Posts Tagged ‘death-of-son’

Lord of War (2005)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Cage, Nicolas | Moynahan, Bridget | Leto, Jared | Tukhmanyan, Shake | Nshanian, Jean-Pierre | Burke, Jared | Uys, Eric | Shumbris, David | Morgan, Stewart | Lenz, Jasper | Marx, Kobus | De Abreu, Stephan | Crutchley, Jeremy | Holm, Ian | Finch, Tanya
Directors: Niccol, Andrew
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This film charts the rise and fall of Yuri Orlov, from his early days in the early 1980s in Little Odessa, selling guns to mobsters in his local neighbourhood, through to his ascension through the decade of excess and indulgence into the early 90s, where he forms a business partnership with an African warlord and his psychotic son. The film also charts his relationship through the years with his younger brother, his marriage to a famous model, his relentless pursuit by a determined federal agent and his inner demons that sway between his drive for success and the immorality of what he does.

Finding Nemo (2003)

Monday, May 7th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Drama | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Brooks, Albert | DeGeneres, Ellen | Gould, Alexander | Dafoe, Willem | Garrett, Brad | Janney, Allison | Pendleton, Austin | Root, Stephen | Lewis, Vicki | Ranft, Joe | Rush, Geoffrey | Perkins, Elizabeth | Bird, Nicholas | Peterson, Bob
Directors: Stanton, Andrew | Unkrich, Lee
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Marlin (a clown fish) is a widower who only has his son Nemo left of his family after a predator attack. Years later, on Nemo’s first day of school, he’s captured by a scuba diver and taken to live in a dentist office’s fish tank. Marlin and his new absent-minded friend Dory set off across the ocean to find Nemo, while Nemo and his tankmates scheme on how to get out of the tank before he becomes the dentist’s niece’s new pet.

Punisher, The (2004)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Scheider, Roy | Patton, Will | Travolta, John | Romijn, Rebecca | Andrews, A. Russell | Avila, Omar | Carpinello, James | Collie, Mark | Comegys, Russ | Corone, Antoni | Elmhurst, Rick | Foster, Ben | Harring, Laura | Reardon, Michael | Hasenzahl, Will | Jane, Thomas | Jemison, Eddie | St. John, Marco | Johns, Marcus
Directors: Hensleigh, Jonathan
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Special agent Frank Castle had it all: A loving family, a great life, and an adventurous job. But when his life is taken away from him by a ruthless criminal and his associates, Frank has become reborn. Now serving as judge, jury, and executioner, he’s a new kind of vigilante out to wage a one man war against those who have done him wrong.

Mamma Roma (1962)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: Italy
Actors: Magnani, Anna | Garofolo, Ettore | Citti, Franco | Corsini, Silvana | Loiano, Luisa | Volponi, Paolo | Gonini, Luciano | La Paglia, Vittorio | Morgia, Piero | Ceccarelli, Lanfranco | Sorrentino, Marcello | Meschino, Sandro | Tovo, Franco | Ferrarese, Pasquale | Santarelli, Leandro
Directors: Pasolini, Pier Paolo
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Mamma Roma is a middle-aged whore of Roma. Now she can quit her job to become a fruit seller. And she can take back her 16-year-old son, Ettore. For him, she dreams of a good position. But it is perhaps too late for Ettore, whose company includes mostly teenaged louts…

Romeo Must Die (2000)

Thursday, February 8th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Li, Jet | Aaliyah | Washington, Isaiah | Wong, Russell | DMX | Lindo, Delroy | Woodside, D.B. | O, Henry | Lee, Jonkit | Ballerini, Edoardo | Anderson, Anthony | Harrison, Matthew | Chen, Terry | Lowe, Derek | Wong, Ronin
Directors: Bartkowiak, Andrzej
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In this modern day Romeo and Juliet, kung fu action star Jet Li plays Romeo to hip-hop singer, Aaliyah Haughton’s Juliet. Li is an ex-cop investigating the murder of his brother, who had ties with the Chinese mafia in America. Aaliyah plays the daughter of the American mob boss. Neither side approves of their romance, so, obviously, kung fu action ensues, with a soundtrack by Aaliyah.

Last Samurai, The (2003)

Thursday, February 1st, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | War
Countries: Japan | New Zealand | USA
Actors: Shin Koyamada | Watanabe, Ken | Cruise, Tom | Atherton, William | Lindberg, Chad | Godshall Sr., Ray | Connolly, Billy | Goldwyn, Tony | Harada, Masato | Odate, Masashi | Koyama, John | Spall, Timothy | Nakamura, Shichinosuke | Igawa, Togo | Nikaido, Satoshi | Wada, Shintaro
Directors: Zwick, Edward
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In the 1870s, Captain Nathan Algren, a cynical veteran of the American Civil war who will work for anyone, is hired by Americans who want lucrative contracts with the Emperor of Japan to train the peasant conscripts for the first standing imperial army in modern warfare using firearms. The imperial Omura cabinet’s first priority is to repress a rebellion of traditionalist Samurai -hereditary warriors- who remain devoted to the sacred dynasty but reject the Westernizing policy and even refuse firearms. Yet when his ill-prepared superior force sets out too soon, their panic allows the sword-wielding samurai to crush them. Badly wounded Algren’s courageous stand makes the samurai leader Katsumoto spare his life; once nursed to health he learns to know and respect the old Japanese way, and participates as advisor in Katsumoto’s failed attempt to save the Bushido tradition, but Omura gets repressive laws enacted- he must now choose to honor his loyalty to one of the embittered sides when the conflict returns to the battlefield…