return home together?

Keywords: 14-year-old, alcoholic, animal-in-title, army-doctor, army-lieutenant, army-major, army-sergeant, artillery, auction, bandage
Genres: Drama, War,
Taglines: Separated by war. Tested by battle. Bound by friendship.

Quotes:

Maj. Jamie Stewart: Be brave! Be brave!

Rose Narracott: [to Ted] I might hate you more, but I'll never love you less.

Gunther: Well look at you!

Albert Narracott: We'll be alright Joey. We're the lucky ones, you and me. Lucky since the day I met you.

Michael: The food in Italy is good, yeah?::Gunther: [nods] Yes, very good.::Michael: And the women?::Gunther: Not as good as the food...::Michael: From eating too much of the food?

Emilie: And you've never done a brave thing in your life?::Grandfather: Maybe there are different ways to be brave. Did you know the French have the best carrier pigeons? And this could be the difference in the war - our messages getting through.::Emilie: I don't want to hear about the birds.::Grandfather: They are released at the front and told to go home - this is all they know. But to get there they must fly over war. Can you imagine such a thing? Here you are flying over so much pain and terror - and you know you can never look down. You have to look forward or you'll never get home. I ask you - what could be braver than that?

Privateer (2009)

Actors: Brent Triplett (actor), Corin Nemec (actor), M. Jearl Vinot (actor), M. Jearl Vinot (actor), Camden Toy (actor), Shaun O'Rourke (miscellaneous crew), Chaz Smith (actor), Chaz Smith (actor), Nate Panning (actor), Joe Montanti (miscellaneous crew), Joe Montanti (actor), Mary Malin (costume designer), Mary Malin (producer), James L. Bills (writer), Alex Petrovitch (actor),

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, Short, War,
Taglines: will sacrifice all

The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce (2008)

Actors: Chris Haywood (actor), Adrian Dunbar (actor), Suresh Ayyar (editor), Bill Young (actor), Tony Llewellyn-Jones (actor), Dan Wyllie (actor), Ciarán McMenamin (actor), Nial Fulton (actor), Roger Mason (composer), Nial Fulton (writer), Nial Fulton (producer), Chris Hilton (producer), Bob Franklin (actor), Chris Hilton (actor), Don Hany (actor),

Plot: In 1824 and the British penal colony of VanDiemen's Land is little more than a living hell. Chained to a wall in the darkness of a Hobart cell, Pearce is visited by Father Connolly,the parish priest of the fledgling colony and a fellow Irishman. The harrowing confession Pearce makes, shocks the priest and the British establishment to the core.

Keywords: aborigine, arms-tied-overhead, australia, bare-chested-male-bondage, brutality, cannibal, cannibalism, character-name-in-title, clone, confession
Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Horror, Western,
Taglines: Hunger Has No Limit

Quotes:

Alexander Pearce: A Full Belly is prerequisite to all manner of good. Without that, no man knows, what hunger will make him do.

Philip Conolly: Whatever has been said and continues to be said about him, this much is true. Alexander Pearce, an Irish convict incarcerated on Sarah Island, twice managed the inconceivable, the unforgiveable and escaped.

Philip Conolly: Let the wicked forsake his way, the unrighteous man his thoughts, return unto the Lord and He will have mercy.

Philip Conolly: The world is always easier understood held at a distance, with tales of monsters and the like. This is how Alexander is remembered, not as a man. Yet few truer, words have been spoken; a full belly is prerequisite to all manner of good. Without that, no man knows what hunger will make him do.

Philip Conolly: Today shalt thou be with me in paradise. Die condemned on earth, but acceptable to God...

Philip Conolly: Alexander Pearce, this is the last Lord's day which you can expect to spend on earth. When another Sabbath morn shall dawn you will be numbered with the dead; you will be where you can no longer repent, nor seek salvation. You will then be either saved or lost; in Christian Paradise, or unending torment...

Philip Conolly: The ignominious results of disobedience to law and humanity cannot be ignored. Blood must atone blood, society requires it. Pearce's crimes are confirmed and systematic. They can't be met with leniency. Indeed they should be pursued with vengeance and made good with his death. Yet what I have seen is dreadful suffering often drives desperate men to horrific acts. This man, I prepare for the gallows, arrived here depraved, already proficient in distilling lawless habits, but here in Van Dieman's Land took succor amongst the most unprincipled people in the universe. A wicked and perverse generation addicted to adultery, blasphemy, idleness, malice, dishonesty and drunkenness. A recalcitrant amongst reprobates, Pearce was sent to Sarah Island, a place of secondary punishment. If flogging can school a man, Pearce should be principled for two thousand lashes were applied to his back, more than any man before or since. Instead he absconded. He witnessed murders, murdered himself, escaped and murdered again. He has eaten human flesh. He is a beast made mad by beatings. He will die here, in a strange land, alone, caged, having learnt nothing but pain, piss, shit, blood and death. It's inhuman from start to finish. I'm sickened by it. But yes I offer him comfort as he awaits death at His Majesty's pleasure. I do it for fear Mrs Brown.

Philip Conolly: We're Irish, We were born hungry. God spare this colony the famines of Ireland. A whole country's crops failing. Absentee landlords without a degree of mercy. Orphans. Jesus, Mary and Joseph. But hunger's never been a reason to eat another man.

Alexander Pearce: Try to kill a man, he'll either die, or put up fight. That's how it is. That's what happened.

Alexander Pearce: When it came time there was only panic. We took our bread but it was baked to rot. I had the thought we'd forage but God never put down food out there, no animals, nor anything in the ground. This is a hollow land. That's what we walked into, eight of us...

The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)

Actors: Paul Trijbits (producer), John McKenna (miscellaneous crew), Ulrich Felsberg (producer), Nigel Thomas (producer), George Fenton (composer), Susanna Lenton (miscellaneous crew), Cillian Murphy (actor), Ken Loach (director), Liam Cunningham (actor), Sean McGinley (actor), Andrew Lowe (producer), Roger Allam (actor), Frank O'Sullivan (actor), Jonathan Morris (editor), Neil Calder (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: In 1920, rural Ireland is the vicious battlefield of republican rebels against the British security forces and Irish Unionist population who oppose them, a recipe for mutual cruelty. Medical graduate Damien O'Donovan always gave priority to his socialist ideals and simply helping people in need. Just when he's leaving Ireland to work in a highly reputed London hospital, witnessing gross abuse of commoners changes his mind. he returns and joins the local IRA brigade, commanded by his brother Teddy, and adopts the merciless logic of civil war, while Teddy mellows by experiencing first-hand endless suffering. When IRA leaders negotiate an autonomous Free State under the British crown, Teddy defends the pragmatic best possible deal at this stage. Damien however joins the large seceding faction which holds nothing less then a socialist republic will do. The result is another civil war, bloodily opposing former Irish comrades in arms, even the brothers.

Keywords: 1920s, abuse, ambush, ammunition, apology, armored-vehicle, arrest, arsenal, band, bandana
Genres: Drama, History, War,
Taglines: Winner of the PALME D'OR at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.

Quotes:

Teddy: [looking around Hamilton's study] Such a beautiful room, it's hard to imagine a man's scream from here. Ever seen fingernails ripped out with a rusty pliers, Sir John, hmm? All your learning, and you still don't understand.::Sir John Hamilton: Oh, I understand perfectly, Mr. O'Donovan. God preserve Ireland if ever your kind take control.::Damien: [trains his gun on Hamilton] Well, you'd better start getting used to the idea.

Damien: Micheail was killed because he wouldn't say his name in English. That what you call a martyr, is it, Teddy?

Damien: I tried not to get into this war, and did, now I try to get out, and can't.

Damien: The Treaty does not express the will of the people, but the fear of the people.

Damien: And once again, with honourable exception, the Catholic Church sides with the rich.

Damien: Strange creatures we are, even to ourselves.

Teddy: It's not too late, Damien.::Damien: For me or for you?

Damien: [loading revolver] I studied anatomy for five years, Dan. And now i'm going to shoot this man in the head. I've known Chris Reilly since he was a child. I hope this Ireland we're fighting for is worth it.

Chris: Promise me, Damien. Promise me you won't bury me next to him?::[points to Sir John]::Damien: The chapel. Do you remember, on the way up? Do you remember?::Chris: Yeah.::Damien: In there.::Chris: Tell Teddy I'm sorry. I'm scared, Damien.::Damien: [sighs] Have you said your prayers?::Chris: Yeah.::Damien: God protect you.

Damien: [to Teddy] You have wrapped yourself in the fucking Union Jack! The butcher's apron, boy!

The Magic Flute (2006)

Actors: Stephen Fry (writer), Stephen Fry (writer), Kenneth Branagh (director), Jon Baker (miscellaneous crew), Liz Smith (actress), Lasco Atkins (actor), Richard Morrison (miscellaneous crew), Kenneth Branagh (writer), Kenneth Branagh (writer), Christopher Fosh (actor), Dean Wares (miscellaneous crew), Patrick Isherwood (miscellaneous crew), Neil Swain (miscellaneous crew), Jimmy Yuill (miscellaneous crew), Jimmy Yuill (actor),

Genres: Drama, Musical, Romance,

Quotes:

Papageno: [Papageno and Tamino are undergoing a trial of silence, but Papageno speaks anyway, much to the displeasure of Tamino. An old woman enters] Is that for me?::Old Papagena: [speaks, carrying a tray of refreshments] Yes, my angel!::Papageno: [drinks and then speaks] Water! Ugh! How old are you, my dear?::Old Papagena: [speaks] I'm eighteen years and - two minutes.::Papageno: [bursts into laughter and speaks] I see! Do you have a boyfriend?::Old Papagena: [speaks] Oh, yes!::Papageno: [speaks] What's his name?::Old Papagena: [speaks] Papageno!::Papageno: [speaks as she starts to leave] Papa - Hey, that's me! Wait! What's your name?::Old Papagena: [speaks] Wouldn't you like to know! Toodle-oo!

First Officer: [spoken to Sarastro, about Tamino and Pamina] He's doing this for her.::Second Officer: [spoken] You are using him.::First Officer: [spoken] We are asking him to risk his life!::Second Officer: [spoken] Do you know what you're doing?::Sarastro: [spoken] I hope so. Tamino must succeed. This slaughter must end.

Papageno: [singing] A birdman's work is never done/ From crack of dawn to set of sun,/ In unrewarded servitude/ He labours to protect his brood. /I feed and train my chirping pets, /I lay down traps and cast out nets,/ I speak in fluent 'Pigeonese' /And charm the birds right off the trees.

Le mur de l'Atlantique (1970)

Actors: Jacques Marbeuf (actor), William Mervyn (actor), Roger Lumont (actor), Billy Kearns (actor), Robert Le Béal (actor), Roland Lesaffre (actor), Rudy Lenoir (actor), Guy Delorme (actor), Bourvil (actor), Marcel Gassouk (actor), Jacques Balutin (actor), Fernand Guiot (actor), Jess Hahn (actor), Reinhard Kolldehoff (actor), Norman Mitchell (actor),

Genres: Comedy, War,

The Highwayman (1951)

Actors: John Alderson (actor), Paul Cavanagh (actor), Charles Coburn (actor), Robert Karnes (actor), Cecil Kellaway (actor), Harry Morgan (actor), Alan Napier (actor), Dan O'Herlihy (actor), Patrick O'Moore (actor), Norma Varden (actress), Bernard W. Burton (producer), Hal E. Chester (producer), Duncan Renaldo (writer), Lesley Selander (director), Ralph Faulkner (miscellaneous crew),

Genres: Adventure,
Taglines: King of the Outlaws! Robin Hood! Jesse James! Don Juan!...No rogue, robber or ravager ever equalled history's boldest firebrand!

Quotes:

NARRATOR: And still of a winter's night, they say, when the wind is in the trees, / When the moon is a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, / When the road is a ribbon of moonlight looping the purple moor, / A highwayman comes riding, riding, riding, / A highwayman comes riding up to the old inn door.

The Secret of Madame Blanche (1933)

Actors: Norman Ainsley (actor), Lionel Atwill (actor), William Bakewell (actor), Albert Conti (actor), Edward Cooper (actor), C. Henry Gordon (actor), Lawrence Grant (actor), Phillips Holmes (actor), John Kelly (actor), Gus Leonard (actor), Mitchell Lewis (actor), Paul Porcasi (actor), Jed Prouty (actor), Ivan F. Simpson (actor), Robert Adair (actor),

Plot: Showgirl Sally meets young playboy Leonard St. John; they fall in love and are secretly married. When Leonard's father discovers this he sets out to break them apart, and following a bitter row, Leonard kills himself, leaving Sally to pick up the pieces of her life.

Keywords: bartender, based-on-play, brothel, cad, child-custody, class-distinction, confession-of-crime, country-girl, drunkenness, english
Genres: Drama, History, Romance,

The Man from Yesterday (1932)

Actors: Frank Atkinson (actor), Clive Brook (actor), Emile Chautard (actor), Charles Boyer (actor), George Davis (actor), Jean De Briac (actor), Andy Devine (actor), Leyland Hodgson (actor), Boyd Irwin (actor), Fred Malatesta (actor), Alan Mowbray (actor), Dennis O'Keefe (actor), Reinhold Pasch (actor), Lee Phelps (actor), Christian Rub (actor),

Genres: Drama, Romance, War,