Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe movie Titanik is a 1953 American drama film. Jean Negulesco directed it. Clifton Webb and Barbara Stanwyck are the leading actors. The film tells the story of the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanik in April 1912. As it is well known, the voyage ended with the catastrophic sinking Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe movie A Night at the Opera is a 1935 American comedy film. Sam Wood directed it. The actors are the Marx Brothers, and featuring Margaret Dumont and Sig Ruman. The Marx Brothers was an American comedy group. They used anarchic humor, rapid-fire wordplay and visual gags. They achieved success Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe movie The Strange Love of Martha Ivers is a 1946 American film noir. Lewis Milestone directed it. The main actors are Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott and Kirk Douglas (introducing). The film participated to the 1947 Cannes Film Festival. Sam Masterson (played by Heflin) was a soldier. Now Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe movie Dracula (1958) is a British Gothic horror picture. It is based on Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel of the same title. Terence Fisher directed it. The cast includes Christofer Lee (Count Dracula) and Peter Cushing (Doctor Van Helsing). It is the first vampire movie ever to be shot in Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe movie The Lady from Shanghai (1947) is an American film noir. Orson Welles produced and directed it. The main stars are Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane and Glen Anders. The film initially received mixed reviews. Yet, over the years it became very famous. It tells the story of Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe movie The French Connection is a 1971 American neo-noir action thriller film. Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Fernando Rey and Marcel Bozzuffi are the protagonists. William Friedkin directed it. At the 44th Academy Awards, the film earned eight nominations and won five ones (Best Picture, Best Actor (Hackman), Best Director, Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe movie Life of Brian is a 1979 British black comedy film. Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin, known as the Monty Pythons, star and wrote it. Graham Chapman directed it. The film’s themes of religious satire were – and to some extent Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe movie West Side Story is a 1961 American musical, romantic drama film. It was directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins. The cast includes Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno, Russ Tamblyn and George Chakiris. The story was inspired by Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet. The film Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe movie The Great Dictator is a 1940 American political satire (black comedy). It was written, directed and produced by Charlie Chaplin. Chaplin is also the main protagonist. The cast also includes Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie and Reginald Gardiner. Chaplin was the only Hollywood filmmaker who continued to Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe movie The movie Some Like it Hot (1959) is a crime comedy. It was directed, produced and co-written by Billy Wilder. The cast includes Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft and Joe E. Brown. Wilder shot Some Like it Hot in black and white simply because Lemmon Read more