Posts Tagged ‘blockbuster’

Trading Places (1983)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Denholm Elliott | Dan Aykroyd | Maurice Woods | Richard D. Fisher Jr. | Jim Gallagher | Anthony DiSabatino | Bonnie Behrend | Sunnie Merrill | James Newell | Mary St. John | Bonnie Tremena | David Schwartz | Ralph Bellamy | Don Ameche | Tom Degidon
Directors: John Landis
Download: DivX iPod 

Louis Winthorpe III is a successful Philadelphia commodity broker with mansion, manservant and girlfriend to match. Billy Ray Valentine is a hustling beggar. Winthorpe’s employers, the elderly Duke brothers, make a bet that by switching the lifestyle of the two Billy Ray will make good and their man will take to a life of crime. Suddenly Louis finds himself uncomprehendingly with no job, no home and only a new acquaintance, glamorous hooker Ophelia, prepared to help him. So at least in one way things could actually be worse.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Johnny Depp | Orlando Bloom | Keira Knightley | Jack Davenport | Bill Nighy | Jonathan Pryce | Lee Arenberg | Mackenzie Crook | Kevin McNally | David Bailie | Stellan Skarsgård | Tom Hollander | Naomie Harris | Martin Klebba | David Schofield
Directors: Gore Verbinski
Download:

Just before their wedding, Elizabeth Swann and Will Turner are arrested by Lord Cutler Beckett for helping the pirate Captain Jack Sparrow, but Cutler proposes a deal to Will: their freedom per Jack’s compass. Meanwhile, Jack is afraid of the sea, because he owes his soul to the evil Davy Jones, the Captain of the Flying Dutchmen. When Will meets Jack, the pirate proposes to exchange his compass by a key owned by Davy Jones. Will goes to the Flying Dutchman without knowing how dangerous and diabolic Davy Jones and his crew are.

Air Force One (1997)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Harrison Ford | Gary Oldman | Glenn Close | Wendy Crewson | Liesel Matthews | Paul Guilfoyle | Xander Berkeley | William H. Macy | Dean Stockwell | Tom Everett | Jürgen Prochnow | Donna Bullock | Michael Ray Miller | Carl Weintraub | Elester Latham
Directors: Wolfgang Petersen
Download: DVD DivX PDA 

Harrison Ford and Gary Oldman star in this thriller about a steadfast U.S. President who has just told the world he will not negotiate with terrorists. Now, Russian neo-nationalists have hijacked Air Force One and the President is faced with a nearly impossible decison: give in to terrorist demands or sacrifice not only the country’s dignity, but the lives of his wife and daughter.

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | War
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: William Holden | Jack Hawkins | Alec Guinness | Sessue Hayakawa | James Donald | Geoffrey Horne | André Morell | Peter Williams | John Boxer | Percy Herbert | Harold Goodwin | Ann Sears | Heihachiro Okawa | Keiichiro Katsumoto | M.R.B. Chakrabandhu
Directors: David Lean
Download: DivX iPod 

The film deals with the situation of British prisoners of war during World War II who are ordered to build a bridge to accommodate the Burma-Siam railway. Their instinct is to sabotage the bridge but, under the leadership of Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness), they are persuaded that the bridge should be constructed as a symbol of British morale, spirit and dignity in adverse circumstances. At first, the prisoners admire Nicholson when he bravely endures torture rather than compromise his principles for the benefit of the Japanese commandant Saito (Sessue Hayakawa). He is an honorable but arrogant man, who is slowly revealed to be a deluded obsessive. He convinces himself that the bridge is a monument to British character, but actually is a monument to himself, and his insistence on its construction becomes a subtle form of collaboration with the enemy. Unknown to him, the Allies have sent a mission into the jungle, led by Warden (Jack Hawkins) and an American, Shears (William Holden), to blow up the bridge.

West Side Story (1961)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Natalie Wood | Richard Beymer | Russ Tamblyn | Rita Moreno | George Chakiris | Simon Oakland | Ned Glass | William Bramley | Tucker Smith | Tony Mordente | David Winters | Eliot Feld | Bert Michaels | David Bean | Robert Banas
Directors: Jerome Robbins
Download: DivX iPod 

This movie transplants the classic tale of “Romeo and Juliet” to New York City in the 1950s. The two feuding families are replaced by brawling street gangs. The Montagues become the Anglo Jets, led by Riff (Russ Tamblyn), and the Capulets become the Puerto Rican Sharks, led by Bernardo (George Chakiris). At a dance, Tony (Richard Beymer), former leader of the Jets and Riff’s best friend, and Maria (Natalie Wood), Bernardo’s little sister, see each other across the room and it’s love at first sight. With opposition from both sides, they meet secretly and their love grows deeper. However, the gangs are plotting one last rumble, a fight that will finally end the battle for control of the streets. Will Tony and Maria’s love carry through a battle that threatens to destroy the people they love around them? With a young, talented cast, a gorgeous score and dance sequences that need to be seen to believe, West Side Story is a must-see!

The Waterboy (1998)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Adam Sandler | Kathy Bates | Fairuza Balk | Henry Winkler | Jerry Reed | Larry Gilliard Jr. | Blake Clark | Peter Dante | Jonathan Loughran | Al Whiting | Clint Howard | Allen Covert | Rob Schneider | Todd Holland | Robert Kokol
Directors: Frank Coraci
Download: DivX iPod 

31-year-old waterboy, Bobby Boucher (Adam Sandler) is constantly tormented by the team he works for until he is fired by the coach. He then finds a new coach to work for. Here he finds a new talent, tackling people by pretending they’re making fun of them. Soon, he becomes the best linebacker in college football, but he must keep it secret from his overprotective mother (Kathy Bates).

Purple Rain (1984)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Prince | Apollonia Kotero | Morris Day | Olga Karlatos | Clarence Williams III | Jerome Benton | Billy Sparks | Jill Jones | Charles Huntsberry | Dez Dickerson | Brenda Bennett | Susan Moonsie | Sandra Claire Gershman | Kim Upsher | Alan Leeds
Directors: Albert Magnoli
Download: DivX iPod 

A young man with a talent for music has begun a career with much promise. He meets an aspiring singer, Apollonia, and finds that talent alone isn’t all that he needs. A complicated tale of his repeating his father’s self destructive behavior, losing Apollonia to another singer (Morris Day), and his coming to grips with his own connection to other people ensues.

Papillon (1973)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Biography | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Steve McQueen | Dustin Hoffman | Victor Jory | Don Gordon | Anthony Zerbe | Robert Deman | Woodrow Parfrey | Bill Mumy | George Coulouris | Ratna Assan | William Smithers | Val Avery | Gregory Sierra | Vic Tayback | Mills Watson
Directors: Franklin J. Schaffner
Download: DivX iPod 

Based on the true story of Henri Charriere, also known as Papillon, which is French for ‘butterfly’ (the character even sports a large tattoo of a butterfly. A petty criminal, Papillon is wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to life in a French penal colony in ‘Guiane’ (French Guiana, South America). Papillon is determined to escape but attempt after attempt meets with difficulty, resulting in eventual recapture. He continues his attempts to escape despite incarcerations in solitary confinement as punishment.

Rocky III (1982)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Talia Shire | Burt Young | Carl Weathers | Burgess Meredith | Tony Burton | Mr. T | Hulk Hogan | Ian Fried | Al Silvani | Wally Taylor | Jim Hill | Don Sherman | Dennis James | Jim Healy
Directors: Sylvester Stallone
Download: DivX iPod 

Rocky Balboa (Stallone) has finally beaten Apollo Creed (Weathers), and feels that he has nothing left to achieve. He plans to retire. Boxing brawler Clubber Lang (Mr. T) becomes the Number 1 Contender, and wants his match with Balboa. Rocky is reluctant at first, but finally agrees to take on Clubber Lang. But things go from bad to worse, where Rocky’s manager Micky (Meredith) unfortunately dies. Rocky must now train with his former opponent, Creed. Rocky now not just fighting for the title, but also for the confidence of everyone and especially of all, for Micky.

The Guns of Navarone (1961)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | War
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Gregory Peck | David Niven | Anthony Quinn | Stanley Baker | Anthony Quayle | James Darren | Irene Papas | Gia Scala | James Robertson Justice | Richard Harris | Bryan Forbes | Allan Cuthbertson | Michael Trubshawe | Percy Herbert | George Mikell
Directors: J. Lee Thompson
Download: DivX iPod 

1943. With the battle of Stalingrad turning the war against them, the Germans are attempting to bully neutral Turkey into joining the Axis; to this end they have trapped 2,000 British soldiers on Kiros, an island in the Aegean, with only one sea route for evacuation, a sea route commanded by two gigantic German antiship batteries deployed in a massive cliffside bunker on the island of Navarone. Immune to air attack and too much for Allied battleships to suppress, the British muster Keith Mallory, a commando officer who has been working on occupied Crete for nearly two years and who is an expert mountaineer, to ferry a team of British commandos to the only area of Navarone that is not monitored by the Germans, a 400-foot cliff. Greek resistance is to meet the team inland and guide them around German patrols to the area of the German guns. However, the commanding officer of the British team suffers grave injury in the climb and Mallory must take control of the mission, despite clashes with explosives expert John Anthony Miller, who upon the arrival of the night of the raid finds his equipment has been sabotaged, thus exposing a traitor in the team’s ranks.