Posts Tagged ‘anti-hero’

To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)

Monday, August 4th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: William Petersen | Petersen, William L. | Dafoe, Willem | Pankow, John | Feuer, Debra | Turturro, John | Fluegel, Darlanne | Stockwell, Dean | James, Steve | Downey Sr., Robert | Greene, Michael | Allport, Christopher | Hoar, Jack | de Vargas, Valentin | Brown, Dwier | Chong, Michael
Directors: Friedkin, William
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Two cops in Los Angeles try to track down the vicious criminal Eric Masters. Then, one of them is killed by Masters and the other one swears revenge no matter what the cost. After that, the hunt becomes an ob- session and the law he once swore to uphold becomes meaningless to him.

V for Vendetta (2005)

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Portman, Natalie | Weaving, Hugo | Rea, Stephen | Fry, Stephen | Hurt, John | Pigott-Smith, Tim | Graves, Rupert | Allam, Roger | Miles, Ben | Cusack, Sinéad | Wightman, Natasha | Standing, John | Marsan, Eddie | Ashborn, Clive | Field-Rayner, Emma
Directors: McTeigue, James
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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.

Sudden Impact (1983)

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Eastwood, Clint | Hingle, Pat | Dillman, Bradford | Drake, Paul | Thibeau, Jack | Currie, Michael | Popwell, Albert | Keyloun, Mark | Howard, Kevyn Major | Bellan, Joe | Wellman, Wendell | McCubbin, Russ | Sutton, Robert | Argenziano, Carmen | Reddick, Bill
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After destroying a case involving a crime lord, Harry Callahan is sent down to San Paulo to investigate the killing of a man found dead in a car. Jennifer (the killer of the man in the car) is murdering all the rapists who brutally raped both her and her sister 10 years ago, and she has returned to San Paulo to exact her revenge. Harry becomes inadvertently involved in Jennifer’s own troubles during his investigations, all the while not suspecting she is the killer.

Species II (1998)

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Madsen, Michael | Justin Lazard | Harris, Baxter | Williamson, Mykelti | Helgenberger, Marg | Dzundza, George | Cromwell, James | Wynter, Sarah | Henstridge, Natasha | Myriam Cyr
Directors: Medak, Peter
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Mykelti Williamson and Justin Lazard are a pair of astronauts who make the first successful manned mission to Mars. Lazard’s character gets infected by an alien and slowly begins to mutate. When they get back to Earth all he has on his mind is to have sex with Henstridge!

Magnum Force (1973)

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Eastwood, Clint | Holbrook, Hal | Mitchell, Ryan | Soul, David | Matheson, Tim | Niven, Kip | Urich, Robert | Perry, Felton | Argent, Maurice | Avery, Margaret | Devon, Richard | Giorgio, Tony | Kosslyn, Jack | March, Bob | McClurg, Bob
Directors: Post, Ted
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San Francisco Police Inspector ‘Dirty’ Harry Callahan and his new partner, Early Smith have been temporarily reassigned from Homicide to Stakeout Duty. Meanwhile, those of the city’s criminals who manage to avoid punishment by the courts are nevertheless being killed by unknown assassins. Callahan begins to investigate the murders despite the orders of his superior officer, Lieutenant Briggs. A man has to know his limitations…

Dead Pool, The (1988)

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Eastwood, Clint | Neeson, Liam | Kim, Evan C. | Hunt, David | Currie, Michael | Goodwin, Michael | Gillett, Darwin | Charnota, Anthony | Beale, Christopher P. | Vick, John Allen | Richmond, Jeff | Van Horn, Patrick | Carrey, Jim | Love, Nicholas | Heart, John X.
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After Harry’s arrest of a gambling kingpin results in a conviction for murder, a group of thugs shoot up Harry’s car and try to kill him. Harry overpowers them and is paired with a new partner, Insp. Al Quan (Evan Kim). Within days of this assignment Harry and Al find themselves working on a mysterious death of a rock star, who was on location filming a movie directed by Peter Swan (Liam Neeson). After one of Swan’s crew is killed in a Chinatown robbery that is foiled by Al & Harry, Al discovers a list of celebrities on the dead man that includes the dead rock star and one Inspector Harry Callahan. They soon discover that this is part of a strange game called the Dead Pool, and it isn’t long before other people on the list turn up dead…and someone starts making attempts on Harry’s life…

Bubba Ho-tep (2002)

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Horror | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Campbell, Bruce | Davis, Ossie | Joyce, Ella | Marnhout, Heidi | Ivy, Bob | Jefferson, Edith | Pennell, Larry | Bannister, Reggie | Roebuck, Daniel | Schweiger, Daniel | Young, Harrison | Flammer, Linda | Okada, Cean | Morand, Solange | Placencia, Karen
Directors: Coscarelli, Don
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Based on the Bram Stoker Award nominee short story by cult author Joe R. Lansdale, Bubba Ho-tep tells the “true” story of what really did become of Elvis Presley. We find Elvis (Bruce Campbell) as an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home, who switched identities with an Elvis impersonator years before his “death”, then missed his chance to switch back. Elvis teams up with Jack (Ossie Davis), a fellow nursing home resident who thinks that he is actually President John F. Kennedy, and the two valiant old codgers sally forth to battle an evil Egyptian entity who has chosen their long-term care facility as his happy hunting grounds.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006)

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Depp, Johnny | Bloom, Orlando | Knightley, Keira | Davenport, Jack | Nighy, Bill | Pryce, Jonathan | Arenberg, Lee | Crook, Mackenzie | McNally, Kevin | Bailie, David | Skarsgård, Stellan | Hollander, Tom | Harris, Naomie | Klebba, Martin | Schofield, David
Directors: Verbinski, Gore
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Just before their wedding, Elizabeth Swann and Will Turner are arrested by Lord Cutler Beckett for helping the pirate Captain Jack Sparrow, but Cutler proposes a deal to Will: their freedom per Jack’s compass. Meanwhile, Jack is afraid of the sea, because he owes his soul to the evil Davy Jones, the Captain of the Flying Dutchmen. When Will meets Jack, the pirate proposes to exchange his compass by a key owned by Davy Jones. Will goes to the Flying Dutchman without knowing how dangerous and diabolic Davy Jones and his crew are.

AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2004)

Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Genres: Action | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Canada | Czech Republic | Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Lathan, Sanaa | Henriksen, Lance | Bremner, Ewen | Salmon, Colin | Bova, Raoul | De La Boulaye, Agathe
Directors: Anderson, Paul W.S.
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When a private satellite encounters an unidentified source of heat in Antarctica and it is found to be a pyramid buried deep underground , a search team comprising of top-of-the-line archaeologists and engineers is sent to Antarctica to find out more . Once there , the team comes across signs which indicate that the place is inhabited by an unknown alien species . It is not long before the aliens begin to hunt the team members . At the same time , a trio of coming-of-age Predators have arrived to collect the skulls of the aliens as trophies , and the humans are caught between a deadly battle between the two warring species .

Unforgiven (1992)

Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Eastwood, Clint | Hackman, Gene | Freeman, Morgan | Harris, Richard | Woolvett, Jaimz | Rubinek, Saul | Fisher, Frances | Levine, Anna | Mucci, David | Campbell, Rob | James, Anthony | Frederick, Tara | Elliott, Beverley | Repo-Martell, Liisa | Smith, Josie
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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.