Posts Tagged ‘child-in-peril’

Speed Racer (2008)

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Family | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Emile Hirsch | Nicholas Elia | Christina Ricci | John Goodman | Melissa Holroyd | Susan Sarandon | Matthew Fox | Ariel Winter | Scott Porter | Benno Fürmann | Gian Ganziano | Peter Fernandez | Harvey Friedman | Richard Roundtree | Sadao Ueda
Directors: Andy Wachowski
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Hurtling down the track, careening around, over and through the competition, Speed Racer is a natural behind the wheel. Born to race cars, Speed is aggressive, instinctive and, most of all, fearless. His only real competition is the memory of the brother he idolized-the legendary Rex Racer - whose death in a race has left behind a legacy that Speed is driven to fulfill. Speed is loyal to the family racing business, led by his father, Pops Racer, the designer of Speed’s thundering Mach 5. When Speed turns down a lucrative and tempting offer from Royalton Industries, he not only infuriates the company’s maniacal owner but uncovers a terrible secret-some of the biggest races are being fixed by a handful of ruthless moguls who manipulate the top drivers to boost profits. If Speed won’t drive for Royalton, Royalton will see to it that the Mach 5 never crosses another finish line. The only way for Speed to save his family’s business and the sport he loves is to beat Royalton at his own game. With the support of his family and his loyal girlfriend, Trixie, Speed teams with his one-time rival-the mysterious Racer X - to win the race that had taken his brother’s life: the death-defying, cross-country rally known as The Crucible.

Dark Water (2005)

Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jennifer Connelly | John Reilly | Tim Roth | Dougray Scott | Pete Postlethwaite | Camryn Manheim | Ariel Gade | Perla Haney-Jardine | Debra Monk | Linda Emond | Bill Buell | J.R. Horne | Elina Löwensohn | Warren Belle | Alison Sealy-Smith
Directors: Walter Salles
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Dahlia Williams is starting a new life; newly separated with a new job and a new apartment, she’s determined to put her relationship with her estranged husband behind her and devote herself to raising her daughter, Ceci. But when the strained separation disintegrates into a bitter custody battle, her situation takes a turn for the worse. Her new apartment—dilapidated, cramped, and worn—seems to take on a life of its own. Mysterious noises, persistent leaks of dark water, and strange happenings cause her imagination to run wild, sending her on a puzzling and mystifying pursuit to find out who is behind the endless mind games. As Dahlia frantically searches for the links between the riddles, the dark water seems to close around her. But one thing trumps all others in Dahlia’s world: no matter what it is that’s out there, she’ll stop at nothing to find it.

Vantage Point (2008)

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Dennis Quaid | Matthew Fox | Forest Whitaker | Bruce McGill | Edgar Ramirez | Saïd Taghmaoui | William Hurt | James LeGros | Eduardo Noriega | Richard T. Jones | Holt McCallany | Leonardo Nam | Justin Sundquist | Sean O'Bryan | José Carlos Rodríguez
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The attempted assassination of the American President is told and re-told from several different perspectives.

The Happening (2008)

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi
Countries: India | USA
Actors: Mark Wahlberg | John Leguizamo | Spencer Breslin | Robert Bailey Jr. | Michael Biscardi | Robert Bizik | Michael Edward Brooks | Anthony C. Brown | Don Castro | Lyman Chen | Rich Chew | Frank Collison | Joel de la Fuente | Stéphane Debac | Tony Devon
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A paranoid thriller about a family on the run from a natural crisis that presents a large-scale threat to humanity.

The Living and the Dead (2006)

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Roger Lloyd-Pack | Leo Bill | Neil Conrich
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A descent into Hell is triggered when “Ex-Lord” Donald Brocklebank finds that he must leave Longleigh House for London to find a way to pay for the medical treatments for his wife Nancy. Alone, his over-protected, delusional, adult son, James, fancies himself in charge of the manor house with his terminally ill mother, and barricades the two of them into the house for a series of ever more panicked home treatments, mistakenly protecting her from the arrival of Nurse Mary and any outside help.

Funny Games U.S. (2007)

Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Austria | France | Germany | Italy | UK | USA
Actors: Tim Roth | Michael Pitt | Brady Corbet | Devon Gearhart | Boyd Gaines | Robert LuPone
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In this exploration of our violent society and how depictions of violence reflect and shape our culture, a middle-class housewife Anna tells the story of how she and her husband George and their 10-year-old son Georgie submitted both physically and mentally to the torture, violence, and death foisted upon them by two young, unexpected, white-gloved visitors at their weekend vacation retreat near a lake.

The Witches (1990)

Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Genres: Family | Fantasy | Horror
Countries: UK
Actors: Anjelica Huston | Mai Zetterling | Jasen Fisher | Jane Horrocks | Anne Lambton | Rowan Atkinson | Bill Paterson | Brenda Blethyn | Charlie Potter | Sukie Smith | Rose English | Jenny Runacre | Annabel Brooks | Emma Relph | Nora Connolly
Directors: Nicolas Roeg
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A young boy, recently orphaned, is taken to England by his grandmother. At a hotel in which they are staying, a group of witches have gathered to prepare a plot to rid the world of all children.

The Mist (2007)

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Thomas Jane | Marcia Gay Harden | Laurie Holden | Andre Braugher | Toby Jones | William Sadler | Jeffrey DeMunn | Frances Sternhagen | Alexa Davalos | Nathan Gamble | Chris Owen | Sam Witwer | Robert C. Treveiler | David Jensen | Jay Amor
Directors: Frank Darabont
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After a violent storm attacks a town in Maine, an approaching cloud of mist appears the next morning. As the mist quickly envelops the area, a group of people get trapped in a local grocery store -among them, artist David Drayton and his five-year-old son. The people soon discover that within the mist lives numerous species of horrific, unworldly creatures that entered through an inter-dimensional rift, which may or may not have been caused by a nearby military base. As the world around them manifests into a literal hell-on-earth, the horrified citizens try desperately to survive this apocalyptic disaster.

Eastern Promises (2007)

Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Canada | UK | USA
Actors: Josef Altin | Mina E. Mina | Aleksandar Mikic | Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse | Lalita Ahmed | Badi Uzzaman | Naomi Watts | Doña Croll | Raza Jaffrey | Sinéad Cusack | Jerzy Skolimowski | Tatiana Maslany | Viggo Mortensen | Vincent Cassel | Armin Mueller-Stahl
Directors: David Cronenberg
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The mysterious and charismatic Russian-born Nikolai Luzhin is a driver for one of London’s most notorious organized crime families of Eastern European origin. The family itself is part of the Vory V Zakone criminal brotherhood. Headed by Semyon, whose courtly charm as the welcoming proprietor of the plush Trans-Siberian restaurant impeccably masks a cold and brutal core, the family’s fortunes are tested by Semyon’s volatile son and enforcer, Kirill, who is more tightly bound to Nikolai than to his own father. But Nikolai’s carefully maintained existence is jarred once he crosses paths at Christmastime with Anna Khitrova, a midwife at a North London hospital. Anna is deeply affected by the desperate situation of a young teenager who dies while giving birth to a baby. Anna resolves to try to trace the baby’s lineage and relatives. The girl’s personal diary also survives her; it is written in Russian, and Anna seeks answers in it. Anna’s mother Helen does not discourage her, but Anna’s irascible Russian-born uncle Stepan urges caution. He is right to do so; by delving into the diary, Anna has accidentally unleashed the full fury of the Vory. With Semyon and Kirill closing ranks and Anna pressing her inquiries, Nikolai unexpectedly finds his loyalties divided. The family tightens its grip on him; who can, or should, he trust? Several lives - including his own - hang in the balance as a harrowing chain of murder, deceit, and retribution reverberates through the darkest corners of both the family and London itself.

The Cell (2000)

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Jennifer Lopez | Vince Vaughn | Vincent D'Onofrio | Jake Weber | Dylan Baker | Marianne Jean-Baptiste | Patrick Bauchau | Gerry Becker | Tara Subkoff | Catherine Sutherland | Jake Thomas | Colton James | Dean Norris | John Cothran Jr. | Jack Conley
Directors: Tarsem Singh
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Catharine Deane is a psychotherapist who is part of a revolutionary new treatment which allows her mind to literally enter the mind of her patients. Her experience in this method takes an unexpected turn when an FBI agent comes to ask for a desperate favour. They had just tracked down a notorious serial killer, Carl Stargher, whose MO is to abduct women one at a time and place them in a secret area where they are kept for about 40 hours until they are slowly drowned. Unfortunately, the killer has fallen into an irreversible coma which means he cannot confess where he has taken his latest victim before she dies. Now, Catherine Deane must race against time to explore the twisted mind of the killer to get the information she needs, but Stargher’s damaged personality poses dangers that threaten to overwhelm her.