The Fourth Angel (2001)

Actors: Françoise Michaud (actress), Peter R. Simpson (producer), Forest Whitaker (actor), Peter Wight (actor), Charlotte Rampling (actress), Lois Maxwell (actress), Michael Sarne (actor), Ian McNeice (actor), Jeremy Irons (actor), Timothy West (actor), Garry Marriott (actor), Jason Priestley (actor), Garrick Hagon (actor), Nick Rotundo (editor), Paul Zaza (composer),

Plot: The Economist reporter Jack Elgin, a workaholic, takes his family on a working trip to India, where he is to interview the PM. But their US airplane is hijacked in Limassol (Cyprus) by the unknown August 15 terrorist movement, which ends up in a bloodbath. Jack can save his pre-teen son Andrew, literally in his arms, but his wife and daughter are among the slaughter victims. Western governments seem unwilling to go after the fiends, even hide the identity of a high-profile fatal victim. Although now a single father, Jack uses all his contacts and snooping skill to seek the truth himself. A London-based Serbian free newspaper editor sets him on the trail of four Balkanic killers, but is murdered. Jack decides to exact revenge himself, tipped-off by Sûreté-contact Dugay. Meanwhile US embassy official Davidson and FBI Special Agent Jules Bernard play a key part in the official, MI5-lead investigation, which ends up crossing Jack's path.

Keywords: abandoned-warehouse, airplane, airport, ak-47, ambassador, american, assassin, assassination, based-on-novel, bed
Genres: Action, Drama, Thriller,
Taglines: Sometimes revenge is the only solution. They took everything he had. Revenge is all that's left. (DVD box-art)

''Quidam, Quidam'' (1999)

Actors: Kitty Courbois (actress), Jack Wouterse (actor), Kees Hulst (actor), Serge-Henri Valcke (actor), Jaap Spijkers (actor), Cees Geel (actor), Halina Reijn (actress), Mark Van Eeghem (actor), Hein van der Heijden (actor), Ruben van der Meer (actor), Rik Launspach (actor), Dimme Treurniet (actor), Ad van Kempen (actor), Mimoun Oaïssa (actor), Hugo Metsers (actor),

Genres: ,

Bhai Bhai (1997)

Actors: Yunus Parvez (actor), Anil Nagrath (actor), Mac Mohan (actor), Prem Chopra (actor), Manmauji (actor), Pramod Moutho (actor), Vikas Anand (actor), Sunil Dhawan (actor), Rakesh Bedi (actor), Mushtaq Khan (actor), Ishrat Ali (actor), Gulshan Grover (actor), Ram Mohan (actor), Shakti Kapoor (actor), Ghanshyam Rohera (actor),

Plot: Modern day secular India sees riots break out between extremists elements belonging to Hindu and Muslim groups. To pacify them, Haji Ali Baba appeals to them, and asks them to return peacefully to their homes and families, which they do. This does not auger well with the perpetrators of the riots, who want to destabilize India, take over Kashmir, and infuse terrorism in every walk of life. One of the employees, Raghu, of these instigators finds that his child has been killed, so he makes a file and takes it to Haji, and is killed shortly thereafter. When Haji goes through the file he finds that the conspiracy involves big name politicians, and he decides to confront one of them. He does so, and is killed, but after leaving the file in a secure location. The big-wigs hire two friends, Veeru and Akbar, to locate the file for a fee, which they do. Then they find out that they have virtually turned over the country to extremists, and decide to repent for their actions by recovering the file and handing it to proper authorities for disposal. What they do not realize is that there seems to be no "proper authority" for dealing with such wrong actions, and it appears that everyone is involved in this deep conspiracy to make money for themselves. The two hapless friends now realize the situation they are in, and must prepare themselves and their loved ones against the onslaught that will surely wipe them out from this world.

Genres: Action,
Taglines: Jai Hind

Sheng gang qi bing di san ji (1989)

Actors: Stephen Shiu (miscellaneous crew), Andy Lau (actor), Kei Mai (actor), Siu Chung Mok (actor), Robin Shou (actor), Elvis Tsui (actor), Stephen Shiu (producer), Stephen Shiu (writer), Siu-Hung Leung (miscellaneous crew), Kirk Wong (actor), Hung Poon (editor), John Ladalski (actor), Johnny Mak (writer), Ken Boyle (actor), Michael Mak (director),

Genres: Action,

Cry Freedom (1987)

Actors: Nick Tate (actor), Timothy West (actor), John Thaw (actor), Ian Richardson (actor), William Morgan Sheppard (actor), Denzel Washington (actor), Kevin McNally (actor), John Hargreaves (actor), Julian Glover (actor), Alec McCowen (actor), Kevin Kline (actor), Ian McNeice (actor), Garrick Hagon (actor), Richard Attenborough (producer), Penelope Wilton (actress),

Plot: Donald Woods is chief editor of the liberal newspaper Daily Dispatch in South Africa. He has written several editorials critical of the views of Steve Biko. But after having met him for the first time, he changes his opinion. They meet several times, and this means that Woods and his family get attention from the security police. When Steve Biko dies in police custody, he writes a book about Biko. The only way to get it published is for Woods himself to illegally escape the country.

Keywords: 1970s, activist, apartheid, based-on-book, civil-rights, compassion, crusading-newspaper, death-threat, editor, freedom
Genres: Biography, Drama, History,
Taglines: The true story of the friendship that shook South Africa and awakened the world

Quotes:

Judge: Why do you people call yourselves black? You look more brown than black.::Steve Biko: Why do you call yourselves white? You look more pink than white.

Donald Woods: Do you know anyone we can trust, who has a car?::Tami: I trust me! And I have a car! The Boers will shit themselves!

Steve Biko: ...but you a black child, smart or dumb, you're born into this and smart or dumb, you'll die in it

Steve Biko: You can beat or jail me or even kill me, but I am not going to be what you want me to be!

Steve Biko: My lord, blacks are not unaware of the hardships they endure or what the government is doing to them. we want them to stop accepting these hardships - to confront them. People must not just give in to the hardship of life, they must find a way, even in these environments, to - to develop hope - hope for themselves, hope for this country. now I think that is what black consciousness is all about. Not without any reference to the white man. To try to build up a sense of our own humanity - our legitimate place in the world.

Steve Biko: When I was a student, trying to qualify for the jobs you people will let us have, I suddenly realized that i wasn't just good jobs that were white. The only history we read was made by the white man, written by the white man. Television, cars, medicines - all invented by the white man, even football. Now the way like that, it's not hard to believe there's something inferior about being born black. I began to think this idea of inferiority was an even bigger problem for us than what the Afrikaans were doing to us. At first a black man had to believe he had as much capacity to be a doctor, a leader, as a white man.

Steve Biko: It's a miracle a child survives here at all. People are so desperate for anything they'll beat a kid bloody if they thought he had five Rand. But if you do run fast enough, if you do survive, you grew up in these streets, these houses. Your parents try, but in the end, you only get the education the white man will give you. Then you go to the city to work or shop, and you see their streets, their cars, their houses, and you begin to feel there is something not quite right about yourself. About your humanity. Something to do with your blackness because no matter how smart or dumb a white child is he is born to that world. And you, a black child, smart or dumb you are born into this. And smart or dumb you die in it.

Steve Biko: I just expect to be treated like you expect to be treated. Come on, what are you so afraid of? Once you try you see there's nothing to fear. We're just as weak and human as you are.

Steve Biko: We are going to change South Africa. What we've got to decide is the best way to do that. And as angry as we have the right to be, let us remember that we are in the struggle to kill the idea that one kind of man is superior to another kind of man. And killing that idea is not dependent on the white man. We must stop looking to him to give us something. We have to fill the black community with our own pride. We have to teach our black children black history, tell them about our black heroes, our black culture, so they don't face the white man believing they are inferior. Then we'll stand up to him in anyway he chooses. Conflict, if he likes, but with an open hand, too, to say we can all build a South Africa worth living in - a South Africa for equals, black or white, a South Africa as beautiful as this land is, as beautiful as we are.

State Prosecutor: But your own words demand for DIRECT CONFRONTATION!::Steve Biko: That's right, we demand confrontation.::State Prosecutor: Isn't that a demand for violence?::Steve Biko: Well, you and I are now in confrontation, but I see no violence.

Ilzaam (1986)

Actors: Harbans Darshan M. Arora (actor), Prem Chopra (actor), Ramesh Deo (actor), Govinda (actor), Manik Irani (actor), Pinchoo Kapoor (actor), Shashi Kapoor (actor), Satish Kaul (actor), Raj Kiran (actor), Raj Mehra (actor), Mac Mohan (actor), Tej Sapru (actor), Shivraj (actor), Gurbachchan Singh (actor), Shatrughan Sinha (actor),

Plot: Orphaned and poor Ajay meets with wealthy Aarti, and both fall in love. Their hopes to marry are dashed to the ground, when Aarti's dad, Dhanraj, vehemently opposes any alliance with Ajay until he gets wealthy. Ajay disappears from Aarti's life, and Aarti is heartbroken but does not get Ajay out of her mind. Several months later, she meets with a young man who looks like Ajay, but claims that he is Vijay. She finds out that he is living with a sister, Laxmi, his mother, and an older brother, Inspector Surajprasad. While investigating an unrelated matter, Surajprasad finds out that Vijay is a career criminal, who sings and dances on the streets, distracting people, while his colleagues break into apartments and rob the residents.

Keywords: blackmail, competition, dance, drinking-and-driving, hooligan, love, party, police
Genres: Family,

Jawaab (1985)

Actors: Vikas Anand (actor), Raj Babbar (actor), Raj Babbar (actor), Raj Babbar (actor), Abhi Bhattacharya (actor), Danny Denzongpa (actor), T.P. Jain (actor), Smita Patil (actress), Smita Patil (actress), Smita Patil (actress), Smita Patil (actress), Laxmikant Shantaram Kudalkar (composer), Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma (composer), Satyendra Kapoor (actor), Mac Mohan (actor),

Plot: A journalist, Mehta, on the run from Jagmohan's men, leaves an envelope with singer, Ramprasad Singh, and asks him to deliver it to Inspector J.S. Sharma at Bandra (Bomay) Police Station. Subsequently, Mehta is killed. Ramprasad turns over the envelope to Inspector Sharma, and Jagmohan is arrested and sentenced to two years in prison. Then Ramprasad starts receiving threats and threatening phone calls, and asks Sharma for protection. Ramprasad, his wife, Rajni, and son, are enrolled in the Witness Protection Program, and given a new identity. After sometime Jagmohan finds out their whereabouts, and Sharma gets them newer names, this time Catholic names. When Jagmohan gets their whereabouts again, Sharma gets the family Muslim names. Fed up of running for their lives, changing their religion and their location, Ramprasad decides to take on his original name, and return home to Bombay. Once there, Ramprasad devises his very own scheme of getting even with Jagmohan, initially by creating misunderstandings between his men, and getting them to kill each other, and lastly kidnapping Jagmohan's daughter, Komal, and injecting her with cocaine, bringing him into conflict with his own family, and the law.

Genres: Romance, Thriller,

Gandhi (1982)

Actors: John Gielgud (actor), Richard Griffiths (actor), Edward Fox (actor), Ernest Clark (actor), Anang Desai (actor), David Gant (actor), Daniel Day-Lewis (actor), Tom Alter (actor), John Boxer (actor), Mohan Agashe (actor), Jalal Agha (actor), Ian Bannen (actor), Sudhir Dalvi (actor), Nigel Hawthorne (actor), Günther Maria Halmer (actor),

Plot: In 1893, Gandhi is thrown off a South African train for being an Indian and traveling in a first class compartment. Gandhi realizes that the laws are biased against Indians and decides to start a non-violent protest campaign for the rights of all Indians in South Africa. After numerous arrests and the unwanted attention of the world, the government finally relents by recognizing rights for Indians, though not for the native blacks of South Africa. After this victory, Gandhi is invited back to India, where he is now considered something of a national hero. He is urged to take up the fight for India's independence from the British Empire. Gandhi agrees, and mounts a non-violent non-cooperation campaign of unprecedented scale, coordinating millions of Indians nationwide. There are some setbacks, such as violence against the protesters and Gandhi's occasional imprisonment. Nevertheless, the campaign generates great attention, and Britain faces intense public pressure. Too weak from World War II to continue enforcing its will in India, Britain finally grants India's independence. Indians celebrate this victory, but their troubles are far from over. Religious tensions between Hindus and Muslims erupt into nation-wide violence. Gandhi declares a hunger strike, saying he will not eat until the fighting stops. The fighting does stop eventually, but the country is divided. It is decided that the northwest area of India, and eastern part of India (current day Bangladesh), both places where Muslims are in the majority, will become a new country called Pakistan (West and East Pakistan respectively). It is hoped that by encouraging the Muslims to live in a separate country, violence will abate. Gandhi is opposed to the idea, and is even willing to allow Muhammad Ali Jinnah to become the first prime minister of India, but the Partition of India is carried out nevertheless. Gandhi spends his last days trying to bring about peace between both nations. He thereby angers many dissidents on both sides, one of whom finally gets close enough to assassinate him.

Keywords: 1890s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 19th-century, 20th-century, amritsar-india, amritsar-massacre, army-vs-civilians
Genres: Biography, Drama, History,
Taglines: His Triumph Changed The World Forever. The Man of the Century. The Motion Picture of a Lifetime. A WORLD EVENT It took one remarkable man to defeat the British Empire and free a nation of 350 million people. His goal was freedom for India. His strategy was peace. His weapon was his humanity.

Quotes:

Gandhi: I am a Muslim and a Hindu and a Christian and a Jew and so are all of you.

Gandhi: Whenever I despair, I remember that the way of truth and love has always won. There may be tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they may seem invincible, but in the end, they always fail. Think of it: always.

Nehru: Bapuji, the whole country is moving.::Gandhi: Yes. but in what direction?

Gandhi: An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Nahari: I'm going to Hell! I killed a child! I smashed his head against a wall.::Gandhi: Why?::Nahari: Because they killed my son! The Muslims killed my son!::[indicates boy's height]::Gandhi: I know a way out of Hell. Find a child, a child whose mother and father have been killed and raise him as your own.::[indicates same height]::Gandhi: Only be sure that he is a Muslim and that you raise him as one.

Gandhi: They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me, then they will have my dead body. NOT MY OBEDIENCE!

Gandhi: We think it is time that you recognized that you are masters in someone else's home. Despite the best intentions of the best of you, you must, in the nature of things, humiliate us to control us. General Dyer is but an extreme example of the principle... it is time you left.

Kinnoch: With respect, Mr. Gandhi, without British administration, this country would be reduced to chaos.::Gandhi: Mr. Kinnoch, I beg you to accept that there is no people on Earth who would not prefer their own bad government to the good government of an alien power.::Brigadier: My dear sir! India *is* British. We're hardly an alien power! [silence]

Vince Walker: I met him once.::Collins: You mean Gandhi?::Vince Walker: Yeah, in South Africa, a long time ago. I wonder if he'll recognize me.::Collins: What was he like?::Vince Walker: He had a full head of hair then. We were a bit like college students, trying to figure everything out.::Collins: Well, he must have found some of the answers!

Gandhi: You're a temptress.::Margaret Bourke-White: Just an admirer!::Gandhi: Nothing is more dangerous, especially for an old man.

Shakti (1982)

Actors: Goga Kapoor (actor), Master Ravi (actor), Vikas Anand (actor), Chandrashekhar (actor), Amitabh Bachchan (actor), Anil Kapoor (actor), Ashok (actor), Kulbhushan Kharbanda (actor), Ashok Kumar (actor), Dilip Kumar (actor), Sudhir Pandey (actor), Amrish Puri (actor), Jagdish Raj (actor), Keshav Rana (actor), Sharat Saxena (actor),

Plot: A scrupulously honest cop refuses kidnappers' demands at grave risk to the life of his son. The son is rescued but lives forever scarred by his father's willingness to sacrifice his own son for the sake of his principles. This works out to devastating effect when the son grows up to be a Mafia don, and his father is assigned the job of bringing him in.

Genres: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Family,

Quotes:

DCP Ashwini Kumar: [answering ransom demand over the phone] Yeshwant is a criminal, and I am a police officer... I cannot let him go.::K. D. Narang: Do you understand what this could mean?::DCP Ashwini Kumar: Yes... I understand that right now my son's life is in your hands... [conflicted pause] Kill him. Kill him. You can kill him, but I won't misuse my badge. No matter what you do, do you guys hear me? No matter what you do I will never violate my duty, ever.

Bloody Kids (1979)

Actors: Brenda Fricker (actress), Geraldine James (actress), Roger Lloyd-Pack (actor), George Fenton (composer), Stephen Frears (director), Mel Smith (actor), Penny Eyles (miscellaneous crew), Daniel Peacock (actor), Stephen Poliakoff (writer), Jack Douglas (actor), Stephen Poliakoff (writer), Richard Hope (actor), Jimmy Hibbert (actor), Derrick O'Connor (actor), Gary Olsen (actor),

Plot: The slender premise springs from the actions of two listless 11-year-old boys, the cold, manipulative Leo, and his weaker, more impressionable friend, Mike. Contemptuous of the fallible police force (Mike has already filched a police hat from an accident scene), the boys arrange a staged knife fight outside a football stadium with the aid of a bag of stage blood and a real blade.

Keywords: double-decker-bus, gangster, murder, teenager, wild
Genres: Drama,