Posts Tagged ‘betrayal’

The Truman Show (1998)

Sunday, June 7th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Jim Carrey | Laura Linney | Noah Emmerich | Natascha McElhone | Holland Taylor | Brian Delate | Blair Slater | Peter Krause | Heidi Schanz | Ron Taylor | Don Taylor | Ted Raymond | Judy Clayton
Directors: Peter Weir
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He’s the star of the show—but he doesn’t know. Truman Burbank is a man whose life is a nonstop TV show. Truman doesn’t realize that his quaint hometown is a giant studio set run by a visionary producer/director/creator, that folks living and working there are Hollywood actors, that even his incessantly bubbly wife is a contract player. Gradually, Truman gets wise. And what he does about his discovery will have you laughing, crying and cheering.

Real Genius (1985)

Thursday, May 28th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Val Kilmer | Gabriel Jarret | Michelle Meyrink | William Atherton | Jon Gries | Patti D'Arbanville | Stacy Peralta | Daniel Ades | Andres Aybar | Louis Giambalvo | Ed Lauter | Charles Shull | Beau Billingslea | Charles Parks | Sean Frye
Directors: Martha Coolidge
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Two brilliant teenagers head a team of young geniuses developing a laser for what they believe is a class project. When they find out that their professor intends to turn their work over to the government for use as a weapon, they decide to ruin his plans.

The Sting (1973)

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Paul Newman | Robert Redford | Robert Shaw | Charles Durning | Ray Walston | Eileen Brennan | Harold Gould | John Heffernan | Dana Elcar | Jack Kehoe | Dimitra Arliss | Robert Earl Jones | James Sloyan | Charles Dierkop | Lee Paul
Directors: George Roy Hill
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Johnny Hooker is a young con-man who is being taught by Luther. One day they pull one of their con jobs and net themselves a huge roll. What they don’t know is that the man they conned is the courier for a numbers runner. And it turns out that the boss, Doyle Lonigan, considers it an attack on him and orders all the people involved terminated. Hooker is shaken down by a crooked cop, Snyder, who threatens to turn him over to Lonigan unless he pays him off. Hooker pays him, he then tries to warn Luther but is too late. He then goes to see Henry Gondorf, a friend of Luther’s and a one time great con-man, who has had a bit of bad luck. After hearing what happened to Luther and seeing how hungry Hooker is for payback, he assembles a gang and decides to con Lonigan. While everything seems to be going ok, there is just the problem of the hit on Hooker and Snyder, whom Hooker paid off with counterfeit money.

Hamlet (1996)

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: John Laurie | Esmond Knight | Anthony Quayle | Niall MacGinnis | Harcourt Williams | Patrick Troughton | Tony Tarver | Peter Cushing | Stanley Holloway | Russell Thorndike | Basil Sydney | Eileen Herlie | Norman Wooland | Felix Aylmer
Directors: Laurence Olivier
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Hamlet, son of the king of Denmark, is summoned home for his father’s funeral and his mother’s wedding to his uncle. In a supernatural episode, he discovers that his uncle, whom he hates anyway, murdered his father. In an incredibly convoluted plot—the most complicated and most interesting in all literature—he manages to (impossible to put this in exact order) feign (or perhaps not to feign) madness, murder the “prime minister,” love and then unlove an innocent whom he drives to madness, plot and then unplot against the uncle, direct a play within a play, successfully conspire against the lives of two well-meaning friends, and finally take his revenge on the uncle, but only at the cost of almost every life on stage, including his own and his mother’s.

Payback: Straight Up - The Director’s Cut (2006)

Friday, April 24th, 2009
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Hugh Bonneville | Stephen Cinabro | James Coburn | Jack Conley | Richard Cotovsky | William Devane | Bill Duke | Mel Gibson | John Glover | Gregg Henry | Gene Kelly | David Paymer | Roderick Peeples | Christian Stolte | Sterling Wolfe
Directors: Brian Helgeland
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Porter is shot by his wife and best friend and is left to die. When he survives he plots revenge.

Taking Lives (2004)

Friday, April 24th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Australia | Canada | USA
Actors: Angelina Jolie | Ethan Hawke | Kiefer Sutherland | Gena Rowlands | Olivier Martinez | Tchéky Karyo | Jean-Hugues Anglade | Paul Dano | Justin Chatwin | André Lacoste | Billy Two Rivers | Richard Lemire | Julien Poulin | Marie-Josée Croze | Christian Tessier
Directors: D.J. Caruso
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A successful FBI profiler, Illeana Scott (Jolie), is summoned to help out Canadian law enforcement in Montreal, to hunt down a serial killer who assumes the lives and identities (hence the title) of the people he kills as he travels across North America, which forces Illeana to adjust to working in a strange city with a police team with which she doesn’t really fit in.

The Devil’s Own (1997)

Friday, April 24th, 2009
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Harrison Ford | Brad Pitt | Margaret Colin | Rubén Blades | Treat Williams | George Hearn | Mitch Ryan | Natascha McElhone | Paul Ronan | Simon Jones | Julia Stiles | Ashley Carin | Kelly Singer | David O'Hara
Directors: Alan J. Pakula
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One of top Northern Ireland IRA terrorists, Frankie McGuire, escapes to NY, where he, under the name of Rory Devaney, with support of friendly judge Peter Fitzsimmons, lives in the house of Irish cop Tom O’Meara, who doesn’t know who Frankie really is. Rory tries to buy some weapons from dealer Billy Burke, while Tom has moral problems covering up his partner cop Edwin Diaz. The problems arise when Tom begins to suspect something about Rory’s identity.

Batman (1989)

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Genres: Action | Crime | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Adam West | Burt Ward | Lee Meriwether | Cesar Romero | Burgess Meredith | Frank Gorshin | Alan Napier | Neil Hamilton | Stafford Repp | Madge Blake | Reginald Denny | Milton Frome | Gil Perkins | Dick Crockett | George Sawaya
Directors: Leslie H. Martinson
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In Gotham City, a dark knight known as Batman helps to defeat evil and keep the city’s citizens safe. When Jack Napier is transformed into the evil, Joker, he promises to take over Gotham City it is up to Batman to stop him in his tracks before it is too late.

Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Julia Roberts | Patrick Bergin | Kevin Anderson | Elizabeth Lawrence | Kyle Secor | Claudette Nevins | Tony Abatemarco | Marita Geraghty | Harley Venton | Nancy Fish | Sandi Shackelford | Bonnie Johnson | Graham Harrington | John Ward | Sharon J. Robinson
Directors: Joseph Ruben
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Laura and Martin have been married for four years. They seem to be the perfect, happiest and most successful couple. The reality of their house- hold, however, is very different. Martin is an abusive and brutally obsessed husband. Laura is living her life in constant fear and waits for a chance to escape. She finally stages her own death, and flees to a new town and new identity. But when Martin finds out that his wife is not dead he will stop at nothing to find and kill her.

Labyrinth (1986)

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: David Bowie | Jennifer Connelly | Toby Froud | Shelley Thompson | Christopher Malcolm | Natalie Finland | Shari Weiser | Brian Henson | Ron Mueck | Rob Mills | Dave Goelz
Directors: Jim Henson
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Sarah, a teen, summons the goblins from her fave book, the Labyrinth, to steal her baby 1/2 bro Toby. When they actually do, she must solve the Goblin King’s (Bowie) Labyrinth in 13 hours or else Toby will become a goblin.

The Defiant Ones (1958)

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Tony Curtis | Sidney Poitier | Theodore Bikel | Charles McGraw | Lon Chaney Jr. | King Donovan | Claude Akins | Lawrence Dobkin | Whit Bissell | Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer | Kevin Coughlin | Cara Williams | Harold Jacob Smith | Nedrick Young
Directors: Stanley Kramer
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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.

Inkheart (2008)

Friday, March 27th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Brendan Fraser | Andy Serkis | Eliza Bennett | Paul Bettany | Stephen Armourae | Leeroy Bailey | Adam Bond | Jim Broadbent | Mike Busson | Dominik Danielewicz | Jamie Foreman | Jay Fuller | Rafi Gavron | Mike Godfrey | Toby Iyan
Directors: Iain Softley
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Mo has the special talent to bring characters out of books. One night he brings out three characters from Inkheart, a story set in medieval times and filled with magical beings. Capricorn and Basta, two villains, and Dustfinger, a fire-eater. Now, 10 years later Meggie discovers the truth and it’s up to her to escape Capricorn’s evil grasp.

Some Like It Hot (1959)

Thursday, March 12th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Music | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Marilyn Monroe | Tony Curtis | Jack Lemmon | George Raft | Pat O'Brien | Joe E. Brown | Nehemiah Persoff | Joan Shawlee | Billy Gray | George E. Stone | Dave Barry | Mike Mazurki | Harry Wilson | Beverly Wills
Directors: Billy Wilder
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Joe, the saxophone player, is Josephine in the all girls band that he joined with Jerry, the bass violin player, to be one step ahead of the mob after witnessing the 1929 St. Valentine’s Day Massacre in Chicago. After a train ride that sets a record for number of people in an upper berth, they are In Miami. Joe decides to be the man of Sugar Kane’s dreams and invites her out to a yacht he doesn’t have. But he can use Osgood Fielding’s yacht if Jerry — as Daphne — will keep Osgood dancing. The pace gets even giddier when the Chicago mob arrives in Miami for a convention.

Lost and Delirious (2001)

Monday, March 2nd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: Canada
Actors: Piper Perabo | Jessica Paré | Mischa Barton | Jackie Burroughs | Mimi Kuzyk | Graham Greene | Emily VanCamp | Amy Stewart | Caroline Dhavernas | Luke Kirby | Alan Fawcett | Peter Oldring | Grace Lynn Kung | Stephen Mwinga | Lydia Zadel
Directors: Léa Pool
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When her father re-marries after the death of her mother, Mary Bedford finds herself bundled off to a posh girls boarding school. She’s never been to boarding school before and it’s all quite daunting at first. Soon however she makes friends, including her two roommates, Tori and Paulie, whom she soon realizes are lovers. She also becomes quite friendly with the gardener, Joe Menzies, and helps him on the school grounds as it reminds her of working with her late mother in the family garden. When Tori decides to end her relationship with Paulie however, tragedy ensues.

Of Human Bondage (1934)

Friday, February 27th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Leslie Howard | Bette Davis | Frances Dee | Kay Johnson | Reginald Denny | Alan Hale | Reginald Sheffield | Reginald Owen | Desmond Roberts | Harry Allen | Ray Atchley | Frank Baker | Douglas Gordon | Frankie Grandetta | Tommy Hughes
Directors: John Cromwell
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Abandoning artistic ambitions, sensitive and club-footed Philip Carey enrolls in medical school and falls in love with illiterate waitress Mildred Rogers. She rejects him, runs off with a salesman and returns unmarried and pregnant. Philip gets her an apartment and they become engaged. Mildred runs off with another medical student. Philip takes her back again when she returns with her baby. She wrecks his apartment and burns the securities he needs to pay tuition. He gets a job as a salesman, has surgery on his foot, receives an inheritance, and returns to school where he learns Mildred is dying.