atmospheric movies

MirrorMask (2005)

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Family | Fantasy
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Barry, Jason | Brydon, Rob | Fry, Stephen | Hamilton, Andy | Harvey, Simon | Henry, Lenny | Llewellyn, Robert | Robson, Nik | Allen, Rick | Schofield, Simon | Tate, Mark | Thompson, Richard | Thompson, Robin | Ballamy, Iain | Batchelor, Chris
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Helena, a 15-year-old girl in a family of circus entertainers, often wishes she could run off and join real life. After a fight with her parents about her future plans, her mother falls quite ill and Helena is convinced that it is all her fault. On the eve of her mother’s major surgery, she dreams that she is in a strange world with two opposing queens, bizarre creatures, and masked inhabitants. All is not well in this new world - the white queen has fallen ill and can only be restored by the MirrorMask, and it’s up to Helena to find it. But as her adventures continue, she begins to wonder whether she’s in a dream, or something far more sinister.

Shadow of the Vampire (2000)

Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Genres: Drama | Horror
Countries: Luxembourg | UK | USA
Actors: Malkovich, John | Dafoe, Willem | Kier, Udo | Elwes, Cary | McCormack, Catherine | Izzard, Eddie | Gillett, Aden | Elliott, Nicholas | Vibert, Ronan | Langevin, Sophie | Muller, Myriam | Hlavac, Milos | Junker, Marja-Leena | Kueter, Derek | Golightly, Norman
Directors: Merhige, E. Elias
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Shadow of the Vampire is a film about the making of a German all time classic silent horror-movie from 1922 called Nosferatu-Eine Symphonie des Grauens (Nosferatu-a Symphony of Horror). The production of Nosferatu had to deal with a lot of strange things (some crew members disappeared, some died). This movie focuses on the difficult relationship between Murnau, the director, and Schreck, the lead actor.

Elephant Man, The (1980)

Monday, December 7th, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Hopkins, Anthony | Hurt, John | Bancroft, Anne | Gielgud, John | Hiller, Wendy | Jones, Freddie | Elphick, Michael | Gordon, Hannah | Ryan, Helen | Standing, John | Fletcher, Dexter | Dunlop, Lesley | Nicholls, Phoebe | Gorman, Pat | Davenport, Claire
Directors: Lynch, David
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Based on the true story of Joseph Merrick, a 19th-century Englishman afflicted with a disfiguring congenital disease. With the help of kindly Dr. Frederick Treves, Merrick attempts to regain the dignity he lost after years spent as a side-show freak.

I Dreamed of Africa (2000)

Saturday, July 11th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Basinger, Kim | Perez, Vincent | Aiken, Liam | Strommen, Garrett | Saint, Eva Marie | Craig, Daniel | Reddick, Lance | Chiume, Connie | Ngobese, James | Scott, Joko | Boraine, Nick | Danford, Susan | Roberts, Ian | Monteregge, Susan | Perritt, Jessica
Directors: Hudson, Hugh
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Kuki, a divorced Italian socialite, changes her life after a serious car crash. She accepts a marriage proposal from Paolo Gallmann, a man she doesn’t know well, and she moves to Kenya with him and her young son to start a cattle ranch. Challenges beset her, not the least of which is Paulo’s love of danger and his leaving for days on end to hunt and fish with pals. She must face fierce storms, roving lions, venomous snakes, and murderous poachers, and she must find accommodation with a neighboring tribe. Her mother entreats her to return home. Can Kuki live her dream, tame Paolo, guide her son safely past the perils and errors of youth, and serve Africa?

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001)

Monday, July 6th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Cleese, John | Rickman, Alan | Grint, Rupert | Watson, Emma | Radcliffe, Daniel | Smith, Maggie | Coltrane, Robbie | Triplets, Saunders | Harris, Richard | Shaw, Fiona | Melling, Harry | Griffiths, Richard | Deadman, Derek | Hart, Ian | Borowiecki, Ben | Davis, Warwick | Troyer, Verne | Hurt, John | Bremmer, Richard
Directors: Columbus, Chris
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone is the first film in the Harry Potter series based off the novels by J.K. Rowling. It is the tale of Harry Potter, an ordinary 11-year-old boy serving as a sort of slave for his aunt and uncle who learns that he is actually a wizard and has been invited to attend the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry is snatched away from his mundane existence by Hagrid, the grounds keeper for Hogwarts, and quickly thrown into a world completely foreign to both him and the viewer. Famous for an incident that happened at his birth, Harry makes friends easily at his new school. He soon finds, however, that the wizarding world is far more dangerous for him than he would have imagined, and he quickly learns that not all wizards are ones to be trusted.

On the Waterfront (1954)

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Brando, Marlon | Malden, Karl | Cobb, Lee J. | Steiger, Rod | Henning, Pat | Erickson, Leif | Westerfield, James | Galento, Tony | Mauriello, Tami | Hamilton, John F. | Heldabrand, John | Bond, Rudy | Blackman, Don | Keegan, Arthur | Simon, Abe
Directors: Kazan, Elia
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The Waterfront Crime Commission is about to hold public hearings on union crime and underworld infiltration. As workers are turned against each other, Terry Malloy inadvertently participates in the murder of fellow longshoreman Joey Doyle. Union boss Johnny Friendly orchestrates the murder along with other illegal dockside activities, aided by Terry’s brother Charley. Terry begins to feel pangs of conscience. When Joey’s sister Edie sees more in Terry than he sees in himself and Father Barry urges him on, Terry reassesses his past and begins to regain responsibility for his actions.

Age of Innocence, The (1993)

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Day-Lewis, Daniel | Pfeiffer, Michelle | Ryder, Winona | Smith, Alexis | Chaplin, Geraldine | Hurt, Mary Beth | McCowen, Alec | Grant, Richard E. | Margolyes, Miriam | Leonard, Robert Sean | Phillips, Siân | Pryce, Jonathan | Gough, Michael | Woodward, Joanne | Wilson, Stuart
Directors: Scorsese, Martin
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Society scion Newland Archer is engaged to May Welland, but his well-ordered life is upset when he meets May’s unconventional cousin, the Countess Olenska. At first, Newland becomes a defender of the Countess, whose separation from her abusive husband makes her a social outcast in the restrictive high society of late-19th Century New York, but he finds in her a companion spirit and they fall in love.

Outbreak (1995)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Hoffman, Dustin | Russo, Rene | Freeman, Morgan | Spacey, Kevin | Gooding Jr., Cuba | Sutherland, Donald | Dempsey, Patrick | Mokae, Zakes | Bowens, Malick | Hoffman, Susan Lee | Martinez, Benito | Jarchow, Bruce | Hayward III, Leland | Chodos, Daniel | Dye, Dale
Directors: Petersen, Wolfgang
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A virus similar to Ebola & Lassa is discovered in Africa in 1969. 25 years later, it resurfaces - and Col. Sam Daniels of the U.S. Army is sent in to investigate it. When he returns he warns his boss, Brigadier-Gen. Ford, of the lethal nature of the virus and wants to put out an alert. Ford, who had been one of the men who first dealt with the virus, insists the virus is contained and unlikely to show up in the U.S. What neither man knows is that the host - a monkey - has been brought into the U.S. by freighter. Through an under-the-table bribe, a young man gets the monkey out of the animal-testing lab it was bound for. Soon, the man is infected - and Col. Daniels’ ex-wife, Dr. Keough - now with the CDC - is called into Boston when the young man is brought to a hospital in critical condition. Dr. Keough discovers that the man has died from the virus, and at the same time - on the other side of the country - a new outbreak is starting in a little California town. A quarantine is set up to stop the virus from spreading, while Ford’s boss, the sinister Major-Gen. McClintock, has his own agenda in mind - to harness this lethal bug for use as a bioweapon. With the President about to order a fuel-air bomb to be dropped on the little town to stop the outbreak, Daniels must find a way to unravel McClintock’s sinister plan…

Dragonslayer (1981)

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: MacNicol, Peter | Clarke, Caitlin | Richardson, Ralph | Hallam, John | Eyre, Peter | Salmi, Albert | Bromley, Sydney | Salaman, Chloe | James, Emrys | Kemp, Roger | McDiarmid, Ian | Shorter, Ken | White, Jason | Palfrey, Yolanda | Cooper, Douglas
Directors: Robbins, Matthew
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A King has made a pact with a dragon where he sacrfices virgins to it, and the dragon leaves his kingdom alone. An old wizard, and his keen young apprentice volunteer to kill the dragon and attempt to save the next virgin in line - the Kings own daughter.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: March, Fredric | Hopkins, Miriam | Hobart, Rose | Herbert, Holmes | Hobbes, Halliwell | Norton, Edgar | Pigott, Tempe | Harris, Sam | London, Tom | Lucy, Arnold | MacQuarrie, Murdock | McDonnell, G.L. | Rogers, John | Walton, Douglas
Directors: Mamoulian, Rouben
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Based on the story by Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Henry Jekyll believes that there are two distinct sides to men - a good and an evil side. He believes that by separating the two man can become liberated. He succeeds in his experiments with chemicals to accomplish this and transforms into Hyde to commit horrendous crimes. When he discontinues use of the drug it is already too late…