Posts Tagged ‘child-murder’

Schindler’s List (1993)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama | History | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Liam Neeson | Ben Kingsley | Ralph Fiennes | Caroline Goodall | Jonathan Sagall | Embeth Davidtz | Malgoscha Gebel | Shmuel Levy | Mark Ivanir | Béatrice Macola | Andrzej Seweryn | Friedrich von Thun | Krzysztof Luft | Harry Nehring | Norbert Weisser
Directors: Steven Spielberg
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“Schindler’s List” is the based-on-truth story of Nazi Czech business man Oskar Schindler, who uses Jewish labor to start a factory in occupied Poland. As World War II progresses, and the fate of the Jews becomes more and more clear, Schindler’s motivations switch from profit to human sympathy and he is able to save over 1100 Jews from death in the gas chambers.

Hannibal Rising (2007)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Czech Republic | France | Italy | UK
Actors: Aaran Thomas | Gaspard Ulliel | Li Gong | Helena-Lia Tachovská | Richard Leaf | Dominic West | Rhys Ifans | Michele Wade | Richard Brake | Martin Hub | Kevin McKidd | Ingeborga Dapkunaite | Joerg Stadler | Stephen Walters | Ivan Marevich
Directors: Peter Webber
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Based on Thomas Harris’ book of the same name, this prequel shows a young Hannibal Lecter in three different phases of his life from childhood in Lithuania to his ten years in England up to his time in Russia before his capture by FBI agent Will Graham in Red Dragon.

Hotel Rwanda (2004)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Drama | History | Thriller | War
Countries: Italy | South Africa | UK | USA
Actors: Xolani Mali | Don Cheadle | Desmond Dube | Hakeem Kae-Kazim | Tony Kgoroge | Rosie Motene | Neil McCarthy | Mabutho 'Kid' Sithole | Nick Nolte | Fana Mokoena | Jeremiah Ndlovu | Sophie Okonedo | Lebo Mashile | Antonio David Lyons | Leleti Khumalo
Directors: Terry George
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Ten years ago some of the worst atrocities in the history of mankind took place in the country of Rwanda–and in an era of high-speed communication and round the clock news, the events went almost unnoticed by the rest of the world. In only three months, one million people were brutally murdered. In the face of these unspeakable actions, inspired by his love for his family, an ordinary man summons extraordinary courage to save the lives of over a thousand helpless refugees, by granting them shelter in the hotel he manages.

Hellbreeder (2004)

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Mystery
Countries: UK
Actors: Lyndie Uphill | Dominique Pinon | Darren Day | Tina Barnes | Jonathon Sidgwick | Ian Cullen | Carrie Cohen | Harold Gasnier | Alisdair McKee | Petros Emanual | Azucena Duran | Canelle Hoppé | Leona Walker | Paul Downey
Directors: James Eaves
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Five years ago Alice saw her son murdered; now every day is consumed with the need to find his killer. In the sleepy town of Ludlow, the arrival of the mysterious stranger Alice suspects to be the killer of her son coincides with a renewed spate of horrific child murders. Now a weary drunk detective must uncover the truth behind the killings before another child is killed; and Alice must face the unbelievable truth behind the death of her son before insanity, grief and guilt break her mind.

Palindromes (2004)

Thursday, April 9th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Matthew Faber | Angela Pietropinto | Bill Buell | Emani Sledge | Ellen Barkin | Valerie Shusterov | Richard Masur | Hillary Bailey Smith | Danton Stone | Robert Agri | Hannah Freiman | Stephen Singer | Rachel Corr | Stephen Adly Guirgis
Directors: Todd Solondz
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A fable of innocence: thirteen-year-old Aviva Victor wants to be a ‘mom’. She does all she can to make this happen, and comes very close to succeeding, but in the end her plan is thwarted by her sensible parents. So she runs away, still determined to get pregnant one way or another, but instead finds herself lost in another world, a less sensible one, perhaps, but one pregnant itself with all sorts of strange possibility. She takes a road trip from the suburbs of New Jersey, through Ohio to the plains of Kansas and back. Like so many trips, this one is round-trip, and it’s hard to say in the end if she can ever be quite the same again, or if she can ever be anything but the same again.

Seed (2007)

Friday, March 20th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada
Actors: Michael Paré | Will Sanderson | Ralf Moeller | Jodelle Ferland | Thea Gill | Andrew Jackson | Brad Turner | Phillip Mitchell | Mike Dopud | John Sampson | Tyron Leitso | Michael Eklund | John Hainsworth | Vincent Walker | William 'Big Sleeps' Stewart
Directors: Uwe Boll
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After a seemingly undead man is bound and buried alive, he digs himself back to the surface and seeks bloody vengeance on those who caused him his suffering.

Changeling (2008)

Thursday, February 12th, 2009
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Angelina Jolie | Gattlin Griffith | Michelle Martin | Jan Devereaux | Erica Grant | Antonia Bennett | Kerri Randles | Frank Wood | Morgan Eastwood | Madison Hodges | John Malkovich | Colm Feore | Devon Conti | Ric Sarabia | J.P. Bumstead
Directors: Clint Eastwood
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A mother’s prayer for her kidnapped son to return home is answered, though it doesn’t take long for her to suspect the boy who comes back is not hers.

The Day of the Locust (1975)

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Donald Sutherland | Karen Black | Burgess Meredith | William Atherton | Geraldine Page | Richard Dysart | Bo Hopkins | Pepe Serna | Lelia Goldoni | Billy Barty | Jackie Earle Haley | Gloria LeRoy | Jane Hoffman | Norman Leavitt | Madge Kennedy
Directors: John Schlesinger
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Tod Hackett, fresh out of Yale, wants to make it as an art director in late 1930’s Hollywood - but he finds himself increasingly distracted by his new neighbor Faye, a would-be starlet with possible designs of her own on a lonely, morose accountant. As Tod is drawn deeper into the lurid private lives of studio bosses and film industry workers, he gradually becomes desperate to know if Faye - or anyone - is capable of real love.

Damien: Omen II (1978)

Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: William Holden | Lee Grant | Lew Eуres | Sylvia Sidney | Jonathan Scott-Taylor | Robert Foxworth
Directors: Don Taylor
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Seven years later, 13-year-old Damien is just discovering who he really is, and what he is destined to do. Now living with his Aunt, Uncle, and cousin in a wealthy suburb of Chicago, Damien is anxious to inherit everything. Can Richard Thorn finish the job that Damien’s father (Ambassador Thorn) started?

In the Valley of Elah (2007)

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Tommy Lee Jones | Charlize Theron | Jason Patric | Susan Sarandon | James Franco | Barry Corbin | Josh Brolin | Frances Fisher | Wes Chatham | Jake McLaughlin | Mehcad Brooks | Jonathan Tucker | Wayne Duvall | Victor Wolf | Brent Briscoe
Directors: Paul Haggis
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When Hank Deerfield is told by the military that his son Mike, who only recently returned from a tour of duty in Iraq, has gone AWOL he travels to the military base to see if he can make any sense of the young man’s disappearance. Hank is himself a retired military investigator and is frustrated by both the military and the civilian police’s apparent lack of interest in the case. In the end he does manage to get help from Det. Emily Sanders and together they piece together the events that led to Mike’s disappearance. In the end, this is a story of how war dehumanizes individuals to the point where the taking of life makes no sense and has no purpose