Posts Tagged ‘bus-ride’

SherryBaby (2006)

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Gyllenhaal, Maggie | Hurst, Michelle | Rodríguez, Sandra | Simpson, Anna | Esposito, Giancarlo | Clay, Caroline | Hackford, Rio | Henke, Brad William | Barkan, Bridget | Simpkins, Ryan | Peabody, Stephen | Trejo, Danny | Bottoms, Sam | Burton, Kate | Dillon, Michael
Directors: Collyer, Laurie
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Sherry Swanson returns home to New Jersey after serving a three year prison sentence. Eager to reestablish a relationship with her young daughter, Sherry soon discovers that coming back to the world she left behind is far more difficult than she had planned.

Stranger Than Fiction (2006)

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Ferrell, Will | Latifah, Queen | Grosz, Peter | Adams, Ricky | Stolte, Christian | Hughes, Denise | Roeder, Peggy | Ho, Tonray | Hale, Tony | Dick, William | Gyllenhaal, Maggie | Rhodes, Danny | Young, Helen | Pompeii, David | Washington, Linara
Directors: Forster, Marc
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For twelve years, the methodic IRF agent Harold Crick has had a routine lonely life guided by his wristwatch. However, one day he hears the narration of his life in off, telling that he is going to die pretty soon. Meanwhile, he audits Ana Pascal, the owner of a bakery that is in debt with the IRF, and falls in love for her. Harold is advised by Professor Jules Hilbert to change his monotonous lifestyle while he tries to find Karen Eiffel, the author of the story of his life, who is researching means of killing the character, and convince her to change the ending of the story.

Romancing the Stone (1984)

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Romance
Countries: Mexico | USA
Actors: Douglas, Michael | Turner, Kathleen | DeVito, Danny | Norman, Zack | Arau, Alfonso | Ojeda, Manuel | Taylor, Holland | Trainor, Mary Ellen | Smith, Eve | Nesnow, Joe | Chávez, José | Muñoz 'Chachita', Evita | García, Camillo | Puebla, Rodrigo | Morayta, Paco
Directors: Zemeckis, Robert
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Joan Wilder is a mousey writer of romance novels. She finds a package from her sister mailed from Colombia in her mailbox. A call from her sister tells her that she has been kidnapped and that bringing the package to Colombia is necessary for her safety and release. Being fairly clueless, she leaves for Colombia to rescue her sister. She is lost within hours of her arrival. She is nearly murdered by one of the men searching for the package when Jack Colton, a fairly low life American rescues her. They begin a journey through the jungle with bullets flying nearby. Is Joan up to all of this? What a way to find out.

Bordertown (2006)

Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Lopez, Jennifer | Banderas, Antonio | del Castillo, Kate | Norman, John | Alvarez, Irineo | Barela, Richard | Batinkoff, Randall | Botto, Juan Diego | Cedillo, Julio | Colon, Dave | Gonzales Falcon, Peter | Juanes | Rivera, Rene | Sheen, Martin | Talley, Chris
Directors: Nava, Gregory
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Lauren (Jennifer Lopez), an impassioned American reporter for the Chicago Sentinel heads to Juarez, a Mexican bordertown, in order to investigate a series of mysterious slayings involving young factory women from all over Mexico. As she discovers hundreds of victims, she gains the trust of local factory workers but falls into danger.

Turistas (2006)

Friday, October 19th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Duhamel, Josh | George, Melissa | Wilde, Olivia | Askew, Desmond | Garrett, Beau | Brown, Max | Steib, Agles | Lunardi, Miguel | Só, Jorge | Aparecida, Cristiani | Ramos, Lucy | Leal, Andréa | Santiago, Diego | Marcao | Acosta, Miguelito
Directors: Stockwell, John
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While traveling on vacation through the country of Northeastern of Brazil by bus, the American Alex Trubituan, his sister Bea Tribituan and their friend Amy Harrington meet the also foreigners Pru Stagler, Finn Davies and Liam Kuller after an accident with their bus. They follow a track through the woods and find a hidden paradisiacal beach. They decide to stay in the place drinking beer and dancing funk and parting with the locals and they meet the amicable Brazilian teenager Kiko. They are drugged with “Bom Dia, Cinderela” (translation: Good Morning, Cinderella - a trick used by smalltime crooks to steal naive people) and when they wake up, they are practically naked, with all their belongings, clothes, money, jewels, passports, backpacks etc. stolen. They walk to a small village trying to find a police station, they get into trouble with the dwellers and they are helped by their acquaintance Kiko, who leads them to his uncle’s isolated well-equipped cabin in the woods to wait for the next bus two days later. Along the night, Kiko’s “uncle” arrives with his friends and the group discloses the sinister intentions of the newcomers.

Lord of War (2005)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Cage, Nicolas | Moynahan, Bridget | Leto, Jared | Tukhmanyan, Shake | Nshanian, Jean-Pierre | Burke, Jared | Uys, Eric | Shumbris, David | Morgan, Stewart | Lenz, Jasper | Marx, Kobus | De Abreu, Stephan | Crutchley, Jeremy | Holm, Ian | Finch, Tanya
Directors: Niccol, Andrew
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This film charts the rise and fall of Yuri Orlov, from his early days in the early 1980s in Little Odessa, selling guns to mobsters in his local neighbourhood, through to his ascension through the decade of excess and indulgence into the early 90s, where he forms a business partnership with an African warlord and his psychotic son. The film also charts his relationship through the years with his younger brother, his marriage to a famous model, his relentless pursuit by a determined federal agent and his inner demons that sway between his drive for success and the immorality of what he does.

Babel (2006)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: France | Mexico | USA
Actors: Pitt, Brad | Blanchett, Cate | Akhzam, Mohamed | Wight, Peter | Walter, Harriet | Martin, Trevor | Gibbs, Matyelok | Bousquet, Georges | Acs, Claudine | Oumansky, André | Maloney, Michael | Crowley, Dermot | Nottingham, Wendy | Maratray, Henry | Broughton, Linda
Directors: González Iñárritu, Alejandro
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Richard and Susan are a couple from San Diego, California who are vacationing in Morocco while their two children are at home with their Mexican housekeeper, Amelia. A rifle finds its way into the hands of a local herdsman’s young sons, who recklessly take a shot at a tour bus and hit Susan in the shoulder, causing her severe injury. The distraught Richard calls home to tell Amelia of the situation, who shortly departs for Mexico to attend her son’s wedding, with Richard and Susan’s children in tow. Disaster thus multiplies, with the situation in Morocco ascribed to terrorists in the media, while Amelia meets with trouble at the Mexican border when she attempts to return to San Diego with Richard and Susan’s children. Meanwhile, in Tokyo, a widower tied to the rifle in question, a complex shift of ownership to which the audience is privy, attempts to deal with the memories of his recently deceased wife and his strained relationship with his deaf teenage daughter.

Blood Diamond (2006)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: DiCaprio, Leonardo | Hounsou, Djimon | Connelly, Jennifer | Kuypers, Kagiso | Vosloo, Arnold | Coleman, Antony | Mabhena, Benu | Lukola, Anointing | Harewood, David | Wallace, Basil | Mistry, Jimi | Sheen, Michael | Weyers, Marius | Collins, Stephen | Mwine, Ntare
Directors: Zwick, Edward
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Set against the backdrop of civil war and chaos in 1990’s Sierra Leone, Blood Diamond is the story of Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio) - an ex Mercenary from Zimbabwe - and Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou) - a Mende fisherman. Both men are African, but their histories as different as any can be, until their fates become joined in a common quest to recover a rare pink diamond that can transform their lives. While in prison for smuggling, Archer learns that Solomon - who was taken from his family and forced to work in the diamond fields - has found and hidden the extraordinary rough stone. With the help of Maddy Bowen (Jennifer Connelly), an American journalist whose idealism is tempered by a deepening connection with Archer, the two men embark on a trek through rebel territory, a journey that could save Solomon’s family and give Archer the second chance he thought he would never have.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Radcliffe, Daniel | Griffiths, Richard | Ferris, Pam | Shaw, Fiona | Melling, Harry | Rawlins, Adrian | Somerville, Geraldine | Ingleby, Lee | Henry, Lenny | Gardner, Jimmy | Oldman, Gary | Tavaré, Jim | Hardy, Robert | Ford, Abby | Grint, Rupert
Directors: Columbus, Chris | Cuarón, Alfonso
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It’s Harry’s 3rd Year at Hogwarts, not only does he have a new “Defense against the Dark-Arts” teacher, but there is also trouble brewing. Convicted murderer Sirius Black has escaped the Wizards Prison, is coming after Harry.

16 Blocks (2006)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Willis, Bruce | Def, Mos | Morse, David | Nuke, Steve | Lavin, Jim
Directors: Donner, Richard
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Jack Mosley, a burnt-out detective, is assigned the unenviable task of transporting a fast-talking convict from jail to a courthouse 16 blocks away. However, along the way he learns that the man is supposed to testify against Mosley’s colleagues, and the entire NYPD wants him dead. Mosley must choose between loyalty to his colleagues and protecting the witness, and never has such a short distance seemed so long…