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Titles starting from letter "K"
| Killing Fields, The
[1984,
UK]
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| Every so often, there is a film that is destined to be talked about and remembered for years to come. |
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Sydney Schanberg is a New York Times journalist convering the civil war in Cambodia. Together with local representative Dith Pran, they cover some of the tragedy and madness of the war. When the Americans forces leave, Dith Pran sends his family with them, but stays behind himself to help Schanberg cover the event. As an American, Schanberg won't have any trouble leaving the country, but the situation is different for Pran; he's a local, and the Khmer Rouge are moving in. |
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After David Lamont (Marc Blucas), a horror novel agent, moves into a luxury penthouse apartment, he finds himself haunted by an anonymous villainous stalker. First David receives photos depicting a hair-raising crime scene that apparently has taken place in his new home. Some time later, he begins receiving videotapes documenting every step he takes and every move he makes. With the aid of his assistant Rebecca Fay (Shiri Appleby), the paranoia-gripped agent desperately tries to discover the identity of the insidious stalker. |
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A dramatization of Mark Champman's plan to murder John Lennon. |
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Zed has only just arrived in the beautiful Paris and already he's up to no good. Having just slept with a call girl, he spends a night on the town with his dangerous friends. They all decide to rob a bank the following day. There's only one problem: Zed's call-girl, Zoe, just happens to work at the bank which is to be robbed! |
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After the death of her husband, Anna Owens moves from England to Siam with her son Louis to become a teacher for the children of the king of Siam. She finds Siamese customs to be quite different from English ones, which brings her often in conflict with the king. However, after some time they find themselves getting along much better. |
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One of the greatest Hollywood adventure stories gets the Peter Jackson's newest interpretation in this high-budget block-buster. A group of documentary filmmakers headed by Carl Denham (Jack Black) explores mysterious relict jungle somewhere upon the lost island near Sumatra in 1930s to examine how truthful the legends of the great ape Kong are. Soon they found themselves in this forest surrounded by dangerous and huge prehistoric fauna which was hidden there for millions of years. Explorers had found that King Kong is really exists in form of the 25 feet tall gorilla which can outfight any creature on Earth, even the dinosaurs inhabiting the mysterious Skull Island. Meanwhile, an actress Ann Darrow (Naomi Watts) strikes up a romance with Jack Driscoll (Adrian Brody), a respected playwright hired by Denham to write the script for his latest epic. Adventurers manage creature capture, and bringing him to New York City for display, where Kong escapes and runs amok, finally climbing the Empire State Building. Andy Sirkis (Gollum in the Lord of The Rings) was brought in to provide the body movements and mimic for King Kong digital animation. |
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This black comedy stars Michael Douglas as Charlie, a man who is released from a mental institution after a stay of two years and returns home to live with his teenage daughter, Miranda (Evan Rachel Wood). Abandoned by her mother, the girl has had to grow up too quickly. She has been forced to drop out of school to work double shift at McDonald's in order to support herself and keep the old family house. Miranda's mentally dysfunctional father tries to persuade her to set out on a wild quest to find the lost Spanish treasure buried somewhere in California's San Fernando Valley. She reluctantly agrees to join her dad only to give him one last chance to pursue his dream. |
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'It's Monopoly out there'. Jason Staebler, The King of Marvin Gardens, has gone directly to jail, lives on the Boardwalk and fronts for the local mob in Atlantic City. He is also a dreamer who asks his brother, David, a radio personality from Philadelphia to help him build a paradise on a Pacific Island - asking him to believe in yet another of his dreams, yet another of his get-rich-quick schemes. But luck is against them both and the game ends badly - real life reduced to radio drama. |
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Drug lord Frank White (Chrstiopher Walken) is released from Sing-Sing prison after serving a number of years for drug trafficking. He is reunited with his former gang, led by the murderous Jimmy Jump (Laurence Fishburne), as well as his personal female bodyguards Raye (Theresa Randle) and Melanie (Carrie Ngyen), and his lover/legal annalist Jennifer (Janet Julien). After seeing his old neighborhood more dilapidated and depressing than ever, Frank decides to do good by eliminating his competitors whom filled the void left by his incarceration, then steal their money and drugs to finance a new South Bronx hospital for the needy. But Frank's past won't let go of him when a group of overzealous cops, led by corrupt detective Roy Bishop (Victor Argo), frustrated at the lack of clues to nail Frank on for the current street killings, decide to take matters into their own hands. |
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When an accident obliterates the British royal family and most of its branches, a desperate geneological search discovers the next king: Ralph, a sleazy American lounge singer. Can Ralph measure up to the job, even with the help of loyal aristocrat Willingham? |
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Ridley Scott's saga of a peasant blacksmith named Balian (Orlando Bloom), who has lost his family and nearly his faith. During the Crusades - the world shaping 200-year collision between Europe and the East, he wonders in a strange land, he serves a doomed king, falls in love with an exotic and forbidden queen and rises to knighthood. Balian meets a man revealing himself as his father. Ultimately, he must protect the people of Jerusalem from overwhelming forces - while trying to keep a fragile peace. |
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The suspense thriller follows an elite team of FBI agents who are sent to Saudi Arabia to investigate the deadly bombing at an American compound. Once in the desert kingdom, Ronald Fleury (Jamie Foxx), Grant Sykes (Chris Cooper), Adam Leavitt (Jason Bateman) and Janet Mayes (Jennifer Garner) must race against time to find a perpetrator before he strikes again. But they meet with the suspiciousness and resistance of Saudi officials who consider the crime to be a local matter and want to get the American agents out of the country. Thus they throw bureaucratic obstacles in the team's way so that they can't crack the case within the deadline. Nevertheless, the crew gains the trust of a scrupulous police officer, Faris Al Ghazi (Ashraf Barhoum), who agrees to help them unlock the secrets of the brutal mass murder. |
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Roy Munson (Woody Harrelson) was raised to be the best bowler in the world (trained early on by his father). But a fellow bowler, Ernie McCracken (Bill Murray) and a misunderstanding with some rough punks, leaves poor Roy with the loss of his bowling hand! Not to let this get him down, he gets a prosthetic hand and becomes a traveling sales man. But it's really all down hill for him from that night on until ... One day he meets Ishmael (Randy Quaid) who's a Quaker that sneaks away from the farm to bowl (his fellow Quakers would disown him if they knew)! Roy convinces Ishmael to let him be his trainer and he'll make him the best bowler the world has ever seen. Reluctantly Ismael agrees to go on the road and shortly afterwards actually finds that life outside the farm is quite fun. Soon their paths cross that of Ernie McCracken who is still top ranking bowler. While Roy's career and life have landed in the toilet bowl, Ernie is still drawing huge crowds and all the babes! They both square off for the untimate bowling championship ... to see which one truly IS the champion. To find that out you'll have to see this funny and original movie. Bill Murray is at his best, since Caddyshack. Randy Quaid makes some daring choices that really work and Woody Harrelson brings us the comdey style from "Cheers" that made him a household name! |
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While escaping from the cops after a failed toyshop robbery attempt for a Christmas present for his niece, likable small-time crook Harry Lockhart (Robert Downey Jr.) finds himself fortuitously in an audition for a Hollywood detective movie. Impressed by his energy and forcefulness, the producer sends Harry to Los Angeles for a screen test where the latter meets private-eye and movie consultant Perry van Shrike (Val Kilmer), also known as Gay Perry, who teaches him all the tips on how to act. At a Hollywood party Harry crosses the path with his unrequited old flame, Harmony Faith Lane (Michelle Monaghan), an aspirant actress. Harmony mistakes Harry for an actual detective and implores him to investigate her younger sister’s death. Teamed up with Gay Perry, Harry is out to solve an intricate murder case.
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Liu Jian, a police officer from China, comes to Paris to help the vice squad apprehend a Chinese drug lord and his unknown French connection. The French connection is Richard, the head of the vice squad, who intends to kill the drug lord then frame Jian. Jian ducks a bullet and escapes with a tape of what really happened. By chance, Jian turns to Jessica - a US farm girl who is one of Richard's hookers - for help. She has her own problems, including the fact that Richard has her daughter locked in an orphanage to keep Jessica on the streets and silent about his activities. Can Jian protect Jessica, rescue her daughter, and give Richard the kiss of the dragon? |
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A chess grandmaster is in a big tournament, and when his lover is found painted up and the blood drained out of her body he becomes a chief suspect. After he gets a call from the killer urging him to try and figure out the game, he cooperates with police and a psychologist to try and catch the killer, but doubts linger about the grandmaster's innocence as the string of grisly murders continues. |
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Based loosely on "The Canterbury Tales", the movie follows the story of a young peasant squire, William Thatcher (Heath Ledger), who, after the death of his master, Sir Ector, takes the road with his buddies, Roland (Mark Addy) and Wat Falhurst (Alan Tudyk). Along the way, they encounter an obscure writer, Geoffrey Chaucer (Paul Bettany). William, the underprivileged commoner, decides to assume the identity of a knight and asks Chaucer to fake his genealogy papers. Under his new title, Sir Ulrich of Liechtenstein, William has to prove his noble birth at the country's tournaments. Gallant and determined, William wins jousts on the trot. However, where there is success there is envy. Count Adhemar of Anjou (Rufus Sewell), a dangerous rival, is able to learn William's true identity and ruin him. Adhemar and William will meet face to face in the decisive joust. |
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Set in Hong Kong, in June of 1997, the action-adventure movie revolves around Marcus Ray (Jean-Claude Van Damme) and Tommy Hendricks (Rob Schneider), sales representatives for V SIX Jeans who find themselves involved in the international conspiracy. They discover that the Russian Mafia is intent on taking the whole world into the clutches of terror by using highly explosive micro bombs. The events take a sinister turn when Marcus and his fellows learn that a huge shipment of their jeans, which have been rigged with the bombs, will soon be smuggled outside the country. Marcus will have his work cut out to neutralize a large Asian gang and unmask corrupt CIA agents so as to avert a global calamity and grave damage to his company's reputation.
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It is common knowledge that excessive drinking can lead people to lose control and exhibit risky behaviors, including having unprotected sex. But Alison Scott (Katherine Heigl), a promising entertainment journalist, seems to have forgotten that. One night, while celebrating her promotion at a club, she met Ben Stone (Seth Rogen), a lazy, ambitiousless, unemployed illegal immigrant who seemed like a cool guy due to the "beer goggles" effect. The two got so drunk that they ended up having a one-night stand that resulted in an unwanted pregnancy. Despite their obvious differences, they decide to try to forge a relationship for the baby's sake. |
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"KOKODA!" is an action-adventure drama set in modern day Papua New Guinea. It is about the head to head clash of two veterans of the WWII campaign, who find themselves on Kokoda once again, some 50 years later.
Their younger charges, an injured pilot and two reluctant locals accompany them. The audience and our characters, are all taken on a roller coaster journey over the old battleground. Confronted by nature's fury and demons from the past, we have a cross cultural, cross generational conflict with their environment, themselves and each other. |
| Records found: 42, viewing from 21 to 40 |
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