broken-engagement movies

Sound of Music, The (1965)

Friday, March 12th, 2010
Genres: Biography | Drama | Family | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Andrews, Julie | Plummer, Christopher | Haydn, Richard | Wood, Peggy | Lee, Anna | Nelson, Portia | Wright, Ben | Truhitte, Daniel | Varden, Norma | Nixon, Marni | Stuart, Gilchrist | Baker, Evadne | Lloyd, Doris | Carr, Charmian | Hammond, Nicholas
Directors: Wise, Robert
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Captain Baron von Trapp is a widowed ex-naval officer with seven children who serve only to remind him of his deceased wife. The Von Trapp home is thus turned into a gloomy place of order and discipline, until the arrival of a new governess: Frauline Marie who is from a nearby Salzburg abbey. Marie shows the Von Trapp children the miracle of the Sound of Music, and teaches them how to sing. Captain von Trapp’s heart opens up to feelings he had forgotten and he and Marie fall in love. Marie and Georg von Trapp are married, only to have their world brought down around them by the 1938 Anschluss of Austria, where Nazi Germany takes control of the country and demands that Captain von Trapp assume a position in the German Navy.

Titanic (1953)

Saturday, February 27th, 2010
Genres: Action | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: DiCaprio, Leonardo | Winslet, Kate | Zane, Billy | Bates, Kathy | Fisher, Frances | Stuart, Gloria | Paxton, Bill | Hill, Bernard | Warner, David | Garber, Victor | Hyde, Jonathan | Amis, Suzy | Abernathy, Lewis | Cascone, Nicholas | Sagalevitch, Dr. Anatoly M.
Directors: Cameron, James
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Unhappily married and uncomfortable with life among the British upper crust, Julia Sturges takes her two children and boards the Titanic for America. Her husband Richard also arranges passage on the doomed luxury liner in order to let him have custody of their two children. Their problems soon seem minor when the ship hits an iceberg.

Clash of the Titans (1981)

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Olivier, Laurence | Bloom, Claire | Smith, Maggie | Andress, Ursula | Gwillim, Jack | Fleetwood, Susan | Roach, Pat | Hamlin, Harry | Bowker, Judi | Burgess Meredith | Phillips, Siân | Robson, Flora | Manahan, Anna | Jackson, Freda | Pigott-Smith, Tim
Directors: Davis, Desmond
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By answering a seemingly impossible riddle, Perseus, the son of Zeus, wins the hand of the Princess Andromeda in marriage. Trouble appears in the shape of Calibos, the princess’s former love, and his mother, the Goddess Thetis. In order that the dreaded Kraken not be released, Andromeda has to be sacrificed and Perseus searches for the Medusa; her head is the only thing that can stop the Kraken.

Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins (2008)

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Lawrence, Martin | Jones, James Earl | Cedric the Entertainer | Duncan, Michael Clarke | Epps, Mike | Roberts, Damani | C.K., Louis | Jenkins, Brandin | Davis Jr., Reginald | Hoffman, Gus | Crockett, Affion | McGee, Robin | Richmond, Werner | Medina, Rich | Ferguson, Ted
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A successful talk show host leaves Los Angeles to reunite with his family in the Deep South.

Illusionist, The (2006)

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
Countries: Czech Republic | USA
Actors: Norton, Edward | Giamatti, Paul | Biel, Jessica | Sewell, Rufus | Marsan, Eddie | Wood, Jake | Fisher, Tom | Johnson, Aaron | Tomlinson, Eleanor | Johnson, Karl | Franklin, Vincent | Blane, Nicholas | McGough, Philip | Redman, Erich | Carter, Michael
Directors: Burger, Neil
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A magician in turn-of-the-last-century Vienna falls in love with a woman well above his social standing. When she becomes engaged to the crown prince, the magician uses his powers to free her and undermine the stability of the royal house of Vienna.

Persuasion (2007)

Thursday, May 28th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Penry-Jones, Rupert | Hawkins, Sally | Krige, Alice | Head, Anthony | Davis, Julia | Fenton Stevens, Michael | Stockley, Mary | Wight, Peter | Bailey, Marion | Hale, Amanda | Higham, Jennifer | Stephen, Rosamund | Stella Gonet | Hazeldine, Sam | Shergold, Louis
Directors: Shergold, Adrian
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On the brink of financial ruin, the Elliot family is forced to vacate their ancestral home in order to recover their debts and avoid losing face amongst their parish. The task of organizing their effects falls to levelheaded Anne Elliot, destined for spinsterhood at age 27 after being persuaded eight years earlier to refuse the proposal of Frederick Wentworth, a dashing (but destitute) naval officer…

Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)

Thursday, May 14th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Hepburn, Audrey | Peppard, George | Neal, Patricia | Ebsen, Buddy | Balsam, Martin | Villalonga, José Luis de | McGiver, John | Reed, Alan | Whitney, Dorothy | Powers, Beverly | Adams, Stanley | Stroud, Claude | Allman, Elvia | Orangey | Rooney, Mickey
Directors: Edwards, Blake
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Struggling writer Paul Varjak moves into a New York apartment building and becomes intrigued by his pretty, quirky neighbor Holly Golightly. Holly’s lifestyle confuses and fascinates Paul; in public she flits through parties with a sexy, sophisticated air, but when they’re alone she changes into a sweetly vulnerable bundle of neuroses.

Popeye (1980)

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Family | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Williams, Robin | Duvall, Shelley | Walston, Ray | Dooley, Paul | Smith, Paul L. | Libertini, Richard | Moffat, Donald | Dixon, MacIntyre | Maxwell, Roberta | Scott, Donovan | Nicholls, Allan F. | Hurt, Wesley Ivan | Irwin, Bill | Fortier, Robert | McCharen, David
Directors: Altman, Robert
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The comic strip and animated sailor hero comes to life in this meticulous live action production that looks at the origins of Popeye and his battle against arch-rival Bluto. Nearly all the characters from the strip are reproduced here.

Material Girls (2006)

Friday, March 6th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Family | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Duff, Hilary | Duff, Haylie | Alonso, Maria Conchita | Huston, Anjelica | Spiner, Brent | Haas, Lukas | Coloma, Marcus | Hodges, Ty | Neis, Reagan Dale | Babatundé, Obba | Cho, Henry | Traya, Misti | Copeland, Christina R. | Beemer, Brandon | Camp, Colleen
Directors: Martha Coolidge
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Two wealthy sisters, both heiresses to their family’s cosmetics fortune, are given a wake-up call when a scandal and ensuing investigation strip them of their wealth.

Bell Book and Candle (1958)

Thursday, February 5th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Stewart, James | Novak, Kim | Lemmon, Jack | Kovacs, Ernie | Gingold, Hermione | Lanchester, Elsa | Rule, Janice | Clay, Philippe | Nelson, Bek | McNear, Howard | Brothers Candoli, The | Ash, Monty | Barry, Joe | Barzell, Wolfe | Bloom, William
Directors: Quine, Richard
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Gillian Holroyd is just your average, modern-day, witch, living in a New York apartment with her Siamese familiar, Pyewacket. But one day a handsome publisher, Shep Henderson walks into her building and Gillian decides she wants him—especially as it turns out he’s marrying Merle Kittridge, an old poison penpal from Gillian’s college days. So, Gillian casts a spell over Shep. But her powers are in danger of being exorcised by something stronger than the bell-book-and-candle routine: Love.