Posts Tagged ‘brutality’

Beowulf (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Ray Winstone | Robin Wright Penn | Anthony Hopkins | John Bilezikjian | Brice Martin | Sonje Fortag | Sharisse Baker-Bernard | Charlotte Salt | Julene Renee | Greg Ellis | Rik Young | Sebastian Roché | Leslie Harter Zemeckis | John Malkovich | Woody Schultz
Directors: Robert Zemeckis
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The warrior Beowulf must fight and defeat the monster Grendel who is terrorizing towns, and later, Grendel’s mother, who begins killing out of revenge.

The Brave One (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Jodie Foster | Terrence Howard | Nicky Katt | Naveen Andrews | Mary Steenburgen | Ene Oloja | Luis Da Silva Jr. | Blaze Foster | Rafael Sardina | Jane Adams | Gordon MacDonald | Zöe Kravitz | John Magaro | Victor Colicchio | Jermel Howard
Directors: Neil Jordan
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A woman struggles to recover from a brutal attack by setting out on a mission for revenge.

Papillon (1973)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Biography | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Steve McQueen | Dustin Hoffman | Victor Jory | Don Gordon | Anthony Zerbe | Robert Deman | Woodrow Parfrey | Bill Mumy | George Coulouris | Ratna Assan | William Smithers | Val Avery | Gregory Sierra | Vic Tayback | Mills Watson
Directors: Franklin J. Schaffner
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Based on the true story of Henri Charriere, also known as Papillon, which is French for ‘butterfly’ (the character even sports a large tattoo of a butterfly. A petty criminal, Papillon is wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to life in a French penal colony in ‘Guiane’ (French Guiana, South America). Papillon is determined to escape but attempt after attempt meets with difficulty, resulting in eventual recapture. He continues his attempts to escape despite incarcerations in solitary confinement as punishment.

The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover (1989)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Horror
Countries: France | Netherlands | UK
Actors: Richard Bohringer | Michael Gambon | Helen Mirren | Alan Howard | Tim Roth | Ciarán Hinds | Gary Olsen | Ewan Stewart | Roger Ashton-Griffiths | Ron Cook | Liz Smith | Emer Gillespie | Janet Henfrey | Arnie Breeveld | Tony Alleff
Directors: Peter Greenaway
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The wife of a barbaric crime boss engages in a secretive romance with a gentle bookseller between meals at her husband’s restaurant. Food, colour coding, sex, murder, torture and cannibalism are the exotic fare in this beautifully filmed but brutally uncompromising modern fable which has been interpreted as an allegory for Thatcherism.

The Proposition (2005)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: Australia | UK
Actors: Guy Pearce | Tom Budge | Emily Watson | Ray Winstone | David Wenham | John Hurt | Richard Wilson | Robert Morgan
Directors: John Hillcoat
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Rural Australia in the late nineteenth century: Capt. Stanley and his men capture two of the four Burns brothers, Charlie and Mike. Their gang is held responsible for attacking the Hopkins farm, raping pregnant Mrs. Hopkins and murdering the whole family. Arthur Burns, the eldest brother and the gang’s mastermind, remains at large has and has retreated to a mountain hideout. Capt. Stanley’s proposition to Charlie is to gain pardon and - more importantly - save his beloved younger brother Mike from the gallows by finding and killing Arthur within nine days.

Casino (1995)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Robert De Niro | Sharon Stone | Joe Pesci | James Woods | Frank Vincent | Pasquale Cajano | Don Rickles | Kevin Pollak | Vinny Vella | Alan King | L. Q. Jones | Dick Smothers | Joseph Rigano | John Bloom | Melissa Prophet
Directors: Martin Scorsese
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This Martin Scorsese film depicts the Janus-like quality of Las Vegas—it has a glittering, glamorous face, as well as a brutal, cruel one. Ace Rothstein and Nicky Santoro, mobsters who move to Las Vegas to make their mark, live and work in this paradoxical world. Seen through their eyes, each as a foil to the other, the details of mob involvement in the casinos of the 1970’s and ’80’s are revealed. Ace is the smooth operator of the Tangiers casino, while Nicky is his boyhood friend and tough strongman, robbing and shaking down the locals. However, they each have a tragic flaw—Ace falls in love with a hustler, Ginger, and Nicky falls into an ever-deepening spiral of drugs and violence.

Hostel (2005)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Jay Hernandez | Derek Richardson | Eythor Gudjonsson | Barbara Nedeljakova | Jana Kaderabkova | Jan Vlasák | Jennifer Lim | Lubomir Silhavecky | Paula Wild | Lubomir Bukovy | Petr Janis | Jana Havlickova | Vanessa Jungova | Daniel S. Frisch | Roman Janecka
Directors: Eli Roth
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3 backpackers are in Amsterdam where they get locked out of their youth hostel. They are invited into a man’s house where he tells them of a hostel somewhere in eastern Europe where the women are all incredibly hot and have a taste for American men. When they get there, everything is too good to be true - the hostel is “to die for”

The Devil’s Rejects (2005)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Sid Haig | Bill Moseley | Sheri Moon | William Forsythe | Ken Foree | Matthew McGrory | Leslie Easterbrook | Geoffrey Lewis | Priscilla Barnes | Dave Sheridan | Kate Norby | Lew Temple | Danny Trejo | Dallas Page | Brian Posehn
Directors: Rob Zombie
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Sequel to ‘House of 1000 Corpses’ is set some months later with the Texas State Police making a full-scale attack against the murderous Firefly family residence for the 1,000+ murders and disappearances of the past several years. But three of the family members escape, including Otis, Baby Firefly and Baby’s father Captain Spaulding. The evil trio go on a road trip, leaving dozens of mangled bodies in their wake. Evading a massive Texas Rangers dragnet as well as a group of equally murderous bounty hunters led by Ken Dwyer (the brother of a policeman Mamma Firefly killed in ‘House of…’) who’s obsessed with finding the deadly killers, the surviving Firefly clan gather at a run-down amusement park owned by Captain Spaulding’s half-brother, Charlie Altamont, whom offers them shelter and a new base of operations for their killing spree as Sheriff Dwyer, the Texas Rangers, the FBI and others slowly close in.

L.A. Confidential (1997)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Kevin Spacey | Russell Crowe | Guy Pearce | James Cromwell | Kim Basinger | Danny DeVito | David Strathairn | Adam Rifkin | Matt McCoy | Paul Guilfoyle | Paolo Seganti | Graham Beckel | Sandra Taylor | Steve Rankin | Elisabeth Granli
Directors: Curtis Hanson
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1950’s Los Angeles is the seedy backdrop for this intricate noir-ish tale of police corruption and Hollywood sleaze. Three very different cops are all after the truth, each in their own style: Ed Exley, the golden boy of the police force, willing to do almost anything to get ahead, except sell out; Bud White, ready to break the rules to seek justice, but barely able to keep his raging violence under control; and Jack Vincennes, always looking for celebrity and a quick buck until his conscience drives him to join Exley and White down the one-way path to find the truth behind the dark world of L.A. crime.

Midnight Express (1978)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Brad Davis | Irene Miracle | Bo Hopkins | Paolo Bonacelli | Paul L. Smith | Randy Quaid | Norbert Weisser | John Hurt | Mike Kellin | Franco Diogene | Michael Ensign | Gigi Ballista | Kevork Malikyan | Peter Jeffrey | Tony Boyd
Directors: Alan Parker
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Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the “Midnight Express”.