Posts Tagged 'construction-site'

Agony and the Ecstasy, The

Categories: 1965, Drama, History, USA

Pope Julius is eager to leave behind works by which he will be remembered. To this end he cajoles Michelangelo into painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. When not on the battlefield uniting Italy, the Pope nags Michelangelo to speed up his painful work on the frescoes.

Schindler’s List

Categories: 1993, Biography, Drama, History, USA, War

“Schindler’s List” is the based-on-truth story of Nazi Czech business man Oskar Schindler, who uses Jewish labor to start a factory in occupied Poland. As World War II progresses, and the fate of the Jews becomes more and more clear, Schindler’s motivations switch from profit to human sympathy and he is able to save over [...]

10,000 BC

Categories: 2008, Adventure, New Zealand, USA

A prehistoric epic that follows a young mammoth hunter named D’Leh’s journey through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe. When a band of mysterious horse-riding warlords raid the Yaghal camp and kidnaps his heart’s desire – the beautiful Evolet along with many others, D’Leh is forced to lead a small group of [...]

Next Best Thing, The

Categories: 2000, Comedy, Drama, Romance, USA

A comedy-drama about best friends – one a straight woman, Abbie (Madonna), the other a gay man, Robert (Rupert Everett) – who decide to have a child together. Five years later, Abbie falls in love with a straight man and wants to move away with her and Robert’s little boy Sam, and a nasty custody [...]

Here on Earth

Categories: 2000, Drama, Romance, USA

The lives of three young people – a rich student, a girl from the “wrong side of the tracks” and her boyfriend – unexpectedly intersect during one fateful summer in the romantic drama “Here on Earth.” Kelley Morse (Chris Klein), who is cocky and brash, normally would never have crossed paths with the residents of [...]

Body of Lies

Categories: 2008, Action, Drama, Thriller, USA

Roger Ferris uncovers a lead on a major terrorist leader suspected to be operating out of Jordan.

Gandhi

Categories: 1982, Biography, Drama, History, India, UK

When ‘Mahatma Gandhi’ (qv) first set foot in British India, he had already been to Britain and South Africa, and had created quite a stir for the betterment of the people. But in India, he realized that he had first to live the life of a peasant to understand what it is to be an [...]

Runaway

Categories: 1984, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller, USA

A police officer specializes in runaway robots in the near future. When a robot becomes homicidal, he begins to unravel a mastermind’s plot to create killer robot weapons, and then the policeman becomes a target himself.

007 World Is Not Enough, The

Categories: 1999, Action, Adventure, Thriller, UK, USA

James Bond (Brosnan) is back. A oil tycoon is murdered in MI6 and Bond is sent to protect his daughter. Renard (Carlyle) who has a bullet lodged in his brain from a previous agent is secretly planning the destruction of a pipeline. Bond gains a hand from a research scientist, Dr. Christmas Jones (Richards) who [...]

007 World Is Not Enough, The

Categories: 1999, Action, Adventure, Thriller, UK, USA

James Bond (Brosnan) is back. A oil tycoon is murdered in MI6 and Bond is sent to protect his daughter. Renard (Carlyle) who has a bullet lodged in his brain from a previous agent is secretly planning the destruction of a pipeline. Bond gains a hand from a research scientist, Dr. Christmas Jones (Richards) who [...]

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