Posts Tagged ‘kidnapping’

Long Kiss Goodnight, The (1996)

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jackson, Samuel L. | Bierko, Craig | Tom Amandes | Cox, Brian | Malahide, Patrick | Morse, David | McKenna, Joseph | Warry-Smith, Dan | Linn, Rex | North, Alan | Hodge, Edwin | MacDonald, Bill | Moore, Frank | Spradlin, G.D. | McPherson, Graham
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Samantha Caine, suburban homemaker, is the ideal mom to her 8 year old daughter Caitlin. She lives in Honesdale, PA, has a job teaching school and makes the best Rice Krispie treats in town. But when she receives a bump on her head, she begins to remember small parts of her previous life as a lethal, top-secret agent. Her old chums in the Chapter are now out to kill her so she enlists the help of a cheap detective named Mitch. As Samantha remembers more and more of her previous life, she becomes deadlier and more resourceful. Both Mitch and Charly proceed to do the killing thing, the bleeding thing and the shooting thing.

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.

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.

Two Rode Together (1961)

Monday, June 30th, 2008
Genres: Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Stewart, James | Widmark, Richard | Devine, Andy | McIntire, John | Birch, Paul | Bouchey, Willis | Brandon, Henry | Carey Jr., Harry | Curtis, Ken | Douglas, Chet | Kent, David | Qualen, John | Rainey, Ford | Strode, Woody | Whitehead, O.Z.
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The US Army is under pressure from the desperate relatives of white prisoners of the Comanches to secure their rescue. A cynical and corrupt marshal, Guthrie McCabe, is persuaded by an army lieutenant to assist in the negotiations with the Comanches. However, just two captives are released; and their reintegration into white society proves highly problematic.

48 Hrs. (1982)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Nolte, Nick | Murphy, Eddie | O'Toole, Annette | McRae, Frank | Remar, James | Kelly, David Patrick | Landham, Sonny | James, Brion | Sherman, Kerry | Banks, Jonathan | Keane, James | King, Tara | Blackburn, Greta | Rose, Margot | Crosby, Denise
Directors: Hill, Walter
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eccentric cop and tough guy, Jack Cates is the only subsister of a cop shot and in search down the liquidator collects Reggie Hammond from jail for 48 hours. Hammond is oddly motivated to help. The killer is inquisitory for his stash of cash. Cates and Hammond who have the Black-white, cop-crook thing to work out make astonishingly good partners as they pilot through and through the city looking at for their suspect.

Raising Arizona (1987)

Monday, June 9th, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Cage, Nicolas | Hunter, Holly | Wilson, Trey | Goodman, John | Forsythe, William | McMurray, Sam | McDormand, Frances | Cobb, Randall 'Tex' | Kuhn, T.J. | Kitei, Lynne Dumin | Benedek, Peter | Smith, Charles 'Lew' | Keith, Warren | Kendrick, Henry | Dawson, Sidney
Directors: Coen, Ethan
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Colourful and unconventional slapstick comedy. Ex-con Hi and ex-cop Ed meet, marry and long for a child in the wilds of Arizona. When Ed discovers she’s barren the God-given solution is presented: to snatch a baby from a set of quins. Thus begins a series of kidnappings, capers and rum goings-on that revolve around the helpless yet universally-loveable child. Hi’s convict friends, his boss, and even the Lone Biker Of The Apocalypse become involved in the ever-twisting plot in the quest to own the baby.

Little Kidnappers, The (1990)

Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: Canada
Actors: Heston, Charlton | Greenwood, Bruce | Gage, Patricia | MacDonald, Dan | Pinsent, Leah | Miller, Charles | Wheatley, Leo | Donat, Richard | Crawley, Amos | Pedde, Eileen | Allen, Deborah | Kuttner, Erin | Lipman, Nicola | Hauser, Gay | Eirik, Sten
Directors: Shebib, Donald
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Loosely based on a ’50’s movie of the same name, it tells the story of two young orphan boys who travel by themselves from the Old country to join their father’s family in Canada. There they encounter their stern disciplinarian grandfather who has alienated himself from some of his neighbors. There is particularly no love lost between the grandfather and his Dutch neighbors, who he generalizes as being responsible for his son’s death in the Boor War. A side product of this animosity is that it is keeping apart the boy’s aunt and her Dutch doctor suitor. The two boys change everything though when they find a young baby on the beach…

Street Kings (2008)

Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Reeves, Keanu | Whitaker, Forest | Common | Cedric the Entertainer | Evans, Chris | Gugliemi, Noel | Choi, Kenneth | Laurie, Hugh | Sloan, Cle Shaheed | Nolasco, Amaury | Corbett, John | Crews, Terry | Game, The | Benton, Kevin | Gates, Daryl
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Tom Ludlow is a veteran LAPD cop who finds life difficult to navigate after the death of his wife. When evidence implicates him in the execution of a fellow officer, he is forced to go up against the cop culture he’s been a part of his entire career, ultimately leading him to question the loyalties of everyone around him.

Under Fire (1983)

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Genres: Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Nolte, Nick | Harris, Ed | Hackman, Gene | Cassidy, Joanna | Martínez, Alma | Palance, Holly | Laboriel, Ella | Zarzosa, Samuel | Zarzosa, Jonathan | Picasso, Raul | Doria, Oswaldo | Elizondo, Fernando | Camp, Hamilton | Jean-Louis Trintignant | Masur, Richard
Directors: Spottiswoode, Roger
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Nicaragua 1979: Star photographer Russel Price covers the civil war against president Somoza. Facing the cruel fighting - people versus army - it’s often hard for him to stay neutral. When the Guerillas have him take a picture of the leader Rafael, who’s believed to be dead, he gets drawn into the happenings. Together with his reporter friends Claire and Alex he has to hide from the army.

Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The (2005)

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Henley, Georgie | Keynes, Skandar | Moseley, William | Popplewell, Anna | Swinton, Tilda | McAvoy, James | Broadbent, Jim | Shah, Kiran | Cosmo, James | McIntosh, Judy | Hawthorne, Elizabeth | Kake, Patrick | Rangi, Shane | Cook, Brandon | Cook, Cassie
Directors: Adamson, Andrew
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Based on the classical novel by ‘CS Lewis’ (qv). Four London children are sent to a professor’s body politic home in order for aegis during World War II. There they find a magic closet which leads to a secret land called Narnia, which is being ruled by an evil witch. To defeat the witch, they must join forces with Aslan, the lion God of Narnia.