Posts Tagged ‘betrayal’

Femme Fatale (2002)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: France
Actors: Rebecca Romijn | Antonio Banderas | Peter Coyote | Eriq Ebouaney | Edouard Montoute | Rie Rasmussen | Thierry Frémont | Gregg Henry | Fiona Curzon | Daniel Milgram | Jean-Marc Minéo | Jean Chatel | Stéphane Petit | Olivier Follet | Eva Darlan
Directors: Brian De Palma
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International con artist/thief Laure Ash helps pull off a diamond robbery in Cannes during the annual film festival. She double-crosses her partners-in-crime and makes off with the diamonds to Paris where she accidently assumes the identy of a distraught woman who commits suicide and then leaves the country. Seven years later, Laure (now called Lily Watts) re-surfaces as the wife of the new American ambassador to France where a certain Nicolas Barto, a Spanish photographer, takes her picture which sets the stage for a motion of events as the evil Laure resorts to low, underhanded means to protect her former identity by emotionally and financially destroying Nicolas while evading her former partners-in-crime still looking for her to reclaim the stolen diamonds.

The Guns of Navarone (1961)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | War
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Gregory Peck | David Niven | Anthony Quinn | Stanley Baker | Anthony Quayle | James Darren | Irene Papas | Gia Scala | James Robertson Justice | Richard Harris | Bryan Forbes | Allan Cuthbertson | Michael Trubshawe | Percy Herbert | George Mikell
Directors: J. Lee Thompson
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1943. With the battle of Stalingrad turning the war against them, the Germans are attempting to bully neutral Turkey into joining the Axis; to this end they have trapped 2,000 British soldiers on Kiros, an island in the Aegean, with only one sea route for evacuation, a sea route commanded by two gigantic German antiship batteries deployed in a massive cliffside bunker on the island of Navarone. Immune to air attack and too much for Allied battleships to suppress, the British muster Keith Mallory, a commando officer who has been working on occupied Crete for nearly two years and who is an expert mountaineer, to ferry a team of British commandos to the only area of Navarone that is not monitored by the Germans, a 400-foot cliff. Greek resistance is to meet the team inland and guide them around German patrols to the area of the German guns. However, the commanding officer of the British team suffers grave injury in the climb and Mallory must take control of the mission, despite clashes with explosives expert John Anthony Miller, who upon the arrival of the night of the raid finds his equipment has been sabotaged, thus exposing a traitor in the team’s ranks.

Breach (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Chris Cooper | Ryan Phillippe | Laura Linney | Caroline Dhavernas | Gary Cole | Dennis Haysbert | Kathleen Quinlan | Bruce Davison | Jonathan Watton | Tom Barnett | Jonathan Potts | David Huband | Catherine Burdon | Scott Gibson | Courtenay J. Stevens
Directors: Billy Ray
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In February, 2001, Robert Hanssen, a senior agent with 25 years in the FBI, is arrested for spying. Jump back two months: Eric O’Neill, a computer specialist who wants to be made an agent is assigned to clerk for Hanssen and to write down everything Hanssen does. O’Neill’s told it’s an investigation of Hanssen’s sexual habits. Within weeks, the crusty Hanssen, a devout Catholic, has warmed to O’Neill, who grows to respect Hanssen. O’Neill’s wife resents Hanssen’s intrusiveness; the personal and professional stakes get higher. How they catch Hanssen and why he spies become the film’s story. Can O’Neill help catch red-handed “the worst spy in history” and hold onto his personal life?

300 (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | History | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Gerard Butler | Lena Headey | Dominic West | David Wenham | Vincent Regan | Michael Fassbender | Tom Wisdom | Andrew Pleavin | Andrew Tiernan | Rodrigo Santoro | Giovani Cimmino | Stephen McHattie | Greg Kramer | Alex Ivanovici | Craig Kelly
Directors: Zack Snyder
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It is spring 480 BC, Persian King Xerxes, continuing his father Darius’ master plan to conquer the Hellenic city-states, arrives in Hellas. The previous Persian invasion and diplomatic attempts have already turned most northern Hellas tribes and states to the Persian side. But the people of Athens and Sparta, the largest Hellenic powers at the time, feel quite insulted by the Persian emissaries’ request to surrender to Xerxes, and so slay them. In Sparta, King Leonidas consults the local oracle, who gives two options: Either a spartan king will have to be sacrificed, or Sparta will be burned to the ground. A year earlier (481, BC) a Panhellenic consortium of all southern city-states had already recognized the superiority of the Spartan army (the best organized and trained army at the time) and had declared King Leonidas as supreme commander of the combined Hellenic army. It is then decided that a small force should block Xerxes’ way to southern Hellas in the Thermopylae passage. This passage was, at that time, 12 meters wide. The great historian Herodotus, possibly exaggerating, states that there were 1,700,000 Persians (their true number could have been anywhere from 100,000 to 1,000,000) against 7,000 Hellenic hoplites and slaves, including the 300 men of the Spartan King elite guard. King Xerxes waited four days for the Hellenes to be frightened and eventually surrender and was quite astonished by his opponents’ complete apathy. Xerxes tried to convince Leonidas to drop weapons, give up his position, kneel before him and live on as a local governor under Xerxes. King Leonidas replied “molon lave,” which means “Come and get them.” The three-day battle began, with the 300 Spartans and 700 Thespians (the other Hellenes where sent by Leonidas to protect passages to their flanks) slaying thousands of Persians with minimal losses. The whole Persian campaign would have failed if it hadn’t been for Efialtes, who showed Xerxes a secret passage to the Hellenic flanks. After a final battle led by King Xerxes himself, the Hellenic force was slain and their heroism and glory was written forever in history. From the beginning of the battle, the Hellenes buried their dead in the spot where they fell. Then battle signs where made for the dead of each Hellenic faction. For the Pelloponisians, (including the 300 Spartans) the sign generally read (free translation) “In this place 4,000 Pelloponisians fought 30 millions).” For the 300 Spartans (Lakaedaemonians), the sign reads (free translation) “Oh foreigner, tell the Lakaedaemonians that we are buried here obeying their laws,” meaning that they never hesitated and never retreated from the enemy. The impact of the battle was enormous for both sides. The Persians’ morale dropped to zero, and the Hellenes lost their fear for the Persian conqueror and organized their defense. After several successful battles, the Hellenes ultimately defeated the Persian army and repelled their invasion in the Battle of Plataea in 479 BC.

Blood Diamond (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio | Djimon Hounsou | Jennifer Connelly | Kagiso Kuypers | Arnold Vosloo | Antony Coleman | Benu Mabhena | Anointing Lukola | David Harewood | Basil Wallace | Jimi Mistry | Michael Sheen | Marius Weyers | Stephen Collins | Ntare Mwine
Directors: Edward Zwick
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Set against the backdrop of civil war and chaos in 1990’s Sierra Leone, Blood Diamond is the story of Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio) - an ex Mercenary from Zimbabwe - and Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou) - a Mende fisherman. Both men are African, but their histories as different as any can be, until their fates become joined in a common quest to recover a rare pink diamond that can transform their lives. While in prison for smuggling, Archer learns that Solomon - who was taken from his family and forced to work in the diamond fields - has found and hidden the extraordinary rough stone. With the help of Maddy Bowen (Jennifer Connelly), an American journalist whose idealism is tempered by a deepening connection with Archer, the two men embark on a trek through rebel territory, a journey that could save Solomon’s family and give Archer the second chance he thought he would never have.

Smokin’ Aces (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Thriller
Countries: France | UK | USA
Actors: Ben Affleck | Zach Cumer | Jason Bateman | Common | Joseph Ruskin | Andy Garcia | Alex Rocco | Wayne Newton | Alicia Keys | Ray Liotta | Jeremy Piven | Peter Berg | Ryan Reynolds | Martin Henderson | Christopher Michael Holley
Directors: Joe Carnahan
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An FBI agent (Reynolds) hunts for a Las Vegas stand up comedian (Piven) who has decided to squeal on the mob but, before he heads off for protective custody, decides to go to the casinos at Lake Tahoe for one last good time, drawing a crowd of assassins (including Affleck and Keys).

The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Meryl Streep | Anne Hathaway | Emily Blunt | Stanley Tucci | Simon Baker | Adrian Grenier | Tracie Thoms | Rich Sommer | Daniel Sunjata | David Marshall Grant | James Naughton | Tibor Feldman | Rebecca Mader | Jimena Hoyos | Gisele Bündchen
Directors: David Frankel
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Miranda Priestley, of “Runway” magazine tears up the landscape as a demanding fashion editor. She is a terror to everyone who is around her as is quickly depicted in the opening scenes of the movie. Her first assistant strives to please her and tries to emulate her, but one can sense that she is not quite as hard as she tries to put on. Into this mix comes a young woman who knows nothing of the fashion industry, has never read the magazine, and doesn’t know who Miranda Priestley is. She only sees this as a stepping stone to another journalism position. Showing no fashion sense and immediately scorned by everyone, Miranda nonetheless hires her as the second assistant. When Miranda demands that she obtain the next unpublished Harry Potter manuscript, you can sense that she is trying to force her to quit, but it makes the young woman dig in to please her boss. With the help of one of the magazine’s fashion editors, she gets a complete makeover and a new security. However, with her new appearance and the demands placed on her, she starts to lose her friends, family and her live-in boy friend. As she is whisked away to Paris with Miranda and faces all of the glamor that could be hers, including a flashy if not artificial freelance journalist, she is forced to make the decision of where she wants to be in her life.

Edtv (1999)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Matthew McConaughey | Jenna Elfman | Woody Harrelson | Sally Kirkland | Martin Landau | Ellen DeGeneres | Rob Reiner | Dennis Hopper | Elizabeth Hurley | Adam Goldberg | Viveka Davis | Clint Howard | Geoffrey Blake | Gail Boggs | Jenna Byrne
Directors: Ron Howard
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Cynthia, TV producer, has an idea about how to save the station: A normal person’s life should be broadcasted 24 hours a day. “Ed TV” is born the second her eye falls on Ed Pekurny, a sympathetic Joe Sixpack. After the first week on air Eds fame grows and grows, but conflicts break open: His brother Ray publishes a very negative book about Ed, who now dates Ray’s ex; Ed’s parent’s partnership problematics are broadcasted nationwide and a very attractive and seducing model uses innocent Ed to raise her own fame. Also, Ed’s contract proves to be unquittable, so that Ed Pekurny suddenly can see the golden bars around his cage. But in a country that switches the TV set on for breakfast and off for bedtime, nearly everything can happen - and people can be counted on.

Young Guns II (1990)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Emilio Estevez | Kiefer Sutherland | Lou Diamond Phillips | Christian Slater | William Petersen | Alan Ruck | R.D. Call | James Coburn | Balthazar Getty | Jack Kehoe | Robert Knepper | Tom Kurlander | Viggo Mortensen | Leon Rippy | Tracey Walter
Directors: Geoff Murphy
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The movie begins with the aging Brushy Bill Roberts narrating his story to a young historian. His claim? He claims that he is the famous outlaw William H. Bonney, alias Billy the Kid, who was supposedly shot and killed by Patrick Floyd Garrett in 1881. The old man gives a very convincing story on how he and Garrett, along with Arkansas Dave Rudabaugh, Chavez y Chavez, Doc Skurlock, and a few others led the outlaw life and avoided the law, as they were wanted men. Garrett, a friend of Billy’s, was paid by John Chisum, a cattle king, to eliminate Billy the Kid. So, Garrett and Ashmun Upson set out on a journey to find Billy the Kid.

Return to Never Land (2002)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: Australia | Canada | USA
Actors: Harriet Owen | Blayne Weaver | Corey Burton | Jeff Bennett | Kath Soucie | Andrew McDonough | Roger Rees | Spencer Breslin | Bradley Pierce | Quinn Beswick | Aaron Spann | Dan Castellaneta | Jim Cummings | Rob Paulsen | Clive Revill
Directors: Robin Budd
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The classic tale of ‘Peter Pan’ continues in Disney’s sequel ‘Return to Never Land’. In a world besieged by World War II, Wendy, now grown up, tries to give her own children hope by telling them of her magical experiences with Peter Pan in Never Land. However, Jane, Wendy’s 12-year-old daughter, sees it all as make believe and refuses to believe in the tales. That is, until the villainous Captain Hook mistakes her for Wendy and abducts her to Never Land in an attempt to lure and capture Peter Pan. Peter Pan’s quest to return Jane safely home is jeopardized until she can begin to believe in the magic of imagination.