Posts Tagged ‘passion’

Romeo and Juliet (1968)

Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: Italy | UK
Actors: Whiting, Leonard | Hussey, Olivia | McEnery, John | O'Shea, Milo | Heywood, Pat | Stephens, Robert | York, Michael | Robinson, Bruce | Hardwick, Paul | Parry, Natasha | Pierfederici, Antonio | Ruspoli, Esmeralda | Bisacco, Roberto | Holder, Roy | Skinner, Keith
Directors: Zeffirelli, Franco
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Shakespeare’s classic tale of romance and tragedy. Two families of Verona, the Montagues and the Capulets, have been feuding with each other for years. Young Romeo Montague goes out with his friends to make trouble at a party the Capulets are hosting, but while there he spies the Capulet’s daughter Juliet, and falls hopelessly in love with her. She returns his affections, but they both know that their families will never allow them to follow their hearts.

Anna Karenina (1997)

Monday, May 26th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Marceau, Sophie | Bean, Sean | Molina, Alfred | Kirshner, Mia | Fox, James | Shaw, Fiona | Huston, Danny | Law, Phyllida | Schofield, David | Wickham, Saskia | Hall, Jennifer | Calder-Marshall, Anna | Shelokhonov, Petr | Braddell, Valerie | Buggy, Niall
Directors: Rose, Bernard
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Anna is a young and elegant wife of Mr. Karenin, who is wealthy and old. She meets the handsome Count Vronsky. Anna and Vronsky fall in love with each other, and he comes to be with her in St. Petersburg. They are very happy together and make a great looking couple, but soon their happiness gets under social pressures. Anna is hopelessly begging Mr. Karenin for a divorce, but he wants to keep the mother of their child. She has another baby born from her lover Vronsky. Conflict between her untamed desires and painful reality causes her a depression…

Amistad (1997)

Sunday, December 16th, 2007
Genres: Drama | History | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Freeman, Morgan | Hawthorne, Nigel | Hopkins, Anthony | Hounsou, Djimon | McConaughey, Matthew | Paymer, David | Postlethwaite, Pete | Skarsgård, Stellan | Adoti, Razaaq | Fofanah, Abu Bakaar | Paquin, Anna | Milian, Tomas | Ejiofor, Chiwetel | Ashong, Derrick N. | Silva, Geno
Directors: Spielberg, Steven
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AMISTAD is about a 1839 mutiny onboard a slave ship that is traveling towards the Northeast Coast of America. Much of the story involves a court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt.

Hunchback, The (1997)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: Canada | Czech Republic | Hungary | USA
Actors: Patinkin, Mandy | Harris, Richard | Hayek, Salma | Atterton, Edward | Blythe, Benedick | Terry, Nigel | Dale, Jim | Baxter, Trevor | Dobtcheff, Vernon | Grace, Nickolas | Sim, Matthew | Stuart, Cassie | Fon, Gabi | Mehlmann, Michael | Antal, Olga
Directors: Medak, Peter
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Based on the novel, a young gypsy becomes a Minister’s obsession in 1483. Only the bell ringer and her husband and the court of miracles can save her.

Basic Instinct (1992)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Douglas, Michael | Stone, Sharon | Dzundza, George | Tripplehorn, Jeanne | Arndt, Denis | Sarelle, Leilani | Young, Bruce A. | Ross, Chelcie | Malone, Dorothy | Knight, Wayne | von Bargen, Daniel | Tobolowsky, Stephen | Mouton, Benjamin | McGee, Jack | Cable, Bill
Directors: Verhoeven, Paul
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A former rockstar Johnny Boz is brutally killed during sex , and the case is assigned to the Detective Nick Curran of the SFPD . During the investigation , Nick meets Catherine Tramell , a crime novelist who was Boz’s girlfriend when he died . Catherine proves to be a very clever and manipulative woman , and though Nick is more or less convinced that she murdered Boz , he is unable to find any evidence . Later , when Nilsen , Nick’s rival in the police is killed , Nick suspects of Catherine’s involvement in it . He then starts to play a dangerous lust-filled mind game with Catherine to nail her , but as their relationship progresses , the body count rises and contradicting evidences force Nick to start questioning his own suspicions about Catherine’s guilt .

Legends of the Fall (1994)

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Pitt, Brad | Hopkins, Anthony | Quinn, Aidan | Ormond, Julia | Thomas, Henry | Lombard, Karina | Tootoosis, Gordon | Pickles, Christina | Desmond, Paul | Cardinal, Tantoo | Wisden, Robert | Novak, John | Welsh, Kenneth | Dow, Bill | Sarkar, Sam
Directors: Zwick, Edward
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Set in the Rocky Mountains of Montana in the early 1900s, this is a tale of love, betrayal, and brotherhood. After being discharged, Colonel Ludlow decides to raise his three sons in the wilds of Montana, where they can grow up away from the government and society he has learned to dispise. The three brothers mature and seem to have an unbreakable bond, until Susanna enters their lives. When Samuel, the youngest of the three, returns from college he brings with him his beautiful fiance, Susanna. The eldest son, Alfred, soon finds himself in love with his brother’s fiance, and things get worse when he discovers a growing passion between Susanna and Tristan. Colonel Ludlow’s favorite son, Tristan is willful and as wild as the mountains. As the brothers set out to fight a war in Europe, suspicion and jelousy threatens to tear apart their once indestructable bond.

Original Sin (2001)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Banderas, Antonio | Jolie, Angelina | Jane, Thomas | Thompson, Jack | Itzin, Gregory | Mackie, Allison | Pringle, Joan | Richards, Cordelia | Haven, James | Armendáriz Jr., Pedro | Martínez, Mario Iván | Porter, Harry | Torre Laphame, Fernando | Vega, Shaula | Owen, Lisa
Directors: Cristofer, Michael
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Can love release our true self? A wealthy Cuban coffee exporter, Luis Vargas, advertises for a US wife; Julia Russell, from Delaware, sends her photograph, but the woman who steps off the ship is much lovelier. Luis marries her immediately and gives in to love. But Julia may not be who she claims: first a private eye shows up on behalf of Julia’s sister, then the sister herself. By now, Luis has given has wife access to bank accounts, and when she runs with his cash, he pursues her, with the help of Downs, the P.I., perhaps to kill her. Pursuit may be part of a con game as well, and Julia’s past explains some, if not all, of what remains of the story. A priest hears her confession.

Unfaithful (2002)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: France | Germany | USA
Actors: Lane, Diane | Sullivan, Erik Per | Gere, Richard | Martinez, Olivier | Taylor, Myra Lucretia | Monaghan, Michelle | Lowe, Chad | Badalucco Jr., Joseph | Anderson, Erich | Gupton, Damon | Burton, Kate | Colin, Margaret | Forget, Marc | Gleason, Larry | Chianese, Dominic
Directors: Lyne, Adrian
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Connie Sumner has a loving husband, a beautiful home, and a wonderful son, but she wants more. When she’s approached one day by a handsome stranger while trying to hail a taxi, she becomes obsessed with him and eventually starts an affair. But her selfish actions soon catch up with her…

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Costner, Kevin | Freeman, Morgan | Mastrantonio, Mary Elizabeth | Slater, Christian | Rickman, Alan | McShane, Michael | Blessed, Brian | Wincott, Michael | Brimble, Nick | Drouet, Soo | Newman, Daniel | Peacock, Daniel | Sparrow, Walter | Innocent, Harold | Wild, Jack
Directors: Reynolds, Kevin
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After being captured by Turks during the Crusades, Robin of Locksley and a Moor, Azeem, escape back to England where Azeem vows to remain until he repays Robin for saving his life. Meanwhile, Robin’s father has been murdered by the Sheriff of Nottingham and when Robin returns home he vows to avenge his father’s death. Even though Marian, his childhood friend, cannot help him, he escapes to the Forest of Sherwood where he joins a band of exiled villagers and becomes their leader. With their help he attempts to cleanse the land of the evil that the Sheriff has spread.

Bodyguard, The (1992)

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007
Genres: Drama | Music | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Costner, Kevin | Houston, Whitney | Kemp, Gary | Cobbs, Bill | Waite, Ralph | Arana, Tomas | Richards, Michele Lamar | Starr, Mike | Birt, Christopher | Nixon, DeVaughn | Bamman, Gerry | Urla, Joe | Pierce, Tony | Keating, Charles | Wuhl, Robert
Directors: Jackson, Mick
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A pop singer has been receiving threatening notes, and her manager hires a bodyguard known for his good work. The bodyguard ruffles the singer’s feathers and most of her entourage by tightening security more than they feel is necessary. The bodyguard is haunted by the fact that he was on Reagan’s secret service staff but wasn’t there to prevent the attack by Hinckley. Eventually the bodyguard and the singer start an affair, and she begins to believe his precautions are necessary when the stalker strikes close to home.