Posts Tagged ‘ransom’

Trapped (2002)

Monday, May 7th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Theron, Charlize | Love, Courtney | Townsend, Stuart | Bacon, Kevin | Vince, Pruitt Taylor | Fanning, Dakota | Rankin, Steve | Chalk, Gary | Markell, Jodie | Koby, Matt | Becker, Gerry | Airlie, Andrew | Lynne, Randi | Camp, Colleen | Bivens, J.B.
Directors: Mandoki, Luis
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Joe Hickley thinks he’s got a great scheme: kidnap the child of rich parents, hold it for 24 hours, keeping the mother under his control while an accomplice gets the ransom from the father, who is on a trip. But things go very wrong when he tries this scheme on the Jennings family, in part because their daughter Abby is asthmatic, and in part because the Jennings’ find out more than Hickley wants them to know.

Ruthless People (1986)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: DeVito, Danny | Midler, Bette | Reinhold, Judge | Slater, Helen | Morris, Anita | Pullman, Bill | Schilling, William G. | Evans, Art | Felder, Clarence | Freeman, J. E. | Riley, Gary | Applegate, Phyllis | Bisignano, Jeannine | Bumstead, J.P. | Cutler, Jon
Directors: Abrahams, Jim | Zucker, Jerry | Zucker, David
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Sam Stone is a clothing manufacturer, who married his wife Barbara, for the money that she was suppose to inherit from her dying father, but her father didn’t die for another fifteen years. He is now planning to kill her and is on his way home to do just that but when he gets there, she’s not there. He then receives a call from someone claiming to have kidnapped Barbara and threatening to kill her if he informs the police, which he does hoping that they do. What Stone doesn’t know is that the kidnappers, Ken and Sandy are a couple whose idea for a garment he stole and made fortune off, are not that lethal, as a matter of fact Barbara’s more lethal. And what Stone doesn’t know is that his girlfriend, Carol, has another boyfriend and they plan to blackmail Sam, by videotaping him disposing of Barbara’s body. When her boyfriend, Earl goes there to do that, the person who goes there was not Sam but a guy with a hooker, and the guy instructs the hooker to scream her head off, Earl mistakenly believes that Barbara’s not dead and that Sam was killing her there, and was so freaked out that he didn’t bother to see if it was Sam. And Carol tries to put her plan in operation by sending Sam a copy of the tape, Sam thinks that it’s for something kinky that Carol wants and when Sam tells her that he is going to do what was done on the tape to her, she assumes that he is going to kill her. So she sends another copy of the tape to the Chief of Police, and tells him that she wants him to arrest Sam for murdering Barbara, and the Chief is happy to oblige cause he is the guy who is on the tape. The Chief manages to find the instruments that Sam was going to use to kill Barbara and arrests him. Sam now has to get Barbara, alive, so that he can prove that he didn’t kill her. And Barbara starts to bond with Sandy.

Rookie, The (1990)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Action | Comedy | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Eastwood, Clint | Sheen, Charlie | Julia, Raul | Braga, Sonia | Skerritt, Tom | Boyle, Lara Flynn | Serna, Pepe | Rodríguez, Marco | Randall, Pete | Mitchell, Donna | Berkeley, Xander | Plana, Tony | Sherrill, David | Williams, Hal | Nelson, Lloyd
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Nick Pulovski is a cop, who is presently assigned to the auto theft division and who for the most part of his career has not done anything worthwhile. But when he discovers that a man named Strom is the brains behind a major car theft and chop shop ring, he sees this as his opportunity to do something. After his partner is killed, the case is then transfered to homicide, so he is taken off the case. And he is assigned a new partner, David Ackerman. a cop who has just recently been promoted to detective. But Pulovski feeling as if Strom is his decides to continue pursuing him but Ackerman who tries to play by the rules is not sure what to do, and he is also a little afraid cause of a childhood incident.

Shark Tale (2004)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Smith, Will | De Niro, Robert | Zellweger, Renée | Black, Jack | Jolie, Angelina | Scorsese, Martin | Marley, Ziggy | Doug, Doug E. | Imperioli, Michael | Pastore, Vincent | Falk, Peter | Couric, Katie | Soren, David | Smith, David P. | Thompson, Bobb'e J.
Directors: Jenson, Vicky | Bergeron, Bibo | Letterman, Rob
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The sea underworld is shaken up when the son of the shark mob boss is found dead and a young fish named Oscar is found at the scene. Being a bottom feeder, Oscar takes advantage of the situation and makes himself look like he killed the finned mobster. Oscar soon comes to realize that his claim may have serious consequences.

Dirty Harry (1971)

Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Eastwood, Clint | Guardino, Harry | Santoni, Reni | Vernon, John | Robinson, Andrew | Larch, John | Mitchum, John | Mercer, Mae | Edgington, Lyn
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In the year 1971, San Francisco faces the terror of a maniac known as Scorpio- who snipes at innocent victims and demands ransom through notes left at the scene of the crime. Inspector Harry Callahan (known as Dirty Harry by his peers through his reputation handling of homicidal cases) is assigned to the case along with his newest partner Inspector Chico Gonzalez to track down Scorpio and stop him. Using humiliation and cat and mouse type of games against Callahan, Scorpio is put to the test with the cop with a dirty attitude.

Vikings, The (1958)

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | History
Countries: USA
Actors: Douglas, Kirk | Curtis, Tony | Borgnine, Ernest | Leigh, Janet | Donald, James | Knox, Alexander | Audley, Maxine | Thring, Frank | Way, Eileen | Connor, Edric | Nichols, Dandy | Buckhøj, Per
Directors: Fleischer, Richard
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Einar and Eric are two Viking half-brothers. The former is a great warrior whilst the other is an ex-slave, but neither knows the true identity of the other. When the throne of Northumbria in Britain becomes free for the taking, the two brothers compete against one another for the prize, but they have very different motives - both involving the princess Morgana, however.

City of Ghosts (2002)

Saturday, March 17th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Dillon, Matt | Caan, James | McElhone, Natascha | Depardieu, Gérard | Sereyvuth, Kem | Skarsgård, Stellan | Byrne, Rose | Andrews, Shawn | Sankhavesa, Chalee | Curry, Christopher | Campbell, Rob | Merklen, Bernard | Shearer, Jack | Fox, Kirk | Kyoza
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A con man flees to Southeast Asia when an international scam he was involved in goes sour. Suspecting he’s been double-crossed by his long-time mentor, he sets off to Cambodia for his promised cut. What he finds there is a mysterious and hostile environment where even the most polished criminal can end up on deadly ground.

Big Lebowski, The (1998)

Thursday, February 15th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Mystery
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Bridges, Jeff | Goodman, John | Moore, Julianne | Buscemi, Steve | Huddleston, David | Hoffman, Philip Seymour | Reid, Tara | Moon, Philip | Pellegrino, Mark | Stormare, Peter | Flea | Voges, Torsten | Gilmore, Jimmie Dale | Kehler, Jack | Turturro, John
Directors: Coen, Joel
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When “The Dude” Lebowski is mistaken for a millionaire Lebowski, two thugs urinate on his rug to coerce him into paying a debt he knows nothing about. While attempting to gain recompense for the ruined rug from his wealthy counterpart, he accepts a one-time job with high pay-off. He enlists the help of his bowling buddy, Walter, a gun-toting Jewish-convert with anger issues. Deception leads to more trouble, and it soon seems that everyone from porn empire tycoons to nihilists want something from The Dude.

Shanghai Noon (2000)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Armstrong, Curtis | Chan, Jackie | Wilson, Owen | Liu, Lucy | Merrill, Brandon | Yuan, Roger | Berkeley, Xander | Yu, Rongguang | Cui, Ya Hi | Chen, Eric | Connery, Jason | Goggins, Walton | Dorval, Adrien | Báez, Rafael | Grant, Stacy | Luyben, Kate
Directors: Tom Dey
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A 19th century Western. Chon Wang is a clumsy Imperial Guard to the Emperor of China. When Princess Pei Pei is kidnapped from the Forbidden City, Wang feels personally responsible and insists on joining the guards sent to rescue the Princess, who has been whisked away to the United States. In Nevada and hot on the trail of the kidnappers, Wang is separated from the group and soon finds himself an unlikely partner with Roy O’Bannon, a small time robber with delusions of grandeur. Together, the two forge onto one misadventure after another.

Ransom (1996)

Thursday, February 1st, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Gibson, Mel | Russo, Rene | Nolte, Brawley | Sinise, Gary | Lindo, Delroy | Taylor, Lili | Schreiber, Liev | Wahlberg, Donnie | Handler, Evan | Ticotin, Nancy | Gaston, Michael | McCready, Kevin Neil | Guilfoyle, Paul | Bernstein, Allen | Zúñiga, José
Directors: Howard, Ron
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Tom Mullen, rich airline owner, is shocked when his son is kidnapped. He is willing to pay the two million dollar ransom, but the drop goes wrong. So Tom turns the ransom money into a bounty on the head of the kidnapper.