Posts Tagged ‘police-surveillance’

Dancer Upstairs, The (2002)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Spain | USA
Actors: Bardem, Javier | Botto, Juan Diego | Morante, Laura | Mínguez, Elvira | Lencastre, Alexandra | Cotton, Oliver | Cintra, Luís Miguel | Manrique, Javier | Folk, Abel | Berganza, Marie-Anne | Rodríguez, Lucas | Elorriaga, Xabier | Dicenta, Natalia | Sinué, Wolframio | Jiménez, Ramiro
Directors: Malkovich, John
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The story of Detective Agustin Rejas, a man clinging to the hope of an impossible love in an impossible world. Tracking Ezequiel, a delusional anarchist who incites the downtrodden masses to join in his brutal revolution against the fascist government in their unnamed Latin American country, Rejas finds solace in his sense of self-respect and the joy that his daughter and wife bring him. Then he meets Yolanda—his daughter’s soulfully beautiful ballet teacher—a woman who sparks his long-forgotten passions and represents all that is good and all that is corrupt in their troubled country. But she, who appears to be a shelter from the storm, may in actuality be the storm’s eye. Ultimately, as the revolution intensifies and the net closes around hunter and hunted alike, the dancer’s truth will prove as elusive as the revolutionary’s cause and the detective’s peace.

It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Tracy, Spencer | Berle, Milton | Caesar, Sid | Hackett, Buddy | Merman, Ethel | Rooney, Mickey | Shawn, Dick | Silvers, Phil | Terry-Thomas | Winters, Jonathan | Adams, Edie | Provine, Dorothy | Anderson, Eddie 'Rochester' | Backus, Jim | Blue, Ben
Directors: Kramer, Stanley
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After a long prison sentence Smiler Grogan is heading at high speed to a California park where he hid $350,000 from a job 15 years previously. He accidentally careers over a cliff in view of four cars whose occupants go down to help. The dying Grogan gives details of where the money is buried and when the witnesses fail to agree on sharing the cash, a crazy chase develops across the state.

Goodfellas (1990)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: De Niro, Robert | Liotta, Ray | Pesci, Joe | Bracco, Lorraine | Sorvino, Paul | Low, Chuck | DiLeo, Frank | Sivero, Frank | Darrow, Tony | Starr, Mike | Vincent, Frank | Adonis, Frank | Scorsese, Catherine | Mastrogiacomo, Gina | Shepherd, Suzanne
Directors: Scorsese, Martin
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This film views the mob lives of three pivotal figures in the 1960’s and 70’s New York. Ray Liotta plays Henry Hill, a local boy turned gangster in a neighborhood full of the roughest and toughest. Joe Pesci plays Tommy Devito, a pure bred gangster, who turns out to be Henry’s best friend. Robert De Niro plays Jimmy Conway, the man who puts the two of them together, and runs some of the biggest hijacks and burglaries the town has ever seen. After an extended jail sentence, Henry must sneak around the back of the local mob boss, Paulie Cicero, played by Paul Sorvino, to live the life of luxury he has always dreamed of. In the end, the friends end up in a hell of a jam, and must do anything they can to save each other, and stay alive.

Midnight Run (1988)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: De Niro, Robert | Grodin, Charles | Kotto, Yaphet | Ashton, John | Farina, Dennis | Pantoliano, Joe | Foronjy, Richard | Miranda, Robert | Kehoe, Jack | Phillips, Wendy | DuClos, Danielle | Hall, Philip Baker | McCleister, Tom | Gillis, Mary | Toles-Bey, John
Directors: Brest, Martin
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Bounty hunter Jack Walsh is sent to find and return bail jumper and former Mafia accountant, Jonathan “The Duke” Mardukas. The FBI have had no success it locating The Duke, so when Jack finds him in next to no time, they are a little embarrassed. In order to collect his $100,000 fee, Jack must take The Duke from New York to Los Angeles. However, the Mafia and the FBI have other ideas, as does Marvin, a rival bounty hunter. On their long cross-country trip to LA, the two get to know each other and they build up a strange friendship.

Big Momma’s House 2 (2006)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Lawrence, Martin | LeBlanc, Elton | Long, Nia | Parylak, Michelle | Brown, Sarah | Joy, Mark
Directors: Whitesell, John
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Martin Lawrence returns as FBI agent Malcolm Turner, a master of disguise who again goes deep undercover as the sassy septuagenarian “Big Momma.” The FBI has learned that a computer software developer named Tom Fuller has created a computer virus that allows access to classified US government files, Fuller is planning to sell the virus to terrorist organizations all over the world. Upon hearing this, the FBI’s best lead is Fuller’s wife. So Malcolm goes undercover again as Big Momma in order to pose as Mrs. Fuller’s nanny. and as always, Big Momma once again turns the house upside down.

French Connection, The (1971)

Thursday, March 29th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Hackman, Gene | Rey, Fernando | Scheider, Roy | Lo Bianco, Tony | Bozzuffi, Marcel | Pasquale, Frédéric de | Hickman, Bill | Rebbot, Ann | Gary, Harold | Farber, Arlene | Egan, Eddie | Ernotte, André | Grosso, Sonny
Directors: Friedkin, William
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William Friedkin’s gritty police drama portrays two tough New York City cops trying to intercept a huge heroin shipment coming from France. An interesting contrast is established between ‘Popeye’ Doyle, a short-tempered alcoholic bigot who is nevertheless a hard-working and dedicated police officer, and his nemesis Alain Charnier, a suave and urbane gentleman who is nevertheless a criminal and one of the largest drug suppliers of pure heroin to North America. During the surveillance and eventual bust, Friedkin provides one of the most gripping and memorable car chase sequences ever filmed.

Collateral (2004)

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Cruise, Tom | Foxx, Jamie | Pinkett Smith, Jada | Ruffalo, Mark | Berg, Peter | McGill, Bruce | Hall, Irma P. | Henley, Barry Shabaka | Jones, Richard T. | Scott, Klea | Elfman, Bodhi | Mazar, Debi | Bardem, Javier | Rivera, Emilio | McBride, Jamie
Directors: Mann, Michael
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Max has lived a mundane life as a cab driver for twelve years. The faces have come and gone from his rear-view mirror: people and places he’s long since forgotten—until tonight. Vincent is a contract killer. When an off-shore narco-trafficking cartel learns that they’re about to be indicted by a federal grand jury, they mount an operation to identify and kill the key witness, and the last stage is tonight. It is on this very night that Vincent has arrived—and five bodies are supposed to fall. Circumstances cause Vincent to hijack Max’ taxicab, and Max becomes collateral—an expendable person who’s in the wrong place at the wrong time. Through the night, Vincent forces Max to drive him to each assigned destination. And as the L.A.P.D. and F.B.I. race to intercept them, Max and Vincent’s survival become dependent on each other, in ways neither would have imagined.

Hollywood Homicide (2003)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Ford, Harrison | Hartnett, Josh | Olin, Lena | Greenwood, Bruce | Washington, Isaiah | Davidovich, Lolita | David, Keith | P, Master | Knight, Gladys | Phillips, Lou Diamond | Lynn, Meredith Scott | Todoroff, Tom | MacDonald, James | Kurupt | Benjamin, André
Directors: Shelton, Ron
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When not solving murders in Tinseltown, Detective Joe Gavilan and his rookie partner Kasey Calden both moonlight in other fields: Gavilan sells real estate (poorly), and Calden aspires to become an actor (Brando, namely). Assigned to the vicious in-club slaying of a promising young rap act, the two detective delve into the recording industry where they hope to find answers - ideally ones that also come with property buyers or auditions.

Woodsman, The (2004)

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Eve | Bacon, Kevin | Grier, David Alan | Sedgwick, Kyra | Bratt, Benjamin | Leon, Carlos | Shannon, Michael | Rice, Kevin | Def, Mos | Pilkes, Hannah | Nagle, Jessica | Daniels, Liam | Hazinsky, Joey | Daniels, Clara Infinity | Coombs, Ashley C.
Directors: Kassell, Nicole
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After twelve years in prison, Walter arrives in an unnamed city, moves into a small apartment across the street from an elementary school, gets a job at a lumberyard, and mostly keeps to himself. A quiet, guarded man, Walter finds unexpected solace from Vickie, a tough-talking woman who promises not to judge him for his history. But Walter cannot escape his past. A convicted sex offender, Walter is warily eyed by his brother-in-law, shunned by his sister, lives in fear of being discovered at work, and is hounded by a suspicious local police officer, Detective Lucas. After befriending a young girl in a neighborhood park, Walter must also grapple with the terrible prospect of his own reawakened demons.