Set during the last days of the Ottoman Empire, The Promise follows a love triangle between Michael, a brilliant medical student, the beautiful and sophisticated Ana, and Chris - a renowned American journalist based in Paris.
This film recounts Henri Verneuil's relationship with his father who had brought his Armenian family to Marseille, France, in order to escape from the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire.
Director:
Henri Verneuil
Stars:
Richard Berry,
Omar Sharif,
Nathalie Roussel
Women, restaurants, carefree life, drugs and friends. That is a former high-ranking political worker Arman Aramyan's son life. Among all of this - there is her big love Mari. She is the ... See full summary »
Just like its first part, The Line 2. 25 Years Later, is a story about ourselves, marking our achievements and failures, happiness and grief, our beloved ones and enemies, love, dreams and ... See full summary »
Stars:
Arcrun Chobanyan,
Babken Chobanyan,
Ani Ghazaryan
A US Senator's son (Jaime Kennedy) who attempts to forget the break up of his fiancée, is forced to vacation in Turkey by his best friends. A para-sailing trip mishap lands him in a small ... See full summary »
Director:
Gor Kirakosian
Stars:
Angela Sarafyan,
Jamie Kennedy,
Dave Sheridan
In 1915 a genocide happened in the Ottoman Empire and about 1.5 million Armenians were systematically murdered by the government of the Young Turks. This is a movie about the life of a ... See full summary »
The iconic "1915 Armenian Genocide" was originally produced in 1980 (digitally restored and re-released in 2010) is based on the eyewitness accounts of four survivors whose compelling story... See full summary »
Aurora Mardiganian, a young and beautiful Armenian girl, lives with her parents in the Turkish city of Havpoul. Her father, a prosperous merchant, was preparing to send her to the West to ... See full summary »
Director:
Oscar Apfel
Stars:
Aurora Mardiganian,
Irving Cummings,
Anna Q. Nilsson
Set during the last days of the Ottoman Empire, The Promise follows a love triangle between Michael, a brilliant medical student, the beautiful and sophisticated Ana, and Chris - a renowned American journalist based in Paris.
Leonardo DiCaprio wrote the following in April 2017 about The Promise: "Oscar Isaac, Christian Bale and Charlotte Le Bon, under the direction of Terry George, provide extraordinary performances in the upcoming film The Promise. I applaud the entire team..." See more »
String Quartet in B-Flat Major, Op. 1 No. 1, Hob. III:1
La chasse, I. Presto"
Written by Joseph Haydn (as Josef Haydn)
Performed by Kodaly Quartet
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This is a good historical period drama based on historical facts. The performances of Oscar Isaac, Charlotte Le Bon and Christian Bale are absolutely fantastic. Although I do believe this movie should be rated a 10 because of some inconsistent paces in the storyline, I do think it deserves a solid 8.
The reason why I decided to give it a 10 in the rating is because when I checked the rating's profile breakdown, there are 65559 voters gave it a 1. There is no way this movie should be voted a rating of 1. This voting pattern seems highly irregular and somewhat suspicious. Therefore, I feel the need to give it a 10 to help balance out the highly unusual low ratings by such large amount of voters.
I suspect many of the voters that gave it a 1 are somehow related to the Turkish government as they have been denying the Armenian Genocide for decades. In fact they still denied such event ever took place even when 29 countries around the world have already officially accepted this historical fact along with a lot of evidence of the killings that took place at the time.
Unfortunately, look like history might repeat itself again in Turkey today when the recent failed coup to overthrow Erdogan. This is allowing Erdogan to use this opportunity to acquire authoritarian rule over Turkey and round up anyone who he personal deem as enemy and lock them up or possibly exterminate them quietly. Even though this time they are not exterminating any specific ethnic group, it is still scary to see such event unfolding in front of us today.
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This is a good historical period drama based on historical facts. The performances of Oscar Isaac, Charlotte Le Bon and Christian Bale are absolutely fantastic. Although I do believe this movie should be rated a 10 because of some inconsistent paces in the storyline, I do think it deserves a solid 8.
The reason why I decided to give it a 10 in the rating is because when I checked the rating's profile breakdown, there are 65559 voters gave it a 1. There is no way this movie should be voted a rating of 1. This voting pattern seems highly irregular and somewhat suspicious. Therefore, I feel the need to give it a 10 to help balance out the highly unusual low ratings by such large amount of voters.
I suspect many of the voters that gave it a 1 are somehow related to the Turkish government as they have been denying the Armenian Genocide for decades. In fact they still denied such event ever took place even when 29 countries around the world have already officially accepted this historical fact along with a lot of evidence of the killings that took place at the time.
Unfortunately, look like history might repeat itself again in Turkey today when the recent failed coup to overthrow Erdogan. This is allowing Erdogan to use this opportunity to acquire authoritarian rule over Turkey and round up anyone who he personal deem as enemy and lock them up or possibly exterminate them quietly. Even though this time they are not exterminating any specific ethnic group, it is still scary to see such event unfolding in front of us today.