Posts Tagged ‘shot-in-the-face’

Untouchables, The (1987)

Friday, September 26th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | History | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Costner, Kevin | Connery, Sean | Smith, Charles Martin | Garcia, Andy | De Niro, Robert | Bradford, Richard | Kehoe, Jack | Sullivan, Brad | Drago, Billy | Clarkson, Patricia | D'Ambrosio, Vito | Goldstein, Steven | Aylward, Peter | Harvey, Don | Swan, Robert
Directors: De Palma, Brian
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Federal agent Elliot Ness assembles a personal team of mob fighters to bring Chicago crime boss Al Capone to justice using unconventional means during the mob wars of the 1920s. This fictionalized account of the arrest of Al Capone is heavy on style and gunfire. The end shootout combines a baby carriage and stairs with a nod to Eisenstein’s _The Battleship Potemkin_.

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.

To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)

Monday, August 4th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: William Petersen | Petersen, William L. | Dafoe, Willem | Pankow, John | Feuer, Debra | Turturro, John | Fluegel, Darlanne | Stockwell, Dean | James, Steve | Downey Sr., Robert | Greene, Michael | Allport, Christopher | Hoar, Jack | de Vargas, Valentin | Brown, Dwier | Chong, Michael
Directors: Friedkin, William
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Two cops in Los Angeles try to track down the vicious criminal Eric Masters. Then, one of them is killed by Masters and the other one swears revenge no matter what the cost. After that, the hunt becomes an ob- session and the law he once swore to uphold becomes meaningless to him.

Heist (2001)

Friday, July 18th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Rockwell, Sam | Hackman, Gene | DeVito, Danny | Lindo, Delroy | Acker, Ricky | Pidgeon, Rebecca
Directors: Mamet, David
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David Mamet takes this story of thieves along many twists and turns, some of which work and some of which don’t. Gene Hackman plays the brilliant leader of a gang (Delroy Lindo, Ricky Jay & Rebecca Pigeon as Hackman’s youngish wife), which pulls off complex heists for a despicable fence (Danny DeVito). After stiffing the gang on a jewelry robbery, DeVito forces the gang to go after a Swiss gold shipment and to use his nephew (Sam Rockwell) in the crime. No one trusts anyone and every step is shaded with the unexpected.

Stop-Loss (2008)

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Genres: Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Phillippe, Ryan | Gordon-Levitt, Joseph | Brown, Rob | Tatum, Channing | Rasuk, Victor | Quay, Terry | Wilcox, Matthew Scott | Brewer, Connett | Olyphant, Timothy | Sommer, Josef | Hinds, CiarĂ¡n | Frost, Alex | Saldivar, Isreal | Kroll, David | Calmbach, Ricky
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Decorated Iraq war hero Sgt. Brandon King makes a celebrated return to his small Texas hometown following his tour of duty. He tries to resume the life he left behind. Then, against Brandon’s will, the Army orders him back to duty in Iraq, which upends his world. The conflict tests everything he believes in: the bond of family, the loyalty of friendship, the limits of love and the value of honor.

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.

Street Kings (2008)

Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Reeves, Keanu | Whitaker, Forest | Common | Cedric the Entertainer | Evans, Chris | Gugliemi, Noel | Choi, Kenneth | Laurie, Hugh | Sloan, Cle Shaheed | Nolasco, Amaury | Corbett, John | Crews, Terry | Game, The | Benton, Kevin | Gates, Daryl
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Tom Ludlow is a veteran LAPD cop who finds life difficult to navigate after the death of his wife. When evidence implicates him in the execution of a fellow officer, he is forced to go up against the cop culture he’s been a part of his entire career, ultimately leading him to question the loyalties of everyone around him.

Broken (2006)

Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Colvin, Eric | Salih, Atesh | Brand, Nadja | Stirling, Abbey
Directors: Boyes, Simon
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After dating a wonderful man, Hope comes back home, sees her daughter Jennifer and goes to sleep. She wakes-up in the woods with a psychopath, fighting to survive for more than forty days and asking information about her daughter to the stranger.

Narc (2002)

Monday, May 26th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Leis, Dan | Patric, Jason | Adams, Lloyd | Issa, Meagan | Giornofelice, Lina | Peterson, Alan C. | Robinson, Karen | McBride, Chi | Savage, Booth | Van Sprang, Alan | Donaldson, Gavyn | Donaldson, Myles | Bridges, Krista | Liotta, Ray | Patrice, Thomas
Directors: Carnahan, Joe
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An undercover narc dies, the investigation stalls, so the Detroit P.D. brings back Nick Tellis, fired 18-months ago when a stray bullet hits a pregnant woman. Tellis teams with Henry Oak, a friend of the dead narc and an aggressive cop constantly under the scrutiny of internal affairs. They follow leads, informants turn up dead, Nick’s wife is unhappy he’s back on the street, Henry’s protective of the dead cop’s wife. Nick reads and re-reads the case file, broods, watches Oak’s heavy-handed style, sometimes joining in. The brass want to close out the case, Nick and Henry stay on it, and bits of evidence point them to an auto body shop. What actually happened; will Nick ever know?

True Romance (1993)

Monday, May 26th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Slater, Christian | Arquette, Patricia | Rapaport, Michael | Kilmer, Val | Pinchot, Bronson | Hopper, Dennis | Oldman, Gary | Pitt, Brad | Sizemore, Tom | Walken, Christopher | Jackson, Samuel L. | Rubinek, Saul | Gandolfini, James | Argo, Victor | Adonis, Frank
Directors: Scott, Tony
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Clarence Worley, a penniless hipster in Detroit with a love for Elvis meets a mysterious hooker paid to meet him named Alabama on his birthday in a theater at night. Falling in love, he makes it his mission to dispose of her past, namely her violent pimp, Drexl Spivey. Defeating him and unknowingly taking a vast fortune of Cocaine, the two fight to sell the white gold in Los Angeles as Drexl’s associates fight to reclaim it in a bloody romantic thriller full to the brim with style.