The Bridge of San Luis Rey (
2004) | IMDb:
5
The Bridge of San Luis Rey is American author Thornton Wilder's second novel, first published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim. It tells the story of several interrelated people who die in the collapse of an Inca rope-fiber suspension bridge in Peru, and the events that lead up to their being on the bridge. A friar who has witnessed the tragic accident then goes about inquiring into the lives of the victims, seeking some sort of cosmic answer to the question of why each had to die.
Starring:
Gabriel Byrne
,
F. Murray Abraham
,
Kathy Bates
,
Robert De Niro
,
Harvey Keitel
,
Pilar López de Ayala
Directed by:
Mary McGuckian
The Merchant of Venice (
2004) | IMDb:
7
Venice, 1596. Bassanio begs his friend Antonio, a prosperous merchant, to lend him a large sum of money so that he can woo Portia, a very wealthy heiress; but Antonio has invested his fortune abroad, so they turn to Shylock, a Jewish moneylender, and ask him for a loan.
Starring:
Al Pacino
,
Jeremy Irons
,
Joseph Fiennes
,
Lynn Collins
,
Zuleikha Robinson
,
Kris Marshall
Directed by:
Michael Radford