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Desert Saints

IMDB Rating: 6.10
1199 votes

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The nature of temptation. Banks is a hit man, the best, usually working for Latin American drug cartels. He picks up solitary women, uses them briefly for a job, then kills them. He's in the Southwest, headed toward Mexico, when he picks up Bennie, a woman leaving an abusive marriage, going to Paradise, Arizona. The film follows three tracks: Banks's slow recruitment of Bennie, the set-up for the hit at a swank resort in Mexico, and the FBI's close pursuit of Banks, whom they want alive in hopes he'll rat out his bosses. Bennie may not be who she seems, and there may be a chink in Banks's tough-guy armor. Guns, money, and a chance at Paradise...
Actors
ConciergeBrent Roam
LarsonShawn Woods
Thug in BlackChristopher Bersh
Also posted in 2000, Action, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Alive

IMDB Rating: 6.90
10919 votes

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The amazing, true story of a Uruguayan rugby team's plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains, and their immense will to survive and pull through alive, forced to do anything and everything they could to stay alive on meager rations and through the freezing cold. The only thing the team has riding on after losing so many of their good friends and family members is the slim chance of making it through alive and their faithfulness to God.
Actors
Nando ParradoEthan Hawke
Antonio BalbiVincent Spano
Roberto CanessaJosh Hamilton
Also posted in 1993, Action, Adventure, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

In the Valley of Elah

IMDB Rating: 7.60
11984 votes

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When Hank Deerfield is told by the military that his son Mike, who only recently returned from a tour of duty in Iraq, has gone AWOL he travels to the military base to see if he can make any sense of the young man's disappearance. Hank is himself a retired military investigator and is frustrated by both the military and the civilian police's apparent lack of interest in the case. In the end he does manage to get help from Det. Emily Sanders and together they piece together the events that led to Mike's disappearance. In the end, this is a story of how war dehumanizes individuals to the point where the taking of life makes no sense and has no purpose
Actors
Hank DeerfieldTommy Lee Jones
Det. Emily SandersCharlize Theron
Lt. KirklanderJason Patric
Also posted in 2007, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)

Brokeback Mountain

IMDB Rating: 7.80
66254 votes

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A raw, powerful story of two young men, a Wyoming ranch hand and a rodeo cowboy, who meet in the summer of 1963 sheepherding in the harsh, high grasslands of contemporary Wyoming and form an unorthodox yet life-long bond—by turns ecstatic, bitter and conflicted.
Actors
Ennis Del MarHeath Ledger
Jack TwistJake Gyllenhaal
Joe AguirreRandy Quaid
Also posted in 2005, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

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)

Boiler Room

IMDB Rating: 6.80
16301 votes

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A young man has dropped out of Queens College but desperately wants to please his father, a federal judge who's harsh with his son. At his father's insistence, Seth Davis closes a casino he operates in his own house, mostly for college students. Thinking he'll please dad, he takes a job in a small brokerage house, an hour from Manhattan, where trainees make cold calls to lists of well-paid men, and then apply high-pressure tactics to sell initial public offerings exclusive to the firm. He's terrific at sales. Once training is over, the pay is phenomenal, and Seth wonders why. Curiosity leads him to ethical dilemmas, encounters with the Feds, and new territory with his father.
Actors
Seth DavisGiovanni Ribisi
Chris VarickVin Diesel
Greg WeinsteinNicky Katt
Also posted in 2000, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

IMDB Rating: 7.90
16848 votes

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Devastated Peter takes a Hawaii vacation in order to deal with recent break-up with his TV star girlfriend, Sarah. Little does he know Sarah's traveling to the same resort as her ex ... and she's bringing along her new boyfriend.
Actors
Peter BretterJason Segel
Aldous SnowRussell Brand
Brian BretterBill Hader
Also posted in 2008, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

The Living and the Dead

IMDB Rating: 5.80
444 votes

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A descent into Hell is triggered when "Ex-Lord" Donald Brocklebank finds that he must leave Longleigh House for London to find a way to pay for the medical treatments for his wife Nancy. Alone, his over-protected, delusional, adult son, James, fancies himself in charge of the manor house with his terminally ill mother, and barricades the two of them into the house for a series of ever more panicked home treatments, mistakenly protecting her from the arrival of Nurse Mary and any outside help.
Actors
Donald BrocklebankRoger Lloyd-Pack
James BrocklebankLeo Bill
PolicemanNeil Conrich
Also posted in 2006, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)

Shutter

IMDB Rating: 4.60
2147 votes

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A newlywed couple Ben and Jane move to Japan for a promising job opportunity - a fashion shoot in Tokyo. During their trip on a dark forest road they experience a tragic car accident, leading to the death of a young local girl. Upon regaining consciousness, they find no trace of her body. A bit distraught the couple arrives in Tokyo to begin their new life. Meanwhile Ben begins noticing strange white blurs in many of his fashion shoot photographs. Jane believes that the blurs are actually spirit photography of the dead girl who they hit on the road, and that she may be seeking vengeance.
Actors
Benjamin ShawJoshua Jackson
BrunoDavid Denman
AdamJohn Hensley
Also posted in 2008, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)

12 Angry Men

IMDB Rating: 8.80
58572 votes

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Heralded as one of the all-time great theatrical releases, "12 Angry Men" focuses on a jury's deliberations in a capital murder case. A 12-man jury is sent to begin deliberations in the first-degree murder trial of an 18-year-old Latino accused in the stabbing death of his father, where a guilty verdict means an automatic death sentence. The case appears to be open-and-shut: The defendant has a weak alibi; a knife he claimed to have lost is found at the murder scene; and several witnesses either heard screaming, saw the killing or the boy fleeing the scene. Eleven of the jurors immediately vote guilty; only Juror No. 8 (Mr. Davis, played by Henry Fonda) casts a not guilty vote. At first Mr. Davis' bases his vote moreso for the sake of discussion after all, the jurors must believe beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant is guilty. As the deliberations unfold, the story quickly becomes a study of the jurors' complex personalities (which range from wise, bright and empathetic to arrogant, prejudiced and merciless), preconceptions, backgrounds and interactions. That provides the backdrop to Mr. Davis' attempts in convincing the other jurors that a "not guilty" verdict might be appropriate.
Actors
Juror #1Martin Balsam
Juror #2John Fiedler
Juror #3Lee J. Cobb
Also posted in 1957, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)
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