Posts Tagged ‘hostage’

Hannibal Rising (2007)

Saturday, November 29th, 2008
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.

Miami Vice (2006)

Saturday, November 29th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Colin Farrell | Jamie Foxx | Li Gong | Naomie Harris | Ciarán Hinds | Justin Theroux | Barry Shabaka Henley | Luis Tosar | John Ortiz | Elizabeth Rodriguez | Domenick Lombardozzi | Eddie Marsan | Isaach De Bankolé | John Hawkes | Tom Towles
Directors: Michael Mann
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Ricardo Tubbs (Jamie Foxx) is urbane and dead smart. He lives with Bronx-born Intel analyst Trudy (Naomie Harris), as they work undercover transporting drug loads into South Florida to identify a group responsible for three murders. Sonny Crockett (Colin Farrell) [to the untrained eye, his presentation may seem unorthodox, but procedurally, he is sound] is charismatic and flirtatious until - while undercover working with the supplier of the South Florida group - he gets romantically entangled with Isabella (Gong Li), the Chinese-Cuban wife of an arms and drugs trafficker. The best undercover identity is oneself with the volume turned up and restraint unplugged. The intensity of the case pushes Crockett and Tubbs out onto the edge where identity and fabrication become blurred, where cop and player become one - especially for Crockett in his romance with Isabella and for Tubbs in the provocation of an assault on those he loves.

The Ref (1994)

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
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Denis Leary plays an unfortunate cat burglar, who is abandonded by his partner in the middle of a heist, and is forced to take an irritating Connecticut couple (Kevin Spacey, Judy Davis) hostage. He soon finds that he took more than he bargained for when the couple’s blackmailing son and despicable in-laws step into the picture. Before long they’re driving him nuts with their petty bickering and family problems. The only way for him to survive is to be their referee and resolve their differences, before he can be nabbed by the police.

The Clearing (2004)

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Robert Redford | Helen Mirren | Willem Dafoe | Alessandro Nivola | Matt Craven | Melissa Sagemiller | Wendy Crewson | Larry Pine | Diana Scarwid | Elizabeth Ruscio | Gwen McGee | Sarah Koskoff | Graciela Marin | Mike Pniewski | Geoff McKnight
Directors: Pieter Jan Brugge
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Wayne and Eileen Hayes live the American Dream. Together they’ve raised two children and struggled to build a successful business from the ground up. But there have been sacrifices along the way. When Wayne is kidnapped by an ordinary man, Arnold Mack, and held for ransom in a remote forest, the couple’s world is turned inside out. Eileen finds her home full of FBI agents, their life under scrutiny. While Wayne is engaged in the negotiation of his lifetime, Eileen works frantically with the FBI to secure his release. The terrifying ordeal causes Wayne and Eileen to reassess their marriage and come to a deeper sense of their commitment to each other. With each passing hour, the need and desire for Wayne to return home safely becomes ever more urgent.

Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999)

Monday, November 10th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Helen Mirren | Katie Holmes | Jeffrey Tambor | Barry Watson | Marisa Coughlan | Liz Stauber | Michael McKean | Molly Ringwald | Vivica A. Fox | John Patrick White | Robert Gant | Marissa Jaret Winokur | Cameron Glenar | Alan Heitz | Brian Klugman
Directors: Kevin Williamson
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Leigh Ann Watson is a teenage student at Grandsboro High. An “A” in history would make her valedictorian and get her a scholarship to Harvard. When she turns in her history project, a 365 day diary of a girl accused in the Salem witch trials, a 6 month effort, she receives a “C” from history teacher Mrs. Tingle, the meanest teacher at Grandsboro High. This gives an opportunity for Marybeth Carter, a rival student, to achieve an “A” and become valedictorian. As Leigh Ann tries to catch up doing extra credit by setting up graduation seating with her best friend, Jo Lynn, history class failure Luke Churner, enters with Mrs. Tingle’s final exam cheat sheet. Leigh Ann is caught with it and Mrs. Tingle threatens to tell the Principal about it. The result would have been expulsion, so the trio of teenagers attempt to regain Leigh Ann’s innocence by reasoning with Mrs. Tingle. When their attempt fails, they attack Mrs. Tingle and tie her to her bed. Is there a possible way to prove Leigh Ann innocent?

RoboCop (1987)

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Peter Weller | Nancy Allen | Dan O'Herlihy | Ronny Cox | Kurtwood Smith | Miguel Ferrer | Robert DoQui | Ray Wise | Felton Perry | Paul McCrane | Jesse D. Goins | Del Zamora | Calvin Jung | Rick Lieberman | Lee de Broux
Directors: Paul Verhoeven
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In a near future, the Motor City known as Detroit slowly becomes the spawn-ground for Crime as a gang of Cop Killers goes on the rise. Private organism, Omni Consomer Products (OCP) eventually seizes control of local law enforcement to ensure a secure an Urban pacification program. Just assigned to the Metro West Precint, Officer Alex Murphy is massacred to death by this gang, as his partner Anne Lewis is barely able to do nothing. At the same time, a young visionary executive, Bob Morton, seizes the chance when the ED-209 law enforcement Droid shows lack of perfection by killing a fellow executive to create the Perfect Cop. The near death Murphy is used as the subject. With his memories erased, he is resurrected as Robocop, the future of law enforcement. As he sweeps away with crime, case by case, he eventually becomes involved with the Cop Killing Gang, and Anne Lewis herself. All of this, triggering his dormant memories of his past life as he searches for who he really is, and uncover a conspiracy going deep in OCP with the Senior Vice President himself.

Kill Me Later (2001)

Friday, September 5th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Selma Blair | Max Beesley | O'Neal Compton | Lochlyn Munro | D.W. Moffett | Brendan Fehr | Tom Heaton | David Adams | Alex Zahara | Keegan Connor Tracy | Pam Hyatt | Stacy Fair | Marcel Maillard | Keith Gordey
Directors: Dana Lustig
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Her goldfish dead, her lover exposed as a rat, Shawn Holloway leaves her bank post and goes to the roof intent on suicide. Before she can leap, she’s taken hostage by Charlie Anders, a fleeing bank robber. He and his partners have stolen a million in cash and plan to escape to Venezuela. Shawn agrees to cooperate if Charlie promises to kill her once he’s in the clear. Parts of the plan go awry, so Charlie has time to try to pierce her bleak manner and self pity, and she has time for reflection. As night falls, their interlude ends: they’re each alone, Charlie facing prison as the police close in, and Shawn staring down at a river from atop a high bridge.

007 GoldenEye (1995)

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Pierce Brosnan | Sean Bean | Izabella Scorupco | Famke Janssen | Joe Don Baker | Judi Dench | Gottfried John | Robbie Coltrane | Alan Cumming | Tchéky Karyo | Desmond Llewelyn | Samantha Bond | Michael Kitchen | Serena Gordon | Simon Kunz
Directors: Martin Campbell
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James Bond has a mission to recover the ‘Goldeneye’ access key. A Russian computer programmer called Natalya Siminova survives a murder spree by Xenia Onatopp and General Ourumov. Bond must work with Natalya to find this key and uncovers a sinister secret. His fellow agent, Alec Trevelyan who was believed to have been shot and killed 9 years ago re-surfaces. Bond soon realizes that Trevelyan is behind everything. Bond must now battle his former friend, in order to stop him from destroying London with the Goldeneye satellite.

Deja Vu (2006)

Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Denzel Washington | Paula Patton | Val Kilmer | James Caviezel | Adam Goldberg | Elden Henson | Erika Alexander | Bruce Greenwood | Rich Hutchman | Matt Craven | Donna W. Scott | Elle Fanning | Brian Howe | Enrique Castillo | Mark Phinney
Directors: Tony Scott
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After an explosion on a ferry kills over 500 people including a large group of party-going sailors, an ATF agent investigates the crime. AN FBI agent also joins the investigation. Impressed with the ATF agent’s skills, the FBI agent invites him to join a new team that has a new program that uses satellite technology to look backwards in time for 4-1/2 days to try to capture the terrorist. Meanwhile a young woman who was burned washes up on shore. Meant to look like part of of the explosion, the body arrives at its location too soon, which leads the agents to believe her death is related to the explosion. As they use the new technology to study the woman, the ATF agent determines that this is not satellite imagery but somehow is using a time warp. From this point in the film, the movie moves from a crime film to a sci-fi time paradox film. Nonetheless, the action is non-stop and always captivating. The end of the film may be confusing to some people, but it is all laid out if one cares to look carefully. Contains some extreme violence that some may find disturbing, particularly during the explosion when many people are shown jumping off the boat in flames.

Vantage Point (2008)

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Dennis Quaid | Matthew Fox | Forest Whitaker | Bruce McGill | Edgar Ramirez | Saïd Taghmaoui | William Hurt | James LeGros | Eduardo Noriega | Richard T. Jones | Holt McCallany | Leonardo Nam | Justin Sundquist | Sean O'Bryan | José Carlos Rodríguez
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The attempted assassination of the American President is told and re-told from several different perspectives.