Posts Tagged ‘violence’

Baraka (1992)

Thursday, May 28th, 2009
Genres: Documentary | War
Countries: USA
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Directors: Fricke, Ron
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Without words, cameras show us the world, with an emphasis not on “where,” but on “what’s there.” It begins with morning, natural landscapes and people at prayer: volcanoes, water falls, veldts, and forests; several hundred monks do a monkey chant. Indigenous peoples apply body paint; whole villages dance. The film moves to destruction of nature via logging, blasting, and strip mining. Images of poverty, rapid urban life, and factories give way to war, concentration camps, and mass graves. Ancient ruins come into view, and then a sacred river where pilgrims bathe and funeral pyres burn. Prayer and nature return. A monk rings a huge bell; stars wheel across the sky.

Night to Dismember, A (1983)

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
Genres: Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Fox, Samantha | Cummins, Diane | Meth, Saul | Meth, Miriam | Szarka, William | Smith, Chris | Cummins, Dee | Hunter, Larry | Lomay, Mary | Rogers, Rita | Stengel, Nina | Sabat, Frankie | Cass, Alexandria | Longo, Billy | DeRosa, Rob
Directors: Wishman, Doris
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A woman from a “cursed” family is released from a mental facility, and soon dismembered corpses start turning up.

Martyrs (2008)

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Horror
Countries: Canada | France
Actors: Alaoui, Morjana | Jampanoï, Mylène | Bégin, Catherine | Toupin, Robert | Tulasne, Patricia | Gosselin, Juliette | Dolan-Tadros, Xavier | Chasse, Isabelle | Miskdjian, Emilie | Chute, Mike | Cohen, Gaëlle | Pascale, Anie | Pham, Jessie | Scott, Erika
Directors: Laugier, Pascal
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A young woman’s quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tormented her as a child leads her and a friend, who is also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.

Journal of a Contract Killer (2008)

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Powell, Justine | Leese, Adam | Canuso, Jake | Gambino, Marco | Bleasdale, Heather | Damiano, Isabella | Damiano, Michele | Sheehan, Bill | Janson, David | Williams, Lianne Marie Harding | Autorino, Michele
Directors: Tony Maylam
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Stephanie Komack was a high-class hooker and assassin for the Italian Mob. Now working in London as a waitress, and a single mother to her seven year old daughter, the Mob track Stephanie down and persuade her to do one last job. The hit goes wrong and Stephanie soon realises the stark reality of her failure. They snatch her daughter as punishment, but didn’t figure on Stephanie’s capacity for revenge! Inspired by true events, JOURNAL OF A CONTRACT KILLER is the gripping story of a woman driven to turn on her paymasters with devastating consequences.

Nightstalker (2002)

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Roberts, Bret | McKelheer, Joseph | Day, Roxanne | Garcia, Julian | Long, Christine | Kartvedt, Mikal | Mercedes, Ana | Sanchez, Roselyn | Trejo, Danny | Hamilton, Derek | Parke, Evan | Emma, Brandi | Buckley, A.J. | Spain, Douglas | Graham, Aimee
Directors: Fisher, Chris
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The night sets over Los Angeles and the NIGHTSTALKER speeds through downtown, smoking crack and searching for prostitutes, he finds both. After realizing he can’t get what he wants from women, he sets off to feed his unholy hunger by heading into the suburbs of East Los Angeles where he murders and rapes a young woman as she sleeps in her house. Five days later, a young and beautiful beat cop, GABRIELLA MARTINEZ and her older, corrupt partner, FRANK LUIS, answer a call to a home and find the bodies of the young woman and her husband, mutilated and marked by Satanic ritual. Over the next few weeks, the Nightstalker continues his reign of terror and after more gruesome murders, Gabriella Martinez is offered a job on the task force investigating the murders that have kept the city of East Los Angeles in a state of total fear. Although skeptical of the reasons for her promotion, she nevertheless decides to try and make a difference and catch this killer who represents everything that she stands against. LIEUTENANT MAYBERRY and DETECTIVE ELLIOTT, her superiors on the task force, offer her a lukewarm welcome. Distracted by her own life choices, the inappropriate advances of co-workers, and the homelife she has been forced to play the role of patriarch in, she makes an error of judgment by leaking classified information to a young, aggressive reporter, ADRIANNE DELOIA. Suspended from the force, Martinez is visited by her old partner, Luis, who tells her that through some “dirty” policework he found out where the suspect was hiding. Still interested in doing the right thing, Martinez convinces Luis to take her downtown where she learns that the Nightstalker has picked her and the reporter as his next victims. Martinez and the Nightstalker become engaged in a game of cat-and-mouse that ends up with Martinez being force to decide between killing this murderer or letting him be arrested… Deciding to take a new path in her life, she lets him go. The same world which created this monster will now take his life, but she will not poison herself by killing another human being and becoming like him.

Just Before Dawn (1981)

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Kennedy, George | Kellin, Mike | Lemmon, Chris | Henry, Gregg | Benson, Deborah | Seymour, Ralph | Powell, Katie | Hunsaker, John | Bartlett, Charles | Rose, Jamie | Oslund, Hap | Spencer, Barbara
Directors: Lieberman, Jeff
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Five campers arrive in the mountains to examine some property they have bought, but are warned by the forest ranger Roy McLean that a huge machete-wielding maniac has been terrorising the area. Ignoring the warnings, they set up camp, and start disappearing one by one. If that sounds too run-of-the-mill, there’s a genuinely shocking plot twist half-way through…

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: March, Fredric | Hopkins, Miriam | Hobart, Rose | Herbert, Holmes | Hobbes, Halliwell | Norton, Edgar | Pigott, Tempe | Harris, Sam | London, Tom | Lucy, Arnold | MacQuarrie, Murdock | McDonnell, G.L. | Rogers, John | Walton, Douglas
Directors: Mamoulian, Rouben
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Based on the story by Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Henry Jekyll believes that there are two distinct sides to men - a good and an evil side. He believes that by separating the two man can become liberated. He succeeds in his experiments with chemicals to accomplish this and transforms into Hyde to commit horrendous crimes. When he discontinues use of the drug it is already too late…

Incredibles, The (2004)

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Animation | Family | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Newton, Thandie | Nelson, Craig T. | Hunter, Holly | Jackson, Samuel L. | Lee, Jason | Dominique R. Louis | Newton, Teddy | Sincere, Jean | Fucile, Eli | Andrews, Maeve | Shawn, Wallace | Fox, Spencer | Romano, Lou | Canney, Wayne | Vowell, Sarah | Bird, Michael
Directors: Bird, Brad
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Mr. Incredible (A.K.A. Bob Parr), and his wife Helen (A.K.A. Elastigirl), are the world’s greatest famous crime-fighting superheroes in Metroville. Always saving lives and battling evil on a daily basis. But fifteen years later, they have been forced to adopt civilian identities and retreat to the suburbs where they have no choice but to retire of being a superhero and force to live a “normal life” with their three children Violet, Dash and Jack-Jack (who were secretly born with superpowers). Itching to get back into action, Bob gets his chance when a mysterious communication summons him to a remote island for a top secret assignment. He soon discovers that it will take a super family effort to rescue the world from total destruction.

Escaflowne (2000)

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Animation | Anime | Drama | Fantasy | Fantasy2 | Romance | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Japan
Actors: Sakamoto, Maaya | Seki, Tomokazu | Nakata, Jôji | Iizuka, Mayumi | Takayama, Minami | Tsujitani, Kôji | Miki, Shinichirô | Ootani, Ikue | Devall, Trevor | Dobson, Brian | Dobson, Michael | Dobson, Paul | Drummond, Brian | Francis, Andrew | Hiyama, Nobuyuki
Directors: Kazuki Akane
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High school student Hitomi Kanzaki, depressed and despondent, wishes to disappear from her world. Her wishes are heard in the alternate world of Gaea where a battle for absolute control is raging! Magically, Hitomi is suddenly transported to this other world and is bestowed with the power to decide its ultimate fate!

Broken Arrow (1996)

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Travolta, John | Slater, Christian | Mathis, Samantha | Lindo, Delroy | Gunton, Bob | Whaley, Frank | Long, Howie | Curtis-Hall, Vondie | Thompson, Jack | Ruginis, Vyto | Elam, Ousaun | Toub, Shaun | Biggs, Casey | Stephen, Jeffrey J. | Box, Joey
Directors: Woo, John
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Major Deakins is a tough U.S. Air Force pilot who is assigned to a flight mission with ‘nice-guy’ Captain Hale. They are to fly the B3 Stealth Bomber on wargame maneuvers over Utah loaded with two live nuclear weapons. Deakins, having been continually passed over for promotion, sells out his country and arranges to use the thermonuclear warheads under his command to blackmail the U.S. government. The only thing standing in his way is his old buddy, Captain Hale….