martes, 21 de junio de 2011
lunes, 20 de junio de 2011
Criminal Xing
Director:
Alberto G. RodriguezWriter:
Alberto G. RodriguezCountry:
USALanguage:
EnglishSix men must complete various tasks before moving up the ladder in the crime world. Each more dangerous than the last.
Johnny is a poker-faced, old world outlaw whose only driving force is money. A professional killer and master of escape, Johnny is soon offered the big cash score that has constantly eluded him. The Catch? He and five other criminals must complete various jobs from an anonymous employer before they get the chance at some serious money. Johnny, who is a gun for hire, soon teams up with the five criminals on different jobs knowing in advance that they are all enemies. Johnny's life is quickly put in danger when two of the criminals find out that he is working for their rival. The result of this leads to numerous set-ups, double crosses and deadly confrontations, where only one fortunate soul will be left standing. Greatness, wealth and power beyond their wildest dreams await these undesirables. The only thing they have to do now... is stay alive long enough to claim it.
jueves, 16 de junio de 2011
Gentle song for a brave people
Country:
VenezuelaLanguage:
SpanishIt is an excellent movie, well crafted, with great music and outstanding performances. It tells the story of a young man looking for a better life in the cosmopolitan city of Caracas, Venezuela. He found enormous difficulties in coping with the raw realities of a crime-ridden city and his personal ambitions and goals as a hard working, rural man. He made a good friendship with a crook "city man" in whom he trusted and learned the "ins and outs" of Caracas.
miércoles, 15 de junio de 2011
Assassins
Director:
Richard DonnerAssassins is a 1995 American action film written by the Wachowskis and Brian Helgeland, directed by Richard Donner, and starring Sylvester Stallone, Antonio Banderas and Julianne Moore.
Robert Rath (Stallone) is a paid assassin who wants nothing more than to get out of 'the business', haunted by the memory of murdering his own mentor Nicolai years ago. Rath is a quiet, morose professional who is on an assignment to kill someone when someone else gets to the 'mark' (the target) before he does. That person turns out to be Miguel Bain (Banderas), a fellow assassin and a competitive psychopath. Rath then has the trouble of trying to figure out who sent Bain, the contractor offers him one last job that could financially allow him to retire - killing the four Dutch buyers and the computer hacker named Electra (Moore) and retrieve a disk that contains sensitive information. Electra has set up cameras in all the rooms of the apartment block where she lives and watches them like watching television.
The problem is that Bain is assigned to kill Electra as well. Bain kills the four Dutch buyers which turn out to be Interpol agents and Rath comes to kill Electra but for the first time has a change of heart. His pay for the job is given to him in a briefcase in exchange for the disk. The briefcase actually contains a bomb placed by his own contractor in an attempt to kill him. Luckily Electra had swapped the disk, not sure if Rath was coming back or not. Then the contractor hires Bain to terminate him. Now having become a target along with Electra he must try and extract enough money out of his contractor so he can disappear for good, while avoiding the bloodthirsty Bain. Rath's contractor turns out to be none other than Nicolai himself. He hired both Rath and Bain to track down Electra and the disk.
domingo, 12 de junio de 2011
Pixote
Director:
Hector BabencoCountry:
BrazilLanguage:
PortugueseRelease Date:
5 May 1982 (France) See more »Also Known As:
Pixote See more »The life of a boy in the streets of Sao Paulo, involved with little crimes, prostitution, etc
Pixote, a 10-year-old runaway boy, is arrested on the streets of Sao Paulo during a police round-up homeless people. Pixote endures torture, degradation and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of the runaways are murdered by policemen who frame Lilica, a 17-year-old transvesite hustler. Pixote helps Lilica and three other boys escape where they make their living by the life of crime which only escalates to more violence and death.
fter a police round up of street children Pixote is sent to a juvenile reformatory (FEBEM). The prison is a hellish school where Pixote uses glue sniffing as a means of emotional escape from the constant threats of abuse and rape.
It soon becomes clear that the young criminals are only pawns in the criminal, sadistic games of the prison guards and their commander.
When a boy dies of physical abuse by the guards, they frame the lover of the transgendered effeminate boy known as Lilica (Jorge Julião), for the murder. This lover then conveniently also dies, with some help from the guards.
Soon after, Pixote, Lilica and her new lover Dito (Gilberto Moura) find an opportunity to flee from the prison. First they stay at the apartment of Cristal (Tony Tornado), a former lover of Lilica, but when tensions arise they go to Rio for a cocaine drug deal; there, however, they get duped by a showgirl.
After some time bumming around the city, Pixote and his friends go to a club for another drug deal. While there, Pixote finds the showgirl that took their drugs and stabs her.
They become pimps for the prostitute Sueli who is definitely past her prime and is possibly ill from a botched abortion. The group conspires to rob her johns, but when Lilica's lover Dito falls for Sueli, Lillica leaves. The robbery scheme fails when an American john fights back (because he apparently does not understand Portuguese) so they have to shoot him. In the ensuing fight, Pixote accidentally shoots and kills Dito as well.
Pixote tries to gain comfort from Sueli, treating her as a mother figure, but she rejects him. He leaves and is seen walking down a railway line, gun in hand, away from the camera, his figure disappearing in the distance, out of the film's view.
Mixed Blood/ Cocaine
Director:
Paul MorrisseyRelease Date:
18 October 1985 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Cocaïne See more »Filming Locations:
Alphabet City, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
sábado, 11 de junio de 2011
King of the Streets
Director:
Ignacio RinzaCountry:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
7 July 2009 (USA) See more »Filming Locations:
Los Angeles, California, USA See moreRey is a small time drug dealer waiting for a chance to make it in a big way. He is in love with a prostitute, together they share their ups and downs expecting to one day get out of their miserable lives. They continue to struggle until one day they come across an opportunity of a lifetime.
Gang Boy
Director:
Arthur SwerdloffWriter:
Arthur SwerdloffStars:
Curly RivieraCountry:
USALanguage:
EnglishIllegal Tender
Director:
Franc. ReyesWriter:
Franc. ReyesStars:
Rick Gonzalez, Wanda De Jesus and Dania Ramirezfficial Sites:
Official site [United States] | Add/edit official sites »Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
24 August 2007 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Herencia Mortal See more » Wilson De Leon, Jr. (Rick Gonzalez) is an exceptional college student with an adoring girlfriend, doting mother and a future full of promise. He has never wanted for anything, and he has never been forced to stand his ground. But when ghosts from his mother's past come back to haunt his present, he must defend his family...and quickly turn into the strong man his father prayed he'd become. Nothing could stop Wilson's mother, Millie (Wanda De Jesus), from protecting her two boys. Forced to flee her home after gangsters killed her husband, she made an oath to give her children only the best. But all that changes when an enemy from the past catches up with them. It's finally time to take action--and now, they're done running. Weapons at the ready, Wilson, Jr. and Millie prepare for a final showdown with the murderer who robbed him of a father and her of a husband. Now, in a battle fueled by family ties and blood feuds, it will become very clear what happens when anyone tries to come between this son and his mother.
viernes, 10 de junio de 2011
miércoles, 8 de junio de 2011
Without Breasts There Is No Paradise (The movie)
Writer:
Gustavo Bolívar MorenoCountry:
ColombiaLanguage:
SpanishRelease Date:
23 July 2010 (Colombia) See more »is the story of Catalina, a young girl born in a small village with few opportunities. Ready to do whatever she has to in order to escape from the mediocrity and poorness of her village, it doesn’t matter that she might lose her life and her integrity.
Based on the best-seller novel by Gustavo Bolívar Moreno, "Sin Tetas no hay Paraíso" tells the story of how drug dealers affected psychologically and morally a whole generation of young people. In Pereira, Colombia, Catalina associates the prosperity of her teenage girlfriends with their breast size. So she talks with her best friend, Yésica, a teenage pimp, for her to introduce her to the drug lords of the zone. Catalina had a very small breast size, so she had to have an operation to enlarge her breast, and that way, become a drug-lord's wife. She thought her breast would take her to paradise, but it became in her own and personal hell.
martes, 7 de junio de 2011
Blink of an Eye
Director:
Van FischerCountry:
USALanguage:
EnglishAlso Known As:
Urban Jungle See more »Tommy is a 28-year-old man who escaped his hellish childhood by murdering his abusive father. After a prison stint, Tommy's work release program gives him a shot at a new life when he is placed as a cook at St. Michael's School in L.A, There he meets Guillermo, a neighborhood kid who is committed to keeping him out of trouble, and Sophia, a schoolteacher who educates him in a subject he knows nothing about--love.
domingo, 5 de junio de 2011
One Eight Seven(187)
Director:
Kevin ReynoldsWriter:
Scott YagemannStars:
One Eight Seven (also known and abbreviated as 187) is a 1997 drama / crime / thriller film, starring Samuel L. Jackson, who plays a Los Angeles teacher caught with gang trouble in an urban high school. The film was directed by Kevin Reynolds and its name comes from the California Penal Code number, called 187 (murder).
High school teacher Trevor Garfield is stabbed by bad-boy student. Fifteen months later, he moves to Los-Angeles to the unruly, predominantly Latino school. He has to tame wolf-like students.
El Padrino 2
Director:
Damian ChapaCountry:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
2008 (USA) See more »Filming Locations:
MexicoKilo Vasquez’ (Damian Chapa) life as the kingpin of the drug dealing world is cut short after being caught by the F.B.I. Now his worst enemy, Jesse Mendoza (Enrique Castillo) controls the business.
After a sudden kidnapping Kilo ceases the opportunity get his empire back. Unleashing a brutal war between cartels, Kilo and Jesse will do all in their power to overthrow the other and take control of the border. When two drug lords collide, there is only one outcome.
Vatos Locos
Director:
Damian ChapaWriter:
Damian ChapaCountry:
USAFilming Locations:
Los Angeles, California, USAVatos Locos (in English, Crazy Dudes) is a widely used name for a street gang. Gangs using this name are active in several American states.[1][2]
The film Blood in, Blood out (1993) about the life of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca in 1972, was based on the experiences of gang members of Vatos Locos.[3]
"Vatos Locos" is also the title of Damian's Chapa's new movie, which is schedule to be released on 5/5/2011. The film stars Damian Chapa who was also "Miklo" in the film "Blood In Blood Out". The movie is produced by Damian Chapa's production company Amadeus Pictures. The film is not an extension nor a sequel to the cult hit "Blood In Blood Out". The title and actor Damian Chapa are the only similarities between the two.
Ladron (Thief)
Director:
Damian ChapaCountry:
USARelease Date:
2010 (USA) See more »Filming Locations:
Los Angeles, California, USA
Bad Cop
Director:
Damian Chapa
Victorinos
Victorinos is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo. It debuted on June 23, 2009, replacing Sin Senos no hay Paraíso and concluded February 5, 2010
The telenovela is a remake of the 1991 RTI Colombia weekly series Cuando Quiero Llorar No Lloro (best known in Colombia as Los Victorinos), which in turn is based in the homonymous 1970 novel by Venezuelan writer Miguel Otero Silva. Interestingly, Ramiro Meneses, who is currently directing the Telemundo telenovela, starred as one of the Victorinos in the 1991 RTI series.
The serial ran from Monday to Friday to run for over 26 weeks. As with most of its other soap operas, the network broadcasts English subtitles as closed captions on CC3. Ironically, this show was replaced by the original serial of the show, it had replaced. (Victorinos replaced Sin Senos no hay Paraíso and Victorinos was replaced by Sin Tetas No Hay Paraíso, which was the original version of 'Sin Senos" on Telemundo). This telenovela was sold to 12
Based on the novel "Cuando quiero llorar no lloro" of Miguel Otero Silva. Three men born in the same city, on the same date, at the same time and with the same name and with a curse that condemns them to die when they are founded.
Victorino Mora, lower class, son product of a rape, a man who chose to be thug for hire. Rebel and religious of great attachment to his mother. In the end he is killed by Victorino Gallardo.
Victorino Manjarrés, middle class, is a son wanted in a great spirit of integrity and justice. His childhood was marked by an obsessive father with the militia and it has been raised to make it a general of the nation. But for lack of financial means to carry out that race, ends of police. His greatest obsession; capture the Gallardo and Mora.
Victorino Gallardo, of high class, is an unexpected, Machiavellian and ambitious son, a man that his fortune on gambling and women decided to engage in the path of drug trafficking to the waste. He is killed by Victorino Manjarrés.
Victorino Pérez, the false Victorino, orphan who at birth was called Victorino but in the civil register is called Victor. It is adopted by a family of homosexuals and even though it has nothing to do in the omen is determinant in the same. Killed by Victorino Gallardo.
Victorino Mora, lower class, son product of a rape, a man who chose to be thug for hire. Rebel and religious of great attachment to his mother. In the end he is killed by Victorino Gallardo.
Victorino Manjarrés, middle class, is a son wanted in a great spirit of integrity and justice. His childhood was marked by an obsessive father with the militia and it has been raised to make it a general of the nation. But for lack of financial means to carry out that race, ends of police. His greatest obsession; capture the Gallardo and Mora.
Victorino Gallardo, of high class, is an unexpected, Machiavellian and ambitious son, a man that his fortune on gambling and women decided to engage in the path of drug trafficking to the waste. He is killed by Victorino Manjarrés.
Victorino Pérez, the false Victorino, orphan who at birth was called Victorino but in the civil register is called Victor. It is adopted by a family of homosexuals and even though it has nothing to do in the omen is determinant in the same. Killed by Victorino Gallardo.
Satanás
| Directed by | Andrés Baiz |
|---|---|
| Produced by | Rodrigo Guerrero |
| Written by | Andrés Baiz (Based on Mario Mendoza's book and inspired by true events) |
| Starring | Damián Alcázar Blas Jaramillo Marcela Mar |
| Music by | Angelo Milli |
| Cinematography | Mauricio Vidal |
| Editing by | Alberto de Toro |
| Release date(s) |  March 4, 2007 June 1, 2007 October 10, 2007 |
| Running time | 120 minutes |
| Country | Colombia |
| Language | Spanish |
Satanás (Spanish for Satan) is a 2007 Colombian film directed by Andi Baiz. It is adapted from the novel of the same title by Mario Mendoza Zambrano. It was Colombia's submission to the 80th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee.[1][2]
The story is framed in a context of urban solitude in the modern world and sheds some light on the events that surrounded a spree killing that took place in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1986. Satanás, the film, explores the final stages in the life of the killer Campo Elías Delgado.
Three parallel stories that occur in the eve of the infamous Pozzetto Massacre, involving a femme-fatal that cons on rich men, a priest who's in love with his housekeeper and a tired-of-life veteran of war who has become a teacher and desires one of his female students. Three characters looking for love, redemption and second chances in a world reigned by their own fears, temptations, passions and pains, which will end up in a trigger effect of tragic events.
martes, 10 de mayo de 2011
Colombiana
| Directed by | Olivier Megaton |
|---|---|
| Produced by | Luc Besson Pierre-Ange Le Pogam |
| Screenplay by | Luc Besson Robert Mark Kamen |
| Starring | Zoe Saldana Michael Vartan Callum Blue Cliff Curtis Jordi Mollà Lennie James Max Martini |
| Cinematography | Romain Lacourbas |
| Editing by | Camille Delamarre |
| Distributed by | Tristar Pictures |
| Release date(s) | September 2, 2011 |
| Country | USA France |
| Language | English Spanish |
| Budget | $40 million |
Zoe Saldana plays a young woman who, after witnessing her parents’ murder as a child in Bogota, grows up to be a stone-cold assassin. She works for her uncle as a hitman by day, but her personal time is spent engaging in vigilante murders that she hopes will lead her to her ultimate target: the mobster responsible for her parents' death.
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