Posts Tagged ‘chase’

The Net (1995)

Monday, December 7th, 2009
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Sandra Bullock | Jeremy Northam | Dennis Miller | Diane Baker | Wendy Gazelle | Ken Howard | Ray McKinnon | Daniel Schorr | L. Scott Caldwell | Robert Gossett | Kristina Krofft | Juan García | Tony Perez | Margo Winkler | Gene Kirkwood
Directors: Irwin Winkler
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Angela Bennett’s a software engineer type who works from home and has few friends outside of cyberspace. Taking her first vacation in years she becomes embroiled in a web (sic) of computer espionage.

Blood and Chocolate (2007)

Saturday, July 11th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Agnes Bruckner | Hugh Dancy | Olivier Martinez | Katja Riemann | Bryan Dick | Chris Geere | Tom Harper | John Kerr | Jack Wilson | Vitalie Ursu | Bogdan Voda | Kata Dobó | Rodica Mandache | Helga Racz | Lia Bugnar
Directors: Katja von Garnier
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With the Five on her tail, a young beautiful werewolf named Vivian seeks peace in the arms of Aiden while escaping the never-ending infatuation Gabriel has on her. But when a string of accidental murders happen, this threatens to rip and expose her pack apart.

Dagon (2001)

Saturday, July 11th, 2009
Genres: Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Spain
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Based on a short story by H.P. Lovecraft, the undisputed master of the macabre, Dagon tells the story of Paul Marsh, a young man who discovers that the truth will not set him free instead it condemns him to a waking nightmare of unrelenting horror. A boating accident off the coast of Spain sends Paul and his girlfriend Barbara to the decrepit fishing village of Imboca looking for help. As night falls, people start to disappear and things not quite human start to appear. Paul finds himself pursued by the entire town. Running for his life, he uncovers Imboca’s dark secret: that they pray to Dagon, a monstrous god of the sea. And Dagon’s unholy offspring are freakish half-human creatures on the loose in Imboca…

Coogan’s Bluff (1968)

Saturday, July 11th, 2009
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Clint Eastwood | Lee J. Cobb | Susan Clark | Tisha Sterling | Don Stroud | Betty Field | Tom Tully | Melodie Johnson | James Edwards | Rudy Diaz | David Doyle | Louis Zorich | Meg Myles | Marjorie Bennett | Seymour Cassel
Directors: Don Siegel
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Coogan’s an Arizona deputy sheriff, who doesn’t get along with his boss and doesn’t exactly do things by the book, and also a little arrogant. Fed up with his rugged individualness, his boss sends him to New York to get a man who’s waiting to extradited. Upon arriving everybody thinks he’s just another bumpkin. When the New York Police Lieutenant tells him that his prisoner is still not ready to be transported, Coogan tries to be patient. But when he decides that he can’t wait anymore, he tricks one of the attendants into releasing the prisoner and at the airport someone springs him. Coogan’s boss is pleased that he has screwed up so bad, and orders him to return but Coogan feeling responsible or his ego has been bruised stays and tries to find despite being warn by the Lieutenant that he has no authority here.

The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Family | Musical | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Jim Henson
Directors: Frank Oz
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The Muppets are back in a brand-new full-length musical comedy! After graduating college, the Muppets travel to Manhattan to have someone produce their musical “Manhattan Melodies”. When it doesn’t happen, the gang splits up. Kermit makes friends with Jenny (Juliana Donald) and Piggy is jealous, thinking that Kermit found a new girl. Now Rowlf is a vet secretary, Fozzie’s living in a cave, and Piggy is working at a hotel with her partner, but apparently they get fired and now Piggy lives next door to where Kermit works at Pete’s with Jenny. When Jenny and Kermit find producer-in-training Ronny Coleman (Lonny Price), he promises to produce their show. The gang returns to Manhattan, but after getting hit by a car in joy, Kermit gets amnesia and now finds work making ads with other frogs. When Kermit is found at Pete’s, they try to restore his memory.

Marathon Man (1976)

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Dustin Hoffman | Laurence Olivier | Roy Scheider | William Devane | Marthe Keller | Fritz Weaver | Richard Bright | Marc Lawrence | Allen Joseph | Tito Goya | Ben Dova | Lou Gilbert | Jacques Marin | James Wing Woo | Nicole Deslauriers
Directors: John Schlesinger
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Babe’s brother appears out of the blue. He does this from time to time because his family never knows where he is, working as a government spy. One of his charges is a nazi war criminal who he has just told is no longer welcome in the United States. The doctor has a fortune hidden in a safety deposit box and is convinced that Babe knows whether or not it is safe to go to pick it up and will stop at nothing to find out.

Bullitt (1968)

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Steve McQueen | Robert Vaughn | Jacqueline Bisset | Don Gordon | Robert Duvall | Simon Oakland | Norman Fell | Georg Stanford Brown | Justin Tarr | Carl Reindel | Felice Orlandi | Vic Tayback | Robert Lipton | Ed Peck | Pat Renella
Directors: Peter Yates
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Johnny Ross works for Chicago mobster Peter Ross, his brother. In April 1968 Johnny Ross escapes two attempts on his life and flees to San Francisco, where he is placed in protective custody by politician Walter Chalmers, who hopes to use Ross to further his own national aspirations. To protect Ross, Chalmers asks the SFPD to assign Detective Lieutenant Frank Bullitt and his partners, Sergeants Don Delgetti and Carl Stanton, to guard him at a flophouse near an overhead freeway. It looks like a simple assignment, but at 1 AM the next day it all goes awry in a blast of a shotgun, leaving Stanton and Ross fighting for life at San Francisco General. Bullitt gets what information he can, but breathing down his neck is the angered Chalmers who vows to ruin Bullitt’s career should Ross die. Bullitt gets a break when the gunman appears at the hospital to finish off Ross, and Bullitt gets a good look at him; now Bullitt must smoke out the gunman and his backup man before Chalmers carries out his threat, leading to a high-speed pursuit, a fiery crash at a gas station, and a fingerprint check that leads to a stunning discovery about Ross, and about a couple staying at a swanky hotel in San Mateo.

The Third Man (1949)

Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Genres: Film-Noir | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Joseph Cotten | Alida Valli | Orson Welles | Trevor Howard | Bernard Lee | Paul Hörbiger | Ernst Deutsch | Siegfried Breuer | Erich Ponto | Wilfrid Hyde-White | Hedwig Bleibtreu | Harold Ayer | Harry Belcher | Leo Bieber | Paul Birch
Directors: Carol Reed
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An American pulp writer arrives in post-WWII Vienna only to find that the friend who waited for him is killed under mysterious circumstances. The ensuing mystery entangles him in his friend’s involvement in the black market, with the multinational police, and with his Czech girlfriend.

The Transformers: The Movie (1986)

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Animation | Family | Sci-Fi
Countries: Japan | USA
Actors: Norman Alden | Jack Angel | Michael Bell | Gregg Berger | Susan Blu | Arthur Burghardt | Corey Burton | Roger C. Carmel
Directors: Nelson Shin
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It is the year 2005. The war between The Autobots and Decepticons has escalated all the way to Cybertron, which the Decepticons have reclaimed. The Autobots, without Optimus Prime after a conflict on Earth takes his life, must now face a destiny they know nothing of. Megatron and a group of forsaken Decepticons have been reformed by the ultimate transformer, a planet consuming demon known as Unicron into even deadlier warriors. Now Galvatron, Scourge and Cyclonus must destroy The Autobot Matrix of Leadership for Unicron’s glory or suffer the horrific destruction of Cybertron. However, Optimus Prime has decreed that an Autobot will rise from his rank and use the power of The Matrix to light the darkest hour of the Autobots. With Hot Rod facing responsibility for Prime’s death, he feels he may be able to use the power of the Matrix to turn the tide of the Cybertronian Wars and stop Unicron. Until all are one, the future of the Autobots and Decepticons is uncertain.

The Shining (1980)

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Jack Nicholson | Shelley Duvall | Danny Lloyd | Scatman Crothers | Barry Nelson | Philip Stone | Joe Turkel | Anne Jackson | Tony Burton | Lia Beldam | Billie Gibson | Barry Dennen | David Baxt | Manning Redwood | Lisa Burns
Directors: Stanley Kubrick
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A novelist - Jack Torrance take a job interview as winter caretaker of the isolated, old, huge and beautiful Overlook Hotel. In the interview, Jack is told by the manager himself, that the previous caretaker - Grady, chopped his family and later killed himself with a shotgun. Ignoring the story, Jack brings his wife - Wendy and his son Danny. It happens that Danny, has a mysterious power known as “The Shining” that shows him things from the past and future. Some of the visions come from Tony - “the little boy who lives in Danny’s mouth”. Danny meets Hallorann - the hotel cook in their first day arriving at the Overlook, who also has this “Shining” and he warns him about the hotel and the sinister Room 237. As the days go by, Danny has visions of previous guests and employees who died at the hotel years before, meanwhile Jack starts driving into insanity, turning more and more aggressive, at the point that Danny and Wendy gets convinced that Jack might try to do the same thing, Grady did.