Posts Tagged ‘deliberate-cruelty’

Cool Hand Luke (1967)

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Newman, Paul | Kennedy, George | Cannon, J.D. | Antonio, Lou | Drivas, Robert | Martin, Strother | James, Clifton | Woodward, Morgan | Askew, Luke | Cavell, Marc | Davalos, Richard | Donner, Robert | Warren Finnerty | Hopper, Dennis | McLiam, John
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Luke is sent to a prison camp, where he gets a reputation as a hard man. The head of the gang hates him, and tries to break him by beating him up. It doesn’t work, and he gains respect. His mother dies, and he escapes, but is caught, escapes again, and is caught again. Will the camp bosses ever break him ?

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 adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll’s epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction. As a member of a seemingly unbeatable high school basketball squad, Jim’s life centers around the basketball 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 unacceptable liberties with the boys on his team, teenage sexual angst, and an unhealthy appetite for heroin — all of these begin to encroach on young Jim’s dream of becoming a basketball star. Soon, the dark streets of New York become a refuge from his mother’s mounting concern for her son. He can’t go home and his only escape from the reality of the streets is heroin for which he steals, robs and prostitutes himself. Only with the help of Reggie, an older neighborhood friend with whom Jim “picked up a game” now and then, is he able to begin the long journey back to sanity.

Ghost in the Shell (1995)

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Genres: Action | Animation | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Japan | UK
Actors: Tanaka, Atsuko | Ôtsuka, Akio | Ôki, Tamio | Kayumi, Iemasa | Yamadera, Kôichi | Genda, Tesshô | Barnes, Richard | Blum, Steven Jay | Bulen, Steve | Cansino, Richard | Carlton, Tom | Celik, George | Chiba, Shigeru | Davis, Stephen | Epcar, Richard
Directors: Oshii, Mamoru
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The year is 2029. The world has become intensively information oriented and humans are well-connected to the network. Crime has developed into a sophisticated stage by hacking into the interactive network. To prevent this, Section 9 is formed. These are cyborgs with incredible strengths and abilities that can access any network on Earth.

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)

Monday, March 17th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Cusack, John | Spacey, Kevin | Thompson, Jack | Hall, Irma P. | Law, Jude | Alison Eastwood | Hipp, Paul | Chablis, Lady | Loudon, Dorothy | Haney, Anne | Hunter, Kim | Lewis, Geoffrey | Herd, Richard | Rippy, Leon | Gunton, Bob
Directors: Eastwood, Clint
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This panoramic tale of Savannah’s eccentricities focuses on a murder and the subsequent trial of Jim Williams: self made man, art collector, antiques dealer, bon vivant and semi-closeted homosexual. John Kelso a magazine reporter finds himself in Savannah amid the beautiful architecture and odd doings to write a feature on one of William’s famous Christmas parties. He is intrigued by Williams from the start, but his curiosity is piqued when he meets Jim’s violent, young and sexy lover, Billy. Later that night, Billy is dead, and Kelso stays on to cover the murder trial. Along the way he encounters the irrepressible Lady Chablis, a drag queen commedienne, Sonny Seiler, lawyer to Williams, whose famous dog UGA is the official mascot of the Georgia Bulldogs, an odd man who keeps flies attached to mini leashes on his lapels and threatens daily to poison the water supply, the Married Ladies Card Club, and Minerva, a spiritualist. Between being Jim’s buddy, cuddling up to a torch singer, meeting every eccentric in Savannah, participating in midnight graveyard rituals and helping solve the mysteries surrounding Billy’s murder, Kelso has his hands full.

Don’t Look Now (1973)

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Italy | UK
Actors: Christie, Julie | Sutherland, Donald | Mason, Hilary | Matania, Clelia | Massimo Serato | Scarpa, Renato | Trestini, Giorgio | Trieste, Leopoldo | Tree, David | Rye, Ann | Salter, Nicholas | Williams, Sharon | Cattaneo, Bruno | Poerio, Adelina
Directors: Roeg, Nicolas
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John and Laura Baxter are living in Venice when they meet a pair of elderly sisters, one of whom claims to be psychic. She insists that she sees the spirit of the Baxters’ daughter, who recently drowned. Laura is intrigued, but John resists the idea. He, however, seems to have his own psychic flashes, seeing their daughter walk the streets in her red cloak, as well as Laura and the sisters on a funeral gondola.

Meet Joe Black (1998)

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Pitt, Brad | Hopkins, Anthony | Forlani, Claire | Weber, Jake | Harden, Marcia Gay | Tambor, Jeffrey | Howard, David S. | Kelly-Miller, Lois | St. John, Jahnni | Clarke, Richard | Burke, Marylouise | Kagan, Diane | Squibb, June | Canfield, Gene | Hevner, Suzanne
Directors: Brest, Martin
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Bill Parrish, media tycoon, loving father and still a human being, is about to celebrate his 65th birthday. One morning, he is contacted by the Inevitable - by hallucination, as he thinks. Later, Death itself enters his home and his life, personified in a man’s body: Joe Black has arrived. His intention was to take Bill with him, but accidentally, Joe’s former host and Bills beautiful daughter Susan have already met. Joe begins to develop certain interest in life on earth as well as in Susan, who has no clue who she’s flirting with.

Little Children (2006)

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Winslet, Kate | Wilson, Patrick | Connelly, Jennifer | Edelman, Gregg | Goldstein, Sadie | Simpkins, Ty | Emmerich, Noah | Haley, Jackie Earle | Somerville, Phyllis | Carey, Helen | Wolf, Catherine | McCann, Mary B. | Trini Alvarado | Dietlein, Marsha | Adams, Jane
Directors: Field, Todd
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Echoes of “Madame Bovary” in the American suburbs. Sarah’s in a loveless marriage, long days with her young daughter at the park and the pool, wanting more. Brad is a househusband, married to a flinty documentary filmmaker. Ronnie is just out of prison - two years for indecent exposure - living with his mother; Larry is a retired cop, fixated on driving Ronnie away. Sarah and Brad connect, a respite of adult companionship at the pool. Ronnie and Larry have their demons. Brad should be studying for the bar; Larry misses his job; Ronnie’s mom thinks he needs a girlfriend. Sarah longs to refuse to be trapped in an unhappy life. Where can these tangled paths lead?

Spaceballs (1987)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Brooks, Mel | Moranis, Rick | Pullman, Bill | Zuniga, Daphne | Candy, John | Wyner, George | Rivers, Joan | Van Patten, Dick | Winslow, Michael | Yarnell, Lorene | Hurt, John | Viscuso, Sal | Graham, Ronny | Bullock, JM J. | Bevis, Leslie
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King Roland of the planet Druidia is trying to marry his daughter Princess Vespa (Daphne Zuniga) to Prince Valium, but Vespa is kidnapped by the evil race of the Spaceballs. The Spaceballs ask Roland a tremendous ransom: all the air of Druidia (you see, the air of Spaceball had serious pollution problems…). The King decides to offer a generous amount of money to a space rogue, Lone Starr, to persuade him to save Vespa. What follows is the parody of a _LOT_ of famous SF movies.

Mulholland Dr. (2001)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Watts, Naomi | Harring, Laura | Miller, Ann | Hedaya, Dan | Theroux, Justin | Briscoe, Brent | Forster, Robert | Towne, Katharine | Grant, Lee | Coffey, Scott | Cyrus, Billy Ray | Everett, Chad | Taggart, Rita | Karen, James | Heuring, Lori | Pellegrino, Mark
Directors: Lynch, David
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A bright-eyed young actress travels to Hollywood, only to be ensnared in a dark conspiracy involving a woman who was nearly murdered, and now has amnesia because of a car crash. Eventually, both women are pulled into a psychotic illusion involving a dangerous blue box, a director named Adam Kesher, and the mysterious night club Silencio.

Last Tango in Paris (1972)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: France | Italy
Actors: Brando, Marlon | Schneider, Maria | Michi, Maria | Galletti, Giovanna | Magrini, Gitt | Allégret, Catherine | Marquand, Luce | Breillat, Marie-Hélène | Breillat, Catherine | Diament, Dan | Sola, Catherine | Marchetti, Mauro | Léaud, Jean-Pierre | Girotti, Massimo | Schommer, Peter
Directors: Bertolucci, Bernardo
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While looking for an apartment, Jeanne, a beautiful young Parisienne, encounters Paul, a mysterious American expatriate mourning his wife’s recent suicide. Instantly drawn to each other, they have a stormy, passionate affair, in which they do not reveal their names to each other. Their relationship deeply affects their lives, as Paul struggles with his wife’s death and Jeanne prepares to marry her fiance, Tom, a film director making a cinema-verite documentary about her.