Becky Sharp is the orphan daughter of a painter and of a French opera girl; she has lived in an orphanage almost all her life, but she decides to leave and work as a governess.

She is determined, bright, pretty, she speaks fluent French and she has all the characteristics of a social climber.

Contemporary high society members will do almost anything to stop her. The film shows us 20 years of her life; her marriage, her birth, her loyalties, all the hardships.

Release Date: 1 September 2004

Genre: Drama, Romance

Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Eileen Atkins, Jim Broadbent, Gabriel Byrne, Bob Hoskins, Romola Garai, Rhys Ifans, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, James Purefoy, Robert Pattinson, Mathew Horne

Director: Mira Nair

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Perfect, until the moment her husband tells her he wants a divorce. She is about to enter a difficult period in her life and she falls into a state of depression, as she cannot get over the divorce.

Her best friend Patti is there for her all along and as she sees that she is feeling worse every day, she convinces Frances to move to Tuscany.

In Italy, she buys a villa and starts a new life; she soon starts feeling better and likes her life amongst Italians.

At some point, she meets Marcelo, an antique dealer from Portobello, and she falls so crazily in love that she is even thinking about remarrying.

Release Date: 26 September 2003

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Cast: Diane Lane, Sandra Oh, Lindsay Duncan, Raoul Bova, Dan Bucatinsky, Vince Riotta, Giulia Steigerwalt, Kate Walsh

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She is at the peek of her career in one of the most important modelling agencies in Manhattan; she is either attending fashion shows or partying in some of the newest and hottest clubs of New York.

Her crazy life style suddenly changes the moment she answers her phone one day; she is announced that her sister has passed and she is basically supposed to take care of her three children.

Without even realizing, she is now responsible for three little people, she has to put them first and her career will have to go on the second place ……so soon she has to make a choice: it is either the life she has always loved or the three new loved ones in her life….

Release Date: 28 May 2004

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Cast: Kate Hudson, John Corbett, Joan Cusack, Helen Mirren, Hayden Panettiere, Abigail Breslin, Spencer Breslin, Amber Valletta, Felicity Huffman, Hector Elizondo, Joseph Mazzello, Paris Hilton

Director: Garry Marshall

He soon discovers that she is a character of a fairy tale, who is trying to make the journey back to her world in safety.In time, Cleveland and the persons who live in his building realize that they are part of the same story. He falls in love with the beautiful stranger and decides to protect her at any cost from any danger.

Along with his friends, he is determined to fight off any dark creature that might be coming to get his sweetheart and stop her from going home.

Release Date: 21 July 2006

Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller

Cast: Paul Giamatti, Bryce Dallas Howard, Freddy Rodriguez, Jeffrey Wright, Mary Beth Hurt, Bob Balaban, Sarita Choudhury, M. Night Shyamalan

Director: M. Night Shyamalan

He does his job quite well but he needs to go on holiday from time to time; so he takes a leave of absence and goes to Scotland.

The magician’s two helpers can’t seem to be able to control things and Cinderella’s step mother puts her hands on the magician’s scepter.

She now controls all the fairy tales and calls all the bad characters to her help; Cinderella will no longer marry the prince and she has to run for her life, and the prince is too silly to be able to save her.

Surprisingly enough, the one who does come to Cinderella’s defense is the castle keeper, who is secretly in love with her.

Basically, it is the two of them and the magician’s helper against the evil step mother fighting for the good of the fairy tale world.

Release Date: 5 January 2007

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family

Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze Jr., George Carlin, Michael McShane, Patrick Warburton, Andy Dick, Wallace Shawn, Jon Polito

Director: Paul Bolger, Yvette Kaplan

She takes on the complicated mission of accompanying a group of tourists in their journey all across Greece; they are American, Australian and Greek andnot at all interested in the local history and geography; instead, they prefer shopping for souvenirs at any time of day.

Given the different cultural background and personalities of the tourists, the conflicts never end and Georgia thinks that nothing is going according to the plan.

Fortunately for her, she meets Irv Gordon, who teaches her how to have fun, how to enjoy her life and how to rediscover her romantic side. Thus, she finds love with none other than the Greek driver of their bus.

Release Date: 8 May 2009

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Harland Williams, Rachel Dratch, Caroline Goodall, Nia Vardalos, Jareb Dauplaise

Director: Donald Petrie

Sometime in the sixties, in the middle of anti-war protests, of the fight for freedom of speech and civil rights, for mind exploring and rock’n roll, people did not stop falling in love.

Even from the beginning, we see different backgrounds for the stories, starting with high schools and going to universities in Massachussets, Princeton, Ohio.

Then we move all the way to Manhattan, or to Detroit, or in the middle of the Vietnam conflicts or on the Liverpool docks.

The film combines successfully real life scenes with animated ones, having as soundtracks many of the classic Beatles songs famous in that time.

Release Date:  12 October 2007

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Musical, Romance

Cast: Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Max Carrigan, Joe Anderson, Dana Fuchs, Martin Luther, T.V. Carpio, Salma Hayek, Bono

Director: Julie Taymor

I Love You Man Scene

Peter Klaven is a successful real estate agent, elegant, romantic and serious; who just asked his dream woman named Zooey to marry him and is preparing for their wedding with her.

Just as Peter has never had a close enough friend that you propose to be groomsman at the wedding, this is the reason he accepts to go to a bizarre series of meetings with male strangers in an attempt to find the right person to whom delegate this important mission.

After several failed meetings with gay men who wrongly interpreted his intentions, Peter Klaven knows the eccentric and charming nonconformist Sydney Fife, to whom feels instantly attracted spiritual and begins spending increasingly more time.

For Peter despair, as the relationship of friendship with Sydney becomes tighter, the love relationship with Zooey seems to deteriorate, when he is put in the unwanted situation of choosing between his new friend and his fiancee.

Release Date:  20 March 2009 (USA)

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Cast: Paul Rudd, Jason Segel, Rashida Jones, Jon Favreau

Director: John Hamburg

Summer

Shaun is an over 40 Scottish, who lives in a town from northern England and whose life wasn’t to generous with him, all the attempts of improving his way of living were destined to fail.

His main responsibility is to take care of his paraplegic friend named Daz, who end up with a very bad physical shape due to the chronic alcoholism and who has only a few months to live.

Shaun is often haunted by the memories of a more happier adolescence, when he was playing with Daz and he was in love with Katy, a school colleague who was writing his homework to hide from the teachers that he suffering of dyslexia.

Learning difficulties which marked his childhood transformed Shaun in a violent and frustrated young man, being known as a brawler.

In the moment he finds out that Daz is going to die because of his illness, Shaun decides to look for his ex-girlfriend Katy to offer her the chance to say goodbye to their common friend.

The problem is that he lost the connection with the girl for more than 12 years and the lack of guts makes him hesitate to fulfill his plans faster.

Release Date: 5 December 2008 (UK)

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rachael Blake, Robert Carlyle, Steve Evets, Michael Socha, Joanna Tulej

Director: Kenneth Glenaan

The Princess and the Frog

“The Princess and the Frog” is a musical and a family movie, which records the recursion to a 2D format traditional cartoon.

This has already started a vivid controversy, due to the fact that the Heroine is the first black princess from the rich history of Walt Disney cartoons.

The story is about Tania, a young and beautiful 19-year-old afro-american princess, who lives with her mother Eudora in the luxurious French District from New Orleans, in the time of so-called Jazz Era.

The action complicates by the unwanted intervention of Facilier doctor, a voodoo magician and a fortune teller, who plays the bad character of the fairy tale, and his mother Odie, a 200 years old voodoo sorceress.

The funniest character is Louis, a likeable alligator who sings jazz at the trumpet.

Based on the classical fairy tale, of the prince transformed in a frog by an evil magician, who becomes human again after he’ll be kissed by his heart chosen, this movie is one of the most beautiful love stories of all time.

You can’t miss it!!!

Release Date: 25 December 2009 (USA)

Genre: Animation, Family, Musical, Romance

Cast: John Goodman, Keith David, Oprah Winfrey, Jenifer Lewis, Anika Noni Rose, Bruno Campos

Director: Ron Clements, John Musker

Where there is Eddie Murphy there is definitely comedy….this time it is ‘Meet Dave’ and tells the story of an unusual love story.

It all starts when a huge ball of fire coming from the outer space crashes in the middle of Central Park, in New York.

Immediately after, a normal looking man standing in that spot stands up without even a scratch.

He may look normal and human, but he is actually an alien ship controlled by 100 aliens which look like humans, but are only 2 centimeters tall, and which are looking for a way to save their planet.

So far, so good…..but things get a lot more complicated when the captain of the ship falls in love with a woman from our planet, a woman who has seen nothing but bad relationships, and who has always chosen losers as boyfriends.

Release Date: 11 July 2008

Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi

Cast: Eddie Murphy, Elizabeth Banks, Gabrielle Union, Ed Helms, Scott Caan, Kevin Hart, Mike O’Malley

Director: Brian Robbins

The Love Guru Poster

Pitka is an American young who was brought up by several Hindu gurus after he was found abandoned at the gates of an ashram, in India.

When he was old enough, Pitka decided to go back to American, looking for fame and fortune in the world of spirituality and self-aiding.

His unorthodox action methods are questioned when he has to bring back together Darren Roanoke (the star of the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team) and his wife.

This is mostly because after they broke up the woman started dating another hockey player called Jacques Grande, from the L.A.Kings; that has seriously affected Roanoke and has deeply lowered his professional performances.

Pitka has to intervene and bring the two back together, otherwise the Toronto team will not win the Stanley Cup and things will not look good for anyone.

Release Date: 20 June 2008

Genre:  Comedy, Drama

Cast: Mike Myers, Jessica Alba, Justin Timberlake, Ben Kingsley, Meagan Good, Jessica Simpson, Romany Malco, Verne Troyer, Omid Djalili, Telma Hopkins, Jessica Barrow, Samantha Bee

Director: Marco Schnabel

Hamlet 2

We can’t find a better way of saying it: Dana Marschz is a great guy, but with not so many accomplishments.

His main success of his acting career was a commercial for drugs against ringworm and his new career, the one as a drama high school teacher, is even less fulfilled.

His wife hates him, his students laugh at him and the critic, of only 13 years old, who writes at the School’s Newspaper, tears apart all his productions.

Even so, Dana is not the person who drops out so easily.

When the school’s administration cuts off the funds for his drama program, he realizes that he has only one chance to save the program, to motivate the students, to save his career, to relight the fire in his love life, to sustain the First Amendment and very probable to change the world.

In this way starts the adventure of writing and directing a very original, very….musical and extremely offending, sequel of Hamlet which is so awful, that has a chance to be successful….

Release Date:  26 September 2008 (Romania)

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Steve Coogan, Catherine Keener, Joseph Julian Soria, Skylar Astin, Phoebe Strole, David Arquette

Director: Andrew Fleming

La Boheme

The opera “La Bohème” is based on the tragic love story of Mimí and Rodolfo, and it is set in Paris during the 1830s.

Puccini’s most expressive opera shows us the true face of the life of bohemian Parisian artists who enjoyed a very relaxed life and only worked enough to pay for their dinner.

Hungry but cheerful, Rodolfo, the poet, shares a tiny dirty room with Marcello, the painter, and two other friends.

On Christmas Eve, fragile Mimi shows up at their door and Rodolfo falls madly in love with her.

In the meanwhile, Marcello is in a relationship with Musetta, who is more preoccupied with flirting than with the artist standing next to her.

Things between Rodolfo and Mimi go fine for a while, but he is extremely jealous and they finally break up; unfortunately, he does not know she is about to die and they only get a few moments of love before death separates them forever.

Release Date: 19 December 2008

Genre: Music, Romance

Cast: Nicole Cabell, Boaz Daniel, Stéphane Degout, Ioan Holender, Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazón

Director: Robert Dornhelm

Ashes of Time Redux

Ou-yang Feng is a paid swordsman who lives in the middle of the desert in Antic China.

Devastated by the memory of a lost love he still works as an agent for the assassin mercenaries.

He is cured by a magical wine received from another swordsman, Huang Yao-shi.

Before these events Huang Yao-shi meets Mu-rong Yin to whom he promises to marry her sister Mu-rong Yang.

But Yin hires Ou-yang Feng to kill Huang, because he hasn’t kept his promise and left her sister, Mu-rong Yang.

Here it is revealed the true secret which gives an ironic note to the movie.

Who is in fact Mu-rong Yang???

The film has a second story centered on Ou-yang Feng’s efforts to kill a band of thieves.

Another swordsman, who wants to get home to see his wife and family before he is completely blind, is hired by Ou-yang, but he gets killed.

All these characters learn the intangible secret of true love, but become selfish, evil, cold and stony, trying to stop from the beginning any relationship, because they do not want to suffer the loss of love in the wilderness of the desert.

Release Date: 10 October 2008 (USA)

Genre:  Drama

Cast: Li Bai, Jacky Cheung, Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Brigitte Lin

Director: Kar Wai Wong

“Les liens du sang”, aka “Rivals”, is a psychological drama centered on the story of two brothers, as different as they can be in what concerns the behavior and life conceptions.

They were forced to live far away from each other, for ten years, because Gabriel was convicted for murder.

After he got out, Gabriel tries to forget his past and to have a life honest and with no legal problems.

He gets a job in supermarket from Lyon, falls in love with the beautiful cashier, Nathalie, and plans to buy a house in the country.

But when his request, for opening a kiosk near the beach with a friend ex-convict too, Gabriel stops trying to reintegrate in the society and regains the old habits.

His younger brother, Francois, is a police officer crazy in love with Corinne, the life partner of a dangerous criminal whom he sent behind bars, but will be released soon.

Fighting to resolve his own troubles and to keep his brother on the right way, Francois realizes that the past hunts both of them and cannot escape its consequences.

Release Date: 6 February 2008 (Belgium)

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Cast: François Cluzet, Guillaume Canet, Marie Denarnaud, Clotilde Hesme, Mehdi Nebbou, Hélène Foubert

Director: Jacques Maillot

The Ugly Truth

Love is a complicated thing; relationships are even more complicated, which makes them such a good subject for a TV show.

The main character of this comedy is Abby Richter, the beautiful producer of a television show based on analyzing sentimental relationships.

One day, she is forced by her bosses to hire a new member for her team: the fascinating, attractive, egocentric and unbearable Mike Alexander, as a relationship expert, as he had been very successful with a previous show of his called ‘The Ugly Truth’.

Mike made Abby undergo a series of ridiculous and funny tests which are supposedly meant to help her find the man of her dreams. So, when she meets the young surgeon Colin, she is convinced she has found her true love.

She starts taking Mike’s advice in order to make her relationship work; and Mike starts appealing to all sorts of intelligent tricks in order to prove that his theories never fail…..but he will have a surprise he never saw coming…..watch and find out!

Release Date: 3 April 2009

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Cast: Katherine Heigl, Gerard Butler, Cheryl Hines, Bree Turner, Eric Winter.

Director: Robert Luketic

La Vie en Rose

From childhood to glory, from victories to sufferings, from Belleville to New York, “La Vie en Rose” presents the unusual life of Edith Piaf.

Along to a highly improbable destiny we discover the soul of an artist and the heart of a woman.

Full of life, fragile and, in the same time, indestructible she dedicated her life until sacrifice becoming an immortal singer.

“L`oiseau de Paris” was named by the press and public, the famous singer Edith Piaf (Marion Cotillard).

From the Paris’s pour neighborhoods to the New York’s dazzling lights, the life of the singer was a continuous struggle: to sing, to survive, to love, to live.

Grown in beggary, Edith’s salvation was her magical voice, her passionate romances and friendship that connected her to known names of that time: Yves Montand, Jean Cocteau, Charles Aznavour, Marlene Dietrich, Marcel Cerdan etc, succeeding as one of the greatest musical figures all over the world.

Release Date: 2007

Genre: Biography, Drama, Music

Cast: Marion Cotillard, Jean-Pierre Martins, Gerard Depardieu, Clotilde Courau, Sylvie Testud.

Director: Olivier Dahan

Little Ashes

‘Little Ashes’ is a United Kingdom-Spain co-production, set on the background of the city of Madrid in the 1920s.

It explores the great friendship that existed amongst three important figures of Spanish and international culture: Dali, Lorca and film maker Luis Buñuel; it talks about their friendship and about their loves, shared or not…

We can see the three young men of genius in the time they all lived in the Students Residence in Madrid and it is here where the supposed romance between Lorca and Dali took place; all the rumors and book subjects were born on accounts of what happened in that place.

In the role of Salvador Dali we see Robert Pattinson, in that of Luis Buñuel, Matthew McNulty and Javier Beltran plays Federico Garcia Lorca.

Release Date: 2009

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Pattinson (Salvador Dali), Matthew McNulty (Luis Buñuel), Arly Jover (Gala), Esther Nubiola (Adela), Simón Andreu (Fernando de Valle), Marina Gatell (Margarita),  Javier Beltran (Federico García Lorca)

Director: Paul Morrison

La Mujer de Mi Hermano

Zoe is a very attractive woman who has reached a turning point in her life.

After ten years of marriage she suddenly realizes that her married life is totally lacking passion and the element of surprise, it is monotonous and dull.With that in mind, she lets herself be seduced by the thought that she could experience those sensations again, but not with her husband….with her brother-in-law…..

From this moment on, an entire series of events will lead the three characters into a dangerous love triangle, a risky game of secrets, passions and revenge.

Two brothers and a woman they both love and who slept with both of them: a love triangle which will soon transform into a bomb; one that will bring out all the family secrets, a raging passion and the uncontrollable power of love.

An exciting story that will keep you interested from the first to the last scene….

Release Date: 14 April 2006

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bárbara Mori, Christian Meier, Manolo Cardona, Gaby Espino, Bruno Bichir, Angélica Aragón, Beto Cuevas

Director: Ricardo de Montreuil