Posts Tagged ‘child-in-peril’



To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Peck, Gregory | Megna, John | Overton, Frank | Murphy, Rosemary | White, Ruth | Peters, Brock | Evans, Estelle | Fix, Paul | Paxton, Collin Wilcox | Anderson, James | Ghostley, Alice | Duvall, Robert | Windom, William | Denton, Crahan | Hale, Richard
Directors: Mulligan, Robert
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In the rural American south during the depths of the Depression, two children watch as their principled father takes a stand against intolerance.

Gate, The (1987)

Monday, November 24th, 2008
Genres: Horror
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Dorff, Stephen | Denton, Christa | Tripp, Louis | Rowan, Kelly | Irwin, Jennifer | Grover, Deborah | Denton, Scot | Veninger, Ingrid | Fagan, Sean | Goranson, Linda | Kraines, Carl | Gunn, Andrew | Nuggette, Mic
Directors: Takács, Tibor
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The boy Glen (Stephen Dorff) and his best fried Terry (Louis Tripp) accidentally open a gate to hell when a rotten tree is removed from the backyard of Glen’s house. When his dog die and a friend of Glen’s sister, the teenager Alexandra (Christa Denton), buries the animal in the hole, demons from an ancient civilization are released, seeking for two human sacrifices to dominate the world. Glen, Al and Terry, who are spending the weekend alone in the house, fight to save their lives and close the hole.

Lucky Number Slevin (2006)

Sunday, November 16th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Liu, Lucy | Hartnett, Josh | Willis, Bruce | Freeman, Morgan | Kingsley, Ben | Williamson, Mykelti
Directors: McGuigan, Paul
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After landing in the wrong place at the wrong time, Slevin (Josh Hartnett) must kill The Rabbi’s (Ben Kingsley) to scratch a $96,000 debt to The Boss (Morgan Freeman) and pay off $33,000 to The Rabbi. He can’t go to the police and he can’t leave the city. On top of all this, behind the scene’s Mr. Smith aka Mr. Goodkat (Bruce Willis) is secretly plotting to kill Slevin.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)

Monday, October 27th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Mystery
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Cleese, John | Isaacs, Jason | Margolyes, Miriam | Branagh, Kenneth | Alfie Enoch | Harris, Richard | Coltrane, Robbie | Bradley, David | Sean Biggerstaff | Radcliffe, Daniel | Grint, Rupert | Watson, Emma | Griffiths, Richard | Shaw, Fiona | Melling, Harry | Jones, Toby | Norton, Jim | Clifford, Veronica | Phelps, James | Phelps, Oliver | Walters, Julie | Wright, Bonnie | Williams, Mark | Rankin, Chris
Directors: Columbus, Chris
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Harry Potter is in his second year of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He is visited by a house-elf named Dobby and warned not to go back to Hogwarts. Harry ignores his warning, and returns. He is still famous, although still disliked by Snape, Malfoy, and the rest of the Slytherins. But then, strange things start to happen. People are becoming petrified, and no-one knows what is doing it. Harry keeps hearing a voice.. a voice which seems to be coming from within the walls. They are told the story of the Chamber of Secrets. It is said that only Salazar Slytherin’s true descendent will be able to open it. Harry, it turns out, is a Parsel-tongue. This means that he is able to speak/understand snakes. Everyone thinks that it’s him that has opened the Chamber of Secrets because that is what Slytherin was famous for.

3000 Miles to Graceland (2001)

Monday, October 27th, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Russell, Kurt | Costner, Kevin | Cox, Courteney | Slater, Christian | Pollak, Kevin | Arquette, David | Lovitz, Jon | Long, Howie | Church, Thomas Haden | Woodbine, Bokeem | Ice-T | Kaye, David | Lombardi, Louis | Howard, Shawn Michael | Kopsa, Michael
Directors: Lichtenstein, Demian
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It was an ingenious enough plan: rob the Riviera Casino’s count room during an Elvis impersonator convention. But Thomas Murphy decided to keep all the money for himself and shot all his partners, including recently-freed ex-con Michael Zane. With $3.2 million at stake, the Marshals Service closing in, and single mom Cybil Waingrow and her son Jesse constantly confounding things, Michael must track down Murphy.

Thir13en Ghosts (2001)

Monday, October 27th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Shalhoub, Tony | Davidtz, Embeth | Lillard, Matthew | Elizabeth, Shannon | Roberts, Alec | Bourne, JR | Rah Digga | Abraham, F. Murray | Harrison, Matthew | Rupp, Jacob | Crestejo, Mike | Culp, Aubrey | Andre, Charles | Speidel, Mikhael | Wesley, Daniel
Directors: Beck, Steve
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Arthur and his two children, Kathy and Bobby, inherit his Uncle Cyrus’s estate: a glass house that serves as a prison to 12 ghosts. When the family, accompanied by Bobby’s Nanny and an attorney, enter the house they find themselves trapped inside an evil machine “designed by the devil and powered by the dead” to open the Eye of Hell. Aided by Dennis, a ghost hunter, and his rival Kalina, a ghost rights activist out to set the ghosts free, the group must do what they can to get out of the house alive.

Wild Bunch, The (1969)

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Holden, William | Borgnine, Ernest | Ryan, Robert | O'Brien, Edmond | Oates, Warren | Sánchez, Jaime | Johnson, Ben | Fernández, Emilio | Martin, Strother | Jones, L. Q. | Dekker, Albert | Hopkins, Bo | Taylor, Dub | Harper, Paul | Russek, Jorge
Directors: Peckinpah, Sam
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A few months before World War I, an aging band of outlaws led by Pike Bishop rob a Texas bank intent on using the money to retire. When the robbery goes wrong, the gang is forced to flee to Mexico with Bishop’s reformed ex-partner, Deke Thornton, in hot pursuit. With nothing to show for the failed robbery, Bishop’s gang agrees to steal a shipment of guns for General “Mapache” Juerta, to restore their fortunes. With Thornton closing in, and their association with the evil Juerta trying their conscience, Bishop and co. prepare for their lawless past to catch up with them.

Tremors (1990)

Monday, October 20th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Horror | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Bacon, Kevin | Ward, Fred | Carter, Finn | Gross, Michael | McEntire, Reba | Jayne, Robert | Stewart, Charlotte | Genaro, Tony | Richards, Ariana | Marcus, Richard | Wong, Victor | Parker, Sunshine | Wagner, Michael Dan | Bachmann, Conrad | Besch, Bibi
Directors: Underwood, Ron
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Val (’Kevin Bacon’ (qv)) and Earl (’Fred Ward (I)’ (qv)) plan to put behind their days as handymen in a small dust bowl town called Perfection. Before they can get to civilization though, they encounter numerous victims of monsters that burrow through the ground. Soon the whole town is camped out on their roofs as Val and Earl lead them to safety.

Commando (1985)

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Schwarzenegger, Arnold | Chong, Rae Dawn | Hedaya, Dan | Wells, Vernon | Olson, James | Kelly, David Patrick | Milano, Alyssa | Duke, Bill | Snyder, Drew | Wyatt, Sharon | Delano, Michael | Minor, Bob | Adams, Michael | Cervantes, Gary | Juliano, Lenny
Directors: Lester, Mark L.
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A retired special agent named John Matrix led an elite unit and has left the armed forces to live in a secluded mountain home with his daughter Jenny. But now he is forced out of retirement when his daughter is kidnapped by a band of thugs intent on revenge! Unbeknownst to Matrix, the members of his former unit are being killed one by one. Even though Matrix’ friend General Franklin Kirby gives Matrix armed guards, attackers manage to kidnap Matrix and Jenny. Matrix learns that Bennett, a former member of his Matrix’ unit who was presumed dead has kidnapped him to try to force Matrix to do a political assassination for a man called Arius (who calls himself El Presidente), a warlord formerly bested by Matrix who wishes to lead a military coup in his home country. Since Arius will have Jenny killed if Matrix refuses, Matrix reluctantly accepts the demand.

Poltergeist (1982)

Monday, October 6th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Nelson, Craig T. | Williams, JoBeth | Straight, Beatrice | Dunne, Dominique | Robins, Oliver | O'Rourke, Heather | McManus, Michael | Kiser, Virginia | Casella, Martin | Lawson, Richard | Rubinstein, Zelda | Perryman, Lou | Leucart, Clair E. | Karen, James | Blocker, Dirk
Directors: Hooper, Tobe
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While living an an average family house in a pleasant neighborhood, the youngest daughter of the Freeling family, Carol Anne (Heather O’Rourke), seems to be connecting with the supernatural through a dead channel on the televison. It is not for long when the mysterious beings enter the house’s walls. At first seeming like harmless ghosts, they play tricks and amuse the family, but they take a nasty turn- they horrify the family to death with angry trees and murderous dolls, and finally abduct Carol Anne into her bedroom closet, which seems like the entrance to the other side.