Posts Tagged ‘blackmail’

Insomnia (2002)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Al Pacino | Martin Donovan | Robin Williams | Oliver 'Ole' Zemen | Hilary Swank | Paul Dooley | Nicky Katt | Larry Holden | Jay Brazeau | Lorne Cardinal | James Hutson | Andrew Campbell | Paula Shaw | Crystal Lowe | Tasha Simms
Directors: Christopher Nolan
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Sent from the city to investigate the murder of a teenage girl in a small Alaska town, a police detective (Pacino) accidentally shoots his own partner while trying to apprehend a suspect. Instead of admitting his guilt, the detective is given an unexpected alibi, but this “solution” only multiplies the emotional complexity and guilt over his partner’s death. He’s also still got a murder to solve, in addition to the blackmail and framing of an innocent bystander being orchestrated by the man they were chasing. There’s also a local detective (Swank) who is conducting her own personal investigation… of his partner’s death. Will it all come crashing down on him?

Flubber (1997)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Robin Williams | Marcia Gay Harden | Christopher McDonald | Raymond J. Barry | Clancy Brown | Ted Levine | Wil Wheaton | Edie McClurg | Jodi Benson | Leslie Stefanson | Malcolm Brownson | Benjamin Brock | Dakin Matthews | Zack Zeigler | Sam Lloyd
Directors: Les Mayfield
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Phillip Brainard, who is a professor at a college and a small time worker in his own basement, is trying to create a great invention. Unfortunately he always failed to invent something, but he is so obsessed about it that he even puts off his own wedding to his fiancée, Sara. One day, he finally invents something that works, this substance can cause even the heaviest things to bounce in the air, ‘flying rubber’, but Brainard called it “Flubber”. However, he sees Sara going out with another professor from another college and several criminals trying to rob him. So, Brainard has to find out a way to defeat the criminals and to get back his Fiancee. Hopefully, Flubber can help him.

Carlito’s Way (1993)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Al Pacino | Sean Penn | Penelope Ann Miller | John Leguizamo | Ingrid Rogers | Luis Guzmán | James Rebhorn | Joseph Siravo | Viggo Mortensen | Richard Foronjy | Jorge Porcel | Frank Minucci | Adrian Pasdar | John Ortiz | Ángel Salazar
Directors: Brian De Palma
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Carlito Brigante is released from jail after serving five years of a much longer stretch. He vows to go straight and to live life as a fine, upstanding citizen. He even rekindles a romance with his ex-lover. However, Carlito’s associates cannot seem to leave him in peace…his nephew involves him a pool-room gunfight, his lawyer asks him for “favours” which spiral out of control, and even an old friend (now a wheelchair bound paraplegic) tries to get him into trouble with the law. Carlito decides to make a run for Florida and the promise of a new life, but has one final dramatic escape to make from some hoods who believe (wrongly) that he was behind the murder of their boss.

Notes on a Scandal (2006)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Judi Dench | Cate Blanchett | Tom Georgeson | Michael Maloney | Joanna Scanlan | Shaun Parkes | Emma Kennedy | Syreeta Kumar | Andrew Simpson | Philip Davis | Wendy Nottingham | Tameka Empson | Leon Skinner | Bill Nighy | Juno Temple
Directors: Richard Eyre
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Barbara Covett is a veteran and cynical schoolteacher who is close to retirement. She is barely tolerated by her less brilliant and acerbic colleagues who know nothing about her private life which consists mainly of taking care of Portia, her aging cat, and spending countless hours alone. The only means she has found to take the edge off her desperate loneliness is writing in her journal. When Sheba Hart, a younger, attractive woman, joins the faculty as an art teacher, Barbara watches her from afar and has nothing but caustic things to say in her diary about her clothing and her care-free manner. Despite her disdain for this woman, Barbara finds herself reaching out to her. Sheba responds by inviting her to dinner at her house to meet Sheba’s lecturer husband, who is twenty years her senior, and their two children, a sexy and rebellious 16-year-old daughter and a younger boy with Downs Syndrome. Instead of opening herself to these people, Barbara immediately sees them as competition to be beaten in the battle for Sheba’s attention. Later, when Barbara discovers her new friend in a classroom having sex with Steven, a 15-year-old from the school who has artistic talent; she realizes that knowledge of this secret gives her power over Sheba which she can use for her own purposes. Barbara promises to not tell anyone but insists that the affair must end immediately. Sheba says she will but finds herself drawn back to the boy again and again. Sheba seems uneasy with Barbara’s friendship and is appalled when she discovers the older woman might have a sexual interest in her. The tenuous relationship between the two women reaches a crisis point when Barbara’s cat is dying and she asks Sheba to go with her to the vet. She chooses to go with her family to see their son in a play instead. In revenge, Barbara sets in motion the scandal that will rock both their lives in ways they never imagined.

The Body (2001)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: Germany | Israel | USA
Actors: Antonio Banderas | Olivia Williams | John Shrapnel | Derek Jacobi | Jason Flemyng | John Wood | Lillian Hurst | Makram Khoury | Vernon Dobtcheff | Ian McNeice | Muhamed Bakri | Yoav Dekelbaum | Sami Samir | Jordan Licht | Limor Goldstein
Directors: Jonas McCord
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An ancient skeleton has been discovered in Jerusalem in a rich man’s tomb. Colouration of the wrist and leg bones indicates the cause of death was crucifiction. other signs, include a gold coin bearing the marks of Pontius Pilate and faint markings around the skull, lead authorities to suspect that these could be the bones of Christ. Politicians, clerics, religious extremists and those using terror as a means to an end, find their beliefs and identities test while risking their lives to unearth the truth

Broken Arrow (1996)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: John Travolta | Christian Slater | Samantha Mathis | Delroy Lindo | Bob Gunton | Frank Whaley | Howie Long | Vondie Curtis-Hall | Jack Thompson | Vyto Ruginis | Ousaun Elam | Shaun Toub | Casey Biggs | Jeffrey J. Stephen | Joey Box
Directors: John Woo
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Major Deakins is a tough U.S. Air Force pilot who is assigned to a flight mission with ‘nice-guy’ Captain Hale. They are to fly the B3 Stealth Bomber on wargame maneuvers over Utah loaded with two live nuclear weapons. Deakins, having been continually passed over for promotion, sells out his country and arranges to use the thermonuclear warheads under his command to blackmail the U.S. government. The only thing standing in his way is his old buddy, Captain Hale….

Clue (1985)

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Eileen Brennan | Tim Curry | Madeline Kahn | Christopher Lloyd | Michael McKean | Martin Mull | Lesley Ann Warren | Colleen Camp | Lee Ving | Bill Henderson | Jane Wiedlin | Jeffrey Kramer | Kellye Nakahara | Will Nye | Rick Goldman
Directors: Jonathan Lynn
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Here is the murderously funny movie based on the world-famous Clue board game. Was it Colonel Mustard in the study with a gun? Miss Scarlet in the billiard room with the rope? Or was it Wadsworth the butler? Meet all the notorious suspects and discover all their foul play. You’ll love their dastardly doings as the bodies and the laughs pile up before your eyes. Features three surprise endings!!

Lucky Numbers (2000)

Monday, April 27th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: France | USA
Actors: John Travolta | Lisa Kudrow | Tim Roth | Ed O'Neill | Michael Rapaport | Daryl Mitchell | Bill Pullman | Richard Schiff | Michael Moore | Sam McMurray | Michael Weston | Maria Bamford | Caroline Aaron | John F. O'Donohue | Colin Mochrie
Directors: Nora Ephron
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Winter, 1988: Harrisburg PA’s celebrity weatherman, Russ Richards, is broke: he’s borrowed heavily to open a snowmobile dealership, and it’s still unseasonably warm. Gig, his seedy pal, advises him to run an insurance scam; when it goes awry, Russ is out another $10,000 and in trouble with Dale, a bat-wielding thug. Gig convinces Russ to rig the state lottery with the help of Crystal, a gold-digging ditz with a heart of tin. They have to find a beard to buy the ticket, and then they have to cash it. Soon, murder and various double-crosses add to Russ’s nightmare. A lazy cop zeroes in. Jail is closer than riches. Will Russ have to choose between his money and his life?

The Dark Half (1993)

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Timothy Hutton | Amy Madigan | Michael Rooker | Julie Harris | Robert Joy | Kent Broadhurst | Beth Grant | Rutanya Alda | Tom Mardirosian | Larry John Meyers | Patrick Brannan | Royal Dano | Glenn Colerider | Sarah Parker
Directors: George A. Romero
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Novelist Thad Beaumount has buried his alter ego George Stark, a pseudonym he used when writing fiction of a darker nature than he would write using his real name. He even stages a mock burial of George for the benefit of the press. When a local man is killed, evidence leads Sheriff Alan Pangborn to George’s grave, and he begins to suspect Thad. Meanwhile Thad is beginning to have visions of sparrows flying, something that hasn’t occurred for twenty-three years since he had brain surgery. As the string of gruesome murders continue, someone claiming to be George Stark starts calling Thad on the phone. Thad fears for his family’s safety, and Pangborn can’t decide whether or not Thad is the murderer.

Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)

Thursday, February 12th, 2009
Genres: Fantasy | Horror | Musical
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Actors: Paul Sorvino | Paris Hilton | Bill Moseley | Anthony Head | Alexa Vega | Dean Armstrong | Tim Burd | Stephan Dubeau | Dani Jazzar | Dave Kiner | J. LaRose | Nivek Ogre | Jake Reardon | Martin Samuel
Directors: Darren Lynn Bousman
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In the year 2056 - the not so distant future - an epidemic of organ failures devastates the planet. Out of the tragedy, a savior emerges: GeneCo, a biotech company that offers organ transplants, for a price. Those who miss their payments are scheduled for repossession and hunted by villainous Repo Men. In a world where surgery addicts are hooked on painkilling drugs and murder is sanctioned by law, a sheltered young girl searches for the cure to her own rare disease as well as information about her family’s mysterious history. After being sucked into the haunting world of GeneCo, she is unable to turn back, as all of her questions will be answered at the wildly anticipated spectacular event: The Genetic Opera.