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478,415 | 463,200 | 101,757 | 8 | Really stupid bit I LOVED it ! | OK the premise is dumb , the babysitter dies within the first 15 minutes and the kids basically have to live alone all summer . Applegate easily gets an executive position ( just like real life , right ? ) and , naturally , is incredible at her job . And her brothers and sisters learn values from her example . . . yadd... |
477,468 | 463,200 | 36,653 | 8 | Carradine's finest hour | John Carradine plays Blubeard - - he paints women and then strangles them to death . He doesn't want to do it but is compelled to ( we find out why at the end ) . Then he falls in love with beautiful Lucille ( Jean Parker ) and tries to fight his desire . . . John Carradine said this was his best performance - - he's r... |
478,630 | 463,200 | 407,887 | 8 | Very good but not Scorseses ' best | Film takes place in Boston . It deals with two men ( Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon ) who are both working to bring down a crime lord ( Jack Nicholson ) . Problem is they're both working for different agencies and neither knows about the other . Things quickly go out of control . OK - - this is not Martin Scorsese's ... |
479,085 | 463,200 | 44,391 | 8 | Very good | Well-done tale of totally amoral Hollywood producer Jonathan Shields ( Kirk Douglas ) . It's all told in flashback of how he made . . . and destroyed . . . three people - - actress Georgia Lorrison ( Lana Turner ) , business associate Fred Amiel ( Barry Sullivan ) and writer James Lee Bartlow ( Dick Powell ) . Purporte... |
478,856 | 463,200 | 28,950 | 8 | Good but a classic ? | Like some other people have mentioned , why is this a classic . It's well directed , has two very good performances ( Gabin and von Stroheim ) , but it was kind of boring , seeming much longer than it was , and the anti war message was obvious and done with sledge hammer subtlety . Maybe back in the late 1930s this was... |
477,827 | 463,200 | 56,048 | 8 | Overdone but good | Highly fictionalized account of the rise of famous 1940-1950s stripper Gypsy Rose Lee . It concentrates on her domineering mother Rose ( Rosalind Russell ) and how she pushed both of her daughters into show business . One daughter ( played at various stages by both Ann Jillian and Morgan Brittany ! ) runs off so Rose c... |
477,949 | 463,200 | 66,740 | 8 | Strange horror movie | Doctors are being killed in various gruesome ways in 1925 London . They only have one thing in common - - they all worked on an operation to save Victoria Phibes - - but she died . Her husband Anton ( Vincent Price ) supposedly died in a car crash . It seems he survived , blames all the doctors for his wives death and ... |
477,344 | 463,200 | 40,506 | 8 | Good drama | Key Largo is a remote island off the coast of Florida . It's connected to the mainland by a concrete causeway . Frank McCloud ( Humphrey Bogart ) goes there to visit the father of a dead army buddy . He meets him ( Lionel Barrymore ) and his buddies widow ( Lauren Bacall ) . He also discovers criminal Johnny Rocco ( Ed... |
479,088 | 463,200 | 101,694 | 8 | Goldie tries a thriller | Dark , somber thriller about an art restorer Adrienne ( Goldie Hawn ) meeting Jack Saunders ( John Heard ) and falling in love . They marry , have a kid and are happy - - until 6 years ( or so ) into the marriage he's suddenly killed . Slowly Adrienne discovers her husband wasn't who she thought he was . . . Sort of a ... |
477,440 | 463,200 | 244,244 | 8 | Stupid but fun | A hacker named Stanley ( Hugh Jackman ) is hired by the mysterious Gabriel ( John Travolta ) to break into a computerized bank file that contains billions of dollars and steal it . There's more to it , but plot is not the primary concern of this film . What is front and center is action - - car chases , crashes , explo... |
478,761 | 463,200 | 79,871 | 8 | Disturbing | I saw this about 10 years ago at a Gay & Lesbian Film Festival and have never forgotten it . It's an extremely depressing and disturbing look at a British boys prison . It's a bunch of stories concentrating on various characters and situations . SPOILERS Easily the most disturbing sequence comes at the end with a young... |
477,411 | 463,200 | 59,477 | 8 | One of Russ Meyer's best | Drama takes place in Missouri during the Depression ( though that adds little to the story ) . Drifter Claif McKinney ( John Furlong ) comes by a small town looking for working . He finds it at the Wade farm run by Luke Ward and his niece Hannah ( Antoinette Christiani ) and her alcoholic abusive husband Sidney ( Hal H... |
477,232 | 463,200 | 51,755 | 8 | Neat little thriller | Eerie little film about a cemetery caretaker ( Richard Boone ) who finds he can cause the deaths of people by changing their white pins in a cemetery map into black pins . . . or can he ? Sounds silly and the film definetely has it's dull stretches ( even at 75 minutes ) , but it works . The whole cast plays it straigh... |
478,264 | 463,200 | 109,045 | 9 | Camp classic | Three drag queens take a road trip from Sydney to mid-Australia to perform on stage . Also , one of them has a secret that's revealed at the end . Nothing new plot-wise , but it has a fantastic soundtrack ( Gloria Gaynor , the Village People , Charlene , etc . ) , unbelievable costumes ( a deserved Academy-Award winner... |
477,960 | 463,200 | 73,747 | 9 | Well-done , entertaining thriller | Possible spoilers , but you probably already know the ending . Katharine Ross , hubby and kids move from NYC to Stepford - - a picture perfect town where all the women seem to be absorbed in housework . She slowly begins to realize that something is very wrong . . . A huge hit in its day , this film is dated but still ... |
477,526 | 463,200 | 70,468 | 9 | Depressing , disturbing | An English police officer , Sgt . Johnson ( Sean Connery ) is cracking under pressure on his job . He beats a rape suspect ( Ian Bannen ) to death . But why ? Was it the pressures of the job . . . or something else ? Combination murder mystery and character study . This film was a major bomb in 1973 and quickly disappe... |
479,609 | 463,200 | 83,642 | 9 | Sadly forgotten | Big , splashy , fun musical about a whorehouse ( the Chicken Ranch ) in Texas run by Miss Mona ( Dolly Parton ) . She's in love with the sheriff ( Burt Reynolds ) and the town has no problem with the house . Then a sleazy TV showman ( Dom DeLuise ) exposes the ranch and all hell breaks lose . This was a huge bomb in 19... |
478,908 | 463,200 | 35,323 | 9 | One of the best Superman cartoons | Someone disguised as Superman is committing robberies all over Metropolis . He's doing it under orders from The Boss ( that's all he's ever called - - and he sounds like Orson Welles ! ) . Immediately the police start searching for Superman . One night Lois Lane and Clark Kent are covering the opera . The fake Superman... |
477,737 | 463,200 | 294,870 | 9 | ALMOST a classic | The lives and loves of a bunch of poor New Yorkers in the late 1990s . They're gay , straight and bisexual and some are hooked on drugs or infected with AIDS . Bringing back the original cast was a great idea . They may look like in they're in their 30s but it doesn't adversely affect the movie at all . With one except... |
478,713 | 463,200 | 39,037 | 9 | Not a typical Abbott & Costello movie and one of their best | Most unusual A & C film starts off in the Revoluntionary War where Horatio ( Bud Abbott ) and Melody ( Marjorie Reynolds ) are shot and killed and mistakenly believed to be traitors . Because of that their spirits are forced to remain Earthbound . Only a letter from George Washington can prove their innocence - - but i... |
477,916 | 463,200 | 39,035 | 9 | Worth seeing for the color and music | Biography of song writer Jerome Kern played by Robert Walker . I'm not sure how factual this is but my guess is not very . It just seems an excuse for MGM to trot out all their musical and dancing stars out in bright , billiant Technicolor to belt out Kern's tunes . As for the non-musical numbers the " drama " is trite... |
479,392 | 463,200 | 30,341 | 9 | One of the best early film that Hitchcock did | Young pretty Iris Henderson ( Margaret Lockwood ) comes to realize that an elderly woman she boarded the train with ( played by Dame May Witty ) seems to have disappeared . She questions everybody on board but they all claim she came on alone . She gets young handsome Gilbert ( Michael Redgrave ) to believe her but wha... |
478,165 | 463,200 | 342,172 | 9 | Powerful | Documentary about the arrest of Arnold Friedman in 1987 . He received a package with images of young boys in sexual situations which he ordered . He then is accused , along with young son Jesse , of sexually molesting young boys in a computer class he taught at his house . But did he ? The documentary talks to prosecut... |
477,877 | 463,200 | 964,539 | 9 | Grim , depressing and very good | Ted Grey ( Milo Ventimiglia ) joins the pathology department at a major New York hospital . He quickly discovers that some of the pathologists have a deadly game - - they kill people in devious ways and see if the other pathologists can figure out how . Jake ( Micahel Weston ) draws Ted deeper into the " game " and thi... |
478,796 | 463,200 | 48,028 | 9 | Near perfect movie | WARNING - - There are going to be many plot spoilers in this review . This takes place in 1917 Monterey , California . Adam Trask ( Raymond Massey ) is bringing up two sons alone - - Cal ( James Dean ) and Aaron ( Richard Davalos ) . He tells them their mother ( Jo Van Fleet ) is dead but actually she left him and is n... |
479,152 | 463,200 | 70,300 | 9 | Creepy , different vampire tale | The film is set in Georgia of the 1920s . Sweet innocent 13 year old Lila Lee ( Cheryl Smith ) goes to visit her sick father . Unknown to her it's a trap all set up by Lemora ( Lesley Gilb ) a woman vampire with distinct lesbian tendencies . Will Lila Lee fall into her clutches or escape ? I caught this originally on l... |
479,257 | 463,200 | 34,856 | 9 | Still powerful | A Nazi officer ( Tim Holt ) falls in love with a freedom-fighting American girl ( Bonita Granville ) in WWII Germany . Very dated ( of course ) but still worth seeing . The film pulls no punches is showing how horrible life in Germany was during the war . I especially like them showing German citizens as being against ... |
479,087 | 463,200 | 348,150 | 9 | It was very good . . . . not great | After 5 years away Superman ( Brandon Routh ) returns to Earth . He starts up his Clark Kent identity again and tries to get back to normal . . . and get Lois Lane ( Kate Bosworth ) back again . But she has moved on . She's living with her boyfriend ( James Marsden ) and they have a 5 year old son . Also Lex Luthor ( K... |
479,010 | 463,200 | 56,923 | 9 | Great unknown movie | Regina Lampert's ( Audrey Hepburn ) husband is mysteriously killed after he sold all their belongings . She has no idea what is going on until she finds out her husband had a large amount of money she knew nothing about - - and three evil men ( Ned Glass , James Coburn and George Kennedy ) want it and are convinced she... |
479,554 | 463,200 | 236,708 | 9 | Just adorable | Two children wait up Christmas Eve to meet Santa . They do and quiz him on where he lives , what he does when it's not Christmas , etc etc . Santa answers all their questions and we see his answers . Some scenes were actually shot in Northern Alaska ( the North Pole ) . Those scenes are just beautiful and there are tri... |
477,848 | 463,200 | 56,869 | 9 | Still scary | Melanie Daniels ( Tippi Hedren ) visits Bodega Bay to give some birds to Mitch Brenner ( Rod Taylor ) a man who flirted with her once . While there her and Mitch begin to fall in love . But also strange things are happening - - birds seem to be attacking people for no reason . The attacks escalate and soon Mitch , Mela... |
479,235 | 463,200 | 39,661 | 9 | Grim and depressing | Tyrone Power plays con man Stanton Carlisle . He works at a carnival but uses people to get out of there and strike out on his own . He hits the big time but his greed becomes too much for him . Power was mostly known for playing the hero in costume dramas in the 1940s and 1950s . He hated them and campaigned to do thi... |
477,597 | 463,200 | 424,345 | 9 | Surprisingly better than the original | Sequel to " Clerks " . Dante ( Brian O'Halloran ) and Randal ( Jeff Anderson ) have lost their jobs at Quik Stop when it burnt down . hey're now working at a fast food place called Mooby's . They have a sexy manager ( Rosario Dawson ) and the seriously deranged Elias ( Trevor Fehrman ) working there too . Dante has met... |
479,104 | 463,200 | 39,431 | 9 | The BEST 1940s musical ever ! | Bright , cheerful and lots of fun ! June Allyson loves Peter Lawford but he's being pursued by a beautiful , agressive golddigger . Who'll win him ? Who do you think ? Thoroughly predictable plot but the acting is good ( even though Lawford is totally miscast as a football player ) , the songs are pleasant , the produc... |
478,744 | 463,200 | 104,454 | 9 | A little bit too long but worth seeing | Movie about class distinction in 1910 England . Fairly poor Margaret Schlegel ( Emma Thompson ) befriends elderly Ruth Wilcox ( Vanessa Redgrave ) who leaves her Howard's End , a country estate . The Wilcoxes ' ignore the request and Shlegel never knows about it . . . but Mr . Wilcox ( Anthony Hopkins ) falls in love w... |
477,425 | 463,200 | 299,658 | 9 | Almost a 10 | In 1920s Chicago , Roxie Hart ( Renee Zellweger ) shoots and kills her lover ( Dominic West ) . She lands in prison but , with the help of shady lawyer Billy Flynn ( Richard Gere ) , she begins to enjoy her notoriety and thrive on the publicity . Another inmate , Velma Kelly ( Catherine Zeta-Jones ) begins to get very ... |
477,215 | 463,200 | 1,021,000 | 9 | Amusing | Short about a gay couple - - Michael ( Justin Martindale ) and John ( Sam Mathewes ) - - who want a baby . A pregnant woman ( Katharine Phillips Moses ) " interviews " them to see if they would be good parents for her unborn child . Things don't go smoothly . Funny little comedy . The two men WOULD be good parents ( yo... |
478,706 | 463,200 | 53,146 | 9 | Just stunning | The Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice updated to Rio de Janeiro of 1959 during carnival . It's shot in bright color and is subtitled . Orpheus ( Breno Mello ) is being pushed into marriage by beautiful but dangerous Mira ( Lourdes de Oliveira ) . Then he meets sweet innocent Eurydice ( Marpessa Dawn ) and falls in l... |
478,576 | 463,200 | 39,808 | 9 | Very entertaining | Danny Kaye plays Walter Mitty a meek , mild man who has been pushed around all his life by everybody . He takes refuge in elaborate daydreams where he is always the hero . Then he runs into beautiful Rosalind van Hoorn ( Virginia Mayo ) who is involved with spies and secret codes . He gets involved . . . but starts to ... |
477,959 | 463,200 | 47,522 | 9 | It's Judy's show all the way | The story is familar - - a washed out , alcoholic star ( James Mason ) discovers a rising new talent ( Judy Garland ) and watches while his career is destroyed and hers rises . Still , the film is sensational . At almost three hours , it's never boring and the acting is good . Also , great direction by George Cukor . H... |
479,272 | 463,200 | 462,322 | 9 | Just fantastic ! ! ! ! | Incredible 3 hours + double feature by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino with fake coming attractions mixed in . First up is " Planet Terror " by Rodriguez which has a hot shot guy ( Freddy Rodriguez ) and his tough as nails girlfriend ( Rose McGowan ) fighting flesh eating zombies with others . Among other cast m... |
477,161 | 463,200 | 22,153 | 9 | Just great . . . and still topical | Barbra Stanwyck plays a phony evangelist named Florence ' Faith ' Fallon . She's sick of preaching the Gospel and " curing " supposedly ill people ( they're workers for her ) , but her unscrupulous boss ( Sam Hardy ) convinces her to keep on doing it . Then she meets a kind , blind man ( David Manners ) and falls in lo... |
479,067 | 463,200 | 74,554 | 9 | Not funny but a great movie | Fictionalized look about the 1950s blacklist . Woody Allen ( in a rare dramatic role ) plays a man who sells the scripts of blacklisted writers under his name . He splits the proceeds with the writers . He's apolitical - - he's just doing it to help friends . Then he starts to see how horrible the blacklist is and how ... |
478,134 | 463,200 | 35,567 | 9 | Almost a classic | First pairing of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy . She plays a political columnist , he plays a sports writer . They meet , bicker , fall in love , get married . But is she ready to be a wife ? What starts off as a comedy quickly changes into drama but still manages to work . The writing is great - - full of great ... |
478,495 | 463,200 | 57,129 | 9 | Classic ghost story | Dr . Markaway ( Richard Johnson ) studies ghosts and wants to investigate Hill House who is reportedly haunted . Alsong with his is a Theo ( Claire Bloom ) who has ESP and Nell ( Julie Harris ) who has had poltergeist activity . Tagging along is Luke ( Russ Tamblyn ) who doesn't believe . Soon things are banging on the... |
479,531 | 463,200 | 12,532 | 9 | Epic silent film | Story takes place in France before and after the Revolution . Louise ( Dorothy Gish ) and Henriette ( Lillian Gish ) are brought up together but are not really sisters - - Louise was left on church steps as a baby and Henriette's parents took her in . Both are orphaned when their parents die and Louise is struck blind ... |
479,100 | 463,200 | 29,811 | 9 | Lesser known but still great Hitchcock | An innocent man named Robert ( Derrick De Marney ) is accused of murder . The constables daughter Erica ( Nova Pilbeam ) believes him but nobody else does . He escapes from the police and , with Erica's help , tries to find the murderer before the police catch him . The plot is familiar ( and a partial reworking of Hit... |
478,826 | 463,200 | 66,026 | 9 | Almost classic comedy | Basis for the very long-running TV series " MASH " . It's an absurdest , surrealistic view of a MASH ( Mobile Army Surgical Hospital ) stationed in Korea . It primarily involves the antics of three surgeons in the unit played by Donald Sutherland , Elliott Gould and Tom Skeritt . It's a very episodic film that shows th... |
477,583 | 463,200 | 66,016 | 9 | Funny if dated | Mike ( Michael Brandon ) and Susan ( Bonnie Bedelia ) are getting married . The movie deals with them and their various families preparing the wedding . Bedelia's parents are played by Gig Young and Cloris Leachman - - and Young is sleeping with a cousin played by Anne Jackson . Mike's parents are played by Beatrice Ar... |
478,064 | 463,200 | 14,142 | 9 | Classic silent film | Quasimodo ( Lon Chaney ) is the hideously deformed bell ringer for Notre Dame . Esmeralda ( Patsy Ruth Miller ) is a beautiful dancing gypsy . She loves high and mighty Phoebus ( Norman Kerry ) but is loved by evil , scheming Jehan ( Brandon Hurst ) . All this comes to a head at the end with a revolution . This is not ... |
478,321 | 463,200 | 44,954 | 9 | Excellent film noir | A dead mobsters wife ( Marie Windsor ) is going to testify against the mob . Detective Sergeant Water Brown ( Charles McGraw ) is hired to take her from Chicago to Los Angeles by train and protect her . There are bad guys on the train - - but they don't know what she looks like . Can Brown keep her a secret all the way... |
479,117 | 463,200 | 36,260 | 9 | Top notch film noir | Scott Henderson ( Alan Curtis ) is unjustly accused of killing his unfaithful wife . The night she was murdered he was out with a mystery woman who refused to give him her name . After accused of the murder , the police visit all the places he had been with her , but people only remember him being alone . He's sentence... |
479,334 | 463,200 | 1,223 | 9 | Old and overdone but still a great movie | Medical student Frankenstein ( Augustus Phillips ) wants to create the perfect human being . Instead what he comes up with is an ugly monster ( Charles Ogle ) . Frankenstein runs off to marry his sweetheart Elizabeth ( Mary Fuller ) but the monster visits him on his wedding night . . . A VERY loose adaptation of Mary S... |
478,042 | 463,200 | 86,856 | 9 | OK it makes no sense . . . but boy is it FUN ! ! ! ! ! ! ! | The plot is incomprehensible , characterizations are nonexistent and Ellen Barkin's character makes no sense . Still I LOVE this film . It never stops moving ( heck , who needs to understand things ? ) , is VERY colorful and has some incredible lines ( " Wherever you go . . . there you are " , " The Duece you say " , "... |
478,505 | 463,200 | 90,163 | 9 | Absolutely horrifying | The effects of a nuclear bomb exploding near London and how if affects a woman and her unborn child . It shows them before the blast and 20 years after . This wasn't the first movie I ever saw about nuclear holocaust . In 1983 US TV ran " The Day After " showing what might possibly happen if there were a nuclear holoca... |
478,993 | 463,200 | 785,532 | 9 | Disturbing to say the least | 15 year old Angelique ( Caitlin Wachs ) is pregnant from - - she believes - - a demon from hell . She gets to an abortion clinic where doctors try to figure out if she's crazy and what to do about her baby which is growing extremely quick . Her anti-abortion father Dwayne ( Ron Perlman ) wants to get her out of the cli... |
477,647 | 463,200 | 55,597 | 9 | Landmark of gay cinema . . . and a good drama too | Film takes place in Britain in 1961 . Back then you could be sent to jail if you were found to be a homosexual . A happily married successful barrister ( Dirk Bogarde ) is being blackmailed by a brief affair he had with another man years before . He doesn't want to pay . . . but if he doesn't his career and marriage wi... |
477,321 | 463,200 | 20,640 | 9 | One of the best Marx Brothers films | The plot here is really secondary . It involves Captain Jeffrey Spaulding ( Groucho ) coming to a rich woman's ( Margaret Dumont - - as always ) house for the unveiling of a famous painting . Harpo and Chico are on hand as musicians and are hired to steal the painting . Zeppo is wasted ( as always ) and there's a groan... |
479,563 | 463,200 | 78,952 | 9 | Almost a 10 | Autobiographical comedy / drama by Neil Simon . In it a recent widower George Schneider ( James Caan ) meets and falls in love with a recent divorcee Jennie MacLaine ( Marsha Mason ) . He marries her quickly , but realizes he hasn't gotten completely over his first wife . Is her love for him enough to see them through ... |
479,019 | 463,200 | 36,027 | 9 | Great horror film , almost a 10 | A nurse ( Frances Dee ) is assigned to the West Indies to care for the semi-comatose wife of a plantation owner ( Tom Conway ) . Over there she becomes involved with a very dysfunctional family and the realization that her patient may be a zombie - - one of the living dead . Eerie , poetic horror film - - one of the gr... |
478,653 | 463,200 | 75,148 | 9 | The first was the best | Rocky Balboa ( Sylvester Stallone ) , a second-rate boxer in Philadelphia , gets a match with the world champion Apollo Creed ( Carl Weathers ) . Also he falls in love with mousy Adrienne ( Talia Shire ) who blossoms with his love . He's trained by a tough-as-nails ( but loving ) trainer ( Burgess Meredith ) . This is ... |
479,093 | 463,200 | 144,120 | 9 | Silly but fun | Chucky ( the murderous doll from " Child's Play " and 2 crappy sequels ) is dead . But his ex-girlfriend Tiffany ( Jennifer Tilly ) gets his remains and ( using " Voodoo for Dummies " ) revives him . Then , through circumstances too convoluted to get into , SHE is killed and has her soul put into another doll ! Togethe... |
479,541 | 463,200 | 60,121 | 9 | As good as " Charade " | Professor David Pollock ( Gregory Peck ) is kidnapped by Beshraavi ( Alan Badel ) to decipher some hieroglyphics that contain state secrets ( or something ) . Throw in sexy Yasim Azir ( Sophia Loren ) and the Arabian prime minster . . . and things get interesting . This was written for Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant aft... |
479,540 | 463,200 | 443,489 | 9 | What a dream ! | A musical based ( very loosely ) on Diana Ross and the Supremes . It starts in Detroit in the early 60s when a black , all-girl trio sing at amateur night . They're called the Dreamettes ( Jennifer Hudson , Beyonce Knowles and Anika Noni Rose ) . A sleazy manager ( Jamie Foxx ) hires them as backup singers for James ea... |
478,685 | 463,200 | 1,179,891 | 9 | Who would've thought it ? A VERY GOOD horror film remake ! | Tom ( Jensen Ackles ) returns to his home town of Harmony ten years after a mad miner went on a massacre and killed 22 people . When he returns the murders start up again . Sheriff Axel ( Kerr Smith ) who was once his friend thinks he's doing them . Meanwhile Tom's ex Sarah ( Jaime King ) , who's now married to Axel , ... |
479,379 | 463,200 | 86,637 | 9 | Very good but overpraised | Really strange mock documentray that takes place in America in the 1920s - - a man , Leonard Zelig ( Woody Allen ) is a human chameleon - - he takes on the physical characteristics of any man he is with . He's regarded as a freak but a caring doctor named Eudora ( Mia Farrow ) tries to cure him . This came out in 1983 ... |
477,280 | 463,200 | 24,772 | 9 | Harrowing and grim but fascinating | Movie about how the Great Depression affected kids . Teenagers Eddie ( Frankie Darro ) and Tommy ( Edwin Philips ) run away from home because they can't find jobs and their parents can't afford them . They travel on trains where they meet Sally ( Dorothy Coonan ) . Soon there's a huge gang of these homeless kids travel... |
479,515 | 463,200 | 48,261 | 9 | Violent and exciting | Detective Mike Hammer ( Ralph Meeker ) comes upon a woman running down the road late one night with only a trenchcoat on ( Cloris Leachman in her first role ) . He picks her up - - but the car is stopped , he's knocked cold and she's tortured to death . He comes to and tries to find out who she was and why she was kill... |
477,691 | 463,200 | 114,369 | 9 | Very grim and disturbing but you can't stop watching | Detective Lt . William Somerset ( Morgan Freeman ) is about to retire . He is teamed up with a young new detective David Mills ( Brad Pitt ) . Together they try to find a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his M . O . Meanwhile Mills ' wife Tracy ( Gwyneth Paltrow ) fears for her husband's life and is very... |
477,544 | 463,200 | 17,120 | 9 | Tragic silent film | Ulysses ( handsome Antonio Moreno ) owns a boat called the Mare Nostrum . He also has an uncaring wife but a son Estaban ( Mickey Brantford ) whom he loves . An evil , sexy German spy Freye ( Alice Terry ) seduces Ulysses and convinces him to help bring supplies to a German sub . He does and the sub ends up destroying ... |
479,262 | 463,200 | 17,136 | 9 | Sci-fi masterpiece | Silent German film about a city of the future run by dehumanized workers who are sick of their lot and plan to stage a revolt . Kind , sweet , lovely Maria ( Brigette Helm ) stops them saying they should talk through their differences . However the evil head of the city wants a revolt so he can get rid of them and put ... |
477,484 | 463,200 | 1,544 | 9 | Mostly historically important but moderately entertaining | This is obviously not a full adaptation of Charles Dickens story - - it only runs 17 minutes ! It assumes the audience knows the story and just basically gives us the highlights . It involves all 4 visits from the ghosts ( using some surprisingly good special effects for the time ) and flashbacks to Scrooge's life . An... |
479,109 | 463,200 | 120,910 | 9 | Not as good as the original but fun | First off , I could have lived without the little intros from an all-star cast ( Steve Martin , Bette Midler , James Earl Jones , Penn & Teller , Angela Landsbury , etc . ) and the movie was way too short ( 75 minutes ) . Still , the music was great ( of course ) and the animation fit the music perfectly . My favorites... |
479,107 | 463,200 | 131,704 | 9 | Really silly and very funny ! | I was surprised at how much I liked this movie ! The basic plot has Boris , Natasha and Fearless Leader becomig humans and trying to take over the world through really bad TV . Rocky and Bullwinkle and an FBI agent try to stop them . Basically it's a bunch of bad jokes and adult references flying fast and furious ( jus... |
479,580 | 463,200 | 94,980 | 9 | Excellent | Great documentary of the heavy metal scene of the late 1980s . Unlike the first " Decline . . . " this movie concentrates more on interviews than concert footage . There are just fascinating talks with old time performers ( Alice Cooper , Aerosmith , Ozzy Osbourne ) and newcomers ( Odin , WASP , Poison ) . The contrast... |
478,092 | 463,200 | 427,327 | 10 | Full of energy and fire | In 1962 Detroit overweight Tracy Turnblad ( newcomer Nikki Blonsky ) is in love with the Corny Collins Show on TV . It's basically just " American Bandstand " on a local level . She gets on the show and is a big hit . She then pushes for the show to be open to blacks and whites ( back in 1962 that was unheard of ) . Sh... |
477,762 | 463,200 | 78,199 | 10 | Just great | In 1951 two married people Doris ( Ellen Burstyn ) and George ( Alan Alda ) meet , fall in love and , despite their marriages to other people , have sex . After spending the night together and realize they can't go on not seeing each other again . So , once a year , they meet at the same place to celebrate . This movie... |
477,402 | 463,200 | 95,675 | 10 | Almodovar at full throttle | Funny , outrageous , ridiculous , colorful and fascinating film by Almodovar - - his most popular film in America ( so far ) . The story defies description but , basically , it's about three women ( an actress , a psychopath and one on the run from the law ) who are all affected by one man . THe story starts slow , pic... |
477,826 | 463,200 | 56,412 | 10 | I love this movie - - and I HATE westerns ! | An aging cowboy named Steve Judd ( Joel McCrea ) agrees to transport $20 , 000 in gold across some bad country . He asks old friend Gil Westrum ( Randolph Scott ) to help him . Westrum brings along young , hot-headed Heck Longtree ( Ron Starr ) . Along the way they meet lonely Elsa Kundson ( Mariette Hartley in her fir... |
477,833 | 463,200 | 26,266 | 10 | Just great ! | Film follows the life of David Copperfield ( Freddie Bartholomew as a boy , Frank Lawton as a man ) and all the colorful characters he meets in 1880s England . I've never read the book so I can't say how faithful this is , but as a movie it's just wonderful ! The sets are beautiful , it's very well-directed by George C... |
478,816 | 463,200 | 237,235 | 10 | Just great | Superb documentary on the making of " The Exorcist " . They go through EVERYTHING in this . They talk to all the actors , director William Friedkin , writer William Peter Blatty , assorted crew members and technicians - - even the three priest used as technical advisors in the film ! They go through it step by step - -... |
477,838 | 463,200 | 73,778 | 10 | Excellent drive-in trash | Film focuses on two gangs - - the Silver Daggers lead by Dominic ( Asher Brauner ) and the Dagger Debs lead by Dominic's girlfriend , Lace ( Robbie Lee ) . A new girl in town Maggie ( Joanne Nail ) joins the Debs and becomes friends with Lace - - but Dominic wants Maggie . Evil Deb Patch ( Monica Gayle ) knows this and... |
477,189 | 463,200 | 87,995 | 10 | 80s cult film | The plot is impossible to describe but , basically , it's about a 20 something named Otto ( Estevez ) who works as a repo man . That's about it . . . the movie chronicles all his bizarre adventures and strange people he meets . I saw this when I was in college in 1984 - - it totally blew me away . I went back to see it... |
479,520 | 463,200 | 493,459 | 10 | Superb . . . and frightening | Excellent documentary on the MPAthe company that rates movies . It has been accused of favoring major companies ( with less stringent ratings ) than independent companies . Filmmakers are interviewed about what they had to cut and why to avoid the dreaded NC-rating . Some of the revelations are at once funny . . . and ... |
477,279 | 463,200 | 409,459 | 10 | An exhausting movie but fascinating | This is an adaptation of Alan Moore's great graphic novel . It takes place in an alternate universe in the 1980s when Richard Nixon is still president . Super hero groups have been outlawed by the president . The former Comedian ( Jeffrey Dean Morgan ) is savagely killed . Another hero named Rorschah ( Jackie Earle Hal... |
478,231 | 463,200 | 237,123 | 10 | Dirty but funny | The lives and loves of three Britsh men and women . Sort of like a British version of " Friends " . I was surprised to see there's only a grand total of 28 episodes considering it ran 4 years ! I caught this on BBC America . The insertion of commercials hurt the shows a little - - it broke up the flow of dialogue and a... |
479,566 | 463,200 | 26,138 | 10 | A classic - - but not scary | Henry Frankenstein ( Colin Clive ) and mad Dr . Petorious ( Ernest Thesiger ) team up to make a mate for the monster . That's all you need to know really . This sequel to the 1931 " Frankenstein " is even better than the original ! This one has a bigger budget ( check out the enormous sets ) , some VERY elaborate costu... |
479,660 | 463,200 | 108,906 | 10 | Talk about warped ! | Brilliant , scary , funny soap opera ( sort of ) of an extremely dysfunctional hospital in the Netherlands . Yeah , it's 4 hours and a half . . . yeah it's all subtitles . . . yeah , it has no ending . . . but who cares ? The film basically LOOKS different ! It always looks drab ( purposely ) , and some camera-work tha... |
478,758 | 463,200 | 167,261 | 10 | As good as the first | Actually , it's better than the first ! First off , see " Fellowship of the Ring " or you won't be able to make heads or tails out of this . It follows the fellowship being divided and facing evil on all sides . There's battles galore , tons of action , incredible sets and special effects , breathtaking scenery and the... |
478,214 | 463,200 | 35,140 | 10 | Davis ' best | I haven't seen every Bette Davis film , but I find it hard to believe anything can top this one ! Beautifully shot , wonderfully romantic score , interesting story , well-acted and Davis is breathtakingly beautiful ! She's never looked better ! It's one of the most romantic movies I've ever seen ( shipboard romance , T... |
478,216 | 463,200 | 112,651 | 10 | Excellent documentary | Entertaining , thought-provoking and ( at times ) very funny documentary chronicling gay subject matter in motion pictures from the silents up to 1995 . The narration ( by Lily Tomlin ) is insightful and the cameos and comments by various stars who have played gay ( Tom Hanks , Whoopi Goldberg , Harry Hamlin ) or are g... |
477,377 | 463,200 | 35,169 | 10 | Classic comedy | Hilarious movie about an unhappily married couple played by Joel McCrea ( unbearably handsome ) and Claudette Colbert ( unbearably beautiful ) . She goes to Palm Beach to get a quick divorce . While enroute she meets a shy , sweet millionaire played by Rudy Valle who immediately falls in love with her . But McCrea show... |
478,756 | 463,200 | 70,165 | 10 | Fascinating | Originally X rated this animated film follows a half-Jewish / half-Italian 22 year old man dealing with his battling parents and growing up in a tough section of NYC . He's a cartoonist and is trying to sell his stuff but only underground publications will take it . He gets a black girlfriend and things go totally out ... |
479,480 | 463,200 | 74,048 | 10 | For a TV miniseries this is excellent | This follows two brothers ( Peter Strauss , Nick Nolte ) growing up - - one straight arrow ( Strauss ) the other a hell-raiser ( Nolte ) . They also love the same woman ( Susan Blakely ) . It starts off in the 1940s and follows them up to the 70s . Sure , it's a soap opera but it's fun ! Despite it's length it's never ... |
479,549 | 463,200 | 56,687 | 10 | Extremely unpleasant but fascinating | Jane Hudson ( Bette Davis ) a faded film star and her wheelchair bound sister Blanche ( Joan Crawford ) live together in a huge mansion . Jane is slowly but surely losing touch with reality and despises her sister Blanche . Jane starts to mentally and physically torture Blanche . How will Blanche escape ? I don't think... |
478,627 | 463,200 | 65,314 | 10 | A classic | I never caught MTM when it was originally on . I didn't watch much television and the idea of a sitcom about a single woman had no interest to me . Then , after it was cancelled , a local TV station started showing two shows a night , back to back , and I started watching . At first I wasn't impressed . The early 70s f... |
477,876 | 463,200 | 347,930 | 10 | A gay classic | The " story " involves a young marine ( Brian Thompson ) on leave . He goes to visit friends and treks through a forest . There he meets a hunky forest ranger ( Bill Henson ) who supposedly watches over the entire forest ! Surprisingly they DON'T have sex ! He reaches his friends and experiences sex with them . THEN he... |
478,616 | 463,200 | 83,907 | 10 | A gore classic | A bunch of college kids take a weekend trip to a remote cabin in the woods . They unwittingly resurrect the evil dead - - spirits who can possess them and have them kill each other off . The only way to get rid of them ? Bodily dismemberment . In terms of plot this is pretty lame - - there are a few lapses in logic tha... |
478,899 | 463,200 | 240,772 | 10 | Fluffy but lots of fun | A rarity - - a remake that's better than the original . 11 men led by Danny Ocean ( George Clooney ) prepare to rob a vault linked to 3 casinos in Las Vegas . His partners in crime include Brad Pitt , Carl Reiner , Elliot Gould , Casey Affleck , Matt Damon and Scott Caan . Also , the casinos are owned by Tery Benedict ... |
477,548 | 463,200 | 122,722 | 10 | Has its moments | Back in the early 1980s a station in NJ used to show ( almost ) uncut horror films from the early 1970s at about 1 am . That's how I first saw " Blacula " , " The Night Digger " , " Don't Look in the Basement " . . . and this one . Creepy film about Gloria just being released from a mental institution . She goes home a... |
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