The Bounty 1984  PG, 130 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama
Director: Roger Donaldson
Cast: Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Edward Fox, Daniel Day-Lewis, Bernard Hill, Philip Davis, Liam Neeson, Wi Kuki Kaa, Tevaite Vernette, Philip Martin Brown, Simon Chandler, Malcolm Terris, Simon Adams, John Sessions
In this remake of the Clark Gable classic "Mutiny on the Bounty," Mel Gibson portrays seaman Fletcher Christian with Anthony Hopkins as a strict, but this time more humane, Captain Bligh. Bligh's cruelty, which includes flogging, results in a mutiny led by Fletcher Christian as they sail around Cape Horn. After the mutiny, they seek refuge on Tahiti where even more problems lie ahead.
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Hollow Reed 1996  N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Angela Pope
Cast: Martin Donovan, Joely Richardson, Ian Hart, Jason Flemyng, Sam Bould, Shaheen Khan, Kelly Hunter, Tim Crouch, Jane Hill, Simon Chandler
When Martyn Wyatt (Martin Donovan) admits to being homo-sexual, his marriage to Hannah (Joely Richardson) unravels, and he loses custody of their son, Oliver. But it soon becomes apparent that Oliver is suffering from beatings at the hands of Hannah's lover, Frank Donally (Jason Flemyng), which leaves Martyn with no choice but to go through the court system in his fight for Oliver.
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Incognito 1997  R, 108 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Badham
Cast: Jason Patric, Irene Jacob, Thomas Lockyer, Ian Richardson, Simon Chandler, Pip Torrens, Michael Cochrane, Rod Steiger, Togo Igawa, Joseph Blatchley
Artist Harry Donovan (Jason Patrick) is hired by a British art gallery to forge a Rembrandt (that has been lost for over 300 years). The price: $500,000. Meanwhile, he meets and has a one-night stand with Marieke (Irene Jacob), who happens to be a Rembrandt expert and who later is hired to evaluate the painting's authenticity. So it's off to Europe to research and paint, but the plans go awry when Marieke declares the painting a fake and Harry runs for his life–with Marieke as a hostage.
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 The Lord of the Rings 1978 PG, 135 min.
Genre: Animation / Adventure / Fantasy
Director: Ralph Bakshi
Cast: Christopher Guard, John Hurt, Dominic Gould, Michael Scholes, William Squire, Andre Morell, Norman Bird, Annette Crosbie, Anthony Daniels, Simon Chandler, Michael Graham Cox, David Buck, Peter Woodthorpe, Fraser Kerr
The Hobbits and Middle Earth are the focus of this film–a combination of animation and live-action cinema–covering part of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic trilogy. The Hobbit Frodo (voice of Christopher Guard) is assigned the mission of destroying the all-powerful, magical ring that allows its users to rule the world. With warriors Gandelf (voice of William Squire), Aragorn (voice of John Hurt), and Boromin (voice of Michael Graham Cox) in tow, Frodo sets off on a difficult journey, eluding the evil Mordor's warriors, to take the ring to a place where it can be destroyed.
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The Man Who Knew Too Little 1997 PG-13, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jon Amiel
Cast: Bill Murray, Joanne Whalley, Peter Gallagher, Alfred Molina, Richard Wilson, Geraldine James, John Standing, Anna Chancellor, Nicholas Woodeson, Simon Chandler
Wallace Ritchie (Bill Murray) travels to London to visit his brother James (Peter Gallagher) and is given a ticket to an audience participation game, "Theater of Life." He is then mistaken for someone else and ends up at the center of an espionage plot.
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer 2006 R, 147 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Tom Tykwer
Cast: Ben Whishaw, Dustin Hoffman, Alan Rickman, Rachel Hurd-Wood, John Hurt, David Calder, Simon Chandler, Sian Thomas, Corinna Harfouch, Birgit Minichmayr, Paul Berrondo, Jessica Schwartz
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille (Ben Whishaw) has a unique ability of using his superb olfactory senses and apprentices himself to perfume maker Guiseppe Baldini (Dustin Hoffman) to learn how to capture those scents. After his lessons, Grenouille is able to create popular aromas, but his perfumes are made from the corpses of fresh-smelling virgins who he must kill in order to create scents that he hopes will be so sublime that they will erase the world's evils.
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The Rising: Ballad of Mangal Pandey 2005 N/R, 150 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ketan Mehta
Cast: Aamir Khan, Rani Mukherjee, Toby Stephens, Amisha Patel, Kiron Kher, Coral Beed, Mona Ambegaonkar, Alyssa Fountoutalis, Simon Chandler, Ben Nealon
Mangal Pandey (Aamir Khan) serves as a sepoy (an infantryman) for the British East India Company in the 1850s–at a time when that company controlled much of India. After Mangal saves the life of British Captain William Gordon (Toby Stephens), the two become friends, which is unusual in an era when the British looked down on their Indian counterparts. As time goes on, prejudice erupts into rebellion with Mangal leading the Indian people in a mutiny. Based on a true story.
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| 1. The Bounty (1984)
2. Hollow Reed (1996)
3. Incognito (1997)
4. The Lord of the Rings (1978)
5. The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997)
6. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)
7. The Rising: Ballad of Mangal Pandey (2005)
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