When Evil Calls (2006)

Actors: Dominique Pinon (actor), Chris Barrie (actor), Sean Pertwee (actor), Chris Barrie (actor), Marysia Kay (actress), Rick Warden (actor), Johannes Roberts (writer), Johannes Roberts (director), Simon Brandon (actor), Daniel Jefferson (actor), Leila Reid (actress), Jennifer Lim (actress), Sean Brosnan (actor), Shona McWilliams (actress), Lois Winstone (actress),

Plot: In the Willburn Hall, a Sixth Form College, the janitor tells the story of the geek Samantha Neil, the outcast Headmaster's daughter, in twenty episodes. Episode 1: The Wish - An evil Djinn dressed like a clown offers a wish to Samantha. In return, Samantha should indicate two schoolmates to receive a phone call offering a wish. She wishes to be popular and her wish comes true and she dates Daniel. Episode 2: Bad Trip - A girl wishes to be prettier than the gorgeous Victoria, and she is accidentally deformed by acid in the laboratory. Episode 3: Passed Away - The unpopular Neville has acne on his face and wishes to have no spot. He is locked in a garbage can by the bully Kirsty and rats eat his face. Episode 4: Die-T - The fat boy Kenny wishes to be thin and he is pressed against a wall by a van. Episode 5: Beauty and the Geek - The alcoholic detective Ringwald comes to the college with his partner Detective Nelson to interview the Headmaster. Meanwhile, a nerd wishes to kiss the lesbian Molly and he is murdered by her lover Kirsty. Episode 6: Dribbling - One student wishes to have X-ray vision to see the girls naked but things do not work as he had planned. Episode 7: Brain Dead - Charlie Parker wants to cheat the exams and wishes to see into Ross's brain. Episode 8: Pretty Dead - Victoria is in the hospital and wishes to be beautiful again. Episode 9: Dangers of Dieting - The anorexic Hilary wishes to lose half-stone. Episode 10: What's Eating You - A girl sees Kirsty and Molly kissing each other and wishes to look good enough to eat; sooner Molly literally eats her. Episode 11: Drastic Surgery - Alice's boyfriend wishes he has bigger breasts and they blow-up. Episode 12: Guess Who Is Coming to Dinner: Samantha brings Daniel to be introduced to her parents and he wishes that his stepdad is not dead. When the bell rings, Samantha already knows who is coming to dinner. Episode 13: Smoking Kills - A girl wishes to be hot, and when her mate lights a cigarette, her wish is granted, Episode 14: Sight for Sore Eye - When Linda sees her beloved boyfriend Mark cheating her with Molly, she wishes to never see Mark again. Episode 15: Gutted - Detective Ringwald reads the book "The Modern Djinn" and tells his findings to Detective Nelson. Meanwhile, a student wishes that people could see her beautiful on the inside. Episode 16: Overage Sex: Carol (Tieva Lovell) tries to seduce her teacher Mike Dale that tells that she is too young for him. When she sees Mr. Dale with Miss Nibbs, she wishes to be old now. Episode 17: Good Night and Sweet Screams - Samantha has nightmares with the Clown. Episode 18: Deadly Embrace - Molly and Kirsty are having a shower together totally drunken with a bottle of booze. They stumble and the shattered bottle kills them. Episode 19: Eye Scream - Mark wishes that Linda could see again. Meanwhile, the Djinn captures Samantha. Episode 20: Homecoming Scream - Samantha wishes she had never met the Djinn and everything returns to the initial status quo, with Samantha unpopular.

Keywords: calls, clown, evil, mobile, popularity, school-uniform, tv-mini-series, wish
Genres: Comedy, Horror,
Taglines: Evil has your number

Goodbye, Mr Steadman (2001)

Actors: Nick Brimble (actor), Rob Lane (composer), Chris Gill (editor), Lenny Henry (actor), Christopher Adamson (actor), Lucy Punch (actress), Caroline Quentin (actress), Robert Bathurst (actor), Patrick Barlow (actor), Albert Martinez Martin (miscellaneous crew), Linda James (producer), John Gordon Sinclair (actor), James Vaughan (actor), Josh Cole (actor), Ian Burfield (actor),

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Drama,

Kiljusen herrasväen uudet seikkailut (1990)

Actors: Martti Tschokkinen (actor), Ville Virtanen (actor), Jukka Sipilä (actor), Heikki Nousiainen (actor), Jaakko Talaskivi (actor), Matti Pellonpää (actor), Risto Salmi (actor), Paavo Piskonen (actor), Ismo Kallio (actor), Lasse Naukkarinen (actor), Eero Saarinen (actor), Markku Huhtamo (actor), Pekka Karjalainen (actor), Tiina Kaukanen (actress), Kristiina Elstelä (actress),

Genres: Comedy,

An Angel at My Table (1990)

Actors: Martyn Sanderson (actor), Kerry Fox (actress), Jane Campion (director), Don McGlashan (composer), Jan Chapman (miscellaneous crew), John Maynard (producer), Alison Bruce (actress), Andrew Robertt (actor), Lynn-Maree Danzey (miscellaneous crew), Veronika Jenet (editor), Laura Jones (writer), Kevin J. Wilson (actor), Bridget Ikin (producer), Elizabeth McRae (actress), Mark Clare (actor),

Plot: In 1920s and 1930s New Zealand, Janet Frame grows up in a poor family with lots of brothers and sisters. Already at an early age she is different from the other kids. She gets an education as a teacher but since she is considered abnormal she stays at a mental institution for eight years. Success comes when she starts to write novels.

Keywords: author, based-on-autobiography, based-on-novel, bath, beating, blackboard, camera-shot-of-feet, chewing-gum, children, classroom
Genres: Biography, Drama,

Utharam (1989)

Actors: M.T. Vasudevan Nair (writer), Innocent (actor), Sankaradi (actor), V.K. Sriraman (actor), Sukumaran (actor), Valsala Menon (actress), Parvathi (actress), Santhakumari (actress), Sukumari (actress), Mammootty (actor), Johnson (composer), Karamana Janardanan Nair (actor), Daphne Du Maurier (writer), Jayalalitha (actress), Jagannathan (actor),

Genres: Mystery, Thriller,

The Year My Voice Broke (1987)

Actors: Nick Tate (actor), George Miller (producer), John Duigan (director), Noah Taylor (actor), Tim Robertson (actor), Bruce Spence (actor), John Duigan (writer), Ben Mendelsohn (actor), Vincent Ball (actor), Harold Hopkins (actor), Graeme Blundell (actor), Lynette Curran (actress), Barbara Gibbs (producer), Terry Hayes (producer), Rob Carlton (actor),

Plot: During the year 1962, a young prepubescent boy in rural Austrailia watches painfully as his best friend and first love, an older girl, blossoms into womanhood and falls for a thuggish rugby player, setting off a chain of events that irreversibly changes the lives of everyone involved.

Keywords: 1960s, adolescent, affection, australia, banging-head-against-wall, bare-chested-male, blonde, bullying, calling-someone-chicken, childhood-friend
Genres: Drama, Romance,
Taglines: It was incredible. It was the year that changed everything. Forever.

Outsider (1987)

Actors: Jirí Schmitzer (actor), Jirí Bartoska (actor), Oldrich Vlach (actor), Alois Svehlík (actor), Miroslav Donutil (actor), Jan Preucil (actor), Antonín Strojsa (editor), Jirí Wohanka (actor), Jirí Krizan (writer), Jirí Krizan (writer), Karel Hlusicka (actor), Michal Pavlata (actor), Ondrej Soukup (composer), Zdenek Sirový (director), Petr Pospíchal (actor),

Genres: Family,

Heavenly Pursuits (1986)

Actors: Lindy Hemming (costume designer), Tom Conti (actor), Michael Relph (producer), David Hayman (actor), Ann Skinner (producer), Ron Donachie (actor), Helen Mirren (actress), Ewen Bremner (actor), Brian Pettifer (actor), John Mitchell (actor), James Gibb (actor), Charles Gormley (director), Charles Gormley (writer), Juliet Cadzow (actress), Jake D'Arcy (actor),

Plot: Vic Mathews teaches a remedial class at the Blessed Edith Semple School in Scotland. Some at the school are trying to discover the two more miracles that would promote the late Edith Semple to sainthood; Mathews, a non-believer, wishes the school would concentrate on teaching the children. He becomes confused, however, when he is involved in possibly miraculous events himself!

Keywords: catholic-school, glasgow-scotland, independent-film, miracle, religion, saint, sainthood, satire, school, scotland
Genres: Comedy, Drama,

A Voyage Round My Father (1984)

Actors: Laurence Olivier (actor), Alan Bates (actor), Harold Goodwin (actor), John Mortimer (writer), Alvin Rakoff (director), John Mortimer (writer), Norman Bird (actor), Esmond Knight (actor), Patrick Barr (actor), Raymond Huntley (actor), Jane Asher (actress), Anthony Sharp (actor), Alan Cox (actor), Elizabeth Sellars (actress), Michael Aldridge (actor),

Plot: Before creating the beloved courtroom drama Rumpole of the Bailey, writer John Mortimer found inspiration in his own life for this portrait of a difficult but enduring love between father and son in mid-20th-century Britain. Screen legend Laurence Olivier stars as the eccentric patriarch--a blind barrister so stubborn and cantankerous that he refuses to acknowledge his sightlessness. Alan Bates (Gosford Park) portrays his devoted son, who follows his father's footsteps in the law while longing to become a writer, with Jane Asher (Brideshead Revisited) as his wife. Adapted for the screen by Mortimer himself and filmed largely on location at his family estate in bucolic Oxfordshire, this production garnered multiple awards, including an International Emmy for best drama. By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, it captures the special bond between father and son, which at times seems unbearable--but ultimately unbreakable.

Keywords: amateur-theater, atheism, barrister, based-on-play, blindness, boarding-school, cynicism, divorce-lawyer, eccentric, england
Genres: Drama,

Quotes:

Clifford Mortimer: [From the Fortress-Garden] HAVEN'T THOSE VISITORS LEFT YET?

John Mortimer: Why did he not blaspheme? Beat his head against the pitch-black walls around him. Why didn't he curse God?

Clifford Mortimer: [From bedroom] My tie! Oh God, where's my tie? If only you knew the loneliness of getting dressed!

Clifford Mortimer: When I rise to cross-question I will not be interrupted!::Judge: Gentlemen, gentlemen, please! Now, what was your question?::Clifford Mortimer: I have forgotten it. My learned friend's remark had the effect he no doubt intended and I have forgotten my question!::Boustead: Sir, this is absurd!::Clifford Mortimer: Wait! I've remembered it again...

Clifford Mortimer: This coffee's frozen, like a sort of Arctic mud.

John Mortimer: You think of how people tell you it's meant to feel: sudden freedom, the end of dependance. You walk into the sun and no-one is taller than you, and you are in no-one else's shadow. But I know how I felt. Lonely.

John Mortimer: Don't be angry.::Clifford Mortimer: I'm always angry! When I'm dying...

Clifford Mortimer: If they ever give us another War, avoid the temptation to do anything Heroic! That's my advice to you.

Clifford Mortimer: You're alone in this world, and there's nothing anyone can tell you about it!::Sons as a Boy: Wah!::Mother: Oh, never crying!::Clifford Mortimer: Say "Rats!" It's impossible to cry if you say "Rats!", it's something to do with the muscles of the face.::Sons as a Boy: [Walking to the car, off to boarding school] Rats! Rats! Rrrrrats!

Clifford Mortimer: Never let anyone deceive you into thinking that the world was created in six days. Six days labour wouldn't produce one primitive earthworm! The evolution of the horse was a most torturous process! [Shakes head] So, none of this "six days" nonsense.

Diabólica malicia (1971)

Actors: Stelvio Cipriani (composer), Hardy Krüger (actor), Ricardo Palacios (actor), Emilio Rodríguez (actor), Britt Ekland (actress), Harry Andrews (actor), Lilli Palmer (actress), Andrés Vicente Gómez (producer), Andrea Bianchi (writer), Andrea Bianchi (director), Ricardo Valle (actor), Mark Lester (actor), Conchita Montes (actress), Nicholas Wentworth (editor), Erich Kröhnke (writer),

Plot: In this stylish and atmospheric psychological thriller reminiscent of 'Henry James (I)' (qv)'s Turn of the Screw, a widowed English writer brings a young, glamorous new bride to his bleak, isolated home in rural Spain. She soon becomes obsessed with her 12-year old stepson, who she learns has just been expelled from school for mysterious offenses; while the boy enjoys, exploits, and feeds her increasing paranoia about him. That he is a brilliant and lonely child is obvious. But is he the victim of a neurotic woman's overwrought imagination-- in Shakespeare's words, the innocent flower, or the serpent under it?

Keywords: bare-breasts, bathtub, bikini, black-panties, blackmail, blonde, boy, child-nudity, cleavage, coitus
Genres: Drama, Horror, Thriller,
Taglines: What he saw is what he did.