Tag Archives: 1900s

The Color Purple

IMDB Rating: 7.60
21677 votes

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This film follows the life of Celie, a young black girl growing up in the early 1900's. The first time we see Celie, she is 14 - and pregnant - by her father. We stay with her for the next 30 years of her tough life...
Actors
AlbertDanny Glover
Celie JohnsonWhoopi Goldberg
Shug AveryMargaret Avery
Also posted in 1985, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Peter Pan

IMDB Rating: 7.10
11965 votes

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In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime tales of swordplay, swashbuckling and the fearsome Captain Hook. But the children become the heroes of an even greater story, when Peter Pan flies into their nursery one night and leads them over moonlit rooftops through a galaxy of stars and to the lush jungles of Neverland. Wendy and her brothers join Peter and the Lost Boys in an exhilarating life—free of grown-up rules—while also facing the inevitable showdown with Hook and his bloodthirsty pirates.
Actors
Mr. Darling/Captain HookJason Isaacs
Peter PanJeremy Sumpter
SmeeRichard Briers
Also posted in 2003, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

The Time Machine

IMDB Rating: 7.60
8517 votes

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From the book by H.G. Wells, a scientist and tinkerer builds a time machine and uses it to explore the distant future where there are two races, a mild gentle race, and a cannibalistic one living underground. His machine is stolen by the underground race and he must risk being captured (and eaten) to return to his own time.
Actors
H. George WellsRod Taylor
David FilbyAlan Young
James FilbyAlan Young
Also posted in 1960, Adventure, High IMDB rating, Sci-Fi | Comments (0)

Lady and the Tramp

IMDB Rating: 7.40
10296 votes

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Lady, a golden cocker spaniel, meets up with a mongrel dog who calls himself the Tramp. He is obviously from the wrong side of town, but happenings at Lady's home make her decide to travel with him for a while. This turns out to be a bad move, as no dog is above the law.
Actors
Darling/Si/Am/PegPeggy Lee
LadyBarbara Luddy
TrampLarry Roberts
Also posted in 1955, Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, High IMDB rating, Musical, Romance | Comments (0)

Red Baron, The

IMDB Rating: 5.90
753 votes

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Baron Manfred von Richthofen (Schweighöfer) is the most feared and celebrated pilot of the German air force in World War I. To him and his companions, air combats are events of sporty nature, technical challenge and honorable acting, ignoring the terrible extent of war. But after falling in love with the nurse Käte (Headey), Manfred realizes he is only used for propaganda means. Caught between his disgust for the war, and the responsibility for his fighter wing, von Richthofen sets out to fly again.
Actors
Baron Manfred von RichthofenMatthias Schweighöfer
Werner VossTil Schweiger
KäteLena Headey
Also posted in 2008, Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, Romance, War | Comments (0)

Fiddler on the Roof

IMDB Rating: 7.70
11517 votes

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Film version of the stage musical, based on the stories of Sholom Aleichem. Tevye the Milkman is a Jewish peasant in pre-Revolutionary Russia, coping with the day-to-day problems of 'shtetl' life, his Jewish traditions, his family (wife and daughters), and state-sanctioned pogroms.
Actors
TevyeTopol
GoldeNorma Crane
Motel KamzoilLeonard Frey
Also posted in 1971, Drama, Family, High IMDB rating, Musical | Comments (0)

The Prestige

IMDB Rating: 8.20
57702 votes

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A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy — full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences. From the time that they first met as young magicians on the rise, Robert Angier and Alfred Borden were competitors. However, their friendly competition evolves into a bitter rivalry making them fierce enemies-for-life and consequently jeopardizing the lives of everyone around them. Set against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century London.
Actors
Robert AngierHugh Jackman
Alfred BordenChristian Bale
CutterMichael Caine
Also posted in 2006, Drama, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Finding Neverland

IMDB Rating: 8.20
29131 votes

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London, 1903: four lads, three women, and J.M. Barrie in the year he writes "Peter Pan." After one of his plays flops, Barrie meets four boys and their widowed mother in the park. During the next months, the child-like Barrie plays with the boys daily, and their imaginative games give him ideas for a play. Simultaneously, a friendship deepens with Sylvia, the lads' mother, to the chagrin of his wife Mary, with whom he spends little time (separate bedrooms), the widow's mother, and high society, which gossips about his attraction to the widow and to her sons. As Sylvia's health worsens, Barrie's ties to the boys strengthen and he must find a way to take his muse to Neverland.
Actors
Sir James Matthew BarrieJohnny Depp
Sylvia Llewelyn DaviesKate Winslet
Mrs. Emma du MaurierJulie Christie
Also posted in 2004, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

North to Alaska

IMDB Rating: 6.90
1594 votes

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Sam (John Wayne) and George (Stewart Granger) strike gold in Alaska. George sends Sam to Seattle to bring George's fiance back to Alaska. Sam finds she is already married, and returns instead with Angel (Capucine). Sam, after trying to get George and Angel together, finally romances Angel, who, in the meantime, is busy fighting off the advances of George's younger brother, Billy (Fabian). Frankie (Ernie Kovacs) is a con man trying to steal the partner's gold claim.
Actors
Sam McCordJohn Wayne
George PrattStewart Granger
Frankie CanonErnie Kovacs
Also posted in 1960, Comedy, High IMDB rating, Western | Comments (0)

Miss Potter

IMDB Rating: 7.30
4593 votes

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Thirty years old and single, Beatrix Potter lives in London with her social-climbing parents, who are exasperated that she has turned down any number of eligible young men. Her only real friends are the animals which since childhood she has lovingly drawn and made up stories about. She finally succeeds in selling a book of the stories, and it becomes Norman Warne's first project. He quickly falls in love with both the book and Beatrix and together they carefully arrange publication. This proves the first of many successes, offering her the possibility of escaping from both her parents' way of life and London.
Actors
Beatrix PotterRenée Zellweger
Norman WarneEwan McGregor
Millie WarneEmily Watson
Also posted in 2006, Biography, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)
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