|
|
Tagged with "legend" keyword
|
Collapse or expand a single movie description by clicking on a blue bar to the left from the movie title. Expand all -
Collapse all
|
Total found: 20,
viewing:1-20
|
| Page:
1
|
| |
Plot Summary:
Baron Munchausen is a character of European myth that might be considered the predecessor of American tales of Pecos Bill or Paul Bunyan. The Baron's stories are taken to be outrageous and fanciful lies. This is the origin of the name of the psychiatric diagnosis of "Munchausen's Syndrome", a particularly bizzare form of hypochondria.
| Genres: |
Adventure |
Comedy |
Fantasy |
|
|
| Actors: |
John Neville |
Eric Idle |
Sarah Polley |
Oliver Reed |
Charles McKeown |
Winston Dennis |
Jack Purvis |
Valentina Cortese |
Jonathan Pryce |
Bill Paterson |
Peter Jeffrey |
Uma Thurman |
Alison Steadman |
Ray Cooper |
Don Henderson |
|
|
| Directors: |
Terry Gilliam |
|
|
| Certification: |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Plot Summary:
The story revolves around a dying father and his son, who is trying to learn more about his dad by piecing together the stories he has gathered over the years. The son winds up re-creating his father's elusive life in a series of legends and myths inspired by the few facts he knows. Through these tales, the son begins to understand his father's great feats and his great failings.
| Genres: |
Adventure |
Comedy |
Drama |
Fantasy |
|
|
| Actors: |
Ewan McGregor |
Albert Finney |
Billy Crudup |
Jessica Lange |
Helena Bonham Carter |
Alison Lohman |
Robert Guillaume |
Marion Cotillard |
Matthew McGrory |
David Denman |
Missi Pyle |
Loudon Wainwright III |
Ada Tai |
Arlene Tai |
Steve Buscemi |
|
|
| Directors: |
Tim Burton |
|
|
| Certification: |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Plot Summary:
The movie begins in the small town of Elerslie, Scotland. William lives with his father, who is not named in the film, and his older brother Malcolm. William's father and older brother are called to a meeting a few miles from their home where they find the entire nobility of Scotland hanging. Malcolm and his father then go to a battle between the British and their clan, both die tragically. At the funeral William meets his uncle Argyle who fought in the battle with Malcolm and his father. He takes him away to live with him. The scene then cuts to an adult William on his horse. William later runs into a girl he knew before he went to live with Argyle, her name, Murron, we discover that Lords have the right to sleep with brides on their wedding night, so William marries Murron in secret. Murron is the assaulted by a British guard, the guard is killed by William, a fight ensues, and eventually Murron is killed by the lord. This enrages Wallace who then build himself a fine army entering city's and killing all Englishman within. Wallace prepares to move on to Sterling where he prepared for his greatest battle yet, in the forest he realises that he must find a way to beat the heavy cavalry from the ground, he decided to create spears twice as long as men. These were used in the battle to kill the entire heavy cavalry raised at the last minute to kill the on coming horses. Eventually Wallace reaches York, the most important military city he gains control. Williams final battle at Falkirk ends in his betrayal by two nobles, whom he later kills. William is betrayed by the leper father of Robert the Bruce, is captured and refuses to bow down as a loyal subject of the king Edward I, Longshanks. Therefore, instead of mere beheading William Wallace is subject to being Hung, hung within an inch of death. Drawn, being stretched by his ankles and wrists and then having his insides shown to him before he died. Then Quartered, he was beheaded and his head was put on the London Bridge his body was torn into for pieces one sent to each corner of Britain as a warning to the citizens. After Wallace's death we see Robert the Bruce led the battle of Bannockburn the last battle for Scotland's freedom.
| Genres: |
Action |
Biography |
Drama |
War |
|
|
| Actors: |
Mel Gibson |
James Robinson |
Sandy Nelson |
James Cosmo |
Sean Lawlor |
Alan Tall |
Andrew Weir |
Gerda Stevenson |
Ralph Riach |
Mhairi Calvey |
Brian Cox |
Patrick McGoohan |
Peter Hanly |
Sophie Marceau |
|
|
| Directors: |
Mel Gibson |
|
|
| Certification: |
|
|
|
|
|
 |
Congo
Where you are the endangered species
[1995,
USA] from $1.99
|
 |
|
| |
Plot Summary:
Greed is bad, this simple morality tale cautions. A megalomaniacal C.E.O. sends his son into the dangerous African Congo on a quest for a source of diamonds large enough and pure enough to function as powerful laser communications transmitters (or is it laser weapons?). When contact is lost with his son and the team, his sometime daughter- in-law is sent after them. She is a former CIA operative and, accompanied by gee-whiz gadgetry and a few eccentric characters (including a mercenary, a researcher with a talking gorilla, and a a nutty Indiana-Jones-type looking for King Solomon's Mines), sets out to rescue her former fiance. What they all discover is that often what we most want turns out to be the source of our downfall.
| Genres: |
Action |
Adventure |
Mystery |
Sci-Fi |
|
|
| Actors: |
Laura Linney |
Dylan Walsh |
Ernie Hudson |
Tim Curry |
Grant Heslov |
Joe Don Baker |
Lorene Noh |
Mary Ellen Trainor |
Misty Rosas |
Stuart Pankin |
Carolyn Seymour |
Romy Rosemont |
James Karen |
Bill Pugin |
Lawrence T. Wrentz |
|
|
| Directors: |
Frank Marshall |
|
|
| Certification: |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Plot Summary:
Eugene is an extraordinary talent in classic guitar, but he dreams of being a famous Blues guitarist. So he investigates to find a storied lost song. He asks the legendary Blues musician Willie Brown to help him, but Willie demands to free him from the old-people's prison first and to really learn the blues on the way to it's origin: Mississippi Delta. Eugene doesn't know yet about Willie's deal with the devil, that he now wants to revoke.
| Genres: |
Drama |
Music |
Mystery |
Romance |
|
|
| Actors: |
Ralph Macchio |
Joe Seneca |
Jami Gertz |
Joe Morton |
Robert Judd |
Steve Vai |
Dennis Lipscomb |
Harry Carey Jr. |
John Hancock |
Allan Arbus |
Gretchen Palmer |
Al Fann |
Wally Taylor |
Tim Russ |
Tex Donaldson |
|
|
| Directors: |
Walter Hill |
|
|
| Certification: |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Plot Summary:
Lancelot lives by the sword. In fact, they're next door neighbours, so teaming up to fight for money comes pretty naturally. Lady Guinevere, on her way to marry King Arthur is ambushed by the evil Sir Malagant. Fortunately Lancelot is lurking nearby and he rescues his future queen. They fall in love, but Guinevere still fancies the idea of wearing a crown, so she honours her promise to Arthur. Can Lady Guinevere remain faithful, or will this Pretty Woman become a lady of the knight?
| Genres: |
Adventure |
Drama |
Romance |
|
|
| Actors: |
Sean Connery |
Richard Gere |
Julia Ormond |
Ben Cross |
Liam Cunningham |
Christopher Villiers |
Valentine Pelka |
Colin McCormack |
Ralph Ineson |
John Gielgud |
Stuart Bunce |
Jane Robbins |
Jean Marie Coffey |
Paul Kynman |
Tom Lucy |
|
|
| Directors: |
Jerry Zucker |
|
|
| Certification: |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Plot Summary:
After Zeus fights and sends the Titans to the underworld, he becomes the ruler of Mount Olympus, home of all greek gods. Hades is sent to rule the underworld, but he makes plans to throw Zeus out of Mount Olympus with the Titans' help. The three Fates warn him that his plans would be endangered if Hercules, Zeus newborn child, is still around by the time he tries to take over Mount Olympus. Hades sends Pain and Panic to turn Hercules into a mortal and kill him, but they fail in their attempt and leave him on earth with his divine strength to be raised as a human. Hercules grows up but later learns he is the son of gods, and in order to return to Mt. Olympus he must turn into a "true hero". He is trained by Phil the satyr and becomes the most famous hero in ancient Greece after battling monsters of all kinds. He even saves Mt. Olympus from Hade's take-over, but he only becomes a god again after he offers to exchange his life in order to save Meg, his love, from Hades' underworld and shows that a true hero must have a strong heart and not only physical strength.
| Genres: |
Adventure |
Animation |
Comedy |
Family |
Musical |
|
|
| Actors: |
Charlton Heston |
Tate Donovan |
Josh Keaton |
Roger Bart |
Danny DeVito |
James Woods |
Susan Egan |
Bob Goldthwait |
Matt Frewer |
Rip Torn |
Samantha Eggar |
Barbara Barrie |
Hal Holbrook |
Paul Shaffer |
Amanda Plummer |
Carole Shelley |
|
|
| Directors: |
John Musker |
|
Ron Clements |
|
|
| Certification: |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Plot Summary:
In ancient China, before the reign of the first emperor, warring factions throughout the Six Kingdoms plot to assassinate the most powerful ruler, Qin. When a minor official defeats Qin's three principal enemies, he is summoned to the palace to tell Qin the story of his surprising victory.
| Genres: |
Action |
Adventure |
Drama |
|
|
| Actors: |
Jet Li |
Tony Leung Chiu Wai |
Maggie Cheung |
Ziyi Zhang |
Daoming Chen |
Donnie Yen |
Liu Zhong Yuan |
Zheng Tia Yong |
Yan Qin |
Chang Xiao Yang |
Zhang Ya Kun |
Ma Wen Hua |
Jin Ming |
Xu Kuang Hua |
Wang Shou Xin |
|
|
| Directors: |
Yimou Zhang |
|
|
| Certification: |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Plot Summary:
The latest installment in the "I Know What You Did Last Summer" franchise focuses on a seemingly harmless Fourth of July prank that ends in the unexpected death of a friend of four teens from a small Colorado town who make a pact to keep the death a secret (despite one's desperate protest). Over the course of the following year, the four teens find their friendships all horribly strained and all but terminated completely from the trauma. Come the next Fourth of July, just before the town's annual carnival, the four teens all find themselves being victimized by a mysterious menace when they begin to receive intimidating calling cards indicating someone is aware of what happened before. The group suspect the cousin of the dead friend, only to discover they are very much on the wrong track. Can the friends survive and figure out the identity of their tormentor before they end up dead themselves?
| Genres: |
Horror |
Mystery |
Thriller |
|
|
| Actors: |
Brooke Nevin |
David Paetkau |
Torrey DeVitto |
Ben Easter |
Seth Packard |
K.C. Clyde |
Clayton Taylor |
Michael Flynn |
Britt Leary |
Star LaPoint |
Junior Richard |
Levy Whitlock |
Chad Chiniquey |
Manny Slack |
James Jamison |
|
|
| Directors: |
Sylvain White |
|
|
| Certification: |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Plot Summary:
Renowned archeologist and expert in the occult, Dr. Indiana Jones, returns for the 3rd and final Indy film. Teaming up with his father, Indiana sets out to try and find the Holy Grail. Once again, the Nazis are after the same prize, and try to foil Indianas plans.
| Genres: |
Action |
Adventure |
Fantasy |
Thriller |
|
|
| Actors: |
Sean Connery |
John Rhys-Davies |
Kevork Malikyan |
Denholm Elliott |
Julian Glover |
River Phoenix |
Michael Byrne |
Alison Doody |
Robert Eddison |
|
|
| Directors: |
|
|
| Certification: |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Plot Summary:
An ancient Ring thought lost for centuries has been found, and through a strange twist in fate has been given to a small Hobbit named Frodo. When Gandalf discovers the Ring is in fact the One Ring of the Dark Lord Sauron, Frodo must make an epic quest to the Cracks of Doom in order to destroy it! However he does not go alone. He is joined by Gandalf, Legolas the elf, Gimli the Dwarf, Aragorn, Boromir and his three Hobbit friends Merry, Pippin and Samwise. Through mountains, snow, darkness, forests, rivers and plains, facing evil and danger at every corner the Fellowship of the Ring must go. Their quest to destroy the One Ring is the only hope for the end of the Dark Lords reign!
| Genres: |
Action |
Adventure |
Fantasy |
Thriller |
|
|
| Actors: |
Noel Appleby |
Elijah Wood |
Sean Astin |
Sala Baker |
Sean Bean |
Cate Blanchett |
Orlando Bloom |
Billy Boyd |
Marton Csokas |
Megan Edwards |
Michael Elsworth |
Mark Ferguson |
Ian Holm |
Ian McKellen |
Christopher Lee |
Lawrence Makoare |
|
|
| | |
