Posts Tagged ‘revenge’

Valkyrie (2008)

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama | History | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Cruise, Tom | Algrang, Manfred-Anton | Bamber, David | Freihof, Matthias | Gatjen, Andy | Oliver, Christian | Hemeyer, Christopher Karl | van Houten, Carice | Izzard, Eddie | Kammerer, Justus | Kretschmann, Thomas | Nighy, Bill | Panzner, Florian | Reijn, Halina | Stamp, Terence
Directors: Singer, Bryan
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Based on actual events, a plot to assassinate Hitler is unfurled during the height of WWII.

Clash of the Titans (1981)

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Olivier, Laurence | Bloom, Claire | Smith, Maggie | Ursula Andress | Gwillim, Jack | Fleetwood, Susan | Roach, Pat | Hamlin, Harry | Bowker, Judi | Burgess Meredith | Phillips, Siân | Robson, Flora | Manahan, Anna | Jackson, Freda | Pigott-Smith, Tim
Directors: Davis, Desmond
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By answering a seemingly impossible riddle, Perseus, the son of Zeus, wins the hand of the Princess Andromeda in marriage. Trouble appears in the shape of Calibos, the princess’s former love, and his mother, the Goddess Thetis. In order that the dreaded Kraken not be released, Andromeda has to be sacrificed and Perseus searches for the Medusa; her head is the only thing that can stop the Kraken.

Hannibal Rising (2007)

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Czech Republic | France | Italy | UK
Actors: Thomas, Aaran | Ulliel, Gaspard | Gong, Li | Tachovská, Helena-Lia | Leaf, Richard | West, Dominic | Ifans, Rhys | Wade, Michele | Brake, Richard | Hub, Martin | McKidd, Kevin | Dapkunaite, Ingeborga | Stadler, Joerg | Walters, Stephen | Marevich, Ivan
Directors: Webber, Peter
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Based on Thomas Harris’ book of the same name, this prequel shows a young Hannibal Lecter in three different phases of his life from childhood in Lithuania to his ten years in England up to his time in Russia before his capture by FBI agent Will Graham in Red Dragon.

Hills Have Eyes, The (2006)

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Stanford, Aaron | Quinlan, Kathleen | Shaw, Vinessa | de Ravin, Emilie | Byrd, Dan | Bower, Tom | Drago, Billy | Joy, Robert | Levine, Ted | Askew, Desmond | Buzzington, Ezra | Smith, Michael Bailey | Ortiz, Laura | Nicotero, Gregory | Camilleri Preziosi, Maisie
Directors: Aja, Alexandre
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Wes Craven produces this remake of his 1977 classic of the same name, about the Carters, an idyllic American family travelling through the great American southwest. But their trip takes a detour into an area closed off from the public, but more importantly from society. An area originally used by the U.S. Government for nuclear testing that was intended to be empty…or so they thought? When the Carter’s car breaks down at the old site, they’re stranded…or are they? As the Carters may soon realize that what seemed like a car casually breaking down, might actually be a trap. This trap might be perpetrated by the inhabitants of the site who aren’t pulling a prank, but are out to set up a gruesome massacre.

Carlito’s Way (1993)

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Pacino, Al | Penn, Sean | Miller, Penelope Ann | Leguizamo, John | Rogers, Ingrid | Guzmán, Luis | Rebhorn, James | Siravo, Joseph | Mortensen, Viggo | Foronjy, Richard | Porcel, Jorge | Minucci, Frank | Pasdar, Adrian | Ortiz, John | Salazar, Ángel
Directors: De Palma, Brian
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Carlito Brigante is released from jail after serving five years of a much longer stretch. He vows to go straight and to live life as a fine, upstanding citizen. He even rekindles a romance with his ex-lover. However, Carlito’s associates cannot seem to leave him in peace…his nephew involves him a pool-room gunfight, his lawyer asks him for “favours” which spiral out of control, and even an old friend (now a wheelchair bound paraplegic) tries to get him into trouble with the law. Carlito decides to make a run for Florida and the promise of a new life, but has one final dramatic escape to make from some hoods who believe (wrongly) that he was behind the murder of their boss.

21 (Twenty One, The Movie) (2008)

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Sturgess, Jim | Spacey, Kevin | Yoo, Aaron | Pitts, Jacob | Fishburne, Laurence | McGee, Jack | Gad, Josh | Golzari, Sam | Gilpin, Jack | Williams, Butch | Ma, Jeffrey | Patton, Frank | Vezina, Steven Richard | Werner, Chaska T. | Morris, Kyle
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Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent, student at M.I.T. in Boston who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine with the desire to become a doctor, Ben learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the four to five years of school since he comes from a poor, working-class background. But one evening, Ben is introduced by his unorthodox math professor Micky Rosa into a small but secretive club of five students, Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Jimmy whom are being trained by Professor Rosa of the skill of card counting at blackjack. Intriged by the desire to make money, Ben joins his new friends on secret weekend trips to Las Vegas where, using their skills of code talk and hand signals, they have Ben make hundreds of thousands of dollars in winning blackjack at casino after casino. Ben only wants to make enough money for the tuition to Harvard and then back out. But as fellow card counter, Jill Taylor, predicts, Ben becomes corrupted by greed and his arrogance at winning which lets his feelings get in the way, and it also puts Professor Rosa, as well as the group, on the radar of a brutal casino security enforcer, named Cole Williams, who holds a personal grudge of some kind against Rosa which threatens to undo everything the students have learned and earned.

Enough (2002)

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Lopez, Jennifer | Campbell, Bill | Allen, Tessa | Lewis, Juliette | Futterman, Dan | Wyle, Noah | Ward, Fred | Carroll, Janet | Cobbs, Bill | Maher, Christopher | Young, Bruce A. | French, Bruce | Madera, Ruben | Martin, Dan | Kober, Jeff
Directors: Apted, Michael
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An abused woman (Lopez) discovers that the dream man (Campbell) she married isn’t who she thought he was. She and her daughter try to escape (aided by her previous boyfriend, played by Futterman), but he pursues her relentlessly. Fearing also for the safety of her daughter, she decides that there’s only one way out of the marriage: kill him. ‘Fred Ward (I)’ (qv) has a guest-starring role.

Sleuth (1972)

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
Genres: Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Caine, Michael | Law, Jude | Pinter, Harold | Cawthorne, Alec | Channing, Eve
Directors: Branagh, Kenneth
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Milo Tindle and Andrew Wyke have something in common, Andrew’s wife. In an attempt to find a way out of this without costing Andrew a fortune in alimony, he suggests Milo pretend to rob his house and let him claim the insurance on the stolen jewelry. The problem is that they don’t really like each other and each cannot avoid the zinger on the other. The plot has many shifts in which the advantage shifts between Milo and Andrew.

Prestige, The (2006)

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Jackman, Hugh | Bale, Christian | Caine, Michael | Perabo, Piper | Hall, Rebecca | Johansson, Scarlett | Mahurin, Samantha | Bowie, David | Serkis, Andy | Davis, Daniel | Piddock, Jim | Neame, Christopher | Ryan, Mark | Rees, Roger | Harris, Jamie
Directors: Nolan, Christopher
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A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy — full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences. From the time that they first met as young magicians on the rise, Robert Angier and Alfred Borden were competitors. However, their friendly competition evolves into a bitter rivalry making them fierce enemies-for-life and consequently jeopardizing the lives of everyone around them. Set against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century London.

John Tucker Must Die (2006)

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Metcalfe, Jesse | Snow, Brittany | Ashanti | Bush, Sophia | Kebbel, Arielle | Badgley, Penn | McCarthy, Jenny | Fatso-Fasano | McNulty, Kevin | Drake, Patricia | Ballard, Jeffrey | Kitsch, Taylor | Bacic, Steve | Wray, Dean | Cuthbert, Jon
Directors: Thomas, Betty
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Three ex-girlfriends of a serial cheater (Metcalfe) set up their former lover to fall for the new girl in town so they can watch him get his heart broken.


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