Posts Tagged ‘dictator’

Evita (1996)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Madonna | Antonio Banderas | Jonathan Pryce | Jimmy Nail | Victoria Sus | Julian Littman | Olga Merediz | Laura Pallas | Julia Worsley | María Luján Hidalgo | Servando Villamil | Andrea Corr | Peter Polycarpou | Gary Brooker | Maite Yerro
Directors: Alan Parker
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Based on the incredible true story, Eva (Evita) Peron, starts out life as a poor girl who goes on to become an actress and then become the wife of the president of Argentina, Juan Peron. The musical is a story of love and politics, showing all the battles and triumphs Evita has in her short, but amazing life.

Air Force One (1997)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Harrison Ford | Gary Oldman | Glenn Close | Wendy Crewson | Liesel Matthews | Paul Guilfoyle | Xander Berkeley | William H. Macy | Dean Stockwell | Tom Everett | Jürgen Prochnow | Donna Bullock | Michael Ray Miller | Carl Weintraub | Elester Latham
Directors: Wolfgang Petersen
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Harrison Ford and Gary Oldman star in this thriller about a steadfast U.S. President who has just told the world he will not negotiate with terrorists. Now, Russian neo-nationalists have hijacked Air Force One and the President is faced with a nearly impossible decison: give in to terrorist demands or sacrifice not only the country’s dignity, but the lives of his wife and daughter.

The Last King of Scotland (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Forest Whitaker | James McAvoy | Kerry Washington | Gillian Anderson | Simon McBurney | David Oyelowo | Abby Mukiibi Nkaaga | Adam Kotz | Barbara Rafferty | David Ashton | Giles Foden | Andy Williams | Martina Amati | Peter Salmon | Michael Wawuyo
Directors: Kevin Macdonald
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In the early 1970s, Nicholas Garrigan, a young semi-idealistic Scottish doctor, comes to Uganda to assist in a rural hospital. Once there, he soon meets up with the new President, Idi Amin, who promises a golden age for the African nation. Garrigan hits it off immediately with the rabid Scotland fan, who soon offers him a senior position in the national health department and becomes one of Amin’s closest advisers. However as the years pass, Garrigan cannot help but notice Amin’s increasingly erratic behavior that grows beyond a legitimate fear of assassination into a murderous insanity that is driving Uganda into bloody ruin. Realizing his dire situation with the lunatic leader unwilling to let him go home, Garrigan must make some crucial decisions that could mean his death if the despot finds out.

The Jewel of the Nile (1985)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Michael Douglas | Kathleen Turner | Danny DeVito | Spiros Focás | Avner Eisenberg | Paul David Magid | Howard Jay Patterson | Randall Edwin Nelson | Samuel Ross Williams | Timothy Daniel Furst | Hamid Fillali | Holland Taylor | Guy Cuevas | Peter DePalma | Mark Daly Richards
Directors: Lewis Teague
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This is the sequel to “Romancing the Stone” where Jack and Joan have their yacht and easy life, but are gradually getting bored with each other and this way of life. Joan accepts an invitation to go to some middle eastern country as a guest of the sheik, but there she is abducted and finds her- self involved with the “jewel”. Jack decides to rescue her with his new partner Ralph. They all go from one adventure to another… What is the story of this “jewel”?

The Lost City (2005)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Inés Sastre | Tomas Milian | Richard Bradford | Nestor Carbonell | Enrique Murciano | Dominik García-Lorido | Dustin Hoffman | Bill Murray | Lorena Feijóo | Steven Bauer | Juan Fernández | Jsu Garcia | William Marquez | Julio Oscar Mechoso
Directors: Andy Garcia
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In Havana, Cuba in the late 1950’s, a wealthy family, one of whose sons is a prominent nightclub owner, is caught in the violent transition from the oppressive regime of Batista to the Marxist government of Fidel Castro. Castro’s regime ultimately leads the nightclub owner to flee to New York.

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 Interpreter (2005)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: France | UK | USA
Actors: Nicole Kidman | Sean Penn | Catherine Keener | Jesper Christensen | Yvan Attal | Earl Cameron | George Harris | Michael Wright | Clyde Kusatsu | Eric Keenleyside | Hugo Speer | Maz Jobrani | Yusuf Gatewood | Curtiss Cook | Byron Utley
Directors: Sydney Pollack
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Escalating events begin when U.N. interpreter Silvia Broome alleges that she has overheard a death threat against an African head of state, spoken in a rare dialect few people other than Silvia can understand. With the words “The Teacher will never leave this room alive,” in an instant, Silvia’s life is turned upside down as she becomes a hunted target of the killers. Placed under the protection of federal agent Tobin Keller, Silvia’s world only grows more nightmarish. As Keller digs deeper into his eyewitnesses’ past and her secretive world of global connections, the more suspicious he becomes that she herself might be involved in the conspiracy. With every step of the way, he finds more reasons to mistrust her. Is Sylvia a victim? A suspect? Or something else entirely? And can Tobin, coping with his own personal heartache, keep her safe? Though they must depend on one another, Silvia and Tobin couldn’t be more different. Silvia’s strengths are words, diplomacy and the subtleties of meaning, while Tobin is all about instinct, action and reading into the most primal human behaviors. Now, as the danger of a major assassination on U.S. soil grows and Silvia’s life hangs in the balance, Silvia and Tobin play out a gripping dance of evasion and revelation that keeps them both guessing as they race to stop a terrifying international crisis before it’s too late.

Die Hard 2 (1990)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bruce Willis | Bonnie Bedelia | William Atherton | William Sadler | Reginald Johnson | Franco Nero | John Amos | Dennis Franz | Art Evans | Fred Dalton Thompson | Tom Bower | Sheila McCarthy | Don Harvey | Tony Ganios | Peter Nelson
Directors: Renny Harlin
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Once again, New York cop John McClane is in the wrong place at the wrong time - this time he’s waiting for his wife’s plane to arrive at Washington’s Dulles Airport when he uncovers a plot to sabotage the airport’s landing system. The criminals wish to free a drug baron being extradited to America for trial by holding the airport to ransom until they all safely escape on another plane. However, if they’d known that Holly McClane was on a flight home to the very airport they were hijacking, they would have picked another day.