Posts Tagged ‘corruption’



Chinatown (1974)

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Nicholson, Jack | Dunaway, Faye | Huston, John | Lopez, Perry | Hillerman, John | Zwerling, Darrell | Ladd, Diane | Jenson, Roy | Bakalyan, Richard | Mantell, Joe | Glover, Bruce | Hinds, Nandu | O'Rear, James | Hong, James
Directors: Polanski, Roman
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Los Angeles detective Jake Gittes is hired by a woman claiming to be a Mrs. Mulwray to spy on her husband. Shortly after Gittes is hired, the real Mrs. Mulwray appears in his office threatening to sue if he doesn’t drop the case immediately. Gittes pursues the case anyway, slowly uncovering a vast conspiracy centering on water management, state and municipal corruption, land use and real estate, and involving at least one murder.

Brubaker (1980)

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Redford, Robert | Kotto, Yaphet | Alexander, Jane | Hamilton, Murray | David, Keith | Freeman, Morgan | Clark, Matt | McIntire, Tim | Ward, Richard | Van Ness, Jon | Walsh, M. Emmet | Salmi, Albert | Haynes, Linda | McGill, Everett | Avery, Val
Directors: Rafelson, Bob
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Henry Brubaker is the new warden at Wakefield prison. He makes his entrance as a prisoner in order to get a convict’s-eye-view of the real state of the institution. To his horror he finds all manner of abuse and corruption which, after disclosing his real identity, he sets out to correct.

Freshman, The (1990)

Monday, December 1st, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Brando, Marlon | Broderick, Matthew | Kirby, Bruno | Miller, Penelope Ann | Whaley, Frank | Polito, Jon | Benedict, Paul | Gant, Richard | Welsh, Kenneth | Payton-Wright, Pamela | Wong, B.D. | Schell, Maximilian | Parks, Bert | Konig, Tex | Cimino, Leonardo
Directors: Bergman, Andrew
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Clark Kellogg is a young man starting his first year at film school in New York City. After a small time crook steals all his belongings, Clark meets Carmine “Jimmy the Toucan” Sabatini, an “importer” bearing a startling resemblance to a certain cinematic godfather. When Sabatini makes Clark an offer he can’t refuse, he finds himself caught up in a caper involving endangered species and fine dining.

Absolute Power (1997)

Monday, December 1st, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Hackman, Gene | Harris, Ed | Linney, Laura | Glenn, Scott | Haysbert, Dennis | Davis, Judy | Marshall, E.G. | Hardin, Melora | Welsh, Kenneth | Johnson, Penny | Jenkins, Richard | Margolis, Mark | Kagan, Elaine | Alison Eastwood
Directors: Eastwood, Clint
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Luther Whitney is a professional thief, who only works occasionally. He is planning what is suppose to be his last job, and everything is going smoothly until some come in before he can leave. He hides in a secret room and from behind a one-way mirror sees that it’s the wife of the owner of the house he is robbing and another man. They are fooling around when the guy decides to liven things up by striking her, she get away but he corners her, she then grabs a letter opener and is about to stab him when he cries out for help when two men come in and shoot her dead. It seems that the man is Alan Richmond, the President of the United States and the two men are the secret service agents assigned to him. Later, a woman, Gloria Russell, who is his Chief of Staff enters and upon learning of what has happened, decides to cover it up and make it appear that she was killed by a burglar. After sanitizing the room, they are about to leave but they forget the letter opener, Whitney comes out of the room and takes it and makes his getaway but when they returned for the letter opener they discover Whitney and chase him but he gets away. The police investigate the murder and there are so many inconsistencies, which makes the investigator, Seth Frank suspect that something is going on. Frank then discovers that Whitney is a possible suspect but the only thing is that he doesn’t believe that Whitney is a killer. Whitney tries to leave town but when he learns just how corrupt and amoral Richmond is he decides to play mind games with him and the others. Richmond, at the same time, tells them that Whitney must be silenced permanently.

Pineapple Express (2008)

Monday, December 1st, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Rogen, Seth | Franco, James | Dunn, Nora | Ahn, Rio | Carson, Sam | Cole, Gary | Crosby, Adam | Flisher, Rich | Hader, Bill | Jeong, Ken | Khoo, Jourdan Lee | Lewis, Peter | Lo Truglio, Joe | Longstreet, Robert | McBride, Danny R.
Directors: Green, David Gordon
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Lazy stoner Dale Denton has only one reason to visit his equally lazy dealer Saul Silver: to purchase weed, specifically, a rare new strain called Pineapple Express. But when Dale becomes the only witness to a murder by a crooked cop and the city’s most dangerous drug lord, he panics and dumps his roach of Pineapple Express at the scene. Dale now has another reason to visit Saul: to find out if the weed is so rare that it can be traced back to him. And it is. As Dale and Saul run for their lives, they quickly discover that they’re not suffering from weed-fueled paranoia; incredibly, the bad guys really are hot on their trail and trying to figure out the fastest way to kill them both. All aboard the Pineapple Express.

Last Castle, The (2001)

Monday, November 24th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Gandolfini, James | Lindo, Delroy | Redford, Robert | Ruffalo, Mark | Steve Burton | Clifton Collins
Directors: Rod Lurie
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When three star General Irwin is transferred to a maximum security military prison, its warden, Colonel Winter, can’t hide his admiration towards the highly decorated and experienced soldier. Irwin has been stripped of his rank for disobedience in a mission, but not of fame. Colonel Winter, who runs the prison with an iron fist, deeply admires the General, but works with completely different methods in order to keep up discipline. After a short while, Irwin can feel Winter’s unjust treatment of the inmates. He decides to teach Winter a lesson by taking over command of the facility and thus depriving him of his smug attitude. When Winter decides to participate in what he still thinks of as a game, it may already be too late to win.

Proof of Life (2000)

Monday, October 27th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Ryan, Meg | Crowe, Russell | Morse, David | Reed, Pamela | Caruso, David | Heald, Anthony | Anderson, Stanley | John, Gottfried | Armstrong, Alun | Kitchen, Michael | Martindale, Margo | Sánchez, Mario Ernesto | Sibille, Pietro | Hernández, Vicky | Martínez, Norma
Directors: Hackford, Taylor
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In a mountainous South American country, drug-dealing rebels kidnap Peter Bowman, a US engineer who works for an oil company’s subsidiary. The company calls in a negotiator, Terry Thorne, an Aussie ex-soldier based in London. When the subsidiary goes bankrupt, the oil company washes its hands of the matter and pulls Thorne. Bowman’s wife Alice begs him to stay. She and Peter’s sister cobble together some money, Thorne talks ransom terms with the cash-strapped rebels, and Peter, chained high in the mountains, is sustained by a photo of Alice. When the politics of the situation change, so must Thorne’s strategy. And what can Alice and he do about the attraction growing between them?

Gladiator (2000)

Monday, October 27th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Crowe, Russell | Phoenix, Joaquin | Nielsen, Connie | Reed, Oliver | Harris, Richard | Jacobi, Derek | Hounsou, Djimon | Schofield, David | Shrapnel, John | Arana, Tomas | Moeller, Ralf | Clark, Spencer Treat | Hemmings, David | Flanagan, Tommy | Thorsen, Sven-Ole
Directors: Scott, Ridley
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Maximus is a powerful Roman general, loved by the people and the aging Emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Before his death, the Emperor chooses Maximus to be his heir over his own son, Commodus, and a power struggle leaves Maximus and his family condemned to death. The powerful general is unable to save his family, and his loss of will allows him to get captured and put into the Gladiator games until he dies. The only desire that fuels him now is the chance to rise to the top so that he will be able to look into the eyes of the man who will feel his revenge.

Devil’s Advocate, The (1997)

Monday, October 27th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Reeves, Keanu | Pacino, Al | Theron, Charlize | Jones, Jeffrey | Ivey, Judith | Nielsen, Connie | Nelson, Craig T. | Tunie, Tamara | Santiago-Hudson, Ruben | Monk, Debra | Ruginis, Vyto | Harrington, Laura | Gray, Pamela | Matarazzo, Heather | Wyner, George
Directors: Hackford, Taylor
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Based on a book by Andrew Neiderman, the film centers on a young lawyer who joins a New York firm only to discover that his boss has an increasingly bizarre personality.

Traffic (2000)

Monday, October 20th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Del Toro, Benicio | Vargas, Jacob | Chavez, Andrew | Saucedo, Michael | Milian, Tomas | Yenque, Jose | Rivera, Emilio | O'Neill, Michael | Douglas, Michael | Jones, Russell G. | Hetherington, Lorene | Collins, Eric | Holden, Beau | Stader, Peter | Lew, James
Directors: Soderbergh, Steven
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A modern day look at America’s war on drugs told through four separate stories that are connected in one way or another. A conservative politician who’s just been appointed as the US drug czar learns that his daughter is a drug addict. A trophy wife struggles to save her husband’s drug business, while two DEA agents protect a witness with inside knowledge of the spouse’s business. In Mexico, a corrupt, yet dedicated cop struggles with his conscience when he learns that his new boss may not be the anti-drug official he made himself out to be.