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Sleuth is a 2007 thriller film directed by Kenneth Branagh and starring Jude Law and Michael Caine. The screenplay by Harold Pinter is an adaptation of Anthony Shaffer's Tony Award-winning play Sleuth. Caine had previously starred in a 1972 version, where he played Law's role against Laurence Olivier.
"A millionaire detective novelist matches wits with the unemployed actor who ran off with his wife in a deadly serious, seriously twisted game with dangerous consequences." Much the same as the original except
Caine had starred as Tindle opposite Laurence Olivier's Wyke in the 1972 film Sleuth. In the 2007 film, Caine took the role of Andrew Wyke, and Law took Caine's original role of Tindle. This was the second film in which Law performed a role originated by Caine, the first having been the title role of Alfie. Caine himself had previously starred in two different roles in two versions of the same movie with Get Carter.
According to most accounts, the film should have been a remake of the 1972 film, but Pinter's screenplay offered "a fresh take" on Shaffer's play and "a very different form" from the original film. In his review of the film's debut at the 2007 Venice Film Festival, Roderick Conway Morris observed: "The reworking of the play is not just an adept transformation of theatre to film ... but also casts a revealing light on social history, reflecting the enormous changes in English society, language and morals in the nearly 40 years since the play first appeared on the London stage."
Actors: Geoff Bell (actor), Paul Dewdney (actor), Paul Dewdney (producer), Brian Croucher (actor), Vicki Michelle (actress), Eddie Webber (actor), Shane Hart (actor), Roxanne Gregory (actress), Leon Corbin (actor), Ethan J. Greene (actor), Eaoifa Forward (actress), Colin Burt Vidler (actor), Darren Kent (actor), Chris Bell (actor), Danny Howard (actor),
Plot: The recession effects everyone, even gangsters, especially when they want to go straight. The Charles gang didn't want to be bent anymore; they were running a legitimate operation. Life in the East London underbelly isn't as easy as it used to be and without the timely discovery of a time machine it may have all gone a bit pear shaped. A unique device which has an essential property enabling the holder to travel back in short spaces of time to correct terrible situations. Their unwitting discovery plunges the gang into a world of time traveling assassins and limitless possibilities.
Keywords: british, coolio, gangster, independent-film, time-travelActors: Christopher DeMaci (actor), Tom DeMar (director), Tom DeMar (writer), Tom DeMar (actor), Tom DeMar (producer), Tom DeMar (composer), Lizzie Prestel (actress), David McClellan (editor), David McClellan (producer), Jonas Neal (actor), Caroline Choi (actress), Erik Davies (actor), Mel Hampton (actor), Heather Brumley (actress), Jessica Starr (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: With original hip hop dance, new music, street talk, and rhyme, a group of high school friends feel tha love, but are frustrated by a world that does not understand them. When a teacher suffering career crisis flunks their entire class, tha Peeps deliver, in more ways than one.
Keywords: coming-of-age, dance, hip-hop, independent-film, philosophy, social-satire, street, teenager, urban, youthActors: Jan Peszek (actor), Zbigniew Zamachowski (actor), Slawomir Orzechowski (actor), Wiktor Zborowski (actor), Pawel Burczyk (actor), Elzbieta Jarosik (actress), Andrzej Kozak (actor), Henryk Kluba (actor), Janusz Michalowski (actor), Adam Baumann (actor), Marek Perepeczko (actor), Cezary Harasimowicz (actor), Malgorzata Braunek (actress), Jerzy Gralek (actor), Ewa Konstancja Bulhak (actress),
Genres: Comedy, Drama,Actors: Helen Slater (actress), Etsushi Toyokawa (actor), Joel Soisson (producer), Mitsuru Kurosawa (producer), Mike Tristano (miscellaneous crew), Russell Crowe (actor), Kyûsaku Shimada (actor), Michael Lerner (actor), Kelly Hu (actress), Takashige Ichise (producer), Ian Ziering (actor), David C. Williams (composer), François Chau (actor), Jennifer Getzinger (miscellaneous crew), Melanie Miller (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: When F.B.I. Agent Zack Grant's partner is killed during a blown-up operation, he attempts to find the person responsible. Mafiaso Frank Serlano believes Zack is responsible for his only sons death in the same operation and kidnaps Zacks son to hold as bait. The action gets wild when airline stewardess Mary is taken hostage to add what seems an another insurmountable problem for Zack. There appears to be No Way Out.
Keywords: airplane, ancient-sword, apology, argument, ash-scattering, bathroom, bicycle, bloodbath, brother-sister-relationship, car-chaseActors: Maureen Duffy (miscellaneous crew), Lincoln Lageson (miscellaneous crew), Yuji Okumoto (actor), Joel Soisson (producer), Ryo Ishibashi (actor), Steven Belgard (miscellaneous crew), Takashige Ichise (writer), Robert Forster (actor), Nicky Katt (actor), Takashige Ichise (producer), Viggo Mortensen (actor), Viggo Mortensen (actor), Michael Nouri (actor), Kurt Woolner (miscellaneous crew), David C. Williams (composer),
Plot: When Nick Davis leaves prison after one year in solitaire, he is hired to operate forklift in a warehouse in the harbor owned by the Japanese Yakuza patriarch Isshin Tendo. The place is assaulted by the Italian Mafia leaded by Dino Campanela and Nick rescues and saves the life of Shuji Sawamoto, who is the representative of Yakuza interests in America. Shuji hires Nick to work for Yakuza and becomes his godfather in the family after his oath to join Yakuza. However, Nick is a lonely FBI undercover agent assigned to penetrate in the criminal organization. When the FBI discovers that Campanela is organizing a massive attack to destroy the Yakuza, Nick's boss Littman calls off the operation to leave the dirty work to the Italian Mafia. But the connection of Nick with Shuji and his goddaughter Yuko forces him to help his Japanese family.
Keywords: action-hero, ak-47, audio-cassette, bare-breasts, beretta, brawl, brunette, brutality, dark-hero, disarming-someoneActors: James Robertson Justice (actor), Rita Webb (actress), Charles Hawtrey (actor), Dawn Addams (actress), Lionel Murton (actor), Tony Tenser (producer), Anna Gaël (actress), Valerie Leon (actress), Brigitte Skay (actress), Walter Sparrow (actor), Carol Hawkins (actress), Lorna Selwyn (miscellaneous crew), John Hawksworth (composer), George Maynard (producer), Yutte Stensgaard (actress),
Plot: A British superspy comedy with a Pop Art aesthetic, ZETA ONE is the kind of psychedelic, sexy thriller that inspired the Austin Powers series. In this playful spoof at the James Bond films, Robin Hawdon stars as Word...James Word, a womanizing secret agent whose investigation of a criminal mastermind (James Robertson Justice) leads him to discover a race of beautiful, exotic superwomen. Further inquiry exposes the naked truth, that these women have been abducted and brainwashed by the alien, interdimensional goddess Zeta (Dawn Addams).
Keywords: female-dominated-society, female-fighter, female-nudity, female-stockinged-legs, female-wrestling, independent-film, kaleidoscope, nudity, number-in-title, pantyhoseActors: Kakhi Kavsadze (actor), Artyom Karapetyan (actor), Gurgen Tonunts (actor), Akaki Kvantaliani (actor), Sergei Stolyarov (actor), G. Miloserdova (editor), Boris Smirnov (actor), Archil Gomiashvili (actor), David Malyan (actor), Medea Chakhava (actress), Maria Pastukhova (actress), Arno Babadzhanyan (composer), Gen (actor), Stepan Kevorkov (director), Afrasiyab Mamedov (actor),
Genres: Action,Actors: Emil Gal (actor), Sergei Vasilyev (director), Georgi Vasilyev (director),
Genres: ,Actors: Sergei Gerasimov (actor), Andrei Kostrichkin (actor), Grigori Kozintsev (writer), Leonid Trauberg (director), Grigori Kozintsev (director), Leonid Trauberg (writer), Emil Gal (actor), Yanina Zhejmo (actress), Irina Kunina (writer), Yevgeni Kumeiko (actor), Polina Pona (actress), Aleksandr Zavyalov (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Ernest Truex (actor), Ernest Truex (actor), Charles Arling (actor), George Fitzmaurice (director), Edna Mayo (actress), Wilkie Collins (writer), William Roselle (actor),
Genres: Drama, Short,