Posts Tagged ‘suicide’

Eavesdropper, The (aka Patient 14) (2004)

Friday, January 2nd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Lucy Jenner | Mandylor, Costas | York, John J. | de Lancie, John | Takei, George | Smallwood, Tucker | Donovan, Ben | McCann, John | Rieck, Billy | Robledo, Rafael H. | Dir, Deborah | Morris, Iona | Brown, Gilbert Glenn | Scarber, Sam
Directors: Bakalar, Andrew
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Fifteen deaf patients took part in an experimental clinical trail aimed at hearing restoration. Within days, fourteen of the fifteen participants in the trial become violently psychotic, ultimately taking their lives to stop violent side effects brought on by the treatment. This is the story of the sole survivor of the experiment, Patient #14 - Liza Raines, who participation in the experiment gave her super-normal hearing abilities - particularly, the ability to hear the frequency emitted by the brain when it thinks. When her life is suddenly thrown into jeopardy, Liza is forced to use her ability against those set on covering up the fact that she even existed.

Anna Karenina (1948)

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: UK
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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Stefan and Dolly Oblonsky have had a little spat and Stefan has asked his sister, Anna Karenina, to come down to Moscow to help mend the rift. Anna’s companion on the train from St. Petersburg is Countess Vronsky who is met at the Moscow station by her son. Col. Vronsky looks very dashing in his uniform and it’s love at first sight when he looks at Anna and their eyes meet. Back in St. Petersburg they keep running into each other at parties. Since she has a husband and small son, they must be very discreet if they are going to see each other alone.

Long Goodbye, The (1973)

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Gould, Elliott | Van Pallandt, Nina | Hayden, Sterling | Rydell, Mark | Gibson, Henry | Arkin, David | Bouton, Jim | Berlinger, Warren | Brody, Jo Ann | Coit, Stephen | Knight, Jack | Callahan, Pepe | Palmieri, Vincent | Córdova, Pancho | Lucero, Enrique
Directors: Altman, Robert
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Chain-smoking, wisecracking private eye Philip Marlowe drives a buddy from LA to the Tijuana border and returns home to an apartment full of cops who arrest him for abetting the murder of his friend’s wife. After Marlowe’s release, following the reported suicide in Mexico of his friend, a beautiful woman hires him to locate her alcoholic and mercurial husband. Then, a hoodlum and his muscle visit to tell Marlowe that he owes $350,000, mob money the dead friend took to Mexico. Marlowe tails the hood, who goes to the house of the woman with the temperamental husband. As Marlowe pulls these threads together, his values emerge from beneath the cavalier wisecracking.

Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
Genres: Drama | History | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Watanabe, Ken | Ninomiya, Kazunari | Ihara, Tsuyoshi | Kase, Ryo | Nakamura, Shido | Watanabe, Hiroshi | Bando, Takumi | Matsuzaki, Yuki | Yamaguchi, Takashi | Ozaki, Eijiro | Nae | Sakagami, Nobumasa | Eberl, Luke | Saito, Sonny | Sekiyoshi, Steve Santa
Directors: Eastwood, Clint
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The island of Iwo Jima stands between the American military force and the home islands of Japan. Therefore the Imperial Japanese Army is desperate to prevent it from falling into American hands and providing a launching point for an invasion of Japan. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi is given command of the forces on the island and sets out to prepare for the imminent attack. General Kuribayashi, however, does not favor the rigid traditional approach recommended by his subordinates, and resentment and resistance fester among his staff. In the lower echelons, a young soldier, Saigo, a poor baker in civilian life, strives with his friends to survive the harsh regime of the Japanese army itself, all the while knowing that a fierce battle looms. When the American invasion begins, both Kuribayashi and Saigo find strength, honor, courage, and horrors beyond imagination.

What We Do Is Secret (2007)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: West, Shane | Phillips, Bijou | Gonzalez, Rick | Segan, Noah | Holmes, Ashton | Tina Majorino | German, Lauren | O'Donnell, Keir | Roché, Sebastian | Skye, Azura | Leonard, Katharine | Santhon, Rachael | Thom Bishops | Abrams, Noah | Alcock, Gary
Directors: Grossman, Rodger
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A biopic of punk legend Darby Crash and his band, the Germs.

Taking of Pelham One Two Three, The (1974)

Thursday, December 25th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Matthau, Walter | Shaw, Robert | Balsam, Martin | Elizondo, Hector | Hindman, Earl | Broderick, James | O'Neill, Dick | Wallace, Lee | Pedi, Tom | Winde, Beatrice | Stiller, Jerry | George, Nathan | Bond, Rudy | McMillan, Kenneth | Roberts, Doris
Directors: Sargent, Joseph
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Pelham 1-2-3, a subway train, becomes the focal point of the most audacious and unusual terrorist attack ever seen. Four gunmen, going by color codenames, seize the train and hold its passengers and conductor hostage halfway between underground stations, demanding a hefty ransom else they will begin executing hostages. A veteran NY transit policeman leads negotiations with the hijackers to prevent any killing, but amid the showdown a question nags at authrorities - with the gunmen and their hostages in a tunnel surrounded by police on all sides, how can they possibly escape?

Citizen Kane (1941)

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Cotten, Joseph | Comingore, Dorothy | Moorehead, Agnes | Warrick, Ruth | Collins, Ray | Sanford, Erskine | Sloane, Everett | Alland, William | Stewart, Paul | Coulouris, George | Bonanova, Fortunio | Schilling, Gus | Van Zandt, Philip | Backus, Georgia | Shannon, Harry
Directors: Welles, Orson
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Considered by many to be the best film ever made, this is the story of Charles Foster Kane. The film opens with a long shot of Xanadu - the private estate of one of the world’s richest men. In the middle of the estate is a castle. We see, inside the castle, a dying man examining a winter scene within a crystal ball. As he drops it, it smashes, and one word is heard - “Rosebud…” What follows are pieces of newsreel-like footage detailing how Kane amassed his fortune, and turning around full circle at the end.

Waterloo Bridge (1940)

Monday, December 15th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Leigh, Vivien | Taylor, Robert | Watson, Lucile | Field, Virginia | Ouspenskaya, Maria | Smith, C. Aubrey | Shaw, Janet | Waldo, Janet | Duna, Steffi | Carroll, Virginia | Nicova, Leda | Baker, Florence | Manning, Margery | MacInerney, Frances | Stewart, Eleanor
Directors: LeRoy, Mervyn
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On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front. Myra stayed with him past curfew and is thrown out of the corps de ballet. She survives on the streets of London, falling even lower after she hears her true love has been killed in action. But he wasn’t killed. Those terrible years were nothing more than a bad dream is Myra’s hope after Roy finds her and takes her to his family’s country estate.

Charley Varrick (1973)

Monday, December 15th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Matthau, Walter | Baker, Joe Don | Farr, Felicia | Robinson, Andrew | North, Sheree | Fell, Norman | Fong, Benson | Parfrey, Woodrow | Schallert, William | Scott, Jacqueline | Bennett, Marjorie | Diaz, Rudy | Chester, Colby | Briggs, Charlie | Garcia, Priscilla
Directors: Siegel, Don
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Charley Varrick and his friends rob a small town bank. Expecting a small sum to divide amongst themselves, they are surprised to discover a very LARGE amount of money. Quickly figuring out that the money belongs to the MOB, they must now come up with a plan to throw the MOB off their trail.

Hills Have Eyes, The (2006)

Saturday, December 13th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Stanford, Aaron | Quinlan, Kathleen | Shaw, Vinessa | de Ravin, Emilie | Byrd, Dan | Bower, Tom | Drago, Billy | Joy, Robert | Levine, Ted | Askew, Desmond | Buzzington, Ezra | Smith, Michael Bailey | Ortiz, Laura | Nicotero, Gregory | Camilleri Preziosi, Maisie
Directors: Aja, Alexandre
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Wes Craven produces this remake of his 1977 classic of the same name, about the Carters, an idyllic American family travelling through the great American southwest. But their trip takes a detour into an area closed off from the public, but more importantly from society. An area originally used by the U.S. Government for nuclear testing that was intended to be empty…or so they thought? When the Carter’s car breaks down at the old site, they’re stranded…or are they? As the Carters may soon realize that what seemed like a car casually breaking down, might actually be a trap. This trap might be perpetrated by the inhabitants of the site who aren’t pulling a prank, but are out to set up a gruesome massacre.