03 Oct
Linus and Davis Larrabee are the two sons of a very wealthy family. Linus is all work — busily running the family corporate empire, he has no time for a wife and family. David is all play — technically he is employed by the family business, but never shows up for work, spends all his […]
Posted in 1954, Comedy, Romance, USA by: admin
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06 May
Director Billy Wilder salutes his idol, Ernst Lubitsch, with this comedy about a middle-aged playboy fascinated by the daughter of a private detective who has been hired to entrap him with the wife of a client.
Posted in 1957, Comedy, Drama, Romance, USA by: admin
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06 May
The battleship Missouri is about to be decomissioned. Casey Ryback is Captain Adam’s personal cook. And Ryback is always butting heads with the ship’s XO Commander Krill but the Captain always intercedes. One day, after the President visits the Missouri, which is also the Captain’s birthday, the Captain learns that a helicopter has been cleared […]
Posted in 1992, Action, Drama, France, Thriller, USA by: admin
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05 May
Whilst on leave, British agent James Bond prevents a young woman, Tracy Draco, from committing suicide. Her father is the head of a powerful crime syndicate who is impressed by Bond and wants him to protect his daughter by marrying her. In exchange he offers Bond information which will lead 007 to his arch enemy […]
Posted in 1969, Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller, UK by: admin
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05 May
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 […]
Posted in 1999, Crime, Drama, Thriller, USA by: admin
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05 May
The script begins as a young Hughes directs one of Scorsese’s favorite films, Hell’s Angels. Hughes was so obsessed with perfection in the aerial sequences that he waits forever for perfect conditions, right down to cloud formations. The Aviator ends in 1946, when Hughes was still a dashing young man and romancing actresses like Ava […]
Posted in 2004, Biography, Drama, Germany, Japan, USA by: admin
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14 Feb
Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. Goring knows the lady […]
Posted in 1999, Comedy, Romance, UK, USA by: admin
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14 Feb
Rich playboy Charley Pearl meets Vicki Anderson, singer at a nightclub. But she’s a gangster’s-moll, Bugsy Siegel’s, and when he finds the two of them in bed, he forces them to marry each other. Charley was going to marry his girlfriend but when she finds out about him and Vicki, she leaves him. And Vicki […]
Posted in 1991, Comedy, Romance, USA by: admin
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