Tag Archives: cover up

C.H.U.D.

IMDB Rating: 4.60
1554 votes

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A rash of bizarre murders in New York City seems to point to a group of grotesquely deformed vagrants living in the sewers. A courageous policeman, a photo journalist and his girlfriend, and a nutty bum, who seems to know a lot about the creatures, band together to try and determine what the creatures are and how to stop them.
Actors
George CooperJohn Heard
A.J. 'The Reverend' ShepherdDaniel Stern
Captain BoschChristopher Curry
Also posted in 1984, Horror | Comments (0)

Michael Clayton

IMDB Rating: 7.80
7005 votes

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Michael Clayton is an in-house "fixer" at one of the largest corporate law firms in New York. A former criminal prosecutor, Clayton takes care of Kenner, Bach & Ledeen's dirtiest work at the behest of the firm's co-founder Marty Bach. Though burned out and hardly content with his job as a fixer, his divorce, a failed business venture and mounting debt have left Clayton inextricably tied to the firm. At U/North, meanwhile, the career of litigator Karen Crowder rests on the multi-million dollar settlement of a class action suit that Clayton's firm is leading to a seemingly successful conclusion. But when Kenner Bach's brilliant and guilt-ridden attorney Arthur Edens sabotages the U/North case, Clayton faces the biggest challenge of his career and his life.
Actors
Barry GrissomMichael O'Keefe
Arthur EdensTom Wilkinson
Marty BachSydney Pollack
Also posted in 2007, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Bad Day at Black Rock

IMDB Rating: 7.90
4384 votes

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John J. Macreedy doesn't know it, but when he steps off the train at the jerkwater town of Black Rock, he will soon find himself the object of fear, hatred, and even a murder plot! The altruistic Macreedy came to Black Rock to hand over a posthumous military award to a local man whose son had died gallantly in the Second World War. What Macreedy couldn't know when he stepped off of that train was that the town had a shameful secret, one that must be kept at all costs.
Actors
John J. MacreedySpencer Tracy
Reno SmithRobert Ryan
Liz WirthAnne Francis
Also posted in 1955, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller, Western | Comments (0)

Shoot ‘Em Up

IMDB Rating: 7.40
11583 votes

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Late at night, in an unnamed U.S. city, a solitary man sits at a bus stop. A pregnant woman runs by, pursued by a man with a gun. With reluctance, the man at the bus stop rescues her and assists with the baby's delivery, while additional pursuers fire at them, including the gang's particularly nasty leader, an intuitive man named Hertz. Our hero, known only as Smith, determines to save the child and find out why Hertz wants the baby dead. At a local bordello, he tries to employ a lactating hooker to watch the child, but things quickly escalate, and this makeshift family is soon on the run. Heavy metal music calms the baby. Why? A laboratory, a gun factory, and a presidential campaign all figure in Smith's search for the child's ultimate safety.
Actors
SmithClive Owen
HertzPaul Giamatti
Donna QuintanoMonica Bellucci
Also posted in 2007, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Murder at 1600

IMDB Rating: 5.90
7163 votes

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When the murdered body of a young woman who works in the White House is found. Homicide detective Harlan Regis is called in. Upon arriving Senior Secret Service Agent Spikings objects to his presence, but he has the support of the National Security Adviser. Preliminary investigation suggests that it might be a sex crime. And Regis learns that the President's son has a history of similar acts. He tries to get more info but Spikings' impeding him but he is determined to find out what happened. Secret Service Agent Nina Chance tries to help him.
Actors
Det. Harlan RegisWesley Snipes
Agent Nina ChanceDiane Lane
Agent Nick SpikingsDaniel Benzali
Also posted in 1997, Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | Comments (0)

One Night at McCool’s

IMDB Rating: 6.10
11328 votes

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After another hard night at McCool's, bartender Randy runs into Jewel. The seductive lady seems to have evaded a rape pretty closely, and when the man comes back, she puts a bullet in his head. After all these events (and others), Randy takes Jewel home, and the two become a couple. Yet Jewel begins to develop into a very demanding girlfriend and drives Randy into committing crimes for her and her elaborate lifestyle. Randy's cousin Carl is driven crazy by Randy's incredibly sexy girl as well as the investigating officer, Detective Dehling.
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RandyMatt Dillon
Bingo CallerMary Jo Smith
Mr. BurmeisterMichael Douglas
Also posted in 2001, Comedy, Crime, High IMDB rating | Comments (3)

Antitrust

IMDB Rating: 6.00
11628 votes

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This movie is the fictional story of computer programming genius Milo Hoffman after graduating from Stanford and getting out into the competitive world of computer software. In his contemplation of where to begin his career, he is contacted by Gary Winston whose character is loosely based on Bill Gates. Winston is the CEO of a company called NURV, and they are on the brink of completing the global communication's system, Synapse. They need Hoffman to help them meet their launch date, so after much thought and with the full support of his girlfriend Alice, he accepts the job. Tragedy soon after strikes and Milo becomes suspicious of the company he has been wrapped up in. He learns that trusting anyone could be a mistake, and that nothing is as it seems.
Actors
Milo HoffmanRyan Phillippe
Lisa CalighanRachael Leigh Cook
Alice PoulsonClaire Forlani
Also posted in 2001, Crime, Drama, Thriller | Comments (10)

Shooter

IMDB Rating: 6.80
7706 votes

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Bob Lee Swagger, one of the world's great marksmen and the son of a Congressional Medal of Honoree, is a loner living in the Rockies. He's left the military, having been hung out to dry in a secret Ethiopian mission a few years before, when he's recruited by a lisping colonel to help find a way that the President of the US might be assassinated in one of three cities in the next two weeks. He does his work, but the shot is fired notwithstanding and Bob Lee is quickly the fall guy: wounded and hunted by thousands, he goes to ground and, aided by two unlikely allies, searches for the truth and for those who double-crossed him. All roads lead back to Ethiopia.
Actors
Bob Lee SwaggerMark Wahlberg
Nick MemphisMichael Pena
Colonel Isaac JohnsonDanny Glover
Also posted in 2007, Action, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Underworld: Evolution

IMDB Rating: 6.60
20941 votes

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This movie continues the saga of war between the Death Dealers (vampires) and the Lycans (werewolves). The film traces the beginnings of the ancient feud between the two tribes as Selene (Kate Beckinsale) and Michael (Scott Speedman), the lycan hybrid, try to discover the secrets of their bloodlines. All of this takes them into the battle to end all wars as the immortals must finally face their retribution.
Actors
SeleneKate Beckinsale
Michael CorvinScott Speedman
ViktorBill Nighy
Also posted in 2006, Action, Drama, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Horror | Comments (6)

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)