Posts Tagged ‘police-detective’

Poseidon Adventure, The (1972)

Friday, April 18th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Hackman, Gene | Borgnine, Ernest | Red Buttons | Lynley, Carol | McDowall, Roddy | Stevens, Stella | Winters, Shelley | Albertson, Jack | Martin, Pamela Sue | O'Connell, Arthur | Shea, Eric | Sadoff, Fred | Allen, Sheila | Arvan, Jan | Webster, Byron
Directors: Neame, Ronald
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At midnight on New Years Eve the S.S. Poseidon is struck by a 90′ tidal wave and is capsized. The Reverend Frank Scott leads nine Survivors; an elderly couple, Manny and Belle Rosen headed to Israel to see their grandson; A New York detective and his ex-prostitute wife, Mike and Linda Rogo on their second honeymoon to Italy; A young brother and sister, Robin and Susan Shelby going to meet their parents in Greece; A haberdasher James Martin; a pop singer Nonnie Parry, and a waiter from the ship Acres. They travel from the grand ballroom struggling through, steam, fire and rising water in the up-side-down ship to reach the bottom (the propeller shaft), now the top.

Mr. Brooks (2007)

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Costner, Kevin | Moore, Demi | Cook, Dane | Hurt, William | Helgenberger, Marg | Santiago-Hudson, Ruben | Panabaker, Danielle | Aisha Hinds | Crouse, Lindsay | Lewis, Jason | Aylesworth, Reiko | Schulze, Matt | Delawari, Yasmine | Dinwiddie, Traci | Cole, Michael
Directors: Evans, Bruce A.
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The story follows a man with a murderous alter ego. Tracy Atwood is a tough detective whose devotion to her craft catches the attention and respect of the serial killer she is hunting, which leads to a symbiotic relationship.

Saw (2004)

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Elwes, Cary | Meyer, Dina | Glover, Danny | Leigh Whannell | Leung, Ken | Mike Butters
Directors: James Wan
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Two men wake up at opposite sides of a dirty, disused bathroom, chained by their ankles to pipes. Between them lies a dead man loosely clutching a hand-held tape player and a handgun. Each finds a tape the perfect fit for the player in their back pocket. They play the tapes. One is threatened, the other isn’t. But they have a task: One must kill the other by 6:00, or his wife and daughter will die. They find hacksaws in a toilet, and try to cut the chains, but it doesn’t work. They are the two newest victims of the Jigsaw Killer. In a flashback, we learn of Amanda, a girl who falls victim to the Jigsaw Killer. On her head is a mask, which is hooked into her lower jaw. There is a timer on it. Only one key will unlock it, and that key is in the digestive tract of her cell mate who lies paralyzed on the opposite side of the room. If she doesn’t unlock the mask in time, her lower jaw will be ripped wide open. She survives, but her cell mate doesn’t. Through a series of flashbacks, we learn of more victims, and of the nearly-successful capture of the Jigsaw Killer, who doesn’t actually kill his victims. Instead, he finds ways to make them kill either themselves, or each other, and he thinks the entire ‘game’ out perfectly, with no other ways out. Or so it would seem.

Brave One, The (2007)

Monday, January 28th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Foster, Jodie | Howard, Terrence | Katt, Nicky | Andrews, Naveen | Steenburgen, Mary | Oloja, Ene | Da Silva Jr., Luis | Foster, Blaze | Sardina, Rafael | Adams, Jane | MacDonald, Gordon | Kravitz, Zöe | Magaro, John | Colicchio, Victor | Howard, Jermel
Directors: Jordan, Neil
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A woman struggles to recover from a brutal attack by setting out on a mission for revenge.

Riders (2002)

Monday, January 21st, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Thriller
Countries: Canada | France | UK
Actors: Dorff, Stephen | Henstridge, Natasha | Payne, Bruce | Berkoff, Steven | Bennett, Clé | Cliche, Karen | McCarthy, Steven | Goulem, Alain | Apergis, Andreas | McCamus, Tom | Bradshaw, Andy | Gow, David | Orchard, Jamie | Spreekmeester, Stephen | Sibiga, Mariusz
Directors: Pirès, Gérard
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An entrepreneurial criminal, Slim (Dorff) is as smart as they come. Cocky and confident, he assembles a team of risk-taking rush-seekers to pull off a series of five bank heists, each time using a different extreme sport to make the getaway. Following an unexpected windfall on only their second job, the gang nets $20 million in untraceable bonds. Having scored enough money to retire on, Slim and his crew decide to call the robbery game quits. But both the mob and the police have other plans in mind for Slim: they want him to keep working, for them.

Four Brothers (2005)

Sunday, December 9th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Wahlberg, Mark | Gibson, Tyrese | Benjamin, André | Hedlund, Garrett | Howard, Terrence | Charles, Josh | Vergara, Sofía | Flanagan, Fionnula | Ejiofor, Chiwetel | Henson, Taraji P. | Henley, Barry Shabaka | Burks, Jernard | Welsh, Kenneth | Nappo, Tony | Singleton, Shawn
Directors: Singleton, John
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In Detroit, when the beloved citizen Evelyn Mercer is murdered in a store heist, her four dangerous stepsons come to her funeral. Bobby Mercer, Angel Mercer and Jack Mercer join the regenerated ex-union leader Jeremiah Mercer, and they decide to investigate the murder. They disclose that her execution was intentional, and resolve to find the criminals by themselves.

Jindabyne (2006)

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Australia
Actors: Linney, Laura | Byrne, Gabriel | Haywood, Chris | Furness, Deborra-Lee | Howard, John | Purcell, Leah | Yiakmis, Stelios | Lazzaro, Eva | Rees-Wemyss, Sean | Garner, Alice | Stone, Simon | Lucas, Betty | Barker, Stephen | Cullen, Max | Tingwell, Charles 'Bud'
Directors: Lawrence, Ray
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Stewart Kane, an Irishman living in the Australian town of Jindabyne, is on a fishing trip in isolated hill country with three other men when they discover the body of a murdered girl in the river. Rather than return to the town immediately, they continue fishing and report their gruesome find days later. Stewart’s wife Claire is the last to find out. Deeply disturbed by her husband’s action, her faith in her relationship with Stewart is shaken to the core. She wants to understand and tries to make things right. In her determination to help the victim’s family Claire sets herself not only against her own family and friends but also those of the dead girl. Her marriage is taken to the brink and her peaceful life with Stewart and their young son hangs in the balance. The story of a murder and a marriage. A powerful and original film about the things that haunt us.

Zodiac, The (2005)

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Chambers, Justin | Tunney, Robin | Culkin, Rory | Mapother, William | Henke, Brad William | Linn, Rex | Hall, Philip Baker | Lindsey, Marty | Bloom, Brian | Irey, Shelby Alexis | Costa, Natassia | Palm, Kris | Dushku, Nate | Chesna, Katelin | Howell, Kathryn
Directors: Bulkley, Alexander
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THE ZODIAC takes a different look at the famous Zodiac Killer case from other screen treatments of the murders. More than a simple crime story, the film is an emotional thriller focusing on the murders’ impact on victims, their families and the wider community. The film follows a police detective and his son who become obsessed with the murders and endanger their family in the process.

Stay Alive (2006)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Foster, Jon | Armstrong, Samaire | Muniz, Frankie | Simpson, Jimmi | Pierce, Wendell | Ventimiglia, Milo | Bush, Sophia | Goldberg, Adam | Slaughter, Billy | Oppermann, Nicole | Wood, April | Monica, Monica | Hackford, Rio | Louviere, Billy | Nash, J. Richey
Directors: Bell, William Brent
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After the brutal death of a friend, a group of friends find themselves in possession of a video-game called “Stay Alive,” a blood-curdling true story of a 17th century noblewoman known as the Blood Countess. After playing the game when they know they shouldn’t, however, the friends realize that once they die in the game—they die for real. As their numbers begin dropping and as they begin dying in the ways they died in the game, the remaining friends realize they must defeat the Blood Countess or accept their fates.

Rear Window (1954)

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Stewart, James | Kelly, Grace | Corey, Wendell | Ritter, Thelma | Burr, Raymond | Evelyn, Judith | Bagdasarian, Ross | Darcy, Georgine | Berner, Sara | Cady, Frank | Fax, Jesslyn | Harper, Rand | Winston, Irene | Davenport, Havis | English, Marla
Directors: Hitchcock, Alfred
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In 1950-something New York, an adventuresome free-lance photographer finds himself confined to a wheelchair in his tiny apartment while a broken leg mends. With only the occasional distraction of a visiting nurse and his frustrated love interest, a beautiful fashion consultant, his attention is naturally drawn to the courtyard outside his “rear window” and the occupants of the apartment buildings which surround it. Soon he is consumed by the private dramas of his neighbors lives which play themselves out before his eyes. There is “Miss Lonelyhearts,” so desperate for her imaginary lover that she sits him a plate at the dinner table and feigns their ensuing chat. There is the frustrated composer banging on his piano, the sunbathing sculptress, the shapely dancer, the newlyweds who are concealed from their neighbors by a window shade, and a bungling middle-aged couple with a little yapping dog who sleep on the fire escape to avoid the sweltering heat of their apartment. …And then there is the mysterious salesman whose nagging, invalid wife’s sudden absence from the scene ominously coincides with middle-of-the-night forays into the dark, sleeping city with his sample case. Where did she go? What’s in the trunk that the salesman ships away? What’s he been doing with the knives and the saw that he cleans at the kitchen sink?