Posts Tagged ‘domestic-violence’

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.

Nil by Mouth (1997)

Monday, August 4th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: France | UK
Actors: Winstone, Ray | Creed-Miles, Charlie | Morrison, Jon | Foreman, Jamie | Sweeney, Steve | Rowley, Terry | Miller, Sam | Bromfield, Gerry | Maskell, Neil | Golder, Sid | Blundell, John | Hudaverdi, Kenan | Nelson, Everton | Fox, Ronnie | Carey, Dan
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The family of Raymond, his wife Val and her brother Billy live in working-class London district. Also in their family is Val and Billy’s mother Janet and grandmother Kath. Billy is a drug addict and Raymond kicks him out of the house, making him live on his own. Raymond is generally a rough and even violent person, and that leads to problems in the life of the family.

Living and the Dead, The (2006)

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Lloyd-Pack, Roger | Bill, Leo | Conrich, Neil
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A descent into Hell is triggered when “Ex-Lord” Donald Brocklebank finds that he must leave Longleigh House for London to find a way to pay for the medical treatments for his wife Nancy. Alone, his over-protected, delusional, adult son, James, fancies himself in charge of the manor house with his terminally ill mother, and barricades the two of them into the house for a series of ever more panicked home treatments, mistakenly protecting her from the arrival of Nurse Mary and any outside help.

Enough (2002)

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Lopez, Jennifer | Campbell, Bill | Allen, Tessa | Lewis, Juliette | Futterman, Dan | Wyle, Noah | Ward, Fred | Carroll, Janet | Cobbs, Bill | Maher, Christopher | Young, Bruce A. | French, Bruce | Madera, Ruben | Martin, Dan | Kober, Jeff
Directors: Apted, Michael
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An abused woman (Lopez) discovers that the dream man (Campbell) she married isn’t who she thought he was. She and her daughter try to escape (aided by her previous boyfriend, played by Futterman), but he pursues her relentlessly. Fearing also for the safety of her daughter, she decides that there’s only one way out of the marriage: kill him. ‘Fred Ward (I)’ (qv) has a guest-starring role.

Narc (2002)

Monday, May 26th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Leis, Dan | Patric, Jason | Adams, Lloyd | Issa, Meagan | Giornofelice, Lina | Peterson, Alan C. | Robinson, Karen | McBride, Chi | Savage, Booth | Van Sprang, Alan | Donaldson, Gavyn | Donaldson, Myles | Bridges, Krista | Liotta, Ray | Patrice, Thomas
Directors: Carnahan, Joe
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An undercover narc dies, the investigation stalls, so the Detroit P.D. brings back Nick Tellis, fired 18-months ago when a stray bullet hits a pregnant woman. Tellis teams with Henry Oak, a friend of the dead narc and an aggressive cop constantly under the scrutiny of internal affairs. They follow leads, informants turn up dead, Nick’s wife is unhappy he’s back on the street, Henry’s protective of the dead cop’s wife. Nick reads and re-reads the case file, broods, watches Oak’s heavy-handed style, sometimes joining in. The brass want to close out the case, Nick and Henry stay on it, and bits of evidence point them to an auto body shop. What actually happened; will Nick ever know?

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.

Outsiders, The (1983)

Monday, April 21st, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Dillon, Matt | Macchio, Ralph | Howell, C. Thomas | Swayze, Patrick | Lowe, Rob | Estevez, Emilio | Cruise, Tom | Withrow, Glenn | Lane, Diane | Garrett, Leif | Dalton, Darren | Meyrink, Michelle | Sartain, Gailard | Waits, Tom | Smith, William
Directors: Coppola, Francis Ford
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Based on the S.E. Hinton novel of the same name. The tension between two groups: The Greasers and The Socials “Socs” puts Ponyboy Curtis (Howell) and his best friend Johnny Cade (Macchio) in a bad spot. One night at the movies, Ponyboy and Johnny fall in love with Sherri “Cherry” Valance (Lane) and Marcia (Meyrink) once they get Dally Winston (Dillon), the toughest and meanest of the Greasers to stop attempting to “score” Cherry and Marcia. What Johnny and Ponyboy don’t know is that Cherry and Marcia are girls for the snobbish, popular, and rich group, the Socs. Once Johnny kills Bob Sheldon (Garrett), the toughest and meanest member of the Socs, this begins as the Socs demand a rumble against the Greasers.

In Cold Blood (1967)

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Blake, Robert | Wilson, Scott | Forsythe, John | Stewart, Paul | O'Loughlin, Gerald S. | Corey, Jeff | Gallaudet, John | Flavin, James | McGraw, Charles | Geer, Will | McLiam, John | Storey, Ruth | Currin, Brenda | Hough, Paul | Taylor, Vaughn
Directors: Brooks, Richard
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Truman Capote wrote the ‘non-fiction novel’ from which the film is drawn, using the novelist’s craft to render reality. The reality was that at two a.m. on November 15, 1959 in the rural town of Holcomb, Kansas, the four members of the Clutter family were roused from their sleep, bound and gagged, and then brutally murdered by two unknown assailants. After the latters’ capture, sentencing and imprisonment prior to execution, Capote researched the case thoroughly, spent weeks talking with the prisoners, Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, jurors, police, friends and neighbors, trying to unearth why such a senseless act was committed, and what society’s response might have been.

Secretary (2002)

Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Davies, Jeremy | Gyllenhaal, Maggie | Spader, James | Warren, Lesley Ann | Bauchau, Patrick
Directors: Steven Shainberg
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Lee Holloway is a smart, quirky woman in her twenties who returns to her hometown in Florida after a brief stay in a mental hospital. In search of relief from herself and her oppressive childhood environment, she starts to date a nerdy friend from high school and takes a job as a secretary in a local law firm, soon developing an obsessive crush on her older boss, Mr. Grey. Through their increasingly bizarre relationship, Lee follows her deepest longings to the heights of masochism and finally to a place of self-affirmation.

Transamerica (2005)

Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: James, Andrea | Huffman, Felicity | Burstein, Danny | Orozco, Maurice | Peña, Elizabeth | Bockhorn, Craig | Borghese, Paul | Zegers, Kevin | Budinoff, Jon | Evans, Venida | Scheine, Raynor | Bayley, Kate | Maeve, Stella | Dunn, Teala | Frangione, Jim
Directors: Tucker, Duncan
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One week before her sex-change operation, Bree receives a call from a 17-year-old identifying himself as her son from a college liaison. Bree’s psychiatrist won’t approve the surgery until Bree deals with this relationship, so Bree flies to New York City, bails the youth out of juvenile detention, and offers him a ride back to Los Angeles without disclosing that she is his father. Both her plans and his go awry, and as secrets will out, what might become a friendship (or more) founders. The lad’s step-father, a sex-change support group, a peyote eater, a Navajo wrangler, and Bree’s family all play their parts in this exploration of family, gender, and expectations.