Posts Tagged ‘taxi-driver’

Airplane! (1980)

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem | Bridges, Lloyd | Graves, Peter | Hagerty, Julie | Hays, Robert | Nielsen, Leslie | Patterson, Lorna | Robert Stack | Stucker, Stephen | Otto | Ashmore, Frank | Banks, Jonathan | Berenson, Craig | Billingsley, Barbara
Directors: Abrahams, Jim
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Ted Striker just got dumped by his long-time girlfriend Elaine Dickinson, who works as a stewardess at Trans American Airlines. In his wish to get her back, he follows her aboard the plane, although he has had a deep aversion against anything winged since he lost several men in the war. During flight, he tries to contact her again and again, but as the crew and many passengers get seriously ill due to a bad fish meal, he has no chance to get to her. In fact, Ted Striker seems to be the only healthy person aboard that has piloting experience. Now, it is up to him to get the bird down in Chicago safely, before the poisoning starts causing casualties. But Ted Striker’s aversion really is a serious psychosis, which breaks open and needs to be cured - right now.

In the Cut (2003)

Friday, August 24th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
Countries: Australia | UK | USA
Actors: Leigh, Jennifer Jason | Ryan, Meg | Micheal Nuccio | Nega, Allison | Aries, Dominick | Gardner, Susan | Pugh, Sharrieff | Damici, Nick | Litteer, Heather | Booth, Daniel T. | King, Yaani | Harts, Frank | Sozzi, Sebastian | Wegner, Zach | Ruffalo, Mark
Directors: Jane Campion
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Following the gruesome murder of a young woman in her neighborhood, a self-determined woman living in New York City—as if to test the limits of her own safety—propels herself into an impossibly risky sexual liaison. Soon she grows increasingly wary about the motives of every man with whom she has contact—and about her own.

Night on Earth (1991)

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: France | Germany | Japan | UK | USA
Actors: Rowlands, Gena | Ryder, Winona | Falk, Lisanne | Scott, Alan Randolph | Portillo, Anthony | Mueller-Stahl, Armin | Esposito, Giancarlo | Perez, Rosie | Boes, Richard | De Bankolé, Isaach | Dalle, Béatrice | N'Zonzi, Pascal | Abossolo M'bo, Emile | Boucher, Stéphane | Kaufmann, Noel
Directors: Jarmusch, Jim
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A collection of five stories involving cab drivers in five different cities. Los Angeles - A talent agent for the movies discovers her cab driver would be perfect to cast, but the cabbie is reluctant to give up her solid cab driver’s career. New York - An immigrant cab driver is continually lost in a city and culture he doesn’t understand. Paris - A blind girl takes a ride with a cab driver from the Ivory Coast and they talk about life and blindness. Rome - A gregarious cabbie picks up an ailing man and virtually talks him to death. Helsinki - an industrial worker gets laid off and he and his compatriots discuss the bleakness and unfairness of love and life and death.

Fifth Element, The (1997)

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: France
Actors: Willis, Bruce | Oldman, Gary | Holm, Ian | Jovovich, Milla | Tucker, Chris | Perry, Luke | James, Brion | Lister Jr., Tom 'Tiny' | Evans, Lee | Creed-Miles, Charlie | Tricky | Neville, John | Bluthal, John | Kassovitz, Mathieu | Fairbank, Christopher
Directors: Besson, Luc
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Two hundred and fifty years in the future, life as we know it is threatened by the arrival of Evil. Only the fifth element (played by Milla Jovovich) can stop the Evil from extinguishing life, as it tries to do every five thousand years. She is helped by ex-soldier, current-cab-driver, Corben Dallas (played by Bruce Willis), who is, in turn, helped by Prince/Arsenio clone, Ruby Rhod. Unfortunately, Evil is being assisted by Mr. Zorg (Gary Oldman), who seeks to profit from the chaos that Evil will bring, and his alien mercenaries.

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.

Home Alone 3 (1997)

Thursday, February 15th, 2007
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Linz, Alex D. | Krupa, Olek | Kihlstedt, Rya | von Dohlen, Lenny | Thornton, David | Morris, Haviland | Kilner, Kevin | Seldes, Marian | Smith, Seth | Johansson, Scarlett | Curry, Christopher | Harris, Baxter | Saito, James | Gudahl, Kevin | Hamilton, Richard
Directors: Gosnell, Raja
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Four high-tech industrial spies, Beaupre, Alice, Jernigan and Unger, steal a top-secret microchip, and, to fool customs, hide it in a remote-control toy car. Through a baggage mix-up at the airport, grumpy old Mrs.Hess gets the toy and gives it to her neighbor, 8-year-old Alex. Spies want to get the toy back before their clients get angry and decide to burglarize every house at Alex’s street to find the chip. But Alex is prepared for their visit…

Rat Race (2001)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Comedy
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Cleese, John | Atkinson, Rowan | Smart, Amy | Meyer, Breckin | Bergere, Jenica | Gooding Jr., Cuba | Diamond, Carrie | Haase, Douglas | Myers, Chris | Frazier, Kevin | Green, Seth | Allred, Gloria | Vieluf, Vince | Lee, Renée | Harney, Corinna | Walsh, Jane C. | Goldberg, Whoopi | Chapman, Lanei
Directors: Zucker, Jerry
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A group of billionaires led by a Las Vegas casino owner (John Cleese) search for things to bet on. They decide to pull a group of six strangers together to race from Vegas to Silver City, New Mexico to retrieve $2 million hidden in a locker. First one there gets all of the money. The first team are two addled brothers (Seth Green and Vince Vieluf, who talks indecipherably because of a newly pierced tongue). When they cannot catch a plane, they plot to destroy an airport control tower in a very funny sequence. Their antics carry them into a hot air balloon chase that catches a cow with a dangling rope and into a monster truck competition. The second team is an estranged mother (Whoopi Goldberg) reunited with her daughter (Lanai Chapman), who is struggling to start a business. They face an insane squirrel-selling woman (Kathy Bates) and steal a rocket car scheduled for a land speed record attempt. A hated NFL referee (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) is stranded in the desert by an irate cabbie (Paul Rodriguez) and hijacks a busload of Lucille Ball look-alikes on the way to a convention. The Jewish family man (Jon Lovitz) on a family vacation joins the race without telling his wife (Kathy Najimy) why they are rushing across the country. When his daughter insists on stopping at a Barbie museum, it is without realization that it is the Klaus Barbie Nazi Museum. The escape from that location involves the theft of Hitler’s personal touring car and culminates with Lovitz having his tongue burned and accidentally crashing into a WWII Veteran’s convention. A narcoleptic Italian (Rowan Atkinson in his best Mr. Bean-like manner) gets a ride with an ambulance driver (Wayne Knight), who is carting a human heart for a transplant. Through various ineptitude, the heart ends up flying out of the truck’s window and the two have to recover it from a playful dog. The final race member (Breckin Meyer) is a straight-laced future lawyer who at first declines to participate in the race, but re-thinks his position after he meets a smart, beautiful woman (Amy Smart) who is flying a helicopter to New Mexico. He quickly finds out that she is unbalanced after she flies over her boy friend’s house and starts an attack on the boy friend when she sees him in the pool with an ex-girl friend. An air pursuit results in the crash of the helicopter. Dave Thomas also appears as Cleese’s humorless attorney.

Conspiracy Theory (1997)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Gibson, Mel | Roberts, Julia | Stewart, Patrick | Cozart, Cylk | Kahan, Steve | Alexander, Terry | McArthur, Alex | McLachlan, Rod | Potts, Michael | Sterling, Jim | Hebert, Rich | Williams, Brian J. | Aguilar, G.A. | Labao, Cece Neber | Trainor, Saxon
Directors: Donner, Richard
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Jerry Fletcher is a man in love with a woman he observes from afar. She works for the government. Fletcher is an outspoken critic of that government. He has conspiracy theories for everything, from aliens to political assassinations. But soon, one of his theories finds itself to be accurate. But which one? Some dangerous people want him dead and the only person he trusts is that woman he loves but does not know.