Posts Tagged ‘paranoia’

Sphere (1998)

Thursday, September 11th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jackson, Samuel L. | Hoffman, Dustin | Stone, Sharon | Latifah, Queen | Schreiber, Liev | Coyote, Peter | Marga Gomez
Directors: Levinson, Barry
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1000 feet below the ocean, navy divers discover an object half-a-mile long. A crack team of scientists are deployed to the site in Deepsea Habitats. What they find boggles the mind as they discover a perfect metal sphere. What is the secret behind the sphere? Will they survive the mysterious ‘manifestations’? Who or what is creating these? They may never live to find out.

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
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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.

Doomsday (2008)

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: South Africa | UK | USA
Actors: Willemse, Vernon | Hyett, Paul | Read, Daniel | Thaning, Karl | Hughes, Stephen | Cope, Jason | Kruger, Ryan | Wheatley, Nathan | Carter, Cecil | Crutchley, Jeremy | Fairfoot, Tom | Abrahams, Az | Hoskins, Bob | Siddig, Alexander | O'Hara, David
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Great Britain, 2007. A deadly plague, known as the “Reaper Virus,” has broken out, killing hundreds of thousands in its wake. In desperation, the British Government evacuates as many survivors as it can out of the infected area, and then builds a wall, preventing the remainder from escaping. Thirty years later, with the wall still up and the victims all but forgotten, the virus breaks out again. The Government decides to send a crack team of operatives, led by Major Eden Sinclair, into the hot zone to investigate the possibility of a cure.

Neverwas (2005)

Friday, July 18th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Eckhart, Aaron | McKellen, Ian | Nolte, Nick | Hurt, William | Bellamy, Bill | Cumming, Alan | Moriarty, Michael | Roberts, Ken | Henry, Tim | Macaluso, Joe | Airlie, Andrew | Drescher, Ryan | Eckhart, Jim | Hendery, Richard | Tisdale, Mark
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A well-educated psychiatrist leaves an academic career to work at an institution where his father, a novelist, lived before writing a renowned children’s book. Acclimating to his position, he encounters a schizophrenic who helps him to discover the book’s secrets and his place in the story.

Be Kind Rewind (2008)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Black, Jack | Def, Mos | Glover, Danny | Gooch, Irv | Parker, Chandler | Smith, Arjay | Aaron, Quinton | Perez, Gio | Soltys, Tomasz | Franklin, Marcus Carl | Hightower, Blake | Said, Amir Ali | Slotkoff, David | Heins, Frank | Hogan, Harvey
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A small VHS only video store faces foreclosure in a poor community. While watching the store for the owner, a blundering employee’s friend accidentally erases all of the tapes. In order to keep their blunder from becoming apparent, the duo of Mos Def and Jack Black begin remaking the films themselves using homemade special effects and outdated filming techniques.

Summer of Sam (1999)

Monday, June 9th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Leguizamo, John | Brody, Adrien | Sorvino, Mira | Esposito, Jennifer | Rispoli, Michael | Guerra, Saverio | Tarantina, Brian | Palagonia, Al | Garito, Ken | Neuwirth, Bebe | LuPone, Patti | Starr, Mike | LaPaglia, Anthony | Smith, Roger Guenveur | Gazzara, Ben
Directors: Lee, Spike
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Spike Lee’s take on the “Son of Sam” murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American South Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.

Machinist, The (2004)

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Spain
Actors: Bale, Christian | Leigh, Jennifer Jason | Sánchez-Gijón, Aitana | Sharian, John | Ironside, Michael | Gilliard Jr., Larry | Cathey, Reg E. | Massey, Anna | Romero Moore, Matthew | Long, Robert | Stinton, Colin | Stevenson, Craig | Lahoz, Ferran | Xidu, Jeremy | Bell, Norman
Directors: Anderson, Brad
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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…

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.

First Snow (2006)

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Pearce, Guy | Perabo, Piper | Fichtner, William | J.K. Simmons | Whigham, Shea | Gonzalez, Rick | Burroughs, Jackie | Scott, Adam | Dawson, Portia | Hayres, Cherilyn | Rains, Luce | Gamble, Brian | House, David | Marquez, Jose J. | Burton Jr., John
Directors: Fergus, Mark
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Wound tight and cocky, Jimmy Starks (Pearce) is a smooth-talking salesman certain he’s on the verge of a big break. Even when his car stalls in the middle of nowhere, a roadside soothsayer (Simmons) assures him a windfall is on its way. But although Jimmy should be happy when his boss suddenly agrees to financially back his business venture, he starts to become paranoid instead. As his girlfriend Deirdre (Perabo) and his best friend/ business partner Ed (Fichtner) watch him slowly come unwound, Jimmy wonders if a past betrayal of his friend, newly paroled Vince (Whigham), could be catching up to him. And, as the weather turns cold, Jimmy can’t help but fear the mysterious seer’s other prediction… that they’ll be no tomorrow after the first snow.

Stranger Than Fiction (2006)

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Ferrell, Will | Latifah, Queen | Grosz, Peter | Adams, Ricky | Stolte, Christian | Hughes, Denise | Roeder, Peggy | Ho, Tonray | Hale, Tony | Dick, William | Gyllenhaal, Maggie | Rhodes, Danny | Young, Helen | Pompeii, David | Washington, Linara
Directors: Forster, Marc
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For twelve years, the methodic IRF agent Harold Crick has had a routine lonely life guided by his wristwatch. However, one day he hears the narration of his life in off, telling that he is going to die pretty soon. Meanwhile, he audits Ana Pascal, the owner of a bakery that is in debt with the IRF, and falls in love for her. Harold is advised by Professor Jules Hilbert to change his monotonous lifestyle while he tries to find Karen Eiffel, the author of the story of his life, who is researching means of killing the character, and convince her to change the ending of the story.