Posts Tagged ‘tense’

Narrow Margin, The (1952)

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Film-Noir
Countries: USA
Actors: McGraw, Charles | Windsor, Marie | White, Jacqueline | Gebert, Gordon | Leonard, Queenie | Clarke, David | Virgo, Peter | Beddoe, Don | Maxey, Paul | Harvey, Harry | Brocco, Peter | Browning, Ivan | Chandler, George | Conaty, James
Directors: Fleischer, Richard
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When a mobsters wife decides to testify against his evil deeds she goes undercover to avoid being killed. Now that he’s coming to trial she has to be escourted across country via train in order to testify. Cop Walter Brown and his partner are assigned the task, but the mob are on their trail.

Speed (1994)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Action | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Reeves, Keanu | Hopper, Dennis | Bullock, Sandra | Morton, Joe | Daniels, Jeff | Ruck, Alan | Plummer, Glenn | Lineback, Richard | Grant, Beth | James, Hawthorne | Carrasco, Carlos | Kriegel, David | Ohama, Natsuko | Villarreal, Daniel | Gad, Simone
Directors: Bont, Jan de
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Bomber Terrorist’s (Dennis Hopper) elevator plan backfires, so he rigs a bomb to a LA city bus. The stipulation is: once armed, the bus must stay above 50 mph to keep from exploding. Also if LAPD Officer (Keanu Reeves) tries to unload any passengers off, Payne (Hopper) will detonate it. Joe Morton co-stars as Jack’s (Keanu’s) superior, and Jeff Daniels supports Jack helping him try to defuse the bomb.

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?

Carlito’s Way (1993)

Saturday, December 13th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Pacino, Al | Penn, Sean | Miller, Penelope Ann | Leguizamo, John | Rogers, Ingrid | Guzmán, Luis | Rebhorn, James | Siravo, Joseph | Mortensen, Viggo | Foronjy, Richard | Porcel, Jorge | Minucci, Frank | Pasdar, Adrian | Ortiz, John | Salazar, Ángel
Directors: De Palma, Brian
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Carlito Brigante is released from jail after serving five years of a much longer stretch. He vows to go straight and to live life as a fine, upstanding citizen. He even rekindles a romance with his ex-lover. However, Carlito’s associates cannot seem to leave him in peace…his nephew involves him a pool-room gunfight, his lawyer asks him for “favours” which spiral out of control, and even an old friend (now a wheelchair bound paraplegic) tries to get him into trouble with the law. Carlito decides to make a run for Florida and the promise of a new life, but has one final dramatic escape to make from some hoods who believe (wrongly) that he was behind the murder of their boss.

Misery (1990)

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Caan, James | Bates, Kathy | Farnsworth, Richard | Sternhagen, Frances | Bacall, Lauren | Jarvis, Graham | Potter, Jerry | Brunelle, Thomas | Christopher, June | Payne, Julie | Hahn III, Archie | Snegoff, Gregory | Bowers, Wendy | Pig, Misery the
Directors: Reiner, Rob
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Novelist Paul Sheldon crashes his car on a snowy Colorado road. He is found by Annie Wilkes, the “number one fan” of Paul’s heroine Misery Chastaine. Annie is also somewhat unstable, and Paul finds himself crippled, drugged and at her mercy.

Absolute Power (1997)

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Hackman, Gene | Harris, Ed | Linney, Laura | Glenn, Scott | Haysbert, Dennis | Davis, Judy | Marshall, E.G. | Hardin, Melora | Welsh, Kenneth | Johnson, Penny | Jenkins, Richard | Margolis, Mark | Kagan, Elaine | Alison Eastwood
Directors: Eastwood, Clint
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Luther Whitney is a professional thief, who only works occasionally. He is planning what is suppose to be his last job, and everything is going smoothly until some come in before he can leave. He hides in a secret room and from behind a one-way mirror sees that it’s the wife of the owner of the house he is robbing and another man. They are fooling around when the guy decides to liven things up by striking her, she get away but he corners her, she then grabs a letter opener and is about to stab him when he cries out for help when two men come in and shoot her dead. It seems that the man is Alan Richmond, the President of the United States and the two men are the secret service agents assigned to him. Later, a woman, Gloria Russell, who is his Chief of Staff enters and upon learning of what has happened, decides to cover it up and make it appear that she was killed by a burglar. After sanitizing the room, they are about to leave but they forget the letter opener, Whitney comes out of the room and takes it and makes his getaway but when they returned for the letter opener they discover Whitney and chase him but he gets away. The police investigate the murder and there are so many inconsistencies, which makes the investigator, Seth Frank suspect that something is going on. Frank then discovers that Whitney is a possible suspect but the only thing is that he doesn’t believe that Whitney is a killer. Whitney tries to leave town but when he learns just how corrupt and amoral Richmond is he decides to play mind games with him and the others. Richmond, at the same time, tells them that Whitney must be silenced permanently.

Clearing, The (2004)

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Redford, Robert | Mirren, Helen | Dafoe, Willem | Nivola, Alessandro | Craven, Matt | Sagemiller, Melissa | Crewson, Wendy | Pine, Larry | Scarwid, Diana | Ruscio, Elizabeth | McGee, Gwen | Koskoff, Sarah | Marin, Graciela | Pniewski, Mike | McKnight, Geoff
Directors: Brugge, Pieter Jan
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Wayne and Eileen Hayes live the American Dream. Together they’ve raised two children and struggled to build a successful business from the ground up. But there have been sacrifices along the way. When Wayne is kidnapped by an ordinary man, Arnold Mack, and held for ransom in a remote forest, the couple’s world is turned inside out. Eileen finds her home full of FBI agents, their life under scrutiny. While Wayne is engaged in the negotiation of his lifetime, Eileen works frantically with the FBI to secure his release. The terrifying ordeal causes Wayne and Eileen to reassess their marriage and come to a deeper sense of their commitment to each other. With each passing hour, the need and desire for Wayne to return home safely becomes ever more urgent.

Big Trouble in Little China (1986)

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Russell, Kurt | Cattrall, Kim | Dun, Dennis | Hong, James | Wong, Victor | Burton, Kate | Li, Donald | Wong, Carter | Kwong, Peter | Pax, James | Pai, Suzee | Chi, Chao Li | Imada, Jeff | Mor, Rummel | Ng, Craig
Directors: Carpenter, John
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Somewhere in the 80s, trucker Jack Burton arrives in a small town to deliver his cargo and win a few bucks playing cards with the locals down at the Chinese market. Practically bankrupting nearly all of his opponents, his friend Wang bets him a game of “double or nothing” to try and regain his cash and loses. Jack wants his well earned money, but Wang explains he doesn’t have the cash on him and that’ll he pay later because he’s due to pick up a long, lost girlfriend from the airport. Convinced Wang’s pulling something sly, Jack insists he drive Wang to the airport so they can stick together. However, at the airport Wang’s girlfriend is captured by the Lords of Death, a streetwise Chinatown gang. She is essential for an upcoming plan to revive a thousand year old Chinese sorcerer and bring him back to the world as a mortal again. So begins a daring adventure to rescue Wang’s girl and stop the ruthless operation that’s going on down in Little China. Teaming up with a cast of very different individuals, Jack and Wang delve deep into an uncovering conspiracy in which everything’s not exactly as it seems. Here comes big trouble…

Omen, The (1976)

Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Leo McKern | Peck, Gregory | Remick, Lee | Warner, David | Whitelaw, Billy | Stevens, Harvey | Troughton, Patrick | Benson, Martin | Rietty, Robert | Duggan, Tommy | Stride, John | Nicholls, Anthony | Palance, Holly | Boyd, Roy | Dowie, Freda | Raynor, Sheila
Directors: Donner, Richard
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Robert and Katherine Thorn seem to have it all. He is the US Ambassador to Italy and they want for nothing in their lives, except one thing: they do not have children. When Katharine has a stillborn child, Robert is approached by a priest at the hospital who suggest that he take a healthy newborn whose mother has just died in childbirth. Without telling his wife he agrees to to so but after relocating to London, strange events - and the ominous warnings of a priest - lead him to believe that the child he took from that Italian hospital is evil incarnate.

Last House on the Left, The (1972)

Monday, August 4th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Hess, David | Lincoln, Fred J. | Sheffler, Marc | Towers, Richard | Anker, Marshall | Kove, Martin | Edwards, Ray | Craven, Jonathan | Forcelli, Anthony J. | Miner, Steve
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After kidnapping and butchering two teenagers, a gang of rapists and murderers unknowingly seeks refuge with the parents of one of the victims.