100 Years of Cinema

In this post we are presenting the main movies´ themes and also a small introduction what these films are about. We hope you enjoy it!

Synopsis source: IMDB – The Internet Movie Database

  Mission Impossibile (3,2 MiB, 12 hits)

Movie based on the television series finds Jim Phelps and his team charged with stopping a traitor from stealing and selling classified material. Everything was going well until the man they are following and all of the team are inexplicably killed except for Ethan Hunt. Ethan then calls the Director and goes to meet him when he discovers that the whole mission was to ferret a mole that they have been suspicious of for some time. The Director shows evidence that hints that Ethan’s the one they have been looking for but Ethan knows that he is not, so he escapes. Ethan then arranges to meet the buyer and whom he warns against using the material he has and when they meet he offers to get what he paid for in exchange for telling whom the mole is. Ethan, along with Phelps’ wife Claire recruits two disavowed agents to help him which won’t be easy.

  B. J. Thomas - Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head (2,8 MiB, 12 hits)

Butch and Sundance are the two leaders of the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang. Butch is all ideas, Sundance is all action and skill. The west is becoming civilized and when Butch and Sundance rob a train once too often, a special posse begins trailing them no matter where they run. Over rock, through towns, across rivers, the group is always just behind them. When they finally escape through sheer luck, Butch has another idea, “Let’s go to Bolivia”. Based on the exploits of the historical characters.

  Bram Stoker's Dracula - The Hunters Prelude (1,4 MiB, 12 hits)

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.

  Celine Dion & Peabo Bryson - Beauty and The Beast (3,7 MiB, 12 hits)

Prince Adam was cursed to a beast form by Enchantress who saw no love in his arrogant heart for others. The one way he could break the spell was to learn to love another and earn her love in return before the last petal from his enchanted rose fell, which would bloom until his twenty-first birthday. But who could ever learn to love a beast? Ten years later, Maurice, an inventor from a nearby village, becomes lost in the woods and seeks shelter in the Beast’s castle, the Beast imprisons him for trespassing. His daughter Belle, a bookworm who dreams of life outside her provincial village, finds him trapped in the castle and offers her place in his stead. The Beast accepts with a promise she’ll remain in the castle forever. In the beginning Belle views him as nothing more than a monster, he views her as difficult and stubborn. But the two soon taste the bitter-sweetness of finding you can change and learning you were wrong

  Dancing with Wolves - The John Dunbar Theme (3,4 MiB, 14 hits)

Having been sent to a remote outpost in the wilderness of the Dakota territory during the American Civil War, Lieutenant John Dunbar encounters, and is eventually accepted into, the local Sioux tribe. He is known as “Dances with Wolves” to them and as time passes he becomes enamoured by the beautiful “Stands With a Fist”. Not soon after, the frontier becomes the frontier no more, and as the army advances on the plains, John must make a decision that will not only affect him, but also the lives of the natives he now calls his people.

  Frankie Laine - OK Corral (2,0 MiB, 12 hits)

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral – After the long career of lawman that made him a legend, Wyatt Earp deciedes to quit and join his brothers in Tombstone, Arizona. There he would see them in feud with Clantons, local clan of thugs and cattle thieves. When the showdown becomes inevitable, the help will come from Doc Holliday, terminally-ill gambler who happens to be another Wild West legend.

  Great Horizons - The Big Country Main Title (2,8 MiB, 13 hits)

Retired, wealthy sea Captain Jame McKay arrives in the vast expanse of the West to marry fiancée Pat Terrill. McKay is a man whose values and approach to life are a mystery to the ranchers and ranch foreman Steve Leech takes an immediate dislike to him. Pat is spoiled, selfish and controlled by her wealthy father, Major Henry Terrill. The Major is involved in a ruthless civil war, over watering rights for cattle, with a rough hewn clan led by Rufus Hannassey. The land in question is owned by Julie Maragon and both Terrill and Hannassey want it.

  Henry Mancini - The Pink Panther (2,4 MiB, 12 hits)

A French detective, Inspector Clouseau, is obsessed with the capture of a glamourous jewel thief known only as “The Phantom”. A lead takes Clouseau to Switzerland and to Sir Charles, a rich English playboy. During the course of his investigations the most unexpected of persons becomes a strong suspect.

  Ini Kamoze - Here comes the Hotstepper (3,8 MiB, 12 hits)

Racing Stripes – In the middle of a raging thunderstorm, a traveling circus accidentally leaves behind some very precious cargo–a baby zebra. The gangly little foal is rescued by horse farmer Nolan Walsh, who takes him home to his young daughter Channing. Once a champion thoroughbred trainer, Walsh has given up horse training for a quiet life with Channing on their modest Kentucky farm. The little zebra, or “Stripes,” as Channing calls him, is soon introduced to the farm’s misfit troupe of barnyard residents, led by a cranky Shetland Pony named Tucker and Franny, a wise old goat who keeps the family in line. The group is joined by Goose, a deranged big-city pelican who’s hiding out in the sticks until the heat dies down in Jersey. The un-aptly named bloodhound Lightening keeps a lazy eye on goings-on at the farm – in between naps. The Walsh farm borders the Turfway Racetrack, where highly skilled thoroughbreds compete for horse racing’s top honor, the ultra-prestigious Kentucky Crown. From the first moment Stripes lays eyes on the track, he’s hooked–he knows that if he could just get the chance, he could leave all those other horses in the dust. What he doesn’t know is–he’s not exactly a horse. But with characteristic zeal, he devotes himself to training for the big time, with a little help from Tucker, who has coached a host of champion racehorses in the past.

  John Barry - The James Bond Theme (2,7 MiB, 12 hits)

The James Bond Theme

  John Williams - The Raiders' March (2,3 MiB, 13 hits)

The Raiders of the Lost Ark – The year is 1936. A professor who studies archeology named Indiana Jones is venturing in the jungles in South America searching for a golden statue. Unfortunately, he sets off a deadly trap doing so, miraculously, he escapes. Then, Jones hears from a museum curator named Marcus Brody about a biblical artifact called The Ark of the Covenant, which can hold the key to humanly existence. Jones has to venture to vast places such as Nepal and Egypt to find this artifact. However, he will have to fight his enemy Renee Belloq and a band of Nazis in order to reach it

  Laura - Laura (1,8 MiB, 13 hits)

Detective Mark McPherson investigates the killing of Laura, found dead on her apartment floor before the movie starts. McPherson builds a mental picture of the dead girl from the suspects whom he interviews. He is helped by the striking painting of the late lamented Laura hanging on her apartment wall. But who would have wanted to kill a girl with whom every man she met seemed to fall in love? To make matters worse, McPherson finds himself falling under her spell too. Then one night, halfway through his investigations, something seriously bizarre happens to make him re-think the whole case.

  Limahl - Never Ending Story (3,2 MiB, 13 hits)

Pursued by bullies, dreamy Bastian, 10, flees into a used book store where a strange leather-bound volume attracts him. The owner warns him away from it, explaining that it is dangerous: once entering its world, the reader cannot escape. Bastian borrows the now irresistable book and hides in the school attic. He reads of a beautiful, doomed land named Fantasia, and a brave boy desperately anointed by the princess to stop its mysterious ongoing destruction. Drawn into young Atreyu’s quest as with no other book, Bastian discovers astonished that the Fantasians hear Bastian scream and see Bastian in mirrors. Where is Fantasia, and where is he? Can Atreyu save Fantasia, or is the princess really summoning Bastian himself?

  Linda Wesley - Calling You (3,9 MiB, 13 hits)

Out of Rosenheim (Bagdad Café) is a look into the minds and lives of some people most of us have met but few of us know much about. This movie exemplifies how one person in the right place can affect a community of lives. The Adlons seem to express the view that all change and “magic” comes from hard work and mutual acceptance. A well-crafted view of the lives of tourists everywhere and the difficulties they can face. A Whimsical and lovingly Photographed look at the vast wasteland that is too often ignored by much of humanity.

  Lion King - Circle of Life (3,6 MiB, 13 hits)

A young lion prince is born in Africa, thus making his uncle Scar the second in line to the throne. Scar plots with the hyenas to kill King Mufasa and Prince Simba, thus making himself King. The King is killed and Simba is led to believe by Scar that it was his fault, and so flees the kingdom in shame. After years of exile he is persuaded to return home to overthrow the usurper and claim the kingdom as his own thus completing the “Circle of Life”.

  Madonna - Don't cry for me Argentina (5,1 MiB, 13 hits)

Evita: Based on the incredible true story, Eva (Evita) Peron, starts out life as a poor girl who goes on to become an actress and then become the wife of the president of Argentina, Juan Peron. The musical is a story of love and politics, showing all the battles and triumphs Evita has in her short, but amazing life.

  Mark Ayers - Blade Runner (2,8 MiB, 11 hits)

Blade Runner: Los Angeles, 2019: Rick Deckard of the LAPD’s Blade Runner unit prowls the steel & micro-chip jungle of the 21st century for assumed humanoids known as ‘replicants’. Replicants were declared illegal after a bloody mutiny on an Off-World Colony, and are to be terminated upon detection. Man’s obsession with creating a being equal to himself has back-fired.

  Marlene Dietrich - Lili Marlene (2,9 MiB, 12 hits)

In Switzerland German singer ‘Willie’ falls in love with Jewish composer ‘Robert’ who offers resistance to the Nazis by helping refugees. But his family thinks that ‘Willie’ is also a Nazi and may be a risk for them. One day ‘Willie’ helps ‘Robert’ but has to stay in Germany. As Willie starts to sing the song ‘Lili Marleen’ she becomes very famous and every soldier hears that song via radio at 8 pm. Although even Hitler wants to meet her she still does not forget ‘Robert’ and helps to smuggle photos of concentration camps to the free Switzerland. When ‘Robert’ wants to visit her he is captured he can finally get free again but he will never see Willie again until war is over.

  Maurice Jarre - Dr. Zhivago - Lara's Theme (3,0 MiB, 14 hits)

Dr. Zhivago: A Russian epic, the movie traces the life of surgeon-poet Yury Zhivago before and during the Russian Revolution. Married to an upper-class girl who is devoted to him, yet in love with an unfortunate woman who becomes his muse, Zhivago is torn between fidelity and passion. Sympathetic with the revolution but shaken by the wars and purges, he struggles to retain his individualism as a humanist amid the spirit of collectivism.

  Michel Legrand - Summer of 42 (2,5 MiB, 12 hits)

Summer of 42: Silent as a painting, the movie shows us day-dreamer Hermie and his friends Oscy and Benjie spending the summer of ‘42 on an US island with their parents – rather unaffected by WWII. While Oscy’s main worries are the when and how of getting laid, Hermie honestly falls in love with the older Dorothy, who’s married to an army pilot. When her husband returns to the front, Hermie shyly approaches her.

  Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells Opening Theme (3,1 MiB, 12 hits)

  Mitch Miller - The River Kwai March (2,2 MiB, 12 hits)

The Bridge on the River Kwai: The film deals with the situation of British prisoners of war during World War II who are ordered to build a bridge to accommodate the Burma-Siam railway. Their instinct is to sabotage the bridge but, under the leadership of Colonel Nicholson, they are persuaded that the bridge should be constructed as a symbol of British morale, spirit and dignity in adverse circumstances. At first, the prisoners admire Nicholson when he bravely endures torture rather than compromise his principles for the benefit of the Japanese commandant Saito. He is an honorable but arrogant man, who is slowly revealed to be a deluded obsessive. He convinces himself that the bridge is a monument to British character, but actually is a monument to himself, and his insistence on its construction becomes a subtle form of collaboration with the enemy. Unknown to him, the Allies have sent a mission into the jungle, led by Warden and an American, Shears, to blow up the bridge.

  My Fair Lady - I Could Have Danced All Night (3,6 MiB, 11 hits)

Gloriously witty adaptation of the Broadway musical about Professor Henry Higgins, who takes a bet from Colonel Pickering that he can transform unrefined, dirty Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle into a lady, and fool everyone into thinking she really is one, too! He does, and thus young aristocrat Freddy Eynsford-Hill falls madly in love with her. But when Higgins takes all the credit and forgets to acknowledge her efforts, Eliza angrily leaves him for Freddy, and suddenly Higgins realizes he’s grown accustomed to her face and can’t really live without it.

  Nilsson - Everybody's Talkin' (2,5 MiB, 12 hits)

Midnight Cowboy: Texas greenhorn Joe Buck arrives in New York for the first time. Preening himself as a real ‘hustler’, he finds that he is the one getting ‘hustled’ until he teams up with a down-and-out but resilient outcast named Ratso Rizzo. The initial ‘country cousin meets city cousin’ relationship deepens. In their efforts to bilk a hostile world rebuffing them at every turn, this unlikely pair progress from partners in shady business to comrades. Each has found his first real friend.

  Shirley Bassey - Goldfinger (2,6 MiB, 12 hits)

Goldfinger:  The powerful tycoon Auric Goldfinger has initiated “Operation Grand Slam,” a cataclysmic scheme to raid Fort Knox and obliterate the world economy. James Bond, armed with his specially equipped Aston Martin (its accessory package includes built-in machine guns, a smoke screen and an ejector seat), must stop the plan by overcoming several outrageous adversaries. First there’s Oddjob, the mute servant who kills at the toss of a lethal hat; next, the beautiful Jill Masterson, who gives new meaning to the phrase “golden girl”; and finally, sexy pilot Pussy Galore, whose romantic feelings for Bond complicate her involvement in Goldfinger’s high-flying scheme.

  Topol - If I Were A Rich Man (2,9 MiB, 12 hits)

Fiddler on the Roof: Film version of the stage musical, based on the stories of Sholom Aleichem. Tevye the Milkman is a Jewish peasant in pre-Revolutionary Russia, coping with the day-to-day problems of ’shtetl’ life, his Jewish traditions, his family (wife and daughters), and state-sanctioned pogroms.

  2001 - A Space Odyssey (1,4 MiB, 12 hits)

“2001″ is a story of evolution. Sometime in the distant past, someone or something nudged evolution by placing a monolith on Earth (presumably elsewhere throughout the universe as well). Evolution then enabled humankind to reach the moon’s surface, where yet another monolith is found, one that signals the monolith placers that humankind has evolved that far. Now a race begins between computers (HAL) and human (Bowman) to reach the monolith placers. The winner will achieve the next step in evolution, whatever that may be.

  Amarcord - Amarcord (1,9 MiB, 10 hits)

Amarcord: A year in the life of a small Italian coastal town in the nineteen-thirties, as is recalled by a director with a superstar’s access to the resources of the Italian film industry and a piper’s command over our imaginations. Federico Fellini’s film combines the free form and make-believe splendor with the comic, bittersweet feeling for character and narrative we remember from some of his best films of the 1950s. The town in the film is based on Rimini, where Mr. Fellini grew up. Yet there is now something magical,

  Andy Williams - Speak Softly Love (2,8 MiB, 10 hits)

The Godfather: The story begins as “Don” Vito Corleone, the head of a New York Mafia “family”, oversees his daughter’s wedding. His beloved son Michael has just come home from the war, but does not intend to become part of his father’s business. Through Michael’s life the nature of the family business becomes clear. The business of the family is just like the head of the family, kind and benevolent to those who give respect, but given to ruthless violence whenever anything stands against the good of the family. Don Vito lives his life in the way of the old country, but times are changing and some don’t want to follow the old ways and look out for community and “family”. An up and coming rival of the Corleone family wants to start selling drugs in New York, and needs the Don’s influence to further his plan. The clash of the Don’s fading old world values and the new ways will demand a terrible price, especially from Michael, all for the sake of the family.

  Death in Venice - Symphony No.5 Adagietto (1,9 MiB, 10 hits)

Death in Venice: Gustav Von Aschenbach, a composer utterly absorbed in his work, arrives in Venice as a result of a youthfully ardent thirst for distant scenes and there meets a young man by whose beauty he becomes obsessed. His pitiful pursuit of the object of his overpowering affection and its inevitable and tragic consequences is told here in Visconti’s luminous work of of art.

  Elizabeth Taylor - Send in the Clowns (4,0 MiB, 10 hits)

A Little Night Music: Fredrik Egerman is very happy in his marriage to a seventeen-year-old virgin, Anne. Only she’s been a virgin for the whole eleven months of the marriage, and being a bit restless, Fredrik goes to see an old flame, the famous actress Desiree Armfeldt. Desiree is getting tired of her life, and is thinkin of settling down, and sets her sights on Fredrik, despite his marriage, and her own married lover Count Carl-Magnus. She gets her mother to invite the Egermans to her country estate for the weekend. But when Carl-Magnus and his wife Charlotte appear, too, things begin to get farcical (Send in the Clowns), and the night must smile for the third time before all the lovers are united.

  Emperor - Main Title Theme (3,7 MiB, 11 hits)

Star Wars: After receiving a vision from Obi-Wan Kenobi and fleeing the ice world of Hoth with his friends after an Imperial attack, Luke Skywalker travels to the marsh planet of Dagobah, where he is instructed in the ways of the Force by the legendary Jedi master Yoda. Meanwhile, Han Solo and Princess Leia make their way to planet Bespin, where they are greeted by Han’s old friend, a shifty gambler named Lando Calrissian. Ambushed by the Empire shortly after their arrival, Han and his friends are imprisoned by Darth Vader. Luke leaves Dagobah to rescue his friends, and is met by Vader and a startling revelation.

  Ennio Morricone - Gabriel's Oboe (2,1 MiB, 11 hits)

The Mission: Father Gabriel ascends the mountains of Brazil to bring christianity to the natives. He is successful and brings about a golden age among them. Mendoza, a slaver, kills his brother in a fit of rage, and only Fr. Gabriel’s guidance prevents his suicide. Gabriel brings Mendoza to work at his mission with the natives, and Mendoza finds peace and asks to become a priest. The church , under pressure, cedes the land to the Portuguese which will allow slavers in again. Mendoza breaks his vows and organizes the natives to resist while Gabriel warns him to help them as a priest.

  Frank Sinatra - New York, New York (3,1 MiB, 9 hits)

  Frank Sinatra - Three Coins in the Fountain (2,8 MiB, 10 hits)

  Frankie Lane - High Noon (2,5 MiB, 10 hits)

  Moon River (2,5 MiB, 9 hits)

  John Williams - Adventures on Earth (2,8 MiB, 11 hits)

  Marty Robbins - The Hanging Tree (2,6 MiB, 12 hits)

  Matt Monro - Born free (2,5 MiB, 10 hits)

  Mitch Miller & The Sing Along Chorus - The guns of Navarone (3,6 MiB, 11 hits)

  Nina Simone - My Baby Just Cares for me (3,3 MiB, 10 hits)

  Ocho y Medio - Otto E Mezzo (4,0 MiB, 10 hits)

  Parque Jurasico - Jurasic Park Suite (1,9 MiB, 10 hits)

  Peggy Lee - Johnny Guitar (1,9 MiB, 9 hits)

  Riz Ortolani - More Ti guardero nel cuore (3,5 MiB, 9 hits)

  Robert Downey Jr - Smile (3,3 MiB, 11 hits)

  Roy Orbison - Oh Pretty Woman (2,7 MiB, 10 hits)

  Sade - No ordinary Love (3,9 MiB, 9 hits)

  The Beach Boys - I get Around (2,0 MiB, 10 hits)

  The Dixie Cups - Chapel of Love (2,6 MiB, 11 hits)

  West Side Story - Maria (2,4 MiB, 11 hits)

  Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire - 's Wonderful (2,0 MiB, 9 hits)

  Bobby Vinton - Blue Velvet (2,6 MiB, 10 hits)

  Cinema Paradiso - Main Title (2,7 MiB, 10 hits)

  Doris Day - Que Sera Sera (1,9 MiB, 10 hits)

  Enio Morricone - Main Western Title (2,6 MiB, 10 hits)

  Francis Lai - Theme from Love Story (2,3 MiB, 10 hits)

  Gene Kelly - Singin' in the Rain (2,7 MiB, 10 hits)

  Henri Mancini - Charade - Main Title (2,0 MiB, 11 hits)

  Isaac Hayes - Shaft (4,2 MiB, 10 hits)

  Jim Carrey - Cuban Pete (3,3 MiB, 9 hits)

  Joe Cocker - You can leave your Hat on (3,9 MiB, 11 hits)

  John Barry - Out of Africa (2,5 MiB, 11 hits)

  John Williams - Jaws Theme (2,7 MiB, 11 hits)

  Leonard Cohen - Waiting for the Miracle (3,3 MiB, 11 hits)

  Liza Minelli - Cabaret (3,3 MiB, 9 hits)

  Maurice Jarre - Is Paris Burning (2,0 MiB, 10 hits)

  Peabo Bryson & Regina Belle - A Whole New World (3,8 MiB, 11 hits)

  Percy Faith - The Entertainer (2,9 MiB, 10 hits)

  Percy Sledge - When a man Loves a Woman (2,7 MiB, 9 hits)

  Psycho - Main Theme (2,8 MiB, 10 hits)

  Schindler's List - Main Theme (1,8 MiB, 10 hits)

  The Brothers Four - The Green Leaves of Summer (2,7 MiB, 10 hits)

  The Byrds - Turn Turn Turn (3,3 MiB, 9 hits)

  The Marx Brothers - Ridin' the Range (2,6 MiB, 10 hits)

  William Warfield - Ol' Man River (3,5 MiB, 11 hits)