https://shotonwhat.com/distributed-aspect-ratio/2-351 The Source for Motion Picture & Television Technical Information Sat, 31 Aug 2024 11:26:43 -0800 en-US hourly 1 https://shotonwhat.com/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-1966 Thu, 05 Sep 2024 17:29:03 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-1966
Director: Sergio Leone
Cinematographer: Tonino Delli Colli
A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/oppenheimer-2023 Sat, 31 Aug 2024 11:26:43 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/oppenheimer-2023
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cinematographer: Hoyte Van Hoytema
The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/thunderball-1965 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:52:39 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/thunderball-1965
Director: Terence Young
Cinematographer: Ted Moore
James Bond heads to the Bahamas to recover two nuclear warheads stolen by S.P.E.C.T.R.E. Agent Emilio Largo in an international extortion scheme. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/you-only-live-twice-1967 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:48:34 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/you-only-live-twice-1967
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Cinematographer: Freddie Young
James Bond and the Japanese Secret Service must find and stop the true culprit of a series of space hijackings, before war is provoked between Russia and the United States. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/casino-royale-2-1967 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:15:01 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/casino-royale-2-1967
Director: Val Guest, Ken Hughes, John Huston, Joseph McGrath, Robert Parrish, Richard Talmadge
Cinematographer: Jack Hildyard
In an early spy spoof, aging Sir James Bond comes out of retirement to take on SMERSH. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/sya-2018 Mon, 01 Jul 2024 12:24:51 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/sya-2018
Director: Daniel Sowter
Cinematographer: Sidney Berthier
In the small town of Quaint, Bruce Levin (Adam Templar) owns a respectable B&B establishment. Sleeping around with various women behind his wife's back, he does not realise that his actions are soon to catch up with him in the for... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/ryans-daughter-1970 Wed, 29 May 2024 01:46:07 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/ryans-daughter-1970
Director: David Lean
Cinematographer: Freddie Young
Set in the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married woman in a small Irish village has an affair with a troubled British officer. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/fiddler-on-the-roof-1971 Wed, 29 May 2024 01:18:59 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/fiddler-on-the-roof-1971
Director: Norman Jewison
Cinematographer: Oswald Morris
In prerevolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant contends with marrying off three of his daughters while growing anti-Semitic sentiment threatens his village. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/spring-breakers-2012 Sun, 26 May 2024 13:20:57 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/spring-breakers-2012
Director: Harmony Korine
Cinematographer: Benoît Debie
Four college girls hold up a restaurant in order to fund their spring break vacation. While partying, drinking, and taking drugs, they are arrested, only to be bailed out by a drug and arms dealer. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-box-2-2009 Sat, 25 May 2024 20:39:09 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-box-2-2009
Director: Richard Kelly
Cinematographer: Steven Poster
A small wooden box arrives on the doorstep of a married couple, who know that opening it will grant them a million dollars and kill someone they don't know. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/cleopatra-1963 Tue, 21 May 2024 05:09:32 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/cleopatra-1963
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cinematographer: Leon Shamroy, Jack Hildyard
Queen Cleopatra of Egypt experiences both triumph and tragedy as she attempts to resist the imperial ambitions of Rome. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/doctor-zhivago-1965 Tue, 21 May 2024 04:57:58 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/doctor-zhivago-1965
Director: David Lean
Cinematographer: Freddie Young
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-graduate-1967 Sun, 19 May 2024 20:11:27 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-graduate-1967
Director: Mike Nichols
Cinematographer: Robert Surtees
A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/spartacus-2-1960 Thu, 16 May 2024 16:10:19 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/spartacus-2-1960
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cinematographer: Russell Metty
The slave Spartacus leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/tess-1979 Thu, 16 May 2024 02:09:41 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/tess-1979
Director: Roman Polanski
Cinematographer: Ghislain Cloquet, Geoffrey Unsworth
A strong-willed young peasant girl attracts the affection of two men. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-happy-prince-2018 Tue, 14 May 2024 16:55:27 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-happy-prince-2018
Director: Rupert Everett
Cinematographer: John Conroy
The untold story of the last days in the tragic times of Oscar Wilde, a person who observes his own failure with ironic distance and regards the difficulties that beset his life with detachment and humor. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-journey-2002 Thu, 11 Apr 2024 05:03:42 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-journey-2002
Director: Edwin Avaness, Emy Hovanesyan
Cinematographer: Edwin Avaness
The year is 1991. The Soviet Union has collapsed and Armenia is at the threshold of her independence. It has been ten years since twenty-three-year-old Eve left her homeland and emigrated ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/mission-impossible-ghost-protocol-2011 Sun, 10 Dec 2023 03:59:37 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/mission-impossible-ghost-protocol-2011
Director: Brad Bird
Cinematographer: Robert Elswit
The IMF is shut down when it's implicated in the bombing of the Kremlin, causing Ethan Hunt and his new team to go rogue to clear their organization's name. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/return-of-the-thumb-2018 Mon, 20 Nov 2023 18:18:34 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/return-of-the-thumb-2018
Director: Florian Schmidt-Convey
Cinematographer: Costa Konstantinou
The movie tells the story about Coach Steve, a worn down thumb wrestling coach, who, with the help of his new fighter, wants to take his last chance to win the Austrian thumb championship. Unfortunately the competition seems overw... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/monica-and-friends-lessons-2021 Mon, 13 Nov 2023 05:30:31 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/monica-and-friends-lessons-2021
Director: Daniel Rezende
Cinematographer: Azul Serra
Monica, Jimmy Five, Maggy, and Smudge try to flee school. Now, they have to face their consequences, and they will not be few. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/behold-the-lamb-2011 Thu, 20 Jul 2023 19:23:34 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/behold-the-lamb-2011
Director: John McIlduff
Cinematographer: Steeven Petitteville
Behold the Lamb is darkly comic road movie that follows Eddie, a fifty year old overweight and depressed accountant and Liz, a young tearaway as they travel across Northern Ireland to pick up a lamb. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/surviving-confession-2019 Fri, 07 Apr 2023 21:48:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/surviving-confession-2019
Director: Matthew Tibbenham
Cinematographer: Mark Farney
A disgruntled priest, conflicted with his faith, has his world turned upside down when an unlikely person enters his confessional. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/johnny-2-2021 Fri, 25 Nov 2022 01:42:00 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/johnny-2-2021
Director: John Charles Gerald
Cinematographer: John Charles Gerald
]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-scythian-2018 Mon, 07 Oct 2019 10:32:41 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-scythian-2018
Director: Rustam Mosafir
Cinematographer: Dzmitry Karnachyk
These are times when one civilization is replacing another. A new era is about to begin in Central Eurasia. Scythians, the proud warriors, are all but gone. The few of their descendants ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/reuniting-the-rubins-2010 Tue, 24 Sep 2019 22:19:58 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/reuniting-the-rubins-2010
Director: Yoav Factor
Cinematographer: Miles Cook
One man's mission to follow his dream is comically halted in its tracks at the request of his dear, but difficult, aged Jewish mother who is hell-bent on seeing her warring dysfunctional grown up grandchildren together one last time before she dies. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/treto-poluvreme-2012 Tue, 24 Sep 2019 17:43:34 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/treto-poluvreme-2012
Director: Darko Mitrevski
Cinematographer: Klaus Fuxjäger
Determined to build the best football club in the country, Dimitry hires the German coach, Rudolph Spitz, to galvanize his rag tag team but - when the first Nazi tanks roll through the city and Rebecca, the beautiful daughter of a local banker, elopes with his star player, all Dimitry's plans must change. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/spud-2-2009 Tue, 24 Sep 2019 16:01:11 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/spud-2-2009
Director: Tyler Norman
Cinematographer: Richard Bluth
It is the summer of 1988, and nerdy 12-year-old Nintendo addict Ivan "Spud" Spudofsky III decides he's been a victim of the neighborhood bullies for too long and reinvents himself as a video-game superhero. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/missed-connection-2017 Mon, 23 Sep 2019 02:00:44 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/missed-connection-2017
Director: Paul Abbaszadeh, Tyler Norman
Cinematographer: Paul Abbaszadeh
Two strangers (Ryan and Natalie) meet in a chance encounter that leads to a budding romance. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/deep-impact-1998 Tue, 17 Sep 2019 17:34:08 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/deep-impact-1998
Director: Mimi Leder
Cinematographer: Dietrich Lohmann
Unless a comet can be destroyed before colliding with Earth, only those allowed into shelters will survive. Which people will survive? ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/a-girl-is-a-gun-2017 Sun, 08 Sep 2019 13:29:44 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/a-girl-is-a-gun-2017
Director: Mathieu Tonetti
Cinematographer: Tobias Deml
The series follows three women (Santa Fe, Nenuphar, Vegas) living in Los Angeles who go missing, creating a wave of panic in the city. While the police suspects a serial killer is behind ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/thor-2011 Sat, 24 Aug 2019 22:02:59 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/thor-2011
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Cinematographer: Haris Zambarloukos
The powerful but arrogant god Thor is cast out of Asgard to live amongst humans in Midgard (Earth), where he soon becomes one of their finest defenders. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/lawrence-of-arabia-1962 Mon, 19 Aug 2019 13:31:42 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/lawrence-of-arabia-1962
Director: David Lean
Cinematographer: Freddie Young
The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/chitty-chitty-bang-bang-1968 Fri, 09 Aug 2019 15:46:23 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/chitty-chitty-bang-bang-1968
Director: Ken Hughes
Cinematographer: Christopher Challis
A down-on-his-luck inventor turns a broken-down Grand Prix car into a fancy vehicle for his children, and then they go off on a magical fantasy adventure to save their grandfather in a far-off land. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/el-ultimo-suspiro-2017 Wed, 19 Jun 2019 12:29:17 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/el-ultimo-suspiro-2017
Director: Joan Girbau Xalabarder
Cinematographer: Joan Girbau Xalabarder
]]> https://shotonwhat.com/piu-accecante-della-notte-2016 Wed, 19 Jun 2019 12:25:31 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/piu-accecante-della-notte-2016
Director: Diego Bonuccelli
Cinematographer: Diego Bonuccelli, Katia Cirrincione
Because of gambling Dario risked everything, his belongings, his job and also his life. Forced to be indebted to "Santo", a ruthless local usurer, he will find himself in a sequence of fatal and terrible events. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/ice-station-zebra-1968 Wed, 19 Jun 2019 12:03:12 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/ice-station-zebra-1968
Director: John Sturges
Cinematographer: Daniel L. Fapp
USN nuclear sub USS Tigerfish must rush to the North Pole to rescue the staff of Drift Ice Station Zebra weather station. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/song-of-norway-1970 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 06:03:50 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/song-of-norway-1970
Director: Andrew L. Stone
Cinematographer: Davis Boulton
Based on the life of Norway's greatest composer Edvard Grieg, and filmed in Norway where he lived. The soundtrack is all Edvard Grieg's music with added lyrics. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/mackennas-gold-1969 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 06:03:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/mackennas-gold-1969
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Cinematographer: Joseph MacDonald
A bandit kidnaps a Marshal who has seen a map showing a gold vein on Indian lands, but other groups are looking for it too, while the Apache try to keep the secret location undisturbed. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/brimstone-terrace-2013 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 05:37:13 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/brimstone-terrace-2013
Director: Tyler W. Moore
Alan Carpenter (Tori Kamal) makes the impulsive mistake of taking his own life. Not long after, he finds himself sentenced to an eternity in Hell. But the cruel, dark underworld doesn't ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/green-room-2015 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 14:19:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/green-room-2015
Director: Jeremy Saulnier
Cinematographer: Sean Porter
A punk rock band is forced to fight for survival after witnessing a murder at a neo-Nazi skinhead bar. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-box-3-2016 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 12:23:03 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-box-3-2016
Director: Jack O'Donoghue, Isaac Stewart
Cinematographer: Isaac Stewart
Everyone has fears. When Rose and Dean discover a mysterious box at their doorstep, their lives are changed and they are forced to face their fears, or live with the consequences. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/gallery-of-horror-1967 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:26:00 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/gallery-of-horror-1967
Director: David L. Hewitt
Cinematographer: Austin McKinney
John Carradine narrates five horror tales with macabre twists. A couple fixes a strange old clock. The Scotland Yard is after a serial killer. A murdered scientist seeks revenge. The last two stories focus on Frankenstein and Dracula. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/dr-terrors-house-of-horrors-1965 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:25:50 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/dr-terrors-house-of-horrors-1965
Director: Freddie Francis
Cinematographer: Alan Hume
Aboard a British train, mysterious fortune teller Dr. Schreck uses tarot cards to read the futures of five fellow passengers. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-story-of-the-count-of-monte-cristo-1961 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:25:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-story-of-the-count-of-monte-cristo-1961
Director: Claude Autant-Lara
Cinematographer: Jean Isnard, Jacques Natteau
Edmund Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/agi-murad-il-diavolo-bianco-1959 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:25:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/agi-murad-il-diavolo-bianco-1959
Director: Riccardo Freda
Cinematographer: Mario Bava
The story of Hadji Murad, a 19th-century Chechen chieftain who led his warriors in a fight against the invading forces of the Russian Czar. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/i-tartari-1961 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:25:12 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/i-tartari-1961
Director: Richard Thorpe, Ferdinando Baldi
Cinematographer: Amerigo Gengarelli
Orson Welles is tartar leader Burundai, who takes the place of his brother Togrul, killed during the battle against the Slavs, as Viking chieftain Oleg refuses to join him. After the ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-cossacks-1960 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:25:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-cossacks-1960
Director: Viktor Tourjansky, Giorgio Venturini
Cinematographer: Massimo Dallamano
]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-naked-and-the-dead-1958 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:24:55 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-naked-and-the-dead-1958
Director: Raoul Walsh
Cinematographer: Joseph LaShelle
Set during the Pacific War against the Japanese, this WW2 drama discerns between achieving one's mission at any cost versus preserving the lives under one's command and enforcing discipline through fear as opposed to mutual respect. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/run-of-the-arrow-1957 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:24:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/run-of-the-arrow-1957
Director: Samuel Fuller
Cinematographer: Joseph F. Biroc
When the South loses the war, Confederate veteran O'Meara goes West, joins the Sioux, takes a wife and refuses to be an American but he must choose a side when the Sioux go to war against the U.S. Army. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/jet-pilot-1957 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:24:31 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/jet-pilot-1957
Director: Josef von Sternberg
Cinematographer: Winton C. Hoch
Air Force Colonel Jim Shannon is tasked to escort a defecting Soviet pilot who is scheming to lure Shannon to the USSR. ]]>