Posts Tagged ‘manipulation’

Notes on a Scandal (2006)

Saturday, May 17th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Dench, Judi | Blanchett, Cate | Georgeson, Tom | Maloney, Michael | Scanlan, Joanna | Parkes, Shaun | Kennedy, Emma | Kumar, Syreeta | Simpson, Andrew | Davis, Philip | Nottingham, Wendy | Empson, Tameka | Skinner, Leon | Nighy, Bill | Temple, Juno
Directors: Eyre, Richard
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Barbara Covett is a veteran and cynical schoolteacher who is close to retirement. She is barely tolerated by her less brilliant and acerbic colleagues who know nothing about her private life which consists mainly of taking care of Portia, her aging cat, and spending countless hours alone. The only means she has found to take the edge off her desperate loneliness is writing in her journal. When Sheba Hart, a younger, attractive woman, joins the faculty as an art teacher, Barbara watches her from afar and has nothing but caustic things to say in her diary about her clothing and her care-free manner. Despite her disdain for this woman, Barbara finds herself reaching out to her. Sheba responds by inviting her to dinner at her house to meet Sheba’s lecturer husband, who is twenty years her senior, and their two children, a sexy and rebellious 16-year-old daughter and a younger boy with Downs Syndrome. Instead of opening herself to these people, Barbara immediately sees them as competition to be beaten in the battle for Sheba’s attention. Later, when Barbara discovers her new friend in a classroom having sex with Steven, a 15-year-old from the school who has artistic talent; she realizes that knowledge of this secret gives her power over Sheba which she can use for her own purposes. Barbara promises to not tell anyone but insists that the affair must end immediately. Sheba says she will but finds herself drawn back to the boy again and again. Sheba seems uneasy with Barbara’s friendship and is appalled when she discovers the older woman might have a sexual interest in her. The tenuous relationship between the two women reaches a crisis point when Barbara’s cat is dying and she asks Sheba to go with her to the vet. She chooses to go with her family to see their son in a play instead. In revenge, Barbara sets in motion the scandal that will rock both their lives in ways they never imagined.

One Night at McCool’s (2001)

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Dillon, Matt | Smith, Mary Jo | Douglas, Michael | Reiser, Paul | McEntire, Reba | Goodman, John | Jenkins, Richard | Martin, Sandy | Tyler, Liv | Clay, Andrew Dice | Sarabia, Ric | De Zarn, Tim | Leo Rossi | Neukirch, Rob | Bendewald, Andrea
Directors: Zwart, Harald
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After another hard night at McCool’s, bartender Randy runs into Jewel. The seductive lady seems to have evaded a rape pretty closely, and when the man comes back, she puts a bullet in his head. After all these events (and others), Randy takes Jewel home, and the two become a couple. Yet Jewel begins to develop into a very demanding girlfriend and drives Randy into committing crimes for her and her elaborate lifestyle. Randy’s cousin Carl is driven crazy by Randy’s incredibly sexy girl as well as the investigating officer, Detective Dehling.

Mean Girls (2004)

Monday, March 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Chabert, Lacey | Lohan, Lindsay | McAdams, Rachel | Amanda Seyfried | Tina Fey | Lizzy Caplan
Directors: Waters, Mark S.
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Raised in African bush country by her zoologist parents, Cady Heron thinks she knows about survival of the fittest. But the law of the jungle takes on a whole new meaning when the home-schooled 15-year-old enters public high school for the first time and encounters psychological warfare and unwritten social rules that teenage girls face today.

Control Factor (2003)

Friday, March 14th, 2008
Genres: Action | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Baldwin, Adam | Berkley, Elizabeth | Todd, Tony | Dunn, Conrad | Neville, John | Marin, Ann | Spence, Peter | Potvin, Susan | Ferry, David | Mif | Bhaneja, Raoul | Messinger, Lisa | Rinzler, Joel | Gauthier, Louise | Magner, Colm
Directors: McCormick, Nelson
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An average everyman discovers he’s the unwitting target of an ultra secret domestic black-op centering on mind control.

Pacific Heights (1990)

Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Griffith, Melanie | Modine, Matthew | Keaton, Michael | Mako | McCarthy, Nobu | Metcalf, Laurie | Lumbly, Carl | Harewood, Dorian | Bercovici, Luca | Hedren, Tippi | McCarthy, Sheila | Boyd, Guy | Hardin, Jerry | Hedaya, Dan | Staley, James
Directors: Schlesinger, John
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A yuppie couple buy a large house in an exclusive San Fransisco neighborhood. They renovate it and plan to rent two apartments on the first floor to cover the costs. A prosperous looking man moves in but is not the ideal tenant. He never pays any rent, drives the other tenants away and systematically ruins the lives of his landlords.

Fracture (2007)

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Hopkins, Anthony | Gosling, Ryan | Strathairn, David | Pike, Rosamund | Davidtz, Embeth | Burke, Billy | Curtis, Cliff | Shaw, Fiona | Gunton, Bob | Josh Stamberg | Berkeley, Xander | Kazan, Zoe | Scott, Judith | Cervantes, Gary | Burchard, Petrea
Directors: Hoblit, Gregory
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Wealthy, brilliant, and meticulous Ted Crawford, a structural engineer in Los Angeles, shoots his wife and entraps her lover. He signs a confession; at the arraignment, he asserts his rights to represent himself and asks the court to move immediately to trial. The prosecutor is Willy Beachum, a hotshot who’s soon to join a fancy civil-law firm, told by everyone it’s an open and shut case. Crawford sees Beachum’s weakness, the hairline fracture of his character: Willy’s a winner. The engineer sets in motion a clockwork crime with all the objects moving in predictable ways.

Heartbreakers (2001)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Weaver, Sigourney | Hewitt, Jennifer Love | Liotta, Ray | Lee, Jason | Bancroft, Anne | Jones, Jeffrey | Hackman, Gene | Dunn, Nora | Mechoso, Julio Oscar | Jay, Ricky | Silverman, Sarah | Galifianakis, Zach | Hitchcock, Michael | Gonneau, Pierre | Colvin, Shawn
Directors: Mirkin, David
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Max (Weaver) and Page (Hewitt) are a mother and daughter con team. Max seduces wealthy men into marrying her, then Page seduces them into infidelity so Max can rake them over the divorce court coals. And then it’s on to the next victim.

Basic Instinct (1992)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Douglas, Michael | Stone, Sharon | Dzundza, George | Tripplehorn, Jeanne | Arndt, Denis | Sarelle, Leilani | Young, Bruce A. | Ross, Chelcie | Malone, Dorothy | Knight, Wayne | von Bargen, Daniel | Tobolowsky, Stephen | Mouton, Benjamin | McGee, Jack | Cable, Bill
Directors: Verhoeven, Paul
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A former rockstar Johnny Boz is brutally killed during sex , and the case is assigned to the Detective Nick Curran of the SFPD . During the investigation , Nick meets Catherine Tramell , a crime novelist who was Boz’s girlfriend when he died . Catherine proves to be a very clever and manipulative woman , and though Nick is more or less convinced that she murdered Boz , he is unable to find any evidence . Later , when Nilsen , Nick’s rival in the police is killed , Nick suspects of Catherine’s involvement in it . He then starts to play a dangerous lust-filled mind game with Catherine to nail her , but as their relationship progresses , the body count rises and contradicting evidences force Nick to start questioning his own suspicions about Catherine’s guilt .

Cruel Intentions (1999)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Snyder, Drew | Gellar, Sarah Michelle | Phillippe, Ryan | Witherspoon, Reese | Blair, Selma | Fletcher, Louise | Jackson, Joshua | Mabius, Eric | Thomas, Sean Patrick | Kurtz, Swoosie | Baranski, Christine | Hall, Alaina Reed | Offner, Deborah | Reid, Tara | Ware, Herta | Le, Hiep Thi
Directors: Kumble, Roger
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Kathryn makes a bet that her step-brother, Sebastian, won’t be able to bed Annette (a virgin, who wants to wait until marriage) before the start of the school year. If he loses, Kathryn gets his Roadster, if he wins, he gets Kathryn

Terminal, The (2004)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Hanks, Tom | Zeta-Jones, Catherine | Tucci, Stanley | McBride, Chi | Luna, Diego | Henley, Barry Shabaka | Pallana, Kumar | Saldana, Zoe | Jones, Eddie | Ciccolella, Jude | Reynolds, Corey | Díaz, Guillermo | Bell, Rini | Mendel, Stephen | Nikolayev, Valeri
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Viktor Navorski, a man from an Eastern European country arrives in New York but after he left his country; war broke out and because of that Navorski is a man without a country that the U.S. cannot recognize, thus he is denied entrance to the U.S. However, he also can’t be deported so he is told by the Security Manager that he has to remain in the airport until his status can be fixed. And also Navorski doesn’t speak English well, so no one can talk to him and he can’t talk to anyone. But he somehow adapts and sets up residence in the airport, which makes the man who placed him there unhappy cause, it seems he is line for a promotion but Navroski’s presence might complicate that. So he tries to get Navorski to leave but Navorski remains where he is. Navorski makes friends with some of the people who work in the airport and is attracted to a flight attendant he runs into whenever she comes in.