Posts Tagged ‘blackmail’

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.

The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)

Friday, July 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Tom Hanks | Bruce Willis | Saul Rubinek | Morgan Freeman | John Hancock | Kevin Dunn | Clifton James | Louis Giambalvo | Barton Heyman | Norman Parker | Donald Moffat | Alan King | Kurt Fuller | Adam LeFevre | Richard Libertini
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Financial “Master of the Universe” Sherman McCoy sees his life unravel when his mistress Maria Ruskin hits a black boy with his car. When yellow journalist Peter Fallow enflames public opinion with a series of distorted tabloid articles on the accident, the case is seized upon by opportunists like Reverend Bacon and mayoral candidate D.A. Abe Weiss.

Raising Arizona (1987)

Monday, June 9th, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Nicolas Cage | Holly Hunter | Trey Wilson | John Goodman | William Forsythe | Sam McMurray | Frances McDormand | Randall 'Tex' Cobb | T.J. Kuhn | Lynne Dumin Kitei | Peter Benedek | Charles 'Lew' Smith | Warren Keith | Henry Kendrick | Sidney Dawson
Directors: Ethan Coen
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Colourful and unconventional slapstick comedy. Ex-con Hi and ex-cop Ed meet, marry and long for a child in the wilds of Arizona. When Ed discovers she’s barren the God-given solution is presented: to snatch a baby from a set of quins. Thus begins a series of kidnappings, capers and rum goings-on that revolve around the helpless yet universally-loveable child. Hi’s convict friends, his boss, and even the Lone Biker Of The Apocalypse become involved in the ever-twisting plot in the quest to own the baby.

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.

Notes on a Scandal (2006)

Friday, April 11th, 2008
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 Firm (1993)

Friday, March 21st, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Tom Cruise | Jeanne Tripplehorn | Gene Hackman | Hal Holbrook | Terry Kinney | Wilford Brimley | Ed Harris | Holly Hunter | David Strathairn | Gary Busey | Steven Hill | Tobin Bell | Barbara Garrick | Jerry Hardin | Paul Calderon
Directors: Sydney Pollack
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Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by ‘The Firm’ and made an offer he doesn’t refuse. Seduced by the money and gifts showered on him, he is totally oblivious to the more sinister side of his company. Then, two Associates are murdered. The FBI contact him, asking him for information and suddenly his life is ruined. He has a choice - work with the FBI, or stay with the Firm. Either way he will lose his life as he knows it. Mitch figures the only way out is to follow his own plan…

Man on Fire (2004)

Friday, March 21st, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Mexico | UK | USA
Actors: Denzel Washington | Dakota Fanning | Marc Anthony | Radha Mitchell | Christopher Walken | Giancarlo Giannini | Rachel Ticotin | Jesús Ochoa | Mickey Rourke | Angelina Peláez | Gustavo Sánchez Parra | Gero Camilo | Rosa María Hernández | Heriberto Del Castillo | Mario Zaragoza
Directors: Tony Scott
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A wave of kidnappings has swept through Mexico, feeding a growing sense of panic among its wealthier citizens, especially parents. In one six-day period, there were twenty-four abductions, leading many to hire bodyguards for their children. Into this world enters John Creasy, a burned-out ex-CIA operative/assassin, who has given up on life. Creasy’s friend Rayburn brings him to Mexico City to be a bodyguard to nine-year-old Pita Ramos, daughter of industrialist Samuel Ramos and his wife Lisa. Creasy is not interested in being a bodyguard, especially to a youngster, but for lack of something better to do, he accepts the assignment. Creasy barely tolerates the precocious child and her pestering questions about him and his life. But slowly, she chips away at his seemingly impenetrable exterior, his defenses drop, and he opens up to her. Creasy’s new-found purpose in life is shattered when Pita is kidnapped. Despite being seriously wounded during the kidnapping, he vows to kill anyone involved in or profiting from the kidnapping. And no one can stop him.

Mr. Brooks (2007)

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Kevin Costner | Demi Moore | Dane Cook | William Hurt | Marg Helgenberger | Ruben Santiago-Hudson | Danielle Panabaker | Aisha Hinds | Lindsay Crouse | Jason Lewis | Reiko Aylesworth | Matt Schulze | Yasmine Delawari | Traci Dinwiddie | Michael Cole
Directors: Bruce A. Evans
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The story follows a man with a murderous alter ego. Tracy Atwood is a tough detective whose devotion to her craft catches the attention and respect of the serial killer she is hunting, which leads to a symbiotic relationship.

Office Space (1999)

Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Ron Livingston | Jennifer Aniston | David Herman | Ajay Naidu | Diedrich Bader | Stephen Root | Gary Cole | Richard Riehle | Alexandra Wentworth | Joe Bays | John C. McGinley | Paul Willson | Kinna McInroe | Todd Duffey | Greg Pitts
Directors: Mike Judge
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Peter Gibbons just can’t seem to catch a break. His girlfriend is cheating on him, he has an obnoxious neighbor, and he’s completely miserable with his job as a small cog in a company called Initech. Then he visits a hypnotherapist, who dies just after putting Peter into a state of complete bliss. Free of worrying about making a living, he no longer feels the need to keep his job, just as the company is going through a massive downsizing. However, his new attitude only makes him more valuable in the company’s eyes, and his friends Michael and Samir are fired instead. Together, they scheme to plant a virus inside Initech’s computer system that will pull money into their own account.

The Woman in Green (1945)

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Crime | Drama | Horror | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Basil Rathbone | Nigel Bruce | Hillary Brooke | Henry Daniell | Paul Cavanagh | Matthew Boulton | Eve Amber | Frederick Worlock | Tom Bryson | Sally Shepherd | Mary Gordon | John Burton | Harold De Becker | Leslie Denison | Tony Ellis
Directors: Roy William Neill
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Holmes and Watson investigate a series of bizarre and apparently unconnected murders, and the death of a possible suspect. The trail leads to a society of hypnotists and a mysterious, glamoruos woman. The fiendish Dr Moriarty, though reported hanged in Montevideo, is belived to be involved.