John Flynn
Nascimento : 1932-03-14, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Morte : 2007-04-04
História
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John Flynn (March 14, 1932 – April 4, 2007) was an American film director and screenwriter known for making efficient, no-nonsense crime-thrillers The Outfit and Rolling Thunder.
Flynn was raised in Hermosa Beach, California and served in the Coast Guard, It was during this stint that he studied journalism with Roots author Alex Haley. Flynn received a degree in journalism from UCLA.
He began his cinematic career as an apprentice to director Robert Wise on Odds Against Tomorrow and worked as the script supervisor on West Side Story. From there, Flynn worked as a second unit director on Kid Galahad and The Great Escape. He made his debut as a director with The Sergeant starring Rod Steiger. Flynn's substantial commercial success was with The Outfit starring Robert Duvall. The filmmaker achieved a dedicated cult following with the gritty revenge thriller, Rolling Thunder starring William Devane and Tommy Lee Jones.
In 1994, he directed the cult classic Brainscan, a thriller about the dangers of virtual reality starring Edward Furlong and Frank Langella.
Flynn continued to work on genre films like Best Seller, the Sylvester Stallone prison drama Lock Up, and the Steven Seagal action film, Out for Justice. In the early 1990s, Flynn directed two made-for-cable-TV films, the Dennis Hopper cop film, Nails, and the crime drama Scam. His last film was the direct-to-video film Protection.
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A mobster moves to a new town as a protected witness and tries to start over, only to find he can't escape his old ways
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Policial é pressionado a resolver assassinatos cometidos por um maníaco psicótico que dificulta o trabalho da justiça ao limpar meticulosamente a cena do crime. Paralelamente, ele precisa lidar com a morte de seu filho.
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A lonely teenage horror-movie fan discovers a mysterious computer game that uses hypnosis to custom-tailor the game into the most terrifying experience imaginable. When he emerges from the hypnotic trance he is horrified to find evidence that the brutal murder depicted in the game actually happened -- and he's the killer.
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A female con-artist who sweet-talks wealthy men targeted by her violent boyfriend, then drugs them and makes off with their money, is being herself being watched by another man. He wants to use her talents in a much-bigger scam: ripping off a crime lord by getting at his programmer's computer files. But she starts to have doubts about what he's really after when she finds a huge stash of loot with the disks. He claims no knowledge of the money, she distrusts him, he's using her, things start getting dangerous and even murderous - and then her boyfriend shows up ! Who's scamming whom ?
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The wife of a wild Los Angeles police detective becomes a hostage of the heroin ring he and his partner have exposed.
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Gino Felino (Steven Seagal) é um detetive da narcóticos que foi criado no Brooklyn. Enquanto muitos dos seus velhos amigos vivem do outro lado da lei, ele continuou sendo uma pessoa honesta e com princípios. Quando Bobby Lupo (Joe Spataro), seu parceiro que é também seu amigo desde a infância, é baleado na frente da mulher, Laurie Lupo (Shareen Mitchell), e de suas duas crianças em plena luz do dia, na frente de testemunhas que afirmam que o assassino é Richie Madano (William Forsythe), um traficante de drogas que também é viciado e perdeu totalmente o controle. Porém parece haver algo de pessoal neste crime, pois Madano deixou algo em cima do corpo de Bobby antes da dar o último tiro. Logo Gino começa uma caçada sem tréguas para prender e possivelmente matar Richie, pois ninguém crê que ele vá se entregar. Enquanto Richie comete outras mortes a Máfia também pensa em liquidá-lo, pois alguns acreditam que Richie esteja ligado a mafiosos e eles não precisam deste tipo de propaganda.
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Faltam apenas seis meses para Frank Leone, um prisioneiro modelo, terminar de cumprir sua pena por um crime menor, em uma prisão de segurança mínima. Até que, repentinamente, ele é transferido para uma prisão de segurança máxima que é administrada pelo diretor Drumgoole, que nutre um imenso ódio por Leone e vai fazer de tudo para que ele nunca mais seja solto, pois transformará o que resta da sua pena em um inferno. Drumgoole espera que fazendo isto Leone irá se descontrolar, justificando uma ação violenta dos guardas ou mesmo dos detentos, que provocam Leone para conseguir algum favor de Drumgoole.
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Um matador quer transformar sua história de vida em um livro,e para isso se aproxima de um veterano policial que se tornou escritor.
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Two mental patients in an institution fall in love and plan to escape in the search of a normal life.
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The story of the life and times of the legendary Hollywood blonde bombshell, Marilyn Monroe, from her meteoric rise to stardom to her marriages and untimely death.
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Tommy takes up temporary housing in a New York neighborhood plagued by a violent gang called the Souls. Tommy is waiting for his next assignment as a seaman and though he tries to avoid the gang and his neighbors, it does not work. Soon he is battling the Souls and not only changing their attitudes, but the attitudes of his previously intimidated neighbors as well.
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A Vietnam veteran, Charles Rane, returns home after years in a POW camp and is treated as a hero. When thugs invade his home to steal the silver coins he received for his service, they mangle his hand and leave him and his family for dead. Rane survives and becomes obsessed with getting revenge. Aided by his loyal friend Johnny Vohden, Rane, now wielding a hook for a hand, sets out on his mission of vengeance.
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A two-bit criminal takes on the Mafia to avenge his brother's death. Earl Macklin is a small time criminal who is released from prison after an unsuccessful bank robbery only to discover that a pair of gunmen killed his brother.
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A two-bit criminal takes on the Mafia to avenge his brother's death. Earl Macklin is a small time criminal who is released from prison after an unsuccessful bank robbery only to discover that a pair of gunmen killed his brother.
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An American student starts working with his Arab colleague while putting all politics aside. However, is his colleague just a regular Joe? Set around the time of Arab-Israeli Six Day War.
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THE SERGEANT is the story of the dark inner struggle of Master Sergeant Albert Callan to overcome the overwhelming attraction he feels for one of his charges. In the staid and stifling environment of a post-World War II army post in France, Callan's deeply repressed attraction to other men surfaces when he encounters handsome Private Swanson. Maintaining the rugged "man's man" image of a war hero, Callan barks orders to his underlings. Later, lonely in his solitude, he recalls the frightening experiences of war and the events that led to this crossroads. Filled with self-loathing and unable to act on the natural attraction he feels for Swanson, Callan's affection festers into antagonism. He pushes Swanson constantly with verbal assaults and undeserved punishments.
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Agente americano, ex-jogador de futebol, apelidado ‘’Rumo Errado’’, ocasiona tumulto internacional, quando em missão para a Rússia, acaba chegando em um país árabe.
