Posts Tagged ‘car-jacking’

Raising Arizona (1987)

Monday, June 9th, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Cage, Nicolas | Hunter, Holly | Wilson, Trey | Goodman, John | Forsythe, William | McMurray, Sam | McDormand, Frances | Cobb, Randall 'Tex' | Kuhn, T.J. | Kitei, Lynne Dumin | Benedek, Peter | Smith, Charles 'Lew' | Keith, Warren | Kendrick, Henry | Dawson, Sidney
Directors: Coen, Ethan
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Colourful and unconventional slapstick comedy. Ex-con Hi and ex-cop Ed meet, marry and long for a child in the wilds of Arizona. When Ed discovers she’s barren the God-given solution is presented: to snatch a baby from a set of quins. Thus begins a series of kidnappings, capers and rum goings-on that revolve around the helpless yet universally-loveable child. Hi’s convict friends, his boss, and even the Lone Biker Of The Apocalypse become involved in the ever-twisting plot in the quest to own the baby.

War of the Worlds (2005)

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Cruise, Tom | Fanning, Dakota | Chatwin, Justin | Otto, Miranda | Robbins, Tim | Gonzalez, Rick | Vazquez, Yul | Venito, Lenny | Walter, Lisa Ann | Robinson, Ann | Barry, Gene | Basche, David Alan | Abrams, Roz | Brownlee, Michael | Sanes, Camillia
Directors: Spielberg, Steven
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Ray Ferrier is a dock worker who is finishing a night of work in the morning, because he works the night shift. But when he gets home his young daughter Rachel and teenage son Robbie are staying with him at his house in Bayonne, New Jersey, while his pregnant ex-wife Mary Anne and her new husband Tim visit her parents in Boston for the weekend. But then the unthinkable and, ultimately, the unexpected happens to him in an extraordinary sense! Witnessing, and barely escaping the horror, first-hand, it’s up to Ray to protect his two kids from terrorist and races up to Boston before one of them gets murdered by a large tripod machine in its path!

Reservoir Dogs (1992)

Friday, March 21st, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Keitel, Harvey | Roth, Tim | Madsen, Michael | Buscemi, Steve | Penn, Chris | Tierney, Lawrence | Brooks, Randy | Baltz, Kirk | Tarantino, Quentin | Bunker, Edward | Wright, Steven | Turner, Rich | Steen, David | Cosmo, Tony | Polyi, Stevo
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Six criminals, who are strangers to each other, are hired by a crime boss Joe Cabot to carry out a diamond robbery. Right at the outset, they are given false names with an intention that they won’t get too close and concentrate on the job instead. They are completely sure that the robbery is going to be a success. But when the police show up right at the time and the site of the robbery, panic spreads amongst the group members and one of them is killed in the subsequent shootout along with a few policemen and civilians. When the remaining people assemble at the premeditated rendezvous point (a warehouse), they begin to suspect that one of them is an undercover cop.

Spider-Man 3 (2007)

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Maguire, Tobey | Dunst, Kirsten | Franco, James | Church, Thomas Haden | Grace, Topher | Howard, Bryce Dallas | J.K. Simmons | Harris, Rosemary | Cromwell, James | Russell, Theresa | Baker, Dylan | Nunn, Bill | Campbell, Bruce | Robertson, Cliff | Banks, Elizabeth
Directors: Raimi, Sam
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Peter Parker has finally managed to piece together the once-broken parts of his life, maintaining a balance between his relationship with Mary-Jane and his responsibility as Spider-Man. But more challenges arise for our young hero. Peter’s old friend Harry Obsourne has set out for revenge against Peter; taking up the mantle of his late father’s persona as The New Goblin, and Peter must also capture Uncle Ben’s real killer, Flint Marko, who has been transformed into his toughest foe yet, the Sandman. All hope seems lost when suddenly Peter’s suit turns jet-black and greatly amplifies his powers. But it also begins to greatly amplify the much darker qualities of Peter’s personality that he begins to lose himself to. Peter has to reach deep inside himself to free the compassionate hero he used to be if he is to ever conquer the darkness within and face not only his greatest enemies, but also…himself.

Bandits (2001)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Willis, Bruce | Thornton, Billy Bob | Blanchett, Cate | Garity, Troy | O'Byrne, Brian F. | Travis, Stacey | Slayton, Bobby | Jones, January | Skye, Azura | Miley, Peggy | Converse-Roberts, William | Riehle, Richard | Mercurio, Micole | Burkholder, Scott | Burch, Anthony
Directors: Levinson, Barry
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A charismatic convict (Bruce Willis) and a hypochondriac inmate (Billy Bob Thornton) break out of prison in a cement truck and immediately start a bank robbing spree. Becoming known as the “Sleepover Bandits”, the two kidnap bank managers the night before their robbery, spend the night with their families, and then all go to the bank in the morning to get the dough. Using a dim-witted stunt man (Troy Garrity) as their getaway driver and lookout, the three successfully pull off several jobs that gets them recognition on a tv show about America’s criminals. When a bored housewife (Cate Blanchett) with a failing marriage decides to runaway, she ends up in the hands of the criminals. Initially attracted to Willis, she nonetheless also ends up in bed with Thornton and a confused romantic relationship begins. Continuing along with their spree, the bandits hit the wall when the bank managers realize that they are non-violent and therefore no threat to them or their employees. This leads to one more big score at the Alamo Bank, where in the very opening scenes, things appear to go awry.

Hard Word, The (2002)

Friday, March 16th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Australia | UK
Actors: Pearce, Guy | Griffiths, Rachel | Taylor, Robert | Edgerton, Joel | Richardson, Damien | Findleton, Rhondda | Atkinson, Kate | Colosimo, Vince | Sonkkila, Paul | Gyngell, Kym | Nkono, Dorian | Whittaker, Stephen | Neilson, Torquil | Bridges, Don | Bowles, Doug
Directors: Roberts, Scott
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Three fraternal bank robbers languishing in jail, discover a profitable (if not dodgy) way to spend their time. Crime can most certainly pay, if you “know wot I mean?” However when sex and greed rear-up between the good crims and the bad cops, the consequences are both bizarre and fatal.

Freedomland (2006)

Friday, March 16th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jackson, Samuel L. | Moore, Julianne | Falco, Edie | Eldard, Ron
Directors: Roth, Joe
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When her son disappears and is believed to be dead, a single mother blames an African-American man from the projects for the kidnapping, creating a racial controversy. An African-American detective (Jackson) and a white missing child researcher team up to investigate the case, which they discover may be more complicated than they expected.

Cellular (2004)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Aaron, Caroline | Statham, Jason | Ballard, Brenda | Basinger, Kim | Beinbrinck, Will | Biel, Jessica | Bloch, Chase | Bloch, Chelsea | Boudousque, Chantille | Brenner, Robin | Burgi, Richard | Christian, Nikki | Churchill, John | Collins, Greg | Cruz, Valerie | DiMaio, Marco
Directors: Ellis, David R.
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A young man (Evans) receives a call on his cellular phone from a woman (Basinger) who says she’s been kidnapped, and thinks she’s going to be killed soon, along with her husband and son who the kidnappers have gone after next. The catch? She doesn’t know where she is… and his cell phone battery might go dead soon.

Lethal Weapon (1987)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Gibson, Mel | Glover, Danny | Busey, Gary | Ryan, Mitch | Atkins, Tom | Love, Darlene | Wolfe, Traci | Swanson, Jackie | Hines, Damon | Smith, Ebonie | Kalmenson, Bill | Naff, Lycia | Cameron, Patrick | Gordon, Don | Skaggs, Jimmie F.
Directors: Donner, Richard
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Los Angeles police sergeant Roger Murtaugh, who has just turned 50 years old, is assigned to investigate the death of Amanda Hunsaker, a prostitute who is one of the daughters of bank president Michael Hunsaker, a friend whom Roger has known since they were in the Vietnam War together, but Roger hasn’t seen Michael in 12 years. Beginning with this investigation, Roger is assigned a new partner Sergeant Martin Riggs, who has been suicidal ever since his wife Victoria “Vicky” Lynn Riggs died in a car crash in 1984. Riggs and Murtaugh’s investigation of Amanda’s death reveals that she was murdered. Upon hearing of this, Michael tells Murtaugh that he would like for whoever is behind Amanda’s murder to end up dead, like Amanda. Riggs and Murtaugh’s investigation continues and it makes them the targets of Shadow Company, a group of former Vietnam War era mercenaries who now bring heroin into the Los Angeles County region. Shadow Company’s leader, General Peter McAllister, and his right hand man, Mr. Joshua, want Riggs and Murtaugh dead, no matter what the cost.