Posts Tagged ‘code-breaking’

Manhunter (1986)

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Petersen, William L. | Greist, Kim | Allen, Joan | Cox, Brian | Farina, Dennis | Noonan, Tom | Lang, Stephen | Seaman, David | Hendrickson, Benjamin | Talbott, Michael | Butler, Dan | Shay, Michele | Moseley, Robin | Perri, Paul | Charbonneau, Patricia
Directors: Mann, Michael
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Retired FBI agent Will Graham (William L. Petersen) returns to action to hunt down a serial killer by using his ability to get inside the psychopath’s mind. However, it was this ability that drove him into retirement in the first place. The process of tracking and capturing the infamous Hannibal Lecter (Brian Cox) took a tremendous psychic toll on Graham, causing him to spent time in a mental hospital. With another madman on the loose, Graham has no choice but to return to duty, though he knows that it might cost him his family and his sanity.

To get the old mind-set back, Graham visits Hannibal Lecter in his high-security jail cell. However, the manipulative Lecter plays both sides and warns the new killer that Graham is on his trail, telling him to destroy Graham’s family to protect himself. In order to save his own family, Graham must risk everything to once again enter into the mind of the criminally insane.

With MANHUNTER, Mann raises the bar for serial killer films, imbuing his killer with an almost sympathetic quality while keeping him extremely menacing and clearly dangerous. Based on the Thomas Harris novel RED DRAGON, which serves as the prequel to THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, MANHUNTER is a masterpiece of gripping storytelling and psychological horror.

Red Dragon (2002)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Hopkins, Anthony | Norton, Edward | Fiennes, Ralph | Keitel, Harvey | Watson, Emily | Parker, Mary-Louise | Hoffman, Philip Seymour | Heald, Anthony | Leung, Ken | Faison, Frankie | Jones, Tyler Patrick | Schifrin, Lalo | Wheater, Tim | Rubinstein, John | Doty, David
Directors: Ratner, Brett
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FBI Agent Will Graham has been called out of early retirement to catch a serial killer, known by authorities as “The Tooth Fairy”. He asks for the help of his arch-nemesis, Dr. Hannibal “The Cannibal” Lecter, so that he can be able to catch “The Tooth Fairy” and bring him to justice. The only problem is that “The Tooth Fairy” is getting inside information about Graham and his family from none other than Dr. Lecter.

Alien (1979)

Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Skerritt, Tom | Weaver, Sigourney | Cartwright, Veronica | Stanton, Harry Dean | Hurt, John | Holm, Ian | Kotto, Yaphet | Badejo, Bolaji | Horton, Helen
Directors: Scott, Ridley
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While returning from a deep-space mission, the crew of the commercial spaceship Nostromo is awakened by a supposed SOS call from a system they are passing through. Descending to the planet’s surface, they discover a strange derelict spaceship - the apparent source of the transmission - and one of the crew descends into the hold. What he finds are thousands of strange alien eggs. While examining one of the eggs, it hatches and the parasite inside attacks him. After returning to the Nostromo the crew takes off again to head for Earth. The alien parasite subsequently dies and all seems well again. But what no one knows is that another alien is quietly forming within its host - and when it emerges, the crew finds itself in serious trouble…

Beautiful Mind, A (2001)

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007
Genres: Biography | Drama | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Crowe, Russell | Harris, Ed | Connelly, Jennifer | Plummer, Christopher | Bettany, Paul | Goldberg, Adam | Lucas, Josh | Rapp, Anthony | Gray-Stanford, Jason | Hirsch, Judd | Pendleton, Austin | Cardone, Vivien | Simon, Jill M. | Steinbach, Victor | Clarke, Tanya
Directors: Howard, Ron
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A biopic of the meteoric rise of John Forbes Nash Jr., a math prodigy able to solve problems that baffled the greatest of minds. And how he overcame years of suffering through schizophrenia to win the Nobel Prize.