Posts Tagged ‘assassination-attempt’

Ella Enchanted (2004)

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: Ireland | UK | USA
Actors: Hathaway, Anne | Dancy, Hugh | Elwes, Cary | McArdle, Aidan | Lumley, Joanna | Punch, Lucy | Higham, Jennifer | Driver, Minnie | Idle, Eric | Coogan, Steve | Mistry, Jimi | Fox, Vivica A. | Nagra, Parminder | Carter, Jim | Bergin, Patrick
Directors: O'Haver, Tommy
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Ella (Anne Hathaway) has been cursed by her dimented fairy godmother with the gift of obedience. On the quest to find her godmother again to make her take back the “gift”, Ella meets, and reluctantly falls in love with the Prince (Hugh Dancy) of Frell.

Jackal, The (1997)

Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Crime | Thriller
Countries: France | Germany | Japan | UK | USA
Actors: Willis, Bruce | Gere, Richard | Poitier, Sidney | Venora, Diane | May, Mathilda | J.K. Simmons | Lineback, Richard | Cunningham, John | Black, Jack | Harper, Tess | Phillips, Leslie | Spinella, Stephen | Okonedo, Sophie | Hayman, David | Bassett, Steve
Directors: Caton-Jones, Michael
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Russian mobster Terek Murad has declared open season on the Russian militia and the FBI over the shooting of his brother in a Moscow nightclub. He hires the Jackal, a nasty assassin whom nobody has even seen, to kill the Director of the FBI. With nowhere else to turn (except a woman who used to work with the Basque separatists, who is now in the USA but whose exact whereabouts in unknown to all save Mulqueen), FBI Deputy Director Carter Preston (who was present at the Moscow shooting) and Major Valentina Koslova of the Russian milita (who pulled the trigger in that shooting) enlist the reluctant services of Declan Mulqueen, an imprisoned IRA sniper, to track the Jackal down, for Declan is the only other person who can positively identify the Jackal.

007 From Russia with Love (1963)

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Connery, Sean | Bianchi, Daniela | Armendáriz, Pedro | Lenya, Lotte | Shaw, Robert | Lee, Bernard | Gayson, Eunice | Gotell, Walter | De Wolff, Francis | Pastell, George | Regin, Nadja | Maxwell, Lois | Gur, Aliza | Beswick, Martine | Sheybal, Vladek
Directors: Young, Terence
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James Bond 007 is on the search for a Russian decoding machine, known as Lektor. Bond needs to find this machine, before the evil SPECTRE organization discovers it first. Whilst being romantically linked with Russian girl, Tatiana Romanova, Bond sneaks his way around Istanbul, whilst each SPECTRE agent tries to pick him off, including the over powering Donald ‘Red’ Grant and ex-KGB agent Rosa Klebb who knows all the tricks in the books and even possesses an incredible poison tipped shoe!

To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)

Monday, August 4th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: William Petersen | Petersen, William L. | Dafoe, Willem | Pankow, John | Feuer, Debra | Turturro, John | Fluegel, Darlanne | Stockwell, Dean | James, Steve | Downey Sr., Robert | Greene, Michael | Allport, Christopher | Hoar, Jack | de Vargas, Valentin | Brown, Dwier | Chong, Michael
Directors: Friedkin, William
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Two cops in Los Angeles try to track down the vicious criminal Eric Masters. Then, one of them is killed by Masters and the other one swears revenge no matter what the cost. After that, the hunt becomes an ob- session and the law he once swore to uphold becomes meaningless to him.

Godfather: Part II, The (1974)

Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Pacino, Al | Duvall, Robert | Keaton, Diane | De Niro, Robert | Cazale, John | Shire, Talia | Strasberg, Lee | Gazzo, Michael V. | Spradlin, G.D. | Bright, Richard | Moschin, Gastone | Rosqui, Tom | Kirby, Bruno | Sivero, Frank | De Sapio, Francesca
Directors: Coppola, Francis Ford
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The continuing saga of the Corleone crime family tells the story of a young Vito Corleone growing up in Sicily and in 1910s New York; and follows Michael Corleone in the 1950s as he attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.

Taxi Driver (1976)

Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: De Niro, Robert | Shepherd, Cybill | Boyle, Peter | Foster, Jodie | Keitel, Harvey | Harris, Leonard | Brooks, Albert | Abbott, Diahnne | Adu, Frank | Ardito, Gino | Argo, Victor | Avery, Garth | Cohn, Harry | Cunningham, Copper | Dickson-Weinberg, Brenda
Directors: Scorsese, Martin
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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’…

Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)

Monday, March 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Banderas, Antonio | Hayek, Salma | Depp, Johnny | Rourke, Mickey | Mendes, Eva | Trejo, Danny | Iglesias, Enrique | Leonardi, Marco | Marin, Cheech | Blades, Rubén | Dafoe, Willem | Vigil, Gerardo | Armendáriz Jr., Pedro | Mechoso, Julio Oscar | Larriva, Tito
Directors: Rodriguez, Robert
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A drug lord who pretends to overthrow the Mexican government. A corrupt CIA agent (Johnny Depp) who at that time, demands retribution from his worst enemy to carry out the drug lord’s uprising against the government.

Hero (2002)

Friday, March 14th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama
Countries: China | Hong Kong
Actors: Li, Jet | Leung Chiu Wai, Tony | Cheung, Maggie | Zhang, Ziyi | Chen, Daoming | Yen, Donnie | Yuan, Liu Zhong | Yong, Zheng Tia | Qin, Yan | Xiao Yang, Chang | Ya Kun, Zhang | Hua, Ma Wen | Ming, Jin | Hua, Xu Kuang | Xin, Wang Shou
Directors: Zhang, Yimou
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In ancient China, before the reign of the first emperor, warring factions throughout the Six Kingdoms plot to assassinate the most powerful ruler, Qin. When a minor official defeats Qin’s three principal enemies, he is summoned to the palace to tell Qin the story of his surprising victory.

Fantastic Voyage (1966)

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Boyd, Stephen | Welch, Raquel | O'Brien, Edmond | Pleasence, Donald | O'Connell, Arthur | Redfield, William | Kennedy, Arthur | Del Val, Jean | Coe, Barry | Scott, Ken | Grant, Shelby | Brolin, James | Fitzgerald, Brendan
Directors: Fleischer, Richard
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Scientist Jan Benes, who knows the secret to keeping soldiers shrunken for an indefinite period, escapes from behind the Iron Curtain with the help of CIA agent Grant. While being transferred, their motorcade is attacked. Benes strikes his head, causing a blood clot to form in his brain. Grant is ordered to accompany a group of scientists as they are miniaturized. The crew has one hour to get in Benes’s brain, remove the clot and get out.

One, The (2001)

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Li, Jet | Gugino, Carla | Lindo, Delroy | Statham, Jason | Morrison, James | Bruno, Dylan | Steinmetz, Richard | Rankin, Steve | Smallwood, Tucker | Harris, Harriet Sansom | Keats, David | Norris, Dean | Zimmerman, Ron | Morgan, Darin | Mark Borchardt
Directors: Wong, James
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This movie postulates what if there is more than one universe. And that all of these universes are held together by one single stream of energy and that energy is equally distributed to every living in each universe and if one of these beings die, that energy is reallocated equally to each other surviving member. And with each allocation, a person becomes stronger. Now one universe has master the ability of crossing into another universe, and a man named Shulaw who believes that if he can kill all of his counterparts, he will become invincible, but there are those who believe that it might have detrimental effects, so try and stop him. Unfortunately, he just has one more person to kill, Gabe Law, but the officers follow Shulaw but Shulaw has committed some crimes and Gabe is accused and is wanted. But Gabe discovers that he has changed and only wants to kill Shulaw not realizing what could happen.