Posts Tagged ‘tragic-hero’

Leaving Las Vegas (1995)

Sunday, November 16th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: France | UK | USA
Actors: Cage, Nicolas | Shue, Elisabeth | Sands, Julian | Lewis, Richard | Weber, Steven | Adams, Kim | Procter, Emily | Regen, Stuart | Golino, Valeria | Beckel, Graham | Henderson, Al | Bhatia, Shashi | Lowell, Carey | Lange, Anne | Kopache, Thomas
Directors: Figgis, Mike
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RoboCop (1987)

Saturday, October 11th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Weller, Peter | Allen, Nancy | Dan O'Herlihy | Cox, Ronny | Smith, Kurtwood | Ferrer, Miguel | Robert DoQui | Wise, Ray | Perry, Felton | McCrane, Paul | Goins, Jesse D. | Zamora, Del | Jung, Calvin | Lieberman, Rick | de Broux, Lee
Directors: Verhoeven, Paul
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In a near future, the Motor City known as Detroit slowly becomes the spawn-ground for Crime as a gang of Cop Killers goes on the rise. Private organism, Omni Consomer Products (OCP) eventually seizes control of local law enforcement to ensure a secure an Urban pacification program. Just assigned to the Metro West Precint, Officer Alex Murphy is massacred to death by this gang, as his partner Anne Lewis is barely able to do nothing. At the same time, a young visionary executive, Bob Morton, seizes the chance when the ED-209 law enforcement Droid shows lack of perfection by killing a fellow executive to create the Perfect Cop. The near death Murphy is used as the subject. With his memories erased, he is resurrected as Robocop, the future of law enforcement. As he sweeps away with crime, case by case, he eventually becomes involved with the Cop Killing Gang, and Anne Lewis herself. All of this, triggering his dormant memories of his past life as he searches for who he really is, and uncover a conspiracy going deep in OCP with the Senior Vice President himself.

Blade II (2002)

Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Snipes, Wesley | Kristofferson, Kris | Perlman, Ron | Varela, Leonor | Reedus, Norman | Kretschmann, Thomas | Goss, Luke | Schulze, Matt | John-Jules, Danny | Yen, Donnie | Roden, Karel | Kile, Marit Velle | Curran, Tony | Crawford, Daz | Segura, Santiago
Directors: Toro, Guillermo del
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A rare mutation has occurred within the vampire community. The Reaper. A vampire so consumed with an insatiable bloodlust that they prey on vampires as well as humans, transforming victims who are unlucky enough to survive into Reapers themselves. Now their quickly expanding population threatens the existence of vampires, and soon there won’t be enough humans in the world to satisfy their bloodlust. Blade, Whistler (Yes, he’s back) and an armory expert named Scud are curiously summoned by the Shadow Council. The council reluctantly admits that they are in a dire situation and they require Blade’s assistance. Blade then tenuously enters into an alliance with The Bloodpack, an elite team of vampires trained in all modes of combat to defeat the Reaper threat. Blade’s team and the Bloodpack are the only line of defense which can prevent the Reaper population from wiping out the vampire and human populations.

Mad Max (1979)

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Australia
Actors: Gibson, Mel | Samuel, Joanne | Hugh Keays-Byrne | Bisley, Steve | Burns, Tim | Ward, Roger | Aldenhoven, Lisa | Bracks, David | Cadart, Bertrand | Cameron, David | Chaffey, Robina | Clark, Stephen | Constantine, Mathew | Day, Jerry | Evans, Reg
Directors: Miller, George
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It is a couple of years in the future… The highways of Australia are ruled by violent gangs who have turned the highways into a battleground as they loot gasoline and terrorize the innocent. Max Rockatansky is a policeman who had everything… Until, a murderous motorcycle gang led by the evil Toecutter burns his partner Jim Goose to death and murders his wife and son, after Max killed their leader “The Knight Rider”. Loosing his rocker, Max decides to take the law into his own hands as he sets out to get his revenge on the motorcycle gang and become the road warrior known as “Mad Max”.

Army of Darkness (1992)

Monday, May 19th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Campbell, Bruce | Davidtz, Embeth | Gilbert, Marcus | Abercrombie, Ian | Grove, Richard | Quill, Timothy Patrick | Reid, Michael Earl | Fonda, Bridget | Tallman, Patricia | Raimi, Ted | Anderson, Deke | Thomas, Bruce | Shearer, Sara | Gordon, Shiva | Bryan, Billy
Directors: Raimi, Sam
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In this sequel to the Evil Dead films, a discount-store employee (”Name’s Ash. Housewares.”) is time-warped to a medieval castle beset by monstrous forces. Initially mistaken for an enemy, he is soon revealed as the prophecised savior who can quest for the Necronomicon, a book which can dispel the evil. Unfortunately, he screws up the magic words while collecting the tome, and releases an army of skeletons, led by his own Deadite counterpart. What follows is a thrilling, yet tongue-in-cheek battle between Ash’s 20th Century tactics and the minions of darkness.

Rambo 4 (2008)

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
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Actors: Benz, Julie | Marsden, Matthew | McTavish, Graham | Gallegos, Reynaldo | La Botz, Jake | Kang, Tim | Khin, Maung Maung | Howard, Ken | Ashby, Linden | Mawng, Sai | Schulze, Paul
Directors: Stallone, Sylvester
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The next chapter finds Rambo recruited by a group of Christian human rights missionaries to protect them against pirates, during a humanitarian aid deliver to the persecuted Karen people of Burma. After some of the missionaries are taken prisoner by sadistic Burmese soldiers, Rambo gets a second impossible job: to assemble a team of mercenaries to rescue the surviving relief workers.

Death Sentence (2007)

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bacon, Kevin | Garrett Hedlund | Preston, Kelly | Garrett, Jordan | Lafferty, Stuart | Tyler, Aisha | Goodman, John | O'Leary, Matt | Gathegi, Edi | Ruiz, Hector Atreyu | Howell, Kanin J. | Keiffer, Dennis | Bouciegues, Freddy | Leigh Whannell | Pieretti, Casey
Directors: James Wan
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When a family falls victim to a vicious attack perpetrated as a gang initiation ritual, the vengeful father vows to track down each person involved in the crime in Saw director James Wan and screenwriter Ian Jeffers feature adaptation of author Brian Garfield’s original novel. Aisha Tyler co-stars as the sympathetic homicide detective who questions her pledge to assist Bacon’s character after suspecting that he may have turned to murder as a means of exacting his revenge.

Outlaw Josey Wales, The (1976)

Friday, March 28th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: George, Chief Dan | Locke, Sondra | McKinney, Bill | Vernon, John | Trueman, Paula | Bottoms, Sam | Keams, Geraldine | Parfrey, Woodrow | Jameson, Joyce | Wooley, Sheb | Dano, Royal | Clark, Matt | Verros, John | Sampson, Will
Directors: Eastwood, Clint
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Josey Wales is a peaceful farmer in the days near the end of the Civil War. After his home is burned and his family murdered, he hardens into a human bullet - dedicated to destroying the renegades who took his “life.” He joins a band of unreconstructed rebel guerilla fighters who continue to fight the Union - even after the official surrender of the Confederacy - an action which makes them, legally, outlaws. Josey is driven by vengeance, but after a while, that’s not enough. Back before his own personal Holocaust, he had been a builder - of home, family, farm, and life. And no matter how much ice he’s wrapped himself in, down inside there’s still the soul of a living man. While Wales exists, he’s pulled by this hidden yearning to Live. Each day offers him chances to remember, to assuage his yearning, to begin again. And the movie shows us how Josey Wales - a mere seeker of vengeance - learns to live again, rededicated to the values he chose so long ago.

Man on Fire (2004)

Friday, March 21st, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Mexico | UK | USA
Actors: Washington, Denzel | Fanning, Dakota | Anthony, Marc | Mitchell, Radha | Walken, Christopher | Giannini, Giancarlo | Ticotin, Rachel | Ochoa, Jesús | Rourke, Mickey | Peláez, Angelina | Sánchez Parra, Gustavo | Camilo, Gero | Hernández, Rosa María | Del Castillo, Heriberto | Zaragoza, Mario
Directors: Scott, Tony
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A wave of kidnappings has swept through Mexico, feeding a growing sense of panic among its wealthier citizens, especially parents. In one six-day period, there were twenty-four abductions, leading many to hire bodyguards for their children. Into this world enters John Creasy, a burned-out ex-CIA operative/assassin, who has given up on life. Creasy’s friend Rayburn brings him to Mexico City to be a bodyguard to nine-year-old Pita Ramos, daughter of industrialist Samuel Ramos and his wife Lisa. Creasy is not interested in being a bodyguard, especially to a youngster, but for lack of something better to do, he accepts the assignment. Creasy barely tolerates the precocious child and her pestering questions about him and his life. But slowly, she chips away at his seemingly impenetrable exterior, his defenses drop, and he opens up to her. Creasy’s new-found purpose in life is shattered when Pita is kidnapped. Despite being seriously wounded during the kidnapping, he vows to kill anyone involved in or profiting from the kidnapping. And no one can stop him.

Hero (2002)

Friday, March 14th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama
Countries: China | Hong Kong
Actors: Li, Jet | Leung Chiu Wai, Tony | Cheung, Maggie | Zhang, Ziyi | Chen, Daoming | Yen, Donnie | Yuan, Liu Zhong | Yong, Zheng Tia | Qin, Yan | Xiao Yang, Chang | Ya Kun, Zhang | Hua, Ma Wen | Ming, Jin | Hua, Xu Kuang | Xin, Wang Shou
Directors: Zhang, Yimou
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In ancient China, before the reign of the first emperor, warring factions throughout the Six Kingdoms plot to assassinate the most powerful ruler, Qin. When a minor official defeats Qin’s three principal enemies, he is summoned to the palace to tell Qin the story of his surprising victory.