Posts Tagged ‘political-prisoner’

The Jackal (1997)

Sunday, July 20th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Crime | Thriller
Countries: France | Germany | Japan | UK | USA
Actors: Bruce Willis | Richard Gere | Sidney Poitier | Diane Venora | Mathilda May | J.K. Simmons | Richard Lineback | John Cunningham | Jack Black | Tess Harper | Leslie Phillips | Stephen Spinella | Sophie Okonedo | David Hayman | Steve Bassett
Directors: Michael Caton-Jones
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Russian mobster Terek Murad has declared open season on the Russian militia and the FBI over the shooting of his brother in a Moscow nightclub. He hires the Jackal, a nasty assassin whom nobody has even seen, to kill the Director of the FBI. With nowhere else to turn (except a woman who used to work with the Basque separatists, who is now in the USA but whose exact whereabouts in unknown to all save Mulqueen), FBI Deputy Director Carter Preston (who was present at the Moscow shooting) and Major Valentina Koslova of the Russian milita (who pulled the trigger in that shooting) enlist the reluctant services of Declan Mulqueen, an imprisoned IRA sniper, to track the Jackal down, for Declan is the only other person who can positively identify the Jackal.

Goodbye Bafana (2007)

Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | History
Countries: Belgium | France | Germany | Italy | Luxembourg | South Africa | UK
Actors: Joseph Fiennes | Dennis Haysbert | Diane Kruger | Shiloh Henderson | Patrick Lyster | Faith Ndukwana | Mehboob Bawa | Adrian Galley | Warrick Grier | Leslie Mongezi | Sizwe Msutu | Matthew Roberts | Eduan van Jaarsveldt | Terry Pheto | Giulia Troiano
Directors: Bille August
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GOODBYE BAFANA is the true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner’s name was Nelson Mandela.

Catch a Fire (2006)

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Drama | History | Thriller
Countries: France | South Africa | UK | USA
Actors: Tim Robbins | Derek Luke | Bonnie Mbuli | Mncedisi Shabangu | Tumisho Masha | Sithembiso Khumalo | Terry Pheto | Michele Burgers | Mpho Lovinga | Mxo | Jessica Anstey | Charlotte Savage | Nomhl? Nkyonyeni | Michael Mabizela | Eduan van Jaarsveldt
Directors: Phillip Noyce
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A political thriller: the real-life story of a South African hero’s journey to freedom. In the country’s turbulent and divided times in the 1980s, Patrick Chamusso is an oil refinery foreman and soccer coach who is apolitical - until he and his wife Precious are jailed. Patrick is stunned into action against the country’s oppressive reigning system, even as police Colonel Nic Vos further insinuates himself into the Chamussos’ lives.

The Last Emperor (1987)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Biography | Drama | History
Countries: China | France | Italy | UK
Actors: John Lone | Joan Chen | Peter O'Toole | Ruocheng Ying | | Dennis Dun | Ryuichi Sakamoto | Maggie Han | Ric Young | Vivian Wu | Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa | Jade Go | Fumihiko Ikeda | Richard Vuu | Tsou Tijger
Directors: Bernardo Bertolucci
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A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People’s Republic.