Shade (2003)

Actors: Glenn Plummer (actor), Sylvester Stallone (actor), Michael Dorn (actor), Trae Ireland (actor), Tony Burton (actor), Roger Guenveur Smith (actor), Hal Holbrook (actor), Gabriel Byrne (actor), Patrick Bauchau (actor), Jamie Foxx (actor), Mark Boone Junior (actor), Jack Conley (actor), Bo Hopkins (actor), Dina Merrill (actress), Melanie Griffith (actress),

Plot: Shade is set in the world of poker hustlers working the clubs and martini bars of Los Angeles. The tale unfolds as a group of hustlers encounter "The Dean" and pull off a successful sting that results in their pursuit by a vengeful gangster.

Keywords: airport, bag-of-money, bar, bare-chested-male, betrayal, big-con, blood, blood-in-car, blood-spatter, bound-and-gagged
Genres: Crime, Thriller,
Taglines: Look Deeper. When gambling your life, leave nothing to chance. Getting played... it's all in the game Lie, Cheat, Steal... your deal!

Quotes:

Marlo: Excuse me, I'm vibrating.

Charlie Miller: [watching Vernon practice] Christ... I can see the brief from here...::Vernon: I'm not even dealing deuces, asshole.::Charlie Miller: Well, then, they're lousy-lookin' tops.

Charlie Miller: [during a Mexican standoff, over the phone] Hello? No, I don't know anything about a fucking ring.

Stevens: I was mucking cards since before you were born.

Young Stevens: The correct term for this situation is "fucked".

Larry Jennings: I only had four girlfriends in my entire life, and they were all tens.::Leipzig: Well, it looks like your girlfriends were all fucking guys named Jack.

The Majestic (2001)

Actors: Earl Boen (actor), Martin Landau (actor), J. Edgar Hoover (actor), Brent Briscoe (actor), Cliff Curtis (actor), Allen Garfield (actor), Hal Holbrook (actor), Jeffrey DeMunn (actor), Matt Damon (actor), Bruce Campbell (actor), Jim Carrey (actor), Bob Balaban (actor), Lester Cole (actor), Paul Mazursky (actor), Garry Marshall (actor),

Plot: Peter Appleton is an ambitious young screenwriter working for HHS Studios during Hollywood's Golden Age, 1951 in particular. "Ashes to Ashes" is about to be released, and he's dating the attractive movie star, Sandra Sinclair. Just when everything seems to be going his way, it is discovered he (unwittingly) attended a Communist meeting during college when pulled there by his girlfriend at the time, and thus heavy suspicion settles over him and he'll have to stand before Congress. Afraid of what might happen if they don't, HHS cancels Appleton's contract and aborts the release date of the film. Appleton promptly begins to wallow in self-pity and spends nearly an entire night at a bar, then drives intoxicated through the streets of the California course until plummeting into a stormy river and getting knocked unconscious. Washing up on the beaches of a small town called Lawson. Although the people there are pleasant and likable, the town is depressed and lifeless due to having lost 62 of its sons in World War II. One of them, Luke Trimble, was missing in action; and miraculously, Peter bears a striking resemblance to the black and white photos, close enough to fool even Luke's father, Harry. However, thanks to the blow to the head and the alcohol, Peter has suffered amnesia and decides he must be who they think he is. Besides, it's not a bad life: Luke's beautiful lover, lawyer Adele Stanton, is all over him, the town has suddenly come back to life with excitement, and he and his "father" rebuild a movie palace Harry used to run, the Majestic. Unfortunately, Peter's memory returns in time for G-men to track him down.

Keywords: 1950s, abandoned-theatre, amnesia, apartment-eviction, applause, artificial-arm, band, bar, beach, blacklist
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: Sometimes your life comes into focus one frame at a time.

Quotes:

Peter Appleton: I can't stand the constant nagging. I'm leaving you, Jerry. I'm leaving you - and I'm taking the monkey with me.

Adele: Do you remember me?::Peter Appleton: No, but I'll sure try.

Elvin Clyde: Who did you go as?::Peter Appleton: A horny young man.

Luke Trimble: When bullies rise up, the rest of us have to beat them back down, whatever the cost. That's a simple idea, I suppose, but one worth giving everything for.

Peter Appleton: I thought this was a democracy.::Leo Kubelsky: The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, they're all just pieces of paper with signatures on them. And you know what a piece of paper with a signature is: a contract. Something that can be renegotiated at any time. Just so happens that the House un-American activities committee is renegotiating the contract this time around. Next time it will be somebody else, but it will always be somebody.

[Inside the abandoned movie theater]::Harry Trimble: That's why we call it The Majestic. Any man, woman, child could buy their ticket, walk right in. Here they'd be, here we'd be. "Yes sir, yes ma'am. Enjoy the show." And in they'd come entering a palace, like in a dream, like in heaven. Maybe you had worries and problems out there, but once you came through those doors, they didn't matter anymore. And you know why? Chaplin, that's why. And Keaton and Lloyd. Garbo, Gable, and Lombard, and Jimmy Stewart and Jimmy Cagney. Fred and Ginger. They were gods. And they lived up there. That was Olympus. Would you remember if I told you how lucky we felt just to be here? To have the privilege of watching them. I mean, this television thing. Why would you want to stay at home and watch a little box? Because it's convenient? Because you don't have to get dressed up, because you could just sit there? I mean, how can you call that entertainment, alone in your living room? Where's the other people? Where's the audience? Where's the magic? I'll tell you, in a place like this, the magic is all around you. The trick is to see it.

Adele: This is a free country, you can be a communist if you want to be a communist!

Roland the Intrepid Explorer: Taste my steel, you dog!

[Instead of a piano piece by Franz Liszt, Luke plays a boogie-woogie tune]::Irene Terwilliger: Really, Luke! That's no way to treat Mr. Liszt. Stop that! Stop it, stop it! Who taught you to play like that? I demand to know. Where on earth did you learn to play such a thing?::Emmett Smith: I taught him that... when you weren't looking!

Bob Leffert: I knew Luke Trimble. I didn't like him much. Not saying he's a bad guy. Just rubbed me the wrong way. You know that feelin'? Somebody rubs you the wrong way, and you can't even explain why? You kinda rub me that way. Not that it makes you Luke. So, I wanna know is what kinda game are you runnin'? Who are you really?::Peter Appleton: Just a guy trying to figure things out.::Bob Leffert: This town's had enough heartbreak. Too much. Me, I think you're settin' everybody up for more. I hope I'm wrong. I haven't had to kill anybody since the war.

Crash Dive (1997)

Actors: Frederic Forrest (actor), Andrew Stevens (director), Andrew Stevens (producer), Time Winters (actor), Eric Wurst (composer), David Wurst (composer), Ashok Amritraj (producer), Michael Cavanaugh (actor), Ashok Amritraj (actor), Reiner Schöne (actor), Michael Dudikoff (actor), Alan B. Bursteen (producer), Jay Acovone (actor), Marc Kunis (miscellaneous crew), Bill Davis (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: The crew of the nuclear submarine USS Ulysses rescues supposed victims of a boat disaster, but the victims turn out to be terrorists intent on capturing nuclear weapons aboard the sub. Only a former SEAL, now a submarine consultant, can save the crew by sliding aboard while the sub is underwater. The term "crash dive" refers to the sudden dropping of a sub to escape detection, an act that a nuclear sub is never supposed to make. Of course, it comes into play in this film.

Keywords: action-violence, brazilian-jiu-jitsu, brooklyn-bridge, crash-dive, die-hard-scenario, fistfight, hand-to-hand-combat, helicopter, hijacking, hostile-takeover
Genres: Action, Drama, Thriller,

Baburugamu kurasshu! (1991)

Actors: Minami Takayama (actress), Toshio Furukawa (actor), Tomomichi Nishimura (actor), Nozomu Sasaki (actor), Akiko Hiramatsu (actress), Ken'yû Horiuchi (actor), Yoshiko Sakakibara (actress), Patt Noday (actor), Hideyuki Umezu (actor), Michie Tomizawa (actress), Kazuyuki Sogabe (actor), Noboru Ishiguro (miscellaneous crew), Scott Simpson (actor), Chuck Kinlaw (actor), John Wolskel (writer),

Plot: Several years after the end of Bubblegum Crisis, things have calmed down, or so it seems. Sylia's disappeared, Priss has stumbled from one manager to another, Nene's still working with the AD Police and trying to keep the Knight Saber ideal alive, and Linna has moved into the Stock market and is doing quite well. Things are quiet, until a group of mercenaries calling themselves the Illegal Army begins to attack high tech companies, stealing rare parts. Sylia returns with new hardware to reform the Knight Sabers, but will they be able to take on the Illegal Army, and whoever is behind them?

Keywords: anime, cyberpunk, power-armor, sequel, superhero
Genres: Action, Animation, Sci-Fi,

Hollywood Vice Squad (1986)

Actors: Penelope Spheeris (director), Carrie Fisher (actress), Robin Wright (actress), Joey Travolta (actor), Bruce Chudacoff (miscellaneous crew), Jill M. Ohanneson (costume designer), Beau Starr (actor), Frank Gorshin (actor), Tom Everett (actor), Julius Harris (actor), Ronny Cox (actor), Robert Miano (actor), Marvin Kaplan (actor), Susan Malerstein (miscellaneous crew), Sandy Howard (producer),

Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller,
Taglines: The most unusual police force in the world

Serpico (1973)

Actors: James Tolkan (actor), Mikis Theodorakis (composer), M. Emmet Walsh (actor), Tony Roberts (actor), Tracey Walter (actor), Dino De Laurentiis (producer), F. Murray Abraham (actor), Tony Lo Bianco (actor), Allan Rich (actor), Sam Coppola (actor), Judd Hirsch (actor), John Randolph (actor), Al Pacino (actor), Sidney Lumet (director), Anna Hill Johnstone (costume designer),

Plot: Serpico is a cop in the 1960s-early 1970s. Unlike all his colleagues, he refuses a share of the money that the cops routinely extort from local criminals. Nobody wants to work with Serpico, and he's in constant danger of being placed in life threatening positions by his "partners". Nothing seems to get done even when he goes to the highest of authorities. Despite the dangers he finds himself in, he still refuses to 'go with the flow', in the hope that one day, the truth will be known.

Keywords: 1960s, african-american, bank-book, bar, bare-breasts, bare-chested-male, based-on-book, beard, bird, black-american
Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller,
Taglines: Many of his fellow officers considered him the most dangerous man alive - An honest cop.

Quotes:

Frank Serpico: I'm a marked man in this department. For what?::District Attorney Tauber: I've already arranged a transfer for ya'.::Frank Serpico: To where? China?

Frank Serpico: The reality is that we do not wash our own laundry - it just gets dirtier.

Capt. Insp. McClain: Frank, we wash our own laundry here!

Barto: How long have you been with the BCI now, Serpico?::Frank Serpico: All my life.::Barto: That's long enough to know how we do things.::Frank Serpico: Barto, it's not just that. [in a sarcastic tone] You don't like me!::Barto: BCI never had a weirdo cop before.::Frank Serpico: Barto, stop buggin' me!

Leslie Lane: [feeling his gun as she's riding on the back of his motorcycle] What'ya need a gun for?::Frank Serpico: Didya ever hear of Barnum and Bailey?::Leslie Lane: Yeah.::Frank Serpico: Well, I'm their lion tamer.

Frank Serpico: How come all your friends are on their way to bein' someone else?

Insp. Kellogg: [discussing the bribe money while eating lobster] Things like this were common practice in the bad old days. Hard to believe it's still going on.

Frank Serpico: You know what they say, don't you? If you love a man's garden, you gotta love the man!

Tom Keough: Frank, let's face it, who can trust a cop that won't take money?

Rudy Corsaro: [being arrested by Serpico, who's having trouble finding his badge] Where have they been hidin' you, kid?::Frank Serpico: Wouldn't you like to know?

A Lovely Way to Die (1968)

Actors: Kirk Douglas (actor), John P. Ryan (actor), Sidney Katz (editor), Eli Wallach (actor), Sylva Koscina (actress), Doris Roberts (actress), David Huddleston (actor), David Lowell Rich (director), Ralph Waite (actor), Dana Elcar (actor), Philip Bosco (actor), Ali MacGraw (actress), Hank Garrett (actor), Dolph Sweet (actor), Sharon Farrell (actress),

Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery,
Taglines: A bodyguard too involved with the body he was guarding! He uses his badge like a bludgeon...She uses her body like a lure!

Fury at Gunsight Pass (1956)

Actors: Paul E. Burns (actor), Norman Leavitt (actor), Harry Harvey (actor), Robert Anderson (actor), Morris Ankrum (actor), I. Stanford Jolley (actor), James Anderson (actor), Neville Brand (actor), Frank Fenton (actor), Joseph Forte (actor), Kit Guard (actor), Herman Hack (actor), Frank Hagney (actor), Percy Helton (actor), Frank O'Connor (actor),

Plot: Part of an outlaw gang rides into town to rob the bank and their accomplice is the local undertaker. The robbery goes awry and they are captured but the money is not found. While the prisoners are being transferred, the rest of the gang overpowers the posse, frees the prisoners, and returns to town. The undertaker's wife finds the money and tries to flee putting the townspeople's life in jeopardy as the outlaw leader plans to start shooting them unless he gets the money.

Keywords: b-movie, b-western, bank-robbery, banker, bride, bridegroom, deadline, death, deceit, deception
Genres: Western,
Taglines: HIGH NOON IS THE DEADLINE..THEN THE GUNS GO OFF IN THE TOWN OF GUNSIGHT PASS! (original 6-sheet poster-all caps) The Gun-Raging Story of THE GREAT BANK RAID! (original 3-sheet poster) OUTLAWS HOLD A WHOLE TOWN HOSTAGE!---Then one man find the courage to fight back! (original 1-sheet poster) "Every 30 Minutes We'll Shoot Another Hostage...'till that gold is in our hands!" (original print ad) KILLERS HOLD A WHOLE TOWN AT GUNPOINT...(original print ad-all caps)

The Big Bonanza (1944)

Actors: Richard Arlen (actor), Charles King (actor), Roy Barcroft (actor), Bob Burns (actor), Ralph Bucko (actor), J.M. Kerrigan (actor), Tommy Coats (actor), Roy Bucko (actor), Francis Ford (actor), Fred Graham (actor), Herman Hack (actor), George M. Carleton (actor), George 'Gabby' Hayes (actor), Ed Cassidy (actor), Jack Kirk (actor),

Plot: Having been falsely court marshaled for cowardice and sentenced to prison by the Army, Jed Kilton escapes and heads to Nevada Springs to see his kid brother. There he meets his old school friend Sam Ballou. But the two old friends soon find themselves on opposite sides and Sam has Jed arrested. Then when Jed's young brother sees one of Sam's men kill another man, the boy becomes Sam's intended victim.

Genres: Drama, Western,
Taglines: IT'S ROUGH! TOUGH! and TERRIFIC! PACKED With SUSPENSE and THRILLS of frontier adventure! Struggle For A Western Empire! Days of Treachery! Nights of Romance!

Midnight Molly (1925)

Actors: Léon Bary (actor), John T. Dillon (actor), Bruce Gordon (actor), John Gough (actor), Evelyn Brent (actress), Evelyn Brent (actress), Fred Myton (writer), Fred Myton (writer), Lloyd Ingraham (director),

Genres: Drama,