Tag Archives: loss of mother

Bordertown

IMDB Rating: 5.20
607 votes

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Lauren (Jennifer Lopez), an impassioned American reporter for the Chicago Sentinel heads to Juarez, a Mexican bordertown, in order to investigate a series of mysterious slayings involving young factory women from all over Mexico. As she discovers hundreds of victims, she gains the trust of local factory workers but falls into danger.
Actors
Lauren AdrianJennifer Lopez
Alfonso DiazAntonio Banderas
Elena DiazKate del Castillo
Also posted in 2006, Crime, Drama, Thriller | Comments (0)

Babel

IMDB Rating: 7.70
36257 votes

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Richard and Susan are a couple from San Diego, California who are vacationing in Morocco while their two children are at home with their Mexican housekeeper, Amelia. A rifle finds its way into the hands of a local herdsman's young sons, who recklessly take a shot at a tour bus and hit Susan in the shoulder, causing her severe injury. The distraught Richard calls home to tell Amelia of the situation, who shortly departs for Mexico to attend her son's wedding, with Richard and Susan's children in tow. Disaster thus multiplies, with the situation in Morocco ascribed to terrorists in the media, while Amelia meets with trouble at the Mexican border when she attempts to return to San Diego with Richard and Susan's children. Meanwhile, in Tokyo, a widower tied to the rifle in question, a complex shift of ownership to which the audience is privy, attempts to deal with the memories of his recently deceased wife and his strained relationship with his deaf teenage daughter.
Actors
RichardBrad Pitt
SusanCate Blanchett
AnwarMohamed Akhzam
Also posted in 2006, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Omen

IMDB Rating: 5.40
11457 votes

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When the Vatican observatory priest sees the appearance of a comet, the Church is sure that it confirms the eve of the Armageddon. Meanwhile, the USA President's godson Robert Thorn is informed in the maternity in Rome by Father Spiletto that his wife Katherine has just lost her baby and she had troubles with her uterus and would not have another pregnancy. Spiletto suggests Robert that another just born child that lost her mother could be the substituted for his son, and Robert accepts the child and gives the name of Damien. Robert is promoted to ambassador in London after a tragic accident. When Damien's nanny commits suicide in his birthday party, a substitute, Mrs. Baylock, comes to work and live with the family. Along the years, Katherine realizes that Damien is evil, while Robert is contacted by Father Brennan, who tells him that Damien is the son of devil. When the priest dies in a bizarre accident, the photographer Keith Jennings shows evidences to Robert that the boy is the Antichrist. They travel to the town of Megiddo to learn how the boy can be stopped.
Actors
Vatican Observatory PriestPredrag Bjelac
Cardinal FabrettiCarlo Sabatini
PopeBohumil Svarc
Also posted in 2006, Horror, Thriller | Comments (0)

Hide and Seek

IMDB Rating: 5.50
15585 votes

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Hide and Seek revolves around a widower (Robert DeNiro) and his daughter (Dakota Fanning). They move to upstate and Emily (Fanning) soon creates an imaginary friend named Charlie...but this act takes an unexpected and terrifying turn, where her father and doctor (Famke Janssen) start to worry about Emily's gruesome habits.
Actors
David CallawayRobert De Niro
Emily CallawayDakota Fanning
KatherineFamke Janssen
Also posted in 2005, Drama, Horror, Thriller | Comments (1)

Danny the Dog

IMDB Rating: 7.10
17347 votes

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A man treated like a dog and raised as a fighting machine his entire life, ends up in a coma and is taken in the care of good people, but his sinister owner is looking to retrieve his most prized possession: a non stop human weapon triggered by the collar leashed on his neck.
Actors
DannyJet Li
SamMorgan Freeman
BartBob Hoskins
Also posted in 2005, Action, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Batman Begins

IMDB Rating: 8.30
116254 votes

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In tone with the early "Batman: Year One" style comics. As a boy a young Bruce Wayne watched in horror as his millionaire parents were slain in front of his eyes, a trauma which led him to become obsessed with revenge but his chance is cruelly taken away from him by fate. After disappearing to the East where he seeks counsel with the dangerous but honorable ninja cult leader known as Ra's Al-Ghul, he returns to his now decaying Gotham City overrun by organized crime and dangerous individuals manipulating the system whilst the company he inherited is slowly being pulled out from under him. The discovery of a cave under his mansion, and a prototype armored suit leads him to take on a new persona, one which will strike fear into the hearts of men who do wrong - he becomes, Batman. In the new guise, and with the help of rising cop Jim Gordon, Batman sets out to take down the various nefarious schemes in motion by individuals such as mafia don Falcone, the twisted doctor/drug dealer Jonathan 'The Scarecrow' Crane, and a mysterious third party that is quite familiar with Wayne and waiting to strike when the time is right.
Actors
Bruce Wayne/BatmanChristian Bale
AlfredMichael Caine
Henri DucardLiam Neeson
Also posted in 2005, Action, Adventure, Crime, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

A Love Song for Bobby Long

IMDB Rating: 7.20
5615 votes

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Upon hearing of her mother's death, jaded teenage loner Purslane Hominy Will returns to New Orleans for the first time in years, ready to reclaim her childhood home. Expecting to find her late mother's house abandoned, Pursy is shocked to discover that it is inhabited by two of her mother's friends: Bobby Long, a former literature professor, and his young protégé, Lawson Pines. These broken men, whose lives took a wrong turn years before, have been firmly rooted in the dilapidated house for years, encouraged only by Lawson's faltering ambitions to write a novel about Bobby Long's life. Having no intention of leaving, Pursy, Bobby Long and Lawson are all forced to live together. Yet as time passes, their tenuous, makeshift arrangement unearths a series of buried personal secrets that challenges their bonds, and reveals just how inextricably their lives are intertwined.
Actors
Bobby LongJohn Travolta
Pursy WillScarlett Johansson
Lawson PinesGabriel Macht
Also posted in 2004, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Millions

IMDB Rating: 7.20
6681 votes

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The UK is about to switch its currency from Pounds to Euros, giving a gang a chance to rob the poorly-secured train loaded with money on its way to incineration. But, during the robbery, one of the big bags falls literally from the sky on Damian's playhouse, a 5-year old given to talking to saints. The boy then starts seeing what the world and the people around him are made of. Ethics, being human and the soul all come to the forefront in this film.
Actors
DamianAlexander Nathan Etel
AnthonyLewis Owen McGibbon
HimselfLeslie Phillips
Also posted in 2004, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Family, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

‘Salem’s Lot

IMDB Rating: 6.10
2110 votes

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Ben Mears, a writer returns to the small Maine town of Jerusalem's Lot (also known as Salem's Lot), where he spent the first few years of his life, to write a book. Little does he or the townfolk realize that a couple of other new residents are coming...Straker, a antiques dealer, and his partner and master Barlow, a ancient and malevolent vampire bent on making Salem's Lot his new home.
Actors
Ben MearsRob Lowe
Matt BurkeAndre Braugher
Richard StrakerDonald Sutherland
Also posted in 2004, Drama, High IMDB rating, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)

Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events

IMDB Rating: 6.90
24236 votes

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Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire are three intelligent young children who receive terrible news that their parents have died in a fire and have left them an enormous fortune not to be used until the eldest child is of age. When they are sent to live with Count Olaf, a greedy distant relative, they soon learn he is trying to steal their fortune for himself.
Actors
Count OlafJim Carrey
KlausLiam Aiken
VioletEmily Browning
Also posted in 2004, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, High IMDB rating | Comments (5)