Posts Tagged ‘drug-overdose’

House of Sand and Fog (2003)

Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Jennifer Connelly | Ben Kingsley | Ron Eldard | Frances Fisher | Kim Dickens | Shohreh Aghdashloo | Jonathan Ahdout | Navi Rawat | Carlos Gómez | Kia Jam | Jaleh Modjallal | Samira Damavandi | Matthew Simonian | Namrata Singh Gujral | Al Faris
Directors: Vadim Perelman
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Massoud Amir Behrani, an Iranian immigrant, has spent most of his savings trying to enhance his daughter’s chances of a good marriage. Once she is married, he spends the remaining funds on a house at an auction, unwittingly putting himself and his family in the middle of a legal tussle with the house’s former owner. What begins as a legal struggle turns into a personal confrontation, with tragic results.

The Banger Sisters (2002)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Goldie Hawn | Susan Sarandon | Geoffrey Rush | Erika Christensen | Robin Thomas | Eva Amurri | Matthew Carey | Andre Ware | Adam Tomei | Sal Lopez | Kohl Sudduth | Tinsley Grimes | Larry Krask | Marlayna Garrett | Josh Todd
Directors: Bob Dolman
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When fiftysomething Suzette loses her job as a bartender she decides to make a road trip to visit her old friend Vinnie who she hasn’t seen since their days as groupies back in the day. On the way she meets Harry, a nervous writer who says he is going home to confront his father, then shows her his gun. Once they reach their destination Suzette finds that Vinnie is now Lavinia, a conservative housewife who is reluctant to reexperience the flower power of her youth, and Harry finds confrontation with himself rather than with his father.

Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Alan Cumming | Vinessa Shaw | Rade Serbedzija | Leelee Sobieski | Fay Masterson | Tom Cruise | Nicole Kidman | Madison Eginton | Jackie Sawiris | Sydney Pollack | Leslie Lowe | Peter Benson | Todd Field | Michael Doven | Sky Dumont | Louise J. Taylor | Stewart Thorndike | Randall Paul | Julienne Davis | Lisa Leone
Directors: Stanley Kubrick
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Sexual jolts disrupt Manhattan physician Bill Harford’s equilibrium. At an elegant Christmas party, two “models” hit on him, he watches a Lothario try to pick up his tipsy wife, he aids a woman sprawled naked in a bathroom after an overdose. The next night, his wife reveals sexual fantasies with a stranger; a dead patient’s daughter throws herself at him; as he walks, brooding, six teen boys hurl homophobic insults at him; a streetwalker takes him to her flat; he interrupts men having a sex party with a girl barely in her teens. His odyssey, which next takes him into a world of wealthy sex play at a masked ball of hedonism, threatens his life, his self-respect, and his marriage.

Trainspotting (1996)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Ewan McGregor | Ewen Bremner | Jonny Lee Miller | Kevin McKidd | Robert Carlyle | Kelly Macdonald | Peter Mullan | James Cosmo | Eileen Nicholas | Susan Vidler | Pauline Lynch | Shirley Henderson | Stuart McQuarrie | Irvine Welsh | Dale Winton
Directors: Danny Boyle
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A wild, freeform, Rabelaisian trip through the darkest recesses of Edinburgh low-life, focusing on Mark Renton and his attempt to give up his heroin habit, and how the latter affects his relationship with family and friends: Sean Connery wannabe Sick Boy, dimbulb Spud, psycho Begbie, 14-year-old girlfriend Diane, and clean-cut athlete Tommy, who’s never touched drugs but can’t help being curious about them…

What Lies Beneath (2000)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Harrison Ford | Michelle Pfeiffer | Diana Scarwid | Joe Morton | James Remar | Miranda Otto | Amber Valletta | Katharine Towne | Victoria Bidewell | Eliott Goretsky | Ray Baker | Wendy Crewson | Sloane Shelton | Tom Dahlgren | Jayson Argento
Directors: Robert Zemeckis
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Norman Spencer, a university research scientist, is growing more and more concerned about his wife, Claire, a retired concert cellist who a year ago was involved in a serious auto accident, and who has just sent off her daughter Caitlin (Norman’s stepdaughter) to college. Now, Claire reports hearing voices and witnessing eerie occurrences in and around their lakeside Vermont home, including seeing the face of a young woman reflected in water. An increasingly frightened Claire thinks the phenomena have something to do with the couple living next door, especially since the wife has disappeared without apparent explanation. At her husband’s urging, Claire starts to see a therapist; she tells him she thinks the house is being haunted by a ghost. His advice? Try to make contact. Enlisting the help of her best friend, Jody, and a ouija board, Claire seeks to find out the truth of What Lies Beneath.

Little Fish (2005)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: Australia
Actors: Cate Blanchett | Sam Neill | Hugo Weaving | Martin Henderson | Noni Hazlehurst | Joel Tobeck | Lisa McCune | Susie Porter | Nina Liu | Linda Cropper | Daniella Farinacci | Ferdinand Hoang | Anh Do | Jason Chong | Anthony Wong
Directors: Rowan Woods
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In Sidney, Tracey Heart is a thirty-two years old manager of a video shop ex-addicted in heroin and clean for four years. She is trying to raise forty thousand dollars to buy a shop for computer games on the next door of the rental and become partner of her boss, but based on her negative records, the banks deny the loan. Tracey takes care of her junkie stepfather Lionel Dawson, unsuccessfully trying to make him quit his heroin habit. When her former boy-friend Jonny returns from Vancouver, Tracey’s mother Janelle fears a fall of Tracey, while she blames Jonny for the car accident where her son Ray lost one leg. When Ray and Jonny associate to Moss, the assistant of the retired criminal boss Bradley ‘The Jockey’ Thompson, in drug dealing, Tracey is convinced by Jonny to join them and raise the necessary money for her business along the weekend.

L.A. Confidential (1997)

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Genres: Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Kevin Spacey | Russell Crowe | Guy Pearce | James Cromwell | Kim Basinger | Danny DeVito | David Strathairn | Adam Rifkin | Matt McCoy | Paul Guilfoyle | Paolo Seganti | Graham Beckel | Sandra Taylor | Steve Rankin | Elisabeth Granli
Directors: Curtis Hanson
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1950’s Los Angeles is the seedy backdrop for this intricate noir-ish tale of police corruption and Hollywood sleaze. Three very different cops are all after the truth, each in their own style: Ed Exley, the golden boy of the police force, willing to do almost anything to get ahead, except sell out; Bud White, ready to break the rules to seek justice, but barely able to keep his raging violence under control; and Jack Vincennes, always looking for celebrity and a quick buck until his conscience drives him to join Exley and White down the one-way path to find the truth behind the dark world of L.A. crime.

Pulp Fiction (1994)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Tim Roth | Amanda Plummer | John Travolta | Samuel L. Jackson | Phil LaMarr | Bruce Willis | Ving Rhames | Maria de Medeiros | Rosanna Arquette | Duane Whitaker | Peter Greene | Eric Stoltz | Paul Calderon | Uma Thurman | Frank Whaley
Directors: Quentin Tarantino
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Jules Winnfield and Vincent Vega are two hitmen who are out to retrieve a suitcase stolen from their employer, mob boss Marsellus Wallace. Wallace has also asked Vincent to take his wife Mia out a few days later when Wallace himself will be out of town. Butch Coolidge is an aging boxer who is paid by Wallace to lose his next fight. The lives of these seemingly unrelated people are woven together comprising of a series of funny, bizarre and uncalled-for incidents.