Posts Tagged ‘racial-prejudice’

Running Scared (2006)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Walker, Paul | Bright, Cameron | Farmiga, Vera | Palminteri, Chazz | Roden, Karel | Messner, Johnny | Milicevic, Ivana | Neuberger, Alex | Cudlitz, Michael | Altman, Bruce | Mitchell, Elizabeth | Nascarella, Arthur J. | Noble, John | DeLeon, Idalis | Warshofsky, David
Directors: Kramer, Wayne
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After a drug-op gone bad, Joey Gazelle is put in charge of disposing the gun that shot a dirty cop. But things goes wrong for Joey after the neighbor kid stole the gun and used it to shoot his abusive father. Now Joey has to find the kid and the gun before the police and the mob find them first.

Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)

Thursday, March 12th, 2009
Genres: Fantasy | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Aykroyd, Dan | Brooks, Albert | Morrow, Vic | McGrath, Doug | Hallahan, Charles | Peets, Rainer | Wulff, Kai | Dugan, Sue | Porter, Debby | Williams, Steven | Claudier, Annette | Hieu, Joseph | Leong, Al | Bishop, Stephen
Directors: Dante, Joe
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Four horror/science-fiction segments directed by four of Hollywood’s famous directors based on TV’s most popular anthology series, bookened by a funny and scary prologue and epilogue featuring Dan Aykroyd and Albert Brooks. In the first story directed by John Landis (a vague remake of the Twilight Zone episode “A Quality of Mercy”) a loud-mouthed bigotted businessman (Vic Morrow) with an intense hatred for Jews, blacks, and Asians, gets the tables turned on him when he walks out a bar and is inexplicably transported back in time to being pursued by Nazis in 1940’s France, then as an African-American at a KKK rally in the 1950s Deep South, and as a Vietnamese in 1960s Vietnam. The second story directed by Stephen Spielberg (a remake of ‘Kick the Can’) an old man (Scatman Crothers) arrives at a retirement home and makes the wishes of the residents come true when he magically transforms them into youthful incarnations of their days gone by. The third story directed by Joe Dante (a remake of ‘It’s a Good Life’) a young woman on the road (Kathleen Quinlan) gives a ride to a mysterous 10-year-old boy (Jeremy Licth) to his house and ends up trapped with other people in an alternate reality created by the boy’s imagination. The fourth story directed by George Miller (a remake of ‘Nightmare at 20,000 Feet) stars John Lithgow as an passenger on an airline whom sees, but cannot convince anyone, a mysterious creature on the outside wing of the airplane trying to sabotage the aircraft.

Long Good Friday, The (1980)

Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Freeman, Paul | Dolan, Leo | McNally, Kevin | Love, Patti | Moriarty, P.H. | Thompson, Derek | Marshall, Bryan | Hoskins, Bob | Mirren, Helen | Head, Ruby | Cork, Charles | Pierre, Olivier | Brosnan, Pierce | O'Malley, Daragh | King, Dave
Directors: Mackenzie, John
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Harold, a prosperous English gangster, is about to close a lucrative new deal when bombs start showing up in very inconvenient places. A mysterious syndicate is trying to muscle in on his action, and Harold wants to know who they are. He finds out soon enough, and bloody mayhem ensues.

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Monday, December 15th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Peck, Gregory | Megna, John | Overton, Frank | Murphy, Rosemary | White, Ruth | Peters, Brock | Evans, Estelle | Fix, Paul | Paxton, Collin Wilcox | Anderson, James | Ghostley, Alice | Duvall, Robert | Windom, William | Denton, Crahan | Hale, Richard
Directors: Mulligan, Robert
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In the rural American south during the depths of the Depression, two children watch as their principled father takes a stand against intolerance.

Dead Birds (2004)

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Thomas, Henry | Fugit, Patrick | Aycox, Nicki | Shannon, Michael | Watson, Muse | Boone Junior, Mark | Washington, Isaiah | Mann, Harris | Abramoff, Melanie | Biscoe, Donna | Bremer, Brian | Comegys, Russ | Dwyer, David | Faella, Michael | Green, Steve
Directors: Turner, Alex
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In 1863, in Fairhope, Alabama, a group of former Confederate soldiers robbers a commerce bank and kills many clients and employees. While escaping to Mexico, they spend the night in an isolated house that belonged to a dead soldier of their company. When weird events happen in the stormy night, they find that the dwellers are demons.

Street Kings (2008)

Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Reeves, Keanu | Whitaker, Forest | Laurie, Hugh | Evans, Chris | Cedric the Entertainer | Mohr, Jay | Choi, Kenneth | Crews, Terry | Harris, Naomie | Sloan, Cle Shaheed | Common | Higareda, Martha | Corbett, John | Nolasco, Amaury | Game, The | Gugliemi, Noel | Monks, Michael | Benton, Kevin | Gates, Daryl
Directors: Ayer, David
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Tom Ludlow is a veteran LAPD cop who finds life difficult to navigate after the death of his wife. When evidence implicates him in the execution of a fellow officer, he is forced to go up against the cop culture he’s been a part of his entire career, ultimately leading him to question the loyalties of everyone around him.

Remember the Titans (2000)

Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Genres: Drama | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Washington, Denzel | Patton, Will | Harris, Wood | Hurst, Ryan | Faison, Donald | Kirkwood, Craig | Suplee, Ethan | Pardue, Kip | Panettiere, Hayden | Parker, Nicole Ari | Bosworth, Kate | Poitier, Earl | Gosling, Ryan | Jenkins, Burgess | Ghant, Neal
Directors: Boaz Yakin
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Denzel Washington is hired as the T.C. Williams High football coach over a white coach in Alexandria, Virginia in the early 1970’s during a time when the school has just been integrated to allow blacks into the school.

Hollywoodland (2006)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | History | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Brody, Adrien | Lane, Diane | Affleck, Ben | Hoskins, Bob | Tunney, Robin | Cedar, Larry | DeMunn, Jeffrey | Henke, Brad William | Mihok, Dash | Parker, Molly | Dhavernas, Caroline | Robertson, Kathleen | Spano, Joe | Williams, Gareth | Mills, Zach
Directors: Coulter, Allen
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An exploration of fame and identity, inspired by one of Hollywood’s most infamous real-life mysteries. June 16, 1959. The glamour of Tinseltown permanently fades for actor George Reeves, the heroic Man of Steel on TV’s Adventures of Superman, as the actor dies in his Hollywood Hills home. Felled by a single gunshot wound, Reeves leaves behind a fiancée - aspiring starlet Leonore Lemmon - and millions of fans who are shocked by his death. But it is his grieving mother, Helen Bessolo, who will not let the questionable circumstances surrounding his demise go unaddressed. Helen seeks justice, or at least answers. The Los Angeles Police Department closes the case, but Helen hires - for $50 a day - private detective Louis Simo. Simo soon ascertains that the torrid affair Reeves had with Toni Mannix, the wife of MGM studio executive Eddie Mannix, might hold the key to the truth. But truth and justice are not so easily found in Hollywood. Simo pursues dangerous and elusive leads in both high and low places and, in trying to turn up the heat, risks getting burned. The detective also uncovers unexpected connections to his own life as the case turns more personal and he learns more about Reeves himself. Behind the icon was a complex man who gave his life to Hollywood in more ways than one.

All the King’s Men (2006)

Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Penn, Sean | Law, Jude | Hopkins, Anthony | Winslet, Kate | Ruffalo, Mark | Clarkson, Patricia | Gandolfini, James | Haley, Jackie Earle | Baker, Kathy | Balsam, Talia | Champagne, Travis | Forrest, Frederic | Desmond, Paul | Dunn, Kevin | McCarthy, Kevin
Directors: Zaillian, Steven
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In the 50’s, in Louisiana, the smart populist, manipulative and wolf hick Willie Stark is elected governor with the support of the lower social classes. He joins a team composed of his bodyguard and friend Sugar Boy; the journalist from an aristocratic family Jack Burden; the lobbyist Tiny Duffy; and his mistress Sadie Burke, to face the opposition of the upper classes. When the influent Judge Irwin supports a group of politicians in their request of impeachment, Stark assigns Jack to find some dirtiness along the life of Irwin, leading to a tragedy in the end.

Departed, The (2006)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: DiCaprio, Leonardo | Damon, Matt | Nicholson, Jack | Sheen, Martin | Wahlberg, Mark | Farmiga, Vera | Anderson, Anthony | Winstone, Ray | Baldwin, Alec
Directors: Scorsese, Martin
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Two just-graduated officers from Massachusetts State Police Academy follow opposite sides of the law: William Costigan is assigned to work undercover with the Irish mobster Frank Costello to get evidences to arrest him. His true identity is only known by his superiors Dignam and Oliver Queenan. The protégée of Costello, Colin Sullivan, is promoted in the Massachusetts State Police and is the informer of Costello. Each police officer gives his best effort trying to disclose the identity of the other “rat”.