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Tatia Rosenthal

['Geoffrey Rush', 'Anthony LaPaglia', 'Samuel Johnson', 'Ben Mendelsohn', 'Barry Otto', 'Joel Edgerton', 'Claudia Karvan', 'Leeanna Walsman', 'David Field', 'Tom Budge', 'Leon Ford', 'Henry Nixon', 'Roy Billing', 'Brian Meegan', 'Jamie Katsamatsas', 'Ursula Yovich', 'Josef Ber']

Animation, Comedy, Drama

['Australia', 'Israel']

English

['English']

['Lama Films', 'Australian Film Finance Corporation', 'Fortissimo Films', 'New South Wales Film & Television Office', 'yes', 'Crossfield', 'Sherman Pictures']

animated

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The film mainly focuses on Dave Peck, who is unemployed but prefers the search for the meaning of life to the search for gainful employment. While looking in a magazine, Dave finds an advertisement for a book that will tell him the meaning of life "for the low price of $9.99." Dave, fascinated by this, begins his journey in his Sydney apartment to find the true meaning of life. As the film progresses, stories of Dave's family and neighbours are woven in and examine the post-modern meaning of hope.

(500) Days of Summer

Marc Webb

['Joseph Gordon-Levitt', 'Zooey Deschanel', 'Geoffrey Arend', 'Chloë Grace Moretz', 'Matthew Gray Gubler', 'Clark Gregg', 'Patricia Belcher', 'Rachel Boston', 'Minka Kelly', 'Charles Walker', 'Ian Reed Kesler', 'Darryl Alan Reed', 'Valente Rodriguez', 'Yvette Nicole Brown', 'Nicole Vicius', 'Natalie Boren', 'Maile Flanagan', 'Darryl Sivad', 'Gregory A. Thompson', 'Michael Bodie', 'John Mackie', 'Jacob Stroop', 'Kevin Michael', 'Sid Wilner', 'Richard McGonagle', 'Jean-Paul Vignon', 'Bryan Anthony', 'Sybil Azur', 'Cheryl Baxter', 'Gustavo Carr', 'John R. Corella', 'Nadine Ellis', 'Alejandro Estornel', 'Nathaniel Flatt', 'Reshma Gajjar', 'Tiffany Granath', 'Jennifer Hamilton', 'Brandon Henschel', 'Michael Higgins', 'Kenneth Hughes', 'Alexandra Nicole Hulme', 'John Jacquet Jr.', 'Jennifer Lee Keyes', 'Tim Lacatena', 'Rebecca Lin', 'Gelsey Weiss', 'Katie Malia', 'Anthony Marciona', 'Christopher Martinez', 'Vivian Nixon', 'Tracy Phillips', 'Nathan Prevost', 'Jamie Shea', 'Ryan Thomas', 'Christian Vincent', 'Jull Weber', 'Olivia Howard Bagg', 'Chris Connell', 'Samantha Krutzfeldt', 'Kathryn Weisbeck', 'Eileen Álvarez', 'Jennifer Hetrick', 'Pleasant Wayne']

Romance, Comedy, Comedy drama, Melodrama, Drama, Indie film

['USA']

English

['English', 'French', 'Swedish']

['Fox Searchlight Pictures', 'Watermark Pictures', 'Dune Entertainment III']

sad, comedy, emotional

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Tom Hansen is an aspiring architect who works as a writer at a greeting card company. He meets Summer Finn, a new employee. They discover that they have a similar taste in music. Later, at a karaoke night for their work, they talk about love. Tom believes in it, but Summer does not. Tom's friend and co-worker McKenzie drunkenly reveals that Tom likes Summer, which he asserts is only "as friends", something Summer agrees with. A few days later, Summer spontaneously kisses Tom in the office. Summer is not looking for a serious relationship. Tom agrees to a casual relationship. That night they have sex; Tom is elated. Over the first several months of their relationship, they grow closer. Both Tom's friends and his preteen half-sister Rachel push him to ask Summer where they are in their relationship, though Summer brushes this off, saying that it should not matter if they are both happy. One night, Tom gets into a fight with a man who tries to pick Summer up in a bar, causing their first argument. They make up and Summer concedes Tom deserves some certainty, but demanding she promise to always feel the same way about him would be impossible for anyone to make. Slowly, their relationship becomes less passionate and they begin to continuously argue. Summer quits the greeting card company and breaks up with Tom, citing their obvious unhappiness. Tom's boss moves him to the consolations department, as his depression is making him unsuitable for happier events. Tom goes on a blind date with a woman named Alison. Tom spends the date talking about Summer until Alison leaves exasperated. Months later, Tom attends co-worker Millie's wedding and tries to avoid Summer on the train, but she spots him and invites him for coffee. They have a good time at the wedding, dance together, and Summer catches the bouquet. She invites Tom to a party at her apartment, falling asleep on his shoulder on the ride back. He attends the party, hoping to rekindle their relationship, but barely interacts with Summer, spending most of the night drinking alone, until he spots her engagement ring. Tom leaves devastated. Further depressed, he only leaves his apartment for alcohol and junk food. After a few days, he returns to work hung over and, after an emotional outburst, quits. Rachel tells Tom that she does not believe Summer was "the one" and that he is only remembering happy memories of the relationship. Tom thinks harder, finally seeing moments of incompatibilities he overlooked, and warning signs he missed on the day of the breakup. One day, Tom finds the energy to get out of bed and rededicates himself to architecture, as Summer had encouraged him to do. He assembles a portfolio and secures job interviews. Summer visits Tom at his favorite spot in the city. He tells her he left the office, and notes that she got married, which he cannot comprehend as she never wanted to be someone's girlfriend. Summer says she got married because she felt sure, which she did not with Tom. When he says he was wrong about true love existing, she counters that he was right about it, just wrong about it being with her. She tells him she is glad he is doing well. Tom wishes her happiness. On Wednesday, May 23, Tom meets a woman applying for the same job. He finds she shares his favorite spot and invites her for coffee afterwards. She politely declines, then changes her mind. Her name is Autumn.

12 Angry Men

Sidney Lumet

['Martin Balsam', 'John Fiedler', 'Lee J. Cobb', 'E.G. Marshall', 'Jack Klugman', 'Edward Binns', 'Jack Warden', 'Henry Fonda', 'Joseph Sweeney', 'Ed Begley', 'George Voskovec', 'Robert Webber', 'Rudy Bond', 'Tom Gorman', 'James Kelly', 'Billy Nelson', 'John Savoca', 'Walter Stocker', 'John Gavin']

Thriller, Trial drama, Legal drama, Drama, Crime film, Mystery, Detective fiction, Crime Fiction, Classic, Police procedural

['USA']

English

['English']

['United Artists', 'Orion-Nova Productions']

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On a hot summer day in the New York County Courthouse, the trial phase has just concluded for an impoverished 18-year-old boy accused of killing his abusive father. The judge instructs the jury that if there is reasonable doubt, the jurors must return a verdict of "not guilty". If the defendant is found guilty, he will receive a mandatory death sentence via the electric chair. The verdict must be unanimous. At first, the case seems clear. A neighbor testified to witnessing the defendant stab his father, from her window, through the windows of a passing elevated train. Another neighbor testified that he heard the defendant threaten to kill his father, and the father's body hitting the floor; then, as he ran to his door, he saw the defendant running down the stairs. The boy had recently purchased a switchblade of the same type that was found, wiped of fingerprints, at the murder scene, but claimed he lost it. In a preliminary vote, all jurors vote "guilty" except Juror 8, who believes there should be some discussion before the verdict. He says he cannot vote "guilty" because reasonable doubt exists. When his first few arguments (including producing a recently purchased knife nearly identical to the murder weapon that was thought to be unique) seemingly fail to convince any of the other jurors, Juror 8 suggests a secret ballot, from which he will abstain; if all the other jurors still vote guilty, he will acquiesce. The ballot reveals one "not guilty" vote. Juror 9 reveals that he changed his vote; he respects Juror 8's motives, and agrees there should be more discussion. Juror 8 argues that the train noise would have obscured everything the second witness claimed to have overheard. Jurors 5 and 11 change their votes. Jurors 5, 6 and 8 further question the second witness's story, and question whether the death threat was figurative speech. After looking at a diagram of the witness's apartment and conducting an experiment, the jurors determine that it is impossible for the disabled witness to have made it to the door in time. Juror 3, infuriated, argues with and tries to attack Juror 8, yelling a death threat; jurors 5, 6 and 7 physically restrain Juror 3. Jurors 2 and 6 change their votes; the jury is now evenly split. Juror 4 doubts the defendant's alibi, as the boy did not recall specific details. Juror 8 tests Juror 4's own memory to make a point. Jurors 2 and 5 point out the father's stab wound was angled downwards, although the boy was shorter than his father. Juror 7 changes his vote out of impatience rather than conviction, angering Juror 11. After another vote, jurors 1 and 12 also change sides, leaving only three "guilty" votes. Juror 10 goes on a bigoted rant, causing Juror 4 to forbid him to speak for the remainder of the deliberation. When Juror 4 is pressed as to why he still maintains a guilty vote, he declares that the woman who saw the killing from across the street stands as solid evidence. Juror 12 reverts to a guilty vote. After watching Juror 4 remove his spectacles and rub the impressions they made on his nose, Juror 9 realizes that the first witness was constantly rubbing similar impressions on her own nose, indicating that she also was a habitual glasses wearer, even though she chose not to wear her glasses in court. Juror 8 remarks that the witness, who was trying to sleep when she saw the killing, would not have had glasses on or the time to put them on, making her story questionable. Jurors 4, 10 and 12 all change their votes, leaving Juror 3 as the sole dissenter. Juror 3 vehemently and desperately tries to convince the others of his argument, but realizes that his strained relationship with his own son makes him wish the defendant guilty. He breaks down in tears and changes his vote to "not guilty". As the others leave, Juror 8 graciously helps Juror 3 put on his coat. The defendant is acquitted off-screen. As the jurors leave the courthouse, Jurors 8 and 9 reveal their surnames to each other before parting ways.

12 Years a Slave

Steve McQueen

['Chiwetel Ejiofor', 'Michael Fassbender', "Lupita Nyong'o", 'Benedict Cumberbatch', 'Paul Dano', 'Sarah Paulson', 'Adepero Oduye', 'Scoot McNairy', 'Paul Giamatti', 'Brad Pitt', 'Michael Kenneth Williams', 'Alfre Woodard', 'Chris Chalk', 'Taran Killam', 'Bill Camp', 'Kelsey Scott', 'Bryan Batt', 'Quvenzhané Wallis', 'Garret Dillahunt', 'Dwight Henry', 'Dickie Gravois', 'Ashley Dyke', 'Cameron Zeigler', 'Tony Bentley', 'Christopher Berry', 'Mister Mackey Jr.', 'Craig Tate', 'Storm Reid', 'Tom Proctor', 'Marc Macaulay', 'Vivian Fleming-Alvarez', 'Douglas M. Griffin', 'John McConnell', 'Marcus Lyle Brown', 'Richard Holden', 'Rob Steinberg', 'Anwan Glover', 'James C. Victor', 'Liza J. Bennett', 'Nicole Collins', 'J.D. Evermore', 'Andy Dylan', 'Deneen Tyler', 'Mustafa Harris', 'Gregory Bright', 'Austin Purnell', 'Thomas Francis Murphy', "Andre De'Sean Shanks", 'Kelvin Harrison Jr.', 'Scott M. Jefferson', 'Isaiah Jackson', 'Topsy Chapman', 'Devin Maurice Evans', 'Jay Huguley', 'Devyn A. Tyler', 'Willo Jean-Baptiste', 'Jason Ament', 'Jon Arthur', 'Sean Paul Braud', 'Blake Burt', 'Carroll Burt', 'Edward J. Clare', 'JJ Coker', 'Haylie Creppel', 'Justin Edward Davis', 'Jim Johnson', 'Mark Joyce', 'John C. Klein', "Gerard 'Jerry' Lewis", 'Kevonte Mcdonald', 'Ritchie Montgomery', 'Jason Owen', 'Shawn Parsons', 'Haley Powell', 'Wayne Pére', 'Terrell Ransom Jr.', 'Erin Rementer', 'Andre Robinson', 'Corrina Roshea Bobb', 'Jarett Shorts', 'Chaz Smith', 'Tyler Soerries', 'Tre Tureaud', 'Justin Christopher Vaughn', 'Bob Walker', 'Caroline Grace Williamson', 'Timothy Wyant']

History, Historical drama, Melodrama, Drama

['USA', 'UK']

English

['English']

['New Regency Pictures', 'Plan B Entertainment', 'River Road Entertainment', 'Regency Enterprises', 'Film4 Productions']

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Solomon Northup is a free African-American man in 1841, working as a violinist and living with his wife and two children in Saratoga Springs, New York. Two white men, Brown and Hamilton, offer him short-term employment as a musician in Washington, D.C.; instead, they drug Northup and deliver him to James H. Birch, the owner of a slave pen. Northup proclaims his freedom, only to be violently beaten and tortured. He is shipped to New Orleans with other slaves, who tell him he must adapt if he wants to survive in the South. Slave trader Theophilus Freeman gives Northup the identity of "Platt," a runaway slave from Georgia, and sells him to plantation owner William Ford. Ford takes a liking to Northup and gives him a violin. Tensions between Northup and plantation carpenter John Tibeats break when Northup defends himself from Tibeats and beats him with his whip. Tibeats and his men prepare to lynch Northup but are stopped by the overseer. Northup is left on tiptoes with the noose around his neck for hours before Ford arrives and cuts him down. Northup attempts to explain his situation, but Ford sells him to plantation owner Edwin Epps. Epps, unlike Ford, is abusive and sadistic to his slaves. Northup meets Patsey, a favored slave and Epps' top cotton picker. Epps regularly rapes Patsey, and his jealous wife abuses her. Cotton worms destroy Epps' crops, so he leases his slaves to neighbor Judge Turner's plantation for the season. Turner favors Northup and allows him to fiddle at a celebration and keep his earnings. Northup returns to Epps and pays white field hand and former overseer Armsby to mail a letter to his friends in New York. Armsby takes Northup's money but betrays him. Epps questions and threatens Northup, but Northup convinces him that Armsby is lying. Northup burns the letter. Patsey is caught by Epps going to a neighboring plantation to acquire soap, as Mrs. Epps will not let her have any. Epps orders Northup to whip Patsey, which he reluctantly does, but Epps demands he strike her harder, eventually taking the whip and beating Patsey nearly to death. Enraged and regretting what he did, Northup destroys his violin. Northup begins constructing a gazebo with Canadian laborer Samuel Bass. Bass, citing his Christian faith, strongly opposes slavery and castigates Epps, earning his enmity. Northup reveals his kidnapping to Bass and asks for help sending his letter. Bass hesitates because of the risk but agrees. The local sheriff arrives, and Northup recognizes his companion as Mr. Parker, a shopkeeper he knew in New York. As they embrace, Epps furiously protests and tries to prevent Northup from leaving but is rebuffed. Northup bids farewell to Patsey and rides off to his freedom. Northup returns home to reunite with his wife and children. His daughter, who is now married, introduces his grandson and namesake, Solomon Northup Staunton. He apologizes for his long absence while his family comforts him. A textual epilogue recounts Northup's unsuccessful lawsuits against Brown, Hamilton, and Birch; the 1853 publication of Northup's slave narrative memoir, Twelve Years a Slave; his role in the abolitionist movement; and the absence of information regarding his death and burial.

13 Assassins

Takashi Miike

['Koji Yakusho', 'Takayuki Yamada', 'Yûsuke Iseya', 'Goro Inagaki', 'Kazue Fukiishi', 'Hiroki Matsukata', 'Tsuyoshi Ihara', 'Ikki Sawamura', 'Arata Furuta', 'Sousuke Takaoka', 'Rokkaku Seiji', 'Kazuki Namioka', 'Koen Kondo', 'Yuma Ishigaki', 'Masataka Kubota', 'Masachika Ichimura', 'Matsumoto Hakuō II', 'Seiyo Uchino', 'Ken Mitsuishi', 'Ittoku Kishibe', 'Mikijiro Hira', 'Mitsuki Tanimura', 'Takumi Saitoh', 'Shinnosuke Abe', 'Meguru Katô', 'Kazutoshi Yokoyama', 'Megumi Kagurazaka', 'Hajime Inoue']

Action, Adventure, Martial Arts, Drama, Thriller, Historical Fiction, Costume drama

['Japan', 'UK']

Japanese

['Japanese']

['TOHO', 'Sedic International', 'Toei Studios Kyoto', 'OLM', 'TV Asahi Music', 'IMAGICA', 'TV Asahi', 'dentsu', 'Shogakukan', 'The Asahi Shimbun', 'Asahi Broadcasting Corporation', 'Nagoya Broadcasting Network', 'Kyushu Asahi Broadcasting', 'Television Hokkaido Broadcasting', 'Yahoo! Japan', 'TSUTAYA Group', 'Hiroshima Home Television', 'Sedic Deux', 'Raku Film', 'Recorded Picture Company', 'HanWay Films']

action, top-rated

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In 1844, during the Edo Period, the Tokugawa Shogunate is in decline. Lord Matsudaira Naritsugu of Akashi sadistically rapes, tortures, mutilates and murders nobles and commoners, but is protected by the Shōgun, his half-brother. With Naritsugu due to ascend to the Shogunate Council, the Shōgun's Justice Minister, Sir Doi Toshitsura, realizes that this ascendance will cause civil war between the Shōgun and the many feudal lords Naritsugu has offended. The Mamiya clan's feudal lord publicly commits seppuku as a protest against the Shōgun's refusal to punish Naritsugu, who had personally murdered the feudal lord's entire family. When the Shōgun insists upon Naritsugu's promotion, Sir Doi hires a trusted older samurai, Shimada Shinzaemon, to assassinate Naritsugu. However, Naritsugu's loyal retainers led by Hanbei, an old contemporary of Shinzaemon, learn of the plot by spying on Doi. Shinzaemon gathers ten more samurai, including his nephew, Shinrokurō, plus one rōnin, to attack Naritsugu during his official journey from Edo to Akashi. Before Naritsugu leaves, Hanbei confronts Shinzaemon over the plot. The assassins decide to ambush Naritsugu at the town of Ochiai, predicting that he will insist on carrying out his pre-announced visit of Naegi and thus pass through Ochiai. During the assassins' journey to Ochiai, they stop at a town where they are attacked by rōnin paid off by Hanbei. Fearing more attacks, the assassins leave the roads, instead trekking through the mountains, but lose their way. They rescue a hunter, Kiga Koyata, who guides them to Ochiai and volunteers to become the thirteenth assassin. The assassins enlist the help of Makino, a feudal lord whose daughter-in-law was raped and son murdered by Naritsugu. Using troops with firearms, Makino blocks the official highway, forcing Naritsugu to take a detour. Makino then commits seppuku to conceal his involvement in the conspiracy. Sensing a trap, Hanbei advises Naritsugu to avoid Naegi, but Naritsugu refuses as this would publicly embarrass him. Naritsugu acknowledges that visiting Naegi is unsafe, but also exciting. Meanwhile, the assassins, with the legal authority and generous financial assistance of Doi, buy the help of Ochiai to convert the town into an elaborate maze of booby traps and camouflaged fortifications. Naritsugu and his retinue arrive at Ochiai, with reinforcements arranged by Hanbei, increasing their number from 70 to 200. As Ochiai's civilians escape, the 13 assassins trap Naritsugu's party in Ochiai. A lengthy battle begins, with the assassins first using arrows and explosives, then using swords for melee combat, with the exception of Koyata, who fights with rocks in slings and with sticks. While many of Naritsugu's retainers are killed, Naritsugu is aroused by the bloodshed of the battle and declares that when he ascends to the Shogunate Council, he will start wars reminiscent of the Sengoku Period. While most of the Akashi forces are defeated, at least 10 of the assassins perish, with several fighting until they collapsed dead from their injuries. Eventually, Shinzaemon and Shinrokurō confront Naritsugu, Hanbei and two remaining retainers. Shinzaemon argues that Naritsugu will ruin the realm, but Hanbei insists on loyalty to his master. Shinzaemon duels Hanbei and decapitates him after kicking mud into Hanbei's eyes, while Shinrokurō slays the last two Akashi retainers. Naritsugu kicks Hanbei's severed head away and announces that the people and the samurai have only one purpose: to serve their lords. Shinzaemon counters that that lords cannot live without the support of the people and that, if a lord abuses his power, the people will rise up against him. Naritsugu and Shinzaemon mortally wound each other. Crying, crawling in the mud, and experiencing rare fear and pain, Naritsugu thanks Shinzaemon for causing the most exciting day of Naritsugu's life. Naritsugu is decapitated by Shinzaemon, who succumbs to his wounds. Shinrokurō wanders through the carnage and Koyata runs up, appearing virtually unharmed despite being impaled through the neck by Naritsugu and slashed in the stomach by Hanbei and appearing to fall dead. Koyata dismisses his previous injuries as trivial. This unusual development and Shinrokuro's amazement and question if Koyata is immortal subtly suggests that Koyata could be a Japanese trickster deity who joined the assassins either to help them, or simply for his own entertainment. Shinrokurō and Koyata leave separately, with Shinrokurō intending to become a bandit or travel to America, while Koyata vows to elope with his lover. An epilogue states that Naritsugu's death was officially attributed to illness, and that 23 years later, the Tokugawa Shogunate was overthrown during the Meiji Restoration.

2001: A Space Odyssey

Stanley Kubrick

['Keir Dullea', 'Gary Lockwood', 'William Sylvester', 'Douglas Rain', 'Daniel Richter', 'Leonard Rossiter', 'Margaret Tyzack', 'Robert Beatty', 'Sean Sullivan', 'Frank Miller', 'Ed Bishop', 'Edwina Carroll', 'Heather Downham', 'Penny Brahms', 'Maggie London', 'Chela Matthison', 'Judy Kiern', 'Alan Gifford', 'Ann Gillis', 'Vivian Kubrick', 'Kenneth Kendall', 'Kevin Scott', 'Martin Amor', 'Bill Weston', 'Glenn Beck', 'Mike Lovell', 'John Ashley', 'Jimmy Bell', 'David Charkham', 'Simon Davis', 'Jonathan Daw', 'Péter Delmár', 'Terry Duggan', 'David Fleetwood', 'Danny Grover', 'Brian Hawley', 'David Hines', 'Tony Jackson', 'John Jordan', 'Scott MacKee', 'Laurence Marchant', 'Darryl Paes', 'Joe Refalo', 'Andy Wallace', 'Bob Wilyman', 'Richard Woods', 'S. Newton Anderson', 'Sheraton Blount', 'Ann Bormann', 'Julie Croft', 'Penny Francis', 'Marcella Markham', 'Irena Marr', 'Krystyna Marr', 'Kim Neil', 'Jane Pearl', 'Penny Pearl', 'Burnell Tucker', 'John Swindells', 'John Clifford', 'Stanley Kubrick', 'Anthony Jackson', 'Frank W. Miller']

Science fiction, Horror, Animation, Action, Adventure, Cyberpunk, Mystery, Drama, Suspense, Thriller, Classic

['UK', 'USA']

English

['English', 'Russian']

['Stanley Kubrick Productions', 'Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer']

sci-fi, top-rated

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In a prehistoric veld, a tribe of hominins is driven away from its water hole by a rival tribe. The next day, they find an alien monolith has appeared in their midst. The tribe then learn how to use a bone as a weapon and, after their first hunt, return to drive their rivals away with it. Millions of years later, Dr Heywood Floyd, Chairman of the United States National Council of Astronautics, travels to Clavius Base, an American lunar outpost. During a stopover at Space Station Five, he meets Russian scientists who are concerned that Clavius seems to be unresponsive. He refuses to discuss rumours of an epidemic at the base. At Clavius, Floyd addresses a meeting of personnel to whom he stresses the need for secrecy regarding their newest discovery. His mission is to investigate a recently found artefact, a monolith buried four million years earlier near the lunar crater Tycho. As he and others examine the object and are taking photographs, it emits a high-powered radio signal. Eighteen months later, the American spacecraft Discovery One is bound for Jupiter, with mission pilots and scientists Dr Dave Bowman and Dr Frank Poole on board, along with three other scientists in suspended animation. Most of Discovery's operations are controlled by HAL, a HAL 9000 computer with a human-like personality. When HAL reports the imminent failure of an antenna control device, Bowman retrieves it in an extravehicular activity (EVA) pod, but finds nothing wrong. HAL suggests reinstalling the device and letting it fail so the problem can be verified. Mission Control advises the astronauts that results from their backup 9000 computer indicate that HAL has made an error, but HAL blames it on human error. Concerned about HAL's behaviour, Bowman and Poole enter an EVA pod so they can talk in private without HAL overhearing. They agree to disconnect HAL if he is proven wrong. HAL follows their conversation by lip reading. While Poole is floating away from his pod to replace the antenna unit, HAL takes control of the pod and attacks him, sending Poole tumbling away from the ship with a severed air line. Bowman takes another pod to rescue Poole. While he is outside, HAL turns off the life support functions of the crewmen in suspended animation, killing them. When Bowman returns to the ship with Poole's body, HAL refuses to let him back in, stating that their plan to deactivate him jeopardises the mission. Bowman releases Poole's body and opens the ship's emergency airlock with his remote manipulators. Lacking a helmet for his spacesuit, he positions his pod carefully so that when he jettisons the pod's door, he is propelled by the escaping air across the vacuum into Discovery's airlock. He enters HAL's processor core and begins disconnecting most of HAL's circuits, ignoring HAL's pleas to stop. When he is finished, a prerecorded video by Heywood Floyd plays, revealing that the mission's actual objective is to investigate the radio signal sent from the monolith to Jupiter. At Jupiter, Bowman finds a third, much larger monolith orbiting the planet. He leaves Discovery in an EVA pod to investigate but is pulled into a vortex of coloured light, observing bizarre astronomical phenomena and strange landscapes of unusual colours as he passes by. Finally he finds himself in a large neoclassical bedroom where he sees, and then becomes, older versions of himself: first standing in the bedroom, middle-aged and still in his spacesuit, then dressed in leisure attire and eating dinner, and finally as an old man lying in bed. A monolith appears at the foot of the bed, and as Bowman reaches for it, he is transformed into a foetus enclosed in a transparent orb of light floating in space above the Earth.

2046

Wong Kar-wai

['Tony Leung Chiu-wai', 'Gong Li', 'Faye Wong', 'Takuya Kimura', 'Zhang Ziyi', 'Carina Lau', 'Chang Chen', 'Dong Jie', 'Maggie Cheung', 'Thongchai McIntyre', 'Wang Sum', 'Siu Ping-lam', 'Akina Hong Wah', 'Farini Cheung Yui-ling', 'Sabrina Cheung', 'Jiang Xinyu', 'Benz Kong To-Hoi', 'Alice Lee', 'Fei-lin Miao', 'Berg Ng Ting-Yip', 'Ben Yuen Foo-Wah', 'Ronny Ching Siu-Lung', 'Li Hsiao-Ming', 'Cheung Kwok-Hung']

Romance, Melodrama, Science fiction, Fantasy, Drama

['Germany', 'Hong Kong', 'China', 'France', 'Italy']

Chinese

['Chinese', 'Cantonese', 'English', 'Japanese']

['Shanghai Film Group', 'Orly Films', 'Jet Tone Films', 'Paradis Films', 'Classic Productions', 'Precious Yield']

sci-fi, top-rated, fantasy

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There are four main story arcs, listed in approximate order below. In typical Wong fashion, they are presented in non-chronological parts. Knowledge of Days of Being Wild and In the Mood for Love is assumed, but not necessary to understand 2046.

20th Century Women

Mike Mills

['Annette Bening', 'Lucas Jade Zumann', 'Greta Gerwig', 'Elle Fanning', 'Billy Crudup', 'Alison Elliott', 'Thea Gill', 'Vitaly Andrew LeBeau', 'Olivia Hone', 'Waleed Zuaiter', 'Curran Walters', 'Darrell Britt-Gibson', 'Alia Shawkat', 'Nathalie Love', 'Cameron Protzman', 'Victoria Bruno', 'John Billingsley', 'Cameron Gellman', 'Finnegan Seeker Bell', 'Zoë Nanos', 'Lauren Foley', 'Gareth Williams', 'J. Francisco Rodriguez', 'Zoë Worth', 'Finn Roberts', 'Laura Slade Wiggins', 'Rick Gifford', 'Paul Tigue', 'Matthew Foster', 'Kirk Bovill', 'Victoria Hoffman', 'Christina Offley', 'Randy Ryan', 'Diana Bostan', 'Toni Gaal', 'Hans-Peter Thomas', 'Kai Lennox', 'Paul Messinger', 'Eric Wentz', 'Samantha Gros', 'Britt Sanborn', 'Alexis Milan Turner', 'Catherine Zelinsky', 'Boyce Buchanan', 'Kyle Olivia Green', 'Sam Marsh', 'Antonia Marie Vivino', 'Sara Pelayo', 'Annabelle Lee', 'Avi Boyko', 'Tyler Leyva', 'Cameron Simon', 'Jesse Sanes', 'Sam Bosson', 'Patrick Pastor', 'Ian Logan', 'Trent Bowman', 'Justin Rivera', 'Desmond Shepherd', 'Joshua Burge', 'Daniel Dorr', 'Christopher Carroll', 'Hayden Gold', 'Alex Wexo', 'Pete Mason', 'Padraic Cassidy', 'Matthew Cardarople', 'Toni Christopher', 'Tanya Young']

Comedy, Drama, Comedy drama

['USA']

English

['English']

['Annapurna Pictures', 'Archer Gray', 'Modern People']

coming-of-age-movies-that-made-us-feel-seen

In 1979, 15-year-old Jamie Fields lives in Santa Barbara with his 55-year-old single mother, Dorothea, and their two tenants: Abbie Porter, a 24-year-old photographer being treated for cervical cancer, and William, a carpenter and mechanic. Jamie's best friend is 17-year-old Julie Hamlin, who often spends the night with Jamie, but chooses not to have sex with him because she believes it would destroy their friendship. Concerned she is having trouble connecting with her son, Dorothea asks Abbie and Julie to help raise him, but Jamie responds to this news by running away to Los Angeles with some friends to attend a rock concert. When he gets back, Julie tells him she had unprotected sex and is worried she will get pregnant. Jamie accompanies Abbie to a doctor's appointment, where she learns she is cancer-free, but will likely be unable to have children, and he reads a magazine article about home pregnancy tests. He buys one for Julie, and it comes back negative. To thank Jamie for his support, Abbie makes him a mixtape, and she begins to confide in him, such as about how she moved back home from New York after her cancer diagnosis, but her mother could not handle the fact that the cancer was caused by her use of DES, a fertility drug, while Abbie was in utero, so Abbie moved in with Dorothea. One day, after seeing Julie sneak out Jamie's window, Dorothea talks with her, and they end up discussing the fact that Dorothea has not had any real relationships since Jamie's father left years earlier. Dorothea asks Abbie to show her "the modern world," so they go to a punk club, where William kisses Dorothea, but she rejects him due to his sexual relationship with Abbie. After Dorothea leaves, Abbie gets in a fight and William tells her he no longer wants to sleep with her. Abbie goes to talk to Jamie and, finding him in bed with Julie, says Julie is disempowering Jamie and tells the teens to not get stuck in Santa Barbara. Later, Jamie asks Abbie to take him to the club, and he gets drunk and kisses a woman. Meanwhile, Dorothea teaches William how to pursue a relationship, as opposed to a one-night stand. When Abbie tells Dorothea about Jamie's night, Dorothea is not upset, though she is wistful that, as his mother, she can never see what Jamie is like out in the world. Abbie lends Jamie some books about feminism, and he finds them interesting, but Dorothea thinks they are too much for him and scolds Abbie. At a dinner party, Abbie says she is tired because she is menstruating, and, frustrated by the discomfort the word causes, she makes all of the men at the table say "menstruation". This inspires Julie to talk about her first period and her first sexual encounter, which ends the gathering. Jamie tells Julie he no longer wants her to spend the night if she just wants to talk. Hurt, she suggests they take a road trip up the coast. At a hotel, Jamie says he loves Julie, but she says they are too close to have sex. They argue, and Julie accuses Jamie of being like "the other guys", so Jamie storms off. Julie calls Dorothea, but by the time she, Abbie, and William arrive, Jamie has returned. Dorothea tells Jamie that she asked Abbie and Julie for help because she wants Jamie to be happier than she is, and he says he thought they were doing fine already. The two make up and return to Santa Barbara on their own, and Dorothea talks openly about her feelings and dreams for the first time. An epilogue reveals that Julie will go on the pill, attend NYU, lose touch with Jamie and Dorothea, fall in love, move to Paris, and choose to never have children. Abbie will stay in Santa Barbara, get married, set up a photography studio in her garage, and successfully give birth to two sons. William will live with Dorothea for another year, move to Sedona, open a pottery store, get married, get divorced, and remarry. Dorothea will meet a man in 1983 and stay with him until her death from metastatic lung cancer in 1999. Years after Dorothea's death, Jamie will get married and have a son, to whom he will try, unsuccessfully, to describe Dorothea.

21 Jump Street

Phil Lord, Christopher Miller

['Jonah Hill', 'Channing Tatum', 'Brie Larson', 'Dave Franco', 'Rob Riggle', 'DeRay Davis', 'Ice Cube', 'Dax Flame', 'Chris Parnell', 'Ellie Kemper', 'Jake Johnson', 'Nick Offerman', 'Holly Robinson Peete', 'Johnny Pemberton', 'Stanley Wong', 'Justin Hires', 'Brett Lapeyrouse', 'Lindsey Broad', 'Caroline Aaron', 'Joe Chrest', 'Geraldine Singer', 'Dakota Johnson', 'Rye Rye', 'Valerie Tian', 'Jaren Mitchell', 'Johnny Simmons', 'Keith Kurtz', 'Randal Reeder', 'Peter Epstein', 'Anthony Molinari', 'Luis Da Silva Jr.', "Dominic 'Taz' Alexander", 'Mike Seal', 'Spencer Boldman', 'Joe Nin Williams', 'Chad Hessler', 'Kevin Michael Murphy', 'Victor Paguia', 'Chanel Celaya', 'Carol Sutton', 'Andrea Frankle', 'Tiffney Wagoner', 'Andrea Madison', 'Hristo Birbochukov', 'Candi Brooks', 'Turner Crumbley', 'Haley Farris', 'Brittney Alger', 'Joshua Nelms', 'Courtney Jarrell', 'Melissa Cordero', 'Beau DeLatte', 'Charles Ferrara', 'Mark Adams', 'Brian H. Rossitto', 'Peter DeLuise', 'Johnny Depp', 'D.J. Mills']

Comedy, Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Detective fiction, Crime Fiction

['USA']

English

['English']

['Columbia Pictures', 'Relativity Media', 'Original Film', 'Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer', 'Stephen J. Cannell Productions', 'SJC Studios']

comedy

vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time

In 2005, unpopular-yet-scholarly student Morton Schmidt and popular-yet-underachieving athlete Greg Jenko miss their school prom, Schmidt being rejected by the girl he was trying to ask to be his date and Jenko being barred from attending due to failing grades. Seven years later, the duo meets again at the police academy and become friends and partners on bicycle patrol. They catch a break when they arrest Domingo, the leader of a one-percenter motorcycle gang, but are forced to release him after they fail to read him his Miranda rights. The duo is reassigned to a revived scheme from the 1980s, which specializes in infiltrating high schools. Captain Dickson assigns them to contain the spread of a synthetic drug called HFS ("Holy Fucking Shit") at Sagan High School. He gives them new identities and enrolls them as students, giving them class schedules fitting their previous academic performances; Jenko taking mostly arts and humanities, and Schmidt taking mostly science classes, but the duo mixes up their identities. Schmidt gets a lead on HFS from classmate Molly, and he and Jenko meet the school's main dealer, popular student Eric. The two take HFS in front of him to maintain their cover, and then rush to the bathroom and attempt to vomit the HFS out of their systems, but are unsuccessful. Eric takes a liking to Schmidt, who develops a romantic interest in Molly. Jenko becomes friends with the students in his AP Chemistry class and finds himself becoming more interested in geeky hobbies and academic pursuits. Schmidt and Jenko throw a party at Schmidt's parents' house, where they are living during the course of their assignment, and invite Eric. During the party, a fight breaks out between Schmidt, Jenko, and some party crashers from another high school. Schmidt wins the fight, impressing Eric and gaining his trust. Jenko's friends hack Eric's phone to enable them to listen in on his conversations. The phone hack reveals information about an upcoming meeting between Eric and his supplier. Jenko happens to overhear conversations between Schmidt and Eric, where he catches Schmidt making disparaging comments about him. A rift between the duo grows and their official police work suffers. Schmidt and Jenko later track Eric to a cash transaction with the distributors of HFS—the motorcycle gang from the park—and a chase ensues on the freeway. They return to school, argue, and eventually begin fighting, which disrupts the school play. They are expelled from school and fired from the Jump Street program. Eric, stressed and terrified, recruits Schmidt and Jenko as security for a deal taking place at the school prom. While dressing for the prom, Schmidt and Jenko rekindle their friendship. At the prom, Schmidt is forced to reveal his identity as a cop, upsetting Molly. When they go to the penthouse, they discover that the supplier is the physical education teacher, Mr. Walters, who created the drug accidentally and started selling it to the students to supplement his teacher's salary and pay alimony to his ex-wife. Having caught Eric smoking marijuana, he was able to persuade him to be his dealer. The motorcycle gang arrives for the deal, but Molly, high on the HFS, interrupts them and starts arguing with Schmidt. As a result, gang leader Domingo recognizes Schmidt and Jenko and orders his men to kill them. Two of the gang members then reveal themselves to be undercover DEA agents Tom Hanson and Doug Penhall, former members of the 21 Jump Street program. Domingo orders his men to shoot Hanson and Penhall; in the ensuing exchange of gunfire, Hanson and Penhall are both mortally wounded. Mr. Walters and Eric escape with the money and Molly as a hostage; the gang, Schmidt, and Jenko follow close behind. Jenko creates a homemade bomb and uses it to kill the gang. Mr. Walters shoots at Schmidt but Jenko takes the bullet to his arm, sparing Schmidt's life. In response, Schmidt shoots Mr. Walters, unintentionally severing his penis. They arrest Mr. Walters and Eric, successfully reading the former his Miranda rights. Schmidt and Molly share a kiss while Eric and Mr. Walters get arrested. Both officers are congratulated and reinstated in the Jump Street program as Dickson gives them a new assignment: infiltrating a college.

21 Ways to Ruin a Marriage

Johanna Vuoksenmaa

['Armi Toivanen', 'Essi Hellén', 'Aku Hirviniemi', 'Riku Nieminen', 'Pamela Tola', 'Hannele Lauri', 'Vesa Vierikko', 'Niina Lahtinen', 'Aarre Karén', 'Eila Roine', 'Miia Nuutila', 'Jarkko Niemi', 'Krisse Salminen', 'Eero Ritala', 'Mari Perankoski', 'Frans Isotalo', 'Meiju Lampinen', 'Juha-Pekka Mikkola', 'Laura Vehkanen', 'Sami Samuel Kosonen', 'Misa Palander', 'Iikka Forss', 'Saara Saastamoinen', 'Jussi Puhakka', 'Minna Rimpilä', 'Miska Kajanus', 'Elina Hietala', 'Anna-Stina Backström', 'Hannes Suominen', 'Onni Leppänen', 'Ronja Porthan', 'Tuomas Klaavo', 'Mikko Mäkelä', 'Eila Kupsu', 'Viktor Toikkanen', 'Susanna Laine', 'Sami Kuronen', 'Ville Klinga']

Romance, Comedy, Drama

['Finland']

Finnish

['Finnish']

['Dionysos Films']

toxic-relationship

toxic-destructive-relationships

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211

York Alec Shackleton

['Nicolas Cage', 'Dwayne Cameron', 'Michael Rainey Jr.', 'Ori Pfeffer', 'Sean James', 'Michael Bellisario', 'Weston Cage', 'Sophie Skelton', 'Cory Hardrict', 'Pavel Vladimirov', 'Sapir Azulay', 'Derek Horse', 'Alexandra Dinu', 'Raymond Steers', 'Katie Manning', 'Keith D. Evans', 'Nick Donadio', 'Aaron Cohen', 'Mark Basnight', 'François Coetzer', 'Fedi Bashur', 'Aleksander Karastoyanov', 'Jamieson Urquhart', 'Laura Giosh', 'Velizar Binev', 'Atanas Srebrev', 'Shari Watson', 'Eric Ali', 'Petar Mitev', 'Stowe Blankenship', 'Jordan Aboutall', 'Brian Manning', 'Brenda Galaz-Magyar', 'Mackenzie Evans', 'Vitaly Zdorovetskiy', 'Sam Cig', 'J.R. Esposito', 'Amanda Cerny', 'Jeko Bogoslovov', 'Ivan Kaloshev', 'Shauna Small', 'Liza Mircheva', 'Owen Davis', 'Bleona', 'Jonathan Yunger', 'Maya Markova', 'Orlin Pavlov', 'Manal El-Feitury', "Rachel O'Meara"]

Action, Thriller, Adventure, Drama, Crime film, Suspense, Historical Fiction, Crime Fiction

['USA']

English

['English']

['Millennium Media', 'Nu Image Bulgaria', '211 Productions']

heist

heist-movies

In Afghanistan, disgruntled and ruthless mercenaries Tre, Rob, Luke, and Hyde torture a war profiteer who owes them money. Before they kill him, he discloses it has been wired to a bank in the city of Chesterford, Massachusetts. Interpol Agent Rossi is reassigned from an operation in Kabul to investigate the mercenaries. In Chesterford, quiet high school student Kenny Ralston is suspended for fighting off a bully. The school's vice principal informs Kenny's mother, emergency department nurse Shawnee Ralston, that Kenny must go on a police ride-along or face expulsion. Kenny is assigned to Chesterford Police Department Officer Mike Chandler and his son-in-law Officer Steve MacAvoy. Mike, a widower whose relationship with his daughter Lisa is deteriorating, learns from Steve that Lisa is pregnant. Kenny and the officers do not get along, and Kenny records an incident where the officers hold a suspect at gunpoint, frustrating Mike, who feels people who record police are obstructing their duties. Elsewhere, the mercenaries prepare to rob the Chesterford bank for the wired money, worth $1.3 million. Hyde plants an IED in a diner elsewhere in Chesterford to provide a diversion, and the mercenaries rob the bank, taking numerous hostages. While on a coffee break nearby, Mike notices an illegally-parked SUV outside the bank. Tre and Hyde detonate the IED, destroying the diner. The Chesterford PD dispatches all available units to the explosion, issuing Captain Horst situational command, and Shawnee's hospital prepares to receive casualties, while Rossi is ordered to assist the Chesterford PD. However, Mike, having warmed up to Kenny, chooses to stay in their beat and keep him around, to Steve's chagrin. Agitated at Mike and Steve's refusal to leave, Hyde opens fire on their cruiser, forcing it to crash. Steve calls for backup and rescues Kenny, and the officers return fire and kill Hyde while Kenny attempts to record the shootout. Mike learns Steve is injured and prepares a makeshift tourniquet. Meanwhile, Rossi arrives in Chesterford as police begin to divert their attention to the robbery. Backup arrives, including Officers Hanson and Jacobs and attempts to medevac Steve, but the robbers shoot numerous hostages, bystanders, and officers, including Jacobs. Steve, fearing he will die, asks Kenny to record a farewell message for Lisa. Backup eventually manages to extract Steve, but Kenny is separated from Mike in the bank's parking lot. At the hospital, Shawnee and EMTs treat the casualties from the diner and the bank, including Steve and Jacobs. Lisa arrives at the hospital and learns from Jacobs that Mike is still at the scene looking for Kenny; Shawnee overhears their conversation and begins to worry just as Kenny calls to tell her he is safe. By now, a massive police presence has formed at the bank, including the Massachusetts State Police, Chesterford PD SWAT, Horst, and Rossi. As Mike and Hanson head to the parking lot to search for Kenny, Tre releases the hostages; however, Horst finds an IED in a hostage's pocket and sacrifices himself to protect others from the blast. With the hostages secured, SWAT assaults the bank but are repelled by the robbers. Rob and Luke charge out to battle the police but are killed while Tre escapes into the parking lot and fires on Kenny and the officers, killing Hanson and injuring Mike. As Tre prepares to execute Mike, Kenny pulls Hanson's sidearm just as Rossi arrives, and both shoot and kill Tre. Mike and Kenny are extracted from the scene and are met by Lisa and Shawnee. One year later, Mike arrives home to a birthday party held for him by his friends and family, including Steve, Lisa, Kenny, and Mike’s new granddaughter. As he joins the celebrations, he asks Kenny to take pictures for him.

22 Jump Street

Phil Lord, Christopher Miller

['Jonah Hill', 'Channing Tatum', 'Peter Stormare', 'Wyatt Russell', 'Amber Stevens West', 'Jillian Bell', 'Ice Cube', 'Keith Lucas', 'Kenneth Lucas', 'Nick Offerman', 'Jimmy Tatro', 'Caroline Aaron', 'Craig Roberts', 'Marc Evan Jackson', 'Joe Chrest', 'Eddie J. Fernandez', 'Rye Rye', 'Johnny Pemberton', 'Stanley Wong', 'Dax Flame', 'Diplo', 'Tyler Forrest', 'John Bostic', 'Richard Grieco', 'Dustin Nguyen', 'Ian Hoch', 'Kate Adair', 'Drew Cross', 'Katrina Despain', 'Oscar Gale', 'Janeline Hayes', 'Jackie Bohne', 'Jason R.A. Foster', 'Toby Nichols', 'Toby Holguin', 'Eddie Perez', 'Mickey Facchinello', 'Tom Ventura', 'Brian Schacter', 'Sam Schweikert', 'Jack Maloney', 'Rob Riggle', 'Dave Franco', 'Queen Latifah', 'Patton Oswalt', 'H. Jon Benjamin', 'Anna Faris', 'Bill Hader', 'Seth Rogen', 'Will Forte', "Ramiro 'Ramir' Delgado Ruiz", 'Vanessa Amaya', 'Chris Angerdina', 'John L. Armijo', 'Eric Berris', 'Libby Blake', 'Renaldo Brady', 'Emanuel Brooks', 'Tom Bui', 'Gustavo Cardozo', 'Blas Sien Diaz', 'Eddie Eniel', 'Joseph Fischer', 'Julian Garnik', 'Juan Gaspard', 'Kurt Grossi', 'Lyle R. Guidroz', 'Christopher Heskey', 'Skyler Joy', 'Adam Karchmer', 'Kurt Krause', 'Joshua Lamboy', 'Jaci LeJeune', 'Ashlyn McEvers', 'Anna Medley', 'David Stephen Mitchell', 'Jesse Moore', 'Jean Pierre Prats', 'Anthony Ramsey', 'Lisa Raziano', 'Gus Rhodes', 'Edwin Richardson', 'Jeff Sanders', 'Larissa Santiago', 'William Schaff', 'Robert Segari', 'Carl Singleton', 'Anne Speed', 'Sean Stevens', 'John Teal Jr.', 'Steve Terada', 'Joseph Uzzell', 'Donald Watkins', 'Stephen Daniel Wayne', 'Steven Williams', 'Michael Wozniak', 'Jesse Yarborough', 'Don Yesso', 'Ahmed Zakzouk']

Comedy, Action, Buddy cop, Buddy, Crime, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller, Detective fiction, Crime Fiction, Police procedural

['USA']

English

['English']

['Columbia Pictures', 'Original Film', 'MRC', 'LStar Capital', 'Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer', 'Stephen J. Cannell Productions', '75 Year Plan Productions', 'Storyville Films', 'JHF Productions', '33andOut Productions']

comedy

vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time

Two years following their success in the 21 Jump Street program, Schmidt and Jenko are back on the streets investigating narcotics trafficking. However, after failing in the pursuit of a group of drug dealers led by "The Ghost", Deputy Chief Hardy puts the duo back on the undercover program to work for Captain Dickson – now located across the street at 22 Jump Street. Their assignment is to go undercover as college students and locate the supplier of a synthetic drug known as "WHY-PHY" (Work Hard? Yes, Play Hard? Yes) that killed a student photographed buying it on campus from a dealer. At college, Jenko befriends a pair of jocks named Zook and Rooster, who soon become the prime suspects of the investigation. Jenko starts attending parties with the jocks who do not take as kindly to Schmidt. Meanwhile, Schmidt gets the attention of an art student, Maya, by feigning an interest in slam poetry. After hitting it off immediately, the two have sex together, to the chagrin of Maya's roommate Mercedes, and Schmidt later finds out that Maya is the daughter of Captain Dickson, whom Schmidt bragged to about "getting laid", much to his dismay. Despite sleeping together, Maya tells Schmidt not to take it seriously, and he starts to feel left out as Jenko bonds more and more with Zook who encourages him to join the football team. When Schmidt and Jenko are unable to identify the dealer, they visit Mr. Walters and Eric in prison for advice (with Eric being in a forced relationship with Mr. Walters, who received a vagina after Schmidt shot his penis off), and Walters points out a unique tattoo on the arm of the dealer in the photograph. Whilst hanging out with Zook and Rooster, Jenko notices that Rooster does not have the tattoo but sees it on Zook's arm. Schmidt and Jenko are invited to join a fraternity led by the jocks, but Schmidt refuses, furthering the tension between the two as Jenko passes their requirements. They later realize that Zook is not the dealer but rather another customer. Soon afterwards, they find The Ghost and his men on campus, but The Ghost again evades them. Jenko reveals to Schmidt that he has been offered a football scholarship with Zook and is uncertain about his future as a police officer. After a car chase across campus, Schmidt reveals his true identity and moves out of the dorm, angering Maya. Spring break arrives, and Schmidt goes after The Ghost. He is joined by Jenko, so the two can have one final mission together. The pair head to the beach where The Ghost is likely to be dealing WHY-PHY. Inside a bar, they find Mercedes, who is The Ghost's daughter, giving instructions to other dealers. The pair, backed up by Dickson and the rest of Jump Street, ambush the meeting, causing the Ghost to flee and Mercedes to take Dickson as a hostage. Schmidt chases after Mercedes, and after a scuffle apprehends her with the help of Dickson and Maya. The Ghost attempts to escape in a helicopter; Schmidt and Jenko manage to jump across to it and both let go, where Jenko then throws a grenade into the helicopter. The Ghost celebrates his victory prematurely while the grenade explodes. Jenko tells Schmidt that he still wants to be a police officer as he believes their differences help their partnership, and the two reconcile in front of a cheering crowd. Dickson approaches them claiming to have a new mission undercover at a medical school. During the end credits, Jenko and Schmidt go on a variety of undercover missions to different schools, which are portrayed as 21 fictional sequels, one in which Schmidt is played by Seth Rogen (which only Jenko seemed to notice) after a contract dispute with Jonah Hill; an animated series; a video game; an electronic target game; and a toy line. One mission features Detective Booker while another sees the return of The Ghost, who somehow survived the helicopter explosion. The post-credits scene shows Eric and Mr. Walters lying in bed together, with Mr. Walters suggesting that he's pregnant with Eric's child.

28 Days Later

Danny Boyle

['Cillian Murphy', 'Naomie Harris', 'Brendan Gleeson', 'Megan Burns', 'Christopher Eccleston', 'Noah Huntley', 'Luke Mably', 'Stuart McQuarrie', 'Ricci Harnett', 'Leo Bill', 'Junior Laniyan', 'Ray Panthaki', 'Sanjay Rambaruth', 'Marvin Campbell', 'Christopher Dunne', 'Emma Hitching', 'Alex Palmer', 'Bindu De Stoppani', 'Jukka Hiltunen', 'David Schneider', 'Alexander Delamere', 'Kim McGarrity', 'Toby Sedgwick', 'Justin Hackney', 'Adrian Christopher', 'Richard Dwyer', 'Nick Ewans', 'Terry John', 'Paul Kasey', 'Sebastian Knapp', 'Nicholas James Lewis', 'Jenni Lush', 'Tristan Matthiae', 'Jeffrey Rann', 'Joelle Simpson', 'Al Stokes', 'Steen Young']

Horror, Zombie, Science fiction, Action, Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, Drama, Suspense, Thriller

['UK']

English

['English', 'Spanish']

['DNA Films']

sci-fi, post-apocalyptic, top-rated

post-apocalyptic-movies, letterboxds-top-250-science-fiction-films

A highly contagious, aggression-inducing virus called the "rage virus" is unleashed in Great Britain after an infected chimpanzee is freed from its cage in a laboratory in Cambridge by a group of animal rights activists. Within seconds of exposure after freeing the enraged chimp, one of the activists succumbs to the virus and immediately infects another, becoming the patient zero of the incoming epidemic. The virus spreads rapidly across Great Britain, resulting in total societal collapse. Twenty-eight days after the initial outbreak, bicycle courier Jim, who had an accident and fell into a coma prior to the outbreak, awakens in St Thomas' Hospital in London, which has been completely deserted with visible signs of catastrophe. After wandering the streets of London and entering a church, Jim is chased by infected humans before being rescued by survivors Selena and Mark, who take Jim to their place of refuge in a streetside store. At Jim's request, the group travel on foot to his parents' house in Deptford, where he learns that they died by suicide, leaving a note in which they prayed he did not wake up. The group decide it is too late to return to their place of refuge, and stay the night. While the others are asleep, Jim lights a candle to reminisce over photos and memories of his family, in so doing accidentally attracting the infected with the light. Shortly thereafter, Mark gets an open wound on his arm which is exposed to infected blood during an attack, prompting Selena to immediately kill him before he can turn. Jim and Selena encounter cab driver Frank and his daughter Hannah at Balfron Tower, from whom they learn of a military broadcast offering protection at a blockade in Manchester. With supplies dwindling, Frank asks Jim and Selena to accompany him and Hannah to the blockade, which they accept. The group travels to Manchester in Frank's cab, but upon arriving, they find the blockade deserted. As the group struggles to plot their next move, Frank is infected when a drop of blood falls into his eye. The soldiers arrive shortly afterwards and shoot Frank dead. The remaining survivors are brought to a fortified mansion under the command of Major Henry West. However, the safety promised by the soldiers turns out to be a ruse when West reveals to Jim that the broadcast was intended to lure female survivors into sexual slavery. Major West has Jim and Sergeant Farrell taken out to be shot after they refuse to go along with his plan, but Jim escapes after Farrell creates a distraction. While hiding in a pile of bodies, Jim sees a jet contrail in the sky, showing proof of outside survivors for the first time. After luring West away from the mansion, Jim releases Private Mailer, an infected soldier kept chained for observations, resulting in the death or infection of all of West's men. Jim, Selena, and Hannah attempt to leave in Frank's cab, but West, who sneaked into the back seat, shoots Jim. Hannah retaliates by putting the cab in reverse, allowing Mailer to pull West through the rear window and kill him, while the three survivors drive off. Another twenty-eight days later, Jim recovers at a remote cottage in Cumbria, where the infected are shown lying openly in the roads, emaciated and dying of starvation. As a RAF Hawker Hunter jet flies overhead, Jim, Selena, and Hannah unfurl a huge cloth banner spelling the word "HELLO". The three survivors optimistically watch the jet as the pilot spots them.

28 Weeks Later

Juan Carlos Fresnadillo

['Robert Carlyle', 'Rose Byrne', 'Jeremy Renner', 'Harold Perrineau', 'Catherine McCormack', 'Imogen Poots', 'Mackintosh Muggleton', 'Idris Elba', 'Amanda Walker', 'Shahid Ahmed', 'Garfield Morgan', 'Emily Beecham', 'Jordan El-Balawi', 'Meghan Popiel', 'Stewart Alexander', 'Philip Bulcock', 'Chris Ryman', 'Tristan Tait', 'William Meredith', 'Thomas Garvey', 'Tom Bodell', 'Andrew Byron', 'Sarah Finigan', 'Roderic Culver', 'Maeve Malley-Ryan', 'Ed Coleman', 'Karen Meagher', 'Amanda Lawrence', 'Drew Rhys-Williams', 'Raymond Waring', 'Kish Sharma', 'Jane Thorne', 'Matt Reeves', 'Dean Alexandrou', 'Gareth Clarke', 'Debbie Kurup', 'Selina Lo', 'João Costa Menezes', 'Jude Poyer', 'Katie Borland', 'Pip Henderson', 'Jason Curle', 'Simon Delaney']

Horror, Action, Science fiction, Disaster, Drama, Suspense, Thriller

['Spain', 'UK', 'USA']

English

['English']

['DNA Films', 'Figment Films', 'Sociedad General de Cine S.A.', 'UK Film Council', 'Fox Atomic', 'Koan']

post-apocalyptic

post-apocalyptic-movies

During the original outbreak of the Rage virus, Don, his wife Alice, and four more survivors hide in a cottage on the outskirts of London. They hear a terrified boy pounding at their door and Don lets him in. Minutes later, they discover that infected people have followed the boy. Don pleads with Alice to leave the boy but she refuses so he abandons them and escapes on a boat while Alice, the boy, and the rest of the survivors are presumably killed. After the infected begin to die of starvation, NATO forces take control of Britain. Twenty-eight weeks after the outbreak, an American force, under the command of Brigadier General Stone, brings in settlers. Among the new arrivals are Don and Alice's children, Tammy and Andy, who were out of the country during the outbreak. They are admitted to District One, a heavily guarded safe zone on the Isle of Dogs, where they are reunited with their father. Within hours of arriving, and ignoring multiple severe verbal and signage warnings, Tammy and Andy ignore all possible consequences and sneak out of the safe zone, returning to their former home to collect old family photographs. Andy finds Alice alive in a delirious, semi-conscious state. The three are discovered by American soldiers and taken back to District One, where they are placed in isolation. Alice is taken to a quarantine room, where she is tested by Scarlet, a United States Army medical officer, and found to be an asymptomatic carrier of the Rage virus. Don makes an unauthorized visit to Alice, begging her to forgive him. They kiss and Don is infected. He savagely kills her and goes on a rampage. Scarlet rescues Tammy and Andy, aware that their genetic makeup might hold the key to a cure. Don starts a domino effect of rapid rage infection. Amidst the chaos, American soldiers cannot distinguish between panicked survivors and rampaging infected, and are told to shoot everyone. One of the snipers, Sergeant Doyle, unable to keep complying with the order, escapes with Scarlet, Tammy, and Andy as the U.S. Air Force firebombs District One. Don is among the infected who survive the bombings and escapes into abandoned London. Doyle's pilot friend Flynn arrives by helicopter to pick up Doyle but tells him to leave the civilians and head to Wembley Stadium. Doyle ignores his instructions and escorts the trio to Wembley. They break into an abandoned Volvo V70 to escape nerve gas released to kill the infected but are unable to start the car. As American soldiers with flamethrowers draw near, Doyle exits the car to push-start it and is burned alive. Scarlet and the kids escape into the London Underground, but Don kills Scarlet and bites Andy. Tammy shoots Don dead. Andy remains symptom-free but a carrier of the Rage virus. They are picked up by Flynn, who flies them over the destruction of District One they precipitated, then onwards to France. Twenty-eight days later, a French-accented voice requesting help is heard from the radio in Flynn's abandoned helicopter. A group of the infected emerge at the Paris Métro with a view of the Eiffel Tower, revealing that the virus has spread to continental Europe.

3 Idiots

Rajkumar Hirani

['Aamir Khan', 'R. Madhavan', 'Sharman Joshi', 'Kareena Kapoor Khan', 'Boman Irani', 'Omi Vaidya', 'Rahul Kumar', 'Mona Singh', 'Javed Jaffrey', 'Olivier Lafont', 'Parikshat Sahni', 'Farida Dadi', 'Amardeep Jha', 'Mukund Bhatt', 'Ali Fazal', 'Arun Bali', 'Supriya Shukla', 'Dushyant Wagh', 'Akhil Mishra', 'Atul Tiwari', 'Achyut Potdar', 'Chaitali Bose', 'Jayant Kripalani', 'Rajeev Ravindranathan', 'Shoaib Ahmed']

Hindi cinema, Comedy, Romance, Adventure, Melodrama, Comedy drama, Drama, Tragicomedy, Coming-of-age story

['India']

Hindi

['Hindi', 'English']

['Vidhu Vinod Chopra Productions', 'Vinod Chopra Films']

comedy

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Chatur Ramalingam, a successful vice-president, reminds his old college rivals Farhan Qureshi and Raju Rastogi about a bet he made with their classmate and Chatur's nemesis Rancho ten years ago. Chatur has returned to India to conclude a business deal with Phunsukh Wangdu, a famous inventor. The three go to Shimla to find Rancho, reminiscing about their time at the Imperial College of Engineering (ICE) in Delhi. In college, Rancho was passionate about learning and often clashed with the strict college president, Dr. Viru Sahastrabuddhe ("Virus"). When a student named Joy Lobo is denied graduation by Virus for not submitting a project, Rancho tries to help but finds Joy has committed suicide by hanging. Rancho confronts Virus about the intense pressure on students, but Virus dismisses him. One night, Rancho, Farhan, and Raju crash a wedding party, not realising it is for Virus's daughter Mona. Mona's younger sister, Pia, is initially upset with Rancho but starts liking him after he exposes her materialistic fiancé Suhas. Pia breaks up with Suhas. Virus warns Farhan and Raju about associating with Rancho, so Raju moves in with Chatur, a competitive student who relies on rote learning. Rancho and Farhan prank Chatur by altering his Hindi speech, leading to his humiliation. Furious, Chatur challenges Rancho to see who is more successful in ten years. Before their final exams, Raju’s father has a heart attack. Rancho and Pia help save him. Virus bets Rancho that neither Farhan nor Raju will get a job after graduation. Rancho tells his friends why they struggle: Farhan's passion is photography, not engineering, and Raju lacks confidence. Farhan and Raju promise to confront their issues if Rancho confesses his feelings for Pia. They drunkenly break into Virus's house, and Farhan and Raju urinate on his letterbox. Virus notices Raju at his doorstep and threatens to expel him unless he betrays Rancho. Not wanting to disappoint his family or to betray Rancho, Raju attempts suicide but survives, leading Virus to revoke the expulsion. Raju succeeds in the interview and gets a job, and Farhan convinces his father to let him become a photographer. Humiliated at Raju's success, Virus sets a difficult exam to fail Raju so he cannot claim the job. With Pia’s help, Rancho and Farhan steal the exam paper, but Raju refuses to cheat and throws it away. They are nonetheless caught and are all expelled. Following the trio's expulsion, Pia, having given the office key to the trio, finally confronts her older sister, Mona, and her father by revealing that her brother had actually committed suicide due to the pressure his father had put him through into becoming an engineer, since he wanted to pursue his own dream by becoming a writer instead, but only to simply write a suicide note. On a stormy night, a pregnant Mona goes into labour while unable to reach a hospital, but successfully delivers her baby with Rancho's, Farhan's and Raju's help. In gratitude, Virus forgives the three, reluctantly passing down his space pen to Rancho as a mark of honor. On graduation day, Rancho disappears. In the present, Farhan, Raju, and Chatur reach Shimla and find out that the real Rancho was a different man. Their friend was actually Chhote, the son of Rancho’s family's gardener, who took Rancho’s place to get an education and earn a degree for him. The real Rancho tells them Chhote’s address in Ladakh. On the way, they stop Pia’s wedding with Suhas in Manali and convince her to join them. In Ladakh, they find a school run by their friend. Chatur mocks Rancho, thinking he is merely a teacher, but is shocked to realize that he is actually Phunsukh Wangdu, the person he is eager to make a business deal with. Chatur accepts defeat, and the friends run away laughing.

300

Zack Snyder

['Gerard Butler', 'Lena Headey', 'Dominic West', 'David Wenham', 'Vincent Regan', 'Michael Fassbender', 'Tom Wisdom', 'Andrew Pleavin', 'Andrew Tiernan', 'Rodrigo Santoro', 'Giovani Cimmino', 'Stephen McHattie', 'Greg Kramer', 'Alex Ivanovici', 'Kelly Craig', 'Eli Snyder', 'Tyler Neitzel', 'Tim Connolly', 'Marie-Julie Rivest', 'Sebastian St. Germain', 'Peter Mensah', 'Arthur Holden', 'Michael Sinelnikoff', 'John Dunn-Hill', 'Dennis St John', 'Neil Napier', 'Dylan Smith', 'Maurizio Terrazzano', 'Robert Paradis', 'Kwasi Songui', 'Alexandra Beaton', 'Frédéric Smith', 'Loucas Minchillo', 'Nicholas Minchillo', 'Tom Rack', 'David Francis', 'James Bradford', 'Andrew Shaver', 'Robin Wilcock', 'Kent McQuaid', 'Marcel Jeannin', 'Jere Gillis', 'Jeremy Thibodeau', 'Tyrone Benskin', 'Robert Maillet', 'Patrick Sabongui', 'Leon Laderach', 'Dave Lapommeray', 'Vervi Mauricio', 'Charles Papasoff', 'Isabelle Champeau', 'Veronique-Natale Szalankiewicz', 'Maéva Nadon', 'David Thibodeau', 'David Schaap', 'Jean Michel Paré', 'Stewart Myiow', 'Andreanne Ross', 'Sara Giacalone', 'Ariadne Bourbonnière', 'Isabelle Fournel', 'Sandrine Merette-Attiow', 'Elisabeth Etienne', 'Danielle Hubbard', 'Ruan Vibegaard', 'Geneviève Guilbault', 'Bonnie Mak', 'Amélie Sorel', 'Caroline Aspirot', 'Gina Gagnon', 'Tania Trudel', 'Stéphanie Aubry', 'Mercedes Leggett', 'Stephania Gambaroff', 'Chanelle Lamothe', 'Sabrina-Jasmine Guilbault', 'Manny Cortez Tuazon', 'Cindy', 'Atif Y. Siddiqi', 'Camille Rizkallah', 'Trudi Hanley', 'Neon Cobran', 'Gary A. Hecker']

War, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Superhero, Drama, Historical Fiction

['UK', 'USA']

English

['English']

['Virtual Studios', 'Legendary Pictures', 'Hollywood Gang Productions', 'Atmosphere Entertainment MM', 'Nimar Studios', 'Warner Bros. Pictures', 'Cruel & Unusual Films']

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Dilios, a hoplite in the Spartan army, narrates the story of a Spartan king named Leonidas I from childhood to kingship through the Spartan child-rearing system and the Battle of Thermopylae. A Persian herald arrives at Sparta demanding "earth and water" as a token of submission to King Xerxes. He urges Leonidas to submit and insults Queen Gorgo. In response, Leonidas and the Spartan soldiers throw the herald and his envoy into a bottomless pit. Leonidas then visits the Ephors, proposing a strategy to drive back the Persians through Thermopylae to funnel the Persians into a narrow pass, giving the Greeks' heavy infantry the advantage over the numerically superior Persian light infantry. The Ephors warn Leonidas that the Carneia is approaching and that Sparta should not wage war during that time. They consult the Oracle, who decrees that Sparta should honor the Carneia. As Leonidas angrily departs, an agent from Xerxes appears alongside a Spartan politician, Theron, rewarding the Ephors for their covert support. Although the Ephors have denied him permission to mobilize Sparta's army, Leonidas gathers 300 soldiers. Theron and the Council confront Leonidas about defying the Ephors by going to war. Leonidas suggests they will not go but depart for war shortly after that. They are joined by a few thousand Arcadians and other Greeks led by Daxos. They reach Thermopylae, watching a storm sinking many Persian navy ships at the Aegean Sea. The Spartans then scouted out a large Persian encampment and constructed the wall, using slain Persian scouts as mortar. Meanwhile, Leonidas encounters Ephialtes, a deformed Spartan whose parents fled Sparta to spare him certain infanticide. Ephialtes asks to join Leonidas' army and warns him of a secret goat path the Persians could use to outflank and surround the Spartans. Though sympathetic, Leonidas rejects him since his deformity could compromise the phalanx formation. The battle begins soon after the Spartans' refusal to lay down their weapons. Because of the narrowed pathway, the Spartans repel many waves of the advancing Persian army. Xerxes personally approaches Leonidas and offers him immense wealth and power in exchange for his submission. Leonidas declines and mocks the inferior quality of Xerxes' warriors. Xerxes sends in his elite guard, the Immortals, accompanied by the monstrous Uber Immortal, but the Greeks are once again victorious. On the second day, Xerxes sends in new waves of armies, including war elephants and an armored rhinoceros, with no success. Meanwhile, an embittered Ephialtes has defected to Xerxes and reveals the secret path in exchange for wealth, women, and a uniform. The Arcadians retreat upon learning of Ephialtes' betrayal, but the Spartans choose to stay. Leonidas orders an injured but reluctant Dilios to return to Sparta and inform his compatriots of what has happened. In Sparta, Queen Gorgo attempted to persuade the Spartan Council to reinforce the 300 Spartan soldiers making their last stand. Gorgo comes to Theron for help, having been allowed to make her plea to the Council, but Theron rapes her in exchange for his needed assistance, and the next day betrays her and attempts to defame her as an adultress before the Council. Gorgo kills Theron, revealing a bag of Xerxes' gold in his robe. Acknowledging his betrayal, the Council unanimously agrees to send reinforcements. On the third day, the Persians, led by Ephialtes, traverse the secret path, encircling the Spartans. Xerxes' general again demands their surrender, but the Spartans refuse, and Stelios kills the general. Angered, Xerxes orders his troops to attack. Leonidas throws his spear at Xerxes, slicing his face to prove the God-King's mortality. Leonidas and the remaining Spartans fight to the last man until they finally succumb to an arrow barrage. Dilios concludes his tale before the Spartan Council. Inspired by Leonidas's sacrifice, the Greeks mobilize an army, with Sparta leading the charge. Dilios, now head of the Spartan-led Greek army, gives a rousing emotional speech in tribute of King Leonidas and the 300 who sacrificed their lives a year prior. He then leads the Spartan-led Greek army into battle against the Persians, beginning the Battle of Plataea.

303

Hans Weingartner

['Mala Emde', 'Anton Spieker', 'Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey', 'Thomas Schmuckert', 'Jörg Bundschuh', 'Hannah Ley', 'Caroline Erikson']

Romance, Comedy, Road, Melodrama, Drama

['Germany']

German

['German', 'Hungarian']

['Kahuuna Films', 'NEUESUPER', 'Starhaus Produktionen']

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When Jule (Mala Emde) picks up hitchhiker Jan (Anton Spieker [de]) a love story unfolds.

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

Cristian Mungiu

['Anamaria Marinca', 'Laura Vasiliu', 'Vlad Ivanov', 'Alexandru Potocean', 'Luminița Gheorghiu', 'Adi Cărăuleanu', 'Liliana Mocanu', 'Doru Ana', 'Ion Sapdaru', 'Cerasela Iosifescu', 'Tania Popa', 'Teodor Corban', 'Eugenia Bosânceanu', 'Mărioara Sterian', 'Georgeta Păduraru Burdujan', 'Geo Dobre', 'Mădălina Ghițescu', 'Cătălina Harabagiu', 'Sânziana Tarța', 'Adina Cristescu', 'Constantin Bojog', 'Cristina Burbuz']

['Drama']

['Belgium', 'Romania']

Romanian

['Romanian']

['Saga Film', 'Mobra Films', 'CNC']

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In 1987, two university students in an unnamed Romanian town, Otilia Mihărtescu and Gabriela "Găbița" Drăguț, are roommates in a dormitory. When Găbița becomes pregnant, the two young women arrange a meeting with Mr. Bebe in a hotel, where he is to perform an illegal abortion. At the college dorm, Găbița and Otilia review the items they need for the day. As Găbița nervously sits and waits, Otilia bargains and buys soap and cigarettes from the dormitory shop. Afterwards, Otilia takes a bus to visit her boyfriend Adi, from whom she borrows money. Adi asks Otilia to visit his family that night, as it is his mother's birthday. Otilia initially declines but relents after Adi becomes upset. Otilia heads to the Unirea hotel, where Găbița has booked a room, only to be informed by an unfriendly receptionist that there is no reservation under Găbița's last name. Otilia visits another hotel, the Tineretului, and after much begging and haggling, is able to book a room at an expensive rate. After speaking with Găbița on the telephone, Otilia goes to a rendezvous point to meet with Bebe, although he had asked Găbița to meet him personally. Mr. Bebe grows angry upon hearing that Găbița is not at the planned hotel. At the Tineretului, Bebe discovers that Găbița's claim that her pregnancy was in its second or third month was a lie, and that it has been at least four months. This changes the procedure and also adds the risk of a murder charge. While the two women were certain that they would pay no more than 3,000 lei for the abortion, it slowly becomes clear that Bebe expects both women to have sex with him. Desperate and distressed, Otilia has sex with Bebe, as does Găbița. Bebe then performs the abortion by injecting a probe and an unnamed fluid into Găbița's uterus and leaves Otilia instructions on how to dispose of the fetus when it comes out. Otilia is exasperated by Găbița's lies but continues to help and care for her. Otilia leaves Găbița at the Tineretului to attend Adi's mother's birthday party. She is still disturbed but stays and has dinner with Adi's mother's friends, who are mostly doctors. They converse about trivial matters while Otilia and Adi remain silent. After Otilia accepts a cigarette in front of Adi's parents, one of the guests starts talking about lost values and respect for elders. Adi and Otilia retreat to his room, where she tells him about Găbița's abortion. They begin debating what would happen if it were Otilia who was pregnant, as Adi is opposed to abortion. After the argument, Otilia calls Găbița from Adi's house. Găbița does not answer, so Otilia decides to return to the hotel. When Otilia enters the hotel room, Găbița is lying on the bed, and she tells Otilia that the fetus has been expelled and is in the bathroom. Otilia wraps the fetus with some towels and puts it in a bag, while Găbița asks her to bury it. Otilia walks outside, finally climbing to the top of a building, as Mr. Bebe had suggested, and drops the bag in a trash chute. She returns to the Tineretului and finds Găbița sitting in its restaurant. Otilia sits and tells Găbița that they are never going to talk about the episode again. Otilia stares blankly at Găbița.

5 Centimeters per Second

Makoto Shinkai

['Kenji Mizuhashi', 'Yoshimi Kondou', 'Satomi Hanamura', 'Risa Mizuno', 'Ayaka Onoue', 'Yuka Terasaki', 'Yuko Nakamura', 'Masami Iwasaki', 'Ryou Naitou', 'Hiroshi Shimozaki', 'Takahiro Hirano', 'Akira Nakagawa', 'Yoshiko Iseki', 'Suguru Inoue', 'Rion Kako', 'Rika Nakamura', 'Miki Suga', 'Mika Sakenobe', 'Yumiko Atashika', 'Yukako Saito']

Anime, Animation, Romance, Melodrama, Drama

['Japan']

Japanese

['Japanese']

['CoMix Wave Films']

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The story is set in Japan, beginning in the early 1990s up until the present day (2008),[a] with each act centered on a boy named Takaki Tōno.[3]

8½

Federico Fellini

['Marcello Mastroianni', 'Anouk Aimée', 'Sandra Milo', 'Claudia Cardinale', 'Rossella Falk', 'Barbara Steele', 'Madeleine Lebeau', 'Caterina Boratto', 'Eddra Gale', 'Guido Alberti', 'Mario Conocchia', 'Bruno Agostini', 'Cesarino Miceli Picardi', 'Jean Rougeul', 'Mario Pisu', 'Yvonne Casadei', 'Ian Dallas', 'Mino Doro', 'Nadia Sanders', 'Georgia Simmons', 'Edy Vessel', 'Tito Masini', 'Annie Gorassini', 'Rossella Como', 'Mark Herron', 'Marisa Colomber', 'Neil Robinson', 'Elisabetta Catalano', 'Eugene Walter', 'Hazel Rogers', 'Gilda Dahlberg', 'Mario Tarchetti', 'Mary Indovino', 'Frazier Rippy', 'Francesco Rigamonti', 'Giulio Paradisi', 'Marco Gemini', 'Giuditta Rissone', 'Annibale Ninchi', 'Dina De Santis', 'Eva Gioia', 'Maria Tedeschi', 'Antonio Acqua', 'Giulio Calì', 'Franco Caracciolo', 'Olimpia Cavalli', 'Sonia Gessner', 'Mathilda Calnan', 'Nadia Balabine']

Comedy, Science fiction, Fantasy, Drama, Classic, Comedy drama

['Italy', 'France']

Italian

['Italian', 'German', 'English', 'French']

['Cineriz', 'Francinex']

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Guido Anselmi, a famous Italian film director, is suffering from "director's block". Stalled on his new science fiction film that includes thinly veiled autobiographical references, he has lost interest amidst artistic and marital difficulties. While attempting to recover from his anxieties at a luxurious spa, Guido hires a well-known critic to review his ideas for his film, but the critic blasts them. Guido has recurring visions of an Ideal Woman, whom he sees as key to his story. His mistress Carla comes to visit him, but Guido puts her in a separate hotel. The film production crew relocates to Guido's hotel in an unsuccessful attempt to get him to work on the film. Guido admits to a cardinal that he is not happy. The cardinal offers little insight. Guido invites his estranged wife Luisa and her friends to join him. They dance, but Guido abandons her for his production crew. Guido confesses to his wife's best friend Rosella that he wanted to make a film that was pure and honest, but he is struggling with something honest to say. Carla surprises Guido, Luisa, and Rosella outside the hotel, and Guido claims that he and Carla ended their affair years earlier. Luisa and Rosella call him on the lie, and Guido slips into a fantasy world where he lords over a harem of women from his life, but a rejected showgirl starts a rebellion. The fantasy women attack Guido with harsh truths about himself and his sex life. When Luisa sees how bitterly Guido represents her in the film, she declares that their marriage is over. Guido's Ideal Woman arrives in the form of an actress named Claudia. Guido explains that his film is about a burned-out man who finds salvation in this Ideal Woman. Claudia concludes that the protagonist is unsympathetic because he is incapable of love. Broken, Guido calls off the film, but the producer and the film's staff announce a press conference. Guido attempts to escape from the journalists and eventually imagines shooting himself in the head. Guido realizes he was attempting to solve his personal confusion by creating a film to help others, when instead he needs to accept his life for what it is. He asks Luisa for her assistance in doing so. Carla tells him that she figured out what he was trying to say: that Guido cannot do without the people in his life. The men and women hold hands and walk briskly around the circle with Guido and Luisa joining them last.

9

Shane Acker

['Elijah Wood', 'Christopher Plummer', 'Martin Landau', 'John C. Reilly', 'Crispin Glover', 'Jennifer Connelly', 'Fred Tatasciore', 'Alan Oppenheimer', 'Tom Kane', 'Helen Wilson']

Animation, Horror, Action, War, Fantasy, Adventure, Science fiction, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction

['Canada', 'Luxembourg', 'Russia', 'USA']

English

['English']

['Tim Burton Productions', 'Relativity Media', 'Arc Productions', 'Starz Animation', 'Focus Features']

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A Beautiful Mind

Ron Howard

['Russell Crowe', 'Jennifer Connelly', 'Ed Harris', 'Paul Bettany', 'Christopher Plummer', 'Josh Lucas', 'Adam Goldberg', 'Anthony Rapp', 'Judd Hirsch', 'Jason Gray-Stanford', 'Austin Pendleton', 'Vivien Cardone', 'Jillie Simon', 'Victor Steinbach', 'Tanya Clarke', 'Thomas F. Walsh', 'Jesse Doran', 'Kent Cassella', 'Patrick Blindauer', 'John Blaylock', 'Roy Thinnes', 'Anthony Easton', 'Cheryl Howard', 'Josh Pais', 'David B. Allen', 'Michael Esper', 'Erik Van Wyck', 'Rance Howard', 'Jane Jenkins', 'Darius Stone', 'Valentina Cardinalli', 'Teagle F. Bougere', 'Amy Walz', 'Tracey Toomey', 'Jennifer Weedon', 'Yvonne Thomas', 'Holly Pitrago', 'Isadore Rosenfeld', 'Tom McNutt', 'Alex Toma', 'Bryce Dallas Howard', "Ryan O'Connor"]

Thriller, Drama, Romance, Action, War, Melodrama, Historical drama, Mystery

['USA']

English

['English']

['Universal Pictures', 'DreamWorks Pictures', 'Imagine Entertainment']

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In 1947, John Nash arrives at Princeton University as a co-recipient, with Martin Hansen, of the Carnegie Scholarship for Mathematics. He meets fellow math and science graduate students Sol, Ainsley, and Bender, as well as his roommate Charles Herman, a literature student. Determined to publish his original idea, Nash is inspired when he and his classmates discuss how to approach a group of women at a bar. Nash argues that a cooperative approach would lead to better chances of success, which leads him to develop a new concept of governing dynamics. His theory earns him an appointment at MIT where he chooses Sol and Bender over Hansen to join him. In 1953, Nash is invited to the Pentagon to decipher encrypted enemy telecommunications. Bored with his work at MIT, he is recruited by the mysterious William Parcher of the United States Department of Defense with a classified assignment: to identify hidden patterns in magazines and newspapers to thwart a Soviet plot. He is given an implanted diode that gives him a passcode to access a drop spot at a mansion. Nash becomes increasingly obsessive with his work and grows paranoid. John Nash received no money from the Pentagon or United States Department of Defense for his secret job. Nash falls in love with a student, Alicia Larde, and they eventually marry. After a shootout between Parcher and Soviet agents, Nash tries to quit his assignment but is forced to continue. While delivering a guest lecture at Harvard University, Nash believes he's being pursued by Soviet agents and is forcibly sedated. He awakens to a psychiatric facility under the care of Dr. Rosen. Dr. Rosen tells Alicia that Nash has schizophrenia and that Charles, Marcee, and Parcher exist only in his imagination. Alicia, Sol and Bender investigate her husband's study, which shows various news and magazine clippings. Alicia uncovers the stack of unopened "classified documents" from the drop point and brings them to Nash, revealing the truth of his assignment. Overcome with shock, Nash slices his arm open to uncover the diode, which doesn't exist. Nash is given a course of insulin shock therapy and eventually released. Frustrated with the side effects of his antipsychotic medication, he secretly stops taking it and starts encountering Parcher, who urges him to continue his assignment in a shed near his home. In 1956, Alicia discovers Nash has relapsed and rushes home. She finds that Nash had left their infant son in the running bathtub, convinced "Charles" was watching the baby. Alicia calls Dr. Rosen, but Nash accidentally hits her and the baby, believing he's saving them from Parcher. As Alicia flees with the baby, Nash realizes that all of them have looked the same ever since he first encountered them, and concludes they must be hallucinations. Against Dr. Rosen's advice, Nash chooses not to be hospitalized again, believing he can deal with his symptoms himself with Alicia's support. Nash returns to Princeton, approaching his old rival Hansen, now head of the mathematics department, who allows him to work out of the library and audit classes. Over the next two decades, Nash learns to ignore his hallucinations and, by the late 1970s, is allowed to teach again. In 1994, Nash is awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on game theory and is honored by his fellow professors. At the ceremony in Stockholm, he dedicates the prize to his wife. Nash reencounters Charles, Marcee, and Parcher after the ceremony, but ignores them as he, Alicia, and their son leave.

A Better Tomorrow

John Woo

['Ti Lung', 'Chow Yun-fat', 'Leslie Cheung', 'Emily Chu Bo-Yee', 'Waise Lee Chi-Hung', 'Tien Feng', 'John Woo', 'Sek Yin-Tsi', 'Kenneth Tsang', 'Wang Hsieh', 'Leung Ming', 'Chan Chi-Fai', 'Kam Hing-Yin', 'Tsui Hark', 'Pierre Tremblay', 'To Wai-Wo', 'Lau Shung-Fung', 'Shing Fu-On', 'Shing Fui-On', 'Hung San-Nam', 'Yeung Sai-Gwan', 'Wong Wai-Tong', 'Chu Tak-Wai', 'Te-Wei Chu', 'Chan Ming-Wai', 'Cheung Wing-Hon', 'Hon Nin-Sang', 'Woo Wing-Tat', 'Ma Yuk-Sing', 'Pan Yung-Sheng', 'Wei Ho Tu', 'Sing-Kwong Tsang', 'Chang Seng-Kwong', 'Lam Foo-Wai', 'Hsin Nan Hung', 'Hsiu Chuan Yang', 'Mak Wai-Cheung', 'Ma Hon-Yuen', 'Danny Ng Wai-Yip']

Action, Gangster, Drama, Crime film, Suspense, Thriller, Detective fiction, Crime Fiction, Neo-noir, Police procedural, Crime-Drama

['Hong Kong']

Cantonese

['Cantonese', 'English']

['Cinema City Co., Ltd.', 'Film Workshop']

action, top-rated

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Sung Tse-Ho is a senior member of a powerful Hong Kong triad, managing a lucrative printing and distributing operation that produces counterfeit American bank notes. Ho is a respected member of the organization, entrusted with the most important transactions. Mark Lee[8] is his best friend, bodyguard, and business partner. The prologue follows a day in the life of Ho and Mark as they watch a fresh batch of counterfeit notes being printed and meet with foreign clients to trade their product for counterfeit Hong Kong dollar notes. Meanwhile, Ho's younger brother, Kit, has just graduated high school and is currently training to join the police. Ho hides his criminal life from his brother and encourages Kit's career choice, while their ailing father pleads for Ho to leave his life of crime. Ho agrees, deciding that he will retire from the triad after his next deal in Taiwan. Shing, a low-ranking triad member, joins Ho after he agrees to mentor him. However, they are ambushed by the Taiwanese triads, leading to a shootout in which Ho and Shing flee into a sewage tunnel entrance, pursued by local law enforcement. Ho tells Shing to run and surrenders to the police in order to buy time for him to escape, leading to a three-year prison sentence. After learning of the deal, the triads attempt to kidnap Ho's father as leverage to ensure Ho's silence in prison; Ho's father is fatally stabbed before Kit and his girlfriend Jackie manage to subdue the attacker. With his dying breath, he pleads Kit to forgive his brother for his criminal actions, and an enraged Kit blames Ho for their father's death. Later, Mark travels to Taiwan to get answers from the Taiwanese triad. He visits a restaurant where the gangster who planned the ambush is dining and kills him following a shootout with his bodyguards. However, Mark's leg is injured in the process, leaving him crippled and requiring a leg brace. After Ho is released from prison, he is approached by a corrupt policeman, who offers to take him back to triad headquarters so he can rejoin his old organization. Ho, determined to start a new life, declines the offer and instead begins working for a taxi company run by another ex-con named Ken. During one of his shifts, Ho encounters Mark, and he discovers that his old friend is now a bitter, broken shell of his former self after Shing stripped him of his position in the triad and cast him aside in his rise to power. When they reunite, Mark urges Ho to confront Shing, but Ho refuses. Ho then seeks out Kit, now a police officer, in hopes of reconciling. However, Ho is harshly rebuffed by Kit, who still blames Ho for their father's death and because his relation to Ho is preventing him from advancing his career. In an effort to prove himself and further distance himself from his brother, Kit becomes obsessed with bringing down Shing, despite Ho's warnings. Shing, hearing of Ho's return to Hong Kong, tries to persuade him to return and help expand their triad into drug trafficking, but Ho refuses. Shing then has his men attack the taxi company, severely beat Mark, and lure Kit into a trap that leaves him critically wounded. Though Ho is still hesitant to take action, Mark is eventually able to persuade Ho to retaliate. Mark steals a computer tape containing printing plate data from the counterfeiting business and they then discover that it was Shing who set up the ambush three years prior. Meanwhile, Shing sets up triad leader Yie and shoots him dead; the witnesses are told to lie to the police that Ho was the killer. Ho and Mark then use the tape to blackmail Shing in exchange for money and an escape boat. Ho ensures that the tape is passed to Kit as proof of Shing's crimes. Using Shing as a hostage, Ho and Mark take the money to a pier, where Shing's men await. There, Ho implores Mark to escape by himself in the boat, and Mark hesitantly agrees. After Mark's departure, Kit arrives on the scene intending to arrest Shing, but ends up being taken hostage. A deal is made to exchange Shing for Kit, but the negotiation spirals into first a standoff and eventually a shootout. Ho and Kit work together against Shing's men, and are overwhelmed. Mark, hearing the sounds of gunfire, quickly returns to the scene. Ho, Kit and Mark kill several of Shing's henchmen, but also suffer injuries in the process. During a lull in the gunfight, Ho attempts to make peace with Kit but is rebuffed again. Mark then reprimands Kit, telling him that Ho's present actions have atoned for the past. As the three are distracted however, Mark is fatally shot in the back by Shing. As the police approach, Shing mocks Ho and Kit, proclaiming that once he enters police custody, his money and power will ensure his swift release. Kit then hands Ho his gun, allowing him to fatally shoot Shing. As Kit watches Shing's body fall to the ground, Ho suddenly handcuffs himself to Kit. The two brothers then begin walking together towards the gathered crowd of police.

A Bittersweet Life

Kim Jee-woon

['Lee Byung-hun', 'Kim Yeong-cheol', 'Shin Min-a', 'Kim Roi-ha', 'Hwang Jung-min', 'Lee Ki-young', 'Oh Dal-su', 'Kim Hae-gon', 'Kim Han', 'Jin Goo', 'Lee Hang-soo', 'Oh Kwang-rok', 'Jeon Kuk-hwan', 'Lee Seung-ho', 'Kim Sung-oh', 'Lee Han-sol', 'Domashchenko Vadym', 'Sonny', 'Nico', 'Kim Soo-nam', 'Kang Young-gu', 'Heo Myeong-haeng', 'Jeong Goo-jin', 'Wang Deok-sang', 'Jang Jae-yong', 'Lee Ahn-gyoo', 'Jeon Na-hyeon', 'Eric Mun', 'Park Jin-woo', 'Woo Sang-jeon', 'Jeong Gye-soon', 'Jung Yu-mi', 'Choi Si-yeong', 'Lee Jae-ook', 'Ahn Jang-hyeok', 'Hwang Dong-seok', 'Kim Pan-seon', 'Jeong Won-kyeong', 'Jo Seon-haeng', 'Kim In-oh', 'Seo Jeong-hee', 'Kim Hyo-hyeon', 'Choi Hyo-hyeon', 'Song Sang-ook', 'Kwak Min-ho', 'Kim Hee-jin', 'Kim Byeong-gook', 'Hong Eun-mi', 'Kim Jae-ok', 'Ryoo Chang-hoon', 'Park Jong-min', 'Lee Kyeong-won', 'Kim Ji-hoon', 'Yoo Joo-hyeon', 'Lee Ji-hee', 'Song Jae-ha', 'Kang Min-hee', 'Kwon Ye-ji', 'Park So-jeong', 'Jo Jung-hee', 'Kwon Chae-yeong', 'Jeon Hye-min', 'Kim Eun-ji', 'Jo Seung-ryong', 'Kim Tae-hee', 'Yoo Sang-seob', 'Kim Dae-yong', 'Jeong Yun-Heon', 'Yoon Jin-yool', 'Jang Han-seung', 'Seo Joon-ha', 'Jeong Mi-hye', 'Choi Chang-kyun', 'Park Seon-woong', 'Oh Yoo-jin', 'Park Seong-gyoon']

Action, Adventure, Drama, Crime film, Thriller, Detective fiction, Police procedural

['South Korea']

Korean

['Korean', 'Russian']

['Bom Film Productions', 'CJ Entertainment']

action, top-rated

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Kim Sun-woo (Lee Byung-hun) is a high-ranking enforcer and loyal subordinate of crime boss Kang (Kim Yeong-cheol). The two share concerns over business tensions with Baek Dae-sik (Hwang Jung-min), a son from a rival family. Recently, Sun-woo had beaten up Baek's men for overstaying their welcome at their nightclub. Kang, preparing to leave on a business trip, assigns Sun-woo to shadow his young mistress Hee-soo (Shin Min-ah), whom he fears is having an "affair" with another man. As Sun-woo performs his duty — following Hee-soo, and escorting her to a music recital — he becomes quietly enthralled by the girl's beauty as glimpses into his lonely, empty personal life become prevalent. When he does come to discover Hee-soo and her lover at her home, he beats up the man and prepares to inform Kang. However, he changes his mind and spares the two on the condition that they no longer see each other again, earning him Hee-soo's enmity. Later, a man asks Sun-woo to apologize for beating up Baek's men, but he refuses. Agitated, he gets drunk in his apartment, and is kidnapped by Baek's henchmen. They prepare to kill him, but Kang saves him with a phone call. Kang, who has learned of his attempted cover-up of Hee-soo's affair, questions his motive, but he doesn't answer. Kang orders his men to torture Sun-woo, but gives him a chance to fix his mistake. Instead, Sun-woo escapes and vows revenge. Sun-woo delivers Hee-soo a farewell gift, then attempts to buy a handgun. The deal goes bad and he ends up killing the arms dealers. This incurs a vendetta with the brother of one of the dealers, who goes to the nightclub he works at. Sun-woo lures Baek to an ice rink and kills him, getting injured in the process. Undeterred, he arrives at the night club and kills his way in. Confronting Kang, Sun-woo vents over how badly he has been treated despite his years of loyalty. Receiving no justification, Sun-woo kills Kang. Baek's henchmen, who have been trailing Sun-woo, shoot at him and Kang's henchmen. Sun-woo emerges as the only survivor of the battle, just as the arms dealer's brother appears. Bleeding profusely, Sun-woo recalls watching Hee-soo's music recital. That was the only time he was seen smiling. The arms dealer's brother then executes him. The film ends with a continuation of an earlier scene, where Sun-woo looks out of a window at the city below him. After making sure he's alone, he begins to shadowbox his reflection in the glass, looking very happy.

A Boy Named Charlie Brown

Bill Melendez

['Peter Robbins', 'Pamelyn Ferdin', 'Glenn Gilger', 'Andy Pforsich', 'Sally Dryer', 'Bill Melendez', 'Ann Altieri', 'Erin Sullivan', 'David Carey', 'Linda Mendelson', 'Christopher DeFaria']

Animation, Comedy, Musical, Children's film, Drama, Comedy drama

['USA']

English

['English']

['United Feature Syndicate (UFS)', 'Cinema Center Films', 'Lee Mendelson Film Productions', 'Bill Melendez Productions']

animated

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When Charlie Brown's baseball team loses their first league game of the season, he becomes morose that he will never win anything. On the way to school one day, Lucy jokingly suggests to Charlie Brown that he’d enter the school spelling bee. However, Linus encourages him to participate despite the jeers of Lucy, Violet, and Patty. Charlie Brown nervously enters the spelling bee and defeats his classmates. As he studies for the school championship, he and Linus sing a song about the spelling mnemonic "I Before E" as Snoopy accompanies them on a Jew's harp. During class, Charlie Brown freezes when challenged with perceive, but recovers when Snoopy plays the song's accompaniment outside the classroom window and wins (although he misspells maze as M-A-Y-S causing him to scream and thus is sent to the principal’s office). His classmates cheerfully follow him home. Lucy proclaims herself his agent. However, they then tell Charlie Brown that he must now take part in the National Spelling Bee in New York City, and he is again filled with self-doubt. As Charlie Brown boards the bus for New York, Linus reluctantly offers him his blanket for good luck, and the other kids cheer for him. Back at home, Linus suffers terrible withdrawal after being separated from his blanket, and convinces Snoopy to go with him to New York to find Charlie Brown and recover it. They find Charlie Brown exhausted from studying for the spelling bee in his hotel room, without any knowledge of the blanket's whereabouts. After an exhaustive search that leads Linus outside the hotel, he returns to find Charlie Brown using the blanket as a shoe-shine cloth. Charlie Brown competes in the spelling bee with Linus and Snoopy in the audience and the rest of the kids watching it on television at home. One-by-one, the other contestants are eliminated until only Charlie Brown and one other boy remain. However, after Charlie Brown spells several words correctly, he is eliminated when he accidentally (and ironically, given that Snoopy is a beagle) misspells beagle as B–E–A–G–E–L, much to the despair of him and his friends. Lucy, who is equally ashamed that Charlie Brown lost, says that he made her mad and turns off the TV. Despite being the national runner-up, Charlie Brown returns home depressed and defeated. The next day, Linus visits a moody and morose Charlie Brown, who has spent the entire day in bed and refuses to see or talk to anybody. Linus tells him that all the kids missed him and that they won their first game of the season, worsening Charlie Brown's bad mood, saying he will never return to school or do anything again. However, Linus points out that the world did not end despite Charlie Brown’s defeat. After Linus leaves, he thinks for a moment, gets dressed, and goes outside. He sees the other kids playing, and when he spots Lucy as she plays with a football, he sneaks up behind her to kick it. She pulls it away and welcomes him home and they look at us as the film ends.

A Brighter Summer Day

Edward Yang

['Chang Chen', 'Lisa Yang', 'Chang Kuo-Chu', 'Elaine Jin', 'Chuan Wang', 'Han Chang', 'Chiang Hsiu-Chiung', 'Stephanie Lai', 'Wang Chi-tsan', 'Lawrence Ko', 'Tan Chih-Kang', 'Chang Ming-Hsin', 'Jung Chun-Lung', 'Hui-Kuo Chou', 'Chi-Chung Liu', 'Ching-Hsiang Ho', 'Chang-Ta Tsai', 'Tsung-Ming Lee', 'Hsiao-Tsui Tang', 'Ming-Ying Chiang', 'Hung-Ming Lin', 'Wang Bosen', 'Hung-Yu Chen', 'Tien-Hsiang Yang', 'Hsiao-Wei Liao', 'Cheng-Ching Lin', 'Ming-Hsun Lee', 'Tai-song Chen', 'Ming-Che Lee', 'Ming-Che Lee', 'Yi-Cheng Chung', 'Chia-Hsien Ho', 'Kang-Nien Cheng', 'Hsien-Liang Hsu', 'Chih-Chien Tang', 'Chien-Hung Tseng', 'Yiwen Cao', 'Martin Liu', 'Yi-Chun Chang', 'Yuan Ling', 'Alex Yang', 'Joyce Ni Shu-Chun', 'Weiming Wang', 'Ye-Ming Wang', 'Chien-Hsiung Cheng', 'De-Hai Chu', 'Pei-Min Shih', 'Liang-Tso Liu', 'Hang Shen', 'Yang-Yeh Fu', 'Lee Ching-Foo', 'Yi-Wen Chen', 'Jen-Chieh Lin', 'Cheng Yuan-Cheng', 'Yi-Chin Tsai', 'Feng Guoqiang', 'Yu-Lung Yin', 'Hsu Ming', 'Chin Tsai', 'Cho Ming', 'Wen-Yen Chang', 'Lien-Lien Hsiao', 'Emily Y. Chang', 'King Shih-Chieh', 'Lih-Ching Lin', 'Ru-Yun Tang', 'Chiu-Yun Lu', 'Chin Ling Tsao', 'Chin Ling Tsao', 'Hsiao Chih-wen', 'Liang-Yueh Chen', 'Li-Hua Chen', 'Ko-Chung Chang', 'Te-Ming Lu', 'Hsiao Ai', 'Hsi-Sheng Chen', 'Shu-Chuan Huang', 'Hung-Shen Shen', 'Meng Chi-Liang', 'Hung Hung', 'Ting-Ni Ma', 'Hu Hsiang-Ping', 'Pao-Kuei Sun', 'Vicky Chiang', 'Ming-Yang Shih', 'Li-Mei Chen', 'Chen Shiang-Chyi', 'Te-Nan Lai', 'Ju-Ping Lin', 'Danny Deng', 'Ming-Yu Shih', 'Heng-Cheng Lin', 'Yi-Hua Shih', 'Kuo-Chih Shu', 'Chang-Ju Kuo', 'Miao-hui Kao', 'Chang-Hao Liu', 'Hsieh Chung-Mou', 'Chung-Chang Tuan', 'Te-chien Hou', 'Tsu-Yun Lang', 'Tang Shiang-Chu', 'Lai-Fu Chen', 'Min-Nen Lee', 'Yu Wei-Yen', 'Dao Nan Wang', 'Chuang Wu', 'Le-Chin Wu', 'Tzu-Chiang Lee', 'Liping Yang', 'Katherine Hui-ling Chou', 'Yuen Ming-Hung', 'Bo Yuan']

Romance, Crime, Melodrama, Drama, Crime film, Crime Fiction, Coming-of-age story

['Taiwan']

Chinese

['Chinese', 'English']

['Yang & His Gang Filmmakers']

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Chang Chen (nickname Si'r), a junior high student in 1959 Taipei, is forced to attend night school after failing a test. This upsets his father, a career government worker, who is aware of and worried about the delinquency rampant among night school students. The next morning, Si'r and his father listen to a radio broadcast of distinguished students. In 1960, Si'r, along with his best friend, Cat, spy on an actress changing clothes during the filming of a drama in a movie studio. Caught by a guard, they steal his flashlight and flee back to school. Si'r, noticing movement in a darkened classroom, turns on the flashlight and startles a pair of lovers but does not see their faces. Two gangs, the Little Park Boys and their rivals the 217s, are introduced. Si'r is not a member of either gang but he is closer to the Little Park Boys. The Little Park Boys are led by Honey, who is hiding in Tainan from police after killing one of the 217s over his girlfriend, Ming. Sly leads the gang in his absence. Sly and Si'r become rivals after Si'r gets Sly in trouble, believing him and his girlfriend, Jade, to be the pair of lovers he saw. Meanwhile, Si'r and Ming meet by chance and become friends. Sly proposes a truce, arranging a concert with members from both gangs. Honey unexpectedly resurfaces and berates Sly for setting up the concert; however, he realizes the gang respects Sly more. The night before the concert, Honey "bequeaths" Ming to Si'r, believing him to be a stable boyfriend. The next night, Honey appears outside of the concert hall, antagonizing the 217s. Honey takes an ostensibly friendly walk with the 217's leader, Shandong, only to be killed when Shandong pushes him in front of an oncoming car. The Little Park Boys do not believe police reports that it is an accident, and plot revenge; they murder the 217s, including Shandong, during a typhoon, using weapons acquired by Ma, one of Si'r's wealthy classmates. Sly and the surviving Little Park Boys go into hiding. The same night, Si'r's father is arrested by secret police and interrogated about his past connections with the Chinese Communist Party. While eventually freed, he is demoted. Si'r starts dating Ming and seems to be improving academically. However, she reveals her flirtations with other boys, including an older doctor, bothering Si'r. The next day, Si'r is expelled after lashing out at the doctor and smashing a light bulb. He promises to pass his transfer exams to get into day school, upsetting Ming, who knows this means she will see him less. Later, Sly emerges from hiding and apologizes to Si'r for their past feud and reveals that Ming and Ma are dating. Devastated, Si'r begins dating Jade, but he upsets her and she bitterly reveals that the girl he saw kissing Sly was Ming, not her. After threatening Ma at his home, Si'r steals Cat's knife and waits outside the school for him. Instead, he sees Ming and berates her for her promiscuity, saying that he is her only hope. Ming chides Si'r for being selfish and trying to change her; like the world, she cannot be changed. He stabs her to death and breaks down. Si'r is sentenced to death but the media frenzy around the case provokes the sentence to be changed to 15 years imprisonment. In Si'r's now-barren house, his mother unexpectedly finds Si'r's school uniform. As she sobs, the radio broadcasts a list of distinguished students.

A Brighter Tomorrow

Nanni Moretti

['Nanni Moretti', 'Margherita Buy', 'Silvio Orlando', 'Barbora Bobuľová', 'Mathieu Amalric', 'Jerzy Stuhr', 'Anger Zsolt', 'Teco Celio', 'Valentina Romani', 'Flavio Furno', 'Giuseppe Scoditti', 'Valerio Da Silva', 'Angelo Galdi', 'Arianna Pozzoli', 'Francesco Brandi', 'Laura Nardi', 'Arianna Serrao', 'Blu Yoshimi', 'Michele Eburnea', 'Sun Hee You', 'Elena Lietti', 'Benjamin Stender', 'Francesco Rossini', 'Federica Sandrini', 'Carolina Pavone', 'Corrado Augias', 'Renzo Piano', 'Chiara Valerio', 'Enrico Cerretti', 'Simone Proietti', 'Giulia Lazzarini', 'Alba Rohrwacher', 'Jasmine Trinca', 'Lina Sastri', 'Anna Bonaiuto', 'Renato Carpentieri', 'Dario Cantarelli', 'Rosario Lisma', 'Beniamino Marcone', 'Fabio Traversa', 'Mariella Valentini', 'Elio De Capitani', 'Claudio Morganti', 'Gigio Morra', 'Silvia Nono']

Comedy, Drama, Comedy drama

['France', 'Italy']

Italian

['Italian', 'English', 'French', 'Hungarian', 'Korean']

['Sacher Film', 'Fandango', 'RAI Cinema', 'Le Pacte', 'France 3 Cinéma', 'Canal+', 'Ciné+', 'France Télévisions', 'Kinology']

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A Bug's Life

John Lasseter

['Dave Foley', 'Kevin Spacey', 'Julia Louis-Dreyfus', 'Hayden Panettiere', 'Phyllis Diller', 'Richard Kind', 'David Hyde Pierce', 'Joe Ranft', 'Denis Leary', 'Jonathan Harris', 'Madeline Kahn', 'Bonnie Hunt', 'Michael McShane', 'John Ratzenberger', 'Brad Garrett', 'Roddy McDowall', 'Edie McClurg', 'Alex Rocco', 'David Ossman', 'Carlos Alazraqui', 'Jack Angel', 'Bob Bergen', 'Kimberly J. Brown', 'Rodger Bumpass', 'Anthony Burch', 'Jennifer Darling', 'Rachel Davey', 'Debi Derryberry', 'Paul Eiding', 'Jessica Evans', 'Bill Farmer', 'Sam Gifaldi', 'Brad Hall', 'Jess Harnell', 'Brenden Hickey', 'Kate Charlotte Hodges', 'Denise Johnson', 'David L. Lander', 'John Lasseter', 'Sherry Lynn', 'Mickie McGowan', 'Courtland Mead', 'Christina Milian', 'Kelsey Mulrooney', "Ryan O'Donohue", 'Jeff Pidgeon', 'Phil Proctor', 'Jan Rabson', 'Jordan Ranft', 'Brian M. Rosen', 'Rebecca Schneider', 'Francesca Marie Smith', 'Andrew Stanton', 'Hannah Swanson', 'Russi Taylor', 'Travis Tedford', 'Ashley Tisdale', 'Lee Unkrich', 'Jordan Warkol', 'Pat Fry', 'Kath Soucie']

Animation, Children's film, Action, Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy, Drama

['USA']

English

['English']

['Walt Disney Pictures', 'Pixar']

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A colony of ants, led by the elderly Queen and her daughter Princess Atta, live in the middle of a seasonally dry creekbed on a small hill known as "Ant Island". Every summer, they are forced to give food to a gang of grasshoppers, led by Hopper. One day, Flik, a courageous but clumsy inventor ant, inadvertently destroys the food offering with his grain harvester. Hopper discovers this, and demands twice as much food as compensation. When Flik earnestly suggests the ants enlist the help of bigger bugs to fight the grasshoppers, Atta sees it as a way to get rid of Flik and sends him off. Flik travels to "the city", a heap of trash under a trailer. Flik mistakes a troupe of jobless Circus Bugs for the warrior bugs he seeks. The bugs, in turn, mistake Flik for a talent agent, and agree to travel with him back to Ant Island. During a welcome ceremony after their arrival, the Circus Bugs and Flik discover their mutual misunderstandings. The Circus Bugs attempt to leave, but are pursued by a nearby bird; while fleeing, they rescue Atta's younger sister Dot from the bird, gaining the ants' respect. At Flik's request, the Circus Bugs continue the ruse of being "warriors", thus enabling them to continue enjoying the ants' hospitality. Learning that Hopper fears birds inspires Flik to build a crewed ornithopter disguised as a bird to scare away the grasshoppers. Meanwhile, Hopper reminds his gang of the ants' superior numbers, warning them the ants will rebel if not kept in line. The ants finish constructing the fake bird. During the subsequent celebration, the Circus Bugs' old supervisor, P.T. Flea, arrives, seeking to rehire them and blowing their cover; the ants exile Flik and the Circus Bugs, and desperately try gathering food for a new offering. Hopper returns, sees the mediocre offering, and takes over the island. He then demands the ants' own winter food supply, planning to execute the Queen afterward. Overhearing the plan, Dot persuades Flik and the Circus Bugs to return to Ant Island. After the Circus Bugs distract the grasshoppers long enough to rescue the Queen, Flik deploys the bird. It initially fools the grasshoppers, but P.T., who is also fooled, sets the bird on fire. Realizing the deception, Hopper has Flik publicly beaten and proclaims the ants are lowly life forms who live only to serve the grasshoppers. Flik asserts Hopper actually fears the colony, because he has always known what they are capable of. This inspires the ants and the Circus Bugs to fight back against the grasshoppers, driving all but Hopper and his brother Molt away. The ants shove Hopper into the circus cannon to shoot him off of the island, but rain suddenly begins to fall. In the ensuing chaos, Hopper frees himself from the cannon and abducts Flik. The Circus Bugs and Atta pursue, with the latter catching up to Hopper and rescuing Flik, who lures Hopper to the real bird's nest. Believing the bird is another fake, Hopper taunts it, until it grabs him and feeds him to its chicks. With the anthill now at peace, Flik improves his inventions to help gather food for the ants. Flik and Atta become a couple, and proceed to send Hopper's affable brother Molt and a few ants to help P.T. and the Circus Bugs on their new tour. Atta and Dot become the new Queen and Princess. The ants celebrate their victory and congratulate Flik as a hero. They then bid a fond farewell to the circus troupe.

A Canterbury Tale

Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

['Eric Portman', 'Sheila Sim', 'Dennis Price', 'John Sweet', 'Charles Hawtrey', 'Esmond Knight', 'Hay Petrie', 'George Merritt', 'Edward Rigby', 'Freda Jackson', 'Betty Jardine', 'Eliot Makeham', 'Parry Jones Jr.', 'Beresford Egan', 'Esma Cannon', 'Anthony Holles', 'Maude Lambert', 'Wallace Bosco', 'Charles Paton', 'Jane Millican', 'Michael Golden', 'John Slater', 'Graham Moffatt', 'Judith Furse', 'Barbara Waring', 'Jean Shepeard', 'Margaret Scudamore', 'Joss Ambler', 'H.F. Maltby', 'Eric Maturin']

Comedy, War, Drama, Buddy, Mystery, Thriller, Road, Classic, Comedy drama

['UK']

English

['English']

['Independent Producers', 'The Archers', 'J. Arthur Rank Organisation']

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The story concerns three young people: British Army Sergeant Peter Gibbs, U.S. Army Sergeant Bob Johnson, and a "Land Girl", Miss Alison Smith. The group arrive at the railway station in the fictitious small Kent town of Chillingbourne (filmed in Chilham, Fordwich, Wickhambreaux and other villages in the area), near Canterbury, late on Friday night, 27 August 1943. Peter has been stationed at a nearby Army camp, Alison is due to start working on a farm in the area, and Bob left the train by mistake, hearing the announcement "next stop Canterbury" and thinking he was in Canterbury. As they leave the station together Alison is attacked by an assailant in uniform, who pours glue on her hair before escaping. It transpires that this has happened to other women, and the mystery attacker is known locally as "the glue man". Alison asks Bob if he will spend the weekend in Chillingbourne to help her solve the mystery. The next day, while riding a farm cart in the countryside, Alison meets Peter, who surrounds her cart with his platoon of three Bren Gun Carriers. Alison agrees to meet Peter again. The three decide to investigate the attack, enlisting the help of the locals, including several small boys who play large-scale war games. The three use their detective skills to identify the culprit as a local magistrate, Thomas Colpeper, a gentleman farmer and pillar of the community, who also gives local history lectures to soldiers stationed in the district. Alison interviews all the glue man's victims to identify the dates and times of their attacks. Gibbs visits Colpeper at his home and steals the fire watch roster listing the nights Colpeper was on duty in the town hall, whilst a paper drive for salvage by Johnson's boy commandos lets Johnson discover receipts for gum used to make glue sold to Colpeper. The dates of the attacks correspond with Colpeper's night watches, for which he wore a Home Guard uniform kept in the town hall. On their train journey to Canterbury on the Monday morning, Colpeper joins the three in their compartment. They confront him with their suspicions, which he does not deny, and they discover that his motive is to prevent the soldiers from being distracted from his lectures by female company, as well as to help keep the local women faithful to their absent British boyfriends. In Colpeper's words, Chaucer's pilgrims travelled to Canterbury to "receive a blessing or to do penance". On arriving in the city of Canterbury, devastated by wartime bombing, all three young people receive blessings of their own. Alison discovers that her boyfriend, believed killed in the war, has survived after all; his father, who had blocked their marriage because he thought his son could do better than a shopgirl, finally relents. Bob receives long-delayed letters from his sweetheart, who is now a WAC in Australia. Peter, a cinema organist before the war, gets to play the music of Johann Sebastian Bach on the large organ at Canterbury Cathedral, before leaving with his unit. He decides not to report Colpeper to the Canterbury police, as he had planned to do.

A Cat in Paris

Jean-Loup Felicioli, Alain Gagnol

['Dominique Blanc', 'Bruno Salomone', 'Jean Benguigui', 'Bernadette Lafont', 'Oriane Zani', 'Patrick Ridremont', 'Jacques Ramade', 'Jean-Pierre Yvars', 'Bernard Bouillon', 'Philippe Hartmann', 'Patrick Descamps', 'Yves Barbaut', 'Line Wiblé']

Action, Animation, Children's film, Crime, Adventure, Drama, Crime film, Mystery, Thriller, Detective fiction, Police procedural

['France', 'Netherlands', 'Switzerland', 'Belgium']

French

['French']

['Folimage', 'Digit Anima', 'France 3 Cinéma', 'Gébéka Films']

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A black cat with red stripes leads a double life. During the night, he accompanies a cat burglar named Nico (who calls him Mr. Cat), who performs heists to steal jewels. During the day, he lives with a girl named Zoé (who calls him Dino). Zoé, who lost her voice after the loss of her father, has become distant from her mother Jeanne who works as a police superintendent, and is looked after by a nanny named Claudine. Nico gives Dino a fish-shaped bracelet, which he passes on to Zoé. At the police station, Jeanne briefs her colleagues on protecting the Colossus of Nairobi statue, which cost her husband his life at the hands of the notorious Victor Costa. Victor Costa intends to have another go at the statue while it is being moved, with help from his codenamed accomplices, M. Bébé (Mr. Baby), M. Hulot, M. Grenouille (Mr. Frog), and M. Patate (Mr. Potato). Back at home, Jeanne takes interest in the fish-shaped bracelet and brings it to her colleague Lucas. Lucas deduces that the bracelet matches up with burgled items from Rue Mouffetard. That night, Zoé sneaks out of her house and follows Dino. She spies Victor's lot, and finds Claudine is working for Victor and has been gaining insight on police movements. Zoé is spotted, but is rescued by Nico. Nico takes Zoé to hide in the zoo, but Victor's gang pick up her trail. Zoé escapes in a boat. Lucas finds a lead on the robberies trailing directly to Nico's residence. When Nico returns to find Zoé at his place, he is arrested by Jeanne and Lucas, presumably having kidnapped Zoé. Jeanne leaves Zoé in Claudine's custody and goes with Lucas to find Victor. Unable to convince Jeanne and Lucas of Zoé's predicament, Nico escapes in order to find Zoé. Jeanne is able to confirm that Nico's claim about Zoé is true. Claudine has taken Zoé to Costa's house, where she is locked away. Thanks to Claudine's perfume, Dino follows the scent and leads Nico to the house. Nico is able to whisk Zoé away after he cuts the power and dons his night goggles. Victor pursues Nico and Zoé to Notre Dame. Nico falls while trying to mislead Victor, but is saved by Jeanne, who has just arrived at the scene. As Victor captures Zoé, Jeanne, with Nico and Dino, come to the rescue. Nico has to save Dino when Victor pushes the cat over the edge of a nearby crane, leaving Jeanne to confront Victor. Plucking up her courage, Jeanne saves her daughter and strikes Victor, putting him in a hallucinatory trance. Before Jeanne can help Victor, the gang leader swings from the crane to what he imagines is the Colossus of Nairobi, but falls to his death to a truck below. The rest of the gang, including Claudine, are arrested and Zoé regains her voice. Nico reforms himself, gives up thievery, and becomes a member of the family, while Dino becomes the household pet. Nico gives Jeanne a snow globe with the Cathedral of Notre Dame in it as a Christmas present.

A Charlie Brown Christmas

Bill Melendez

['Peter Robbins', 'Christopher Shea', 'Tracy Stratford', 'Cathy Steinberg', 'Chris Doran', 'Sally Dryer', 'Ann Altieri', 'Geoffrey Ornstein', 'Karen Mendelson', 'Bill Melendez']

Animation, Comedy, Musical, Children's film, Short, Family film

['USA']

English

['English']

['United Feature Syndicate (UFS)', 'Lee Mendelson Film Productions', 'Bill Melendez Productions']

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On their way to join their friends ice skating on a frozen pond, Charlie Brown confesses to Linus van Pelt that, despite all the things he likes about the Christmas season, he is still depressed. After Linus' reproach, and a put-down from Violet Gray, he visits Lucy van Pelt's psychiatric booth and tells her his problem. She suggests that he direct the group's annual Christmas play to get him involved, and he accepts. Charlie Brown becomes even more discouraged by his observations of Christmas' commercialization as he heads for the rehearsal: Lucy laments over not receiving real estate for Christmas; Snoopy decorates his doghouse for a neighborhood lights and display contest; and Charlie Brown's younger sister Sally asks him to write a greedy letter to Santa Claus. At the rehearsal, Charlie Brown finds a play fit for the 1960s with dancing, lively music, an uncooperative cast and a "Christmas Queen" (Lucy). Unable to control the cast, Charlie Brown decides the play needs a more "proper mood", and recommends a Christmas tree; Lucy suggests a big, pink aluminum tree, then sends him and Linus to get one. At the tree lot, Charlie Brown picks the only real tree there, a small sapling. Linus questions his choice, but Charlie Brown believes that once decorated, it will be perfect. When they return, however, Lucy, Violet, Patty and Frieda scorn him and the tree and walk away laughing. Crestfallen, Charlie Brown loudly asks if anyone knows what Christmas is all about; Linus says he does, walks to center stage, asks for a spotlight, drops his security blanket, recites the annunciation to the shepherds, picks up his blanket, returns and says, "That's what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown." Realizing that he does not have to let commercialism ruin his own Christmas, Charlie Brown takes the tree home to decorate it and show the others that it will work in the play. The others realize that they were too hard on Charlie Brown and quietly follow him after listening to Linus' speech. He stops at Snoopy's doghouse, which had won the lights and display contest, and hangs a large red Christmas ball on his tree. The ornament's weight causes the tiny tree to bend to the ground. Believing he has killed the tree, Charlie Brown, dejected, walks away. The others arrive at Snoopy's doghouse and as they all start to see its potential, Linus gently uprights the drooping tree and wraps his blanket around its base to give it some support. After the others give the tree a makeover using more decorations from the doghouse, even Lucy concedes to Charlie Brown's choice. The kids then start humming "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing". Hearing them, Charlie Brown returns to see that the sapling is now a magnificent Christmas tree. All the kids shout, "Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown!", and then sing "Hark" with Charlie Brown joining in as snow begins to fall.

A Chinese Ghost Story

Tony Ching Siu-Tung

['Leslie Cheung', 'Joey Wong', 'Wu Ma', 'Lau Siu-Ming', 'Lam Wai', 'Zhilun Xue', 'David Wu', 'Wong Jing', 'Chiang Kam', 'Huang Ha', 'Sze Mei-Yee', 'Yau Cheung Yeung']

Horror, Action, Romance, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Melodrama, Science fiction, Fantasy, Drama, Thriller, Supernatural

['Hong Kong']

Cantonese

['Cantonese']

['Cinema City', 'Film Workshop', 'Golden Princess Film Production Ltd.']

fantasy

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Ning Choi-san, a timid debt collector, goes to a rural town to collect taxes but fails and runs out of money.[5] [6] He has no choice but to take shelter in a deserted temple in the forest on the outskirts of the town. That night, he meets a beautiful and alluring young maiden, Nip Siu-sin, and falls in love with her. In the morning, however, after he recalls that night's events, he becomes increasingly fearful and superstitious because Yin Chik-ha, a Taoist priest, told him that the people he saw in the temple are ghosts. That night, he returns to the temple and confirms his theory that Nip is actually a ghost. Nip tells Ning her story of how she became eternally bound to the servitude of a sinister Tree Demoness. She explains that as long as her remains are buried at the foot of the tree, her spirit will be forever enslaved by the Tree Demoness. Ning attempts to free her from her suffering, so he seeks help from Yin Chik-ha. Yin fights with the Tree Demoness and attempts to free Nip's soul but fails. As punishment for betraying her master, Nip's soul is banished to the Underworld. Ning is unwilling to give up on Nip and he insists that Yin help him. Yin reluctantly opens a temporary portal into the Underworld and brings Ning along to search for Nip. As the Underworld is full of spirits, they have a hard time finding her. Ning and Nip are eventually able to see each other briefly near dawn when they manage to leave the Underworld. When sunlight shines on the urn containing Nip's cremated remains, Ning uses a curtain to shield the urn to prevent Nip's soul from being destroyed by exposure to sunlight. Before leaving for good, she tells him that the only way to save her soul is to rebury her remains at a more auspicious burial site. Ning follows her instructions and, acting on Yin's advice, he buries her remains near the crest of a hill. He burns a joss stick for her and prays for her soul while Yin watches solemnly behind him. Ning and Yin are then seen riding off seeking a new adventure, with rainbow visible in the sky above them.

A Christmas Carol

Robert Zemeckis

['Jim Carrey', 'Gary Oldman', 'Colin Firth', 'Robin Wright', 'Cary Elwes', 'Bob Hoskins', 'Daryl Sabara', 'Steve Valentine', 'Sage Ryan', 'Amber Gainey Meade', 'Ryan Ochoa', 'Bobbi Page', 'Ron Bottitta', 'Fionnula Flanagan', 'Samantha Hanratty', 'Julian Holloway', 'Jacquie Barnbrook', 'Lesley Manville', 'Molly C. Quinn', 'Fay Masterson', 'Leslie Zemeckis', 'Paul Blackthorne', 'Michael Hyland', 'Kerry Hoyt', 'Julene Renee', 'Raymond Ochoa', 'Callum Blue', 'Matthew Henerson', 'Aaron Rapke', 'Sonje Fortag']

Animation, Horror, Comedy, Action, Children's film, Family film, Fantasy, Drama, Suspense, Thriller

['USA']

English

['English']

['Walt Disney Pictures', 'ImageMovers Digital']

animated

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In Victorian-era London, Ebenezer Scrooge, a greedy, penny-pinching, and lonely moneylender, refuses to partake in the merriment of Christmas. On Christmas Eve, he declines his cheerful nephew Fred's invitation to the annual Christmas dinner party and dismisses two gentlemen who are collecting money for charity. His loyal employee Bob Cratchit requests to not work on Christmas Day so he can spend time with his family, to which Scrooge reluctantly agrees. That night, Scrooge encounters the shackled ghost of his late business partner Jacob Marley in his bed chambers. Marley warns Scrooge to repent his ways or suffer a worse fate, before informing him that three spirits will visit him and guide him away from this miserable existence. At one o'clock, Scrooge is visited by the candle-like Ghost of Christmas Past, who shows him visions of his childhood and early adult life. They see his lonely boarding school days, his relationship with his beloved sister Fan and his time as an apprentice for moneylender Nigel Fezziwig. The young Scrooge meets a young woman named Belle, with whom he falls in love, but his focus on accruing wealth drives them apart. Seeing this, a devastated Scrooge extinguishes the Ghost's flame and returns home. Scrooge next meets the merry Ghost of Christmas Present, who shows how others find joy on Christmas Day. Scrooge and the Ghost visit Bob's house, learning his family is content with their small dinner and meagre home. Scrooge starts to take pity on Bob's ill son Tiny Tim, whom the rapidly ageing Ghost comments might not survive until next Christmas. They next visit Fred's house, where Fred insists the guests raise a toast to Scrooge in spite of his stinginess and general ill will. Before the Ghost withers away, he shows Scrooge the evils of "Ignorance" and "Want". Soon after, the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come takes Scrooge into the future where a recent death elicits no sympathy from London's inhabitants. After being chased across London by the Ghost, Scrooge sees his charwoman Mrs. Dilber trade the deceased's possessions to fence named Old Joe as well as the deceased's body. The Ghost also shows Scrooge the Cratchits' home, where they find Bob and his family mourning Tiny Tim. Later, Scrooge is led to a nearby cemetery, where the Ghost points out his own grave, revealing Scrooge as the man who died. Scrooge desperately vows to change his ways before falling into his empty coffin and finding himself returned to his bedroom in the present. Discovering it is Christmas Day, a gleeful Scrooge begins spreading happiness and joy around London, surprising the Cratchits with a turkey dinner, agreeing to give money to the gentlemen's charity, and then attending Fred's Christmas dinner. The next day, Scrooge raises Bob's salary and pledges his support for the Cratchits. Scrooge becomes a father figure to Tiny Tim, who overcomes his ailments and is restored to health, and now treats everyone with kindness, generosity, and compassion, thus embodying the Christmas spirit.

A Christmas Story

Bob Clark

['Peter Billingsley', 'Melinda Dillon', 'Darren McGavin', 'Jean Shepherd', 'Ian Petrella', 'Scott Schwartz', 'Tedde Moore', 'R.D. Robb', 'Zack Ward', 'Yano Anaya', 'Jeff Gillen', 'Leslie Carlson', 'Jim Hunter', 'Patty Johnson', 'Drew Hocevar', 'David Edward', 'Dwayne McLean', 'Helen E. Kaider', 'John Wong', 'Johan Sebastian Wong', 'Fred Lee', 'Dan Ma', 'Rocco Bellusci', 'Tommy Wallace', 'Court Benson', 'Leigh Brown', 'Bob Clark', 'Giada Dobrzenska', 'Dave Duff', 'Jordan-Patrick Marcantonio', 'Gary A. Jones', 'Kristephan Warren-Stevens', 'Don Geyer', 'Kathryn Hayzer', 'John Kennedy', 'Bill Kravitz', 'Julie Matthews', 'Christine Powrie', 'Quinn Smith', 'Lori Randolph']

Comedy, Action, Children's film, Drama, Family film

['USA']

English

['English']

['Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer']

comedy

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The film is presented in a series of vignettes, with narration provided by the adult Ralphie Parker. As a 9-year-old boy in 1940, all Ralphie wants for Christmas is a Red Ryder Carbine Action 200-shot Range Model air rifle. Ralphie's desire is rejected by his mother, his teacher Miss Shields, and a disgruntled Santa Claus at Higbee's department store, all of whom give him the same warning: "You'll shoot your eye out". On Christmas morning, Ralphie receives some presents that he enjoys but is disappointed not to find the rifle among them. Ralphie's father ("The Old Man") directs him to one last box hidden in the corner, which proves to contain the rifle. Ralphie eagerly hurries outside to try it out, but when he shoots at the metal target he has set up, the BB ricochets and knocks off his glasses. Ralphie accidentally steps on and breaks the glasses while trying to find them; he makes up a cover story about an icicle falling from the roof of the garage and hitting him in the face, which fools his mom and keeps him from getting in trouble. That night, Ralphie goes to sleep with the gun by his side, as his adult self reflects that it was the best Christmas present he had ever received or would ever receive.

A Clockwork Orange

Stanley Kubrick

['Malcolm McDowell', 'Patrick Magee', 'Carl Duering', 'Michael Bates', 'Warren Clarke', 'James Marcus', 'Michael Tarn', 'Miriam Karlin', 'Adrienne Corri', 'Sheila Raynor', 'Philip Stone', 'Aubrey Morris', 'Clive Francis', 'John Clive', 'Paul Farrell', 'Michael Gover', 'Godfrey Quigley', 'Madge Ryan', 'Anthony Sharp', 'Pauline Taylor', 'Margaret Tyzack', 'Steven Berkoff', 'Lindsay Campbell', 'David Prowse', 'Barrie Cookson', 'Jan Adair', 'Gaye Brown', 'Peter Burton', 'John J. Carney', 'Alec Wallis', 'John Savident', 'Vivienne Chandler', 'Richard Connaught', 'Prudence Drage', 'Carol Drinkwater', 'Lee Fox', 'Cheryl Grunwald', 'Gillian Hills', 'Craig Hunter', 'Shirley Jaffe', 'Virginia Wetherell', 'Neil Wilson', 'Katya Wyeth', 'Jack Arrow', 'Shane Shelton', 'Norman Gay', 'Katharina Kubrick']

Thriller, Science fiction, Action, Drama, Crime film, Suspense, Mystery, Detective fiction, Police procedural

['UK']

English

['English']

['Warner Bros. Pictures', 'Hawk Films', 'Kubrick Productions', 'Polaris Productions Limited']

sci-fi, top-rated

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In a futuristic Britain, Alex DeLarge is the leader of a gang of "droogs": Georgie, Dim, and Pete. One night, after getting intoxicated, they engage in an evening of "ultra-violence", which includes beating a vagrant in the street, and a fight with a rival gang. They drive to the country home of writer Frank Alexander and trick his wife into letting them inside. They beat Alexander to the point of crippling him, and Alex violently rapes Alexander's wife while singing "Singin' in the Rain". The next day, while absent from school, Alex is approached by his probation officer, PR Deltoid, who is aware of Alex's activities and cautions him. Alex's droogs express discontent with petty crime and want more equality and high-yield thefts, but Alex asserts his authority by attacking them. Later, Alex invades the home of a wealthy "cat-lady" and bludgeons her with a phallic sculpture while his droogs remain outside. On hearing sirens, Alex tries to flee, but Dim smashes a bottle in his face, stunning Alex and leaving him to be arrested. Deltoid brings word that the woman has died of her injuries, and Alex is convicted of murder and sentenced to 14 years in prison. Two years into the sentence, Alex eagerly takes up an offer to be a test subject for the Minister of the Interior's new Ludovico technique, an experimental aversion therapy for rehabilitating criminals within two weeks. Alex is strapped to a chair, his eyes are clamped open, and he is injected with drugs. He is then forced to watch films of sex and violence, some of which are accompanied by the music of his favourite composer, Ludwig van Beethoven. Alex becomes nauseated by the films and, fearing the technique will make him sick upon hearing Beethoven, begs for an end to the treatment. Two weeks later, the Minister demonstrates Alex's rehabilitation to a gathering of officials. Alex is unable to fight back against an actor who taunts and attacks him and becomes ill upon seeing a topless woman. The prison chaplain complains that Alex has been robbed of his free will; the Minister asserts that the Ludovico technique will cut crime and alleviate crowding in prisons. Alex is released from prison, only to find that the police have sold his possessions to provide compensation to his victims and his parents have let out his room. Alex encounters an elderly vagrant whom he attacked years earlier, and the vagrant and his friends attack him. Alex is saved by two policemen but is shocked to find they are his former droogs Dim and Georgie. They drive him to the countryside, beat him, and nearly drown him before abandoning him. Alex barely makes it to the doorstep of a nearby home before collapsing. Alex wakes up to find himself in the home of Mr Alexander, who is now using a wheelchair. Alexander does not recognise Alex from the previous attack, but knows of him and the Ludovico technique from the newspapers. He sees Alex as a political weapon and prepares to present him to his colleagues. While bathing, Alex breaks into "Singin' in the Rain", causing Alexander to realise that Alex was the person who assaulted his wife and him. With help from his colleagues, Alexander drugs Alex and locks him in an upstairs bedroom. He then plays Beethoven's Ninth Symphony loudly from the floor below. Unable to withstand the sickening pain, Alex attempts suicide by jumping out of the window. Alex survives the attempt and wakes up in hospital with multiple injuries. While being given a series of psychological tests, he finds that he no longer has aversions to violence and sex. The Minister arrives and apologises to Alex. He informs Alex that the government has had Mr Alexander institutionalised. He offers to take care of Alex and get him a job in return for his co-operation with his election campaign and public relations counter-offensive. As a sign of goodwill, the Minister brings in a stereo system playing Beethoven's Ninth. Alex then contemplates violence and has vivid thoughts of having sex with a woman in front of an approving crowd, thinking to himself, "I was cured, all right!"

A Close Shave

Nick Park

['Peter Sallis', 'Anne Reid']

Animation, Comedy, Children's film, Short, Adventure, Crime film, Mystery, Thriller, Crime Fiction, Fantasy

['UK']

English

['English']

['Aardman']

animated

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Wallace and his dog, Gromit, operate a window cleaning business. Wallace falls for the wool shopkeeper Wendolene Ramsbottom. Her sinister dog, Preston, rustles sheep to supply the shop. After a lost sheep wanders into the house, Wallace places him in his Knit-o-Matic, which shears sheep and knits the wool into jumpers. Wallace names the sheep Shaun. Preston steals the Knit-o-Matic blueprints. When Gromit investigates, Preston captures him and frames him for the sheep rustling. Gromit is arrested and imprisoned, while Wallace's house is inundated with sheep. Wallace and the sheep break Gromit out of jail and hide out in the fields. Wendolene and Preston arrive in the lorry to round up the sheep. When Wendolene demands Preston stop the rustling, he locks her in the lorry with the sheep and drives away, intent on turning them into dog food. Wallace and Gromit give chase on their motorcycle. When Gromit's sidecar detaches, he activates its aeroplane mode and resumes the chase from the air. Wallace becomes trapped in the lorry and he, Wendolene, and the sheep are transported to Preston's factory, where Preston has built an enormous Knit-o-Matic. The captives are loaded into the wash basin, but Shaun escapes. Shaun activates neon signs to reveal the factory's location to Gromit, who attacks Preston. Shaun sucks Preston into the Knit-o-Matic, removing his fur and revealing him to be a robot. Wendolene explains that Preston is a creation of her inventor father. The Knit-o-Matic makes a sweater of Preston's fur and dumps it on his head, obscuring his vision. Shaun pushes Preston into the dog food mincing machine, crushing him. Gromit is exonerated and Wallace rebuilds Preston as a harmless remote-controlled dog. Afterwards, Wallace is saddened when Wendolene leaves and tells him that she is allergic to cheese. When he tries to cheer himself up with some cheese, he finds that Shaun has eaten it all.

A Dog's Will

Guel Arraes

['Matheus Nachtergaele', 'Selton Mello', 'Rogério Cardoso', 'Denise Fraga', 'Diogo Vilela', 'Luís Melo', 'Virginia Cavendish', 'Bruno Garcia', 'Enrique Díaz', 'Maurício Gonçalves', 'Aramis Trindade', 'Marco Nanini', 'Paulo Goulart', 'Lima Duarte', 'Fernanda Montenegro']

Comedy, Action, Romance, Western, Adventure, Drama

['Brazil']

Portuguese

['Portuguese']

['Lereby Produções', 'Globo Filmes']

comedy

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João Grilo[a] (Matheus Nachtergaele) and Chicó (Selton Mello) are two poor men living in an arid, desert-like region of North-East Brazil in the 1930s.[3] João is constantly hungry and malnourished, relying on his charm and silver tongue to fool the townsfolk for his own gain. Chicó is a handsome but cowardly man who tells outlandish stories about his past. Upon arriving in Taperoá, the two look for work from the town's baker. The baker's wife, Dora, dotes on her dog, who is fed luxurious food. When João and Chicó steal the dog's food, it accidentally eats theirs and quickly falls ill. Desperate for help, Dora begs the duo to have the priest to bless her dog. João first attempts to convince the priest to bless the dog by saying it is owned by Major Antônio Morais, a wealthy landowner in the area, and later has the priest perform funeral rites for the dog by saying it left the church money in its will. The Bishop, initially infuriated at the priest for this, walks back immediately once he learns he is able to take some of the money. Dora seduces Chicó and attempts to sleep with him before being visited by her other suitor, the town bully Vicentão, and then her husband. João takes a job assisting Major Antônio Morais and his daughter Rosinha, who is in town seeking a blessing from the priest. Vicentão and Corporal Setenta are smitten with Rosinha, but she immediately falls in love with Chicó. Morais wants to marry off Rosinha to a rich man and promises a dowry of a piggy bank filled with coins as left by her grandmother. João devises a plan to pit Vicentão and Corporal Setenta against each other which leaves Chicó the last suitor standing. Dressed up as a wealthy and educated man, Chicó asks for Rosinha's hand in marriage from Morais but Chicó talks him into paying 200 crowns to the priest for church renovations. Morais decides to pay for the renovations on Chicó's behalf, but he requests the “skin off his back” in the case that Chicó should fail to pay him back. Unable to pay the debt, the duo make a plan to fake Chicó's death with a blood filled balloon with João riding into town pretending to be a bandit. On the day, actual bandits, led by the ferocious Severino, raid the town and begin looting and killing. Severino rounds up the baker and his wife, the two church leaders, and João and Chicó, planning to shoot them all outside of the church. João decides to trick Severino into believing that his harmonica was blessed and now brings people back to life. To convince Severino, he stabs Chicó in the blood-filled balloon and Chicó plays dead and then “resurrects” after João plays the instrument. Severino agrees to be shot and is killed, but João is shot himself while trying to run away from the scene. Arriving in the afterlife, the six dead members are all placed under trial by the Devil (Luís Melo). He is joined by Jesus Christ, who oversees the trial. João begs for the Virgin Mary's help and she arrives to convince Jesus to be forgiving. Before being executed, the baker forgave his wife for her adultery and the two church leaders forgave those who shot them - enough for them to land in purgatory instead of hell. Severino is absolved as his bandit ways started when police members killed his family as a child. The Devil attempts to take João but he is granted a second chance at life having been a poor but hopeful man his entire life. Upon reviving, the duo donate all the money taken from the dead townsfolk in the name of the Virgin Mary. Chicó and Rosinha get married, attempting to use the dowry to pay off his debt, but it ends up being filled with worthless coins. Using a technicality (that the skin off his back should not come with a drop of blood), they manage to evade their debt. All three now penniless, they bump into Jesus Christ posing as a hungry man on the road and share their bread with him.

A Few Good Men

Rob Reiner

['Tom Cruise', 'Jack Nicholson', 'Demi Moore', 'Kevin Bacon', 'Kiefer Sutherland', 'Kevin Pollak', 'James Marshall', 'J.T. Walsh', 'Christopher Guest', 'J.A. Preston', 'Matt Craven', 'Wolfgang Bodison', 'Xander Berkeley', 'John M. Jackson', 'Noah Wyle', 'Cuba Gooding Jr.', 'Lawrence Lowe', 'Joshua Malina', 'Oscar Jordan', 'John M. Mathews', 'Aaron Sorkin', 'Alex Wexo', 'Frank Cavestani', 'Jan Munroe', 'Ron Ostrow', 'Matthew Saks', 'Harry Caesar', 'Michael DeLorenzo', 'Geoffrey Nauffts', 'Arthur Senzy', 'Cameron Thor', 'David Bowe', 'Gene Whittington', 'Maud Winchester', 'Jack Serino']

War, Drama, Comedy, Action, Romance, Trial drama, Legal drama, Legal thriller, Suspense, Mystery, Thriller, Detective fiction, Crime Fiction, Police procedural

['USA']

English

['English', 'French']

['David Brown Productions']

mystery

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At the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, Private William Santiago, a United States Marine, is tied up and beaten in the middle of the night. After he is found dead, Lance Corporal Harold Dawson and Private First Class Louden Downey are accused of his murder and face a court-martial. Their defense is assigned to United States Navy JAG Corps Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee, a callow lawyer with a penchant for plea bargains. Another JAG attorney, Lieutenant Commander Joanne Galloway, Kaffee's superior, suspects something is amiss. Santiago died after he broke the chain of command to ask to be transferred away. Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Markinson advocated for Santiago to be transferred, but Base Commander Colonel Nathan Jessep ordered Santiago's platoon commander, Lieutenant Jonathan James Kendrick, to "train" Santiago on the basis they are all at fault for Santiago's substandard performance. Galloway suspects that Dawson and Downey carried out a "code red" order: a violent extrajudicial punishment. Galloway is bothered by Kaffee's blasé approach, and Kaffee resents Galloway's interference. Kaffee and Galloway question Jessep and others at Guantanamo Bay and are met with contempt from the colonel. When Kaffee negotiates a plea bargain with the prosecutor, US Marine Judge Advocate Captain Jack Ross, Dawson and Downey refuse, insisting that Kendrick gave them the "code red" order, that they never intended to kill Santiago, and that it would be dishonorable to pursue a plea bargain. Kaffee intends to get removed as counsel, but at the arraignment, Kaffee unexpectedly enters a plea of not guilty for the defendants. He says that he was chosen to handle the case because he was expected to accept a plea, and the matter would then be kept quiet. Markinson meets Kaffee in secret and says that Jessep never ordered a transfer for Santiago. The defense establishes that Dawson had been denied promotion for smuggling food to a Marine who had been sentenced to be deprived of food. Dawson is portrayed in a good light, and the defense, through Downey, proves that "code reds" had been ordered before. But under cross-examination, Downey says that he was not present when Dawson received the supposed "code red" order. Markinson, ashamed that he failed to protect a Marine under his command and unwilling to testify against Jessep, his longtime friend, commits suicide before he can testify. Without Markinson's testimony, Kaffee believes the case lost. He returns home in a drunken stupor, lamenting that he fought the case instead of taking a deal. Galloway encourages Kaffee to call Jessep as a witness, despite the risk of being court-martialed for challenging a high-ranking officer without evidence. At the Washington Navy Yard court, Jessep spars with Kaffee's questioning, but is unnerved when Kaffee points out a contradiction in his testimony. Kaffee also calls into question Jessep's claim that Santiago was to be put on the first flight home. Upon further questioning, and disgusted by Kaffee's attitude, Jessep extols the military's, and his own, importance to national security. Kaffee asks if Jessep ordered the "code red", to which he bellows "You're goddamn right I did!". Jessep tries to leave the courtroom but is arrested. Dawson and Downey are cleared of the murder and conspiracy charges but found guilty of "conduct unbecoming" and will be dishonorably discharged. Downey does not understand what they did wrong; Dawson says that they failed to defend those too weak to fight for themselves. Kaffee tells Dawson that it is not necessary to wear a patch on one's arm to have honor. Dawson acknowledges Kaffee as an officer and renders a salute. Kaffee and Ross exchange pleasantries before Ross departs to arrest Kendrick.

A Field in England

Ben Wheatley

['Reece Shearsmith', 'Michael Smiley', 'Julian Barratt', 'Richard Glover', 'Ryan Pope', 'Peter Ferdinando', 'Sara Dee', 'Laura Obiols']

Horror, Drama, Comedy, History, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller, Historical Fiction

['UK']

English

['English']

['Rook Films', 'Film4 Productions']

comedy

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During a battle of the English Civil War, an alchemist's assistant named Whitehead flees from the strict Commander Trower. Whitehead is saved by a rough soldier named Cutler, who kills Trower before he can apprehend Whitehead. Whitehead then meets two army deserters, the gruff veteran Jacob and the witless Friend. The four leave the battleground in search of an ale house that Cutler claims is nearby. Cutler instead leads them to a field with many mushrooms growing in it, where he cooks a meal with some mushrooms and encourages the others to eat, which they share—save for Whitehead who is fasting. Following their meal they haul an Irishman, the Wizard O'Neill, seemingly out of the ground using a rope wrapped around a strangely carved wooden post buried in the ground. O'Neill is a rival alchemist for whom Cutler works; and who had stolen documents from Whitehead's master, which Whitehead is trying to recover. O'Neill quickly asserts authority over the group and tells them of a treasure hidden somewhere in the field.[3] The group goes to O'Neill's camp, where O'Neill tortures Whitehead into subservience to use him as a human divining rod. After using Whitehead to locate the treasure, which it turns out is near the camp, O'Neill orders Jacob and Friend to dig for it while he leaves Cutler to supervise, and goes to sleep in a tent. Jacob soon succumbs to the influence of the hallucinogenic mushrooms, and after several hours of digging he attacks Friend. Cutler laughs and urinates on them, and when Jacob attempts to attack him, Cutler accidentally shoots Friend. Whitehead is unable to save him, and Friend dies, telling Jacob to deliver a message to his wife, telling her that he hates her. Cutler is forced to finish digging by himself, while Jacob lies down in the undergrowth, and Whitehead deposits Friend's corpse in a thicket. Cutler eventually nears reaching the treasure, attracting the attention of O'Neill, who discovers Jacob and Whitehead gone. Reaching where Friend's corpse is, O'Neill pursues Whitehead, who ingests a considerable quantity of mushrooms, heightening his awareness but suffering a hallucinatory experience, wherein he conjures a violent wind to blow away the camp's tent. Cutler discovers that the "treasure" is just a skull, which he shoots in anger. Jacob comes back to join Whitehead in escaping from O'Neill. Cutler angrily berates O'Neill, blaming him for trusting Whitehead and lying to him about the alehouse — which was simply a ploy to entice Jacob and Friend — and abuses him. O'Neill promptly kills Cutler and then pursues Whitehead and Jacob, who scavenge Cutler's weapons and return to the overturned camp. As they are preparing for an attack, Friend appears alive and reveals their location to O'Neill. As Jacob throws Friend to the ground to stop him, O'Neill shoots Jacob in the gut, but Jacob returns fire breaking O'Neill's leg. Jacob dies from his injuries, after he and Whitehead surmise that the treasure was the friendship they shared. Friend brandishes Cutler's pike and charges O'Neill, but O'Neill kills him with his last shot. Whitehead takes advantage of the situation to finally kill O'Neill by shooting him in the back of the head. Whitehead buries his friends' corpses in the hole and leaves the field. Wearing O'Neill's clothes, he gathers his master's stolen documents and returns to the hedgerow where he first met Cutler, Jacob and Friend, from which battle sounds are rising. After he wades through the hedge, he sees Friend, Jacob and himself standing together.

A Fish Called Wanda

Charles Crichton

['Jamie Lee Curtis', 'John Cleese', 'Kevin Kline', 'Michael Palin', 'Maria Aitken', 'Tom Georgeson', 'Cynthia Cleese', 'Patricia Hayes', 'Geoffrey Palmer', 'Mark Elwes', 'Neville Phillips', 'Peter Jonfield', 'Jeremy Child', 'Stephen Fry', 'Ken Campbell', 'Al Hunter Ashton', 'Roger Hume', 'Roger Brierley', 'Llewellyn Rees', 'Michael Percival', 'Kate Lansbury', 'Andrew MacLachlan', 'Roland MacLeod', 'Robert Putt', 'Pamela Miles', 'Sharon Marino', 'Patrick Newman', 'David Simeon', 'Barrie Holland']

Romance, Comedy, Crime, Dark comedy, Farce, Heist, Crime film, Screwball comedy, Mystery, Thriller, Gangster, Detective fiction, Crime Fiction, Police procedural, Caper story

['UK', 'USA']

English

['English', 'Italian', 'Russian']

['Prominent Features', 'Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer', 'Fish Productions']

comedy, heist

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London-based gangster George Thomason plans a jewel heist with his right-hand man, Ken Pile, an animal lover with a stutter. They bring in two Americans: con artist Wanda Gershwitz and weapons expert Otto West, a volatile anglophobe. Wanda and Otto are lovers, but pretend to be siblings so Wanda can work her charms on Ken and George. The heist succeeds and the gang escapes with a large sum in diamonds, which they hide. Wanda and Otto then betray George to the police and he is arrested. They return to collect the loot, with Wanda planning to double-cross Otto as well, but it is gone: suspecting duplicity, George had moved it to a safe deposit box and given Ken the key. Wanda sees Ken hide it in his fish tank, steals it, and conceals it in her locket. To learn where the box is, Wanda decides to seduce George's barrister, Archie Leach. He is in a loveless marriage and quickly falls for her, but Otto's jealous interference causes their liaisons to go disastrously wrong. When Wanda accidentally leaves her locket at Archie's house his wife, Wendy, finds it and delightedly assumes it was a gift for her. Wanda demands that Archie retrieve her keepsake, but Wendy will not give it up. He then fakes a robbery at his home as a cover for its disappearance. It too is interrupted and foiled by Otto. Archie is later able to retrieve the locket, and returns it to Wanda at their next tryst, this time unraveled by innocent intruders. Realizing he will be unable to give her all she seeks; he subsequently telephones her to call off their affair. Otto arrives at Archie's house seeking to apologise for his rudeness, but Wendy overhears their conversation and learns of Archie's liaison. George asks Ken to eliminate the Crown's only eyewitness to the robbery, the elderly Eileen Coady. Ken repeatedly tries, but each time accidentally kills one of her three small dogs instead, causing him great distress. Finally, the last grisly death gives Mrs Coady a fatal heart attack. With no witness, George seems poised to be released. He gives instructions to Ken, revealing the location of the diamonds. When Otto learns that Ken knows this, he tortures him into revealing it by tying him up and putting various items of food up his nostrils and in his mouth before eating all of his pet tropical fish one by one, leaving Ken's favorite, named Wanda, until last. Ken divulges that the diamonds are at the Cathcart Towers Hotel near Heathrow Airport, but does not know that Wanda has the key. Even with Otto's knowledge and Wanda's key, the two still need George to remain in prison. Testifying as a defense witness at his trial, Wanda unexpectedly gives evidence incriminating him. Archie is stunned by her statements and flubs his questioning, inadvertently calling her "darling". Wendy, watching from the public gallery, declares their marriage dead. Promising less prison time, Archie asks George about the diamonds and learns of Otto and Wanda's complicity and that Ken knows their location. Archie sees Wanda fleeing the court and shunts her into his car. With his career and marriage ruined, Archie resolves to cut his losses, throw in with her, steal the loot, and flee to South America together. They race to Ken's flat. While Archie interrogates him, Otto steals Archie's car, with Wanda in it. Archie painstakingly draws out from an uncontrollably stuttering Ken that the safe deposit box is at an airport hotel. They then set out for Heathrow on Ken's moped. Otto and Wanda recover the diamonds, but Wanda double-crosses him and saps him unconscious in a Heathrow broom cupboard. She reluctantly boards her flight to Rio de Janeiro without Archie. Otto recovers, steals a boarding pass, and makes his way to the tarmac, where he is confronted by Archie. Otto is about to kill him, but is stalled while Ken approaches on a steamroller, seeking vengeance for his fish. Otto finds he has stepped in wet concrete and cannot move. Ken runs him over. Archie joins Wanda aboard the plane. Improbably, Otto again appears seeking to derail things between them. Covered in encrusted cement, he clings outside their window until he is blown off during take-off. An epilogue relates that Archie and Wanda were married in Rio, had seventeen children, and founded a leper colony; Ken became Master of ceremonies at SeaWorld; and Otto became the Minister of Justice for South Africa.

A Ghost Story

David Lowery

['Casey Affleck', 'Rooney Mara', 'McColm Cephas Jr.', 'Kenneisha Thompson', 'Grover Coulson', 'Liz Cardenas', 'Barlow Jacobs', 'Richard Krause', 'Dagger Salazar', 'Sonia Acevedo', 'Carlos Bermudez', 'Yasmina Gutierrez', 'Kimberly Fiddes', 'Daniel Escudero', 'Kesha', 'Jared Kopf', 'Afomia Hailemeskel', 'Will Oldham', 'Brea Grant', 'Augustine Frizzell', 'Jonny Mars', 'Rachel Ballard', 'Bryan Pitts', 'Rob Zabrecky', 'Sara Tomerlin', 'Margot Tomerlin', 'Sylvie Tomerlin', 'Savanna Walsh', 'Derrick Halverston', 'David Miller', 'Hector Escalante', 'Randy E. Aguebor', 'Joel David Taylor', 'Monalisa Amidar', 'Phillip Amidar', 'Stan Sanders', 'Marcella Langdon', 'CG. Lewis III', 'Alvis Lewis', 'David Fraga', 'Kimberly Gail Williams', 'Tanya Foster', 'Giovannie Cruz', 'Paulie Killgore', 'Otis Harris', 'Kathy Jordan', 'Scooter Walsh', 'William Sydney', 'David Helms', 'Jordan Jett Raines', 'Kelli Holdridge', 'Taylor Anne Ramsey', 'Alexis Fleisig', 'Kris Youmans', 'Da-Voncia Hendricks', 'Neken Williams', 'Kevin Jacobs', 'Chris Gardner', 'Nainoa McKeague', 'Savanna Sears', 'Andrew Tinker', 'Juan Fiol', 'Constance Jones', 'Rachel Chambers', 'Jacie Scott', 'Nikita Patel', 'Brandi Price', 'David Keller', 'Jim Johnson', 'Aaron Roberts', 'Branton Ellerbee', 'David Pink', 'David Lowery']

Horror, Romance, Fantasy, Melodrama, Drama, Suspense, Mystery, Thriller

['USA']

English

['English']

['Sailor Bear', 'Zero Trans Fat Productions', 'Ideaman Studios']

sad, emotional

sad-movies-if-you-feel-like-you-need-to-cry

A woman (credited as "M") mentions to her musician husband (credited as "C") that as a child, she moved residences frequently and took to hiding little notes wherever she lived. C is resistant to M's desire to move, creating tension within their relationship. When he finally acquiesces, they hear a loud bang while asleep, the source of which they are unable to identify. Shortly afterwards, C is killed in a car accident nearby. At the hospital, M covers his body with a sheet before departing. C awakens as a ghost, invisible to the living. Still covered with the sheet, he wanders through the hospital. A door of light opens before him, but he makes no attempt to approach it and it closes. C walks home and sees Linda, his landlord, drop off a pie. M arrives and eats the pie until she vomits. Unable to communicate with her, C watches M grieve before proceeding with her life. In the house next door, he sees another ghost covered by a flower-print sheet who says that they are waiting for someone, though they do not remember who. Upon discovering that M is dating another man, C jealously creates disturbances inside the house. Later, M listens to one of C's songs and recalls the first time he played it for her. She moves away, but first writes a note and hides it in a gap between some molding, which she paints over. C picks at the paint but is unable to reach the note. Later, a Spanish-speaking single mother moves into the house with her young son and daughter. C watches them eat, play the piano and celebrate Christmas. The children begin to sense his presence and become frightened. One night, he knocks a framed photo of the family off the piano and smashes dishes in the kitchen. The family moves out and the ghost continues scraping at the paint. At a party thrown by the next occupants, a woman says she has stopped working on her novel and a man responds by claiming all creative pursuits are pointless, as the universe will eventually end. The partygoers notice the lights flicker. The house is abandoned and becomes derelict. C's efforts to retrieve the note are interrupted by a bulldozer crashing through a wall. The house next door is also torn down; the flower-print ghost, while standing amongst the ruins, says "I don’t think they’re coming" and disappears from beneath its sheet. A skyscraper is built where the house was; once it is finished, C views a futuristic cityscape from the balcony before jumping off the ledge. The celestial sphere rotates in reverse, and C finds himself in a field in the 19th century with a man who is driving stakes into the ground. The man's wife and three daughters arrive in a covered wagon, and the family prepares to build a house. The youngest daughter writes a note and hides it under a rock while humming the tune of C's song. Native Americans attack and kill the family, and C watches the girl's corpse decay. Back in the house, which is empty except for the piano, C sees himself and M enter and look around. His life in the house repeats itself; he witnesses their last argument, and upon hearing his past self finally give in, he sits down heavily at the piano, creating the bang that had earlier startled the couple. Later, C watches his earlier ghost-self watch M leave the house for the last time. He finally retrieves the note and, upon reading it, disappears, his empty sheet collapsing to the floor.

A Goofy Movie

Kevin Lima

['Bill Farmer', 'Jason Marsden', 'Rob Paulsen', 'Jim Cummings', 'Kellie Martin', 'Kevin Lima', 'Jenna von Oy', 'Joey Lawrence', 'Julie Brown', 'Wayne Allwine', 'Wallace Shawn', 'Florence Stanley', 'Frank Welker', 'Pat Buttram', 'Pauly Shore', 'Aaron Lohr', 'Tevin Campbell', 'Jo Anne Worley', 'Brittany Alyse Smith', 'Robyne Richards', 'Klee Bragger', 'Herschel Sparber', 'Dante Basco', 'Sheryl Bernstein', 'Corey Burton', 'Pat Carroll', 'Elizabeth Daily', 'Carole Holliday', 'Steve Moore', 'Brian Pimental', 'Jason Willinger']

Animation, Comedy, Action, Romance, Musical, Children's film, Adventure, Melodrama, Drama, Family film, Coming-of-age story, Comedy music

['Australia', 'Canada', 'France', 'USA']

English

['English']

['Walt Disney Pictures', 'Walt Disney Animation', 'Phoenix Animation Studios', 'Pixibox', 'Walt Disney Animation', 'Walt Disney Feature Animation']

comedy, animated

vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time, vote-best-animated-films-of-all-time

Max Goof is an average teenager who pines after his classmate Roxanne, worships the pop star Powerline, and has a tense relationship with his clumsy, old-fashioned father Goofy, whom he fears turning into. On the last day of school before summer vacation, Max, with help from his friends P.J. and Bobby, hijacks a school assembly and dances while lip syncing to a Powerline song. The performance succeeds in making Max a school celebrity, and he invites Roxanne with him to a viewing party of a live broadcast of Powerline's upcoming concert in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, after learning from school principal Mazur that Max is becoming a juvenile delinquent, Goofy decides to curb his behavior by immediately leaving on a father-son fishing trip to Lake Destiny, Idaho. Unable to admit the truth to Roxanne, Max tells her that not only are he and Goofy traveling to Los Angeles to see the concert in person, but that Powerline has invited them onstage. Goofy and Max hit the road, visiting a run-down possum-themed amusement park where Goofy embarrasses Max. The next day, they run into P.J. and his father Pete while camping. Goofy takes his son fishing and shows him the "Perfect Cast" fishing technique, accidentally luring Bigfoot to their camp and forcing Goofy and Max to spend the night in the car with Bigfoot outside. While Goofy sleeps, Max alters the map's route to Los Angeles. The next morning, Goofy makes Max the navigator of the trip, and the two enjoy several stops together. That night, while staying at the same motel, Pete overhears a conversation between Max and P.J. and informs Goofy that Max has tricked him into traveling to Los Angeles. Goofy still believes Max will do the right thing, but the next morning, Max chooses the route to California, and a frustrated Goofy stops the car at the Grand Canyon and thumps away. With the brake loose, the car rolls away; Goofy and Max chase after it and end up riding the car down the Colorado River. After a brief argument, Goofy says no matter how old Max gets he will always be his son, and the two finally reconcile. After learning about Max's promise to Roxanne, Goofy decides to take him to the concert. The two nearly plummet down a waterfall, but Max saves Goofy using the Perfect Cast technique. Goofy and Max arrive at the concert, sneak on to the stage, and dance with Powerline, delighting Roxanne. Max and Goofy return home in a barely-functioning car and Max tells Roxanne the truth; she admits she always liked him and they make plans to go out. The car explodes, ejecting Goofy right into the air and falling through the porch roof of Roxanne's house, and Max proudly introduces his father to his new girlfriend.

A Grand Day Out

Nick Park

['Peter Sallis']

Action, Animation, Comedy, Children's film, Short, Adventure, Science fiction, Fantasy, Drama

['UK']

English

['English']

['Aardman', 'NFTS']

animated

vote-best-animated-films-of-all-time

During a bank holiday, the cheese-loving inventor Wallace and his dog Gromit search for places to spend time together. Unable to find someplace to go, Wallace makes some tea and gets some crackers from the cupboard, but finds they have run out of cheese. Believing that the moon is made of the stuff, they build a rocket, and, with some initial difficulty, launch into space. When they land, as they look for a place to sample the lunar landscape, they encounter a coin-operated robot resembling an oven on wheels. Wallace inserts a coin, but nothing happens. Some time after the two leave their initial picnic spot, the robot activates and assesses the belongings and dishes left behind, taking some of them as clean-up. The robot also discovers one of Wallace's skiing magazines, suddenly developing a yearning to travel to Earth to ski there. As it further assesses the evidence of its new visitors, it repairs a discarded piece of the cheese landscape, issues a parking ticket for the rocket, and is annoyed by an oil leak from the craft. Discovering Wallace is the culprit, the robot sneaks up and is about to strike him with a clubbing baton, but the money Wallace inserted runs out, and it turns off. Wallace, unaware of any trouble, hits his head on the baton anyways as he gets up, but takes it as a souvenir, inserts another coin, and prepares to leave with Gromit. Reactivating a bit later, the robot sees the two in their preparations. It hurriedly follows, hoping to travel with them to Earth. Wallace sees the robot and panics, assuming that the robot is angrily pursuing them for taking the cheese, and he and Gromit retreat into the rocket. They attempt to start the engine, but discover that in their panic they neglected to light the rocket's fuse. Unable to climb the ladder to get into the rocketship, the robot cuts into the fuselage with a can opener. As it fumbles around in the dark, it accidentally knocks a fuel line open and ignites the vapours. The resulting explosion throws the robot clear, but also starts the engine and the rocket safely lifts off anyways. The robot sadly and angrily resigns itself to its inability to go to Earth, until it realises that the strips of fuselage it held onto can be fashioned into crude skis. As it now-happily skis around the lunar landscape, the robot waves goodbye to Wallace and Gromit as they return home.

A Hard Day's Night

Richard Lester

['John Lennon', 'Paul McCartney', 'George Harrison', 'Ringo Starr', 'Wilfrid Brambell', 'Norman Rossington', 'John Junkin', 'Victor Spinetti', 'Anna Quayle', 'Deryck Guyler', 'Richard Vernon', 'Edward Malin', 'Lionel Blair', 'Robin Ray', 'Alison Seebohm', 'David Janson', 'Bridget Armstrong', 'Roger Avon', 'Bruce Beeby', 'Isla Blair', 'John Bluthal', 'Pattie Boyd', 'Andre Charisse', 'Phil Collins', 'Sheila Fearn', 'Rosemarie Frankland', 'Bob Godfrey', 'Kenneth Haigh', 'Susan Hampshire', 'Victor Harrington', 'Julian Holloway', 'Clare Kelly', 'David Langton', 'Al Lewis', 'Jeremy Lloyd', 'Derek Nimmo', 'Margaret Nolan', 'Jim Brady', 'Charlotte Rampling', 'Gordon Rollings', 'Edina Ronay', 'Marianne Stone', 'Noel Trevarthen', 'Michael Trubshawe', 'Neil Wilson']

Music, Comedy, Musical, Indie film, Comedy music, Musical Drama

['UK']

English

['English', 'German', 'French']

['Proscenium Films', 'Walter Shenson Films', 'Maljack Productions', 'United Artists']

comedy

vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time

The four Beatles evade a horde of fans while boarding a train for London to film a televised variety show concert. En route, they meet Paul McCartney's trouble-making Irish grandfather, John. Before arriving in London, the band entertains some schoolgirls and plays cards with their manager, Norm, and road manager, Shake. They are quickly driven from the station to a hotel and begin to feel confined. Norm brings each Beatle a pile of fan mail and tasks them with answering each letter, but they sneak out to party. Norm and Shake catch them and order them back to the room, where they find out that Paul's grandfather has gone to a gambling club using an invitation sent to Ringo; they track him down and bring him back to the hotel. The next day, the Beatles arrive at a TV studio for rehearsals. The television producer assumes bad faith in them due to something Paul's grandfather said. After a mundane cocktail reception where the group tease reporters with comic and evasive answers to interview questions, they leave through a fire escape and cavort in a field until forced off by its caretaker. Back in the studio, they are separated when a woman thinks she recognises John Lennon but cannot recall who he is. George Harrison is mistaken for an actor, dragged into an advertising agent's office, and auditioned for a clothing advertisement, but offends the agent by calling the shirts he is presented with "grotesque". The band returns to rehearse a second song and, after a quick trip to makeup, smoothly goes through a third before earning a break. An hour before the final run-through, Ringo Starr is cajoled into chaperoning Paul's grandfather to the studio canteen for tea. He takes issue with a book Ringo is reading and manipulates him into going out "parading" to experience life rather than reading about it in books. Ringo tries to have a quiet drink in a pub, takes pictures, walks alongside the River Thames, and rides a bicycle along a railway station platform.[b] After being ejected from the pub for nearly injuring a parrot with a dart and accidentally causing a woman to fall into a newly dug hole at a construction site, Ringo is apprehended by a policeman. He is shortly joined by Paul's grandfather, who had triggered a ruckus attempting to sell Beatles photos with autographs he had forged. The grandfather antagonises the policemen at the station before running back to the studio to tell the others about Ringo. Norm sends the other three Beatles to retrieve him, which leads to a Keystone Cops-style foot chase. Arriving back at the studio with only minutes to spare before airtime, the Beatles deliver a smashing performance to an audience of screaming, delirious fans. Immediately afterwards, a helicopter whisks the group away toward a "midnight matinée" engagement in Wolverhampton. Paul tosses the forged autographs out of the helicopter as it takes off.

A Hero Never Dies

Johnnie To

['Leon Lai', 'Sean Lau Ching-Wan', 'Fiona Leung', 'Yoyo Mung Ka-Wai', 'Lam Suet', 'Keiji Sato', 'Yuen Bun', 'Henry Fong Ping', 'Yen Shi-Kwan', 'Michael Lam Wai-Leung', 'Wong Tin-Lam', 'Cheung Chi-Ping', 'Lu Ching-Ting', 'Law Wing-Cheong', 'Philip Keung Hiu-Man', 'Chiu Chi-Shing']

Action, Adventure, Noir, Drama, Crime film, Mafia, Thriller, Gangster, Detective fiction, World cinema, Crime Fiction, Police procedural, Action Thriller, Action/Adventure

['Hong Kong']

Cantonese

['Cantonese', 'Chinese', 'Thai', 'English']

['Film City (Hong Kong) Limited', 'Milkyway Image']

action, top-rated

letterboxds-top-250-action-films

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A League of Their Own

Penny Marshall

['Tom Hanks', 'Geena Davis', 'Lori Petty', 'Madonna', "Rosie O'Donnell", 'Megan Cavanagh', 'Tracy Reiner', 'Bitty Schram', 'Ann Cusack', 'Anne Ramsay', 'Freddie Simpson', 'Renée Coleman', 'Robin Knight', 'Patti Pelton', 'Kelli Simpkins', 'Neezer Tarleton', 'Connie Pounds-Taylor', 'Kathleen Marshall', 'Sharon Szmidt', 'Pauline Brailsford', 'David Strathairn', 'Garry Marshall', 'Jon Lovitz', 'Bill Pullman', 'Justin Scheller', 'Eddie Jones', 'Alan Wilder', 'Michael Haley', 'Don S. Davis', 'Janet Jones', 'Brenda Ferrari', 'Téa Leoni', 'Laurel Cronin', 'Wantland L. Sandel Jr.', 'Joe Krowka', 'Harry Shearer', 'Blaire Baron', 'Ryan Howell', 'Brian Boru Gleeson', 'David Franks', 'Ryan Olsen', 'Ellie Weingardt', 'Larissa Collins', 'Douglas Blakeslee', 'Joey Slotnick', 'Brian Flannery', 'Stephen Feagley', 'Rae Allen', 'Gregory Sporleder', 'Eddie Mekka', 'Stephen Mailer', 'Raymond L. Chapman', 'Joette Hodgen', 'Lynn Cartwright', 'Kathleen Butler', 'Eunice Anderson', 'Vera Johnson', 'Patricia Wilson', 'Mark Holton', 'Barbara Erwin', 'Betty Miller', 'Eugenia McLin', 'Barbara Pilavin', 'Marvin Einhorn', 'Shirley Burkovich', "Dolores 'Pickles' Dries", 'Shelly Adlard', 'Vickie Buse', 'K.C. Carr', 'Julie Croteau', 'Tonya Gilles Koch', 'Kirsten Gretick', 'Stacey Gustaferro', 'Lisa Handirk', 'Cheryl Jones', 'Shelly Niemeyer', 'Sally Rutherford', 'Lita Schmitt', 'Amanda Walker', 'Brenda Watson', 'Clint Calvert', 'Del Close', 'Sarah Cosgrove-Gaumond', 'Cris Cunningham', 'Doug Decker', 'Andrea Helene', 'Gary Houston', 'David L. Lander', 'Kindra Marra', 'Megan McCarthy', 'Ed Quinn', 'Phil Russell', 'Keith Schrader', 'Ray Toler', 'Robin Wyatt']

Action, Drama, Comedy, War, Children's film, Sports, Comedy drama

['USA']

English

['English']

['Columbia Pictures', 'Parkway Productions']

friendship

favorite-friendship-driven-movies

In 1988, Dottie Hinson attends the opening of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League exhibit at the Baseball Hall of Fame. She sees pictures of many former teammates and friends, prompting a flashback to 1943. With World War II threatening to shut down Major League Baseball (MLB), Chicago Cubs owner Walter Harvey persuades his fellow owners to bankroll a women's league. Ira Lowenstein is put in charge. Scout Ernie Capadino attends an industrial-league softball game in Oregon and likes what he sees in Dottie, the catcher for a local dairy. She is not interested, and is happy with her life, waiting for her husband Bob to return from the war. Her younger sister, Kit Keller, however, is desperate to escape and make something of herself. Capadino is unimpressed by Kit's batting and refuses to watch her pitch, but agrees to take her along if she changes Dottie's mind. Dottie agrees for her sister's sake. Dottie and Kit travel to Harvey Field in Chicago for tryouts; en route, they force Capadino to accept homely second baseman Marla Hooch. They meet taxi dancer Mae "All-the-Way-Mae" Mordabito and her best friend, bouncer Doris Murphy, soft-spoken right fielder Evelyn Gardner, illiterate left fielder Shirley Baker, pitcher/shortstop and former Miss Georgia beauty queen Ellen Sue Gotlander, left field/relief pitcher Betty "Spaghetti" Horn, first baseman Helen Haley and Alice "Skeeter" Gaspers. They and five others constitute the Rockford Peaches, while 48 others make up the Racine Belles, the Kenosha Comets and the South Bend Blue Sox. The Peaches are managed by former star, Cubs slugger Jimmy Dugan, a cynical alcoholic. He initially treats the whole concept as a joke, forcing Dottie to take over as on-field leader, initially. Dugan is also abrasive toward his players. The team travels with Evelyn's spoiled, bratty son Stillwell and team chaperone Miss Cuthburt. With a Life magazine photographer in the stands, Lowenstein begs the players to do something spectacular, as the league has attracted little attention. Dottie obliges, catching a popped-up ball behind home plate while doing a split. The resulting photograph makes the magazine cover. A publicity campaign draws more people to the ballgames, but the owners remain unconvinced. The teammates bond. Marla marries a man named Nelson whom she met on a raucous roadhouse outing and leaves the team for the rest of the season, Mae teaches Shirley to read, and Evelyn writes a team song. Lowenstein promotes Dottie as the face of the league, making Kit resentful. Their sibling rivalry intensifies, resulting in Kit's trade to the Racine Belles. The Peaches end the season with the league's best record, qualifying for the World Series. Jimmy gives Betty a telegram, informing her that her husband was killed in action in the Pacific Theater. Grief-stricken, she leaves the team. That evening, Dottie receives a surprise when Bob shows up, having been wounded and discharged from the Army. Jimmy discovers that Dottie is going home with Bob. Unable to persuade her to play in the World Series, he tells her she will regret her decision. The Peaches face the Belles in the World Series, which goes the full seven games. Dottie rejoins the Peaches for the seventh game, while Kit is the starting pitcher for the Belles. With the Belles leading by a run in the top of the ninth, Dottie drives in the go-ahead run. Kit is distraught, but gets a second chance when she comes to bat with two outs in the bottom of the ninth. She gets a hit and, ignoring the third base coach's sign to stop, scores the winning run by knocking her sister over at the plate and dislodging the ball from Dottie's hand. The sellout crowd convinces Harvey to give Lowenstein the owners' support. After the game, the sisters reconcile before Dottie leaves with Bob. Back in the present at Cooperstown, Dottie is reunited with the other players, including Kit, Capadino and Lowenstein; she sees that Jimmy died a year earlier, in 1987. The surviving Peaches sing Evelyn's team song and pose for a photo. During the closing credits, they play baseball once again at Doubleday Field.

A Letter to Three Wives

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

['Ann Sothern', 'Linda Darnell', 'Jeanne Crain', 'Kirk Douglas', 'Paul Douglas', 'Jeffrey Lynn', 'Barbara Lawrence', 'Connie Gilchrist', 'Florence Bates', 'Hobart Cavanaugh', 'John Davidson', 'Franklyn Farnum', 'Celeste Holm', 'Mae Marsh', 'Thelma Ritter', 'Carl Switzer', 'James Adamson', 'Joe Bautista', 'Patti Brady', 'Ralph Brooks', 'Sayre Dearing', 'Sam Finn', 'Stuart Holmes', 'Wilbur Mack', 'George Offerman, Jr.', 'Cosmo Sardo', 'Charles Tannen', 'Ruth Vivian']

Romance, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Melodrama, Mystery, Drama, Tragicomedy

['USA']

English

['English']

['20th Century Fox']

toxic-relationship

toxic-destructive-relationships

Friends Deborah Bishop, Rita Phipps and Lora Mae Hollingsway are just about to take a group of children on a riverboat outing when they receive a message from Addie Ross informing them that she has taken one of their husbands as a lover. However, Addie does not specify which woman's husband is involved in the affair. In flashbacks, each woman considers reasons why it might be her husband. The first flashback involves Deborah, who was raised on a farm. Her first experience with the outside world came when she joined the Navy WAVES during World War II, where she met her future husband Brad. When they return to civilian life, Deborah does not feel welcome in Brad's sophisticated social circle. Adding to her insecurity, she learns that everyone expected Brad to marry Addie, a woman whom all three husbands lavish their attention. Deborah is comforted by Brad's friend Rita, who writes stories for radio soap operas. Her husband George is an English teacher. While Rita wishes that George would be more ambitious, he is disappointed that his wife caters to her boss, Mrs. Manleigh. Rita is so intent on pleasing Mrs. Manleigh that she forgets her husband's birthday and invites the Manleighs for dinner. George forgives Rita's mistake but, to George's delight, a birthday gift of a rare Brahms recording arrives from Addie. Lora Mae grew up in poverty. She pursues Porter, the older, divorced owner of a statewide chain of department stores where she works. Matters come to a head when Lora Mae sees a picture of Addie on the piano in Porter's mansion. She tells him that she wants her picture on a piano and his home to become hers. He tells her that he is not interested in marriage, and she ends the relationship. However, he proposes to Lora Mae and skips a party at Addie's house. Back in real time, the women return from the outing. Rita is overjoyed to find George at home after attending a play rehearsal. They reconcile and she vows to not allow herself to no longer be at Mrs. Manleigh's mercy. Porter is late coming home, causing Lora Mae to think he has left with Addie. When he appears and hears his wife's suspicions, he accuses her of being happy at the thought of establishing grounds to divorce him and reap a big chunk of his fortune. A domestic worker tells Deborah that Brad will not be coming home that night. Heartbroken at her perceived loss, she visits the country club dance unaccompanied along with the two other couples. When Porter complains about Lora Mae dancing with another man, Deborah tells him that he has no idea how much she really loves him; still, Porter is certain that Lora Mae only sees him as a money source. Unable to take the strain any longer, Deborah decides to leave, announcing that Brad has left with Addie. Porter stops her, confessing it was he who planned to flee with Addie, but he had changed his mind. As Deborah leaves to find her late-working husband, Porter tells Lora Mae that admitting his intended abandonment in front of witnesses is enough for her to divorce him and claim everything that she wants. To his shock, she ignores it by saying that she has not heard a word that he said. Finally convinced of her love, Porter is overjoyed and asks her to dance. The voice of the still unseen Addie Ross then bids the audience a good night.

A Long Way Down

Pascal Chaumeil

['Pierce Brosnan', 'Aaron Paul', 'Imogen Poots', 'Toni Collette', 'Sam Neill', 'Rosamund Pike', 'Tuppence Middleton', 'Joe Cole', 'Josef Altin', 'Zara White', 'Shola Adewusi', 'Diana Kent', 'Leo Bill', 'Enrique Arce', 'Christos Tolera', 'Honey Epstein', 'Ilan Goodman', 'Priyanga Burford', 'Evelyn Duah', 'Therese Bradley']

Romance, Comedy, Drama

['UK', 'Germany']

English

['English']

['BBC Film', 'Wildgaze Films', 'Finola Dwyer Productions', 'HanWay Films', 'DCM Pictures']

feel-good

feel-good-movies

Martin Sharp is contemplating suicide on New Year's Eve on the roof of the Toppers Building, high above London's streets. He is interrupted by a woman, Maureen, who has the same fate in mind. She shyly offers to wait her turn, until two other strangers, a young woman named Jess and a pizza deliverer called J.J., also turn up. Martin is recognised by the others, having been a popular television personality before going to prison for a relationship with a girl who turned out to be 15. After talking things over, the four strangers form a pact, vowing to wait at least until Valentine's Day before again attempting suicide. Maureen has a disabled son she adores, but little life beyond that. Jess is the daughter of a politician and their relationship is strained after her older sister disappeared without a trace. J.J. is an American who once played in a band, but while his three new acquaintances are suicidally depressed, he claims that he is terminally ill with cancer. To profit from misfortune, Martin hatches a scheme that makes them the talk of London, claiming their mass suicide was interrupted by a vision. They end up on his old TV chat show, where Martin's former co-host Penny makes her guests feel humiliated and even more depressed. The four go on vacation to get away from London's attention. They enjoy each other's company until it is revealed that J.J.'s claim about cancer is a lie and the intervention of a journalist named Kathy drives them apart. After the vacation, the four resume their lives. When Maureen's son Matty suffers a heart attack, Jess and Martin visit Maureen in the hospital but J.J. cannot be contacted. They realise it is Valentine's Day and that their pact has ended. All four end up back in London on the very same rooftop with the other three coaxing J.J. away from the edge successfully. On New Year's Eve that year, they video call each other. Martin is looking after his daughter, Maureen is enjoying herself at a New Year's party, and J.J. and Jess are in a happy relationship.

A Man Escaped

Robert Bresson

['François Leterrier', 'Charles Le Clainche', 'Maurice Beerblock', 'Roland Monod', 'Jacques Ertaud', 'Jean Paul Delhumeau', 'Roger Treherne', 'Jean Philippe Delamarre', 'Jacques Oerlemans', 'Klaus Detlef Grevenhorst', 'Leonhard Schmidt', 'Roger Planchon']

War, Prison, Drama, Suspense, Mystery, Thriller, Classic, Docudrama

['France']

French

['French', 'German']

['Nouvelles Éditions de Films (NEF)', 'Gaumont']

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In Lyon in 1943, Fontaine, a member of the French Resistance, jumps out of the car that is taking him to Montluc prison. He is immediately apprehended, and his German captors handcuff him, beat him, and lock him up. Throughout his time in prison, Fontaine regularly hears gunfire as other inmates are executed. At first, Fontaine is placed in a cell on the ground floor of Montluc. He communicates with his neighbor by tapping on the wall and is regularly able to talk to Terry, a member of a small group that is allowed to exercise in a courtyard unsupervised, from his window. Terry takes Fontaine's letters to his family and superiors in the Resistance and gets him a safety pin so he can remove his handcuffs. After fifteen days, Fontaine is moved to a cell on the top floor of Montluc, and he is no longer made to wear handcuffs. His new neighbor, Blanchet, is an elderly man who refuses to respond to his taps on the wall, but he gets to know several other inmates on his daily trips to empty his slop bucket and wash his face, even though the guards regularly admonish them for talking. After Blanchet faints while emptying his slop bucket, he and Fontaine begin to talk to each other at their windows. Fontaine notices the wooden door of his cell is made up of thick boards joined together by a softer wood, so he sharpens the end of a spoon and begins to chisel away at the joints. After weeks of slow, silent, meticulous work, which involves keeping track of and disposing of every wood shaving and camouflaging the damage he is doing to the door, he is able to get out of his cell into the hallway at will. He then makes some rope using most of his linens and the wire from his bed frame. Some of Fontaine's fellow inmates begin to believe he may actually have found a way to escape from Montluc, and Orsini, who helped alert Fontaine to approaching guards while he was chiseling at his door, asks to come along. Fontaine shares his plan with Orsini, but Orsini thinks it is too complicated and instead tries to make a run for it one day as the inmates walk to empty their slop buckets. He is caught and returned to his cell to await execution, and he tells Fontaine to fashion hooks to scale the prison walls from the frame of the lighting fixture in his cell. Fontaine makes more rope out of some cloth items he receives in a package, and Blanchet even donates a blanket to his escape effort. As time goes on, however, the other inmates begin to doubt Fontaine will ever really try to escape, and another prisoner refuses to join his plan, calling it unrealistic. Shortly after learning he has been sentenced to death, Fontaine is given a cellmate. The young soldier, François Jost, says he has been convicted of desertion, but Fontaine suspects he may have been planted by the Nazis to get information. Fontaine spends time feeling Jost out and ultimately decides to trust the boy and escape with him, knowing he would have to kill him otherwise. One day, Fontaine says his goodbyes and tells Jost his plan. Jost realizes he does not really have a choice, so he agrees and helps make some more rope. The pair go into the hallway that night and reach the roof via a skylight. Fontaine slowly leads the way across the roof, taking advantage of the auditory cover provided by passing trains, and descends into a courtyard, where he kills a German guard. He and Jost climb a building and hook a rope across the gap between the inner and outer walls of the prison compound, but Fontaine loses his nerve and just sits there. Hours later, he finally shimmies across the rope and drops down into the streets of Lyon, and he and Jost walk away from Montluc undetected.

A Man for All Seasons

Fred Zinnemann

['Paul Scofield', 'Wendy Hiller', 'Leo McKern', 'Robert Shaw', 'Orson Welles', 'Susannah York', 'Nigel Davenport', 'John Hurt', 'Corin Redgrave', 'Colin Blakely', 'Cyril Luckham', 'Jack Gwillim', 'Thomas Heathcote', 'Yootha Joyce', 'Anthony Nicholls', 'John Nettleton', 'Eira Heath', 'Molly Urquhart', 'Paul Hardwick', 'Michael Latimer', 'Philip Brack', 'Martin Boddey', 'Eric Mason', 'Matt Zimmerman', 'Vanessa Redgrave', 'Fiona Hartford', 'Gay Hamilton', 'Gina Warwick', 'Julie Martin', 'Raymond Adamson', 'Arnold Ridley', 'Nick Tate', 'David Collings']

History, Trial drama, Drama, Historical drama, Historical Fiction

['UK']

English

['English', 'Latin']

['Highland Films']

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The film covers the years 1529 to 1535, during the reign of Henry VIII. During a private late-night meeting at Hampton Court, Cardinal Wolsey, Lord Chancellor of England, chastises More for being the only member of the privy council to oppose Wolsey's attempts to obtain from the Pope an annulment of Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon, as their marriage has not produced a male heir. With the annulment, Henry would be able to marry Anne Boleyn, with whom he hopes to father such an heir and avoid a repeat of the Wars of the Roses. More says that he cannot agree to Wolsey's suggestion that they apply "pressure" on Church property and revenue in England. Unknown to More, the conversation is being overheard by Wolsey's aide, Thomas Cromwell. Returning to his home at Chelsea at dawn, More finds his young acquaintance Richard Rich waiting for his return so as to lobby for a position at Court. More instead offers Rich a job as a teacher. Rich declines More's offer, saying that teaching would offer him little chance to become well known. More finds his daughter Meg chatting with a brilliant young lawyer, William Roper, who announces his desire to marry her. The devoutly Catholic More says he cannot give his blessing as long as Roper remains a Lutheran. Some time later, Wolsey dies in a rural monastery in disgrace after banishment from court for failing to obtain the papal annulment Henry wanted. Henry appoints More Lord Chancellor of England. The King makes an "impromptu" visit to the More estate and again requests More's support for an annulment, but More remains unmoved as Henry alternates between threats, tantrums, and promises of unbounded royal favour. As the King leaves, Cromwell promises Rich a position at Court in return for damaging information about More. Roper, learning of More's quarrel with the king, says that his religious views have altered considerably and declares that by attacking the Church, the king has become "the Devil's minister." More is admonishing Roper to be more guarded when Rich arrives, pleading again for a position at Court. When More again refuses, Rich denounces More's steward as a spy for Thomas Cromwell. An unmoved More responds, "Of course, that's one of my servants." Humiliated, Rich joins Cromwell in attempting to bring More down. Meanwhile, the king orders Parliament and the bishops to declare him "Supreme Head of the Church of England". Embracing Caesaropapism, the bishops and Parliament accede to the king's demands and renounce all allegiance to the Pope. More quietly resigns as Lord Chancellor rather than accept the new order. His close friend, Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, attempts to draw out his opinions in a friendly private chat, but More knows that the time for speaking openly of such matters is over. In a meeting with Norfolk, Cromwell implies that More's troubles will be over if he will attend the king's "wedding" to Boleyn. After More does not, he is summoned again to the royal palace of Hampton Court, where Cromwell interrogates More inside Wolsey's former office. More refuses to answer and an infuriated Cromwell reveals that the king views More as a traitor, but allows him to leave. The Thames boatmen are aware of the King's hostility to More and refuse to ferry him, so More returns home on foot. As More finally arrives, his daughter Meg informs him that a new oath is being circulated and that all must take it or face charges of high treason. Initially, More says he might be willing to take the oath, depending on its wording. Upon learning that it names the king as Supreme Head of the Church and allows no legal or moral loopholes, More refuses to take it and is imprisoned in the Tower of London. More remains steadfast in his refusal to take the Oath and refuses to explain, knowing that he cannot be convicted if he has not explicitly denied the king's supremacy. A request for new books to read backfires, resulting in the confiscation of the books he has, and Rich removes them from More's cell, providing an opportunity for Rich to further debate More. More says goodbye to his wife Alice, Meg and Roper, urging them not to try to defend him, but to leave the country. Soon after, More is brought to trial, with Cromwell appearing as counsel for the prosecution. More refuses to express an opinion about the king's second marriage or why he will not take the Oath. As an experienced lawyer and judge, he cites his silence as part of his defence, based upon the legal principle that silence is to be interpreted as consent. Cromwell calls Rich to testify. Rich alleges that, when he went to confiscate More's books, More told him that while Parliament has the power to dethrone the king, it does not have the authority to make the king the Head of the Church. A horrified More offers to take any oath required by the court that he never said any such thing to Rich. More adds that he would never be so suicidal as to entrust so dangerous an opinion "to such a man as that." As Rich leaves the witness box, it emerges that Rich has been made Attorney General for Wales as a reward from Cromwell for committing perjury, much to More's chagrin. Under a direct order from Cromwell, the jury convicts More without leaving the courtroom to deliberate. But as the judges begin to pronounce the death penalty, More interrupts and reminds them that prisoners are to be asked before sentencing if they have anything to say. Upon being so asked by the judges, More declares, "I do." More calls Parliament's Act of Supremacy repugnant to every legal precedent and institution in all the history of Christendom. He cites the Biblical foundation for the Petrine Primacy and the authority of the Papacy, rather than national governments, over the Church. More further declares that the Church's freedom from state control and interference is guaranteed both in Magna Carta and in the king's coronation oath. As uproar ensues, the judges pronounce sentence according to the standard form: More is to be remitted to the Tower to await execution by beheading. The scene switches from the court to Tower Hill, where More observes custom by pardoning and tipping the executioner. More declares, "I die his Majesty's good servant, but God's first." He kneels at the block and, off-screen, the executioner cuts off More's head. A narrator intones an epilogue, listing the subsequent untimely deaths of the major characters, apart from Rich, who "became Chancellor of England, and died in his bed."

A Man of Action

Javier Ruiz Caldera

['Juan José Ballesta', 'Miki Esparbé', 'Luis Callejo', "Liah O'Prey", 'Alexandre Blazy', 'Josean Bengoetxea', 'Philip Schurer', 'Daniel Chamorro', 'Ben Temple', 'Jacobo Marrero', 'Fred Tatien', 'Ana Polvorosa', 'Georges Celestin', 'Jon Viar', 'Tomás Pozzi', 'Bastien Ughetto', 'Ken Appledorn', 'Timothy Cordukes', 'Billy Jeffries', 'Iñaki Lartigue', 'Stephan Wiks', 'Yann Berriet', 'Juan Olivares', 'Monica Lamberti', 'Gabriela Blin', 'Anna Caponnetto', 'Yanet Sierra', 'Yaël Belicha', 'Alba López', 'Endika Landa', 'Maria Ribera', 'Michel Noher', 'Matthieu Duret', 'Philip Stanton', 'Jordi Aguilar', 'Carlos Zabala', 'Patrick Paumier', 'Verónica Polo', 'José Carlos Rega', 'Javier Laorden', 'Montse Gabriel', 'Cindy Fuentes', 'Hugo Morenilla', 'Edward J. Bentley', 'David Laferrière', 'Alèx Moreu', 'Chete Guzmán', 'Mathilde Legrand', 'Alice Hard', 'Marta Rama', 'Thomas Albertini', 'Jean Paul Szybura']

Action, History, Drama, Thriller, Crime Fiction

['Spain']

Spanish

['Spanish', 'French', 'English']

['La Pulga y el Elefante', 'Ikiru Films', 'La Terraza Films']

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Taking place from the 1940s to the 1980s and primarily set in France, the plot is freely inspired by the life of Paris-based Spanish anarchist, bricklayer, and bank robber Lucio Urtubia, known for forging a large-scale scam aimed at the City Bank.[3][4]

A Matter of Life and Death

Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell

['David Niven', 'Kim Hunter', 'Roger Livesey', 'Marius Goring', 'Robert Coote', 'Kathleen Byron', 'Richard Attenborough', 'Bonar Colleano', 'Joan Maude', 'Robert Atkins', 'Edwin Max', 'Betty Potter', 'Abraham Sofaer', 'Raymond Massey', 'Robert Arden', 'Robert Beatty', 'Eric Cawthorne', 'Tommy Duggan', 'Leslie Dwyer', 'John Longden', 'Lois Maxwell', 'Wally Patch', 'Laurence Payne', 'Robert Rietti', 'Roger Snowdon', 'Emile Stemmler', 'Wendy Thompson', 'Frederick Valk', 'Joan Verney']

Romance, Comedy, War, Melodrama, Fantasy, Drama

['UK']

English

['English', 'French', 'Russian']

['The Archers', 'J. Arthur Rank Organisation']

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In 1945, Squadron Leader Peter Carter, a Royal Air Force pilot, is flying a badly damaged and burning Lancaster bomber over the English Channel, after a mission over Germany. Carter is expecting to die, after ordering his crew to bail out, without revealing to them that his own parachute has been destroyed. The only radio operator receiving him is June, at a United States Army Air Forces base on the coast of England. Carter converses with June, before jumping from the Lancaster without a parachute. Peter should have died at that point, but Conductor 71, the guide sent to escort him to the Other World, misses him in the thick fog over the English Channel. The airman wakes up on a beach near June's base. At first, he assumes he is in the afterlife but, when a de Havilland Mosquito flies low overhead, discovers to his bewilderment that he is still alive. Peter meets June cycling back to her quarters after her night shift, and they fall in love. Conductor 71 stops time to explain the situation, urging Peter to accept his death and accompany him to the Other World, but Peter demands an appeal. While Conductor 71 consults his superiors, Peter continues to live. Conductor 71 returns and informs him that he has been granted his appeal and has three days to prepare his case. He can choose a defence counsel from among all the people who have ever died, but he has difficulty picking one. Peter's visions are diagnosed by June's fascinated friend Doctor Reeves as a symptom of a brain injury—chronic adhesive arachnoiditis from a slight concussion two years earlier—and he is scheduled for surgery. Reeves is killed in a motorcycle accident while trying to find the ambulance that is to take Peter to the hospital. Reeves' death allows him to act as Peter's counsel. Reeves argues that, through no fault of his own, his client was given additional time on Earth and that, during that time, he has fallen in love and now has an earthly commitment that should take precedence over the afterlife's claim on him. The matter comes to a head—in parallel with Peter's brain surgery—before a celestial court; the camera tracks back from an amphitheatre to reveal that it is as large as a spiral galaxy. The prosecutor is American Abraham Farlan, who hates the British for making him the first casualty of the American Revolutionary War. Reeves challenges the composition of the jury, which is made up of representatives who are prejudiced against the British. In fairness, the jury is replaced by a multicultural mixture of modern Americans whose origins are as varied as those they replace. Reeves and Farlan both make comparisons with the other's nationality to support their positions. In the end, Reeves has June take the stand (Conductor 71 makes her fall asleep in the real world so she can testify) and prove that she genuinely loves Peter by telling her that the only way to save his life is to take his place, whereupon she steps onto the stairway to the Other World without hesitation and is carried away, leaving Peter behind. The stairway comes to an abrupt halt and June rushes back to Peter's open arms. As Reeves triumphantly explains, "... nothing is stronger than the law in the universe, but on Earth, nothing is stronger than love." The jury rules in Peter's favour. The Judge shows Reeves and Farlan the new lifespan granted to the defendant; Reeves calls it "very generous", and Farlan jokingly complains, then agrees to it. The two then engage in supportive banter with one another, and against the stern Chief Recorder, who protests against the breach of law. In the operating room, the surgeon declares the operation a success.

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Jiří Trnka

['Rudolf Pellar']

Romance, Animation, Comedy, Fantasy

['Czechoslovakia']

Czech

['Czech']

['Krátký film Praha – Studio kresleného a loutkového filmu Praha']

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The play consists of several interconnecting plots, connected by a celebration of the wedding of Duke Theseus of Athens and the Amazon queen Hippolyta. Most of the action occurs in the woodland realm of Fairyland, under the light of the moon.

A Moment of Romance

Benny Chan

['Andy Lau Tak-Wah', 'Wu Chien-Lien', 'Ng Man-tat', 'Tommy Wong', 'Bonnie Wong', 'Sandra Lang', 'Anna Ng', 'Lau Kong', 'Leung Shan', 'Chu Tit-Wo', 'Ng Wui', 'Gam Lau', 'Yuen Bun', 'Jian Rui-Chao', 'Cho King-Man', 'Lam Chung', 'Joe Chu Kai-Sang', 'Yeung Yuk-mui', 'Paco Yick Tin-Hung', 'Lam Chi-Tai']

Romance, Action, Drama, Chinese Movies, Melodrama, World cinema, Crime Fiction

['Hong Kong']

Cantonese

['Cantonese']

['Paka Hill Film Production Co.', 'Movie Impact Ltd', 'Paka Hill Productions', 'Movie Impact']

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Wah Dee, a young triad gangster in Hong Kong, is the getaway driver in a jewelry store robbery. When the raid goes wrong, he takes a young woman named Jo-Jo hostage. A senior member of Wah Dee's gang, Trumpet, demands that she be killed, but Wah Dee resists and saves her. After Wah Dee is arrested, Jo-Jo refuses to identify him to the police. While Wah Dee tries to act coldly towards Jo-Jo, she expresses gratitude and affection towards him, who, on the other hand, also starts to fall in love with her. Wah Dee hides in his grandfather's home in Macau to protect Jo-Jo from the triads, but she finds him and they spend time together there. After returning to Hong Kong, Jo-Jo is forced to move to Canada with her parents, threatening to prosecute Wah Dee for abducting her. Promising to come with them, she insists on meeting Wah Dee for the last time. A letter expressing her no-regret love for him is left in his apartment after she has taken care of a drunk Wah Dee and his flat as well. Trumpet organizes a meeting to announce his dominance over the gang after the death of their leader. A fight broke out, where brother Seven, Wah Dee's boss, is killed by Trumpet and his partners. Wah Dee escapes with the help of his friend Rambo, yet is hit from behind by Trumpet with a metal gas tank. Nosebleeded and shocked, Wah Dee then decides to come to Jo-Jo's house and picks her up while she is on the verge of leaving. They arrive at a church to organize their own wedding with outfits stolen from a boutique. While Jo-Jo is praying, Wah Dee secretly leaves. He then follows Trumpet as well as two others out of a sauna with a knife, attempting to kill him. With the help of Rambo, Trumpet and one of his mates is killed yet Rambo and Wah Dee also dies on the street. Meanwhile, Jo-Jo is seen running on the highway in the wedding dress looking for Wah Dee.

A Night at the Opera

Sam Wood

['Groucho Marx', 'Chico Marx', 'Harpo Marx', 'Kitty Carlisle', 'Allan Jones', 'Sig Ruman', 'Walter Woolf King', "Robert Emmett O'Connor", 'Margaret Dumont', 'Edward Keane', 'Evelyn Selbie', 'Purnell Pratt', 'Jonathan Hale', 'Otto Fries', 'Gino Corrado', 'Bess Flowers', 'Chuck Hamilton', 'Frank McLure', "William H. O'Brien", 'George Irving', 'Billy Gilbert', 'Ruth Cherrington', 'Al Bridge', 'Selmer Jackson', "Jack 'Tiny' Lipson", 'Stanley Blystone', 'Wedgwood Nowell', 'King Baggot', 'John St. Polis', 'Bud Geary', 'Rolfe Sedan', 'Sam Appel', 'Stephen Soldi', 'Jay Eaton', "Harry 'Zoup' Welsh", 'Gloria Delson']

Romance, Comedy, Musical, Musical genre, Comedy music

['USA']

English

['English', 'Italian']

['Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer']

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At a restaurant in Milan, wealthy widow Mrs. Claypool has been waiting an hour for her business manager, Otis B. Driftwood, to join her for dinner. After she discovers him dining with another woman and seated directly behind her, Driftwood joins Mrs. Claypool and introduces her to Herman Gottlieb, director of the New York Opera Company, also dining at the restaurant. Driftwood has arranged for Mrs. Claypool to invest $200,000 in the opera company, giving Gottlieb enough money to hire famed Italian tenor Rodolfo Lassparri. Backstage at Milan's opera house, chorister Ricardo Baroni hires his best friend Fiorello to be his manager. Ricardo is in love with the opera's leading soprano, Rosa Castaldi, who is also being courted by Lassparri. Driftwood arrives backstage and finds Lassparri attacking his dresser, Tomasso; Tomasso knocks Lassparri unconscious by hitting him over the head with a mallet. Fiorello appears and introduces himself to Driftwood as the manager of the "greatest tenor in the world". Driftwood believes Fiorello is referring to Lassparri (who is still lying unconscious at their feet) and unwittingly signs Ricardo to a contract. Soon, Driftwood, Mrs. Claypool, Rosa, Lassparri and Gottlieb all set sail from Italy to New York aboard an ocean liner. After bidding farewell to Rosa at the pier, Ricardo, Fiorello, and Tomasso stow away inside Driftwood's steamer trunk. After being discovered, Driftwood attempts to get the three of them to leave before Mrs. Claypool arrives in his stateroom for a meeting. Fiorello, Tomasso, and Ricardo refuse to leave until they have eaten, and eventually Driftwood's very small stateroom is crowded with an assortment of people. (See Stateroom scene below.) Later, Lassparri sees the three stowaways, who are subsequently caught and thrown into the brig. They escape with Driftwood's help and are able to sneak into the country by posing as three famous bearded aviators,[n 1] who are traveling aboard the ship. During their hero's welcome in New York, the stowaways are exposed as frauds and they flee, hiding out in Driftwood's hotel room while pursued by police sergeant Henderson. Meanwhile, Ricardo climbs through the window of Rosa's hotel room and reunites with her. Lassparri appears, notices Ricardo, and gets into a physical altercation with him. Gottlieb fires Rosa and Driftwood from the opera company. Driftwood, Fiorello, and Tomasso decide to seek revenge by sabotaging the opera company's opening night performance of Il trovatore with various antics, including abducting Lassparri from the stage; this forces Gottlieb to substitute Ricardo in his place. Ricardo accepts the job on the condition Rosa substitutes for the female lead as well. Mrs. Claypool and the audience clearly prefer Ricardo over Lassparri, and Lassparri is booed and hit with an apple after he is untied and attempts to return to the stage. The film ends with Driftwood and Fiorello negotiating another contract as Rosa and Ricardo sing an encore.

A Night to Remember

Roy Ward Baker

['Kenneth More', 'Ronald Allen', 'Robert Ayres', 'Honor Blackman', 'Anthony Bushell', 'John Cairney', 'Jill Dixon', 'Jane Downs', 'James Dyrenforth', 'Michael Goodliffe', 'Kenneth Griffith', 'Harriette Johns', 'Frank Lawton', 'Richard Leech', 'David McCallum', 'Alec McCowen', 'Tucker McGuire', 'John Merivale', 'Ralph Michael', 'Laurence Naismith', 'Russell Napier', 'Redmond Phillips', 'George Rose', 'Joseph Tomelty', 'Patrick Waddington', 'Jack Watling', 'Geoffrey Bayldon', 'Michael Bryant', 'Cyril Chamberlain', 'Richard Clarke', 'Bee Duffell', 'Harold Goldblatt', 'Gerald Harper', 'Richard Hayward', 'Thomas Heathcote', 'Danuta Karell', 'Andrew Keir', 'Christina Lubicz', 'Barry MacGregor', 'Edward Malin', 'Patrick McAlinney', 'Helen Misener', 'Mary Monahan', 'Howard Pays', 'Philip Ray', 'Harold Siddons', 'Julian Somers', 'Tim Turner', 'Meier Tzelniker', 'Alexis Chesnakov', 'Desmond Llewelyn', 'Marianne Stone', 'Stuart Wagstaff', 'Robert Henderson', 'Norman Rossington', 'Peter Burton', 'George A. Cooper', 'Bess Flowers', 'Harold Sanderson', 'Bernard Fox', 'Victor Wood', 'Bob Simmons', 'Stratford Johns', 'Alastair Hunter', 'Guy Standeven', 'Max Faulkner', 'Richard Beale', 'Pauline Chamberlain', 'Jack Hedley', 'Dudley Sutton', 'Hal Osmond', 'Jack Mower', 'Miki Iveria', 'John Tatham', 'Beth Rogan', 'Arthur Gross', 'Victor Harrington', 'Doreen Keogh', 'Michael Lees', 'Derren Nesbitt', 'John Moulder-Brown', 'Jean Anderson', 'Jeremy Bulloch', 'Paul Hardwick', 'Jack May', 'George Lane Cooper', 'Mabel Etherington', 'Glyn Houston', 'Fletcher Lightfoot', 'Muriel Maddox', 'Robert Scroggins', 'Joan Benham', 'Peter Brace', 'Emile Stemmler', 'Derek Prentice', 'Alf Mangan', 'David Birks', 'Peter Sallis', 'Jack Carter']

Action, Drama, History, Disaster, Classic, Adaptation, Action/Adventure

['UK']

English

['English', 'German', 'Italian', 'Polish', 'Russian']

['The Rank Organisation']

action, top-rated

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In 1912, the luxurious Titanic is the largest vessel afloat, widely believed to be unsinkable. On 10 April, Titanic sails from Southampton on her maiden voyage to New York. On 14 April, in the Atlantic, the ship receives a number of ice warnings from steamers, which are relayed to Captain Edward Smith, who orders a lookout. That evening, the SS Californian spots floating ice in the distance and tries to send a telegraph message to Titanic. On Titanic, first class passengers Sir Richard and Lady Richard, and second class passengers the Clarkes, a young newlywed couple, overhear the band, led by Wallace Hartley. The band plays various songs, while steerage passengers Pat Murphy, Martin Gallagher, and James Farrel enjoy a party in third class, where Murphy becomes attracted to a young Polish girl and dances with her. In the telegraph room, operators Jack Phillips and Harold Bride are changing shifts. Phillips receives an ice warning but, when more messages arrive for him to send out, the warning is lost under them. On the Californian, field ice is spotted. The ship stops due to the risk, and a message is sent to Titanic. Because the Californian is so close, the telegraph message is very loud, and Phillips cuts it off abruptly. Titanic's passengers begin to settle in for the night, while gamblers Hoyle and Jay Yates stay up. Suddenly, the vessel collides with an iceberg. Captain Smith sends for Thomas Andrews, the ship's builder, to inspect the damage. He determines that Titanic will sink within two hours, and both realise that the ship lacks sufficient lifeboat capacity for all the passengers. Distress signals are sent out, but the Californian's radio operator is off duty. 58 miles away, the RMS Carpathia radio operator receives the distress call and alerts Captain Arthur Rostron, who orders Dean to turn the ship around. Unfortunately, it will take about four hours to reach the Titanic. Seeing the Californian on the horizon 10 miles away, Titanic begins to signal the ship, but the Californian's crew fails to comprehend why a ship within sight is firing rockets, as Captain Smith orders Second Officer Charles Lightoller to start lowering the lifeboats, while the orchestra performs ragtime. In the Grand Staircase, passenger Robbie Lucas is told the truth by Andrews, so he gets his wife and children safely into a boat. Murphy, Gallagher and Farrel help the Polish girl and her mother to the boat deck and get them to a boat. The Richards and Hoyle are admitted to a boat by First Officer William McMaster Murdoch. Yates gives a female passenger a note to send to his sister. Ida and Isidor Straus refuse to be separated, inadvertently setting an example for Mrs Clarke, who decides to stay with her husband so Andrews advises them on how to survive. As the crew struggles to hold back the third-class passengers, most first- and second-class passengers board lifeboats and row away. As Titanic leans, passengers begin to realise the danger; when the third-class passengers finally access the deck, chaos ensues. White Star Line Chairman J. Bruce Ismay steps into one of the last lifeboats. Passengers—among them Murphy, Gallagher and Farrel—retreat towards the stern as it rises into the air, while Lightoller and other able seamen struggle to free the two remaining collapsible lifeboats, as the Titanic's bow submerges. Captain Smith gives the final order to abandon ship, ordering every man to save himself. The Clarkes use a rope to get down the ship's side as the orchestra performs the hymn, "Nearer, My God, to Thee" and Smith returns to the bridge to go down with his ship. Titanic begins its final plunge; Lightoller and many others are swept off. Andrews awaits his fate in the first-class smoking room, while a kindly steward comforts a lost boy separated from his mother. Lucas looks out towards the lifeboats, knowing he will never see his family again, while the Clarkes are killed by a falling funnel. The passengers pray as the stricken liner rapidly sinks into the ocean. In the freezing water, many die of hypothermia. Lucas's dead body floats by an overturned collapsible, as Yates, unwilling to overcrowd the boat, swims away to his death. Lightoller takes charge on the boat as Murphy and Gallagher make it aboard, although Farrel is lost. Chief Baker Charles Joughin, after having given up his lifeboat seat and turning to the bottle to ease his ailments, also climbs aboard. The men are saved by another boat. The Carpathia arrives to rescue the survivors, as a shaken Lightoller tells Colonel Archibald Gracie, "I don't think I'll ever feel sure again, about anything." On the ship, as a group prayer is held, Murphy and Gallagher stand with the Polish girl and her mother, while Mrs Farrel and Mrs Lucas and her children mourn the loss of their loved ones. Rostron takes Lightoller on deck as Carpathia sails by the remaining floating wreckage from the Titanic. Rostron informs Lightoller that 705 were saved and 1,500 lost. The Carpathia receives a message from the Californian, which heard of the disaster, but Rostron informs them that "everything that was humanly possible has been done".

A Nos Amours

Maurice Pialat

['Sandrine Bonnaire', 'Maurice Pialat', 'Christophe Odent', 'Dominique Besnehard', 'Cyril Collard', 'Jacques Fieschi', 'Valérie Schlumberger', 'Evelyne Ker', 'Pierre Novion', 'Tsilka Theodorou', 'Cyr Boitard', 'Anne-Marie Nivelle', 'Anne-Sophie Maillé', 'Pierre-Loup Rajot', 'Jean-Paul Camail', 'Maïté Maillé', 'Isabelle Prade', 'Caroline Cibot', 'Alexis Quentin', 'Hervé Austen', 'Alexandre de Dardel', 'Vanghel Theodorou', 'Caroline Legendre', 'Éric Viellard', 'Tom Stevens', 'Loïc Ermel', 'Claude Blachowiak', 'Nathalie Gureghian', 'Paul Lugagne', 'Matthias Sanderson']

Romance, Comedy, Melodrama, Drama, Narrative

['France']

French

['French', 'English']

['Les Films du Livradois', 'Gaumont', 'France 3 Cinéma']

sad, emotional

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Suzanne, a 15-year-old Parisian girl, lives with her volatile, abusive family: her furrier parents and older brother Robert, a writer. She's dating a boy named Luc, who complains about not seeing her as much as he would like. At a cafe, Suzanne mingles with sailors and an American visitor. She and the American head outdoors and have sex, though the experience leaves her miserable. She tells a friend she regrets her unfaithfulness to Luc, but she breaks up with him and becomes increasingly promiscuous. Her father is close to Suzanne but reacts with suspicion and violence when Suzanne goes on a double date with her cousin Solange. When Suzanne returns, her father expresses concern with her changing demeanor, saying she smiles less and seems increasingly bored. He also discloses he has found another woman and is planning to leave the family. Several days later, Robert tells Suzanne their father has left, and Robert assumes management of the household. Suzanne continues her affairs, though she admits she is unable to feel love. Her mother is desperately unhappy and grows increasingly frustrated with Suzanne's skimpy clothes, her letters from boys, and her attitude at home. Her brother and mother both beat Suzanne during family arguments. Luc returns to Suzanne and asks her to resume their relationship; she refuses. Miserable, Suzanne asks Robert to send her to boarding school, saying she can no longer tolerate home life and has contemplated suicide. She says she is only happy when she is with a man; Robert professes an inability to understand this. Back in Paris, Suzanne begins a more serious relationship with a young man named Jean-Pierre. While she still says she is unable to feel love, she becomes engaged. Luc reappears and begs her to cancel the wedding. Though she confesses she has considered doing that, she tells him that Jean-Pierre provides her with inner peace for the first time. At a celebratory dinner party, the father unexpectedly shows up, questioning the happiness of the family and revealing Suzanne has been visiting him. He later shows up to see Suzanne leave for her honeymoon, but with another man, leaving Jean-Pierre behind.

A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence

Roy Andersson

['Holger Andersson', 'Nisse Vestblom', 'Viktor Gyllenberg', 'Lotti Törnros', 'Jonas Gerholm', 'Ola Stensson', 'Oscar Salomonsson', 'Roger Olsen Likvern', 'Charlotta Larsson', 'Göran Holm']

Comedy, Dark comedy, Fantasy, Drama, Tragicomedy

['Sweden', 'France', 'Germany', 'Norway']

Swedish

['Swedish', 'English']

['Roy Andersson Filmproduktion', "Fonds Eurimages du Conseil de l'Europe", 'ZDF/Arte', 'Essential Filmproduktion', 'Film- und Medienstiftung NRW', 'Société Parisienne de Production', 'Norsk Filmfond', 'Svenska Filminstitutet', 'CNC', 'ARTE France Cinéma', 'SVT', '4 1/2']

comedy

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The slow cinema movie, hyper reality, consists of a series of mostly self-contained tableaux, sometimes connected by recurring themes or characters. The story loosely follows two travelling novelty salesmen, Jonathan and Sam, who live in a desolate flophouse, and their unsuccessful attempts to win customers for their joke articles (vampire teeth, laughing bags and a monster mask).[10] Although there is no main storyline in the traditional sense, all scenes are connected.[11]

A Place in the Sun

George Stevens

['Montgomery Clift', 'Elizabeth Taylor', 'Shelley Winters', 'Anne Revere', 'Keefe Brasselle', 'Fred Clark', 'Raymond Burr', 'Herbert Heyes', 'Shepperd Strudwick', 'Frieda Inescort', 'Kathryn Givney', 'Walter Sande', 'Ted de Corsia', 'John Ridgely', 'Lois Chartrand', 'Paul Frees', 'Robert J. Anderson', 'Gertrude Astor', 'John Barton', 'Lulu Mae Bohrman', 'Hazel Boyne', 'John Breen', 'Steve Carruthers', 'Ken Christy', 'Dick Cherney', 'Pat Combs', 'Frances Curry', 'Franklyn Farnum', 'Bess Flowers', 'Kathleen Freeman', 'Art Gilmore', 'Kenner G. Kemp', 'Mary Kent', 'Mike Mahoney', 'Hank Mann', 'Harold Miller', "William H. O'Brien", "Frank O'Connor", 'Kasey Rogers', 'Douglas Spencer', 'Larry Steers', 'Arthur Tovey', 'Dorothy Vernon', 'Josephine Whittell', 'Eric Wilton', 'Ian Wolfe', 'Frank Yaconelli', 'Ezelle Poule', 'Herschel Graham']

Romance, Melodrama, Drama, Thriller

['USA']

English

['English']

['Paramount Pictures', 'George Stevens Jr. Productions']

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In 1950, George Eastman, the poor nephew of rich industrialist Charles Eastman, is offered an entry-level job at his uncle’s factory. Contrary to company rules, he begins secretly dating co-worker Alice Tripp. Alice believes George’s Eastman name will bring her advantages. George is invited by Charles to a social event, where George meets socialite Angela Vickers. There is a mutual attraction and they fall in love. Just as George enters the intoxicating and care-free lifestyle his new life with Angela brings, Alice announces she is pregnant and, unable to procure an abortion, expects George to marry her. George puts Alice off and continues spending more time with Angela without Alice's knowledge. George is invited to Angela's family lake house over Labor Day and tells Alice the visit will advance his career. Alice discovers George's lie after seeing a newspaper photograph of George and Angela boating with friends. Alice calls George at the Vickers home and threatens to come there and reveal herself unless he leaves and returns to her. Shaken, George tells his hosts his mother is sick and he must leave. The next morning, George and Alice drive to City Hall to get married but it is closed for Labor Day. George is relieved and, remembering Alice cannot swim, begins forming a plan to drown her in the lake by feigning an accident. Alice unsuspectingly agrees to the lake venture. Arriving at the lake, George attempts to cover for the upcoming murder by falsely stranding his car in the woods and renting a rowboat under a false name. While they are out on the lake, Alice talks about her dreams concerning their happy future together with their child. As George apparently takes pity on her, Alice tries to stand up in the boat, causing it to capsize, and Alice drowns. George escapes, swims to shore, behaves suspiciously when he comes across campers on his way back to the car, and eventually drives to the Vickers' lodge. He fails to report the accident. Alice's body is discovered and her death is treated as a homicide as the evidence against George begins to mount. Just as Angela's father approves Angela's marriage to him, George is arrested and charged with Alice's murder. George's furtive actions before and after Alice's death condemn him. His denials are futile, and he is found guilty of murder and sentenced to death in the electric chair. Near the end, he agrees when the priest suggests that, although he did not kill Alice, he did not act to save her because he was thinking of Angela. The priest then states that, in his heart, it was murder. Angela visits George in prison, saying that she will always love him, and George slowly marches toward his execution.

A Quiet Place

John Krasinski

['Emily Blunt', 'John Krasinski', 'Millicent Simmonds', 'Noah Jupe', 'Cade Woodward', 'Leon Russom', 'Rhoda Pell', 'Ezekiel Cavoli', 'Evangelina Cavoli']

Horror, Thriller, Science fiction, Mystery, Action, Survival, Suspense, Drama

['USA']

English

['English']

['Paramount Pictures', 'Platinum Dunes']

post-apocalyptic

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Sightless aliens with sharp hearing and impenetrable armor plating dubbed "death angels" have taken over the planet and killed most of the human population. The Abbott family – mother Evelyn, father Lee, deaf daughter Regan, and sons Marcus and Beau – live on their isolated farm in the middle of a forest in upstate New York, and have survived by taking precautions such as laying sand paths to avoid stepping on crunching leaves and using American Sign Language when communicating. When the family goes into the nearby town for supplies, Beau finds a toy space shuttle, but Lee makes him leave it behind due to the noise it would make if powered on. As they are getting ready to leave, Regan secretly gives him back the toy, but without its batteries. When they leave, Beau takes back the batteries without anyone noticing. While walking back home, Beau turns on the space shuttle, which starts making noise. Almost immediately, Beau is killed by a nearby angel before Lee can reach him. Regan suffers terrible guilt thereafter, which she hides from her parents, although Marcus is aware of it. Over a year after Beau's death, the family has seemingly gone back to normal, with Evelyn several months pregnant. Marcus reluctantly goes fishing with Lee while Regan, upset that she cannot go, visits Beau's grave. While the rest of the family is gone, Evelyn goes into labor. While heading to the basement, she accidentally steps on an upright nail and drops a photo frame, alerting a nearby death angel which enters the house. Struggling to stay silent amidst the pain, Evelyn flips a switch in the basement, turning the surrounding lights around the house red. The angel enters the basement soon after, but Evelyn distracts it with the loud clicks of an egg timer and escapes upstairs. Upon returning to the farm and seeing the red lights, Marcus and Lee lure the angel out of the house by lighting off fireworks, allowing Evelyn to safely give birth to her baby. Regan, seeing the fireworks, runs back to the house. Lee enters the house armed with a shotgun[4] and finds the baby and Evelyn, then brings them into a hiding spot under the floor in the barn outside. The baby cries, alerting a death angel into the barn. The angel fails to find the source, but breaks some water pipes. Evelyn wakes up in the flooded hideout with the angel still inside and hides behind the falling water to mask her and the baby's sound. Marcus and Regan climb to the top of a corn silo and light a signal fire to other distant farms, but Marcus falls into the silo and almost becomes sucked into the corn. Hearing this, the angel, which is hunting for Evelyn, runs towards the silo and attacks Regan and Marcus. The creature's disruptive effect on electronics causes Regan's cochlear implant to emit a high-pitched noise, which causes the creature to reel in pain and retreat, breaking a hole in the silo which frees the children. Lee finds Regan and Marcus, directing them to his truck,[5] and is wounded when an angel attacks him. Marcus cannot stifle a scream, and the angel attacks the truck. Lee signs to Regan that he has always loved her and proceeds to yell to draw the angel's attention, sacrificing himself to the angel in order to allow Marcus and Regan to drive the truck back to the house safely. Reuniting with a grieving Evelyn and hearing the sounds of a nearby angel, they make their way back into the house and enter the basement, into which the angel follows them. Regan, remembering the reaction the angel had to the high-pitched noise from her implant, places the implant on a microphone which amplifies the noise. The angel screeches in pain and exposes the vulnerable tissue beneath the armor plating on its head, allowing Evelyn to kill it with Lee's shotgun, though the sound of the shot alerts nearby angels. Armed with a new weapon, the family prepares to defend themselves from the approaching group of angels.

A Quiet Place Part II

John Krasinski

['Emily Blunt', 'John Krasinski', 'Millicent Simmonds', 'Noah Jupe', 'Cillian Murphy', 'Djimon Hounsou', 'Okieriete Onaodowan', 'Scoot McNairy', 'Zachary Golinger', 'Blake DeLong', 'Stefania Warwick', 'Alycia Ripley', 'Cristalis Bonilla', 'Domonic Taggart', 'Silas Pereira-Olson', 'Alice Sophie Malyukova', 'Ashley Dyke', 'Dean Woodward', 'Barbara Singer', 'David Lundy', 'Michaela Pace', 'Wayne Duvall', 'Lauren-Ashley Cristiano', 'Logan V Davoli', 'Robert A. Coldicott', 'Sheri Fairchild', 'Kyle Licht', 'Scott Matheny', 'Gary Sundown', 'Bill Smith']

Horror, Action, Mystery, Science fiction, Survival, Suspense, Thriller, Fantasy, Drama

['USA']

English

['English']

['Paramount Pictures', 'Platinum Dunes', 'Sunday Night Productions']

post-apocalyptic

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During a Little League Baseball game in the small town of Millbrook, New York, the Abbott family – wife Evelyn, husband Lee, deaf daughter Regan, and sons Marcus and Beau – and other spectators witness a strange meteor-like object hurtle toward the Earth. Shortly after, the hostile extraterrestrial creatures dubbed Death Angels emerge from the meteor and begin slaughtering the townspeople. The blind creatures possess armored skin and extraordinary speed and strength, and track victims with hypersensitive hearing, attacking anything that makes even the slightest noise. Over a year later, the Angels have killed much of the Earth's population, including Lee and Beau.[a] Regan has discovered that high-frequency audio feedback makes them vulnerable, and devises a makeshift method of transmitting the noise from her cochlear implant through a portable microphone. With their home destroyed, the family search for other survivors. Entering a fenced-off area, Evelyn accidentally sets off a sound alarm, alerting the Angels. As they flee, Marcus steps into a bear trap, attracting an Angel with his screams. Regan and Evelyn kill the Angel, free Marcus, and run into an abandoned steel foundry. An old friend, Emmett, takes them to his soundproof underground hideout. Emmett, who has recently lost his family and developed a cynical outlook on life, refuses to help further. Marcus hears the song "Beyond the Sea" playing on the radio, and Emmett says the song has aired continuously for four months. Regan determines it is a hint that survivors have taken refuge on the Norwalk Islands, a day's travel to the southeast. She theorizes that if she can reach the island's radio tower the hearing aid's high-frequency noise can be broadcast so other survivors can weaponize the signal. She ventures out alone to find the island but is attacked; Emmett saves her from an Angel. Regan persuades him to help complete her mission. Evelyn leaves her newborn baby with Marcus at the foundry to fetch medical supplies in town. Marcus discovers the corpse of Emmett's wife. Startled, he alerts an Angel and, in trying to flee, accidentally locks himself and the baby inside an air-tight compartment. Emmett and Regan arrive at a marina to board a boat to the island. They are attacked by mad bandits, and Emmett deliberately attracts Angels that slaughter the attackers. When one Angel drowns, he realizes that the creatures cannot swim. The two row to the island where a small colony of survivors are living normally. The colony leader reveals that when the U.S. government discovered the Angels were unable to swim, the U.S. National Guard attempted to move people to the islands. However, the chaos from boarding created noise that attracted the Angels, leaving only two boats of the original twelve that made it to the island. Evelyn returns to the foundry and frees her children before they suffocate. The three hide inside the bunker as the Angel prowls the foundry. At the island the next day, an Angel that's drifted to the island attacks the colonists and kills the colony leader. At the radio station, Regan transmits the high frequency via the station's signal and plays it over the station's speakers, incapacitating the Angel, and then killing it with a metal conduit. At the foundry, Marcus picks up Regan's transmission and plays the high-pitched frequency through his portable radio before shooting the Angel dead. Regan leaves the hearing aid connected to the radio station's microphone, allowing the broadcast signal to be weaponized by others.

A Real Pain

Jesse Eisenberg

['Jesse Eisenberg', 'Kieran Culkin', 'Will Sharpe', 'Jennifer Grey', 'Kurt Egyiawan', 'Liza Sadovy', 'Daniel Oreskes', 'Ellora Torchia', 'Jakub Gąsowski', 'Krzysztof Jaszczak', 'Piotr Czarniecki', 'Marek Kasprzyk']

Comedy, Drama

['Poland', 'USA']

English

['English', 'Polish']

['Fruit Tree', 'Topic Studios', 'Extreme Emotions', 'Rego Park', 'PISF', 'Mazovia Warsaw Film Fund']

road-movie

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A Scanner Darkly

Richard Linklater

['Keanu Reeves', 'Robert Downey Jr.', 'Woody Harrelson', 'Winona Ryder', 'Rory Cochrane', 'Mitch Baker', 'Sean Allen', 'Cliff Haby', 'Steven Chester Prince', 'Natasha Valdez', 'Mark Turner', 'Chamblee Ferguson', 'Angela Rawna', 'Eliza Stevens', 'Sarah Menchaca', 'Melody Chase', 'Leif Anders', 'Turk Pipkin', 'Alex Jones', 'Lisa Marie Newmyer', 'Wilbur Penn', 'Ken Webster', 'Hugo Perez', 'Rommel Sulit', 'Dameon Clarke', 'Christopher Ryan', 'Leila Plummer', 'Jason Douglas', 'Marco Perella', 'Gary Teague']

Action, Animation, Comedy, Science fiction, Drama, Crime film, Suspense, Mystery, Thriller, Crime Fiction, Tech noir

['USA']

English

['English']

['Warner Independent Pictures', 'Thousand Words', 'Detour Filmproduction', 'Section Eight', '3 Arts Entertainment']

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In the near future, the United States has lost the war on drugs. Substance D, a powerful drug that causes bizarre hallucinations, has swept the country. Approximately 20 percent of the population is addicted. The government has developed an invasive, high-tech surveillance system and a network of undercover officers and informants. Bob Arctor is an undercover agent, assigned to immerse himself in the drug's underworld and infiltrate the supply chain. Arctor has a vision of being in his house with a wife and two children in Anaheim, California; today he has two drug-addicted, layabout housemates: Luckman and Barris. The three spend time taking D and having complex, possibly paranoiac examinations of their experiences. At the police station, Arctor maintains privacy by wearing a "scramble suit" that constantly changes every aspect of his appearance and voice; he is known only by the code name "Fred". Arctor's senior officer, "Hank" and all undercover officers, wear scramble suits, protecting their identities even from each other. Since going undercover, Arctor has become addicted to Substance D and buys from Donna, who Arctor hopes to purchase large enough quantities of D from so that she is forced to introduce him to her supplier. They have a tense, at times caring romantic relationship but she rebuffs his physical advances. At work, "Hank" orders "Fred" to increase surveillance on Arctor and his associates. Arctor's house is at the center of his investigation, since this is where Donna and the other addicts spend time. Arctor is inexpertly negotiating a double life and his use of D is damaging his brain. Barris is informing on Arctor to "Hank", arguing that Arctor is a terrorist and angling to be hired as a cop. Barris unknowingly conveys this information in the presence of Arctor, who is hidden behind his scramble suit. "Hank" reveals to "Fred" that he has long known that he is Arctor, who seems surprised, and repeats his name in a disoriented, unfamiliar tone. "Hank" informs him that the real purpose of the surveillance is to catch Barris and that the police were deliberately increasing Barris' paranoia until he attempted to cover his tracks. "Hank" reprimands Arctor for becoming addicted to Substance D and warns him that he will be disciplined. "Hank" explains how seriously brain-damaged Arctor has become from D and "Hank" "phones" Donna, asking her to come pick up Arctor and take him to New-Path, a corporation that runs rehabilitation clinics. "Hank" leaves and in private removes his scramble suit, revealing Donna. At the New-Path clinic, Arctor and other D addicts show serious cognitive deficiencies. "Donna", now known as Audrey, meets with Mike, a fellow police officer. They discuss how New-Path is secretly responsible for the manufacture and distribution of Substance D. Audrey expresses her growing ethical aversion to their police work, in which they deliberately recruited Arctor—without his knowledge—to become addicted to D; his health sacrificed so that he might eventually enter a New-Path rehabilitation center unnoticed as an addict and collect incriminating evidence of New-Path's D farms. Audrey and Mike debate whether Arctor's mind will recover enough to grasp the situation. New-Path sends Arctor to a labor camp at an isolated farm, where he mindlessly repeats what others tell him. Tending to corn crops, Arctor discovers hidden rows of the blue flowers that produce D. He secretly hides one flower in his boot, to bring to his "friends" at his next holiday from the farm.

A Separation

Asghar Farhadi

['Leila Hatami', 'Payman Maadi', 'Shahab Hosseini', 'Sare Bayat', 'Sarina Farhadi', 'Babak Karimi', 'Ali-Asghar Shahbazi', 'Shirin Yazdanbakhsh', 'Kimia Hosseini', 'Merila Zarei', 'Mohammad Sajadian', 'Armine Zeytounchian', 'Bahareh Riahi']

Action, Comedy, Family, Children's film, Drama, Suspense, Mystery, Thriller, Crime Fiction, Family Drama

['Australia', 'France', 'Iran']

Persian (Farsi)

['Persian (Farsi)']

['Asghar Farhadi Productions', 'Dreamlab Films', 'MPA APSA Academy Film Fund', 'Memento Films Production']

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Nader, Simin, and their 10-year-old daughter, Termeh, are a secular, upper-middle class family living in a flat in Tehran. Simin wants the whole family to leave Iran and has prepared the visas, but Nader wishes to stay to care for his father, who lives with them, and has Alzheimer's disease. Simin therefore files for divorce, but the family court considers the grounds to be insufficient and rejects the application. Simin moves back to her parents’ home and Termeh stays with her father. Nader hires Razieh, a deeply religious woman from a poor and distant suburb, to take care of his father during the day. She comes each day with her young daughter, Somayeh. She soon finds that she cannot cope, in particular because the old man has become incontinent. One day, when Razieh and Somayeh are busy, he slips out and wanders in the street. Razieh hastens out and dodges through the traffic to get to him. The next day, Nader and Termeh come home early and discover the old man lying unconscious on the floor in his bedroom, tied to the bed. Razieh and Somayeh are out. When they return, Razieh says she had some urgent personal business; Nader accuses her of neglecting his father and stealing some money (which Simin had in fact used to pay some movers). When Razieh refuses to leave until he pays her, he pushes her out of the flat. She apparently falls down some steps. Nader and Simin later learn that Razieh has suffered a miscarriage. If Nader knew of Razieh's pregnancy and caused the miscarriage, he could be guilty of murder. There is now a series of claims and counter-claims before a criminal judge: on one side, Nader, with Simin and Termeh; on the other, Razieh and her husband, Hodjat. He is a hot-tempered man, embittered and humiliated by the loss of his long-time job as a cobbler, and harassed by creditors. More than once, he attempts to assault Nader. Razieh says that Nader knew of her pregnancy because he heard a conversation in the flat between her and Termeh’s tutor, in which the tutor recommended a doctor to her. Nader denies this, and the tutor gives evidence in his support. Termeh finds reasons to believe this is not true, and Nader at last admits to her that he has lied for her sake and his father’s: he cannot go to prison. The tutor withdraws her evidence. To protect her father, Termeh tells the judge that her father did not know of the pregnancy until she told him. Nader claims that when he pushed Razieh out of the flat, she could not have fallen down the steps, but would have been protected by the railing. Razieh confesses to Simin that when she went out to bring back the old man, she was hit by a car and was in pain that night; this was the day before Nader pushed her, and she had gone out that day to see a doctor. Hodjat is violent, and Simin fears for Termeh’s safety. Simin persuades Nader to make a payment to Hodjat, but Nader first asks Razieh to swear on the Qur'an that he is the cause of her miscarriage. She cannot do so. Hodjat cannot force her, and begins hitting himself in a rage. Later, at the family court, Nader and Simin are granted a divorce. As the film ends, they wait separately outside the court while Termeh tells the judge which parent she chooses to live with.

A Serbian Film

Srđan Spasojević

["Srđan 'Žika' Todorović", 'Sergej Trifunović', 'Jelena Gavrilović', 'Slobodan Beštić', 'Katarina Žutić', 'Anđela Nenadović', 'Ana Sakić', 'Lidija Pletl', 'Lena Bogdanović', 'Luka Mijatović', 'Nenad Heraković', 'Čarni Đerić', 'Miodrag Krčmarik', 'Tanja Divnić', 'Marina Savić', 'Nataša Miljuš', 'Marijeta Goc', 'Biljana Žurnić', 'Jelena Mihić', 'Dragana Jovanović', 'Irena Korać', 'Aleksandar Banjac', 'Sanja Spasojević', 'Goran Macura', 'Mila Milošević']

Horror, Pornographic, Thriller, Crime, Mystery, Drama, Suspense, Crime Fiction

['Serbia']

Serbian

['Serbian', 'English', 'Swedish']

['Contra Film']

comedy

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Miloš, a semi-retired porn star, lives in Belgrade with his wife, Marija, and their six-year-old son, Petar. His brother Marko is a corrupt police officer who envies Miloš's life and is sexually attracted to Marija. Marija is curious about her husband's feelings towards his past and is concerned about the family's income. Lejla, a former co-star, offers Miloš a starring role in an art film directed by Vukmir, an independent pornographer who wishes to cast Miloš for his powerful erection. Having already caught Petar watching one of his films and not informed of the details of Vukmir's film, Miloš is hesitant to participate and continue his career, but accepts to secure his family's financial future. While meeting Vukmir, Miloš passes a bald man and his entourage, regarding them warily. The filming begins at an orphanage, where Vukmir feeds Miloš instructions through an earpiece given by Vukmir's one-eyed driver Raša, while a film crew follows him. Miloš sees a young girl named Jeca, who is being scolded by her mother for disgracing her deceased war hero husband's memory by becoming a prostitute. In a dark room, screens show Jeca eating an ice pop while Miloš is given fellatio by a nurse. Miloš is then forced to receive fellatio from the mother, while Jeca watches. Miloš breaks character and hits one of Vukmir's security guards. Marko later informs him that Vukmir is a former psychologist who has worked in children's television and state security. Vukmir meets a hesitant Miloš afterward to explain his artistic style, showing a film of a woman giving birth, followed by the newborn being immediately raped by Raša, in what the director terms "newborn porn." Miloš storms out and drives away. At a road junction, he is approached and seduced by Vukmir's female doctor. A bloodied Miloš wakes up in his bed three days later with no memory of what has happened. He returns to the now abandoned set and finds several tapes. Viewing them, Miloš discovers that he was drugged to induce an aggressive, sexually aroused, and suggestible state. At Vukmir's manipulative direction, Miloš beats and rapes Jeca's mother before decapitating her, and later, a catatonic Miloš is sodomized by Vukmir's security. He then watches footage of Lejla voicing concern for Miloš, only to be restrained as her teeth are removed. A masked man then enters the room and forces his penis down her throat to kill her by suffocation. The footage continues as Miloš is led to Jeca's home where an elderly woman praises him for killing her mother and offers Jeca as a "virgin commune." Miloš refuses and escapes through a window to refuge in an alleyway, curled up watching a supposed underaged streetwalker strutting by, who is heckled by two young thugs for her age and Miloš begins masturbating in plain view. He then gets attacked by the two thugs who then get killed by Raša; he recoups Miloš back to the warehouse with Vukmir. At the warehouse, Vukmir's doctor administers more drugs after which Miloš overpowers her, sticking the syringe into her throat. He is then taken into a room to have intercourse with two hidden bodies under a sheet. Miloš is guided onto one body and the masked man from Lejla's movie enters and begins sexually assaulting the other. Miloš does not notice that his victim is bleeding profusely from the rectum. Vukmir then reveals the masked man to be Marko, his brother. Marko's victim is revealed to be Marija, while Miloš's is revealed to be Petar, his son. Vukmir's doctor then staggers into the warehouse, clothes disheveled with her vaginal area covered in blood. She is holding a bloodied metal pipe in her hand, implying that she masturbated herself to death after being shot up with the same drug she used on Miloš. She falls and dies from massive vaginal hemorrhaging. With everyone's attention diverted, an enraged Miloš lunges at Vukmir and smashes his head against the floor, initiating a brawl during which Marija bites Marko in the jugular before bludgeoning him to death with a sculpture. Miloš wrestles a gun from a guard and shoots all but Raša, whom he kills by shoving his erect penis into his empty eye socket. A dying Vukmir praises Miloš's actions as truly worthy of a film. Miloš, having recalled his actions, including locking his wife and son in their basement before passing out earlier, returns home to find them. He and his wife come to a mutual understanding that they and their son should die together, so the three gather in bed and embrace before Miloš fires a fatal shot through himself, Petar, and Marija. Soon after that, another film crew of three, including the mysterious bald man seen before, enter the bedroom. As one of the goons unzips his fly, the director advises him to "start with the little one."

A Serious Man

Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

['Michael Stuhlbarg', 'Richard Kind', 'Fred Melamed', 'Sari Lennick', 'Aaron Wolff', 'Jessica McManus', 'Peter Breitmayer', 'Brent Braunschweig', 'David Kang', 'Benjamin Portnoe', 'Jack Swiler', 'Andrew S. Lentz', 'Jon Kaminski Jr.', 'Ari Hoptman', 'Alan Mandell', 'Amy Landecker', 'George Wyner', 'Michael Tezla', 'Katherine Borowitz', 'Steve Park', 'Allen Lewis Rickman', 'Yelena Shmulenson', 'Fyvush Finkel', 'Ronald Schultz', 'Raye Birk', 'Jane Hammill', 'Claudia Wilkens', 'Simon Helberg', 'Adam Arkin', 'James Cada', 'Michael Lerner', 'Charles Brin', 'Michael Engel', 'Tyson Bidner', 'Phyllis Harris', 'Piper Sigel-Bruse', 'Hannah Nemer', 'Rita Vassallo', 'Warren Keith', 'Neil Newman', 'Tim Russell', 'Jim Lichtscheidl', 'Wayne A. Evenson', 'Scott Thompson Baker', 'Landyn Banx', 'Punnavith Koy', 'Joel Thingvall', 'Amanda Day']

Comedy, Dark comedy, Drama, Comedy drama

['USA', 'UK', 'France']

English

['English', 'Hebrew (modern)', 'Italian', 'Yiddish']

['Focus Features', 'StudioCanal', 'Relativity Media', 'Working Title Films', 'Mike Zoss Productions']

comedy

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A Jewish man in a 19th-century Eastern European shtetl tells his wife that he was helped on his way home by Reb Groshkover, whom he has invited in for soup. She says Groshkover is dead and the man he invited must be a dybbuk. Groshkover arrives and laughs off the accusation, but she plunges an ice pick into his chest. Bleeding, he exits their home into the snowy night. In 1967, Larry Gopnik is a professor of physics living in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. His wife, Judith, tells him that she needs a get so she can marry widower Sy Ableman, with whom she has fallen in love. Meanwhile, their son Danny owes twenty dollars to an intimidating Hebrew school classmate for marijuana. He has the money, but it is hidden in a transistor radio that was confiscated by his teacher. Their daughter, Sarah, is always washing her hair, going out and avoiding school. Larry's brother, Arthur, is homeless and sleeps on the couch, spending his free time filling a notebook with what he calls the "Mentaculus", a "probability map of the universe". Clive Park, a South Korean student worried about losing his scholarship, meets with Larry in his office to argue he should not fail the class. After he leaves, Larry finds an envelope stuffed with cash. When Larry attempts to return it, Clive's father threatens to sue Larry either for defamation if Larry accuses Clive of bribery, or for keeping the money if he does not give him a passing grade. Larry faces an impending vote on his application for tenure, and his department head informs him that anonymous letters have urged the committee to deny him. At the insistence of Judith and Sy, Larry and Arthur move into a nearby motel. Judith empties the couple's bank accounts, leaving Larry penniless, so he enlists the services of a divorce attorney. Larry learns that Arthur faces charges of illegal gambling, solicitation and sodomy. Larry turns to his Jewish faith for consolation. He consults a junior rabbi, who advises Larry to change his "perspective". Larry and Sy are involved in separate, simultaneous car crashes. Larry is unharmed, but Sy dies. Larry consults a second rabbi for solace, who recounts a parable about a dentist who finds Hebrew inscriptions on a patient's teeth. Larry also tries to contact Marshak, the synagogue's senior rabbi, who isn't available. At Judith's insistence, Larry pays for Sy's funeral. At the funeral, Sy is eulogized as "a serious man". Larry calls on his neighbor, Vivienne Samsky, whom he has seen sunbathing naked. She introduces him to marijuana. He later dreams that he is having sex with her, but this turns into a nightmare. Arthur is despondent about the charges levied at him, and Larry consoles him. Larry then has another nightmare in which he gives Arthur the money Clive left him and drives him to cross into Canada by boat, whereupon his neighbors shoot Arthur in the neck. Larry is proud and moved by Danny's bar mitzvah, unaware that his son is under the influence of marijuana. During the service, Judith apologizes to Larry for all the recent trouble and informs him that Sy respected him so much that he even wrote letters to the tenure committee. Danny meets with Marshak, a brief encounter in which Marshak only quotes Jefferson Airplane's "Somebody to Love", names some members of the band, returns the radio, and tells Danny to "be a good boy". Larry's department head compliments him on Danny's bar mitzvah and hints that he will receive tenure. The mail brings a $3,000 bill from Arthur's lawyer. Larry decides to change Clive's grade from F to C−, whereupon Larry's doctor calls, asking to see him immediately about the results of a chest X-ray. Meanwhile, Danny's teacher struggles to open the emergency shelter as a massive tornado closes in on the school.

A Shot in the Dark

Blake Edwards

['Peter Sellers', 'Elke Sommer', 'George Sanders', 'Herbert Lom', 'Graham Stark', 'Moira Redmond', 'Tracy Reed', 'Burt Kwouk', 'André Maranne', 'Vanda Godsell', 'Maurice Kaufmann', 'Ann Lynn', 'David Lodge', 'Martin Benson', 'Reginald Beckwith', 'Douglas Wilmer', 'Bryan Forbes', 'Andre Charisse', 'Howard Greene', 'John Herrington', 'Jack Melford', 'Victor Baring', 'Victor Beaumont', 'Tutte Lemkow', 'Fred Hugh', 'Rose Hill']

Comedy, Children's film, Crime, Suspense, Mystery, Thriller, Detective fiction, Parody film, Crime Fiction, Police procedural

['UK', 'USA']

English

['English', 'French']

['United Artists', 'The Mirisch Company']

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Late at night at the country home of millionaire Benjamin Ballon, several of its occupants are moving about rooms, hiding and spying on others. The household consists of: Ballon's wife Dominique; Henri LaFarge, the head butler, and his wife Madame LaFarge, the cook; Miguel Ostos, the head chauffeur; Pierre, the second chauffeur, and his wife Dudu, the head maid; Georges the gardener, and his wife Simone, the second maid; Maria Gambrelli, the third maid; and Maurice, the second butler. The night's events soon end with gunshots in the room of Maria, and Miguel found murdered. Inspector Clouseau of the Sûreté, a bumbling and incompetent detective, is called out to the scene, accompanied by his assistant Hercule Lajoy. Suspicion is cast upon Maria, as she was found by Maurice clutching the gun that killed the victim. Before Clouseau can investigate further, his superior Commissioner Dreyfus removes him from the investigation out of fear he will bungle a high-profile case. The following day, while training with his manservant Cato under a strict unplanned arrangement between them, Clouseau finds himself returned to the investigation after Dreyfus is ordered by his superiors to do so, through Ballon's political influence. In discussion with Hercule about the murder, Clouseau asserts that Maria is innocent despite the evidence against her, but believes she is protecting the real killer who he suspects might be Ballon himself. To keep her under surveillance during the investigation he arranges for her release from prison. However, two more murders occur—Georges in the Ballons' greenhouse; and Dudu at a nudist camp—with the evidence pointing towards Maria in each case. Despite the facts, Clouseau continues to believe she is innocent, which leaves Dreyfus dismayed at his incompetence in the case and the scandals he causes. After the body of Henri is found in the closet of Maria's bedroom, Clouseau is once more removed from the case. Although Dreyfus begins to suspect Ballon is trying to cover up facts about the murders, assuming that he is shielding someone with Maria's help, Clouseau's theory about her innocence leaves Dreyfus worried that he could be undone. When he is forced to put Clouseau back on the case, Dreyfus eventually suffers a nervous breakdown upon hearing of Clouseau going out for the evening with Maria. That night, several attempts are made on Clouseau's life by a hitman at various establishments, including his apartment, but all of these fail while resulting in the deaths of several innocent bystanders. The increased notoriety of the case as a result of the incidents, coupled with proving Clouseau's theory correct, slowly cause Dreyfus to become unhinged. Clouseau finally decides to confront the Ballon household over the murders, hoping to trick the murderer into unmasking themself. However, his plan unexpectedly proves Maria innocent in all four murders. Dominique reveals she killed Miguel by mistake, believing he was her husband who she thought was having an affair with Maria; Madame LaFarge murdered Georges, with whom she was having an affair, because he was about to leave her for Dominique; Simone killed Dudu in order to maintain her affair with Pierre; and Ballon murdered Henri because he was having an affair with Dominique. Pierre also reveals that Maurice and Dudu were blackmailing Dominique. Meanwhile, Dreyfus, revealed to be the hitman targeting Clouseau previously, plants a bomb in Clouseau's car in one more attempt to kill him. Clouseau's plan comes to its climax when Hercule cuts the house lights in the midst of the chaos. The Ballons, Madame LaFarge, Pierre, Simone, and Maurice flee and attempt to escape in Clouseau's car, unaware of the bomb, and the car explodes as they attempt to drive off. Believing everyone was innocent, despite what they had confessed to, Dreyfus loses his sanity and is dragged away by Hercule. Clouseau, embracing Maria, finally declares her innocent, but a passionate kiss between them is swiftly interrupted when Cato makes a sneak attack.

A Silent Voice: The Movie

Naoko Yamada

['Miyu Irino', 'Saori Hayami', 'Aoi Yuki', 'Kensho Ono', 'Yuki Kaneko', 'Yui Ishikawa', 'Megumi Han', 'Toshiyuki Toyonaga', 'Mayu Matsuoka', 'Sachiko Kojima', 'Hana Takeda', 'Fuminori Komatsu', 'Ikuko Tani', 'Erena Kamata', 'Ayano Hamaguchi', 'Ryunosuke Watanuki', 'Ryo Nishitani', 'Takuya Masumoto', 'Satsuki Yukino', 'Akiko Hiramatsu']

Anime, Animation, Romance, Melodrama, Drama, Teen, Dibujos animados para colorear

['Japan']

Japanese

['Japanese']

['Kyoto Animation', 'ABC Animation', 'Kodansha', 'Pony Canyon', 'Quaras', 'Shochiku']

sad, animated, emotional

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An elementary school student named Shōya Ishida and his friends bully Shōko Nishimiya, a transfer student who was born deaf. When word of the bullying reaches the principal, Shōya is framed as the sole perpetrator by his friends. Shōya blames Shōko when she tries to help him, and they get into a physical altercation. The latter is subsequently transferred to another school, with Shōya keeping her notebook. With his reputation as a bully following him through middle school, Shōya becomes a depressed loner in high school who believes suicide is his only absolution. However, he decides to first make amends with those he has wronged before ending his life. Shōya reconciles with Shōko when returning her notebook at the sign language center she attends, realizing she is still lonely due to her shyness. He is also befriended by Tomohiro Nagatsuka, a similarly friendless classmate who feels indebted to Shōya for saving him from a bully. Shōya tries to meet up with Shōko to help her feed koi in the river, much to the ire of her younger sister Yuzuru. When Shōya illegally jumps into the river to retrieve Shōko's notebook, Yuzuru takes a photo of the incident and posts it online to have him suspended from school. Yuzuru runs away from home after an argument with Shōko over the incident. Shōya offers to let Yuzuru stay at his house, and the two begin to bond. Shōya helps Shōko reconnect with Miyoko Sahara, a kind classmate who genuinely befriended Shōko and is currently in the same school as Naoka Ueno, who also bullied Shōko and weasels back into Shōya's life. Shōko also meets Miki Kawai, her elementary school class president, who now attends the same school as Shōya and is in a relationship with Satoshi Mashiba. Shōko later gives Shōya a gift and verbally confesses her feelings for him, but runs off upset when Shōya mishears her. Shōya invites Shōko to an amusement park with Tomohiro, Miyoko, Miki, and Satoshi. They are joined by Naoka, who is infatuated with Shōya while trying to reconnect him with their old friends. Naoka also grudges Shōko for Shōya's misfortune, and Yuzuru secretly records the encounter for Shōya to see. This leads to the group falling out the following day when Miki exposes Shōya's past to the others in desperation to remain blameless in Shōko's bullying. Shōya isolates himself from everyone but the Nishimiyas. After Shōko and Yuzuru's grandmother passes away, Shōya takes them to the countryside to cheer them up, where he realizes that Shōko blames herself for everything that has happened to him. Shōya decides to devote his entire social life to the sisters. During a fireworks festival, Shōko leaves early, ostensibly to finish her homework. Shōya follows her to retrieve Yuzuru's camera, finding Shōko preparing to jump from her balcony. Shōya manages to stop her, only to fall into the river below. He is rescued by his former friends Kazuki Shimada and Keisuke Hirose but his injuries render him comatose. One night, Shōko dreams about receiving a farewell visit from Shōya. Shōya awakens from his coma and makes his way to the bridge, where he finds Shōko weeping. He apologizes for bullying her and tells her not to blame herself for how his life has turned out. He also admits his original plan to commit suicide but has decided against it while asking Shōko to help him keep living, to which she agrees. When Shōya returns to school, he reunites with his friends and realizes how much they still care for him. As they all go to the school festival together, Shōya tears up, realizing he has finally redeemed himself.

A Simple Plan

Sam Raimi

['Bill Paxton', 'Billy Bob Thornton', 'Bridget Fonda', 'Brent Briscoe', 'Jack Walsh', 'Chelcie Ross', 'Becky Ann Baker', 'Gary Cole', 'Bob Davis', 'Peter Syvertsen', 'Tom Carey', 'John Paxton', 'Marie Mathay', 'Paul Magers', 'Joan Steffand', 'Jill Sayre', 'Wayne A. Evenson', 'Tim Storms', 'Terry Hempleman', 'Jay Gjernes', 'Grant Curtis', 'Solomon Abrams', 'Nina Kaczorowski', 'Thomas Boedy', 'Mary Woolever', 'Rhiannon R. Sauers', 'Christopher Gallus', 'Eric Cegon', 'Robert Martin Halverson', 'Roger Watton', 'Frank Beard', 'Steven Gilmer']

Neo-noir, Noir, Drama, Crime film, Mystery, Thriller, Detective fiction, Police procedural

['USA']

English

['English']

['Paramount Pictures', 'Mutual Film Company', 'Savoy Pictures']

heist

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Hank Mitchell and his pregnant wife Sarah live in rural Wright County, Minnesota. One of the town's few college graduates, Hank works as a bookkeeper at a feed mill, while Sarah is a librarian. Hank, his dim-witted older brother Jacob, and their friend Lou Chambers, chase a fox into the woods and stumble upon a crashed airplane. Hank decides to look inside, where he discovers a dead man and a bag containing $4.4 million in $100 bills. He suggests turning the money in, but Lou and Jacob persuade him not to. Hank then proposes that he keep the money safe at his house until spring thaw when the snow will melt and the plane will be found. At that point, if missing money isn't raised, they will divide their shares and move away. Sheriff Carl Jenkins coincidentally drives by and stops amiably to chat. Hank sticks to the agreed script, but Jacob blurts something about a plane. Carl tries to pursue it, but just gets double-talk. After Carl leaves, the three men make a pact to keep the money a secret, but Hank immediately breaks it with Sarah. She suggests that Hank return a small portion of the money to the plane to avoid suspicion when is found. Hank takes Jacob along. Elderly farmer Dwight Stephanson happens by on snowmobile. Jacob, thinking that their cover is blown, bludgeons Dwight. Before they can dispose of the body Dwight comes to, only to be suffocated by Hank. The brothers then drive the snowmobile and body off a bridge to make it appear an accident. Sarah does research and learns that the money was a ransom for a kidnapped heiress abducted by two brothers. The following night, Lou drunkenly demands his portion of the money from Hank. He's learned from Jacob about Dwight's murder, and threatens to go to the authorities when Hank refuses. After giving birth to their daughter, an ever more scheming and avaricious Sarah convinces Hank to frame Lou for Dwight's murder by getting him drunk, tricking him into falsely confessing to the killing, and recording the confession. The plan works, though it leaves Jacob dismayed and reluctant at betraying his friend. Lou grows enraged when he realizes he's been duped, and pulls a gun on Hank. After a tense standoff, Jacob shoots Lou to save Hank. Hank then tries to calm Lou's wife Nancy, who produces another gun and shoots at him; he then kills her with Lou's. Hank and Jacob successfully sell the carnage to the police as a domestic quarrel that ended in a murder-suicide. Because Jacob had mentioned hearing a plane, Carl asks the brothers to assist FBI agent Baxter in a search for the missing aircraft. Hank and Jacob meet with he and Carl at the police station. Sarah is immediately suspicious. When she discovers Baxter's not an agent she calls to warn Hank, who steals a service revolver. The four men split up in the woods to search for the plane. When Carl finds it, Hank tries to warn him that Baxter is a phony and will murder them both, but Baxter drops Carl before he can react. He then demands Hank retrieve the money from the plane. Hank manages to turn the tables and shoots Baxter point blank in self-defense. Hank starts to concoct another story to tell the authorities, but Jacob balks, telling him that he can no longer live with all that they have done. He asks Hank to kill him and frame Baxter for it. When Hank refuses, he put a pistol to his head to commit suicide. Heartbroken, but realizing he is trapped, Hank kills Jacob with Baxter's gun. Hank is cleared of any wrongdoing by real FBI agents, who reveal that the serial numbers of one in ten of the ransom bills had been recorded, and the Agency will just wait until any marked money is spent to track down the culprit. Realizing he can't spend any of the remaining loot without knowing which bills are marked, Hank tells Sarah he intends to burn it. She desperately tries to prevent him, taunting him with a future life of poverty she refuses to brook, but he throws her out of his way. In a closing narration, Hank explains that rarely does a day go by that the nightmare of their own doing doesn't haunt the survivors.

A Special Day

Ettore Scola

['Sophia Loren', 'Marcello Mastroianni', 'John Vernon', 'Françoise Berd', 'Patrizia Basso', 'Tiziano De Persio', 'Maurizio Di Paolantonio', 'Antonio Garibaldi', 'Vittorio Guerrieri', 'Alessandra Mussolini', 'Nicole Magny', 'Galeazzo Ciano', 'Adolf Hitler', 'King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy', 'Benito Mussolini']

Comedy, Drama, Tragicomedy

['Canada', 'Italy']

Italian

['Italian']

['C. C. Champion', 'Canafox Films']

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On May 4, 1938, the day Hitler visits Mussolini in Rome, Antonietta, a naïve, sentimental and overworked homemaker, stays home doing her usual domestic tasks, while her fascist husband, Emanuele, and their six spoiled children take to the streets to follow a parade. The building is empty, except for the caretaker Pauletta, and a neighbor across the complex, a charming man named Gabriele. He is a radio broadcaster who has been dismissed from his job and is about to be deported to Sardinia because of his homosexuality and alleged anti-fascist stance. After the family's myna escapes from their apartment and flies outside Gabriele's window, Antonietta shows up at his door, asking to be let in to reach the bird. Gabriele has been interrupted from attempting suicide, but helps rescue the myna by offering it food, and is amused by the episode. Antonietta is surprised by his demeanor and, unaware of his sexual orientation, flirts and dances the rumba with him. Despite their differences, they warm to each other. Pauletta warns Antonietta that Gabriele is an anti-fascist, which Antonietta finds despicable. Gabriele eventually opens up, confessing he was fired because he is a homosexual. Antonietta confides in him her troubles with her arrogant and unfaithful husband; who, she says, has shown a preference for an educated woman. Throughout their interaction and conversation, each realize that the other is oppressed by social and governmental conditioning and come to form a new impression than the one they first drew from one another. As a result, they have sex, but for different reasons. Gabriele explains that this changes nothing; as does Antonietta. (However, later, when her son reminds his mother of all the newspaper clippings she will have from the parade for her album collection, Antonietta's face reveals a look of slight indifference.) Soon after their intimate encounter, Antonietta's family comes back home and Gabriele is arrested. At the end, Antonietta sits near the window and starts reading a book Gabriele has given to her (The Three Musketeers). She watches as her lover leaves the complex, escorted by fascist policemen, before turning off the light and retiring to bed: Her husband is waiting there for her in order to beget their seventh child, whom he wants to name Adolfo.

A Street Cat Named Bob

Roger Spottiswoode

['Luke Treadaway', 'Ruta Gedmintas', 'Joanne Froggatt', 'Anthony Stewart Head', 'Caroline Goodall', 'Beth Goddard', 'Darren Evans', 'Ruth Sheen', 'Nina Wadia', 'John Henshaw', 'Nadine Marshall', 'Lorraine Ashbourne', 'Akbar Kurtha', 'Llewella Gideon', 'Ivana Basic', 'Rob Jarvis', 'Sasha Dickens', 'Cleopatra Dickens', 'Rosie Ede', 'Tony Jayawardena', 'Adam Riches', 'Franc Ashman', 'Jill Winternitz', 'Ben Deery', 'Gemma Nichols', 'Pearl Maburutse', 'Margot Edwards', 'Hattie Ladbury', 'Jacob James Beswick', 'James Bowen']

Action, Comedy, Children's film, Drama

['UK', 'USA']

English

['English']

['Iris Productions', 'Shooting Script Films', 'Prescience', 'Stage 6 Films']

feel-good

feel-good-movies

James Bowen is a homeless man and former heroin addict, living on the streets of London and down to his last bits of change. After a life-threatening drug-related incident, his support worker Val gets him into a council flat and prescribes him methadone in an attempt to get him off the street. On his first night in his flat James discovers a cat rifling through his food. Assuming the cat had escaped from somewhere, James tries to return the cat to his real owners. After letting him go, that same evening the cat returns to James's flat, this time with a purulent wound on his back leg. Worried, James consults his animal-loving but allergic neighbour, Betty. She informs James of a local charity vet where she volunteers, and names the cat Bob. Waiting on a queue at the vet, James misses a meeting with Val. After the appointment, James has Bob neutered and sets him free. However, Bob keeps following James into town, eventually drawing more crowds of people, making James more wealthy, and he eventually decides to keep Bob. Bob becomes a tourist hotspot and James and Betty start to become romantically attached. One night while returning home, James finds his old friend, Baz, unconscious on his flat estate, overdosed on heroin. Baz later dies in hospital, and James finds out that Betty cannot be around drug addicts, as her deceased brother had been one. On New Year's Eve, James makes an impromptu visit to his biological father, Jack, his stepmother, Hilary, and his lost sisters, Pris and Faith. After Bob destroys their living room, Hilary sends James and Bob out. One day, while busking, James gets into an argument with a thug causing the crowd to get in a brawl with the man and James getting arrested for it. Although found innocent, he is prohibited from busking for six months. At the pharmacy where he is waiting to receive his methadone, Betty notices James; they argue and go their separate ways. Later, James visits the offices of The Big Issue to make some more money for him and Bob. He regains his popularity with tourists by selling The Big Issue. After being accused of illegally selling magazines on another vendor's patch, James and Bob are banned for a whole month. After going back in business James gets into an argument with a rude woman trying to buy Bob off him, losing Bob in the scuffle. Bob does not return for a few days, leaving James devastated. After Bob returns, James feels he is ready to come off the methadone. After a week of gruelling withdrawal symptoms, James awakes clean and healthy. He goes to visit Betty, who is in the middle of moving and living a life meant for her to live. James and Betty end on a good note. A journalist, Mary, requests to write a book about James and Bob after his Internet and media popularity, and James agrees. James then fixes up his relationship with his father Jack, and his life turns around for the better. Later, at a book signing, James is celebrated by Val, his father, and a visiting Betty. James and Betty remain supportive friends as James and Bob continue on their journey together.

A Taxi Driver

Jang Hoon

['Song Kang-ho', 'Thomas Kretschmann', 'Yoo Hai-jin', 'Ryu Jun-yeol', 'Park Hyeok-kwon', 'Ko Chang-seok', 'Jeon Hye-jin', 'Choi Gwi-hwa', 'Um Tae-goo', 'Joey Albright', 'Lee Jung-eun', 'Jung Jin-young', 'Ryu Tae-ho', 'Jeong Seok-yong', 'Cha Soon-bae', 'Shin Dam-su', 'Ryu Sung-hyun', 'Heo Jeong-do', 'Kyul Hwi', 'Seo Hyun-woo', 'Lee Sae-byeol', 'Lee Ho-cheol', 'Lee Yong-i', 'Han Sa-myeong', 'Choi Jae-sup', 'Yang Shin-ji', 'Lee Bong-ryeon', 'Park Sung-hyun', 'Son Jong-hwan']

Action, Comedy, History, Adventure, Drama

['South Korea']

Korean

['Korean', 'Japanese', 'English', 'German']

['The LAMP', 'Showbox']

action, top-rated

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In 1980, Kim Man-seob is a debt-laden widower who works as a taxi driver in Seoul. Overhearing another taxi driver bragging about a 100,000 won job to bring a foreign client to Gwangju, Man-seob steals the client, unaware of the events in Gwangju. The client is Jürgen "Peter" Hinzpeter, a German journalist wanting to report on the increasing civil unrest in Gwangju. The two men are stopped by soldiers as they approach Gwangju, but manage to enter with Peter posing as a businessman. In Gwangju, they encounter a group of college students, who warm up to Peter and invites him aboard their pickup truck. Man-seob turns back, reluctant to be involved in the civil unrest. Along the way, he takes pity on an old woman and brings her to the local hospital to look for her son, who turns out to be one of the college students. Peter confronts Man-seob about abandoning him and offers to pay up part of the fare, but the college students and the local taxi drivers refuse to let Peter pay until Man-seob fulfils the agreed-upon trip. Man-seob takes Peter and another student Jae-sik to a protest at the Provincial Office, where protesters greet the trio with food and gifts. Peter films the crackdowns that follow. Plainclothes Defense Security Command (DSC) officers attempt to arrest Peter, but the three evade capture. That evening, Man-seob's taxi breaks down and Tae-soo, one of the local taxi drivers, tows the taxi to his shop for overnight repair and lets the men stay at his place for the night. During dinner, the television station is bombed, and the three head there for Peter to film the turmoil. The officers recognize Peter and chase the three men; Man-seob is assaulted and Jae-sik is captured, but before he is taken away, he yells for Peter to share the footage with the world. Distressed about his young daughter and unable to contact her, Man-seob departs for Seoul the next morning with the fake Gwangju license plates Tae-soo has given him. In Suncheon, he overhears reports of the events in Gwangju; the media claims North Korean infiltrators caused the chaos. Overwhelmed with guilt, he drives back to the hospital in Gwangju to find Peter in shock and Tae-soo mourning over Jae-sik's corpse. Peter, encouraged to continue filming by Man-seob, urges Man-seob to return to Seoul and his daughter, but Man-seob insists on staying by his side. At a street protest, soldiers open fire at civilians, including those rescuing the wounded. Man-seob and the other taxi drivers assist the wounded into the taxis and get them to safety. Departing for Seoul via a mountainous road, Man-seob and Peter arrive at an armed roadblock. The sergeant searches the car and finds the Seoul license plates but lets them go. The soldiers, receiving orders to stop any foreigners, open fire on the taxi but Man-seob breaks through. DSC officers give chase but the local taxi drivers intervene to allow Man-seob and Peter to escape. At the airport, they bid each other farewell. Before departing, Peter asks Man-seob for his name and phone number, but Man-seob writes "Kim Sa-bok" as his name and a cigarette company's phone number in Peter's notebook. Man-seob reunites with his daughter while Peter broadcasts his footage about the Gwangju Uprising. On subsequent trips to Seoul, Peter attempts to search for "Kim Sa-bok", but is unable to find him. In 2003, Peter receives an award in South Korea for his report on the Gwangju Uprising. In his speech, he expresses his gratitude to "Kim Sa-bok" and hopes to see him again someday. Man-seob, still a taxi driver, reads a newspaper article about Peter's speech and achievements, murmuring that he is more grateful to Peter and that he misses him too. The film ends with a video of the real Peter, expressing his thanks to "Kim Sa-bok" and his wish to see him again.

A Touch of Sin

Jia Zhangke

['Jiang Wu', 'Wang Baoqiang', 'Zhao Tao', 'Li Meng', 'Zhang Jiayi', 'Luo Lanshan', 'Liu Lu', 'Wang Qiang', 'Wang Hongwei', 'Han Sanming', 'Zhang Jin', 'Zhou Lu', 'Jia Zhangke', 'Shide Liu', 'Han Dong', 'Lin Min-Chen']

Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, Crime Fiction

['China', 'France', 'Japan']

Chinese

['Chinese', 'English', 'Cantonese']

['Office Kitano', 'Xstream Pictures', 'Shanghai Film Group', 'Shanxi Film & Television Group', 'Bandai Visual', 'Bitters End', 'MK2 Films']

action, top-rated

letterboxds-top-250-action-films

The film consists of four loosely interconnected vignettes that are depicted chronologically, each set in a different location in China and based on then newsworthy events and incidents in China.[3]

A Touch of Zen

King Hu

['Hsu Feng', 'Shih Chun', 'Pai Ying', 'Tian Peng', 'Roy Chiao', 'Tsao Chien', 'Miao Tian', 'Melvin Chang Yun-Wen', 'Hsieh Han', 'Han Ying-Chieh', 'Sammo Hung', 'Chang Ping-Yu', 'Jui Wang', 'Wan Chung-Shan', 'Chang Yi-Kuai', 'Pan Yao-Kun', 'You Pin Liu', 'Lam Ching-Ying', 'Billy Chan', 'Lung Fei', 'Shan Mao', 'Hao Li-Jen', 'Chu Liu', 'Kao Ming', 'Chia Lu-Shih', 'Chan Ming-Wai', 'Kei Ho-Chiu', 'Yeung Sai-Gwan', 'Jacky Chen Shao-Lung', 'Chui Hing-Chun', 'Men Chu-Hua', 'Ng Ming-Choi']

Action, Romance, Wuxia, Adventure, Drama, Thriller

['Hong Kong', 'Italy', 'Taiwan']

Chinese

['Chinese']

['Union Film Company', 'International Film Company', 'Orange Sky Golden Harvest']

action, top-rated

letterboxds-top-250-action-films

In a remote mountain village in Ming China, Gu Sheng-tsai is a well-meaning but unambitious scholar and painter, with a tendency towards being clumsy and ineffectual. A stranger, Ouyang Nian, arrives in town and agrees to his portrait painted by Gu, but his real objective is to bring a female fugitive back to the city for execution on behalf of the East Chamber guards. The fugitive, Yang Hui-zhen, is befriended by Gu, and together they plot against the corrupt Eunuch Wei who wants to eradicate all trace of her family after her father attempts to warn the Emperor of the eunuch's corruption. His daughter fled, with generals Shi and Lu. The saintly and powerful Chan Buddhist Abbot Hui Yuan intervened to protect them, and they spend two years at his monastery where he teaches them self defence. Ouyang, Yang and her friends are all superior warriors. Ouyang has a special flexible sword that bends and that he can wear within his belt, making him seem unarmed. Gu has sex with Yang. Upon doing so, he is no longer the naïve bumbling innocent, but instead becomes confident and assertive, and when Yang's plight is revealed, he insists on being part of it – and even comes up with a fiendish "Ghost Trap" for the East Chamber guards. Ouyang is killed in a fight in a bamboo forest, and they use his signature seal to lure the East Chamber guards into the trap. This is a plan to use a supposedly haunted site to play tricks on the guards to make them believe they are prey to the undead. General Lu dies in the "Ghost Trap" battle. In the aftermath, Gu walks through the carnage laughing at the ingenuity of his plan until the true cost of human life dawns upon him. He sees Abbot Hui and his followers arrive to help bury the dead. After the battle, Gu is unable to find Yang, who he is told has left him and does not want him to follow her. He tracks her down at the monastery of Abbot Hui, where she has given birth to a child by Gu and become a nun. She tells Gu that their destiny together has ended and gives Gu their child. Later, when Gu and the child are tracked down by Hsu Hsien-Chen, the evil commander of Eunuch Wei's army, Yang and General Shi come to Gu's rescue. Abbot Hui and four of his monks also arrive to fight Hsu. After Hsu fakes repentance in order to surprise attack Abbot Hui, a battle begins in which Hsu is killed and Yang, Shi, and Abbot Hui are all badly injured (the latter bleeding golden blood). The film ends with the injured Yang staggering toward a silhouetted figure, presumably Abbot Hui, seen meditating with the setting sun forming a halo around his head, an image suggesting the Buddha and enlightenment.

A Town Called Panic

Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar

['Stéphane Aubier', 'Vincent Patar', 'Bruce Ellison', 'Jeanne Balibar', 'Bouli Lanners', 'Benoît Poelvoorde', 'Nicolas Buysse', 'François De Brigode', 'Véronique Dumont', 'Christine Grulois', 'Frédéric Jannin', 'Christelle Mahy', 'Eric Muller', 'François Neycken', 'Pipou', 'Franco Piscopo', 'David Ricci', 'Ben Tesseur', 'Alexandre von Sivers']

Action, Animation, Comedy, Children's film, Adventure, Fantasy, Family film

['Belgium', 'France', 'Luxembourg']

French

['French']

['La Parti Production', 'Made in Productions', 'Beast Productions', 'Les Films du GrognonRTBF', 'Les films du grognon', 'RTBF', 'Gébéka Films']

animated

vote-best-animated-films-of-all-time

Friends Cowboy, Indian, and Horse live in a rural house together peacefully. Cowboy and Indian forget Horse's birthday, and come up with the idea of building him a brick barbecue. Not wanting Horse to find out they forgot, they get him out of the house by convincing their neighbor Steven to ask Horse to pick his animals up from the nearby music school. There, Horse meets his love interest, Mrs. Jacqueline Longray, a fellow horse who is also a music teacher. When he attempts to play piano for her, she offers to give him lessons. Back at the house, Indian attempts to order the fifty bricks needed for the grill, but Cowboy accidentally orders fifty million. They get rid of the excess bricks by building them into a cube and putting them on top of the house, then build the grill. That night, the house collapses under the weight of the bricks. Irate, Horse makes Cowboy and Indian help rebuild the house. When they try to put up the walls, an unknown figure continues to steal them. When staking out the house to find the culprits, the trio discover the walls are being stolen by a family of aquatic creatures whose heads are shaped like cones. All but one of them escape with the wall. They chase the straggler, Gerard, off of a cliff, where they fall into the Earth's core. Gerard escapes. Climbing out, they find themselves in the middle of a tundra. While wandering throughout, they are sucked into a giant penguin robot that is being used by incomprehensible, super-strong scientists to make and throw giant snowballs. They catch up with Gerard, but they are all subsequently captured and put to work by the scientists. While the scientists battle a rogue mammoth, the group escapes by setting a snowball to launch at the house and climbing into it. At the last second, Gerard sets it for his home under the sea. Gerard swims off when the snowball lands and the three give chase, donning scuba masks (Cowboy simply puts a TV on his head) and swimming after him. They find an underwater version of their house, revealing Gerard and his family wanted the walls to build their own house. The creatures chase the trio off with a group of barracudas, but they come back and trick the creatures into a hole by Horse posing as Santa Claus. They use a sawfish to destroy their house and escape to the surface, but the creatures follow them and attack with swordfish. Steven, his wife, and his animals help fight back. In the process, Steven's house explodes with water and the countryside is flooded. One year later, Gerard's family is an accepted part of the community, and Horse is now a skilled piano player and dating Longray, who throws a surprise birthday party for him in an underwater department store. Cowboy and Indian accidentally set off Horse's birthday present, a giant firework, causing a giant fireworks display that destroys the landscape as the credits roll.

A Visitor to a Museum

Konstantin Lopushansky

['Viktor Mikhaylov', 'Vera Mayorova', 'Vadim Lobanov', 'Irina Rakshina', 'Aleksandr Rasinsky', 'Iosif Ryklin', 'Liliyan Malkina', 'Nora Gryakalova', 'Aleksey Inglevich', 'Vyacheslav Zakharov', 'Anatoli Petrov', 'Vyacheslav Vasilyev', 'Sergei Perevyshin', 'Alexey Zubarev', 'Tamara Shempel', 'Lyudmila Bogdanova', 'Yury Eller']

Horror, Drama, Science fiction

['Germany', 'USSR', 'Switzerland']

Russian

['Russian']

['Lenfilm', 'Tretye Tvorcheskoe Obyedinenie', 'Goskino USSR', 'CSM Filmproduktion', 'ZDF']

sci-fi, top-rated

letterboxds-top-250-science-fiction-films

In a post-apocalyptic world after a global environmental disaster, the remnants of humanity are living out their century, indifferent to the fate of the planet, and are in no way trying to stop the catastrophe. Among the humans are a caste of "degenerates", humans that are significantly intellectually disabled. The main character comes to the sea, which periodically overflows, then dries up. He wants to look at the ancient sunken city, which will appear on the surface when the sea parted again. Waiting for this moment, he talks to the locals. He discovers that the "ordinary" people, the innkeepers, have lost what remains of their spirituality and are silencing their spiritual hunger with entertainment. They discourage him from going to the ancient city, beckoning him to stay with them, listen to music, watch television, feast, and dance. The housewife seduces him, and they have sex. At the same time, the degenerates retained religion and a semblance of spirituality. One of the degenerates the innkeepers' maid, believes that the Visitor is a savior sent by God, and begs him not to leave, not to abandon his quest. The hero, at her invitation, attends a nightly service of degenerates, at which the crowd begs God to take them from the post-apocalyptic world to heaven. This leads him to a spiritual epiphany. Ordinary people begin to fear him, believing him to be a mutant in disguise. When the sea finally parts, he comes to the sunken city, sobbing to God to atone for the sins of mankind. In the finale, the housewife, previously scornful of religion and mutants, also experiences an epiphany under the Visitor's influence. The Visitor, on the other hand, finally falls into a religious frenzy and can only thrash and scream for God.

A Walk in the Woods

Ken Kwapis

['Robert Redford', 'Nick Nolte', 'Emma Thompson', 'Nick Offerman', 'Kristen Schaal', 'Chrystee Pharris', 'Sandra Ellis Lafferty', 'Hayley Lovitt', 'Derek Krantz', 'Andrew Vogel', 'Linds Edwards', 'R. Keith Harris', 'John Kap', 'Mary Steenburgen', 'Randall Newsome', 'Susan McPhail', 'Gaia Wise', 'Tucker Meek', 'Chandler Head', 'John Schmedes', 'Danny Vinson', 'Valerie Payton', 'Stephanie Astalos-Jones', 'Kevin Harrison', 'Bridget Gethins', 'Alex Van', 'Mimi Gould', 'Rowan Bousaid', 'Njema Williams', 'Marcy Conway']

Action, Comedy, Adventure, Drama

['USA']

English

['English']

['Wildwood Enterprises', 'Route One Entertainment', 'Broad Green Pictures']

feel-good

feel-good-movies

After living in the UK for ten years, author Bill Bryson has moved back to the US and is living in New Hampshire. Now in his 60s, he has been living there peacefully. A television interview reports that he has published several popular books and there is speculation he will be writing more. Bryson, however, has no such plans. Bryson and his wife Catherine attend a funeral. Afterwards, he takes a stroll up to the nearby Appalachian Trail, and suddenly decides he will hike its entire length. Catherine objects, presenting many accounts of accidents and murders on the trail. She relents on condition that he not travel alone. He agrees and searches for a friend willing to join him. Everyone declines his invitation; some declare him insane. Finally, he is contacted by Stephen Katz, an old friend who offers to be a hiking companion. Despite appearances, Stephen claims to be fit enough for the challenge. Bill's wife is unhappy with his choice, but relents. Within less than a mile of their departure point, as groups of hikers overtake and pass them, they begin to grasp the difficulty of their ambition. Shortly after, a group of young children effortlessly runs by them up the trail, laughing and calling out to each other. Seeing others pass by so easily motivates them to carry on. Weeks pass, and they overcome obstacles and encounter interesting characters together, some friendlier and some more hostile. One day, having hiked miserably through pouring rain, they reach a hut. Carved into the log wall is an Appalachian Trail map showing the trail and their present location. They realize they have finished less than half of the trail after spending three months on it. The two ultimately trek into a restricted section posted "for experienced hikers only". While maneuvering their heavy and awkward backpacks alongside a precipitous drop, Bill trips and pulls Stephen with him down a steep, rocky cliff. They fall about fifteen feet onto a ledge spacious enough to be comfortable, but far enough below the trail to be unable to get back up to resume the hike. They spend the night there with no clear hope of rescue. The next day, they are awakened by early morning hikers who are able to get them off the ledge. The men decide they have had enough and end their journey. When comfortably back at home, Bill, going through his mail, finds a series of post cards from Stephen that were mailed from their various stops along the trail. The last one reads: "What's next?' Bill sits down and begins typing on his computer, "A Walk In The Woods."

A Woman Under the Influence

John Cassavetes

['Gena Rowlands', 'Peter Falk', 'Fred Draper', 'Lady Rowlands', 'Katherine Cassavetes', 'Matthew Labyorteaux', 'Matthew Cassel', 'Christina Grisanti', 'George Dunn', 'Mario Gallo', 'Eddie Shaw', 'Angelo Grisanti', 'Charles Horvath', 'James Joyce', 'John Finnegan', 'Vincent Barbi', 'Cliff Carnell', 'Frank Richards', 'Hugh Hurd', 'Leon Wagner', 'Dominique Davalos', 'Xan Cassavetes', 'Pancho Meisenheimer', 'Sonny Aprile', 'Ellen Davalos', 'Joanne Moore Jordan', 'John Hawker', 'Sylvester Words', 'Elizabeth Deering', 'Jackie Peters', 'Elsie Ames', 'N.J. Cassavetes']

Romance, Comedy, Indie film, Drama

['USA']

English

['English', 'Italian']

['Faces International Films']

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Mabel Longhetti, a Los Angeles housewife and mother, sends her three children, Tony, Angelo and Maria, to spend the night with her mother but is extremely hesitant to do so. She is a heavy drinker and exhibits strange behavior. An unexpected pipe leak forces her husband, Nick, a construction foreman, to cancel their date night over the phone, and Mabel is devastated. That night, drunk, she meets a man at a bar, Garson, who offers her some more drinks, and then he takes her home almost passed out. Despite her protests, he forces her to dance with him and appears to sexually assault her at the bottom of the stairs, while she hits him with her handbag. She wakes up the next morning in bed and the man is still there. She is confused and briefly argues with him before he leaves, calling him by her husband's name and warning him that she's not in the mood for games. Later the same day, Nick brings his 11 member crew over to the house without calling Mabel beforehand. Mabel makes everyone spaghetti and they all sit at the table together to eat. Mabel seems extremely polite and warm to all Nick's colleagues. The meal is superficially pleasant, with Mabel asking each one of Nick's coworkers if they have children. Finally, Nick snaps at Mabel for making one of his men feel uncomfortable by being overly warm to him. The next day, Nick has an early wake up when his mother-in-law and their three children stop over before school, invading the couple's bedroom and making Mabel nervous. Mabel's strange mannerisms and increasingly odd behavior continue to be a source of concern for Nick. She hosts a birthday party, but one of the child's parents, Harold Jensen, becomes disturbed by her behavior and is reluctant to leave his children alone with her, asking if she's been drinking. When Nick comes home, he finds all the children run wild, half-naked, and he gets into a fistfight with Jensen, who then leaves with his children. Nick also angrily slaps Mabel in front of the children. He brings the doctor who treats her, Dr. Zepp, to evaluate her mental health. Mabel grows increasingly angry and suspicious and Nick fights off the doctor when he attempts to sedate her, while repeating to Mabel that he loves her. His mother, Margaret, accuses Mabel of being a bad mother, drinking all the time, and leaving her children hungry and naked. She offers nothing to her son, she says, and the other day she had brought another man to the house. Convinced she has become a threat to herself and others, the doctor institutionalizes her, while Mabel grabs her children in despair. Nick returns to work and is annoyed by the workers' interest in Mabel's situation. He gets into an altercation with a worker, who falls down a hill and is severely injured. He picks up the children from school in the middle of the day to go to the beach and allows them to sip his beer. Six months later, Nick plans a large surprise welcome home party for Mabel's return from the institution. However, his mother points out that this may be overwhelming for her, and Nick asks all of the non-family guests to leave. When Mabel arrives, she is apprehensive and quiet, in great contrast to her former outgoing and eccentric personality. Nick tries to make her feel comfortable, telling her that he is with her and to hell with all the others, but to no avail. The evening degenerates in yet another emotional and psychologically taxing event for Mabel. She reveals she underwent electroshock therapy in the mental hospital and becomes increasingly distraught, while at the same time, she asks all the family guests to go home, because she and Nick want to go to bed together, making all, once again, feel awkward. After the guests leave, Mabel has a breakdown and cuts herself. When she stands on a sofa, bleeding, and refuses to come down, Nick slaps her and causes her to fall in front of their distraught children. She appears to recover somewhat and puts the kids to bed while they express their love for her. Nick and Mabel prepare their bed together as the credits roll.

A.P.E.X.

Phillip J. Roth

['Richard Keats', 'Mitchell Cox', 'Lisa Ann Russell', 'Marcus Aurelius', 'Adam Lawson', 'David Jean Thomas', 'Brian Richard Peck', 'Anna B. Choi', 'Kristin Norton', 'Jay Irwin', 'Robert Tossberg', 'Kathleen Randazzo', 'Kareem H. Captan', 'Merle Nicks', 'Natasha Roth', 'Richard Hench', 'Marklen Kennedy']

Action, Science fiction

['USA']

English

['English']

['Republic Pictures (II)', 'Green Communications']

post-apocalyptic

post-apocalyptic-movies

In 2073, Nicholas Sinclair is a scientist on a time travel project. An accident introduces in 1973 a deadly virus that activates the project's automatic countermeasures. Attack robots are sent to the past in an effort to eliminate the virus carriers. They fail, and Sinclair returns to 2073 to find the Earth in ruins, ravaged by both the virus and a constant stream of attack robots. Sinclair returns to the project lab that is now in ruins and uses the time travel equipment there to prevent the original cause of the accident.

Aadukalam

Vetrimaaran

['Dhanush', 'Kishore', 'V. I. S. Jayapalan', 'Adukalam Naren', 'Taapsee Pannu', 'Meenal', 'Periya Karuppu Thevar', 'Dinesh Ravi', 'Aadukalam Murugadoss', 'Sentrayan', 'Jayaprakash', 'R. Velraj', 'Munnar Ramesh']

Action, Drama, Romance, Tamil cinema, Adventure, Suspense, Thriller, Sports, World cinema

['India']

Tamil

['Tamil']

['Five Star Creations']

action, top-rated

letterboxds-top-250-action-films

In Madurai, veteran rooster trainer Periyasamy aka "Pettaikaaran" and Madurai Central Police Inspector Rathnaswamy are tough competitors in cockfights, and it is often Pettai who wins because nobody knows his way of maintaining the quality of the birds. Rathnasamy and Pettai were once protegees of grand veteran Doraisamy, who has retired from active competition but is considered as the honorary overlord of rooster fighting in South Tamil Nadu. K. P. Karuppu and Durai are the favourites in Pettai's team. Karuppu is very talented in breeding and training roosters, while Durai is very rich, owns three bars in the town of Thiruparankundram, and is talented in rooster training. One day, during a informal match in rural field area, local police raid the spot and arrest most of the involved, except Rathnaswamy and Durai who escapes. Everyone is released after stern warning from the local police, after intervention of Rathnasamy. Pettaikaran's roosters were abducted by the fleeing men from Rathnasamy's party, and Pettaikaran orders his guys to bring them back by any means. He also asks them to kill any fowl which has bred with his roosters, to prevent the strength of his roosters passing to Rathnasamy's flock. Karuppu goes to the railway colony at night, to retrieve their rooster, since an ally of Rathnasamy lives there. He kills the fowl which had mated with their rooster, and bumps into Anglo-Indian girl named Irene. He is smitted by her beauty, but silences her and leaves. Having been defeated in all earlier bouts with Pettaikaran's roosters, Rathinasamy keeps insisting on having one last fight to win and satisfy his old mother's wish, but Pettai declines to have any more fights with him because he feels that Rathnaswamy has lost faith in his roosters and will be using nefarious methods to win, like the earlier raid. Karuppu falls in love with Irene, who dislikes him. He does not recognize this initially and keeps following her. One day, the residents of Irene's colony confront him and ask Irene to tell who she is in love with – Karuppu or Dinesh, another man in the locality. She points her finger at Karuppu, and he goes into rapture. She explains later that she had to lie in order to avoid Dinesh, who has been bothering her for a long time. Later, Irene too falls in love with Karuppu. Meanwhile, Rathnasamy tries to cajole Ayub, Pettai's veterinarian for roosters, to get Pettai to come for a competition against himself, in exchange for a heavy amount. Ayub refuses and insults Rathnasamy. The same night, Ayub is killed in a hit and run accident. Durai initially suspects Rathnaswamy and all of Pettai's gang wants revenge, but Pettai decides to conduct a state tournament in Ayub's name and provide his family with funds so that Ayub's poor daughters can be married. He asks permission from Rathnasamy as the police have to permit it, but Rathnaswamy refuses, manhandles, and berates Pettai as a thief. In a rage, Pettai, suspecting Rathnaswamy of the murder, agrees to the one-on-one rooster fight that Rathnaswamy has been asking for so long. He bets that he will field his roosters against every rooster that Rathnaswamy brings to the field in the following tournament, and even if one of Pettai's roosters loses against Rathnaswamy's, Pettai will tonsure his head and face, publicly apologize to him, and will quit rooster fights. If Rathnaswamy is not able to beat at least one of his roosters, the same conditions will be applied on him, at the end of the day. Finally getting his way, Rathnaswamy permits the tournament. The grand state tournament is arranged by Pettai's team, getting heavy funds and official permission. In the initial 11 fights, Rathnasamy's roosters are defeated by Pettai's. Rathnasamy brings high-bred roosters from Bangalore and enters them into the tournament. Seeing the quality of the new roosters, Karuppu asks Pettai to let his rooster fight, but Pettai puts his rooster down and says that he will choose the best-competing rooster himself. Karuppu surreptitiously enters the contest as Pettai's team before Pettai can choose the rooster because he needs to repay Irene for the loan he took to prepare his rooster for the fight. Pettai does not believe in Karuppu and his rooster announces that Karuppu will not represent Pettai, and the result of Karuppu's match will not be acknowledged by his team. However, the 'underdog' emerges victorious in three consecutive rounds, despite facing roosters spiked with steroids. Karuppu gets the best coach award of the tournament and his bet money of ₹10 lakh (equivalent to ₹21 lakh or US$25,000 in 2023). While initially happy that Karuppu won, Pettai is soon overcome with anger and jealousy. His ego is hurt by the fact that Karuppu earns both popularity and money, by refuting his judgement. Karuppu is not aware of the changes in Pettai's mind. Pettai is at first refusing to speak to anyone and then starts scheming. Karuppu gives Pettai the money from the competition for safekeeping, which he plans to use to start a business, but it goes missing. Pettai also starts spinning stories about his associates and makes everyone suspicious of each other. He incites Karuppu and Durai into pitting their roosters in a fight. Meanwhile, Karuppu's mother dies from the shock of losing all the money. Pettai poisons Durai's roosters, making him suspect Karuppu, who is arrested for this. Pettai then lies to Irene that his wife was in an adulterous relationship with Karuppu. Irene's family also pressures her to move to Chennai, which pushes her into attempting suicide. Pettai, meanwhile, calls Karuppu to a location near a temple and informs Durai about his whereabouts. When Irene recovers, she calls Karuppu and informs him that Pettai is badmouthing him, so Karuppu goes to find Pettai and confront him. Karuppu finds that Pettai was the one who stole his money, and a guilt-ridden Pettai kills himself. Karuppu does not wish to reveal the fact to the public that Pettai stole his money and schemed against him, so he flees with Irene to start a new life in another city, leaving the money with his friend.

Aaltra

Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern

['Benoît Delépine', 'Gustave Kervern', 'Michel de Gavre', 'Isabelle Delépine', 'Gérard Condejean', 'Pierre Ghenassia', 'Pierre Carles', 'Jan Bucquoy', 'Aki Kaurismäki', 'Bouli Lanners', 'Irmeli Debarle', 'Thérèse Kobankaya', 'Benoît Poelvoorde']

Comedy, Drama

['France']

English

['English', 'Dutch', 'German', 'French', 'Finnish']

['La Parti Production']

road-movie

road-movies-1

Benoit Delepine plays a harassed businessman who, frazzled by commuting to his office, is working from home against company rules. While arguing with a jobbing farmworker (Gustave Kervern), whose tractor is spraying herbicide into his garden he is summoned to the office by his angry bosses. However, his car becomes stuck behind the tractor. The farmworker will not let him pass, resulting in the businessman missing the train and losing his job. Frustrated, he seeks out the farmworker and assaults him.[1] The two wake up in hospital, having been crushed by a malfunctioning farm machine as they struggled. They are now confined to wheelchairs and both set out for Finland to seek out the eponymous farm machine manufacturer to demand compensation.

Aaranya Kaandam

Thiagarajan Kumararaja

['Jackie Shroff', 'Ravi Krishna', 'Sampath Raj', 'Yasmin Ponnappa', 'Rambo Rajkumar', 'Guru Somasundaram', 'Krishnakumar Ramakumar', 'Ajay Raj', 'Dhilip Subbarayan', 'Master Vasanth']

['Comedy', 'Drama', 'Crime', 'Action']

['India']

Tamil

['Tamil']

['Capital Film Works']

action, top-rated

letterboxds-top-250-action-films

Singaperumal is an aged gangster, who forces himself on a girl named Subbu, but is unable to perform and vents his frustration by slapping her. Later, his right hand man Pasupathy tells him that a large stash of cocaine worth ₹20,000,000 (US$240,000), has entered the city. The man bringing the stash wants to sell it for ₹5,000,000 (US$60,000). Pasupathy sees the profit, the long-term benefit (to control the cocaine market with such an ample supply), and the recognition if they are able to pull off such a deal. The drawback is that the stash belongs to their arch-rival Gajendran. Singaperumal knows that Gajendran is a vicious and unpredictable adversary and that the venture is risky, so he decides to pass. Pasupathy suggests that Singaperumal is getting old and asks him to loan him ₹5,000,000 (US$60,000) so he can do the job himself. Pasupathy is prepared to face the risks, and in return for the loan, he offers Singaperumal a cut of the profits. Singaperumal agrees to the loan, but instead asks Pasupathy to first get the stash and then think of the profit distribution. Kaalayan is a destitute farmer, living with his young, street-smart son Kodukapuli in the slums and earns a meagre living staging cockfights; coincidentally, Singaperumal loves to watch these cockfights. One evening, a man arrives in a bunk with Kaalayan for the night. The man is actually the cocaine courier, who routinely transports various stashes of drugs in and out of the city and collects a relatively small fee ₹10,000 (US$120) for each trip. That evening, after a long bout of drinking, he reveals that he has learnt the actual value of the stash and now intends to sell it himself. Seeing Subbu in tears, Singaperumal asks one of his men Sappai to take her out and comfort her so she is prepared to perform for him at night. Sappai takes her to the beach and tries to console her. Pasupathy and the men meet with the tipster and drive off to retrieve the stash. En route in the car, one of the men receives a call from Singaperumal, who orders him to bump off Pasupathy as soon as the stash is acquired. Pasupathy overhears this and gets into a Mexican stand-off with others. In a desperate ploy, he deliberately provokes a cop at a checkpoint, getting arrested and then later making an escape. The men kidnap his wife Kasthuri and use her as bait to lure Pasupathy. Singaperumal orders them to bring Kasthuri to him. Meanwhile, Subbu hates being a plaything for Singaperumal and wants to live life on her own terms. She tries to persuade Sappai to think for himself and realise that Singaperumal is using them. Sappai, however, is too fearful and weak to oppose Singaperumal. Subbu and Sappai become unlikely friends, and Subbu continues to hope for a way out. Subbu is somewhat educated and learns whatever she can about the world outside Singaperumal. Meanwhile, Kaalayan stages his cockfight the following day, but this time, his prize rooster gets killed. He is now in serious financial trouble. Kodukapuli senses this and immediately goes to see if their visitor, still unconscious, has any money. They find out that the man had alcohol poisoning and died. Kaalayan and Kodukapuli find the cocaine stash and the phone number of a prospective buyer (Singaperumal and Pasupathy). On the other hand, Singaperumal is worried as his stash has not arrived, nor has he got word that Pasupathy is dead. He gets an angry call from Gajapathy (Gajendran's brother and right-hand man): if Pasupathy seizes Gajapathy's stuff, Gajendran will unleash a gang war. The cunning Singaperumal tells Gajapathy that Pasupathy has gone rogue and Gajapathy is free to take out Pasupathy. Singaperumal figures this will benefit him in two ways: he will get the stash, and Pasupathy will be killed by Gajendran. Gajendran sends his thugs after Pasupathy, who is on the run. Now that Singaperumal has become his enemy, Pasupathy figures that Gajendran could possibly become an ally. Kaalayan calls Singaperumal to meet and make a deal for the stash. While waiting for him, Singaperumal's thugs arrive and kidnap Kaalayan. After continuous torture, Kaalayan is unable to reveal anything as Kodukapuli has the stash. Kodukapuli ends up accidentally calling Pasupathy's number and offers to trade the stash for his father. Pasupathy joins Kodukapuli and offers the same deal to Singaperumal: the stash in return for Kaalayan and Kasthuri. Pasupathi places a call to Gajendran and offers to reveal the location of the stash. Gajendran and his gang arrive at the location to make the exchange with Pasupathy. Singaperumal's thugs also arrive. Pasupathy pretends to offer the stash to Gajapathy, but instead slits his throat right in front of Gajendran. An enraged Gajendran and his gang chase Pasupathy. Pasupathy leads them around the block where Singaperumal's gang lie waiting. Both gangs, mistaking Pasupathy's loyalties, charge at each other and start a gang war. Pasupathy gets out of the fray and watches as Singaperumal's key generals and Gajendran hack each other to bits. Pasupathy's plan to decimate the two strong factions has succeeded, and he returns to finish off Singaperumal. Back in his room, Singaperumal discovers that the bag with the loan money is missing. He rushes to the conclusion that Sappai took it. When Sappai returns (having been sent by Subbu to fetch fruits), Singaperumal beats him up severely. After being beaten up, Sappai shoots Singaperumal dead. All of a sudden, Subbu emerges from the shadows, and is proud of Sappai, but she shoots him dead. When Pasupathy arrives, he finds the two men dead and Subbu in tears. Having always been sympathetic to Subbu's suffering with Singaperumal, he says she is free to go. Pasupathy assumes command of the remaining thugs of Singaperumal's gang, and his wife Kasthuri is also unharmed. He later gets the stash and pays Kodukapuli a fair commission. It is finally revealed that Subbu had planned the entire chain of events. She sent Sappai with the money bag to provoke Singaperumal's temper. She retrieves the bag and quietly leaves the city to begin a new life. She remarks that the men basically mistrusted, misused, and slaughtered each other. In her view, Sappai too was not really an innocent victim. She says that Sappai is also a man, but all men are sappai (the word 'sappai' has varied meanings, but in this context, it means insignificant to the point of being contemptuous). The film ends with her line: The best thing about being a woman is that it is a man's world.

Aavasavyuham: The Arbit Documentation of an Amphibian Hunt

Krishand

['Rahul Rajagopal', 'Zhinz Shan', 'Geethi Sangeetha', 'Nileen Sandra', 'Sreenath Babu', 'Kalesh Kannattu']

['Thriller', 'Science Fiction']

['India']

Malayalam

['Malayalam']

['Krishand Films']

sci-fi, top-rated

letterboxds-top-250-science-fiction-films

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About Elly

Asghar Farhadi

['Golshifteh Farahani', 'Shahab Hosseini', 'Payman Maadi', 'Merila Zarei', 'Ahmad Mehranfar', 'Mani Haghighi', 'Rana Azadivar', 'Taraneh Alidoosti', 'Saber Abar', 'Amin Zebarjad', 'Emre Tetikel', 'Abolfazl Heidari']

Thriller, Mystery, Drama, Suspense

['France', 'Iran']

Persian (Farsi)

['Persian (Farsi)', 'German']

['Dreamlab']

thriller, essential

100-essential-thrillers

A group of middle-class Iranians, former classmates at the law faculty of the university, go to the Caspian Sea for a three-day vacation: Sepideh, her husband Amir and their young daughter; Shohreh, her husband Peymān and their two children, including their son Arash; and Nāzy and her husband Manuchehr. Sepideh, who planned the trip, brings along her daughter's kindergarten teacher, Elly, in order to introduce her to Ahmad, a divorced friend visiting from Germany. At the seaside mansion that Sepideh has booked, the woman in charge tells them the owners will return the next day and suggests that they stay instead in a deserted beach-front villa. Sepideh lies to the old woman about the relationship between Elly and Ahmad: she says they're married and on their honeymoon. Elly is a little shy, but begins to feel interested in Ahmad, who seems to have feelings for her in return. She calls her mother and lies to her, saying that she's with her co-workers at a sea-side resort and that she expects to go back to Tehran the following day, as planned. She also asks her mother not to mention her visit to anyone else. Sepideh, however, doesn't want Elly to leave and hides her luggage before leaving for an errand. One of the mothers asks Elly to watch the children playing at the seaside. Later, Arash is found floating in the sea while Elly is nowhere to be seen. Arash is resuscitated, but the group doesn't know whether Elly has drowned or has just left for Tehran. The police are called, while the group continues to search for Elly. The group starts to blame each other for the series of events leading up to her disappearance and her presence on the trip. However, things are not as they seem, as it turns out that Sepideh has been lying and knew Elly was engaged to a man named Alireza. Since Elly was reluctant to marry Alireza, Sepideh insisted she come on the trip to meet Ahmad. Elly initially refused the invitation, as an engaged woman but, following pressure from Sepideh, eventually accepted. Alireza arrives and attacks Ahmad, then asks Sepideh whether Elly had refused her invitation to go on holiday. Sepideh wants to protect the honour of Elly and tell the truth but, following pressure from the others who feel threatened by Alireza, lies and tells him that Elly accepted the invitation without hesitation. A body is found in the water, and Alireza identifies it as Elly in the mortuary, breaking down in tears.[3]

About Schmidt

Alexander Payne

['Jack Nicholson', 'Kathy Bates', 'Hope Davis', 'Dermot Mulroney', 'June Squibb', 'Howard Hesseman', 'Harry Groener', 'Connie Ray', 'Len Cariou', 'Mark Venhuizen', 'Cheryl Hamada', 'Phil Reeves', 'Matt Winston', 'James M. Connor', 'Jill Anderson', 'Vaughan Wenzel', 'Judith Kathryn Hart', 'Robert Kem', 'Melissa Hanna', 'Tung Ha', 'James J. Crawley', 'Mary Beth Nelson', 'Steve Heller', 'Lester Kills Crow', 'Thomas Michael Belford', 'McKenna Gibson', 'Emily McNaughton', 'Beth Heimann', 'Linda Wilmot']

Comedy, Dark comedy, Drama, Indie film, Comedy drama, Comedy of manners

['USA']

English

['English']

['Avery Pix', 'New Line Cinema']

road-movie

road-movies-1

Warren Schmidt is retiring from his position as an actuary with Woodmen of the World, a life insurance company in Omaha, Nebraska. After a retirement dinner, Schmidt finds it hard to adjust to his new life, feeling useless. Warren sees a television advertisement about a foster program for African children, Plan USA, and decides to sponsor a child. He soon receives an information package with a photo of his foster child, a small Tanzanian boy named Ndugu Umbo, to whom he relates his life in a series of candid, rambling letters. Schmidt visits his young successor at the life insurance company to offer his help, but he is politely declined. As he leaves the building, Schmidt sees the contents and files of his office, his entire career, set out for the garbage. He describes to Ndugu his longtime alienation from Helen, his wife, who dies from a blood clot in her brain just after their purchase of a Winnebago Adventurer motor home. Jeannie, their daughter, and her fiancé, Randall Hertzel, a waterbed salesman, arrive from Denver. Consoling him at the funeral, she later berates him for taking his wife for granted, refusing to fully pay for the Winnebago (he wanted the cheaper model) and getting her a cheap casket. He asks her to move back to take care of him, but she refuses. Meanwhile, Randall tries to rope him into a pyramid scheme. Schmidt feels his daughter could do better than Randall. After they leave, Schmidt is overcome by loneliness. He stops showering, sleeps in front of the television, and goes shopping with a coat over pajamas to load up on frozen foods. When he discovers hidden love letters disclosing Helen's long-ago affair with Ray, a mutual friend, Schmidt collects all her possessions and dumps them unceremoniously next to a clothing donations bin. He then confronts Ray for his betrayal. Deciding to take a journey in the new Winnebago to visit his daughter and convince her not to marry Randall, he tells her he is coming early for the wedding. She makes it clear she does not want him there until right before the ceremony, so Schmidt visits places from his past, including his college campus and fraternity at University of Kansas and his hometown in Holdrege, Nebraska. His childhood home is now a tire shop. At a trailer campground, he is invited to dinner by a friendly and sympathetic couple. When the man goes for beer, Schmidt makes a pass at the wife, and flees in terror when she adamantly rejects him. Sitting on the roof of his RV on a starry night, Schmidt forgives his departed wife for her affair, apologizing to her for his own failings. At that moment, he is amazed to see a bright meteor streak across the sky, taking it as a possible sign from Helen. Feeling full of purpose and energetic renewal, Schmidt arrives in Denver, where he stays at the home of Roberta, Randall's mother. He is appalled by his eccentric, odd, lower-middle-class family (compared to Schmidt's as an upper middle class corporate executive) and can't dissuade Jeannie from the marriage. Schmidt throws out his back after sleeping on Randall's waterbed, infuriating Jeannie. Roberta assures him that a soak in her hot tub will help his back, but he flees after she makes a pass at him in the tub. The next day, Schmidt, exhausted from a restless night, attends the wedding and delivers a kind speech at the reception, hiding his disapproval. On his way home, Schmidt composes a letter to Ndugu. He questions his life accomplishments, lamenting that he will soon be dead, that his life has made no difference to anyone, and that eventually it will be as if he has never existed at all. A pile of mail is waiting for him at home. Schmidt opens a letter from Tanzania. It is from a nun, who writes that Ndugu is six and unable to read and reply to Schmidt's letters on his own, but appreciates them and Schmidt's financial support very much. The enclosed crayon drawing, of Ndugu and Schmidt holding hands on a sunny day, moves Schmidt to tears.

About Time

Richard Curtis

['Domhnall Gleeson', 'Rachel McAdams', 'Bill Nighy', 'Tom Hollander', 'Margot Robbie', 'Lydia Wilson', 'Lindsay Duncan', 'Richard Cordery', 'Joshua McGuire', 'Will Merrick', 'Vanessa Kirby', 'Tom Hughes', 'Clemmie Dugdale', 'Harry Hadden-Paton', 'Mitchell Mullen', 'Lisa Eichhorn', 'Jenny Rainsford', 'Natasha Powell', 'Mark Healy', 'Ben Benson', 'Philip Voss', 'Tom Godwin', 'Pal Aron', 'Catherine Steadman', 'Andrew Martin Yates', 'Charlie Barnes', 'Verity Fullerton', 'Veronica Owings', 'Olivia Konten', 'Sarah Heller', 'Jaiden Dervish', 'Jacob Francis', 'Jago Freud', 'Ollie Phillips', 'Sophie Pond', 'Sophie Brown', 'Molly Seymour', 'Matilda Sturridge', 'Tom Stourton', 'Rebecca Chew', 'Jon West', 'Graham Richard Howgego', 'Kerrie Liane Studholme', 'Kenneth Hazeldine', 'Barbar Gough', 'Jon Boden', 'Charlie Curtis', 'Richard Griffiths', 'Richard E. Grant', 'Haruka Abe', 'Lee Nicholas Harris', 'Matthew C. Martino', 'Tom Coulston']

Romance, Romantic comedy, Comedy, Drama, Science fiction, Short, Melodrama, Tragicomedy, Fantasy

['UK', 'USA']

English

['English']

['Universal Pictures', 'Relativity Media', 'Working Title Films']

feel-good

feel-good-movies

Tim Lake grows up on the coast in Cornwall, with his father James, mother Mary, absent-minded uncle Desmond, and free-spirited younger sister Katherine ("Kit Kat"). The morning after a less-than-great New Year’s Eve party, James tells Tim that the men of their family can travel back in time to moments they have lived before. Tim tests this by going back to the previous night’s party and changing a few events. When he returns, James discourages him from using his gift to acquire money or fame, and Tim decides to use it to improve his love life. The following summer, Kit Kat's friend Charlotte visits. Although instantly smitten, he waits until the last day to tell her; she tells him he should have told her earlier. Tim travels back in time to tell Charlotte in the middle of the holiday, but she suggests he wait until her last day. Heartbroken, he realises she is uninterested in him, and time travel cannot change anyone's mind. Believing he has lost true love, Tim becomes jaded. Tim moves to London to work as a lawyer, living with his father's acquaintance, Harry, an angry misanthropic playwright. He visits a Dans le Noir restaurant, where he meets Mary, an American who works for a publisher. They flirt in the darkness, and afterward, she gives Tim her phone number. He returns home to a distraught Harry, whose new play's opening night has been ruined by an actor forgetting his lines. Tim goes back in time to help the actor, so the play is a triumph. However, when Tim tries to call Mary, he discovers that by going back in time to help Harry, the evening with her never occurred. Recalling Mary's obsession with Kate Moss, he attends a Kate Moss exhibition every day until he sees Mary. Mary, having never met Tim, is initially confused but still allows him to join her and her friend. During lunch, Tim discovers that she now has a boyfriend. He goes back to when and where they met, turning up early before the potential boyfriend arrives, and persuades Mary to leave with him instead. Their relationship develops and Tim moves in with Mary. One night, he encounters Charlotte, who is now interested in him, something he initially seems to consider before he turns down the invitation of intimacy as he is in love with Mary. He returns home and proposes. They travel to Cornwall to announce their engagement and Mary’s pregnancy. They marry and have a daughter Posy. Kit Kat's relationship and employment struggles lead her to drunkenly crash her car on Posy's first birthday. As she recovers, Tim decides to intervene: he prevents the crash and takes her back to avert her relationship with Jimmy. Returning to the present, he finds Posy has never been born but he has a son instead. James explains that changing events prior to their children's birth may alter the exact child conceived. Tim accepts that he cannot solve his sister's problems by changing her past; he lets the crash happen, ensuring Posy's birth, and he and Mary help Kit Kat face her problems to improve her own life. She settles down with Tim's friend Jay and has her own child. Tim and Mary have another baby girl, ensuring Kit Kat's future. Tim learns James has terminal lung cancer and that time travel cannot change it, as going back to remove his habitual smoking would undo his and Kit Kat's conception. His father has known for some time, traveling back in time to effectively extend his life and spend more time with his family. He tells Tim to live each day twice to be truly happy: first, with all the everyday tensions and worries, but the second time noticing how sweet the world can be. Tim follows this advice; his father dies, but Tim travels to the past to visit whenever he misses him. Mary tells Tim she wants a third child. He is reluctant as he will not be able to visit his father again. Tim tells James, so together they travel back to relive a fond memory from Tim's early childhood, taking care not to actually change the experience to avoid causing any changes to the present. Mary gives birth to a boy, and Tim realises that it is better to live each day once. From that point on he decides to not time travel at all, and comes to appreciate life with his family as if he is living it for the second time.

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

Tom Shadyac

['Jim Carrey', 'Courteney Cox', 'Sean Young', 'Tone Loc', 'Dan Marino', 'Noble Willingham', 'Troy Evans', 'Raynor Scheine', 'Udo Kier', 'Frank Adonis', 'Tiny Ron', 'David Margulies', 'John Capodice', 'Judy Clayton', 'Bill Zuckert', 'Alice Drummond', 'Rebecca Ferratti', 'Mark Margolis', 'Antoni Corone', 'Margo Peace', 'Randall "Tex" Cobb', 'Henry Landivar', 'Florence Mistrot', 'Robert Ferrell', 'Will Knickerbocker', 'Gary Munch', 'Terry Miller', 'John Archie', 'Cristina Karman', 'Tom Wahl', 'Herbert Goldstein', 'Chaz Mena', 'Manuel L. García', 'Don Shula', 'Scott Mitchell', 'Peter Stoyanovich', 'Dwight Stephenson', 'Jeff Uhlenhake', 'Jeff Dellenbach', 'Marco Coleman', 'Kim Bokamper', 'Jeff Cross', 'Chris Barnes', 'Alex Webster', 'Paul Mazurkiewicz, Jr.', 'Jack Owen', 'Robert Barrett', 'Bubba Baker', 'Nick Bass', 'Binx', 'Ray Buffer', 'Vince Cecere', 'Robert Deacon', 'Greg Finley', 'Cassidy McMillan', 'Bill Pearlman', 'Dominic Jack Pizzo, Sr.', 'Michelle Russo', 'Jimmy Star', 'Laird Stuart']

Comedy, Action, Slapstick, Adventure, Mystery, Crime film, Thriller, Crime Fiction

['USA']

English

['English']

['Morgan Creek Entertainment', 'Warner Bros. Pictures']

comedy

vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time

Ace Ventura, an eccentric and offbeat private detective in Miami, is known for rescuing tame or captive animals. Despite struggles with rent and constant mockery from the Miami Police Department, led by Lieutenant Lois Einhorn, Ventura is hired by Melissa Robinson, the Miami Dolphins' publicist, to find their kidnapped mascot, Bottlenose dolphin Snowflake, just weeks before the upcoming Super Bowl. Investigating the kidnapping, Ventura finds a rare amber stone in Snowflake's tank, leading him to suspect billionaire Ronald Camp, a collector of exotic animals. However, after sneaking into Camp's party and facing a dangerous encounter with a shark, Ventura rules out Camp as the stone in his ring matches the one found but is not missing. Ventura then theorizes that the stone is from a 1984 AFC Championship ring, suggesting a member of the 1984 Dolphins as the culprit, but finds all rings intact. Roger Podacter, the Dolphins' head of operations, dies mysteriously, and Ventura proves murder. His investigation leads him to Ray Finkle, a disgraced former Dolphins placekicker who missed the potentially game-winning kick in the 1984 Super Bowl and blamed quarterback Dan Marino for it. Ventura also learns that Finkle had been committed for homicidal tendencies shortly after the Dolphins released him following the Super Bowl loss. With Marino's subsequent kidnapping, Ventura suspects Finkle is seeking revenge. Disguised as a patient at a psychiatric facility, Ventura discovers that Einhorn is actually Finkle, who had altered his appearance and infiltrated the police - under the assumed identity of a missing hiker - for revenge. On the day of the game, Ventura confronts Einhorn at a yacht storage facility, holding Marino and Snowflake hostage. In a dramatic revelation, Ventura exposes Einhorn as Finkle, leading to his arrest after a physical altercation. The climax unfolds at the Super Bowl's halftime, where Marino and Snowflake are celebrated, and Ventura is hailed as a hero on the jumbotron. The event is capped off by Ventura's scuffle with the Philadelphia Eagles' mascot Swoop over a rare pigeon, earning him a standing ovation.

Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls

Steve Oedekerk

['Jim Carrey', 'Ian McNeice', 'Simon Callow', 'Maynard Eziashi', 'Bob Gunton', 'Sophie Okonedo', 'Tommy Davidson', 'Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje', 'Danny Daniels', 'Sam Phillips', 'Damon Standifer', 'Andrew Steel', 'Bruce Spence', 'Tom Grunke', 'Arsenio "Sonny" Trinidad', 'Kristin Norton', 'Michael Reid MacKay', 'Kayla Allen', 'Ken Kirzinger', 'Dev Kennedy', 'Patti Tippo', 'Sabrinah Christie', 'Warren Sroka', 'Gene Williams', 'Leif Tilden', 'G.W. Bailey', 'Luke Benko', 'Binx', 'Joseph Granda', 'Joe Greene', 'Stacie Johnsen', 'Patrick Michael Strange']

Action, Comedy, Adventure, Slapstick, Mystery, Farce, Crime film, Detective fiction, Crime Fiction

['USA']

English

['English']

['Morgan Creek Entertainment', 'Warner Bros. Pictures']

comedy

vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time

Ace Ventura succumbs to depression after failing to save a raccoon from falling to its death and joins a monastery. He is approached by Fulton Greenwall. The Abbot gives Ace excuses to justify his departure and sends him off with Greenwall. Greenwall wants Ventura to find the bat Shikaka. Ace arrives in Nibia and meets with consul Vincent Cadby. Ace begins his investigation, but must overcome his fear of bats. He eventually befriends the tribe's princess, who tries to seduce Ace. Ace admits his oath to clerical celibacy. Ace also befriends the prince, who assists Ace. Ace's investigation involves eliminating suspect and enduring the escalations of threat between the Wachati and the Wachootoo. Ace suspects the medicine-man of the Wachootoo of taking the bat, as he is opposed to the wedding. He and Ouda sneak into the Wachootoo village with hopes of finding the bat, and are soon captured. The Wachootoo mistake Ace as the "Devil", and they are convinced he wants to fight them and have him go through many challenges to gain their trust. He passes them all, and his final challenge is a "Circle of Death" fight with their toughest warrior, who defeats Ace. Ace's antics entertain the Wachootoo, who grant Ace their trust and release him. The Wachootoo declare that they will declare war on the Wachati tribe and kill Ace. Ace realizes the dart he was shot with earlier is not the same as the Wachootoo's darts, and was carved from a acala. This leads him to find two poachers with the bat, and he distracts them by mimicking a call. They tranquilize Ace and tie him to a raft which is sent over a waterfall. Ace survives and continues to investigate how the poachers are involved with the war between the tribes. Ace consults the Abbot via projection. Ace deduces that Cadby has taken the bat. He learns he was hired as Cadby's alibi once an investigation takes place, and is arrested. Ace escapes with help from an elephant and more animals that raid Cadby's house. Cadby tries to shoot Ace, but is stopped by Greenwall. Cadby escapes with the bat in a Rover, but Ace follows him in a truck. Ace destroys Cadby's car. Ace returns the bat just as the tribes are about to fight each other on the battlefield. Cadby is noticed by Ouda, who calls him the "Devil" and incites both tribes to pursue him. Cadby encounters an gorilla, who mistakes him for a mate. The Wachati Princess is married to the Wachootoo Prince, who is revealed to be the warrior who defeated Ace during the "Circle of Death" challenge earlier. It is discovered that the bride is no longer a virgin, on Ace's account. Peace between the tribes is achieved when the two tribes join together and chase after Ace.

Ace in the Hole

Billy Wilder

['Kirk Douglas', 'Jan Sterling', 'Robert Arthur', 'Porter Hall', 'Frank Cady', 'Richard Benedict', 'Ray Teal', 'Lewis Martin', 'John Berkes', 'Frances Dominguez', 'Gene Evans', 'Frank Jaquet', 'Harry Harvey', 'Bob Bumpas', 'Geraldine Hall', 'Richard Gaines', 'Oscar Belinda', 'Martin Bendleton', 'Basil Chester', 'Ken Christy', 'Stewart Kirk Clawson', 'Iron Eyes Cody', 'Francisco Day', 'Lester Dorr', 'Claire Du Brey', 'Edith Evanson', 'William Fawcett', 'John Stuart Fulton', 'Joe Gray', 'Charles Griffin', 'Larry Hogan', 'Frank Keith', 'Bob Kortman', 'Martha Maryman', 'Stanley McKay', 'Joe J. Merrill', 'Paul D. Merrill', 'Lee Miller', 'Ralph Moody', 'Bert Moorhouse', "William H. O'Brien", 'Frank Andrew Parker', 'Martin Pendleton', 'William N. Peters', 'Timothy Carey', 'Bill Ramsey', 'Jack Roberts', 'Bill Sheehan', 'Bert Stevens', "John 'Bub' Sweeney", 'Rythem Wranglers']

Action, Comedy, War, Noir, Drama, Thriller, Crime Fiction, Classic

['USA']

English

['English', 'Latin', 'Spanish']

['Paramount']

lb_top250

After being fired from eleven major newspapers due to his behavior, temper, and alcoholism, Charles "Chuck" Tatum winds up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and offers himself to the publisher of the small Sun-Bulletin. Skeptical of Tatum, editor and publisher Jacob Boot hires him for $60. A year later, Tatum has grown bored with the slow pace of Albuquerque life. Boot sends Tatum and the newspaper's young photographer, Herbie Cook, to cover a rattlesnake hunt. When they stop for gas, the pair learn about Leo Minosa, a local man trapped in a collapsed cliff dwelling, and the two investigate. Tatum talks his way past the deputy sheriff and enters the cave with Cook. Despite falling rocks, Tatum ventures close enough to Leo to pass him some amenities. Tatum takes photographs of the trapped man, tries to cheer him up, and begins scheming his big story. Leo's wife Lorraine is eager to leave Leo and their struggling gas station, but as tourists flock to the rescue site, the financial windfall leads her to go along with Tatum's scheme. After filing an initial report on the accident, Tatum persuades local sheriff Gus Kretzer to give him exclusive access to Leo in return for reportage that will guarantee Kretzer's reelection. Kretzer and Tatum convince construction contractor Sam Smollett to drill down to Leo from above rather than through the cave, extending the rescue time from twelve hours to a week to keep the story going. The rescue site becomes an all-day carnival and Tatum starts drinking again. Cook loses his idealism and dreams of selling pictures to high-profile papers. Tatum quits the Sun-Bulletin, persuading Cook to quit with him, and talks Nagel, his former boss in New York, into hiring him to report exclusively from the scene for $1,000 a day. Five days into the event, Leo develops pneumonia and is given twelve hours to live. Tatum sends a news flash to Nagel: Leo will be rescued in twelve hours. However, Smollett tells him that shoring up the cave walls is now impossible due to the drilling. Leo tells Tatum that there is a fifth-year anniversary present for Lorraine in their bedroom. Tatum forces a reluctant Lorraine to open the gift, a fur stole, and Tatum makes her wear it. She protests, and Tatum begins to choke her with the stole. She stabs Tatum with a pair of scissors, and he drives away. Tatum takes the local priest to Leo to administer his last rites, and Leo dies shortly thereafter. Tatum announces this to the crowd, proclaiming that "the circus is over." The other reporters send off the story to their newspapers ahead of Tatum. The carnival and crowd pack up to leave, and Lorraine hitch-hikes out of town. Tatum stumbles into his room, where Cook tells him that Nagel has fired him for letting other newspapers break the story of Leo's death. Tatum calls Nagel and tries to confess to killing Leo and purposely delaying the rescue, but Nagel hangs up on him without hearing his confession. Tatum and Cook drive back to the Sun-Bulletin offices, where a drunken Tatum asks Boot for his job back. He collapses from his stab wound and dies beneath an embroidered sign reading "Tell The Truth".

Across the Universe

Julie Taymor

['Evan Rachel Wood', 'Jim Sturgess', 'Joe Anderson', 'Dana Fuchs', 'Martin Luther', 'T.V. Carpio', 'Spencer Liff', 'Lisa Dwyer Hogg', 'Nicholas Lumley', 'Michael Ryan', 'Angela Mounsey', 'Robert Clohessy', 'Christopher Tierney', 'Curtis Holbrook', 'Bill Buell', 'Ellen Hornberger', 'Dylan Baker', 'Linda Emond', 'Bill Irwin', 'Lynn Cohen', 'Jennifer Van Dyck', 'Timmy Mitchum', 'Orfeh', 'Antonique Smith', 'Deidre Goodwin', 'Joe Cocker', 'Jacob Pitts', 'Harry Lennix', 'Logan Marshall-Green', 'James Urbaniak', 'Bono', 'Eddie Izzard', 'Salma Hayek Pinault', 'Mandy Gonzalez', 'Destan Owens', 'Cicily Daniels', 'Saycon Sengbloh', 'Daniel Stewart Sherman', 'Sam Kitchin', 'Frank Hopf', 'Chris McGarry', 'Karine Plantadit', 'Angela Cohen', 'Kevin Stea', 'William Atkinson', 'Ted Lochwyn', 'Jeanine Serralles', 'Caitlin Hale', 'Leah Hocking', 'Rika Okamoto', 'Jarlath Conroy', 'Geoffrey J.D. Payne', 'Erin Elliott']

Romance, Comedy, Musical, Jukebox musical, Adventure, Melodrama, Fantasy, Drama, Musical Drama

['USA']

English

['English']

['Revolution Studios', 'Team Todd', 'Gross Entertainment', 'Sound Films']

fantasy

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In the 1960s, Jude Feeney, a shipyard worker in Liverpool, heads to the US to find his G.I. father who conceived him during World War II, whom he has never met. He promises his girlfriend Molly he will stay in touch while he is away. Meanwhile, in New Jersey, Lucy Carrigan worries about her boyfriend Daniel, who is headed for service in the Vietnam War. In Dayton, Ohio, cheerleader Prudence pines for a fellow female cheerleader and then drops out of school in shame. Jude meets his father Wes, a janitor at Princeton University, but does not particularly bond with him. While on campus, he meets and befriends slacker student Max, who brings him home for Thanksgiving. He introduces Jude to his family, including Lucy, his younger sister. Max drops out of college; he and Jude move into a bohemian enclave in Greenwich Village run by a singer, Sadie. Jude becomes a freelance artist, and Max is a cab driver. Daniel is killed in Vietnam, and Lucy attends his funeral. In Detroit, a young African-American boy is killed in the 1967 riot. His adult brother Jo-Jo, a guitarist, moves to New York for a change of scenery and auditions for Sadie's band. They are soon joined by Prudence, who had hitchhiked there. Lucy visits Max in New York before starting college, and she and Jude fall in love. Max, initially displeased upon learning they slept together, finally gives them his blessing. Later, Max is drafted into the army and sent to Vietnam, as he is no longer a college student protected from the draft. Prudence is attracted to Sadie and becomes depressed when Sadie and Jo-Jo begin a relationship. Lucy becomes increasingly involved in the anti-war movement. Jude remains comparatively apolitical but devoted to her. Sadie is offered a chance to go on a solo tour as a headliner, leading to a bitter breakup between her and Jo-Jo. Jude dislikes the increasing amount of time Lucy spends with the Students for a Democratic Republic, led by activist Paco, as he suspects that Paco is attempting to seduce her. Jude storms into the SDR office, leading to an argument with Lucy and a fight with Paco, after which Jude is thrown out and she breaks up with him. Some time later, Jude follows her to an anti-war demonstration at Columbia University. When the police arrest Lucy, Paco, and the other activists, Jude's attempts to reach her lead to his arrest as well. With Jude facing deportation, Lucy contacts his father. Wes visits him in jail but has no legal proof that Jude is his son and thus an American citizen. As a result, Jude is sent back to England. Returning to his job at the Liverpool shipyards, he runs into his former girlfriend Molly and sees that she is heavily pregnant by her current partner. She met him around the time Jude stopped writing her (when he started seeing Lucy). Jo-Jo continues playing solo guitar in bars, while the highly successful Sadie drowns her sorrow and loneliness in alcohol on tour. Max is wounded in Vietnam and sent home. Lucy visits him in the hospital, but he is traumatized and dependent on morphine. Meanwhile, she continues her activities with the SDR and is involved with Paco, but is uncomfortable with him leading the movement deeper into violence. Lucy leaves Paco and the organization when she finds him making bombs, and she is surrounded by constant reminders of Jude. One of Paco's homemade bombs explodes, killing him and his confederates. Upon reading this news, Jude fears Lucy is also dead. He learns from Max over the phone that she had left the group beforehand and is alive, and he arranges to return to NYC legally. Jo-Jo and Sadie, who have reconciled, put on a rooftop concert. Max brings Jude to the rooftop. When the police arrive to break up the concert, Jude manages to remain on the roof and begins to sing. The police allow the band to rejoin him. He notices Lucy on the opposite rooftop, standing and looking at him. Lucy and Jude gaze while smiling at each other as the performance concludes.

Adam's Apples

Anders Thomas Jensen

['Mads Mikkelsen', 'Ulrich Thomsen', 'Paprika Steen', 'Ole Thestrup', 'Nikolaj Lie Kaas', 'Nicolas Bro', 'Ali Kazim', 'Gyrd Løfquist', 'Lars Ranthe', 'Peter Reichhardt', 'Tomas Villum Jensen', 'Peter Lambert', 'Emil Kevin Olsen', 'Solvej Christensen', 'Rasmus Rise Michaelsen', 'Jacob-Ole Remming']

Comedy, Documentary, Crime, Dark comedy, Drama, Crime film, Mystery, Thriller

['Denmark', 'Germany']

Danish

['Danish']

['M&M Productions']

comedy

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Neo-Nazi gang leader Adam is granted parole from prison for participating in a rehabilitation program, where he joins the aggressive Saudi gas station robber Khalid and the kleptomaniac rapist Gunnar. The community is headed by the priest Ivan, who believes firmly and blindly in the goodness of man, and is seemingly oblivious to the ongoing misconduct and aggression of his charges. Ivan tells Adam to choose a goal for himself to complete his rehabilitation. Trying to mock the priest, Adam chooses the goal of baking an apple pie. Ivan accepts, but stipulates that making the pie includes grooming and harvesting the churchyard apple tree. Adam is loath to complete his task, especially because at first crows attack the apples, and later most of those that remain are eaten by worms. The misanthropic Nazi is especially irritated by Ivan's joyful manner, excessive optimism and extreme forgiveness, and he sets it as his personal goal to break the priest's spirit and crush his faith. Adam discovers that Ivan's life has been very difficult. Growing up as a victim of child abuse, he has terminal brain cancer, and is the widowed father of a severely disabled child. The cynical village doctor theorizes that Ivan discounts reality and sees all problems as tests from the devil, because his real life would be otherwise nearly impossible to bear. Adam psychologically attacks the priest by quoting the Book of Job, reasoning that it is God who hates the priest, not the devil. Ivan finally breaks down and renounces his faith. Adam is gleeful at first, but soon realizes that without Ivan's influence, Khalid and Gunnar revert quickly to their criminal habits, and starts realizing the positive impact the priest had made. When several members of Adam's neo-Nazi gang visit the church and confront Khalid for earlier having shot two of their members, Ivan comes out of the church and demands to be allowed to die in peace. A scuffle ensues and the leader of the neo-Nazis accidentally shoots the priest in the eye. At the hospital, the doctor predicts Ivan will be dead by morning. Suddenly guilt-stricken, Adam stays up all night baking a tiny, one-apple pie for Ivan, using the single apple surviving the sequential mishaps that happened to the apple-tree throughout the film. When he arrives at the hospital, he finds that Ivan's bed is empty. He goes to find Ivan's doctor, who tells him that the priest is in the garden – the bullet that hit him has neatly removed the tumour that plagued him. In an epilogue, Adam remains at the church as an assistant to Ivan, and Ivan and Adam welcome two similarly troubled men recently released from prison.

Adaptation.

Spike Jonze

['Nicolas Cage', 'Meryl Streep', 'Chris Cooper', 'Tilda Swinton', 'Jay Tavare', 'Litefoot', 'Roger Willie', 'Jim Beaver', 'Cara Seymour', 'Doug Jones', 'Gary Farmer', 'Peter Jason', 'Gregory Itzin', 'Curtis Hanson', 'Agnes NaDene Baddoo', 'Paul Fortune', 'Paul Jasmin', 'Lisa Love', 'Wendy Mogel', 'David O. Russell', 'Judy Greer', 'Maggie Gyllenhaal', 'Bob Stephenson', 'Bob Yerkes', 'Lynn Court', 'Roger E. Fanter', 'Sandra Lee Gimpel', 'Caron Colvett', 'Larry Krask', 'Ron Livingston', 'Brian Cox', 'John Etter', 'Ray Berrios', 'Nancy Lenehan', 'John Cusack', 'Catherine Keener', 'John Malkovich', 'Curt Clendenin', 'Donald Dowd']

Comedy, Drama, Crime film, Comedy drama

['USA']

English

['English', 'Latin']

['Columbia Pictures', 'Propaganda Films', 'Good Machine', 'Intermedia', 'Beverly Detroit Studios', 'Clinica Estetico']

comedy

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Self-loathing screenwriter Charlie Kaufman is hired to write the screenplay adaptation of Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief. He struggles with anxiety, social phobia, depression, and low self-esteem. His twin brother, Donald, has moved into his house and is freeloading there. Donald decides to become a screenwriter like Charlie and attends seminars by screenwriting guru Robert McKee. Charlie, who rejects formulaic scriptwriting, wants to ensure that his script is a faithful adaptation of The Orchid Thief but comes to feel that the book does not have a usable narrative and is impossible to turn into a film, which leaves him with a serious case of writer's block. Already well past his deadline with Columbia Pictures and despairing of writing his script with self-reference, Charlie travels to New York City to discuss the screenplay with Orlean directly. Too shy and socially awkward to speak with her upon arriving at her office and after he received the surprising news that Donald's spec script for a clichéd psychological thriller, The 3, is selling for six or seven figures, Charlie resorts to attending McKee's seminar in New York and asks him for advice. Charlie ends up asking Donald to join him in New York to assist with the story structure. Donald, who is confident socially, pretends to be Charlie and interviews Orlean but finds her responses suspicious. He and Charlie follow Orlean to Florida, where she meets John Laroche, the orchid-stealing protagonist of her book and her secret lover. It is revealed that the Seminole wanted the ghost orchid to manufacture a mind-altering drug that causes fascination. Laroche introduces the drug to Orlean. After Laroche and Orlean catch Charlie observing them taking the drug and having sex, Orlean decides that Charlie must be killed to prevent him from potentially exposing them. Orlean forces Charlie to drive to the swamp at gunpoint, intending to kill him. Charlie and Donald escape and hide in the swamp, where they resolve their differences. Laroche accidentally shoots Donald. Charlie and Donald drive off but collide head-on with a ranger's truck. Donald is ejected through the windshield and dies moments later, but Charlie is saved by the airbag and runs into the swamp to hide. There he is spotted by Laroche, who is killed by an alligator before he can kill Charlie. Orlean is arrested. Charlie reconciles with his mother as he calls to inform her of Donald's death. He later tells his former love interest, Amelia, that he loves her. She responds that she loves him too. Charlie finishes the script, which ends with him announcing in a voice-over that the script is finished and that for the first time, he is filled with hope.

Addams Family Values

Barry Sonnenfeld

['Anjelica Huston', 'Raúl Juliá', 'Christopher Lloyd', 'Joan Cusack', 'Christina Ricci', 'Carol Kane', 'Jimmy Workman', 'David Krumholtz', 'Peter MacNicol', 'Christine Baranski', 'Carel Struycken', 'Christopher Hart', 'Dana Ivey', 'Kaitlyn Hooper', 'Kristen Hooper', 'Mercedes McNab', 'Sam McMurray', 'Harriet Sansom Harris', 'Julie Halston', 'Barry Sonnenfeld', 'Nathan Lane', 'John Franklin', 'Charles Busch', 'Laura Esterman', 'Maureen Sue Levin', 'Darlene Levin', 'Carol Hankins', 'Steven M. Martin', 'Douglas Brian Martin', 'Ryan Holihan', 'Lois de Banzie', 'Vickilyn Reynolds', 'Cynthia Nixon', 'Eyde Byrde', 'David Hyde Pierce', 'Andreana Weiner', 'Peter Graves', 'Rick Scarry', 'Monet Mazur', 'Francis Coady', 'Ian Abercrombie', 'Chris Ellis', 'Camille Saviola', 'Zack Phifer', 'Tony Shalhoub', 'Jeffrey Van Hoose', 'Micah Winkelspecht', 'Matthew Beebe', 'Kristy Shirvani', 'Jamie Gordon', 'Micah Hata', 'Joey Wilcots', 'Jason Fife', 'Karl David-Djerf', 'Haley Peel', 'Cheryl Chase', 'Matthew Bartilson', 'Adena Bjork', 'Alex Gaona', 'Nichole McAuley', 'Zack Milan', 'Rob Sanchez', 'Lenny Wilson']

Animation, Horror, Comedy, Children's film, Dark comedy, Family film, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Fantasy

['USA']

English

['English']

['Scott Rudin Productions', 'Paramount Pictures']

comedy

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Morticia says she is about to have a baby. The family rush to the hospital, and Gomez asks Morticia if she is in unbearable pain. Morticia is relaxed the entire procedure. Gomez and Morticia Addams hire a nanny named Debbie Jellinsky to take care of their newborn son Pubert after a number of failed attempts by his siblings Wednesday and Pugsley to kill him, for which Gomez and Morticia gently rebuke them. Unbeknownst to them, Debbie is a serial killer who marries and then murders rich bachelors to collect their inheritances. After Debbie seduces Uncle Fester, Wednesday becomes suspicious of her intentions. In an effort to maintain her cover, Debbie tricks Gomez and Morticia into believing Wednesday and Pugsley want to go to summer camp. Wednesday and Pugsley are sent to Camp Chippewa, managed by the always cheerful and lively Gary and Becky Granger, where they are singled out by the counselors and popular and snobbish girl Amanda Buckman for their macabre appearance and behavior. Joel Glicker, a nerdy bookworm and fellow outcast, becomes attracted to Wednesday. Debbie and Fester become engaged. At her bachelorette party, Debbie is repulsed by the Addams family and their relatives. At their wedding, Fester passionately and with great emotion declares his everlasting devotion, while Debbie offers a lackluster response. On their honeymoon, she tries unsuccessfully to kill Fester by throwing a boombox into the bathtub. Frustrated, Debbie forces him to cut ties with his family; when they try to visit Fester and Debbie at their home, they are removed from the premises. The Addamses are alarmed to find that Pubert has transformed into a blue-eyed, rosy-cheeked and blond-haired baby. Grandmama diagnoses this as a result of his disrupted family life, and Gomez becomes horribly depressed. Back at Camp Chippewa, the counselors cast Wednesday as Pocahontas in Gary's Thanksgiving play, "A Turkey Named Brotherhood". When she refuses to participate, she, Pugsley, and Joel are all sent to the camp's "Harmony Hut" and forced to watch hours of wholesome family entertainment movies and television shows. Afterwards, the three feign cheerfulness, and Wednesday agrees to take part. However, during the performance, she reveals her deception and returns to being her true self. With help from Joel, Pugsley, and the other outcast campers, they capture Amanda, Gary, and Becky by igniting the pilgrim set. Later, Wednesday and Joel share their first kiss before they begin separating, with Joel staying behind to lead their friends to ensure the camp's permanent destruction. Pugsley and Wednesday return home in the campsite's stolen van. Debbie tries to kill Fester by blowing up their mansion, but he survives its destruction. She then pulls a gun and reveals that she never loved him and was only interested in his money. Thing helps Fester escape by knocking Debbie aside with her own car. Fester apologizes to Gomez upon his return to the Addams mansion, and Wednesday and Pugsley return, successfully reuniting the family at last. Just then, Debbie arrives in another car, holds the family at gunpoint, and straps them into electric chairs with the intent of killing them all. As the Addams family members listen to her sympathetically, she admits that as a child and young (self-proclaimed) ballerina, she killed her parents, Sharon and Dave, after they gave her a Malibu Barbie doll on her 10th birthday rather than her desired ballerina Barbie, and then, when she grew up, murdered her first two husbands for incredibly frivolous and materialistic reasons. Meanwhile, Pubert, now restored to his normal, pale and mustachioed self, escapes from his crib with a knife and reaches the rest of the family via a series of improbable events. As Debbie pushes the switch down to electrocute the Addamses, Pubert connects two loose wires that route the electrical current through her instead, burning her body to ashes and leaving only her shoes and credit cards intact, thereby rescuing the rest of his family members from their ultimate death sentences planned by Debbie. Some time later, the Addamses and their relatives gather to celebrate Pubert's first birthday, with Joel also attending. Fester laments Debbie's loss, but soon becomes smitten with Dementia, a new nanny whom Cousin Itt and his wife Margaret Alford have hired to care for their child. Out in the family graveyard, Joel attempts to ask Wednesday out by asking about having a future with a husband, though she turns him down. Wednesday then tells Joel that Debbie was a sloppy husband killer, and that Wednesday would have scared her husband to death and made sure not to be caught. As Joel lays flowers on Debbie's grave, a hand emerges from the earth and grabs him, prompting Wednesday to smile as he screams in the end.

Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet

Oldřich Lipský

['Michal Dočolomanský', 'Rudolf Hrušínský', 'MiloÅ¡ Kopecký', 'Ladislav PeÅ¡ek', 'Naďa Konvalinková', 'Václav Lohniský', 'Květa Fialová', 'Olga Schoberová', 'Martin Růžek', 'Karel Effa', 'Zdeněk Dítě', 'Vladimír Hrabánek', 'Myrtil Frída', 'Jiří Brdečka', 'Vítězslav Černý', 'Petr Brukner', 'Milan Mach', 'Vladimír Hrubý', 'Milivoj Uzelac', 'Jan Kotva', 'Ladislav Krečmer', 'Pavel Kudláček', 'Vilém Lipský', 'Václav Cihelka', 'LeoÅ¡ Holan', 'Petr Hornych', 'Jiří Mach', 'Vladimír Navrátil', 'Zdeněk Růžička', 'Josef VaÅ¡átko', 'MiloÅ¡ Vychytil', 'Vladislav Vychytil', 'Jiří Vančura', 'Jiřina Bílá', 'Lena Birková', 'Hana Brejchová', 'Lorna Vančurová', 'Běla Jurdová', 'Jiřina Koucká', 'Jarmila Orlová', 'Eva Přidalová', 'Marie Popelková', 'Jitka Zelenohorská', 'Jiří Kosek', 'Andrea Andreánská', 'Zdena Heřmanová', 'Isabella Tylínková', 'Milena Kaplická', 'Jana Sedlmajerová', 'Hana Å terclová', 'Marcela Vraná', 'Miroslav Chochola', 'Jiří Kraus', 'Antonín Kramerius', 'Jan ProkeÅ¡', 'Petr Popelák', 'Helena Růžičková', 'MiloÅ¡ Rozhoň', 'Pavel Robin', 'Jiří Å aÅ¡ek', 'Miloslav Svoboda', 'Václav Å tekl', 'Václav Å tercl', 'Zdeněk Srstka', 'Karel Å ott', 'Viktor Rindler', 'Miloslav Novák', 'Ivana Beranová', 'Dana Daňková', 'Dana Horáková', 'Elena Lindauerová', 'JindřiÅ¡ka Å ulcová', 'Marcela Å ulcová', 'Eva Tichá', 'Jitka VaÅ¡utová', 'Jiří BureÅ¡', 'MiloÅ¡ Kuchyňka', 'Lubomír Přidal', 'Miroslav Dvořák', 'Josef Pechanec', 'Miroslav Polívka', 'Vojtěch Přidal', 'Gaston Å ubert', 'Jaroslav Toms', 'Gustav Vondráček', 'Jiří Vyvadil', 'Miroslav Vydlák', 'Ivan Vorlíček', 'Bohumil KoÅ¡ka', 'Jaroslav Wagner-Klenka', 'Ota Žebrák', 'Emanuel BrejÅ¡a', 'Josef Braun', 'Vlasta Ziegner', 'Pavel Stránský', 'Michael Tarant', 'Miloslava Dlhá', 'Jaroslav Engelhart', 'Karel Engel', 'FrantiÅ¡ek Jákl', 'Stanislav Benda', 'Gustav Jankovský', 'Vladimír Jelínek', 'Jiří Kalenský', 'Jiří Klenot', 'Jan Váňa', 'Jarmila Glosová', 'Miloslav Homola', 'Miroslav Jíra', 'Vilém Kratochvíl', 'Ladislav Havlák', 'FrantiÅ¡ek Kokta', 'Jana Fominová', 'Věra Laňková', 'Blažena Slavíčková', 'Ladislav Lahoda', 'Jindřich Sejk', 'Jaroslav Tomsa', 'Jiřina Zemanová', 'Milena Kudrnová', 'Jan Brokl', 'Miroslav Brokl', 'Petr Jákl', 'Pavel Jiras', 'Rudolf PeÅ¡ek', 'Bohuslav KupÅ¡ovský', 'Josef Maršík', 'Karel KoÅ¡', 'Mirko Musil', 'Václav Linka', 'Bohuslav Mládek', 'Markéta Procházková', 'Ota Robek', 'Jarmila Schwarzová', 'Marie Landová', 'Helena Postránecká', 'Ferdinand Krůta', 'FrantiÅ¡ek Němec', 'Gene Deitch', 'LibuÅ¡e Å vormová', 'Jan Kuželka']

Comedy, Dark comedy, Science fiction, Crime film, Mystery, Detective fiction, Police procedural

['Czechoslovakia']

Czech

['Czech', 'Spanish']

['Filmové studio Barrandov']

sci-fi, top-rated

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It is the turn from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. Countess Thun asked the famous New York detective Nick Carter to travel to Prague, for assistance to solve the strange case of a missing dog. Carter is assisted by Prague police commissar Ledvina. Mysterious murder cases happen during the investigations, done by the malicious botanist Baron von Kratzmar and his carnivorous plant Adela. Von Kratzmar kidnapped his victims, bound them and whenever he played a gramophone with the melody "Schlafe, mein Prinzchen"[3] (a lullaby by Bernhard Flies but previously associated with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) it is the time for Adela to awaken and eat her victims for dinner. Baron von Kratzmar considered himself a misjudged genius and wanted to take revenge on one of his former professors. He called himself "the Gardener" a notorious criminal, who Nick Carter thought had died in the swamps years ago. With the help of bizarre inventions, Ledvina and Carter succeed in catching von Kratzmar and delivering him to the legal authorities.

After Hours

Martin Scorsese

['Griffin Dunne', 'Rosanna Arquette', 'Verna Bloom', 'Tommy Chong', 'Linda Fiorentino', 'Teri Garr', 'John Heard', 'Cheech Marin', "Catherine O'Hara", 'Dick Miller', 'Will Patton', 'Robert Plunket', 'Bronson Pinchot', 'Rocco Sisto', 'Larry Block', 'Victor Argo', 'Murray Moston', 'John P. Codiglia', 'Clarke Evans', 'Victor Bumbalo', 'Bill Elverman', 'Joel Jason', 'Rand Carr', 'Clarence Felder', 'Henry Judd Baker', 'Margo Winkler', 'Victor Magnotta', 'Robin Johnson', 'Stephen Lim', 'Frank Aquilino', 'Maree Catalano', 'Paula Raflo', 'Rockets Redglare', 'Charles Scorsese', 'Martin Scorsese', 'John Spacely']

Action, Comedy, Dark comedy, Drama, Crime film, Suspense, Mystery, Thriller, Indie film, Crime Fiction, Tragicomedy

['USA']

English

['English']

['Double Play', 'Geffen Pictures', 'Warner Bros. Pictures']

comedy

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After a boring day at work, computer data entry worker Paul Hackett strikes up conversation with a stranger named Marcy Franklin in a café in New York City. Marcy tells him that she is living in SoHo with a sculptor named Kiki Bridges, who makes and sells plaster-of-Paris paperweights resembling cream cheese bagels, and leaves him her number. Later in the night, after calling the number under the pretense of buying a paperweight, Paul takes a taxi to the apartment. On the way, his $20 bill is blown out the window of the cab, leaving him with only some change, much to the incredulity of the cab driver. At the apartment, Paul meets Kiki, who is working on a sculpture of a screaming man which he compares to Edvard Munch's The Scream. Paul rifles through Marcy's belongings and discovers several items suggesting that Marcy is disfigured from burns; this, along with her increasingly strange behavior, leads him to abandon the date. Paul attempts to go home by subway, but the fare has increased at the stroke of midnight, and he can no longer afford it after losing the $20. He goes to a bar where Julie, a waitress, immediately becomes enamored with him. At the bar, Paul learns that there has been a string of burglaries in the neighborhood. The bartender, Tom Schorr, offers to give Paul money for a subway token, but he is unable to open the bar's cash register. They exchange keys so that Paul can go to Tom's apartment to fetch the cash register key. Paul spots two burglars, Neil and Pepe, with Kiki's man sculpture. After he confronts them, they flee, dropping the sculpture in the process. When Paul returns the sculpture to Kiki and Marcy's apartment, Kiki encourages him to apologize to Marcy. However, when he enters Marcy's room, he discovers that she has committed suicide by overdosing on Seconal. Paul reports Marcy's death before remembering his prior errand to return Tom's keys. On the way out, he grabs a note from Kiki inviting him and Marcy to Club Berlin. The bar is locked when Paul arrives, with a sign stating that Tom will return shortly. Paul runs into Julie on the street, and she invites him up to her apartment to wait for Tom. Paul is unnerved by her own strange behavior, including sketching him while they talk. When he leaves the apartment, a scorned Julie makes wanted posters for the anonymous burglar using her sketch of him. He finally returns to the bar, where Tom receives a phone call that his girlfriend has killed herself. Paul leaves to find Kiki and inform her of Marcy's suicide. The bouncer at Club Berlin refuses him entry because his hairstyle does not fit the mohawk dress code, and Paul narrowly escapes several punks who attempt to give him a haircut. Back on the street yet again, Paul meets a Mister Softee ice cream truck driver named Gail who mistakes him for the burglar based on Julie's posters. Gail and a mob of locals, including Tom, relentlessly pursue Paul, who seeks refuge at the club. Sleep-deprived, bedraggled, and ranting, Paul uses his last quarter to play "Is That All There Is?" by Peggy Lee on the club's jukebox and asks an older woman named June to dance. After explaining his situation, June offers to hide him in her apartment underneath the club, where she uses papier-mâché to disguise him as a sculpture while the mob raids the club. After the mob leaves, however, June refuses his request to take off the plaster out of concern they might return, and it soon hardens, trapping him in a position that resembles Kiki's sculpture. Neil and Pepe break in and steal Paul, thinking him to be the sculpture they had dropped in the street earlier, and place him in the back of their van. The van speeds uptown and takes a sharp turn which swings open the van's back door. Paul falls to the pavement, with the force of the impact breaking the plaster open, directly outside the front gate of his office building. He brushes himself off and goes to his desk, where his computer screen greets him.

After Life

Hirokazu Kore-eda

['Arata Iura', 'Erika Oda', 'Susumu Terajima', 'Takashi Naito', 'Kei Tani', 'Kyōko Kagawa', 'Tōru Yuri', 'Yûsuke Iseya', 'Sayaka Yoshino', 'Kazuko Shirakawa', 'Kotaro Shiga', 'Hisako Hara', 'Natsuo Ishido', 'Akio Yokoyama', 'Taketoshi Naitō', 'Sadawo Abe', 'Tae Kimura', 'Miyako Yamaguchi']

Comedy, Fantasy, Drama, Tragicomedy

['Japan']

Japanese

['Japanese']

['Engine Film', 'Sputnik Productions', 'TV Man Union']

fantasy

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A small, mid-20th century social-service-style structure is a way station between life and death. Every Monday, a group of recently deceased people check-in: the social workers in the lodge ask them to go back over their life and choose one single memory to take into the afterlife. They are given just a couple of days to identify their happiest memory, after which the workers design, stage and film them. In this way, the souls will be able to re-experience this moment for eternity, forgetting the rest of their life. They will spend eternity within their happiest memory. Twenty-two souls of different ages and backgrounds arrive and are received by the counsellors, who explain to them their situation. Lengthy interviews take place in the lodge, with each person having different perspectives of their lives. There is a gentle old woman whose fondest memory is cherry blossoms. There is an aviator whose happiest moments were spent flying through the clouds. There is also a teenager whose happiest memory is Splash Mountain at Disneyland. Told that she's the thirtieth to choose Disneyland rides (most of the others were also teenage girls), she is gently coaxed into coming up with something more original from her childhood (the scent of fresh laundry and the feeling of her mother, whom she was cuddling against). A 78-year-old woman talks about a new dress her brother bought her for a childhood dance recital, a brother she loved and took care of "until the very end." A prostitute remembers a client who was kind; a potential suicide victim recalls what made him pull back from the brink; an old man remembers the breeze on his face when he rode a trolley to school. An older man incessantly talks about sex and prostitutes, but ultimately chooses the memory of his daughter handing him the bouquet at her wedding. A wild-haired 21-year-old wearing leather pants refuses point-blank to choose anything at all. The story focuses on the two younger counsellors, Takashi and Shiori. Takashi has been assigned to help Ichiro Watanabe, a 70-year-old man who glumly remembers his dull, conventional life in an arranged marriage as unfulfilling. To jog his memory, Takashi plays back excerpts from a file of year-by-year videotapes recording Watanabe's life. Takashi learns from the films that Watanabe's wife, Kyoko, was also Takashi's fiancée, and that the two men are about the same age. Takashi died in his early twenties in the Philippines in World War II and has been working at the processing center since then. Takashi requests Watanabe to be assigned to another counsellor but his request is not granted. Near the end of the week, Watanabe decides which memory to keep. Watanabe apologizes to Takashi for causing Takashi trouble and picking a memory so late. Takashi asks him to not apologize and reveals to Watanabe that all the counsellors staying in the lodge are souls who refused or were unable to choose a memory. The social workers recreate the memories by filming on sets with basic stage props (cotton balls serve as clouds for the pilot; an audio recording of street noise is played while the old man stands in a trolley and social workers jostle the trolley to replicate movement). On Saturday, all the hosted souls except the wild-haired young man watch the films of their recreated memories in a screening room and, as soon as each person sees their own, they vanish. Takashi, while putting away the videotapes from Watanabe's room, finds a letter from Watanabe saying Watanabe realized that his wife was Takashi's fiancée, and his wife had visited Takashi's grave every year, alone, during her and Watanabe's marriage. Watanabe writes in his letter that he appreciates Takashi's kindness in not mentioning that he was his wife's dead fiancée, and that it was only through his experience with Takashi and watching the videotapes that he was able to come to peace with his life and choose a memory with his wife. Takashi talks to Shiori about his life, and Shiori finds his fiancée's selected memory from the archive. In watching his fiancée's selected memory, Takashi realizes she chose a memory with him, before his death. In discovering that he had figured in his fiancé's chosen moment to cherish, Takashi comes to the realization that "I have learnt I was part of someone else's happiness." He chooses that moment of realization as his sliver of life to be filmed and abandons the way station forever, spending eternity in this memory. The next day, the remaining staff prepare for a new group of arrivals, and address the difficulties they will face in integrating the recalcitrant young man into the staff. The film ends with Shiori, now a full-fledged counsellor, practicing for an interview.

After Yang

Kogonada

['Justin H. Min', 'Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja', 'Colin Farrell', 'Jodie Turner-Smith', 'Haley Lu Richardson', 'Sarita Choudhury', 'Ritchie Coster', 'Clifton Collins Jr.', 'Orlagh Cassidy', 'Ava DeMary', 'Lee Wong', 'Brett Dier', 'Eve Lindley', 'Adeline Kerns', 'Ansley Kerns', 'Nana Mensah', 'An-Li Bogan', 'Deborah Hedwall', 'Katie Honaker', 'Alberto Del Saz', 'Jesse Kovarsky', 'Marcella Lewis', 'Maria Majoli', 'Toni Melaas', 'Mina Nishimura', 'Lily Ockwell', 'JC Shuster', 'Megan Williams', 'Taylor Ortega', 'Jae Kim']

Science fiction, Drama

['USA']

English

['English', 'Chinese']

['A24', 'Cinereach', 'Per Capita Productions']

sci-fi, top-rated

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Jake and Kyra live with their adopted daughter, Mika, as well as Yang, a robotic teenage boy. Jake and Kyra bought Yang, a culture unit, as a way for Mika to connect with her Chinese heritage through sharing stories and facts. One day, following a family dance competition, Yang becomes unresponsive; however, he is no longer under warranty as he had been bought from defunct reseller Second Siblings, instead of his original manufacturer, Brothers & Sisters Incorporated. Jake, whose tea shop is struggling, seeks an affordable way to repair Yang. A local repair store, Quick Fix, runs a diagnostic test and finds that Yang's computing core has malfunctioned and needs replacing; the technician recommends outfitting Yang with an entirely new unit before his body begins to decompose, a substantial financial loss. However, as Jake realizes how upset Mika is at the loss of her "brother", he becomes determined to save Yang, out of principle, despite Kyra's suggestion that Mika could benefit from experiencing grief. In a flashback, Yang reassures a curious Mika that she is still a valuable part of their family, despite their adoption of her. On the recommendation of his neighbor, George, Jake takes Yang to Russ, a backstreet technician who offers to perform an illegal repair of Yang's core (against the original manufacturer’s terms and Brothers & Sisters' user agreement). Russ discovers what he believes to be a hidden camera inside of Yang; Jake takes the "camera" to a museum specialist named Cleo, who tells him that it is, in fact, Yang's memory bank—a device that records each unit's key experiences, which Brothers & Sisters has long denied exists, in order to avoid a "privacy" scandal. Jake watches Yang's "memories", short clips from each day of his life, many of which feature an unknown, young blonde woman. The next day, Jake picks Yang up from Russ and takes him to Cleo, who attempts a more sophisticated repair of the core. In a flashback, Yang becomes sad about his inability to truly experience life the same way that humans do. Jake visits locations from Yang's memories to inquire about the blonde woman; neighbor George's daughter reveals that the woman is Ada, a clone who was secretly visiting Yang while the rest of the family were at work and school. Ada then visits the house, and confirms Jake's suspicions that she and Yang had been in a relationship. Mika continues to struggle with Yang's life being in-limbo, and Jake and Kyra decide the time has come to accept his death. They donate him to a museum, and both Mika and Ada say goodbye to his body. In a flashback, Yang and Kyra discuss the improbability of an afterlife. Jake tracks down Nancy, whom he believes to be Yang's previous and first owner. However, she explains that she bought Yang from Second Siblings as a refurbished unit, as well, before returning him five days later. Jake unlocks more of the memory bank to reveal Yang's true first life, in which he developed a relationship with another woman named Ada. This original Ada cared for the aging mother in Yang's first family, but later died in a car accident, and thus was cloned. The cloned Ada tells Jake that she had been told the person in Yang's memories was her great-aunt, but that Yang never revealed this original relationship. Kyra and Jake agree that they don't want Yang's body to go on display at the museum, but that his memories must be preserved and shared, as his existence mattered to many people. That night, Mika tells Jake that she does not want to say goodbye to Yang. Jake agrees, and Mika begins to sing a song previously heard in one of Yang's memories.

Aftermath

Peter Engert

['Alexander B. Williams', 'Jessie Rusu', 'Monica Keena', 'Edward Furlong', 'Andre Royo', 'Luis Da Silva Jr.', 'Bobbi Sue Luther', 'C.J. Thomason', 'William Baldwin', 'Bo Mitchell', 'Ross Britz', 'Randal Reeder', 'Cree Kelly', 'Kennon Kepper', 'Ted Ferguson']

Horror, Action, Science fiction, Drama, Suspense, Thriller, Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction

['USA']

English

['English']

['LightWave Entertainment', 'Eastlake Films']

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As the film opens, Hunter (C. J. Thomason) is on a highway where he meets Jennifer and her young brother Satchel. While stopped, they witness several mushroom clouds that destroy nearby "targets." Satchel is blinded by looking directly at a nuclear detonation. The detonations generate an electromagnetic pulse which disables Jennifer's car. They search for and locate an old diesel vehicle which is not affected by the EMP, and scour nearby stores collecting supplies. They meet and join with Elizabeth (Monica Keena) who tells them she saw explosions over other major cities in visual range. Car radio reports state that major cities on both the East and West coasts have been destroyed. Hunter is shot by a frightened child while trying to find shelter in a local home. They leave immediately, unable to help the child. They find another farmhouse nearby, which they initially mistake for unoccupied. As they attempt to gain entry, Hunter's group are interrupted by Brad (Edward Furlong) and Jonathan (Ross Britz). Brad, holding them at gunpoint, tries to drive them away, but is disarmed by Hunter. Jonathan, whose grandparents own the house, agrees to let Hunter and his party join the four survivors already inside: Jonathan, his diabetic uncle Wendell, Brad, and Brad's pregnant wife Angie. Hunter organizes the survivors and instructs them to move all of their supplies into the cellar and attempt to seal it against the radioactive fallout which is coming. He tends to his own gunshot wound, finding a small bottle of antibiotics in a medicine cabinet in the bathroom. Once all of their supplies are stored in the cellar, Hunter and Jonathan barricade the door, sealing themselves inside. Hunter tells the survivors that they will need to remain inside the cellar for at least a month to avoid the fallout's worst effects. Hunter finds a Geiger counter which reveals that the radiation level is already much higher than expected. Over the next few days, Jonathan retrieves the electronics he previously stored inside a metal safe—a radio and his MP3 player, which have survived the blast. Jonathan focuses on fixing the short-wave radio, and the survivors hear news of destruction in Europe and elsewhere by nuclear bombs. Repairing the microphone allows them to begin speaking with other survivors in bunkers elsewhere in the States. They are joined by Jonathan's friend Rob (Andre Royo) a few days later, who is accidentally shot while trying to gain entry to the basement. Having been outside for longer, he has radiation burns and the early signs of radiation poisoning. He survives his gunshot wound and Jonathan, stricken with grief after accidentally shooting his friend, welcomes him into their shelter. Despite their precautions, all of the survivors begin to weaken from radiation exposure. Jonathan's uncle Wendell, already weakened by diabetes, dies first. While burying Wendell, the survivors fend off an attack by desperate survivors weakened by nearly two weeks of exposure to radiation. Angie, weakened by vomiting caused by radiation poisoning, has a miscarriage, hemorrhages, and dies. Brad, watching his wife and baby dying, draws his gun and grabs Satchel, threatening to kill him unless Hunter saves Angie; he is subdued by Jonathan who knocks him out with a shovel, and then has his hands bound. Losing contact with the survivors in the other bunker, and hearing the attack that overwhelms them, the survivors realize that there is no help coming. Hunter notices that the others are slowly slipping away due to the radiation seeping into the basement. Satchel develops pneumonia, and the survivors watch helplessly as he sickens and then dies. Hunter experiences intense guilt, blaming himself for using their limited supply of antibiotics to treat his own wound. Rob, accepting the inevitable, takes Satchel's body outside to bury it. He refuses to take a gun, telling Hunter that the survivors inside will need it more. Brad, coming to terms with his grief, apologizes and is unbound by Hunter. Over the next two days, Elizabeth, Jennifer and Jonathan, beginning to lose their hair, spend most of their time sleeping, weak from radiation poisoning. Hunter and Brad, also losing hair, sit listening to movement from upstairs. Hunter tells Brad to let the others sleep, as they will need their strength to repel the coming attack. They both accept that Rob, now outside for two days, is not coming back. The attack comes, and Hunter, realising they are vulnerable and trapped inside the basement, leads them outside after the initial wave is repelled. Now upstairs, Elizabeth is stabbed by one of the invaders and dies in Hunter's arms. Hunter, overcome with rage at Elizabeth's death, charges outside with Brad and they both attack the man who killed her. During the melee, Brad is killed saving Hunter from the attacker, who dies after being impaled on his own weapon by Hunter. Hunter staggers back to the house finding Jonathan holding a gun on him, before turning the gun on himself. Their basement now contaminated, Hunter and Jennifer stagger upstairs and curl up in a bed to sleep. The film ends several weeks later. Only Hunter and Jennifer remain alive, seriously ill from radiation exposure, drinking contaminated water from a pump in the yard. Nearby is Rob's body, slumped against a tree, having evidently managed to bury Satchel but chosen not to return to the basement before dying of the radiation.

Aftersun

Charlotte Wells

['Paul Mescal', 'Frankie Corio', 'Brooklyn Toulson', 'Celia Rowlson-Hall', 'Sally Messham', 'Ayşe Parlak', 'Sophia Lamanova', 'Spike Fearn', 'Harry Perdios', 'Frank Corio', 'Ruby Thompson', 'Ethan James Smith', 'Onur Ekşioğlu', 'Cafer Karahan', 'Kayleigh Coleman', 'John Stuifzand', 'Tyler Mutlu', 'Kieran Burton', 'Nijat Gachayev', 'Sarah Makharine', 'Erol Cengizalp', 'Djamel Turner']

Drama, Coming-of-age story

['Turkey', 'UK', 'USA']

English

['English', 'Turkish', 'Spanish']

['PASTEL', 'BBC Film', 'Tango Entertainment', 'Unified Theory', 'Screen Scotland', 'BFI', 'AZ Celtic Films']

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In the late 1990s, Scottish 11-year-old Sophie Patterson travels to a Turkish holiday resort with her 30-year-old father, Calum, who moved to London after separating amicably from her mother. Sophie records the holiday on a MiniDV camera, the footage of which is interspersed throughout the film. Over the course of the holiday, Sophie befriends and observes various English tourists at the resort, often meeting and playing arcade games with a boy named Michael. Calum exhibits signs of depression, anxiety, and internal turmoil, which he tries to hide from Sophie beneath a facade of contentment. During his time alone, he practices tai chi and reads self-help books; he also smokes, which he hides from Sophie. One day, Sophie and Calum go scuba diving and she loses her expensive scuba mask; Calum feigns nonchalance, but Sophie senses his actual feelings, says she knows the mask was expensive and comforts him. Calum later tells their diving instructor that he is surprised he has lived to be 30. Soon after, Calum and Sophie go to a rug shop, where she sees him grapple with the cost of one he likes. He declines to buy the rug, but later returns alone and buys it. The next night, Sophie and Calum attend a karaoke night and Sophie signs them up for a song. Calum refuses to sing with Sophie despite her insistence, and she sings "Losing My Religion" alone as Calum watches. Upset by being left alone by him, Sophie refuses to return to their room with him and hangs out with some other tourists she previously met playing billiards. Michael creeps up on Sophie from behind, frightening her. They later kiss beside a pool. Meanwhile, Calum goes to the beach and walks into the ocean. When Sophie returns to their room, she finds him asleep naked and gently covers him with a sheet. The two reconcile the next day while travelling to the mud baths, and Calum apologises for his behaviour the previous night. Sophie surprises him by having other tourists sing "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" for his birthday. Calum watches stoically. He is shown sobbing in the hotel room alone, with letters that apologise to Sophie strewn across the floor. On the last night of their holiday, Calum and Sophie dance to "Under Pressure" in a loving embrace. In the morning, at the airport, Calum waves goodbye and sends Sophie off on her flight home. In the present day, the adult Sophie lives with her wife and young child. The rug Calum bought is next to their bed. Sophie watches the video footage from the holiday in Turkey. Interspersed throughout the film are abstract, dreamlike sequences in which the adult Sophie stands in the middle of a crowded rave, catching glimpses of Calum dancing frantically through strobing lights. Throughout the sequences, Sophie attempts to get closer to him, eventually briefly embracing him; with their hands wrapped around each other, Calum ultimately falls from Sophie's grasp. In the final scene, Calum packs the videocamera away and walks down the airport hallway after having waved goodbye to Sophie, opening the doors to the rave.

Air Bud: Golden Receiver

Richard Martin

['Kevin Zegers', 'Gregory Harrison', 'Cynthia Stevenson', 'Nora Dunn', 'Perry Anzilotti', 'Robert Costanzo', 'Shayn Solberg', 'Tim Conway', 'Dick Martin', 'Frank C. Turner', 'Shahai Khademi', 'Matt Coughin', 'Marcus Turner', 'Jay Brazeau']

Comedy, Children's film, Sports

['Canada', 'USA']

English

['English']

['Alliance Atlantis', 'Dimension Films', 'Keystone Entertainment', 'Walt Disney Pictures', 'Keystone Pictures']

comedy

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In Fernfield, Washington, Josh Framm (Kevin Zegers), now a teenager and a basketball player, becomes angry with his mother, Jackie, when she begins dating Patrick Sullivan, the town's new veterinarian, after a couple of failed dates with other men. Patrick innocently tosses Josh's basketball-savvy dog, Buddy, a football one day, and Josh discovers that Buddy also has an uncanny ability to play the sport of football. After his best friend Tom, convinces Josh to sign up for football instead of basketball, Buddy also begins playing on Josh's junior high football team, the Timberwolves. At first, the team is failing extremely miserably, and the school intends to fire the coach, if he does not start winning, but thanks to Buddy's excellent athletic skills and speed, the team has a streak of wins and makes the playoffs. In addition, they advance to the championship. Meanwhile, two Russians, Popov, and the glamorous and bossy, Natalya, kidnap Buddy in the hope of having him perform as the special attraction in a Russian circus while Josh runs away, when Patrick proposes to his mother. Josh's coach finds him at the train station and convinces him that just because Patrick is in his life now, he does not have to stop loving his father. Josh returns home, but Patrick is gone and Buddy has gone missing. The Timberwolves now must play the championship game without Buddy and they are losing terribly. With the help of a chimpanzee who is also held captive, Buddy escapes from Natalya and Popov. In fact, Buddy and the chimpanzee release all the other captive animals, and they manage to escape. Popov and the well-dressed Natalya are ambushed by the chimpanzee, their former captive, in a warehouse; the two criminals are lured into a trap, where the chimpanzee empties a tank of slimy fish guts all over them, knocking them off their feet. The Russians slither around in slime and fish guts on the floor of the warehouse for a few moments, trying to regain their feet. Following this, the by-now dishevelled Natalya and Popov chase after Buddy in a van, but Patrick rescues Buddy after he saw the fireworks that were set off by the escaping animals. Patrick and Buddy dodge the van and Natalya and Popov eventually crash into a bollard on the pier. The impact of the crash sends the two villains hurling out of the open front window of the van and into the deck of a nearby fishing boat, where they become entangled in a net full of fish. Unable to escape and now captives themselves, and filthy from having been covered in slimy fish guts earlier, Natalya and Popov are subsequently arrested and placed into the custody of the Russian embassy. Patrick then takes Buddy to the game. With the help of Buddy, the team catches up, but Buddy is taken out of the game due to a subsequent injury. The Timberwolves are forced to finish the game without him. Due to efforts by Josh and Tom, the Timberwolves win the championship. The following day, Josh stops Patrick from leaving on a boat and convinces him to stay with him and his family and Patrick reluctantly agrees. A few months later, the family goes to a Seattle Seahawks pro football game, where Buddy sneaks onto the field and catches the ball.