Posts Tagged ‘bus-ride’

SherryBaby (2006)

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Maggie Gyllenhaal | Michelle Hurst | Sandra Rodríguez | Anna Simpson | Giancarlo Esposito | Caroline Clay | Rio Hackford | Brad William Henke | Bridget Barkan | Ryan Simpkins | Stephen Peabody | Danny Trejo | Sam Bottoms | Kate Burton | Michael Dillon
Directors: Laurie Collyer
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Sherry Swanson returns home to New Jersey after serving a three year prison sentence. Eager to reestablish a relationship with her young daughter, Sherry soon discovers that coming back to the world she left behind is far more difficult than she had planned.

Bordertown (2006)

Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Jennifer Lopez | Antonio Banderas | Kate del Castillo | John Norman | Irineo Alvarez | Richard Barela | Randall Batinkoff | Juan Diego Botto | Julio Cedillo | Dave Colon | Peter Gonzales Falcon | Juanes | Rene Rivera | Martin Sheen | Chris Talley
Directors: Gregory Nava
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Lauren (Jennifer Lopez), an impassioned American reporter for the Chicago Sentinel heads to Juarez, a Mexican bordertown, in order to investigate a series of mysterious slayings involving young factory women from all over Mexico. As she discovers hundreds of victims, she gains the trust of local factory workers but falls into danger.

Turistas (2006)

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Josh Duhamel | Melissa George | Olivia Wilde | Desmond Askew | Beau Garrett | Max Brown | Agles Steib | Miguel Lunardi | Jorge Só | Cristiani Aparecida | Lucy Ramos | Andréa Leal | Diego Santiago | Marcao | Miguelito Acosta
Directors: John Stockwell
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While traveling on vacation through the country of Northeastern of Brazil by bus, the American Alex Trubituan, his sister Bea Tribituan and their friend Amy Harrington meet the also foreigners Pru Stagler, Finn Davies and Liam Kuller after an accident with their bus. They follow a track through the woods and find a hidden paradisiacal beach. They decide to stay in the place drinking beer and dancing funk and parting with the locals and they meet the amicable Brazilian teenager Kiko. They are drugged with “Bom Dia, Cinderela” (translation: Good Morning, Cinderella - a trick used by smalltime crooks to steal naive people) and when they wake up, they are practically naked, with all their belongings, clothes, money, jewels, passports, backpacks etc. stolen. They walk to a small village trying to find a police station, they get into trouble with the dwellers and they are helped by their acquaintance Kiko, who leads them to his uncle’s isolated well-equipped cabin in the woods to wait for the next bus two days later. Along the night, Kiko’s “uncle” arrives with his friends and the group discloses the sinister intentions of the newcomers.

Lord of War (2005)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Nicolas Cage | Bridget Moynahan | Jared Leto | Shake Tukhmanyan | Jean-Pierre Nshanian | Jared Burke | Eric Uys | David Shumbris | Stewart Morgan | Jasper Lenz | Kobus Marx | Stephan De Abreu | Jeremy Crutchley | Ian Holm | Tanya Finch
Directors: Andrew Niccol
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This film charts the rise and fall of Yuri Orlov, from his early days in the early 1980s in Little Odessa, selling guns to mobsters in his local neighbourhood, through to his ascension through the decade of excess and indulgence into the early 90s, where he forms a business partnership with an African warlord and his psychotic son. The film also charts his relationship through the years with his younger brother, his marriage to a famous model, his relentless pursuit by a determined federal agent and his inner demons that sway between his drive for success and the immorality of what he does.

Babel (2006)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: France | Mexico | USA
Actors: Brad Pitt | Cate Blanchett | Mohamed Akhzam | Peter Wight | Harriet Walter | Trevor Martin | Matyelok Gibbs | Georges Bousquet | Claudine Acs | André Oumansky | Michael Maloney | Dermot Crowley | Wendy Nottingham | Henry Maratray | Linda Broughton
Directors: Alejandro González Iñárritu
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Richard and Susan are a couple from San Diego, California who are vacationing in Morocco while their two children are at home with their Mexican housekeeper, Amelia. A rifle finds its way into the hands of a local herdsman’s young sons, who recklessly take a shot at a tour bus and hit Susan in the shoulder, causing her severe injury. The distraught Richard calls home to tell Amelia of the situation, who shortly departs for Mexico to attend her son’s wedding, with Richard and Susan’s children in tow. Disaster thus multiplies, with the situation in Morocco ascribed to terrorists in the media, while Amelia meets with trouble at the Mexican border when she attempts to return to San Diego with Richard and Susan’s children. Meanwhile, in Tokyo, a widower tied to the rifle in question, a complex shift of ownership to which the audience is privy, attempts to deal with the memories of his recently deceased wife and his strained relationship with his deaf teenage daughter.

Blood Diamond (2006)

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio | Djimon Hounsou | Jennifer Connelly | Kagiso Kuypers | Arnold Vosloo | Antony Coleman | Benu Mabhena | Anointing Lukola | David Harewood | Basil Wallace | Jimi Mistry | Michael Sheen | Marius Weyers | Stephen Collins | Ntare Mwine
Directors: Edward Zwick
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Set against the backdrop of civil war and chaos in 1990’s Sierra Leone, Blood Diamond is the story of Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio) - an ex Mercenary from Zimbabwe - and Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou) - a Mende fisherman. Both men are African, but their histories as different as any can be, until their fates become joined in a common quest to recover a rare pink diamond that can transform their lives. While in prison for smuggling, Archer learns that Solomon - who was taken from his family and forced to work in the diamond fields - has found and hidden the extraordinary rough stone. With the help of Maddy Bowen (Jennifer Connelly), an American journalist whose idealism is tempered by a deepening connection with Archer, the two men embark on a trek through rebel territory, a journey that could save Solomon’s family and give Archer the second chance he thought he would never have.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Daniel Radcliffe | Richard Griffiths | Pam Ferris | Fiona Shaw | Harry Melling | Adrian Rawlins | Geraldine Somerville | Lee Ingleby | Lenny Henry | Jimmy Gardner | Gary Oldman | Jim Tavaré | Robert Hardy | Abby Ford | Rupert Grint
Directors: Chris Columbus | Alfonso Cuarón
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It’s Harry’s 3rd Year at Hogwarts, not only does he have a new “Defense against the Dark-Arts” teacher, but there is also trouble brewing. Convicted murderer Sirius Black has escaped the Wizards Prison, is coming after Harry.

16 Blocks (2006)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bruce Willis | Mos Def | David Morse | Steve Nuke | Jim Lavin
Directors: Richard Donner
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Jack Mosley, a burnt-out detective, is assigned the unenviable task of transporting a fast-talking convict from jail to a courthouse 16 blocks away. However, along the way he learns that the man is supposed to testify against Mosley’s colleagues, and the entire NYPD wants him dead. Mosley must choose between loyalty to his colleagues and protecting the witness, and never has such a short distance seemed so long…

EuroTrip (2004)

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Rade Serbedzija | Joanna Lumley | Scott Mechlowicz | Jacob Pitts | Kristin Kreuk | Cathy Meils | Nial Iskhakov | Michelle Trachtenberg | Travis Wester | Matt Damon | J. Adams | Christopher Baird | Nicholas J.M. Cloutman | Bruce Fulford | Molly Schade | Jakki Degg | Lenka Vomocilova
Directors: Jeff Schaffer | Alec Berg | David Mandel
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When Scotty’s German online pen pal suggests they meet, he initially freaks out. But then he discovers that she’s gorgeous, and heads out with three friends after graduation to meet her. As they travel across Europe, the four friends have comical misadventures.

Thick as Thieves (1998)

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Alec Baldwin | Andre Braugher | Michael Jai White | Rebecca De Mornay | David Byrd | Bruce Greenwood | Richard Edson | Robert Miano | Khandi Alexander | Erich Anderson | Reginald Ballard | Bradford English | Janeane Garofalo | Ricky Harris | Gavin Polone
Directors: Scott Sanders
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Two master thieves go at odds with one another as one sets the other up for a crime. The first (Alec Baldwin), a suave pro who does his job and then hides in his own privacy, listening to old jazz records and caring for his ailing dog, Wally. The other (Michael Jai White) is a local gangster with a taste for the finer life, who decides to eliminate the competition. This ignites a war between the two men and their aides. An angry mob boss (David Byrd) and a female police officer (Rebecca De Mornay) try to sort the mess before things get too out of hand.