Posts Tagged ‘remake-of-french-film’

Breathless (1983)

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Gere, Richard | Metrano, Art | Ryan, John P. | Tepper, William | Dunn, Robert | Goodrow, Garry | Persky, Lisa Jane | Hong, James | Kalinowski, Waldemar | Leustig, Jack | Lourié, Eugène | Olden, Georg | Pinero, Miguel | Sanders, Henry G.
Directors: McBride, Jim
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Jesse has to get out of Las Vegas quickly, and steals a car to drive to L.A. On the way he shoots a police man. When he makes it to L.A. he stays with Monica, a girl he has only known for a few days. As the film progresses, the police get closer to him, and the crimes escalate.

Jackal, The (1997)

Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Crime | Thriller
Countries: France | Germany | Japan | UK | USA
Actors: Willis, Bruce | Gere, Richard | Poitier, Sidney | Venora, Diane | May, Mathilda | J.K. Simmons | Lineback, Richard | Cunningham, John | Black, Jack | Harper, Tess | Phillips, Leslie | Spinella, Stephen | Okonedo, Sophie | Hayman, David | Bassett, Steve
Directors: Caton-Jones, Michael
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Russian mobster Terek Murad has declared open season on the Russian militia and the FBI over the shooting of his brother in a Moscow nightclub. He hires the Jackal, a nasty assassin whom nobody has even seen, to kill the Director of the FBI. With nowhere else to turn (except a woman who used to work with the Basque separatists, who is now in the USA but whose exact whereabouts in unknown to all save Mulqueen), FBI Deputy Director Carter Preston (who was present at the Moscow shooting) and Major Valentina Koslova of the Russian milita (who pulled the trigger in that shooting) enlist the reluctant services of Declan Mulqueen, an imprisoned IRA sniper, to track the Jackal down, for Declan is the only other person who can positively identify the Jackal.

Oscar (1991)

Thursday, January 24th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Riegert, Peter | Palminteri, Chazz | Travolta, Joey | Paul Greco | Stallone, Sylvester | Foronjy, Richard | De Carlo, Yvonne | Ameche, Don | Romanus, Richard | Sorkin, Arleen | Bracken, Eddie | Munafo, Tony | Lesser, Robert | LaFleur, Art | Smith, Kurtwood
Directors: Landis, John
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Angelo “Snaps” Provolone made his dying father a promise on his deathbed: he would leave the world of crime and become an honest businessman. Despite having no experience in making money in a legal fashion, Snaps sets about to keep his promise. He is faced with numerous problems: henchmen who know nothing but crime, the police who are convinced he is hatching a master plan, and Oscar, who has just got his daughter pregnant.

Twelve Monkeys (1995)

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Melito, Joseph | Willis, Bruce | Seda, Jon | Chance, Michael | Campbell, Vernon | Walls, H. Michael | Adrian, Bob | Jones, Simon | Florence, Carol | Raymond, Bill | Abuba, Ernest | St. Paule, Irma | Stowe, Madeleine | Perillo, Joey | Kirkpatrick, Bruce | Pitt, Brad | Plummer, Christopher
Directors: Gilliam, Terry
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An unknown and lethal virus has wiped out five billion people in 1996. Only 1% of the population has survived by the year 2035, and is forced to live underground. A convict (James Cole) reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to 1996 to gather information about the origin of the epidemic (who he’s told was spread by a mysterious “Army of the Twelve Monkeys”) and locate the virus before it mutates so that scientists can study it. Unfortunately Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990, six years earlier than expected, and is arrested and locked up in a mental institution, where he meets Dr. Kathryn Railly, a psychiatrist, and Jeffrey Goines, the insane son of a famous scientist and virus expert.

Eye of the Beholder (1999)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Australia | Canada | UK
Actors: McGregor, Ewan | Judd, Ashley | Bergin, Patrick | Bujold, Geneviève | k.d. lang | Priestley, Jason | Brown, Anne-Marie | Brown, Kaitlin | Nerman, David | McCarthy, Steven | Vrana, Vlasta | Theriault, Janine | Jordan, Don | Revelins, Maria | Forget, Lisa
Directors: Elliott, Stephan
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A nameless private eye (Ewan McGregor) shadows the same woman (who happens to be a serial killer of men) all over the U.S. for 10 + years, without her ever knowing and he strangely enough occasionally acts as her guardian angel.

Original Sin (2001)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Banderas, Antonio | Jolie, Angelina | Jane, Thomas | Thompson, Jack | Itzin, Gregory | Mackie, Allison | Pringle, Joan | Richards, Cordelia | Haven, James | Armendáriz Jr., Pedro | Martínez, Mario Iván | Porter, Harry | Torre Laphame, Fernando | Vega, Shaula | Owen, Lisa
Directors: Cristofer, Michael
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Can love release our true self? A wealthy Cuban coffee exporter, Luis Vargas, advertises for a US wife; Julia Russell, from Delaware, sends her photograph, but the woman who steps off the ship is much lovelier. Luis marries her immediately and gives in to love. But Julia may not be who she claims: first a private eye shows up on behalf of Julia’s sister, then the sister herself. By now, Luis has given has wife access to bank accounts, and when she runs with his cash, he pursues her, with the help of Downs, the P.I., perhaps to kill her. Pursuit may be part of a con game as well, and Julia’s past explains some, if not all, of what remains of the story. A priest hears her confession.

True Lies (1994)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Heston, Charlton | Schwarzenegger, Arnold | Curtis, Jamie Lee | Arnold, Tom | Paxton, Bill | Carrere, Tia | Malik, Art | Dushku, Eliza | Heslov, Grant | Manesh, Marshall | Rauter, Dieter | Morris, Jane | Chappell, Katsy | Wyler, Crystina | Samra, Ofer
Directors: Cameron, James | Allen, James
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Special agent Harry Tasker gets out of the water outside a heavily guarded mansion, takes off his wetsuit, and there is a dinner jacket underneath. Harry strolls into a swanky party. Harry meets with Juno Skinner, steals some computer files, and escapes in a blaze of gunfire. He’s picked up by his partner, Albert “Gib” Gibson, and they return to the United States. Harry goes home to his wife Helen. Helen doesn’t know what Harry does because he pretends to be a computer salesman. Their 14-year-old daughter Dana is a sullen teenager, and Helen is so bored by the routine of her life that she’s on the verge of having an affair with used-car salesman Simon, who claims to be a spy. Harry is hot on the trail of a group of terrorists led by Salim Abu Aziz. Aziz and his men are smuggling nuclear weapons into the USA in pieces of Persian art, and Aziz plans to hold the country hostage in the name of the Crimson Jihad. Harry’s also out to save his marriage when he discovers Helen with Simon, who still claims to be a spy. Harry uses the Agency’s resources to give Helen a taste of the real thing. Harry blackmails Helen into seducing an enemy agent — Harry himself — in a hotel room, but their tryst is interrupted by Aziz’s men, who kidnap them and take them to one of the Florida Keys, where they’re preparing to detonate their nuclear bomb. Harry escapes and rescues Helen, and then they discover that Aziz has gone to Miami and kidnapped Dana. Harry uses a harrier jet to get to Miami, where he sets out to rescue Dana.

Unfaithful (2002)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: France | Germany | USA
Actors: Lane, Diane | Sullivan, Erik Per | Gere, Richard | Martinez, Olivier | Taylor, Myra Lucretia | Monaghan, Michelle | Lowe, Chad | Badalucco Jr., Joseph | Anderson, Erich | Gupton, Damon | Burton, Kate | Colin, Margaret | Forget, Marc | Gleason, Larry | Chianese, Dominic
Directors: Lyne, Adrian
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Connie Sumner has a loving husband, a beautiful home, and a wonderful son, but she wants more. When she’s approached one day by a handsome stranger while trying to hail a taxi, she becomes obsessed with him and eventually starts an affair. But her selfish actions soon catch up with her…

Point of No Return (1993)

Thursday, February 8th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Fonda, Bridget | Byrne, Gabriel | Mulroney, Dermot | Ferrer, Miguel | Bancroft, Anne | d'Abo, Olivia | Romanus, Richard | Keitel, Harvey | Toussaint, Lorraine | Lewis, Geoffrey | Rodgers, Mic | Rapaport, Michael | Oriel, Ra? | McClure, Spike | Dressler, Lieux
Directors: Badham, John
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A gang of armed drug-addicts break into a chemist shop to try and steal drugs to fuel their habit. However, the police arrive too fast and all addicts but one are killed. She, Maggie, is sentenced to death by lethal injection for killing a police officer, but she wakes up after the execution to find that she has been spared in order to train her as a government assassin. After a dramatic transformation, she is allowed to leave and start a new life for herself, on the condition that she always be on call for the government. However, she begins to discover that there is more to life than she previously thought and soon begins to wish she could escape from her obligation. But the government aren’t so easy to evade…