Posts Tagged ‘19th-century’

Hamlet (2009)

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Hamlet
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: John Laurie | Esmond Knight | Anthony Quayle | Niall MacGinnis | Harcourt Williams | Patrick Troughton | Tony Tarver | Peter Cushing | Stanley Holloway | Russell Thorndike | Basil Sydney | Eileen Herlie | Norman Wooland | Felix Aylmer
Directors: Laurence Olivier
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The Phantom of the Opera (2004)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Phantom of the Opera, The
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Gerard Butler | Minnie Driver | Miranda Richardson | Patrick Wilson | Emmy Rossum | Ciarán Hinds
Directors: Joel Schumacher
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“The Phantom of the Opera” is a magnificent tale that begins when an opera ghost terrorizes the cast and crew of the French Opera House while tutoring a chorus girl. He finally drives the lead soprano crazy so she and her friend leave. The girl is able to sing lead one night but the soprano doesn’t want her show stolen so she comes back. The ghost demands they keep giving his protoge lead roles. Meanwhile, His pupil falls in love with the Vicomte de Chagny, but the Phantom is in love with Christine, his student. The Phantom is outraged by their love and kidnaps Christine to be his eternal bride. Will Raoul, the Vicomte, be able to stop this dastardly plan? Watch and find out

The Age of Innocence (1993)

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Age of Innocence, The
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis | Michelle Pfeiffer | Winona Ryder | Alexis Smith | Geraldine Chaplin | Mary Beth Hurt | Alec McCowen | Richard E. Grant | Miriam Margolyes | Robert Sean Leonard | Siân Phillips | Jonathan Pryce | Michael Gough | Joanne Woodward | Stuart Wilson
Directors: Martin Scorsese
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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.

Immortal Beloved (1994)

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Immortal Beloved
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Gary Oldman | Jeroen Krabbé | Isabella Rossellini | Johanna ter Steege | Marco Hofschneider | Miriam Margolyes | Barry Humphries | Valeria Golino | Gerard Horan | Christopher Fulford | Alexandra Pigg | Luigi Diberti | Michael Culkin | Donal Gibson | Matthew North
Directors: Bernard Rose
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Ludwig van Beethoven dies and his assistant/friend Schindler proceeds to deal with his affairs (last will and testament). There is a question as to who really is his “immortal beloved”, and so tries to find out who this might be.

Vanity Fair (2004)

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Vanity Fair
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Gabriel Byrne | Angelica Mandy | Roger Lloyd-Pack | Ruth Sheen | Kate Fleetwood | Reese Witherspoon | Lillete Dubey | Romola Garai | Tony Maudsley | Deborah Findlay | John Franklyn-Robbins | Paul Bazely | Rhys Ifans | Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Charlie Beall
Directors: Mira Nair
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The British Empire flowers; exotic India colors English imaginations. Becky Sharp, the orphaned daughter of a painter and a singer, leaves a home for girls to be a governess, armed with pluck, a keen wit, good looks, fluent French, and an eye for social advancement. Society tries its best to keep her from climbing. An episodic narrative follows her for 20 years, through marriage, Napoleonic wars, a child, loyalty to a school friend, the vicissitudes of the family whose daughters she instructed, and attention from a bored marquess who collected her father’s paintings. Honesty tempers her schemes. No aristocrat she, nor bourgeois, just spirited, intelligent, and irrepressible.

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Persuasion (2007)

Thursday, May 28th, 2009
Persuasion
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Rupert Penry-Jones | Sally Hawkins | Alice Krige | Anthony Head | Julia Davis | Michael Fenton Stevens | Mary Stockley | Peter Wight | Marion Bailey | Amanda Hale | Jennifer Higham | Rosamund Stephen | Stella Gonet | Sam Hazeldine | Louis Shergold
Directors: Adrian Shergold
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On the brink of financial ruin, the Elliot family is forced to vacate their ancestral home in order to recover their debts and avoid losing face amongst their parish. The task of organizing their effects falls to levelheaded Anne Elliot, destined for spinsterhood at age 27 after being persuaded eight years earlier to refuse the proposal of Frederick Wentworth, a dashing (but destitute) naval officer…

Sharpe’s Peril (2008)

Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Sharpe’s Peril
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Sean Bean | Daragh O'Malley | Amit Behl | Michael Cochrane | Jonathan Coyne | Martin Hancock | David Henry | Raza Jaffrey | Deepak Jethi | Rajesh Khattar | Pascal Langdale | Jonathan Moore | Ryan Pope | David Robb | Steve Speirs
Directors: Tom Clegg
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Our story begins at the end of Sharpe’s Challenge. Sharpe and Harper are en route to Madras when they encounter a baggage train from the East India Company traveling through hostile territory. Chitu, a legendary bandit leader in control of the area, strikes fear in the members of the party. When an attack occurs Sharpe takes control of the situation, leading the group 300 miles through enemy territory and training the disorganized, rag-tag group to be proper soldiers. Despite all these responsibilities, Sharpe still manages to find time for a little romance…

The Elephant Man (1980)

Thursday, March 12th, 2009
Elephant Man, The
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Anthony Hopkins | John Hurt | Anne Bancroft | John Gielgud | Wendy Hiller | Freddie Jones | Michael Elphick | Hannah Gordon | Helen Ryan | John Standing | Dexter Fletcher | Lesley Dunlop | Phoebe Nicholls | Pat Gorman | Claire Davenport
Directors: David Lynch
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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.