The Tourist [2010]

"The Perfect Trip - The Perfect Trap"

Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Writers: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (screenplay), Christopher McQuarrie (screenplay)
Stars: Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie and Paul Bettany

 

 

Storyline

 

Elise (Angelina Jolie) sits next to an American tourist, Frank (Johnny Depp), on a train going to Venice. She has chosen him as a decoy, making believe that he is her lover who is wanted for police. Not only will they need to evade the police, but also the mobster whose money her lover stole.

Bloodline [2008]

 "What if the Greatest Story Ever Told was a Lie ?" 

Director: Bruce Burgess
Writer: Bruce Burgess
Stars: Gabriel Barkay, Bruce Burgess and Lionel Fanthorpe

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One man's journey into the world of the so-called 'Bloodline' conspiracy, at the heart of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, where a secret society, the Priory of Sion, claims to have guarded evidence of the marriage of Mary Magdalene and Jesus Christ, their children and their descendants down through the centuries.

Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? [2008]

Director: Morgan Spurlock
Writers: Jeremy Chilnick (screenplay), Morgan Spurlock (screenplay)
Stars: Morgan Spurlock, George Bush and Dick Cheney

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When Morgan Spurlock and his wife find out they are expecting a child in an unsafe world that faces multiple terrorist and environmental threats, Morgan decides to track down the world's most wanted and dangerous terrorist, Osama Bin Laden, undergoes self-defense training, takes all required medical shots, and sets out to travel to Morocco, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Afghanistan, Pakistan amongst others to try and locate the man who has managed to elude the American army for nearly a decade. His fears, generated due to biased media coverage that Muslims and Arabs are hostile, are laid to rest when he does encounter friendly, and quite refreshingly well educated, hospitable, politically matured men and women, who are well aware of America's faulty 'foreign policy', and do not subscribe to Jihad nor to the Taliban nor Osama's terror-tactics. But he does encounter some hostility, quite ironically...

Donnie Darko [2001]

"What would you do if you knew the future?"

Director: Richard Kelly
Writer: Richard Kelly
Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone and Mary McDonnell

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Donnie Darko doesn't get along too well with his family, his teachers and his classmates; but he does manage to find a sympathetic friend in Gretchen, who agrees to date him. He has a compassionate psychiatrist, who discovers hypnosis is the means to unlock hidden secrets. His other companion may not be a true ally. Donnie has a friend named Frank - a large bunny which only Donnie can see. When an engine falls off a plane and destroys his bedroom, Donnie is not there. Both the event, and Donnie's escape, seem to have been caused by supernatural events. Donnie's mental illness, if such it is, may never allow him to find out for sure.

MR. BONES (2)

 

Mr. Bones [2001]

"You'll laugh till your bones hurt!"

Director: Gray Hofmeyr
Writers: Gray Hofmeyr (screenplay), Greg Latter (screenplay)
Stars: Leon Schuster, David Ramsey and Faizon Love

 

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A medicine man is sent looking for the son of his tribal king, and brings back an American golfer and a host of goons intent on keeping him in the golf tournament.

Mr. Bones 2: Back from the Past [2008]

Director: Gray Hofmeyr  

Stars: Leon Schuster, Leeanda Reddy, Kaseran Pillay and Meren Reddy

 

 

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The story of Hekule, the King of Kuvukiland who is given a gemstone by the dying Kunji Balanadin. The stone is cursed and causes Hekule to become possessed by the spirit of the mischievous Kunji. It is up Mr. Bones, the royal witch doctor to cure his King and get rid of this cursed stone by returning the gem to its home in an Indian fishing village.

Benny & Joon [1993]

"A romance on the brink of reality."

Director: Jeremiah S. Chechik
Writers: Barry Berman (story), Lesley McNeil (story)
Stars: Johnny Depp, Mary Stuart Masterson and Aidan Quinn

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In a small town, an auto mechanic named Benny is devoted to taking care of his mentally ill sister, Joon, who can barely function alone in the real world despite being a talented artist. This relatively stable situation is shaken up when Benny is obliged in a poker game to welcome another player's relative, Sam, to his home for a few days. When Sam arrives, he quickly makes an impression with his quietly eccentric ways which emulate the antics of the great silent movie comedian, Buster Keaton. Without Benny's full knowledge, Sam and Joon find themselves drawn to each other to the fullest degree. However when Benny finds out, it creates a rift in the siblings as they struggle to accept their relationship is profoundly changing with the presence of this odd newcomer.

Repo Men [2010]

"For a price, any organ in your body can be replaced. But it can also be repossessed. Consider them your final notice."

Director: Miguel Sapochnik
Writers: Eric Garcia (screenplay), Garrett Lerner (screenplay)
Stars: Jude Law, Forest Whitaker and Alice Braga

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In the future humans have extended and improved our lives through highly sophisticated and expensive mechanical organs created by a company called "The Union". The dark side of these medical breakthroughs is that if you don't pay your bill, "The Union" sends its highly skilled repo men to take back its property... with no concern for your comfort or survival. Former soldier Remy is one of the best organ repo men in the business. But when he suffers a cardiac failure on the job, he awakens to find himself fitted with the company's top-of-the-line heart-replacement... as well as a hefty debt. But a side effect of the procedure is that his heart's no longer in the job. When he can't make the payments, The Union sends its toughest enforcer, Remy's former partner Jake, to track him down.

Splice [2009]

"She's Not Human ... Not Entirely."

Director: Vincenzo Natali
Writers: Vincenzo Natali (screenplay), Antoinette Terry Bryant (screenplay)
Stars: Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley and Delphine Chanéac 

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Two young rebellious scientists are told by their employers to halt groundbreaking work that has seen them produce new creatures with medical benefits by splicing together multiple organisms' DNA. They decide to secretly continue their work, but this time splicing in human DNA.

THE DESCENT (2)

 

The Descent [2005]

"Scream your last breath."

Director: Neil Marshall
Writer: Neil Marshall

Stars: Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza and Alex Reid

 

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A woman goes on vacation with her family and friends and her husband and her daughter encounters a tragic accident. One year later she goes hiking with her friends and they get trapped in the cave. With a lack of supply, they struggle to survive and they meet strange blood thirsty creatures.

The Descent: Part 2 [2009]

"Fear runs deep. Revenge runs deeper."

Director: Jon Harris
Writers: James Watkins (screenplay), J Blakeson (screenplay)
Stars: Michael J. Reynolds, Shauna Macdonald and Jessika Williams

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Distraught, confused, and half-wild with fear, Sarah Carter emerges alone from the Appalachian cave system where she encountered unspeakable terrors. Unable to plausibly explain to the authorities what happened - or why she's covered in her friends' blood - Sarah is forced back to the subterranean depths to help locate her five missing companions. As the rescue party drives deeper into uncharted caverns, nightmarish visions of the recent past begin to haunt Sarah and she starts to realize the full horror and futility of the mission. Subjected to the suspicion and mistrust of the group and confronted once more by the inbred, feral and savagely ruthless Crawlers, Sarah must draw on all her inner reserves of strength and courage in a desperate final struggle for deliverance and redemption.

Unstoppable [2010]

"1 million tons of steel. 100,000 lives at stake. 100 minutes to impact."

BASED ON A TRUE EVENTS

Director: Tony Scott
Writer: Mark Bomback
Stars: Denzel Washington, Chris Pine and Rosario Dawson



Storyline

With an unmanned, half-mile-long freight train barreling toward a city, a veteran engineer and a young conductor race against the clock to prevent a catastrophe.