Posts Tagged ‘anti-hero’

Super Troopers (2001)

Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Andre Vippolis | Kern, Joey | Geoffrey Arend | Stolhanske, Erik | Lemme, Steve
Directors: Chandrasekhar, Jay
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Thorny, Mac, Rabbit, Foster and Farva are Vermont state troopers out to have a good time. Stationed in a remote area near the Canadian border, the troopers, avid pranksters with an affinity for syrup, have a knack for screwing up on the job. But when budget cuts in the town of Spurbury threaten their livelihood and pit them against arch-rival Spurbury P.D., the five friends try to straighten up and fly right. That is, until a dead body is discovered and a possible drug ring is unearthed. The super troopers spring into action attempting to solve the crime, save their jobs, and outdo the local police department.

Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)

Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Banderas, Antonio | Hayek, Salma | Depp, Johnny | Rourke, Mickey | Mendes, Eva | Trejo, Danny | Iglesias, Enrique | Leonardi, Marco | Marin, Cheech | Blades, Rubén | Dafoe, Willem | Vigil, Gerardo | Armendáriz Jr., Pedro | Mechoso, Julio Oscar | Larriva, Tito
Directors: Rodriguez, Robert
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A drug lord who pretends to overthrow the Mexican government. A corrupt CIA agent (Johnny Depp) who at that time, demands retribution from his worst enemy to carry out the drug lord’s uprising against the government.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006)

Monday, February 18th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Depp, Johnny | Bloom, Orlando | Knightley, Keira | Davenport, Jack | Nighy, Bill | Pryce, Jonathan | Arenberg, Lee | Crook, Mackenzie | McNally, Kevin | Bailie, David | Skarsgård, Stellan | Hollander, Tom | Harris, Naomie | Klebba, Martin | Schofield, David
Directors: Verbinski, Gore
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Just before their wedding, Elizabeth Swann and Will Turner are arrested by Lord Cutler Beckett for helping the pirate Captain Jack Sparrow, but Cutler proposes a deal to Will: their freedom per Jack’s compass. Meanwhile, Jack is afraid of the sea, because he owes his soul to the evil Davy Jones, the Captain of the Flying Dutchmen. When Will meets Jack, the pirate proposes to exchange his compass by a key owned by Davy Jones. Will goes to the Flying Dutchman without knowing how dangerous and diabolic Davy Jones and his crew are.

Blade Runner (Final cut) (2007)

Monday, February 18th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Ford, Harrison | Hauer, Rutger | Young, Sean | Olmos, Edward James | Walsh, M. Emmet | Hannah, Daryl | Sanderson, William | James, Brion | Turkel, Joe | Cassidy, Joanna | Hong, James | Paull, Morgan | Thompson, Kevin | Allen, John Edward | Pyke, Hy
Directors: Scott, Ridley
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Deckard is a Blade Runner, a police man of the future who hunts down and terminates replicants, artificially created humans. He wants to get out of the force, but is drawn back in when 4 “skin jobs”, a slang term for replicants, hijack a ship back to Earth. The city that Deckard must search for his prey is a huge, sprawling, bleak vision of the future. This film questions what it is to be human, and why life is so precious.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Biography | Crime | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Newman, Paul | Redford, Robert | Ross, Katharine | Martin, Strother | Jones, Henry | Corey, Jeff | Furth, George | Leachman, Cloris | Cassidy, Ted | Mars, Kenneth | Rhodes, Donnelly | Gilbert, Jody | Scott, Timothy | Keefer, Don | Dierkop, Charles
Directors: Hill, George Roy
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Butch and Sundance are the two leaders of the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang. Butch is all ideas, Sundance is all action and skill. The west is becoming civilized and when Butch and Sundance rob a train once too often, a special posse begins trailing them no matter where they run. Over rock, through towns, across rivers, the group is always just behind them. When they finally escape through sheer luck, Butch has another idea, “Let’s go to Bolivia”. Based on the exploits of the historical characters.

American Psycho (2000)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Bale, Christian | Theroux, Justin | Lucas, Josh | Sage, Bill | Sevigny, Chloë | Witherspoon, Reese | Mathis, Samantha | Ross, Matt | Leto, Jared | Dafoe, Willem | Seymour, Cara | Turner, Guinevere | Bogaert, Stephen | Meier, Monika | Cathey, Reg E.
Directors: Harron, Mary
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Patrick Bateman is handsome, well educated and intelligent. He is twenty-seven and living his own American dream. He works by day on Wall Street, earning a fortune to complement the one he was born with. At night he descends into madness, as he experiments with fear and violence.

Young Guns (1988)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Estevez, Emilio | Sutherland, Kiefer | Phillips, Lou Diamond | Sheen, Charlie | Mulroney, Dermot | Siemaszko, Casey | Stamp, Terence | Palance, Jack | O'Quinn, Terry | Thomas, Sharon | Blake, Geoffrey | Carter, Alice | Keith, Brian | Callaway, Thomas | Wayne, Patrick
Directors: Cain, Christopher
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1878 in New Mexico: John Tunstall picks up young gun men from the road to have them work on his ranch, but also to teach them reading and to civilize them. However he’s a thorn in the side of the rich rancher Murphy, as he’s a competitor in selling cattle. One day he’s shot by Murphy’s men. Judge Wilson can’t do anything, since Sheriff Brady is one of Murphy’s men. But attorney Alex persuades him to constitute Tunstall’s young friends to Deputies and give them warrants of arrest for the murderers. Instead of arresting them, William Bonney just shoots them down. Soon the 5 guys become famous and William gets the name “Billie the Kid” - but they’re also chased by dozens of Murphy’s men and the army. The people however honor him as fighter for justice.

Undead (2003)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Horror | Sci-Fi
Countries: Australia
Actors: Mason, Felicity | McKay, Mungo | Jenkins, Rob | Cunningham, Lisa | Hunter, Dirk | Randall, Emma | Grieg, Steve | Sheridan, Noel | Wensley, Gaynor | Stillman, Eleanor | Moore, Robyn | Jozinovic, Robert | Mensforth, Peter | Andriolo, Jacob | Steel, Michele
Directors: Spierig, Michael
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In Berkeley, Australia, a meteor shower transforms the locals in zombies. A group of survivals fight against the zombies and try to escape to another town. However, they find that aliens built a wall around the area and are abducting the people.

Serenity (2005)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Fillion, Nathan | Torres, Gina | Tudyk, Alan | Baccarin, Morena | Baldwin, Adam | Staite, Jewel | Maher, Sean | Glau, Summer | Glass, Ron | Ejiofor, Chiwetel | Krumholtz, David | Hitchcock, Michael | Paulson, Sarah | Feldman, Yan | Feldman, Rafael
Directors: Whedon, Joss
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The crew of the Serenity is getting desperate. They have lain lower and lower to protect their doctor, Simon Tam (Sean Maher), and his telepathic traumatized little sister, River (Summer Glau), from the alliance, whom he rescued her from a year earlier. This has made getting jobs harder and now they are desperate. When they take River on a robbery during which Reavers (humans who have gone crazy and turned into cannibals) attack, Simon decides that its time to leave the crew of the Serenity for his and River’s safety. She then mutters “Miranda” and goes berserk and nearly shoots Capt. Malcolm Reynolds (Nathan Fillion), until her brother says the safety word to put her to sleep. Reynolds decides to take them back on board for safety, only now an alliance operative (Chiwetel Ejiofor) is on their tracks and making Reynolds determined to find out what “Miranda” is and what the Alliance is hiding.

Dirty Harry (1971)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Eastwood, Clint | Guardino, Harry | Santoni, Reni | Vernon, John | Robinson, Andrew | Larch, John | Mitchum, John | Mercer, Mae | Edgington, Lyn
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In the year 1971, San Francisco faces the terror of a maniac known as Scorpio- who snipes at innocent victims and demands ransom through notes left at the scene of the crime. Inspector Harry Callahan (known as Dirty Harry by his peers through his reputation handling of homicidal cases) is assigned to the case along with his newest partner Inspector Chico Gonzalez to track down Scorpio and stop him. Using humiliation and cat and mouse type of games against Callahan, Scorpio is put to the test with the cop with a dirty attitude.