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518,911 | 8,239,592 | 71,269 | 9 | George Segal and Elliott Gould are both superb in Robert Altman's engrossing portrait of two compulsive gamblers | Bored divorced sadsack Bill Denny ( splendidly played by George Segal ) and brash , free-spirited wild card Charlie Waters ( the equally outstanding Elliott Gould ) are a couple of compulsive gamblers cursed with bad luck . The two join forces to turn fortune in their favor and follow an incredible steady winning strea... |
518,874 | 8,239,592 | 44,789 | 9 | A terrifically tense , tough & thrilling 50's crime noir classic | Bitter ex-cop Tim Foster ( expertly played with consummate steely resolve by Preston Foster ) is still fuming about his forced early retirement , so he decides to get his revenge by devising a fiendishly clever perfect caper . Foster forces three despicable low-life hoodlums - - jittery compulsive gambler Pete Harris (... |
517,963 | 8,239,592 | 82,939 | 9 | Johnny Cash gives a superb performance in this poignant and powerful made-for-TV feature | Late , great country singer Johnny Cash gives a sturdy and strikingly effective performance as Jesse Hallam , a poor and illiterate , but proud and willful Kentucky coal miner who's forced to sell his house and move to Cincinatti so his ailing daughter can get a spinal operation . Hallam has difficulty both finding a j... |
518,729 | 8,239,592 | 71,222 | 9 | A splendidly scary & spooky 70's seasonal slasher landmark | Made a good four years prior to John Carpenter's phenomenally hair-raising terror movie watershed " Halloween , " this superbly scary and suspenseful ahead-of-its-time seasonal slasher trailblazer laid the basic groundwork for the countless similarly plotted holiday-themed horror entries which followed in its influenti... |
519,198 | 8,239,592 | 78,928 | 9 | A very sweet and charming slice-of-life seriocomic delight | Dennis Christopher of " Breaking Away " fame delivers a solid , engaging performance as T . T . , a gawky , disenchanted , fresh out of high school adolescent hick from Chicago who comes to the cool California beaches to find women , contentment and excitement by becoming actively involved in the allegedly thrilling su... |
519,104 | 8,239,592 | 75,137 | 9 | My all-time favorite outrageously wild'n'raunchy 70's cheerleader flick | When a greedy jerk land developer threatens to raze Aloha High School to make room for a shopping center and force the affluent California-based educational institution to merge with a nearby vocational school the five members of the Aloha High cheerleader squad resort to various drastic tactics ( e . g . , spiking the... |
518,873 | 8,239,592 | 82,748 | 9 | You'll go to " pieces " watching this hilariously horrible slasher schlock hoot | Juan Piper Simon , the same sweet , subtle , sophisticated gent who blessed us with " Slugs , " delivers an astoundingly crass and repulsive slasher opus which might very well be the grossest , goriest , most sexist and objectionable entry in the kill the collegians academia-set body count slice'n'dice sub-genre that w... |
517,961 | 8,239,592 | 300,451 | 9 | A very charming , funny and refreshingly offbeat Bigfoot documentary hoot | Without a doubt one of the best refreshingly atypical Bigfoot documentaries to ever grace celluloid , this winningly whimsical , but still respectful and illuminating made-for-Canadian TV 70 minute feature breaks from the standard mold by not focusing solely on Sasquatch . Instead , director / co-screenwriter Peter von... |
518,350 | 8,239,592 | 113,939 | 9 | An eerie , excellent & unnerving " danger on the road " thriller knockout | Antsy , dumpy , high-strung , secretive and deeply repressed traveling salesman Jack ( Lance Henrikson ) runs afoul of mean , scuzzy , foul-mouthed , overbearing and antagonistic ex-con junkie drifter Adrian ( Eric Roberts ) while trekking across the dusty , lonely , remote and forbidding California desert . Meanwhile ... |
517,894 | 8,239,592 | 86,610 | 9 | A splendidly sick and surreal early 80's sci-fi / horror stunner | One of the more arrestingly off-beat " ALIEN " sci-fi / horror variants to materialize in the early to mid 80's , this compellingly uneasy combination of drearily conventional domestic drama and totally off-the-wall sci-fi / horror weirdness starts out fairly mundane , but eventually erupts into all-out credibility-be-... |
518,057 | 8,239,592 | 404,325 | 9 | A hysterically funny , quirky and original oddball sci-fi comedy riot | Homesick , alcoholic , shape-shifting , telekinetic nervous humanoid alien Phil just wants to go back to his own planet after crashlanding his spaceship on our strange and hostile world . While stranded on Earth Phil has many bizarre adventures which include befriending an astute , sympathetic talking beaver ( delightf... |
519,403 | 8,239,592 | 75,261 | 9 | An excellent & imaginatively grotesque 70's killer animal winner | This exceptional killer worm flick marked the auspicious and impressive debut of great , shamefully unsung B-horror picture writer / director Jeff Lieberman , who followed up this slimy winner with the outstanding homicidal hippie acidhead landmark " Blue Sunshine " and the wickedly subversive , gender role reversal wa... |
519,238 | 8,239,592 | 82,776 | 9 | Worthy of its cult status | Shy and mousy mute garment district worker Thana ( a remarkably assured and nuanced performance by the lovely Zoe Tamerlis ) gets raped twice in one day . After killing her second assailant with an iron , Thana takes possession of the man's . 45 caliber gun and starts hitting the mean streets of New York on a mission t... |
519,246 | 8,239,592 | 120,879 | 9 | An excellent and exciting late 90's rock drama about the funky 70's glam-rock scene | A dazzlingly brash and spunky work of fiction that has an engagingly loose basis in fact , this terrifically dynamic rock drama centers on the sparkling , glittery , outrageously camp and hedonistic anything-goes uninhibited lunacy of the 70's glam-rock phenomenon . It's chiefly about legendary mercurial David Bowie-li... |
519,385 | 8,239,592 | 55,824 | 9 | A superior 60's suspense thriller | Cunning and vengeful sexual psychopath convict Max Cady ( the impeccable Robert Mitchum in peak frightening form ) gets released from prison and vows to get revenge on both respectable , upstanding lawyer Sam Bowden ( the always strong and dignified Gregory Peck ) and his family . J . Lee Thompson's taut , capable dire... |
518,262 | 8,239,592 | 110,500 | 9 | An extremely potent and uncompromising celluloid descent into the adolescent abyss | Feverishly stylized Aussie tyro director Geoffrey Wright's second feature after the harrowing skinhead nerve-frier " Romper Stomper " offers another similarly bleak and depressing portrait of bitter , disaffected , barely hanging onto the dirt-poor last rung of the social ladder working class Melbourne youths who turn ... |
518,507 | 8,239,592 | 82,094 | 9 | A really nice and enjoyable early 80's creature feature | Back in the early 80's horror films largely consisted of generic slice'n'dice body count pics which became exceedingly tiresome and hackneyed as the decade wore on . This nifty little creature feature , a nicely done fright flick which satisfyingly blends a 50's-like monster movie plot with 80's style gore , nudity and... |
518,929 | 8,239,592 | 79,668 | 9 | An intense , excellent and absorbing crime drama | March 9th , 1963 : Cheery Detective Karl Hettinger ( marvelously played by John Savage ) and his amiable laid-back partner Ian Campbell ( an engaging Ted Danson in his film debut ) run afoul of two dangerous criminals - - shrewd , vicious , domineering Gregory Powell ( a remarkably reptilian James Woods in his breakthr... |
519,087 | 8,239,592 | 82,085 | 9 | One of Brian Pe Palma's best , most gripping and underrated thrillers | Likable audio technician Jack Terri ( splendidly played by John Travolta ) does sound effects for cheesy low-grade slasher horror flicks . One fateful night while recording natural sounds on a bridge Jack records and witnesses a car crash which kills the state governor who was an aspiring presidential candidate . Jack ... |
518,202 | 8,239,592 | 330,950 | 9 | A very fine and informative retrospective documentary | This fascinating and illuminating 52 minute retrospective documentary offers a wealth of tasty trivia about the making of Dario Argento's terrific horror cult classic " Suspiria . " The people interviewed in the doc are Argento , co-writer Daria Nicolodi , cinematographer Luciano Tovoli , Goblin band members Claudio Si... |
518,049 | 8,239,592 | 75,378 | 9 | I really dig this groovy 70's drive-in hoot | I am proud to say I own an uncut copy of this choice chunk of 70's Crown International drive-in sexploitation comedy cheese on DVD . It's a really goofy and enjoyably inconsequential flick with a nicely breezy'n'easy 70's vibe to it . It does attempt to make a sincere point about true love and friendship being more imp... |
518,607 | 8,239,592 | 149,151 | 9 | A very funny , delightful and affectionate treat | The funky , yet strictly second-tier British glam-rock band Strange Fruit breaks up at the end of the wild'n'wacky excess-ridden 70's . The individual band members go their separate ways and uncomfortably settle into lackluster middle age in the dull and uneventful 90's : morose keyboardist Stephen Rea winds up pennile... |
518,296 | 8,239,592 | 82,118 | 9 | A superior slice of early 80's slasher schlock | At Camp Blackfoot a bunch of kids play a cruel prank on mean caretaker Cropsy ( hulking behemoth Lou David ) . The prank badly backfires and Cropsy winds up being horribly burned over most of his body . Now both extremely mad and grotesquely disfigured , Cropsy leaves the hospital and goes bounding off to the nearest s... |
518,188 | 8,239,592 | 90,770 | 9 | A very chilling , disturbing and powerful knockout | Shortly after graduating from high school , an aimless , alienated pair of scruffy blue collar California suburbanite misfit teens - - the moody , volatile , sexually repressed Roy and his more laid-back , passive partner Bo - - suddenly come to the grim realization that their post-high school lives hold precious littl... |
518,448 | 8,239,592 | 218,475 | 9 | A touching and powerful indie drama gem | Shy , withdrawn , browbeaten young Chinese girl Lee ( splendidly played with sweet , delicate grace by Lianne X . Hu ) leaves her homeland and goes to L . A . ' s Chinatown so she can live with her overbearing aunt and work a nothing job at a restaurant where her employers treat her shabbily . Things perk up in her pre... |
518,670 | 8,239,592 | 71,110 | 9 | My all-time favorite " Airport " film | I saw this delightfully hokey disaster treat after enduring a hellishly awful day at work and it sure as hell perked up my previously sagging spirits . I felt pretty damn secure and contented by the time the ending credits rolled , because by then I came to the realization that as bad as my cruddy job is ( and trust me... |
518,798 | 8,239,592 | 389,722 | 9 | An excellent , inspired and supremely unsettling vampire horror knockout | A vicious clan of deadly vampires lead by the ferocious Marlow ( a positively terrifying portrayal by Danny Huston ) lay siege to the remote small town of Barrows , Alaska during a month long period of total darkness . Gallant Sheriff Eben Oleson ( a fine and likable performance by Josh Hartnett ) , his feisty estrange... |
518,871 | 8,239,592 | 79,826 | 9 | A poignant & powerful rock drama with a remarkable Bette Midler performance | Better Midler gives a smashing , touching , tear-the-house-down dynamic and exhilarating Oscar-nominated performance as the Rose , a fabulously wealthy and successful popular rock superstar sensation who's been burnt-out and worn down by too much long hard time on the road , too much booze and drugs ( Rose likes to swi... |
518,872 | 8,239,592 | 71,093 | 9 | A typically absorbing & erotic soft-core winner from the great Joe Sarno | The drab and uneventful tranquility of the sleepy affluent coastal community of Baypoint gets rudely ripped asunder when the notorious sexually voracious and insatiable bisexual harlot Abigail Leslie ( the smolderingly hot Sarah Nickolson ) unexpectedly returns to the dreary hamlet after a lengthy absence . Demure and ... |
518,636 | 8,239,592 | 63,663 | 9 | A strange , haunting and poignant drama about the shallowness of suburbanite existence | Burt Lancaster gives a strikingly fine , vibrant and touching performance as Ned Merrill , a washed-up , delusional middle-aged former ladies ' man failure who embarks on a bizarre journey of self-discovery by swimming through his affluent Conneticut neighbors ' pools while en route back to his house . Among the folks ... |
519,064 | 8,239,592 | 94,942 | 9 | An oddly touching , thoughtful & underrated vampire horror gem | This strangely thoughtful and resonant nickel'n'dime late 80's fright film represents the rarest and oddest of low-budget bloodsucker sub-genres : the wistfully reflective existential vampire picture . Seriously , it's a beautifully affecting and poetic work of shamefully neglected art that's deserving of greater recog... |
518,035 | 8,239,592 | 82,334 | 9 | An excellent and supremely unnerving 80's feminist horror knockout | Barbara Hershey gives a fiery , outstanding and wholly sympathetic performance as Carla Moran , a willful and fiercely self-sufficient young single California mother of three kids who's brutally and relentlessly raped by an evil amorous apparition . Carla seeks the aid of earnest , but incredulous psychiatrist Phil Sch... |
519,159 | 8,239,592 | 430,950 | 9 | An excellent retrospective documentary | This strong and engrossing retrospective documentary on the making of " Conan the Barbarian " covers the film from its genesis to its theatrical release , with a lot of especially interesting information about the rigorous shooting of the picture in Spain . Among the people interviewed are intelligent and articulate co... |
518,565 | 8,239,592 | 51,744 | 9 | William Castle's single most delightful fright feature | Suave , but eccentric millionaire Frederic Loren ( the great Vincent Price in peak smoothly ingratiating form ) invites five complete strangers to a creepy old house for a special birthday party he's holding for his faithless and treacherous wife Annabelle ( an exquisitely bitchy Carol Ohmart ) . If the motley quintet ... |
517,978 | 8,239,592 | 91,083 | 9 | A delightfully creepy , kinky and gruesome monsterfest | Brilliant , but deviant and depraved scientist Dr . Edward Pretorius ( a nicely batty Ted Sorel ) and his edgy assistant Crawford Tillinghast ( a superbly antsy Jeffrey Combs ) are experimenting with a machine called the Resonator , which opens the doorway to another dimension and allows creatures from that dimension t... |
518,705 | 8,239,592 | 63,808 | 9 | A really wild satire indeed | Shrewd , surly rock star Max Frost ( superbly played by the handsome , charismatic Christopher Jones ) convinces sleazy , opportunistic Senator Jimmy Fergus ( a terrific Hal Holbrook ) to lower the legal drinking age to 14 . After Max is elected president by a landslide victory , he makes the retirement age 30 and plac... |
519,020 | 8,239,592 | 82,358 | 9 | A truly disturbing early 80's made-for-TV shocker | It's very rare that one sees a made-for-TV movie with any real edge to it , which makes this hard-hitting effort all the more startling . It's a truly shocking , upsetting and disturbing film which openly deals with an emotionally charged , morbidly compelling and undeniably unpleasant topic ( in this case pedophilia a... |
518,299 | 8,239,592 | 56,142 | 9 | The Big G and the Great Ape really mix it up in this immensely enjoyable beastbash | A submarine bumps into the iceberg Godzilla was sleeping in and wakes the ferocious behemoth up . Naturally , Godzilla is mighty cranky and makes an immediate beeline to Japan so he can level the countryside . Meanwhile , King Kong gets discovered on a remote tropical island by two goofy adventurers and likewise gets t... |
518,103 | 8,239,592 | 101,504 | 9 | A very potent , unnerving and unjustly neglected indie drama gem | A very stark , sad and sobering drama about angry , surly , fatherless , alienated , stuttering and oppositional misogynistic 12-year-old Dan Love ( a frightfully credible and exceptional performance by Harley Cross ) , a malcontent adolescent who's ignored and unloved by his neurotic and equally unstable mother Candic... |
518,851 | 8,239,592 | 66,849 | 9 | An exceptionally eerie and unsettling early 70's British horror knockout | Horror movies dealing with either devil worship or Satanic possession were all the rage in the late 60's and early 70's . This extremely strong and upsetting period outing rates highly as one of the best pictures to emerge from this trend . 17th century England : A group of children led by the wickedly alluring Angel B... |
518,765 | 8,239,592 | 82,402 | 9 | Superbly gritty police drama with a first-rate Paul Newman performance | The inestimable Paul Newman gives one of his finest , most powerful and convincing performances to date in this shamefully neglected and under-appreciated police crime drama doozy as the weary and sardonic , but still honest , adamant and dedicated Officer Murphy , who works a tough and hellish beat in a down-trodden S... |
518,627 | 8,239,592 | 121,164 | 9 | A real delight | Timid young Victor Van Dort ( the always fine and personable Johnny Depp ) is engaged to be married to the sweet and equally mousy Victoria Everglost ( Emily Watson in peak charming form ) . Complications ensue when Victor accidentally weds the nice , lovely and radiant , but very much deceased corpse bride Emily ( bea... |
518,300 | 8,239,592 | 82,431 | 9 | A wonderfully gross and graphic early 80's exploitation sci-fi / horror hoot | Yes , it's the gloriously gross'n'graphic Roger Corman-produced early 80's low-budget sci-fi / horror schlock exploitation classic with THAT scene . You know the one I'm talking about : beauteous buxom blonde babe Taaffe O'Connell gets brutally attacked , raped and killed by a hideous and slimy gigantic libidinous magg... |
519,118 | 8,239,592 | 86,036 | 9 | A potent and gripping horror film allegory on the fine line between man and beast | Smug , anal , successful and ambitious detail-oriented Wall Street yuppie businessman Bart Hughes ( exceptionally well played by Peter Weller in his first lead role ) has his cozy and comfortable life thrown out of whack when a large and crafty rat invades his fancy brownstone apartment . When conventional methods of e... |
518,573 | 8,239,592 | 105,810 | 9 | A poignant and powerful portrait of the gritty plight of homeless urban street kids | Dermott Mulroney gives a very commanding and outstanding performance as King , a tough , street smart , ask-for-no-favors recent parolee who lives on the mean streets in and around Hollywood Boulevard ; he relates his arduous everyday experiences to prison psychologist Lara San Giacomo and basically acts as a wise , pr... |
518,470 | 8,239,592 | 90,915 | 9 | A splendidly sparky & provocative futuristic Aussie sci-fi winner | 1990 : Following a second catastrophic Wall Street stock market crash and a horrendous bloodbath called " The Great White Massacre , " as well as a sudden drastic food shortage , inflation skyrocketing and unemployment hitting an all-time high , society has gone completely down the stinky toilet . The cops are ineffect... |
518,941 | 8,239,592 | 343,563 | 9 | An impressive and effective little indie drama gem | I recently caught this nice little 27 minute indie college student thesis movie drama at a short film festival held in my hometown of Metuchen , New Jersey . It tells in a very stark and absorbing manner the simple story of an aging cutman ( exceptionally well played by Jack McCormack ) who gets fired from his job of t... |
519,196 | 8,239,592 | 82,242 | 9 | A supremely eerie and excellent early 80's horror winner | For some inexplicable reason this splendid , compelling , atmospheric little zombie mystery thriller took a while to be rediscovered ( it received a spotty theatrical distribution when first released and got mixed reviews from critics ) , but thankfully with its being reissued on DVD it's been widely acknowledged and r... |
519,165 | 8,239,592 | 56,277 | 9 | An absolutely cracking and exciting period costume melodrama treat | 1776 : The stern Captain Collier ( excellently played by Patrick Allen ) and his sailors arrive at an English coastal community to investigate reports of " marsh phantoms " who terrorize the countryside at night . Collier suspects that the local reverend Dr . Blyss ( a splendidly lively and witty performance by the gre... |
518,886 | 8,239,592 | 396,059 | 9 | A fun and informative interview short | This fun and informative 8 minute interview short is featured as a funky extra on the excellent Blue Underground Region 1 DVD for the notoriously nasty ' 78 grindhouse sleaze slasher classic " The Toolbox Murders . " The still quite lovely and vibrant Marianne Walter ( a . k . a . erstwhile hardcore porn actress Kelly ... |
518,914 | 8,239,592 | 813,415 | 9 | A fine , touching and absorbing dramatic short | Mature and disciplined rock guitarist Jay Styles ( superbly played by Jayce Bartok ) is on the verge of achieving the major stardom he's been working towards for a long time . Prior to performing his big breakthrough stage gig Styles does an interview with " Rolling Stone " reporter Henry Flesh ( the excellent Norman R... |
518,553 | 8,239,592 | 72,594 | 9 | A wonderfully wacky and idiosyncratic one-of-a-kind seriocomic hoot | Brash , eager young turk Peter Fonda , the wayward scion of a wealthy family , comes back to his sleepy Key West , Florida home town and decides to become a river boat fishing guide , which ignites a bitter feud between Fonda and two fiercely independent , self-made working class fellow guides - - cantankerous , feroci... |
519,410 | 8,239,592 | 59,311 | 9 | An arrestingly off-beat & atmospheric mid 60's horror oddity | Do you speak Esperanto ? Well , I sure don't . But fortunately this intriguingly quirky and moody horror oddity - - the only motion picture ever made using the still active experimental universal language of Esperanto - - comes complete with subtitles . On a remote and mysterious magical island populated by dangerous d... |
517,903 | 8,239,592 | 110,668 | 9 | Excellent , trashy & pleasingly unpretentious direct-to-video action thriller fun | Erstwhile 80's Brat Pack thesp Andrew McCarthy is unexpectedly strong and engaging as a sweet , luckless Las Vegas cab driver who inadvertently takes possession of a million dollars worth of mob money and promptly hotfoots it out of town . Scott Glenn delivers a nastily dead-on turn as the cocksure , steely , unflappab... |
518,050 | 8,239,592 | 89,882 | 9 | I saw this made-for-TV shocker in my high school health class and it really freaked me out . | I first saw this truly startling mid-80's made-for-TV favorite in health class when I was in 17 in high school . It truly unnerved the hell out of me . The teacher would occasionally stop the film and make all the students discuss what they just saw with utmost seriousness . It's an experience I'll always treasure as a... |
519,195 | 8,239,592 | 89,869 | 9 | A splendidly singular & often stimulating sci-fi end-of-the-world sleeper | Fiercely self-reliant ordinary chap scientist Zac Hobson ( a marvelously vivid and vibrant performance by Bruno Lawrence ) wakes one one fateful morning to discover that a top secret experiment he's been working on called Operation Flashlight has created a lethal tear in the universe that in turn has caused every livin... |
518,775 | 8,239,592 | 59,190 | 9 | An arrestingly off-beat & original Southern Gothic mystery thriller oddity | This singularly off-beat and original period mystery thriller drama curio set in the late 1800's plays like an arrestingly bizarre and inspired cross between " Tom Sawyer " and " Night of the Hunter . " Lonely , miserable orphan buy George ( a then 12-years-old Edward Albert in his excellent film debut ) runs away from... |
519,290 | 8,239,592 | 120,390 | 9 | A more appropriate title for this terrifically tacky trash would have been " Airport ' 97 " | The central premise for this so - outrageously - awful - that - it's - highly - entertaining airborne suspense thriller must have been devised in the third or fourth circle of " high concept " movie hell . To wit : a belated overblown " Airport " sequel about a wild-eyed sanguinary sickpup psycho terrorizing folks on b... |
518,688 | 8,239,592 | 103,077 | 9 | A very funny , witty & on-target low-budget horror spoof | A genuine rarity , this one : a truly good , funny , even smart and respectful send-up of low-rent tacky'n'terrible cheesy backwoods-set teens-in-peril fright films that effectively pokes fun at assorted clichéd'n'contrived horror movie conventions without ever becoming the least bit cutesy or condescending towards its... |
517,985 | 8,239,592 | 235,198 | 9 | Positively terrifying | Successful , but lonely middle-aged businessman widower Shigeharu Aoyama ( a superb performance by Ryo Ishibashi ) lives with his loving son Shigehiko ( affable Tetsu Sawaki ) following the death of his wife . His loyal film producer friend Yasuhisa Yoshikawa ( nicely played by Jun Kunimura ) advices Shigeharu to remar... |
518,596 | 8,239,592 | 63,056 | 9 | A taut and gripping psychological drama | An American soldier ( Lee Marvin in typically strong and robust form ) and a Japanese officer ( superbly played by Toshiro Mifune ) find themselves stranded together on a remote Pacific island . Can they set aside their differences and learn to get along in order to survive in an unsparingly harsh environment ? Directo... |
518,472 | 8,239,592 | 80,129 | 9 | Marjoe Gortner's finest hour on film | 1968 , New Mexico . Marjoe Gortner gives an incredibly intense , commanding and charismatic performance as Teddy , a bitter , crazed , disgruntled Vietnam veteran hippie drug dealer psycho who along with his loyal , but scared girlfriend Cheryl ( nicely played by the adorable Candy Clark ) terrorizes a motley assortmen... |
518,551 | 8,239,592 | 85,656 | 9 | Excellent racetrack drama with a terrific performance by Bonnie Bedelia | Bonnie Bedelia delivers a fiery , roughly textured , outstanding performance in a rare substantial lead role as Shirley " Cha-Cha " Muldowney , the gutsy , sassy ( " The only thing I do fast is drive " ) , willful , supremely determined and self-sufficient real-life pioneering feminist professional race car driver who ... |
519,066 | 8,239,592 | 68,190 | 9 | A truly delightful and magical musical fantasy treat | This delightfully off-beat , imaginative and hugely entertaining musical fantasy adaptation of Lewis Carroll's often told classic tale displays a sense of pure joy and unbridled creativity that's both quite infectious and tremendously enjoyable in comparable measure . First off , there are many marvelously manic moment... |
518,980 | 8,239,592 | 85,872 | 9 | A fabulously brooding , stylish and atypical biker mood piece | 1959 : A gang of bikers en route to Daytona , Florida who include the surly , disaffected Vance ( a smoothly self-assured performance by Willem Dafoe in his film debut ) and restless hothead Davis ( nicely played by rockabilly icon Robert Gordon ) are forced to make an unwanted pit stop in a sleepy Southern hamlet when... |
518,948 | 8,239,592 | 76,281 | 9 | An excellent and exciting crime action thriller corker | The almighty Sonny Chiba rules the day as Duke Togo ( a . k . a . Golgo 13 ) , a tough , ruthless and formidable consummate professional international assassin who's been hired to rub out a powerful Hong Kong drug lord . Of course , said assignment proves to be easier said than done , as Togo must contend with the drug... |
518,073 | 8,239,592 | 116,442 | 9 | A truly terrific & delightful slice of rock history drama gem | The chronically under-appreciated Illeana Douglas gives a characteristically glowing , winsome , totally spot-on performance as aspiring singer / songwriter Denise Waverly , who during a very turbulent and wildly eventful fifteen year time span goes from being a frustrated , creatively stifled behind-the-scenes magic m... |
518,655 | 8,239,592 | 85,846 | 9 | An excellent & unjustly neglected Hitchcockian thriller gem | Forever under-acclaimed slender , green-eyed , button cute blonde actress Annn Dusenberry , who got terrorized by Bruce the mechanical shark in " Jaws 2 , " gives a typically animated , engaging and on the money performance as Robyn Wallace , a sweet , struggling , down on her luck actress who's having a tremendously h... |
519,224 | 8,239,592 | 279,996 | 9 | Mother Goose grows up and gets raunchy in this hilariously bawdy animated " adults only " hoot | Moother Goose's famous good , clean , wholesome " fun for the whole family " bedtime stories are given a sexually explicit and humorously perverted workover in this hilariously bawdy combo live action and animation adults only feature . Dotty , doddery , foul-mouthed dirty old lady Mother Goose ( played by none other t... |
517,897 | 8,239,592 | 134,623 | 9 | Extremely rough and shocking stuff | Sexy , slender brunette model Mara ( the extremely hot Marlene Willoughby ) answers an ad in " Screw " magazine for a high paying job at a New York whorehouse which specializes in turning all kinds of deviant sadomasochistic bondage and discipline sex tricks . The house's dumpy middle-aged madame ( curly-haired fortyso... |
518,817 | 8,239,592 | 238,606 | 9 | An amazingly thorough and informative retrospective documentary about the remarkable cult favorite " The Stuntman " | This lengthy and inexhaustible retrospective documentary about " The Stunt Man " sure ain't your run-of-the-mill affair . Written , directed and narrated with dazzling cinematic aplomb and delightful sardonic humor by original feature director / producer Richard Rush , this baby furiously bulldozes through the back-sta... |
518,260 | 8,239,592 | 80,040 | 9 | A marvelously odd & eerie 70's drive-in horror favorite | One of the oddest , most strikingly eerie and creepy horror films to come out of the 70's , " Tourist Trap " even by the loose , free-wheeling , convention-defying " anything goes " standards of its time rates as a real weirdie . Yet , it's the picture's very strangeness - - a masterfully mounted uncanny atmosphere of ... |
518,879 | 8,239,592 | 72,403 | 9 | An excellent , exciting and provocative period action / adventure winner | 1896 : A motley trio of whalers - - gruff , hostile , alcoholic third-mate Billy ( a wonderfully crotchety Warren Oates ) , gentle , humane cabin boy Daggett ( a lovely , moving performance by Timothy Bottoms ) , and fidgety harpooner Portagee ( the always fine Lou Gossett ) - - get stranded in the Artic after their bo... |
518,961 | 8,239,592 | 93,560 | 9 | A wonderfully witty and dynamic tongue-in-cheek delight | The evil Dracula ( a suavely sinister Duncan Regehr ) and his band of equally pernicious monsters - - Frankenstein's monster ( a very engaging Tom Noonan ) , the Wolfman , the Gillman and the Mummy - - need to gain possession of an ancient powerful amulet so they can rule the world . It's up to a gaggle of misfit horro... |
518,938 | 8,239,592 | 45,877 | 9 | A superb , gripping and suspenseful 50's film noir thriller gem | Gilbert Bowen ( finely played by Frank Lovejoy ) and Roy Collins ( the equally excellent Edmund O'Brien ) are a couple of pleasant , personable working class family men who are out on a fishing trip driving across Mexico in a Plymouth Fury . The two good lifelong friends make the fatal mistake of picking up Emmett Myer... |
519,244 | 8,239,592 | 116,361 | 9 | Hey there Little Red Riding Hood , you sure are looking good as Reese Witherspoon | A wickedly nasty and subversive contemporary road movie thriller spin on the classic fairytale " Little Red Riding Hood , " with a phenomenally brassy'n'sassy performance by Reese Witherspoon as a tough , scrappy , not-so-innocent California teenage runaway hitch-hiker who runs afoul of a pernicious roadside serial kil... |
518,822 | 8,239,592 | 80,025 | 9 | A delightfully clever and inspired time travel science fiction thriller pip | 1893 . Victorian era London , England . Brilliant , but idealistic writer and scientist H . G . Wells ( a wonderfully warm and engaging performance by Malcolm McDowell ) invents a time machine . Notorious psychopath Jack the Ripper ( superbly played with subdued menace by David Warner ) uses the time machine to travel ... |
518,574 | 8,239,592 | 116,365 | 9 | A hugely enjoyable and inventive supernatural horror comedy treat | Superslick phony baloney psychic parapsychologist Frank Bannister ( Michael J . Fox in excellent unapologetically parasitic sleazeball form ) has one hell of a novel and effective scam going on . You see , Frank's in league with a motley trio of unrestful spirits - - hot-tempered 70's funky black guy Cyrus ( a hilariou... |
519,241 | 8,239,592 | 86,013 | 9 | My all-time favorite delectably cheesy Don Dohler flick | Maryland-based no-budget hack junk genre filmmaker par excellence Don Dohler hits an uproariously atrocious all-time low with this marvelously messed-up magnum opus of sheer awfulness , a relentlessly wretched $1 . 98 amateur-night-at-the-movies sci-fi / horror evil alien splatterfest that's downright mesmerizing and o... |
519,070 | 8,239,592 | 76,123 | 9 | A gloriously quirky & colorful slice of Americana delight | One of Jonathan Demme's earliest and best movies , this quirky , seriocomic , thoroughly amiable and disarming slice-of-Americana gem bombed at the box office , but was widely hailed by critics and has gone on to garner a much-deserved loyal fan following . Centering on a small rural community populated by assorted fla... |
518,723 | 8,239,592 | 76,109 | 9 | Another delightfully down'n'dirty Claudia Jennings 70's drive-in gem | Late , great 70's drive-in movie queen Claudia Jennings is at her brassy , sassy and smoking sexy best as Candy Morgan , a kittenishly irreverent prison escapee who teams up with saucy former bank teller Ellie-Jo Turner ( winningly played by the very pretty and appealing Jocelyn Jones of " Tourist Trap " fame ) and goe... |
519,450 | 8,239,592 | 63,285 | 9 | A brutal and chilling British horror gem | England in the 1640s . Civil war has torn the country apart and lawlessness reigns supreme throughout the land . Cruel , cunning , evil opportunist Matthew Hopkins ( a brilliantly restrained and convincing Vincent Price in his greatest horror film performance ) and his sadistic assistant John Stearne ( a perfectly vile... |
519,099 | 8,239,592 | 72,236 | 9 | Jack Hill's slyly subversive 70's cheerleader comedy treat | Special credit must go to the ever-surprising and enterprising Jack Hill for making the single most wickedly subversive film in the popular 70's cheerleader sub-genre . Sure , it certainly delivers the prerequisite ample doses of silly slapstick humor and tasty sex and gratuitous nudity , but along with that sleazy stu... |
519,371 | 8,239,592 | 93,628 | 9 | A choice cheesy chunk of late 80's soft-core horror trash | This delightfully dumb and drecky no-budget piece of shamelessly pandering direct-to-video smut is nothing more than a feeble excuse to showcase the almighty 80's scream queen holy trinity of the exquisitely bountiful Michelle Bauer , the sumptuously slinky Brinke Stevens and the ever-luscious Linnea Quigley strutting ... |
518,241 | 8,239,592 | 483,607 | 9 | A wonderfully wild and wired futuristic sci-fi / action blast | 2035 . A lethal virus has decimated most of Glasgow , Scotland . The city has been closed off to protect London , England from the plague . When a new deadly strain of the virus threatens to infect Great Britain , the government officials send an elite team of top officers led by the extremely hard-nosed and resourcefu... |
518,848 | 8,239,592 | 178,050 | 9 | An unjustly overlooked slice of the 70's rock sleeper | In the late 90's and early 00's there was a rash of terrifically lively and affectionate rock films centering on a specific aspect of 70's rock'n'roll : Among these pictures are the wonderfully raucous teen romp " Detroit Rock City , " the marvelous glam rock epic " Velvet Goldmine , " Cameron Crowe's sweetly autobiogr... |
519,192 | 8,239,592 | 68,457 | 9 | A superbly creepy & potent 70's Vietnam era variant on " The Monkey's Paw " | A superlative and genuinely frightening 70's Vietnam era contemporary low-budget horror reworking of the classic short story parable " The Monkey's Paw . " Sweet small town dude Andy ( splendidly played by Richard Backus , who should have had a much bigger acting career ) and a buddy get fatally blasted while fighting ... |
518,995 | 8,239,592 | 275,182 | 9 | A poignant and excellent indie drama gem | Sad , lonely , bitter and disillusioned crack addict Alix ( a remarkably brave , naked and electrifying performance by Ana Reeder ) resides on the mean streets of Manhattan's Lower Eastside and ekes out a bleak and thankless existence selling stolen goods so she can support her dope habit . One day Alix overdoes on bad... |
518,846 | 8,239,592 | 149,964 | 9 | An absolute powerhouse | Shortly following an unfortunate incident in Pennsylvania , naive young Tom ( the boyishly charming Jason London of " Dazed and Confused " ) moves to Los Angeles and gets a job working as a paramedic so he can put his past behind him . He's partnered with weary , burnt-out , sardonic veteran medic Jimmy ( a mesmerizing... |
518,001 | 8,239,592 | 475,937 | 9 | A strong and unsettling supernatural shocker | American film producer Marie Jones ( superbly played by Anastasia Hille ) was adopted as a little girl . Now in her early 40s , Marie goes back to her home country of Russia to find out more about herself . She learns that her mother was murdered a while back and that she was inherited the rundown family farm house . M... |
519,291 | 8,239,592 | 85,894 | 9 | A total gut buster | Brilliant prominent brain surgeon Dr . Michael Hfuhruhurr ( Steve Martin in peak zany form ) is stuck in a bad marriage with the beautiful , but evil and frosty gold digger Dolores Benedict ( Kathleen Turner at her most insanely hot and divinely wicked ) . Things perk up for Michael when he meets and falls in love with... |
518,395 | 8,239,592 | 184,993 | 9 | A hilarious horror black comedy short | An evil and possessive little girl ( delightfully played with wicked aplomb by the adorable Elyse Plantico ) uses voodoo on a hapless guy ( the excellent Cory Rouse ) in order to ruin the man's date with her beautiful single mother ( ravishing brunette J . B . ) . Writer / director Gregg Bishop made this six minute hor... |
518,347 | 8,239,592 | 67,732 | 9 | A grim , gritty and hellishly absorbing portrait of everyday madness and despair | Dour , moody , petulant , very masculine and unsociable loner abattoir worker Marcos ( a fine , low-key , creepily nonchalant performance by Vincente Parra ) and his peevish , unhappy girlfriend ( the lovely Emma Cohen ) take a ride in a taxi one fateful night . The irritable cab driver tosses them out when they start ... |
519,301 | 8,239,592 | 78,205 | 10 | Better straighten up and fly right , son ! | Anyone who attended either junior high or high school in the late 70's up until the mid 80's has probably seen this legendary hard-hitting 50 minute shock doc about seventeen brash , cocky , insolent , " nothing - is - ever - gonna - happen - to - me " carefree juvenile delinquents from New York and New Jersey who are ... |
518,621 | 8,239,592 | 330,452 | 10 | Very powerful | The Crowe family are shocked and unsettled when 12-year-old daughter Stephanie ( a brief , but memorable appearance by Anna Mary Wilson ) gets brutally murdered in their home late at night . The police suspect Stephanie's surly , naive 14-year-old brother Michael ( superbly played by Mark Rendall ) of the killing and p... |
519,282 | 8,239,592 | 73,756 | 10 | Sonny Chiba is the ultimate ferocious martial arts animal ! | A seriously rough , brutal and unsparingly violent mid-70's chopsocky grindhouse classic starring the almighty Sonny Chiba , a ferocious feral grunting beast of a man who portrays a blithely amoral mercenary-for-hire who winds up taking on the local Yakuza when they refuse to pony up the money that's due to him . Chiba... |
518,327 | 8,239,592 | 87,995 | 10 | Reasons why this movie rocks | 1 . ) This film perfectly nails the despair , bleakness and fierce dog-eat-dog amorality of the Reagan-era 80's . The rivalry between the two different groups of car repossessors , the gang of stick-up punk hoodlums who are always robbing various stores , and the overall mood of merry nihilism suggest a world that's go... |
518,653 | 8,239,592 | 56,331 | 10 | A first-rate early 60's end-of-the-world sci-fi classic | A harsh , gritty , rough-edged and hard-hitting low-budget early 60's post-nuke end-of-the-world survivalist classic from the always reliable exploitation movie outfit American International Pictures . It's one of the first and finest of its type . Close-knit Los Angeles suburbanite family the Baldwins - - rugged , qui... |
519,288 | 8,239,592 | 78,326 | 10 | Superbly gritty 70's crime drama with a first-rate Dustin Hoffman performance | Dustin Hoffman gives one of his finest , scrappiest and least sappy performances as Max Dembo , a cagey , scuzzy , ferociously self-reliant sociopathic ex-con who gets sprung from the joint and makes a game , albeit futile attempt at going legit , only to wind up resorting to his old criminal ways after his browbeating... |
517,976 | 8,239,592 | 95,560 | 10 | A hilariously horrible blatant " ET " rip-off | A family of hideously homely aliens find themselves stuck on Earth . The family gets separated . One little boy alien named Mac ( an acronym for Mysterious Alien Creature ) befriends plucky crippled kid Eric ( winningly played by real-life disabled kid Jade Calegory ) . Eric helps Mac get reunited with his family . Co-... |
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