Posts Tagged ‘dark-hero’

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.

Crow, The (1994)

Sunday, February 10th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Lee, Brandon | Davis, Rochelle | Hudson, Ernie | Wincott, Michael | Bai, Ling | Shinas, Sofia | Levine, Anna | Kelly, David Patrick | David, Angel | Mason, Laurence | Massee, Michael | Todd, Tony | Polito, Jon | Raymond, Bill | Rodríguez, Marco
Directors: Proyas, Alex
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A poetic guitarist Eric Draven is brought back to life by a crow a year after he and his fiancée are murdered. The crow guides him through the land of the living, and leads him to his killers: knife thrower Tin-tin, drugetic Funboy, car buff T-Bird, and the unsophisticated Skank. One by one, Eric gives these thugs a taste of their own medicine. However their leader Top-Dollar, a world-class crime lord who will dispatch his enemies with a Japanese sword and joke about it later, will soon learn the legend of the crow and the secret to the vigilante’s invincibility.

Batman Returns (1992)

Monday, May 7th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Romance | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Keaton, Michael | DeVito, Danny | Pfeiffer, Michelle | Walken, Christopher | Gough, Michael | Murphy, Michael | Conaway, Cristi | Bryniarski, Andrew | Hingle, Pat | Schiavelli, Vincent | Hooks, Jan | Witting, Steve | Strong, John | Zumwalt, Rick | Katarina, Anna
Directors: Burton, Tim
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Having defeated the Joker, Batman now faces the Penguin - a warped and deformed individual who is intent on being accepted into Gotham society. Crooked businessman Max Schreck is coerced into helping him become Mayor of Gotham and they both attempt to expose Batman in a different light. Earlier however, Selina Kyle, Max’s secretary, is thrown from the top of a building and is transformed into Catwoman - a mysterious figure who has the same personality disorder as Batman. Batman must attempt to clear his name, all the time deciding just what must be done with the Catwoman.

Desperado (1995)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Banderas, Antonio | Hayek, Salma | de Almeida, Joaquim | Marin, Cheech | Buscemi, Steve | Gómez, Carlos | Tarantino, Quentin | Larriva, Tito | Aviles, Angel | Trejo, Danny | Verduzco, Abraham | Gallardo, Carlos | Michel Jr., Albert | Alvarado, David | Lanza, Angela
Directors: Rodriguez, Robert
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With this sequel to his prize-winning independent previous film, “El Mariachi,” director Robert Rodriquez joins the ranks of Sam Peckinpah and John Woo as a master of slick, glamorized ultra-violence. We pick up the story as a continuation of “El Mariachi,” where an itinerant musician, looking for work, gets mistaken for a hitman and thereby entangled in a web of love, corruption, and death. This time, he is out to avenge the murder of his lover and the maiming of his fretting hand, which occurred at the end of the earlier movie. However, the plot is recapitulated, and again, a case of mistaken identity leads to a very high body count, involvement with a beautiful woman who works for the local drug lord, and finally, the inevitable face-to-face confrontation and bloody showdown.

Batman Begins (2005)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Crime | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bale, Christian | Caine, Michael | Neeson, Liam | Holmes, Katie | Oldman, Gary | Murphy, Cillian | Wilkinson, Tom | Hauer, Rutger | Watanabe, Ken | Boone Junior, Mark | Roache, Linus | Freeman, Morgan | Holden, Larry | Murphy, Gerard | McFarlane, Colin
Directors: Nolan, Christopher
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In tone with the early “Batman: Year One” style comics. As a boy a young Bruce Wayne watched in horror as his millionaire parents were slain in front of his eyes, a trauma which led him to become obsessed with revenge but his chance is cruelly taken away from him by fate. After disappearing to the East where he seeks counsel with the dangerous but honorable ninja cult leader known as Ra’s Al-Ghul, he returns to his now decaying Gotham City overrun by organized crime and dangerous individuals manipulating the system whilst the company he inherited is slowly being pulled out from under him. The discovery of a cave under his mansion, and a prototype armored suit leads him to take on a new persona, one which will strike fear into the hearts of men who do wrong - he becomes, Batman. In the new guise, and with the help of rising cop Jim Gordon, Batman sets out to take down the various nefarious schemes in motion by individuals such as mafia don Falcone, the twisted doctor/drug dealer Jonathan ‘The Scarecrow’ Crane, and a mysterious third party that is quite familiar with Wayne and waiting to strike when the time is right.

‘Salem’s Lot (2004)

Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Lowe, Rob | Braugher, Andre | Sutherland, Donald | Mathis, Samantha | Mammone, Robert | Byrd, Dan | Hauer, Rutger | Cromwell, James | Anderson, Andy | Grubb, Robert | Vidler, Steven | McNamee, Penny | Cowell, Brendan | Morris, Christopher | MacDonald, Todd
Directors: Salomon, Mikael
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Ben Mears, a writer returns to the small Maine town of Jerusalem’s Lot (also known as Salem’s Lot), where he spent the first few years of his life, to write a book. Little does he or the townfolk realize that a couple of other new residents are coming…Straker, a antiques dealer, and his partner and master Barlow, a ancient and malevolent vampire bent on making Salem’s Lot his new home.

Highlander (1986)

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Genres: Action | Fantasy
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Hart, Roxanne | Brown, Clancy | Connery, Sean | Edney, Beatie | North, Alan | Polito, Jon | Gish, Sheila | Quarshie, Hugh | Lambert, Christopher | Diamond, Peter | Hartman, Billy | Cosmo, James | Imrie, Celia | Findlay, Alistair
Directors: Mulcahy, Russell
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Connor Macleod was born in 1518 in the Highlands of Scotland. In 1536, after facing a mysterious, evil opponent, he survives a fatal stab wound and is banished from his village, for they believe his survival is the work of the Devil. Five years later, Macleod is met by Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez, a Spanish swordsman who teaches Macleod the awful truth; he is immortal, one of a race of many who can only die when the head is cut from the body. When one immortal takes the head of another, the loser’s power is absorbed into the winner. Ramirez teaches Macleod the ways of the sword, until Ramirez is tragically killed by Connor’s ultimate opponent, the evil Kurgan, a murderous immortal brute who lusts for the ultimate power of the immortals, “The Prize”; enough power to rule the earth forever. Connor fights his way through the centuries, until the time of the Gathering, when the few immortals who have survived the endless battles come together to fight until only one remains, and that winner will receive The Prize. The time: 1985. The place: New York City. The final fight is about to begin, and in the end, there can be only one.

Donnie Darko (2001)

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Barrymore, Drew | Malone, Jena | Gyllenhaal, Jake | Osborne, Holmes | Gyllenhaal, Maggie | Chase, Daveigh | McDonnell, Mary | Duval, James | Taxier, Arthur | Swayze, Patrick | Hoffman, Mark | St. James, David | Tangen, Tom | Mahannah, Jazzie | Purdy, Jolene | Stone, Stuart | Lundy, Gary
Directors: Kelly, Richard
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Donnie Darko gets along badly with his family, with his teachers and with his classmates; but he does manage to find a sympathetic friend in Gretchen, who agrees to date him; and he has a compassionate psychiatrist, who discovers hypnosis is the means to unlock hidden secrets. His other companion may not be a true ally. Donnie has a friend named Frank, who is either a large purple bunny, or man in a large purple bunny costume. Either way, Donnie is the only one who can see him. When an engine falls off a plane and destroys his room, Donnie is not there. Both the event, and Donnie’s escape, seem to have been caused by supernatural events. Donnie’s mental illness, if such it is, may never allow him to find out for sure.

Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy
Countries: Germany | New Zealand | USA
Actors: Mortensen, Viggo | McKellen, Ian | Wood, Elijah | Appleby, Noel | Astin, Alexandra | Astin, Sean | Aston, David | Bach, John | Bean, Sean | Blanchett, Cate | Bloom, Orlando | Boyd, Billy | Brophy, Sadwyn | Browning, Alistair | Csokas, Marton | Edge, Richard | Fitch, Jason | Hill, Bernard
Directors: Jackson, Peter
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While Frodo & Sam continue to approach Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring, unaware of the path Gollum is leading them, the former Fellowship aid Rohan & Gondor in a great battle in the Pelennor Fields, Minas Tirith and the Black Gates as Sauron wages his last war against Middle-Earth.

Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The (2002)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy
Countries: Germany | New Zealand | USA
Actors: Wood, Elijah | McKellen, Ian | Tyler, Liv | Mortensen, Viggo | Astin, Sean | Blanchett, Cate | Rhys-Davies, John | Hill, Bernard | Lee, Christopher | Boyd, Billy | Monaghan, Dominic | Bloom, Orlando | Weaving, Hugo | Otto, Miranda | Wenham, David
Directors: Jackson, Peter
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Sauron’s forces increase. His allies grow. The Ringwraiths return in an even more frightening form. Saruman’s army of Uruk Hai is ready to launch an assault against Aragorn and the people of Rohan. Yet, the Fellowship is broken and Boromir is dead. For the little hope that is left, Frodo and Sam march on into Mordor, unprotected. A number of new allies join with Aragorn, Gimli, Legolas, Pippin and Merry. And they must defend Rohan and attack Isengard. Yet, while all this is going on, Sauron’s troops mass toward the City of Gondor, for the War of the Ring is about to begin.