Tag Archives: violence

The Pianist

IMDB Rating: 8.50
39269 votes

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The true story of Wladyslaw Szpilman who, in the 1930s, was known as the most accomplished piano player in all of Poland, if not Europe. At the outbreak of the Second World War, however, Szpilman becomes subject to the anti-Jewish laws imposed by the conquering Germans. By the start of the 1940s, Szpilman has seen his world go from piano concert halls to the Jewish Ghetto of Warsaw and then must suffer the tragedy of his family deported to a death camp, while Szpilman is conscripted into a forced German Labor Compound. At last deciding to escape, Szpilman goes into hiding as a Jewish refugee where he is witness to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 and the Warsaw City Revolt in August/October 1944.
Actors
Wladyslaw SzpilmanAdrien Brody
Captain Wilm Hosenfeld
FatherFrank Finlay
Also posted in 2002, Biography, Drama, High IMDB rating, Music, War | Comments (0)

Ghost Ship

IMDB Rating: 5.20
13511 votes

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After discovering a passenger ship missing since 1962 floating adrift on the Bering Sea, salvagers claim the vessel as their own. Once they begin towing the ghost ship towards harbor, a series of bizarre ocurrences happen and the group becomes trapped inside the ship, which they soon learn is inhabited by a demonic creature.
Actors
Captain Sean MurphyGabriel Byrne
Maureen EppsJulianna Margulies
DodgeRon Eldard
Also posted in 2002, Adventure, Horror, Thriller | Comments (4)

Empire

IMDB Rating: 5.90
2710 votes

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Victor (Leguizamo), is trying to escape his life as a drug dealer in the South Bronx. Enter Jack (Sarsgaard), a Wall Street investment banker with a business proposal that has Victor's name (and money) written all over it.
Actors
Victor RosaJohn Leguizamo
JackPeter Sarsgaard
TrishDenise Richards
Also posted in 2002, Action, Crime, Drama | Comments (0)

Gangs of New York

IMDB Rating: 7.30
59936 votes

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As waves of immigrants swell the population of New York, lawlessness and corruption thrive in Manhattan's Five Points section. After years of incarceration, young Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon returns seeking revenge against the rival gang leader who killed his father. But Amsterdam's personal vendetta becomes part of the gang warfare that erupts as he and his fellow Irishmen fight to carve a place for themselves in their newly adopted homeland!
Actors
Amsterdam VallonLeonardo DiCaprio
William 'Bill/The Butcher' CuttingDaniel Day-Lewis
Jenny EverdeaneCameron Diaz
Also posted in 2002, Action, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, History | Comments (12)

Kiss of the Dragon

IMDB Rating: 6.20
12069 votes

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Liu Jian, a police officer from China, comes to Paris to help the vice squad apprehend a Chinese drug lord and his unknown French connection. The French connection is Richard, the head of the vice squad, who intends to kill the drug lord then frame Jian. Jian ducks a bullet and escapes with a tape of what really happened. By chance, Jian turns to Jessica - a US farm girl who is one of Richard's hookers - for help. She has her own problems, including the fact that Richard has her daughter locked in an orphanage to keep Jessica on the streets and silent about his activities. Can Jian protect Jessica, rescue her daughter, and give Richard the kiss of the dragon?
Actors
Liu JianJet Li
JessicaBridget Fonda
RichardTchéky Karyo
Also posted in 2001, Action, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (8)

No Man’s Land

IMDB Rating: 8.00
12132 votes

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After various skirmishes, two wounded soldiers, one Bosnian and one Serb, confront each other in a trench in the no man's land between their lines. They wait for dark, trading insults and even finding some common ground; sometimes one has the gun, sometimes the other, sometimes both. Things get complicated when another wounded Bosnian comes to, but can't move because a bouncing mine is beneath him. The two men cooperate to wave white flags, their lines call the UN (whose high command tries not to help), an English reporter shows up, a French sergeant shows courage, and the three men in no man's land may or may not find a way to all get along.
Actors
CikiBranko Djuric
NinoRene Bitorajac
CeraFilip Sovagovic
Also posted in 2001, Drama, High IMDB rating, War | Comments (0)

Saving Silverman

IMDB Rating: 5.40
10420 votes

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Two dim-witted former high school buddys and Neil Diamond fanactics, Wayne and J.D., plot to keep their friend Darren from marrying the wrong woman, a domineering and spiteful psychologist named Judith by kidnapping her and trying to set Darren up with his old high school girlfriend Sandy who plans to become a nun.
Actors
Wayne LefessierSteve Zahn
J.D. McNugentJack Black
Darren SilvermanJason Biggs
Also posted in 2001, Comedy, Crime, Romance | Comments (8)

Black Hawk Down

IMDB Rating: 7.60
52537 votes

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Action/war drama based on the best-selling book detailing a near-disastrous mission in Somalia on October 3, 1993 where nearly 100 U.S. Army Rangers, commanded by Capt. Mike Steele, were dropped by helicopter deep into the capital city of Mogadishu to capture two top lieutenants of a Somali warlord which lead to a large and drawn-out firefight between the Rangers and hundreds of Somali gunmen which led to the destruction of two U.S. Black Hawk helicopters in Mogadishu, and the heroic efforts by various Rangers to get to them, centering on Sgt. Eversmann, commanding one Ranger unit named Chalk Four, leading Rangers to the first black hawk crash site, to Warrant Officer Durant who was only survivor of the second black hawk crash site and whom was captured, to Col. McKnight who leads a rescue convoy for the Rangers only to get lost within the hostile city, to Sgt. Sanderson desperately trying to get to the first crash site, to Staff Sgt. Yurek who leads two fellow Rangers, Nelson and Twombly to meet with up their squad, Chalk Four, at the first crash site, to many others involved who where either killed or survived.
Actors
SSgt. Matt EversmannJosh Hartnett
Spec. John GrimesEwan McGregor
Capt. Mike SteeleJason Isaacs
Also posted in 2001, Action, Drama, High IMDB rating, History, War | Comments (18)

Training Day

IMDB Rating: 7.40
38152 votes

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In a city where streets are overrun by drug dealers, those who have sworn to uphold the law are breaking them to clean up the streets. Denzel Washington plays L.A.P.D detective Alonzo Harris, a veteran narcotics officer whose methods of enforcing the law are questionable, if not corrupt. 'Training Day' follows Harris as he trains rookie Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawk) over a period 24 hours. Ethical dilemmas arise for Hoyt as well as the audience as questions present themselves as to whether or not Harris' methodology for ridding the streets of South Central Los Angeles of drugs is right or wrong.
Actors
Detective Alonzo HarrisDenzel Washington
Jake HoytEthan Hawke
RogerScott Glenn
Also posted in 2001, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (10)
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