Since I'm always looking for new titles, I'd like to build a small chart of your favourite movies, listed by genre. Anything goes, just follow the genre. Add Title, nation, year, actors and a small synopsis.
ACTION Ronin (USA/France, 2001) Robert DeNiro, Jean Reno, Natasha McElhone A team of mercenaries led by mysterious Deirdra (Natasha McElhone), tries to recover a mysterious case, contended by the Russian Mafia and Irish terrorists.
ADVENTURE Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade (USA, 1996) Harrison Ford, Sean Connery The archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones (Ford) is hired by a millionaire to investigate the location of the Holy Grail, after the disappearance of his father Henry Jones (Connery), hired to lead the research.
ANIMATION Urusei Yatsura Boy Meets Girl (Japan, 1986) The gorgeous alien Lum discovers that his grand-grandfather promised her to a prince from the Realm of Darkness. She utterly refuses, but the prince kidnaps her and decides to marry her.
COMEDY - Spaghetti a Mezzanotte (Italy, 1982) - with Lino Banfi, Barbara Bouchet, Teo Teocoli. A lawyer (Banfi) constantly on a diet accidentally kills an assassin sent to kill his unfaithful wife (Bouchet) and her lover (Teocoli). He will try to hide the corpse from the others, but things will soon start to complicate.
DRAMA The Doubt (USA, 2009) with Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman The affection showed by a priest (Hoffman) towards a coloured kid in a catholic school worries the schools principal (Streep) , whom tries to destroy his reputation.
DOCUMENTARY Farenheit 9/11 Michael Moore tries to track the real causes behind the World Trade Centers destruction.
FANTASTIC Spider-Man III (USA, 2006) Tobey McGuire, Thomas-Aden Church, James Franco The life of Peter Parker (McGuire) life is turned upside down by the arrival of a new enemy, who is suspected to be his uncles murderer, Flint Marko (Church). He will have to challenge him, and guard himself from his former friend Harry Osborne (Franco), seeking revenge over his fathers death.
HISTORICAL The Tree Of Wooden Clogs (Italy, 1976) with Luigi Ornahi, Francesca Moriggi, Omar Brignoli Northern Italy, 1897. The complicated lives of three families of poor landworkers who live in the same cascina. Batistì is forced to cut a tree in order to repair his sons clog. Widow Rack asks a miracle to the Virgin in order to save her cow, unique source of food for her and her 5 childrens. Stefano and Maddalena decide to marry, and are sent to Milan to get helped by her aunt. Finard has continuous fights with is slack son.
HORROR Silent Hill (Canada, 2004) with Radha Mitchell, Jodelle Ferland A woman (Mitchell), tries to cure her daughter (Ferland) from a severe form of sleepwalking taking her to the ghost town of Silent Hill. After a car accident, the kid disappears, and the woman embarks on a long journey to retrieve her from the horrible things happening in the city.
PARODY Mel Brooks History Of The World part 1 (USA, 1981) with Mel Brooks Mel Brooks revisits the history of the world, from the hominids to French Revolution.
ROMANTIC COMEDY Kissing Jessica Stein (USA, 2001) with Heather Juergensen, Jennifer Westfeldt A journalist (Westfeld) is trying to renew her life, therefore she answers the ad published by a woman (Juergensen) seeking for a mate
SCI-FI Stargate (USA, 1994) with Kurt Russel, James Spader An anonymous Egyptologist (Spader) is hired by the US Air Force to studies some mysterious symbols found in Giza in the 20s, together with an unknown device, which proves to be a portal to another world. Crossing the gate with a military team led by a colonel with suicidal tendencies (Russel), they will realize to have opened a Pandoras Box.
THRILLER Deep Red (Italy, 1975) with David Hemmings, Daria Nicolodi A pianist (Hemmings) witnesses the murder of a medium, and becomes himself the target of the murder. With the help of a journalist (Nicolodi) tries to catch the criminal before he gets him too.
WAR - Enemy At The Gates (USA/Germany/UK, 2000) Jude Law, Ed Harris Stalingrad, November 1942. Thanks to his shooting skills, Soviet sniper Vassilj Gregorevic Zaitsev becomes a war hero. The Germans decide to put after him their best sniper, Major König.
ACTION Ronin (USA/France, 2001) Robert DeNiro, Jean Reno, Natasha McElhone A team of mercenaries led by mysterious Deirdra (Natasha McElhone), tries to recover a mysterious case, contended by the Russian Mafia and Irish terrorists.
ADVENTURE Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade (USA, 1996) Harrison Ford, Sean Connery The archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones (Ford) is hired by a millionaire to investigate the location of the Holy Grail, after the disappearance of his father Henry Jones (Connery), hired to lead the research.
ANIMATION Urusei Yatsura Boy Meets Girl (Japan, 1986) The gorgeous alien Lum discovers that his grand-grandfather promised her to a prince from the Realm of Darkness. She utterly refuses, but the prince kidnaps her and decides to marry her.
COMEDY - Spaghetti a Mezzanotte (Italy, 1982) - with Lino Banfi, Barbara Bouchet, Teo Teocoli. A lawyer (Banfi) constantly on a diet accidentally kills an assassin sent to kill his unfaithful wife (Bouchet) and her lover (Teocoli). He will try to hide the corpse from the others, but things will soon start to complicate.
DRAMA The Doubt (USA, 2009) with Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman The affection showed by a priest (Hoffman) towards a coloured kid in a catholic school worries the schools principal (Streep) , whom tries to destroy his reputation.
DOCUMENTARY Farenheit 9/11 Michael Moore tries to track the real causes behind the World Trade Centers destruction.
FANTASTIC Spider-Man III (USA, 2006) Tobey McGuire, Thomas-Aden Church, James Franco The life of Peter Parker (McGuire) life is turned upside down by the arrival of a new enemy, who is suspected to be his uncles murderer, Flint Marko (Church). He will have to challenge him, and guard himself from his former friend Harry Osborne (Franco), seeking revenge over his fathers death.
HISTORICAL The Tree Of Wooden Clogs (Italy, 1976) with Luigi Ornahi, Francesca Moriggi, Omar Brignoli Northern Italy, 1897. The complicated lives of three families of poor landworkers who live in the same cascina. Batistì is forced to cut a tree in order to repair his sons clog. Widow Rack asks a miracle to the Virgin in order to save her cow, unique source of food for her and her 5 childrens. Stefano and Maddalena decide to marry, and are sent to Milan to get helped by her aunt. Finard has continuous fights with is slack son.
HORROR Silent Hill (Canada, 2004) with Radha Mitchell, Jodelle Ferland A woman (Mitchell), tries to cure her daughter (Ferland) from a severe form of sleepwalking taking her to the ghost town of Silent Hill. After a car accident, the kid disappears, and the woman embarks on a long journey to retrieve her from the horrible things happening in the city.
PARODY Mel Brooks History Of The World part 1 (USA, 1981) with Mel Brooks Mel Brooks revisits the history of the world, from the hominids to French Revolution.
ROMANTIC COMEDY Kissing Jessica Stein (USA, 2001) with Heather Juergensen, Jennifer Westfeldt A journalist (Westfeld) is trying to renew her life, therefore she answers the ad published by a woman (Juergensen) seeking for a mate
SCI-FI Stargate (USA, 1994) with Kurt Russel, James Spader An anonymous Egyptologist (Spader) is hired by the US Air Force to studies some mysterious symbols found in Giza in the 20s, together with an unknown device, which proves to be a portal to another world. Crossing the gate with a military team led by a colonel with suicidal tendencies (Russel), they will realize to have opened a Pandoras Box.
THRILLER Deep Red (Italy, 1975) with David Hemmings, Daria Nicolodi A pianist (Hemmings) witnesses the murder of a medium, and becomes himself the target of the murder. With the help of a journalist (Nicolodi) tries to catch the criminal before he gets him too.
WAR - Enemy At The Gates (USA/Germany/UK, 2000) Jude Law, Ed Harris Stalingrad, November 1942. Thanks to his shooting skills, Soviet sniper Vassilj Gregorevic Zaitsev becomes a war hero. The Germans decide to put after him their best sniper, Major König.
