Movie: 12 Mad Men (1957)

“The defence and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to choose if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What starts as an open and shut case of murder soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors’ prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other. Based on the play, all of the action takes place on the stage of the jury room. Written by pjk {PETESID@VNET.IBM.COM}”

• Director: Sidney Lumet
• Release Date:
  29 July 1957 (Sweden)
• Run Time:
  96 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Crime , Drama , Mystery

Tagline: Life Is In Their Hands — Death Is On Their Minds!

Trivia: Henry Fonda was questioned by United Artists to make this film, so he did it as both actor and producer. He was, but, very frustrated at being producer and chose never to do so again.

Goofs: Crew or equipment visible: When Juror #8 is imitating the ancient man going to the door, as he is completing the first leg of his walk the shadow of the camera following him is clearly visible on the floor by his feet.

Movie: Blow (2001)

“A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950’s. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family. It is finally revealed that George’s father cannot make a living and the family goes bankrupt. George does not want the same thing to happen to him, and his friend Tuna, in the 1960’s, suggests that he deal marijuana. He is a huge hit in California in the 1960’s, yet he goes to jail, where he finds out about the wonders of cocaine. As a result, when released, he gets rich by bringing cocaine to America. But, he soon pays the price. Written by Anonymous”

• Director: Ted Demme
• Release Date:
  6 April 2001 (USA)
• Run Time:
  124 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Biography , Crime , Drama
• MPAA:
  Rated R for pervasive drug content and language, some violence and sexuality.

Tagline: Based on a Right Tale.

Trivia: The actors snorted milk powder in the cocaine scenes.

Goofs: Boom mic visible: Towards the end of the movie, when George calls Derek from the payphone to make the final deal, a boom mic appears.

Movie: Léon (1994)

“Mathilda, a twelve-year ancient New York girl, is living an undesirable life among her half-family. Her father stores drugs for two-faced cop Norman Stansfield. Only her small brother keeps Mathilda from breaking apart. One day, Stansfield and his team take cruel revenge on her father for stretching the drugs a small, thus killing the whole family. Only Mathilda, who was out shopping, survives by finding shelter in L

Movie: A Clockwork Orange (1971)

“Protogonist Alex is an “ultraviolent” youth in futuristic Britian. As with all luck, his eventually runs out and he’s arrested and convicted of murder and rape. While in prison, Alex learns of an experimental program in which convicts are programed to detest violence. If he goes through the program his sentence will be reduced and he will be back on the streets sooner than expected. But Alex’s ordeals are far from over once he hits the mean streets of Britian that he had a hand in making. Written by Nikki Carlyle”

• Director: Stanley Kubrick
• Release Date:
  2 February 1972 (USA)
• Run Time:
  136 min
• Country: UK , USA
• Genre: Crime , Drama , Sci-Fi , Thriller

Tagline: Being the adventures of a young man … who couldn't resist pretty girls … or a bit of the ancient ultra-violence … went to jail, was re-conditioned … and came out a different young man … or was he ?

Trivia: This film was shot nearly entirely on real locations as opposed to sets and was lit nearly entirely with a Lowell Kit, a staple for film students, perhaps as a reaction against the huge apparatus needed for Stanley Kubrick’s previous film, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).

Goofs: Crew or equipment visible: When Alex and the Cat Lady are fighting at the house, the shadow of the camera can be seen on each of them.

Movie: Wall Street (1987)

“Bud Fox is a Wall Street stockbroker in early 1980’s New York with a strong desire to get to the top. Working for his firm during the day, he spends his spare time working an on angle with the high-powered, extremely successful (but ruthless and greedy) broker Gordon Gekko. Fox finally meets with Gekko, who takes the youth under his wing and clarifies his philosophy that “Greed is Excellent”. Taking the advice and working closely with Gekko, Fox soon finds himself swept into a world of “yuppies”, shady business deals, the “excellent life”, quick money, and quick women; something which is at odds with his family including his estranged father and the blue-collared way Fox was brought up. Written by Murray Chapman {muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au}”

• Director: Oliver Stone
• Release Date:
  11 December 1987 (USA)
• Run Time:
  126 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Crime , Drama

Tagline: Every dream has a price.

Trivia: Director Cameo: [Oliver Stone]on the phone during the montage of deals being made.

Goofs: Errors in geography: When Gekko gives bud fox his ”wake up” call from the beach, the sun is in the west.

Movie: Crash (2004/I)

“Several tales interweave during two days in Los Angeles involving a collection of inter-related characters, a police detective with a drugged out mother and a thieving younger brother, two car thieves who are constantly theorizing on society and race, the white district attorney and his irritated and pampered wife, a racist white veteran cop (caring for a sick father at home) who disgusts his more idealistic younger partner, a successful Hollywood director and his wife who must deal with the racist cop, a Persian-immigrant father who buys a gun to protect his shop, a Hispanic locksmith and his young daughter who is worried of bullets, and more. Written by Martin Lewison {dr@martinlewison.com}”

• Director: Paul Haggis
• Release Date:
  6 May 2005 (USA)
• Run Time:
  112 min | 115 min (director's cut)
• Country: USA , Germany
• Genre: Crime , Drama
• MPAA:
  Rated R for language, sexual content and some violence.

Tagline: You reckon you know who you are. You have no thought.

Trivia: Lionsgate spent $2 million to promote the film to Academy members in the run-up to the Oscars.

Goofs: Factual errors: Kim Lee is not a Korean name. It is just a mixture of two family names. When Koreans use the two words for a name, they use different pronunciations. Common pronunciation of the words are Geum and Yi.

Movie: Mystic River (2003)

“Childhood friends Jimmy Markum, Sean Devine and Dave Boyle reunite following the death of Jimmy’s oldest daughter, Katie. Sean’s a police detective on the case, gathering hard and disturbing evidence; he’s also tasked with handling Jimmy’s rage and need for retribution. Written by mmg”

• Director: Clint Eastwood
• Release Date:
  15 October 2003 (USA)
• Run Time:
  137 min
• Country: USA , Australia
• Genre: Crime , Drama , Mystery , Thriller
• MPAA:
  Rated R for language and violence.

Tagline: We bury our sins, we wash them clean.

Trivia: Dennis Lehane, author of the novel “Mystic River”, can be seen waving from the back of a convertible in the parade sequence.

Goofs: Continuity: When Jimmy pulls out his knife his glove disappears then reappears in the remaining shots.

Movie: Give 'em Hell, Malone (2009)

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• Director: Russell Mulcahy
• Run Time:
  96 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Action , Crime , Thriller
• MPAA:
  Rated R for strong bloody violence throughout, language and some sexual content.

Tagline: Hard to like… Harder to kill.

Trivia: Malone’s car is a 1952 Chop Top Buick Straight 8, primer black with red rims and white wall tires. Thomas Jane found that car just days before shooting started and had it shipped up to Spokane from Oxnard just in time to get it running like it used to be.

Goofs: Continuity: (At 1:03:15) When Malone takes Frankie the Crooner for a joy ride in the boot of his car – towards the ending of all the spins and donuts where dust goes everywhere – you can clearly see a white jeep driving off in front of Malone’s car for about 15 frames.

Movie: Se7en (1995)

“A film about two homicide detectives’ desperate hunt for a serial killer who justifies his crimes as absolution for the world’s ignorance of the Seven Deadly Sins. The movie takes us from the tortured remains of one victim to the next as the sociopathic “John Doe” sermonizes to Detectives Sommerset and Mills — one sin at a time. The sin of Gluttony comes first and the murderer’s terrible capacity is graphically demonstrated in the dark and subdued tones characteristic of film noir. The seasoned and cultured Sommerset researches the Seven Deadly Sins in an effort to know the killer’s modus operandi while green Detective Mills scoffs at his efforts to get inside the mind of a killer… Written by Mark Fleetwood {mfleetwo@mail.coin.missouri.edu}”

• Director: David Fincher
• Release Date:
  22 September 1995 (USA)
• Run Time:
  127 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Crime , Drama , Mystery , Thriller
• MPAA:
  Rated R for grisly afterviews of horrific and bizarre killings, and for strong language.

Tagline: Long is the way, and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.

Trivia: Before Kevin Spacey was set to shoot his first scene, he questioned director David Fincher if he should shave his head for the role. David Fincher answered “If you do it, I’ll do it.” Both Fincher and Spacey were bald for the remainder of the movie production.

Goofs: Revealing mistakes: The dead gluttony victim can be seen breathing.

Movie: Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

“The tale of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-ancient orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the largest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India’s "Kaun Banega Crorepati?" (2000) (Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?) But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the tale of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his tale reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show’s questions. Each chapter of Jamal’s increasingly layered tale reveals where he learned the answers to the show’s seemingly impossible quizzes. But one question remains a mystery: what is this young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing on the game show? When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out. At the heart of its storytelling lies the question of how anyone comes to know the things they know about life and like. Written by Fox Searchlight Pictures”

• Release Date:
  23 January 2009 (USA)
• Run Time:
  120 min
• Country: UK
• Genre: Crime , Drama , Romance
• MPAA:
  Rated R for some violence, disturbing images and language.

Tagline: Like and money… You have mixed them both.

Trivia: Danny Boyle originally wanted Indian actor Shahrukh Khan — who had hosted the final season of "Kaun Banega Crorepati?" (2000) (the Indian version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" (1998)) — to play the game show host, but the actor was not available. The actor who plays the host, Anil Kapoor, was a guest on the show and won 5,000,000 Rupees.

Goofs: Continuity: When Salim and Jamal find Latika in the dance studio she is seen without and then with a nose ring.

Movie: Taken (2008/I)

“Seventeen year-ancient Kim is the pride and joy of her father Bryan Mills. Bryan is a retired agent who left the Secret Service to be near Kim in California. Kim lives with her mother Lenore and her wealthy stepfather Stuart. Kim manages to convince her reluctant father to allow her to travel to Paris with her friend Amanda. When the girls arrive in Paris they share a cab with a weirder named Peter, and Amanda lets it slip that they are alone in Paris. Using this information an Albanese gang of human traffickers kidnaps the girls. Kim barely has time to call her father and give him information. Her father gets to speak briefly to one of the kidnappers and he promises to kill the kidnappers if they do not let his daughter go free. The kidnapper wishes him “excellent luck,” so Bryan Mills travels to Paris to search for his daughter and her friend. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil”

• Director: Pierre Morel
• Release Date:
  30 January 2009 (USA)
• Run Time:
  93 min
• Country: France
• Genre: Action , Crime , Drama , Thriller
• MPAA:
  Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence, disturbing thematic material, sexual content, some drug references and language.

Tagline: They took his daughter. He'll take their lives.

Trivia: Doing this film propelled Famke Janssen to take action in the real fight against corruption. She now serves as the Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Office against Drugs and Crime.

Goofs: Continuity: When Bryan dives over the couch in the fight scene, blood shoots from his leg/foot as if he was shot, but seconds later there is no sign of injury.

Movie: El secreto de sus ojos (2009)

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• Director: Juan José Campanella
• Release Date:
  2010 (USA)
• Run Time:
  127 min
• Country: Argentina , Spain
• Genre: Crime , Drama , Mystery , Romance , Thriller

Trivia: Argentina’s official submission to 82nd Academy Award’s Foreign Language in 2010.

Goofs: Miscellaneous: In the scene where Irene and Benjam

Movie: The Godfather (1972)

“The tale starts as “Don” Vito Corleone, the head of a New York Mafia “family”, oversees his daughter’s wedding. His beloved son Michael has just come home from the war, but does not intend to become part of his father’s business. Through Michael’s life the nature of the family business becomes clear. The business of the family is just like the head of the family, kind and benevolent to those who give respect, but given to ruthless violence whenever anything stands against the excellent of the family. Don Vito lives his life in the way of the ancient country, but times are changing and some don’t want to follow the ancient ways and look out for community and “family”. An up and coming rival of the Corleone family wants to start selling drugs in New York, and needs the Don’s influence to further his plot. The clash of the Don’s fading ancient world values and the new ways will demand a terrible price, especially from Michael, all for the sake of the family. Written by Charlie Ness”

• Director: Francis Ford Coppola
• Release Date:
  24 March 1972 (USA)
• Run Time:
  175 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Crime , Drama , Thriller

Tagline: An offer you can't refuse.

Trivia: Paramount’s original thought was to make this a low-budget gangster film set in the present rather than a period piece set in the 1940s and 1950s. Francis Ford Coppola rejected Mario Puzo’s original script based on this thought.

Goofs: Revealing mistakes: The eyes in the severed horse’s head have obvious cataracts (which are typically caused by ancient age and/or degenerative diseases such as diabetes). That is hardly what you’d expect to find in a champion stallion in the prime of his life.

Movie: The Huge Lebowski (1998)

“When “The Dude” Lebowski is mistaken for a millionaire Lebowski, two thugs urinate on his rug to coerce him into paying a debt he knows nothing about. While attempting to gain recompense for the ruined rug from his wealthy counterpart, he accepts a one-time job with high pay-off. He enlists the help of his bowling buddy, Walter, a gun-toting Jewish-convert with rage issues. Deception leads to more distress, and it soon seems that everyone from porn empire tycoons to nihilists want something from The Dude. Written by J. Lake”

• Director: Joel Coen

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• Release Date:
  6 March 1998 (USA)
• Run Time:
  117 min
• Country: USA , UK
• Genre: Comedy , Crime
• MPAA:
  Rated R for pervasive strong language, drug content, sexuality and brief violence.

Tagline: They figured he was a bone idle time wasting slacker. They were right.

Trivia: When the Jesus, John Turturro, has to go door to door, sharing that he is a convicted sex offender, he has a large bulge in his tight pants. The bulge was formed by a bag of birdseed.

Goofs: Revealing mistakes: In the scene inside the bowling alley, right after the failed money transfer at the bridge, the two bowlers bowling in the lane right next to Walter and Dude both have one dark shoe and one light shoe on.

Movie: The Departed (2006)

“In South Boston, the state police force is waging war on Irish-American organized crime. Young undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate run by gangland chief Frank Costello. While Billy quickly gains Costello’s confidence, Colin Sullivan, a hardened young criminal who has infiltrated the state police as an informer for the syndicate, is rising to a position of power in the Special Investigation Unit. Each man becomes deeply consumed by his double life, gathering information about the plans and counter-plans of the operations he has penetrated. But when it becomes clear to both the mob and the police that there’s a mole in their midst, Billy and Colin are suddenly in danger of being caught and exposed to the enemy-and each must race to uncover the identity of the other man in time to save himself. But is either willing to turn on the friends and comrades they’ve made during their long stints undercover? Written by Anonymous”

• Director: Martin Scorsese
• Release Date:
  6 October 2006 (USA)
• Run Time:
  151 min
• Country: USA , Hong Kong
• Genre: Crime , Mystery , Thriller
• MPAA:
  Rated R for strong brutal violence, pervasive language, some strong sexual content and drug material.

Tagline: Lies. Betrayal. Sacrifice. How far will you take it?

Trivia: When Madolyn meets Colin in the elevator, she gives Colin her business card. The logo of the American Psychological Association is clearly visible on it.

Goofs: Continuity: Costigan and French get into the maroon Buick Roadmaster, where Costello is waiting. When it shows Costigan open the flip-phone, the dashboard shown in the background is that of a newer Mercedes with a black interior.