Tag Archives: rebellion

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)

Curse of the Golden Flower

IMDB Rating: 7.00
9520 votes

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China, Later Tang Dynasty, 10th Century. On the eve of the Chong Yang Festival, golden flowers fill the Imperial Palace. The Emperor (Chow Yun Fat) returns unexpectedly with his second son, Prince Jai (Jay Chou). His pretext is to celebrate the holiday with his family, but given the chilled relations between the Emperor and the ailing Empress (Gong Li), this seems disingenuous. For many years, the Empress and Crown Prince Wan (Liu Ye), her stepson, have had an illicit liaison. Feeling trapped, Prince Wan dreams of escaping the palace with his secret love Chan (Li Man), the Imperial Doctor's daughter. Meanwhile, Prince Jai, the faithful son, grows worried over the Empress's health and her obsession with golden chrysanthemums. Could she be headed down an ominous path? The Emperor harbors equally clandestine plans; the Imperial Doctor (Ni Dahong) is the only one privy to his machinations. When the Emperor senses a looming threat, he relocates the doctor's family from the Palace to a remote area. While they are en route, mysterious assassins attack them. Chan and her mother, Jiang Shi (Chen Jin) are forced back to the palace. Their return sets off a tumultuous sequence of dark surprises. Amid the glamour and grandeur of the festival, ugly secrets are revealed. As the Imperial Family continues its elaborate charade in a palatial setting, thousands of golden armored warriors charge the palace. Who is behind this brutal rebellion? Where do Prince Jai's loyalties lie? Between love and desire, is there a final winner? Against a moonlit night, thousands of chrysanthemum blossoms are trampled as blood spills across the Imperial Palace.
Actors
Emperor PingYun-Fat Chow
Empress PhoenixLi Gong
Prince JaiJay Chou
Also posted in 2006, Action, Adventure, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

IMDB Rating: 8.80
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The story of Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Princess Leia and the others didn't end with the destruction of the Death Star - it continues in THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK. Imperial forces have since driven the Rebels to hide on the ice world Hoth. But even on such an icy, backwater world, they cannot escape the wicked Darth Vader's eye for long, and he devastates the Rebel base in an assault with the horrible AT-AT walkers. Luke flees to Dagobah to begin Jedi Knight training with Yoda, while Han Solo, Chewbacca, Princess Leia and C-3PO run the blockade of Imperial Star Destroyers in the Millenium Falcon. The Imperials pursue them across the galaxy and eventually catch up with them at Bespin. Now Darth Vader plans to use them as bait to lure Luke Skywalker to him, and turns Han Solo over to Boba Fett as a prize to be delivered to crime lord Jabba the Hutt. Luke learns a terrible family secret after losing a swordfight with Vader. Will he - and the others - escape the Empire's clutches?
Actors
Luke Skywalker/Echo Base AnnouncerMark Hamill
Han SoloHarrison Ford
Princess Leia OrganaCarrie Fisher
Also posted in 1980, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Sci-Fi | Comments (1)

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)

Children of Men

IMDB Rating: 8.10
51494 votes

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With this dystopian world ravished by war, paranoia and the frustrations of Man the Orwellian vision of Nineteen Eighty-Four, the totalitarian future is now complete and amongst us. With female fertility becoming obsolete, Man cannot reproduce, and no child has been born on the face of the planet for eighteen years. Man, and his future, is dying. Soon he shall be extinct. Theo, the beaten, downtrodden and middle-aged ex-political activist will, unwittingly, become involved in a war of an underground revolt. Here he is active once more, in the perilous journey across England's Home Counties, with a young girl, Kee, who, to Theo's bewilderment is pregnant. The first pregnant woman for more than eighteen years. This secret must be protected, at all cost, and mother and child must flee to the mysterious and enigmatic Human Project, across the seas. Their flight is a constant fight for survival. Who can be trusted? Who can keep a secret?
Actors
Baby DiegoJuan Gabriel Yacuzzi
NewsreaderMichelle Hussain
NewsreaderRob Curling
Also posted in 2006, Adventure, Drama, High IMDB rating, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (0)

I, Robot

IMDB Rating: 7.00
43645 votes

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Set in a future Earth (2035 A.D.) where robots are common assistants and workers for their human owners, this is the story of "robotophobic" Chicago Police Detective Del Spooner's (Smith) investigation into the murder of Dr. Alfred Lanning (James Cromwell), who works at U.S. Robotics, in which a robot, Sonny (Tudyk), appears to be implicated, even though that would mean the robot had violated the Three Laws of Robotics, which is apparently impossible. It seems impossible because.. if robots can break those laws, there's nothing to stop them from taking over the world, as humans have grown to become completely dependent upon their robots. Or maybe... they already have? Aiding Spooner in his investigation is a psychologist, Dr. Susan Calvin (Moynahan), who specializes in the psyches of robots.
Actors
Del SpoonerWill Smith
Susan CalvinBridget Moynahan
SonnyAlan Tudyk
Also posted in 2004, Action, High IMDB rating, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (4)

The School of Rock

IMDB Rating: 7.30
31402 votes

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Down and out rock star Dewey Finn (Black) gets fired from his band, and he faces a mountain of debts and depression. He takes a job as a 4th grade substitute teacher at an uptight private school where his attitude and hijinx have a powerful effect on his students. He also meets Zack, a 10-year-old guitar prodigy, who could help Dewey win a "battle of the bands" competition, which would solve his financial problems and put him back in the spotlight.
Actors
Dewey FinnJack Black
TheoAdam Pascal
NeilLucas Papaelias
Also posted in 2003, Comedy, High IMDB rating, Music | Comments (2)

Star Trek: Nemesis

IMDB Rating: 6.40
17358 votes

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On their way to Riker's and Troi's honeymoon, the Enterprise is sent near the neutral zone to Romulan space, and picks up a prototypic twin of android Data. Immediately they are further sent to Romulus, where a new praetor, Shinzon, a human cloned from Captain Picard who lives on the slave planet Remus, appears to want peace with the Federation. But then the crew detects a break-in on their computer systems, and Picard is captured by the Remans because Shinzon needs him as his only matching supplier of genetic material. Picard and the Enterprise can escape, only to find themselves battling Shinzon's completely cloaked Warbird, who is after the complete destruction of earth.
Actors
Captain Jean-Luc PicardPatrick Stewart
Commander/Captain William T. RikerJonathan Frakes
Lt. Commander Data/B-4Brent Spiner
Also posted in 2002, Action, Adventure, Drama, High IMDB rating, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (10)

Equilibrium

IMDB Rating: 7.70
38637 votes

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In a futuristic world, a strict regime has eliminated war by suppressing emotions: books, art and music are strictly forbidden and feeling is a crime punishable by death. Cleric John Preston (Bale) is a top ranking government agent responsible for destroying those who resist the rules. Whe he misses a dose of Prozium, a mind-altering drug that hinders emotion, Preston, who has been trained to enforce the strict laws of the new regime, suddenly becomes the only person capable of overthrowing it.
Actors
SeamusDominic Purcell
John PrestonChristian Bale
Errol PartridgeSean Bean
Also posted in 2002, Action, High IMDB rating, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (0)

Planet of the Apes

IMDB Rating: 5.60
32868 votes

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It is the year 2029: Astronaut Leo Davidson (Mark Wahlberg) boards a pod cruiser on a Space Station for a "routine" reconnaissance mission. But an aburupt detour through a space time wormhole lands him on a strange planet where talking apes rule over the human race. With the help of a sympathetic chimpanzee activist named Ari (Helena Bonham-Carter) and a small band of human rebels, Leo leads the effort to evade the advancing Gorilla Army led by General Thade (Tim Roth) and his most trusted warrior Attar (Michael Clarke Duncan). Now the race is on to reach a sacred temple within the planet's Forbidden Zone to discover the shocking secrets of mankind's past - and the key to its future.
Actors
Captain Leo DavidsonMark Wahlberg
General ThadeTim Roth
AriHelena Bonham Carter
Also posted in 2001, Action, Sci-Fi | Comments (34)