Posts Tagged ‘deceit’

Four Brothers (2005)

Sunday, December 9th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Mark Wahlberg | Tyrese Gibson | André Benjamin | Garrett Hedlund | Terrence Howard | Josh Charles | Sofía Vergara | Fionnula Flanagan | Chiwetel Ejiofor | Taraji P. Henson | Barry Shabaka Henley | Jernard Burks | Kenneth Welsh | Tony Nappo | Shawn Singleton
Directors: John Singleton
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In Detroit, when the beloved citizen Evelyn Mercer is murdered in a store heist, her four dangerous stepsons come to her funeral. Bobby Mercer, Angel Mercer and Jack Mercer join the regenerated ex-union leader Jeremiah Mercer, and they decide to investigate the murder. They disclose that her execution was intentional, and resolve to find the criminals by themselves.

Night at the Museum (2006)

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Ben Stiller | Carla Gugino | Dick Van Dyke | Mickey Rooney | Bill Cobbs | Jake Cherry | Ricky Gervais | Robin Williams | Kim Raver | Patrick Gallagher | Rami Malek | Pierfrancesco Favino | Charles Q. Murphy | Steve Coogan | Mizuo Peck
Directors: Shawn Levy
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In New York, the unemployed divorced Larry Daley is a complete loser. His son Nick is very disappointed with his father that is gong to be evicted, and Larry accepts the job of night watchman in the Museum of Natural History as the substituted for three old security guards that have just retired to raise some money and pay his bills. In his first nightshift, Larry realizes that everything at the museum comes to life at night. The Museum transforms in a complete chaos with the inexperienced Larry, and he learns that since an old Egyptian stone came to the Museum in 1950, the was statues comes to life until dawn. When Larry brings his son to spend a night with him, the three old guards break in the Museum to stole the magic stone. Larry organizes the historic characters to help him to arrest the criminals and save the museum.

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.

Harsh Times (2005)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Christian Bale | Armando Cantina | Freddy Rodríguez | Eva Longoria | Kenneth Choi | Tammy Trull | Terry Crews | Robert Dahey | Samantha Esteban | Chaka Forman | César García Gómez | Noel Gugliemi | Sonia Iris Lozada | Adriana Millan | Michael Monks
Directors: David Ayer
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Jim Davis is an ex-Army Ranger who finds himself slipping back into his old life of petty crime after a job offer from the LAPD evaporates. His best friend is pressured by his girlfriend Sylvia to find a job, but Jim is more interested in hanging out and making cash from small heists, while trying to get a law enforcement job so he can marry his Mexican girlfriend.

Casanova (2005)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Heath Ledger | Sienna Miller | Jeremy Irons | Oliver Platt | Lena Olin | Omid Djalili | Stephen Greif | Ken Stott | Helen McCrory | Leigh Lawson | Tim McInnerny | Charlie Cox | Natalie Dormer | Philip Davis | Paddy Ward
Directors: Lasse Hallström
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Casanova is love with Francesca, who thinks he is a friend of himself even though he is engaged Victoria, who is the love of Giovanni, Francessca’s brother. Francessca is betrothed to Paprizzio who thinks Casanova is the feminist writer Guardi, who is really Francessca’s nomme de plume. Amidst all these secret identities and misunderstandings, the Catholic Church sends Pucci to bring Casanova and Guardi to trial for heresy.

History of Violence, A (2005)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Viggo Mortensen | Maria Bello | Ed Harris | William Hurt | Ashton Holmes | Peter MacNeill | Stephen McHattie | Greg Bryk | Sumela Kay | Kyle Schmid | Deborah Drakeford | Gerry Quigley | Heidi Hayes | Aidan Devine | Bill MacDonald
Directors: David Cronenberg
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Tom Stall, a humble family man and owner of a popular neighborhood restaurant, lives a quiet but fulfilling existence in the Midwest. One night Tom foils a crime at his place of business and, to his chagrin, is plastered all over the news for his heroics. Following this, mysterious people follow the Stalls’ every move, concerning Tom more than anyone else. As this situation is confronted, more lurks out over where all these occurrences have stemmed from compromising his marriage, family relationship and the main characters’ former relations in the process.

Wait Until Dark (1967)

Sunday, August 26th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Audrey Hepburn | Alan Arkin | Richard Crenna | Efrem Zimbalist Jr. | Jack Weston | Samantha Jones | Julie Herrod | Robby Benson | Jean Del Val | Gary Morgan | Frank O'Brien
Directors: Terence Young
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After an airplane trip, a young woman asks Susie’s husband, Sam, to keep a doll for her to avoid spoiling the surprise of her daughter’s gift. But the real reason is to avoid her partner, Harry Roat, whom she hopes to cheat of the drugs hidden in the doll. Harry discovers her treachery, murders her and leaves the body in Susie’s apartment, where he has tracked Sam and the doll. He concocts an elaborate plan, involving Mike and Carlino, small-time hoods, to get Susie, who recently lost her sight in a fire, to reveal the doll’s hiding place. They lure Sam away and take advantage of Susie’s blindness, posing as an old friend, a police detective, and a father-son pair of eccentrics. Susie eventually catches on and, with the help of her young neighbor, Gloria, shows everyone that she is indeed “a world-class blind lady.”

Prime (2005)

Friday, August 24th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Meryl Streep | Uma Thurman | Bryan Greenberg | Jon Abrahams | Adriana Biasi | David Younger | Palmer Brown | Zak Orth | Annie Parisse | Aubrey Dollar | Jerry Adler | Doris Belack | Ato Essandoh | David Anzuelo | Naomi Aborn
Directors: Ben Younger
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Prime is a sophisticated, character comedy set in New York City about Rafi, a recently divorced 37-year-old career woman from Manhattan and what happens when Dave, a talented 23-year-old painter from the upper West Side of Manhattan falls in love with her. The film looks at love from everyone’s point-of-view friends, relatives and in this case, Rafi’s therapist Lisa, and follows all who comes apart and some who pull it together, when two people fall in love.

The School of Rock (2003)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Music
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Jack Black | Adam Pascal | Lucas Papaelias | Chris Stack | Sarah Silverman | Mike White | Lucas Babin | Joan Cusack | Jordan-Claire Green | Veronica Afflerbach | Miranda Cosgrove | Joey Gaydos Jr. | Robert Tsai | Angelo Massagli | Kevin Alexander Clark
Directors: Richard Linklater
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Down and out rock star Dewey Finn (Black) gets fired from his band, and he faces a mountain of debts and depression. He takes a job as a 4th grade substitute teacher at an uptight private school where his attitude and hijinx have a powerful effect on his students. He also meets Zack, a 10-year-old guitar prodigy, who could help Dewey win a “battle of the bands” competition, which would solve his financial problems and put him back in the spotlight.

Wedding Crashers (2005)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Owen Wilson | Vince Vaughn | Christopher Walken | Rachel McAdams | Isla Fisher | Jane Seymour | Ellen Albertini Dow | Keir O'Donnell | Bradley Cooper | Ron Canada | Henry Gibson | Dwight Yoakam | Rebecca De Mornay | David Conrad | Jennifer Alden
Directors: David Dobkin
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Divorce mediators John Beckwith and Jeremy Grey are business partners and lifelong friends who share one truly unique springtime hobby—crashing weddings! Whatever the ethnicity of the wedding party—Jewish, Italian, Irish, Chinese, Hindu—the charismatic and charming duo always have clever back stories for inquisitive guests and inevitably become the hit of every reception, where they strictly adhere to their proven rules of wedding crashing to meet and pick up women aroused by the very thought of marriage. At the tail end of another successful season of toasting brides and grooms, Jeremy learns that the daughter of Treasury Secretary William Cleary and his wife, Kathleen, is getting married in what is sure to be the Washington D.C. social event of the year. After infiltrating the lavish affair, John and Jeremy quickly set their sights on two bridesmaids, Claire and Gloria Cleary. With the lavish reception in full swing, Jeremy works his game plan to perfection in seducing Gloria, but John’s flirtation banter with Claire is unexpectedly impeded by her pompous, Ivy League boyfriend Sack. Having uncharacteristically fallen hard and fast for Claire, John convinces a resistant Jeremy to bend the crashing rules and accept an invitation to an extended weekend party at the Cleary family compound. Once at the palatial waterfront estate, John and Jeremy endure a multitude of comical mishaps at the hands of the dysfunctional members of the Cleary family, but also learn a few unexpected lessons about love and relationships.