Before Night Falls 2000  R, 125 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Julian Schnabel
Cast: Javier Bardem, Olivier Martinez, Andrea Di Stefano, Johnny Depp, Sean Penn, Michael Wincott, Najwa Nimri, Hector Babenco, Jerzy Skolimowski, Vito Maria Schnabel
Noted anti-Castro Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas (Javier Bardem) is the subject of this film about a poor boy who grows up and joins Castro's revolutionary forces. After the revolution, Arenas moves to Havana, publishes his first novel, and participates in the gay underground. His actions are considered dangerous by Castro's political regime, and Arenas is sentenced to concentration camps and later is exiled. Finally free and living in NY, Arenas contracts the AIDs virus and ultimately kills himself. What makes this film extraordinary is not the plot; instead, it is the painstaking blend of the movie's sights and sounds that tugs at viewers' emotions. Bardem was nominated for a Best Actor Academy Award.
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Blood and Chocolate 2007   PG-13, 98 min.
Genre: Drama / Horror / Romance / Fantasy
Director: Katja von Garnier
Cast: Agnes Bruckner, Hugh Dancy, Olivier Martinez, Katja Riemann, Bryan Dick, Chris Geere, Tom Harper, John(2) Kerr, Jack Wilson, Vitalie Ursu, Bogdan Voda, Kata Dobo
Vivian (Agnes Bruckner) is a werewolf whose family was killed in Colorado, and now, 10 years later, she is living in Romania and has been promised in marriage to the werewolf pack leader, Gabriel (Olivier Martinez). When she meets American comic-book artist Aiden (Hugh Dancy), romance blooms, but many problems lie ahead as Vivian tries to cross over from the inhuman to the human world.
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The Chambermaid on the Titanic 1997 N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: The Chambermaid
Director: Bigas Luna
Cast: Olivier Martinez, Romane Bohringer, Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, Didier Bezace, Aldo Maccione, Jean-Marie Juan, Arno Chevrier, Marianne Groves, Didier Benureau, Alberto Cassadie
As a contest prize, foundry worker Horty (Olivier Martinez) wins a trip to Southampton to watch the Titanic sail out of port on her maiden voyage. While in Southampton, he meets and spends one chaste night with a Titanic chambermaid (Aitana Sanchez-Gijon). On his return home, Horty builds up the meeting into a romantic rendezvous, which does not sit well with his wife, Zoe (Romane Bohringer).
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Mon Homme 1996  N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Bertrand Blier
Cast: Anouk Grinberg, Gerard Lanvin, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Olivier Martinez, Dominique Valadie, Bernard Le Coq, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Sabine Azema, Jacques Francois, Bernard Fresson
Prostitute Marie Abarth (Anouk Grinberg) thoroughly enjoys her profession. Then one day she meets Jeannot (Gerard Lanvin), a vagrant. She takes Jeannot home, appoints him as her pimp, and determines to devote her energies to him. But Jeannot strays, and when he becomes a pimp for a new prostitute the tables are turned.
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The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone 2003 R, 114 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Allan Ackerman
Cast: Helen Mirren, Olivier Martinez, Anne Bancroft, Rodrigo Santoro, Brian Dennehy, Roger Allam, Victor Alfieri, Suzanne Bertish, Jane Bertish, Tara Lynne O'Neill, Sara James, Frank Crudele
This made-for-TV version of Tennessee Williams' 1958 novella stars Helen Mirren as the aging Karen Stone whose life changes when her wealthy husband, Tom (Brian Dennehy), dies during their trip to Italy. Karen then sets off on a series of sexual flings with gigolos arranged for by the Contessa (Anne Bancroft) until she is paired off with young Paolo di Lio (Olivier Martinez), and a doomed romance follows.
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 S.W.A.T. 2003  PG-13, 117 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Clark Johnson
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Colin Farrell, Michelle Rodriguez, LL Cool J, Josh Charles, Jeremy Renner, Brian Van Holt, Olivier Martinez, Reg E. Cathey, Larry Poindexter, Page Kennedy, Domenick Lombardozzi, Denis Arndt, James DuMont, Lindsey Ginter
After being kicked off L.A.P.D.'s Special Weapons and Tactics (S.W.A.T.) team, Jim Street (Colin Farrell) is given a second chance by Sgt. Dan "Hondo" Harrelson (Samuel L. Jackson) and joins a S.W.A.T. team escorting drug kingpin Alex Montel (Olivier Martinez) to a federal facility in the California desert. The team encounters many problems along the way–including Montel making an offer on live-TV of $1 million to anyone who can get him out of police custody. A well-made police action thriller.
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 Taking Lives 2004 R, 100 min.
Genre: Action
Director: D.J. Caruso
Cast: Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke, Kiefer Sutherland, Gena Rowlands, Olivier Martinez, Tcheky Karyo, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Paul Dano, Justin Chatwin, Andre Lacoste, Billy Two Rivers, Richard Lemire
FBI agent Illeana (Angelina Jolie) is summoned to Canada to help Montreal police officers solve a murder. During the investigation, Illeana determines that the person they are looking for is really a serial killer who has been assuming the identities of his latest victims.
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 Unfaithful 2002 R, 123 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Adrian Lyne
Cast: Richard Gere, Diane Lane, Olivier Martinez, Erik Per Sullivan, Myra Lucretia Taylor, Michelle Monaghan, Chad Lowe, Joseph Badalucco Jr., Erich Anderson, Damon Gupton, Kate Burton, Dominic Chianese, Margaret Colin, Larry Gleason, Marc Forget
Connie (Diane Lane) falls during a windstorm and is rescued by a much younger man Paul Martel (Oliver Martinez). Now, she puts her seemingly stable marriage, which includes a young son Charlie (Erik Per Sullivan), to Edward (Richard Gere) on hold and indulges in an adulterous affair with Paul. Edward becomes suspicious and hires Frank Wilson (Dominic Chianese) to investigate. When Edward learns about Paul, he confronts him, and tragedy ensues. Lane was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar.
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| 1. Before Night Falls (2000)
2. Blood and Chocolate (2007)
3. The Chambermaid on the Titanic (1997)
aka: The Chambermaid
4. The Horseman on the Roof (1996)
5. Mon Homme (1996)
6. The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (2003)
7. S.W.A.T. (2003)
8. Taking Lives (2004)
9. Unfaithful (2002)
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