Posts Tagged ‘bank’

For a Few Dollars More (1965)

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller | Western
Countries: Italy | Monaco | Spain | West Germany
Actors: Clint Eastwood | Lee Van Cleef | Gian Maria Volonté | Mara Krupp | Luigi Pistilli | Klaus Kinski | Joseph Egger | Panos Papadopulos | Benito Stefanelli | Roberto Camardiel | Aldo Sambrell | Luis Rodríguez | Tomás Blanco | Lorenzo Robledo | Sergio Mendizábal
Directors: Sergio Leone
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Two bounty hunters are after the same man, Indio. At first, they go their own ways, but eventually get together to try and find him. But are they after him for the same reason ?

Blank Check (1994)

Monday, June 29th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Brian Bonsall | Karen Duffy | James Rebhorn | Jayne Atkinson | Michael Faustino | Chris Demetral | Miguel Ferrer | Michael Lerner | Tone Loc | Rick Ducommun | Alex Zuckerman | Alex Morris | Debbie Allen | Michael Polk | Lu Leonard
Directors: Rupert Wainwright
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Preston Waters is a 12 year old boy who is sick of his parents always teaching him the value of money. Little does he know, he is about to learn it. When a smart crook, Carl Quigley, nearly kills Preston by running over his bike, he mistakenly fills out a blank cheque, which Preston prints out for $1 Million. Preston convinces the bank manager to cash the cheque, and when Quigley’s employee returns to collect the money for Quigley and finds that the bank manager has given it to a kid, Quigley sets out to track the kid down and get his money. Preston creates the pseudonym of ‘Macintosh’ to handle his finance, and the police get suspicious. Preston begins his spending, but later becomes aware that he must avoid Quigley who is on his back, and the police seperately attempt to work out the mystery behind ‘Macintosh’. Will Preston be convinced that money is’nt everything.

The Sting (1973)

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Paul Newman | Robert Redford | Robert Shaw | Charles Durning | Ray Walston | Eileen Brennan | Harold Gould | John Heffernan | Dana Elcar | Jack Kehoe | Dimitra Arliss | Robert Earl Jones | James Sloyan | Charles Dierkop | Lee Paul
Directors: George Roy Hill
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Johnny Hooker is a young con-man who is being taught by Luther. One day they pull one of their con jobs and net themselves a huge roll. What they don’t know is that the man they conned is the courier for a numbers runner. And it turns out that the boss, Doyle Lonigan, considers it an attack on him and orders all the people involved terminated. Hooker is shaken down by a crooked cop, Snyder, who threatens to turn him over to Lonigan unless he pays him off. Hooker pays him, he then tries to warn Luther but is too late. He then goes to see Henry Gondorf, a friend of Luther’s and a one time great con-man, who has had a bit of bad luck. After hearing what happened to Luther and seeing how hungry Hooker is for payback, he assembles a gang and decides to con Lonigan. While everything seems to be going ok, there is just the problem of the hit on Hooker and Snyder, whom Hooker paid off with counterfeit money.

Miracle at St. Anna (2008)

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller | War
Countries: Italy | USA
Actors: Derek Luke | Michael Ealy | Laz Alonso | Omar Benson Miller | Pierfrancesco Favino | Valentina Cervi | Matteo Sciabordi | John Turturro | Joseph Gordon-Levitt | John Leguizamo | Kerry Washington | D.B. Sweeney | Robert John Burke | Omari Hardwick | Omero Antonutti
Directors: Spike Lee
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Set in 1944 Italy, the story of four black American soldiers who get trapped in a Tuscan village during WWII.

Flower Drum Song Movie (1961)

Monday, January 5th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Nancy Kwan | James Shigeta | Benson Fong | Jack Soo | Juanita Hall | Reiko Sato | Patrick Adiarte | Kam Tong | Victor Sen Yung | Soo Yong | Ching Wah Lee | James Hong | Miyoshi Umeki | George Chakiris | Eugene Chan
Directors: Henry Koster
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A Chinese woman and her father illegally enter San Francisco to marry her fiance. While in San Francisco, she meets another man and falls deeply in love with him and the American way of life; to her father’s disapproval.

East of Eden (1955)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Julie Harris | James Dean | Raymond Massey | Burl Ives | Richard Davalos | Jo Van Fleet | Albert Dekker | Lois Smith | Harold Gordon | Nick Dennis | Abdullah Abbas | Jos? Arias | Joe Brooks | Timothy Carey | Jack Carr
Directors: Elia Kazan
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Cal Trask is a particularly unhappy young man. He sees himself as the black sheep of the family and is always competing with his brother Aron, who seems to be perfect in almost every way. Aron is also their father’s favorite and Cal desperately wants his father’s love and affection. It’s the period leading up to America’s entry into World War I and these are tumultuous times. After his father loses most of his fortune trying to ship refrigerated lettuce to New York, Cal decides to speculate on a crop of beans and makes a small fortune but he soon realizes that he can’t buy his father’s loves either. Cal’s discovery that his mother is alive - he and Aron were told that she had died - and that she is a madam leads to a final, tragic result for all three of the Trask men.

It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Family | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: James Stewart | Donna Reed | Lionel Barrymore | Thomas Mitchell | Henry Travers | Beulah Bondi | Frank Faylen | Ward Bond | Gloria Grahame | H.B. Warner | Frank Albertson | Todd Karns | Samuel S. Hinds | Mary Treen | Virginia Patton
Directors: Frank Capra
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On Christmas eve, all of the citizens of the small town of Bedford Falls pray to the heavens to help George Bailey. It’s then decided that Clarence, an angel who hasn’t earned his wings, is to help George. Before he does, he should know who George Bailey was. George Bailey grew up in Bedford Falls, a small town where he dreams of leaving it and making his mark on the world. His family’s business is the only thing stands between the good citizens and Mr. Potter, a rich miser who takes sick pleasure in taking from everybody, without even caring how it affects them. George was all set to leave when his father died and had to take care of the business. George would forever be hindered by his plans to leave and thinks that he is nothing but a failure, he decides to kill himself. That’s when Clarence comes in and tries to convince him that he has made something with his life, and that he had a “Wonderful Life”.

They Live by Night (1948)

Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Film-Noir | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Cathy O'Donnell | Farley Granger | Howard Da Silva | Jay C. Flippen | Helen Craig | Will Wright | Marie Bryant | Ian Wolfe | William Phipps | Harry Harvey | Will Lee | Jim Nolan | Teddy Infuhr | Byron Foulger | Guy Beach
Directors: Nicholas Ray
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In the ’30s, three prisoners flee from a state prison farm in Mississippi. Among them is 23-years-young Bowie, who spent the last seven years in prison and now hopes to be able to prove his innocence or retire to a home in the mountains and live in peace together with his new love, Kitty. But his criminal companions persuade him to participate in several heists, and soon the police believe him to be their leader and go after “Bowie the Kid” harder than ever.

O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

Thursday, December 11th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Music
Countries: France | UK | USA
Actors: George Clooney | Holly Hunter | John Turturro | Stephen Root | John Goodman | Charles Durning
Directors: Joel Coen
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Loosely based on Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ the movie deals with the grotesque adventures of Everett Ulysses McGill and his companions Delmar and Pete in 1930s Mississipi. Sprung from a chain gang and trying to reach Everetts home to recover the buried loot of a bank heist they are confronted by a series of strange characters. Among them sirens, a cyclops, bankrobber George ‘Babyface’ Nelson (very annoyed by that nickname), a campaigning Governor, his opponent, a KKK lynch mob, and a blind prophet, who warns the trio that “the treasure you seek shall not be the treasure you find.”

Leaving Las Vegas (1995)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: France | UK | USA
Actors: Nicolas Cage | Elisabeth Shue | Julian Sands | Richard Lewis | Steven Weber | Kim Adams | Emily Procter | Stuart Regen | Valeria Golino | Graham Beckel | Al Henderson | Shashi Bhatia | Carey Lowell | Anne Lange | Thomas Kopache
Directors: Mike Figgis
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