Posts Tagged ‘politics’

Sum of All Fears, The (2002)

Sunday, October 26th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Affleck, Ben | Freeman, Morgan | Cromwell, James | Jenkins, Ken | Schreiber, Liev | McGill, Bruce | Beasley, John | Bobbitt, Russell | Hall, Philip Baker | Vandecruys, Al | Cohee, Richard | Pretten, Philip | Darcy, Alison | Marner, Richard | Soroka, Ostap
Directors: Robinson, Phil Alden
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When the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds him. The change in political leaders sparks paranoia among American CIA officials, so CIA director Bill Cabot recruits a young analyst to supply insight and advice on the situation. Then the unthinkable happens: a nuclear bomb explodes in a U.S. city, and America is quick to blame the Russians.

Frida (2002)

Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: Canada | Mexico | USA
Actors: Hayek, Salma | Maestro, Mía | Zapata, Amelia | Usigli, Alejandro | Luna, Diego | Molina, Alfred | Bravo, Lucia | Golino, Valeria | Reyes Spíndola, Patricia | Navarro, Loló | Rees, Roger | Martínez, Fermín | Medina, Roberto | Judd, Ashley | Banderas, Antonio
Directors: Taymor, Julie
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“Frida” chronicles the life Frida Kahlo (Salma Hayek) shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina), as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and controversial affair with Leon Trotsky, to her provocative and romantic entanglements with women, Frida Kahlo lived a bold and uncompromising life as a political, artistic, and sexual revolutionary.

Bonfire of the Vanities, The (1990)

Friday, July 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Hanks, Tom | Willis, Bruce | Rubinek, Saul | Freeman, Morgan | Hancock, John | Dunn, Kevin | James, Clifton | Giambalvo, Louis | Heyman, Barton | Parker, Norman | Moffat, Donald | King, Alan | Fuller, Kurt | LeFevre, Adam | Libertini, Richard
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Financial “Master of the Universe” Sherman McCoy sees his life unravel when his mistress Maria Ruskin hits a black boy with his car. When yellow journalist Peter Fallow enflames public opinion with a series of distorted tabloid articles on the accident, the case is seized upon by opportunists like Reverend Bacon and mayoral candidate D.A. Abe Weiss.

Other Boleyn Girl, The (2008)

Monday, June 9th, 2008
Genres: Drama | History | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Bana, Eric | Sturgess, Jim | Rylance, Mark | Morrissey, David | Cumberbatch, Benedict | Coleman, Oliver | Redmayne, Eddie | Cox, Tom | Smiley, Michael | Mitchell, Iain | Garfield, Andrew | Jones, Lewis | Galloway, Corinne | Allen, Alfie | Wallis, Bill
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A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in European history: two beautiful sisters, Anne and Mary Boleyn, driven by their family’s blind ambition, compete for the love of the handsome and passionate King Henry VIII.

Clockwork Orange, A (1971)

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: McDowell, Malcolm | Magee, Patrick | Bates, Michael | Clarke, Warren | Clive, John | Corri, Adrienne | Duering, Carl | Farrell, Paul | Francis, Clive | Gover, Michael | Karlin, Miriam | Marcus, James | Morris, Aubrey | Quigley, Godfrey | Raynor, Sheila
Directors: Kubrick, Stanley
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In a futuristic Britain, a gang of teenagers go on the rampage every night, beating and raping helpless victims. After one of the boys quells an uprising in the gang, they knock him out and leave him for the police to find. He agrees to try “aversion therapy” to shorten his jail sentence. When he is eventually let out, he hates violence, but the rest of his gang members are still after him.

8MM 2 (2005)

Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Schaech, Johnathon | Heuring, Lori | Davison, Bruce | Benz, Julie | Pelka, Valentine | Görög, Zita | Cavanah, Robert | Scarlis, Alex | Illyés, Barna | How, Jane | Flynn, F.J. | Fettes, Andrew | Kovács, Ferenc | Schramek, Géza | Mendel, George
Directors: J.S. Cardone
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David Huxley is an American politician living in Hungary whom gets blackmailed by an unknown party after being videotaped having sex with his fiancée Tish and a local supermodel. Desperate to find the extortionists, David goes into the sordid Red Light district of Eastern Europe, only to end up kidnapped, leaving Tish to try to come up with a $5 million ransom on her own.

xXx: State of the Union (2005)

Sunday, May 4th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Matt Gerald | Cube, Ice | Jackson, Samuel L. | Dafoe, Willem | Speedman, Scott | Strauss, Peter | Xzibit | Roof, Michael | Mabrey, Sunny | Gaye, Nona | Connolly, John G. | De Ocamp, Ramon | Sigismondi, Barry | Evans, Michael Don | Rountree, David | Schmidtke, Ned
Directors: Tamahori, Lee
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NSA Agent Augustus Gibbons (Jackson), fresh off the success of his last renegade recruitment, once again finds himself in need of an outsider. Gibbons and his new agent (Ice Cube) must track a dangerous military splinter group, led by Willem Dafoe, that is conspiring to overthrow the U.S. Government in the nation’s capital.

Taxi Driver (1976)

Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: De Niro, Robert | Shepherd, Cybill | Boyle, Peter | Foster, Jodie | Keitel, Harvey | Harris, Leonard | Brooks, Albert | Abbott, Diahnne | Adu, Frank | Ardito, Gino | Argo, Victor | Avery, Garth | Cohn, Harry | Cunningham, Copper | Dickson-Weinberg, Brenda
Directors: Scorsese, Martin
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Vietnam vet Travis Bickle is 26, a loner in the mean streets of New York City, slipping slowly into isolation and violent misanthropy. In solving his insomnia by driving a yellow cab on the night shift, he grows increasingly disgusted by the low-lifes that hang out at night: “Someday a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets.” His touching attempts to woo Betsy, a Senator’s campaign worker, turn sour when he takes her to a porn movie on their first date. He even fails in his attempt to persuade child prostitute Iris to desert her pimp and return to her parents and school. Driven to the edge by powerlessness, he buys four handguns and sets out to assassinate the Senator, heading for the infamy of a ‘lone crazed gunman’…

Being There (1979)

Friday, February 15th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Sellers, Peter | MacLaine, Shirley | Douglas, Melvyn | Warden, Jack | Dysart, Richard | Basehart, Richard | Attaway, Ruth | Clennon, David | Brill, Fran | DuBarry, Denise | Burbridge, Oteil | Keller III, Ravenell | Corrigan, Brian | Brown, Alfredine P. | Jacob, Donald
Directors: Ashby, Hal
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A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television. After a run in with a limousine, he ends up a guest of a woman (Eve) and her husband Ben, an influential but sickly businessman. Now called Chauncey Gardner, Chance becomes friend and confidante to Ben, and an unlikely political insider.

Amazing Grace (2006)

Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Gruffudd, Ioan | Garai, Romola | Cumberbatch, Benedict | Finney, Albert | Gambon, Michael | Sewell, Rufus | N'Dour, Youssou | Hinds, Ciarán | Jones, Toby | Farrell, Nicholas | Le Touzel, Sylvestra | Swift, Jeremy | Campbell Moore, Stephen | Paterson, Bill | Day, Nicholas
Directors: Apted, Michael
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The idealist William Wilberforce maneuvers his way through Parliament in 19th century England, endeavoring to end the British transatlantic slave trade.