Posts Tagged ‘royalty’

Other Boleyn Girl, The (2008)

Monday, June 9th, 2008
Genres: Drama | History | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Bana, Eric | Sturgess, Jim | Rylance, Mark | Morrissey, David | Cumberbatch, Benedict | Coleman, Oliver | Redmayne, Eddie | Cox, Tom | Smiley, Michael | Mitchell, Iain | Garfield, Andrew | Jones, Lewis | Galloway, Corinne | Allen, Alfie | Wallis, Bill
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A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in European history: two beautiful sisters, Anne and Mary Boleyn, driven by their family’s blind ambition, compete for the love of the handsome and passionate King Henry VIII.

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…

King and I, The (1956)

Monday, April 21st, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Family | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Kerr, Deborah | Brynner, Yul | Moreno, Rita | Benson, Martin | Saunders, Terry | Thompson, Rex | Rivas, Carlos | Adiarte, Patrick | Mowbray, Alan | Toone, Geoffrey | Banas, Robert | Bonilla, Dennis | Bonilla, Thomas | Fuentes, Reuben | Irwin, Charles
Directors: Lang, Walter
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After the death of her husband, Anna Owens moves from England to Siam with her son Louis to become a teacher for the children of the king of Siam. She finds Siamese customs to be quite different from English ones, which brings her often in conflict with the king. However, after some time they find themselves getting along much better.

Kate & Leopold (2001)

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Ryan, Meg | Jackman, Hugh | Schreiber, Liev | Meyer, Breckin | Lyonne, Natasha | Whitford, Bradley | Whitehead, Paxton | Gray, Spalding | Josh Stamberg | Sussman, Matthew | Ayanna, Charlotte | Bosco, Philip | Jack, Andrew | Tracy, Stan | Schaal, Kristen
Directors: Mangold, James
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Kate and her actor brother live in N.Y. in the 21st Century. Her ex-boy friend, Stuart, lives above her apartment and finds this space near the Brooklyn Bridge where there is a gap in time. He goes back to the eighteen hundreds and takes pictures of the place. Leopold, a man living in the 1870’s, was puzzled by Stuart’s tiny camera and decides to follow him and they both ended up in this century. Leopold is clueless about his new surroundings. He gets help and insights from Charlie who thinks that Leopold is an actor who is always in character. Leopold is a highly intelligent man and tries his best to learn and even improve the modern conveniences that he encounters.

Kingdom, The (2007)

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Foxx, Jamie | Cooper, Chris | Garner, Jennifer | Bateman, Jason | Barhom, Ashraf | Suliman, Ali | Piven, Jeremy | Jenkins, Richard | Chandler, Kyle | Fisher, Frances | Huston, Danny | AuCoin, Kelly | Smith, Anna Deavere | Kelly, Minka | Hunter, Amy
Directors: Berg, Peter
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When a terrorist bomb detonates inside a Western housing compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, an international incident is ignited. While diplomats slowly debate equations of territorialism, FBI Special Agent Ronald Fleury quickly assembles an elite team and negotiates a secret five-day trip into Saudi Arabia to locate the madman behind the bombing. Upon landing in the desert kingdom, however, Fleury and his team discover Saudi authorities suspicious and unwelcoming of American interlopers into what they consider a local matter. Hamstrung by protocol-and with the clock ticking on their five days-the FBI agents find their expertise worthless without the trust of their Saudi counterparts, who want to locate the terrorist in their homeland on their own terms. Fleury’s crew finds a like-minded partner in Saudi Colonel Al-Ghazi, who helps them navigate royal politics and unlock the secrets of the crime scene and the workings of an extremist cell bent on further destruction. With these unlikely allies sharing a propulsive commitment to crack the case, the team is led to the killer’s front door in a blistering do-or-die confrontation. Now in a fight for their own lives, strangers united by one mission won’t stop until justice is found in The Kingdom.

Dragonheart (1996)

Friday, January 18th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Connery, Sean | Quaid, Dennis | Christie, Julie | Thewlis, David | Postlethwaite, Pete | Meyer, Dina | Isaacs, Jason | Thompson, Brian | Oakes, Lee | Christian, Wolf | O'Neill, Terry | Vejmelková, Eva | Bahúl, Milan | Hric, Peter | Kovacicova, Sandra | Cohen, Kyle | Baker, Thom
Directors: Cohen, Rob
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Set in the 10th Century, a man (Bowen) teams up with the last dragon to remind the people of a long lost code of honor, and inspire them to fight for their freedom from a tyrannical king.

Queen, The (2006)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: France | Italy | UK
Actors: Mirren, Helen | Cromwell, James | Jennings, Alex | Allam, Roger | Syms, Sylvia | McMullan, Tim | Soans, Robin | Peploe, Lola | Reith, Douglas | Henderson, Joyce | Laffan, Pat | Hadingue, Amanda | McGlynn, John | O'Brien, Gray | MacLennan, Dolina
Directors: Frears, Stephen
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The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair during their struggle, following the death of Diana, to reach a compromise between what was a private tragedy for the Royal family and the public’s demand for an overt display of mourning.

Patriot Games (1992)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Ford, Harrison | Archer, Anne | Bergin, Patrick | Bean, Sean | Birch, Thora | Fox, James | Jackson, Samuel L. | Walker, Polly | Freeman, J. E. | Jones, James Earl | Harris, Richard | Norton, Alex | Fraser, Hugh | Threlfall, David | Armstrong, Alun
Directors: Noyce, Phillip
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Jack Ryan, the hero of Tom Clancy’s techno-thriller series, returns in the sequel to _The Hunt for Red October_. Ryan is on vacation in England when he spoils an assassination attempt on an important member of the Royal Family. Ryan gets drawn back into the CIA when the same splinter faction of the IRA targets him and his family.

King Ralph (1991)

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Goodman, John | O'Toole, Peter | Hurt, John | Coduri, Camille | Griffiths, Richard | Phillips, Leslie | Villiers, James | Richardson, Joely | O'Brien, Niall | Glover, Julian | Parfitt, Judy | Stobart, Ed | Heller, Gedren | Walker, Rudolph | Johnson, Michael
Directors: Ward, David S.
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When an accident obliterates the British royal family and most of its branches, a desperate geneological search discovers the next king: Ralph, a sleazy American lounge singer. Can Ralph measure up to the job, even with the help of loyal aristocrat Willingham?

Princess Diaries, The (2001)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Andrews, Julie | Hathaway, Anne | Elizondo, Hector | Matarazzo, Heather | Moore, Mandy | Goodall, Caroline | Schwartzman, Robert | von Detten, Erik | Flueger, Patrick | O'Bryan, Sean | Oh, Sandra | Marshall, Kathleen | Burbano, Mindy | Smith, Kimleigh | Garrison, Beth Anne
Directors: Marshall, Garry
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A socially awkward but very bright 15-year-old girl being raised by a single mom discovers that she is the princess of a small European country because of the recent death of her long-absent father, who, unknown to her, was the crown prince of Genovia. She must make a choice between continuing the life of a San Francisco teen or stepping up to the throne. While Mia makes up her mind, she’s pressed into taking princess lessons from her grandmother.