AIR PLANE

Directors: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker

Writers: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker

Stars: Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty and Leslie Nielsen

Genre:  Comedy and  Romance 

Plot: Still craving for the love of his life, Ted Striker follows Elaine onto the flight that she is working on as a member of the cabin crew. Elaine doesn't want to be with Ted anymore, but when the crew and passengers fall ill from food poisoning, all eyes are on Ted.  

 

 

 Trailer:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPrMRwFVMNA 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Another film of David Zucker and Jim Abrahams: 

THE NAKED GUN , Scary Movie 4 (2006) , Top secret (1984)

 

GREASE, 1978

Director: Randal Kleiser

Writers:  Jim Jacobs , Warren Casey.

Stars: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John and Stockard Channing

Genre: Musical, Romance

Plot: A musical about teens in love in the 50's! It's California, 1959 and greaser Danny Zuko
and Australian Sandy Olsson are in love. They spend time at the beach, but when
they go back to school, what either of them don't know is that they both now
attend Rydell High. Danny's the leader of the T-Birds, a group of black-jacket
greasers while Sandy hangs with the Pink Ladies, a group of pink-wearing girls
led by Rizzo. When they clash at Rydell's first pep rally, Danny isn't the same
Danny at the beach. They try to be like each other so they can be together.

Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyumwOEg9K0

CASABLANCA, 1942

Director: Michael Curtiz

 

Writers: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein

Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid

Genre: Drama, Romance

Plot: In World War II Casablanca, Rick Blaine, exiled American and former
freedom fighter, runs the most popular nightspot in town. The cynical lone wolf
Blaine comes into the possession of two valuable letters of transit. When Nazi
Major Strasser arrives in Casablanca, the sycophantic police Captain Renault
does what he can to please him, including detaining Czech underground leader
Victor Laszlo. Much to Rick's surprise, Lazslo arrives with Ilsa, Rick's one
time love. Rick is very bitter towards Ilsa, who ran out on him in Paris, but
when he learns she had good reason to, they plan to run off together again
using the letters of transit. Well, that was their original plan....

Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INBmVxAsdFE

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND, 1977

irector: Steven Spielberg

Writer:  Steven Spielberg.

Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut and Teri Garr

Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi.

 

Plot: Roy Neary sets out to investigate a power outage when his truck stalls and he is
bathed in light from above. After this, strange visions and five musical notes
keep running through his mind. Will he find the meaning of the visions, and who
- or what - placed them in his mind ?

Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLyB0TviHT4

SABRINA, 1954

Director: Billi Wilder

Writers: Samuel A. Taylor, Billy Wilder.

Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn and William Holden

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Plot: Linus and David Larrabee are the two sons of a very wealthy family. Linus is all work -- busily running the family corporate empire, he has no time for a wife and family. David is all play -- technically he is employed by the family business, but never shows up for work,
spends allhis time entertaining, and has been married and divorced three times.
Meanwhile, Sabrina Fairchild is the young, shy, and awkward daughter of
the household chauffeur, who has been infatuated with David all her life, but
David hardly notices her -- "doesn't even know I exist" -- until she
goes away to Paris for two years, and returns an elegant, sophisticated,
beautiful woman. Suddenly, she finds that she has captured David's attention, but
just as she does so, she finds herself falling in love with Linus, and she finds
that. Linus is also falling in love with her.

Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZE5tDWQ3UM&playnext=1&list=PLF61C02DBED149383

THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO, 1985

Director: Woody Allen

Writer: Woody Allen

Stars:Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels and Danny Aiello

Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

Plot: Cecilia is a waitress in New Jersey and is searching for an escape from
her life. Tom Baxter is a dashing young archaeologist in the film. After losing
her job Cecilia goes to see the film in hopes of raising her spirits. Much to
her surprise Tom Baxter walks off the screen and into her life. Meanwhile
Hollywood is up in arms when they dicover that other Tom Baxters are trying to
leave the screen in other theatres. she decided stay from real Tom Baxter but
then he wouldn't and was not, to leave Hollywood and roll, she portrays one to
the next day to see if the other Tom, but the movie changed and it turned out to
be alone.


Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp6YDZVVbj0

THE CHINA SYNDROME, 1979

Director: James Bridges

Writers: Mike Gray, T.S. Cook, and 1 more credit

Stars:Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon and Michael Douglas

Genere: Thriller , Drama

Plot: While doing a series of reports on alternative energy sources, an
opportunistic reporter Kimberly Wells witnesses an accident at a nuclear power
plant. Wells is determined to publicise the incident but soon finds herself
entangled in a sinister conspiracy to keep the full impact of the incident a
secret.


Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PJ-BzXAN1c

STAGECOACH, 1939

Director: John Ford, “citizame kime, Las uvas de la ira, Pasión de los fuertes, Río grande, El hombre tranquilo, Centauros del desirto, El hombre que mató a Leberty Valence.
Writers: Ernest Haycox (story), Dudley Nichols
Stars:John Wayne, Claire Trevor and Andy Devine
Plot: a group of people going to go quickly to find their way, this road is very complicated because Geronimo is a threat and learn something about each other in the process.
Recomendation: Río Grande, El Hombre Tranquilo, El hombre que mató a Liberty Valance

Trailer:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBuPI4m4pO8

SINGING IN THE RAIN

Directed by Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly

Script by Adolph Green and Betty Comden

Stars: Gene Kelly, Donald O’ Connor and Debbie Reynold

Genre: Comedy- musical- romace.

Plot: Before he met the aspiring actress Kathy Selden, the silent movie
idol  Don Lockwood thought he had it all:
fame, fortune and success. But after meeting her, she realizes that she is
really missing in his life. With the birth of the talkies. Din wants to film
musicals with Kathy, but between them stands the silent movie queen Lina
Lamont, between her and Don area couple false, but Don spends time and makes
her stay in ridiculous in front of all his fans.

Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEKQwy13j_8

HAIR SPRAY

Director: Adam Shankman

Writers: Leslie Dixon, John Waters

Stars: John travolta, Queen Latifah and Nikki Blonky

Genere: Comedy, Musuca, Romance.

Plot: One girl, who she lik’s the Corny Collins Show, after school, she
and her best friend Penny run home to watch the show, they like the boy Larkin.
One day the show needs a person. Tracy makes it on the show, angering the evil
dance queen Amber Von Tussle and her mother Velma. Tracy then decides that it’s
not fair that blak kind can only dance on the Corny Collins Show with the help
of Seaweed, Link, Penny, Motormouth Maybelle, her father and Edna, she’s going
to integrate the show without deting her do!

Trailer: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkzcNF-jlWw

IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE

Director: Fran Capr

Writers: Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett

Stars: James Stewart, Donna Reed and Lionel Barrymore

Genre: Drama-family-fantasy 

Plot: George Bailey is a man who runs a small family bank, despite
attempts to ruin a powerful banker. On chritsmas Eve, suddenly disapears a let
if not also a great scandal, decide to comit suicide, but appears on angel, Clarence,
falls tothe ground tu help George and makes it like he has influences the live
of others.

Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJfZaT8ncYk

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

Director: Kenneth Branagh

Writers: K B basad on the play by W Shakespeare.

Genre: comedy-romance

Plot: Young lovers: Hero and Claudio are to be married. To pass the
time, the conspire with Don Pedro to set a “lovers trap” for Benedick (very
arrogant) and Beatrice (very witty and arrogant, too)

Meanwhile by accusing Hero of infidelity. In the end it all turns out to
be “much ado about nothing”.

Music: Patrick Doyle

100 Best Movie Soundtracks

Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYj-2vFLbtc

 MORE FILMS FROM KENNETH BRANAGH:

Hamlet      Frankenstein

WAR GAMES

Director: John Badham

Writers: Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parker

Genre: Drama-thriller-sci-fi

Plot: One boy very intelligent conect into a secret super-computer and
complet control the US. He thought he was playing a game between America and
Russia, and he inocently starts the countdown to the 3 World War.

Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAcEzhQ7oqA

TOTAL RECALL

Directed by Paul Verhoeven

Script bu Philip K. Dick and Ronald Shusett.

Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sharon Stone and Michael Ironside.

Genre: Action-adventure-sci-fi.

Plot: In 2048, Doug Quaid, a man with a normal peaceful life is hauntes
by a nightmare that leads him to Mard every night. Then decides go laboratory
Recall, a company virtal vacation and is opportunity materialize his dream. However,
his attempt is a failure. The drug recalls a real thing when he was on Mars and
was the most feared agent Coohagen cruel. Quaid then decided to return to Mars
to fix everything.

Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlI8pwlNmjk

JAWS

Directed by Steven Spielberg

Script by Peter Benchley and Carls Gottieb

Stars: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss.

Genre: Suspense

Plot: Amity, a resort island in New England has a new police chife,
Brody. One morning Brody go to the beach and saw the mangled body of summer
vacations. The medicinal examiner the body and say that it could have been a
shark.

Brody say that the man was died because a motorboat propeller for not
lose money.

Matt Hooper, a shark expert, belives that man was died because a shark,
and his proved right when a few dauys other man is killed by the shark.

Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zkYRD51I34

NORTH BY NORTHWEST

Directed by Billy Wilder

Based on stage play by Ben Hecht

Cast: Jack Lemmon, Walter Mattau, Susan Sarandon.

Genre: Drama-comedy.

Plot: Hildy Johnson is the top reporter on a Chicago newspaper during
the 1920’s. Tried of the whole game he’s determined to quit his job to get
married. His scheming editor hhas their plans. It’s the day before Williams is
going to be haged and editor wants Hildy J. to write about it.

Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk0GbTMMbP0

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Psicosis             The Birds

SOME LIKE IT HOT

Directed and script by Billy Wilder.

Stars: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon.

Genre: comedy.

Plot: Two witnesses musicians want to leave the city for not be killed
by the mob. The only way they have is in a girl band. They have to dress of
girls, and one falls for another girl in group, but can’t tell who is a man,
and the ther a rich suitor who will not left.

Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OhdD5n405I

THE FRONT PAGE

Directed by Billy Wilder

Based on stage play by Ben Hecht

Cast: Jack Lemmon, Walter Mattau, Susan Sarandon.

Genre: Drama-comedy.

Plot: Hildy Johnson is the top reporter on a Chicago newspaper during
the 1920’s. Tried of the whole game he’s determined to quit his job to get
married. His scheming editor hhas their plans. It’s the day before Williams is
going to be haged and editor wants Hildy J. to write about it.

Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfccV14_tYk

MONSOON WEDDING

Directed by Mira Nandir à Salaam Bombay, 1988

                                           Mississipi Masala, 1991

Script by Sabrina Dhawan.

Genre: romantic-drama-comedy.

Tagline: -“the Rain in coming... ans so is the family.

              -“No sugar in mine”

              -“You’ve been brainwashed by America”

Plot: A stressed father, a bridge-to-be with a concert secret, and
relatives from around the world create much ado about the preparations

for an arranged marriage in India.

Subject: Tradicions and modernity mixed up.

Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaP-UrmS6Ww

CRASH

Director: Paul haggis,
writer of the script for Million Dollar Baby.

Cast: Don Cheadle,
Sandra Bullock, Matt Dillon.

Plot: Serval storis get
mixed up durnig two days in L.A. All the charasters get related: the boysf a
young thief with a police   detective, a racistcop, a sucsesful director and his
wife. They all esperience what the limits are and where they are.

Victims and agressors will "crash" in 36 hours.

Subjects:
Racism-solitude-visctim agressor- modern society-blank bullet- monlinear
time.

Dealing with: a
multitude of voices obliged to think about the TWISTESS OF
FATE

Graham ( police officer)
: "It's the sense of touch, in my real city you walk, you know? you brush
past people, people bump into you. In L.A, nobody touches you. We're always
behind this metal and glass, I think we miss that touch so much, that we crash
into each other, just so we can feel something".

Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEQ_ftkpb18