Caçada na Noite (1980)
Who lit the fuse that tore Harold's world apart?
Gênero : Mistério, Crime, Thriller, Drama
Runtime : 1H 54M
Director : John Mackenzie
Sinopse
In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a derelict area of London into the possible venue for a future Olympic Games. However, a series of bombings targets his empire on the very weekend the Americans are in town. Shand is convinced there is a traitor in his organization, and sets out to eliminate the rat in typically ruthless fashion.
A nightclub piano player (Tom Neal Jr.) hitchhikes to the West Coast and soon figures into two deaths.
Two hit men are sent to murder an old associate of their underworld boss. Middle-aged Pinner is the been-there-done-that cynical veteran, while his new inexperienced partner Cully is about as green as they come. Waiting for their mark to return home, and irritated by Cully’s constant nervous chatter, Pinner attempts to pass the time by telling a strange story from his past, involving Valentina, a dancer he was once ordered to kill… But things are not all what they seem in their quarry’s house and the discovery of a make-shift black magic altar - and its shocking sacrifice - sends the uncomprehending duo into the shadowy darkness of their own tortured souls and terrifying confrontations with their worst primal fears. Brilliantly acted, solidly crafted and exuding a palpable atmosphere of claustrophobic dread, this eerily effective gem finally announces the arrival of director Sean Hogan on the genre’s front-line.
Alex, uma agente do serviço secreto americano, salva a filha do presidente durante um atentado e, contra sua vontade, acaba sendo designada para proteger a garota mimada e difícil. Quando a menina é raptada, é Alex quem deve resgatá-la.
In Las Vegas, Lucky and two of her girlfriends, Carol and Lisa, plan to steal half a million dollars from the sadistic manager of the Circus Circus Casino. A shadowy man is their contact and organizer. Each of the women could be a weak link in a scheme that has to be flawless: Lucky's boyfriend is a security officer at the casino, Lisa is a trapeze artist who's now plagued with vertigo, and Carol is in debt to a nasty thug - plus, as a Black woman, she's subject to additional harassment. Can the gals pull off the heist, or is the plan, with it's mysterious organizer, too complicated to succeed?
An early example of ultra-realism, this movie contrasts the quiet, bucolic life in the outskirts of Paris with the harsh, gory conditions inside the nearby slaughterhouses. Describes the fate of the animals and that of the workers in graphic detail.
A young Italian girl comes to London, and is tricked into posing nude for risqué magazines.
A Vietnam veteran gets caught in a mob war with a couple of double-crossers.
Stone (Peter Coyote) hits an armored truck without his usual driver. The ensuing getaway leads to the death of an innocent. The payback is swift and brutal. The wronged father hires a twisted, sociopathic assassin to avenge his loss. One by one the offenders are punished through grisly executions. Stone uses his wits to find a reclusive friend Terry (Mel Smith) just in time for a psychedelic funhouse showdown with his stalker.
A psychopathic killer uses the carousel ride at a carnival to pick his victims, whom he then murders and dismembers.
A tough District Attorney goes after a murderous crime gang, only to find that his witnesses, an innocent family, have clammed up in fear of reprisals.
Six teenage members of the performance poetry collective Leeds Young Authors travel to Washington D.C. to compete in poetry contest Brave New Voices, where they must somehow stay true to their own complex, uniquely British poetry whilst grappling the 'he who shouts loudest' mode of the competition. Brimming with ideas and yes, with excellent poetry, each member of Leeds Young Authors has much to tell us all about being young, and living here and now. An inspirational film, and ample proof if it were ever needed that words can indeed uplift and change lives.
The Lone Wolf tracks down Nazi spies in London during the German bombing.
O ano é 1945, 2ª Guerra Mundial, e um cientista alemão de nome Klausener está trabalhando em uma tecnologia nova e assustadora que tem o poder de criar um exército nazista imortal. Apenas Helena, uma investigadora, aceita a realidade de que eles estão enfrentando um batalhão de nazistas zumbis. Com a ajuda de Wallace, um homem que foi perseguindo segredos nazistas durante anos, Helena se une com uma Unidade de Forças Especiais para se aventurarem atrás das linhas inimigas.
Andrea Rispoli falls in love with Anna Andersson, a Swedish girl who has just inherited the boarding house where he's staying. When Anna is discovered to be suffering from a potentially lethal heart condition, Andrea decides to do whatever it takes to raise the money for he treatment. Even if it means risking his own life...
Set during Prohibition, the movie centers on Touhy's rise from small time thug to the city's most powerful bootlegger whose empire is rivaled only by that of Al Capone (who is referred to, but never named in the story). It is his rival who frames Touhy for kidnapping and arranges for him to serve a life-long term in Stateville prison. Determined to be free again, the desperate Touhy and his cellmate Basil "the Owl" Banghart, begin plotting a violent break out.
Against a backdrop of Swingin' 60s London a young playboy type "steals" a beautiful Italian girl from her elderly date and suggests she comes back to his place for some good times. "His place" being owned by his father, a rich and respected solicitor. Unfortunately a couple of criminals have plans of their own, one for money, the other for revenge, and the lovers end up prisoners in a tense siege situation
Johan Wallenberger, a rich financier, is killed in the House of Horrors at an amusement park in Madrid. His insurance company assign Chris Buyer, one of their best agents, to investigate because a few days prior to his death, the businessman took out a million dollar life insurance policy. Chris ingratiates himself with Catherine, Wallenberger's beautiful daughter, and it emerges that she is being plagued by a blackmailer. Chris is invited to the Wallenbergers' country house and is soon the centre of attention for several attractive women. Meanwhile, the plot thickens...
A women's prison camp is located deep in the tropical rain forest. Sadistic guards and a warden from hell make life almost unbearable for the inmates, and any infraction of the rules is dealt with swiftly and savagely. The camp doctor is horrified at what he sees happening, and drinks heavily to push the horror away. Finally the inmates have had had enough, and they enlist the help of the doctor to try and escape.
A sociopathic beauty urges three nerdy pranksters to embark on a deranged rampage.
Cliff works as a narcotics investigator for the police and infiltrate a mafia gang. Soon it turns out that Cliff has bigger plans than just to bust bad guys.
Em 1936, o arqueólogo Indiana Jones é contratado para encontrar a Arca da Aliança, que segundo as escrituras bíblicas conteria "Os Dez Mandamentos" que Deus revelou a Moisés no Monte Horeb. Mas como a lenda diz que o exército que a possuir será invencível, Indiana Jones terá um adversário de peso na busca pela arca perdida: o próprio Adolf Hitler.
Durante a guerra do Vietnã, o Capitão Willard recebe como missão ir ao Camboja para assassinar um Boina Verde renegado, o Coronel Kurtz. Este vive no meio de uma tribo local e é venerado como um deus. Mas, chegado ao seu destino, o Capitão Willard descobre que a sua missão é bem diferente do que imaginara.
O arqueólogo Indiana Jones tem acesso à um misterioso envelope que contém informações sobre a localização do lendário Santo Graal, o cálice que Jesus Cristo teria utilizado na Última Ceia. Quando seu pai, o professor Henry Jones, é sequestrado pelos nazistas, o aventureiro irá embarcar numa missão perigosa para salvá-lo e impedir que a relíquia sagrada caia em mãos erradas.