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479,362 | 463,200 | 405,496 | 10 | An exceptional documentary for anyone with even a passing interest in movies | Back in 1974 a pay TV station was started in Los Angeles . It was the Z channel - - it showed movies uncut with no commercials . It was a pioneer - - years before Showtime , HBO and Cinemax . But Z channel showed films no one else would air - - foreign films , independent features . A lot of important film were discove... |
479,298 | 463,200 | 70,239 | 10 | Energetic , interesting version of the Bible | I know some Catholics HATE this movie , but only because they think it's wrong to set the Bible to rock music . If you can ignore that , you'll see a film shot in Israel , with a pretty good cast , excellent score and some superb photography . It just stops short of being a great movie for a few reasons - - primarily T... |
478,641 | 463,200 | 101,110 | 10 | WAY ahead of its time | If you liked " Soap " you'll like this . It's about a crazy family with evil sister Denise Sandler ( Teri Garr ) and good sister Charlotte . It just involved Denise trying to get everything her way and will do anything to get it . Naturally they have some very unusual family members and friends . This aired for only a ... |
477,927 | 463,200 | 91,630 | 10 | A rarity - - a horror comedy that is funny AND scary ! | It all starts out with a beautiful black & white prologue at Corman ( nudge nudge ) University in 1959 . Some " creeps " ( disgusting little things ) come to Earth and attack a young man ( they get in through your mouth , turn you into a zombie and plant other " creepers " that shot out of the mouth to infect people ) ... |
478,981 | 463,200 | 30,442 | 10 | Great forgotten comedy | Rich , scatterbrained Emily Kilbourne ( Billie Burke ) has the habit of bringing in down-on-their-luck , homeless men to help them much to the disgust of her husband and children . They usually rob her blind and leave . Then Wade Rawlins ( Brian Aherne ) who just LOOKS down and out enters her life and she invites him i... |
479,628 | 463,200 | 132,367 | 10 | Chilling | I caught this documentary at a small art house cinema back in 1981 . There was no rating but you had to be over 18 to be admitted . I have never forgotten it . It's about pornography and how it degrades women . They specifically target porno films where women are tied up and used . To make their point they do have to s... |
477,478 | 463,200 | 70,294 | 10 | One of the best haunted house films ever ! | Four psychic investigators ( Roddy McDowall , Pamela Franklin , Clive Revill , Gayle Hunnicutt ) are to spend a week in the Mount Everest of haunted houses to see if life does exist after death . They are given only a week and , in that time , have all the ghosts attack full force . Next to the 1962 version of " The Ha... |
477,260 | 463,200 | 39,204 | 10 | One of the all-time best | Superb boxing film - - the only one to come close is " Raging Bull " . John Garfield ( in an excellent performance ) plays a poor young man who quickly becomes a world class champ only to find corruption at the top . Film is well-directed by Robert Rossen and contains exquisite cinematography by James Wong Howe . All t... |
479,544 | 463,200 | 303,797 | 10 | Just great | Fascinating documentary with the actors and actresses of Broadway's " Golden Age " ( late 1940s-late 1960s ) talking about their experiences on stage , who influenced them , how they got into the business etc etc . What's truly incredible is when they compare and contrast how Broadway was back then and how it is now . ... |
479,640 | 463,200 | 21,571 | 10 | Just stunning | This silent film focuses on a small Ukranian village in 1930 . It's about small independent farmers working against a " collective " - - a state run collaboration of farms . The film ( kind of ) is about their conflict . To be truthful there isn't much of a story - - that's secondary in this film . The imagery is what ... |
477,557 | 463,200 | 65,466 | 10 | So bad it's good ! | I think some people have seen too much into this movie - - a satire ? ? ? ? Come on people ! It's a RUSS MEYER film ! They were made to show tons of young , beautiful , big-breasted girls and that's about it . According to Erica Gavin ( who gives the one good performance in the film ) , Meyer filmed this dead seriously... |
478,427 | 463,200 | 39,192 | 10 | A one of a kind | Nuns led by Sister Clodagh ( Deborah Kerr ) attempt to establish a hospital and school in the Himalayas . They find themselves having to deal with physical , emotional and sexual hardships . The story here is secondary - - this film is one of the most stunning color films ever made ( try to see a good color print ) . I... |
477,846 | 463,200 | 47,885 | 10 | Very dated but a classic nonetheless | Richard Dadier ( Glenn Ford ) starts teaching at an inner city NY school and has to deal with hostile kids who don't give a damn about school . He tries to reach out and deal with them but they resist - - lead on by Artie West ( Vic Morrow ) who is one step short of a psychopath . He keeps trying and then things get vi... |
477,221 | 463,200 | 65,488 | 10 | Like it or not , it's powerful | A bunch of gay men ( and one straight guy ) get together for a birthday party . Things slowly barrel out of control , the men attack each other and " The Truth Game " tears them apart . I'm an out , proud gay man and I love this movie . Yes , it's a downer - - yes , they all hate themselves - - yes , they tear each oth... |
478,514 | 463,200 | 182,508 | 10 | Excellent | Charlie ( Dan Futterman ) wanders around NYC one night looking for another man who ( might ) have something he is looking for . That's all I'm going to say about this - - you have to see the film to understand it . The film starts off slow ( and surreal ) but quickly draws you in with fast , incredible images and a plo... |
479,506 | 463,200 | 147,800 | 10 | Just great teen update of " Taming of the Shrew " | At Pardu High School young perky sophomore Bianca Stratford ( Larisa Oleynik ) wants to date - - but her overprotective father ( Larry Miller ) won't let her until her older sister Katerina ( Julia Stiles ) dates . Problem is Katerina hates everybody ! Cameron James ( Joseph Gordon-Levitt ) wants to date Bianca and hir... |
477,566 | 463,200 | 118,421 | 10 | Very violent , bloody and sick - - but you can't stop watching | Harrowing series about life in Oz - - an experimental prison where they try to rehabilitate prisoners . There's gay sex , rape , torture , mutilation , killings , humiliation , tons of male nudity . . . all in your face and going full force . It also is easily one of the best written dramas ever put on TV and almost al... |
478,962 | 463,200 | 166,924 | 10 | One of Lynch's best | Betty ( Naomi Watts in a fantastic performance ) tries to help an amnesiac " Rita " ( Laura Elena Harring ) find out who she is . There's a lot more than that to the plot , but you should see the film yourself to find out . Almost as good as " Blue Velvet " , this is David Lynch's newest mind trip . It makes sense for ... |
478,349 | 463,200 | 35,753 | 10 | Depressing and disturbing but just great | This takes place in a small French town in 1943 . Someone called " The Raven " is sending poison pen letters to various people in the town . They're filled with half-truths or outright lies but it begins to affect people . Quickly the whole town falls apart - - relationships are destroyed , mistrust and suspicion are a... |
478,925 | 463,200 | 65,571 | 10 | Just simply a masterpiece | Story of a weak-willed Italian man ( Jean-Louis Trintignant ) who is ordered , in 1938 , to assassinate his one-time professor . He is ordered by a Fascist organization he joined to become normal , to conform ( he's gay and ashamed of it ) . He takes his annoying wife ( Stefania Sandrelli ) with him . . . only to find ... |
479,345 | 463,200 | 109,508 | 10 | Fascinating if unsettling | Absorbing profile of Robert Crumb , an underground cartoonist . Shows him at work and interacting with his friends and heavily dysfunctional family . I had no idea who Robert Crumb was ( all I knew was that he created " Fritz the Cat " ) and I find underground comics repulsive but I was never bored or repelled by this ... |
477,855 | 463,200 | 47,296 | 10 | Quite simply a classic | Gripping , powerful drama of corrupt unions for dock workers and how one man Terry Malloy ( Marlon Brando ) fights back . This movie is a definite must-see . The story is pretty simple and has been done before but the script is superb and all the actors are at the height of their powers . Brando is unbelievable as Mall... |
478,450 | 463,200 | 74,285 | 10 | One of DePalma's best | High school misfit Carrie ( Sissy Spacek ) unleashes her telekinetic fury on her tormentors . This was a huge hit in 1976 and scared me silly . It doesn't scare me now ( except for the closing sequence ) , but I still think it's a good solid horror film beautifully handled by Brian De Palma . It moves quickly , has som... |
478,465 | 463,200 | 18,054 | 10 | Excellent silent movie | Movie follows the story of Jesus Christ ( H . B . Warner ) starting with Mary Magdelene ( Jacqueline Logan ) and ending with his resurrection . While not exactly accurate ( Magdalene was Judas ' lover ? ) to the Bible this is actually an excellent movie . It's very reverent to the story and doesn't preach to the audien... |
478,719 | 463,200 | 64,665 | 10 | Depressing but excellent | Young , handsome , muscular Joe Buck ( Jon Voight ) moves from Texas to New York thinking he'll make a living by being a stud . He gets there and finds out quickly that it isn't going to be easy - - he goes through one degrading experience after another . At the end of his rope he hooks up with crippled , sleazy Ratso ... |
478,269 | 463,200 | 70,047 | 10 | Still scary and shocking | Angelic little 12 year old Regan ( Linda Blair ) is possessed by the devil . Her mother ( Ellen Burnstyn ) tries every medical cure to no avail . She finally tries exorcism with Father Merrian ( Max von Sydow ) and helper ( Jason Miller ) performing it . This film was considered the most horrifying film ever made back ... |
478,139 | 463,200 | 22,286 | 10 | A classic | Classic gangster film showing how a young man ( James Cagney ) becomes a gangster and killer . This film made Cagney and deservedly so . It moves quickly ( it's 82 minutes long ) , is never dull , has good acting and contains many classic sequences : Cagney smacking Mae Clarke in the face with a grapefruit ; a massacre... |
479,156 | 463,200 | 65,780 | 10 | Fascinating and disturbing | Superb documentasry about the Rolling Stones free concert at Altamont Speedway in 1969 that resulted in a murder . As a concert film , the Stones are at their best - - the footage is excellent , Mick Jagger is young and vibrant and they perform their best songs . As a documentary it shows the Altamont concert , which w... |
477,293 | 463,200 | 78,754 | 10 | Depressing but brilliant | The life and times of Bob Fosse - - oops ! sorry ! - - Joe Gideon ( Roy Scheider ) . He directs , choreographs and writes Broadway musicals and the occasional movie . He also has sex with every woman he can , is a chronic smoker . . . there's more but I don't want to ruin it . Basically , this is a character study and ... |
478,088 | 463,200 | 53,125 | 10 | Easily Hitchcock's best | Businessman Roger O . Thornhill ( Cary Grant ) is mistakenly thought to be a Federal agent . He is kidnapped by an evil man ( James Mason ) . They soon realize they've captured the wrong man and try to have him killed . But it doesn't work and Thornhill finds himself a hunted man . . . OK - - this is not perfect . Ther... |
477,465 | 463,200 | 57,012 | 10 | Cold but impressive | Black BLACK satire by Stanley Kubrick about nuclear war . I hated this the first time I saw it - - but I've since revised my opinion . I can see why I didn't like this at first . Even though it's a satire it's full of very unlikable , totally crazy characters . It's shot in stark black & white and I still don't find th... |
477,889 | 463,200 | 65,794 | 10 | Another nightmare from David Lynch | Sick , disturbing and surreal short from David Lynch . A man and a woman get married and have a son who they don't really want . The child grows up being horribly abused by his parents . Then , in a dark sinister room , he plants a seed who sprouts into a grandmother . She , in a way , shows him the affection his paren... |
477,392 | 463,200 | 470,997 | 10 | Short and hilarious | Stephen ( Brian Palermo ) and Martin ( Mitch Silpa ) are on their third date . They're having dinner at Stephen's apartment . They start talking and quickly some very amusing truths come flying from their mouths . . . A perfect gay date movie ! The leads are charming and the dialogue is very witty and right on target .... |
477,292 | 463,200 | 22,208 | 10 | Tough , quick melodrama | Barbara Stanwyck plays a night nurse at a very strange household where some children may be in serious danger . Strong pre-Code film has ( for 1931 ) strong dialogue , Stanwyck and Joan Blondell in their underwear , alcoholism , nymphomania , attempted rape , child abuse and Clark Gable ( without his mustache ) sluggin... |
477,790 | 463,200 | 179,624 | 10 | Just great ! ! ! ! ! | This was put together in 1994 to celebrate the first 100 years of the movies . It starts with the silents and moves all the way up to 1994 ending with " Schindler's List " . For a movie fan like me it's pure magic and loads of fun figuring out which clips come from what movie ( I'm proud to say I got 95 % of them ) . T... |
479,688 | 463,200 | 206,634 | 10 | Bleak but powerful | This takes place in Britain in 2027 . The world has been hit by a plague or something ( we never find out ) that makes women unable to give birth . Society begins to crumble . Theo ( Clive Owen ) is a bureaucrat who distances himself from it all - - but he was once an activist . He's drawn back into it all by a former ... |
479,493 | 463,200 | 65,856 | 10 | Just great | Based on the " Dark Shadows " TV show which was a Gothic soap opera than ran from 1966-1970 . Basically this just takes most of the plots from 1966-1967 and crams them into 90 minutes . Vampire Barnabas Collins ( Jonathan Frid ) is accidentally released from his coffin after being chained in there for over 100 years . ... |
478,870 | 463,200 | 29,947 | 10 | Hysterical | Katharine Hepburn and her pet leopard make life miserable for professor Cary Grant . This was a major bomb in 1938 . Audiences probably couldn't accept Hepburn in a screwball comedy . Today it's considered one of the best films of the 1930s . It's a true classic - - jokes come fast and furious and Hepburn's nonstop tal... |
477,146 | 463,200 | 35,524 | 10 | One of the best Superman cartoons | Mt . Monokoa ( located on a nice little island ) seems like it's about to erupt . Naturally there's a town right at the base of the mountain . Reporters Clark Kent and Lois Lane are sent to cover the story for the Daily Planet . While there Lois hides Clark's press pass so she can see the mountain for herself and " sco... |
479,143 | 463,200 | 320,691 | 10 | A GREAT horror film | Vampires vs . werewolves . Sexy vampire woman ( Kate Beckinsale ) saves a muscular good-looking human ( Scott Speedman ) who is being chased by the werewolves . But why ? There's a LOT more going on there but I'll let you find out for yourself . Basically this movie is VERY loud , full of ferocious gun fights ( don't a... |
477,795 | 463,200 | 39,689 | 10 | A classic - - maybe the best film noir ever | Jeff Bailey ( Robert Mitchum ) runs a small gas station in a little town in CA . He's in love with a beautiful girl . But he has a past which is about to catch up with him involving gangster Whit ( Kirk Douglas ) and evil Kathie Moffat ( Jane Greer ) . . . MANY twists and turns happen . The plot is very complicated but... |
479,568 | 463,200 | 25,878 | 10 | First rate | Combination murder mystery / comedy with lighthearted couple of Nick ( William Powell ) and Nora Charles ( Myrna Loy ) solving the disappearance of inventor Clyde Wynant ( Edward Ellis ) - - he is tall and thin , hence the title . And they have an adorable dog named Asta ( who does help solve the case ) . The legendary... |
479,702 | 463,200 | 95,765 | 10 | Classic | This 1988 Italian film ( released in the US in 1990 ) , is back with a full 51 minutes added on . This seemed like a stupid idea . . . there was nothing wrong with the original . The directors cut ( which was hour longer ) was considered a mess . Also , for this release , an extra hour was added ! I expected the worse ... |
477,912 | 463,200 | 104,745 | 10 | A classic of gay cinema | Two HIV + men go on a road trip . Basically that's about it . It's not as depressing as it sounds . There's lots of humor in the movie but no pulling back on the anger they feel . The camera-work is shaky , the sound goes from audible to inaudible more than once and there really is no plot . Also , must we have the tir... |
478,770 | 463,200 | 25,862 | 10 | Just great and VERY adult | Tarzan and Jane are living happily in the jungle . Some men come looking for ivory and to take Jane back to civilization . But Jane loves Tarzan and refuses to leave . One of the men falls in love with Jane and is determined to take her back . . . even if that means killing Tarzan . This is a rarity - - a sequel that's... |
478,280 | 463,200 | 382,219 | 10 | In a way this IS a classic | I caught this " special " on TV back in 1976 . I had VERY vague memories of it - - I only remembered Kiss and the title . Now that it's out on DVD I can see why I forgot it ! It opens with Lynde dressing as Santa , then the Easter Bunny THEN in a red outfit for Valentine's Day . It seems he's forgotten what holiday it ... |
479,063 | 463,200 | 92,005 | 10 | Just great | The best ever adaptation of a Stephen King work ( " The Body " from his book " Different Seasons " ) . In 1959 Maine , 4 12-year-old boys go to find a dead body . It's a 2 day journey and , along the way , one of them Gordy ( Will Wheaton ) , grows and realizes things about himself . Yes , it's a coming of age story , ... |
479,602 | 463,200 | 35,446 | 10 | Excellent comedy | 1939 : the Nazis invade Poland . Joseph Tura ( Jack Benny ) and his theatrical troupe fight them . That's the bare bones - - there's a lot more but see the movie to find out . A very intricate , funny script and excellent performances keep this going . Benny is funny in the lead , but Carole Lombard is letter-perfect a... |
477,644 | 463,200 | 78,480 | 10 | Excellent animated film - - more for older children and adults | British animated film about a bunch of rabbits leaving their old warren ( which one psychic rabbit can tell is going to be destroyed ) and searching for a new one . The movie recounts their adventures searching for one . It may sound like a movie ideal for little kids - - but it really isn't . It's an excellent adaptat... |
477,975 | 463,200 | 424,136 | 10 | Disturbing but a must-see | A guy in his thirties Jeff ( Patrick Wilson ) meets teenage Hayley ( Ellen Page ) online . They agree to meet . They get along and she goes to his house with him . Then she drugs his drink . He wakes up tied to a chair and Hayley calling him a pedophile and prepared to teach him a lesson . But is he ? Basically just a ... |
479,700 | 463,200 | 303,321 | 10 | Fascinating , exhilarating | Documentary about a late 1960s-early 1970s San Francisco theatre group called the Cockettes . They all lived together in a commune and were quite a mix . . . gay , straight , bi , men , women . They all wore incredible , colorful costumes ( most of the guys were in drag ) and put on musicals that were very mean , vicio... |
478,229 | 463,200 | 43,014 | 10 | A true Hollywood horror story | Hack screenwriter Joe Gillis ( William Holden ) accidentally falls in with faded screen legend Norma Desmond ( Gloria Swanson ) . She lives in a crumbling old mansion with her butler Max ( Erich von Stroheim ) . She refuses to believe that she's no longer remembered and will never make another movie . She gets Gillis t... |
477,619 | 463,200 | 87,054 | 10 | Romantic , intelligent , colorful , adult movie | Lesley Ann Warren owns a bar in LA . She has the habit of sleeping around with almost any man - - she's just looking for love . Genevieve Bujold plays a radio relationship talker , Dr . Love . She has severe issues herself with love and sex . Keith Carradine is a drifter who enters their lives . . . and things go barre... |
478,177 | 463,200 | 113,443 | 10 | Touching and powerful drama | Brandon Theis ( Gregory Harrison ) and Nick Stark ( Eric Roberts ) have been lovers for years . Then Nick is diagnosed with HIV . Brandon promises to not leave him - - - but eventually does . He can't handle The HIV . A year later Nick is told he will die very soon of lesions in the brain . Rather than slowly become a ... |
478,662 | 463,200 | 29,658 | 10 | Grim , powerful | A young girl ( Lana Turner in her first role ) is killed in a small Southern town . A Northener , Robert Hale ( Edward norris ) is accused of it . . . but is he guilty ? It doesn't seem to matter because everybody uses his accusation for their own gain . Fast moving , still relevant ( sadly ) look at prejudice , gossip... |
478,360 | 463,200 | 67,185 | 10 | Very of its time but still wonderful | Harold ( Bud Cort ) is in his 20s . He's always depressed , has no friends and , for fun , attends funerals . At one he meets Maude ( Ruth Gordon ) who's almost 80 . She loves life and she brings Harold out of his shell . They quickly fall in love . A deserved cult film . This ( understandably ) bombed as a mainstream ... |
478,426 | 463,200 | 113,851 | 10 | Just great | A recently widowed woman ( Elizabeth Perkins ) tries to cope with the help of her baby sister ( Gwyneth Paltrow ) , ex-stepmother ( Kathleen Turner ) and best friend ( Whoppi Goldberg ) . Talky but fascinating . All the actresses give great performances with Perkins getting top honors - - she's just fantastic in a diff... |
477,891 | 463,200 | 932,669 | 10 | Excellent mystery | Government worker Luke Patterson ( Bradley Cooper ) goes to a small Native American reservation to find out about a mild earthquake there . He becomes friends with the Indian Chief of Police ( Adam Beach ) and finds an abandoned school building where the earthquake took place . It seems some very mysterious and horrify... |
478,525 | 463,200 | 381,681 | 10 | Just great | A sequel to the 1995 film " Before Sunrise " . Jesse ( Ethan Hawke ) and Celine ( Julie Delpy ) meet 9 years after their initial meeting . They've changed - - originally they were in their 20s and full of idealism . Now they're in their 30s - - and their lives have changed in ways they didn't predict . Like the first m... |
479,020 | 463,200 | 36,341 | 10 | Offbeat and very creepy | Spooky film about a young woman getting involved with a group of devil worshippers in NYC . In terms of subject matter this is ahead of its time - - it was probably the first film to deal seriously with cults . The film also is the film debut of Kim Hunter ( later to win an Oscar for " A Streetcar Named Desire " ) and ... |
477,477 | 463,200 | 362,269 | 10 | Just superb | Biopic of Dr . Kinsey ( played by Liam Neeson ) who , in the 1950s , wrote two groundbreaking books on male and female sexuality . The books were met with shock back then and the movie chronicles how Kinsey got his material , deals with the responses and how his research absorbs his life and basically starts to kill hi... |
479,130 | 463,200 | 125,209 | 10 | Fun gay screwball comedy | Bob ( Alexis Arquette ) and Brendan ( Christian Maelen ) were college roommates who are both gay and attracted to each other but never came out while in school . Years later they meet at a reunion where a straight friend of theirs is getting married . Bob has a boyfriend - - hunky Sterling ( Tuc Watkins ) but still has... |
478,400 | 463,200 | 40,068 | 10 | One of the best horror comedies ever | Dracula ( Bela Lugosi ) wants to transfer the brain of Wilbur ( Lou Costello ) into Frankenstein ( Glenn Strange ) but Lawrence Talbot , the Wolf Man ( Lon Chaney ) , is out to stop him . This isn't as bad as the title suggests . By the time this was made in 1948 the Universal monster movies were dying . . . and so wer... |
477,714 | 463,200 | 29,604 | 10 | Just great | Superb comedy / drama about a theatrical boarding house and its tenants ( all women ) focusing primarily on Katherine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers . A once in a lifetime cast , all of them in top form . The movie moves VERY quickly with non-stop wisecracks flying across the screen and a very depressing turn at the end . A... |
479,528 | 463,200 | 74,937 | 10 | Excellent comedy mystery | Mysterious Lionel Twain ( Truman Capote ) invites five of the world's greatest detectives to his huge estate on a dark and stormy night ( of course ) . All the detectives are parodies of famous literary characters : Maggie Smith and David Niven are doing Nick and Nora Charles ; Peter Sellers is doing Charlie Chan ; Jam... |
478,987 | 463,200 | 426,459 | 10 | Gory , funny - - - a GREAT horror film for horror fans | This review is based on the unrated version . A bunch of people are in a bar in the middle of nowhere . They're all introduced by their stereotypes ( the film does a freeze frame on their faces ) - - the jackass , the Harley mom , the grandma , the kid , the cripple etc . etc . They also list their life expectancies . ... |
478,009 | 463,200 | 113,677 | 10 | Just great | Funny , absorbing and smart movie about a no-budget film and the people trying to make it . The movie plays around with reality and dreams without getting too obscure or serious . It's well-done , well-acted ( one of those rare movies where the entire cast is great ) , very funny and very smart . Naturally , this bombe... |
478,759 | 463,200 | 67,277 | 10 | Powerful but bleak and depressing | A young man in WWI has his arms , legs and face blown off , but he can still think , if not talk . We hear his thoughts while he's in a hospital bed all bandaged up . Most of the movie is flashbacks to who he was and why he was in the war . Dated , very 70s ( the conversation with God played by Donald Sutherland should... |
479,170 | 463,200 | 51,658 | 10 | Exhausting but great | Movie musical takes place in France in 1900 . Teenage tomboy Gigi ( Leslie Caron ) is madly in love with an adult man ( Louis Jourdan ) but he just sees her as a little girl . Her aunt ( Hermione Gingold ) is trying to bring her up to be a proper lady . Jourdan does start to realize Gigi is a woman . . . but doesn't wa... |
478,846 | 463,200 | 473,434 | 10 | Absolutely amazing | In 1963 14 British children , all age 7 but of varying classes , were interviewed about a variety of subjects . Thereafter they were interviewed every seven years . This is the seventh installment . By now only 12 are left ( 2 dropped out ) . This may be deadly boring to some but I found it fascinating - - you see the ... |
478,410 | 463,200 | 36,104 | 10 | Great Val Lewton film | A pressman ( Dennis O'Keefe ) hires a leopard for a publicity stunt for his client ( Jean Brooks ) in New Mexico . The leopard accidentally escapes and a rash of gruesome murders happen that look like the work of the leopard . . . or are they ? Not really a horror film as many believe . It's a murder mystery with horri... |
478,282 | 463,200 | 113,769 | 10 | Loved it but WAY too short ! | Christopher Lee discusses some of his films and his approach to acting . He covers one of the Draculas ( " Dracula , Prince of Darkness " ) and a few other horror films ( " Devil Rides Out " , " The Wicker Man " ) . But the most interesting parts are about films that aren't that well-known ( like " I , Monster " ) or a... |
478,607 | 463,200 | 74,958 | 10 | Scary | TV news anchorman Howard Beale ( Peter Finch ) is being fired off the UBS network after 11 years on the air . He basically cracks on camera and starts swearing and ranting . He's obviously having a breakdown and his best friend and news director Max Schumacher ( William Holden ) wants to commit him . But the ratings ar... |
478,332 | 463,200 | 500,162 | 10 | If you like Madonna . . . | Technically this isn't a movie . It's just all of Madonna's MTV music videos strung together from the earliest ( 1985 I believe ) to 1990 . If you hate Madonna there's no point in even considering looking at this . But if you're a fan this is a must have collection . The video images are crisp and clear and the sound i... |
478,766 | 463,200 | 339,419 | 10 | Disturbing but powerful | A young farm boy ( Emile Hirsch ) is dealing with his mother's death and a father who acts like he doesn't even exist . He also begins to realize he's gay and attracted to another guy . How does he handle all this at once ? This is basically a character study - - very quiet and slow but absolutely fascinating . You rea... |
477,805 | 463,200 | 90,585 | 10 | A GREAT musical ! | Like the previous two posters I think this is one of the most overlooked films of the 1980s . The dialogue with Eddie O'Connell's ( whatever happened to him ? ) thick London accent is a bit hard to understand at first , but the musical numbers are all great ( especially Ray Davies ' number ) and the direction by Temple... |
477,868 | 463,200 | 55,614 | 10 | I'm REALLY shocked this isn't in IMDb's top movies | Exceptional musical about the gangs - - the Jets ( Americans ) and Sharks ( Puerto Ricans ) battling it out for a small section in the west side on NYC . Tony from the Jets ( Richard Beymer ) falls in love with Puerto Rican Maria ( Natalie Wood ) whose brother Bernardo ( George Chakiris ) belongs to the Sharks . Can th... |
477,616 | 463,200 | 51,201 | 10 | One of the best courtroom dramas ever | A man ( Tyrone Power ) is accused of allegedly murdering a woman . His wife ( Marlene Dietrich ) also believes he did it and testifies against him in court . A powerful , brilliant lawyer ( Charles Laughton ) believes Power is innocent and does his best to prove it . Sounds dull but it's not . I caught this on TV way b... |
477,463 | 463,200 | 71,286 | 10 | Ahead of its time | Harrowing drama of a married woman ( Elizabeth Montgomery ) who is raped twice by the same man . She is treated like a piece of meat in the hospital ( the scene where someone photographs her bruises is unbelievable ) and , in court , they act like she deserved it . I saw this on TV when I was 12 and have never forgotte... |
477,316 | 463,200 | 20,629 | 10 | Still works after over 70 years ! | A bunch of young enthisiastic German schoolboys volunteer for WWI believing it to be a noble and fun thing to do for their country . They quickly find out that war is a living hell . One of the first ( and best ) anti-war films ever made . It has problems - - the sound recording is not that good and the acting is bad -... |
477,338 | 463,200 | 78,966 | 10 | No longer timely but still great filmmaking | TV newscaster Kimberly Wells ( Jane Fonda ) and her radical camerman Richard Adams ( Michael Douglas ) are at a nuclear power plant when a serious accident happens . The plants managers play it down but Adams has filmed it all . Wells and Adams try to get it on the air but the corporation that runs the plant prevents i... |
477,302 | 463,200 | 82,912 | 10 | Horrifying but fascinating | The film opens with the director talking to the camera and saying he is going to show a story about Brazilain street kids whose families live in poverty and must steal and kill to survive . In fact the main character ( Pixote ) was played by an actual street kid only 11 years old . What follows was one of the most brut... |
477,961 | 463,200 | 20,686 | 10 | Classic - - a prison drama written by a woman ! | This is the prison drama that set the pattern for all later ones . Robert Montgomery is sent to prison and encounters hard-bitten Wallace Berry and regular guy Chester Morris . He's a nice guy but prison life slowly begins to change him . That's about all I'm going to say about the movie . . . it's well worth anybody's... |
478,028 | 463,200 | 71,222 | 10 | Scares me again and again | The plot is simple - - a crazy man hides in a mostly empty sorority house Christmas Eve . He begins to stalk and kill the remaining girls . This sounds like just another slasher thriller , but it's not . For starters , it came out 4 years before " Halloween " started the slasher craze and it's an intelligent , very sca... |
478,716 | 463,200 | 67,328 | 10 | Fascinating but VERY depressing | Film depicts life in the small Texas town of Anarene in the early 1950s . It follows three high school teenagers - - Sonny Crawford ( Timothy Bottoms ) , Duane Jackson ( Jeff Bridges ) and Jacy Farrow ( Cybill Shepherd ) - - from their senior year to a few years after . Some people said this is like a soap opera . That... |
477,165 | 463,200 | 16,641 | 10 | Just great - - better than the overblown 1959 movie | Ben-Hur ( Ramon Novarro ) , a Jew is put into slavery and his family jailed by a childhood friend Messala ( Francis X . Bushman ) , a Roman . However , Ben-Hur escapes , becomes successful and plots his revenge and also searches for his lost mother and sister . This has it all over the better-known 1959 Charlon Heston ... |
477,332 | 463,200 | 86,543 | 10 | One of Verhoeven's best | In Holland a gay writer Gerard ( Jeroen Krabbe ) gives a lecture . He stays overnight with a beautiful woman Christine ( Renee Soutendijk ) and has sex with her ( by imagining she's a boy ) . He plans to leave the next day , but gets a look at a picture of Christine's hunky boyfriend Herman ( Thom Hoffman ) and decides... |
478,833 | 463,200 | 75,194 | 10 | Excellent Holmes movie | Sherlock Holmes ( Nicol Williamson ) is deep in the grip of cocaine addiction . His best friend Dr . Watson ( Robert Duvall ) and brother Mycroft Holmes ( Charles Grey ) get him to Vienna to receive treatment for his problem by Dr . Sigmund Freud ( Alan Arkin ) . While there a mystery pops up involving a beautiful red-... |
477,278 | 463,200 | 71,315 | 10 | Depressing but complex and riveting | A murder mystery set in 1930s Los Angeles . Jack Nicholson plays a private detective named Jake Gittes . Evelyn Mulwray hires him to discover if her husband is cheating on her . What starts off as a simple cases quickly snowballs into an intricate and complex scheme involving a mysterious and possibly deadly woman ( Fa... |
478,040 | 463,200 | 63,612 | 10 | Truly one of a kind | Retired gangster Tony ( Jackie Gleason ) who's married to Flo ( Carol Channing ! ! ) is brought out of retirement by God ( Groucho Marx - - yes THAT Groucho Marx ) to rub out Packard ( Mickey Rooney ) . Problem is Packard is in prison . They're going to sneak Tony in so he can do the job . The plot is pretty straightfo... |
478,814 | 463,200 | 482,571 | 10 | Intelligent and incredibly suspenseful | Drama about two magicians in England in the 1800s - - Robert Angier ( Hugh Jackman ) and Alfred Borden ( Christian Bale ) . They perform together and Angier's wife ( Piper Perabo ) is accidentally killed during an act - - or maybe not . Angier blames Borden - - Borden denies it . They then start competing acts and try ... |
478,024 | 463,200 | 257,850 | 10 | Powerful , moving | Excellent cable movie dealing with the horrendous murder of gay Matthew Shepard in 1998 in Laramie , Wyoming . A theatre group went to the town and interviewed the citizens and came back with 400 hours of material . This became a play with actors playing the towns citizens . It's now been done as an HBO film with a top... |
477,283 | 463,200 | 66,580 | 10 | Superb documentary | Oscar-winning documentary on the 3 day long concert back in 1969 . Despite more people showing up than was expected and running out of food , water and medical supplies and dealing with a torrential downpour everything went fine . There was no rioting , no violence . . . just people helping each other out . The film be... |
477,832 | 463,200 | 79,714 | 10 | In it's own way , a horror classic | Two orphaned boys , Mike ( Michael Baldwin ) and Jody ( Bill Thornbury ) notice some strange things happening at Morningside Mortuary . Bodies are disappearing from coffins ; a lady in lavender has sex with men in the graveyard and then stabs them to death ; little midgets in brown cloaks ( making sounds like lions ) a... |
477,464 | 463,200 | 70,917 | 10 | Exceptional but NOT a horror film | A police sergeant ( Edward Woodward ) goes to a remote island near Scotland hearing that a young girl is missing . When he gets there it seems no one has ever heard of her . . . and most say she never existed . He continues to search and the mystery gets deeper and deeper leading up to a very disturbing conclusion . I ... |
478,436 | 463,200 | 90,756 | 10 | A masterpiece | A very strange movie but incredible . A young man ( Kyle MacLaclan ) comes home to help care for his sick father . Soon he's in love with a detective's daughter ( Laura Dern ) and mixed up in a mystery involving Dorothy Valdes ( Isabella Rossellinni ) and psycho Frank Booth ( Dennis Hopper ) . Probably David Lynch's be... |
544,700 | 562,732 | 337,945 | 1 | What a disaster . | Infamous for being " brought to you by the digital effects team behind Independence Day , " Coronado is even more of a spectacular failure just from being juxtaposed with ID4 . This ridiculous mess of a film starts off with a brainless premise and goes completely downhill from there . A wealthy , soon to be married cou... |
543,794 | 562,732 | 306,047 | 1 | An absolute disaster just like the first two . | Now , my bitter disappointment by this time in the ridiculous Scary Movie saga is no surprise , and I have no one to blame but myself for going to the theaters to see it in the first place , and the only weak excuse I have is that I heard from someone that it was much better than the first two ( really , could it possi... |
544,075 | 562,732 | 91,631 | 1 | This is absolute garbage . There is no reason to watch this movie . Ever . If you can only avoid watching one movie in your life , this should be it . | Nightmare Weekend stars a cast of ridiculous actors with even less of an idea of what is going on than the director had , if you can imagine that . There is no decipherable plot or story , the special effects are a joke , and even the sound is terrible . This film was directed by Henry Sala . It was the only film that ... |
544,280 | 562,732 | 118,441 | 1 | Wow . I never cease to be amazed . | RPM would seem to be a rip-off of Bruckheimer's ridiculous Gone In 60 Seconds , until you realize that it was made three years earlier but didn't generate any attention ( and for good reason ) until Gone In 60 Seconds came out , and hardly even then . David Arquette is spectacularly miscast as a car thief who steals ca... |
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