|
|
Tagged with "oracle" 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: 6,
viewing:1-6
|
| Page:
1
|
| |
Plot Summary:
It is spring 480 BC, Persian King Xerxes, continuing his father Darius' master plan to conquer the Hellenic city-states, arrives in Hellas. The previous Persian invasion and diplomatic attempts have already turned most northern Hellas tribes and states to the Persian side. But the people of Athens and Sparta, the largest Hellenic powers at the time, feel quite insulted by the Persian emissaries' request to surrender to Xerxes, and so slay them. In Sparta, King Leonidas consults the local oracle, who gives two options: Either a spartan king will have to be sacrificed, or Sparta will be burned to the ground. A year earlier (481, BC) a Panhellenic consortium of all southern city-states had already recognized the superiority of the Spartan army (the best organized and trained army at the time) and had declared King Leonidas as supreme commander of the combined Hellenic army. It is then decided that a small force should block Xerxes' way to southern Hellas in the Thermopylae passage. This passage was, at that time, 12 meters wide. The great historian Herodotus, possibly exaggerating, states that there were 1,700,000 Persians (their true number could have been anywhere from 100,000 to 1,000,000) against 7,000 Hellenic hoplites and slaves, including the 300 men of the Spartan King elite guard. King Xerxes waited four days for the Hellenes to be frightened and eventually surrender and was quite astonished by his opponents' complete apathy. Xerxes tried to convince Leonidas to drop weapons, give up his position, kneel before him and live on as a local governor under Xerxes. King Leonidas replied "molon lave," which means "Come and get them." The three-day battle began, with the 300 Spartans and 700 Thespians (the other Hellenes where sent by Leonidas to protect passages to their flanks) slaying thousands of Persians with minimal losses. The whole Persian campaign would have failed if it hadn't been for Efialtes, who showed Xerxes a secret passage to the Hellenic flanks. After a final battle led by King Xerxes himself, the Hellenic force was slain and their heroism and glory was written forever in history. From the beginning of the battle, the Hellenes buried their dead in the spot where they fell. Then battle signs where made for the dead of each Hellenic faction. For the Pelloponisians, (including the 300 Spartans) the sign generally read (free translation) "In this place 4,000 Pelloponisians fought 30 millions)." For the 300 Spartans (Lakaedaemonians), the sign reads (free translation) "Oh foreigner, tell the Lakaedaemonians that we are buried here obeying their laws," meaning that they never hesitated and never retreated from the enemy. The impact of the battle was enormous for both sides. The Persians' morale dropped to zero, and the Hellenes lost their fear for the Persian conqueror and organized their defense. After several successful battles, the Hellenes ultimately defeated the Persian army and repelled their invasion in the Battle of Plataea in 479 BC.
| Genres: |
Action |
Drama |
History |
War |
|
|
| Actors: |
Gerard Butler |
Lena Headey |
Dominic West |
David Wenham |
Vincent Regan |
Michael Fassbender |
Tom Wisdom |
Andrew Pleavin |
Andrew Tiernan |
Rodrigo Santoro |
Giovani Cimmino |
Stephen McHattie |
Greg Kramer |
Alex Ivanovici |
Craig Kelly |
|
|
| Directors: |
Zack Snyder |
|
|
| Certification: |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Plot Summary:
Eddie Murphy plays a detective with a speciality of finding lost children. He is told he is the 'Chosen one' who will find and protect the Golden Child, a Bhuddist mystic who was kidnapped by an evil sorcerer. Murphy disbelieves the mysticism but finds more and more evidence of demon worship as he investigates.
| Genres: |
Action |
Adventure |
Comedy |
Fantasy |
Mystery |
|
|
| Actors: |
J.L. Reate |
Eddie Murphy |
Charles Dance |
Charlotte Lewis |
Victor Wong |
Randall 'Tex' Cobb |
James Hong |
Shakti |
Tau Logo |
Tiger Chung Lee |
Pons Maar |
Peter Kwong |
Wally Taylor |
Eric Douglas |
Charles Levin |
|
|
| Directors: |
Michael Ritchie |
|
|
| Certification: |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Plot Summary:
Neo, Morpheus, Trinity, and the rest of their crew continue to battle the machines that have enslaved the human race in the Matrix. As their quest unfolds, Neo learns more about his super-heroic abilities, including the ability to see the codes of the people and things around him. Simultaneously, now, more humans are waking up out of the Matrix and attempting to live in the real world. As their numbers grow, the battle moves to Zion—the last real-world city and center of human resistance.
| Genres: |
Action |
Sci-Fi |
Thriller |
|
|
| Actors: |
Keanu Reeves |
Laurence Fishburne |
Carrie-Anne Moss |
Ray Anthony |
Christine Anu |
Alima Ashton-Sheibu |
Helmut Bakaitis |
Steve Bastoni |
Don Battee |
Monica Bellucci |
Daniel Bernhardt |
Valerie Berry |
Ian Bliss |
Liliana Bogatko |
Michael Budd |
Stoney Burke |
Kelly Butler |
|
|
| Directors: |
Larry Wachowski |
Andy Wachowski |
|
|
| Certification: |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Plot Summary:
The machine army continues to drill towards Zion. Within hours, they will overrun the population of the Zionites and lay extinction to human kind. Meanwhile, Neo is held captive by the Merovingian at a train station. Trinity & Morpheus set out on a journey to release him from a mysterious train operator. Also, Smith resumes his quest to kill "Mr. Anderson" as he reveals his identity into the real world and resumes to replicate his program inside the system of The Matrix, causing it to decay. All hope is placed in the freed Neo, who must travel to the city of the machines in the Logos ship with Trinity and bargain to save each kingdom from destruction by finishing Smith once and for all. But even with his new powers over the sentinels, will he be able to fight them off?
| Genres: |
Action |
Sci-Fi |
Thriller |
|
|
| Actors: |
Carrie-Anne Moss |
Hugo Weaving |
Keanu Reeves |
Mary Alice |
Tanveer K. Atwal |
Helmut Bakaitis |
Kate Beahan |
Francine Bell |
Monica Bellucci |
Rachel Blackman |
Henry Blasingame |
Ian Bliss |
David Bowers |
Zeke Castelli |
Collin Chou |
Essie Davis |
Laurence Fishburne |
Nona Gaye |
|
|
| Directors: |
Larry Wachowski |
Andy Wachowski |
|
|
| Certification: |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Plot Summary:
In the near future, a computer hacker named Neo (Keanu Reeves) discovers that all life on Earth may be nothing more than an elaborate facade created by a malevolent cyber-intelligence, for the purpose of placating us while our life essence is "farmed" to fuel the Matrix's campaign of domination in the "real" world. He joins like-minded Rebel warriors Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) and Trinity (Carrie Ann Moss) in their struggle to overthrow the Matrix.
| Genres: |
Action |
Sci-Fi |
Thriller |
|
|
| Actors: |
Keanu Reeves |
Laurence Fishburne |
Carrie-Anne Moss |
Hugo Weaving |
Gloria Foster |
Joe Pantoliano |
Marcus Chong |
Julian Arahanga |
Matt Doran |
Belinda McClory |
Anthony Ray Parker |
Paul Goddard |
Robert Taylor |
David Aston |
Marc Gray |
|
|
| Directors: |
Larry Wachowski |
Andy Wachowski |
|
|
| Certification: |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Plot Summary:
Roving reporter Cindy Campbell sets out to find a hard news story in the middle of television sweeps. She soon uncovers an outrageous onslaught of globe-threatening developments including alien invaders, killer videotapes, freaky crop circles, prophecies of The One, eerie-eyed children, ambitious white rappers and even a run-in with Michael Jackson. Faced with conspiracies of massive proportions, and a crew of very strange people following her around, Cindy must fight to stop evil from taking over the world yet again.
| Genres: |
Comedy |
Horror |
|
|
| Actors: |
Denise Richards |
Leslie Nielsen |
Pamela Anderson |
Jenny McCarthy |
Marny Eng |
Charlie Sheen |
Simon Rex |
Jianna Ballard |
Jeremy Piven |
Anna Faris |
Timothy Stack |
Elaine Klimaszewski |
Diane Klimaszewski |
Camryn Manheim |
Drew Mikuska |
Regina Hall |
Darrell Hammond |
|
|
| Directors: |
David Zucker |
|
|
| Certification: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
