Posts Tagged ‘father-daughter-relationship’

Head in the Clouds (2004)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Head in the Clouds
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: South Korea
Actors: Charlize Theron | Stuart Townsend | | Steven Berkoff | Penélope Cruz | David La Haye
Directors: John Duigan
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HEAD IN THE CLOUDS is a sweeping romantic drama set in 1930’s England, Paris, and Spain. Gilda Bessé shares her Paris apartment with an Irish schoolteacher, Guy Malyon, and Mia, a refugee from Spain. As the world drifts toward war, Gilda defiantly pursues her hedonistic lifestyle and her burgeoning career as a photographer. But Guy and Mia feel impelled to join the fight against fascism, and the three friends are separated – seemingly forever.

Spanglish (2004)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Spanglish
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: South Korea
Actors: Adam Sandler | Téa Leoni | Paz Vega | Cloris Leachman | Shelbie Bruce | Sarah Steele
Directors: James L. Brooks
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John Clasky is a devoted dad whose skills as a chef have offered his family a very upscale life, including a summer home in Malibu and a breathtaking new Mexican housekeeper, named Flor. She and her daughter Cristina have recently emigrated to L.A. from Mexico and are trying to find a better life. When they move in with the Claskys for the summer, Flor has to fight for her daughter’s soul as she discovers that life in a new country is perilous!

The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Muppets Take Manhattan, The
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: South Korea
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The Muppets are back in a brand-new full-length musical comedy! After graduating college, the Muppets travel to Manhattan to have someone produce their musical “Manhattan Melodies”. When it doesn’t happen, the gang splits up. Kermit makes friends with Jenny (Juliana Donald) and Piggy is jealous, thinking that Kermit found a new girl. Now Rowlf is a vet secretary, Fozzie’s living in a cave, and Piggy is working at a hotel with her partner, but apparently they get fired and now Piggy lives next door to where Kermit works at Pete’s with Jenny. When Jenny and Kermit find producer-in-training Ronny Coleman (Lonny Price), he promises to produce their show. The gang returns to Manhattan, but after getting hit by a car in joy, Kermit gets amnesia and now finds work making ads with other frogs. When Kermit is found at Pete’s, they try to restore his memory.

The Messengers (2007)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Messengers, The
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: South Korea
Actors: Kristen Stewart | Dylan McDermott | Penelope Ann Miller | John Corbett | Evan Turner | Theodore Turner | William B. Davis | Brent Briscoe | Dustin Milligan | Jodelle Ferland | Michael Daingerfield | Tatiana Maslany | Shirley McQueen | Anna Hagan | Blaine Hart
Directors: Oxide Pang Chun
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It’s been six years since the Rollins family just up and left and now the troubled Solomon family has come from Chicago, to rebuild their lives following their sons hospitalization due to their daughter’s drunk driving accident. But as they start to settle in something odd and strange begins to occur to their son. Could something supernatural be at work, and did the previous family just leave…or are they still here? Trapped in the only place they’ve ever known? And what did cause their deaths? Most of all…is this ‘killer’ still very much alive?

The 007 World Is Not Enough (1999)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
007 World Is Not Enough, The
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: South Korea
Actors: Pierce Brosnan | Sophie Marceau | Robert Carlyle | Denise Richards | Robbie Coltrane | Judi Dench | Desmond Llewelyn | John Cleese | Maria Grazia Cucinotta | Samantha Bond | Michael Kitchen | Colin Salmon | Goldie | David Calder | Serena Scott Thomas
Directors: Michael Apted
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The 19th installment follows MI-6 Commander James Bond to a swiss bank in Bilbao, Spain where upon retrieval of three million pounds (British dollars) a siege takes place. James barely escapes the local police, leaving them questioning the mysterious shooting that occurred minutes ago. The next day, at the MI-6 Headquarters in London, Bond first greet Miss Moneypenny and gives her a nice souvenir: a cigar. Q then calls him in first to meet Sir Robert King then to report on the mission. It was then that the three million pounds was in fact, a bomb which destroys the Headquarters and kills King. Bond’s only suspect, who happens to be the woman from the swiss bank blows herself up form a hot-air balloon. He then meets Sir King’s daughter, Electra, who now own her father’s oil company. But Bond’s real mission has a new enemy named Renard a man who feels no pain whatsoever after a bullet was put into his head, who along with Electra and their henchmen plan to nuke Europe and everything in it’s path. Now with the help of Christmas Jones, a research scientist, James must foil the terrorists plan before the entire Easternmost countries are wiped out forever. The world is not enough for disasters. And the world is not enough for terrorists. The world is only enough for one man- one hero: James Bond 007!

Renaissance Man (1994)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Renaissance Man
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: South Korea
Actors: Danny DeVito | Gregory Hines | James Remar | Ed Begley Jr. | Lillo Brancato | Stacey Dash | Kadeem Hardison | Richard T. Jones | Khalil Kain | Peter Simmons | Gregory Sporleder | Mark Wahlberg | Cliff Robertson | Ben Wright | Ann Cusack
Directors: Penny Marshall
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Danny DeVito plays an advertising man who is slowly sliding downhill. When he is fired from his job in Detroit, he signs up for unemployment. One day they find him a job; Teaching thinking skills to Army recruits. He arrives on base to find that there is no structure set up for the class. He begins by having them write and summarize books and magazines they are reading. When one of them asks him to describe what he is reading, he gives a National Enquirer’s view of _Hamlet_, (Incest, murder, intrigue.) They ask to read it with him and the structure of the class is born; They will read _Hamlet_ and critically analize it.

The Woods (2006)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Woods, The
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: South Korea
Actors: Agnes Bruckner | Patricia Clarkson | Rachel Nichols | Lauren Birkell | Emma Campbell | Marcia Bennett | Gordon Currie | Jude Beny | Bruce Campbell | Jane Gilchrist | Catherine Colvey | Kathleen Mackey | Cary Lawrence | Colleen Williams | Melissa Altro
Directors: Lucky McKee
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In 1965, after provoking a fire in a forest, the rebel teenager Heather Fasulo is sent to the boarding school Falburn Academy in the middle of the woods by her estranged mother Alice Fasulo and her neglected father Joe Fasulo. The dean Ms. Traverse accepts Heather in spite of the bad financial condition of her father. The displaced Heather becomes close friend of he weird Marcy Turner, while they are maltreated by the abusive mate Samantha Wise. During the nights, Heather has nightmares and listens to voices from the woods, and along the days she believes that the school is a coven of witches. When some students, including Marcy, simply vanish, Heather believes she will be the next one.

All or Nothing (2002)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
All or Nothing
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: South Korea
Actors: Timothy Spall | Lesley Manville | Alison Garland | James Corden | Ruth Sheen | Marion Bailey | Paul Jesson | Sam Kelly | Kathryn Hunter | Sally Hawkins | Helen Coker | Daniel Mays | Ben Crompton | Robert Wilfort | Gary McDonald
Directors: Mike Leigh
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Penny’s love for her partner, taxi-driver Phil, has run dry. He is a gentle, philosophical guy, and she works on the checkout at a supermarket. Their daughter Rachel cleans in a home for elderly people, and their son Rory is unemployed and aggressive. The joy has gone out of Phil’s and Penny’s life, but when an unexpected tragedy occurs, they are brought together to rediscover their love. All or Nothing is set on a London working-class housing estate over a long weekend, and also tells the stories of a range of Phil and Penny’s neighbors, some of whom become involved in the family’s lives, and all of whom experience an emotional journey.

Pocahontas (1995)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Pocahontas
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: South Korea
Actors: Irene Bedard | Judy Kuhn | Mel Gibson | David Ogden Stiers | John Kassir | Russell Means | Christian Bale | Linda Hunt | Danny Mann | Billy Connolly | Joe Baker | Frank Welker | Michelle St. John | James Apaumut Fall | Gordon Tootoosis
Directors: Mike Gabriel | Eric Goldberg
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Capt. John Smith leads a rag-tag band of English sailors & soldiers to the New World to plunder its riches for England (or, more precisely, for Governor Ratcliffe, who comes along for the ride). Meanwhile, in this “New World,” Chief Powhatan has pledged his daughter, Pocahontas, to be married to the village’s greatest warrior. Pocahontas, however, has other ideas. She has seen a vision of a spinning arrow, a vision she believes tells her change is coming. Her life does indeed change when the English ship lands near her village. Between Ratcliffe, who believes the “savages” are hiding the gold he expected to be plentiful, and Powhatan, who believes these pale newcomers will destroy their land, Smith and Pocahontas have a difficult time preventing all-out war, and saving their love for each other.

Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Mrs. Doubtfire
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: South Korea
Actors: Robin Williams | Sally Field | Pierce Brosnan | Harvey Fierstein | Polly Holliday | Lisa Jakub | Matthew Lawrence | Mara Wilson | Robert Prosky | Anne Haney | Scott Capurro | Sydney Walker | Martin Mull | Terence McGovern | Karen Kahn
Directors: Chris Columbus
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Daniel Hillard likes to entertain children. Currently his job, is providing voices for cartoons, but when he disagrees with the image that the studio wants to convey to children, he loses his job. It is also his son’s birthday and feling down and wanting to do something special for him, he throws a wild children’s party. When his wife Miranda comes home and finds the house in shambles and after everything settles, she tells Daniel that they are on different paths and thinks that they should separate. Because Daniel’s unemployed the judge feels that it’s best if Daniel get his life in order first, so he allows Daniel to see his children just one day a week. But Daniel can’t bear to be away from his children so long; so when Miranda decides to hire a housekeeper, Daniel alters the ad and answers it himself and pretends to be Mrs. Doubtfire, donning a disguise he becomes the new housekeeper.

Coming to America (1988)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Coming to America
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: South Korea
Actors: Eddie Murphy | Arsenio Hall | James Earl Jones | John Amos | Madge Sinclair | Shari Headley | Paul Bates | Eriq La Salle | Frankie Faison | Vanessa Bell Calloway | Louie Anderson | Allison Dean | Sheila Johnson | Jake Steinfeld | Calvin Lockhart
Directors: John Landis
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It is the 21st birthday of Prince Akeem of Zamunda and he is to marry a woman he never saw before. Now the prince breaks with tradition and travels to America to look for the love of his life.

The Weather Man (2005)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Weather Man, The
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: South Korea
Actors: Nicolas Cage | Michael Caine | Hope Davis | Gemmenne de la Peña | Nicholas Hoult | Michael Rispoli | Gil Bellows | Judith McConnell | Chris Marrs | Dina Facklis | DeAnna N.J. Brooks | Sia A. Moody | Guy Van Swearingen | Alejandro Pina | Jackson Bubala
Directors: Gore Verbinski
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Dave Spritz is a local weatherman in his home town of Chicago, where his career is going well while his personal life — his relationship with his perfectionist writer father, his neurotic ex-wife, and his now-separated children — is spiraling downward. Despite being both loathed and loved by the local masses, Dave is a guy who doesn’t seem to have it all together, and in this film, he begins to feel it. An attractive job offer presents Dave with a major question: to pursue his career in New York City, or to remain at home with his family.

Red Eye (2005)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Red Eye
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: South Korea
Actors: Rachel McAdams | Cillian Murphy | Brian Cox | Jayma Mays | Angela Paton | Laura Johnson | Suzie Plakson | Max Kasch | Jack Scalia | Theresa Press-Marx | Robert Pine | Carl Gilliard | Mary Kathleen Gordon | Loren Lester | Philip Pavel
Directors: Wes Craven
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After attending the funeral of her grandmother in Dallas, the Lux Atlantic Hotel manager Lisa is waiting for a flight to Miami. Due to the bad weather and consequent flight delay, she meets in the airport bar Jack Rippner, who is also in the waiting list. They sit together in the plane, and Jack reveals that he wants Lisa to change the room in Lux of an important American politician to facilitate a terrorist attempt against him. Otherwise, Lisa’s father will be killed by a hit man. Lisa has to decide what to do with the menacing man at her side.

In America (2002)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
In America
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: South Korea
Actors: Paddy Considine | Samantha Morton | Emma Bolger | Neal Jones | Randall Carlton | Ciaran Cronin | Djimon Hounsou | Juan Carlos Hernández | Nye Heron | Jason Salkey | Rene Millan | Sarah Bolger | Bob Gallico | Jason Killalee
Directors: Jim Sheridan
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An aspiring Irish actor and his family illegally immigrate in the United States with the dreams of the father breaking into the New York City theatrical scene. Once they arrive in the big city, they move into a flop house and try to make it truly their home. While they struggle to fit in their new country, the family finds new friends like the reclusive neighbor, Mateo, who provide help in the most unexpected ways in America.

Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story (2005)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: South Korea
Actors: Kurt Russell | Dakota Fanning | Kris Kristofferson | Elisabeth Shue | David Morse | Freddy Rodríguez | Luis Guzmán | Oded Fehr | Ken Howard | Holmes Osborne | Antonio Albadran | John Moyer | Kayren Butler | Tommy Barnes | Frank Hoyt Taylor
Directors: John Gatins
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Ben Crane (Kurt Russell) believes that a severely injured racehorse deserves another chance. He and his daughter Cale (Dakota Fanning) adopt the horse (in fact is a mare)and save it of being sacrificed by the owner (David Morse). The arrival of the mare to Crane’s farm, will be the perfect opportunity for both father and daughter to reconstruct their lost familiar bond. “Soñador” (Dreamer in English), the renamed mare, despite its broken leg, maybe could have another chance to return to the racecourse, with the help of Cale, Ben, and his father, Pop (Kris Kristofferson).

The Secret Lives of Dentists (2002)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Secret Lives of Dentists, The
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: South Korea
Actors: Scott Michael Campbell | Campbell Scott | Denis Leary | Robin Tunney | Peter Samuel | Hope Davis | Jon Patrick Walker | Gianna Beleno | Lydia Jordan | Cassidy Hinkle | Adele D'Man | Kathleen Kinhan | Sara Lerch | Lori Mirabal | Mark Ethan | Flora Martínez
Directors: Alan Rudolph
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The movie is based on Jane Smiley’s novella The Age of Grief, and centres on a dentist, played by Campbell Scott, who has a strange dream that blurs the boundaries between fantasy and reality. Leary plays one of the dentist’s patients.

Bride & Prejudice (2004)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Bride & Prejudice
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: South Korea
Actors: Aishwarya Rai | Martin Henderson | Nadira Babbar | Anupam Kher | Naveen Andrews | Namrata Shirodkar | Daniel Gillies | Indira Varma | Sonali Kulkarni | Nitin Chandra Ganatra | Meghna Kothari | Peeya Rai Chowdhary | Alexis Bledel | Marsha Mason | Ashanti
Directors: Gurinder Chadha
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Chaman Bakshi lives in Amritsar, India, with his wife, Manorama, and four daughters namely, Jaya, Lalita, Lakhi, and Maya. Manorama would like to get her daughters married to rich families so that they live comfortably. She is bitter because Chaman refuses to immigrate to London, England, when her brother wanted to sponsor them. She is pleased when she gets a proposal from the Bingley family for their son, Balraj. Balraj arrives with Caucasion friend, William Darcy, and gets to meet Jaya, and instantly likes her. They, along with William and Lalita, travel to Goa, where Lalita meets a young man named Johny Wickam. She likes Johny and invites him to their house. Manorama does not approve of William and Johny, and would prefer that Lalita marry Kohli from California. Then things take an unexpected turn, Balraj returns home; William offends Lalita; Kohli meets and marries Chandra Lamba; Lakhi is taken in by Johny Wickam. Quite upset at these turn of events, the Bakshis find consolation that they have been invited to Kohli’s wedding and they travel to California, with a stopover in London, so that they can meet with Balraj. They find Balraj is not available, and is in New York. Disappointed they travel to California that’s where William meets and proposes to Lalita. It is after this proposal that Lalita finds out why Balraj has broken contact with her family, and what William really thinks about India and the Bakshis, and it is these findings that will change her life forever.

How to Steal a Million (1966)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
How to Steal a Million
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: South Korea
Actors: Audrey Hepburn | Peter O'Toole | Eli Wallach | Hugh Griffith | Charles Boyer | Fernand Gravey | Marcel Dalio | Jacques Marin | Moustache | Roger Tréville | Edward Malin | Bert Bertram
Directors: William Wyler
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Charles Bonnet (Hugh Griffith)is a greedy, money hungry man who gets his money from art forgery. His most precious art is the “Cellini Venus” statue which would be worth about a million bucks if it wasnt fake. His daughter, Nicole (Audrey Hepburn) knows about his crimes, but always keeps quiet about it. One day, Charles’ stupidity gets to him and he lends the fake Venus to a museam. The museam people, (thinking it’s real) get ecstatic. But, Charles soon finds out that the museam people are gonna check the Venus, just to see if its real. Charles goes crazy and starts worrying. Now, Nicole has to team up with Simon Dermott (Peter O’Toole), a handsome cat burgler and try to steal the Venus from the museam and get rid of it before the people find out its fake, and before Nicole and Simon fall deeply in love.

Intersection (1994)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Intersection
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: South Korea
Actors: Richard Gere | Sharon Stone | Lolita Davidovich | Martin Landau | David Selby | Jennifer Morrison | Ron White | Matthew Walker | Scott Bellis | Patricia Harras | Keegan MacIntosh | Alan C. Peterson | Sandra P. Grant | Robyn Stevan | David Hurtubise
Directors: Mark Rydell
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Vincent Eastman has to choose between his wife of 16 years, Sally, or his new love, Olivia. Frequent flashbacks explain the background to the marriage and the affair.

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: South Korea
Actors: Seung-beom Ryu | Seung-wan Ryoo | Kwang-rok Oh | Kang-ho Song | Ha-kyun Shin | Du-na Bae | Ji-Eun Lim | Bo-bae Han | Se-dong Kim | Dae-yeon Lee
Directors: Chan-wook Park
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This is the story of Ryu, a deaf man, and his sister, who requires a kidney transplant. Ryu’s boss, Park, has just laid him off, and in order to afford the transplant, Ryu and his girlfriend develop a plan to kidnap Park’s daughter. Things go horribly wrong, and the situation spirals rapidly into a cycle of violence and revenge.