Posts Tagged ‘death-threat’

The House of Fear (1945)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Horror | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Basil Rathbone | Nigel Bruce | Aubrey Mather | Dennis Hoey | Paul Cavanagh | Holmes Herbert | Harry Cording | Sally Shepherd | Gavin Muir | Florette Hillier | David Clyde | Richard Alexander | Wilson Benge | Hobart Cavanaugh | Alec Craig
Directors: Roy William Neill
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In a gloomy mansion in the west of Scotland the seven members of the Good Comrades Club are dining. One of them receives a curious death threat, an envelope containing seven orange pips. He dies the next night in a car crash. At his funeral another member receives an envelope with six pips, and ten days later his body is recovered from the sea. Sherlock Holmes is called in.

88 Minutes (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Al Pacino | Alicia Witt | Amy Brenneman | Leelee Sobieski | Benjamin McKenzie | Deborah Kara Unger | William Forsythe | Neal McDonough | Stephen Moyer | Michael Eklund | Michal Yannai | Brendan Fletcher | Carrie Genzel | Dexter Bell | Paul Campbell
Directors: Jon Avnet
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In Seattle, the successful forensic psychiatrist and college professor Jack Gramm is in evidence since he was responsible for the condemnation of the serial killer Jon Forster, influencing the jury to sentence him to the death row. Jon accuses Jack of manipulation, inducing one witness and sister of one of his victims to testify against him. On the eve of Jon’s execution, Jack receives a phone call telling him that he has only eighty-eight minutes of life, while a killer is copycatting Jon, killing women with the same “modus-operandi” and is investigated by Seattle Slayer Task Force. With the support of his former wife and associated Shelly Barnes, the FBI agent and his friend Frank Parks and his assistant Kim Cummings, Jack investigate some weird and problematic students, a security guard of the campus and the woman with whom he had one night stand.

Sling Blade (1996)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Billy Bob Thornton | Dwight Yoakam | J. T. Walsh | John Ritter | Lucas Black | Natalie Canerday | James Hampton | Robert Duvall | Rick Dial | Brent Briscoe | Christy Ward | Sarah Boss | Kathy Sue Brown | Wendell Rafferty | Bruce Hampton
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A partially handicapped man named Karl is released from a mental hospital, several years after murdering his mother and another person. Karl is often questioned if he will ever kill again, and he shrugs in response saying there is no reason to. Now out of the mental institution, Karl settles in his old, small hometown, occupying himself by fixing motors. After meeting a young boy named Frank who befriends him, Karl is invited to stay at Frank’s house with his mother Linda- who views Karl as a strange but kind and generous man. However, Linda’s abusive boyfriend Doyle, sees things differently in the way rules ought to be run- normally insulting Linda’s homosexual friend Vaughan as well as Karl’s disabilities, and having wild parties with his friends. As Karl’s relation with Frank grows, he is ever so watchful of Doyle’s cruel actions.

Thank You for Smoking (2005)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Aaron Eckhart | Maria Bello | Cameron Bright | Adam Brody | Sam Elliott | Katie Holmes | David Koechner | William H. Macy | J.K. Simmons | Robert Duvall | Kim Dickens | Rob Lowe | Todd Louiso | Dennis Miller | Joan Lunden
Directors: Jason Reitman
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Tobacco industry lobbyist Nick Naylor has a seemingly impossible task: promoting cigarette smoking in a time when the health hazards of the activity have become too plain to ignore. Nick, however, revels in his job, using argument and twisted logic to place, as often as not, his clients in the positions of either altruistic do-gooders or victims. Nick’s son Joey needs to understand and respect his dad’s philosophy, and Nick works hard to respond to that need without compromising his lack of values. When a beautiful news reporter betrays Nick’s sexually-achieved trust, his world seems in danger of collapsing. But there’s always one more coffin nail in Nick’s pack.

Cold Creek Manor (2003)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: Canada | UK | USA
Actors: Dennis Quaid | Sharon Stone | Stephen Dorff | Juliette Lewis | Kristen Stewart | Ryan Wilson | Dana Eskelson | Christopher Plummer | Simon Reynolds | Kathleen Duborg | Paula Brancati | Aidan Devine | Wayne Robson | Jordan Pettle | Ray Paisley
Directors: Mike Figgis
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Wanting to escape city life for the countryside, New Yorkers Cooper Tilson (Quaid), his wife Leah (Stone) and their two children move into a dilapidated old mansion still filled with the possessions of the previous family. Turning it into their dream house soon becomes a living nightmare when the previous owner (Dorff) shows up, and a series of terrifying incidents lead them on a spine-tingling search for clues to the estate’s dark and lurid past…

The Bodyguard (1992)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Music | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Kevin Costner | Whitney Houston | Gary Kemp | Bill Cobbs | Ralph Waite | Tomas Arana | Michele Lamar Richards | Mike Starr | Christopher Birt | DeVaughn Nixon | Gerry Bamman | Joe Urla | Tony Pierce | Charles Keating | Robert Wuhl
Directors: Mick Jackson
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A pop singer has been receiving threatening notes, and her manager hires a bodyguard known for his good work. The bodyguard ruffles the singer’s feathers and most of her entourage by tightening security more than they feel is necessary. The bodyguard is haunted by the fact that he was on Reagan’s secret service staff but wasn’t there to prevent the attack by Hinckley. Eventually the bodyguard and the singer start an affair, and she begins to believe his precautions are necessary when the stalker strikes close to home.

Moulin Rouge! (2001)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Musical | Romance
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Nicole Kidman | Ewan McGregor | John Leguizamo | Jim Broadbent | Richard Roxburgh | Garry McDonald | Jacek Koman | Matthew Whittet | Kerry Walker | Caroline O'Connor | Christine Anu | Natalie Jackson Mendoza | Lara Mulcahy | David Wenham | Kylie Minogue
Directors: Baz Luhrmann
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Christian, a young wannabe Bohemian poet living in 1899 Paris, defies his father by joining the colorfully diverse clique inhabiting the dark, fantastical underworld of Paris’ now legendary Moulin Rouge. In this seedy but glamorous haven of sex, drugs and newly-discovered electricity, the poet-innocent finds himself plunged into a passionate but ultimately tragic love affair with Satine, the club’s highest paid star and the city’s most famous courtesan. Their romance is played out against the infamous club - a meeting place of high life and low, where slumming aristocrats and the fashionably rich mingled with workers, artists, Bohemians, actresses and courtesans.