Posts Tagged ‘strangulation’

V for Vendetta (2005)

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Portman, Natalie | Weaving, Hugo | Rea, Stephen | Fry, Stephen | Hurt, John | Pigott-Smith, Tim | Graves, Rupert | Allam, Roger | Miles, Ben | Cusack, Sinéad | Wightman, Natasha | Standing, John | Marsan, Eddie | Ashborn, Clive | Field-Rayner, Emma
Directors: McTeigue, James
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The futuristic tale unfolds in a Great Britain that’s a fascist state. A freedom fighter known as V (Weaving) uses terrorist tactics to fight the oppressive society. He rescues a young woman (Portman) from the secret police, and she becomes his unlikely ally.

Tightrope (1984)

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Eastwood, Clint | Hedaya, Dan | St. John, Marco | Paul, Graham | Holliday, Bill | Wilmot, John | Houck Jr., Joy N. | Baker-Bergen, Stuart | Barber, Donald | Harvey, Robert | Gural, Ron | Martens, Layton | Boyle, Richard Charles | Sachar, Jonathan | Ferbos, Lionel
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A New Orleans detective is leading an investigation into a killer who is raping and murdering women. His enquiries lead him into the seedy side of town where he is no stranger off-duty. All this contrasts with his home life as a single parent with two young girls. Then on the case he meets rape counsellor Beryl Thibodeaux with whom a relationship possibly offering some normalcy starts to develop.

Romper Stomper (1992)

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama
Countries: Australia
Actors: Crowe, Russell | Daniel Pollock | McKenzie, Jacqueline | Alex Scott | Wright, Jeffrey
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Nazi skinheads in Melbourne take out their anger on local Vietnamese, who are seen as threatening racial purity. Finally the Vietnamese have had enough and confront the skinheads in an all-out confrontation, sending the skinheads running. A woman who is prone to epileptic seizures joins the skins’ merry band, and helps them on their run from justice, but is her affliction also a sign of impurity?

Signal, The (2007)

Monday, June 9th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Christian, Cheri | McKnight, Chad | Poythress, Scott | Adelman, Jeff | Bach, J. Howard | Bailey, Ben | Bowen, AJ | Burke, Johnny | Bush, Dan | Clifton, John | Closs, Terril A. | Germon, Michael | Hodges, Scott | Holbrook, Mark
Directors: Bruckner, David
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A horror film told in three parts from three perspectives, in which a mysterious transmission which invades every cell phone, radio and TV, turning people into killers.

Factotum (2005)

Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: France | Germany | Norway | Sweden | USA
Actors: Dillon, Matt | Taylor, Lili | Tomei, Marisa | Stevens, Fisher | Flamand, Didier | Shelly, Adrienne | Young, Karen | Lyons, Thomas | Brewington, Dean | Cada, James | Detmar, James Michael | Schweickhardt, Kurt | Noah, Dee | Noah, James | Egan, Michael
Directors: Hamer, Bent
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This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of “Factotum” author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, CA trying to live off jobs which don’t interfere with his primary interest, which is writing. Along the way, he fends off the distractions offered by women, drinking and gambling.

No Country for Old Men (2007)

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jones, Tommy Lee | Bardem, Javier | Brolin, Josh | Harrelson, Woody | Macdonald, Kelly | Dillahunt, Garret | Harper, Tess | Corbin, Barry | Root, Stephen | Boyce, Rodger | Grant, Beth | Reeder, Ana | Gwin, Kit | Hopkins, Zach | Love, Chip
Directors: Coen, Ethan
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Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon some dead bodies, a stash of heroin and more than $2 million in cash near the Rio Grande.

Nightmare on Elm Street, A (1984)

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Genres: Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Saxon, John | Blakley, Ronee | Langenkamp, Heather | Wyss, Amanda | Garcia, Jsu | Depp, Johnny | Fleischer, Charles | Whipp, Joseph | Englund, Robert | Shaye, Lin | Unger, Joe | Craven, Mimi | Shea, Jack | Call, Ed | Lipton, Sandy
Directors: Craven, Wes
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On Elm Street, Nancy Thompson (Langenkamp) and a group of her friends including Tina Gray (Wyss), Rod Lane (Garcia) and Glen Lantz (Depp) are being tormented by a clawed killer in their dreams named Freddy Krueger (Englund). Nancy must think quickly, as Freddy tries to pick off his victims one by one. When he has you in your sleep, who is there to save you?

Ninth Gate, The (1999)

Monday, May 26th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: France | Spain | USA
Actors: Depp, Johnny | Langella, Frank | Olin, Lena | Seigner, Emmanuelle | Jefford, Barbara | Taylor, Jack | López Rodero, José | Amoni, Tony | Russo, James | Holt, Willy | Garfield, Allen | Dacqmine, Jacques | Sheridan, Joe | Pauly, Rebecca | Benguigui, Catherine
Directors: Polanski, Roman
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Based on the book The Club Dumas, written by Arturo Perez-Reverte. Dean Corso, a somewhat sleazy rare book dealer, is hired by a mysterious patron who has just come into possession of one of the only three copies of The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows (a 17th century occult text said to give its owner unimaginable power). The man hires Corso to track down the other two copies and compare them to his, but complications - both natural and supernatural - arise at every turn.

Black Christmas (2006)

Saturday, May 17th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Cassidy, Katie | Trachtenberg, Michelle | Chabert, Lacey | Cloke, Kristen | Martin, Andrea | Winstead, Mary Elizabeth | Lowe, Crystal | Hudson, Oliver | Harmon, Jessica | Savasta, Leela | Kole, Kathleen | Konoval, Karin | Mann, Robert | Friss, Dean | Wiebe, Cainan
Directors: Morgan, Glen
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Not all Christmas stories are full of cheer - take the disturbing childhood of Billy Lenz, for example. Born during Christmas, little Billy Lenz suffered from Jaundice because of a liver defect, and was unwanted by his cruel mother (who only saw the husband she’d come to despise when she looked at her son). While she let her true feelings be known to him with beatings and abuse, only his father showed him compassion like a parent should. But on Christmas Eve in 1975, his unfaithful mother gave him one of the most cruelest gifts of all, as she made five-year-old Billy observe his beloved father’s brutal murder at her own hands and those of her lover with a claw hammer. Before burying him under the house, she locked Billy in the attic for good, to hold his silence of what he’d witnessed that night. His only contact from then on was when she came to punish him for making a noise or other such trivial nuisances, while she was with her lover and starting a “new” family. As Billy’s mother fell pregnant with a daughter and treated her with love, which Billy had never experienced with his mother, Billy came out of the attic on Christmas Eve 1991, taking a rolling pin to his mother’s head, and a pointed tree ornament to her lovers eye before leaving his sister as disfigured as he was by blinding her. Before he could finish the job police forced there way in and dragged him off to mental institution and his sister a foster home, whose eye sight was saved in one eye… but not the other. Cut to the present where a security guard has been monitoring Billy’s progress since he came into his care, back in 1991. Knowing full well that during this time for fifteen years, Billy has made a break from this asylum, but never succeeding… until now. Far away, his childhood home is now a sorority house, where nine sisters and their house-mother are celebrating the holiday season together …but tonight they’re about to get a surprise visitor… and it’s not Santa.

4.50 from Paddington (1987)

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery
Countries: UK
Actors: Hickson, Joan | Mole, Juliette | Beames, David | Bruce, Mona | Blane, Nicholas | Jarrett, Katy | Adams, Leslie | Horovitch, David | Brimble, Ian | Lewis, Rhoda | Meager, Jill | David, Joanna | Denham, Maurice | Burt, Andrew | Pitchford, Pamela
Directors: Friend, Martyn
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Elspeth McGillicuddy, an old friend of Miss Marple’s, witnesses a strangulation murder in a passing train through the window of her coach compartment. When Police Inspector Slack can’t find a body along the tracks and doubts the validity of the story, Miss Marple and Elspeth locate the area where the body was probably thrown from the train, the isolated manor house of an aged, cantankerous millionaire, Luther Crackenthorpe. Miss Marple’s niece Lucy is recruited to apply for a job on the estate in hopes of locating the corpse. When she finds it in an ancient sarcophagus in an outbuilding housing Egyptian and Etruscan art treasures, the police and Miss Marple are brought in. Obviously someone in the large household is involved, but who?