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Airplane!
| 1,980
|
Jim Abrahams, David Zucker
|
['Robert Hays', 'Julie Hagerty', 'Leslie Nielsen', 'Kareem Abdul-Jabbar', 'Lloyd Bridges', 'Peter Graves', 'Lorna Patterson', 'Robert Stack', 'Jim Abrahams', 'Jonathan Banks', 'Stephen Stucker', 'Frank Ashmore', 'Craig Berenson', 'Barbara Billingsley', 'Lee Bryant', 'Joyce Bulifant', 'Mae E. Campbell', 'Ethel Merman', 'Jimmie Walker', 'Jill Whelan', 'Nora Meerbaum', 'Kenneth Tobey', 'James Hong', 'Michelle Stacy', 'David Leisure', 'Ann Nelson', 'Al White', 'Nicholas Pryor', "Cyril O'Reilly", 'Ted Chapman', 'Jesse Emmett', 'Norman Alexander Gibbs', 'Amy Gibson', 'Marcy Goldman', 'Bob Gorman', 'Rossie Harris', 'Maurice Hill', 'David Hollander', 'Howard Honig', 'Gregory Itzin', 'Howard Jarvis', 'Michael Laurence', 'Zachary Lewis', 'Barbara Mallory', 'Maureen McGovern', 'Mary Mercier', 'Len Mooy', 'Laura Nix', "John O'Leary", 'Bill Porter', 'Conrad E. Palmisano', 'Mallory Sandler', 'Robert Starr', 'Barbara Stuart', 'Lee Terri', 'William Tregoe', 'Hatsuo Uda', 'Herb Voland', 'John David Wilder', 'Windy', 'Jason Wingreen', 'Louise Yaffe', 'Charlotte Zucker', 'David Zucker', 'Jerry Zucker', 'Kitten Natividad', 'Larry Blake', 'Paula Moody', 'Sandra Lee Gimpel', 'Henry Wills', 'Joyce Mandel', 'Gene LeBell', 'Susan Breslau']
| 3.84
| 4.5
|
Comedy, Parody film, Romance, Satire, Disaster, Melodrama, Drama
| 88
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Paramount Pictures', 'Howard W. Koch Productions']
| 631,482
|
comedy
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
Ex-fighter pilot Ted Striker is a traumatized war veteran turned taxi driver. Because of his pathological fear of flying and subsequent "drinking problem"—he splashes beverages anywhere but into his mouth—Ted has been unable to hold a responsible job. His wartime girlfriend, Elaine Dickinson, now a flight attendant, breaks off her relationship with him before boarding her rostered flight from Los Angeles to Chicago. Ted abandons his taxi and buys a ticket on the same flight to try to win her back. Once on board, however, Elaine continues to reject him, causing Ted to accidentally drive several other passengers to suicide as he sadly reminisces.
After the in-flight meal is served, the entire flight crew and several passengers fall ill. Passenger Dr. Rumack discovers that the fish served during meal service has caused food poisoning. With the flight crew incapacitated, Elaine contacts the Chicago control tower for help and is instructed by tower supervisor Steve McCroskey to activate the plane's autopilot, a large inflatable dummy pilot dubbed "Otto", which will get them to Chicago but cannot land the plane. Elaine and Rumack convince Ted to take the controls. When Steve learns Ted is piloting, he contacts Ted's former commanding officer, Rex Kramer—now serving as a commercial pilot—to help talk Ted through the landing procedure. Ted becomes uneasy when Kramer starts giving orders and he briefly breaks down amid more wartime flashbacks. Elaine and Rumack both bolster Ted's confidence and he manages to once again take the controls.
As the plane nears Chicago, the weather worsens, complicating the landing. With Elaine's help as co-pilot and Rex's guidance from the tower, Ted is able to land the plane safely, despite the landing gear shearing off, and the passengers suffer only minor injuries. Rescue vehicles arrive to help unload the plane. Impressed by Ted's courage, Elaine embraces and kisses him, rekindling their relationship. "Otto" restarts the plane and takes off as a female companion inflates beside him.
|
Akira
| 1,988
|
Katsuhiro Otomo
|
['Mitsuo Iwata', 'Nozomu Sasaki', 'Mami Koyama', 'Tessyo Genda', 'Koichi Kitamura', 'Yuriko Fuchizaki', 'Masaaki Okura', 'Takeshi Kusao', 'Kazuhiro Kamifuji', 'Tatsuhiko Nakamura', 'Fukue Itô', 'Yuka Ãno', 'Hiroshi Ãtake', 'Kazumi Tanaka', 'Masato Hirano', 'Masayuki Katô', 'Michihiro Ikemizu', 'Tarô Arakawa', 'Masami Toyoshima']
| 4.27
| 5
|
Anime, Animation, Cyberpunk, Horror, Action, Science fiction, Thriller, Adventure, Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, Fantasy, Drama, Mystery, Supernatural
| 124
|
['Japan']
|
Japanese
|
['Japanese']
|
['MBS', 'Sumitomo Corporation', 'TOHO', 'Studio Fuga', 'Studio Aoi', 'Kodansha', 'Bandai Entertainment', 'Tokyo Movie Shinsha']
| 640,997
|
sci-fi, animated, action, top-rated
|
letterboxds-top-250-science-fiction-films, letterboxds-top-250-action-films, vote-best-animated-films-of-all-time, lb_top250
| null |
In 2019, following a world war triggered by the sudden destruction of Tokyo on July 16, 1988, Neo-Tokyo is plagued by corruption, anti-government protests, terrorism, and gang violence. During a violent rally, the hot-headed Shōtarō Kaneda leads his vigilante bōsōzoku gang, the Capsules, against the rival Clown gang. Kaneda's best friend, Tetsuo Shima, inadvertently crashes his motorcycle into Takashi, an esper who escaped from a government laboratory with the aid of a resistance organization. Assisted by fellow esper Masaru, Japan Self-Defense Forces Colonel Shikishima recaptures Takashi, has Tetsuo hospitalized, and arrests the Capsules. While being interrogated by the police, Kaneda meets Kei, an activist within the resistance movement, and tricks the authorities into releasing her with his gang.
At a secret government facility, Shikishima and his head of research, Doctor Ōnishi, discover that Tetsuo possesses powerful psychic abilities similar to Akira, the esper responsible for Tokyo's 1988 destruction. Esper Kiyoko forewarns Shikishima of Neo-Tokyo's impending destruction, but the city's parliament dismisses Shikishima's concerns, leading him to consider killing Tetsuo to prevent another cataclysm. Meanwhile, Tetsuo escapes from the hospital, steals Kaneda's motorcycle, and tries to flee Neo-Tokyo with his girlfriend Kaori, but the Clowns ambush them. The Capsules rescue Tetsuo and Kaori, but Tetsuo suffers intense headaches and hallucinations and is re-hospitalized.
Overhearing their plan to rescue Tetsuo and the other espers, Kaneda joins Kei's resistance cell. At the hospital, the espers try killing Tetsuo via hallucinations, but the attempt is thwarted. A frustrated Tetsuo searches for them, killing any orderlies and militiamen blocking his path. The resistance group infiltrates the hospital, and Kiyoko draws Kei and Kaneda into Shikishima and the espers' futile attempts to stop Tetsuo. Kiyoko tells Tetsuo that Akira, located in cryonic storage beneath the Olympic Stadium's construction site, could help Tetsuo with his powers. After rejecting everyone around him, especially Kaneda, Tetsuo flees the hospital to hunt for Akira.
Using Kei as a medium to stop Tetsuo, Kiyoko breaks her and Kaneda out of military custody. Shikishima stages a coup d'état against Neo-Tokyo's government and directs its military forces to destroy Tetsuo at any cost. At the Capsules' former hangout, Harukiya Bar, Tetsuo confronts gangmates Yamagata and Kai over Kaneda's bike and kills Yamagata after his protest. Kai relays the news to Kaneda, who vows to avenge his friend, while Takashi brings Kei away. Mistaken for Akira by cultists, Tetsuo rampages through Neo-Tokyo, arriving at Akira's cryogenic storage dewar under the stadium. Kei fights Tetsuo, but he defeats her and exhumes Akira, only to find his remains sealed in jars for scientific research.
Kaneda fights Tetsuo with a laser rifle, and Shikishima fires an orbital weapon at him. While the latter destroys his arm, neither can stop him. Shikishima and Kaori approach the stadium, where Tetsuo, now with a robotic arm, is in great pain and losing control over his powers. Kaori tries restraining Tetsuo while Shikishima unsuccessfully offers to heal his injuries and help control his abilities. Kaneda again fights Tetsuo, who, weakened from the missing arm, mutates into a gigantic mass of flesh, engulfing Kaneda and killing Kaori. The espers revive Akira to stop the growing mass. Reuniting with his friends, Akira creates a singularity, drawing Tetsuo and Kaneda into another dimension. The espers teleport Shikishima to a safe distance as the singularity destroys Neo-Tokyo in a mirror of Tokyo's previous destruction, and they agree to rescue Kaneda, knowing they will not return to this dimension as a result.
In the singularity, Kaneda experiences Tetsuo and the espers' childhoods, including his and Tetsuo's friendship and the espers' psychic training before Tokyo's destruction. The espers return Kaneda to Neo-Tokyo, informing him that Akira will take Tetsuo to safety and that Kei is developing psychic powers. Ōnishi witnesses the birth of a universe but is killed in his lab's destruction. After consuming most of Neo-Tokyo, the singularity disappears, and water floods the crater left in its place. Mourning Tetsuo's loss, Kaneda discovers that Kei and Kai have survived, and they ride off into the ruins while Shikishima watches the sunrise. At an unspecified plane of reality, Tetsuo introduces himself and triggers the creation of a universe, finally transcending the limitations of human existence.
|
Aladdin
| 1,992
|
John Musker, Ron Clements
|
['Scott Weinger', 'Robin Williams', 'Linda Larkin', 'Jonathan Freeman', 'Gilbert Gottfried', 'Douglas Seale', 'Frank Welker', 'Brad Kane', 'Lea Salonga', 'Bruce Adler', 'Charlie Adler', 'Jack Angel', 'Corey Burton', 'Philip L. Clarke', 'Jim Cummings', 'Jennifer Darling', 'Debi Derryberry', 'Bruce Gooch', 'Jerry Houser', 'Vera Lockwood', 'Sherry Lynn', 'Mickie McGowan', 'Patrick Pinney', 'Phil Proctor', 'Roy Dotrice']
| 3.89
| 4
|
Animation, Action, Romance, Comedy, Musical, Adventure, Children's film, Fantasy, Teen, Family film
| 95
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Walt Disney Pictures', 'Walt Disney Feature Animation']
| 1,435,838
|
animated, fantasy
|
filmsrankedcom-200-greatest-fantasy-films, vote-best-animated-films-of-all-time
| null |
The story is often retold with variations. The following is a précis of the Burton translation of 1885.[11]
Aladdin is an impoverished young ne'er-do-well, dwelling in "one of the cities of Ancient China." He is recruited by a sorcerer from the Maghreb, who passes himself off as the brother of Aladdin's late father, Mustapha the tailor, convincing Aladdin and his mother of his good will by pretending to set up the lad as a wealthy merchant. The sorcerer's real motive is to persuade young Aladdin to retrieve a wonderful oil lamp (chirag) from a booby-trapped magic cave. After the sorcerer attempts to double-cross him, Aladdin finds himself trapped in the cave. Aladdin is still wearing a magic ring the sorcerer has lent him. When he rubs his hands in despair, he inadvertently rubs the ring and a genie appears and releases him from the cave, allowing him to return to his mother while in possession of the lamp. When his mother tries to clean the lamp, so they can sell it to buy food for their supper, a second far more powerful genie appears who is bound to do the bidding of the person holding the lamp.
With the aid of the genie of the lamp, Aladdin becomes rich and powerful and marries Princess Badroulbadour, the sultan's daughter (after magically foiling her marriage to the vizier's son). The genie builds Aladdin and his bride a wonderful palace, far more magnificent than the sultan's.
The sorcerer hears of Aladdin's good fortune, and returns; he gets his hands on the lamp by tricking Aladdin's wife (who is unaware of the lamp's importance) by offering to exchange "new lamps for old". He orders the genie of the lamp to take the palace, along with all its contents, to his home in the Maghreb. Aladdin still has the magic ring and is able to summon the lesser genie. The genie of the ring is too weak to directly undo any of the magic of the genie of the lamp, but he is able to transport Aladdin to the Maghreb where, with the help of the "woman's wiles" of the princess, he recovers the lamp and slays the sorcerer, returning the palace to its proper place.
The sorcerer's more powerful and evil brother plots to destroy Aladdin for killing his brother by disguising himself as an old woman known for her healing powers. Badroulbadour falls for his disguise and commands the "woman" to stay in her palace in case of any illnesses. Aladdin is warned of this danger by the genie of the lamp and slays the impostor.
Aladdin eventually succeeds to his father-in-law's throne.
|
Alice
| 1,988
|
Jan Å vankmajer
|
['Kristýna Kohoutová']
| 3.95
| 4.5
|
Horror, Animation, Comedy, Children's film, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
| 86
|
['Czechoslovakia', 'Germany', 'Switzerland', 'UK']
|
Czech
|
['Czech']
|
['Condor Films', 'HR', 'SRG SSR', 'Film4 Productions']
| 46,245
|
animated, fantasy
|
filmsrankedcom-200-greatest-fantasy-films, vote-best-animated-films-of-all-time
| null |
Alice is sitting by a brook with her sister, throwing rocks in the water. Later, she is in her sitting room, throwing rocks in a cup of tea. A creaking noise draws her attention to a taxidermic White Rabbit in a glass case. Alice hides beneath a writing desk while the Rabbit comes alive, dressing himself and retrieving a pair of scissors from a hidden drawer, which he uses to smash the case, freeing himself.
Alice chases the Rabbit into a writing desk on top of a hill; crawling into the drawer after him, she soon finds herself in a cellar and while she was looking for the Rabbit she steps on a garden rake and the pole hit her on the head and she falls backwards into a dustbin and falls through a hole and finds herself in an elevator that takes her past allsorts of objects on shelves. The elevator stops and deposits her atop a pile of leaves. The leaves begin to stir on their own, revealing another desk in which Alice finds a tiny key. Alice uses the key to open a miniature door, through which she sees the Rabbit disappear into a painted garden; she herself is too large to fit through the door. She finds an unlabeled bottle of a dark, inky liquid. Drinking it transforms her into a small china doll in her likeness. She then finds a butter tart that causes her to grow large, again rendering her unable to fit through the door. Frustrated, Alice cries until the room floods with tears. The White Rabbit rows by, dropping a tray of tarts. Eating one returns Alice to her doll size and she is able to retrieve the key and chase the Rabbit.
Once through the door, Alice finds herself at the banks of a brook and encounters the White Rabbit, who mistakes her for his maid and commands her to fetch scissors from his house. Inside, she drinks from another ink bottle and returns to her true size, trapping her inside the now too-small house. The Rabbit and his animal companions try to force her out by launching a skull-headed lizard through the window. Alice kicks him away, causing him to burst and spill his sawdust innards. The angry animals imprison Alice inside an Alice-shaped doll shell, which they lock inside a storage room filled with specimen jars.
Alice breaks free of the doll shell and discovers a key inside a sardine can. She uses the key to escape the storage room, stepping into a hall of doors. Behind one of them, she meets a stocking-Caterpillar in a room swarming with sock-worms that bore holes in the floor. The Caterpillar tells her that eating one piece of his darning mushroom causes things to grow, while the other piece causes things to shrink. Alice follows the sound of a crying baby to a tiny dollhouse, which she enlarges by eating a piece of the mushroom. She discovers the Rabbit inside tending a piglet in baby's clothes. The Rabbit escapes while Alice chases the piglet downstairs, where a mechanical tea party is being hosted by a wind-up March Hare and a marionette Hatter. The Rabbit flees to the attic and Alice follows.
Behind a curtain of clothes, Alice reaches the painted garden. The King and Queen of Hearts march into the garden with a troop of playing cards. The Queen commands the White Rabbit to behead two fencing Jacks, among others; he does so with his scissors. The Queen invites Alice to play croquet, but Alice storms off when the mallets and balls turn into chickens and hedgehogs. In a courtroom, she is put on trial for eating the Queen's tarts. Alice tries to explain herself but the King commands her to follow a script. Annoyed, Alice starts eating the tarts and the Queen demands Alice's head. Alice asks "Which one?", and her head morphs into the heads of the other characters. The Queen demands all her heads be severed, and the Rabbit advances with his scissors.
Alice wakes in her sitting room. Around the room are the various household objects that populated her dream: playing cards, china dolls, marionettes, an inkwell, and socks in a sewing basket. The case that formerly contained the taxidermic rabbit is still broken and empty. Opening the hidden drawer in the case, she finds the White Rabbit's scissors. Examining the scissors, Alice says to herself, "He's late, as usual. I think I'll cut his head off."
|
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
| 1,974
|
Martin Scorsese
|
['Ellen Burstyn', 'Kris Kristofferson', 'Alfred Lutter', 'Harvey Keitel', 'Diane Ladd', 'Lelia Goldoni', 'Billy Green Bush', 'Jodie Foster', 'Valerie Curtin', 'Vic Tayback', 'Murray Moston', 'Harry Northup', 'Lane Bradbury', 'Mia Bendixsen', 'Dean Casper', 'Marty Brinton', 'Ola Moore', 'Laura Dern', 'Tami Conner', 'David Adams', 'Jackie Bridges', 'Steve DeFrance', 'Jan Eddy', 'Arnold Herzstein', 'Henry Kendrick', 'Frank Kennedy', 'Lambert Marks', 'Don Starr', 'Tiny Wells', 'Bob Westmoreland']
| 3.8
| null |
Romance, Comedy, Melodrama, Drama, Road, Comedy drama
| 112
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Warner Bros. Pictures']
| 63,085
|
road-movie
|
road-movies-1
| null |
In Socorro, New Mexico, Alice Hyatt's husband, Donald, a Coca-Cola delivery driver, is killed on the job in a traffic accident. A former singer, Alice sells most of her belongings, intending to take her son, Tommy, to her childhood home of Monterey, California, where she hopes to pursue the singing career she abandoned when she married Donald.
Their financial situation forces them to take temporary lodgings in Phoenix, Arizona, where she finds work as a lounge singer. She meets Ben, a younger, seemingly unmarried man who charms her into a sexual relationship that comes to a sudden end when his wife, Rita, confronts Alice. Ben breaks into Alice's apartment while Rita is there and physically assaults Rita in front of Alice. He also threatens Alice and smashes up her apartment. Fearing for their safety, Alice and Tommy quickly leave town.
Having spent most of what little money they had on their escape, Alice takes a job as a waitress in Tucson, Arizona, at a local diner owned by Mel. There, she bonds with her fellow servers—independent, no-nonsense, outspoken Flo and quiet, timid, incompetent Vera—and meets divorced local rancher David. David quickly becomes enamored of Alice, who is wary of pursuing another relationship but begins to warm to him as he establishes a paternal relationship with Tommy.
Their relationship is threatened when David uses physical force to discipline Tommy. Although Alice still dreams of going to Monterey, they reconcile. David offers to sell his ranch and move to Monterey, but in the end, Alice decides to stay in Tucson with him.
|
Alice in Wonderland
| 1,951
|
Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson
|
['Kathryn Beaumont', 'Ed Wynn', 'Richard Haydn', 'Sterling Holloway', 'Jerry Colonna', 'Verna Felton', "J. Pat O'Malley", 'Bill Thompson', 'Heather Angel', 'Joseph Kearns', 'Larry Grey', 'Queenie Leonard', 'Dink Trout', 'Doris Lloyd', 'James MacDonald', 'Thurl Ravenscroft', 'Bill Lee', 'Max Smith', 'Bob Hamlin', 'Don Barclay', 'Lucille Bliss', 'Pinto Colvig', 'Tommy Luske', 'Clarence Nash', 'Marni Nixon', 'Norma Zimmer']
| 3.75
| null |
Animation, Comedy, Musical, Children's film, Fantasy, Adventure, Family film
| 75
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Walt Disney Productions']
| 769,042
|
animated
|
vote-best-animated-films-of-all-time
| null |
In a park in England, a young girl named Alice with her cat, Dinah, listens distractedly to her sister's history lesson, and begins daydreaming of a nonsensical world. She spots a passing White Rabbit in a waistcoat, who panics of being late. Alice follows him into a burrow and plummets down a deep rabbit hole. Upon landing in a place called Wonderland, she finds herself facing a tiny door, whose handle advises drinking from a bottle on a nearby table. She shrinks to an appropriate height, but has forgotten the key on the table. She then eats a cookie that causes her to grow excessively. Exasperated by these changes of state, she begins to cry and floods the room with her tears. She takes another sip from the bottle to shrink again, and rides the empty bottle through the keyhole. As Alice continues to follow the Rabbit after encountering a "Caucus Race", she encounters numerous characters, including Tweedledum and Tweedledee, who recount the tale of "The Walrus and the Carpenter". Alice tracks the Rabbit to his house; he mistakes her for his housemaid, "Mary Ann", and sends her inside to retrieve his gloves. While searching for the gloves, Alice finds and eats another cookie and grows giant, getting stuck in the house. Thinking her a monster, the Rabbit asks the Dodo to help expel her. When the Dodo decides to burn the house down, Alice escapes by eating a carrot from the Rabbit's garden, which causes her to shrink to three inches tall.
Continuing to follow the Rabbit, Alice meets a garden of talking flowers who initially welcome her with a song, but then banish her, believing that humans are a type of weed. Alice then encounters a Caterpillar smoking, who becomes enraged at Alice after she laments her small size (which is the same as the Caterpillar's), after which the Caterpillar turns into a butterfly and flies away. Before leaving, the Caterpillar advises Alice to eat a piece from different sides of a mushroom to alter her size. Following a period of trial and error, she returns to her original height and keeps the remaining pieces in her pocket. In the woods, Alice gets stuck between multiple paths and encounters the mischievous Cheshire Cat, who suggests questioning the Mad Hatter or the March Hare to learn the Rabbit's location, but is unhelpful in giving directions. Taking her own path, Alice encounters both, along with the Dormouse, in the midst of an "unbirthday" tea party celebration. The Hatter and the Hare ask Alice to explain her predicament, to which Alice tries, but becomes frustrated by their interruptions and absurd logic. As she prepares to leave, the Rabbit appears and the Hatter attempts to repair his pocket watch, which results in its destruction. Alice attempts to follow the Rabbit after he is ejected from the premises, but decides to go home instead. Unfortunately, her surroundings completely change, leaving her lost in the forest and she begins to cry along with many forest creatures, which vanish.
The Cheshire Cat reappears to the despondent Alice and offers a path to the hot-headed Queen of Hearts, the only one in Wonderland who can take her home. In the Queen's labyrinthine garden, Alice witnesses the Queen – whom the Rabbit serves as a chamberlain – sentencing a trio of playing cards to beheading for painting mistakenly-planted white rosebushes red. The Queen invites a reluctant Alice to play against her in a croquet match, in which live flamingos, card guards, and hedgehogs are used as equipment. The equipment rig the game in favor of the Queen. The Cat appears again and plays a trick on the Queen, setting up Alice to be framed. Before the Queen can sentence her to execution, the King suggests a formal trial. At Alice's trial, the Cat invokes more chaos by having Alice point him out, causing one of the witnesses – the Dormouse – to panic. As the Queen sentences Alice to execution, Alice eats the mushroom pieces to grow large, momentarily intimidating the court. However, the mushroom's effect is short-lived, forcing Alice to flee through the deteriorating realm with a large crowd in pursuit. When Alice reaches the small door she encountered, she sees herself sleeping through the keyhole. Alice emerges from her dream and returns home for tea with her sister.
|
Alice in the Cities
| 1,974
|
Wim Wenders
|
['Rüdiger Vogler', 'Yella Rottländer', 'Lisa Kreuzer', 'Edda Köchl', 'Ernest Boehm', 'Sam Presti', 'Lois Moran', 'Didi Petrikat', 'Hans Hirschmüller', 'Sibylle Baier', 'Mirko', 'Chuck Berry', 'Julia Baier', 'Peter Genée', 'Peter Handke', 'Jane Jarvis', 'Micky Kley', 'Martin Müller', 'Joachim von Mengershausen', 'Wim Wenders']
| 4.13
| null |
Action, Comedy, Road, Drama, Classic
| 110
|
['Germany']
|
German
|
['German', 'English', 'Dutch']
|
['Filmverlag der Autoren', 'WDR']
| 39,835
|
road-movie
|
road-movies-1
| null |
West German writer Philip Winter has missed his publisher's deadline for writing an article about the United States. So far, he has traveled a lot, but has not written anything substantial, as he has been unable to find inspiration either in what he has seen, or in the many Polaroid pictures he has taken of his trip. He attempts to book a flight from New York City to Munich, hoping he will figure out how to write the article once he is back home, but is told at the airport that there are no flights to Germany because of a strike by German airport ground crews. He meets a German woman, Lisa van Dam, and her young daughter, Alice, who are also trying to book a flight, and manages to get them all tickets on a plane to Amsterdam the next day. In the morning, Lisa leaves Alice in Philip's care while she attempts to deal with her emotionally fragile ex-boyfriend, leaving Philip a note in which she tells him to take Alice to Amsterdam, and that she will meet them there soon.
As Alice and Lisa lived in Amsterdam at one point, Alice speaks some Dutch, and she suggests showing Philip the city while they wait for Lisa's flight. Saddled with someone else's child and short on money, Philip begins to get irritated, cutting short the sightseeing trip and no longer finding Alice's constant demands for care very endearing. When they go to the airport to meet Lisa's flight and find out she is not on the plane, Philip intends to leave Alice to wait for her mother with the authorities while he continues his journey home, but she is upset and locks herself in a bathroom stall. Feeling sorry for the girl, Philip remembers she mentioned visiting a grandmother in Germany, and offers to take her there, but Alice does not remember where her grandmother lives. He reads Alice a list of city names, and "Wuppertal" seems to ring a bell, so they get on a bus.
Although Alice cannot remember her grandmother's name or address, she says she is sure she will recognize the right house when she sees it. After searching Wuppertal for two days using the Schwebebahn and a rented car, Alice realizes her grandmother does not actually live in the city. Fed up, Philip drops Alice off at the police station, and then tries to unwind at a Chuck Berry concert. When he returns to his hotel, Alice, having escaped from the police station, gets into his car and says she now knows where her grandmother lives. Philip is glad to see her again and drives away, while she tells him that, during her interview with the police, she remembered that she and her mother had been the ones who lived in Wuppertal, but her grandmother, whose name is Krüger, lived just a short train ride away. Alice also finally shows Philip a picture of her grandmother's house that she has in her purse.
Philip and Alice begin to search throughout the Ruhr area, and, miraculously, they eventually find the house in Alice's picture, but the current resident does not know Alice's grandmother. With no solution in sight, they go swimming, releasing their frustration by playfully shouting insults at one another. Now virtually broke, Philip decides to go to his parents, who live across the Rhine. On the ferry, a policeman from Wuppertal spots Philip and Alice and informs Philip that both Alice's grandmother and Lisa have been located. The policeman puts Alice on a train to meet Lisa in Munich, and, though Philip has no money for a ticket, Alice produces a 100-dollar bill from her purse so he can come along. En route, Alice and Philip ask each other what they will do in Munich; Philip says he will finish writing his article, while Alice just raises her eyebrows. They open the window of their train compartment and look forward together.
|
Alien
| 1,979
|
Ridley Scott
|
['Sigourney Weaver', 'Tom Skerritt', 'Ian Holm', 'Yaphet Kotto', 'John Hurt', 'Veronica Cartwright', 'Harry Dean Stanton', 'Bolaji Badejo', 'Helen Horton', 'Roy Scammell', 'Eddie Powell']
| 4.28
| 5
|
Horror, Science fiction, Action, Thriller, Adventure, Suspense, Drama
| 117
|
['USA', 'UK']
|
English
|
['English', 'Spanish']
|
['20th Century Fox', 'Brandywine Productions']
| 1,347,373
|
sci-fi, top-rated
|
letterboxds-top-250-science-fiction-films, lb_top250
| null |
The commercial space tug Nostromo is returning to Earth with a seven-member crew in stasis: Captain Dallas, Executive Officer Kane, Warrant Officer Ripley, Navigator Lambert, Science Officer Ash, and engineers Parker and Brett. The ship's computer, Mother, detects a transmission from a nearby planet and awakens the crew. Following company policy to investigate transmissions indicating intelligent life, they land on the planet and Dallas, Kane, and Lambert head out to investigate. They discover that the transmission comes from a derelict alien spaceship, where they find the remains of a large alien with a hole in its torso. Later, Mother deciphers part of the transmission, which Ripley determines to be a warning message.
Kane discovers a chamber containing hundreds of large eggs. When he touches one, a spider-like creature springs out, penetrates his helmet, and attaches itself to his face. Dallas and Lambert carry the unconscious Kane back to the Nostromo. As the acting senior officer, Ripley refuses to let them aboard, citing quarantine regulations, but Ash overrides her. While Parker and Brett work on repairing the Nostromo, Ash attempts to remove the creature from Kane's face. He stops when he discovers that its highly corrosive acidic blood could harm Kane and potentially damage the ship's hull. The creature eventually detaches itself and dies. After the crew returns to space, Kane awakens with some memory loss but otherwise seems well. During a final crew meal before returning to stasis, he suddenly chokes and convulses. A small alien creature bursts from his chest, killing him, and escapes into the ship.
After ejecting Kane's body out of an airlock, the crew attempts to locate the creature using tracking devices and kill it. Brett follows the crew's pet cat, Jones, into a landing leg compartment,[10] where the now fully grown alien attacks Brett. The crew determines that the alien must be in the air ducts. Dallas enters the ducts with a flamethrower, intending to force the creature into an airlock, but it attacks him. Parker later finds only the flamethrower. Lambert suggests fleeing in the escape shuttle, but Ripley, now in command, explains that it will not support four people and insists on continuing Dallas's plan to flush out the alien.
While accessing Mother, Ripley discovers that the crew was awoken and directed to the planet because the company secretly ordered Ash to return with the alien for study, and to consider the crew expendable. She confronts Ash, who tries to kill her. Parker intervenes, knocking Ash's head loose and revealing him to be an android. The survivors reactivate Ash's head, and he confirms the company's orders. Ash states that the alien is unkillable and expresses his admiration for it, taunting them about their chances of survival. Ripley shuts him down and Parker incinerates him.
The crew decides to self-destruct the Nostromo and escape in the shuttle. While gathering supplies, Parker and Lambert are killed by the alien. Now alone, Ripley initiates the self-destruct sequence but the alien blocks her path to the shuttle. She retreats and unsuccessfully attempts to abort the self-destruct. She reaches the shuttle unhindered with Jones, narrowly escaping as the Nostromo explodes.
As Ripley prepares for stasis, she discovers the alien has stowed itself in a narrow compartment. She dons a spacesuit and flushes it out. It approaches Ripley, but before it can kill her, she opens the airlock door. The resulting explosive decompression almost ejects the alien into space, but it hangs onto the door frame. Ripley fires a grappling hook gun to push it out and activates the engines, blasting the alien into space. After recording her final log entry, she places Jones and herself into stasis for the trip back to Earth.
|
Aliens
| 1,986
|
James Cameron
|
['Sigourney Weaver', 'Carrie Henn', 'Michael Biehn', 'Paul Reiser', 'Lance Henriksen', 'Bill Paxton', 'William Hope', 'Jenette Goldstein', 'Al Matthews', 'Mark Rolston', 'Ricco Ross', 'Colette Hiller', 'Daniel Kash', 'Cynthia Dale Scott', 'Tip Tipping', 'Trevor Steedman', 'Paul Maxwell', 'Valerie Colgan', 'Alan Polonsky', 'Alibe Parsons', 'Blain Fairman', 'Barbara Coles', 'Carl Toop', 'John Lees', 'Holly De Jong', 'Christopher Henn', 'Jay Benedict', 'William Armstrong', 'Mac McDonald', 'Eddie Powell', 'Jill Goldston', 'Elizabeth Inglis', 'Stuart Milligan', 'Bob Sherman', 'Chris Webb', 'Tom Woodruff Jr.', 'Alec Gillis']
| 4.13
| 4.5
|
Horror, Science fiction, Action, Thriller, Adventure, Suspense
| 137
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['SLM Production Group', '20th Century Fox', 'Brandywine Productions']
| 896,850
|
sci-fi, action, top-rated
|
letterboxds-top-250-action-films, letterboxds-top-250-science-fiction-films
| null |
Ellen Ripley has been in stasis for 57 years aboard an escape shuttle after destroying her ship, the Nostromo, to escape an alien creature that slaughtered the rest of the crew.[i] She is rescued and debriefed by her employers at the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, who are skeptical of her claim about alien eggs in a derelict ship on the exomoon LV-426,[ii] now the site of a terraforming colony.
After contact is lost with the colony, Weyland-Yutani representative Carter Burke and Colonial Marine Lieutenant Gorman ask Ripley to accompany them to investigate. Still traumatized by her alien encounter, she agrees on the condition that they exterminate the creatures. Ripley is introduced to the Colonial Marines on the spaceship Sulaco but is distrustful of their android, Bishop, because the android aboard the Nostromo had betrayed its crew to protect the alien on company orders.
A dropship delivers the expedition to the surface of LV-426, where they find the battle-ravaged colony and two live alien facehuggers in containment tanks, but no bodies or colonists, except for a traumatized young girl nicknamed Newt. The team locates the colonists beneath the fusion-powered atmosphere processing station and heads to their location, descending into corridors covered in alien secretions. At the station's center, the Marines find opened eggs and dead facehuggers alongside the cocooned colonists, now serving as incubators for the creatures' offspring. The Marines kill an infant alien after it bursts from a colonist's chest, rousing several adult aliens who ambush the Marines, killing or capturing many of them. When the inexperienced Gorman panics, Ripley assumes command, takes control of their armored personnel carrier, and rams the nest to rescue Corporal Dwayne Hicks and Privates Hudson and Vasquez. Hicks orders the dropship to recover the survivors, but a stowaway alien kills the pilots, causing the dropship to crash into the station. Almost out of ammunition and resources, the survivors barricade themselves inside the colony.
Ripley discovers that Burke ordered the colonists to investigate the derelict spaceship containing the alien eggs, intending to profit by recovering them for biological weapon research. Before she can expose him, Bishop informs the group that the dropship crash damaged the power plant's cooling system, and the plant will soon overheat and explode, destroying the colony. He volunteers to travel to the colony transmitter and remotely pilot the Sulaco's remaining dropship to the surface.
After falling asleep in the medical laboratory, Ripley and Newt awaken to find themselves trapped with the two released facehuggers. Ripley triggers a fire alarm to alert the Marines, who rescue them and kill the creatures. She accuses Burke of releasing the facehuggers to implant her and Newt with alien embryos, allowing him to smuggle them through Earth's quarantine. The power is suddenly cut, and aliens attack through the ceiling. In the ensuing firefight, the aliens kill Burke, subdue Hudson, and injure Hicks; the cornered Gorman and Vasquez sacrifice themselves to avoid capture. Newt is separated from Ripley and taken by the creatures. Ripley brings Hicks to Bishop in the second dropship, but she refuses to abandon Newt and arms herself before descending into the processing station hive alone to rescue her. During their escape, they encounter the alien queen surrounded by dozens of eggs, and when one begins to open, Ripley uses her weapons to destroy them all and the queen's ovipositor. Pursued by the enraged queen, Ripley and Newt join Bishop and Hicks on the dropship and escape moments before the station explodes, consuming the colony in a nuclear blast.
Aboard the Sulaco, the group is ambushed by the queen, who stowed away in the dropship's landing gear. The queen tears Bishop in half and advances on Newt, but Ripley fights the creature with an exosuit cargo loader and expels it through an airlock into space while the damaged Bishop keeps Newt safe. Ripley, Newt, Hicks, and Bishop then enter hypersleep for their return trip to Earth.
|
Alita: Battle Angel
| 2,019
|
Robert Rodriguez
|
['Rosa Salazar', 'Christoph Waltz', 'Jennifer Connelly', 'Mahershala Ali', 'Ed Skrein', 'Jackie Earle Haley', 'Keean Johnson', 'Lana Condor', 'Jorge Lendeborg Jr.', 'Eiza González', 'Jeff Fahey', 'Idara Victor', 'Rick Yune', 'Derek Mears', 'Leonard Wu', 'Racer Rodriguez', 'Marko Zaror', 'Hugo Perez', 'Casper Van Dien', 'Billy Blair', 'Jamie Landau', 'Dimitrius Pulido', 'Patrick Gathron', 'Elle LaMont', 'Alex Livinalli', 'Neal Kodinsky', 'Anthony Bandmann', 'Alan Trong', 'Sam Medina', 'Tod Junker', 'John Wirt', 'Darcel Danielle', 'Emma Lindsey', 'Garrett Warren', 'Tony LaThanh', 'Jorge A. Jimenez', 'Vincent Fuentes', 'Ibrahima Thiam', 'Paul de Sousa', 'Gregg Berger', 'David Sobolov', 'Jeff Bottoms', 'Michelle Rodriguez', 'Jai Courtney', 'Edward Norton', 'Michael Love Toliver']
| 3.19
| null |
Science fiction, Action, Cyberpunk, Romance, Adventure, Melodrama, Drama, Thriller
| 122
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'Spanish']
|
['Troublemaker Studios', 'Lightstorm Entertainment', '20th Century Fox', 'TSG Entertainment']
| 441,175
| null |
coming-of-age-movies-that-made-us-feel-seen
| null |
In the year 2563, 300 years after Earth was devastated by a catastrophic war known as "The Fall", scientist Dr. Dyson Ido discovers a disembodied female cyborg with an intact human brain while scavenging for parts in the massive scrapyard of Iron City. Ido attaches a new cyborg body to the brain and names her "Alita" after his late daughter. Alita wakes with no memory of her past and quickly befriends Hugo, a young man who dreams of moving to the wealthy sky city of Zalem. She also meets Dr. Chiren, Ido's estranged ex-wife. Hugo later introduces Alita to Motorball, a Rollerball-like racing sport played by cyborg gladiators. Secretly, Hugo robs cyborgs of their parts for Vector, owner of the Motorball tournament and the 'de facto' ruler of the Factory, Iron City's governing authority.
One night, Alita follows Ido. They are ambushed by a gang of cyborg serial killers led by Grewishka. Ido is injured and Alita instinctively fights using "Panzer-Kunst", a lost combat art for machine bodies. She kills two of the cyborgs and damages Grewishka who retreats. Ido reveals that he is a Hunter-Warrior, a bounty hunter hired by the Factory. Grewishka goes to Dr. Chiren, who is working for Vector, for help. Despite Alita believing that fighting will help her rediscover her past, Ido discourages her from becoming a Hunter-Warrior. Alita finds a highly advanced cyborg body in a crashed spaceship outside the city. Recognizing that the body belonged to a Berserker —deadly shock troops of the enemy nation United Republic of Mars (URM) from the Fall, of which Alita was a member— Ido refuses to install Alita in it.
Frustrated, Alita registers herself as a Hunter-Warrior. At the Kansas Bar, she and Hugo are unable to recruit other Hunter-Warriors to help her take down Grewishka. Zapan, a cyborg Hunter-Warrior bully, provokes Alita and she severely beats him in a fight, triggering a chaotic bar brawl until Ido arrives to intervene. Suddenly, an upgraded Grewishka appears and challenges Alita to a duel, revealing that he has been sent by Zalem's technocrat overlord, Nova, to destroy her. Despite her combat skills, Alita's body is damaged by Grewishka, before Ido, Hugo, and Hunter-Warrior dogmaster McTeague arrive and force Grewishka to retreat. Ido apologizes and transplants Alita into the Berserker body.
Having fallen in love with Hugo, Alita enters a Motorball tryout race for the prize money to send Hugo to Zalem. Hugo's relationship with Alita leads him to decide to quit his criminal job. He confronts his partner Tanji, but Zapan appears, kills Tanji and frames Hugo for the murder of another cyborg. Hugo narrowly escapes and calls Alita for help; she abandons the race and finds him just as Zapan does. Zapan mortally wounds Hugo. Dr. Chiren, having changed her mind about working for Vector, offers to help save Hugo by attaching his severed head to Alita's life support system. When Zapan sees through the trick and attempts to stop Alita, she seizes his prized Damascus blade and cuts off his face.
Ido transplants Hugo's head onto a cyborg body and tells Alita that Vector's offer to help Hugo reach Zalem was a lie; as an exiled citizen of Zalem, Ido is certain that citizens of Iron City cannot enter Zalem without becoming a Motorball champion. Alita storms the Factory and confronts Vector, who reveals that Chiren has been harvested for her organs. Vector summons Grewishka, but Alita's new nanotech body allows her to easily destroy him. She forces Nova to speak to her through Vector. When Nova threatens to harm her friends, Alita fatally impales Vector.
Ido contacts Alita to tell her that Hugo has fled to climb a cargo tube towards Zalem. Alita catches up to him and pleads with him to return with her. He eventually agrees, but a serrated defense ring dropped by Nova shreds his body and throws him off the tube. Alita catches him but cannot pull him up. Hugo thanks Alita for saving him before falling to his death.
Months later, Alita is a rising superstar in the Motorball tournament. Cheered on by the crowd, she swears revenge by pointing her plasma-charged sword toward Zalem, where Nova watches from above, smirking.
|
All About Eve
| 1,950
|
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
|
['Bette Davis', 'Anne Baxter', 'George Sanders', 'Celeste Holm', 'Gary Merrill', 'Hugh Marlowe', 'Thelma Ritter', 'Gregory Ratoff', 'Marilyn Monroe', 'Barbara Bates', 'Walter Hampden', 'Randy Stuart', 'Craig Hill', 'Leland Harris', 'Barbara White', 'Eddie Fisher', 'William Pullen', 'Claude Stroud', 'Eugene Borden', 'Helen Mowery', 'Steven Geray', 'Gertrude Astor', 'Frank Baker', 'Ralph Brooks', 'Jack Chefe', 'Sayre Dearing', 'Jack Deery', 'Franklyn Farnum', 'Bess Flowers', 'Colin Kenny', 'Ethelreda Leopold', 'Carl M. Leviness', 'Leota Lorraine', 'William Marion', 'Thomas Martin', 'Mathew McCue', 'Harold Miller', "William H. O'Brien", 'Stanley Orr', 'Foster H. Phinney', 'Marion Pierce', 'Paul Power', 'Suzanne Ridgway', 'Ann Robinson', 'Cosmo Sardo', 'Larry Steers', 'Robert Whitney']
| 4.33
| 4.5
|
Comedy, Drama
| 139
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'French']
|
['20th Century Fox']
| 134,159
|
oscar-winner
|
oscar-winning-films-best-picture, lb_top250
| null |
The story begins in media res, told via narration by acerbic theatre critic Addison DeWitt, who introduces the various characters as they attend the ceremony for the prestigious Sarah Siddons Award for Prestigious Achievement, awarded to rising star actor Eve Harrington. DeWitt's narration promises the audience will learn Eve's true story as the narrative voice switches to that of Karen Walker.
Some years previous, Broadway star Margo Channing, who recently turned 40, worries about what advancing age will mean for her career. After a performance of Margo's latest play, Margo's close friend, Karen Richards, wife of the play's author Lloyd Richards, brings besotted fan Eve Harrington backstage to meet Margo. In Margo's dressing room, Eve tells Karen, Lloyd, and Margo's maid Birdie, that she followed Margo's last theatrical tour to New York City after seeing her perform in San Francisco. She tells an engrossing story of growing up poor in Wisconsin and losing her young husband, Eddie, in the South Pacific during World War II. Moved by Eve's story, Margo takes her into her home as her assistant, upsetting Birdie. Eve quickly manipulates her way into Margo's life, acting as both secretary and adoring fan.
Adding to Margo’s concerns about aging is her romantic relationship with the play’s director, Bill Sampson, 8 years her junior. Without telling Margo, Eve places a long-distance phone call “on Margo’s behalf” to Bill when Margo forgets his birthday. This results in Margo’s embarrassment, exposing her to Bill's realizing that Margo forgot his birthday, while Eve remembered and even sent her own greetings. Margo grows increasingly distrustful toward Eve, particularly after catching Eve taking a bow in front of a mirror while pretending to wear Margo's costume. Margo asks producer Max Fabian to hire Eve at his office, but instead, Eve becomes Margo's understudy without Margo's knowledge.
|
All About Lily Chou-Chou
| 2,001
|
Shunji Iwai
|
['Hayato Ichihara', 'Shugo Oshinari', 'Yu Aoi', 'Ayumi Ito', 'Takao Osawa', 'Ryo Katsuji', 'Kaku Tomohiro', 'Issey Takahashi', 'Kazusa Matsuda', 'Takahito Hosoyamada', 'Chiyo Abe', 'Izumi Inamori', 'Miwako Ichikawa', 'Anri Ban', 'Takako Baba', 'Yoji Tanaka', 'Yoriko Kitahara', 'Shinji Higuchi', 'Kaori Fujii', 'Tetsu Sawaki']
| 4.18
| 4.5
|
Music, Romance, Comedy, Documentary, Melodrama, Drama, Crime film, Suspense, Mystery, Thriller, Coming-of-age story
| 146
|
['Japan']
|
Japanese
|
['Japanese']
|
['Rockwell Eyes', 'JVC', 'WOWOW', 'OORONG-SHA']
| 106,471
|
sad, emotional
|
sad-movies-if-you-feel-like-you-need-to-cry
| null |
All About Lily Chou-Chou follows the lives of two boys, Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino, from the start of junior high school into their second year. The film follows a nonlinear narrative structure, beginning midway through the story just after the second term of junior high school begins, then flashing back to the first term, then summer vacation, and then returning to the present as it covers the rest of the second term.
Fourteen-year-old Yuichi Hasumi runs a fansite and message board dedicated to Lily Chou-Chou, his favorite singer. Posting under the alias "Philia," he befriends other users, including a pervasive one named "Blue Cat." A shy and socially outcasted teenager, Yuichi is viciously bullied by his older classmate Shusuke Hoshino along with members of his gang, who beat Yuichi and force him to masturbate in front of them. The film flashes back to the previous year, where Shusuke is introduced as the academically gifted class president who meets Yuichi at the school's kendo club. The pair become close friends, and Shusuke invites Yuichi to stay over at his house, introducing him to Lily Chou-Chou's music. Yuichi is moved by her music, joining her cult following. Back at school, he develops a crush on his classmate, Kuno.
On summer vacation, Shusuke, Yuichi, and their friends decide to take a trip to Okinawa. Once there, Shusuke has a traumatic near-death experience from almost drowning, and his personality changes from good-natured to dangerous and manipulative. Returning to school in September, he takes his place as a class bully and shows his newfound power by ruining the lives of his classmates. An alternative voice, that of the character Sumika Kanzaki, attributes Shusuke's personality change to the collapse of his family's business and his parent's divorce.
Yuichi finds himself sucked into his now-tormentor's gang. He is ridiculed and coerced into doing Shusuke's dirty work and finds solace only in the ethereal music of Lily Chou-Chou and chatting with his online friends on his fan website. Things become far worse for everyone when Yuichi is assigned to supervise Shiori Tsuda, whom Shusuke has blackmailed into enjo kōsai. Kuno is raped by Shusuke's lackeys after unwittingly offending the school's girl gang. She cuts off her hair to avoid the same fate as Tsuda. A guilt-ridden Yuichi lends Tsuda his copy of Lily Chou-Chou's album; she later dies by suicide. Yuichi, grieving over Tsuda's death, is talked out of suicide by Blue Cat in a series of online messages.
Yuichi heads to Tokyo to see a Lily Chou-Chou concert, where he and "Blue Cat" have also arranged to meet in person. Yuichi runs into Shusuke, who coercively throws away Yuichi's ticket, and realizes that Shusuke was Blue Cat. After Yuichi watches the concert outside on a screen, a violent argument escalates between the two of them, leading Yuichi to stab him to death in the middle of the crowd after the concert.
At home, Yuichi begins his life again, reconciling with his schoolteacher and dyeing his hair. He shares a moment with Kuno as she plays piano. The movie's final scene shows Yuichi, Shusuke, and Tsuda standing alone in a field, listening to the music of Lily Chou-Chou.
|
All About My Mother
| 1,999
|
Pedro Almodóvar
|
['Cecilia Roth', 'Marisa Paredes', 'Candela Peña', 'Antonia San Juan', 'Penélope Cruz', 'Rosa MarÃa Sardà ', 'Fernando Fernán Gómez', 'Fernando Guillén', 'Toni Cantó', 'Eloy AzorÃn', 'Carlos Lozano', 'Manuel Morón', 'José Luis Torrijo', 'Juan José Otegui', 'Carmen Balagué', 'Malena Gutiérrez', 'Yael Barnatán', 'Carme Fortuny', 'Patxi Freytez', 'Juan Marquez', 'Michel Ruben', 'Daniel Lanchas', 'Rosa Manaut', 'Carlos GarcÃa Cambero', 'AgustÃn Almodóvar', 'Paz Sufrategui', 'Lola GarcÃa', 'Esther GarcÃa', 'Inma Subirà ', 'Cayetana Guillén Cuervo', 'Alexia Pardo', 'LluÃs Pasqual', 'Fito Páez']
| 4.16
| null |
['Comedy', 'Drama']
| 101
|
['Spain', 'France']
|
Spanish
|
['Spanish', 'Catalan']
|
['Renn Productions', 'France 2 Cinéma', 'El Deseo']
| 244,635
|
sad, emotional
|
sad-movies-if-you-feel-like-you-need-to-cry
| null |
Manuela is an Argentine nurse who supervises donor organ transplants at Ramón y Cajal Hospital in Madrid. She is also a single mother to Esteban, a teenager who aspires to become a writer.
On Esteban's 17th birthday, he is hit and killed by a car while chasing after actress Huma Rojo for her autograph following a performance of A Streetcar Named Desire, where Rojo portrays Blanche DuBois. Manuela allows her son's heart to be transplanted to a man in A Coruña. After tracking down the recipient, she resigns from her job and travels to Barcelona in search of Esteban's other mother, Lola, a transgender woman whom Manuela had kept secret from her son, just as she had never told Lola about the boy.
In Barcelona, Manuela reunites with her old friend Agrado, a warm and witty transgender sex worker. She also makes several new friends: Rosa, a young HIV positive nun who works in a shelter for battered sex workers and is pregnant with Lola's child; Huma Rojo, the actress her son had admired; and Nina Cruz, Huma's co-star and lover, who struggles with drug addiction. Manuela's life becomes entwined with theirs as she cares for Rosa during her pregnancy, works as Huma's personal assistant, or takes the stage as an understudy for Nina during one of her drug abuse crises.
On her way to the hospital, Rosa asks the taxi to stop at a park where she spots her father's dog, Sapic, and then her own father, who suffers from Alzheimer's. He does not recognize Rosa and asks for her age and height, but Sapic recognizes her. Rosa dies giving birth to a healthy boy; at her funeral, Manuela finally reunites with Lola. Lola (formerly known as Esteban) is dying from AIDS and talks about how she always wanted a son. Manuela tells her about their own son Esteban and his fatal accident. Manuela adopts Rosa's son, Esteban, caring for him at Rosa's parents' house. The father does not understand who Manuela is, and Rosa's mother introduces her as the new cook who is living there with her son. Rosa's father then asks Manuela about her age and height.
Manuela introduces Esteban, Rosa's son, to Lola and gives her a picture of their own Esteban. Rosa's mother spots them from the street and confronts Manuela about letting strangers see the baby. Manuela tells her that Lola is Esteban's other parent, but Rosa's mother is appalled and says, "That is the monster that killed my daughter?!"
Manuela flees back to Madrid with Esteban as she cannot live at Rosa's house any longer. The grandmother is afraid that she will contract HIV from the baby. Manuela writes a letter to Huma and Agrado saying that she is leaving and apologizes once again for not saying goodbye like she did years before. Two years later, Manuela returns with Esteban to an AIDS convention. She tells Huma and Agrado, who now run a stage show together, that Esteban has been a miracle by becoming HIV-free. Manuela then says she is returning to stay with Esteban's grandparents. When Manuela asks Huma about Nina, Huma becomes melancholic and leaves. Agrado tells Manuela that Nina returned to her town, got married, and had a fat, ugly baby boy. Huma rejoins the conversation briefly before exiting the dressing room to go perform.
|
All Dogs Go to Heaven
| 1,989
|
Don Bluth
|
['Burt Reynolds', 'Dom DeLuise', 'Judith Barsi', 'Melba Moore', 'Daryl Gilley', 'Candy Devine', 'Charles Nelson Reilly', 'Vic Tayback', 'Rob Fuller', 'Earleen Carey', 'Anna Manahan', 'Nigel Pegram', 'Loni Anderson', 'Ken Page', 'Godfrey Quigley', 'Jay Stevens', 'Dan Molina', 'Dan Kuenster', 'Mark Swan', 'David N. Weiss', 'Dick Zondag', 'Taylor Swanson', 'Jack Angel', 'Nancy Cartwright', 'Patrick Pinney']
| 3.45
| null |
Comedy, Animated cartoon, Musical, Children's film, Adventure, Fantasy, Drama, Family film
| 89
|
['Ireland', 'UK', 'USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Goldcrest', 'Sullivan Bluth Studios']
| 120,683
|
animated
|
vote-best-animated-films-of-all-time
| null |
In 1939 New Orleans, charming but unscrupulous Charlie B. Barkin escapes from the dog pound where he was to be put down with the help of his best friend Itchy Itchiford and returns to their casino riverboat on the bayou, formerly run by Charlie himself and his business partner, Carface Caruthers. Reluctant to share the profits with Charlie, Carface had been responsible for Charlie getting committed to the pound and persuades Charlie to leave town with half of the casino's earnings. Charlie agrees, but is later intoxicated during Mardi Gras and killed by a car pushed downhill by Carface and his assistant, Killer. Charlie is automatically sent to Heaven despite not having done any good deeds in his life; a whippet angel explains to him that because dogs are inherently good and loyal, all dogs go to Heaven and are entitled to paradise. Charlie cheats death by stealing a gold pocket watch representing his life and winding it back. As Charlie descends back to Earth, the whippet angel tells him that he can never return to Heaven; when the watch stops again, he will be sent to Hell instead. However, as long as the watch continues to run, Charlie will be immortal.
After Charlie reunites with Itchy and plots revenge in the form of a rivaling business, they discover that Carface has kidnapped a young orphan girl named Anne-Marie for her ability to talk to animals, which proves helpful when betting on races. Charlie rescues her and promises to feed the poor and help her find a family. The next day at the race track, Charlie steals a wallet from a couple as they talk to Anne-Marie and become concerned by her rough appearance. Charlie and Itchy use their winnings to build a successful casino in the junkyard where they live. Anne-Marie, upon realizing that she has been used, threatens to leave. To persuade her to stay, Charlie brings pizza to a family of poor puppies and their mother, Flo, at an abandoned church. While there, Anne-Marie becomes angry at Charlie for stealing the wallet. As Charlie has a nightmare in which he is condemned to Hell, Anne-Marie returns the wallet to the couple, Kate and Harold. While they privately discuss adopting her, Charlie arrives and tricks her into leaving with him. Charlie and Anne-Marie narrowly escape an ambush by Carface and Killer and hide in an abandoned building, but the ground breaks and they fall into the lair of King Gator, a giant effeminate alligator. He and Charlie bond over a love of music and he lets them go, but Anne-Marie catches pneumonia in the process.
Carface and his thugs destroy Charlie's casino and assault Itchy. Injured, Itchy limps back to the church and confronts Charlie about his relationship with Anne-Marie, who Itchy thinks matters more than him. In his exasperation, Charlie loudly proclaims that he is using her and will eventually "dump her in an orphanage". A heartbroken Anne-Marie overhears the conversation and tearfully runs away before she is kidnapped by Carface. Charlie follows them to Carface's casino, where he is ambushed by Carface and his thugs. They fight with Charlie, inadvertently starting an oil fire that soon engulfs the whole structure. Charlie's pained howls from their bites summon King Gator, who chases down and devours Carface. In the chaos, both Anne-Marie and the watch fall into the water. Unable to rescue both at the same time, Charlie rescues Anne-Marie, places her onto some driftwood and pushes her toward safety; however, the watch stops before he can reach it, ending his life, so Killer finishes pushing her to shore, where Kate and Harold are waiting with police and medical personnel, alongside Itchy, Flo, and the other dogs from New Orleans.
Sometime later, Kate and Harold adopt Anne-Marie, who has also adopted Itchy. Charlie, having sacrificed himself to save Anne-Marie, has earned back his place in Heaven, and is allowed to return in ghost form to reconcile with Anne-Marie. Leaving Itchy in her care, Charlie returns to Heaven, where, in a mid-credits scene, Carface finally arrives and takes his own watch, vowing revenge against King Gator. As the whippet angel chases him and warns against using it, Charlie assures the audience that "he'll be back".
|
All Over Me
| 1,997
|
Alex Sichel
|
['Alison Folland', 'Tara Subkoff', 'Cole Hauser', 'Wilson Cruz', 'Leisha Hailey', 'Shawn Hatosy', 'Vincent Pastore', 'Ann Dowd', 'Pat Briggs', 'Gene Canfield']
| 3.42
| null |
LGBTQ, Melodrama, Drama
| 93
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Slam Pictures', 'Baldini Pictures', 'Medusa Pictures']
| 5,512
|
sad, emotional
|
sad-movies-if-you-feel-like-you-need-to-cry
| null |
This film focuses on Claude (Alison Folland), a tomboy teenage girl who lives with her divorced mother in Hell's Kitchen, New York City, and is the story of her sexual discovery and budding lesbianism during summer vacation. Claude's best friend is Ellen (Tara Subkoff). Her plan to start a band with Ellen is subverted when Ellen begins dating Mark (Cole Hauser).
Claude discovers that Luke (Pat Briggs), a gay musician who has just moved into her apartment building, has been stabbed to death in what might have been a hate crime. Ellen hints at the fact that she was there when Luke was killed, but Claude keeps her mouth shut in order to protect her. Claude then goes to a gay bar and meets Lucy (Leisha Hailey), a pink-haired guitarist who is playing in the house band. Claude goes to Lucy's apartment where they begin to engage in a romantic encounter, but Claude freaks out and leaves, returning to her apartment to find Ellen waiting for her. They have a fight which ends with Claude screaming that she would die without Ellen.
Claude goes out along with Ellen and Mark on one of their dates; Mark gives Ellen downers which make her violently ill. Claude brings her to the bathroom and forces her to vomit, and Ellen refers to Claude as her "Knight in Shining Armor." Mark is visibly furious but manages to contain himself. Claude leaves and goes to Lucy's apartment again, but leaves after a brief make-out session. On the way home, Claude is ambushed in the street by Mark, who questions her relationship with Ellen. Claude threatens to tell the police about Mark's possible involvement in Luke's death due in large part that she is worried that he is leading Ellen down a dark path.
Claude goes home to find Ellen waiting for her. Claude tells her that they need to tell the police about Mark, but Ellen says she would go to jail if they knew about her involvement. Claude says she would never let that happen. Claude kisses Ellen for the first time and tells her that she loves her. Ellen tells Claude not to say that for she is not interested in Claude romantically, and Claude leaves. The next day, Claude cleans out her room, removing all traces of Ellen. She goes to the police before work. Later, the police comes into her workplace and take Mark away for questioning. Ellen tells Claude that she hates her for ratting her boyfriend out to the police. Claude says that she knows, and that she's sorry but had to do it. Ellen ends her friendship with Claude. Claude then starts seeing Lucy and going out on their first date together.
|
All Quiet on the Western Front
| 2,022
|
Edward Berger
|
['Felix Kammerer', 'Albrecht Schuch', 'Aaron Hilmer', 'Moritz Klaus', 'Adrian Grünewald', 'Edin HasanoviÄ', 'Daniel Brühl', 'Thibault de Montalembert', 'Devid Striesow', 'Andreas Döhler', 'Sebastian Hülk', 'Luc Feit', 'Michael Wittenborn', 'Michael Stange', 'Sascha Nathan', 'Tobias Langhoff', 'Anton von Lucke', 'Michael Pitthan', 'Joe Weintraub', 'Charles Morillon', 'Gabriel Dufay', 'Dan Brown', 'Philipp Schenker', 'Cyril Dobrý', 'Sebastian Jacques', 'Gregory Gudgeon', 'Cyril Äechák', 'Jakob Schmidt', 'Felix von Bredow', 'Martin Dostál', 'Marek Simbersky', 'Jakob Diehl', 'Friedrich Berger', 'Anthony Paliotti', 'Radek Brodil', 'Jonathan Henault', 'Nico Ehrenteit', 'Hendrik Heutmann', 'Daniel-Frantisek Kamen', 'TomáÅ¡ Äapek', 'Markus Tomczyk', 'Emil Rothermel', 'Wolf Danny Homann', 'Michal Závodský', 'Nicolas Prokop', 'Jacob Zacharias Eckstein', 'Adam Mensdorff', 'Peter Sikorski', 'AlžbÄta Malá', 'Andrea Zatloukalová', 'Thomas Zielinski', 'TomáÅ¡ Weber', 'Samuel Neduha', 'Martin NÄmec', 'TomáÅ¡ Merkl']
| 4.01
| 4.5
|
War, Action, Anti-war, Adventure, Drama
| 147
|
['Germany']
|
German
|
['German', 'French', 'English']
|
['Amusement Park Films', 'Gunpowder Films']
| 806,293
|
oscar-winner, action, top-rated
|
oscar-winning-films-best-picture, letterboxds-top-250-action-films
| null |
In 1917, three years into World War I, 17-year-old Paul Bäumer enthusiastically enlists in the Imperial German Army alongside friends Albert Kropp, Franz Müller, and Ludwig Behm. They listen to a patriotic speech by a school official and unknowingly receive uniforms from soldiers killed in a previous battle. After they are deployed in Northern France near La Malmaison, they are befriended by Stanislaus "Kat" Katczinsky, an older soldier. Their romantic view of the war is shattered by the realities of trench warfare on the Western Front, and Ludwig is killed by artillery on the first night.
On November 7, 1918, German State Secretary Matthias Erzberger, weary of mounting losses, meets with German High Command to persuade them to begin armistice talks with the Allied powers. Meanwhile, Paul and Kat steal a goose from a farm to share with Albert, Franz, and another veteran, Tjaden Stackfleet, with whom they have grown close behind the front in Champagne. Kat, who is illiterate, gets Paul to read him a letter from his wife and worries that he will be unable to reintegrate into peacetime society. Franz spends the night with a local French woman and brings back her scarf as a souvenir.
On November 9, Erzberger and the German delegation board a train bound for the Forest of Compiègne to negotiate a ceasefire. Paul and his friends go on a mission to find 60 missing recruits sent to reinforce their unit and discover that they were killed by gas after taking off their masks too soon. General Friedrichs, who opposes the armistice talks, orders an attack before French reinforcements arrive. That night, Erzberger's delegation reaches the Forest of Compiègne, and Paul's regiment is sent to the front to prepare to attack the French lines.
On November 10, Supreme Allied Commander Ferdinand Foch gives the Germans 72 hours to accept the non-negotiable Allied terms. Meanwhile, the German attack takes the French front line after hand-to-hand fighting but is routed by a combined arms counterattack, in which the French use Saint-Chamond tanks to overcome German defenses. Franz is separated from the group, and Albert dies trying to surrender when he is set on fire with a flamethrower. Trapped in a crater in no man's land with a French soldier, Paul stabs him and watches him die slowly, becoming remorseful and asking for forgiveness from his dead body.
Erzberger learns of Kaiser Wilhelm II's abdication and receives instructions from field marshal Paul von Hindenburg to accept the Allied terms. Paul returns to his unit and sees them celebrating the war's imminent end. He finds a wounded Tjaden, who gives him Franz's scarf, indicating Franz has been killed. Paul and Kat bring him food, but Tjaden, knowing that his injured leg will be amputated, chooses to fatally stab himself in the throat with the fork they brought him rather than live as an amputee.
On November 11, Erzberger's delegation signs an armistice set to take effect at 11:00 AM. After learning of the ceasefire, Paul and Kat steal from the farm one last time, but Kat is shot by the farmer's vengeful son and dies before arriving at an infirmary. General Friedrichs, who wants to end the war with at least a German victory out of spite, orders an attack to start at 10:45 AM. Paul kills as many French soldiers as he can before being bayonetted from behind, seconds before 11:00 AM. Paul stumbles out into the trenches and marvels at the end of conflict as he dies from his wound.
A short time later, a newly-arrived German recruit that Paul had saved in the combat finds Paul's mud-caked body and picks up Franz's scarf, but not the dog tag that acts as the identifier of dead soldiers. As a result, Paul's death is not recorded.
|
All That Jazz
| 1,979
|
Bob Fosse
|
['Roy Scheider', 'Ann Reinking', 'Leland Palmer', 'Jessica Lange', 'Erzsebet Foldi', 'Deborah Geffner', 'Anthony Holland', 'Ben Vereen', 'Max Wright', 'David Margulies', 'William LeMassena', 'John Lithgow', 'Cliff Gorman', 'Michael Tolan', 'Irene Kane', 'Kathryn Doby', 'Robert Hitt', 'Sue Paul', 'Keith Gordon', 'Frankie Man', 'Alan Heim', 'Sandahl Bergman', 'Eileen Casey', 'Bruce Anthony Davis', 'Gary Flannery', 'Jennifer Nairn-Smith', 'Danny Ruvolo', 'Leland Schwantes', 'John Sowinski', 'Candace Tovar', 'Rima Vetter', 'Trudy Carson', 'Mary Sue Finnerty', 'Lesley Kingley', 'P.J. Mann', 'Cathy Rice', 'Sonja Stuart', 'Terri Treas', 'Ralph E. Berntsen', 'Jan Flato', 'John Paul Fetta', 'Andy Schwartz', 'Robert Levine', 'Phil Friedman', 'Stephen Strimpell', 'Leonard Drum', 'Eugene Troobnick', 'Jules Fisher', 'Ben Masters', 'Cathie Shirriff', 'Joanna Merlin', 'Leah Ayres', 'Nancy Beth Bird', 'Harry Agress', 'CCH Pounder', 'Tito Goya', 'Tiger Haynes', 'Lotte Palfi Andor', 'K.C. Townsend', 'Melanie Hunter', 'Rita Bennett', 'Gary Bayer', 'Wayne Carson', 'Kerry Casserly', 'Judi Passeltiner', 'Steve Elmore', 'Nicole Fosse', 'Vicki Frederick', 'Minnie Gaster', 'Michael Green', 'Bruce MacCallum', 'Joyce Ellen Hill', 'I.M. Hobson', 'Edith Kramer', 'Barbara McKinley', 'Mary McCarty', 'Theresa Merritt', 'Gavin Moses', 'Mary Mon Toy', 'Wallace Shawn', 'Jacqueline Solotar', 'Sloane Shelton', 'Sammy Smith', 'Arnold Gross', 'Terry Alexander']
| 4.32
| 4
|
Music, Musical, Comedy, Fantasy, Drama
| 123
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Columbia Pictures', '20th Century Fox']
| 111,618
|
fantasy
|
filmsrankedcom-200-greatest-fantasy-films, lb_top250
| null |
Joe Gideon is a theater director and choreographer attempting to balance staging his latest Broadway musical, NY/LA, while editing a Hollywood film he has directed, The Stand-Up. He is an alcoholic, a driven workaholic who chain-smokes cigarettes, and a womanizer constantly flirting and engaging in sexual encounters with a stream of women. Each morning, he begins his day by playing a tape of Vivaldi while taking doses of Visine, Alka-Seltzer, and Dexedrine, always concluding by looking at himself in the mirror and saying, "It's showtime, folks!" Joe's ex-wife, Audrey Paris, is involved with the production of the show but disapproves of his womanizing ways. Meanwhile, his girlfriend Katie Jagger and daughter Michelle keep him company. In his imagination, he flirts with an angel of death named Angelique in a nightclub setting, discussing his life with her.
As Joe continues to be dissatisfied with his editing job, repeatedly making minor changes to a single monologue, he vents his anger on the dancers and in his choreography. This leads to a highly sexualized number of topless women during a rehearsal, frustrating the show's penny-pinching backers. One of the few moments of joy in his life occurs when Katie and Michelle perform a Fosse-style number for Joe as an homage to the upcoming release of The Stand-Up, moving him to tears. During a table-read of NY/LA, Joe experiences severe chest pains and is admitted to the hospital with severe angina.
Joe brushes off his symptoms, attempting to leave for rehearsal, but he collapses in the doctor's office and is ordered to stay in the hospital for several weeks to rest his heart and recover from exhaustion. NY/LA is postponed, but Gideon continues his antics from the hospital bed, smoking and drinking while hosting endless streams of women in his room. As he does, his condition continues to deteriorate, despite Audrey and Katie remaining by his side for support. A negative review for The Stand-Up, released during Joe's hospitalization, comes in despite the film's financial success, and Gideon has a massive coronary event.
While Joe undergoes coronary artery bypass surgery, the producers of NY/LA realize that the best way to recoup their money and make a profit is to bet on Gideon's death: the insurance proceeds would result in a profit of over half a million dollars. As Gideon goes on life support, he directs extravagant musical dream sequences in his head starring his daughter, wife, and girlfriend, all berating him for his behavior. He realizes he cannot avoid his death and has another heart attack.
As the doctors try to save him, Joe runs away from his hospital bed behind their backs, exploring the basement of the hospital and the autopsy ward before allowing himself to be taken back. He goes through the five stages of grief—anger, denial, bargaining, depression, and acceptance—featured in the stand-up routine he had been editing. As he gets closer to death, his dream sequences become more and more hallucinatory. As the doctors try one more time to save him, Joe imagines a monumental variety show featuring everyone from his past where he takes center stage in an extensive musical number ("Bye Bye Life", a whimsical parody of "Bye Bye Love"). In his dying dream, Joe can thank his family and acquaintances, as he cannot from his hospital bed, and his performance receives a massive standing ovation. Joe finally dreams of himself traveling down a hallway to meet Angelique at the end. Meanwhile, his corpse is zipped up in a body bag.
|
All of Us Strangers
| 2,023
|
Andrew Haigh
|
['Andrew Scott', 'Paul Mescal', 'Carter John Grout', 'Jamie Bell', 'Claire Foy', 'Ami Tredrea']
| 3.93
| 4
|
Romance, Fantasy, Melodrama, Drama
| 105
|
['UK', 'USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Film4 Productions', 'Blueprint Pictures', 'Searchlight Pictures', 'TSG Entertainment']
| 554,985
|
sad, emotional
|
sad-movies-if-you-feel-like-you-need-to-cry
| null |
Lonely television screenwriter Adam lives a secluded life in London. At his tower block, he meets his drunk neighbour Harry, who has noticed him in the building and wants to join him for the night. Reluctantly, Adam declines and sends Harry away.
Adam begins writing and decides to visit his suburban childhood home, now unoccupied. He encounters his parents, who both died in a car accident decades earlier when he was twelve. Adam has dinner with them and promises to visit again.
Returning to his flat, Adam encounters Harry by the lift. He reciprocates Harry's interest from earlier and the two begin a passionate relationship. Adam learns of Harry's own feelings of distance from his family, and the two slowly begin to build a life together.
Adam has several subsequent meetings with his parents. During a talk with his mother, Adam reveals his sexual orientation and they discuss it. His mother accepts that Adam is gay, but reacts with concern and slight discomfort. On a later visit with his father, Adam discusses being hurt by his father's silence about the bullying Adam experienced as a child. The two tearfully reconcile and hug.
Later, as Adam and Harry's relationship flourishes, the two spend a lot of time clubbing and begin to do ketamine together. One night Adam wakes up after a blackout and discovers he is back at his parents' home, this time at Christmas. They hang lights on the Christmas tree together and celebrate happily as music plays. Unable to sleep, Adam gets in bed with his parents and tells his mother about being sent to stay with his grandmother after her death, which his mother laments. Adam then drifts back to his life with Harry.
Adam seemingly awakes on an Underground train and sees Harry in the next car. Harry is distant and does not approach him. Adam sees a vision of his younger self screaming in the reflection of the train car. In actuality, Adam is in his bed, suddenly waking up crying. Harry has brought him home after a club incident where Adam had a panic attack. Adam discusses the details of his parents' death. He reveals his father died instantly in the car accident, while his mother lingered for several days in the hospital. His grandmother kept Adam from seeing his mother due to her dire condition, which has forever haunted Adam.
Adam takes Harry on a trip that night to meet his parents. Harry is skeptical and somewhat alarmed at Adam's behaviour. They find the house empty. Concerned about Adam's mental condition, Harry urges them to leave. Adam's mother is then seen beyond the window peering at them through the glass. Adam pounds on the door until the glass breaks.
Upon waking up the next morning with his parents, they explain that Harry went home. They tell Adam that in order for him to find happiness, he must let them go and move forward in his life with Harry. They take him to his favourite childhood restaurant, where they ask about the circumstances of their deaths. Adam tells them they both died instantly, which is a relief to his mother, although untrue. The three tearfully reaffirm their love for each other, after which both parents vanish.
Having accepted the loss of his parents, Adam goes home to see Harry. He enters Harry's flat and notices an awful stench, with drug residue on a table and squalor throughout the flat. Adam finds Harry dead in the bedroom, holding the same whiskey bottle he was drinking on the night they met. Harry has been dead all along, having been an apparition similar to his parents.
Outside the room, Harry's ghost is distraught and crying, as he did not want Adam to see him as a corpse. Adam assures Harry that everything will be all right, and takes Harry back to his flat. The two lie in bed together, tightly in each other's arms. When Harry asks Adam to play a record, he puts on "The Power of Love" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood. The two fade into a small beam of light among stars in the night sky as the screen turns to black.
|
All the King's Men
| 1,949
|
Robert Rossen
|
['John Ireland', 'Broderick Crawford', 'Joanne Dru', 'John Derek', 'Mercedes McCambridge', 'Shepperd Strudwick', 'Ralph Dumke', 'Anne Seymour', 'Katherine Warren', 'Raymond Greenleaf', 'Walter Burke', 'Will Wright', 'Grandon Rhodes', 'Marshall Bradford', 'Chet Brandenburg', 'Wheaton Chambers', 'Stephen Chase', 'Tom Coleman', 'James Conaty', 'Roy Darmour', 'Earle S. Dewey', 'King Donovan', 'Robert Filmer', 'Paul Ford', 'Dick Gordon', 'William E. Green', 'Charles Haefeli', 'Frank Hagney', 'Richard Hale', 'Bert Hanlon', 'Judd Holdren', 'Robert Karnes', 'Kenner G. Kemp', 'Donald Kerr', 'Nolan Leary', 'Wilbur Mack', 'Louis Mason', 'Paul Maxey', 'Frank McLure', 'Walter Merrill', 'Harold Miller', 'John "Skins" Miller', "Pat O'Malley", 'Jeffrey Sayre', 'Charles Sherlock', 'Ray Spiker', 'Helene Stanley', 'Larry Steers', 'Houseley Stevenson', 'Charles Sullivan', 'William Tannen', 'Phil Tully', 'Glen Walters', 'Frank Wilcox', 'Harry Wilson', 'Bill Wolfe', 'Al Wyatt Sr.', 'Sam Harris', 'Charles Ferguson', 'Richard Bartell', 'Mary Bear', 'William Bruce', 'Edwin Chandler', 'William Cottrell', 'Jack Deery', 'George Farmer', 'Tom Ferrandini', 'Ted French', 'Slim Gaut', 'John Giles', 'Avery Graves', 'Jimmie Horan', 'James Linn', 'H.C. Miller', 'Truett Myers', "Frank O'Connor", 'Sammy Shack', 'Irving Smith', 'George Taylor', 'Al Thompson', 'Glen Thompson', 'A.C. Tillman', 'Reba Waterson']
| 3.62
| null |
War, Noir, Drama, Political drama
| 109
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Columbia Pictures']
| 13,066
|
oscar-winner
|
oscar-winning-films-best-picture
| null |
Reporter Jack Burden is sent on assignment to write about Willie Stark, a man running for county treasurer in an unnamed Southern state. Stark's campaign is run on honesty and talking about the corruption of the local politicians. Burden meets Stark and his family and writes an inspiring story on Stark's honesty and courage. Using their power, including sway over the police, the local political machine shuts out Stark. After his loss, Stark earns a law degree. When a shoddily-constructed school in his county experiences a structural collapse that kills 12 students during a fire drill, Stark is encouraged to work on their legal affairs at the children's funeral, and he ultimately wins a lawsuit against the county, leading to a state-wide investigation. Willie uses this to build his political momentum, and he is eventually drafted as a spoiler candidate for Governor by the frontrunner in a three-way race.
Stark embarks on the campaign trail with Sadie Burke, an associate of the campaign installed as a mole from a rival candidate, and Burden. Initially Stark has trouble on the campaign trail as he speaks obtusely and plainly about his balanced budget plan for the state. However, once Burke reveals he is just a spoiler candidate, Stark begins to give more impassioned and effective speeches. During this time, Burden continues to report on Stark's campaign, but he resigns after being told to stop writing positively about Stark. Ultimately Stark loses the race, but draws large grassroots support from the rural areas of the state as he identifies as one of them - a fooled "hick."
Over the next four years, Stark realizes how to win and continues to campaign and make backroom deals to gain political influence and campaign funds. Meanwhile, Burden has had a tough time finding another job, but is hired by Stark to serve as an opposition researcher for the campaign. Stark and Burden go back to Burden's home to convince Burden's friends and family to support the campaign. Skeptical of Stark's alleged deals and big promises, Adam, brother of Jack Burden's girlfriend, Anne Stanton, asks questions and is not fully convinced. However, Anne sensing his demagogic magnetism believes fully in Stark's message. Burden gets the group on board by promising State Attorney General to Anne's uncle, the honest Judge Stanton. Willie ends up winning the election in a landslide and is portrayed by newsreels as either a prairie messiah or incipient dictator.
During his time as Governor, Stark ends up utilizing his power in aggressive and corrupt ways as Burden develops a black book of biographical leverage to extract political favors and votes in support of their agenda. He covers up a scandal by a member of his administration, after which Judge Stanton resigns as Attorney General and publicly asserts Stark's corruption. Stark's loss of morals, corruption, and alienation from his small-town self is exacerbated as he philanders with many women, including Anne and Sadie. Feeling the pressure of his father's status, Stark's adopted college-aged son Tommy drinks to deal with his feelings about his father. Following a football practice where Stark berates Tommy for drinking, Tommy gets drunk and crashes his car, injuring himself and killing his female passenger. To combat the bad press, Stark pressures Tommy into a game despite him not being fully recovered. During the game, Tommy takes a rough hit and is rushed to the hospital. Stark, blaming himself for Tommy's injury, begs Adam, a surgeon, to do all he can. Adam, preferring to wait for a specialist, ultimately agrees to operate after Stark clumsily tries to entice him by offering to build a new hospital for the public. Tommy ends up a paraplegic.
Following this, Burden gives Anne evidence of Judge Stanton's possible past wrongdoing that Burden has buried out of respect for the judge's lifetime career. Stark begins his re-election campaign for Governor by visiting his estranged family. While there, Judge Stanton publicly blames Stark for the suspicious death of the father of the girl in Tommy's car accident after the father refused Stark's bribe to make it go away. An impeachment trial is brought against Stark and the judge controls how certain senators will vote at the trial. Stark issues orders to "turn the yokels out" to demonstrate in his support and there are concerns that he might use the state militia to remain in power. In desperation, Stark visits Judge Stanton and attempts to strongarm him to release his senators with the evidence that Burden found, given to him by Anne. However, Judge Stanton commits suicide, and the impeachment ends with Stark's acquittal.
During Stark's public victory celebration, Adam distraught over the pressure put on the judge mortally shoots Stark, believing that the only reason he was appointed as the director for the hospital was that his sister was Willie Stark's mistress. Having lost his respect for Stark, Burden tries to get Anne's agreement to find a way to destroy Stark's reputation following his death. Stark dies on the steps of the state capitol bemoaning his stolen opportunity for greatness and wondering why it happened to him.
|
All the President's Men
| 1,976
|
Alan J. Pakula
|
['Dustin Hoffman', 'Robert Redford', 'Jack Warden', 'Martin Balsam', 'Hal Holbrook', 'Jason Robards', 'Jane Alexander', 'Meredith Baxter', 'Ned Beatty', 'Stephen Collins', 'Penny Fuller', 'John McMartin', 'Robert Walden', 'Frank Wills', 'F. Murray Abraham', 'David Arkin', 'Henry Calvert', 'Dominic Chianese', 'Bryan Clark', 'Nicolas Coster', 'Lindsay Crouse', 'Valerie Curtin', 'Gene Dynarski', 'Nate Esformes', 'Ron Hale', 'Richard Herd', 'Polly Holliday', 'James Karen', 'Paul Lambert', 'Frank Latimore', 'Gene Lindsey', 'Anthony Mannino', 'Allyn Ann McLerie', 'James Murtaugh', "John O'Leary", 'Jess Osuna', 'Neva Patterson', 'George Pentecost', 'Penny Peyser', 'Joshua Shelley', 'Sloane Shelton', 'Lelan Smith', 'Jaye Stewart', 'Ralph Williams', 'George Wyner', 'Leroy Aarons', 'Donnlynn Bennett', 'Stanley Bennett Clay', 'Carol Coggin', 'Laurence Covington', 'John Devlin', 'John Furlong', 'Sidney Ganis', 'Amy Grossman', 'Cynthia Herbst', 'Basil Hoffman', 'Mark Holtzman', 'Jamie Smith-Jackson', 'Barbara Lipsky', 'Doug Llewelyn', 'Jeff MacKay', 'Irwin Marcus', 'Greg Martin', 'Ron Menchine', 'Christopher Murray', 'Jess Nadelman', 'Noreen Nielson', 'Florence Pepper', 'Barbara Perlman', 'Louis Quinn', 'Peter Salim', 'Shawn Shea', 'Marvin Smith', 'Pam Trager', 'Carol Trost', 'Richard Venture', 'Bill Willens', 'Wendell Wright', 'Al Beaudine', 'Gary Bohn', 'Stephen Burnette', 'Marcello Clay', 'Edward Coch Jr.', 'Cara Duff-MacCormick', 'Len Felber', 'Mel Gold', 'Bart Greene', 'Francine Henderson', 'Eugene Jackson', 'Pauline Lum', 'Robert S. Mills', 'Ray Pourchot', 'John Randolph', 'Bill Scully', 'Bob Templeton', 'Lance Vantile Whitfield', 'Spiro Agnew', 'Walter Cronkite', 'Thomas Eagleton', 'Gerald Ford', 'Richard Kleindienst', 'Pat Nixon', 'Richard Nixon', 'Ronald Ziegler']
| 4.16
| 4.5
|
Action, History, Political thriller, Political drama, Mystery, Drama, Suspense, Thriller, Detective fiction, Historical drama, Crime Fiction, Police procedural
| 138
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'Spanish']
|
['Wildwood Enterprises']
| 205,767
|
mystery
|
101-greatest-mystery-movies
| null |
On June 17, 1972, a security guard at the Watergate complex finds a door's bolt taped over to prevent it from locking. He calls the police, who find and arrest five burglars in the Democratic National Committee headquarters within the complex. The next morning, The Washington Post assigns new reporter Bob Woodward to the local courthouse to cover the story, which is considered of minor importance.
Woodward learns that the five men—James W. McCord Jr. and four Cuban-Americans from Miami—possessed electronic bugging equipment, and are represented by a high-priced "country club" attorney. At the arraignment, McCord identifies himself in court as having recently left the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and the others are also revealed to have CIA ties. Woodward connects the burglars to E. Howard Hunt, an employee of President Richard Nixon's White House counsel Charles Colson, and formerly of the CIA.
Carl Bernstein, another Post reporter, is assigned to cover the Watergate story with Woodward. The two young men are reluctant partners but work well together. Executive editor Benjamin Bradlee believes that their work lacks reliable sources and is not worthy of the Post's front page, but he encourages further investigation.
Woodward contacts a senior government official, an anonymous source he has used before and refers to as "Deep Throat". Communicating secretly, using a flag placed in a balcony flowerpot to signal meetings, they meet at night in an underground parking garage. Deep Throat speaks vaguely and with metaphors, avoiding substantial facts about the Watergate break-in, but promises to keep Woodward on the right path to the truth, advising Woodward to "follow the money".
Woodward and Bernstein connect the five burglars to corrupt activities involving campaign contributions to Nixon's Committee to Re-elect the President (CRP or CREEP). This includes a check for $25,000 paid by Kenneth H. Dahlberg, who Miami authorities identified when investigating the Miami-based burglars. However, Bradlee and others at the Post still doubt the investigation and its dependence on sources such as Deep Throat, wondering why the Nixon administration should break the law when the president is almost certain to defeat his opponent, Democratic nominee George McGovern.
Through former CREEP treasurer Hugh W. Sloan Jr., Woodward and Bernstein connect a slush fund of hundreds of thousands of dollars to White House chief of staff H. R. Haldeman—"the second most important man in this country"—and to former attorney general John N. Mitchell, now head of CREEP. They learn that CREEP was financing a "ratfucking" campaign to sabotage Democratic presidential candidates a year before the Watergate burglary, when Nixon was lagging behind Edmund Muskie in the polls.
While Bradlee's demand for thoroughness compels the reporters to obtain other sources to confirm the Haldeman connection, the White House issues a non-denial denial of the Post's above-the-fold story. Bradlee continues to encourage investigation.
Woodward again meets secretly with Deep Throat and demands he be less evasive. Very reluctantly, Deep Throat reveals that Haldeman masterminded the Watergate break-in and cover-up. He also states the cover-up was not only intended to camouflage the CREEP involvement, but also to hide "covert operations" involving "the entire U.S. intelligence community", including the CIA and FBI. He warns Woodward and Bernstein that their lives, and those of others, are in danger. When the two relay this information to Bradlee and tell him of the depth of the conspiracy, Bradlee realizes that a constitutional crisis is coming, but tells them to move forward with the story.
On January 20, 1973, Bernstein and Woodward type the full story, while a television in the newsroom shows Nixon taking the oath of office for his second term as president. A montage of Watergate-related teletype headlines from the following years is shown, ending with the report of Nixon's resignation and the inauguration of Gerald Ford on August 9, 1974.
|
Almayer's Folly
| 2,011
|
Chantal Akerman
|
['Stanislas Merhar', 'Marc Barbé', 'Aurora Marion', 'Zac Andrianasolo', 'Sakhna Oum', 'Solida Chan', 'Sun Yucheng', 'Bunthang Khim']
| 3.71
| 4
|
['Drama']
| 128
|
['Belgium', 'France', 'USA']
|
French
|
['French', 'Khmer', 'English']
|
['Artémis Productions', 'Liaison Cinématographique', 'Belgacom', 'Paradise Films', 'Canal+']
| 2,890
|
toxic-relationship
|
toxic-destructive-relationships
| null |
Almayer's Folly is about a poor businessman who dreams of finding a hidden gold mine and becoming very wealthy. He is a white European, married to a native Malayan; they have one daughter named Nina. They live in the village of Sambir, based on Tanjung Redeb in the Berau Regency of the East Kalimantan province, Indonesia. He fails to find the gold mine, and comes home saddened. Previously, he had heard that the British were planning to conquer the Pantai River (based on Berau River), and he had built a large, lavish house near where he resided at the time, in order to welcome the British, with whom he hopes he could trade. However, the conquest never took place, and the house remained unfinished. Some passing Dutch seamen had called the house "Almayer's Folly". Now, Almayer continually goes out for long trips, but eventually he stops doing so and stays home with his hopeless daydreams of riches and splendor. His native wife loathes him for this.
One day, a Malayan prince from Bali, Dain Maroola, comes to see Almayer about trading, and while there he falls in love with Nina. Mrs. Almayer keeps arranging meetings between Nina and Dain. She wants them to marry so her daughter could stay native, because she is highly distrustful of white men and their ways. Dain leaves but vows to return to help Almayer find the gold mine. When he does return, he goes straight to Lakamba, a Malayan Rajah, and tells him that he found the gold mine and that some Dutchmen had captured his ship. The Rajah tells him to kill Almayer before the Dutch arrive because he is not needed to find the gold now. The following morning, an unidentifiable native corpse is found floating in the river, wearing an ankle bracelet very similar to Dain's. Almayer is distraught because Dain is his only chance to find the mine. The corpse is actually that of his slave, who had died when his canoe overturned. Mrs. Almayer suggests that Dain put his anklet and ring on the body.
Mrs. Almayer plans to smuggle Dain away from the Dutch so he will not be arrested. She sneaks Nina away from her father, who is drinking with the Dutch. When Almayer awakes from his drunken stupor, a native slave girl tells him where Nina has gone, and Almayer tracks her to Dain's hiding place. Nina refuses to go back to avoid the slurs of the white society. During all this arguing, the slave girl informs the Dutch of Dain's whereabouts. Almayer said that he could never forgive Nina but would help them escape by taking them to the mouth of the river, where a canoe will take them from the clutches of the Dutch. After they escape, Almayer erases the lover's footprints, and returns to his house. Mrs. Almayer runs away to the Rajah for protection, taking all of Dain's dowry with her. All alone, Almayer breaks all his furniture in his home office, piles it in the centre of the room, and sets fire to it, burning the entire house to the ground along with it. He spends the rest of his days in "[His] Folly", where he smokes opium to forget his daughter. He eventually dies there.
|
Almost Famous
| 2,000
|
Cameron Crowe
|
['Billy Crudup', 'Frances McDormand', 'Kate Hudson', 'Jason Lee', 'Patrick Fugit', 'Zooey Deschanel', 'Michael Angarano', 'Anna Paquin', 'Fairuza Balk', 'Noah Taylor', 'John Fedevich', 'Mark Kozelek', 'Philip Seymour Hoffman', 'Liz Stauber', 'Jimmy Fallon', 'Olivia Rosewood', 'Bijou Phillips', 'Alice Marie Crowe', 'J.J. Cohen', 'Gary Kohn', 'Ray Porter', 'Mark Pellington', 'Eion Bailey', 'Terry Chen', 'Rainn Wilson', 'Erin Foley', 'Jesse Caron', 'Charles Walker', 'Jay Baruchel', 'Pauley Perrette', 'Peter Frampton', 'Zack Ward', 'Mitch Hedberg', 'Devin Corey', 'Pete Droge', 'Elaine Summers', 'Eric Stonestreet', 'Marc Maron', 'Shane Willard', 'Chris McElprang', 'John Patrick Amedori', 'Kate Peckham', 'Julia Decker', 'Brian Vaughan', 'Anthony Martelli', 'Zach Clairville', 'Ian Ridgeway', 'Isaac Curtiss', 'Chris Lennon Davis', 'Scott N. Stevens', 'Kevin Sussman', 'Reathel Bean', 'Tom Riis Farrell', 'Laura Bastianelli', 'Samuel Aaron Roberson', 'Brian Andreasen', 'Jared Hren', 'Mary Dragicevich', 'Aura Barr', 'Daniel Wilson', 'William Barillaro', 'Holly Maples', 'Matt Griesser', 'Susan Yeagley', 'Nicole Spector', 'Patrick Irmen', 'Nick Swardson', 'Cindy Weber', 'Kris Weber', 'Kimberly Weber', 'Kristin Weber', 'Samer Sourakli', 'Michelle Moretti', 'Ana Maria Quintana', 'Lisa Buchignani', 'Andrew Briedis', 'Greg Bronson', 'Mark Cirillo', 'Cindy Crowe', 'Wayne Doba', 'Bodhi Elfman', 'Elizabeth Friedman', 'Kyle Gass', 'Eric Rosenberg', 'Casey Slade', 'Marc Antonio Pritchett', 'Jimmy Star', 'Christine Vienna', 'Larry Weisberg', 'Jann Wenner', 'Patrick Williams', 'Evis Xheneti']
| 4.05
| 4
|
Music, Romance, Comedy, Adventure, Road, Drama, Teen, Tragicomedy, Comedy drama, Comedy music, Musical Drama
| 124
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['DreamWorks Pictures', 'Columbia Pictures', 'Vinyl Films']
| 644,192
|
comedy, road-movie
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time, coming-of-age-movies-that-made-us-feel-seen, road-movies-1
| null |
In San Diego 1969, child prodigy William Miller struggles to fit in. His life is further complicated after learning that his widowed college-professor mother Elaine has falsely led him to believe he is twelve years old. William is actually eleven, having started the first grade at five years old, and skipping fifth grade. Strong-willed Elaine's strict ban on rock music and her fear of pop culture have a lasting effect on her children, finally driving William's 18-year-old sister Anita to move to San Francisco and become a flight attendant.
Four years later in 1973, William, now fifteen, influenced by Anita's secret cache of rock albums, aspires to be a rock journalist, writing freelance articles for underground papers in San Diego. Rock journalist Lester Bangs, impressed with William's writing, gives him a $35 assignment to review a Black Sabbath concert. William is barred from backstage until the opening band Stillwater arrives and William flatters his way in. Lead guitarist Russell Hammond takes a liking to him and his new acquaintance, veteran groupie Penny Lane, who has taken him under her wing. Despite behaving as stereotypical groupies, Penny insists she and her friends are "band aids", a term she invented to describe female fans that are there more for the music than for the rock stars themselves.
On seeing William's article on Black Sabbath, Rolling Stone editor Ben Fong-Torres hires him to write an article about Stillwater and sends him on the road with the band aboard "Doris", Stillwater's aging but beloved bus. William interviews the other band members, but Russell avoids him. Tensions between Russell and lead singer Jeff Bebe become evident when the band's first T-shirt is produced, featuring Russell in full view while the rest of the band is in the shadows. William is jokingly called "the enemy" by the band as he is a journalist, but he gradually begins to lose his objectivity as he becomes integrated into their inner circle.
The record label hires Dennis, a professional manager, to handle problems with venues and promoters. Penny has to leave before the band reaches New York, where Russell's girlfriend Leslie will join them. Penny and her three protégée band aids are gambled away to another band in a poker game; Penny acts nonchalantly but is devastated. Meanwhile, Dennis charters a small plane so the band can play more gigs.
Penny shows up uninvited at the New York restaurant where they are celebrating the news that they are to be featured on the cover of Rolling Stone. Penny is asked to leave after her attempts to get Russell's attention are noticed. William chases her to her hotel, where he saves her from overdosing on quaaludes.
Flying to a gig the following day, the plane encounters severe weather. Fearing the plane will crash, everyone confesses their secrets, while Jeff and Russell's long-simmering conflicts erupt. William confesses his love for Penny after Jeff insults her. The plane lands safely in Tupelo, leaving everyone to ponder the changed atmosphere.
William arrives at the Rolling Stone office in San Francisco but has difficulty finishing the article. Seeking help, he calls Lester Bangs who says William got caught up in being part of the band. He says his perceived friendships with them are not real and advises him to "be honest... and unmerciful." Rolling Stone's editors rave over William's completed article, but Russell lies to the magazine's fact-checker, claiming most of it is false. Rolling Stone kills the article, crushing William. Anita encounters William in the airport and offers to take him anywhere; he chooses for them to go to San Diego, where their mother Elaine is glad to see them both.
Sapphire, one of the protégée "Band Aids", chastises Russell for betraying William. He then calls Penny, wanting to meet with her, but she tricks him by giving him William's address instead of her own. He arrives and finds himself face to face with William's mother who, during the tour, scolded him over the phone for his behavior. He apologizes to William and finally gives him an interview. Russell verifies the article to Rolling Stone, which runs it as a cover feature. Penny fulfills her long-standing fantasy to go to Morocco while Stillwater tours again by bus.
|
Alphaville
| 1,965
|
Jean-Luc Godard
|
['Eddie Constantine', 'Anna Karina', 'Akim Tamiroff', 'Valérie Boisgel', 'Jean-Louis Comolli', 'Michel Delahaye', 'Christa Lang', 'Jean-Pierre Léaud', 'László Szabó', 'Howard Vernon', 'Ernest Menzer', 'Jean-André Fieschi']
| 3.69
| null |
Romance, Science fiction, Noir, Drama, Suspense, Mystery, Thriller, Detective fiction, Police procedural
| 99
|
['France', 'Italy']
|
French
|
['French']
|
['Filmstudio', 'Athos Films', 'Chaumiane', 'André Michelin Productions']
| 79,713
|
sci-fi, top-rated
|
letterboxds-top-250-science-fiction-films
| null |
Lemmy Caution is a secret agent with the code number of 003 from "the Outlands". Entering Alphaville in his Ford Mustang, which in keeping with the film's otherworldliness he refers to as a Ford Galaxie,[3] he poses as a journalist named Ivan Johnson and claims to work for the Figaro-Pravda. Caution is on a series of missions. First, he searches for the missing agent Henri Dickson; second, he is to capture or kill the creator of Alphaville, Professor von Braun; lastly, he aims to destroy Alphaville and its dictatorial computer, Alpha 60. Alpha 60 is a sentient computer system created by von Braun, portrayed using an actual Bull Gamma 60 computer in the movie,[4] which is in complete control of all of Alphaville.
Alpha 60 has outlawed free thought and individualist concepts like love, poetry, and emotion in the city, replacing them with contradictory concepts or eliminating them altogether. One of Alpha 60's dictates is that "people should not ask 'why', but only say 'because'". People who show signs of emotion are presumed to be acting illogically and are executed. There is a dictionary in every hotel room that is continuously updated when words that are deemed to evoke emotion become banned. As a result, Alphaville is an inhuman, alienated society.
Images of the E = mc2 and E = hf (the equations of, respectively, special relativity and quantum mechanics) are displayed several times to refer to the scientism that underpins Alphaville. At one point, Caution passes through a place called the Grand Omega Minus, from where brainwashed people are sent out to the other "galaxies" to start strikes, revolutions, family rows, and student revolts.
As an archetypal American antihero private eye, in trenchcoat and with weathered visage, Lemmy Caution's old-fashioned machismo conflicts with the puritanical computer. The opposition of his role to logic (and that of other dissidents to the regime) is represented by faux quotations from Capitale de la douleur ("Capital of Pain"), a book of poems by Paul Éluard.
Caution meets Dickson, who soon dies in the process of making love to a "Seductress Third Class". Caution then enlists the assistance of Natacha von Braun, a programmer of Alpha 60 and daughter of Professor von Braun. Natacha is a citizen of Alphaville and, when questioned, says that she does not know the meaning of "love" or "conscience". Caution falls in love with her, and his love introduces emotion and unpredictability into the city. Natacha discovers, with the help of Lemmy Caution, that she was actually born outside Alphaville.
Professor von Braun was originally known as Leonard Nosferatu, but Caution is repeatedly told that Nosferatu no longer exists. The Professor himself talks infrequently, referring only vaguely to his hatred for journalists, and offering Caution the chance to join Alphaville, even going so far as to offer him the opportunity to rule a galaxy. When he refuses Caution's offer to go back to "the outlands", Caution kills him.
Alpha 60 converses with Lemmy Caution several times, and its mechanically produced voice is seemingly ever-present in the city. Caution eventually destroys or incapacitates it by telling it a riddle that involves something that Alpha 60 cannot comprehend: poetry. The concept of the individual self has been lost to the collectivized citizens of Alphaville, and this is the key to Caution's riddle.
At the end, Natacha realizes that it is her understanding of herself as an individual with desires. The film ends with her line "Je vous aime" ("I love you").
|
Amadeus
| 1,984
|
Miloš Forman
|
['F. Murray Abraham', 'Tom Hulce', 'Elizabeth Berridge', 'Roy Dotrice', 'Simon Callow', 'Christine Ebersole', 'Jeffrey Jones', 'Charles Kay', 'Kenneth McMillan', 'Kenny Baker', 'Lisbeth Bartlett', 'Barbara Bryne', 'Martin Cavina', 'Roderick Cook', 'Milan Demjanenko', 'Peter DiGesu', 'Richard Frank', 'Patrick Hines', 'Nicholas Kepros', 'Philip Lenkowsky', 'Herman Meckler', 'Jonathan Moore', 'Cynthia Nixon', 'Brian Pettifer', 'Vincent Schiavelli', 'Douglas Seale', 'Miroslav Sekera', 'Cassie Stuart', 'John Strauss', 'Karl-Heinz Teuber', 'Rita Zohar', 'Miro Grisa', 'Karel Gult', 'Ladislav KreÄmer', 'Karel Fiala', 'John Carrafa', 'Hana Brejchová', 'Miriam Chytilová', 'Karel Effa', 'René Gabzdyl', 'Karel Hábl', 'JiÅà KrytináÅ', 'Jan Kuželka', 'JiÅà LÃr', 'Jitka Molavcová', 'Pavel Nový', 'Jan Pohan', 'Tereza Pokorná-Herzová', 'Ivan Pokorný', 'Milan Riehs', 'Dana Vávrová', 'June Anderson', 'Isobel Buchanan', 'Anne Howells', 'Robin Leggate', 'Felicity Lott', 'Alexander Oliver', 'Samuel Ramey', 'Richard Stilwell', 'John Tomlinson', 'Willard White', 'Michele Esposito', 'ZdenÄk Mahler', 'VladimÃr SvitáÄek', 'Jana Musilová', 'Raymond Kurshals']
| 4.32
| 4
|
Comedy, History, Musical, Musical genre, Historical film, Drama, Costume drama, Comedy drama
| 161
|
['France', 'USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'German', 'Italian', 'Latin']
|
['The Saul Zaentz Company', 'AMLF', 'Orion Pictures']
| 421,270
|
oscar-winner
|
oscar-winning-films-best-picture, lb_top250
| null |
In the winter of 1823, aged composer Antonio Salieri is committed to a psychiatric hospital after attempting suicide, during which his servants overhear him confess to murdering Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. A young priest, Father Vogler, approaches Salieri and tells him to confess his sins and find God's peace. Salieri plays two of his own melodies for Vogler, who is unfamiliar with them, and then one of Mozart's, which the priest recognizes at once. Salieri begins his confession by saying that he idolized Mozart from childhood. Salieri recounts that he prayed to God that if He allowed Salieri to become a famous composer, he would—in return—promise his faithfulness, chastity and diligence. Soon after, his father, who had not been supportive of his musical desires, chokes on his food and dies and Salieri takes it as a sign that God has accepted his vow. By 1774, Salieri had become court composer to Emperor Joseph II in Vienna.
Seven years later, at a reception in honor of Mozart's patron, the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg, Salieri anxiously awaits meeting his idol. Guessing his identity, he is shocked to discover that the transcendentally talented Mozart is obscene, silly, and immature. Salieri, a devout Catholic, cannot fathom why God would endow such a great gift onto Mozart instead of him and concludes that God is using Mozart's talent to make Salieri a mediocrity. Salieri renounces God and vows to take revenge on Him by destroying Mozart.
Meanwhile, Mozart's alcoholism ruins his health, marriage, finances, and reputation at court, even as he continues to produce brilliant work. Salieri hires a young girl to work as Mozart's maid and thereby discovers that Mozart is working on an opera based on the play The Marriage of Figaro, which the Emperor has forbidden, owing to its subversive theme. When Mozart is summoned to court to explain, he manages to convince the Emperor to allow his opera to premiere, despite Salieri's attempts at sabotage. When Mozart is informed that his father has died, he writes Don Giovanni in his grief.
Salieri recognizes the dead commander in the opera as symbolic of Mozart's father and concocts a scheme: he leads Mozart to believe that his father has risen to commission a Requiem. He then plans to kill Mozart once the piece is finished and premiere it at Mozart's funeral, claiming the work as his own, forcing God to listen as Salieri is acclaimed. Meanwhile, Mozart's friend Emanuel Schikaneder invites him to write an opera for his theatre. Mozart obliges, despite his wife Constanze's insistence that he finish the Requiem, as the opera is a riskier venture. After arguing with Mozart, Constanze leaves with their young son, Karl.
The opera in question, The Magic Flute, is a great success, but the overworked Mozart collapses during one performance. Salieri takes him home and persuades him to continue writing the Requiem, offering to take the bedridden Mozart's dictation; the two lay down the opening of the Confutatis together. The next morning, Mozart thanks Salieri for his friendship and Salieri admits that Mozart is the greatest composer he knows. Constanze returns and, appalled at Mozart working with Salieri, demands that Salieri leave immediately. After putting away the Requiem into a cabinet, she finds that Mozart has passed away; he is unceremoniously buried in a mass grave.
Back in 1823, Vogler is too shaken to absolve Salieri; Salieri then surmises that God preferred to destroy His beloved Mozart rather than allow Salieri to share in the smallest part of his glory. He calls himself the "patron saint" of mediocrities; he promises, with bitter irony, to speak for Vogler and the other mediocrities of the world before God. As Salieri is wheeled down a hallway, absolving the hospital's other patients of their inadequacies, Mozart's laughter rings in the air.
|
Ambulance
| 2,022
|
Michael Bay
|
['Jake Gyllenhaal', 'Yahya Abdul-Mateen II', 'Eiza González', 'Garret Dillahunt', "Keir O'Donnell", 'Jackson White', 'Olivia Stambouliah', 'Moses Ingram', 'Colin Woodell', 'Cedric Sanders', 'A Martinez', 'Jesse Garcia', 'Jose Pablo Cantillo', 'Wale Folarin', 'Devan Chandler Long', 'Victor Gojcaj', 'Briella Guiza', 'Brendan Miller', 'Remi Adeleke', 'Jamie McBride', 'Corey Portugal', 'Jenn Proske', 'Kayli Tran', 'Paul Thoma', 'Nitro Zeus', 'Justin Scott', 'Brendan Robinson', 'Annabelle Gurwitch', 'Cici Lau', 'Sharon Omi', 'Melody Melendez', 'Jung Park', 'Chelsea Harris', 'Evan Metropoulos', 'Jesse Gabbard', 'McColm Cephas Jr.', 'Andy Favreau', 'Max Ferro', 'Sheila Houlahan', 'Chris Kalhoon', 'Max Reeves', 'Gary Sievers', 'Tony Wade', 'Charlotte Xia']
| 2.97
| 3.5
|
Action, Horror, Thriller, Adventure, Drama, Crime film, Suspense, Detective fiction, Crime Fiction, Police procedural
| 136
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'Portuguese', 'Spanish']
|
['Universal Pictures', 'Bay Films', 'Endeavor Content', 'New Republic Pictures', 'Project X Entertainment']
| 200,649
|
heist
|
heist-movies
| null |
Afghanistan Marine veteran Will Sharp, desperately needing money for his wife Amy's surgery, reaches out to Danny, his adoptive brother and a life-long criminal. Danny talks him into taking part in a $32 million bank heist. Though initially hesitant, Will agrees after Danny reaffirms that he is doing this for Amy. The plan nearly succeeds until Officer Zach, who goes to the bank to ask out a bank teller, discovers the situation and is held hostage. A shootout then occurs between one of the heist members and Zach's partner Officer Mark. The Special Investigation Section (SIS) of the LAPD arrives, killing and arresting most of the crew except for Will and Danny, who retreat toward the garage. Zach attempts to escape and during a scuffle is accidentally shot by Will. Leaving Zach to die, the brothers attempt to exit through the back of the building but find it surrounded by police. They then hijack an ambulance with EMT Cam Thompson, who is treating the injured Zach, on board. After a chase that leads them into an alleyway, Cam makes a desperate attempt to escape using a fire extinguisher but is quickly recaptured by Danny.
SIS Captain Monroe arrives on the scene and deploys helicopters to chase after the ambulance. Cam gets Danny to help her use a defibrillator and Will to transfer some of his blood to Zach, much to his confusion and frustration. Danny then calls Papi, one of his father's criminal friends, for help losing the police in exchange for $8 million. When Cam stops Danny from shooting Mark, who has been chasing them, Danny threatens to throw her off the ambulance. The police are forced to retreat when it is discovered that Monroe's dog is inside Mark's police vehicle. FBI Agent Anson Clark, a past friend of Danny's, is put on the case. Zach begins to bleed out; Cam, with Will's assistance, begins to perform surgery on Zach. Despite her inexperience and a ruptured spleen, Cam successfully performs the surgery. Cam tries to convince Will to stop Danny, to no avail. Monroe, unaware of the surgery's success, moves forward with the operation and prepares to snipe Will and Danny without negotiating for Cam's life. Clark calls Cam and tells her to get down. Cam, wanting to save Zach's life, alerts Will and Danny about the snipers. Danny, having had enough of Cam, decides to shoot her, but Will intervenes, causing the brothers to fight about their predicament. They later partially reconcile and listen to music together to ease the tension.
In the Los Angeles River, helicopters chase the ambulance as Danny shoots at them. Will and Danny then drive on the opposite lane of the interstate, creating multiple accidents. On Papi's orders, his son, Roberto, drives an empty ambulance towards the police after filling it with C-4 explosives and deploys machine guns on separate cars to cause additional damage, which ends up wounding Monroe in the crossfire. Mark chases down Roberto and fatally shoots him after a scuffle, leaving Papi angry and distraught. Will and Danny escape to Papi's hideout. Papi demands the brothers leave Zach and Cam with them to deal with; Will refuses to cooperate and teams up with Danny to kill Papi and his crew. In the chaos, Cam accidentally shoots Will using Zach's gun. Danny takes the ambulance to a hospital and discovers Zach's gun. He is enraged when Cam reveals that she was the one who shot Will. Danny vows to kill Cam along with himself on live television before confronting the police. Left with no other choice, Will shoots Danny in the back. Danny apologizes to Will before he dies from his injuries. The police arrest a heavily injured Will and take him inside for surgery, Cam secretly gives some of the heist money to Amy for her surgery, and Zach, when questioned by the police about his injuries, tells them that Will saved his life.
|
American Beauty
| 1,999
|
Sam Mendes
|
['Kevin Spacey', 'Annette Bening', 'Thora Birch', 'Wes Bentley', 'Mena Suvari', 'Peter Gallagher', 'Allison Janney', 'Chris Cooper', 'Scott Bakula', 'Sam Robards', 'Barry Del Sherman', 'Ara Celi', 'John Cho', 'Fort Atkinson', 'Sue Casey', 'Kent Faulcon', 'Brenda Wehle', 'Lisa Cloud', 'Alison Faulk', 'Krista Goodsitt', 'Lily Houtkin', 'Carolina Lancaster', 'Mona Leah', 'Chekesha Van Putten', 'Emily Zachary', 'Nancy Anderson', 'Reshma Gajjar', 'Stephanie Rizzo', 'Heather Joy Sher', 'Chelsea Hertford', 'Amber Smith', 'Joel McCrary', 'Marissa Jaret Winokur', 'Dennis Anderson', 'Matthew Kimbrough', 'Erin Cathryn Strubbe', 'Bruce Cohen', 'Elaine Corral Kendall', 'James Hunter', 'Spencer Kayden', 'Tom Miller']
| 3.96
| null |
Romance, Comedy, Drama, LGBTQ, Satire, Dark comedy, Comedy drama
| 122
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['DreamWorks Pictures', 'Jinks/Cohen Company']
| 1,318,139
|
sad, oscar-winner, emotional
|
sad-movies-if-you-feel-like-you-need-to-cry, oscar-winning-films-best-picture
| null |
Lester Burnham, a middle-aged media executive in suburbia, despises his job and is unhappily married to neurotic, ambitious real estate agent Carolyn. Their 16-year-old daughter, Jane, hates her parents and has low self-esteem. Retired Marine colonel Frank Fitts, his near-catatonic wife Barbara, and their teenage son Ricky move in next door. Ricky documents the world around him with a camcorder, collecting recordings on videotape in his bedroom, as he finds beauty in unexpected places and things. To pay for supplies, he deals marijuana, using his part-time catering jobs as a front. A strict and abusive disciplinarian, Frank previously had Ricky sent to a psychiatric hospital and military school. Gay couple Jim Olmeyer and Jim Berkley, also neighbors, welcome the Fitts family, angering the homophobic Frank.
One evening during a cheerleading routine at a school basketball game, Lester becomes infatuated with Jane's friend Angela Hayes, who brags to her classmates about being sexually experienced. He starts having sexual fantasies about her, in which red rose petals are a recurring motif. Carolyn begins an affair with married real estate rival Buddy Kane. Lester quits his job, blackmails his supervisor Brad into giving him a generous severance package and starts working as a fry cook at a fast food restaurant. He also buys his dream car, a 1970 Pontiac Firebird, and starts exercising with coaching from the Jims after overhearing Angela teasing Jane that she would have sex with Lester if he improved his physique. He begins smoking marijuana supplied by Ricky and returning Angela's flirts. The girls' friendship wanes when Jane starts a relationship with Ricky; while Angela thinks he is strange, Jane appreciates him for focusing on the beauty he sees within her.
Lester discovers Carolyn's infidelity when she orders a meal with Buddy at the fast food's drive through. Buddy fears a costly divorce and ends the affair, while Carolyn is humiliated and simultaneously frustrated by her lack of professional success. Frank finds Ricky's recording of a nude Lester working out and becomes suspicious of their friendship, assuming that they are sexually involved after spying on their drug session; he viciously accuses Ricky of being gay and expels him from the house, to which Ricky defiantly agrees. Carolyn, driving home, withdraws a handgun from the glove box as she listens to a self-help tape. At home, Jane argues with Angela over the latter's sexual interest in Lester when Ricky interrupts to ask Jane to leave with him for New York City, before he dismisses Angela as uninteresting and unattractive.
Frank tentatively approaches Lester in the Burnhams' garage, then breaks down and tearfully embraces him. Lester comforts Frank until Frank attempts to kiss him, so he gently rebuffs him. Lester finds Angela alone and consoles her, then professes his attraction to her during their conversation. As he begins to undress her on the couch, she admits her virginity. Lester realizes that she had feigned being sexually experienced, and he cannot continue. He bonds with her as they share their frustrations. Angela goes to the bathroom as Lester smiles at a family photograph, when an unseen figure shoots him in the back of the head at point-blank range.
Ricky and Jane, who had earlier considered killing Lester themselves, find his body. In the master closet, Carolyn discards her gun and hugs Lester's clothing. A blood-soaked Frank returns home, a gun missing from his collection. Lester's closing narration describes meaningful experiences during his life, for which he expresses gratitude. Despite being murdered, he is finally happy knowing that beauty can be found anywhere in the world.
|
American Folk
| 2,017
|
David Heinz
|
['Joe Purdy', 'Amber Rubarth', 'Krisha Fairchild', 'David Fine', 'Bruce Beatty', 'Elizabeth Dennehy', 'Miranda LaDawn Hill', 'Emma Thatcher', 'Holger Moncada Jr.', 'Julian Gopal', 'Lawrence Mandley', 'Noah Craft', 'Bradford Barnes', 'Paul White', 'Michelle West', 'Maryann Strossner', 'Ricky Aynes', 'Isabella George Brown', 'Randy Perry', 'Andrew Walton', 'Greg Williams']
| 3.27
| 3.5
|
Musical, Drama
| 96
| null |
English
|
['English']
|
['Good Deed Entertainment']
| 471
|
road-movie
|
road-movies-1
| null |
Plot section not found.
|
American History X
| 1,998
|
Tony Kaye
|
['Edward Norton', 'Edward Furlong', "Beverly D'Angelo", 'Jennifer Lien', 'Ethan Suplee', 'Fairuza Balk', 'Avery Brooks', 'Elliott Gould', 'Stacy Keach', 'William Russ', 'Guy Torry', 'Joe Cortese', 'Jason Bose Smith', 'Antonio David Lyons', 'Alex Sol', 'Keram Malicki-Sánchez', 'Giuseppe Andrews', 'Michelle Christine White', 'Jonathan Fowler Jr.', 'Christopher Masterson', 'Nicholas R. Oleson', 'Jordan Marder', 'Paul Le Mat', 'Thomas L. Bellissimo', 'Cherish Lee', 'Sam Vlahos', 'Tara Blanchard', 'Anne Lambton', 'Steve Wolford', 'Richard Noyce', 'Danso Gordon', 'Jim Norton', 'David Basulto', 'Alexis Rose Coen', 'Kiante Elam', 'Paul Hopkins', 'Keith Odett', 'Paul E. Short', 'Nigel Miguel', 'Darrell Britt', "Robert 'Duckie' Carpenter", "Sydney 'Big Dawg' Colston", 'John Embry', 'Maximillian Kesmodel', 'Allie Moss', 'Barbie Marie', 'Selwyn Ward', 'Sam Sarpong', 'Denney Pierce', 'Glendon Rich']
| 4.13
| null |
Action, Drama, Crime film, Suspense, Mystery, Thriller, Detective fiction, Indie film, Crime Fiction, Coming-of-age story, Police procedural, Crime Thriller
| 119
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['New Line Cinema', 'Savoy Pictures', 'The Turman-Morrissey Company']
| 794,606
|
sad, emotional
|
sad-movies-if-you-feel-like-you-need-to-cry
| null |
Danny Vinyard antagonizes his Jewish history teacher Murray by writing an essay on Mein Kampf. As a result, African-American principal and outreach worker Dr. Bob Sweeney forces him to study history directly under him through current events, "American History X," or be expelled. Danny must write a paper on his older brother Derek, Sweeney's former student and neo-Nazi leader, whose prison release is that day.
Years earlier, Danny and Derek's firefighter father was shot and killed by a black drug dealer while extinguishing a fire at their home. Immediately afterwards, Derek erupts in a televised, racially motivated tirade. High-profile neo-Nazi Cameron Alexander becomes his mentor and they form a violent white supremacist gang called the Disciples of Christ (D.O.C.) in Venice Beach.
A skilled basketball player, Derek defeats several Crips members, winning control of the local ball courts. Later, he organizes an attack on an Asian-owned supermarket employing black people and immigrants.
Derek's mother Doris invites Murray, her then boyfriend, to dinner where an argument about Rodney King and the 1992 Los Angeles riots ensues. Derek assaults his sister Davina and openly berates Murray, causing Doris to banish Derek.
That night, the Crips Derek had beaten on the court attempt to steal his truck. When Danny alerts him, he kills two of them, one with a bullet and the other, by curb stomping him in front of Danny. He is arrested and sentenced to three years in the California Institution for Men for voluntary manslaughter.
In prison, Derek joins the Aryan Brotherhood and befriends black inmate Lamont. Disillusioned by prison gang politics, he disapproves of their dealings with non-white gangs for narcotics, as they are using the philosophy of white supremacy out of convenience. He loses his belief further when nobody from the D.O.C. visits him. He ultimately abandons the Aryan Brotherhood, who then beat and rape him in the communal shower.
Derek is visited in the hospital wing by Sweeney, with whom he pleads for help to get out of prison. Sweeney rebukes him for wanting to avoid dealing with the consequences of his actions, revealing his own racist past and warning that Danny has joined the D.O.C. to follow in Derek's footsteps. After recovering and leaving the hospital wing, Derek ignores the Aryan Brotherhood while Lamont warns that he may be targeted by African-American gangs as the Brotherhood no longer protects him. An attack never comes, and Derek spends the remainder of his sentence alone. Upon release, Derek thanks Lamont for intervening on his behalf.
Returning home, Derek finds Danny sporting a D.O.C. tattoo and becoming a skinhead. When Derek tries to persuade him to leave the gang, Danny feels betrayed. Derek's best friend Seth, also a D.O.C. member, frequently disrespects Derek's mother and sister while grooming Danny for the group; Cameron controls Seth and Danny closely.
At a D.O.C. compound party, Derek confronts Cameron for using, then abandoning him for three years. He declares his departure from the group and refusal to allow them to use Danny similarly. When mocked, Derek brutally beats Cameron. Seth and the others, including Derek's ex-girlfriend Stacey, turn against Derek. Seth pulls a gun, but Derek easily disarms him and holds everyone at gunpoint before fleeing, tossing the gun into a nearby bin.
Danny finds Derek and angrily confronts him over his actions. So, Derek tells him about his experience in prison, which seems to prompt a change in him. They return home and remove racist posters from their shared bedroom. The next morning, Danny completes his paper, reflecting on why he adopted neo-Nazi values from Derek, who most likely adopted them from their father, as shown in a flashback.
Derek walks Danny to school, stopping at a diner. Sweeney and a police officer inform him that Seth and Cameron were attacked the night before and are in an intensive care unit. He denies knowing anything but reluctantly agrees to inspect the people he denounced.
Danny is shot dead in a bathroom by a Black student he had confronted the day before. Derek runs to the school, pushing past crowds, police, and tape to find Danny's bloodied corpse. He cradles Danny's body in hysterics, blaming himself for influencing his views and actions. In a voiceover, Danny reads the final lines of his paper for Dr. Sweeney, quoting the final stanza of Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address.
|
American Pie
| 1,999
|
Paul Weitz
|
['Jason Biggs', 'Chris Klein', 'Thomas Ian Nicholas', 'Alyson Hannigan', 'Shannon Elizabeth', 'Tara Reid', 'Eddie Kaye Thomas', 'Seann William Scott', 'Eugene Levy', 'Natasha Lyonne', 'Mena Suvari', 'Jennifer Coolidge', 'Chris Owen', 'Eric Lively', 'Molly Cheek', 'Eli Marienthal', 'Tara Subkoff', 'Lawrence Pressman', 'Clyde Kusatsu', 'Christina Milian', 'Woody Schultz', 'Annika Hays', 'Eden Riegel', 'Justin Isfeld', 'John Cho', 'Alexandra Adi', 'Akuyoe Graham', 'Veronica Lauren', 'Monica McSwain', 'Fletcher Sheridan', 'Robyn Roth', 'Jamar Cargo', 'Sasha Barrese', 'Linda Gehringer', 'Ashton Dane', 'Katie Lansdale', 'Jay Rossi', 'James DeBello', 'Travis Cody Aimer', 'Mark Hoppus', 'Tom DeLonge', 'Scott Raynor', 'Daniel Spink', 'Clementine Ford', 'Amber Phillips', 'Casey Erklin', 'Hilary Angelo', 'Jasmine Stocken', 'Jillian Bach', 'David Kuhn', 'Dan Coronel', 'Pete Pallad', 'J.D. Doyle', 'Lito Coronel', 'Markus Botnick', 'Robby Murakami', 'Addison Krantz', 'Alex Nies', 'Roger Sewell', 'Donald J. Collins', 'Ryan Bates', 'Joe Park', 'Walter Toole', 'Travis Petraglia', 'Richard Schoenberg', 'Amon Button', 'Steven Hopkins', 'Peter McPartlin', 'Sean Elder', 'Sean Whitacre', 'Jon Mark Fabiano', 'Ian Televik', 'Joshua Mele', 'Gian Caputo', 'Garret Kellenberger', 'Timothy Sovay', 'Steven McAfoose', 'Kevin Tidgewell', 'Jesse Patterson', 'Jeff Schwartz', 'Chris Loudos', 'Lyle Tomlinson', 'Sami Atayan', 'Kurt Zimmerman', 'Tom Christian', 'Dustan Beitey', 'Chris McGnie', 'Tri C. Nguyen', 'Kirk Lamitie', 'Todd Samuel Parker', 'Casey Affleck', 'Chris Weitz', 'Crystal the Monkey', 'Jim Henry', 'Travis Barker', 'Jennifer Austin', 'Ingrid K. Behrens', 'Sheypan Draus', 'Mark-Eugene Garcia', 'Carmi Greene', 'Melissa Noble', 'Jami Philbrick', 'Marek Probosz', 'Marilyn Staley']
| 3.1
| null |
Comedy, Teen, Sex comedy, Romance, Animation, Coming-of-age story, Drama
| 95
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Universal Pictures', 'Newmarket Capital Group', 'Zide-Perry Productions']
| 605,025
|
friendship
|
favorite-friendship-driven-movies
| null |
At East Great Falls High School, Michigan, four friends await the end of their final school year before college: the sexually inexperienced Jim Levenstein; the insensitive school lacrosse star Chris "Oz" Ostreicher; the intellectual and philosophical Paul Finch; and Kevin Myers, who is desperate to have sex with his girlfriend Vicky. During a house party hosted by womanizing jock Steven Stifler, the friends learn that their dorky classmate Chuck Sherman has apparently lost his virginity. Frustrated by their own lack of sexual experience, the four friends make a pact to lose their virginity by prom night in three weeks.
Kevin struggles to seduce Vicky, who wants to wait for the perfect moment to lose her virginity and fears that Kevin only wants sex because he will not say that he loves her. On the advice of Vicky's friend Jessica, Kevin tries to win Vicky over by giving her an orgasm. Guided by his older brother, he discovers a book of sex tips compiled by former students and uses the 'Tongue Tornado' cunnilingus technique to successfully rekindle their relationship. Finch pays Jessica to spread rumors about his sexual prowess and large genitalia, making him popular with the high school girls. When Stifler's prom date ditches him, hoping Finch will ask her instead, Stifler spikes Finch's mochaccino with a laxative and sends him to the girls' restroom, where he experiences explosive diarrhea. A crowd gathers to mock Finch, ruining his carefully crafted reputation. Oz joins the school choir to pursue girls unaware of his reputation, but he learns to enjoy performing, and gains the attention of choir girl, Heather, who invites him to the prom. She rescinds the offer after realizing Oz is faking his sensitive persona, but reconciles with him after seeing his genuine efforts to change.
Desperate for experience, Jim, inspired by Oz's description of a vagina, has sex with a warm apple pie, but is humiliated after being caught by his father. When Czech foreign exchange student Nadia asks Jim to help her study at his house after her ballet class, Stifler convinces him to set up a webcam so they can watch her change clothes. Jim unwittingly shares the livestream with the school's entire e-mail directory, letting everyone watch as Nadia undresses and masturbates to Jim's porn collection. Kevin and Finch encourage Jim to walk in on Nadia, which he does, and she invites him to join her but, to her disappointment, he prematurely ejaculates twice before they can have sex. After this public incident, Nadia is sent back to the Czech Republic, and Jim becomes the laughingstock of the school. Frustrated, and believing she did not see the livestream, Jim asks the ostracized and seemingly naive band geek, Michelle, to the prom.
As school draws to a close, Oz, realizing his feelings for Heather have become sincere, abandons his lacrosse championship game to perform a duet with her. At the prom, Kevin insists Jim, Oz, and Finch fulfil their pact and lose their virginities, but they refuse, frustrated at the social pressures to have sex for the sake of it, and accuse Kevin of using the pact to hide his own fear of losing his virginity. After learning that Sherman lied about having sex, the boys reconcile with Kevin, who admits he is afraid.
At Stifler's lake house post-prom party, Kevin finally tells Vicky he loves her and they have sex. Afterward, Vicky ends their relationship, admitting it is unrealistic for them to maintain a long distance romance while attending different colleges; they part while affirming their love for each other. Oz confesses his feelings to Heather and they spend a romantic night together by the lake. Finch propositions Stifler's mom and they have sex on the pool table; Stifler later walks in on them and faints. Michelle reveals her aggressive sexuality and takes Jim upstairs to lose his virginity. The next day, Jim, Oz, Finch, and Kevin meet up and discuss how things will change after high school, making a toast to their next step.
|
American Pop
| 1,981
|
Ralph Bakshi
|
['Ron Thompson', 'Lisa Jane Persky', 'Jeffrey Lippa', 'Frank De Kova', 'Roz Kelly', 'Mews Small', 'Elsa Raven', 'Vincent Schiavelli', 'Richard Moll', 'Lynda Wiesmeier', 'Lee Ving', 'Jerry Holland', 'Gene Borkan', 'Rick Singer', 'Ben Frommer', 'Amy Levitt', 'Leonard Stone', 'Eric Taslitz', 'Beatrice Colen', 'Hilary Beane', 'Phillip Simms', 'Marcello Krakoff', 'Ken Johnson', 'Barney Pell', 'Robert Strom', 'Gene Woodbury', 'Mark Levine', 'Ty Grimes', 'Peter Glindeman', 'Auburn Burrell', 'Aleshia Brevard', 'Elya Baskin', 'M.B. West', 'Joey Camen', 'Umberto Autore Jr.', 'Tony Autore', 'Johnny Brogna', 'Dawn Agrella', 'Cari Anne Warder', 'Don Carlson', 'Vance Colvig', 'Robert Beecher', 'Tony Fasce', 'Frank Ciaravino', 'Gene Krischer', 'D.A. Young', 'Spit Stix', 'Derf Scratch', 'Philo Cramer', 'Chester Hayes', 'Chuck Mitchell', 'Ralph Bakshi', 'Helen Morgan']
| 3.71
| null |
Music, Animation, Comedy, History, Musical, Drama, Musical Drama, Indie film
| 96
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'Hebrew (modern)', 'Russian', 'Yiddish']
|
['Bakshi Productions', 'Aspen Productions', 'Columbia Pictures']
| 9,565
|
animated
|
vote-best-animated-films-of-all-time
| null |
In Imperial Russia during the late 1890s, a rabbi's wife and her young son Zalmie escape to America while the rabbi is killed by the Cossacks. Shortly after their arrival in New York City, Zalmie is recruited by Louie, a performer at a burlesque house, to hand out chorus slips (sheets of paper with song chorus lyrics, used to enable audience members to sing along[7]). As Zalmie grows into adolescence, he spends more time with Louie backstage at burlesque shows. When Zalmie's mother dies in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, he begins working with Louie full-time at a small theatre. Though Zalmie aspires to be a singer, he is beginning to enter puberty and his changing voice becomes a significant obstacle. When World War I strikes, Zalmie travels the globe performing for the troops as the bottom half of a pantomime horse and sustains a wound to his throat during a German air raid, which ends his singing career.
When Zalmie returns to New York, he briefly continues performing as a clown, and falls in love with a stripper named Bella, vowing to make her a famous singer and getting involved with mobsters in order to do so. After Zalmie impregnates her, he uses money from mob boss Nicky Palumbo to pay for their wedding. Bella achieves modest success, but she is killed after opening a package containing a bomb intended for Zalmie. Their son, Benny, who is already an introverted child, focuses all of his efforts into becoming a talented jazz pianist. Benny marries Palumbo's daughter at Zalmie's request and enlists to fight in World War II seeking redemption for his family, despite pleas from his father. Benny is killed in Nazi Germany when he stops to play on an abandoned piano and is caught off-guard by a Nazi soldier; Benny begins to play Lili Marleen and the Nazi closes his eyes in bliss, but when the song ends, the Nazi pauses only to thank Benny before riddling him and the piano with gunfire. Benny's wife and son, named Tony, now live in a suburban Long Island town, and they watch as Zalmie testifies against Palumbo on television, calling him a rat.
A teenage Tony steals his stepfather's car and drives across the country for four weeks, ending up in Kansas, where he spends the day washing dishes at a diner and spends the night with a waitress. In California, Tony takes another job dishwashing, but soon grows tired of it and quits. A six-piece rock group invites him to write songs for them after hearing him playing a harmonica under their doorstep. The band becomes successful but slowly starts to decompose because of the heroin addictions of female lead singer Frankie Heart and Tony himself. Tony becomes addicted to drugs after being hospitalized from falling off a stage while on acid at one of Frankie's shows. Frankie and the band's drummer, Johnny Webb, marry but divorce after two weeks, and Frankie begins an affair with Tony. In Kansas, the band is set to perform after Jimi Hendrix, but Frankie overdoses backstage. Meanwhile, Tony meets a blonde, blue-eyed boy, Little Pete, whom Tony realizes is his son, conceived the night he spent with the waitress.
Tony moves back to New York City accompanied by Pete, where he becomes heavily involved with drug dealing. Pete makes a small amount of money playing the acoustic guitar, but Tony takes any money that Pete earns to buy drugs for himself. One day, Tony and Pete argue over the latter's guitar, where Pete implies that he knows Tony is his father. After he tells the story of his own father, Tony gives Benny's harmonica to Pete, then takes Pete's guitar to pawn it, telling Pete to wait on the city bench they're at. The next morning, a man approaches Pete and gives him a small package of drugs to sell and the pawn slip for his guitar and tells Pete that Tony said goodbye to him. After years of selling drugs to rock bands, Pete refuses to sell the band members any more cocaine unless they are willing to listen to his music. Playing "Night Moves", his talent stuns both the band and the management and they agree to record and hire him on the spot. Eventually, Pete performs in concert with the band to roaring cheers from the crowd.
|
American Psycho
| 2,000
|
Mary Harron
|
['Christian Bale', 'Justin Theroux', 'Josh Lucas', 'Bill Sage', 'Chloë Sevigny', 'Reese Witherspoon', 'Samantha Mathis', 'Matt Ross', 'Jared Leto', 'Willem Dafoe', 'Cara Seymour', 'Guinevere Turner', 'Stephen Bogaert', 'Monika Meier', 'Reg E. Cathey', 'Blair Williams', 'Marie Dame', 'Kelley Harron', 'Patricia Gage', 'Krista Sutton', 'Landy Cannon', 'Park Bench', 'Catherine Black', 'Margaret Ma', 'Peter Tufford Kennedy', 'Mark Pawson', 'Jessica Lau', 'Lilette Wiens', 'Glen Marc Silot', 'Charlotte Hunter', 'Kiki Buttignol', 'Joyce R. Korbin', 'Reuben Thompson', 'Bryan Renfro', 'Ross Gibby', 'Christina McKay', 'Alan McCullough', 'Anthony Lemke', 'Connie Chen', 'Brett Alexander Davidson', 'Peter Loung', 'Joseph Oliveira', 'Leanne Poirier Greenfield', 'Somaya Reece', 'Kate Steen', 'Dan Rush', 'Chris Stone']
| 3.84
| 4.5
|
Horror, Thriller, Comedy, Slasher, Satire, Psychological thriller, Dark comedy, Suspense, Mystery, Comedy horror, Drama, Crime Fiction
| 102
|
['Canada', 'USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'Spanish', 'Cantonese']
|
['Lionsgate', 'Pressman Film', 'Muse Productions', 'Am Psycho Productions']
| 3,042,523
|
comedy
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
In 1987, investment banker Patrick Bateman spends most of his time dining at popular restaurants while keeping up appearances for his fiancée, Evelyn Williams, as well as his circle of wealthy associates, most of whom he hates. At a business meeting, Bateman and his associates flaunt their business cards, obsessing over their designs. Enraged by the superiority of his colleague Paul Allen's card, Bateman finds a homeless man in an alley at night and kills him. Bateman and Allen, who mistakes Bateman for another co-worker, make plans for dinner after a Christmas party. Bateman resents Allen for his affluent lifestyle and ability to obtain reservations at Dorsia, a highly exclusive restaurant which Bateman cannot get into. Bateman gets Allen drunk, lures him to his apartment and kills him violently. Bateman disposes of the body and goes into Allen's apartment to record an outgoing message on his answering machine, claiming that Allen has gone to London.
Private investigator Donald Kimball interviews Bateman regarding Allen's disappearance, mentioning that Allen may have been seen in London. Bateman invites two prostitutes, Christie and Sabrina, over to his apartment, where they have sex. He then tortures them, pays them, and sends them on their way. Shortly after Bateman's colleague Luis Carruthers reveals a new business card, Bateman tries to strangle him in the restroom of an expensive restaurant. Carruthers mistakes the attempt for a sexual advance and declares his desire for Bateman, who is revolted and flees. Kimball, now suspicious of Bateman, conducts a second interview with him. Later, Bateman murders a model and stores her severed head in his freezer. The next day, Bateman invites his secretary, Jean, to his apartment. As Bateman prepares to kill Jean with a nail gun, he receives a message from Evelyn on his answering machine and desists.
Bateman has lunch with Kimball, who reveals that a colleague of Bateman's claims to have had dinner with him on the day of Allen's disappearance, cementing Bateman's alibi. Kimball remarks that the idea of one of Allen's friends murdering him for no reason is simply not believable; Bateman nervously smiles in response. Bateman brings Christie to Allen's apartment, where he drugs his acquaintance Elizabeth before having sex with her and Christie. When Bateman kills Elizabeth, Christie runs, discovering several corpses as she searches for an exit. Bateman chases her and drops a running chainsaw on her as she flees down a stairwell. Soon afterward, Bateman breaks off his engagement with Evelyn.
As Bateman uses an ATM, he sees a cat. The ATM then displays the text "Feed Me A Stray Cat". Bateman prepares to shoot the cat, but a woman suddenly confronts him; he instead shoots her. A police chase ensues, but Bateman shoots one of the officers and blows up a patrol car, killing the other policemen. Bateman kills a security guard and a janitor before hiding in his office. He calls his lawyer, Harold Carnes, and frantically leaves a voicemail in which he confesses to roughly 40 murders over a period of six months.
The following morning, Bateman visits Allen's apartment to clean it, but he finds it vacant and for sale. A realtor cryptically tells Bateman that the apartment does not belong to Allen before asking him to leave and not come back.
In a state of hysteria, Bateman calls Jean and then goes to meet with his colleagues for lunch. Meanwhile, Jean finds detailed, graphic drawings of murder and mutilation in a journal in Bateman's office. Bateman sees Carnes and mentions his voicemail. Carnes mistakes Bateman for another man and laughs off the confession as a joke. Bateman clarifies who he is and again confesses the murders, but Carnes says he recently had dinner with Allen in London, rendering Bateman's claims impossible, though since Carnes is known for confusing people, the truth is shrouded. An exhausted and uncertain Bateman returns to his friends. They discuss dinner reservations and muse about whether Ronald Reagan is a harmless old man or a hidden psychopath. Bateman, unsure if his crimes were real or imaginary, realizes he will never receive the punishment and liberation from his dull lifestyle that he desires. Bateman narrates that he is in constant pain, that he wishes his pain inflicted on others, and that his confession has meant nothing.
|
American Splendor
| 2,003
|
Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini
|
['Paul Giamatti', 'Hope Davis', 'Judah Friedlander', 'James Urbaniak', 'Earl Billings', 'James McCaffrey', 'Maggie Moore', 'Vivienne Benesch', 'Daniel Tay', 'Harvey Pekar', 'Donal Logue', 'Josh Hutcherson', 'Joyce Brabner', 'Molly Shannon', 'Toby Radloff', 'Eytan Mirsky', 'Joey Krajcar', 'Chris Ambrose', 'Cameron Carter', 'Mary Faktor', 'Madylin Sweeten', 'Ebon Moss-Bachrach', 'Rae Sunshine Lee']
| 3.77
| null |
Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Tragicomedy, Comedy drama
| 101
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Good Machine']
| 50,313
|
comedy
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
On Halloween 1950, 11-year-old Harvey Pekar refuses to dress up as a superhero for trick-or-treating. Years later, Harvey is seen walking the Cleveland streets, and the real Harvey Pekar appears in a documentary-style setup. In 1975, Harvey visits a throat doctor, exhibiting hypochondria. His wife mocks their lifestyle and leaves him. At his file clerk job at a VA hospital, Mr. Boats offers advice from an Elinor Wylie poem.
In a documentary scene, the real Harvey discusses his part-time used-record collecting/selling. Flashing back to 1962, Harvey meets shy illustrator Robert Crumb at a yard sale, bonding over jazz and comics. Returning to 1975, the now-famous Crumb visits Cleveland. Frustrated and single, Harvey has a sobering moment in the VA hospital's "deceased" files, leading him to write his own stories. Inspired by an incident at the supermarket, he stays up all night writing. At a diner, Harvey shows Crumb his comic scripts, and Crumb offers to illustrate them.
Harvey publishes eight issues of American Splendor to critical acclaim but little financial gain, remaining a file clerk. He reconnects with Alice Quinn, a former college acquaintance, and they discuss Theodore Dreiser's novel Jennie Gerhardt, but he leaves feeling lonelier.
Meanwhile, in Delaware, Joyce is frustrated with her partner in the comic book store, who has sold her copy of American Splendor No. 8. She begins corresponding with Harvey, who eagerly responds. They realize they are kindred spirits, and she travels to Cleveland to meet him. After a dinner date, Joyce becomes ill at his apartment, leading to Harvey's care. Joyce suggests they skip courtship and marry.
A week later, Harvey sees his colleague Toby Radloff eating in his car, heading to Toledo for a screening of Revenge of the Nerds. Harvey heads to Delaware to marry Joyce and help her move to Cleveland. The real Joyce Brabner discusses becoming a character in Harvey's stories.
Married, Harvey and Joyce attend Revenge of the Nerds with Toby, which Harvey finds insipid. Back at their apartment, Joyce complains about Harvey's possessions but their argument is interrupted by a theater producer wanting to adapt American Splendor into a play. After its Los Angeles debut, Harvey's success grows, complicated by Joyce's emotional struggles and desire for children. A producer offers Harvey a guest spot on Late Night with David Letterman. Harvey's appearances are a hit, and Toby becomes an MTV star.
In Cleveland, Harvey is recognized from Late Night, rather than American Splendor, which angers him. Joyce seeks fulfillment and travels to a peace conference without Harvey's permission. One night, Harvey discovers a lump on his groin.
With Joyce away, Harvey returns to Late Night wearing an "On Strike Against NBC" shirt, causing chaos. Joyce returns, discovers Harvey's lump, and he is diagnosed with lymphoma. She suggests making a comic book about it, but he resists. She enlists Fred, an artist, to illustrate the experience. Fred brings his daughter Danielle, whom Joyce adores. Harvey reluctantly agrees to participate and asks Fred to keep bringing Danielle.
Harvey's treatment is grueling. He questions if he is real or a comic character and ponders the story's end if he dies. Harvey dreams of other Harvey Pekars in the phone book. A year later, Harvey and Joyce sign the completed Our Cancer Year, and he is declared cancer-free. They adopt Danielle, and Harvey adjusts to parenthood. The real Harvey retires from the VA hospital, and the staff holds a retirement party where Joyce, Danielle, and Harvey embrace.
|
Ammonite
| 2,020
|
Francis Lee
|
['Kate Winslet', 'Saoirse Ronan', 'Gemma Jones', 'James McArdle', 'Alec SecÄreanu', 'Fiona Shaw', 'Sarah White', 'Liam Thomas', 'Sam Parks', 'Claire Rushbrook', 'Nick Pearse', 'Victoria Elliott', 'Beatrice Curnew', 'Susie Baxter', 'Gethin Alderman', 'Robert Purdy', 'Max Dowler', 'Paul Dodds', 'John Mackay', 'Mladen Petrov', 'Wendy Nottingham', 'David Juritz', 'Ben Hancox', 'James Boyd', 'Peter Gregson', 'Michael Hennessy', 'Harvey Scrimshaw']
| 3.03
| null |
Romance, Melodrama, Drama
| 112
|
['UK']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['See-Saw Films']
| 106,013
|
sad, emotional
|
sad-movies-if-you-feel-like-you-need-to-cry
| null |
In the 1840s, fossil collector Mary Anning lives with her ailing mother, Molly, who helps her daughter run a small shop in Lyme Regis, Dorset. Mary spends the early mornings on the beach at low tide in search of fossils for the shop, with tiny ammonites being her most common find. When Mary returns, she helps her mother wash and polish a collection of eight animal figurines.
One day, archeologist Roderick Murchison visits Mary's shop with his wife, Charlotte. He expresses admiration for Mary's work and offers to pay her for a guided trip to the shore where he can learn from Mary about fossil collecting. While initially antagonistic, Mary accepts his offer. That night in their room at the Three Cups Hotel, Roderick treats Charlotte coldly, rebuffing her sexual advances and saying that now is not the time to have another baby.
Roderick returns from his morning trip with Mary and finds Charlotte confined to her bed in a depressed state. He returns to Mary's shop and reveals that Charlotte has been sent to Lyme Regis in order to convalesce, and entrusts her to Mary's care as he will be departing to Europe for four to six weeks. Mary reluctantly agrees, not wanting to pass up the money. Charlotte begins going out with Mary on her morning beach trips.
After bathing in the ocean as part of her rehabilitation, Charlotte falls ill with a high fever. Her physician, Dr. Lieberson, prescribes bed rest and assigns Mary to be her bedside nurse. Mary visits her friend Elizabeth Philpot, from whom she purchases a jar of salve to aid Charlotte's recovery. Mary refuses Elizabeth's friendly offer to come in for a visit. Charlotte quickly recovers, and from then on accompanies Mary on more outings and tries to help with domestic chores. Together with Mary, she is able to construct a mirror frame made of cowries. Saddened by her own failed attempts to have a baby, Charlotte learns that the figurines which Molly cleans every day represent her eight deceased children.
Dr. Lieberson visits the shop and invites Mary to an evening recital. Mary accepts but insists on bringing Charlotte as well, whom she believes has made a full recovery. That night, Charlotte meets and mingles with the townsfolk as an overwhelmed and jealous Mary smokes outside in the rain while watching through the window. They watch a magic lantern show set to music before Mary leaves and returns home during the rainstorm. Charlotte arrives soon after and finds Mary writing a romantic poem in her journal.
Using the boards from a beached boat, Mary and Charlotte transfer a large rock to the shop. Inside, they find the fossil of an Ichthyosaur similar to one which Mary found when she was aged 11 and sent to the British Museum. As they clean Mary's tools in preparation before going to bed, Charlotte kisses Mary goodnight; this inflames their attraction to one another, and they engage in oral sex. Their relationship blossoms, as they swim in the sea and share their meals. A letter arrives from Roderick, instructing Charlotte to return to London. Distraught, Charlotte and Mary have passionate sex the night before Charlotte's departure. Sometime later, Molly suffers a fall at home and dies soon afterwards. Elizabeth visits the depressed Mary to express her condolences. She encourages Mary to not abandon her relationship with Charlotte, as Mary did with their own romantic relationship after the death of Mary's father.
Mary receives a letter from Charlotte asking her to come to London. Upon arriving at the Murchison house, Mary sees one of her large ammonite fossils on display in a glass cabinet. Charlotte takes Mary upstairs, where she shows Mary a fully furnished bedroom ready for her to move into. Perturbed, Mary leaves after accusing Charlotte of not respecting her life, stating she will not become an ornament for Charlotte to display in a "gilded cage."
At the British Museum, Mary makes her way through the galleries. She finds the exhibit case containing her original Ichthyosaurus but sees that it makes no mention of her. Charlotte arrives dressed in clothes similar to Mary's, and the two women gaze at each other through the glass.
|
Amour
| 2,012
|
Michael Haneke
|
['Jean-Louis Trintignant', 'Emmanuelle Riva', 'Isabelle Huppert', 'Alexandre Tharaud', 'William Shimell', 'Ramon Agirre', 'Rita Blanco', 'Carole Franck', 'Dinara Drukarova', 'Laurent Capelluto', 'Jean-Michel Monroc', 'Suzanne Schmidt', 'Damien Jouillerot', 'Walid Afkir']
| 4.21
| 4.5
|
Romance, Melodrama, Drama
| 127
|
['France', 'Austria', 'Germany']
|
French
|
['French']
|
['Wega Film Vienna', 'Les Films du Losange', 'X Filme Creative Pool', 'Eurimages', 'Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg', 'France Télévisions', 'ARD Degeto', 'Filmfonds Wien']
| 150,772
| null |
lb_top250
| null |
After residents of a Paris apartment building complain of a smell coming from one of the apartments, the emergency services break down its door to find an elderly woman's corpse in the bedroom, adorned with cut flowers. Another corpse is briefly glimpsed on a couch in the living room.
Several months before the opening scene, Anne and her husband Georges, both retired piano teachers in their eighties, attend a performance by one of Anne's former pupils, Alexandre. They return home to find that someone has unsuccessfully tried to break into their apartment. The next morning, while they are eating breakfast, Anne silently has a stroke. She sits in a catatonic state, not responding to Georges. She comes around as Georges is about to get help, but has no idea the stroke occurred. Georges is unable to persuade her to get medical attention until Anne finds she is unable to pour herself a drink.
Anne undergoes surgery on a blocked carotid artery, but the surgery goes wrong, leaving her paralyzed on her right side and reliant on a wheelchair. She makes Georges promise not to send her back to the hospital or to a nursing home. Georges becomes Anne's dutiful, though slightly irritated, caretaker. One day, Anne, seemingly having attempted to commit suicide by falling from a window, tells Georges she doesn't want to go on living.
Alexandre, her former pupil whose performance they attended, stops by and Anne gets dressed up and carries on a lively conversation during the visit, giving Georges hope that her condition was temporary. But she soon has a second stroke that leaves her demented and incapable of coherent speech. Georges continues to look after Anne.
Georges begins employing a nurse three days a week. Their daughter, Eva, wants her mother to go into care, but Georges says he will not break the promise he made to Anne. He employs a second nurse, but fires her after he discovers she is mistreating Anne.
One day, Georges sits next to Anne's bedside and tells her a story of his childhood, which calms her. As Anne closes her eyes, he quietly picks up a pillow and smothers her to death.
Georges returns home with bundles of flowers in his hands, which he proceeds to wash and cut. He picks out a dress from Anne's wardrobe and writes a long letter. He tapes the bedroom door shut and catches a pigeon that has flown in through the window. In the letter, Georges explains that he has released the pigeon. Georges imagines that Anne is washing dishes in the kitchen and, speechless, he gazes at her as she cleans up and prepares to leave the house. Anne calls for Georges to bring a coat, and he complies, following her out of the door.
The film concludes with a continuation of the opening scene, with Eva seated in the living room after wandering around the now-empty home.
|
Amélie
| 2,001
|
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
|
['Audrey Tautou', 'Mathieu Kassovitz', 'Rufus', 'Lorella Cravotta', 'Serge Merlin', 'Jamel Debbouze', 'Clotilde Mollet', 'Claire Maurier', 'Isabelle Nanty', 'Dominique Pinon', 'Artus de Penguern', 'Yolande Moreau', 'Urbain Cancelier', 'Maurice Bénichou', 'Michel Robin', 'Andrée Damant', 'Claude Perron', 'Armelle', 'Ticky Holgado', 'André Dussollier', 'Eugène Berthier', 'Charles-Roger Bour', 'Kevin Dias', 'Flora Guiet', 'Amaury Babault', 'Marion Pressburger', 'Luc Palun', 'Fabienne Chaudat', 'Dominique Bettenfeld', 'Jacques Viala', 'Fabien Béhar', 'Jonathan Joss', 'Jean-Pierre Becker', 'Jean Darie', 'Thierry Gibault', 'François Bercovici', 'Franck Monier', 'Guillaume Viry', 'Valérie Zarrouk', 'Marie-Laure Descoureaux', 'Sophie Tellier', 'Gérald Weingand', 'François Viaur', 'Paule Daré', 'Marc Amyot', 'Myriam Labbé', 'Jean Rupert', 'Frankie Pain', 'Julianna Kovacs', 'Philippe Paimblanc', 'Mady Malroux', 'Monette Malroux', 'Robert Gendreu', 'Valériane de Villeneuve', 'Isis Peyrade', 'Raymonde Heudeline', 'Christiane Bopp', 'Thierry Arfeuillères', 'Jerry Lucas', 'Patrick Paroux', 'François Aubineau', 'Philippe Beautier', 'Karine Asure', 'Régis Iacono', 'Franck-Olivier Bonnet', 'Alain Floret', 'Jean-Pol Brissart', 'Frédéric Mitterrand', 'Laurent Delpit', 'Manoush', 'Jacques Thébault', 'Dean Baykan', 'Clément Chebli', 'Eloïse Labro']
| 4.17
| 5
|
Romance, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Documentary, Melodrama, Adventure, Fantasy, Drama
| 122
|
['France', 'Germany']
|
French
|
['French', 'Russian']
|
['Victoires Productions', 'Tapioca Films', 'France 3 Cinéma', 'MMC Independent', 'UGC']
| 1,289,045
|
comedy, feel-good
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time, feel-good-movies, coming-of-age-movies-that-made-us-feel-seen
| null |
Amélie Poulain is born in 1974 and brought up by eccentric parents who – incorrectly believing that she has a heart defect – decide to homeschool her. To cope with her loneliness, Amélie develops an active imagination and a mischievous personality. When Amélie is six, her mother, Amandine, is killed when a suicidal Canadian tourist jumps from the roof of Notre-Dame de Paris and lands on her. As a result, her father, Raphaël, withdraws more and more from society. Amélie leaves home at the age of 18 and becomes a waitress at the Café des 2 Moulins in Montmartre, which is staffed and frequented by a collection of eccentrics. She is single and lets her imagination roam freely, finding contentment in simple pleasures like dipping her hand into grain sacks, cracking crème brûlée with a spoon, and skipping stones along the Canal Saint-Martin.[5]
On 31 August 1997, startled by the news of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, Amélie drops a plastic perfume-stopper, which dislodges a wall tile and accidentally reveals an old metal box which contains childhood memorabilia hidden by a boy who lived in her apartment decades earlier. Amélie resolves to track down the boy and return the box to him. She promises herself that if it makes him happy, she will devote her life to bringing happiness to others.
After asking the apartment's concierge and several old tenants about the boy's identity, Amélie meets her reclusive neighbour, Raymond Dufayel, an artist with brittle bone disease who replicates Pierre-Auguste Renoir's 1881 painting Luncheon of the Boating Party every year. He recalls the boy's name as "Bretodeau". Amélie finds the man, Dominique Bretodeau, and surreptitiously gives him the box. Moved to tears by the discovery and the memories it holds, Bretodeau resolves to reconcile with his estranged daughter and the grandson he has never met. Amélie happily embarks on her new mission.
Amélie secretly executes complex schemes that positively affect the lives of those around her. She escorts a blind man to the Métro station while giving him a rich description of the street scenes he passes. She persuades her father to follow his dream of touring the world by stealing his garden gnome and having a flight attendant friend mail pictures of it posing with landmarks from all over the world. She starts a romance between her hypochondriacal co-worker Georgette and Joseph, a patron of the café. She convinces Madeleine Wallace, the concierge of her block of flats, that the husband who abandoned her had sent her a final conciliatory love letter just before his accidental death years before. She plays practical jokes on Collignon, the nasty greengrocer. Mentally exhausted, Collignon no longer abuses his meek, good-natured assistant Lucien. A delighted Lucien subsequently takes charge at the grocery stand.
Dufayel, having observed Amélie, begins a conversation with her about his painting. Although he has copied the same Renoir painting 20 times, he has never quite captured the look of the girl drinking a glass of water. They discuss the meaning of this character, and over several conversations, Amélie begins projecting her loneliness onto the image. Dufayel recognizes this and uses the girl in the painting to push Amélie to examine her attraction to a quirky young man, Nino Quincampoix, who collects the discarded photographs of strangers from passport photo booths. When Amélie bumps into Nino a second time, she realizes she is falling in love with him. He accidentally drops a photo album in the street. Amélie retrieves it.
Amélie plays a cat-and-mouse game with Nino around Paris before returning his treasured album anonymously. After arranging a meeting at the 2 Moulins, Amélie panics and tries to deny her identity. Her co-worker, Gina, concerned for Amélie's well-being, screens Nino for her; Joseph's comment about this misleads Amélie to believe she has lost Nino to Gina. It takes Dufayel's insight to give her the courage to pursue Nino, resulting in a romantic night together and the beginning of a relationship. The film ends as Amélie experiences a moment of happiness she has found for herself.
|
An American Werewolf in London
| 1,981
|
John Landis
|
['David Naughton', 'Jenny Agutter', 'Griffin Dunne', 'John Woodvine', 'Don McKillop', 'Brian Glover', 'David Schofield', 'Lila Kaye', 'Rik Mayall', 'Sean Baker', 'Frank Oz', 'Paul Kember', 'Joe Belcher', 'Paddy Ryan', 'Anne-Marie Davies', 'Colin Fernandes', 'Albert Moses', 'Jim Henson', 'Dave Goelz', 'Michele Brisigotti', 'Mark Fisher', 'Gordon Sterne', 'Paula Jacobs', 'Claudine Bowyer', 'Johanna Crayden', 'Nina Carter', 'Geoffrey Burridge', 'Brenda Cavendish', 'Christopher Scoular', 'Mary Tempest', 'Cynthia Powell', 'Sydney Bromley', 'Frank Singuineau', 'Will Leighton', 'Michael Carter', 'Elizabeth Bradley', 'Rufus Deakin', 'Lesley Ward', 'George Hilsdon', 'Gerry Lewis', 'Dennis Fraser', 'Alan Ford', 'Peter Ellis', 'Denise Stephens', 'Christine Hargreaves', 'Lucien Morgan', 'Dave Cooper', 'Susan Spencer', 'Bob Babenia', 'Ken Sicklen', 'John Salthouse', 'John Altman', 'Keith Hodiak', 'John Owens', 'Roger Rowland', 'Linzi Drew', 'John Cannon', 'George Oliver', 'John Landis', 'Simon van Collem']
| 3.84
| 4
|
Horror, Thriller, Comedy, Fantasy, Dark comedy, Drama
| 97
|
['UK', 'USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['American Werewolf Inc.', 'Lyncanthrope Films', 'Universal Pictures', 'Guber/Peters Company', 'PSO', 'Polygram Pictures']
| 298,229
|
comedy
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
Two American graduate students from New York City, David Kessler and Jack Goodman, are trekking across the moors in Yorkshire. As night falls, they stop at the Slaughtered Lamb, a local pub. Jack notices a five-pointed star on the pub's wall. When he asks about it, the pub-goers grow hostile, and he and David leave. The pub-goers warn the pair to keep to the road, stay clear of the moors, and beware of the full moon. David and Jack wander off the road and onto the moors, where a vicious creature attacks them. Jack is mauled to death and David is seriously injured. The beast is shot and killed by some concerned pub-goers who followed the two young men. Instead of an animal carcass, David sees a nude dead man lying next to him before passing out.
David wakes up three weeks later in a London hospital. Inspector Villiers interviews David and informs him that the locals reported that an escaped lunatic attacked him and Jack. David insists a rabid dog or wolf attacked them. An undead Jack later appears to David and explains that they were attacked by a werewolf; since David was bitten, he is now a werewolf too. Jack is cursed to walk the earth in limbo, neither dead nor alive, until the wolf's bloodline is severed. Jack urges David to kill himself before the next full moon so he does not harm anyone.
Dr. Hirsch visits the Slaughtered Lamb to investigate, suspecting that David might have been influenced by local superstitions. When asked about the incident, the pub-goers deny any knowledge of David, Jack, or the attack. However, one distraught pub-goer privately tells Dr. Hirsch that David will endanger other people when he transforms.
Upon being released from hospital, David stays with Alex Price, the pretty young nurse who cared for him. Alex tells David that she is worried about his mental state. Jack, now even more decayed, appears and warns David that he will become a werewolf the next night, and again advises that he kill himself to avoid killing innocent people. David refuses to believe him but when the full moon rises, David transforms into a werewolf. He prowls the streets and the London Underground, killing six people. He wakes up the next morning naked on the floor of a wolf enclosure at the London Zoo, with no recollection of what happened, and returns to Alex's flat.
After learning of the previous night's murders and realizing that he is responsible, David unsuccessfully attempts to get himself arrested in Trafalgar Square. He calls his family to say he loves them, then loses the courage to slit his wrists with a pocket knife. David sees Jack, whose skeleton is now showing, outside an adult movie theatre. Inside, Jack introduces David to his previous night's victims, some of whom are furious with David and suggest different suicide methods to free them from their undead state.
David transforms into a werewolf inside the cinema. He decapitates Inspector Villiers and wreaks havoc in the streets, killing several motorists and bystanders. The police surround and trap David in an alleyway. Alex arrives, runs down the alley and tries calming David by saying she loves him. Although David's consciousness briefly appears to recognize Alex, he lunges forward and is shot dead by the police, reverting to human form.
|
An American in Paris
| 1,951
|
Vincente Minnelli
|
['Gene Kelly', 'Leslie Caron', 'Oscar Levant', 'Georges Guétary', 'Nina Foch', 'Robert Ames', 'Joan Anderson', 'Larry Arnold', 'Martha Bamattre', 'Charles Bastin', 'Joan Bayley', 'Rodney Bieber', 'Madge Blake', 'Ralph Blum', 'Nan Boardman', 'Dino Bolognese', 'Eugene Borden', 'Ann Brendon', 'Peter Camlin', 'Benny Carter', 'Sue Casey', 'Monique Chantal', 'Andre Charisse', 'Bill Chatham', 'Jack Chefe', 'Dick Cherney', 'Ann Codee', 'Louise Colombet', 'Allan Cook', 'Gino Corrado', 'Paul Cristo', 'Susan Cummings', "Albert D'Arno", 'Viola Daniels', 'George Davis', 'Paul De Corday', 'René de Loffre', 'Gloria Dea', 'George Dee', 'Jeannine Ducasse', 'Art Dupuis', 'John Eldredge', 'Carli Elinor', 'Marietta Elliott', 'George Ellsworth', 'Luigi Faccuito', 'Ernie Flatt', 'Bess Flowers', 'Clair Freeman', 'Mary Jane French', 'Captain Garcia', 'Jon Gardner', 'Mary Gleason', 'Shirley Glickman', 'Ricky Gonzales', 'Ricardo Gonzáles', 'Alex Goudovitch', 'Andre Guy', 'Claude Guy', 'Patricia Hall', 'Betty Hannon', 'Jack Harmon', 'Jean Harrison', 'Lars Hensen', 'Marian Horosko', 'Don Hulbert', 'Dickie Humphreys', 'Harvey Karels', 'David Kasday', 'Paul King', 'Stephen Kirchner', 'Isabel La Mal', 'Tommy Ladd', 'Jeanne Lafayette', 'Judy Landon', 'Richard Landry', 'Michele Lange', 'Numa Lapeyre', 'Louise Laureau', 'Louis Laurent', 'Janet Lavis', 'Meredith Leeds', 'Diki Lerner', 'Ruth Lewis', 'Shirley Lopez', 'Ralph Madlener', 'Bert Madrid', 'Dudley Field Malone', 'Bob Mascagno', 'Charles Mauu', 'Paul Maxey', 'Anthony Mazzola', 'Leonard A. Mazzola', 'Greg McClure', 'Svetlana McLee', 'Mary Menzies', 'Sheila Meyers', 'Charles Millsfield', 'Leo Mostovoy', 'Noel Neill', 'Anna Q. Nilsson', "Allen O'Locklin", 'Charles Owens', 'Alfred Paix', 'Jetsy Parker', 'Christian Pasques', 'Hamil Petroff', 'Lucien Plauzoles', 'Pierre Plauzoles', 'Albert Pollet', 'Waclaw Rekwart', 'Ricky Ricardi', 'Carol Risser', 'Marilyn Rogers', 'Jean Romaine', 'Alex Romero', 'Hayden Rorke', 'Dennis Ross', 'Albert Ruiz', 'Marilyn Russell', 'Betty Scott', 'Linda Scott', 'Rudolph Silva', 'Pat Simms', 'Mabel Smaney', 'Melba Snowden', 'John Stanley', 'Sam Strangis', 'Beverly Thompson', 'Peter Troiekouroff', 'Dee Turnell', 'Dorothy Tuttle', 'Maya Van Horn', 'Pat Volasko', 'Dorothy Ward', 'Ray Weamer', 'Pamela Wells', 'Dick Wessel', 'Herbert Winters', 'Mary Young', 'Lila Zali', 'Marie Antoinette Andrews', 'Felice Basso', 'Janine Bergez', 'Florence Brundage', 'Monica Bucky', 'David Carlin', 'Ralph Del Campo', 'Marie Francoise', 'Madeline Gradine', 'Linda Heller', 'Madge Journeay', 'Eileen Locklin', 'Wanda Lucienne', 'Bonnie Menzies', 'Roy Ossorio', 'Don Quinn', 'Anne Belle Rasmussen', 'Phyllis Sutton', 'Yves Troendle']
| 3.65
| null |
Romance, Comedy, Musical, Melodrama, Drama, Classic
| 113
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'French', 'German']
|
['Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer']
| 80,861
|
oscar-winner
|
oscar-winning-films-best-picture
| null |
American World War II veteran Jerry Mulligan lives in Paris trying to succeed as an artist. His friend and neighbor Adam Cook is a struggling concert pianist and longtime associate of French singer Henri Baurel. At the ground-floor bar in their building, Henri tells Adam about his girlfriend, Lise Bouvier. Jerry then joins them before going out to try and sell his art.
Lonely heiress Milo Roberts notices Jerry displaying his work in Montmartre. She buys two paintings, then brings Jerry to her apartment to pay him. Jerry accepts an invitation to her dinner party for that evening, and on the way home, he sings "I Got Rhythm" with some local children. Upon discovering he is Milo's sole dinner guest, an offended Jerry says he is uninterested in being a paid escort. Milo insists she only wants to support his career.
At a crowded bar, Milo offers to sponsor an art show for Jerry. Milo's friends show up and while everyone is talking, Jerry notices a beautiful young girl at the next table. He pretends they know each other and asks her to dance, unaware it is Lise, the girl Henri loves. When Jerry wants her phone number, Lise, uninterested, gives a fake one. Someone at her table misunderstands and says the correct number. Milo, upset that Jerry flirted with another girl in her presence, wants to leave and later criticizes him for being rude.
The next day, Jerry calls Lise, but she refuses to see him. Meanwhile, Milo has arranged a showing with a collector interested in Jerry's work. Before the meeting, Jerry goes to the parfumerie where Lise works. She agrees to a late dinner, but wants to avoid public places; they share a romantic song and dance along the banks of the Seine River. She then rushes off to meet Henri after his performance ("I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise"). Henri tells Lise he is going on tour in America and proposes marriage to her.
Later, Adam humorously daydreams he is performing Gershwin's Concerto in F for Piano and Orchestra in a concert hall. As the scene progresses, Adam is also the conductor, other musicians, and even an audience member enthusiastically applauding at the end.
Milo rents Jerry an art studio and says she is planning an exhibition of his work in three months time. Jerry initially refuses the studio, but accepts on condition he will repay Milo when his work sells. After a month of courting, Jerry brings Lise to his apartment building. When Lise suddenly rushes off in the waiting taxi, Jerry is confused and complains to Adam, who realizes that Henri and Jerry love the same girl. Henri and Jerry later discuss the girl they each love ("'S Wonderful") without realizing it is Lise.
That night, Jerry and Lise reunite by the Seine. Lise says she and Henri are to be married and going to America. Lise feels duty-bound to Henri for protecting her during the war. Jerry and Lise proclaim their love for each other before parting.
A dejected Jerry invites Milo to the art students' masked ball, where they run into Henri and Lise. Jerry admits to Milo that he loves Lise. When Henri overhears Jerry and Lise saying goodbye, he realizes the truth. As Henri and Lise drive away, Jerry fantasizes through a diverse and extended dance scene with Lise, all over Paris, and set to George Gershwin's An American in Paris. A car horn breaks Jerry's reverie; Henri returns Lise to him. They embrace and walk off together as the Gershwin composition (and the film) ends.
|
An Autumn Afternoon
| 1,962
|
YasujirÅ Ozu
|
['ChishÅ« RyÅ«', 'Shima Iwashita', 'Keiji Sada', 'Mariko Okada', 'Teruo Yoshida', 'Noriko Maki', 'ShinichirÅ Mikami', 'Nobuo Nakamura', 'EijirÅ TÅno', 'Kuniko Miyake', 'KyÅko Kishida', 'Ryuji Kita', 'Toyo Takahashi', 'Shinobu Asaji', 'Masao Oda', 'Fujio Suga', 'Zenichi Inagawa', 'Daisuke KatÅ', 'Haruko Sugimura', 'Michiyo Tamaki', 'Matsuko Shiga', 'Tami Yamamoto', 'Kentarô Imai', 'Hisayo Komachi']
| 4.21
| null |
Drama, Romance
| 114
|
['Japan']
|
Japanese
|
['Japanese']
|
['Shochiku']
| 31,471
| null |
lb_top250
| null |
Tokyo, 1962. Shūhei Hirayama (Chishū Ryū) is an aging widower with a 32-year-old married son, Kōichi (Keiji Sada), and two unmarried children, 24-year-old daughter Michiko (Shima Iwashita) and 21-year-old son Kazuo (Shin'ichirō Mikami). The ages of the children and what they respectively remember about their mother suggests that she died just before the end of the war, perhaps in the bombing of Tokyo in 1944–45. Since his marriage, Kōichi has moved out to live with his wife in a small flat, leaving Hirayama and Kazuo to be looked after by Michiko.
Hirayama and five of his classmates from middle-school, Kawai (Nobuo Nakamura), Horie (Ryūji Kita), Sugai (Tsūzai Sugawara), Watanabe (Masao Oda) and Nakanishi, hold regular reunions at a restaurant called Wakamatsu ("Young Pine"), which is owned by Sugai. They reminisce about old times and banter with each other. For example, Horie is teased about having a new young wife and asked whether he is taking pills to maintain his virility.
Their old teacher of Chinese classics, Sakuma (Eijirō Tōno), nicknamed Hyōtan ("the Gourd"), attends one of the reunions. We learn from a remark of his that Hirayama went from school to the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy, so would have been a career naval officer up to 1945. Sakuma has too much to drink, and when Kawai and Hirayama take him home, they find that he has fallen on hard times and is running a cheap noodle restaurant in a working-class area. They meet his middle-aged daughter Tomoko (Haruko Sugimura), who missed the chance to marry when young and is now too old.
Sakuma's former pupils decide to help him out with a gift of money, and Hirayama goes back to the restaurant to hand it over. While he is there, Yoshitarō Sakamoto (Daisuke Katō), the owner of a small local car-repair shop, comes in for a bowl of noodles and recognises Hirayama as the captain of the ship in which he served as a Petty Officer during the war. He takes Hirayama to his favourite bar. Hirayama notices that the bar-owner Kaoru (Kyōko Kishida) resembles his dead wife. Kaoru puts on a recording of the patriotic song Warship March and Sakamoto marches up and down, holding a salute and singing meaningless syllables in time to the music, in a mocking version of military drill. Later, Hirayama visits the bar alone and Kaoru puts the record on again. Two tipsy customers begin to parody the kind of morale-boosting radio propaganda announcements that would have been introduced by this tune during the war.
Kōichi borrows 50,000 yen from his father, ostensibly to buy a refrigerator, but this is more than the refrigerator will cost. He plans to use the extra money to buy a set of second-hand golf clubs from his colleague Miura (Teruo Yoshida). His wife Akiko (Mariko Okada) does not want him to do so, and says that if he is going to indulge himself like this, she will spend money on an expensive white leather handbag. Eventually, having made her point, she relents.
The "Gourd" tells his former pupils that it is because he selfishly kept her at home to look after him that his daughter is now condemned to a lonely life as a spinster. Troubled by this, Hirayama recognises his own selfishness in keeping Michiko at home to look after him, and decides to arrange a marriage for her. He asks Kōichi to find out if Miura, whom Michiko is fond of, is interested. Unfortunately, Miura is already engaged. Kōichi and Hirayama break the news to Michiko. Michiko does not react but retires to her room. Hirayama and Kōichi conclude that she is not upset, but a little later Kazuo comes in and asks why Michiko is crying. Hirayama later asks Michiko if she is willing to go for a matchmaking session with a candidate Kawai has selected. Michiko agrees.
In one of the ellipses Ozu is famous for, the film next shows us Michiko being dressed in a traditional wedding kimono and head-dress. She has clearly agreed to marry, but the bridegroom, and the wedding ceremony, are never shown. After the wedding, Hirayama goes to a bar with friends while Kōichi, Akiko and Kazuo wait for him at home. When he returns, drunk, Kōichi and Akiko leave. Kazuo goes to bed, leaving Hirayama by himself.
In the final scene, a melancholy Hirayama drunkenly sings snatches of the Warship March. His last words in the film are "Alone, eh?".
|
An Elephant Sitting Still
| 2,018
|
Hu Bo
|
['Peng Yuchang', 'Wang Yuwen', 'Zhang Yu', 'Li Congxi', 'Zhenghui Ling', 'Xiaolong Zhang', 'Li Danyi', 'Kong Wei', 'Kong Yixin', 'Chaobei Wang', 'Wang Xueyang', 'Zhu Yanmanzi', 'Zhaoyan Guozhang', 'Li Su Yun', 'Huang Ximan', 'Li Qing', 'He Miaomiao', 'Li Binyuan', 'Shunzi', 'Guo Jing', 'Xiangrong Dong', 'Zhang Shuai', 'Zhou Yinglong', 'Zhao Weimin', 'Hao Shimin', 'Chang Wukui', 'Liu Xiaohui', 'Zhu Jianliang', 'Zhang Jinzhong', 'Li Hongmei', 'Liu Jianmin', '3502 tenant', 'Ember Yu', 'Zhang Zhouqiang', 'Wang Gang', 'Wang Longlong', 'Gao Xuepeng', 'Ma Heping', 'Yan Hao', 'Zhao Shihui', 'Ning Wong', 'Zhao Tao', 'Liu Xiwen', 'He Lei']
| 4.32
| 4.5
|
['Crime', 'Drama']
| 234
|
['China']
|
Chinese
|
['Chinese']
|
['Dongchun Films']
| 36,119
| null |
lb_top250
| null |
In Shijiazhuang, gang member Yu Cheng tells a woman in bed with him of a sitting elephant in a circus in Manzhouli. Whether it is fed or provoked, it remains still. The woman's husband, one of his friends, comes home to discover Yu Cheng, and commits suicide by jumping out the window.
An old man named Wang Jin, who lives with his granddaughter, son-in-law, and daughter, is asked to move out of the apartment (which he owns) into a nursing home as raising the granddaughter has become too expensive.
A student named Wei Bu wakes up to his abusive father yelling about his filthy room. Wei meets his friend Li Kai and they worry about the school bully, Yu Shuai, who is the younger brother of Yu Cheng. Yu Shuai has accused Li Kai of stealing his cell phone. Li has stolen his father's pistol for protection.
Huang Ling, Wei's classmate, complains about a leaking toilet to her mother who she has a difficult relationship with.
Wei sees the school's vice-dean, who tells him that the school will be closed down. The vice-dean plans to move to a better school while Wei and his classmates will be relocated to an even worse one. Later, Wei and Li meet with Yu Shuai, who mocks Wei's father for having lost his job for accepting a bribe. Wei shoves Yu Shuai down a flight of stairs and Yu Shuai is critically injured.
When Wang encounters a lost dog, it fatally mauls his own dog. Wang tracks down the couple who own the dog, only for the man to aggressively deny the attack and refuse to pay for any bills.
Wei visits his grandmother and discovers she has died. He picks up his pool cue from a pool hall to sell. As Wang disposes of his dog's body, Wei sees him and asks him for money with the cue as collateral. The two are confronted by the owner of the lost dog who believes Wang has killed it. When Wei threatens him, he is kicked repeatedly. Wang returns to his apartment building, encountering Yu Cheng and his gang who recognize the cue and corner him. Wang escapes and beats up the goons.
Wei meets Huang and he tells her of his plans to leave for Manzhouli. He invites her to join, but she mocks him and says he is only good at kicking a jianzi shuttlecock. Wei follows Huang to a bakery where she meets with the dean secretly. Yu Cheng, not recognizing Wei, also happens to be there and tells him that he is looking for who hurt his brother. Inside the bakery, the dean tells Huang of a boy he knew who beat a cat to death with stones.
Wei meets his friend Li at a mall. Li admits he did steal Yu Shuai’s phone, as it contained a video of him urinating and one of the dean with Huang. Later, Huang discovers a video of herself and the dean together has been leaked online. Wei tries to visit Yu Shuai at the hospital. He witnesses Yu Shuai's mother shouting at and slapping Yu Cheng. Wei steals a shuttlecock from a group of elderly men, walks to a riverbank, and screams in self-disgust.
Yu Cheng speaks to his girlfriend and blames her for his friend’s suicide. He says his life is like a dumpster in which garbage keeps piling up.
Huang argues with her mom about her affair with the dean. During this, the dean and his wife show up. Huang’s mother lies to them about Huang’s location while Huang leaves through a window. Huang picks up a baseball bat and beats both the dean and his wife.
Wei, attempting to go to Manzhouli, purchases train tickets from a scalper. Realizing he has been scammed, he demands a refund. Wei is beaten by the scalper and his associates who later recognize him as the kid who hurt Yu Shuai and call Yu Cheng. Though Yu Cheng’s brother has since died, when he learns that Wei also wants to see the elephant, he orders his gang members to get Wei a ticket.
Li appears with his gun and shoots Yu Cheng. Li claims he is proud of himself and tells Wei that he did not post the video of Huang. Wei, disgusted, leaves. Li then shoots himself.
Wei meets Wang at the train station, who decides to take his granddaughter to see the elephant, and Huang, who also wants to leave. Huang discovers that their tickets have been canceled and they take a bus instead.
In the dark, they exit a bus near Manzhouli and kick a shuttlecock by the side of the road. The roar of an elephant is heard.
|
An Extremely Goofy Movie
| 2,000
|
Douglas McCarthy
|
['Bill Farmer', 'Jason Marsden', 'Jeff Bennett', 'Jim Cummings', 'Brad Garrett', 'Vicki Lewis', 'Bebe Neuwirth', 'Rob Paulsen', 'Pauly Shore', 'Kath Soucie', 'Jenna von Oy', 'Cree Summer', 'Dakin Matthews', 'Paddi Edwards']
| 3.28
| null |
Animation, Comedy, Children's film, Buddy, Family film, Sports
| 79
|
['Australia', 'USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Disney Television Animation', 'Walt Disney Animation']
| 129,321
|
animated
|
vote-best-animated-films-of-all-time
| null |
After Max Goof goes to college with his friends P.J. and Bobby Zimuruski, Goofy's empty nest syndrome causes him to falter at work, causing a massive explosion at the toy-assembly factory and resulting in him getting dismissed. At the unemployment office, Goofy is told that he needs a college degree to get another job. Max and his friends meet Bradley Uppercrust III, the leader of the Gamma Mu Mu fraternity and a veteran skateboarder. Bradley is impressed by Max's own skateboarding talent and invites him to join the Gamma team and take part in the college's X Games. Max declines the offer due to the condition that he cannot bring his friends along. Following a skirmish, the two parties place a bet in which the loser becomes the other group's towel boy. To Max's horror, Goofy begins attending the same college and interrupts the group's down-time with chores. Max decides to distract his father by introducing him to the college librarian, Sylvia Marpole, with whom he has much in common. Goofy accidentally impresses Bradley with his clumsy attempt at skateboarding and is invited to join the Gamma team, which he accepts upon Max's encouragement.
During the first qualifiers for the X Games, Bradley discreetly blinds Max with a pocket mirror during his performance and installs a rocket booster on Goofy's skateboard. Goofy beats Max and Max's team barely makes the semi-finals. Eventually, Max lashes out at Goofy, telling him to stay out of his life and storms off in anger. A depressed Goofy fails his first midterm exam and misses a date with Sylvia. Returning home, Goofy is inspired by Pete to regain his focus. Goofy goes back to college and reconciles with Sylvia, who helps him ace the rest of his exams. As Goofy decides to quit the Gamma team, he overhears the group plotting to cheat for the semi-finals, but Max, still angry with his father over beating him in the qualifiers, does not listen to his warnings.
At the semi-finals, all teams but Max's and the Gamma's are eliminated. Just before the final triathlon, Bradley eliminates P.J. from the games, leaving Max's team short one player and spurring Max to recruit and apologize to Goofy via jumbotron. Throughout the race, Bradley and his team attempt to hinder Max's team, but only manage to eliminate Bobby. Although Goofy manages to temporarily knock out Bradley with a horseshoe in the final section of the race, his final trick results in Max and Gamma member, Tank, getting trapped underneath a flaming collapsed X logo. As Bradley passes them by, Max and Goofy rescue Tank, who assists Max in winning the race. Afterwards, Bradley concedes his defeat. Max calls off the bet, but allows a vengeful Tank to slingshot Bradley into the X Games blimp overhead. During graduation day, Max gives Goofy his grand-prize trophy engraved with an affirmation of their bond, and Goofy drives away with Sylvia for their next date.
|
Anastasia
| 1,997
|
Gary Goldman, Don Bluth
|
['Meg Ryan', 'John Cusack', 'Kelsey Grammer', 'Christopher Lloyd', 'Hank Azaria', 'Bernadette Peters', 'Kirsten Dunst', 'Angela Lansbury', 'Rick Jones', 'Andrea Martin', 'Glenn Walker Harris Jr.', 'Debra Mooney', 'Arthur Malet', 'Charity James', 'Liz Callaway', 'Lacey Chabert', 'Jim Cummings', 'Jonathan Dokuchitz', 'Jeff Blumenkrantz', 'Billy Porter', 'J.K. Simmons']
| 3.81
| null |
Music, Animation, History, Romance, Comedy, Musical, Children's film, Adventure, Fantasy, Drama, Comedy music, Musical Drama
| 94
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'Russian', 'French']
|
['Fox Animation Studios', 'The Big Gun Project', '20th Century Fox']
| 456,838
|
animated
|
vote-best-animated-films-of-all-time
| null |
In 1916, at a ball celebrating the Romanov Tricentennial, Dowager Empress Maria “Marie” Romanov, gives a music box as well as a necklace that says "Together in Paris" to Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov, her youngest granddaughter. The ball is interrupted by Grigori Rasputin, the Romanov’s former royal advisor exiled for treason. He vows to Tsar Nicholas II that his family will be killed with a curse. Rasputin sold his soul in exchange for a reliquary, which he uses to start the Russian Revolution. As Bolsheviks invade the palace, Marie and Anastasia are aided by Dimitri, a servant boy, who shows them a secret passageway. Anastasia drops her music box; she tries to retrieve it, but Dimitri pushes her through the passageway. Rasputin confronts them outside on the frozen Little Nevka River but falls through the ice, killing him. Marie gets on a moving train, but Anastasia falls and hits her head on the platform, giving her amnesia.
Ten years later, Russia is now part of the Soviet Union. There are rumors that Anastasia may have escaped her family's execution, so Marie offers 10 million roubles in exchange for her return. Now a conman, Dimitri and his partner-in-crime, Vladimir, plot to obtain the reward with an imposter. The actual Anastasia—now going by "Anya"—leaves the orphanage where she had lived ever since she got amnesia and begins a search for her family. Accompanied by a stray puppy she names Pooka, Anya heads for Paris, but finds she cannot leave the Soviet Union without an exit visa. She is advised to see Dimitri at the abandoned palace. There, the two men are impressed by her resemblance to the "real" Anastasia, and decide to take her with them to Paris, with Dimitri convincing Anya that they are trying to reunite her with her grandmother, unaware of Anya's true identity.
While watching the meeting, Rasputin's albino bat, Bartok, notices the reliquary revived by Anya's presence. It drags him down to limbo, where he finds an undead Rasputin. Enraged to hear that Anastasia had escaped his curse, Rasputin sends demonic entities from the reliquary to kill Anya. They try to sabotage the trio's train as they leave Leningrad by overheating Beulah the train engine, and later try to lure Anya into sleepwalking off their ship headed for France. The trio unwittingly foil the attempts, forcing Rasputin to try to kill Anya himself.
As Dimitri and Vladimir reteach Anya about court etiquette and her family's history, she and Dimitri begin to fall in love. The trio finally arrive in Paris and see Marie, who has decided to give up hope of reuniting with her granddaughter after having met no one except numerous impostors. Despite this, Marie's first cousin and lady-in-waiting, Sophie, quizzes Anya to confirm her identity. Though she gives correct coached answers to every question, Dimitri realizes Anya is Anastasia when she vaguely recalls how he had helped her and Marie escape the palace. Sophie, also convinced, arranges a meeting with Marie at the Palais Garnier. There, Dimitri tries to get Marie to see Anya, but she refuses, having heard of Dimitri's scheme to con her. Anya overhears the conversation and leaves, angry that she fell for Dimitri’s scheme. Dimitri abducts Marie in her car to force her to see Anya. She agrees when he presents the music box. As Marie and Anya talk, Anya begins to regain her memories before she and Marie sing the lullaby the music box played. Soon after, Anya, as the true Anastasia, tearfully reunites with her grandmother.
Marie offers Dimitri the reward money the next day, recognizing him as the servant boy who helped them, but Dimitri declines it and leaves to return to the Soviet Union. At the celebration for her return, Anya is informed by her grandmother of Dimitri's gesture, leaving her torn between staying with Marie or going with him. Anya walks off to the Pont Alexandre III, looking for Pooka, (who ran off with her necklace), where Rasputin entraps her, while Bartok abandons Rasputin. Dimitri returns to save Anya, but is attacked by a Pegasus statue enchanted by Rasputin. Anya smashes the reliquary, and the demons turn on and destroy Rasputin.
Anya and Dimitri elope. Anya sends a farewell letter to Marie and Sophie, promising to visit them. Meanwhile, Bartok falls in love with a female bat whilst Bartok breaks the fourth wall bids the audience goodbye.
|
Anatomy of a Fall
| 2,023
|
Justine Triet
|
['Sandra Hüller', 'Swann Arlaud', 'Milo Machado-Graner', 'Antoine Reinartz', 'Samuel Theis', 'Jehnny Beth', 'Saadia Bentaïeb', 'Camille Rutherford', 'Anne Rotger', 'Sophie Fillières', 'Julien Comte', 'Pierre-François Garel', 'Savannah Rol', 'Iliès Kadri', 'Vincent Courcelle-Labrousse', 'Cécile Brunet-Ludet', 'Nesrine Slaoui', 'Antoine Bueno', 'Anne-Lise Heimburger', 'Wajdi Mouawad', 'Sacha Wolff', 'Kareen Guiock', 'Arthur Harari', 'Marie Brette', 'Christophe Devaux', 'Jefferson Desport', 'Nola Jolly', 'Emmanuelle Jourdan', 'Isaac Abballah', 'Judicaël Ajorque', 'Nicholas Angelo', 'Marie-Laure Aumis', 'Laura Balasuriya', 'Alexandre Bertrand', 'Jean-Pierre Bertrand', 'Cécilia Bongiovanni-Lefebvre', 'Jean-Claude Calbet', 'Florent Chasseloup', 'Sandrine Chastagnol', 'Betty Desmier', 'Justine Dulary', 'Philippe Jubien', 'Cyril Karenine', 'Maud Martin', 'Romaric Maucoeur', 'Fabien Perrot', 'Christophe Léon Schelstraete', 'Rose Thibault']
| 4.14
| 4.5
|
Thriller, Legal drama, Crime film, Drama, Suspense, Mystery, Psychological thriller, Detective fiction, Narrative, Crime Fiction, Police procedural
| 151
|
['France']
|
French
|
['French', 'English', 'German']
|
['Les Films de Pierre', 'Les Films Pelléas', 'France 2 Cinéma', 'Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Cinéma']
| 1,175,098
|
toxic-relationship
|
toxic-destructive-relationships
| null |
In an isolated mountain chalet near Grenoble, novelist Sandra Voyter decides to reschedule her interview with a female student because her husband, university lecturer Samuel Maleski, plays music loudly in their attic, disrupting the interview. After the student drives away from the chalet, Sandra's visually impaired son, Daniel, takes a walk outside with his guide dog Snoop. When they return home, Daniel finds Samuel dead from an apparent fall.
Sandra insists that the fall must have been accidental. Her old friend and lawyer, Vincent, suggests the possibility of suicide, while Sandra recalls her husband's attempt to overdose on aspirin six months earlier, after going off antidepressants. After an investigation, Daniel's conflicting accounts of what happened shortly before his father's death, combined with the revelation that Samuel sustained a head wound before his body hit the ground and an audio recording of a fight by Samuel and Sandra the previous day, Sandra is indicted on charges of homicide.
During the trial, Sandra's defense team claims Samuel fell from the attic window and hit his head on a shed below, while the prosecution posits that Sandra hit him with a blunt object and pushed him from the second-floor balcony. During a courtroom argument with Samuel's psychiatrist, Sandra admits her resentment toward her husband due to his partial responsibility for the accident that led to Daniel's impaired vision.
In the recorded fight, Samuel accuses Sandra of plagiarism, infidelity and exerting control over his life, before their protracted argument turns physically violent. The prosecution claims that all the violence came from Sandra. She counters that while she had slapped Samuel, the rest of the violence heard was her husband beating himself. After Sandra admits to an affair with a woman the year before Samuel's death, the prosecution argues that Samuel's loud music indicated jealousy over Sandra's flirting with the interviewer, leading to the physical confrontation later. The prosecutor also notes Sandra's pattern of writing personal conflicts into her stories, and how murdering her husband mirrors a minor character's thoughts from her most recent novel. In turn, Sandra protests that one recording does not represent the nature of their relationship, nor do the words of a character in a novel reflect her own inclinations.
A distraught Daniel insists on testifying before closing arguments the following Monday. The judge lays strict ground rules to prevent anyone from influencing his testimony and brings in a court monitor, Marge. Daniel then asks that Sandra leave their house for the weekend so he can be alone with Marge and Snoop. He recalls that when Samuel overdosed, Snoop also fell sick, possibly due to having eaten Samuel's vomit. He then deliberately feeds Snoop aspirin and finds it has the same effect, which aligns with Sandra's testimony. Daniel confides to Marge his anguish, and she advises him that if he doesn't know what is really true, he can instead decide what's true for him.
On the witness stand, Daniel says he can comprehend his father taking his own life but not the murder scenario. He says that when he and Samuel were driving Snoop to the veterinarian, Samuel spoke about the need to be prepared that those he loves will die and to know that his life will go on, which Daniel now interprets as his father's own suicidal thoughts; Sandra is acquitted after Daniel's testimony. When she returns home, Daniel tells her he was afraid of her homecoming and she says that she was too; the two embrace. As Sandra heads to bed, she lingers at a photo of her and Samuel before falling asleep with Snoop.
|
Anatomy of a Murder
| 1,959
|
Otto Preminger
|
['James Stewart', 'Lee Remick', 'Ben Gazzara', "Arthur O'Connell", 'Eve Arden', 'Kathryn Grant', 'George C. Scott', 'Orson Bean', 'Russ Brown', 'Murray Hamilton', 'Brooks West', 'Ken Lynch', 'John Qualen', 'Howard McNear', 'Alexander Campbell', 'Ned Wever', 'Jimmy Conlin', 'Royal Beal', 'Joseph Kearns', 'Don Ross', 'Lloyd Le Vasseur', 'James Waters', 'Joseph N. Welch', 'Duke Ellington', 'Irv Kupcinet', 'Chuck Ramsay', 'Agnes Rodgers Brown']
| 4.23
| 5
|
Legal drama, Noir, Mystery, Drama, Crime film, Suspense, Thriller, Detective fiction, Crime Fiction, Classic, Police procedural
| 161
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Columbia Pictures', 'Otto Preminger Films']
| 86,587
|
mystery
|
101-greatest-mystery-movies, lb_top250
| null |
In the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, small-town lawyer Paul Biegler, a former district attorney who lost his re-election bid, spends most of his time fishing, playing the piano, and hanging out with his alcoholic friend and colleague Parnell McCarthy and sardonic secretary Maida Rutledge.
One day, Biegler is contacted by Laura Manion to defend her husband, US Army Lieutenant Frederick "Manny" Manion, who has been arrested for the murder of innkeeper Bernard "Barney" Quill. Manion does not deny the murder, but claims that Quill raped his wife. Even with such a motivation, getting Manion cleared of murder would be difficult, but Manion claims to have no memory of the event, which suggests he may be eligible for a defense of irresistible impulse—a version of a temporary insanity defense. It is strongly implied that Manion is faking insanity, having been guided to it as a potential defense by Biegler. Biegler's folksy speech and laid-back demeanor hide a sharp legal mind and a propensity for courtroom theatrics that keeps the judge busy maintaining control. However, the case for the defense does not go well, especially as local district attorney Mitch Lodwick is assisted by high-powered prosecutor Claude Dancer from the Attorney General's office.
Furthermore, the prosecution tries at every instance to block any mention of Manion's motive for killing Quill. Biegler eventually manages to get the rape of Laura Manion into the record and Judge Weaver agrees to allow the matter to be part of the deliberations. During cross-examination, Dancer insinuates that Laura openly flirted with other men, including the man she claimed raped her. Psychiatrists give conflicting testimony to Manion's state of mind at the time that he killed Quill. Dancer says that Manion may have suspected Laura of cheating on him because he asked her, a Catholic, to swear on a rosary that Quill raped her. This raises doubt as to whether the act was consensual.
Quill's estate is to be inherited by Mary Pilant, whom Dancer accused of being Quill's mistress. McCarthy learns that Pilant is in fact Quill's daughter, a fact she is anxious to keep secret since she was born out of wedlock. Biegler, who is losing the case, tries to persuade Pilant that Al Paquette, the bartender who witnessed the murder, may know if Quill admitted to raping Laura but Paquette is covering this up, either because he loves Pilant or out of loyalty to Quill. Through Pilant, Biegler is unable to get Paquette to testify on behalf of Manion.
During the trial, Laura claims that Quill tore off her underwear while raping her; the underwear was not found where she alleged the rape took place. Pilant, previously unaware of any details of the case, hears this during the trial and then tells Biegler and later testifies that she found the panties in the inn's laundry room the morning after the alleged rape. Biegler suggests Quill may have attempted to avoid suspicion by dropping the panties down the laundry chute located next to his room. Dancer tries to establish that Pilant's answers are founded on her jealousy. When Dancer asserts forcibly that Quill was Pilant's lover and that Pilant lied to cover this fact, Pilant shocks everyone by stating that Quill was her father. Manion is found not guilty by reason of insanity. After the trial, Biegler decides to open a new practice, with a newly sober McCarthy as his partner.
The next day, Biegler and McCarthy travel to the Manions' trailer park home to get Manion's signature on a promissory note which they hope will suffice as collateral for a desperately needed loan. It turns out the Manions have vacated the trailer park, the superintendent commenting that Laura Manion had been crying. Manion left a note for Biegler, indicating that his flight was "an irresistible impulse", the same justification Biegler used during the trial. Biegler states that Mary Pilant has retained him to execute Quill's estate; McCarthy says that working for her will be "poetic justice".
|
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
| 2,013
|
Adam McKay
|
['Will Ferrell', 'Steve Carell', 'Paul Rudd', 'David Koechner', 'Christina Applegate', 'Dylan Baker', 'Meagan Good', 'Judah Nelson', 'James Marsden', 'Greg Kinnear', 'Josh Lawson', 'Kristen Wiig', 'Fred Willard', 'Chris Parnell', 'Harrison Ford', 'Bill Kurtis', 'June Diane Raphael', 'Tom Clark', 'Jennifer Felton', 'Drake', 'Daisy Pareja', 'Pearl McKay', 'Axel Ferrell', 'Magnus Ferrell', 'Mattias Ferrell', 'Eliza Coupe', 'Matt Rebenkoff', 'Paul Schneider', 'Brian F. Durkin', 'Zoe Myers', 'Clark Sarullo', 'Billy Woods', 'Anna Enger Ritch', 'George Faughnan', 'Paul Chappell', 'Fred Galle', 'Patrick J. Williams', 'Jamie Moore', 'Matthew Cornwell', 'Dane Davenport', 'Dan Triandiflou', 'James Smith', 'David Silverman', 'Dave Pileggi', 'Clay Stapleford', 'Jayson Warner Smith', 'David Dwyer', 'Courtney Patterson', 'Kelly Tippens', 'Jon Hayden', 'Ron Prather', 'Gary Weeks', 'Stephanie Ming', 'Kellen Marcus', 'L. Warren Young', 'Darlene French', 'E. Roger Mitchell', 'Michael Menapace', 'Patricia French', 'Paula Pell', 'Andrew Feltenstein', 'John Nau', 'Mia D. Braswell', 'Simuel Campbell', 'Micah Stampley', 'Wilbur Fitzgerald', 'Karen Beyer', 'Brian Steele', 'Sacha Baron Cohen', 'Marion Cotillard', 'Micheál Richardson', 'Will Smith', 'Kirsten Dunst', 'Joe Washington', 'Jim Carrey', 'Sarah E. Spencer', 'Steve Coulter', 'Tina Fey', 'Kimberly Dawn Guerrero', 'Liam Neeson', 'Amy Poehler', 'John C. Reilly', 'Richard Saxton', 'Lori Beth Sikes', 'Vince Vaughn', 'Kanye West', 'Nickolas Wolf', 'William Tokarsky']
| 2.94
| 3
|
Action, Comedy, Drama
| 119
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Gary Sanchez Productions', 'Paramount Pictures', 'Apatow Productions']
| 311,954
|
comedy
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
In November 1979, Ron Burgundy and Veronica Corningstone are husband-and-wife co-anchors for a prestigious news network in New York City. Mack Tannen, the most famous nightly news anchor in New York, is retiring. He promotes Corningstone, making her the first female nightly news anchor in television history, and fires Burgundy due to his continuously sloppy performance on air. Burgundy grows jealous of Corningstone's success and storms out of the house, leaving her and their 6-year-old son Walter.
6 months later, Burgundy is back in San Diego, barely able to hold a job due to depression. After being fired from SeaWorld and botching a suicide attempt, Burgundy accepts a job offered to him by Freddie Shapp with GNN, the world's first 24-hour news network. He reassembles his friends and news team Champ Kind, Brian Fantana, and Brick Tamland with his dog Baxter. They are assigned the unpopular late-night timeslot and make a bet with obnoxious primetime anchorman Jack Lime that they will beat his ratings. Meanwhile, Burgundy finds that Corningstone is dating psychologist Gary.
As GNN launches, Burgundy decides to broadcast what the people want to hear rather than what they need to hear. He and his team devise a sensationalist and patriotic newscast. Their new approach is a hit, beating Lime in ratings massively, and the other news networks scramble to emulate them. Under the terms of the bet, Lime legally changes his name to Jack Lame.
Burgundy and his team are promoted to primetime, where they enjoy fame and fortune. Burgundy's success excites GNN's manager, Linda Jackson, and they begin dating each other. Tamland meets similarly eccentric GNN office worker Chani and falls in love. Burgundy lets his newfound fame go to his head and neglects his parental obligations to Walter, angering Corningstone. He also alienates Fantana, Kind, and Tamland, claiming he is tired of carrying them and spiking Fantana's story about an airline run by GNN's owner.
During a party celebrating GNN's success, Lame causes Burgundy to slip and suffer a head injury, resulting in him becoming blind. Unable to read the news, Burgundy isolates himself in a lighthouse, unable to adjust to his vision loss. Corningstone arrives with Walter for a visit, announcing that she has dumped Gary and quit her job because Burgundy's GNN antics ruined everything she loved about the news. Burgundy bonds with his family, gradually adjusting to his disability. Burgundy and Walter rehabilitate a shark, naming him Doby before setting him free.
Burgundy discovers that Corningstone was concealing messages from his eye doctor regarding an experimental procedure, as she thought his blindness had been significant in the family's rekindling. He leaves angrily, has his vision restored, and returns to GNN. Corningstone pleads with Burgundy in New York to attend Walter's piano recital. An exclusive news story comes in, requiring him to cover it. However, on live television, Burgundy says that news should inform, not entertain, delivers a two-sentence summary of Fantana's airline story, and leaves for Walter's recital.
He is intercepted by an angered Lame and his team and several other news teams, all of whom want to kill him due to his fame. Kind, Fantana, and Tamland arrive to defend him, and a massive battle ensues. Burgundy's old arch-rival Wes Mantooth arrives and saves him from Lame's news crew. Tamland accidentally sets off an explosion. Burgundy reaches Walter's recital in time and reconciles with Corningstone. Later, attending Tamland's and Chani's wedding on the beach, Burgundy spots Doby in the water. He runs and kisses him, only to be attacked. Baxter rescues him.
|
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
| 2,004
|
Adam McKay
|
['Will Ferrell', 'Christina Applegate', 'Paul Rudd', 'Steve Carell', 'David Koechner', 'Fred Willard', 'Chris Parnell', 'Kathryn Hahn', 'Fred Armisen', 'Seth Rogen', 'Paul F. Tompkins', 'Danny Trejo', 'Scot Robinson', 'Ian Roberts', 'Darcy Donavan', 'Renee Weldon', 'Jerry Minor', 'Holmes Osborne', 'Charles Walker', 'Shira Piven', 'Lili Rose McKay', 'Thomas E. Mastrolia', 'Jay Johnston', 'Peter A. Hulne', 'Laura Kightlinger', 'Adam McKay', 'Joseph T. Mastrolia', 'Judd Apatow', 'Debra McGuire', 'Kent Shocknek', 'Monique McIntyre', 'Bob Rummler', 'Charles Poynter', 'Esmerelda McQuillan', 'Angela Grillo', 'Lionel Allen', 'Trina D. Johnson', 'Mary Alice G. Goodin', 'Yasmine Nickle', 'Fred H. Dresch', 'Glen Hambly', 'Stuart Gold', 'Bill Kurtis', 'Jack Black', 'Ben Stiller', 'Luke Wilson', 'Frank Gorgie', 'Missi Pyle', 'Tim Robbins', 'Vince Vaughn', 'Jerry Stiller', 'Holly Traister', 'Matthew Vlahakis', 'Richard Yett', 'Barney']
| 3.5
| null |
['Comedy']
| 95
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['DreamWorks Pictures', 'Apatow Productions']
| 672,434
|
comedy
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
In 1974, Ron Burgundy is the famous anchorman for a local San Diego television station, fictional KVWN channel 4. He works alongside his friends, whom he has known since childhood, on the news team: lead field reporter Brian Fantana, sportscaster Champ Kind, and meteorologist Brick Tamland.
Station director Ed Harken informs the team that they have retained their long-held status as the highest-rated news program in San Diego, leading them to throw a wild party, where Burgundy unsuccessfully attempts to pick up a beautiful blonde woman, Veronica Corningstone. Harken later informs the team that they have been forced to hire Corningstone. After a series of unsuccessful attempts by the team to seduce her, she finally relents and agrees to a "professional tour" of the city with Burgundy, culminating in a sexual relationship. Despite agreeing to keep the relationship discreet, Burgundy announces it on air.
After a dispute with a motorcyclist ends in Burgundy's beloved dog Baxter being punted off the San Diego–Coronado Bridge, Burgundy is late to work. Corningstone fills in for him on-air, receiving higher ratings than Burgundy usually receives, and the couple breaks up when Burgundy bemoans her success. Corningstone is promoted to co-anchor, to the disgust of the team. The co-anchors become fierce rivals off-air while maintaining a phony facade of cordiality on-air.
Depressed, the team (barring Corningstone) decides to buy new suits, but Tamland, leading the way, gets them lost in a shady part of town. Confronted by main competitor Wes Mantooth and his news team, Burgundy challenges them to a fight. When several other news teams converge onsite (which includes the Channel Two News team, the Public News Team, and the Spanish-language News team), a full-on melee battle ensues, only to be broken up by police sirens that cause them to flee. Realizing that having a female co-anchor is straining their reputation, Burgundy gets into another heated argument with Corningstone, and they get into a physical fight after she insults his hair.
After one of Corningstone's co-workers informs her that Burgundy will read anything written on the teleprompter, she sneaks into the station and changes the text in revenge. The next day, Burgundy (unaware of what he is saying) concludes the broadcast with "Go fuck yourself, San Diego!" instead of his signature closing line, "You stay classy, San Diego!" triggering an angry mob outside the studio and forcing Harken to fire Burgundy.
Realizing she went too far, Corningstone phones Burgundy to apologize but can't bring herself to talk to him. He soon becomes unemployed, friendless, and heavily antagonized by the public. Burgundy grows depressed while Corningstone enjoys her new-found fame, although Fantana, Kind, and Tamland work with her begrudgingly. Harken has forbidden them from talking to Burgundy, or else they'll be fired, too.
3 months later, when a panda is about to give birth, every news team in San Diego rushes to the zoo to cover the story. In an attempt to sabotage her, a rival news anchor pushes Corningstone into a Kodiak bear enclosure. When Harken is unable to locate her, he recruits and rehires Burgundy.
Once at the zoo, Burgundy, with his morale restored, jumps into the bear pen to save Corningstone as the public watches helplessly. The news team then jumps in to save them both. Just as a bear is about to attack, Baxter, who miraculously survived, intervenes and encourages the bear to spare them. As the group climbs out of the pit, Mantooth appears and holds the ladder over the bear pit, threatening to drop him back in. He says that deep down, he has always hated him but then admits that he respects Burgundy and pulls him out to safety.
After Burgundy and Corningstone reconcile, it is shown that in the years to come, Fantana becomes the host of a Fox reality show named Intercourse Island, Tamland is married with 11 children and is a top political adviser to George W. Bush, Kind is a commentator for the NFL before getting fired after being accused by Terry Bradshaw of sexual harassment, and Burgundy and Corningstone are co-anchors for the CNN-esque World News Center.
|
Andaz Apna Apna
| 1,994
|
Rajkumar Santoshi
|
['Aamir Khan', 'Salman Khan', 'Raveena Tandon', 'Karisma Kapoor', 'Paresh Rawal', 'Shakti Kapoor', 'Javed Khan', 'Mehmood', 'Harish Patel', 'Viju Khote', 'Shehzad Khan', 'Deven Verma', 'Jagdeep', 'Tiku Talsania', 'Juhi Chawla Mehta', 'Govinda', 'Suresh Bhagwat']
| 3.62
| null |
Comedy, Drama, Action, Romance, Romantic comedy, Musical, Children's film, Melodrama
| 160
|
['India']
|
Hindi
|
['Hindi']
|
['Vinay Pictures']
| 10,437
|
comedy
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
Both Amar Manohar and Prem Bhopali are daydreamers living with their fathers Murli and Bankelal respectively. They learn that millionaire Ram Gopal Bajaj's daughter Raveena Bajaj is coming to India from London with her secretary Karishma to find a suitable groom. Amar and Prem decide to woo Raveena to get a share in her father's wealth.
Amar and Prem meet each other when they escape from their towns and board a bus bound for Ooty where Raveena and Karishma live. They soon realise that they have the same goal and they also fail at several attempts to woo Raveena and Karishma but they manage to enter their house.
Amar pretends that he has lost his memory and eyesight after getting knocked out by Raveena when he tried to flirt with her, while Prem pretends to be a doctor at their house to cure him from his diseases but he unknowingly falls in love with Karishma.
Meanwhile, nobody knows that Ram Gopal has an evil twin-brother Shyam Gopal "Teja" Bajaj who plans to kidnap him and pose as him to go to London. He has also sent his two sidekicks Robert and Bhalla to live in Raveena and Karishma's house as their servants. Later, Amar and Prem discover that the secretary Karishma is actually the wealthy "Raveena" while the wealthy Raveena is actually the secretary "Karishma", as they had exchanged their identities as Raveena wanted to find a suitable groom for herself who will love her, not her money. However, Amar still falls in love with the real Karishma while Prem also still falls in love with the real Raveena.
Soon, Ram Gopal arrives in India and seeing the true nature of Amar and Prem, declines their marriages with Raveena and Karishma, respectively. They plan a fake kidnapping of him along with their friends where they will heroically "rescue" him which will make him agree for their marriages. Teja also plans along with Robert and Bhalla to kidnap Ram Gopal and steal all of his money converted into his diamonds. Robert and Bhalla somehow manage to kidnap Ram Gopal which shocks Amar and Prem. When they go to Teja's hideout to rescue Ram Gopal, they mistake Teja for him and take him to his house.
The next day, Raveena and Karishma tell their suspicion to Amar and Prem who discover the truth on secretly following Teja to his hideout where Ram Gopal tricks him and escapes his hideout prison. However, Amar and Prem mistake him for Teja and imprison him again - resulting in Teja imprisoning Amar and Prem as well before escaping from his hideout. Amar and Prem still manage to convince Robert and Bhalla that Ram Gopal is Teja and free him from the prison. An escaping Teja is then stopped by Amar and Prem along with Robert and Bhalla.
Meanwhile, throughout the film, Robert and Bhalla are constantly harassed by Crime Master Gogo who is demanding his money taken by Teja back, but he discovers Ram Gopal's diamonds and he kidnaps him along with Raveena and Karishma. At Gogo's hideout, Amar and Prem arrive and they try to control the situation along with Ram Gopal as each motive of each villain is revealed in a comic standoff. However, the police who were already called by Amar and Prem, are able to find Gogo's hideout and arrest all of the criminals. Ram Gopal finally gets all of his diamonds back and he also agrees for the marriages of Amar and Prem with Real Karishma and Raveena (fake Raveena and fake Karishma), respectively.
|
Andrei Rublev
| 1,966
|
Andrei Tarkovsky
|
['Anatoliy Solonitsyn', 'Ivan Lapikov', 'Nikolay Grinko', 'Nikolai Sergeyev', 'Irma Raush', 'Nikolay Burlyaev', 'Yuriy Nazarov', 'Yuriy Nikulin', 'Rolan Bykov', 'Nikolay Grabbe', 'Mikhail Kononov', 'Stepan Krylov', 'Bolot Beyshenaliev', 'B. Matysik', 'Anatoliy Obukhov', 'Volodya Titov', 'Nikolay Glazkov', 'K. Aleksandrov', 'Semyon Bardin', 'Ivan Bykov', 'G. Borisovskiy', 'Vladimir Vasilyev', 'Zinaida Vorkul', 'Aleksandr Titov', 'Viktor Volkov', 'Irina Miroshnichenko', 'Tamara Ogorodnikova', 'Natalya Radolitskaya', 'Nikolay Kutuzov', 'Dmitriy Orlovskiy', 'Vladimir Guskov', 'Igor Donskoy', 'Iskender Ryskulov', 'P. Makarov', 'Georgiy Sochevko', 'Nelli Snegina', 'G. Pokorskiy', 'Asanbek Umuraliev', 'Vyacheslav Tsaryov', 'Ivan Turchenkov', 'Anatoly Nikitin', 'P. Yermakov', 'Aleksandr Petrov', 'Nikolay Sibeikin', 'Vasiliy Tsygankov', 'Larisa Solonitsyna']
| 4.42
| 4.5
|
History, Drama, Costume drama
| 183
|
['USSR']
|
Russian
|
['Russian', 'Tatar', 'Italian']
|
['Mosfilm', 'Tvorcheskoe Obedinienie Pisateley i Kinorabotnikov']
| 90,798
| null |
lb_top250
| null |
Andrei Rublev has a prologue and an epilogue only loosely related to the main film. The main film is divided into seven episodes dealing, directly or symbolically, with transitional moments in the life of the great icon painter. The background is 15th-century Russia, a turbulent period characterized by fighting between rival princes and the Tatar invasions.
|
Angamaly Diaries
| 2,017
|
Lijo Jose Pellissery
|
['Antony Varghese', 'Sarath Kumar', 'Tito Wilson', 'Bitto Davis', 'Sinoj Varghese', 'Anna Reshma Rajan', 'Kichu Tellus', 'Ullas Jose Chemban', 'Vineeth Vishwam', 'Jolly Chirayath', 'Athira Patel', 'Sreeja Das', 'Benny Varghese', 'Merin Jose Pottackal', 'Binny Rinky Benjamin', 'Sruthi Jayan', 'Sreekanth Dasan', 'Amrutha Anna Reji', 'Chemban Vinod Jose', 'Lijo Jose Pellissery', 'Murugan Martin', 'Vineeth Thattil David']
| 3.84
| 3.5
|
Action, Romance, Comedy, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, Crime Fiction
| 132
|
['India']
|
Malayalam
|
['Malayalam']
|
['Friday Film House']
| 8,532
|
action, top-rated
|
letterboxds-top-250-action-films
| null |
2001: Vincent Pepe is a resident in Angamaly, which is a medium-sized suburb of Kochi near the airport. In the middle school, Pepe and his friends put together an unofficial "team", a kind-of-pretend gang. They hero-worshipped the leading team of their area at that time, which was led by Babuji and his lieutenant Thomas. They are used to exercising with them and listen to their advice on fighting and strategy. As young men, Pepe and his friends get into their first fight with outsiders, who were bothering the neighbourhood girls.
2008: Pepe starts his first sweet romance with a local girl named Seema, whom he had known since school days. However, the innocent phase ends with Babuji getting killed by two local boys Ravi and Rajan, who are sent to prison for the murder.
2013: Pepe still has the same friends and Babuji's friend Thomas has become a member of their team in an adviser capacity. Pepe is seriously dating a nursing student from Germany and looking for a way to build a business that can support himself and his friends. They start a pork business by purchasing pigs wholesale from Ravi and Rajan, who have become the leading merchants in the neighbourhood after their release from prison. Later, Pepe and his friends start their own pig farm and set up a wholesale business rivalling Ravi and Rajan.
During a discussion between the two groups, Pepe and his friends and Ravi and Rajan's young followers led by Ravi's brother-in-law get into a fight, where Pepe accidentally kills one of them. To resolve the court case, Pepe's team has to turn to increasingly illegal activities to raise money to pay off Ravi and Rajan and their friends. They open an illegal poker hall and manage to raise funds. With the case hanging over him, Pepe feels obligated to end his relationship with the nursing student.
At this point, Lily "Lichi" David, who is Pepe's friend's older sister, returns to the area, where she starts spending more time with Pepe despite the court case hanging over him. The court case is settled, but Pepe is still in danger because the person he accidentally killed has cousins who have come to Angamaly for revenge. Ravi and Rajan act as go-betweens and try to keep the situation calm, but it is still a problem and Pepe needs to leave town. While Pepe is waiting for his Dubai visa to come through and celebrating a festival, they give the final payoff to Ravi and Rajan who pass on a portion to the cousins of the victim. However, the cousins are still angry and plan to attack Pepe after they receive all the money they can.
2014: During the evening festival celebrations, the brother-in-law of Ravi is stabbing Ravi and Thomas , and attack Rajan as they learn that they received only 4 lakh out of 30 lakhs Pepe paid them that was accidentally said by Thomas while having alchohol. During the fight, Ravi's brother-in-law is chased into the fireworks display and everyone watches in stunned silence as his body is charred by thousands of fireworks.
2016: Pepe marries Lichi and is a construction worker in Dubai, from where he still calls home regularly and also misses his life in Angamaly.
|
Angel Heart
| 1,987
|
Alan Parker
|
['Mickey Rourke', 'Robert De Niro', 'Lisa Bonet', 'Charlotte Rampling', 'Stocker Fontelieu', 'Brownie McGhee', 'Michael Higgins', 'Elizabeth Whitcraft', 'Eliott Keener', 'Charles Gordone', 'Dann Florek', 'Kathleen Wilhoite', 'George Buck', 'Judith Drake', 'Pruitt Taylor Vince', 'Dave Petitjean', 'Rick Washburn', 'Neil Newlon', 'Karen Davis', 'Gerald Orange']
| 3.65
| 3.5
|
Horror, Action, Fantasy, Erotic thriller, Noir, Drama, Suspense, Mystery, Thriller, Detective fiction, Supernatural, Crime Thriller
| 113
|
['Canada', 'UK', 'USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'French']
|
['Winkast Film Productions', 'Union', 'Carolco Pictures']
| 85,199
|
mystery
|
101-greatest-mystery-movies
| null |
In 1955, New York City private investigator Harry Angel is contacted by a man named Louis Cyphre to track down John Liebling, a crooner known professionally as Johnny Favorite who suffered severe neurological trauma, resulting from injuries received in World War II. Favorite's incapacity disrupted a contract with Cyphre regarding unspecified collateral, and Cyphre believes a private hospital where Favorite was receiving radical psychiatric treatment for shell shock has falsified records.
At the hospital, Harry discovers the records showing Favorite's transfer were indeed falsified by a physician named Albert Fowler. After Harry breaks into his home, Fowler admits that years ago he was bribed by a man and woman so that the two could abscond with the disfigured Favorite. Believing that Fowler is still withholding information, Harry locks him in his bedroom, forcing him to suffer withdrawal from a morphine addiction. The next morning, he finds that the doctor has apparently killed himself.
Harry tries to break his contract with Cyphre but agrees to continue the search when Cyphre offers him a lot of money. He discovers that Favorite had a wealthy fiancée named Margaret Krusemark but had also begun a secret affair with a woman named Evangeline Proudfoot. Harry travels to New Orleans and meets with Margaret, who tells him Favorite is dead, or at least dead to her. Evangeline died years before but is survived by her 17-year-old daughter, Epiphany Proudfoot, who was conceived during her mother's affair with Favorite.
When Epiphany is reluctant to speak, Harry tracks down Toots Sweet, a guitarist and former Favorite bandmate. After Harry uses force to try to extract details of Favorite's last known whereabouts, Toots refers him back to Margaret. The following morning, police detectives inform Harry that Toots has been murdered. Harry returns to Margaret's home and finds her murdered, her heart removed with a ceremonial knife. He is later attacked by enforcers of Ethan Krusemark — a powerful Louisiana patriarch and Margaret's father — who tell him to leave town.
At his hotel, Harry finds Epiphany. He invites her into his room, where they have sex during which Harry has visions of blood dripping from the ceiling and splashing around the room. He later confronts Krusemark in a gumbo hut, where the latter reveals that he and Margaret were the ones who took Favorite from the hospital. Favorite was actually a powerful occultist who sold his soul to Satan in exchange for stardom. He got his stardom but then sought to renege on the bargain. To do so, he kidnapped a young soldier from Times Square, who was of his exact same age and strongly resembled him, and performed a Satanic ritual on the boy, murdering him and eating his still-beating heart in order to steal his soul. Favorite planned to assume the identity of the murdered soldier but was drafted and then injured overseas. Suffering severe facial trauma and amnesia, he was sent to the hospital for treatment.
After Krusemark and his daughter took him from the hospital, they left him at Times Square on New Year's Eve 1943 (the date on the falsified hospital records). While hearing Krusemark's story, Harry runs into the bathroom, vomits and continually asks the identity of the soldier. He returns to find Krusemark drowned in a cauldron of boiling gumbo.
At Margaret's home, Harry finds a vase containing the soldier's dog tag — stamped with the name “Angel, Harold”. Harry realizes he and Johnny Favorite are, in fact, the same person. Louis Cyphre, whose name is a homophone for Lucifer, appears. His true nature revealed, Cyphre proclaims that he can at long last claim what is his: Favorite's immortal soul. Harry insists that he knows who he is and has never killed anyone, but as he looks at his reflection in a mirror, his repressed memories showing him killing Fowler, Toots, the Krusemarks, and Epiphany come flooding back.
A frantic Harry returns to his hotel room, where the police have found Epiphany murdered. Harry's dog tags are on her body. A police officer enters the room carrying Epiphany's young son, who Harry realizes is his grandchild. Harry sees the child's eyes glow, just as Cyphre's had at their last meeting, implying that Satan is the mysterious entity that impregnated Epiphany. Harry later is seen standing inside an elevator that is interminably descending, presumably to Hell. Cyphre can be heard whispering, "Harry" and "Johnny", asserting dominion over both their souls.
|
Angel's Egg
| 1,985
|
Mamoru Oshii
|
['Keiichi Noda', 'Mako Hyodo', 'Jinpachi Nezu']
| 4.15
| 4.5
|
Anime, Horror, Animation, Drama, Science fiction, Mystery, Fantasy
| 71
|
['Japan']
|
Japanese
|
['Japanese']
|
['Tokuma Shoten', 'Studio Deen']
| 92,757
|
animated
|
vote-best-animated-films-of-all-time
| null |
The setting of the film takes place in a primordial land, filled with ruins of buildings and starts with two nameless characters.[6] One of these is a young girl who scavenges a desolate city while protecting a large egg, which she believes will hatch into an angel.[5] The other is a boy with a large gun who disembarks from a tank.[5]
The girl encounters the boy who questions her about what the egg contains and suggests breaking it, leading to their brief bonding.[4] He wishes to break it to see what's inside.[7] The boy recounts a story that sounds like an alternate version of Noah's Ark in which the bird never returned and never existed and the ship kept sailing.[citation needed] The girl tells the boy that the bird did exist, and brings him to a fossil of an angel.
Later, the boy smashes the girl's egg while she sleeps.[4] This prompts her to look for him and ultimately fall into a body of water, where a large number of eggs appear. After this, the world shown in the film is revealed to have been on top of a shape that looks like the hull of an overturned ship.
|
Animal Farm
| 1,954
|
Joy Batchelor, John Halas
|
['Gordon Heath', 'Maurice Denham', 'Simon Cadell']
| 3.36
| null |
Animation, Comedy, Drama, Propaganda
| 72
|
['UK']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Halas and Batchelor Cartoon Films']
| 38,719
|
animated
|
vote-best-animated-films-of-all-time
| null |
Manor Farm is mismanaged by its drunken owner, Mr. Jones. Prize pig Old Major encourages the farm animals to oust Jones, and teaches them the revolutionary song "Beasts of England" before his death. Due to not being fed, Major's successor Snowball leads the animals into the storehouse for food; then leads them into chasing Jones away, renaming the farm "Animal Farm", and destroying the tools of oppression that had been used against them. They decide against living in the farmhouse, though Saddleback boar Napoleon is interested and begins to secretly raise an abandoned litter of puppies while also secretly helping himself to the jam storage in the house.
The Commandments of Animalism are written on a barn wall, the most important being: "All animals are equal". The farm runs smoothly and food becomes plentiful. The pigs become the leaders and claim special food items "by virtue of their brainwork". Snowball suggests a windmill, while Napoleon opposes it and has his dogs chase Snowball off the farm, denouncing him as a traitor and declaring himself leader. He abolishes farm policy meetings, appropriates all decision-making, and advances the windmill plan that he had snubbed when his rival proposed it.
The pigs alter their laws. "No animal shall sleep in a bed" becomes "No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets". Napoleon trades the hens' eggs for jellies and jams from Mr. Whymper. The hens revolt by throwing their eggs at the pigs when the pigs attempt to seize the eggs by force. To impose his will through fear, Napoleon holds a show trial where a sheep and a duck are accused as traitors and butchered by the dogs. Their blood is used to append to the commandment "No animal shall kill another animal" the words "without cause". Napoleon bans "Beasts of England", declaring the revolution complete and the dream of Animal Farm realised.
Jealous farmers attack Animal Farm and Jones blows up the windmill with himself inside. The animals win the battle at a great cost of lives. Boxer the workhorse, wounded, works to rebuild the windmill until he is gravely injured in an accident. Napoleon has a van take Boxer away, which Benjamin the donkey recognises as being from Whymper's glue factory. Napoleon's second-in-command Squealer delivers a sham eulogy, claiming Boxer's last words were to glorify Napoleon. The animals see through the propaganda but are driven away by the snarling dogs. The pigs toast Boxer's memory with whisky they bought with his life.
Years pass and Napoleon has expanded the neighbouring farms into an enterprise. The pigs walk upright, carry whips, drink alcohol and wear clothes. The Commandments are reduced to a single phrase: "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others". Napoleon holds a dinner party for a delegation of outside pigs, who congratulate him on having the hardest-working and lowest-consuming animals in the country. They toast a future where pigs own farms everywhere. Benjamin imagines the pigs have taken on the likeness of Mr. Jones.
Acknowledging their situation is even worse than before the revolution, the animals storm the farmhouse. The guard dogs are too drunk to act (having been given full access to the distillery) while the animals smash through the house, trample Napoleon and the pigs to death, and reclaim the farm along with their freedom.
|
Animal House
| 1,978
|
John Landis
|
['John Belushi', 'Karen Allen', 'Tom Hulce', 'Stephen Furst', 'Mark Metcalf', 'Mary Louise Weller', 'Martha Smith', 'John Vernon', 'James Daughton', 'Kevin Bacon', 'Tim Matheson', 'Verna Bloom', 'Cesare Danova', 'Peter Riegert', 'James Widdoes', 'Bruce McGill', 'DeWayne Jessie', 'Sarah Holcomb', 'Lisa Baur', 'Donald Sutherland', 'Douglas Kenney', 'Chris Miller', 'Bruce Bonnheim', 'Joshua Daniel', 'Sunny Johnson', 'Stacy Grooman', 'Eliza Roberts', 'Aseneth Jurgenson', 'Katherine Denning', 'Raymone Robinson', 'Robert Elliott', 'Reginald Farmer', 'Jebidiah R. Dumas', 'Priscilla Lauris', 'Rick Eby', 'John Freeman', 'Sean McCartin', 'Helen Vick', 'Rick Greenough', 'Stephen Bishop', 'John Landis']
| 3.44
| null |
Comedy, Romance, Drama
| 109
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Universal Pictures', 'Oregon Film Factory', 'Stage III Productions', 'ABC']
| 144,972
|
comedy
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
In the fall of 1962, Faber College freshmen Larry Kroger and Kent Dorfman seek to pledge a fraternity. Finding themselves ostracized at the prestigious Omega Theta Pi house party, the two visit the Delta Tau Chi house next door; Kent cannot be rejected because his brother Fred was a member, making him a "legacy." During the party, they meet John Blutarsky ("Bluto"), chapter president Robert Hoover ("Hoov"), smooth-talking ladies man Eric Stratton ("Otter"), motorcyclist Daniel Simpson Day ("D-Day"), Donald Schoenstein ("Boon"), and Boon's frustrated girlfriend Katy. Larry and Kent are accepted as Delta pledges and given fraternity names "Pinto" and "Flounder," respectively. Meanwhile, pledge Chip Diller is accepted into Omega house and given a paddling as part of his initiation.
Wanting to remove the Delta fraternity, which is on probation due to numerous conduct violations and overall poor academic standing, Dean Vernon Wormer directs Greg Marmalard, the Omega's president, to get fellow Omega and ROTC Cadet Commander Douglas C. Neidermeyer to find a reason to expel Delta house. Various incidents deepen the animosity between Delta, Omega, and Wormer, including the accidental death of Neidermeyer's horse during a retaliatory prank for bullying ROTC member Flounder. Otter flirts with Mandy, having previously had sex with her, unbeknownst to Marmalard.
Later on, Bluto and D-Day steal the answer key to an upcoming midterm exam from the trash, unaware that the Omegas have switched it for a fake one with wrong answers. The Deltas all fail, and their grade-point averages drop so low that Wormer tells them he needs only one more incident to revoke their charter and have them permanently dismissed from campus.
Unconcerned, the Deltas organize a toga party, recruiting Pinto and Flounder to shoplift party supplies from a supermarket. At the market, Pinto meets a young cashier named Clorette and invites her to the party, while Otter flirts with an older woman, who turns out to be Wormer's alcoholic wife, Marion. During the toga party, at which Otis Day and the Knights perform, Otter seduces Marion, while Pinto and Clorette make out until she passes out, drunk. Pinto resists the temptation to rape her and instead takes her home in a shopping cart. He later discovers that she is the 13-year-old daughter of Carmine DePasto, the town mayor.
Wormer organizes a kangaroo court led by the Omegas, which revokes the Delta's charter and confiscates the contents of their house. Otter, Boon, Pinto, and Flounder take a road trip in Flounder's brother Fred's borrowed Lincoln Continental. They arrive at Emily Dickinson College, an all-girls institution, where Otter poses as Frank, the fiancé of a recently deceased student named Fawn Liebowitz to find dates for himself and the others. They stop at a roadhouse bar where Otis Day and the Knights are performing, unaware that the clientele is exclusively black patrons. Some of the patrons intimidate the Deltas into abandoning their dates and fleeing.
The next morning, Boon discovers Katy has spent the night with English professor Dave Jennings. Babs tells Marmalard that Mandy and Otter have been having an affair; Marmalard has Babs lure Otter to a motel where the Omegas beat him up. Due to the Deltas' dismal midterm grades, Wormer expels them all from Faber and gleefully tells them he has notified their local draft boards that they are all eligible for military service. With Otter's support, Bluto rallies the Deltas to seek revenge during the annual Homecoming parade. D-Day converts Fred's Lincoln into the "Deathmobile," an armored vehicle concealed inside a cake-shaped breakaway float, and the Deltas wreak havoc during the parade. It culminates in the Deathmobile ramming the reviewing stand, tossing Marmalard, Wormer, DePasto and the latters' wives into the air.
As chaos reigns on the streets, the futures of several characters are revealed. Many Deltas achieve unexpected success, with Bluto becoming a United States senator and marrying Mandy, while most of the Omegas have less fortunate outcomes, such as Neidermeyer ending up killed by his own troops during the Vietnam War.
|
Annie Hall
| 1,977
|
Woody Allen
|
['Woody Allen', 'Diane Keaton', 'Tony Roberts', 'Carol Kane', 'Paul Simon', 'Shelley Duvall', 'Janet Margolin', 'Colleen Dewhurst', 'Christopher Walken', 'Donald Symington', 'Helen Ludlam', 'Mordecai Lawner', 'Joan Neuman', 'Jonathan Munk', 'Ruth Volner', 'Martin Rosenblatt', 'Hy Anzell', 'Rashel Novikoff', 'Russell Horton', 'Marshall McLuhan', 'Christine Jones', 'Mary Boylan', 'Wendy Girard', 'John Doumanian', 'Bob Maroff', 'Rick Petrucelli', 'Lee Callahan', 'Chris Gampel', 'Dick Cavett', 'Mark Lenard', 'Dan Ruskin', 'John Glover', 'Bernie Styles', 'Johnny Haymer', 'Ved Bandhu', 'John Dennis Johnston', 'Laurie Bird', 'Jim McKrell', 'Jeff Goldblum', 'William Callaway', 'Roger Newman', 'Alan Landers', 'Jean Sarah Frost', "Vince O'Brien", 'Humphrey Davis', 'Veronica Radburn', 'Robin Mary Paris', 'Charles Levin', 'Wayne Carson', 'Michael Karm', 'Petronia Johnson', 'Shaun Casey', 'Riccardo Bertoni', 'Michael Aronin', 'Lou Picetti', 'Loretta Tupper', 'James Burge', 'Shelley Hack', 'Albert M. Ottenheimer', 'Paula Trueman', "Beverly D'Angelo", 'Tracey Walter', 'David Wier', 'Keith Dentice', 'Susan Mellinger', 'Hamit Perezic', 'James Balter', 'Eric Bear', 'Amy Levitan', 'Gary Allen', 'Frank Vohs', 'Sybil Bowan', 'Margaretta Warwick', 'Lucy Lee Flippin', 'Gary Mule Deer', 'Sigourney Weaver', 'Walter Bernstein', 'Truman Capote', 'Gregory Doucette', 'Harrison Ressler', 'Billie Perkins', 'Kathryn Janssen', 'Juliet Graham']
| 4.04
| 4.5
|
Romance, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Melodrama, Drama, Tragicomedy
| 93
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'German']
|
['United Artists', 'Rollins-Joffe Productions']
| 408,735
|
oscar-winner, comedy
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time, oscar-winning-films-best-picture
| null |
Comedian Alvy Singer is trying to understand why his relationship with Annie Hall ended a year ago. Growing up in Brooklyn, he vexed his mother with impossible questions about the emptiness of existence, but he was precocious about his innocent sexual curiosity, suddenly kissing a classmate at six years old and not understanding why she was not keen to reciprocate.
Annie and Alvy, in a line for The Sorrow and the Pity, overhear another man deriding the work of Federico Fellini and Marshall McLuhan. Alvy imagines McLuhan himself stepping in at his invitation to criticize the man's comprehension. That night, Annie shows no interest in sex with Alvy. Instead, they discuss his first wife, whom he kept at a distance for no good reason. His second marriage was to a New York writer who did not share his enthusiasm for sports and was unable to reach orgasm.
With Annie, it is different. The two of them have fun cooking a meal of boiled lobster together. He teases her about the unusual men in her past. They had met playing tennis doubles with friends. Following the game, awkward small talk leads her to offer him a ride uptown, and then a glass of wine on her balcony. There, what seemed a mild exchange of trivial personal data is revealed in "mental subtitles" as an escalating flirtation. Their first date follows Annie's singing audition for a nightclub ("It Had to be You"). After their lovemaking that night, Alvy is "a wreck," while Annie relaxes with a joint.
Soon, Annie admits she loves Alvy, while he buys her books on death and says that his feelings for her are more than just love. When Annie moves in with him, things become very tense. Eventually, Alvy finds her arm-in-arm with one of her college professors, and the two begin to argue about whether this is the "flexibility" they had discussed. They eventually break up, and he searches for the truth of relationships, asking strangers on the street about the nature of love, questioning his formative years, and imagining a cartoon version of himself arguing with a cartoon Annie portrayed as the Evil Queen in Snow White.
Alvy attempts a return to dating, but the effort is marred by neurosis and an episode of bad sex that is interrupted when Annie calls in the middle of the night, insisting that he come over immediately to kill a spider in her bathroom. A reconciliation follows, coupled with a vow to stay together, come what may. However, their separate discussions with their therapists make it evident there is an unspoken and unbridgeable divide. When Alvy accepts an offer to present an award on television, they travel to Los Angeles with Alvy's friend Rob. However, on the return trip, they agree that their relationship is not working. After losing Annie to her record producer Tony Lacey, Alvy unsuccessfully tries rekindling the flame with a marriage proposal. Back in New York, he stages a play of their relationship, but he changes the ending: now she accepts.
The last meeting between Annie and Alvy is a wistful coda on Manhattan's Upper West Side after they have both moved on to someone new. Alvy's voice returns with a summation: Love is essential, especially if it is neurotic. Annie sings "Seems Like Old Times," and the credits roll.
|
Anomalisa
| 2,015
|
Duke Johnson, Charlie Kaufman
|
['David Thewlis', 'Jennifer Jason Leigh', 'Tom Noonan']
| 3.86
| 4
|
Animation, Action, Romance, Comedy, Adult animation, Melodrama, Fantasy, Drama, Tragicomedy, Comedy drama
| 91
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Starburns Industries', 'Snoot Entertainment', 'Paramount Pictures']
| 189,196
|
comedy, animated
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time, vote-best-animated-films-of-all-time
| null |
In 2005, middle-aged English-born lonely customer service expert and motivational speaker Michael Stone travels to Cincinnati, Ohio to promote his latest book at a convention at the Fregoli Hotel. He feels distant from everyone around him, whom he perceives as having an identical face and voice, including his wife and son.
Michael practices his speech in his room but is haunted by the memory of an angry letter from a former lover, Bella, whom he abruptly left years ago without an explanation. He arranges to meet her in the hotel bar, but she is still upset and outraged by his invitation to his room, eventually storming out. Going for a walk, Michael mistakes an adult toy store for a children's toy store. Wanting to buy his son a present, he goes in and realizes his mistake, but is fascinated by a Japanese animatronic doll behind the counter.
After taking a shower, Michael hears a unique female voice and rushes from his room to find her. He meets Lisa, an insecure young woman attending the convention with her friend Emily. Enraptured by her unique appearance and voice, he invites both women for drinks at the bar. Later, to Lisa's surprise, Michael invites her to his room. Still captivated, he encourages her to sing and tell him about her life. She sings Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" and after she calls herself an "anomaly", he nicknames her Anomalisa. The two become intimate and eventually have sex.
Michael has a nightmare in which the lower half of his face falls off and the identical people of the world pursue him, claiming they love him and insisting he and Lisa cannot be together. The dream inspires Michael to propose he and Lisa start a new life together. She agrees, but her eating habits during breakfast annoy him, and her voice and face begin to transform into those of everyone else. During his convention talk, Michael suffers a breakdown, claiming he has no one to talk to and ranting about the American government, alienating the audience.
Michael returns to his home in Los Angeles, California. He gives the Japanese animatronic doll to his son who is nonplussed and notices a mysterious substance leaking from it. His wife notes its resemblance to semen but dismisses it nonchalantly. She has arranged a surprise party for Michael, but he does not recognize any of the attendees, angering her. Michael sits alone on the stairs as the doll, bearing facial damage in the same locations as Lisa's facial scarring, sings "Momotarō's Song", a Japanese children's song. Lisa writes Michael a letter, saying she hopes they will meet again while Emily, sitting beside her in her car, has her unique face.
|
Another Day in Paradise
| 1,998
|
Larry Clark
|
['Melanie Griffith', 'James Woods', 'Vincent Kartheiser', 'Natasha Gregson Wagner', 'James Otis', 'Peter Sarsgaard', 'Brent Briscoe', 'Paul Hipp', 'Kim Flowers', 'John Gatins', 'Ryan Donahue', 'Leo Fitzpatrick', 'Branden Williams', 'Christopher Doyle', 'Dick Hancock', 'Pamela Gordon', 'Jay Leggett', 'Michael Jeffrey Woods', 'Karen Sheperd', 'Mitchell Orr', 'Simon Williams', 'Steve Connell', 'Clarence Carter', 'Roosevelt Bitten', 'Greg Dalton', 'Donald Hayes', 'Ishma Israel', 'Maurice James', 'Eddie Lott', 'Will Miller', 'Will Miller', 'Lionel Douglass', 'Lou Diamond Phillips']
| 3.34
| null |
Action, Drama, Crime film, Suspense, Thriller
| 101
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Chinese Bookie Pictures']
| 6,701
|
road-movie
|
road-movies-1
| null |
In the 1970s Midwest, teenaged Bobbie, a methamphetamine addict, attempts to rob several vending machines at a local college, but is confronted by a night guard who brutally attacks and beats him. The fight ends with Bobbie stabbing the guard to death. A severely injured Bobbie returns to the flophouse of his older girlfriend, Rosie, who contacts Mel, a streetwise middle-aged thief and part-time drug dealer, for help. Mel gives Bobbie heroin to ease his pain.
After Bobbie heals, Mel and his heroin-addicted girlfriend Sid take Bobbie and Rosie under their wing. The two commit several drug heists, including one at a small clinic which accrues them a significant amount of money. While on the run, Rosie discovers she is pregnant. The news elates Sid, who Mel later reveals cannot conceive a child.
In a dusty small town, Mel and Bobbie begin to sell off the stolen narcotics out of a rundown motel. A group of armed rednecks attempt to steal their stash, Mel and Bobbie are shot during the altercation, but Bobbie and Sid manage to kill the four men and take their money. The group flee to the home of the Reverend, a preacher and illegal arms dealer from whom Mel acquires his guns. The Reverend allows them to stay at his home, but only in exchange for half of their haul.
After Mel and Bobbie recover, the group continue their illegal exploits, uniting with Jewels, a flamboyant gay criminal with whom Mel has worked in the past. Mel, Bobbie, and Sid agree to commit a robbery with Jewels, but Rosie is reluctant, shaken by Mel and Bobbie's near-death incident. The night before the planned robbery, Rosie commits suicide by overdosing on heroin in their motel. A devastated Bobbie keeps Rosie's death a secret, and goes along with Mel and Sid in the morning to the home of the wealthy couple Jewels has planned for them to rob.
When they arrive, they discover Jewels already inside, beating the male occupant after having tied up his wife. The robbery quickly goes awry, and Bobbie shoots Jewels through the throat, killing him. Mel, angered that Bobbie has killed their cohort, proceeds to murder the homeowners to prevent being identified to police. Bobbie, Mel, and Sid flee with $80,000, but Mel is infuriated by Bobbie's actions.
During the car ride, Bobbie reveals that Rosie is dead and her body is back at the motel, which causes Sid to have a breakdown, as she has developed a maternal relationship with both Rosie and Bobbie. While stopping for gasoline, Mel insists they murder Bobbie to conceal their crime, which Sid reluctantly agrees to when Mel threatens her life as well. Bobbie goes to use the restroom, and Sid follows, tearfully warning him that Mel plans to murder him. She gives him a stack of money and pleads for him to go. The two embrace, and Bobbie flees through a cornfield. When Mel realizes Bobbie has escaped, he looks into the field to kill him, but is unable to spot him. Mel punches Sid in the face as punishment for her betrayal, then drives off as Bobbie continues to run.
|
Ant-Man
| 2,015
|
Peyton Reed
|
['Paul Rudd', 'Michael Douglas', 'Evangeline Lilly', 'Corey Stoll', 'Bobby Cannavale', 'Anthony Mackie', 'Judy Greer', 'Abby Ryder Fortson', 'Michael Peña', 'David Dastmalchian', 'T.I.', 'Wood Harris', 'Hayley Atwell', 'John Slattery', 'Martin Donovan', 'Garrett Morris', 'Gregg Turkington', 'Rod Hallett', 'Joe Chrest', 'Joe Bucaro III', 'Jean Louisa Kelly', 'Dax Griffin', 'Hayley Lovitt', 'Norma Alvarez', 'Darcie Isabella Cottrell', 'Teddy Williams', 'Carol Anne Watts', 'Chuck David Willis', 'Diana Chiritescu', 'Neko Parham', 'Onira Tarés', 'Kylen Davis', 'Zamani Wilder', 'Jim R. Coleman', 'Desmond Phillips', 'Aaron Saxton', 'Michael A. Cook', 'Ricki Lander', 'Rus Blackwell', 'Johnny Pemberton', 'Nicholas Barrera', 'Carlos Aviles', 'Lyndsi LaRose', 'Robert Crayton', 'Ajani Perkins', 'Jessejames Locorriere', 'Zack Duhame', 'Kevin Lacz', 'Michael Trisler', 'Daniel Stevens', 'Alex Chansky', 'Clay Donahue Fontenot', 'Michael Jamorski', 'Casey Pieretti', 'Antal Kalik', 'Adam Hart', 'Reuben Langdon', 'Todd Schneider', 'Kevin Buttimer', 'Danny Vasquez', 'Anna Akana', 'Stan Lee', 'Tom Kenny', 'Rick Avery', 'Erik Betts', 'Chris Evans', 'Sebastian Stan', 'Raul Colon', 'Hayley Gagner', 'Vanessa Ross']
| 3.23
| 2.5
|
Action, Comedy, Superhero, Science fiction, Thriller, Adventure, Heist, Drama, Crime Fiction
| 117
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Marvel Studios']
| 1,975,283
|
superhero, heist
|
superhero-movies, heist-movies
| null |
In 1989, scientist Hank Pym resigns from S.H.I.E.L.D. after discovering their attempt to replicate his Ant-Man shrinking technology. Believing the technology would be dangerous if replicated, Pym vows to hide it for as long as he lives. In the present day,[a] Pym's estranged daughter, Hope van Dyne, and former protégé, Darren Cross, have forced him out of his company, Pym Technologies. Cross is close to perfecting a shrinking suit of his own, the Yellowjacket, which horrifies Pym.
Upon his release from prison, well-meaning thief Scott Lang moves in with his old cellmate, Luis. Lang visits his daughter Cassie unannounced and is chastised by his former wife Maggie and her police-detective fiancé, Paxton, for not providing child support. Unable to hold down a job because of his criminal record, Lang agrees to join Luis' crew and commit a burglary. Lang breaks into a house and cracks its safe, but only finds what he believes to be an old motorcycle suit, which he takes home. After trying the suit on, Lang accidentally shrinks himself to the size of an insect. Terrified by the experience, he returns the suit to the house but is arrested on the way out. Pym, the homeowner, visits Lang in jail and smuggles the suit into his cell to help him break out.
Pym, who manipulated Lang through an unknowing Luis into stealing the suit as a test, wants Lang to become the new Ant-Man to steal the Yellowjacket from Cross. Having been spying on Cross after discovering his intentions, Hope and Pym train Lang to fight and to control ants. While Hope harbors resentment towards Pym about her mother Janet's death, he reveals that Janet, known as the Wasp, disappeared into a subatomic Quantum Realm while disabling a Soviet nuclear missile in 1987. Pym warns Lang that he could suffer a similar fate if he overrides his suit's regulator. They send him to steal a device from the Avengers' headquarters that will aid their heist, where he briefly fights Sam Wilson.
Cross perfects the Yellowjacket and hosts an unveiling ceremony at Pym Technologies' headquarters. Lang, along with his crew and a swarm of flying ants, infiltrates the building during the event, sabotages the company's servers, and plants explosives. When he attempts to steal the Yellowjacket, he, along with Pym and Hope, is captured by Cross, who intends to sell both the Yellowjacket and Ant-Man suits to Hydra. Lang breaks free and he and Hope dispatch most of the Hydra agents, though one flees with a vial of Cross' particles and Pym is shot. Lang pursues Cross, while the explosives detonate, imploding the building as Pym and Hope escape.
Cross dons the Yellowjacket and attacks Lang before Lang is arrested by Paxton. Cross takes Cassie hostage to lure Lang into another fight. Lang overrides the regulator and shrinks to subatomic size to penetrate Cross' suit and sabotage it to shrink uncontrollably, seemingly killing Cross. Lang disappears into the Quantum Realm but manages to reverse the effects and returns to the macroscopic world. Out of gratitude for Lang's heroism, Paxton covers for Lang to keep him out of prison. Seeing that Lang survived and returned from the Quantum Realm, Pym wonders if his wife is alive as well. Later, Lang meets up with Luis, who tells him that Wilson is looking for him.
In a mid-credits scene, Pym shows Hope a new Wasp prototype suit and offers it to her. In a post-credits scene, Steve Rogers and Wilson have Bucky Barnes in their custody. Unable to contact Tony Stark because of "the accords",[b] Wilson mentions that he knows someone who can help.
|
Ant-Man and the Wasp
| 2,018
|
Peyton Reed
|
['Paul Rudd', 'Evangeline Lilly', 'Michael Douglas', 'Hannah John-Kamen', 'Randall Park', 'Michelle Pfeiffer', 'Laurence Fishburne', 'Michael Peña', 'Walton Goggins', 'Bobby Cannavale', 'Judy Greer', 'T.I.', 'David Dastmalchian', 'Abby Ryder Fortson', 'Divian Ladwa', 'Goran KostiÄ', 'Rob Archer', 'Sean Kleier', 'Benjamin Byron Davis', 'Michael Cerveris', 'Riann Steele', 'Dax Griffin', 'Hayley Lovitt', 'Langston Fishburne', 'RaeLynn Bratten', 'Madeleine McGraw', 'Tim Heidecker', 'Stan Lee', 'Charles Justo', 'Brian Huskey', 'Suehyla El-Attar', 'Julia Vera', 'Jessica Winther', 'Norwood Cheek', 'Bryan Lugo', 'Ana Maria Quintana', 'Darcy Shean', 'Blake Vogt', 'Torrey Vogel', 'Simon Potter', 'Jon Wurster', 'Tom Scharpling', 'Virginia Hamilton', 'Jessica Castro', 'Reggie Aqui', 'Natasha Zouves', 'Mike Nicco', 'Alexis Smith', 'Mika Kubo', 'Joshua Mikel', 'Chris Gann', 'Sergio Briones', 'Denney Pierce', 'Vanessa Ross', 'Zachary Culbertson', 'Steven Wiig', 'Timothy Carr', 'Sawyer D. Jones', 'Rick Richardson', 'Benjamin Weaver', 'Jamel Chambers', 'Jennifer Black', 'Sandra Dee Richardson', 'Dale Liner', 'John Ozuna', 'Marcella Bragio', 'Sophia Marcs', 'William W. Barbour', 'Kevin Carscallen', 'Seth McCracken', 'Andy Arness', 'James Siderits', 'Tahseen Ghauri', 'Jake Hanson', 'Tanya Wheelock']
| 2.88
| 2.5
|
Action, Romance, Comedy, Superhero, Science fiction, Adventure, Fantasy, Drama
| 119
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Marvel Studios']
| 1,427,307
|
superhero, comedy
|
superhero-movies, vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
Two years after Scott Lang was placed under house arrest due to his involvement with the Avengers, in violation of the Sokovia Accords,[a] Hank Pym and his daughter Hope van Dyne briefly manage to open a tunnel to the Quantum Realm. They believe Pym's wife Janet van Dyne might be trapped there after shrinking to sub-atomic levels in 1987. When he had previously visited the Quantum Realm, Lang had unknowingly become quantumly entangled with Janet, and now he receives an apparent message from her.
With only days left of house arrest, Lang contacts Pym about Janet, despite the strained relationship they have because of Lang's actions with the Avengers. Hope and Pym kidnap Lang, leaving a large ant with Lang's ankle-monitor on as a decoy so as not to arouse the suspicions of FBI agent Jimmy Woo. Believing the message from Janet is confirmation that she is alive, the trio work to build a stable quantum tunnel so they can take a vehicle to the Quantum Realm and retrieve her. They arrange to buy a part needed for the tunnel from black-market dealer Sonny Burch, but Burch realizes the potential profit to be made from Pym's research and double-crosses them. Donning the Wasp outfit, Hope fights off Burch and his men until she is attacked by a quantumly unstable masked woman. Lang tries to help fight off the "ghost", but the woman escapes with Pym's lab, which has been shrunk down to the size of a suitcase.
Pym reluctantly takes Hope and Lang to visit his estranged former partner Bill Foster, who gives them a way to locate the lab. After they find it, the "ghost" captures the trio and reveals herself to be Ava Starr. Her father, Elihas, was another of Pym's former partners. Elihas and his wife died during an experiment that caused Ava's unstable state. Foster enters and reveals that Ava is dying and in constant pain as a result of her condition. They plan to cure her using Janet's quantum energy. Believing that this will kill Janet, Pym refuses to help them and escapes with Hope, Lang, and the lab.
Opening a stable version of the tunnel, Pym, Hope, and Lang are able to contact Janet, who gives them a precise location to find her but warns that they only have two hours before the unstable nature of the Quantum Realm separates them for a century. Using a truth serum, Burch learns the trio's location from Lang's business partners Luis, Dave, and Kurt, and informs a contact at the FBI. Luis warns Lang, who rushes home before Woo can see that he is violating his house arrest. Pym and Hope are arrested by the FBI, allowing Ava to take the lab.
Lang is soon able to help Pym and Hope escape custody, and they find the lab. Lang and Hope distract Ava while Pym enters the Quantum Realm to retrieve Janet, whom he finds alive. Meanwhile, Lang and Hope are confronted by Burch and his men, and following a lengthy chase across San Francisco, Ava regains control of the lab, allowing her to begin taking Janet's energy by force. Luis, Dave, and Kurt incapacitate Burch and his men so that Lang and Hope can stop Ava. Pym and Janet return safely from the Quantum Realm, and Janet voluntarily gives some of her energy to Ava to temporarily stabilize her. Lang returns home once again, in time for a now-suspicious Woo to release him at the end of his house arrest. Ava and Foster go into hiding while Burch and his men are arrested and confess due to being injected with Burch's truth serum.
In a mid-credits scene, Pym, Hope, and Janet send Lang into the Quantum Realm to harvest quantum energy in a plan to help Ava remain stable. Before they can retrieve Lang, the other three turn to dust.[b]
|
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
| 2,023
|
Peyton Reed
|
['Paul Rudd', 'Evangeline Lilly', 'Michael Douglas', 'Michelle Pfeiffer', 'Jonathan Majors', 'Kathryn Newton', 'Corey Stoll', 'Bill Murray', "Katy O'Brian", 'William Jackson Harper', 'Jamie Andrew Cutler', 'David Dastmalchian', 'Randall Park', 'Mark Weinman', 'Ross Mullan', 'Tom Clark', 'Leon Cooke', 'Nathan Blees', 'Durassie Kiangangu', 'Liran Nathan', 'Sam Symons', 'Grahame Fox', 'Nicola Peluso', 'Harrison Daniels', 'Brahmdeo Shannon Ramana', 'Russell Balogh', 'Leonardo Taiwo', 'Osian Roberts', 'Lucas Gerstel', 'Mia Gerstel', 'Tracy Jeffrey', 'Dinah Jeffrey', 'Judy Jeffrey', 'John Nayagam', 'Greta Nayagam', 'Cathy Chan', 'Adam Sai', 'Jamie Sai', 'Jakari Fraser', 'Patricia Belcher', 'Mark Oliver Everett', 'Ruben Rabasa', 'Melanie Garcia', 'Gregg Turkington', 'Sierra Katow', 'Ryan Bergara', 'Marielle Scott', 'Jake Millgard', 'Dey Young', 'Briza Covarrubias', 'Tess Aubert', 'David J. Castillo', 'Sir Cornwell', 'Alan Heitz', 'Esther McAuley', 'Aisling Mara Andreica', 'Milton Lopes', 'Roger Craig Smith', 'Matthew Wood', 'Loveday Smith', 'John Townsend', 'Tom Scharpling', 'Tom Hiddleston', 'Owen Wilson']
| 2.24
| 2.5
|
Action, Romance, Comedy, Superhero, Science fiction, Adventure, Suspense, Mystery, Thriller
| 125
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'Georgian']
|
['Marvel Studios', 'Kevin Feige Productions']
| 816,001
|
superhero
|
superhero-movies
| null |
Following the Avengers's battle against Thanos,[a] Scott Lang has become a successful memoirist and has been living happily with his girlfriend, Hope van Dyne. Scott's now-teenage daughter Cassie has become an activist, helping people displaced by the Blip, resulting in her having a strained relationship with her father. While visiting Hope's parents, Hank Pym and Janet van Dyne, Cassie reveals that she has been working on a device that can establish contact with the Quantum Realm. Upon learning of this, Janet panics and forcefully shuts off the device, but the message is received, resulting in a portal that opens and sucks the five of them into the Quantum Realm. Scott and Cassie are found by natives who are rebelling against their ruler, while Hope, Janet, and Hank explore a sprawling city to get answers.
Hope, Janet, and Hank meet with Lord Krylar, a former ally of Janet's, who reveals that things have changed since she left,[b] and that he is now working for Kang, the Quantum Realm's new ruler. The three are forced to flee and steal Krylar's ship. The Langs, meanwhile, are told by rebel leader Jentorra that Janet's involvement with Kang is indirectly responsible for his rise to power. The rebels soon come under attack by Kang's forces led by M.O.D.O.K., who is revealed to be Darren Cross, having survived his apparent death at the hands of Scott,[c] and who previously received Cassie's message. Aboard Krylar's ship, Janet confesses to Hope and Hank that she met Kang when she was previously in the Quantum Realm. He claimed that he and Janet could both escape from the Quantum Realm if she helped him rebuild his multiversal power core. After they managed to repair it, Janet saw a vision of Kang conquering and destroying entire timelines. Kang revealed he was exiled by his variants out of fear, which drove Janet to turn against him. Outmatched, Janet used her Pym Particles to enlarge the power core beyond use. Kang, having regained his powers, eventually conquered the Quantum Realm afterward.
The Langs are taken to Kang, who demands that Scott help get his power core back or else he will kill Cassie. Scott is then taken to the core's location and shrinks down. In the core, he encounters a probability storm, which causes him to split into multiple copies of himself nearly overwhelming him, but Hope arrives and helps him acquire the power core. However, Kang reneges on the deal, capturing Janet with M.O.D.O.K. destroying her ship with Hank on it. After being rescued by his ants, who rapidly evolved and became hyper-intelligent after being pulled into the Quantum Realm, Hank helps Scott and Hope as they make their way to Kang. Cassie rescues Jentorra and they commence an uprising against Kang and his army. During the fight, Cassie convinces Cross to switch sides and fight Kang, with him eventually sacrificing his life.
Janet fixes the power core as she, Hank, Hope, and Cassie jump through a portal home. Kang attacks Scott at the last minute. Before he can beat Scott into submission, Hope returns, and she and Scott throw Kang and the Pym Particles into the power core, destroying them both. Cassie reopens the portal for Scott and Hope to return home. As Scott happily resumes his life, he begins to rethink what he was told about Kang's death being the start of something terrible happening, but brushes it off. In a mid-credits scene, numerous variants of Kang, led by Immortus, commiserate Kang's death and plan their multiversal uprising. In a post-credits scene, Loki and Mobius M. Mobius encounter another Kang variant, Victor Timely, at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893.[d]
|
Antichrist
| 2,009
|
Lars von Trier
|
['Willem Dafoe', 'Charlotte Gainsbourg', 'Storm Acheche Sahlstrøm']
| 3.4
| 3.5
|
Horror, Thriller, Drama, Suspense, Mystery, Experimental
| 108
|
['Denmark', 'France', 'Germany', 'Italy', 'Poland', 'Sweden']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Zentropa Entertainments', 'Slot Machine', 'Memfis Film', 'Zentropa International Köln', 'Trollhättan Film', 'Lucky Red', 'Zentropa International Poland', 'DR', 'ARTE France Cinéma', 'ZDF/Arte', 'Film i Väst', 'SVT', 'Groupe Grand Accord']
| 268,963
|
toxic-relationship
|
toxic-destructive-relationships
| null |
An unnamed couple have sex in their Seattle apartment while their unsupervised infant son, Nic, climbs up to the bedroom window and falls out of it to his death. The mother collapses at the funeral and spends the next month in the hospital crippled with atypical grief. The father, a therapist, is skeptical of the psychiatric care she is receiving and takes it upon himself to treat her personally with psychotherapy. She reveals that her second greatest fear is nature, prompting him to try exposure therapy. They hike to their isolated cabin in the woods, called Eden, where she spent time with Nic the previous summer while writing a thesis criticizing gynocide. During the hike, he encounters a deer that shows no fear of him and has a stillborn fawn hanging halfway out of her.
During sessions of psychotherapy, the woman becomes increasingly grief-stricken and manic, often demanding forceful sex. The area becomes increasingly sinister to the man; acorns rapidly pelt the metal roof, he wakes up with a hand covered in ticks that have become swollen with his blood, and he encounters a self-disemboweling red fox that tells him "chaos reigns." In the dark attic, the man finds the woman's thesis studies, which include violent portraits of witch hunts and a scrapbook in which her writing becomes increasingly frantic and illegible. She reveals that, while writing, she came to believe that all women are inherently evil. The man reprimands her for this and, in a frenzied moment, they have violent sex at the base of an ominous dead tree where bodies are intertwined within the exposed roots. He suspects that Satan is her greatest hidden fear.
Upon viewing Nic's autopsy and photos the woman took of him while they stayed at Eden, the man becomes aware that she had been systematically putting Nic's shoes on the wrong feet, resulting in a foot deformity. She attacks him in the shed, accuses him of planning to leave her, initiates sex with him, and then smashes a large block of wood onto his erect penis, causing him to lose consciousness. She then masturbates him until he ejaculates blood. She drills a hole through his leg, bolting a heavy grindstone through the wound, and tosses the wrench she used under the cabin. The man awakens alone; unable to loosen the bolt, he hides by dragging himself into a deep foxhole at the base of the dead tree. Following the sound of a crow he found buried alive in the hole, the woman locates and attacks him before partially burying him.
Night falls. Now remorseful, the woman digs up the man but cannot remember where the wrench is. She helps him back to the cabin, where she tells him that only "when the Three Beggars arrive" can he die. The woman recounts that she saw Nic climbing up to the window on the night of his death, but did not act, displaying her perceived evil. In the cabin, she cuts off her clitoris. The two are then visited by the crow (symbol of despair), the deer (symbol of grief), and the fox (symbol of pain), referred to as the Three Beggars. A hailstorm begins, and it was earlier revealed that women accused of witchcraft had been known to have the power to summon hailstorms. When he finds the wrench under the cabin's floorboards, she attacks him with scissors, but he manages to unbolt the grindstone. Finally free, he strangles her to death, then burns her body on a pyre.
The man limps from the cabin and eats wild berries, as the Three Beggars look on, now translucent and glowing. Reaching the top of a hill, under a brilliant light, he watches in awe as hundreds of women in antiquated clothes come towards him with their faces blurred as they walk past him through the forest.
|
Antoine and Colette
| 1,962
|
François Truffaut
|
['Jean-Pierre Léaud', 'Marie-France Pisier', 'Rosy Varte', 'François Darbon', 'Patrick Auffay', 'Jean-François Adam', 'Pierre Schaeffer']
| 3.75
| null |
Drama, Romance, Comedy, Short, Melodrama, Tragicomedy, Coming-of-age story
| 30
|
['France']
|
French
|
['French']
|
['Les Films du Carrosse']
| 47,656
|
sad, emotional
|
sad-movies-if-you-feel-like-you-need-to-cry
| null |
Antoine and Colette catches up with Antoine as a solitary 20-year-old who works at Philips manufacturing LPs to support himself. He lives in a furnished room by himself in Place Clichy,[1] listening to opera and classical music and spending time with René (Patrick Auffay), his school friend from The 400 Blows.
One day, while attending a Berlioz Music Programme[1] with René, he spots Colette (Marie-France Pisier), a secondary school student, and falls in love for the first time.
Colette is his own age, but unlike Antoine has a warm, supportive family with whom she still lives. Antoine forms a strong friendship with Colette and, eventually, also her parents who begin to treat him as if he were a part of their family.
Colette's feelings for Antoine are at first ambiguous and, harbouring some hope that she might grow to return them, he leaves his apartment at the Place Clichy and moves into an apartment across the road from her family's. Although she continues to treat him kindly, it slowly becomes apparent that she is not interested in him romantically. He sulks about this and at first refuses to see her, but he is lured back by a dinner invitation. It is clear that her family still consider him a surrogate son and are possibly hoping for something romantic to happen between the two teenagers.
All of these hopes are dashed, however, when the pretty Colette is met at the front door by an older man. Her parents and Antoine look helplessly on as she disappears off with her date. They are all left to watch television.[2]
Doinel's adventures follow with Stolen Kisses, Bed and Board and Love on the Run.
|
Antonio das Mortes
| 1,969
|
Glauber Rocha
|
['MaurÃcio do Valle', 'Odete Lara', 'Othon Bastos', 'Jofre Soares', 'Lorival Pariz', 'Hugo Carvana', 'Rosa Maria Penna', 'Emmanuel Cavalcanti', 'Conceição Senna', 'Mário Gusmão', 'Sante Scaldaferri', 'VinÃcius Salvatori', 'Paulo Lima']
| 3.82
| 5
|
Action, Comedy, Western, Adventure, Drama, Crime film
| 100
|
['Germany', 'Brazil', 'France']
|
Portuguese
|
['Portuguese']
|
['Mapa Filmes', 'Claude Antoine Films', 'Munich Tele-Pool']
| 11,924
|
action, top-rated
|
letterboxds-top-250-action-films
| null |
After the World War II, in the Brazilian sertão. A group of impoverished peasant mystics (beatos) gathered around Dona Santa (Rosa Maria Penna), a female spiritual figure, join in veneration of Saint George with an obscure figure named Coirana (Lorival Pariz). Coirana claims to have restarted the cangaço and seeks to take the revenge of Lampião and other cangaceiro martyrs, presenting the tale of Saint George and the Dragon in a contemporary class conflict context. They threaten the town of Jardim de Piranhas governed by Coronel Horácio (Joffre Soares) a blind and old cattle owner married to younger and attractive Laura (Odete Lara). Dr. Mattos (Hugo Carvana), the corrupt police chief of the town, hires Antônio das Mortes as a jagunço against Coirana and Antônio fatally wounds Coirana in a duel. However, Antônio is changed by his experiences with the poor, and so he then demands that the coronel distribute the food stored in a warehouse to the remaining cangaceiros. The colonel raged and sent Mata Vaca (Vinícius Salvatori) to kill Antônio das Mortes. But Antônio das Mortes with the help of his friend "Professor" (Othon Bastos) kills Mata Vaca and his jagunços. The coronel is killed by Antão (Mário Gusmão), the helper and possibly lover of Dona Santa in a scene reminiscent of Saint George slaying the Dragon iconography. The movie ends with Antônio das Mortes walking by the roadside, carrying on the struggle - in some ways hopeless or unending - which extends beyond the killing of the colonel and the expropriation of his land.
|
Antz
| 1,998
|
Eric Darnell, Tim Johnson
|
['Woody Allen', 'Sharon Stone', 'Dan Aykroyd', 'Anne Bancroft', 'Danny Glover', 'Gene Hackman', 'Jane Curtin', 'Sylvester Stallone', 'Jennifer Lopez', 'Christopher Walken', 'John Mahoney', 'Paul Mazursky', 'Grant Shaud', 'Jim Cummings', 'April Winchell', 'Jerry Sroka']
| 2.8
| null |
Animation, Children's film, Action, Romance, Comedy, Adventure, Family film, Fantasy
| 83
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'Spanish']
|
['Pacific Data Images', 'DreamWorks Animation', 'DreamWorks Pictures']
| 343,240
|
animated
|
vote-best-animated-films-of-all-time
| null |
Z is an anxious worker ant who is suffering an existential crisis due to the fact that everyone in the colony, even his psychiatrist, reminds him of his insignificance. While at the local bar one night, Z falls in love with the colony's princess Bala when she visits the bar to escape her suffocating royal life. Meanwhile, the ant colony declares war on an encroaching termite colony, and soldiers are sent to engage the invaders. To see Bala again, Z exchanges places with his best friend, a soldier ant named Weaver, and joins the army, where he befriends staff sergeant Barbatus. The ants are unaware that General Mandible, the army's leader and Bala's fiancé, is secretly sending the soldiers loyal to the colony's Queen to die so he can stage a coup d'état. In the battle, everyone except Z is killed by much-larger acid-shooting termite defenders. Before dying, Barbatus tells Z to think for himself instead of blindly following orders. Meanwhile, Weaver joins the digging crew and falls in love with Z's co-worker, Azteca.
Z returns home and is mistakenly hailed as a war hero. Secretly dissatisfied, Mandible congratulates him and introduces him to the Queen. There, Z meets Bala, who recognizes him as a worker. Z panics and pretends to take Bala hostage; he flees with Bala, but they end up falling out of the anthill via a garbage chute. Now a fugitive, Z decides to search for Insectopia, a legendary insect paradise. Bala attempts to return to the colony, but quickly rejoins Z after encountering a praying mantis.
Z's act of individuality inspires the workers and some soldier ants, halting productivity. To gain control, Mandible publicly portrays Z as a self-centered war criminal, promotes the glory of conformity, and promises the workers rewards for completing a "Mega Tunnel" he designed. However, Mandible's second-in-command, a flying ant named Cutter, begins to doubt Mandible's constant reassurances that he's acting for the good of the colony.
Z and Bala come upon a human picnic, which they mistake for Insectopia. They are baffled by the wrappings on the food, but Muffy and Chip, a married couple of liberal wasps, condescendingly befriend them and try to help break the wrappers. They are disrupted by the humans, who kill Muffy with a fly swatter and attempt to squish the ants with a shoe. Z rescues Bala from the sneaker, and the two ants at last find Insectopia, a trash can overfilled with decaying food.
Meanwhile, after interrogating Weaver, Mandible learns that Z is looking for Insectopia and sends Cutter to find it. That night, whilst Z is away, Cutter arrives at Insectopia and forcibly flies Bala back to the colony, where Mandible reveals his intention to restart the colony with Bala as his Queen. Seeing Z's desperation at finding Bala gone, a drunken Chip, mourning over Muffy's death, generously flies Z back to the colony. When Z arrives, Mandible's soldiers forcibly direct him toward the Mega Tunnel. Along the way, he finds Bala held captive in Mandible's office. After he frees her, they both discover that Mandible's Mega Tunnel leads straight to the puddle next to Insectopia, which Mandible will use to drown the Queen and the workers at the opening ceremony. Bala warns the Queen while Z attempts to stop the workers in time, but fails. Z and Bala unify the Queen and workers into building a ladder towards the surface as the water rises.
Meanwhile, Mandible gathers the soldiers on the surface and gloats he has created a new colony, where only the strong survive. When the worker ants break through the surface, Cutter betrays Mandible and rescues them. Enraged, Mandible attempts to tackle Cutter, but Z intervenes and takes the blow. He and Mandible fall back into the flooded tunnel, with Mandible striking a root and dying on impact. Z nearly drowns, but is rescued by Cutter and resuscitated by Bala. Z is praised for his heroism, and he and Bala become a couple. Together, they rebuild the colony, and Z narrates that he is finally content with his place in the world. The camera then zooms out to show the anthill is in Central Park in New York City.
|
Aparajito
| 1,956
|
Satyajit Ray
|
['Karuna Banerjee', 'Smaran Ghosal', 'Pinaki Sengupta', 'Kanu Bannerjee', 'Santi Gupta', 'Ramani Sengupta', 'Ranibala', 'Sudipta Roy', 'Ajay Mitra', 'Charuprakash Ghosh', 'Subodh Ganguli', 'Hemanta Chatterjee', 'Kamala Adhikari', 'Lalchand Banerjee', 'Kali Bannerjee', 'Panchanan Bhattacharya', 'Debabrata Chakraborty', 'Harendrakumar Chakravarti', 'Meenakshi Devi', 'Anil Mukherjee', 'Shibnarayan Nag', 'Bhaganu Palwan', 'K.S. Pandey', 'Saraswati Pandey', 'Kalicharan Roy', 'Keya Sengupta', 'Mani Srimani', 'Udayshankar Tiwari']
| 4.21
| 4
|
Drama, Classic, Coming-of-age story
| 110
|
['India']
|
Bengali, Bangla
|
['Bengali, Bangla', 'English', 'Sanskrit (Saá¹ská¹ta)']
|
['Epic Productions', 'Satyajit Ray Productions']
| 28,902
| null |
lb_top250
| null |
In 1920, Apu and his parents, who have left their home in rural Bengal, have settled into an apartment in Varanasi where his father Harihar works as a priest. Harihar is making headway in his new pursuits: praying, singing, and officiating among the ghats on the sacred river Ganges. Harihar catches a fever and soon dies, however, and his wife Sarbajaya is forced to begin work as a maid. With the assistance of a great-uncle, Apu and his mother return to Bengal and settle in the village Mansapota. There Apu apprentices as a priest, but pines to attend the local school which his mother is persuaded to allow. He excels at his studies, impressing a visiting dignitary, and the headmaster takes special interest in him.
Within a few years, the teenaged Apu has done well enough to receive a scholarship to go to Kolkata for further studies. Sarbajaya feels abandoned and frightened by this, but gives in and lovingly packs his suitcase. Apu travels by train to the city and starts working at a printing press, after school hours, to subsist. He becomes more accustomed to the city life and feels out of place in the village. Sarbajaya expects visits from him, but he visits only a few times. Her loneliness and yearning for her son grow. She becomes seriously ill, but does not disclose her illness to Apu, lest his studies be disturbed. When Apu finally realises her poor health, he returns to the village to find that she has died. Bhabataran, Apu's great uncle, requests that he stay there and perform last rites of his mother. Apu replies that he will perform the last rites in Kolkata and begins his journey back to the city.
|
Apocalypse Now
| 1,979
|
Francis Ford Coppola
|
['Martin Sheen', 'Frederic Forrest', 'Albert Hall', 'Laurence Fishburne', 'Sam Bottoms', 'Marlon Brando', 'Robert Duvall', 'Dennis Hopper', 'G. D. Spradlin', 'Harrison Ford', 'Jerry Ziesmer', 'Scott Glenn', 'James Keane', 'Kerry Rossall', 'Tom Mason', 'Cynthia Wood', 'Colleen Camp', 'Linda Carpenter', 'Aurore Clément', 'Jack Thibeau', 'Glenn Walken', 'Damien Leake', 'Marc Coppola', 'Bill Graham', 'Jerry Ross', 'Charles Robinson', 'Nick Nicholson', 'Don Gordon Bell', 'Evan A. Lottman', 'R. Lee Ermey', 'Jim Gaines', 'Vittorio Storaro', 'Francis Ford Coppola', 'Henry Strzalkowski', 'Herb Rice', 'Joe Estevez', 'Bo Byers', 'Frank Villard']
| 4.44
| 5
|
War, Horror, Action, Satire, Adventure, Drama, Mystery
| 147
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'Khmer', 'French', 'Vietnamese']
|
['United Artists', 'American Zoetrope', 'Coppola Cinema 7']
| 783,427
| null |
lb_top250
| null |
In 1969 during the Vietnam War, jaded MACV-SOG operative Captain Benjamin L. Willard is summoned to I Field Force headquarters in Nha Trang. The officers there tell him that U.S. Army Special Forces Colonel Walter E. Kurtz is waging a brutal war against NVA, Viet Cong, and Khmer Rouge forces without permission from his commanders. He is based at a remote jungle outpost in eastern Cambodia, where he commands American, Montagnard, and local Khmer militia troops. These troops view him as a demigod. Willard is ordered to "terminate Kurtz's command... with extreme prejudice." He joins a U.S. Navy river patrol boat (PBR) commanded by Chief Petty Officer Phillips, with crewmen Lance, "Chef," and "Mr. Clean" to quietly navigate up the Nùng River to Kurtz's outpost.
Before reaching the coastal mouth of the Nùng, they rendezvous with the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment—a helicopter-borne air assault unit of the elite 1st Cavalry Division, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore—to discuss safe entry into the river. Kilgore is initially inattentive, as he has not received word about their mission through normal channels. However, he becomes more engaged after discovering that Lance is a well-known surfer. Kilgore, an avid surfer himself, agrees to escort them through the Nùng's Viet Cong-held coastal mouth. The helicopter squadron, playing "Ride of the Valkyries" on loudspeakers, raids at dawn with a napalm strike.
Resisting Kilgore’s attempts to convince Lance to surf with him on the newly conquered beach, Willard gathers the sailors to board the PBR and continue on their mission. Tension arises as Willard insists on the priority of his mission over the Chief's usual patrol objectives.
Slowly making their way upriver, Willard partially reveals his orders to the Chief to convince him that the mission is important and should proceed despite the difficulties they’ve encountered. As Willard studies Kurtz's dossier, he is struck by the mid-career sacrifice Kurtz made by leaving a prestigious Pentagon assignment to join Special Forces, with no prospect of advancing beyond the rank of colonel.
At a remote U.S. Army outpost, Willard and Lance seek information on what is upriver and receive a dispatch bag containing official and personal mail. Unable to find any commanding officer, Willard orders the Chief to continue. Willard learns via the dispatch that another MACV-SOG operative, Special Forces Captain Richard Colby, was sent on an earlier mission identical to Willard's and has since joined Kurtz.
Lance activates a smoke grenade while under the influence of LSD, attracting enemy fire, causing Mr. Clean's death. Further upriver, the Chief is impaled by a spear thrown by Montagnards and attempts to kill Willard with the spear point protruding from his chest, but Willard overpowers him.
Willard reveals his mission to Chef, who is now in charge of the PBR. The PBR arrives at Kurtz's outpost, a Khmer temple teeming with Montagnards and strewn with remains of victims. Willard, Chef, and Lance are greeted by an American photojournalist, who praises Kurtz's genius. Willard encounters Colby and two other soldiers among the Montagnards. He sets out with Lance to find Kurtz, leaving Chef with orders to call in an airstrike on the outpost if the two do not return.
In the camp, Willard is bound and brought before Kurtz, after which he is locked in a bamboo cage. One night Kurtz appears and drops Chef's severed head into Willard's lap. Willard is released, and warned not to attempt escape from the camp or he will be shot. Kurtz lectures him on his theories of war, praising the ruthlessness of the Viet Cong, and asks him to tell his son the truth about his mutiny. Later, as the Montagnards ceremonially kill a water buffalo, Willard murders Kurtz with a machete. Everyone in the camp sees Willard departing, carrying a collection of Kurtz's writings, and bow down to him. Willard finds Lance, leads him back to the PBR, and they depart back down the river, away from Kurtz’s outpost.
|
Apocalypto
| 2,006
|
Mel Gibson
|
['Rudy Youngblood', 'Raoul Max Trujillo', 'Gerardo Taracena', 'Iazua Larios', 'Antonio Monroy', 'MarÃa Isabel DÃaz Lago', 'Dalia Hernández', 'Jonathan Brewer', 'Morris Birdyellowhead', 'Carlos Emilio Báez', 'Amilcar RamÃrez', 'Israel Contreras', 'Israel RÃos', 'Espiridion Acosta Cache', 'Mayra Sérbulo', 'Rodolfo Palacios', 'Lorena Heranandez', 'Itandehui Gutierrez', 'Sayuri Gutierrez', 'Hiram Soto', 'José Suárez', 'Ariel Galván', 'Bernardo Ruiz', 'Ricardo Diaz Mendoza', 'Richard Can', 'Carlos Ramos', 'Ammel Rodrigo Mendoza', 'Marco Antonio Argueta', 'Javier Escobar', 'Fernando Hernández', 'Maria Isidra Hoil', 'Aquetzali GarcÃa', 'Abel Woolrich', 'Nicolás Jasso', 'Ronaldo Eknal', 'Miriam Tun', 'Rafael Velez', 'Diana Botello', 'Joaquin Rendon']
| 3.81
| 4
|
Action, Adventure, Thriller, Drama, Suspense
| 139
|
['UK', 'USA']
|
Mayan
|
['Mayan']
|
['Icon Entertainment International', 'Icon Productions', 'Touchstone Pictures']
| 237,882
|
action, top-rated
|
letterboxds-top-250-action-films
| null |
While hunting in the Mesoamerican rainforest, Jaguar Paw, his father Flint Sky, and their fellow tribesmen encounter a group of refugees fleeing from war and devastation. Returning to their village, Flint Sky notes that the refugees are sick with fear and urges Jaguar Paw to never allow fear to infect him. Later that night, the tribe gathers around an elder who tells a prophetic story about a being who is consumed by an emptiness that cannot be satisfied, despite having all the gifts of the world offered to him. The being will continue blindly taking until there is nothing left in the world for him to take, and the world is no more.
The next morning, the village is attacked by Maya raiders led by Zero Wolf, and many are killed, including Flint Sky, who is killed by the sadistic raider Middle Eye. During the attack, Jaguar Paw hides both his pregnant wife Seven and their young son Turtles Run in an empty well before he is captured. In the aftermath, the raiders round up the surviving villagers who are forced on a long march through the jungle. Meanwhile, Seven and Turtles Run remain trapped in the well and they struggle to escape it.
Along the way, the raiders and their captives encounter razed forests and vast fields of failed maize crops, alongside villages decimated by an unknown disease. They then encounter an infected little girl who prophesies the end of the Maya world. "You are afraid of me, and rightly so, for all you vile beings. Would you know how you will die? The sacred time is near. Beware the darkness of the day. Beware the man who leads the jaguar. Watch him rise from the mud and dust, for he to whom he is leading you will blot out the sky and scratch the earth. He will sweep you away and end your world. He is with us now. The day will be as the night, and the jaguar man will lead you to the end."Arriving in the city, the captives are divided; the women are sold into slavery while the men are escorted to the top of a pyramid where they are brutally sacrificed to appease the gods. As Jaguar Paw is laid out on the altar, a solar eclipse occurs and the Maya take the event as an omen that the gods are satisfied, thereby sparing the remaining captives. However, the remaining captives are taken by the raiders to their barracks to be used as target practice; the raiders offer them freedom if they can dodge the missiles thrown at them, while Zero Wolf's son Cut Rock finishes off the wounded. The first pair of runners are easily struck down. Jaguar Paw follows thereafter, and is also wounded, drawing the attention of Cut Rock. However, Cut Rock is then distracted by one of the earlier wounded runners, whose sacrifice allows Jaguar Paw to fatally wound Cut Rock and escape.
An enraged Zero Wolf leads eight of his men to hunt down Jaguar Paw. Reaching the jungle, Jaguar Paw challenges Zero Wolf to hunt him; Jaguar Paw uses its natural resources to kill his pursuers one by one (one is killed by a jaguar; a second is killed by a snake; a third is killed by Zero Wolf; a fourth drowns in a waterfall; a fifth is killed by Jaguer Paw). Among those he kills are Middle Eye, whom he bludgeons with a stone hatchet, and Zero Wolf, whom he lures into a trap made for tapir hunts, where he is impaled by a large wooden spike. The last two raiders continue to pursue Jaguar Paw on the outskirts of his village. Reaching the shores amidst a heavy downpour, all three are shocked and stunned to witness the arrival of Spanish conquistadors (Francisco Hernández de Córdoba in 1517). While the two raiders go to meet the foreigners, Jaguar Paw races back to his village and rescues his family who are being drowned by the downpour. Jaguar Paw is also overjoyed to see his infant son who was born underwater.
Later, the reunited family gazes at the Spanish ships. Jaguar Paw chooses not to approach the foreigners, and he and his family depart to start a new life in the forest away from both the Maya and the Spanish.
|
Apur Sansar
| 1,959
|
Satyajit Ray
|
['Soumitra Chatterjee', 'Sharmila Tagore', 'Alok Chakravarty', 'Swapan Mukherjee', 'Dhiresh Majumdar', 'Sefalika Devi', 'Dhiren Ghosh', 'Shanti Bhattacherjee', 'Abhijit Chatterjee', 'Belarani Devi', 'Jogesh Chatterjee', 'Tushar Bandyopadhyay', 'Gupi Banerjee', 'Panchanan Bhattacharya', 'Jiten Bhons', 'Asha Devi', 'Bechu Singha']
| 4.31
| 4
|
Comedy, Drama
| 105
|
['India']
|
Bengali, Bangla
|
['Bengali, Bangla', 'English']
|
['Satyajit Ray Productions']
| 28,256
| null |
lb_top250
| null |
In early 1940s, Apurba Kumar Roy (Apu) is an unemployed graduate (completed study up to the intermediate science) living in a rented room at Tala, Calcutta. Despite his teacher's advice to go for higher studies, he is unable to do so because he cannot afford it. He tries to find a job, while barely getting by providing private tutoring. His main passion is writing a novel, partially based on his own life, hoping to get it published some day. One day, he meets his old friend Pulu, who coaxes him to join him on a trip to his village in Khulna to attend the marriage of a cousin named Aparna.
On the day of the marriage, it is revealed that the bridegroom has a serious mental disorder. The bride's mother cancels the marriage, despite the father's protests. He and the other villagers believe, according to prevalent Hindu tradition, that the young bride must be wedded off during the previously appointed auspicious hour, otherwise, she will have to remain unmarried all her life. Apu, after initially refusing when requested by a few villagers, ultimately decides to take Pulu's advice and come to the rescue of the bride by agreeing to marry her. He returns with Aparna to his apartment in Calcutta after the wedding. He takes up a clerical job, and a loving relationship begins to bloom between them. Yet, the young couple's blissful days are cut short when Aparna dies while giving birth to their son, Kajal. Apu is overcome with grief and holds the child responsible for his wife's death.
He shuns his worldly responsibilities and becomes a recluse – travelling to different corners of India, while the child is left with his maternal grandparents. Meanwhile, Apu throws away his manuscript for the novel he had been writing over the years. A few years later, Pulu finds Kajal growing wild and uncared for. He then seeks out Apu, who is working at a mining quarry and advises Apu one last time to take up his fatherly responsibility. At last, Apu decides to come back to reality and reunite with his son. When he reaches his in-laws' place, Kajal, having seen him for the first time in his life, at first does not accept him as a father. Eventually, he accepts Apu as a friend and they return to Calcutta together to start life afresh.
|
Aquaman
| 2,018
|
James Wan
|
['Jason Momoa', 'Amber Heard', 'Willem Dafoe', 'Patrick Wilson', 'Nicole Kidman', 'Dolph Lundgren', 'Yahya Abdul-Mateen II', 'Temuera Morrison', 'Ludi Lin', 'Michael Beach', 'Randall Park', 'Graham McTavish', 'Leigh Whannell', 'Tainui Kirkwood', 'Tamor Kirkwood', 'Denzel Quirke', 'Kaan Guldur', 'Otis Dhanji', 'Kekoa Kekumano', 'Julie Andrews', 'John Rhys-Davies', 'Djimon Hounsou', 'Andrew Crawford', 'Sophia Forrest', 'Natalia Safran', 'Micah Ohlman', 'Jack Andrew', 'Frankie Creagh-Leslie', 'Sophia Emberson-Bain', 'Ilya Melnikoff', 'Hank Amos', 'Kyryl Koltsov', 'Patrick Cox', 'Luke Owen', 'Robert Longstreet', 'Devika Parikh', 'Sonny Le', 'Jon Fabian', 'Mabel Tamone', 'Rita Dinardo', 'Anthony Standish', 'Nicolette Bianca', 'Victor Leto', 'Vincent B. Gorce', 'Gabriella Petkova', 'Oriana Lacono', 'Pearl Grantham', 'Noa Tsuchiya', 'Alice Lanesbury', 'Nicolas Bosc', 'Joshua Levinson', 'Jordy Campbell', 'Braden Lewis']
| 2.78
| 3
|
Action, Romance, Superhero, Science fiction, Adventure
| 143
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Warner Bros. Pictures', 'The Safran Company', 'DC Films']
| 997,880
|
superhero
|
superhero-movies
| null |
In 1985 Maine, lighthouse keeper Thomas Curry rescues Atlanna, queen of the underwater kingdom of Atlantis, during a storm. They fall in love and have a son named Arthur, who has the power to communicate with sea creatures. When Atlantean soldiers sent by King Orvax (the ruler of Atlantis) arrive for Atlanna, who fled her arranged marriage, she is forced to leave her family to protect them from her people. She promises to return when it's safe and goes back to Atlantis, entrusting her advisor, Nuidis Vulko, to train Arthur. Becoming a skilled warrior, Arthur rejects Atlantis upon learning that Atlanna was executed by Orvax for loving a human and Arthur's illegitimate birth.
In the present, Arthur has become known as the metahuman dubbed as the "Aquaman" by the public. One year after Steppenwolf's defeat,[a] Arthur confronts pirates hijacking a Russian Akula-class submarine. Their leader, Jesse Kane, is killed, leading his son David to vow revenge against Arthur, after he refused to help save Jesse in retaliation for murdering innocent people. King Orm Marius, Orvax's son and Arthur's younger half-brother as well as Atlantis's new ruler, convinces King Nereus of Xebel to help unite Atlantis and destroy the surface world for polluting the oceans. If Orm unites all four kingdoms, he will receive the title of Ocean Master, commander of the most powerful force on Earth. They are ambushed by a submarine, causing Orm to feel obligated to send a tsunami.
Nereus' daughter Mera, betrothed to Orm, refuses to aid them and requests Arthur's help. Arthur accompanies her to Atlantis after Orm's tsunami nearly kills his father. Vulko urges him to find the Trident of Atlan, a powerful artifact of Atlantis' first ruler, to reclaim his rightful place as king. They are ambushed by Orm's men, and Arthur is captured. Orm blames him for Atlanna's death and nearly kills him in a duel before Mera rescues him. Arthur and Mera journey to the fallen Kingdom of the Deserters hidden under the Sahara, where the trident was forged, and unlock a holographic message that leads them to Sicily, where they retrieve the trident's coordinates.
Orm gives David an Atlantean battlesuit to kill Arthur, imprisons Vulko, and coerces the Kingdom of the Fishermen to pledge their allegiance to him by killing their king. It is revealed that Orm hired David and Jesse to hijack the Russian submarine to win Nereus's support. Rechristening himself as "Black Manta", David battles Arthur, but Arthur defeats him. Arthur and Mera fend off amphibious monsters of the Trench, and a wormhole transports them to an uncharted sea at the center of the Earth. They are reunited with Atlanna, who managed to survive and escape into the uncharted sea but was unable to find her way back.
Arthur faces the Karathen, a mythical sea monster and guardian of the trident, and reclaims the trident, which grants him control over the seven seas. Orm leads his army against the Kingdom of the Brine to declare himself Ocean Master, while in turn, Arthur leads an army of marine creatures against him. Orm's followers embrace Arthur as the true king upon learning that he wields Atlan's trident. Arthur spares Orm's life after beating him in a duel, and Orm accepts his imprisonment after discovering that Arthur rescued their mother. Atlanna reunites with Thomas, while Arthur ascends to the throne. In a mid-credits scene, Manta is rescued by Dr. Stephen Shin, a marine scientist and conspiracy theorist obsessed with Atlantis, and agrees to lead Shin there in exchange for help in his revenge on Arthur.
|
Arabian Nights
| 1,974
|
Pier Paolo Pasolini
|
['Ninetto Davoli', 'Franco Citti', 'Franco Merli', 'Tessa Bouché', 'Ines Pellegrini', 'Margareth Clémenti', 'Luigina Rocchi', 'Alberto Argentino', 'Francesco Paolo Governale', 'Salvatore Sapienza', 'Zeudi Biasolo', 'Barbara Grandi', 'Elisabetta Genovese', 'Gioacchino Castellini', 'Abadit Ghidei', 'Christian Aligny', 'Salvatore Verdetti', 'Jocelyne Munchenbach', 'Luigi Antonio Guerra', 'Jeanne Gauffin Mathieu', 'Francelise Noel', 'Franca Sciutto', 'Ali Abdulla', 'Fessazion Gherentiel', 'Rino Hammaded', 'Giana Idris', 'Jannette You', 'Mohamed Ali Zedi']
| 3.67
| null |
Action, Romance, Comedy, History, Adventure, Melodrama, Fantasy, Drama
| 131
|
['France', 'Italy']
|
Italian
|
['Italian', 'Arabic']
|
['Les Productions Artistes Associés', 'PEA']
| 16,039
|
fantasy
|
filmsrankedcom-200-greatest-fantasy-films
| null |
The main story concerns an innocent young man, Nur-e-Din (Franco Merli), who comes to fall in love with a beautiful slave girl, Zumurrud (Ines Pellegrini), who selected him as her master. After a foolish error of his causes her to be abducted, he travels in search of her. Meanwhile, Zumurrud manages to escape and, disguised as a man, comes to a far-away kingdom where she becomes king. Various other travellers recount their own tragic and romantic experiences, including a young man who becomes enraptured by a mysterious woman on his wedding day, and the prince Shazaman (Alberto Argentino), who wants to free a woman from a demon (Franco Citti) and for whom two women sacrifice their lives. Interwoven are Nur-e-Din's continuing search for Zumurrud and his (mostly erotic) adventures. In the end, he arrives at the far-away kingdom and is reunited with Zumurrud.
The film comprises 16 scenes:[3]
Truth lies not in one dream, but in many dreams. - verse from the 1001 Nights and opening title
|
Argo
| 2,012
|
Ben Affleck
|
['Ben Affleck', 'Bryan Cranston', 'Alan Arkin', 'John Goodman', 'Victor Garber', 'Tate Donovan', 'Clea DuVall', 'Scoot McNairy', 'Rory Cochrane', 'Christopher Denham', 'Kerry Bishé', 'Kyle Chandler', 'Chris Messina', 'Zeljko Ivanek', 'Titus Welliver', 'Keith Szarabajka', 'Bob Gunton', 'Richard Kind', 'Richard Dillane', 'Omid Abtahi', 'Page Leong', 'Farshad Farahat', 'Sheila Vand', 'Karina Logue', 'Ryan Ahern', 'Bill Tangradi', 'Jamie McShane', 'Matthew Glave', 'Roberto Garcia', 'Christopher Stanley', 'Jon Woodward Kirby', 'Alborz Basiratmand', 'Ruty Rutenberg', 'Michael Woolston', 'Sharareh Sedghi', 'Bobby Zegar', 'Victor McCay', 'Matt Nolan', 'J.R. Cacia', 'Bill Kalmenson', 'Rob Brownstein', 'David Sullivan', 'Jean Carol', 'Michael Cassidy', 'John Boyd', 'Yuriy Sardarov', 'Nikka Far', 'Aidan Sussman', 'Barry Livingston', 'Ali Saam', 'Araz Vahid Ebrahim Nia', 'Scott Anthony Leet', 'Ashley Wood', 'Rob Tepper', 'Ray Porter', 'Stephen J. Lattanzi', 'Danielle Barbosa', 'Michael Parks', 'Eric Scott Cooper', 'Adrienne Barbeau', 'Tom Lenk', 'Nelson Franklin', 'Kelly Curran', 'Mark Rhino Smith', 'Scott Elrod', 'Bill Blair', 'Daston Kalili', 'Joseph S. Griffo', 'Andrew Varenhorst', 'Amitis Frances Ariano', 'Ali Fiori', 'Taies Farzan', 'Florans Atlantis', 'Rafi Pitts', 'Allegra Carpenter', 'Bobby Naderi', 'Ray Haratian', 'Mehrdad Sarlak', 'Soheil Tasbihchi', 'Hovik Gharibian', 'Dorianne Pahlavan', 'Houshang Touzie', 'Peter Henry Schroeder', 'Ali Farkhonde', 'Sahm McGlynn', 'Muhammed Cangören', 'Asghar Allah Veirdi Zadeh', 'Leyla Beysulen', 'Lindsey Ginter', 'Tim Quill', 'Larry Sullivan', 'Danilo Di Julio', 'Fanshen Cox', 'Tehmina Sunny', 'Amir K', 'Baris Deli', 'Cas Anvar', 'Bahram Khosraviani', 'Sam Sheikholeslami', 'Saba Sarem', 'Puya Abbassi', 'Reza Mir', 'Jozef Fahey', 'Annie Little', 'Fahim Fazli', 'Brandon Tabassi', 'John Hans Tester', 'Alex Schemmer', 'Yan Feldman', 'Nancy Stelle', 'Maz Siam', 'Ken Edling', 'Deborah Deimel Bean', 'Michael Chieffo', 'Taylor Schilling', 'Philip Baker Hall', 'Eli Jane', 'Lucas N. Hall']
| 3.71
| null |
Action, Thriller, Horror, Comedy, Spy, Political thriller, Adventure, Political cinema, Drama, Suspense, Mystery, Historical Fiction, Crime Fiction, Political drama
| 120
|
['UK', 'USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'Arabic', 'German', 'Persian (Farsi)']
|
['GK Films', 'Warner Bros. Pictures', 'Smoke House Pictures']
| 581,907
|
oscar-winner
|
oscar-winning-films-best-picture
| null |
On November 4, 1979, Iranian Islamists storm the United States Embassy in Tehran in retaliation for President Jimmy Carter giving the Shah, an absolute monarch who was supported by Western powers, asylum in the U.S. during the Iranian Revolution, for cancer treatment. Sixty-six of the embassy staff are taken as hostages, but six avoid capture and are sheltered in the home of Canadian Ambassador Ken Taylor.
With the six escapees' situation kept secret, the U.S. State Department begins to explore options for exfiltrating them from Iran. Tony Mendez, a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency exfiltration specialist, is brought in for a consultation. He criticizes the proposals but is at a loss when asked for an alternative. While on the phone with his son, he is inspired by watching Battle for the Planet of the Apes and begins plans for creating a cover story for the escapees: that they are Canadian filmmakers who are in Iran scouting exotic locations for a science-fiction film.
Mendez contacts John Chambers, a Hollywood make-up artist who had previously worked for the CIA. Chambers puts Mendez in touch with film producer Lester Siegel. Together, they set up a phony film production company, publicize their plans, and successfully establish the pretense of developing Argo, a "science fantasy adventure" in the style of Star Wars, to lend the cover story credibility. Meanwhile, the escapees grow restless. The revolutionaries reassemble embassy photographs shredded before the takeover and realize some personnel are unaccounted for.
Posing as a producer for Argo, Mendez enters Iran under the alias Kevin Harkins and meets with the six escapees. He provides them with Canadian passports and fake identities. Although afraid to trust Mendez's scheme, they reluctantly go along, knowing that he is risking his own life too. A scouting visit to the bazaar to maintain their cover story takes a bad turn when they are harassed by a hostile shopkeeper, but their Iranian culture contact hustles them away from the hostile crowd.
Mendez is told the operation has been cancelled in favor of a planned military rescue of the hostages. He pushes ahead anyway, forcing his boss, Deputy Director Jack O'Donnell to hastily re-obtain authorization for the mission and rebook their cancelled tickets on a Swissair flight. Tensions rise at the airport, where the escapees' new ticket reservations are confirmed only at the last minute, and the head guard's call to the fake production company in Hollywood is answered only at the last second. The escapees board the plane, and at about the same time, the airport authorities are alerted to the ruse. They try to stop them, but the plane is able to take off.
To protect the hostages remaining in Tehran from retaliation, all U.S. involvement in the rescue is suppressed, and full credit is given to the Canadian government and its ambassador (who shuts down the embassy and leaves Iran with his wife as the operation is underway). The ambassador's Iranian housekeeper, who had known about the Americans and lied to the revolutionaries to protect them, escapes to Iraq. Mendez is awarded the Intelligence Star, but due to the mission's classified nature, he receives the medal secretly and has to return it afterward. Mendez returns to his wife and son in Virginia.
The film ends by explaining what happened after the depicted events: the hostages were freed after 444 days, Mendez and Chambers remained friends until Chambers' death in 2001, Bill Clinton returned Mendez's star in 1997 after the Canadian Caper is declassified, and that he lives with his family in rural Maryland.
As the credits roll, President Jimmy Carter is heard commenting on the operation.
|
Armored
| 2,009
|
Nimród Antal
|
['Columbus Short', 'Matt Dillon', 'Jean Reno', 'Laurence Fishburne', 'Amaury Nolasco', 'Skeet Ulrich', 'Fred Ward', 'Milo Ventimiglia', 'Andre Jamal Kinney', 'Andrew Fiscella', 'Nick Jameson', 'Glenn Taranto', 'Lorna Raver', 'Garry Guerrier', 'Robert Harvey', 'Shawn Devorse', 'Mike Cochrane', 'Paul Grace', 'Elizabeth Rivera', 'Richie Varga']
| 2.68
| 3.5
|
Action, Crime, Heist, Drama, Suspense, Mystery, Thriller, Detective fiction, Police procedural, Crime Thriller
| 88
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Screen Gems', 'Stars Road Entertainment', 'Farah Films & Management', 'Buckaroo Entertainment']
| 8,933
|
heist
|
heist-movies
| null |
Ty Hackett (Columbus Short), a former armed service veteran is a member of Eagle Shield security in one of their many armored transportation teams. He is the legal guardian of younger brother Jimmy (Andre Kinney) after the death of their parents. He is receiving constant letters about impending foreclosure on his home and the state is considering the placement of Jimmy in a foster home, due to his truancy and Ty's inability to adequately care for him. Ty is approached by Mike Cochrane (Matt Dillon), his godfather and co-worker, and informed of Mike's plan to steal money ($42 million) being transferred from the Federal Reserve System to the local banks. Ty turns down the offer to participate in the crime.
The following morning, after receiving assurances from Mike that no one will be hurt, Ty reluctantly agrees to participate. The six-person crew offloads the first truck at an abandoned steel mill, but their plan is compromised when a homeless man living in the mill is spotted observing them. Baines (Laurence Fishburne) shoots the potential witness. Upset over this, Ty barricades himself inside the truck with the remaining $21 million inside. After an attempt to flee in the truck fails, Ty sets off the truck's alarm. The alarm catches the attention of Jake Eckehart (Milo Ventimiglia), a local sheriff's deputy.
The remaining thieves plan to break into the truck by knocking the pins out of the door hinges. Jake arrives when Ty successfully restores power to the truck's alarm. Baines shoots Jake. While the thieves are distracted, Ty sneaks Jake into the truck. Dobbs (Skeet Ulrich) begins to have second thoughts about the operation and agrees with Ty to get the fuse Mike removed from the engine. Dobbs is caught trying to put it back and Palmer (Amaury Nolasco) stabs him to death.
As the thieves continue to remove the door hinges, Ty covers the interior windows with the remainder of the $21 million and takes Jake's radio to the roof in an attempt to contact the authorities. He is caught by Palmer, but Ty is able to convince Palmer that what they are doing is not right. Overwhelmed by guilt for his actions and killing Dobbs, Palmer consequently commits suicide. The remaining thieves reveal their possession of a kidnapped Jimmy. Ty complies with their demands, before Quinn (Jean Reno) and Baines head for the money. The two men are killed by a booby trap rigged in the money case.
Mike chases after Ty in the working armored truck and crashes into a pit, the accident being fatal for him. Later, as Jake is recovering in the hospital, Ashcroft tells Ty that Jake spoke of his efforts to stop the thieves. There is talk of giving Ty a reward. With Jimmy also being released from the hospital, Ty and Jimmy go home.
|
Army of Darkness
| 1,992
|
Sam Raimi
|
['Bruce Campbell', 'Embeth Davidtz', 'Marcus Gilbert', 'Ian Abercrombie', 'Richard Grove', 'Michael Earl Reid', 'Timothy Patrick Quill', 'Bridget Fonda', 'Patricia Tallman', 'Ted Raimi', 'Deke Anderson', 'Bruce Thomas', 'Sara Shearer', 'Shiva Gordon', 'Billy Bryan', 'Nadine Grycan', 'Bill Moseley', 'Micheal Kenney', 'Andy Bale', 'Robert Brent Lappin', 'Rad Milo', 'Brad Bradbury', 'Sol Abrams', 'Lorraine Axeman', 'Josh Becker', 'Sheri Burke', 'Don Campbell', 'Charlie Campbell', 'Harley Cokeliss', 'Ken Jepson', 'William Lustig', "David O'Malley", 'David Pollison', 'Ivan Raimi', 'Bernard Rose', 'Bill Vincent', 'Chris Webster', 'Ron Zwang', 'Angela Featherstone', 'Patricia Anne Isgate-Hayward', 'Bridget Hoffman', 'Lisa Michelle Axelrod', 'J Michael Briggs', 'Eric Clarke', 'Courtney Pakiz', 'Sam Raimi', 'Jerry Rector', 'Monique Yates Jr.']
| 3.71
| 4
|
Horror, Comedy, Cult film, Action, Comedy horror, Dark comedy, Adventure, Fantasy, Costume drama
| 81
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Renaissance Pictures', 'The De Laurentiis Company', 'Introvision International', 'Universal Pictures']
| 322,685
|
comedy
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
Having been accidentally transported to the Middle Ages,[b] Ash Williams is captured by Lord Arthur's men, who suspect him of being a spy for Duke Henry, with whom Arthur is at war. He is enslaved along with the captured Henry, his shotgun and chainsaw are confiscated, and he is taken to Arthur's castle. Ash is thrown in a pit where he kills a Deadite and regains his weapons from Arthur's Wise Man. After demanding that Henry and his men be set free and killing a Deadite publicly, Ash is celebrated as a hero. He grows attracted to Sheila, the sister of one of Arthur's fallen knights.
According to the Wise Man, the only way that Ash can return to his time is through the magical Necronomicon Ex-Mortis. Ash then starts his search for the Necronomicon. As he enters a haunted forest, an unseen force pursues Ash into a windmill, and he crashes into a mirror. Small reflections of Ash in the mirror shards come to life and antagonize him, with one becoming a life-sized copy of him, which Ash dismembers and buries.
When he arrives at the Necronomicon's location, he finds three books instead of one, and has to determine which one is real. Realizing at the last moment that he has forgotten the last word of the phrase that will allow him to remove the book safely – "Klaatu barada nikto" – he tries to mumble and cough his way through the pronunciation. He grabs the book and begins rushing back. Meanwhile, unknown to Ash, his ruse has failed and his body's copy rises from the dead, uniting other Deadites into the Army of Darkness.
Upon his return, Ash demands to be returned to his own time. However, Sheila is abducted by a flying Deadite and later transformed into one by "Evil Ash". Ash becomes determined to lead the outnumbered humans against the Army, and the people reluctantly agree. Using knowledge from textbooks in his 1973 Oldsmobile Delta 88 and enlisting the help of Duke Henry, Ash successfully leads the soldiers to victory over the Deadites, blows up "Evil Ash", saves Sheila, and brings peace between Arthur and Henry. Using a passage from the Necronomicon, the Wise Man tells him how to return to the present by giving him a potion after reciting the same phrase as earlier.
Back in the present, Ash recounts his story to a fellow employee at the S-Mart department store. As he talks to a female co-worker who is interested in his story, a surviving Deadite, present because Ash once again forgot the last word, attacks the customers. Ash kills it using a Winchester rifle and exclaims, "Hail to the king, baby", before passionately kissing the co-worker.
|
Army of Shadows
| 1,969
|
Jean-Pierre Melville
|
['Lino Ventura', 'Paul Meurisse', 'Jean-Pierre Cassel', 'Simone Signoret', 'Claude Mann', 'Paul Crauchet', 'Christian Barbier', 'Alain Dekok', 'Alain Libolt', 'Jean-Marie Robain', 'Albert Michel', 'Georges Sellier', 'Marco Perrin', 'Hubert de Lapparent', 'Jeanne Pérez', 'Alain Mottet', 'Denis Sadier', 'Serge Reggiani', 'Colin Mann', 'Anthony Stuart', 'Gérard-Antoine Huart', 'Percival Russel', 'Michel Dacquin', 'Jacques Marbeuf', 'Marcel Bernier', 'Gaston Meunier', 'Nathalie Delon', 'Jacques Léonard', 'Pierre Vaudier']
| 4.32
| 4.5
|
Action, History, War, Drama, Suspense, Crime Fiction, Classic
| 145
|
['France', 'Italy']
|
French
|
['French', 'English', 'German']
|
['Fono Roma', 'Les Films Corona']
| 47,789
| null |
lb_top250
| null |
Philippe Gerbier, the head of a French Resistance cell, is arrested by Vichy French police on suspicion of Resistance activity. Although he is acquitted due to a lack of evidence, he is still sent to an internment camp. He and a young Communist work on an escape plan, but before they can execute it, Gerbier is transported to Paris. While waiting to be questioned by the Gestapo, he manages to kill a guard and flee.
In Marseille, Gerbier, Félix Lepercq, Guillaume "Le Bison" Vermersch, and Claude "Le Masque" Ullmann trick Paul Dounat, the young agent who betrayed Gerbier, into meeting them. They take him to a house, but discover the neighboring house is newly occupied, so they cannot use their guns to kill Dounat. Lacking a decent knife, they strangle their former associate.
Félix meets his old friend Jean-François Jardie in a bar and recruits the risk-loving former pilot to join the Resistance. While on a mission to Paris, Jean-François visits his older brother Luc, a renowned philosopher who appears to live a detached, scholarly life. He then travels to the Mediterranean coast to help evacuate some Allied soldiers, along with Gerbier and the "Big Boss", to London via a submarine to Gibraltar. Jean-François does not recognize him in the dark, but the Big Boss turns out to be Luc, whose identity is a closely guarded secret.
In London, Gerbier tries to arrange additional support for the Resistance from the Free French leadership, and Luc is decorated by Charles de Gaulle. When Gerbier learns Félix has been arrested by the Gestapo, he cuts his trip short and parachutes into the French countryside.
After Félix's arrest, Mathilde, a Parisian housewife who is part of the Resistance, moves down to Lyon to run Gerbier's cell. Gerbier is impressed by her abilities, so he keeps her around. She devises a plan to rescue Félix, who is being tortured at the Gestapo headquarters. Jean-François, after hearing the details, writes Gerbier a letter of resignation and incriminates himself with an anonymous letter to the Gestapo so he will be jailed with Félix. Mathilde, Le Masque, and Le Bison try to rescue Félix disguised as Germans and with a forged order to transfer him to Paris, but their plan fails when the prison doctor pronounces him unfit for transport, as he is barely alive. When Jean-François, who has also been badly beaten, sees the rescue has failed, he gives Félix his only cyanide pill.
Having seen Gerbier's picture on a wanted poster during the rescue attempt, Mathilde urges him to lie low, but he says there is no one who can take his place at the moment. He is swept up in a raid by Vichy police and handed over to the Germans. Taken to be executed, Gerbier and his cellmates are told that, if they can reach the far wall of a room before they are killed by machine gunners, they will be allowed to live a little longer. Once the shooting starts Gerbier runs to the wall, when suddenly Mathilde and Le Bison appear by a window and throw smoke bombs to block the Germans' view and a rope to help Gerbier. He climbs it and escapes with the group.
Gerbier goes to hide out for a month in an abandoned farmhouse. One day, Luc arrives to discuss what to do about Mathilde, who has been arrested. He worries she will inform on her confederates, as her teenage daughter has been threatened. Luc hides when Le Masque and Le Bison arrive with the news that Mathilde is free and two members of the Resistance have been captured. Gerbier orders Mathilde's immediate execution, but Le Bison refuses to do so and swears to prevent Gerbier from killing her, so Luc emerges and convinces Le Bison that Mathilde would want them to kill her before she is forced to identify anyone else.
Luc accompanies Gerbier, Le Bison, and Le Masque to Paris. They locate Mathilde on the street, and Le Bison shoots her twice before they drive away. Closing text reveals that all four men were captured and died within less than a year, either through suicide or at the hands of the Nazis. Gerbier's precise fate is succinctly described as "on 13 February 1944, he decided not to run this time".
|
Around a Cabin
| 1,894
|
Ãmile Reynaud
| null | 3.15
| null |
Animation, Comedy, Short, Silent, Indie film
| 4
|
['France']
|
No spoken language
|
['No spoken language']
| null | 4,928
|
animated
|
vote-best-animated-films-of-all-time
| null |
Plot section not found.
|
Around the World in Eighty Days
| 1,956
|
Michael Anderson
|
['David Niven', 'Cantinflas', 'Finlay Currie', 'Robert Morley', 'Charles Boyer', 'Robert Newton', 'Gilbert Roland', 'Marlene Dietrich', 'Frank Sinatra', 'Buster Keaton', 'John Carradine', 'Peter Lorre', 'George Raft', 'Tim McCoy', 'Joe E. Brown', 'Shirley MacLaine', 'Melville Cooper', 'Reginald Denny', 'Ronald Colman', 'Trevor Howard', 'Harcourt Williams', 'Martine Carol', 'Cedric Hardwicke', 'Noël Coward', 'John Gielgud', 'Fernandel', 'Evelyn Keyes', 'José Greco', 'Cesar Romero', 'Alan Mowbray', 'Charles Coburn', 'Red Skelton', 'Andy Devine', 'Edmund Lowe', 'Victor McLaglen', 'John Mills', 'Glynis Johns', 'Hermione Gingold', 'Edward R. Murrow', 'Mike Mazurki', 'Ronald Squire', 'Basil Sydney', 'Luis Miguel DominguÃn', 'Robert Cabal', 'Jack Oakie', 'Beatrice Lillie', 'A.E. Matthews', 'Walter Fitzgerald', 'Ronald Adam', 'Frank Royde', 'Abdullah Abbas', 'Jesse Adams', 'Fred Aldrich', 'Ray Armstrong', 'Gertrude Astor', 'Walter Bacon', 'Rama Bai', 'Leah Baird', 'Brandon Beach', 'Eugene Beday', 'Helena Benda', 'Audrey Betz', 'George Blagoi', 'Eumenio Blanco', 'Nina Borget', 'Danny Borzage', 'Hazel Boyne', 'George Bruggeman', 'Bob Burrows', 'Paul Busch', 'Gordon Carveth', 'Spencer Chan', 'Jack Chefe', 'Dick Cherney', 'Bud Cokes', 'Louise Colombet', 'Bill Couch', 'Paul Cristo', 'Roy Damron', 'Eddie Das', 'John Davidson', 'Jack Davies', 'Jack Davis', 'Anna De Linsky', 'Gloria Dea', 'John Deauville', 'Harry Denny', 'James Dime', 'Joe Dougherty', 'Dan Dowling', 'Harry Duff', 'Arthur Dulac', 'Charles Dunbar', 'Renald Dupont', 'Larry Duran', 'Minta Durfee', 'Jack Ellis', 'Richard Elmore', 'Frank Erickson', 'Bob Evans', 'Harry Evans', 'Franklyn Farnum', 'Art Felix', 'Grace Field', 'Sam Finn', 'Bess Flowers', 'Frances Fong', 'Otto Forrest', 'Helen Foster', 'Jesús Franco', 'Ben Frommer', 'Curt Furburg', 'Joe Garcio', 'Joe Gilbert', 'Mary Gleason', 'June Glory', 'Albert Godderis', 'James Gonzalez', 'Carmelita González', 'Dick Gordon', 'Bernie Gozier', 'William Graeff Jr.', 'Herschel Graham', 'Donald Gray', 'Kit Guard', 'Paul Gustine', 'Herman Hack', 'Robert Haines', 'Stuart Hall', 'Chick Hannan', 'Silver Harr', 'Sam Harris', 'Clarence Hennecke', 'Lars Hensen', 'George Hickman', 'Chuck Hicks', 'Stuart Holmes', 'Jimmie Horan', 'Yoneo Iguchi', 'Allen Jaffe', 'Robert James', 'Dolly Jarvis', 'Michael Jeffers', 'Leroy Johnson', 'Dick Johnstone', 'Harvey Karels', 'Willie Keeler', 'Jack Kenny', 'Al Kikume', 'Max Kleven', 'Paul Kruger', 'Ann Kunde', 'Jeanne Lafayette', 'Richard LaMarr', 'Alfredo Landa', 'Jack Lee', 'Virginia Ann Lee', 'Harry Leroy', 'Carl M. Leviness', 'Shirley Lew', 'Tien-Lang Li', 'Baron James Lichter', 'Marco López', 'Casey MacGregor', 'Joseph Marievsky', 'Johnny Marlin', 'Thomas Martin', 'Frank McLure', 'Marie Melesh', 'Harold Miller', 'Gordon Mitchell', 'King Mojave', 'Joe Molina', 'Ernesto Molinari', 'Ralph Moratz', 'Clive Morgan', 'Charles Morton', 'Sol Murgi', 'Frank Nagai', 'George Nardelli', 'Barry Norton', 'Faye Michael Nuell', 'Daniel Nunez', "William H. O'Brien", "Monty O'Grady", "Lillian O'Malley", 'Kent Odell', 'YasuzÅ Ogawa', 'Bob Okazaki', 'Victor Paul', 'Charles Pendelton', 'Elsa Peterson', 'Joe Ploski', 'Byron Poindexter', 'Lucille Porcett', 'Don Pulford', 'Bill Raisch', 'Fred Rapport', 'Bob Reeves', 'Max Reid', 'Waclaw Rekwart', 'Peggy Remington', 'David Richardson', 'Buddy Roosevelt', 'George Ross', 'Joe E. Ross', 'Marion Ross', 'Tony Roux', 'John Roy', 'Dick Ryan', 'Loulette Sablon', 'Danny Sands', 'Cosmo Sardo', 'Sam Savitsky', 'Jeffrey Sayre', 'Charles Schaeffer', 'Fred Scheiwiller', 'Eddie Searles', 'Scott Seaton', 'Bernard Sell', 'Sammy Shack', 'Leslie Sketchley', 'June Smaney', 'Mabel Smaney', 'J. Lewis Smith', 'Charles Soldani', 'Stephen Soldi', 'Kalu K. Sonkur', 'Hayward Soo Hoo', 'Walter Soo Hoo', 'Ray Spiker', 'Robert St. Angelo', 'John Starck', 'Norman Stevans', 'Bert Stevens', 'Jack Stoney', 'Ramón Sánchez', 'Mike Tellegen', 'Lillian Ten Eyck', 'Jack Tornek', 'Arthur Tovey', 'Michael Trubshawe', 'Tony Urchel', 'Sailor Vincent', 'Sally Yarnell', 'William Yokota', 'Mary Young', 'Patrick Cargill', 'Richard Aherne', 'Frank Baker', 'John Benson', 'Albert Cavens', 'Fred Cavens', 'Cecil Combs', 'Ashley Cowan', 'Roy Darmour', 'Leslie Denison', 'Carli Elinor', 'Raoul Freeman', 'Rudy Germane', 'Arthur Gould-Porter', 'Cameron Hall', 'Chuck Hamilton', 'Roddy Hughes', 'Joanna Vogel', 'Weaver Levy', 'Fateh Lohani', 'Joan Lora', 'Manuel López', 'William Meader', 'Jack Mulhall', 'Satini Pualoa', 'Bill Shine', 'Bhogwan Singh', 'Cap Somers', 'Philip Van Zandt', 'Carol White', 'Bob Whitney', "Noble 'Kid' Chissell", 'Alphonso DuBois', 'Philip Ahn', 'Richard Loo', 'Chet Brandenburg', 'Martin Cichy', 'Campbell Cotts', 'Felix Felton', 'Frederick Leister', 'Norman MacOwan', 'Adolph Faylauer', 'Russell Meeker', 'Duke Fishman', 'John George', 'Al Haskell', 'Tex Holden', 'Charles Horvath', "Boyd 'Red' Morgan", 'Shep Houghton', 'Walter Kingsford', 'Keye Luke', 'Frank Mills', 'Manuel ParÃs', 'Jack Perrin', 'Robert Robinson', 'Edwin Rochelle', 'Phil Schumacher', 'Dick Wessel', 'Suzanne Ridgway', 'Winona Smith', 'Tom Allen', 'Johnny Sekka', 'Al Bain', 'Dee Sharon', 'Diana Deane', 'Charles Fogel']
| 3.11
| null |
Animation, Action, Drama, Romance, Comedy, Children's film, Western, Adventure, Melodrama, Family film, Fantasy
| 182
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'Spanish', 'French']
|
['Michael Todd Company']
| 27,245
|
oscar-winner
|
oscar-winning-films-best-picture
| null |
Broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow presents an onscreen prologue, featuring footage from A Trip to the Moon (1902) by Georges Méliès, explaining that it is based loosely on the book From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne.[5] Also included is the launching of an unmanned rocket and footage of the earth receding.
In 1872, an English gentleman Phileas Fogg claims he can circumnavigate the world in eighty days. Met with scepticism, he makes a £20,000 wager (worth about £2.3 million today[6]) with four fellow members of the Reform Club (each contributing £5,000 to the bet) that he can make the journey and arrive back at the club eighty days from exactly 8:45 pm that evening.
Together with his resourceful French valet, Passepartout, Fogg goes hopscotching around the globe generously spending money to encourage others to help him get to his destinations faster so he can accommodate tight steamship schedules. Having reached Paris they hear that a tunnel under the Alps is blocked. The Thomas Cook agent who assists them offers to hire or sell them his hot air balloon. Fogg buys it and they fly over the Alps drinking champagne.
Blown off-course, the two accidentally end up in Spain, where we see a table-top flamenco sequence performed in a bar. Later, Passepartout engages in a comic bullfight. Next, they go to Brindisi in Italy. Meanwhile, back in London, suspicion grows that Fogg has stolen £55,000 (around £6.2 million today[6]) from the Bank of England so Police Inspector Fix is sent out by Scotland Yard to trail him (starting in Suez) but must keep waiting for a warrant to arrive so he can arrest Fogg in the British controlled ports they visit.
In India, Fogg and Passepartout rescue beautiful young widow Aouda from being forced into a funeral pyre with her late husband. The three then travel to Hong Kong, Yokohama, San Francisco, and the Wild West (including the Sioux Nation). Reaching New York, they arrange their passage on a cargo steamship travelling to Venezuela – Fogg bribes the captain to go to England. Alas, they run out of coal mid-ocean and the ship stops. Fogg buys the ship and then instructs the crew to take everything that burns, including lifeboats, to provide fuel.
They arrive in Liverpool, where, still with just enough time left to travel to London and win his wager, Fogg is promptly arrested by the diligent yet misguided Inspector Fix.
Detaining Fogg at the police station, the embarrassed Fix discovers that the real culprit has already been apprehended by police in Brighton. Although Fogg is exculpated and free to go, he now has insufficient time to reach London before his deadline, and so has lost everything but the enduring love of the winsome Aouda. Upon returning to London, Fogg asks Passepartout to arrange a church wedding for the next day, Monday. Salvation comes when Passepartout is shocked to be informed that the next day is actually Sunday. Fogg then realizes that by traveling east towards the rising sun and crossing the International Date Line, he has gained a day. Thus, there is still just enough time to reach the Reform Club and win the bet. Fogg rushes to the club, arriving just before the 8:45 pm chime. Passepartout and Aouda then arrive behind him, inadvertently shocking everyone, as no woman has ever entered the Reform Club before.
|
Arrival
| 2,016
|
Denis Villeneuve
|
['Amy Adams', 'Jeremy Renner', 'Forest Whitaker', 'Michael Stuhlbarg', "Mark O'Brien", 'Tzi Ma', 'Abigail Pniowsky', 'Julia Scarlett Dan', 'Jadyn Malone', 'Frank Schorpion', 'Lucas Chartier-Dessert', 'Christian Jadah', 'Lucy Van Oldenbarneveld', 'Andrew Shaver', 'Pat Kiely', 'Sonia Vigneault', 'Mark Camacho', 'Sabrina Reeves', 'Julian Casey', 'Tony Robinow', 'Larry Day', 'Matthew Willson', 'Ruth Chiang', 'Russell Yuen', 'Sergiy Marchenko', 'Anana Rydvald', 'Bineyam Girma', 'Abdelghafour Elaaziz', 'Abdul Ayoola', 'Alex M. Yeuh', 'Daniel Esteban', 'Albert Kwan', 'Brittany Teo', 'Joe Cobden', 'Lorne Brass', 'Genevieve Sirois', 'Victor Andres Trelles Turgeon', 'Michael Nangreaves', 'Reda Guerinik', 'Adrien Benn', 'Sasha Samar', 'Kathleen Stavert', 'Kattia Thony', 'Leisa Reid', 'Brent Skagford', 'Gurdeep Ahluwalia', 'Shawn Campbell', 'Brian Dunstan', 'Dan Duran', 'Lori Graham', 'Orla Johannes', 'John Sanford Moore', 'Sangita Patel', 'Hal Roberts', 'Camille Ross', 'Ola Sturik', 'Tammie Sutherland', 'Max Walker', 'Marc-André Goulet', 'Paul-Antoine Taillefer', 'Martin Jr Pelletier', 'Carmela Nozza Guizzo', 'Robert D. Morais', 'Mustafa Haidari', 'Philippe Hartmann', 'Laurean Adrian Parau', 'Nathaly Thibault', 'Leslie Baker', 'Dave Campbell', 'Alexander Da Mota', 'Akul Dang', 'Frank Fiola']
| 4.12
| 4.5
|
Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Mystery, Suspense, Drama
| 116
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'Chinese', 'Russian']
|
['FilmNation Entertainment', 'Lava Bear', '21 Laps Entertainment']
| 2,245,488
|
sci-fi, mystery, top-rated
|
101-greatest-mystery-movies, letterboxds-top-250-science-fiction-films
| null |
Linguist Louise Banks's daughter Hannah dies at the age of twelve from an incurable illness.
Twelve extraterrestrial spacecraft hover over various locations around the Earth. In the ensuing widespread panic, affected nations send military and scientific experts to monitor and study them. In the United States, US Army Colonel Weber recruits Banks and physicist Ian Donnelly to study the craft above Montana. On board, Banks and Donnelly make contact with two cephalopod-like, seven-limbed aliens, whom they call "heptapods"; Donnelly nicknames them Abbott and Costello. Banks and Donnelly research the complex written language of the heptapods, consisting of palindromic phrases written with circular symbols, and share the results with other nations. As Banks studies the language, she starts to have flashback-like visions of her daughter.
When Banks is able to establish sufficient shared vocabulary to ask why the heptapods have come, they answer with a statement that could be translated as "offer weapon". China interprets this as "use weapon", prompting them to break off communications, and other nations follow. Banks argues that the symbol interpreted as "weapon" can be more abstractly related to the concepts of "means" or "tool"; China's translation likely results from interacting with the heptapods using mahjong, a highly competitive game.
Rogue soldiers plant a bomb in the Montana craft. Unaware, Banks and Donnelly reenter the alien vessel, and the aliens give them a more complex message. Just before the bomb explodes, one of the aliens ejects Donnelly and Banks from the vessel, knocking them unconscious. When they wake, the heptapod craft has moved beyond reach and the US military is preparing to evacuate in case of retaliation.
General Shang issues an ultimatum to the alien craft in China, demanding that it leave within 24 hours. Russia, Pakistan, and Sudan follow suit; communications between the international research teams are terminated as worldwide panic sets in.
Donnelly discovers that the symbol for time is present throughout the message and that the writing occupies exactly one-twelfth of the 3D space into which it is projected. Banks suggests that the full message is split between the twelve craft and that the heptapods want all the nations to collaborate in order to decipher it.
Banks goes alone to the Montana craft, which sends down a transport pod. Abbott has been mortally injured as a result of the explosion. Costello explains that they have come to help humanity, because in 3,000 years' time they will need humanity's help in return. Banks realizes the "weapon" is their language. Learning the language alters humans' linear perception of time, allowing them to experience memories of future events. Banks's visions of her daughter are revealed to be premonitions; her daughter will not be born until sometime in the future.
Banks returns to the camp as it is being evacuated and tells Donnelly that the aliens' language is the "tool" that was meant by the word "weapon". She has a premonition of a United Nations event celebrating global unity achieved by deciphering the heptapods' language. At the event, General Shang of China thanks Banks for persuading him to stop the attack when she called his private number and recited his wife's dying words.[a] He then shows her his private number and whispers his wife's words into her ear.
In the present, Banks takes CIA agent Halpern's satellite phone from a table and calls Shang's private number to recite the words. The Chinese announce that they are standing down and releasing their twelfth of the message. The other countries follow suit, and the twelve spacecraft depart.
From what she has learned, Banks writes and publishes a book called The Universal Language, a guide to the heptapod language, which will eventually teach humanity to perceive time the same way as the heptapods.
During the evacuation, Donnelly expresses his love for Banks. They talk about their life choices and whether he would change them if he could see his life from beginning to end. Banks knows that she will agree to have a child with him despite knowing their fate: that Hannah will die from an incurable disease and that Donnelly will leave them both as a result of her revealing that she knew this.
|
Arsenic and Old Lace
| 1,944
|
Frank Capra
|
['Cary Grant', 'Priscilla Lane', 'Josephine Hull', 'Jean Adair', 'Raymond Massey', 'John Alexander', 'Peter Lorre', 'Jack Carson', 'Edward Everett Horton', 'James Gleason', 'Grant Mitchell', 'Edward McNamara', 'Garry Owen', 'John Ridgely', 'Vaughan Glaser', 'Chester Clute', 'Charles Lane', 'Edward McWade', 'Hank Mann', 'Spencer Charters', 'Sol Gorss', 'Lee Phelps', 'Raymond Walburn', "Spec O'Donnell", 'Leo White']
| 3.93
| null |
Horror, Comedy, Romance, Screwball comedy, Dark comedy, Noir, Drama, Crime film, Suspense, Mystery, Thriller, Detective fiction, Crime Fiction, Classic, Police procedural
| 118
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Warner Bros. Pictures']
| 66,942
|
comedy
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
The Brewster family of Brooklyn, New York City, is descended from Mayflower settlers. Several illustrious forebears' portraits line the walls of the ancestral home.
|
Arthur Christmas
| 2,011
|
Sarah Smith
|
['James McAvoy', 'Hugh Laurie', 'Bill Nighy', 'Jim Broadbent', 'Imelda Staunton', 'Ashley Jensen', 'Marc Wootton', 'Laura Linney', 'Eva Longoria', 'Ramona Marquez', 'Michael Palin', 'Sanjeev Bhaskar', 'Robbie Coltrane', 'Joan Cusack', 'Rhys Darby', 'Jane Horrocks', 'Iain McKee', 'Andy Serkis', 'Dominic West', 'Peter Baynham', 'Cody Cameron', 'Kevin Cecil', 'Kevin Eldon', 'Rich Fulcher', 'Bronagh Gallagher', 'Pete Jack', 'Danny John-Jules', 'Emma Kennedy', 'Stewart Lee', 'Seamus Malone', 'Kris Pearn', 'Alan Short', 'Sarah Smith', 'Adam Tandy', 'Ryan Patrick Donahoe', 'Finlay Duff', 'Rich Hall', 'Clint Dyer', 'Donnie Long', 'Jerry Lambert', 'Deborah Findlay', 'David Schneider', 'Ian Ashpitel', 'Julia Davis', 'Kerry Shale', 'Tamsin Greig', 'Alistair McGowan']
| 3.48
| null |
Animation, Comedy, Children's film, Adventure, Family film, Fantasy, Drama
| 97
|
['UK', 'USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'Spanish']
|
['Columbia Pictures', 'Sony Pictures Animation', 'Aardman']
| 131,939
|
animated
|
vote-best-animated-films-of-all-time
| null |
Instead of a single individual, Santa Claus is a hereditary title belonging to gift-givers that has been carried on for generations. The current Santa, Malcolm Claus, is heading his seventieth mission, but his role has been reduced to that of a figurehead. The traditional sleigh and reindeer have been replaced by the S-1, a high-tech vessel operated by hundreds of elves that use advanced equipment and military precision to deliver presents. The Christmas operations are micromanaged from a North Pole-based Mission Control by Malcolm's eldest son, Steve, who expects to inherit Santa's role following his father's retirement. Malcolm's youngest son, Arthur, answers letters sent from children to Santa.
One Christmas Eve, during the delivery operation in Poland, a toy is accidentally activated, waking a child. An escape operation ensues, during which an elf aboard the S-1 leans on a button, causing a present to fall from the supply line and go unnoticed. Another elf, Bryony Shelfley, finds the present—a wrapped bicycle for Gwen Hines, a girl from Trelew, Cornwall, England, whose letter Arthur personally responded to. Arthur is upset that Gwen's been missed and urges Malcolm and Steve to deliver the present with the S-1. Steve, frustrated that Malcolm chose to stay as Santa longer, argues that one missed present out of billions is an acceptable error. Malcolm's father Grandsanta whisks Arthur away to deliver it in EVE, the original wooden sleigh that is pulled by the descendants of the original flying reindeer. Bryony stows away and joins the pair, but they get lost on different continents, lose many reindeer and encounter obstacles, ultimately being mistaken for aliens and causing an international military incident. Arthur is hurt to learn that Grandsanta only agreed to go on the trip to boost his own ego, that Malcolm is indifferent to the missing present, and that Steve refuses to help, believing that Arthur's efforts could undermine his own attempts to become the next Santa.
Eventually stranded on a Cuban island, Arthur is disillusioned, but ultimately realizes that so long as the gift is delivered, the "Santa" Arthur and Gwen look up to exists in the hearts of children. Reinvigorated, Arthur tries to get the trio to England and recovers the sleigh. Meanwhile, the elves grow alarmed at rumors of the neglected delivery and the Clauses' indifference, sending them into a panic. In response, Malcolm tricks his wife Margaret into believing Steve gave them permission to use the S-1 to deliver Gwen's gift, only for a furious Steve to confront his father onboard. A dejected Malcolm recognises his inability to lead. Driving the S-1, Steve delivers a superior present, only to realise that Malcolm accidentally set the address to the wrong child, revealing Steve's inability to connect with children.
Arthur's group reach England but lose the remaining reindeer. A Predator drone scrambled by Chief De Silva of UNFITA intercepts and opens fire on the sleigh, believing it to be an alien spacecraft. Grandsanta sacrifices EVE, while Arthur and Bryony parachute to the ground. All paths descend on Gwen's house before she awakens, only to have everyone but Arthur quarrel about who gets to place the gift. Noticing that Arthur was the only one who genuinely cared about Gwen's happiness, the elder Clauses realize that he is the sole worthy successor. Steve recognises his own shortcomings, forfeits his birthright and acknowledges Arthur's worthiness to be Santa, with Malcolm admitting he is proud of his sons. Gwen glimpses a snow-bearded Arthur in a wind-buffeted sweater before he vanishes up into the S-1, ultimately thinking she imagined "Santa".
Malcolm goes into a happy retirement with Margaret, becomes Grandsanta's much-desired new companion and plays Arthur's board game with him for hours. Steve finds contentment as the chief operating officer of the North Pole. Bryony is promoted to Vice-President of Wrapping, Pacific Division. The S-1 is rechristened EVIE in honor of Grandsanta's old sleigh and refitted to be pulled by five thousand reindeer led by the original eight, all of whom returned home safely. At the helm, Arthur guides the enterprise as Santa Claus XXI.
|
As Good as It Gets
| 1,997
|
James L. Brooks
|
['Jack Nicholson', 'Helen Hunt', 'Greg Kinnear', 'Cuba Gooding Jr.', 'Shirley Knight', 'Jesse James', 'Yeardley Smith', 'Lupe Ontiveros', 'Skeet Ulrich', 'Harold Ramis', 'Bibi Osterwald', 'Ross Bleckner', 'Bernadette Balagtas', 'Jaffe Cohen', 'Laurie Kilpatrick', 'Alice Vaughn', 'Brian Doyle-Murray', 'Kristi Zea', 'Annie Maginnis Tippe', 'Patricia Childress', 'Rebekah Johnson', 'Missi Pyle', 'Leslie Stefanson', 'Tara Subkoff', 'Shane Black', 'Peter Jacobson', 'Lisa Edelstein', 'Stan Bly', 'Randall Batinkoff', 'Jamie Kennedy', 'Justin Herwick', 'Maya Rudolph', "John F. O'Donohue", 'David A. Kipper', 'Mary Elizabeth Still', 'Chloe Brooks', 'Cooper Brooks', 'Sharon L. Alexander', 'Holly Denys', 'Lawrence Kasdan', 'Alison Rose', 'Kathryn Morris', 'Wood Harris', 'Linda Gehringer', 'Julie Benz', 'Antonia Jones', 'Kaitlin Hopkins', 'Jimmy Workman', 'Todd Solondz', 'Tom McGowan', 'Danielle Brisebois', 'Matt Malloy', 'Paul Greenberg', 'Kirk Ringberg', 'Dave Hawthorne', 'Alex Ballar', 'Dunya Djordjevic', 'Frank Slaten', 'Laura Mayes Byrnes', 'Oriana Nicole Tavoularis', 'Roger Ferreira', 'Jason Thomas Campbell', 'Amy Anzel', 'Eliza Harris', 'Eddie L. Fauria', 'Bronwyn Cornelius', 'Maurice LaMarche']
| 3.61
| null |
Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance, LGBTQ, Melodrama, Drama, Tragicomedy
| 139
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['TriStar Pictures', 'Gracie Films']
| 262,881
|
comedy
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
Misanthropic New York City best-selling romance novelist Melvin Udall has obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD). He uses soap bars only once to wash his hands, uses paper towels to touch public restroom faucets and door handles, avoids stepping on sidewalk cracks, has rituals with switches and locks, and sticks to rigid routines. Melvin always eats breakfast at the same table in the same restaurant while bringing his own plastic silverware. Carol Connelly is the only server at the restaurant who can tolerate his odd and rude behavior.
Melvin's apartment neighbor, gay artist Simon Bishop, starts working with a new model, Vincent Lopiano. Vincent uses the opportunity to case Simon's apartment and give entry to his friends, who assault and nearly kill Simon during the robbery. Simon's agent, Frank Sachs, intimidates Melvin into caring for Simon's Griffon Bruxellois (pet dog), Verdell, while Simon is hospitalized. Although Melvin initially does not enjoy caring for the dog, he becomes emotionally attached to it. When Simon is released from the hospital, Melvin tolerates a neighborly relationship with Simon so he can continue to see Verdell.
Melvin's OCD need for routine and aversion to change is aggravated when Carol decides to work closer to her home in Brooklyn to be more accessible for her acutely asthmatic son, Spencer. Unable to adjust to a different waitress, Melvin arranges to pay for Spencer's considerable medical expenses for at-home care―if Carol returns to the restaurant. While Carol is overwhelmed by Melvin’s generosity, thanking him profusely, she is suspicious of his motives, declaring emphatically that she will never have sex with him. A humiliated Melvin admonishes her that she, not he, has made the situation personal.
Meanwhile, Simon’s injuries, lack of medical insurance, and high medical bills cause him to go bankrupt and fall into depression. Frank persuades him to go to Baltimore to ask his estranged parents for money. Bullied by Frank, Melvin reluctantly agrees to take recuperating Simon to Baltimore. Frank lends Melvin his Saab 900 convertible for the trip. Irrationally fearing Simon may make a pass at him (his cover story), Melvin invites Carol along on the trip, reminding her that she owes him a favor, and she reluctantly accepts. Relationships develop among the three on the trip as Simon discusses the root of his estrangement with his parents, who cannot accept his homosexuality; Carol commiserates; and Melvin’s acerbic remarks gradually become more sympathetic.
Once in Baltimore, Carol persuades Melvin to take her out for dinner. Melvin's conversation during the dinner initially flatters her—he tells her that her “no sex oath” made him start taking medication to become a better man. When Carol presses Melvin to admit that he invited her on the trip because he had feelings for her, however, an embarrassed and fumbling Melvin again clumsily deflects, awkwardly responding that he invited her along to maybe have sex with Simon to cure his homosexuality. Upset at the implication that her sexual favors are for sale, Carol abruptly leaves. She goes to Simon’s hotel room for consolation, and their emotional intimacy rekindles his creative desire to paint. He sketches Carol, nearly nude, making her feel her femininity appreciated in a nonsexual way. With confidence inspired by Carol, Simon briefly reconnects with his mother, without asking her for money, telling her that he will be fine.
After returning to New York, Carol tells Melvin that he disparages her and she does not want him in her life anymore. Since Simon is still broke and his apartment has been sublet, Melvin arranges for Simon to stay in his spare bedroom. On learning of Melvin’s enormous gesture and sign of growth, Carol regrets her harshness and calls Melvin to apologize. The relationship between Melvin and Carol remains complicated until Simon persuades Melvin to declare his love for her. Melvin goes to see Carol, who hesitantly agrees to try and establish a relationship with him. She is encouraged by her mother, who declares that no relationship is perfect. The film ends with Melvin and Carol walking together. As he opens the door at an early morning pastry shop for Carol, he realizes that he has stepped on a crack in the pavement, but does not seem to mind.
|
As You Are
| 2,016
|
Miles Joris-Peyrafitte
|
['Owen Campbell', 'Charlie Heaton', 'Amandla Stenberg', 'John Scurti', 'Scott Cohen', 'Mary Stuart Masterson', 'Annemarie Lawless', 'Andrew Polk', 'Billy Thomas Myott', 'John Romeo']
| 3.69
| 4
|
Drama, Mystery
| 110
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Votiv Films', 'Heretical Reason Productions', 'Buffalo 8']
| 38,792
|
sad, emotional
|
sad-movies-if-you-feel-like-you-need-to-cry
| null |
Set in the 1990s, the film opens with a flashback of a battered Mark examining his wounds in the mirror before going off into the woods with his friend Jack, where a gunshot is heard. The narrative is also framed within a police investigation involving interrogations of the main characters regarding the relationship between Jack and Mark.
Months earlier, Jack's single mother, Karen, begins dating a man named Tom, who has a son Jack's age. Jack meets the son, Mark, and the two quickly become inseparable. They also befriend a local girl named Sarah when she defends them after they are assaulted by a group of thugs. The three spend all their time together, and though Mark kisses Sarah during a game of spin the bottle, the threesome is platonic at first.
Tom shows his gun collection to the kids, who practice shooting in a nearby field. Soon after, Karen suggests Tom and Mark move in with her and Jack, and Tom agrees. Jack and Mark begin sharing a room and grow closer, using drugs and navigating adolescence and the tribulations of the 90s, including the suicide of their idol Kurt Cobain.
After Jack reveals to Mark that he's never kissed anyone, Mark volunteers to teach him how, and the two kiss. They later go out to the woods with some of Tom's guns and kill a squirrel. That night, Jack witnesses Tom physically abuse Mark over a trivial incident, which escalates later when he and Jack skip multiple days of school. Tensions between Tom and Karen over the raising of the boys gets worse until Karen discovers that Tom has been planning for Jack to join the Marines without her knowing, which infuriates her. During their argument, Tom walks in on Jack, Mark, and Sarah watching pornography together. Enraged, Tom becomes physically violent with Mark, and moves them both out of Karen's house. This devastates Jack, who is clearly in love with Mark.
Mark leaves the school, leaving Jack and Sarah alone. The two start to date after Sarah is stood up at prom, and together the two encounter Mark hanging out with a group of delinquents. Jack and Sarah break it off when they realize there is only platonic love between them. Mark and Jack later reunite in private, where Mark implies his feelings for Jack, and they kiss passionately.
During the interrogation, the detective attempts to get to the truth of how Mark received a head injury at the skate park. Jack maintains the story that it was a skateboarding accident, and this story is cross-examined by questioning the others, including Sarah, who is threatened with legal trouble to tell the truth about what she saw at the skate park.
In the flashback, Mark and Sarah reveal at the skate park that they have started dating each other. After Sarah walks away, Mark tells Jack that he can't handle the repercussions of their being together. A heartbroken Jack desperately attempts to reason with him, making Mark fall and hit his head on a rock in the scuffle, but Mark is not critically injured. Later, when they are alone together in Mark's room, Mark tells Jack that he doesn't remember what happened, and the two hold each other. Tom observes them through the gap in the door. In the interrogation room, Jack begins to break down emotionally as the detective aggressively accosts him for lying about the skate park, and demands to know what happened in the woods. It is revealed here that Mark is dead.
In the final flashback, Mark shows up at Jack's house with a battered face. While sharing a bottle of cough syrup, Mark rejects Jack's tenderness, and when asked why, he tells Jack that he wishes he were a girl. Jack puts on his mother's makeup and dress to try to seduce him, but Mark continues to rebuff his advances. Equipped with Mark's father's guns, the two go into the woods once more. The disoriented pair wander around the area, until a single gunshot is heard. Jack is seen running out of the woods, screaming for help. In the interrogation room, Jack brokenly asks for a lawyer. The ending is open. It is not clear if Mark shot himself or if Jack shot him.
|
Ask Me If I'm Happy
| 2,000
|
Giovanni Storti, Aldo Baglio
|
['Aldo Baglio', 'Giovanni Storti', 'Giacomo Poretti', 'Marina Massironi', 'Silvana Fallisi', 'Antonio Catania', 'Giuseppe Battiston', 'Paola Cortellesi', 'Augusto Zucchi', 'Daniela Cristofori', 'Max Pisu', 'Serena Michelotti', 'Salvatore Ficarra', 'Valentino Picone', 'Ines Nobili', 'Cinzia Massironi', 'Saturno Brioschi', 'Rodolfo Rezzoli', 'Mohamed El Sayed', 'Marco Pagani']
| 3.85
| null |
Comedy, Drama
| 100
|
['Italy']
|
Italian
|
['Italian']
|
['Medusa Film', 'A.Gi.Di.', 'Kubla Khan']
| 18,589
|
comedy, feel-good
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time, feel-good-movies
| null |
In Milan, the three friends Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo do different jobs, although far below their expectations. So their dream is to set up a play adapted from Cyrano de Bergerac. With them also joins Marina, although the company for listing on the scene proves very complicated.
|
Assault on Precinct 13
| 1,976
|
John Carpenter
|
['Austin Stoker', 'Darwin Joston', 'Laurie Zimmer', 'Martin West', 'Tony Burton', 'Charles Cyphers', 'Nancy Kyes', 'Peter Bruni', 'John J. Fox', 'Marc Ross', 'Alan Koss', 'Henry Brandon', 'Kim Richards', 'Frank Doubleday', 'Gilbert De la Pena', 'Peter Frankland', 'Al Nakauchi', 'Gilman Rankin', 'Cliff Battuello', 'Horace Johnson', 'Valentine Villareal', 'Kenny Miyamoto', 'Jerry Viramontes', 'Len Whitaker', 'Kris Young', 'Randy Moore', 'Warren Bradley III', 'Joe Woo Jr.', 'Bill Taylor', 'Brent Keast', 'Maynard Smith', 'James Jeter', 'John Carpenter', 'James Johnson']
| 3.81
| 4.5
|
Action, Drama, Crime film, Neo-noir, Mystery, Thriller, Action Thriller, Psychological thriller, Detective fiction, Indie film, Psychological Fiction, Police procedural
| 91
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Overseas FilmGroup', 'The CKK Corporation']
| 108,903
|
action, top-rated
|
letterboxds-top-250-action-films
| null |
In South-Central Los Angeles, a local gang, Street Thunder, steals a cache of assault rifles and pistols. At 3:00 am on a Saturday in Anderson, a crime-infested ghetto, a team of heavily armed LAPD officers ambush and kill six members of the gang. Later, the gang's four warlords swear a blood oath of revenge against the police and the citizens of Los Angeles.[3]
Lieutenant Ethan Bishop, a newly promoted highway patrol officer, is assigned to take charge of the decommissioned Anderson police precinct during the last few hours before it is permanently closed. Only a skeleton staff remains, including Sergeant Chaney and the station's two secretaries, Leigh and Julie. A prison bus commanded by a man named Starker arrives seeking medical help for one of three men being transported to the state penitentiary: Napoleon Wilson, a convicted murderer; Wells; and Caudell, who is sick. Across town, the Street Thunder warlords drive around looking for people to kill. One of the warlords fatally shoots a little girl, Kathy, and the driver of an ice cream van. Kathy's father, Lawson, pursues and kills the warlord before other gang members chase him into the Anderson precinct. In shock, Lawson is unable to communicate what has happened to him.[3]
As Starker's prisoners are placed in cells, the telephone lines go dead, and the station's electricity goes out. While Starker prepares to move the prisoners back onto the bus, the gang opens fire on the precinct, using weapons fitted with silencers. In seconds, they kill Chaney, the bus driver, Caudell, Starker, and two officers accompanying Starker. Bishop unchains Wilson from Starker's body and puts Wilson and Wells back into the cells. When the gang members begin a second wave of shooting, Bishop sends Leigh to release Wells and Wilson, and the four of them repel an attempted invasion. However, Julie is killed during the firefight, while Leigh is shot and wounded in one arm.
The gang members remove all evidence of the skirmish to avoid attracting outside attention. Bishop hopes that someone has heard the police weapons firing, but the neighborhood is too sparsely populated, due to most of the housing being scheduled for demolition, for nearby residents to pinpoint the location of the noise. Wells is chosen to sneak out of the precinct through a sewer line. After hot-wiring a nearby car, he is killed by a gang member hiding in the back seat before he can get to a telephone. Meanwhile, two police officers responding to reports of gunfire find the dead body of a telephone repairman hanging from a pole near the police station and call for backup.
As the gang rallies for an all-out final assault, Wilson, Leigh, and Bishop retreat to the station's basement, taking the still-catatonic Lawson with them. They protect themselves with a large, durable metal sign as the gang violently storms the building. Bishop shoots a tank full of acetylene gas, which explodes and kills all the gang members in the narrow basement hallway. The remainder of the gang flees as police arrive to secure the station. Venturing down into the basement, the officers discover that Bishop, Leigh, Wilson, and Lawson are the only survivors. Lawson is strapped onto a stretcher and removed. Another stretcher is offered to Leigh, but, after she and Wilson exchange a long look, she declines it and exits unassisted. When an officer attempts to handcuff Wilson, Bishop angrily intervenes before asking Wilson to walk out of the station with him.[3]
|
Asuran
| 2,019
|
Vetrimaaran
|
['Dhanush', 'Manju Warrier', 'Ken Karunas', 'Teejay', 'Pasupathy', 'Prakash Raj', 'Ammu Abhirami', 'Balaji Sakthivel', 'Subramaniam Siva', 'Adukalam Naren', 'Pawan', 'Bala Hasan', 'A. Venkatesh', 'Nithish Veera', 'R. Velraj', 'Sentrayan', 'Munnar Ramesh', 'Tamizh', 'Subathra Robert', 'Asuran Krishna']
| 3.9
| 3
|
Action, Adventure, Drama
| 141
|
['India']
|
Tamil
|
['Tamil']
|
['V Creations']
| 13,435
|
action, top-rated
|
letterboxds-top-250-action-films
| null |
In the late 1970s, in Kovilpatti, a man and a boy are trekking across a river, carrying homemade bombs. In another part of the village, a woman, a man, and a girl are also hiding from the police.
Past: The narrator reveals that the man is Sivasaami and the boy is his son Chidambaram. In contrast, the woman, man, and child are Sivasaami's wife, Pachaiyamma, her brother Murugesan and her daughter Lakshmi. They also had an older son called Velmurugan. They are a family of farmers living in Thekkoor (lit. southern village). Sivasaami has a close relationship with his older son but is distant, and almost abusive with Chidambaram. Sivasaami's family, along with most residents of Thekkoor, are Dalits. Narasimhan is an upper-caste landlord from Vadakoor (lit. northern village), who needs Sivasaami's 3 acres of land for a factory, which the family is against selling, especially Velmurugan.
Pachaiyamma is attacked by one of Narasimhan's sons, to which Velmurugan retaliates by severely injuring him and his men and gets imprisoned consequently. Sivasaami pleads with Narasimhan to get Velmurugan released, and in reply, Narasimhan asks Sivasaami to prostrate before every male resident of the landlord's village as atonement. When Velmurugan hears of his father's humiliation, he beats Narasimhan with a slipper. In revenge, Narasimhan's henchmen, led by a hunter named Kariyan, behead Velmurugan and dump his headless body naked in their field. Pachaiyamma is broken with the inability to even complain because of the missing head as evidence and after a year, Chidambaram is compelled to kill Narasimhan in revenge. Sivasaami sees the killing, cuts the street lights there, and tells the family, where they flee with Chidambaram.
Present: Kariyan is asked to find the pair, tracks them down, and almost kills Chidambaram. Sivasaami defeats them all but kills none. While the two recover, Sivasaami explains why he spared their lives.
Past: 20 years before, he was a village-famous moonshine brewer and trusted servant to Viswanathan, a landlord. One day, he convinces his boss to employ Pandiyan, Viswanathan's distant relative, as a clerk. Sivasaami's brother Murugan and Venugopal Seshadri, a Brahmin Communist lawyer, are attempting to regain their community's Panchami land from landlords who had seized it illegally. Sivasaami's elder sister's daughter, Mariyamma, proposes to Sivasaami, who accepts. The family also accepts. Pandiyan slowly gains Viswanathan's trust and becomes his mill accountant.
Meanwhile, Sivasaami slowly falls in love with Mariyamma. When Sivasaami gives her sandals to wear, Pandiyan hits her and forces her to walk through the village with the sandals on her head. Sivasaami retaliates by hitting him with sandals in the middle of the village and ties him up, but is reprimanded by Vishwanathan. Sivasaami quits brewing and joins his brother. One night, before a meeting was conducted by Seshadri and Murugan with the other labourers, news arrives that Seshadri had been arrested, and Sivasaami was sent to get the documents authorising the meeting. When Sivasaami returns, Murugan and the others have been killed by Pandiyan and his men, while Sivasaami's family (including Mariyamma), along with many others, are burned alive in their huts.
Enraged, Sivasami brutally kills Vishwanathan, Pandiyan, and their men. Sivasaami leaves his village, and months later he is found by Murugesan, who taught him farming. He's also introduced to Pachaiyamma, who is not getting marriage proposals. He narrates his story, and Pachaiyamma admires what he did for his family. He surrenders to the court and is given a light sentence. Afterwards, he marries Pachaiyamma.
Present: Chidambaram is amazed at his father's past and starts to admire him. Sivasaami reconciles with his wife and daughter briefly, and he and his son go to Seshadri for help. Seshadri agrees to help them as long as they turn up to court the next day. The next day, the two get into the court premises but are forced to flee after Narasimhan's men ambush them. Sivasaami reluctantly sells his land to prevent Narasimhan's men from targeting his family. However, Chidambaram is abducted and tortured, in direct violation of the agreement. Sivasaami kills many of the henchmen and all of Narasimhan's male family members, though he and Chidambaram sustain serious injuries.
Murugesan and their village people arrive armed and defuse the situation. The two villages agreed that the conflict should end and prevent a caste clash. Sivasaami's family has gathered in court, and he has agreed to go to prison instead of Chidambaram if necessary. He tells his son to study hard and get a powerful bureaucratic job, and that, unlike land and money, the landlords can't seize their education, Sivasaami smiles at his family as he enters the court.
|
Athadu
| 2,005
|
Trivikram Srinivas
|
['Mahesh Babu', 'Trisha Krishnan', 'Sonu Sood', 'Prakash Raj', 'Nassar', 'Kota Srinivasa Rao', 'Rahul Dev', 'Charan Raj', 'Brahmanandam', 'Tanikella Bharani', 'Ajay', 'Giri Babu', 'Dharmavarupu Subramanyam', 'Hema', 'Sudha', 'Jayaprakash Reddy', 'Sana', 'Sunil Varma', 'M. S. Narayana', 'Ananth Babu', 'Brahmaji', 'Mallikarjuna Rao', 'Rallapalli Narasimha', 'Rajiv Kanakala', 'Sayaji Shinde', 'Posani Krishna Murali', 'K. Viswanath', 'Ravi Prakash', 'Pammi Sai', 'Vajja Venkata Giridhar', 'Manoj Nandam', 'Harshavardhan']
| 3.85
| 2
|
Action, Comedy, Romance, Musical, Adventure, Drama, Suspense, Mystery, Thriller, Crime Fiction
| 173
|
['India']
|
Telugu
|
['Telugu']
|
['Sri Jayabheri Art Productions']
| 5,442
|
action, top-rated
|
letterboxds-top-250-action-films
| null |
At a remote dhaba near Suryapet, a young boy named Nandu pulls out a gun, kills the local gangster, and flees to Hyderabad, where Sadhu, a gangster, takes him in. Sadhu recruits Nandu to rob a local bank successfully, but is betrayed by his lieutenant and arrested by a corrupt police Sub-Inspector (SI). While dividing the loot amongst themselves, Nandu creates a blackout and escapes with Sadhu and another kid, Malli. When Sadhu claims the SI will kill them if he finds them, Nandu calmly replies that he killed him.
Years later, Nandu has become an assassin-for-hire. He and his partner Malli, who plans the escape, are hired for ₹15,000,000 to stage an assassination attempt on the state's opposition leader, Shiva Reddy, to ensure his win in the election on sympathy. However, on the day of the attempted hit, Shiva Reddy is instead shot dead, and the police surround the building immediately. Malli is killed in a car accident, and Nandu manages to escape onto a train, in which he meets Parthasarthy "Pardhu", who's going back to his hometown Basarlapudi. While the train stops at a station, the police, searching for Nandu, arrive. Spotting Nandu, the SI of the search party shoots at him but hits and kills Pardhu instead.
Nandu arrives at Basarlapudi and is mistakenly thought to be Pardhu. The family, including Pardhu's grandfather Satya Narayana Murthy, is overjoyed at his return, and he grows closer to them, falling in love with Poori, Pardhu's cousin. Nandu learns of and helps with the family problems, including withdrawing money for his cousin's wedding, while divulging his true identity to Pardhu's childhood friend Ramana. In the meantime, CBI officer Anjaneya Prasad Sharma is handed over the investigation into Shiva Reddy's murder. He notes the flaws in the evidence, which leads him to Basarlapudi where he attempts to find out Nandu's identity but fails. The evidence also points towards Malli, but due to his death, it is a dead end. Prasad then visits Sadhu in prison and shows him the evidence, and he hints at Nandu's identity. Searching bank records on Sadhu's suggestion, Prasad discovers the money withdrawn from Nandu's account, calls the household, and tricks Nandu into acknowledging his identity. He escapes just as Prasad arrives, and Prasad divulges the news of Pardhu's death to the family before leaving. When everyone is angry and insults Nandu for lying and cheating him, Ramana tells them that he knew who Nandu was all along. He tells them about all the good things he did since he came including helping the family with there problems and the wedding. Nandu returns amidst outrage and admits that he arrived to inform the family of his death, but he couldn't bring himself to tell them because it would end up breaking their hearts and chose to play along. Narayana Murthy takes Nandu into his study and informs him that he considers him his grandson as he has not only helped the family like one of them, but chose not to say nor ask anything in return. He gives Nandu Pardhu's father's shotgun, which had killed him because of an obstructed barrel, and instructs him to find the person who framed him and clear his name so he can come home as a family member.
Nandu calls Baaji Reddy, Shiva Reddy's partner, and threatens him with the recording of their earlier conversation to reveal the truth: Malli was alive and had faked his death to shoot Shiva Reddy dead and frame Nandu for ₹20,000,000 to help Baaji Reddy become the CM. Baaji Reddy discloses Malli's location to Nandu, who reveals he had not recorded the earlier conversation but has recorded the current one. En route to Malli's location, Nandu is spotted by Prasad and one of his officers fires at him but misses. Nandu uses the distraction to escape, leading Prasad to arrest his officer. Nandu arrives at the church where Malli is holed up, and the two are ambushed by corrupt officers sent by Baaji Reddy. Nandu dispatches the officers and has a standoff with Malli, ending up with Malli holding Nandu at gunpoint using Nandu's shotgun. However, Malli is killed when the round backfires due to a marble obstructing the barrel. Prasad arrives at the scene and is handed the tape, which he uses to confront Baaji Reddy over his role in the assassination. When Baaji Reddy gloats that the evidence is inadmissible in court, Prasad says he agrees, but says Shiva Reddy's son would kill him when the truth came out. Faced with no way out, Baaji Reddy commits suicide. Later, Prasad meets up with Nandu, who is performing Pardhu's last rites. He addresses Nandu as Pardhu, revealing he has exonerated him and decided to let him go. Nandu then leaves for Basarlapudi, having accepted the identity of Pardhu.
|
Atlantis: The Lost Empire
| 2,001
|
Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
|
['Michael J. Fox', 'Cree Summer', 'James Garner', 'Claudia Christian', 'Phil Morris', 'Leonard Nimoy', 'John Mahoney', 'Corey Burton', 'Don Novello', 'Jacqueline Obradors', 'Florence Stanley', 'David Ogden Stiers', 'Natalie Strom', 'Jim Varney', 'Jim Cummings', 'Patrick Pinney', 'Chuck Riley']
| 3.69
| 3
|
Animation, Adventure, Children's film, Science fiction, Action, Steampunk, Fantasy, Drama, Family film, Science fantasy
| 95
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'French', 'Spanish']
|
['Walt Disney Pictures', 'Walt Disney Feature Animation']
| 473,387
|
sci-fi, top-rated
|
letterboxds-top-250-science-fiction-films
| null |
In 6800 BC, an explosion sends a megatsunami toward the city of Atlantis. Leaving behind the King and their young daughter, Princess Kida, the Queen of Atlantis merges with a floating crystal, creating a protective dome over the city's innermost district as the tsunami sinks the city beneath the waves.
In 1914, linguist Milo Thatch is determined to have the Smithsonian Institution fund an expedition to discover Atlantis. He meets eccentric millionaire Preston B. Whitmore, an old friend of Milo's late grandfather, Thaddeus. Whitmore agrees to fund an expedition, and persuades Milo to join the expedition and gives him the Shepherd's Journal, a book describing the history and path to Atlantis. The expedition is headed by Commander Lyle Tiberius Rourke, and includes Rourke's second-in-command Lieutenant Helga Sinclair, demolitions expert Vinny Santorini, geologist Mole Molière, medical officer Dr. Joshua Sweet, mechanic Audrey Ramirez, radio operator Wilhelmina Packard, mess cook Cookie Farnsworth, and dozens of soldiers and sailors.
The expedition's submarine, the Ulysses, is attacked and destroyed by a mechanical leviathan guarding the entrance to Atlantis, killing most of the soldiers and sailors. Following the journal, the crew travels through a dormant volcano and arrives at Atlantis, where they are greeted by the young adult Princess Kida.
Disregarding her father's wishes, Kida enlists Milo to help Atlantis recover its history, as its culture and knowledge have been decaying for centuries. Milo learns that a huge crystal, the Heart of Atlantis, gives the people their life and longevity, and once powered their machines via smaller crystals they wear. He also discovers that Rourke has known all along of the crystal and plans to steal it. Sensing the threat, the crystal merges with Kida.
Rourke wounds the king and locks Kida in a crate and prepares to leave. Milo convinces Vinny, Audrey, Molière, Packard, Sweet, and Cookie to turn on Rourke, unwilling to be responsible for the Atlanteans' extinction. Rourke, Helga, and the soldiers head for the surface with Kida and destroy the bridge, trapping the others behind. The dying King gives Milo his own crystal, explaining that the Heart selects a royal host when the city is in danger, and that he once tried to weaponize it causing Atlantis to sink and the fate of his wife. He begs Milo to save Atlantis and Kida, who will be lost to the crystal forever if not separated from it before he dies.
Milo and his friends rally the Atlanteans to reactivate their flying machines and pursue the mercenaries. Rourke argues with Helga and throws her into the dormant volcano. As she dies, she shoots the airship containing Kida's crate. Fighting over the Heart on the burning airship, Milo slashes Rourke with a crystal-charged shard of glass, turning Rourke into a living crystal statue which is shattered by the airship's propellers. The airship awakens the volcano as it crash-lands. Milo and the rest flee back to Atlantis with Kida, who, still merged with the crystal, rises into the sky and awakens ancient Stone Guardians, who raise the flooded portion of Atlantis into the dome and protect the city from the lava flow. Once the danger is neutralized, the crystal returns Kida, alive, to Milo.
Milo elects to stay in Atlantis with Kida, with whom he has fallen in love, while the crew returns to the surface, each gifted with a small Atlantean crystal and a portion of treasure. They swear to keep their adventures secret to preserve Atlantis's safety. Whitmore alone learns the truth, from photographs taken by Mrs. Packard and an Atleantean crystal with a note sent to him by Milo. Milo and the new Queen Kida orbit a stone effigy of Kida's late father along with those of other past Kings, as the Heart of Atlantis once again hovers above the restored city.
|
August in the Water
| 1,995
|
Gakuryu Ishii
|
['Rena Komine', 'Shinsuke Aoki', 'Reiko Matsuo', 'Masaaki Takarai', 'Naho Toda', 'Hideyo Amamoto', 'Masao Kusakari', 'Yuji Nakamura', 'Kou Machida', 'Isamu Osuga', 'Genjiro Arato', 'Tetsuji Mitoma']
| 4.07
| null |
Science fiction, Drama
| 117
|
['Japan']
|
Japanese
|
['Japanese']
|
['Hill Villa']
| 14,129
|
sci-fi, top-rated
|
letterboxds-top-250-science-fiction-films
| null |
Izumi Hazuki transfers to a new high school in Fukuoka, where she quickly makes friends with two boys, Mao and Ukiya. Both boys become infatuated with her, and Ukiya consults his fortune teller friend Miki to see whether he might have a chance with her. Miki curtly informs him that their signs are not a good match. Mao and Izumi begin to steadily grow closer, spending time together as Mao rides Izumi home from her high dive training on his bicycle.
During a water-throwing festival, Miki shows Ukiya a new fortune predicting that Izumi will suffer a potentially fatal accident. Ukiya shows the fortune to Mao who initially dismisses it, but also notices that the predicted date of the accident coincides with Izumi's upcoming diving competition. Meanwhile, the city is plagued by strange events. A drought has resulted in severe water shortages, many people are afflicted by a mysterious illness that causes one's internal organs to petrify, and two meteorites land simultaneously in the mountains nearby, one of which is found and taken to an astrophysics laboratory.
At home, Izumi is shown a photographic slide of three petrographs by her older sister Yo, taken as part of her husband's research. The first carving depicts an exploding supernova, the second an evaporating stone, and the third shows a shamanic ritual, the image of which Izumi likens to a person high diving. Yo suggests that the petrographs are related to current events.
The day of Izumi's competition arrives. Mao and Ukiya watch nervously from the stands as Izumi takes her dive from the platform. As she falls, the surface of the water briefly appears to turn to stone, causing Izumi to falter and slam into the water. Mao dives into the pool and rescues her, whereupon she is rushed to hospital. There, doctors inform her sister that she has fallen into a coma and may not survive.
Fortunately, Izumi soon regains consciousness and returns to school. However, her personality after the accident is markedly different. She talks of having a raised awareness of herself and the surrounding environment on a subatomic level, and becomes increasingly preoccupied with the mountains near the city. Mao and Izumi later hike to the mountains, where they find a stone circle hidden among the trees. At the center of the circle is a large, round boulder, its surface carved with petrographs resembling those shown in Yo's husband's research.
Some time later, Mao receives a phone call from Yo, telling him that Izumi has gone missing. While Mao looks for Izumi, the police search for a man believed to be in possession of the missing meteorite, who has murdered a scientist and stolen the second meteorite from the laboratory. Eventually, both Izumi and the man are found in the mountains, lying together on the boulder along with both meteorites. Later, under questioning by a doctor, she explains that the man is a member of a tribe of stone beings who wish to take over Earth and return it to stone, and that she must take measures to prevent this from happening. The doctor suggests to Yo and Mao that Izumi may have sudden schizophrenia brought on by the shock of the diving accident. Izumi later returns to school, where rumours have spread due to a magazine article suggesting that Izumi can psychically communicate with dolphins and plants. Later, Miki shows Mao and Ukiya a historical record referring to a village being struck by a drought and a "stone disease" after the appearance of two meteorites. It also mentions that these events were only brought to an end after a person, chosen to restore balance, performed a ceremony that takes place on a full moon.
Yo collapses after contracting the petrification illness and is hospitalised. Mao meets Izumi at the hospital, where she tells him that she can not wait any longer and must take action. She leaves the hospital followed by Mao and makes her way to a nearby river. There, under the light of the full moon, Izumi psychically communicates with Mao and ruminates on why she survived the accident, before saying her goodbyes and walking into the river, eventually fading from sight. The next morning, storm clouds appear over the city as Mao makes his way to the stone circle. He is later found unconscious atop the boulder and taken to hospital, where he is diagnosed with amnesia, having lost his memory of the previous night. Rain begins to fall and the drought ends.
After the rain storm passes, many people recover from the illness. News about the petrographs and Miki's record spreads worldwide, and scholars come from various countries to study the stone circle. Mao volunteers in the study, hoping to find clues about Izumi's disappearance. He eventually becomes a researcher studying special remains found around the world, using a diary Izumi had kept as the basis for his studies. Years later, an elderly Mao visits the stone circle, now named the "Hazuki Circle", and lies down on the central boulder. As rain begins to fall, Izumi appears before him, unchanged in the years since her disappearance. The two embrace, and then vanish.
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Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
| 1,997
|
Jay Roach
|
['Mike Myers', 'Elizabeth Hurley', 'Michael York', 'Mimi Rogers', 'Robert Wagner', 'Seth Green', 'Fabiana Udenio', 'Mindy Sterling', 'Paul Dillon', 'Charles Napier', 'Will Ferrell', 'Joann Richter', 'Anastasia Sakelaris', 'Afifi Alaouie', 'Monet Mazur', 'Mark Bringelson', 'Clint Howard', 'Elya Baskin', 'Carlton Lee Russell', 'Daniel Weaver', 'Neil Mullarkey', 'Lea Sullivan', 'Chekesha Van Putten', 'Heather Marie Marsden', 'Sarah Christine Smith', 'Laura Payne-Gabriel', 'Joe Son', 'Tyde Kierney', 'Larry Thomas', 'Cheryl Bartel', 'Cindy Margolis', 'Donna W. Scott', 'Barbara Moore', 'Cynthia Lamontagne', 'Brian George', 'Kaye Wade', 'Steve Monroe', 'Vince Melocchi', 'Patrick Bristow', 'Jim McMullan', 'Robin Gammell', 'Ted Kairys', 'Burt Bacharach', 'Douglas Aarniokoski', 'Lana Antonova', 'Tom Arnold', 'Johnathan Brownlee', 'JoAnn Bush', 'Neill Calabro', 'Bruno Campolo', 'Lois Chiles', 'Lisa Danielle', 'Carrie Fisher', 'Joe Grisaffi', 'Susanna Hoffs', 'Richard Joel', 'Stuart D. Johnson', 'Mike Judge', 'Sergio Kato', 'Hannah Kozak', 'Erik Liberman', 'Rob Lowe', 'Michael McDonald', 'Ayesha Orange', 'Cheri Oteri', 'Gwenda Perez', 'Ben Scott', 'John-Clay Scott', 'Christian Slater', 'Matthew Sweet', 'Patricia Tallman', 'Andreanna Veith', 'Isabella Vosmikova', 'Sterling Wolfe', 'SGC Belfry Ted Nude-Gent', 'Mike Hagerty']
| 3.41
| null |
Action, Comedy, Spy, Crime, Adventure, Crime film, Mystery
| 94
|
['Germany', 'USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['New Line Cinema', 'Capella International', 'Moving Pictures', "Eric's Boy", 'KC Medien']
| 477,231
|
comedy
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
In 1967, British spy Austin Powers thwarts an assassination attempt by his nemesis Dr. Evil in a London nightclub. Dr. Evil escapes to space in a rocket and cryogenically freezes himself. Austin volunteers to be placed into cryostasis in case Dr. Evil returns in the future.
Thirty years later, Dr. Evil returns to discover his henchman Number 2 has developed Virtucon, the legitimate front of Evil's empire, into a multibillion-dollar enterprise. Uninterested in business, Dr. Evil conspires to steal nuclear weapons and hold the world hostage for $1 million. He increases his demand to $100 billion when he learns that the value of the dollar has fallen due to inflation. Dr. Evil also learns that, during his absence, his associates have artificially created his son, Scott Evil, using his frozen semen. Now a Generation X teenager, Scott resents his father's absence and resists his attempts to get closer to him.
Having learned of Dr. Evil's return, the British Ministry of Defence unfreezes Austin, acclimatizing him to the 1990s with the help of agent Vanessa Kensington, the daughter of his 1960s sidekick Mrs. Kensington. Posing as a married couple, Austin and Vanessa track Number 2 to Las Vegas and meet his Italian secretary, Alotta Fagina. Austin infiltrates Fagina's penthouse suite and discovers Dr. Evil's plans to drill a nuclear warhead into the Earth's core and trigger volcanic eruptions worldwide. Fagina discovers Austin and seduces him to learn his identity. Dr. Evil and his entourage conspire to defeat Austin by creating a series of fembots: beautiful female androids equipped with machine guns concealed in their breasts.
Austin and Vanessa infiltrate the Virtucon headquarters but are apprehended by Dr. Evil's henchman, Random Task. Meanwhile, the United Nations accede to the demands of Dr. Evil, who proceeds with his plan nonetheless. Austin and Vanessa escape Dr. Evil's death trap and Vanessa is sent for help. While searching for Dr. Evil, Austin is confronted by the fembots. He seduces them with a striptease that makes them explode.
British forces raid the underground lair, while Austin deactivates the doomsday device. He confronts Dr. Evil, but Fagina arrives holding Vanessa hostage. They are interrupted by Number 2, who attempts to betray Dr. Evil by making a deal with Austin. Dr. Evil uses a trap door to send Number 2 plummeting into the fire pit, then activates the base's self-destruct mechanism and escapes. Austin and Vanessa evacuate the lair before it explodes.
Three months later, Austin and Vanessa are married. During their honeymoon, Austin is attacked by Random Task. He subdues him using a penis pump, which he before claimed was not his, allowing Vanessa to knock him out. The newlyweds adjourn to the balcony. Among the stars, Austin spots the cryogenic chamber of Dr. Evil, who vows revenge.
|
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
| 1,999
|
Jay Roach
|
['Mike Myers', 'Heather Graham', 'Michael York', 'Robert Wagner', 'Rob Lowe', 'Seth Green', 'Mindy Sterling', 'Verne Troyer', 'Elizabeth Hurley', 'Gia Carides', 'Oliver Muirhead', 'George Cheung', 'Jeffrey Meng', 'Muse Watson', 'Scott Cooper', 'Douglas Fisher', 'Kevin Cooney', 'Clint Howard', 'Brian Hooks', 'David Koechner', 'Frank Clem', 'Herb Mitchell', 'Steve Eastin', 'Jane Carr', 'Kevin Durand', 'Melissa Justin', 'Nicholas Walker', 'Stephen Hibbert', 'David Coy', 'David Crigger', 'Tom Ehlen', 'Dennis Wilson', 'Eric Winzenried', 'Tim Bagley', 'Colton James', 'Mike Hagerty', 'Jack Kehler', 'Kirk Ward', 'Jeff Garlin', 'Rachel Wilson', 'Jennifer Coolidge', 'John Mahon', 'Michael McDonald', 'Jeanette Miller', 'Mary Jo Smith', 'Carrie Ann Inaba', 'Jennifer Hamilton', 'Ayesha Orange', 'Natalie Willes', 'John R. Corella', 'Alison Faulk', 'Michelle Elkin', 'Shealan Spencer', 'Tovaris Wilson', 'Bree Turner', 'Marisa Gilliam', 'Mark Meismer', 'Sal Vassalo', 'Jason Yribar', 'Chekesha Van Putten', 'Tara Mouri', 'Giggi Yazicioglu', 'Sarah Christine Smith', 'Faune Chambers Watkins', 'Gabriel Paige', 'Jim Boensch', 'Ron Ulstad', 'Timothy Watters', 'Todd M. Schultz', 'Steve Wilkos', 'Michelle Sritenko Africano', 'Nathalie S. Bartleson', 'Janine M. Bekker', 'Khadija Cutcher', 'Mary Dettmer', 'Annie Henry', 'Tracy Gayeski', 'Tracy Long', 'Laurie Martin', 'Jill Savery', 'Margot Thien', 'Kimi Cochrun', 'Burt Bacharach', 'Elvis Costello', 'Will Ferrell', 'Woody Harrelson', 'Kristen Johnston', 'Charles Napier', 'Willie Nelson', 'Tim Robbins', 'Rebecca Romijn', 'Jerry Springer', 'Fred Willard', 'Jessica Anne Bogart', 'Robert Cohen', 'Colette Divine', 'Phil Hawn', 'Max Herholz', 'David Hutchison', 'Tony Jay', 'Lana Kinnear', 'Harish Mandyam', 'J.P. Manoux', 'Stephen A. Marinaccio II', 'Brandon Molale', 'Allie Moss', "Bill O'Donnell", 'Jeanine Orci', 'Mitch Rouse', 'Lisa Varga', 'Andreanna Veith', 'Danny Nero']
| 3.28
| null |
Action, Comedy, Spy, Adventure, Science fiction, Thriller, Crime Fiction
| 95
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'German']
|
['New Line Cinema', "Eric's Boy"]
| 389,645
|
comedy
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
In 1999, time-displaced 1960s British spy Austin Powers enjoys his honeymoon with his wife, Vanessa Kensington. However, Vanessa is soon revealed to be a fembot controlled by Dr. Evil. Vanessa attacks Austin, then self-destructs. Austin grieves briefly before realizing he is single again and can have sex without commitment. Meanwhile, a NATO monitoring facility observes Dr. Evil's return from space, where he reunites with his estranged son, Scott, while he appears on The Jerry Springer Show. Scott is frustrated to see his father, and a fight ensues between multiple people on the show occurs.
At Dr. Evil's Space Needle lair in Seattle, he is presented with a dwarf clone of himself, whom he names Mini-Me. Dr. Evil outlines a plan to time travel back to the 1960s and steal Austin's mojo, the source of his sexual appeal. Dr. Evil and Mini-Me travel to 1969, meeting a younger Number 2 and Frau Farbissina. Fat Bastard, another henchman of Dr. Evil, extracts Austin's mojo from his frozen body at the Ministry of Defence (MOD). British intelligence warns Austin that one of Dr. Evil's agents is after him. The agent, Ivana Humpalot, seduces Austin but decides not to kill him. After they have sex, Austin discovers he has lost his mojo and is impotent.
The MOD sends Austin to 1969 using a time-traveling Volkswagen New Beetle. Austin arrives at a party in his London pad. With the assistance of CIA agent Felicity Shagwell, Austin escapes an assassination attempt by Dr. Evil's operatives. Austin and Felicity are pursued by Mustafa, another of Dr. Evil's henchmen, but manage to subdue him. Mustafa reveals the existence of Dr. Evil's volcano lair. Before he can divulge its location, Mini-Me causes him to fall from a cliff.
Examining photographs from the crime scene, Austin discovers Fat Bastard stole his mojo. Fat Bastard presents Austin's mojo to Dr. Evil, who drinks some of it and has sex with Frau Farbissina. Scott arrives through the time portal. Dr. Evil announces he will hold the world ransom by threatening to destroy cities using a laser located on the Moon. Austin and Felicity get to know each other, but when Felicity propositions him for sex, he turns her down because of his lost mojo.
Under MOD instructions to implant a homing device into Fat Bastard, Felicity has sex with him, enabling her to plant the device in his anus. Fat Bastard forces it out of his bowels into a toilet, but a stool sample reveals traces of a vegetable that only grows on one Caribbean island. Austin and Felicity arrive on the island but are apprehended. They escape their cell after Felicity distracts the guard by flashing her breasts at him.
Dr. Evil and Mini-Me leave for the Moon to install the laser, pursued by Austin and Felicity on Apollo 11. At Dr. Evil's Moon base, Austin battles Mini-Me, eventually flushing him into space. He then confronts Dr. Evil, who gives him a choice: save the world or Felicity, who is locked in a chamber with poison gas. Felicity tells Austin to save the world, then dies. Before Austin can kill him, Dr. Evil suggests Austin use the time machine to save both Felicity and the world. Austin travels ten minutes into the past, meeting up with himself and saving the world and Felicity. Dr. Evil initiates the self-destruct mechanism of the Moon base and escapes after throwing Austin's mojo into the air. Both Austins fail to catch it and it is destroyed. Felicity points out that all the things Austin has done show that he never lost his mojo. They escape through the time portal to 1999.
At Austin's pad, Fat Bastard attempts to assassinate Austin, but Felicity disarms him. Felicity and Austin throw a party. In 1969, Dr. Evil recovers Mini-Me from space and vows revenge on Austin. On The Jerry Springer Show, Scott learns he is the love child of Dr. Evil and Frau Farbissina, much to his delight. Austin returns to his pad to discover Felicity with the past Austin, who claims that since he and Austin are the same person, he is not cheating.
|
Automata
| 2,014
|
Gabe Ibáñez
|
['Antonio Banderas', 'Melanie Griffith', 'Birgitte Hjort Sørensen', 'Dylan McDermott', 'Robert Forster', 'Tim McInnerny', 'Andy Nyman', 'David Ryall', 'Geraldine Somerville', 'Andrew Tiernan', 'Christa Campbell', 'Christina Tam', 'Danny Kirrane', 'Philip Rosch', 'Albena Stavreva', 'Javier Bardem', 'Harry Anichkin', 'Lyubomir Neikov', 'Stanislav Pishtalov', 'Bashar Rahal', 'Dan Cade']
| 2.81
| 2.5
|
Horror, Action, Science fiction, Adventure, Drama, Suspense, Mystery, Thriller
| 110
|
['Bulgaria', 'Spain']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Green Moon Productions', 'Nu Boyana Viburno']
| 16,274
|
post-apocalyptic
|
post-apocalyptic-movies
| null |
About 20 years before the story takes place, solar flares irradiate the Earth, killing over 99% of the world's population. The survivors gather in a network of safe cities and build primitive humanoid robots, called Pilgrims, to help rebuild and operate in the harsh environment. These robots have two unchangeable protocols: they cannot harm any form of life and may not repair, modify, or alter themselves or other robots in any way. Initially seen as humankind's salvation, they are relegated to manual labor when they fail to stop the advance of desertification. Society has regressed due to lack of technology besides the Pilgrims, as a lack of functional aircraft or other transport prevents travel and cars are a rare commodity, and humanity is on the brink of extinction.
In 2044, Jacq Vaucan—an insurance investigator for ROC, the company that manufactures Pilgrims—investigates a report from Wallace, a police officer who shot a robot he claims was modifying itself. As Jacq looks for a robot they suspect was stealing parts, it leads him outside the city. When he finds it inside a shipping container, it sets itself on fire. As he and a team open up the burned robot to see what it was hiding, they discover the robot had a rare nuclear battery that could power a robot indefinitely. They are able to power up the robot once more, but when he asks it why it set itself on fire, it burns out again.
Jacq salvages the remains and speculates to his boss, Robert, that there may be a "clocksmith", someone who illegally modifies robots, who is overriding the second protocol. Incredulous, Robert rejects this possibility but offers Jacq a transfer out of the city if he can find evidence. Jacq's pregnant wife initially rejects his plans but she eventually relents.
Jacq and Wallace investigate a brothel, where they find Cleo, a modified robot that Wallace subsequently shoots in the leg. When Jacq objects, Wallace says that Cleo's owner will lead them to the clocksmith; Wallace also threatens to kill Jacq if he does not split the proceeds of the battery on the black market. Jacq follows Cleo's owner to a clocksmith named Dr. Dupré, who claims not to know who altered Cleo, an action that would destroy Cleo's CPU. Jacq leaves the burned robot's CPU with her and offers to give her the battery if she can locate information on the clocksmith. When Dupré installs the modified CPU in Cleo, Cleo begins self-repairing. Dupré contacts Jacq, who alerts Robert; however, ROC intercepts Jacq's message and sends a team of assassins to Dupré's lab.
Dupré is killed, but Jacq escapes in a car driven by Cleo. When Cleo takes them into a maze of stanchions, both cars crash; the assassins are killed, and Jacq is injured. Cleo takes Jacq with her into the desert, where they are joined by three other robots, none of whom will obey Jacq's orders. However, the first protocol forces them to prevent his death. Desperate to return to the city to be with his pregnant wife, Jacq makes contact with Robert, who sends Wallace to recover him. Wallace threatens Jacq's life and destroys two of the robots, who have objected to his actions; Jacq kills Wallace with a flare gun before he can also destroy Cleo. Wallace's partner flees after taking a battery from one of the robots.
Robert's boss discloses that the predecessor to the first Pilgrim was a quantum mind created with no security protocols and no artificial restraints on its computational power. Before they deactivated it, its makers tasked it with designing the security protocols that govern Pilgrims. Robert's boss informs Robert that no one has been able to break Pilgrim security protocols because they were created by the unrestricted quantum mind and ROC purposefully limited the computational power of all subsequent AI. ROC forces Robert to accompany a team sent to kill Jacq and the unknown clocksmith before the robots can evolve further beyond human understanding. When Robert objects to their kidnapping Jacq's wife and baby daughter, Conway, the leader, shoots him and leaves him for dead. Meanwhile, Jacq meets the robot responsible for modifying the others. The robot says that he and the other robots plan to go to the radioactive area where humans cannot go. Initially skeptical, Jacq eventually accepts that the robot naturally evolved, like humanity. After a series of philosophical discussions, Jacq gives them his battery, which they use to complete a new design, a sort of dog/insect robot. The robots repair a vehicle for Jacq, and he leaves for the city.
When Conway reaches the robot outpost, he destroys two of the four robots. Jacq finds the dying Robert and returns to the outpost as Conway wounds Cleo and kills the evolved robot. Jacq kills all ROC assassins but Conway, though he is further wounded in the battle. As Conway prepares to kill Jacq, the new robot saves his life by pushing Conway off a cliff. Jacq overcomes his distrust of the uninhibited robot when reunited with his family, and he leaves for the coast with them, as Cleo and the new robot venture further into the irradiated desert, where no humans can follow them. Arriving at the coast they see the ocean, and discover that the Earth is recovering and that hope remains for human beings.
|
Autumn Sonata
| 1,978
|
Ingmar Bergman
|
['Ingrid Bergman', 'Liv Ullmann', 'Lena Nyman', 'Halvar Björk', 'Marianne Aminoff', 'Arne Bang-Hansen', 'Gunnar Björnstrand', 'Erland Josephson', 'Linn Ullmann', 'Georg Løkkeberg', 'Mimi Pollak', 'Eva von Hanno', 'Knut Wigert']
| 4.44
| 4.5
|
Family, Documentary, Children's film, Musical genre, Drama
| 93
|
['Germany', 'Sweden']
|
Swedish
|
['Swedish', 'English']
|
['Suede Film', 'Personafilm', 'Alliance, Incorporated Television Company (ITC)']
| 98,152
| null |
lb_top250
| null |
Eva, wife of the village pastor, invites her mother Charlotte for a visit to her village. She has not seen her for over seven years. Her mother is a world-renowned pianist, somewhat eccentric, aging, and has survived several husbands. Eva is not as talented as the mother (despite the fact that she has written two books and plays the piano passably). Eva's main concern is to be the mistress of her home, wife, mother, and loving sister. It is gradually learned through her dialogue with her mother that her life has had a large number of unfortunate setbacks: she respects but does not love her husband Viktor, their son Erik drowned one day short of what would have been his fourth birthday, and Charlotte never appears to have loved Eva as a mother normally loves a daughter. As part of her day-to-day life, Eva takes care of her disabled and paralyzed sister Helena, whom she has taken out of the hospital into her own home. She appears to be the only person who can understand her sister's limited speech ability.
The presence of Helena in Eva's house is shocking to the aging mother. She makes a gift of her own wristwatch to Helena, and listens to Eva playing Prelude No. 2 in A minor by Chopin. She immediately re-performs the same prelude after Eva finishes in her own preferred interpretation of the music. Before going to bed, Charlotte decides to make a gift of her own car to her daughter. She plans to take a flight home, and buy a new car for herself, as a measure of her altruism. At night, Charlotte wakes up from a nightmare: it seems that Eva is choking her. She goes into the living room followed by Eva, who had heard her mother screaming from the nightmare.
Mother and daughter begin an impassioned rediscovery and clarification of their past relationship. Eva's husband overhears this unexpectedly heightened exchange but decides not to participate or interfere. Hearing this impassioned exchange, her disabled younger sister painfully forces herself out of her bed and starts crawling up to the stairs to where Eva and Charlotte are arguing. Upon reaching the landing she starts shouting, "Mama, come!"
In the morning Charlotte prepares for her departure. Eva goes to the grave of her departed son, and her husband ineffectively tries to soothe her ailing sister. Charlotte asks for a friend to escort her away by train. While speaking to her agent Paul on the train, she begins to question the unfortunate fate of her disabled and paralyzed daughter, asking the unanswerable question: "Why couldn't she die?" Her older daughter sends her mother a letter starting with: "I realize that I wronged you." The mother apparently reads the letter that concludes by leaving open the possibility of a future reconciliation, though the closing shot is of Viktor putting the letter in the envelope, leaving the possibility that he, or Eva, merely envisioned Charlotte reading the letter.
|
Avanti!
| 1,972
|
Billy Wilder
|
['Jack Lemmon', 'Juliet Mills', 'Clive Revill', 'Edward Andrews', 'Gianfranco Barra', 'Franco Angrisano', 'Pippo Franco', 'Franco Acampora', 'Giselda Castrini', 'Raffaele Mottola', 'Lino Coletta', 'Harry Ray', 'Guidarino Guidi', 'Giacomo Rizzo', 'Antonino Faà di Bruno', 'Yanti Somer', 'Janet Ã
gren', 'MarÃa Rosa Sclauzero', 'Melù Valente', 'Aldo Rendine', 'Bruno Alias', 'Sergio Bruni', 'Pasquale Campagnola', 'Nestore Cavaricci', 'Enrico Cesaretti', 'Armando De Martino', 'Giorgio Dolfin', 'Andrea Esterhazy', 'Ferruccio Fregonese', 'Ettore Geri', 'Armando Giovagnoli', 'Ty Hardin', 'Margherita Horowitz', 'Silvio Klein', 'Alba Maiolini', 'Giuseppe Marrocco', 'Anna Maria Perego', 'Luigi Scavran', 'Pupita Lea Scuderoni', 'Maria Tedeschi', 'Giuseppe Terranova', 'Bruno Tocci', 'Sandra Wolff', 'Lidia Zanussi', 'Gianni Di Segni']
| 3.58
| null |
Romance, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Dark comedy, Melodrama, Drama
| 144
|
['Italy', 'USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'Italian']
|
['The Mirisch Company', 'United Artists', 'Jalem Productions', 'Phalanx Productions', 'PEA']
| 9,676
|
comedy
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
Wendell Armbruster Jr. embarks on a journey to Ischia to claim his father's body, killed in an automobile accident during an annual trip to the resort island in the Bay of Naples. For the past decade, Baltimore industrialist Wendell Armbruster Sr. has spent a month each year at the Grand Hotel Excelsior, ostensibly for the therapeutic mud baths. On his way, Wendell Jr. encounters Pamela Piggott, a traveler from London who has come to Ischia to claim the body of her mother, Catherine. Wendell learns that his father and Pamela’s mother died together in the same car accident. To Wendell's surprise, he discovers that his father ("Willie") had been having an affair with Pamela's mother ("Kate") throughout those ten years, despite maintaining a marriage in Baltimore.
Already aware of this clandestine annual meeting between their parents, Pamela suggests burying them together on Ischia, a proposal that does not resonate with Wendell. Wendell wants to take his father’s remains back home for a formal memorial, unrealistically scheduled in 3-days’ time, to be broadcast to employees, the Coast Guard, and US dignitaries (including Henry Kissinger) as befits his status. As the hotel manager, Carlo Carlucci, plans a funeral and the transport of Wendell Sr.'s remains, the duo faces constant delays due to the bureaucratic hurdles and the leisurely pace of work inherent in Italian traditions. Arrogant and impatient of the red tape, Wendell acts out rudely to Pamela, the hotel staff, and Italian administrators.
A complicated series of events unfolds. Their plans are disrupted when the bodies mysteriously vanish from the morgue. Wendell suspects Pamela initially, but they soon discover that the Trotta family, whose vineyard suffered damage in the car accident, has stolen the remains. The Trottas demand a hefty ransom of two million lire, revealing another "Italian tradition"—extortion. Simultaneously, the hotel valet, Bruno, deported from America and seeking to return, attempts blackmail using compromising photos of "Willie and Kate."
Initially, the boorish Wendell is ungallant with regard to Pamela’s being about 20 pounds overweight, calling her "Fat-Ass" within earshot. As they re-create their parents’ traditional activities together during their annual flings―prodded by the hotel staff who stage events in fond tribute to the popular deceased couple―Pamela’s caring nature mollifies Wendall’s arrogance and they fall in love. Bruno’s blackmail photos now also include naked photos of Wendell and Pamela as they bathed together in the bay. Bruno is shot dead by Anna, a pregnant chambermaid, when she learns that he wants to avoid marrying her and instead is plotting to return to the US with money raised by blackmail.
Despite these complications, Wendell's wife back in the States, using her connections, expedites the situation by involving State Department Agent J.J. Blodgett. Growing sympathetic to the clandestine couple’s long commitment to each other, Wendell accedes to Willie and Kate being buried together in the Carlucci family's burial vault. This leaves the problem of sending a body back to be escorted by Blodgett. Ironically fulfilling blackmailer Bruno's wish of going back to the America, they place his remains in a coffin marked as Wendell Senior's. After enjoying the mud baths, Blodgett appoints Wendell Sr. to an embassy post, cynically promoting "Equal Opportunity Employment" of the deceased—unaware of the doubly cynical ploy resulting in the coffin holding Bruno's remains. Blodgett then sends "Wendell Sr.'s coffin," to the US in a diplomatic pouch, where it will not be opened and is destined for a closed-casket ceremony.
Carlucci assures Wendell and Pamela that their suite will be reserved for them during the same time next year, continuing their parents' tradition. Pamela assures Wendell that she will have lost the excess weight, to which he replies gallantly that if she loses even one pound, their liaison is off. Concluding their stay in Ischia, Wendell and Blodgett head to the Rome airport aboard a U.S. Navy helicopter.
|
Avatar
| 2,009
|
James Cameron
|
['Sam Worthington', 'Zoe Saldaña', 'Sigourney Weaver', 'Stephen Lang', 'Michelle Rodriguez', 'Giovanni Ribisi', 'Joel David Moore', 'CCH Pounder', 'Wes Studi', 'Laz Alonso', 'Dileep Rao', 'Matt Gerald', 'Sean Anthony Moran', 'Jason Whyte', 'Scott Lawrence', 'Kelly Kilgour', 'James Patrick Pitt', 'Sean Patrick Murphy', 'Peter Dillon', 'Kevin Dorman', 'Kelson Henderson', 'David Van Horn', 'Jacob Tomuri', 'Michael Blain-Rozgay', 'Jon Curry', 'Julene Renee', 'Luke Hawker', 'Woody Schultz', 'Peter Mensah', 'Sonia Yee', 'Jahnel Curfman', 'Ilram Choi', 'Kyla Warren', 'Lisa Roumain', 'Debra Wilson', 'Taylor Kibby', 'Jodie Landau', 'Chris Mala', 'Julie Lamm', 'Cullen B. Madden', 'Joseph Brady Madden', 'Frankie Torres', 'Austin Wilson', 'Sara Wilson', 'Tamica Washington-Miller', 'Lucy Briant', 'Nathan Meister', 'Gerry Blair', 'Matthew Chamberlain', 'Paul Yates', 'Wray Wilson', 'James Gaylyn', 'Melvin Leno Clark III', 'Carvon Futrell', 'Brandon Jelkes', 'Micah Moch', 'Haniyyah Tahirah', 'Christopher Nolen', 'Christa Oliver', 'April Marie Thomas', 'Bravita A. Threatt', 'Alicia Vela-Bailey', 'Larry Rew', 'Dina Morrone', 'Rodney Cook']
| 3.6
| 4
|
Science fiction, Action, Fantasy, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Classic
| 162
|
['USA', 'UK']
|
English
|
['English', 'Spanish']
|
['Dune Entertainment', 'Lightstorm Entertainment', '20th Century Fox', 'Ingenious Media']
| 2,752,348
|
fantasy
|
filmsrankedcom-200-greatest-fantasy-films
| null |
In 2154, Earth suffers from resource exhaustion and ecological collapse. The Resources Development Administration (RDA) mines the valuable mineral unobtanium on Pandora, a lush habitable moon orbiting a gas giant in the Alpha Centauri star system. Pandora, whose atmosphere is inhospitable to humans, is inhabited by the Na'vi, 10-foot-tall (3.0 m), blue-skinned, sapient humanoids that live in harmony with nature.
To explore Pandora, genetically matched human scientists control Na'vi-human hybrids called "avatars". Paraplegic former Marine Jake Sully is recruited by the RDA to replace his deceased identical twin, who had signed up to be an operator. Avatar Program head Dr. Grace Augustine considers Jake inadequate, but accepts him as an operator. While escorting the avatars of Grace and Dr. Norm Spellman, Jake's avatar is attacked by Pandoran wildlife and flees into the forest, where he is rescued by the Na'vi princess Neytiri. Suspicious of Jake, she takes him to her clan. Neytiri's mother, Mo'at, the clan's spiritual leader, orders her daughter to initiate Jake into their society.
Colonel Miles Quaritch, head of RDA's security force, promises Jake that the company will restore the use of his legs if he provides information about the Na'vi and their gathering place, the giant Hometree, under which is a rich deposit of unobtanium. Learning of this, Grace transfers herself, Jake, and Norm to an outpost. Jake and Neytiri fall in love as Jake is initiated into the tribe, and they choose each other as mates. When Jake attempts to disable a bulldozer threatening a sacred Na'vi site, Administrator Parker Selfridge orders Hometree destroyed.
Despite Grace's argument that destroying Hometree would damage the biological neural network that encompasses all Pandoran life, Selfridge gives Jake and Grace one hour to convince the Na'vi to evacuate. Jake confesses that he was a spy and the Na'vi take him and Grace captive. Quaritch's soldiers destroy Hometree, killing many, including Neytiri's father, the clan chief. Mo'at frees Jake and Grace, but they are detached from their avatars and imprisoned by Quaritch's forces. Pilot Trudy Chacón, disgusted by Quaritch's brutality, airlifts Jake, Grace, and Norm to Grace's outpost, but during the escape Grace is shot and fatally wounded.
Jake regains the Na'vi's trust by connecting his mind to that of the Toruk, a dragon-like creature feared and revered by the Na'vi. Supported by Neytiri and the new chief Tsu'tey, Jake unites the clan, telling them to gather all the clans to battle the RDA. Quaritch organizes a strike against the Tree of Souls to demoralize the Na'vi. Before the battle, Jake prays to the Na'vi deity Eywa via a neural connection with the Tree of Souls.
Tsu'tey and Trudy are among the battle's heavy casualties. The Na'vi are rescued when Pandoran wildlife unexpectedly join the attack and overwhelm the humans, which Neytiri interprets as Eywa answering Jake's prayer. Quaritch, in an AMP suit, escapes his crashed aircraft and breaks open the avatar link unit containing Jake's human body, exposing it to Pandora's poisonous atmosphere. As Quaritch prepares to kill Jake's avatar, he is killed by Neytiri, who saves Jake from suffocation, seeing his human form for the first time.
The RDA are expelled from Pandora; only some humans are chosen to stay. Jake is permanently transferred into his avatar with the aid of the Tree of Souls.
|
Avengers: Age of Ultron
| 2,015
|
Joss Whedon
|
['Robert Downey Jr.', 'Chris Hemsworth', 'Mark Ruffalo', 'Chris Evans', 'Scarlett Johansson', 'Jeremy Renner', 'James Spader', 'Samuel L. Jackson', 'Don Cheadle', 'Aaron Taylor-Johnson', 'Elizabeth Olsen', 'Paul Bettany', 'Cobie Smulders', 'Anthony Mackie', 'Hayley Atwell', 'Idris Elba', 'Linda Cardellini', 'Stellan Skarsgård', 'Claudia Kim', 'Thomas Kretschmann', 'Andy Serkis', 'Julie Delpy', 'Stan Lee', 'Henry Goodman', 'Chris Luca', 'Brian Schaeffer', 'Dominique Provost-Chalkley', 'Isaac Andrews', 'Gareth Kieran Jones', 'Chan Woo Lim', 'Minhee Yeo', 'Bentley Kalu', 'Julian Bleach', 'Christopher Beasley', 'Vuyo Dabula', 'Nondumiso Tembe', 'Kabelo Thai', 'Lele Ledwaba', 'Mandla Gaduka', 'Harriet Manamela', 'Beulah Hashe', 'Musca Kumalo', 'Mathapelo September', 'Antony Acheampong', 'Chioma Anyanwu', 'Ben Sakamoto', 'Imogen Poynton', 'Isabella Poynton', 'Ingvild Deila', 'Sunny Yeo', 'Namju Go', 'Mina Kweon', 'Earl T. Kim', 'Arthur Lee', 'Verity Hewlett', 'Michael Matovski', 'Alma Noce', 'Riccardo Richetta', 'Constanza Ruff', 'Monty Mclaren-Clark', 'Julia Krynke', 'Tony Christian', 'Ian Kay', 'Barry Aird', 'Aaron Himelstein', 'Kerry Condon', 'Jaiden Stafford', 'Josh Brolin', 'Robert J. Fraser', 'Lou Ferrigno', 'Zakk Pierce']
| 3.12
| 3
|
Action, Superhero, Comedy, Science fiction, Adventure
| 141
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Marvel Studios']
| 2,191,861
|
superhero
|
superhero-movies
| null |
In the Eastern European country of Sokovia, the Avengers—Tony Stark, Thor, Bruce Banner, Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanoff, and Clint Barton—raid a Hydra facility commanded by Baron Wolfgang von Strucker, who has experimented on humans using the scepter previously wielded by Loki. They meet two of Strucker's test subjects—twins Pietro (superhuman speed) and Wanda Maximoff (telepathic and telekinetic abilities)—and apprehend Strucker while Stark retrieves Loki's scepter.
Stark and Banner discover an artificial intelligence within the scepter's gem and secretly use it to complete Stark's "Ultron" global defense program. The unexpectedly sentient Ultron, believing he must eradicate humanity to save Earth, eliminates Stark's AI J.A.R.V.I.S. and attacks the Avengers at their headquarters. Escaping with the scepter, Ultron uses the resources in Strucker's Sokovia base to upgrade his rudimentary body and build an army of robot drones. Having killed Strucker, he recruits the Maximoffs, who hold Stark responsible for their parents' deaths by his company's weapons and goes to the base of arms dealer Ulysses Klaue in Johannesburg to get vibranium. The Avengers attack Ultron and the Maximoffs, but Wanda subdues them with haunting visions, causing Banner to turn into the Hulk and rampage until Stark stops him with his anti-Hulk armor.[a]
A worldwide backlash over the resulting destruction, and the fears Wanda's hallucinations incited, send the team into hiding at Barton's farmhouse. Thor departs to consult with Dr. Erik Selvig on the apocalyptic future he saw in his hallucination, while Nick Fury arrives and encourages the team to form a plan to stop Ultron. In Seoul, Ultron uses Loki's scepter to enslave the team's friend Helen Cho. They use her synthetic-tissue technology, vibranium, and the scepter's gem to craft a new body. As Ultron uploads himself into the body, Wanda is able to read his mind; discovering his plan for human extinction, the Maximoffs turn against Ultron. Rogers, Romanoff, and Barton fight Ultron and retrieve the synthetic body, but Ultron captures Romanoff. The Avengers fight among themselves when Stark and Banner secretly upload J.A.R.V.I.S.—who is still working after hiding from Ultron inside the Internet—into the synthetic body.
Thor returns to help activate the body, based on his vision that the gem on its brow is the Mind Stone, one of the six Infinity Stones, the most powerful objects in existence. This "Vision" earns their trust by being worthy of lifting Thor's hammer, Mjölnir. Vision and the Maximoffs go with the Avengers to Sokovia, where Ultron has used the remaining vibranium to build a machine to lift a large part of the capital city skyward, intending to crash it into the ground to cause global extinction. Banner rescues Romanoff, who awakens the Hulk for the battle. The Avengers fight Ultron's army while Fury arrives in a Helicarrier with Maria Hill, James Rhodes, and S.H.I.E.L.D. agents to evacuate civilians.
Pietro dies when he shields Barton from gunfire, and a vengeful Wanda abandons her post to destroy Ultron's primary body, which allows one of his drones to activate the machine. The city plummets, but Stark and Thor overload the machine and shatter the landmass. In the aftermath, the Hulk, unwilling to endanger Romanoff by being with her, departs in a Quinjet, while Vision confronts and destroys Ultron's last remaining body. Later, with the Avengers having established a new base run by Fury, Hill, Cho, and Selvig, Thor returns to Asgard to learn more about the forces he suspects have manipulated recent events. As Stark leaves and Barton retires, Rogers and Romanoff prepare to train new Avengers: Rhodes, Vision, Sam Wilson, and Wanda.
In a mid-credits scene, Thanos dons a gauntlet[b] and vows to retrieve the Infinity Stones himself.
|
Avengers: Endgame
| 2,019
|
Joe Russo, Anthony Russo
|
['Robert Downey Jr.', 'Chris Evans', 'Mark Ruffalo', 'Chris Hemsworth', 'Scarlett Johansson', 'Jeremy Renner', 'Josh Brolin', 'Don Cheadle', 'Paul Rudd', 'Benedict Cumberbatch', 'Chadwick Boseman', 'Brie Larson', 'Tom Holland', 'Karen Gillan', 'Zoe Saldaña', 'Evangeline Lilly', 'Tessa Thompson', 'Rene Russo', 'Elizabeth Olsen', 'Anthony Mackie', 'Sebastian Stan', 'Tom Hiddleston', 'Danai Gurira', 'Benedict Wong', 'Pom Klementieff', 'Dave Bautista', 'Letitia Wright', 'John Slattery', 'Tilda Swinton', 'Jon Favreau', 'Hayley Atwell', 'Natalie Portman', 'Marisa Tomei', 'Taika Waititi', 'Angela Bassett', 'Michael Douglas', 'Michelle Pfeiffer', 'William Hurt', 'Cobie Smulders', 'Sean Gunn', 'Winston Duke', 'Linda Cardellini', 'Maximiliano Hernández', 'Frank Grillo', 'Hiroyuki Sanada', 'Tom Vaughan-Lawlor', "James D'Arcy", 'Jacob Batalon', 'Vin Diesel', 'Bradley Cooper', 'Gwyneth Paltrow', 'Robert Redford', 'Chris Pratt', 'Samuel L. Jackson', 'Lexi Rabe', 'Ross Marquand', 'Joe Russo', 'Emma Fuhrmann', 'Michael James Shaw', 'Terry Notary', 'Kerry Condon', 'Ben Sakamoto', 'Ava Russo', 'Cade Woodward', 'Stan Lee', 'Yvette Nicole Brown', 'Callan Mulvey', 'Lia Russo', 'Julian Russo', 'Taylor Patterson', 'Agostino Rosalina', 'Ken Jeong', 'Ty Simpkins', 'Jackson A. Dunn', 'Lee Moore', 'Bazlo LeClair', 'Loen LeClair', 'Matthew Berry', 'Joy McAvoy', 'John Michael Morris', 'Michael A. Cook', 'Brent McGee', 'Brian Schaeffer', 'Jamie Wedel', 'Anthony G Breed', 'Erica Ribley', 'Monique Ganderton', 'Jim Starlin', 'Jimmy Ray Pickens', 'Hye Jin Jang', 'Russell Bobbitt', 'James Lin', 'Jack Champion', 'Sam Hargrave', 'Patrick Gorman', 'Aaron Lazar', 'Robert Pralgo', 'Tom Wisdom', 'John Posey', 'Ameenah Kaplan', 'Olaniyan Thurmon', 'Jennifer Elmore', 'Mike Lutz', 'Eric Patrick Cameron']
| 3.89
| 4
|
Action, Superhero, Adventure, Science fiction, Fantasy, Drama
| 181
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'Japanese', 'Xhosa']
|
['Marvel Studios']
| 3,304,877
|
sci-fi, superhero, action, top-rated
|
superhero-movies, letterboxds-top-250-action-films, letterboxds-top-250-science-fiction-films
| null |
In 2018, 23 days after Thanos erased half of all life in the universe,[a] Carol Danvers rescues Tony Stark and Nebula from deep space. They reunite with the remaining Avengers—Bruce Banner, Steve Rogers, Thor, Natasha Romanoff, and James Rhodes—and Rocket on Earth. Locating Thanos on an uninhabited planet, they plan to use the Infinity Stones to reverse his actions but find that Thanos has destroyed them. Enraged, Thor decapitates Thanos.
Five years later, Scott Lang escapes from the Quantum Realm.[b] Reaching the Avengers Compound, he explains that he experienced only five hours while trapped. Theorizing that the Quantum Realm allows time travel, they ask a reluctant Stark to help them retrieve the Stones from the past to reverse Thanos's present actions. Stark, Rocket, and Banner, who has merged his intelligence with the Hulk's strength, build a time machine. Banner notes that altering the past does not affect the present; any changes create alternate realities. Banner and Rocket travel to Norway, where they visit the Asgardian refugee settlement of New Asgard and recruit an overweight, despondent Thor. In Tokyo, Romanoff recruits Clint Barton, who became a vigilante after the erasure of his family.
Banner, Lang, Rogers, and Stark time-travel to New York City during Loki's attack in 2012.[c] At the Sanctum Sanctorum, Banner convinces the Ancient One to give him the Time Stone after promising to return the Infinity Stones to their proper points in time. At Stark Tower, Rogers retrieves the Mind Stone from Hydra sleeper agents; Stark and Lang's attempt to steal the Space Stone fails, allowing 2012-Loki to escape with it. Rogers and Stark travel to Camp Lehigh in 1970, where Stark obtains an earlier version of the Space Stone and encounters his father, Howard. Rogers steals Pym Particles from Hank Pym to return to the present and sees his lost love, Peggy Carter.
Rocket and Thor travel to Asgard in 2013;[d] Rocket extracts the Reality Stone from Jane Foster. Thor is encouraged by his mother, Frigga, and retrieves his old hammer, Mjolnir. Barton, Romanoff, Nebula, and Rhodes travel to 2014; Nebula and Rhodes go to Morag and steal the Power Stone before Peter Quill can,[e] while Barton and Romanoff travel to Vormir. The Soul Stone's keeper, Red Skull, says that it can only be acquired by sacrificing a loved one. Romanoff sacrifices herself, allowing Barton to get the Stone. Rhodes and Nebula attempt to return to their own time, but Nebula is incapacitated when her cybernetic implants link with her past self; this allows 2014-Thanos to learn about his future self's success and the Avengers' attempt to undo it. 2014-Thanos sends 2014-Nebula forward in time to prepare for his arrival.
Reuniting in the present, the Avengers place the Stones into a gauntlet that Stark, Banner, and Rocket have built. Banner, who has the most resistance to their radiation, uses the gauntlet to undo Thanos's disintegrations. Meanwhile, 2014-Nebula (impersonating her future self) uses the time machine to transport 2014-Thanos and his warship to the present and destroys the Avengers Compound. Present-day Nebula convinces 2014-Gamora to betray Thanos, but is unable to convince 2014-Nebula and kills her. Thanos overpowers Stark, Thor and a Mjolnir-wielding Rogers; he summons his army to retrieve the Stones, intent on using them to destroy the universe and create a new one. A restored Stephen Strange arrives with other sorcerers, the restored Avengers and Guardians of the Galaxy, the Ravagers, and the armies of Wakanda and Asgard to fight Thanos's army. Danvers also arrives and destroys Thanos's warship, but Thanos overpowers her and seizes the gauntlet. Stark steals the Stones and uses them to disintegrate Thanos and his army, sacrificing himself.
After Stark's funeral, Thor appoints Valkyrie as the new king of New Asgard and joins the Guardians. Rogers returns the Stones and Mjolnir to their proper timelines and remains in the past to live with Carter. In the present, an elderly Rogers passes his shield to Sam Wilson.
|
Avengers: Infinity War
| 2,018
|
Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
|
['Robert Downey Jr.', 'Chris Evans', 'Chris Hemsworth', 'Josh Brolin', 'Mark Ruffalo', 'Scarlett Johansson', 'Don Cheadle', 'Benedict Cumberbatch', 'Tom Holland', 'Chadwick Boseman', 'Zoe Saldaña', 'Karen Gillan', 'Tom Hiddleston', 'Paul Bettany', 'Elizabeth Olsen', 'Anthony Mackie', 'Sebastian Stan', 'Idris Elba', 'Danai Gurira', 'Peter Dinklage', 'Benedict Wong', 'Pom Klementieff', 'Dave Bautista', 'Vin Diesel', 'Bradley Cooper', 'Chris Pratt', 'Gwyneth Paltrow', 'Benicio del Toro', 'Sean Gunn', 'William Hurt', 'Letitia Wright', 'Terry Notary', 'Tom Vaughan-Lawlor', 'Carrie Coon', 'Michael James Shaw', 'Stan Lee', 'Winston Duke', 'Florence Kasumba', 'Kerry Condon', 'Monique Ganderton', 'Jacob Batalon', 'Tiffany Espensen', 'Isabella Amara', 'Ethan Dizon', 'Ariana Greenblatt', 'Ameenah Kaplan', 'Ross Marquand', 'Michael Anthony Rogers', 'Stephen McFeely', 'Aaron Lazar', 'Robert Pralgo', 'Olaniyan Thurmon', 'Blair Jasin', 'Matthew Zuk', 'Laura Miller', 'Kenneth Branagh', 'Samuel L. Jackson', 'Cobie Smulders', 'Harrison Osterfield', 'Gary Peebles', 'Marija Abney', 'Zola Williams', 'Marie Mouroum', 'James Siderits', 'Precious Jenkins', 'Bobby James', 'Lady Cardinal', 'Tanya Wheelock']
| 3.97
| 4.5
|
Action, Superhero, Comedy, Adventure, Science fiction, Drama
| 149
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'Xhosa']
|
['Marvel Studios']
| 3,431,743
|
sci-fi, superhero, action, top-rated
|
superhero-movies, letterboxds-top-250-action-films, letterboxds-top-250-science-fiction-films
| null |
Having acquired the Power Stone—one of six Infinity Stones—from the planet Xandar, Thanos and his lieutenants—Ebony Maw, Cull Obsidian, Proxima Midnight, and Corvus Glaive—intercept the spaceship carrying the survivors of Asgard's destruction.[a] After subduing Thor, Thanos extracts the Space Stone from the Tesseract, overpowers the Hulk, and kills Loki and Heimdall. A dying Heimdall sends Hulk to Earth using the Bifröst. Thanos and his lieutenants leave, destroying the ship.
Hulk crash-lands in the Sanctum Sanctorum in New York City, reverting to the form of Bruce Banner. He warns Stephen Strange and Wong about Thanos's plan to destroy half of all life in the universe, and they recruit Tony Stark. Maw and Obsidian arrive to retrieve the Time Stone from Strange, drawing Peter Parker's attention. Maw, unable to take the Time Stone due to Strange's enchantment, captures him. Stark and Parker sneak aboard Maw's spaceship while Wong stays behind to guard the Sanctum.
The Guardians of the Galaxy respond to the Asgardian ship's distress call and rescue Thor. Thor surmises that Thanos is after the Reality Stone, which Taneleer Tivan possesses on Knowhere. He travels with Rocket and Groot to Nidavellir to enlist the dwarf king Eitri's aid in creating the battle-axe Stormbreaker. Peter Quill, Gamora, Drax, and Mantis travel to Knowhere, finding Thanos already has the Reality Stone. Thanos kidnaps Gamora, who discloses the Soul Stone's location to save Nebula from torture. On Vormir, the Stone's keeper, Red Skull, tells Thanos that he can only acquire it by sacrificing someone he loves. Thanos sacrifices Gamora, earning the Stone.
Midnight and Glaive ambush Wanda Maximoff and Vision in Edinburgh to retrieve the Mind Stone in Vision's forehead. Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanoff, and Sam Wilson rescue them and they take shelter with James Rhodes and Banner at the Avengers Compound. Vision asks Wanda to destroy him and the Mind Stone to keep it from Thanos, but Wanda refuses. The group travels to Wakanda, which Rogers believes has the resources to remove the Stone without killing Vision.
Nebula escapes captivity and asks the remaining Guardians to meet her on Thanos's destroyed homeworld, Titan. Stark and Parker kill Maw and rescue Strange. The trio crash-lands on Titan, where they meet Quill, Drax, and Mantis. Using the Time Stone, Strange views millions of possible futures, seeing only one in which the Avengers win. The group formulates a plan to subdue Thanos and remove the Infinity Gauntlet, with which he safely houses and wields the Stones. Thanos appears, justifying his plans as necessary to guarantee the survival of an overpopulated universe. Nebula arrives soon after and helps the others subdue Thanos, but deduces that Thanos has killed Gamora. Enraged, Quill attacks Thanos, allowing him to break the group's hold and overpower them. Thanos grievously wounds Stark, but Strange offers the Time Stone in exchange for sparing Stark's life.
In Wakanda, Rogers reunites with Bucky Barnes before Thanos' army invades. The Avengers, along with T'Challa and the Wakandan forces, mount a defense while Shuri works to extract the Mind Stone from Vision. Unable to summon the Hulk, Banner fights in Stark's Hulkbuster armor. Thor, Rocket, and Groot arrive to reinforce the Avengers. Together they kill Midnight, Obsidian, and Glaive, and rout Thanos's army. Shuri cannot complete the extraction before Thanos arrives on the field; the Avengers and their allies fail to stop him from reaching Vision. Vision convinces a reluctant Wanda to destroy him and the Mind Stone, but Thanos uses the Time Stone to reverse her actions, rip the stone from Vision's forehead, and complete the Gauntlet. Thor severely wounds Thanos with Stormbreaker, but Thanos activates the completed Gauntlet by snapping his fingers before teleporting away.
Half of all life across the universe disintegrates, including Barnes, T'Challa, Groot, Wanda, Wilson, Mantis, Drax, Quill, Strange, Parker, Maria Hill, and Nick Fury, the last of whom sends an emergency signal on a modified pager before disintegrating.[b] Stark and Nebula remain stranded on Titan while Banner, M'Baku, Okoye, Rhodes, Rocket, Rogers, Romanoff, and Thor are left on the Wakandan battlefield. Meanwhile, Thanos watches a sunrise on a remote planet.
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Away
| 2,019
|
Gints Zilbalodis
| null | 3.4
| null |
Action, Animation, Adventure, Fantasy, Drama, Mystery
| 75
|
['Latvia']
|
No spoken language
|
['No spoken language']
|
['Bilibaba']
| 3,540
|
road-movie
|
road-movies-1
| null |
Plot section not found.
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Away We Go
| 2,009
|
Sam Mendes
|
['John Krasinski', 'Maya Rudolph', 'Carmen Ejogo', "Catherine O'Hara", 'Jeff Daniels', 'Allison Janney', 'Jim Gaffigan', 'Samantha Pryor', 'Conor Carroll', 'Maggie Gyllenhaal', 'Josh Hamilton', 'Bailey Harkins', 'Brendan Spitz', 'Jaden Spitz', 'Chris Messina', 'Paul Schneider', 'Melanie Lynskey']
| 3.44
| 3.5
|
Romance, Comedy, Adventure, Melodrama, Drama, Comedy drama
| 98
|
['UK', 'USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Focus Features', 'Big Beach', 'Neal Street Productions', 'Edward Saxon Productions']
| 44,540
|
road-movie
|
road-movies-1
| null |
Verona De Tessant and Burt Farlander are in their early thirties in the Denver area and struggling to meet daily needs and build fulfilling lives. Learning they will soon become parents, they are confronted with the challenge of how – and where – to raise a child and build a happy family.
Six months into Verona's pregnancy, they visit their only family in the area, Burt's parents, Gloria and Jerry, only to find they are moving to Antwerp, Belgium, a month before the baby is due. They will be gone for two years and they have already rented their place to another couple, despite Burt's and Verona's situation.
Frustrated with his parents' selfishness and careless attitude, Burt and Verona decide this is an opportunity to find somewhere else to raise their family, as they both can work from home and live wherever they choose.
They first visit Phoenix, Arizona, to see Verona's old boss Lily, her husband Lowell, and their two children. Burt in particular is disturbed by the couple's crass and mean-spirited behavior toward one another and their children.
Burt and Verona next visit Verona's sister Grace, in Tucson. Verona urges Burt to try to persuade Grace to stay with her boring boyfriend. When Burt takes a call and displays his trademark humor, Grace tells Verona that she is lucky to have him and Verona agrees.
They next visit Burt's childhood friend and pseudo-cousin in Madison, Wisconsin, "LN" (pronounced "ellen"), a college professor at the University of Wisconsin with inherited money and radical views about parenting. They bring a stroller as a gift, greatly angering LN as she and her husband Roderick's is a "continuum home."[2]
Roderick's condescension and LN's backhanded compliments to Verona get to be too much for Burt, so he tells them they are horrible people. He and Verona leave but not before taking their son on a wild stroller ride through the house (which he enjoys).
Burt and Verona then visit old college friends in Montreal, Tom and his wife, Munch Garnett, and their diverse family of adopted children. Verona and Burt are happy to have found a loving family and a nice town, deciding to move to Montreal. When they all go to dinner, Burt admits he has proposed to Verona many times, but she always refuses (this stems from anguish over her dead parents' inevitable absence from the wedding). After dinner, Tom tells Burt that Munch has recently suffered her fifth miscarriage and that they seem unable to have biological children.
In the morning, Burt receives an emergency call from his brother Courtney, in Miami, whose wife has left him. Burt and Verona fly to Miami, where Courtney worries about his young daughter and the potential effects of a divorce on her. Burt tries to comfort Courtney while Verona spends time with his daughter. Burt and Verona spend the night outside on a trampoline, promising to love each other and their daughter and have a happy home.
The next day, Verona tells Burt a story about her childhood house and her parents (who were both killed in a car crash when she was 22). Moved by her memory, they decide to settle in Verona's old family home on the Florida Panhandle. Realizing it is the place for them, they sit together happily, overlooking the water.
|
Azur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest
| 2,006
|
Michel Ocelot
|
['Cyril Mourali', "Karim M'Ribah", 'Hiam Abbass', 'Sofia Boutella', 'Fatma ben Khell', 'Patrick Timsit', 'Rayan Mahjoub', 'Abdelsselem ben Amar', 'Mohamed Ourdache']
| 4.17
| null |
['Family', 'Animation']
| 99
|
['Belgium', 'France', 'Italy', 'Spain']
|
French
|
['French']
|
['Nord-Ouest Films', 'Studio O', 'Mac Guff Ligne', 'France 3 Cinéma', 'Artémis Productions', 'Intuition Films', 'Lucky Red', 'Zahorà Media', 'Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Cinéma']
| 38,443
|
animated
|
vote-best-animated-films-of-all-time
| null |
Once upon a time, there were two children nursed by Jénane: Azur, a blond, blue-eyed son of a nobleman, and Asmar, the tan-skinned and dark-eyed child of Jénane. The nurse tells them the story of the Djinn-fairy waiting to be freed from her prison by a good and heroic prince. Brought up together, the two boys are as close as brothers until the day Azur's father cruelly separates them, banishing his nurse and Asmar from his home and sending Azur away to receive schooling from a personal tutor. Years later, Azur is haunted by memories of the legendary Djinn-fairy and takes it upon himself to journey all the way to Asmar's homeland to seek her out and marry her. Now reunited, he finds that Jénane has since become a successful and rich merchant, while Asmar is now a member of the Royal Guard. However, Asmar and Azur's separation has damaged their bond and Asmar also longs to find and marry the Djinn-fairy. They must learn to work together and get along again, but only one of the two princes can be successful in his quest.[1]
|
Babe
| 1,995
|
Chris Noonan
|
['Christine Cavanaugh', 'Miriam Margolyes', 'Danny Mann', 'Hugo Weaving', 'Miriam Flynn', 'James Cromwell', 'Magda Szubanski', 'Russi Taylor', 'Roscoe Lee Browne', 'Evelyn Krape', 'Michael Edward-Stevens', 'Charles Bartlett', 'Paul Livingston', 'Zoe Burton', 'Paul Goddard', 'Wade Hayward', 'Brittany Byrnes', 'Mary Acres', 'Janet Foye', 'Pamela Hawken', 'Karen Gough', 'David Webb', 'Marshall Napier', 'Hec McMillan', 'Ken Gregory', 'Nicholas Lidstone', 'Trevor Read', 'Nicholas Blake', 'Matthew Long', 'John Doyle', 'Mike Harris', 'Ross Bagley', 'Gemini Barnett', 'Rachel Davey', 'Debi Derryberry', 'Jazz Raycole', 'Courtland Mead', 'Kevin Jamal Woods', 'Jane Alden', 'Kimberly Bailey', 'Patrika Darbo', 'Michelle Davison', 'Julie Forsyth', 'Maeve Germaine', 'Rosanna Huffman', 'Carlyle King', 'Tina Lifford', 'Gennie Nevinson', 'Mary Linda Phillips', 'Paige Pollack', 'Kerry Walker', 'Barbara Harris', 'Jacqueline Brennan', 'Doug Burch', 'John Erwin', 'Doris Grau', 'Tony Hughes', 'Linda Janssen', 'Daamen J. Krall', 'Charlie MacLean', 'Justin Monjo', 'Antonia Murphy', "Helen O'Connor", 'Neil Ross', 'Scott Vernon', 'Kay E. Kuter', 'Karl Lewis Miller']
| 3.39
| 2.5
|
Children's film, Animation, Comedy, Adventure, Family film, Fantasy, Drama, Comedy drama
| 91
|
['Australia', 'USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Universal Pictures', 'Kennedy Miller Productions']
| 369,083
|
fantasy
|
filmsrankedcom-200-greatest-fantasy-films
| null |
After being used in a "guess the weight" contest at a county fair, orphaned piglet Babe is brought home to the farm of the contest winner, Arthur Hoggett. There he is taken in by Border Collie Fly, her irascible mate Rex and their puppies and befriends a duck named Ferdinand, who wakes people by crowing like a rooster every morning so he will be considered useful and be spared from being eaten.
Dismayed when the Hoggetts buy an alarm clock, Ferdinand persuades Babe to help him get rid of it. In doing so, they wake Duchess, the Hoggetts' cat, and wreck the house in the ensuing chaos. Rex sternly instructs Babe to stay away from Ferdinand and the house. Seeing Fly saddened when her puppies are put up for sale, Babe lets her adopt him. With the Hoggett's relatives visiting for Christmas, Hoggett decides against choosing Babe for Christmas dinner, and tells his wife Esme that Babe may bring a prize for ham at the next county fair. Ferdinand's love interest Rosanna is served instead, prompting Ferdinand to escape the farm. Babe investigates the fields, where he witnesses a pair of sheep rustlers stealing Hoggett's sheep and quickly alerts Fly and the farmer, preventing the rustlers from taking the whole flock.
Impressed after seeing Babe sort hens, separating the brown from the white ones, Hoggett takes him to try and herd the sheep. Encouraged by an elderly ewe named Maa, Babe gets the sheep to cooperate by asking nicely, but Rex perceives Babe's actions as an insult to sheepdogs. When Fly stands up for Babe, Rex attacks and injures her and bites Hoggett's hand when he tries to intervene. Rex is subsequently chained to the dog house and sedated, leaving the sheep herding job to Babe. One morning, Babe scares off a trio of feral dogs attacking the sheep, but Maa is mortally injured and dies as a result. Hoggett, thinking Babe was responsible, prepares to shoot him, but Fly finds out the truth from the other sheep and distracts Hoggett long enough for Esme to inform him about the dogs' attacks on neighboring farms.
When Esme leaves on a trip, Hoggett signs Babe up for a local sheep herding competition. As it is raining the night before, Hoggett lets him and Fly into the house, where he is scratched by Duchess, who in turn is temporarily confined outside as punishment. When she is let back in later, she gets revenge on Babe by revealing that humans consume pigs. After learning from Fly that this is true, Babe runs away and Rex finds him the next morning in a cemetery. Hoggett brings a demoralized Babe home, where he refuses to eat. Hoggett feeds him from a baby bottle, sings "If I Had Words" and dances a jig for him, restoring Babe's faith in Hoggett's affection.
At the competition, Babe meets the sheep that he will be herding, but they ignore his attempts to speak to them. As Hoggett is criticized by the bemused judges and ridiculed by the public for using a pig instead of a dog, Rex runs back to the farm to ask the sheep what to do. After promising he will treat them better from now on, the sheep disclose to him a secret password. He returns in time to convey the password to Babe, and the sheep now follow his instructions flawlessly. Amid the crowd's acclamation, Babe is unanimously given the highest score. While he sits down next to the farmer, Hoggett praises him with the standard command to sheep dogs that their job is done, "That'll do, Pig. That'll do."
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Baby Driver
| 2,017
|
Edgar Wright
|
['Ansel Elgort', 'Kevin Spacey', 'Lily James', 'Jon Hamm', 'Jamie Foxx', 'Jon Bernthal', 'Eiza González', 'Flea', 'CJ Jones', 'Lanny Joon', 'Micah Howard', 'Morgan Brown', 'Morse Diggs', 'Sky Ferreira', 'Lance Palmer', 'Hudson Meek', 'Viviana Chavez', 'Hal Whiteside', 'Clay Donahue Fontenot', 'Brigitte Kali Canales', 'Patrick Walker', 'Ben VanderMey', 'David Robert Lewis', 'Big Boi', 'Killer Mike', 'Brogan Hall', 'Allison King', 'R. Marcos Taylor', 'Paul Williams', 'Joe Loya', 'Andy McDermott', 'Christopher Beanland', 'Andrea Frye', 'Thomas E. Haynes', 'Russell B. Spencer', 'Cynne Simpson', 'Keith Hudson', 'Sidney Sewell', 'Thurman Sewell', 'Elijah Everett', 'Jon Spencer', 'Walter Hill', 'Wilbur Fitzgerald', 'Jeff Chase', 'Shellita Boxie', 'Marshall Choka', 'Juliette Sicard', 'Marvin E. West', 'Connie Lee', 'James Blackshear', 'Erica Frene', 'Elizabeth Davidovich', 'Duke Jackson', 'Colin Lacativa', 'Trey McGriff', 'Donald K. Overstreet', 'Danny Le Boyer', 'David Conk', 'Troy Faruk', 'Mark Smith', 'Kenneth Manos', 'Nathaniel Perry', 'Kent Wagner', 'Whit Whitman', 'Perry Zulu Jr.', 'Chad Joyce']
| 3.71
| 4
|
Music, Action, Comedy, Heist, Romance, Musical, Crime film, Adventure, Action comedy, Drama, Suspense, Mystery, Thriller, Detective fiction, Crime Fiction, Police procedural
| 113
|
['UK', 'USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Big Talk Studios', 'Working Title Films', 'Working Title Films']
| 2,848,503
|
comedy, heist
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time, heist-movies
| null |
In Atlanta, Miles, self-named "Baby", is a young getaway driver who lost his parents in a car crash that left him with tinnitus, and finds catharsis in music. He ferries crews of robbers assembled by kingpin Doc to pay off a debt as recompense for theft of a car containing Doc's illicit goods. Between jobs, he remixes snippets of recorded conversations and cares for his deaf foster father Joseph. At the local diner, Bo’s Diner, he meets a waitress named Debora, and they start dating.
His next robbery goes awry after an armed bystander chases them down, but Baby evades him and the police. Having paid his debt, Baby quits his life of crime and starts delivering pizzas. Baby takes Debora out on a date at a fancy restaurant where he runs into Doc, who pays for their meal. Meeting Baby outside, Doc convinces him to join his planned post-office heist under threat of retaliation. The crew consists of easygoing Buddy, his sharpshooter wife Darling, and trigger-happy psychopath Bats, who takes a dislike to Baby. While the crew attempts to purchase illegal arms at a rendezvous from a contact of Doc's, The Butcher, Bats recognizes the Butcher and his men are undercover police and opens fire, resulting in most of the dealers being killed. Afterward, Bats makes Baby stop at Debora's diner, unaware of Baby and Debora's romance. Baby, aware of Bats' homicidal habit, stops him from killing her to avoid paying.
Doc is furious, revealing that the dealers were dirty cops on his payroll. He decides to cancel the heist, but Bats, Buddy and Darling disagree. Doc lets Baby decide; he chooses to go through with it. Baby attempts to slip away late that night, hoping to take Debora and leave. He is stopped by Buddy and Bats, who have discovered his recordings and believe he is a police informant; when they and Doc hear his mixtapes, they are convinced of his innocence.
During the heist, Bats kills a security guard. Disgusted, Baby refuses to drive away, causing Bats to hit him. Baby rams the car into a rebar which impales Bats, killing him. The three flee on foot. After the police kill Darling in a shootout, Buddy furiously blames Baby for her death and plans to kill him. Baby steals a car and flees to his apartment. After leaving Joseph at an assisted living home with his heist earnings, Baby rushes to Bo's for Debora, where Buddy is waiting. Baby shoots Buddy and flees with Debora as police reinforcements swarm the restaurant.
At the safe house, Doc refuses Baby's pleas for help, but relents when he sees Debora consoling him. Doc supplies them with cash and an escape route out of the country. The three are confronted by the Butcher's vengeful henchmen in the parking garage, but Doc kills them all. Buddy ambushes them with a stolen police car and kills Doc. A cat-and-mouse game ensues until Buddy has Baby at his mercy. He shoots next to both Baby's ears, temporarily disorienting him, but the distraction allows Debora to subdue Buddy with a crowbar. After Baby shoots him in the leg, Buddy falls to his death.
Baby surrenders after he and Debora encounter a police roadblock. At Baby's trial, Joseph, Debora, and other individuals Baby helped testify as character witnesses. He is sentenced to 25 years in prison, with a parole hearing after five. Debora stays in contact with Baby during his incarceration, and once he is released, they reunite with a new car and drive off into the sunset.
|
Baby's Day Out
| 1,994
|
Patrick Read Johnson
|
['Joe Mantegna', 'Lara Flynn Boyle', 'Joe Pantoliano', 'Brian Haley', 'Cynthia Nixon', 'Fred Thompson', 'John Neville', 'Matthew Glave', 'Adam Robert Worton', 'Jacob Joseph Worton', 'Brigid Duffy', 'Guy Hadley', 'Eddie Bracken', 'Kenneth L. Jordahl', 'Raymond Henderson', 'Jim Foley', 'Jack Baird', 'Oscar Carr', 'Dan Frick', 'Robin Baber', 'John Drury', 'Jennifer Say Gan', 'Dawn Maxey', 'Megan Haffey', 'Roslyn Alexander', 'Manny Sosa', 'Jenna Pozzi', 'Erika Leigh Blackwell', 'Neil Flynn', 'William Holmes', 'Don Rimgale', 'Warren Rice', 'Tim Schueneman', 'Sandra O. Rogers', 'Kirsten Nelson', 'John Alexander', 'Jurgen Heimann', 'Tom Hester', 'Mark Setrakian', 'Marc L. Tyler', 'Anna Thomson', 'Mike Starr']
| 2.79
| null |
Comedy, Action, Children's film, Adventure, Drama, Crime film, Mystery, Family film, Detective fiction, Police procedural
| 99
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'Spanish']
|
['20th Century Fox', 'Hughes Entertainment']
| 96,996
|
comedy
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
Bennington Austin "Bink" Cotwell IV, the nine-month-old son of socialites Laraine and Bennington Austin "Bing" Cotwell III, lives in a mansion in a suburb of Chicago and is just about to appear in the social pages of the newspaper.
Three very clumsy criminals, Edgar "Eddie" Mauser, Norbert "Norby" LeBlaw, and Victor "Veeko" Riley, disguise themselves as baby photographers from the newspaper and kidnap Bink, demanding a ransom of $5 million. After the kidnapping, however, the criminals have difficulty controlling Bink at their apartment. Norby attempts to put him to sleep by reading his favourite storybook, Baby's Day Out (or "Boo-Boo" as he calls it), only to fall asleep himself from boredom, leaving Bink unattended. Looking through the book, Bink notices a pigeon on the page and then one by the window; he follows it out and successfully gets away from his kidnappers. The ensuing chase culminates in Eddie falling off the building and into a garbage bin. Norby and Veeko rescue him, and they begin pursuing Bink across the city.
The FBI arrives at the mansion, headed by Dale Grissom, where they try to piece together clues along with Bink's parents and his nanny, Gilbertine. Meanwhile, Bink, now outside on the ground and crawling about, finds another part of his book – the blue bus, which he then boards. The criminals realise he is escaping and start chasing the bus in their van, but their efforts are in vain.
Meanwhile, on the bus, Bink crawls into the bag of an obese woman who gets off at her stop shortly afterward. By the time the criminals catch the bus, they realize Bink is not on board and follow the lady, leading to a physical altercation after she catches them. In the distraction, Bink crawls up to a revolving door at the entrance to a department store and is forced inwards by its momentum. He is stopped by an employee who works for the store's day care center, believing he is another baby who escaped from there. He then escapes from the store and eventually crawls into traffic after a ride on a taxi. Meanwhile Bink’s parents receive a phone call from a concerned citizen Joe Depke who believes he saw Bink with a woman Mrs. McCray. Depke feigns memory loss when questioned until Mr. Cotwell pays him money. In the McCray’s apartment the couple realize it’s not Bink and apologize for the inconvenience. Mrs. McCray tells them she prays Bink will come back to them and knows how’d she’d feel if it were one of her kids. Just before leaving she tells Bing that she believes someone somewhere watches over the babies. The couple tell Mrs. McCray they hope she never is in their place for her children’s sake & express hope that someone does watch over the babies.
The criminals attempt to follow Bink, but keep getting injured in the process as he makes his way to the city zoo. They are shocked to find him in the ape house with a western lowland gorilla, who shows a friendly and paternal side and does not injure him. The gorilla also feeds Bink with some of his fruits. The criminals try to retrieve him, but the gorilla notices them; he pounds Veeko's hand, throws Norby into the air using a mop as a catapult, and hurls Eddie against the bars of another nearby cage.
The criminals corner and catch Bink in the zoo's park, but are confronted by two chatty police officers, who have noticed that their van's engine is still running. During the conversation, Eddie hides Bink under his coat in his lap, but Bink reaches his cigarette lighter, setting his groin on fire and sneaking off as soon as the officers are gone. Veeko extinguishes the fire by stomping repeatedly on Eddie's groin.
They then follow Bink to a construction site where they experience several near-death mishaps such as Veeko getting thrown off the building and into the back of a garbage truck, Norby falling into a vat of wet cement, and Eddie getting stranded on a crane after being hit by a hammer and drenched in glue. The sun then sets as Bink and the construction crew leave the site. After managing to escape, the criminals give up on catching Bink and return home.
Bink's parents are notified of various sightings of him in the city and Gilbertine deduces that he has been following Baby's Day Out, and will most likely head for the Old Soldiers' Home next. Sure enough, Bink has made his way inside the home, where the elderly residents entertain him with a rendition of Irving Berlin's "This Is the Army, Mr. Jones." Laraine and Bing run in and joyously embrace Bink. On the way home, he begins to call out for his "Boo-Boo" towards the criminals' flat. Laraine believes he is looking at the clock on top of the building and tries teaching him it’s a “tick tock”. Gilbertine again deduces he wants his book and tells Laraine there’s no “tick tock” in the book. The recuperating criminals, upon hearing Bink calling out for his book, realize that he has returned, and upon looking out the window, to their shock, they find themselves surrounded by the FBI. They also find Bink and his parents standing outside the building as well. As Eddie berates Bink for ratting them out, Grissom forces the criminals to return Bink's book. As Eddie throws down the book, he, Norby and Veeko are arrested for kidnapping Bink and Bink is happy to have his book back and returns home with his parents.
Back at home, Bink is put to bed by his parents, who discuss having his photograph taken by a normal photographer in the morning while, unbeknownst to them, he wakes up and gets ready to read another book titled Baby's Trip to China.
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