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Betsy & Leonard (2012)

Actors: Paul Hillier (miscellaneous crew), Santi Scinelli (actor), Samuel Anderson (actor), Rufus Graham (actor), Bernhard Pucher (director), Bernhard Pucher (producer), Bernhard Pucher (actor), Alex Corbet Burcher (actor), Sophie Howard (costume designer), Monty Burgess (actor), Roby Meola (composer), Sharea Samuels (actress), Raimund Berens (producer), Philippe Spall (actor), Tom Carter (actor),

Plot: A month into a six month prison sentence for dealing mushrooms and weed, 28-year-old techno DJ Alex King is offered a way out. So long as he can provide a home address, he can see out the rest of his sentence under home detention. But there's a problem. Before he was arrested, Alex had crashed at his best mate Dave's house for six months and had outstayed his welcome by five. Desperate to get out of prison, Alex tells his probation officer that he still lives at his last known address: a London flat belonging to his ex-girlfriend, 27-year-old masseuse Karen. Alex's probation officer is too busy to check that this is true: as long as the place has four walls and electricity that's good enough for him. Karen is horrified when she gets back from the shops and finds Alex under house arrest in her flat, especially as she's still hurt that Alex dumped her at a party. However, thanks to British bureaucracy, she discovers she can't just throw him out and will have to take drastic action if she wants to get rid of him.

Keywords: best-friend, bong, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, break-up, cigarette-smoking, couch, courtroom, dating, dj, dominatrix
Genres: Comedy, Drama,
Taglines: Love Remixed

The Tiger's Tail (2006)

Actors: John Boorman (director), John Boorman (writer), Stephen McKeon (composer), John Boorman (producer), Stanley Townsend (actor), John McDonnell (producer), Kim Cattrall (actress), Sinéad Cusack (actress), Ned Dennehy (actor), Ciarán Hinds (actor), John Kavanagh (actor), Brendan Gleeson (actor), Brendan Gleeson (actor), John McKenna (miscellaneous crew), Sean McGinley (actor),

Genres: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller,
Taglines: When your past is a lie... and your future is not your own

Quotes:

Liam O'Leary: You fired a shotgun at me, that wasn't very brotherly was it?

Akeelah and the Bee (2006)

Actors: Keke Palmer (actress), Aaron Zigman (composer), Laurence Fishburne (producer), Mark Cuban (producer), Rennie Cowan (actress), Michael Paseornek (producer), Angela Bassett (actress), Curtis Armstrong (actor), Craig Wasson (actor), Lee Garlington (actress), Wolfgang Bodison (actor), Laurence Fishburne (actor), D.T. Carney (actor), Dante (miscellaneous crew), Cassandra Barbour (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: Eleven year-old Akeelah Anderson's life is not easy: her father is dead, her mom ignores her, her brother runs with the local gangbangers. She's smart, but her environment threatens to strangle her aspirations. Responding to a threat by her school's principal, Akeelah participates in a spelling bee to avoid detention for her many absences. Much to her surprise and embarrassment, she wins. Her principal asks her to seek coaching from an English professor named Dr. Larabee for the more prestigious regional bee. As the possibility of making it all the way to the Scripps National Spelling Bee looms, Akeelah could provide her community with someone to rally around and be proud of -- but only if she can overcome her insecurities and her distracting home life. She also must get past Dr. Larabee's demons, and a field of more experienced and privileged fellow spellers.

Keywords: african-american, airplane, animal-in-title, birthday-party, brother-sister-relationship, bully, child's-point-of-view, child-prodigy, child-protagonist, courage
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: Changing the world... one word at a time.

Quotes:

Akeelah: [Javier has just kissed her] Why'd you do that?::Javier: I had an impulse. Are you gonna sue me for sexual harassment? [pause, then they both laugh]

Akeelah: [quoting Marianne Williamson] Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.::Dr. Larabee: Does that mean anything to you?::Akeelah: I don't know.::Dr. Larabee: It's written in plain English. What does it mean?::Akeelah: That I'm not supposed to be afraid?::Dr. Larabee: Afraid of what?::Akeelah: Afraid of... me?

Akeelah: Okay. But when I'm at the bee, and they tell me to spell some little fish from Australia or some weird bacteria on the moon, we're going to wish we'd done a little bit more "rotemorizing" and not so much essay reading. If you don't mind me saying.::Dr. Larabee: Bacteria don't exist on the moon.

Dr. Larabee: Where do you think big words come from?::Akeelah: People with big brains?

Akeelah: I'm naturally inquisitive.::Dr. Larabee: Yes, which is also sometimes confused with being naturally obnoxious.

[last lines]::Akeelah: You know that feeling where everything feels right? Where you don't have to worry about tomorrow or yesterday, where you feel safe and know you're doing the best you can? There's a word for that, it's called love. L-O-V-E.

Mr. Welch: So whoever wins the school bee today, gets to represent Crenshaw at the district bee next month.::Akeelah: Why would anybody want to represent a school where they can't even put doors on the toilet stalls?::[coughing]::Mr. Welch: Akeelah, if we can't show students can perform were not going to have money for books let alone bathroom doors. [pause] Now I want you to do the bee today, okay?::Akeelah: So everyone can call me a freak and a brainiac? No I ain't down for no spelling bee.::Mr. Welch: Well, maybe you'd be down for spending the rest of the semester in detention for all your absences?

Derrick-T: Man, that's a white word if I ever heard one. It's a trick. Stop playing!

Katie Kerwin McCrimmon: [commentating on TV] Several of the kids placed very high in last year's bee, especially Dylan Chiu. He's come in second two years in a row.::Derrick-T: Kick his butt, Akeelah! B-U-T-T, butt!

Red Dust (2004)

Actors: Marius Weyers (actor), Avril Beukes (editor), Hilary Swank (actress), Dezi Rorich (miscellaneous crew), Ian Roberts (actor), Anant Singh (producer), Diana Cilliers (costume designer), Robin Smith (actor), Greg Latter (actor), Rob Lane (composer), Chiwetel Ejiofor (actor), Ruth Caleb (producer), Wilson Dunster (actor), Marcel van Heerden (actor), Helena Spring (producer),

Genres: Drama,

Quotes:

[last lines]::Alex Mpondo: We have the right to say that it hurt.

Evelyn (2002)

Actors: Pierce Brosnan (producer), Jess Platt (miscellaneous crew), Stephen Endelman (composer), Julianna Margulies (actress), Matt Curtis (miscellaneous crew), Brendan Gunn (miscellaneous crew), Aidan Quinn (actor), John Lynch (actor), Pierce Brosnan (actor), Alan Bates (actor), Stephen Rea (actor), Bruce Beresford (director), Renee Burke (miscellaneous crew), Humphrey Dixon (editor), Bosco Hogan (actor),

Plot: 1953. Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children, Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice, make it clear to the authorities that his is an untenable situation. The Irish courts put the Doyle children into Church-run orphanages. Although a sympathetic judge assures Desmond that he'll get his children back after he gets a job, he learns there's another barrier. During that time, Evelyn suffers abuse while Desmond goes to court to get his children back. A barmaid, her brother, her suitor, and a tippling footballer become Desmond's team.

Keywords: 1950s, abandoned-by-mother, abandonment, absent-mother, american, angel, barrister, based-on-book, based-on-true-story, bath
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: The story of a father's love that changed a nation

Quotes:

Nick Barron: The law and justice are two entirely different matters.

Desmond Doyle: I'm not drinkin' and drivin'! I drank before I drove.

Michael Beattie: To fight church and state is to fight Goliath.::Desmond Doyle: Yeah, well, David beat Goliath in the book I read.

[in court, a lawyer has told Evelyn what a nun has claimed]::Evelyn Doyle: Oh, no, that's not true! Hope she goes to confession soon.

[first lines]::Dermot Doyle: Evelyn, did Jesus have a big sister?::Evelyn Doyle: No Dermot, he wasn't as lucky as you.

Dermot Doyle: [Evelyn has poured one cup with more milk than the others] I want the bigger one!::Evelyn Doyle: No, the big one's mine, I'm the biggest.

Evelyn Doyle: It's great that we're on the top floor, so Santa can park his reindeer near.

Maurice Doyle: [the children are playing with only the train tracks and engine of a train set they got for Christmas] Daddy, where's the carriages?::Desmond Doyle: Well son, Santa was a bit strapped for cash this year. Costs a lot of money to feed those elves, you know.

Evelyn Doyle: [Evelyn's mother is running away from the block of flats with her suitcase] [Evelyn talking to her doll] Mummy's going shopping, Heidi. Do you like her nice new shoes and coat? But it's St Stephen's Day. Mummy, come back, it's St Stephen's Day, the shops are shut!

Evelyn Doyle: Mummy's gone! She was all dressed up and she went away with a man in a car.

Bodywork (2001)

Actors: Clive Russell (actor), Lynda Bellingham (actress), Jeremy Clyde (actor), Velibor Topic (actor), Roger Brierley (actor), Roger Frost (actor), James Vaughan (actor), Willie Ross (actor), Linda Gibson (miscellaneous crew), Stewart Harwood (actor), Charlotte Coleman (actress), Hans Matheson (actor), Lesley Keane (miscellaneous crew), Frank Mills (actor), Michael Attwell (actor),

Genres: Crime,
Taglines: Drive carefully, live dangerously.

Quotes:

Billy Hunch: [questioning a murder suspect's girlfriend] Do you remember Mr. Guppy saying anything strange that night?::Fiona Money: 'I'm a green oblong with rounded edges.'

Kainuu 39 (1979)

Actors: Jörn Donner (producer), Pirjo Honkasalo (editor), Pekka Lehto (director), Pirjo Honkasalo (director), Pekka Lehto (writer), Pirjo Honkasalo (writer), Marja-Leena Kouki (actress), Heikki Valpola (composer), Vesa Repo (actor), Anne Holmberg (editor), Usko Hakala (actor), Antti Moilanen (actor), Mauri Matero (actor), Eija Heikkinen (actress), Kauko Heikurainen (actor),

Genres: Drama, War,

Wenn wir alle Engel wären (1936)

Actors: Carl Froelich (producer), Will Dohm (actor), Manon Hahn (costume designer), Carl de Vogt (actor), Lotte Rausch (actress), Carl Froelich (director), Harald Paulsen (actor), Heinz Rühmann (actor), Ernst Waldow (actor), Paul Mederow (actor), Hanson Milde-Meissner (composer), Hugo Froelich (actor), Leny Marenbach (actress), Gustav Lohse (editor), Heinrich Spoerl (writer),

Plot: Christian Kempenich is the Chief Clerk in the Town Council in a small town on the river Mosel in Germany. He goes to Cologne to attend a family baptism, and afterwards is lured to sample the wicked delights of the big city. He wakes up the next morning in a cheap hotel room with no memory of what happened, but there's a strange woman asleep in the bed with him. Horrified, he heads home with his guilty secret. Meanwhile his wife went on the river steamer to the next town; an Italian tenor has been giving her singing lessons and has amorous intentions towards her, and he takes the same steamer. They stay on it to Koblenz and have to stay the night. The rest of the film revolves around Kempenich and his wife as they alternately show guilt about their own behaviour and outrage as they learn what their spouse might have done.

Keywords: based-on-novel, outrage
Genres: Comedy, Romance,

Landskamp (1932)

Actors: Helga Brofeldt (actress), Holger Löwenadler (actor), Håkan Westergren (actor), Fritiof Billquist (actor), Georg Rydeberg (actor), Mona Geijer-Falkner (actress), Georg Skarstedt (actor), Emil Fjellström (actor), Sigge Fürst (actor), Eric Gustafson (actor), Olle Hilding (actor), Gunnar Björnstrand (actor), Ludde Juberg (actor), Jules Sylvain (composer), Ingrid Bergman (actress),

Genres: ,

Starý hrích (1930)

Actors: Carl Lamac (actor), Josef Rovenský (actor), Miroslav Josef Krnanský (director), Jindrich Fiala (actor), Robert Ford (actor), Filip Balek-Brodský (actor), Václav Zichovský (actor), Otto Zahrádka (actor), Karel Jicínský (actor), Roza Schlesingerová (actress), Antonín Fric (actor), Václav Pecián (actor), Marie Fingerová (actress), Bohumil Kovár (actor), Otakar Hanus (writer),

Genres: Drama,