Posts Tagged ‘roadblock’

It Came from Outer Space (1953)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Richard Carlson | Barbara Rush | Charles Drake | Joe Sawyer | Russell Johnson | Kathleen Hughes | Ralph Brooks | Budd Buster | Robert Carson | Ned Davenport | Edgar Dearing | Alan Dexter | George Eldredge | Paul Fix | Whitey Haupt
Directors: Jack Arnold
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John Putnam and Ellen watch a great fireball going down near a mine. Both are the only ones, who believe the “thing” not to be a meteor but an alien starship. In the following days, people disappear and return, obviously being manipulated in a strange way. After a while, the sheriff becomes distrustful. He and his men enter the mine. But Putnam hopes to reach a peaceful solution and enters the starship …

Kiss Me Deadly (1955)

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
Genres: Crime | Film-Noir | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Ralph Meeker | Albert Dekker | Paul Stewart | Juano Hernandez | Wesley Addy | Marian Carr | Maxine Cooper | Cloris Leachman | Gaby Rodgers | Nick Dennis | Jack Lambert | Jack Elam | Jerry Zinneman | Leigh Snowden | Percy Helton
Directors: Robert Aldrich
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Tough L.A. private eye Mike Hammer gives a ride to Christina, a frightened young woman he finds running along the road one night. His car is run off the road by unseen thugs. Hammer is knocked out and Christina is tortured in an unsuccessful attempt to get information from her. They are put back into Hammer’s car which then is forced off a cliff. Hammer wakes up in the hospital. Velda, his trusty secretary, informs him that Christina is dead. Pat Chambers, Mike’s policeman friend, tells him to stay off the case, but Mike thinks it might be a big story—meaning big money for him—because the FBI is interested. He, Velda, and Nick, his garage mechanic friend, start investigating in hopes of finding out why Christina was killed.

Out of the Past (1947)

Friday, December 19th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Robert Mitchum | Jane Greer | Kirk Douglas | Rhonda Fleming | Richard Webb | Steve Brodie | Virginia Huston | Paul Valentine | Dickie Moore | Ken Niles | Brooks Benedict | Oliver Blake | Eumenio Blanco | Wesley Bly | Hubert Brill
Directors: Jacques Tourneur
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For the last three years, Jeff Bailey has been laying low and trying to live a normal life. He’s been running his own gas station but prior to that, had been a pretty good private detective. His last job had been for a gangster, Whit Sterling, who him to find Kathy Moffat, who just happens to have shot him, and recover the $40,000 she stole. Jeff found her in Mexico but fell in love with her. She eventually ran out on him and he decided it might be better if he found a new line of work. When one of Sterling’s henchmen happens to see him pumping gas, he’s summoned to the gangster’s Lake Tahoe estate. Sterling’s offer is quite simple: recover some incriminating tax files and all will be forgotten. Jeff soon realizes however that he’s being set up and framed for murder.

Starman (1984)

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Jeff Bridges | Karen Allen | Charles Martin Smith | Richard Jaeckel | Robert Phalen | Tony Edwards | John Walter Davis | Ted White | Dirk Blocker | M.C. Gainey | Sean Stanek | George 'Buck' Flower | Russ Benning | Ralph Cosham | David Wells
Directors: John Carpenter
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An alien who has crash-landed in the United States takes on the the appearance of a woman’s dead husband and enlists her help to escape from pursuing authorities and rendezvous with a spacecraft on the other side of the country. As he learns how to be more human the alien begins to take on more and more qualities of the woman’s husband, drawing the woman closer.

Gothika (2003)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Charles S. Dutton | Halle Berry | Robert Downey Jr. | John Carroll Lynch | Bernard Hill | Penélope Cruz | Dorian Harewood | Bronwen Mantel | Kathleen Mackey | Matthew G. Taylor | Michel Perron | Andrea Sheldon | Anana Rydvald | Laura Mitchell | Amy Sloan
Directors: Mathieu Kassovitz | Thom Oliphant
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A criminal psychologist (Berry) awakens to find herself a patient in the institution where she works, with no memory of the murder she’s accused of committing. As she tries to regain her memory - and her freedom - a vengeful spirit manipulates her.

Redacted (2007)

Monday, November 10th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | War
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Sahar Alloul | Happy Anderson | Francois Caillaud | Patrick Carroll | Andrew Cullen | Rob Devaney | Izzy Diaz | Mike Figueroa | Qazi Freihat | Paul Hijazin | Suhail Abdel Hussein | Ty Jones | Dhiaa Kahlil | Yanal Kassay | Ohad Knoller
Directors: Brian De Palma
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A montage of stories about U.S. soldiers fighting in the Iraq conflict, focusing on the modern forms of media covering the war.

D.A.R.Y.L. (1985)

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
Genres: Family | Sci-Fi
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Mary Beth Hurt | Michael McKean | Kathryn Walker | Colleen Camp | Josef Sommer | Ron Frazier | Steve Ryan | David Wohl | Danny Corkill | Amy Linker | Barret Oliver | Ed Grady | Tucker McGuire | Richard Hammatt | Charlie Gudger
Directors: Simon Wincer
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A young boy is found wandering without any memory of who he is. A family takes him in and begin to look for clues to help him find his way home. In the meantime, they notice that the boy seems to have certain special abilities, not usually found in kids his age, or even fully-grown adults.

28 Days Later… (2002)

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Alex Palmer | Bindu De Stoppani | Jukka Hiltunen | David Schneider | Cillian Murphy | Toby Sedgwick | Naomie Harris | Noah Huntley | Christopher Dunne | Emma Hitching | Alexander Delamere | Kim McGarrity | Brendan Gleeson | Megan Burns | Justin Hackney
Directors: Danny Boyle
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A powerful virus escapes from a British research facility. Transmitted in a drop of blood and devastating within seconds, the virus locks those infected into a permanent state of murderous rage. Within 28 days the country is overwhelmed and a handful of survivors begin their attempts to salvage a future, little realising that the deadly virus is not the only thing that threatens them.

The French Connection (1971)

Thursday, March 29th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Gene Hackman | Fernando Rey | Roy Scheider | Tony Lo Bianco | Marcel Bozzuffi | Fr?d?ric de Pasquale | Bill Hickman | Ann Rebbot | Harold Gary | Arlene Farber | Eddie Egan | Andr? Ernotte | Sonny Grosso
Directors: William Friedkin
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William Friedkin’s gritty police drama portrays two tough New York City cops trying to intercept a huge heroin shipment coming from France. An interesting contrast is established between ‘Popeye’ Doyle, a short-tempered alcoholic bigot who is nevertheless a hard-working and dedicated police officer, and his nemesis Alain Charnier, a suave and urbane gentleman who is nevertheless a criminal and one of the largest drug suppliers of pure heroin to North America. During the surveillance and eventual bust, Friedkin provides one of the most gripping and memorable car chase sequences ever filmed.

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

Saturday, March 17th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Family | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Henry Thomas | Dee Wallace-Stone | Robert MacNaughton | Drew Barrymore | Peter Coyote | K.C. Martel | Sean Frye | C. Thomas Howell | David M. O'Dell | Richard Swingler | Frank Toth | Robert Barton | Michael Darrell | David Berkson | David Carlberg
Directors: Steven Spielberg
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While visiting the Earth at Night, a group of alien botanists is discovered and disturbed by an approaching human task force. Because of the more than hasty take-off, one of the visitors is left behind. The little alien finds himself all alone on a very strange planet. Fortunately, the extra-terrestrial soon finds a friend and emotional companion in 10-year-old Elliot, who discovered him looking for food in his family’s garden shed. While E.T. slowly gets acquainted with Elliot’s brother Michael, his sister Gertie as well as with Earth customs, members of the task force work day and night to track down the whereabouts of Earth’s first visitor from Outer Space. The wish to go home again is strong in E.T., and after being able to communicate with Elliot and the others, E.T. starts building an improvised device to send a message home for his folks to come and pick him up. But before long, E.T. gets seriously sick, and because of his special connection to Elliot, the young boy suffers, too. The situation gets critical when the task force finally intervenes. By then, all help may already be too late, and there’s no alien spaceship in sight.