Posts Tagged ‘ghost’



Hamlet (1948)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Laurie, John | Knight, Esmond | Quayle, Anthony | MacGinnis, Niall | Williams, Harcourt | Troughton, Patrick | Tarver, Tony | Cushing, Peter | Holloway, Stanley | Thorndike, Russell | Sydney, Basil | Herlie, Eileen | Wooland, Norman | Aylmer, Felix
Directors: Olivier, Laurence
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William Shakespeare’s tale of tragedy of murder and revenge in the royal halls of medieval Denmark. Claudius, brother to the King, conniving with the Queen, poisons the monarch and seizes the throne, taking the widowed Gertrude for his bride. Hamlet, son of the murdered King, mournful of his father’s death and mother’s hasty marriage, is confronted by the ghost of the late King who reveals the manner of his murder. Seeking revenge, Hamlet recreates the monstrous deed in a play with the help of some traveling actors to torment the conscience of the evil Claudius. In a visit with his mother, Hamlet expresses his anger and disappointment concerning her swiftly untimed marriage. Thinking a concealed spy in his mother’s chamber to be the lurking Claudius, he mistakenly kills the meddling counselor, Polonius, father of Ophelia and Laertes. Claudius, on the pretext that Hamlet will be endangered by his subjects for the murder of Polonius, sends the prince to England.

Fiddler on the Roof (1971)

Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Family | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Topol | Crane, Norma | Frey, Leonard | Picon, Molly | Mann, Paul | Harris, Rosalind | Marsh, Michele | Small, Neva | Glaser, Paul Michael | Lovelock, Ray | Edwards, Elaine | Bonstein, Candy | Ruskin, Shimen | Scooler, Zvee | Zorich, Louis
Directors: Jewison, Norman
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Film version of the stage musical, based on the stories of Sholom Aleichem. Tevye the Milkman is a Jewish peasant in pre-Revolutionary Russia, coping with the day-to-day problems of ’shtetl’ life, his Jewish traditions, his family (wife and daughters), and state-sanctioned pogroms.

Christmas Carol, A (1999)

Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Stewart, Patrick | Grant, Richard E. | Joel Grey | McNeice, Ian | Reeves, Saskia | Barrit, Desmond | Lloyd, Bernard | West, Dominic | Peacock, Trevor | Smith, Liz | Spriggs, Elizabeth | Kenny Doughty | Fraser, Laura | Imrie, Celia | Franklyn-Robbins, John
Directors: David Hugh Jones
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Scrooge is a miserly old businessman in 1840’s London. One Christmas Eve he is visited by the ghost of Marley, his dead business partner. Marley foretells that Scrooge will be visited by three spirits, each of whom will attempt to show Scrooge the error of his ways. Will Scrooge reform his ways in time to celebrate Christmas?

Ghost Town (2008)

Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Kinnear, Greg | Carlos, Jordan | Moore, Dequina | Badalucco Jr., Joseph | Hutchison, Brian | Simpson, Tyree Michael | Murney, Julia K. | Gervais, Ricky | Lautier, Claire | Mandvi, Aasif | Moloney, Bridget | Lee, Raymond J. | Mazzarino, Joey | Oscar, Brad | Landis, Kathleen
Directors: Koepp, David
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Bertram Pincus is a man whose people skills leave much to be desired. When Pincus dies unexpectedly, but is miraculously revived after seven minutes, he wakes up to discover that he now has the annoying ability to see ghosts. Even worse, they all want something from him, particularly Frank Herlihy who pesters him into breaking up the impending marriage of his widow Gwen. That puts Pincus squarely in the middle of a triangle with spirited result.

Haunting of M., The (1981)

Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Genres: Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Gilbey, Sheelagh | Pitt, Nini | Garratt, Evie | Hay, Alan | Matthews, Jo Scott | Bryan, William | Austin, Peter | Bale, Ernest | Cazelet, Isolde | Pepper, Varvara | Stenson, Peter | Greenaway, Jenny | Williams, Gwen | Melvin, Ruby | Payne, Willie
Directors: Thomas, Anna
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This ghost story, set at the turn of the century, centers on the plight of elderly dowager Marianna (Sheelagh Gilbey), who is tormented by the alleged specter of a young man roaming the corridors of her mansion. After spotting a face in an old photograph that seems to match the old woman’s description of the “visitor”, Marianna’s sister (Nina Pitt) decides to check things out and see if any of this is for real.

Objective, The (2008)

Friday, December 12th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller | War
Countries: Morocco | USA
Actors: Huertas, Jon | Anderson, Matthew R. | Ball, Jonas | Hunter, Sam | Miller, P. David | Prewett, Jeff | Taylor, Kenny | Williams, Michael C. | Zinoune, Chems-Eddine | Harris, Jacqueline | Johansson, Vanessa
Directors: Myrick, Daniel
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A group of Special Ops Reservists on a mission in the harsh and hostile terrain of Afghanistan find themselves lost in a Middle Eastern “Bermuda Triangle” of ancient evil.

Scrooged (1988)

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Murray, Bill | Allen, Karen | Forsythe, John | Glover, John | Goldthwait, Bob | Johansen, David | Kane, Carol | Mitchum, Robert | Phillips, Nicholas | Pollard, Michael J. | Woodard, Alfre | King, Mabel | Murray, Joel | Farr, Jamie | Goulet, Robert
Directors: Donner, Richard
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Frank Cross runs a US TV station which is planning a live adaptation of Dickens’ Christmas Carol. Frank’s childhood wasn’t a particularly pleasant one, and so he doesn’t really appreciate the Christmas spirit. With the help of the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future, Frank realises he must change.

Crazy Eights (2006)

Monday, December 1st, 2008
Genres: Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Meyer, Dina | Newbern, George | Lords, Traci | DeLuca, Dan | Whaley, Frank | Anwar, Gabrielle | Eads, Christine | Szibler, Stephen | Gabel, Michael | Scungio, Cheryl | Beriss, Karen | Ray, Jimmy | Lindsey, Chloe J. | Delpierre, Linda | Lindsey, Kaitlyn E.
Directors: Koya Jones, James
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Six friends reunite after 20 years at a mutual childhood friend’s funeral. A search through their deceased friend’s house reveals a map to a trunk. The map spurs the friends to find it and dig it up. After uncovering the trunk, the unexpected is found … the rotted remains of a child. A child from a past they’ve long forgotten, a child that begins to haunt their every waking moment and makes them question who they really are. The closer they come to remembering the circumstances of the mysterious child’s death, the closer they come to their own reckoning.

Field of Dreams (1989)

Monday, November 24th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Family | Fantasy | Sport
Countries: USA
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Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella hears a voice in his corn field tell him, “If you build it, he will come.” He interprets this message as an instruction to build a baseball field on his farm, upon which appear the ghosts of Shoeless Joe Jackson and the other seven Chicago White Sox players banned from the game for throwing the 1919 World Series. When the voices continue, Ray seeks out a reclusive author to help him understand the meaning of the messages and the purpose for his field.

Waking the Dead (2000)

Monday, November 24th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Crudup, Billy | Connelly, Jennifer | Parker, Molly | McTeer, Janet | Hipp, Paul | Oh, Sandra | Holbrook, Hal | Landrieu, Nelson | Coll, Ivonne | Dane, Lawrence | Harris, Ed | Marshall, Larry | Anderson, Stanley | Gage, Patricia | Lynch, John Carroll
Directors: Gordon, Keith
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Fielding Pierce lives the life of an aspiring politician - in 1972 he’s serving in the Coast Guard (trying to avoid Vietnam in the most honorable way), and by 1973 he has entered law school. Along the way he falls in love with Sarah, a fiercely idealistic woman who devotes her life to helping others - unfortunately she’s killed in an explosion while assisting members of the Chilean resistance. Nine years later, in the middle of a congressional election, Fielding is suddenly flooded with thoughts and visions of his lost love.