Movies Titles Starting with C (Page #51)

Set in 1920s Paris, the young son of a wealthy courtesan is educated in the ways of love by a middle-aged friend of the man's mother. When he is forced to give up the six-year relationship after marrying someone else, the young man can't forget her and retreats into a fantasy world.

Vienna, 1938: Austria is occupied by the Nazis. Dr. Josef Bartok (Oliver Masucci) is preparing to flee to America with his wife Anna when he is arrested by the Gestapo. As a former notary to the deposed Austrian aristocracy, he is told to help the local Gestapo leader gain access to their private bank accounts in order to fund the Nazi regime. Refusing to cooperate, Bartok is locked in solitary confinement. Just as his mind is beginning to crack, Bartok happens upon a book of famous chess games. To withstand the torture of isolation, Bartok disappears into the world of chess, maintaining his sanity only by memorizing every move. As the action flashes forward to a transatlantic crossing on which he is a passenger, it seems as though Bartok has finally found freedom. But recounting his story to his fellow travelers, it's clear that his encounters with both the Gestapo and with the royal game itself have not stopped haunting him.

Set in a world where bird meats are illegal after a bird flu killed millions of Americans, a detective is a "cibopath," a person who gets psychic impressions from whatever he eats.

Im Kwon-taek's ninety-fifth film tells the story of renowned nineteenth-century painter Jang Seung-up (Choi Min-Sik), an artist whose revolutionary work - and persona - has forever changed the face of Korean art.

Two schoolfriends in a dead-end town in the East of England join forces with a green-fingered grandad to fence a shed of weed that the old man has accidentally grown on his allotment. Together they form an alliance of age and youth, an unlikely partnership of the forgetful and the forgotten.

Follows a family seeking a fresh start in a remote countryside farmhouse. There, their teenage daughter uncovers the land’s grim history – the spirits of murdered children haunt the land – as her father slowly loses his grip on reality.

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The crowning achievement of Orson Welles’s later film career, Chimes at Midnight returns to the screen after being unavailable for decades. This brilliantly crafted Shakespeare adaptation was the culmination of Welles’s lifelong obsession with the Bard’s ultimate rapscallion, Sir John Falstaff, the loyal, often soused childhood friend to King Henry IV’s wayward son Prince Hal.

In central China, a Master coach recruits poor rural teenagers and turns them into Western-style boxing champions. Through hard work and discipline, these boys and girls come of age, trained in the art of boxing and the game of life. They are filled with Olympic dreams, hoping to become China's next amateur heroes. But the pull of professionalism also weighs upon their shoulders. Their coach hopes to show them the way. The top student boxers face dramatic choices as they graduate--should they fight for the collective good as amateurs or for themselves and their own personal gain as professionals? It's a metaphor for the choices that everyone faces now, in the New China.

On the eve of her wedding, Rachel Chu has a flawless Asscher-cut diamond, a wedding dress she loves, and a fiancé willing to thwart his meddling relatives and give up one of the biggest fortunes in Asia in order to marry her. Still, Rachel mourns the fact that her birthfather, a man she never knew, won't be there to walk her down the aisle. But when a chance accident reveals his identity, Rachel is drawn into a dizzying world of Shanghai splendor, a world where people attend church in a penthouse, where exotic cars race down the boulevard, and where people aren't just crazy rich … they're China rich.

An American businessman arrives in a bustling Chinese province looking to score a lucrative contact for his family’s sign-making firm. He soon discovers that the complexities of such a venture far outstrip the expected differences in language, customs and manners—and call into question even the most basic assumptions of human conduct.

Steve Banerjee goes from pumping gas in Culver City to running a high-end nightclub that evolves into Chippendales. After hiring a New York choreographer to polish the all-male dance troupe, Banerjee becomes wildly rich, as well as unreasonably competitive and paranoid. Banerjee hires a hitman to murder the choreographer when negotiations go sour. After being arrested, Banerjee dies in jail awaiting his trial.

A boy has a mysterious imaginary friend with whom he frequently argues. As the boy's father gets increasingly suspicious, it becomes clear that an alien entity has taken up residence in the boy's consciousness.

A gritty, modern re-imagining of the headless horseman from the Sleepy Hollow legend. After taking a hit of a strange new ecstasy-like drug at the Daytona Bike Week festival, the rebellious teenage daughter of a police officer begins seeing ghosts and is stalked by the Reaper, a headless Hell's Angel on a motorcycle that hunts down sinners.

A group of teenagers become trapped in a shopping mall with killer robots.

Set in Chicago, the world only recently discovered that magic is real. Sloane Andrews, one of the "Famous Five," as a teen defeated a villain known as the Dark One more than a decade earlier. Now, in adulthood, Sloane grapples with PTSD, fractured relationships, rabid media scrutiny and, worst of all, the prospect that their mission might not be finished yet after all. On the tenth anniversary of the Dark One's defeat, something unthinkable happens: one of the Chosen Ones dies. When the others gather for the funeral, they discover the Dark One's ultimate goal was much bigger than they, the government, or even prophecy could have foretold—bigger than the world itself.

A biopic of Saturday Night Live standout, Chris Farley.

Set in present-day Mexico, residents of a small town are cast in its traditional and intense passion play about Jesus — it’s such a monumental undertaking that it is performed only once every seven years, and it draws throngs of viewers from all over the country. The performers both grow into and beyond their roles. One of those is the town’s rebel, Manolios, who hasn’t set foot in church in years but is cast as Jesus as the town's leaders figure he is tough enough to handle the pressure of the part. But they underestimate both Manolios and Jesus; Manolios renews his faith and, in the face of horrific events, inspires others to find redemption through rebellion. Not surprisingly, the town leaders come to see him not as a savior but as a destroyer who himself must be destroyed.

A cooking writer, whom the world believes is living on a cozy farm in Connecticut with her husband and baby, is actually a single woman living on her own in New York. The ruse is discovered when a holiday meal is planned at her fake farm.

Each July in Branson, MO, a convention for professional Santas takes place where the Santas, with no fake beards, are taught how to correctly ho-ho-ho, how to deal with unruly kids and how to properly groom their beards.