Tag Archives: dead body

He Was a Quiet Man

IMDB Rating: 7.30
6162 votes

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A troubled loner, Bob Maconel, imagines blowing up the tower in Los Angeles where he works. He takes a revolver to his office intent on killing colleagues, and then himself. At home, he holds conversations with his fish, who encourage him to do it. His supervisor picks on him. As he's screwing his courage to the sticking place, he drops a bullet; while on the floor looking for it, another colleague does exactly what Bob has been planning. Bob emerges a hero and the one colleague he likes, a woman with a bright smile, is severely wounded. Can Bob help her through despair and find himself and joy in life? Or, as everyone says, is this impossible for a man like him?
Actors
Bob MaconelChristian Slater
Goldie/Maurice GregoryJohn Gulager
Scott HarperJamison Jones
Also posted in 2007, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

Street Kings

IMDB Rating: 7.30
8569 votes

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Tom Ludlow is a veteran LAPD cop who finds life difficult to navigate after the death of his wife. When evidence implicates him in the execution of a fellow officer, he is forced to go up against the cop culture he's been a part of his entire career, ultimately leading him to question the loyalties of everyone around him.
Actors
Detective Tom LudlowKeanu Reeves
Captain Jack WanderForest Whitaker
CoatesCommon
Also posted in 2008, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Machinist

IMDB Rating: 7.80
32951 votes

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"The Machinist" is a film about a man who hasn't slept in a year, and he starts thinking that he's losing his mind, when he starts seeing hallucinations, and his perception of reality becomes twisted. He's haunted by a co-worker that no one else can see, and keeps finding post-it notes with secret messages on his fridge...
Actors
Trevor ReznikChristian Bale
StevieJennifer Jason Leigh
MarieAitana Sánchez-Gijón
Also posted in 2004, Drama, High IMDB rating, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)

Dogma

IMDB Rating: 7.30
71668 votes

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The great grand niece of Jesus Christ is enlisted to prevent two angels from reentering Heaven and thus undoing the fabric of the universe. Along the way, she is aided by two prophets, Jay and Silent Bob. With the help of Rufus, the 13th Apostle, they must stop those who stand in their way and prevent the angels from entering Heaven.
Actors
MetatronAlan Rickman
GodAlanis Morissette
RufusChris Rock
Also posted in 1999, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

The Death and Life of Bobby Z

IMDB Rating: 5.70
1236 votes

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Tim Kearney is an incarcerated former Marine who is offered freedom by DEA agent Tad Gruzsa in exchange for impersonating recently-late drug lord Bobby Z. Things don't go as planned, however, and Kearney ends up on the run with Bobby Z's 12-year-old son.
Actors
Tim KearneyPaul Walker
Tad GruzsaLaurence Fishburne
Bobby ZJason Lewis
Also posted in 2007, Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

IMDB Rating: 8.20
4935 votes

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Robert Ford, who's idolized Jesse James since childhood, tries hard to join the reforming gang of the Missouri outlaw, but gradually becomes resentful of the bandit leader.
Actors
Jesse JamesBrad Pitt
Zee JamesMary-Louise Parker
Mary JamesBrooklynn Proulx
Also posted in 2007, Biography, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Western | Comments (1)

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)

Saw IV

IMDB Rating: 6.40
10108 votes

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Jigsaw and his apprentice Amanda are dead. Now, upon the news of Detective Kerry's murder, two seasoned FBI profilers, Agent Strahm and Agent Perez, arrive in the terrified community to assist the veteran Detective Hoffman in sifting through Jigsaw's latest grisly remains and piecing together the puzzle. However, when SWAT Commander Rigg is abducted and thrust into a game, the last officer untouched by Jigsaw has but ninety minutes to overcome a series of demented traps and save an old friend or face the deadly consequences.
Actors
Jigsaw/JohnTobin Bell
HoffmanCostas Mandylor
Agent StrahmScott Patterson
Also posted in 2007, Crime, High IMDB rating, Horror, Thriller | Comments (0)

Fido

IMDB Rating: 7.40
442 votes

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Timmy Robinson's best friend in the whole wide world is a six-foot tall rotting zombie named Fido. But when FIDO eats the next-door neighbor, Mom and Dad hit the roof, and Timmy has to go to the ends of the earth to keep Fido a part of the family. A boy-and-his-dog movie for grown ups, "FIDO" will rip your heart out.
Actors
FidoBilly Connolly
Eating ZombieJan Skorzewski
Helen RobinsonCarrie-Anne Moss
Also posted in 2006, Comedy, High IMDB rating, Horror, Thriller | Comments (0)

Jindabyne

IMDB Rating: 7.10
752 votes

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Stewart Kane, an Irishman living in the Australian town of Jindabyne, is on a fishing trip in isolated hill country with three other men when they discover the body of a murdered girl in the river. Rather than return to the town immediately, they continue fishing and report their gruesome find days later. Stewart's wife Claire is the last to find out. Deeply disturbed by her husband's action, her faith in her relationship with Stewart is shaken to the core. She wants to understand and tries to make things right. In her determination to help the victim's family Claire sets herself not only against her own family and friends but also those of the dead girl. Her marriage is taken to the brink and her peaceful life with Stewart and their young son hangs in the balance. The story of a murder and a marriage. A powerful and original film about the things that haunt us.
Actors
Claire KaneLaura Linney
Stewart KaneGabriel Byrne
GregoryChris Haywood
Also posted in 2006, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)