Vinz

On Air (2012)

Actors: Markus Knüfken (actor), Ronald Nitschke (actor), Klaus-Dieter Klebsch (actor), Hansi Jochmann (actress), Detlef Bierstedt (actor), Tobias Meister (actor), Kai Siggelkow (miscellaneous crew), Frank Bohn (costume designer), Wolfgang Pampel (actor), Dennis Schmidt-Foß (actor), Charles Rettinghaus (actor), Marco Riedl (writer), Marco Riedl (director), Dietmar Wunder (actor), Marc Steinicke (editor),

Genres: Thriller,

Macadam Transfert (2011)

Actors: Patrick Hernandez (producer), Aurélia Mengin (actress), Aurélia Mengin (writer), Aurélia Mengin (director), Pablo Mengin (composer), Bruno Gautier (editor), Alexandre Claudin (actor),

Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Short, Thriller,

Taken (2008)

Actors: Romuald Drault (miscellaneous crew), Luc Besson (writer), Olivier Bériot (costume designer), Camille Japy (actress), Olivier Rabourdin (actor), Pascal (miscellaneous crew), Luc Besson (producer), Liam Neeson (actor), Don Abernathy (actor), Famke Janssen (actress), Jon Gries (actor), Xander Berkeley (actor), Anatole Taubman (actor), Philippe Letode (miscellaneous crew), Isabelle Querrioux (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: Seventeen year-old Kim is the pride and joy of her father Bryan Mills. Bryan is a retired agent who left the Central Intelligence Agency to be near Kim in California. Kim lives with her mother Lenore and her wealthy stepfather Stuart. Kim manages to convince her reluctant father to allow her to travel to Paris with her friend Amanda. When the girls arrive in Paris they share a cab with a stranger named Peter, and Amanda lets it slip that they are alone in Paris. Using this information an Albanian gang of human traffickers kidnaps the girls. Kim barely has time to call her father and give him information. Her father gets to speak briefly to one of the kidnappers and he promises to kill the kidnappers if they do not let his daughter go free. The kidnapper wishes him "good luck," so Bryan Mills travels to Paris to search for his daughter and her friend.

Keywords: abduction, agent, albanian, albanian-mafia, arc-de-triomphe-paris, attempted-murder, auction, audi, barbecue, bikini
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller,
Taglines: They took his daughter. He'll take their lives. His daughter was taken. He has 96 hours to get her back. Time is Running Out They have taken his daughter. He will hunt them. He will find them. He will kill them.

Quotes:

Kim: You don't have to worry.::Bryan: That's like telling water not to be wet, sweetie.

Bryan: I have a daughter who wants to be a singer. I was wondering if you have any tips for her.::Sheerah: Yeah, I do. Tell her pick another career.

Bryan: I'm not comfortable with this.::Kim: Dad.::Bryan: I know the world, sweetie.::Kim: Dad, please...::Bryan: I don't think a seventeen-year-old should be traveling alone.::Kim: I'm not gonna be alone.::Bryan: Two seventeen-year-olds.::Kim: Amanda's nineteen!::Bryan: How about this? How about if I go along? You won't even know I'm there. I'm very good at being invisible.::Lenore: As you so amply demonstrated for the rest of her life.

Lenore: I don't get you.::Bryan: What?::Lenore: You sacrificed our marriage to the service of the country, you've made a mess of your life in the service of your country; can't you sacrifice a little one time for your own daughter?::Bryan: I would sacrifice anything for her.

Bryan: I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.::Marko: [after a long pause] Good luck.

Bryan: Now's not the time for dick measuring, Stuart!

Sam: The specialty of the groups coming out of this area is trafficking in women.::Bryan: Keep going.::Sam: Okay. Their previous MO was to offer women from the emerging East-European countries like Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria jobs in the west as maids and nannies. Once they smuggled them in, they'd addict them to drugs and turn them into prostitutes. Lately, however, they've decided that it's more economical just to kidnap traveling young women. Saves on transportation costs.::Lenore: [crying] Not my little baby.::Bryan: What else?::Sam: Based on what they know about the way these groups operate, our analyst says you have a ninety-six hour window from the time she was grabbed.::Bryan: To what?::Sam: To never finding her.

Bryan: [after Jean Claude tries to shoot him] That is what happens when you sit behind a desk. You forget things, like the weight in the hand of a gun that's loaded and one that's not.::[Bryan pulls his gun and shoots Isabelle in the arm]::Jean Claude: Isabelle!::[Jean-Claude turns and shouts at Bryan in French]::Jean Claude: You asshole!::Bryan: It's a flesh wound. But if you don't get me what I need, the last thing you'll see before I make your children orphans is the bullet I put between her eyes!

Saint Clair: Please understand... it was all business. It wasn't personal.::Bryan: It was all personal to me.::[unloads gun into Saint Clair]

[last lines]::Sheerah: So I heard you want to be a singer?::Kim: I do.::Bryan: She does.::Sheerah: Well, come on in. Let's see what you got.

Fahrenheit (2004)

Actors: Blanche Raynal (actress), Jean-Pierre Lazzerini (actor), Patrick Kodjo Topou (actor), Julie Delord (editor), Alain de Catuelan (actor), Laurent Koleda (composer), Cedric Camus (actor), Akim Chir (actor), Pascal Anquetil (director), Manfroid Thierry (actor), Courtois Jean-Frédéric (actor), Pigeon Hervé (actor), Braun Jacques (actor),

Genres: Short, Thriller,

La barbichette (2002)

Actors: Vincent Cassel (actor), Olivier Barthelemy (actor), Kim Chapiron (writer), Kim Chapiron (director), Marko Payen (actor), Lafami (composer),

Genres: Short,

Beached (2001)

Actors: David Collins (producer), Eamonn Hunt (actor), Niall Byrne (composer), Pat McGrath (actor), Martina Niland (producer), Martin Brinkler (editor), Jeff O'Toole (actor), Pat Nangle (miscellaneous crew), Karl Golden (writer), Karl Golden (director), Mark Dunne (actor), Veronica Duffy (actress), Hilary Kehoe (miscellaneous crew), Nick Kilcoyne (miscellaneous crew), Nicole Bohan (actress),

Genres: Short,

The Harpist (1999)

Actors: Colin Baker (actor), Jean Anderson (actress), John Kavanagh (actor), B.J. Hogg (actor), Barbara Murray (actress), Alan Latham (producer), Christoph Hahnheiser (producer), David Martin (editor), Hansjörg Thurn (director), Hansjörg Thurn (writer), Phil Gates (miscellaneous crew), Catherine Allinson (miscellaneous crew), Christien Anholt (actor), Geraldine O'Rawe (actress), Brian Bennett (composer),

Genres: ,
Taglines: One Mans Dream is another Mans Obsession

La haine (1995)

Actors: Saïd Taghmaoui (actor), François Toumarkine (actor), Benoît Magimel (actor), Christophe Rossignon (actor), Vincent Cassel (actor), Edouard Montoute (actor), Philippe Nahon (actor), Zinedine Soualem (actor), François Levantal (actor), Marc Duret (actor), Mathieu Kassovitz (actor), Peter Kassovitz (actor), Vincent Lindon (actor), Karin Viard (actress), Andrée Damant (actress),

Plot: The film follows three young men and their time spent in the French suburban "ghetto," over a span of twenty-four hours. Vinz, a Jew, Saïd, an Arab, and Hubert, a black boxer, have grown up in these French suburbs where high levels of diversity coupled with the racist and oppressive police force have raised tensions to a critical breaking point. During the riots that took place a night before, a police officer lost his handgun in the ensuing madness, only to leave it for Vinz to find. Now, with a newfound means to gain the respect he deserves, Vinz vows to kill a cop if his friend Abdel dies in the hospital, due the beating he received while in police custody.

Keywords: 24-hour-time-period, 24-hour-time-span, 24-hours, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, bmw, boxer, boxing-match, boxing-ring, breakdancing, car-alarm
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: So far, so good Three Young Friends... One Last Chance.

Quotes:

Hubert: Heard about the guy who fell off a skyscraper? On his way down past each floor, he kept saying to reassure himself: So far so good... so far so good... so far so good. How you fall doesn't matter. It's how you land!

Hubert: Bullshit! You pointed a gun at a cop! We coulda been killed!::[an old man flushes the toilet and walks out of the stall]::Old Man: Nothing like a good shit! Do you believe in God? That's the wrong question. Does God believe in us? I once had a friend called Grunwalski. We were sent to Siberia together. When you go to a Siberian work camp, you travel in a cattle car. You roll across icy steppes for days, without seeing a soul. You huddle to keep warm. But it's hard to relieve yourself, to take a shit, you can't do it on the train, and the only time the train stops is to take on water for the locomotive. But Grunwalski was shy, even when we bathed together, he got upset. I used to kid him about it. So, the train stops and everyone jumps out to shit on the tracks. I teased Grunwalski so much, that he went off on his own. The train starts moving, so everyone jumps on, but it waits for nobody. Grunwalski had a problem: he'd gone behind a bush, and was still shitting. So I see him come out from behind the bush, holding up his pants with his hands. He tries to catch up. I hold out my hand, but each time he reaches for it he lets go of his pants and they drop to his ankles. He pulls them up, starts running again, but they fall back down, when he reaches for me.::Saïd: Then what happened?::Old Man: Nothing. Grunwalksi... froze to death. Goodbye.

Vinz: Who made you a preacher? You know what's right and wrong? Why do you side with the assholes?::Hubert: Who's the asshole? If you hate stayed in school, you'd know that hate breeds hate, Vinz.

Saïd: Wow, what a speech! Half Moses, half Mickey Mouse.

Vinz: I know who I am and where I'm from!::Man: Then go back there and shut the fuck up!::Vinz: Go fuck your mother, man.

Saïd: Canardo. Señor canardo.

Vinz: Tom fucks Jerry's shit up.

Saïd: Hey, I see skinheads. Fuck Hitler!

Astérix: Sniff of coke?::Saïd: Uh, no, no.::Astérix: You sure?::Saïd: Absolutely.::Astérix: [psychotically, to the others; starts rapidly practicing with nunchaku] A little coke? A little line of coke? Nobody for coke? That's it for coke? How's your brother, how's he doin?::Saïd: He's alright.::Astérix: [still practicing with nunchaku] Mean fuckin bastard. Still a maniac?::Saïd: Are you?::Astérix: [still practicing] Well shit, look! VWA-VWA-VWA-VWA!

Old Neighbor Lady: [on CCTV monitor in Asterix's apartment] Asterix! ASTERIX! Causing shit all the time! That's not your real name, scumass!