Posts Tagged ‘assassination’

Desert Saints (2000)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Action | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Roam, Brent | Woods, Shawn | Bersh, Christopher | Sutherland, Kiefer | Ticotin, Rachel | Grant, Beth | Chapman, Zach | Sheridan, Jamey | Stefanson, Leslie | Walters, Melora | Quaid, Buddy | Diamond, Keith | Sage, Bill | Waksal, Aliza | Gelfant, Alan
Directors: Greenberg, Richard
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The nature of temptation. Banks is a hit man, the best, usually working for Latin American drug cartels. He picks up solitary women, uses them briefly for a job, then kills them. He’s in the Southwest, headed toward Mexico, when he picks up Bennie, a woman leaving an abusive marriage, going to Paradise, Arizona. The film follows three tracks: Banks’s slow recruitment of Bennie, the set-up for the hit at a swank resort in Mexico, and the FBI’s close pursuit of Banks, whom they want alive in hopes he’ll rat out his bosses. Bennie may not be who she seems, and there may be a chink in Banks’s tough-guy armor. Guns, money, and a chance at Paradise…

Traffic (2000)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Del Toro, Benicio | Vargas, Jacob | Chavez, Andrew | Saucedo, Michael | Milian, Tomas | Yenque, Jose | Rivera, Emilio | O'Neill, Michael | Douglas, Michael | Jones, Russell G. | Hetherington, Lorene | Collins, Eric | Holden, Beau | Stader, Peter | Lew, James
Directors: Soderbergh, Steven
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A modern day look at America’s war on drugs told through four separate stories that are connected in one way or another. A conservative politician who’s just been appointed as the US drug czar learns that his daughter is a drug addict. A trophy wife struggles to save her husband’s drug business, while two DEA agents protect a witness with inside knowledge of the spouse’s business. In Mexico, a corrupt, yet dedicated cop struggles with his conscience when he learns that his new boss may not be the anti-drug official he made himself out to be.

Pelican Brief, The (1993)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Roberts, Julia | Washington, Denzel | Shepard, Sam | Heard, John | Goldwyn, Tony | Sikking, James | Atherton, William | Culp, Robert | Tucci, Stanley | Cronyn, Hume | Lithgow, John | Heald, Anthony | Woodeson, Nicholas | Anderson, Stanley | Finn, John
Directors: Pakula, Alan J.
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Two Supreme Court Justices have been killed. Now a college professor, who clerked for one of the two men, who’s also having an affair with one of his students, is given a brief by her, that states who probably, wanted to see these two men dead. He then gives it to one of his friends, who works for the FBI. When the FBI director reads it, he is fascinated by it. One of the preseident’s men who read it, is afraid that if it ever got out, the president could be smeared. So, he adivises the president to tell the director to drop it, which he does. But later the professor and the girl were out and he was drunk and when he refused to give her the keys she stepped out of the car. When he started it, it blew up. She then discovers that her place has been burglarized and what was taken were her computer and her disks. Obviously, her brief has someone agitated. She then turns to her boyfriend’s friend at the FBI, he agrees to come meet her but before he does someone shoots him and takes his place. At the meeting, he was about to kill her when someone shoots him. She then decides to turn to Gray Grantham, an investigative reporter, who was contacted by someone who says he has info on the killings but backed out at the last minute. He then meets her and tells her what her brief is, and basically, the man she suspects is a good friend of the president, who is trying to manipulate the outcome of a trial that is now before the Supreme Court. Grantham tells her that her brief can harm the president and all what they have are theories, he asks her to help him but she wants to leave the country. When Grantham’s editor tells him that they have nothing that he should drop cause the man she implicated is extremely powerful. Grantham’s about to drop it when she says that she will help him. But can they stay alive?

Jackal, The (1997)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Crime | Thriller
Countries: France | Germany | Japan | UK | USA
Actors: Willis, Bruce | Gere, Richard | Poitier, Sidney | Venora, Diane | May, Mathilda | Simmons, J.K. | 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.

Spy Game (2001)

Friday, July 24th, 2009
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Redford, Robert | Pitt, Brad | McCormack, Catherine | Dillane, Stephen | Larry Bryggman | Jean-Baptiste, Marianne | Marsh, Matthew | Boyce, Todd | Chan, Michael Paul | Hagon, Garrick | Grainger, Andrew | Buell, Bill | Stinton, Colin | Maynard, Ted | Hodgkins, Tom
Directors: Scott, Tony
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CIA operative Nathan Muir (Redford) is on the brink of retirement when he finds out that his protege Tom Bishop (Pitt) has been arrested in China for espionage. No stranger to the machinations of the CIA’s top echelon, Muir hones all his skills and irreverent manner in order to find a way to free Bishop. As he embarks on his mission to free Bishop, Muir recalls how he recruited and trained the young rookie, at that time a sergeant in Vietnam, their turbulent times together as operatives and the woman who threatened their friendship.

Naked Weapon (2002)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Action | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: Hong Kong
Actors: Thoresen, Marit | Wong Pui-Ha, Almen | Wu, Daniel | Kwok, Kai Yan | Rommeswinkel, Renee Nichole | Ka Lai, Mo | Aguerreberry, Augustin | Q, Maggie | Anya | Lee, Jewel | Lo, Monica | Lai, Benny | Cheng, Pei-pei | Chan, Dennis | Lin, Hoi
Directors: Ching, Siu-Tung
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Like a contagious virus, pretty and athletic girls in their teens start dissappearing around the globe one after another. The mastermind behind these abductions is Madame M (Almen Wong), who plans to train these girls into professional killers. After several years of gruesome training, only Charlene (Maggie Q), Katt (Anya) and Jill (Jewel Lee) survive and become the world’s most sought after professional killers. On a recent mission to assassinate someone in Hong Kong, however CIA agent Jack (Daniel Wu), who vows to help her reclaim her past by eliminating Madame M.

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Action | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Shatner, William | Nimoy, Leonard | Kelley, DeForest | Doohan, James | Koenig, Walter | Nichols, Nichelle | Takei, George | Cattrall, Kim | Lenard, Mark | Whitney, Grace Lee | Peters, Brock | Russom, Leon | Smith, Kurtwood | Plummer, Christopher | DeSoto, Rosanna
Directors: Meyer, Nicholas
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An accident on the Klingon moon Praxis forces the reluctant Klingon Empire into a peace treaty with the Federation. Kirk, despite his mistrust of the Klingons after they murdered his son at Genesis, is forced to escort a Klingon cruiser carrying the Klingon Chancellor to Earth for the meetings. During the voyage the Klingon cruiser is attacked, and Kirk & McCoy are taken prisoner after the Chancellor is murdered by two Starfleet crewmen. Spock immediately begins an investigation, while Kirk & McCoy are sentenced to life on Rura Penthe - a deep-frozen asteroid. Spock, meanwhile, has discovered that a Klingon Bird of Prey - one that can fire when cloaked, and under the command of Kingon General Chang - is the ship responsible for firing on the Chancellor, and the 2 assassins came from the Enterprise. A rescue of Kirk & McCoy is successful, after which they discover a conspiracy among Starfleet, Klingon, and Romulan officials whose plan is to incite a full-blown war! The Enterprise & Excelsior - under the command of Hikaru Sulu - head for a deadly rendezvous with General Chang at the peace summit to prevent war from breaking out…but will they be too late?

Snake Eyes (1998)

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Cage, Nicolas | Sinise, Gary | Heard, John | Gugino, Carla | Shaw, Stan | Dunn, Kevin | Rispoli, Michael | Fabiani, Joel | Guzmán, Luis | Higgins, David Anthony | Starr, Mike | Tunie, Tamara | Zien, Chip | Bassey, Michaella | Bernardo, Paul Joseph
Directors: De Palma, Brian
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After the assassination of a prominent political official at a major boxing match, a corrupt cop must solve the crime to protect his friend, who was overseeing protection of the fallen. But what the cop uncovers is a conspiracy connected to everyone that was at the boxing match that night, and the one woman who knows everything must run from those behind the murder.

Milk (2008)

Friday, April 3rd, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Penn, Sean | Brolin, Josh | Hirsch, Emile | Franco, James | Luna, Diego | Boyce, Brandon | Yu, Kelvin | Grabeel, Lucas | Pill, Alison | Garber, Victor | O'Hare, Denis | Rosenman, Howard | Spinella, Stephen | Roberts, Ted Jan | Ammiano, Tom
Directors: Van Sant, Gus
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Using flashbacks from a statement recorded late in life and archival footage for atmosphere, this film traces Harvey Milk’s career from his 40th birthday to his death. He leaves the closet and New York, opens a camera shop that becomes the salon for San Francisco’s growing gay community, and organizes gays’ purchasing power to build political alliances. He runs for office with lover Scott Smith as his campaign manager. Victory finally comes on the same day Dan White wins in the city’s conservative district. The rest of the film sketches Milk’s relationship with White and the 1978 fight against a statewide initiative to bar gays and their supporters from public school jobs.

Dead Zone, The (1983)

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Walken, Christopher | Adams, Brooke | Skerritt, Tom | Lom, Herbert | Zerbe, Anthony | Dewhurst, Colleen | Sheen, Martin | Campbell, Nicholas | Sullivan, Sean | Burroughs, Jackie | Kovács, Géza | Weiss, Roberta | Craig, Simon | Dvorsky, Peter | Heathwood, Julie-Ann
Directors: Cronenberg, David
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Teacher Johnny Smith gets in a horrible accident which forces him into a coma for five years. Once Johnny wakes up, he discovers he has the ability to read a person’s life just by making physical contact with them. When the local police find out about Johnny’s “powers”, they bring him in on a murder case. Soon Johnny’s abilities gets him into more trouble then he may be able to handle.