Posts Tagged ‘based-on-tv-series’

Miami Vice (2006)

Saturday, November 29th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Colin Farrell | Jamie Foxx | Li Gong | Naomie Harris | Ciarán Hinds | Justin Theroux | Barry Shabaka Henley | Luis Tosar | John Ortiz | Elizabeth Rodriguez | Domenick Lombardozzi | Eddie Marsan | Isaach De Bankolé | John Hawkes | Tom Towles
Directors: Michael Mann
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Ricardo Tubbs (Jamie Foxx) is urbane and dead smart. He lives with Bronx-born Intel analyst Trudy (Naomie Harris), as they work undercover transporting drug loads into South Florida to identify a group responsible for three murders. Sonny Crockett (Colin Farrell) [to the untrained eye, his presentation may seem unorthodox, but procedurally, he is sound] is charismatic and flirtatious until - while undercover working with the supplier of the South Florida group - he gets romantically entangled with Isabella (Gong Li), the Chinese-Cuban wife of an arms and drugs trafficker. The best undercover identity is oneself with the volume turned up and restraint unplugged. The intensity of the case pushes Crockett and Tubbs out onto the edge where identity and fabrication become blurred, where cop and player become one - especially for Crockett in his romance with Isabella and for Tubbs in the provocation of an assault on those he loves.

Get Smart (2008)

Friday, November 7th, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Steve Carell | Anne Hathaway | Dwayne Johnson | Alan Arkin | Terence Stamp | David Aranovich | William Charlton | Terry Crews | Ken Davitian | Tom Everett | Fred Fein | Matt Gallini | Brad Grunberg | David Koechner | Bernie Kopell
Directors: Peter Segal
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Bungling secret agent Maxwell Smart, also known as Agent 86 for CONTROL, is on a mission to battle the forces of their evil crime nemesis known as KAOS with his more-competent partner Agent 99, (whose real name is never revealed) at his side. When the headquarters of U.S. spy agency Control is attacked and the identities of its agents compromised, the Chief has no choice but to promote his ever-eager analyst Maxwell Smart, who has always dreams of working in the field alongside stalwart superstar Agent 23. Smart will do whatever it takes to thwart the latest plot for world domination by KAOS.

Traffic (2000)

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Benicio Del Toro | Jacob Vargas | Andrew Chavez | Michael Saucedo | Tomas Milian | Jose Yenque | Emilio Rivera | Michael O'Neill | Michael Douglas | Russell G. Jones | Lorene Hetherington | Eric Collins | Beau Holden | Peter Stader | James Lew
Directors: Steven Soderbergh
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A modern day look at America’s war on drugs told through four separate stories that are connected in one way or another. A conservative politician who’s just been appointed as the US drug czar learns that his daughter is a drug addict. A trophy wife struggles to save her husband’s drug business, while two DEA agents protect a witness with inside knowledge of the spouse’s business. In Mexico, a corrupt, yet dedicated cop struggles with his conscience when he learns that his new boss may not be the anti-drug official he made himself out to be.

The Beverly Hillbillies (1993)

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Jim Varney | Diedrich Bader | Erika Eleniak | Cloris Leachman | Lily Tomlin | Lea Thompson | Rob Schneider | Dolly Parton | Dabney Coleman | Penny Fuller | Kevin Connolly | Linda Carlson | Lyman Ward | Leann Hunley | Ernie Lively
Directors: Penelope Spheeris
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Jed Clampett and kin move from Arkansas to Beverly Hills when he becomes a billionaire, after an oil strike. The country folk are very naive with regard to life in the big city, so when Jed starts a search for a new wife there are inevitably plenty of takers and con artists ready to make a fast buck.

The Untouchables (1987)

Friday, September 26th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | History | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Kevin Costner | Sean Connery | Charles Martin Smith | Andy Garcia | Robert De Niro | Richard Bradford | Jack Kehoe | Brad Sullivan | Billy Drago | Patricia Clarkson | Vito D'Ambrosio | Steven Goldstein | Peter Aylward | Don Harvey | Robert Swan
Directors: Brian De Palma
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Federal agent Elliot Ness assembles a personal team of mob fighters to bring Chicago crime boss Al Capone to justice using unconventional means during the mob wars of the 1920s. This fictionalized account of the arrest of Al Capone is heavy on style and gunfire. The end shootout combines a baby carriage and stairs with a nod to Eisenstein’s _The Battleship Potemkin_.

Speed Racer (2008)

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Family | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Emile Hirsch | Nicholas Elia | Christina Ricci | John Goodman | Melissa Holroyd | Susan Sarandon | Matthew Fox | Ariel Winter | Scott Porter | Benno Fürmann | Gian Ganziano | Peter Fernandez | Harvey Friedman | Richard Roundtree | Sadao Ueda
Directors: Andy Wachowski
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Hurtling down the track, careening around, over and through the competition, Speed Racer is a natural behind the wheel. Born to race cars, Speed is aggressive, instinctive and, most of all, fearless. His only real competition is the memory of the brother he idolized-the legendary Rex Racer - whose death in a race has left behind a legacy that Speed is driven to fulfill. Speed is loyal to the family racing business, led by his father, Pops Racer, the designer of Speed’s thundering Mach 5. When Speed turns down a lucrative and tempting offer from Royalton Industries, he not only infuriates the company’s maniacal owner but uncovers a terrible secret-some of the biggest races are being fixed by a handful of ruthless moguls who manipulate the top drivers to boost profits. If Speed won’t drive for Royalton, Royalton will see to it that the Mach 5 never crosses another finish line. The only way for Speed to save his family’s business and the sport he loves is to beat Royalton at his own game. With the support of his family and his loyal girlfriend, Trixie, Speed teams with his one-time rival-the mysterious Racer X - to win the race that had taken his brother’s life: the death-defying, cross-country rally known as The Crucible.

Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996)

Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Crime | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Mike Judge | Bruce Willis | Robert Stack | Eric Bogosian | Kristofor Brown | Tony Darling | John Doman | Francis Dumaurier | Jim Flaherty | Tim Guinee | David Letterman | Toby Huss | Sam Johnson | Richard Linklater | Harsh Nayyar
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MTV junkies Beavis and Butt-head awaken one day to find their beloved TV stolen. On their adventure to do a murderous smuggler’s wife (Demi Moore), they encounter an FBI agent (Robert Stack) with a predilection for cavity searches, two rather familiar looking ex-Motley Crue roadies, Mr. Van Driessen singing “Lesbian Seagull”, a little old lady, and, of course, Mr. Anderson and his trailer. Can the Great Cornholio save the day? Let’s hope so!

Dirty Sanchez: The Movie (2006)

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: UK
Actors: Matthew Pritchard | Lee Dainton | Mike Locke | Dan Joyce | Myke Hawke Pierce | Keith Richards | Elizabeth Tan | Kasumi Kitano
Directors: Jim Hickey
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The Welsh nutters, Dirty Sanchez are making a movie: The concept of the film is that the Devil has heard about the dare-devil nature of the Sanchez boys so he’s set them the ultimate challenge, to complete stunts based on the 7 Deadly Sins or be damned to the gutter forever. In order to regain their status as hard-asses and crawl out of the gutter - the 7 deadly sins they must complete in seven exotic locations are: Sloth - UK >> Anger - Moscow Russia >> Lust - Bangkok Thailand >> Envy - Ko Phi Phi Thailand >> Pride - Tokyo Japan >> Gluttony - Mexico >> Greed - Dominican Republic And most interesting of all the film-makers have secured Lemmy to play the Devil and do the music. Lemmy: “If they (Dirty Sanchez boys) think they’re tough… Wait till they meet me.”

Till Death Us Do Part (1969)

Friday, April 4th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: UK
Actors: Warren Mitchell | Dandy Nichols | Una Stubbs | Anthony Booth | Liam Redmond | Bill Maynard | Brian Blessed | Sam Kydd | Frank Thornton | Cleo Sylvestre | Ann Lancaster | Michael Robbins | Bob Grant | Jack Jordan | Edward Evans
Directors: Norman Cohen
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The film version of ‘”Till Death Do Us Part” (1965)’ . tells the story of Alf Garnett and his family living through the London Blitz.

On the Buses (1971)

Monday, March 31st, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: UK
Actors: Reg Varney | Doris Hare | Michael Robbins | Anna Karen | Stephen Lewis | Bob Grant | Andrea Lawrence | Pat Ashton | Brian Oulton | Pamela Cundell | Pat Coombs | Wendy Richard | Peter Madden | David Lodge | Brenda Grogan
Directors: Harry Booth
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Stan gets a little annoyed when his Mum and Sister keep buying expensive items on hire purchase, but the money he earns for overtime working as a bus driver means that he can afford it… just! His job is secure, as bus drivers are hard to come by, and his overtime prospects are good, until the bus company decide to revoke a long standing rule and employ women bus drivers. Aghast at the thought of no overtime and, therefore, less wages, he joins forces with his long time work colleague Jack to sabotage the new female employees.