Posts Tagged ‘mercy-killing’

Living and the Dead, The (2006)

Monday, June 30th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Lloyd-Pack, Roger | Bill, Leo | Conrich, Neil
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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.

Ruins, The (2008)

Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Tucker, Jonathan | Ashmore, Shawn | Anderson, Joe | Calderón, Sergio | Ramirez, Jesse | Moreno, Balder | Baveas, Dimitri | Rodriguez, Patricio Almeida | Jurado, Mario | Ramos, Luis Antonio | Quispe, Walter | Vega, Nathan | Marquez-Munduate, Tanisha | Argirousis, Chris | Gregory, Alexander
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A group of friends whose leisurely Mexican holiday takes a turn for the worse when they, along with a fellow tourist embark on a remote archaeological dig in the jungle, where something evil lives among the ruins.

Caribbean Mystery, A (1989)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery
Countries: UK
Actors: Hickson, Joan | Pleasence, Donald | Lukis, Adrian | Ward, Sophie | McKenna, T.P. | Feast, Michael | Ruskin, Sheila | Middlemass, Frank | Swan, Robert | Lloyd, Sue | Barnes, Barbara | Bent, Stephen | Mydell, Joseph | Buchanan, Valerie | Lucas, Isabelle
Directors: Petit, Christopher
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Although Miss Marple wants only to bask quietly at a West Indian resort, she is badgered with boring reminiscences by an overly talkative ex-soldier and policeman, Major Palgrave. Although he claims to possess a picture of a murderer, Miss Marple is more interested in her omnipresent knitting than his long-winded stories. After the hard-drinking Major dies that night of an apparent heart attack, the maid tells her that the blood pressure medication found in his room belongs to another guest. When she later learns that the incriminating picture is missing and the maid is found stabbed to death, Miss Marple correctly predicts that more murders will follow.

Of Mice and Men (1992)

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Malkovich, John | Walston, Ray | Siemaszko, Casey | Fenn, Sherilyn | Terry, John | Riehle, Richard | Arquette, Alexis | Morton, Joe | Willingham, Noble | D'Angerio, Joe | Milligan, Tuck | Steen, David | Harris, Moira | Boone Junior, Mark
Directors: Sinise, Gary
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Based on John Steinbeck’s 1937 classic tale of two travelling companions, George and Lennie, who wander the country during the Depression, dreaming of a better life for themselves. Then, just as heaven is within their grasp, it is inevitably yanked away. The film follows Steinbeck’s novel closely, exploring questions of strength, weakness, usefulness, reality and utopia, bringing Steinbeck’s California vividly to life.

Shadowboxer (2005)

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Gooding Jr., Cuba | Mirren, Helen | Ferlito, Vanessa | Gray, Macy | Gordon-Levitt, Joseph | Mo'Nique | Dorff, Stephen | Higgins, Matt | Pasch, Tom | Speise, Ryan Eric | Clancy, Cullen Flynn | Yoblick, Marilyn | Williams, Darnell | Vinique, Marvina
Directors: Daniels, Lee
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When Rose, a female assassin, is diagnosed with terminal cancer; she decides to carry out one final killing, assisted by lover and also stepson, Mickey.

Descent, The (2005)

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Macdonald, Shauna | Jackson Mendoza, Natalie | Reid, Alex | Mulder, Saskia | Buring, MyAnna | Noone, Nora-Jane | Milburn, Oliver | Kayll, Molly | Simpson, Leslie | Smith, Mark | Cronfield, Mark | Lamb, Stephen | Conway, Craig | Trott, Sophie | Matthiae, Tristan
Directors: Marshall, Neil
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A woman goes on vacation with her family and friends and her husband and her daughter encounters a tragic accident. One year later she goes hiking with her friends and they get trapped in the cave. With a lack of supply, they struggle to survive and they meet strange blood thirsty creatures.

Killing Zoe (1994)

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Stoltz, Eric | Delpy, Julie | Anglade, Jean-Hugues | Thai, Tai | Ramsay, Bruce | Salem, Kario | Xuereb, Salvator | Kemp, Gary | Raymond, Martin | Chaltiel, Eric Pascal | Peck, Cecilia | Holland, Gladys | Scandiuzzi, Gian-Carlo | Bonn, Gérard | Baski, Bernard
Directors: Avary, Roger
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Zed has only just arrived in the beautiful Paris and already he’s up to no good. Having just slept with a call girl, he spends a night on the town with his dangerous friends. They all decide to rob a bank the following day. There’s only one problem: Zed’s call-girl, Zoe, just happens to work at the bank which is to be robbed!

Serenity (2005)

Sunday, June 22nd, 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.

AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2004)

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Canada | Czech Republic | Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Lathan, Sanaa | Henriksen, Lance | Bremner, Ewen | Salmon, Colin | Bova, Raoul | De La Boulaye, Agathe
Directors: Anderson, Paul W.S.
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When a private satellite encounters an unidentified source of heat in Antarctica and it is found to be a pyramid buried deep underground , a search team comprising of top-of-the-line archaeologists and engineers is sent to Antarctica to find out more . Once there , the team comes across signs which indicate that the place is inhabited by an unknown alien species . It is not long before the aliens begin to hunt the team members . At the same time , a trio of coming-of-age Predators have arrived to collect the skulls of the aliens as trophies , and the humans are caught between a deadly battle between the two warring species .

Heat (1995)

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Pacino, Al | De Niro, Robert | Kilmer, Val | Voight, Jon | Sizemore, Tom | Venora, Diane | Brenneman, Amy | Judd, Ashley | Williamson, Mykelti | Studi, Wes | Levine, Ted | Haysbert, Dennis | Fichtner, William | Portman, Natalie | Noonan, Tom
Directors: Mann, Michael
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Hunters and their prey—Neil and his professional criminal crew hunt to score big money targets (banks, vaults, armored cars) and are, in turn, hunted by Lt. Vincent Hanna and his team of cops in the Robbery/Homicide police division. A botched job puts Hanna onto their trail while they regroup and try to put together one last big ‘retirement’ score. Neil and Vincent are similar in many ways, including their troubled personal lives. At a crucial moment in his life, Neil disobeys the dictum taught to him long ago by his criminal mentor—’Never have anything in your life that you can’t walk out on in thirty seconds flat, if you spot the heat coming around the corner’—as he falls in love. Thus the stage is set for the suspenseful ending….