Wealthy residents of Mexico City are seized with panic as there were twenty-four cases of kidnapping in a six-day period. Terrified to death, many parents hire bodyguards for their offsprings. Former government operative John Creasy (Denzel Washington) reluctantly agrees to take a job as a bodyguard for Pita (Dakota Fanning), a nine-year-old daughter of industrialist Samuel Ramos (Marc Anthony). At first the cold Creasy can hardly tolerate the precocious kid but Pita gradually warms up his heart toward her and they become friends. When the girl is kidnapped, Creasy starts to take vengeance on each one involved in the abduction.
When blood is shed like water and there is nothing cheaper than human life, you have to be able to speak the language of violence in order to survive. Three cousins, Miklo (Damian Chapa), Paco (Benjamin Bratt) and Cruz (Jesse Borrego), learnt this law of life when kids. The guys grew up together in East Los Angeles but chose different paths to walk upon. Miklo was convicted of murder and sent to prison where he joined the Chicano Mafia. Cruz, who showed great promise as an artist, became a heroin addict. Paco chose a career in law enforcement. Their paths seemed to have diverged forever. But one day mean streets lead to one place where former friends meet again as bitter enemies.
In 1933, after leaving Dogville, while traveling with her father (Willem Dafoe) and his gangsters to the south of USA, Grace Margaret Mulligan (Bryce Dallas Howard) sees a slave ready to be punished in a property called Manderlay. The slavery had been abolished seventy years ago, and Grace becomes revolted with the attitude of the owners of Manderlay, keeping slaves in their cotton fields and following predetermined despicable rules called "Mam's Law". Grace decides to stay with some gangsters in Manderlay and give notions of democracy to the slaves and to the white family. When harvest time comes, Grace sees the social and economical reality of Manderlay.
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of eighteenth century Paris, develops a superior olfactory sense, which he uses to create the world's finest perfumes. His work, however, takes a dark turn as he tries to preserve scents in the search for the ultimate perfume.
In the final instalment of the Godfather Trilogy, an aging Don Michael Corleone seeks to legitimize his crime family's interests and remove himself from the violent underworld but is kept back by the ambitions of the young. While he attempts to link the Corleone's finances with the Vatican, Michael must deal with the machinations of a hungrier gangster seeking to upset the existing Mafioso order and a young protoge's love affair with his daughter.
"Frida" chronicles the life Frida Kahlo (Salma Hayek) shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina), as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and controversial affair with Leon Trotsky, to her provocative and romantic entanglements with women, Frida Kahlo lived a bold and uncompromising life as a political, artistic, and sexual revolutionary.
Set in the late 18th century, England, the story revolves around Ichabod Crane (Johnny Depp), a New York constable who is charged with investigating a series of mysterious decapitations which take place in a godforsaken small village called Sleepy Hollow. The locals are terrified, for they strongly believe in the legend of a monstrous Headless Horseman (Christopher Walken). They claim that the sinister ghost of a Hessian soldier rides out of the night, attacking innocent victims and returning to the Underworld with their heads cut off. Crane, the highly educated man believing only in logic, is certain that it is a ruthless serial murderer who wanders in the nearby woods. But when he launches his investigation, he encounters terrifying, inexplicable phenomena.
An undercover narc dies, the investigation stalls, so the Detroit P.D. brings back Nick Tellis, fired 18-months ago when a stray bullet hits a pregnant woman. Tellis teams with Henry Oak, a friend of the dead narc and an aggressive cop constantly under the scrutiny of internal affairs. They follow leads, informants turn up dead, Nick's wife is unhappy he's back on the street, Henry's protective of the dead cop's wife. Nick reads and re-reads the case file, broods, watches Oak's heavy-handed style, sometimes joining in. The brass want to close out the case, Nick and Henry stay on it, and bits of evidence point them to an auto body shop. What actually happened; will Nick ever know?
Barry Egan is a wreck, driven to breakdown by the henpecking of his seven sisters. He steals his heart and manhood away from the curbside. Slowly he learns how to direct them toward love, for the sake of and with the help of another troubled soul.
The sportswoman Sarah loses her husband and daughter in a car crash, but she survives. One year later, her friends Beth, Rebecca, Sam and Holly, leaded by Juno, invite her to explore a deep cave in the mountains. When the expedition is about three kilometers underground, a rock collapses and blocks the access tunnel, trapping the group inside the cave. With limited supplies, they try to find a way out, but sooner they face a hunger and savage breed of predators.
A group of radical animal rights activists break into a British laboratory where scientists conduct secret experiments on monkeys and chimpanzees. They release some chimps that turn out to be infected by the virus of murderous rage. Thus the activists inadvertently unleash the contagious virus that twenty eight days later rages throughout the country, turning the population into bloodthirsty, zombie-like creatures. A handful of survivors struggle to take shelter in the fortified part of the British Isles. But they are unaware that their troubles are just beginning.
This is a screen version of the most terrific book of the same name (The Red Dragon) by Thomas Harris. The famous trilogy of an evil Gannibal Lecter finds the brilliant, dreadful ending in this suspense series, taking place before events with Clarissa Starling and before the Silence of the Lambs episode. The man who smoked out the mysterious maniac, Gannibal Lecter, now is to pursue the bloodier criminal, who is known as The Tooth Fairy. This ruthless scum carries out massacres of the whole families, and the FBI agent Will Graham (Edward Norton) will face many complications catching the bastard. Will has a mysterious gift which allows him to penetrate into the minds of the criminals, he got retired after catching Lecter, but the massacres having place compel him to return to his dangerous duties. The fate is cynical: Graham is to ask imprisoned Gannibal Lecter for help to succeed, because the monstrous man-eater is a former forensic psychiatrist... and he is in some way connected with the Tooth Fairy.
Bill "The Butcher" Cutting's (Daniel Day-Lewis) band is fighting the Irish immigrants in 1860's NY to gain control over the underprivileged areas of the city. Bill has killed the father (Liam Nison) of DiCaprio's character called Amsterdam Vallon, several years later the young man returns to NYC and becomes an ally of The Butcher who has no idea about the past of his new crony. Vallon slowly falls under his spell which causes an inner conflict in his life because his primal aim was the ruthless revenge. Concurrently, Leo's character meets the charming pickpocket named Jenny (Cameron Diaz) who turns out to have a close relationship with The Butcher. At the same time, the Civil War rages on...
In 1791, plantation owner Louis De Pointe Du Lac is unhappy with the life he has, until Lestat De Lioncourt comes into his life. Lestat, a vampire, allows Louis to make the decision of either death or life as a vampire forever. And until his decision is already made, does Louis realize what he has become. He refuses to take human life and is about to leave when Lestat, being the clever being that he is, turns a little orphan girl into a vampire to make Louis stay. The story is told by Louis in 1991 to an interviewer about the lives of himself, Lestat and Claudia through trouble, death, curse and love over the past 200 years.
The war drama is narrated by Anthony Swofford (Jake Gyllenhaal), a third-generation Marine enlistee, who vividly recounts his experiences in the first Gulf War, depicting the rigours of boot camp, horrors of combats, friendship and loyalty of brothers-in-arms, and their memories of family and lovers who are cheating on them while they are on the front line.
The mystery thriller tells two stories. Caught up in a nasty rainstorm, ten strangers have to spend the night at an old motel in a godforsaken small town. Among the travellers are parents (Leila Kenzle and John C. McGinley) with a young son (Bret Loehr); a cop (Ray Liotta) transporting a convict (Jake Busey); a limousine driver (John Cusack); a movie star (Rebecca De Mornay); a young couple (Clea DuVall and William Lee Scott); and a call girl (Amanda Peet). Relief in taking shelter is quickly replaced with fear as they realize that they are entrapped. One by one the lodgers begin dying a violent death in a mysterious way; nevertheless, they can’t figure out the cold-blooded and sofisticated murderer. It becomes obvious that their arrival at the motel is no coincidence. Each of the stranded travellers has a sin on his conscience, therefore, it's high time for retribution. eanwhile, elsewhere, at an emergency midnight sitting of the court, Dr. Malick (Alfred Molina) tries to convince Judge Taylor (Holmes Osborne) that Malcolm Rivers (Pruitt Taylor Vince), a serial killer sentenced to death is, in fact, insane and irresponsible for his actions. How can these two events be related?
Willie (Billy Bob Thornton), a lonely drunkard, and his midget friend Marcus (Tony Cox) work the Holiday seasons as Santa Claus and his elf in department stores. However, their intent is to rob malls so as to hit the jackpot. When Christmas shoppers, satisfied with their purchaces, leave the mall, Santa and his Elf crack the store safe and make off with their own holiday presents. But in Phoenix their annual robbery gets endangered by a pesky store manager, a sharp mall detective, and a precocious 8-year-old boy who believes that Willie—as intoxicated and felonious as he seems to be—is the real Santa he's been looking for. The innocent, ingenuous little boy evokes inner change in Santa.
Frank Horrigan (Klint Eastwood) heads the Secret Service in this police detective when a dangerous maniac (John Malkovich) intends to kill the President of the USA. When this movie was filmed, Eastwood was 63, but his maniac-catching efforts display his vigourosity very evidently along with his interest in a beautiful police woman - Secret Service agent Lilly Raines (Rene Russo). John Malkovich is playing the maniac perfectly, embodying the evil mind of an ex-CIA agent.
This screen interpretation of vampire literature classic is the most well-known and, more to say, brilliant one. Set in London, this spectacular picture closely follows the book, but is even more dramatic. This eye-catching movie tells about Johnathan (Keanu Reeves) and Mina (Wynona Ryder), young pair which soon will face the ancient vampire - count Dracula (Gary Oldmen). When John heads to Transylvania for the business travel, he has to communicate with the famous Count and the monster accidentally sees John's medallion with the picture of Mina. This film is not simply an eye-candy due to its exquisite visual aesthetics, but it is also a profound story, which tells what it takes to be an immortal monster... and to love forever, hopelessly.
A moving and tender depiction of the novelist Iris Murdoch's descent into Alzheimer's Disease, covering the period from just before her marriage to intellectual John Bayley until her death. The film is based on the two books by John Bayley (Iris, Iris & The Friends).
