A great actor who left a perhaps too great appearance in the movie industry. A sacred monster of the film which has been active more than half a century.
10. Sayonara
The film takes place in Japan during the Korean War. Being ready to leave, an American soldier falls for a Japanese courtesan. Interracial marriages did not welcome the U.S. military, so that Americans face the possibility of being sent to court-martial. A major, old friend, is trying to convince the man to leave the Japanese girl, but eventually gives up his pleas and agrees to be her best man. Major falls in love, in turn to a beautiful Kabuki dancer, while his friend wedding. But the U.S. military is not willing to make a concession.
09. The Teahouse of the August Moon
One year after the Second World War, Captain Frisby is sent to a village in Okinawa to teach the people what is democracy. The first step would be to build a school – but locals know better what they need. After Frisby’s story about their culture and tradition, managed to convince him to build instead of the school a teahouse. Convinced by the locals will Frisby be able to convince his superiors to approve the project?
08. The Freshman
The production “The Freshman” wants to be an unconventional comedy about a young man who gets in a mob, the young man, Clark is a student in first year of a film school in New York City that after being robbed he resolutely pursues the thief who, ironically, gives him a commitment. The young man is taken to a club and presented to an underworld character named, Carmine Sabatini, who has a daughter and model that really gives him something to do as the thief told him: to go to an airport and take a certain package and bring it to an address given by him. Initially he thought that it was about drugs but not, Clark was taking a huge lizard.
07. Julius Caesar
Adaptation of Shakespeare’s plays, with a cast full of big names from the cinema, the movie tells the story of Julius Caesar, a military commander transformer in a god of Rome after he had numerous military successes. But its popularity and support he enjoys among the citizens of Rome makes him to be a thorn in the Senate. Therefore, several Roman senators, led by Brutus and Caius, organized the assassination of Julius. Marc Antony, the general who remains true no matter what to the god of Rome, wants to avenge his death.
06. The Wild One
Johnny Strabler (Marlon Brando) is the storyteller and leader of a gang of bikers in the “Black Rebels Motorcycle Club”, which invades a small town, with people drowsy and upset at any change of mentality. At the same time the city is pursuing a particular race moto-cross, where Johnny’s band doesn’t participate. Once in the town of Wrightsville, Johnny falls in love unexpectedly with a waitress from Kathie (Mary Murphy), the old Sheriff Harry Bleeker (Robert Keith) sees the true face of his. Chino (Lee Marvin) is the leader of another gang of motorcyclists who arrives in town, which for the sake of the existence of a controversy will conflict with Johnny, which will lead to injury of a motorcyclist by a local elder and inattentive motorist.
05. Last Tango in Paris
Paul is a middle-aged American who moved to Paris shortly after his wife commits suicide. Incidentally, he meets the young Frenchwoman Jeanne, which has a erotic relationship, expressiveness beyond the canons of the time. Their intense relationship contrasts with numbness and indifference of others, especially to the suffering of Paul. Besides the passionate intimacy between him and Jeanne, the film focuses on Paul’s feelings of guilt from the past and his wife, things are revealed abundantly in the famous monologue in which he keeps in his wife’s tomb.
04. On the Waterfront
The Commission that fights the organized crime is meant to keep awake the public awareness of organized crime infiltration and underground world. Terry Malloy accidentally witnesses the murder of a longshoreman Joey Doyle. Union boss Johnny Friendly is the one who plotted the crime, just as the dock workers and other illegal activities, aided by Terry’s brother, Charley. Terry begins to feel the consequences, and when Joey’s sister Edie sees more in Terry than a longshoreman, he realized that meant his past and begins to assume responsibility for past actions.
03. Apocalypse Now
The film based on Joseph Conrad’s book entitled Heart of darkness is the moving through the jungle of Captain Willard, whose mission is the suppression of a rebel army led by a mysterious Colonel Kurtz during the Vietnam War. As the captain forward in the jungle, he must face its unsuspected powers and dementia that begins to surround him, but every foot forward, he begins to resemble more and more with a man who was sent to kill him.
02. A Streetcar Named Desire
A Streetcar Named Desire is the story of Blanche Dubois, a woman who goes to her pregnant sister and her husband, Stanley, in New Orleans. Stanley does not like her and start research for information on her sister. He discovers that she has mortgaged everything and spent all the money and thus feels the need to learn all he can about her. Even more divergent take place between the two while they are in the apartment together.
01. The Godfather
Inspired by the novel of Mario Puzo, the film is the story of Don Vito Corleone, a Sicilian mobster, now head of a major mafia networks in America. The film presents a realistic vision of the world extremely less accessible where the given word and promises made have a capital value and honor is the highest price. Unfortunately for him, when his life is in danger, his children cannot stay away from danger, and they are trained in this game that is very risky with fights between mafia clans in America.
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