Posts Tagged ‘death-of-son’

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 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.

Lord of War (2005)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Nicolas Cage | Bridget Moynahan | Jared Leto | Shake Tukhmanyan | Jean-Pierre Nshanian | Jared Burke | Eric Uys | David Shumbris | Stewart Morgan | Jasper Lenz | Kobus Marx | Stephan De Abreu | Jeremy Crutchley | Ian Holm | Tanya Finch
Directors: Andrew Niccol
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This film charts the rise and fall of Yuri Orlov, from his early days in the early 1980s in Little Odessa, selling guns to mobsters in his local neighbourhood, through to his ascension through the decade of excess and indulgence into the early 90s, where he forms a business partnership with an African warlord and his psychotic son. The film also charts his relationship through the years with his younger brother, his marriage to a famous model, his relentless pursuit by a determined federal agent and his inner demons that sway between his drive for success and the immorality of what he does.

Finding Nemo (2003)

Monday, May 7th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Drama | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Albert Brooks | Ellen DeGeneres | Alexander Gould | Willem Dafoe | Brad Garrett | Allison Janney | Austin Pendleton | Stephen Root | Vicki Lewis | Joe Ranft | Geoffrey Rush | Elizabeth Perkins | Nicholas Bird | Bob Peterson
Directors: Andrew Stanton | Lee Unkrich
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Marlin (a clown fish) is a widower who only has his son Nemo left of his family after a predator attack. Years later, on Nemo’s first day of school, he’s captured by a scuba diver and taken to live in a dentist office’s fish tank. Marlin and his new absent-minded friend Dory set off across the ocean to find Nemo, while Nemo and his tankmates scheme on how to get out of the tank before he becomes the dentist’s niece’s new pet.

The Punisher (2004)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Roy Scheider | Will Patton | John Travolta | Rebecca Romijn | A. Russell Andrews | Omar Avila | James Carpinello | Mark Collie | Russ Comegys | Antoni Corone | Rick Elmhurst | Ben Foster | Laura Harring | Michael Reardon | Will Hasenzahl | Thomas Jane | Eddie Jemison | Marco St. John | Marcus Johns
Directors: Jonathan Hensleigh
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Special agent Frank Castle had it all: A loving family, a great life, and an adventurous job. But when his life is taken away from him by a ruthless criminal and his associates, Frank has become reborn. Now serving as judge, jury, and executioner, he’s a new kind of vigilante out to wage a one man war against those who have done him wrong.

Mamma Roma (1962)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: Italy
Actors: Anna Magnani | Ettore Garofolo | Franco Citti | Silvana Corsini | Luisa Loiano | Paolo Volponi | Luciano Gonini | Vittorio La Paglia | Piero Morgia | Lanfranco Ceccarelli | Marcello Sorrentino | Sandro Meschino | Franco Tovo | Pasquale Ferrarese | Leandro Santarelli
Directors: Pier Paolo Pasolini
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Mamma Roma is a middle-aged whore of Roma. Now she can quit her job to become a fruit seller. And she can take back her 16-year-old son, Ettore. For him, she dreams of a good position. But it is perhaps too late for Ettore, whose company includes mostly teenaged louts…

Romeo Must Die (2000)

Thursday, February 8th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jet Li | Aaliyah | Isaiah Washington | Russell Wong | DMX | Delroy Lindo | D.B. Woodside | Henry O | Jonkit Lee | Edoardo Ballerini | Anthony Anderson | Matthew Harrison | Terry Chen | Derek Lowe | Ronin Wong
Directors: Andrzej Bartkowiak
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In this modern day Romeo and Juliet, kung fu action star Jet Li plays Romeo to hip-hop singer, Aaliyah Haughton’s Juliet. Li is an ex-cop investigating the murder of his brother, who had ties with the Chinese mafia in America. Aaliyah plays the daughter of the American mob boss. Neither side approves of their romance, so, obviously, kung fu action ensues, with a soundtrack by Aaliyah.

The Last Samurai (2003)

Thursday, February 1st, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | War
Countries: Japan | New Zealand | USA
Actors: Shin Koyamada | Ken Watanabe | Tom Cruise | William Atherton | Chad Lindberg | Ray Godshall Sr. | Billy Connolly | Tony Goldwyn | Masato Harada | Masashi Odate | John Koyama | Timothy Spall | Shichinosuke Nakamura | Togo Igawa | Satoshi Nikaido | Shintaro Wada
Directors: Edward Zwick
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In the 1870s, Captain Nathan Algren, a cynical veteran of the American Civil war who will work for anyone, is hired by Americans who want lucrative contracts with the Emperor of Japan to train the peasant conscripts for the first standing imperial army in modern warfare using firearms. The imperial Omura cabinet’s first priority is to repress a rebellion of traditionalist Samurai -hereditary warriors- who remain devoted to the sacred dynasty but reject the Westernizing policy and even refuse firearms. Yet when his ill-prepared superior force sets out too soon, their panic allows the sword-wielding samurai to crush them. Badly wounded Algren’s courageous stand makes the samurai leader Katsumoto spare his life; once nursed to health he learns to know and respect the old Japanese way, and participates as advisor in Katsumoto’s failed attempt to save the Bushido tradition, but Omura gets repressive laws enacted- he must now choose to honor his loyalty to one of the embittered sides when the conflict returns to the battlefield…