Posts Tagged ‘attempted-murder’

Blues Brothers, The (1980)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Action | Comedy | Music | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Belushi, John | Aykroyd, Dan | Brown, James | Calloway, Cab | Charles, Ray | Franklin, Aretha | Cropper, Steve | Dunn, Donald | Dunne, Murphy | Hall, Willie | Malone, Tom | Marini, Lou | Murphy, Matt | Rubin, Alan | Fisher, Carrie
Directors: Landis, John
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After the release of Jake Blues from prison, he and brother Elwood go to visit the old home where they were raised by nuns. They learn the church stopped its support and will sell the place to the education authority, and the only way to keep the place open is if the $5000 tax on the property is paid within 11 days. The brothers want to help and decide to put their blues band back together and raise the the money by staging a big gig. As they set off on their “mission from god” they seem to make more enemies along the way. Will they manage to come up with the money in time?

Titanic (1997)

Saturday, July 11th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: DiCaprio, Leonardo | Winslet, Kate | Zane, Billy | Bates, Kathy | Fisher, Frances | Stuart, Gloria | Paxton, Bill | Hill, Bernard | Warner, David | Garber, Victor | Hyde, Jonathan | Amis, Suzy | Abernathy, Lewis | Cascone, Nicholas | Sagalevitch, Dr. Anatoly M.
Directors: Cameron, James
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Titanic, the ship of dreams. Is also known as Unsinkable, and it was unsinkable on its departure on April 10th, 1912. And on its epic journey a poor artist named Jack Dawson and a rich girl Rose DeWitt Bukator fall in love, until one night, their fairytale love for one another turns into a struggle for survival on a ship about to founder to the bottom of the North Atlantic. Rose leaves her fiancée Caledon Hockley for this poor artist, but when the Titanic collides with the Iceberg on April 14th, 1912, and then when the ship sinks on April 15th, 1912 at 2:20 in the morning, Jack dies and Rose survives and 84 years later Rose tells the story about her life on Titanic to her grand daughter and friends on the Keldysh and explains the first sight of Jack that falls into love, then into a fight for survival. When Rose gets saved by one lifeboat that comes back, they take her to the Carpathia with the 6 saved with Rose and the 700 people saved in the lifeboats. The Carpathia Immigration Officer asks Rose what her name is and she loved Jack so much she says her name is not Rose DeWitt Bukator, but her name is Rose Dawson. She seen Cal looking for her, but he doesn’t see her, and they never ended up together, her mom, Cal, and friends of the family has know choice but to think that she died on the Titanic. But in the crash of 1929, Cal is married, but then he put a pistol in his mouth and committed suicide. So Rose is an actress in the 20’s, and now 84 years later Rose Calvert is 100 years old and tells her grand daughter Lizzy Calvert, Brock Lovett, Lewis Bodine, Bobby Buell, and Anatoly Mikailavich the whole story from departure until the death of Titanic on its first and last voyage, and then to Rose all Titanic and the real love of her life Jack Dawson is all an existence inside of her memory, and Titanic is to rest in peace at the bottom of the North Atlantic from 1912 until the end of time.

Marathon Man (1976)

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Hoffman, Dustin | Olivier, Laurence | Scheider, Roy | Devane, William | Keller, Marthe | Weaver, Fritz | Bright, Richard | Lawrence, Marc | Joseph, Allen | Goya, Tito | Dova, Ben | Gilbert, Lou | Marin, Jacques | Woo, James Wing | Deslauriers, Nicole
Directors: Schlesinger, John
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Babe’s brother appears out of the blue. He does this from time to time because his family never knows where he is, working as a government spy. One of his charges is a nazi war criminal who he has just told is no longer welcome in the United States. The doctor has a fortune hidden in a safety deposit box and is convinced that Babe knows whether or not it is safe to go to pick it up and will stop at nothing to find out.

Black Book (2006)

Monday, June 8th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Thriller | War
Countries: Belgium | Germany | Netherlands
Actors: Stott, Ken | Price, Claire | Cavanah, Robert | Black, Jennifer | Robb, David | Lowe, Bryan | Baxter, Lynsey | Collier, Sarah | Grieve, Ian | McQuarrie, Stuart | Bett, John | Cooper, Rowena | Grant, James
Directors: Gartland, Roger
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In 1944, in the occupied Holland, the Jewish Rachel Stein is hiding from the Nazis in a house of a Christian family. When her hiding place is bombed, Rachel escapes by chance, but she is found by a stranger called Van Gein that invites her to join a group of Jews in a boat to escape to Belgium on the next night. He advises her to bring money and jewels for her survival and very few luggage. Rachel visits lawyer and friend of her family Wim Small that gives her a large amount for her travel. When she meets the refugees, she finds that her family is in the group. While crossing the swamp, a Nazi patrol boat arrives and kills the fugitives, but Rachel is the only one to survive. Later she joins a cell of resistance leaded by the Dutch Gerben Kuipers under the identity of Ellis de Vries; after meeting the Nazi Officer Ludwig Müntze in a train, Kuipers proposes Ellis to work as a spy seducing Müntze. During her assignment, Rachel recognizes Günther Franken as the commander of the attack to the boat of refugees and later she discovers that the murders are part of a scheme with a traitor in the resistance team.

Defiant Ones, The (1958)

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Curtis, Tony | Poitier, Sidney | Bikel, Theodore | McGraw, Charles | Chaney Jr., Lon | Donovan, King | Akins, Claude | Dobkin, Lawrence | Bissell, Whit | Switzer, Carl 'Alfalfa' | Coughlin, Kevin | Williams, Cara | Smith, Harold Jacob | Young, Nedrick
Directors: Kramer, Stanley
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Joker Jackson and Noah Cullen are two convicts on a chain gang who hate each other. After a truck prison accident, they flee and are pursued by the police. While they’re chained, the two are dependent on one another. When they eventually get rid of their chains, their hostility has been changed into fellowship and respect.

Illustrated Man, The (1969)

Friday, February 27th, 2009
Genres: Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Steiger, Rod | Bloom, Claire | Drivas, Robert | Dubbins, Don | Evers, Jason | Weldon, Tim | Matchett, Christine
Directors: Smight, Jack
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A man, whose body is almost completely covered in tattoos, is looking for the woman who drew all the intricate designs on him. Each tattoo hides a futuristic story, which you experience when you stare at it.

Miracle at St. Anna (2008)

Monday, January 26th, 2009
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller | War
Countries: Italy | USA
Actors: Luke, Derek | Ealy, Michael | Alonso, Laz | Miller, Omar Benson | Favino, Pierfrancesco | Cervi, Valentina | Sciabordi, Matteo | Turturro, John | Gordon-Levitt, Joseph | Leguizamo, John | Washington, Kerry | Sweeney, D.B. | Burke, Robert John | Hardwick, Omari | Antonutti, Omero
Directors: Lee, Spike
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Set in 1944 Italy, the story of four black American soldiers who get trapped in a Tuscan village during WWII.

Black Narcissus (1947)

Thursday, December 18th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Kerr, Deborah | Robson, Flora | Simmons, Jean | Farrar, David | Sabu | Knight, Esmond | Byron, Kathleen | Laird, Jenny | Furse, Judith | Hallatt, May | Noble, Shaun | Whaley Jr., Eddie | Roberts, Nancy | On, Ley | Foster, Maxwell
Directors: Powell, Michael
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Five young British nuns are invited to move to a windy “palace”, former house of the concubines of an old general, in the top of a mountain in Mopu, Himalaya, to raise the convent of Saint Faith Order, a school for children and girls, and an infirmary for the local dwellers. Sister Clodagh (Deborah Kerr) is assigned as the superior sister, and her liaison with civilization is the rude government agent Mr. Dean (David Farrar). The lonely and exotic place and the presence of Mr. ‘Dean awake the innermost desires in the flesh of the sisters, and Sister Ruth (Kathleen Byron) becomes mad with the temptation.

Ladykillers, The (2004)

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Hanks, Tom | Hall, Irma P. | Wayans, Marlon | Simmons, J.K. | Ma, Tzi | Hurst, Ryan | Delano, Diane | Wallace, George | McConnell, John | Weaver, Jason | Root, Stephen | Odums, Lyne | Jordan, Walter K. | Bell, George Anthony | Grunberg, Greg
Directors: Coen, Ethan
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A remake of the 1955 comedy, the story revolves around a Southern professor who puts together a group of thieves to rob a casino. They rent a room in an old woman’s house, but soon she discovers the plot and they must kill her, a task that is more difficult than it seems.

Impostors, The (1998)

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Platt, Oliver | Jones, Walker | Walling, Jessica | Lipman, David | Kerr, E. Katherine | Guidall, George | Hill, William | Molina, Alfred | Emerson, Michael | O'Connell, Jack | Malloy, Matt | Blumberg, Ted | Taylor, Lili | Shalhoub, Tony
Directors: Tucci, Stanley
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In an attempt to resurrect the slapstick comedy of Laurel and Hardy or The Marx Brothers, Stanley Tucci and Oliver Platt team-up as two out-of-work actors who accidentally stowaway on a ship to hide from a drunken, belligerent lead actor who has sworn to kill them for belittling his talents. Of course, the lead actor end up on the ship as well. Also, a madman (Tony Shalhoub) plots the destruction of the ship and Steve Buscemi is a depressed, suicidal lounge singer named Happy Frank.