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Blue Car
| 2,002
|
Karen Moncrieff
|
['Agnes Bruckner', 'David Strathairn', 'Margaret Colin', 'Frances Fisher', 'A.J. Buckley', 'Regan Arnold', 'Sarah Buehler', 'Dustin Sterling', 'Michael Joseph Thomas Ward', 'Wayne Armstrong', 'Aftab Pureval', 'Wendy Lardin', "Jenn O'nofrio", 'Greg Miller', 'Michael Raysses']
| 3.19
| null |
Drama, Indie film, Family Drama
| 92
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Peer Oppenheimer Production Inc.']
| 2,148
|
sad, emotional
|
sad-movies-if-you-feel-like-you-need-to-cry
| null |
Meg is a high school senior living in the Dayton, Ohio area. She uses writing as an outlet for her troubled home life, having been abandoned by her father and now neglected by her mother Diane, whose busy work schedule leaves Meg as the babysitter for her younger sister, Lily. The girls' father does not pay child support, causing financial strain for the family. After Meg reads aloud a poem (titled "Blue Car") in her English class, her teacher, Mr. Auster, recognizes her talent and assumes the role of a mentor and father figure for her. He encourages Meg to enter a local poetry competition, which she ends up winning. Mr. Auster recommends she next compete at the national competition in Florida during spring break.
Meg's home life worsens when Lily displays increasingly worrying emotional behavior; she cuts herself, refuses to eat, and speaks about becoming an angel. After being checked into the psychiatric ward of a hospital, Lily kills herself by jumping out of an open window as she tries to "fly". A distraught Meg finds solace in Mr. Auster, who reveals he lost a son. During their one-on-one poetry tutoring, she learns he is also writing a novel.
When Diane says she does not have the money to pay for her daughter's Florida trip, Meg resorts to stealing. This results in Meg getting fired from her after-school job and her moving out to stay with her friend, Georgia. At Georgia’s place, Meg becomes acquainted with Georgia’s older brother, Pat. When she tells Pat she’s trying to find a way to get to Florida, he offers her a way to make money by stealing prescription drugs. Meg takes up the offer and steals from a pharmacy for him. The following day, Meg discovers that Pat has skipped town with the money.
Meg ends up taking a bus by herself to Florida and sleeps on the beach. On the day before the competition, she spots Mr. Auster with his family relaxing near the water. When she walks over to say hi, his wife Delia invites her to join them. When Mr. Auster is not paying attention, Delia makes a comment to Meg that hints that their marriage is troubled. Later, Mr. Auster walks alone with Meg on the beach and kisses her. They go to a hotel room, where Meg reluctantly has sex with Mr. Auster. He stops after realizing that she is not comfortable with the situation. Meg learns that Mr. Auster has not written a novel at all, and that it was all just a ruse to impress her.
At the competition the following day, Meg leaves her "Blue Car" poem on her chair when she is called to the mic. She recites a new poem in which she subtly denounces Mr. Auster for manipulating her and abusing his authority. In the audience, Mr. Auster and his wife look visibly uncomfortable. After finishing her reading, Meg leaves the auditorium, and, later on the beach alone, she throws the old poem into the water. Meg returns to Ohio and goes to Diane’s apartment, where she has an emotional reconciliation with her mother. Diane leaves Meg a box containing old wedding photos of her and Meg’s father. The next day, Meg, who is now going to live with her father, gets into a blue car with him and they drive off.
|
Blue Steel
| 1,990
|
Kathryn Bigelow
|
['Jamie Lee Curtis', 'Ron Silver', 'Clancy Brown', 'Elizabeth Peña', 'Louise Fletcher', 'Philip Bosco', 'Kevin Dunn', 'Richard Jenkins', 'Markus Flanagan', 'Mary Mara', 'Skipp Lynch', 'Mike Hodge', 'Mike Starr', 'Chris Walker', 'Tom Sizemore', 'David Ilku', 'Andrew Hubatsek', 'Joe Jamrog', 'Matt Craven', 'Reginald Wells', 'Heidi Kempf', 'Toni Darling', 'William Marshall', 'James Shannon', 'Thomas Dorff', 'William Wise', 'Lauren Tom', 'Faith Geer', 'Doug Barron', 'Carol Schneider', 'L. Peter Callender', 'Becky Ann Baker', 'Frank Girardeau', 'Larry Silvestri', 'John Capodice', 'Sam Coppola', 'Bellina Logan', 'Ralph Nieves', 'Al Cerullo', 'Michael Philip Del Rio', 'Harley Flanagan', 'James Drescher', 'George Gerard', 'Jan Saint', 'D.J. Sharp', 'Reg Wells']
| 3.14
| null |
Action, Drama, Crime film, Suspense, Mystery, Thriller, Psychological thriller, Detective fiction, Crime Fiction, Police procedural, Action/Adventure, Crime Thriller
| 102
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Lightning Pictures', 'Precision Films', 'Mack-Taylor Productions', 'Pressman Film']
| 31,737
|
thriller, essential
|
100-essential-thrillers
| null |
Rookie NYPD officer Megan Turner shoots and kills a robber with her service revolver while he is holding up a neighborhood supermarket. The robber’s gun falls to the ground and lands directly in front of commodities trader Eugene Hunt, one of the customers taken hostage. Hunt takes the gun and slips away. Because the weapon was not found at the scene and the other witnesses are unclear about seeing a handgun, Turner is accused of killing an unarmed man and is subsequently suspended.
Hunt uses the gun to commit random killings. At the scene of the first murder, he leaves behind a spent shell casing on which he has carved Turner’s name. Shortly thereafter, Hunt begins hearing voices telling him he is unique and to kill again. Meanwhile, as she attempts to clear her name with Assistant Chief Stanley Hoyt and her superiors, Turner begins dating Hunt, unaware that he has become obsessed with her. One night at his apartment, Hunt reveals to Turner that he was at the supermarket robbery, that he took the robber's gun and that he's the person behind the recent killings. Turner arrests him but he is freed by his attorney, Mel Dawson, due to a lack of evidence.
Turner fights to keep her badge and solve the murders with the help of Detective Nick Mann. Hunt arrives at her apartment, assaults her and shoots her best friend, Tracy Perez, before rendering her unconscious with a blow to the head and then burying the gun in a park. Turner regains consciousness and goes to Hunt's apartment with Mann to arrest him, but Dawson prevents her from doing so.
Seeking comfort from her mother Shirley, Turner visits her family home, an uncomfortable place because her father Frank physically abused her mother throughout her childhood. When she arrives, she finds that her mother is bruised. Enraged, Turner handcuffs her father and arrests him. During the drive they stop and talk in an attempt to finally put an end to his abuse. When they return to the house, Hunt is posing as a guest sitting with her mother. A tense exchange takes place between the two, where they both imply that they are armed. When he leaves, she goes to his apartment and spends the night staking him out.
The next morning, Turner follows Hunt to the park where he buried his gun. Mann interrupts another standoff between Hunt and Turner, where she is attempting to get Hunt to try for her gun; Hunt runs off. Believing that he'll return for the murder weapon, they stake out the park. Turner sees the beam of a flashlight and assumes it's Hunt searching for the gun. She leaves the car to apprehend him, but not before handcuffing Mann to the steering wheel to prevent him from following her. The flashlight turns out to be a ruse: Hunt paid a homeless woman to decoy the police. Meanwhile, Hunt is holding Mann at gunpoint. Turner appears and fires her gun, shooting Hunt in the left arm before he escapes in traffic.
Mann and Turner return to her apartment, where unbeknown to them, Hunt is patching up his wound in her bathroom. The pair have sex and Mann is ambushed by Hunt and shot when he goes to the bathroom. Turner does not hear the shot because it was muffled by a towel. Hunt attacks and rapes Turner and she eventually kicks him away and gets her hands on her gun and shoots at him, but he flees. Mann is unconscious and taken to the hospital, where Turner is told that he will survive.
Determined to find Hunt and finish him off, Turner knocks out her police guard, then takes his uniform and gun. She wanders the streets and Hunt follows her into the subway. Turner and Hunt are both shot and the gun fight carries on out to the street. She finally shoots and kills him after a long and violent confrontation in the middle of Wall Street after she appropriates a civilian vehicle, running him down (just before he runs out of ammunition). First-responding police officers arrive and Turner is taken away for medical treatment.
|
Blue Valentine
| 2,010
|
Derek Cianfrance
|
['Ryan Gosling', 'Michelle Williams', 'John Doman', 'Mike Vogel', 'Ben Shenkman', 'Jen Jones', 'Maryann Plunkett', 'Faith Wladyka', 'Marshall Johnson', 'James Benatti', 'Barbara Troy', 'Carey Westbrook', 'Eileen Rosen', 'Enid Graham', 'Ashley Gurnari', 'Jack Parshutich', 'Samii Ryan', 'Mark Benginia', 'Timothy Liveright', 'Tamara Torres', 'Robert Russell', 'Michelle Nagy', 'Felicia Reid', 'Melvin Jurdem', 'Alan Malkin', 'Derik Belanger', 'Isabella Frigoletto', 'Madison Ledergerber', 'Jaimie Jensen', 'Joseph Basile', 'Ian Bonner', 'Robert Eckard', 'Corey Sullivan']
| 3.8
| 4
|
Romance, Melodrama, Drama, Indie film
| 112
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Cottage Industries', 'Incentive Filmed Entertainment', 'Silverwood Films', 'Hunting Lane Films', 'Chrysler Corporation', 'Shade Pictures', 'Motel Movies']
| 478,212
|
toxic-relationship
|
toxic-destructive-relationships
| null |
The movie begins with 5-year-old Frankie waking up her dad, Dean, as he’s passed out on the couch. She cannot find their family dog, Megan, and together they look for her throughout the rural Pennsylvania family home, with Dean reassuring his worried daughter. A small metal gate leading outside appears to have been left open, and it is implied the dog may have escaped. Dean and Frankie wake up Frankie’s mom and Dean’s wife, Cindy, who appears exhausted and annoyed. She reminds the two that Frankie has to get ready for school and cannot be late. While Cindy spearheads getting Frankie dressed, giving her breakfast, emailing herself missing dog flyers, and getting herself ready for her job, Dean focuses on making Frankie laugh, rebuffs the instant oatmeal breakfast Cindy made for Frankie, and drinks alcohol and smokes cigarettes.
Flashbacks from Dean and Cindy’s younger days reveal that Dean was once a hopeless romantic high school dropout, working for a moving company in Brooklyn. Cindy was once an aspiring doctor studying pre-med while living with her parents and caring for her grandmother in Pennsylvania. Her parents have a volatile marriage, with her dad being verbally abusive towards her mother. She is dating a fellow student named Bobby and one day, the two have intercourse where he ejaculates inside her without her consent. He brings her roses but gets angry when she does not accept his apology, causing Cindy to shut him out; it is implied they break up.
Later that day, Cindy is shown to be working as a nurse at a clinic where her boss, Dr. Feinberg, had just offered her to join him at his new clinic in another city in the near future, and is inquiring if she’s discussed moving with her family. Appearing exhausted, she says she hasn’t. Meanwhile, Dean drives around while drinking and smoking, and is shown to be painting houses for work. While driving to an event at Frankie’s school, Cindy finds Megan dead by the roadside. She arrives late to the event. Dean is already there; when she tells Dean what she found, he blames her for leaving the gate open while she silently breaks down in tears. When they get home, Dean breaks down and Cindy comforts him. Later, despite Cindy's reluctance due to being scheduled as on-call for work the following day, Dean insists on a getaway at a motel 2 hours away to “get drunk and have sex”. They drop Frankie off at Cindy’s dad. Dean does not enter the home; when Cindy asks why, he states he cannot smoke near Cindy’s father’s oxygen tank. While driving them to the motel, Cindy stops by a liquor store and has an awkward encounter there with her ex, Bobby, which causes an ensuing argument in the car between her and Dean.
Immediately after arriving at the motel, Dean repeatedly tries to seduce Cindy in the shower and afterwards but she rebuffs him. Dean and Cindy proceed to drink alcohol. Overwhelmed by his advances and frustrated with his lack of ambition, she questions Dean while they are drunk which leads to another explosive outburst. Dean continues his advances and Cindy gives in, but is disappointed when Dean asks if she wants to have another child with him. Their argument becomes explosive again and she locks the door between them, leaving him outside the bedroom. At 6 am, Cindy is called in for work to start at 9 am. She takes the car and leaves a note for Dean. At the clinic, Dr. Feinberg recommends that Cindy move into an apartment near the new clinic instead of moving her family, off-handedly suggesting that they could keep each other company if she is lonely which visibly upsets Cindy.
More flashbacks reveal that while Dean is delivering furniture to a nursing home in Pennsylvania, he runs into Cindy, who is visiting her grandmother. Initially pushy with his advances, he gives her his work number but she never calls; however, they coincidentally meet again on a bus and begin seeing each other. After discovering their relationship, a jealous Bobby violently assaults Dean while he is at work. Cindy introduces Dean to her family. Shortly after, she finds out she is pregnant and tells Dean she is not sure who the father is, and that he is unlikely to be the father. Dean repeatedly questions her on what she is going to do. She ends up opting for an abortion but, overwhelmed, changes her mind during the procedure, while Dean, who has accompanied her, waits for her. Dean comforts and reassures her that they can raise the child together. Cindy and Dean soon get married at a Justice of Peace.
Back at the motel, an annoyed Dean finds the note upon waking and shows up drunk at the clinic. Dean forces his way in while yelling at Cindy, following her from room to room, as the clinic receptionist attempts to intervene. They have a heated argument. Dr. Feinberg hears the commotion and also attempts to intervene, and Dean punches him. Dr. Feinberg then fires Cindy, threatens to call the cops on Dean, and kicks them both out. While leaving, Cindy demands a divorce, causing Dean to throw away his wedding ring, but they attempt to look for it. Back at her parents' house, Dean tearfully pleads with an upset Cindy to give the marriage another chance for Frankie. Cindy says she doesn't want Frankie to grow up with parents who despise each other like she did, and that she cannot cope with his behavior. After Dean reminds Cindy of their vows, they hug, but she pulls away. Dean leaves the house while Frankie runs after him and begs him to stay. He tricks her to return to Cindy and then continues walking away. Frankie cries in Cindy’s arms.
|
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
| 1,938
|
Ernst Lubitsch
|
['Claudette Colbert', 'Gary Cooper', 'Edward Everett Horton', 'David Niven', 'Elizabeth Patterson', 'Herman Bing', 'Warren Hymer', 'Franklin Pangborn', 'Armand Cortes', 'Rolfe Sedan', 'Lawrence Grant', 'Lionel Pape', 'Tyler Brooke', 'Leon Ames', 'Gino Corrado', 'Joseph Crehan', 'George Davis', 'Mariska Aldrich', 'Lenore Aubert', 'Eugene Borden', 'Barlowe Borland', 'Marie Burton', "Albert D'Arno", 'Dorothy Dayton', 'Jean De Briac', 'Ray De Ravenne', 'Sayre Dearing', 'Paula DeCardo', 'Blanche Franke', 'Norah Gale', 'Pauline Garon', 'Grace Goodall', 'Sacha Guitry', 'Harriette Haddon', 'Charles Halton', 'Chuck Hamilton', 'Olaf Hytten', 'Barbara Jackson', 'Lola Jensen', 'Gwen Kenyon', 'Harry Lamont', 'Sally Martin', 'Joyce Mathews', 'Harold Minjir', 'Carol Parker', 'Albert Petit', 'John Picorri', 'Ruth Rogers', 'Joseph Romantini', 'Ronald R. Rondell', 'Amzie Strickland', 'Harry Tenbrook', 'Jacques Vanaire', 'Michael Visaroff', 'Dorothy White', 'Gloria Williams', 'Alex Woloshin', 'Wolfgang Zilzer']
| 3.6
| 4
|
Romance, Comedy, Screwball comedy, Romantic comedy, Melodrama, Drama
| 85
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'French']
|
['Paramount Pictures']
| 8,802
|
toxic-relationship
|
toxic-destructive-relationships
| null |
"Once the premise is established that Claudette Colbert wants to deflate the multi-millionaire Gary Cooper, who buys his wives – seven of ’em prior to her – as he buys a fancy motor car, making pre-marriage settlements with them, etc, it then becomes an always obvious farce." — Abel Green, Variety[9]
|
Bo Burnham: Make Happy
| 2,016
|
Christopher Storer, Bo Burnham
|
['Bo Burnham', 'Lorene Scafaria']
| 4.2
| null |
['Comedy', 'Music', 'Documentary']
| 60
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Attic Bedroom', '3 Arts Entertainment']
| 107,327
|
comedy
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
Plot section not found.
|
Boi Aruá
| 1,985
|
Chico Liberato
| null | null | null |
['Animation']
| 60
|
['Brazil']
|
Portuguese
|
['Portuguese']
| null | 130
|
animated
|
vote-best-animated-films-of-all-time
| null |
Plot section not found.
|
Bolt
| 2,008
|
Chris Williams, Byron Howard
|
['John Travolta', 'Susie Essman', 'Mark Walton', 'Malcolm McDowell', 'Miley Cyrus', 'James Lipton', 'Greg Germann', 'Diedrich Bader', 'Nick Swardson', 'J.P. Manoux', 'Dan Fogelman', 'Kari Wahlgren', 'Chloë Grace Moretz', 'Randy Poffo', 'Ronn Moss', 'Grey DeLisle', 'Sean Donnellan', 'Lino DiSalvo', 'Todd Cummings', 'Tim Mertens', 'Kelly Hoover', 'Brian Stepanek', 'Jeff Bennett', 'Daran Norris', 'John DiMaggio', 'Jenny Lewis', 'Anne Lockhart', 'Phil LaMarr', 'June Christopher', 'Christin Ciaccio Briggs', 'David Cowgill', 'Terri Douglas', 'Jackie Gonneau', 'Nathan Greno', 'Forrest Iwaszewski', 'Holly Kaneko', 'Daniel Kaz', 'Dara McGarry', 'Scott Menville', 'Jonathan Nichols', 'Paul Pape', 'Lynwood Robinson', 'Karen Ryan', 'Tara Strong', 'Pepper Sweeney', 'Joe Whyte', 'Chris Williams', 'Stephen J. Anderson']
| 3.09
| null |
Animation, Comedy, Action, Children's film, Short, Adventure, Family film, Drama, Crime Fiction
| 98
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Walt Disney Animation Studios', 'Walt Disney Pictures']
| 871,550
|
animated
|
vote-best-animated-films-of-all-time
| null |
A White Swiss Shepherd puppy named Bolt is adopted by a 7-year-old girl named Penny. Five years later, Bolt and Penny star in a hit television series named after Bolt, in which Bolt and Penny fight crime and foil the plans of the villain, Dr. Calico, who has kidnapped Penny's father, with Bolt using various superpowers in their adventures. To gain a more realistic performance from Bolt, the show's director has arranged the filming in such a way that Bolt believes everything in the show is real, including his invulnerability, super-strength, and percussive sonic "Superbark". This means Bolt can never leave the set and live as a normal dog, much to Penny's dismay. After a cliffhanger episode causes Bolt to believe Penny has been kidnapped, he escapes from his on-set trailer in Hollywood, but knocks himself unconscious and falls into a box of packing peanuts, which is then shipped to New York City.
Upon arrival in New York, Bolt is shocked to discover that his "superpowers" are useless. He encounters Mittens, a cynical feral cat who runs a protection racket for pigeons. Believing that Mittens is an "agent" of Calico, Bolt ties her to his collar with a leash, and forces her to guide him back to Penny. Meanwhile, in Hollywood, a less-experienced White Swiss Shepherd dog is brought in so filming can resume. Penny is distraught over Bolt’s disappearance, but reluctantly agrees to halt the search so production can continue.
Feeling hungry for the first time in his life, Bolt accepts Mittens' advice and behaves like a cute and needy stray, securing food for them both at an RV park where they are joined by Rhino, a fearless hamster and huge fan of Bolt. Rhino's description of Bolt's adventures causes Mittens to realize Bolt is from a TV show, but she is unable to convince Bolt of the truth. In frustration, Bolt repeatedly attempts to "superbark" Mittens, but the noise draws the attention of the local animal control service, and Bolt and Mittens are both captured and taken to a shelter.
Bolt, freed from the patrol van by Rhino, finally realizes and accepts that he is just a normal dog. However, he regains his confidence after Rhino (oblivious to this revelation) gives him a motivating speech, and they rescue Mittens from the shelter. As they travel west, Bolt and Mittens form a close friendship; she teaches him how to be an ordinary dog and enjoy typical dog activities. Mittens makes plans for the three of them to stay in Las Vegas, but Bolt is still determined to find Penny. Mittens reveals to Bolt that she was declawed and abandoned by her owners, and believes that no human truly "loves" their pet. Bolt vehemently disagrees with her, and continues on alone to Hollywood. After finding out about Bolt's departure, Rhino convinces Mittens to go to Hollywood and find him.
When Bolt reaches the studio, he finds Penny embracing the replacement dog during a rehearsal, and, believing that she has replaced him, leaves feeling heartbroken. Mittens, who has caught up to him and witnessed the events, reassures Bolt that Penny does love him. At the same time, the Bolt look-alike panics during the show's filming and accidentally knocks over lit tiki torches, setting the stage on fire with Penny trapped inside. Bolt arrives, and the two reunite inside the burning studio, but are unable to escape and Penny begins to suffocate from the smoke. Bolt stays with Penny and repeatedly barks into the building's air vent, alerting the firefighters to their location.
Bolt and Penny are rescued. Penny and her mother quit the show after Penny's agent proposes that they exploit the incident for publicity. The show continues with a replacement "Bolt" and "Penny" and a bizarre new storyline involving alien abduction. Penny adopts Mittens and Rhino, and they move to a rural home to enjoy a simpler lifestyle together.
|
Bombón El Perro
| 2,004
|
Carlos SorÃn
|
['Walter Donado', 'Rosa Valsecchi', 'Mariela DÃaz', 'Claudina Fazzini', 'Kita Ca', 'Carlos Rossi', 'Rolando Zadra', 'Pascual Condito', 'Adrián Giampani', 'Juan Villegas']
| 3.62
| null |
['Drama']
| 99
|
['Argentina', 'Spain']
|
Spanish
|
['Spanish']
|
['K & S Films', 'Guacamole Films', 'Wanda Visión', 'Romikin S.A.']
| 2,178
|
road-movie
|
road-movies-1
| null |
Plot section not found.
|
Bones and All
| 2,022
|
Luca Guadagnino
|
['Taylor Russell', 'Timothée Chalamet', 'Mark Rylance', 'Anna Cobb', 'André Holland', 'David Gordon Green', 'Michael Stuhlbarg', 'Jessica Harper', 'Chloë Sevigny', 'Kendle Coffey', 'Ellie Parker', 'Madeleine Hall', 'Christine Dye', 'Sean Bridgers', 'Jake Horowitz', 'Marshall Jackson', 'Marcia Dangerfield', 'Burgess Byrd', 'Max Soliz', 'Johanna McGinley', 'Hannah Barlow', 'Claudio Encarnacion Montero', 'Sue Hopkins', 'Aaron J. Gould', 'Brady Gentry', 'Dori Lucas', "Tom O'Brien", 'John E. Brownlee']
| 3.67
| 4.5
|
Horror, Cannibal, Romance, Road, Melodrama, Adventure, Drama, Coming-of-age story, Mystery, Thriller, Body horror, Family Drama
| 131
|
['Italy', 'USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Frenesy Film', 'Per Capita Productions', 'MeMo Films', 'The Apartment Pictures', '3 Marys Entertainment', 'Tenderstories', 'Elafilm']
| 766,830
|
sad, emotional
|
sad-movies-if-you-feel-like-you-need-to-cry
| null |
In 1988, teenager Maren Yearly eats a classmate's finger after sneaking out to attend a sleepover. Her father Frank, used to her cannibalistic nature since she murdered her babysitter at three years old, promptly relocates them. He abandons her shortly after her eighteenth birthday, leaving behind some money, her birth certificate, and a tape recorder. In a message to his daughter, Frank confides his anguish over Maren's apparent lack of remorse following her incidents over the years and voices his hope that she will someday learn to overcome her urges. Hoping that her mother Janelle, who abandoned her when she was an infant, might provide her with answers, Maren sets out to her birthplace of Minnesota.
At a bus stop, Maren is approached by the eccentric Sully, who introduces himself as a fellow "eater" and teaches her that their kind can identify one another via scent. He leads her into the house of a dying, elderly woman, insisting to a horrified Maren that her hunger will only grow with time. The woman dies the next morning and Maren reluctantly joins Sully in feeding off the corpse, after which he shows her a braided rope he fashioned from the hair of his victims. Unsettled by Sully's obvious interest in taking her under his wing, Maren flees the house.
While shoplifting supplies in Indiana, Maren defends a woman from being harassed by a drunk customer and is helped by a young man named Lee, who lures the customer outside. She later runs into Lee after he's just finished eating the man, and he takes her along after stealing his victim's truck. Lee offers to accompany Maren to Minnesota, and the two embark on a cross-country road trip, becoming romantically involved. During a brief stop at Lee's hometown in Kentucky, they meet with his sister Kayla, who is unaware of her brother's true nature. Maren is intrigued by Lee's refusal to discuss his father's disappearance and his insistence that he not be spotted around town.
At one point, they come across another pair of eaters, and are both disturbed when one of them describes eating a victim "bones and all". After Maren expresses hunger at a local carnival, Lee seduces and kills a male employee while she watches, and the pair feeds off his flesh together. However, upon driving to the man's address, Maren is deeply upset to learn that he had a wife and children, leading to an argument with Lee, who insists that they cannot blame themselves for their nature.
Maren tracks down Janelle's adoptive mother in Minnesota, who informs her that Janelle had willingly committed herself to a psychiatric hospital several years prior. Upon a visit to her mother, Maren is shocked to discover that Janelle has eaten her own hands. A nurse hands Maren a letter from Janelle addressed to her daughter in case they were to ever meet again, in which she proclaims that they are better off dead than living as monsters. Janelle then tries to attack Maren before being restrained. Maren angrily declares to Lee that she refuses to follow her mother's footsteps, and departs while he's asleep. She is soon approached by Sully, who reveals he has been following her, but she again rejects his advances, causing him to become violent. A devastated Lee phones Kayla to tell her that he will be returning home.
Maren eventually finds her way back to Kentucky. She runs into Kayla, who reveals that her alcoholic father had beaten both of his children on the night he went missing and that Lee, initially held as the prime suspect, was cleared of involvement when it was proven that the blood found on him was his own. Maren and Lee rekindle their relationship and decide to resume their travels with no destination in mind. He tells her that he knew his father was an eater when he bit Lee during their scuffle, and tearfully confesses to eating him, as well as to having enjoyed the thrill of it. He asks her if she believes him to be a bad person, but Maren simply declares her love for him. They vow to turn away from cannibalism and lead a normal life together.
After some time, the couple is shown to be happily settled in Michigan, until Maren comes home one day to find that Sully has broken into their apartment. He holds her at knifepoint until Lee arrives, and they manage to kill Sully, though Lee is fatally wounded in the process, and Maren finds a lock of Kayla's hair in Sully's rope. As he lies dying in Maren's arms, Lee pleads for her to love him and eat him "bones and all", to which she reluctantly complies.
|
Bonnie and Clyde
| 1,967
|
Arthur Penn
|
['Warren Beatty', 'Faye Dunaway', 'Michael J. Pollard', 'Gene Hackman', 'Estelle Parsons', 'Denver Pyle', 'Dub Taylor', 'Evans Evans', 'Gene Wilder', 'Mabel Cavitt', 'Patrick Cranshaw', 'Owen Bush', 'Clyde Howdy', 'Russ Marker', 'Ann Palmer', 'Ken Mayer']
| 3.91
| 3
|
Action, Romance, Gangster, Drama, Crime film, True crime, Mystery, Thriller, Detective fiction, Crime Fiction, Police procedural
| 111
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Tatira-Hiller Productions', 'Warner Bros.-Seven Arts']
| 178,098
|
road-movie, heist
|
heist-movies, road-movies-1
| null |
During the Great Depression, Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker of Texas meet when Clyde tries to steal Bonnie's mother's car. Bonnie, who is bored by her job as a waitress, is intrigued by Clyde and decides to take up with him and become his partner in crime. They pull off some holdups, but their amateur efforts, while exciting, are not very lucrative. Bonnie and Clyde turn from small-time heists to bank robbing.
The duo's crime spree shifts into high gear once they hook up with a dim-witted gas station attendant, C.W. Moss. Their exploits also become more violent. After C.W. botches parking during a bank robbery and delays their escape, Clyde shoots the bank manager in the face when he jumps onto the slow-moving car's running board. Clyde's older brother Buck and his wife, Blanche, a preacher's daughter, also join them. The two women dislike each other at first sight, and their antipathy escalates. Blanche has nothing but disdain for Bonnie, Clyde, and C.W., while Bonnie sees Blanche's flightiness as a constant danger to the gang's survival.
In Joplin, Missouri, local police show up at the gang's rented house after being alerted by a grocery delivery boy; two policemen are killed in a shootout. The gang is pursued by law enforcement, including Texas Ranger Frank Hamer, whom they capture and humiliate before setting him free. The five outlaws then pull a heist, during which a police chase disables their vehicle. They steal Eugene Grizzard's car and take him and his girlfriend captive before quickly abandoning them when they learn he is an undertaker.
Bonnie wants to visit her family in Texas and give them part of the heist funds, to which Clyde reluctantly acquiesces despite the risk. The gang is caught off guard by an ambush by law enforcement overnight, resulting in many casualties. Buck is mortally wounded by a shot to his head, and Blanche is injured in one eye, losing sight in it. Bonnie, Clyde, and C.W. barely escape alive, while Blanche falls into police custody. Hamer then tricks her into revealing C.W.'s name (until then he was only an "unidentified suspect").
C.W. takes the wounded Bonnie and Clyde to hide out at the house of his father Ivan, who thinks the couple have corrupted his son (as evidenced by an ornate tattoo Bonnie convinced C.W. to get). The elder Moss makes a deal with Hamer: in exchange for leniency for C.W., he sets a trap for the outlaws. When Bonnie and Clyde stop on the side of the road to help Mr. Moss fix a flat tire, as a nearby flock of birds flies away, the posse in the bushes gun the couple down. Hamer and his men come out of hiding and gather around the couple's bodies.
|
Boogie Nights
| 1,997
|
Paul Thomas Anderson
|
['Mark Wahlberg', 'Burt Reynolds', 'Julianne Moore', 'John C. Reilly', 'Heather Graham', 'Don Cheadle', 'Philip Seymour Hoffman', 'Nicole Ari Parker', 'William H. Macy', 'Robert Ridgely', 'Melora Walters', 'Thomas Jane', 'Ricky Jay', 'Luis Guzmán', 'Jack Wallace', 'Michael Jace', 'Philip Baker Hall', 'Alfred Molina', 'Nina Hartley', 'Joanna Gleason', 'Kai Lennox', 'Jonathan Quint', 'John Doe', 'Rico Bueno', 'Samson Barkhordarian', 'Brad Braeden', 'Lawrence Hudd', 'Michael Stein', 'Stanley DeSantis', 'Patricia Forte', 'Laurel Holloman', 'Jason Andrews', 'Little Cinderella', 'Greg Lauren', 'Tom Dorfmeister', 'Jake Cross', 'Selwyn Emerson Miller', 'Jamielyn Lippman', 'Missy Spell Tanner', 'Raymond Laboriel', 'Jon Brion', 'Brian Kehew', 'Robin Sharp', 'Audrey Wiechman', 'Tim Soronen', 'Alexander D. Slanger', 'Tom Lenk', 'Lexi Leigh', 'Laura Gronewold', 'Vernon Guichard II', 'Tony Tedeschi', 'Leslie Redden', 'Gregory T. Daniel', 'Michael Penn', 'Don Amendolia', 'Summer Cummings', 'Skye Blue', 'Robert Downey Sr.', 'Veronica Hart', 'Jack Riley', 'Channon Roe', 'Mike Gunther', 'Michael Raye Smith', 'Michael S. Stencil', 'Dustin Courtney', 'Allan Graf', 'Jose Chaidez', 'B. Philly Johnson', 'Joe G.M. Chan', 'Goliath', 'Israel Juarbe', 'George Anthony Rae', 'Eric Winzenried', 'Sharon Ferrol-Young', 'Anne Fletcher', 'Scott Fowler', 'Melanie A. Gage', 'Eddie Garcia', 'Sebastian La Cause', 'Lance MacDonald', 'Diane Mizota', 'Nathan Prevost', 'Lisa Ratzin', 'Dee Dee Weathers', 'Darrel W. Wright', 'Michael Ballhaus', 'Greg Bronson', 'Grace Bustos', 'Jorga Caye', 'Tyrone D. Dixon', 'Theo Mayes', 'Coleman McClary', 'Arnold Montey', 'Jami Philbrick', 'Sal Sodano', 'Aaron Stielstra', 'Misty Tamburelli', 'Sean Welch']
| 4.22
| 4
|
Comedy, Drama, Historical film, Indie film, Comedy drama
| 156
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['New Line Cinema', 'Lawrence Gordon Productions']
| 526,027
| null |
lb_top250
| null |
In 1977, high-school dropout Eddie Adams is living with his father and emotionally abusive mother in Torrance, California. He works at a Reseda nightclub owned by Maurice Rodriguez, where he meets porn filmmaker Jack Horner. Interested in bringing Eddie into porn, Jack auditions him by watching him have sex with Rollergirl, a porn starlet who always wears skates.
After a fight with his mother, Eddie moves in with Jack at his San Fernando Valley home. He gives himself the screen name "Dirk Diggler" and becomes a star because of his good looks, youthful charisma, and abnormally large penis. His success allows him to buy a new house, an extensive wardrobe, and a "competition orange" 1977 Chevrolet Corvette. With his friend and co-star Reed Rothchild, Dirk pitches a series of successful action-themed porn films. He works and socializes with others from the porn industry, and they live carefree lifestyles in the late 1970s disco era. While attending a New Year's Eve party at Horner's house on December 31, 1979, assistant director Little Bill discovers his adulterous wife having sex with another man. Bill, tired of being repeatedly cheated on, shoots the pair dead and commits suicide.
Dirk and Reed begin using cocaine on a regular basis. Due to his drug use, Dirk finds it increasingly difficult to achieve an erection, falls into violent mood swings, and becomes irritated with Johnny Doe, a rival leading man Jack has recently recruited, and whom Dirk worries will replace him. In 1983, after arguing with Jack, Dirk is fired and takes off with Reed to start a music career along with Scotty, a boom operator who is in love with Dirk. Jack rejects business overtures from Floyd Gondolli, a local theater magnate who insists on cutting costs by shooting on videotape rather than film stock, because Jack believes that video will diminish the quality of his films.
After his friend and financier, Colonel James, is incarcerated for possession of child pornography, Jack cooperates with Gondolli but becomes disillusioned with the work he is expected to churn out. One of these projects involves Jack and Rollergirl riding in a limousine, searching for random men for her to have sex with while being taped by a crew. One man recognizes Rollergirl as a former high-school classmate, and after a failed attempt at intercourse, he insults her and Jack. Both Jack and Rollergirl attack the man, leaving him bloodied on the sidewalk.
Leading lady Amber Waves lands in a custody battle with her ex-husband. The court determines that she is an unfit mother due to her involvement in the porn industry, criminal record, and cocaine addiction. Buck Swope marries fellow porn star Jessie St. Vincent, who becomes pregnant. Because of his past as a pornographer, Buck is disqualified from a bank loan and cannot open his own stereo equipment store. That night, he finds himself in the middle of a holdup at a donut shop in which the clerk, the robber, and an armed customer are killed. Buck is the sole survivor and escapes with the money.
Having spent most of their money on drugs, Dirk and Reed are unable to pay a recording studio for demo tapes they believe will enable them to become music stars. Desperate for money, Dirk resorts to prostitution but is assaulted and robbed by three men. Dirk, Reed, and their friend Todd Parker attempt to scam local drug dealer Rahad Jackson at his estate by selling him a half-kilo of baking soda disguised as cocaine. Dirk and Reed intend to leave quickly before Rahad's bodyguard inspects it, but a drugged-up and armed Todd attempts to steal more money, as well as some more drugs, from Rahad. In the ensuing gunfight, Todd kills Rahad's bodyguard and is killed by Rahad, while Dirk and Reed narrowly escape. Dirk returns to Jack's home and they reconcile.
In 1984, Amber shoots the television commercial for the opening of Buck's store, Rollergirl takes a GED class, Maurice opens a nightclub with his brothers, Reed performs magic acts at a strip club, and Jessie gives birth to her and Buck's son. Dirk, Jack, and Amber prepare to start filming again.
|
Book Club
| 2,018
|
Bill Holderman
|
['Diane Keaton', 'Jane Fonda', 'Candice Bergen', 'Mary Steenburgen', 'Craig T. Nelson', 'Andy GarcÃa', 'Don Johnson', 'Richard Dreyfuss', 'Alicia Silverstone', 'Katie Aselton', 'Wallace Shawn', 'Tommy Dewey', 'Ed Begley Jr.', 'Mircea Monroe', 'Christopher Allen', 'Lili Bordán', 'Sabina Friedman-Seitz', 'Cole Gleason', 'Michael Gmur', 'Chet Grissom', 'Adam Huber', 'Caylie Rae Kalmbach', 'Ravi Kapoor', 'Tom G. McMahon', 'Marisa Chen Moller', 'Jonathan Ohye', 'Matt Riedy', 'John Shartzer', 'Matthew Smiley', 'Joey Stromberg', 'James Adam Tucker', 'Brad Lee Wind', 'Amanda Martin', 'Pierce Minor', 'Leo Moctezuma', 'Joy Yao', 'Michael Soulema', 'Prathibha R. Shetty', 'Raghuram Shetty', 'Alison Faulk']
| 2.83
| null |
Romance, Comedy, Melodrama, Drama
| 104
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'Spanish', 'Hungarian']
|
['June Pictures', 'Apartment Story', 'Paramount Pictures', 'Endeavor Content']
| 46,680
|
comedy, friendship
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time, favorite-friendship-driven-movies
| null |
Four women have participated in their monthly book club for 40 years, bonding over the suggested literature, and have become very good friends. One day, as they read Fifty Shades of Grey, they are intrigued by its content. Considering this a wake-up call, they decide to expand their lives and pursue pleasures that have eluded them.
While flying to visit her daughters in Arizona, Diane meets Mitchell and they strike up a relationship – although she is hesitant because her husband died only a year ago and she has not dated in decades. Vivian spends more time with Arthur, but her fear of commitment makes her keep him at a distance. Carol is frustrated with her husband's refusal to have sex with her, and reading the book makes her realize they are missing something. Sharon starts an online dating account to start dating again.
The group goes on to read Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed at the book club, while trying to figure out how to solve their problems. Diane's daughters see her as needing them to look after her, continually pressuring her to move to Arizona although she does not want to leave her friends.
Diane sneaks away to see Mitchell, and when her daughters cannot reach her, they send the police out to find her. On discovering her at Mitchell's, they insist she move into the basement of one of their homes, essentially ending her relationship with him. Eventually, Diane tells her daughters that though she is older, she does not need to be under surveillance. She packs up her belongings and leaves for Mitchell's, where they resume their relationship.
Arthur asks Vivian to commit to being in a relationship and she declines, despite his assurances that he wants her to continue being independent. Soon after he leaves for the airport, Vivian realizes she has made a mistake and goes after him. She misses his airplane, but on returning to her hotel she finds Arthur waiting for her and they rekindle their relationship.
Carol, frustrated that Bruce is refusing to have sex with her, tries various ways to entice him, to which he is oblivious. She eventually spikes his beer with viagra, which angers him as that is not what is causing the problem, and they continue to not have sex. Bruce admits that he has been stressed because he retired, and does not know what to do with himself. They eventually reconcile after dancing together in a fund-raising talent show.
After a few dates with men she meets online, Sharon decides that the scene is not for her. She then gives a speech at her son's joint engagement party with her ex-husband, where she realizes that everyone deserves to be in love and happy. She opens her online dating account again, in the hopes of finding someone.
|
Booksmart
| 2,019
|
Olivia Wilde
|
['Kaitlyn Dever', 'Beanie Feldstein', 'Jessica Williams', 'Jason Sudeikis', 'Lisa Kudrow', 'Will Forte', 'Victoria Ruesga', 'Mason Gooding', 'Skyler Gisondo', 'Diana Silvers', 'Molly Gordon', 'Billie Lourd', 'Eduardo Franco', 'Nico Hiraga', 'Austin Crute', 'Noah Galvin', "Michael Patrick O'Brien", 'Ben Harris', 'Kyle Samples', 'Deb Hiett', 'Bluesy Burke', 'Christopher Avila', 'Stephanie Styles', 'John Hartman', 'Adam Krist', 'Gideon Lang', 'Ellen Doyle', 'Maya Rudolph']
| 3.74
| 4.5
|
Comedy, Romance, Teen, Coming-of-age story, Drama
| 102
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'Chinese', 'Spanish']
|
['Annapurna Pictures', 'Gloria Sanchez Productions']
| 1,041,343
|
friendship
|
favorite-friendship-driven-movies, coming-of-age-movies-that-made-us-feel-seen
| null |
High school seniors Amy and Molly, longtime best friends, are accomplished Ivy League–bound students but, despite Molly being class president, not popular with their peers.
Amy has a crush on a girl named Ryan, which Molly urges her to pursue.
On the eve of graduation, Molly confronts classmates insulting her bookishness, telling them she got into Yale University, but they reveal that, despite their partying, they also got into prestigious colleges or job recruitments.
Furious, Molly tells Amy they should have enjoyed their time in high school more, and Amy reluctantly agrees to go to a graduation party held by classmate Nick.
Not knowing the party's address, Molly calls Jared, a wealthy classmate who likes her. He instead takes them to his own party aboard a yacht. Only his drug-crazed friend Gigi is there, who feeds the girls strawberries before jumping off the yacht. Amy suggests they go home, but Molly calls a "Malala", their code for unconditionally supporting what the other wants to do.
The girls call a rideshare car and are shocked to be picked up by their principal, Jordan Brown.
To prepare Amy for possible sex with Ryan, Molly insists they watch pornography, which accidentally plays through the car speakers.
Brown drops them off at what they think is Nick's party, but it is the home of their classmate George, who is hosting a murder mystery party. They again encounter Gigi, who reveals that the strawberries were laced with hallucinogens, whereupon they trip that they are plastic fashion dolls. They leave George's house, but Gigi reveals Molly secretly likes Nick.
Amy insists they press on so that Molly can pursue her crush on Nick. They see pizza boxes in an online video of Nick's party and acquire the address by threatening the pizza delivery man. With only 2% phone battery, Molly calls their favorite teacher, Miss Fine, who gives them a ride to Nick's party.
Once there, they are surprised to find they are warmly welcomed. Molly and Nick flirt over beer pong and Amy spends time with Ryan. Amy finds Ryan making out with Nick. Heartbroken, she finds Molly and calls her own "Malala", which Molly refuses because she still thinks she has a chance with Nick. Amy angrily reveals she is not just spending the summer in Botswana but taking an entire gap year because she resents how Molly always tries to control her life. The two argue in front of the entire party.
Amy runs to the bathroom, finding her classmate Hope. They are initially argumentative until Amy kisses her. They start to have sex, until Amy vomits on Hope. Jared and Molly have a heartfelt conversation about how no-one at school really knows them. Cops arrive at the party and everyone scatters. Unable to find Amy, Molly is driven home by "Triple A", a popular student with a promiscuous reputation. They bond over the stereotyping they have both endured.
Waking up on graduation day, Molly checks her phone and discovers her classmates praising Amy for creating a diversion at the party, allowing everyone to escape the police while getting herself arrested. Molly visits Amy in jail and apologizes for her manipulative actions, and they reconcile. Recognizing that the pizza delivery man is a serial killer from a wanted poster in jail, they trade information to free Amy, and take Jared's car to graduation.
Molly kisses Jared onstage and gives an improvised valedictorian speech, receiving a standing ovation.
A few days later, as Molly helps Amy prepare for her trip to Botswana, Hope visits to give Amy her phone number.
Molly drives Amy to the airport where they share a tearful goodbye, but then Amy decides she still has time to hang out before her flight, so they ecstatically decide to get pancakes.
|
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
| 2,006
|
Larry Charles
|
['Sacha Baron Cohen', 'Ken Davitian', 'Luenell', 'Pamela Anderson', 'Bob Barr', 'Alan Keyes', 'Carole De Saram', 'Mitchell Falk', 'David Corcoran', 'Andre Darnell Myers', 'Jean-Pierre Parent', 'Chip Pickering']
| 3.74
| 4.5
|
Comedy, Mockumentary
| 84
|
['UK', 'USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'Armenian', 'Hebrew (modern)', 'Polish', 'Romanian']
|
['20th Century Fox', 'Everyman Pictures', 'Four by Two', 'Talkback', 'Channel 4 Television', 'Dune Entertainment', 'One America']
| 915,487
|
comedy, road-movie
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time, road-movies-1
| null |
At the behest of the Kazakh Ministry of Information, reporter Borat Sagdiyev leaves Kazakhstan for the "US and A", the "Greatest Country in the World", to make a documentary about American society and culture. He leaves behind his wife, Oksana; his companions are his producer, Azamat Bagatov and a pet chicken.
In New York City, Borat sees an episode of Baywatch on TV and immediately falls in love with Pamela Anderson's character, C. J. Parker. While interviewing and mocking a panel of feminists, he learns of the actress's name and her residence in California. Borat is then informed by telegram that Oksana has been killed by a bear. Delighted, he resolves to travel to California and make Anderson his new wife. Azamat insists that they drive because of his fear of flying which stems from the September 11 attacks, which he believes was "the work of the Jews". Borat takes driving lessons and buys a dilapidated ice-cream truck for the journey.
During the trip, Borat acquires a Baywatch booklet and continues gathering footage for his documentary. He meets gay pride parade participants, politicians Alan Keyes and Bob Barr, and African-American youths. Borat is also interviewed on a local television station and proceeds to disrupt the weather report. Visiting a rodeo, Borat excites the crowd with jingoistic remarks, but then sings a fictional Kazakhstani national anthem to the tune of "The Star-Spangled Banner", receiving a strong negative reaction.
In Atlanta, Borat finds a hotel but is kicked out when he offends the front desk worker by talking and dressing like the African-American youths he met earlier. Staying at a bed-and-breakfast, Borat and Azamat are stunned to learn their hosts are Jewish. The two escape after throwing money at two woodlice, believing they are their hosts transformed. Borat attempts to buy a handgun to defend himself, but is turned away because he is not an American citizen, so he buys a bear instead.
An etiquette coach suggests Borat attend a private dinner at an eating club in the South. During the dinner, he offends the other guests when he lets Luenell, an African-American prostitute, into the house and as a result, they are both kicked out. Borat befriends Luenell, who invites him into a relationship with her, but he tells her that he is in love with someone else. Borat then visits an antique shop, in which he clumsily breaks various Confederate heritage items.
At a hotel, Borat sees Azamat masturbating over a picture of Pamela Anderson and inadvertently reveals his real motive for traveling to California. Azamat becomes livid at Borat's deception, and the situation escalates into a nude brawl which spills out into the hallway, a crowded elevator, and then into a packed convention ballroom.
Azamat abandons Borat, taking his passport, all of their money, and the bear. Borat's truck runs out of fuel, and he begins to hitchhike to California. He is soon picked up by drunken fraternity brothers from the University of South Carolina. On learning the reason for his trip, they show him the Pam and Tommy sex tape which reveals that she is not a virgin. Despondent, Borat burns the Baywatch booklet and, by mistake, his return ticket to Kazakhstan.
Borat attends a United Pentecostal camp meeting, at which Republican U.S. Representative Chip Pickering and Mississippi Supreme Court Chief Justice James W. Smith, Jr. are present. He undergoes a religious conversion to Christianity and forgives Pamela. He accompanies church members on a bus to Los Angeles and soon finds Azamat dressed as Oliver Hardy. The two reconcile and Azamat tells Borat where to find Pamela Anderson. Borat finally comes face-to-face with Anderson at a book signing at a Virgin Megastore. After showing Anderson his "traditional marriage sack", Borat pursues her throughout the store in an attempt to abduct her, until security guards intervene.
Borat visits Luenell and they return to Kazakhstan together. They bring several American customs and traditions back to his village, including the apparent conversion of the people to Christianity (the Kazakh version of which includes crucifixion and torturing of Jews) and the introduction of computer-based technology, such as iPods, laptop computers and a high-definition television.
|
Border Radio
| 1,987
|
Allison Anders, Dean Lent
|
['Chris D.', 'Luanna Anders', 'Chris Shearer', 'John Doe', 'Devon Anders', 'Dave Alvin', 'Texacala Jones']
| 3.08
| null |
Comedy, Musical, Noir, Drama, Punk rock, Road, Indie film
| 83
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Coyote Productions']
| 1,739
|
road-movie
|
road-movies-1
| null |
Plot section not found.
|
Born in Flames
| 1,983
|
Lizzie Borden
|
['Honey', 'Adele Bertei', 'Jean Satterfield', 'Florynce Kennedy', 'Becky Johnston', 'Pat Murphy', 'Kathryn Bigelow', 'Hillary Hurst', 'Sheila McLaughlin', 'Marty Pottenger', 'Lynne Jones', 'Ron Vawter', 'John Coplans', 'John Rudolph', 'Warner Schreiner', 'Valerie Smaldone', 'John McLearen', 'Pat Place', 'Julia Hanlon', 'Maria David', 'Toviana Starks', 'Cat Hightower', 'Veronica Campbell', 'Mayumi Sakaguchi', 'Ryan', 'Chris Brewer', 'Bill Tatum', 'Jorge Ramos', 'Julio Pena', 'Merián Soto', 'Mark Boone Junior', 'Peggy Lee Brennan', 'Ed Bowes', 'Walter Scheuer', 'Eric Bogosian']
| 3.9
| 4
|
Comedy, LGBTQ, Science fiction, Drama, Narrative, Classic
| 80
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['The Jerome Foundation', 'C.A.P.S.', 'The Young Filmmakers Ltd.']
| 19,455
|
sci-fi, top-rated
|
letterboxds-top-250-science-fiction-films
| null |
The film is set during the 10th anniversary of a peaceful socialist-democratic revolution, and follows two feminist groups in New York City, each voicing their concerns to the public by pirate radio. One group, led by an outspoken white lesbian, Isabel, operates Radio Ragazza. The other, led by a soft-spoken African-American, Honey, operates Phoenix Radio. The local community is stimulated into action after a world-traveling political activist, Adelaide Norris, is arrested upon arriving at a New York City airport, and suspiciously dies while in police custody. Simultaneously, a Women's Army led by Hilary Hurst and advised by Zella, an elderly theorist and mentor, is taking direct action in the city. Initially, both Honey and Isabel refuse to join. This group, along with Norris and the radio stations, are under investigation by FBI agents. Their progress is tracked by three editors for a socialist newspaper, whose persistent and opinionated journalism ultimately gets them fired.
The story involves several different women with different perspectives and attempts to show several examples of how sexism plays out on the streets and how it can be combatted. In one scene, two men attack a woman on the sidewalk, forcing her to the ground. Before they can cause further harm, dozens of women on bicycles and blowing whistles come to chase the men away and help the woman. The movie shows women – despite their various differences – organizing in meetings, making radio shows, creating art, wheatpasting, working various jobs, etc. The film portrays a world rife with violence against women, high female unemployment, and government oppression. The women in the film start to come together to make a bigger impact, by means that some in their society consider terrorism.
Ultimately, after both radio stations are suspiciously burned down, Honey and Isabel team up and broadcast Phoenix Ragazza Radio from stolen U-Haul vans. They also join the Women's Army, which sends a group of terrorists to interrupt a broadcast of the President of the United States, who is proposing that women be paid to do housework. The film ends with the women taking one more action, to bomb the antenna on top of the World Trade Center to hinder further destructive messages coming from the government and mainstream media.
|
Bottle Rocket
| 1,996
|
Wes Anderson
|
['Luke Wilson', 'Owen Wilson', 'Robert Musgrave', 'Lumi Cavazos', 'James Caan', 'Andrew Wilson', 'Teddy Wilson', 'Donny Caicedo', 'Ned Dowd', 'Jenni Tooley', 'Shea Fowler', 'Kumar Pallana', 'Jim Ponds', 'Haskel Craver', 'Haley Miller', 'Brian Tenenbaum', 'Temple Nash', 'Darryl Cox', 'Dipak Pallana', 'Stephen Dignan', 'Julie Mayfield', 'Don Phillips, Jr.', 'Anna Cifuentes', 'Melinda Renna', 'Richard Reyes', 'Julio Cesar Cedillo', 'Tak Kubota', 'Jill Parker-Jones', 'Nena Smarz', 'Héctor GarcÃa', 'Daniel R. Padgett', 'Russell Towery', 'Ben Loggins', 'Linn Mullin', 'Antonia Bogdanovich', 'Amanda Welles', 'Jordan Elliott']
| 3.53
| 2.5
|
Romance, Comedy, Crime, Short, Adventure, Heist, Drama, Crime film, Mystery, Thriller, Detective fiction, Police procedural
| 91
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'Spanish']
|
['Gracie Films', 'Columbia Pictures', 'Boyle-Taylor Productions']
| 238,244
|
comedy
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
In Arizona, Dignan "rescues" his friend Anthony from a voluntary psychiatric unit, where he has been staying for self-described exhaustion. Dignan has an elaborate escape plan and has developed a 75-year plan that he shows to Anthony. The plan is to pull off several heists, and then meet up with a Mr. Henry, a landscaper and part-time criminal known to Dignan.
As a practice heist, the two friends break into Anthony's family's house, stealing specific items from a previously-agreed list. Afterward, critiquing the heist, Dignan reveals that he took a pair of earrings not specified on the list. This upsets Anthony, as he had purchased the earrings for his mother as a gift and specifically left them off the list. Anthony visits his little sister at her school and asks her to return the earrings.
Dignan recruits Bob Mapplethorpe as a getaway driver because he is the only person they know with a car. The three of them buy a gun and return to Bob's house to plan their next heist, which will be at a local bookstore. The group bickers as Dignan struggles to describe his intricate plan.
The group steals a small sum of money from the bookstore and goes "on the lam", stopping to stay at a motel. Anthony meets Inez, one of the motel maids, and the two spark a romance despite their language barrier (Inez speaks little English, and Anthony can't speak Spanish).
Bob learns that his marijuana crop back home has been discovered by police, and that his older brother has been arrested. He leaves in his car the following day to help his brother, without telling Dignan. Before leaving the motel themselves, Anthony gives Dignan an envelope to give to Inez. Dignan delivers it to her while she is cleaning a room, not knowing that the envelope has most of his and Anthony's money inside. Inez does not open the envelope and hugs Dignan to say goodbye.
As Dignan is leaving, Inez asks an English-speaking male friend of hers to chase after him and tell him that she loves Anthony. When he delivers the message he says, "Tell Anthony I love him." Dignan fails to realize he is speaking for Inez and does not deliver the message.
Dignan discovers a dilapidated but functional Alfa Romeo Spider, and he and Anthony continue with the 75-year plan. The car breaks down eventually and Anthony reveals that the envelope Dignan gave to Inez contained the rest of their cash. They have a confrontation and go their separate ways.
Narrating a letter to his sister, Anthony says he and Bob have settled into a routine back at home that is keeping him busy. Dignan, who has joined Mr. Henry's gang, tracks Anthony down and they reconcile. Dignan invites him to a heist with Mr. Henry which he accepts on the condition that Bob is allowed in too.
The trio meet the eccentric Mr. Henry and plan to rob a safe at a cold storage facility. He becomes a role model for them, standing up to Bob's abusive brother and tutoring Dignan on success. He invites the trio to a party at his house, and visits the group at the Mapplethorpes' house, which he compliments. Anthony learns of Inez's love for him and contacts her via phone. Her English has improved and they rekindle their relationship.
The group conducts their heist at the cold storage facility with Applejack and Kumar, accomplices from Mr. Henry's landscaping company. The plan quickly falls apart with Kumar unable to crack the safe, and Bob accidentally firing his gun, which in turn triggers a cardiac event in Applejack.
As the police arrive, Dignan has locked himself out of the escape van and is arrested and brutalized by police. At the same time as the crew are doing their heist, Mr. Henry loads furniture from Bob's into a truck. Later, Anthony and Bob visit Dignan in prison and tell him about Mr. Henry robbing Bob's house.
While Bob and Anthony are saying their goodbyes, Dignan begins rattling off an escape plan and tells his friends to get into position for a get-away. After a tense moment, the two realize Dignan is joking. Dignan says to Anthony, "Isn't it funny that you used to be in the nuthouse and now I'm in jail?" as he walks back into the prison.
|
Boudu Saved from Drowning
| 1,932
|
Jean Renoir
|
['Michel Simon', 'Marcelle Hainia', 'Sévérine Lerczinska', 'Jean Gehret', 'Max Dalban', 'Jean Dasté', 'Charles Granval', 'Geneviève Cadix', 'Jacques Becker', "Georges D'Arnoux", 'Régine Lutèce', 'Jane Pierson']
| 3.69
| null |
Comedy, Satire, Drama, Black-and-white, World cinema, Tragicomedy, Comedy of manners
| 84
|
['France']
|
French
|
['French']
|
['Les Ãtablissements Jacques Haïk', 'Les Productions Michel Simon', 'Crédit Cinématographique Français (CCF)']
| 12,094
|
comedy
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
Plot section not found.
|
Bound
| 1,996
|
Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
|
['Gina Gershon', 'Jennifer Tilly', 'Joe Pantoliano', 'John P. Ryan', 'Christopher Meloni', 'Richard C. Sarafian', 'Barry Kivel', 'Mary Mara', 'Susie Bright', 'Margaret Smith', 'Peter Spellos', 'Ivan Kane', 'Kevin Michael Richardson', 'Gene Borkan']
| 3.99
| null |
Action, Romance, LGBTQ, Erotic thriller, Neo-noir, Crime, Noir, Melodrama, Mafia, Drama, Crime film, Crime Thriller, Suspense, Mystery, Thriller, Gangster, Detective fiction, Indie film, Police procedural
| 105
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'Italian']
|
['The De Laurentiis Company', 'Summit Entertainment', 'Newmarket Capital Group']
| 147,640
|
thriller, essential
|
100-essential-thrillers
| null |
Corky, a lesbian ex-con, is hired as a painter and plumber at a Chicago apartment building. She encounters Violet and Caesar, the couple who live next door to the apartment she is renovating. While Caesar is gone, Violet seduces Corky. They are interrupted by Caesar and Corky returns to work. When she leaves for the day, Violet follows Corky to her truck, and they have sex in Corky's apartment. The next morning, Violet tells Corky that Caesar is a money launderer for the Mafia and that they have been together for five years.
Later, Violet overhears Caesar and his mob associates torturing Shelly, a man who has been embezzling money from the business. Upset, she confides to Corky that she wants to make a new life for herself, but that she needs her help. Knowing that Caesar will bring the nearly $2 million that Shelly skimmed back to the apartment, the two women hatch a scheme to steal the money. Johnnie, the son of Mafia boss Gino Marzzone, kills Shelly, angering Caesar, who returns to the apartment with a bag of bloody money. Caesar washes, irons and hangs the money to dry.
Violet explains to Corky that Caesar and Johnnie hate each other, and that Gino and Johnnie will be coming to pick up the money from Caesar. Corky devises a plan: when Caesar has finished counting the money, he will shower to unwind. While he does, Violet will purposely drop a bottle of Glenlivet scotch that Gino prefers and tell Caesar that she is going to buy more. As she leaves the apartment, Corky will enter, steal the money from a briefcase, and leave. Violet will then return with the scotch and tell Caesar that she just saw Johnnie leave. Suspicious, Caesar will check the briefcase, find the money gone, and assume Johnnie has taken it. Corky and Violet think Caesar will be forced to flee because Gino will assume he has been robbed by Caesar, not Johnnie.
When Caesar finds the money gone, he realizes Gino will think he stole it if he runs and decides to retrieve the money from Johnnie. Panicking, Violet threatens to leave, but Caesar forces her to stay, suspecting she and Johnnie may have stolen the money and framed him. Corky waits next door with the money while Gino and Johnnie arrive. After Johnnie flirts with Violet and taunts him, Caesar pulls out a gun and tells Gino that his son stole the money. He kills Gino, Johnnie and Roy, Gino's bodyguard. Caesar tells Violet that they must find the money, dispose of the bodies and pretend Gino and Johnnie never arrived lest their mob associates discover their absence. Unable to find the money at Johnnie's apartment, Caesar telephones Mickey, a mob buddy, telling him that Gino has yet to arrive.
After discovering Corky and Violet stole the money, Caesar ties them up, threatens to torture them and demands to know where it is. When Mickey arrives at the apartment, Caesar makes a deal with Violet to help him stall. Violet calls their landline from Johnnie's cell phone and convinces Caesar to feign a conversation with Gino explaining that he and Johnnie are in the hospital after a car accident. The ruse fools Mickey, who leaves for the hospital. Corky tells Caesar she has hidden the money in the next-door apartment, and he goes to retrieve it. Violet escapes and calls Mickey, telling him that Caesar stole the money and forced her to keep quiet. Corky tries to stop Caesar from taking the money, but he assaults her. Violet arrives and holds Caesar at gunpoint; she informs him Mickey is coming and that he should run while he can. When Caesar refuses, Violet kills him.
Later, Mickey, who believes Violet's story, tells her that he will find Caesar. Mickey wants Violet to be his girlfriend, but she tells him that she needs a clean break—which she makes by driving off hand-in-hand with Corky.
|
Bound by Honor
| 1,993
|
Taylor Hackford
|
['Damian Chapa', 'Jesse Borrego', 'Benjamin Bratt', 'Enrique Castillo', 'Victor Rivers', 'Delroy Lindo', 'Tom Towles', 'Carlos Carrasco', 'Teddy Wilson', 'Raymond Cruz', 'Valente Rodriguez', 'Lanny Flaherty', 'Billy Bob Thornton', 'Geoffrey Rivas', 'Karmin Murcelo', 'Ving Rhames', 'Danny Trejo', 'Steve Eastin', 'Vanessa Marquez', 'David Labiosa', 'Thomas F. Wilson', 'Lupe Ontiveros', 'Richard Masur', 'Victor Mohica', 'Mike Genovese', 'Luis Contreras', 'David Dunard', 'Jimmy Santiago Baca', 'Harold Surratt', 'Steven Anthony Jones', 'Gary Carlos Cervantes', 'Noah Verduzco', 'Jenny Gago', 'Ray Oriel', 'Natalija Nogulich', 'Peter Vasquez', 'Judith Verduzco', 'Sonia Rodriguez', 'Roberto Contreras', 'Evelyn Guerrero', 'Gary Tacon', 'Paulo Tocha', 'Freddy Negrete', 'Alina Arenal', 'Julie Zamarynov', 'Gibby Brand', 'Elizabeth Austin', 'Daniel McDonald', 'Adan Hernandez', 'Richard E. Butler', 'Michael Bofshever', 'Art Snider', 'Robert Pescovitz', 'Primitivo Tapia', 'Robert J. Juarez', 'Eddie Perez', 'Claudia Gabriella Colin', 'Michael McFall', 'Donald E. Lacy Jr.', 'Zandra Hill', 'George Pereyra', 'Angel Romero', 'Dr. Joe Schloss', 'Gill Montie', 'Martin McDermot', 'Martha Cardenas', 'Catherine Price', 'Lindsey Ginter', 'Victor Koliacos', 'Christine Avila', 'Robert Padgett', 'Rio Hackford', 'Rudy Barrios', 'Juan Charles', 'Charles Guillermin', 'Thomas Rosales Jr.', 'Roxann Dawson', 'Joe Casino', 'Wilfred Lopez']
| 3.93
| 5
|
Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Crime film, Suspense, Mystery, Thriller, Detective fiction, Crime Fiction, Police procedural
| 180
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Hollywood Pictures']
| 18,962
|
action, top-rated
|
letterboxds-top-250-action-films
| null |
In 1972, after a violent confrontation with his abusive father, Miklo Velka, a teenager of half-Mexican descent, leaves Las Vegas for East Los Angeles. He moves in with his cousins, Paco and Cruz, who are members of the Vatos Locos gang. Miklo joins the gang following an attack on their rivals, the Tres Puntos. Tres Puntos retaliates by attacking Cruz, permanently damaging his back. When Vatos Locos counterattack the next day, Miklo kills Spider, the leader of Tres Puntos. Fleeing the scene, Paco crashes their car; both he and Miklo are arrested.
The cousins' paths diverge: Miklo is imprisoned in San Quentin for murder, Paco volunteers for military service in the Marine Corps in lieu of prison, and Cruz continues his passion for art. Due to his back pain, Cruz becomes addicted to heroin, leading to the accidental overdose of his 12-year-old brother, Juanito. After the Marines, Paco joins the Los Angeles Police Department, working as an undercover policeman for them.
Meanwhile, Miklo finds that San Quentin is run by three racially defined prison gangs: the Black Guerrilla Army (BGA) led by Bonafide, the Aryan Vanguard led by Red Ryder, and La Onda led by Montana Segura. Popeye, a high-ranking member of La Onda, tries to rape Miklo at knifepoint but is stopped by Montana, who finds Popeye's intentions dishonorable. Miklo learns that the only way into La Onda is by killing an inmate from a rival gang. He forms a rapport with Aryan Vanguard associate Big Al, then kills him in the prison kitchen. Now initiated, Miklo rises through the La Onda ranks, eventually joining its Ruling Council.
After serving nine years, Miklo is granted parole. On the outside, disgusted by his menial job, he joins in an armed robbery. The heist goes poorly and Miklo is intercepted by Paco, who tries to persuade him to surrender his weapon and resolve the situation peacefully. Miklo instead starts to flee, and Paco shoots him in the leg. The leg is amputated, and Miklo is sent back to prison.
Miklo notices that cocaine use is now rampant, driven by competing supplies from the BGA and La Onda council member Carlos. The Aryan Vanguard want to partner with Carlos as his supplier, offering to help Carlos take the BGA out of the cocaine business. Montana, against La Onda being in the drug trade, warns that the Aryans want to start a war between the Black and Chicano inmates. The Council votes in agreement with Montana, resulting in Carlos and some others leaving La Onda to work with the Aryan Vanguard.
Carlos has his non-inmate brother, Smokey, bomb the BGA's stash house in the city. Carlos also kills "Pockets", who runs the BGA's operation in San Quentin. As Montana feared, the Aryan Vanguard then lets the BGA murder Carlos. With rising hostility between Blacks and Chicanos, Montana and Bonafide meet in the prison yard. Montana convinces Bonafide to agree to a truce if Montana reaches out to La Onda leaders in other prisons to end the violence. The warden grants Montana special permission to visit the prisons and Miklo is left in charge.
Montana is granted a special request to have his daughter visit him at a prison. Before she arrives, he is stabbed to death by someone from the BGA. Believing the Aryan Vanguard sent forged orders to the hitman, Paco arranges a peace conference between La Onda and the BGA, but Miklo uses the talks to build an alliance with the BGA and plan the joint killing of Aryan Vanguard leaders. After the Aryans are killed, Miklo's men double cross and murder the BGA leaders as well. Furious, Paco confronts Miklo, disowning him forever.
The warden vows to split La Onda's ruling council by sending them to prisons in other states. Miklo uses this to expand La Onda across the Southwest. It is later revealed that Magic, not the Aryan Vanguard, sent the forged orders to have the BGA kill Montana at Miklo's behest. As Miklo destroys the evidence of their betrayal, Magic swears his life to Miklo as his jefe. In East Los Angeles, Paco visits one of Cruz' murals, showing a portrait of his former life. In a pep talk with Cruz, Paco realizes that by ordering Miklo to go after Spider, Paco is responsible for what Miklo has become. He forgives Miklo, as well as himself.
|
Bowfinger
| 1,999
|
Frank Oz
|
['Steve Martin', 'Eddie Murphy', 'Heather Graham', 'Christine Baranski', 'Jamie Kennedy', 'Barry Newman', 'Adam Alexi-Malle', 'Kohl Sudduth', 'Terence Stamp', 'Robert Downey Jr.', 'Alejandro Patiño', 'Alfred De Contreras', 'Ramiro Fabian', 'Johnny Sanchez', 'Claude Brooks', 'Kevin Scannell', 'John Prosky', 'Michael Dempsey', 'Walter Powell', 'Phill Lewis', 'Marisol Nichols', 'Nathan Anderson', 'Brogan Roche', 'John Cho', 'Lloyd Berman', 'Zaid Farid', 'Aaron Brumfield', 'Kevin Grevioux', 'Kimble Jemison', 'Alex Craig Mann', 'Laura Grady', 'Reamy Hall', 'Michelle Boehle', 'Kimberly Baum', 'Megan Denton', 'Janet Jaeger', 'Hope Wood', 'Addie Yungmee', 'Andrea Toste', 'Carl Kocis', 'Steve J. Termath', 'Alan Oliney']
| 3.36
| null |
['Comedy']
| 97
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Universal Pictures', 'Imagine Entertainment', 'Brian Grazer Productions']
| 64,525
|
comedy
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
B movie film producer Bobby Bowfinger has been saving up to direct a movie since he was ten years old: he now has $2,184 to pay for production costs. He has a script ("Chubby Rain") penned by an accountant, Afrim, and a camera operator, Dave, who has access to studio equipment through his job as a gofer. Bowfinger then lines up several actors who are hungry for work, along with a crowd of undocumented Mexican immigrants as his camera crew; the only other thing he needs is a studio deal in order to distribute his masterwork.
He extracts a promise from high-ranking Universal Pictures executive Jerry Renfro that Universal will distribute the film if it includes currently hot action star Kit Ramsey. Ramsey – a pompous, neurotic, and paranoid actor – refuses, so Bowfinger concocts a plan to covertly film all of Ramsey's scenes without his knowledge. The actors, told that Ramsey is method acting and will not be interacting with them outside of their scenes, walk up to Ramsey in public and recite their lines while hidden cameras catch Ramsey's confused reactions.
The plan goes well at first: Ramsey (who is a member of a Scientology-like organization called MindHead) swallows the movie's alien invasion premise and believes he is genuinely being stalked by aliens, resulting in an exceptionally genuine and intense performance. However, the strain on his already-precarious mental state leads him to go into hiding in order to maintain his sanity, stalling the film's production.
Bowfinger resorts to hiring a Ramsey lookalike named Jiff. Jiff is unassuming, amiable, and so naïve that Bowfinger is able to persuade him to run across a busy freeway for a scene by assuring him the speeding cars are all being driven by "stunt drivers". During a chat with the other cast members, Jiff reveals that he is Kit's twin brother, explaining the likeness. Using this new knowledge, Bowfinger tasks Jiff with finding out Kit's location and plans so they can ambush him and film the final scene.
Only one scene remains to be shot: the finale set at the Griffith Observatory. Though otherwise pleased with Kit's unscripted dialogue, Bowfinger considers his character's final line "Gotcha, suckas!" to be the key moment of the film. Bowfinger directs Daisy, the female lead, to guide Kit through the scene under the guise of showing him how to get rid of the "aliens". During the filming, Kit becomes terrified and struggles to deliver the final line. At this point, Kit's MindHead mentor, Terry Stricter, who has discovered evidence that Kit's "aliens" may not be just in his head, shows up at the observatory and shuts down production.
Bowfinger's camera crew show him B-roll footage of Kit Ramsey they were filming off-set, just in case they caught anything they could use. The footage shows Kit donning a paper bag over his head and exposing himself to the Laker Girl Cheerleading Squad, something Terry Stricter previously dissuaded him from doing. Bowfinger blackmails Stricter and the MindHead leadership with the footage, threatening to release it and ruin Ramsey's career (which would impact MindHead's finances as Ramsey is a major donor). Stricter acquiesces and Bowfinger finishes the film with Kit's cooperation, and the cast and crew finally get to attend the film's premiere where they are awed by the result. Following the apparent success of the film, Bowfinger receives an offer to direct a martial arts film in Taiwan starring Jiff. The film ends with an elaborate fight scene from the new movie, Fake Purse Ninjas, featuring everyone who worked on Chubby Rain.
|
Boy
| 2,010
|
Taika Waititi
|
['James Rolleston', 'Te Aho Aho Eketone-Whitu', 'Taika Waititi', 'Moerangi Tihore', 'Cherilee Martin', 'RickyLee Waipuka-Russell', 'Haze Reweti', 'Maakariini Butler', 'Rajvinder Eria', 'Manihera Rangiuaia', 'Darcy Ray Flavell-Hudson', 'Rachel House', 'Waihoroi Shortland', 'Cohen Holloway', 'Pana Hema-Taylor', 'Tuhoro Ranihera Christie', 'Craig Hall', 'Mavis Paenga', 'Ngapaki Emery', 'Ngaru-toa Puru', 'Hoanihuhi Takotohiwi', 'Tainui Callaghan', 'Manaia Callaghan', 'Ei Kura Albert', 'Montana Te Kani-Williams', 'Rangiteaorere Raki', 'Wairangi Herewini', 'Waimihi Hotere', "Heke-turoa 'Panache' Ropitini", 'Ruataarehu Waititi', 'Te Urikore Waititi-Lake', 'Stu Rutherford', 'Justiun Haiu', 'Jarod Rawiri', 'Francis Kora', 'Chris Graham', 'Kereama Wright', 'Madeleine Sami', 'Billy Mizer']
| 4.05
| 3.5
|
Comedy, Drama, Coming-of-age story, Comedy drama, Tragicomedy
| 87
|
['New Zealand', 'USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'MÄori']
|
['New Zealand Film Commission', 'Unison Films', 'Whenua Films']
| 105,872
|
sad, comedy, emotional
|
sad-movies-if-you-feel-like-you-need-to-cry, vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
In 1984, Boy, an 11-year-old is living in Waihau Bay, in the Tairawhiti (Gisborne) region of New Zealand, on a small farm with his grandmother, younger brother Rocky, and several cousins. Boy spends his time dreaming of Michael Jackson, hanging out with his friends Dallas and Dynasty (both siblings), trying to impress Chardonnay, a girl at his school, talking to his pet goat, and making up wild stories about his absent father, Alamein. Rocky, meanwhile, is a quiet, odd child, who believes he has dangerous superpowers because his mother died giving birth to him. One day, Rocky's grandmother leaves for a funeral in Wellington, leaving Boy in charge of the house and taking care of the other children. Boy is then surprised to see his father and two other men arrive at the farm.
Boy is overjoyed to see Alamein return, thinking that he has come to take the boys away to live with him, but Rocky is uncertain about their father's sudden reappearance. It seems at first that Alamein has finally come back to be in his sons' lives, but it's soon revealed that he is actually there to find a bag of money that he had buried on the farm before being incarcerated for robbery. With his patched gang, the Crazy Horses (which is just him and two friends), Alamein begins digging up the field, searching for the money. Boy sees this and offers to help, thinking Alamein is digging for treasure, and Alamein soon decides to hang out with Boy and be a father. He cuts his son's hair to look like Michael Jackson (badly), and the two go on drives in Alamein's car and get revenge on Boy's school bullies by threatening them with a machete. Boy brings Alamein marijuana to sell from a crop grown by Dallas and Dynasty's father, a member of a local gang. Alamein, uncomfortable with being called 'Dad,' convinces Boy to call him Shogun instead.
Boy begins to see himself as an adult and a Crazy Horse, growing distant from his friends. However, Alamein, unable to find the money, becomes frustrated and drives off, leaving Boy and his fellow crazy horses behind. Boy continues to dig for the money alone until he finally discovers it. Excited, Boy hides the moneybag in his goat's pen, then takes his father's Crazy Horses jacket and proudly treats his friends to ice blocks and lollies. When Alamein drives up, Boy goes to tell him that he has found the money, but Alamein hits Boy for stealing his jacket and angrily questions him about where he found the money for the ice blocks, leaving Boy humiliated. Alamein later apologises, telling his son for the first time that he loves him, and refers to himself as "the incredible hulk", saying that sometimes he is a bad guy, but most of the time he is a good guy, and then Boy goes to retrieve the moneybag; only to find that it has been eaten by his goat.
Alamein and Rocky continue to dig for the hidden money, making Boy uneasy. Boy decides to make up for losing the money by leading Alamein to the marijuana crop owned by Dallas and Dynasty's father, and Alamein gathers the entire crop. The group is spotted running away by Dynasty, who stares at Boy, betrayed. Later, Alamein takes his gang out to celebrate at the local pub. Whilst waiting in the car with Boy, Rocky tells his brother that he likes their father, and wants to get to know him better. Another car then drives up, and the local gang gets out. Boy sees Dynasty sitting in the front seat with a black eye. The gang approaches Alamein and the Crazy Horses, confronting them over stealing their marijuana. At first, Boy imagines his dad successfully fighting off the gang in a Michael Jackson dance sequence, but reality comes back to him, and he sees the gang beat Alamein, Chuppa and Juju. While driving home, Alamein accidentally hits and kills Boy's goat.
The next day, Alamein is abandoned by his men, who steal the marijuana and the car. Enraged, Alamein trashes the house. Meanwhile, Boy visits his mother's grave, drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana, and finally comes to terms with the fact that all of his happy, early memories of his father are make-believe, and Alamein was in fact not even there when Rocky was born. Meanwhile, Alamein sits in the barn, depressed that he has been unable to find his money. Rocky comes up to him and attempts to comfort him with his 'powers,' telling Alamein that he is sorry he killed his mother by being born. Just then, Boy comes in and scatters the shredded money at Alamein's feet, then begins hitting his father, screaming to know why he wasn't there when Boy and Rocky's mother died. Boy tells Alamein that they are nothing alike, then returns to the house to take care of his cousins. The next morning, the children clean up the house, their grandmother returns home, and Alamein is gone.
Boy tells Rocky that Alamein has gone to Japan to train as a samurai. He reconnects with his friends and apologises to Dynasty, then goes with Rocky to visit their mother's grave. The two boys find Alamein sitting there. Quietly, they join him, before Rocky asks, "How was Japan?"
The film ends with a mid-credits sequence of all the major characters dancing in a routine that is a mixture of haka and Michael Jackson's Thriller.
|
Boy & the World
| 2,013
|
Alê Abreu
|
['Vinicius Garcia', 'Lu Horta', 'Marco Aurélio Campos', 'Felipe Zilse', 'Alê Abreu', 'Cassius Romero', 'Nestor Chiesse', 'Alfredo Rollo', 'PatrÃcia Pichamone', 'Melissa Garcia']
| 3.93
| null |
['Family', 'Animation', 'Adventure']
| 80
|
['Brazil']
|
Portuguese
|
['Portuguese']
|
['Filme de Papel']
| 20,029
|
animated
|
vote-best-animated-films-of-all-time
| null |
Cuca lives a very simple and blissful life with his parents. He spends his days playing in the forest, interacting with the animals, and listening to various sounds (represented by glowing balls of light). One day, Cuca's father leaves by train to find work, saddening Cuca with the nostalgia of playing with his mom and dad. Feeling that he will never be happy again, Cuca leaves with a large suitcase that contains only a picture of him and his parents. While waiting for the train, a sudden gust of wind lifts him up and carries him far away to a world that appears to have two moons.
Cuca is rescued by an old man and his pet dog, who promptly take him to work alongside them in the cotton fields. While there, Cuca hears the music of a traveling parade led by a young man in a rainbow poncho. The foreman of the cotton fields goes over his workers, and fires those who are unable due to advanced age or sickness. Cuca, the old man, and the dog travel many nights through the countryside before stopping under a large pink-leaved tree. In the distance, Cuca spots his father traveling on the back of a truck. He leaves the suitcase to the old man and follows the main road.
He arrives at a factory where the workers churn the cotton into fabric in robotic unison. At the end of the day, Cuca takes a bus into a grimy city and ends up staying with a young factory worker who is later revealed to be the rainbow poncho-wearing leader of the parade. In the morning, Cuca and the young man arrive at the market where the young man busks as a street musician to earn more money. While playing with a kaleidoscope, Cuca ends up on a barge where he learns that the fabrics are taken to a futuristic utopian city floating above the ocean. The fabrics are turned into clothing and repackaged out of sight in the city's dark underbelly, before being shipped back and sold in the grimy city. He reunites with the young man and the two sneak into the factory where the young man makes a rainbow poncho. They witness the factory's manager make a deal with a strange business man to replace the workers with a large automated machine. The young man and the rest of the workers are fired but a truck arrives to take them to work in the cotton fields.
While making their way back to the city, Cuca and the young man are stopped in traffic by the parade. Cuca suddenly spots the train his father came on and, using the young man's bike, arrives at the station to greet his father. However, Cuca is shocked to see multiple fathers who all look the same and all came to the city for a similar purpose. The parade is forcefully stopped by the city's army (represented by a giant, rainbow bird being defeated in combat by a militaristic black bird) and parts of the city lie in ruin. Cuca witnesses young children in the slums arming themselves with primitive weapons and preparing to start a rebellion. The young man looks on from a hill made of trash.
Cuca runs back home where he witnesses various machines taking over the countryside (inter-cut with live-action footage of deforestations and heavy carbon dioxide emissions). He arrives back at the pink-leaved tree where it is revealed that the old man is actually an older Cuca and that the tree is outside his now dilapidated childhood home. In a flashback, the young man, who is also Cuca, is seen leaving home and saying goodbye to his mother while seeing a pink-leaved sapling. Old Cuca pins the photo of him and his family to a wall and dons the rainbow poncho. He looks out and finds that his abandoned childhood home is surrounded by newer houses and farmers whose children continue to play and sing songs. The movie ends with one final flashback of Cuca and his parents planting the seed that will become the pink-leaved tree as the screen fades to white.
|
Boy Erased
| 2,018
|
Joel Edgerton
|
['Lucas Hedges', 'Nicole Kidman', 'Russell Crowe', 'Joel Edgerton', 'Joe Alwyn', 'Xavier Dolan', 'Troye Sivan', 'Cherry Jones', 'Flea', 'Jesse LaTourette', 'Britton Sear', 'Théodore Pellerin', 'Emily Hinkler', 'David Ditmore', 'Matt Burke', 'William Ngo', 'Lindsey Moser', 'David Joseph Craig', 'Victor McCay', 'Tim Ware', 'Madelyn Cline', 'Josh Scherer', 'Frank Hoyt Taylor', 'Jason Davis', 'Kevin Linehan', 'Paige Denise Crawford', 'Malerie Grady', 'Will Kindrachuk', 'Drew Scheid', 'Jesse Malinowski', 'Joy Jacobson', 'Randy Havens', 'Devin Michael', 'Brasher Russell']
| 3.31
| 4
|
Drama, Teen, Coming-of-age story
| 115
|
['Australia', 'China', 'USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Anonymous Content', 'Blue-Tongue Films', 'Perfect World Pictures', 'Focus Features']
| 121,217
|
sad, emotional
|
sad-movies-if-you-feel-like-you-need-to-cry
| null |
Jared Eamons[a] is the son of Marshall Eamons, a car dealer and Baptist preacher in Arkansas, and Nancy Eamons, a hairdresser. He begins his first day at the Love in Action gay conversion therapy assessment program in Memphis, Tennessee.
Chief therapist Victor Sykes tells the group that their sexuality is a choice influenced by poor parenting. He instructs them to perform harsh "moral inventories" of themselves and their families and requires them not to tell anyone else about what occurs during the sessions. While performing his moral inventory, Jared thinks of his life prior to entering the program.
In high school, he was happy, though he broke up with his girlfriend upon starting college. There he became friends with another student, Henry. While staying the night in Jared's dorm room, Henry rapes Jared, apologizes, and confesses to doing the same to another young man. Traumatized, Jared returns home.
Henry calls the Eamon home and poses as a school counselor in order to out Jared and ensure his silence. Jared tells his parents this was another student who had told him things about his past and was afraid of Jared revealing his secrets. Jared later agrees that he is attracted to men. Marshall prays over his son and signs him up for conversion therapy, to which Jared reluctantly agrees.
Nancy rents a nearby motel room for her and Jared to stay in until he completes the assessment; however, Jared discovers that the therapy has no set end point if he fails to convince Sykes that he has become heterosexual. It appears that Jared will be at the institution for some time. After failing an exercise, attendee Cameron is humiliated by Sykes and intimidated with a fake funeral service. He is beaten with Bibles by the therapists and his family and is dunked in a bathtub as a horrified Jared looks on.
Returning to his moral inventory, Jared thinks of a brief encounter he had with an art student in college. He uses it when it is his time to confess, but Sykes pushes him to talk about Henry. He refuses, so Sykes attempts to make Jared "use his anger" and say he hates his father. Jared refuses, as it is Sykes that he is angry with.
Jared calls Nancy, begging her to pick him up. Sykes, his assistants, and the other attendees corner him behind a locked door despite Nancy's presence. Cameron stands up for him and helps get Jared to Nancy, who takes him home.
Nancy is horrified that she has allowed her husband to enroll Jared in an unvetted program. Marshall remains adamant about Jared remaining in it, but she overrules him. Soon after, Jared learns that Cameron committed suicide while still in the program's care.
Four years later, Jared is living in New York City with his boyfriend. He writes an article that exposes the realities of the Love in Action program. He returns home to convince his father to read the article and tells him that he is the one who must change, not Jared. He invites his father to join his mother in visiting him at Christmas.
|
Boyhood
| 2,014
|
Richard Linklater
|
['Ellar Coltrane', 'Patricia Arquette', 'Ethan Hawke', 'Lorelei Linklater', 'Libby Villari', 'Marco Perella', 'Brad Hawkins', 'Jamie Howard', 'Andrew Villarreal', 'Jenni Tooley', 'Zoe Graham', 'Charlie Sexton', 'Elijah Smith', 'Steven Chester Prince', 'Bonnie Cross', 'Sydney Orta', 'Shane Graham', 'Tess Allen', 'Ryan Power', 'Sharee Fowler', 'Mark Finn', 'Byron Jenkins', 'Holly Moore', 'David Blackwell', 'Barbara Chisholm', 'Matthew Martinez-Arndt', 'Cassidy Johnson', 'Cambell Westmoreland', 'Jennifer Griffin', 'Garry Peters', 'Merrilee McCommas', 'Tamara Jolaine', 'Jordan Howard', 'Andrew Bunten', 'Tyler Strother', 'Evie Thompson', 'Savannah Welch', 'Mika Odom', 'Sinjin Venegas', 'Nick Krause', 'Derek Chase Hickey', 'Angela Rawna', 'Megan Devine', 'Landon Collier', 'Roland Ruiz', 'Richard Andrew Jones', 'Karen Jones', 'Gordon Friday', 'Tom McTigue', 'Sam Dillon', 'Martel Summers', 'David Clark', 'Jessie Tilton', 'Richard Robichaux', 'Will Harris', 'Indica Shaw', 'Bruce Salmon', 'Wayne Sutton', 'Joe Sundell', 'Sean Tracey', 'Ben Hodges', 'Daniel Zeh', 'Chris Doubek', 'Andrea Chen', 'Mona Lee Fultz', 'Bill Wise', 'Alina Linklater', 'Charlotte Linklater', 'Genevieve Kinney', 'Elijah Ford', 'Kyle Crusham', 'Conrad Choucroun', 'Maximillian McNamara', 'Taylor Weaver', 'Jessi Mechler', 'Deanna Brochin', 'Stephen Latham', 'Heather Materne', 'Johnny Walter', 'Natalie Makenna', 'Ken Edwards']
| 3.83
| null |
Documentary, Coming-of-age story, Comedy, Drama
| 166
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'Spanish']
|
['Detour Filmproduction', 'IFC Productions']
| 751,090
| null |
coming-of-age-movies-that-made-us-feel-seen
| null |
In 2002, 6-year-old Mason Evans lives with his divorced mother, Olivia, and 8-year-old sister, Samantha, in a small town in Texas. Mason overhears Olivia arguing with her boyfriend, saying she has no free time due to parenting. The following year, Olivia and the children move to Houston so she can attend the University of Houston to get a better job.
Mason's father, Mason Sr., visits Houston in 2004 and takes Mason and Samantha bowling. When he drops the children off at home, he argues with Olivia while Mason and Samantha watch from a window. Olivia takes Mason to one of her classes, and introduces him to her professor, Bill Welbrock; Mason sees them flirt.
In 2005, Olivia and Bill have married and blended their two families. They share experiences such as playing video games and attending a midnight release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Mason and Samantha are enrolled in the same school as their step-siblings, Mindy and Randy. There, Mason befriends Nicole, who has a crush on him.
The next year, Mason and Samantha bond with their father as he takes them out for a day in Houston, culminating in a Houston Astros game and a sleepover at his house. Olivia continues her education and is initially supportive of Bill's strict parenting style, which includes many chores for the children and an enforced shaving of Mason's long hair.
In 2007, Bill gradually becomes abusive and violent towards Olivia and the children due to his alcoholism. After he assaults Olivia, she moves out with Mason and Samantha to a friend's house and files for divorce while her step children stay with their father, since Olivia is unable to locate their biological mother, facing an uncertain future.
Next, when Mason Sr. learns that Samantha has a boyfriend, he talks to her and Mason about contraception. Then on a camping trip with his son, they connect through music, film, and Mason's blossoming interest in girls. The teens have grown into their lives in San Marcos, a town close to Austin.
In 2009, Mason is bullied at school and playfully teased on a camping trip but starts receiving attention from girls. Olivia takes a job in teaching psychology at college and moves in with Jim, a student and Iraq War veteran.
The next year, Mason is now in started high school and experimented with marijuana and alcohol. Mason Sr., who has remarried and has a baby, takes his kids to visit his wife's parents. For Mason's 15th birthday, Mason Sr. gives him a suit and CDs; Mason's step-grandparents give him a Bible and a shotgun.
In 2011, Mason is lectured by his photography teacher, who sees his potential but is disappointed by his lack of ambition. He later attends a party and meets Sheena, who becomes his girlfriend. After Mason arrives home late one night from a party, a drunk Jim confronts him about his late hours. Olivia and Jim subsequently break up, and the family's financial situation worsens.
The following year, Mason and Sheena visit Samantha, who is attending the University of Texas at Austin, where they share their hopes and fears about college. Samantha's roommate discovers them asleep together in her dorm bed.
In 2013, towards the end of Mason's senior year in high school, he has a painful breakup with Sheena, wins the second place silver medal in a state photography contest, and is awarded college scholarship money. His family throws him a graduation party and toasts his success. Mason Sr. gives him advice about his breakup.
Planning to sell the house and downsize, Olivia meets Samantha and Mason for lunch and asks them to sort through their possessions. Later that year, as Mason prepares to leave for college, Olivia breaks down, disillusioned by how quickly life has passed. At Sul Ross State University in Alpine, Mason moves into his dorm and meets his new roommate Dalton, Dalton's girlfriend Barb, and Barb's roommate, Nicole. Mason is given an edible by Barb, and the group goes hiking at Big Bend Ranch State Park. Nicole shares with Mason her belief that, rather than people seizing moments, moments seize people; Mason agrees.
|
Boys
| 2,014
|
Mischa Kamp
|
['Gijs Blom', 'Ko Zandvliet', 'Jonas Smulders', 'Ton Kas', 'Stijn Taverne', 'Myron Wouts', 'Ferdi Stofmeel', 'Lotte Razoux Schultz', 'Rachelle Verdel', 'Julia Akkermans', 'Jeffrey Hamilton', 'Rifka Lodeizen', 'Micha Hulshof', 'Caroline Olde Rikkert', 'Roosmarijn van der Hoek']
| 3.49
| 3.5
|
Romance, Melodrama, Drama, Coming-of-age story, Television
| 78
|
['Netherlands']
|
Dutch
|
['Dutch']
|
['NTR', 'Pupkin']
| 39,019
|
sad, emotional
|
sad-movies-if-you-feel-like-you-need-to-cry
| null |
Sieger is a fifteen-year-old boy, living with his widowed father, Theo, and his brother, Eddy, who, burdened with his mother's death, clashes with and acts out against his father. Along with his best friend (Stef), Sieger is a member of the local athletics team. They—and two other boys, Tom and Marc—are chosen to represent the team at the national championship relay race. In order to win, they must train intensively.
One day, they decide to go swimming in a nearby river. After Stef and Tom leave, Sieger and Marc share two kisses. Confused, Sieger insists that he is not gay, to which Marc responds, "Of course you're not," before Sieger heads home. Despite the incident, the boys remain close friends. When Stef meets and begins dating a local girl named Kim, Sieger feels pressured to romance Kim's best friend, Jessica, and suppress his feelings for Marc.
One weekend, the athletics team goes on a training trip. On the first night, Sieger sneaks out, and Marc follows him to the beach, where they spend the rest of the night kissing and resting in each other's arms. When they return home, Sieger, Jessica, Stef, and Kim attend a fair. Also at the fair, Marc sees them and wants to join up. However, afraid that the truth will come out, Sieger tries to ignore Marc. He manages to distract and appease Jessica by winning her a stuffed animal; and after, Jessica kisses Sieger, stirring feelings of confusion and pain for Marc.
Some days later, Sieger attempts to make up with Marc, and they agree to go swimming that evening. However, Theo and Eddy get into a fight after Theo learns Eddy was fired from his job a while ago and has been spending the time riding motorbikes with his friends. Theo locks up the motorbike. Instead of going to the river, Sieger tries to convince his brother to come home. Eddy will not heed his pleas but offers him a ride in a car he is driving. On the way, they almost hit Marc while he is riding his bike. Marc gets the chance to ask Sieger why he did not turn up at their appointment, and Sieger, afraid to be caught speaking to Marc, does not answer him and walks off.
On the day of the relay race, Sieger offers Marc a simple "sorry" which Marc, waiting for an explanation that does not come, tells Sieger to go back to his "charade". Despite this, the team wins. Sieger, Eddy, Theo, and Stef celebrate with dinner at Sieger's house, where Theo gives Eddy back his motorbike. Stef reveals that he knows about Sieger and Marc, telling Sieger "that they make a good team". At dinner, Theo notices Sieger acting rather introverted and asks if he is okay. Sieger answers "no" and jumps on the motorbike, and drives away.
The final scene shows Sieger driving Eddy's motorbike with Marc on the back, embracing him. Perhaps to the beach, but as the words of the final song indicates, Sieger is on a journey of self-acceptance. They are finally together and appear to be happy.
|
Boys Don't Cry
| 1,999
|
Kimberly Peirce
|
['Hilary Swank', 'Chloë Sevigny', 'Peter Sarsgaard', 'Brendan Sexton III', 'Alicia Goranson', 'Alison Folland', 'Jeannetta Arnette', 'Rob Campbell', 'Matt McGrath', 'Cheyenne Rushing', 'Robert Prentiss', 'Josh Ridgway', 'Craig Erickson', 'Stephanie Sechrist', 'Jerry Haynes', 'Lou Perryman', 'Lisa Renee Wilson', 'Jackson D. Kane', 'Joseph Gibson', 'Michael Tripp', 'Shana McClendon', 'Libby Villari', 'Paige Carl Griggs', 'Gail Cronauer', 'Guilford Adams', 'Christophe Dahlkvist', 'Taylor Eaves', 'Michelle Fairbanks', 'Gabriel Horn', 'Gavin Perry', 'Robert A. Steffenino', 'Caitlin Wehrle']
| 3.68
| 4
|
Romance, LGBTQ, Short, Melodrama, Drama, Crime film, Docudrama
| 118
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Fox Searchlight Pictures', 'IFC Productions', 'Killer Films', 'Hart-Sharp Entertainment']
| 112,017
|
sad, emotional
|
sad-movies-if-you-feel-like-you-need-to-cry
| null |
Brandon Teena is a young trans man living in rural Nebraska.[8] When Brandon is discovered to be transgender by a former girlfriend's brother, he receives death threats. Soon after, he is involved in a bar fight and is evicted from his cousin's trailer. Brandon moves to Falls City, Nebraska, where he befriends ex-convicts John Lotter and Tom Nissen, and their friends Candace and Lana Tisdel. Brandon becomes romantically involved with Lana, who is initially unaware both of his anatomy and his troubled past. The two make plans to move to Memphis, where Brandon will manage Lana's karaoke singing career. Eventually, they kiss during a date night which ends with them having sex.
The police detain Brandon on charges that arose before his relocation; they place him in the women's section of the Falls City jail. Lana bails Brandon out and asks why he was placed in a women's jail. Brandon attempts to lie to her, saying he was born intersex and will soon receive genital reconstruction surgery, but Lana stops him, declaring her love for him regardless of his gender. However, while Brandon is in jail, Candace finds a number of documents listing Brandon's birth name, and she and her friends react to this news with shock and disgust. They enter Brandon's room, search among Brandon's things, and discover transgender pamphlets that confirm their suspicions. When Brandon and Lana return, Tom and John violently confront Brandon and take him into the bathroom, forcibly removing his pants and revealing his genitals. They try to make Lana look, but she shields her eyes and turns away. After this confrontation, Tom and John drag Brandon into John's car and drive to an isolated location, where they brutally beat and gang rape him.
Afterward, they take Brandon to Tom's house, where Brandon escapes through a bathroom window. Although his assailants threaten Brandon and warn him not to report the attack to the police, Lana convinces him to do so. However, the police chief proves to be less concerned with the crime and interrogates Brandon about his sexual identity.
Later, John and Tom get drunk and drive to Candace's house. Lana attempts to stop them, but they find Brandon, who has been hiding in a nearby shed. John shoots Brandon under the chin, killing him instantly. While Candace is crying out to them to spare her baby, Tom shoots her in the head and kills her as Lana fights with them, begging them to stop. Tom stabs Brandon's lifeless body. John and Tom flee the scene while a crying Lana lies with Brandon's body and the baby toddles through the open door to the outside, crying. The next morning, Lana awakens next to Brandon's corpse. Her mother arrives and takes her away from the scene. As Lana leaves Falls City, a letter to her from Brandon that she found on his body, is heard in a voiceover, saying that in Memphis "I'll be waiting for you, love always and forever".
|
Braindead
| 1,992
|
Peter Jackson
|
['Timothy Balme', 'Diana Peñalver', 'Elizabeth Moody', 'Ian Watkin', 'Brenda Kendall', 'Stuart Devenie', 'Jed Brophy', 'Elizabeth Brimilcombe', 'Stephen Papps', 'Murray Keane', 'Glenis Levestam', 'Lewis Rowe', 'Elizabeth Mulfaxe', 'Harry Sinclair', 'Davina Whitehouse', 'Silvio Famularo', 'Brian Sergent', 'Peter Vere-Jones', 'Tina Regtien', 'Bill Ralston', 'Tony Hopkins', 'Tony Hiles', 'Duncan Smith', 'Tich Rowney', 'George Port', 'Stephen Andrews', 'Nick Ward', 'Kenny McFadden', 'Angela Robinson Witherspoon', 'Johnny Chico', 'Peter Jackson', 'James Grant', 'Michelle Turner', 'Jim Booth', 'Sam Dallimore', 'Anna Cahill', 'Kate Jason-Smith', 'Fran Walsh', 'Norman Willerton', 'Robert Ericson', 'Morgan Rowe', 'Sean Hay', 'Vicki Walker', 'Chris Short', 'Jamie Selkirk', 'Brad Selkirk', 'Forrest J. Ackerman']
| 3.93
| 4
|
Horror, Splatter, Zombie, Comedy, Body horror, Action, Romance, Comedy horror, Dark comedy, Cannibal, Drama, Thriller
| 103
|
['New Zealand']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['WingNut Films', 'New Zealand Film Commission', 'Avalon/NFU Studios', 'Trimark Pictures']
| 132,739
|
comedy
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
In 1957, a zoo official Stewart McAlden and his team smuggle a captured Sumatran rat-monkey, a hybrid creature that resulted from the rape of tree monkeys by plague-carrying rats, out of Skull Island. During the team's escape from the island's warrior natives, who demand the creature's return, Stewart is bitten by the rat-monkey, resulting in his dismemberment and killing by his crew, who fear the effects of the bite. As per Stewart's warning to the natives, "this monkey's going to Newtown", the captured rat-monkey is then shipped to Wellington Zoo by the survivors of the expedition.
In Wellington, Lionel Cosgrove lives in Hataitai in a Victorian mansion with his domineering mother, Vera. When he was a child, Lionel's father drowned trying to save him at the beach, and the incident has haunted him into adulthood. To Vera's dismay, Lionel falls in love with a Spanish Romani shopkeeper's daughter, Paquita María Sánchez, who is convinced the two are destined to be together. When the two visit Wellington Zoo together on a date, Vera follows them and is bitten by the rat-monkey. Over the following days, she grows increasingly more decrepit; her skin begins to peel, and her ear falls off during lunch with friends. She appears to die before reanimating as a ravenous zombie, devouring Paquita's dog and killing the attending nurse, Mrs. McTavish, who also returns as a zombie, before Lionel locks them both in the basement and keeps them sedated with animal tranquilizers. While visiting Paquita, her grandmother gives Lionel a pendant for luck. Vera is able to break out of the basement and is run over into Paquita's shop by a tram. She survives, and Lionel tranquilizes Vera before she attacks anyone.
At her funeral, Lionel tranquilizes Vera to prevent her from attacking the mourners. Later, while returning to the graveyard to administer more of it, he is accosted and beaten by a group of hoodlums who presume him to be a necrophiliac. Vera suddenly bursts from her grave and attacks the hoodlums. In the ensuing commotion, the gang leader "Void", as well as the local priest Father McGruder, are bitten and become zombies, so Lionel has to keep them locked in the basement too. After the nurse and priest copulate and produce a zombie baby, Lionel breaks up with Paquita to keep her safe. Shortly afterward, Lionel's uncle Les arrives to wrangle with Lionel over Vera's estate. Discovering the zombies, which he believes to be dead bodies, in the basement, Les blackmails his nephew into giving up the house and his inheritance. He invites his friends over for a housewarming party despite Lionel's objections.
During the party, Paquita arrives to try to make amends with Lionel. She discovers the zombies in the basement, and Lionel explains all that has occurred to her. She is able to convince Lionel to administer poison to the zombies to finally kill them. Still, after injecting the zombies with it, he discovers the poison is an animal stimulant, which revives them. They narrowly escape the now-enhanced zombies, who burst into the house upstairs and slaughter the party guests. The guests subsequently reanimate and begin to attack the survivors. Lionel enters the house with a lawn mower and mows through a horde of zombies while Paquita tries to dispose of zombie body parts in the blender. Les enters the basement, where he is beheaded by Vera, who has now grown to monstrous proportions. Vera erupts from the basement and pursues them both to the rooftop as the house catches fire from a burst gas pipe.
As Vera corners them on the roof, Lionel confronts his mother and reveals that he witnessed Vera drowning his father and his mistress in the bathtub as a child and proclaims that he is no longer afraid of her. Vera becomes enraged and swallows Lionel with an opening in her stomach before preparing to kill Paquita. Lionel cuts his way out of his mother's body with the good luck pendant, causing Vera to fall back into the burning house. Lionel and Paquita escape the burning rooftop as the fire brigade arrives to support them. They kiss and then walk away arm-in-arm victoriously.
|
Branded to Kill
| 1,967
|
Seijun Suzuki
|
['JÅ Shishido', 'Kôji Nanbara', 'Isao Tamagawa', 'Annu Mari', 'Mariko Ogawa', 'Hiroshi Minami', 'Hiroshi ChÅ', 'Atsushi Yamatoya', 'Takashi Nomura', 'Tokuhei Miyahara', 'Hiroshi Midorikawa', 'Kosuke Hisamatsu', 'Iwae Arai', 'Yû Izumi', 'Kyôji Mizuki', 'KÅji Seyama', 'Masaaki Honme', 'Mitsuru Sawa', 'Shiro Tonami', 'Akira Takahashi', 'ShinzÅ Shibata', 'Tessen Nakahira', 'Wataru Kobayashi', 'Yoshigi Ãba', 'Ken Mizoguchi', 'Michiko Hagi', 'Franz Gruber', 'Akira Hisamatsu']
| 3.87
| 5
|
Action, Comedy, Yakuza, Adventure, Noir, Drama, Crime film, Suspense, Mafia, Thriller, Gangster, Detective fiction, Crime Fiction, Police procedural
| 91
|
['Japan']
|
Japanese
|
['Japanese']
|
['Nikkatsu Corporation']
| 37,088
|
action, top-rated
|
letterboxds-top-250-action-films
| null |
Goro Hanada, the Japanese underworld's third-ranked hitman, and his wife, Mami, fly into Tokyo and are met by Kasuga, a former hitman-turned-taxi driver. Hanada agrees to help Kasuga return to the underworld, and the three go to a club owned by yakuza boss Michihiko Yabuhara. The two men are hired to escort a client from Sagami Beach to Nagano. After the meeting, Yabuhara seduces Mami.
Driving their client towards his destination, Hanada spots an ambush and dispatches several gunmen. Panicking, Kasuga attacks one of the ambushers, Koh, the fourth-ranked hitman, resulting in both of their deaths. Hanada leaves the client to secure Koh's car but hears three gunshots. Rushing back, he finds the client safe, while three additional ambushers have been shot through their foreheads. At another ambush, Hanada kills more gunmen and sets Sakura, the second-ranked hitman, on fire; the client shoots Sakura dead. On his way home, Hanada's car breaks down. Misako, a mysterious woman with a deathwish, gives him a ride. At home, Hanada has rough sex with Mami, fuelled by his fetish for smelling boiling rice.
|
Brave
| 2,012
|
Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman
|
['Kelly Macdonald', 'Emma Thompson', 'Billy Connolly', 'Julie Walters', 'Robbie Coltrane', 'Kevin McKidd', 'Craig Ferguson', 'Peigi Barker', 'Steve Purcell', 'Patrick Doyle', 'John Ratzenberger', 'Sally Kinghorn', 'Eilidh Fraser', 'Steven Cree', "Callum O'Neill"]
| 3.37
| 3.5
|
Animation, Children's film, Action, Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy, Family film, Drama, Comedy drama
| 93
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Walt Disney Pictures', 'Pixar']
| 1,517,073
|
animated
|
vote-best-animated-films-of-all-time
| null |
In Medieval Scotland, a young Princess Merida of the celt clan Dunbroch celebrates her birthday and is given a bow and arrow by her father, King Fergus, dismaying his wife Queen Elinor. In the forest, Merida encounters a will-o'-the-wisp and Mor'du, a huge demon bear, attacks the family. Fergus and his men fend off Mor'du, though the fight costs Fergus one of his legs.
Ten years later, Merida discovers she is to be betrothed to the son of one of her father's allies. Failure to consent to the betrothal could harm Dunbroch; Elinor reminds Merida of a legend of a prince whose pride and refusal to follow his father's wishes destroyed his kingdom.
The allied clan chieftains and their first-born sons arrive to compete in the Highland games for Merida's hand in marriage. Twisting the rules, Merida announces that, as her own clan's firstborn, she will compete for her own hand. She easily bests her suitors and, after arguing with Elinor, runs away into the forest. Wisps lead her to the hut of an elderly witch, where she bargains for a spell to "change" Elinor. The witch gives her an enchanted cake.
Elinor eats the cake and is transformed into a bear, unable to speak but retaining most of her human consciousness. Merida returns to the deserted witch's cottage, and discovers a message from the witch: she must "mend the bond, torn by pride" by the second sunrise, or the spell will become permanent. Merida and Elinor encounter Mor'du and realize Mor'du was the prince in the legend. Merida vows not to let the same thing happen to her mother, and concludes she needs to repair the family tapestry she deliberately damaged during their argument.
They return to the castle to find the clans on the verge of war. Merida intends to declare herself ready to choose a suitor as tradition demands, but at Elinor's prompting, she instead allows the firstborns to marry in their own time to whomever they choose. The clans agree, breaking tradition but renewing their alliance.
Losing her humanity, Elinor attacks Fergus and flees the castle. Mistaking the Queen for Mor'du, Fergus pursues the bear with the other clans, locking Merida in the castle. Merida escapes with the assistance of her triplet brothers, who have become bear cubs after eating the enchanted cake. She repairs the tapestry as Fergus and the clans capture Elinor. Merida thwarts them before the real Mor'du arrives. Mor'du targets Merida, but Elinor intercedes, causing Mor'du to be crushed by a falling menhir. This releases the spirit of the prince, who thanks Merida for freeing him and transforms into a wisp. The sun rises for the second time, but Elinor remains a bear. Merida reconciles with her mother, begging to have her back, and unknowingly fulfills the true meaning of the witch's message. This reverses the spell's effects on her mother and brothers.
With Mor'du gone, Merida and Elinor work together on a new tapestry, bid farewell to the other clans, and ride their horses together.
|
Braveheart
| 1,995
|
Mel Gibson
|
['Mel Gibson', 'Catherine McCormack', 'Sophie Marceau', 'Patrick McGoohan', 'Angus Macfadyen', 'Brendan Gleeson', 'James Robinson', 'James Cosmo', 'Sean McGinley', 'Gerda Stevenson', 'Mhairi Calvey', 'Jeanne Marine', 'Sean Lawlor', 'Sandy Nelson', 'Alan Tall', 'Andrew Weir', 'Brian Cox', 'Peter Hanly', 'Stephen Billington', 'Tommy Flanagan', 'Rupert Vansittart', 'Tam White', 'Ian Bannen', "David O'Hara", 'Peter Mullan', 'David Gant', 'Malcolm Tierney', 'Martin Murphy', 'Gerard McSorley', 'Bernard Horsfall', 'Richard Leaf', 'Liam Carney', 'Ralph Riach', 'Barry McGovern', 'John Kavanagh', 'Alun Armstrong', 'Julie Austin', 'Alex Norton', 'Michael Byrne', 'William Scott-Masson', 'Dean Lopata', 'Donal Gibson', 'Jimmy Chisholm', 'John Murtagh', 'David McKay', "Niall O'Brien", 'Martin Dempsey', 'Jimmy Keogh', 'Joe Savino', 'Mal Whyte', 'Paul Tucker', 'Greg Jeloudov', "Jer O'Leary", 'Joanne Bett', 'Robert Paterson', 'Martin Dunne', 'Fred Chiverton', 'Daniel Coll', 'Bill Murdoch', 'Phil Kelly']
| 3.88
| 3.5
|
War, Action, Romance, Historical drama, Drama
| 177
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'French', 'Latin', 'Scottish Gaelic, Gaelic']
|
['Icon Entertainment International', 'The Ladd Company', 'B.H. Finance C.V.']
| 586,848
|
oscar-winner, action, top-rated
|
oscar-winning-films-best-picture, letterboxds-top-250-action-films
| null |
In 1280, Edward I of England, known as "Longshanks", conquers Scotland following the death of the Scots' king, who left no heir. Young William Wallace witnesses the aftermath of Longshanks' execution of several Scottish nobles, then loses his father and brother when they resist the English. He leaves home to be raised by his uncle, Argyll.
Years later, Longshanks grants his noblemen land and privileges in Scotland, including jus primae noctis, while his son marries French princess Isabelle. Meanwhile, a grown Wallace returns home and secretly marries his childhood friend Murron MacClannough. Soon after, Wallace rescues Murron from a soldier, but Murron is subsequently captured and executed. In retribution, Wallace and the locals overthrow the garrison, beginning a rebellion that soon spreads. Longshanks orders his son to stop Wallace while he campaigns in France. Wallace defeats an army sent by the prince at Stirling, then invades England by sacking York. He also meets Robert the Bruce, a contender for the Scottish crown.
After returning to England, Longshanks sends Isabelle to negotiate with Wallace as a distraction from the movement of Longshanks' forces. Meeting Wallace, Isabelle becomes enamored with him and warns him of Longshanks' plans. Wallace faces Longshanks at Falkirk. During the battle, nobles Mornay and Lochlan withdraw, having been bribed by Longshanks, resulting in Wallace's army being overwhelmed. Wallace also discovers Robert the Bruce had joined Longshanks. After helping Wallace escape, Robert vows to not be on the wrong side again. Wallace kills Mornay and Lochlan for their betrayal and foils an assassination plot with Isabelle's help. Wallace and Isabelle spend the following night together, while Longshanks' health declines. At a meeting in Edinburgh, Wallace is captured. Realizing his father's responsibility, Robert disowns him. In England, Wallace is condemned to execution. After a final meeting with Wallace, Isabelle tells Longshanks, who can no longer speak, that his bloodline will end upon his death as she is pregnant with Wallace's child and will ensure that Longshanks' son spends as short a time as possible as monarch. At his execution, Wallace refuses to submit, even while being disemboweled. The magistrate encourages Wallace to seek mercy and be granted a quick death. Wallace instead shouts, "Freedom!", while Longshanks dies. Before being beheaded, Wallace sees a vision of Murron in the crowd.
In 1314, Robert, now Scotland's king, faces the English at Bannockburn, and implores his men to fight with him as they did with Wallace. After Wallace's sword is thrown to land point-down in the ground, Robert leads the Scots to a final victory.
|
Brazil
| 1,985
|
Terry Gilliam
|
['Jonathan Pryce', 'Robert De Niro', 'Katherine Helmond', 'Ian Holm', 'Bob Hoskins', 'Michael Palin', 'Ian Richardson', 'Peter Vaughan', 'Kim Greist', 'Jim Broadbent', 'Barbara Hicks', 'Charles McKeown', "Derrick O'Connor", 'Kathryn Pogson', 'Bryan Pringle', 'Sheila Reid', 'John Flanagan', 'Roger Ashton-Griffiths', 'John Pierce Jones', 'Nigel Planer', 'Terence Bayler', 'Gorden Kaye', 'Jack Purvis', 'Howard Lew Lewis', 'Ray Cooper', 'Brian Miller', 'Simon Jones', 'Derek Deadman', 'Bill Wallis', 'Myrtle Devenish', 'Ann Way', 'Don Henderson', 'Oscar Quitak', 'Harold Innocent', 'John Grillo', 'Ralph Nossek', 'David Gant', 'James Coyle', 'Patrick Connor', 'Elizabeth Spender', 'Russell Keith Grant', 'Terry Gilliam']
| 4.1
| 4.5
|
Science fiction, Comedy, Drama
| 143
|
['UK', 'USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Embassy International Pictures']
| 282,173
|
sci-fi, comedy, top-rated
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time, letterboxds-top-250-science-fiction-films
| null |
In a dystopian, polluted, hyper-consumerist, overbearing, bureaucratic, totalitarian future based on elements of the 20th century, Sam Lowry is a low-level government employee who frequently dreams of himself as a winged warrior saving a damsel in distress. One day, shortly before Christmas, an insect becomes jammed in a teleprinter, which misprints a copy of an arrest warrant it was receiving. This leads to the arrest and death during interrogation of cobbler Archibald Buttle instead of suspected terrorist Archibald Tuttle.
Sam discovers the mistake when he discovers the wrong bank account had been debited for the arrest. He visits Buttle's widow to give her the refund where he catches a glimpse of her upstairs neighbour Jill Layton, a truck driver, and is astonished to discover that Jill resembles the woman from his dreams. Sam frantically tries to approach Jill, but she disappears before he can find her. Jill has been trying to help Mrs Buttle establish what happened to her husband, but her efforts have been obstructed by bureaucracy. Unbeknownst to her, she is now considered a terrorist accomplice of Tuttle for attempting to report the wrongful arrest of Buttle.
Meanwhile, Sam reports a fault in his apartment's air conditioning. Central Services are uncooperative, but then Tuttle unexpectedly comes to his assistance. Tuttle explains that he used to work for Central Services but left because of his dislike of the tedious and repetitive paperwork, and now works illegally as a freelance heating engineer. Tuttle repairs Sam's air conditioning, but when two Central Services workers, Spoor and Dowser, arrive, Sam has to stall to let Tuttle escape.
Sam discovers that Jill's records have been classified and the only way to access them is to be promoted to Information Retrieval. He had previously turned down a promotion arranged by his high-ranking mother, Ida, who is obsessed with the rejuvenating plastic surgery of cosmetic surgeon Dr Jaffe. Sam retracts his refusal by speaking with Deputy Minister Mr Helpmann at a party hosted by Ida. After obtaining Jill's records, Sam tracks her down before she can be arrested. Sam clumsily confesses his love to Jill, and they cause mayhem as they escape government agents. They stop at a mall and are frightened by a terrorist bombing (part of a campaign that has been occurring around the city), then government agents arrive and take Sam. He awakens briefly detained in police custody.
At work, Sam is chastised by his new boss Mr Warrenn for his lack of productivity. Sam returns home to find that Spoor and Dowser have repossessed his apartment. Tuttle then appears in secret and helps Sam exact revenge on the two Central Services workers by filling their hazmat suits with raw sewage. Jill finds Sam outside his apartment and the two take refuge in Ida's unoccupied home, where they share their first kiss. Sam falsifies government records to indicate her death, allowing her to escape pursuit. The two have sex overnight, but in the morning are apprehended by the government at gunpoint. Sam is told that Jill was killed while resisting arrest. Charged with treason for abusing his new position, Sam is restrained in a chair in a large, empty cylindrical room, to be tortured by his old friend, Jack Lint.
As Jack is about to start the torture, Tuttle and other members of the resistance break into the Ministry, shooting Jack, rescuing Sam, and blowing up the Ministry building. Sam and Tuttle flee together, but Tuttle mysteriously disappears amid a mass of scraps of paperwork from the destroyed building. Sam stumbles into the funeral of Ida's friend, who has died following botched cosmetic surgery. Sam discovers that his mother now resembles Jill, and is too busy being fawned over by young men to care about her son's plight. Government agents disrupt the funeral, and Sam falls into the open casket. Through a black void he lands in a street from his daydreams, and tries to escape police and monsters by climbing a pile of flex-ducts. Opening a door, he passes through it and is surprised to find himself in a truck driven by Jill. The two leave the city together. However, this "happy ending" is a delusion: it is revealed that Sam is still strapped to the torture chair. Realising that Sam has descended into irrecoverable insanity, Jack and Mr Helpmann declare him a lost cause and leave the room. Sam remains in the chair, smiling and singing "Aquarela do Brasil" to himself.
|
Breakdown
| 1,997
|
Jonathan Mostow
|
['Kurt Russell', 'J.T. Walsh', 'Kathleen Quinlan', 'M.C. Gainey', 'Jack Noseworthy', 'Rex Linn', 'Ritch Brinkley', 'Moira Harris', 'Kim Robillard', 'Thomas Kopache', 'Jack McGee', 'Vincent Berry', 'Helen Duffy', 'Ancel Cook', 'Gene Hartline', 'Steve Waddington', 'Rick Sanders', 'Alitzah', 'Rick Zieff']
| 3.58
| null |
Thriller, Action, Suspense, Adventure, Drama, Crime film, Mystery, Psychological thriller, Crime Fiction
| 93
|
['Italy', 'USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Paramount Pictures', 'Spelling Entertainment', 'DDL Cinematografica']
| 48,885
|
road-movie, thriller, essential
|
road-movies-1, 100-essential-thrillers
| null |
While driving from Boston to San Diego in their new Jeep Grand Cherokee, Jeff Taylor and his wife Amy narrowly avoid colliding with a beat-up pickup truck in Arizona. At a gas station, Earl, the truck's driver, angrily confronts Jeff. Shortly after the couple resume their trip, their car breaks down on a desolate road. Leaving Jeff with the Jeep, Amy accepts a ride from a passing tractor trailer driver to get to a nearby diner and call for help. Jeff eventually discovers that someone tampered with the Jeep's battery connections. After reconnecting them, he drives to the diner and discovers that no one has seen Amy. Jeff sees the trucker on the road and forces him to stop. However, the trucker claims he has never seen Jeff or Amy. Jeff then hails Boyd, a passing sheriff, but a brief search of the truck yields no sign of Amy. The trucker, Red Barr, is allowed to leave and Boyd tells Jeff to see the deputy sheriff in the town of Brackett.
After speaking with the deputy, Jeff returns to the diner. Billy, a mentally-impaired mechanic, informs Jeff that Amy left with some men, but refuses to speak with the police, claiming they are involved. Jeff rushes to the location Billy mentioned, but is ambushed on a back road by Earl. He escapes by driving his Jeep into a river and swimming away. Jeff circles back to watch Earl and another accomplice, Al, pull his Jeep out of the water. He is then discovered and knocked out by Billy.
When Jeff awakens, he is confronted by Billy (who feigned mental impairment earlier) and Earl. Their leader is Red Barr, who wants the $90,000 in Jeff's bank account in exchange for Amy's life, ordering him to withdraw the money in the nearby town of Brackett. Realizing he only has $5,000, Jeff attempts to alert the bank manager of his situation. However, paranoid that Red's group is watching him, Jeff abandons the idea and steals marked money ribbons and a letter opener. He uses the money ribbons to pack stacks of $1 bills between two $100 bills.
Jeff is then instructed to leave town, where Earl picks him up and binds him with duct tape. Earl begins gloating about how Jeff and his wife were easy targets, how he tampered with their Jeep, and that his group intends to kill them anyway. Jeff frees himself with the letter opener and stabs Earl. Jeff takes over the vehicle, binds Earl, and tortures him to reveal his rendezvous with Red at a local truck stop. They pass Boyd, who sees the speeding, swerving pickup and stops the vehicle. When Jeff exits the truck with Earl's gun, Boyd mistakes the situation and forces him to lie down. Earl frees himself and shoots Boyd with a concealed gun. Before Earl can shoot Jeff, a wounded Boyd shoots and kills him. Jeff uses Boyd's radio to call for an ambulance and rushes to the truck stop.
At the stop, Jeff stows away under the trailer of Red's truck. Early the next morning, Red arrives at his farm. Jeff sneaks into the barn, discovering evidence that Red and his accomplices have a history of robbing and killing tourists, and that his real name is Warren. Al and Billy arrive with a bound and gagged Amy, whom they lock in a freezer in the barn's cellar. Unable to open the cellar door, Jeff finds a gun and demands the cellar key from Red. When he is distracted by Red's young son Deke, Billy escapes. Jeff forces Red to release Amy, exposing him in the process, and then locks him and his family in the cellar.
Jeff and Amy steal a pickup truck and flee, while Billy returns to free his accomplices, who each pursue the Taylors in their own vehicles. During the pursuit, Billy is killed in an explosion when Jeff forces his car off the road. Shortly after, the trailer from Red's truck detaches, causing Al to fatally crash into it. Undeterred, Red attempts to push Jeff and Amy's vehicle off a bridge with his truck, trapping Amy's leg underneath the dashboard. Jeff rushes out of the vehicle and into Red's tractor unit, where a struggle over the steering wheel forces Red's truck over the edge, leaving it dangling on a steel bridge support. Red attacks Jeff with a chain, until Jeff abruptly catches the chain and hurls Red to the rocks below. Jeff frees Amy from the dashboard. Seeing that Red survived the fall, Amy pulls the automatic shifter on their pickup truck, causing the suspended tractor unit to fall and crush him. Sitting on the edge of the bridge, Jeff and Amy embrace each other, waiting for the police to arrive.
|
Breakfast of Champions
| 1,999
|
Alan Rudolph
|
['Bruce Willis', 'Albert Finney', 'Nick Nolte', 'Barbara Hershey', 'Glenne Headly', 'Lukas Haas', 'Omar Epps', 'Vicki Lewis', 'Buck Henry', 'Ken Hudson Campbell', 'Jake Johannsen', 'Will Patton', 'Chip Zien', 'Owen Wilson', 'Alison Eastwood', 'Shawnee Smith', 'Michael Jai White', 'Keith Joe Dick', 'Diane Willson Dick', 'Michael Clarke Duncan', 'Lahmard J. Tate', 'Kurt Vonnegut', 'Dawn Didawick', 'Karl Wiedergott', 'Patti Allison', 'Alexa Robbins', 'Debra Dusay', 'Tom Robbins', "Raymond O'Connor", 'Tisha Sterling', 'Matt Callahan', 'Tracey Lee Mapstone', 'Mary Kennedy', 'Greg Walker', 'David Blampied', 'Greg Moore', 'Doug Hamblin', 'Thomas Patrice', 'Nancy Volle', 'Danielle Kennedy', 'Scout Willis', 'Nicolas Small', 'Denise Simone', 'Russ Wilson', 'Scott Beauchemin', 'Kassandra Kay', 'Ken Odom', 'Erica Evans', 'David Kyle', 'Richard Sheehan', 'Roman Lewis', 'RayVeness', 'Maxann Crotts', 'William L. Nagle', 'Beaux Sedwick']
| 2.64
| null |
Comedy, Satire, Dark comedy, Drama, Comedy drama
| 109
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'French']
|
['Hollywood Pictures', 'Flying Heart Films', 'Summit Entertainment']
| 3,608
|
comedy
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
Dwayne Hoover, a car salesman who is the most respected businessman in Midland City, Indiana, is on the verge of a nervous breakdown, even attempting suicide daily. His wife, Celia, is addicted to pills, and his sales manager and best friend, Harry Le Sabre, is preoccupied with his own secret fondness for wearing lingerie, worried he will be discovered.
Meanwhile, a little-known science fiction author, Kilgore Trout, is hitchhiking across the United States to speak at Midland City's arts festival. In search of answers for his identity quest, Hoover decides to attend the festival.
|
Breathe
| 2,014
|
Mélanie Laurent
|
['Joséphine Japy', 'Lou de Laâge', 'Isabelle Carré', 'Roxane Duran', 'Claire Keim', 'Radivoje BukviÄ', 'Thomas Solivérès', 'Camille Claris', 'Louka Meliava', 'Louise Grinberg', 'Fanny Sidney', 'Anne Marivin', 'Marie Denarnaud', 'Carole Franck', 'Alejandro AlbarracÃn', 'Vinciane Millereau', 'Victor Assié', 'Morgan Perez']
| 3.76
| 3.5
|
['Drama']
| 91
|
['France']
|
French
|
['French']
|
['Mely Productions', 'Move Movie', 'Gaumont']
| 27,550
|
sad, emotional
|
sad-movies-if-you-feel-like-you-need-to-cry
| null |
Charlie (Joséphine Japy) is a teenage high school student whose parents are breaking up. At school she is assigned to take care of new student Sarah (Lou de Laâge) who has recently moved from Nigeria, where her mother works, to live with her aunt. The two quickly become inseparable. During All Saints' Day Sarah tells Charlie that her mother is unable to visit and she'll be alone. Charlie invites Sarah to spend time with her mother and her mother's friends for the holiday.
Sarah's attitude towards Charlie abruptly changes when they are on vacation when Charlie introduces Sarah as a classmate and not as a friend. Sarah then alternates between being warm to Charlie and being cold and freezing her out. When they return from their vacation Sarah ignores Charlie and Charlie practices asking her what is wrong when she sees her at school. However, when Sarah gets to school Charlie warmly embraces her acting as though nothing is wrong.
Charlie continues to grow suspicious of Sarah and the way she acts. In front of their group of friends she points out inconsistencies in Sarah's stories about her mother. Sarah casually threatens to tell Charlie's friends about her abusive father, which Charlie confided to her in secret. In order to find out the truth about Sarah, Charlie follows her home from school where she learns she lives in a rough part of town with her alcoholic mother.
At a New Year's party Charlie tells Sarah that she saw her mother and that she, Sarah, isn't really mean. Sarah threatens to kill her if she tells anyone, and the two stop being friendly. After Charlie hears Sarah telling another one of their friends that Charlie never lost her virginity with her ex Lucas because she cried too much, she threatens to tell everyone about Sarah's mother. In retaliation Sarah graffitis "Charlie is a whore" all over the school. Though her friends try to rally around her, Charlie does nothing to stop Sarah's abuse.
Eventually Sarah shows up at Charlie's house crying because her mother hit her and she felt she had nowhere else to go. Charlie readily forgives her, telling her that she is only upset when they're apart. However, the next day at school Sarah once again ignores her, even giving a necklace she was given by Charlie's mom to another girl as a present. Charlie lashes out by attacking the girl.
Sarah comes by Charlie's place to collect her things after school is out for the summer. They sit on Charlie's bed, and Sarah taunts Charlie by saying that Charlie is an abuser playing a victim. Sarah tells Charlie that she plans to move to Paris with another friend to attend college while Charlie will be stuck in their small town for the rest of her life. Charlie cracks and pushes Sarah, who hits her head on a drawer. Sarah climbs back up and falls back onto the bed and begins laughing. Enraged and extremely distraught, Charlie suffocates her with a pillow.
When Charlie's mother returns home, Charlie cries an apology, telling her mother that "She is upstairs," before having a panic attack. Her mother goes upstairs and screams upon finding Sarah's body. Charlie manages to slow down her breathing and looks directly into the camera before it cuts to black.
|
Brick
| 2,005
|
Rian Johnson
|
['Joseph Gordon-Levitt', 'Emilie de Ravin', 'Nora Zehetner', 'Lukas Haas', 'Noah Fleiss', "Matt O'Leary", 'Noah Segan', 'Meagan Good', 'Brian J. White', 'Richard Roundtree', 'Jonathan Cauff', 'Reedy Gibbs', 'Lucas Babin', 'Ari Welkom', 'Tracy Bitterolf', 'Cody Lightning', 'McJoel Hamilton', 'Lauren Johnson', 'Dylan Lujano']
| 3.71
| 3.5
|
Action, Comedy, Neo-noir, Noir, Drama, Crime film, Teen, Suspense, Mystery, Thriller, Detective fiction, Indie film, Crime Fiction, Police procedural
| 110
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Bergman Lustig Productions']
| 162,149
|
mystery
|
101-greatest-mystery-movies
| null |
High school student Brendan Frye discovers a note directing him to a pay phone, where he receives a call from his ex-girlfriend Emily Kostich, begging him for help. She mentions a "bad brick", "the Pin", and "Tug" before abruptly hanging up, apparently afraid of a passing black Ford Mustang, from which a distinctively-branded cigarette is thrown. Unable to locate Emily, Brendan enlists his friend Brain for help. An encounter with another ex-girlfriend, Kara, leads him to a party held by flirtatious upper-class girl Laura Dannon and her boyfriend, Brad Bramish. Laura points Brendan to Dode, Emily's drug-addicted new boyfriend, who arranges a meeting with Emily.
Emily dismisses the phone call as a mistake and tells Brendan to let her go. Brendan steals her notepad and finds a note that leads him to her dead body in a tunnel the following morning. He suffers a brief altercation with unidentified assailant hidden within the tunnel. It is unclear if this perpetrator is in fact the murderer or simply an bystander. Distraught, Brendan decides to investigate her murder, hiding the body at an undisclosed location to avoid police involvement. Brendan discovers that "the Pin" refers to a secretive local drug baron. As Brad is a known drug user, Brendan picks a fight with him, hoping to attract the Pin's attention. Later, a man wearing a beanie attacks Brendan.
On his way home, Brendan sees the black Mustang in a parking lot and tries to break into it, but is caught by the beanie-wearing thug, who turns out to be the car owner. The man attacks Brendan, who repeatedly demands to meet the Pin instead of fighting back. The man is Tug, the Pin's main enforcer, who reluctantly takes Brendan to the Pin's house. Brendan asks the Pin for a job, and the Pin says he will investigate Brendan and either hire him or have him hurt; Brendan will find out which by the next day. Laura reveals that she was at the Pin's house the entire time and drives Brendan back to school. She explains that Emily stole a "brick" of heroin after being rejected by the Pin's operation. Laura offers to help Brendan, but he distrusts her.
The next day, Brendan learns that the Pin has hired him. Dode calls Brendan and says he saw Brendan hide Emily's body. Believing Brendan is the murderer, he threatens to ruin him. Brendan meets the Pin, who suspects that Tug is planning to betray him. At the Pin's house, Tug tells Brendan that the Pin recently bought ten bricks of heroin. Eight were quickly sold off wholesale. The ninth was stolen and later returned contaminated, and the final brick remains to be sold. The Pin arrives and says that someone wants to meet to discuss Emily, revealing that Tug was also romantically involved with her.
Brendan intercepts Dode on the way to the meeting and discovers Emily was pregnant when she died; Dode believes the baby was his. Brendan passes out from his accumulated injuries and arrives at the meeting late to find Dode demanding money to reveal who killed Emily. Tug goes berserk and shoots Dode in the head, then threatens the Pin, who walks away as Brendan faints again. Brendan awakens in Tug's bedroom, and Tug tells him they are at war with the Pin.
Brendan arranges a meeting between the two and waits in Tug's bedroom. Laura comforts him as he grieves for Emily, and they kiss. Brendan recognizes her cigarette as the same brand that was dropped from the Mustang during the call with Emily. At the meeting, chaos erupts when it is discovered that the tenth brick is missing. Tug beats the Pin to death while Brendan flees, escaping just as police arrive. As he goes, he passes the partly-open trunk of Tug's car, where he has placed Emily's body to ensure that police blame her murder on Tug.
The next day, Brendan meets Laura at the school. She reveals that Tug died after a shootout with the police. Brendan explains that he knows Laura set Emily up to take the fall for Laura's theft of the ninth brick, then manipulated Emily into meeting Tug, who panicked and killed her after she told him he was the father of her unborn child. Brendan has written a note to the school administration stating that the tenth brick is in Laura's locker. Laura vindictively tells Brendan that Emily did not want to keep the baby because she did not love the father, and that Emily was three months pregnant when she died, meaning the unborn child was his.
|
Bride of Frankenstein
| 1,935
|
James Whale
|
['Boris Karloff', 'Ernest Thesiger', 'Colin Clive', 'O. P. Heggie', "Una O'Connor", 'Valerie Hobson', 'Dwight Frye', 'Elsa Lanchester', 'Ted Billings', 'E. E. Clive', 'Gavin Gordon', 'Douglas Walton', 'Reginald Barlow', 'Lucien Prival', 'Mary Gordon', 'Anne Darling', 'Billy Barty', 'Robert Adair', 'Norman Ainsley', 'Frank Benson', 'Maurice Black', 'Walter Brennan', 'Mae Bruce', 'A.S. Byron', 'John Carradine', "D'Arcy Corrigan", 'Grace Cunard', 'J. Gunnis Davis', 'Marie DeForrest', 'Elspeth Dudgeon', 'Helen Jerome Eddy', 'Neil Fitzgerald', 'Brenda Fowler', 'John George', 'Helen Gibson', 'Marilyn Harris', 'Carmencita Johnson', 'Rollo Lloyd', 'Murdock MacQuarrie', 'Josephine McKim', 'Torben Meyer', 'Edwin Mordant', 'Charles Murphy', 'Joseph North', 'Helen Parrish', 'Edward Peil Sr.', 'Tempe Pigott', 'Sarah Schwartz', 'Peter Shaw', 'Mary Stewart', 'Frank Terry', 'Anders Van Haden', 'Dorothy Vernon', 'Lucio Villegas', 'Joan Woodbury']
| 3.98
| 3
|
Horror, Comedy, Romance, Monster, Science fiction, Fantasy, Drama, Thriller
| 75
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Universal Pictures', 'James Whale Productions']
| 124,566
|
sci-fi, top-rated
|
letterboxds-top-250-science-fiction-films
| null |
In a castle on a stormy night, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron praise Mary Shelley for her story of Frankenstein and his Monster. She reminds them that her intention for writing the novel was to impart a moral lesson, the consequences of a mortal man who tries to play God. Mary says she has more of the story to tell. The scene shifts to the close of the 1931 movie Frankenstein, where villagers gathered around the burning windmill cheer the apparent death of the Monster.
Hans, the father of a girl the creature drowned, wants to see the Monster's bones. He falls into a flooded pit underneath the mill, where the Monster—having survived the fire—strangles him. Hauling himself from the pit, the Monster casts Hans' wife to her death. He next encounters Frankenstein's servant Minnie, who flees in terror.
The body of Henry Frankenstein, who is thought to have died at the windmill, is returned to his fiancée Elizabeth at his castle home. Minnie arrives to sound the alarm about the Monster, but her warning goes unheeded. Elizabeth, seeing Henry move, realizes he is still alive. Nursed back to health by Elizabeth, Henry has renounced his creation, but still believes he may be destined to unlock the secret of life and immortality. A hysterical Elizabeth cries that she foresees death.
Henry visits the lab of his former mentor Doctor Septimus Pretorius, where Pretorius shows Henry several homunculi he has created. Pretorius wishes to work with Henry to create a mate for the Monster, with the proposed venture involving Pretorius growing an artificial brain while Henry gathers parts for the mate.
The Monster saves a young shepherdess from drowning. Her screams upon seeing the Monster alert two hunters, who shoot and injure him. The hunters raise a mob that sets out in pursuit. Captured and trussed to a pole, the Monster is hauled to a dungeon and chained. Left alone, he breaks his chains, overpowers the guards, and escapes into the woods.
That night, the Monster encounters an old blind hermit who thanks God for sending him a friend. He teaches the monster words like "friend" and "good" and shares a meal with him. Two lost hunters stumble upon the cottage and recognize the Monster. He attacks them and accidentally burns down the cottage as the hunters lead the hermit away.
Taking refuge from another angry mob in a crypt, the Monster spies Pretorius and his cronies Karl and Ludwig breaking open a grave. The henchmen depart as Pretorius has supper. The Monster reveals himself, eats some of the food, and learns that Pretorius plans to create a mate for him.
Henry and Elizabeth, now married, are visited by Pretorius. Henry expresses his refusal to assist Pretorius, who calls the Monster. The Monster demands Henry's help, to no avail. Pretorius orders the Monster out, secretly signaling him to kidnap Elizabeth. Pretorius guarantees her safe return upon Henry's participation. Henry returns to his tower laboratory and, despite himself, grows excited over his work. After being assured of Elizabeth's safety, Henry completes the Bride's body.
A storm rages as final preparations are made to bring the Bride to life. Her bandage-wrapped body is raised through the roof, where electricity is harnessed from lightning to animate her. Henry and Pretorius lower her and, after realizing their success in bringing her to life, remove her bandages and help her to stand.
The Monster comes down the steps after killing Karl on the rooftop and sees his mate. The Monster reaches out to her and asks: "Friend?" The Bride, screaming, rejects him. He observes: "She hate me! Like others." As Elizabeth races to Henry's side, the Monster rampages through the lab. Before destroying everything, the Monster pauses and tells Henry and Elizabeth: "Go! You live! Go!" To Pretorius and the Bride, he says: "You stay. We belong dead." While Henry and Elizabeth flee, the Bride hisses at the Monster. Shedding a tear, the Monster pulls a lever to trigger the laboratory and tower's destruction.
|
Bridesmaids
| 2,011
|
Paul Feig
|
['Kristen Wiig', 'Maya Rudolph', 'Rose Byrne', "Chris O'Dowd", 'Wendi McLendon-Covey', 'Ellie Kemper', 'Melissa McCarthy', 'Jon Hamm', 'Jill Clayburgh', 'Rebel Wilson', 'Matt Lucas', 'Michael Hitchcock', 'Tim Heidecker', 'Franklyn Ajaye', 'Lynne Marie Stewart', 'Terry Crews', 'Jessica St. Clair', 'Kali Hawk', 'Andy Buckley', 'Matt Bennett', 'Nancy Carell', 'Melanie Hutsell', 'Carnie Wilson', 'Chynna Phillips', 'Wendy Wilson', 'Joe Nuñez', 'Mia Rose Frampton', 'Tom Yi', 'Elaine Kao', 'Mitch Silpa', 'Dana Powell', 'Greg Tuculescu', 'Brian Petsos', 'Ben Falcone', 'Richard Riehle', 'Suzanne LaChasse', 'Annie Mumolo', 'Jillian Bell', 'Ariane Price', 'Paul Feig']
| 3.43
| 3.5
|
Comedy, Romance, Melodrama, Drama
| 125
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Apatow Productions', 'Relativity Media']
| 791,534
|
comedy, friendship
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time, favorite-friendship-driven-movies
| null |
Annie Walker is a young single woman living in Milwaukee. Following the recession, her bakery went out of business, wiping out her savings and resulting in her boyfriend leaving her. Annie has since lost her passion for baking and now works a stressful, underpaid job at a jewelry store and shares an apartment with obnoxious British immigrant siblings Gil and Brynn. She regularly engages in unfulfilling casual sex with a wealthy and self-absorbed man named Ted, who does not respect her, though she yearns for a serious relationship with him. The only positive presence in Annie's life is her lifelong best friend, Lillian.
When Lillian becomes engaged to her boyfriend Doug, she asks Annie to be her maid of honor. At the engagement party, Annie meets Lillian's other bridesmaids: Lillian's long-married and cynical cousin Rita, Lillian's naïve newlywed coworker Becca, Doug's raunchy and foul-mouthed but friendly sister Megan, and Helen, the wealthy, snobby trophy wife of Doug's boss. Annie and Helen are instantly jealous of each other's friendship with Lillian and become increasingly competitive for her attention.
Annie's suggestion for a bachelorette party at Lillian's parents' lake house is overruled in favor of a Las Vegas trip planned by Helen. Unable to afford a first-class ticket and too proud to allow Helen to pay, Annie books a ticket in economy class. She accepts a sedative and liquor from Helen to alleviate her massive fear of flying, but begins to hallucinate and suffers a paranoid breakdown that culminates in her being apprehended by a U.S. Air Marshal. The plane makes an emergency landing, and the party takes a bus home. Annie apologizes, but Lillian decides it's best if Helen takes over planning the bridal shower and wedding.
Meanwhile, Annie grows closer to Nathan Rhodes, an Irish-American Wisconsin State Patrol Trooper who lets her off without a ticket for broken brake lights. A former regular customer at Annie's bakery, he repeatedly encourages her to open a new one, though she is resistant to the idea. After a romantic night together, she panics and abruptly leaves when Nathan surprises her with baking supplies.
Annie is fired from her job after a profanity-laden argument with a teenage customer, and is later evicted by her roommates, forcing her to move in with her mother. She travels to Helen's home in Chicago for the extravagant bridal shower, which is Parisian-themed - an idea of Annie's that Helen had previously rejected. When Helen upstages Annie's heartfelt gift by surprising Lillian with a trip to Paris, Annie flies into a rage, berating Helen and Lilian in front of everyone and destroying the decor. She then storms out of the shower and Lillian disinvites her from the wedding.
As Annie is driving home, her still-broken taillights get her into a car accident, from which the other driver flees. The responding officer is Nathan, who admonishes her for blowing him off, not fixing her taillights, and not taking responsibility for herself. Ted arrives shortly after to give Annie a ride, causing Nathan to storm off in disgust. However, when Ted asks her to perform oral sex on him as he drives, she demands to be let out of the car and walks home, leaving him for good.
Megan visits the now depressed Annie and motivates her to take control of her life. She resumes baking, gets her car fixed, and tries to make amends with Nathan, though he ignores her. On the day of the wedding, Helen appears at Annie's apartment begging for help finding Lillian, who has disappeared. Helen apologizes to Annie, tearfully revealing that while sought after for her event planning skills, she does not have any true friends and feels unsatisfied in her marriage. With some begrudging help from Nathan, they find Lillian hiding out in her own apartment, having become overwhelmed by Helen's extravagant wedding planning and afraid of leaving her life in Milwaukee. Annie reconciles with Lillian and resumes her role as maid of honor.
After the wedding, Annie and Helen share a hug. Nathan then arrives unexpectedly to pick up Annie (possibly arranged by Helen). Annie and Nathan kiss, then ride away in his police car.
|
Bridge to Terabithia
| 2,007
|
Gábor Csupó
|
['Josh Hutcherson', 'AnnaSophia Robb', 'Zooey Deschanel', 'Robert Patrick', 'Bailee Madison', 'Kate Butler', 'Devon Wood', 'Emma Fenton', 'Grace Brannigan', 'Latham Gaines', 'Judy McIntosh', 'Patricia Aldersley', 'Lauren Clinton', 'Isabelle Rose Kircher', 'Cameron Wakefield', 'Elliot Lawless', 'Carly Owen', 'Jen Wolfe', 'James Gaylyn', 'Ian Harcourt', 'Brandon Cook', 'Tyler Atfield', 'Maisy McLeod-Riera', 'Hudson Mills', 'Matt Gibbons', 'Phil Grieve', 'Zoe Cramond']
| 3.62
| 4
|
Children's film, Action, Comedy, Family film, Adventure, Drama, Teen, Fantasy, Adaptation, Family Drama
| 96
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Lauren Levine Productions Inc.', 'Walden Media', 'Hal Lieberman Company', 'Walt Disney Pictures']
| 631,563
|
sad, emotional
|
sad-movies-if-you-feel-like-you-need-to-cry
| null |
Jess Aarons is a 12-year-old aspiring artist living with his financially struggling family in Lark Creek. He rides the bus to school with his younger sister, May Belle, and is often bullied by a girl named Janice Avery. One day, Jess befriends a new student named Leslie Burke. At recess, he enters a running event, for which he has been training at home. Leslie also enters and manages to win, frustrating Jess. On the way home, Jess and Leslie learn they are next-door neighbors.
Later that day, it is discovered that Jess has a difficult relationship with his father, who spends more time with May Belle. Due to their financial struggles, his mother also forces him to wear his older sister's sneakers. One day at school, Leslie compliments Jess' drawing ability and they become friends. After school, they venture into the woods and swing across a creek on a rope. Jess and Leslie find an abandoned treehouse on the other side and invent a new world, which they call Terabithia. For the next few days, Jess and Leslie spend their free time in the treehouse getting to know each other.
Leslie gives Jess an art kit on his birthday. Jess becomes angry with his father for his attitude towards him and he loses his belief in Terabithia, and refuses its existence the next day at school. Later, Jess apologizes to Leslie by giving her a puppy, whom she names Prince Terrien (P.T). Once in Terabithia, they encounter various creatures, including a giant troll resembling Janice. At school, Leslie becomes frustrated by Janice's bullying. Jess and Leslie play a prank on Janice, and she is embarrassed in front of everyone on the bus. Leslie introduces Jess to her parents and they help paint their house. At school, Leslie discovers from Janice that her bullying is due to her abusive father, and the two become friends, with Janice later befriending Jess as well. Jess and Leslie take P.T to Terabithia, where they fight off several creatures resembling their bullies, this time with the troll as their ally.
The next morning, Ms. Edmunds, the music teacher who Jess has a crush on, calls to invite him on a one-on-one field trip to an art museum. When Jess returns home, his father reveals that Leslie died after hitting her head and drowning in the creek when the rope she used snapped. Jess first denies it and runs to check on Leslie, but he notices the severed rope as well as emergency vehicles surrounding her house before eventually accepting her death.
The following day, Jess and his parents visit the Burke family to pay their respects. Leslie's father, Bill Burke, tells Jess she loved him, and thanks him for being the best friend she ever had, since she never had friends at her old school. Jess feels overwhelming guilt for Leslie's death, imagining the "Dark Master" from Terabithia chasing after him before breaking down into tears, but his father comforts and consoles him by telling him to keep Leslie's memory alive. Jess decides to re-imagine Terabithia and builds a bridge across the river to welcome a new ruler. He invites May Belle to Terabithia and the siblings agree to rule together, with Jess as king and May Belle as the princess.
|
Brief Encounter
| 1,945
|
David Lean
|
['Celia Johnson', 'Trevor Howard', 'Stanley Holloway', 'Joyce Carey', 'Cyril Raymond', 'Everley Gregg', 'Marjorie Mars', 'Margaret Barton', 'Wilfred Babbage', 'Alfie Bass', 'Wallace Bosco', 'Sydney Bromley', 'Noël Coward', 'Nuna Davey', 'Valentine Dyall', 'Irene Handl', 'Dennis Harkin', 'Edward Hodge', 'Frederick Kelsey', 'Jack May', 'Avis Scott']
| 4.3
| 4
|
Romance, Comedy, Melodrama, Drama, Classic
| 86
|
['UK']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Cineguild', 'J. Arthur Rank Organisation']
| 84,378
| null |
lb_top250
| null |
Laura Jesson, a respectable middle-class Englishwoman in a content but somewhat uneventful marriage, reflects on her recent experiences while sitting at home with her husband, imagining she is confessing to him.
Like many women of her social standing at the time, Laura visits a nearby town weekly for shopping and to attend a matinée film. During one such outing to Milford, while waiting in the railway station's refreshment room, she is assisted by a fellow passenger, Alec Harvey, who removes a piece of grit from her eye. Alec is an idealistic general practitioner who also works as a consultant at the local hospital on Thursdays. Both Laura and Alec are married with children, although Alec's wife Madeleine and their two sons are never seen.
The two encounter each other again by chance the following week outside Boots the Chemist, and during a third meeting, they share a table at lunch. With time to spare, they attend an afternoon performance at the Palladium Cinema. They soon become uneasy as their innocent, casual relationship begins to deepen, verging on infidelity.
Their meetings continue openly until they unexpectedly run into some of Laura's friends, necessitating the first of many deceptions. Eventually, they go to a flat belonging to Alec's friend Stephen, a fellow doctor, but their plans to make love are thwarted when Stephen returns unexpectedly, leading to a moment of humiliation and shame. Laura, distraught, leaves the flat in haste, wandering the streets for hours until a concerned police officer urges her to go home. She arrives at the station just in time for the last train back.
The realization that an affair or a future together is impossible dawns on them. Alec has been offered a job in Johannesburg, South Africa, where his brother lives, and they decide to end their relationship to avoid hurting their families.
Their final meeting takes place in the railway station refreshment room, now seen with the poignant perspective of their shared history. As they prepare to part for the last time, Dolly Messiter, an acquaintance of Laura's, interrupts them, oblivious to their anguish.
Alec’s train arrives before they can say a proper goodbye. He discreetly squeezes Laura’s shoulder as he departs, leaving her with Dolly. Laura, overcome with emotion, nearly succumbs to a suicidal impulse but ultimately returns home to her family.
Laura's kind husband, Fred, notices her emotional distance, though whether he understands the cause remains unclear. He thanks her for coming back to him, and she weeps in his arms.
A parallel subplot involves the interactions of the station and refreshment room staff.
|
Brigadoon
| 1,954
|
Vincente Minnelli
|
['Gene Kelly', 'Van Johnson', 'Cyd Charisse', 'Elaine Stewart', 'Barry Jones', 'Hugh Laing', 'Albert Sharpe', 'Virginia Bosler', 'Jimmy Thompson', 'Tudor Owen', 'Owen McGiveney', 'Dee Turnell', 'Dodie Heath', 'Eddie Quillan', 'George Chakiris', 'Colin Kenny', 'Hank Mann', 'Stuart Whitman', 'Oliver Blake', 'Madge Blake', 'Barrie Chase']
| 3.32
| null |
Romance, Comedy, Musical, Melodrama, Fantasy, Drama, Classic
| 108
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer']
| 14,505
|
fantasy
|
filmsrankedcom-200-greatest-fantasy-films
| null |
Americans Tommy Albright and Jeff Douglas are on a hunting trip in Scotland and become lost in the woodlands. They happen upon Brigadoon, a miraculously blessed village that rises out of the mists every hundred years for only a day. (This was done so that the village would never be changed or destroyed by the outside world.) Tommy falls in love with village lass Fiona Campbell, whose younger sister Jean, is about to be married to Charlie Dalrymple. When Tommy and Jeff happen upon clues about the village and its people that make no sense, Fiona takes them to see Mr. Lundie, the village schoolmaster, who tells them the story of Brigadoon and the miracle. If any villager ever leaves Brigadoon, the spell will be broken and the village will vanish forever. Furthermore, Lundie tells them, any outsider who wishes to stay must love someone in the village strongly enough to accept the loss of everything he or she knew in the outside world. That evening, Mr. Lundie officiates at the wedding of Jean and Charlie, which Tommy and Fiona attend. Interrupting the wedding, the jealous Harry Beaton announces he is leaving Brigadoon to make everything disappear, since the girl he loves, Jean, is marrying another man. Harry's words cause mass chaos among the townspeople and they all rush to stop him. Harry almost crosses the bridge but is stopped short by Tommy. They scuffle and Tommy is knocked unconscious. With men closing in on him, Harry climbs up a tree to hide but is accidentally gunned down by Jeff, who skipped the wedding to go hunting. Harry falls dead to the ground and is soon found by the men. Fiona frantically searches for and finds Tommy. Confessing their love for each other, they decide to marry, allowing Tommy to stay in Brigadoon for good. But while Fiona goes off to find Mr. Lundie, Tommy tells Jeff about his plan. Jeff, drunk and remorseful of accidentally killing Harry, tells Tommy he can't just leave everything in the real world behind for this girl he's only known a day. Fiona returns with Mr. Lundie, but Tommy confesses that he cannot stay. Fiona says she understands but is heartbroken and they say good-bye before Brigadoon completely disappears. Tommy and Jeff cross the bridge and walk away.
Back in New York City, Tommy can think only of Fiona. Unable even to talk with his fiancée, Tommy ends his relationship with her and calls Jeff, telling him to get the first flight back to Scotland. He and Jeff return to the same spot where they were lost, though Jeff reminds him again the village will not be there. But suddenly Tommy sees lights start to appear through the mist and runs toward them. Brigadoon reappears and Tommy gets to the foot of the bridge to see Mr. Lundie half-awake on the other side saying: "Tommy, lad, you! My, my, you must really love her. You woke me up." Tommy seems stunned that Brigadoon has been brought back, but Mr. Lundie reminds him: "I told ye, if you love someone deeply enough, anything is possible ... even miracles."
Tommy then runs across the bridge and reunites with Fiona as the village fades back into the mist.
|
Brightburn
| 2,019
|
David Yarovesky
|
['Jackson A. Dunn', 'Elizabeth Banks', 'David Denman', 'Matt Jones', 'Meredith Hagner', 'Becky Wahlstrom', 'Emmie Hunter', 'Gregory Alan Williams', 'Annie Humphrey', 'Abraham Clinkscales', 'Christian Finlayson', 'Jennifer Holland', 'Terence Rosemore', 'Elizabeth Becka', 'Steve Agee', 'Stephen Blackehart', 'Mike Dunston', 'Michael Rooker']
| 2.63
| 3.5
|
Horror, Action, Superhero, Science fiction, Drama, Suspense, Mystery, Thriller, Crime Fiction
| 91
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Troll Court Entertainment', 'Screen Gems', 'Stage 6 Films', 'The H Collective']
| 195,984
|
superhero
|
superhero-movies
| null |
In 2006, a spaceship crashes in a forest in Brightburn, Kansas. Tori and Kyle Breyer, a couple who are unable to conceive, see an explosion from their house and go to the crash site. There, they find a spaceship with a baby inside, whom they adopt and name Brandon. They also hide the spaceship in their barn. Around Brandon's 12th birthday, he discovers he has exceptional strength and the ability to fly. His disposition also changes, from a sweet child to having anger issues.
In middle school, Brandon is an academically exceptional student but socially awkward and frequently bullied. Classmate Caitlyn Connor shows sympathy for him. Brandon develops a crush and stalks Caitlyn in her room in the middle of the night, scaring her. One day, during a trust exercise in Physical Education class, Brandon falls towards Caitlyn, but she lets him drop to the ground and calls him a pervert. Angered by her accusation, Brandon crushes her hand and is suspended from school after being accosted by Caitlyn's mother, Erika.
That night, Brandon sleepwalks to the spaceship and breaks into the barn where it is hidden, cutting his hand on the ship. Tori follows and sees him levitating, chanting the ship's message: "Take the world." She reveals the truth of his origin, and Brandon angrily trashes the house and later kills Erika. Police find symbols drawn on a window while investigating Erika's disappearance, the same symbols that Brandon is seen drawing in his notebook. The next day, Brandon dons his costume and is caught sneaking into his aunt and uncle's house by his uncle, Noah. After Noah threatens to tell his father, Brandon kills him. The following morning, Tori and Kyle inform Brandon of Noah's death, which the police believe was an accident, but Brandon shows no emotion. Suspecting him to be the killer, Kyle finds Brandon's blood-stained shirt and shows it to Tori, but she refuses to believe it.
Kyle takes Brandon on a father-son hunting trip in the woods. He attempts to shoot and kill Brandon with his hunting rifle, but the bullet bounces off the back of Brandon's head. Brandon then kills Kyle with heat vision. A sheriff arrives at the Breyers' and shows Tori the symbol found at the scenes of Erika's and Noah's deaths. Tori finds Brandon's notebook with drawings of his murders, the same symbol that the sheriff found at both murders, and his message to "take the world." She calls Kyle, but Brandon answers and implies he is coming for her.
Brandon returns and begins destroying the house. Tori calls 911, but Brandon kills the sheriff and his deputy before backup can arrive. Remembering that the ship's hull can cut him, Tori runs to the barn and discovers Erika's eviscerated body. As Brandon pursues her, Tori tries to stab him with a piece of the ship, but he grabs her and flies her into the sky to drop her from several thousand feet to her death. After he watches her fall, he looks up to see an oncoming airplane.
The following morning, the airplane is revealed to have crashed into the farmhouse, destroying the evidence of the murders from the previous night. Brandon's symbol is seen painted on a piece of the plane wreckage.
In a mid-credits scene, Brandon, now identified as Brightburn, is seen from the perspective of news reports and eyewitness footage over the locations of various disasters. An online conspiracy theorist posts his own video analyzing the disasters and referencing attacks by other cryptids elsewhere in the world, urging the public to recognize the potential danger these beings pose and to take action before it's too late.
|
Brigsby Bear
| 2,017
|
Dave McCary
|
['Kyle Mooney', 'Mark Hamill', 'Jorge Lendeborg Jr.', 'Matt Walsh', 'Michaela Watkins', 'Ryan Simpkins', 'Greg Kinnear', 'Alexa Demie', 'Beck Bennett', 'Claire Danes', 'Chance Crimin', 'Jane Adams', 'Andy Samberg', 'Kate Lyn Sheil', 'James Anthony Green', 'Kim Fischer', 'Kelly Chapman', 'Nick Rutherford', 'Reagan Pineda', 'Kiera Milan Hendricks', 'Tim Heidecker', 'Rex Morgan', 'Ellery Davidson', 'Christopher Sullivan', 'Joseph Paul Branca', 'Nikolas Mikkelsen', 'Matthew P. Watts', 'Ashlyn Brooke Anderson', 'Yvonne D Bennett', 'Kami Christiansen', 'Paul Nathan Cuthbert', 'Teresa Duran-Norvick', 'Gerry Garcia', 'Angella Joy', 'Marilyn Miller', 'Chris Provost', 'Seth Williams', 'Julio Torres']
| 3.81
| null |
Comedy, Drama, Tragicomedy
| 97
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['3311 Productions', 'Lord Miller', 'Kablamo!', 'YL Pictures']
| 58,265
|
comedy
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
James is forced to live in an underground bunker with his parents Ted and April Mitchum. While Ted tells James that the outside world is dangerous, he often is seen by James leaving the bunker with a gas mask on. James is fascinated with an educational children's show titled Brigsby Bear, centered around the title bear helping characters escape from trouble, because it is the only show he owns and is allowed to watch. One night, he sneaks out only to see several police cars approach the home. As the police raid the bunker, James is taken away from Ted and April, who are arrested.
James is brought to the police station and meets Detective Vogel, who tells James that Ted and April are not his real parents and that he has been held captive since he was a baby. Vogel then introduces James to his real parents, Greg and Louise Pope, and their teenage daughter, Aubrey. Having trouble adapting to his new life, James visits a psychologist named Emily, who informs James that Brigsby Bear is not real and was made by Ted, a former artist and designer, who disappeared with his wife in 1987. Emily explains that the police tracked Ted from the studio where the show was made after he was spotted by a passerby days prior. Realizing that no one else will continue the story, James comes up with the idea to make a movie based on the character to close the series.
One night, Aubrey takes James to a party. He meets Aubrey's friend Spencer and later starts talking about Brigsby Bear to his new friends. He starts production after Vogel, who sympathizes with James through Vogel's own early acting dreams, lends James some props from the show, and Spencer, being a filmmaker, agrees to make the movie with him. Spencer also advertises the movie by uploading episodes of Brigsby Bear to YouTube, where it gains popularity and a new audience. Greg and Louise do not approve of James' activities because they fear it hinders his chances of living a normal life.
While filming in a forest, James uses an explosive he made for a scene that detonates, surprising Spencer. The group is arrested, but James takes the blame for it. The police release him but confiscate the Brigsby Bear props once again. James takes his parents' car out one night to steal the costumes and props. He takes a detour first to his old underground home, now abandoned and cordoned off with yellow tape. James stops by a diner and discovers Whitney, an actress he recognizes from Brigsby Bear. She tells him that she never knew the true circumstances behind the side acting job, having been told by Ted that it was for Canadian public access television. As the police arrive outside, James asks Whitney to reprise her role for his film and admits he has had a longtime crush on her.
James is placed in a mental institution. Meanwhile, Aubrey shows her parents parts of the movie, where the two realize that making the movie allowed him to spend time with his friends. One night, James breaks out of the institution to grab his belongings, but discovers his family, along with Spencer and Vogel, building a Brigsby Bear set in their garage. The family tells him that they had agreed to help out after seeing how happy he was behind the scenes.
James finishes the movie, with Vogel and Whitney in lead roles, and visits an incarcerated Ted, who apologizes for abducting him. James tells Ted about the movie and states that they are having trouble getting the voices right. Ted helps him out by recording the voice-overs for Brigsby and other characters.
On premiere night, the show is sold out and James is worried no one will like it, so he stays out of the theater while the movie plays. After it concludes, James walks into the theater and is met with a standing ovation. While being embraced by his family, James notices a real-life Brigsby on stage. The pair nod at each other and Brigsby disappears.
|
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
| 1,974
|
Sam Peckinpah
|
['Warren Oates', 'Isela Vega', 'Robert Webber', 'Gig Young', 'Helmut Dantine', 'Emilio Fernández', 'Kris Kristofferson', 'Chano Urueta', 'Donnie Fritts', 'Jorge Russek', 'Chalo González', 'Don Levy', 'Enrique Lucero', 'Janine Maldonado', 'Tamara Garina', 'Farnesio de Bernal', 'Ahui Camacho', 'Mónica Miguel', 'Paco Pharrez', 'Juan Manuel DÃaz', 'René Dupeyrón', 'Yolanda Ponce', 'Juan Jose Palacios', 'Manolo', 'Nery Ruiz', 'Roberto Dumont', 'Armando Acosta', 'Richard Bright', 'Queta Carrasco', 'Conrad Hool', 'Whitey Hughes', 'Cecilia Leger', 'Antonio Leo', 'Velia Lupercio', 'Rubén Márquez', 'Sharon Peckinpah', 'Garner Simmons']
| 3.93
| 5
|
Action, Romance, Comedy, Revisionist Western, Western, Dark comedy, Adventure, Drama, Crime film, Suspense, Mystery, Thriller, Detective fiction, Road, Police procedural
| 113
|
['USA', 'Mexico']
|
English
|
['English', 'Latin', 'Spanish']
|
['Optimus Films', 'Estudios Churubusco Azteca', 'United Artists']
| 31,456
|
road-movie, action, top-rated
|
road-movies-1, letterboxds-top-250-action-films
| null |
Teresa, the pregnant teenage daughter of a powerful Mexican crime lord known only as El Jefe (Spanish for 'The Boss'), is summoned before her father and interrogated as to the identity of her unborn child's father. Under torture, she identifies the father as Alfredo Garcia, whom El Jefe had been grooming to be his successor. Infuriated, El Jefe offers a $1 million bounty to whoever will "bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia".
The search progresses for two months. In Mexico City, a pair of business suit-clad, dispassionate hit men, Sappensly and Quill, enter a saloon and encounter Bennie, a retired U.S. Army officer who makes a meagre living as a piano player and bar manager. The men ask about Garcia, believing they will have more luck getting answers out of a fellow American. Bennie plays dumb, saying the name is familiar but he doesn't know who Garcia is.
It turns out that everyone in the bar knows who Garcia is; they simply don't know where he is. Bennie goes to meet his girlfriend, Elita, a maid at a ghetto motel. Elita admits to having cheated on Bennie with Garcia, who had professed his love for her, something Bennie refuses to do. Elita tells him that Garcia died in a drunk-driving crash the previous week.
Bennie goes to Sappensly and Quill in the hotel room of the man who hired them, El Jefe's business associate Max, and makes a deal for $10,000 for Garcia's head, plus a $200 advance for expenses. Bennie convinces Elita to go on a road trip with him to visit Garcia's grave, claiming that he only wants proof that Garcia is in fact dead and no longer a threat to their relationship.
Bennie proposes to Elita, promising that their future will soon change and she can retire from her cleaning job. Elita warns Bennie against trying to upset their status quo. While having a picnic, Bennie and Elita are accosted by two bikers who pull guns on the couple. One of the bikers takes Elita aside. He cuts off her shirt, lets her slap him twice, slaps her back, then walks away; she follows and the two kiss. Bennie knocks the second biker unconscious and takes his gun. Finding Elita about to have sex with the first biker, Bennie shoots him dead and then kills the second biker as well.
Bennie confesses to Elita his plan to decapitate Garcia's corpse and sell the head for money. A disgusted Elita, still shaken from what has just happened, begs Bennie to give up this quest and return to Mexico City. Bennie again refuses, although he agrees to marry Elita in the church of the town where Garcia is buried. They find Garcia's grave, but when he opens the coffin, Bennie is struck from behind by an unseen assailant and knocked unconscious. He wakes up to find himself half-buried in the grave, and Elita is dead. Garcia's corpse has been decapitated.
Bennie learns from villagers that his assailants are driving a station wagon. He catches up with the men after they blow out a tire. Bennie shoots them, searches their car, and claims Garcia's head. Stopping at a roadside restaurant, he packs the sack containing the head with ice to preserve it for the journey home. Bennie talks to the head as if Garcia were still alive, first blaming Alfredo for Elita's death and then conceding that both of them probably loved her equally.
Bennie is ambushed by members of Garcia's family. They reclaim the head and are about to kill Bennie when they are interrupted by the arrival of Sappensly and Quill. The hit men pretend to ask for directions. Quill produces a sub-machine gun and murders most of the family, but is fatally shot by one of them. As Sappensly sorrowfully looks at Quill's corpse, Bennie asks: "Do I get paid?" Sappensly turns to shoot, but Bennie kills him. Bennie returns to Mexico City, "arguing" with Garcia's head all the while.
At his apartment Bennie gives Garcia's head a shower and then brings it to Max's hotel room. Feigning willingness to surrender the head for his $10,000, Bennie reveals he is no longer motivated by money; he says Alfredo was a friend of his and demands to know why Max and the others want his head so badly. He also blames Elita's death on the bounty. Incensed, Bennie starts shooting, killing Max and his henchmen in a short gun battle. He takes a business card from the desk with El Jefe's address on it.
After attending the baptism for his new grandchild, El Jefe greets Bennie as a hero in his hacienda, and gives him a briefcase containing the million-dollar bounty. Bennie calmly relates how many people died for Garcia's head, including his beloved. El Jefe tells Bennie to take his money and throw the head to the pigs on the way out. Infuriated that the object responsible for Elita's death is viewed as nothing more than garbage, Bennie guns down all of El Jefe's bodyguards.
Teresa enters with her newborn son, causing Bennie to hesitate shooting El Jefe. She urges Bennie to kill her father. Bennie obliges and leaves El Jefe's hacienda with Teresa, taking along Garcia's head. They approach the entrance gate and Bennie says goodbye to Teresa, departing the scene with the words: "You take care of the boy. And I'll take care of the father". Bennie drives away, only to be killed by El Jefe's men, their machine guns tearing him to pieces.
|
Bringing Up Baby
| 1,938
|
Howard Hawks
|
['Cary Grant', 'Katharine Hepburn', 'Charles Ruggles', 'Walter Catlett', 'Barry Fitzgerald', 'May Robson', 'Fritz Feld', 'Leona Roberts', 'George Irving', 'Tala Birell', 'Virginia Walker', 'John Kelly', 'William Benedict', 'Billy Bevan', 'Ward Bond', 'Jack Carson', 'Judith Ford', 'Edward Gargan', 'Paul Guilfoyle', "Karl 'Karchy' Kosiczky", 'Skippy', 'Jack Gardner', 'Herschel Graham']
| 3.99
| 4.5
|
Screwball comedy, Romance, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Children's film, Melodrama, Drama
| 102
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['RKO Radio Pictures']
| 118,043
|
comedy
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
David Huxley is a mild-mannered paleontologist. For the past four years, he has been assembling the skeleton of a Brontosaurus but is missing one bone: the "intercostal clavicle." Adding to his stress is his impending marriage to Alice Swallow and the need to impress Elizabeth Random, who is considering a million-dollar donation to his museum.
The day before his wedding, David meets Susan Vance by chance on a golf course. She plays his ball, but she is oblivious to the fact that she has made a mistake. Susan is a free-spirited, somewhat scatterbrained, young lady, unfettered by logic. These qualities soon embroil David in several frustrating incidents.
Susan's brother Mark has sent her a tame leopard named Baby from Brazil. Its tameness is helped by hearing the song "I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby". Susan thinks David is a zoologist, and manipulates him into accompanying her in taking Baby to her farm in Connecticut. Complications arise when Susan falls in love with him, and she tries to keep him at her house as long as possible, even hiding his clothes, to prevent his imminent marriage.
David's prized intercostal clavicle is delivered, but Susan's aunt's dog George takes it and buries it somewhere. When Susan's aunt arrives, she discovers David in a negligee. To David's dismay, she turns out to be Elizabeth Random. A second message from Mark makes clear the leopard is for Elizabeth, as she always wanted one. Baby and George run off. The zoo is called to help capture Baby. Susan and David race to find Baby before the zoo and, mistaking a dangerous leopard from a nearby circus for Baby, they let it out of its cage.
|
Broadcast News
| 1,987
|
James L. Brooks
|
['William Hurt', 'Albert Brooks', 'Holly Hunter', 'Robert Prosky', 'Lois Chiles', 'Joan Cusack', 'Peter Hackes', 'Christian Clemenson', 'Jack Nicholson', 'Robert Katims', 'Ed Wheeler', 'Stephen Mendillo', 'Kimber Shoop', 'Dwayne Markee', 'Gennie James', 'Leo Burmester', 'Amy Brooks', 'Jane Welch', 'Jonathan Benya', 'Frank Doubleday', 'Sally Knight', 'Manuel Alvarez', 'Luis Valderrama', 'Francisco Garcia', 'Richard Thomsen', 'Nat Benchley', 'Marita Geraghty', 'Nicholas D. Blanchet', 'Maura Moynihan', 'Chuck Lippman', 'Nannette Rickert', 'Timothy W. White', 'Peggy Pridemore', 'Emily Crowley', 'Gerard Ender', 'David Long', 'Joshua Billings', 'Glenn Faigen', 'Robert Grevemberg Jr.', 'Richard Pehle', 'James V. Franco', 'Jimmy Mel Green', 'Raoul N. Rizik', 'Mike Skehan', 'Franklyn L. Bullard', 'Glen Roven', 'Marc Shaiman', 'Alex Mathews', 'Steve Smith', 'Martha Smith', 'Cynthia B. Hayes', 'Dean Nitz', 'Phil Ugel', 'Lance Wain', 'Susan Marie Feldman', 'Jean Bourne Carinci', 'M. Fekade-Salassie', 'Gerald F. Gough', 'Robert Rasch', 'Robert V. Walsh', 'John Cusack']
| 4
| null |
Romance, Comedy, Melodrama, Drama, Comedy drama
| 133
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'French', 'German', 'Spanish']
|
['Amercent Films', 'American Entertainment Partners L.P.', 'Gracie Films', '20th Century Fox']
| 72,868
|
comedy
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
Jane Craig is a talented, intense news producer who is passionate about reporting and abhors the trend towards soft news in broadcasts. Her best friend and collaborator, Aaron Altman, is a gifted writer and reporter lacking in social skills. The two work in the Washington, D.C. bureau of a national TV network. The bureau hires Tom Grunick, a local news anchor who is handsome, likable, and telegenic but lacks news experience and isn't especially bright.
Aaron and Jane go to Nicaragua to report on the Sandinista rebels and get caught up in a shooting battle between them and the contras, bringing home footage that wins the approval of their national anchor. At an office party, news arrives of a Libyan plane having bombed a U.S. military base in Italy. The network chief decides to air a special report, with Tom as anchor and Jane as executive producer. Aaron is devastated at Tom's selection. Watching from his home, he calls Jane with pertinent information, which she feeds to Tom through his earpiece. With the combination of Tom's on-camera poise and Jane's hard-news skills, the report is a great success. Their teamwork also intensifies their mutual attraction.
Wanting to complete a story without outside assistance, Tom creates a piece on date rape that includes an interview with a rape victim, where Tom is shown tearing up in reaction. In the face of potential layoffs, Aaron receives an opportunity to anchor the weekend news due to most of his colleagues going to the White House Correspondents' Dinner. He seeks advice from Tom, who encourages Aaron to be more salesman-like in his approach. Aaron takes Tom's advice but during the broadcast begins sweating uncontrollably, resulting in a disastrous broadcast. Meanwhile, Jane and Tom progress romantically at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. But before things get more involved, Jane leaves to console Aaron. The two have a heated argument, where Aaron tells Jane that Tom represents everything she hates about the direction of news media. He also tells Jane that he is in love with her.
The layoffs hit the network, resulting in many colleagues losing their jobs. Tom is moved to the London office, indicating that he is being groomed for a national anchor position; Jane is promoted to bureau chief. Tom and Jane agree to take a romantic getaway together before starting their new jobs. Aaron tells Jane he plans to take a job at a television station in Portland, Oregon. Before he leaves, he tells Jane that Tom's tears during his date-rape piece were staged; reviewing the footage, Jane realizes that he is correct. She angrily confronts Tom at the airport, saying that his actions were a breach of journalistic ethics and that she cannot in good conscience become involved with him. Tom argues with her but relents, leaving Jane behind.
The three meet again seven years later. Tom has taken over as national anchor, Aaron has a wife and child, and Jane has a new boyfriend. Jane plans to take a managing editor role for the network in New York, working with Tom again. Tom leaves after Jane declines a dinner invitation with him and his fiancée, while she and Aaron catch up on their respective lives.
|
Brokeback Mountain
| 2,005
|
Ang Lee
|
['Heath Ledger', 'Jake Gyllenhaal', 'Michelle Williams', 'Anne Hathaway', 'Randy Quaid', 'Linda Cardellini', 'Anna Faris', 'David Harbour', 'Roberta Maxwell', 'Kate Mara', 'Peter McRobbie', 'Graham Beckel', 'Mary Liboiron', 'Scott Michael Campbell', 'Marty Antonini', 'David Trimble', 'Larry Reese', 'Valerie Planche', 'Victor Reyes', 'Lachlan Mackintosh', 'Tom Carey', 'Don Bland', 'Steven Cree Molison', 'Duval Lang', 'Dan McDougall', 'Dean Barrett', 'Kade Phillips', 'Steffen Cole Moser', 'Cheyenne Hill', 'Cayla Wolever', 'Sarah Hyslop', 'Jacey Kenny', 'Keanna Dubé', 'Brooklynn Proulx', 'Hannah Stewart', 'Jake Church', 'James Baker', 'Pete Seadon', 'Jerry Callaghan', 'Ken Zilka', 'John Tench', 'Will Martin', 'Gary Lauder', 'Christian Fraser', 'Cam Sutherland', 'Barb Mitchell', 'Rodrigo Prieto', 'Ken Roberts', 'Kailin See', 'Jayson Therrien', 'Erika Walter']
| 4.11
| 5
|
Western, Romance, Melodrama, Drama
| 134
|
['Canada', 'USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Focus Features', 'River Road Entertainment', 'Alberta Film Entertainment']
| 1,177,009
|
sad, emotional
|
sad-movies-if-you-feel-like-you-need-to-cry
| null |
In Wyoming in 1963, cowboys Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist are hired by Joe Aguirre to herd his sheep through the summer on grazing pastures on Brokeback Mountain. After a night of heavy drinking, Jack makes a pass at Ennis. While initially reluctant, Ennis becomes receptive, and he and Jack have sex in their tent. Despite Ennis telling Jack that it was a one-time incident, they develop a sexual and emotional relationship. Near the end of their work contract, Ennis and Jack have a brawl that leaves both of them bloodied. Before parting ways, Ennis offhandedly laments that he left one of his shirts on the mountain.
Ennis marries his longtime fiancée Alma Beers and has two daughters with her: Alma Jr. and Jenny. Jack returns the next summer seeking work, but Aguirre, who observed Jack and Ennis engaging in homosexual activity on the mountain, refuses to hire him. Jack moves to Texas, where he meets wealthy rodeo rider Lureen Newsome; they marry and have a son.
After four years apart, Jack visits Ennis. Upon meeting, they kiss passionately, which a stunned Alma inadvertently witnesses. In the privacy of a motel room, Jack broaches the subject of creating a life together, but Ennis refuses, as he is unwilling to abandon his family and is haunted by a childhood memory of his father showing him the body of a man who was tortured and killed for suspected homosexuality.
Ennis and Jack meet infrequently for private fishing trips while their respective marriages deteriorate. Lureen abandons the rodeo and goes into business with her father, with Jack working in sales. Alma and Ennis divorce in 1975. Upon hearing about it, Jack drives to Wyoming and tells Ennis that they should live together, but Ennis refuses to move away from his children.
Alma takes custody of Alma Jr. and Jenny, and marries Monroe, manager of the grocery store where she works. Ennis visits them during a Thanksgiving dinner. In the kitchen, when Alma and Ennis are alone, she confronts him about his relationship with Jack. The two spar, causing Ennis to storm out and cease contact with Alma.
Ennis has a short-lived romantic relationship with a waitress named Cassie. Jack and Lureen befriend another couple, Randall and Lashawn Malone, and it is implied that Jack and Randall have a brief affair. At the end of a tryst disguised as a fishing trip, Ennis tells Jack that he cannot see him again for months due to work demands. The pair argue, before Jack embraces a crying Ennis.
Sometime later, Ennis receives a returned postcard that he had sent to Jack, stamped with "Deceased". Ennis calls Jack's phone number, and Lureen takes the call. She tells Ennis that Jack died in an accident from drowning in his own blood after a car tire exploded in his face. While she is describing what happened, Ennis envisions a group of men beating Jack to death with a tire iron. Lureen tells him that Jack wanted to have his ashes scattered on Brokeback Mountain.
Ennis visits Jack's parents hoping to carry out his wish. Jack's father declares that Jack's ashes will be interred in a family plot. Jack's mother tells Ennis that he is welcome to visit Jack's bedroom. Going there alone, in the closet he finds the shirt that he had thought he had left on the mountain, which Jack had secretly kept, nested inside one of his own shirts. Ennis holds the shirts to his face and silently weeps. Jack's mother sees him holding the two shirts, and allows him to keep them.
Later, a 19-year-old Alma Jr. arrives at Ennis's trailer to tell him that she is engaged to Kurt, a man who works in the oil fields. She asks for his blessing and invites him to the wedding. Ennis hesitates due to his work commitments, but then agrees to attend the wedding. Once Alma Jr. leaves, Ennis goes to the closet where the two shirts hang together, Jack's shirt now inside Ennis's. Next to them, tacked to the closet door, is a postcard of Brokeback Mountain. With tears in his eyes, he stares at the mementos, and says, "Jack, I swear..."
|
Broken Flowers
| 2,005
|
Jim Jarmusch
|
['Bill Murray', 'Sharon Stone', 'Jessica Lange', 'Tilda Swinton', 'Frances Conroy', 'Alexis Dziena', 'Chloë Sevigny', 'Christopher McDonald', 'Julie Delpy', 'Jeffrey Wright', 'Heather Simms', 'Chris Bauer', 'Larry Fessenden', 'Brea Frazier', 'Jarry Fall', 'Korka Fall', 'Saul Holland', 'Zakira Holland', 'Niles Lee Wilson', 'Meredith Patterson', 'Jennifer Rapp', 'Nicole Abisinio', 'Ryan Donowho', 'Dared Wright', 'Suzanne Hevner', 'Brain McPeck', 'Matthew McAuley', 'Pell James', 'Mark Webber', 'Homer Murray', 'Rachel Puchkoff']
| 3.63
| null |
Romance, Comedy, Melodrama, Road, Drama, Tragicomedy, Suspense, Mystery, Thriller, Comedy drama
| 106
|
['USA', 'France']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Focus Features', 'Bac Films', 'Five Roses']
| 94,579
|
road-movie
|
road-movies-1
| null |
Don Johnston, a former Don Juan who made a small fortune in the computer industry, wants to live in quiet retirement. He is content to lounge around watching old movies and listening to classical or easy listening music. His current girlfriend, Sherry, is ending their relationship and moving out of his house when a letter in a pink envelope arrives.
Later Don reads the letter; it purports to be from an unnamed former girlfriend, informing him that he has a son who is nearly nineteen years old, and who may be looking for him. Initially, Don does not intend to do anything about it, but his busybody neighbor Winston, who is a mystery novel enthusiast, urges Don to investigate. Winston researches the current locations of the five women most likely to have written the letter and gives Don the information along with maps and flight reservations, and persuades him to visit them.
Ultimately Don meets with four women (the fifth one had died before the events of the film), each encounter worse than the last and each woman damaged in some way:
|
Broker
| 2,022
|
Hirokazu Kore-eda
|
['Song Kang-ho', 'Gang Dong-won', 'Bae Doona', 'IU', 'Lee Joo-young', 'Lim Seung-soo', 'Park Ji-yong', 'Song Sae-byuk', 'Kim Sun-young', 'Lee Moo-saeng', 'Lee Dong-hwi', 'Kim Sae-byuk', 'Baek Hyun-jin', 'Oh Hee-jun', 'Ryu Kyung-soo', 'Jong Ho', 'Seong Yu-bin', 'Park Kang-seop', 'Kim Keum-soon', 'Kang Gil-woo', 'Kim Yae-eun', 'Park Hae-jun', 'Jung Ji-woo', 'Ryu Ji-an', 'Yun Seul', 'Jang Hye-min', 'Jeong Jong-yeol', 'Jung Ah-young', 'Lee Ye-seo', 'Choi Hee-jin', 'Lee Do-goon', 'Kim Do-yeon', 'Choi Hyo-sang', 'Kang Min-ji', 'Lee Ga-kyung', 'Yang Gwon-seok', 'Lee Doo-seok', 'Yoon Sang-hak', 'Lee Do-gyoo', 'Lee Yoo-joo', 'Kang Gyoo-rin', 'Kim Joo-eun', 'Lim Ga-Young', 'Woo Sung-min', 'Choi Yoon-woo', 'Jung Hyuk', 'Lee Dong-hyeon', 'Kim Yoon-ho', 'Kim Do-yeop', 'Song Ji-ho', 'Kim Soo-ji', 'Park Jong-hyeon', 'Jeon Sun-ho', 'Park Yeong-joon', 'Hwang Do-yoon', 'Kim Da-na', 'Kim Soo-hyeon', 'Bae Ga-jin', 'Kim Jin-ah', 'Son Yeong-ok', 'Jeong Myeong-yeon', 'Sin Chae-rin', 'Park Geon-woo', 'Choi Gi-sang', 'Park Byeong-gwan', 'Na Gyeong-cheol', 'Lee Ga-eun']
| 3.78
| null |
Romance, Comedy, Drama, Narrative, Crime Fiction
| 129
|
['South Korea']
|
Korean
|
['Korean']
|
['Zip Cinema', 'CJ Entertainment']
| 104,826
|
road-movie
|
road-movies-1
| null |
Ha Sang-hyeon is the owner of a hand laundry and volunteers at the nearby church, where his friend Dong-soo works. The two run an illegal business together: Sang-hyeon occasionally steals babies from the church's baby box with Dong-soo, who deletes the church's surveillance footage that shows a baby was left there. They sell the babies on the adoption black market. But when a young mother So-young comes back after having abandoned her baby, she discovers them and decides to go with them on a road trip to interview the baby's potential parents. Meanwhile, two detectives, Soo-jin and Lee, are on their trail.
|
Brooklyn
| 2,015
|
John Crowley
|
['Saoirse Ronan', 'Domhnall Gleeson', 'Emory Cohen', 'Jim Broadbent', 'Julie Walters', 'Jessica Paré', 'Eve Macklin', 'Brid Brennan', 'Fiona Glascott', 'Jane Brennan', 'Nora-Jane Noone', 'Jenn Murray', 'Eva Birthistle', 'Michael Zegen', 'Matt Glynn', 'Maeve McGrath', 'Emma Lowe', 'Barbara Drennan', 'Gillian McCarthy', "Eileen O'Higgins", 'Art Campion', 'James Corscadden', 'Emily Bett Rickards', "Mary O'Driscoll", 'Samantha Munro', 'Jane Wheeler', 'Adrien Benn', 'Alain Goulem', 'Max Walker', "Iarla O'Lionaird", 'Ellis Rockburn', 'Erika Rosenbaum', 'Ellen David', 'Christian de la Cortina', 'Paulino Nunes', 'James DiGiacomo', 'Tadhg McMahon', 'Hudson Leblanc', 'Paul Stewart', 'Niamh McCann', 'Denis Conway', 'Karen Ardiff', 'Gary Lydon', 'Aine Ni Mhuiri', 'Mella Carron', 'Karen Belfo', 'Micheline Poitras']
| 3.78
| null |
Romance, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Melodrama, Drama, Teen
| 111
|
['Canada', 'Ireland', 'UK', 'USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Wildgaze Films', 'Parallel Film Productions', 'BBC Film', 'Bun and Ham Productions', 'Finola Dwyer Productions', 'Item 7', 'Ingenious Media']
| 293,410
|
feel-good
|
feel-good-movies
| null |
In 1951, in Enniscorthy, a small town in southeast Ireland, Eilis Lacey lives with her mother and older sister, Rose. Unable to find full-time employment, she works part-time for the spiteful Miss Kelly at her grocery shop. Eilis attends local dances with friend Nancy, but is uninterested in the local young men.
Rose arranges with Father Flood, an Irish priest in Brooklyn, for Eilis to immigrate to New York City for a better life. On the trip over, Eilis' cabinmate, Georgina, an experienced traveller returning to the US, offers advice and support.
In New York, Eilis lives in a Brooklyn boarding house run by Mrs Kehoe that caters to young immigrant Irish women. She finds a job at a department store, but has difficulty adjusting to her new life and suffers severe homesickness. Father Flood gets her enrolled in night school bookkeeping classes at Brooklyn College, as she wants to become an accountant.
At an Irish dance, Eilis meets Tony Fiorello, an amiable Italian-American plumber. As their romance blossoms and she progresses in her studies, Eilis gradually feels more at home in Brooklyn.
When Rose unexpectedly dies, Eilis tells Tony she must return home to help her mother. He shows her a plot of land on Long Island and says he and his brothers intend to build five houses on it, selling three and keeping one for their parents and one for him and Eilis, if she wants. She says she does, but wants to visit her mother, so Tony asks her to marry him before she goes. Eilis reluctantly agrees, and they secretly marry at City Hall. While there, they bump into an Irish couple with relatives in Enniscorthy.
Once back in Ireland, Eilis does not fall into her old life, but rather a new one. She temporarily takes Rose's bookkeeping job which shows a promise of turning permanent. Meanwhile, Nancy, unaware of Eilis' marriage, sets her up with a well-off bachelor, Jim Farrell. Eilis extends her stay to attend Nancy's wedding, and avoids reading Tony's letters. Jim asks her to stay and indicates he would like to propose marriage. Eilis cares for Jim, but is noncommittal, unsure what future she wants and seemingly distances herself from her New York life.
Miss Kelly summons Eilis and issues a veiled threat: through gossip from the couple at City Hall, she knows Eilis is married. Remembering the stifling and restrictive life in Enniscorthy, and fed up with Miss Kelly's bullying, Eilis states her full married name, establishing who she is and rendering Miss Kelly powerless over her. Eilis tearfully informs her mother that she is married and is returning to Brooklyn. She leaves Jim a farewell letter. On the ocean crossing back to New York, Eilis offers guidance to a young Irish woman making her own first trip to America. Once home in Brooklyn, Eilis reunites with Tony and they embrace.
|
Brother Bear
| 2,003
|
Aaron Blaise, Robert Walker
|
['Joaquin Phoenix', 'Jeremy Suarez', 'Jason Raize', 'Rick Moranis', 'Dave Thomas', 'D.B. Sweeney', 'Joan Copeland', 'Michael Clarke Duncan', 'Harold Gould', 'Paul Christie', 'Danny Mastrogiorgio', 'Estelle Harris', 'Greg Proops', 'Pauley Perrette', 'Bumper Robinson', 'Darko Cesar', 'Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley', 'Sherry Lynn', 'Mickie McGowan', 'Debi Derryberry', 'Patrick Pinney']
| 3.68
| 2.5
|
Animation, Children's film, Action, Comedy, Musical, Adventure, Fantasy, Drama, Buddy, Family film
| 85
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'Croatian', 'Inuktitut']
|
['Walt Disney Feature Animation']
| 621,691
|
animated
|
vote-best-animated-films-of-all-time
| null |
In a post-ice age Alaska, the local tribes believe all creatures are created through the Great Spirits, who are said to appear in the form of an aurora. An elderly Denahi tells a story about him and his brothers to the people of his tribe. A trio of brothers, Kenai, the youngest; Denahi, the middle; and Sitka, the eldest, return to their tribe for Kenai to receive his totem, necklaces in the shapes of different animals, from Tanana, the shaman of the brothers' tribe. The particular animals they represent symbolize what they must achieve to call themselves men.
Unlike Sitka, who gained the eagle of guidance, and Denahi, who gained the wolf of wisdom, Kenai receives the bear of love. He objects to his totem, stating that bears are thieves and dumb creatures without feelings, and believes his point is made a fact when a brown bear steals their basket of salmon. Kenai searches for the basket and finds it destroyed. He sees the bear, provokes it, his brothers find him, and a fight ends on top of a giant glacier. When the bear gets the upper hand, Sitka gives his life to save his brothers by dislodging the glacier, although the bear survives the fall. After Sitka's funeral, an enraged Kenai blames the bear for Sitka's death and rejects his totem. He hunts down and chases the bear up onto a rocky cliff, fighting and eventually slaying it. The Spirits, represented by Sitka's spirit in the form of a bald eagle, arrive and transform Kenai into a bear after the dead bear's body evaporates and joins them. Denahi arrives and falsely believes that Kenai was killed by the bear from earlier. Kenai falls off the cliff and down some rapids, but survives. Denahi vows to avenge Kenai.
Kenai awakens as he is healed by Tanana and discovers to his horror that he has become a bear. Tanana cannot understand Kenai, but advises him to go to the mountain where the lights touch the earth to find Sitka and be turned back into a human, but only when he atones for his actions; she vanishes without an explanation. Kenai quickly discovers that the wildlife can now speak to him, meeting a pair of moose brothers named Rutt and Tuke. He gets caught in a trap but is freed by an outgoing bear cub named Koda. After they evade Denahi, who is still unaware that the bear he's pursuing is Kenai, Koda reveals to Kenai that his mother is missing. They make a deal: Kenai will escort Koda to an annual salmon run, and then the cub will lead Kenai to the mountain nearby. Along the way, the two form a brother-like relationship and are joined by Rutt and Tuke and ride on the backs of a wooly mammoth herd. Kenai and Koda eventually continue their journey on foot. As they go through a volcanic field, Kenai and Koda are still hunted by Denahi as he is determined to avenge Kenai.
Kenai and Koda reach the salmon run, where a large number of bears live as a family, including the leader Tug. Kenai accepts his new surroundings and is comfortable living with the other bears. During story time among the bears, Koda tells a story about his mother recently fighting human hunters on a glacier, reminding Kenai of his and his brothers' fight with the bear that led to Sitka's death, making him realize that the bear he killed was Koda's mother. Horrified of what he has done, Kenai runs away in a fit of guilt, but Koda soon follows him. Downhearted, Kenai confesses the truth to Koda, who runs away, grief-stricken that Kenai was responsible for his mother's death. An remorseful Kenai leaves to go to the mountain.
Meanwhile, Rutt and Tuke, having had a falling out, reconcile in front of Koda, prompting him to forgive Kenai. On the mountain, Kenai is cornered by Denahi, but their battle is interrupted by Koda, who steals Denahi's spear. Kenai comes to Koda's aid, out of love, prompting Sitka to appear and turn him back into a human, much to Denahi and Koda's surprise. However, upon realizing that Koda needs him because of his own mistake, Kenai asks Sitka to transform him back into a bear with Denahi's support. Sitka complies, and Kenai is transformed back into a bear. Koda is reunited briefly with the spirit of his mother before she and Sitka return to the spirit world.
In the end, Kenai lives with the rest of the bears and gains his title as a man, through being a bear. The elderly Denahi ends the story by imparting to his tribe the lesson that love is the most powerful gift of all.
|
Brüno
| 2,009
|
Larry Charles
|
['Sacha Baron Cohen', 'Gustaf Hammarsten', 'Clifford Bañagale', 'Josh Meyers', 'Toby Holguin', 'Robert Huerta', 'Gilbert Rosales', 'Thomas Rosales Jr.', 'Marco Xavier', 'Bono', 'Chris Martin', 'Elton John', 'Slash', 'Snoop Dogg', 'Sting', 'Kunal Nayyar', 'Heather Hahn', 'Filipa Beck', 'Lloyd Robinson', 'Paula Abdul', 'Denny Bond', 'Brittny Gastineau', 'Ron Paul', 'Gary Williams', 'Nicole DeFosset', 'Suzanne DeFosset', 'Yossi Alpher', 'Ghassan Khatib', 'Avraham Sela', 'Adnan Al-Husseini', 'Ayman Abu Aita', 'Richard Bey', 'Jody Trautwein', 'Danny Shirley', 'Paul Cameron', 'Ronald Beams', 'Jeff Ballard', 'Emerson Brooks', 'Harrison Ford', 'David Hill', 'Hugh Holub', 'Todd Christian Hunter', 'James McCartney', 'Paul McCartney', 'Michelle McLaren', 'Fab Morvan', 'Frank Piciullo', 'Rob Pilatus', 'Miguel Sandoval', 'Frank Scozzari', 'Sandra Seeling', 'Stephen C. Sepher', 'Alexander von Roon', 'Gabby West']
| 2.92
| 3
|
['Comedy']
| 83
|
['UK', 'USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'Czech']
|
['MRC', 'Four by Two', 'Everyman Pictures']
| 161,855
|
comedy
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
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|
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein
| 1,948
|
Charles Barton
|
['Bud Abbott', 'Lou Costello', 'Lon Chaney Jr.', 'Bela Lugosi', 'Glenn Strange', 'Lenore Aubert', 'Jane Randolph', 'Frank Ferguson', 'Charles Bradstreet', 'George Barton', 'Vincent Price', 'Bobby Barber', 'Joe Kirk', 'Harry Brown', 'Howard Negley', 'Carl Sklover', 'Helen Spring', 'Paul Stader', 'Clarence Straight', 'Joe Walls']
| 3.59
| null |
Horror, Comedy, Science fiction, Fantasy, Vampire
| 83
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Universal International Pictures', 'Universal Pictures']
| 31,860
|
comedy
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
Larry Talbot makes an urgent phone call to a railway station in Florida, where Chick Young and Wilbur Grey work as baggage clerks. Talbot tries to warn Wilbur of a shipment due to arrive for "McDougal's House of Horrors". However, before he finishes, the moon rises and Talbot transforms into a werewolf, causing Wilbur to think the call is a prank. Meanwhile, McDougal demands the crates be personally delivered to his wax museum.
Chick and Wilbur deliver the crates after hours. They open the first one and find Dracula's coffin. When Chick leaves the room to retrieve the second crate, Wilbur reads the Dracula legend and the coffin suddenly opens, and Dracula sneaks out. Wilbur is so frightened he can barely articulate his call for help. When Chick returns, he refuses to believe the story. The boys open the second crate, and Chick goes to greet McDougal. Dracula hypnotizes Wilbur, finds Frankenstein's Monster in the second crate, and reanimates him. Both leave and McDougal finds the crates empty and has Wilbur and Chick arrested.
That night, Dr Sandra Mornay welcomes Dracula and the Monster to her island castle. Sandra has seduced Wilbur as part of Dracula's plan to give the monster a more obedient brain. Meanwhile, Wilbur and Chick are bailed out of jail by Joan Raymond, an undercover insurance investigator who feigns love for Wilbur, hoping to gain information. Wilbur invites Joan to a masquerade ball that evening. Talbot takes the apartment across the hall from Wilbur and Chick and asks them to help him find and destroy Dracula and the Monster. Wilbur agrees, but Chick remains sceptical.
Wilbur, Chick and Joan go to Sandra's castle to pick her up for the ball. Wilbur answers a telephone call from Talbot, who informs them that they are in fact in the "House of Dracula". Wilbur reluctantly agrees to search the castle and soon stumbles upon a basement staircase, where he has a few close encounters with the monsters. Meanwhile, Joan discovers Dr Frankenstein's notebook in Sandra's desk, and Sandra finds an Insurance Investigator ID in Joan's purse.
Dracula, under the alias of Dr Lejos, introduces himself to Joan and the boys. Also working at the castle and attending the ball is the naïve Professor Stevens, who questions some of the specialized equipment that has arrived. After Wilbur says that he was in the basement, Sandra feigns a headache and tells the others to attend the ball without her. In private, Sandra admits to Dracula that she feels they are not safe to conduct the experiment. Dracula then turns her into a vampire.
At the masquerade ball, Talbot accuses Lejos of being Dracula, but no one takes him seriously. Joan soon disappears. Sandra lures Wilbur into the woods and attempts to bite him, but fails. While looking for Joan, Talbot becomes the Wolfman and attacks McDougal. Since Chick's costume is a wolf, McDougal accuses Chick, who escapes and witnesses Dracula hypnotizing Wilbur. Chick is also hypnotized and rendered helpless, while Dracula and Sandra bring Wilbur, Stevens, and Joan back to the castle. The next morning, Chick and Talbot meet up in the bayou and set out to rescue Wilbur and Joan.
Wilbur is quickly freed, but Dracula uses hypnotism to call him back. As Sandra prepares to cut into Wilbur's brain, Talbot and Chick burst in. Chick knocks out Sandra with a chair and Talbot tries to release Wilbur but turns into the Wolfman again. Frankenstein's Monster breaks free of his bonds and Sandra tries to control him, but he throws her out the window. After a chase through the house between Chick, Wilbur and the Monster and a face-off between Dracula and The Wolf Man, Dracula transforms into a bat but is pounced on by the Wolfman, who drags the two of them to their deaths. Chick and Wilbur escape in boats; while Joan and Stevens set the pier ablaze while the Monster is standing on it, and he dies in the flames.
Wilbur scolds Chick for his earlier scepticism, and Chick remarks they have nothing to fear now. The Invisible Man addresses them from the boat's thwart, and they flee in terror.
|
Buffalo '66
| 1,998
|
Vincent Gallo
|
['Vincent Gallo', 'Christina Ricci', 'Ben Gazzara', 'Anjelica Huston', 'Rosanna Arquette', 'Jan-Michael Vincent', 'Kevin Corrigan', 'Mickey Rourke', 'Kevin Pollak', 'Alex Karras', 'John Sansone', 'Manny Fried', 'John Rummel', 'Bob Wahl', 'Penny Wolfgang', 'Anthony Mydcarz', 'Michael Maciejewski', 'Jack Claxton', 'Dominic Telesco', 'Carl Marchi', 'Kim Krah', 'Julius Digennaro', 'Terry Braunstein', 'Jack Hunter', 'Norma Gelose', 'Jamie King', 'Janel King', 'Joey Giambra']
| 3.85
| null |
Comedy, Romance, Melodrama, Drama, Crime film, Mystery, Indie film, Comedy drama
| 110
|
['USA', 'Canada']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['CFP', 'Gray Daisy Films', 'Muse Productions']
| 262,376
|
comedy
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
Having just served five years in prison, Billy Brown returns home to Buffalo, New York, and is preparing to meet with his parents, who do not know he has been in prison. He kidnaps Layla, a tap dancer, and forces her to pretend to be his wife to his parents. He gives her the name "Wendy Balsam".
When they meet with Billy's parents, Layla sees that the relationship between them is very dysfunctional, and sees Billy's own mother forgetting he has a chocolate allergy and his father behaves inappropriately toward her. She learns that Billy's mother has never missed a Buffalo Bills game, except in 1966, on the day Billy was born. In a flashback, it is revealed that Billy once placed a reckless $10,000 bet on the Bills to win Super Bowl XXV; when they lost, the bookie forced Billy to clear his debt by confessing to a crime he did not commit, resulting in his time served in prison. Now, Billy seeks revenge on Scott Wood, the kicker who lost the game.[a]
As they leave his parents' house, Billy scolds Layla for telling an obvious lie to his father, and then decides to go bowling. There, Billy shows off his expertise at the sport, and Layla performs a tap dance routine to King Crimson's "Moonchild". The two use a photo booth to take photos "spanning time" which Billy intends to send to his parents once a year, but Billy becomes annoyed when Layla makes silly faces during the photos, in contrast to Billy's straight face.
After bowling, Billy and Layla visit a diner, where Billy encounters the real Wendy Balsam, a woman he used to have a crush on in middle school, who is now happily in a relationship with another man. Billy leaves Layla alone in the diner after a brief argument, but regretting his outburst, returns and apologizes to her. Billy and Layla check into a motel, where Billy and Layla have a deep conversation, and eventually admit that they have fallen in love with each other, and they both go to sleep.
A few hours after midnight, he is about to leave to exact his revenge on Wood, when Layla awakens. Despite Layla's doubts that he will return and proclamation of her love for him, he leaves, lying to her that he will return in a few minutes with hot chocolate for her.
Shortly after leaving Layla at the motel, Billy finds Scott Wood, now the owner of a topless bar. At Wood's own bar, he walks over to Wood's table and shoots him in the head, before shooting himself. His parents are then shown sitting by his grave with his mother showing more interest in a Buffalo game on the radio than in her own son's death. However, this is all shown to be inside of Billy's mind. Billy leaves the bar without killing Wood, realizing that in Layla he has finally found a person who truly loves him. After making amends with his friend Goon on a payphone, Billy elatedly buys Layla her hot chocolate and a heart-shaped cookie, and buys another for a man sitting nearby who tells him he has a girlfriend, before returning to Layla at the motel.
|
Bullet Train
| 2,022
|
David Leitch
|
['Brad Pitt', 'Joey King', 'Aaron Taylor-Johnson', 'Brian Tyree Henry', 'Andrew Koji', 'Hiroyuki Sanada', 'Michael Shannon', 'Bad Bunny', 'Sandra Bullock', 'Zazie Beetz', 'Logan Lerman', 'Masi Oka', 'Karen Fukuhara', 'Kevin Akiyoshi Ching', 'Minchi Murakami', 'Kaori Taketani', 'Toshitaka Katsumi', 'Jim Garrity', 'Emelina Adams', 'Jenson Cheng', 'Nobuaki Shimamoto', 'Yoshi Sudarso', 'Johanna Watts', 'Ian Martinez', 'Tania Verafield', 'Pancho Cardena', 'Julio Gabay', 'Andrea Muñoz', 'Nancy Daly', 'Arnold Chun', 'Naomi Matsuda', 'Benmio McCrea', 'Pasha D. Lychnikoff', 'Primus Johnson', 'Miles Marz', 'Michelle Lee', 'Parker Lin', 'Garland Scott', 'Jason Matthew Smith', 'Zooey Miyoshi', 'Kamil Aydin', 'David Leitch', 'Channing Tatum', 'Ryan Reynolds', 'RiRia']
| 3.55
| 4.5
|
Action, Comedy, Thriller, Action Thriller, Adventure, Suspense, Mystery, Crime Fiction, Neo-noir
| 126
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'Japanese', 'Russian', 'Spanish']
|
['87North Productions', 'Columbia Pictures']
| 1,632,348
|
heist
|
heist-movies
| null |
Yuichi Kimura, "The Father", boards a bullet train in Tokyo in search of his son Wataru's attacker. Meanwhile, guided by his handler Maria Beetle, operative "Ladybug" is assigned to retrieve a briefcase full of cash from the same train, replacing a sick colleague, Carver. Ladybug is reluctant, as his recent string of bad luck during his jobs resulted in accidental deaths. Also on the train are two British assassin brothers codenamed "Lemon" and "Tangerine", who just rescued a man ("The Son") from kidnappers and are taking him and the briefcase to his father, a Russian-born Yakuza crime lord called "The White Death".
During the trip, The Son is killed by poisoning. Ladybug discreetly steals the briefcase, but on his way off the train, is attacked by the assassin codenamed "The Wolf", who recognizes Ladybug from his wedding, where his wife was killed. The Wolf mistakenly believes Ladybug to be one of her killers. Ladybug confusedly fights him, who accidentally kills himself with a deflected knife throw.
Yuichi finds who pushed Wataru, a young woman codenamed "The Prince", but she outsmarts him. She lured him onto the train as part of a plan to have him kill his boss: the White Death. To ensure Yuichi's cooperation, she has a henchman holding Wataru hostage in the hospital.
Recognizing Lemon from a job in Johannesburg gone wrong, Ladybug offers to return the case in exchange for being allowed to leave. Lemon suspects that he killed The Son, leading to a fight during which Lemon is knocked unconscious, and Ladybug spikes his water with sleeping powder.
Tangerine wakes Lemon and they both split off to find Ladybug and frame him for the Son's murder. The Prince finds the briefcase, booby-traps it with explosives, and rigs Yuichi's gun to explode if fired. Ladybug encounters Tangerine and, after avoiding the White Death's men, kicks him off the train as it departs, but he manages to climb back aboard from outside.
Suspicious of the two, Lemon shoots Yuichi and is about to shoot the Prince, but collapses after drinking the spiked water. The Prince shoots Lemon and conceals him and Yuichi in a bathroom.
Ladybug encounters the assassin "The Hornet", who poisoned both the Wolf's wedding party and the Son with boomslang snake venom. After a struggle, both are exposed to the venom, but Ladybug takes Hornet's antivenom before she can, killing her.
Tangerine runs into the Prince and notices one of Lemon's train stickers on her, realizing that she shot Lemon. Ladybug interrupts them, and Tangerine is killed before he can shoot her. At the next stop, Yuichi's father, "The Elder", boards the train. He recognizes the Prince's voice and informs her that Wataru is safe as her henchman has been killed.
After she flees, the Elder tells Ladybug he will remain to confront the White Death, who killed his wife while taking over the Yakuza. Finding Yuichi and Lemon still alive, the four work together and prepare to face the White Death.
At Kyoto, Ladybug gives the White Death the briefcase. The Prince, revealed to be the White Death's daughter, fails to goad him into shooting her with the rigged gun.
The White Death explains that each of the assassins, as well as the Son, were linked to the death of his wife. He hired them hoping they would kill each other, not knowing Carver (his wife's killer) was replaced by Ladybug. The White Death's henchmen open the briefcase, which explodes, knocking Ladybug and the White Death back onto the train.
The White Death's remaining henchmen board and battle the assassins, while the Elder duels the White Death. The train crashes into downtown Kyoto. Emerging from the wreck, impaled with the Elder's katana, the White Death tries to kill Ladybug, but the Prince's rigged gun explodes in his face. The Prince threatens Ladybug, Yuichi, and the Elder with a machine gun but is run over by a truck full of tangerines driven by Lemon.[6] Maria arrives to retrieve Ladybug, while Japanese authorities begin to clean up the damage caused by the train crash.
|
Bullet in the Head
| 1,990
|
John Woo
|
['Tony Leung Chiu-wai', 'Jacky Cheung Hok-Yau', 'Waise Lee Chi-Hung', 'Simon Yam', 'Fennie Yuen Kit-Ying', 'Yolinda Yan Choh-Sin', 'Lam Chung', 'Pau Hei-Ching', 'Chang Gan-Wing', 'So Hang-Suen', 'Chang Tseng', 'Siao San-Yan', 'Paco Yick Tin-Hung', 'Pei Yun', 'Tsui Kwong-Lam', 'Ding Yue', 'Kowit Wattanakul', 'Therdporn Manopaibool', 'Damrongphandhu Sudrak', 'Suchai Thilua', 'Thirasak Sinsoongsud', 'Somsak Saengvilia', 'Lawrence Lau Sek-Yin', 'Raymond Lee Wai-Man', 'Jameson Lam Wa-Fan', 'Leung Bo-Ching', 'To Wai-Wo', 'Lam Chi-Tai', 'Lau Shung-Fung', 'Mak Wai-Cheung', 'Choi Kwok-Keung', 'Lee Yiu-King', 'Tam Wai-Man', 'Kwan Kwok-Chung', 'Wong Wai-Fong', 'Lam Foo-Wai', 'Cheng Wai-Ching', 'Poon Cheung', 'Choi Kin-Shing', 'Lung Ying', 'Wong Wai-Fai', 'Woo Wing-Tat', 'Pang Hiu-Sang', 'Wan Seung-Lam', 'Jeng Yee', 'Wong Wai-Shun', 'Ernest Mauser', 'Ho Chi-Moon', 'Cheung Siu', 'Aan Chiu-Hung', 'Jonathan Isgar', 'Lau Chi-Ho', 'Yiu Chan-Lam', 'Hung Chi-Sing', 'Sam Ho Choi-Chow', 'Bruce Law Lai-Yin', 'John Woo', 'Fei Pak', 'John Rutherford']
| 4
| 4.5
|
Action, War, Adventure, Drama, Crime film, Suspense, Mystery, Mafia, Thriller, Gangster, Detective fiction, World cinema, Crime Fiction, Police procedural, Action/Adventure
| 131
|
['Hong Kong']
|
Cantonese
|
['Cantonese', 'English', 'French', 'Vietnamese']
|
['Golden Princess Film Productions', 'John Woo Film Production']
| 16,710
|
action, top-rated
|
letterboxds-top-250-action-films
| null |
In 1967, Hong Kong, Ben, Paul, and Frank are childhood friends and members of a gang. They regularly brawl with members of other gangs. Ben becomes engaged to his girlfriend Jane and Frank takes out a loan to pay for the reception. He is attacked by the leader of another gang, Ringo, and they fight over the money. After the wedding Ben and Frank attack Ringo in retaliation and Frank gets carried away and kills him. They meet with Paul and decide to flee Hong Kong to escape the police. They decide to go to Vietnam, as they have heard that there is money to be made as smugglers due to the war.
Ben, Paul, and Frank get a load of contraband goods from a Hong Kong smuggler and agree to take them to a Vietnamese gangster named Leong. The three friends leave and reach Saigon by boat, only to have a Vietcong suicide bomber destroy all of their goods in an attempt on an officer of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. They are arrested as suspects in the bombing and beaten, until the real bomber is discovered and executed in front of them. They meet Luke, a hitman working for Leong, who dreams of escaping Vietnam with Sally, a nightclub singer Leong has kidnapped and forced into prostitution. The four men attempt to save her, a plan which goes wrong and culminates in a shootout in the nightclub. During the altercation Paul discovers a box of gold in Leong's office and steals it. They escape the nightclub, but Sally is shot in the back and injured.
The next morning, the five of them wait by the river for a boat that is supposed to pick them up. Ben and Frank are concerned with Sally and Paul guards the gold. They are attacked by gangsters and the ARVN as the boat arrives, and Sally dies just as they board it. Luke lets her body drift down the river. As they escape, the boat breaks down, and Paul becomes distressed over losing the gold. The three friends fight over Paul's preoccupation with the gold, and Ben and Frank tell him that the friendship is over. The boat is attacked by gangsters and sinks. Luke, Ben, and Frank escape, but Paul goes back for the gold, almost drowning before Ben and Frank save him and the gold.
Ben, Paul, and Frank are captured by the Vietcong and taken to a concentration camp. The Vietcong take the gold, and find intelligence documents in the box that Leong was going to sell to the North Vietnamese. The three friends are brutally interrogated, and Paul claims to work for the CIA to save the others. Frank is forced to kill other prisoners, which distresses him, but Ben asks to join in. When he is told to kill Frank he turns on their captors and they escape, aided by the arrival of a squad of Americans led by Luke. Paul escapes from the Vietcong as well and takes the gold into a field. Frank, who is wounded, follows him and begs for help. They hide from the Vietcong and Paul urges Frank to be quiet, but he continues to scream in pain and fear, and Paul finally shoots him in the back of the head to silence him. Luke rushes to Frank's side, finding him still alive, and loads him into a helicopter.
Ben chases Paul, who finds his way to a peaceful river village and steals a boat, massacring the villagers in the process. Ben witnesses this, and when he tries to save a child Paul shoots them both and escapes. Ben is saved by some monks, and eventually makes his way back to Saigon, where a badly disfigured Luke tells him that Frank is still alive, but that his head injury has changed him; he is now addicted to heroin and works as a contract killer. Luke takes Ben to see him, and after a brief altercation, Ben shoots Frank to put him out of his misery.
Ben travels back to Hong Kong and is reunited with Jane, who has given birth to a child. Meanwhile, Paul has become a successful businessman. Ben confronts him over his actions, showing him Frank's skull and blaming him for what happened to him. Paul is indifferent and kicks Ben out. Later, Ben attacks Paul on the street and they engage in a car chase. They find themselves on the pier where they played together as children. They crash their cars, and continue to fight: Paul is ultimately killed, and Ben limps away from the scene.
|
Bullets Over Broadway
| 1,994
|
Woody Allen
|
['John Cusack', 'Chazz Palminteri', 'Dianne Wiest', 'Jennifer Tilly', 'Mary-Louise Parker', 'Tracey Ullman', 'Jim Broadbent', 'Joe Viterelli', 'Harvey Fierstein', 'Rob Reiner', 'Jack Warden', 'Tony Sirico', 'Victor Colicchio', 'Louis Eppolito', 'Gene Canfield', 'Peter Castellotti', 'Tony Conforti', 'John Di Benedetto', 'John Ventimiglia', 'Lisa Arturo', 'Rachel Black', 'Alison Cramer', 'Kelly Groninger', 'Jennifer Lamberts', 'Carol Lee Meadows', 'Jo Telford', 'Meghan Strange', 'Leigh Torlage', 'Debra Wiseman', 'Paul Herman', 'James Reno', 'Stacey Nelkin', 'MaÅgorzata ZajÄ
czkowska', 'Charles Cragin', 'Gerald E. Dolezar', 'Nina von Arx', 'Shannah Laumeister Stern', 'Fran McGee', 'Annie-Joe Edwards', 'Brian McConnachie', 'Edie Falco', 'Kernan Bell', 'Hope W. Sacharoff', 'Debi Mazar', 'Nick Iacovino', 'Frank Aquilino', 'Sohrab Ardeshir', 'Molly Regan', 'Phil Stein', 'John Doumanian', 'Dayle Haddon', 'Tony Darrow', 'Howard Erskine', 'Benay Venuta', 'Ken Roberts', 'Jennifer Van Dyck', 'Peter McRobbie', 'José Alvarez', 'John Glenn Hoyt', 'Jeff Mazzola', 'Bruce Roberts', 'Patty Sherman', 'Bebie Waller', 'Rick Washburn']
| 3.72
| null |
Action, Comedy, Satire, Drama, Crime film, Thriller, Gangster, Crime Fiction
| 98
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Miramax', 'Jean Doumanian Productions', 'Sweetland Films']
| 35,719
|
comedy
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
In 1928, David Shayne is an idealistic young playwright newly arrived on Broadway from Pittsburgh. Desperate to gain financing for his play, God of Our Fathers, he is convinced by producer Julian Marx to cast actress Olive Neal, the girlfriend of gangster Nick Valenti, in a minor role.
Compensating for his frustration with the demanding and talentless Olive, Shayne is thrilled to cast alcoholic faded star Helen Sinclair in the lead role, along with the dieting British thespian Warner Purcell. Rehearsals are soon thrown into chaos when Olive shows up escorted by Cheech, a mob henchman, who insists on watching rehearsals.
Eventually Cheech starts giving notes on the script to Shayne, who is initially angered by the intrusion but quickly realizes the ideas are excellent. Cheech, who barely learned to read before burning down his school, has a natural talent for playwriting, but is not interested in taking any credit. The cast members herald the revised script as genius, disparaging his initial draft as dull and pompous.
Buoyed by their imminent success, Shayne and the actors succumb to their vices. His partner, Ellen, catches him cheating on her with Helen. Warner indulges in overeating and begins an affair with Olive, which he attempts to break off when Cheech threatens his life. Growing increasingly frustrated with Olive's poor acting, Cheech tries to have her fired from the production. After Shayne reminds him he cannot get rid of Olive, Cheech murders her and dumps her body in a river.
Olive's murder is widely assumed to be part of an inter-gang conflict, but Shayne immediately senses the truth and argues with Cheech. Regretting his mistakes, Shayne is dismayed to learn that Ellen is leaving him for his hedonistic Marxist friend Sheldon Flender.
On opening night, Valenti accuses Cheech of Olive's murder, which he denies. Henchmen Rocco and Aldo chase Cheech backstage while the play is being performed, shooting him. With his dying words, Cheech gives Shayne a new final line for the play. The play is a critical and commercial success, but Shayne skips the after-party to confront Flender. He confesses his lack of talent and proposes marriage to Ellen, who accepts his newfound desire to leave high society and move back to Pittsburgh.
|
Bully
| 2,001
|
Larry Clark
|
['Brad Renfro', 'Nick Stahl', 'Rachel Miner', 'Michael Pitt', 'Daniel Franzese', 'Bijou Phillips', 'Leo Fitzpatrick', 'Kelli Garner', 'Alan Lilly', 'Jessica Sutta', 'Nathalie Paulding', 'Olivia Burnette', 'Deborah Smith Ford', 'Irene B. Colletti', 'Marc Pearson', 'Steve Raulerson', 'Judy Clayton', 'Ed Amatrudo']
| 3.42
| 4
|
Drama, Teen, Suspense, Mystery, Thriller, Indie film, Crime Fiction
| 113
|
['France', 'USA', 'UK']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['StudioCanal', 'Muse Productions', 'Gravity Entertainment', 'Lionsgate']
| 45,533
|
sad, emotional
|
sad-movies-if-you-feel-like-you-need-to-cry
| null |
South Florida high school dropouts Ali Willis and Lisa Connelly befriend Bobby Kent and Marty Puccio, employees at a local deli. The four go out on a double date. Later that evening, in Bobby's parked car, Ali performs oral sex on Bobby, while Lisa and Marty have sex in the back seat. Lisa later learns she is pregnant, but is afraid that the child is Bobby's instead of Marty's, since Bobby raped her after beating Marty unconscious.
Bobby emotionally and physically abuses Marty, who puts up with his violent tendencies. On one occasion, Bobby rapes Ali while trying to force her to watch gay pornography with him. Lisa later tells Marty that everyone suspects Bobby is attracted to him. Marty reveals to Lisa that the abuse has been going on since they were boys, starting with Marty taking drugs at an early age, which Marty thinks that Bobby has been using to take advantage of him. Marty and Bobby later go to a gay bar, where Marty is told to strip down to his underwear and dance for money, while Bobby takes pleasure in his humiliation.
Lisa eventually proposes that the group murder Bobby. Ali recruits her new boyfriend, the pot-smoking and acid-dropping Donny Semenec, and a troubled friend, Heather Swallers, who has recently been released from rehab; Lisa recruits her cousin, the shy and nerdy Derek Dzvirko. They initially plan to kill Bobby with a gun stolen from Lisa's mother. Ali and Lisa lure Bobby to the Everglades, the plan being that Lisa will shoot him while he has sex with Ali, but Lisa finds herself unable to do it. Realizing they need help, the group hire a supposed "hitman", Derek Kaufman, a friend of Ali's who is in actuality a tough-talking young man several years older than them.
With Kaufman's help, the group orchestrates a new plan: they drive with Bobby to the Everglades again, and Ali again lures Bobby to the bank of a canal with the promise of sex. Heather haphazardly gives a signal to Donny, who sneaks up behind Bobby and stabs him in the back of the neck. Horrified by the violence, Ali, Heather, and Dzvirko run back to Ali's car. Lisa watches as Marty and Donny repeatedly stab Bobby and slit his throat, before Kaufman bludgeons Bobby with a baseball bat. Kaufman forces Dzvirko to help carry the dying Bobby into the swamp, presuming alligators will consume the corpse.
Marty later realizes that he left the sheath to his diving knife at the canal. The group returns to retrieve the sheath and finds Bobby's corpse being devoured by crabs. Lisa, Dzvirko, Ali, and Heather do not believe they did anything wrong, since they did not directly participate in Bobby's actual death. Lisa decides to dispose of the knife, which is the only evidence linking them to the crime.
Unable to maintain the secret, Dzvirko and Lisa reveal to their other friends what they've done, while Ali phones in an anonymous tip to the media, alerting them to Bobby's death. Lisa calls Kaufman and speaks to his younger brother, who says that Kaufman has already been arrested for the murder. Eventually, all the teenagers turn themselves in, with the exception of Marty, who is subsequently arrested. Some time later, the group appear in court, wearing prison jumpsuits, with Lisa visibly pregnant by this time. Marty and Donny begin to argue, leading the others to join in as they each respectively deny their culpability in front of an onlooking courtroom.
Title cards reveal the convictions the perpetrators received in real life: Derek Kaufman, Donny Semenec, and Lisa Connelly received life sentences, Ali Willis 40 years, Derek Dzvirko 11 years, Heather Swallers seven years, and Marty Puccio the death penalty, which was vacated in 1997.
|
Bunny Chow
| 2,006
|
John Barker
|
['David Kibuuka', 'Kim Suzanne Engelbrecht', 'Kagiso Lediga', 'Joey Yusuf Rasdien', 'Jason Cope', 'David Kau', 'Darlington Michaels', 'Jakkie Groenewald']
| null | null |
['Comedy']
| 92
|
['South Africa', 'Sweden']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Film i Väst']
| 38
|
road-movie
|
road-movies-1
| null |
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|
Bunny Lake Is Missing
| 1,965
|
Otto Preminger
|
['Carol Lynley', 'Laurence Olivier', 'Keir Dullea', 'Martita Hunt', 'Anna Massey', 'Clive Revill', 'Finlay Currie', 'Noël Coward', 'Lucie Mannheim', 'Adrienne Corri', 'Megs Jenkins', 'Delphi Lawrence', 'Jill Melford', 'Suzanne Neve', 'Richard Wattis', 'Suky Appleby', 'Victor Maddern', 'Dan Jackson', 'Percy Herbert', 'John Forbes-Robertson', 'Michael Wynne']
| 3.89
| null |
Noir, Mystery, Drama, Crime film, Suspense, Thriller, Psychological thriller, Detective fiction, Classic, Psychological Fiction, Police procedural
| 107
|
['UK']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Wheel Productions', 'Columbia Pictures']
| 19,408
|
thriller, essential
|
100-essential-thrillers
| null |
American single mother Ann Lake, who recently moved to London from New York, arrives at the Little People's Garden pre-school to collect her daughter, Bunny. The child has mysteriously disappeared. An administrator recalls meeting Ann but claims never to have seen the missing child. Ann and her brother Steven search the school and find a peculiar old woman living upstairs, who claims she collects children's nightmares. In desperation, the Lakes call the police and Superintendent Newhouse arrives on the scene. Everyone becomes a suspect and Superintendent Newhouse is steadfast, diligently following every lead. The police and Newhouse decide to visit the Lakes' new residence.
They conclude that all of Bunny's possessions have been removed from the Lakes' new home. Ann cannot understand why anyone would do this and reacts emotionally. Superintendent Newhouse begins to suspect that Bunny Lake does not exist, after he learns that "Bunny" was the name of Ann's imaginary childhood friend. Ann's landlord, an aging actor, attempts to seduce her. Steven argues with Newhouse, angrily tells him that he will hire a private detective to find Bunny, and storms off. Newhouse decides to become better acquainted with Ann to learn more about Bunny. He takes her to a local pub where he plies her with brandy and soda.
On her return home, Ann discovers she still has the claim ticket for Bunny's doll, which was taken to a doll hospital for repairs. Regarding the doll as proof of Bunny's existence, she frantically rushes to the doll hospital late at night and retrieves the doll. Steven arrives later and when Ann shows him the doll, Steven burns the doll, hoping to destroy it, then knocks Ann unconscious. He takes Ann to a hospital and tells the desk nurse that Ann has been hallucinating about a missing girl who does not exist. Ann is put under observation with instructions for her to be sedated if she awakes.
Ann wakes up in the hospital and escapes. She discovers that Steven is burying Bunny's possessions in the garden, and had sedated the little girl, hiding her in the trunk of his Sunbeam Tiger car. Steven implies an incestuous interest with his sister, complaining that Bunny has always come between them. Believing that Ann loves Bunny more than him, the child threatens Steven's dream of a future with his sister. Ann, realising her brother is insane, begins playing childhood games with Steven, in order to distract him from killing Bunny. Newhouse, having discovered that Steven lied to the police about the name of the ship that brought the Lakes to England, rushes quickly to the Lakes' residence, arriving in time to apprehend Steven, successfully rescuing Ann and Bunny.
|
Burn After Reading
| 2,008
|
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
|
['George Clooney', 'Frances McDormand', 'Brad Pitt', 'John Malkovich', 'Tilda Swinton', 'Richard Jenkins', 'Elizabeth Marvel', 'David Rasche', 'J.K. Simmons', 'Olek Krupa', 'Michael Countryman', 'Kevin Sussman', 'J.R. Horne', 'Hamilton Clancy', 'Armand Schultz', 'Pun Bandhu', 'Karla Mosley', 'Jeffrey DeMunn', 'Richard Poe', 'Carmen M. Herlihy', 'Raul Aranas', 'Judy Frank', 'Sándor Técsy', 'Yury Tsykun', "Brian O'Neill", 'Robert Prescott', 'Matt Walton', 'Lori Hammel', 'Crystal Bock', 'Patrick Boll', 'Logan Kulick', 'Dermot Mulroney', 'Robert R. Barry', 'Ted Bouton', 'Bob Bowersox', 'Oliver Buckingham', 'Michael Fawcett', 'William Fowle', 'Charles Gemmill', 'Mitch Giannunzio', 'Cliff Goulet', 'William D. Grey', 'Gary Henderson', 'Ron Kidd', 'Bill Massof', 'Brian McKeon', 'Ken McNeill', 'Tim Miller', 'Jay Parks', 'Roger Rathburn', 'Eric Richardson', 'Bart Wilder', 'Stephen Ananicz', 'Matt Cannon', 'Kimberly Dorsey', 'Lil Rhee', 'Liam Ferguson', 'Matthew James Gulbranson', 'RJ Konner', 'Douglas Nelson', 'Kevin Tan', 'Jacqueline Wright']
| 3.62
| null |
Comedy, Dark comedy, Crime Comedy, Drama, Crime film, Mystery, Mafia, Thriller, Gangster, Detective fiction, Police procedural
| 96
|
['USA', 'UK', 'France']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Focus Features', 'StudioCanal', 'Relativity Media', 'Working Title Films', 'Mike Zoss Productions']
| 547,600
|
comedy
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
Faced with a demotion due to a drinking problem, Osborne Cox angrily quits his job as a CIA analyst and decides to write a memoir. Upon telling his wife Katie, she surreptitiously files for divorce and continues an existing affair with Harry Pfarrer, a married U.S. Marshal with paranoid tendencies. At the instruction of her lawyer, Katie delivers a copy of her husband's digital financial records and other personal files, unknowingly including a rough draft of Osborne's memoir. The lawyer's assistant copies the files onto a CD-R, which she accidentally leaves on the locker room floor of Hardbodies, a local gym. The disc falls into the hands of personal trainer Chad Feldheimer and his coworker Linda Litzke, who mistakenly believe it contains sensitive government information.
Chad and Linda devise a plan to return the disc to Osborne for a reward as Linda is eager to raise money for cosmetic surgery. However, their inept efforts to blackmail Osborne only enrage him. Upon their failure to secure money from Osborne, Chad and Linda try to sell the disc to the Russian embassy, meeting with an official who is later revealed to be a spy for the CIA. Osborne's erratic behavior prompts Katie to change the locks on their house and to invite Harry to move in. Harry is a serial philanderer who incidentally becomes romantically involved with Linda after meeting her on a dating site.
Having falsely promised the Russians more files, Linda persuades Chad to sneak into the Cox house to steal files from Osborne's computer. Chad is discovered by Harry, who reflexively kills Chad with his firearm. Harry searches the body for clues, but finds an empty wallet and missing suit tags, a precaution Chad took at the behest of Linda's advice. Harry surmises from his lack of identifying features that Chad is a government agent. At the CIA headquarters, Osborne's former superior and his director learn that information from Osborne has been given to the Russian embassy. They are perplexed because the information is of no particular importance and the perpetrators' motive is unknown. To avoid involvement from the FBI because of interservice rivalry, the director orders that Chad's death be covered up.
Harry realizes that he is being tailed by a divorce lawyer hired by his wife. Depressed, Harry meets with Linda, who is distressed over Chad's disappearance. Harry agrees to help find him, unaware that Chad is the man he killed. Linda returns to the embassy, believing that the Russians have abducted Chad, but they deny this. After they inform her the contents of the CD she has given them are worthless, she convinces the manager of Hardbodies, Ted (who has unrequited feelings for Linda), to help her by sneaking into the Cox household to gather more files.
Harry and Linda meet in a park, where Linda reveals the address where Chad went before he disappeared. Harry realizes that Chad is the man he shot and flees, convinced Linda is a spy. When Osborne breaks into Katie's house with a hatchet to retrieve personal belongings, he finds Ted in the basement; Osborne shoots him, chases him into the street, and kills him with the hatchet.
At the CIA headquarters, Osborne's former superior informs the director of the events. A surveilling CIA officer who saw Osborne's highly conspicuous attack intervened and shot him, leaving him in a coma. Harry has been detained while trying to flee to Venezuela, a country with no extradition treaty with the U.S.; the director orders that Harry be released and allowed to continue to Venezuela, rather than deal with the consequences of bringing him into custody. Linda has been captured but agrees to keep quiet if they will pay for her plastic surgery. The director, bewildered by the litany of events, approves the payment and closes the file.
|
Burning
| 2,018
|
Lee Chang-dong
|
['Yoo Ah-in', 'Steven Yeun', 'Jun Jong-seo', 'Kim Soo-kyung', 'Choi Seung-ho', 'Moon Sung-keun', 'Min Bok-gi', 'Ban Hye-ra', 'Cha Mi-kyung', 'Lee Bong-ryeon', 'Jang Won-hyung', 'Jeon Seok-chan', 'Lee Jung-ok', 'Ok Ja-yeon', 'Kim Shin-rock', 'Song Duk-ho', 'Jeong Da-yi']
| 4.05
| 3.5
|
Drama, Suspense, Mystery, Thriller, Psychological thriller, Psychological Fiction
| 148
|
['Japan', 'South Korea']
|
Korean
|
['Korean', 'English']
|
['Pinehouse Film', 'NOWFILM', 'NHK', 'Finecut', 'CGV Arthouse', 'Union Investment Partners', 'Michigan Venture Capital', 'Timewise Investment', 'kth', 'Busan Film Commission', 'Seoul Film Commission']
| 326,655
|
mystery
|
101-greatest-mystery-movies
| null |
Lee Jong-su, an aspiring young novelist, performs odd jobs in Seoul. One day he runs into Shin Hae-mi, a childhood neighbor and classmate, at a promotion at which he is making a delivery. Jong-su initially does not remember her, but Hae-mi tells him she had plastic surgery. Jong-su gives her the pink watch that he won at the promotion. Later, she tells him about her upcoming trip to Africa and asks him to feed her cat, Boil, while she is away. Before Hae-mi's departure, Jong-su's father, a cattle farmer in Paju, becomes entangled in disagreeable legal affairs, and Jong-su has to return to the farm. Jong-su visits Hae-mi's apartment, where he receives instructions about feeding the cat. They then have sex.
After Hae-mi departs, Jong-su dutifully feeds her cat, although he never sees it. He does, however, presume that a cat is there because he finds feces in the litter box. He begins habitually masturbating in Hae-mi's apartment. One day Hae-mi calls, saying she had become stranded at Nairobi Airport for three days after a bombing nearby. When Jong-su comes to pick her up, she arrives with Ben, a man whom she met and bonded with during the crisis. The three go out for dinner, where Hae-mi cries and confesses that she wants to disappear. Ben is wealthy, but does not give a clear answer when asked what kind of work he does.
At Jong-su's farm, the trio smokes cannabis and Hae-mi dances topless. After Hae-mi has fallen asleep on the sofa, Ben confesses that every two months, he burns an abandoned greenhouse as a hobby. He notes that Jong-su's rural neighborhood is full of greenhouses. When asked when his next burning will take place, Ben claims it will be very soon and close to Jong-su's house. Jong-su chastises Hae-mi for disrobing in front of other men. She quietly gets into Ben's car and they drive off.
Jong-su keeps watch around the neighborhood to see if any greenhouses burn down, but none do. One afternoon, in front of an intact greenhouse that he is inspecting, he receives a call from Hae-mi, which cuts off after a few seconds of ambiguous noises. Jong-su becomes worried as she does not answer any of his calls, and begins to investigate after her phone number becomes disconnected. He convinces the landlady to let him into Hae-mi's apartment so that he can feed her cat. Hae-mi's apartment is unnaturally clean; her suitcase remains, and all signs of the cat are gone. Jong-su begins staking out Ben's Gangnam apartment and following him to see where he goes. When he sees Ben's Porsche parked outside a restaurant, he goes inside to confront him. Ben insists that he did burn down a greenhouse near Jong-su's house. A young woman approaches the table, apologizing to Ben for being late. As the three of them leave the restaurant, Jong-su asks Ben if he has heard from Hae-mi and whether she has gone on a trip. Ben says he has not heard from her, and he doubts she has gone on a trip because she could not afford it. Ben says Jong-su was the only person she trusted and that it made him jealous for the first time in his life.
One day, Ben finds Jong-su waiting outside his place and invites him up to his apartment. Ben has a new cat, which he claims is a rescued stray. In the restroom, Jong-su finds a pink watch, similar to the one he gave Hae-mi, hidden in a drawer containing other pieces of women's jewelry. When Ben's cat runs out of the apartment, Jong-su finds that it answers to the name "Boil." Jong-su silently leaves the dinner party Ben is hosting, despite Ben's pleas for him to stay.
Jong-su asks to meet Ben in the countryside, claiming he is with Hae-mi. Ben sees that Hae-mi is not there and asks Jong-su where she is; Jong-su stabs him to death. He then douses Ben's car and body in gasoline and sets them on fire, tossing his blood-soaked clothes in as well. He stumbles naked to his truck and drives off.
|
But I'm a Cheerleader
| 1,999
|
Jamie Babbit
|
['Natasha Lyonne', 'Clea DuVall', 'Cathy Moriarty', 'RuPaul', 'Melanie Lynskey', 'Katharine Towne', 'Katrina Phillips', 'Joel Michaely', 'Douglas Spain', 'Kip Pardue', 'Eddie Cibrian', 'Michelle Williams', 'Brandt Wille', 'Bud Cort', 'Mink Stole', 'Katie Donahue', 'Danielle Reneau', 'Dante Basco', 'Kyle Thatcher', 'Robert Pine', 'Rachelle Carson', 'Wesley Mann', 'Richard Moll', 'Julie Delpy', 'Charles Braden', 'Jacqueline Aguirre', 'Amy Ash', 'William Bilaclac', 'Patricia Cadena', 'Thai Chau', 'Jeff Diehl', 'Tony Dimaio', 'Robert Francis', 'Katina Garrett', 'Terri Gloyd', 'Candi Guterres', 'Nathan Hayden', 'Ryan Nick Hilckmann', 'My Hua', 'Sam Irwin', 'Justine Jagoda', 'Jolynn Jones', 'Seth Jones', 'Bret Keisel', 'Carolyn Krieger', 'Rocky Leiva', 'Alfred Leivas', 'Linda Lichtman', 'Beverly Neufield', 'Lonnie Moreno', 'Sheri Ozeki', 'Charlene Pascall', 'Christopher Perez', 'Jenny Rounds', 'Marilyn Sanders', 'Andrew Seder', 'Bambi Shulte', 'Dawn Stobaugh', 'Heidi Sulzman', 'Manuel Tombakian', 'Jeffrey Vandenburgh', 'Dawn Michelle Hoffman', 'Lindsay Calnon', 'Charlene Hooper', 'Jamie Jessick', 'Angela Klein', 'Kristina Klein', 'Kimberly Martinez', 'Michelle Patterson', 'Bethany Swader', 'Katy Swader', 'Danielle Vachal', 'Jenni Pulos', 'Niki York', 'Ione Skye']
| 4
| null |
Romance, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Satire, Melodrama, Drama, Teen, Comedy drama
| 85
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Ignite Entertainment', 'Lionsgate', 'The Kushner-Locke Company']
| 565,400
| null |
coming-of-age-movies-that-made-us-feel-seen
| null |
Seventeen-year-old high school senior Megan Bloomfield loves cheerleading and is dating Jared, a football player, but does not enjoy kissing him, instead preferring to look at her fellow cheerleaders. This, combined with her interests in vegetarianism and Melissa Etheridge, leads her parents, Peter and Nancy, and friends to suspect that she is a lesbian. Aided by ex-gay Mike, they surprise her with an intervention. She is then sent to True Directions, a two-month-long conversion therapy camp intended to convert attendees to heterosexuality via a five-step program in which they admit their homosexuality, rediscover their gender identity by performing stereotypically gender-associated tasks, find the root of their homosexuality, demystify the opposite sex, and simulate heterosexual intercourse. Upon arrival, she meets strict disciplinarian Mary J. Brown, the program's director. Mary's son Rock is seen throughout the film making multiple sexual overtures towards Mike and the other male campers.
During the program, Megan befriends college student Graham Eaton. Although Graham is more comfortable in her sexuality, she was forced to attend the camp or risk being disowned by her family after her stepmother caught her having sex. Megan meets several other adolescents and young adults trying to cure themselves of their homosexuality. The group's prompting forces her to reluctantly admit her lesbianism, which contradicts her traditional religious upbringing and distresses her, so she puts every effort into becoming heterosexual. Early on in her stay, she shockingly discovers retail worker Clayton Dunn making out with a fellow male camper and varsity wrestler named Dolph. After Mike catches them in the act, Dolph is dismissed from the premises and Clayton is punished with isolation and is sent to a doghouse for a week.
Two of Mary's former students, ex-ex-gays Larry and Lloyd Morgan-Gordon, encourage the campers to rebel against her by taking them to a local gay bar called Cocksucker, where Graham and Megan's relationship becomes romantic. Upon discovering what they did, Mary forces all of them to picket the couple's house, carrying placards and shouting homophobic abuse. Megan and Graham sneak away one night to have sex and begin to fall in love. When Mary discovers their escapade, Megan, now unapologetically comfortable with her sexuality, is dismissed from the premises. Graham, afraid that her continued defiance will result in her father potentially disinheriting her permanently, stays behind.
Disowned by her parents and homeless, Megan goes to stay with Larry and Lloyd, discovering that Dolph now also lives with them. The pair plan to rescue Graham and Clayton by infiltrating the graduation ceremony. While Dolph successfully coaxes Clayton away, Graham initially declines Megan's invitation to join them. Megan then performs a cheer she composed for Graham declaring her love for her, finally winning her over, and they drive off with Dolph and Clayton. The final scene shows Peter and Nancy uncomfortably attending a PFLAG meeting to come to terms with their daughter's homosexuality.
|
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
| 1,969
|
George Roy Hill
|
['Paul Newman', 'Robert Redford', 'Katharine Ross', 'Strother Martin', 'Henry Jones', 'Jeff Corey', 'George Furth', 'Cloris Leachman', 'Ted Cassidy', 'Kenneth Mars', 'Donnelly Rhodes', 'Jody Gilbert', 'Timothy Scott', 'Don Keefer', 'Charles Dierkop', 'Pancho Córdova', 'Nelson Olmsted', 'Paul Bryar', 'Sam Elliott', 'Charles Akins', 'Eric Sinclair', 'Douglas Bank', 'Percy Helton']
| 4.14
| null |
Western, Romance, Documentary, Buddy, Adventure, Drama, Crime film, Mystery, Thriller, Detective fiction, Classic, Police procedural
| 111
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'Spanish']
|
['Campanile Productions', '20th Century Fox', 'George Roy Hill-Paul Monash Production', 'Newman-Foreman Company']
| 196,386
|
friendship
|
favorite-friendship-driven-movies
| null |
In 1899 Wyoming, Butch Cassidy is the affable, clever, talkative leader of the outlaw Hole-in-the-Wall Gang. His closest companion is the laconic dead-shot "Sundance Kid". The two return to their hideout at Hole-in-the-Wall to discover that the rest of the gang, irked at Cassidy's long absences, have selected Harvey Logan as their new leader.
Logan challenges Cassidy to a knife fight over the gang's leadership. Cassidy defeats him using trickery, but embraces Logan's idea to rob a Union Pacific train on both its eastward and westward runs, agreeing that the second robbery would be unexpected and likely reap more money than the first.
The first robbery goes well. To celebrate, Cassidy visits a favorite brothel in a nearby town, where the town marshal unsuccessfully attempts to organize a posse to track down the gang, only to have his address to the townsfolk hijacked by a friendly bicycle salesman. Sundance, meanwhile, visits his lover, schoolteacher Etta Place. Cassidy joins up with them the next morning, and takes Place for a ride on his new bike.
On the second train robbery, Cassidy uses too much dynamite to blow open the safe. The explosion demolishes the baggage car in the process and the money flies everywhere. As the gang scrambles to gather it, a second train arrives carrying a six-man team of lawmen. The crack squad pursues Cassidy and Sundance, who try to hide out in the brothel, and then to seek amnesty from Sheriff Bledsoe, to no avail.
The posse remains in pursuit, and it includes renowned Indian tracker "Lord Baltimore" and lawman Joe Lefors, recognizable by his white skimmer. Cassidy and Sundance elude their pursuers by jumping from a cliff into a river far below. They learn from Place that the posse has been paid by Union Pacific head E. H. Harriman to remain on their trail until they are both killed.
Cassidy convinces Sundance and Place that the three should go to Bolivia, which he envisions as a robber's paradise. On their arrival there, Sundance is dismayed by the living conditions and regards the country with contempt, but Cassidy remains optimistic. However, they know too little Spanish to pull off a bank robbery, so Place attempts to teach them the language. With her as an accomplice, they become successful bank robbers known as Los Bandidos Yanquis. However, their confidence drops after seeing a man wearing a white skimmer and fear that Harriman's posse is still after them.
Cassidy suggests "going straight", and he and Sundance land their first honest job as payroll guards for a mining company. However, they are ambushed by local bandits on their first run and their boss, Percy Garris, is killed. They kill the bandits, the first time Cassidy has ever shot someone. The duo concludes the straight life is not for them. Sensing they will be killed should they return to robbery, Place decides to return to the United States.
Cassidy and Sundance steal a payroll and a burro used to carry it, and arrive in a small town. A boy recognizes the burro's livestock branding and alerts the police, leading to a gunfight with the outlaws. Cassidy has to make a desperate run to the burro to get ammunition, while Sundance provides covering fire. Wounded, the two take cover inside a building. Cassidy suggests their next destination should be Australia. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to the two men, the local police have called on the Bolivian Army. The pair charge out of the building, guns blazing, into a hail of bullets from the massed troops who have occupied all the surrounding vantage points. The film ends with the sound of gunfire on a freeze-frame shot of the two bandits.
|
Butterfly Kiss
| 1,995
|
Michael Winterbottom
|
['Amanda Plummer', 'Saskia Reeves', 'Kathy Jamieson', 'Des McAleer', 'Lisa Riley', 'Freda Dowie', 'Paula Tilbrook', 'Fine Time Fontayne', 'Elizabeth McGrath', 'Joanne Cook', 'Paul Bown', 'Emily Aston', 'Ricky Tomlinson', 'Katy Murphy']
| 3.37
| null |
Romance, Comedy, LGBTQ, Dark comedy, Drama, Crime film, Suspense, Thriller, Road
| 88
|
['UK']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Merseyside Film Production Fund', 'British Screen Productions', 'Dan Films']
| 1,155
|
road-movie
|
road-movies-1
| null |
Set on the bleak motorways of Lancashire, Butterfly Kiss tells the story of Eunice, a bisexual serial killer, and Miriam, a naive, innocent and lonely young girl who falls under her spell.
|
By the Law
| 1,926
|
Lev Kuleshov
|
['Alexandra Khokhlova', 'Vladimir Fogel', 'Pyotr Galadzhev', 'Porfiri Podobed', 'Fred Forell', 'Sergei Komarov']
| 3.95
| 5
|
Action, Romance, Western, Adventure, Drama, Crime film, Suspense, Mystery, Thriller, Crime Fiction
| 80
|
['USSR']
|
No spoken language
|
['No spoken language']
|
['Goskino USSR']
| 2,461
|
action, top-rated
|
letterboxds-top-250-action-films
| null |
A group of five gold miners originally from Western Europe find a large deposit in the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush. The group is composed of Michael (Irish), Hans Nelson (Swede and leader of the expedition) and his wife Edith (English), Dutchy (Dutch) and Harky.
Michael, the one who handles all the manual work and found gold for the group, gets frustrated as the other members still treat him as a subaltern. One day, Michael enters the cabin with a rifle for hunting or protection and, in a moment of madness, shoots dead two of his comrades, Dutchy and Harky. The remaining two, Hans Nelson and his wife Edith, disarm him. Hans Nelson wants to kill Michael, but his wife Edith opposes the idea. They face the dilemma of whether to administer justice themselves or risk waiting for the thaw and then trying to return to civilization to render the offender to the public court.
|
C'mon C'mon
| 2,021
|
Mike Mills
|
['Joaquin Phoenix', 'Gaby Hoffmann', 'Woody Norman', 'Scoot McNairy', 'Molly Webster', 'Jaboukie Young-White', 'Deborah Strang', 'Sunni Patterson', 'Jenny Eliscu', 'Mary Passeri', 'Brandon Rush', "Brey'on Shaw", "Todd D'Amour", 'Beth Bartley', 'Artrial Clark', 'Eleanor Halm Simmons', 'Keisuke Hoashi', 'Maximilla Lukacs', 'Nancy Gell', 'Gita Reddy', 'Mya Gonzales', 'Cooper Jack Rubin', 'Faith Steptore', 'Mahfuzul Islam', "Na'kyah Adjuman", 'Jayce Garrett', 'Adilem Hernandez', 'Joye Pyronneau', 'Malik Pyronneau', 'Tallulah Smith', 'Tobias Cen', 'Ambar Perez', 'Dora Dulge', 'Roselin Garcia', 'Louie Nathan', 'Evan Ortiz', 'Sophie Suzuki Shih', 'Tamar Tanis', 'Elvies Yuan', 'Devante Bryant', 'Ethan Clubb', 'Robin Hand', 'London Hicks', 'Rayne King', 'May Maczka', 'Steven Stewart', 'Chrisette Thompson', 'Leslie Feist', 'Elaine Kagan', 'Kate Adams', 'Joseph Bishop', 'Callan Farris', 'Khadija Emma Neumann']
| 4.13
| 3.5
|
Comedy, Drama, Black-and-white
| 109
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['A24', 'Be Funny When You Can']
| 213,886
|
feel-good, friendship
|
favorite-friendship-driven-movies, feel-good-movies
| null |
Johnny is a single, middle-aged radio journalist who is currently working on a project that entails traveling the country with his producing partners to interview children and teenagers about their lives and thoughts about the future. While in Detroit, he calls his sister Viv, with whom he has not spoken since their mother's death from dementia a year earlier. They have a nice conversation, and Viv asks Johnny if he can come to Los Angeles and watch her nine-year-old son Jesse, as she has to travel to Oakland to help Paul, her estranged husband and Jesse's father who struggles with bipolar disorder, get settled there. Johnny agrees, and he and Jesse quickly forge a bond as they get to know each other and Johnny shows Jesse how to operate his audio equipment.
Viv discovers Paul is doing worse than she had thought and feels she should stay in Oakland until she can convince him to seek medical attention, so Johnny, who needs to return to work, convinces Viv to let him take Jesse with him to his home in New York City. He finds caring for Jesse while trying to work increasingly difficult, and one night, after Jesse disappears at a store, Johnny snaps at his nephew. While trying to apologize, he lets slip that Viv is try to help Paul, rather than just for a visit, but, eventually, Viv and Johnny are able to smooth things over with Jesse. From time to time, Jesse asks Johnny questions about his relationship with Viv and his personal life, and it is revealed that Johnny and Viv fought over how to care for their mother as her health deteriorated, that Johnny told Viv to leave Paul the first time Paul had issues with his mental health, and that Johnny was once in a long-term relationship with a woman, Louisa, whom he still loves.
Paul checks himself into a treatment center, but asks Viv if she will stay nearby until he is better, so Johnny, feeling confident, agrees to keep watching Jesse. When his producing partners begin to pressure him about an opportunity to interview some children in New Orleans and he loses Jesse on the street, however, he realizes he is in over his head and buys Jesse a plane ticket back to L.A. On the way to the airport, Jesse says he needs to use the bathroom, but then locks himself inside, saying he does not want to go home yet.
Johnny takes Jesse with him to New Orleans. He apologizes for wanting to send Jesse away, and the pair get back on good terms as Johnny works and they explore the city. When Viv calls with the news that Paul is doing much better and the doctors are sending him home, so she is coming to get Jesse, Jesse becomes upset and runs off. At first, he will only say that he is "fine", but Johnny helps him vent his frustrations by yelling and kicking the air. Jesse asks Johnny if he will be like his father when he grows up, and Johnny says he does not think so, as Viv has taught him how to deal with his emotions in a healthier way.
Viv flies to New Orleans and takes Jesse home. Back in New York, while listening to the recordings from New Orleans, Johnny hears a message from Jesse, in which he says that Johnny is probably his best friend. Johnny later sends Jesse a voice recording recounting their time together and reiterates a promise to remind Jesse about anything he forgets as he grows up.
|
C.I.D. Moosa
| 2,003
|
Johny Antony
|
['Dileep', 'Bhavana', 'Jagathy Sreekumar', 'Ashish Vidhyarthi', 'Harisree Ashokan', 'Cochin Haneefa', 'Oduvil Unnikrishnan', 'Murali', 'Vijayaraghavan', 'Salim Kumar', 'Sharat Saxena', 'Captain Raju', 'Paravoor Bharathan', 'Sukumari', 'Indrans', 'Kunchan', 'Machan Varghese', 'Subbalakshmi', 'Bindu Panicker', 'Geetha Salam', 'Abu Salim', 'Narayanankutty', 'Kalabhavan Shajon', 'Reena', 'Nandu Poduval', 'Kalabhavan Haneef', 'Kalabhavan Rahman', 'Shweta Agarwal', 'Kazan Khan']
| 3.8
| null |
Action, Comedy, World cinema
| 160
|
['India']
|
Malayalam
|
['Malayalam']
|
['Graand Production']
| 3,317
|
action, top-rated
|
letterboxds-top-250-action-films
| null |
Moolamkuzhiyil Sahadevan is the son of a police constable named Prabhakaran, who works in the local police department's dog squad; even their dog Arjun is a trained member of the squad with a unique ability to nab culprits and deduce a crime scene. Sahadevan has only one ambition: to join the Kerala Police department for which he clears his exams and prepares for the physical test. However, Sahadevan is not in good terms with his brother-in-law Pitambaran (who too is a Sub-inspector) since he married Sahadevan's elder sister after an elopement.
Meanwhile, a terrorist leader named Khalid Muhammed Baba, who is incarcerated in the Tihar Jail, formulates a plot to murder the Kerala Chief Minister Ravi Menon with the help of a shrewd, cunning and corrupt Police Commissioner Gowrishankar. It was later revealed that Menon previously served as the Minister for Home Affairs who ordered for the quelling of Baba's terrorist organization, which led to Baba's imprisonment and the slaying of his family. Baba and Shankar arranged 3 terrorists Randheer, Amar and Jandu to implant a time bomb inside the hospital where Menon is undergoing treatment, but Sahadevan and Arjun find the bomb and throws it out before it explodes, though Arjun ends up being injured. Despite this, Sahadevan is able to arrange medical treatments to restore Arjun back to full health.
In response to Sahadevan's heroics for saving the hospital, Gowrishankar (with the help from Pitambaran) intentionally makes Sahadevan fail his physical test. When Sahadevan finds out who the terrorists are, he tries to find a way to foil it by becoming a private detective and through taking over the security agency run by his uncle Karunan Chanthakkavala alias Karamchand and adopts the pseudonym CID Moosa. In his first assignment, Moosa and his associates manages to nab Randheer (who planted the bomb at the hospital) and surrender him over to the police, impressing the DIG Sathyanath (who happens to be Menon's nephew).
However, Gowrishankar secretly kills Randheer and destroys Moosa's office after learning that the firm doesn't have a license. The rest of the two terrorists then plant another bomb on Menon's car in another attempt to kill him, but this was foiled when Moosa tries to meet Menon to file a complaint about the office ransacking, saving Menon from being killed by the explosion and leading Moosa to receive more praise by the public. Upon hearing what has happened, Baba furiously breaks out of prison as he personally intends to help Gowrishankar,Amar and Jandu in finishing both Menon and Moosa themselves. Moosa later finds Amar, recognizing him as the second terrorist, who planned the bomb at the hospital along with Randheer.
With that in mind, Moosa tries to nab Amar, but accidentally kills him by shooting him in the head (as he was told by Sathyanath only to shoot below the knee or he would face criminal charges). However, Sathyanath learns that the Central government issued a reward of ₹ 5 lakhs for Amar's head which Moosa will receive, much to the commissioner's distraught. In the meantime, Moosa's one side lover Meena, who informed him that both Randheer, Amar and Jandu were paying guests in her apartment, and that she filed a complaint to the commissioner as Randheer and Jandu was missing. However, upon being told by Moosa that they were terrorists and they were murdered by Gowrishankar, Meena realized in horror as she ends up being arrested by Gowrishankar under the false charges of harboring terrorists.
Moosa tries to plead for Meena's innocence to Gowrishankar by stating that she was unaware of the terrorists' identities, but he refuses and takes Meena into custody. As Gowrishankar tortures Meena, he tries to molest her, but Moosa arrives to the rescue by thrashing him before releasing Meena, who reciprocates her feelings to Moosa in return. Because of this, Gowrishankar issues an arrest warrant on Moosa approved by a reluctant Menon. In Menon's house, Moosa sneaks in to plead his innocence to Menon, who unsurprisingly states that he already knows it by admitting that he witnessed Baba walking on the road on his way home.
As Menon explains to Moosa about Baba's backstory, the latter arrives by shooting Menon in the arm, forcing Moosa to shoot back to drive him away. Realizing that Baba and the commissioner are in cahoots with each other, Moosa drives Menon to safety in his car with Arjun. Using the devices on his car, Moosa is able to evade the cops pursuing him. However, Baba and the commissioner intercept them, and as just Baba is about to finish Moosa, he uses his wits to save Menon and Arjun by shooting both Baba and the commissioner to death. With his name cleared, Moosa is declared a hero by the citizens and authorities for foiling Baba's plot. He and Arjun are sent to Scotland Yard for advanced professional training. Before leaving, Moosa bids farewell to his family, friends and associates (even Sathyanath and Pitambaran paid their respect by waving goodbye to him), but at the end, Moosa's Private Jet is hijacked by the lunatic man who disturbs Moosa during his missions, the lunatic man hostaged the pilot and drive the Jet in an uncontrolled manner, which give lead that the film will have a sequel.
|
CODA
| 2,021
|
Siân Heder
|
['Emilia Jones', 'Marlee Matlin', 'Troy Kotsur', 'Eugenio Derbez', 'Ferdia Walsh-Peelo', 'Daniel Durant', 'Amy Forsyth', 'Kevin Chapman', 'John Fiore', 'Lonnie Farmer', 'Courtland Jones', 'Molly Beth Thomas', 'Ayana Brown', 'Jason Pugatch', 'Kyana Fanene', 'Anilee List', 'Stone Martin', 'Maeve Chapman', 'Stephen Caliskan', 'Amanda Bradshaw', 'Bryan Sabbag', 'Kayla Caulfield', 'Samidio DePina', 'Dominic Andersen', 'Jose Guns Alves', 'Owen Burke', 'Lance Norris', 'Mark Pettograsso', 'Tony Viveiros', 'Armen Garo', 'Jared Voss', 'Emilia Faucher', 'Marilyn Busch', 'Melissa McMeekin', 'Erica McDermott', 'Garrett McKechnie', 'Rebecca Gibel', 'TJ Ciarametaro', 'Gary Galone', 'Nikki Kim', 'Mary Ann Schaub', 'Cassandra Berta', 'Sarah Clarke', 'Rena Maliszewski', 'David Newsom', 'Kiara Pichardo', 'Pamela Jayne Morgan', 'Elbert Kim', 'Dominic Cannarella-Andersen']
| 3.86
| null |
Comedy, Romance, Musical, Drama, Coming-of-age story
| 112
|
['France', 'USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'Spanish']
|
['Vendôme Pictures', 'Pathé', 'Picture Perfect Entertainment']
| 408,627
|
oscar-winner, feel-good
|
feel-good-movies, oscar-winning-films-best-picture
| null |
In Gloucester, on the northeast coast of Massachusetts, seventeen-year-old Ruby Rossi is the only hearing member of her family; her parents, Frank and Jackie, and older brother, Leo, are all deaf. She assists with the family fishing business and plans to join it full-time after high school. One day at school, Ruby sees her crush, Miles, signing up for choir as his elective, so she signs up too. The music teacher, Mr. Bernardo "Mr. V" Villalobos, encourages Ruby to sing more and assigns her to a duet with Miles.
Meanwhile, Frank and Leo struggle to make ends meet with the fishing business as new fees and sanctions are imposed by the local board. At a board meeting, everyone is angry about the fact that more boats are disappearing from the harbor. During the yelling, Frank announces that he is going to start his own company to get around the new restrictions and intends to sell his fish on his own, inviting other local fishermen to join him. The family struggles to get the new business off the ground, relying on Ruby to spread the word.
Mr. V encourages Ruby to audition for Berklee College of Music, his alma mater, and offers her private lessons to prepare. Ruby agrees, but her increasing commitments to the family business (her parents are dependent upon her to interpret for them) cause her to be late to their lessons. Mr. V grows irritated with Ruby's constant tardiness and chastises her for wasting his time and not caring enough about music.
While fishing one day, when Ruby is off swimming with Miles, Frank and Leo sail with a federal fishing observer on board, who does not know in advance that they are deaf. The boat is intercepted by the Coast Guard after failing to respond to ship horns and radio calls. Frank and Leo are fined and have their fishing licenses suspended for negligence. When they tell Ruby that she should have been on the boat with them, she tells them she can't always interpret for them and she was not at fault. Frank and Leo appeal and get their license back, on the condition that they have a hearing person on board at all times. Ruby announces to the family that she is forgoing college and will join the business full-time. Her parents are supportive, but Leo reacts angrily, insisting that they can manage without Ruby as she truly has talent. He and Ruby later have an argument where he tells her that she will regret not going to college forever.
Ruby's family attends her choir recital and notice the positive reception from the surrounding audience. That night, Frank asks Ruby to sing for him while he feels her vocal cords, growing emotional. The family then drives to Boston with Ruby for her Berklee audition. Before her audition, she sees Miles, who reveals that he failed at his audition and wishes her luck. Ruby's family sneaks up to the balcony while Mr. V comes to accompany her on piano. Ruby is nervous and unprepared at first, but after Mr. V deliberately makes a mistake on his accompaniment, she's allowed to start again and gains confidence when she sees her family. She signs along while singing "Both Sides, Now" by Joni Mitchell, so they can understand what she is singing.
Ruby is accepted to Berklee and invites Miles to visit her in Boston. Meanwhile, the hearing workers in the family's fishing business have been learning sign language, enabling them to communicate with and interpret for the family. Ruby's friend Gertie drives her to Boston for college as her family sees them off; Ruby signs, "I love you so much" (literal translation: "I really love you") to them as they drive away.
|
Cabin in the Sky
| 1,943
|
Vincente Minnelli
|
['Ethel Waters', "Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson", 'Lena Horne', 'Louis Armstrong', 'Rex Ingram', 'Kenneth Spencer', "John 'Bubbles' Sublett", 'Oscar Polk', 'Mantan Moreland', 'Willie Best', 'Fletcher Rivers', 'Leon James Poke', 'Bill Bailey', 'Ford Washington Lee', 'Butterfly McQueen', 'Ruby Dandridge', 'Nick Stewart', 'Ernest Whitman', 'Jules Adger', 'Doris Ake', 'Juliette Ball', 'Lennie Bluett', 'Bernard Bradley', 'Daisy Bufford', 'Jas. Burch', 'Curry Lee Calmes', 'Rita Christiani', 'Vivian Dandridge', 'June Decuire', 'Dorothea Durham', 'Duke Ellington', 'Byron Ellis', 'Joel Fluellen', 'Louise Franklin', 'William Gillespie', 'Suzette Harbin', 'Avanelle Harris', 'Kathleen Hartsfield', 'Maggie Hathaway', 'Cleo Herndon', 'Lawaune Ingram', 'Bobby Johnson', 'Glenn Leedy', "Meade 'Lux' Lewis", 'Juanita Moore', 'Tommie Moore', 'Jieno Moxzer', "Florence O'Brien", 'Neva Peoples', 'Amanda Randolph', 'Louise Ritchie', 'Henry Phace Roberts', 'Carmencita Romero', 'Clinton Rosemond', 'Archie Savage', 'Edward C. Short', 'Johnny Thomas', 'Ernestine Wade', 'Arthur Walker', 'Artie Young']
| 3.5
| null |
Drama, Comedy, Musical, Musical Drama, Fantasy
| 98
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer']
| 4,803
|
fantasy
|
filmsrankedcom-200-greatest-fantasy-films
| null |
Little Joe is a well-meaning yet weak man, whose attempts at redemption are cut short when he is killed over gambling debts by big-shot Domino Johnson. On his deathbed, Little Joe is resurrected by angelic powers and given six months to redeem his soul and become worthy of entering Heaven—otherwise he will be condemned to Hell. Secretly guided by "The General" (the Lord's Angel), Little Joe gives up his shiftless ways and becomes a hardworking, generous, and loving husband to his wife Petunia, whom he had previously neglected.
Demon Lucifer Jr. (the son of Satan himself) is determined to drag Little Joe to Hell and attempts to do so in many ways, including by arranging for Joe to become wealthy by winning a lottery; reintroducing Joe to a beautiful gold-digger, Georgia Brown; and manipulating the marital discord between Joe and Petunia. His tactics work: Little Joe abandons his wife for Georgia, and the two embark on a life of hedonistic pleasure.
As Little Joe and Georgia celebrate at a nightclub one evening, Petunia joins them, determined to win Joe back. Little Joe fights with Domino for Petunia, and Petunia, anguished at this turn of events, prays to God to destroy the nightclub. A tornado appears and leaves the nightclub in ruins, as Joe and Petunia lie dead in the ruins after being shot by Domino. Just as it appears that Joe's soul is lost forever, the angelic General informs him that Georgia Brown was so affected by the tragedy that she has donated all the money that Joe had lavished upon her to the church. On this technicality, Little Joe is allowed to go to Heaven with Petunia.
As the two climb the Celestial Stairs, Joe suddenly wakes in his own bed. Joe had not been killed in the initial gambling-debt fracas, only wounded. All his supposed dealings with angels and demons were only a fever dream. Now genuinely reformed, Little Joe begins a new happy life with his loving Petunia.
|
Caché
| 2,005
|
Michael Haneke
|
['Daniel Auteuil', 'Juliette Binoche', 'Annie Girardot', 'Bernard Le Coq', 'Daniel Duval', 'Maurice Bénichou', 'Walid Afkir', 'Lester Makedonsky', 'Nathalie Richard', 'Denis Podalydès', 'Caroline Baehr', 'Christian Benedetti', 'Loïc Brabant', 'Aïssa Maïga', 'Jean-Jacques Brochier', 'Paule Daré', 'Louis-Do de Lencquesaing', 'Annette Faure', 'Hugo Flamigni', 'Peter Stephan Jungk', 'Diouc Koma', 'Marie Kremer', 'Nicky Marbot', 'Malik Nait Djoudi', 'Marie-Christine Orry', 'Mazarine Pingeot', 'Julie Recoing', 'Karla Suarez', 'Jean Teulé', 'Philippe Besson', 'Laurent Suire', 'Carlo Azeglio Ciampi', 'François Négret']
| 4.06
| null |
Horror, Drama, Suspense, Mystery, Thriller, Psychological thriller
| 117
|
['Austria', 'France', 'Germany', 'Italy']
|
French
|
['French']
|
['Les Films du Losange', 'Wega Film', 'Bavaria Film', 'BIM Distribuzione']
| 142,170
|
thriller, essential
|
100-essential-thrillers
| null |
An affluent Parisian couple, Anne and Georges Laurent, discover a videotape left on their property without explanation that shows hours of footage of their residence, implying they are under surveillance. Puzzled about its origin, they debate its purpose, considering whether it might be a practical joke played by friends of their 12-year-old son, Pierrot, or the work of fans of Georges, who hosts a literary television show. A second tape arrives, accompanied by a childlike drawing of a person with blood streaming out of his mouth. Similar drawings are mailed to Georges's workplace and Pierrot's school. Disturbed, the Laurents turn to the police, who determine the tapes are too harmless to be considered criminal activity. The Laurents host a dinner party that is interrupted by the delivery of another videotape, with a crude drawing of a chicken bleeding at its neck. When Anne discloses the stalking to their friends, Georges puts the tape in the VCR and finds it shows the estate where he grew up.
Georges begins to have vivid dreams about Majid, a boy he knew in childhood. Majid's Algerian parents worked as farmhands on Georges's family estate but disappeared in the Paris massacre of 1961. Feeling responsible for Majid, Georges's parents intended to adopt him, but the process was never finalised. Suspecting Majid might be responsible for the tapes, Georges visits his ailing mother, who surprisingly professes not to remember Majid well. When the Laurents receive another tape, revealing a low-income housing apartment, Georges tells Anne he has a suspect in mind, but will not say who until he can confirm his suspicion. Anne responds with shock at what she sees as his lack of trust.
Following the last tape's clues, Georges locates the apartment off Avenue Lénine in Romainville and finds Majid there. Majid denies knowledge of the tapes or drawing, but Georges does not believe him and threatens him. A hidden camera recorded the conversation with Majid, who breaks down crying after Georges leaves, and tapes of the encounter are sent to Anne and Georges's employer. Georges explains to Anne that he was six when his parents were planning to adopt Majid and that he did not want it to happen; he told lies about Majid, who was sent away. When Pierrot disappears, the Laurents frantically contact the police, who check Majid's apartment and arrest Majid and Majid's son, though they deny involvement in kidnapping. Pierrot returns to his family, having spent time with friends, and hints to Anne that he thinks she is too close to Pierre, a family friend.
Majid calls Georges and asks him to come back to the apartment. When Georges arrives, Majid denies having sent the tapes, says he wanted Georges present, and kills himself by slashing his throat. Georges confesses to Anne that as a boy, he had claimed Majid was coughing up blood and convinced Majid to kill the family's rooster, falsely claiming his father wanted him to. The police confirm the cause of death as suicide, but Majid's son appears at Georges's workplace to confront him. Believing the son is responsible for the tapes, Georges threatens him to cease surveillance, but the son replies he was not involved with the tapes and wanted to know how Georges felt about being responsible for a death. Later, Majid's son converses with Pierrot after school.
|
Caddyshack
| 1,980
|
Harold Ramis
|
['Chevy Chase', 'Rodney Dangerfield', 'Ted Knight', 'Bill Murray', "Michael O'Keefe", 'Sarah Holcomb', 'Cindy Morgan', 'Albert Salmi', 'Scott Colomby', 'Dan Resin', 'Elaine Aiken', 'Henry Wilcoxon', 'Lois Kibbee', 'Brian Doyle-Murray', 'Ann Ryerson', 'Thomas A. Carlin', 'John F. Barmon Jr.', 'Peter Berkrot', 'Hamilton Mitchell', 'Scott Powell', 'Ann Crilley', 'Cordis Heard', 'Brian McConnachie', 'Scott Sudden', 'Jackie Davis', 'Minerva Scelza', 'Kenneth Burritt', 'Rebecca Burritt', 'Barbara Keegan', 'Scott Jackson', 'Anna Upstrom', 'Ron Frank', 'Patricia Wilcox', 'Debi Frank', 'Tony Gulliver', 'Kim Bordeaux', 'Lori Lowe', 'Marcus Breece', 'Mark Chiriboga', 'Fred Buch', 'Frank Schuller', 'Mel Pape', 'Marge McKenna', 'Bruce McLaughlin', 'Dennis McCormack', 'Violet Ramis', 'Judy Arman', 'Dr. Dow', 'Paige Coffman', 'Donna M. Wiggin', 'James Hotchkiss']
| 3.38
| null |
Comedy, Sports
| 98
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Orion Pictures', 'Warner Bros. Pictures']
| 156,401
|
comedy
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
High school student Danny Noonan is anxious about his future, while he hopes to go to college to avoid being stuck in a menial job with no prospects, he is struggling to financially cover tuition. Danny works as a caddie at the exclusive Bushwood country club catering to affluent clientele. Though he usually caddies for Ty Webb, a talented golfer and the free-spirited playboy son of the club's co-founder, Danny volunteers to caddie for the arrogant Judge Elihu Smails, the club's other co-founder and director of the caddie college scholarship program. Meanwhile, mentally unstable greenskeeper Carl Spackler is tasked with killing a destructive gopher driven onto the course by work on the adjacent property development owned by Al Czervik.
The fiery and eccentric nouveau riche Czervik attends the club as a guest, but his antics quickly annoy Smails. After one encounter, Smails angrily throws his putter, injuring an elderly guest. Danny takes the blame for the incident to earn respect from Smails. At Bushwood's annual Fourth of July banquet, Danny and his girlfriend Maggie work as wait staff. Danny becomes attracted to Smails's promiscuous niece Lacey Underall who is visiting for the summer; she and Webb begin a brief affair.
Later, Danny wins the Caddie Day golf tournament, earning him an invitation from Smails to attend the christening ceremony for his boat at the nearby Rolling Lakes Yacht Club. There, Czervik disrupts the ceremony and accidentally destroys the boat, while Lacey seduces Danny and the pair go to Smails' house to have sex. Smails returns home and catches them, furiously chasing Danny out of the house. Expecting to be fired and have the scholarship revoked, Danny is surprised when Smails only demands that he keeps the misadventure a secret in exchange for receiving the scholarship.
Unable to tolerate the uncouth Czervik's presence any longer, Smails announces that Czervik will never be granted membership. Czervik counters that he would never consider being a member and is only interested in buying the club. After an exchange of insults, Czervik proposes a team golf match with Smails and his regular golfing partner Dr. Beeper against Czervik and Webb. Although Webb is reluctant to play for money, he agrees to join, and antagonizes Smails by saying that Webb's father never liked Smails. Against club rules, they agree to a $20,000 wager on the match, which quickly doubles to $40,000.
During the match the following day, Danny caddies for Smails but becomes frustrated with his constant cheating. Word spreads of the wager drawing a crowd of club members and employees to observe the game. Smails and Beeper take the lead while both Czervik and Webb struggle. Czervik reacts to Smails' heckling by impulsively doubling the wager to $80,000 per team. When his own ricocheting ball strikes his arm, Czervik feigns an injury in hopes of having the contest declared a draw but learns his team will forfeit unless they find a substitute. Webb selects Danny, which prompts Smails to revoke the scholarship, but after Czervik promises to compensate Danny, he readily agrees to take Czervik's place.
At the final hole, the score is tied. Judge Smails scores a birdie, requiring Danny to complete a difficult putt to draw even. Czervik raises the bet, offering double or nothing on Danny making the putt, which Smails accepts. Danny's putt leaves the ball teetering over the edge of the hole seemingly costing him the game. At that moment, in his latest attempt to kill the gopher, Carl detonates plastic explosives that he has rigged around the golf course, shaking the ground and causing the ball to drop into the hole, handing Danny, Webb, and Czervik victory. Meanwhile, Carl coyly leaves the area after seeing the destruction his explosives have caused. Czervik demands the money from Smails, but he refuses to honor the bet. Figuring this would happen, Czervik sends enforcers after Smails to ensure he pays up. Afterwards, he tells the crowd gathered at the main house that they are all going to get laid. The crowd celebrates.
Elsewhere on the course, the gopher emerges from underground unharmed and dances to the song "I'm Alright" by Kenny Loggins.
|
Cairo Station
| 1,958
|
Youssef Chahine
|
['Farid Shawqy', 'Hind Rostom', 'Youssef Chahine', 'Hassan El Baroudy', 'Abdel Aziz Khalil', 'Ahmed Abaza', 'Essmat Mahmoud', 'Hussain Ismael', 'Naima Wasfi', 'Abdel Ghani El Nagdi', 'Abdel Hameed Badawy', 'Hanaa Abdel Fattah', 'Lotfi El Hakim', 'Sayed el Araby', 'Said Khalil', 'Abbas El Daly', 'Mohsen Hassanein', 'Helen', 'Farouk El Demrdash', 'Sabri Abdel Aziz', 'Safia Sarwat', 'Galal Issa', 'Rashad Hamed', 'Asaad Kellada', 'Sherine', 'Ø£ØÙ
د Ø·ÙطاÙÙ', 'Tousoun Motamad']
| 3.81
| null |
Comedy, Drama, Crime film, Thriller
| 77
|
['Egypt']
|
Arabic
|
['Arabic']
|
['Al-Ahramm Studios', 'Gabriel Talhami Film']
| 17,167
|
thriller, essential
|
100-essential-thrillers
| null |
A newsstand owner takes pity on Qinawi, a lame young man, and gives him a job selling newspapers in the Cairo train station. The women there all shun him because of his mild handicap, though he has little trouble walking.
Qinawi becomes obsessed with Hannuma, a beautiful cold-drink vendor. But she is engaged to Abu Siri, a husky luggage porter who is trying to organize his co-workers into a union to better their lot. Nonetheless, Qinawi proposes to her. When she rejects his fantasy of a home and children in his village, Qinawi's obsession turns to madness.
Inspired by an unsolved murder in the news, he buys a knife and plots to kill Hannuma. When the local policemen try to catch Hannuma and the other women illegally selling drinks, she asks Qinawi to take her incriminating drink bucket and hide it. He seeks to lure her to a warehouse to pick it up, but she asks a friend to get it instead.
In the darkness, Qinawi does not notice the substitution; he stabs the other woman repeatedly, then hides the body in a wooden crate supposedly holding Hannuma's trousseau. Then he gets Abu Siri to put it aboard a train for Hannuma's impending wedding. The woman is not dead, however. She is found, and the station is alerted. The men who stand to lose by Abu Siri's unionization at first try to pin the attempted murder on him, but the would-be victim identifies her real assailant. Meanwhile, unaware of her near escape from death, Hannuma goes to get her bucket. Qinawi chases her through the rail yard and catches her, holding a knife to her head to keep the crowd at bay. The newsstand owner tells Qinawi that he will be allowed to marry Hannuma and coaxes him into putting on his wedding garment. Qinawi complies, then realizes he has donned a straitjacket. He struggles, but is taken away.
|
Call Me by Your Name
| 2,017
|
Luca Guadagnino
|
['Armie Hammer', 'Timothée Chalamet', 'Michael Stuhlbarg', 'Amira Casar', 'Esther Garrel', 'Victoire du Bois', 'Vanda Capriolo', 'Antonio Rimoldi', 'Elena Bucci', 'Marco Sgrosso', 'André Aciman', 'Peter Spears', 'Sara Vidus']
| 3.85
| 5
|
Romance, Coming-of-age story, Melodrama, Drama
| 132
|
['Brazil', 'France', 'Italy', 'USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'French', 'Italian']
|
['La Cinéfacture', 'Frenesy Film', 'M.Y.R.A. Entertainment', 'RT Features', "Water's End Productions"]
| 2,385,473
|
sad, emotional
|
sad-movies-if-you-feel-like-you-need-to-cry, coming-of-age-movies-that-made-us-feel-seen
| null |
In the summer of 1983, Elio Perlman, a 17-year-old Jewish French-Italian boy, lives with his parents in rural Northern Italy. Elio's father, a professor of archaeology, invites a 24-year-old Jewish-American graduate student, Oliver, to live with the family over the summer and help with his academic paperwork. Elio, an introspective bookworm and a musician, initially thinks he has little in common with Oliver, who appears confident and carefree. Elio spends much of the summer reading, playing piano, and hanging out with his childhood friends, Chiara and Marzia. During a volleyball match, Oliver touches Elio's back but Elio brushes it off. However, Elio later finds himself jealous upon seeing Oliver pursue Chiara.
Elio and Oliver spend more time together, going for long walks into town, and accompanying Elio's father on an archaeological trip. Elio is increasingly drawn to Oliver, even sneaking to Oliver's room to smell his clothing. Elio eventually confesses his feelings to Oliver, who tells him they cannot discuss such things. Later, in a secluded spot, the two kiss for the first time. Oliver is reluctant to take things further, and they do not speak for several days.
Elio goes on a date with Marzia and the two have sex. Elio leaves a note for Oliver to end their silence. Oliver writes back, asking Elio to meet him at midnight. Elio agrees and they sleep together for the first time. Afterwards, Oliver says to Elio, "Call me by your name and I'll call you by mine". The morning after, Elio is briefly conflicted about their encounter and takes out his sexual frustration by masturbating with a peach. When Oliver finds him, Elio cries about how little time he and Oliver have left together. Marzia confronts Elio after not hearing from him for three days. He responds coldly, hurting her.
As the end of Oliver's stay approaches, Elio's parents, who appear to be aware of the bond between the two, recommend that he and Oliver visit Bergamo together before Oliver returns to the U.S. They spend three romantic days together. Elio, heartbroken after Oliver's departure, calls his mother and asks her to pick him up from the train station and take him home. Marzia is sympathetic to Elio's feelings and says she wants to remain friends. Elio's father, observing his unhappiness, tells him that the bond he had with Oliver was rare and that he envied Elio because he never was able to have what Elio and Oliver had.
During Hanukkah, Oliver calls Elio's family to tell them he is engaged to be married to a woman he has been seeing for a few years. Elio calls Oliver by his name and Oliver responds with his; Oliver also says that he remembers everything. After the call, Elio sits down by the fireplace and stares into the flames, tearfully reflecting, as his parents and staff prepare the holiday dinner.
|
Can't Hardly Wait
| 1,998
|
Deborah Kaplan, Harry Elfont
|
['Jennifer Love Hewitt', 'Ethan Embry', 'Charlie Korsmo', 'Lauren Ambrose', 'Peter Facinelli', 'Seth Green', 'Michelle Brookhurst', 'Alexander Martin', 'Erik Palladino', 'Channon Roe', 'Sean Patrick Thomas', 'Freddy RodrÃguez', 'Joel Michaely', 'Jay Paulson', 'Branden Williams', 'Robert Jayne', 'Johnny Zander', 'Donald Faison', 'Alec Ledd', 'Jaime Pressly', 'Tamala Jones', 'Jennifer Lyons', 'Chris Owen', 'Vicellous Shannon', 'Victor Togunde', 'Marisol Nichols', 'Liz Stauber', 'Nicole Bilderback', 'Jason Segel', 'Paige Moss', 'Clea DuVall', 'Leslie Grossman', 'Brian Klugman', 'Meadow Sisto', 'Eric Balfour', 'Selma Blair', 'Sara Rue', 'Amber Benson', 'Jennifer Elise Cox', 'Jenna Elfman', 'Melissa Joan Hart', 'Breckin Meyer', "Jerry O'Connell", 'Johnny Whitworth', 'Jamie Donnelly', 'Shannon Frank', 'Brian Hall', 'Tracy R. West']
| 3.08
| null |
Drama, Romance, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Melodrama, Teen
| 100
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Columbia Pictures']
| 74,687
|
comedy
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
In 1998, the senior class suburban high school Huntington Hillside High are attending a graduation party at the house of a rich class member. Among them is Preston Meyers, an outsider who plans to proclaim his love to his four-year secret crush Amanda Beckett.
Amanda, the most popular girl in school and the senior class prom queen, has been dumped by popular jock Mike Dexter. Mike is targeted by nerd classmate William Lichter, who is plotting revenge against him for years of bullying. Kenny Fisher is a wannabe thug who plans on losing his virginity by the end of the night.
Amanda is consoled by her popular girlfriends, but realizes she has nothing in common with them. She tries to figure out if she has an identity beyond only being known as "Mike Dexter's girlfriend".
Amanda discovers a letter addressed to her by Preston and, moved by its contents, makes it her mission to find him, though she does not know what he looks like and no one she asks gives any helpful descriptions. Meanwhile, Preston's antisocial best friend Denise Fleming and Kenny accidentally lock themselves inside a bathroom away from the party, where they talk about their old friendship and how they had drifted apart; their conversation leads to the restoration of their friendship and escalates into them having sex.
Later, an intoxicated Mike learns from Trip McNeely—a graduate and former stud from his high school—that in college, guys like them are "a dime a dozen". Trip emphasizes how he dumped his girlfriend in the same fashion that Mike did to "score" with other women and was unsuccessful. Terrified of this prospect, Mike tries to get Amanda back, but she is happier without him and humiliates him in front of everyone there.
After seeing the school jock turned down, multiple guys begin to hit on Amanda, much to her disgust. Preston finds her and professes his love, but as she still has not learned what he looks like, she assumes he is another pervert and rejects him in front of the entire party. Amanda later realizes her mistake when she sees Preston's yearbook picture and tries to find him, but he has already driven home in disappointment.
Meanwhile, William devises his plan to get revenge on Mike and goes into the party to drive him out. While there, William begins drinking alcohol to fit in, drinking enough to make him forget why he was there. An impromptu sing-along to Guns N' Roses' "Paradise City" causes him to become popular, with multiple women trying to have sex with him.
William later begins talking with Mike, who apologizes for bullying him. William forgives him; the two bond and seemingly become friends. When Mike and William are jailed as a result of a police bust, Mike takes the blame.
The next morning, when William sees Mike and his friends at a diner, he tries to thank him for taking the fall. But Mike acts as though he remembers nothing that happened the previous night and again ridicules him in front of his friends.
Meanwhile, Preston is at a train station about to leave for Boston when Amanda arrives and asks him about the letter. He confesses he wrote it and is about to depart for a writing workshop with Kurt Vonnegut. The two say goodbye and Preston walks away, but then stops and runs back to Amanda. The two kiss.
The epilogue explains what later happens to all of the main characters:
|
Cape Fear
| 1,962
|
J. Lee Thompson
|
['Gregory Peck', 'Robert Mitchum', 'Polly Bergen', 'Lori Martin', 'Martin Balsam', 'Jack Kruschen', 'Telly Savalas', 'Barrie Chase', 'Paul Comi', 'John McKee', 'Page Slattery', 'Ward Ramsey', 'Edward Platt', 'Will Wright', 'Joan Staley', 'Norma Yost', 'Mack Williams', 'Tom Newman', 'Alan Reynolds', 'Herb Armstrong', 'Bunny Rhea', 'Cindy Carol', 'Alan Wells', 'Allan Ray', 'Paul Levitt', 'Kenner G. Kemp', 'Bob Noble', 'Jeffrey Sayre', 'Hal Taggart']
| 3.91
| null |
Horror, Family, Children's film, Drama, Suspense, Mystery, Thriller, Psychological thriller, Crime Fiction, Classic, Psychological Fiction, Family Drama
| 105
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Melville-Talbot Productions', 'Universal Pictures']
| 37,655
|
thriller, essential
|
100-essential-thrillers
| null |
In Southeast Georgia, Max Cady is released from prison after serving an eight-year sentence for rape. He promptly tracks down Sam Bowden, an attorney whom he holds personally responsible for his conviction because Sam interrupted his attack and testified against him. Max begins to stalk and subtly threaten Sam’s family, including his wife, Peggy, and 14-year-old daughter, Nancy. He kills the family dog, though Sam cannot prove Cady did it. A friend of Bowden, Police Chief Mark Dutton, attempts to intervene on Sam's behalf, but he cannot prove Max guilty of any crime.
Sam hires private detective Charlie Sievers. Max brutally rapes a young woman, Diane Taylor, when he brings her home, but neither the private detective nor Sam can persuade her to testify. While Nancy is waiting in a car one day, Max begins to walk near her, causing her to run and end up almost getting hit by a car. Sam takes matters into his own hands by hiring three thugs to beat up Max and coerce him to leave town, but the plan backfires when the ex-convict gets the better of all three. Max's attorney vows to have Sam disbarred.
Fearing for Peggy's and Nancy's safety, Sam takes them to their houseboat in the Cape Fear region of North Carolina. In an attempt to trick the ex-convict, Sam makes it seem as though he has gone to Atlanta. He fully expects Max to follow his wife and daughter, and he plans to kill the ex-convict to end the battle. On a dark night, Sam and local deputy Kersek hide in the swamp nearby, but Max realizes that Kersek is there and drowns him, leaving no evidence of a struggle. Eluding Sam and setting the houseboat adrift down the current, Max first attacks Peggy on the boat, causing Sam to go to her rescue. Meanwhile, Max swims back to shore to attack Nancy. Sam realizes what has happened, and also swims ashore.
The two men engage in a final fight on the riverbank. Sam manages to grab his gun, which he had dropped, and shoots Max, wounding and disabling him. Max tells Sam, "Finish the job", but the lawyer decides to do the thing that Max earlier told him would be unbearable – put him in prison for the rest of his life, to "count the years, the months, the hours". In the morning light, the Bowden family are together on a boat, traveling with police back to port.
|
Captain America
| 1,990
|
Albert Pyun
|
['Matt Salinger', 'Ronny Cox', 'Ned Beatty', 'Darren McGavin', 'Michael Nouri', 'Scott Paulin', 'Kim Gillingham', 'Melinda Dillon', 'Bill Mumy', 'Francesca Neri', 'Carla Cassola', 'Massimilio Massimi', 'Wayde Preston', 'Norbert Weisser', 'Garette Ratliff Henson', 'Bernarda Oman', 'Tonko Lonza', 'Galiano Pahor', 'Milan Kristofic', 'Antun Nalis', 'Mario KovaÄ', 'Zoran Pokupec', 'Catherine Farrell', 'Mia BegoviÄ', 'Matko Raguž', 'Donald Standen', 'Dragana Zigic', 'Judranka Katusa', 'Raffaele Buranelli', 'Robert Egon', 'Igor Serdar', 'Gary Epper', 'Sonja Gregus', 'Rene MedveÅ¡ek', 'Demeter Bitenc', 'Relja BaÅ¡iÄ', 'Velimir Chytil', 'Drago Klobucar', 'Gordan Piculjan', 'Frank Papia', 'Thomas Beatty', 'Jon Beatty', 'Ann Bell', 'Jann Carl', 'Gerda Shepherd', 'Beth Ann Bowen', 'Christopher Whitney', 'Mustafa NadareviÄ', 'Edita LipovÅ¡ek', 'Ljubica Dujmovic', 'Aldo Galleazzi', 'Ljubomir StrgaÄiÄ', 'Slavko Å estak', 'Petar Tomac', 'Bruno Grdadolnik', 'Giulio Marini', 'Fay Finver', 'Frank Finver', 'Peter Mulrean', 'Trek Potter', 'Sarah Wasson', 'Scott Del Amo', 'Robert Reitmeier', 'John S. Reynolds', 'Lee Westenhofer', 'Mike Johnson', 'Jason Brooks', 'Robert Hammond', 'Sven MedveÅ¡ek']
| 1.84
| 1.5
|
Action, War, Adventure, Science fiction, Superhero, Fantasy, Thriller
| 97
|
['USA', 'Yugoslavia']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Jadran Film', '21st Century Film Corporation', 'Marvel Entertainment Group', 'Menahem Golan Productions']
| 17,392
|
superhero
|
superhero-movies
| null |
In 1936, in Italy, the Fascist government kidnaps child prodigy Tadzio De Santis and uses him in a project to create a supersoldier. The procedure's inventor, Dr. Maria Vaselli, objects and defects to the United States.
Seven years later, the American government finds volunteer Steve Rogers, a frail polio survivor. The formula cures Rogers' ailments and gives him superior strength and endurance, but before more supersoldiers can be created, Vaselli is murdered by a Nazi spy working with Lieutenant Fleming. The now adult de Santis, with red-scarred skin from Vaselli's earlier procedure, has now become the Red Skull, with physical prowess equal to Rogers, and plans an intercontinental ballistic missile strike at the White House. Rogers, code-named Captain America, is sent to neutralize the threat. He penetrates the Nazi launch compound, but the Red Skull ties him to the missile. Captain America grabs the Red Skull's arm, forcing him to cut off his own hand to escape being taken along. A young boy, Tom Kimball, photographs Captain America over Washington, D.C. kicking the missile off course to crash in Alaska, burying itself and Rogers under the ice.
In 1992, Tom Kimball is elected President of the United States. He pushes environmentalist legislation that angers the military-industrial complex headed by now-general Fleming. Fleming meets with the Red Skull and leaders of a global shadow organization. Since the war the Red Skull has raised a daughter, Valentina, and become the head of a powerful crime family who murdered Americans who were against militarism and fascism, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., President John F. Kennedy, and Robert Kennedy. The Red Skull notes the assassinations caused the public to posthumously venerate those people and instead orders Kimball's kidnapping and brainwashing.
Rogers' body is found frozen in ice. He revives and escapes, making international headlines and alerting both Kimball and the Red Skull. After escaping Red Skull's thugs, Rogers brushes off reporter and Kimball's childhood friend Sam Kolawetz, who has long hounded the Skull, and hitchhikes to his wartime girlfriend, Bernice, in California. She has long since married and raised her own daughter, Sharon, who helps Rogers catch up. Valentina and her thugs kill Bernice while looking for Rogers. Learning that Kimball has been kidnapped, Rogers and Sharon recover Vaselli's diary and learn Red Skull's original name. In the Red Skull's childhood home they find a tape recording of the murder of his family. Sharon gets herself kidnapped as a distraction to allow Rogers, who dons his costume, to enter the Red Skull's castle.
Kimball is rescued by Captain America, and they lay siege to the castle. Red Skull pulls out a remote trigger for a nuclear bomb, but Rogers distracts him with the recording of the De Santis family's murder. Before the Skull recovers, Rogers uses his shield to send him off a cliff, killing him, and as Valentina prepares to kill Rogers, she is hit by his returning shield. United States Marines arrive, save the President and arrest the kidnappers. Rogers and Sharon embrace, and a news voiceover announces Kimball's environmental pact as agreed upon by countries around the world.
|
Captain America: Civil War
| 2,016
|
Joe Russo, Anthony Russo
|
['Chris Evans', 'Robert Downey Jr.', 'Scarlett Johansson', 'Sebastian Stan', 'Anthony Mackie', 'Don Cheadle', 'Jeremy Renner', 'Chadwick Boseman', 'Paul Bettany', 'Elizabeth Olsen', 'Paul Rudd', 'Emily VanCamp', 'Tom Holland', 'Daniel Brühl', 'Frank Grillo', 'William Hurt', 'Martin Freeman', 'Marisa Tomei', 'John Kani', 'John Slattery', 'Hope Davis', 'Alfre Woodard', 'Michael A. Cook', 'Laughton Parchment', 'Jackson Spidell', 'Yi Long', 'Heidi Moneymaker', 'Aaron Toney', 'Cale Schultz', 'Ann Russo', 'Gene Farber', 'Florence Kasumba', 'Cornell John', 'Sven Hönig', 'Joshua Peck', 'Brent McGee', 'Be Satrazemis', 'Blair Jasin', 'Oliver Bigalke', 'Rafael Banasik', 'David de Vries', 'John Curran', 'Katie Amess', 'Austin Sanders', 'Brett Gentile', 'Matthew Anderson', 'Andrew Botchwey', 'Chase Bradfield', 'Ernest Charles', 'Hendricks Coates', 'Ethan Condon', 'Shen Dynes', 'Nathaniel Ellis', 'Jariah Ferguson', 'Evan Ffrench', 'Justin Freeman', "Ralphael Grand'Pierre", 'Julian Grimes', 'Aaron Hayes', 'Austin Hooper', 'Amiri Jones', 'Myles Joseph', 'Stephen Lewis', 'Jacob Ludwick', "D'Mahrei McRae", 'Ashwin Mudaliar', 'Eli Ollinger', 'Parker Pape', 'Daniel Parada', 'Jonah Ruffin', 'Darryl Sampson', 'Cameron Sardone', 'Stanley Sellers', 'Miles Selles', 'Jacob Sung', 'Caden Wilkinson', 'Jin Shijia', 'Jessica Walther-Gabory', 'Beniamino Brogi', 'Silvina Buchbauer', 'Henry Amadi', 'Ugochukwu Ani', 'Michael Anthony Rogers', 'Damion Poitier', 'Umar Khan', 'David E. Brown', 'Guy Fernandez', 'Jim Rash', 'Sophia Russo', 'Joe Russo', 'Stan Lee', 'Amelia Morck', 'Kerry Condon', 'Julianna Guill', 'Surely Alvelo', 'Brian Schaeffer', 'Kevin LaRosa Jr.', 'Al Cerullo', 'Frédéric North', 'Ray Sahetapy', 'Chris Jai Alex', 'Scott Hunter', 'Kimberly Hester Huffstetler', 'Lucie Carroll', 'Kent Wagner']
| 3.58
| 4
|
Action, Superhero, Science fiction, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
| 147
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'Romanian', 'German', 'Russian']
|
['Marvel Studios']
| 2,370,491
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superhero
|
superhero-movies
| null |
In 1991, the brainwashed super-soldier James "Bucky" Barnes is dispatched from a Hydra base in Siberia to intercept an automobile carrying a case of super-soldier serum. In the present day, approximately one year after Ultron is defeated by the Avengers in the nation of Sokovia,[a] Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanoff, Sam Wilson, and Wanda Maximoff stop Brock Rumlow from stealing a biological weapon from a lab in Lagos. Rumlow blows himself up, attempting to kill Rogers. Maximoff telekinetically diverts the explosion, accidentally destroying a nearby building and killing several Wakandan humanitarian workers in the process.
Thaddeus Ross, the U.S. Secretary of State, informs the Avengers that the United Nations (UN) is preparing to pass the Sokovia Accords, which will establish a UN panel to oversee and control the team. The Avengers are divided: Tony Stark supports oversight because of his role in Ultron's creation and Sokovia's devastation, while Rogers has more faith in his own judgment than that of politicians. Meanwhile, Helmut Zemo tracks down and kills Barnes' old Hydra handler, stealing a book containing the trigger words that activate Barnes' brainwashing. At a UN conference in Vienna where the Accords are to be ratified, a bomb kills King T'Chaka of Wakanda. Security footage indicates the bomber is Barnes, whom T'Chaka's son, T'Challa, vows to kill. Informed by Sharon Carter of Barnes' whereabouts and the authorities' intentions to kill him, Rogers decides to try to bring in Barnes—his childhood friend and war comrade—himself. Rogers and Wilson track Barnes to Bucharest and attempt to protect him from T'Challa and the authorities, but all four, including T'Challa, are apprehended by the Bucharest police and James Rhodes.
Impersonating a psychiatrist sent to interview Barnes, Zemo recites the words to activate Barnes's brainwashing. He questions Barnes, then sends him on a rampage to cover his own escape. Rogers stops Barnes and sneaks him away. When Barnes regains his senses, he explains that Zemo is the real Vienna bomber and wanted the location of the Siberian Hydra base, where other brainwashed "Winter Soldiers" are kept in cryogenic stasis. Unwilling to wait for authorization to apprehend Zemo, Rogers and Wilson go rogue, and recruit Maximoff, Clint Barton, and Scott Lang to their cause. With Ross's permission, Stark assembles a team composed of Romanoff, T'Challa, Rhodes, Vision, and Peter Parker to capture the renegades. Stark's team intercepts Rogers' group at Leipzig/Halle Airport, where they fight until Romanoff allows Rogers and Barnes to escape. As Rogers and Barnes are escaping, Rhodes is inadvertently shot down by Vision, and becomes partially paralyzed. The rest of Rogers' team is captured and detained at the Raft prison, and Romanoff goes into exile.
Stark discovers evidence that Barnes was framed by Zemo and convinces Wilson to give him Rogers' destination. Without informing Ross, Stark goes to the Siberian Hydra facility and strikes a truce with Rogers and Barnes, unaware that they were secretly followed by T'Challa. They find that the other super-soldiers have been killed by Zemo, who then shows them footage that reveals that the automobile Barnes had intercepted in 1991 contained Stark's parents, whom Barnes subsequently killed. Enraged that Rogers kept this from him, Stark turns on them both, leading to an intense fight, in which Stark destroys Barnes' robotic arm, and Rogers disables Stark's armor. Rogers departs with Barnes, leaving his shield behind. Satisfied that he has avenged his family's deaths in Sokovia from the Avengers' actions by successfully fracturing them, Zemo attempts suicide, but he is stopped by T'Challa and taken to the authorities.
In the aftermath, Stark provides Rhodes with exoskeletal leg braces that allow him to walk again, while Rogers breaks his allies out of the Raft. In a mid-credits scene, Barnes, granted asylum in Wakanda, chooses to return to cryogenic sleep until a cure for his brainwashing is found. In a post-credits scene, Parker explores the features of the web shooters built for him by Stark.
|
Captain America: The First Avenger
| 2,011
|
Joe Johnston
|
['Chris Evans', 'Hayley Atwell', 'Sebastian Stan', 'Tommy Lee Jones', 'Hugo Weaving', 'Dominic Cooper', 'Richard Armitage', 'Stanley Tucci', 'Samuel L. Jackson', 'Toby Jones', 'Neal McDonough', 'Derek Luke', 'Kenneth Choi', 'JJ Feild', 'Bruno Ricci', 'Lex Shrapnel', 'Michael Brandon', 'Martin Sherman', 'Natalie Dormer', 'Oscar Pearce', 'William Hope', 'Nicholas Pinnock', 'Marek Oravec', 'David Bradley', 'Leander Deeny', 'Sam Hoare', 'Simon Kunz', "Kieran O'Connor", 'Jenna Coleman', 'Sophie Colquhoun', 'Doug Cockle', 'Ben Batt', 'Mollie Fitzgerald', 'Damon Driver', 'David McKail', 'Amanda Walker', 'Richard Freeman', 'Katherine Press', 'Sergio James', 'Marcello Walton', 'Vincent Montuel', 'Fabrizio Santino', 'Maxwell Newman', 'Anatole Taubman', 'Jan Pohl', 'Erich Redman', 'Rosanna Hoult', 'Naomi Slights', 'Kirsty Mather', 'Megan Sanderson', 'Darren Simpson', 'Fernanda Toker', 'Laura Haddock', 'James Payton', 'Ronan Raftery', 'Nick Hendrix', 'Luke Allen-Gale', 'Jack Gordon', 'Benjamin Uttley', 'Kevin Millington', 'Patrick Monckeberg', 'Peter Stark', 'Amanda Righetti', 'Jennifer Abbotts', 'Michelle Antrobus', 'Lucy Dean', 'Erin Dusek', 'Nicole Evans', 'Lizzi Franklin', 'Emma Harris', 'Rachael Isherwood', 'Danielle Kelly', 'Nicole May', 'Stevie-Jean McGuire', 'Anna McNicholas', 'Rosie Pethullis', 'Jessica Powell', 'Rai Quartley', 'Sarah Riches', 'Holly Rostron', 'Caroline Royce', 'Stephanie Jayne Thompson', 'Lucie Waugh', 'Billy Lozowski', 'Gregory Paulett', 'Adam Birch', 'Adam Kent', 'Wiliam Morris', 'David Soall', 'Paul Simmons', 'Marc Wheeler', 'Chris Diggle', 'Michael Humphrey', 'Stan Lee']
| 3.28
| 3.5
|
Action, Superhero, War, Science fiction, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
| 124
|
['USA']
|
English
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['English', 'French', 'Norwegian']
|
['Marvel Studios', 'Marvel Entertainment']
| 1,991,484
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superhero
|
superhero-movies
| null |
In the present day, scientists in the Arctic uncover an old aircraft with someone frozen inside and a circular shield. In March 1942, during World War II, Nazi lieutenant general and HYDRA leader, Johann Schmidt steals a mysterious relic called the Tesseract,[b] which possesses untold godly powers, from the town of Tønsberg in German-occupied Norway.
In New York City, Steve Rogers is rejected for U.S. Army recruitment due to his various health and physical problems. While attending a Stark Expo exhibition by engineer Howard Stark with his best friend, James "Bucky" Barnes, Rogers attempts to enlist again. Overhearing Rogers' conversation with Barnes about representing his country in the war, Dr. Abraham Erskine allows Rogers to enlist. He is recruited into the Strategic Scientific Reserve as part of a "super-soldier" experiment under Erskine, Colonel Chester Phillips, and British MI6 agent Peggy Carter. Phillips is unconvinced by Erskine's claims that Rogers is the right person for the procedure but relents after seeing Rogers selflessly jump on a grenade, unaware that it is a test. The night before the treatment, Erskine reveals to Rogers that Schmidt stole his prototype formula and used it on himself, making him superhuman, but suffered permanent side effects.
Meanwhile, Schmidt and Dr. Arnim Zola harness the energies of the Tesseract, intending to use the power to fuel Zola's inventions and mount a worldwide offensive. Schmidt discovers Erskine's location and sends an assassin, Heinz Kruger to kill him. Erskine subjects Rogers to the super-soldier treatment, injecting him with a special serum and dosing him with "vita-rays". After Rogers emerges from the experiment taller and more muscular, Kruger kills Erskine and flees with the last vial. Rogers pursues and captures Kruger, but the assassin avoids interrogation by committing suicide with a cyanide capsule before destroying the vial. With Erskine dead and his super-soldier formula lost, U.S. Senator Brandt has Rogers tour the nation as "Captain America" to promote war bonds while scientists study his blood and attempt to reverse-engineer the formula. In 1943, while on tour in Italy performing for active servicemen, Rogers learns that Barnes' unit was MIA in a battle against Schmidt's forces. Refusing to believe that Barnes is dead, Rogers has Carter and Stark fly him behind enemy lines to mount a solo rescue. Rogers infiltrates Schmidt's fortress, freeing Barnes and the other prisoners. Rogers confronts Schmidt, who removes a mask to reveal a red, skull-like visage that earned him the sobriquet "the Red Skull". Schmidt escapes, and Rogers returns to base with the freed soldiers.
Rogers recruits Barnes and formed the Howling Commandos team with the freed prisoners to attack other known Hydra bases. Stark outfits Rogers with advanced equipment, most notably a circular shield made of vibranium, a rare, nearly indestructible metal. Rogers and his team sabotage various Hydra operations while he and Carter begin to fall in love. In 1945, the team assaults a train carrying Zola. They succeed in capturing Zola, but Barnes falls from the train to his apparent death.[c] Using information extracted from Zola, the final Hydra stronghold is located, and Rogers leads an attack to stop Schmidt from using WMDs on major American cities. Rogers climbs aboard Schmidt's super-bomber, The Valkyrie, as it takes off. During the subsequent fight, the Tesseract's container is damaged. Schmidt physically handles the Tesseract, causing him to be pulled through a portal into space. The Tesseract burns through the plane and falls into the ocean. Seeing no way to land the plane without the risk of detonating its weapons, Rogers radios Carter and says goodbye to her before crashing in the Arctic. The war in Europe ends, and Stark later recovers the Tesseract from the ocean floor but is unable to locate Rogers or the aircraft, presuming him dead.
Rogers awakens in a 1940s-styled hospital room. Hearing a radio broadcast of a baseball game that he attended, Rogers grows suspicious, flees outside, and finds himself in contemporary Times Square, where S.H.I.E.L.D. director Nick Fury informs him that he has been "asleep" for nearly 70 years. In a post-credits scene, Fury approaches Rogers and proposes a mission with worldwide ramifications.[d]
|
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
| 2,014
|
Joe Russo, Anthony Russo
|
['Chris Evans', 'Samuel L. Jackson', 'Scarlett Johansson', 'Robert Redford', 'Sebastian Stan', 'Anthony Mackie', 'Cobie Smulders', 'Frank Grillo', 'Maximiliano Hernández', 'Emily VanCamp', 'Hayley Atwell', 'Toby Jones', 'Stan Lee', 'Callan Mulvey', 'Jenny Agutter', 'Bernard White', 'Alan Dale', 'Chin Han', 'Garry Shandling', 'Georges St-Pierre', 'Salvator Xuereb', 'Brian Duffy', 'Zack Duhame', "Adetokumboh M'Cormack", 'Christopher George Sarris', 'Aaron Himelstein', 'Allan Chanes', 'Joe Russo', 'Christopher Markus', 'Stephen McFeely', 'Pat Healy', 'Ed Brubaker', 'D.C. Pierson', 'Danny Pudi', 'Bernie Zilinskas', 'Branka KatiÄ', 'Angela Russo-Otstot', 'Jon Sklaroff', 'Chad Todhunter', 'Abigail Marlowe', 'Jeremy Maxwell', 'Emerson Brooks', 'Evan Parke', 'Ricardo Chacon', 'Griffin M. Allen', 'Ann Russo', 'Joe Rosalina', 'Michael Debeljak', 'Eddie J. Fernandez', 'Jody Hart', 'Steven Culp', 'Derek Hughes', 'Wendy Hoopes', 'Ethan Rains', 'Dominic Rains', 'Charles Wittman', 'Andy Martinez, Jr.', 'Michael De Geus', "Terence O'Rourke", 'Anne Grimenstein', 'Dante Rosalina', 'Robert Clotworthy', 'June Christopher', 'Gary Sinise', 'Henry Goodman', 'Dean Barlage', 'Joel Thingvall', 'Thomas Kretschmann', 'Elizabeth Olsen', 'Nestor Serrano', 'Aaron Taylor-Johnson', 'Joss Whedon']
| 3.72
| 4
|
Action, Superhero, Science fiction, Thriller, Adventure, Spy, Crime Fiction
| 136
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Marvel Studios']
| 2,207,602
|
sci-fi, superhero, top-rated
|
superhero-movies, letterboxds-top-250-science-fiction-films
| null |
Two years after the Battle of New York,[a] Steve Rogers works in Washington, D.C., for the espionage agency S.H.I.E.L.D., while adjusting to contemporary society. During a mission alongside Agent Natasha Romanoff and S.H.I.E.L.D.'s counter-terrorism S.T.R.I.K.E. team led by Agent Brock Rumlow to free hostages aboard a S.H.I.E.L.D. vessel from pirates led by Georges Batroc, Rogers discovers Romanoff has another assignment: to extract data from the ship's computers.
Returning to the Triskelion, S.H.I.E.L.D.'s headquarters, Rogers confronts Director Nick Fury and is briefed about Project Insight: three Helicarriers linked to spy satellites, designed to eliminate threats preemptively. Unable to decrypt Romanoff's data, Fury becomes suspicious about Insight and asks senior S.H.I.E.L.D. official and Secretary of Internal Security Alexander Pierce to delay the project. On his way to rendezvous with Maria Hill, Fury is ambushed by assailants led by an assassin called the Winter Soldier. Escaping to Rogers' apartment, Fury warns him that S.H.I.E.L.D. is compromised but is shot by the Winter Soldier before handing Rogers a flash drive containing the ship's data. Fury is pronounced dead during surgery, and Hill recovers the body.
Pierce summons Rogers to the Triskelion. When Rogers withholds Fury's information, Pierce brands him a fugitive. Hunted by S.T.R.I.K.E., Rogers meets with Romanoff. Using the data, they discover a secret S.H.I.E.L.D. bunker in New Jersey, where they activate a supercomputer containing the preserved consciousness of Arnim Zola. Zola reveals that after being captured by Rogers during World War II,[b] he was recruited to S.H.I.E.L.D., where he secretly reformed Hydra within its ranks, sowing global chaos using the Winter Soldier as their primary assassin. The pair narrowly escapes death when a S.H.I.E.L.D. missile destroys the bunker, and they realize that Pierce is Hydra's leader within S.H.I.E.L.D. Rogers and Romanoff enlist the help of VA employee and former USAF pararescueman Sam Wilson, whom Rogers befriended, and acquire a powered "Falcon" wingpack used by Wilson while he was in the Air Force.
They capture S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Jasper Sitwell, a Hydra mole, forcing him to divulge that Zola developed a data mining algorithm that can identify individuals becoming future threats to Hydra. The Insight Helicarriers will sweep the globe using satellite guns to eliminate the threat. Sitwell is killed in an ambush by the Winter Soldier, whom Rogers recognizes as Bucky Barnes, his longtime best friend previously thought dead; he had survived due to Zola's experimentation and has been repeatedly brainwashed and cryogenically frozen to perform Hydra's missions. Hill manages to extract the trio to a safehouse where Fury, who had faked his death, plans to sabotage the Helicarriers by replacing their controller chips.
After the World Security Council members arrive for the Helicarriers' launch, Rogers broadcasts Hydra's plot to everyone at the Triskelion. Romanoff, disguised as one of the Council members, disarms Pierce. Fury arrives and forces Pierce to unlock S.H.I.E.L.D.'s database so Romanoff can leak classified information, exposing Hydra to the public. Following a struggle, Fury fatally shoots Pierce. Rogers and Wilson raid two Helicarriers and replace the controller chips, but Barnes destroys Wilson's suit and fights Rogers on the third. Rogers fends him off and replaces the final chip, allowing Hill to take control and have the vessels destroy each other.
Rogers refuses to fight Barnes in an attempt to reach his friend, but as the ship collides with the Triskelion, Rogers falls into the Potomac River. Barnes rescues the unconscious Rogers before disappearing into the woods. With S.H.I.E.L.D. in disarray, Romanoff appears before a Senate subcommittee to defend her and Rogers' actions. Fury, under the cover of his apparent death, heads to Europe to pursue Hydra's remaining cells. Rogers and Wilson decide to find Barnes, while Rumlow, who was a Hydra agent, is hospitalized following the Triskelion's destruction.
In a mid-credits scene, at a Hydra lab, Baron Wolfgang von Strucker and his scientists examine an energy-filled scepter[c] and two test subjects: one with superhuman speed, the other with telekinetic powers.[d] In a post-credits scene, Barnes visits his own memorial at the Smithsonian Institution.
|
Captain Fantastic
| 2,016
|
Matt Ross
|
['Viggo Mortensen', 'George MacKay', 'Samantha Isler', 'Annalise Basso', 'Nicholas Hamilton', 'Shree Crooks', 'Charlie Shotwell', 'Trin Miller', 'Frank Langella', 'Ann Dowd', 'Steve Zahn', 'Kathryn Hahn', 'Elijah Stevenson', 'Teddy Van Ee', 'Erin Moriarty', 'Missi Pyle', 'Galen Osier', 'Hannah Horton', 'Rex Young', 'Thomas Brophy', 'Mike Miller', 'Greg Crooks', 'Louis Hobson', 'Elena Stecca', 'Paul Alan Amend', 'Hafid Abdelmoula', 'Richard Beal', 'Alan Humphrey']
| 3.92
| null |
Action, Comedy, Adventure, Melodrama, Drama, Tragicomedy, Comedy drama, Indie film
| 118
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'Esperanto']
|
['Electric City Entertainment', 'Shivhans Pictures']
| 472,609
|
feel-good
|
feel-good-movies
| null |
Ben Cash, his wife Leslie, and their six children live an isolated existence on ten acres in the mountainous Washington wilderness. They are former left-wing anarchist activists disillusioned by capitalism and American life, who choose to instill survivalist skills and left-wing politics and philosophy in their children.
They educate them to think critically, and train them to be physically fit, athletic, and self-reliant without dependence on modern technology. They are raised to coexist with nature, are given unique names, and celebrate Noam Chomsky's birthday instead of Christmas. The children are accustomed to reading many forms of college-level literature, and, while showing high aptitude and intelligence beyond their years, they are socially awkward as they have not been socialized with the outside world.
Ben has been raising the children on his own while Leslie is hospitalized in New Mexico for bipolar disorder, away from her family and near her wealthy elitist parents. She dies by suicide while undergoing treatment and Ben learns that her father Jack plans to hold a Christian burial despite Leslie being a philosophical Buddhist who abhorred religion. Ben tries to persuade Jack to honor Leslie's wish to be cremated, to no avail, and Jack threatens to have Ben arrested if he attends the funeral. Ben initially decides not to go and prevents his children from doing so, but then changes his mind, driving his children across the country on a repurposed school bus.
The family briefly stays at the home of Ben's sister, Harper. She and her husband try to convince Ben that the children should attend school to receive a conventional education; Ben quizzes Harper's children and his children on various topics, illustrating that his children are better educated and embarrassing Harper and her husband.
Later on their road trip, some of Ben's children start to doubt him and his parenting skills, with his second eldest son and middle child Rellian accusing him of failing to treat Leslie's mental health, and eldest son Bodevan accusing him of not equipping them for the real world, showing him acceptance letters from several top Ivy League colleges to which Leslie had helped him apply.
Ben arrives at Leslie's funeral with their children and reads her will, which instructs her family to cremate her and flush her ashes down a toilet. In response, Jack has Ben forcibly removed from the church. Angered by Jack's refusal to respect Leslie's wishes, Ben follows the funeral procession to the cemetery, planning to intervene, despite a police presence and Jack's threat to have him arrested. Ben relents at his children's insistence that they cannot lose both of their parents.
Rellian runs away to live with his grandparents, who want custody of all the children. When one of Ben's older twin daughters Vespyr tries to clandestinely exfiltrate Rellian from their grandparents on Ben's orders, she falls from the roof and narrowly avoids breaking her neck. Ben, shocked and guilty, allows Jack to take his children. Although the children bond with their grandparents, they quietly decide to follow Ben and reunite with him.
The children desire to honor Leslie's final wishes, and persuade Ben to help them. Exhuming her corpse, they burn it on a funeral pyre then flush her ashes down an airport toilet. Bodevan then leaves the family to travel through Namibia, while the rest settle into a more "real world" life on a farm. The final scene shows the school-age children eating breakfast around the kitchen table with their father, waiting for the school bus to arrive.
|
Captain Khorshid
| 1,987
|
Nasser Taghvai
|
['Dariush Arjmand', 'Ali Nasirian', 'Saeed Poursamimi', 'Parvaneh Massoumi', 'Fathali Oveisi', 'Jawad Roshan', 'Jafar Mohaddes', 'Reza Babolian']
| 3.94
| 4.5
|
Action, Drama, Crime Fiction
| 117
|
['Iran']
|
Persian (Farsi)
|
['Persian (Farsi)', 'Arabic']
|
['The Peiman Film Group', 'Pakhshiran']
| 1,488
|
action, top-rated
|
letterboxds-top-250-action-films
| null |
Captain Khorshid is a sailor who although only having one hand, manages to sail his little boat. In his village, due to its hot climate and hard living conditions, dangerous criminals are sent into exile. They want to escape from the area, so they ask a middleman to strike a deal with Khorshid. Khorshid is asked to illegally take them out of the country with his boat. At first he is reluctant, but because of the hardships of living he accepts the job.
The criminals murder one of the village's wealthiest merchants and steal the money needed for the trip. At the beginning of the journey the criminals kill the middleman, in the middle of the trip they attack Khorshid and his crewman. The crewman is killed, Khorshid faces them single-handedly. He manages to kill all the criminals, but he himself dies due to the injuries he sustained.[1]
|
Captain Marvel
| 2,019
|
Ryan Fleck, Anna Boden
|
['Brie Larson', 'Samuel L. Jackson', 'Ben Mendelsohn', 'Jude Law', 'Annette Bening', 'Djimon Hounsou', 'Lee Pace', 'Lashana Lynch', 'Gemma Chan', 'Clark Gregg', 'Rune Temte', 'Algenis Perez Soto', 'Mckenna Grace', 'Akira Akbar', 'Matthew Maher', 'Chuku Modu', 'Vik Sahay', 'Colin Ford', 'Kenneth Mitchell', 'Stephen A. Chang', 'Pete Ploszek', "Matthew 'Spider' Kimmel", "Stephen 'Cajun' Del Bagno", 'London Fuller', 'Azari Akbar', 'Mark Daugherty', 'Diana Toshiko', 'Barry Curtis', 'Emily Ozrey', 'Abigaille Ozrey', 'Marilyn Brett', 'Stan Lee', 'Robert Kazinsky', 'Nelson Franklin', 'Patrick Brennan', 'Patrick Gallagher', 'Ana Ayora', 'Lyonetta Flowers', 'Rufus Flowers', 'Sharon Blynn', 'Auden L. Ophuls', 'Harriet L. Ophuls', 'Matthew Bellows', 'Richard Zeringue', 'Duane Henry', 'Chris Evans', 'Scarlett Johansson', 'Don Cheadle', 'Mark Ruffalo', 'Kelly Sue DeConnick', "Vinny O'Brien", 'Joey Courteau', 'Anthony Molinari']
| 2.68
| 2.5
|
Action, Superhero, Science fiction, Adventure
| 124
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Marvel Studios']
| 1,831,440
|
superhero
|
superhero-movies
| null |
In 1995, on the Kree Empire's capital planet of Hala, Starforce member Vers suffers from amnesia and recurring nightmares involving an older woman. Yon-Rogg, her mentor and commander, trains Vers to control her abilities, while the Supreme Intelligence, the artificial intelligence that rules the Kree, urges her to keep her emotions in check.
During a mission to rescue an undercover operative infiltrating a group of Skrulls, alien shapeshifters with whom the Kree are at war, Vers is captured by Skrull commander Talos. A probe of Vers' memories leads them to Earth. Vers escapes and crash-lands in Los Angeles. Her presence attracts S.H.I.E.L.D. agents Nick Fury and Phil Coulson, whose investigation is interrupted by a Skrull attack. Vers recovers a crystal containing her extracted memories in the ensuing chase while Fury kills a Skrull impersonating Coulson.
Talos, disguised as Fury's boss Keller, orders Fury to work with Vers and keep tabs on her. Using her extracted memories, Vers and Fury go to the Project Pegasus installation at a U.S. Air Force base. They discover that Vers was a pilot presumed to have died in 1989 while testing an experimental light-speed engine designed by Dr. Wendy Lawson, whom Vers recognizes as the woman from her nightmares. Fury informs S.H.I.E.L.D. of their location and a team arrives. Fury realizes that Keller is Talos and helps Vers escape in a jet with Lawson's stowaway cat, Goose.
They fly to Louisiana to meet former pilot Maria Rambeau, the last person to see Vers and Lawson alive. Rambeau and her daughter Monica reveal that Vers is Carol Danvers, who was once like family to them. Talos, arriving unarmed, explains that the Skrulls are refugees searching for a new home and that Lawson was Mar-Vell, a renegade Kree scientist helping them. Talos plays a recovered blackbox recording from Lawson's jet, prompting Danvers to remember the crash: Yon-Rogg killed Mar-Vell to prevent her from destroying the engine before the Kree could recover it. Destroying the engine herself, Danvers absorbed the energy from the ensuing explosion, gaining powers but losing her memory.
Danvers, Talos, Fury, and Rambeau locate Lawson's cloaked laboratory orbiting Earth, where Lawson hid several Skrulls, including Talos' family, and the Tesseract, the power source of Lawson's engine. There, Danvers is captured by Starforce and interfaces with the Supreme Intelligence. Danvers removes the Kree implant that suppressed her powers during their encounter, allowing her to reach her full potential. In the subsequent battle, Fury retrieves Goose, who is revealed to be an alien Flerken. Goose swallows the Tesseract and scratches Fury, blinding his left eye. Danvers destroys a Kree bomber, forcing Kree officer Ronan the Accuser and his squadron to retreat.
Danvers overpowers Yon-Rogg and sends him to Hala with a warning for the Supreme Intelligence. She then departs to help the Skrulls find a new homeworld, leaving Fury a modified pager to contact her in an emergency. Fury drafts an initiative to locate heroes like Danvers, naming it after her Air Force call sign, "Avenger". In a mid-credits scene, set in 2018, the activated pager[a] is being monitored by the Avengers when Danvers appears looking for Fury.[b] In a post-credits scene, Goose climbs onto Fury's desk and regurgitates the Tesseract.
|
Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
| 2,017
|
David Soren
|
['Kevin Hart', 'Thomas Middleditch', 'Ed Helms', 'Nick Kroll', 'Jordan Peele', 'Kristen Schaal', 'DeeDee Rescher', 'Brian Posehn', 'David Soren', 'Mel Rodriguez', 'Susan Fitzker', 'Lynnanne Zager', 'Tiffany Lauren Bennicke', 'James Ryan', 'Leslie David Baker', 'Sugar Lyn Beard', 'Lesley Nicol', 'Chris Miller', 'Coco Soren']
| 3.01
| 3
|
Animation, Action, Comedy, Adventure, Children's film, Science fiction, Teen, Superhero
| 89
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['DreamWorks Animation', 'Scholastic Entertainment']
| 101,699
|
animated
|
vote-best-animated-films-of-all-time
| null |
In Piqua, Ohio, best friends, named George Beard and Harold Hutchins, are fourth-graders who create comic books about a superhero, named "Captain Underpants". They attend Jerome Horwitz Elementary School, where their excessive pranks to cheer up their fellow students put them at odds with their cruel principal, Mr. Krupp. One day, they are caught on camera tampering with their classmate Melvin Sneedly's invention, the Turbo Toilet 2000 during a Saturday mandatory "Invention Convention" to liven up the other kids' weekend. Mr. Krupp prepares to put George and Harold in separate classes in hopes of ending their friendship.
Returning to school from the weekend, George hypnotizes Mr. Krupp using a "3-D Hypno-Ring" from a cereal box before Mr. Krupp can sign the papers to separate George and Harold and commands him to become Captain Underpants, leading him to cause trouble around town. After taking him to their treehouse, the boys discover that they can turn Captain Underpants back into Mr. Krupp by splashing water on him and back into Captain Underpants by snapping their fingers. To keep Mr. Krupp from separating them, they convince Captain Underpants that Mr. Krupp is his "secret identity". His change in personality attracts the affections of the school's shy lunch lady, Edith.
Meanwhile, evil scientist, Professor Pee-Pee Diarrheastein Poopypants, Esq., is hired as the school's new science teacher, though George and Harold are suspicious of his short-tempered and violent behavior. It is revealed that Poopypants, who invented a Nobel Prize-winning "sizerator" capable of shrinking and enlarging things, is sick of never being taken seriously due to his name, and seeks to eliminate all laughter. With Captain Underpants as principal, the school becomes a livelier place, but a rainstorm turns Captain Underpants back into Mr. Krupp and without giving George and Harold a chance to change him back because of the rain, officially places George and Harold in separate classes.
Poopypants recruits Melvin to his plan and attacks the school with a giant version of Melvin's Turbo Toilet 2000 fueled by Edith's toxic leftovers. He also uses Melvin's brain to power a ray that turns the students into dull, humorless zombies. Captain Underpants tries to stop them but, having no superpowers, is thrown into the toxic waste. George and Harold are captured, but the power of a joke that made them friends in kindergarten overloads the Turbo Toilet 2000, returning the kids to normal and causing Melvin to become trapped in a giant toilet paper. The toxic leftovers give Captain Underpants real superpowers and, with George and Harold's help, he defeats and shrinks Poopypants, who escapes on a bee.
Unable to control Captain Underpants forever, George and Harold destroy the Hypno-Ring to permanently change him back into Mr. Krupp, but swear to remain friends. However, after realizing that Mr. Krupp would be nicer if he had friends, they set him and Edith up on a date, causing Krupp to have a change of heart and return the comics he confiscated from George and Harold. However, the toxic waste from the Turbo Toilet 2000 transforms the toilets at a scrapyard into an army of Talking Toilets, which attack the restaurant where Mr. Krupp and Edith are dining. After unwittingly snapping his fingers, Mr. Krupp is once again transformed into Captain Underpants, to Edith's surprise and admiration, and he flies away with George and Harold to face their next adventure together.
In the mid-credits scene, Miss Anthrope accidentally disconnects the call she has been on hold for during the entire scenario and erupts in anger, transforming the scene into the new Captain Underpants comic book, titled "Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Stuck on Hold Woman".
|
Capturing Dad
| 2,012
|
Ryota Nakano
|
['Makiko Watanabe', 'Elisa Yanagi', 'Nanoka Matsubara', 'Satoshi Nikaido', 'Kenichi Takitoh', 'Kaito Kobayashi', 'Akiko Hoshino', 'Tomokoi Kimura', 'Kagetora Miura', 'Yushi Ozawa', 'Shohei Uno', 'Hiromi Hakoki']
| null | null |
Comedy, Drama
| 74
|
['Japan']
|
Japanese
|
['Japanese']
|
['Hiyoshigaoka Pictures', 'Pictures Network']
| 192
|
sad, emotional
|
sad-movies-if-you-feel-like-you-need-to-cry
| null |
Plot section not found.
|
Carnal Knowledge
| 1,971
|
Mike Nichols
|
['Jack Nicholson', 'Candice Bergen', 'Art Garfunkel', 'Ann-Margret', 'Rita Moreno', "Cynthia O'Neal", 'Carol Kane', 'Sheri Jackson']
| 3.62
| 4
|
Romance, Comedy, Melodrama, Drama, Sex comedy, Tragicomedy, Comedy drama, Coming-of-age story, Comedy of manners
| 98
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['AVCO Embassy Pictures']
| 22,591
|
toxic-relationship
|
toxic-destructive-relationships
| null |
In the late 1940s, Amherst College student Sandy meets a Smith College student named Susan at an on-campus event and they begin dating. Although they enjoy each other's company, Susan is reluctant to enter into a physical relationship. Unbeknownst to Sandy, she is also pursued by Sandy's aggressive, womanizing roommate Jonathan, and they eventually have sex. Jonathan tries to persuade Susan not to have sex with Sandy, but after some delays, Susan does sleep with him. Because of this, Susan and Jonathan break up.
Several years after college, Sandy is married to Susan, while Jonathan still searches for his "perfect woman". Jonathan begins a relationship with Bobbie, a beautiful but shallow woman, but he eventually grows bored with her. Bobbie leaves her job at Jonathan's suggestion. She then becomes depressed, spending long hours doing nothing but sleeping in the apartment she shares with Jonathan. The relationship deteriorates. Jonathan berates Bobbie for not cleaning up the apartment while he is out working all day at a nine-to-five job. He claims that he does not understand why break-ups always have to end with "poison".
Sandy's relationship with Susan is faring no better. Sandy is dissatisfied and bored with the physical part of their relationship, even though he and Susan "do all the right things". He relates how they are "patient with each other" and concludes with a statement that perhaps sex is not "meant to be enjoyable with the person you love".
Sandy and Susan end their relationship. Sandy begins dating Cindy. Sandy, Cindy, Jonathan, and Bobbie find themselves together at Jonathan's apartment, where Sandy complains privately to Jonathan about his sex life with Cindy. Jonathan suggests to Sandy that they trade partners, to "liven things up a bit". Sandy goes to the bedroom looking for Bobbie. Cindy dances with Jonathan and reprimands him for attempting to bed her with Sandy nearby, but indicates she is open to seeing him on his own, saying he should contact her at a more appropriate time. In the meantime, upset by an earlier fight with Jonathan about her desire to get married, Bobbie has attempted suicide. She is found by Sandy, who calls the hospital to have her taken to intensive care.
In the 1970s, Jonathan presents a slideshow entitled "Ballbusters on Parade" to Sandy and Sandy's 18-year-old girlfriend, Jennifer. The slideshow consists of pictures of Jonathan's various loves throughout his life. He skips awkwardly over a slide of Susan, but not before Sandy notices. He also shows an image of Bobbie, saying they are divorced and have one child together, and he is paying her alimony. Jennifer leaves in tears.
Some time later, Jonathan solicits a prostitute named Louise, and they go through a ritual dialogue about male–female relationships which is apparently a script written by Jonathan. At the end, Louise recites a monologue (again scripted by Jonathan) praising his power and "perfection", which apparently has become the only way Jonathan can now get an erection.
|
Carnaval Atlântida
| 1,952
|
José Carlos Burle
|
['Oscarito', 'Eliana', 'Cyll Farney', 'José Lewgoy', 'Maria Antonieta Pons', 'Wilson Grey', 'Grande Otelo', 'Colé Santana', 'Renato Restier', 'Roberto Faissal', 'Dick Farney', 'Nora Ney', 'Aurélio Teixeira', 'Blecaute']
| 3.58
| null |
Comedy, Musical
| 95
|
['Brazil']
|
Portuguese
|
['Portuguese']
|
['Atlântida Cinematográfica']
| 1,473
|
comedy
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
Plot section not found.
|
Caro diario
| 1,993
|
Nanni Moretti
|
['Nanni Moretti', 'Renato Carpentieri', 'Antonio Neiwiller', 'Claudia Della Seta', 'Lorenzo Alessandri', 'Raffaella Lebboroni', 'Marco Paolini', 'Moni Ovadia', 'Riccardo Zinna', 'Jennifer Beals', 'Alexandre Rockwell', 'Conchita Airoldi', 'Giulio Base', 'Giovanna Bozzolo', 'Sebastiano Nardone', 'Roberto Nobile', 'Antonio Petrocelli', 'Cristina Aubry', 'Donatella Botti', 'Umberto Contarello', 'Gianni Ferraretto', 'Pino Gentile', 'Sergio Lambiase', 'Valerio Magrelli', 'Carlo Mazzacurati', 'Yu Ming Lun', 'Serena Nono', 'Oreste Rotundo', 'Mario Schiano', 'Italo Spinelli', 'Silvia Nono']
| 3.9
| null |
Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Tragicomedy
| 101
|
['France', 'Italy']
|
Italian
|
['Italian', 'Chinese', 'English']
|
['Sacher Film', 'La Sept Cinéma', 'Banfilm', 'RAI', 'Canal+']
| 27,471
|
feel-good
|
feel-good-movies
| null |
Putting the hot Roman summer to good use, Nanni Moretti dedicates himself to his favorite hobby, riding his Vespa through the streets of the half-deserted city.
Here, Moretti lets the landscape inspire his thoughts: he laments the banalization of politics in contemporary Italian cinema, comments on the gentrification of the quarters of Rome, mocks the overzealous critical reception of movies like Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, and confesses his love for dance caused by the movie Flashdance – later meeting its star Jennifer Beals. Finally, he visits the place in Ostia where Pier Paolo Pasolini was killed, to pay his respects.
|
Carol
| 2,015
|
Todd Haynes
|
['Cate Blanchett', 'Rooney Mara', 'Kyle Chandler', 'Jake Lacy', 'Sarah Paulson', 'John Magaro', 'Cory Michael Smith', 'Kevin Crowley', 'Nik Pajic', 'Carrie Brownstein', 'Trent Rowland', 'Sadie Heim', 'Kk Heim', 'Amy Warner', 'Michael Haney', 'Wendy Lardin', 'Pamela Evans Haynes', 'Greg Violand', 'Michael Joseph Thomas Ward', 'Kay Geiger', 'Christine Dye', 'Deb G. Girdler', 'Douglas Scott Sorenson', 'Ken Strunk', 'Mike Dennis', 'Ann Reskin', 'Annie Kalahurka', 'Linnea Bond', 'Steven Andrews', 'Tanya Smith', 'Ryan Wesley Gilreath', 'Chuck Gillespie', 'Jeremy Parker', 'Giedre Bond', 'Taylor Marie Frey', 'Liberty Fraysure', 'Robert J. Ashe', 'Anita Farmer Bergman', 'Colin Botts', 'Chelsea Carnder', 'Gary Chinn']
| 4.01
| null |
Romance, Melodrama, Drama, Indie film
| 118
|
['UK', 'USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Killer Films', 'Number 9 Films', 'Film4 Productions']
| 597,881
|
sad, emotional
|
sad-movies-if-you-feel-like-you-need-to-cry
| null |
During the Christmas season of 1952, aspiring photographer Therese Belivet is working in Frankenberg's department store in Manhattan. She meets a glamorous woman, Carol Aird, who is searching for a doll for her daughter, Rindy. At Therese's recommendation, Carol purchases a model train set instead. When Carol departs, she leaves her gloves on the counter. Therese mails them to her using Frankenberg's sales slip with Carol's name and address.
Therese's boyfriend, Richard, wants her to go to France with him, hoping they will marry, but she is ambivalent about their relationship. A common friend, Dannie, invites Therese to his workplace, The New York Times, and offers to introduce her to a photo editor friend. Meanwhile, Carol is going through a difficult divorce from her husband, Harge. Carol calls Frankenberg's to thank the clerk who returned the gloves and invites Therese to lunch. Therese visits Dannie and he kisses her, but she becomes uncomfortable and leaves.
Carol invites Therese to her home in New Jersey. She stops to purchase a Christmas tree, and Therese takes candid photographs of her. Harge arrives unexpectedly to take Rindy to Florida for Christmas; he becomes suspicious of Therese, as Carol had an affair years before with her friend Abby. Therese witnesses their argument. After Rindy leaves, a distressed Carol takes Therese to the train station so she can return home.
Carol calls to apologize to Therese and they meet at her apartment, where Carol surprises her with a suitcase containing a gift of a Canon camera and film. Carol has learned that Harge is petitioning the judge to consider a "morality clause" against her, threatening to expose her homosexuality and give him full custody of Rindy. She decides to take a road trip to escape the stress of the divorce proceedings and invites Therese to join her. Richard accuses Therese of being infatuated with Carol and predicts Carol will soon tire of her. The two argue and their relationship comes to an end. On the second night of the trip, Therese meets a traveling salesman, Tommy Tucker.
On New Year's Eve, Carol and Therese kiss for the first time and have sex. The next morning, they discover that Tucker is actually a private investigator Harge hired to obtain evidence against Carol. Carol confronts Tucker, threatening him at gunpoint, but he claims to have already sent tape recordings to Harge. Carol and Therese turn back. The next day, in Chicago, Therese learns that Carol has flown home to fight for custody of her daughter, having asked Abby to drive Therese home. Abby gives her a letter from Carol. Back at home, Therese telephones Carol, but knowing that she risks losing custody of Rindy if she continues her relationship with Therese, Carol hangs up.
Therese creates a portfolio of her photographs and gets a job at The New York Times. In the meantime, Carol has been seeing a psychotherapist as a condition of the divorce settlement. During a confrontational meeting in mid-April with divorce lawyers, Carol suddenly admits to the truth of what the tapes contain and refuses to deny her sexuality. To avoid going to court and the likelihood of a public scandal, she tells Harge that he can have custody of Rindy if he allows her regular visits.
Carol writes to Therese, and they meet in the lounge of the Ritz Tower Hotel. Carol reveals she is going to work for a furniture house and has taken an apartment on Madison Avenue. Therese declines Carol's invitation to live with her. Carol tells Therese that she is meeting associates in the Oak Room, and that if she changes her mind, they can have dinner. Therese remains still and Carol says, "I love you." They are interrupted by Jack, a colleague who has not seen Therese in months, and Carol departs.
Therese accepts Jack's ride to a party, but finds she cannot connect with anyone. She leaves for the Oak Room. She scans the diners and sees Carol at a table. Therese hesitates, then walks toward Carol. Their eyes meet. Carol gazes at Therese with a smile that slowly grows.
|
Carrie
| 1,976
|
Brian De Palma
|
['Sissy Spacek', 'Piper Laurie', 'Amy Irving', 'William Katt', 'Nancy Allen', 'Betty Buckley', 'John Travolta', 'P.J. Soles', 'Priscilla Pointer', 'Sydney Lassick', 'Stefan Gierasch', 'Michael Talbott', 'Doug Cox', 'Harry Gold', 'Noelle North', 'Cindy Daly', 'Deirdre Berthrong', 'Anson Downes', 'Rory Stevens', 'Edie McClurg', 'Cameron De Palma', 'Sharon Benson', 'Terry Bolo', 'Jean Glaudé', 'Katie Irving', 'Cynthia Schuler Larsen', 'Dan Protheroe', 'James Saad', 'Janie Squire', 'Mike Towers', 'Glen Vance']
| 3.85
| null |
Horror, Drama, Suspense, Mystery, Thriller
| 98
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['United Artists']
| 839,850
|
sad, emotional
|
sad-movies-if-you-feel-like-you-need-to-cry
| null |
Sixteen-year-old Carrie White is a shy teenage girl who lives with her fanatically religious and unstable mother, Margaret, and is a loner and bullied by her peers. When Carrie experiences her first period while in school, she panics, having never been told about menstruation. Her classmates laugh at her, throwing tampons and sanitary pads at her, until the gym teacher, Miss Collins, intervenes. Margaret tells Carrie that her period was caused by sin, and locks Carrie in a "prayer closet" to pray to God for forgiveness. At school, Miss Collins reprimands Carrie's tormentors, punishing them with exercise detention, threatening to suspend them and stop them going to prom if they refuse. Carrie's longtime bully, Christine "Chris" Hargensen, eventually refuses and gets banned from the prom.
Plotting vengeance against Carrie, Chris and her boyfriend Billy Nolan break into a farm and kill pigs to drain their blood into a bucket, which they place above the school's stage in the gym. Meanwhile, another girl named Sue Snell, a remorseful classmate, asks her handsome and popular boyfriend, Tommy Ross, to invite Carrie to prom. Carrie believes the proposition is a prank, but he insists it is genuine. Carrie discovers she has telekinesis. Despite Margaret's protests, she prepares for prom. Margaret sees Carrie's telekinetic powers and denounces her as a witch.
During prom, Chris and Billy hide under the stage while the other conspirators switch the ballots to ensure Carrie wins the Prom Queen title. As Carrie stands onstage with Tommy, finally beginning to feel accepted by her peers, Sue realizes Chris and Billy's plan, and tries to intervene. Miss Collins spots Sue and, thinking that she is up to no good, throws her out of the prom. Chris and Billy douse Carrie in the pigs' blood before sneaking out of the school. The empty bucket hits Tommy on the head, knocking him out. Norma begins to laugh with some other students, causing Carrie to hallucinate that everyone is mocking her, believing it was their plan all along. She telekinetically seals the exits and the students are attacked by a fire hose, injuring several, and killing Norma. A falling basketball backboard crushes Miss Collins after she and the students try to carry Tommy's body, and Carrie electrocutes her principal and teacher, one of the two bursting into flames, setting the gym on fire. She exits the burning school and seals the doors behind her, trapping staff and classmates. As Carrie walks home, Chris attempts to run her over, but Carrie causes the car to swerve; it rolls and Carrie ruptures the gas tank, the explosion killing Chris and Billy.
After Carrie bathes herself at home, Margaret reveals that Carrie was conceived when her drunk husband and Carrie's father, Ralph, raped her, an act that Margaret shamefully admits she enjoyed. She then stabs Carrie in the back with a kitchen knife. Carrie sends knives flying toward her, killing her; then, she destroys the house and perishes.
Some time later, Sue, who was the sole survivor of that night, has a nightmare in which she goes to lay flowers on the charred remains of Carrie's home. Upon the remains stands a "For Sale" sign, vandalized in black paint with the words: "Carrie White burns in Hell!" Suddenly, Carrie's bloody arm reaches from beneath the rubble and grabs Sue, who wakes up screaming as her mother tries to comfort her.
|
Carriers
| 2,009
|
Ãlex Pastor, David Pastor
|
['Lou Taylor Pucci', 'Chris Pine', 'Piper Perabo', 'Emily VanCamp', 'Christopher Meloni', 'Kiernan Shipka', 'Ron McClary', 'Mark Moses', 'Josh Berry', 'Tim Janis', 'Dylan Kenin', 'LeAnne Lynch', 'Dale O´Malley']
| 2.7
| 3
|
Horror, Action, Adventure, Disaster, Science fiction, Drama, Suspense, Mystery, Thriller, Psychological thriller
| 84
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Paramount Vantage', 'Likely Story', 'This is that', 'Ivy Boy Productions']
| 24,630
|
post-apocalyptic
|
post-apocalyptic-movies
| null |
A highly infectious virus, known as "The World Ender Virus", has spread worldwide, killing most of the population. Brothers Brian and Danny, along with Brian's girlfriend Bobby and Danny's friend Kate, plot a trip to take shelter at Turtle Beach, Texas, the brothers' childhood vacation home. To help them survive, they follow a set of rules created by Brian.
On their way to the beach, the group encounter survivor Frank and his infected daughter Jodie, whose vehicle has run out of fuel. The four escape from Frank when he attacks them, but after their car breaks down, they are forced to help Frank and Jodie to use his vehicle. At Frank's insistence, they travel to a nearby high school where a serum for the pandemic is rumored to have been developed. Upon arriving, Frank, Brian, Danny, and Kate discover that the serum does not work and the last remaining doctor is preparing to euthanize a group of infected children and himself. Meanwhile, Bobby catches the virus from Jodie, which she hides from the others. Frank is later forced to bring Jodie to a portable toilet, giving Brian the opportunity to leave them behind and take their vehicle.
The group stops at a hotel, unaware that it is occupied by armed survivalists. When the survivalists return, they force the women to accompany them until they uncover Bobby's infection and order the group away. Brian subsequently forces Bobby to leave the group.
As the group runs low on fuel, Brian kills two women to siphon their vehicle, but suffers a gunshot wound. While treating his brother's injury, Danny discovers that Brian is infected. Danny attempts to leave Brian behind that night, but Brian takes the keys to their vehicle. Refusing to surrender the keys, Brian goads Danny into killing him so he will not die alone from the virus. Danny and Kate arrive at Turtle Beach the next morning, but Danny realizes that without his brother, the place that seemed special to them as children is now desolate.
|
Cars
| 2,006
|
John Lasseter
|
['Owen Wilson', 'Larry the Cable Guy', 'Bonnie Hunt', 'Paul Newman', 'Tony Shalhoub', 'Cheech Marin', 'Michael Wallis', 'George Carlin', 'Paul Dooley', 'Jenifer Lewis', 'Guido Quaroni', 'Richard Petty', 'Michael Keaton', 'Katherine Helmond', 'John Ratzenberger', 'Joe Ranft', 'Jeremy Piven', 'Dale Earnhardt Jr.', 'Mario Andretti', 'Michael Schumacher', 'Jay Leno', 'Tom Hanks', 'Tim Allen', 'Billy Crystal', 'John Goodman', 'Dave Foley', 'Bob Costas', 'Darrell Waltrip', 'Richard Kind', 'Edie McClurg', 'Humpy Wheeler', 'Tom Magliozzi', 'Ray Magliozzi', 'Lynda Petty', 'Andrew Stanton', 'Mike Nelson', 'Jan Rabson', 'Jonas Rivera', 'Lou Romano', 'Adrian Ochoa', 'E.J. Holowicki', 'Elissa Knight', 'Lindsey Collins', 'Larry Benton', 'Douglas Keever', 'Sherry Lynn', 'Mickie McGowan', 'Jack Angel', 'Michael Bell', 'Bob Bergen', 'Susan Blu', 'Andrea Boerries', 'Marco Boerries', 'Rodger Bumpass', 'Torbin Xan Bullock', 'Richard Cawood', 'Scott Clark', 'Kathy Coates', 'John Cygan', 'Jennifer Darling', 'Paul Eiding', 'Bill Farmer', 'Brian Fee', 'Teresa Ganzel', 'Craig Good', 'Jess Harnell', 'Artie Kempner', 'Hooman Khalili', 'Sonoko Konishi', 'Erik Langley', 'Danny Mann', 'Laraine Newman', 'Teddy Newton', "Colleen O'Shaughnessey", 'Bob Peterson', 'Steve Purcell', 'A.J. Riebli III', 'Dan Scanlon', 'Stephen Schaffer', 'Ken Schretzmann', 'Bob Scott', 'Matt Staudt', 'Jay Ward', 'Jim Ward', 'Colette Whitaker', 'Frank Welker']
| 3.73
| 3
|
Animation, Children's film, Action, Comedy, Adventure, Family film, Sports, Road
| 117
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'Italian', 'Japanese', 'Yiddish']
|
['Pixar', 'Walt Disney Pictures']
| 1,852,515
|
animated
|
vote-best-animated-films-of-all-time
| null |
In a world populated by anthropomorphic vehicles, the Dinoco 400 race marks the climax of the Piston Cup season. The event intensifies a rivalry between the retiring seven-time champion, Strip "The King" Weathers, the cunning Chick Hicks, and the talented but overconfident rookie, Lightning McQueen. Desperate to win and gain entry into the prestigious Dinoco team, Lightning struggles with teamwork due to his self-centered attitude. During the high-stakes race, Lightning avoids a major collision instigated by Chick, but blows his lead by refusing to take a pit stop, causing his rear tires to blow out before he can win. The race ends in a three-way tie, setting the stage for a decisive race at the Los Angeles International Speedway in one week.
After the race, Lightning rushes through the night on the interstate to reach California inside his transport truck Mack. A mishap leaves Lightning stranded alone in the rundown desert town of Radiator Springs. Here, he inadvertently damages the main road, leading to an unexpected community service assignment: repaving the road under the supervision of the town's judge, Doc Hudson, who is prejudiced against Lightning for being a race car.
Lightning repaves the road shoddily in a rush to leave, and Doc challenges him to a race for his freedom, on the condition that he starts over from scratch if he loses. The overconfident Lightning, having never raced on a dirt road before, spins out on a turn and crashes. Doc, on the other hand, handles the road with no problems. Over time, Lightning warms up to and befriends the town's residents, especially Mater, a rusty tow truck, and Sally, who dreams of reviving Radiator Springs. As he bonds with the locals, Lightning helps rejuvenate Radiator Springs and develops a newfound appreciation for its charm. He discovers the town was once a bustling attraction for drivers on Route 66, before the construction of the interstate caused them to lose all their business traffic. Lightning also discovers that the bitter Doc, reticent about his past, used to race as the legendary Hudson Hornet until a disastrous crash ended his career. Lightning is dumbfounded that Doc considers his previous Piston Cups worthless junk.
Lightning finishes repairing the road and decides to spend an extra day in Radiator Springs helping the local businesses, but Doc alerts the media to Lightning's location, leading them and Mack to descend on the town and force Lightning to leave in time for the race. Doc immediately regrets his actions after seeing the residents disappointed by his unexpected departure. At the race, Lightning initially struggles but is buoyed by the sudden arrival of his friends from Radiator Springs, who come to his aid in the pit. With Doc now acting as his crew chief, Lightning stages a remarkable comeback. However, Chick employs a PIT maneuver that intentionally damages the King, rendering him unable to continue. Fearing that the King's career may end as Doc's did, Lightning halts just before the finish line and pushes him across, allowing Chick to win the Piston Cup while ensuring the King's safe finish.
The crowd and media condemn Chick's Piston Cup victory and praise Lightning's integrity. Although offered a sponsorship by Dinoco, Lightning chooses loyalty to his current "small-time" sponsor, Rust-eze bumper ointment. Returning to Radiator Springs, he reunites with Sally and declares his intention to establish his racing headquarters there, revitalizing the town.
|
Cas & Dylan
| 2,013
|
Jason Priestley
|
['Tatiana Maslany', 'Richard Dreyfuss', 'Aaron Poole', 'Natalie Radford', 'Jayne Eastwood', 'Eric Peterson', 'Christopher Cordell', 'Corinne Conley', 'Cliff Saunders', 'Misha Rasaiah', 'Marty Adams', 'Chris Farquhar', 'Jee-Yun Lee', 'Stuart Clow', 'Jessie Gabe', 'Lewis Hodgson', 'Michael Cleland', 'Brian Nettlefold']
| 3.34
| 3
|
['Comedy', 'Drama']
| 90
|
['Canada']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Montefiore Films', 'Hideaway Pictures']
| 555
|
road-movie
|
road-movies-1
| null |
Dr. Cas Pepper is a 61-year-old doctor, a self-proclaimed loner, and terminally ill. Dylan Morgan is a 22-year-old woman, somewhat of a social misfit, and an aspiring writer. She is currently living with her boyfriend Bobby, who is an unstable individual. Cas reluctantly agrees to give Dylan a short lift to her home. Cas accidentally strikes Bobby with his car when he jumps in front of them and points a rifle at them, and, fearing that he may now be a fugitive from the law, drives away with Dylan's encouragement.
Cas and Dylan take off on a drive across Canada, he heading to his vacation home on Canada's west coast (where he plans to bury his recently deceased dog and to commit suicide), and she towards an ostensible interview with a major publishing company she has been communicating with. Initially Cas is not thrilled with the prospect of spending the ride with this young talkative kid, but as the adventure progresses, they grow sweetly fond of each other, helping one another resolve the issues they encounter along the way.
The epilogue shows a successful, fulfilled Dylan some time after the cross-country trip, with her voice-over telling us about her tremendous respect for him, and that her current happiness is largely a result of following his advice—a happiness not hindered by the fact that he left her his entire estate after his death (as well as his "secret" pasta sauce recipe).
|
Casablanca
| 1,942
|
Michael Curtiz
|
['Humphrey Bogart', 'Ingrid Bergman', 'Paul Henreid', 'Claude Rains', 'Conrad Veidt', 'Sydney Greenstreet', 'Peter Lorre', 'S.Z. Sakall', 'Madeleine Lebeau', 'Dooley Wilson', 'Joy Page', 'John Qualen', 'Leonid Kinskey', 'Curt Bois', 'Enrique Acosta', 'Ed Agresti', 'Louis V. Arco', 'Frank Arnold', 'Leon Belasco', 'Nino Bellini', 'Oliver Blake', 'Monte Blue', 'Eugene Borden', 'Dick Botiller', 'Maurice Brierre', 'Sebastian Cabot', 'Anita Camargo', 'George M. Carleton', 'Spencer Chan', 'Melie Chang', 'Tex Cooper', 'Gino Corrado', 'Franco Corsaro', "Adrienne D'Ambricourt", 'Marcel Dalio', 'Helmut Dantine', 'Jean De Briac', 'George Dee', 'Jean Del Val', 'Carl Deloro', 'Joseph DeVillard', 'Arthur Dulac', 'William Edmunds', 'Herbert Evans', 'Fred Farrell', 'Adolph Faylauer', 'O.K. Ford', 'MartÃn Garralaga', 'Gregory Gaye', 'Gregory Golubeff', 'Ilka Grüning', 'Creighton Hale', 'Winifred Harris', 'Jamiel Hasson', 'Arthur Stuart Hull', 'Olaf Hytten', 'Charles La Torre', 'George J. Lewis', 'Manuel Lopez', 'Jacques Lory', 'Lou Marcelle', 'Tony Martelli', 'George Meeker', 'Lal Chand Mehra', 'Hercules Mendez', 'Louis Mercier', 'Torben Meyer', 'Alberto Morin', 'Leo Mostovoy', 'Corinna Mura', 'Barry Norton', 'Lotte Palfi Andor', 'Paul Panzer', 'Manuel ParÃs', 'Alexander Pollard', 'Frank Puglia', 'Georges Renavent', 'Dewey Robinson', 'Richard Ryen', 'Dan Seymour', 'Lester Sharpe', 'Dina Smirnova', 'Gerald Oliver Smith', 'George Sorel', 'Geoffrey Steele', 'Ludwig Stössel', 'Mike Tellegen', 'Rafael Trujillo', 'Jacques Vanaire', 'Ellinor Vanderveer', 'Norma Varden', 'Hans Heinrich von Twardowski', 'Jack Wise', 'Wolfgang Zilzer', 'Trude Berliner', 'Paul Porcasi', 'Max Linder', 'Frank Mazzola', 'Henry Rowland', 'Leo White', 'Paul Irving', 'Brandon Beach', 'Victor Romito', 'Michael Mark', 'Bhogwan Singh', 'Jack Benny', 'Finn Zirzow']
| 4.28
| 4
|
Romance, War, Action, Melodrama, Drama
| 102
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'German', 'French', 'Italian']
|
['Warner Bros. Pictures']
| 669,443
|
oscar-winner
|
oscar-winning-films-best-picture, lb_top250
| null |
In December 1941, American expatriate Rick Blaine owns a nightclub and gambling den in Casablanca. "Rick's Café Américain" attracts a varied clientele, including Vichy French and Nazi German officials, refugees desperate to reach the neutral United States, and those who prey on them. Although Rick professes to be neutral in all matters, he ran guns to Ethiopia in 1935 and fought on the Loyalist side in the Spanish Civil War.
Petty crook Ugarte boasts to Rick of letters of transit obtained by murdering two German couriers. The papers allow the bearers to travel freely around German-occupied Europe and to neutral Portugal. Ugarte plans to sell them at the club and persuades Rick to hold them for him. Before he can meet his contact, Ugarte is arrested by the local police under Captain Louis Renault, the unabashedly corrupt prefect of police. Ugarte dies in custody without revealing that Rick has the letters.
Then, the reason for Rick's cynical nature—former lover Ilsa Lund—enters his establishment. Spotting Rick's friend and house pianist, Sam, Ilsa asks him to play "As Time Goes By". Rick storms over, furious that Sam disobeyed his order never to perform that song again, and is stunned to see Ilsa. She is accompanied by her husband, Victor Laszlo, a renowned fugitive Czechoslovak Resistance leader. A flashback reveals Ilsa left Rick without explanation when the couple were planning to flee as the German army neared Paris, embittering Rick. Laszlo and Ilsa need the letters to escape, while German Major Strasser arrives in Casablanca to prevent that.
When Laszlo makes inquiries, Signor Ferrari, an underworld figure and Rick's friendly business rival, divulges his suspicion that Rick has the letters. Laszlo returns to Rick's café that night and tries to buy them. Rick refuses to sell, telling Laszlo to ask his wife why. They are interrupted when Strasser leads a group of German officers in singing "Die Wacht am Rhein". Laszlo orders the house band to play "La Marseillaise", and Rick allows it. French patriotism grips the crowd and everyone joins in, drowning out the Germans. Afterwards, Strasser has Renault close the club on a flimsy pretext.
|
Cash on Demand
| 1,961
|
Quentin Lawrence
|
['Peter Cushing', 'André Morell', 'Richard Vernon', 'Norman Bird', 'Barry Lowe', 'Kevin Stoney', 'Edith Sharpe', 'Lois Daine', 'Alan Haywood', 'Charles Morgan', 'Vera Cook', 'Gareth Tandy']
| 3.72
| null |
Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Crime Fiction
| 80
|
['UK']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Hammer Film Productions']
| 4,374
|
thriller, essential
|
100-essential-thrillers
| null |
Two days before Christmas, a bogus insurance investigator, Gore Hepburn, brazenly conducts a con trick on a bank, largely through making Fordyce the bank manager believe that his family have been kidnapped.
Fordyce is a cold, officious man. Gore Hepburn recognises the insecurities underlying Fordyce's behaviour and exploits them ruthlessly, tormenting him with veiled threats.
Feeling that he has no choice, Fordyce helps Gore Hepburn to steal £93,000 in banknotes from the bank vault, concealing his actions from the rest of the staff. However, they have already phoned Gore Hepburn's insurance company as a routine precaution, and discovered that he is an impostor.
When Fordyce learns the police are on their way he becomes desperate for his family's safety. When police arrive Fordyce convinces Pearson to cover for him and excuse the bank staff contacting the police as a misplaced cheque.
Police have already arrested Col Gore Hepburn, who has a case containing the bank's money. Gore Hepburn is not his real name; he is a known criminal. Police suspect he must have had inside help with the robbery, which points to Fordyce.
A quick call establishes that Fordyce's family were never under threat. Fordyce tries to convince the police that the colonel deceived him; for instance, by ordering him at one point to stand by the window and mop his brow, as a signal to a supposed associate outside. As he demonstrates this to the officers, a sealed bank package of £500 (which Gore Hepburn had slipped into his pocket earlier) falls out. Once more the police are sceptical of his innocence. Gore Hepburn tells the police that Hepburn and another man used a tape recorder to disguise their voices and make it seem like Fordyce's family was kidnapped, and that Fordyce is innocent.
Fordyce is finally seen as innocent and the police let him go. Knowing his wife and son are safe, he has changed his opinion of his co-workers for helping him. He goes to the police station with them to talk to his wife and to Hepburn for deceiving him. With a half-smile on his face, he tells Pearson to manage the bank in his absence, assuring him he will be back in a few hours and join them at the staff Christmas party.
|
Casino
| 1,995
|
Martin Scorsese
|
['Robert De Niro', 'Sharon Stone', 'Joe Pesci', 'James Woods', 'Don Rickles', 'Alan King', 'Kevin Pollak', 'L.Q. Jones', 'Dick Smothers', 'Frank Vincent', 'John Bloom', 'Pasquale Cajano', 'Melissa Prophet', 'Bill Allison', 'Vinny Vella', 'Oscar Goodman', 'Catherine Scorsese', 'Philip Suriano', 'Erika von Tagen', 'Frankie Avalon', 'Steve Allen', 'Jayne Meadows', 'Jerry Vale', 'Joseph Rigano', 'Gene Ruffini', 'Dominick Grieco', 'Peter Conti', 'Cathy Scorsese', 'Steve Vignari', 'Paul Herman', 'Joey DePinto', 'Millicent Sheridan', 'Nobu Matsuhisa', 'Frankie J. Allison', 'Anthony Russell', 'John Manca', 'Ronald Maccone', 'Joseph P. Reidy', 'Joe La Due', 'Stuart Nisbet', 'Frank Adonis', 'Joseph Bono', 'Craig Vincent', 'Daniel P. Conte', 'David Rose', 'C.C. Carr', 'Clem Caserta', 'Jed Mills', 'Richard Riehle', 'Alfred Nittoli', 'Carl Ciarfalio', 'Jack Orend', 'Ffolliott Le Coque', 'Claudia Haro', 'Madeline Parquette', 'Nick Mazzola', 'Steve Schirripa']
| 4.2
| null |
Mafia, Crime film, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Detective fiction, Police procedural
| 179
|
['France', 'USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Universal Pictures', 'Syalis DA', 'Légende Films', 'Cappa/De Fina Productions']
| 623,788
|
heist
|
heist-movies
| null |
In 1973, sports handicapper and Mafia associate Sam "Ace" Rothstein was sent by the Chicago Outfit to Las Vegas to run the Tangiers Casino, with frontman Philip Green. Sam soon doubles the casino's profits, with the extra unaccounted-for cash skimmed directly from the casino count room and delivered to the Midwest Mafia bosses. Chicago boss Remo Gaggi sends Sam's childhood friend and mob enforcer Nicky Santoro to protect Sam, the cash skim, and the casino. Nicky recruits his younger brother Dominick and childhood friend Frankie Marino to gather an experienced crew specializing in shakedowns and jewelry burglaries. Nicky's criminal activities in Las Vegas start drawing too much media and police attention, and he is eventually placed in the Black Book, banning him from every casino in Nevada. Sam meets and falls in love with a beautiful con artist, showgirl, and former prostitute Ginger McKenna. They have a daughter, Amy, and marry. Still, their marriage is soon thrown into turmoil due to Ginger's relationship with her longtime boyfriend, hustler and pimp Lester Diamond. Sam has Nicky's crew beat Lester when they catch him accepting $25,000 of Sam's money from her.
In 1976, Sam fires slot manager Don Ward for incompetence. Ward is brother-in-law to Clark County Commission chairman Pat Webb, who is unable to convince Sam to re-hire Ward. Webb arranges for Sam's gaming license to be denied, jeopardizing Sam's position. Sam starts hosting a local television talk show from inside the casino, irritating both Nicky and the bosses back home for bringing more unneeded attention. Sam blames Nicky's recklessness for ongoing police and state government pressure, and Sam's attempts to get Nicky to leave Las Vegas only further strain their friendship.
When the Midwest bosses discover that people on the inside are stealing from their skim, they install incompetent Kansas City underboss Artie Piscano to oversee the operation. Disobeying orders, Piscano keeps detailed written records of the operation. Additionally, an FBI bug placed in Piscano's grocery store catches him talking in detail about the skim, prompting a full investigation into the Tangiers Casino.
In 1980, Ginger kidnaps little Amy, planning to flee to Europe with her and Lester. Sam convinces Ginger to return with Amy, then overhears her planning on the phone to kill him. Enraged, Sam kicks her out of their home but relents and forgives her. Ginger confides in Nicky about the situation, and the two start an affair. Sam soon discovers their affair, confronts Ginger, and ends his friendship with Nicky. Nicky ends his affair with Ginger once she asks him to kill Sam and threatens to go to the FBI. Ginger leaves Sam and takes all of her money and jewelry.
In 1982, the FBI discovers Piscano's records, closes the Tangiers, and Green agrees to cooperate. The FBI approaches Sam for help by showing him photos of Nicky and Ginger together, but he turns them down. The Chicago bosses are arrested, get ready for trial, and arrange the murders of anyone who might testify against them. In 1983, Ginger dies of a hot dose in Los Angeles, with Sam suspecting that the bosses may have been responsible. That same year, Sam narrowly survives a car bomb, suspecting Nicky to be the culprit. Sam states that the bosses did not authorize the bombing because they had "other ideas" for him.
In 1986, the bosses, finally fed up with Nicky's recklessness and attempt on Sam's life, order Frankie and his crew to kill Nicky and Dominick. Invited to attend a meetup in a remote Illinois cornfield, they are brutally beaten with baseball bats upon arriving, stripped of their clothes, and buried alive in a shallow grave. With the Mafia now out of the casino industry, nearly all the old casinos are demolished, and new casinos are built with money from junk bonds. Sam laments the new impersonal, corporate-run resorts of Las Vegas. Because of his status as a reliable and high earner for the outfit, Sam is allowed to live, moving to San Diego and returning to sports handicapping; "right back where I started," as Sam puts it before asking, "Why mess up a good thing? And that's that."
|
Casino Royale
| 2,006
|
Martin Campbell
|
['Daniel Craig', 'Eva Green', 'Mads Mikkelsen', 'Judi Dench', 'Jeffrey Wright', 'Giancarlo Giannini', 'Caterina Murino', 'Simon Abkarian', 'Isaach de Bankolé', 'Jesper Christensen', 'Ivana MiliÄeviÄ', 'Tobias Menzies', 'Claudio Santamaria', 'Sébastien Foucan', 'Malcolm Sinclair', 'Richard Sammel', 'Ludger Pistor', 'Joseph Millson', 'Darwin Shaw', 'Clemens Schick', 'Emmanuel Avena', 'Tom Chadbon', 'Ade', 'Urbano Barberini', 'Tsai Chin', 'Charlie Levi Leroy', 'Lazar Ristovski', 'Tom So', 'Veruschka von Lehndorff', 'Andreas Daniel', 'Carlos Leal', 'Christina Cole', 'Jürgen Tarrach', 'John Gold', 'Jerry Inzerillo', 'Diane Hartford', 'Jessica Miller', 'Leo Stransky', 'Paul Bhattacharjee', 'Crispin Bonham-Carter', 'Simon Cox', 'Rebecca Gethings', 'Peter Notley', 'John Chancer', 'Peter Brooke', 'Jason Durran', 'Robert Jezek', 'Robert G. Slade', 'Félicité Du Jeu', 'Michaela Ochotská', 'Michael Offei', 'Makhoudia Diaw', 'Michael G. Wilson', 'Martina Duravolá', 'Marcela Martincáková', 'VladimÃr Kulhavý', 'Valentine Nonyela', 'DuÅ¡an Pelech', 'Phil Meheux', 'Alessandra Ambrosio', 'Veronika Hladikova', 'Regina Gabajová', 'Olutunji Ebun-Cole', 'Martin UÄÃk', 'Vlastina Svátková', 'Miroslav Å imůnek', "Ivan G'Vera", 'Jirà Lenc', 'Jaroslav Jankovsky', 'Richard Branson', 'Martin Campbell', 'Tara Cardinal', 'Ben Cooke', 'Simona Roman', 'Greg Bennett', 'Alexander Hathaway']
| 4.01
| 5
|
Action, Spy, Adventure, Suspense, Thriller, Crime Fiction
| 144
|
['UK', 'USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'French']
|
['Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer', 'Columbia Pictures', 'EON Productions', 'Danjaq', 'Casino Royale Productions']
| 986,730
|
action, top-rated
|
letterboxds-top-250-action-films
| null |
MI6 operative James Bond earns his "licence to kill" and promotion to 00 agent status by assassinating the traitorous Dryden and his contact in Prague. In Uganda, Mr. White introduces Steven Obanno, a high-ranking member of the Lord's Resistance Army, to Le Chiffre, an Albanian private banker to terrorists. Obanno entrusts Le Chiffre with $100 million. Using knowledge of his upcoming terrorist attack on aerospace manufacturer Skyfleet, Le Chiffre shorts the company's stock.
In Madagascar, Bond destroys an embassy while capturing and then killing a bomb maker named Mollaka. MI6 chief M criticises Bond for causing an international incident and ignoring her orders to take Mollaka alive. Information on Mollaka's phone leads Bond to the Bahamas and corrupt Greek official Alex Dimitrios, who had hired Mollaka to bomb Skyfleet's prototype airliner at the request of Le Chiffre. After winning Dimitrios's vintage Aston Martin in a poker game and seducing his wife Solange, Bond pursues Dimitrios to Miami. Bond fights off an attack by Dimitrios and kills him. At the airport, Bond chases down the new bomber Dimitrios has hired and prevents the destruction of the Skyfleet airliner. With the Skyfleet stock secure, Le Chiffre loses Obanno's money. Realising that somebody talked about the terrorist plot, Le Chiffre tortures Solange to death.
To recoup his client's money, Le Chiffre organizes a Texas hold 'em tournament at the Casino Royale in Montenegro. MI6 enters Bond—the agency's best poker player—in the tournament, believing a defeat will force Le Chiffre to seek asylum with the British government in exchange for information on his clients. Bond is paired with Vesper Lynd, a British Treasury agent overseeing the $10 million buy-in. They meet their contact, René Mathis, in Montenegro. Obanno, furious that his money is missing, threatens Le Chiffre, but allows him to continue playing to win back the money. Obanno and his bodyguard attack Bond, who kills them both. Bond loses his $10 million stake after Le Chiffre is tipped off about his own tell, and Vesper refuses to authorize an additional $5 million for Bond to continue. Fellow player and CIA agent Felix Leiter stakes Bond the money in exchange for letting the CIA take Le Chiffre into custody. Le Chiffre's lover Valenka poisons Bond but Vesper rescues him. Bond returns to the game and wins the tournament. Le Chiffre kidnaps Vesper to trap Bond and takes them to an abandoned ship. He tortures Bond to reveal the password to the bank account holding the winnings, but Bond resists. Mr. White bursts in and kills Le Chiffre, but spares Bond and Vesper.
Bond awakens in hospital and recovers with Vesper. He has Mathis arrested, believing that he had tipped off Le Chiffre. Bond falls in love with Vesper and resigns from MI6, and the couple sail to Venice. When M reveals that his winnings were never transferred to the British treasury, Bond realizes that Vesper has betrayed him. He tracks her to an exchange of the money, where gunmen spot him and take her captive inside a Venetian palace undergoing restoration. Bond destroys the flotation devices, causing it to sink into the Grand Canal as he kills the shooters. Vesper is trapped in the elevator, and Bond dives into the canal to rescue her. Vesper locks herself in to prevent Bond from saving her and drowns. Bond attempts to resuscitate her, but fails, and Mr. White escapes with the money.
M informs Bond, who has returned to service, that the organization behind Le Chiffre[n 1] threatened to kill Vesper's lover unless she became a double agent. When Bond denounces Vesper as a traitress, M reasons that she likely made a deal with White by trading the winnings for Bond's life. Realizing Vesper left her phone to help him, Bond checks the contacts and locates Mr. White at an estate in Lake Como. He shoots White in the leg and introduces himself: "The name's Bond, James Bond".
|
Castle in the Sky
| 1,986
|
Hayao Miyazaki
|
['Keiko Yokozawa', 'Mayumi Tanaka', 'Minori Terada', 'Kotoe Hatsui', 'Fujio Tokita', 'Ichiro Nagai', 'Hiroshi Ito', 'Machiko Washio', 'TakuzŠKamiyama', 'Yoshito Yasuhara', 'Sukekiyo Kameyama', 'Eken Mine', 'TARAKO', 'Masashi Sugawara', 'Reiko Suzuki', 'Hochu Otsuka', 'Tomomichi Nishimura', 'Ryūji Saikachi', 'Takahiro Hirai', 'Megumi Hayashibara', 'Toshihiko Seki']
| 4.05
| 5
|
Animation, Action, Romance, Comedy, Documentary, Steampunk, Musical, Children's film, Fantasy, Adventure, Science fiction, Drama, Family film, Supernatural
| 125
|
['Japan']
|
Japanese
|
['Japanese']
|
['Studio Ghibli', 'Nibariki', 'Tokuma Shoten']
| 553,729
|
animated, action, top-rated
|
letterboxds-top-250-action-films, vote-best-animated-films-of-all-time
| null |
Plot section not found.
|
Cat Soup
| 2,001
|
Tatsuo Sato
| null | 4.03
| null |
Anime, Animation, Comedy, Short
| 34
|
['Japan']
|
Japanese
|
['Japanese']
|
['Sony PCL', 'IMAGICA', 'J.C.STAFF']
| 27,997
|
animated
|
vote-best-animated-films-of-all-time
| null |
Nyaako, the older sister of Nyata, lies very ill in her room. By accident, Nyata drowns in the bathtub and, while dead or unconscious, sees his sister leaving the house holding hands with the psychopomp Jizō and follows them. He tries to take his sister back from Jizō but it holds on to her, refusing to let go. Nyaako splits in two, leaving Jizō with half of her soul while her brother runs away with the other half. Afterwards, Jizō decides to reincarnate its half of the soul as a flower and leaves.
Meanwhile, Nyata's father finds him in the bathtub and revives him. The whole family gathers in Nyaako's room, where a doctor pronounces her dead. Nyata approaches carrying the half-soul, and it enters through her nose. She comes back to life, but her eyes are dull and half-open, and she seems half-alive. The siblings are sent out by their mother to retrieve fried tofu. On the way, they attend the Big Whale Circus. During the final act, a giant transparent bird containing a sky and clouds is accidentally popped by members of the audience, causing an all-encompassing flood. The two find refuge on a sampan with a pig. Nyata partially butchers the pig by unzipping it and removing pieces, and cooks the pieces for the group, including the pig, to eat. God holds the world above his head to drain its water down his arm, leaving the three lost in a desert. Nyata hits the pig on the head and cuts off and eats one of the bumps that form, which taste gross and make him throw up. Nyata beats the pig more, and Nyaako joins in, but the pig bites off Nyata's arm. They leave the pig and arrive at a shack, where a woman in a patchwork cloak sews Nyata’s arm back on. The siblings leave when they find cat pieces in a sack in the house.
Travelling across the desert, they are brought to a house by the smell of food and are invited inside by a man. They are fed, and when full the man attempts to turn them into soup, attacking them with a pair of scissors. He ends up falling into the cauldron. Nyata reveals that The Man is actually a robot, and cuts him into pieces with the scissors. The cats escape, wandering further across the desert dehydrated, Nyata digs and finds an elephant made of water, which cools them off and travels with them, though the elephant eventually evaporates from the heat. God accidentally stops the flow of time and disrupts space, and the cats play with the time-frozen scenes. Father Time turns time back on, shooting it forward and reversing it, showing various scenes of random events either rapidly going forth in time or back. Eventually, the cats find themselves back on their boat in the ocean. After dusk, they drift into a shallow marsh filled with tin sculptures of plants and mechanical animals. There they chance upon the flower containing the other half of Nyaako’s soul. Nyata places the flower on Nyaako's face, which restores her to normal. Together, they go back home.
The entire family of cats is gathered in their house leisurely watching TV. Nyata leaves them to visit the toilet, and while he is gone, the other family members disappear one by one into thin air. The show on the TV also disappears, leaving only a flashing screen behind. Nyata returns to find everyone gone. Outside the nearby lamppost extinguishes, leaving the house in darkness. The film also "turns off", leaving behind a flashing screen of static.
|
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
| 1,958
|
Richard Brooks
|
['Elizabeth Taylor', 'Paul Newman', 'Burl Ives', 'Judith Anderson', 'Jack Carson', 'Madeleine Sherwood', 'Vaughn Taylor', 'Larry Gates', 'Brian Corcoran', 'Zelda Cleaver', "Robert 'Rusty' Stevens", 'Hugh Corcoran']
| 3.89
| 3.5
|
Romance, Comedy, War, Melodrama, Drama, Classic
| 108
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Avon Productions', 'Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer']
| 63,364
|
toxic-relationship
|
toxic-destructive-relationships
| null |
Late one night, a drunken Brick Pollitt is on a track field trying to recapture his glory days of high school sports by leaping hurdles, reminiscing about his moments as a youthful athlete. He breaks his ankle, leaving him dependent on a crutch. The next day, Brick and his wife Maggie ("the Cat") visit his family's plantation in eastern Mississippi to celebrate Big Daddy's 65th birthday.
Depressed, Brick has spent the last few years drinking while resisting the affections of his wife, who shares with him her worries about the inheritance of Big Daddy's wealth. There is speculation in the family about why Maggie is childless, while Brick's brother Gooper and his wife Mae have five children and another on the way.
Big Daddy and Big Mama arrive home from the hospital by private airplane and are greeted by Gooper, Mae, and their children, along with Maggie. Annoyed by the rehearsed display that his grandchildren gave him, Big Daddy ignores them and drives home with Maggie. The news is that Big Daddy is not dying of cancer. However, his doctor meets privately first with Gooper and then with Brick to divulge that it is a deception: Big Daddy has inoperable cancer and will likely be dead within a year, and the truth is being kept from him, as well as from all the women in the family. Brick reveals this to Maggie, and she is heartbroken. Maggie wants Brick to take an interest in his father for both unselfish and selfish reasons, but he stubbornly refuses.
|
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