Posts Tagged ‘paranoia’

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Rutger Hauer | Julia Roberts | Jennifer Rae Westley | Dick Clark | Sam Rockwell | Michelle Sweeney | Drew Barrymore | Chelsea Ceci | Brad Pitt | Matt Damon | Michael Cera | Aimee Rose Ambroziak | Isabelle Blais | Melissa Carter | Jennifer Hall | Ilona Elkin | Sean Tucker | Jaye P. Morgan | Maggie Gyllenhaal | David Julian Hirsh
Directors: George Clooney
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Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind” is the story of a legendary showman’s double life - television producer by day, CIA assassin by night. At the height of his TV career, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA and trained to become a covert operative. Or so Barris said.

The Thing (1982)

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Kurt Russell | Wilford Brimley | T.K. Carter | David Clennon | Keith David | Richard A. Dysart | Charles Hallahan | Peter Maloney | Richard Masur | Donald Moffat | Joel Polis | Thomas G. Waites | Norbert Weisser | Larry J. Franco | Nate Irwin
Directors: John Carpenter
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An American scientific expedition to the frozen wastes of the Antarctic is interrupted by a group of seemingly mad Norwegians pursuing and shooting a dog. The helicopter pursuing the dog crashes leaving no explanation for the chase. During the night, the dog mutates and attacks other dogs in the cage and members of the team that investigate. The team soon realises that an alien life-form with the ability to take over other bodies is on the loose and they don’t know who may already have been taken over.

Sphere (1998)

Thursday, September 11th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Samuel L. Jackson | Dustin Hoffman | Sharon Stone | Queen Latifah | Liev Schreiber | Peter Coyote | Marga Gomez
Directors: Barry Levinson
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1000 feet below the ocean, navy divers discover an object half-a-mile long. A crack team of scientists are deployed to the site in Deepsea Habitats. What they find boggles the mind as they discover a perfect metal sphere. What is the secret behind the sphere? Will they survive the mysterious ‘manifestations’? Who or what is creating these? They may never live to find out.

Doomsday (2008)

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: South Africa | UK | USA
Actors: Vernon Willemse | Paul Hyett | Daniel Read | Karl Thaning | Stephen Hughes | Jason Cope | Ryan Kruger | Nathan Wheatley | Cecil Carter | Jeremy Crutchley | Tom Fairfoot | Az Abrahams | Bob Hoskins | Alexander Siddig | David O'Hara
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Great Britain, 2007. A deadly plague, known as the “Reaper Virus,” has broken out, killing hundreds of thousands in its wake. In desperation, the British Government evacuates as many survivors as it can out of the infected area, and then builds a wall, preventing the remainder from escaping. Thirty years later, with the wall still up and the victims all but forgotten, the virus breaks out again. The Government decides to send a crack team of operatives, led by Major Eden Sinclair, into the hot zone to investigate the possibility of a cure.

Neverwas (2005)

Friday, July 18th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Aaron Eckhart | Ian McKellen | Nick Nolte | William Hurt | Bill Bellamy | Alan Cumming | Michael Moriarty | Ken Roberts | Tim Henry | Joe Macaluso | Andrew Airlie | Ryan Drescher | Jim Eckhart | Richard Hendery | Mark Tisdale
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A well-educated psychiatrist leaves an academic career to work at an institution where his father, a novelist, lived before writing a renowned children’s book. Acclimating to his position, he encounters a schizophrenic who helps him to discover the book’s secrets and his place in the story.

Be Kind Rewind (2008)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Jack Black | Mos Def | Danny Glover | Irv Gooch | Chandler Parker | Arjay Smith | Quinton Aaron | Gio Perez | Tomasz Soltys | Marcus Carl Franklin | Blake Hightower | Amir Ali Said | David Slotkoff | Frank Heins | Harvey Hogan
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A small VHS only video store faces foreclosure in a poor community. While watching the store for the owner, a blundering employee’s friend accidentally erases all of the tapes. In order to keep their blunder from becoming apparent, the duo of Mos Def and Jack Black begin remaking the films themselves using homemade special effects and outdated filming techniques.

Summer of Sam (1999)

Monday, June 9th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: John Leguizamo | Adrien Brody | Mira Sorvino | Jennifer Esposito | Michael Rispoli | Saverio Guerra | Brian Tarantina | Al Palagonia | Ken Garito | Bebe Neuwirth | Patti LuPone | Mike Starr | Anthony LaPaglia | Roger Guenveur Smith | Ben Gazzara
Directors: Spike Lee
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Spike Lee’s take on the “Son of Sam” murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American South Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.

Taxi Driver (1976)

Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Robert De Niro | Cybill Shepherd | Peter Boyle | Jodie Foster | Harvey Keitel | Leonard Harris | Albert Brooks | Diahnne Abbott | Frank Adu | Gino Ardito | Victor Argo | Garth Avery | Harry Cohn | Copper Cunningham | Brenda Dickson-Weinberg
Directors: Martin Scorsese
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Vietnam vet Travis Bickle is 26, a loner in the mean streets of New York City, slipping slowly into isolation and violent misanthropy. In solving his insomnia by driving a yellow cab on the night shift, he grows increasingly disgusted by the low-lifes that hang out at night: “Someday a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets.” His touching attempts to woo Betsy, a Senator’s campaign worker, turn sour when he takes her to a porn movie on their first date. He even fails in his attempt to persuade child prostitute Iris to desert her pimp and return to her parents and school. Driven to the edge by powerlessness, he buys four handguns and sets out to assassinate the Senator, heading for the infamy of a ‘lone crazed gunman’…

First Snow (2006)

Friday, April 11th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Guy Pearce | Piper Perabo | William Fichtner | J.K. Simmons | Shea Whigham | Rick Gonzalez | Jackie Burroughs | Adam Scott | Portia Dawson | Cherilyn Hayres | Luce Rains | Brian Gamble | David House | Jose J. Marquez | John Burton Jr.
Directors: Mark Fergus
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Wound tight and cocky, Jimmy Starks (Pearce) is a smooth-talking salesman certain he’s on the verge of a big break. Even when his car stalls in the middle of nowhere, a roadside soothsayer (Simmons) assures him a windfall is on its way. But although Jimmy should be happy when his boss suddenly agrees to financially back his business venture, he starts to become paranoid instead. As his girlfriend Deirdre (Perabo) and his best friend/ business partner Ed (Fichtner) watch him slowly come unwound, Jimmy wonders if a past betrayal of his friend, newly paroled Vince (Whigham), could be catching up to him. And, as the weather turns cold, Jimmy can’t help but fear the mysterious seer’s other prediction… that they’ll be no tomorrow after the first snow.

The Firm (1993)

Friday, March 21st, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Tom Cruise | Jeanne Tripplehorn | Gene Hackman | Hal Holbrook | Terry Kinney | Wilford Brimley | Ed Harris | Holly Hunter | David Strathairn | Gary Busey | Steven Hill | Tobin Bell | Barbara Garrick | Jerry Hardin | Paul Calderon
Directors: Sydney Pollack
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Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by ‘The Firm’ and made an offer he doesn’t refuse. Seduced by the money and gifts showered on him, he is totally oblivious to the more sinister side of his company. Then, two Associates are murdered. The FBI contact him, asking him for information and suddenly his life is ruined. He has a choice - work with the FBI, or stay with the Firm. Either way he will lose his life as he knows it. Mitch figures the only way out is to follow his own plan…