Posts Tagged ‘train’

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.

Boiler Room (2000)

Friday, July 18th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Giovanni Ribisi | Vin Diesel | Nicky Katt | Scott Caan | Ron Rifkin | Jamie Kennedy | Taylor Nichols | Bill Sage | Tom Everett Scott | Ben Affleck | John Griesemer | David Younger | Russel Harper | Mark Webber | Christopher Fitzgerald
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A young man has dropped out of Queens College but desperately wants to please his father, a federal judge who’s harsh with his son. At his father’s insistence, Seth Davis closes a casino he operates in his own house, mostly for college students. Thinking he’ll please dad, he takes a job in a small brokerage house, an hour from Manhattan, where trainees make cold calls to lists of well-paid men, and then apply high-pressure tactics to sell initial public offerings exclusive to the firm. He’s terrific at sales. Once training is over, the pay is phenomenal, and Seth wonders why. Curiosity leads him to ethical dilemmas, encounters with the Feds, and new territory with his father.

V for Vendetta (2005)

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Natalie Portman | Hugo Weaving | Stephen Rea | Stephen Fry | John Hurt | Tim Pigott-Smith | Rupert Graves | Roger Allam | Ben Miles | Sin?ad Cusack | Natasha Wightman | John Standing | Eddie Marsan | Clive Ashborn | Emma Field-Rayner
Directors: James McTeigue
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The futuristic tale unfolds in a Great Britain that’s a fascist state. A freedom fighter known as V (Weaving) uses terrorist tactics to fight the oppressive society. He rescues a young woman (Portman) from the secret police, and she becomes his unlikely ally.

Resident Evil (2002)

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Genres: Action | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: France | Germany | UK
Actors: Pasquale Aleardi | Milla Jovovich | Michelle Rodriguez | Eric Mabius | James Purefoy | Martin Crewes | Colin Salmon | Ryan McCluskey | Oscar Pearce | Indra Ov? | Anna Bolt | Joseph May | Robert Tannion | Heike Makatsch | Jaymes Butler | Stephen Billington
Directors: Paul W.S. Anderson
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Something rotten is brewing beneath the industrial mecca known as Raccoon City. Unknown to its millions of residents, a huge underground bioengineering facility known as The Hive has accidentally unleashed the deadly and mutating T-virus, killing all of its employees. To contain the leak, the governing supercomputer, Red Queen, has sealed all entrances and exits. Now a team of highly-trained super commandos including Rain, Alice and Matt must race to penetrate The Hive in order to isolate the T-virus before it overwhelms humanity. To do so, they must get past the Red Queen’s deadly defenses, face the flesh-eating undead employees, fight killer mutant dogs and battle The Licker, a genetically mutated savage beast whose strength increases with each of its slain victims.

Weird Science (1985)

Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Anthony Michael Hall | Ilan Mitchell-Smith | Bill Paxton | Robert Downey Jr. | Robert Rusler | Vernon Wells | Britt Leach | Michael Berryman | Ivor Barry | John Kapelos | Fred D. Scott | Vince Townsend Jr. | Chino 'Fats' Williams | Wallace Langham | Johnny Timko
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Two unpopular teenagers, Gary and Wyatt, fail at all attempts to be accepted by their peers. Thier desperation to be liked leads them to “create” a woman via their computer. Their living and breathing creation is a gorgeous woman, Lisa, who’s purpose is to boost their confidence level by putting them into situations which require Gary and Wyatt to act like men. On their road to become accepted they encounter many hilarious obstacles which gives the movie an overall sense of silliness.

Runaway Train (1985)

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Israel | USA
Actors: Jon Voight | Eric Roberts | Kyle T. Heffner | John P. Ryan | T.K. Carter | Kenneth McMillan | Walter Wyatt | Edward Bunker | Reid Cruickshanks | Dan Wray | Michael Lee Gogin | John Bloom | Hank Worden | John Otrin | Norman Alexander Gibbs
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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…

Dogma (1999)

Friday, June 13th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Chris Rock | Salma Hayek | Alan Rickman | Alanis Morissette | Bud Cort | Barret Hackney | Jared Pfennigwerth | Kitao Sakurai | George Carlin | Betty Aberlin | Matt Damon | Ben Affleck | Dan Etheridge | Linda Fiorentino | Derek Milosavljevic | Lesley Braden | Brian O'Halloran | Marie Elena O'Brien | Janeane Garofalo
Directors: Kevin Smith
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The great grand niece of Jesus Christ is enlisted to prevent two angels from reentering Heaven and thus undoing the fabric of the universe. Along the way, she is aided by two prophets, Jay and Silent Bob. With the help of Rufus, the 13th Apostle, they must stop those who stand in their way and prevent the angels from entering Heaven.

Species (1995)

Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Genres: Action | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Michael Madsen | Forest Whitaker | Natasha Henstridge | Ben Kingsley | Alfred Molina | Marg Helgenberger | Whip Hubley | Michelle Williams
Directors: Roger Donaldson
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In 1993, the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence Project receives a transmission detailing an alien DNA structure, along with instructions on how to splice it with human DNA. The result is Sil, a sensual but deadly creature who can change from a beautiful woman to an armour-plated killing machine in the blink of an eye. Government agent Xavier Fitch assembles a team of scientists and mercenaries to locate and destroy Sil before she manages to find a mate and breed.

The Machinist (2004)

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Spain
Actors: Christian Bale | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Aitana S?nchez-Gij?n | John Sharian | Michael Ironside | Larry Gilliard Jr. | Reg E. Cathey | Anna Massey | Matthew Romero Moore | Robert Long | Colin Stinton | Craig Stevenson | Ferran Lahoz | Jeremy Xidu | Norman Bell
Directors: Brad Anderson
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“The Machinist” is a film about a man who hasn’t slept in a year, and he starts thinking that he’s losing his mind, when he starts seeing hallucinations, and his perception of reality becomes twisted. He’s haunted by a co-worker that no one else can see, and keeps finding post-it notes with secret messages on his fridge…

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

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Georgie Henley | Skandar Keynes | William Moseley | Anna Popplewell | Tilda Swinton | James McAvoy | Jim Broadbent | Kiran Shah | James Cosmo | Judy McIntosh | Elizabeth Hawthorne | Patrick Kake | Shane Rangi | Brandon Cook | Cassie Cook
Directors: Andrew Adamson
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Based on the classic novel by ‘CS Lewis’ (qv). Four London children are sent to a professor’s country home in order for protection during World War II. There they find a magic wardrobe which leads to a mystical 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.

I’m Not There (2007)

Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | Music
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Cate Blanchett | Ben Whishaw | Christian Bale | Richard Gere | Marcus Carl Franklin | Heath Ledger | Kris Kristofferson | Don Francks | Roc LaFortune | Larry Day | Paul Cagelet | Pierre-Alexandre Fortin | Richie Havens | Tyrone Benskin | Kim Roberts
Directors: Todd Haynes
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Six incarnations of Bob Dylan: an actor, a folk singer, an electrified troubadour, Rimbaud, Billy the Kid, and Woody Guthrie. Put Dylan’s music behind their adventures, soliloquies, interviews, marriage, and infidelity. Recreate 1960s documentaries in black and white. Put each at a crossroads, the artist becoming someone else. Jack, the son of Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, finds Jesus; handsome Robbie falls in love then abandons Claire. Woody, a lad escaped from foster care, hobos the U.S. singing; Billy awakes in a valley threatened by a six-lane highway; Rimbaud talks. Jude, booed at Newport when he goes electric, fences with reporters, pundits, and fans. He won’t be classified.

Anna Karenina (1997)

Monday, May 26th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Sophie Marceau | Sean Bean | Alfred Molina | Mia Kirshner | James Fox | Fiona Shaw | Danny Huston | Phyllida Law | David Schofield | Saskia Wickham | Jennifer Hall | Anna Calder-Marshall | Petr Shelokhonov | Valerie Braddell | Niall Buggy
Directors: Bernard Rose
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Anna is a young and elegant wife of Mr. Karenin, who is wealthy and old. She meets the handsome Count Vronsky. Anna and Vronsky fall in love with each other, and he comes to be with her in St. Petersburg. They are very happy together and make a great looking couple, but soon their happiness gets under social pressures. Anna is hopelessly begging Mr. Karenin for a divorce, but he wants to keep the mother of their child. She has another baby born from her lover Vronsky. Conflict between her untamed desires and painful reality causes her a depression…

Unforgiven (1992)

Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Clint Eastwood | Gene Hackman | Morgan Freeman | Richard Harris | Jaimz Woolvett | Saul Rubinek | Frances Fisher | Anna Levine | David Mucci | Rob Campbell | Anthony James | Tara Frederick | Beverley Elliott | Liisa Repo-Martell | Josie Smith
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The town of Big Whisky is full of normal people trying to lead quiet lives. Cowboys try to make a living. Sheriff ‘Little Bill’ tries to build a house and keep a heavy-handed order. The town whores just try to get by.Then a couple of cowboys cut up a whore. Unsatisfied with Bill’s justice, the prostitutes put a bounty on the cowboys. The bounty attracts a young gun billing himself as ‘The Schofield Kid’, and aging killer William Munny. Munny reformed for his young wife, and has been raising crops and two children in peace. But his wife is gone. Farm life is hard. And Munny is no good at it. So he calls his old partner Ned, saddles his ornery nag, and rides off to kill one more time, blurring the lines between heroism and villainy, man and myth.

Mad Max (1979)

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Australia
Actors: Mel Gibson | Joanne Samuel | Hugh Keays-Byrne | Steve Bisley | Tim Burns | Roger Ward | Lisa Aldenhoven | David Bracks | Bertrand Cadart | David Cameron | Robina Chaffey | Stephen Clark | Mathew Constantine | Jerry Day | Reg Evans
Directors: George Miller
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It is a couple of years in the future… The highways of Australia are ruled by violent gangs who have turned the highways into a battleground as they loot gasoline and terrorize the innocent. Max Rockatansky is a policeman who had everything… Until, a murderous motorcycle gang led by the evil Toecutter burns his partner Jim Goose to death and murders his wife and son, after Max killed their leader “The Knight Rider”. Loosing his rocker, Max decides to take the law into his own hands as he sets out to get his revenge on the motorcycle gang and become the road warrior known as “Mad Max”.

Before Sunrise (1995)

Monday, May 19th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: Austria | Switzerland | USA
Actors: Ethan Hawke | Julie Delpy | Andrea Eckert | Hanno P?schl | Karl Bruckschwaiger | Tex Rubinowitz | Erni Mangold | Dominik Castell | Haymon Maria Buttinger | Harold Waiglein | Bilge Jeschim | Kurti | Hans Weingartner | Liese Lyon | Peter Ily Huemer
Directors: Richard Linklater
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A French grad student named Celine (Julie Delpy) meets an American boy named Jesse (Ethan Hawke) on the Budapest-Vienna train. They get off the train in Vienna and hang out for a while.