Posts Tagged ‘betrayal’

Deception (2008)

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Hugh Jackman | Ewan McGregor | Michelle Williams | Lisa Gay Hamilton | Maggie Q | Natasha Henstridge | Lynn Cohen | Danny Burstein | Malcolm Goodwin | Charlotte Rampling | Frank Girardeau | Bill Camp | Bruce Altman | Andrew Ginsburg | Stephanie Roth Haberle
Directors: Marcel Langenegger
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An accountant is introduced to a mysterious sex club known as The List by his lawyer friend. But in this new world, he soon becomes the prime suspect in a woman’s disappearance and a multi-million dollar heist.

Redbelt (2008)

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Jeffrey Addiss | Joseph Alfieri | Tim Allen | Douglas Barcellos | Craig Collington Bator | Matt Cable | Ryan Everett Canfield | Jose Pablo Cantillo | Randy Couture | Steve DeCastro | Chiwetel Ejiofor | Justin Fair | Scott Farrell | Hugh Fitzgerald | Mike Goldberg
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A fateful event leads to a job in the film business for top mixed-martial arts instructor Mike Terry. Though he refuses to participate in prize bouts, circumstances conspire to force him to consider entering such a competition.

Heist (2001)

Friday, July 18th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Sam Rockwell | Gene Hackman | Danny DeVito | Delroy Lindo | Ricky Acker | Rebecca Pidgeon
Directors: David Mamet
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David Mamet takes this story of thieves along many twists and turns, some of which work and some of which don’t. Gene Hackman plays the brilliant leader of a gang (Delroy Lindo, Ricky Jay & Rebecca Pigeon as Hackman’s youngish wife), which pulls off complex heists for a despicable fence (Danny DeVito). After stiffing the gang on a jewelry robbery, DeVito forces the gang to go after a Swiss gold shipment and to use his nephew (Sam Rockwell) in the crime. No one trusts anyone and every step is shaded with the unexpected.

Vantage Point (2008)

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Dennis Quaid | Matthew Fox | Forest Whitaker | Bruce McGill | Edgar Ramirez | Saïd Taghmaoui | William Hurt | James LeGros | Eduardo Noriega | Richard T. Jones | Holt McCallany | Leonardo Nam | Justin Sundquist | Sean O'Bryan | José Carlos Rodríguez
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The attempted assassination of the American President is told and re-told from several different perspectives.

Flatliners (1990)

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Julia Roberts | Kevin Bacon | Kiefer Sutherland | Oliver Platt | William Baldwin | Kimberly Scott
Directors: Joel Schumacher
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Medical students begin to explore the realm of near death experiences, hoping for insights. Each has their heart stopped and is revived. They begin having flashes of walking nightmares from their childhood, reflecting sins they committed or had committed against them. The experiences continue to intensify, and they begin to be physically beaten by their visions as they try and go deeper into the death experience to find a cure.

Romper Stomper (1992)

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama
Countries: Australia
Actors: Russell Crowe | Daniel Pollock | Jacqueline McKenzie | Alex Scott | Jeffrey Wright
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Nazi skinheads in Melbourne take out their anger on local Vietnamese, who are seen as threatening racial purity. Finally the Vietnamese have had enough and confront the skinheads in an all-out confrontation, sending the skinheads running. A woman who is prone to epileptic seizures joins the skins’ merry band, and helps them on their run from justice, but is her affliction also a sign of impurity?

MirrorMask (2005)

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Family | Fantasy
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Jason Barry | Rob Brydon | Stephen Fry | Andy Hamilton | Simon Harvey | Lenny Henry | Robert Llewellyn | Nik Robson | Rick Allen | Simon Schofield | Mark Tate | Richard Thompson | Robin Thompson | Iain Ballamy | Chris Batchelor
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Helena, a 15-year-old girl in a family of circus entertainers, often wishes she could run off and join real life. After a fight with her parents about her future plans, her mother falls quite ill and Helena is convinced that it is all her fault. On the eve of her mother’s major surgery, she dreams that she is in a strange world with two opposing queens, bizarre creatures, and masked inhabitants. All is not well in this new world - the white queen has fallen ill and can only be restored by the MirrorMask, and it’s up to Helena to find it. But as her adventures continue, she begins to wonder whether she’s in a dream, or something far more sinister.

21 (2008)

Monday, June 9th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Jim Sturgess | Kevin Spacey | Aaron Yoo | Jacob Pitts | Laurence Fishburne | Jack McGee | Josh Gad | Sam Golzari | Jack Gilpin | Butch Williams | Jeffrey Ma | Frank Patton | Steven Richard Vezina | Chaska T. Werner | Kyle Morris
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Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent, student at M.I.T. in Boston who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine with the desire to become a doctor, Ben learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the four to five years of school since he comes from a poor, working-class background. But one evening, Ben is introduced by his unorthodox math professor Micky Rosa into a small but secretive club of five students, Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Jimmy whom are being trained by Professor Rosa of the skill of card counting at blackjack. Intriged by the desire to make money, Ben joins his new friends on secret weekend trips to Las Vegas where, using their skills of code talk and hand signals, they have Ben make hundreds of thousands of dollars in winning blackjack at casino after casino. Ben only wants to make enough money for the tuition to Harvard and then back out. But as fellow card counter, Jill Taylor, predicts, Ben becomes corrupted by greed and his arrogance at winning which lets his feelings get in the way, and it also puts Professor Rosa, as well as the group, on the radar of a brutal casino security enforcer, named Cole Williams, who holds a personal grudge of some kind against Rosa which threatens to undo everything the students have learned and earned.

The Godfather: Part II (1974)

Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Al Pacino | Robert Duvall | Diane Keaton | Robert De Niro | John Cazale | Talia Shire | Lee Strasberg | Michael V. Gazzo | G.D. Spradlin | Richard Bright | Gastone Moschin | Tom Rosqui | Bruno Kirby | Frank Sivero | Francesca De Sapio
Directors: Francis Ford Coppola
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The continuing saga of the Corleone crime family tells the story of a young Vito Corleone growing up in Sicily and in 1910s New York; and follows Michael Corleone in the 1950s as he attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.

Jackie Brown (1997)

Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Denise Crosby | Pam Grier | Samuel L. Jackson | Robert Forster | Bridget Fonda | Michael Keaton | Robert De Niro | Michael Bowen | Chris Tucker | Lisa Gay Hamilton | Tom 'Tiny' Lister Jr. | Hattie Winston | David Haig | Aimee Graham | Ellis Williams | Tangie Ambrose
Directors: Quentin Tarantino
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Jackie Brown is the name of a flight attendant who gets caught smuggling her boss’ gun money on the airline she works for. Luckily for her, the Fed Ray Nicolet and the LA Cop Mark Dargus decide to team up in order to arrest the arms dealer she works for, whose name they don’t even know. Here’s when she has to choose one way: tell Nicolet and Dargus about Ordell Robbie (the arms dealer) and get her freedom -except that if Ordell suspects you’re talking about him, you’re dead- or keep her mouth shut and do some time. That’s when she meets Max Cherry -her bail bondsman-, a late fifties, recently separated, burnt-out man, who falls in love with her. Then Jackie comes up with a plan to play the Feds off against Ordell and the guys he works with -Louis Gara and Melanie Ralston, among others- and walk off with their money. But she needs Max’s help. No one is going to stand in the way of his million dollar payoff…