Tag Archives: passion

Romeo and Juliet

IMDB Rating: 7.70
8432 votes

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Shakespeare's classic tale of romance and tragedy. Two families of Verona, the Montagues and the Capulets, have been feuding with each other for years. Young Romeo Montague goes out with his friends to make trouble at a party the Capulets are hosting, but while there he spies the Capulet's daughter Juliet, and falls hopelessly in love with her. She returns his affections, but they both know that their families will never allow them to follow their hearts.
Actors
RomeoLeonard Whiting
JulietOlivia Hussey
MercutioJohn McEnery
Also posted in 1968, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

Anna Karenina

IMDB Rating: 5.90
1464 votes

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Anna is a young and elegant wife of Mr. Karenin, who is wealthy and old. She meets the handsome Count Vronsky. Anna and Vronsky fall in love with each other, and he comes to be with her in St. Petersburg. They are very happy together and make a great looking couple, but soon their happiness gets under social pressures. Anna is hopelessly begging Mr. Karenin for a divorce, but he wants to keep the mother of their child. She has another baby born from her lover Vronsky. Conflict between her untamed desires and painful reality causes her a depression...
Actors
Anna KareninaSophie Marceau
VronskySean Bean
LevinAlfred Molina
Also posted in 1997, Drama, Romance | Comments (0)

Amistad

IMDB Rating: 7.00
16375 votes

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AMISTAD is about a 1839 mutiny onboard a slave ship that is traveling towards the Northeast Coast of America. Much of the story involves a court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt.
Actors
JoadsonMorgan Freeman
Martin Van BurenNigel Hawthorne
John Quincy AdamsAnthony Hopkins
Also posted in 1997, Drama, High IMDB rating, History, Mystery | Comments (1)

Unfaithful

IMDB Rating: 6.60
10337 votes

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Connie Sumner has a loving husband, a beautiful home, and a wonderful son, but she wants more. When she's approached one day by a handsome stranger while trying to hail a taxi, she becomes obsessed with him and eventually starts an affair. But her selfish actions soon catch up with her...
Actors
Constance 'Connie'/'Con' SumnerDiane Lane
Charlie SumnerErik Per Sullivan
Edward 'Ed' SumnerRichard Gere
Also posted in 2002, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (7)

Bread and Roses

IMDB Rating: 7.10
1380 votes

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Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Rosa gets Maya a job as a janitor: a non-union janitorial service has the contract, the foul-mouthed supervisor can fire workers on a whim, and the service-workers' union has assigned organizer Sam Shapiro to bring its "justice for janitors" campaign to the building. Sam finds Maya a willing listener, she's also attracted to him. Rosa resists, she has an ailing husband to consider. The workers try for public support; management intimidates workers to divide and conquer. Rosa and Maya as well as workers and management may be set to collide.
Actors
MayaPilar Padilla
Sam ShapiroAdrien Brody
RosaElpidia Carrillo
Also posted in 2000, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Legends of the Fall

IMDB Rating: 6.80
15702 votes

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Set in the Rocky Mountains of Montana in the early 1900s, this is a tale of love, betrayal, and brotherhood. After being discharged, Colonel Ludlow decides to raise his three sons in the wilds of Montana, where they can grow up away from the government and society he has learned to dispise. The three brothers mature and seem to have an unbreakable bond, until Susanna enters their lives. When Samuel, the youngest of the three, returns from college he brings with him his beautiful fiance, Susanna. The eldest son, Alfred, soon finds himself in love with his brother's fiance, and things get worse when he discovers a growing passion between Susanna and Tristan. Colonel Ludlow's favorite son, Tristan is willful and as wild as the mountains. As the brothers set out to fight a war in Europe, suspicion and jelousy threatens to tear apart their once indestructable bond.
Actors
Tristan LudlowBrad Pitt
Col. William LudlowAnthony Hopkins
Alfred LudlowAidan Quinn
Also posted in 1994, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance, Western | Comments (0)

Basic Instinct

IMDB Rating: 6.70
22321 votes

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Former rock star and San Francisco nightclub owner Johnny Boz is found murdered in his bed. Detective Nick Curran is assigned to the case; he has a history of alcoholism and drug abuse although he is clean now. The prime suspect is Catherine Tramell, an attractive and manipulative novelist who had been seeing Boz for a while. Police psychiatrist Beth Gardner (who happens to be Nick's ex-girlfriend) is brought in on the case when it is discovered that Boz's murder was copied directly from one of Catherine's novels. Nick starts to get too involved and everyone seems to be a suspect.
Actors
Det. Nick CurranMichael Douglas
Catherine TramellSharon Stone
Gus MoranGeorge Dzundza
Also posted in 1992, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)