Riffed (2014)

Actors: Orla Tobin (actress), Rebecca Grimes (actress), Ray Hyland (writer), Ray Hyland (director), Mark Coney (actor), Neil Gorman (writer),

Genres: Drama,
Taglines: For the people working in this office, January 6th 2009 would be a day they would never forget.

Blitz (2011)

Actors: Steve Joberns (miscellaneous crew), Julia Jones (miscellaneous crew), Jason Statham (actor), Brad Wyman (producer), Samuel Hadida (producer), Mick Hurrell (miscellaneous crew), David Morrissey (actor), Nicky Henson (actor), Donald Kushner (producer), Chris Wilson (actor), Aidan Gillen (actor), Ned Dennehy (actor), Ron Donachie (actor), Ilan Eshkeri (composer), Paddy Considine (actor),

Plot: Detective Sergeant Tom Brant who is dispatched to take down a serial killer hell bent on killing off the police force one by one. "The Blitz" manages to slip through the grasp of Tom every time, and with the precious lives of his colleagues diminishing one by one, Tom is led to the question: if we can't protect our own, then what good are we?

Keywords: 16th-floor, aerial-shot, apartment-fire, arson, bare-chested-male, based-on-novel, battering-ram, beaten-to-death, beating, biting-hand
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller,

Quotes:

Detective Sergeant Tom Brant: A word of advice, girls. If you're picking the wrong fight... at least pick the right weapon.

Detective Sergeant Tom Brant: A double Irish.::Wellesley Barman: Only thing buddy, we're closed.::Detective Sergeant Tom Brant: [reaches over counter and grabs a glass] Listen up, I'm only gonna say this once. I ain't your buddy. When I ask for a drink, you say, ice with that sir? Now let's begin again. A double Irish.::Wellesley Barman: You want ice with that, sir?::Detective Sergeant Tom Brant: Don't be ridiculous, who needs ice.::Wellesley Barman: [pours it] That'll be five quid.::Detective Sergeant Tom Brant: [drinks it down] Like you said, you're closed.

Barry Weiss: I want a lawyer and a sandwich. Oh, and I want to update my Facebook status.

Porter Nash: You're not supposed to smoke in here.::Detective Sergeant Tom Brant: What are you going to do, shoot me?

[last lines]::Detective Sergeant Tom Brant: There he is. There's Breckney. Get an appetite... [releases dogs]::Dunlop: [running] Whoa! Aaah! Get... Get away! Get them away!

[a gang of teenage lads try to mug Brant in the street at night. Brant produces a long J-shaped wooden stick and hits one of the lads with it - hard]::Detective Sergeant Tom Brant: This, lads, is a hurley. Used in the Irish game of hurling - a cross between hockey and murder.

The Little Traitor (2007)

Actors: Theodore Bikel (actor), Joey Naber (miscellaneous crew), Alfred Molina (actor), Zachi Noy (actor), Sam Sako (miscellaneous crew), Danny Shick (editor), Ryan O'Quinn (miscellaneous crew), Lynn Roth (director), Deborah Lurie (composer), Lynn Roth (producer), Lynn Roth (writer), Inbal Shuki (costume designer), Paula Price (miscellaneous crew), Levana Finkelstein (actress), Grace Benoish (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: Based on the novel "Panther in the Basement" by the world-renowned author, Amos Oz, the movie takes place in Palestine in 1947, just a few months before Israel becomes a state. Proffy Liebowitz, a militant yet sensitive eleven year old wants nothing more than for the occupying British to get the hell out of his land. Proffy and his two friends spend most of their time plotting ways to terrorize and/or blow up the British until one evening, while he's out after curfew, Proffy is seized by Sergeant Dunlop, a British officer. Instead of arresting him, he deposits him back home,but what ensues in the weeks to come is a friendship between these two foes. Proffy looks to Dunlop as a father figure as his own father is cold and remote. Dunlop, lonely and poetic, loves the spirited boy and they find lots to talk about in their meetings which Proffy must keep a secret from his friends and family. When Proffy's friends follow him one day and see that he has been visiting the detested enemy, they report him to the town officials and Proffy is brought to "trial" for being a traitor. He is eventually found innocent but these experiences shape him for life;especially the shock that he could have such genuine affection for the enemy.

Keywords: based-on-novel, three-word-title
Genres: Drama,

Quotes:

Proffy's father: Proffy, there is no way in hell we are going back to Poland.

Proffy: Shalom, sergeant Dunlop.

Spearfield's Daughter (1986)

Actors: Chris Wiggins (actor), Vlasta Vrana (actor), Tony Scott (actor), Tom Rack (actor), Michael Rudder (actor), Steve Railsback (actor), Walter Massey (actor), Michael J. Reynolds (actor), John Novak (actor), Jack Duffy (actor), Ken Pogue (actor), Christopher Plummer (actor), Ron Lea (actor), Bronwen Mantel (actress), Sheena Larkin (actress),

Genres: Drama,

Title Shot (1979)

Actors: Michael Wincott (actor), Ronald Sanders (editor), Jack Duffy (actor), Paul Zaza (composer), Sean McCann (actor), Tony Curtis (actor), Susan Hogan (actress), Tim Henry (actor), Allan Royal (actor), Natsuko Ohama (actress), Taborah Johnson (actress), Joel Chernoff (producer), Les Rose (director), Dennis Strong (actor), John C.W. Saxton (writer),

Plot: In Toronto, Canada, a troubled police detective investigates fixed betting and corruption in the world of heavyweight boxing. He uncovers a plot by a crime boss to use computerised data to rig fights. Everything is resolved during an explosive finale, set during a world heavyweight championship bout.

Keywords: independent-film
Genres: Crime, Drama,

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)

Actors: Carey Loftin (miscellaneous crew), Vic Tayback (actor), Ferris Webster (editor), Wayne Fitzgerald (miscellaneous crew), Clint Eastwood (actor), Gary Busey (actor), Jeff Bridges (actor), Dub Taylor (actor), Burton Gilliam (actor), Roy Jenson (actor), George Kennedy (actor), Geoffrey Lewis (actor), Bill McKinney (actor), Stuart Nisbet (actor), Gregory Walcott (actor),

Plot: Seven years after a daring bank robbery involving an anti-tank gun used to blow open a vault, the robbery team temporarily puts aside their mutual suspicions to repeat the crime after they are unable to find the loot from the original heist, hidden behind a school chalkboard. The hardened artilleryman and his flippant, irresponsible young sidekick are the two wild cards in the deck of jokers.

Keywords: auto-theft, automobile, blackboard, buddy-comedy, cadillac, car-chase, car-crash, carjacking, caught-having-sex, character-name-in-title
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Drama,
Taglines: Thunderbolt... the man with the reputation. Lightfoot... the kid who's about to make one! He has exactly seven minutes to get rich quick!

Quotes:

Lightfoot: You ain't no country preacher, Preacher.

Red Leary: Does he know everything?::[At the same time]::John Doherty: No.::Lightfoot: Yes.

[Lightfoot is driving a truck and he sees a woman riding a motorcycle in shorts]::Lightfoot: Hey were did you get those pants?::[the woman pulls out a hammer, pounds the truck and rides off]::Lightfoot: You freak! I love you, come back!

John Doherty: You don't look so good, kid.::Lightfoot: I believe you're right.

Lightfoot: Thunderbolt and Lightfoot. That sounds like something.::Lightfoot: Hey. You stick with me kid. Your gonna live forever.

Red Leary: Go... fuck... a duck.

[a woman runs out of a motel falsely crying rape]::Woman in car: You really want to stay here?::Husband: [smiling] Why not?

Lightfoot: So why did you try to kill him then?::Red Leary: Because we were friends.

John "Thunderbolt" Doherty: What's your name boy?::Lightfoot: Lightfoot::John "Thunderbolt" Doherty: You Indian?::Lightfoot: Nope. Just American.

Lightfoot: [John Doherty, aka Thunderbolt, dressed in preacher's garb, has jumped into Lightfoot's stolen Trans-Am] I thought you were the heat.::John Doherty: Do I look like heat?::Lightfoot: You look like one crazy sonofabitch for a preacher, I'll tell ya' that.