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Thirteen days
In October, 1962, U-2 surveillance photos reveal that the Soviet Union is in the process of placing nuclear weapons in Cuba. These weapons have the capability of wiping out most of the Eastern and Southern United States in minutes if they become operational. President John F. Kennedy and his advisors must come up with a plan of action against the Soviets. Kennedy is determined to show that he is strong enough to stand up to the threat, and the Pentagon advises U.S. military strikes against Cuba--which could lead the way to another U.S. invasion of the island. However, Kennedy is reluctant to follow through, because a U.S. invasion could cause the Soviets to retaliate in EuropeA nuclear showdown appears to be almost inevitable.
Internal Affairs
Keen young Raymold Avila joins the Internal Affairs Department of the Los Angeles police. He and partner Amy Wallace are soon looking closely at the activities of cop Dennis Peck whose financial holdings start to suggest something shady. Indeed Peck is involved in any number of dubious or downright criminal activities. He is also devious, a womaniser, and a clever manipulator, and he starts to turn his attention on Avila
Minority Reports
Based on a Philip K. Dick short story, Minority Report is about a cop in the future working in a division of the police department that arrests killers before they commit the crimes courtesy of some future viewing technology. Cruise's character has the tables turned on him when he is accused of a future crime and must find out what brought it about and stop it before it can happen
The West Wing (TV series)
Inside the lives of staffers in the west wing of the White House
The Agency (TV series)
A look at the inner workings of the CIA. The Agency" shows the problems facing intelligence agents today
15 Minutes
A media-savvy cop joins a young arson investigator on a case featuring two nasty Eastern European immigrants searching for their fifteen minutes of fame http://www.joblo.com/15minutes.htm
1984
Michael Radford's adaption of George Orwell's foreboding literary premonition casts John Hurt and Suzanna Hamilton as lovers who must keep their courtship secret. Aside from criminalizing sex and interpersonal relationships, the ruling party in their country Oceania both fabricates reality and reconstructs history for the sake of oppressing the masses. They brainwash their citizens via large, propaganda-spewing TV monitors installed in their living rooms, which also inspect everyone's activities. Hurt and Hamilton are among the few we see desperately trying to fight the system by keeping control of their thoughts and beliefs. While the atmosphere becomes a bit too stifling at times, the images are quite striking with their muted colors and dilapidated sets. In an interesting bit of casting, Richard Burton costars (in his final role) as a government agent who surreptitiously exposes Hurt to the ideas of resistance. Unlike many like-minded films, 1984 does not offer a flashy vision of the future, but then that aspect makes it feel all the more real. In an age when more and more of our everyday activities are being scrutinized, Big Brother may not be so far off after all. --Bryan Reesman http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00007KQA3/qid=1063645856/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-7903528-7798535?v=glance&s=dvd
2001: A Space Odyssey
When Stanley Kubrick recruited Arthur C. Clarke to collaborate on "the proverbial intelligent science fiction film," it's a safe bet neither the maverick auteur nor the great science fiction writer knew they would virtually redefine the parameters of the cinema experience. A daring experiment in unconventional narrative inspired by Clarke's short story "The Sentinel," 2001 is a visual tone poem (barely 40 minutes of dialogue in a 139-minute film) that charts a phenomenal history of human evolution. From the dawn-of-man discovery of crude but deadly tools in the film's opening sequence to the journey of the spaceship Discovery and metaphysical birth of the "star child" at film's end, Kubrick's vision is meticulous and precise. In keeping with the director's underlying theme of dehumanization by technology, the notorious, seemingly omniscient computer HAL 9000 has more warmth and personality than the human astronauts it supposedly is serving. (The director also leaves the meaning of the black, rectangular alien monoliths open for discussion.) This theme, in part, is what makes 2001 a film like no other, though dated now that its postmillennial space exploration has proven optimistic compared to reality. Still, the film is timelessly provocative in its pioneering exploration of inner- and outer-space consciousness. With spectacular, painstakingly authentic special effects that have stood the test of time, Kubrick's film is nothing less than a cinematic milestone--puzzling, provocative, and perfect. --Jeff Shannon
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005ASUM/qid=1063646660/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-7903528-7798535?v=glance&s=dvd http://kubrickfilms.warnerbros.com/video_detail/2001/
2010
No director could ever have hoped to repeat the artistic achievement of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, and nobody knew that better than Peter Hyams, who made this much more conventional film from the first of three sequel novels by Arthur C. Clarke. Whereas Kubrick made a poetic film of mind-expanding ideas and metaphysical mysteries, Hyams shouldn't be blamed for taking a more practical, crowd-pleasing approach. In revealing much of what Kubrick deliberately left unexplained, 2010 lacks the enigmatic awe of its predecessor, but it's still a riveting tale of space exploration and extraterrestrial contact, beginning when a joint American-Soviet mission embarks to determine the cause of failure of the derelict spaceship Discovery. Having arrived at Discovery near the planet Jupiter, the American mission leader (Roy Scheider) and his Russian counterpart (Helen Mirren) must investigate the apparent failure of the ship's infamous onboard computer, HAL 9000, as well as the meaning of countless mysterious black monoliths amassing on Jupiter's surface (an interpretation Kubrick originally left up to his viewers). Meanwhile, Earth is on the brink of nuclear war, and an apparition of astronaut David Bowman (Keir Dullea) appears to repeatedly promise that "something wonderful" is about to happen. The DVD includes an interview with Arthur C. Clarke, an eight-page booklet, and original trailers for 2001 and 2010. --Jeff Shannon http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6305047448/qid=1063646872/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/102-7903528-7798535?v=glance&s=dvd
77 Sunset Strip (TV Series)
This series, along with spin-off series; Surfside 6, Hawaiian Eye and Bourbon Street Beat; were produced by Warner Brothers, the first major American studio to dive full bore into television series production; and all aired by ABC (the network now owned by The Walt Disney Company; not the old British network). The one major coincidence of these series were the seemingly interchangeable plots, locales (Surfside 6 in Miami Beach; Bourbon Street Beat in New Orleans and Hawaiian Eye in Honolulu) and casts; both in the adventure series noted above; as well as their cadre of Western shows such as Cheyenne, Maverick and Lawman. The show starred Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. as Stu Bailey, Roger Smith as Jeff Spencer and Edd Byrnes as Gerald Lloyd Kookson III ('Kookie'). A hip, humourous series with flashy action that ushered in a rash of copycat, new-style private eye shows. Set in Hollywood, they worked out of office no. 77 on Sunset Strip and their cases took them to all the glamour spots of the world. http://www.classicthemes.com/50sTVThemes/themePages/77SunsetStrip.html http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/tv/adults/other/77sunset.htm
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash, Jr. experiences it all. A mathematical genius, he made an astonishing discovery early in his career and stood on the brink of international acclaim. But the handsome and arrogant Nash soon found himself on a painful and harrowing journey of self-discovery once he was diagnosed with schizophrenia. After many years of struggle, he eventually triumphed over this tragedy, and finally, late in life, received the Nobel Prize http://www.abeautifulmind.com/
A Bell for Adano
Whoever had the crazy idea of dyeing Miss Tierney's hair blonde? Had the world gone mad? Whatever the reason, playing the part of an Italian village girl with platinum blonde hair can have done little to further Gene's career, especially since she does not even attempt an Italian accent, and limits herself to mechanically following a dreadful script which does not allow her to develop into any kind of believable character at all. This is a tasteless film in more ways than one: the scriptwriters' patronising depiction of Italian village folk as 'charmingly' primitive, stupid, sycophantic ne'er-do-wells has to be seen to be believed
A Dry White Season (Euzhan Palcy, 1989)
A white Afrikaner living resignedly with apartheid confronts the system when his black gardener, an old friend, is persecuted and murdered. A well-meaning expose that, like many others, focuses on white people http://www.moviegoods.com/movie_product.asp?master_movie_id=8818#review
A Few Good Men
Strong performances by Cruise and Nicholson carry this story of a peacetime military coverup. Cruise is a smart aleck Navy lawyer sleepwalking through his comfortable career in DC. He's ready to write off two soldiers pinned for the murder of their cohort until he interviews their commanding officer, Nicholson. Cruise smells a rat, but Nicholson practically dares him to prove it. Moore is another military lawyer assigned to the case, though her function seems to be holding Kaffee's hand (there's no actual romance between the two). Incredible fireworks between Cruise and Nicholson in the courtroom. Based on the play by Sorkin, who also wrote the screenplay
http://www.moviegoods.com/movie_product.asp?master%5Fmovie%5Fid=9346&movie%5Fnss=19920157
A Man for All Seasons
Sterling, heavily Oscar-honored biographical drama concerning the life and subsequent martyrdom of 16th-century Chancellor of England, Sir Thomas More (Scofield). Story revolves around his personal conflict when King Henry VIII (Shaw) seeks a divorce from his wife, Catherine of Aragon, so he can wed his mistress, Anne Boleyn--events that ultimately lead the King to bolt from the Pope and declare himself head of the Church of England. Remade for TV in 1988 with Charlton Heston in the lead role
http://www.moviegoods.com/movie_product.asp?master%5Fmovie%5Fid=2499&movie%5Fnss=19670003#review
A Soldier's Story
A black army attorney is sent to a Southern base to investigate the murder of an unpopular sergeant. Features WWII, Louisiana, jazz and blues, and racism in and outside the corps. From the Pulitzer-prize winning play by Charles Fuller, with most of the Broadway cast. Fine performances from Washington and Caesar http://www.moviegoods.com/movie_product.asp?master_movie_id=7793
A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two
Cities? has been filmed more than a dozen times, but this Ralph Thomas-directed
film starring Dirk Bogarde is my favorite. Filmed in 1958, this black and white
version seems to capture better than the others the true atmosphere of the
times--remember, 搃t was the best of times; it was the worst of times?--when
London and Paris were mortal enemies and intrigue and deception were on every
corner and aboard every stage! From the Charles Dickens novel, the movie
examines the spirit of the French revolution and its tragedies and
ramifications, the insanities commiteed in the name of the
revolution with its countless deaths by guillotine, and the disregard for civil
liberties--all i the name of Mother Liberty. Certainly it captures the melodrama
of Dickens, and of the times, and Bogarde's dual role of Sydney and Charles as
the ill-fated and ill-starred heros is one of his best
http://www.allwatchers.com/Topics/Info_4060.asp
Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1934)
This film, I believe released in 1940 is a very accurate portrayal of Abraham Lincoln's life from young man to right after his election to the Presidency. It appears that great research went into portraying the true psychology of the main characters as well as giving the audience a view of that time period. Two great stars appear in this movie along with a great supporting cast. Ruth Gordon plays Lincoln's wife, Mary Todd. She is superb in this role. Raymond Massey is unparalleled acting as Abe. He even looks very much like Lincoln and with mannerisms I had previously read about. He is probably the best actor to ever play the part. Also the costume design looks very authentic along with the other details of that time period. See for yourself! I thoroughly enjoyed the movie and also the music in it. You won't be disappointed http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6301328043/103-7879462-2283038 http://www.san.beck.org/MM/1940/AbeLincolninIllinois.html
Abraham Lincoln (1930)
Griffith's first talking movie takes Abraham Lincoln from his birth through his assassination. http://www.san.beck.org/MM/1930/AbrahamLincoln.html
Absence of Malice
High-minded story about the harm that the news media can inflict. Field is the earnest reporter who, after being fed some facts by an unscrupulous federal investigator, writes a story implicating Newman in a murder he didn't commit. Field hides behind journalistic confidentiality privilege to put off the outraged Newman, who loses a friend to suicide during the debacle http://www.moviegoods.com/movie_product.asp?master%5Fmovie%5Fid=7212&movie%5Fnss=19810169
Act of Vengeance
Based on actual events, Charles Bronson portrays a courageous union official pushing for reform who challenges the union's powerful, corrupt leader in a bitterly fought election with devastating results http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ActofVengeance-1000240/about.php
Advise and Consent
Preminger's political thriller examines the dark side of politics and its tragic personal repercussions for an essentially decent man. When a President nominates a controversial candidate for Secretary of State, the political dealing and infighting begins as dissident legislators are willing to stoop even to blackmail to stop his confirmation -- or assure it. Preminger seemed to hit his stride lending a documentary tension to legal or political settings, and this is one of his best. Laughton's last role. http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&cf=info&id=1802827470&intl=us
Agnes of God (Norman Jewison, 1985)
Jane Fonda portrays Dr. Livingston, a psychiatrist who is called in as part of the investigation when a dead infant is found at a convent. The child is found to belong to solemn, naive Sister Agnes (Meg Tilly), who offers little in the information about who the father is or why she committed the crime. The Mother Superior (Anne Bancroft) is willing to help in the investigation anyway she can, but when the idea of a virgin birth is suggested, the agnostic Dr. Livingston finds herself in a heated dialogue pitting faith against science http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&cf=info&id=1800340563&intl=us
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
The intentionally sterile opening third of A.I. Artificial Intelligence, the highly anticipated film from Steven Spielberg, takes place mostly indoors and doesn't look or feel like anything the director has ever done before. The rest ? set outdoors and, later, underwater ? involves a homeward journey resembling E.T.'s and robots that look mighty familiar. It has so many echoes of the filmmaker's past successes that the movie threatens to veer into self-parody. Add 2 1/4 hours of methodical pacing, and it's no surprise that this puzzling film already is generating some of the most polarized reactions in the director's almost 30-year canon. The long-nurtured sci-fi fantasy that Spielberg took over from Stanley Kubrick is as strange, disjointed and wondrous as you'd expect from such an odd cinematic coupling http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/2001-06-29-ai-review.htm
Alias (TV Series)
Jennifer Garner starred as college student Sydney Bristow, who during her senior year was recruited into SD-6, the shadowy "special operations" division of the CIA of which her father, Jack (Victor Garber), was a top functionary. Given a crash course in martial arts and high technology, Sydney still did not quite appreciate the gravity of her mission in life until she inadvertently caused the murder of her fianc?. Thereafter, she kept her profession a secret from everyone she knew -- and did her best to stay at least one step ahead of whatever enemy happened to be after her during a given episode. http://alias.energy51.com/ http://entertainment.msn.com/movies/movie.aspx?m=205
All the King’s Men (1949)
All The King's Men is the story of the rise of politician Willie Starks from a rural county seat to the spotlight. Along the way, he loses his initial innocence, and becomes just as corrupt as those who he assaulted before for this characteristic. Also included is the romance between one of his "right hand women" and the up-and-coming journalist who brings Starks to prominence. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041113/plotsummary
All the President’s Men (1976)
It helps to have one of history's greatest scoops as your factual inspiration, but journalism thrillers just don't get any better than All the President's Men. Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford are perfectly matched as (respectively) Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, whose investigation into the Watergate scandal set the stage for President Richard Nixon's eventual resignation. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0790733889/103-2613220-3027829?v=glance
Always
Always stars Richard Dreyfuss as a Forest Service pilot who takes great risks with his own life to douse wildfires from a plane. After promising his frightened fiancée (Holly Hunter) to keep his feet on the ground and go into teaching, Dreyfuss's character is killed during one last flight. But his spirit wanders restlessly, hopelessly attached to and possessive of Hunter, who can't see or hear him. Then the real conflict begins: a trainee pilot (Brad Johnson), a likable doofus, begins wooing a not-unappreciative Hunter--and it becomes Dreyfuss's heavenly mandate to accept, and even assist in, their budding romance.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000IQW5/103-2613220-3027829?v=glance
Amadeus
The satirical sensibilities of writer Peter Shaffer and director Milos Forman (One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest) were ideally matched in this Oscar-winning movie adaptation of Shaffer's hit play about the rivalry between two composers in the court of Austrian Emperor Joseph II--official royal composer Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham), and the younger but superior prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Tom Hulce). The conceit is absolutely delicious: Salieri secretly loathes Mozart's crude and bratty personality, but is astounded by the beauty of his music. That's the heart of Salieri's torment--although he's in a unique position to recognize and cultivate both Mozart's talent and career, he's also consumed with envy and insecurity in the face of such genius. That such magnificent music should come from such a vulgar little creature strikes Salieri as one of God's cruelest jokes, and it drives him insane. Amadeus creates peculiar and delightful contrasts between the impeccably re-created details of its lavish period setting and the jarring (but humorously refreshing and unstuffy) modern tone of its dialogue and performances--all of which serve to remind us that these were people before they became enshrined in historical and artistic legend.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0790734060/103-2613220-3027829?v=glance
Amistad
Based on a true story, several Africans are put on trial in the United States for killing the captain of the ship they were being transported on, and one lawyer challenges the politics of the time saying that they had the right to kill the man because he was selling them as slaves.
http://www.movie-source.com/movie_page.asp?movieID=84
The true story of the 1839 revolt on the Spanish slave ship La Amistad would appear to make strong material for a film, and the brilliant opening scene of Steven Spielberg's Amistad proves that point. Depicting in graphic, unflinching detail how the imprisoned Africans, led by one Cinque (Djimon Hounsou), fought against their captors and took command the ship, the scene gets the film off to a bold, arresting start, delivering the promise of a highly charged and powerful two-and-a-half-hours.
Alas, the promise remains just that, a promise, and the ultimately disappointing Amistad loses its momentum once the action shifts from the sea to New England, where the 44 Amistad Africans end up. Held under lock and key once more, the Africans, charged with murder and piracy, become the objects in a heated property trial, and the film settles into the familiar rhythm of a courtroom drama. The prepubescent Queen Isabella (Anna Paquin) of Spain argues that the Africans are rightfully hers, claiming that the passengers were Cuban-born slaves; the British Navy lay a counter claim since, as they maintain, the passengers were not slaves but free people illegally captured from West Africa. Looking out for the Africans' interests are abolitionists Theodore Joadson (Morgan Freeman) and Lewis Tappan (Stellan Skarsgard), as well as Roger Baldwin (Matthew McConaughey), a young attorney with a struggling practice.
The Amistad Africans' case makes it to the Supreme Court, with none other than former President John Quincy Adams (Sir Anthony Hopkins) arguing on their behalf.
But even with the underdeveloped African perspective, the scenes that squarely focus on them are more compelling than any of the legal action with the Yanks.
A true Amistad movie should be an inspiring, highly emotional and moving tale about the courage and will of the Africans themselves--not the mildly affecting, American-centered courtroom drama that Spielberg has made
http://www.all-reviews.com/videos/amistad.htm
An Enemy of the People
An Enemy of the People is a scathing indictment of a corrupt society. A small town in Norway is just seeing its first hint of prosperity, thanks to the burgeoning popularity of its healing springs. But Dr. Thomas Stockman discovers that the springs are polluted so badly that they will poison the town’s first big wave of tourists. Shutting down the springs for renovation will cripple the town; keeping them open could spread an epidemic across Europe. It seems like a simple black-and-white situation, but it soon spirals out of control. No character is safe from Ibsen’s scourge--the motivations of wealthy conservatives, the liberal press, and even the Doctor himself are mercilessly laid bare. The play has obvious resonance with current political issues and is performed with such feeling and skill that it is sure to spark discussion, if not an argument or two. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000687EF/qid=1071517731/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-4337159-1843321?v=glance&s=dvd
An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
Zack Mayo (Richard Gere) has nothing--the son of an alcoholic, indifferent military father, he's grown up in the Philippines living on top of a brothel. But after college he decides he wants more and, despite his father's mockery, enrolls in the navy's Officer Candidate School to become a jet pilot. His sergeant, brilliantly played by Louis Gossett Jr., makes his life a living hell from day one, but Zack won't quit. The candidates are warned to stay away from the local girls looking for naval husbands, but Zack and his bunkmate, Sid (David Keith), find themselves falling for two friends, Paula (Debra Winger) and Lynette (Lisa Blount), who work at the local paper mill. Zack fights his feelings for Paula, determined to let nothing sway him from his goals. But as the hellish weeks of training go by, Zack begins to see that maybe he can't do it alone--and that what's getting him through are his friends in the ranks, and the girl he's been pushing away.
http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&cf=info&id=1800102405
And Justice for All
Al Pacino plays a Maryland lawyer who takes on a judicial system rife with dealmaking in this awkward blend of satire and sentimentality. Topical director Norman Jewison can't seem to help Pacino get comfortable with the mismatched material, which pushes the film into outrageousness at some turns and mawkishness at others.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000053UIE/103-0464999-2332653
Angel Street (TV Series)
Detectives King and Paretsky are a pair of female homicide detectives (the only ones, in fact), stationed at an out- of-the-way station in the bad part of Chicago. The show primarily played off the 'buddy' aspect of the characters, as King was a college-educated black woman on the fast track, while Paretsky was a working-class white single mother. In addition the two also had to deal with the Neanderthal attitudes of the male officers in their station.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103350/plotsummary
Armageddon
Due to a shuttle's unfortunate demise in outer space, NASA becomes aware of a doomsday asteroid that is on a collision course with Earth. After New York City is damaged by hundreds of small meteorites, NASA discovers an asteroid the size of Texas is on a collision course with Earth. They recruit the best deep core driller in the world, Harry Stamper, to train astronauts who will go to the asteroid, drill into the center and detonate a nuclear warhead. Harry says he can't train men how to drill in ten days, so he brings in his own team of roughnecks to learn to become astronauts and get the job done. One of his team is the fiancé of his own daughter. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120591/plotsummary
Bay's protagonists--the eight crude, lewd, oversexed (but lovable, of course) oil drillers summoned to save the world from a Texas-sized meteor hurling toward the earth--are not flawless heroes, but common men with whom all can relate. In this huge Western-in-space soap opera, they're American cowboys turned astronauts. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000G3PA/103-2613220-3027829?v=glance
Arresting Behavior (TV Series)
Police sitcom. A pair of mismatched cops are followed on their tours of duty by a tv crew. An obvious pastiche of the numerous 'reality' shows (Cops etc) clogging up the airwaves.
http://www.memorabletv.com/usaa4.htm
Asteroid
When a plummeting asteroid menaces the earth, heroic astronomer Lily McKee leads a team of brave earthlings out to save the globe. The special effects dazzle, but the "how-will-we-stop-it?" nailbiter suspense factor hinges on shabby science.
http://www.littleman.com/movies/films/3/000132153.html
Backdraft
A rookie firefighter tries to earn the respect of his older brother and other firefighters while taking part in an investigation of a string of arson/murders. This detailed look into the duties and private lives of firemen naturally features widespread pyrotechnics and special effects.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101393/plotsummary
Bad Company
When a CIA agent is killed during a nuclear arms purchase, his partner Oakes, recruits his twin brother, Jake Hayes. Jake had no idea he had a twin brother, let alone that he worked for the CIA. Jake, a.k.a. Michael Turner, has nine days to fill his brother's place. However, the enemy terrorists learn of his secret identity and kidnap his girlfriend/fiancee. He has to rescue them and save New York city from an imminent nuclear terrorist act.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280486/plotsummary
Barton Fink
In 1941, New York intellectual playwright Barton Fink comes to Hollywood to write a Wallace Beery wrestling picture. Staying in the eerie Hotel Earle, Barton develops severe writer's block. His neighbor, jovial insurance salesman Charlie Meadows, tries to help, but Barton continues to struggle as a bizarre sequence of events distracts him even further from his task.
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0101410/plotsummary
Battleship Potemkin (1925, Eisenstein, Soviet Union)
Based on the historical events the movie tells the story of a riot at the battleship Potemkin. What started as a protest strike when the crew was given rotten meat for dinner ended in a riot. The sailors raised the red flag and tried to ignite the revolution in their home port Odessa.
The movie revolves around an uprising on board the Battleship Potemkin (Bronenoset Potemkin) in 1905. Conditions on the ship are unbearable, which in turn incites revolutionary fervor among the sailors, most notably within the character of Vakulinchik. After the ship's doctor declares rancid meat safe to eat, the sailors buy provisions at the canteen in a show of protest. The Admiral then orders all those who ate the borsch made with the meat to step under the cannons in a show of loyalty. Those who do not are covered under a tarp and ordered shot. Vakulinchik then implores his shipmates to rise up against those who oppress them, namely the officers of the ship. All the officers are killed and the ship is liberated. During the uprising, Vakulinchik dies. His body his placed on the docks in the Odessa harbor as a symbol of the revolution. The citizens of Odessa rally around his body and join the Potemkin in their revolt. Cossaks then come, in one of the most famous scenes of the film, and slaughter the helpless citizens on the steps leading to the harbor, effectively ending the revolt in Odessa. A fleet of battleships then comes to destroy the Potemkin
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0015648/plotsummary
Becket
Made in 1964, but set in 12th-century England, this is the fact-based story of Henry II (Peter O'Toole) and his dear friend, the Archbishop of Canterbury (Richard Burton). When the king appoints his former drinking buddy to the high religious office, he believes he has placed an ally into power. Instead, he learns that Thomas very much takes his job to heart, prompting Henry to ask that fateful question--"Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?"
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6300198731/102-0763041-5188138?v=glance
Big Business
In the 1940s in the small town of Jupiter Hollow, two sets of identical twins are born in the same hospital on the same night. One set to a poor local family and the other to a rich family just passing through. The dizzy nurse on duty accidentally mixes the twins unbeknown to the parents. The story flashes forward to the 1980s where the mismatched sets of twins are about to cross paths following a big business deal to closedown the Sleepy Hollow factory.
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0094739/plotsummary
Blaze
This movie tells the story of the latter years of Earl Long, a flamboyant governor of Louisiana. The aging Earl, an unapologetic habitue of strip joints, falls in love with young stripper Blaze Starr. When Earl and Blaze move in together, Earl's opponents use this to attack his controversial political program, which included civil rights for blacks in the 1950's. Can Earl keep Blaze and retain control of the state? http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0096943/plotsummary
Blow Out
This stylish Brian DePalma thriller plays off the theme of the unsuspecting witness who discovers a crime and is thereby put in grave danger, but with a novel twist. Jack is a sound-man who works on "Grade-B" horror movies. Late one evening, he is "sampling" sounds for use on his movies, when he hears something unexpected through his sound equipment and records it. Curiosity gets the better of him when the media become involved, and he begins to unravel the pieces of a nefarious conspiracy. As he struggles to survive against his shadowy enemies and expose the truth, he doesn't know who he can trust.
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0082085/plotsummary
Boomtown (TV Series)
Boomtown was set in contemporary Los Angeles, where crime and punishment was practically a way of life. Each episode featured a different criminal case which was related from virtually everybody's point-of-view: the city detectives, the beat cops, the politicians, the ER staff, the media -- and of course, the criminals. Naturally, not everyone saw things in the same way, and this divergence of opinion was the heart of the series. http://www.blockbuster.com/bb/movie/details/0,7286,VID-V+++273922,00.html
Boston Public (TV Series)
Set within the walls of Boston Public High School, the series is told from the viewpoint of the dedicated but harried principal Steven Harper (Chi McBride). The challenges facing Harper include aging teacher Harvey Lipshultz (Fyvush Finkel), whose often nonsensical rambling indicates that senility is quickly settling in; ongoing clashes between faculty and the students' parents, who are convinced that not enough/too much is being done for/to their youngsters; various student cliques, ranging from a girls' group that rates the potential sexual prowess of the teachers to a bunch of bullying punks; and such one-day-at-a-time crises as the teacher who decides to counter potential student violence by bringing a gun to class and firing it over his charges' heads.
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Boy Meets World (1990s TV Series)
The show starts with Corey as an average eleven year old boy. He has a best friend from the other side of the tracks (Shawn), a teacher that constantly keeps him on his toes, a classmate named Topanga who he has trouble understanding, and a family that keeps his life interesting - including an older brother who seems to become more idiotic as the show progresses. As years wear on and Corey grows up, everything gradually changes. Shawn begins to feel the strains of his lees than perfect life, Topanga become more than a friend, and the constant spinning of the world leads up to Corey slowly becoming less niave and more responsible.
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Boyz N the Hood (1991)
The story of life in South Central Los Angeles, following the fortunes or otherwise of a group of young blacks. Struggling to escape the violence and drugs, some of them opt for education, pinning their hopes on college, others are caught up in the violence that is endemic to the neighborhood.
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Brave New World
Lenina and Bernard live in a world where society is divided up into distinct castes, from Alphas down to Epsilons (although we only see Deltas, no Epsilons), and both Lenina and Bernard are part of the privileged Alpha caste. Reproduction and education are under the strict control of the government, and happiness is the only thing any citizen should be pursuing. This lifestyle is greatly helped by the drug soma, a happy drug, easy to ingest, with no harmful side effects. Unfortunately, Lenina and Bernard have forgotten that "promiscuity is every citizen's duty" and spend too much time with each other. Also, Bernard is part of the department in charge of societal conditioning, and their results are falling, which means that a few Deltas here and there are questioning their role in society. Leonard Nimoy has an interesting role here as the World Controller Mond. There's some sexism here too, but at least Lenina has more brains and more things to do. The character of Bernard has also been augmented, making him much more forceful and driven by purpose.
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Brazil
The movie presents such an unrelentingly imaginative and savage vision of 20th-century bureaucracy that it almost became a victim of small-minded studio management itself. Sam Lowry is a civil servant who one day spots a mistake in one of the pieces of paperwork passing through his office. The mistake leads to the arrest of an entirely innocent man, and although Lowry attempts to correct the error, it just gets bigger and bigger, sucking him in with it. http://www.cinemamontreal.com/aw/crva.aw/p.cm/r.que/m.Montreal/j.e/i.205/s.0/f.Brazil.html
Bridge at San Luis Rey
Five people die when a rope bridge collapses in Peru. A local priest, perplexed why God chose these five to die, goes to town to investigate who the five were. What the good priest does find is the hothouse Micaela (Lynn Bari), who is wooed by a sailor, a theater gadfly, and the local viceroy. This leads to court intrigue, some incongruous song and dance numbers, and a trip to that fateful bridge. When the old bridge does snap and we know who is lying at the bottom of that Peruvian ravine, it's fair to wonder if the local priest didn't waste his time asking about the wrong people or whether it's just been a waste of time altogether.
Broadcast News
Basket-case network news producer Jane Craig falls for new reporter Tom Grunnick, a pretty boy who represents the trend towards entertainment news she despises. Aaron Altman, a talented but plain correspondent, carries an unrequited torch for Jane. Sparks fly between the three as the network prepares for big changes, and both the news and Jane must decide between style and substance.
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Brooklyn South (TV Series)
"Brooklyn South" is the latest police show from executive producer/creator Steven Bochco, who also brought us "Hill Street Blues" and "NYPD Blue" and other shows. Here, we follow the officers and victims within one of the precincts in Brooklyn, New York.
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Brubaker
When the new Warden comes in disguised as an inmate, he sees first hand all the corruption and scams the guards and prison officials and running. When he reveals himself, and starts to implement reforms to stop the corruption, the local community business, who had been benefiting from the scams, fights back, and the corrupt southern prison system, starts making political trouble for the new warden. http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0080474/plotsummary
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV Series; principal Snyder)
Buffy is sixteen years old and is the "chosen one" . She gets to kill vampires because it is her destiny to do so. She had a bad reputation at her old school in Los Angeles because she had burned the gym down. The principal at her new school at first rips up her records, and then tapes her records back together again. Buffy tries to explain that the gym at her old school had to be burned down because it was full of vampires! Buffy and her mom just want a fresh start in their new, suburban California home, where the good part of town is half a block away from the bad part of town. In her new high school, Buffy meets an eccentric librarian who knows that Buffy is the "chosen one". At first, the librarian scares her away by showing her a book about vampires, but then she returns to the library, knowing that the librarian can help her out with fighting off vampires and other supernatural things.
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Bullitt
Frank Bullitt is selected by Chalmers, a politician with ambition, to guard a Mafia informant. Bullitt's friend is shot and the witness is left at death's door by two hit men who seem to know exactly where the the witness was hiding. Bullitt begins a search for both the killer and the leak, but he must keep the witness alive long enough to make sure the killers return. Chalmers has no interest in the injured policeman or the killers, only in the hearings that will catapult him into the public eye and wants to shut down Bullitt's investigation.
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Car 54, Where Are You? (1960s TV Series)
This retread of
the hilarious 1960s TV show about N. Y. C. cops with a hefty Keystone quotient
is a woefully embarrassing assemblage of gags that would bring up the rear in
POLICE ACADEMY.
O'Donnell (her screen debut), Drescher, and Piven acquit themselves well, under
the circumstances. Despite presence of Al Lewis--reprising his Schnauzer role
from the original Nat Hiken series--this turkey sat on the shelf after
completion in 1991.
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Casualties of War
Based on a true story, this Brian De Palma film casts Michael J. Fox as a soldier in Vietnam in a squad led by Sean Penn. While on patrol, in the wake of an ambush that has left friends dead, they kidnap and rape a Vietnamese woman--then murder her. But Fox, one of the soldiers who refused to participate in the rape, is so appalled by the killing that he reports it--and finds himself being treated as the villain. Penn is scarily tough as the vindictive soldier and De Palma does a solid job of re-creating the crime, making it a thing of horror. Yet this film never quite connects, despite a strong performance by Fox and a supporting cast that includes John C. Reilly and John Leguizamo. --Marshall Fine http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005R23U/102-3971649-0344163?v=glance
Cheers (TV Series; mail carrier Cliff Clavin)
Sam Malone's drinking problem (which led him to buy the bar Cheers) soured his career as a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. When a young teaching assistant named Diane Chambers is left by her Professor fiancée, she took a job waitressing at Cheers, leading to a rocky, on-again, off-again relationship with Sam. The bar where everybody knows your name is home to: Sam's old Coach, naive farmboy Woody, know-it-all Cliff, bitter waitress Carla, troubled psychiatrist Frasier and his wife, and regular Norm, owner of the hugest bar tab.
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Chinatown
The corrupt bureaucrats of 1930's L.A. were diverting water from the shared reservoirs in the north and east valleys and dumping the water into the ocean. They did this to make it look like L.A. could not spare the water and the farmers and ranchers that needed this water would have to look elsewheres. The officials knew the farmers and ranchers would never be able to find another water source, so their farms and ranches would eventually fail. This would devalue the land. The officials would swoop in and buy up the land at depressed prices and then develop it. This particular land was close enough to be very valuable to L.A. for residential expansion. It was just another way to defraud farmers of their land and ultimately increase the politians powerbase by turning farmland into city. http://www.gnovies.com/discussion/chinatown.html
Citizen Kane
Citizen Kane is a powerful dramatic tale about the uses and abuses of wealth and power. It's a classic American tragedy about a man of great passion, vision, and greed, who pushes himself until he brings ruins to himself and all around him. Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane was taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist.
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City Hall (1995)
Veteran politician Mayor John Pappas (Al Pacino) and idealist Deputy Mayor Kevin Calhoun (John Cusack) are masters at the art of compromise, back room politics and brokering the deals that keep the city running like clockwork. They thought nothing could stop the power machine they so carefully built. But when a drug bust gone activity causes the accidental death of an innocent child, Calhoun and a suspicious attorney (Bridget Fonda) uncover a scandal that links the Mafia directly to the Mayor's office. A scandal could bring down the most powerful man in the city. City Hall is an explosive and provocative political thriller with a compelling story where consciousness and compromise are in constant conflict, and where winner takes all. http://findcoolmovies.com/index.php?do=mov&mid=228
City of Hope (1991)
Hudson City, New
Jersey, is a decaying shell of a city where whites, blacks, unions, and the
police form their own tribes and where having juice--political influence--often
means toeing the tribal line. CITY OF HOPE presents the lives of the several of
Hudson City's residents, ranging from the inhabitants of a decrepit tenement to
the fat cats in city hall. Two men in particular--the son of a corrupt
contractor and a black politician accused of being a sellout--struggle to deal
with the city's political structure, which reaches a crisis when a white
professor is accused of sexually assaulting two black youths.
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City of Joy (1992)
The strength of the movie is that the title "City of Joy" is used to describe an inner city slum rife with poverty, leprosy,misery and dominance by the ruling class. The central theme is that joy is not a state of mind, but living and surviving against the worst of odds.
An American surgeon loses a young patient, quits the medical profession and goes to India to find himself. There he runs into a nun who is trying to establish a free clinic in a neighborhood of untouchables. He resists the call back to medicine, but eventually begins helping them build the clinic, which angers the local "Godfather" who tries to stop the project by intimidation.
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Class Action
A father and daughter, both attorneys, are on opposite sides in the courtroom. He's on the prosecuting side and she's for the defense. As father and daughter they become divided, and as attorneys, endangered by the truth.
Jedediah Tucker Ward is an esteemed trial attorney who has built his reputation defending the underdog against the huge, impenetrable corporate power structure. His daughter Maggie, also a lawyer, has more conventional aims. Jedediah believes that his daughter is selling out by working as a corporate attorney, but Maggie sees her father's defense of the "common man" as an excuse for self-aggrandizement on the job and negligence at home.
The festering antagonism between the two comes to a head when they meet in the courtroom for a class action suit against an American auto manufacturer, where Maggie represents the car company and Jedediah represents the people.
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Clear and Present Danger
Based upon the Tom Clancy novel of the same name, Jack Ryan, a CIA analyst, is thrust right in the middle of a power struggle within the Colombian drug cartel after one of the President's "life long" friends is murdered, apparently in retaliation for stealing money as part of a money laundering scheme for the cartel. Jack is then appointed acting Deputy Director of Intelligence, CIA, upon the terminal illness of Admiral James Greer, former DDI, and quickly gets in over his head due to his political naiveté. The situation rapidly deteriorates when some of the presidents’ men convince the President to conduct covert actions against the cartel, in direct violation of congress. Felix Cortez, the security chief of Ernesto Escobeda, the "victim" of the missing money, is one of the cartel boss's. Cortez tries to play both sides, appearing to inform Escobeda about the CIA's involvement in the covert operations against him, while trying to orchestrate a coup to take over the cartel, with Cortez as its sole boss. James Cutter, the President's National Security Advisor, makes his own deal with Cortez, with the Presidents knowledge, and halts communications to the covert troops still in Columbia, through the Deputy Director of Operations, CIA, Robert Ritter. Ryan ends up going to Columbia to rescue the covet ops troops with the help of field agent John Clark, but not before some fence mending between the two, being that Ritter blamed Ryan for the comm outage, with Clark's men subsequently being captured by Cortez's mercenaries.
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Collateral Damage (2002)
COLLATERAL DAMAGE tells the story of family man and firefighter Gordon Brewer (Arnold Schwarzenegger), who is plunged into the complex and dangerous world of international terrorism after he loses his wife and child in a bombing credited to Claudio "The Wolf" Perrini (Cliff Curtis). Frustrated with the official investigation and haunted by the thought that the man responsible for murdering his family might never be brought to justice, Brewer takes matters into his own hands and travels to Colombia to track down the terrorist. http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&id=1805537012&cf=info&intl=us
Coma
Based on the best-selling novel by Robin Cook, COMA is a taught paranoid thriller and a dramatically apt metaphor for the corruption and fraud in the modern American health-care industry. Dr. Susan Wheeler (Genevieve Bujold) suspects her colleagues of foul play when her closest friend lapses into a coma following a routine operation. When Wheeler discovers a suspiciously frequent pattern of unexplained comas in her hospital, she becomes obsessed with finding an answer, even when it puts her own career and life in danger. Her lover, Dr. Bellows (Michael Douglas), admits there is a mystery but doubts there is a conspiracy and even suspects Wheeler of suffering from a nervous breakdown. The tension builds as Wheeler's investigation leads her to a secret corporation specializing in organ transplant experimentation and sale for profit, and she soon witnesses the defining image of the film: comatose bodies suspended on wires in a computer-controlled environment. With its suspensful plot, dramatic editing, and conspiratorial terror, COMA is a precursor to many paranoid dramas such as THE FIRM and THE PELICAN BRIEF, establishing a defined style that may yet become a genre unto itself.
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Coming Home
Both Jane Fonda and Jon Voight won Oscars for their performances in this profoundly moving 1978 flick dealing with the aftereffects of the Vietnam War. Fonda, feeling isolated while her hawkish husband, Bruce Dern, is away in Vietnam, follows a friend's example and volunteers at a veteran's hospital. There she is reacquainted with Voight, an old friend who has returned from the war as a paraplegic. Lonely and disconnected from her husband, Fonda finds love, and fulfilling sex, with Voight. The sex scenes, very steamy for the time, are still provocative. This mature love story is about expanding your horizons, and is both moving and thoughtful. Director Hal Ashby (Harold and Maude) does succumb to melodrama on occasion, but these are forgivable slips http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005V9HI/002-4598624-2437638?v=glance
Command Decision
Gable, heading a strong all-male cast from MGM's roster of stars, plays flight commander at a US bomber base in England in 1943. He has to make the agonizing decision to send his men on what amounts to suicide missions over Germany. He knows the importance of bombing a factory specializing in new long-range aircraft, but he is opposed from various quarters. A sober, gripping, often verbose (it was adapted from a Broadway play) behind-the-scenes look at the US war effort, it was disliked by some British critics because it gave the impression that America had won the war single-handedly.
Con Air
Nothing makes good-guy non-recidivist offender Cameron Poe happier than the thought of returning to society, where his angelic wife and the equally angelic little girl he's never known are waiting. And nothing makes him angrier than the passel of psychopathic murderers and rapists aboard his prison transport plane--especially when, under the direction of ringleader Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom, they revolt and hijack their own plane. Fortunately, our hero's been trained by the Army as an elite one-man-fighting-machine, and a dogged Justice Department agent waits on the ground to help him bring the fanatical fly-boys in for a bloody crash landing--in Vegas!
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Nicolas Cage, sporting a disconcerting mane of hair, is a wrongly convicted prisoner on a transport plane with a bunch of infamously psychopathic criminals, including head creep Cyrus the Virus (John Malkovich), black militant Diamond Dog (Ving Rhames), and serial killer Garland Greene (Steve Buscemi, making the most of his pallid, rodent-like qualities). Naturally, the convicts take over the plane; meanwhile, on the ground, a U.S. marshal (John Cusack) and a DEA agent (Colm Meaney) try to figure out what to do. As is the postmodern way, the movie displays a self-consciously ironic awareness that its story and characters are really just excuses for a high-tech cinematic thrill ride. Best idea: the filmmakers persuaded the owners of the legendary Sands Hotel in Las Vegas to let them help out with the structure's demolition by crashing their plane into it http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6304806434/002-4598624-2437638?v=glance
Copland
Copland is a film about a group of NYPD officers who settle in and run a town called Garrison, New Jersey. When one of the group kills a couple of black youths on a bridge over the Hudson River, an investigation by the local constable and internal-affairs is launched. In the process some unsettling evidence is dug up which points to the fact that the town and its residents are anything but clean.
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Corky Romano
Good-natured veterinarian Corky Romano is stunned when he receives a surprising call from his long-lost father "Pops," an underworld crimelord who has been indicted by a grand jury. With his trial just two weeks away, it looks as if the Mafia kingpin is finally going down. However, he still has an ace up his sleeve. Pops realizes that the one person who can turn the tables and infiltrate the FBI undetected - and abscond with the evidence against him - is Corky, who was banished from the family at a young age for not fitting in. Corky is only too happy to help his newly rediscovered relations, and his brothers intimidate a computer hacker into creating a fake resume to get Corky into the FBI. But the hacker panics and goes overboard, making Corky appear to be a super agent, a repuation that he must live up to.
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Courage Under Fire
A year after a devastating friendly fire incident during the Gulf War, Lt. Colonel Nathaniel Serling (Denzel Washington) is in a Washington, D.C., desk job assigned the rudimentary task of overseeing a Medal of Honor candidate who died in the war. However, the case and soldier in question are a political hot potato--Captain Karen Walden (Meg Ryan) is America's first female soldier to be killed in combat.
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Courthouse (TV Series)
Court TV is the network of engaging stories, revealed through the people and process of investigation. Within the past five years, Court TV has become a top rated powerhouse cable destination as well as a leader in forensic and investigative programming. Court TV is 50% owned by AOL Time Warner, and 50% owned by Liberty Media Corp. The network is seen in almost 80 million homes.
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Criminal Justice
A woman is scarred by a purse snatcher with a knife and picks someone out of the police files even though she is not sure it was him. If she's right, it's justice. If she's wrong, it's revenge.
This powerful drama argues that America's courts have become too overburdened with cases to deliver justice anymore. After hooker Denise Moore gets robbed and stabbed in a Brooklyn tenement while buying crack, she picks ex-con Jesse Williams out of a lineup at the police station. As a result, Jesse is charged with assault and robbery. A tough, female assistant district attorney takes charge of the case -- and she cares a lot more about winning than exposing the truth. Defending Jesse, who insists he's innocent, is a lawyer who would rather make a plea bargain than bring the case to trial. But Jesse doesn't want to go back to jail; he has a mother and son who need him, and he desperately wants to lead an honest life. He winds up with a painful choice: should he accept a plea bargain that will put him behind bars for three to six years, or risk a trial -- and a guilty verdict that could put him behind bars for twelve years? http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?PID=1166400&frm=sh_google
Crimson Tide
This 1995 drama is a combination of one-dimensional but enjoyable performances, lots of high-tech nonsense taking place onscreen, and mechanistic movie-making at its loudest and most seizure-inducing. Gene Hackman and Denzel Washington play nuclear submarine officers squaring off over the former's apparent intention to do some unauthorized damage to an enemy. Tony Scott (Top Gun) directed, bringing his luster and pop commercial sense to go with all that Simpson
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Crossing Jordan (TV Series)
Jill Hennessy (Law & Order) is back as passionate, controversial medical examiner Jordan Cavanaugh. No doubt about it: When it comes to exposing the truth behind a crime, Jordan plays by her own rules. And she has a history of insubordination to prove it. Still, she's a vital asset to the Boston Coroner's office. Jordan's living proof you can't solve a deadly crime without stirring up big trouble http://tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/ShowMainServlet/showid-2921/
Cry Freedom
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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (TV Series)
C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation, does exactly what it says on the tin. This is a detective show with the detectives pushed into the background and the real stars, the crime scene analysts take over. Lead by the immaculately precise Gil Grissom (William L. Petersen, who is also a Producer of the show) the forensic evidence collection team collect evidence for some rather bizzare (ie dead scuba diver found in a tree) deaths and try to piece together what happens
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CSI Miami (TV Series)
“C.S.I.: Miami” has essentially the initial setup as its predecessor, only it is set in Miami instead of Las Vegas. Horatio Caine (David Caruso) is the head of the Miami crime lab unit. He is a former homicide detective who now prefers to work the scientific side of crime solving. He has a team of specialists working for him. Megan Donner (Kim Delaney) is the DNA specialist who is Caine’s right hand woman. She seems to be the yin to his yang as far as crime solving, which plays to each other’s advantage, even though it is a cause of stress for both of them. While she prefers to rely on strict scientific data, he prefers to go with his gut. Even though she has been on the team for a while, she recently took a leave of absence after the loss of her husband. Also on the team are Calleigh Duquesne (Emily Procter), a Southern girl with a specialty in ballistics; Tim Speedle (Rory Cochrane), an investigator who has many contacts on the street; Eric Delko (Adam Rodriguez), an underwater recovery expert; and Alexx Woods (Khandi Alexander), the coroner who doesn’t exactly stay in the morgue all the time. All of them are fiercely loyal to Caine, making for another great team of crime solvers. http://www.entertainyourbrain.com/csimiamirev.htm
Dangerous Minds (Louanne Johnson)
Dante’s Peak
Dark Blue (2003)
Das Boot
Dave (1993)
Day One
Daylight (1996)
Days of Wine and Roses
Dead Man Walking
Death of a Salesman
Deep Impact
Deer Hunter
Dellaventura (TV Series)
Delta Force
Diagnosis: Murder (TV Series)
Die Hard
Die Hard II
Die Hard with a Vengeance
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Double Jeopardy
Downtown
Dragnet (TV Series)
Dreyfus Affair (1907 French Docudrama)
Dry White Season
Due South (TV Series)
Dynasty (TV Series; Congressman Neil McVane)
Earthquake in New York
Elmer Gantry
Enemy of the State
Esther and the King
ER (TV Series)
Erin Brokovich
E.T.
Executive Decision
Executive Suite
EZ Streets (TV Series)
Fail-Safe
Fahrenheit 451
Fame (1982 TV Series)
Fargo
Father Murphy (
Fiorello
Fire Down Below
Focus
For the Love of My Sons
For the People (1965 TV Series)
Forrest Gump
Fort Apache
Fountainhead
From Hell
From Here to Eternity
Gallipoli (Australia, 1981)
Gandhi (Richard Attenborough, 1982)
Ghostbusters
Ghosts of Mississippi
Glory
Gone with the Wind
Good Morning, Vietnam
Gorillas in the Mist
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Gulliver’s Travels
Hack (TV Series)
Hardcastle and McCormick (1980s TV Series)
Hearts Afire (TV Series)
Held Hostage
Henry V (1989)
Hidden Agenda (1990)
High Crimes (2002)
High Nool (1952)
Hill Street Blues (TV Series)
Homicide: Life on the Street (TV Series)
Home Court (TV Series)
Hospital
How to Succeed in Business
Hudson Street (TV Series)
I was a Male War Bride
Ikiru (Japan, Kurasawa)
Impulse
In the Heat of the Night
In the Line of Fire (1993)
Independence Day
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Insomnia
Inspector Morse (British TV Series)
Internal Affairs
Ivan the Terrible (1946, Eisenstein, Soviet Union)
JAG (TV Series)
Jaws
JFK
Joe Somebody (2002)
Journey of Hope (Turkey)
Judgment at Nuremberg
Kate and Leopold
King of the Hill (TV Series)
Kiss of the Dragon
Kramer vs. Kramer
La Femme Nikita
La Femme Nikita (TV Series)
L.A. Law (TV)
Last Temptation of Christ
Law and Order (TV Series)
Law and Order: Criminal Intent (TV Series)
Law and Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)
Lawrence of Arabia (1969, 1992)
Lean on Me
Legends of the Fall (1995)
Les Miserables
Likely Suspects (TV Series)
Lilies of the Field
Lion King
Little Big Man
Little Dorrit
Lottery (1983-1984 TV Series)
M
Man for All Seasons
Marie
Martial Law (TV Series)
MASH
MASH (TV Series)
Maximum Bob (TV Series)
Men of Honor
Memphis Belle (1990)
Metropolis
Miami Vice (TV Series)
Midnight Cowboys
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Millennium (TV Series)
Minority Report (2002)
Miss Congeniality
Mission Impossible
Mission Impossible 2
Mississippi Burning
Mister Roberts
Modern Times (1936)
Moon Over Parador
Moonlighting (British, 1982)
Mr. Death
Mr. Holland’s Opus
Mr. Peepers (1950s TV Series)
Mr. Roberts
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Murder in the First
Murder, She Wrote (TV Series)
Murphy’s Romance
Music Box
Mutiny on the Bounty
My Fellow Americans (1996)
My So Called Life (1990s TV Series)
Naked City (1950s TV Series)
Nashville (1975)
NARC (2003)
Network
Never Cry Wolf
New York Undercover (TV Series)
Nicholas and Alexandra
Night Court (1984-1992 TV Series)
Nighthawks
Nine Days of One Year (1961, Romm, Soviet Union)
Nine to Five
No Way Out (1987)
Norma Rae
Notorious (1946)
NYPD Blue (TV Series)
Objective Burma (1945)
Oklahoma
On Our Own (TV Series)
On the Waterfront
One Flew Over Cuckoo’s Nest
Orleans
Our Miss Brooks (1950s, TV Series)
Out of Africa
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Paths of Glory
Patriot Games
Patton
Pendulum
Perfect Witness
Perry Mason (1957-1974 TV Series)
Phenomenon
Picket Fences (1990s TV Series)
Places in the Heart
Platoon
Potemkin
Power
Powwow Highway (1992)
Presumed Innocent
Primary Colors
Primary Motive (1992)
Profiler (TV Series)
Protocol
Ragtime
Rain Man
RAN
Rashomon (1951)
Reasonable Doubts (TV Series)
Reds
Remington Steele (TV Series)
Repentance (1987, Soviet Union)
Repo Man
Report to Murphy (1982 TV Series)
Reversal of Fortune
Robbery Homicide Division (TV Series)
Robin Hood
Roc (TV Series)
Rocky
Roger and Me
Room 222
Running on Empty
Rush Hour
Rush Hour II
Sansho the Bailiff
Saving Private Ryan
Schindler’s List
Seinfeld (TV Series; Postman Newman)
Serpico
Seven Days in May
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Paradzhanov, 1964, Soviet Union)
Shawshank Redemption
Showtime (2002)
Silkwood
Singblade
Small Soldiers
Sophie’s Choice
Space Cowboys
Spies Like Us
Spin City (TV Series)
Spy Game
Stand and Deliver (1988)
Star Trek (TV and Movies)
Star Wars I: Phantom Menace
Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones
Star Wars IV:
Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars VI: The Return of the Jedi
Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye (TV Series)
Suspect
Swing Shift
Swordfish
Taken (TV Series)
Taps
Teahouse of the August Moon
The Affair
The Agency (TV Series)
The American President
The Andromeda Strain
The Apostle
The Band Played On
The Blond Around the Corner (1984, Bortko, Soviet Union)
The Bourne Identity (2002)
The Bridge Over the River Kwai
The Bronx Zoo (TV Series)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
The Caine Mutiny (1954)
The Candidate (1972)
The Caucasian Prisoner (1967, Gaidai, Soviet Union)
The Chairman (1964, Saltykov, Soviet Union)
The Cider House Rules
The Client
The Color of Heaven (Iran)
The Contender
The Crying Game
The Deer Hunter
The Devil’s Advocate
The Distinguished Gentleman (1992)
The District (TV Series)
The Dukes of Hazzard (TV Series; Boss Hogg)
The Faculty
The FBI Story (1959)
The French Connection (I & II)
The Fugitive (1993)
The Fugitive (1960s TV Series)
The General’s Daughter
The Girl Without an Address (1957, Riazanov, Soviet Union)
The Glitter Dome
The Godfather
The Grapes of Wrath
The Greatest American Hero (TV Series)
The Green Mile
The Hill
The Hunt for Red October
The Insider
The Killing Fields
The Last Angry Man
The Last Castle
The Last Hurrah
The Magnificent Ambersons
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (TV Series)
The Matrix
The Mighty Quinn
The Milagro Beanfield War
The Missiles of October
The Mission
The Monroes
The Mothman Prophecies
The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser
The Negotiator
The Net
The One
The Onion Field
The Paper Chase
The Patriot
The Pelican Brief
The Piano Mover
The Postman
The Powers That Be (1991-19992 TV Series)
The President’s Man
The President’s Man: A Line in the Sand
The Protectors (1969-1970 TV Series)
The Public Defenders (1954-1955 TV Series)
The Red Badge of Courage
The Rock
The Rockford Files (TV Series)
The Russians Are Coming
The Secret Diaries of Desmond Pfeiffer (1998 TV Series)
The Shield (TV Series)
The Simpsons (TV Series)
The Sum of All Fears
The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3
The Thin Blue Line
The Thin Red Line
The Trial (Orson Welles’ version)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Philip Kaufman, 1988)
The Untouchables (1987)
The Usual Suspects
The Verdict
The Virginians (1960s TV Series)
The West Wing (TV Series)
The Whereabouts of Jenny
The White Shadow (TV Series)
The World According to Garp
The X-Files
The Year of Living Dangerously
They Came to Cordura
Third Watch (TV Series)
Thirteen Days
Three Days of the Condor
Three Faces of Eve
Three Kings
Thunderheart (1992)
Tight Little Island (1949)
Timecop (TV Series)
To Kill a Mockingbird
Tootsie
Touch of Evil
Tour of Duty (TV series)
Training Day (2001)
Treasures of Sierra Madre
True Believer
True Friends (1954, Kalatozov, Soviet Union)
Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)
Twelve Angry Men
Twelve O’clock High
Under Siege
Under Suspicion (TV Series)
Volcano
Walker, Texas Ranger (TV Series)
Waking Ned Devine
Waking the Dead (British TV Series)
Wall Street
Welcome Back, Kotter (1970s, TV Series)
West Side Story
Whistle Blower (Simon Langton)
Without a Trace (TV Series)
Women of the House (TV Series)
Working Girl (1988)
Wyatt Earp
Yes, Minister
Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
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