Posts Tagged ‘attempted-murder’

The Impostors (1998)

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Oliver Platt | Walker Jones | Jessica Walling | David Lipman | E. Katherine Kerr | George Guidall | William Hill | Alfred Molina | Michael Emerson | Jack O'Connell | Matt Malloy | Ted Blumberg | Lili Taylor | Tony Shalhoub
Directors: Stanley Tucci
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In an attempt to resurrect the slapstick comedy of Laurel and Hardy or The Marx Brothers, Stanley Tucci and Oliver Platt team-up as two out-of-work actors who accidentally stowaway on a ship to hide from a drunken, belligerent lead actor who has sworn to kill them for belittling his talents. Of course, the lead actor end up on the ship as well. Also, a madman (Tony Shalhoub) plots the destruction of the ship and Steve Buscemi is a depressed, suicidal lounge singer named Happy Frank.

Titanic (1997)

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio | Kate Winslet | Billy Zane | Kathy Bates | Frances Fisher | Gloria Stuart | Bill Paxton | Bernard Hill | David Warner | Victor Garber | Jonathan Hyde | Suzy Amis | Lewis Abernathy | Nicholas Cascone | Dr. Anatoly M. Sagalevitch
Directors: James Cameron
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Titanic, the ship of dreams. Is also known as Unsinkable, and it was unsinkable on its departure on April 10th, 1912. And on its epic journey a poor artist named Jack Dawson and a rich girl Rose DeWitt Bukator fall in love, until one night, their fairytale love for one another turns into a struggle for survival on a ship about to founder to the bottom of the North Atlantic. Rose leaves her fiancée Caledon Hockley for this poor artist, but when the Titanic collides with the Iceberg on April 14th, 1912, and then when the ship sinks on April 15th, 1912 at 2:20 in the morning, Jack dies and Rose survives and 84 years later Rose tells the story about her life on Titanic to her grand daughter and friends on the Keldysh and explains the first sight of Jack that falls into love, then into a fight for survival. When Rose gets saved by one lifeboat that comes back, they take her to the Carpathia with the 6 saved with Rose and the 700 people saved in the lifeboats. The Carpathia Immigration Officer asks Rose what her name is and she loved Jack so much she says her name is not Rose DeWitt Bukator, but her name is Rose Dawson. She seen Cal looking for her, but he doesn’t see her, and they never ended up together, her mom, Cal, and friends of the family has know choice but to think that she died on the Titanic. But in the crash of 1929, Cal is married, but then he put a pistol in his mouth and committed suicide. So Rose is an actress in the 20’s, and now 84 years later Rose Calvert is 100 years old and tells her grand daughter Lizzy Calvert, Brock Lovett, Lewis Bodine, Bobby Buell, and Anatoly Mikailavich the whole story from departure until the death of Titanic on its first and last voyage, and then to Rose all Titanic and the real love of her life Jack Dawson is all an existence inside of her memory, and Titanic is to rest in peace at the bottom of the North Atlantic from 1912 until the end of time.

Mobsters (1991)

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Christian Slater | Costas Mandylor | Richard Grieco | Jeremy Schoenberg | Miles Perlich | Alan Charof | Patrick Dempsey | Anto Nolan | Rodney Eastman | Andy Romano | Bianca Rossini | Stevie Restivo | Caroline Gillette | Robert Z'Dar | Michael Gambon
Directors: Michael Karbelnikoff
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The story of a group of friends in turn of the century New York, from their early days as street hoods to their rise in the world of organized crime. As their crime empire expands, they have to deal with many problems, including their own differing opinions on how to run their business, the local Godfather, and the psychotic Mad Dog Coll.

21 Grams (2003)

Monday, September 15th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Sean Penn | Naomi Watts | Danny Huston | Carly Nahon | Claire Pakis | Benicio Del Toro | Nick Nichols | Charlotte Gainsbourg | John Rubinstein | Eddie Marsan | Loyd Keith Salter | Antef A. Harris | Melissa Leo | Marc Musso | Teresa Delgado
Directors: Alejandro González Iñárritu
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This is the story of three gentle persons: Paul Rivers (Penn) an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English emigré (Gainsbourg), Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married and mother of two little girls, and Jack Jordan (Del Toro), an ex-convict who has found in his Christian faith the strength to raise a family. They will be brought together by a terrible accident that will change their lives. By the final frame, none of them will be the same as they will learn harsh truths about love, faith, courage, desire and guilt, and how chance can change our worlds irretrievably, forever.

Sphere (1998)

Thursday, September 11th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Samuel L. Jackson | Dustin Hoffman | Sharon Stone | Queen Latifah | Liev Schreiber | Peter Coyote | Marga Gomez
Directors: Barry Levinson
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1000 feet below the ocean, navy divers discover an object half-a-mile long. A crack team of scientists are deployed to the site in Deepsea Habitats. What they find boggles the mind as they discover a perfect metal sphere. What is the secret behind the sphere? Will they survive the mysterious ‘manifestations’? Who or what is creating these? They may never live to find out.

Tigerland (2000)

Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Genres: Drama | War
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Colin Farrell | Matthew Davis | Clifton Collins Jr. | Tom Guiry | Shea Whigham | Russell Richardson | Nick Searcy | Afemo Omilami | James MacDonald | Keith Ewell | Matt Gerald | Stephen Fulton | Tyler Cravens | Michael Edmiston | Michael Shannon
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In September 1971, a platoon of recruits arrives in Ft. Polk, LA, for infantry training before leaving for war. The final week takes place in Tigerland, a swamp similar to Vietnam. Jim Paxton has enlisted; he wants to experience everything and write books later. He befriends Roland Bozz, a cool Texan with a gift for getting into trouble and for helping misfits get discharges. At least one sociopath in the platoon hates Bozz, even as the sergeants grudgingly recognize his leadership abilities. As the platoon heads into its week in Tigerland, Paxton’s body gives out, Bozz makes plans to go AWOL, and the sociopath gets hold of live ammo. Is the Louisiana swamp more dangerous than the DMZ?

Pathology (2008)

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Milo Ventimiglia | Michael Weston | Johnny Whitworth | John de Lancie | Keir O'Donnell | Buddy Lewis | Dan Callahan | Larry Drake | Med Abrous | Alan Blumenfeld | Gary Buckner | Jeb Burris | Jarvis W. George | Eric Kaldor | Keith Morris
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Harvard Medical School graduate Dr. Ted Grey arrives at one of the nations most prestigious Pathology programs and is quickly noticed by the program’s privileged and elite band of pathology interns who invite him into their crowd. It is also here, where he is introduced to Dr. Jake Gallo, who brings him to a secluded wing, where he and four other indulge in there after-hours, extra-curricular activities…finding ways to commit the perfect murder!

Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)

Friday, February 15th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Spencer Tracy | Robert Ryan | Anne Francis | Dean Jagger | Walter Brennan | John Ericson | Ernest Borgnine | Lee Marvin | Russell Collins | Walter Sande | Harry Harvey | Francis McDonald
Directors: John Sturges
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John J. Macreedy doesn’t know it, but when he steps off the train at the jerkwater town of Black Rock, he will soon find himself the object of fear, hatred, and even a murder plot! The altruistic Macreedy came to Black Rock to hand over a posthumous military award to a local man whose son had died gallantly in the Second World War. What Macreedy couldn’t know when he stepped off of that train was that the town had a shameful secret, one that must be kept at all costs.

The Kingdom (2007)

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jamie Foxx | Chris Cooper | Jennifer Garner | Jason Bateman | Ashraf Barhom | Ali Suliman | Jeremy Piven | Richard Jenkins | Kyle Chandler | Frances Fisher | Danny Huston | Kelly AuCoin | Anna Deavere Smith | Minka Kelly | Amy Hunter
Directors: Peter Berg
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When a terrorist bomb detonates inside a Western housing compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, an international incident is ignited. While diplomats slowly debate equations of territorialism, FBI Special Agent Ronald Fleury quickly assembles an elite team and negotiates a secret five-day trip into Saudi Arabia to locate the madman behind the bombing. Upon landing in the desert kingdom, however, Fleury and his team discover Saudi authorities suspicious and unwelcoming of American interlopers into what they consider a local matter. Hamstrung by protocol-and with the clock ticking on their five days-the FBI agents find their expertise worthless without the trust of their Saudi counterparts, who want to locate the terrorist in their homeland on their own terms. Fleury’s crew finds a like-minded partner in Saudi Colonel Al-Ghazi, who helps them navigate royal politics and unlock the secrets of the crime scene and the workings of an extremist cell bent on further destruction. With these unlikely allies sharing a propulsive commitment to crack the case, the team is led to the killer’s front door in a blistering do-or-die confrontation. Now in a fight for their own lives, strangers united by one mission won’t stop until justice is found in The Kingdom.

Cronos (1993)

Monday, January 21st, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror
Countries: Mexico
Actors: Federico Luppi | Ron Perlman | Claudio Brook | Margarita Isabel | Tamara Shanath | Daniel Giménez Cacho | Mario Iván Martínez | Farnesio de Bernal | Juan Carlos Colombo | Jorge Martínez de Hoyos | Luis Rodríguez | Javier Álvarez | Gerardo Moscoso | Eugenio Lobo | Adriana Olivera
Directors: Guillermo del Toro
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An aging antique dealer, Jesus Gris, happens upon an elegant mechanized scarab. When opened, it painfully stabs whomever is holding it, but the wound brings youthful vigor and a vampire’s need for blood. The device is relentlessly pursued by a dying tycoon, Dieter de la Guardia, whose nephew Angel, reluctant to see his uncle live a moment longer, must still do the old man’s bidding. Meanwhile, Gris’s desires endanger his own granddaughter, Aurora.