Posts Tagged ‘catholic-church’

Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)

Monday, March 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Banderas, Antonio | Hayek, Salma | Depp, Johnny | Rourke, Mickey | Mendes, Eva | Trejo, Danny | Iglesias, Enrique | Leonardi, Marco | Marin, Cheech | Blades, Rubén | Dafoe, Willem | Vigil, Gerardo | Armendáriz Jr., Pedro | Mechoso, Julio Oscar | Larriva, Tito
Directors: Rodriguez, Robert
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A drug lord who pretends to overthrow the Mexican government. A corrupt CIA agent (Johnny Depp) who at that time, demands retribution from his worst enemy to carry out the drug lord’s uprising against the government.

Stigmata (1999)

Monday, May 7th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Arquette, Patricia | Byrne, Gabriel | Pryce, Jonathan | Long, Nia | Kopache, Thomas | Serbedzija, Rade | Colantoni, Enrico | Latessa, Dick | de Rossi, Portia | Muldoon, Patrick | Cusack, Ann | Toub, Shaun | Hodges, Tom | Hazan, Lydia | Duke, Shaun
Directors: Wainwright, Rupert
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A priest from the Vatican is sent in to investigate claims that a small town in Brazil has a church where statues bleed from the eyes. Meanwhile, a young woman in the U.S. begins to show signs of stigmata, the wounds of Christ. The priest from the Vatican links up with her and cares for her as she is increasingly afflicted by the stigmata. Her ranting and raving finally begins to make sense to the priest who starts to question what his religion has stood for for the last 1900 years.

Exorcist: The Beginning (2004)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Skarsgård, Stellan | Scorupco, Izabella | D'Arcy, James | Sweeney, Remy | Wadham, Julian | French, Andrew | Brown, Ralph | Cross, Ben | Bradley, David | Ford, Alan | Kamerling, Antonie | Osei, Eddie | Aduramo, Israel | O'Kane, Patrick | Bellamy, James
Directors: Harlin, Renny
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Father Lankester Merrin thinks that he has glimpsed the face of Evil. In the years following World War II, Merrin is relentlessly haunted by memories of the unspeakable brutality perpetrated against the innocent people of his parish during the War. In the wake of all the horror he has seen, both his faith in his fellow man and his faith in the Almighty have deserted him, and he can no longer honestly call himself a man of God. Merrin has traveled far from his native Holland in a desperate attempt to try to forget and escape all the evil that he had witnessed there. While currently in Cairo, Egypt, he is approached by a collector of rare antiquities and asked to participate in a British archeological excavation in the remote Turkana region of Kenya. They have unearthed something extraordinary and unusual…a Christian Byzantine church dating from the 5th century, long before Christianity arrived in East Africa, and in inexplicably perfect condition–like it had been buried immediately after it was completed. The collector wants Merrin, an Oxford-educated archeologist, to find an ancient relic hidden within the church before the British do. Interested, Merrin agrees to take the job. But beneath the church, something much older and malevolent sleeps, waiting to be awoken. When the archeologists start excavating, strange things begin occuring, and the local Turkana tribesmen who were hired to work refuse to enter the site. Things only get worse and worse, ultimately resulting in madness and death. Merrin watches helplessly as the atrocities of war are repeated against another innocent village–atrocities he had hoped and prayed never to see again. The blood of innocents flows freely on the East African plain, but the horror has only just begun. In the place where Evil was born, Merrin will finally see its true face.

Auto Focus (2002)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Kinnear, Greg | Dafoe, Willem | Wilson, Rita | Bello, Maria | Leibman, Ron | Solomon, Bruce | Rodgers, Michael E. | Fuller, Kurt | Neiman, Christopher | Kanouse, Lyle | Recco, Donnamarie | Begley Jr., Ed | McKean, Michael | Bowers, Cheryl Lynn | McManus, Don
Directors: Schrader, Paul
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Capitalizing on his fame as the star of “Hogan’s Heroes,” Bob Crane (Greg Kinnear) dove into the freewheeling spirit of the 60s and 70s with relish, having affairs with numerous women. Eventually, Crane teamed up with video technician John Carpenter to document his exploits, an association that may very well have led to his murder in a Scottsdale, Arizona motel room in 1978, which remains officially unsolved to this day.

Constantine (2005)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Reeves, Keanu | Weisz, Rachel | LaBeouf, Shia | Hounsou, Djimon | Baker, Max | Vince, Pruitt Taylor | Rossdale, Gavin | Swinton, Tilda | Stormare, Peter | Ramirez, Jesse | Zúñiga, José | Guinan, Francis | Cedar, Larry | Grace, April | Whang, Suzanne
Directors: Lawrence, Francis
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The story of irreverent supernatural detective John Constantine, who has literally been to Hell and back. When Constantine teams up with skeptical policewoman Angela Dodson to solve the mysterious suicide of her twin sister, their investigation takes them through the world of demons and angels that exists just beneath the landscape of contemporary Los Angeles. Caught in a catastrophic series of otherworldly events, the two become inextricably involved and seek to find their own peace at whatever cost.

Way of the Vampire (2005)

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Giles, Rhett | Logan, Paul | Beckett, Andreas | Boutte, Denise | Falco, Brent | Henning, Alix | Turk, Anthony
Directors: Bruce, Sarah Nean | Durao, Eduardo
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This cheerfully low-budget riff on the Dracula story from directors Sarah Nean Bruce and Eduardo Durao follows Van Helsing, the immortal vampire hunter, as he battles the evil dead throughout the centuries. Asylum Pictures favorite Rhett Giles stars, alongside Paul Logan, Denise Boutte, Brent Falco, and Anthony Turk.

Godfather, The (1972)

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Brando, Marlon | Pacino, Al | Caan, James | Castellano, Richard S. | Duvall, Robert | Hayden, Sterling | Conte, Richard | Lettieri, Al | Keaton, Diane | Vigoda, Abe | Shire, Talia | Russo, Gianni | Marley, John | Bond, Rudy
Directors: Coppola, Francis Ford
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The story begins as “Don” Vito Corleone, the head of a New York Mafia “family”, oversees his daughter’s wedding. His beloved son Michael has just come home from the war, but does not intend to become part of his father’s business. Through Michael’s life the nature of the family business becomes clear. The business of the family is just like the head of the family, kind and benevolent to those who give respect, but given to ruthless violence whenever anything stands against the good of the family. Don Vito lives his life in the way of the old country, but times are changing and some don’t want to follow the old ways and look out for community and “family”. An up and coming rival of the Corleone family wants to start selling drugs in New York, and needs the Don’s influence to further his plan. The clash of the Don’s fading old world values and the new ways will demand a terrible price, especially from Michael, all for the sake of the family.

Name of the Rose, The (1986)

Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: France | Italy | West Germany
Actors: Connery, Sean | Slater, Christian | Qualtinger, Helmut | Baskin, Elya | Lonsdale, Michael | Prechtel, Volker | Chaliapin Jr., Feodor | Hickey, William | Habeck, Michael | Althaus, Urs | Vargas, Valentina | Perlman, Ron | Trieste, Leopoldo | Valobra, Franco | Dobtcheff, Vernon
Directors: Annaud, Jean-Jacques
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1327: after a mysterious death in a Benedictine Abbey, the monks are convinced that the apocalypse is coming. With the Abbey to play host to a council on the Franciscan’s Order’s belief that the Church should rid itself of wealth, William of Baskerville, a respected Franciscan monk, is asked to assist in determining the cause of the untimely death. Alas, more deaths occur as the investigation draws closer to uncovering the secret the Abbey wants hidden, and there is finally no stopping the Holy Inquisition from taking an active hand in the process. William and his young novice must race against time to prove the innocence of the unjustly accused and avoid the wrath of Holy Inquisitor Bernardo Gui.

Angel Heart (1987)

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Canada | UK | USA
Actors: Rourke, Mickey | De Niro, Robert | Bonet, Lisa | Rampling, Charlotte | McGhee, Brownie | Fontelieu, Stocker | Higgins, John Michael | Whitcraft, Elizabeth | Keener, Eliott | Gordone, Charles | Florek, Dann | Wilhoite, Kathleen | Buck, George | Drake, Judith | Orange, Gerald
Directors: Parker, Alan
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Harry Angel is a private investigator. He is hired by a man who calls himself Louis Cyphre to track down a singer called Johnny Favorite. As he begins to investigate, all the people he contacts concerning Johnny are killed in mysterious ways. As he finds out more about himself and his client he discovers that he is fighting for his very existence and is forced to deal with the devil himself.

Daredevil (2003)

Thursday, February 15th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Affleck, Ben | Garner, Jennifer | Farrell, Colin | Duncan, Michael Clarke | Favreau, Jon | Terra, Scott | Pompeo, Ellen | Pantoliano, Joe | Orser, Leland | Loftin, Lennie | Avari, Erick
Directors: Johnson, Mark Steven
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Fate deals young orphan Matt Murdock a strange hand when he is doused with hazardous waste. The accident leaves Matt blind but also gives him a heightened “radar sense” that allows him to “see” far better than any man. Years later Murdock has grown into a man and becomes a respected criminal attorney. But after he’s done his “day job” Matt takes on a secret identity as “The Man Without Fear,” Daredevil, the masked avenger that patrols the neighborhood of Hell’s Kitchen and New York City to combat the injustice that he cannot tackle in the courtroom.