Posts Tagged ‘car-bomb’

Traffic (2000)

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Benicio Del Toro | Jacob Vargas | Andrew Chavez | Michael Saucedo | Tomas Milian | Jose Yenque | Emilio Rivera | Michael O'Neill | Michael Douglas | Russell G. Jones | Lorene Hetherington | Eric Collins | Beau Holden | Peter Stader | James Lew
Directors: Steven Soderbergh
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A modern day look at America’s war on drugs told through four separate stories that are connected in one way or another. A conservative politician who’s just been appointed as the US drug czar learns that his daughter is a drug addict. A trophy wife struggles to save her husband’s drug business, while two DEA agents protect a witness with inside knowledge of the spouse’s business. In Mexico, a corrupt, yet dedicated cop struggles with his conscience when he learns that his new boss may not be the anti-drug official he made himself out to be.

The Body (2001)

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
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

Breakfast on Pluto (2005)

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: Ireland | UK
Actors: Cillian Murphy | Morgan Jones | Eva Birthistle | Liam Neeson | Mary Coughlan | Conor McEvoy | Ruth McCabe | Charlene McKenna | Seamus Reilly | Peter Owens | Emmet Lawlor McHugh | Bianca O'Connor | Paraic Breathnach | Pat McCabe | Owen Roe
Directors: Neil Jordan
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In the 1970s, a foundling lad, Patrick “Kitten” Braden, comes of age by leaving his Irish town for London, in part to look for his mother and in part because his trans-gender nature is beyond the town’s understanding.

Michael Clayton (2007)

Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Tom Wilkinson | Michael O'Keefe | Sydney Pollack | Danielle Skraastad | Tilda Swinton | George Clooney | Wai Chan | Alberto Vazquez | Brian Koppelman | Thomas McCarthy | Denis O'Hare | Julie White | Austin Williams | Jennifer Van Dyck | Frank Wood
Directors: Tony Gilroy
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Michael Clayton is an in-house “fixer” at one of the largest corporate law firms in New York. A former criminal prosecutor, Clayton takes care of Kenner, Bach & Ledeen’s dirtiest work at the behest of the firm’s co-founder Marty Bach. Though burned out and hardly content with his job as a fixer, his divorce, a failed business venture and mounting debt have left Clayton inextricably tied to the firm. At U/North, meanwhile, the career of litigator Karen Crowder rests on the multi-million dollar settlement of a class action suit that Clayton’s firm is leading to a seemingly successful conclusion. But when Kenner Bach’s brilliant and guilt-ridden attorney Arthur Edens sabotages the U/North case, Clayton faces the biggest challenge of his career and his life.

Jane Austen’s Mafia! (1998)

Sunday, August 26th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Jay Mohr | Billy Burke | Christina Applegate | Pamela Gidley | Olympia Dukakis | Lloyd Bridges | Jason Fuchs | Joe Viterelli | Tony Lo Bianco | Blake Hammond | Philip Suriano | Vincent Pastore | Marisol Nichols | Carol Ann Susi | Gregory Sierra
Directors: Jim Abrahams
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Young Vincenzo Cortino, son of a Sicilian postman, delivers a package for his father and accidentally sees something he should not see. In a donkey’s, well, he is smuggled out of town, where he tries to reach a ship headed for America. There, Vincenzo works his way up to the top of the Mafia. One day, his youngest son makes a mistake and has to leave town. A little later, he ends up as a casino boss in Las Vegas. But the heads of the other families want old Don Cortino out of the way. So, they shoot him 47 times and send a *very* attractive woman to distract his son from his casino work. Will he fall for her or will he return to Diane, who, by the way, had run for President successfully in the meantime?

The Dancer Upstairs (2002)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Spain | USA
Actors: Javier Bardem | Juan Diego Botto | Laura Morante | Elvira Mínguez | Alexandra Lencastre | Oliver Cotton | Luís Miguel Cintra | Javier Manrique | Abel Folk | Marie-Anne Berganza | Lucas Rodríguez | Xabier Elorriaga | Natalia Dicenta | Wolframio Sinué | Ramiro Jiménez
Directors: John Malkovich
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The story of Detective Agustin Rejas, a man clinging to the hope of an impossible love in an impossible world. Tracking Ezequiel, a delusional anarchist who incites the downtrodden masses to join in his brutal revolution against the fascist government in their unnamed Latin American country, Rejas finds solace in his sense of self-respect and the joy that his daughter and wife bring him. Then he meets Yolanda—his daughter’s soulfully beautiful ballet teacher—a woman who sparks his long-forgotten passions and represents all that is good and all that is corrupt in their troubled country. But she, who appears to be a shelter from the storm, may in actuality be the storm’s eye. Ultimately, as the revolution intensifies and the net closes around hunter and hunted alike, the dancer’s truth will prove as elusive as the revolutionary’s cause and the detective’s peace.

Casino (1995)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Robert De Niro | Sharon Stone | Joe Pesci | James Woods | Frank Vincent | Pasquale Cajano | Don Rickles | Kevin Pollak | Vinny Vella | Alan King | L. Q. Jones | Dick Smothers | Joseph Rigano | John Bloom | Melissa Prophet
Directors: Martin Scorsese
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This Martin Scorsese film depicts the Janus-like quality of Las Vegas—it has a glittering, glamorous face, as well as a brutal, cruel one. Ace Rothstein and Nicky Santoro, mobsters who move to Las Vegas to make their mark, live and work in this paradoxical world. Seen through their eyes, each as a foil to the other, the details of mob involvement in the casinos of the 1970’s and ’80’s are revealed. Ace is the smooth operator of the Tangiers casino, while Nicky is his boyhood friend and tough strongman, robbing and shaking down the locals. However, they each have a tragic flaw—Ace falls in love with a hustler, Ginger, and Nicky falls into an ever-deepening spiral of drugs and violence.

The Transporter (2002)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Jason Statham | Qi Shu | Matt Schulze | François Berléand | Ric Young | Doug Rand | Didier Saint Melin | Tonio Descanvelle | Laurent Desponds | Matthieu Albertini | Vincent Nemeth | Jean-Yves Bilien | Jean-Marie Paris | Adrian Dearnell | Alfred Lot
Directors: Cory Yuen | Louis Leterrier
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Ex-Special Forces operator Frank Martin (Jason Statham) lives what seems to be a quiet life along the French Mediterranean, hiring himself out as a mercenary “transporter” who moves goods - human or otherwise - from one place to another. No questions asked. Frank’s newest transport seems no different from the countless ones he’s done in the past. He has been hired by an American known only as “Wall Street” (see Rule Two) to make a delivery, but when Frank stops along route, he notices his “package” is moving. Violating his own personal rules, Frank looks inside the bag, finding its contents to be a beautiful, gagged woman.

The Godfather (1972)

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Marlon Brando | Al Pacino | James Caan | Richard S. Castellano | Robert Duvall | Sterling Hayden | Richard Conte | Al Lettieri | Diane Keaton | Abe Vigoda | Talia Shire | Gianni Russo | John Marley | Rudy Bond
Directors: Francis Ford Coppola
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The story begins as “Don” Vito Corleone, the head of a New York Mafia “family”, oversees his daughter’s wedding. His beloved son Michael has just come home from the war, but does not intend to become part of his father’s business. Through Michael’s life the nature of the family business becomes clear. The business of the family is just like the head of the family, kind and benevolent to those who give respect, but given to ruthless violence whenever anything stands against the good of the family. Don Vito lives his life in the way of the old country, but times are changing and some don’t want to follow the old ways and look out for community and “family”. An up and coming rival of the Corleone family wants to start selling drugs in New York, and needs the Don’s influence to further his plan. The clash of the Don’s fading old world values and the new ways will demand a terrible price, especially from Michael, all for the sake of the family.

Scarface (1983)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Al Pacino | Steven Bauer | Michelle Pfeiffer | Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio | Robert Loggia | Miriam Colon | F. Murray Abraham | Paul Shenar | Harris Yulin | Ángel Salazar | Arnaldo Santana | Pepe Serna | Michael P. Moran | Al Israel | Dennis Holahan
Directors: Brian De Palma
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When Castro opened the port at Mariel Harbor, thousands of Cubans fled to the United States. One is a young tough named Antonio (Tony) Montana, who, with his friend Manny Ray, starts in with Miami’s cocaine trade. He survives attack by chainsaw after a deal goes bad, and several other attempts by other dealers to eliminate him. Eventually the grandiose Montana becomes head of a cocaine cartel. But his enemies start coming after him, and his paranoia threatens to drive Montana’s empire into the ground…