Movies tagged with the "absinthe" keyword

Genres: Comedy | Drama | Actors: Jude Law, Renée Taylor, Jane Krakowski, Jeff Harding, Marisa Tomei, Kevin Rahm, Max Morris, Omar Epps, Nia Long, Gedde Watanabe, Jo Yang, Tara Summers, Sam Vincenti, Katherine LaNasa, Claudette Mink, Directors: Charles Shyer,  Plot Summary: Alfie is a remake of the 1966 film. In the contemporary film, Alfie is quite the ladies man and rarely gets rejected when it comes to the opposite sex. He successfully has relations with multiple women without a hint of emotional attachment. A major (lifelong) problem arises when he sleeps with the wrong woman, namely his best friend's (and future business partner) ex-girlfriend. As a result, his life slowly comes into focus and he begins to appreciate the little things he always missed in the opposite sex. A must see for all guys who call themselves "players".

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Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Romance | Thriller | Actors: Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins, Keanu Reeves, Richard E. Grant, Cary Elwes, Bill Campbell, Sadie Frost, Tom Waits, Monica Bellucci, Michaela Bercu, Florina Kendrick, Jay Robinson, I.M. Hobson, Laurie Franks, Directors: Francis Ford Coppola,  Plot Summary: This version of Dracula is closely based on Bram Stoker's classic novel of the same name. A young lawyer (Jonathan Harker) is assigned to a gloomy village in the mists of eastern Europe. He is captured and imprisoned by the undead vampire Dracula, who travels to London, inspired by a photograph of Harker's betrothed, Mina Murray. In Britain, Dracula begins a reign of seduction and terror, draining the life from Mina's closest friend, Lucy Westenra. Lucy's friends gather together to try to drive Dracula away.

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Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Actors: Rade Serbedzija, Joanna Lumley, Scott Mechlowicz, Jacob Pitts, Kristin Kreuk, Cathy Meils, Nial Iskhakov, Michelle Trachtenberg, Travis Wester, Matt Damon, J. Adams, Christopher Baird, Nicholas J.M. Cloutman, Bruce Fulford, Molly Schade, Jakki Degg, Lenka Vomocilova, Directors: Jeff Schaffer,  Alec Berg,  David Mandel,  Plot Summary: When Scotty's German online pen pal suggests they meet, he initially freaks out. But then he discovers that she's gorgeous, and heads out with three friends after graduation to meet her. As they travel across Europe, the four friends have comical misadventures.

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Genres: Drama | Musical | Romance | Actors: Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo, Jim Broadbent, Richard Roxburgh, Garry McDonald, Jacek Koman, Matthew Whittet, Kerry Walker, Caroline O'Connor, Christine Anu, Natalie Jackson Mendoza, Lara Mulcahy, David Wenham, Kylie Minogue, Directors: Baz Luhrmann,  Plot Summary: Christian, a young wannabe Bohemian poet living in 1899 Paris, defies his father by joining the colorfully diverse clique inhabiting the dark, fantastical underworld of Paris' now legendary Moulin Rouge. In this seedy but glamorous haven of sex, drugs and newly-discovered electricity, the poet-innocent finds himself plunged into a passionate but ultimately tragic love affair with Satine, the club's highest paid star and the city's most famous courtesan. Their romance is played out against the infamous club - a meeting place of high life and low, where slumming aristocrats and the fashionably rich mingled with workers, artists, Bohemians, actresses and courtesans.

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Genres: Crime | Thriller | Actors: Sandra Bullock, Ben Chaplin, Ryan Gosling, Michael Pitt, Agnes Bruckner, Chris Penn, R.D. Call, Tom Verica, Janni Brenn, John Vickery, Michael Canavan, Krista Carpenter, Neal Matarazzo, Adilah Barnes, Jim Jansen, Directors: Barbet Schroeder,  Plot Summary: Murder By Numbers is a psychological suspense-thriller that tells the story of a tenacious homicide detective, Cassie Mayweather ('Sandra Bullock' (qv)) and her new partner Sam Kennedy ('Ben Chaplin' (qv)) who become pitted against two malevolently brilliant young men ('Ryan Gosling (I)' (qv) and 'Michael Pitt (II)' (qv)) in an ingenious battle of wits as they try to solve a murder case.

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