Posts Tagged ‘catholic-church’

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.

Fearless (1993)

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Jeff Bridges | Isabella Rossellini | Rosie Perez | Tom Hulce | John Turturro | Benicio Del Toro | Deirdre O'Connell | John de Lancie | Spencer Vrooman | Daniel Cerny | Eve Roberts | Robin Pearson Rose | Debra Monk | Cynthia Mace | Randle Mell
Directors: Peter Weir
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After a terrible air disaster, survivor Max Klein emerges a changed person. Unable to connect to his former life or to wife Laura, he feels godlike and invulnerable. When psychologist Bill Perlman is unable to help Max, he has Max meet another survivor, Carla Rodrigo, who is racked with grief and guilt since her baby died in the crash which she and Max survived.

Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)

Monday, March 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Antonio Banderas | Salma Hayek | Johnny Depp | Mickey Rourke | Eva Mendes | Danny Trejo | Enrique Iglesias | Marco Leonardi | Cheech Marin | Rubén Blades | Willem Dafoe | Gerardo Vigil | Pedro Armendáriz Jr. | Julio Oscar Mechoso | Tito Larriva
Directors: Robert Rodriguez
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A drug lord who pretends to overthrow the Mexican government. A corrupt CIA agent (Johnny Depp) who at that time, demands retribution from his worst enemy to carry out the drug lord’s uprising against the government.

The Lost Boys (1987)

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jason Patric | Corey Haim | Dianne Wiest | Barnard Hughes | Edward Herrmann | Kiefer Sutherland | Jami Gertz | Corey Feldman | Jamison Newlander | Brooke McCarter | Billy Wirth | Alex Winter | Chance Michael Corbitt | Alexander Bacon Chapman | Nori Morgan
Directors: Joel Schumacher
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Financial troubles force a recent divorcee and her teenage sons Mike and Sam to settle down with her father in the California town of Santa Carla. At first, Sam laughs off rumours he hears about vampires who inhabit the small town. But after Mike meets a beautiful girl at the local amusement park, he begins to exhibit the classic signs of vampirism. Fearing for his own safety, Sam recruits two young vampire hunters to save his brother by finding and destroying the head vampire.

Jindabyne (2006)

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Australia
Actors: Laura Linney | Gabriel Byrne | Chris Haywood | Deborra-Lee Furness | John Howard | Leah Purcell | Stelios Yiakmis | Eva Lazzaro | Sean Rees-Wemyss | Alice Garner | Simon Stone | Betty Lucas | Stephen Barker | Max Cullen | Charles 'Bud' Tingwell
Directors: Ray Lawrence
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Stewart Kane, an Irishman living in the Australian town of Jindabyne, is on a fishing trip in isolated hill country with three other men when they discover the body of a murdered girl in the river. Rather than return to the town immediately, they continue fishing and report their gruesome find days later. Stewart’s wife Claire is the last to find out. Deeply disturbed by her husband’s action, her faith in her relationship with Stewart is shaken to the core. She wants to understand and tries to make things right. In her determination to help the victim’s family Claire sets herself not only against her own family and friends but also those of the dead girl. Her marriage is taken to the brink and her peaceful life with Stewart and their young son hangs in the balance. The story of a murder and a marriage. A powerful and original film about the things that haunt us.

The Great Raid (2005)

Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | War
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Benjamin Bratt | James Franco | Robert Mammone | Max Martini | James Carpinello | Mark Consuelos | Craig McLachlan | Freddie Joe Farnsworth | Laird Macintosh | Jeremy Callaghan | Scott McLean | Paolo Montalban | Clayne Crawford | Sam Worthington | Royston Innes
Directors: John Dahl
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Set in the Philippines in 1945 towards the end of WWII, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Henry Mucci and Captain Robert Prince, the 6th Ranger Battalion undertake a daring rescue mission against all odds. Traveling thirty miles behind enemy lines, they intend to liberate over 500 American Soldiers from the notorious Cabanatuan Japanese POW camp in the most audacious rescue ever.

Spider-Man 3 (2007)

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Tobey Maguire | Kirsten Dunst | James Franco | Thomas Haden Church | Topher Grace | Bryce Dallas Howard | J.K. Simmons | Rosemary Harris | James Cromwell | Theresa Russell | Dylan Baker | Bill Nunn | Bruce Campbell | Cliff Robertson | Elizabeth Banks
Directors: Sam Raimi
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Peter Parker has finally managed to piece together the once-broken parts of his life, maintaining a balance between his relationship with Mary-Jane and his responsibility as Spider-Man. But more challenges arise for our young hero. Peter’s old friend Harry Obsourne has set out for revenge against Peter; taking up the mantle of his late father’s persona as The New Goblin, and Peter must also capture Uncle Ben’s real killer, Flint Marko, who has been transformed into his toughest foe yet, the Sandman. All hope seems lost when suddenly Peter’s suit turns jet-black and greatly amplifies his powers. But it also begins to greatly amplify the much darker qualities of Peter’s personality that he begins to lose himself to. Peter has to reach deep inside himself to free the compassionate hero he used to be if he is to ever conquer the darkness within and face not only his greatest enemies, but also…himself.

Evelyn (2002)

Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: Germany | Ireland | UK | USA
Actors: Sophie Vavasseur | Niall Beagan | Hugh McDonagh | Pierce Brosnan | Mairead Devlin | Frank Kelly | Claire Mullan | Alvaro Lucchesi | Garrett Keogh | Daithi O'Suilleabhain | Andrea Irvine | Marian Quinn | Karen Ardiff | Julianna Margulies | Bosco Hogan
Directors: Bruce Beresford
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Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children, Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice, make it clear to the authorities that his is an untenable situation. The Catholic Church and the Irish courts decide to put the Doyle children into Church-run orphanages. Although a sympathetic judge assures Desmond that when his financial situation reverses, he will be able to get his children back; money is hard to come by. During that time, Evelyn and her brothers suffer the abuses of living in orphanages while Desmond struggles to secure finances. Now he must battle the courts to get his children back.

Stigmata (1999)

Monday, May 7th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Patricia Arquette | Gabriel Byrne | Jonathan Pryce | Nia Long | Thomas Kopache | Rade Serbedzija | Enrico Colantoni | Dick Latessa | Portia de Rossi | Patrick Muldoon | Ann Cusack | Shaun Toub | Tom Hodges | Lydia Hazan | Shaun Duke
Directors: Rupert Wainwright
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A priest from the Vatican is sent in to investigate claims that a small town in Brazil has a church where statues bleed from the eyes. Meanwhile, a young woman in the U.S. begins to show signs of stigmata, the wounds of Christ. The priest from the Vatican links up with her and cares for her as she is increasingly afflicted by the stigmata. Her ranting and raving finally begins to make sense to the priest who starts to question what his religion has stood for for the last 1900 years.

Bee Season (2005)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Richard Gere | Juliette Binoche | Flora Cross | Max Minghella | Kate Bosworth | Corey Fischer | Sam Zuckerman | Joan Mankin | Piers Mackenzie | Lorri Holt | Brian Leonard | Kathy McGraw | John Evans | Alisha Mullally | Olivia Charles
Directors: Scott McGehee | David Siegel
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11-year-old Eliza Naumann comes from an odd family; they all divert their emotional frustrations into secret channels. When Eliza unexpectedly begins winning spelling bees, what had been a stable dynamic within the family becomes disrupted; long held secrets emerge, and a latent spiritual yearning is awakened in her withdrawn father Saul and compulsive mother Miriam. As Eliza moves closer and closer to the national spelling bee, the Naumann family finds itself in a spiral of surprising discovery and jarring uncertainty…