The Devil's Violinist (2013)

Actors: Andrew Tiernan (actor), Olivia d'Abo (actress), Danny Krausz (producer), Andreas Kispert (miscellaneous crew), Joely Richardson (actress), Britta Nahler (editor), Veronica Ferres (producer), Jared Harris (actor), Veronica Ferres (actress), Helmut Berger (actor), Birgit Hutter (costume designer), Bernard Rose (director), Bernard Rose (writer), Ricky Sans (producer), Ute Platzer (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: 1830. Violin virtuoso and notorious womanizer Niccolò Paganini (David Garrett) is at the peak of his career, acclaimed throughout Europe. His name alone suggests countless affairs and scandals - which is exactly what his manager Urbani (Jared Harris) is doing his utmost to cultivate, for it is in his interest to market his famous client the best way possible. Only the London public has yet to be conquered. In a plan to lure Paganini to London for his British debut, English impresario John Watson (Christian McKay) and his mistress Elisabeth Wells (Veronica Ferres) risk all they own. Business-savvy Urbani ultimately manages to bring Paganini to the British capital, albeit against his will. And thanks to the rave reviews by journalist Ethel Langham (Joely Richardson), Urbani's strategy seems to be working better than he imagined. Fans throng his hotel, causing pandemonium. Musician and manager are forced to take refuge at Watson's home, where Paganini quickly takes a liking to his host's lovely daughter Charlotte (Andrea Deck), a talented singer. She and the violinist find the way to each other's hearts through music - and Paganini falls undyingly in love with the young beauty. This displeases Urbani, however, who fears he will lose his influence on his protegé. He begins to craft a diabolical plan...

Genres: Biography, Drama, Musical,

Bathory (2008)

Actors: Andrew Tiernan (actor), Juraj Jakubisko (director), Franco Nero (actor), Karel Roden (actor), Juraj Jakubisko (writer), Simon Boswell (composer), Jo Cameron Brown (miscellaneous crew), Mike Downey (producer), Marek Vasut (actor), Bolek Polívka (actor), Vincent Regan (actor), Lucie Vondrácková (actress), Karel Belohradský (actor), Tatjana Medvecká (actress), Anna Friel (actress),

Genres: Biography, Drama, Fantasy, History,

The Mirror Crack'd (1980)

Actors: Robert Raglan (actor), Allan Cuthbertson (actor), Richard Pearson (actor), Pierce Brosnan (actor), Tony Curtis (actor), Derek Lyons (actor), Charles Lloyd Pack (actor), John Bennett (actor), Edward Fox (actor), Charles Gray (actor), Rock Hudson (actor), Sam Kydd (actor), Charles Lamb (actor), Richard Leech (actor), Anthony Steel (actor),

Plot: Based on the novel by Agatha Christie. The year is 1953. The small English village of St. Mary Mead, home to Miss Jane Marple, is delighted when a big American movie company arrives to make a movie telling of the relationship between Jane Grey and Elisabeth I, starring the famous actresses Marina Rudd and Lola Brewster. Marina arrives with her husband, Jason, and when she discovers that Lola is going to be in the movie with her she hits the roof as Lola and Marina loathe each other on sight. Marina has been getting death threats and at a party at the manor house, Heather Babcock, after boring Marina with a long story, drinks a cocktail made for Marina and dies from poisoning. Everybody believes that Marina is the target but the police officer investigating the case, Inspector Craddock isn't sure so he asks Miss Marple, his aunt, to investigate...

Keywords: 1950s, accident, actress, agatha-christie, allergy, american, american-abroad, autograph, band, based-on-novel
Genres: Crime, Mystery, Thriller,
Taglines: Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the murderer among them all?

Quotes:

Lola Brewster: I could eat a can of Kodak and puke a better movie.

Vicar: Oh, Mr. Rudd. I understand that you are a fillum producer.::Jason Rudd: Oh, no, sir. A director.::Vicar: Is there any difference?::Jason Rudd: Yes, sir. The, uh, producer supplies all the money; the director spends it. Then the producer yells that the director is spending too much money; the director doesn't pay any attention, and goes right on spending. The director gets all the credit; the producer gets an ulcer. You see, it's all very simple; excuse me.

Lola Brewster: You seem lovely, as always. Of course, there are fewer lights on than usual. In fact, any fewer, and I'd need a seeing-eye dog.::Marina Rudd: Oh, I shouldn't bother to buy one, dear. In that wig, you could play Lassie.::Lola Brewster: Same adorable sense of humor. And I'm so glad to see that you've not only kept your GORGEOUS figure, but you've added SO MUCH to it!::Marina Rudd: What are you doing here so early, dear? I thought the plastic surgery seminar was in Switzerland.::Lola Brewster: Actually, darling, I couldn't wait to begin our little movie. You know the saying: once an actress, always an actress.::Marina Rudd: Oh, I do know the saying. But what does it have to do with you?::Lola Brewster: Cute angel. So do tell. How does it feel to be back, after being away SO LONG?

Lola Brewster: Chin up, darling... both of them.

Marina Rudd: Lola, dear, you know, there are really only two things I dislike about you.::Lola Brewster: Really? What are they?::Marina Rudd: Your face.

[forgetting he's in England and picking up the phone]::Marty N. Fenn: Get me the coast... What do you mean, what coast?

Marina Rudd: [to Lola Brewster] What are you supposed to be, a birthday cake? Too bad everybody's HAD a piece.

Marina Rudd: [looking in the mirror]: Bags, bags, go away. Come right back on Doris Day.

Inspector Delbert Craddock: [speaking of Marina Rudd and Lola Brewster] I heard the two of them are close. Is that true?::Ella Zielinsky: Close? If you put the two of them together in a tank with a shark, the shark would have an identity crisis.

Ella Zielinsky: Marty Fenn's a producer. He only lies when he speaks.

I Want to Be Famous (1976)

Actors: Roger Lambert (director), Roger Lambert (producer), Roger Lambert (writer), Roger Lambert (editor), Andy Roberts (composer), Andy Finney (composer), Stephen Bratt (actor), Steve Handforth (actor), Eric Ball (actor), Vanessa Doran (actress), Joyce Pemberton (actress), Brian Warrilow (actor), Matthew Barlow (actor), Arnold Bratt (actor), Stuart Elliot (actor),

Plot: Steve is the smallest eleven year old in his class, thinks girls are soppy and prefers painting. He creates an exciting but violent fantasy world of his own, but in reality he is lonely and introspective. Stuart, his best mate, is the most solid thing thing about a comfortless world where people argue too much - usually about him - and, with studied indifference, both boys establish and re-establish their devotion to each other.

Genres: Drama, Short,
Taglines: 'A compassionate study of childhood' - Sunday Telegraph 'An exceptional short film' - Daily Mail 'A fresh depiction of the uncertainties of childhood' - Guardian 'A commedable mood piece' - Time Out 'An assured study of a West Midlands lad' - Sunday Times

The Railway Children (1970)

Actors: Richard Leech (actor), Jenny Agutter (actress), Erik Chitty (actor), David Lodge (actor), Lionel Jeffries (director), Bernard Cribbins (actor), Angela Martelli (miscellaneous crew), William Mervyn (actor), Lionel Jeffries (writer), Dinah Sheridan (actress), Ann Lancaster (actress), Brenda Cowling (actress), Teddy Darvas (editor), Iain Cuthbertson (actor), Johnny Douglas (composer),

Plot: The film opens in a happy, comfortable upper middle-class home in Edwardian London. One night in 1905, the three children see their father usher two strangers into his study. After an argument he leaves with them and does not return. They and their mother fall on hard times and eventually move to a cottage in the country. Yet they keep their spirits up and find ways to help others. Fascinated by the nearby railway, they wave to the passengers faithfully every day, and their vigilance and courage prevent an accident. Their kindness makes friends of some important people who can help solve the mystery of their missing father.

Keywords: 1800s, based-on-novel, breaking-the-fourth-wall, broken-leg, brother-sister-relationship, child's-point-of-view, children, christmas, country, country-house
Genres: Drama, Family,
Taglines: The Railway, the Children . . . and the wonderful secret they'll share with you ! [UK] What's the unexpected secret that turns their world upside down? A film for adults to take their children, too!

Quotes:

Bobbie Waterbury: It's Perks's birthday, he's 42, he says he got other things to keep than his birthday, not rabbits and secrets but the kids and the bloomin' missus.::Mrs. Waterbury: Wife and children Bobbie.::Bobbie Waterbury: Same thing isn't it?::Phyllis Waterbury: Bloomin' missus is a sort of a germ of endearment isn't it?::Mrs. Waterbury: Term of endearment Phil.

Albert Perks: Well I must be getting along, lots to do. Perks must be about it.

Bobbie Waterbury: There's going to be a paperchase tomorrow.::Phyllis Waterbury: Whippee!::Bobbie Waterbury: The boys from the grammar school are doing it.::Phyllis Waterbury: Zippee!::Bobbie Waterbury: Perks says we can go by the ramp.::Phyllis Waterbury: What's a paperchase?

Phyllis Waterbury: Apple pie for breakfast - we can't be poor after all!

Mrs. Waterbury: May I borrow your lamp please.::Cart Man: I dare say.::Mrs. Waterbury: If you say 'I dare say' once more I shall have hysterics, I dare say.

Phyllis Waterbury: I don't think we're going to enjoy being poor, you know, being cold and all that.::Bobbie Waterbury: Phyllis try to imagine it as an adventure, all sorts of things might happen.

Peter Waterbury: I'm very sorry I haven't got tuppence to give you like father does.::Albert Perks: Hey just stop that please, I wasn't thinking about no tuppence. I just came to say sorry your mama wasn't so well and to ask how she finds herself this evening. And I brought you some sweet briar, very sweet. Tuppence indeed!

Phyllis Waterbury: I hope mother doesn't get too wet in Wakefield.

Phyllis Waterbury: It's like we're in a besieged castle, the arrows of the foe striking against the battlements.::Peter Waterbury: No, it's more like a great big garden squirt.::Phyllis Waterbury: You're a great big garden squirt.::Peter Waterbury: Thank you.

Phyllis Waterbury: I O N. There; 'Look out at the station'.::Bobbie Waterbury: One of your finest works, Michaelangelo.

Vice Versa (1948)

Actors: Vi Kaley (actress), Anton Rodgers (actor), Bill Shine (actor), Petula Clark (actress), Timothy Bateson (actor), Kynaston Reeves (actor), Alfie Bass (actor), James Hayter (actor), Ian Wilson (actor), John Glyn-Jones (actor), Peter Jones (actor), James Robertson Justice (actor), Mihalis Kakogiannis (actor), Kay Walsh (actress), Anthony Newley (actor),

Plot: Businessman Paul Bultitude is sending his son Dick to a boarding school. While holding a magic stone from India, he wishes that he could be young again. His wish is immediately fulfilled and the two change bodies with each other. Mr Bultitude becomes a school boy who smokes cigars and has a very conservative view on child upbringing, while his son Dick becomes a gentleman who spends his time drinking lemonade and arranging children's parties.

Keywords: based-on-novel, body-swap, child-as-adult, role-reversal, wish
Genres: Comedy,

The United States Army Air Force Band (1942)

Actors: Gordon Hollingshead (producer), Jean Negulesco (director), Rex Steele (editor), Henry H. Arnold (actor), Alf Heiberg (actor), Alf Heiberg (actor),

Plot: The United States Army Air Force Band and chorus perform several songs. As the songs are performed, the audience sees shots of planes in flight; landmarks in Washington, DC; paratroopers descending to earth; and other scenes.

Keywords: airplane, bass-fiddle, chorus, clarinet, fountain, marching, military-band, musical-number, saxophone, song
Genres: Music, Short,

Skybound (1935)

Actors: Jack Cheatham (actor), Harry Harvey (actor), Lloyd Hughes (actor), Sam Lufkin (actor), Edward J. Nugent (actor), Herb Vigran (actor), Grant Withers (actor), Lona Andre (actress), Claire Rochelle (actress), C.C. Burr (producer), George Jeske (writer), Charles E. Roberts (writer), Bernard B. Ray (director), Tony Martinelli (editor), Dick Curtis (actor),

Plot: Captain John Kent is a pilot in charge of the border patrol. Two crooks who head up a smuggling operation, Morley and his associate Faber, are trying to outwit Kent. The smugglers hope that they can influence Kent's younger brother Doug to help them, and they employ an attractive singer in an attempt to win Doug over.

Keywords: action-hero, airplane, airplane-cargo, american, b-movie, border, border-patrol, brother, cafe, cantina
Genres: Action, Drama, Romance,
Taglines: FEDERAL FLYERS BATTLE THE SMUGGLERS! (original posters and ads)

Play Up the Band (1935)

Actors: Frank Atkinson (actor), Leslie Bradley (actor), Hal Gordon (actor), Stanley Holloway (actor), Andreas Malandrinos (actor), Ian Wilson (actor), Amy Veness (actress), Frank Atkinson (writer), Harry Hughes (director), Eric Spear (composer), Julie Suedo (actress), Betty Ann Davies (actress), Arthur Gomez (actor), Billy Bray (actor), Charles Sewell (actor),

Genres: Comedy,

The Drama of Heyville (1914)

Actors: Ashley Miller (director), Edward Boulden (actor), Andy Clark (actor), Margaret McWade (actress), Bliss Milford (actress), Elizabeth Miller (actress), Miriam Nesbitt (actress), Cora Williams (actress), Ashley Miller (writer), Harry Eytinge (actor), Harry Linson (actor), Marc McDermott (actor), Augustus Phillips (actor), Julian Reed (actor), May Abbey (actress),

Genres: Comedy, Short,