Posts Tagged ‘assassination’

Syriana (2005)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Novak, Kayvan | Clooney, George | Waked, Amr | Plummer, Christopher | Wright, Jeffrey | Cooper, Chris | Foxworth, Robert | Henson, Nicky | Art, Nicholas | Damon, Matt | Peet, Amanda | Hinkle, Steven | Tormé, Daisy | Gerety, Peter | Lintern, Richard
Directors: Gaghan, Stephen
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A missile disappears in Iran, but the CIA has other problems: the heir to an Emirate gives an oil contract to China, cutting out a US company that promptly fires its immigrant workers and merges with a small firm that has landed a Kazakhstani oil contract. The Department of Justice suspects bribery, and the oil company’s law firm finds a scapegoat. The CIA also needs one when its plot to kill the Emir-apparent fails. Agent Bob Barnes, the fall guy, sorts out the double cross. An American economist parlays the death of his son into a contract to advise the sheik the CIA wants dead. The jobless Pakistanis join a fundamentalist group. All roads start and end in the oil fields.

Leon (Professional, The) (1994)

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: France
Actors: Reno, Jean | Oldman, Gary | Portman, Natalie | Aiello, Danny | Appel, Peter | Blood, Willi One | Creech, Don | Glascoe, Keith A. | Scott, Alan Randolph | Badalucco, Michael | Greene, Ellen | Regen, Elizabeth | Matusovich, Carl J. | Senger, Frank | Cherokee, Lucius Wyatt
Directors: Besson, Luc
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Mathilda, a twelve-year old New York girl, is living an undesirable life among her half-family. Her father stores drugs for two-faced cop Norman Stansfield. Only her little brother keeps Mathilda from breaking apart. One day, Stansfield and his team take cruel revenge on her father for stretching the drugs a little, thus killing the whole family. Only Mathilda, who was out shopping, survives by finding shelter in Léon’s apartment in the moment of highest need. Soon, she finds out about the strange neighbour’s unusual profession - killing - and desperately seeks his help in taking revenge for her little brother. Léon, who is completely unexperienced in fatherly tasks, and in friendships, does his best to keep Mathilda out of trouble - unsuccessfully. Now, the conflict between a killer, who slowly discovers his abilities to live, to feel, to love and a corrupt police officer, who does anything in his might to get rid of an eye witness, arises to unmeasurable proportions - all for the sake of a little twelve-year old girl, who has nearly nothing to lose.

In the Line of Fire (1993)

Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Eastwood, Clint | Malkovich, John | Russo, Rene | McDermott, Dylan | Cole, Gary | Thompson, Fred Dalton | Mahoney, John | Williams, Gregory Alan | Curley, Jim | Hughes, Sally | Kusatsu, Clyde | Hytner, Steve | Bell, Tobin | Schott, Bob | Riojas, Juan A.
Directors: Petersen, Wolfgang
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Frank Horrigan is a secret service agent who keeps thinking back to November 22, 1963, when, as a hand-picked agent by President Kennedy, he became one of the few agents to have lost a President to an assassin when Kennedy died. Now, former CIA assassin Mitch Leary is stalking the current President, who is running for re-election. Mitch has spent long hours studying Horrigan, and he taunts Horrigan, telling him of his plans to kill the President. Leary plans to kill the president because Leary feels betrayed by the government — Leary was removed from the CIA, and the CIA is now trying to have him killed. After talking to Leary, Horrigan makes sure he is assigned to presidential protection duty, working with fellow secret service agent Lilly Raines. Horrigan has no intention of failing his President this time around, and he’s more than willing to take a bullet. White House Chief of Staff Harry Sargent refuses to alter the President’s itinerary, while Horrigan’s boss, Secret Service Director Sam Campagna, is supportive of Horrigan. As the election gets closer, Horrigan begins to doubt his own abilities, especially when Horrigan’s colleague Al D’Andrea is killed by Leary. But Horrigan may be the only one who can stop Leary.

Nick of Time (1995)

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Depp, Johnny | Chase, Courtney | Walken, Christopher | Maffia, Roma | Mason, Marsha | Strauss, Peter | Reuben, Gloria | Smitrovich, Bill | Spradlin, G.D. | Vazquez, Yul | Diaz, Edith | Ortega, Armando | Bau, C.J. | Sanders, Cynthena
Directors: Badham, John
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Gene Watson (Johnny Depp) is an ordinary public accountant returning home from his ex-wife’s funeral and is met by Mr Smith (Christopher Walken) and Ms. Jones (Roma Maffia) who kidnap his daughter (Courtney Chase) and give him a gun, six bullets, a name-tag that will give him access to anywhere in a specific hotel, and the itinerary of Governor Grant (Marsha Mason) and is informed that he must kill the Governor in 1 hour and 15 minutes or his daughter will die. The rest of the movie follows Mr. Watson as he desperately attempts to warn the Governor without the knowledge of the two and finds out that the conspiracy against her reaches all the way to those she trusts most.

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: France | Germany | Japan | USA
Actors: Whitaker, Forest | Tormey, John | Gorman, Cliff | Liu, Dennis | Minucci, Frank | Portnow, Richard | Vessey, Tricia | Silva, Henry | Ruffini, Gene | Adonis, Frank | Argo, Victor | Whitaker, Damon | Guay, Kenny | Viverito, Vince | Grills, Gano
Directors: Jarmusch, Jim
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In Jersey City, an African American hit man follows “Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai.” He lives alone, in simplicity with homing pigeons for company, calling himself Ghost Dog. His master, who saved his life eight years ago, is part of the local mob. When the boss’ daughter witnesses one of Ghost Dog’s hits, he becomes expendable. The first victims are his birds, and in response, Ghost Dog goes right at his attackers but does not want to harm his master or the young woman. On occasion, he talks with his best friend, a French-speaking Haitian who sells ice cream in the park, and with a child with whom he discusses books. Can he stay true to his code? And if he does, what is his fate?

Dancer Upstairs, The (2002)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Spain | USA
Actors: Bardem, Javier | Botto, Juan Diego | Morante, Laura | Mínguez, Elvira | Lencastre, Alexandra | Cotton, Oliver | Cintra, Luís Miguel | Manrique, Javier | Folk, Abel | Berganza, Marie-Anne | Rodríguez, Lucas | Elorriaga, Xabier | Dicenta, Natalia | Sinué, Wolframio | Jiménez, Ramiro
Directors: Malkovich, John
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The story of Detective Agustin Rejas, a man clinging to the hope of an impossible love in an impossible world. Tracking Ezequiel, a delusional anarchist who incites the downtrodden masses to join in his brutal revolution against the fascist government in their unnamed Latin American country, Rejas finds solace in his sense of self-respect and the joy that his daughter and wife bring him. Then he meets Yolanda—his daughter’s soulfully beautiful ballet teacher—a woman who sparks his long-forgotten passions and represents all that is good and all that is corrupt in their troubled country. But she, who appears to be a shelter from the storm, may in actuality be the storm’s eye. Ultimately, as the revolution intensifies and the net closes around hunter and hunted alike, the dancer’s truth will prove as elusive as the revolutionary’s cause and the detective’s peace.

Empire (2002)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Leguizamo, John | Sarsgaard, Peter | Richards, Denise | Laresca, Vincent | Rossellini, Isabella | Braga, Sonia | Cotto, Delilah | Serrano, Nestor | Criss, Anthony 'Treach' | Báez, Rafael | Joe, Fat | Leon, Carlos | Solis, Félix | Pastran, Omar | Campbell, Rob B.
Directors: Reyes, Franc.
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Victor (Leguizamo), is trying to escape his life as a drug dealer in the South Bronx. Enter Jack (Sarsgaard), a Wall Street investment banker with a business proposal that has Victor’s name (and money) written all over it.

Dr. No (1962)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Connery, Sean | Lee, Bernard | Ursula Andress | Joseph Wiseman | Jack Lord | Gayson, Eunice | John Kitzmiller | Margaret Le Wars | Marshall, Zena
Directors: Young, Terence
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An agent of the British Secret Service, James Bond (007), is sent out to the West Indies in order to find out why another of his number was killed. His arrival is not welcomed by everyone, but it is not long before he is on the trail of the killer. The trail leads to a secretive scientist, Dr. No, but the discovery has wider implications…

Alexander (2004)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Biography | Drama | War
Countries: France | Germany | Netherlands | UK | USA
Actors: Leto, Jared | Hopkins, Anthony | Farrell, Colin | Bedella, David | Kamm, Jessie | Jolie, Angelina | Kilmer, Val | O'Shaughnessy, Fiona | Paolo, Connor | Carroll, Patrick | Blessed, Brian | Williamson, Peter | Ferris, Morgan Christopher | Earley, Robert | Gordon, Aleczander | Plummer, Christopher | Stretch, Gary
Directors: Stone, Oliver
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Alexander (Farrell), the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians he leads his Army across the then known world venturing further than any Westerner had ever gone all the way to India.

Munich (2005)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | History | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bana, Eric | Craig, Daniel | Hinds, Ciarán | Kassovitz, Mathieu | Zischler, Hanns | Zorer, Ayelet | Rush, Geoffrey | Almagor, Gila | Lonsdale, Michael | Amalric, Mathieu | Bleibtreu, Moritz | Bruni Tedeschi, Valeria | Becker, Meret | Croze, Marie-Josée | Attal, Yvan
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During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute those responsible for the attack.