Posts Tagged ‘catholic’
The Exorcist (1973)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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Blatty’s novelization of a real case of possession that happened in a Washington Suburb (Mt. Ranier, MD) puts Regan, an adolescent girl, Living with her mother in Georgetown in Washington, into a more and more difficult situation. She exhibits strange symptoms, including levitation and great strength. When all medical possibilities are exhausted, her mother is sent to a priest who is also a psychiatrist. He becomes convinced that Regan is possessed and he and a second priest experienced in exorcism try to drive the spirit from Regan before she dies. Very graphic for its time. |
End of Days (1999)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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On December 28th, 1999, the citizens of New York City are getting ready for the turn of the millennium. However, the Devil (Byrne) decides to crash the party by coming to the city, inhabiting a man’s body, and searching for his chosen bride, a 20-year-old woman named Christine York (Tunney). If he bears her child between 11:00 PM and midnight on New Year’s Eve, the world will end, and the only hope lies within an atheist ex-cop named Jericho Cane (Schwarzenegger), who no longer believes in God because of the murder of his wife and daughter. |
Amen. (2002)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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Kurt Gerstein, a brilliant German scientist, is recruited into the SS during the opening years of the Second World War. Assigned as a sanitation engineer, Gerstein is sent to the Eastern Front to supervise water purification for the German Army. Soon after, however, he is asked to help with a “special project” involving fumigation of “vermin infested” areas behind the front lines. Gerstein develops Zyklon-B, a deadly chemical gas which Gerstein believes will be put to use killing rats, lice, and other disease carrying creatures. However, when Gerstein realizes that his invention will be used to kill not animals but people, he begins an emotional search of his Christian values and ultimately decides to betray the SS by attempting to expose the Holocaust by way of informing the Catholic Church. |
Edges of the Lord (2001)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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A young Jewish boy in Nazi occupied Poland hides with a family of Catholic peasants and a compassionate priest to escape Nazi forces. |
Queen Margot (1994)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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The night of August 24, 1572, is known as the Massacre of St. Bartholomew. In France a religious war is raging. In order to impose peace a forced wedding is arranged between Margot de Valois, sister of the immature Catholic King Charles IX, and the Hugenot King Henri of Navarre. Catherine of Medici maintains her behind-the-scenes power by ordering assaults, poisonings, and instigations to incest. |
Ash Wednesday (2002)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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Hell’s Kitchen on Ash Wednesday, 1983. Rumors are flying that Francis Sullivan’s younger brother Sean, dead for three years, has reappeared. If he wasn’t killed by rivals, then old scores still need settling, putting Fran and Sean in danger. An upstart is pressuring the local mob boss, who’s Fran’s protector; Sean’s wife, who thinks she’s a widow, has gotten on with her life, but Sean has come back for her. The parish priest, part of the initial deception, is frightened. Bad guys with guns are closing in. Can Fran get Sean and his wife out of the city, avoid a war between rival factions, and hold onto new-found morality? Will the cross of ashes on his forehead protect him? |
Bad Lieutenant (1992)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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A police Lieutenant goes about his daily tasks of investigating homicides, but is more interested in pursuing his vices. He has accumulated a massive debt betting on baseball, and he keeps doubling to try to recover. His bookies are beginning to get agitated. The Lieutenant does copious amounts of drugs, cavorts with prostitutes, and uses his status to take advantage of teenage girls. While investigating a nun’s rape, he begins to reflect on his lifestyle. |
Daredevil (2003)Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 |
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Fate deals young orphan Matt Murdock a strange hand when he is doused with hazardous waste. The accident leaves Matt blind but also gives him a heightened “radar sense” that allows him to “see” far better than any man. Years later Murdock has grown into a man and becomes a respected criminal attorney. But after he’s done his “day job” Matt takes on a secret identity as “The Man Without Fear,” Daredevil, the masked avenger that patrols the neighborhood of Hell’s Kitchen and New York City to combat the injustice that he cannot tackle in the courtroom. |
From Hell (2001)Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 |
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It is 1888 in London, and the unfortunate poor lead horrifying lives in the city’s deadliest slum, Whitechapel. Harassed by gangs and forced to walk the streets for a living, Mary Kelly and her small group of companions trudge on through this daily misery, their only consolation being that things can’t get any worse. Yet things somehow do when their friend Ann is kidnapped and they are drawn into a conspiracy with links higher up than they could possibly imagine. The kidnapping is soon followed by the gruesome murder of another woman, Polly, and it becomes apparent that they are being hunted down, one by one. Sinister even by Whitechapel standards, the murder grabs the attention of Inspector Fred Abberline, a brilliant yet troubled man whose police work is often aided by his psychic abilities. Abberline becomes deeply involved with the case, which takes on personal meaning to him when he and Mary begin to fall in love. But as he gets closer to the truth Whitechapel becomes more and more dangerous for Abberline, Mary, and the other girls. Whoever is responsible for the grisly acts is not going to give up his secret without a fight….will they be able to survive the avenging force that has been sent after them from hell? |
Bless the Child (2000)Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 |
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Omens and concepts of good vs. evil have no place in Maggie O’Connor’s well-ordered, practical universe. Her life revolves around her job as a nurse at a busy New York hospital, until one rainy night, her sister Jenna abandons her newborn, autistic daughter at her home. Maggie takes the baby in, and she becomes the daughter she never had. Six years later Jenna suddenly re-appears with a mysterious new husband, Eric, and abducts Cody. Despite the fact that Maggie has no legal rights to Cody, FBI agent John Travis (Jimmy Smits), an expert in ritual homicide and occult-related crime, takes up her cause when he realizes that Cody shares the same birth date as several other recently missing children. The little girl, it soon becomes clear, is more than simply “special.” She manifests extraordinary powers that the forces of evil have waited centuries to control, and her abduction sparks a clash between the soldiers of good and evil that can only be resolved, in the end, by the strength of one small child and the love she inspires in those she touches. |
On the Waterfront (1954)Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 |
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The Waterfront Crime Commission is about to hold public hearings on union crime and underworld infiltration. As workers are turned against each other, Terry Malloy inadvertently participates in the murder of fellow longshoreman Joey Doyle. Union boss Johnny Friendly orchestrates the murder along with other illegal dockside activities, aided by Terry’s brother Charley. Terry begins to feel pangs of conscience. When Joey’s sister Edie sees more in Terry than he sees in himself and Father Barry urges him on, Terry reassesses his past and begins to regain responsibility for his actions. |
The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)Friday, May 8th, 2009 |
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Pope Julius is eager to leave behind works by which he will be remembered. To this end he cajoles Michelangelo into painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. When not on the battlefield uniting Italy, the Pope nags Michelangelo to speed up his painful work on the frescoes. |
Primal Fear (1996)Friday, May 8th, 2009 |
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Courtroom thriller about a slick, hotshot lawyer (Richard Gere) who takes the seemingly unwinnable case of a young altar boy (Edward Norton) accused of murdering an eminent catholic priest. |
God Told Me To (1976)Friday, March 20th, 2009 |
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A rash of mass murders in NYC has the detective stumped. When asked why, all the perpetrators say “God told me to,” then kill themselves. |
Antz ()Friday, November 28th, 2008 |
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Z is just another ant in a colony of millions, around the individuality fighting. He falls in love with princess Bala, and persuades his Krieger-Ameise-Freund-Weber to switch places with him for one day, so that he can see again princess Bala. The result of it throws Z in a bigger adventure than he one day dreamt possibly. Z ist gerade eine andere Ameise in einer Kolonie von Millionen, um die Individualität kämpfend. Er verliebt sich in Prinzessin Bala, und überzeugt seinen Krieger-Ameise-Freund-Weber, Plätze mit ihm seit einem Tag zu schalten, so dass er Prinzessin Bala wieder sehen kann. Das Ergebnis davon wirft Z in ein größeres Abenteuer, als er jemals möglich träumte. |
Ed Wood ()Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 |
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The life of Edward D. wood, Jr acclaimed like the worst director (of ‘Plan 9 of exterior Space’, ‘Gully or Glenda? ‘and’ Fiancée of the Monster’) of all the time. La vida de Edward D. ¿madera, Jr, aclamada como el director peor (¿de ‘Plan 9 de Espacio exterior’, ‘Cañada o Glenda? ‘y’ Novia del Monstruo’) de todo el tiempo. |
The Breakfast Club ()Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 |
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When are five students of high school, Andrew, John, Allison, Brian, and Claire, in the detention one day. The director wants that they write a test, and they think that they are in during approximately 8 boring hours of the realization of nothing. In the beginning, they argue and hate one to other, but after smoking a little of marijuana, they empty his hearts one to other, and count on his medos, secrets, and his most deep emotions, and problems. Quando cinco estudantes de escola secundária, Andrew, John, Allison, Brian, e Claire, se encontram na detenção um dia. O diretor quer que eles escrevam um ensaio, e eles pensam que eles estão em durante umas 8 horas maçantes da realização de nada. No início, eles argumentam e odeiam um a outro, mas depois de fumar um pouco de maconha, eles esvaziam os seus corações um a outro, e contam sobre os seus medos, segredos, e as suas emoções mais profundas, e problemas. |
Strange Wilderness (2002)Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 |
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With the rating falling for a programme of television of étendue-sauvage-themed, two fans of animal go to the Andes in search of Bigfoot. Avec l’indice d’écoute tombant pour une émission de télévision d’étendue-sauvage-themed, deux ventilateurs d’animal vont aux Andes à la recherche de Bigfoot. |
Napoleon Dynamite ()Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 |
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Preston, the inhabitant the most curious for Idaho, Napoleon Dynamite (Heder), live with his granny and his 32-year-old brother (who crosses rooms of dialogue for the ladies) and work to help his best friend, Pedro (Efren Ramirez), catch the president of Body studying the title of the Summer of medium teenager Wheatley (Behind Haylie). Preston, le résident le plus curieux d’Idaho, Napoleon Dynamite (Heder), vivent avec sa mamie et son frère de 32 ans (qui croise des pièces de conversation pour les dames) et travaille pour aider son meilleur ami, Pedro (Efren Ramirez), attraper le président de Corps étudiant le titre de l’Été d’adolescent moyen Wheatley (le Derrière de Haylie). |
Heathers ()Thursday, April 17th, 2008 |
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Dear diary: Veronica Sawyer is fed up of being a part of the heathers, strongest clic from Westerberg high; about Martha Dunnstock (“dump truck”) making fun is the fat girl, or some silly elections doing, something what she will never get used to. In the meantime, she corresponds JD, a chill rebel’s guy who would not be to shoot at school a gun to attach just his argument. Remington university party is where Veronica must go as a heather, and there is where she gets her ultimatum as a heather of the heather shopkeeper, the head of the heathers. So Veronica and her lovers kill JD “by chance” heather shopkeeper and get to cover it, a resignation letter making. Will this be just the beginning of the rotated suicide of the “murder” serie from Westerberg high, which still the FBI which CIA or the PTA would be in the state to stop? Or will Veronica be in the state to prevent himself zusammenzureißen and her psychotic lover, to kill absolutely EVERYBODY at school?. Liebes Tagebuch: Veronica Sawyer hat es satt, ein Teil der Heidekräuter, der stärkste clic von Westerberg Hoch zu sein; sich über Martha Dunnstock (“Dumptruck”) lustig machend ist das fette Mädchen, oder einige dumme Wahlen tuend, etwas, woran sie sich nie gewöhnen wird. Inzwischen entspricht sie JD, ein kühler Rebell-Kerl, der nicht dagegen sein würde, eine Pistole in der Schule zu schießen, um gerade sein Argument anzubringen. Remington Universitätspartei ist, wohin Veronica als ein Heidekraut gehen muss, und es gibt, wo sie ihr Ultimatum als ein Heidekraut vom Heidekraut-Krämer, dem Haupt von den Heidekräutern bekommt. So Veronica und ihr Geliebter töten JD “zufällig” Heidekraut-Krämer und schaffen, es zuzudecken, einen Abschiedsbrief machend. Wird das gerade der Anfang des gedrehten Selbstmords des “Mords” serie von Westerberg Hoch sein, welchen noch das FBI, der CIA oder der PTA im Stande sein würden aufzuhören? Oder wird Veronica im Stande sein, sich zusammenzureißen und ihren psychotischen Geliebten zu verhindern, absolut JEDEN in der Schule zu töten?. |



















