Tag Archives: shot in the face

Summer of Sam

IMDB Rating: 6.50
14231 votes

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Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American South Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.
Actors
VinnyJohn Leguizamo
RichieAdrien Brody
DionnaMira Sorvino
Also posted in 1999, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance, Thriller | 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)

Broken

IMDB Rating: 5.20
681 votes

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After dating a wonderful man, Hope comes back home, sees her daughter Jennifer and goes to sleep. She wakes-up in the woods with a psychopath, fighting to survive for more than forty days and asking information about her daughter to the stranger.
Actors
The ManEric Colvin
Atesh Salih
HopeNadja Brand
Also posted in 2006, Horror, Thriller | Comments (0)

Narc

IMDB Rating: 7.40
13051 votes

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An undercover narc dies, the investigation stalls, so the Detroit P.D. brings back Nick Tellis, fired 18-months ago when a stray bullet hits a pregnant woman. Tellis teams with Henry Oak, a friend of the dead narc and an aggressive cop constantly under the scrutiny of internal affairs. They follow leads, informants turn up dead, Nick's wife is unhappy he's back on the street, Henry's protective of the dead cop's wife. Nick reads and re-reads the case file, broods, watches Oak's heavy-handed style, sometimes joining in. The brass want to close out the case, Nick and Henry stay on it, and bits of evidence point them to an auto body shop. What actually happened; will Nick ever know?
Actors
Elvin DowdDan Leis
Det. Sgt. Nick TellisJason Patric
Walter DandridgeLloyd Adams
Also posted in 2002, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

True Romance

IMDB Rating: 7.80
46902 votes

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Clarence Worley, a penniless hipster in Detroit with a love for Elvis meets a mysterious hooker paid to meet him named Alabama on his birthday in a theater at night. Falling in love, he makes it his mission to dispose of her past, namely her violent pimp, Drexl Spivey. Defeating him and unknowingly taking a vast fortune of Cocaine, the two fight to sell the white gold in Los Angeles as Drexl's associates fight to reclaim it in a bloody romantic thriller full to the brim with style.
Actors
Clarence WorleyChristian Slater
Alabama WhitmanPatricia Arquette
Dick RitchieMichael Rapaport
Also posted in 1993, Action, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance, Thriller | Comments (0)

Army of Darkness

IMDB Rating: 7.50
37549 votes

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In this sequel to the Evil Dead films, a discount-store employee ("Name's Ash. Housewares.") is time-warped to a medieval castle beset by monstrous forces. Initially mistaken for an enemy, he is soon revealed as the prophecised savior who can quest for the Necronomicon, a book which can dispel the evil. Unfortunately, he screws up the magic words while collecting the tome, and releases an army of skeletons, led by his own Deadite counterpart. What follows is a thrilling, yet tongue-in-cheek battle between Ash's 20th Century tactics and the minions of darkness.
Actors
AshBruce Campbell
SheilaEmbeth Davidtz
Lord ArthurMarcus Gilbert
Also posted in 1992, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Horror | Comments (0)

Taxi Driver

IMDB Rating: 8.60
91854 votes

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Vietnam vet Travis Bickle is 26, a loner in the mean streets of New York City, slipping slowly into isolation and violent misanthropy. In solving his insomnia by driving a yellow cab on the night shift, he grows increasingly disgusted by the low-lifes that hang out at night: "Someday a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets." His touching attempts to woo Betsy, a Senator's campaign worker, turn sour when he takes her to a porn movie on their first date. He even fails in his attempt to persuade child prostitute Iris to desert her pimp and return to her parents and school. Driven to the edge by powerlessness, he buys four handguns and sets out to assassinate the Senator, heading for the infamy of a 'lone crazed gunman'...
Actors
Travis BickleRobert De Niro
BetsyCybill Shepherd
WizardPeter Boyle
Also posted in 1976, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (1)

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)

We Own the Night

IMDB Rating: 7.40
4662 votes

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A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hit men.
Actors
Robert 'Bobby' GreenJoaquin Phoenix
Amada JuarezEva Mendes
Capt. Joseph 'Joe' GrusinskyMark Wahlberg
Also posted in 2007, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

War

IMDB Rating: 6.30
8077 votes

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After his partner Tom Wynne (Terry Chen) and family are killed apparently by the infamous and elusive assassin Rogue (Jet Li), FBI agent Jack Crawford (Jason Statham) becomes obsessed with revenge as his world unravels into a vortex of guilt and betrayal. Rogue eventually resurfaces to settle a score of his own, setting off a bloody crime war between Asian mob rivals Chang (John Lone) of the Triad's and Yakuza boss Shiro (Ryo Ishibashi). When Jack and Rogue finally come face to face, the ultimate truth of their pasts will be revealed.
Actors
Special Agent Jack CrawfordJason Statham
RogueJet Li
Li ChangJohn Lone
Also posted in 2007, Action, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)