Posts Tagged ‘winter’

The Missing (2003)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Thriller | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Tommy Lee Jones | Cate Blanchett | Evan Rachel Wood | Jenna Boyd | Aaron Eckhart | Val Kilmer | Sergio Calderón | Eric Schweig | Steve Reevis | Jay Tavare | Simon Baker | Ray McKinnon | Max Perlich | Ramon Frank | Deryle J. Lujan
Directors: Ron Howard
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In 19th-century New Mexico, a father (Tommy Lee Jones) comes back home, hoping to reconcile with his adult daughter Maggie (Cate Blanchett). Maggie’s daughter is kidnapped, forcing father and estranged daughter to work together to get her back.

D-Tox (2002)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Kris Kristofferson | Tom Berenger | Dina Meyer | Sylvester Stallone | Charles S. Dutton | Jeffrey Wright | Polly Walker
Directors: Jim Gillespie
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Stallone plays a cop who comes undone after witnessing a brutal scene on the job. He checks into a rehab clinic that specializes in treating law enforcement officials. Soon, he finds that his fellow patients are being murdered one by one.

Day of the Outlaw (1959)

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
Genres: Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Robert Ryan | Burl Ives | Tina Louise | Alan Marshal | Venetia Stevenson | David Nelson | Nehemiah Persoff | Jack Lambert | Frank DeKova | Lance Fuller | Elisha Cook Jr. | Dabbs Greer | Betsy Jones-Moreland | Helen Westcott | Donald Elson
Directors: André De Toth
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Cowboys and ranchers have to put their differences aside when a gang of outlaws, led by army captain Jack Bruhn, decide to spend the night in a little Western town.

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Family | Musical | Romance | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Howard Keel | Jeff Richards | Russ Tamblyn | Tommy Rall | Marc Platt | Matt Mattox | Jacques d'Amboise | Jane Powell | Julie Newmar | Nancy Kilgas | Betty Carr | Virginia Gibson | Ruta Lee | Norma Doggett | Ian Wolfe
Directors: Stanley Donen
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Adam, the eldest of seven brothers, goes to town to get a wife. He convinces Milly to marry him that same day. They return to his backwoods home. Only then does she discover he has six brothers — all living in his cabin. Milly sets out to reform the uncouth siblings, who are anxious to get wives of their own. Then, after reading about the Roman capture of the Sabine women, Adam develops an inspired solution to his brothers’ loneliness . . . kidnap the women they want!

Scarce (2008)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada
Actors: Thom Webb | John Geddes | Steve Warren | Gary Fischer | Chris Warrilow | Robert Greb | Gavin Peacock | Thomas Webb
Directors: Jesse T. Cook
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SCARCE depicts the gruesome fate of three lost snowboarders trapped at an isolated forest cabin owned by two menacing locals who harvest human flesh. As the day of the slaughter nears, they attempt to escape barefoot through the frozen wilderness.

Damien: Omen II (1978)

Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: William Holden | Lee Grant | Lew Eуres | Sylvia Sidney | Jonathan Scott-Taylor | Robert Foxworth
Directors: Don Taylor
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Seven years later, 13-year-old Damien is just discovering who he really is, and what he is destined to do. Now living with his Aunt, Uncle, and cousin in a wealthy suburb of Chicago, Damien is anxious to inherit everything. Can Richard Thorn finish the job that Damien’s father (Ambassador Thorn) started?

Silk (2007)

Monday, August 4th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: Canada | France | Italy | Japan | UK
Actors: Michael Pitt | Tony Vogel | Toni Bertorelli | Kenneth Welsh | Alfred Molina | Michael Golding | Carlo Cecchi | Marc Fiorini | Leslie Csuth | Toru Tezuka | Hiroya Morita | Akinori Ando | Jun Kunimura | Kanata Hongô | Kôji Yakusho
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Based on the Alessandro Baricco’s novel this is the story of a married silkworm smuggler, Herve Joncour, in 19th Century France who travels to Japan to collect his clandestine cargo. While there he spots a beautiful Japanese woman, the concubine of a local baron, with whom he becomes obsessed. Without speaking the same language, they communicate through letters until war intervenes. Their unrequited love persists however, and Herve’s wife Helene begins to suspect.

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Georgie Henley | Skandar Keynes | William Moseley | Anna Popplewell | Tilda Swinton | James McAvoy | Jim Broadbent | Kiran Shah | James Cosmo | Judy McIntosh | Elizabeth Hawthorne | Patrick Kake | Shane Rangi | Brandon Cook | Cassie Cook
Directors: Andrew Adamson
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Based on the classic novel by ‘CS Lewis’ (qv). Four London children are sent to a professor’s country home in order for protection during World War II. There they find a magic wardrobe which leads to a mystical land called Narnia, which is being ruled by an evil witch. To defeat the witch, they must join forces with Aslan, the lion God of Narnia.

P2 (2007)

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Wes Bentley | Rachel Nichols | Jamie Jones | Paul Sun-Hyung Lee | Simon Reynolds | Philip Williams | Miranda Edwards | Grace Lynn Kung | Stephanie Moore
Directors: Franck Khalfoun
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The story centers on a corporate climber who gets stuck working late on Christmas Eve and finds herself the target of an unhinged security guard. With no help in sight, the woman must overcome physical and psychological challenges to survive.

Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)

Monday, April 14th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Burl Ives | Billie Mae Richards | Paul Soles | Larry D. Mann | Stan Francis | Paul Kligman | Janet Orenstein | Alfie Scopp | Carl Banas | Corinne Conley | Peg Dixon
Directors: Kizo Nagashima
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Sam the snowman tells us the story of a young red-nosed reindeer who, after being ousted from the reindeer games because of his beaming honker, teams up with Hermey, an elf who wants to be a dentist, and Yukon Cornelius, the prospector. They run into the Abominable Snowman and find a whole island of misfit toys. Rudoph vows to see if he can get Santa to help the toys, and he goes back to the North Pole on Christmas Eve. But Santa’s sleigh is fogged in. But when Santa looks over Rudolph, he gets a very bright idea…