Posts Tagged ‘bribery’

Spy Game (2001)

Friday, July 24th, 2009
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Redford, Robert | Pitt, Brad | McCormack, Catherine | Dillane, Stephen | Larry Bryggman | Jean-Baptiste, Marianne | Marsh, Matthew | Boyce, Todd | Chan, Michael Paul | Hagon, Garrick | Grainger, Andrew | Buell, Bill | Stinton, Colin | Maynard, Ted | Hodgkins, Tom
Directors: Scott, Tony
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CIA operative Nathan Muir (Redford) is on the brink of retirement when he finds out that his protege Tom Bishop (Pitt) has been arrested in China for espionage. No stranger to the machinations of the CIA’s top echelon, Muir hones all his skills and irreverent manner in order to find a way to free Bishop. As he embarks on his mission to free Bishop, Muir recalls how he recruited and trained the young rookie, at that time a sergeant in Vietnam, their turbulent times together as operatives and the woman who threatened their friendship.

Chicago (2002)

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Musical
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Diggs, Taye | Saunders, Cliff | Zeta-Jones, Catherine | Zellweger, Renée | West, Dominic | Gere, Richard | Eastwood, Jayne | Beaton, Bruce | Baranski, Christine | Podhora, Roman | Reilly, John C. | Feore, Colm | Smith, Rob | Wayne Doyle, Shawn | Behal, Steve | Rox, Robbie | Rivera, Chita
Directors: Marshall, Rob
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Fame hungry Roxie Hart dreams of a life on the Vaudville stage, and spends her nights jazzing it up in the bright lights of Chicago, continually hoping that she’ll find her lucky break, and be shot into 1920’s stardom, so able to flee her boring husband Amos. In awe of seductive club singer Velma Kelly (who is subsequantly arrested for the murder of her husband and sister - after discovering their affair), Roxie meets Fred Cassely a man who convinces her he can ‘make her showbiz career take off’. However after Roxie has undergone the ‘casting couch’ treatment, and Fred has had his wicked way with her, he reveals that he has no more connections in showbusiness than she does. This is the final straw for Roxie, and her constant anger at rejection explodes. She shoots Fred Cassely and kills him. Upon discovering her infidelity, Roxie’s husband Amos refuses to take the blame for the murder and Roxie is sent to jail, pending hanging. In jail she finally meets tabloid darling Velma Kelly, currently receiving huge media attention for the double murder she committed earlier in the tale. Sharing the clink with Velma, are a collection of other sly females, all awaiting trial for the murders of their own partners. Velma is aloof to Roxie, however the prison Warden Mrs Morton offers Roxie the opportunity of representation by slick Chicago lawyer Billy Flynn. Billy is more a showbiz P. R agent than a legal lawyer and minipulates the tabloids into thinking Roxie is no more than an innocent ‘good time girl’ who took the wrong path, than a scheming murderess. The tabloids go crazy for the new girl on the cell block, and Roxie finally becomes a star. However due to Roxie’s new found fame, Velma is forgotten about. She is forced to approach Roxie with an offer of a part in her Vaudville act (filling the gap left by her murdered sister), but Roxie turns down her offer flat, thinking she needs no support in topping the bill. However, just as Velma’s star fell, so does Roxie’s, when Go-to-hell Kitty arrives at the jail on a multiple murder charge, the press forget Roxie and now she and Velma are in the same boat. With one more trick up her sleave Roxie manages to bring the media attention back onto her, and her day in court arrives. Billy is now ready to play the ultimate showman!

Rush Hour 2 (2001)

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Chan, Jackie | Tucker, Chris | Lone, John | Zhang, Ziyi | Sanchez, Roselyn | Yulin, Harris | King, Alan | Tsang, Kenneth | Lo Cicero, Lisa | Melancon, Meiling | Q, Maggie | Chan, Patricia | Coloma, Gelbert | Lin, Lucy | Lu, Cindy
Directors: Ratner, Brett
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It’s vacation time for Det. James Carter and he finds himself alongside Det. Lee in Hong Kong wishing for more excitement. While Carter wants to party and meet the ladies, Lee is out to track down a Triad gang lord who may be responsible for killing two men at the American Embassy. Things get complicated as the pair stumble onto a counterfeiting plot by L.A. crime boss Steven Reign and Triad Ricky Tan, an ex-cop who played a mysterious part in the death of Det. Lee’s father. Throw in a power struggle between Tan and the gorgeous but dangerous Hu Li and the boys are soon up to their necks in fist fights and life-threatening situations. A trip back to the U.S. may provide the answers about the bombing, the counterfeiting, and the true allegiance of sexy customs agent Isabella. Then again, it may turn up more excitement than Carter was looking for during his vacation.

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.

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_.

Let’s Go to Prison (2006)

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Shepard, Dax | Arnett, Will | McBride, Chi | Koechner, David | Baker, Dylan | Shannon, Michael | Nino, Miguel | Whittaker, Jay | Hill, Amy | Darlow, David | Marcus, Joseph | Phalen, Nick | Balance, A.J. | Minor, Jerry | Seibel, Mary
Directors: Odenkirk, Bob
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John Lyshitski is a car stealing slacker, with a weed problem, and has been in Illinois’ Rossmore State Penitentiary so many times, he knows it’s entire population of both staff and cons by their fast names. Cursed with the old ill luck of being in the wrong place, at the wrong time, in possession of the wrong car, he’s been deemed a lost cause repeat offender in the eyes of everyone else. When the heartless judge, who has been behind most of his sentences, goes to the big court house in the sky, John decides to ruin the man’s legacy by having the judge’s only offspring, Nelson Biederman IV, thrown in the slammer along with him. Here, the world-class selfish jerk learns a certain old lesson the hard way: Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. But has John somewhat gone too far in the payback department?

American Gangster (2007)

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Washington, Denzel | Crowe, Russell | Ejiofor, Chiwetel | Brolin, Josh | Nadal, Lymari | Levine, Ted | Smith, Roger Guenveur | Hawkes, John | RZA | Vazquez, Yul | Goodwin, Malcolm | Dee, Ruby | Santiago-Hudson, Ruben | Gugino, Carla | Fortgang, Skyler
Directors: Scott, Ridley
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Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. As a result, his product is superior to what is currently available on the street and his prices are lower. His alliance with the New York Mafia ensures his position. It is also the story of a dedicated and honest policeman, Richie Roberts, who heads up a joint narcotics task force with the Federal government. Based on a true story.

Godfather: Part II, The (1974)

Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Pacino, Al | Duvall, Robert | Keaton, Diane | De Niro, Robert | Cazale, John | Shire, Talia | Strasberg, Lee | Gazzo, Michael V. | Spradlin, G.D. | Bright, Richard | Moschin, Gastone | Rosqui, Tom | Kirby, Bruno | Sivero, Frank | De Sapio, Francesca
Directors: Coppola, Francis Ford
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The continuing saga of the Corleone crime family tells the story of a young Vito Corleone growing up in Sicily and in 1910s New York; and follows Michael Corleone in the 1950s as he attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.

Old School (2003)

Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Wilson, Luke | Vaughn, Vince | Piven, Jeremy | Lewis, Juliette | Ferrell, Will | Pompeo, Ellen
Directors: Phillips, Todd
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Mitch, Frank and Beanie are disillusioned with their personal lives begining when Mitch’s nymphomanic girlfriend, Heidi, cheats on him, then former party animal Frank gets married, but unwilling to get go of his wild life, and Beanie is a family man seeking to reclaim his wild and crazy youth. Beanie suggests that they form their own fraternity in Mitch’s new house on a college campus to re-live their glory days by bringing together a variety of misfit college students, losers, middle-aged and elderly retirees as their new friends and later try to avoid being evicted by the new Dean of Students, Pritchard, whom still holds a personal grudge against all three of them.

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.