Posts Tagged ‘shot-in-the-chest’

Basketball Diaries, The (1995)

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: DiCaprio, Leonardo | Bracco, Lorraine | Sokol, Marilyn | Madio, James | McGaw, Patrick | Wahlberg, Mark | Cooper, Roy | Kirby, Bruno | Papiris, Jimmy | Gaetani, Nick | Chaplin, Alexander | Jorgensen, Ben | Mostel, Josh | Lewis, Juliette | Imperioli, Michael
Directors: Kalvert, Scott
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Film adjustment of street tough Jim Carroll’s epistle about his kaleidoscopical free fall into the torturesome world of drug addiction. As a member of a ostensibly invincible high school basketball game squad, Jim’s life centers around the hoops court and the court becomes a metaphor for the world in his mind. A best friend who is dying of leukemia, a coach (”Swifty”) who takes unaccepted liberties with the boys on his team, adolescent sexual angst, and an insalubrious appetence for heroin — all of these begin to entrench on young Jim’s dream of decorous a basketball game star. Soon, the dark streets of New York become a refuge from his mother’s climb business concern for her son. He can’t go home and his only escape from the realism of the streets is heroin for which he steals, robs and prostitutes himself. Only with the help of Reggie, an older region friend with whom Jim “picked up a game” now and then, is he able to begin the long journeying back to sanity.

No Country for Old Men (2007)

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jones, Tommy Lee | Bardem, Javier | Brolin, Josh | Harrelson, Woody | Macdonald, Kelly | Dillahunt, Garret | Harper, Tess | Corbin, Barry | Root, Stephen | Boyce, Rodger | Grant, Beth | Reeder, Ana | Gwin, Kit | Hopkins, Zach | Love, Chip
Directors: Coen, Ethan
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Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon some dead bodies, a stash of heroin and more than $2 million in cash near the Rio Grande.

Boogie Nights (1997)

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Guzmán, Luis | Reynolds, Burt | Moore, Julianne | Bueno, Rico | Reilly, John C. | Parker, Nicole Ari | Cheadle, Don | Graham, Heather | Wahlberg, Mark | Macy, William H. | Barkhordarian, Samson | Hartley, Nina | Braeden, Brad | Gleason, Joanna | Hudd, Lawrence
Directors: Anderson, Paul Thomas
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Everyone’s born with one particular thing, and Eddie Adams uses his thumping “asset” to take the world of film porno by storm. Things get ugly though when winner leads to drugs and ruin. Will Dirk clean up and get back on top? Will Amber see her son? Will Rollergirl ever take off her skates?!

New Jack City (1991)

Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Snipes, Wesley | Ice-T | Payne, Allen | Rock, Chris | Michele, Michael | Nunn, Bill | Wong, Russell | Cobbs, Bill | Williams, Christopher | Nelson, Judd | Williams, Vanessa | Johns, Tracy Camilla | DeSando, Anthony | Ashford, Nick
Directors: Van Peebles, Mario
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In 1989, Nino Brown, a small time drug dealer, is convinced by one of his fellow thugs that the wave of the future is in the cocaine derivative, crack. Brown sees potential in crack and sets out to establish himself as chief kingpin by killing off his rivals and even going as far as to take over a whole apartment complex. Out to stop him are undercover cops Scottie Appleton and Nick Paretti. Appleton especially wants to get Nino because of the fact that he murdered Scottie’s mother as part of a gang initiaton. Also involved is Pookie, a former crackhead who wants to bring down Nino as well.

Executive Decision (1996)

Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Russell, Kurt | Seagal, Steven | Berry, Halle | Leguizamo, John | Platt, Oliver | Morton, Joe | Wong, B. D. | Cariou, Len | Hubley, Whip | Katsulas, Andreas | Trainor, Mary Ellen | Maples, Marla | Walsh, J.T. | Neuhaus, Ingo | Jones, William James
Directors: Baird, Stuart
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Terrorists take over a 747 bound from Athens to washington d.c. D.C., purportedly to effect the dismission of their leader. intelligence service expert David Grant suspects some other reason and convinces the war machine that the ‘plane should not be allowed to enter U.S. airspace. An assail missionary post is devised, using a peculiarly fitted out ‘plane intentional for mid-air crew transfers, and Grant finds himself aboard the 747 with a team of armed forces anti-terrorists who have to defuse a bomb and sweep over the terrorists.

Bon Cop, Bad Cop (2006)

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Countries: Canada
Actors: Beaudry, Michel | Bélanger, Patrice | Boudreau, Pierre | Boylan, Sarain | Brunelle, Manon | Canuel, Nicolas | Chevrette-Landesque, Hugolin | Jean, Fayolle | Feore, Colm | Fournier, Ron | Goulem, Alain | Grenier, Amélie | Houde, Louis-José | Houde, Pierre | Howland, Richard
Directors: Canuel, Erik
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When a crime is committed on the border of Quebec and Ontario, everyone is forced to come together, whether they want to or not. As the investigation gets underway, we meet David Bouchard and Martin Ward, members of their respective provincial police forces who are forced to work together. The two men couldn’t be more different. In fact, the only thing they appear to have in common is that they are both cops, albeit cops with totally different styles.

8MM (1999)

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Genres: Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Cage, Nicolas | Phoenix, Joaquin | Gandolfini, James | Stormare, Peter | Heald, Anthony | Bauer, Chris | Keener, Catherine | Carter, Myra | Morton, Amy | Powell, Jenny | Byrd, Anne Gee | Betts, Jack | Oropeza, Luis | Singer, Rachel | Creech, Don
Directors: Schumacher, Joel
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A small, on the face of it innocent fictile reel of film leads surveillance specialiser Tom Welles (Nicolas Cage) down an more and more dark and terrorisation path. With the help of the street smart Max (Joaquin Phoenix), Welles unrelentingly follows a eccentric trail of manifest to ascertain the fate of a concluded stranger. As his work turns into obsession, he drifts further and further away from his wife (Catherine Keener), family and simple life as a small-town common soldier eye.

Angel Eyes (2001)

Monday, May 19th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Lopez, Jennifer | Caviezel, James | Sisto, Jeremy | Howard, Terrence | Braga, Sonia | Argo, Victor | Mazur, Monet | Knight, Shirley | Magder, Daniel | St-Onge, Guylaine | McAuley, Connor | Ratchford, Jeremy | MacNeill, Peter | Hyndman, Eldridge | Matchett, Kari
Directors: Mandoki, Luis
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While pursuing a suspicious one night, stops Police police officer Sharon Pogue (Jennifer Lopez) nearly becomes the victim of a fatal ambush until a cryptic stranger, Catch (Jim Caviezel) intervenes, disarms the assassinator and saves Sharon’s life. Is it a stroke of luck? A twist of fate? Or just a interested citizen who happened to pass by at the right time and wasn’t afraid to get involved? Maybe, But Sharon and Catch have met once before. As the two fall in love, they key out the truth about each other and are forced to deal with the secrets from their past.

Apocalypto (2006)

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Youngblood, Rudy | Hernández, Dalia | Brewer, Jonathan | Birdyellowhead, Morris | Báez, Carlos Emilio | Ramírez, Amilcar | Contreras, Israel | Ríos, Israel | Díaz, María Isabel | Acosta Cache, Espiridion | Serbulo, Mayra | Larios, Iazua | Hernández, Lorena | Gutierrez, Itandehui | Gutierrez, Sayuri
Directors: Gibson, Mel
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Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man’s idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent invading force, he is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression where a harrowing end awaits him. Through a twist of fate and spurred by the power of his love for his woman and his family he will make a desperate break to return home and to ultimately save his way of life.

Doom (2005)

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Genres: Action | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Czech Republic | Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Urban, Karl | Pike, Rosamund | Daniels, Ben | Adoti, Razaaq | Brake, Richard | Weaver, Al | Fletcher, Dexter | Steele, Brian | Johnson, Dwayne | Oparei, Deobia | Chin, Yao | Russell, Robert | York, Daniel | Hughes, Ian | Houghton, Sara
Directors: Bartkowiak, Andrzej
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In 2046, in a research facility in Mars, some subjects are released and the place is kept in quarantine. A team of Marines, leaded by Sarge (The Rock), is assigned to rescue the personnel and retrieve the research data, with the support of Dr. Samantha Grimm (Rosamund Pike), the twin sister of the Marine John “Reaper” Grimm (Karl Urban). While in the mission, Samantha finds a dark hidden secret about the monsters and the researches.