Posts Tagged ‘assassination’

Naked Weapon (2002)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Action | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: Hong Kong
Actors: Marit Thoresen | Almen Wong Pui-Ha | Daniel Wu | Kai Yan Kwok | Renee Nichole Rommeswinkel | Mo Ka Lai | Augustin Aguerreberry | Maggie Q | Anya | Jewel Lee | Monica Lo | Benny Lai | Pei-pei Cheng | Dennis Chan | Hoi Lin
Directors: Siu-Tung Ching
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Like a contagious virus, pretty and athletic girls in their teens start dissappearing around the globe one after another. The mastermind behind these abductions is Madame M (Almen Wong), who plans to train these girls into professional killers. After several years of gruesome training, only Charlene (Maggie Q), Katt (Anya) and Jill (Jewel Lee) survive and become the world’s most sought after professional killers. On a recent mission to assassinate someone in Hong Kong, however CIA agent Jack (Daniel Wu), who vows to help her reclaim her past by eliminating Madame M.

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Action | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: William Shatner | Leonard Nimoy | DeForest Kelley | James Doohan | Walter Koenig | Nichelle Nichols | George Takei | Kim Cattrall | Mark Lenard | Grace Lee Whitney | Brock Peters | Leon Russom | Kurtwood Smith | Christopher Plummer | Rosanna DeSoto
Directors: Nicholas Meyer
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An accident on the Klingon moon Praxis forces the reluctant Klingon Empire into a peace treaty with the Federation. Kirk, despite his mistrust of the Klingons after they murdered his son at Genesis, is forced to escort a Klingon cruiser carrying the Klingon Chancellor to Earth for the meetings. During the voyage the Klingon cruiser is attacked, and Kirk & McCoy are taken prisoner after the Chancellor is murdered by two Starfleet crewmen. Spock immediately begins an investigation, while Kirk & McCoy are sentenced to life on Rura Penthe - a deep-frozen asteroid. Spock, meanwhile, has discovered that a Klingon Bird of Prey - one that can fire when cloaked, and under the command of Kingon General Chang - is the ship responsible for firing on the Chancellor, and the 2 assassins came from the Enterprise. A rescue of Kirk & McCoy is successful, after which they discover a conspiracy among Starfleet, Klingon, and Romulan officials whose plan is to incite a full-blown war! The Enterprise & Excelsior - under the command of Hikaru Sulu - head for a deadly rendezvous with General Chang at the peace summit to prevent war from breaking out…but will they be too late?

Spy Game (2001)

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Robert Redford | Brad Pitt | Catherine McCormack | Stephen Dillane | Larry Bryggman | Marianne Jean-Baptiste | Matthew Marsh | Todd Boyce | Michael Paul Chan | Garrick Hagon | Andrew Grainger | Bill Buell | Colin Stinton | Ted Maynard | Tom Hodgkins
Directors: Tony Scott
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CIA operative Nathan Muir (Redford) is on the brink of retirement when he finds out that his protege Tom Bishop (Pitt) has been arrested in China for espionage. No stranger to the machinations of the CIA’s top echelon, Muir hones all his skills and irreverent manner in order to find a way to free Bishop. As he embarks on his mission to free Bishop, Muir recalls how he recruited and trained the young rookie, at that time a sergeant in Vietnam, their turbulent times together as operatives and the woman who threatened their friendship.

Snake Eyes (1998)

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Nicolas Cage | Gary Sinise | John Heard | Carla Gugino | Stan Shaw | Kevin Dunn | Michael Rispoli | Joel Fabiani | Luis Guzmán | David Anthony Higgins | Mike Starr | Tamara Tunie | Chip Zien | Michaella Bassey | Paul Joseph Bernardo
Directors: Brian De Palma
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After the assassination of a prominent political official at a major boxing match, a corrupt cop must solve the crime to protect his friend, who was overseeing protection of the fallen. But what the cop uncovers is a conspiracy connected to everyone that was at the boxing match that night, and the one woman who knows everything must run from those behind the murder.

Milk (2008)

Friday, April 3rd, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Sean Penn | Josh Brolin | Emile Hirsch | James Franco | Diego Luna | Brandon Boyce | Kelvin Yu | Lucas Grabeel | Alison Pill | Victor Garber | Denis O'Hare | Howard Rosenman | Stephen Spinella | Ted Jan Roberts | Tom Ammiano
Directors: Gus Van Sant
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Using flashbacks from a statement recorded late in life and archival footage for atmosphere, this film traces Harvey Milk’s career from his 40th birthday to his death. He leaves the closet and New York, opens a camera shop that becomes the salon for San Francisco’s growing gay community, and organizes gays’ purchasing power to build political alliances. He runs for office with lover Scott Smith as his campaign manager. Victory finally comes on the same day Dan White wins in the city’s conservative district. The rest of the film sketches Milk’s relationship with White and the 1978 fight against a statewide initiative to bar gays and their supporters from public school jobs.

The Pelican Brief (1993)

Monday, March 23rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Julia Roberts | Denzel Washington | Sam Shepard | John Heard | Tony Goldwyn | James Sikking | William Atherton | Robert Culp | Stanley Tucci | Hume Cronyn | John Lithgow | Anthony Heald | Nicholas Woodeson | Stanley Anderson | John Finn
Directors: Alan J. Pakula
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Two Supreme Court Justices have been killed. Now a college professor, who clerked for one of the two men, who’s also having an affair with one of his students, is given a brief by her, that states who probably, wanted to see these two men dead. He then gives it to one of his friends, who works for the FBI. When the FBI director reads it, he is fascinated by it. One of the preseident’s men who read it, is afraid that if it ever got out, the president could be smeared. So, he adivises the president to tell the director to drop it, which he does. But later the professor and the girl were out and he was drunk and when he refused to give her the keys she stepped out of the car. When he started it, it blew up. She then discovers that her place has been burglarized and what was taken were her computer and her disks. Obviously, her brief has someone agitated. She then turns to her boyfriend’s friend at the FBI, he agrees to come meet her but before he does someone shoots him and takes his place. At the meeting, he was about to kill her when someone shoots him. She then decides to turn to Gray Grantham, an investigative reporter, who was contacted by someone who says he has info on the killings but backed out at the last minute. He then meets her and tells her what her brief is, and basically, the man she suspects is a good friend of the president, who is trying to manipulate the outcome of a trial that is now before the Supreme Court. Grantham tells her that her brief can harm the president and all what they have are theories, he asks her to help him but she wants to leave the country. When Grantham’s editor tells him that they have nothing that he should drop cause the man she implicated is extremely powerful. Grantham’s about to drop it when she says that she will help him. But can they stay alive?

The Dead Zone (1983)

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Christopher Walken | Brooke Adams | Tom Skerritt | Herbert Lom | Anthony Zerbe | Colleen Dewhurst | Martin Sheen | Nicholas Campbell | Sean Sullivan | Jackie Burroughs | Géza Kovács | Roberta Weiss | Simon Craig | Peter Dvorsky | Julie-Ann Heathwood
Directors: David Cronenberg
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Teacher Johnny Smith gets in a horrible accident which forces him into a coma for five years. Once Johnny wakes up, he discovers he has the ability to read a person’s life just by making physical contact with them. When the local police find out about Johnny’s “powers”, they bring him in on a murder case. Soon Johnny’s abilities gets him into more trouble then he may be able to handle.

End Game (2006)

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Canada | Germany | USA
Actors: Cuba Gooding Jr. | Angie Harmon | James Woods | Patrick Fabian | Peter Greene | Jack Scalia | Anne Archer | David Selby | Burt Reynolds | Sarah Ann Schultz | Todd Jensen | Brian Presley | Benito Martinez | Patrick Treadway | Yuji Okumoto
Directors: Andy Cheng
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A secret Service agent and a news reporter investigate the conspiracy behind the assassination of the President.

Red Eye (2005)

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
Genres: Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Rachel McAdams | Cillian Murphy | Brian Cox | Jayma Mays | Laura Johnson | Max Kasch | Angela Paton | Suzie Plakson | Jack Scalia | Terry Press | Robert Pine | Carl Gilliard | Mary Kathleen Gordon | Loren Lester | Philip Pavel
Directors: Wes Craven
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Red Eye tells the story of a young hotel manager Lisa Reisert who after attending the funeral of her grandmother is on her way back to Miami to make it in time for work the next day. She takes the much delayed Red Eye flight of Fresh Air where she meets Jack Ripner. Soon after take off she realizes that she is in fact kidnapped by Jack who needs her in order to assassinate William Keefe, head of Homeland Security. Jack threatens her with her fathers death if she refuses to co-operate. At 30000 feet and nowhere to run, what does she do?

The Plainsman (1936)

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
Genres: Biography | War | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Gary Cooper | Jean Arthur | James Ellison | Charles Bickford | Helen Burgess | Porter Hall | Paul Harvey | Victor Varconi | John Miljan | Frank McGlynn Sr. | Granville Bates | Frank Albertson | Purnell Pratt | Fred Kohler | Pat Moriarity
Directors: Cecil B. DeMille
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With the end of the North American Civil War, the manufacturers of repeating rifles find a profitable means of making money selling the weapons to the North American Indians, using the front man John Lattimer to sell the rifles to the Cheyenne. While traveling in a stagecoach with Calamity Jane and William “Buffalo Bill” Cody and his young wife Louisa Cody that want to settle down in Hays City managing a hotel, Wild Bill Hickok finds the guide Breezy wounded by arrows and telling that the Indians are attacking a fort using repeating rifles. Hickok meets Gen. George A. Custer that assigns Buffalo Bill to guide a troop with ammunition to help the fort. Meanwhile the Cheyenne kidnap Calamity Jane, forcing Hickok to expose himself to rescue her.