Posts Tagged ‘russia’

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
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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.

007 From Russia with Love (1963)

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Connery, Sean | Bianchi, Daniela | Armendáriz, Pedro | Lenya, Lotte | Shaw, Robert | Lee, Bernard | Gayson, Eunice | Gotell, Walter | De Wolff, Francis | Pastell, George | Regin, Nadja | Maxwell, Lois | Gur, Aliza | Beswick, Martine | Sheybal, Vladek
Directors: Young, Terence
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James Bond 007 is on the search for a Russian decoding machine, known as Lektor. Bond needs to find this machine, before the evil SPECTRE organization discovers it first. Whilst being romantically linked with Russian girl, Tatiana Romanova, Bond sneaks his way around Istanbul, whilst each SPECTRE agent tries to pick him off, including the over powering Donald ‘Red’ Grant and ex-KGB agent Rosa Klebb who knows all the tricks in the books and even possesses an incredible poison tipped shoe!

Anna Karenina (1997)

Monday, May 26th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
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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Anna is a young and elegant wife of Mr. Karenin, who is wealthy and old. She meets the handsome Count Vronsky. Anna and Vronsky fall in love with each other, and he comes to be with her in St. Petersburg. They are very happy together and make a great looking couple, but soon their happiness gets under social pressures. Anna is hopelessly begging Mr. Karenin for a divorce, but he wants to keep the mother of their child. She has another baby born from her lover Vronsky. Conflict between her untamed desires and painful reality causes her a depression…

Crimson Tide (1995)

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Washington, Denzel | Hackman, Gene | Craven, Matt | Dzundza, George | Mortensen, Viggo | Gandolfini, James | Carroll, Rocky | Gomez, Jaime | Milhoan, Michael | Burkholder, Scott | Nucci, Danny | Brancato, Lillo | Bruskotter, Eric | Rick Schroder | Zahn, Steve
Directors: Scott, Tony
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In the near future, Russian rebels have taken over one of the ICBM bases in the USSR. Alarmed by the prospect of a rebel strike, the U.S. sends the U.S.S. Alabama, a nuclear ballistic submarine, to watch over the base and retaliate in case they launch. While on patrol, the submarine is attacked and the radio systems are knocked out. An emergency message received during the battle is only partially recovered. Captain Ramsey believes it to be the order to launch on the rebels, while XO Hunter wants to wait for a confirmation message. The conflict escalates into mutiny as Ramsey and Hunter fight for control of the Alabama’s nuclear missiles.

Sneakers (1992)

Monday, January 21st, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Marr, Jo | Hershberger, Gary | Redford, Robert | Poitier, Sidney | Strathairn, David | Aykroyd, Dan | River Phoenix | Elfman, Bodhi | Dowse, Denise | Hanyee | Busfield, Timothy | Jones, Eddie | Winters, Time | McDonnell, Mary | Asai, Jun
Directors: Phil Alden Robinson
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A group of security analysts are offered a job by the CIA and when they are reluctant, pressure is brought to bear by the threat to disclose the identity of their leader, a 60s radical with outstanding warrants. A chip exists that will allow any computer to be cracked, and organized crime will soon control it, though sudden changes in their police records suggest that it is already operational.

Bourne Supremacy, The (2004)

Sunday, December 9th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Damon, Matt | Potente, Franka | Cox, Brian | Stiles, Julia | Urban, Karl | Mann, Gabriel | Allen, Joan | Csokas, Marton | Gallop, Tom | Bedford Lloyd, John | Sandler, Ethan | Monaghan, Michelle | Roden, Karel | Arana, Tomas | Akinshina, Oksana
Directors: Greengrass, Paul
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When a CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent—who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne (Damon) and Marie (Potente) have been living under assumed names—the pair collapse their lives and head out. Bourne, who promised retaliation should anyone from his former life attempt contact, is forced to once again take up his life as a trained assassin to survive.

Mute Witness (1994)

Saturday, September 1st, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Germany | Russia | UK | USA
Actors: Marina Zudina | Fay Ripley | Richards, Evan | Yankovsky, Oleg | Igor Volkov | Sergei Karlenkov | Guinness, Alec | Pastukhov, Nikolai | Bouser, Stephen | Barakhtin, Valeri | Tolstetskaya, Olga | Karasyov, Denis | Ilyin, Igor | Abramov, Oleg | Salnikov, Vladimir
Directors: Waller, Anthony
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Billy Hughes, a mute makeup artist working on a slasher film being shot in Moscow, is locked in the studio after hours. While there she witnesses a brutal murder, and must first escape capture at that time, then keep from being killed before convincing authorities of what she’s seen. Plot twists galore follow as Billy tries to stay alive.

Birthday Girl (2001)

Friday, August 24th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Kidman, Nicole | Chaplin, Ben | Cassel, Vincent | Kassovitz, Mathieu | Evans, Kate Lynn | Mangan, Stephen | Armstrong, Alexander | Phillips, Sally | McInnes, Jo | Miller, Ben | Aris, Jonathan | Barton-Chapple, Katya | Clarke, Rebecca | Gatiss, Mark | Ghatak, Raj
Directors: Butterworth, Jez
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Internet love connections and mail-order brides rarely ever work out, and John (played by Ben Chaplin) should have known. Having never been lucky in the game of love and tired of waiting for the perfect woman to come along, John decides to take his chances and orders a mail-order bride from Russia online. At first, things seem perfect: his new bride Nadia (Nicole Kidman) is a gorgeous woman, and although she may not speak much English, her skills in the bedroom more than make up for any communication problems. When Nadia’s ‘cousins’ unexpectedly arrive to celebrate her birthday, John is drawn into their web of corruption and crime.

Deathline (1997)

Monday, May 7th, 2007
Genres: Action
Countries: Canada | Netherlands
Actors: Hauer, Rutger | Dacascos, Mark | Sciò, Yvonne | Dreikauss, Patrick | Cook, Randall William | Mehlmann, Michael | Szücs, Ildikó | Kanizsay, István | Vincze, Gabor Peter | Árpa, Attila | Osmond, Jak | La Page, Roger | Bánfalvy, Ágnes | Nagy, Gábor | Scheer, Magda
Directors: Takács, Tibor
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When a man is murdered in Moscow, experimental bionic research brings him back to life. He then sets out to find his murderers and money that was stolen during the crime.

War and Peace (1956)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Drama | History | Romance | War
Countries: Italy | USA
Actors: Hepburn, Audrey | Fonda, Henry | Ferrer, Mel | Gassman, Vittorio | Lom, Herbert | Homolka, Oskar | Ekberg, Anita | Dantine, Helmut | Carminati, Tullio | Jones, Barry | Vitale, Milly | Seidl, Lea | Ferrero, Anna-Maria | Lawson, Wilfrid | Britt, May
Directors: Vidor, King
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At the beginning of the 19th century, Napoleon’s forces controlled much of Europe. In Russia, one of the few countries still unconquered, the army prepares to face Napoleon’s troops in Austria. Among the soldiers are Nicholas Rostov (Jeremy Brett) and Prince Andrei Bolkonsky (Mel Ferrer). Pierre Bezukhov (Henry Fonda), a friend of Andrei’s and self-styled intellectual who “knows what’s right but still does wrong,” is not interested in fighting. Pierre’s life changes when his father dies, leaving him a vast inheritance. He is attracted to Natasha Rostov (Audrey Hepburn), Nicholas’s sister, but gives in to baser desires and marries the shallow, materialistic Princess Helene (Anita Ekberg). The marriage quickly ends when Pierre discovers his wife’s true nature. Andrei is captured and later released by the French, and returns home only to watch his wife die in childbirth. During a visit to the country months later, Pierre and Andrei meet again. Andrei sees Natasha and falls in love, but his father will only permit the marriage if they postpone it for one year. While Andrei is away in Poland on a military mission, Natasha is drawn to Anatole Kuragin (Vittorio Gassmann), a scoundrel and libertine. Pierre tells Natasha of Anatole’s past before she can elope with him. Napoleon (Herbert Lom) invades Russia. Pierre visits Andrei on the eve of the battle, and observes the battle that follows. Traumatized by the carnage, he vows to kill Napoleon himself.