Posts Tagged ‘tragedy’

Beowulf (2007)

Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Ray Winstone | Robin Wright Penn | Anthony Hopkins | John Bilezikjian | Brice Martin | Sonje Fortag | Sharisse Baker-Bernard | Charlotte Salt | Julene Renee | Greg Ellis | Rik Young | Sebastian Roché | Leslie Harter Zemeckis | John Malkovich | Woody Schultz
Directors: Robert Zemeckis
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The warrior Beowulf must fight and defeat the monster Grendel who is terrorizing towns, and later, Grendel’s mother, who begins killing out of revenge.

The Crow (1994)

Sunday, February 10th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Brandon Lee | Rochelle Davis | Ernie Hudson | Michael Wincott | Ling Bai | Sofia Shinas | Anna Levine | David Patrick Kelly | Angel David | Laurence Mason | Michael Massee | Tony Todd | Jon Polito | Bill Raymond | Marco Rodríguez
Directors: Alex Proyas
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A poetic guitarist Eric Draven is brought back to life by a crow a year after he and his fiancée are murdered. The crow guides him through the land of the living, and leads him to his killers: knife thrower Tin-tin, drugetic Funboy, car buff T-Bird, and the unsophisticated Skank. One by one, Eric gives these thugs a taste of their own medicine. However their leader Top-Dollar, a world-class crime lord who will dispatch his enemies with a Japanese sword and joke about it later, will soon learn the legend of the crow and the secret to the vigilante’s invincibility.

Blade Runner (Final cut) (2007)

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Harrison Ford | Rutger Hauer | Sean Young | Edward James Olmos | M. Emmet Walsh | Daryl Hannah | William Sanderson | Brion James | Joe Turkel | Joanna Cassidy | James Hong | Morgan Paull | Kevin Thompson | John Edward Allen | Hy Pyke
Directors: Ridley Scott
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Deckard is a Blade Runner, a police man of the future who hunts down and terminates replicants, artificially created humans. He wants to get out of the force, but is drawn back in when 4 “skin jobs”, a slang term for replicants, hijack a ship back to Earth. The city that Deckard must search for his prey is a huge, sprawling, bleak vision of the future. This film questions what it is to be human, and why life is so precious.

West Side Story (1961)

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Natalie Wood | Richard Beymer | Russ Tamblyn | Rita Moreno | George Chakiris | Simon Oakland | Ned Glass | William Bramley | Tucker Smith | Tony Mordente | David Winters | Eliot Feld | Bert Michaels | David Bean | Robert Banas
Directors: Jerome Robbins
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This movie transplants the classic tale of “Romeo and Juliet” to New York City in the 1950s. The two feuding families are replaced by brawling street gangs. The Montagues become the Anglo Jets, led by Riff (Russ Tamblyn), and the Capulets become the Puerto Rican Sharks, led by Bernardo (George Chakiris). At a dance, Tony (Richard Beymer), former leader of the Jets and Riff’s best friend, and Maria (Natalie Wood), Bernardo’s little sister, see each other across the room and it’s love at first sight. With opposition from both sides, they meet secretly and their love grows deeper. However, the gangs are plotting one last rumble, a fight that will finally end the battle for control of the streets. Will Tony and Maria’s love carry through a battle that threatens to destroy the people they love around them? With a young, talented cast, a gorgeous score and dance sequences that need to be seen to believe, West Side Story is a must-see!

Taps (1981)

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: George C. Scott | Timothy Hutton | Ronny Cox | Sean Penn | Tom Cruise | Brendan Ward | Evan Handler | John P. Navin Jr. | Billy Van Zandt | Giancarlo Esposito | Donald Kimmel | Tim Wahrer | Tim Riley | Jeff Rochlin | Rusty Jacobs
Directors: Harold Becker
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An announcement that the venerable Bunker Hill Military Academy, a 141 year old institute, is to be torn down and replaced with condos sets off the young cadets led by their stodgy commander (George C. Scott). Under the command of a student cadet major (Timothy Hutton), the cadets seize the campus, refuse entry of the construction crews and ultimately confront the real military.

Of Mice and Men (1992)

Monday, January 21st, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: John Malkovich | Ray Walston | Casey Siemaszko | Sherilyn Fenn | John Terry | Richard Riehle | Alexis Arquette | Joe Morton | Noble Willingham | Joe D'Angerio | Tuck Milligan | David Steen | Moira Harris | Mark Boone Junior
Directors: Gary Sinise
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Based on John Steinbeck’s 1937 classic tale of two travelling companions, George and Lennie, who wander the country during the Depression, dreaming of a better life for themselves. Then, just as heaven is within their grasp, it is inevitably yanked away. The film follows Steinbeck’s novel closely, exploring questions of strength, weakness, usefulness, reality and utopia, bringing Steinbeck’s California vividly to life.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

Monday, January 21st, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger | Edward Furlong | Robert Patrick | Earl Boen | Joe Morton | S. Epatha Merkerson | Castulo Guerra | Danny Cooksey | Jenette Goldstein | Xander Berkeley | Linda Hamilton | Ken Gibbel | Robert Winley | Peter Schrum
Directors: James Cameron
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Nearly 10 years have passed since Sarah Connor was targeted for termination by a cyborg from the future. Now her son, John, the future leader of the resistance, is the target for a newer, more deadly terminator. Once again, the resistance has managed to send a protector back to attempt to save John and his mother Sarah.

Bound by Honor (aka “Blood in, blood out”) (1993)

Monday, January 21st, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Damian Chapa | Jesse Borrego | Benjamin Bratt | Enrique Castillo | Victor Rivers | Delroy Lindo | Tom Towles | Carlos Carrasco | Teddy Wilson | Raymond Cruz | Valente Rodriguez | Lanny Flaherty | Billy Bob Thornton | Geoffrey Rivas | Karmin Murcelo
Directors: Taylor Hackford
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Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the “Vatos Locos”, and the story focuses on how a violent crime and the influence of narcotics alter their lives. Miklo is incarcerated and sent to San Quentin, where he makes a “home” for himself. Cruz becomes an exceptional artist, but a heroin addiction overcomes him with tragic results. Paco becomes a cop and an enemy to his “carnal”, Miklo.

The Green Mile (1999)

Monday, January 21st, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Tom Hanks | David Morse | Bonnie Hunt | Michael Clarke Duncan | James Cromwell | Michael Jeter | Graham Greene | Doug Hutchison | Sam Rockwell | Barry Pepper | Jeffrey De Munn | Patricia Clarkson | Harry Dean Stanton | Dabbs Greer | Eve Brent
Directors: Frank Darabont
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Death Row guards at a penitentiary, in the 1930’s, have a moral dilemma with their job when they discover one of their prisoners, a convicted murderer, has a special gift.

Phenomenon (1996)

Monday, January 21st, 2008
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: John Travolta | Kyra Sedgwick | Forest Whitaker | Robert Duvall | Jeffrey DeMunn | Richard Kiley | Brent Spiner | Vyto Ruginis | Bruce A. Young | Michael Milhoan | Sean O'Bryan | David Gallagher | Ashley Buccille | Tony Genaro | Troy Evans
Directors: Jon Turteltaub
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The main character (John Travolta) observes a strange light on his birthday at a bar. The following days he becomes very intell-i-gent and puts the intell-i-gence to good use in his community. When word gets around he becomes known as a freak and everyone wants to figure out why this happened to a car mechanic. The government also wants to get their hands on it to put it to other uses.

Sling Blade (1996)

Monday, January 21st, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Billy Bob Thornton | Dwight Yoakam | J. T. Walsh | John Ritter | Lucas Black | Natalie Canerday | James Hampton | Robert Duvall | Rick Dial | Brent Briscoe | Christy Ward | Sarah Boss | Kathy Sue Brown | Wendell Rafferty | Bruce Hampton
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A partially handicapped man named Karl is released from a mental hospital, several years after murdering his mother and another person. Karl is often questioned if he will ever kill again, and he shrugs in response saying there is no reason to. Now out of the mental institution, Karl settles in his old, small hometown, occupying himself by fixing motors. After meeting a young boy named Frank who befriends him, Karl is invited to stay at Frank’s house with his mother Linda- who views Karl as a strange but kind and generous man. However, Linda’s abusive boyfriend Doyle, sees things differently in the way rules ought to be run- normally insulting Linda’s homosexual friend Vaughan as well as Karl’s disabilities, and having wild parties with his friends. As Karl’s relation with Frank grows, he is ever so watchful of Doyle’s cruel actions.

Blow (2001)

Friday, January 18th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Johnny Depp | Penélope Cruz | Franka Potente | Rachel Griffiths | Paul Reubens | Jordi Mollà | Cliff Curtis | Miguel Sandoval | Ethan Suplee | Ray Liotta | Kevin Gage | Max Perlich | Jesse James | Miguel Pérez | Dan Ferro
Directors: Ted Demme
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A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950’s. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family. It is finally revealed that George’s father cannot make a living and the family goes bankrupt. George does not want the same thing to happen to him, and his friend Tuna, in the 1960’s, suggests that he deal marijuana. He is a big hit in California in the 1960’s, yet he goes to jail, where he finds out about the wonders of cocaine. As a result, when released, he gets rich by bringing cocaine to America. However, he soon pays the price.

Twelve Monkeys (1995)

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Joseph Melito | Bruce Willis | Jon Seda | Michael Chance | Vernon Campbell | H. Michael Walls | Bob Adrian | Simon Jones | Carol Florence | Bill Raymond | Ernest Abuba | Irma St. Paule | Madeleine Stowe | Joey Perillo | Bruce Kirkpatrick | Brad Pitt | Christopher Plummer
Directors: Terry Gilliam
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An unknown and lethal virus has wiped out five billion people in 1996. Only 1% of the population has survived by the year 2035, and is forced to live underground. A convict (James Cole) reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to 1996 to gather information about the origin of the epidemic (who he’s told was spread by a mysterious “Army of the Twelve Monkeys”) and locate the virus before it mutates so that scientists can study it. Unfortunately Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990, six years earlier than expected, and is arrested and locked up in a mental institution, where he meets Dr. Kathryn Railly, a psychiatrist, and Jeffrey Goines, the insane son of a famous scientist and virus expert.

Event Horizon (1997)

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Laurence Fishburne | Sam Neill | Kathleen Quinlan | Joely Richardson | Richard T. Jones | Jack Noseworthy | Jason Isaacs | Sean Pertwee | Peter Marinker | Holley Chant | Barclay Wright | Noah Huntley | Robert Jezek | Emily Booth | Teresa May
Directors: Paul W.S. Anderson
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A rescue crew in space comes to investigate and if possible, rescue a government spaceship gone missing for seven years. When they board the ship, they learn that the ship has been somewhere beyond space and brought something back with it that is an unspeakable evil.

Rocky III (1982)

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Talia Shire | Burt Young | Carl Weathers | Burgess Meredith | Tony Burton | Mr. T | Hulk Hogan | Ian Fried | Al Silvani | Wally Taylor | Jim Hill | Don Sherman | Dennis James | Jim Healy
Directors: Sylvester Stallone
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After beating Apollo Creed and become World Heavyweight Champion, Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) is enjoying his boxing and top lifestyle, being everyone’s idol. After 10 successful title defenses under his name and even a charity fight draw with World Wrestling Champion, Thunderlips (Hulk Hogan), Rocky believes he has nothing more to prove and is ready to retire. But boxing brawler Clubber Lang (Mr. T) becomes the No. 1 contender and demands a match with Rocky for the Title. Rocky has too much pride to reject Lang, and trains with Manager Micky for his bout with Lang. But before the match, Rocky and Clubber get into a bust-up backstage and Micky is badly hurt. Rocky goes into his fight very worried about Micky who is being treated by a doctor as Rocky fights without a manager in his corner. Lang brutally beats Rocky, and after the fight, a battered Rocky falls into depression after the death of Manager Micky and does not have the confidence to challenge Lang to a re-match. But Former Champion Apollo Creed is the only man able to persuade Rocky to offer a rematch, and after Lang accepts the challenge, Creed trains Rocky. Rocky must now try to forget about his last brutal bout with Clubber, and try to regain the title and the confidence of everyone, and also try to get back the “eye of the tiger”. Can Balboa win his Title and dignity back?…