flashback-sequence movies

Annie Hall (1977)

Monday, October 12th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Keaton, Diane | Roberts, Tony | Kane, Carol | Simon, Paul | Duvall, Shelley | Margolin, Janet | Dewhurst, Colleen | Walken, Christopher | Symington, Donald | Ludlam, Helen | Lawner, Mordecai | Neuman, Joan | Munk, Jonathan | Volner, Ruth
Directors: Allen, Woody
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After breaking up with his girlfriend Annie Hall, neurotic comedian Alvy Singer goes on a stream of conciousness journey through his memories of their relationship, trying to find out what caused them to part ways. He often breaks the fourth wall, speaking to the camera, entering peoples’ stories, and even using animation.

Vertigo (1958)

Monday, October 12th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Stewart, James | Novak, Kim | Bel Geddes, Barbara | Helmore, Tom | Jones, Henry | Bailey, Raymond | Corby, Ellen | Shayne, Konstantin | Patrick, Lee | Ano, Jack | Benson, John | Bryar, Paul | Della Santina, Bruno | Dotto, Carlo
Directors: Hitchcock, Alfred
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John “Scottie” Ferguson is a retired San Francisco police detective who suffers from acrophobia and Madeleine is the lady who leads him to high places. A wealthy shipbuilder who is an acquaintance from college days approaches Scottie and asks him to follow his beautiful wife, Madeleine. He fears she is going insane, maybe even contemplating suicide, because she believes she is possessed by a dead ancestor. Scottie is skeptical, but agrees after he sees the beautiful Madeleine.

Truman Show, The (1998)

Monday, October 12th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Carrey, Jim | Linney, Laura | Emmerich, Noah | McElhone, Natascha | Taylor, Holland | Delate, Brian | Slater, Blair | Krause, Peter | Schanz, Heidi | Taylor, Ron | Taylor, Don | Raymond, Ted | Clayton, Judy
Directors: Weir, Peter
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He’s the star of the show—but he doesn’t know. Truman Burbank is a man whose life is a nonstop TV show. Truman doesn’t realize that his quaint hometown is a giant studio set run by a visionary producer/director/creator, that folks living and working there are Hollywood actors, that even his incessantly bubbly wife is a contract player. Gradually, Truman gets wise. And what he does about his discovery will have you laughing, crying and cheering.

Blueberry (2004)

Monday, October 12th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Western
Countries: France | Mexico | USA
Actors: Cassel, Vincent | Lewis, Juliette | Madsen, Michael | Morrison, Temuera | Borgnine, Ernest | Hounsou, Djimon | O'Conor, Hugh | Lewis, Geoffrey | Hiltz, Nichole | Walker, Kateri | Giocante, Vahina | Kestenbetsa | Karyo, Tchéky | Izzard, Eddie | Meaney, Colm
Directors: Kounen, Jan
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In the 1870’s, U.S Marshal Mike S. Blueberry tries to stop Wally Blount, the man who killed his girlfriend, from getting to a stockpile of gold hidden in Indian territory. On his way, he meets Prosit, a German villain on a persistent mission to find gold in the Superstition Mountains.

Time Machine, The (1960)

Monday, October 12th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Taylor, Rod | Young, Alan | Mimieux, Yvette | Cabot, Sebastian | Helmore, Tom | Bissell, Whit | Lloyd, Doris | Barran, Bob | Frees, Paul | Skelly, James | Powell, Josephine
Directors: Pal, George
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From the book by H.G. Wells, a scientist and tinkerer builds a time machine and uses it to explore the distant future where there are two races, a mild gentle race, and a cannibalistic one living underground. His machine is stolen by the underground race and he must risk being captured (and eaten) to return to his own time.

Piggy Banks (2005)

Monday, October 12th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Muxworthy, Jake | German, Lauren | Mann, Gabriel | Sizemore, Tom | Michaely, Joel | Sprouse, Dylan | Osborne, Drew | Garner, Kelli | Wynne, Toni | Daley, Jazmin | Adachi, Lisa | Eakland, William L. | Neward, JJ | El-Bakhi, Bridger | Shaye, Lin
Directors: Freeman, Morgan J.
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Piggy Banks tells the story of two charming and brilliant brothers who finance their lifestyle by robbing and murdering pretty much anyone foolish enough to get in the car with them. They learn the business from their sociopath father (Tom Sizemore) who doesn’t bother to hide his crimes, or the brutal philosophy which drives it. He tells his sons people are just piggy banks. You need money? Just break one open. Michael is sloppy and reckless he goes about his work with a demented glee, John perhaps even more horrifyingly, understands the misery he inflicts he simply doesn’t care. It’s just a job. Lock all your doors.

Brotherhood of Blood (2007)

Monday, October 12th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Pratt, Victoria | Haig, Sid | Foree, Ken | Connery, Jason | Snow, William | Ramsey, Wes | Kissner, Jeremy James | Grant, Rachel | Donner, Jack | Doyle, Bill | Fasen, Maxwell | Fraser, Jonathan | Izay, Ryan | James, Darrin | Kievsky, Boris
Directors: Roesch, Michael
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Claustrophobic thriller about a team of vampire hunters who infiltrate a nest of undead to rescue one of their own.

Hannibal Rising (2007)

Monday, October 12th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Czech Republic | France | Italy | UK
Actors: Thomas, Aaran | Ulliel, Gaspard | Gong, Li | Tachovská, Helena-Lia | Leaf, Richard | West, Dominic | Ifans, Rhys | Wade, Michele | Brake, Richard | Hub, Martin | McKidd, Kevin | Dapkunaite, Ingeborga | Stadler, Joerg | Walters, Stephen | Marevich, Ivan
Directors: Webber, Peter
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Based on Thomas Harris’ book of the same name, this prequel shows a young Hannibal Lecter in three different phases of his life from childhood in Lithuania to his ten years in England up to his time in Russia before his capture by FBI agent Will Graham in Red Dragon.

Carlito’s Way (1993)

Monday, October 12th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Pacino, Al | Penn, Sean | Miller, Penelope Ann | Leguizamo, John | Rogers, Ingrid | Guzmán, Luis | Rebhorn, James | Siravo, Joseph | Mortensen, Viggo | Foronjy, Richard | Porcel, Jorge | Minucci, Frank | Pasdar, Adrian | Ortiz, John | Salazar, Ángel
Directors: De Palma, Brian
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Carlito Brigante is released from jail after serving five years of a much longer stretch. He vows to go straight and to live life as a fine, upstanding citizen. He even rekindles a romance with his ex-lover. However, Carlito’s associates cannot seem to leave him in peace…his nephew involves him a pool-room gunfight, his lawyer asks him for “favours” which spiral out of control, and even an old friend (now a wheelchair bound paraplegic) tries to get him into trouble with the law. Carlito decides to make a run for Florida and the promise of a new life, but has one final dramatic escape to make from some hoods who believe (wrongly) that he was behind the murder of their boss.

Iris (2001)

Monday, October 12th, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Winslet, Kate | Bonneville, Hugh | Dench, Judi | Broadbent, Jim | Bron, Eleanor | Morant, Angela | Wilton, Penelope | Hayes, Siobhan | Aubrey, Juliet | Bakewell, Joan | Carroll, Nancy | Marshall, Kris | Mannion, Tom | Hutchinson, Derek | West, Samuel
Directors: Eyre, Richard
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A moving and tender depiction of the novelist Iris Murdoch’s descent into Alzheimer’s Disease, covering the period from just before her marriage to intellectual John Bayley until her death. The film is based on the two books by John Bayley (Iris, Iris & The Friends).