Posts Tagged ‘assassination-attempt’

The One (2001)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jet Li | Carla Gugino | Delroy Lindo | Jason Statham | James Morrison | Dylan Bruno | Richard Steinmetz | Steve Rankin | Tucker Smallwood | Harriet Sansom Harris | David Keats | Dean Norris | Ron Zimmerman | Darin Morgan | Mark Borchardt
Directors: James Wong
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This movie postulates what if there is more than one universe. And that all of these universes are held together by one single stream of energy and that energy is equally distributed to every living in each universe and if one of these beings die, that energy is reallocated equally to each other surviving member. And with each allocation, a person becomes stronger. Now one universe has master the ability of crossing into another universe, and a man named Shulaw who believes that if he can kill all of his counterparts, he will become invincible, but there are those who believe that it might have detrimental effects, so try and stop him. Unfortunately, he just has one more person to kill, Gabe Law, but the officers follow Shulaw but Shulaw has committed some crimes and Gabe is accused and is wanted. But Gabe discovers that he has changed and only wants to kill Shulaw not realizing what could happen.

Shooter (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Mark Wahlberg | Michael Pena | Danny Glover | Kate Mara | Elias Koteas | Rhona Mitra | Ned Beatty | Jonathan Walker | Justin Louis | Tate Donovan | Rade Serbedzija | Alan C. Peterson | Lane Garrison | Zak Santiago | Michael-Ann Connor
Directors: Antoine Fuqua
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Bob Lee Swagger, one of the world’s great marksmen and the son of a Congressional Medal of Honoree, is a loner living in the Rockies. He’s left the military, having been hung out to dry in a secret Ethiopian mission a few years before, when he’s recruited by a lisping colonel to help find a way that the President of the US might be assassinated in one of three cities in the next two weeks. He does his work, but the shot is fired notwithstanding and Bob Lee is quickly the fall guy: wounded and hunted by thousands, he goes to ground and, aided by two unlikely allies, searches for the truth and for those who double-crossed him. All roads lead back to Ethiopia.

Patriot Games (1992)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Harrison Ford | Anne Archer | Patrick Bergin | Sean Bean | Thora Birch | James Fox | Samuel L. Jackson | Polly Walker | J. E. Freeman | James Earl Jones | Richard Harris | Alex Norton | Hugh Fraser | David Threlfall | Alun Armstrong
Directors: Phillip Noyce
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Jack Ryan, the hero of Tom Clancy’s techno-thriller series, returns in the sequel to _The Hunt for Red October_. Ryan is on vacation in England when he spoils an assassination attempt on an important member of the Royal Family. Ryan gets drawn back into the CIA when the same splinter faction of the IRA targets him and his family.

007 You Only Live Twice (1967)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Sean Connery | Akiko Wakabayashi | Mie Hama | Tetsuro Tamba | Teru Shimada | Karin Dor | Donald Pleasence | Bernard Lee | Lois Maxwell | Desmond Llewelyn | Charles Gray | Tsai Chin | Peter Fanene Maivia | Burt Kwouk | Michael Chow
Directors: Lewis Gilbert
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When an American space capsule is swallowed up by what they believe to be a Russian spaceship, World War 3 nearly breaks out. The British Government, however, suspect that other powers are at work as the space craft went down near Japan. S.P.E.C.T.R.E. is the force behind the theft, as James Bond discovers, but its motives are far from clear, and he must first find out where the captured space capsule is held before America and Russia initiate another world war.

Lord of War (2005)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Nicolas Cage | Bridget Moynahan | Jared Leto | Shake Tukhmanyan | Jean-Pierre Nshanian | Jared Burke | Eric Uys | David Shumbris | Stewart Morgan | Jasper Lenz | Kobus Marx | Stephan De Abreu | Jeremy Crutchley | Ian Holm | Tanya Finch
Directors: Andrew Niccol
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This film charts the rise and fall of Yuri Orlov, from his early days in the early 1980s in Little Odessa, selling guns to mobsters in his local neighbourhood, through to his ascension through the decade of excess and indulgence into the early 90s, where he forms a business partnership with an African warlord and his psychotic son. The film also charts his relationship through the years with his younger brother, his marriage to a famous model, his relentless pursuit by a determined federal agent and his inner demons that sway between his drive for success and the immorality of what he does.

The Godfather (1972)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Marlon Brando | Al Pacino | James Caan | Richard S. Castellano | Robert Duvall | Sterling Hayden | Richard Conte | Al Lettieri | Diane Keaton | Abe Vigoda | Talia Shire | Gianni Russo | John Marley | Rudy Bond
Directors: Francis Ford Coppola
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The story begins as “Don” Vito Corleone, the head of a New York Mafia “family”, oversees his daughter’s wedding. His beloved son Michael has just come home from the war, but does not intend to become part of his father’s business. Through Michael’s life the nature of the family business becomes clear. The business of the family is just like the head of the family, kind and benevolent to those who give respect, but given to ruthless violence whenever anything stands against the good of the family. Don Vito lives his life in the way of the old country, but times are changing and some don’t want to follow the old ways and look out for community and “family”. An up and coming rival of the Corleone family wants to start selling drugs in New York, and needs the Don’s influence to further his plan. The clash of the Don’s fading old world values and the new ways will demand a terrible price, especially from Michael, all for the sake of the family.

The Living Daylights (1987)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Timothy Dalton | Maryam d'Abo | Jeroen Krabbé | Joe Don Baker | John Rhys-Davies | Art Malik | Andreas Wisniewski | Thomas Wheatley | Desmond Llewelyn | Robert Brown | Geoffrey Keen | Walter Gotell | Caroline Bliss | John Terry | Virginia Hey
Directors: John Glen
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After Bond helps Russian officer Georgi Koskov (’Jeroen Krabbe’(qv)) make a daring defection to the West, the intelligence community is shocked when Koskov is abducted from his remote hiding place. Bond leaps into action, following a trail that leads to the gorgeous Kara (’Maryam d’Abo’(qv)), who plays Bond as easily as she plays her Stradivari cello. As they unravel a complex weapons scheme with global implications, they are forced into hair-raising chases, a riveting jailbreak and an epic battle in the Afghanistan desert with tanks, airplanes and a legion of freedom fighters on horseback.

Head of State (2003)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Bernie Mac | Dylan Baker | Nick Searcy | Lynn Whitfield | Robin Givens | Tamala Jones | James Rebhorn | Keith David | Tracy Morgan | Stephanie March | Robert Stanton | Jude Ciccolella | Nate Dogg | Angie Mattson
Directors: Chris Rock
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Mays Gilliam, a Washington D.C. neighborhood Alderman, is about to be red-lined out of his job. But after the untimely death of the party frontrunner, Gilliam is plucked from obscurity, and thrust into the limelight as his party’s nominee—for President of the United States. The players in Gilliam’s life include: Mitch Gilliam, his unsophisticated older brother who becomes his running mate; Kim, his ex-girlfriend who had once dumped him, but who now has a sudden change of heart as she sees a chance at becoming First Lady; Martin Geller, his campaign manager; Lisa Clark, the woman who truly believes in Gilliam; and Debra Lassiter, the woman who doesn’t have faith in his candidacy, and is serving as his reluctant advisor.

Exit Wounds (2001)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: DMX | Steven Seagal | Isaiah Washington | Anthony Anderson | Michael Jai White | Bill Duke | Jill Hennessy | Tom Arnold | Bruce McGill | David Vadim | Eva Mendes | Matthew G. Taylor | Paolo Mastropietro | Shane Daly | Drag-On
Directors: Andrzej Bartkowiak
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Orin Boyd (Seagal) is a Detroit cop who doesn’t follow rules. After he saved the Vice President by violating every order he received he is transferred to one of the worst precincts in the city. There he quickly encounters some corrupt cops selling heroin to drug dealers. The problem is, it’s very difficult to tell who is the bad guy and who you can trust.

Suddenly (1954)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Frank Sinatra | Sterling Hayden | James Gleason | Nancy Gates | Kim Charney | Paul Frees | Christopher Dark | Willis Bouchey | Paul Wexler | James O'Hara | Kem Dibbs | Clark Howat | Charles Martin Smith
Directors: Lewis Allen
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The tranquility of a small town is marred only by sheriff Tod Shaw’s unsuccessful courtship of widow Ellen Benson, a pacifist who can’t abide guns and those who use them. But violence descends on Ellen’s household willy-nilly when the U.S. President passes through town… and slightly psycho hired assassin John Baron finds the Benson home ideal for an ambush.