Possession (2002)

Actors: Gabriel Yared (composer), Jenny Beavan (costume designer), Lena Headey (actress), Roger Hammond (actor), Neil LaBute (writer), Gwyneth Paltrow (actress), Anna Massey (actress), Ray Donn (actor), Aaron Eckhart (actor), Tom Hollander (actor), Paula Weinstein (producer), Barry Levinson (producer), Graham Crowden (actor), Libbie Barr (miscellaneous crew), Neil LaBute (director),

Plot: Roland Michell is an American scholar trying to make it in the difficult world of British Academia. He has yet to break out from under his mentor's shadow until he finds a pair of love letters that once belonged to one of his idols, a famous Victorian poet. Michell, after some sleuthing, narrows down the suspects to a woman not his wife, another well known Victorian poet. Roland enlists the aid of a Dr. Maud Bailey, an expert on the life of the woman in question. Together they piece together the story of a forbidden love affair, and discover one of their own. They also find themselves in a battle to hold on to their discovery before it falls into the hands of their rival, Fergus Wolfe.

Keywords: abortion, academia, academic, academic-fellowship, adoption, adultery, ancestor, art-auction, baby, bare-chested-male
Genres: Drama, Mystery, Romance,
Taglines: The past will connect them. The passion will possess them.

Quotes:

Fergus: Mitchell's late again?::Blackadder: ROLAND, asked for another day off, Fergus.::Fergus: Oh, really? Where's he gone?::Blackadder: I didn't ask, and he didn't say. He's an American for God's sake. He's probably off trafficking drugs.

[to Roland the morning after their first night together, and first kiss]::Maude: I can't imagine what you're like after you actually sleep with someone!

Christabel LaMotte: I cannot let you burn me up, nor can I resist you. No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.

[first lines]::Randolph Ash: They say that women change. 'Tis so, but you are ever-constant in your changefulness. Like that still thread of falling river, one from source to last embrace, in the still pool ever-renewed and ever-moving on, from first to last, a myriad water-drops.

Randolph Ash: You cut me, Madam.::Christabel LaMotte: I'm sorry. I only meant to scratch.

Christabel LaMotte: Your hands are shaking. Are you afraid?::Randolph Ash: No... a little.

Roland Michell: So what are we gonna do now? We gonna try to beat'em to France, or - or are we just gonna stare at each other?::Maude: That is the question, isn't it?::Roland Michell: Mm-hmmm::Maude: I have another one for you.::Roland Michell: What's that?::Maude: What are you really doing here?::Roland Michell: Well, I uh - I needed to see your face. I just wanted to let you know that whatever happened at Whitby, which unfortunately was not much, is not because anything that you did. Not at all. I just didn't want to jump into something. I mean, I did and I do... want to. Badly. I just didn't want to mess this up. And I just want to see - [clears throat] I want to see if there's an us in you and me. Would-Would you like that? [Maude leans over and kisses Roland] I'll take that as a yes.

Roland Michell: Don't worry about me. I'm kind of a brush and flush kinda guy. [seeing Maude's repulsed expression] Forget I said that.::Maude: I'll try.

Maude: [the morning after they hooked up which Roland put a stop to] Okay, let's not beat the thing dead. It happened. We're both grown-ups...::Roland Michell: Speak for yourself.::Maude: I'd hate to see how you're like after you actually sleep with someone.

Maude: [they are standing on rocks in a river looking at a waterfall that Maude recalls in one of Christabell's poems that describes a cave behind the waterfall. Upon sharing that with Roland, he immediately starts taking his clothes off] I know this is an awfully repressed sort of English thing to say, but what the hell are you doing?::Roland Michell: How else are we going to find out if there's a cave?::[Dives into the water]::Maude: [smiling, and speaking to no one] We could ask someone.

The Ring (1996)

Actors: Jean Marsh (actress), Michel Legrand (composer), Armand Mastroianni (director), Douglas S. Cramer (producer), Nastassja Kinski (actress), Scott Vickrey (editor), Michael York (actor), James Sikking (actor), Leslie Caron (actress), Linda Lavin (actress), Todd Boyce (actor), Geno Lechner (actress), Barbara Lane (costume designer), Jack May (actor), Jon Tenney (actor),

Plot: During WW II, a young German woman is separated from her family and imprisoned by the Nazis. After being freed she falls in love with and marries a German officer. When Berlin falls to the Russians, and her husband killed, she flees to America, carrying his unborn child, all the while not giving up hope that she will find her family, tied together by her mother's ring.

Keywords: based-on-novel, holocaust, world-war-two
Genres: Drama, Romance,

Crisis at Central High (1981)

Actors: Lamont Johnson (director), Billy Goldenberg (composer), William Link (writer), Richard Levinson (writer), David Susskind (producer), Richard Levinson (producer), Irma P. Hall (actress), Robert Papazian (producer), William Russ (actor), Rosanna Huffman (actress), Charles Durning (actor), William Link (producer), Joanne Woodward (actress), Annabelle Weenick (actress), Tony Frank (actor),

Genres: Drama, History,

Kampf um Rom II - Der Verrat (1969)

Actors: Alfred Srp (editor), Friedrich von Ledebur (actor), Orson Welles (actor), Harriet Andersson (actress), Sylva Koscina (actress), Artur Brauner (producer), Ladislas Fodor (writer), Riz Ortolani (composer), Irms Pauli (costume designer), Andrew Marton (director), Sergiu Nicolaescu (director), Robert Siodmak (director), Dieter Eppler (actor), Laurence Harvey (actor), Robert Hoffmann (actor),

Genres: Adventure, Drama,

Kampf um Rom I (1968)

Actors: Ladislas Fodor (writer), Irms Pauli (costume designer), Artur Brauner (producer), Dieter Eppler (actor), Riz Ortolani (composer), Laurence Harvey (actor), Robert Hoffmann (actor), Sylva Koscina (actress), Emanoil Petrut (actor), Florin Piersic (actor), Friedrich von Ledebur (actor), Orson Welles (actor), Harriet Andersson (actress), Honor Blackman (actress), Andrew Marton (director),

Plot: Cethegus, capo della nobiltà romana, viaggia verso Bisanzio per raggiungere Giustiniano, in attesa di marciare contro i Goti, guidati da Narses. Cethegus vorrebbe ottenere la vittoria su entrambi i fronti della battaglia, per potere ottenere il predominio ed il controllo di tutto l'impero.

Keywords: 6th-century, ancient-rome, based-on-novel, epic, female-nudity
Genres: Adventure, Drama,

Wake Up and Dream (1934)

Actors: Gavin Gordon (actor), Edward Hearn (actor), Henry Armetta (actor), Richard Carle (actor), George Guhl (actor), Edmund Cobb (actor), Don Brodie (actor), Chief John Big Tree (actor), Andy Devine (actor), James Donlan (actor), Spencer Charters (actor), Maurice Black (actor), James Flavin (actor), Sam Flint (actor), Arthur Hoyt (actor),

Genres: Musical,

Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache (1924)

Actors: Fritz Alberti (actor), Bernhard Goetzke (actor), Georg John (actor), Rudolf Klein-Rogge (actor), Theodor Loos (actor), Hans Adalbert Schlettow (actor), Margarete Schön (actress), Erich Pommer (producer), Thea von Harbou (writer), Fritz Lang (director), Hanna Ralph (actress), Grete Berger (actress), Gertrud Arnold (actress), Yuri Yurovsky (actor), Erwin Biswanger (actor),

Plot: After Siegfried's dead, Kriemhild marries Etzel, the King of the Huns. She gives birth to a child, and invites her brothers for a party. She tries to persuade Etzel and the other Huns, that they kill Hagen, the murderer of Siegfried, but he is protected by her brothers. A fierce battle begins to force her brothers to give Hagen to her.

Keywords: 13th-century, 5th-century, armor, arrow-in-back, assassin, attila, baby, based-on-legend, battle, brother-brother-relationship
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy,

Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924)

Actors: Fritz Alberti (actor), Bernhard Goetzke (actor), Georg John (actor), Georg John (actor), Rudolf Klein-Rogge (actor), Theodor Loos (actor), Paul Richter (actor), Hans Adalbert Schlettow (actor), Frida Richard (actress), Margarete Schön (actress), Erich Pommer (producer), Fritz Lang (writer), Thea von Harbou (writer), Fritz Lang (director), Hanna Ralph (actress),

Plot: Siegfried, son of King Sigmund, hears of the beautiful sister of Gunter, King of Worms, Kriemhild. On his way to Worms, he kills a dragon and finds a treasure, the Hort. He helps Gunther to win Krimhild, a mask that makes him invisible proves to be very useful. But because Brunhild is cursing Kriemhild, she tells her what really happened. Now Brunhild wants Siegfried's head. Is Gunther going to do her that favor?

Keywords: 5th-century, ancient-myth, assumed-identity, based-on-legend, betrayal, bird, blacksmith, blood, blood-brothers, blood-shower
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy,