Posts Tagged ‘survival’

Deliverance (1972)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Voight, Jon | Reynolds, Burt | Beatty, Ned | Cox, Ronny | Ramey, Ed | Redden, Billy | Glass, Seamon | Deal, Randall | McKinney, Bill | Coward, Herbert 'Cowboy' | Crone, Lewis | Keener, Ken | Popwell, Johnny | Fowler, John | Rickman, Kathy
Directors: Boorman, John
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Based on James Dickey’s novel, this film tells the story of an ill-fated canoe trip in deep backwoods America, where the people are as scary as the country is beautiful.

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jones, Duane | O'Dea, Judith | Hardman, Karl | Eastman, Marilyn | Wayne, Keith | Ridley, Judith | Schon, Kyra | Craig, Charles | Hinzman, S. William | Kosana, George | Doak, Frank | Cardille, Bill 'Chilly Billy' | McDonald, A.C.
Directors: Romero, George A.
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Chaos descends upon the world as the brains of the recently deceased become inexplicably reanimated, causing the dead to rise and feed on human flesh. Speculation rests on a radiation-covered NASA satellite returning from Venus, but it only remains a speculation. Anyone who dies during the crisis of causes unrelated to brain trauma will return as a flesh-eating zombie, including anyone who has been bitten by a zombie. The only way to destroy the zombies is to destroy the brain. As the catastrophe unfolds, a young woman visiting her father’s grave takes refuge in a nearby farmhouse, where she is met by a man who protects her and barricades them inside. They both later discover people hiding in the basement, and they each attempt to cope with the situation. Their only hope rests on getting some gasoline from a nearby pump into a truck that is running on empty, but this requires braving the hordes of ravenous walking corpses outside. When they finally put their plans into action, panic and personal tensions only add to the terror as they try to survive.

I Am David (2003)

Monday, June 8th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Tibber, Ben | Caviezel, James | Plowright, Joan | Shopov, Hristo | De Santis, Silvia | Reconti, Paco | Attias, Roberto | De Vito, Francesco | Russell, Lucy | Bonnevie, Maria | Carinci, Viola | Jivkov, Marin | Syulev, Robert | Sperduti, Alessandro
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In 1952, the polyglot twelve year-old David, who was raised in the Communist Belene Prison Camp in Bulgaria, witnesses the death of his friend and protector Johannes and escapes from the concentration camp in the night. He is advised to mistrust everybody and together with a piece of bread, a compass, a piece of soap, a jackknife and a sealed envelope to be delivered in Denmark, he travels though Greece and Italy heading North. Along his journey, David discovers the beauty of the world and slowly he changes his behavior with people. When he meets Sophie, an old lady that lives in Switzerland and likes to paint as hobby, she asks David to paint his face; later she invites David to have lunch with her in her house, and David finally discloses his quest to her.

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.

Ravenous (1999)

Monday, June 1st, 2009
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Czech Republic | UK | USA
Actors: Pearce, Guy | Carlyle, Robert | Arquette, David | Davies, Jeremy | Jones, Jeffrey | Spencer, John | Spinella, Stephen | McDonough, Neal | Runningfox, Joseph | Brochtrup, Bill | Tousey, Sheila | Becerril, Fernando | Berthier, Gabriel | Altamirano, Pedro
Directors: Antonia Bird
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Captain John Boyd receives a promotion after defeating the enemy command in a battle of the Mexican-American War, but because the general realizes it was an act of cowardice that got him there, he is given a backhanded promotion to Fort Spencer, where he is third in command. The others at the fort are two Indians, George and his sister, Martha, who came with the place, Chaplain Toffler, Reich, the soldier; Cleaves, a drugged-up cook; and Knox, who is frequently drunk. When a Scottish stranger named Colquhoun appears and recovers from frostbite almost instantly after being bathed, he tells a story about his party leader, Ives, eating members of the party to survive. As part of their duty, they must go up to the cave where this occurred to see if any have survived. Only Martha, Knox, and Cleaves stay behind. George warns that since Colquhoun admits to eating human flesh, he must be a Windigo, a ravenous cannibalistic creature.

Adam Resurrected (2008)

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
Genres: Drama | War
Countries: Germany | Israel | USA
Actors: Goldblum, Jeff | Dafoe, Willem | Motiu, Cristian | Albinet, Vasile | Alterman, Idan | Bleibtreu, Moritz | Jacobi, Derek | Keren, Dror | Król, Joachim | Leon, Mickey | Spahiu, Gabriel | Toledano, Yoram | Dodina, Jenya | Ferres, Veronica | Köhler, Juliane
Directors: Schrader, Paul
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“Adam Resurrected” follows the story of Adam Stein, a charismatic patient at a mental institution for Holocaust survivors in Israel, 1961. He reads minds and confounds his doctors, lead by Nathan Gross. Before the war, in Berlin, Adam was an entertainer—cabaret impresario, circus owner, magician, musician—loved by audiences and Nazis alike until he finds himself in a concentration camp, confronted by Commandant Klein. Adam survives the camp by becoming the Commandant’s “dog”, entertaining him while his wife and daughter are sent off to die. Years later we find him at the Institute. One day, Adam smells something, hears a sound. “Who brought a dog in here?” he asks Gross. Gross denies there is a dog but Adam finds him—a young boy raised in a basement on a chain. Adam and the boy see and recognize each other as dogs—and their journey begins. “Adam Resurrected” is the story of a man who once was a dog who meets a dog who once was a boy.

Far Off Place, A (1993)

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Family | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Witherspoon, Reese | Embry, Ethan | Thompson, Jack | Bok, Sarel | Burke, Robert John | Kalember, Patricia | Gerroll, Daniel | Schell, Maximilian | Anderson, Miles | Cheza, Fidelis | Chihota, Taffy | Chinyanga, Anthony | Cooper, Brian | Damas, Magdalene | Indi, John
Directors: Salomon, Mikael
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The witty Nonni and the stuck-up city-boy Harry are the only ones to survive a massacre of a gang of poachers among the gamekeeper’s family on his lonesome farm in the savanna. Now the ruthless murderers are after them as the only witnesses. Without a means of transportation, the only way to escape is to walk through 2000 kilometers of Kalahari desert with the help of the African bushman Xhabbo. On the months-long journey ahead they not only become good friends against their differences, but also realize that every one of them has strength and skills that are required to survive.

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)

Thursday, January 29th, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Stiller, Ben | Almendarez, Herman | Rock, Chris | Schwimmer, David | Gordon, Zachary | Pinkett Smith, Jada | Holcomb, Bryceson | Baron Cohen, Sacha | Lister, Tommy 'Tiny' | Cedric the Entertainer | Richter, Andy | Mac, Bernie | Baldwin, Alec | Shepherd, Sherri | Stanley, Thomas | Will i Am | Gabrielli, Elisa | Vernon, Conrad | (person unknown) | McGrath, Tom
Directors: Darnell, Eric
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The sequel of the first movie, the New York Zoo Animals, Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe and Gloria the Hippo, still stranded on Madagascar, started to leave the island. All of a sudden, they landed in the wilderness of Africa. There, Alex soon meet the rest of his family and starting to have trouble communicating with them after much of his time at the Central Park Zoo.

Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
Genres: Drama | History | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Watanabe, Ken | Ninomiya, Kazunari | Ihara, Tsuyoshi | Kase, Ryo | Nakamura, Shido | Watanabe, Hiroshi | Bando, Takumi | Matsuzaki, Yuki | Yamaguchi, Takashi | Ozaki, Eijiro | Nae | Sakagami, Nobumasa | Eberl, Luke | Saito, Sonny | Sekiyoshi, Steve Santa
Directors: Eastwood, Clint
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The island of Iwo Jima stands between the American military force and the home islands of Japan. Therefore the Imperial Japanese Army is desperate to prevent it from falling into American hands and providing a launching point for an invasion of Japan. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi is given command of the forces on the island and sets out to prepare for the imminent attack. General Kuribayashi, however, does not favor the rigid traditional approach recommended by his subordinates, and resentment and resistance fester among his staff. In the lower echelons, a young soldier, Saigo, a poor baker in civilian life, strives with his friends to survive the harsh regime of the Japanese army itself, all the while knowing that a fierce battle looms. When the American invasion begins, both Kuribayashi and Saigo find strength, honor, courage, and horrors beyond imagination.

Alive (1993)

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Hawke, Ethan | Spano, Vincent | Hamilton, Josh | Ramsay, Bruce | Newton, John | Kriegel, David | Breznahan, Kevin | Behrens, Sam | Douglas, Illeana | Noseworthy, Jack | Meoli, Christian J. | Carpenter, Jake | DeLorenzo, Michael | Zúñiga, José | Nucci, Danny
Directors: Marshall, Frank
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The amazing, true story of a Uruguayan rugby team’s plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains, and their immense will to survive and pull through alive, forced to do anything and everything they could to stay alive on meager rations and through the freezing cold. The only thing the team has riding on after losing so many of their good friends and family members is the slim chance of making it through alive and their faithfulness to God.