Snake Eyes

Genres: Crime, Thriller, Mystery

Starring: Nicolas Cage, John Heard, Mike Starr, Michael Rispoli, Carla Gugino, Gary Sinise, Stan Shaw

Directors: Brian De Palma

Country: USA

Year: 1998

Ricky Santoro is a flamboyant and corrupt Atlantic City cop with a dream: become so well connected that he can become mayor. In lieu of that, he'll settle for keeping his comfortable lifestyle. On the night of the heavyweight boxing championship, Rick becomes mixed up in the assassination of the Secretary of Defense, an assassination involving his best friend. Becoming the investigating officer in the case, Rick soon uncovers a conspiracy to kill the Secretary and a mysterious woman in white. The conspiracy was shocking, but not half as shocking as the identity of its mastermind.

 

The Fury

Genres: Thriller, Horror, Drama

Starring: Kirk Douglas, Amy Irving, Rutanya Alda, J. Patrick McNamara, Charles Durning, Fiona Lewis, Carrie Snodgress

Directors: Brian De Palma

Country: USA

Year: 1978

Available Quality: Hi Def, Hi Def

A secret US agency behind the unscrupulous Childres gathers children with parapsychologic abilities and trains them to become killers in war situations. To rescue his son, who was officially declared dead after an arranged accident, the ex-CIA agent Peter investigates against Childres.

 

Scarface

Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama

Starring: Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Miriam Colon, Harris Yulin, F. Murray Abraham, Arnaldo Santana, Robert Loggia

Directors: Brian De Palma

Country: USA

Year: 1983

Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

When Castro opened the port at Mariel Harbor, thousands of Cubans fled to the United States. One is a young tough named Antonio (Tony) Montana, who, with his friend Manny Ray, starts in with Miami's cocaine trade. He survives attack by chainsaw after a deal goes bad, and several other attempts by other dealers to eliminate him. Eventually the grandiose Montana becomes head of a cocaine cartel. But his enemies start coming after him, and his paranoia threatens to drive Montana's empire into the ground...

 

Femme Fatale

Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama

Starring: Antonio Banderas, Gregg Henry, Peter Coyote, Rebecca Romijn, Eriq Ebouaney, Edouard Montoute, Rie Rasmussen

Directors: Brian De Palma

Country: France

Year: 2002

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, Hi Def

International con artist/thief Laure Ash helps pull off a diamond robbery in Cannes during the annual film festival. She double-crosses her partners-in-crime and makes off with the diamonds to Paris where she accidentally assumes the identity of a distraught woman who commits suicide and then leaves the country. Seven years later, Laure (now called Lily Watts) re-surfaces as the wife of the new American ambassador to France where a certain Nicolas Barto, a Spanish photographer, takes her picture thereby setting the stage for a motion of events as the evil Laure resorts to low, underhanded means to protect her former identity.

 

The Bonfire of the Vanities

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Starring: Morgan Freeman, Bruce Willis, Tom Hanks, Clifton James, Alan King, Donald Moffat, Kim Cattrall

Directors: Brian De Palma

Country: USA

Year: 1990

Financial "Master of the Universe" Sherman McCoy sees his life unravel when his mistress Maria Ruskin hits a black boy with his car. When yellow journalist Peter Fallow enflames public opinion with a series of distorted tabloid articles on the accident, the case is seized upon by opportunists like Reverend Bacon and mayoral candidate D.A. Abe Weiss.

 

The Untouchables

Genres: Crime, Thriller, History

Starring: Richard Bradford, Sean Connery, Billy Drago, Brad Sullivan, Andy Garcia, Charles Martin Smith, Kevin Costner

Directors: Brian De Palma

Country: USA

Year: 1987

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def

1920's prohibition Chicago is corrupt from the judges downward. So in going up against Al Capone, Treasury agent Eliot Ness picks just two cops to help him and his accountant colleague. One is a sharp-shooting rookie, the other a seen-it-all beat man. The four of them are ready to battle Capone and his empire, but it could just be that guns are not the best way to get him.

 

Mission to Mars

Genres: Thriller, Adventure, Drama

Starring: Jerry O'Connell, Lynda Boyd, Gary Sinise, Don Cheadle, Elise Neal, Tim Robbins, Connie Nielsen

Directors: Brian De Palma

Country: USA

Year: 2000

When a mysterious storm kills all but one crew member of the first manned mission to mars, a rescue mission is launched. Once on the red planet, the crew finds the sole survivor of the first mission who informs them that this was no ordinary storm. It was meant to protect something. But what?

 

Carlito's Way

Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama

Starring: John Leguizamo, Al Pacino, Viggo Mortensen, James Rebhorn, Sean Penn, John Ortiz, Joseph Siravo

Directors: Brian De Palma

Country: USA

Year: 1993

Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def

From the producer of Scarface and Carlito's Way comes the action thriller Carlito's Way: Rise to Power. Jay Hernandez (Friday Night Lights), Mario Van Peebles (Ali), Luis Guzman (Carlito's Way) and Sean Combs (Monster's Ball) star in the gripping tale of the early years of gangster legend Carlito Brigante. Seduced by the power of the brutal New York underworld, he enters a deadly circle of greed and retribution. Assisted by his two brothers in crime, Carlito is on the fast track to becoming Spanish Harlem's ultimate kingpin. He quickly learns, however, that the only way to survive at the top is through loyalty to his friends and respect for t...

 

Phantom of the Paradise

Genres: Comedy, Thriller, Musical

Starring: Archie Hahn, Paul Williams, Gerrit Graham, George Memmoli, Jessica Harper, William Finley, Jeffrey Comanor

Directors: Brian De Palma

Country: USA

Year: 1974

Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

Rock Opera version of Phantom Of The Opera with elements of Faust. Record producer Swan steals both the music and the girl (Phoenix) from composer Leach. Disfigured Leach plans revenge on Swan and his rock palace, The Paradise, and becomes The Phantom. Leach signs _contract_ with Swan to complete rock opera based on the life of Faust for Phoenix. Double crossed by Swan who hires _heavy metal_ singer Beef, Leach exacts his vengeance.

 

Raising Cain

Genres: Crime, Thriller, Horror

Starring: Mel Harris, Frances Sternhagen, Steven Bauer, Barton Heyman, Tom Bower, Gregg Henry, John Lithgow

Directors: Brian De Palma

Country: USA

Year: 1992

Jenny Nix, wife of eminent child psychologist Carter Nix, becomes increasingly concerned about her husband's seemingly obsessive concern over the upbringing of their daughter. Her own adulterous affair with an old flame, however, causes her to neglect her motherly duties until a spate of local kidnapings forces her to accept the possibility that he may be trying to recreate the twisted mind-control experiments of his discreditied psychologist father.

 

Carrie

Genres: Thriller, Horror, Drama

Starring: John Travolta, Amy Irving, Sydney Lassick, Piper Laurie, William Katt, Stefan Gierasch, Sissy Spacek

Directors: Brian De Palma

Country: USA

Year: 1976

Carrie White is a shy young girl who doesn't make friends easily. After her class mates taunt her about her horrified reaction to her totally unexpected first period one of them takes pity on her and gets Tommy Ross, her boyfriend and class hunk to invite Carrie to the senior prom. Meanwhile another girl who has been banned from the prom for her continued aggressive behaviour is not as forgiving and plans a trick to embarrass Carrie in front of the whole school. What she doesn't realise is that Carrie is ... gifted, and you really don't want to get her angry.

 

The Black Dahlia

Genres: Crime, Thriller, Romance

Starring: Angus MacInnes, Scarlett Johansson, Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Mike Starr, Mia Kirshner, Troy Evans

Directors: Brian De Palma

Country: Germany, USA

Year: 2006

Available Quality: iPod, Hi Def

In 1946, the former boxers Dwight "Bucky" Bleichert and Lee Blanchard are policemen in Los Angeles. Lee has a good relationship with his chief and uses a box fight between them to promote the department and get a raise to the police force. They succeed and are promoted to homicide detectives, working together. Bucky becomes a close friend of Lee and his girlfriend Kay Lake, forming a triangle of love. When the corpse of the aspirant actress Elizabeth Short is found mutilated, Lee becomes obsessed to solve the case called by the press Black Dahlia. Meanwhile, Bucky's investigation leads him to a Madeleine Linscott, the daughter of a powerful a...

 

Get to Know Your Rabbit

Genres: Comedy

Starring: M. Emmet Walsh, Hope Summers, Orson Welles, Allen Garfield, Timothy Carey, John Astin, Samantha Jones

Directors: Brian De Palma

Country: USA

Year: 1972

A young businessman goes to a magic expert to learn hardness and skill with his cynical and greedy collaborators. He becomes a very good tap dancer, but will he be able to get free of his old boss?

 

Body Double

Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama

Starring: Al Israel, Gregg Henry, Guy Boyd, Melanie Griffith, Dennis Franz, Larry Flash Jenkins, Barbara Crampton

Directors: Brian De Palma

Country: USA

Year: 1984

Jake comes home to find his girlfriend with another man and has to find a new place. In between his acting workshops and his job in a vampire B-movie, he scans the paper looking for anything. He happens to meet a fellow actor who needs a house sitter. Both are pleased with the arrangement that will have Jake staying in the house and for a sweetener, Frank shows him his 'favorite neighbor', a well built woman who strips with her window open each night. Jake becomes obsessed with meeting her and is able to help recover her purse from a thief, but shows his own phobia, he is incapacitated by claustrophobia when the thief runs through a tunnel. W...

 

Redacted

Genres: Crime, Drama, War

Starring: Patrick Carroll, Rob Devaney, Izzy Diaz, Mike Figueroa, Qazi Freihat, Ty Jones, Yanal Kassay

Directors: Brian De Palma

Country: USA, Canada

Year: 2007

Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def

A montage of stories about U.S. soldiers fighting in the Iraq conflict, focusing on the modern forms of media covering the war.

 

Blow Out

Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama

Starring: John Travolta, John Lithgow, John McMartin, J. Patrick McNamara, Dennis Franz, Nancy Allen, Roger Wilson

Directors: Brian De Palma

Country: USA

Year: 1981

Available Quality: DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

A soundman accidentally records the evidence that proves a car "accident" was murder, and consequently finds himself in danger.

 

Casualties of War

Genres: Adventure, Drama, War

Starring: John Leguizamo, Dale Dye, John C. Reilly, Michael J. Fox, Dan Martin, Sean Penn, Vyto Ruginis

Directors: Brian De Palma

Country: USA

Year: 1989

During the Vietnam war, a girl is taken from her village by five American soldiers. Four of the soldiers rape her, but the fifth refuses. The young girl is killed. The fifth soldier is determined that justice will be done. The film is more about the realities of war, rather than this single event.

 

Obsession

Genres: Thriller, Drama, Mystery

Starring: Cliff Robertson, John Lithgow, Stocker Fontelieu, J. Patrick McNamara, Geneviève Bujold, Don Hood, Tom Felleghy

Directors: Brian De Palma

Country: USA

Year: 1976

Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

New Orleans businessman Michael Courtland's life is shattered when his wife and daughter are tragically killed in a botched kidnap rescue attempt. Many years later whilst visiting Italy he meets and falls in in love with Sandra Portinari, who bears a striking resemblance to his wife.

 

Mission: Impossible

Genres: Action, Thriller, Adventure

Starring: Dale Dye, Tom Cruise, Jon Voight, Vanessa Redgrave, Marcel Iures, Henry Czerny, Kristin Scott Thomas

Directors: Brian De Palma

Country: USA

Year: 1996

Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

A big-screen remake of a prior American television show, modernized and updated with all of the eye-popping special effects that a Hollywood mega-budget can buy. The show's Jim Phelps is the leader of the 'Impossible Missions Force.' In this 'episode,' Ethan Hunt is the point man for an IMF mission to catch a spy in the act of stealing information about the 'covers' of many other covert operatives. In the tradition of the TV show, the viewer is led down many plot twists, turns, and reversals, while the IMF members employ the latest in technology, disguises, and spy gadgetry to accomplish their mission.HD 1080p PC, Mac, PS3 and XBOX 360 COMPAT...

 

Dressed to Kill

Genres: Thriller, Horror, Mystery

Starring: Angie Dickinson, Michael Caine, David Margulies, Anneka Di Lorenzo, Dennis Franz, Nancy Allen, Keith Gordon

Directors: Brian De Palma

Country: USA

Year: 1980

Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

While taking a shower, Kate Miller, a middle-aged, sexually frustrated New York housewife, has a rape fantasy while her husband stands at the sink shaving. Later that day, after complaining to her psychiatrist Dr. Robert Elliott about her husband's pathetic performance in bed, she meets a strange man at a museum and returns to his apartment where they continue an adulterous encounter that began in the taxicab. Before she leaves his apartment, she finds papers which certify that the man has a venereal disease. Panicked, Kate rushes into the elevator, but has to return to his apartment when she realizes she's forgotten her wedding ring. When th...