Posts Tagged ‘island’

Bounty, The (1984)

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | History
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Gibson, Mel | Hopkins, Anthony | Olivier, Laurence | Fox, Edward | Day-Lewis, Daniel | Hill, Bernard | Davis, Philip | Neeson, Liam | Kaa, Wi Kuki | Vernette, Tevaite | Brown, Philip Martin | Chandler, Simon | Terris, Malcolm | Adams, Simon | Sessions, John
Directors: Donaldson, Roger
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The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to get his men beyond the reach of British retribution, and the epic voyage of Lieutenant Bligh to get his loyalists safely to East Timor in a tiny lifeboat.

Papillon (1973)

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Biography | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: McQueen, Steve | Hoffman, Dustin | Jory, Victor | Gordon, Don | Zerbe, Anthony | Deman, Robert | Parfrey, Woodrow | Mumy, Bill | Coulouris, George | Assan, Ratna | Smithers, William | Avery, Val | Sierra, Gregory | Tayback, Vic | Watson, Mills
Directors: Schaffner, Franklin J.
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Based on the true story of Henri Charriere, also known as Papillon, which is French for ‘butterfly’ (the character even sports a large tattoo of a butterfly. A petty criminal, Papillon is wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to life in a French penal colony in ‘Guiane’ (French Guiana, South America). Papillon is determined to escape but attempt after attempt meets with difficulty, resulting in eventual recapture. He continues his attempts to escape despite incarcerations in solitary confinement as punishment.

Jaws (1975)

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Scheider, Roy | Shaw, Robert | Dreyfuss, Richard | Gary, Lorraine | Hamilton, Murray | Gottlieb, Carl | Kramer, Jeffrey | Backlinie, Susan | Filley, Jonathan | Rebello, Chris | Mello, Jay | Fierro, Lee | Voorhees, Jeffrey | Kingsbury, Craig | Nevin, Dr. Robert
Directors: Spielberg, Steven
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Martin Brody is the new police chief of Amity, an island resort town somewhere in New England. He has a wife named Ellen, and two sons named Michael and Sean. On a Summer morning, Brody is called to the beach, where the mangled body of Summer vacationer Chrissie Watkins has washed ashore. The medical examiner tells Brody that it could have been a shark that killed Watkins. Mayor Larry Vaughn, who is desperate to not lose the money that will be brought in by 4th of July tourists, wants Brody to say Watkins’s death was caused by a motorboat propeller instead of a shark, because the thought of a shark in Amity’s waters would drive tourists away from Amity. It looks like Vaughn is a mayor who puts money ahead of people’s lives. Shark expert Matt Hooper believes Watkins was killed by a shark. Hooper is proven right a few days later, when Alex Kintner is killed by the shark that killed Watkins. Looking for the quickest solution, Vaughn tells all of the local fishermen to let him know if they see the shark. A shark hunter named Quint offers to find the shark and kill it, but Vaughn thinks Quint’s price of $10,000 is too high. When a tiger shark is killed and hauled in by a couple of boaters, Vaughn hastily says that the shark crisis is over, but Hooper says the shark that’s been killing people a huge great white shark is still in Amity’s waters, but Vaughn leaves the beaches opened because all he cares about is the 4th of July tourist money. On the 4th of July, Vaughn encourages people to swim at the beach, and Hooper is proven right again when the shark kills a man, biting the man’s leg off. Michael, who was in the water at the time of the attack, is taken to the hospital, where he’s treated for shock after watching the shark kill the guy. Brody asks Vaughn to hire Quint to find the shark. Because his own kids were at that beach too, Vaughn agrees to hire Quint to find the shark. Quint, Hooper, and Brody are sent out to sea in Quint’s boat, the Orca, ready to do whatever it takes to find the shark.

Club Dread (2004)

Sunday, February 10th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Lyons, Elena | Montgomery Jr., Dan | Reichert, Tanja | Faxon, Nat | Weaver, Michael | Heffernan, Kevin | Yurchak, Michael | Ladd, Jordan | Daniel, Brittany | Perello, Richard | Lemme, Steve | Chandrasekhar, Jay | Soter, Paul | Stolhanske, Erik | Price, Lindsay
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Broken Lizard is surrounded by limber, wanton women on a booze-soaked island resort owned by Coconut Pete, a rock star has-been. But the non-stop party takes a turn for the weird when dead bodies start turning up. Everyone begins to look suspicious. Could it be Sam, of the Fun Police brigade, who is quick-on-the- trigger with his tequila loaded super-soaker; Jenny, the over-sexed, fitness instructor; Juan, the flamboyant diving instructor with a secret third-world past; Putman, the bratty-British tennis coach/fanatic; Dave, the ecstasy-crazed, adopted nephew of Coconut Pete; or the burly masseuse blessed with a creepy touch—that can render anyone into instant Jell-O? Can the inhabitants of Pleasure Island unite, solve the mystery and restore happy hour to this tropical bacchanal?

Lord of the Flies (1990)

Monday, January 21st, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Getty, Balthazar | Furrh, Chris | Pipoly, Danuel | Dale, James Badge | Taft, Andrew | Taft, Edward | Rule, Gary | Wells, Terry | MacDonald, Braden | Burgin, Angus | Zentz, Martin | Jacobs, Brian | Amabile, Vincent | Weinstein, David | Bell, Chuck
Directors: Hook, Harry
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Adapted from William Golding’s novel of the same name, this is the story of a group of military school boys who become stranded on an island. They are, however, not alone. To begin with their commander is dragged from the water by Ralph. It is after the commander becomes feverish and delusional that he runs away and the boys develop their own society, with frightening and powerful consequences.

Queen of the Damned (2002)

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Genres: Fantasy | Horror | Music
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Aaliyah | Townsend, Stuart | Moreau, Marguerite | Perez, Vincent | McGann, Paul | Olin, Lena | Manon, Christian | Black, Claudia | Spence, Bruce | Newton, Matthew | Mora, Tiriel | Dorman, Megan | Devoy, Johnathan | Farnham, Robert | Standish, Conrad
Directors: Rymer, Michael
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After many years of sleeping in his coffin, the vampire Lestat awakens only to find that the world has changed and he wants to be a part of it. He gathers a following and becomes a rock star only to find that his music awakens the ancient Queen Akasha and she wants him to become her king…

Deep Rising (1998)

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Genres: Action | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Williams, Treat | Janssen, Famke | Heald, Anthony | O'Connor, Kevin J. | Studi, Wes | O'Connor, Derrick | Flemyng, Jason | Curtis, Cliff | Powell, Clifton | Goddard, Trevor | Hounsou, Djimon | Damon, Una | Curtis, Clint | Takeuchi, Warren | Banks, Linden
Directors: Sommers, Stephen
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A gang of jewel thieves board an empty luxury liner in the South Seas to find that the crew and passengers have been killed by a monster that kills its victims and sucks the water from their bodies that looks like a mix of a giant squid and the monster from “Aliens”.

Cabin Boy (1994)

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Elliott, Chris | Brinkley, Ritch | Gammon, James | Lake, Ricki | Doyle-Murray, Brian | James, Brion | Walters, Melora | Hobson, I.M. | Nevil, Alex | Sterry, David H. | Elliott, Bob | Flotard, Edward | Cummings, Jim | Magnuson, Ann | Tamblyn, Russ
Directors: Resnick, Adam
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Snobby school boy goes left, and mistakes the “Filthy Whore” for his millionaire dad’s yacht. He joins four filthy fishermen for hijinx on the high seas.

Guns of Navarone, The (1961)

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | War
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Peck, Gregory | Niven, David | Quinn, Anthony | Baker, Stanley | Quayle, Anthony | Darren, James | Papas, Irene | Scala, Gia | Justice, James Robertson | Harris, Richard | Forbes, Bryan | Cuthbertson, Allan | Trubshawe, Michael | Herbert, Percy | Mikell, George
Directors: Lee Thompson, J.
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1943. With the battle of Stalingrad turning the war against them, the Germans are attempting to bully neutral Turkey into joining the Axis; to this end they have trapped 2,000 British soldiers on Kiros, an island in the Aegean, with only one sea route for evacuation, a sea route commanded by two gigantic German antiship batteries deployed in a massive cliffside bunker on the island of Navarone. Immune to air attack and too much for Allied battleships to suppress, the British muster Keith Mallory, a commando officer who has been working on occupied Crete for nearly two years and who is an expert mountaineer, to ferry a team of British commandos to the only area of Navarone that is not monitored by the Germans, a 400-foot cliff. Greek resistance is to meet the team inland and guide them around German patrols to the area of the German guns. However, the commanding officer of the British team suffers grave injury in the climb and Mallory must take control of the mission, despite clashes with explosives expert John Anthony Miller, who upon the arrival of the night of the raid finds his equipment has been sabotaged, thus exposing a traitor in the team’s ranks.

Wicker Man, The (2006)

Friday, November 9th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Cage, Nicolas | Burstyn, Ellen | Beahan, Kate | Conroy, Frances | Parker, Molly | Sobieski, Leelee | Delano, Diane | Wiseman, Michael | Gair, Erika-Shaye | Campbell, Christa | Holmes, Emily | Gosling, Zemphira | Walker, Matthew | Black, Mary | Willes, Christine
Directors: LaBute, Neil
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While recovering from a tragic accident on the road, the patrolman Edward Malus receives a letter from his former fiancée Willow, who left him years ago without any explanation, telling that her daughter Rowan is missing. Edward travels to the private island of Summerisle, where Willow lives in an odd community that plant fruits, and she reveals that Rowan is actually their daughter. Along his investigation with the hostile and unhelpful dwellers, Edward discloses that the locals are pagans, practicing old rituals to improve their harvest, and Rowan is probably alive and being prepared to be sacrificed. When he locates the girl, he finds also the dark truth about the wicker man.