Posts Tagged ‘assassination’

Pursuit to Algiers (1945)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Crime | Drama | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Basil Rathbone | Nigel Bruce | Marjorie Riordan | Rosalind Ivan | Morton Lowry | Leslie Vincent | Martin Kosleck | Rex Evans | John Abbott | Gerald Hamer | William 'Wee Willie' Davis | Tom Dillon | Frederick Worlock | Sven Hugo Borg | Wilson Benge
Directors: Roy William Neill
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Holmes and Watson are recruited in a serpentine fashion to escort the heir to a European throne back to his native country following his father’s assassination. Because the prince has been educated in Great Britain, Holmes persuades him to masquerade as Watson’s nephew Nicolas on a ocean liner bound for Algiers. Unfortunately the ship is filled with red herrings as well as real assassins, and Holmes is challenged to outwit them all and deliver his charge to his destination. Among the suspects are a knife-throwing circus performer, two shadowy archaeologists, a hulking deaf mute, an enigmatic ship’s steward, a chanteuse with a mysterious song case, and a gun-toting British dowager.

War (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jet Li | Jason Statham | John Lone | Devon Aoki | Luis Guzmán | Saul Rubinek | Ryo Ishibashi | Sung Kang | Mathew St. Patrick | Nadine Velazquez | Andrea Roth | Kenneth Choi | Mark Cheng | Kane Kosugi | Kennedy Montano
Directors: Philip G. Atwell
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After his partner Tom Wynne (Terry Chen) and family are killed apparently by the infamous and elusive assassin Rogue (Jet Li), FBI agent Jack Crawford (Jason Statham) becomes obsessed with revenge as his world unravels into a vortex of guilt and betrayal. Rogue eventually resurfaces to settle a score of his own, setting off a bloody crime war between Asian mob rivals Chang (John Lone) of the Triad’s and Yakuza boss Shiro (Ryo Ishibashi). When Jack and Rogue finally come face to face, the ultimate truth of their pasts will be revealed.

Sudden Death (1995)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme | Powers Boothe | Raymond J. Barry | Whittni Wright | Ross Malinger | Dorian Harewood | Kate McNeil | Michael Gaston | Audra Lindley | Brian Delate | Steve Aronson | Michael R. Aubele | Karen Elise Baldwin | Jennifer D. Bowser | Pat Brisson
Directors: Peter Hyams
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The Vice-President is being held at gunpoint. The Pittsburgh Civic Arena is wired with enough explosives to blow up the whole city. And if $1 billion isn’t delivered soon, thousands will die… …Darren McCord is in the arena. An arson investigator, he’s seen what explosives can do to people. And he won’t let it happen again. Because this time, one wrong move and his daughter dies, too…

Death of a President (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Hend Ayoub | Brian Boland | Becky Ann Baker | Robert Mangiardi | Jay Patterson | Jay Whittaker | Michael Reilly Burke | James Urbaniak | Neko Parham | Seena Jon | Christian Stolte | Chavez Ravine | Patricia Buckley | Patrick Clear | Malik Bader
Directors: Gabriel Range
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Years after the assassination of President George W. Bush in Chicago, an investigative documentary examines that as-yet-unsolved crime.

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.

Bobby (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
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The Ambassador Hotel, 1968: the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy will soon take place here but none of the hotel residents and employees knows about it yet. Everyone at the hotel is busy with his own affairs, and their paths never seem to cross, not even in this closed space. However, it only seems so and twenty two individuals who will become unwitting witnesses to the tragedy will make a lot of startling discoveries and have strange meetings.

Casino Royale (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: Czech Republic | Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Daniel Craig | Eva Green | Mads Mikkelsen | Judi Dench | Jeffrey Wright | Giancarlo Giannini | Caterina Murino | Simon Abkarian | Isaach De Bankolé | Jesper Christensen | Ivana Milicevic | Tobias Menzies | Claudio Santamaria | Sebastien Foucan | Malcolm Sinclair
Directors: Martin Campbell
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After receiving license to kill from the MI-6, the secret agent James Bond follows his leads and avoids the destruction of the greatest airplane in the world in Miami plotted by the evil banker Le Chiffre to crash the bonds in the stock market and break the air flight company. The banker loses the funds of international terrorist organizations and organizes a poker game in Casino Royale, in Montenegro, to raise the money of the investors. James Bond travels with the British accountant Vesper Lynd to bet and defeat La Chiffre and force him to look for protection with the MI-6, disclosing the names of the terrorists. James wins, but is double-crossed, in a game of betrayals and murders.

Snakes on a Plane (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Samuel L. Jackson | Julianna Margulies | Nathan Phillips | Rachel Blanchard | Flex Alexander | Kenan Thompson | Keith Dallas | Lin Shaye | James Bruce | Sunny Mabrey | Casey Dubois | Daniel Hogarth | Gerard Plunkett | Terry Chen | Elsa Pataky
Directors: David R. Ellis
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When Sean Jones witnesses a murder, he is asked to fly from Hawaii to Los Angeles to testify against the notorious gangster Eddie Kim. However, Kim has paid an assassin to release a crate-full of deadly snakes loose when the plane is 30,000 feet in the air. Only FBI agent Neville Flynn can protect Sean and rally the passengers together in hope of landing in L.A. alive.

The Poet (2003)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: Austria | Germany | UK
Actors: Dougray Scott | Laura Harring | Jürgen Prochnow | Andrew Lee Potts | Erika Marozsán | Mavie Hörbiger | Miguel Herz-Kestranek | Peter Mouka | Hary Prinz | Rudy Ruggiero | Fanny Gatibelza | Gunther Gillian | Jürgen Kloth | Klaus Nierhoff | Siegfried Polap
Directors: Paul Hills
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A contract killer sees a chance to free himself from a tragic past.

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.