Posts Tagged ‘revenge’

Clash of the Titans (1981)

Saturday, November 29th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Laurence Olivier | Claire Bloom | Maggie Smith | Ursula Andress | Jack Gwillim | Susan Fleetwood | Pat Roach | Harry Hamlin | Judi Bowker | Burgess Meredith | Siân Phillips | Flora Robson | Anna Manahan | Freda Jackson | Tim Pigott-Smith
Directors: Desmond Davis
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By answering a seemingly impossible riddle, Perseus, the son of Zeus, wins the hand of the Princess Andromeda in marriage. Trouble appears in the shape of Calibos, the princess’s former love, and his mother, the Goddess Thetis. In order that the dreaded Kraken not be released, Andromeda has to be sacrificed and Perseus searches for the Medusa; her head is the only thing that can stop the Kraken.

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.

Lucky Number Slevin (2006)

Saturday, November 29th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Lucy Liu | Josh Hartnett | Bruce Willis | Morgan Freeman | Ben Kingsley | Mykelti Williamson
Directors: Paul McGuigan
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After landing in the wrong place at the wrong time, Slevin (Josh Hartnett) must kill The Rabbi’s (Ben Kingsley) to scratch a $96,000 debt to The Boss (Morgan Freeman) and pay off $33,000 to The Rabbi. He can’t go to the police and he can’t leave the city. On top of all this, behind the scene’s Mr. Smith aka Mr. Goodkat (Bruce Willis) is secretly plotting to kill Slevin.

Bruce Almighty (2003)

Saturday, November 29th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Jim Carrey | Morgan Freeman | Jennifer Aniston | Philip Baker Hall | Catherine Bell | Lisa Ann Walter | Steve Carell | Nora Dunn | Eddie Jemison | Paul Satterfield | Mark Kiely | Sally Kirkland | Tony Bennett | Timothy Di Pri | Brian Tahash
Directors: Tom Shadyac
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Bruce Nolan (Carrey), a television reporter in Buffalo, N.Y.,is discontented with almost everything in life despite his popularity and the love of his girlfriend, Grace (Aniston) . At the end of the worst day of his life, Bruce angrily ridicules and rages against God and God responds. God appears in human form (Freeman) and, endowing Bruce with divine powers, challenges Bruce to take on the big job to see if he can do it any better.

The Salton Sea (2002)

Sunday, November 23rd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Val Kilmer | Vincent D'Onofrio | Adam Goldberg | Luis Guzmán | Doug Hutchison | Anthony LaPaglia | Glenn Plummer | Peter Sarsgaard | Deborah Kara Unger | Chandra West | B.D. Wong | R. Lee Ermey | Shalom Harlow | Shirley Knight | Meat Loaf
Directors: D.J. Caruso
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After the murder of his beloved wife, Danny Parker (Val Kilmer) is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. On his journey he befriends slacker Jimmy the Fin (Peter Sarsgaard) and becomes involved in rescuing his neighbor Colette (Debra Kara Unger) from her own demons. Danny is antagonized by undercover narcotics agents (Anthony Lapaglia and Doug Hutchison) and sadistic dealer Pooh Bear (Vincent D’Onfronio).

True Colors (1991)

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: John Cusack | James Spader | Imogen Stubbs | Mandy Patinkin | Richard Widmark | Dina Merrill | Philip Bosco | Paul Guilfoyle | Brad Sullivan | Russell Dennis Baker | Don McManus | Karen Jablons-Alexander | Wendee Pratt | Rende Rae Norman | Frank Hoyt Taylor
Directors: Herbert Ross
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Peter Burton and Tim Garrity both meet when they go to law school. Tim comes from an affluent family, while Peter comes from the working class, which he is a bit ashamed of. Tim’s a noble person who wants to do what is right, while Peter’s willing to do whatever it takes to get ahead. And that includes blackmail and intimidation. And when his latest scheme burns Tim, Tim decides to find out if Peter deliberately betrayed him or if the man he works, John Palmeri made him do it and if so to make them answer for it.

The Impostors (1998)

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Oliver Platt | Walker Jones | Jessica Walling | David Lipman | E. Katherine Kerr | George Guidall | William Hill | Alfred Molina | Michael Emerson | Jack O'Connell | Matt Malloy | Ted Blumberg | Lili Taylor | Tony Shalhoub
Directors: Stanley Tucci
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In an attempt to resurrect the slapstick comedy of Laurel and Hardy or The Marx Brothers, Stanley Tucci and Oliver Platt team-up as two out-of-work actors who accidentally stowaway on a ship to hide from a drunken, belligerent lead actor who has sworn to kill them for belittling his talents. Of course, the lead actor end up on the ship as well. Also, a madman (Tony Shalhoub) plots the destruction of the ship and Steve Buscemi is a depressed, suicidal lounge singer named Happy Frank.

Willow (1988)

Monday, November 10th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Patricia Hayes | Warwick Davis | Val Kilmer | Joanne Whaley | Jean Marsh | Billy Barty
Directors: Ron Howard
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Willow, a small farmer/apprentice magician, meets Madmartigan, a great swordsman, and together they journey through a war-torn land of magic and monsters, to save a baby princess from death at the hands of an evil queen.

The Hills Have Eyes (2006)

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Aaron Stanford | Kathleen Quinlan | Vinessa Shaw | Emilie de Ravin | Dan Byrd | Tom Bower | Billy Drago | Robert Joy | Ted Levine | Desmond Askew | Ezra Buzzington | Michael Bailey Smith | Laura Ortiz | Gregory Nicotero | Maisie Camilleri Preziosi
Directors: Alexandre Aja
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Wes Craven produces this remake of his 1977 classic of the same name, about the Carters, an idyllic American family travelling through the great American southwest. But their trip takes a detour into an area closed off from the public, but more importantly from society. An area originally used by the U.S. Government for nuclear testing that was intended to be empty…or so they thought? When the Carter’s car breaks down at the old site, they’re stranded…or are they? As the Carters may soon realize that what seemed like a car casually breaking down, might actually be a trap. This trap might be perpetrated by the inhabitants of the site who aren’t pulling a prank, but are out to set up a gruesome massacre.

Carlito’s Way (1993)

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Al Pacino | Sean Penn | Penelope Ann Miller | John Leguizamo | Ingrid Rogers | Luis Guzmán | James Rebhorn | Joseph Siravo | Viggo Mortensen | Richard Foronjy | Jorge Porcel | Frank Minucci | Adrian Pasdar | John Ortiz | Ángel Salazar
Directors: Brian De Palma
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Carlito Brigante is released from jail after serving five years of a much longer stretch. He vows to go straight and to live life as a fine, upstanding citizen. He even rekindles a romance with his ex-lover. However, Carlito’s associates cannot seem to leave him in peace…his nephew involves him a pool-room gunfight, his lawyer asks him for “favours” which spiral out of control, and even an old friend (now a wheelchair bound paraplegic) tries to get him into trouble with the law. Carlito decides to make a run for Florida and the promise of a new life, but has one final dramatic escape to make from some hoods who believe (wrongly) that he was behind the murder of their boss.