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568,632 | 2,721,657 | 119,099 | 7 | Evil has a Face | SPOILERS Unusual thriller about evil in the world today with Det . John Hobbs , Denzel Washington , targeted by this unknown and unseen force that makes it's way from person to person with just the touch of one's hand . Doing a documentary on convicted serial murderer Reese , Elias Koteas , the person who's Det . Hobbs... |
568,506 | 2,721,657 | 68,931 | 7 | Charles Bronson Thriller with a wallop of an ending | Fascinating film about the life and lifestyle of a professional hit-man , a Mechanic , and how dangerous that lifestyle can be not just for the person that gets " Hit " but also for the " Hitman " himself . Arthur Bishop , Charles Bronson , is the top " Mechanic " in the business and we see in the beginning of the movi... |
568,519 | 2,721,657 | 99,582 | 7 | Dying To See This Movie | Flatliners is a very original , despite it's morbid theme , and in a way uplifting movie . It shows it's audience that things that we do to others in life that for the most part we may have long forgotten about will come back to haunt us in death . The difference in the film " Flatliners " is that those who died and ... |
568,711 | 2,721,657 | 28,755 | 7 | Serious 1933 film about the horrors and dangers of Venereal Disease that may surprise you | ( Some Spoilers ) Early 1930's educational movie about the horrors of contracting a social disease and the consequences that come along with it : blindness madness loss of ones abilities to function as well as infecting other people with it , even one's unborn children , and finally death . " Damaged Lives " is far ahe... |
568,177 | 2,721,657 | 51,959 | 7 | The only type of killing that's safe is when a Stranger kills a Stranger | ( Some Spoilers ) Dead serious in the job that he does Claude , Vince Edwards , is the absolute epitome of a gun for hire , or hit-man . Cold calculating and most of all careful Claude knows just how to deal not only with his victims but those behind the scenes who hire him to rub them out . We get to see just how disc... |
568,217 | 2,721,657 | 75,995 | 8 | A Passion for Living | SPOILERS Having been forced by the studio to make the ridicules and utterly mindless Exorcist II to get the part of psychiatrist Martin Dysart actor Richard Burton secured , from actors Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson , one of the best and most challenging movie roles of his career . We see the story of " Equus " in f... |
568,760 | 2,721,657 | 138,704 | 8 | The Perfect Number | SPOILERS Max Cohen , Sean Gullette , is obsessed with numbers . A mathematical genius who earned a PHD at the age of 16 has a theory about the universe and wants to prove it to his own satisfaction . 1 . Math is the language of the universe . 2 . Everything around us can be understood by numbers . 3 . If you graph a nu... |
568,886 | 2,721,657 | 78,167 | 8 | My Legs ! My Legs ! I can't feel My Legs ! | SPOILERS Being considered nothing more then a sacrificial lamb being served up to the up and coming , in the minds of the American sports public , World Heavyweight Champ Detroit's " Brown Bomber " Joe Louis , Berine Casey , former World Heavyweight Champion Max Schmeling , Stephen Macht , shocked the sporting world by... |
568,273 | 2,721,657 | 448,564 | 8 | You can share anything of " MINE " | ( Some slight Spoilers ) Well acted and written story about the heart-breaking loneliness of being abandoned at a very young age and how it's shapes the mind to the point of conjuring up a twisted sort of pseudo-vengeance and false sense of justice on the part of the person effected . Sophie Hartley has been going thro... |
568,905 | 2,721,657 | 433,383 | 8 | We can't defend freedom abroad when we deny it to ourselves here at home ! | Documentary-style account of the Edward R . Morrow Joseph P . McCarthy battle over the airwaves . The historical battle was over the right to be confronted by one's accuser on the issue of being a Communist or former member of a Communist , or Communist front , organization . It's October 1953 and the big news is about... |
568,504 | 2,721,657 | 97,714 | 8 | The Honeymooners It Isn't | Harry , Stephen Lange the union shop steward who's in good with the president of the dock workers union , Boyce , Jerry Orbach , In that he has a union expense account which he uses to finance his secret life . Married to his wife Mary , Maria Danziger , Harry goes out to expensive bars and nightclubs with high-class t... |
568,649 | 2,721,657 | 78,326 | 8 | Straight to the Big House | SPOILERS Being a criminal all of his adult life trying to go straight wasn't all that easy for ex-con Max Dembo , Dustin Hoffman . In the movie Max tries to make it as a law-biding citizen after doing his latest stretch , six years , in the can for burglary with a deadly weapon . Reporting to his parole officer Earl Fr... |
568,408 | 2,721,657 | 26,121 | 8 | Divide & Conquer | SPOILERS Socially minded 1935 drama involving the attempted breaking of a coal-miners union in Coaltown PA . by using underhanded tactics on the part of management . Getting a trouble-making mole , or provocateur , into the labor union the union busting racketeers plan to have the union workers go on a disastrous labor... |
568,216 | 2,721,657 | 35,169 | 8 | I feel like a bone between two dogs ! | ( There are Spoilers ) With everything going south for the unhappily and soon to be breaking up married couple , after five years of trials and tabulations , Geraldine " Gerry " Jeffers , Caludette Colbert , decides to call it quits . After having paid off all her and her architect husband Tom , Joel McCrea , bills wit... |
568,213 | 2,721,657 | 38,991 | 8 | His blood will be on your hands ! | SPOILERS One of the few motion pictures , directed and stared in , by Orson Wells that actually made money for the studio that financed it . " The Stranger " was also the most disliked film that Orson Wells ever directed In him feeling that he had to make it in order to prove his bank-ability to the studios . Where at ... |
568,560 | 2,721,657 | 56,675 | 8 | The Point of the Spear | SPOILERS With the war in Korea winding down everyone in this front-line combat platoon are looking forward to go home alive and in one piece before the final shot is fired . Everyone with the exception of Pvt . Raymond Endore , John Saxon . Endore is of the type of material that soldiers are made of . Tough ruthless an... |
568,697 | 2,721,657 | 110,955 | 8 | Doctor Wong I Prseume | SPOILERS Having serious marital problems the Chasseurs Llyod & Caroline , Kevin Spacey & Judy Davis , are about to call it quits when on Christmas Eve in Connecticut a true miracle happened . In the end it not only brought them back together but even straightened out their juvenile delinquent 15 year-old son from a lif... |
568,848 | 2,721,657 | 70,157 | 8 | Touching little movie | Sheila : Do you like a girl who makes it right away . Stanley : Yeah if I'm the guy . The " Harrad Experiment " , which is based on the 1960's free love novel by Robert H . Rimmer , starts out with Sheila , Laurie Walters , arriving at Harrad Collage . Later as all the students are paired off in the main collage audito... |
568,757 | 2,721,657 | 74,083 | 8 | Overlooked 1970's Crime Classic | SPOILER ALERT Canadian whodunit that was overlooked back in 1976 here in the USA as one of many " Dirty Harry " clones that were released at that time is being rediscovered as one of the best crime as well as police action dramas of the 1970's . The movie includes two great chase scenes one on foot and the other on whe... |
568,325 | 2,721,657 | 83,907 | 8 | The House where Evil Dwells | SPOILERS Shocking and terrifying horror movie that uses it meager $350 , 000 . 00 budget to the fullest extent to scare the living hell out of it's audience . Far better then the many multi-million dollar slasher / splatter films that it's , or their , constantly compared to . Five college students take a ride out in t... |
568,909 | 2,721,657 | 60,955 | 8 | Second Chance | SPOILERS Getting calls all hours of the day and night from this Charlie Evens , Murray Halilton , middle-aged banker Arthur Hamilton , John Randolph , feels that the person calling him is playing some kind of joke on him . Charlie Evens a very close friend of Arthur has been dead for over a year . As the calls get more... |
568,899 | 2,721,657 | 45,920 | 8 | What we don't understand we want to destroy | ( Some Spoilers ) Surprising effective and intelligent " Alians from Space " movie that is a couple of notches above the usual fare you got from Hollywood back then in the 1950's from these type of films . What looked like a meteor crashes into the open desert just outside of the town of Sand Rock Arizona and when a nu... |
568,546 | 2,721,657 | 52,242 | 8 | A Can of Worms | ( There are Spoilers ) Very probably the first movie coming out of Hollywood that addressed the drug epidemic on the streets of America with both street level smartness and native intelligence , among dealers users and police , in just how illegal drugs , in this case heroin , is both marketed and sold to it's many hoo... |
568,351 | 2,721,657 | 72,409 | 8 | Maybe I should have shot you , they call it mercy killing | SPOLIERS " Willie Dynamite " is miles above the average " Blaxploitation " films made in the 1970's by it's not glorifying the title character in any way but showing him as a ruthless as well as tragic and misguided person . A person who's self-destructive lifestyle as a big time city pimp lead to disaster not only to ... |
568,612 | 2,721,657 | 52,227 | 8 | Wisdom from space out of the mouths of babes | SPOILERS Despite its very low ratings from the movie critics the movie " The Space Children " is one of the most thought-provoking motion pictures to come out of Hollywood in the 1950's in its addressing the dangers of nuclear proliferation and the cause for nuclear disarmament . " The Space Children " ranks right up t... |
568,192 | 2,721,657 | 41,523 | 8 | Who's that guy reading the newspaper ? | SPOILERS Way ahead of it's time movie that disclosed to the movie going public back in 1949 that there's a sub rosa government working independently from the laws that govern all of us . Which it's far more destructive then any outside enemy , like at that time the Soviet Union , ever was . Hard to follow at first when... |
568,316 | 2,721,657 | 54,687 | 8 | Black is Black | SPOILERS Coming to New York during the Christmas Holidays , from his home town Cleveland , hit-man Frank Bono played by a Robert De Niro looking Allen Baron has a job to do and has just three days to do it . Bono is to knock off Harlem numbers and drug kingpin Trolano . Going through the motions in getting the equipmen... |
568,405 | 2,721,657 | 45,877 | 8 | As long as he needs us will stay alive | SPOILERS Photographed in stark and heavily contrasted black and white and skillfully directed by actress Ida Lapino " The Hitch-Hiker " is among the best of the 1950's film noir suspense-dramas . Its almost total focus is on two people Roy Collins & Gilbert Bowen , Edmond O'Brien & Frank Lovejoy , involvement in a kidn... |
568,046 | 2,721,657 | 39,208 | 8 | 180 Degree Turn | SPOILERS Based on a Richard Oursler article in Readers Digest about the real life murder of popular Catholic priest Father George A . Lambert , Wyrley Brich , Eli Kazan's " Boomerang ! " doesn't go into who murdered Father Lambert , the killer was ever apprehended , but in the story of the Innocent man accused of killi... |
568,149 | 2,721,657 | 39,224 | 8 | When people are sick you don't cure them by making them sicker ! | SPOILERSYou would at first wonder why the men involved in the suicidal prison breakout in " Brute Force " were willing to risk their lives in this deadly and foolish venture with virtually no hope of surviving . Even if they made it outside the prison grounds where would they go without being hunted down and either kil... |
568,705 | 2,721,657 | 85,991 | 8 | White Wilderness | SPOILERS True story that took place during the Geographical year 1957-58 , in the freezing ice and snow of Anarctica , by a Japanese expedition team on their journey to the Antarctic Mount . Batnnutan and back ; a trek of some 500 miles . Leaving Showa Base with a team of 16 tough Sakhalin sled dogs the three man exped... |
568,388 | 2,721,657 | 70,334 | 8 | Yeah , and I even lost my Cat ! | SPOILERS Being awakened by his pet cat at three in the morning private eye Philip Marlow , Elliott Gould , drags himself down to the local all-night food-mart to get his kiddie it's favorite cat-food , Curry Brand , only to find out that it's all sold out . Coming back home to his shabby apartment Marlow tries to trick... |
568,857 | 2,721,657 | 363,095 | 8 | I'm all alibi'd up | SPOILER ALERT Having been accused of the massacre of Susan Jasper , Andrea Grimason , and her twin six-year daughters Moira & Maggie , Gabriella Henriette & Emilt Anthony , Sean Veil , Lee Evens , was set to stand trial for multiple murder . With the circus atmosphere created over the killing of the Jaspers by the medi... |
568,681 | 2,721,657 | 89,853 | 8 | All you have to do is Dream | SPOILERS Charming little depression era film set in New Jersey about a women who's only way of forgetting her drab hard and lonely life as a waitress and only breadwinner of her household . Who's husband Monk , Danny Alello , is a no good drunken bum who should know and appreciate how lucky he is to have such a sweet a... |
568,849 | 2,721,657 | 70,355 | 8 | A man's Got To Know his limitations ! | It seems that between " Dirty Harry " and " Magnum Force " Inspector " Dirty " Harry Callahan had learned the value of the Bill of Rights and the US Constitution . Unlike the first " Dirty Harry " movie where Harry was the judge jury and executioner of all those that he deemed were guilty of crimes against the people o... |
568,208 | 2,721,657 | 74,119 | 8 | I know we have enemies but I didn't know we were that popular | Long but never boring film despite it's almost unlimited cast of characters about the infamous Watergate break-in and the cover-up that followed . A cover-up that lead to the resignation of the then President Richard M . Nixon and the conviction of dozens of his aids up to his former as well as acting , at the time , A... |
568,777 | 2,721,657 | 478,134 | 8 | In fighting demons be careful that in the end you don't become one yourself : Friedrick Nietzsche | ( There are Spoilers ) One of the most hidden fact about how war effects those who participate in it on both sides of the battle-line is the basis of the film " In the Valley of Elah " : Post Traumatic Stress Disorder . Based of the true story , shown on CBS ' 48 Hours , of the late US Army Specialist Richard Davis " I... |
568,637 | 2,721,657 | 375,104 | 8 | Being an amateur is loving the game that your playing | ( Some Spoilers ) Never in the history on modern professional sports was there ever an individual like golfer Bobby Jones and undoubtedly there never will be another one like him again . Playing his entire career as an armature against the worlds top professional golfers , and not getting a dime for doing it , is in it... |
568,878 | 2,721,657 | 43,465 | 8 | I'd rather go to jail for 20 years then find out that my wife was a tramp ! | SPOILERS Doing what amounted to one of his very best Kirk Douglas imitations actor Kirk Douglas really puts on a show as the up-tight law and order pull no punches and give no mercy Det . Jim McLeod . A cop who's got more serious and emotional problems then any of the criminals that he deals with since he , unlike them... |
568,984 | 2,721,657 | 248,110 | 8 | We are the beauty , everything else is just a story | SPOILERS Really deep and heavy stuff here about a number of persons invited to writer / philosopher Roland Levy's , Lance Heriksen , private island for a night . A night that they'll never forget since what Roland planned for them is to relive the most darkest secrets of their lives . Having gone through a series of pe... |
568,286 | 2,721,657 | 67,741 | 8 | Buford : You think like a white man ! Shaft : You don't think at all ! | ( There are Spoilers ) Being told through the Harlem grapevine that these's a couple of Bumpy Jonas ' , Moses Gunn , boy's out looking for him black private eye John Shaft , Richard Roundtree , gets the drop on them throwing one of the " boys " through his office window killing him and hauling the other " boy " down to... |
568,399 | 2,721,657 | 96,163 | 8 | The truth has it's price | SPOILERS Starting out on a summer biking vacation in France Dutch couple Rax Hoffman and Saskia Wagter , Gene Bervoets & Johanna Ter Steege , have their spats as the car their driving runs out of gas , in the middle of a mountain tunnel . Rex leaving Saskia alone walks to the nearest gas station to get a jerry can of g... |
568,922 | 2,721,657 | 274,711 | 8 | One of Al Pacino's best roles , better then Michael Corleone in both " Godfather " movies . | SPOILERS Brutally honest and shocking movie about those in power and how they use that power to control the lives of millions of people from top elected politicians and Wall Street executives to the rank and file working man and women and how far they would go to keep and hold on to their power . Eli Wurman , Al Pacino... |
568,918 | 2,721,657 | 32,022 | 8 | Don't Make The Same Mistake Twice | SPOILERS Even though the movie " They Made Me A Criminal " is nowhere as good as the later John Garfield anti-hero classics like " Body & Soul " in 1947 " Force of Evil " in 1948 and his last and very underrated " He Ran All The Way " in 1951 it's the film that defined his career from that point onward until his untime... |
568,893 | 2,721,657 | 118,126 | 8 | Jurisprudence | ( Mild Spoilers ) Tension packed made for TV courtroom drama thats refreshingly lacking , in it's non-politically-correct script , the usual and predictable ending that were so used to seeing in these kinds of justice films . Famous Emmy Awarding winning talk show host Waynne Atwood follows her cheating husband Gregory... |
568,807 | 2,721,657 | 47,264 | 8 | I'm giving back to the river everything that I took from it ! | SPOILERS Going to see her husband whom she never met , the marriage took place through the mail , Joanna Leininger , Elenore Parker , is on her way from her home back in New Orleans to the uncivilized jungles of South America . It's there were her husband Christopher , Charlton Heston , carved out a small patch of civi... |
568,595 | 2,721,657 | 371,693 | 8 | The Fever | ( There are Spoilers ) Hard hitting made for TV movie about how an addiction can not only destroy the person addicted but everyone and everything that he or she touches . Having just moved from Florida to Reno Nevada Laura Bancroft , Delta Burke , had everything going for her in being the top fund-raiser at her new job... |
568,146 | 2,721,657 | 96,216 | 8 | I never was on the New Jersey ! | SPOILERS Moments after TWA Flight 847 from Athens to Rome reached cruising level the plane was suddenly hijacked by two Arab fanatics Castro & Saiid , Eli Danker & Joseph Nasser . The two hijackers demand that some 700 suspected Arab terrorists held in Israeli jails be released or else they'll bring the plane , and it'... |
568,859 | 2,721,657 | 74,258 | 8 | A summer of madness | MAJOR SPOILERS One of the best haunted house movies ever to come out of Hollywood in some 15 years since the movie " Psycho " with its eerie mansion where the nutty Norman Bates ' murderous mom lived in . " Burnt Offerings " starts off a bit slow and doesn't really get going until the second half . But once it does hol... |
568,266 | 2,721,657 | 109,444 | 8 | Your word is You | SPOILERS Spoting a yacht sailing erratically in the choppy waters off Florida the US Coast Guard has the boat boarded . On board they find that it's owner was murdered together along with his wife and two children by the group of Columbian drug traffickers who sea-jacked the craft . The man who together with his family... |
568,627 | 2,721,657 | 39,661 | 8 | I just can't go against the cards | SPOILERS Matinée idol and devilishly handsome Tryone Power as mind reader Stan Carlisle sheds his mostly good guy image in this very disturbing film noir flick where he ends up being what he's so much afraid off becoming all during the film a " Geek " or " Wild Man of Borneo " type in a carnival . Stan gets very friend... |
568,342 | 2,721,657 | 67,588 | 8 | Play it again Clint | ( SPOILER ALERT ) On his night shift on KRML radio DJ Dave Garver , Clint Eastwood , has been spinning records and making fans with his easy going and sexy manor as well as his connoisseur-like knowledge of the songs and the artist who preform them . One of those fans is Evelyn Darper , Jessica Walters , who's obsessed... |
568,379 | 2,721,657 | 47,203 | 8 | Once you start you'll never be able to stop it will obsess you but it will be a " Magnificent Obsession " ! | SPOILERSI give the movie " Magnificent Obsession " eight stars for it's story and at least five handkerchiefs for it's schmaltz and also appreciate it for being the movie that made Rock Hudson , Dr . Bob Merrick & Robbie Robinson , the Hollywood legend both on and off the screen that he eventually became . Living in th... |
568,981 | 2,721,657 | 62,473 | 8 | A shot in the Dark | SPOILERS Practically unknown and forgotten little gem staring David Janssen as LA policeman Sgt . Tom Valens a cop who's been trying to get his nerve back since he came back on duty from an almost fatal gunshot wound . Staking out the Seacape Apartment Complex one foggy evening for an on the loose serial murder Tom and... |
568,925 | 2,721,657 | 76,327 | 8 | Life Sex & Death in the Swinging 1970's : A True Story | SPOILERS It was not until almost the end of the movie " Looking For Mr . Goodbar " just before Theresa Dunn's , Diane Keaton , fatal encounter with Gary , Tom Berenger , that I realized why she was bent on being on the path of self-destruction both emotionally as well as physically . Theresa's fear of transmitting to h... |
568,512 | 2,721,657 | 91,763 | 8 | We didn't fight the enemy we fought ourselves , and the enemy was in us | SPOILERS " Platoon " is every bit as powerful an anti-war movie like " All Quite on the Western Front " the film is unlike that 1930's anti-war classic . Where the hero was eager to enter the war and fight and die for his country and felt that the war was justified . The hero in " Platoon " Pvt . Chris Taylor , Charlie... |
568,293 | 2,721,657 | 47,136 | 8 | Look everybody's looking at me , this is the first time I ever felt important ! | SPOILERS Subliminal and thought-provoking Western that covers far more ground then can be digested in just one screening . Basically a story of a bitter rivalry between Emma Small , Marcedes McCambrige , and Vienna the local saloon owner , Joan Crawford . The two fight over the love and affections of the Dancin ' Kid ,... |
568,555 | 2,721,657 | 45,190 | 8 | The Lost Weekend | SPOILERSLittle known and even less seen gem of a crime caper involving an assistant bank manager who takes it upon himself to steal his banks weekly deposits and take off to Brazil to live , with his wife and six year old daughter , happily ever after . This thought just came into assistant bank manager Jim Osborne's ,... |
568,523 | 2,721,657 | 76,301 | 8 | If you lay a hand on me I swear you'll pay for it in your next life ! | SPOILERS Nostalgic 1977 movie that's more like a 1940's film-noir crime suspense / drama with an over the hill private eye Ira Wells , Art Carney , teaming up with a middle-age hippie Margo Sperling , Lily Tomlin , to solve the murder of Ira's long-time friend of over 30 years , and also private detective , Harry Regan... |
568,528 | 2,721,657 | 45,205 | 8 | Double Negative | SPOILERS Attending rehearsals of her new Broadway play " Halfway to Heaven " playwright , and San Francisco heiress " Myra Hudson , Joan Crawford , like everyone else at the theater is very impressed in actor Lester Blaine , Jack Palance , readings of the script for the play . Myra as much as she likes Lester as an act... |
568,672 | 2,721,657 | 37,635 | 8 | One of the most complete examples of duel personality in the history of modern science | SPOILERS It seems like forever that architect Walter Craig , Mervyn Johns , has been waking up in a cold sweat from a nightmare that he only has fleeting memories of . One cold morning Craig , as unusual , wakes up disturbed and befuddled of what he just dreamed about and after kissing his wife , Renee Gadd , goodbye .... |
568,455 | 2,721,657 | 62,883 | 8 | The Detective : One Cut Above The Rest . | WARNING SPOILERS AHEAD Tough gritty crime drama with Frank Sinatra giving his best performance since his role in " The Manchurian Candidate " in 1962 as NYC detective Joe Leland . A cop with a consciences that turns out to be his own worst enemy . Det . Leland is assigned to a case where the son of a major contributor ... |
568,069 | 2,721,657 | 76,740 | 8 | Can I have a couple of minutes ? For you they'll hold the plane ! | ( Some Spoilers ) In a depressing backward but oil rich South American third-world country the lives of four persons cross from four different parts of the globe . They all , with the possible exception of professional assassin Nilo , have one thing in common ; their on the run from the law the mob and the Isareli Moss... |
568,671 | 2,721,657 | 78,444 | 8 | You Make Me Feel Like Dancing | SPOILERS Slice of life , in the swinging pre-Aids Eepdemic 1970's , movie about a middle-aged married woman Erica Benton , Jill Clayburgh , who's husband Martin , Michael Murphy , leaves her for another and much younger woman . Things couldn't have been better for Erica living on the upper East Side of Manhattan with M... |
568,987 | 2,721,657 | 47,542 | 8 | Whatever happens in this town happens Suddenly ! | SPOILERS Hired assassin John Baron , Frank Sinatra , saw just how futile the " hit-Job " , that he and his fellow hired killers who were paid up to $500 , 000 . 00 each , was to assassinate the President of the United States ; " A second after he's shot he'll be replaced by someone else so what's the purpose of killing... |
568,112 | 2,721,657 | 74,554 | 8 | Affront to Freedom | ( There are some Spoilers ) Woody Allen as part-time bookie and all around schlemiel Howard Prince not only gets the girl of his dreams Florence Barrett , Andrea Marcovicci , in the end but also becomes a , though reluctant , hero as well . Depicting the Red Scare in America circa 1953 and how it effected those in the ... |
568,439 | 2,721,657 | 319,343 | 8 | The Elf Who Saved Christmas | ( There Are Spoilers ) Buddy the Elf , Will Ferrell , never seemed to fit in with his fellow Elfs in Santa's , Edward Anser , workshop at the North Pole . Being a couple of sizes bigger then the Elfs that he lived and worked with at the toy factory Buddy felt out of place and with his overly big hands he was clumsy in ... |
568,776 | 2,721,657 | 120,192 | 8 | This Is Unbelievable ! | SPOILERS An anything goes wild stag party turns into a nightmare for all those involved with half of the participants ending up dead , from gunshots beatings suicide and even a heart-attack , and the other half having their lives ruined forever . It didn't have to happen this way it was just to be an evening of good na... |
568,529 | 2,721,657 | 258,967 | 8 | A Study in Self-Denial | ( There are Spoilers ) With no one , including members of his family , taking Kyle Hunter's , Trevor Blumas , symptoms of hurt and depression seriously Kyle ends up killing himself from carbon-monoxide poisoning one rainy evening in the family garage . Kyle's dad Michael Hunter , Andy Garcia , who should have known his... |
568,518 | 2,721,657 | 369,339 | 8 | Collateral Damage | SPOILERS Early in the film " Collateral " Vincent , Tom Cruise , the hit-man with ice water in his veins for blood tells L . A cab driver Max , Jami Foxx , that in the city of L . A people are so detached and impersonal that he heard a story once about someone dying on a L . A transit train and nobody noticed he was de... |
568,491 | 2,721,657 | 364,961 | 8 | Champion of the American Working Man | ( Some Spoilers ) Going through a series of financial and emotional crisis ' and left with nothing to hang on to keep him afloat 44 year-old Samuel Bicke , Sean Penn , decided to strike back at who he felt was the reason for all his troubles and frustrations : The Government of the United States and the man who represe... |
567,980 | 2,721,657 | 85,407 | 8 | It's Not Alright ! | MILD SPOILERS Johnny Smith , Christopher Walken , lives in a quiet town and teaches English literature at the local high school . Engaged to marry his sweetheart Sarah , Brooke Adams , he spends some time with her at her home one night and when he leaves her house to go home it starts raining very heavily . Driving in ... |
568,961 | 2,721,657 | 35,432 | 8 | Raven : Don't try to run ! Ellen : Who do you think I am ? Whirlway ! | SPOILERS Being awakened by his alarm clock Philip Raven , Alan Ladd , checks out his shabby hotel room and notices a kitten by his window ledge . As Raven gives the hungry kitzel some milk the hotel maid Annie , Pamela Bake , comes in to clean up the place and after seeing the cat knock down the can of milk whacks it w... |
568,300 | 2,721,657 | 50,692 | 8 | He was never one of us ! | ( There are Spoilers ) Refreshingly honest , for it's time 1957 , movie about the horrors that were facing the African countries who after the Second World War were emerging from the colonialism imposed on them by the European Colonialist Powers . Obam , Sidney Poitier , has been doing his best for his people through t... |
568,888 | 2,721,657 | 89,239 | 8 | Alibi : Latin word for elsewhere | SPOILERS Clever made for TV movie involving a top defense attorney Arthur Jamison , Anthony Hopkins , trying to figure a way in " off " his annoying and blackmailing wife Louise , Blythe Danner , and make it look like either an accident or break-in murder . We get to see the well laid plans of Arthur in action at the b... |
568,053 | 2,721,657 | 166,322 | 8 | Night time's the right time | Updated version of the 1954 Alfred Hitchcock classic " Rear Window " with Christopher Reeves as quadriplegic Jason Kemp who unknowingly spies upon a violent domestic dispute by his neighbors across the yard that possibly later escalated to murder . Recovering from a car smash-up architect Jason Kemp is left without the... |
568,517 | 2,721,657 | 115,645 | 8 | A tragic death in a small town | Spoilers Sitting at the dinner table with his parents and little sister Jacob , Edward Furlong , finally opens up and tells the story of what happened between him and Martha Traverner , Alison Folland , since Martha was found dead in the snow outside of town . Jacob was on the run as a fugitive from justice for the a w... |
568,012 | 2,721,657 | 44,954 | 8 | Terror and intrigue on the Chicago to L . A rail-line . | SPOILERS Tightly directed and acted Film-Noir thriller with the only thing a bit off about it is it's somewhat unrealistically surprise ending . Up until the " suprise " was sprung on you the film " The Narrow Margin " had you sitting on the edge of your seat . The movie had you wondering if mob-protected witness Mrs .... |
568,684 | 2,721,657 | 100,133 | 8 | Bandit's At Five O'clock | True story of the valiant B-17 bomber " Memphis Belle's " 25th and last bombing run over the German port city of Bremen on May 17 , 1943 . Having flown 24 bombing missions over Nazi occupied Europe since it's first bombing run on November 7 , 1942 over the city of Brest France this if successful , it's 25th bombing run... |
568,716 | 2,721,657 | 86,979 | 8 | These are the signs by which we shall know them | SPOILERS A slew of miscalculations on the part of everyone involved makes this first major motion picture by the Coen Brothers the modern Film-Noir classic that it eventually became . Set deep in the heart of Texas the movie " Blood Simple " involves bar / nightclub owner Marty , Dan Hedaya , who suspects he wife Abby ... |
568,871 | 2,721,657 | 22,905 | 8 | Frobidden Fruit | ( There are Spoilers ) Heart wrenchingly effective 1930's tear-jerker that grabs you right from the start and never lets go until the ending credits . With you hoping some way that for once , no matter how corny and unbelievable , that there will be a Hollywood-style happy ending . 25 year-old Barbara Stanwyck plays th... |
568,640 | 2,721,657 | 49,656 | 8 | Blood Money | Tense and riveting drama that focuses completely on the family of the kidnapped victim . You never see the kidnapper or kidnappers during the entire film . Eight year-old Andy Stannard , Bobby Clark , is abducted on his way to school and his parents David & Edith , Glenn Ford & Donna Reed , later get the shocking news ... |
568,301 | 2,721,657 | 22,958 | 8 | The Grand Hotel : People come people go and what they do that's their business . | ( There are Spoilers ) Being told by his doctor that he hasn't got long to live meek and kindly bookkeeper Otto Kringelein , Lionel Barrymore , decides to go out in grand fashion . Taking his life's savings with him , some 11 , 000 Marks , Otto is to spends his last days on earth in the most expensive hotel in Berlin t... |
568,206 | 2,721,657 | 62,038 | 8 | A single death is a tragedy ; a million is a statistic : Joseph Stalin | ( Some Spoilers ) When a Polish prostitute is found brutally murdered in German occupied Warsaw German intelligence officer Major Grau , Omar Sharif , becomes obsessed in solving her murder . It's that the murdered woman Maria Covyenska was working undercover for German intelligence in finding and identifying Polish an... |
568,810 | 2,721,657 | 51,622 | 8 | As God is my Witness , I Saw The THING ! | SPOILER ALERT Superior 1950's horror / science fiction movie involving electronic whiz Andre Delambra , David Hedison , who after inventing , secretly in his basement , a contraption which he called a " Disintegrater Intergreater " . Which was capable of transporting , through the miracle of tele-transportation , objec... |
568,743 | 2,721,657 | 89,003 | 8 | What about the cops ! do they do anything ? Yeah their enforcing the parking laws ! | SPOILERS Paul Kersey , Charles Bronson , travels to the East New York section of Brooklyn NY to see an old army buddy of his Charly , Francis Drake , only to find him dying from a beating he got from a gang of thugs for not paying them their weekly protection money . Paul is arrested by the police for Charly's murder b... |
568,524 | 2,721,657 | 38,057 | 8 | Chronicle of a sad and tortured Soul | SPOILERS Extremely depressing movie about a meek and lonely man . Who after what should have been his greatest achievement ends up involved with a young woman and her sleazy boyfriend . The two take advantage of the poor slob to the point where his life , by the time the movie is just about over , is no longer worth li... |
568,829 | 2,721,657 | 55,505 | 8 | Watery Graves | MAJOR SPOILERS Water has a lot to do with the film " Scream or Twist , the two different titles of the movie , of Fear " in connecting the dots to this stunningly effective thriller . The movie starts out with a drowning in a glacier lake in the Swiss Alps where the victim turns out to be a Miss . Maggie Frensham . We ... |
568,414 | 2,721,657 | 53,318 | 8 | He saw the face of God ! | SPOILERS Institutionalized in Saint Mary's Catholic hospital after she had a complete emotional breakdown suddenly last summer Cathy Holly , Elizabeth Taylor , has become so incorrigible that her aunt Violet Venable , Katherine Hepburn , had to get in touch with the famous neurosurgeon Dr . Ckrowicz , Montgomery Clift ... |
568,376 | 2,721,657 | 109,707 | 8 | I will perfect my own race of people ! A race of Atomic Supermen that will conquer the Woooorrrrrlllld ! | Tragic story of a great genius who was born way before his time and who's time came after he sadly left us . Like Franz Kafka and Vincent Van Gogh Ed Wood , Johnny Depp , was never recognized as the genius that he was until he had to die and then be discovered my millions of film lovers . Who for the most part were bor... |
568,458 | 2,721,657 | 137,363 | 8 | When you watch this movie try to remember that truth is stranger then fiction | Arlington Road is a very interesting movie both historically as well as cinematically . Made after the Oklahoma City bombing and before the attacks on NYC and Washington D . C . you get a feeling watching the movie of how the world has changed for all of us since the Cold War ended back in 1991 . Of all the movies ab... |
568,171 | 2,721,657 | 78,878 | 8 | Blood Sweat & Tears | SPOILERS Hard hitting yet sensitive story about a blue collar family living in a working class neighborhood in the Bronx NY and the ups and downs that they go through in the movie . The movie has to do with an Italian / American family , the De Coco's . The De Coco's have a son that's torn between being a construction ... |
568,692 | 2,721,657 | 73,453 | 8 | Checkmate | SPOILERS Like the champion chess games that we see private detective Harry Moseby , Gene Hackman , play and replay in the film " Night Moves " the case that he's taken on to find former Hollywood starlet Arleen Iverson's , Janet Ward , 16 year-old runaway daughter Delly , Melanie Griffith , has a number of important mo... |
568,721 | 2,721,657 | 456,630 | 8 | Together Forever | SPOILERS Has to be seen at least twice , like being reincarnated , to really appreciate what a great psychological thriller " Renni " or " Reincarnation " really is . The film gets somewhat confused and esoteric at times , especially in the first five or so minutes , but when it gets down to business just watch out ! M... |
568,533 | 2,721,657 | 59,909 | 8 | By far Sal Mineo's finest and at the same time most haunting performance | SPOILERS Sal Mineo lets it all hang out in this psychological thriller as the sex crazed and obsessed busboy Larry Sherman who's fixated on beautiful Norah Dain , played by tall and leggy Juliet Prowse , a disk jockey in the midtown Manhattan disco that he works at . Larry had it rough in his attempts in striking up re... |
568,265 | 2,721,657 | 101,984 | 8 | I'll have to stay out of rooms with mirrors for the rest of my life , I just like looking at myself too much . | SPOILERS Intelligent and uncompromising movie with an almost total lack of the false heroics , on the part of those victimized , that you would usually expect in films like these of the Hollywood " Blacklist " years . It's September 1951 and Hollywood's " Golden Boy " director David Merrill , Robert de Niro , has just ... |
568,559 | 2,721,657 | 55,728 | 8 | Bablyon on the Patomac | SPOILERS Back-stabbing skulduggery and blackmail is the menu in " Advise and Concent " . The film takes place in Washington D . C circa 1962 and has to do with the attempt to confirm Prof . Robert A . Leffingwell , Henry Fonda , as the new head of the State Depertment and the nations Secretary of Defense . Being a life... |
568,642 | 2,721,657 | 86,541 | 8 | Come to me Max . . Come to Nicki | SPOILERS Far out 1983 film about a number of industrialists and politicians led by the CEO of the Pentagon contracted company Spectacular Optical Barry Convex , Leslie Carlson , trying to manipulate the publics minds with a device called Videodrome . Videodrome works by showing very graphic images of sex and violence ,... |
568,690 | 2,721,657 | 317,910 | 8 | In Is Own Words | Insider documentary of the life of former Defense Secretary of the United States Robert Strange McNamara . Who served under both the JFK & LBJ administrations from 1961 to 1968 as well as being the president of the World Bank for thirteen years from 1968 to 1981 . Robert McNamara candidly and honestly talks about his l... |
568,844 | 2,721,657 | 71,402 | 8 | Urban Battleground | Charles Bronson was already a major movie star in 1974 in Europe and a top action actor in the USA but it was " Death Wish " released that year that made him the super star that he became . What's so unusual is that in the movie " Death Wish " he played a man who was a pacifist all of his life , he served in the Korean... |
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