Tag Archives: american abroad

Lost in Translation

IMDB Rating: 7.90
77219 votes

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Bob Harris is an American film actor, far past his prime. He visits Tokyo to appear in commercials, and he meets Charlotte, the young wife of a visiting photographer. Bored and weary, Bob and Charlotte make ideal if improbable traveling companions. Charlotte is looking for "her place in life," and Bob is tolerating a mediocre stateside marriage. Both separately and together, they live the experience of the American in Tokyo. Bob and Charlotte suffer both confusion and hilarity due to the cultural and language differences between themselves and the Japanese. As the relationship between Bob and Charlotte deepens, they come to the realization that their visits to Japan, and one another, must soon end. Or must they?
Actors
CharlotteScarlett Johansson
Bob HarrisBill Murray
Ms. KawasakiAkiko Takeshita
Also posted in 2003, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (2)

Kangaroo Jack

IMDB Rating: 4.00
5459 votes

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A comedy that follows the misadventures of two friends from Brooklyn who are forced to deliver mob money to Australia. While taking pictures of a kangaroo, one of them places his red jacket on it. When the wild kangaroo bounces off, they realize the mob money is in the jacket and are forced to give chase through the Outback.
Actors
Charlie CarboneJerry O'Connell
Louis BookerAnthony Anderson
JessieEstella Warren
Also posted in 2003, Adventure, Comedy, Crime | Comments (3)

City of Ghosts

IMDB Rating: 5.70
1628 votes

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A con man flees to Southeast Asia when an international scam he was involved in goes sour. Suspecting he's been double-crossed by his long-time mentor, he sets off to Cambodia for his promised cut. What he finds there is a mysterious and hostile environment where even the most polished criminal can end up on deadly ground.
Actors
JimmyMatt Dillon
MarvinJames Caan
SophieNatascha McElhone
Also posted in 2002, Crime, Drama, Thriller | Comments (0)

Straight Shooter

IMDB Rating: 5.30
280 votes

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After his daughter died of cancer, former French foreign legionnaire "Straight Shooter" alias Volker Bretz threatens those who financed, built, favoured and now work the nuclear power plant Atar II to kill one of them each day until the plant is shut down. His former drill sergeant, Frank Hector, who now owns several night clubs and brothels, is the only one who might be able to stop the maniac killing specialist. Frank is flown in instantly, but soon has to find out that his former comrade's actions might be a result from an event long ago.
Actors
Frank HectorDennis Hopper
Volker BretzHeino Ferch
Regina ToelleKatja Flint
Also posted in 1999, Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Talented Mr. Ripley

IMDB Rating: 7.10
37955 votes

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The 1950s. Manhattan lavatory attendant, Tom Ripley, borrows a Princeton jacket to play piano at a garden party. When the wealthy father of a recent Princeton grad chats Tom up, Tom pretends to know the son and is soon offered $1,000 to go to Italy to convince Dickie Greenleaf to return home. In Italy, Tom attaches himself to Dickie and to Marge, Dickie's cultured fiancée, pretending to love jazz and harboring homoerotic hopes as he soaks in luxury. Besides lying, Tom's talents include impressions and forgery, so when the handsome and confident Dickie tires of Tom, dismissing him as a bore, Tom goes to extreme lengths to make Greenleaf's privileges his own.
Actors
Tom RipleyMatt Damon
Marge SherwoodGwyneth Paltrow
Dickie GreenleafJude Law
Also posted in 1999, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (28)

Sabrina

IMDB Rating: 6.00
10274 votes

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While she was growing up, Sabrina Fairchild spent more time ] perched in a tree watching the Larrabee family than she ever did on solid ground.As the chauffeur's daughter on their lavish Long Island estate, Sabrina was invisible behind the branches, but she knew them all below... There is Maude Larrabee, the modern matriarch of the Larrabee Corporation; Linus Larrabee, the serious older son who expanded a successful family business into the world's largest communications company; and David, the handsome, fun-loving Larrabee, who was the center of Sabrina's world. Until she was shipped off to Paris. After two years on the staff of Vogue magazine, Sabrina has returned to the Larrabee estate, but now she has blossomed into a beautiful and sophisticated woman. And she's standing in the way of a billion dollar deal.
Actors
Linus LarrabeeHarrison Ford
Sabrina FairchildJulia Ormond
David LarrabeeGreg Kinnear
Also posted in 1995, Comedy, Drama, Romance | Comments (0)

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

IMDB Rating: 7.20
41815 votes

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It hadn't even been a year since a plantation owner named Louis had lost his wife, and now he had lost his will to live. A vampire named Lestat takes a liking to Louis and offers him the chance to become a creature of the night: a vampire. Louis accepts, and Lestat drains Louis' mortal blood and then replaces it with his own turning Louis into a vampire. Louis must learn from Lestat the ways of the vampire.
Actors
Lestat de LioncourtTom Cruise
Louis de Pointe du LacBrad Pitt
ClaudiaKirsten Dunst
Also posted in 1994, Drama, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Horror | Comments (0)

King Ralph

IMDB Rating: 4.80
3441 votes

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When an accident obliterates the British royal family and most of its branches, a desperate geneological search discovers the next king: Ralph, a sleazy American lounge singer. Can Ralph measure up to the job, even with the help of loyal aristocrat Willingham?
Actors
Ralph JonesJohn Goodman
Sir Cedric WillinghamPeter O'Toole
Lord Percival GravesJohn Hurt
Also posted in 1991, Comedy | Comments (0)

Last Tango in Paris (Ultimo tango a Parigi)

IMDB Rating: 6.90
6806 votes

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While looking for an apartment, Jeanne, a beautiful young Parisienne, encounters Paul, a mysterious American expatriate mourning his wife's recent suicide. Instantly drawn to each other, they have a stormy, passionate affair, in which they do not reveal their names to each other. Their relationship deeply affects their lives, as Paul struggles with his wife's death and Jeanne prepares to marry her fiance, Tom, a film director making a cinema-verite documentary about her.
Actors
PaulMarlon Brando
JeanneMaria Schneider
Rosa's MotherMaria Michi
Also posted in 1972, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

Charade

IMDB Rating: 8.00
14362 votes

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Regina Lambert returns to Paris from a ski holiday in Switzerland to find that her husband has been murdered. She is later told by CIA agent Hamilton Bartholemew that Charles Lambert was one of five men who stole $250,000 in gold from the U.S. government during World War II, and the government wants it back. The money was not found among his possessions, and Regina can shed no light on its whereabouts. Later that day she is visited by Peter Joshua, whom she had met briefly while on holiday. When her husband's former partners in crime, who were double-crossed by Charles, start calling her looking for the money, Peter offers to help find it. Thus begins an elaborate charade in which nothing is what it seems to be.
Actors
Peter JoshuaCary Grant
Regina 'Reggie' LampertAudrey Hepburn
H. BartholemewWalter Matthau
Also posted in 1963, Comedy, Crime, High IMDB rating, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | Comments (0)