Posts Tagged ‘dead-child’

House of Sand and Fog (2003)

Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Connelly, Jennifer | Kingsley, Ben | Eldard, Ron | Fisher, Frances | Dickens, Kim | Aghdashloo, Shohreh | Ahdout, Jonathan | Rawat, Navi | Gómez, Carlos | Jam, Kia | Modjallal, Jaleh | Damavandi, Samira | Simonian, Matthew | Gujral, Namrata Singh | Faris, Al
Directors: Vadim Perelman
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Massoud Amir Behrani, an Iranian immigrant, has spent most of his savings trying to enhance his daughter’s chances of a good marriage. Once she is married, he spends the remaining funds on a house at an auction, unwittingly putting himself and his family in the middle of a legal tussle with the house’s former owner. What begins as a legal struggle turns into a personal confrontation, with tragic results.

Beyond Borders (2003)

Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance | War
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Jolie, Angelina | Owen, Clive | Polo, Teri | Roache, Linus | Emmerich, Noah | Wageningen, Yorick van | West, Timothy | Trotter, Kate | Higgins, Jonathan | Gausden, John | Horler, Isabelle | Lee, Iain | Anthony, Keelan | Bourgeois, John | Tea, Kalyane
Directors: Campbell, Martin
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Beyond Borders is an epic tale of the turbulent romance between two star-crossed lovers set against the backdrop of the world’s most dangerous hot spots. Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie stars as Sarah Jordan, an American living in London in 1984. She is married to Henry Bauford (Linus Roache) son of a wealthy British industrialist, when she encounters Nick Callahan (Clive Owen) a renegade doctor, whose impassioned plea for help to support his relief efforts in war-torn Africa moves her deeply. As a result, Sarah embarks upon a journey of discovery that leads to danger, heartbreak and romance in the far corners of the world.

Mission, The (1986)

Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Genres: Drama | War
Countries: UK
Actors: De Niro, Robert | Irons, Jeremy | McAnally, Ray | Quinn, Aidan | Lunghi, Cherie | Pickup, Ronald | Low, Chuck | Neeson, Liam | Moya, Bercelio | Ismare, Sigifredo | Ontiveros, Asuncion | Moya, Alejandrino | Berrigan, Daniel | Gray, Rolf | Guerrero, Álvaro
Directors: Joffé, Roland
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Father Gabriel ascends the mountains of Brazil to bring christianity to the natives. He is successful and brings about a golden age among them. Mendoza, a slaver, kills his brother in a fit of rage, and only Fr. Gabriel’s guidance prevents his suicide. Gabriel brings Mendoza to work at his mission with the natives, and Mendoza finds peace and asks to become a priest. The church , under pressure, cedes the land to the Portuguese which will allow slavers in again. Mendoza breaks his vows and organizes the natives to resist while Gabriel warns him to help them as a priest.

Dead Calm (1989)

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Kidman, Nicole | Neill, Sam | Zane, Billy | Mullinar, Rod | Tilden, Joshua | Shevtsov, George | Long, Michael | Collins, Lisa | Hudson-Brinkley, Paula | Cook, Sharon | Rutter, Malinda
Directors: Noyce, Phillip
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A married couple sail the Pacific Ocean to forget a tragic accident. After a month at sea, they sight a mysterious yacht and are boarded by its lone surviving crew member. When the husband discovers the yacht’s terrible secret, the crewman goes wild, kidnapping his wife and taking his ship. Terror on the high seas is center stage as the husband fights to keep the mystery yacht afloat and his wife battles the psychotic who’s assumed control of their ship.

Freedomland (2006)

Friday, March 16th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jackson, Samuel L. | Moore, Julianne | Falco, Edie | Eldard, Ron
Directors: Roth, Joe
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When her son disappears and is believed to be dead, a single mother blames an African-American man from the projects for the kidnapping, creating a racial controversy. An African-American detective (Jackson) and a white missing child researcher team up to investigate the case, which they discover may be more complicated than they expected.

Children of the Corn (1984)

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
Genres: Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Armstrong, R.G. | Horton, Peter | Hamilton, Linda | Gains, Courtney | Kiger, Robby | McEvoy, Anne Marie | Maddalena, Julie | Marlowe, Jonas | Franklin, John | Snook, Dan | Cowen, David | Southam, Suzy | Johnson, D.G. | Boylan, Patrick
Directors: Kiersch, Fritz
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A boy preacher named Isaac goes to a town in Nebraska called Gatlin and gets all the children to murder every adult in town. A young couple have a murder to report and they go to the nearest town (Gatlin) to seek help but the town seems deserted. They are soon trapped in Gatlin with little chance of getting out alive.

Human Stain, The (2003)

Friday, February 16th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: France | Germany | USA
Actors: Hopkins, Anthony | Kidman, Nicole | Harris, Ed | Sinise, Gary | Miller, Wentworth | Barrett, Jacinda | Lennix, Harry J. | Gregg, Clark | Smith, Anna Deavere | Mitchell, Lizan | Washington, Kerry | Newman, Phyllis | Martindale, Margo | Canada, Ron | Avital, Mili
Directors: Benton, Robert
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The Human Stain is the story of Coleman Silk (Hopkins), a classics professor with a terrible secret that is about to shatter his life in a small New England town. When his affair with a young troubled janitor (Kidman) is uncovered, the secret Silk had harbored for over fifty years from his wife, his children and colleague, writer Nathan Zuckerman, fast explodes in a conflagration of devastating consequences. It is Zuckerman who stumbles upon Silk’s secret and sets out to reconstruct the unknown biography of this eminent, upright man, esteemed as an educator for nearly all his life, and to understand how this ingeniously contrived life came unraveled.

Dogville (2003)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Denmark | Finland | France | Germany | Netherlands | Norway | Sweden | UK | USA
Actors: Kidman, Nicole | Andersson, Harriet | Bacall, Lauren | Barr, Jean-Marc | Bettany, Paul | Brown, Blair | Caan, James | Clarkson, Patricia | Davies, Jeremy | Gazzara, Ben | Hall, Philip Baker | Hoffman, Thom | Fallon, Siobhan | Hurt, John | Ivanek, Zeljko
Directors: von Trier, Lars
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The beautiful fugitive, Grace (Nicole Kidman), arrives in the isolated township of Dogville on the run from a team of gangsters. With some encouragement from Tom (Paul Bettany), the self-appointed town spokesman, the little community agrees to hide her and in return, Grace agrees to work for them. However, when a search sets in, the people of Dogville demand a better deal in exchange for the risk of harbouring poor Grace and she learns the hard way that in this town, goodness is relative. But Grace has a secret and it is a dangerous one. Dogville may regret it ever began to bare its teeth…

Empire of the Sun (1987)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Bale, Christian | Malkovich, John | Richardson, Miranda | Havers, Nigel | Pantoliano, Joe | Phillips, Leslie | Ibu, Masatô | Richard, Emily | Frazer, Rupert | Gale, Peter | Kataoka, Takatoro | Stiller, Ben | Neidorf, David | Seymour, Ralph | Stephens, Robert
Directors: Spielberg, Steven
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An aristocratic British youth is seperated from his family at the start of World War II after the Japanese Army invades British controlled areas of China. Reduced to living on the street and fighting for food, the youth is eventually interned in a Japanese POW camp for British civilians. Here, admiration quickly develops both for captured American pilots and the Japanese themselves. When the war ends, the boy torn from everything he knew attempts to again find his parents.

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Cruise, Tom | Pitt, Brad | Dunst, Kirsten | Rea, Stephen | Banderas, Antonio | Slater, Christian | McCollam, Virginia | McConnell, John | Seelig, Mike | Logan, Bellina | Newton, Thandie | Ové, Indra | McCrory, Helen | Owen, Lyla Hay | Scharfstein, Lee E.
Directors: Jordan, Neil
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It hadn’t even been a year since a plantation owner named Louis had lost his wife, and now he had lost his will to live. A vampire named Lestat takes a liking to Louis and offers him the chance to become a creature of the night: a vampire. Louis accepts, and Lestat drains Louis’ mortal blood and then replaces it with his own turning Louis into a vampire. Louis must learn from Lestat the ways of the vampire.