Posts Tagged ‘native-american’

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.

Geronimo (1962)

Sunday, December 16th, 2007
Genres: Action | Biography | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Connors, Chuck | Devi, Kamala | Conway, Pat | Silvestre, Armando | West, Adam | Dobkin, Lawrence | Anderson, John | Jaynes, Enid | Martin, Ross | Pyle, Denver | Rodman, Nancy | Ames, Amanda | Noriega, Eduardo | Brook, Claudio | Higgins, Joe
Directors: Laven, Arnold
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An Apache warrior who defies U.S. attempts to bring the Indians under control grapples with an array of U.S. soldiers sent to subdue his revolt. Sympathetic scouts seek to bring Geronimo back to the reservation before he is hunted down.

Scalphunters, The (1968)

Sunday, December 9th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Lancaster, Burt | Winters, Shelley | Savalas, Telly | Davis, Ossie | Coleman, Dabney | Picerni, Paul | Vadis, Dan | Silvestre, Armando | Cravat, Nick | Epper, Tony | Roberson, Chuck | Epper, John | Williams, Jack | Acosta, Gregorio | Aguilar, Pedro
Directors: Pollack, Sydney
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Trapper Joe is on his way to the town with all of his gain of hides of the last winter. However a group of Indians stops him and takes all of his hides, leaving him the escaped slave Joseph instead. But Joe has no use for Joseph and is determined to get his property back and follows them. Before he can do anything, the Indians are raided themselves by a group of scalphunters under the greedy Howie. Not only the hides, but also Joseph falls into their hands. Now Joe follows them alone and tries to trick the numerical superior group out of his hides.

Last of the Mohicans, The (1992)

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Romance | War | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Day-Lewis, Daniel | Stowe, Madeleine | Means, Russell | Schweig, Eric | May, Jodhi | Waddington, Steven | Studi, Wes | Roëves, Maurice | Chéreau, Patrice | Blatchford, Edward | Kinney, Terry | Ellis, Tracey | Rice, Justin M. | Banks, Dennis | Postlethwaite, Pete
Directors: Mann, Michael
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In 18th century North America during the French and Indian War, a white man adopted by the last members of a dying tribe called the Mohicans unwittingly becomes the protector of the two daughters of a British colonel, who have been targeted by Magua, a sadistic and vengeful Huron warrior who has dedicated his life to destroying the girls’ father for a past injustice.

Indian in the Cupboard, The (1995)

Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Scardino, Hal | Litefoot | Crouse, Lindsay | Jenkins, Richard | Bhat, Rishi | Coogan, Steve | Keith, David | Jaffrey, Sakina | Kartheiser, Vincent | Serrano, Nestor | Olson, Ryan | Tejwani, Leon | Tejwani, Lucas | Conte, Christopher | Brown, Cassandra
Directors: Oz, Frank
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On his ninth birthday a boy receives many presents. Two of them first seem to be less important: an old cupboard from his brother and a little Indian figure made of plastic from his best friend. But these two presents turn out to be much more magic than the rest…

Night at the Museum (2006)

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Stiller, Ben | Gugino, Carla | Van Dyke, Dick | Rooney, Mickey | Cobbs, Bill | Cherry, Jake | Gervais, Ricky | Williams, Robin | Raver, Kim | Gallagher, Patrick | Malek, Rami | Favino, Pierfrancesco | Murphy, Charles Q. | Coogan, Steve | Peck, Mizuo
Directors: Levy, Shawn
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In New York, the unemployed divorced Larry Daley is a complete loser. His son Nick is very disappointed with his father that is gong to be evicted, and Larry accepts the job of night watchman in the Museum of Natural History as the substituted for three old security guards that have just retired to raise some money and pay his bills. In his first nightshift, Larry realizes that everything at the museum comes to life at night. The Museum transforms in a complete chaos with the inexperienced Larry, and he learns that since an old Egyptian stone came to the Museum in 1950, the was statues comes to life until dawn. When Larry brings his son to spend a night with him, the three old guards break in the Museum to stole the magic stone. Larry organizes the historic characters to help him to arrest the criminals and save the museum.

World’s Fastest Indian, The (2005)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Biography | Drama | Sport
Countries: New Zealand | USA
Actors: Hopkins, Anthony | Rea, Iain | Mitchell, Tessa | Murphy, Aaron | Shadbolt, Tim | Whittle, Annie | Johnson, Greg | Starr, Antony | Sullivan, Kate | Hall, Craig | Bowman, Jim | Bruce, Alison | Falconer, Phoebe | Pierard, Charles | Ryan, Barry
Directors: Donaldson, Roger
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In `60s New Zealand, at the bottom of the world, Burt Munro takes a 1920 Indian motorcycle and, delightfully without resources other than his own obsession and a Kiwi #8 wire mentality, spends his retirement rebuilding the bike and following his dream to go to Speed Week at Salt Lake in Utah. Under funded, without the support of a team and against all the odds he not only makes it to Bonneville, he sets a world land spend record, not once, but again and again.

Thunderheart (1992)

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Crime | Mystery | Thriller | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Kilmer, Val | Shepard, Sam | Greene, Graham | Ward, Fred | Thompson, Fred Dalton | Tousey, Sheila | Thin Elk, Ted | Trudell, John | Drum, Julius | Brave, Sarah | Joseph, Allan R.J. | Pumpkin Seed, Sylvan | Massett, Patrick | Linn, Rex | O'Meara, Brian A.
Directors: Apted, Michael
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An FBI man with Sioux background is sent to a reservation to help with a murder investigation, where he has to come to terms with his heritage. Slowly he rejects the intimidating tactics of his fellow FBI agents, who are not so interested in solving the crime as covering up an incriminating situation with the locals, and as he becomes more tuned to his heritage, the locals begin trusting him. Based on actual Reservation occurrences of the ’70s.

Young Guns II (1990)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Action | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Estevez, Emilio | Sutherland, Kiefer | Phillips, Lou Diamond | Slater, Christian | Petersen, William | Ruck, Alan | Call, R.D. | Coburn, James | Getty, Balthazar | Kehoe, Jack | Knepper, Robert | Kurlander, Tom | Mortensen, Viggo | Rippy, Leon | Walter, Tracey
Directors: Murphy, Geoff
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The movie begins with the aging Brushy Bill Roberts narrating his story to a young historian. His claim? He claims that he is the famous outlaw William H. Bonney, alias Billy the Kid, who was supposedly shot and killed by Patrick Floyd Garrett in 1881. The old man gives a very convincing story on how he and Garrett, along with Arkansas Dave Rudabaugh, Chavez y Chavez, Doc Skurlock, and a few others led the outlaw life and avoided the law, as they were wanted men. Garrett, a friend of Billy’s, was paid by John Chisum, a cattle king, to eliminate Billy the Kid. So, Garrett and Ashmun Upson set out on a journey to find Billy the Kid.

Young Guns (1988)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Estevez, Emilio | Sutherland, Kiefer | Phillips, Lou Diamond | Sheen, Charlie | Mulroney, Dermot | Siemaszko, Casey | Stamp, Terence | Palance, Jack | O'Quinn, Terry | Thomas, Sharon | Blake, Geoffrey | Carter, Alice | Keith, Brian | Callaway, Thomas | Wayne, Patrick
Directors: Cain, Christopher
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1878 in New Mexico: John Tunstall picks up young gun men from the road to have them work on his ranch, but also to teach them reading and to civilize them. However he’s a thorn in the side of the rich rancher Murphy, as he’s a competitor in selling cattle. One day he’s shot by Murphy’s men. Judge Wilson can’t do anything, since Sheriff Brady is one of Murphy’s men. But attorney Alex persuades him to constitute Tunstall’s young friends to Deputies and give them warrants of arrest for the murderers. Instead of arresting them, William Bonney just shoots them down. Soon the 5 guys become famous and William gets the name “Billie the Kid” - but they’re also chased by dozens of Murphy’s men and the army. The people however honor him as fighter for justice.