Posts Tagged ‘psychological-drama’

The Omen (1976)

Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Leo McKern | Gregory Peck | Lee Remick | David Warner | Billy Whitelaw | Harvey Stevens | Patrick Troughton | Martin Benson | Robert Rietty | Tommy Duggan | John Stride | Anthony Nicholls | Holly Palance | Roy Boyd | Freda Dowie | Sheila Raynor
Directors: Richard Donner
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Robert and Katherine Thorn seem to have it all. He is the US Ambassador to Italy and they want for nothing in their lives, except one thing: they do not have children. When Katharine has a stillborn child, Robert is approached by a priest at the hospital who suggest that he take a healthy newborn whose mother has just died in childbirth. Without telling his wife he agrees to to so but after relocating to London, strange events - and the ominous warnings of a priest - lead him to believe that the child he took from that Italian hospital is evil incarnate.

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.

Tightrope (1984)

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Clint Eastwood | Dan Hedaya | Marco St. John | Graham Paul | Bill Holliday | John Wilmot | Joy N. Houck Jr. | Stuart Baker-Bergen | Donald Barber | Robert Harvey | Ron Gural | Layton Martens | Richard Charles Boyle | Jonathan Sachar | Lionel Ferbos
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A New Orleans detective is leading an investigation into a killer who is raping and murdering women. His enquiries lead him into the seedy side of town where he is no stranger off-duty. All this contrasts with his home life as a single parent with two young girls. Then on the case he meets rape counsellor Beryl Thibodeaux with whom a relationship possibly offering some normalcy starts to develop.

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.

Notes on a Scandal (2006)

Friday, April 11th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Judi Dench | Cate Blanchett | Tom Georgeson | Michael Maloney | Joanna Scanlan | Shaun Parkes | Emma Kennedy | Syreeta Kumar | Andrew Simpson | Philip Davis | Wendy Nottingham | Tameka Empson | Leon Skinner | Bill Nighy | Juno Temple
Directors: Richard Eyre
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Barbara Covett is a veteran and cynical schoolteacher who is close to retirement. She is barely tolerated by her less brilliant and acerbic colleagues who know nothing about her private life which consists mainly of taking care of Portia, her aging cat, and spending countless hours alone. The only means she has found to take the edge off her desperate loneliness is writing in her journal. When Sheba Hart, a younger, attractive woman, joins the faculty as an art teacher, Barbara watches her from afar and has nothing but caustic things to say in her diary about her clothing and her care-free manner. Despite her disdain for this woman, Barbara finds herself reaching out to her. Sheba responds by inviting her to dinner at her house to meet Sheba’s lecturer husband, who is twenty years her senior, and their two children, a sexy and rebellious 16-year-old daughter and a younger boy with Downs Syndrome. Instead of opening herself to these people, Barbara immediately sees them as competition to be beaten in the battle for Sheba’s attention. Later, when Barbara discovers her new friend in a classroom having sex with Steven, a 15-year-old from the school who has artistic talent; she realizes that knowledge of this secret gives her power over Sheba which she can use for her own purposes. Barbara promises to not tell anyone but insists that the affair must end immediately. Sheba says she will but finds herself drawn back to the boy again and again. Sheba seems uneasy with Barbara’s friendship and is appalled when she discovers the older woman might have a sexual interest in her. The tenuous relationship between the two women reaches a crisis point when Barbara’s cat is dying and she asks Sheba to go with her to the vet. She chooses to go with her family to see their son in a play instead. In revenge, Barbara sets in motion the scandal that will rock both their lives in ways they never imagined.

Cape Fear (1991)

Friday, April 11th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Robert De Niro | Nick Nolte | Jessica Lange | Juliette Lewis | Joe Don Baker | Robert Mitchum | Gregory Peck | Martin Balsam | Illeana Douglas | Fred Dalton Thompson | Zully Montero | Craig Henne | Forest Burton | Edgar Allan Poe IV | Rod Ball
Directors: Martin Scorsese
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Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney/”Leave It to Beaver”-esque family-man. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? Fourteen years, ago Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady’s rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey, bibliophile Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.

Fearless (1993)

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Jeff Bridges | Isabella Rossellini | Rosie Perez | Tom Hulce | John Turturro | Benicio Del Toro | Deirdre O'Connell | John de Lancie | Spencer Vrooman | Daniel Cerny | Eve Roberts | Robin Pearson Rose | Debra Monk | Cynthia Mace | Randle Mell
Directors: Peter Weir
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After a terrible air disaster, survivor Max Klein emerges a changed person. Unable to connect to his former life or to wife Laura, he feels godlike and invulnerable. When psychologist Bill Perlman is unable to help Max, he has Max meet another survivor, Carla Rodrigo, who is racked with grief and guilt since her baby died in the crash which she and Max survived.

The Bounty (1984)

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | History
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Mel Gibson | Anthony Hopkins | Laurence Olivier | Edward Fox | Daniel Day-Lewis | Bernard Hill | Philip Davis | Liam Neeson | Wi Kuki Kaa | Tevaite Vernette | Philip Martin Brown | Simon Chandler | Malcolm Terris | Simon Adams | John Sessions
Directors: Roger Donaldson
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The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to get his men beyond the reach of British retribution, and the epic voyage of Lieutenant Bligh to get his loyalists safely to East Timor in a tiny lifeboat.

Black Snake Moan (2006)

Friday, March 14th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Samuel L. Jackson | Christina Ricci | Justin Timberlake | S. Epatha Merkerson | John Cothran Jr. | David Banner | Michael Raymond-James | Adriane Lenox | Kim Richards | Neimus K. Williams | Leonard L. Thomas | Ruby Wilson | Claude Phillips | Amy Lavere | Clare Grant
Directors: Craig Brewer
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A God-fearing bluesman (Jackson) takes to a wild young woman (Ricci) who, as a victim of childhood sexual abuse, looks everywhere for love, never quite finding it.

Mr. Brooks (2007)

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Kevin Costner | Demi Moore | Dane Cook | William Hurt | Marg Helgenberger | Ruben Santiago-Hudson | Danielle Panabaker | Aisha Hinds | Lindsay Crouse | Jason Lewis | Reiko Aylesworth | Matt Schulze | Yasmine Delawari | Traci Dinwiddie | Michael Cole
Directors: Bruce A. Evans
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The story follows a man with a murderous alter ego. Tracy Atwood is a tough detective whose devotion to her craft catches the attention and respect of the serial killer she is hunting, which leads to a symbiotic relationship.