Posts Tagged ‘based-on-true-story’

Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The (2007)

Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Pitt, Brad | Parker, Mary-Louise | Proulx, Brooklynn | Bollinger, Dustin | Affleck, Casey | Rockwell, Sam | Renner, Jeremy | Shepard, Sam | Dillahunt, Garret | Schneider, Paul | McNichol, Joel | Defelice, James | Roberts, J.C. | Orydzuk, Darrell | Drachenberg, Jonathan Erich
Directors: Dominik, Andrew
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Robert Ford, who’s idolized Jesse James since childhood, tries hard to join the reforming gang of the Missouri outlaw, but gradually becomes resentful of the bandit leader.

Alpha Dog (2006)

Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Willis, Bruce | Barry, Matthew | Hirsch, Emile | Vargas, Fernando | Kartheiser, Vincent | Timberlake, Justin | Hatosy, Shawn | Wahlquist, Heather | Solowitz, Alex | Vigil, Alec | Stanton, Harry Dean | Cassavetes, Frank | Dubos, Nicole | Rice, Regina | Nativo, Laura
Directors: Cassavetes, Nick
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In 1999, in Claremont, California, the violent Jake Mazursky owes US$ 1,200.00 to the coward drug dealer Johnny Truelove, who is son of the powerful criminal Sonny Truelove. They fight and start a personal war, with Jake breaking into the house of Johnny with his friends, stealing the TV and leaving excrement in the living room. Johnny kidnaps Jake’s fifteen year old brother Zach Mazurka, who has just had an argument with his parents, and brings him to the upper class house of his friend Frankie Ballenbacher. Along a couple of days, Zach meets the friends of Frankie, goes to parties, drinks boozes, smokes pot and has sex with other teenagers. When Johnny realizes that kidnapping means life sentence, he asks the servile scum Elvis Schmidt to kill the boy.

Pacific Heights (1990)

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Griffith, Melanie | Modine, Matthew | Keaton, Michael | Mako | McCarthy, Nobu | Metcalf, Laurie | Lumbly, Carl | Harewood, Dorian | Bercovici, Luca | Hedren, Tippi | McCarthy, Sheila | Boyd, Guy | Hardin, Jerry | Hedaya, Dan | Staley, James
Directors: Schlesinger, John
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A yuppie couple buy a large house in an exclusive San Fransisco neighborhood. They renovate it and plan to rent two apartments on the first floor to cover the costs. A prosperous looking man moves in but is not the ideal tenant. He never pays any rent, drives the other tenants away and systematically ruins the lives of his landlords.

Remember the Titans (2000)

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Washington, Denzel | Patton, Will | Harris, Wood | Hurst, Ryan | Faison, Donald | Kirkwood, Craig | Suplee, Ethan | Pardue, Kip | Panettiere, Hayden | Parker, Nicole Ari | Bosworth, Kate | Poitier, Earl | Gosling, Ryan | Jenkins, Burgess | Ghant, Neal
Directors: Boaz Yakin
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Denzel Washington is hired as the T.C. Williams High football coach over a white coach in Alexandria, Virginia in the early 1970’s during a time when the school has just been integrated to allow blacks into the school.

Falcon and the Snowman, The (1985)

Monday, February 18th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Hutton, Timothy | Penn, Sean | Hingle, Pat | Van Patten, Joyce | Reed, Rob | Newell, Rob | West, Karen | Camacho, Art | Kozuch, Annie | Dysart, Richard | Pointer, Priscilla | Makepeace, Chris | Harewood, Dorian | Kaplan, Mady | McCalman, Macon
Directors: Schlesinger, John
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The true story of Christopher Boyce (Hutton), a young All-American man whose job as a guard for sensitive documents shatters his faith in his country and leads him to a sometimes comic, sometimes chilling sideline as a spy for the Soviets, aided by his scruffy buddy, Daulton (Penn); it can’t last, though, and the consequences are tremendous for Boyce and his family.

Bloodsport (1988)

Monday, February 18th, 2008
Genres: Action | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Van Damme, Jean-Claude | Gibb, Donald | Ayres, Leah | Burton, Norman | Whitaker, Forest | Chiao, Roy | Chan, Philip | Rafini, Pierre | Yeung, Bolo | Siu, Ken | Ki, Kimo Lai Kwok | Mariano, Bernard | Kuen, Bill Yuen Ping | Leung, Lily | Schroder, Joshua
Directors: Arnold, Newt
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As a child, a miscreant Frank Dux was taken in and trained by a champion martial artist, who went so far as to adopt Frank into his family after the premature death of his own son. Now, decades later, Frank is a skilled martial artist himself and a solider in the U.S. Military. Upon the death of his surrogate father and sensai, Frank is informed of a mysterious, no-holds barred, highly illegal martial arts tournament in Hong Kong known only as the “kumeti.” At the bidding of his sensai and against direct orders from his military superiors Frank travels to Hong Kong to participate and uphold his master’s honor. In order to succeed not only will he have to win the tournament; he must also evade capture by two military police sent to arrest him and the prying questions of a nosy reporter eager for a story.

Murder in the First (1995)

Monday, February 18th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Slater, Christian | Bacon, Kevin | Oldman, Gary | Davidtz, Embeth | Macy, William H. | Tobolowsky, Stephen | Dourif, Brad | Ermey, R. Lee | Kirshner, Mia | Slack, Ben | Gierasch, Stefan | Sedgwick, Kyra | Bookston, Alex | Allan, Richie | Ritts, Herb
Directors: Rocco, Marc
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Henri Young (Kevin Bacon) was convicted for stealing 5$ from post office and sent to Alcatraz, the most secured jail for the most dangerous criminals. After a futile escape mission he was sent to dungeon and got out as a murderer after thousand days, though maximum 19 days in dungeon is the official punishment was allowed. He became scared and confused savage and killed one of the prisoners. It was a sure to lose case and so James Stamphill (Christian Slater), a fresh law graduate was appointed as his lawyer. But rest is history! Based on a true story, Murder in the first is a masterpiece by Marc Rocco shows how the dungeon of Alcatraz was shut down for ever!

Bound by Honor (aka “Blood in, blood out”) (1993)

Monday, February 18th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Chapa, Damian | Borrego, Jesse | Bratt, Benjamin | Castillo, Enrique | Rivers, Victor | Lindo, Delroy | Towles, Tom | Carrasco, Carlos | Wilson, Teddy | Cruz, Raymond | Rodriguez, Valente | Flaherty, Lanny | Thornton, Billy Bob | Rivas, Geoffrey | Murcelo, Karmin
Directors: Hackford, Taylor
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Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the “Vatos Locos”, and the story focuses on how a violent crime and the influence of narcotics alter their lives. Miklo is incarcerated and sent to San Quentin, where he makes a “home” for himself. Cruz becomes an exceptional artist, but a heroin addiction overcomes him with tragic results. Paco becomes a cop and an enemy to his “carnal”, Miklo.

Bully (2001)

Monday, February 18th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Renfro, Brad | Miner, Rachel | Phillips, Bijou | Stahl, Nick | Pitt, Michael | Fitzpatrick, Leo | Garner, Kelli | Franzese, Daniel | Paulding, Nathalie | Sutta, Jessica | Amatrudo, Ed | Raulerson, Steve | Clayton, Judy | Lilly, Alan | Colletti, Irene B.
Directors: Clark, Larry
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After finding himself at the constant abuse of his best friend Bobby, Marty has become fed up with his friend’s twisted ways. His girlfriend, a victim of Bobby’s often cruel ways, couldn’t agree more and they strategize murdering Bobby, with a group of willing and unwilling participants in a small Florida town. In the midst of their plotting, they find themselves contemplating with the possible aftermath of what could happen.

Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957)

Monday, February 18th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | War
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Holden, William | Hawkins, Jack | Guinness, Alec | Hayakawa, Sessue | Donald, James | Horne, Geoffrey | Morell, André | Williams, Peter | Boxer, John | Herbert, Percy | Goodwin, Harold | Sears, Ann | Okawa, Heihachiro | Katsumoto, Keiichiro | Chakrabandhu, M.R.B.
Directors: Lean, David
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The film deals with the situation of British prisoners of war during World War II who are ordered to build a bridge to accommodate the Burma-Siam railway. Their instinct is to sabotage the bridge but, under the leadership of Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness), they are persuaded that the bridge should be constructed as a symbol of British morale, spirit and dignity in adverse circumstances. At first, the prisoners admire Nicholson when he bravely endures torture rather than compromise his principles for the benefit of the Japanese commandant Saito (Sessue Hayakawa). He is an honorable but arrogant man, who is slowly revealed to be a deluded obsessive. He convinces himself that the bridge is a monument to British character, but actually is a monument to himself, and his insistence on its construction becomes a subtle form of collaboration with the enemy. Unknown to him, the Allies have sent a mission into the jungle, led by Warden (Jack Hawkins) and an American, Shears (William Holden), to blow up the bridge.