The Silver Rope (2006)

Actors: Fabio Guaglione (director), Fabio Guaglione (producer), Fabio Guaglione (editor), Fabio Guaglione (writer), Fabio Resinaro (writer), Fabio Resinaro (director), Fabio Resinaro (editor), Fabio Resinaro (producer), Fabio Resinaro (composer), Angelo D'Agostino (producer), Enzo Giraldo (actor), Eugenia Caruso (actress), Simon Puccini (producer), Simon Puccini (actor), Giulia Achilli (producer),

Plot: The lives, the emotions, the mysteries and the personal conflicts of several people meet each other in a world forever changed by an amazing scientific discovery: the localization of the soul, the birth of an engineering of the spirit, the conceptual death of God.

Keywords: metaxa, silver
Genres: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Short, Thriller,
Taglines: The End Comes Before Anything Can Make Sense.

Gunpowder, Treason & Plot (2004)

Actors: John E. Keane (composer), Andrei Boncea (miscellaneous crew), Justin Bodle (producer), Robert Cooper (producer), George Anton (miscellaneous crew), Jo Cameron Brown (miscellaneous crew), Vasile Albinet (actor), Kevin McKidd (actor), Robert Carlyle (actor), Tim McInnerny (actor), Gary Lewis (actor), Michael Fassbender (actor), Emilia Fox (actress), Kevin Jackson (miscellaneous crew), Andra Barbuica (miscellaneous crew),

Genres: Drama, History,

Quotes:

Bothwell: You think it dishonorable?::Mary, Queen of Scots: Yes::Bothwell: Disreputable?::Mary, Queen of Scots: Yes::Bothwell: Many a man would risk his life for you, but few would risk their honor and their reputation. I would. That is the measure of the great esteem in which I hold you.

Lady Huntly: You will not be able to look at your son without remembering mine!

Mary, Queen of Scots: Your final words?::Sir John Huntly: Beware of the bastard.

Mary, Queen of Scots: Can you die with such lies on your lips?

Mary, Queen of Scots: I thank you. Once more.::Bothwell: You must learn to enjoy executions. You must rule by fear - for fear is all they understand::Mary, Queen of Scots: I take my advice from wee David!::Bothwell: Did he deserve to die?::Mary, Queen of Scots: [pause] Yes.::Bothwell: Then your mother would have swung that axe herself... she would let no man see her tears.::Mary, Queen of Scots: Fear not Bothwell, you will never see them again!

Mary, Queen of Scots: This was not a Catholic who murdered a Protestant. This was a Scot who murdered a Scot.

David Riccio: Beautiful, is she not?::Bothwell: Who?::David Riccio: You would marry her?::Bothwell: I might consider it, aye.::David Riccio: But you are not the Dauphin of France, the heir apparent of Spain.::Bothwell: No.::David Riccio: And you are not rich?::[pause]::David Riccio: So what would you bring to such a marriage?

Bothwell: Madam, is there not one man in the whole of Scotland who is good enough for you?::Mary, Queen of Scots: Sir?::Bothwell: Wooed by Austria, Spain and now England. What is wrong with my country, madam?::Mary, Queen of Scots: You're drunk sir.::Bothwell: And you are French, madam. And I would sooner be drunk for a year than French for a day - now is it French to see merit in this long streak of English pish, madam? You do not know what England has done to my country, madam. Raped their women, murdered their children::[guards try to remove him]::Bothwell: - Keep your hands off me!... And now he dines with our queen? The dead of Scotland turn in their graves for an Englishmen dines with our queen! And why are you here, madam, hmm? Our people offend your eye. Our food, your nose. So why, tell me madam, are you here? Was your life so boring in France? -::[guards pull him back again]::Bothwell: Take your hands off me! Is that why you are here?- not for Scotland, but for yourself?

Bothwell: Forgive me.::Mary, Queen of Scots: How's your head?::Bothwell: Sore.::Mary, Queen of Scots: I could remove it for you.::Bothwell: Well, that would do the trick, aye.::Mary, Queen of Scots: You caused Lord Darnley great offense, you called Lord Darnley a long streak of English piss!::Bothwell: Then I must apologize.::Lord Darnley: I thank you.::Bothwell: 'Twas English *pish*.::Lord Darnley: [pause] Banishment, I think.::Bothwell: Anywhere but France.

Bothwell: [pointing to fellow cellmate] This is Hamish. Hamish and I have spent many hours of stimulating conversation.::Mary, Queen of Scots: How loyal are you, Bothwell?::Bothwell: I would die for you.

The Black Door (2001)

Actors: Brenda McDonald (actress), John Prowse (actor), Richard Faraci (miscellaneous crew), Bronwen Smith (actress), Kevin Blatch (actor), John Hainsworth (actor), Julien Carbon (writer), Laurent Courtiaud (writer), Dan Pelchat (miscellaneous crew), Alan Poon (editor), Tanya Hubbard (actress), Jason Benson (actor), Lucas Lowe (producer), Kit Wong (director), Cameron McDonald (actor),

Plot: Seattle, USA, 1999. At the demand of MEG, a camera crew investigates the strange course of events that brought STEVEN H., her boyfriend, to be hospitalized. Steven's condition is serious. His body has been severely lacerated by an unknown assailant. The doctors think it could be a wild animal, or maybe even a man with extremely long and hard nails. Steven is also suffering from a mysterious infection that spreads inside him at an alarming speed... The camera crew investigates on Steven's past weeks, hoping to find the truth and learn what really happened to him. Steven was doing historical research on trading between Mexico and the US, and had focused his work on a man called Balmaseda, a prosperous Mexican businessman who disappeared in 1932. This apparently innocuous research led Steven to a much darker discovery... Everything seems to revolve around a group of mysterious characters, all members of a satanic sect : The Black Door. Balmaseda was one of them. The mystery is about to be unveiled, thanks to the discovery of a terrifying 8mm film shot by the sect in 1932. These images plunge the crew in the middle of a drama where Steven is another victim of the sect. The keys to the mystery are this 8mm film, a video that Steven shot the night he was attacked - in an abandoned mansion that belonged to the Sect, and a mysterious old man that Steven met and who knows more than he pretends... As time runs out for Steven and his girlfriend, the crew must find the answer to supernatural events that started 60 years ago but are still very much present. For the Black Door is among us and the gate they opened to hell has never been closed...

Keywords: devil-worship, fake-documentary, human-sacrifice, male-frontal-nudity, male-nudity, nudity, pentagram, ritual-sacrifice, satanic-ritual, suicide-by-hanging
Genres: Horror,

Ms. Scrooge (1997)

Actors: Joanne T. Harwood (miscellaneous crew), David Shire (composer), John Korty (director), John McGreevey (writer), Cicely Tyson (actress), Charles Dickens (writer), Katherine Helmond (actress), John Bourgeois (actor), Philip Akin (actor), Ken James (actor), Michael Beach (actor), Michael J. Reynolds (actor), Julian Richings (actor), Mark Moore (miscellaneous crew), Sandi Ross (actress),

Genres: Drama, Fantasy,
Taglines: A Christmas Classic Everyone Can Believe In Let's just say she didn't make Santa's 'nice' list.

Quotes:

Maude Marley: [Appearing in a flash of Light] Ta Da! I always did like a big entrance, didn't I? [light fades] How's tricks, Ebenita?::Ms. Ebenita Scrooge: Maude?::Maude Marley: You haven't said a word about my outfit.::Ms. Ebenita Scrooge: [laughing to herself] Oh, it can't be Maude. She's dead. I buried her.::Maude Marley: And rather hastily, I might add. Afraid I might come back to life? Reclaim my possessions? [Ebenita slowly reaches for the phone] Now I can't. [as Ebenita's hand gets to the phone] NO! [voice becoming distorted] That line is dead, darling. Save us both time, Ebenita. I'm dead, I'm here, and I'm talking to you. [Coming up to her, talking in normal voice] Now I'll cut to the chase, I actually need your help. To rest in peace. That's all anybody ever talks about in the afterlife. How they do things differently. The grass is forever greener, but when I was alive, I lived by one question only: What's in it for me? I'll admit I was a little self centered then, cared not a whit for the little people. That's why every year on the anniversary of my death, I have to roam the world and see the happiness I can never share unless...::Ms. Ebenita Scrooge: Yes?::Maude Marley: Unless you listen to me and turn your little life around.::Ms. Ebenita Scrooge: What's so little about my life? Business has never been better. I own three buildings, and a house with ten rooms...::Maude Marley: [Yells, and then talks in the distorted voice] And how many rooms in your heart and how long will your chain of grief be when you join our miserable band?::Ms. Ebenita Scrooge: I don't have to do anything.::Maude Marley: [in normal voice] No, you don't. Not if you change. My fellow ghosts will show you how.::Ms. Ebenita Scrooge: More ghosts?::Maude Marley: Yes, but tightly organized on the other side. Actually, you'd probably love it for a while. Tight schedules, time clocks, the works. However, the only problem is it never ends. [circles her chair] It goes around, and around and around!::Ms. Ebenita Scrooge: [Screams] Get away!::Maude Marley: Anyway, expect your first visitor when the clock strikes midnight. your second visitor at one and your third at the stroke of two. Regular as clockwork.::Ms. Ebenita Scrooge: What is the point of all of this?::Maude Marley: Change, Ebenita, for your sake as well as mine. [fading into her light state] Either get me out of this or join the crowd FOREVER! [disappearing in a flash of light]::Ms. Ebenita Scrooge: [looking around for a bit, then getting up out of her chair and gathering her shawl] Ghosts, you can have this place. [running out of the room] I'm going to be someplace else!

Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad (1994)

Actors: Alfre Woodard (actress), Sam Malkin (actor), Glynn Turman (actor), Courtney B. Vance (actor), Dawnn Lewis (actress), Tom Butler (actor), Susan Hogan (actress), Ron White (actor), Tyrone Benskin (actor), Tim Reid (actor), James Kidnie (actor), Nigel Bennett (actor), Gene Mack (actor), Christopher Dedrick (composer), Sandi Ross (actress),

Plot: In pre Civil War America, slaves are prepared to risk everything for the chance of freedom from bondage. This films relates the story of a group of slaves who decide to try for it. Fortunately, in addition to the dangers from slave catchers and the elements, our heros also have the Underground Railroad, the clandestine network of caring people, like Harriet Tubman, who face great risks of their own.

Keywords: abolitionist, african-american, antebellum, canada, chase, escape, escape-from-slavery, fugitive, paranoia, plantation
Genres: Drama, History,

Chasing the Deer (1994)

Actors: Brian Blessed (actor), Bob Carruthers (producer), Bob Carruthers (writer), Iain Cuthbertson (actor), Patrick Moore (editor), Bill Little (actor), David McWhinnie (producer), Andrew Craig (actor), Bill Little (actor), Robert Whitehouse (producer), Terry Molloy (actor), Peter Gordon (actor), Gary Russell (producer), Fish (actor), Mathew Zajac (actor),

Genres: War,
Taglines: It will stir your blood and break your heart.

Perfect Harmony (1991)

Actors: Catherine Mary Stewart (actress), Billy Goldenberg (composer), David Faustino (actor), Darren McGavin (actor), Peter Scolari (actor), Todd Black (producer), Moses Gunn (actor), Cleavon Little (actor), Eugene Byrd (actor), Sidney Wolinsky (editor), Joe Wizan (producer), Devin Ratray (actor), Mary Nell Santacroce (actress), Dan Biggers (actor), Richie Havens (actor),

Plot: In a private school in the U.S. South, Mr. Sanders, a new choirmaster tries to reduce some of the prejudice and hostility of some of the students in his choir. Paul, a bully who feels he should be lead boy, is the worst offender. Taylor Bradshaw on the other hand is impressed by the music of Landy, a black boy, grandson of Zeke, the school caretaker. Zeke joins in some of the activities of the black community known as River Town. Sanders is also impressed by Landy's abilities and attempts to get him involved with the choir. A tragedy in the community brings the race issue to a head.

Keywords: 1950s, boys'-school, choir, coming-of-age, compassion, cross-cultural-relations, friendship, prejudice, private-school, race-relations
Genres: Drama, Family, Music,
Taglines: From Two Different Worlds... Music Brought Them Together!

Without a Trace (1983)

Actors: Lynn Cohen (actress), Kate Nelligan (actress), Thomas Kopache (actor), Caroline Aaron (actress), Dan Lauria (actor), Stockard Channing (actress), Judd Hirsch (actor), Sam Coppola (actor), William H. Macy (actor), Terry O'Quinn (actor), Tony Devon (actor), David Dukes (actor), Bill Smitrovich (actor), Angela Pietropinto (actress), Frederick Coffin (actor),

Plot: This film, centering on a child's abduction, casts Kate Nelligan as the distraught mother who lashes out at the police (in the person of a relentless detective played by Judd Hirsch), who treat her and her husband as suspects, even as she hounds them to find her child and drives away her husband (David Dukes) and friends (including Stockard Channing) with her intensity and single-mindedness.

Keywords: anonymous-tip, based-on-novel, based-on-true-story, brooklyn-bridge, brooklyn-new-york-city, college-professor, detective, father-son-relationship, gay, homosexual
Genres: Drama, Mystery,
Taglines: One morning, Alex Selky got dressed, waved goodbye to his mother, set off for school and disappeared.

Quotes:

Susan Selky: [to Jocelyn] You have no idea what this feels like.

Susan Selky: Where do they think these kids go - Disneyland?

The Kremlin Letter (1970)

Actors: Orson Welles (actor), Max von Sydow (actor), Raf Vallone (actor), Cyril Shaps (actor), Richard Boone (actor), Pehr-Olof Sirén (actor), George Sanders (actor), John Huston (actor), Dean Jagger (actor), Marc Lawrence (actor), Niall MacGinnis (actor), Guy Deghy (actor), George Pravda (actor), Patrick O'Neal (actor), Bibi Andersson (actress),

Plot: A network of older spies from the West recruits a young intelligence officer with a photographic memory to accompany them on a mission inside Russia. They must recover a letter written by the CIA that promises American assistance to Russia if China gets the atomic bomb.

Keywords: based-on-novel, china, cold-war, counter-agent, cross-dressing, drag, drag-queen, electronic-surveillance, espionage, extortion
Genres: Thriller,
Taglines: Don't trust anyone in THE KREMLIN LETTER World War III...in an envelope!

Quotes:

Charles Rone: I'm goin' to Mexico.::Ward: Yes sir, you're goin' to Mexico to pick up Lord Ashley's Whore. You're gonna rustle up the Warlock in San Francisco and then make tracks to Chicago for the Erector Set. Tell them the Tillinger Foundation is planning an expedition.

Ward: Nephew, they say that heroes can't imagine their own death and that's why they're heroes. You go 'em one better. You imagine you're immune to violence.

Ward: Now look, I think we've left no stone unturned. But let's not kid ourselves. If any of us is caught there's only a remote possibility we'd be mistaken for Russians. Keep in mind that close examination takes time, and that time they use on you could let the rest of us escape.::Highwayman: Don't be too quick to die.

Sweet Alice: [Opening lines of the film] [Sweet Alice has checked a briefcase as he enters the museum in Paris, takes the claim check] So, the man in Moscow's agreed to send back the letter.::Polakov: For one million dollars.::Sweet Alice: Mmm, for that kind of money we're entitled to know his name.::Polakov: And then what further need would you have of me?::Sweet Alice: When do you get back to Paris?::Polakov: One week, ten days.::Sweet Alice: I see. Well, you have one week to recover the letter. Seven days, Polakov. [Lays down the claim check] There's your million.

Colonel Kosnov: [During drinks after a dinner party, with the wives present] It was a long time ago. I'm not sure of the details any longer.::Bresnavitch: The Colonel is too modest. Imagine. All he actually knew was that three of Sturdevant's men were in a small Polish village. Correct?::Colonel Kosnov: I think so.::Bresnavitch: He had to determine which of the 2,300 people in the village were the three he wanted, so he rounded up the entire population. He began to interrogate and execute each of them one by one. Then it seems that when your husband started killing the children one of Sturdevant's men tried to make a run for it. He was caught of course and your husband was able to make him talk, as only he can.

Bresnavitch: [Colonel Kosnov's wife has fled the room] Don't worry Colonel, she'll be all right. After all, a wife has a right to know exactly what her husband contributes to society.

Warlock: She lunches every day in the cafeteria, invariably alone. Sometimes after lunch she goes to the Central Park Zoo and sketches lions for half an hour. Only lions, for God's sake! She never speaks to anybody, except a couple of the black girls in life class. They look at her sketches and she looks at theirs. Sorry old man, it's not very much to go on.::The Whore: It's quite a lot.

Charles Rone: I think I'm a superior combination of intellect and physique, athlete and scholar. When a risk is to be run I formulate the ideal procedure and calculate the chances involved with exquisite precision. If the percentages are sufficiently in my favor I put myself into motion having absolute confidence in the performance of my reflexes.

Ward: There are only two bedrooms in Potkin's apartment, which should make it very convenient for our younger associates. We all know you've been shackin' up together.

Warlock: [while knitting... ] Rudolph says he's in love with me. He claims that I'm the only one he's been in love with since Polakov, and talking about their affair makes him weep. He wants me to leave the professor and move in with him. I told him it wouldn't be wise to break off so suddenly but that I would find a way soon. I'm knitting these bed socks for him.

Daredevils of the Red Circle (1939)

Actors: Bud Geary (actor), George DeNormand (actor), Jerry Frank (actor), Curley Dresden (actor), Raymond Bailey (actor), Roy Brent (actor), Roy Barcroft (actor), Eddie Foster (actor), Reginald Barlow (actor), Yakima Canutt (actor), Jack Chapin (actor), Bruce Bennett (actor), George Chesebro (actor), Edmund Cobb (actor), Oscar 'Dutch' Hendrian (actor),

Plot: Diabolical mastermind Harry Crowel, a.k.a. Prisoner 39013, escapes and, with a seemingly endless supply of henchmen, sets out to destroy all holdings of industrialist Horace Granville, who put him in prison. One target is an amusement park, home of the three Daredevils of the Red Circle, who perform death-defying stunts. Aghast at innocent lives lost, our three heroes swear to capture No. 39013. It'll be harder than they suspect; the villain is holding the real Granville captive, and with a near-perfect disguise, has taken his place!

Keywords: acrobat, bound-and-gagged, disguise, dog, impostor, oil-derrick, pipeline, poison-gas, power-plant, revenge
Genres: Action, Adventure, Crime,

Quotes:

Horace Granville: You're mad!::No. 39013, Harry Crowel: I spent 15 years in a cell like that. That's enough to make anyone, if not mad, then very annoyed.