Posts Tagged ‘independent-film’

Lionheart (1990)

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Van Damme, Jean-Claude | Page, Harrison | Thompson, Brian | Goric, Voyo | Qissi, Michel | McDaniel, George | Karson, Eric | Adams, Ash | Amos, William T. | Rucker, Dennis | Blanks, Billy | Miltsakakis, Stefanos | Hopson, Lew | Massa, Sebastian | Etienne, Roger
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Lyon Gaultier’s brother gets murdered after welshing drug associates in Los Angeles. Lyon is in North Africa serving the last six months of a hitch in the French Foreign Legion when he gets word of the incident, and he unsuccessfully petitions his cold-blooded superiors for leave to tend to family matters. Desperate, Lyon knocks several legionnaires out and stows away on a steamer headed for America. Once Lyon gets near New York harbor, Lyon jumps ship and tries to come up with a way to get enough money to head for California. Lyon comes into contact with street-fight promoter Joshua, an alcoholic ex-street-fighter who links Lyon up with Cynthia, an organizer of no-holds-barred bare-knuckle fights that secretly entertain the wealthy across the country. The minute Lyon makes it to Los Angeles, Lyon finds that his brother’s killers are in police custody. Lyon is soon fighting various contenders — ranging from a Scotsman in a kilt to a long-haired surfer — earning money to help keep bill collectors away from the door of his widowed sister-in-law Helene and his niece Nicole, who comes to love him. Although Lyon only wants to bash opponents long enough to gain enough money to assist Helene and Nicole, Cynthia is reluctant to let go of her new meal ticket. Helene blames Lyon for not helping his brother sooner, But Lyon keeps fighting and secretly sends her money in the guise of an insurance policy that she didn’t know about. Cynthia decides to import a killer-fighter named Attila to polish Lyon off. Not only does she bet against Lyon, she also schemes to turn him over to the Foreign Legion after Atilla beats him. But Lyon has other plans. And there is also a pair of men from the Legion who have been assigned to find Lyon and bring him in.

Contender, The (2000)

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Oldman, Gary | Bridges, Jeff | Slater, Christian | Elliott, Sam | Petersen, William | Rubinek, Saul | Hall, Philip Baker | Binder, Mike | Thomas, Robin | Urbanski, Douglas | Fryrear, Noah | Taylor, Joe | Geer, Kevin | Roberts, Doug | Appleton, Bev
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After his Vice-president suddenly dies, the President (Jeff Bridges) who is near the end of his final term, decides to leave a legacy by selecting a woman to fill the position. Enter a Senator (Joan Allen), who has shifted from the Republican Party to the Democratic. Initially appearing to be the perfect candidate, an allegation suddenly appears that she had been involved in a sexual orgy as a 19 year old in college. The confirmation committee chairman (Gary Oldman), a Republican, leaks the information to the press, while using the press discussion as a forum to bring it into the hearings. The chairman desires to get a Governor (William Petersen) into the office. The Governor had become a national hero when he attempted to rescue a young woman from a car that crashed from a bridge into deep water near where the Governor had been fishing.

Big Jake (1971)

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Wayne, John | Boone, Richard | Wayne, Patrick | Mitchum, Christopher | Cabot, Bruce | Vinton, Bobby | Corbett, Glenn | Doucette, John | Davis, Jim | Agar, John | Carey Jr., Harry | Palmer, Gregg | Jenson, Roy | Walker, Bill | McLiam, John
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Big Jake McCandles is on the trail on bandits in this action drama that stretches from Texas to Mexico. It’s 1909, and the Old West is giving way to modern times. When the outlaw gang led bu vicious John Fain raids Jake’s ranch and kidnaps his 8-year-old grandson, Jake’s wife, whom he hasn’t seen in 18 years, sends for her husband to rescue the boy. While the law gives chase in rickety automobiles, Jake saddles up with an Indian scout, a faithful dog, and a box of money. But paying ransom isn’t Jake’s idea of good old frontier justice.

Runaway Train (1985)

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Israel | USA
Actors: Voight, Jon | Roberts, Eric | Heffner, Kyle T. | Ryan, John P. | Carter, T.K. | McMillan, Kenneth | Wyatt, Walter | Bunker, Edward | Cruickshanks, Reid | Wray, Dan | Gogin, Michael Lee | Bloom, John | Worden, Hank | Otrin, John | Gibbs, Norman Alexander
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Manny is the “boss” of the convicts in an Alaskan high security prison. Renken, the heartless prison’s administrator wants to kill him, so Manny escapes with the help of another young prisoner, Buck, who follows him. The two fugitives manage to get to a rail depot and get onboard a train. The problem is, the engineer has died and the the train is totally out of control, and nothing can stop it. So, leaving the prison, Manny and Buck find themselves aboard something that is both their freedom and their death…

L.A. Story (1991)

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Martin, Steve | Grant, Richard E. | Pollak, Kevin | McMurray, Sam | Stewart, Patrick | Amador, Andrew | De Harp, Eddie | Shan, M.C. | Hinkley, Tommy | Miller, Larry | Simmons, Thornton | Dragon, Dennis | Stahl, Richard | Lustig, Aaron | Winters, Time
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In this spin on the traditional romantic comedy, Harris K. Tellemacher, a Shakespeare-quoting, Los Angeles TV weatherman is looking for something meaningful for his life. The Los Angeles Freeway sign informs him that the weather will change his life in two ways, and Harris begins to search for the meaning behind that message.

Breakfast Club, The (1985)

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Estevez, Emilio | Hall, Anthony Michael | Nelson, Judd | Gleason, Paul | Kapelos, John | Dean, Ron | Gamble, Tim | Crawford, Perry | Hughes, John
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When five high school students, Andrew, John, Allison, Brian, and Claire, meet in detention one day. The principal wants them to write an essay, and they think they are in for a boring 8 hours of doing nothing. At first, they argue and hate each other, but after smoking some marijuana, they pour their hearts out to each other, and tell about their fears, secrets, and their deepest emotions, and problems.

Joe the King (1999)

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Tambakis, Peter Anthony | Feretic, Travis J. | Styx, Benjamin | Kilmer, Val | Bergenstock, Rob | Fleiss, Noah | Bright, Richard | Leguizamo, John | Taylor, Michael | Whaley, Robert | Ligosh, Max | Costa, James | Levine, Craig | De Felitta, Raymond | McNamara, Jack
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A destitute 14 year old (Noah Fleiss) struggles to keep his life together despite harsh abuse at his mother’s (Karen Young) hands, harsher abuse at his father’s (Val Kilmer), and a growing separation from his slightly older brother (Max Ligosh). Petty thefts for food grow into more major takes until he steals a cash box from the diner where he works. Although Joe uses the money to pay off some of his father’s debts and to replace his mother’s records that his father smashed in a fit of temper, Joe gets no thanks…

Sydney aka Hard Eight (1996)

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Hall, Philip Baker | Reilly, John C. | Jackson, Samuel L. | Parker, F. William | Hoffman, Philip Seymour | Cooper, Nathanael | Ridgely, Robert | Rowe, Michael J. | D'Allesandro, Peter | Blane, Steve | Breen, Andy | Pinizza, Mark | Gross, Richard | Keeley, Cliff | Robbins, Truman
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John has lost all his money. He sits outside a diner in the desert when Sydney happens along, buys him coffee, then takes him to Reno and shows him how to get a free room without losing much money. Under Sydney’s fatherly tutelage, John becomes a successful small-time professional gambler, and all is well, until he falls for Clementine, a cocktail waitress and sometimes hooker.

Cyborg (1989)

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Genres: Action | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Van Damme, Jean-Claude | Klyn, Vincent | Daniels, Alex | Loong, Blaise | Moeller, Ralf | Pinckney, Jackson 'Rock' | Pentz, Robert | Allen, Chuck | Miltsakakis, Stefanos | Barley, Thomas | Frye, Dale | Brown, Jophery C. | Creech, Jim | McColm, Matt | Irwin, James
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A martial artist hunts a killer in a plague-infested urban dump of the future. He is the protective escort for a half-human, half-cyborg woman whose programming contains a possible cure for a plague that’s threatening to wipe out the entire population of Earth. But a woman is kidnapped by the martial artist’s evil nemesis while they are en route to her Atlanta headquarters. That leads him right into a lion’s den of sadomasochistic torture and torment.

Living and the Dead, The (2006)

Monday, June 30th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Lloyd-Pack, Roger | Bill, Leo | Conrich, Neil
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A descent into Hell is triggered when “Ex-Lord” Donald Brocklebank finds that he must leave Longleigh House for London to find a way to pay for the medical treatments for his wife Nancy. Alone, his over-protected, delusional, adult son, James, fancies himself in charge of the manor house with his terminally ill mother, and barricades the two of them into the house for a series of ever more panicked home treatments, mistakenly protecting her from the arrival of Nurse Mary and any outside help.