Movies tagged as "voyage"

1492: Conquest of Paradise [1992, UK, France, Spain ] starting from $1.99

Centuries before the exploration of space, there was another voyage into the unknown.

Genres: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Armand Assante, Sigourney Weaver, Loren Dean, Ángela Molina, Fernando Rey, Michael Wincott, Tchéky Karyo, Kevin Dunn, Frank Langella, Mark Margolis, Kario Salem, Billy L. Sullivan, John Heffernan, Arnold Vosloo, Directors: Ridley Scott Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Big budget account of Christopher Columbus' discovery of the Americas. Released in 1992 to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the discovery. Shows the disastrous effects the Europeans had on the original inhabitants, and Columbus' struggle to civilize the New World.

Jane Austen's Mafia! [1998, USA ] starting from $1.99

See It Early. Avoid the mob.

Genres: Comedy, Crime Actors: Jay Mohr, Billy Burke, Christina Applegate, Pamela Gidley, Olympia Dukakis, Lloyd Bridges, Jason Fuchs, Joe Viterelli, Tony Lo Bianco, Blake Hammond, Philip Suriano, Vincent Pastore, Marisol Nichols, Carol Ann Susi, Gregory Sierra Directors: Jim Abrahams, Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Young Vincenzo Cortino, son of a Sicilian postman, delivers a package for his father and accidentally sees something he should not see. In a donkey's, well, he is smuggled out of town, where he tries to reach a ship headed for America. There, Vincenzo works his way up to the top of the Mafia. One day, his youngest son makes a mistake and has to leave town. A little later, he ends up as a casino boss in Las Vegas. But the heads of the other families want old Don Cortino out of the way. So, they shoot him 47 times and send a *very* attractive woman to distract his son from his casino work. Will he fall for her or will he return to Diane, who, by the way, had run for President successfully in the meantime?

Odyssey, The [1997, Italy, UK, Germany, Greece, USA ] starting from $1.99

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy Actors: Armand Assante, Greta Scacchi, Isabella Rossellini, Bernadette Peters, Eric Roberts, Irene Papas, Jeroen Krabbé, Geraldine Chaplin, Christopher Lee, Vanessa Williams, Nicholas Clay, Adoni Anastassopoulos, Paloma Baeza, Ron Cook, Reid Asato, Directors: Andrei Konchalovsky Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   This lavish small-screen adaptation of Homer's ancient epic—replete with exotic Maltese and Turkish locations, state-of-the-art special effects, and many bronzed muscles gleaming with sweat—chronicles the voyage home of a Trojan hero, Odysseus King of Ithaca, and includes many more scenes of his faithful, beautiful wife Penelope dodging leering suitors at home than Homer ever composed!

Poseidon Adventure, The [1972, USA ] starting from $1.99

Hell, Upside Down

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller Actors: Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons, Carol Lynley, Roddy McDowall, Stella Stevens, Shelley Winters, Jack Albertson, Pamela Sue Martin, Arthur O'Connell, Eric Shea, Fred Sadoff, Sheila Allen, Jan Arvan, Byron Webster, Directors: Ronald Neame Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   At midnight on New Years Eve the S.S. Poseidon is struck by a 90' tidal wave and is capsized. The Reverend Frank Scott leads nine Survivors; an elderly couple, Manny and Belle Rosen headed to Israel to see their grandson; A New York detective and his ex-prostitute wife, Mike and Linda Rogo on their second honeymoon to Italy; A young brother and sister, Robin and Susan Shelby going to meet their parents in Greece; A haberdasher James Martin; a pop singer Nonnie Parry, and a waiter from the ship Acres. They travel from the grand ballroom struggling through, steam, fire and rising water in the up-side-down ship to reach the bottom (the propeller shaft), now the top.