Tag Archives: brutality

Saving Private Ryan

IMDB Rating: 8.40
172681 votes

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Opening with the Allied invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944, members of the 2nd Ranger Battalion under Cpt. Miller fight ashore to secure a beachhead. Amidst the fighting, two brothers are killed in action. Earlier in New Guinea, a third brother is KIA. Their mother, Mrs. Ryan, is to receive all three of the grave telegrams on the same day. The United States Army Chief of Staff, George C. Marshall, is given an opportunity to alleviate some of her grief when he learns of a fourth brother, Private James Ryan, and decides to send out 8 men (Cpt. Miller and select members from 2nd Rangers) to find him and bring him back home to his mother...
Actors
Captain John H. MillerTom Hanks
Sergeant Mike HorvathTom Sizemore
Pvt. Richard ReibenEdward Burns
Also posted in 1998, Action, Drama, High IMDB rating, War | Comments (1)

Wanted: Dead or Alive

IMDB Rating: 5.50
929 votes

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Nick Randall is a bounty hunter who's built up quite a resume. One notable resume highlight, though, happened before his current career began—as a CIA agent. Malak Al Rahim, an evil international terrorist, shows up on the scene and suddenly there is a new member of America's Most Wanted list. A deadly game of cat and mouse fine Nick as both the mouse and the cat— but has Nick finally met his match?
Actors
Nick RandallRutger Hauer
Malak Al RahimGene Simmons
Philmore WalkerRobert Guillaume
Also posted in 1987, Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | Comments (0)

Beowulf

IMDB Rating: 7.00
11015 votes

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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.
Actors
WealthowRobin Wright Penn
Beowulf/Golden Man/DragonRay Winstone
HrothgarAnthony Hopkins
Also posted in 2007, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

The Brave One

IMDB Rating: 7.00
5366 votes

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A woman struggles to recover from a brutal attack by setting out on a mission for revenge.
Actors
Detective MercerTerrence Howard
Detective VitaleNicky Katt
Erica BainJodie Foster
Also posted in 2007, Action, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Papillon

IMDB Rating: 7.90
15240 votes

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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.
Actors
Henri 'Papillon' CharriereSteve McQueen
Louis DegaDustin Hoffman
Indian chiefVictor Jory
Also posted in 1973, Adventure, Biography, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover

IMDB Rating: 7.00
8092 votes

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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.
Actors
Richard BorstRichard Bohringer
Albert SpicaMichael Gambon
Georgina SpicaHelen Mirren
Also posted in 1989, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating, Horror | Comments (0)

Syriana

IMDB Rating: 7.20
27052 votes

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A missile disappears in Iran, but the CIA has other problems: the heir to an Emirate gives an oil contract to China, cutting out a US company that promptly fires its immigrant workers and merges with a small firm that has landed a Kazakhstani oil contract. The Department of Justice suspects bribery, and the oil company's law firm finds a scapegoat. The CIA also needs one when its plot to kill the Emir-apparent fails. Agent Bob Barnes, the fall guy, sorts out the double cross. An American economist parlays the death of his son into a contract to advise the sheik the CIA wants dead. The jobless Pakistanis join a fundamentalist group. All roads start and end in the oil fields.
Actors
ArashKayvan Novak
Bob BarnesGeorge Clooney
Mohammed Sheik AgizaAmr Waked
Also posted in 2005, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Proposition

IMDB Rating: 7.50
7378 votes

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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.
Actors
Samuel StoteTom Budge
Charlie BurnsGuy Pearce
Martha StanleyEmily Watson
Also posted in 2005, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Hostel

IMDB Rating: 5.80
28178 votes

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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"
Actors
PaxtonJay Hernandez
JoshDerek Richardson
OliEythor Gudjonsson
Also posted in 2005, Horror | Comments (0)

The Devil’s Rejects

IMDB Rating: 6.90
15921 votes

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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.
Actors
Captain SpauldingSid Haig
OtisBill Moseley
BabySheri Moon
Also posted in 2005, Action, Crime, High IMDB rating, Horror, Thriller | Comments (0)
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