Mantis PR (2010)

Actors: John Pope (actor), John Pope (writer), John Pope (producer), Matthew Holloway (actor), Matthew Holloway (producer), Walker Sigmon (actor), Josh Levin (producer), Josh Levin (writer), Josh Levin (actor), Steven Dadouche (director), Steven Dadouche (producer), Andrew Moncrief (actor),

Genres: Comedy, Short,
Taglines: Come Pray With The Mantis

Krev zmizelého (2005)

Actors: Ondrej Vetchý (actor), Marek Vasut (actor), Jan Kacer (actor), Jirí Lábus (actor), Vladimír Dlouhý (actor), Simona Stasová (actress), Václav Mares (actor), Radoslav Brzobohatý (actor), Vilma Cibulková (actress), Karel Dobrý (actor), Martin Huba (actor), Emma Cerná (actress), Milan Cieslar (editor), Milan Cieslar (director), Milan Cieslar (producer),

Plot: An intimate ballad following the lives of a mother and daughter who go through topsy-turvy historical times. The plot is divided into four seasons set between 1939 and 1961. A Czech woman named Helga works at a German hospital. Out of her love for a Baltic nobleman named Arno, a volunteer in the Finnish War, her daughter Dorli is born. But Arno commits suicide and after the war is over mother and daughter must bear the victors' revenge alone - Helga is humiliated and expelled from her native region. Mother and daughter survive thanks only to the aid of the Jewish head doctor of the hospital. Years later Arno's body is exhumed and Dorli, who has always felt close to him, wants to trace her father's roots. She and a Greek boy try to escape but Communist repression spoils their plans. In order to protect her daughter, Helga puts herself at the mercy of a secret police torturer.

Keywords: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, africa, based-on-novel, border-region, collaboration-with-communist, communist, convent, czechoslovakian-history
Genres: Drama, War,

The Pianist (2002)

Actors: Zbigniew Zamachowski (actor), Andrzej Szenajch (actor), Borys Szyc (actor), Andrew Tiernan (actor), Axel Prahl (actor), Cyril Shaps (actor), John Bennett (actor), Peter Rappenglück (actor), Lech Mackiewicz (actor), Frank Finlay (actor), Thomas Kretschmann (actor), Marian Dziedziel (actor), Adrien Brody (actor), Katarzyna Figura (actress), Zofia Czerwinska (actress),

Plot: A brilliant pianist, a Polish Jew, witnesses the restrictions Nazis place on Jews in the Polish capital, from restricted access to the building of the Warsaw ghetto. As his family is rounded up to be shipped off to the Nazi labor camps, he escapes deportation and eludes capture by living in the ruins of Warsaw.

Keywords: 1930s, 1940s, anti-semitism, assault-rifle, atrocity, attacking-someone-in-a-wheelchair, attic, based-on-autobiography, based-on-true-story, bathtub
Genres: Biography, Drama, History, War,
Taglines: Music was his passion. Survival was his masterpiece.

Quotes:

Father: Well, to tell you the truth, I thought it would be worse.

Halina: Have you seen this?::Wladyslaw Szpilman: [impatient] What? What? I'm working. What? What is this?::Halina: It's where they're going to put us.::Wladyslaw Szpilman: What do you mean "put us"?

Mother: [crying] 20 zloty, that's all we have left, 20 zolty. What can I buy with 20 zloty? I am sick of cooking potatoes, potatoes, potatoes.

Wladyslaw Szpilman: I don't know how to thank you.::Captain Wilm Hosenfeld: Thank God, not me. He wants us to survive. Well, that's what we have to believe.

[Szpilman is discovered by the Polish army, wearing the German dress coat given him by Capt. Hosenfeld]::Wladyslaw Szpilman: No. Please. I'm Polish. I'm not a German.::Polish Soldier: Then why the fucking coat?::Wladyslaw Szpilman: I'm cold.

Wladyslaw Szpilman: It's an official decree, no Jews allowed in the parks.::Dorota: What, are you joking?::Wladyslaw Szpilman: No, I'm not. I would suggest we sit down on a bench, but that's also an official decree, no Jews allowed on benches.::Dorota: This is absurd.::Wladyslaw Szpilman: So, we should just stand here and talk, I don't think we're not allowed to do that.

Wladyslaw Szpilman: So, you play the cello, Dorota. That's nice. And who's your favorite composer? Chopin? Really? Well, you'll have to learn to play his cello sonata, won't you? And what about you, Wladek? Well, perhaps I can accompany? Me on the piano, you on the cello?::Dorota: Mr. Szpilman, you are quite, quite wonderful.::Wladyslaw Szpilman: [kisses Dorota's hand] Call me Wladek. Please.

Jurek: [after Dorota meets Wladek] Come on Dorota, you can write him a fan letter later, this isn't the best time. Come on.::Wladyslaw Szpilman: Jurek! Where have you been hiding her?

Father: What do you think? Should I, should I take Uncle Szymon's portrait?::Mother: Take it, don't take it, take what you like!::[sigh]::Mother: Can't you see I'm worried sick?

[first lines]::Dorota: [running from bombing] Mr. Szpilman?::Wladyslaw Szpilman: Hello.::Dorota: Oh, I came specially to meet you. I love your playing.::Wladyslaw Szpilman: Who are you?::Dorota: My name is Dorota. I, I'm Jurek's sister... You're bleeding.

Wrota Europy (1999)

Actors: Milenia Fiedler (editor), Zygmunt Konieczny (composer), Piotr Adamczyk (actor), Kinga Preis (actress), Dariusz Jablonski (producer), Mariusz Bonaszewski (actor), Andrzej Tarasewicz (miscellaneous crew), Andrzej Mularczyk (writer), Henryk Romanowski (producer), Agata Buzek (actress), Magdalena Biernawska-Teslawska (costume designer), Magda Teresa Wójcik (actress), Henryk Boukolowski (actor), Andrzej Niemirski (actor), Michal Breitenwald (actor),

Genres: Drama, War,

The Pit and the Pendulum (1991)

Actors: Frances Bay (actress), Edgar Allan Poe (writer), Stuart Gordon (director), Albert Band (producer), Geoffrey Copleston (actor), Charles Band (producer), Richard Band (composer), Mark Margolis (actor), Jeffrey Combs (actor), Larry Dolgin (actor), Oliver Reed (actor), Benito Stefanelli (actor), Lance Henriksen (actor), Robert Dawson (miscellaneous crew), Bennah Burton-Burtt (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: It is the time of the Spanish Inquisition. Maria does not like what is going on during the "Auto De Fe". When she speaks out, she is arrested and accused of being a witch. Torquemada has plans for her! He orders her tortured, and her tongue to be cut out. Her husband attempts to free her...

Keywords: 1400s, 15th-century, accuser, baker, based-on-story, based-on-the-works-of-edgar-allan-poe, betrayal, blade, blasphemy, blood
Genres: Horror,
Taglines: A bizarre descent into hell from the creator of re-animator.

Quotes:

[As Torquemada has the Cardinal bricked behind a wall]::Cardinal: For the love of God!::Torquemada: Yes, for the love of God.

Torquemada: Take them to their cells.::Maria: You swore you'd show mercy!::Torquemada: In this place, death is mercy.

Mendoza: Savior.::Torquemada: What are you doing here? Why don't you go torture some heretics!

Francisco: I'm sorry, mistress, that you weren't properly able to confess. There just wasn't enough time to torture you.::Esmeralda: Thanks anyway.

Torquemada: Surely Rome understands that public executions discourage sin?::Cardinal: The good Lord, you know, padre, he want us to love our neighbor, no roast him, mmm? No roast him ...

Dr. Heusos: You idiots, why did you tear out her tongue?::Gomez: We didn't. We don't do tongues.::Francisco: Of course not. How can they confess if they don't have tongues?

Cardinal: No!::Gomez: No!::Cardinal: No, I tell you, I havea de seal of de Pope!::Gomez: Oh! He hasa de seal of de Pope!::Cardinal: NO! Help me!::Gomez: Help me!::Cardinal: Someone help me!::Gomez: Someone help me!::Cardinal: No! No, I tell you! No, Help me! Help me someone!

Cardinal: The Pope also want the Inquisition to stop the use of torture. And declare an amnesty on all heretics and witches. Hmm?::Torquemada: Rome is behind the times. His Holiness is old and lost his zeal!::Cardinal: He is the Pope!::Torquemada: And I am the Inquisition!::Cardinal: His Holiness also DEMAND...order you to return to Rome with me for an audience.::Torquemada: I've received no such demand.::Cardinal: [chuckles] I just deliver it!

Cardinal: [about to be killed] No!::Gomez: Yes!

Austeria (1982)

Actors: Franciszek Pieczka (actor), Wojciech Pszoniak (actor), Adolf Peter Hoffmann (actor), Edward Zentara (actor), Ryszard Jablonski (actor), Jerzy Kawalerowicz (writer), Jerzy Kawalerowicz (director), Liliana Komorowska (actress), Jan Hencz (actor), Werner Wieland (actor), Wieslawa Otocka (editor), Tadeusz Konwicki (writer), Szymon Szurmiej (actor), Szymon Szurmiej (miscellaneous crew), Zofia Saretok (actress),

Plot: Set in the Polish Galicia in 1914, on the eve of World War I. Three nationalities are living in the area: Polish, Ukrainian and Jewish. The country inn (Austeria in Galician) is run by an old and wise Jew, Tag. The neighboring village is abandoned by the Jews, who left only few steps ahead of advancing Cossacks. Soon the inn is full of desperate Jews, there is also an Austrian baroness on the run and an Hungarian hussar cut off from his unit.

Keywords: based-on-novel, jewish, male-frontal-nudity, male-nudity, male-rear-nudity, nudity, skinny-dipping, world-war-one
Genres: Drama, War,

Woyzeck (1979)

Actors: Eva Mattes (actress), Josef Bierbichler (actor), Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus (editor), Werner Herzog (director), Herbert Fux (actor), Klaus Kinski (actor), Werner Herzog (writer), Wolfgang Reichmann (actor), Willy Semmelrogge (actor), Irm Hermann (actress), Volker Prechtel (actor), Dieter Augustin (actor), Georg Büchner (writer), Rosemarie Heinikel (actress), Paul Burian (actor),

Plot: Everything in town appears calm, placid, lovely. But Woyzeck, a rifleman assigned as an orderly, hears voices -- the times are out of joint, at least in his cosmos. To his captain, Woyzeck is a comic marvel: ignorant but courageous, full of energy to little purpose. To a local doctor, Woyzeck is a curiosity, the object of cruel study. Woyzeck, 40, has a young wife, Marie, and a small child. He dotes on them, but Marie, even though she has periods of guilt and remorse, carries on affairs and flirtations. When the captain lets drop broad hints of Woyzeck's being a cuckold, his inner demons and the voices of the spheres take over. Will madness bring action? Of what sort?

Keywords: adulterous-wife, based-on-play, brutality, character-study, despair, military, one-word-title, soldier, underdog, uniform
Genres: Drama,

Quotes:

Marie: [to her man during a fight] I'd rather have a knife in my body than your hand on me.

Jak daleko stad, jak blisko (1972)

Actors: Gustaw Holoubek (actor), Andrzej Lapicki (actor), Wirgiliusz Gryn (actor), Anna Dymna (actress), Zygmunt Konieczny (composer), Zdzislaw Maklakiewicz (actor), Alicja Jachiewicz (actress), Edmund Fetting (actor), Maja Komorowska (actress), Krzysztof Stroinski (actor), Piotr Pawlowski (actor), Jerzy Cnota (actor), Wieslawa Otocka (editor), Mieczyslaw Waskowski (actor), Jadwiga Kuryluk (actress),

Genres: Drama,

Zezowate szczescie (1960)

Actors: Witold Skaruch (actor), Wojciech Siemion (actor), Sylwester Przedwojewski (actor), Wieslaw Golas (actor), Ryszard Ronczewski (actor), Henryk Bak (actor), Roman Polanski (actor), Juliusz Lubicz-Lisowski (actor), Bronislaw Pawlik (actor), Kazimierz Opalinski (actor), Roman Klosowski (actor), Leonard Pietraszak (actor), Andrzej Krasicki (actor), Maria Kaniewska (actress), Wojciech Skibinski (actor),

Plot: The story is an odyssey of a little man through Poland of 1930 to 1950. It shows his attempts to cope with a changing world which seems to have no place for him. He has no consciousness of any kind but is always on the verge of turning into a more coherent human being, only to be slapped down. It begins with the hero's childhood. Then comes the first love marred by his unwilling involvement in fascict politics, him being taken for a Jew because of his nose. Later he decides to join the army to charm the girl, but arrives too late for any fighting. He is arrested by entering German troops while he dresses in officer's uniform and mistakenly sent to POW camp as an officer.

Keywords: based-on-novel, communism, post-war
Genres: Comedy,