Posts Tagged ‘directorial-debut’

Sydney aka Hard Eight (1996)

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Philip Baker Hall | John C. Reilly | Samuel L. Jackson | F. William Parker | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Nathanael Cooper | Robert Ridgely | Michael J. Rowe | Peter D'Allesandro | Steve Blane | Andy Breen | Mark Pinizza | Richard Gross | Cliff Keeley | Truman Robbins
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John has lost all his money. He sits outside a diner in the desert when Sydney happens along, buys him coffee, then takes him to Reno and shows him how to get a free room without losing much money. Under Sydney’s fatherly tutelage, John becomes a successful small-time professional gambler, and all is well, until he falls for Clementine, a cocktail waitress and sometimes hooker.

Control (2007)

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | Music
Countries: Australia | Japan | UK | USA
Actors: Samantha Morton | Sam Riley | Alexandra Maria Lara | Joe Anderson | Toby Kebbell | Craig Parkinson | James Anthony Pearson | Harry Treadaway | Andrew Sheridan | Robert Shelly | Matthew McNulty | Ben Naylor | Herbert Grönemeyer | Nigel Harris | Tim Plester
Directors: Anton Corbijn
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Ian Curtis is a quiet and rather sad lad who works for an employment agency and sings in a band called Warsaw. He meets a girl named Debbie whom he promptly marries and his band, of which the name in the meantime has been changed to Joy Division, gets more and more successful. Even though Debbie and he become parents, their relationship is going downhill rapidly and Ian starts an affair with Belgium Annik whom he met after one of the gigs and he’s almost never at home. Ian also suffers from epilepsy and has no-good medication for it. He doesn’t know how to handle the feelings he has for Debbie and Annik and the pressure the popularity of Joy Division and the energy performing costs him.

Reservoir Dogs (1992)

Friday, March 21st, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Harvey Keitel | Tim Roth | Michael Madsen | Steve Buscemi | Chris Penn | Lawrence Tierney | Randy Brooks | Kirk Baltz | Quentin Tarantino | Edward Bunker | Steven Wright | Rich Turner | David Steen | Tony Cosmo | Stevo Polyi
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Six criminals, who are strangers to each other, are hired by a crime boss Joe Cabot to carry out a diamond robbery. Right at the outset, they are given false names with an intention that they won’t get too close and concentrate on the job instead. They are completely sure that the robbery is going to be a success. But when the police show up right at the time and the site of the robbery, panic spreads amongst the group members and one of them is killed in the subsequent shootout along with a few policemen and civilians. When the remaining people assemble at the premeditated rendezvous point (a warehouse), they begin to suspect that one of them is an undercover cop.

House of Sand and Fog (2003)

Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Jennifer Connelly | Ben Kingsley | Ron Eldard | Frances Fisher | Kim Dickens | Shohreh Aghdashloo | Jonathan Ahdout | Navi Rawat | Carlos Gómez | Kia Jam | Jaleh Modjallal | Samira Damavandi | Matthew Simonian | Namrata Singh Gujral | Al Faris
Directors: Vadim Perelman
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Massoud Amir Behrani, an Iranian immigrant, has spent most of his savings trying to enhance his daughter’s chances of a good marriage. Once she is married, he spends the remaining funds on a house at an auction, unwittingly putting himself and his family in the middle of a legal tussle with the house’s former owner. What begins as a legal struggle turns into a personal confrontation, with tragic results.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The (2003)

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jessica Biel | Mike Vogel | Eric Balfour | Andrew Bryniarski | Erica Leerhsen | Lauren German | Terrence Evans | Marietta Marich | Heather Kafka | Kathy Lamkin | Brad Leland | Mamie Meek
Directors: Marcus Nispel
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A group of college kids, on their way back from scoring drugs in Mexico, run into a hitchhiker who has just survived a horrific massacre from the night before. They try to help the girl, but in the process end up falling prey to her mysterious fear. It happens to be wielding a chainsaw…

All About the Benjamins (2002)

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Ice Cube | Mike Epps | Tommy Flanagan | Carmen Chaplin | Eva Mendes | Valarie Rae Miller | Anthony Giaimo | Jeff Chase | Roger Guenveur Smith | Gino Salvano | Tony Ward | Dominic Chianese Jr. | Anthony Michael Hall | Antoni Corone | Bob Carter
Directors: Kevin Bray
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A bounty hunter is on the trail of a conman who skipped bail. The two wind up in a deserted warehouse where they witness a diamond scam in action, caught in the midst they put their differences aside to team up and detain the looters.

Sugarland Express, The (1974)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Goldie Hawn | Ben Johnson | Michael Sacks | William Atherton | Gregory Walcott | Steve Kanaly | Louise Latham | Harrison Zanuck | A.L. Camp | Jessie Lee Fulton | Dean Smith | Ted Grossman | Bill Thurman | Kenneth Hudgins | Buster Danials
Directors: Steven Spielberg
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Lou-Jean, a blonde woman, tells her husband, who is imprisoned, to escape. They plan to kidnap their own child, who was placed with foster parents. The escape is partly successful, they take a hostage, who is a policeman and are pursued through to Texas…

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)

Thursday, February 15th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Italy | UK | USA
Actors: Gwyneth Paltrow | Jude Law | Giovanni Ribisi | Michael Gambon | Ling Bai | Omid Djalili | Laurence Olivier | Angelina Jolie | Trevor Baxter | Julian Curry | Peter Law | Jon Rumney | Khan Bonfils | Samta Gyatso | Louis Hilyer
Directors: Kerry Conran
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Set in New York City circa 1939, the film centers on a reporter who notices that the world’s scientists are disappearing. Teamed with a skilled pilot and an adventurous colleague, it’s up to her to thwart the plans of a mad scientist bent on world domination.