Posts Tagged ‘corpse’

On the Waterfront (1954)

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Marlon Brando | Karl Malden | Lee J. Cobb | Rod Steiger | Pat Henning | Leif Erickson | James Westerfield | Tony Galento | Tami Mauriello | John F. Hamilton | John Heldabrand | Rudy Bond | Don Blackman | Arthur Keegan | Abe Simon
Directors: Elia Kazan
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The Waterfront Crime Commission is about to hold public hearings on union crime and underworld infiltration. As workers are turned against each other, Terry Malloy inadvertently participates in the murder of fellow longshoreman Joey Doyle. Union boss Johnny Friendly orchestrates the murder along with other illegal dockside activities, aided by Terry’s brother Charley. Terry begins to feel pangs of conscience. When Joey’s sister Edie sees more in Terry than he sees in himself and Father Barry urges him on, Terry reassesses his past and begins to regain responsibility for his actions.

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.

Young Frankenstein (1974)

Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Gene Wilder | Peter Boyle | Marty Feldman | Cloris Leachman | Teri Garr | Kenneth Mars | Richard Haydn | Liam Dunn | Danny Goldman | Oscar Beregi Jr. | Arthur Malet | Anne Beesley | Monte Landis | Rusty Blitz | John Madison
Directors: Mel Brooks
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When the will of Victor Frankenstein, the famous scientist who attempted to reanimate dead bodies, is opened, his grandson, Frederick, who’s become a skilled neurosurgeon and teacher and has cut most ties with his family name due to his grandfather’s experiments, is given the castle where all the experiments were made. Upon his arrival, Frederick finds and reads through his grandfather’s book about his theories and experiments and discovers that they might in fact work. Assisted by Igor, the grandson of the Igor who assisted Victor Frankenstein, and Inga, an attractive lab assistant, he successfully reanimates a body which soon escapes and creates havoc…

Clue (1985)

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Eileen Brennan | Tim Curry | Madeline Kahn | Christopher Lloyd | Michael McKean | Martin Mull | Lesley Ann Warren | Colleen Camp | Lee Ving | Bill Henderson | Jane Wiedlin | Jeffrey Kramer | Kellye Nakahara | Will Nye | Rick Goldman
Directors: Jonathan Lynn
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Here is the murderously funny movie based on the world-famous Clue board game. Was it Colonel Mustard in the study with a gun? Miss Scarlet in the billiard room with the rope? Or was it Wadsworth the butler? Meet all the notorious suspects and discover all their foul play. You’ll love their dastardly doings as the bodies and the laughs pile up before your eyes. Features three surprise endings!!

Inferno (1980)

Monday, June 1st, 2009
Genres: Horror | Music | Mystery
Countries: Italy
Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme | Pat Morita | Danny Trejo | Gabrielle Fitzpatrick | Larry Drake | Vincent Schiavelli | David 'Shark' Fralick | Silas Weir Mitchell | Jonathan Avildsen | Jaime Pressly | Bill Erwin | Ford Rainey | Kevin West | Priscilla Pointer | Robert Symonds
Directors: John G. Avildsen
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Young poetess Rose Elliot buys a book from a local antique dealer, a diary in Latin of an architect, E. Varelli. She learns of the Three Mothers, and believes her apartment building is one of their houses. She pleads her brother Mark, who is studying musicology in Rome, to come, because she is afraid. Mark’s friend Sara reads her letter, which he left behind in class, and discovers the school is run by the Mater Lacrimarum, and is killed for this knowledge. The house of Mater Suspiriorum has already been destroyed, and by the time Mark arrives in New York City, he is investigating his sister’s murder.

Ravenous (1999)

Monday, June 1st, 2009
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Czech Republic | UK | USA
Actors: Guy Pearce | Robert Carlyle | David Arquette | Jeremy Davies | Jeffrey Jones | John Spencer | Stephen Spinella | Neal McDonough | Joseph Runningfox | Bill Brochtrup | Sheila Tousey | Fernando Becerril | Gabriel Berthier | Pedro Altamirano
Directors: Antonia Bird
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Captain John Boyd receives a promotion after defeating the enemy command in a battle of the Mexican-American War, but because the general realizes it was an act of cowardice that got him there, he is given a backhanded promotion to Fort Spencer, where he is third in command. The others at the fort are two Indians, George and his sister, Martha, who came with the place, Chaplain Toffler, Reich, the soldier; Cleaves, a drugged-up cook; and Knox, who is frequently drunk. When a Scottish stranger named Colquhoun appears and recovers from frostbite almost instantly after being bathed, he tells a story about his party leader, Ives, eating members of the party to survive. As part of their duty, they must go up to the cave where this occurred to see if any have survived. Only Martha, Knox, and Cleaves stay behind. George warns that since Colquhoun admits to eating human flesh, he must be a Windigo, a ravenous cannibalistic creature.

Insomnia (2002)

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Al Pacino | Martin Donovan | Robin Williams | Oliver 'Ole' Zemen | Hilary Swank | Paul Dooley | Nicky Katt | Larry Holden | Jay Brazeau | Lorne Cardinal | James Hutson | Andrew Campbell | Paula Shaw | Crystal Lowe | Tasha Simms
Directors: Christopher Nolan
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Sent from the city to investigate the murder of a teenage girl in a small Alaska town, a police detective (Pacino) accidentally shoots his own partner while trying to apprehend a suspect. Instead of admitting his guilt, the detective is given an unexpected alibi, but this “solution” only multiplies the emotional complexity and guilt over his partner’s death. He’s also still got a murder to solve, in addition to the blackmail and framing of an innocent bystander being orchestrated by the man they were chasing. There’s also a local detective (Swank) who is conducting her own personal investigation… of his partner’s death. Will it all come crashing down on him?

The Time Machine (1960)

Friday, April 24th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Rod Taylor | Alan Young | Yvette Mimieux | Sebastian Cabot | Tom Helmore | Whit Bissell | Doris Lloyd | Bob Barran | Paul Frees | James Skelly | Josephine Powell
Directors: George Pal
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From the book by H.G. Wells, a scientist and tinkerer builds a time machine and uses it to explore the distant future where there are two races, a mild gentle race, and a cannibalistic one living underground. His machine is stolen by the underground race and he must risk being captured (and eaten) to return to his own time.

Taking Lives (2004)

Friday, April 24th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Australia | Canada | USA
Actors: Angelina Jolie | Ethan Hawke | Kiefer Sutherland | Gena Rowlands | Olivier Martinez | Tchéky Karyo | Jean-Hugues Anglade | Paul Dano | Justin Chatwin | André Lacoste | Billy Two Rivers | Richard Lemire | Julien Poulin | Marie-Josée Croze | Christian Tessier
Directors: D.J. Caruso
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A successful FBI profiler, Illeana Scott (Jolie), is summoned to help out Canadian law enforcement in Montreal, to hunt down a serial killer who assumes the lives and identities (hence the title) of the people he kills as he travels across North America, which forces Illeana to adjust to working in a strange city with a police team with which she doesn’t really fit in.

U Turn (1997)

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Sean Penn | Nick Nolte | Jennifer Lopez | Powers Boothe | Claire Danes | Joaquin Phoenix | Jon Voight | Billy Bob Thornton | Abraham Benrubi | Richard Rutowski | Aida Linares | Sean Stone | Ilia Volok | Valeri Nikolayev | Brent Briscoe
Directors: Oliver Stone
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A man running from a mysterious past is trapped in a small desert town after his car breaks down. Everybody in this town seems to have totally lost their mind and Bobby can’t wait to leave. But there is a problem: Bobby doesn’t have the money to get his car back. So when an aging man offers him money to kill his young wife Bobby seriously thinks about it. However the gorgeous young woman casts some kind of spell on him and she asks him to get rid of her husband. But this time, the stakes are much higher…