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Posted on September 11, 2014 |
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Cadillac Records (2008)
Biography | Drama | History | Music | Romance
In this tale of sex, violence, race and rock and roll in 1950's Chicago, 'Cadillac Records' follows the exciting but turbulent lives of some of America's musical legends, including Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess, Little Walter and Howlin' Wolf, Etta James and Chuck Berry.
Starring: Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright, Beyoncé Knowles, Cedric the Entertainer, Gabrielle Union, Columbus Short
Director: Darnell Martin
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Posted on June 13, 2014 |
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Summer of Sam / The Son of Sam (1999)
Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American South Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.
Starring: John Leguizamo, Adrien Brody, Mira Sorvino, Jennifer Esposito, Michael Rispoli, Patti LuPone
Director: Spike Lee
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Posted on May 2, 2014 |
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Oxygen (1999)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A masochistic cop, who hides her predilection from her cop husband, gets involved in pursuing a kidnapper nicknamed Harry for Harry Houdini, who has kidnapped a rich woman and has buried her somewhere in Manhattan while demanding a ransom from her tycoon husband. Failure to pay the ransom within 24 hours will lead the kidnapper to abandoning the woman. Dylan Baker also appears as the fed that is assigned to the case.
Starring: Maura Tierney, Adrien Brody, James Naughton, Laila Robins, Terry Kinney, Paul Calderon, Dylan Baker
Director: Richard Shepard
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Posted on October 11, 2013 |
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Harrison's Flowers (2000)
Drama | Romance | War
Harrison Lloyd is a Pulitzer-winning photojournalist. His wife and family are making it hard for him to keep his mind on his work when he's in a war zone, and he wants to change jobs to something less stressful. But he's got one last assignment, in war-torn Yugoslavia, in 1991, at the height of the fighting. Word comes back that he apparently died in a building collapse, but his wife Sarah (also a journalist for Newsweek) refuses to believe that he's dead and goes looking for him. She's helped immensely by the photo-journalists Eric Kyle and Marc Stevenson that she runs into over there; together, they're determined to make it through the chaotic landscape to Vukovar, which is not only the nexus of the war but where she believes Harrison is located. Meanwhile, Harrison's son Cesar is looking after his father's prized greenhouse, keeping hope, and flowers, alive.
Starring: Andie MacDowell, Elias Koteas, Brendan Gleeson, Adrien Brody, David Strathairn
Director: Élie Chouraqui
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Posted on April 12, 2013 |
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The Village / M. Night Shyamalan's The Village (2004)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
An isolated, tight-knit community lives in mortal fear of an oppressive evil inhabiting the forbidden forest just beyond their tiny village. So frightening that no one ventures into the woods … until one villager dares to face the unknown.
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Bryce Dallas Howard, William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, Adrien Brody, Judy Greer
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
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Posted on March 2, 2013 |
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Manolete / A Matador's Mistress (2008)
Biography | Drama | Romance
In the 1940s, Manuel Rodríguez Sánchez, known to the world as Manolete, owned the Spanish bullring. This searing biopic follows his notorious affair with movie siren Lupe Sino at the height of his fame, and his death in the ring at age 30.
Starring: Adrien Brody, Penélope Cruz
Director: Menno Meyjes
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Posted on February 6, 2013 |
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Back to 1942 / Yi jiu si er (2012)
Drama | History
A North Henan landlord embarks on a pilgrimage to Shaanxi province during the 1942 famine, struggling to survive as war with Japan looms on the horizon. His house beset by starving villagers, Landlord Fan endeavors to calm the crowd by preparing a feast. But his house is burned down in the chaos, prompting Fan, his teenage daughter Xing Xing, his servant Shuang Zhu, and his tenant Hua Zhi on a treacherous journey south. Along the way, encounters with an American journalist, a judge, and a priest who has lost his faith reveal the true depth of the despair that grips the country. But the hardships along the way prompt Fan to make some devastating sacrifices that leave him a broken man.
Starring: Adrien Brody, Tim Robbins, Daoming Chen, Fan Xu, Hanyu Zhang, Guoli Zhang, Xuejian Li, Mo Zhang, Wei Fan, Yuanzheng Feng
Director: Xiaogang Feng
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Posted on January 27, 2013 |
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The Singing Detective (2003)
Comedy | Crime | Musical | Mystery
"While hospitalized with an extreme case of psoriasis, novelist Dan Dark reworks his first book in his head. Feverish, paranoid and prone to musical outbreaks, he confuses himself with his protagonist, a detective investigating the murder of a prostitute in 1950s Los Angeles."
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Robin Wright, Mel Gibson, Jeremy Northam, Katie Holmes, Adrien Brody, Carla Gugino
Director: Keith Gordon
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Posted on September 12, 2012 |
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High School (2010)
Comedy
A high school valedictorian who gets baked with the local stoner finds himself the subject of a drug test. The situation causes him to concoct an ambitious plan to get his entire graduating class to face the same fate, and fail.
Starring: Adrien Brody, Michael Chiklis, Colin Hanks, Matt Bush, Cody Longo, Adhir Kalyan, Sean Marquette
Director: John Stalberg
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Posted on September 7, 2012 |
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The Pianist (2002)
Biography | Drama | War
An adaptation based on the autobiography of the acclaimed Polish composer, Wladyslaw Szpilman, who detailed his survival during World War II, and narrowly escaped a roundup that sent his family to a death camp. A composer and pianist, Szpilman played the last live music heard over Polish radio airwaves before Nazi artillery hit. There, in Poland, Szpilman struggled to stay alive–even when cast away from those he loved. He spent the duration of the war hiding in the ruins of Warsaw and scavenging for food and shelter. Szpilman eventually reclaimed his artistic gifts, and confronted his fears–with aid from the unlikeliest of sources.
Starring: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Maureen Lipman, Emilia Fox, Ed Stoppard
Director: Roman Polanski
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Posted on August 29, 2012 |
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King Kong (2005)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Flamboyant, foolhardy documentary filmmaker, Carl Denham, sails off to remote Skull Island to film his latest epic with leading lady, Ann Darrow. Native warriors kidnap Ann to use as a sacrifice as they summon "Kong" with the local witch doctor. But instead of devouring Ann, Kong saves her. Kong is eventually taken back to New York where he searches high and low for Ann, eventually winding up at the top of the Empire State Building, facing off against a fleet of World War I fighter planes.
Starring: Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Colin Hanks, Andy Serkis
Director: Peter Jackson
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Posted on August 13, 2012 |
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Predators / Predator 3 (2010)
Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Royce, a mercenary, reluctantly leads a group of elite warriors who come to realize they've been brought together on an alien planet… as prey. With the notable exception of a disgraced physician, they are all cold-blooded killers — mercenaries, Yakuza, convicts, death squad members — human "predators" that are now being systemically hunted and eliminated by a new breed of alien Predators.
Starring: Adrien Brody, Topher Grace, Alice Braga, Walter Goggins, Oleg Taktarov, Laurence Fishburne
Director: Nimród Antal
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Posted on July 17, 2012 |
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Detachment (2011)
Drama
Detachment is a chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of a substitute teacher named Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long enough to form any semblance of sentient attachment. A perfect profession for one seeking to hide out in the open. One day Henry arrives at his next assignment. Upon his entry into this particular school, a secret world of emotion is awakened within him by three women. A girl named Meredith in his first period. A fellow teacher Ms. Madison, and a street hooker named Erica, whom Henry has personally granted brief shelter from the streets. Each one of these women, like Henry, are in a life and death struggle to find beauty in a seemingly vicious and loveless world.
Starring: Adrien Brody, Betty Kaye, Marcia Gay Harden, James Caan, Christina Hendricks, Bryan Cranston
Director: Tony Kaye
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Posted on September 15, 2011 |
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The Jacket (2005)
Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
After recuperating from a gunshot wound to the head, Gulf War veteran Jack Starks returns to his native Vermont suffering from Amnesia. When he is accused of murdering a police officer and committed to a mental institution, a physician, Dr. Becker, puts him on a controversial treatment regimen in which Starks is injected with experimental drugs, confined in a straight-jacket, and locked for extended periods in the body drawer of the basement morgue. In his drugged and disoriented state, Starks' mind propels him into the future, where he meets Jackie, and discovers that he is destined to die in four days. Together, they search for a way to save him from his fate.
Starring: Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Daniel Craig, Kris Kristofferson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kelly Lynch, Brad Renfro
Director: John Maybury
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Posted on August 23, 2011 |
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Wrecked (2011)
Thriller
A man awakens in a mangled car-wreck at the bottom of a steep cliff. Injured and trapped inside, with no memory of how he got there or who he is, he must rely on his most primal instincts to survive. But as he attempts to free himself from the carnage and escape an impossible situation, a darker side is revealed. Even if he manages to survive, the man may have to face the horrible consequences of an earlier, forgotten life.
Starring: Adrien Brody, Caroline Dhavernas, Adrian Holmes, Ryan Robbins, Jacob Blair, Mark McConchie
Director: Michael Greenspan
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Posted on July 20, 2011 |
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The Brothers Bloom (2008)
Comedy | Romance | Drama | Adventure
The Brothers Bloom are the best con men in the world, swindling millionaires with complex scenarios of lust and intrigue. Now they've decided to take on one last job – showing a beautiful and eccentric heiress the time of her life with a romantic adventure that takes them around the world.
Starring: Adrien Brody, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel Weisz
Director: Rian Johnson
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