Posts Tagged ‘cab-driver’

The Ninth Gate (1999)

Monday, May 26th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: France | Spain | USA
Actors: Johnny Depp | Frank Langella | Lena Olin | Emmanuelle Seigner | Barbara Jefford | Jack Taylor | José López Rodero | Tony Amoni | James Russo | Willy Holt | Allen Garfield | Jacques Dacqmine | Joe Sheridan | Rebecca Pauly | Catherine Benguigui
Directors: Roman Polanski
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Based on the book The Club Dumas, written by Arturo Perez-Reverte. Dean Corso, a somewhat sleazy rare book dealer, is hired by a mysterious patron who has just come into possession of one of the only three copies of The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows (a 17th century occult text said to give its owner unimaginable power). The man hires Corso to track down the other two copies and compare them to his, but complications - both natural and supernatural - arise at every turn.

The Apartment (1960)

Monday, April 21st, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Jack Lemmon | Shirley MacLaine | Fred MacMurray | Ray Walston | Jack Kruschen | David Lewis | Hope Holiday | Joan Shawlee | Naomi Stevens | Johnny Seven | Joyce Jameson | Willard Waterman | David White | Edie Adams | Benny Burt
Directors: Billy Wilder
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On 1st November 1959, in New York, C.C. “Bud” Baxter is a popular clerk of “Consolidate Life”, an insurance company with 31,259 employees. The secret of his success is a well located apartment where he lives that he sublets for his superiors, making him climb to the executive position of 2nd Administrative Assistant very early. He likes the elevator girl Fran Kubelik, a reserved woman considered a “jackpot” among the executives. Fran is the secret lover of the director Jeff D. Sheldrake, a married man that seduced her convincing that he will divorce his wife to stay with her. When Fran tries to commit suicide in Baxter’s apartment after a meeting with Jeff, she stays with Baxter while recovering, and he falls in love for her. Later he has to come up to a decision between his excellent position in the company and his love.

The Football Factory (2004)

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Danny Dyer | Frank Harper | Tamer Hassan | Roland Manookian | Neil Maskell | Dudley Sutton | Jamie Foreman | Tony Denham | Calum McNab | John Junkin | Sophie Linfield | Kara Tointon | Michele Hallak | Daniel Naylor | Alison Egan
Directors: Nick Love
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The Football Factory is more than just a study of the English obsession with football violence, its about men looking for armies to join, wars to fight and places to belong. A forgotten culture of Anglo Saxon males fed up with being told they’re not good enough and using thier fists as a drug they describe as being more potent than sex and drugs put together. Shot in documentery style with the energy and vibrancy of handheld, The Football Factory is frightingly real yet full of painful humour as the four characters extreme thoughts and actions unfold before us.

28 Days Later… (2002)

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Alex Palmer | Bindu De Stoppani | Jukka Hiltunen | David Schneider | Cillian Murphy | Toby Sedgwick | Naomie Harris | Noah Huntley | Christopher Dunne | Emma Hitching | Alexander Delamere | Kim McGarrity | Brendan Gleeson | Megan Burns | Justin Hackney
Directors: Danny Boyle
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A powerful virus escapes from a British research facility. Transmitted in a drop of blood and devastating within seconds, the virus locks those infected into a permanent state of murderous rage. Within 28 days the country is overwhelmed and a handful of survivors begin their attempts to salvage a future, little realising that the deadly virus is not the only thing that threatens them.

The Poet (2003)

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: Austria | Germany | UK
Actors: Dougray Scott | Laura Harring | Jürgen Prochnow | Andrew Lee Potts | Erika Marozsán | Mavie Hörbiger | Miguel Herz-Kestranek | Peter Mouka | Hary Prinz | Rudy Ruggiero | Fanny Gatibelza | Gunther Gillian | Jürgen Kloth | Klaus Nierhoff | Siegfried Polap
Directors: Paul Hills
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A contract killer sees a chance to free himself from a tragic past.

The Net 2.0 (2006)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Nikki Deloach | Cengiz Bozkurt | Demet Akbag | Neil Hopkins | Courtney Vye | Sebnem Dönmez | Ertan Saban | Güven Kiraç | Selma Ergeç | Keegan Connor Tracy | Ezel Akay | Michael Halphie | Veysel Diker | Mehmet Ergen
Directors: Charles Winkler
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The life of a young computer systems analyst is thrown into turmoil when, after arriving in Istanbul to start a new job, she finds her credit cards useless, her bank account empty, and her identity stolen.

All or Nothing (2002)

Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: France | UK
Actors: Timothy Spall | Lesley Manville | Alison Garland | James Corden | Ruth Sheen | Marion Bailey | Paul Jesson | Sam Kelly | Kathryn Hunter | Sally Hawkins | Helen Coker | Daniel Mays | Ben Crompton | Robert Wilfort | Gary McDonald
Directors: Mike Leigh
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Penny’s love for her partner, taxi-driver Phil, has run dry. He is a gentle, philosophical guy, and she works on the checkout at a supermarket. Their daughter Rachel cleans in a home for elderly people, and their son Rory is unemployed and aggressive. The joy has gone out of Phil’s and Penny’s life, but when an unexpected tragedy occurs, they are brought together to rediscover their love. All or Nothing is set on a London working-class housing estate over a long weekend, and also tells the stories of a range of Phil and Penny’s neighbors, some of whom become involved in the family’s lives, and all of whom experience an emotional journey.

Quick Change (1990)

Monday, May 7th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Bill Murray | Dale Grand | Bob Elliott | Geena Davis | Randy Quaid | Kimberleigh Aarn | Ron Ryan | Brian McConnachie | Jack Gilpin | Jordan Cael | Rhe DeVille | Marya D. Dornya | Barbara Flynn | Elizabeth A. Griffin | Connie Ivie
Directors: Howard Franklin
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When a man dressed as a clown enters a bank and trys to rob it, no one takes him seriously at start. But as this New Yorker pulls this daring robbery with the help of his friends, it looks like leaving the bank with all the stolen money is the easy part! All they have to do now is make it out of the city and to the airport. They have plenty of time, but its not that easy as they seem to get out of one problem only to fall into another. Will they make before the cops catch up with them?

Night on Earth (1991)

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: France | Germany | Japan | UK | USA
Actors: Gena Rowlands | Winona Ryder | Lisanne Falk | Alan Randolph Scott | Anthony Portillo | Armin Mueller-Stahl | Giancarlo Esposito | Rosie Perez | Richard Boes | Isaach De Bankolé | Béatrice Dalle | Pascal N'Zonzi | Emile Abossolo M'bo | Stéphane Boucher | Noel Kaufmann
Directors: Jim Jarmusch
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A collection of five stories involving cab drivers in five different cities. Los Angeles - A talent agent for the movies discovers her cab driver would be perfect to cast, but the cabbie is reluctant to give up her solid cab driver’s career. New York - An immigrant cab driver is continually lost in a city and culture he doesn’t understand. Paris - A blind girl takes a ride with a cab driver from the Ivory Coast and they talk about life and blindness. Rome - A gregarious cabbie picks up an ailing man and virtually talks him to death. Helsinki - an industrial worker gets laid off and he and his compatriots discuss the bleakness and unfairness of love and life and death.

Midnight Express (1978)

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Brad Davis | Irene Miracle | Bo Hopkins | Paolo Bonacelli | Paul L. Smith | Randy Quaid | Norbert Weisser | John Hurt | Mike Kellin | Franco Diogene | Michael Ensign | Gigi Ballista | Kevork Malikyan | Peter Jeffrey | Tony Boyd
Directors: Alan Parker
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Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the “Midnight Express”.