Posts Tagged ‘wealth’

Barefoot Contessa, The (1954)

Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance
Countries: Italy | USA
Actors: Bogart, Humphrey | Gardner, Ava | O'Brien, Edmond | Goring, Marius | Cortese, Valentina | Brazzi, Rossano | Sellars, Elizabeth | Stevens, Warren | Interlenghi, Franco | Aldon, Mari | Love, Bessie | Decker, Diana | Fraser, Bill | Rabagliati, Alberto | Staiola, Enzo
Directors: Mankiewicz, Joseph L.
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While in the burial of Countess Torlato-Favrini, her friend Harry Dawes and her acquaintance Oscar Muldoon recalls parts of her past. When the wealthy Kirk Edwards hires director and screenplay writer Harry Dawes, they travel to Spain with the public relations Oscar Muldoon to see the dancer of a nightclub Maria Vargas and invite her for an audition, since they need a new face for their next movie. Maria, a naive woman with simple origins, is convinced by Harry to go to Hollywood and becomes a famous star and a close friend of Harry and his girlfriend Jerry. Along her successful career, Maria lives personal dramas including lack of adaptation for her new lifestyle, is unable to love and is disputed by the powerful millionaires Kirk Edwards and Alberto Bravano. When she meets the noble and handsome Count Vincenzo Torlato-Favrini in the French Riviera, she believes that she found her prince charming and her life becomes a fairy tale. But after the wedding, she sees that her Cinderella’s castle of dreams has become a pumpkin.

Match Point (2005)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Luxembourg | UK
Actors: Rhys-Meyers, Jonathan | Armstrong, Alexander | Kaye, Paul | Goode, Matthew | Cox, Brian | Wilton, Penelope | Mortimer, Emily | Kelly, Janis | Oke, Alan | Gatiss, Mark | Johansson, Scarlett | Kunz, Simon | Streatfield, Geoffrey | Hegarty, Mary | Fortune, John
Directors: Allen, Woody
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Chris Wilton is a former tennis pro, looking to find work as an instructor. He meets Tom Hewett, a well-off pretty boy. Tom’s sister Chloe falls in love with Chris but Chris has his eyes on Tom’s fiancĂ©e, the luscious Nola. Both Chris and Nola know it’s wrong but what could be more right than love? Chris tries to juggle both women but at some point, he must choose between them…

Casino (1995)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: France | USA
Actors: De Niro, Robert | Stone, Sharon | Pesci, Joe | Woods, James | Vincent, Frank | Cajano, Pasquale | Rickles, Don | Pollak, Kevin | Vella, Vinny | King, Alan | Jones, L. Q. | Smothers, Dick | Rigano, Joseph | Bloom, John | Prophet, Melissa
Directors: Scorsese, Martin
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This Martin Scorsese film depicts the Janus-like quality of Las Vegas—it has a glittering, glamorous face, as well as a brutal, cruel one. Ace Rothstein and Nicky Santoro, mobsters who move to Las Vegas to make their mark, live and work in this paradoxical world. Seen through their eyes, each as a foil to the other, the details of mob involvement in the casinos of the 1970’s and ’80’s are revealed. Ace is the smooth operator of the Tangiers casino, while Nicky is his boyhood friend and tough strongman, robbing and shaking down the locals. However, they each have a tragic flaw—Ace falls in love with a hustler, Ginger, and Nicky falls into an ever-deepening spiral of drugs and violence.

Friends with Money (2006)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Keener, Catherine | Isaacs, Jason | Sharp, Timm | Cusack, Joan | Germann, Greg | Johnson, Hailey Noelle | McBurney, Simon | McDormand, Frances | Cherry, Jake | Aniston, Jennifer | Stephenson, Bob | Hinkle, Marin | Caan, Scott | Ruptash, Troy | Keener, Elizabeth
Directors: Holofcener, Nicole
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A drama about three married women, their husbands, and their lone single friend.

L.A. Confidential (1997)

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Genres: Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Spacey, Kevin | Crowe, Russell | Pearce, Guy | Cromwell, James | Basinger, Kim | DeVito, Danny | Strathairn, David | Rifkin, Adam | McCoy, Matt | Guilfoyle, Paul | Seganti, Paolo | Beckel, Graham | Taylor, Sandra | Rankin, Steve | Granli, Elisabeth
Directors: Hanson, Curtis
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1950’s Los Angeles is the seedy backdrop for this intricate noir-ish tale of police corruption and Hollywood sleaze. Three very different cops are all after the truth, each in their own style: Ed Exley, the golden boy of the police force, willing to do almost anything to get ahead, except sell out; Bud White, ready to break the rules to seek justice, but barely able to keep his raging violence under control; and Jack Vincennes, always looking for celebrity and a quick buck until his conscience drives him to join Exley and White down the one-way path to find the truth behind the dark world of L.A. crime.

Cruel Intentions (1999)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Snyder, Drew | Gellar, Sarah Michelle | Phillippe, Ryan | Witherspoon, Reese | Blair, Selma | Fletcher, Louise | Jackson, Joshua | Mabius, Eric | Thomas, Sean Patrick | Kurtz, Swoosie | Baranski, Christine | Hall, Alaina Reed | Offner, Deborah | Reid, Tara | Ware, Herta | Le, Hiep Thi
Directors: Kumble, Roger
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Kathryn makes a bet that her step-brother, Sebastian, won’t be able to bed Annette (a virgin, who wants to wait until marriage) before the start of the school year. If he loses, Kathryn gets his Roadster, if he wins, he gets Kathryn