Posts Tagged ‘shaved-head’

THX 1138 (1971)

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Duvall, Robert | Pleasence, Donald | Colley, Don Pedro | Wolfe, Ian | Efron, Marshall | Haig, Sid | Pearce, John | Marsh, Gary Alan | Seaton, John | Stillman, Eugene I. | Walsh, Jack | Lawhead, Mark | Feero, Robert | Weissmuller Jr., Johnny | Wheaton, James
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The human race has been relocated to a underground city located beneath the Earth’s surface. In the underground city, the population are entertained by holographic TV which broadcasts sex and violence and robotic police force enforces the law. In the underground city, society controls all life, all citizens are drugged to control their emotions and their behavior and sex is a crime. Factory worker THX-1138 stops taking the drugs and he breaks the law when he finds himself falling in love with his room-mate LUH 3417 and is imprisoned when LUH 3417 is pregnant. Escaping from jail with illegal programmer SEN 5241 and a hologram named SRT, THX 1138 goes in search of LUH 3417 and escape to the surface, whilst being pursued by robotic policemen.

Boiler Room (2000)

Friday, July 18th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Ribisi, Giovanni | Diesel, Vin | Katt, Nicky | Caan, Scott | Rifkin, Ron | Kennedy, Jamie | Nichols, Taylor | Sage, Bill | Scott, Tom Everett | Affleck, Ben | Griesemer, John | Younger, David | Harper, Russel | Webber, Mark | Fitzgerald, Christopher
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A young man has dropped out of Queens College but desperately wants to please his father, a federal judge who’s harsh with his son. At his father’s insistence, Seth Davis closes a casino he operates in his own house, mostly for college students. Thinking he’ll please dad, he takes a job in a small brokerage house, an hour from Manhattan, where trainees make cold calls to lists of well-paid men, and then apply high-pressure tactics to sell initial public offerings exclusive to the firm. He’s terrific at sales. Once training is over, the pay is phenomenal, and Seth wonders why. Curiosity leads him to ethical dilemmas, encounters with the Feds, and new territory with his father.

Edmond (2005)

Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Macy, William H. | Bay, Frances | Pidgeon, Rebecca | Mantegna, Joe | Richards, Denise | Thompson, Wendy | Guastaferro, Vincent | Bai, Ling | Landers, Matt | Hill, Dulé | Hornsby, Russell | Hodge, Aldis | Mazar, Debi | Suvari, Mena | Combs, Jeffrey
Directors: Gordon, Stuart
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A man in a suit at a Manhattan firm leaves work on Friday; he looks unhappy. He stops at a fortune teller’s for a Tarot reading: “You are not where you belong,” she tells him. That evening he quits his marriage and walks the streets of New York, passing from a classy bar to a gentleman’s club, then to a high-class bordello, a mugging, a pawnshop, and a diner where someone does listen. He shares his insights with her and later with others. Violence, disappointment, and musings entwine as Edmond loses his moorings while believing he’s found them. Where does he belong?

Apocalypto (2006)

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Youngblood, Rudy | Hernández, Dalia | Brewer, Jonathan | Birdyellowhead, Morris | Báez, Carlos Emilio | Ramírez, Amilcar | Contreras, Israel | Ríos, Israel | Díaz, María Isabel | Acosta Cache, Espiridion | Serbulo, Mayra | Larios, Iazua | Hernández, Lorena | Gutierrez, Itandehui | Gutierrez, Sayuri
Directors: Gibson, Mel
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Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man’s idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent invading force, he is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression where a harrowing end awaits him. Through a twist of fate and spurred by the power of his love for his woman and his family he will make a desperate break to return home and to ultimately save his way of life.

In the Land of Women (2007)

Friday, March 21st, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Anaya, Elena | Brody, Adam | Keel, Kelsey | Savre, Danielle | Mantegna, Gina | Reinis, Rob | Williams, JoBeth | Vega, Makenzie | Stewart, Kristen | Ryan, Meg | Dukakis, Olympia | Milligan, Dustin | Wardle, Graham | Gatien, Elise | Danielle, Christine
Directors: Kasdan, Jon
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His world in complete disorder after his break-up with a famous actress, Carter, a young soft-core porn writer, goes to suburban Detroit to care for his sickly Grandmother and heal his broken heart. Along the way he forms a special bond with the family that lives across from his Grandma, and changes the life of each woman. In the course of this, as is required in every film—and thus the world, he changes his own life as well.

Tideland (2005)

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Fantasy
Countries: Canada | UK
Actors: Ferland, Jodelle | McTeer, Janet | Fletcher, Brendan | Tilly, Jennifer | Bridges, Jeff | Taylor, Dylan | Anderson, Wendy | Crooks, Sally | Adair, Alden | Gilliam, Harry | Wolkowski, Kent
Directors: Gilliam, Terry
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After her mother dies from a methadone overdose, Jeliza-Rose is taken from the big city to a rural farmhouse by her father. As she tries to settle into a new life in a house her father had purchased for his now-deceased mother, Jeliza-Rose’s attempts to deal with what’s happened result in increasingly odd behavior, as she begins to communicate mainly with her bodiless Barbie doll heads and Dell, a neighborhood woman who always wears a beekeeper’s veil.

Namesake, The (2006)

Monday, November 26th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: India | USA
Actors: Khan, Irfan | Penn, Kal | Guha, Jagannath | Guha Thakurta, Ruma | Tabu | Deb, Sandip | Sukanya | Shankar, Tanusree | Chakravarthy, Sabyasachi | Sengupta, Tamal | Mookerji, Dhruv | Choudhury, Supriya | Rudin, Stuart | MacRae, Heather | Kanti, Sumitra
Directors: Nair, Mira
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While traveling by train to visit his grandfather in Jamshedpur, Calcutta born, Bengali-speaking Ashoke Ganguli meets with fellow-traveler, Ghosh, who impresses upon him to travel, while Ashoke is deep into a book authored by Nicholai Gogol. The train meets with an accident, and after recuperating, Ashoke re-locates to America, settles down, returns home in 1977 to get married to aspiring singer, Ashima, and returns home to New York. Shortly thereafter they become parents of a boy, who they initially name Gogol, and a few years later both give birth to Sonia. The family then buy their own house in the suburbs and travel to India for the first time after their marriage. The second time they travel to India is when Gogol and Sonia are in their late teens, and after a memorable visit to Kolkata and then to the Taj Mahal, they return home. Gogol falls in love with Maxine Ratliff and moves in with her family, while Ashoke spends time traveling, and Sonia moves to California, leaving Ashima all her by herself. The Ganguli family will be destined to travel to India again soon - this time under very different circumstances - and after all have endured life-changing events.

Fountain, The (2006)

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Jackman, Hugh | Weisz, Rachel | Burstyn, Ellen | Margolis, Mark | McHattie, Stephen | Hernandez, Fernando | Curtis, Cliff | Thomas, Sean Patrick | Murphy, Donna | Suplee, Ethan | McMillan, Richard | Brass, Lorne | Aronofsky, Abraham | Asofsky, Renee | Majumdar, Anish
Directors: Aronofsky, Darren
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Three stories - one each from the past, present, and future - about men in pursuit of eternity with their love. A conquistador in Mayan country searches for the tree of life to free his captive queen; a medical researcher, working with various trees, looks for a cure that will save his dying wife; a space traveler, traveling with an aged tree encapsulated within a bubble, moves toward a dying star that’s wrapped in a nebula; he seeks eternity with his love. The stories intersect and parallel; the quests fail and succeed.

Lords of Dogtown (2005)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Biography | Drama | Sport
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Robinson, John | Hirsch, Emile | De Mornay, Rebecca | Mapother, William | Mechoso, Julio Oscar | Rasuk, Victor | Reed, Nikki | Ledger, Heath | Laresca, Vincent | Zarate, Brian | Schreiber, Pablo | Henson, Elden | Angarano, Michael | Hedberg, Mitch | Nurick, Benjamin
Directors: Hardwicke, Catherine
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A fictionalized take on the group of brilliant young skateboarders raised in the mean streets of Dogtown in Santa Monica, California. The Z-Boys, as they come to be known, perfect their craft in the empty swimming pools of unsuspecting suburban homeowners, pioneering a thrilling new sport and eventually moving into legend.