Dam el ghazal (2005)

Actors: Youssra (actress), Nour El-Sherif (actor), Amr Waked (actor), Salah Abdallah (actor), Wahid Hamid (producer), Wahid Hamid (writer), Mona Zaki (actress), Mohamed Sharaf (actor), Omar Khairat (composer), Abdel Aziz Makhyoun (actor), Ayman Halawani (producer), Motaz El-Kateb (editor), Mahmoud Abdel-Moghni (actor), Sherif Salama (actor), Mohamed Yassin (director),

Genres: Drama,

Amir El Zalam (2002)

Actors: Adel Imam (actor), Sa'eed Saleh (actor), Youseff Daoud (actor), Younes Shalaby (actor), Raga El Geddaoui (actress), Hamdy Youssef (writer), Khaled Sarhan (writer), Khaled Sarhan (actor), Dina (actress), Tawfik Abdel Hamid (actor), Rami Imam (director), Reda Hamed (actor), Diaa Abdel Khalek (actor), Alaa Zenhom (actor), Khaled Hammad (composer),

Plot: Pilot and October veteran Saeed El Masry has lost his sight. In the aftermath, he is in turnaround in special hostels due to his rebellious manners. In his next stop, he befriends a group of blind youngsters who make him their leader and furthermore their eyes to see the world. At night, Saeed dresses up and goes to a nightclub where he encounters Alia who falls in love with him. At the meantime, a mysterious gang of foreign terrorists chooses the blind hostel as their base to assassinate a politician visiting Egypt. These various plot elements culminate at the final climax when Saeed faces solely the terrorists with bravery.

Keywords: blind, cameo-appearance, irony, love, october-war, soccer-match, soldier, war-hero, year-1973
Genres: Action, Comedy, Romance,

Edge (1997)

Actors: Aaron Michael Lacey (producer), Aaron Michael Lacey (writer), Aaron Michael Lacey (actor), Aaron Michael Lacey (writer), Steve Tartalia (actor), Richard Kohn (actor), Alvaro J. Gonzalez (actor), Jeff Mandon (actor), Josh Kletzin (miscellaneous crew), Brian Harty (writer), Josh Kletzin (actor), Brian Harty (director), Brian Harty (editor), Briel Banks (actress), Celeste Lynch (actress),

Plot: Edge is the story of Edward 'Edge' Jones (Edge), a man with no memory of the event in the Persian Gulf war that left him physically scarred and lost in a civilian world that offers him no direction. From the past comes Lennox, a fellow soldier from the war, who invites him to go on a road trip with the promise of regaining the adventure and camaraderie they knew in the military. Edge is captured in the attraction of regaining his identity as a soldier and agrees to go, unaware of Lennox's all-consuming need for the powers of a warrior in battle. In the beginning, the trip re-awakens Edge's spirit, but gradually his memory returns as well, and as the events of the past become more horribly clear, so does Lennox's 'mission' become evident, and Edge finds himself in a nightmarish world of betrayal, both past and present. On a parallel road trip, a young girl, Berry, leads her mother on a quest to photograph UFO's, presumably for initiation into a society of witnesses. True motives involving the denial of her father's death, however, push below the surface of Berry's mission. Moving deeper into open country, the mother struggling to understand her daughter's feelings, the two women unknowingly get closer to the point where their own journey will converge with that of Edge and Lennox.

Keywords: absent-without-leave, air-cavalry, air-raid, air-strike, allegory, anti-hero, assassin, assassination, atrocity, battle
Genres: Action, Drama, Thriller,
Taglines: Everything before now doesn't matter....

Quotes:

Edward 'Edge' Jones: I don't remember the explosion, you know. I just woke up in a hospital. There's a period that's completely gone - - - without any warning.::Edward 'Edge' Jones: This is how I woke up and they had to tell me why. They gave me a medal. They told me they were sorry. They thanked me.::Edward 'Edge' Jones: But it was never up to me, or any of the others. We were all blind. What good is a man against something that falls out of the sky?::Lennox: You survived. That's all that matters.

Lennox: You're a soldier... Don't try to live another way.

Edward 'Edge' Jones: While I was in the bathroom I was thinking about all of my operations. You know, I was under anesthetic for so much of the time that anything could have happened and I wouldn't have known it. What if one of those doctors had just decided to let me die and disconnected everything? They could do that and I'd be completely helpless. They could do anything they wanted to me and then kill me or just tell me that everything is fine when I wake up, and I'd never know the difference. I hate that feeling.::Lennox: There's no way around it.::Edward 'Edge' Jones: I don't trust doctors.

From the Office (1992)

Actors: Bill Weldon (actor), Jon Stout (editor), Jon Stout (writer), Jon Stout (director), Roger Shank (actor), William Smith Keane (actor), Anthony Shaw Abaté (actor), Andrew Rapoport (actor), Kerry de Lusignan (miscellaneous crew), Mark Korman (actor), Doug Tannahill (actor), Jerrie Belle (actress), Samantha Henderson (actress), Andrea Liebert (actress),

Plot: A dark comedy in which an utterly random event reveals the most inhuman aspects of life in a bureaucratic system. A strange substance flies in from nowhere and lands on an unwitting Administrative Analyst, who is slowly consumed. Much paper-filing and bumbling ensues.

Genres: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Short,

The Man Who Would Be King (1975)

Actors: Saeed Jaffrey (actor), Angela Allen (miscellaneous crew), Russell Lloyd (editor), Edith Head (costume designer), Rudyard Kipling (writer), John Huston (director), John Huston (writer), Maurice Jarre (composer), Michael Caine (actor), Christopher Plummer (actor), Sean Connery (actor), Bob Simmons (miscellaneous crew), Jack May (actor), William Hill (producer), Gladys Hill (writer),

Plot: This adaptation of the famous short story by Rudyard Kipling tells the story of Daniel Dravot and Peachy Carnahan, two ex-soldiers in India when it was under British rule. They decide that the country is too small for them, so they head off to Kafiristan in order to become Kings in their own right. Kipling is seen as a character that was there at the beginning, and at the end of this glorious tale.

Keywords: 1800s, 19th-century, abstinence, abyss, action-hero, adventure-hero, adventurer, afghanistan, ambition, ambitious-man
Genres: Action, Adventure,
Taglines: Adventure in all its glory! Long live adventure... and adventurers! Rudyard Kipling's epic of splendor, spectacle and high adventure at the top of a legendary world.

Quotes:

Peachy Carnehan: What's he saying, Billy?::Billy Fish: Danny's bleeding. They know! He says not god, not devil, but man!::Peachy Carnehan: [approaches Danny] They've twigged it, Danny. You've had it! The jig's up!::Daniel Dravot: [grabs arrow and raises hand in proclamation] I, Sikander -::Peachy Carnehan: [cuts off Danny] For God's sake!::Peachy Carnehan: [grabs Danny and leads him down the temple stairs] We've got to brass it out, Danny. Danny, brass it out!::Peachy Carnehan: [Danny, Peachy and Billy Fish try to escape the mob with heads held high] Bags of swank!::Daniel Dravot: [Danny, Peachy and Billy Fish on the run] We'll get your riflemen, Peachy, and we'll come back and slaughter the dogs! A drenching in their own blood we'll give them! Riflemen, prepare to advance!::Peachy Carnehan: [grabs rifles] Too many for that, Danny. Retire in sections!::Daniel Dravot: Retire? Retire be damned!::Peachy Carnehan: We've gotta make a run for it!

Daniel Dravot: You have our permission to bugger off!

Billy Fish: I oft times tell Ootah about Englishmens. How they give names to dogs and take off hats to womans, and march into battle, left - right, left -right with rifles on their shoulders.

Daniel Dravot: Peachy, I'm heartily ashamed for gettin' you killed instead of going home rich like you deserved to, on account of me bein' so bleedin' high and bloody mighty. Can you forgive me?::Peachy Carnehan: That I can and that I do, Danny, free and full and without let or hindrance.::Daniel Dravot: Everything's all right then.

Daniel Dravot: Let him put *that* in his paper. If he is in need of news.

Peachy Carnehan: Keep looking at me. It helps to keep my soul from flying off.

Peachy Carnehan: Pardon me while I fall down laughing. HA, HA, HA.

Peachy Carnehan: Detriments you call us? Detriments? Well I want to remind you that it was detriments like us that built this bloody Empire AND the Izzat of the bloody Raj. Hats on.

Peachy Carnehan: Home to what? A porters uniform outside a restaurant and six penny tips from belching civilians for closing cab doors on their blowzy women?::Daniel Dravot: Not for us thank you. Not after watching afghans come howling down out of the hills and taking battlefield command when all the officers copped it.::Peachy Carnehan: Well said, brother Dravot.

Daniel Dravot: The more tribes, the more they'll fight, and the better for us.

Three Sisters (1970)

Actors: Laurence Olivier (director), Anton Chekhov (writer), Harry Fielder (actor), Derek Jacobi (actor), Jack Harris (editor), Joan Plowright (actress), Beatrice Dawson (costume designer), Alan Bates (actor), Laurence Olivier (actor), Ronald Pickup (actor), Sheila Reid (actress), Maggie Unsworth (miscellaneous crew), Timothy Burrill (producer), John Goldstone (producer), John Sichel (director),

Plot: Olga, Masha, and Irina Prozoroff lead lonely and purposeless lives following the death of their father who has commanded the local army post. Olga attempts to find satisfaction in teaching but secretly longs for a home and family. Masha, unhappy with her marriage to a timid schoolmaster, falls hopelessly in love with a married colonel. Irina works in the local telegraph office but longs for gaiety. Their sense of futility is increased by their brother's marriage to Natasha, a coarse peasant girl. She gradually encroaches on the family home until even the private refuge of the sisters is destroyed. They dream of starting a new life in Moscow but are saddled with the practicalities of their quiet existence. Despite their past failures, they resolve to seek some purpose and hope when the army post is withdrawn from the town.

Keywords: aging, based-on-play, brother-sister-relationship, clucking, death-of-father, dissatisfaction, feeling-old, husband-wife-relationship, independent-film, moscow-russia
Genres: Drama,

Zabijaka (1967)

Actors: Tadeusz Lomnicki (actor), Zdzislaw Maklakiewicz (actor), Jerzy Stefan Stawinski (writer), Stanislaw Lenartowicz (director), Adolf Chronicki (actor), Boleslaw Abart (actor), Artur Mlodnicki (actor), Stanislaw Igar (actor), Andrzej Hrydzewicz (actor), Teresa Galkowska (costume designer), Ryszard Wojtyllo (actor), Aleksandra Zawieruszanka (actress), Andrzej Antkowiak (actor), Medard Plewacki (actor), Jadwiga Pytlasinska (actress),

Genres: ,

The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955)

Actors: William Henry (actor), Herbert Heyes (actor), Joe Haworth (actor), Peter Graves (actor), Robert Bice (actor), William Forrest (actor), Art Gilmore (actor), Griff Barnett (actor), Ralph Bellamy (actor), Marshall Bradford (actor), Fred Clark (actor), Gary Cooper (actor), Charles Bickford (actor), Phil Arnold (actor), Stuart Holmes (actor),

Plot: The true story of General Billy Mitchell, a pioneering crusader for the Army's fledgling air corp. In spite of an impressive performance during the First World War, the commanders of America's armed forces still think of the airplane as little more then a carnival attraction. Even after sinking an "unsinkable" captured German battleship from the air, Mitchell sees funds dry up and friends die due to poor equipment. He is court-martialed after questioning the loyalty of his superiors for allowing the air corp to deteriorate.

Keywords: admiral, air-power, airship, american-president, army-air-corps, army-general, aviation-accident, aviation-pioneer, battleship, bomber
Genres: Biography, Drama, War,
Taglines: He defied the army and navy . . . and they gave him a Court Martial!

Quotes:

Admiral William S. Sims: The Navy hasn't got any policy on flying, they are ignoring the aeroplane in hopes that it will just go away.

Admiral William S. Sims: Just because you read a lot of books about golf, doesn't make you a good golfer.

Parnell (1937)

Actors: Frank Elliott (actor), Dick Elliott (actor), Donald Crisp (actor), Erville Alderson (actor), Thomas Carr (actor), King Baggot (actor), Frank Baker (actor), Berton Churchill (actor), James Blaine (actor), Wallis Clark (actor), D'Arcy Corrigan (actor), Wade Boteler (actor), Jules Cowles (actor), Alec Craig (actor), Pat Flaherty (actor),

Plot: The life of Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell, following from 1880 onward his struggle to free his country from English rule, pursued in prison, Parliament, and elsewhere. Emphasis is on the relationship with married Katie O'Shea which threatens to bring all Parnell's plans to ruin. Moderately accurate historically.

Keywords: aunt, based-on-play, blackmail, box-office-flop, catholic, character-name-in-title, critically-bashed, death, divorce, dying
Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance,

Quotes:

[while visiting America, Parnell gives some money to a poor family]::Poor man: It's little wonder why they call him the King of Ireland.::Sheriff: The *uncrowned* King.::Poor woman: He'll get his crown in heaven.

[Parnell tries to convince Mrs. O'Shea of his love]::Charles Stewart Parnell: Have you never felt there might be someone, somewhere who, if you could meet them, was the person that you'd been always meant to meet? Have you never felt that?

Charles Stewart Parnell: Ours could be a great love story, Katie.::Mrs. Katie O'Shea: Great love stories are always unhappy ones.::Charles Stewart Parnell: Then I hope ours *won't* be great.