Category: History
Posted on March 27, 2013 |
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The Last Supper / Wang De Sheng Yan (2012)
Action | History
After years of war that led to the establishment of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Liu Bang has become paranoid about conspirators around him and plagued by nightmares. In his nightmares, he begins to remember his rise to the throne, starting with his days as a peasant fighting the Qin ruler under the leadership of Xiang Yu. However, when Liu is suspected of betraying Xiang by entering the Qin Palace before his lord after their victory, Xiang's advisors conspire to kill Liu during a banquet at Hong Gate. Liu escapes and wins a brutal war with Xiang's forces, thanks to help from defected general Han Xin. However, Liu's victory prompts him to rethink the Hong Gate banquet and the events surrounding it.
Starring: Ye Liu, Daniel Wu, Chen Chang
Director: Chuan Lu
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Posted on March 26, 2013 |
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Hyde Park on Hudson (2012)
Biography | Comedy | Drama | History
The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret Stuckley, centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the United Kingdom visited upstate New York.
Starring: Bill Murray, Laura Linney, Olivia Williams, Samuel West, Olivia Colman, Elizabeth Marvel
Director: Roger Michell
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Posted on March 22, 2013 |
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The Last Emperor (1987)
Biography | Drama | History
Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor won nine Academy Awards, unexpectedly sweeping every category in which it was nominated. The power and scope of the film was, and remains, undeniable-the life of Emperor Pu Yi, who took the throne at age three, in 1908, before witnessing decades of cultural and political upheaval, within and without the walls of the Forbidden City. Recreating Ching dynasty China with astonishing detail and unparalleled craftsmanship by cinematographer Vittorio Storaro and production designer Ferdinando Scarfiotti, The Last Emperor is also an intimate character study of one man reconciling personal responsibility and political legacy.
Starring: John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole, Ying Ruocheng, Victor Wong, Dennis Dun
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
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Posted on March 22, 2013 |
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The Grand Heist / Gone With The Wind / Baramgwa hamjje sarajida(2012)
Action | Comedy | History
In late 18th century ice is a commodity more valuable than gold. When corrupt officials conspire to form a monopoly and fix its price, a gang of 11 professionals is formed to steal all the royal ice blocks in five storage for a night.
Starring: Tae-hyun Cha, Lee Chae-Young, Gil-dong Kim, Hyang-gi Kim, Chang-Seok Ko, Hyo-rin Min, Ji-ho Oh
Director: Joo-ho Kim
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Posted on March 21, 2013 |
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Utomlennye solntsem / Burnt by the Sun (1994)
Drama | History
Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his dacha with his young wife and six-year-old daughter Nadia and other assorted family and friends. Things change dramatically with the unheralded arrival of Cousin Dmitri from Moscow, who charms the women and little Nadia with his games and pianistic bravura. But Kotov isn't fooled: this is the time of Stalin's repression, with telephone calls in the middle of the night spelling doom – and he knows that Dmitri isn't paying a social call…
Starring: Nikita Mikhalkov, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Oleg Menshikov, Nadezhda Mikhalkova, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Vladimir Ilin
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
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Tags: Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Nadezhda Mikhalkova, Nikita Mikhalkov, Oleg Menshikov, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Vladimir Ilin, Vyacheslav Tikhonov
Posted on March 16, 2013 |
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Corações Sujos / Dirty Hearts (2011)
Drama | History | Thriller
In 1945, Japan surrendered to the United States and the Second World War was over. Right? Wrong. For eighty percent of the Japanese community in Brazil, Japan had won the war and defeat was nothing more than American propaganda. The few immigrants that accepted the truth were persecuted. Some were hunted down and assassinated – by their own countrymen – causing the start of a new, private war. Dirty Hearts is a thriller and love story told by the wife of one of the fanatics dedicated to preach Japanese victory. Little by little, she watches her husband, a hard-working immigrant, become an assassin and their love story fade away.
Starring: Tsuyoshi Ihara, Takako Tokiwa, Eiji Okuda, Shun Sugata, Kimiko Yo, Eduardo Moscovis, Celine Fukumoto
Director: Vicente Amorim
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Tags: Celine Fukumoto, Eduardo Moscovis, Eiji Okuda, Kimiko Yo, Shun Sugata, Takako Tokiwa, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Vicente Amorim
Posted on March 14, 2013 |
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Rebellion / L'ordre et la morale (2011)
Action | Drama | History
Dissidents in a French colony attack a police station and take hostages.
Starring: Mathieu Kassovitz, Iabe Lapacas, Malik Zidi
Director: Mathieu Kassovitz
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Posted on March 13, 2013 |
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Nightwatching (2007)
Biography | Drama | History | Mystery
An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a murderer in the painting "The Night Watch".
Starring: Martin Freeman, Emily Holmes, Eva Birthistle, Jodhi May, Toby Jones
Director: Peter Greenaway
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Posted on March 11, 2013 |
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Lincoln (2012)
Biography | Drama | History | War
In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country and abolish slavery.
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Jared Harris, Jackie Earle Haley, Sally Field
Director: Steven Spielberg
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Posted on March 11, 2013 |
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Argo (2012)
Drama | History | Thriller
As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador.
Starring: Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, John Goodman, Kyle Chandler, Clea DuVall, Chris Messina
Director: Ben Affleck
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Posted on March 9, 2013 |
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Gangs of Wasseypur / G.O.W. (2012)
Action | Crime | Drama | History | Thriller
Shahid Khan's vow to get his father's honor back turns him into the most feared man in the Indian town of Wasseypur.
Starring: Manoj Bajpayee, Richa Chadda, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Tigmanshu Dhulia, Jameel Khan
Director: Anurag Kashyap
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Posted on March 7, 2013 |
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The Alamo (2004)
Drama | History | War | Western
Based on the 1836 standoff between a group of Texan and Tejano men, led by Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, and Mexican dictator Santa Anna's forces at the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas.
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Billy Bob Thornton, Jason Patric, Patrick Wilson, Emilio Echevarría, Jordi Mollà
Director: John Lee Hancock
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Posted on March 5, 2013 |
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Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
Drama | History | Thriller
A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the 9/11 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy SEAL Team 6 in May, 2011.
Starring: Jessica Chastain, Joel Edgerton, Chris Pratt, Mark Strong, Scott Adkins, Harold Perrineau
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
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Posted on February 25, 2013 |
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Schindler's List / Schindlers Liste (1993)
Biography | Drama | History | War
The true story of Austrian industrialist Oskar Schindler, who harbored Polish Jews during WWII by using them as workers in his factory. Schindler saved 1,100 Jews from certain death.
Starring: Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, Embeth Davidtz, Caroline Goodall, Jonathan Sagall
Director: Steven Spielberg
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Posted on February 20, 2013 |
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Polytechnique (2009)
Crime | Drama | History
Told from the perspective of the victims, recounts the Montreal Massacre of December 6, 1989 when Marc Lepine entered engineering school Ecole Polytechnique, and targeting feminists, shot 28 people, killing 14 of them.
Starring: Maxim Gaudette, Sébastien Huberdeau, Karine Vanasse, Martin Watier, Evelyne Brochu
Director: Denis Villeneuve
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Posted on February 13, 2013 |
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L'histoire d'Adèle H. / The Story of Adele H. (1975)
Biography | Drama | History
Halifax, 1863. A young woman, Miss Lewly, comes to Halifax to search for Lt Pinson, with whom she is madly in love. Actually, she is Adèle Hugo, the second daughter of the great French literary figure and statesman. The Lt Pinson does not answer to her love and makes her understand it is hopeless. But as her obsession grows she keeps chasing and harassing him. This film about passionate yet obsessive love and self-destruction is based upon the real diary of Adèle Hugo.
Starring: Isabelle Adjani, Bruce Robinson, Sylvia Marriott, Joseph Blatchley, Ivry Gitlis
Director: François Truffaut
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Posted on February 10, 2013 |
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The Prince of Egypt (1998)
Adventure | Animation | Drama | Family | History | Musical
This is the extraordinary tale of two brothers named Moses and Ramses, one born of royal blood, and one an orphan with a secret past. Growing up the best of friends, they share a strong bond of free-spirited youth and good-natured rivalry. But the truth will ultimately set them at odds, as one becomes the ruler of the most powerful empire on earth, and the other the chosen leader of his people! Their final confrontation will forever change their lives and the world.
Starring: Val Kilmer, Ralph Fiennes, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sandra Bullock, Jeff Goldblum, Danny Glover, Patrick Stewart, Helen Mirren, Steve Martin, Martin Short
Director: Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner, Simon Wells
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Posted on February 9, 2013 |
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Reds (1981)
Biography | Drama | History | Romance
Warren Beatty's award winning epic mixes drama and interviews with major social radicals of the period. "Reds" tells the story of the love affair between activists Louise Bryant and John Reed. Set against the backdrop of the tumultuous start of the twentieth century, the two journalists' on-again off-again romance is punctuated by the outbreak of WWI and the Bolshevik Revolution. Louise's assignment in France at the outbreak of the war puts an end to their affair. John Reed's subsequent trip to Russia, and his involvement with the Communist party, rekindles their relationship. When Louise arrives in Petrograd, she finds herself swept up in the euphoria of the Revolution. Reed, however, eventually becomes disillusioned with Communism when he sees his words and intentions augmented and controlled by the growing Soviet propaganda machine.
Starring: Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Edward Herrmann, Jerzy Kosinski, Jack Nicholson, Jerry Hardin
Director: Warren Beatty
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Posted on February 6, 2013 |
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Back to 1942 / Yi jiu si er (2012)
Drama | History
A North Henan landlord embarks on a pilgrimage to Shaanxi province during the 1942 famine, struggling to survive as war with Japan looms on the horizon. His house beset by starving villagers, Landlord Fan endeavors to calm the crowd by preparing a feast. But his house is burned down in the chaos, prompting Fan, his teenage daughter Xing Xing, his servant Shuang Zhu, and his tenant Hua Zhi on a treacherous journey south. Along the way, encounters with an American journalist, a judge, and a priest who has lost his faith reveal the true depth of the despair that grips the country. But the hardships along the way prompt Fan to make some devastating sacrifices that leave him a broken man.
Starring: Adrien Brody, Tim Robbins, Daoming Chen, Fan Xu, Hanyu Zhang, Guoli Zhang, Xuejian Li, Mo Zhang, Wei Fan, Yuanzheng Feng
Director: Xiaogang Feng
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Posted on February 1, 2013 |
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The Vikings (1958)
Action | Adventure | Drama | History | Romance | War
Einar and Eric are two Viking half-brothers. The former is a great warrior whilst the other is an ex-slave, but neither knows the true identity of the other. When the throne of Northumbria in Britain becomes free for the taking, the two brothers compete against one another for the prize, but they have very different motives – both involving the princess Morgana, however.
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, Janet Leigh, James Donald, Alexander Knox
Director: Richard Fleischer
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Tags: Alexander Knox, Ernest Borgnine, James Donald, Janet Leigh, Kirk Douglas, Richard Fleischer, Tony Curtis
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