Posts Tagged ‘torture’

Guns of Navarone, The

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | War
Actors: Peck, Gregory | Niven, David | Quinn, Anthony | Baker, Stanley | Quayle, Anthony | Darren, James | Papas, Irene | Scala, Gia | Justice, James Robertson | Harris, Richard | Forbes, Bryan | Cuthbertson, Allan | Trubshawe, Michael | Herbert, Percy | Mikell, George
Directors: Lee Thompson, J.
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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.

Lost City, The

Monday, November 26th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Actors: Sastre, Inés | Milian, Tomas | Bradford, Richard | Carbonell, Nestor | Murciano, Enrique | García-Lorido, Dominik | Hoffman, Dustin | Murray, Bill | Feijóo, Lorena | Bauer, Steven | Fernández, Juan | Garcia, Jsu | Marquez, William | Mechoso, Julio Oscar
Directors: Garcia, Andy
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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.

Captivity

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Genres: Thriller
Actors: Cuthbert, Elisha | Gillies, Daniel | Vince, Pruitt Taylor | Alonso, Laz | Harney, Michael | Ryan, Rebekah | Maples, Michael | Runcorn, Elijah | Thorne, Remy | Negron, Olivia | Olson, Chrysta
Directors: Joffé, Roland
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Top cover girl and fashion model, Jennifer Tree (ELISHA CUTHBERT) has it all - beauty, fame, money and power. Her face appears on covers of hundreds of magazines. At the top of her game, Jennifer is America’s sweetheart. She is loved and adored and sought after. Everyone wants her. But someone out there has been watching and waiting. Someone wants her in the worst way. Out alone at a charity event in Soho, Jennifer is drugged and taken. Held captive in a cell, Jennifer is subjected to a series of terrifying, life-threatening tortures that could only be conceived by a twisted, sadistic mind. Inspired by the fact that over 850,000 people are reported missing every year in the United States, many of whom are never seen again, CAPTIVITY, follows the story of one woman who is abducted and tortured, held against her will in a place where days turn into weeks. Her will to escape and survive is challenged every moment by a maniac’s desire to demoralize innocent victims and play out his sick game that has been played many times before Jennifer was taken. A combination of SAW and HOSTEL meets SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, CAPTIVITY is a psychological thriller/horror film that shows us the true terror of the crimes of abduction and confinement that are committed every day by serial killers and psychopaths at large. Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Roland Joffe (THE KILLING FIELDS, THE MISSION), CAPTIVITY delves deeply into the minds of both captor and victim with a fresh and terrifying view of this epidemic horror. Being released this summer in theatres nation-wide, CAPTIVITY has been called one of the most controversial films of the year. It’s a disturbing and raw, yet classy and thought provoking film which will leave you terrified, and looking over your shoulder as you leave the theatre wondering if you could be next.

Road to Guantanamo, The

Monday, November 12th, 2007
Genres: Documentary | Drama
Actors: Ahmed, Riz | Harun, Farhad | Siddiqui, Waqar | Usman, Afran | Iqbal, Shahid | Khan, Sher | Salkey, Jason | Gaffney, Jacob | Holden, Mark | Henry, Duane | Meredith, William | Bina, Payman | James, Adam | Hughes, Ian | Buller, James
Directors: Whitecross, Mat
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In 2001, four Pakistani Britons, Ruhal Ahmed, Asif Iqbal and Shafiq Rasul and another friend, Monir, travel to Pakistan for a wedding and in a urge of idealism, decide to see the situation of war torn Afganistan which is being bombed by the American forces in retaliation for the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Once there, with the loss of Monir in the wartime chaos, they are captured by Northern Alliance fighters. They are then handed them over the American forces who transport them to the prison camps at the Guantanamo Bay base in Cuba. What follows is three years of relentless imprisonment, interrogations and torture to make them submit to blatantly wrong confessions to being terrorists. In the midst of this abuse, the three struggle to keep their spirits up in that face of this grave injustice.

Casino Royale

Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Actors: Craig, Daniel | Green, Eva | Mikkelsen, Mads | Dench, Judi | Wright, Jeffrey | Giannini, Giancarlo | Caterina Murino | Abkarian, Simon | De Bankolé, Isaach | Christensen, Jesper | Milicevic, Ivana | Menzies, Tobias | Claudio Santamaria | Foucan, Sebastien | Sinclair, Malcolm
Directors: Campbell, Martin
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James Bond is a seductive British secret agent for M:I-6 who has achieved “007″ status. After trying to capture a criminal in an embassy, by illegally entering the country, 007’s boss ‘M’ is displeased with his efforts and is unsure if he is the right man for the job. As he continues to follow the trail, the trail leads Bond to the Bahmas to corrupt banker Le Chiffre who is funding international terrorists. After seducing Solange, the beautiful wife of criminal Alex Dimitrios. 007 takes part in a card game in Montengro called ‘Casino Royale’ where Le Chiffre plans on raising the prize money for terrorist activities. With help from the beautiful and mysterious British government agent Vesper Lynd who is supplying his betting money, field agent Rene Mathis and Undercover CIA agent Felix Leiter, 007 sets out to thwart the corrupt bankers efforts to raise the money, where if Le Chiffre looses, his organization will collapse. Where 007 must uses his instincts and wits as he also deals with attempts on his life, double agents and finds himself falling in love with Vesper.

Unstoppable

Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Thriller
Actors: Snipes, Wesley | Obradors, Jacqueline | Wilson, Stuart | Coates, Kim | Sheppard, Mark | Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Adewale | Riotta, Vincent | Schofield, David | Aaron, Nicholas | Thomson, Kim | Stone-Fewings, Jo | Solimeno, Cristian | Oliver, Gary | Vasilev, Raicho | Fleeshman, David
Directors: Carson, David
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The deranged military and former CIA agent Dean Cage (Wesley Snipes) is in a rehab program, trying to forget the traumatic loss of his best friend Scott in Bosnia. When he dates with his girl-friend and Scott’s sister, Detective Amy knight (Jacqueline Obradors), in a dinning restaurant, he is mistakenly taken as being the CIA agent that is investigating the robbery of the military experiment EX by a man called Sullivan (Stuart Wilson). He is injected with the drug and abducted by the thieves. Amy has six hours to find the also stolen antidote and save Dean’s life.

Great Raid, The

Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | War
Actors: Bratt, Benjamin | Franco, James | Mammone, Robert | Martini, Max | Carpinello, James | Consuelos, Mark | McLachlan, Craig | Farnsworth, Freddie Joe | Macintosh, Laird | Callaghan, Jeremy | McLean, Scott | Montalban, Paolo | Crawford, Clayne | Worthington, Sam | Innes, Royston
Directors: Dahl, John
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Set in the Philippines in 1945 towards the end of WWII, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Henry Mucci and Captain Robert Prince, the 6th Ranger Battalion undertake a daring rescue mission against all odds. Traveling thirty miles behind enemy lines, they intend to liberate over 500 American Soldiers from the notorious Cabanatuan Japanese POW camp in the most audacious rescue ever.

Catch a Fire

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Drama | History | Thriller
Actors: Robbins, Tim | Luke, Derek | Mbuli, Bonnie | Shabangu, Mncedisi | Masha, Tumisho | Khumalo, Sithembiso | Pheto, Terry | Burgers, Michele | Lovinga, Mpho | Mxo | Anstey, Jessica | Savage, Charlotte | Nkyonyeni, Nomhlé | Mabizela, Michael | van Jaarsveldt, Eduan
Directors: Noyce, Phillip
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A political thriller: the real-life story of a South African hero’s journey to freedom. In the country’s turbulent and divided times in the 1980s, Patrick Chamusso is an oil refinery foreman and soccer coach who is apolitical - until he and his wife Precious are jailed. Patrick is stunned into action against the country’s oppressive reigning system, even as police Colonel Nic Vos further insinuates himself into the Chamussos’ lives.

Last King of Scotland, The

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Drama | History | Thriller
Actors: Whitaker, Forest | McAvoy, James | Washington, Kerry | Anderson, Gillian | McBurney, Simon | Oyelowo, David | Mukiibi Nkaaga, Abby | Kotz, Adam | Rafferty, Barbara | Ashton, David | Foden, Giles | Williams, Andy | Amati, Martina | Salmon, Peter | Wawuyo, Michael
Directors: Macdonald, Kevin
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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.

Fountain, The

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi
Actors: Jackman, Hugh | Weisz, Rachel | Burstyn, Ellen | Margolis, Mark | McHattie, Stephen | Hernandez, Fernando | Curtis, Cliff | Thomas, Sean Patrick | Murphy, Donna | Suplee, Ethan | McMillan, Richard | Brass, Lorne | Aronofsky, Abraham | Asofsky, Renee | Majumdar, Anish
Directors: Aronofsky, Darren
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Three stories - one each from the past, present, and future - about men in pursuit of eternity with their love. A conquistador in Mayan country searches for the tree of life to free his captive queen; a medical researcher, working with various trees, looks for a cure that will save his dying wife; a space traveler, traveling with an aged tree encapsulated within a bubble, moves toward a dying star that’s wrapped in a nebula; he seeks eternity with his love. The stories intersect and parallel; the quests fail and succeed.