Released Date:
1995-03-03
Languages:
English, Maori, Spanish
Countries:
New Zealand
Runtime:
102 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
(23766 Reviews)
Director:
Lee TamahoriRiwia Brown
Alan Duff (novel)
Set in urban Auckland (New Zealand) this movie tells the story of the Heke family. Jake Heke is a violent man who beats his wife frequently when drunk, and yet obviously loves both her and his family. The movie follows a period of several weeks in the family's life showing Jake's frequent outburst of violence and the effect that this has on his family. The youngest son is in trouble with the police and may be put into a foster home while the elder son is about to join a street gang. Jake's daughter has her own serious problems which are a key element in the plot.
Released Date:
1997-06-13
Languages:
English, American Sign Language, Portuguese
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
121 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
3.7 (57010 Reviews)
Director:
Jan de BontGraham Yost (characters)
Jan de Bont (story)
Randall McCormick (story)
Randall McCormick (screenplay)
Jeff Nathanson (screenplay)
Annie Porter, the woman who was held on a bus with a bomb attached to it that will go off if it slows down. She dated the cop who saved her but broke up with him because he was constantly putting his life in danger. She would then date a guy named Alex who is also a cop but told her that he does a mundane assignment. But she eventually learns that he works for the same unit that the other guy worked for and is also addicted to danger. She wants to break up with but he surprises her with a cruise. She agrees to go. And he's planning to propose to her. But when he notice another passenger act peculiarly, he can't help but try to find out what's up with him. He's Geiger, a computer man who designed the ship's systems, who was fired. He then takes over the ship's systems and sets it on a course that will send it into a tanker. Alex tries to stop him.
Released Date:
2000-01-18
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
94 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
4.8 (8681 Reviews)
Director:
P.J. Pesceèlvaro Rodrèguez (screenplay)
èlvaro Rodrèguez (story)
Robert Rodriguez (story)
"Prequel" to the first From Dusk Till Dawn is set in Mexico in the early 1900's which begins with the escape of Johnny Madrid, a dangerous local outlaw, from the gallows who then kidnaps his hangman's beautiful daughter, Esmeralda, with a little help from Reece, a female outlaw from the U.S. With the hangman and a local posse on their trail, Johnny meets with his gang who all rob a stagecoach which contains American author Ambrose Bierce along with newlywed couple John and Mary Newlie. As night falls, all parties coincidently seek shelter in an isolated inn/whorehouse which is run by vampires led by the high priestess Quixtla who targets Esmeralda. Esmeralda is revealed to be the half-human, half-vampire princess Santanico Pandemonium, whom the vampires want as their heir in which all the humans must join forces if they are to survive the night from the vicious blood-suckers.
Released Date:
2004-02-11
Languages:
English, Athapascan languages, German, French, Spanish, Apache languages
Countries:
France, Mexico, UK
Runtime:
124 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.2 (8998 Reviews)
Director:
Jan KounenMatthieu Le Naour (screenplay)
Alexandre Coquelle (screenplay)
Gèrard Brach (screenplay)
Louis Mellis (screenplay)
Jan Kounen (screen story)
Gèrard Brach (screen story)
Jean Giraud (comic book)
Jean-Michel Charlier (comic book)
Carlo De Boutiny (early collaboration)
Matt Alexander (scenario
adaptation and dialogue)
Cassidy Pope
Alledged wayward adolescent Louisiana gentleman Michael 'Mike' Blueberry is dumped by his family with a Wild West uncle. The brute's only 'motivation' is a stick. After a nearly fatal encounter in the brothel with Wallace 'Wally' Sebastian Blount, Mike is left for dead in the desert. A Chiricuahua (Apache) medicine man's family finds, nurses and initiates him. After the shaman's death, Mike returns and becomes the town's honest 'deputy' marshal. Gold fever strikes, with staged Indian brutalities to allow rivaling fiends to invade their sacred mountains.
Released Date:
2006-01-26
Languages:
English, Maori
Countries:
New Zealand, UK
Runtime:
114 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
(2105 Reviews)
Director:
Vincent WardVincent Ward (story)
Vincent Ward (screenplay)
Toa Fraser (screenplay)
Kely Lyons (screenplay)
An intimate story set during the 1860s in which a young Irish woman Sarah and her family find themselves on both sides of the turbulent wars between British and Maori during the British colonization of New Zealand.
Released Date:
2011-04-29
Languages:
English
Countries:
New Zealand, UK
Runtime:
102 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (2714 Reviews)
Director:
Ian SharpAn Afrikaner veteran of the Boer War has just immigrated to New Zealand and is hired to track a man accused of killing a soldier. While hunting through the countryside he captures his fugitive, only to learn that he's innocent of the crime. When faced with the life changing decision to turn him in or set him free only one man will walk away alive.
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