A Goldfish of the Flame (2010)

Actors: Tony Devon (actor), Derek Deadman (actor), Arthur J. Mangano (writer), Arthur J. Mangano (editor), Arthur J. Mangano (director), Joseph Glazer (producer), Simone Halloway (costume designer), Shelley Bourne (producer), Calvin Cross (actor), Jackson Carey (actor), Richard Jenkins (actor), Ken Orbach (actor), Carrie Mancuso (actress), Anthony Baker (producer), Claude Fiorello (composer),

Genres: Action, Drama,

Bait (2000)

Actors: Martin Roach (actor), Joe Pingue (actor), Arnold Pinnock (actor), David Paymer (actor), Jamie Foxx (actor), Neil Crone (actor), Jason Jones (actor), Shawn Lawrence (actor), Paul Calderon (actor), David Morse (actor), John 'Frenchie' Berger (actor), Mike Epps (actor), Jamie Kennedy (actor), John 'Frenchie' Berger (miscellaneous crew), Mark Mancina (composer),

Plot: In New York, Alvin Sanders is a small-time thief who's just been hauled in for stealing a bunch of prawns (shrimp) from a local restaurant. He ends up in a cell with John Jaster, one half of a high-tech criminal team that's just stolen $42,000,000 worth of gold from the Federal Reserve. Realizing that he could die at any moment from his worsening heart condition, Jaster tells Alvin to relay a cryptic message to his wife about the whereabouts of the hidden gold. Alvin doesn't know exactly what the message means, and Edgar Clenteen, the U.S. Treasury investigator working the case, hopes it will lead to the gold or Jaster's partner Bristol, but it does neither. Eighteen months later, Jaster is dead, and both Clenteen and Bristol are still looking for that gold. Clenteen decides to secretly plant a tracking device in Alvin's jaw, release him from prison, and then let the word out that he knows where the gold is hidden. Knowing that Bristol is probably watching their every move, Clenteen hopes Alvin will act as the bait that'll lure Bristol in. To the dismay of Clenteen and his colleagues, agents Wooly, Blum, Boyle, and Walsh, who are tracking Alvin's every word and move, Alvin immediately gets into trouble, although he decides to go straight once he learns that while he was in prison, his girlfriend Lisa Hill gave birth to their son. Even so, run-ins with his criminal brother, Stevie Sanders and Stevie's two partners, Ramundo and Julio, puts Alvin in danger of being locked up again, which threatens to mess up Clenteen's plan. What will happen when Alvin realizes that he's being used as bait to nail Bristol?

Keywords: animated-title-sequence, audio-surveillance, bare-chested-male-bondage, betrayal, bomb, booby-trap, boxing, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, brooklyn-bridge, brother-brother-relationship
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller,
Taglines: Alvin Sanders is going to help the Feds catch a killer. He just doesn't know it yet.

Quotes:

Julio: [Slamming Alvin against Ramundo's car] Your brother fucked us!::Ramundo: What the fuck are you doing? This is my fucking car man! This is my baby.::Julio: Sorry. [Slamming Alvin against the wall] Your brother fucked us!::Ramundo: So, Stevie's fucking my girl right?::Alvin: Well I think that's a point you're going to have to take with Stevie.::Julio: Well maybe Stevie isn't around to make a...point with anyone.::Ramundo: What the fuck are you saying?::Julio: I'm saying that Stevie didn't show.::Ramundo: Well just say it! Stop being so fucking complex!::Julio: I'm not complex, you're complex!::Alvin: Listen guys, do I have to be around for this?::Julio, Ramundo: Shut up!

[Bristol is nearly hit by a truck]::Trucker: You fucking nuts?::Bristol: No.::[shoots the trucker]::Bristol: I'm fine. Thanks for your concern.

[first lines]::Supervisor: Gentlemen, we owe a quarterly. Vault 23, encryption download.::Guard: Loaded.::Supervisor: Level five. Sonic, please.::Guard: Stable.::Supervisor: Motion?::Guard: Stable.::Supervisor: Status check, please.::Guard: All secure.::Supervisor: Excellent. Carry on, gentlemen.

Agent Wooly: We checked them all. We checked the monkey house, the reptile house, the giraffe house. We even checked the outhouse.

Edgar Clenteen: Citadel 4 is the same system we use to safeguard our nuclear missile launch facilities. This guy took it apart like he was hot-wiring a Toyota.

Senator: Mr. Clenteen, exactly how many laws are we breaking here?::Edgar Clenteen: You don't want to know.

Edgar Clenteen: A wolf will starve itself to death rather than make a mistake. You have to lay down a scent that smells real from far away. And the bait has to be fresh and untouched by human hands. Make no mistake about it, we are hunting a wolf.

Edgar Clenteen: When he's served his purpose, when he draws our man out of the shadows, well, you know what happens to bait...

Stevie Sanders: Alvin, you're an ex-con, man. You just got out the penitentiary. You got 26 dollars in your pocket, 25 of it is mine!

Alvin: So I'm bouncing from toy to toy like I'm some sort of drunk dude. Mom's smiling. My father's smiling. It's all good, right? Then around 8:30, cops show up. Take the toys, take my father. But for about two and a half hours I had a very, very happy childhood.

Poof (1999)

Actors: Jamie Sives (actor), Ricci Harnett (actor), Graeme Kennedy (director), Jes Benstock (director), Jes Benstock (writer), Alex Palmer (actor), Neil McCormack (actor), Orbital (composer), Peter McGraith (costume designer), Joanna Nolan (producer),

Genres: Short,

Of Kith and Kin (1998)

Actors: William G. Wagner (director), William G. Wagner (producer), Michael Durling (miscellaneous crew), William E. White (producer), Jim Survil (miscellaneous crew), Michael J. Lombardi (miscellaneous crew), Mary Stutz (miscellaneous crew), Richard McCluney Jr. (producer), Jodi Norman (miscellaneous crew), Jamie Jones (actor), Pete Pitard (miscellaneous crew), Danielle Gammon-Smith (miscellaneous crew), Harvey L. Bakari (actor), Christy Matthews (actress), Christy Matthews (writer),

Plot: Of Kith and Kin: The Trials and Triumphs of African American family life focuses on Paris, whose stories help students understand the family life of African American slaves during the eighteenth century. We watch a group of slave children learn the songs and rhythms of Africa that relate to the work of the plantation. We are guests at a traditional jumpin' the broom wedding ceremony and learn the sense of hope and fear that accompanies these unofficial marriages. Of Kith and Kin approaches slavery from the slaves' perspective and illustrates the role individuals and families played in a society that recognized the rights of neither.

Keywords: african, african-american, colonial-america, electronics, family-relationships, field, game, independent-film, slave, slavery
Genres: Documentary, Drama, Family, History,

A Twist of the Knife (1993)

Actors: Dick DeBenedictis (composer), Fred Silverman (producer), Dick Van Dyke (actor), Ken Lerner (actor), Jerry London (director), Luca Bercovici (actor), Dean Hargrove (producer), Suzanne Pleshette (actress), John Kapelos (actor), Cynthia Gibb (actress), Diane Durant (miscellaneous crew), Christina Pickles (actress), Corinne Bohrer (actress), Joyce Burditt (producer), Donna Colabella (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: Dr Sloan suspects that his flame of long ago, famous heart surgeon Dr Rachel Walters, has murdered US Senator Cabot on the occasion of a guest operation at the community hospital. After a long investigation, Sloan and fellow detectives Dr Bentley and Dr Parker discover her motive: Years ago, Cabot had caused a hit-and-run accident that put her daughter into coma. But how did Dr Walters manage to pass the deadly bacteria on to the senator in front of TV cameras?

Keywords: bacteria, sequel
Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery,

The Visit (1992)

Actors: Michael Hogan (actor), Jonathan Goldsmith (composer), Valerie Buhagiar (actress), Markham Cook (writer), Markham Cook (director), Hugh Marsh (composer),

Genres: Short,

A Deadly Business (1986)

Actors: Barry Flatman (actor), Paul Chihara (composer), Jon Polito (actor), Cec Linder (actor), Dave Nichols (actor), Michael Learned (actress), James Rebhorn (actor), Michael Copeman (actor), Richard Blackburn (actor), Bernard Behrens (actor), Armand Assante (actor), Alan Arkin (actor), Damir Andrei (actor), John Korty (director), Raymond Serra (actor),

Plot: This movie is based only on the testimony of Harold Kauffman. Who was known around New York as a small time thief, and Rat! Most of the facts were white washed to make Harold look good. When in fact he turned states evidence after getting caught driving drunk and the FBI threaten to send him back to jail! He worked for the king of the garbage industry "Chuck Macaluso" in New Jersey. He has been part of the witness protection program for over 16 years.

Keywords: based-on-true-story
Genres: Drama,

Early Days (1981)

Actors: Ralph Richardson (actor), Edward Judd (actor), Anthony Page (director), David Storey (writer), Marty Cruikshank (actress), Gerald Flood (actor), Terence Donovan (producer), Peter Machin (actor), John Pringle (producer),

Genres: Drama,

Early Days (1981)

Actors: Ralph Richardson (actor), Edward Judd (actor), Anthony Page (director), David Storey (writer), Marty Cruikshank (actress), Gerald Flood (actor), Terence Donovan (producer), Peter Machin (actor), John Pringle (producer),

Genres: Drama,

House of Usher (1960)

Actors: James H. Nicholson (producer), Edgar Allan Poe (writer), Richard Matheson (writer), Roger Corman (producer), Mark Damon (actor), Roger Corman (director), Les Baxter (composer), Vincent Price (actor), Anthony Carras (editor), Harry Ellerbe (actor), Bill Borzage (actor), Myrna Fahey (actress), George Paul (actor), Nadajan (actor), Ruth Oklander (actress),

Plot: After a long journey, Philip arrives at the Usher mansion seeking his loved one, Madeline. Upon arriving, however, he discovers that Madeline and her brother Roderick Usher have been afflicted with a mysterious malady: Roderick's senses have become painfully acute, while Madeline has become catatonic. That evening, Roderick tells his guest of an old Usher family curse: any time there has been more than one Usher child, all of the siblings have gone insane and died horrible deaths. As the days wear on, the effects of the curse reach their terrifying climax.

Keywords: 19th-century, accidental-death, b-movie, based-on-story, blood, brother-sister-relationship, buried-alive, butler, catalepsy, catatonia
Genres: Horror,
Taglines: Edgar Allan Poe's overwhelming tale of EVIL & TORMENT I heard her first feeble movements in the coffin... we had put her living in the tomb! The House of Usher is no more - and the place whereon it stood is as if - it had never been. He buried her alive... to save his soul! Edgar Allan Poe's demonic tale of The Ungodly... The Evil House of Usher

Quotes:

Roderick Usher: I suggest you leave, Mr. Winthrop. No? Then perish with us.

Philip Winthrop: You have murdered your sister, Mr. Usher, and I intend to see that you hang for it.::Roderick Usher: Arrange it quickly then. The old house crumbles.

Roderick Usher: See to the crypt, will you?

Roderick Usher: Did you know that I could hear the scratching of her fingernails on the casket lid?

Roderick Usher: [shouting] Be done.::Philip Winthrop: What?::Roderick Usher: I think I rave.::Philip Winthrop: You said be done.

Philip Winthrop: [as the house starts to rumble] Don't you think that crack in the wall should be repaired?::Roderick Usher: For future generations of Ushers?::Philip Winthrop: For Madeline's safety.::Philip Winthrop: While I was riding here I noticed a singular lack of vegetation, is there something wrong with the soil?::Roderick Usher: The soil?::Madeline Usher: Roderick please!::Roderick Usher: [looking at Madeline] As you wish.

Roderick Usher: Madeline and I are like figures of fine glass. The slightest touch and we may shatter. Both of us suffer from a morbid acuteness of the senses. Mine is the worst for having existed the longer, but both of us are afflicted with it. Any sort of food more exotic then the most pallid mash is unendurable to my taste buds. Any sort of garment other then the softest, is agony to my flesh. My eyes are tormented by all but the faintest illumination. Odors assail me constantly, and as I've said, sounds of any degree whatsoever inspire me with terror.

Philip Winthrop: How long have you been with the Ushers?::Bristol: Sixty years, sir.::Philip Winthrop: Sixty years?::Bristol: Since I was a boy.::Philip Winthrop: Why, then this house is just as much yours as it is Mr. Usher's.::Bristol: And Miss Madeline, sir.

Philip Winthrop: [as the house starts to rumble] How long has that been going on?::Bristol: So long I'm hardly aware of it anymore. It's just the settling of the house.::Philip Winthrop: That settling could cause this entire structure to collapse. That doesn't worry you?::Bristol: Oh no, sir. If the house dies, I shall die with it.

Philip Winthrop: Is there no end to your horrors?::Roderick Usher: No. None whatever.