Showing posts with label British. Show all posts
Showing posts with label British. Show all posts

Burke And Hare (2010)


Genre: Comedy
Starring: Simon Pegg, Isla Fisher, Christopher Lee, Tim Curry
Country: UK

Plot: A black comedy about two 19th century grave robbers who find a lucrative business providing cadavers for an Edinburgh medical school.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1320239/

Monsters (2010)


Genre: Sci-Fi / Drama
Starring: Whitney Able, Scoot McNairy
Country: British

Six years after Earth has suffered an alien invasion a cynical journalist agrees to escort a shaken American tourist through an infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the US border.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1470827/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsters_(2010_film)

Miss Conception (2008)


Genre: Comedy | Romance
Starring: Heather Graham, Mia Kirshner, Orlando Seale

Plot: Georgina is an ambitious young London professional who learns she has only one month left in which to conceive a child. After exhausting all possibilities with her baby-phobic boyfriend, Georgina turns to her wildly optimistic friend Clem, with whom she sets out to identify and "land" the perfect father for her child.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0985593/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Conception

StreetDance 3D (2010)


Genre: Drama
Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Nichola Burley, Jeremy Sheffield, Rachel McDowall

Plot: In order to win the Street Dance Championships, a dance crew is forced to work with ballet dancers from the Royal Dance School in exchange for rehearsal space.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1447972/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StreetDance_3D

The Railway Children (2000)


The Railway Children is a 2000 British drama television film based on the novel by E. Nesbit.
Genre:Family

Jenny Agutter (who played Bobbie in a 1970 film version) stars as Mother alongside Sir Richard Attenborough in a Masterpiece Theater television presentation of Edith Nesbit's popular novel. Set in Yorkshire at the dawn of the 20th century, The Railway Children is the story of three children whose father has been wrongfully imprisoned for espionage, though they know nothing of this; their mother refuses to tell them why the police took away their father. The children spend their free time exploring the mystery of their father's disappearance and gazing at the nearby railroad, in the hope that it will somehow bring them an answer. After they help prevent an accident on the railroad, the children are befriended by a mysterious old gentleman (Attenborough), who may be able to provide some answers.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0215111/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Railway_Children_(TV_film)

I Want Candy (2007)


I Want Candy is a 2007 British pornographic comedy from Ealing Studios.

Genre: Comedy, Erotic

Plot: Joe and Baggy are two misfit English film school students whose first movie goes awry. Desperate to finance their flick, they turn to a porn producer who agrees to give them the money needed in exchanges for the guys to cast a semi-retired adult film star named Candy (Carmen Electra). Though Candy agrees to the deal, but Joe and Baggy's efforts to make their own movie morphs into a raunchy show which they use Joe's suburban parents house as their set.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0791309/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Want_Candy_(film)

Chariots Of Fire (1981)


Chariots of Fire is a 1981 British film. It tells the fact-based story of two athletes in the 1924 Olympics: Eric Liddell, a devout Scottish Christian who runs for the glory of God, and Harold Abrahams, an English Jew who runs to overcome prejudice.

Genre: Drama | History | Sport
Plot: The story of two British track athletes, one a determined Jew, and the other a devout Christian who compete in the 1924 Olympics.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082158/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chariots_of_Fire

An Education (2009)

Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Plot: A coming-of-age story about a teenage girl in 1960s suburban London, and how her life changes with the arrival of a playboy nearly twice her age.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1174732/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Education

Easy Virtue (2008)


Genre: Comedy | Romance
Starring: Jessica Biel, Ben Barnes, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Colin Firth
Running time: 97 minutes
Country: United Kingdom (Briish)
Language: English
Tagline: Let's Misbehave!

Plot: A young Englishman marries a glamorous American. When he brings her home to meet the parents, she arrives like a blast from the future - blowing their entrenched British stuffiness out the window.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808244/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easy_Virtue_(2008_film)

The Hole (2001)


Genre: Horror / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Starring: Thora Birch, Desmond Harrington, Daniel Brocklebank, and Laurence Fox
Country: UK
Language: English
Tagline: Desperate To Get In. Dying To Get Out.

Plot: Four teenagers at a British private school secretly uncover and explore the depths of a sealed underground hole created decades ago as a possible bomb shelter.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0242527/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hole_(2001_film)

Tormented (2009)

Tormented (2009)
Genre: Comedy | Horror
Starring: Alex Pettyfer.April Pearson.Dimitri Leonidas
Release Date: 22 May 2009 (UK)
Country: UK
Language: English
Tagline: A New Class of Terror
Plot: A bullied teenager comes back from the dead to take revenge on his classmates.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1100053/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tormented_(2009_film)

The Tournament (2009)

The Tournament (2009)
Genre: Action
Director: Scott Mann
Country: UK
Language: English
Tagline: Every Ten Years The World's Greatest Assassins Gather ... Only One Will Survive
Starring: Ian Somerhalder,Robert Carlyle,Ving Rhames ..

Plot: Every seven years in an unsuspecting town, The Tournament takes place. A battle royale between 30 of the world’s deadliest assassins. The last man standing receiving the $10,000,000 cash prize and the title of Worlds No 1, which itself carries the legendary million dollar a bullet price tag.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0471041/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tournament_(film)

Frost Nixon (2008)

Frost Nixon (2008) PosterFrost Nixon (2008)

TiTLE.........[ Frost/Nixon
YEAR..........[ 2008
GENRE.........[ Drama | History
iMDB URL......[ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0870111/

PLOT SUMMARY
A dramatic retelling of the post-Watergate television interviews between British talk-show host David Frost and former president Richard Nixon.

The Boat That Rocked (2009)

The Boat That Rocked (2009)The Boat That Rocked (2009)

The Boat That Rocked is a British ensemble comedy film, released in the United Kingdom on 1 April 2009. After the film's commercial and critical failure in the UK, it was re-edited and retitled Pirate Radio for release in the United States and Canada on 13 November 2009. Set in 1966, it tells a story about a fictitious pirate radio station broadcasting from a ship to the United Kingdom.

AKA: Pirate Radio
Director: Richard Curtis
Genre: Comedy | Drama | Music | Romance
Runtime: 116 min
Country: UK | Germany | USA | France
Language: English
Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, Nick Frost, Kenneth Branagh

Plot: A period comedy about an illegal radio station in the North Sea in the 1960's.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1131729/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boat_That_Rocked

Endgame (2009)

Endgame (2009) posterEndgame (2009)

British film about the end of apartheid in South Africa

Director: Pete Travis
Genre: Drama, Biography
Running time: 101 mins.
Country: UK
Language: English
Starring: William Hurt, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jonny Lee Miller, Mark Strong
Derek Jacobi

Plot: A story based on the covert discussions that brought down the Apartheid regime in South Africa.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1217616/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endgame_(2009_film)

Love Actually (2003)

Love Actually (2003)Love Actually (2003)

Directed by: Richard Curtis
Genre: Comedy,Drama,Romance
Country: UK,USA
Language: English,Portuguese,French
Tagline: Love actually is all around.

Plot Outline:
Follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely and interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England.

Runtime: 135 min | Canada:129 min (Toronto International F... min

Awards: Nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Another 10 wins & 18 nominations
Cast (first 10): Bill Nighy, Gregor Fisher, Rory MacGregor, Colin Firth, Sienna Guillory, Liam Neeson, Emma Thompson, Lulu Popplewell, Kris Marshall, Heike Makatsch

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0314331/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Actually

Cheri (2009)

Cheri (2009)Cheri ~ Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Friend, Kathy Bates, and Felicity Jones

Genre: Romance

Cheri is a 2009 French/British/German drama film directed by Stephen Frears. Starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Rupert Friend, it is an adaptation of the novel by French author Colette. The film premiered at the 2009 Berlin International Film Festival.


Plot

Set in 1900s Belle Époque Paris, Cheri tells the story of the end of a six-year affair between an aging retired courtesan, Léa, and a flamboyant young man, Chéri. Turning stereotypes upside-down, it is Chéri who wears silk pyjamas and Léa's pearls, and who is the object of gaze.

Cast

Michelle Pfeiffer as Léa de Lonval
Rupert Friend as Fred 'Chéri' Peloux
Kathy Bates as Madame Charlotte Peloux
Felicity Jones as Edmée
Frances Tomelty as Rose
Anita Pallenberg as La Copine
Harriet Walter as La Loupiote
Iben Hjejle as Marie Laure

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheri_(film)
imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1179258/

Layer Cake (2004)

Layer Cake (2004)Layer Cake (2004)

Layer Cake is a 2004 British gangster thriller, directed by Matthew Vaughn. It is based on the novel Layer Cake by J. J. Connolly.

The title refers to the human social strata, especially in the British crime underworld, as well as the numerous plot layers in the film.

Starring: Daniel Craig, Colm Meaney,Kenneth Cranham,George Harris,Jamie Foreman,Sienna Miller,and Michael Gambo

Genre: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Release date: 2004
Running time: 105 min.
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0375912/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layer_Cake_(film)


Plot:

With a vast amount of money safely invested, a London cocaine peddler (Daniel Craig)
is preparing to leave England and start a new life. However, his gangland protector,
Jimmy Price (Kenneth Cranham), has other plans, sending him on a seemingly innocuous
errand that soon reveals itself as a deadly trap…

The Duchess (2008)

The Duchess (2008)The Duchess (2008)

The Duchess is a 2008 British drama film based on Amanda Foreman's best-selling biography of the 18th-century English aristocrat Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire. It was released in September 2008 in the UK. Originally to be directed by Susanne Bier, The Duchess was directed by Saul Dibb.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Duchess_(film)

TiTLE.........[ The Duchess
YEAR..........[ 2008
GENRE.........[ Drama | History
RUNTiME.......[ 1:50:02
iMDB RATE.....[ 7.2/10 (3,022 votes)
FXG RATE......[ 7.9/10 (2 votes)
iMDB URL......[ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0864761/

PLOT SUMMARY

A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life.

State Of Play (2009)

State Of Play (2009)State Of Play (2009) ~ Russell Crowe, Helen Mirren, Ben Affleck, and Rachel McAdams

STARRiNG: Russell Crowe,Ben Affleck,Rachel McAdams.
GENRE: Crime /Drama /Thriller
COUNTRY: USA | UK | France 2009
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

A team of investigative reporters work alongside a police detective to try to solve the murder of a congressman's mistress.


# http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0473705/
# http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Play_(film)
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