The Hanged Man (2009)
Gênero : Drama, Romance
Runtime : 1H 54M
Director : Manuel Gómez Pereira
Sinopse
Two lovers break the law and struggle to stay together when carnal obsession causes tempers to flare.
A mixed-up mountain boy kidnaps a pretty college student.
Eddie "Gonzo" Gilman is starting a revolution. When the wild-eyed rebel journalist is ousted from his prep school's newspaper by its über-popular editor, Eddie fronts an underground movement to give a voice to all the misfits, outcasts, and nerds. Soon the power of the press is in Eddie's hands... but will he use it wisely?
When the daughter of a minister gets kidnapped, Christy is called upon to rescue her. Although he manages to save her, he himself gets embroiled in the kidnapper's murder.
Um antigo guerreiro indiano que chegou ao fim de sua vida é trazido de volta de sua “morte” para salvar sua família de um grupo de invasores de índios inimigos nesta história única de “índios sem um único caubói”.
A family of vampires takes over an estate known as Carfax Abbey. Since inbreeding is destroying the family line, they need new blood to keep the family going, so they set out to find new sources.
It started with the rape of his daughter then the killing of her boyfriend. He takes the law "Death Wish" style into his own hands and has his revenge. Branded as a vicious killer by the underworld, the syndicate blackmails him into becoming their hitman. As he gets more and more tied up in the world of drugs, prostitution and death he decides he wants out. No one gets out of the syndicate alive. It then becomes a battle for survival, him against them in a desperate act of street warfare. His life is he prize.
Um trapaceiro (Edward G. Robinson), um padre (William Shatner) e um mineirador (Howard da Silva) esperam, em uma estação em ruínas, a chegada do trem. Enquanto não chega, o trapaceiro ouve os outros dois conversarem sobre um recente julgamento, no qual um conhecido bandoleiro, Juan Carrasco (Paul Newman), foi julgado por assassinato. Seria apenas outro julgamento no qual o réu confessou, mas outros três depoimentos negavam a culpa de Juan. Cada confissão, inclusive da vítima, que fala através de um indígena com poderes mediúnicos, narra uma "verdade" e cada uma delas é mostrada em flashback.
A young girl's brother comes home from the army, and brings an army buddy with him. The three of them go out that night to celebrate, and after much drinking has been done, the brother's friend rapes the sister. After the two men have gone back, the girl finds that she's pregnant--and discovers that her parents don't blame the soldier, but blame her.
Sisters Myra and Ellie have finally had enough of their miserable, dead-end lives. When their stepfather Charley (the titular "Bonnie" being long dead) tried to rape Myra, Ellie ventilates him with a shotgun, and the pair run off to their wealthy uncle's mansion in El Paso. From that point on, the two undergo a transformation in their personalities, and start to enjoy living their lives on the wild side.
Melanie is married to Tom, a controlling, cold and self-centered man who happens to be a prison warden. He finds her to be a liability to his career aspirations and secretly plans to have her kidnapped and killed, by Jack, a dangerous inmate.
Spies hold the son of a nuclear physicist (Gene Barry) hostage in exchange for the Los Alamos bomb formula.
Marty (Colin Farrell) é um escritor pouco experiente que não encontra inspiração para seu novo texto, chamado "Sete Psicopatas". Seu melhor amigo é Billy (Sam Rockwell), um ator desempregado e ladrão de cachorros que está disposto a tudo para ajudá-lo. As ideias inusitadas de Billy colocam Marty na mira de um gângster temperamental, Charlie (Woody Harrelson), que não pensaria duas vezes antes de matar qualquer pessoa que pusesse as mãos em seu cachorro.
Mr. Ozaki, a Japanese conglomerate businessman living in Los Angeles, hires a beautiful young double (Maria) to protect his real daughter (Lisa) from harm. When Maria is kidnapped by a professional crime organization for a $2 million ransom, her bodyguard, Luke Campbell, conceives a plan to rescue her. By kidnapping the real Lisa Ozaki and turning her over to the kidnappers, Luke hopes to save Maria, and ultimately Lisa, as he knows her father will only pay the ransom for his daughter and not the double. However, the bodyguards hired to watch Lisa have another plan in mind. About to lose their jobs for losing Lisa when they were supposed to keep an eye on her at all times, they decide to steal the ransom money and rescue Lisa, in an attempt to be the heroes and save their jobs
Millionairess actress-singer Marie Coleby (Deborah Coulls) lives in a luxurious villa on a deserted beach. One afternoon following a TV commercial shoot at the villa she incites gardener Gordon Mason (Chard Hayward) to mayhem and murder. The unexpected arrival of Marie's sister Jenny Nolan (Louise Howitt) hinders Mason's attempts to dispose of the body. He then decides to kill Jenny. But she is equally determined to stay alive ... so begins a battle of wits. Jenny's salvation seems at hand when two security men arrive at the villa, but only one, Officer Collings (Roger Ward) survives the initial siege. Then Jenny is alone to face Mason for the final time ...
Dangerous Men is a film with many characters, like Mina, whose life is shattered when two bikers with rape on their minds attack and kill Daniel, her fiancé. Driven by grief, she embarks on a killing rampage, wreaking vengeance upon all the men that she seductively lures into her trap. In her twisted world, cops and killers are all the same. David, Daniel's brother, is a cop who relentlessly pursues the killers, while facing a nest of drug dealers, followed by the FBI and the police SWAT team, also in hot pursuit. Mina, a victim of violence, carrying a twisted obsession for justice, is caught between opposing forces in a world of dangerous men.
Em 1937, Nanquim encontra-se na frente de batalha entre China e Japão. Enquanto o exército imperial japonês invade a capital da China, os habitantes desesperados procuram refúgio atrás dos muros de uma catedral ocidental. Ali, John Miller (Christian Bale), um americano preso no meio do caos da batalha e da ocupação que se segue abriga-se, seguido por um grupo de estudantes inocentes e quatorze prostitutas, igualmente determinadas a fugir dos horrores que ocorrem do lado de fora da catedral. Lutando para sobreviver à violência e perseguição do exército japonês, um ato de heroísmo acaba levando um grupo aparentemente discrepante, a arriscar suas vidas pelo bem de todos.
Comedy about idiotic (the two can't even add 1+1) kidnappers, both played for unknown reasons by Joe Piscopo, who capture two young girls and hold them for ransom. However, in "Home Alone" fashion, the two girls make fools of the two men. The film becomes even sillier as two horses who talk to one another decide to rescue the girls from the kidnappers
A drifter/hitman is hired by a local business man to kidnap the local oil baron. The hitman had been reared in squalor, suffering the abuses of his whoring mama. When the baron escapes his assistant must chase him while the hitman takes care of a few loose ends.
An alcoholic London ex-cop becomes involved in a kidnapping drama and tries to free the daughter of a friend from a brutal gangster mob.