68% (3)  The Whistleblower  112 min,  R,  [Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller]  [Larysa Kondracki]  [27 Oct 2011]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 72%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 75%,   Metacritic: 59%,   External Reviews
Awards:  8 wins & 11 nominations.
Actors:  David Strathairn, Monica Bellucci, Rachel Weisz, Vanessa Redgrave
Writer:  Larysa Kondracki, Eilis Kirwan
External Links:  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb  Website     Language:  English, Romanian, Russian, Serbian    Country:  Canada, Germany
Plot:  Inspired by true events, Kathy (Rachel Weisz) is an American police officer who takes a job working as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia. Her expectations of helping to rebuild a devastated country are dashed when she uncovers a dangerous reality of corruption, cover-up and intrigue amid a world of private contractors and multinational diplomatic doubletalk.
Rotten Tomatoes:   This ripped-from-the-headlines thriller is inspired by actual events. Kathy Bolkovac (Rachel Weisz) is a Nebraskan police officer who takes a job working as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia. Her expectations of helping to rebuild a devastated country are dashed when she uncovers a dangerous reality of corruption, cover-up and intrigue amid a world of private contractors and multinational diplomatic doubletalk. -- (C) Samuel Goldwyn
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61% (3)  Shoot 'Em Up  86 min,  R,  [Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller]  [Michael Davis]  [07 Sep 2007]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 67%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 67%,   Metacritic: 49%,   External Reviews
Awards:  3 nominations.
Actors:  Clive Owen, Monica Bellucci, Paul Giamatti, Stephen McHattie
Writer:  Michael Davis
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb  Website     Language:  English, Italian    Country:  USA
Plot:  Late at night, in an unnamed U.S. city, a solitary man sits at a bus stop. A pregnant woman runs by, pursued by a man with a gun. With reluctance, the man at the bus stop rescues her and assists with the baby's delivery, while additional pursuers fire at them, including the gang's particularly nasty leader, an intuitive man named Hertz. Our hero, known only as Smith, determines to save the child and find out why Hertz wants the baby dead. At a local bordello, he tries to employ a lactating hooker to watch the child, but things quickly escalate, and this makeshift family is soon on the run. Heavy metal music calms the baby. Why? A laboratory, gun factory, and presidential campaign all figure in Smith's quest for the child's safe deliverance.
Rotten Tomatoes:   A mysterious man delivers a baby during a shootout and is entrusted with protecting the child from criminals out to kill it.
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57% (3)  Remember Me, My Love  125 min,  R,  [Comedy, Romance, Drama]  [Gabriele Muccino]  [14 Feb 2003]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 65%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 55%,   Metacritic: 53%,   External Reviews
Awards:  8 wins & 28 nominations.
Actors:  Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Laura Morante, Monica Bellucci, Nicoletta Romanoff
Writer:  Gabriele Muccino (story), Gabriele Muccino (screenplay), Heidrun Schleef (screenplay)
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb  Website     Language:  Italian, French, English    Country:  Italy, France, UK
Plot:  In the dysfunctional Italian middle-class family Ristuccia, the middle-aged executive Carlo has a stalled life without passion, bored in his work and having a monotonous life with his wife Giulia. Giulia is a frustrated and hysterical woman because she gave up of being an actress in her youth to dedicate to the family. Their needy son Paolo feels lost and rejected, trying to find who he is and flirting with a schoolmate. Their seventeen years old daughter Valentina is decided to work in a television show, and is fighting to have an audition. When Carlo meets his former sweetheart Alessia in a class reunion, they confess to each other that their marriages are in crisis and both feel passion arising again. Meanwhile Giulia is invited to an audition in a stage production and to participate of a play. Paolo tries to make friends using marijuana in his birthday party, and Valentina has sex with different guys trying to be a dancer of the famous TV show 'Ali Babbi'. Their relationships change when Carlo has an accident.
Rotten Tomatoes:   Gabriele Muccino's Ricordati di Me (Remember Me) is a drama about two generations in an Italian family. Carlo (Fabrizio Bentivoglio) and Giulia (Laura Morante) are a married couple who have each given up their aspirations in order to live an average life. Their 19-year-old son, Paolo (Silvio Muccino), is having trouble finding an identity, while their 18-year-old daughter, Valentina (Nicoletta Romanoff), has already figured out how to use sex to her advantage. The family goes through a crisis when Carlo begins having an affair, Giulia attempt to seduce the director of a local stage production she is in, and Valentina does what she does best to land an audition for the same production.
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56% (3)  The Passion of the Christ  127 min,  R,  [Drama]  [Mel Gibson]  [25 Feb 2004]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 72%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 49%,   Metacritic: 47%,   External Reviews
Awards:  Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 28 wins & 21 nominations.
Actors:  Christo Jivkov, Francesco De Vito, Jim Caviezel, Maia Morgenstern, Monica Bellucci
Writer:  Benedict Fitzgerald (screenplay), Mel Gibson (screenplay)
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb  Website     Language:  Aramaic, Latin, Hebrew    Country:  USA
Plot:  A depiction of the last twelve hours in the life of Jesus of Nazareth, on the day of his crucifixion in Jerusalem. The story opens in the Garden of Olives where Jesus has gone to pray after the Last Supper. Betrayed by Judas Iscariot, the controversial Jesus--who has performed 'miracles' and has publicly announced that he is 'the Son of God'--is arrested and taken back within the city walls of Jerusalem. There, the leaders of the Pharisees confront him with accusations of blasphemy; subsequently, his trial results with the leaders condemning him to his death. Jesus is brought before Pontius Pilate, the prefect of the Roman province of Judaea, for his sentencing. Pilate listens to the accusations leveled at Jesus by the Pharisees. Realizing that his own decision will cause him to become embroiled in a political conflict, Pilate defers to King Herod in deciding the matter of how to persecute Jesus. However, Herod returns Jesus to Pilate who, in turn, gives the crowd a choice between which prisoner they would rather to see set free--Jesus, or Barrabas. The crowd chooses to have Barrabas set free. Thus, Jesus is handed over to the Roman soldiers and is brutally flagellated. Bloody and unrecognizable, he is brought back before Pilate who, once again, presents him to the thirsty crowd--assuming they will see that Jesus has been punished enough. The crowd, however, is not satisfied. Thus, Pilate washes his hands of the entire dilemma, ordering his men to do as the crowd wishes. Whipped and weakened, Jesus is presented with the cross and is ordered to carry it through the streets of Jerusalem, all the way up to Golgotha. There, more corporal cruelty takes place as Jesus is nailed to the cross--suffering, he hangs there, left to die. Initially, in his dazed suffering, Jesus is alarmed that he has been abandoned by God his father. He then beseeches God. At the moment of his death, nature itself over-turns.
Rotten Tomatoes:   This depiction of the last 12 hours in the life of Jesus opens with his betrayal by Judas, his condemnation by the Pharisees and his appearance before Pontius Pilate. Pilate defers to King Herod, but Herod returns Jesus. Pilate then asks the crowd to choose between Jesus and Barrabas. The crowd chooses Barrabas. Pilate washes his hands of the matter, and Jesus is forced to carry the cross through the streets to Golgotha where Roman soldiers crucify him. Although Jesus briefly fears that God, his Father, has abandoned him, he regains his faith, proclaiming "Into Thy hands I command my spirit." At the moment of his death, nature itself over-turns.
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49% (3)  Tears of the Sun  121 min,  R,  [Action, Drama, Thriller, War]  [Antoine Fuqua]  [07 Mar 2003]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 66%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 33%,   Metacritic: 48%,   External Reviews
Awards:  2 nominations.
Actors:  Bruce Willis, Cole Hauser, Eamonn Walker, Monica Bellucci
Writer:  Alex Lasker, Patrick Cirillo
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb  Website     Language:  English    Country:  USA
Plot:  Navy SEAL Lieutenant A.K. Waters and his elite squadron of tactical specialists are forced to choose between their duty and their humanity, between following orders by ignoring the conflict that surrounds them, or finding the courage to follow their conscience and protect a group of innocent refugees. When the democratic government of Nigeria collapses and the country is taken over by a ruthless military dictator, Waters, a fiercely loyal and hardened veteran is dispatched on a routine mission to retrieve a Doctors Without Borders physician, Dr. Lena Kendricks. Dr. Kendricks, an American citizen by marriage, is tending to the victims of the ongoing civil war at a Catholic mission in a remote village. When Waters arrives, however, Dr. Kendricks refuses to leave unless he promises to help deliver the villagers to political asylum at the nearby border. If they are left behind, they will be at the mercy of the enormous rebel army. Waters is under strict orders from his commanding officer Captain Bill Rhodes to remain disengaged from the conflict. But as he and his men witness the brutality of the rebels first-hand, they are won over to Dr. Kendricks' cause and place their lives at risk by agreeing to escort the villagers on a perilous trek through the dense jungle. As they move through the countryside on foot, Waters' team, experts at evasion and concealment, are inexplicably and ferociously pursued by an army of rebels. They are confounded until they discover that, among the refugees, is the sole survivor of the country's previous ruling family, whom the rebels have been ordered to eliminate at all costs. Waters and his small band of soldiers must weigh the life of one man against their own and the refugees they feel obliged to protect.
Rotten Tomatoes:   A career soldier is forced to choose between following orders and saving lives in this action thriller. Lt. A.K. Waters (Bruce Willis) is a veteran Navy SEAL whose commander (Tom Skerritt) has given his team a special assignment. A Central African nation is expected to explode into war at any moment, and Waters and his cohorts are to escort any American citizens in the area to safety, most notably Dr. Lena Kendricks (Monica Bellucci), a doctor from the United States who has set up a clinic in the jungle. Waters and his men find Kendricks, but she refuses to leave with them unless she can bring along 70 refugees who have been left to her care. Kendricks makes it clear that if they are left behind, the refugees will face certain death, but Waters's C.O. insists he bring back Kendricks -- but not her patients. Forced by his conscience to disobey orders, Waters and his team race against time to escort the refugees to a border town where they will find safe haven before invading troops can ambush them. Tears of the Sun (which was produced under the title Man of War) also features Cole Hauser and Fionnula Flanagan.
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49% (3)  The Brothers Grimm  118 min,  PG-13,  [Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Thriller]  [Terry Gilliam]  [26 Aug 2005]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 59%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 38%,   Metacritic: 51%,   External Reviews
Awards:  4 wins & 5 nominations.
Actors:  Anna Rust, Barbora Lukesová, Heath Ledger, Jeremy Robson, Matt Damon, Monica Bellucci, Petr Ratimec
Writer:  Ehren Kruger
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb  Website     Language:  English, French, German, Italian    Country:  USA, Czech Republic, UK
Plot:  Folklore collectors and con artists, Jake and Will Grimm, travel from village to village pretending to protect townsfolk from enchanted creatures and performing exorcisms. They are put to the test, however, when they encounter a real magical curse in a haunted forest with real magical beings, requiring genuine courage.
Rotten Tomatoes:   Two men who have made a career out of spinning remarkable stories find themselves bringing them to life in this inventive fantasy inspired by the creators of some of the world's best-loved fairy tales. Will Grimm (Matt Damon) and his brother Jake Grimm (Heath Ledger) earn their living by traveling from village to village and vanquishing strange supernatural beasts that have been menacing the populace. Or at least that's what their clients think has been happening; as it happens, Will and Jake are confidence men who cleverly stage the ghostly attacks and then take payment for making the creatures they fabricated go away. One day, the brothers arrive in a town and offer to help its people drive away evil spirits, unaware that the community is bordered by a genuine enchanted forest, and that young girls in the village have been disappearing at a frightful rate. The Grimm Brothers must now learn how to deal with real magic, with the help of the lovely but fearless Angelika (Lena Headey). Directed by Terry Gilliam, The Brothers Grimm also stars Monica Bellucci, Peter Stormare, and Jonathan Pryce. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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75% (1)  The Apartment  116 min,  R,  [Drama, Mystery, Romance]  [Gilles Mimouni]  [02 Oct 1996]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 75%,   External Reviews
Awards:  Won 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 1 win & 2 nominations.
Actors:  Jean-Philippe Écoffey, Monica Bellucci, Romane Bohringer, Vincent Cassel
Writer:  Gilles Mimouni
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb     Language:  French, English, Japanese    Country:  France, Spain, Italy
Plot:  Max is on his way to Tokyo. He lives in Paris and likes to flirt but has decided to get married. By chance, he seems to have seen Lisa, his greatest love, in a cafe. Max forgets everything, his trip to Tokyo and his fiance. Obsessed with meeting Lisa he finds out where she lives and hides in the apartment. However, a different girl, called Alice, finds Max in the flat. Alice looks quite similar to Lisa, and they have sex. To complicate matters further, Alice is also the girlfriend of Max's buddy Lucien and Lisa is followed by an older man.
Rotten Tomatoes:   In this French drama, a romantically-obsessed young corporate conservative leaves his successful new world behind to search for his elusive lost love. After lying to his girlfriend and enlisting the help of a friend, Max follows a bizarre trail of clues on a crazy quest to find his old heartthrob.
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