Posts Tagged ‘cover-up’

Absolute Power (1997)

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Gene Hackman | Ed Harris | Laura Linney | Scott Glenn | Dennis Haysbert | Judy Davis | E.G. Marshall | Melora Hardin | Kenneth Welsh | Penny Johnson | Richard Jenkins | Mark Margolis | Elaine Kagan | Alison Eastwood
Directors: Clint Eastwood
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Luther Whitney is a professional thief, who only works occasionally. He is planning what is suppose to be his last job, and everything is going smoothly until some come in before he can leave. He hides in a secret room and from behind a one-way mirror sees that it’s the wife of the owner of the house he is robbing and another man. They are fooling around when the guy decides to liven things up by striking her, she get away but he corners her, she then grabs a letter opener and is about to stab him when he cries out for help when two men come in and shoot her dead. It seems that the man is Alan Richmond, the President of the United States and the two men are the secret service agents assigned to him. Later, a woman, Gloria Russell, who is his Chief of Staff enters and upon learning of what has happened, decides to cover it up and make it appear that she was killed by a burglar. After sanitizing the room, they are about to leave but they forget the letter opener, Whitney comes out of the room and takes it and makes his getaway but when they returned for the letter opener they discover Whitney and chase him but he gets away. The police investigate the murder and there are so many inconsistencies, which makes the investigator, Seth Frank suspect that something is going on. Frank then discovers that Whitney is a possible suspect but the only thing is that he doesn’t believe that Whitney is a killer. Whitney tries to leave town but when he learns just how corrupt and amoral Richmond is he decides to play mind games with him and the others. Richmond, at the same time, tells them that Whitney must be silenced permanently.

11:14 (Eleven Fourteen, The Movie) (2003)

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Henry Thomas | Blake Heron | Barbara Hershey | Clark Gregg | Hilary Swank | Shawn Hatosy | Stark Sands | Colin Hanks | Ben Foster | Patrick Swayze | Rachael Leigh Cook | Jason Segel | Rick Gomez
Directors: Greg Marcks
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In Middletown, at 11:14 PM, two cars accidents happen at the same time, affecting the lives of five different groups of people. A drunken driver hits a man in a lonely road near a bridge; three young men hits a woman with a van, one of the passenger has a severed penis while another man on the road shoots them; a young man robs a convenience store, with the support of the clerk; a man finds a body in a cemetery and gets rid off it; and a young woman pretending to be pregnant tries to raise money for an abortion. All of these characters and their fates are very connected.

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

The Mark of Cain (2007)

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Gerard Kearns | Matthew McNulty | Leo Gregory | Shaun Dooley | Shaun Dingwall | Naomi Bentley | Robert Angell | Roger Barclay | Michael Byrne | Ralph Casson | Matt Chapman | Brendan Coyle | Mike Dolan | Matthew Gravelle | Edmund Herd
Directors: Marc Munden
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GULLIVER and TATE - nickname ‘Treacle’ - are two ordinary 18 year-olds serving in the British Army in Iraq. Their platoon is struggling to maintain the uneasy peace of 2003. When their popular company captain, GODBER, is killed on patrol by a roadside bomb, morale in the platoon hits rock bottom. Acting on orders they round up several suspects from house-to-house searches. That night feelings at the camp are running high and as the chain of command is weakened and events spiral out of control. The lads end their tour of duty and return to England full of stories but also shaken by their experiences. Iraq comes back to haunt them when Gulliver’s jilted girlfriend, Shelley, decides to get her own back on him by giving photos of the events in Iraq to the British police. The story hits the press, and Gulliver and Treacle, now the most reviled men in Britain, face court martial. The army claims the two are ‘rotten apples’ acting alone. Guilt-ridden and abandoned, the pressure is too much for a traumatized Treacle. Gulliver, however, is determined to remain loyal to ‘his army’. Only when he is truly alone does he have to decide if he must keep his secrets or explosively have his day in court, and tell the truth about the events of that fateful night.

Antitrust (2001)

Friday, April 11th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Ryan Phillippe | Rachael Leigh Cook | Claire Forlani | Tim Robbins | Douglas McFerran | Richard Roundtree | Tygh Runyan | Yee Jee Tso | Nate Dushku | Ned Bellamy | Tyler Labine | Scott Bellis | David Lovgren | Zahf Paroo | Jonathon Young
Directors: Peter Howitt
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This movie is the fictional story of computer programming genius Milo Hoffman after graduating from Stanford and getting out into the competitive world of computer software. In his contemplation of where to begin his career, he is contacted by Gary Winston whose character is loosely based on Bill Gates. Winston is the CEO of a company called NURV, and they are on the brink of completing the global communication’s system, Synapse. They need Hoffman to help them meet their launch date, so after much thought and with the full support of his girlfriend Alice, he accepts the job. Tragedy soon after strikes and Milo becomes suspicious of the company he has been wrapped up in. He learns that trusting anyone could be a mistake, and that nothing is as it seems.

Shoot ‘Em Up (2007)

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Clive Owen | Paul Giamatti | Monica Bellucci | Stephen McHattie | Greg Bryk | Daniel Pilon | Sidney Mende-Gibson | Lucas Mende-Gibson | Kaylyn Yellowlees | Ramona Pringle | Julian Richings | Tony Munch | Scott McCord | Wiley M. Pickett | Stephen R. Hart
Directors: Michael Davis
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Late at night, in an unnamed U.S. city, a solitary man sits at a bus stop. A pregnant woman runs by, pursued by a man with a gun. With reluctance, the man at the bus stop rescues her and assists with the baby’s delivery, while additional pursuers fire at them, including the gang’s particularly nasty leader, an intuitive man named Hertz. Our hero, known only as Smith, determines to save the child and find out why Hertz wants the baby dead. At a local bordello, he tries to employ a lactating hooker to watch the child, but things quickly escalate, and this makeshift family is soon on the run. Heavy metal music calms the baby. Why? A laboratory, a gun factory, and a presidential campaign all figure in Smith’s search for the child’s ultimate safety.

One Night at McCool’s (2001)

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Matt Dillon | Mary Jo Smith | Michael Douglas | Paul Reiser | Reba McEntire | John Goodman | Richard Jenkins | Sandy Martin | Liv Tyler | Andrew Dice Clay | Ric Sarabia | Tim De Zarn | Leo Rossi | Rob Neukirch | Andrea Bendewald
Directors: Harald Zwart
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After another hard night at McCool’s, bartender Randy runs into Jewel. The seductive lady seems to have evaded a rape pretty closely, and when the man comes back, she puts a bullet in his head. After all these events (and others), Randy takes Jewel home, and the two become a couple. Yet Jewel begins to develop into a very demanding girlfriend and drives Randy into committing crimes for her and her elaborate lifestyle. Randy’s cousin Carl is driven crazy by Randy’s incredibly sexy girl as well as the investigating officer, Detective Dehling.

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.

Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)

Friday, February 15th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Spencer Tracy | Robert Ryan | Anne Francis | Dean Jagger | Walter Brennan | John Ericson | Ernest Borgnine | Lee Marvin | Russell Collins | Walter Sande | Harry Harvey | Francis McDonald
Directors: John Sturges
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John J. Macreedy doesn’t know it, but when he steps off the train at the jerkwater town of Black Rock, he will soon find himself the object of fear, hatred, and even a murder plot! The altruistic Macreedy came to Black Rock to hand over a posthumous military award to a local man whose son had died gallantly in the Second World War. What Macreedy couldn’t know when he stepped off of that train was that the town had a shameful secret, one that must be kept at all costs.

Murder at 1600 (1997)

Monday, January 21st, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Wesley Snipes | Diane Lane | Daniel Benzali | Dennis Miller | Alan Alda | Ronny Cox | Diane Baker | Tate Donovan | Harris Yulin | Tom Wright | Nicholas Pryor | Charles Rocket | Nigel Bennett | Tamara Gorski | Douglas O'Keeffe
Directors: Dwight H. Little
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When the murdered body of a young woman who works in the White House is found. Homicide detective Harlan Regis is called in. Upon arriving Senior Secret Service Agent Spikings objects to his presence, but he has the support of the National Security Adviser. Preliminary investigation suggests that it might be a sex crime. And Regis learns that the President’s son has a history of similar acts. He tries to get more info but Spikings’ impeding him but he is determined to find out what happened. Secret Service Agent Nina Chance tries to help him.