Posts Tagged ‘isolation’

Enemy Mine (1985)

Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Quaid, Dennis | Gossett Jr., Louis | James, Brion | Marcus, Richard | McCormick, Carolyn | Robinson, Bumper | Mapp, Jim | Kerwin, Lance | Kraft, Scott | Michaels, Lou | Geer, Andy | Stolow, Henry | Andress, Herb | Danmar | Hausenberger, Mandy
Directors: Petersen, Wolfgang
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On a far distant planet, at the height of the war between the Dracon and Terran Empires, two military pilots crash in the heat of battle. One is Terran, one is Drac. Each is a repulsive alien to the other. Each is a professional warrior, filled with hatred for his blood enemy. Now, marooned on a hostile world, they have a choice. They can complete their missions in a mutual pact of violence and death. Or they can do the most painful thing any Human or Drac has ever done: reach out and begin the new age of understanding that is struggling to be born.

Shining, The (1980)

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Nicholson, Jack | Duvall, Shelley | Lloyd, Danny | Crothers, Scatman | Nelson, Barry | Stone, Philip | Turkel, Joe | Jackson, Anne | Burton, Tony | Beldam, Lia | Gibson, Billie | Dennen, Barry | Baxt, David | Redwood, Manning | Burns, Lisa
Directors: Kubrick, Stanley
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A novelist - Jack Torrance take a job interview as winter caretaker of the isolated, old, huge and beautiful Overlook Hotel. In the interview, Jack is told by the manager himself, that the previous caretaker - Grady, chopped his family and later killed himself with a shotgun. Ignoring the story, Jack brings his wife - Wendy and his son Danny. It happens that Danny, has a mysterious power known as “The Shining” that shows him things from the past and future. Some of the visions come from Tony - “the little boy who lives in Danny’s mouth”. Danny meets Hallorann - the hotel cook in their first day arriving at the Overlook, who also has this “Shining” and he warns him about the hotel and the sinister Room 237. As the days go by, Danny has visions of previous guests and employees who died at the hotel years before, meanwhile Jack starts driving into insanity, turning more and more aggressive, at the point that Danny and Wendy gets convinced that Jack might try to do the same thing, Grady did.

Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)

Thursday, February 12th, 2009
Genres: Fantasy | Horror | Musical
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Actors: Sorvino, Paul | Hilton, Paris | Moseley, Bill | Head, Anthony | Vega, Alexa | Armstrong, Dean | Burd, Tim | Dubeau, Stephan | Jazzar, Dani | Kiner, Dave | LaRose, J. | Ogre, Nivek | Reardon, Jake | Samuel, Martin
Directors: Bousman, Darren Lynn
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In the year 2056 - the not so distant future - an epidemic of organ failures devastates the planet. Out of the tragedy, a savior emerges: GeneCo, a biotech company that offers organ transplants, for a price. Those who miss their payments are scheduled for repossession and hunted by villainous Repo Men. In a world where surgery addicts are hooked on painkilling drugs and murder is sanctioned by law, a sheltered young girl searches for the cure to her own rare disease as well as information about her family’s mysterious history. After being sucked into the haunting world of GeneCo, she is unable to turn back, as all of her questions will be answered at the wildly anticipated spectacular event: The Genetic Opera.

Wolf Creek (2005)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Crime | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Australia
Actors: Jarratt, John | Magrath, Cassandra | Morassi, Kestie | Phillips, Nathan | Poole, Gordon | O'Donnell, Guy | Stevenson, Phil | Revell, Geoff | McPhee, Andy | Sterns, Aaron | Moody, Michael | Reimer, Andrew | Reimer, Vicki | Reimer, Isabella | Rock, David
Directors: McLean, Greg | Mclean, Greg
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Just when you thought it was safe to go hiking in the bushes again…along comes Mick Taylor. Kristy, Ben and Liz are three pals in their twenties who set out to hike through the scenic Wolf Creek National Park in the Australian Outback. The trouble begins when they get back only to find that their car won’t start. The trio think they have a way out when they run into a local bushman named Mick Taylor. Wait until you get a load of what Mick has in store for them. Their troubles have just begun.

Misery (1990)

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Caan, James | Bates, Kathy | Farnsworth, Richard | Sternhagen, Frances | Bacall, Lauren | Jarvis, Graham | Potter, Jerry | Brunelle, Thomas | Christopher, June | Payne, Julie | Hahn III, Archie | Snegoff, Gregory | Bowers, Wendy | Pig, Misery the
Directors: Reiner, Rob
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Novelist Paul Sheldon crashes his car on a snowy Colorado road. He is found by Annie Wilkes, the “number one fan” of Paul’s heroine Misery Chastaine. Annie is also somewhat unstable, and Paul finds himself crippled, drugged and at her mercy.

Living and the Dead, The (2006)

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Lloyd-Pack, Roger | Bill, Leo | Conrich, Neil
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A descent into Hell is triggered when “Ex-Lord” Donald Brocklebank finds that he must leave Longleigh House for London to find a way to pay for the medical treatments for his wife Nancy. Alone, his over-protected, delusional, adult son, James, fancies himself in charge of the manor house with his terminally ill mother, and barricades the two of them into the house for a series of ever more panicked home treatments, mistakenly protecting her from the arrival of Nurse Mary and any outside help.

Nim’s Island (2008)

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Butler, Gerard | Carman, Michael | Brady, Mark | Simcoe, Anthony | Baker, Christopher | Joyce, Maddison | Callan, Peter | Butler, Russell | Gibson, Colin | Probets, Bryan | Nason, Andrew | Bellette, Tony | Dornan, Jeff | Laga'aia, Jay | Walton, John
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A young girl inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates with a reclusive author of the novel she’s reading. It is an existence that mirrors that of her favorite literary character, Alex Rover, the world’s greatest adventurer. But Alexandra, the author of the Rover books, leads a reclusive life in the big city. When Nim’s father goes missing from their island, a twist of fate brings her together with Alexandra. Now they must draw courage from their fictional hero, Alex Rover, and find strength in one another to conquer Nim’s Island.

Garden State (2004)

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Graymez, Kenneth | Wolfe, George C. | Lysy, Austin | Gilbert, Gary | Flint, Jill | Holm, Ian | Sarsgaard, Peter | Alex Burns | Hoffman, Jackie | Weston, Michael | Carley, Christopher | Riesco, Armando | Ferguson, Amy | LaFache, Trisha
Directors: Braff, Zach
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Andrew Largeman shuffled through life in a lithium-induced coma until his mother’s death inspired a vacation from the pills to see what might happen. A moderately successful TV actor living in Los Angeles, “Large” hasn’t been home to the Garden State in nine years. But even with 3,000 miles between them, he’s been unable to escape his domineering father Gideon and the silencing effect he’s had on his son from afar. Stunned to find himself in his hometown after such a long absence, Large finds old acquaintances around every corner living quite unique lives as gravediggers, fast food knights and the panderers of pyramid schemes. Meanwhile, at home, he does his best to avoid a long-simmering but inevitable confrontation with his father. By a twist of fate, Large meets Sam, a girl who is everything he isn’t. A blast of color, hope and quirks, Sam becomes a sidekick who refuses to ride in his sidecar. Her warmth and fearlessness give Large the courage to open his heart to the joy and pain of the infinite abyss that is life.

I Am Legend (2007)

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Smith, Will | Tahan, Charlie | Foster, Darrell | Mihok, Dash | Kona | Glen, Samuel | McCauley, James Michael | Mojica, Pedro | Mazza, Anthony C. | Cirbus, Steve | Sharma, Adhi | Simpson, Tyree Michael | Lange, Blake | DiPersia, Alexander | Sparrow, Abraham
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Robert Neville (Will Smith) is a brilliant scientist, but even he could not contain the terrible virus that was unstoppable, incurable, and man-made. Somehow immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and maybe the world. For three years, Neville has faithfully sent out daily radio messages, desperate to find any other survivors who might be out there. But he is not alone. Mutant victims of the plague — The Infected — lurk in the shadows… watching Neville’s every move… waiting for him to make a fatal mistake. Perhaps mankind’s last, best hope, Neville is driven by only one remaining mission: to find a way to reverse the effects of the virus using his own immune blood. But he knows he is outnumbered… and quickly running out of time.

28 Days Later… (2002)

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Palmer, Alex | De Stoppani, Bindu | Hiltunen, Jukka | Schneider, David | Murphy, Cillian | Sedgwick, Toby | Harris, Naomie | Huntley, Noah | Dunne, Christopher | Hitching, Emma | Delamere, Alexander | McGarrity, Kim | Gleeson, Brendan | Burns, Megan | Hackney, Justin
Directors: Boyle, Danny
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A powerful virus escapes from a British research facility. Transmitted in a drop of blood and devastating within seconds, the virus locks those infected into a permanent state of murderous rage. Within 28 days the country is overwhelmed and a handful of survivors begin their attempts to salvage a future, little realising that the deadly virus is not the only thing that threatens them.