Posts Tagged ‘catholic-church’

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within the family becomes disrupted; long held secrets emerge, and a latent spiritual yearning is awakened in her withdrawn father Saul and compulsive mother Miriam.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…

Exorcist: The Beginning (2004)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Stellan Skarsgård | Izabella Scorupco | James D'Arcy | Remy Sweeney | Julian Wadham | Andrew French | Ralph Brown | Ben Cross | David Bradley | Alan Ford | Antonie Kamerling | Eddie Osei | Israel Aduramo | Patrick O'Kane | James Bellamy
Directors: Renny Harlin
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Father Lankester Merrin thinks that he has glimpsed the face of Evil. In the years following World War II, Merrin is relentlessly haunted by memories of the unspeakable brutality perpetrated against the innocent people of his parish during the War. In the wake of all the horror he has seen, both his faith in his fellow man and his faith in the Almighty have deserted him, and he can no longer honestly call himself a man of God. Merrin has traveled far from his native Holland in a desperate attempt to try to forget and escape all the evil that he had witnessed there. While currently in Cairo, Egypt, he is approached by a collector of rare antiquities and asked to participate in a British archeological excavation in the remote Turkana region of Kenya. They have unearthed something extraordinary and unusual…a Christian Byzantine church dating from the 5th century, long before Christianity arrived in East Africa, and in inexplicably perfect condition–like it had been buried immediately after it was completed. The collector wants Merrin, an Oxford-educated archeologist, to find an ancient relic hidden within the church before the British do. Interested, Merrin agrees to take the job. But beneath the church, something much older and malevolent sleeps, waiting to be awoken. When the archeologists start excavating, strange things begin occuring, and the local Turkana tribesmen who were hired to work refuse to enter the site. Things only get worse and worse, ultimately resulting in madness and death. Merrin watches helplessly as the atrocities of war are repeated against another innocent village–atrocities he had hoped and prayed never to see again. The blood of innocents flows freely on the East African plain, but the horror has only just begun. In the place where Evil was born, Merrin will finally see its true face.

Auto Focus (2002)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Greg Kinnear | Willem Dafoe | Rita Wilson | Maria Bello | Ron Leibman | Bruce Solomon | Michael E. Rodgers | Kurt Fuller | Christopher Neiman | Lyle Kanouse | Donnamarie Recco | Ed Begley Jr. | Michael McKean | Cheryl Lynn Bowers | Don McManus
Directors: Paul Schrader
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Capitalizing on his fame as the star of “Hogan’s Heroes,” Bob Crane (Greg Kinnear) dove into the freewheeling spirit of the 60s and 70s with relish, having affairs with numerous women. Eventually, Crane teamed up with video technician John Carpenter to document his exploits, an association that may very well have led to his murder in a Scottsdale, Arizona motel room in 1978, which remains officially unsolved to this day.

The Game of Their Lives (2005)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Drama | History | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Gerard Butler | Wes Bentley | Richard Jenik | Jay Rodan | Louis Mandylor | Jimmy Jean-Louis | Zachery Ty Bryan | Nelson Vargas | John Rhys-Davies | Gavin Rossdale | Maria Bertrand | Terry Kinney | Joe Erker
Directors: David Anspaugh
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In 1950, few soccer players in the United States played the game with any particular degree of expertise. Most Americans had heard about the soccer only by hearsay, even though it was the world’s most popular sport, and when the United States was invited to compete in the World Cup in Brazil, the country turned out to have no soccer team to call their own. The U.S. set out to recruit players in the soccer breeding ground of St. Louis, Missouri, where they found a group of young friends with almost absolute lack of an appropriate experience, only an unabashed love of the game.

The Da Vinci Code (2006)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Tom Hanks | Audrey Tautou | Ian McKellen | Paul Bettany | Jean Reno | Etienne Chicot | Alfred Molina | Clive Carter | Seth Gabel | Daisy Doidge-Hill
Directors: Ron Howard
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Professor Robert Langdon is in Paris on business when he’s summoned to The Louvre. A dead body has been found, setting Langdon off on an adventure as he attempts to unravel an ancient code and uncover the greatest mystery of all time.

Constantine (2005)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Keanu Reeves | Rachel Weisz | Shia LaBeouf | Djimon Hounsou | Max Baker | Pruitt Taylor Vince | Gavin Rossdale | Tilda Swinton | Peter Stormare | Jesse Ramirez | José Zúñiga | Francis Guinan | Larry Cedar | April Grace | Suzanne Whang
Directors: Francis Lawrence
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The story of irreverent supernatural detective John Constantine, who has literally been to Hell and back. When Constantine teams up with skeptical policewoman Angela Dodson to solve the mysterious suicide of her twin sister, their investigation takes them through the world of demons and angels that exists just beneath the landscape of contemporary Los Angeles. Caught in a catastrophic series of otherworldly events, the two become inextricably involved and seek to find their own peace at whatever cost.

Way of the Vampire (2005)

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Rhett Giles | Paul Logan | Andreas Beckett | Denise Boutte | Brent Falco | Alix Henning | Anthony Turk
Directors: Sarah Nean Bruce | Eduardo Durao
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This cheerfully low-budget riff on the Dracula story from directors Sarah Nean Bruce and Eduardo Durao follows Van Helsing, the immortal vampire hunter, as he battles the evil dead throughout the centuries. Asylum Pictures favorite Rhett Giles stars, alongside Paul Logan, Denise Boutte, Brent Falco, and Anthony Turk.

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.

The Name of the Rose (1986)

Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: France | Italy | West Germany
Actors: Sean Connery | Christian Slater | Helmut Qualtinger | Elya Baskin | Michael Lonsdale | Volker Prechtel | Feodor Chaliapin Jr. | William Hickey | Michael Habeck | Urs Althaus | Valentina Vargas | Ron Perlman | Leopoldo Trieste | Franco Valobra | Vernon Dobtcheff
Directors: Jean-Jacques Annaud
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1327: after a mysterious death in a Benedictine Abbey, the monks are convinced that the apocalypse is coming. With the Abbey to play host to a council on the Franciscan’s Order’s belief that the Church should rid itself of wealth, William of Baskerville, a respected Franciscan monk, is asked to assist in determining the cause of the untimely death. Alas, more deaths occur as the investigation draws closer to uncovering the secret the Abbey wants hidden, and there is finally no stopping the Holy Inquisition from taking an active hand in the process. William and his young novice must race against time to prove the innocence of the unjustly accused and avoid the wrath of Holy Inquisitor Bernardo Gui.