Posts Tagged ‘san-francisco-california’

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.

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)

Thursday, June 18th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Mystery | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: William Shatner | DeForest Kelley | James Doohan | George Takei | Walter Koenig | Nichelle Nichols | Jane Wyatt | Catherine Hicks | Mark Lenard | Robin Curtis | Robert Ellenstein | John Schuck | Brock Peters
Directors: Leonard Nimoy
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Admiral Kirk and his crew vow to return to Earth after rescuing Captain Spock to face criminal charges after his unauthorized mission and theft of the U.S.S. Enterprise. After rescuing two humpback whales, Kirk is found guilty of disobeying a Starfleet superior officer and is demoted to Captain and given command of the U.S.S. Enterprise-A.

Vertigo (1958)

Thursday, June 11th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: James Stewart | Kim Novak | Barbara Bel Geddes | Tom Helmore | Henry Jones | Raymond Bailey | Ellen Corby | Konstantin Shayne | Lee Patrick | Jack Ano | John Benson | Paul Bryar | Bruno Della Santina | Carlo Dotto
Directors: Alfred Hitchcock
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John “Scottie” Ferguson is a retired San Francisco police detective who suffers from acrophobia and Madeleine is the lady who leads him to high places. A wealthy shipbuilder who is an acquaintance from college days approaches Scottie and asks him to follow his beautiful wife, Madeleine. He fears she is going insane, maybe even contemplating suicide, because she believes she is possessed by a dead ancestor. Scottie is skeptical, but agrees after he sees the beautiful Madeleine.

Escape from Alcatraz (1979)

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Clint Eastwood | Patrick McGoohan | Roberts Blossom | Jack Thibeau | Fred Ward | Paul Benjamin | Larry Hankin | Bruce M. Fischer | Frank Ronzio | Fred Stuthman | David Cryer | Madison Arnold | Blair Burrows | Bob Balhatchet | Matthew Locricchio
Directors: Don Siegel
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The true story of Frank Morris, a convict who was sent to Alcatraz, the most feared prison in the world. Although nobody had ever escaped from Alcatraz, Frank did it.

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.

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)

Monday, June 8th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Mystery | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: William Shatner | Leonard Nimoy | DeForest Kelley | James Doohan | George Takei | Majel Barrett | Walter Koenig | Nichelle Nichols | Persis Khambatta | Stephen Collins | Grace Lee Whitney | Mark Lenard | Billy Van Zandt | Roger Aaron Brown | Gary Faga
Directors: Robert Wise
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A strange cloud descends upon Klingon vessels and eradicates them with an energy bolt. The Epsilon IX space station alerts the Federation, but they too are wiped out by the entity. The starship assigned to the case is, what else, the NCC-1701. That would be the registration number for the U.S.S. Enterprise, which has been rebuilt. Thus, the entire original crew you knew from the TV show returns. Although they are prepared to face the entity, nothing will prepare them for the ride to come. The film asks the question Paul Gauguin asks in a painting bearing this name: “Where do [I] come from? What [am I]? Where [am I] going?” Trekkers, note the appearance of Will Decker, the son of Matt Decker, who killed himself in the TV episode, “The Doomsday Machine”. The film can be summed up in a single word: beautiful.

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Spencer Tracy | Sidney Poitier | Katharine Hepburn | Katharine Houghton | Cecil Kellaway | Beah Richards | Roy Glenn | Isabel Sanford | Virginia Christine | Alexandra Hay | Barbara Randolph | D'Urville Martin | Tom Heaton | Grace Gaynor | Skip Martin
Directors: Stanley Kramer
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Joey Drayton brings her fiancé, Dr. John Prentice, home to sunny San Francisco to meet her affluent parents. Their liberal persuasions are now put to the test, for although the young man is an ideal choice (he’s highly and internationally respected in the medical field, and he’s impeccably mannered, handsome, well dressed and of a respectable California family), he’s black. The film, which covers one busy day in the Drayton home, is essentially a drawing-room comedy, a series of cross-conversations between the young doctor and the girl’s parents, and finally between all sets of parents and offspring. A simple dinner is extended to include the doctor’s parents, who fly up from Los Angeles for the evening, and the crusty but benevolent old Irish priest, a friend of the family. Thus, the title of the film . . .

Naughty Stewardesses (1975)

Thursday, May 14th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Robert Livingston | Connie Hoffman | Richard Smedley | Donna Young | Marilyn Joi | Sydney Jordan | Al Richardson | Jerry Mills | Sandy Carey | Addison Randall | Sheldon Lee | Sean Graver | Regina Carrol
Directors: Al Adamson
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“The Naughty Stewardesses” follows four fetching flight attendants as they deal with randy passengers, dirty old men, “fashion” photographers, and other hazards in the sky and on the ground. Donna Desmond and Tracy King star with Carrol and Livingston.

George of the Jungle (1997)

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Brendan Fraser | Leslie Mann | Thomas Haden Church | John Cleese | Richard Roundtree | Greg Cruttwell | Abraham Benrubi | Holland Taylor | Kelly Miller | John Bennett Perry | Michael Chinyamurindi | Abdoulaye NGom | Lydell M. Cheshier | Keith Scott | Spencer Garrett
Directors: Sam Weisman
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Baby George got into a plane crash in a jungle, stayed alive and was adopted by a wise ape. Ursula Stanhope, US noble woman is saved from death on safari by grown-up George, and he takes her to jungle to live with him. He slowly learns a rules of human relationships, while Ursula’s lover Lyle is looking for her and the one who took her. After they are found, Ursula takes George to the USA.

Neon Maniacs (1986)

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Clyde Hayes | Leilani Sarelle | Donna Locke | Victor Brandt | David Muir | Marta Kober | P.R. Paul | Jeff Tyler | Amber Denyse Austin | James Acheson | Chuck Hemingway | Bo Sabato | Jessie Lawrence Ferguson | John Lafayette | Gene Bicknell
Directors: Joseph Mangine
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Something disturbing is going on in San Francisco each and every night. Certain locals who are out at night, are being set upon and slain, by someone or something, to be found in the morning mutilated or parts missing. Ocassionally they are never found at all ditto the parts that go missing. Tonight one teen is going to witness a massacre at the hands of this lethal mystery. And might be able to shed some light over it to the cops. That is if she survives the night.