Posts Tagged ‘attempted-murder’

Blues Brothers, The (1980)

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Music | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Belushi, John | Aykroyd, Dan | Brown, James | Calloway, Cab | Charles, Ray | Franklin, Aretha | Cropper, Steve | Dunn, Donald | Dunne, Murphy | Hall, Willie | Malone, Tom | Marini, Lou | Murphy, Matt | Rubin, Alan | Fisher, Carrie
Directors: Landis, John
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After the release of Jake Blues from prison, he and brother Elwood go to visit the old home where they were raised by nuns. They learn the church stopped its support and will sell the place to the education authority, and the only way to keep the place open is if the $5000 tax on the property is paid within 11 days. The brothers want to help and decide to put their blues band back together and raise the the money by staging a big gig. As they set off on their “mission from god” they seem to make more enemies along the way. Will they manage to come up with the money in time?

Black Narcissus (1947)

Thursday, December 18th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Kerr, Deborah | Robson, Flora | Simmons, Jean | Farrar, David | Sabu | Knight, Esmond | Byron, Kathleen | Laird, Jenny | Furse, Judith | Hallatt, May | Noble, Shaun | Whaley Jr., Eddie | Roberts, Nancy | On, Ley | Foster, Maxwell
Directors: Powell, Michael
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Five young British nuns are invited to move to a windy “palace”, former house of the concubines of an old general, in the top of a mountain in Mopu, Himalaya, to raise the convent of Saint Faith Order, a school for children and girls, and an infirmary for the local dwellers. Sister Clodagh (Deborah Kerr) is assigned as the superior sister, and her liaison with civilization is the rude government agent Mr. Dean (David Farrar). The lonely and exotic place and the presence of Mr. ‘Dean awake the innermost desires in the flesh of the sisters, and Sister Ruth (Kathleen Byron) becomes mad with the temptation.

Ladykillers, The (2004)

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Hanks, Tom | Hall, Irma P. | Wayans, Marlon | J.K. Simmons | Ma, Tzi | Hurst, Ryan | Delano, Diane | Wallace, George | McConnell, John | Weaver, Jason | Root, Stephen | Odums, Lyne | Jordan, Walter K. | Bell, George Anthony | Grunberg, Greg
Directors: Coen, Ethan
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A remake of the 1955 comedy, the story revolves around a Southern professor who puts together a group of thieves to rob a casino. They rent a room in an old woman’s house, but soon she discovers the plot and they must kill her, a task that is more difficult than it seems.

Impostors, The (1998)

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Platt, Oliver | Jones, Walker | Walling, Jessica | Lipman, David | Kerr, E. Katherine | Guidall, George | Hill, William | Molina, Alfred | Emerson, Michael | O'Connell, Jack | Malloy, Matt | Blumberg, Ted | Taylor, Lili | Shalhoub, Tony
Directors: Tucci, Stanley
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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.

Mobsters (1991)

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Slater, Christian | Mandylor, Costas | Grieco, Richard | Schoenberg, Jeremy | Perlich, Miles | Charof, Alan | Dempsey, Patrick | Nolan, Anto | Eastman, Rodney | Romano, Andy | Rossini, Bianca | Restivo, Stevie | Gillette, Caroline | Z'Dar, Robert | Gambon, Michael
Directors: Karbelnikoff, Michael
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The story of a group of friends in turn of the century New York, from their early days as street hoods to their rise in the world of organized crime. As their crime empire expands, they have to deal with many problems, including their own differing opinions on how to run their business, the local Godfather, and the psychotic Mad Dog Coll.

Titanic (1997)

Saturday, October 11th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: DiCaprio, Leonardo | Winslet, Kate | Zane, Billy | Bates, Kathy | Fisher, Frances | Stuart, Gloria | Paxton, Bill | Hill, Bernard | Warner, David | Garber, Victor | Hyde, Jonathan | Amis, Suzy | Abernathy, Lewis | Cascone, Nicholas | Sagalevitch, Dr. Anatoly M.
Directors: Cameron, James
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Titanic, the ship of dreams. Is also known as Unsinkable, and it was unsinkable on its departure on April 10th, 1912. And on its epic journey a poor artist named Jack Dawson and a rich girl Rose DeWitt Bukator fall in love, until one night, their fairytale love for one another turns into a struggle for survival on a ship about to founder to the bottom of the North Atlantic. Rose leaves her fiancée Caledon Hockley for this poor artist, but when the Titanic collides with the Iceberg on April 14th, 1912, and then when the ship sinks on April 15th, 1912 at 2:20 in the morning, Jack dies and Rose survives and 84 years later Rose tells the story about her life on Titanic to her grand daughter and friends on the Keldysh and explains the first sight of Jack that falls into love, then into a fight for survival. When Rose gets saved by one lifeboat that comes back, they take her to the Carpathia with the 6 saved with Rose and the 700 people saved in the lifeboats. The Carpathia Immigration Officer asks Rose what her name is and she loved Jack so much she says her name is not Rose DeWitt Bukator, but her name is Rose Dawson. She seen Cal looking for her, but he doesn’t see her, and they never ended up together, her mom, Cal, and friends of the family has know choice but to think that she died on the Titanic. But in the crash of 1929, Cal is married, but then he put a pistol in his mouth and committed suicide. So Rose is an actress in the 20’s, and now 84 years later Rose Calvert is 100 years old and tells her grand daughter Lizzy Calvert, Brock Lovett, Lewis Bodine, Bobby Buell, and Anatoly Mikailavich the whole story from departure until the death of Titanic on its first and last voyage, and then to Rose all Titanic and the real love of her life Jack Dawson is all an existence inside of her memory, and Titanic is to rest in peace at the bottom of the North Atlantic from 1912 until the end of time.

21 Grams (2003)

Monday, September 15th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Penn, Sean | Watts, Naomi | Huston, Danny | Nahon, Carly | Pakis, Claire | Del Toro, Benicio | Nichols, Nick | Gainsbourg, Charlotte | Rubinstein, John | Marsan, Eddie | Salter, Loyd Keith | Harris, Antef A. | Leo, Melissa | Musso, Marc | Delgado, Teresa
Directors: González Iñárritu, Alejandro
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This is the story of three gentle persons: Paul Rivers (Penn) an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English emigré (Gainsbourg), Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married and mother of two little girls, and Jack Jordan (Del Toro), an ex-convict who has found in his Christian faith the strength to raise a family. They will be brought together by a terrible accident that will change their lives. By the final frame, none of them will be the same as they will learn harsh truths about love, faith, courage, desire and guilt, and how chance can change our worlds irretrievably, forever.

Sphere (1998)

Thursday, September 11th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jackson, Samuel L. | Hoffman, Dustin | Stone, Sharon | Latifah, Queen | Schreiber, Liev | Coyote, Peter | Marga Gomez
Directors: Levinson, Barry
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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.

Tigerland (2000)

Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Genres: Drama | War
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Farrell, Colin | Davis, Matthew | Collins Jr., Clifton | Guiry, Tom | Whigham, Shea | Richardson, Russell | Searcy, Nick | Omilami, Afemo | MacDonald, James | Ewell, Keith | Matt Gerald | Fulton, Stephen | Cravens, Tyler | Edmiston, Michael | Shannon, Michael
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In September 1971, a platoon of recruits arrives in Ft. Polk, LA, for infantry training before leaving for war. The final week takes place in Tigerland, a swamp similar to Vietnam. Jim Paxton has enlisted; he wants to experience everything and write books later. He befriends Roland Bozz, a cool Texan with a gift for getting into trouble and for helping misfits get discharges. At least one sociopath in the platoon hates Bozz, even as the sergeants grudgingly recognize his leadership abilities. As the platoon heads into its week in Tigerland, Paxton’s body gives out, Bozz makes plans to go AWOL, and the sociopath gets hold of live ammo. Is the Louisiana swamp more dangerous than the DMZ?

Pathology (2008)

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Ventimiglia, Milo | Weston, Michael | Whitworth, Johnny | de Lancie, John | O'Donnell, Keir | Lewis, Buddy | Callahan, Dan | Drake, Larry | Abrous, Med | Blumenfeld, Alan | Buckner, Gary | Burris, Jeb | George, Jarvis W. | Kaldor, Eric | Morris, Keith
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Harvard Medical School graduate Dr. Ted Grey arrives at one of the nations most prestigious Pathology programs and is quickly noticed by the program’s privileged and elite band of pathology interns who invite him into their crowd. It is also here, where he is introduced to Dr. Jake Gallo, who brings him to a secluded wing, where he and four other indulge in there after-hours, extra-curricular activities…finding ways to commit the perfect murder!