Posts Tagged ‘death’

Death Warrant (1990)

Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Van Damme, Jean-Claude | Guillaume, Robert | Cynthia Gibb | Dickerson, George | LaFleur, Art | Kilpatrick, Patrick | Miller, Joshua John | Stone, Hank | Dunn, Conrad | Bannon, Jack | El Razzac, Abdul Salaam | Shimerman, Armin | Lantz, John | Howes, Hans | Waters Jr., Harry
Directors: Deran Sarafian
Download: DivX iPod 

In an abandoned house, detective Louis Burke confronts a maniac called the Sandman. Although the Sandman nearly kills Burke, Burke manages to stop him with a bullet. Sixteen months later, Burke joins a task force put together by the governor to investigate a series of unexplained deaths in the Harrison Penitentiary. While Burke poses as an inmate, attorney Amanda Beckett acts the role of his wife. In the penitentiary, Burke is forced to survive in an environment so dismal and filthy that it makes a public restroom in New York City look like a room in a five star hotel. Burke does succeed in befriending a few of the inmates, including Hawkins and Priest, who help him with the investigation. More inmates are mysteriously murdered. Burke’s cell-mate is killed, and prison guard DeGraff puts Burke in solitary confinement, where he’s interrogated and beaten. As if that’s not enough, the Sandman ends up at Harrison. As it turns out, the prisoners are being murdered for their body organs. Back on the outside, Beckett attends a party given by Vogler, the state’s attorney general. Just as she’s preparing to tell him about the murders at the prison, Beckett receives a call from her assistant, who identifies Vogler’s henchman Keane as the man behind the murders, which also involve Dr. Gottesman, the surgeon who harvests the organs to be sold to people who are in desperate need of them. The assistant’s suspicions are confirmed when Vogler tries to kill Beckett. Burke begins an escape from the penitentiary, pursued by the Sandman and hundreds of angry inmates who have been set free and armed with the knowledge that Burke is a cop. Burke and the Sandman have brutal showdown in which Burke tries to get the Sandman out of the way so he can go after Vogler, Keane, and Gottesman.

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)

Friday, August 8th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Hauer, Rutger | Roberts, Julia | Westley, Jennifer Rae | Clark, Dick | Rockwell, Sam | Sweeney, Michelle | Barrymore, Drew | Ceci, Chelsea | Pitt, Brad | Damon, Matt | Cera, Michael | Rose Ambroziak, Aimee | Blais, Isabelle | Carter, Melissa | Hall, Jennifer | Elkin, Ilona | Tucker, Sean | Morgan, Jaye P. | Gyllenhaal, Maggie | Hirsh, David Julian
Directors: Clooney, George
Download: DVD iPod 

Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind” is the story of a legendary showman’s double life - television producer by day, CIA assassin by night. At the height of his TV career, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA and trained to become a covert operative. Or so Barris said.

Jackal, The (1997)

Friday, August 8th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Crime | Thriller
Countries: France | Germany | Japan | UK | USA
Actors: Willis, Bruce | Gere, Richard | Poitier, Sidney | Venora, Diane | May, Mathilda | J.K. Simmons | Lineback, Richard | Cunningham, John | Black, Jack | Harper, Tess | Phillips, Leslie | Spinella, Stephen | Okonedo, Sophie | Hayman, David | Bassett, Steve
Directors: Caton-Jones, Michael
Download: DVD iPod 

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.

Rogue (2007)

Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Vartan, Michael | Worthington, Sam | Curry, Stephen | Jarratt, John | Morrell, Geoff | Richardson, Damien | Taylor, Robert | Otto, Barry
Directors:
Download: DivX iPod 

An idyllic wildlife cruise disintegrates into terror when a party of tourists are stalked by a massive man-eating crocodile. Pete McKell, a cynical American travel writer, joins a disparate group of holiday-makers on a river cruise through the waters of Kakadu National Park. Initially Pete clashes with their tour captain, Kate, a feisty young woman who assumes he is just another ‘city-slicker’ in search of a quick thrill. After an uneventful day cruising the river, Kate is reluctantly persuaded to steer their boat into unexplored territory. They discover a secluded lake but terror strikes when their craft receives a powerful blow from beneath the murky depths and begins to sink. With little choice, she beaches the vessel on the closest dry land -a tiny mud island. With a rising tide and only half an hour of daylight left, fear grips the group as they realize they are trapped in the lair of a ‘rogue’ crocodile, governed only by its need to hunt and kill. Begrudgingly, Pete and Kate join forces to keep hysteria at bay and in the process start to see beyond their initial impressions. Their first attempt to escape fails, but then Pete has an idea - they must trap the crocodile to enable the group to flee to the other side of the island whilst Kate swims for help. Pete volunteers to stand guard, but without warning, the beast breaks free and targets Kate who fails to resurface. As darkness descends and the muddy waters rise, a terrifying struggle ensues with only one probable outcome death.

Kidulthood (2006)

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Ameen, Aml | Clarke, Noel | Deacon, Adam | Oyeniran, Femi | Ajala, David | Angol, Richard | Burroughs, Tom | Callis, Sam | Da Costa, Stephen | Dantzic, Toby | Deley, Ortis | Hanson, Alexander | Hoult, Nicholas | Hunjan, Sushil | Cornell, John
Directors:
Download: DivX iPod 

A day in the life of a group of troubled 15-year-olds growing up in west London.

Final Destination 3 (2006)

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Merriman, Ryan | Lemche, Kris | Easton, Sam | Moss, Jesse | Battle, Texas | Racicot, Jody | Gallagher, Patrick | Basu, Dylan | Ghisi, Alberto | Cowan, Stuart | Allan, Harris | Kalugin, Alexander | Lennarson, Nels | Rupp, Jacob | Stephens, R. David
Directors:
Download: DivX iPod 

After a girl has a premonition of a horrific roller coaster accident, her and several of her friends get off the ride. Only when her vision comes true does horrible things start happening to those that got off. Now, everyone who got off is dying in various ways in the order they died in the vision. Now, her and her friend, armed with only the picture she took at the carnival, have to find out how her classmates are going to die and how to stop it.

Last House on the Left, The (1972)

Monday, August 4th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Hess, David | Lincoln, Fred J. | Sheffler, Marc | Towers, Richard | Anker, Marshall | Kove, Martin | Edwards, Ray | Craven, Jonathan | Forcelli, Anthony J. | Miner, Steve
Directors:
Download: DivX iPod 

After kidnapping and butchering two teenagers, a gang of rapists and murderers unknowingly seeks refuge with the parents of one of the victims.

Heist (2001)

Friday, July 18th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Rockwell, Sam | Hackman, Gene | DeVito, Danny | Lindo, Delroy | Acker, Ricky | Pidgeon, Rebecca
Directors: Mamet, David
Download: DivX iPod 

David Mamet takes this story of thieves along many twists and turns, some of which work and some of which don’t. Gene Hackman plays the brilliant leader of a gang (Delroy Lindo, Ricky Jay & Rebecca Pigeon as Hackman’s youngish wife), which pulls off complex heists for a despicable fence (Danny DeVito). After stiffing the gang on a jewelry robbery, DeVito forces the gang to go after a Swiss gold shipment and to use his nephew (Sam Rockwell) in the crime. No one trusts anyone and every step is shaded with the unexpected.

Bonfire of the Vanities, The (1990)

Friday, July 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Hanks, Tom | Willis, Bruce | Rubinek, Saul | Freeman, Morgan | Hancock, John | Dunn, Kevin | James, Clifton | Giambalvo, Louis | Heyman, Barton | Parker, Norman | Moffat, Donald | King, Alan | Fuller, Kurt | LeFevre, Adam | Libertini, Richard
Directors:
Download: DivX iPod 

Financial “Master of the Universe” Sherman McCoy sees his life unravel when his mistress Maria Ruskin hits a black boy with his car. When yellow journalist Peter Fallow enflames public opinion with a series of distorted tabloid articles on the accident, the case is seized upon by opportunists like Reverend Bacon and mayoral candidate D.A. Abe Weiss.

Vantage Point (2008)

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Quaid, Dennis | Fox, Matthew | Whitaker, Forest | McGill, Bruce | Ramirez, Edgar | Taghmaoui, Saïd | Hurt, William | LeGros, James | Noriega, Eduardo | Jones, Richard T. | McCallany, Holt | Nam, Leonardo | Sundquist, Justin | O'Bryan, Sean | Rodríguez, José Carlos
Directors:
Download: DivX iPod 

The attempted assassination of the American President is told and re-told from several different perspectives.