Monday, 6 January 2014

Existing film research

Existing films based on a similar genre 


Saving Private Ryan (1998)

Genre: Action,Drama,Warfilm

General George Marshall is informed that three of the four brothers of the Ryan family were killed in action and that their mother is to receive three telegrams to inform her of that. He learns that the fourth son, Private First Class James Francis Ryan, is a paratrooper, and is missing in action somewhere in Normandy. After reading to his staff Abraham Lincoln's Bixby letter, Marshall orders that Ryan be found and sent home immediately.
Soldiers are informed that they are now In a search for Private Ryan.
Director- Steven Spielberg
Distributer-Dreamworks Pictures/ Paramount Pictures





Rendition (2007)
Genre: Thriller, Drama

After a terrorist bomb kills an American an investigation is led to an Egyptian who lives in the United States married to an American. The US government send him back to Egypt where he is tortured and interrogated. In the meantime, his wife raises hell to find him despite being pregnant but the person behind refuses to give any information.


Director- Gavin Hood
Distributer- New Line Cinema


Taken (2008)


Genre: Action, Thriller

After reluctantly agreeing to let his 17-year-old daughter, Kim (Maggie Grace), go to France with her best friend, Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) is horrified to hear that she is kidnapped by an Albanian gang whose specialty is prostitution rings. With only 96 hours to go before he'll never find her again, Bryan rushes to France to save her. As a former CIA agent, he has all the skills necessary to rescue her, though it may put his life in danger -he can only find her.


Director- Pierre Morel
Distributor- 20th Century Fox


Driven to Kill (2009)

Genre: Action, Thriller

A Russian mobster named Ruslan, a crime novelist returns home to find out that his daughter is marrying his arch enemy. His past comes back to haunt him when his family begin to be threatened, leaving him to return to a live he once knew…

Director- Jeff King
Distributor-20th Century Fox

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