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California (1947 film)
1947 film by John Farrow
California is a 1947 American Western film directed by John Farrow and featuring Ray Milland, Barbara Stanwyck, and Barry Fitzgerald. Stanwyck's singing voice was dubbed by Kay St. Germaine. Plot. Jonathan Trumbo, a deserter who had been an army lieutenant, is hired to guide a wagon train bound for California during the California Gold Rush. When a woman named Lily Bishop is accused of cheating at poker in a saloon, farmer Michael Fabian invites her to join the wagon train over Trumbo's strenuous objections. Trumbo also accuses her of cheating at cards after losing to Lily, an insult that she promises not to forget. Lily leaves with Booth Pennock, a ruffian who injures Trumbo with a whip before departing. Lily ends up in Pharaoh City running a saloon. The town is controlled by Pharaoh Coffin, a former slave trader who opposes law and order and California statehood. After Trumbo becomes involved in a saloon brawl, Lily orders him to never return to the saloon, but Trumbo wins the place in a poker game. Lily mistakenly takes Pharaoh to be an honest man and moves into his hacienda. Coffin's men assault Trumbo, who is rescued on the trail by Mexicans and vows revenge. When his wounds heal, Trumbo returns and becomes a spokesman for statehood advocacy. Coffin's hired men kill Fabian for similar beliefs, causing Lily to finally see Coffin for the crazed villain he is.

Question: Who was the director of California?
Answer: John Farrow, John Villiers Farrow
Family (2006 film)
2006 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film
Family (also known as Family – Ties of Blood) is a 2006 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by Rajkumar Santoshi. The film stars Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar, Aryeman Ramsay and Bhumika Chawla. It was released on 13 January 2006. Plot. Viren Sahai (Amitabh Bachchan) is an underworld don based out of Bangkok. Viren's spoilt brat Abhir (Sushant Singh) is attacked by rival Khan (Kader Khan) and Viren seeks revenge. He receives foolproof information that Khan and his nephew will be present at a local cinema theatre on a particular date, and he sets off to India to kill both of them. The story then moves in the present onto the life of a simple canteen owner, Shekhar Bhatia (Akshay Kumar) who married his wife Dr. Kavita (Bhumika Chawla). Shekhar lives with his parents, his wife, and his younger brother Aryan. One day Aryan runs away from home and Shekhar searches the whole city to find him. During his search he witnesses Viren attacking Khan in the cinema theatre causing a stampede and decides to help the innocent people in the cinema. Whilst helping the innocent Shekhar finds Khan's nephew fatally wounded and tries to take him to the hospital. Viren mistakenly shoots Shekhar in the back of Khan's nephew, thinking Shekhar to be Khan's man.

Question: Who was the director of Family?
Answer: Rajkumar Santoshi
Guru (2012 film)
2012 Indian film by Jaggesh
Guru is a 2012 Indian Kannada-language action film directed by Jaggesh. The film starred his sons Gururaj and Yathiraj as male leads and Rashmi Gautham as the female lead. The film was Jaggesh's first film as a director. It is a remake of the Tamil-language film "Mouna Guru". Production. The film was actor Jaggesh's debut as a director and said that he took up the project on his son's insistence as a launchpad to the latter. The film was produced under the then-launched banner by Jaggesh, Gururaj Films. The story for the film was chosen by Jaggesh from politician Karunanidhi's camp, receiving it from his son M. K. Tamailarasu. Jaggesh also wrote the script for the film. Speaking of the film, he said, "Guru will be a commercial film, but will not have a routine story. You will get the retro feel with this film. Such incidents would have occurred in everybody's life". To prepare for his role in the film, Gururaj underwent training in kickboxing and other martial arts for a period of five and a half months in Cambodia. The film was launched in Mantralayam in May 2012, before filming that began in June 2012. Soundtrack. Vinay Chandra composed the music for the soundtracks, and lyrics written by Ramnarayan and Kaviraj. The album consists of four soundtracks. Reception. Critical response.

Question: Who was the director of Guru?
Answer: Jaggesh, Navarasa Nayaka, Eshware Gowda
The Cool Ones
1967 film by Gene Nelson
The Cool Ones (aka "Cool, Baby Cool") is a 1967 film starring Roddy McDowall and directed by Gene Nelson. The 1960s novelty singer known as Mrs. Miller performs in a cameo role, and the film features performances by the bands the Leaves and the Bantams as well as a brief appearance by Glen Campbell, playing a fictional singer. Plot. Hallie Rodgers is a backup singer on the TV show "Whizbang". One evening, she boldly steps out of the chorus and begins singing “Just One of Those Things.” The young people in the audience love her singing, but the producer Fred MacElewine fires her. A little later she goes into a bar, and Cliff Donner, a former singing star, tells Hallie he saw her on television and liked her singing. Tony Krum, a music promoter, suggests Hallie and Cliff sing together, and the duo become popular recording artists. They also fall in love. Cast. &lt;templatestyles src="Div col/styles.css"/&gt;* Roddy McDowall as Tony Krum
In an uncredited appearance: one of the dancers is Teri Garr, specifically as one of the Whiz-Bam girls. Reception. The film received mostly negative reviews, and it now is viewed as something of a 1960s cult musical. From the blog "Comet Over Hollywood":"The Cool Ones" has earned a place on my list of the worst movies that I have ever seen.

Question: Who was the director of The Cool Ones?
Answer: Gene Nelson, Leander Eugene Berg
The Grand (film)
The Grand is a 2007 improv comedy film directed by Zak Penn. The film has an ensemble cast including Ray Romano, Woody Harrelson, Chris Parnell, Werner Herzog, Jason Alexander, Dennis Farina, David Cross, Gabe Kaplan, Michael Karnow and Cheryl Hines along with several real Las Vegas poker stars. According to Penn, the film is styled after those of Christopher Guest, in which each actor is given direction concerning their character and the actors are left to improvise each individual scene. The plot of "The Grand" was somewhat more open-ended than Guest's work, however. The focus of the film is a poker tournament played at the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas between the characters in which real poker matches were played by the actors as the scenes were filmed. The film's script did not specify the winner of the tournament, and the ending of the film was determined by the actual game played on set. The film debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival, and was distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment. The film opened in limited release in the United States on March 21, 2008, and opened in wider release on April 4, 2008. Plot. Jack Faro is a recovering drug addict who, after many relapses, decides to move into a rehabilitation facility full-time. Having been married 75 times, he is a serial husband and is always on the lookout for number 76. He enters The Grand, a Texas Hold 'Em poker tournament in Las Vegas created by his grandfather Lucky Faro.

Question: Who was the director of The Grand?
Answer: Zak Penn
Jigsaw (1962 film)
1962 British film by Val Guest
Jigsaw is a 1962 British black and white crime film directed by Val Guest and starring Jack Warner and Ronald Lewis. The screenplay was by Guest based on the 1959 police procedural novel "Sleep Long, My Love" by Hillary Waugh, with the setting changed from the fictional small town of Stockford, Connecticut, to Brighton, Sussex, while retaining the names and basic natures of its two police protagonists and most of the other characters. Plot. A woman (later explained as Joan Simpson) argues with an unseen man. She wants to marry him but he moves to attack her. Her remains are found both dismembered and incinerated, together with a knife and a hacksaw in a small furnace in Saltdean, near Brighton. Two local detectives, following up a small but odd burglary of leases at an estate agent's office, discover the body and take on the investigation of the death. The dead woman cannot be identified but they initially think she is called Jean Sherman, since a suitcase with the initials JS had been left at the scene. The main suspect is an unidentified man who has used the false identity of John Campbell to rent the house in which the woman was found. The detectives methodically develop and follow up leads to identify both people, mostly in Brighton, but also further afield in Lewes and Greenwich. DI Fellows goes to Jean Sherman's house and discovers that she is still alive. He tricks her into giving him a name and address to get a sample of her handwriting, which is the same as that found in the victim's house.

Question: Who was the director of Jigsaw?
Answer: Val Guest
Così parlò Bellavista
Così parlò Bellavista is a 1984 Italian comedy film based on the novel of the same name by Luciano De Crescenzo. De Crescenzo directed the film and also played the main role. For this film De Crescenzo won David di Donatello and Nastro d'Argento for best new director, while Marina Confalone won the same awards in the best supporting actress category. Plot summary. In Naples, Professor Bellavista is a retired man, passionate about the philosophy and thought of Ancient Greece. Every day, in his luxurious apartment, he teaches his lessons of life to the poor-nothing (his friends), who are dazzled by his reasoning. One day, however, the quiet life of the building of Bellavista will be disturbed by the arrival of a director of Milan. Between Naples and Milan there is a sharp contrast, because the Neapolitans are accustomed to enjoy a quiet life, always based on the "philosophy of pleasure and delay", while the northern Italians are very strict and punctual. References. &lt;templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" /&gt;

Question: Who was the director of Così parlò Bellavista?
Answer: Luciano De Crescenzo
Desire (1982 film)
Desire is a 1982 Filipino-American film directed by Eddie Romero and starring John Saxon, Judith Chapman, and Tetchie Agbayani.

Question: Who was the director of Desire?
Answer: Eddie Romero, Edgar Sinco Romero
Marte Dam Tak
Marte Dam Tak is a 1987 Indian Hindi language crime film directed by Mehul Kumar, produced by Pranlal V. Mehta, starring Raaj Kumar, Govinda, Farah in lead roles. Plot. Courteous Police Inspector Rane, intent on arresting notorious gangster P.C. Mathur finds himself on trial for murder and sentenced to five years behind bars, of course being framed for the murder by his enemy. Following his prison term, Rane becomes an underworld operator known as Rana, intent on seeking revenge on Mathur and killing him. He hires Jai to kill Mathur, but mistakenly kills somebody else in the process. Jai, feeling angered by his mistake gives up a life of crime to concentrate on his family, leaving Rana alone to hunt down Mathur. It is now up to Rana to fulfil his quest, but avoid being killed first by Mathur's gang. Soundtrack. Lyrics: Ravindra Jain
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Question: Who was the director of Marte Dam Tak?
Answer: Mehul Kumar
Department (film)
Department is a 2012 Indian Hindi-language action film directed by Ram Gopal Varma. The film stars Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt and Rana Daggubati in lead roles. Released on 18 May 2012, the film received mixed-to-negative reviews from critics. Plot. Inspector Mahadev Bhosale (Sanjay Dutt) is tasked by his seniors to form a hit squad called the "Department" to take on the Mumbai underworld. He recruits Shiv Narayan (Rana Daggubati), a police officer, who was suspended for an encounter killing. Mahadev and Shiv, along with others in the "Department", target crime syndicate leader Sawatya (Vijay Raaz) and his gang. Sawatya, in spite of many exhortations by his number two, D.K. (Abhimanyu Singh), and D.K. 's girlfriend, Naseer (Madhu Shalini), does not hit back at the police. The plot also includes a gangster-turned-minister, Sarjerao Gaikwad (Amitabh Bachchan). Sarjerao and Shiv form bonds, when the former saves the latter's life at a public rally. Mahadev warns Shiv that Sarjerao is just using him. After an inevitable turn of events, it is exposed that Mahadev is working for Mohammad Ghouri, an underworld don, and is finishing off Sawatya's gang at the ganglord's behest.

Question: Who was the director of Department?
Answer: Ram Gopal Varma, RGV, Penmetsa Ram Gopal Varma
Organ (film)
1996 Japanese horror film by Kei Fujiwara
 is a 1996 Japanese horror film written, directed and produced by Kei Fujiwara. She also stars in it as one of two organ thieves who remove organs from their captives while they are still alive. It is known for its excessive gore and violence. Plot. Two undercover detectives, Numata and Tosaka, infiltrate a plastic covered den where they discover a gang of organ thieves including Saeki and his sister Yoko (Kei Fujiwara), who are in the middle of cutting open a coma patient. Tosaka blows Numata's cover and a gun battle ensues, with Saeki injecting Numata and escaping. He stumbles around the streets in a daze and takes the fall for the operation going south. Tosaka is captured. Saeki works as a researcher at a school where he sometimes murders schoolgirls. We learn later that Saeki's mother attacked his genitals when he was young and stabbed out Yoko's eye. Yoko tries to defend the two of them from the police, as well as the organ thieves' yakuza bosses who are not happy with the sudden attention. Tosaka's identical twin leads the other police officers in a search to find his brother, but when they finally find him, he's been turned into a mutated torso as a result of Saeki's experiments. Production. After working on the production of "", Kei Fujiwara formed an experimental theater company called the Organ Vital company, which produced a play called "Organ". The company then adapted the play into the film "Organ".

Question: Who was the director of Organ?
Answer: Kei Fujiwara
Wavelength (1983 film)
1983 film by Mike Gray
Wavelength is a 1983 science fiction film written and directed by Mike Gray and starring Robert Carradine, Cherie Currie, and Keenan Wynn. Plot. Bobby Sinclaire (Robert Carradine), a failing Californian musician, meets telepathic Iris Longacre (Cherie Currie) in a bar and they begin a relationship. At Sinclaire's apartment, Longacre begins to hear things others cannot. The young couple discover the voices are from a childlike race of aliens being held by the U.S. government after their UFO crashed. The government plans to use the trio of aliens for experimentation and dissection in a supposedly abandoned underground bunker located near Sinclaire's apartment. The couple decides to liberate the aliens and help them return them to their mothership. Cast. &lt;templatestyles src="Div col/styles.css"/&gt;* Robert Carradine as Bobby Sinclair
Production. Mike Gray wrote "Wavelength" in 1977 after his deal with Columbia Pictures to direct "The China Syndrome" fell through. Gray began developing the film at Warner Bros., but following the success of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" Gray's script was dropped as it was deemed too similar. The film was kept going thanks to producer Maurice Rosenfield who secured $1.5 million to film "Wavelength" independently. The film was shot over the course of six weeks with a non union crew in Hollywood, San Pedro, and Death Valley, California. It was planned for the movie to be released before "E.T.

Question: Who was the director of Wavelength?
Answer: Mike Gray, Harold Michael Gray
The Spine (film)
The Spine is a 2009 animated short film by Chris Landreth about a married dysfunctional couple, created in Landreth's "psycho realist" style, in which characters' mental states are reflected in their physical appearance. Voices for the couple were supplied by Gordon Pinsent and Alberta Watson. Landreth has explained his animation style as "a kind of surrealistic portrayal of real people and what I do with the surrealistic part is to make people's emotional, psychological and spiritual state kind of very evident on their faces and in their body so that they look …scarred in a way that reflects their history." "The Spine" was produced by the National Film Board of Canada in association with Copperheart Animation and C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures, with the creative participation of Autodesk Canada and Seneca College's School of Communication Arts. It is Landreth's second film with Copper Heart and the NFB, having won the 2004 Academy Award for Animated Short Film and the 25th Genie Award for Best Animated Short for his previous work, "Ryan". Production. Producing "The Spine" took two years, with the first year devoted mainly to development. The film was a more ambitious project technically than "Ryan", and so required a much larger production team. Animators from Seneca College, which had been involved in "Ryan", played a much larger role in the making of "The Spine", with Seneca College people doing "about 95% of the animation," according to Landreth.

Question: Who was the director of The Spine?
Answer: Chris Landreth, Christopher Landreth
Guru (1997 film)
1997 film directed by Rajiv Anchal
Guru (transl. Teacher / master) is a 1997 Indian Malayalam-language fantasy drama film directed by Rajiv Anchal and written by C. G. Rajendra Babu from a story by Rajeev. Mohanlal plays the lead role, while Suresh Gopi, Madhupal, Sithara, Kaveri, Sreelakshmi, Nedumudi Venu and Sreenivasan appears in supporting roles, and Nassar in a cameo appearance. The original musical score and songs were composed by Ilaiyaraaja. The score was conducted and performed by the Budapest Symphony Orchestra, Hungary. This was the first time in Indian cinema, the background score of a film was recorded completely outside the country. "Guru" was selected as India's official entry to the Oscars for the Best Foreign Language Film category, but was not nominated. "Guru" is the first Malayalam film submitted by India for the Oscars. Plot. Raghuraman is the son of a local Hindu temple priest in an idyllic village. The people, Hindus and Muslims, live in harmony. When ambitious politicians goons, disguised as Muslims, cause trouble at the local temple, tensions break out between the two communities leading to widespread religious riots. Raghurāman, after his family is killed, joins a Hindu extremist gang to take revenge by attacking a group of Muslims who have taken refuge in a Guru's Ashram (a place where a holy Guru lived and worked).

Question: Who was the director of Guru?
Answer: Rajiv Anchal, Rajeev Anchal
How I Spent My Summer Vacation (1997 film)
How I Spent My Summer Vacation is a 1997 romantic comedy film directed by John Fisher. The film stars Deanna Davis and RonReaco Lee, and is Fisher's directorial debut film. Plot. Perry (Lee) and Stephanie's (Davis) junior year in college has just ended. Though the two have been dating since high school, they both feel that the spark in the relationship is gone, and that their constant bickering, breaking up, and making up has become more like a game. They both decide the best thing to do is to call off the relationship before their senior year, so they can test the waters with other people. Perry begins to date Tammy, a young woman who actually has a boyfriend overseas. While he's very attracted to Tammy (Dixon), he can't really shake his yearning for Stephanie. Eventually Perry tries to reconcile their relationship, and finds that Stephanie might be testing waters of her own.

Question: Who was the director of How I Spent My Summer Vacation?
Answer: John Fisher
The Sidehackers
1969 film by Gus Trikonis
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The Sidehackers (also known as Five the Hard Way) is a 1969 American action film about motorcycle racing with a twist. Each motorcycle has a sidehack (a sidecar with a rail but no sidewalls or seat), in which a passenger rides and tilts to one side or another when going around curves. The credits thank the "Southern California Sidehack Association"; sidehacking is also known as sidecarcross or "sidecar motocross racing". Plot. Rommel is a mechanic at a motorbike repair shop who works alongside his partner Luke, and competes in sidehack-style races. He and his fiancée Rita plan to get married soon. Rommel meets J.C., a hot-tempered entertainer and his crew, when he brings in his bike for repair. J.C. sees a sidehack bike in the shop and takes a liking to it. Rommel invites J.C. and his group to join him in a sidehack event the upcoming weekend. At the event, J.C. enjoys watching Rommel race on the sidehack. Rommel offers J.C. to give a ride on a sidehack with him at his and Rita's cabin, and he accepts. A day of racing on Rommel's sidehack is followed by a dinner party at the cabin. The party turns ugly when J.C. invites Rommel to join his gang, and Rommel declines.

Question: Who was the director of The Sidehackers?
Answer: Gus Trikonis
Pilgrimage (2001 film)
2001 film
Pilgrimage is a 2001 documentary film by Werner Herzog. Accompanied only by music the film alternates between shots of pilgrims near the tomb of Saint Sergei in Sergiyev Posad, Russia and pilgrims at the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico. The score was composed by John Tavener and performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra with vocal accompaniment by Parvin Cox and the Westminster Cathedral Choir. The film begins with a supposed quote by Thomas à Kempis, invented by Herzog. References. &lt;templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" /&gt;

Question: Who was the director of Pilgrimage?
Answer: Werner Herzog, Werner Herzog Stipetić, Werner Stipetić
Tattoo (1967 film)
1967 film
Tattoo () is a 1967 West German film directed by Johannes Schaaf. The film was selected as the German entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 40th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. It was also entered into the 17th Berlin International Film Festival. The film won three German Film Awards. References. &lt;templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" /&gt;

Question: Who was the director of Tattoo?
Answer: Johannes Schaaf
Passenger (2009 film)
Passenger is a 2009 Indian Malayalam-language conspiracy thriller film written and directed by debutant Ranjith Sankar and starring Sreenivasan, Dileep, Mamta Mohandas, Jagathy Sreekumar and Nedumudi Venu in major roles. It was a path breaker in Malayalam cinema in terms of its story telling and started the Malayalam new cinema wave. Owing to its critical and commercial success, "Passenger" was to be remade into Tamil as "Muriyadi" by Selva. Plot. "Passenger" is based on two characters, who have never had anything to do with each other, and the impact they cause on each other's lives. The movie shows the events that follow. Sathyanathan, who works in a private company, is a simple man who lives an orderly and uncomplicated life. He travels from his native town to Kochi (where he works) by train. The moment the train crosses the Chalakudy bridge he dozes off and wakes up at another station. All this happens with utmost precision, as if programmed by someone. He is someone who fights for social justices for the benefit of everyone and shirks from any publicity gained by it. Nandhan Menon, who is an advocate, stands for truth and justice. He respects the law and always thinks of the welfare of the people around him. His wife Anuradha is a bold reporter who works for private news channel Right TV. Maranchara is a small coastal village.

Question: Who was the director of Passenger?
Answer: Ranjith Sankar