deliberate-cruelty movies

Ghost in the Shell (1995)

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
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.

Shadow of the Vampire (2000)

Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Genres: Drama | Horror
Countries: Luxembourg | UK | USA
Actors: Malkovich, John | Dafoe, Willem | Kier, Udo | Elwes, Cary | McCormack, Catherine | Izzard, Eddie | Gillett, Aden | Elliott, Nicholas | Vibert, Ronan | Langevin, Sophie | Muller, Myriam | Hlavac, Milos | Junker, Marja-Leena | Kueter, Derek | Golightly, Norman
Directors: Merhige, E. Elias
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Shadow of the Vampire is a film about the making of a German all time classic silent horror-movie from 1922 called Nosferatu-Eine Symphonie des Grauens (Nosferatu-a Symphony of Horror). The production of Nosferatu had to deal with a lot of strange things (some crew members disappeared, some died). This movie focuses on the difficult relationship between Murnau, the director, and Schreck, the lead actor.

On the Waterfront (1954)

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Brando, Marlon | Malden, Karl | Cobb, Lee J. | Steiger, Rod | Henning, Pat | Erickson, Leif | Westerfield, James | Galento, Tony | Mauriello, Tami | Hamilton, John F. | Heldabrand, John | Bond, Rudy | Blackman, Don | Keegan, Arthur | Simon, Abe
Directors: Kazan, Elia
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The Waterfront Crime Commission is about to hold public hearings on union crime and underworld infiltration. As workers are turned against each other, Terry Malloy inadvertently participates in the murder of fellow longshoreman Joey Doyle. Union boss Johnny Friendly orchestrates the murder along with other illegal dockside activities, aided by Terry’s brother Charley. Terry begins to feel pangs of conscience. When Joey’s sister Edie sees more in Terry than he sees in himself and Father Barry urges him on, Terry reassesses his past and begins to regain responsibility for his actions.

Age of Innocence, The (1993)

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Day-Lewis, Daniel | Pfeiffer, Michelle | Ryder, Winona | Smith, Alexis | Chaplin, Geraldine | Hurt, Mary Beth | McCowen, Alec | Grant, Richard E. | Margolyes, Miriam | Leonard, Robert Sean | Phillips, Siân | Pryce, Jonathan | Gough, Michael | Woodward, Joanne | Wilson, Stuart
Directors: Scorsese, Martin
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Society scion Newland Archer is engaged to May Welland, but his well-ordered life is upset when he meets May’s unconventional cousin, the Countess Olenska. At first, Newland becomes a defender of the Countess, whose separation from her abusive husband makes her a social outcast in the restrictive high society of late-19th Century New York, but he finds in her a companion spirit and they fall in love.

Girl, Interrupted (1999)

Monday, May 4th, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Ryder, Winona | Jolie, Angelina | DuVall, Clea | Murphy, Brittany | Moss, Elisabeth | Leto, Jared | Tambor, Jeffrey | Redgrave, Vanessa | Goldberg, Whoopi | Bettis, Angela | Armenante, Jillian | McDaniel, Drucie | Claire, Alison | Myers, Christina | Kerns, Joanna
Directors: Mangold, James
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Susanna is rushed to the hospital. Afterwards she discusses this with a psychiatrist. She had been having some delusions. She had also been having an affair with the husband of her parents’ friend. The doctor suggests that combining a bottle of aspirin and a bottle of vodka was a suicide attempt. This she denies. He recommends a short period of rest at Claymoore. Claymoore is a private mental hospital full of noisy, crazy people. Georgina is a pathological liar. Polly has been badly scarred by fire. Daisy won’t eat in the presence of other people. Lisa is a sociopath, the biggest exasperation for the staff - like Nurse Valerie - and the biggest influence on the other girls in the hospital. Lisa has a history of escapes, so gaining access to personal medical files is not a problem… Susanna’s boyfriend Toby is concerned that she seems too comfortable living with her institutionalized friends…

Palindromes (2004)

Thursday, April 9th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Faber, Matthew | Pietropinto, Angela | Buell, Bill | Sledge, Emani | Barkin, Ellen | Shusterov, Valerie | Masur, Richard | Smith, Hillary Bailey | Stone, Danton | Agri, Robert | Freiman, Hannah | Singer, Stephen | Corr, Rachel | Adly Guirgis, Stephen
Directors: Solondz, Todd
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A fable of innocence: thirteen-year-old Aviva Victor wants to be a ‘mom’. She does all she can to make this happen, and comes very close to succeeding, but in the end her plan is thwarted by her sensible parents. So she runs away, still determined to get pregnant one way or another, but instead finds herself lost in another world, a less sensible one, perhaps, but one pregnant itself with all sorts of strange possibility. She takes a road trip from the suburbs of New Jersey, through Ohio to the plains of Kansas and back. Like so many trips, this one is round-trip, and it’s hard to say in the end if she can ever be quite the same again, or if she can ever be anything but the same again.

Conversation, The (1974)

Sunday, January 11th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Hackman, Gene | Cazale, John | Garfield, Allen | Forrest, Frederic | Williams, Cindy | Higgins, Michael | MacRae, Elizabeth | Garr, Teri | Ford, Harrison | Wheeler, Mark | Shields, Robert | Alexander, Phoebe | Bieri, Ramon | Coppola, Gian-Carlo | Duvall, Robert
Directors: Coppola, Francis Ford
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A paranoid and personally-secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that a couple he is spying on will be murdered.

Anna Karenina (1948)

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: UK
Actors: Marceau, Sophie | Bean, Sean | Molina, Alfred | Kirshner, Mia | Fox, James | Shaw, Fiona | Huston, Danny | Law, Phyllida | Schofield, David | Wickham, Saskia | Hall, Jennifer | Calder-Marshall, Anna | Shelokhonov, Petr | Braddell, Valerie | Buggy, Niall
Directors: Rose, Bernard
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Stefan and Dolly Oblonsky have had a little spat and Stefan has asked his sister, Anna Karenina, to come down to Moscow to help mend the rift. Anna’s companion on the train from St. Petersburg is Countess Vronsky who is met at the Moscow station by her son. Col. Vronsky looks very dashing in his uniform and it’s love at first sight when he looks at Anna and their eyes meet. Back in St. Petersburg they keep running into each other at parties. Since she has a husband and small son, they must be very discreet if they are going to see each other alone.

Bridges of Madison County, The (1995)

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Eastwood, Clint | Streep, Meryl | Corley, Annie | Slezak, Victor | Haynie, Jim | Schmitt, Sarah Kathryn | Kroon, Christopher | Lyons, Phyllis | Monk, Debra | Lage, Richard | Benes, Michelle | Wiegert, Alison | Bobst, Brandon | Faessler, Pearl | Faessler, R.E. 'Stick'
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The path of Francesca Johnson’s future seems destined when an unexpected fork in the road causes her to question everything she had come to expect from life. While her husband and children are away at the Iowa state fair in the Summer of 1965, Robert Kincaid happens upon the Johnson farm and asks Francesca for directions to Rosamunde Bridge. He explains that he is on assignment from National Geographic magazine to photograph the bridges of Madison County. She agrees to show him to the bridges and thus begins the bittersweet and all-too-brief romance of her life. Through the pain of separation from her secret love and the stark isolation she feels as the details of her life consume her, she writes down the story of this four-day love affair in a 3-volume diary. The diary is found by her children among her possessions and alongside Robert Kincaid’s possessions after Francesca is dead. The message they take from the diaries is one of hope that they will do what is necessary to find happiness in their lives — whatever is necessary. After learning that Robert Kincaid’s cremated remains were scattered off Rosamunde Bridge and that their mother requested a similar disposition for her own ashes, the children must decide whether to honor their mother’s final wishes or bury her alongside their father as the family had planned. Adapted from the novel by Robert Waller, this is the story of love that happens just once in a lifetime — if you’re lucky.

Clearing, The (2004)

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Redford, Robert | Mirren, Helen | Dafoe, Willem | Nivola, Alessandro | Craven, Matt | Sagemiller, Melissa | Crewson, Wendy | Pine, Larry | Scarwid, Diana | Ruscio, Elizabeth | McGee, Gwen | Koskoff, Sarah | Marin, Graciela | Pniewski, Mike | McKnight, Geoff
Directors: Brugge, Pieter Jan
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Wayne and Eileen Hayes live the American Dream. Together they’ve raised two children and struggled to build a successful business from the ground up. But there have been sacrifices along the way. When Wayne is kidnapped by an ordinary man, Arnold Mack, and held for ransom in a remote forest, the couple’s world is turned inside out. Eileen finds her home full of FBI agents, their life under scrutiny. While Wayne is engaged in the negotiation of his lifetime, Eileen works frantically with the FBI to secure his release. The terrifying ordeal causes Wayne and Eileen to reassess their marriage and come to a deeper sense of their commitment to each other. With each passing hour, the need and desire for Wayne to return home safely becomes ever more urgent.