Posts Tagged ‘archeologist’

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951)

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Romance
Countries: UK
Actors: Mason, James | Gardner, Ava | Patrick, Nigel | Sim, Sheila | Warrender, Harold | Cabré, Mario | Goring, Marius | Laurie, John | Mason, Pamela | Raine, Patricia | D'Alvarez, Margarita | La Pillina | Sofaer, Abraham | Igual, Francisco | Beltrán, Guillermo
Directors: Lewin, Albert
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In 1930, singer Pandora Reynolds, gorgeous, enigmatic, and fascinated by danger and destruction, has the men of a small Spanish town in despair. Just when race driver Stephen Cameron thinks he’s won her, a mysterious yacht appears in the bay whose eerie captain may be the legendary Flying Dutchman. Stephen has an apparently more dangerous rival in the form of an arrogant bullfighter; but Pandora’s friendship with the Dutchman may lead them both to a rendezvous with Fate…

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure
Countries: USA
Actors: Ford, Harrison | Blanchett, Cate | Allen, Karen | LaBeouf, Shia | Winstone, Ray | Hurt, John | Broadbent, Jim | Jijikine, Igor | Diatchenko, Dimitri | Volokh, Ilia | Todorov, Emmanuel | Lychnikoff, Pavel | Divoff, Andrew | Manzyuk, Venya | Dale, Alan
Directors: Spielberg, Steven
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During the Cold War, Soviet agents watch Professor Henry Jones when a young man brings him a coded message from an aged, demented colleague, Henry Oxley. Led by the brilliant Irina Spalko, the Soviets tail Jones and the young man, Mutt, to Peru. With Oxley’s code, they find a legendary skull made of a single piece of quartz. If Jones can deliver the skull to its rightful place, all may be well; but if Irina takes it to its origin, she’ll gain powers that could endanger the West. Aging professor and young buck join forces with a woman from Jones’s past to face the dangers of the jungle, Russia, and the supernatural.

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Ford, Harrison | Allen, Karen | Freeman, Paul | Lacey, Ronald | Rhys-Davies, John | Elliott, Denholm | Molina, Alfred | Kahler, Wolf | Higgins, Anthony | Tablian, Vic | Fellows, Don | Hootkins, William | Reimbold, Bill | Sorenson, Fred | Durkin, Patrick
Directors: Spielberg, Steven
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Spring 1936. In the thick jungle of the South American continent, a renowned archeologist and expert on the occult is studying fragments of a map, when one of his exploration party pulls a gun. The archeologist pulls out a bullwhip and with such disarms the turncoat, sending him running - thus does Dr. Henry “Indiana” Jones stay alive. He and a guide enter a dank and oppressively vast cave that contains several traps created by the ancient race which hid inside a famous handheld statue; Indy barely escapes such traps but is cornered by native tribesmen served by Belloq, an old enemy who arrogantly makes off with the statue, while Indy must flee for his life and escape on a friend’s seaplane. Back in the US two agents from US Army intelligence tell him of Nazi German activities in archeology, including a gigantic excavation site in Egypt - a site that an intercepted cable indicates to Indy is the location of the Ark of the Covenant, the powerful chest bearing the Ten Commandments, that the Nazis can use to obliterate any enemy. Indy must recruit a former girlfriend (the daughter of his old professor) and an old chum in Cairo to infiltrate the Nazi site and make off with the Ark, but along the way Indy gets involved in a series of fights, chases, and traps, before the Nazis learn the full power of the Ark.

Librarian: Quest for the Spear, The (2004)

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Wyle, Noah | Walger, Sonya | Newhart, Bob | MacLachlan, Kyle | Hu, Kelly | Fisher, David Dayan | Curtin, Jane | Dukakis, Olympia | Brenner, Lisa | Martínez, Mario Iván | Kusatsu, Clyde | Gollas, Alejandra | Montini, José | Moreno, Jessica | Llera, Mauricio
Directors: Winther, Peter
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When a magical artifact is lifted from his library, a meek librarian sets out to ensure its safe return. To do so, however, he enlists the service of a woman with exceptional martial arts skills - who becomes the enforcer in the relationship.

Pursuit to Algiers (1945)

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Crime | Drama | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Rathbone, Basil | Bruce, Nigel | Riordan, Marjorie | Ivan, Rosalind | Lowry, Morton | Vincent, Leslie | Kosleck, Martin | Evans, Rex | Abbott, John | Hamer, Gerald | Davis, William 'Wee Willie' | Dillon, Tom | Worlock, Frederick | Borg, Sven Hugo | Benge, Wilson
Directors: Neill, Roy William
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Holmes and Watson are recruited in a serpentine fashion to escort the heir to a European throne back to his native country following his father’s assassination. Because the prince has been educated in Great Britain, Holmes persuades him to masquerade as Watson’s nephew Nicolas on a ocean liner bound for Algiers. Unfortunately the ship is filled with red herrings as well as real assassins, and Holmes is challenged to outwit them all and deliver his charge to his destination. Among the suspects are a knife-throwing circus performer, two shadowy archaeologists, a hulking deaf mute, an enigmatic ship’s steward, a chanteuse with a mysterious song case, and a gun-toting British dowager.

Ghosts of Mars (2001)

Sunday, August 19th, 2007
Genres: Action | Horror | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Henstridge, Natasha | Cube, Ice | Statham, Jason | DuVall, Clea | Grier, Pam | Cassidy, Joanna | Cetrone, Richard | Forsyth, Rosemary | Waite, Liam | Davis, Duane | Sebastian, Lobo | Grant, Rodney A. | Jason, Peter | De Jesus, Wanda | McGrath, Doug
Directors: Carpenter, John
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200 years in the future a Martian police unit is dispatched to transport a dangerous prisoner from a mining outpost back to justice. But when the team arrives they find the town deserted and some of the inhabitants possessed by the former inhabitants of the planet.

Exorcist: The Beginning (2004)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Skarsgård, Stellan | Scorupco, Izabella | D'Arcy, James | Sweeney, Remy | Wadham, Julian | French, Andrew | Brown, Ralph | Cross, Ben | Bradley, David | Ford, Alan | Kamerling, Antonie | Osei, Eddie | Aduramo, Israel | O'Kane, Patrick | Bellamy, James
Directors: Harlin, Renny
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Father Lankester Merrin thinks that he has glimpsed the face of Evil. In the years following World War II, Merrin is relentlessly haunted by memories of the unspeakable brutality perpetrated against the innocent people of his parish during the War. In the wake of all the horror he has seen, both his faith in his fellow man and his faith in the Almighty have deserted him, and he can no longer honestly call himself a man of God. Merrin has traveled far from his native Holland in a desperate attempt to try to forget and escape all the evil that he had witnessed there. While currently in Cairo, Egypt, he is approached by a collector of rare antiquities and asked to participate in a British archeological excavation in the remote Turkana region of Kenya. They have unearthed something extraordinary and unusual…a Christian Byzantine church dating from the 5th century, long before Christianity arrived in East Africa, and in inexplicably perfect condition–like it had been buried immediately after it was completed. The collector wants Merrin, an Oxford-educated archeologist, to find an ancient relic hidden within the church before the British do. Interested, Merrin agrees to take the job. But beneath the church, something much older and malevolent sleeps, waiting to be awoken. When the archeologists start excavating, strange things begin occuring, and the local Turkana tribesmen who were hired to work refuse to enter the site. Things only get worse and worse, ultimately resulting in madness and death. Merrin watches helplessly as the atrocities of war are repeated against another innocent village–atrocities he had hoped and prayed never to see again. The blood of innocents flows freely on the East African plain, but the horror has only just begun. In the place where Evil was born, Merrin will finally see its true face.

Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: Germany | Japan | Netherlands | UK | USA
Actors: Jolie, Angelina | Butler, Gerard | Hinds, Ciarán | Barrie, Chris | Taylor, Noah | Hounsou, Djimon | Schweiger, Til | Yam, Simon | Yin, Terence | Caltagirone, Daniel | Martell, Fabiano | Coyne, Jonathan | Cavanah, Robert | Vibert, Ronan | Juma, Lenny
Directors: Bont, Jan de
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Intrepid British archaeologist Lara Croft (Angelina Jolie) has made perhaps the most important archaeological discovery in history: an orb that leads to the mythical Pandora’s Box. Unfortunately, the orb falls into the hands of Jonathan Reiss (Ciarán Hinds), an evil scientist who deals in killer viruses and hopes to sell the secrets of the box as the ultimate weapon. Recruited by British Intelligence to get the orb back from Reiss, Lara recruits Terry Sheridan (Gerard Butler), a British marine turned mercenary (and her former love interest) to help. The two embark on an adventure that spans continents in an attempt to regain the orb…

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy
Countries: Germany | Japan | UK | USA
Actors: Jolie, Angelina | Voight, Jon | Glen, Iain | Taylor, Noah | Craig, Daniel | Johnson, Richard | Barrie, Chris | Rhind-Tutt, Julian | Phillips, Leslie | Phillips, Robert | Appleton, Rachel | Wyndham, Henry | Cheung, David | Tse, David K.S. | Yue, Ozzie
Directors: West, Simon
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A member of a rich British aristocratic family, Lara Croft is a “tomb raider” who enjoys collecting ancient artifacts from ruins of temples, cities, etc. worldwide, and doesn’t mind going through death-defying dangers to get them. She is skilled in hand-to-hand combat, weapons training, and foreign languages - and does them all in tight outfits. Well, the planets of the solar system are going into planetary alignment (Which occurs every 5,000 years), and a secret society called the Illuminati is seeking an ancient talisman that gives its possessor the ability to control time. However, they need a certain clock/key to help them in their search, and they have to find the talisman in one week or wait until the next planetary alignment to find it again. Lara happens to find that key hidden in a wall of her mansion. The Illuminati steal it, and Lara gets an old letter from her deceased father telling her about the society’s agenda (Her father was also the one who hid the key). Now, she must retrieve the key and find and destroy the talisman before the Illuminati can get their hands on it.

Fifth Element, The (1997)

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: France
Actors: Willis, Bruce | Oldman, Gary | Holm, Ian | Jovovich, Milla | Tucker, Chris | Perry, Luke | James, Brion | Lister Jr., Tom 'Tiny' | Evans, Lee | Creed-Miles, Charlie | Tricky | Neville, John | Bluthal, John | Kassovitz, Mathieu | Fairbank, Christopher
Directors: Besson, Luc
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Two hundred and fifty years in the future, life as we know it is threatened by the arrival of Evil. Only the fifth element (played by Milla Jovovich) can stop the Evil from extinguishing life, as it tries to do every five thousand years. She is helped by ex-soldier, current-cab-driver, Corben Dallas (played by Bruce Willis), who is, in turn, helped by Prince/Arsenio clone, Ruby Rhod. Unfortunately, Evil is being assisted by Mr. Zorg (Gary Oldman), who seeks to profit from the chaos that Evil will bring, and his alien mercenaries.