Posts Tagged ‘compassion’

Misérables, Les (1998)

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Romance
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Neeson, Liam | Rush, Geoffrey | Thurman, Uma | Danes, Claire | Matheson, Hans | Brynolfsson, Reine | Vaughan, Peter | Adamson, Christopher | Barlow, Tim | Bateson, Timothy | Birkin, David | Chalupa, Václav | Cregg, Ian | Crompton, Ben | David, Zdenek
Directors: August, Bille
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Jean Valjean, a Frenchman imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a police officer named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men’s lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.

Heartbreak Kid, The (2007)

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Stiller, Ben | Monaghan, Michelle | Stiller, Jerry | Akerman, Malin | Mencia, Carlos | Corddry, Rob | Courtney, Stephanie | Hillis, Ali | Lamkin, Kathy | Paone, Nicol | Bryant, Joel | Bell, E.E. | Bredt, Jeff | Hodges, David | Jenkins, Roy
Directors: Farrelly, Bobby
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The story centers on a man who is convinced that he has finally met the right girl and marries too quickly. While on his honeymoon and in the process of discovering that his new bride is a nightmare, he meets the girl of his dreams.

Blade Runner (Final cut) (2007)

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Ford, Harrison | Hauer, Rutger | Young, Sean | Olmos, Edward James | Walsh, M. Emmet | Hannah, Daryl | Sanderson, William | James, Brion | Turkel, Joe | Cassidy, Joanna | Hong, James | Paull, Morgan | Thompson, Kevin | Allen, John Edward | Pyke, Hy
Directors: Scott, Ridley
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Deckard is a Blade Runner, a police man of the future who hunts down and terminates replicants, artificially created humans. He wants to get out of the force, but is drawn back in when 4 “skin jobs”, a slang term for replicants, hijack a ship back to Earth. The city that Deckard must search for his prey is a huge, sprawling, bleak vision of the future. This film questions what it is to be human, and why life is so precious.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

Monday, January 21st, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Schwarzenegger, Arnold | Furlong, Edward | Patrick, Robert | Boen, Earl | Morton, Joe | Merkerson, S. Epatha | Guerra, Castulo | Cooksey, Danny | Goldstein, Jenette | Berkeley, Xander | Hamilton, Linda | Gibbel, Ken | Winley, Robert | Schrum, Peter
Directors: Cameron, James
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Nearly 10 years have passed since Sarah Connor was targeted for termination by a cyborg from the future. Now her son, John, the future leader of the resistance, is the target for a newer, more deadly terminator. Once again, the resistance has managed to send a protector back to attempt to save John and his mother Sarah.

As Good as It Gets (1997)

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Nicholson, Jack | Hunt, Helen | Kinnear, Greg | Gooding Jr., Cuba | Ulrich, Skeet | Knight, Shirley | Smith, Yeardley | Ontiveros, Lupe | Dog, Jill the | Dog, Timer the | Dog, Billy the | Osterwald, Bibi | Bleckner, Ross | Balagtas, Bernadette | Cohen, Jaffe
Directors: James L. Brooks
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New York City. Melvin Udall, a cranky, bigoted, obsessive-compulsive writer, finds his life turned upside down when neighboring gay artist Simon is hospitalized and his dog is entrusted to Melvin. In addition, Carol, the only waitress who will tolerate him, must leave work to care for her sick son, making it impossible for Melvin to eat breakfast.

Oliver Twist (2005)

Friday, November 23rd, 2007
Genres: Drama | Family
Countries: Czech Republic | France | Italy | UK
Actors: Clark, Barney | Swift, Jeremy | McNeice, Ian | Durden, Richard | Bateson, Timothy | de la Tour, Andy | Hess, Filip | Papadopoulos, Andreas | Athey, Laurie | Tremain, Joseph | Copley, Peter | Linden, Andy | Nettleton, John | Noble, Tony | Heath, Michael
Directors: Polanski, Roman
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Oliver Twist (Clark) is an orphan, who is soon kicked out of the orphanage and thrown into a terrible home. The bad treatment Oliver receives, forces him to run off to London. Here, he is soon picked up by the Artful Dodger (Eden) and taken to Fagin (Kingsley). Fagin treats Oliver well, but is it the life Oliver really wants?

Children of Men (2006)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Japan | UK | USA
Actors: Yacuzzi, Juan Gabriel | Hussain, Michelle | Curling, Rob | Chevalier, Jon | Davies, Rita | Fenton, Kim | Gilbert, Chris | Hawthorne, Phoebe | Howard, Rebecca | White, Atalanta | Woodbridge, Laurence | Owen, Clive | McErlane, Maria | Haughey, Michael | Sharma, Paul
Directors: Cuarón, Alfonso
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With this dystopian world ravished by war, paranoia and the frustrations of Man the Orwellian vision of Nineteen Eighty-Four, the totalitarian future is now complete and amongst us. With female fertility becoming obsolete, Man cannot reproduce, and no child has been born on the face of the planet for eighteen years. Man, and his future, is dying. Soon he shall be extinct. Theo, the beaten, downtrodden and middle-aged ex-political activist will, unwittingly, become involved in a war of an underground revolt. Here he is active once more, in the perilous journey across England’s Home Counties, with a young girl, Kee, who, to Theo’s bewilderment is pregnant. The first pregnant woman for more than eighteen years. This secret must be protected, at all cost, and mother and child must flee to the mysterious and enigmatic Human Project, across the seas. Their flight is a constant fight for survival. Who can be trusted? Who can keep a secret?

New Guy, The (2002)

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Qualls, DJ | Dushku, Eliza | Deschanel, Zooey | Mixon, Jerod | Shen, Parry | Lovett, Lyle | Griffin, Eddie | Mabrey, Sunny | Patterson, Ross | Gogin, Matt | Sanz, Horatio | Hawk, Tony | Lewis, Geoffrey | O'Connell, Charlie | Simmons, Gene
Directors: Ed Decter
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Dizzy Harrison is an unpopular, high school geek going through a hellish senior year. In an attempt to make a new identity for himself, Dizzy gets himself expelled from his high school, learns the technics of being cool from a prison inmate, and enrolls at a new high school under the alias Gil Harris, to make new friends where he soon gains respect from the jocks and geeks alike. Dizzy then gets noticed by the head cheerleader, Danielle, and helps the school football team gain self-respect to win games. But things unknowingly begin to turn sour when Danielle’s disgruntled boyfriend begins investigating into “Gil Harris’” past to uncover any dirt on him.

Superman Returns (2006)

Sunday, August 26th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Routh, Brandon | Bosworth, Kate | Spacey, Kevin | Marsden, James | Posey, Parker | Langella, Frank | Huntington, Sam | Saint, Eva Marie | Brando, Marlon | Penn, Kal | Leabu, Tristan Lake | Fabrizio, David | Roberts, Ian | Stone, Vincent | Larson, Jack
Directors: Singer, Bryan
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After eliminating General Zod & the other Kryptonian arch-villains, Ursa & Non, Superman leaves Earth to try to find his former home world of Krypton after astronomers have supposedly found it. When he finds nothing but remnants, he returns home to Earth - to find out that Lois Lane is engaged to a relative of his boss, and that Lex Luthor is at it again - after swindling an elderly, terminally ill woman. The psychopathic Luthor, whose plans to destroy California failed because of Superman’s heroics, vows vengeance against the Man of Steel and contrives a new sinister plot - using the crystals of Krypton to build a continent that will wipe out most of North America! Embedded in the continent’s structure is Kryptonite - the lethal substance that is Superman’s only weakness. Upon learning of Luthro’s sinister scheme, Superman must again race against time to stop the psychopathic Luthor before millions - possibly billions - are killed.

Panic Room (2002)

Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Foster, Jodie | Stewart, Kristen | Whitaker, Forest | Yoakam, Dwight | Leto, Jared | Bauchau, Patrick | Magnuson, Ann | Buchanan, Ian | Walker, Andrew Kevin | Schulze, Paul | Rodriguez, Mel | Conant, Richard | Simon, Paul | Thrash, Victor | Turner, Ken
Directors: Fincher, David
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After her divorce, Meg Altman and her daughter Sarah move into an old-fashioned house with one very modern addition: a “panic room” which is virtually impossible to break into, designed for refuge during a home invasion. In their first night in the house a trio of thieves do break in and Meg and Sarah rush into the panic room. However, the intruders are looking for something inside the panic room, and given the recent move the room’s hotline to the police hasn’t been hooked up yet. Worse, Sarah is diabetic and the room doesn’t contain any sugar…