Posts Tagged ‘double-cross’

Vantage Point (2008)

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Dennis Quaid | Matthew Fox | Forest Whitaker | Bruce McGill | Edgar Ramirez | Saïd Taghmaoui | William Hurt | James LeGros | Eduardo Noriega | Richard T. Jones | Holt McCallany | Leonardo Nam | Justin Sundquist | Sean O'Bryan | José Carlos Rodríguez
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The attempted assassination of the American President is told and re-told from several different perspectives.

Heist (2001)

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Sam Rockwell | Gene Hackman | Danny DeVito | Delroy Lindo | Ricky Acker | Rebecca Pidgeon
Directors: David Mamet
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David Mamet takes this story of thieves along many twists and turns, some of which work and some of which don’t. Gene Hackman plays the brilliant leader of a gang (Delroy Lindo, Ricky Jay & Rebecca Pigeon as Hackman’s youngish wife), which pulls off complex heists for a despicable fence (Danny DeVito). After stiffing the gang on a jewelry robbery, DeVito forces the gang to go after a Swiss gold shipment and to use his nephew (Sam Rockwell) in the crime. No one trusts anyone and every step is shaded with the unexpected.

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

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Johnny Depp | Orlando Bloom | Keira Knightley | Jack Davenport | Bill Nighy | Jonathan Pryce | Lee Arenberg | Mackenzie Crook | Kevin McNally | David Bailie | Stellan Skarsgård | Tom Hollander | Naomie Harris | Martin Klebba | David Schofield
Directors: Gore Verbinski
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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.

21 (2008)

Monday, June 9th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Jim Sturgess | Kevin Spacey | Aaron Yoo | Jacob Pitts | Laurence Fishburne | Jack McGee | Josh Gad | Sam Golzari | Jack Gilpin | Butch Williams | Jeffrey Ma | Frank Patton | Steven Richard Vezina | Chaska T. Werner | Kyle Morris
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Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent, student at M.I.T. in Boston who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine with the desire to become a doctor, Ben learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the four to five years of school since he comes from a poor, working-class background. But one evening, Ben is introduced by his unorthodox math professor Micky Rosa into a small but secretive club of five students, Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Jimmy whom are being trained by Professor Rosa of the skill of card counting at blackjack. Intriged by the desire to make money, Ben joins his new friends on secret weekend trips to Las Vegas where, using their skills of code talk and hand signals, they have Ben make hundreds of thousands of dollars in winning blackjack at casino after casino. Ben only wants to make enough money for the tuition to Harvard and then back out. But as fellow card counter, Jill Taylor, predicts, Ben becomes corrupted by greed and his arrogance at winning which lets his feelings get in the way, and it also puts Professor Rosa, as well as the group, on the radar of a brutal casino security enforcer, named Cole Williams, who holds a personal grudge of some kind against Rosa which threatens to undo everything the students have learned and earned.

Last Seduction, The (1994)

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Linda Fiorentino | Bill Pullman | Michael Raysses | Zack Phifer | Peter Berg | Brien Varady | Dean Norris | Donna Wilson | Mik Scriba | J.T. Walsh | Erik-Anders Nilsson | Patricia R. Caprio | Herb Mitchell | Bill Nunn | Renee Rogers
Directors: John Dahl
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Linda Fiorentino plays Bridget, a “femme fatale” who steals her husband’s money and leaves from New York. She meets Mike, who falls in love with her and they become lovers. But Mike has no idea about Bridget’s past and her plans to use him to get rid of her husband…

Death and Life of Bobby Z, The (2007)

Monday, April 21st, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Paul Walker | Laurence Fishburne | Jason Lewis | Jarrod Bunch | Jacob Vargas | Rebecca Chaney | A.J. Walsh | Richard Bairos | Michael Bowen | Troy Brenna | Keith Carradine | Adam P. Cultraro | Joaquim de Almeida | Christopher Dempsey | Paul Diaz
Directors: John Herzfeld
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Tim Kearney is an incarcerated former Marine who is offered freedom by DEA agent Tad Gruzsa in exchange for impersonating recently-late drug lord Bobby Z. Things don’t go as planned, however, and Kearney ends up on the run with Bobby Z’s 12-year-old son.

Jackie Brown (1997)

Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Denise Crosby | Pam Grier | Samuel L. Jackson | Robert Forster | Bridget Fonda | Michael Keaton | Robert De Niro | Michael Bowen | Chris Tucker | Lisa Gay Hamilton | Tom 'Tiny' Lister Jr. | Hattie Winston | David Haig | Aimee Graham | Ellis Williams | Tangie Ambrose
Directors: Quentin Tarantino
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Jackie Brown is the name of a flight attendant who gets caught smuggling her boss’ gun money on the airline she works for. Luckily for her, the Fed Ray Nicolet and the LA Cop Mark Dargus decide to team up in order to arrest the arms dealer she works for, whose name they don’t even know. Here’s when she has to choose one way: tell Nicolet and Dargus about Ordell Robbie (the arms dealer) and get her freedom -except that if Ordell suspects you’re talking about him, you’re dead- or keep her mouth shut and do some time. That’s when she meets Max Cherry -her bail bondsman-, a late fifties, recently separated, burnt-out man, who falls in love with her. Then Jackie comes up with a plan to play the Feds off against Ordell and the guys he works with -Louis Gara and Melanie Ralston, among others- and walk off with their money. But she needs Max’s help. No one is going to stand in the way of his million dollar payoff…

Oxygen (1999)

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Maura Tierney | Adrien Brody | James Naughton | Laila Robins | Terry Kinney | Paul Calderon | Dylan Baker | Olek Krupa | Frankie Faison | Slavko Stimac | Michael Henderson | Robert Shepard | Eddie Perez | Gene Canfield | Christopher J. Quinn
Directors: Richard Shepard
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A masochistic cop (Maura Tierney), who hides her predilection from her cop husband (Terry Kinney), gets involved in pursuing a kidnapper nicknamed Harry for Harry Houdini (Adrien Brody), who has kidnapped a rich woman (Laila Robins) and has buried her somewhere in Manhattan while demanding a ransom from her tycoon husband (James Naughton). Failure to pay the ransom within 24 hours will lead the kidnapper to abandoning the woman. Dylan Baker also appears as the fed that is assigned to the case.

Italian Job, The (2003)

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Thriller
Countries: France | UK | USA
Actors: Mark Wahlberg | Charlize Theron | Donald Sutherland | Jason Statham | Seth Green | Mos Def | Edward Norton | Fausto Callegarini | Stefano Petronelli | Fabio Scarpa | Cristiano Bonora | Tiberio Greco | Jimmy Shubert | Tammi Cubilette | Mary Portser
Directors: F. Gary Gray
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A gang of robbers, lead by career criminal Charlie Croker, create the largest traffic jam in Los Angeles history, giving them time to pull off a theft of gold bullion. They get away in their Mini Coopers, which are small enough to drive on sidewalks so they can make a clean get away before the traffic jam clears.

Score, The (2001)

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Robert De Niro | Edward Norton | Marlon Brando | Angela Bassett | Gary Farmer | Jamie Harrold | Frank Oz
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Nick Wells, a professional criminal, decides to leave the business for good, since he nearly got caught on his last job. His plan is to live in peace with his girl Diane, running his Montreal jazz club NYC. Soon Max, his good friend and financial partner in the illegal affairs, comes along with an offer Nick can’t refuse: A historical and priceless French sceptre has been discovered while being smuggled into the country. It is now under massive surveillance in the Montreal Customs House, and soon to be returned to France. Nick has to team up with Max’ man inside, the young, talented and aggressive thief Jackie Teller to get the precious item, and suffer no more financial problems ever. Only one question remains: Who will trick whom out of their share?