16 Blocks (2006)
Actors:
Brian G. Andersson (actor),
Robert Bizik (actor),
Jason Burke (actor),
Jimmy Campbell (actor),
Kim Chan (actor),
Jim Chong (actor),
Robert Clohessy (actor),
Richard Collier (actor),
Cylk Cozart (actor),
Ed Cuffe (actor),
Joseph DeBona (actor),
Mos Def (actor),
Daryl Dismond (actor),
Richard Donner (actor),
Nick Alachiotis (actor),
Plot: Jack Mosley, a burnt-out detective, is assigned the unenviable task of transporting a fast-talking convict from jail to a courthouse 16 blocks away. However, along the way he learns that the man is supposed to testify against Mosley's colleagues, and the entire NYPD wants him dead. Mosley must choose between loyalty to his colleagues and protecting the witness, and never has such a short distance seemed so long...
Keywords: african-american, alcoholic, alleyway, ambulance, angel-food-cake, angel-food-cake-recipe, assassin, attempted-murder, bakery, bandaged-hand
Genres:
Action,
Crime,
Drama,
Thriller,
Taglines: For a New York cop and his witness, the distance between life and death just got very short. 1 Witness... 118 Minutes...
Quotes:
[last lines]::Eddie Bunker: Happy birthday, Jack.
[Jack gets out of the car and walks into a liquor store]::Eddie Bunker: Yo, it ain't Miller time, man!
Jack Mosley: You're a sunny little shit, I'll give you that much.
Frank Nugent: Fuck the truth!
Frank Nugent: [Reloading weapon] You know, when I woke up this morning, I didn't expect to be trading nine millies with my friend.
Frank Nugent: [after catching Jack and telling him to drop his weapon] Can't get lucky all the time.::Eddie Bunker: [sneaking up behind Frank with a gun] You can be smart every day, though.
Jack Mosley: Days change, seasons change, people don't change.
Jack Mosley: Oh yea, you give the car keys to your best friend and you let him take the old lady to the hospital. You stay at the bus stop with the girl because she's the girl of your dreams, right? So everything is going to be ok.
Frank Nugent: [after the shootout in Chinatown, Nugent is talking to Mosley through the door] You still there, Jack?::Jack Mosley: Yeah, I'm still here.
Jack Mosley: Never met your sister?::Eddie Bunker: No.::Jack Mosley: Wow.::Eddie Bunker: So I'm going out to Seattle to meet her. I'm looking forward...::Jack Mosley: Maybe she turns out to look like Angelina Jolie.::Eddie Bunker: Shit, if she do, I hope she ain't my sister.
Luftpiraten - 113 Passagiere in Todesangst (2000)
Actors:
Markus Böker (actor),
Herbert Fritsch (actor),
Gerd Rigauer (actor),
Pierre Semmler (actor),
Tim Seyfi (actor),
Frank Stieren (actor),
Christof Wackernagel (actor),
Solveig Duda (actress),
Anja Freese (actress),
Alexandra Maria Lara (actress),
Matthias Deyle (producer),
Nikolaus Kraemer (producer),
Wolfgang Latteyer (producer),
Thomas Hernadi (writer),
Alexander M. Rümelin (writer),
Plot: An ex-security operative and an accomplice hijack a jet, force the pilot to land and then shoot him and a flight attendant just to show they mean business. The hijackers demand 20 million marks worth of diamonds or more victims will be shot. The airline decides to deploy an elite force instead. The team's leader soon discovers his pregnant girlfriend is one of the plane's stewardesses.
Keywords: diamond, flight-attendant, handcuffs, hijacking, jumbo-jet, murder, pregnancy, ransom
Genres:
Action,
Thriller,
