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Dead Draw
| 2,016
|
Brian Klemesrud
|
['Elizabeth Tulloch', 'Michael Eklund', 'Gil Bellows', 'George Carroll', 'Brit Shaw', 'Andy Ahrens', 'Faust Checho', 'Aaron Crippen', 'Jim Dougherty', 'Bill Elverman']
| null | 2.5
|
Action, Crime, Crime film, Suspense, Mystery, Thriller, Detective fiction, Crime Fiction, Police procedural
| 93
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Coin Operated Films', 'Rocket3']
| 126
|
heist
|
heist-movies
| null |
Plot section not found.
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Dead Leaves
| 2,004
|
Hiroyuki Imaishi
|
['Kappei Yamaguchi', 'Takako Honda', 'Mitsuo Iwata', 'Kiyoyuki Yanada', 'Nobuo Tobita', 'Wataru Takagi', 'Yuko Mizutani', 'Eiji Takemoto', 'Hidenobu Kiuchi', 'Hiroshi Shimozaki', 'Masakazu Suzuki', 'Masami Iwasaki', 'Mika Outake', 'Takeshi Maeda', 'Tarusuke Shingaki', 'Yasuyuki Kase']
| 3.75
| null |
Anime, Action, Animation, Comedy, Science fiction, Adventure, Crime Fiction
| 52
|
['Japan']
|
Japanese
|
['Japanese']
|
['Production I.G']
| 16,766
|
sci-fi, top-rated
|
letterboxds-top-250-science-fiction-films
| null |
In a dystopian Earth, Retro, and Pandy, wake up naked, possessing superior physical abilities but no memory of their former lives. The duo embarks on a brief but devastating crime spree in downtown Tokyo, targeting food, clothing, and transportation. However, their actions lead to their arrest, and they are subsequently sent to the notorious prison Dead Leaves, located on the half-destroyed Moon.
Once incarcerated, Retro and Pandy are subjected to activities inside the prison facility, such as forced labor, straitjackets, and mandatory defecation. The facility is overseen by Warden Galactica, with prison guards 666 and 777, two super-powered enforcers, managing the daily activities.
Later, upon uncovering, Dead Leaves' dual role as a cloning facility, Retro and Pandy engage in a sexual encounter and orchestrate a mass prison break. Subsequently, they recollect additional memories, revealing their past as spies employed at the facility. In a pursuit of revenge against Pandy, Galactica recreates a deranged fairy tale from her childhood.
During the battle with Galactica, Pandy unexpectedly gives birth to Retro's mutant child, armed with a pair of machine guns, which promptly dispatches Galactica. Despite this victory, Galactica absorbs 666 and 777, undergoing a transformation into a giant caterpillar. However, the mutant baby infiltrates the caterpillar's body, ultimately annihilating it along with the entire station. Subsequently, Pandy and Retro escape the station, crash-landing back on Earth.
|
Dead Man
| 1,995
|
Jim Jarmusch
|
['Johnny Depp', 'Gary Farmer', 'Crispin Glover', 'Lance Henriksen', 'Michael Wincott', 'Eugene Byrd', 'John Hurt', 'Robert Mitchum', 'Iggy Pop', 'Gabriel Byrne', 'Jared Harris', 'Mili Avital', 'Jimmie Ray Weeks', 'Mark Bringelson', 'John North', 'Alfred Molina', 'Billy Bob Thornton', 'Michelle Thrush', 'Steve Buscemi', 'Gibby Haynes', 'Richard Boes']
| 3.9
| null |
Action, Western, Adventure, Fantasy, Drama, Indie film, Crime Fiction
| 121
|
['Germany', 'USA', 'Japan']
|
English
|
['English', 'Cree']
|
['JVC', 'Newmarket Capital Group', '12 Gauge Productions', 'Pandora Film']
| 135,009
|
road-movie
|
road-movies-1
| null |
William Blake, an accountant from Cleveland, Ohio, rides by train to the frontier company town of Machine to take up a promised accounting job in the town's metal works. During the trip, the train fireman warns Blake against the enterprise. Arriving in town, Blake notes the hostility of the townsfolk towards him. He then discovers that the position has already been filled, and John Dickinson, the ferocious owner of the company, drives Blake from the workplace at gunpoint.
Jobless and without money or prospects, Blake meets Thel Russell, a former prostitute who sells paper flowers. He lets her take him home. Thel's ex-boyfriend Charlie surprises them in bed, shoots at Blake, and accidentally kills Thel when she shields Blake with her body. The bullet passes through Thel and wounds Blake, who kills Charlie with Thel's gun before climbing out the window and fleeing the town on Charlie's horse. Company owner Dickinson is Charlie's father and hires three killers — Cole Wilson, Conway Twill, and Johnny "The Kid" Pickett — to bring Blake back "dead or alive".
Blake awakens to find a large Native American man trying to dislodge the bullet from his chest. The man, calling himself Nobody, reveals that the bullet is too close to Blake's heart to remove, rendering Blake effectively a walking dead man. When he learns Blake's full name, Nobody decides Blake is a reincarnation of William Blake, a poet whom he idolizes but of whom Blake is ignorant.[6] He decides to care for Blake and to use Native methods to help ease him into death.
Blake learns of Nobody's past, marked by prejudice from Euro-Americans who objected to his Indigenous ancestry, and equally from Native Americans who objected that his mother and father were from two opposing tribes, Piikáni and Apsáalooke, respectively.[7] As a child, English soldiers abducted and brought him to Europe as a model savage. He was briefly educated before returning home, where his stories of the white man and his culture were laughed off by fellow Native Americans. They thus dub him Xebeche: "He who talks loud, saying nothing". Nobody resolves to escort Blake to the Pacific Ocean to return him to his proper place in the spirit world.
Blake and Nobody travel west, leaving a trail of dead and encountering wanted posters announcing growing bounties for Blake's death or capture. Nobody leaves Blake alone in the wild when he decides Blake must undergo a vision quest. On his quest, Blake kills two U.S. Marshals, experiences visions of nature spirits, and grieves over the remains of a dead fawn his pursuers accidentally kill. He paints his face with the fawn's blood and rejoins Nobody. Meanwhile, the most ferocious member of the bounty hunter posse, Cole Wilson, has killed his comrades (eating one of them) and continued his hunt alone.
At a trading post, a bigoted missionary identifies Blake and attempts to kill him but instead dies at Blake's hands. Shortly after, Blake is shot again, and his condition rapidly deteriorates. Nobody hurries to take him by the river to a Makah village and persuades the tribe to give him a canoe for Blake's ship burial. Delirious, Blake trudges through the village, where the people pity him, before he collapses from his injuries.
He awakens in a canoe on a beach wearing a Native American funeral dress. Nobody bids Blake farewell and then pushes the canoe out to sea. As he floats away, Blake sees Cole approaching Nobody. Too weak to cry out, he can only watch as the two shoot and kill each other. Looking up at the sky one last time, Blake dies as his canoe drifts out to sea.
|
Dead Man's Letters
| 1,986
|
Konstantin Lopushansky
|
['Rolan Bykov', 'Iosif Ryklin', 'Aleksandr Sabinin', 'Nora Gryakalova', 'Vadim Lobanov', 'Viktor Mikhaylov', 'Vera Mayorova', 'Svetlana Smirnova', 'Natalya Vlasova', 'Vatslav Dvorzhetsky', 'Vyacheslav Vasilyev', 'Evgeniy Platokhin', 'Mikhail Shteyn', 'Gennady Makoev', 'Svetlana Kireeva']
| 4.11
| null |
Science fiction, Drama, Disaster, Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
| 83
|
['USSR']
|
Russian
|
['Russian']
|
['Lenfilm', 'Pervoe Tvorcheskoe Obyedinenie']
| 11,945
|
sci-fi, post-apocalyptic, top-rated
|
post-apocalyptic-movies, letterboxds-top-250-science-fiction-films
| null |
The film is set in a town after a nuclear war; the town is destroyed and polluted with radioactive elements. The main character, Professor Larsen, played by Rolan Bykov, is a Nobel Prize in Physics laureate, who lives in the basement of a museum along with his sick wife and several other people who used to work at the museum. He often writes letters to his son Eric, though he has no way of contacting him. Larsen believes the war has ended and that more surviving humans exist outside the central bunker, but nobody else believes his theories.
Larsen visits an orphanage where the current caretaker of the surviving children explains that she's thinking of evacuating to the central bunker, though may have to leave the children behind as they likely won't be allowed in since they're sick, to Larsen's disapproval. Larsen is informed that he also might be rejected from entering the central bunker due to his old age. With his wife's health declining, Larsen sneaks past several soldiers during curfew hours and attempts to find medicine for his wife, escaping from a military raid in the process. When he returns to the museum's basement, however, he finds that his wife died. The other museum employees bury her body.
In one of his letters to Eric, Larsen tells a darkly humorous story on how someone failed to prevent the nuclear war. According to him, an operator from an electronics center had a chance to cancel the first missile launch (which happened due to a computer error), but was unable to reach the computer in time to abort the launch as he was slowed down by a cup of coffee in his hands. The operator then hung himself in return.
Larsen makes a trip to the central bunker in an effort to find Eric. After sneaking into a medical facility, he enters the children's department, only to find all the children sick, injured, and screaming in agony, much to Larsen's horror.
After returning to the museum's basement, he finds that a museum employee is about to take his life as he thinks the history of mankind has ended and that mankind was doomed from the very beginning. He then leaves the group, lies down in a grave, and shoots himself dead, to the horror of his son. Later, while salvaging books from a flooded library, Larsen talks with a man who disagrees with his theory on how there's hope for mankind, referencing how Jesus said mankind was doomed.
Larsen visits the orphanage where he learns the children were rejected from entering the central bunker. The caretaker leaves the children for Larsen to look after, as she is evacuating to the central bunker herself. The remaining museum employees also evacuate to the central bunker, though Larsen stays behind to look after the children (it's assumed they're the only people left in the town). On Christmas Day, Larsen creates a makeshift Christmas tree out of sticks and candles while the children design Christmas ornaments to decorate it with. In his final letter to Eric, Larsen writes that he finally found purpose in life and that he hopes his son doesn't leave him alone in the world.
The final scene is narrated by one of the children Larsen looked after, who explains that Larsen died some time later. On his deathbed, he told the children to leave the museum and find somewhere else to go while they have the strength, still believing that life exists elsewhere. The film ends with the children wandering through the apocalyptic landscape together, their fates unknown.
|
Dead Poets Society
| 1,989
|
Peter Weir
|
['Robin Williams', 'Robert Sean Leonard', 'Ethan Hawke', 'Josh Charles', 'Gale Hansen', 'Dylan Kussman', 'Allelon Ruggiero', 'James Waterston', 'Norman Lloyd', 'Kurtwood Smith', 'Carla Belver', 'Leon Pownall', 'George Martin', 'Joe Aufiery', 'Matt Carey', 'Kevin Cooney', 'Jane Moore', 'Lara Flynn Boyle', 'Colin Irving', 'Alexandra Powers', 'Melora Walters', 'Welker White', 'Steve Mathios', 'Alan Pottinger', 'Pamela Burrell', 'Allison Hedges', "Christine D'Ercole", 'John Cunningham', 'Debra Mooney', 'John Martin Bradley', 'Charles Lord', 'Kurt Leitner', 'Richard Stites', 'James J. Christy', 'Catherine Soles', 'Hoover Sutton', 'James Donnell Quinn', 'Simon Mein', 'Ashton W. Richards', 'Robert Gleason', 'Bill Rowe', 'Robert J. Zigler III', 'Keith Snyder', 'Nicholas K. Gilhool', 'Jonas Stiklorius', 'Craig Johnson', 'Chris Hull', 'Jason Woody', 'Sam Stegeman', 'Andrew Hill', 'Kate Kearney-Patch']
| 4.28
| 3
|
Comedy, Coming-of-age story, Melodrama, Drama, Teen, Tragicomedy
| 128
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'Latin']
|
['A Steven Haft Production', 'Witt/Thomas Productions']
| 2,109,078
|
sad, emotional
|
sad-movies-if-you-feel-like-you-need-to-cry, coming-of-age-movies-that-made-us-feel-seen, lb_top250
| null |
In 1959, Todd Anderson begins his junior year of high school at Welton Academy, an Episcopalian all-male preparatory boarding school in Vermont. Todd is assigned one of Welton’s top students, senior Neil Perry, as his roommate, and through Neil, he meets his friends: Knox Overstreet, Richard Cameron, Steven Meeks, Gerard Pitts, and Charlie Dalton.
On the first day of classes, the boys are taken aback by the unusual teaching methods of their new English teacher, John Keating. A Welton alumnus who studied English Literature at Cambridge. Mr. Keating encourages his students to "seize the day" with his saying "carpe diem".
Keating has the students take turns standing on his desk to demonstrate ways to look at life differently, tells them to rip out the introduction of their poetry books that explains a mathematical formula for rating poetry, and invites them to make up their own style of walking in a courtyard to encourage their individualism. Keating's methods attract the attention of strict headmaster, Gale Nolan.
Upon learning that Keating had been a member of the unofficial Dead Poets Society during his time as a student at Welton, Neil restarts the club, and he and his friends sneak off campus to a cave, where they read poetry. Keating's lessons and their involvement with the club encourage them to live their lives on their own terms. Knox pursues Chris Noel, a cheerleader who is dating Chet Danburry, a football player from a local public school, and whose family is friends with his.
Neil discovers his love of acting, and gets the role of Puck in a local production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, despite the disapproval of his controlling father, who wants him to attend Harvard to study medicine. Keating helps Todd come out of his shell and realize his potential when he takes him through an exercise in self-expression, resulting in his spontaneously composing a poem in front of the class.
Charlie publishes an article in the school newspaper, on behalf of the club, recommending that girls be admitted to Welton. In response, Nolan paddles Charlie, attempting to force him to reveal who else is in the Dead Poets Society; but Charlie remains defiant. Nolan also confronts Keating, advising him that he should discourage his students from questioning authority. Keating admonishes the boys, warning them that one must assess all potential consequences of one's actions.
On the eve of the play's opening performance, Neil's father discovers his involvement in the play and demands that he quit immediately. Keating advises Neil to stand his ground to prove to his father that he takes acting seriously. After Neil performs in the play, his father retaliates by withdrawing him from Welton and enrolling him in Braden Military School. Lacking any support from his mother and unable to explain to his father how he feels, Neil steals his father's gun and dies by suicide.
At Neil’s parents’ request, Nolan investigates his death. During the investigation, Cameron shifts blame onto Keating to avoid punishment for his role in the Dead Poets Society, and he names the other members of the group. When Charlie confronts him over this, Cameron urges the other students to let Keating take the fall. Charlie punches Cameron and is expelled. Each of the boys is called to Nolan's office to sign a letter confirming Cameron's false allegations. When Todd's turn comes, he reluctantly signs the letter under the pressure of his parents, and Keating is fired as a result.
Nolan, who had taught English at Welton prior to becoming headmaster, takes over Keating's English class with the intent of adhering to traditional Welton rules. Keating interrupts the class to gather his belongings. As Keating leaves, Todd confesses that the boys were pressured into signing the letter that led to his dismissal. Keating assures Todd that he believes him. Nolan threatens to expel Todd and anyone else who speaks out of line. Despite the threat, Todd stands up on his desk and says "O Captain! My Captain!". The other members of the Dead Poets Society, except for Cameron, along with several other students in the class, follow suit. Touched by their support, Keating proudly thanks the boys before departing.
|
Dead Time
| 2,007
|
Joko Anwar
|
['Fachry Albar', 'Ario Bayu', 'Shanty', 'Fahrani', 'August Melasz', 'Frans Tumbuan', 'Arswendi Nasution', 'Tipi Jabrik', 'José Rizal Manua', 'Donny Alamsyah', 'Sujiwo Tejo', 'Agung Udijana', 'Rima Melati']
| 3.51
| null |
Horror, Fantasy, Noir, Drama, Crime film, Mystery, Thriller, Neo-noir
| 106
|
['Indonesia']
|
Indonesian
|
['Indonesian']
|
['MD Pictures']
| 2,271
|
fantasy
|
filmsrankedcom-200-greatest-fantasy-films
| null |
Plot section not found.
|
Deadpool
| 2,016
|
Tim Miller
|
['Ryan Reynolds', 'Morena Baccarin', 'Ed Skrein', 'T.J. Miller', 'Gina Carano', 'Leslie Uggams', 'Brianna Hildebrand', 'Stefan Kapicic', 'Karan Soni', 'Randal Reeder', 'Michael Benyaer', 'Style Dayne', 'Kyle Cassie', 'Taylor Hickson', 'Ayzee', 'Naika Toussaint', 'Isaac C. Singleton Jr.', 'Justyn Shippelt', 'Donna Yamamoto', 'Jed Rees', 'Hugh Scott', 'Cindy Piper', 'Em Haine', 'Aatash Amir', 'Chad Riley', 'Paul Belsito', 'Darcey Johnson', 'Kyle Rideout', 'Jason William Day', 'Stan Lee', 'Benjamin Wilkinson', 'Rachel Sheen', 'Paul Lazenby', 'Rob Hayter', 'Andre Tricoteux', 'Victoria De Mare', 'Heather Ashley Chase', 'Kayla Adams', 'Olesia Shewchuk', 'Fabiola Colmenero', 'Matthew Hoglie']
| 3.67
| 3.5
|
Comedy, Action, Romance, Superhero, Science fiction, Adventure, Drama
| 108
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['20th Century Fox', "The Donners' Company", 'Genre Films', 'Marvel Entertainment']
| 2,973,638
|
superhero, comedy
|
superhero-movies, vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
As the vigilante Deadpool, Wade Wilson ambushes Ajax and a convoy of his men on an expressway. Throughout the ambush, Wade shows the viewer the events leading to how he became Deadpool. After being dishonorably discharged from the Canadian special forces, Wade works as a freelance mercenary until he meets a sex worker named Vanessa. They become romantically involved, and a year later, she accepts his marriage proposal. Wade is later diagnosed with terminal cancer, and is approached by a mysterious recruiter who offers him an experimental treatment that will heal his cancer.
Wade leaves Vanessa so she will not have to watch him die. He is taken to a laboratory run by Ajax and Angel Dust, who inject him with a serum designed to awaken latent mutant genes in his body. They subject Wade to days of torture to trigger any mutation, but to no avail. When Wade discovers Ajax's real name is Francis and mocks him for it, Ajax leaves Wade in a hypobaric chamber that periodically takes him to the verge of asphyxiation over a weekend. This activates a regenerative healing factor that counteracts Wade's cancer but leaves him severely disfigured with tumor-like scars all over his body. He escapes from the chamber and attacks Ajax but relents when told his condition can be cured. In the chaos, Ajax subdues Wade and leaves him for dead.
Wade survives due to his new healing factor and seeks out Vanessa but does not reveal that he is alive out of fear that she will shun him because of his new scarred appearance. After consulting with his best friend Weasel, Wade decides to hunt down Ajax for the cure. He becomes a vigilante, adopting the name "Deadpool" (from Weasel picking him in a dead pool) and moves into the home of an elderly blind woman named Al. Throughout the following year, he questions and kills many of Ajax's associates until one, the recruiter, reveals Ajax's whereabouts. This information allows Wade to enact the ambush. He kills all of Ajax's henchmen, subdues Ajax, and demands the cure, but the X-Men Colossus and his trainee Negasonic Teenage Warhead interrupt him. Colossus attempts to convince Wade to mend his ways and join the X-Men, but Wade turns him down. Taking advantage of this distraction, Ajax escapes and regroups with Angel Dust. They then head to Weasel's bar, where Ajax hears of Vanessa.
Ajax kidnaps Vanessa and takes her to a decommissioned Helicarrier in a scrapyard. In response, Wade convinces Colossus and Negasonic to help him get her back. They battle Angel Dust and a group of Ajax's men while Wade fights his way to Ajax. During the battle, Negasonic accidentally destroys the supports keeping the Helicarrier stable. Deadpool protects Vanessa as the ship collapses around them, while Colossus carries Negasonic and Angel Dust to safety. Ajax attacks Wade again but is overpowered. He reveals that a cure never existed, and despite Colossus's pleas, Wade kills Ajax. Vanessa berates Wade for leaving her but reconciles with him after she sees his disfigured face and learns the reason why he never came back to her.
In a post-credits scene, Wade imitates the post-credits scene of Ferris Bueller's Day Off, stating they only have enough money left to announce that Cable will show up in the sequel and making casting suggestions for the character.[a]
|
Deadpool & Wolverine
| 2,024
|
Shawn Levy
|
['Ryan Reynolds', 'Hugh Jackman', 'Emma Corrin', 'Matthew Macfadyen', 'Dafne Keen', 'Jon Favreau', 'Morena Baccarin', 'Rob Delaney', 'Leslie Uggams', 'Jennifer Garner', 'Wesley Snipes', 'Channing Tatum', 'Chris Evans', 'Henry Cavill', 'Wunmi Mosaku', 'Aaron Stanford', 'Tyler Mane', 'Karan Soni', 'Brianna Hildebrand', 'Shioli Kutsuna', 'Stefan Kapicic', 'Randal Reeder', 'Lewis Tan', 'Nick Pauley', 'Sonita Henry', 'Ryan McKen', 'Nanak Phlora', 'Aydin Ahmed', 'Leemore Marrett Jr.', 'James Dryden', 'Ollie Palmer', 'Greg Hemphill', 'Aaron W Reed', 'Mike Waters', 'Rob McElhenney', 'James Reynolds', 'Ed Kear', 'Paul G. Raymond', 'Blake Lively', 'Inez Reynolds', 'Nathan Fillion', 'Matthew McConaughey', 'OIin Reynolds', 'Paul Mullin', 'Alex Kyshkovych', 'Chris Hemsworth', 'Billy Clements', 'Daniel Medina Ramos', 'Jade Lye', 'Nilly Cetin', 'Eduardo Gago Muñoz', 'Chloe Kibble', 'Curtis Rowland Small', 'Ayesha Hussain', 'Jessica Walker', 'Harry Holland', 'Kevin Fortin']
| 3.58
| 3.5
|
['Science Fiction', 'Action', 'Comedy']
| 128
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Marvel Studios', 'Maximum Effort', '21 Laps Entertainment', '20th Century Studios', 'Kevin Feige Productions', 'TSG Entertainment']
| 1,402,898
|
superhero
|
superhero-movies
| null |
In 2018, after Wade Wilson uses Cable's time-travel device to prevent the death of his girlfriend Vanessa,[a] he travels from his universe, Earth-10005,[b] to Earth-616 on the "Sacred Timeline",[c] hoping to join the Avengers and give his life added meaning. He is rejected by Happy Hogan and returns to his universe. Six years later, Wade has broken up with Vanessa, retired from being the masked mercenary Deadpool, and works as a used-car salesman with his friend and former X-Force member, Peter Wisdom.
During Wade's birthday party, the Time Variance Authority captures him and brings him to Paradox, who explains that they are an organization outside of time that monitors the Sacred Timeline and wider multiverse, and offers him an important role on Earth-616. Wade initially accepts, however Paradox then reveals that Wade's timeline is deteriorating as a result of the death of its stabilizing "anchor being", Logan, while protecting his daughter Laura.[d] Paradox plans to use a "Time Ripper" device to accelerate this process, so Wade steals his TemPad and uses it to travel to Logan's grave, hoping to resurrect him and save their timeline. When this fails, Wade travels the multiverse searching for a replacement alternate universe "variant" of Logan.
Wade returns to the TVA with a Logan variant but is told by Paradox that an anchor being cannot be replaced, and that this variant is considered "the worst Wolverine" in the multiverse. When Wade deduces that Paradox is acting without the knowledge of his superiors, Paradox sends Wade and Logan to the Void where all things are consumed by the creature Alioth. Logan agrees to work with Wade when he claims that the TVA can change his timeline. Wade and Logan are captured alongside Johnny Storm and taken to Cassandra Nova, the powerful and sadistic twin sister of X-Men leader Charles Xavier. Cassandra, who made a deal with the TVA to oversee the Void, kills Johnny and leaves Wade and Logan to be consumed by Alioth, but the pair manage to escape.
Logan and Wade meet a Deadpool variant called "Nicepool" who directs them towards a resistance group that have been fighting Cassandra. On the way, Logan realizes that Wade is lying about the TVA being able to fix his timeline, and the pair fight until both are left unconscious. They are found by the resistance group, consisting of Laura, Elektra, Blade, and Gambit. Wade proposes an alliance to fight Cassandra, and Laura convinces Logan, distraught over his reluctance that led to the death of his fellow X-Men, to join the cause. The resistance members distract Cassandra's henchmen while Wade and Logan block her powers by placing Juggernaut's helmet on her head. Cassandra is betrayed by her follower Pyro on behalf of Paradox, and almost dies until Logan convinces Wade to remove the helmet. Cassandra heals herself and opens a portal to Earth-10005, which Logan and Wade jump through.
Cassandra learns about Paradox's plan from Pyro, kills him, and follows Logan and Wade to Earth-10005. She learns about the Time Ripper's completion and how to use it from Paradox's mind and plans to destroy all timelines, leaving only the Void. Cassandra summons an army of Deadpool variants, who kill "Nicepool" and battle Wade and Logan until Peter arrives and distracts them. Paradox tells Wade and Logan that one of them could destroy the Time Ripper by disrupting its power flow, but this would kill them, even with their powers. Both Wade and Logan destroy the Time Ripper together, killing Cassandra in the process, and are able to survive by sharing the burden. Paradox is arrested by the TVA's Hunter B-15, who congratulates Wade and Logan and says their actions have stopped Earth-10005 from deteriorating. Wade asks Hunter B-15 to save the resistance group from the Void and change the history of Logan's world. She explains that the latter is not possible because Logan's history is what led to him being a hero now, and allows Logan to stay in Wade's world. Wade invites Logan to meet his friends, and with encouragement from Logan, reconciles with Vanessa.
|
Deadpool 2
| 2,018
|
David Leitch
|
['Ryan Reynolds', 'Josh Brolin', 'Morena Baccarin', 'Julian Dennison', 'Zazie Beetz', 'T.J. Miller', 'Leslie Uggams', 'Karan Soni', 'Brianna Hildebrand', 'Jack Kesy', 'Eddie Marsan', 'Shioli Kutsuna', 'Stefan Kapicic', 'Randal Reeder', 'Nikolai Witschl', 'Thayr Harris', 'Rob Delaney', 'Lewis Tan', 'Bill Skarsgård', 'Terry Crews', 'Brad Pitt', 'Paul Wu', 'Robert Maillet', 'Alan Tudyk', 'Matt Damon', 'Michasha Armstrong', 'Joe Doserro', 'Hayley Sales', 'Islie Hirvonen', 'Jagua Arneja', 'Gerry South', 'Mike Dopud', 'Luke Roessler', 'Andy Canete', 'Tanis Dolman', 'Eleanor Walker', 'Hunter Dillon', 'Sala Baker', 'Sonia Sunger', 'Paul Wernick', 'Rhett Reese', 'Abiola Uthman', 'Tony Bailey', 'David Cook', 'Alex Kliner', 'Elaine Kliner', 'David Leitch', 'Valencia Budijanto', 'Stefania Indelicato', 'Myfanwy Williams', 'Sam Armstrong', 'Alison Pickford', 'Danny Ocean', 'Paul Lazenby', 'Noah Beggs', 'Andrei Kovski', 'Alicia Morton', 'Andre Tricoteux', 'Lisa Bunting', 'Miles Ellis', 'Lars Grant', 'Sam Hargrave', 'Nicholas Hoult', 'Simon MacIntyre', 'James McAvoy', 'Evan Peters', 'Tye Sheridan', 'Alexandra Shipp', 'Kodi Smit-McPhee', 'Scott Vickaryous', 'Dan Zachary']
| 3.49
| 4
|
Action, Comedy, Superhero, Adventure, Science fiction, Fantasy
| 120
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'Cantonese', 'Russian', 'Spanish']
|
['Maximum Effort', 'Genre Films', '20th Century Fox', 'Marvel Entertainment']
| 1,886,521
|
superhero, comedy
|
superhero-movies, vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
After fighting organized crime as Deadpool for two years, Wade Wilson fails to kill one of his targets on his anniversary with his girlfriend, Vanessa. That night, after the pair decides to start a family together, the target tracks Wade down and inadvertently kills Vanessa; Wade then kills him in revenge. Six weeks later, Wade is still wallowing in self-hatred. He visits Blind Al, where she unsuccessfully attempts to convince him to move on with his life. After a series of failed attempts to commit suicide, Wade has a vision of Vanessa in the afterlife but remains alive due to his healing abilities. Wade is left with only a Skee-Ball token and an anniversary gift, as final mementos of Vanessa.
Colossus recovers Wade's body and takes him to the X-Mansion to recruit him. Wade reluctantly agrees to join the X-Men because he believes Vanessa would have wanted him to. He, Colossus, and Negasonic Teenage Warhead respond to a standoff between authorities and the unstable young mutant Russell Collins at an orphanage owned by the Essex Corporation, labeled a "Mutant Re-education Center". Realizing that Russell has been abused by the orphanage staff, Wade kills one of the staff members before being restrained by Colossus, and both Wade and Russell are arrested. Fitted with power-suppressing collars, they are taken to the Ice Box, an isolated prison for mutant criminals. Meanwhile, Cable, a cybernetic soldier from the future, travels back in time to kill Russell.
Cable storms the Ice Box and attacks Russell. Wade, whose collar breaks in the ensuing melee, attempts to protect Russell. After Cable takes Vanessa's token, Wade forces himself and Cable out of the prison, but not before Russell overhears Wade denying that he cares for him. Near death again, Wade has another vision of Vanessa in which she convinces him to help Russell. He organizes a team called X-Force to free Russell from a prison-transfer convoy and protect him from Cable. The team launches its assault on the convoy by parachute, but all members die during the landing except for Wade and Domino, whose main superpower is claimed to be pure luck. While a fight with Cable distracts them, Russell frees fellow inmate Juggernaut, who agrees to help him kill the abusive orphanage headmaster. Juggernaut destroys the convoy, rips Wade in half, and escapes alongside Russell.
While Wade recovers, Cable offers to work with him and Domino to stop Russell from killing the headmaster, as Russell will then become a serial killer who slaughters Cable's family in the future. Wade accepts on the condition that Cable gives him a chance to talk Russell down. At the orphanage, they are overpowered by Juggernaut while Russell pursues the headmaster. Colossus, having initially refused to help due to Wade's murderous ways, arrives to distract Juggernaut. Wade fails to placate Russell, forcing Cable to shoot at Russell. Wade leaps in front of the bullet while wearing the Ice Box collar and dies, reuniting with Vanessa in the afterlife. His sacrifice dissuades Russell from killing the headmaster, and consequently saves Cable's family. Cable uses the last charge reserved for his return to warp back several minutes, strapping Vanessa's token in front of Wade's heart so he survives the bullet. Cable then decides to stay in the present for a while to help improve the world, knowing that his family will be safe in the future. Afterward, the headmaster is run over and killed by Wade's taxi driver friend Dopinder.
In a mid-credits sequence Negasonic and her girlfriend Yukio repair Cable's time-traveling device for Wade. He uses it to save the lives of Vanessa and X-Force member Peter, as well as to kill both an alternate version of himself confronting Wolverine and Ryan Reynolds after he finishes reading the screenplay for Green Lantern.
|
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
| 2,008
|
Kurt Kuenne
|
['Kurt Kuenne', 'Andrew Bagby', 'David Bagby', 'Kathleen Bagby', 'Shirley Turner', 'Zachary Andrew Turner', 'Heather Arnold', 'Jon Atkinson', 'Bob Bagby', 'Earlene Bagby', 'James Bagby', 'Linda Bagby', 'Pat Bagby', 'Jason Baldwin', 'Derek Barnard', 'John Barnard', 'Paul Barnard', 'Pete Barnard']
| 4.35
| null |
Documentary, Crime, Drama, Crime film, Historical Documentary
| 93
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['MSNBC Films']
| 94,955
|
sad, emotional
|
sad-movies-if-you-feel-like-you-need-to-cry
| null |
Plot section not found.
|
Death Becomes Her
| 1,992
|
Robert Zemeckis
|
['Goldie Hawn', 'Bruce Willis', 'Meryl Streep', 'Isabella Rossellini', 'Ian Ogilvy', 'Adam Storke', 'Nancy Fish', 'Alaina Reed Hall', 'Michelle Johnson', 'Mary Ellen Trainor', 'William Frankfather', 'John Ingle', 'Clement von Franckenstein', 'Petrea Burchard', 'Jim Jansen', 'Mimi Kennedy', 'Paulo Tocha', 'Mark Davenport', 'Thomas Murphy', 'Michael Mills', 'Sonia Jackson', 'Jill C. Klein', 'Jean St. James', 'Debra Jo Rupp', 'Carol Ann Susi', 'Kay Yamamoto', 'Jacquelyn K. Koch', 'Anya Longwell', 'Stuart Mabray', 'Colleen Morris', 'Jonathan Silverman', 'Meg Wittner', 'Carrie Jean Yazel', 'Michael A. Nickles', 'John Enos III', 'Danny Lee Clark', 'Fabio', 'Joel Beeson', 'Ron Stein', 'Bonnie Cahoon', 'Stéphanie Anderson', 'Bob Swain', 'Eric Clark', 'Dave Brock', 'Lydia Peterkoch', 'Phillip Irwin Cooper', 'Ernest Harada', 'Susan Kellermann', 'Kevin Caldwell', 'Alex Hernandez', 'Donna Ekholdt', 'Tammy Gantz', 'Melissa Martin', 'Jeff Adkins', 'Cheryl Baxter', 'Cameron English', 'Edmond Alan Forsyth', 'Bob Gaynor', 'Don Hesser', 'Michael Higgins', 'Kenneth Hughes', 'Kenneth Knaff', 'Glean Lewis', 'Keith McDaniel', 'Charles McGowan', 'Regan Patno', 'Lacy Darryl Phillips', 'Matt Sergott', 'Paul Michael Thorpe', 'Sergio Trujillo', 'Randy Crenshaw', 'Jon Joyce', 'Jerry Whitman', 'Anthony S. Johnson', "Mike O'Hearn", 'Sydney Pollack', 'Ai Wan', 'Richard Yett']
| 3.67
| null |
['Comedy', 'Fantasy', 'Horror']
| 104
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Universal Pictures']
| 291,099
|
comedy
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
In 1978, narcissistic and fading actress Madeline Ashton performs in a Broadway musical. She invites long-time frenemy, the meek aspiring writer Helen Sharp, backstage along with Helen's fiancé, famed plastic surgeon Ernest Menville. Smitten with Madeline, Ernest breaks off his engagement with Helen to marry Madeline. Seven years later, a lonely, obese, depressed, and destitute Helen is committed to a psychiatric hospital where she obsesses over taking revenge against Madeline.
Another seven years later, Madeline and Ernest live an opulent but miserable life in Beverly Hills: Madeline is depressed about her age and withering beauty and Ernest, now an alcoholic, has been reduced to working as a reconstructive mortician. After receiving an invitation to a party celebrating Helen's new book, Madeline rushes for beauty treatments. Desperate to look younger, Madeline is given the business card of Lisle Von Rhuman, a mysterious, wealthy socialite who specializes in rejuvenation.
Madeline and Ernest attend Helen's party and discover that Helen is now slim, glamorous and youthful despite being fifty years old. Jealous of Helen's appearance, Madeline observes as Helen tells Ernest that she blames Madeline for his career decline. Madeline later visits her young lover but discovers he is with a woman of his own age. Despondent, Madeline drives to Lisle's mansion. The youthful Lisle claims to be seventy-one years old and offers Madeline a potion that promises eternal life and youth. Madeline drinks the potion, which reverses her age, restoring her beauty, but Lisle warns her that she must disappear from the public eye after ten years, to avoid suspicion of her immortality, and treat her body well.
Meanwhile, Helen seduces Ernest and persuades him to kill Madeline. When Madeline returns home, she belittles Ernest, who snaps and pushes her down the stairs, breaking her neck. However, she inexplicably survives and Ernest takes Madeline to the hospital where the doctor's analysis shows she is clinically dead. Ernest considers her reanimation to be a miracle and uses his skills to repair her body at home. Helen arrives and, after overhearing her and Ernest discussing their murder plot, Madeline shoots Helen with a shotgun. The blast leaves a large hole in Helen's torso but she remains alive, revealing that she also has taken Lisle's potion. Helen and Madeline fight before apologizing and reconciling. Depressed at the situation, Ernest prepares to leave, but Helen and Madeline persuade him to repair their bodies first. Realizing they will need regular maintenance, they scheme to have Ernest drink the potion to ensure his permanent availability.
The pair knock out Ernest and bring him to Lisle, who offers him the potion in exchange for his surgical skills. Although tempted, Ernest rejects immortality, concerned about outliving anyone he cares about—forcing him to spend eternity with Madeline and Helen—and the physical consequences Madeline and Helen have already suffered. He flees with the potion but becomes trapped on the roof. Helen and Madeline implore Ernest to drink the potion to survive an impending fall but, realizing they only want him for selfish reasons, he throws the potion away. Ernest survives the fall after landing in Lisle's pool and escapes, leaving the pair in despair at the realization that they will have to depend on each other for companionship and maintenance, forever.
Thirty-seven years later, Madeline and Helen attend Ernest's funeral, where he is eulogized as having achieved true immortality by living an adventurous and fulfilling life and having many children and grandchildren. Now grotesque parodies of their former selves, with cracked, peeling paint and putty covering most of their grey and decrepit flesh, Helen and Madeline mock the eulogy and leave. Outside, Helen trips and falls down a flight of steps, dragging Madeline with her. Their bodies break apart, and Helen sardonically asks Madeline if she remembers where they parked their car.
|
Death Karate in Torremolinos
| 2,003
|
Pedro Temboury
|
['José MarÃa Cruz Piqueras', 'Sonia Okomo', 'Julio Sanjuán', 'Paul Lapidus', 'Jesús Franco', 'Juanma Lara', 'Pedro Temboury', 'Lina Romay', 'Lucio Romero', 'Los Angeles Barea', 'Tomás Cimadevilla', 'Rachel Sheppard']
| 3.17
| null |
Horror, Action, Comedy, Fantasy
| 79
|
['Spain']
|
Spanish
|
['Spanish']
|
['Nueva Producciones Cinematográficas S.L.']
| 745
|
comedy
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
Plot section not found.
|
Death Race 2
| 2,010
|
Roel Reiné
|
['Luke Goss', 'Lauren Cohan', 'Sean Bean', 'Danny Trejo', 'Ving Rhames', 'Tanit Phoenix', 'Robin Shou', 'Joe Vaz', 'Frederick Koehler', 'Sean Higgs', 'Patrick Lyster', 'Deobia Oparei', 'Hennie Bosman', 'Warrick Grier', 'Danny Keogh', 'Ryan Kruger', 'Robyn LeAnn Scott', 'Alex Lorre', 'Stephen Jennings', 'Tyrone Keogh', 'Trayan Milenov-Troy', 'Jenna Saras', 'Tanya van Graan']
| 2.31
| null |
Action, Science fiction, Suspense, Mystery, Thriller, Crime Fiction
| 100
|
['South Africa', 'Germany']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Moonlighting Films', 'CC Capital Arts Entertainment SRL']
| 17,794
|
road-movie
|
road-movies-1
| null |
Plot section not found.
|
Death Race 2000
| 1,975
|
Paul Bartel
|
['David Carradine', 'Simone Griffeth', 'Sylvester Stallone', 'Mary Woronov', 'Roberta Collins', 'Martin Kove', 'Louisa Moritz', 'Don Steele', 'Joyce Jameson', 'Carle Bensen', 'Sandy McCallum', 'Paul Laurence', 'Harriet Medin', 'Vince Trankina', 'Bill Morey', 'Fred Grandy', 'William Shephard', 'Leslie McRay', 'Wendy Bartel', 'John Favorite', 'Sandy Ignon', 'John Landis', 'Roger Rook', 'Paul Bartel', 'David Boyle', 'Peter Cornberg', 'Charles B. Griffith', 'Alan Hubbard', 'Keith Michl', 'Dick Miller', 'Mary-Robin Redd', 'Charles Seaverns', 'David Sharpe', 'Lewis Teague', 'Wendy Dio']
| 3.29
| null |
Action, Comedy, Satire, Science fiction, Adventure, Fantasy, Indie film, Sports, Road
| 80
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['New World Pictures']
| 44,265
|
road-movie
|
road-movies-1
| null |
After the "World Crash of '79", massive civil unrest and economic ruin occurs. The United States government is restructured into a totalitarian regime under martial law. To pacify the population, the government has created the Transcontinental Road Race, where a group of drivers race across the country in their high-powered cars and which is infamous for violence, gore, and innocent pedestrians being struck and killed for bonus points. In 2000, the five drivers in the 20th annual race, who all adhere to professional wrestling-style personas and drive appropriately themed cars, include Frankenstein, the mysterious black-garbed champion and national hero; Machine Gun Joe Viterbo, a Chicago gangster; Calamity Jane, a cowgirl; Matilda the Hun, a Neo-Nazi; and Nero the Hero, a Roman gladiator. Joe, the second-place champion, is the most determined of all to defeat Frankenstein and win the race.
A resistance group led by Thomasina Paine, a descendant of the 1770s American Revolutionary War hero Thomas Paine, plans to rebel against the regime, currently led by a man known only as Mr. President, by sabotaging the race, killing most of the drivers, and taking Frankenstein hostage as leverage against Mr. President. The group is assisted by Paine's great-granddaughter Annie Smith, Frankenstein's navigator. She plans to lure him into an ambush in order to have him replaced by a double. Despite a pirated national broadcast made by Ms. Paine herself, the Resistance's disruption of the race is covered up by the government and instead blamed on the French, who are also blamed for ruining the country's economy and telephone system. At first, the Resistance's plan seems to bear fruit: Nero the Hero is killed when a "baby" he runs over for points turns out to be a bomb, Matilda the Hun drives off a cliff while following a fake detour route set up by the Resistance, and Calamity Jane, who witnessed Matilda the Hun's death, inadvertently drives over a land mine. This leaves only Frankenstein and Machine Gun Joe in the race. As Frankenstein nonchalantly survives every attempt made on his life during the race, Annie comes to discover that Frankenstein's mask and disfigured face are merely a disguise; he is, in fact, one of a number of random wards of the state who are trained exclusively to race under that identity, and each time they die or are brutally mutilated, they are secretly replaced so that Frankenstein appears to be indestructible.
The current Frankenstein reveals to Annie his own plan to kill Mr. President: when he wins the race and shakes hands with Mr. President, he will detonate a grenade which has been implanted in his prosthetic right hand. However, the plan goes awry when Machine Gun Joe attacks Frankenstein and Annie is forced to kill him using Frankenstein's "hand grenade". Having successfully outmaneuvered both the rival drivers and the Resistance, Frankenstein is declared the winner of the race, although he is wounded and unable to carry out his original "hand grenade" attack plan. Annie instead dons Frankenstein's costume and plans to stab Mr. President while standing in for him on the podium. Before she is able to do so, Thomasina shoots "Frankenstein", convinced that he killed Annie. The real Frankenstein takes advantage of the confusion and rams Mr. President's stage with his car, finally fulfilling his lifelong desire to kill him. Frankenstein becomes the new president, marries Annie and appoints Thomasina as the Minister of Domestic Security to rebuild the state and dissolve the dictatorship. Junior Bruce, the announcer of the Transcontinental Road Race, opposes the race's abolition and impertinently claims that the public needs performances of violence. Annoyed by his complaints, Frankenstein hits Bruce with his car and drives off with Annie to the cheers and applause of the crowd.
|
Decision to Leave
| 2,022
|
Park Chan-wook
|
['Tang Wei', 'Park Hae-il', 'Lee Jung-hyun', 'Go Kyung-pyo', 'Park Yong-woo', 'Kim Shin-young', 'Yoo Seung-mok', 'Jung Yi-seo', 'Jung Young-sook', 'Lee Hak-ju', 'Park Jeong-min', 'Jeong Ha-dam', 'Seo Hyun-woo', 'Teo Yoo', 'Shin An-jin', 'Kim Do-yeon', 'Go Min-si', 'Cha Seo-won', 'Joo In-young', 'Choi Sun-ja', 'Ahn Jin-sang', 'Jin Yong-uk', 'Choi Dae-hoon', 'Kim Mi-hwa', 'Kwak Eun-jin', 'Ahn Seong-bong', 'Lee Yong-nyeo', 'Hwang Jae-won', 'Shon Gwan-ho', 'Jung Hyuk', 'Yoon Sung-won', 'Kim Sung-gon', 'Moon Soon-ju', 'Kim Gwi-rye', 'Han Hyeon-jik', 'Kim Do-dam', 'Han Seo-wool', 'Moon Jung-dae', 'Yoo In-hye', 'Kwon Hyuk', 'Lee Ji-ha', 'Jun Sung-ae', 'Kim Gook-jin', 'Kim Sang-hyun', 'Cha Sang-do', 'Kang Gyeong-su', 'Jeong So-ri']
| 3.97
| 3.5
|
Crime film, Romance, Comedy, Thriller, Melodrama, Neo-noir, Noir, Drama, Suspense, Mystery, Detective fiction, Narrative, Crime Fiction, Procedural drama, Police procedural, Political cinema
| 138
|
['South Korea']
|
Korean
|
['Korean', 'English', 'Chinese']
|
['Moho Film', 'CJ ENM']
| 355,951
|
toxic-relationship
|
toxic-destructive-relationships
| null |
Insomniac detective Jang Hae-jun works in Busan and only sees his wife, Jung-an, a nuclear power plant worker residing in Ipo, once a week. Hae-jun and his partner, Soo-wan, encounter a case where a retired immigration officer, Ki Do-soo, is found dead at the foot of a mountain he often climbed. They interview his much younger wife, Song Seo-rae, an emigrant from China who works as a caretaker for seniors. They suspect her because of her insufficient displays of grief, a scratch on her hand, bruises on her legs and torso, and a tattoo of Ki's initials in the manner that he also marked his belongings.
Hae-jun conducts further interviews with Seo-rae and conducts nightly stakeouts outside of Seo-rae's apartment building, becoming infatuated with her in the process. Seo-rae observes him outside her building, and witnesses one of his other investigations in turn. Seo-rae's Monday client says Seo-rae was with her on the day that Ki died, and camera footage is found showing Seo-rae outside her Monday client's home shortly before Ki's time of death. Questioned about her background, Seo-rae admits that in China she killed her terminally ill mother with fentanyl pills when requested to do so. Before dying, she told Seo-rae to go to Korea to climb the mountain her Korean grandfather, an independence fighter in Manchuria, had left her. Seo-rae gives Hae-jun letters written by Ki admitting to corrupt business dealings, including a letter sent to a subordinate that Hae-jun interprets as a suicide note. Hae-jun rules that the death was a suicide despite Soo-wan's doubts and informs Seo-rae that she is no longer a suspect.
Seo-rae and Hae-jun go on a date at a Buddhist temple, visit each other's homes, and become close. At his apartment, Seo-rae burns Hae-jun's photo evidence from her husband's case, reasoning that Hae-jun's insomnia is caused by his haunting cases. One day, substituting for Seo-rae at her Monday client, Hae-jun learns that Seo-rae and the client have the same model of cell phone, and that the client has dementia and does not know the day of the week. On the client's phone, he sees that the housebound woman apparently walked up 138 flights of stairs on the day of Ki's death. Hae-jun realizes Seo-rae switched her phone for her client's and then climbed the mountain to push Ki off, resulting in her bruises and scratches. Confronting Seo-rae in her apartment, he concludes that she also forged the suicide note and, to her consternation, accuses her of getting close to him to destroy his evidence. Hae-jun says Seo-rae has destroyed his pride in his job and that, since meeting her, he has become "shattered"; nevertheless, he has covered up the evidence and instructs her to throw the incriminating phone into the sea before leaving.
Thirteen months later, Hae-jun has moved to Ipo to live with Jung-an after developing depression and more severe insomnia. At a fish market with Jung-an, he encounters Seo-rae with her new husband Im Ho-Shin, a business investor. The next day, Ho-Shin is found dead in his mansion's swimming pool. Hae-jun takes on the case and is convinced Seo-rae is the culprit. She admits only to draining the pool so that Hae-jun would not be disturbed by the blood. Sa Cheol-seong, a Chinese immigrant, soon confesses to killing Ho-Shin for defrauding his late mother of millions of dollars. Sa denies that Seo-rae played any role and reveals he had installed a tracker on Seo-rae's phone so he could find where Ho-Shin lived.
Hae-jun confronts Seo-rae at the mountain her grandfather left her. She reaches Hae-jun at the edge of the mountain and hugs him. Seo-rae reveals that she kept the phone with incriminating evidence from Ki's case and proposes that he use it as a way to "reinvestigate" her. They kiss passionately. Hae-jun returns home, where Jung-an suspects him of having worked with Seo-rae to murder Ho-shin, and leaves him.
The next day, Hae-jun learns from Sa that Seo-rae visited Sa's mother in the hospital on the day that she died. He concludes that Seo-rae slipped the mother the remaining fentanyl pills she had in her possession, knowing Sa would kill Ho-Shin as soon as his mother died. Hae-jun tracks Seo-rae's phone via the tracker Sa installed and chases her to a beach. Over the phone, she tells him that Ho-Shin had discovered a phone recording where Hae-jun told Seo-rae that he loved her, and that Ho-Shin had planned to expose their illicit relationship. Hae-jun does not recall telling Seo-rae that he loved her, though she says she began loving him as he stopped loving her. At the beach, he finds her empty car and the cell phone, which contains the recording of his instructions for Seo-rae to destroy the phone with evidence from Ki's case. Further out on the shore, Seo-rae digs a pit in the sand and gets in it as the tide rises, letting it drown and bury her. Hae-jun arrives at the beach and is unable to find Seo-rae, unaware that she is buried in the sand beneath him. He searches desperately for her and cries in anguish.
|
Deconstructing Harry
| 1,997
|
Woody Allen
|
['Caroline Aaron', 'Woody Allen', 'Kirstie Alley', 'Bob Balaban', 'Richard Benjamin', 'Eric Bogosian', 'Billy Crystal', 'Judy Davis', 'Hazelle Goodman', 'Mariel Hemingway', 'Amy Irving', 'Julie Kavner', 'Eric Lloyd', 'Julia Louis-Dreyfus', 'Tobey Maguire', 'Demi Moore', 'Elisabeth Shue', 'Stanley Tucci', 'Robin Williams', 'Hy Anzell', 'Scotty Bloch', 'Philip Bosco', 'Robert Harper', 'Shifra Lerer', 'Gene Saks', 'Stephanie Roth Haberle', 'Dan Frazer', 'Joel Leffert', 'Lynn Cohen', 'Joe Buck', 'Jane Hoffman', 'Annette Arnold', 'Frederick Rolf', 'Elisabeth Kieselstein-Cord', 'Lortensia Hayes', 'Alicia Meer', 'Victoria Hale', 'Irving Metzman', 'Sunny Chae', 'Ralph Pope', 'Tony Darrow', 'Jonathan LaPaglia', 'Jeff Mazzola', 'Timothy Jerome', 'Peter Castellotti', 'Judy Bauerlein', 'Joseph P. Reidy', 'Phyllis Burdoe', 'Barbara Hollander', 'Adam Rose', 'David S. Howard', 'Amanda Barudin', 'Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo', 'Floyd Resnick', 'Brian McConnachie', 'Peter Jacobson', 'Tracey Lynne Miller', 'Jennifer Garner', 'Irwin Charone', 'John Doumanian', 'Alexa Aronson', 'Kenneth Edelson', 'Viola Harris', 'Si Picker', 'Howard Spiegel', 'Eugene Troobnick', 'Ray Aranha', 'Paul Giamatti', 'Marvin Chatinover', 'Daniel Wolf', 'Waltrudis Buck', 'Arden Myrin', 'Daisy Prince', 'Peter McRobbie', 'Dan Moran', 'Ray Garvey', 'Linda Perri', 'Tony Sirico']
| 3.71
| null |
Drama, Romance, Comedy, Dark comedy, Melodrama, Sex comedy, Indie film, Comedy of manners, Fantasy
| 96
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Sweetland Films', 'Jean Doumanian Productions', 'Magnolia Productions']
| 50,845
|
comedy
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
One night, Lucy takes a taxi to the home of famous Manhattan author Harry Block. She has just read Harry's latest novel, in which the character Leslie is having an affair with her sister's husband Ken. Lucy is angry because the novel is patently based on her and Harry's own affair; as a result, everyone knows about it. Lucy pulls a gun from her purse, threatening to kill herself. She turns the gun on Harry and begins firing. As she chases him onto the roof, he insists that he has already been punished: his latest girlfriend Fay has left him for his best friend Larry. To distract Lucy, Harry tells her a story that he is currently writing: a semi-autobiographical story of a sex-obsessed young man named Harvey who is mistakenly claimed by Death during an encounter with a prostitute.
In therapy, Harry realizes that he has not changed since his sex-obsessed youth. He discusses his honoring ceremony at his old university in upstate New York, taking place the next day; he is particularly unhappy that he has nobody with whom to share the occasion. After the session, Harry asks his ex-wife and former therapist Joan if he can take their son Hilliard to the ceremony. She refuses, stating that Harry is a bad influence on Hilliard. She is also furious at Harry for the novel he wrote. In it, the character Epstein marries his therapist Helen, but the marriage begins to crumble after the birth of their son.
Harry runs into an acquaintance, Richard, who is worried about his health. After accompanying Richard to the hospital, Harry invites him to the university ceremony; Richard claims that he will be busy that day. Harry meets with his ex-girlfriend Fay, who reveals that she is now engaged. Harry begs Fay to get back together with him. He asks Fay to accompany him to his ceremony, but it clashes with her wedding, scheduled the following day.
That night, Harry sleeps with a prostitute, Cookie, who agrees to accompany him to his ceremony. In the morning, Richard unexpectedly arrives to join Harry and Cookie on the trip. On a whim, Harry decides to "kidnap" his son Hilliard. Along the way, they stop at a carnival, then at Harry's half-sister Doris's. Doris, a devoted Jew, is upset by Harry's portrayals of Judaism in his stories, as is her husband. During the trip, Harry encounters his fictional creations Ken and Helen, who force him to confront some painful truths about his life. Before arriving at the university, Richard dies peacefully in the car.
While filming, Harry's fictional alter ego Mel literally slides out of focus, becoming blurred. The university's staffers gush over Harry, asking what he plans to write next. He describes a story about a man (based on himself) who journeys to Hell to reclaim his true love (based on Fay) from the Devil (based on Larry). Harry and the Devil engage in a verbal duel regarding who is truly the more evil of the two. Harry argues that he is a kidnapper, but the story is interrupted by the arrival of the police. Harry is arrested for kidnapping Hilliard, for possessing a gun (it was Lucy's), and for having drugs in the car (belonging to Cookie).
Larry and Fay come from their wedding to bail out Harry from jail. Harry reluctantly gives them his blessings. At his apartment, a miserable Harry fantasizes that the university's ceremony is taking place. He eventually overcomes his writer's block by starting to write a book about a man who, like him, can function only in art, not in life.
|
Deep Cover
| 1,992
|
Bill Duke
|
['Laurence Fishburne', 'Jeff Goldblum', 'Victoria Dillard', 'Gregory Sierra', 'Clarence Williams III', 'René Assa', 'Alex Colon', 'Roger Guenveur Smith', 'Sydney Lassick', 'Kamala Lopez', 'Julio Oscar Mechoso', 'Glynn Turman', 'James T. Morris', 'Sandra Gould', 'Charles Martin Smith', 'Lira Angel', 'Bruce Paul Barbour', 'Bilal Bashir', 'Anna Berger', 'Donald Bishop', 'Ed Cambridge', 'Jaime Cardriche', 'Alisa Christensen', 'Cory Curtis', 'James Encinas', 'Joseph Ferro', 'Def Jef', 'Harry Frazier', 'Neil Goldberg', 'Revalyn T. Golde', 'Yvette Heyden', 'Erik Kilpatrick', 'Nick LaTour', 'Shannon Macpherson', 'Ric Mancini', 'Lionel Matthews', 'Arthur Mendoza', 'John Messall', 'Paunita Nichols', 'Tony Perez', 'Clifton Powell', 'Roberto Santana', 'Jonathan Scott', 'Vicellous Shannon', 'Eleva Singleton', 'Lisa Thayer', 'Ron Thompson', 'Tyrin Turner', 'David Weixelbaum', 'John Boyd West']
| 3.9
| 4
|
Action, Thriller, Short, Neo-noir, Drama, Crime film, Suspense, Detective fiction, Police procedural, Action/Adventure
| 108
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Image Organization', 'New Line Cinema']
| 41,457
|
action, top-rated
|
letterboxds-top-250-action-films
| null |
In 1972, Russell Stevens Jr. witnesses his drug-addicted, alcoholic father getting shot and killed while robbing a liquor store. Traumatized by his father's death, Stevens swears that he will never end up like him.
Nineteen years later, Stevens is a Cincinnati police officer. He is recruited by DEA Special Agent Gerald Carver to go undercover in Los Angeles, claiming that his criminal-like character traits will serve him better in this capacity than they would as a uniformed cop. Stevens poses as drug dealer "John Hull" in order to infiltrate and work his way up the network of the West Coast's largest drug importer, Anton Gallegos, and his uncle Hector Guzmán, a South American politician. Stevens relocates to a cheap hotel and begins dealing cocaine.
One day, Stevens is arrested by the devoutly religious LAPD Narcotics Detective Taft and his corrupt partner, Hernández, as he buys a kilogram in a set-up by Eddie Dudley, Gallegos' low-level street supplier. At his arraignment, Stevens discovers that he bought baby laxative instead of cocaine and his case is dismissed. His self-appointed attorney David Jason, who is also a drug trafficker in Gallegos' network, rewards Stevens' silence with more cocaine and introduces him to Felix Barbosa, the underboss to Gallegos. Felix kills Eddie when he finds out he's working with the LAPD and enlists Stevens as his replacement.
Stevens develops a romance with Betty McCutcheon, the manager of an art dealership which is a front to launder Jason's drug money. When one of Stevens' dealers is murdered by a rival dealer, he is informed by Jason that if he doesn't retaliate, other street dealers will view it as a sign of weakness and in turn murder him. Stevens follows the rival dealer to a nightclub, corners him in a bathroom and kills him. Jason then partners with Stevens in his new business: distribution of a synthetic chemical variant of cocaine.
It is revealed that Barbosa is a confidential informant working with Hernández. After a falling out, Jason becomes more sadistic, and Stevens correctly deduces that Barbosa wants Jason killed to eliminate his competition. Felix immediately gives up Stevens, Jason and Betty to Hernández, and wants Jason killed during the arrest. Carver knows about this but refuses to interfere, forcing Stevens to violate orders and stop the murder himself by exposing Felix, which results in a vengeful Jason killing him. The killing results in Betty reneging on the drug business, with Stevens' protection.
Gallegos comes to meet with Stevens and Jason, informing them that they have inherited Felix's debts to him. Later that day, Stevens meets with Carver to tell him about his meeting with Gallegos. Instead, Carver pulls a gun on Stevens and orders him to surrender his weapon and get in his car. Angrily, Stevens disarms Carver and forces him to admit that the State Department has decided to leave Gallegos alone because Guzmán may someday be useful as a political asset to them; Carver has decided to play along in exchange for career advancement. Disillusioned, Stevens abandons his undercover status and vows to take down Gallegos and Guzmán alone.
Stevens and Jason learn that Gallegos is going to kill them anyway, so they kill him first and steal a van storing over $100 million in cash. They then invite Guzmán to a shipyard and offer to return 80% of Gallegos' money if he agrees to invest the remaining 20% in their synthetic cocaine operation. Taft, who has been tailing Stevens, interrupts the deal and has his gun taken by Guzmán’s men. Since he is unable to arrest Guzmán because of his diplomatic immunity, Guzmán leaves.
Taft orders Stevens to surrender but is shot by Jason after attempting to brandish his backup weapon, forcing Stevens to reveal himself as a police officer as he tries to radio in for an ambulance to help Taft. Stevens tries to reason with Jason as the latter tries to convince him to just take the money and go rogue. Jason shoots Taft in the chest, killing him. Throwing all reason out of the window and seeing no other alternative, Stevens attempts to arrest Jason. When Jason shoots at him, a tearful Stevens returns fire and kills Jason in self-defense as the cops arrive.
Afterward, Carver coerces Stevens into testifying in favor of him and the DEA in return for not charging Betty with money laundering. He produces a videotape of the incriminating conversation with Guzmán at the shipyard during his testimony to the House Judiciary Subcommittee, ruining the State Department's intentions along with Guzmán and Carver's careers. Later, he contemplates what to do with the $11 million of Gallegos' money he secretly kept.
|
Def-Con 4
| 1,985
|
Paul Donovan, Digby Cook
|
['Lenore Zann', 'Maury Chaykin', 'Kate Lynch', 'Kevin King', 'John Walsch', 'Tim Choate', 'Jeff Pustil', 'Donna King', 'Alan MacGillivray', 'Florence Paterson', 'Karen Kennedy', 'Ken Ryan']
| 2.51
| 2.5
|
Action, Science fiction, Disaster, Thriller, Action/Adventure
| 88
|
['Canada']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Salter Street Films', 'New World Pictures']
| 2,172
|
post-apocalyptic
|
post-apocalyptic-movies
| null |
The film opens with the text:
It is the day after tomorrow.
The ultimate nuclear defense system
has been perfected.
Security has been achieved.
Global conflict is now unthinkable.
Day 407 of the Nemesis Mission as three astronauts man a secret space station armed with nuclear weapons. World tensions are rising after a United States transport ship secretly transporting nuclear Tomahawk missiles was hijacked by Libyan terrorists. News reports indicate one of the nuclear missiles landed but did not explode in a Soviet city. Shortly afterwards, the crew lose all contact with the ground with news reports mentioning nuclear explosions in several Soviet cities, presumably from the stolen nuclear missiles. They observe what appears to be a nuclear exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union on Earth.
A month later, the crew continues to hold out for hope of survivors and debate what they should do. Cecil Howe (Tim Choate) receives a broadcast from his wife whose rural community escaped the initial bombing. Unable to respond, he listens as his wife describes how many residents, including his sister, were blinded by the nuclear explosion. How radiation sickness is ravaging the survivors, that she is sick, and their infant child has also died.
Two months later, the spacecraft's guidance system is mysteriously reprogrammed, forcing the crew's return to Earth. The crew set their remaining nuclear payload to explode in 60 hours and all but one missile properly jettisons. The spacecraft lands considerably off-course, on a beach in eastern Nova Scotia, Canada. Eva Jordan (Kate Lynch) is knocked unconscious on impact. Hearing knocking on the capsule, Howe and Walker (John Walsch) attempt to dig out believing they have been found by survivors. However, Walker is quickly pulled out and eaten by the "terminals": humans crazed by radiation poisoning and starvation.
Several hours later, Howe leaves a message for a still unconscious Jordan and ventures out in search of help. He soon encounters Vincent "Vinny" Mckinnon (Maury Chaykin), a survivalist who has fortified his house with barbed wire and booby-traps. Howe attempts to use the four months supply of food in the capsule as a bargaining chip. He then meets Jacelyn "J.J." Jameson (Lenore Zann) who is being kept prisoner by Vinny. Using an armor-plated tractor, the group heads back to the beach to find the capsule but are ambushed by survivors from a nearby military fort. Both capsule and group are taken to the fort that is being run by Gideon Hayes (Kevin King).
Gideon was J.J's boyfriend and son of a high-ranking naval officer. While attempting to flee to a government shelter, the helicopter was taken out by an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) from the nuclear explosions. The only survivors are Gideon, J.J., Marine Corporal Lacey, and Boomer who is a Navy technician paralyzed by the crash. Using satellite equipment taken from the helicopter, it was Boomer who was able to force Howe's space station to crash at the beach. By using equipment from the salvaged capsule, Gideon finds an active survival station to seek shelter from the radiation and fallout covering the globe. Gideon estimates that everyone in the area will be dead in two months when the winds blow denser fallout clouds to the area.
The following morning Gideon places Howe, Jordan, Vinny, and J.J. through a kangaroo court. All are found guilty by unanimous vote and sentenced to hang. As they prepare for the hanging, Boomer has crawled to the stand and plans to use a revolver to shoot Gideon. Howe bluffs to have his life spared in exchange for pulling the level to hang the others. During the ensuing chaos, Howe is able to escape while Boomer is killed. Jordan is released to treat Gideon's gunshot wound and negotiates the release of the others. Jordan tries to murder Gideon but gets killed in the process. Howe uses Vinny's armored tractor to free Vinny and arms the camp's prisoners.
Gideon, Lacey, and J.J. try escape on a sailboat while Howe swims after them. During the ensuing fight, Gideon and Lacey are thrown overboard. Both return to the camp to find most of the inhabitants have been killed with only a dozen guards left. Gideon points at the capsule's nuclear silo and asks "Wait, shouldn't all of those be empty?" As the timer reaches zero, Howe, Vinny, and J.J. observe the nuclear explosion from their sailboat now out at sea. The sailboat floating in the ocean fades as text on the screen reads:
The final victory has been won.
Mankind can now rest in peace.
|
Defending Your Life
| 1,991
|
Albert Brooks
|
['Albert Brooks', 'Meryl Streep', 'Rip Torn', 'Lee Grant', 'Michael Durrell', 'James Eckhouse', 'Gary Beach', 'Julie Cobb', 'Peter Schuck', 'Time Winters', 'Sharlie Stuart', 'Beth Black', 'Clayton Norcross', 'Jim McKrell', 'Wil Albert', 'Sage Allen', 'Mary Pat Gleason', 'Maxine Elliott Hicks', 'Marilyn Rockafellow', 'Roger Behr', 'Art Frankel', 'Ernie Brown', 'George D. Wallace', 'Lillian Lehman', 'Raffi Di Blasio', 'Kristopher Kent Hill', 'Eric Ehasz', 'Matthew Scharch', 'S. Scott Bullock', 'Carol Bivins', 'Ethan Embry', 'Gary Ballard', 'Mary Mukogawa', 'Toshio Shikami', 'Samee Park', 'Kagko Shikami', 'Tommy Inouye', 'Ken Thorley', 'Bob Braun', 'Jennifer Barlow Grodsky', 'Buck Henry', 'Joey Miyashima', 'Nurit Koppel', 'Susan Walters', 'Sidney Chankin', 'Greg Finley', 'Leonard O. Turner', 'Clifford Einstein', 'Rachel Bard', 'Newell Alexander', 'Shirley MacLaine', 'Hal Landon Jr.', 'Ida Lee', 'Noley Thornton', 'Glen Chin', 'James Ekim', 'Clarke Coleman', 'Ronald L. Colby', 'David Purdham', 'James Paradise', 'Jerry Prell', 'Arell Blanton', 'Shana Ballard', 'Chris Macris', 'Joseph Darrell', 'James Manis', 'Alex Sheafe', 'Cathleen Chin', 'Lisa Sears', 'Mark Dunlap', 'Vernon Roguen', 'Dennis Germain', 'Jorga Caye', 'Robert Gatewood', 'John Michael Quinn', 'Douglas M. Nelson']
| 3.65
| null |
Romance, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Satire, Drama, Religious, Fantasy
| 112
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Geffen Pictures', 'Warner Bros. Pictures']
| 38,109
|
comedy
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
Los Angeles advertising executive Daniel Miller dies in a car accident on his 39th birthday, largely due to his distractedness, and is sent to Judgment City, a kind of temporary paradise for the recently deceased. The city is a waiting area staffed by highly-intelligent and efficient but largely condescending bureaucrats who, having themselves moved on to their current new universal phase, mostly seem to gingerly look down on the new arrivals who will have their lives (or most recent lives) on Earth judged over a week-long or so hearing, each before two judges. Amenities and activities are provided, from delicious, calorie-free all-you-can-eat buffets to bowling alleys and comedy clubs.[2]
Daniel's defense attorney, Bob Diamond, explains that people from Earth use so little of their brains that they spend most of their lives functioning based on their fears. If the court determines that Daniel has conquered his fears, he will be sent on to the next phase of existence, where he will be able to use more of his brain and thus be able to experience more of what the universe has to offer. Otherwise, his soul will be reincarnated on Earth to live another life in another attempt at moving past his fears.
At Daniel's tribunal, presided over by two judges, Diamond argues that Daniel should move on to the next phase, but his formidable opponent, prosecutor Lena Foster, takes the opposing argument. Each utilizes video-like footage from select days in Daniel's life to make their case to the judges.
During his stay in Judgment City, Daniel meets and falls in love with Julia, a recently deceased woman who lived a seemingly perfect life of courage and generosity, especially compared to his, which also explains why her fancy hotel lodgings are so much nicer than his spartan motel-like room.
Following each day's proceedings, Daniel and Julia spend time exploring Judgment City, including the Pavilion of Past Lives (hosted by a version of Shirley MacLaine, famous for her outspoken belief in reincarnation), where people can see all their past lives, often quite shockingly dichotomous.
In the meantime, things do not go well for Daniel. Foster shows a series of episodes in which Daniel never managed to overcome his fears, as well as various other bad decisions and mishaps, while Diamond vigorously attempts to portray Daniel's actions more positively, sometimes praising his client's "restraint" and "thoughtfulness."
Before the last day of Daniel's hearing, Julia asks Daniel to spend the night with her, but despite his strong feelings for her, he declines. The next day, Foster plays footage of Daniel's previous night with Julia, over Diamond's objections. Foster argues this clearly underscores Daniel's fear and lack of courage. The next day, it is ruled that Daniel will return to Earth, while Julia is judged worthy to move on. Before saying goodbye, Diamond comforts Daniel with the knowledge that the court is not infallible and that just because Foster won it doesn't mean she's right, but Daniel remains disappointed.
Daniel boards a tram poised to return to Earth when Julia yells to him from a different tram. He manages to desperately unstrap himself, claw open a door, and leap, dodging other trams, and suffering minor electric shocks to get to Julia's tram. She is unable to open the door and he is unable to enter her tram. He clings to the outside of the moving vehicle, banging on the door and trying to pry it open. She yells in vain for the driver to stop. They tell each other they love each other. The scene pulls back to show that the entire event is being watched on closed-circuit TV by Diamond, Foster, and the judges in the chamber where Daniel's hearing took place. Diamond remarks to Foster, "Brave enough for you?", who gives him a slight smiling acknowledgment. One judge whispers to the other, who then sends a message ordering the tram doors to open. Daniel and Julia are reunited, applauded by the other passengers, and embrace as they are allowed to move on to the next phase of existence together.
|
Defendor
| 2,009
|
Peter Stebbings
|
['Woody Harrelson', 'Kat Dennings', 'Elias Koteas', 'Sandra Oh', 'Clark Johnson', 'Michael Kelly', 'Kristin Booth', 'Lisa Ray', 'A.C. Peterson', 'Tony Nappo', 'David Gardner', 'Bryan Renfro', 'Charlotte Sullivan', 'Tatiana Maslany', 'Ron White', 'Graham Abbey', 'Max Dreesen', 'Matt Gordon', 'James Preston Rogers', 'Michael Cram', 'Lyriq Bent', 'Peter Stebbings', 'Dakota Goyo', 'John Paul Ruttan']
| 3.11
| 2.5
|
Action, Drama, Comedy, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller, Superhero, Detective fiction, Indie film, Crime Fiction, Comedy drama, Police procedural, Action/Adventure
| 101
|
['Canada', 'UK', 'USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Alliance Films', 'Darius Films', 'Insight Film Releasing']
| 10,537
|
superhero
|
superhero-movies
| null |
Dr. Park, a psychiatrist, is interviewing Arthur Poppington, a vigilante known as "Defendor", about his assault of a dry cleaning business owner. The story flashes back to Arthur's encounter with Dooney, a corrupt detective that Arthur believes is in the employ of his nemesis, "Captain Industry", who Arthur blames for his mother leaving him as a child and later dying from a drug overdose.
Arthur is arrested for assaulting Dooney, but Fairbanks, the police captain in charge, sees Arthur as harmless and connects with him because their grandfathers both served in World War I. After Arthur is released, he returns to his day job at a government construction depot. His life is solitary, but after another confrontation with Dooney, he meets Angel, a prostitute who was smoking crack with Dooney. After he is brutally beaten by Dooney's friends, she helps him recover and informs him that Captain Industry's real name is Radovan Kristic. Arthur lets her move in with him, and enlists her help in apprehending Kristic.
Arthur's boss and close friend Paul becomes concerned for Arthur after he finds that Arthur is living at the construction depot with Angel. Paul tries to help, offering Arthur the opportunity to come and live with him, which Arthur rejects. That night, Arthur ventures out to spy on "Captain Industry" and Dooney, and overhears them discussing an illegal shipment. Arthur reveals himself and after a short chase, he is beaten and shot. Angel finds the injured Arthur and contacts Paul who helps get Arthur to the hospital.
While Arthur is in surgery, Paul tells Angel to leave Arthur alone. Angel visits an unconscious Arthur and reveals that she ran away from home because her father was physically abusing her. After she leaves, Arthur opens his eyes, having heard everything. Angered at how Angel was treated, Arthur walks down to the mall and beats up Angel's father, the laundromat owner from the beginning of the story.
After Dr. Park absorbs all this, she admits she's not sure if his actions were wrong. She tells the judge that Arthur is mentally underdeveloped (revealed to be fetal alcohol syndrome) and persuades him not to be too harsh. The judge agrees on the condition Arthur doesn't become Defendor again. A reporter approaches Paul and convinces him to let her run a story about Arthur as Defendor, and he agrees. People are inspired by Defendor's attempts to save lives and fight crime.
Angel becomes desperate for a fix and returns to Dooney. Dooney, recognizing her friendship with Defendor and worried about how much Arthur knows about the shipment, takes her hostage and threatens Arthur to stay quiet. Arthur misinterprets Dooney's demand as never speaking again, and a silent Arthur decides to once again becomes Defendor and save Angel.
Angel manages to escape from Dooney by shooting him in the testicles and reunites with Arthur, but Angel is upset when he reveals he still plans to go after Kristic. She tells him Captain Industry isn't real, she just named Kristic because she wanted revenge on him. In a flashback it is revealed that Arthur's grandfather, in order to spare him pain as a child, metaphorically blamed his mother's death on the "captains of industry". Due to his developmental disability, Arthur has been chasing a delusion his entire life.
Arthur goes to confront Dooney and Kristic and manages to subdue a few henchmen, but is shot repeatedly by Kristic. Arthur accuses him of killing his mother, and Kristic recognizes her name, implying he truly was responsible for her death. As Arthur lies dying, Angel runs to help him. She promises to stop smoking crack and get a job. In an earlier conversation, Angel had revealed she had always had a talent in writing, which Arthur had described as being "like Lois Lane". She promises to be like her as Arthur dies in her arms.
Dooney and Kristic are arrested. Dooney is sentenced to prison and Kristic is extradited to his home country of Serbia. A memorial service is held for Defendor under a spray paint mural that was drawn in his honor, which is attended by Park and her daughter. The film ends with Angel sitting at her typewriter, writing stories about Arthur for a newspaper.
|
Delicatessen
| 1,991
|
Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro
|
['Dominique Pinon', 'Marie-Laure Dougnac', 'Jean-Claude Dreyfus', 'Karin Viard', 'Ticky Holgado', 'Pascal Benezech', 'Edith Ker', 'Rufus', 'Jacques Mathou', 'Chick Ortega', 'Jean-François Perrier', 'Silvie Laguna', 'Howard Vernon', 'Dominique Zardi', 'Anne-Marie Pisani', 'Maurice Lamy', 'Patrick Paroux', 'Marc Caro', 'Eric Averlant', 'Dominique Betenfeld', 'Jean-Luc Caron', 'Bernard Flavien', 'David Defever', 'Raymond Forestier', 'Robert Baud', 'Sylvain Plaine', 'Anthony Backman', 'Nikky Smedley']
| 3.82
| 3.5
|
Horror, Romance, Comedy, Satire, Dark comedy, Cannibal, Science fiction, Fantasy, Drama, Crime film, Thriller, Crime Fiction, Comedy horror, Body horror
| 99
|
['France']
|
French
|
['French']
|
['Victoires Productions', 'Constellation', 'Hachette Première', 'Sofinergie Films', 'Sofinergie 2', 'Investimage 2', 'Fondation GAN pour le Cinéma', 'UGC Films', 'Constellation Entertainment', 'Union Générale Cinématographique']
| 115,959
|
sci-fi, top-rated
|
letterboxds-top-250-science-fiction-films
| null |
In a dilapidated apartment building in post-apocalyptic France, food is in short supply and grain is used as currency. On the ground floor is a butcher's shop, run by the landlord, Clapet, who posts job opportunities in the newspaper to lure victims to the building, whom he murders and butchers as a cheap source of meat to sell to his tenants.
Following the murder of the last worker, unemployed circus clown Louison applies for the vacant position. Louison proves to be a superb worker with a spectacular trick knife, and the butcher is reluctant to kill him too quickly. During Louison's routine maintenance, he acquires a package dropped by a mailman. Louison delivers the package to Clapet's daughter, Julie, who says the package contains confections and invites him to join her that evening. Louison and Julie's relationship blossoms into romance. At the same time, several of the tenants fall under Louison's boyish charms, worrying others who are more anxious for their own safety should they require meat.
Clapet tells apartment tenant Marcel Tapioca that his rent is late and he must give up his mother-in-law as payment. That evening, Julie begs her father to let Louison go, knowing that Clapet is killing tenants for meat. She goes to her apartment, unwraps a newspaper in her refrigerator and sees an article about the Troglodistes, a group of vegetarian rebels who live underground. Julie descends into the sewers to make contact with the feared Troglodistes, whom she persuades to help rescue Louison.[4]
Following the apparent butchering of Tapioca's mother-in-law, the Troglodistes go through the sewer pipes and attempt to capture Louison, but end up mistakenly capturing tenant Mademoiselle Plusse instead. Meanwhile, as Julie and Louison watch television, Clapet ascends to the roof, shaking the television antenna to lure Louison into going up to fix it. Attacking Louison with a cleaver, Clapet's attempt to kill him is foiled by an unexpected electrical explosion in one of the apartments.
Clapet, along with some tenants, storms Louison's room in another attempt to murder him. Louison and Julie take refuge in a bathroom and flood it, floor to ceiling, until Clapet opens the door, releasing the flood and washing the attackers away. Mademoiselle Plusse escapes the sewers, finds Louison's boomerang knife, and gives it to Clapet. Clapet throws the knife towards Louison, but inadvertently kills himself.
Louison and Julie play music together on the roof of the now peaceful apartment building, and the butcher's shop closed for good.[5]
|
Deliverance
| 1,972
|
John Boorman
|
['Jon Voight', 'Burt Reynolds', 'Ned Beatty', 'Ronny Cox', 'Ed Ramey', 'Billy Redden', 'Seamon Glass', 'Randall Deal', 'Bill McKinney', "Herbert 'Cowboy' Coward", 'Lewis Crone', 'Ken Keener', 'Johnny Popwell', 'John Fowler', 'Kathy Rickman', 'Louise Coldren', 'Pete Ware', 'James Dickey', 'Macon McCalman', 'Hoyt Pollard', 'Belinda Beatty', 'Charley Boorman']
| 3.86
| null |
Thriller, Action, Adventure, Drama, Suspense, Mystery
| 109
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Warner Bros. Pictures', 'Elmer Enterprises']
| 137,349
|
road-movie, thriller, essential
|
road-movies-1, 100-essential-thrillers
| null |
Lewis Medlock, Ed Gentry, Bobby Trippe, and Drew Ballinger are Atlanta businessmen who decide to canoe down the Cahulawassee River in the remote northern Georgia wilderness before it is dammed. Lewis is an avid outdoorsman who leads the group, and Ed has been on several trips but lacks Lewis's ego, while Bobby and Drew are novices. En route to their launch site, the men, in particular Bobby, are rude toward the locals, who are hostile to the "city boys". At a local gas station, Drew, with his guitar, engages a young banjo-playing boy in a musical duel. The duel is mutually enjoyable, and some of the locals break into dance at the sound of it. However, the boy does not acknowledge Drew when prompted for a friendly handshake.
The four friends travel in pairs and their two canoes become separated. Ed and Bobby encounter a pair of mountain men emerging from the woods, one carrying a shotgun and missing his two front teeth. Following an argument, Bobby is forced by the men to undress and the unarmed man rapes him, demanding he "squeal like a pig", while Ed is tied to a tree and held at gunpoint. Lewis sneaks up and kills the rapist with his bow and arrow while Ed snatches the shotgun from the other mountain man, who flees into the woods. After a heated debate between Lewis and Drew, Ed and Bobby vote to side with Lewis' plan to bury the body and continue on as if nothing had happened. The four continue downriver but the canoes reach a dangerous stretch of rapids. As Drew and Ed reach the rapids in the lead canoe, Drew falls into the water.
The canoes collide on the rocks, throwing the three remaining men into the river and smashing one of the canoes. Lewis breaks his thigh bone and the other two are washed ashore alongside him in a gorge. Lewis, who believes Drew fell out of the boat because he was shot, encourages Ed to climb to the top of the gorge and ambush the other mountain man, whom they believe to be stalking them from above. Ed reaches an overhang and hides out until morning, when a man appears above him and aims a rifle at him; a panicked Ed clumsily shoots and manages to kill the man, but falls backwards and lands on one of his own arrows. Ed worries that he has killed the wrong man when he inspects the body to find that the man has all of his teeth, but he then realizes the man is wearing dentures. Ed and Bobby weigh down the man's body in the river to ensure it will never be found, then do the same to Drew's body when they encounter it downriver shortly after.
Upon finally reaching the small town of Aintry, Ed and Bobby take Lewis to the hospital. The three carefully concoct a cover story for local authorities about Drew's death, lying about their adventure to Sheriff Bullard in order to escape a possible double murder charge. Their cover is almost blown when Ed thinks he has overheard Bobby secretly telling the sheriff the truth, but Bobby convinces him otherwise. Ed and Bobby visit Lewis in the hospital, where Lewis is being watched over by a police officer. A worried Ed whispers to Lewis that they need to change their cover story, but Lewis relaxes him by pretending that he has no memory of what happened after they fell off the canoes due to head trauma. Sheriff Bullard does not believe the men and reveals that Deputy Queen is suspicious of them because his brother-in-law went hunting a few days ago and has not returned. However, he has no evidence to arrest them, and instead tells them never to do "this kind of thing again" and to never come back to the area. The three men vow to keep their story of death and survival a secret for the rest of their lives.
Ed reunites with his wife and son. Some time after, a bloated hand rises from the lake, only to be revealed as a nightmare from the experience that torments Ed.
|
Demolition
| 2,015
|
Jean-Marc Vallée
|
['Jake Gyllenhaal', 'Naomi Watts', 'Chris Cooper', 'Judah Lewis', 'C.J. Wilson', 'Polly Draper', 'Malachy Cleary', 'Debra Monk', 'Heather Lind', 'Wass Stevens', 'Blaire Brooks', 'Ben Cole', 'Brendan Dooling', 'Madison Arnold', 'James Colby', 'Alfredo Narciso', 'Gregory Haney', 'James Young', 'Bjorn Dupaty', 'Jane Dashow', 'Tom Kemp', 'Royce Johnson', 'Hani Avital', 'Celia Au', 'Elizabeth Loyacano', 'Stephen Badalamenti', 'Mark Lewis', 'Aaron Bantum', 'Lytle Harper', 'Kevin Herbst']
| 3.55
| null |
Comedy, Romance, Action, Drama, Tragicomedy
| 101
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Sidney Kimmel Entertainment', 'Mr. Mudd', 'Black Label Media', 'Sierra/Affinity']
| 163,096
|
sad, emotional
|
sad-movies-if-you-feel-like-you-need-to-cry
| null |
Davis is a successful Private Equity Investor at a firm founded and run by his father-in-law Phil. His wife, Julia, is driving them when they are struck by another vehicle, killing Julia. Recovering in the hospital, he attempts to purchase some candy from a vending machine which malfunctions. Davis drafts a complaint to the vending machine manufacturer that includes some venting of his personal experiences. This leads to a series of conversations with a customer service representative, Karen Moreno, in which they end up sharing details of each other's life burdens. Karen appears to be the only one he talks to, though he tells his stories in an understated and unemotional style. He brings this same unemotional process to work, which he has returned to much earlier than anyone expected. Davis does tell one other person, a fellow commuter train rider, that he realizes that he didn't love Julia because he doesn't feel "...sad, or pain, or hurt...". When the commuter prompts the question, "What do you feel?" Davis abruptly stops the train.
Davis's changing emotional state causes him to behave erratically. He notices that he is being followed by a green station wagon. The only thing Davis seems to connect with is trying to understand what's inside things, using a small toolkit to dismantle his household appliances, his work computer, a bathroom stall—eventually telling Phil that he has an urge to dismantle a 120-year-old grandmother clock in Phil's office.
Karen follows Davis, talking with him on his commuter train without revealing her identity. She mistakenly leaves some identification, and Davis is sufficiently moved to track her down at home, where she lives with her boyfriend and boss, Carl, and her 15-year old troublemaker son, Chris. When Carl goes on a long business trip, Davis bunks at her house, where they develop a deep platonic friendship. Chris initially dislikes Davis, but later grows not only to like him but to help Davis cope, while Davis becomes his mentor in return.
Davis joins his in-laws in funding a foundation in Julia's name that will award an annual scholarship; during interviews, Davis behaves disrespectfully towards one of the award candidates, and Phil asks him to sign a transfer of his beneficiary rights in Julia's $2.6 million life insurance policy to the scholarship fund in her name. Davis purchases demolition tools from a hardware store (and, later, a bulldozer) and, with Chris's assistance, destroys his house. When Davis finds an ultrasound of Julia's from the previous year, he is devastated that she failed to inform him.
A climactic night impacts everyone. Davis brings Karen to the party for the scholarship winner, greatly troubling Julia's parents. A young man makes an inappropriate advance on Karen, and she later laughs out loud when he is introduced as the scholarship winner. Davis announces to everyone that Julia had been pregnant and kept it secret. Julia's mother tells him his wife was seeing someone else, the child was not his, and she had an abortion. Returning to Karen's house, Davis finds Carl has returned and is reading the letters Davis wrote to Karen. Carl assaults Davis, while Chris receives a brutal group beating after coming out as gay.
Davis visits his wife's grave and the green station wagon arrives; a man carrying flowers gets out of the car. He turns out to be Michael, the driver of the car that killed Julia. Davis forgives Michael and he experiences flashbacks of his wife and him together and he finally cries, bringing closure.
Davis has turned a corner. He reconciles with Julia's parents, asking Phil to contribute to refurbishing a carousel – destined for demolition – as a memorial for Julia.
Davis receives a letter from Chris saying that he is recovering from his beating, his mother has left Carl, and Davis must be at Pier 54 at a particular time, which results in Davis witnessing the demolition of some waterfront buildings across the Hudson River. Chris watches Davis through binoculars from a nearby vantage point. In the final scene, Davis joyously joins a bunch of kids running as he races ahead accomplishing his childhood memory and desire for winning a race since he always used to lag behind in his childhood.
|
Dersu Uzala
| 1,975
|
Akira Kurosawa
|
['Yuriy Solomin', 'Maksim Munzuk', 'Mikhail Bychkov', 'B. Khorulev', 'Vladimir Kremena', 'Aleksandr Pyatkov', 'Svetlana Danilchenko', 'Dmitri Korshikov', 'Suimenkul Chokmorov', 'Daniil Netrebin', 'Serafim Zaytsev', 'Nikolay Volkov', 'Vladimir Prikhodko', 'Sovetbek Dzhumadylov', 'Igor Sykhra', 'Nikolai Volkov St.']
| 4.21
| 3.5
|
Action, Adventure, Drama
| 141
|
['Japan', 'USSR']
|
Russian
|
['Russian']
|
['Daiei Film', 'Mosfilm']
| 32,787
|
action, top-rated
|
letterboxds-top-250-action-films, lb_top250
| null |
In the early 1900s, Captain Arsenyev embarks on a topographic surveying expedition in the Shkotovo region of the Ussuri territory. During the journey, he encounters Dersu Uzala, a nomadic Goldi hunter, who impresses Arsenyev with his wilderness skills. Dersu agrees to become their guide, leading the expedition through the rugged frontier.
Dersu gains the respect of the group with his experience, instincts, keen observation, and compassion. He demonstrates his resourcefulness by repairing an abandoned hut and leaving essential provisions for future travelers. As the expedition progresses, Arsenyev and Dersu venture alone to explore Lake Khanka but get caught in a blizzard. Dersu saves Arsenyev's life by building a shelter and tending to him throughout the night.
The party faces numerous hardships, including fatigue and starvation, but Dersu's wisdom and skills help them survive. Eventually, they encounter a Nanai family who offers them food, warmth, and hospitality. When the expedition nears its end, Arsenyev invites Dersu to accompany him back to Khabarovsk. However, Dersu believes his place is in the forest and declines the offer, only asking for rifle cartridges.
Five years later, Arsenyev embarks on another expedition, hoping to reunite with Dersu. Eventually, they meet again, and Dersu agrees to guide the party once more. During their journey, Arsenyev and Dersu face a dangerous situation when they become stranded on a raft heading towards treacherous rapids. Dersu sacrifices himself by pushing Arsenyev to safety before the raft is destroyed. Arsenyev and the rest of the group rescue Dersu, and their bond grows stronger.
As time passes, Dersu senses they are being stalked by a Siberian tiger, an amu. He tries to persuade the tiger to leave peacefully but is forced to shoot at it. Distraught over injuring the sacred animal, Dersu becomes troubled and realizes he can no longer provide for himself as a hunter. He appeals to Arsenyev to take him home, but Dersu struggles to adapt to city life, feeling confined and out of place. Dersu tells the family that he can no longer stay in town and must go back to the mountains. Arsenyev, though sad, realizes that Dersu needs to go, so he buys him a new high powered rifle so Dersu will have a better chance to survive.
Eventually, news reaches Arsenyev that the body of an unidentified Goldi hunter has been found, and he is asked to identify it. Arsenyev recognizes the body as Dersu's and is devastated by the loss. The official in charge speculates that Dersu may have been killed for his rifle, the new one that Arsenyev bought for him. As Dersu is buried, Arsenyev plants his walking stick beside the grave as a symbol of remembrance.
|
Desperate
| 1,947
|
Anthony Mann
|
['Steve Brodie', 'Audrey Long', 'Raymond Burr', 'Douglas Fowley', 'William Challee', 'Jason Robards Sr.', 'Freddie Steele', 'Lee Frederick', 'Paul E. Burns', 'Ilka Grüning', 'Ernie Adams', 'Erville Alderson', 'Leon Alton', 'George Anderson', 'William Bailey', 'George Barrows', 'Jack Baxley', 'Robert Bray', 'Kay Christopher', 'Robert Clarke', 'Grahame Covert', 'Dick Elliott', 'Carol Forman', 'Ralf Harolde', 'Hans Herbert', 'Leza Lidow', 'Teddy Infuhr', 'Cy Kendall', 'Carl Kent', 'Donald Kerr', 'Milton Kibbee', 'Glen Knight', 'Perc Launders', 'Art Miles', 'Ernesto Molinari', 'Jay Norris', 'Larry Nunn', "Frank O'Connor", 'Netta Packer', 'Eddie Parks', "Harry 'Snub' Pollard", 'Jean Ransome', 'Joe Recht', 'Marshall Ruth', 'Carl Saxe', 'George Sowards', 'Michael Visaroff', 'Bill Wallace', 'Elena Warren', 'Charles Flynn']
| 3.32
| null |
Crime, Noir, Drama, Suspense, Mystery, Thriller, Detective fiction, Crime Fiction, Police procedural
| 73
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['RKO Radio Pictures']
| 1,825
|
road-movie
|
road-movies-1
| null |
Steve Randall (Brodie) is an independent trucker who is hired by an old friend to haul some freight. Only when Steve arrives at the warehouse does he discover he has been hired to haul away stolen goods. Steve wants no part of the plot and resists, but a cop is killed as they're committing the burglary, and all except one manage to get away.
Later, after kidnapping and assaulting Steve, the criminals, led by Walt Radak (Burr), threaten to mutilate Randall's wife (Long) unless Steve confesses to the murder committed by Radak's brother, captured during the theft and sentenced to death for the cop-killing.
Steve plays along with the criminals just long enough to escape. He takes his wife and leaves town, heading cross country. The couple are then pursued by both the cops and the crooks. Steve then discovers his wife is pregnant with their first child, making the stakes even higher that they get away to safety.
|
Desperate Living
| 1,977
|
John Waters
|
['Mink Stole', 'Jean Hill', 'Susan Lowe', 'Liz Renay', 'Edith Massey', 'Mary Vivian Pearce', 'Brook Yeaton', 'Karen Gerwig', 'Jay Allan', 'Al Strapelli', 'George Stover', 'Turkey Joe', 'Willie Brooks', 'James Yeaton', 'Ed Peranio', 'Steve Butow', 'Pirie Woods', 'H.C. Kliemisch', 'Paul Swift', 'George Figgs', 'Marina Melin', 'Cookie Mueller', 'Pat Moran', 'George Hulse', 'Dolores DeLuce', 'Channing Wilroy']
| 3.75
| null |
Horror, Comedy, LGBTQ, Crime Fiction, Fantasy
| 90
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Charm City Productions', 'Dreamland', 'New Line Cinema']
| 14,632
|
comedy
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
Neurotic and delusional suburban housewife Peggy Gravel and her overweight maid, Grizelda Brown, go on the lam after Grizelda smothers Peggy's husband Bosley to death. A cross-dressing policeman arrests the pair and gives them an ultimatum: go to jail or be exiled to Mortville, a filthy shantytown ruled by the evil Queen Carlotta and her treasonous daughter, Princess Coo-Coo.
Peggy and Grizelda choose Mortville, and engage in lesbian prison sex. They become associates of self-hating lesbian wrestler Mole McHenry, who wants a sex change to please her lover, Muffy St. Jacques. After confiscating a lottery ticket from Peggy, Mole wins the Maryland Lottery and uses the money to obtain gender reassignment surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital. However, Muffy is repulsed by Mole's phalloplasty and insists he cut it off, so Mole gives himself a penectomy.
Most of Mortville's social outcasts—criminals, nudists, and sexual deviants—conspire to overthrow Queen Carlotta, who banishes Coo-Coo after she elopes with a garbage collector named Herbert, whom Queen Carlotta's guards later shoot to death. Coo-Coo hides in Peggy and Grizelda's house with her dead lover. When Peggy betrays Coo-Coo to the Queen's guards, Grizelda fights them and dies when the house collapses on her. Peggy, however, joins the queen in terrorizing her subjects, even infecting them (and Princess Coo-Coo) with rabies.
Eventually, Mortville's denizens, led by Mole, overthrow Queen Carlotta and execute Peggy by shooting a gun up her anus. To celebrate their freedom, the townsfolk roast Carlotta on a spit and serve her, pig-like, on a platter with an apple in her mouth.
|
Despicable Me
| 2,010
|
Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin
|
['Steve Carell', 'Miranda Cosgrove', 'Dana Gaier', 'Elsie Fisher', 'Jason Segel', 'Russell Brand', 'Julie Andrews', 'Will Arnett', 'Kristen Wiig', 'Pierre Coffin', 'Chris Renaud', 'Jemaine Clement', 'Jack McBrayer', 'Danny McBride', 'Mindy Kaling', 'Rob Huebel', 'Ken Daurio', 'Ken Jeong', 'Charles Bright', 'Katie Leigh', 'Ranjani Brow', 'Scott Menville', 'Holly Dorff', 'Edie Mirman', 'Jackie Gonneau', 'Al Rodrigo', 'Wendy Hoffmann', 'Jakob Roston', 'James Kyson', 'John Hans Tester', 'Tony Lee', 'Debi Mae West']
| 3.56
| 3.5
|
Animation, Children's film, Action, Comedy, Adventure, Family film, Crime Fiction
| 95
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Illumination', 'Universal Pictures']
| 1,502,785
|
animated, heist
|
heist-movies, vote-best-animated-films-of-all-time
| null |
Longtime supervillain Felonious Gru has his pride hurt when an unknown rival steals the Great Pyramid of Giza. Gru, his elderly assistant Dr. Nefario, and his army of Minions devise a plan to steal the Moon. Seeking financial assistance, Gru approaches Mr. Perkins, the director of the Bank of Evil, who orders Gru to procure a shrink ray. While at the bank, Gru meets budding supervillain Vector, who was responsible for the Pyramid heist. Gru and two of his Minions obtain the shrink ray from a research base in Southeast Asia, only for Vector to ambush them and steal it for himself.
After many failed attempts to infiltrate Vector's fortress, Gru notices three orphaned girls, Margo, Edith, and Agnes, being allowed in to sell cookies to Vector. Gru adopts the girls under the guise of a dentist, using them to distract Vector while he reclaims the shrink ray. He tries to abandon the girls at an amusement park, but starts to bond with them.
Gru later shows Perkins the shrink ray through a video call, only to be met with rejection. Observing Gru's despair, the girls offer him their piggy bank, and the Minions pool their resources to fund the moon heist. Meanwhile, Perkins informs Vector, who is revealed to be his son, of Gru's current possession of the shrink ray, prompting Vector to take action on thwarting Gru's plan. Nefario calculates the day when the Moon is closest to Earth, which unfortunately coincides with the girls' ballet recital.
Believing the girls are too much of a distraction to Gru, Nefario calls the orphanage's owner, Miss Hattie, to take the girls back. Gru decides to steal the moon by himself, leaving Nefario in his lab. The next day, Gru successfully shrinks and steals the Moon. Hoping to make it to the recital on time, he rushes back to Earth, but finds that the recital has ended and that Vector has kidnapped the girls.
Arriving at Vector's fortress, Gru surrenders the Moon to Vector, but Vector refuses to give back the girls. Enraged, Gru storms Vector's fortress, intent on revenge. After Gru sidesteps all of the fortress's defenses, Vector panics and activates his escape aircraft. Meanwhile, Nefario and the Minions discover that the shrink ray's effects are temporary; the bigger an object, the faster it reverts to its normal size. Gru, Nefario, and the Minions rescue the girls before the Moon returns to its normal size and launches itself into orbit, destroying Vector's aircraft and leaving him stranded. Gru reclaims custody of the girls, and they celebrate with a special ballet recital that becomes a dance party.
|
Despicable Me 2
| 2,013
|
Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud
|
['Steve Carell', 'Kristen Wiig', 'Benjamin Bratt', 'Miranda Cosgrove', 'Russell Brand', 'Ken Jeong', 'Steve Coogan', 'Elsie Fisher', 'Dana Gaier', 'Moisés Arias', 'Nasim Pedrad', 'Kristen Schaal', 'Pierre Coffin', 'Chris Renaud', 'Nickolai Stoilov', 'Vanessa Bayer', 'Ava Acres', 'Lori Alan', 'Jack Angel', 'Eva Bella', 'Georgia Cook', 'John Cygan', 'Debi Derryberry', 'Jess Harnell', 'Danny Mann', 'Mona Marshall', 'Mickie McGowan', 'Mason McNulty', 'Alec Medlock', 'Laraine Newman', 'Jan Rabson', 'Andre Robinson', 'Katie Silverman', 'Casey Simpson', 'Claira Nicole Titman', 'Jim Ward', 'April Winchell', 'Joe Matthews']
| 3.15
| null |
Animation, Action, Comedy, Children's film, Adventure, Family film, Science fiction, Thriller, Crime Fiction, Dibujos animados para colorear
| 98
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'Spanish']
|
['Illumination', 'Universal Pictures']
| 981,710
|
heist
|
heist-movies
| null |
A mysterious aircraft steals a highly potent mutagen known as PX-41 from a laboratory in the Arctic Circle. Silas Ramsbottom, director of the Anti-Villain League (AVL), sends agent Lucy Wilde to recruit former supervillain Gru, who is forcibly brought to their headquarters and asked to help them track down the culprit and recover the mutagen. However, Gru refuses and informs Silas and Lucy that he has enough responsibilities as a father and as the owner of a jelly-producing business. Later, Dr. Nefario quits to accept a job offer to assist another villain; this causes a reluctant Gru to decide to work with the AVL after all. He and Lucy are partnered and stationed at a shopping mall, with a cupcake store as their front.
Gru immediately suspects that Mexican restaurant owner Eduardo Pérez might be "El Macho", a supervillain who was presumed dead after riding a shark into an active volcano with two hundred fifty pounds of dynamite strapped to his chest. That night, Gru and Lucy break into Eduardo's restaurant, but find no evidence that Eduardo has done anything villainous. Meanwhile, Gru's three adopted daughters, Margo, Edith and Agnes, who dream of having a mother one day, believe that Gru will eventually fall in love with Lucy. Gru denies it, saying his relationship with Lucy is only professional.
Despite holding Eduardo as his prime suspect, Gru agrees to pursue other leads, including the shop of wig merchant Floyd Eaglesan, where Lucy discovers traces of the mutagen. After witnessing Eduardo's son, Antonio, woo Margo, Gru renews his focus on Eduardo, who in turn invites the family to his Cinco de Mayo party. Gru's neighbor, Jillian, sets him up on a blind date that goes wrong with Shannon, who tries to take Gru's wig, but Lucy saves Gru from embarrassment by shooting Shannon in the behind with a tranquilizer dart; Lucy helps Gru escape and the two form a friendship. The AVL arrests Floyd after finding an nearly-empty jar of the mutagen in his shop. Ramsbottom then closes the investigation and reassigns Lucy to Australia, leaving Gru heartbroken.
At the party, Gru follows him and discovers that Eduardo is indeed El Macho. Having faked his death and with Nefario as his assistant, El Macho has kidnapped most of Gru's Minions and used the mutagen to mutate them into purple mindless and indestructible monsters, intent on using them to conquer the world. El Macho offers Gru the chance to team up with him, but Gru becomes terrified and leaves with his daughters. Suspicious, El Macho sends one of the mutated Minions, Kevin, after them.
Lucy, having decided to disobey orders and return home, arrives at the party right after Gru leaves. Realizing that Gru and Lucy are working for the AVL, El Macho kidnaps Lucy; this is witnessed by Nefario, who subsequently informs Gru of the situation. Gru infiltrates El Macho's fortress by pretending to have been kidnapped by two mutated Minions (who are normal Minions in disguise), but the real mutated Minions see through the ruse and attack them. Meanwhile, Kevin breaks into Gru's house and attacks Margo and Agnes. They lure him to Gru's lab, where Nefario arrives with an antidote to reverse Kevin's mutation. Nefario laces Gru's jelly with the antidote. He, the girls, and the surviving Minions hurry to Gru's aid and cure the mutated Minions. El Macho, distraught, threatens to murder Lucy by sending her into the volcano where he previously faked his death and uses the mutagen himself to battle Gru, but Gru and Nefario manage to defeat him.
Gru attempts to free Lucy from the rocket she is tied to, but El Macho's pet chicken, Pollito, activates it. Lucy accepts Gru's invitation for a date and they jump into the ocean before the rocket enters the volcano. Months later, after going on one hundred forty-seven dates, Gru and Lucy get married, and Lucy becomes the girls' adoptive mother.
|
Despicable Me 3
| 2,017
|
Kyle Balda, Pierre Coffin
|
['Steve Carell', 'Kristen Wiig', 'Trey Parker', 'Miranda Cosgrove', 'Dana Gaier', 'Nev Scharrel', 'Steve Coogan', 'Julie Andrews', 'Jenny Slate', 'Pierre Coffin', 'Chris Renaud', 'Andy Nyman', 'Michael Beattie', 'Adrian Ciscato', 'Brian T. Delaney', 'Ken Daurio', 'Lori Alan', 'Carlos Alazraqui', 'Kyle Balda', 'Teresa Ganzel', 'Bob Bergen', 'Jess Harnell', 'Gregg Berger', 'John Kassir', 'Mona Marshall', 'John Cygan', 'Laraine Newman', 'Jan Rabson', 'Bill Farmer', 'Mindy Sterling', 'Danny Mann', 'Jim Ward', 'Matthew Wood', 'Katia Saponenko', 'Jude Alpers', 'Cory Walls', 'Sophie M. Siadatpour', 'Stephanie De Meautis', 'Bruno Dequier', 'Tara Strong']
| 2.56
| 3.5
|
Animation, Children's film, Action, Comedy, Adventure, Science fiction, Crime Fiction
| 90
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Illumination', 'Universal Pictures']
| 526,616
|
heist
|
heist-movies
| null |
Married Anti-Villain League (AVL) agents Felonious Gru and Lucy Wilde are sent to recover the stolen Dumont Diamond from Balthazar Bratt, a former child star who became a supervillain after his show, Evil Bratt, was canceled. Gru recovers the diamond, while Bratt escapes. At the AVL headquarters, director Silas Ramsbottom announces his retirement, and appoints board member Valerie Da Vinci as the new director. Da Vinci dismisses Gru and Lucy from the AVL, believing they should have captured Bratt during the mission.
When Gru and Lucy return home, they tell their adopted daughters Margo, Edith, and Agnes of their dismissal, but assure them they will soon have new jobs. When Gru refuses to return to being a supervillain, and with his assistant Dr. Nefario accidentally frozen in carbonite,[a] most of his Minions, led by Mel, abandon him to find new jobs. They eventually land in jail after accidentally crashing into a television studio.
A butler named Fritz arrives at Gru's home with an invitation from his long-lost twin brother Dru, who lives in a distant country named Freedonia. The family travels to meet Dru, and are surprised by his immense wealth and mansion. Meanwhile, Bratt steals the diamond again, intending to use it to power a giant robot that will destroy Hollywood, as revenge for his show's cancelation. Dru reveals to Gru that their dead father was a supervillain known as "the Bald Terror", whose villainous activities and technological advances are the real source of the family's wealth. Dru wants Gru to teach him how to become a villain, but Gru refuses to revert to his old ways. While Lucy struggles with her new tasks as a mother, Dru and Gru become closer after joyriding in their father's high-tech vehicle.
Gru and Dru decide to steal the diamond; however, Gru secretly intends to bring it to the AVL to convince Da Vinci to rehire him and Lucy. They narrowly escape with the diamond and are rescued by Lucy. Dru, finding out Gru's true motives, is upset that Gru lied about teaching him how to be a villain. In return, Gru berates Dru for his incompetence, disowns him, and decides to leave Freedonia.
Bratt, disguised as Lucy, kidnaps the girls, and once again acquires the diamond. Discovering this, Gru and Dru put aside their differences; the brothers and Lucy set off after Bratt in the Bald Terror's vehicle. The Minions, having escaped jail, manage to follow them. With his robot's laser powered by the diamond, Bratt terrorizes Hollywood, covering it in superpowered bubble gum in hopes of lifting the city into outer space. Lucy rescues the girls from a falling skyscraper as Bratt sends Gru and Dru crash-landing into the streets of Hollywood. Bratt tries to kill Gru with the robot's laser, but Dru risks his life to break into the robot and power it down from the inside. Gru engages Bratt in a dance fight before stealing his weaponized keytar to defeat him, and send him float away in bubble gum just as AVL helicopters arrive in time. As the Minions pop the bubble gum bubbles covering the city, Dru and Gru reconcile, and share an embrace with Lucy, Margo, Edith and Agnes.
Gru and Lucy are reinstated into the AVL. The newly united family celebrates in Gru's home, and the girls acknowledge Lucy as their mother. Still wishing to be a supervillain, Dru, along with most of the Minions, steals Gru's rocket-powered aircraft and flies away. Gru and Lucy decide to give them a five-minute head-start before engaging in pursuit.
|
Destiny
| 1,921
|
Fritz Lang
|
['Lil Dagover', 'Walter Janssen', 'Bernhard Goetzke', 'Hans Sternberg', 'Karl Rückert', 'Max Adalbert', 'Wilhelm Diegelmann', 'Erich Pabst', 'Karl Platen', 'Hermann Picha', 'Paul Rehkopf', 'Max Pfeiffer', 'Georg John', 'Lydia Potechina', 'Grete Berger', 'Rudolf Klein-Rogge', 'Eduard von Winterstein', 'Lothar Müthel', 'Edgar Pauly', 'Louis Brody', 'Károly Huszár', 'Paul Biensfeldt', 'Neumann-Schüler', 'Ernst Rückert', 'Hermann Vallentin', 'Erika Unruh']
| 3.8
| null |
Horror, Romance, Science fiction, Drama, Thriller, Silent, Black-and-white, Indie film, World cinema, Fantasy
| 98
|
['Germany']
|
No spoken language
|
['No spoken language']
|
['Decla-Bioscop']
| 13,210
|
fantasy
|
filmsrankedcom-200-greatest-fantasy-films
| null |
In "Some Time and Some Place," a loving young couple is riding in a carriage on a country road, when they pick up a hitchhiker, offering him a ride into town. Little do they know, this stranger is Death himself.
In town, Death visits the mayor's office, where he purchases a small piece of land adjacent to the town cemetery. Surrounding this property, Death erects a giant, mysterious wall. At the local tavern, the young couple encounters Death again, and when the young woman is distracted, her lover disappears. Grief stricken, she sobs in front of the mysterious wall, when she sees a large group of ghosts walk past her, and through the wall. The last among these ghosts is her lover; and despite her protests, he also moves through the wall, entering the realm of Death.
Relentless, the young woman confronts Death, begging him to bring her to her lover. He leads her to a large, dark room, with numerous long candles, each one in different stages of burning. The young woman demands to know why Death took her lover away, to which Death explains that he was simply following God's will, and that it was her lover's time to die. She asks if there is anything that can be done to get her love back, arguing that love is stronger than Death. Death tells her that each candle in the room represents a human life, and that currently, three candles are flickering, representing three lives hanging in the balance. Death promises the young woman that, if she can save one of these lives with love, he will return her lover to the living.
|
Detachment
| 2,011
|
Tony Kaye
|
['Adrien Brody', 'Sami Gayle', 'Christina Hendricks', 'Louis Zorich', 'Betty Kaye', 'James Caan', 'Lucy Liu', 'Marcia Gay Harden', 'Blythe Danner', 'Tim Blake Nelson', 'William Petersen', 'Bryan Cranston', 'Celia Au', 'Isiah Whitlock Jr.', 'Patricia Rae', 'Ronen Rubinstein', 'Josh Pais', 'Reagan Leonard', 'Chris Papavasiliou', 'Ralph Rodriguez', 'Mary Joy', 'Samantha Logan']
| 3.86
| 4
|
Drama, Psychological thriller, Psychological Fiction
| 98
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Paper Street Films', 'Kingsgate Films', 'Appian Way']
| 161,161
|
sad, emotional
|
sad-movies-if-you-feel-like-you-need-to-cry
| null |
Substitute teacher Henry Barthes is called in for a one-month assignment, teaching English classes at a high school with many students performing at a low grade level.
On his first day, he assesses his students' writing skills with an essay regarding how they believe they will be remembered after they die. During this class, he observes many acts of hostility and antagonism, including a student yelling at him and threatening him physically, as well as two students verbally harassing pupil Meredith, with whom he becomes acquainted after class. Later that day, he witnesses more aggression, when the mother of a student who has been expelled for harassing teacher Sarah Madison confronts her.
After school, Henry is called in to the care facility to see his grandfather who is suffering from dementia, as he has locked himself in the bathroom and will not come out. On his way out, Henry expresses his frustrations with a staff member, as he believes his grandfather is not being taken care of properly.
On the bus ride home, Henry sees young sex worker Erica get hit by a man who refuses to pay her. Erica attempts to convince Henry to have sex with her, which he refuses.
The next day, Henry reads aloud to the class through the essays from earlier. After reading an anonymous essay (which is assumed to be Meredith's), he becomes aware of her struggles with suicidal ideation.
After visiting his grandfather, Henry again runs into Erica, who he invites up to his apartment. There, he feeds her, cleans the cuts and scrapes on her legs, and allows her to stay for the night. Over the next few nights, she is allowed to stay, though he informs her that she cannot stay forever.
At school, the staff have a memorial service for a teacher who has passed away, though none of them liked him, nor do they know how he died.
Later, a speaker gives a talk to the faculty, discussing how the low test scores are bringing down real estate prices, outraging the exhausted teachers. It is revealed there that Principal Carol Dearden is being fired soon. After the talk, Sarah asks Henry back to her house for dinner. When Henry returns home late, Erica is still awake, waiting for him. She is upset that he went out without telling her, to which he informs her that she cannot expect him to tell her such things. However, Henry believes that Erica is showing responsibility, since she went grocery shopping and prepared dinner, which pleases him.
Back at school, the counsellor Dr. Parker talks to a student, Missy, about her low grades and lack of ambition, to which she seems to lack any care about. Dr. Parker tries to tell Missy about the importance of education later in life, but she loses her composure as she expresses her frustrations over her own life, which has supposedly not gone how she wished.
Henry is later called into the care facility, where Erica has been waiting for him, because his grandfather has become gravely ill. Henry's grandfather is scared, as he believes he is responsible for the disquiet in Henry's life, and he feels that he cannot leave him. Henry tells his grandfather that he's done nothing wrong and he can let himself go if he wants to. After their visit, Henry and Erica go to the park, where Erica asks about Henry's mother. He details her suicide, the result of an overdose. He also implies that his grandfather had sexually abused his mother, but says that he never felt unsafe around either of them.
The next day at school, Meredith shows Henry an artwork that she made for him. After she mentions that Henry seems like he needs someone to talk to, Henry becomes concerned, as he believes she is referring to herself. When Meredith opens up about her struggles and becomes visibly upset, Henry tries to comfort her. She hugs him, now very upset, asking Henry to console her. Sarah walks in on them (causing Meredith to run away) and expresses her concern that Henry was acting inappropriately towards Meredith. Henry insists that he was just comforting her. However, becoming so horrified by even the mention of committing such acts himself, Henry panics and is overcome by memories of his mother and grandfather.
Later that day, Henry is informed that his grandfather has died. Feeling on-edge after all that's happened, Henry informs Erica he can no longer take care of her, and has social services take her to a foster home. She becomes very distraught, begging him to let her stay, but he reluctantly maintains his stance.
The next day at school, Meredith has set up a cupcake stall. Henry goes to talk to her about the day before, still trying to console her, but she seems reluctant to talk to him. She then eats one of her cupcakes, which she laced with poison, and dies by suicide.
Later, he decides to go visit Erica in the foster care facility. She euphorically embraces him.
On his last day of teaching, Henry reads to the class The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe.
|
Detective Heart of America: The Final Freedom
| 2,015
|
Jason Steele
|
['Jason Steele', 'Chris Alex', 'Robert Benfer', 'Jennifer Alex', 'Scuffy', 'Nick Alex', 'Brendan Mcleod']
| 3.72
| null |
['Action', 'Comedy', 'Crime']
| 75
| null |
English
|
['English']
|
['FilmCow']
| 828
|
comedy
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
Plot section not found.
|
Detour
| 1,945
|
Edgar G. Ulmer
|
['Tom Neal', 'Ann Savage', 'Claudia Drake', 'Edmund MacDonald', 'Tim Ryan', 'Esther Howard', 'Pat Gleason', 'Don Brodie']
| 3.81
| null |
War, Noir, Crime, Adventure, Mystery, Drama, Crime film, Suspense, Thriller, Detective fiction, Black-and-white, Road, Crime Fiction, Classic, Police procedural, Adaptation
| 68
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['PRC']
| 48,891
|
road-movie
|
road-movies-1
| null |
Al Roberts, an unemployed piano player, hitches a ride, arriving at a roadside diner in Reno, Nevada. Another customer in the diner plays a song on the jukebox, that disturbs Al, for it reminds him of his former life in New York City.
Al recalls a time there when he was bitter about squandering his musical talent playing in a cheap nightclub. After his girlfriend Sue Harvey, the nightclub's lead singer, quits her job and leaves New York to seek fame in Hollywood, Al becomes depressed. After anguishing a while, Al decides to travel to California to marry Sue. With little money to his name, Al is forced to hitchhike across the country.
|
Diabolique
| 1,955
|
Henri-Georges Clouzot
|
['Véra Clouzot', 'Simone Signoret', 'Paul Meurisse', 'Charles Vanel', 'Jean Brochard', 'Pierre Larquey', 'Michel Serrault', 'Yves-Marie Maurin', 'Georges Poujouly', 'Thérèse Dorny', 'Noël Roquevert', 'Jean Lefebvre', 'Robert Dalban', 'Georges Chamarat', 'Madeleine Suffel', 'Jean Témerson', 'Jacques Hilling', 'Camille Guérini', 'Jacques Varennes', 'Henri Humbert', 'Michel Dumur', 'Jean-Pierre Bonnefous', 'Johnny Hallyday', 'Jimmy Urbain', 'Henri Coutet', 'Christian Brocard', 'Jean Clarieux', 'Zappy Max']
| 4.17
| null |
Horror, Crime, Noir, Drama, Crime film, Suspense, Mystery, Thriller, Psychological thriller, Detective fiction, Classic, Psychological Fiction, Police procedural
| 117
|
['France']
|
French
|
['French', 'English']
|
['Véra Films', 'Filmsonor']
| 89,143
|
thriller, essential
|
100-essential-thrillers
| null |
A second-rate boarding school in Saint-Cloud, Hauts-de-Seine, in the Paris metropolitan area,[6] is run by the tyrannical and cruel Michel Delassalle. The school is owned, though, by Delassalle's teacher wife, the frail Christina, an émigrée from Venezuela. Michel also has an extramarital relationship with Nicole Horner, another teacher at the school. Rather than antagonism, the two women have a somewhat close relationship, primarily based on their apparent mutual hatred of Michel. He is cruel to the students, beats Nicole, and mocks Christina about her heart condition.
Unable to stand his mistreatment any longer, Nicole devises a plan to get rid of Michel forever. Though hesitant at first, Christina ultimately consents to help Nicole. Using a threatened divorce to lure Michel to Nicole's apartment building in Niort, a town several hundred kilometers away, Christina sedates him. The two women then drown him in a bathtub and, driving back to the school, dump his body in the neglected swimming pool. When his corpse floats to the top, they think it will appear to have been an accident. Almost everything goes according to their plans until the body fails to surface. Michel's corpse is nowhere to be found when the pool is drained. Afterwards, the suit that Michel had been wearing when they drowned him is returned from the dry cleaners. When the proprietor of the dry cleaners also returns a key to a room in a nearby hotel that was with the clothes, Christina goes to the room. There, the cleaning man tells her that Michel had kept the room for a while but was rarely if ever seen and stored nothing there.
Nicole sees in the newspaper that the police have found the corpse in the Seine. However, when Christina goes to the morgue, she finds it is not actually Michel's body. There, she meets Alfred Fichet, a retired senior policeman now working as a private detective. He becomes involved in the case, much to Nicole's chagrin.
Christina, Nicole and other teachers find a student who claims that Michel has ordered him to rake leaves as punishment for breaking a window. Accusing him of lying, Christina confiscates his slingshot. Under the stress, Christina's heart condition worsens, and her doctors fear she may die soon unless she maintains strict bed rest. When the school photograph is taken, the result seems to show Michel's spectral figure in the window behind the students. Unnerved, Nicole leaves the school; she asks Christina to accompany her, but she is too ill and afraid.
Christina, overcome by fear, confesses everything to Alfred. He does not believe her, but he investigates the pool. That night, Christina hears noises and wanders around the school. When she realizes that someone is following her, she runs back to her room. There, she finds Michel's corpse submerged in the bathtub, which is filled with water. Michel rises from the tub, and Christina suffers a fatal heart attack. Michel and Nicole have set up Christina from the beginning, with Michel acting as a vengeful ghost to scare Christina to death. However, Alfred hears their celebration and figures out everything, telling them they will be sentenced to 15 to 20 years in prison, depending on the judge.
The school is closed in the wake of the scandal. As the children and teachers leave, the same boy who had earlier broken a window breaks another. When asked how he recovered his slingshot, the boy says that Christina gave it to him.
|
Die Hard
| 1,988
|
John McTiernan
|
['Bruce Willis', 'Alan Rickman', 'Alexander Godunov', 'Bonnie Bedelia', 'Reginald VelJohnson', 'Paul Gleason', "De'voreaux White", 'William Atherton', 'Hart Bochner', 'James Shigeta', 'Bruno Doyon', 'Andreas Wisniewski', 'Clarence Gilyard Jr.', 'Joey Plewa', 'Lorenzo Caccialanza', 'Gerard Bonn', 'Dennis Hayden', 'Al Leong', 'Gary Roberts', 'Hans Buhringer', 'Wilhelm von Homburg', 'Robert Davi', 'Grand L. Bush', 'Bill Marcus', 'Rick Ducommun', 'Matt Landers', 'Carmine Zozzora', 'Dustyn Taylor', 'George Christy', 'Anthony Peck', 'Cheryl Baker', 'Richard Parker', 'David Ursin', 'Mary Ellen Trainor', 'Harri James', 'Shelley Pogoda', 'Selma Archerd', 'Scot Bennett', 'Rebecca Broussard', 'Kate Finlayson', 'Shanna Higgins', 'Kym Malin', 'Taylor Fry', 'Noah Land', 'Betty Carvalho', 'Kip Waldo', 'Mark Goldstein', 'Tracy Reiner', 'Rick Cicetti', 'Fred Lerner', 'Bill Margolin', 'Bob Jennings', 'Bruce P. Schultz', 'David Katz', 'Robert Lesser', 'Stella Hall', 'Terri Lynn Doss', 'Jon E. Greene', 'P. Randall Bowers', 'Michele Laybourn', 'Charlie Picerni', 'Conrad Hurtt', 'Terry Ray', 'Eric Kay']
| 4.07
| 4
|
Action, Thriller, Action Thriller, Adventure, Drama, Suspense, Detective fiction
| 132
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'German', 'Italian']
|
['Gordon Company', 'Silver Pictures', '20th Century Fox']
| 1,176,770
|
action, heist, top-rated
|
heist-movies, letterboxds-top-250-action-films
| null |
On Christmas Eve, New York City Police Department (NYPD) Detective John McClane arrives in Los Angeles, hoping to reconcile with his estranged wife, Holly, at a party held by her employer, the Nakatomi Corporation. He is driven to Nakatomi Plaza by a limo driver, Argyle, who offers to wait for McClane in the garage. While McClane washes himself, the tower is seized by the German radical Hans Gruber and his heavily armed team, including Karl and Theo. Everyone in the tower is taken hostage except for McClane, who slips away, and Argyle, who remains oblivious to events.
Gruber is posing as a terrorist to steal the $640 million in untraceable bearer bonds in the building's vault.[a] He kills executive Joseph Takagi after failing to extract the access code from him and tasks Theo with breaking into the vault. The terrorists are alerted to McClane's presence, and Karl's brother, Tony, is sent after him. McClane kills Tony and takes his weapon and radio, which he uses to contact the skeptical Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). Sergeant Al Powell is sent to investigate. Meanwhile, McClane kills more terrorists and recovers their bag of C-4 and detonators. Realizing Powell is about to leave, having found nothing amiss, McClane drops a terrorist's corpse onto his car. After Powell calls for backup, a SWAT team attempts to storm the building but is counterattacked by the terrorists. McClane throws some C-4 down an elevator shaft, causing an explosion that kills some of the terrorists and ends the counterattack.
Holly's co-worker Harry Ellis attempts to negotiate on Gruber's behalf but is killed by Gruber when McClane refuses to surrender. While checking the explosives on the roof, Gruber encounters McClane and pretends to be an escaped hostage; McClane gives Gruber a gun. Gruber attempts to shoot McClane but finds the weapon is unloaded, and he is saved only by the intervention of other terrorists. McClane escapes but is injured by shattered glass and loses the detonators. Outside, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents take control. They order the power to be shut off, which, as Gruber had anticipated, disables the final vault lock so his team can collect the bonds.
The FBI agrees to Gruber's demand for a helicopter, intending to send helicopter gunships to eliminate the group. McClane realizes Gruber plans to blow the roof to kill the hostages and fake his team's deaths. Karl, enraged by Tony's death, attacks McClane and is seemingly killed. Gruber sees a news report by Richard Thornburg on McClane's children and deduces that he is Holly's husband. The hostages are taken to the roof while Gruber keeps Holly with him. McClane drives the hostages from the roof just before Gruber detonates it and destroys the approaching FBI helicopters. Meanwhile, Theo retrieves an escape vehicle from the parking garage but is knocked out by Argyle, who has been following events on the limo's CB radio.
A weary and battered McClane finds Holly with Gruber and his remaining henchman. McClane surrenders to Gruber and is about to be shot but grabs his concealed service pistol taped to his back and uses his last two bullets to wound Gruber and kill his accomplice. Gruber crashes through a window but grabs onto Holly's wristwatch and makes a last-ditch attempt to kill the pair. McClane unclasps the watch, and Gruber falls to his death. Outside, Karl ambushes McClane and Holly but is shot dead by Powell. Holly punches Thornburg when he attempts to interview McClane. Argyle crashes through the parking garage door in the limo and drives McClane and Holly away together.
|
Die Hard With a Vengeance
| 1,995
|
John McTiernan
|
['Bruce Willis', 'Samuel L. Jackson', 'Jeremy Irons', 'Larry Bryggman', 'Graham Greene', 'Anthony Peck', 'Nicholas Wyman', 'Kevin Chamberlin', 'Colleen Camp', 'Sam Phillips', 'Michael Alexander Jackson', 'Aldis Hodge', 'Sharon Washington', 'Stephen Pearlman', 'Mischa Hausserman', 'Edwin Hodge', 'Robert Sedgwick', 'Tony Halme', 'Bill Christ', 'Anthony Thomas', 'Glenn Herman', 'Kent Faulcon', 'Akili Prince', 'Ardie Fuqua', 'Mike Jefferson', 'Andre Ware', 'Michael Lee Merrins', 'Birdie M. Hale', 'Daryl Edwards', 'Barbara Hipkiss', 'Aasif Mandvi', 'Bill Kux', 'Scott Nicholson', 'Ralph Buckley', 'Charles Dumas', 'Michael Cristofer', 'Phyllis Yvonne Stickney', 'J.R. Horne', 'Michael Tadross', 'Elvis Duran', 'John McTiernan Sr.', 'Greg A. Skoric', 'Sven Toorvald', 'T. Alloy Langenfeld', 'Timothy Adams', 'John C. Vennema', 'Gerrit Vooren', 'Willis Sparks', 'Tony Travis', 'Danny Dutton', 'James Saito', 'Patrick Borriello', 'VÃctor Rojas', 'Jeffrey Dreisbach', 'Joe Zaloom', 'John Doman', 'Patricia Mauceri', 'Franchelle Stewart Dorn', 'Kharisma', 'Gerry Becker', 'Richard Council', 'John Robert Tillotson', 'Ray Aranha', 'Phil Theis', 'Flip', 'Dory Binyon', 'David Vitt', 'John Glenn Hoyt', 'Bray Poor', 'Shari-Lyn Safir', 'Ivan Skoric', 'Faisal Hassan', 'Richard Russell Ramos', 'Angela Amato Velez', 'Richard V. Allen', 'Shirley J. Hatcher', 'David P. Martin', 'James Patrick Whalen Sr.', 'Paul Simon', 'Carl Brewer', 'Vernon Campbell', 'Ali A. Wahhab', 'David Sontag', 'Ralph A. Villani', 'Carlo Giuliano', 'Jeannie Epper', 'Keith Schwabinger', 'Michael Luggio', 'Drew Nelson']
| 3.7
| 3.5
|
Action, Comedy, Adventure, Buddy, Drama, Suspense, Mystery, Thriller, Detective fiction, Crime Fiction, Police procedural
| 128
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'German', 'Romanian']
|
['20th Century Fox', 'Cinergi Pictures']
| 295,411
|
heist
|
heist-movies
| null |
The Bonwit Teller department store in New York City is blown up by a bomb during the morning commute. A man identifying himself as "Simon" telephones the New York City Police Department (NYPD) and claims responsibility. Making demands in the form of a 'Simon Says' game, he threatens to detonate another bomb unless Lt. John McClane is sent to Harlem wearing an intentionally provocative sandwich board. The NYPD comply and send McClane to Harlem, where he is confronted by an electrician and shop owner named Zeus Carver. McClane explains his situation before a group of gang members also confront McClane over his sign. Carver intervenes and saves McClane, and they escape in a taxi.
They arrive at 1 Police Plaza, where Simon demands that the pair follow a timed challenge or he will set off more bombs. They agree and McClane eventually boards the 3 train heading towards the Wall Street station in order to defuse a bomb that Simon planted on it. Carver arrives at the station before McClane finds the bomb and throws it on the tracks just as it explodes. McClane and Carver regroup with the NYPD and meet some FBI and CIA agents, who initially inform the pair that Simon is "Peter Krieg", a mercenary and former colonel in the National People's Army. They then reveal that Krieg's real name is Simon Peter Gruber, the brother of Hans Gruber, who McClane killed years earlier in Los Angeles.[b]
Simon then places another call to the NYPD, informing them that he has planted an explosive in one of the city's elementary schools which is set to explode once class ends and can be triggered by the same radio frequencies utilized by law enforcement. Simon offers to give the authorities the school's location if McClane and Carver follow another timed challenge, warning that he will detonate the explosive if any evacuation attempts are carried out. While the pair solve Simon's next challenge, the NYPD begin to search all elementary schools in the city. McClane realizes that Simon is attempting to distract the NYPD away from Wall Street, which has no schools, and travels to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Building. He discovers that Simon's men have stolen $140 billion of gold bullion from its vault using dump trucks. He follows the trucks into the under-construction New York City Water Tunnel No. 3 while Carver continues Simon's challenges.
Simon blows up a cofferdam to flood the tunnel, but McClane escapes and reunites with Carver. Surviving a car chase with Simon's men, the pair find all the men were carrying exactly enough money to pay a bridge toll. The pair sneak aboard a tanker docked in the Long Island Sound, but Simon's associates capture them and tie them up next to a bomb. Simon explains that his school threat was fake and broadcasts a message claiming that he is planning on destroying the tanker filled with the bullion to destabilize the Western world's economy. After he leaves, Carver and McClane free themselves and escape the tanker just before the bomb detonates. As McClane and Carver are debriefed by the NYPD, McClane informs them that none of the bullion Simon's men stole was in the tanker's cargo hold, having deduced that Simon had intended to keep all of it for himself, using his knowledge of the Gruber family's modus operandi.
While attempting to place a call to his estranged wife Holly, McClane glances at a bottle of aspirin given to him by Simon onboard the tanker and notices that it was purchased at a truck stop in Quebec on the Canada–United States border. McClane informs the NYPD of his discovery, and joins them and Carver as they rush towards a warehouse near the truck stop where Simon and his men are redistributing the bullion and planning their escape. The rest of Simon's men are quickly apprehended by law enforcement personnel, though Simon and his girlfriend Katya attempt to escape in a helicopter, attacking McClane. McClane shoots at an overhead power line which falls onto the helicopter, causing it to crash and explode, killing Simon and Katya. While they are celebrating their triumph, Carver persuades McClane to place another call to Holly.
|
Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge
| 1,924
|
Fritz Lang
|
['Margarete Schön', 'Gertrud Arnold', 'Theodor Loos', 'Hans Carl Mueller', 'Erwin Biswanger', 'Bernhard Goetzke', 'Hans Adalbert Schlettow', 'Hardy von Francois', 'Yuri Yurovsky', 'Iris Roberts', 'Rudolf Klein-Rogge', 'Georg John', 'Hubert Heinrich', 'Rudolf Rittner', 'Annie Röttgen', 'Fritz Alberti', 'Georg August Koch']
| 4.07
| null |
Action, Drama, Adventure, Fantasy, Silent
| 129
|
['Germany']
|
No spoken language
|
['No spoken language']
|
['UFA', 'Decla-Bioscop']
| 7,631
|
fantasy
|
filmsrankedcom-200-greatest-fantasy-films
| null |
Plot section not found.
|
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried
| 1,924
|
Fritz Lang
|
['Gertrud Arnold', 'Margarete Schön', 'Hanna Ralph', 'Paul Richter', 'Theodor Loos', 'Hans Carl Mueller', 'Erwin Biswanger', 'Bernhard Goetzke', 'Hans Adalbert Schlettow', 'Hardy von Francois', 'Georg John', 'Frida Richard', 'Yuri Yurovsky', 'Iris Roberts', 'Fritz Alberti', 'Grete Berger', 'Hubert Heinrich', 'Rudolf Klein-Rogge', 'Georg August Koch', 'Rudolf Rittner']
| 4.14
| null |
Drama, Adventure, Fantasy, Silent
| 148
|
['Germany']
|
No spoken language
|
['No spoken language']
|
['UFA', 'Decla-Bioscop']
| 10,803
|
fantasy
|
filmsrankedcom-200-greatest-fantasy-films
| null |
Plot section not found.
|
Dirty Computer
| 2,018
|
Lacey Duke, Emma Westenberg
|
['Janelle Monáe', 'Tessa Thompson', 'Jayson Aaron', 'Michele Hart', 'Dyson Posey', 'Alex Wexo', 'Logan Hunt', 'Mel James Payne', 'Brinnen Thompson', 'Anuhea Ceballos', 'Jason Comp', 'Paris Granger', 'Janicca Olin', 'Angel Blaise', 'Kyle Samples', 'Lydia Rene', 'Sasha Dean', 'Alexis Long', 'Jonah Lees', 'Lori Dorfman', 'Miesha Moore', 'Jannica Olin', 'Oliver Morton', 'Marlo Su', 'Andi Yuma']
| 4.02
| null |
['Drama', 'Music', 'Romance', 'Science Fiction']
| 49
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Wondaland']
| 15,849
|
sci-fi, top-rated
|
letterboxds-top-250-science-fiction-films
| null |
Plot section not found.
|
Dirty Harry
| 1,971
|
Don Siegel
|
['Clint Eastwood', 'Harry Guardino', 'Reni Santoni', 'John Vernon', 'Andrew Robinson', 'John Larch', 'John Mitchum', 'Mae Mercer', 'Lyn Edgington', 'Ruth Kobart', 'Woodrow Parfrey', 'Josef Sommer', 'William Paterson', 'James Nolan', 'Maurice Argent', 'Jo De Winter', 'Craig Kelly', 'Albert Popwell', 'Joy Carlin', 'Bill Couch', 'Diana Davidson', 'Vince Deadrick Sr.', 'Chuck Dorsett', 'Al Dunlap', 'Larry Duran', 'George Fargo', 'Lois Foraker', 'Max Gail', 'John Garber', 'Christopher Pray', 'Eddie Garrett', 'James W. Gavin', 'David Gilliam', 'Don Haggerty', 'Scott Hale', 'Kate Harper', 'Bob Harris', 'Chuck Hicks', 'Raymond Johnson', 'Richard Lawson', 'Laurie Mock', 'Ann Noland', "Kathleen O'Malley", 'Angela Paton', 'Victor Paul', 'Debralee Scott', 'Don Siegel', 'Kristoffer Tabori', 'Tony Dario', 'Marc Hertsens', 'Gordon Chapli', 'Janet Wisely', 'Pamela Tanimura', 'Richard Samuelson', 'Derek Jue', 'Sean Maley', 'Diane Darnell', 'Diana Davidson']
| 3.82
| 4
|
Action, Crime film, Mystery, Action Thriller, Drama, Suspense, Thriller, Psychological thriller, Detective fiction, Crime Fiction, Psychological Fiction, Police procedural, Action/Adventure, Crime Thriller
| 102
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'Spanish']
|
['Warner Bros. Pictures', 'Malpaso Productions']
| 193,254
|
action, top-rated
|
letterboxds-top-250-action-films
| null |
A psychopathic sniper, later referred to as "Scorpio", shoots a woman while she swims in a San Francisco skyscraper rooftop pool. He leaves behind a threatening letter demanding he be paid $100,000 or he will kill more people. The note is found by SFPD Inspector Harry Callahan, who is investigating the killing. The mayor teams up with the police to track down the killer; to stall for time, he agrees to Scorpio's demand over Callahan's objections. During his lunch break, Harry foils a bank robbery. He shoots one robber dead, and holds another at gunpoint with his Smith & Wesson Model 29 revolver, giving him an ultimatum:
|
Dirty Ho
| 1,979
|
Lau Kar-leung
|
['Wong Yu', 'Gordon Liu Chia-hui', 'Lo Lieh', 'Johnny Wang Lung-Wei', 'Hsiao Ho', 'Wilson Tong', 'Kara Hui Ying-Hung', 'Helen Poon Bing-Seung', 'Yau Chui-Ling', 'Chen Szu-Chia', 'Liu Suk-Yee', 'Lui Hung', 'San Sin', 'Lam Hak-Ming', 'Yang Chi-Ching', 'Jamie Luk Kim-Ming', 'Ching Miao', 'Huang Pa-Ching', 'Cheung Chok-Chow', 'Tony Lee Wan-Miu', 'Wong Ching-Ho', 'Lee Ging-Fan', 'Lun Ga-Chun', 'Kei Ho-Chiu', 'Peter Chan Lung', 'Yue Tau-Wan', 'Ng Hong-Sang', 'King Lee King-Chu', 'Lam Fai-Wong', 'Shum Lo', 'Wai Wang', 'Keung Hon', 'Tai Kwan-Tak', 'Wang Han-Chen', 'Lui Tat', 'Lee Fat-Yuen', 'Sa Au', 'Ho Bo-Sing', 'Yeung Sai-Gwan', 'Yeung Wah', 'Ting Tung', 'Gam Tin-Chue', 'Chai Lam', 'Fung Ming', 'Lau Chun', 'Tang Wing-Siu', 'Chan Ming-Wai', 'Nam Wai', 'Chu Kai', 'Cheung Wing-Hon', 'Lam Wah', 'Ho Kei-Cheong', 'Ng Kit-Keung', 'Ho Chi-Wai']
| 3.82
| 4.5
|
Action, Comedy, Adventure, Martial Arts, Drama
| 103
|
['Hong Kong']
|
Cantonese
|
['Cantonese']
|
['Shaw Brothers']
| 6,299
|
action, top-rated
|
letterboxds-top-250-action-films
| null |
Master Wang is the 11th prince of Manchuria in disguise. Living as a sophisticated jewellery dealer and connoisseur of fine art and wine. Master Wang has no interest in being emperor and enjoys his rather peaceful lifestyle, yet he ends up trying to determine which of the other 14 heirs to the throne is trying to have him assassinated. Wang is a martial arts expert, but in order to conceal his identity, he systematically hides his skills, even if he needs to use them. An infamous jewel thief, Ho Ching, a.k.a. Dirty Ho, runs afoul of the prince, who eventually drafts Ho to help him flush out his enemies.
In the opening sequence of the film proper (after a title sequence which already features two highly abstract fight sequences by the principals) Wang encounters Ho Ching at a brothel. They come into conflict by vying with one another for the attentions of the courtesans, Wang using his legitimate jewellery, and Ho Ching using stolen jewellery. Ho Ching, who is not too bright, can't figure out why his efforts to fight with the seemingly cowardly, effete Wang inevitably result in clumsy disaster. It is Wang, of course, who skillfully deflects Ho into tripping over chairs and so forth. When the police come to arrest both men, Wang secretly displays his royal seal to the police captain, who tells his men to leave Wang alone. Wang orders the police captain to detain Ho Ching, but release him later. Ho Ching is arrested and taken to jail while Wang confiscates his stolen jewels and continues entertaining the courtesans.
Ho Ching is let go by the police and attempts to get "his" jewelry back from Wang, which again ends in clumsy disaster for him and eventually to a fight with some local thugs who are looking for him (who they claimed stole from them). After defeating them, Ho Ching is arrested a second time, and released again when Wang orders the police to let him go. In a final confrontation with Ho, Wang pretends that a female musician, Choi Hung (Kara Hui) is his "bodyguard", invisibly manipulating the bewildered woman's arms, legs and musical instrument in order to make her fight with Ho and eventually graze him in the forehead with a poisoned blade. It is, however, all part of Wang's scheme: he is secretly protecting the troublemaking, yet good-natured Ho from his greatest enemy (himself). Ho eventually seeks out Choi Hung for the antidote, but Wang tells her that she moved away to get married and left him the antidote, which Wang administers to Ho Ching in return for Ho Ching becoming his student.
Ho is initially puzzled at this since he has not detected any kung fu prowess in his master at all, yet goes along with it since Wang has the poison antidote, which must be administered in small doses over time. Initially, he remains a clueless bystander during two attempts on Wang's life: first, an attack at a wine-tasting, and then a visit to an antique-dealer's shop, both sponsored by General Liang at the orders of the 4th Prince (who wants his brother dead). Wang manages to defend himself admirably while maintaining the fiction that he is simply having a friendly aesthetic conversation with his opponents. Only at the end of the antique-shop attack does Ho figure out what's going on and intervene, but Wang receives a wound in the leg through a stratagem of the antiques dealer.
The master and his disciple sequester themselves in an abandoned residence – Wang for recovery, Ho Ching for some kung fu training. News spreads of a reward for an injured "fugitive" and a doctor discovers that Ho Ching is taking care of him. The doctor hires bounty hunters, whom he will split the reward with. When the bounty hunters come to confront Ho Ching and take Wang, Wang tells Ho Ching to pay them what the reward is so they can look the other way (while Ho incapacitates them in the process). But it is nearly time for the princes to assemble for the announcement of the heir to the throne, and so Wang and Ho undertake the dangerous journey to Peking with Wang in disguise, being pushed in a wheelchair by Ho.
Defeating an army of assassins in a ruined city, they manage to extract from the assassins' leader the identity of the Prince (Number Four) who is targeting Wang. The heroes then encounter their most formidable enemy, General Liang plus his captains, and a climactic fight sequence follows.
They manage to defeat their enemies just in time for the prince to enter the throne room in time for the Emperor's appearance. Ho Ching, outside the door, passes his master his necklace of beads on the pole they used during the fight; the Prince takes them and deftly uses the pole to send Ho flying outside the room. The film ends with a freeze-frame on Dirty Ho in mid-air.
|
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
| 1,988
|
Frank Oz
|
['Steve Martin', 'Michael Caine', 'Glenne Headly', 'Anton Rodgers', 'Barbara Harris', 'Ian McDiarmid', 'Dana Ivey', 'Meagen Fay', 'Frances Conroy', 'Nicole Calfan', 'Aïna Walle', 'Cheryl Pay', 'Nathalie Auffret', 'Lolly Susi', 'Rupert Holliday-Evans', 'Hepburn Graham', 'Xavier Maly', 'André Penvern', 'Louis Zorich', 'Georges Gerrard Baffos', 'Valerie Beaufils']
| 3.7
| null |
Romance, Comedy, Drama, Crime film, Buddy, Detective fiction, Slapstick, Crime Fiction, Police procedural
| 110
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Orion Pictures']
| 74,750
|
comedy
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
Lawrence Jamieson is a sophisticated and affluent British con artist operating in the town of Beaumont-sur-Mer on the French Riviera. Aided by his manservant Arthur and amoral police official Andre, Lawrence seduces wealthy women and cons them for high-value sums by posing as an exiled prince raising money for his country's freedom fighters. While returning from a trip to Zurich, Lawrence encounters Freddy Benson, an unsophisticated American hustler who brags of conning women out of relatively meager amounts with stories of his sick grandmother.
After Freddy inadvertently interferes with Lawrence's latest target, Lawrence tricks him into leaving town. However, after meeting one of Lawrence's former victims and realizing Lawrence is a fellow con artist, Freddy returns and blackmails Lawrence into training him. Lawrence teaches Freddy his refined style of deception—with limited success—and develops a new con in which Freddy portrays his mentally disabled brother to drive away women once Lawrence has their money. Freddy quits after Lawrence refuses to pay him a portion of the ill-gotten gains. Unwilling to share his territory with Freddy, the pair agree to a bet: the first to con $50,000 from a selected victim wins and the other leaves town. They choose newly-arrived tourist, the naive "United States Soap Queen" Janet Colgate.
Lawrence attempts his usual con but Freddy intervenes, posing as a U.S. Navy veteran and psychosomatic parapalegic who needs $50,000 for treatment from psychiatrist Dr. Emil Schaffhausen. In response, Lawrence poses as Schaffhausen and agrees to treat Freddy if Janet pays him $50,000 directly. The pair compete for Janet's attention, with Lawrence tormenting Freddy under the guise of treatment, and Freddy manipulating her with a fake suicide attempt. One night, in a club, Lawrence dances with Janet and taunts Freddy which upsets some nearby British sailors. Freddy convinces them that Lawrence stole Janet from him and the sailors agree to help. Later, Lawrence learns that Janet is not wealthy—having won her holiday and title in a soap company competition—yet has liquidated all of her assets to help Freddy. Touched by her genuine kindness and generosity, and adhering to his personal code of never taking advantage of the poor or virtuous, Lawrence calls off the bet. Freddy counters with a new bet: the first to seduce Janet wins. Lawrence refuses to participate but agrees that if Freddy succeeds, he wins.
After Lawrence is abducted by the sailors, Freddy returns to Janet's hotel room and demonstrates his "love" for her by walking. Lawrence, who is also in the room, declares Freddy cured, having appeased the sailors by revealing his status as a Royal Naval Reserve officer. He leaves Freddy with the sailors who haze him until the morning while Lawrence puts Janet on an airplane home. However, Janet returns to her hotel room to find Freddy waiting and declares her love for him. Andre informs Lawrence who prepares to accept his defeat until Janet arrives at Lawrence's villa in tears, revealing that Freddy stole the $50,000 she had collected for him. Lawrence gifts her a bag containing $50,000 of his own money and returns her to the airport, instructing Andre to arrest Freddy. Before her plane departs, Janet returns the bag to Lawrence, saying she cannot accept it. Andre arrives with Freddy who claims that Janet stole his wallet and clothes. Lawrence opens the bag and finds the money replaced with a note revealing that Janet is the Jackal, a prominent American con artist. Freddy is furious but Lawrence takes delight in having been so skillfully deceived.
A week later, Freddy and Lawrence contemplate their loss at Lawrence's villa. A group of wealthy tourists arrive led by Janet, who is posing as a high-value real estate agent. While the tourists head to the villa, Janet tells Lawrence and Freddy that while she made millions in the last year, taking their money was the most fun. Lawrence and Freddy assume their roles in Janet's plot as the trio prepares to scam their latest victims.
|
District 9
| 2,009
|
Neill Blomkamp
|
['Sharlto Copley', 'Jason Cope', 'Nathalie Boltt', 'Sylvaine Strike', 'Elizabeth Mkandawie', 'John Sumner', 'William Allen Young', 'Nick Blake', 'Greg Melvill-Smith', 'Robert Hobbs', 'Vanessa Haywood', 'Morena Busa Sesatsa', 'Themba Nkosi', 'Mzwandile Nqoba', 'Barry Strydom', 'Jed Brophy', 'Louis Minnaar', 'Marian Hooman', 'Vittorio Leonardi', 'David Clatworthy', 'Michael Huff', 'David James', 'Tim Gordon', 'Anthony Bishop', 'Anthony Fridjhon', 'Eugene Khumbanyiwa', 'Melt Sieberhagen', 'Andre Odendaal', 'Louise Saint-Claire', 'Norman Anstey', 'Nick Boraine', 'Brandon Auret', 'Jacques Gombault', 'Justin Strydom', 'Simo Mogwaza', 'Matt Stern', 'David Dukas', 'Daniel Hadebe', 'Bongo Mbutuma', 'Johnny Selema', 'Mandla Gaduka', 'Johan van Schoor', 'Stella Steenkamp', 'Mampho Brescia', 'Morne Erasmus', 'Hlengiwe Madlala', 'Siyabonga Radebe', 'Alan Glauber', 'Nicolas Herbstein', 'Sibulele Gcilitshana', 'Mahendra Raghunath', 'Phillip Mathebula', 'Claudine Bennent', 'Michelle Ayden', 'Antony Sarak', 'Billy Somagaca', 'Ryan Whittal', 'John Jacob', 'Yashik Maharaj', 'Fernando Saraiva', 'Sharon Waugh', 'Theunis Nel', 'Sonni Chidiebere', 'Danny Datnow', 'Wisani Mbokota', 'Craig Jackson', 'Justin Duplessis', 'Rodney Downey', 'Den Antonakas', 'Mashabela Galane', 'Mfazwe Sekobane', 'Nicholas Ratlou', 'Saint Gregory Nwokedi', 'Donalson Rabisi', 'Zephania Sibanda', 'Gideon Thodane', 'Mdu Mthabela', 'David Mikhethi', 'Jeffries Simelane', 'Shafique Allan', 'Wendy Mbatha', 'Leigh Mashupye', 'Beauty Setai', 'Nkiyase Mondlana', 'Kuda Rusike', 'Morena Setatsa', 'Mpho Molao', 'Ntombi Nkuua', 'Absalom Dikane', 'Monthandazo Thomo', 'Norman Thabalala', 'Siphiwe Mbuko', 'Shiela Nene', 'Neill Blomkamp', 'Trevor Coppola', 'Kenneth Nkosi']
| 3.81
| 4.5
|
Science fiction, Horror, Action, Adventure, Drama, Suspense, Thriller, Indie film
| 112
|
['New Zealand', 'South Africa', 'USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'Afrikaans', 'Chichewa, Chewa, Nyanja', 'Southern Sotho', 'Xhosa', 'Zulu']
|
['TriStar Pictures', 'Block / Hanson', 'WingNut Films', 'District 9']
| 651,689
|
sci-fi, top-rated
|
letterboxds-top-250-science-fiction-films
| null |
In 1982, a giant extraterrestrial spaceship arrives and hovers over the South African city of Johannesburg. An investigation team finds over a million malnourished aliens inside, and the South African government relocates them to a camp called District 9. However, over the years, it turns into a slum, and locals often complain that the aliens—derogatorily called "prawns"—are filthy, ignorant lawbreakers who bleed resources from humans.
Following unrest between the aliens and locals, the government hires Multinational United (MNU), a giant weapons manufacturer, to relocate the aliens to a new camp outside the city. Piet Smit, an MNU executive, appoints an MNU employee and his son-in-law, Wikus van de Merwe, to lead the relocation. Meanwhile, three aliens, Christopher Johnson, his young son CJ, and his friend Paul, search a District 9 garbage dump for alien fuel in Prawn technology, which Christopher has had them spend the last 20 years synthesizing enough of to enact his plan. They finally finish in Paul's shack as the relocation begins, but when Wikus comes to serve Paul a notice, he finds the hidden container with the fuel and accidentally sprays some of it in his face while confiscating it. Koobus Venter, a cruel MNU mercenary, kills Paul.
Wikus begins mutating into a Prawn, starting with his left arm injured after the fuel exposure. He is immediately taken to the brutal MNU lab, where researchers discover his chimeric DNA grants him the ability to operate Prawn weaponry, which is biologically restricted for them. Wanting to capture this human/alien hybridity before Wikus fully transforms, Smit orders Wikus' body to be vivisected and harvested for its profitable properties. Wikus, however, overpowers the lab personnel and escapes. While Venter's forces hunt for him, a smear story is broadcast, one that reaches Wikus' wife Tania (Smit's daughter) claiming Wikus is a wanted fugitive who has contracted a contagious disease from copulating with aliens.
Wikus takes refuge in District 9, finding Christopher and the spaceship's concealed command module dropship underneath his house. Christopher explains to Wikus that the confiscated fuel is crucial to his plan of reactivating the dropship, and if he can get them in the dropship to the mothership, he can cure Wikus. Wikus attempts to acquire weapons from the District 9 Nigerian arms dealer, Obesandjo, who wants to eat Wikus's alien arm to gain alien abilities. Wikus, however, seizes an alien weapon and escapes.
Wikus and Christopher force themselves through MNU to the lab to retrieve the fuel. However, after seeing the brutal experiments MNU has performed on his people in the lab—including a dissected Paul—Christopher tells Wikus he must return home as fast as possible for help and cannot undo Wikus' mutation until he returns in three years due to the limited supply of fuel. Enraged, Wikus knocks Christopher down and attempts to fly the module to the mothership, but Venter's forces shoot it down. Venter captures Wikus and Christopher, but Obesandjo's gang ambushes the MNU convoy and seizes Wikus.
Meanwhile, CJ, remaining hidden in the dropship, remotely activates the mothership and a large robotic alien battle suit in Obesandjo's base. The suit guns down the Nigerians, and Wikus enters the suit and rescues Christopher from the mercenaries. Heading to the dropship, the two come under heavy fire, and Wikus decides to stay behind to fend off the mercenaries and buy time for Christopher to escape, who promises to return after three years and heal Wikus. After all of the other mercenaries are killed, Venter finally cripples the suit and is about to execute Wikus when slum Prawns attack and dismember him alive. Christopher makes it into the dropship with CJ, and the dropship is levitated via a tractor beam back into the mothership, which leaves Earth.
MNU's experiments are exposed, and the aliens are moved to the new camp named District 10. Tania finds a metal flower on her doorstep, giving her hope that Wikus is still alive. Wikus, now fully transformed into a Prawn, is shown in a junkyard crafting flowers for his wife.
|
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
| 2,002
|
Callie Khouri
|
['Sandra Bullock', 'Ellen Burstyn', 'Fionnula Flanagan', 'James Garner', 'Cherry Jones', 'Ashley Judd', 'Shirley Knight', 'Angus Macfadyen', 'Maggie Smith', 'Jacqueline McKenzie', 'Katy Selverstone', 'Kiersten Warren', 'David Lee Smith', 'Gina McKee', 'Matthew Settle', 'David Rasche', 'Leslie Silva', 'Ron Dortch', 'Frederick Koehler', 'Allison Bertolino', 'Austin R. Cooper', 'Sarah Huck', 'Alex Cooper', 'Caitlin Wachs', 'Alyssa May Gold', 'Mary Katherine Weiss', 'Nicki Tschudi', 'Deborah Hobart', 'Clint Lienau', 'David Bridgewater', 'Sarallen', 'Veda Wilson', 'Mark Joy', 'Michael Mattison', 'Gil Johnson', 'Boyd Kestner', 'Barbara Weetman', 'Suellen Yates', 'Don Henderson Baker', 'E. Michael Hewett', 'Robert Longstreet', 'Mark Jeffrey Miller', 'Nina Repeta', 'Mike Moyer', 'Taj Mahal']
| 3.16
| null |
Drama, Romance, Comedy, Historical drama, Comedy drama, Adaptation, Family Drama
| 116
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['All Girl Productions', 'Gaylord Productions']
| 16,665
|
friendship
|
favorite-friendship-driven-movies
| null |
In 1937 Louisiana, four little girls in the woods at night take a blood oath of loyalty to one another, led by Vivi Abbott, who dubs the group the "Ya-Ya Sisterhood."
In 2002 New York City, Vivi's eldest daughter, playwright Siddalee "Sidda" Walker, gives an interview with a reporter from Time, mentioning her unhappy childhood as a major source of inspiration for her work. The reporter sensationalizes Sidda's complaint, implying abuse and deep, dark family secrets. The article upsets Vivi, who calls Sidda and angrily declares that she is dead to her. Vivi cuts Sidda from her will, and Sidda disinvites Vivi from her upcoming wedding to fiancé Connor McGill.
Still friends despite the years, the other Ya-Ya Sisters, Caro Benett, Teensy Whitman, and Necie Kelleher, decide to take the matter into their own hands. They kidnap Sidda in New York by drugging her drink and take her back to Louisiana, hoping to show her how Vivi's troubled past has caused her present issues, including her fight with Sidda.
As the Sisters show Sidda Vivi's scrapbook, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, a series of flashbacks depicts Vivi's turbulent history from her childhood to Sidda's, which include Vivi witnessing racism at Teensy's aunt and uncle's house, being falsely accused of incest with her father Taylor by her bitter and jealous mother Buggy, and losing the love of her life Jack Whitman, Teensy's older brother, to an airplane crash in World War II. Sidda is unmoved in her opinion of Vivi as self-centered and helpless, and is so upset she tells Connor she wants to postpone their wedding. It is revealed that the main source of conflict in Sidda and Vivi's relationship is an incident where Vivi had a nervous breakdown and brutally beat Sidda and her siblings. Unbeknownst to Sidda, Vivi had been prescribed a dangerous dosage of antidepressant Dexamyl, which caused her erratic behavior; she had to be hospitalized following the incident.
With this revelation, Sidda finally understands her mother's suffering. Vivi and Sidda reconcile, and Sidda decides that she wants to marry Connor in Louisiana. Vivi and the Sisters induct Sidda into the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.
|
Django Unchained
| 2,012
|
Quentin Tarantino
|
['Jamie Foxx', 'Christoph Waltz', 'Leonardo DiCaprio', 'Kerry Washington', 'Samuel L. Jackson', 'Walton Goggins', 'Dennis Christopher', 'James Remar', 'David Steen', 'Dana Gourrier', 'Nichole Galicia', 'Laura Cayouette', 'Ato Essandoh', 'Sammi Rotibi', 'Clay Donahue Fontenot', 'Escalante Lundy', 'Miriam F. Glover', 'Don Johnson', 'Franco Nero', 'James Russo', 'Tom Wopat', 'Don Stroud', 'Amber Tamblyn', 'Bruce Dern', 'M.C. Gainey', 'Cooper Huckabee', 'Doc Duhame', 'Jonah Hill', 'Lee Horsley', 'Zoë Bell', 'Michael Bowen', 'Robert Carradine', 'Jake Garber', 'Ted Neeley', 'James Parks', 'Tom Savini', 'Michael Parks', 'John Jarratt', 'Quentin Tarantino', 'Amari Cheatom', 'Keith Jefferson', 'Marcus Henderson', 'Lil Chuuch', 'Kinetic', 'Louise Stratten', 'Kim Robillard', 'Shana Stein', 'Shannon Hazlett', 'Jack Lucarelli', 'Victoria Thomas', 'Grace Collins', 'Sharon Pierre-Louis', 'Christopher Berry', 'Kim Collins', 'Dane Rhodes', 'J.D. Evermore', 'Rex Linn', 'Michael Bacall', 'Ronan Hice', 'Ned Bellamy', 'Dave Coennen', 'Danièle Watts', 'Jon Eyez', 'Omar J. Dorsey', 'Evan Parke', 'Craig Stark', 'Brian Brown', 'Ritchie Montgomery', 'Nicholas Dashnaw', 'Jarrod Bunch', 'Edrick Browne', 'Kerry Sims', 'Jamal Duff', 'Todd Allen', 'Lewis Smith', 'Keniaryn Mitchell', 'Jakel Marshall', 'Carl Singleton', 'Ashley Toman', 'John McConnell', 'Mark Amos', "Monica Rene'e Anderson", 'Marsha Stephanie Blake', 'Catherine Lambert', 'Deborah Ayorinde', 'Takara Clark', 'Kimberley Drummond', 'Tenaj L. Jackson', 'Carl Bailey', 'Ross P. Cook', 'Gregory Allen Gabroy', 'Seth Bailey', 'David G. Baker', 'Richie J. Ladner', 'Glen Warner', 'Kesha Bullard', 'Edward J. Clare', 'Jordon Michael Corbin', 'Mike DeMille', 'Gary Grubbs', 'Justin Hall', 'Sandra Linz', 'Kasey James', 'Skipper Landry', 'Cindy Mah', 'Johnny Otto', 'Belinda Owino', 'Mark Ulano', 'Misty Upham', 'Russ Tamblyn', 'Fatimah Taliah', 'Santana Draper']
| 4.26
| 3.5
|
Western, Comedy, Action, Spaghetti western, Blaxploitation, Revisionist Western, Dark comedy, Adventure, Drama, Exploitation
| 165
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'French', 'German']
|
['The Weinstein Company', 'Columbia Pictures']
| 2,331,610
| null |
lb_top250
| null |
In 1858 Texas, brothers Ace and Dicky Speck drive a group of shackled black slaves. Among them is Django, sold off and separated from his wife Broomhilda von Shaft, a house slave who speaks German and English. They are stopped by Dr. King Schultz, a German dentist-turned-bounty hunter seeking to buy Django for his knowledge of the three outlaw Brittle brothers. They were overseers at the plantation of Django's previous owner and Schultz has a warrant for their arrests.
Ace refuses to sell Django to Schultz and threatens him. Schultz kills Ace and shoots Dicky's horse to pin him to the ground. He encourages the freed slaves to take revenge, and they shoot Dicky to death. Schultz offers Django his freedom and $75 in exchange for help tracking down the Brittles.
Django and Schultz kill the Brittle brothers at Spencer "Big Daddy" Bennett's Tennessee plantation. In turn, Bennett pursues them with an armed posse. Schultz ambushes the posse with explosives, and Django kills Bennett. Feeling responsible for Django, Schultz agrees to help him find and rescue Broomhilda, and Schultz trains Django to become a bounty hunter. They return to Texas, where Django collects his first bounty, keeping the handbill as a memento and for good luck. He and Schultz rack up several bounties before spring when they travel to Mississippi and learn that Broomhilda's new owner is Calvin J. Candie, owner of the "Candyland" plantation. There, he forces male slaves to wrestle to the death in brutal "Mandingo" fights.
Schultz and Django hatch a plan: deciding that Candie will refuse to sell Broomhilda if they try to buy her upfront, they will instead offer $12,000 (equivalent to $423,000 in 2023) for one of his best fighters as a pretext to acquire Broomhilda for a nominal sum. They intend to leave the plantation with Broomhilda under the pretense of returning with the purchase money for a fighter. They meet Candie at his gentlemen's club and make the offer. Intrigued, Candie invites them to Candyland. En route, the group encounters Candie's slave trackers, who have cornered D'Artagnan, an escaped Mandingo fighter. Django is forced to intervene when Schultz attempts to buy D'Artagnan to save him. Candie has the trackers' guard dogs maul D'Artagnan to death, visibly upsetting Schultz.
Having told Broomhilda of their plan, Schultz offers to buy her as his escort while negotiating the initial Mandingo deal during dinner. Candie's loyal house slave Stephen is suspicious after realizing that Broomhilda and Django know each other. He deduces their plan and alerts Candie.
Enraged, Candie tells Schultz at gunpoint that he won't sell Broomhilda for less than $12,000; Schultz reluctantly agrees. Candie threatens to kill Broomhilda if Schultz does not shake his hand to seal the deal. Having had enough of Candie's arrogance, Schultz shoots and kills Candie. Butch Pooch, Candie's bodyguard, kills Schultz, and Django kills Pooch, Candie's lawyer Leonide Moguy, and many of Candie's henchmen in a prolonged gunfight. He is forced to surrender when Broomhilda is taken hostage.
The next morning, the chained Django is tortured and about to be castrated by overseer Billy Crash when Stephen arrives, informing him that Candie's sister Lara, who has taken charge of the plantation, has ordered him to be sold to a mining company and worked to death. En route to the mines along with other slaves, Django devises an escape plan. He uses his first handbill to prove to his escorts that he is a bounty hunter. He claims that the men on the handbill are at Candyland, and promises the escorts a share of the reward money. Once released and handed a gun, Django immediately kills his escorts, retrieves his clothes and weapons, and returns to Candyland with dynamite.
Recovering Broomhilda's freedom papers from Schultz's corpse, Django bids his deceased mentor goodbye and avenges him and D'Artagnan by killing the trackers. He frees Broomhilda just as Candie's mourners return from his burial. At the mansion, Django kills Lara, Crash, and the remaining henchmen, releases the two remaining house slaves, and kneecaps Stephen before igniting the dynamite he had planted throughout the mansion, leaving him for dead. Django and Broomhilda watch from a distance as the mansion explodes before riding off together.
|
Do the Right Thing
| 1,989
|
Spike Lee
|
['Danny Aiello', 'Spike Lee', 'Ossie Davis', 'Richard Edson', 'John Turturro', 'Ruby Dee', 'Bill Nunn', 'Giancarlo Esposito', 'Rosie Perez', 'Roger Guenveur Smith', 'Samuel L. Jackson', 'Paul Benjamin', 'Frankie Faison', 'Robin Harris', 'Joie Lee', 'Miguel Sandoval', 'Rick Aiello', 'Steve Park', 'Ginny Yang', 'John Savage', 'Steve White', 'Martin Lawrence', 'Leonard L. Thomas', 'Christa Rivers', 'Frank Vincent', 'Luis Antonio Ramos', 'Richard Habersham', 'Gwen McGee', 'Sherwin Park', 'Shawn Elliott', 'Diva Osorio', 'Chris Delaney', 'Angel Ramirez Jr.', 'Sixto Ramos', 'Nelson Vasquez', 'Travell Lee Toulson', 'Joel Nagle', 'David E. Weinberg', 'Yatte Brown', 'Mecca Brunson', 'Shawn Stainback', 'Soquana Wallace', 'Erik Dellums', 'Nicholas Turturro']
| 4.4
| 5
|
Comedy, Drama, Crime Fiction, Comedy drama
| 120
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'Korean', 'Italian', 'Spanish']
|
['40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks', 'Universal Pictures']
| 408,788
| null |
lb_top250
| null |
Twenty-five-year-old Mookie lives in Bedford–Stuyvesant with his sister Jade, has a toddler son named Hector with his Latina girlfriend Tina, and works as a delivery man at a local pizzeria owned by the Italian-American Salvatore "Sal" Frangione. Sal's oldest son, Pino, is a racist who holds racial contempt for all the neighborhood blacks, including Mookie. Sal's younger son, Vito, is friends with Mookie, which Pino feels undermines their fraternal bond.
Other residents of the neighbor include friendly drunk Da Mayor; Mother Sister, who observes the block from her brownstone; Radio Raheem, who blasts Public Enemy's "Fight the Power" on his boombox wherever he goes; Buggin' Out, a fast-talking young man who talks about black civil rights to anyone who'll listen; Smiley, a mentally disabled man who meanders around town with hand-colored pictures of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.; and local DJ Mister Señor Love Daddy.
At Sal's, Buggin' Out questions Sal about his "Wall of Fame", decorated with photos of famous Italian-Americans, and demands that Sal put up pictures of Black celebrities since the pizzeria is in a Black neighborhood. Sal refuses, feeling he's not required to put anyone but Italians on the wall as it's his business, and ejects him. Buggin' Out attempts to start boycotting the pizzeria but only Raheem joins him.
During the day, local teenagers open a fire hydrant to beat the heat wave before white police officers Mark Ponte and Gary Long intervene. After calling Tina on a payphone, Mookie confronts Pino about his contempt towards African-Americans. Later, Pino expresses his hatred for African-Americans to Sal, who insists on keeping the business in the majority African-American neighborhood.
|
Doctor Strange
| 2,016
|
Scott Derrickson
|
['Benedict Cumberbatch', 'Chiwetel Ejiofor', 'Rachel McAdams', 'Benedict Wong', 'Mads Mikkelsen', 'Tilda Swinton', 'Michael Stuhlbarg', 'Benjamin Bratt', 'Scott Adkins', 'Zara Phythian', 'Alaa Safi', 'Katrina Durden', 'Topo Wresniwiro', 'Umit Ulgen', 'Linda Louise Duan', 'Mark Anthony Brighton', 'Meera Syal', 'Amy Landecker', 'Adam Pelta-Pauls', 'Sarah Malin', 'Eben Young', 'Kobna Holdbrook-Smith', 'Elizabeth Healey', 'Guillaume Faure', 'Daniel Dow', 'Stan Lee', 'Ezra Faroque Khan', 'Kimberly Van Luin', 'Pat Kiernan', 'Raj Awasti', 'Jill Buchanan', 'Daniel Eghan', 'Juani Feliz', 'Mo Idriss', 'Tamika Katon-Donegal', 'Pezh Maan', 'Kei Miura', 'Cameron Moon', 'Emeson Nwolie', 'Clem So', 'Chris Hemsworth', 'Samantha Russell', 'Tina Simmons']
| 3.45
| 3
|
Action, Science fiction, Comedy, Superhero, Fantasy, Adventure, Drama
| 115
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Marvel Studios']
| 2,337,086
|
superhero, comedy
|
superhero-movies, vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
In Kathmandu, the sorcerer Kaecilius and his zealots enter the secret compound Kamar-Taj and behead its librarian. They steal several pages from a book belonging to the Ancient One, a long-lived sorcerer who has taught every student at Kamar-Taj, including Kaecilius, in the mystic arts. The Ancient One pursues the traitors, but Kaecilius and his followers escape.
In New York City, Dr. Stephen Strange, a wealthy, acclaimed, and arrogant neurosurgeon, severely injures his hands in a car crash while en route to a speaking conference, leaving him permanently unable to operate. Fellow surgeon Christine Palmer tries to help him move on, but Strange vainly pursues experimental surgeries to heal his hands. Strange learns about Jonathan Pangborn, a paraplegic who mysteriously regained use of his legs. Pangborn directs Strange to Kamar-Taj, where he is taken in by Mordo, a sorcerer under the Ancient One. The Ancient One demonstrates her power to Strange, revealing the astral plane and other dimensions such as the Mirror Dimension. She reluctantly agrees to train Strange, whose arrogance and ambition remind her of Kaecilius.
Strange studies under the Ancient One and Mordo, and from ancient texts in the library that are now guarded by Master Wong. Strange learns that Earth is protected from threats from other dimensions by a shield generated from three Sanctums in New York City, London, and Hong Kong, which are all directly accessible from Kamar-Taj. The sorcerers' task is to protect the Sanctums, though Pangborn instead chose to channel mystical energy only to heal his paralysis. Strange progresses quickly, and secretly reads the book from which Kaecilius stole pages, learning to bend time with the Eye of Agamotto. Mordo and Wong warn Strange against breaking the laws of nature, drawing a comparison to Kaecilius' desire for eternal life.
Kaecilius uses the stolen pages to contact Dormammu of the Dark Dimension, where time is non-existent, and destroys the London Sanctum to weaken Earth's protection. The zealots then attack the New York Sanctum, killing its guardian, but Strange holds them off with the help of the Cloak of Levitation, only to be critically injured during a skirmish. He teleports himself back to the hospital where Palmer saves him. Upon returning to the Sanctum, Strange reveals to Mordo that the Ancient One has been drawing power from the Dark Dimension to sustain long life, and Mordo becomes disillusioned with her. After a fight in the Mirror Dimension of New York, Kaecilius mortally wounds the Ancient One and escapes to Hong Kong. Before dying, she tells Strange that he and Mordo will have to work together to defeat Kaecilius, balancing Mordo's steadfast nature against Strange's willingness to bend the rules. Strange and Mordo arrive in Hong Kong to find Wong dead, the Sanctum destroyed, and the Dark Dimension engulfing Earth. Strange uses the Eye to reverse time and save Wong, then enters the Dark Dimension and creates an endless time loop around himself and Dormammu. After repeatedly killing Strange to no avail, Dormammu finally accepts his bargain, leaving Earth permanently and taking Kaecilius and the zealots with him in exchange for Strange breaking the loop.
Disgusted by Strange and the Ancient One defying nature's laws, Mordo renounces his sorcerer career and departs. Strange returns the Eye, which is revealed to hold an Infinity Stone, back to Kamar-Taj and takes up residence in the New York Sanctum to continue his studies with Wong. In a mid-credits scene, Strange decides to help Thor, who has brought his brother Loki to Earth to search for their father, Odin.[a] In a post-credits scene, Mordo confronts Pangborn and steals the mystical energy he uses, telling him that Earth has "too many sorcerers".
|
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
| 2,022
|
Sam Raimi
|
['Benedict Cumberbatch', 'Xochitl Gomez', 'Elizabeth Olsen', 'Chiwetel Ejiofor', 'Benedict Wong', 'Rachel McAdams', 'Jett Klyne', 'Julian Hilliard', 'Michael Stuhlbarg', 'Hayley Atwell', 'Anson Mount', 'Lashana Lynch', 'John Krasinski', 'Patrick Stewart', 'Charlize Theron', 'Sheila Atim', 'Adam Hugill', 'Bruce Campbell', 'Ross Marquand', 'Andy Bale', 'Ako Mitchell', 'Momo Yeung', 'Daniel Swain', 'Topo Wresniwiro', 'Eden Nathenson', 'Vinny Moli', 'Charlie Norton', 'Aliyah Camacho', 'Ruth Livier', 'Chess Lopez', 'David K.S. Tse', 'Yasmin Chadwick', 'Anthony Knight', 'Nuakai Aru', 'Victoria Grove', 'Joshua Peace', 'Nina Jalava', 'Joshmaine Joseph', 'Yenifer Molina', 'Kevin Dalton', 'Orphee Sidibe', 'Gregory Fung', 'Cecilia Appiah', 'Victoria Sterling', 'Jordan Alexandra', 'Bobbie Little', 'Gabriella Cooper-Parsons', 'André Layne', 'Michael Waldron', 'Bridget Hoffman', 'Scott Spiegel', 'Jessica Pennington', 'Andrew Morgado', 'Audrey Wasilewski', 'Christian Rummel', 'Richie Palmer', 'Stephen Samson', 'John King']
| 2.95
| 3
|
Horror, Action, Superhero, Fantasy, Adventure, Science fiction, Drama, Thriller
| 126
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'Cantonese', 'Spanish']
|
['Marvel Studios', 'Kevin Feige Productions']
| 1,948,357
|
superhero
|
superhero-movies
| null |
A demon chases America Chavez and a version of Stephen Strange in the space between universes while searching for the Book of Vishanti. Strange is killed and Chavez accidentally creates a portal that transports herself and Strange's corpse to Earth-616,[a] where that universe's version of Stephen Strange rescues Chavez from another demon[b] with help from Wong, the Sorcerer Supreme. Chavez explains that the beings are hunting her because she has the power to travel through the multiverse.
Recognizing witchcraft runes on the demon, Strange consults Wanda Maximoff but soon realizes that she is responsible for the attacks. After acquiring the Darkhold and becoming the Scarlet Witch, Wanda believes that taking Chavez's powers and traveling through the multiverse will allow her to reunite with Billy and Tommy, the children she created during her time in Westview.[c] When Strange refuses to surrender Chavez, Wanda attacks Kamar-Taj and kills many sorcerers. Chavez accidentally transports herself and Strange to Earth-838. Wanda uses the Darkhold to "dreamwalk", taking control of her Earth-838 counterpart who lives a suburban life with her own Billy and Tommy. After a surviving sorceress, Sara, sacrifices herself to destroy the Darkhold and break the dreamwalk, an enraged Wanda forces Wong to lead her to Mount Wundagore, the source of the Darkhold's power, to reestablish the dreamwalk.
While searching for help, Strange and Chavez are apprehended by Earth-838's Sorcerer Supreme, Karl Mordo, and brought before the Illuminati, a group consisting of Mordo, Peggy Carter, Blackagar Boltagon, Maria Rambeau, Reed Richards, and Charles Xavier. They explain that through reckless use of their universe's Darkhold in an attempt to defeat Thanos, Earth-838's Strange triggered a universe-destroying "incursion". After defeating Thanos, the Illuminati executed their Strange to prevent him from causing more harm. Mordo believes that Earth-616's Strange is similarly dangerous, but Wanda reestablishes her dreamwalk at Mount Wundagore and arrives in her Earth-838 counterpart's body before the Illuminati can pass judgment. She brutally kills all the Illuminati except Mordo, whom Strange subdues before fleeing with Chavez. The two escape with help from the Earth-838 version of Strange's ex-fiancé, Christine Palmer, a scientist working with the Illuminati.
Strange, Chavez, and Palmer enter the space between universes to find the Book of Vishanti, which is the antithesis of the Darkhold, but Wanda appears and destroys it. She then takes over Chavez's mind and uses her powers to send Strange and Palmer to an incursion-destroyed universe. Strange defeats the destroyed universe's Strange, who has been corrupted by his Darkhold, and then uses that Darkhold to dreamwalk into the body of his deceased counterpart on Earth-616. With Wong's help, Strange saves Chavez from Wanda and encourages Chavez to use her abilities. Chavez transports Wanda to Earth-838, where she sees Billy and Tommy fearfully recoiling from her while crying for their real mother. Realizing her errors, Wanda relents and uses her powers to bring down Mount Wundagore, simultaneously destroying all copies of the Darkhold throughout the multiverse and sacrificing herself in the process. Chavez returns Strange and Palmer to their respective universes.
Sometime later, Kamar-Taj is under repair and the surviving sorcerers, joined by Chavez, continue training. Strange develops a third eye as a result of using the Darkhold and dreamwalking into a corpse. In a mid-credits scene, Strange is approached by a sorceress[d] who warns that his actions have triggered an incursion that he must help repair. Strange follows her into the Dark Dimension.
|
Dodes'ka-den
| 1,970
|
Akira Kurosawa
|
['Yoshitaka Zushi', 'Kin Sugai', 'Toshiyuki Tonomura', 'Shinsuke Minami', 'YÅ«ko Kusunoki', 'JunzaburÅ Ban', 'Kiyoko Tange', 'Michio Hino', 'Keiji Furuyama', 'Tappei Shimokawa', 'Kunie Tanaka', 'Jitsuko Yoshimura', 'Hisashi Igawa', 'Hideko Okiyama', 'Tatsuo Matsumura', 'Imari Tsuji', 'Tomoko Yamazaki', 'Masahiko Kametani', 'Hiroshi Akutagawa', 'Tomoko Naraoka', 'Noboru Mitani', 'Hiroyuki Kawase', 'Akemi Negishi', 'Eimei Esumi', 'Minoru Takashima', 'Kazuo Kato', 'Michiko Araki', 'Toki Shiozawa', 'Masakazu Kuwayama', 'Hiroshi Kiyama', 'KÅji Mitsui', 'Jerry Fujio', 'Masahiko Tanimura', 'Atsushi Watanabe', 'Kamatari Fujiwara', 'Sanji Kojima', 'Kayako Sono', 'Yoshiko Maki', 'Toshiko Sakurai', 'Toriko Takahara', 'Matsue Ono', 'Reiko Niimura', 'Akira Hitomi', 'ShÅji Ichimura', 'Shin Ibuki', 'Masaya Nihei', 'Takashi Ebata']
| 3.7
| null |
['Drama']
| 140
|
['Japan']
|
Japanese
|
['Japanese']
|
['Yonki-no-Kai Productions', 'TOHO']
| 10,793
|
fantasy
|
filmsrankedcom-200-greatest-fantasy-films
| null |
The film is an anthology of overlapping vignettes exploring the lives of a variety of characters who live in a suburban shantytown atop a rubbish dump.[6] The first to be introduced is the boy Rokuchan, who lives in a fantasy world in which he is a trolley driver. In his fantasy world, he drives his tram along a set route and schedule through the dump, reciting the refrain "Dodeska-den", "clickety-clack", mimicking the sound of his vehicle. His dedication to the fantasy is fanatical. Rokuchan is called "trolley fool" (densha baka) by locals and by children who are outsiders.[7][8] His mother is shown as being concerned that Rokuchan is genuinely mentally challenged.[9][10] (Rokuchan has earned the label in several cinematographic writings.[a])
Ryotaro, a hairbrush maker by trade, is saddled with supporting many children whom his unfaithful wife Misao[b] has conceived in different adulterous affairs, but he is wholeheartedly devoted to them.[14][6] There also appear a pair of drunken day laborers (Masuda and Kawaguchi) who engage in wife-swapping, only to return to their own wives the next day as though nothing has happened.[6][15] A stoic, bleak man named Hei is frequented by Ocho, who appears to be his ex-wife, and he watches emotionless as she takes care of his domestic chores. It is eventually revealed that she cheated on him; he does not forgive her. [15][16] At the opposite end of the spectrum is Shima, a man with a tic who is always defending his outwardly unpleasant and bullying wife. He flies into a rage when friends criticize her and says that she's always been there for him.[17][18] A beggar and his son live in a derelict car, a Citroen 2CV. While the father is preoccupied with daydreams of owning a magnificent home, the boy dies tragically of food poisoning.[19][20] A girl (Katsuko) is raped by her alcoholic uncle and becomes pregnant, and in a fit of irrationality stabs a boy at the liquor shop who has tender feelings for her, not having any other way to vent her emotional turmoil.[20][21] When her uncle is confronted as a suspect for this abusive act, he decides to gather his meager belongings and flee from the town, barely one step ahead of the investigation. Tanba the chasework silversmith is a sage figure, who disarms a youth swinging a katana sword, and allows a burglar to rob him of his money.[13][22]
After exploring the setbacks and anguish that surround many of the families in this indigent community, along with the dreams of escape that many of them support to maintain at least a superficial level of calm, the film comes full circle, returning to Rokuchan. As the film ends Rokuchan comes home and takes his imaginary tram conductor hat off and hangs it up.
|
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
| 2,004
|
Rawson Marshall Thurber
|
['Vince Vaughn', 'Christine Taylor', 'Ben Stiller', 'Rip Torn', 'Justin Long', 'Stephen Root', 'Joel David Moore', 'Chris Williams', 'Alan Tudyk', 'Missi Pyle', 'Jamal Duff', 'Gary Cole', 'Jason Bateman', 'Hank Azaria', 'Al Kaplon', 'Lance Armstrong', 'Chuck Norris', 'David Hasselhoff', 'William Shatner', 'Julie Gonzalo', "Trever O'Brien", 'Cayden Boyd', 'Rusty Joiner', 'Kevin Porter', 'Brandon Molale', 'Suzy Nakamura', 'Lori Beth Denberg', 'Julia Ensign', 'David Boyd', 'Bowd J. Beal', 'Curtis Armstrong', 'Tate Chalk', 'Jordyn Colemon', 'Hayley Rosales', 'Bix Barnaba', 'Earl Schuman', "Robert 'Duckie' Carpenter", 'Tony Daly', 'Amy Stiller', 'Jim Cody Williams', 'Douglas Grimes', 'Scarlett Chorvat', 'Matt Levin', 'Rawson Marshall Thurber', 'Sik End', 'Stephen B. Turner', 'Tim Soergel', 'Andy Chanley', 'Candice Michelle']
| 3.2
| null |
Comedy, Action, Sports, Drama, Slapstick
| 92
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'German']
|
['20th Century Fox', 'Red Hour']
| 467,807
|
comedy
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
When Peter LaFleur defaults on the mortgage for his small, dilapidated, financially struggling and understaffed gym Average Joe's, his cocky and vindictive business rival White Goodman, who owns Globo Gym across the street, purchases it, planning to foreclose on and demolish Average Joe's to build a new auxiliary parking structure for his members unless Peter can raise $50,000 in 30 days. Goodman attempts to seduce attorney Katherine "Kate" Veatch, who is handling his account; repulsed, she cites conflict of interest (COI) to rebuff his disturbing advances.
Peter, gym employees Dwight Baumgarten and Owen Dittman, and members Steve "Pirate" Cowan, Justin Redman, and Gordon Pibb unite to raise the required money. After an impromptu car wash suggested by Owen fails, Gordon suggests entering a dodgeball tournament in Las Vegas with a $50,000 grand prize. Justin obtains a 1950s-era training film featuring Irish-American dodgeball legend Patches O'Houlihan, which the group watches before the sub-regional qualifiers the following day. Girl Scout Troop 417 easily defeats them, but one member's use of 3 separate types of anabolic steroids and a low-grade beaver tranquilizer results in their disqualification, which leads to Average Joe's effectively being named as the winner by default.
Having spied on Average Joe's using a hidden camera in a cutout of himself, Goodman forms his team, the Globo Gym Purple Cobras, surprising Gordon by revealing that his extremely personal friendship with the chancellor allowed him to bypass the mandatory qualification match. After watching their confrontation, Patches, now an elderly man who uses a wheelchair, approaches Peter, volunteering to coach the team. Patches' unusual training regimen involves having them dodge wrenches, oncoming cars, and his constant insults. Kate demonstrates skill at the sport but declines to join the team, citing COI. Goodman arrives at Kate's house uninvited and announces that he misled her bosses about her stealing and drinking on the job, thus getting her fired from her law firm and freeing him to date her. Enraged, but now free of COI, she rejects Goodman and joins the Average Joe's team.
Despite early setbacks, the team advances to the final round against Globo Gym. The night before the match, a falling sign in the casino kills Patches. Returning to his room, Peter encounters an uninvited Goodman, who greedily offers him $100,000 for the deed to Average Joe's, claiming that Peter will inevitably cause its closure. Demoralized and anxious that the team will lose without Patches's motivation, Peter chastises Steve's pirate behavior upon returning to the group, causing Steve's departure. On the day of the final, Justin assists his classmate and love interest Amber in a cheerleading competition after his bully and rival Derek becomes severely injured, leaving Average Joe's short of players. Peter briefly encounters Lance Armstrong, who restores his morale and rejoins his team, but he and Justin return too late; Average Joe's has already forfeited. After Gordon discovers that a majority of the judges can overturn the forfeiture, the tie-breaking vote from Chuck Norris reinstates the team.
After an intense game, Peter and Goodman have a sudden-death match. Inspired by Patches' spirit, Peter blindfolds himself, evades Goodman's throw, and strikes him in the face, winning the championship and the prize money. As Average Joe’s is celebrating however, Goodman nullifies the victory, revealing that Peter sold Average Joe's to him the previous night, but Peter explains he used Goodman's $100,000 to bet on Average Joe's winning; with the odds against them at 50 to 1, he collects $5 million, but Goodman refuses to sell Average Joe’s back to Peter. Peter then reveals he invested in a controlling interest in Globo Gym, which Goodman says he would never allow, but Kate says since Globo Gym is a publicly traded company, Goodman is powerless to stop Peter, who now owns Globo Gym and everything Globo Gym owns, thus regaining Average Joe's and firing Goodman after declaring himself Goodman’s new boss. Steve returns, appearing more normal, but revives his pirate persona when Peter reveals their winnings as "buried treasure." Joyce, a friend of Kate's who caught an earlier flight from Guam to witness the final match, arrives and kisses her passionately, shocking Peter. Still, Kate then reveals her bisexuality and kisses Peter similarly. Peter is in a polyamorous relationship with Kate and Joyce, Justin and Amber get married with a baby on the way, and Owen begins dating Fran Stalinovskovichdaviddivichski from the Globo Gym team.
During the credits, Peter advertises youth dodgeball classes at a newly-renovated Average Joe's on television. Goodman is now morbidly obese, watching the commercial while blaming Chuck Norris for his plight.
|
Dog Day Afternoon
| 1,975
|
Sidney Lumet
|
['Al Pacino', 'John Cazale', 'Charles Durning', 'Chris Sarandon', 'James Broderick', 'William Bogert', 'Penelope Allen', 'Sully Boyar', 'Beulah Garrick', 'Carol Kane', 'Sandra Kazan', 'Marcia Jean Kurtz', 'Amy Levitt', 'John Marriott', 'Estelle Omens', 'Gary Springer', 'Carmine Foresta', 'Lance Henriksen', 'Floyd Levine', 'Dick Anthony Williams', 'Dominic Chianese', 'Marcia Haufrecht', 'Judith Malina', 'Susan Peretz', 'Ron Cummins', 'Jay Gerber', 'Philip Charles MacKenzie', 'Chu Chu Malave', 'Lionel Pina', 'Robert Costanzo', 'Ron Gilbert', 'Kenneth McMillan', 'Ed Metzger', 'Lynette Sheldon', 'Alan Berger', 'James Bulleit', 'Todd Everett', 'Raymond Serra', 'Tom Towles']
| 4.31
| 4.5
|
Heist, Action, Comedy, Mafia, Gangster, Drama, Crime film, Suspense, Mystery, Thriller, Detective fiction, Tragicomedy, Police procedural
| 125
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Artists Entertainment Complex', 'Warner Bros. Pictures', 'Warner Bros.']
| 357,125
| null |
lb_top250
| null |
On August 22, 1972, first-time crook Sonny Wortzik, and his friends Salvatore "Sal" Naturile and Stevie attempt to rob the First Brooklyn Savings Bank. The plan immediately goes awry when Stevie loses his nerve and flees. Sonny discovers they arrived after the daily cash pickup, and find only $1,100 in cash.
Sonny takes the bank's traveler's checks and burns the register in a trash can, but the smoke raises suspicion outside, and the building is surrounded by police. The two panicked robbers take the bank employees hostage.
Police Detective Sergeant Eugene Moretti calls the bank and Sonny bluffs that he is prepared to kill the hostages. Sal assures Sonny that he is ready to kill if necessary. A security guard has an asthma attack and Sonny releases him as a display of good faith. Moretti convinces Sonny to step outside. Using the head teller as a shield, Sonny begins a dialogue with Moretti that culminates in his shouting "Attica! Attica!" to invoke the recent Attica Prison riot. The crowd begins cheering for Sonny.
Sonny demands a vehicle to drive himself and Sal to the airport so they can board a jet. He also demands pizzas to be brought for the hostages, and for his wife to be brought to the bank. Sonny's partner, Leon Shermer, arrives and reveals that the robbery was intended to pay for Leon's sex reassignment surgery, and divulges that Sonny has children with his estranged wife, Angie.
As night sets in, the bank's lights are shut off as FBI Agent Sheldon takes command of the scene. He refuses to give Sonny any more favors, but when the bank manager Mulvaney goes into diabetic shock, Sheldon lets a doctor inside. Sheldon then convinces Leon to talk to Sonny on the phone. Leon had been hospitalized at Bellevue Hospital after a suicide attempt. Leon turns down Sonny's offer to join him and Sal in their escape, and Sonny tells the police that Leon had nothing to do with the robbery.
Sonny agrees to let Mulvaney leave, but the manager refuses to leave his employees. The FBI calls Sonny out of the bank to talk to his mother, who fails to persuade him to give himself up. Back inside, Sonny dictates his will to one of the hostages, acting as a secretary, leaving money from his life insurance for Angie, and for Leon to have the surgery.
When the requested limousine arrives, Sonny checks for hidden weapons or booby traps, and selects Agent Murphy to drive him, Sal, and the remaining hostages to Kennedy Airport. Sonny sits in the front beside Murphy with Sal behind. Murphy repeatedly asks Sal to point his gun at the roof so Sal will not accidentally shoot him.
As they wait on the airport tarmac for the plane to taxi into position, Sal releases another hostage, who gives him her rosary beads for his first plane trip. Murphy again reminds Sal to aim his gun away. Sal does, and Sheldon seizes Sonny's weapon, allowing Murphy to pull a revolver hidden in his armrest and shoot Sal in the head. Sonny is immediately arrested, and the hostages are freed.
The film ends as Sonny watches Sal's body being taken from the car on a stretcher. On-screen text reveals that Sonny was sentenced to twenty years in prison, that Angie and her children subsisted on welfare, and that Leon was a woman living in New York City.
|
Doggiewoggiez! Poochiewoochiez!
| 2,012
|
Dimitri Simakis, Nic Maier
| null | 3.6
| null |
['Comedy']
| 55
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Everything Is Terrible!']
| 1,369
|
comedy
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
Plot section not found.
|
Dogma
| 1,999
|
Kevin Smith
|
['Ben Affleck', 'Matt Damon', 'Linda Fiorentino', 'Salma Hayek Pinault', 'Jason Lee', 'Jason Mewes', 'Alan Rickman', 'Chris Rock', 'George Carlin', 'Bud Cort', 'Alanis Morissette', 'Jeff Anderson', "Brian O'Halloran", 'Janeane Garofalo', 'Betty Aberlin', 'Dwight Ewell', 'Guinevere Turner', 'Bryan Johnson', 'Walt Flanagan', 'Jared Pfennigwerth', 'Kitao Sakurai', 'Barret Hackney', 'Dan Etheridge', 'Derek Milosavljevic', 'Lesley Braden', 'Nancy Bach', 'Armando Rodriguez', 'Kevin Smith', 'Scott Mosier', 'Monica Hampton', 'Ben Cain', 'Richard Baderinwa', 'Javon Johnson', 'Derrick Sanders', 'Mark Joy', 'Linda Levine', 'Ethan Suplee', 'Jonathan Gordon', 'Matthew Maher', 'Nancy Mosser', 'Robert Holtzman', 'Ming Chen', 'Chris Kittinger', 'Kimberly Loughran', 'Jim Mahfood', 'Brendan McFadden', 'Joe Nozemack', "Ernest O'Donnell", 'Vincent Pereira', 'Brian Quinn', 'Bob Schreck', 'Joe Shelby', 'J.E. Smith', 'Adrienne Wehr']
| 3.51
| 4
|
Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy, Drama
| 130
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['View Askew Productions']
| 174,986
|
comedy
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
Bartleby and Loki are fallen angels, eternally banished from Heaven to Wisconsin for insubordination, after an inebriated Loki resigned as the Angel of Death at Bartleby's suggestion. In a newspaper article that arrives anonymously, the angels discover a way home: Cardinal Ignatius Glick is rededicating his church in Red Bank, New Jersey, in the image of the "Buddy Christ." Anyone who enters the church during the rededication festivities will receive a plenary indulgence, remitting all sins. Were the banished angels to undergo this rite—and then die after transmuting into human form—God would have no choice but to allow them re-entry into Heaven. They are encouraged by the demon Azrael and the Stygian triplets, three teenage hoodlums who serve Azrael in hell.
Bethany Sloane, a despondent abortion clinic counselor, attends a service at her church in McHenry, Illinois. Donations are solicited for a campaign to stop a Red Bank hospital from disconnecting life support on John Doe Jersey, a homeless man who was beaten into a coma by the triplets. Metatron—a seraph, and the voice of God—appears to Bethany in a pillar of fire and explains that if Bartleby and Loki succeed in re-entering Heaven, they will overrule the word of God, disprove the fundamental concept of God's omnipotence, and nullify all of existence. Bethany, aided by two prophets, must stop the angels and save the universe.
Now a target, Bethany is attacked by the triplets, who are driven off by the two foretold prophets, drug-dealing stoners Jay and Silent Bob. Bethany and the prophets are joined by Rufus, the 13th apostle, and Serendipity, the Muse of creative inspiration, who now works at a strip club in search of inspiration of her own. Azrael summons the Golgothan, a vile creature made of human excrement, but Bob immobilizes it with aerosol air freshener.
On a train to Red Bank, a drunken Bethany reveals her mission to Bartleby, who tries to kill her; Bob throws the angels off the train. Bartleby and Loki now realize the consequences of their scheme; Loki wants no part of destroying all existence, but Bartleby remains angry at God for his expulsion, and for granting free will to humans while demanding servitude from angels, and resolves to proceed.
In Red Bank, Bethany asks why she has been called upon to save the universe; why can't God simply do it himself? Metatron admits that God's whereabouts are unknown; he disappeared while visiting New Jersey in human form to play skee ball. The task falls to Bethany because—she now learns—she is the last scion, a distant but direct blood relative of Jesus.
The group cannot persuade Glick to cancel the celebration. Jay steals one of Glick's golf clubs. Their only remaining option is to keep the angels out of the church, but Azrael and the triplets trap them in a bar to prevent them from doing so. Azrael reveals that he sent the news clipping to the angels; he would rather end all existence than spend eternity in Hell. Bob kills Azrael with the golf club, which Glick had blessed to improve his game. Bethany blesses the bar sink's contents, and the others drown the triplets in the holy water. They race to the church, where Bartleby has killed Glick, his parishioners, and assorted bystanders. When Loki (who is now wingless and therefore mortal, with a conscience) attempts to stop him, Bartleby kills him as well.
All appears lost; Jay attempts to seduce Bethany before all existence ends. When he mentions John Doe Jersey, Bethany finally puts all the clues together. She and Bob race across the street to the hospital, as the others try to keep Bartleby from entering the church. But in doing so, Jay destroys his wings with automatic gunfire, making him mortal as well. Her faith restored, Bethany disconnects John's life support, liberating God, but killing herself. Bartleby reaches the church entrance where he confronts God, manifested in female form, who annihilates him with her voice. Bob arrives with Bethany's lifeless body; God resurrects her and conceives a child—the new last scion—within her womb. God, Metatron, Rufus, and Serendipity return to Heaven, leaving Bethany, Jay, and Silent Bob to reflect on the past and the future.
|
Dogtooth
| 2,009
|
Yorgos Lanthimos
|
['Christos Stergioglou', 'Michele Valley', 'Hristos Passalis', 'Angeliki Papoulia', 'Mary Tsoni', 'Anna Kalaitzidou', 'Steve Krikris', 'Sissi Petropoulou', 'Alexander Voulgaris']
| 3.74
| 3.5
|
Horror, Comedy, Thriller, Drama, Suspense
| 98
|
['Greece']
|
Greek (modern)
|
['Greek (modern)']
|
['Greek Film Centre', 'Boo Productions', 'Horsefly Productions']
| 351,037
|
comedy
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
A couple and their adult son and two adult daughters live in a fenced compound. The children have no knowledge of the outside world; their parents say they will be ready to leave once they lose a dogtooth, and that one can safely leave only by car. The children entertain themselves with endurance games, such as holding their hands under hot water. They believe they have a brother on the other side of the fence to whom they throw supplies. The parents reward good behaviour with stickers and bad with violence.
The father pays an employee of his factory, Christina, to come to the house and have sex with the son. Frustrated by the son's refusal to give her cunnilingus, Christina trades her headband with the elder daughter in exchange for cunnilingus from her. The elder daughter convinces the younger daughter to lick her shoulder by bartering the headband. Later, the younger daughter volunteers to lick the elder again. The elder has nothing to offer in exchange, but the younger does not mind and experiments by licking other body parts.
The father visits a dog training facility and demands to have his dog returned. The trainer refuses because the dog has not finished its training, and asks: "Do we want an animal or a friend?" When the children are terrified by a stray cat in the garden, the son kills it with a pair of pruning shears. Deciding to take advantage of the incident, the father shreds his clothes, covers himself in fake blood, and tells his children that their unseen brother was killed by a cat, the most dangerous creature. After he teaches them to bark on all fours to fend off cats, the family holds a memorial service for the brother.
Christina again barters for oral sex from the elder daughter. The daughter rejects her offer of hair gel and demands the Hollywood VHS tapes in her bag. She watches the films in secret and afterwards recreates scenes and quotes their dialogue. When the father discovers the tapes, he beats her with one of them, then goes to Christina's flat and hits her with her VCR, cursing her future children to be corrupted by "bad influences".
The parents decide that, with Christina no longer available, they will have the son choose one of his sisters as a new sexual partner. After fondling both sisters with his eyes closed, he chooses the elder. She is uncomfortable during their sex and afterwards recites threatening dialogue from the Hollywood film to her brother.
During a performance for the parents' wedding anniversary, the younger daughter stops to rest, but the elder continues and dances the choreography from the film Flashdance, disturbing her parents. That night, she knocks out one of her dogteeth with a dumbbell and hides in the boot of her father's car. The father discovers her tooth fragments and searches for her fruitlessly. He drives to work the next day; the car sits outside the factory, unattended.
|
Don't Think Twice
| 2,016
|
Mike Birbiglia
|
['Keegan-Michael Key', 'Gillian Jacobs', 'Chris Gethard', 'Kate Micucci', 'Tami Sagher', 'Mike Birbiglia', 'Richard Masur', 'Sondra James', 'Richard Kline', 'Emily Skeggs', 'Brandon Scott Jones', 'Sunita Mani', 'Glenn Wein', 'Neil Fleischer', 'Erin Darke', 'Gary Richardson', 'Steve Waltien', 'Kati Rediger', 'Hallie Bulleit', 'Garth Kravits', 'Jason C. Brown', 'Pete Holmes', 'Seth Barrish', 'Miranda Bailey', 'Adam Pally', 'Matthew Star', 'Josh Rabinowitz', 'Maggie Kemper', 'Lena Dunham', 'Ben Elkins', 'Jo-Jo Jackson', 'Tim Cook', 'Zach Tichenor', 'Steve Frederick', 'Frderick Weathersby', 'Alex Mojaverian', 'Gavin Speiller', 'Ben Stiller', 'Jordan Kenneth Kamp', 'Colby Minifie', 'Rachel Pegram', 'Tim Martin', 'Robert King', 'Kevin Barnett', 'Brian Edwards', 'Jo Firestone', 'Connor Ratliff', 'Elise Edwards', 'DeWitt Fleming Jr.', 'Ira Glass', 'Annamaria Sofillas', 'Sean Toney', 'Jo Yang']
| 3.44
| null |
Comedy, Drama
| 92
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['The Film Arcade', 'Cold Iron Pictures']
| 35,431
|
comedy
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
The Commune is an improv troupe in New York headed by Miles. Other members include Jack, a talented improviser with a tendency to grandstand; Sam, his insecure girlfriend who acts as the group's emcee; Allison, who has been working on a graphic novel for years; Lindsay, who lives off her wealthy parents; and Bill, who loves improv but feels increasingly unsuccessful. One night, the group learns that staff from Weekend Live, a Saturday Night Live-style sketch comedy show, are attending a performance. Miles is excited for another chance to audition for the show, having auditioned and not been selected years ago. However, Jack ends up grandstanding during the performance, much to the anger of the rest of the group.
Following the performance, Jack receives a phone call informing him that he and Sam are being invited to audition. Jack attends the audition, but Sam loses her nerve at the last minute and does not. Jack is selected as a new cast member, and his friends begin asking about the possibility of joining the writing staff, or having Jack arrange auditions for them. Meanwhile, Bill's father is in a serious motorcycle accident and the group travels to Philadelphia to visit him in the hospital.
Jack finds success at Weekend Live playing an old-timey ticket taker in a sketch, but finds the pressure of the show difficult to manage. The Commune sees an uptick in its audience, but they are mostly there to see Jack and his ticket taker character rather than the rest of the performers. With their theater space closing, the group decides to hold a show at a new space, but the ticket price discourages audiences from attending and they fail to recoup their investment.
The group gathers to watch Weekend Live and discovers Jack performing a sketch they had improvised at a prior Commune show. Infuriated, the group crashes the after party. Miles confronts Jack and punches him before being thrown out. When he then confronts Lindsay for failing to support him, she reveals that she has been hired by the show and did not want to embarrass herself in front of her new co workers. Embittered by this revelation, Miles, Allison, and Bill storm off.
At the final Commune show, Sam stands on stage alone and asks her usual opening question "Has anyone had a particularly bad day?" When an audience member suggests that Sam herself looks like she's had a bad day, she agrees and launches into a solo improv where she is trapped at the bottom of a well while her other castmates cannot decide how to help her. Jack arrives and joins the scene, promising that he will not abandon her. But Sam tells him that she is happy in the well and she knows and accepts that their relationship is over.
Eight months later, Jack and Lindsay continue to enjoy success performing and writing for Weekend Live. Miles is in a long-term relationship with an old flame from high school, and Sam, Bill, and Allison are starting a new improv group and looking for local talent. The group reunite for Bill's father's funeral. Despite their conflict, the group has remained friends.
|
Don't Worry Darling
| 2,022
|
Olivia Wilde
|
['Florence Pugh', 'Harry Styles', 'Chris Pine', 'Olivia Wilde', 'KiKi Layne', 'Gemma Chan', 'Nick Kroll', 'Sydney Chandler', 'Kate Berlant', 'Asif Ali', 'Douglas Smith', 'Timothy Simons', "Ari'el Stachel", 'Steve Berg', 'Daisy Sudeikis', 'Marcello Julian Reyes', 'Monroe Cline', 'Angel Mammoliti', 'Nataly Santiago', 'Daniel Nishio', 'Kurt Scholler', 'Dita Von Teese', 'Dimitri Dimitrov', 'Victoria Acker', 'Oritsetsolaye Akuya', 'Jennifer Mariela Bermeo', 'Taylor May Dean', 'Auriana Ehsani', 'Jessica Hiestand', 'Alexandra Nicole Hulme', 'Angel Inniss', 'Natasha Kalimada', 'Stephanie Kim', 'Charissa Kroeger', "Toi'ya Leatherwood", 'Sisley Loubet', 'Jasmine Mason', 'Bailey Swift', 'Michelle Ells', 'Brooke deRosa']
| 2.98
| null |
Thriller, Horror, Psychological thriller, Science fiction, Mystery, Drama, Crime film, Suspense, Crime Fiction
| 123
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Vertigo Entertainment', 'New Line Cinema', 'Warner Bros. Pictures']
| 1,144,014
|
sad, emotional
|
sad-movies-if-you-feel-like-you-need-to-cry
| null |
Alice and Jack Chambers live in the fictional town of Victory, California, an idealistic 1950s desert company town. Every day, the men leave for work at Victory Headquarters in the surrounding desert, which their wives are prohibited from entering and discouraged from asking about. The women live as housewives and enjoy luxuries and leisure while the men are gone.
Alice spends her days with other wives, including her best friend, Bunny. Another resident, Margaret, has become estranged from the community since she had a mental breakdown after her unauthorized desert visit resulted in her son's apparent death; she claims Victory took him as punishment for breaking the rules. At a party hosted by Frank, Victory's founder, Alice sees Margaret's husband attempt to medicate her after an outburst. Alice and Jack then have sex in Frank's bedroom, but she notices Frank observing them in silence.
While riding the trolley, Alice sees a plane crash in the desert and rushes to help. She stumbles onto Headquarters and touches one of its mirror-like windows, experiencing surreal hallucinations about another life before waking up at home that night.
Alice continues to have increasingly strange experiences, then receives a phone call from Margaret, who claims to have seen the same things. After brushing her off, she sees Margaret slit her own throat and fall from her roof. Before she can reach Margaret's body, Alice is dragged away by men in red jumpsuits.
Jack dismisses Alice's claims and says Margaret is simply recovering from a household accident. When Alice asks him what is really happening at the Victory Project, he becomes angry and refuses to answer. The town physician, Dr. Collins, prescribes Alice medication, which she and Jack decline. She steals Margaret's medical file from his briefcase and finds it heavily redacted.
Becoming increasingly paranoid during a company celebration where Frank promotes Jack, Alice breaks down in the bathroom. Confronted by Bunny, she attempts to explain her suspicions. Bunny reacts angrily when Alice tells her she went to Headquarters, accusing her of jeopardizing their livelihood in Victory and comparing her to Margaret.
Alice and Jack invite their neighbors to dinner, including Frank and his wife Shelley. Frank privately confirms her suspicions and dares her to challenge him. Spurred on, Alice attempts to expose him over dinner, but Frank makes her appear delusional to the others, causing Jack grief.
Afterward, Alice tries to tell Jack that Frank confirmed her suspicions, but he rebukes her. Nearing the end of her rope, she begs him to leave the Victory Project with her. He feigns agreement, then lets Frank's men take her away in the driveway. Dr. Collins gives Alice electroshock therapy, during which she sees herself in the 21st century, struggling to get by as surgical resident Alice Warren and living with the unemployed Jack.
After her treatment, Alice resumes her life in Victory, but comes to realize the visions are actually memories. Confronted by Alice, Jack confesses the truth: Victory is a simulated world created by Frank, where he and the other men lead their version of perfect lives; the women they have forced into the simulation are unaware that their lives in Victory, and their children, are artificial.
When the men leave for work each day, they are actually logging out of the simulation for real jobs to pay for their captive wives to stay there. Jack argues that Alice was miserable in the real world while in Victory they can finally be happy, but she is livid that she's being held there non-consensually and without her autonomy. Jack begs Alice to stay, forcefully grabbing her, prompting her to smash a rocks glass over his head, killing him in both the simulation and reality.
Frank immediately hears of Jack's death. Bunny finds Alice and admits she has always known about the simulation, but chose to stay to be with her children, who died in real life. She tells Alice that Frank's minions will kill her if she doesn't get to Headquarters, the exit portal from the simulation. Alice silently confronts the neighborhood, and as small explosions begin, the husbands panic.
Fleeing in Jack's car, Alice is chased by Dr. Collins and Frank's men. She maneuvers them into fatally crashing into each other. Meanwhile, Shelley fatally stabs Frank to take control of Victory. Arriving at Headquarters, Alice has a final vision of Jack, then puts her hands on Headquarters just before Frank's men can reach her. Seeing disturbing images mixed with visions of herself in the real world, the screen cuts to black as Alice is heard gasping for air. (It is left ambiguous if Alice escaped or not.)
|
Donkey Skin
| 1,970
|
Jacques Demy
|
['Catherine Deneuve', 'Jacques Perrin', 'Jean Marais', 'Delphine Seyrig', 'Fernand Ledoux', 'Micheline Presle', 'Sacha Pitoëff', 'Henri Crémieux', 'Pierre Repp', 'Louise Chevalier', 'Patrick Préjean', 'Michel Delahaye', 'Rosalie Varda', 'Anne Germain']
| 3.92
| null |
Romance, Comedy, Musical, Children's film, Fantasy, Drama, Teen, Comedy music
| 90
|
['France']
|
French
|
['French']
|
['Marianne Productions', 'Parc Film']
| 57,218
|
fantasy
|
filmsrankedcom-200-greatest-fantasy-films
| null |
The king promises his dying queen that after her death he will only marry a woman as beautiful and virtuous as she. Pressed by his advisers to remarry and produce an heir, he comes to the conclusion that the only way to fulfill his promise is to marry his own daughter, the princess. Following the advice of her godmother, the lilac fairy, the princess demands a series of seemingly impossible nuptial gifts in the hope that her father will be forced to give up his plans of marriage. However, the king succeeds in providing her with dresses the colour of the weather, the moon and the sun and finally with the skin of a magic donkey that excretes jewels, the source of his kingdom's wealth. Donning the donkey skin, the princess flees her father's kingdom to avoid the incestuous marriage.
In the guise of "Donkey Skin", the princess finds employment as a pig keeper in a neighbouring kingdom. The prince of this kingdom spies her in her hut in the woods and falls in love with her. Love-struck, he retires to his sickbed, and asks that Donkey Skin be instructed to bake him a cake to restore him to health. In the cake, he finds a ring that the princess has placed there, and is thus sure that his love for her is reciprocated. He declares that he will marry the woman whose finger fits the ring.
All the women of marriageable age assemble at the prince's castle and try on the ring one by one, in order of social status. Last of all is the lowly Donkey Skin, who is revealed to be the princess when the ring fits her finger. At the wedding of the prince and the princess, the lilac fairy and the king arrive by helicopter and declare that they to are to be married.
|
Donnie Darko
| 2,001
|
Richard Kelly
|
['Jake Gyllenhaal', 'Jena Malone', 'James Duval', 'Drew Barrymore', 'Beth Grant', 'Maggie Gyllenhaal', 'Mary McDonnell', 'Holmes Osborne', 'Noah Wyle', 'Katharine Ross', 'Patrick Swayze', 'Daveigh Chase', 'Arthur Taxier', 'David St. James', 'Patience Cleveland', 'Jazzie Mahannah', 'Jolene Purdy', 'David Moreland', 'Kristina Malota', 'Marina Malota', 'Scotty Leavenworth', 'Phyllis Lyons', 'Gary Lundy', 'Alex Greenwald', 'Stuart Stone', 'Joan Blair', 'Seth Rogen', 'Mark Hoffman', 'Jerry Trainor', 'Tom Tangen', 'Carly Naples', 'Lisa K. Wyatt', 'Rachel Winfree', 'Ashley Tisdale', 'Tiler Peck', 'Fran Kranz', 'Sarah Hudson', 'Alison Jones', 'Lee Weaver', 'Jack Salvatore, Jr.']
| 3.98
| 4.5
|
Horror, Thriller, Psychological thriller, Science fiction, Action, Indie film, Fantasy, Mystery, Drama, Suspense
| 114
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Flower Films', 'Gaylord Films', 'Adam Fields Productions', 'Pandora Cinema']
| 1,897,824
|
sad, emotional, fantasy
|
sad-movies-if-you-feel-like-you-need-to-cry, filmsrankedcom-200-greatest-fantasy-films
| null |
On October 2, 1988, troubled teenager Donald "Donnie" Darko sleepwalks outside, led by a mysterious voice. Once outside, he meets a figure named Frank in a monstrous rabbit costume. Frank tells Donnie that the world will end in precisely 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes, and 12 seconds. Donnie wakes up the next morning on the green of a local golf course and returns home to discover a jet engine has crashed into his bedroom. His older sister Elizabeth tells him the FAA investigators do not know its origin.
Over the next several days, Donnie continues to have visions of Frank, and his parents, Eddie and Rose, send him to psychotherapist Dr. Thurman. Thurman believes Donnie is detached from reality and that his visions of Frank are "daylight hallucinations," symptomatic of paranoid schizophrenia. Frank asks Donnie if he believes in time travel, and Donnie in turn asks his science teacher, Dr. Kenneth Monnitoff. Monnitoff gives Donnie The Philosophy of Time Travel, a book written by Roberta Sparrow, a former science teacher at the school who is now a seemingly senile old woman living outside of town, known to the local teenagers as Grandma Death. Donnie also starts dating Gretchen Ross, who has recently moved into town with her mother under a new identity to escape her violent stepfather.
Frank begins to influence Donnie's actions through his sleepwalking episodes, including causing him to flood his high school by breaking a water main. Gym teacher Kitty Farmer attributes the act of vandalism to the influence of the short story "The Destructors," assigned by dedicated English teacher Karen Pomeroy. Kitty begins teaching "attitude lessons" taken from local motivational speaker Jim Cunningham, but Donnie rebels against these, leading to friction between Kitty and Rose. Kitty arranges for Cunningham to speak at a school assembly, where Donnie insults him. He later finds Cunningham's wallet and address, and Frank suggests setting his house on fire. Firefighters discover a hoard of child pornography there. Cunningham is arrested, and Kitty, who wishes to testify in his defense, asks Rose to chaperone their daughters' dance troupe on its trip to Los Angeles.
With Rose in Los Angeles and Eddie away for business, Donnie and Elizabeth hold a Halloween costume party to celebrate Elizabeth's acceptance to Harvard. At the party, Gretchen arrives distraught as her mother has gone missing, and she and Donnie make love for the first time. When Donnie realizes that Frank's prophesied end of the world is only hours away, he takes Gretchen and two other friends to see Sparrow. Instead of Sparrow, they find two high school bullies, Seth and Ricky, who are trying to rob Sparrow's home. Donnie, Seth, and Ricky fight in the road in front of her house just as Sparrow returns home. An oncoming car swerves to avoid Sparrow and runs over Gretchen, killing her. The driver turns out to be Elizabeth's boyfriend, Frank Anderson, wearing the same rabbit costume from Donnie's visions. Donnie shoots Frank in the eye with his father's gun and walks home carrying Gretchen's body.
Donnie returns home as a vortex forms over his house. He borrows one of his parents' cars, loads Gretchen's body into it, and drives to a nearby ridge that overlooks the town. There, he watches as the plane carrying Rose and the dance troupe home from Los Angeles gets caught in the vortex's wake, violently ripping off one of its engines and sending it back in time. Events of the previous 28 days unwind. Donnie wakes up in his bedroom, recognizes the date is October 2, and laughs as the jet engine falls into his bedroom, crushing him. Around town, those whose lives Donnie would have touched wake up from troubled dreams. Gretchen rides by the Darko home the following day and learns of Donnie's death. Gretchen asks the neighbor, "What was his name?" Gretchen and Rose exchange glances and wave as if they know each other but cannot remember from where.
|
Doomsday
| 2,008
|
Neil Marshall
|
['Rhona Mitra', 'Bob Hoskins', 'Adrian Lester', 'Alexander Siddig', "David O'Hara", 'Malcolm McDowell', 'Sean Pertwee', 'MyAnna Buring', 'Emma Cleasby', 'Caryn Peterson', 'Adeola Ariyo', 'Christine Tomlinson', 'Vernon Willemse', 'Paul Hyett', 'Craig Conway', 'Lee-Anne Liebenberg', 'Darren Morfitt', 'Leslie Simpson', 'Chris Robson', 'Axelle Carolyn', 'Karl Thaning', 'Jason Cope', 'Stephen Hughes', 'Ryan Kruger', 'Martin Ball', 'Jeremy Crutchley', 'Tom Fairfoot', 'Nora-Jane Noone', 'Nathalie Boltt', 'Rick Warden', 'Cal MacAninch', 'Eloise Cupido', 'Lily Anderson', 'Cokey Falkow', 'John Carson', 'Hennie Bosman', 'Martin Compston', 'Az Abrahams', 'Susan Danford', 'Alessia Ramazzotti', 'Shaamilla Noordien', 'Nicholas Pauling', 'Riaz Solker', 'Porteus Xandau', 'Benedict Carver', 'Daniel Read', 'Nathan Wheatley', 'Cecil Carter', 'Tyrell Kemlo', 'Garry George', 'George Bailey', 'Dermot Brogan', 'Amy Barnes', 'D-Teflon', 'Kate-Lynn Hocking', 'Chris Wilson', 'Andrew Moore', 'Nieve Jennings']
| 2.81
| 3
|
Horror, Action, Science fiction, Thriller, Adventure, Cannibal, Drama, Suspense, Mystery, Psychological thriller, Body horror, Psychological Fiction
| 108
|
['Germany', 'UK', 'USA', 'South Africa']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Rogue Pictures', 'Intrepid Pictures', 'Crystal Sky Pictures', 'Scion Films', 'Moonlighting Films', 'Internationale Filmproduktion Blackbird Dritte']
| 29,338
|
post-apocalyptic
|
post-apocalyptic-movies
| null |
In 2008, the Reaper Virus ravaged Scotland. Unable to contain the outbreak or cure the infected, the British government erected a 30-foot wall isolating Scotland. The quarantine was a success, but the extreme method turns the country into a pariah state.
In 2035, authorities discovered several people in London infected with Reaper. Prime Minister John Hatcher orders Captain Nelson to send a team to Scotland, where survivors have been located using satellite imagery. As there are survivors, a cure may exist and identifies famed medical researcher Dr. Kane as the most likely founder. Nelson assembles a team led by Major Eden Sinclair. Sinclair, an orphan from Scotland following the outbreak, hopes to learn if her mother survived. Other team members include Sergeant Norton, Sinclair's deputy; virologists Dr. Stirling and Dr. Talbot; and several DDS troopers.
The team crosses the wall to Glasgow. While searching a local hospital for survivors, they are ambushed by a group of marauders. Norton and Stirling escape, but the team suffers heavy casualties. Sinclair and Talbot are captured by a gang of brutal cannibals led by the power-hungry Sol, who plans to use Sinclair as leverage to cross the wall and invade England. Talbot is immolated and eaten alive. With the help of Cally, another prisoner, Sinclair escapes and kills Viper, Sol's second-in-command. She finds Norton and Stirling, and they flee on a train. Cally reveals she and Sol are Kane's children. She also explains that Sol overthrew the previous Scottish government with his army of insurgents and refuted Kane's rule.
In London, the Reaper epidemic continues to spread. As he is being evacuated from the city, Hatcher is infected by an attempted assassin. Michael Canaris, Hatcher's Machiavellian advisor, uses it as an excuse to quarantine Hatcher and take command as the de facto Prime Minister. Hatcher commits suicide rather than succumbing to the virus.
After leaving the train, Sinclair's group is captured by soldiers armed with archaic weapons and armor. They are taken to a castle and imprisoned by Kane, who reveals that there is no cure, but people with natural immunity. After being left behind during the Scottish quarantine and losing his wife, Kane became a twisted and sadistic feudal lord who blamed science for the downfall of civilization. He sentences Sinclair, Cally, Norton, and Stirling to death. Sinclair is pitted against Telamon, Kane's executioner, in an arena-style battle. Sinclair wins, killing Telamon before escaping with the others.
They find an underground facility in the forest that contains an intact 2007 Bentley Continental GT. Before they can escape, Kane's knights arrive and kill Norton. Sinclair, Cally, and Stirling manage to escape the facility but are soon intercepted by Sol and his gang. After a high-speed chase, Sol and many of his men are killed.
Sinclair calls Canaris and tells him she has the cure. Canaris arrives via helicopter, and Sinclair bargains with him to take Cally and Stirling back to London, where Stirling can use samples of Cally's blood to manufacture a vaccine. Canaris admits to Sinclair that he plans to hold back any cure until Reaper successfully eliminates much of the underclass in the form of social cleansing. Unbeknownst to Canaris, Sinclair secretly records his admission.
Rather than return to London, Sinclair goes to Glasgow in search of her mother but discovers she died during the quarantine. Nelson arrives, and Sinclair gives him the recording of Canaris. Canaris is later on exposed on television, which he fearfully realizes that his career has ended and conviction is inevitable. Sinclair elects to remain in Scotland and uses Sol's dismembered head as a means to assume leadership over his band of marauders.
|
Doraemon: Nobita and the New Steel Troops: Winged Angels
| 2,011
|
Yukiyo Teramoto
|
['Wasabi Mizuta', 'Megumi Oohara', 'Yumi Kakazu', 'Tomokazu Seki', 'Subaru Kimura', 'Miyuki Sawashiro', 'Chiaki Fujimoto', 'Masaharu Fukuyama']
| 3.8
| null |
Anime, Animation, Comedy, Adventure
| 108
|
['Japan']
|
Japanese
|
['Japanese']
|
['Shin-Ei Animation']
| 3,393
|
sci-fi, top-rated
|
letterboxds-top-250-science-fiction-films
| null |
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|
Double Indemnity
| 1,944
|
Billy Wilder
|
['Fred MacMurray', 'Barbara Stanwyck', 'Edward G. Robinson', 'Porter Hall', 'Richard Gaines', 'Jean Heather', 'Tom Powers', 'Fortunio Bonanova', 'Byron Barr', 'John Berry', 'Raymond Chandler', 'Edmund Cobb', 'Kernan Cripps', 'Bess Flowers', 'Eddie Hall', 'Teala Loring', 'Sam McDaniel', 'Billy Mitchell', 'Clarence Muse', 'Douglas Spencer', 'John Philliber', 'Harold Garrison', 'James Adamson', 'Betty Farrington', 'George Magrill', 'Constance Purdy', 'Dick Rush', 'Floyd Shackelford', 'Oscar Smith', 'Miriam Nelson']
| 4.26
| 4.5
|
Action, Noir, War, Drama, Crime film, Suspense, Mystery, Thriller, Psychological thriller, Detective fiction, Crime Fiction, Classic, Police procedural
| 107
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Paramount Pictures']
| 217,349
|
thriller, mystery, essential
|
101-greatest-mystery-movies, 100-essential-thrillers, lb_top250
| null |
Wounded from a gunshot, insurance salesman Walter Neff stumbles into his Los Angeles office. He records a dictaphone confession for claims manager Barton Keyes.
One year earlier, Neff flirts with Phyllis Dietrichson during a house call about her husband's automobile insurance. Phyllis asks about getting a policy on Mr. Dietrichson's life without his knowledge; deducing that she is contemplating murder, Neff wants no part of it but is fascinated with her. Later, Phyllis visits his apartment, where he concocts a plan to make Dietrichson sign a life insurance policy without realizing it, murder him, and frame it as an accident in order to trigger the policy's double indemnity clause.
Neff has Dietrichson sign the policy by convincing him that it is a copy of his automotive insurance renewal, but Dietrichson unexpectedly breaks his leg before the murder can take place, delaying the scheme. Neff hides in the back seat of Phyllis' car while she drives Dietrichson to a train station. Neff breaks his neck and boards the train posing as the crippled Dietrichson. He jumps off the back of the train at a pre-arranged spot, where Phyllis helps him pose Dietrichson's body on the tracks.
Neff's boss believes the death was a suicide. Keyes scoffs at the idea, which he considers statistically implausible, but does find it strange that Dietrichson did not file a claim after breaking his leg. He begins to suspect that Phyllis and an accomplice had him murdered. Reasoning that Dietrichson was not aware of the policy due to his not filing a claim on the broken leg, the company refuses to pay out. Meanwhile, Phyllis' stepdaughter Lola befriends Neff. She tells him that she saw Phyllis trying on mourning clothes several days before Dietrichson's death, and that she also suspects that Phyllis had killed her mother in order to marry Dietrichson. She now fears that Phyllis plans to kill her next.
Keyes finds a witness who says that the man he saw on the train was not Dietrichson. Neff warns Phyllis that pursuing the insurance claim in court risks exposing the murder, telling her that they should not see each other until the investigation ends. Neff learns that Lola's ex-boyfriend, Nino, has been visiting Phyllis every night since the murder, and that Keyes suspects Nino of being her accomplice. Fearing for Lola's life, Neff goes to confront Phyllis.
Neff tells Phyllis that he suspects her plan was to manipulate Nino into murdering Lola, and threatens to kill her. Phyllis shoots him, but when he comes closer and dares her to shoot again, she does not; she says that she never loved him "until a minute ago, when I couldn't fire that second shot." As they embrace, Neff shoots her twice with her gun. As Neff leaves, he sees Nino walk up to the house; he convinces him to call Lola and make up with her.
Neff finishes recording his confession and looks up to see Keyes watching him. Telling Keyes that he plans to flee to Mexico, he walks out of the office but collapses in the doorway. Keyes calls for an ambulance and the police, and the two wait for them to arrive.
|
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
| 2,008
|
Joss Whedon
|
['Neil Patrick Harris', 'Nathan Fillion', 'Felicia Day', 'Simon Helberg']
| 3.79
| null |
['Comedy', 'Drama']
| 42
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Mutant Enemy Productions']
| 46,195
|
comedy
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog consists of three acts of approximately 14 minutes each. They were first released online in July 2008 as individual episodes, with two-day intervals between each release.
|
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
| 1,931
|
Rouben Mamoulian
|
['Fredric March', 'Miriam Hopkins', 'Rose Hobart', 'Holmes Herbert', 'Halliwell Hobbes', 'Edgar Norton', 'Tempe Pigott', 'Leonard Carey', 'Sam Harris', 'Boyd Irwin', 'Arnold Lucy', 'Murdock MacQuarrie', 'Eric Mayne', 'Robert Adair', 'Pat Harmon', 'John Rogers', 'G.L. McDonnell', 'Douglas Walton', 'Harry Adams', 'William Begg', 'Rita Carlyle', 'Frank Goddard', 'Bobby Hale', 'Tom London', 'William Marion', 'Eric Wilton']
| 3.76
| null |
Horror, Science fiction, Drama
| 98
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Paramount Pictures']
| 28,118
|
sci-fi, top-rated
|
letterboxds-top-250-science-fiction-films
| null |
Dr. Henry Jekyll (Fredric March), a kind English doctor in Victorian London, is certain that within each man lurks impulses for both good and evil. He is desperately in love with his fiancée Muriel Carew (Rose Hobart) and wants to marry her immediately. But her father, Brigadier General Sir Danvers Carew (Halliwell Hobbes), orders them to wait. One night, while walking home with his colleague, Dr. John Lanyon (Holmes Herbert), Jekyll spots a bar singer, Ivy Pierson (Miriam Hopkins), being attacked by a man outside her boarding house. Jekyll drives the man away and carries Ivy up to her room to attend to her. Ivy tries to seduce Jekyll but, though he is tempted, he leaves with Lanyon.
When Sir Danvers takes Muriel to Bath, Jekyll begins to experiment with drugs that he believes will unleash his evil side. After imbibing a concoction of these drugs, he transforms into Edward Hyde—an impulsive, sadistic, violent, amoral man who indulges his every desire. Hyde finds Ivy in the music hall where she works. He offers to financially support her in return for her company. They stay at her boarding house where Hyde rapes and psychologically manipulates her. When Hyde reads in the paper that Sir Danvers and Muriel are planning to return to London, Hyde leaves Ivy but threatens her that he'll return when she least expects it.
Overcome with guilt, Jekyll sends £50 to Ivy. On the advice of her landlady, Ivy goes to see Dr. Jekyll and recognizes him as the man who saved her from abuse that night. She tearfully tells him about her situation with Hyde, and Jekyll reassures her that she will never see Hyde again. But the next night, while walking to a party at Muriel's where the wedding date is to be announced, Jekyll again changes into Hyde upon seeing a cat stalk and kill a bird. Rather than attend the party, Hyde goes to Ivy's room and murders her.
Hyde returns to Jekyll's house but is refused admission by the butler. Desperate, Hyde writes a letter to Lanyon instructing him to take certain chemicals from Jekyll's laboratory and take them home. When Hyde arrives, Lanyon pulls a gun on him and demands that Hyde take him to Jekyll. With no other choice, Hyde drinks the formula and changes back into Jekyll before a shocked Lanyon.
Aware that he cannot control the transformations, Jekyll goes to the Carew home and breaks off the engagement. After he leaves, he stands on the terrace and watches Muriel cry. This triggers another transformation and, as Hyde, he enters the house and assaults Muriel. Sir Danvers tries to stop him, but Hyde beats him to death with Jekyll's walking stick then flees back to Jekyll's laboratory where he takes the formula again and reverts to Jekyll.
Lanyon recognizes the broken cane left at the crime scene and takes the police to Jekyll's home. Jekyll tells them that Hyde has already left, Lanyon insists that Jekyll and Hyde are one and the same. The stress causes another transformation into an enraged Hyde and, after a fierce struggle, Hyde is shot by the police. Dying, he transforms back into Jekyll.
|
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
| 1,922
|
Fritz Lang
|
['Rudolf Klein-Rogge', 'Aud Egede-Nissen', 'Gertrude Welcker', 'Alfred Abel', 'Bernhard Goetzke', 'Paul Richter', 'Robert Forster-Larrinaga', 'Hans Adalbert Schlettow', 'Georg John', 'Károly Huszár', 'Grete Berger', 'Julius Falkenstein', 'Lydia Potechina', 'Julius E. Herrmann', 'Julietta Brandt', 'Max Adalbert', 'Anita Berber', 'Paul Biensfeldt', 'Gustav Botz', 'Lil Dagover', 'Heinrich Gotho', 'Leonhard Haskel', 'Erner Huebsch', 'Gottfried Huppertz', 'Hans Junkermann', 'Adolf Klein', 'Erich Pabst', 'Edgar Pauly', 'Karl Platen', 'Auguste Prasch-Grevenberg', 'Adele Sandrock', 'Willy Schmidt-Gentner', 'Hans Sternberg', 'Olaf Storm', 'Oscar Stribolt', 'Erich Walter']
| 3.96
| null |
Horror, Silent, Noir, Mystery, Drama, Crime film, Suspense, Thriller, Detective fiction, Indie film, Crime Fiction, Police procedural
| 271
|
['Germany']
|
No spoken language
|
['No spoken language']
|
['Uco-Film GmbH']
| 15,686
|
thriller, essential
|
100-essential-thrillers
| null |
The Great Gambler: A Picture of the Time (Der große Spieler: Ein Bild der Zeit)
Dr. Mabuse is a criminal mastermind, doctor of psychology, and master of disguise, armed with the powers of hypnosis and mind control, who oversees the counterfeiting and gambling rackets of the Berlin underworld. He visits gambling dens by night under various guises and aliases, using the power of suggestion to win at cards and finance his plans. Among his many henchmen are: Spoerri, his cocaine-addicted manservant; Georg, his chauffeur and sometime assassin; Pesch, an inept goon; Hawasch, who employs a gang of blind men in a counterfeiting operation; Fine, a woman who serves as a lookout and Folies Bergère dancer Cara Carozza, who loves him.
Mabuse orchestrates the theft of a commercial contract to create a temporary panic in the stock market, which he exploits to make huge profits. Edgar Hull, the son of a millionaire industrialist, becomes Mabuse's next victim. As "Hugo Balling", Mabuse gains access to Hull's gentlemen's club and wins a small fortune at cards from the hypnotized Hull, who is made to play badly and recklessly. Afterwards, Hull is unable to account for his behavior.
State prosecutor Norbert von Wenk takes an interest in Hull, believing he is the latest in a string of victims similarly tricked by the elusive "Great Unknown". Wenk goes undercover at a gambling den, where he encounters a disguised Dr. Mabuse. Mabuse attempts to hypnotize Wenk, but he resists. Mabuse flees. Wenk, quickly regaining his faculties, gives chase through the city but the doctor escapes. Boarding a taxicab driven by Georg, Wenk is gassed, robbed, and set adrift in a rowing boat.
Dr. Mabuse realizes that Hull is assisting the state prosecutor and resolves to eliminate them. Carozza, who has been romancing Hull on Mabuse's orders, lures the young man to a new illegal casino; when Wenk calls in the police to raid the place, Carozza, Hull and a police bodyguard exit through the back door, where Georg awaits. He kills Hull but Carozza is caught and jailed. Wenk questions her for information about the "Great Unknown" but she refuses to speak. Wenk enlists the aid of Countess Told (nicknamed the "Passive Lady"), an aristocrat bored by her dull husband and a thrill seeker, to try to get the information by trickery. The Countess is placed in the same cell, an apparent victim of another raid but Carozza is not fooled. Carozza reveals only her great love for Mabuse, ensuring her silence. The Countess, moved by Carozza's passion, tells Wenk that she cannot continue to assist him.
Dr. Mabuse does nothing to extricate Carozza from jail. He instead attends a séance where he meets Countess Told, who (while under his hypnotic influence) invites him to her house. Once there, Mabuse, taken by the Countess's beauty, decides to display his power by telepathically inducing her husband, Count Told, to cheat at poker. His guests are outraged when they detect it and the Countess faints. Dr. Mabuse uses the distraction to abduct her and imprison her in his lair.
|
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
| 1,964
|
Stanley Kubrick
|
['Peter Sellers', 'George C. Scott', 'Sterling Hayden', 'Keenan Wynn', 'Slim Pickens', 'Peter Bull', 'James Earl Jones', 'Tracy Reed', 'Jack Creley', 'Frank Berry', "Robert O'Neil", 'Glenn Beck', 'Roy Stephens', 'Shane Rimmer', 'Hal Galili', 'Paul Tamarin', 'Laurence Herder', 'John McCarthy', 'Gordon Tanner', 'Burnell Tucker', 'Victor Harrington']
| 4.31
| 4
|
Comedy, War, Science fiction, Animation, Dark comedy, Drama, Suspense, Thriller, Classic
| 95
|
['UK', 'USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Columbia Pictures', 'Stanley Kubrick Productions', 'Hawk Films']
| 559,699
|
comedy
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time, lb_top250
| null |
United States Air Force Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper, the commander of Burpelson Air Force Base, orders his executive officer, Group Captain Lionel Mandrake (an exchange officer from the Royal Air Force), to put the base on alert (condition red, the most intense lockdown status), confiscate all privately owned radios from base personnel and issue "Wing Attack Plan R" to the planes of the 843rd Bomb Wing. At the time of issuance of that order, the planes, flying B-52 bombers armed with thermonuclear bombs, are on airborne alert two hours from their targets inside the Soviet Union. All the aircraft commence attack flights on the USSR and set their radios to allow communications only through their CRM 114 discriminators, which are designed to accept only communications preceded by a secret three-letter code known only to General Ripper. Happening upon a radio that had been missed earlier and hearing regular civilian broadcasting, Mandrake realizes that no attack order has been issued by the Pentagon and tries to stop Ripper, who locks them both in his office. Ripper tells Mandrake that he believes the Soviets have been fluoridating American water supplies to pollute the "precious bodily fluids" of Americans. Mandrake realizes Ripper has gone completely mad.
|
Dracula
| 1,931
|
Tod Browning
|
['Bela Lugosi', 'Helen Chandler', 'David Manners', 'Dwight Frye', 'Edward Van Sloan', 'Herbert Bunston', 'Frances Dade', 'Joan Standing', 'Charles K. Gerrard', 'Anna Bakacs', 'Bunny Beatty', 'Nicholas Bela', 'Daisy Belmore', 'William A. Boardway', 'Barbara Bozoky', 'Tod Browning', 'Moon Carroll', 'Geraldine Dvorak', 'John George', 'Anita Harder', 'Carla Laemmle', 'Wyndham Standing', 'Cornelia Thaw', 'Dorothy Tree', 'Josephine Velez', 'Michael Visaroff', 'Florence Wix']
| 3.56
| 4
|
Horror, Fantasy, Drama, Supernatural horror
| 74
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'Hungarian', 'Latin']
|
['Universal Pictures']
| 151,455
|
fantasy
|
filmsrankedcom-200-greatest-fantasy-films
| null |
Jonathan Harker, a newly qualified English solicitor, visits Count Dracula at his castle in the Carpathian Mountains to help the Count purchase a house near London. Ignoring the Count's warning, Harker wanders the castle at night and encounters three vampire women; Dracula rescues Harker, and gives the women a small child bound inside a bag. Harker awakens in bed; soon after, Dracula leaves the castle, abandoning him to the women. Harker escapes and ends up delirious in a Budapest hospital. Dracula takes a ship called the Demeter for England with boxes of earth from his castle. The captain's log narrates the crew's disappearance until he alone remains, bound to the helm to maintain course. An animal resembling a large dog is seen leaping ashore when the ship runs aground at Whitby.
Lucy Westenra's letter to her best friend, Harker's fiancée Mina Murray, describes her marriage proposals from Dr. John Seward, Quincey Morris, and Arthur Holmwood. Lucy accepts Holmwood's, but all remain friends. Mina joins Lucy on holiday in Whitby. Lucy begins sleepwalking. After his ship lands there, Dracula stalks Lucy. Mina receives a letter about her missing fiancé's illness, and goes to Budapest to nurse him. Lucy becomes very ill. Seward's old teacher, Professor Abraham Van Helsing, determines the nature of Lucy's condition, but refuses to disclose it. He diagnoses her with acute blood-loss. Van Helsing places garlic flowers around her room and makes her a necklace of them. Lucy's mother removes the garlic flowers, not knowing they repel vampires. While Seward and Van Helsing are absent, Lucy and her mother are terrified by a wolf and Mrs. Westenra dies of a heart attack; Lucy dies shortly thereafter. After her burial, newspapers report children being stalked in the night by a "bloofer lady" (beautiful lady), and Van Helsing deduces it is Lucy. The four go to her tomb and see that she is a vampire. They stake her heart, behead her, and fill her mouth with garlic. Jonathan Harker and his now-wife Mina have returned, and they join the campaign against Dracula.
Everyone stays at Dr. Seward's asylum as the men begin to hunt Dracula. Van Helsing finally reveals that vampires can only rest on earth from their homeland. Dracula communicates with Seward's patient, Renfield, an insane man who eats vermin to absorb their life force. After Dracula learns of the group's plot against him, he uses Renfield to enter the asylum. He secretly attacks Mina three times, drinking her blood each time and forcing Mina to drink his blood on the final visit. She is cursed to become a vampire after her death unless Dracula is killed. As the men find Dracula's properties, they discover many earth boxes within. The vampire hunters open each of the boxes and seal wafers of sacramental bread inside them, rendering them useless to Dracula. They attempt to trap the Count in his Piccadilly house, but he escapes. They learn that Dracula is fleeing to his castle in Transylvania with his last box. Mina has a faint psychic connection to Dracula, which Van Helsing exploits via hypnosis to track Dracula's movements. Guided by Mina, they pursue him.
In Galatz, Romania, the hunters split up. Van Helsing and Mina go to Dracula's castle, where the professor destroys the vampire women. Jonathan Harker and Arthur Holmwood follow Dracula's boat on the river, while Quincey Morris and John Seward parallel them on land. After Dracula's box is finally loaded onto a wagon by Romani men, the hunters converge and attack it. After routing the Romani, Harker decapitates Dracula as Quincey stabs him in the heart. Dracula crumbles to dust, freeing Mina from her vampiric curse. Quincey is mortally wounded in the fight against the Romani. He dies from his wounds, at peace with the knowledge that Mina is saved. A note by Jonathan Harker seven years later states that the Harkers have a son, named Quincey.
|
Dragon Ball Super: Broly
| 2,018
|
Tatsuya Nagamine
|
['Masako Nozawa', 'Aya Hisakawa', 'Ryo Horikawa', 'Toshio Furukawa', 'Takeshi Kusao', 'Ryusei Nakao', 'Koichi Yamadera', 'Masakazu Morita', 'Ryuuzaburou Ootomo', 'Katsuhisa Houki', 'Naoko Watanabe', 'Banjo Ginga', 'Shigeru Chiba', 'Tetsu Inada', 'Nana Mizuki', 'Tomokazu Sugita', 'Masami Kikuchi', 'Kimiko Saito', 'Yukiko Morishita', 'Takuya Kirimoto', 'Hisao Egawa', 'Atsuki Tani', 'Yohei Azakami', 'Takashi Matsuyama', 'Bin Shimada', 'Shin Aomori', 'Masaya Takatsuka', 'Yusuke Numata']
| 3.8
| null |
Anime, Animation, Action, Comedy, Adventure, Science fiction, Martial Arts, Fantasy, Drama, Science fantasy
| 99
|
['Japan']
|
Japanese
|
['Japanese']
|
['Toei Company', 'Shueisha', 'Fuji Television Network', 'Toei Animation', 'Bandai', 'Bandai Namco Entertainment']
| 82,852
|
sci-fi, top-rated
|
letterboxds-top-250-science-fiction-films
| null |
In Age 732, after being informed by the galactic warlord King Cold that his race will now serve his son Frieza, King Vegeta finds a commoner infant named Broly within a nursery only the elite are accepted in. Learning Broly's power level greatly exceeds that of his son Prince Vegeta, whom he believes would liberate their people and conquer the universe, King Vegeta exiles Broly to the distant planetoid Vampa in hopes the infant would die before becoming a potential threat to the Saiyans. Broly's father Paragus attempted to rescue his son, only for the ship he stole to get damaged beyond repair on entry to Vampa. Stuck on Vampa, he raises his son to exact revenge on King Vegeta.
Five years later, a low-class Saiyan warrior named Bardock grows concerned about Frieza's reasons for calling the Saiyans to Planet Vegeta and confides his suspicions in his wife Gine while realizing Frieza's intentions to exterminate their race out of fear of the Super Saiyan and Super Saiyan God legends. They send their infant son, Kakarot, to Earth some time before Frieza commences the genocide of the Saiyan race. Besides Broly, Paragus, and Kakarot, the other survivors of Saiyans include Kakarot's brother Raditz, Vegeta and his comrade Nappa, and Vegeta's brother.[10][11]
In the year of Age 780, forty-three years later, after the Tournament of Power,[a] Kakarot, now named Goku, trains with Vegeta around a deserted island before Bulma is informed by Trunks that the Dragon Radar and six of the seven magical Dragon Balls in her possession were stolen by low-class Frieza Force soldiers. Bulma leaves Bulla with Beerus while accompanying Goku, Vegeta, and Whis travel to an arctic region to find the seventh Dragon Ball before Frieza can retrieve it. Meanwhile, Broly and Paragus are rescued from Vampa by Cheelai and Lemo, two low-class Frieza Force soldiers on a recruitment mission. The two are brought to Frieza and are enlisted to defeat Goku and Vegeta. Cheelai steals the remote Paragus uses to keep Broly submissive before the two groups cross paths on Earth.
Broly fights Super Saiyan Vegeta with his increasing power and adaptive fighting abilities allowing him to seemingly best the Saiyan Prince in his Super Saiyan God form. Goku challenges Broly in his base form, Super Saiyan, Super Saiyan God and Super Saiyan Blue forms and manages to gain the advantage despite Broly gaining more strength while Paragus fears the worst upon learning he lost the means to snap Broly out from his berserker state. However, remembering the circumstances that allowed Goku to first acquire his Super Saiyan form,[b] Frieza covertly kills Paragus to awaken Broly's latent Super Saiyan powers. The fully mindless Broly overwhelms both Goku and Vegeta in their Super Saiyan Blue forms before being directed to attack Frieza while Goku uses his instantaneous movement technique to get him and Vegeta to Piccolo. The two proceed to teach Vegeta the Fusion Dance technique as he and Goku eventually succeed in forming Gogeta, who arrives to the battlefield as Broly attacks Whis after defeating Golden Frieza. Gogeta dominates the fight before an infuriated Broly powers up even further into his Super Saiyan Full Power form, countering by assuming Super Saiyan Blue with their violent clash breaking through multiple dimensions before arriving back on Earth.
Gogeta defeats Broly using Meteor Explosion and nearly kills him with the "Full-Force" Kamehameha but Cheelai and Lemo, who had formed a friendship with Broly, summon the eternal dragon Shenron with the Dragon Balls and use their wish to transport Broly safely back to Vampa. The two then escape with Gogeta preventing their ship from being destroyed by Frieza, who decides to spare them as they can make Broly a more stable asset to his military force. Some time after, Goku arrives on Vampa to provide Cheelai and Lemo with supplies while expressing his intent to spar with Broly and help teach him to control his power. Formally introducing himself before leaving, Goku tells Broly to call him Kakarot.[10][11][12]
|
Dragon Hunters
| 2,008
|
Arthur Qwak, Guillaume Ivernel
|
['Vincent Lindon', 'Patrick Timsit', 'Philippe Nahon', 'Amanda Lear', 'Marie Drion', 'Jérémy Prévost', 'Jean-Marc Lentretien', 'John DiMaggio', 'Elias Eliot', 'Jess Harnell', 'Nick Jameson', 'Mary Mouser', 'Rob Paulsen', 'Forest Whitaker', 'Dave Wittenberg']
| 3.26
| null |
Action, Animation, Comedy, Children's film, Adventure, Fantasy, Teen, Family film, Comedy drama
| 80
|
['France']
|
French
|
['French']
|
['Futurikon']
| 11,646
|
animated
|
vote-best-animated-films-of-all-time
| null |
The world has become a vast arrangement of floating islands of varying sizes and shapes. This dizzy universe is populated with rogues, peasants, and petty lords. Their main concerns are for survival, for this world has become plagued with hungry creatures, who are wreaking havoc, known as dragons.
Lian-Chu and Gwizdo are two dragon hunters, but they are a long way from being among the best. Lian Chu is a hulking brute with the heart of gold, and Gwizdo is an avaricious, high-strung young man with a talent for scams. Their private dream is to own a farm where they can relax and raise sheep.
A few floating islands away, there is a fortress owned by Lord Arnold. The lord has a problem. He has been living in fear of the return of World Eater, a monstrous dragon that rises every twenty years to spread terror and destruction. Nobody has been able to conquer him. And nobody has ever returned alive or sane enough to tell the tale. Lord Arnold's niece Zoe has decided to take matters into her own hands, and she finds Lian-Chu and Gwizdo to help her. She is convinced that they are the heroes of her dreams, and she goes with them to the end of the earth for a fantastic and dangerous adventure.
|
Dragon Inn
| 1,967
|
King Hu
|
['Shih Chun', 'Pai Ying', 'Polly Shang-Kuan Ling-Feng', 'Miao Tian', 'Han Ying-Chieh', 'Tsao Chien', 'Hsieh Han', 'Go Ming', 'Ko Hsiao Pao', 'Ko Fei', 'Hsu Feng', 'Wan Chung-Shan', 'Tian Peng']
| 4
| 5
|
Horror, Action, Martial Arts, Wuxia, Adventure, Drama
| 111
|
['Hong Kong', 'Taiwan']
|
Chinese
|
['Chinese']
|
['Union Film Company']
| 18,609
|
action, top-rated
|
letterboxds-top-250-action-films
| null |
Tsao, the emperor's most powerful eunuch, has successfully bested General Yu, Tsao's political rival. The general was executed and his remaining children have been exiled from China. As the children are being escorted to the western border of the Chinese empire, Tsao plots to have the children killed. Tsao's secret police lie in ambush at the desolate Dragon Gate Inn. Martial arts expert Hsiao shows up at the inn, wanting to meet the innkeeper. Unknown to the secret police is that the innkeeper, Wu Ming, was one of the general's lieutenants and has summoned Hsiao to help the children. A brother-sister martial-artist team (children of another Yu lieutenant) also show up to help. These four race to find Yu's children and lead them to safety.
|
Dream Boy
| 2,008
|
James Bolton
|
['Stephan Bender', 'Thomas Jay Ryan', 'Diana Scarwid', 'Tom Gilroy', 'Maximillian Roeg', 'Rooney Mara', 'Randy Wayne', 'Owen Beckman', 'Rickie Lee Jones', 'Nick Ericson']
| 2.61
| null |
Drama, Romance, LGBTQ, Melodrama
| 88
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
| null | 3,238
|
sad, emotional
|
sad-movies-if-you-feel-like-you-need-to-cry
| null |
Fifteen-year-old Nathan Davies (Stephan Bender) moves to St. Francisville, Louisiana, a small Southern town with his parents (Thomas Jay Ryan and Diana Scarwid) and starts to befriend the older boy next door, Roy (Maximillian Roeg), fellow high school student and bus driver, who is in a relationship with Evelyn (Rooney Mara). Nathan and Roy start to develop their relationship by helping each other with school work at Nathan's house. While Roy is teaching Nathan how to solve an algebra problem, Nathan touches his hand. Roy pulls away at first, but then takes hold of Nathan's hand.
After they finish their work, the boys go for a walk in the woods, finding an old cemetery, where they stop and start kissing. They undress down to everything but socks and underwear, and lie in an embrace together. There is a lot of soft touching and feeling between the two boys. The relationship between Nathan and his father is revealed to be a little strange and full of tension. One morning Roy pulls the bus into a part in the woods and they kiss and Nathan touches Roy. Roy asks if Nathan has ever done this with anyone before, and he promises he never has. Roy takes Nathan swimming with Burke and Randy, but Nathan admits he can't swim. While watching Roy, Burke threatens to throw him in the water, but Roy stops him. While Roy is driving them home, he pulls onto the side of the road and they start kissing. They undress in the truck and Nathan climbs on Roy's lap and they start to kiss. Roy angrily stops him, asking "who taught [him] to screw like that". Nathan swears "no one". Roy pulls out and gets dressed
When Nathan gets home that night, his father wants to know if he had a good time. Nathan is on the brink of tears as he answers his father. He ties a string up to his dresser drawer and bedpost, tucks his pillows under his sheets, and moves to the floor to sleep. In the night he hears a thud and runs from his room, because it's his father sneaking in. It is later revealed that his father had touched him in the past inappropriately. Nathan sleeps outside and comes home only for meals, but returns to his tree outside after eating.
Roy finds him and offers him a place to sleep in his family's barn. The next morning, Nathan goes home for breakfast and his father catches him, yelling at him to not run from him, but Nathan's mother interrupts and he runs to the school bus. Later, Roy tells Nathan they're going camping with Burke and Randy that weekend. That night, Roy tells ghost stories around the campfire, and in their tent, Nathan gives Roy a blowjob, and Roy asks him if he minds when Roy doesn't do those things back to him, and Nathan says he doesn't mind. Hiking through the woods, the boys find an old plantation house. They go inside to investigate, and Nathan hears a voice call his name, resembling his father's. They then find cloth with what looks like to be blood on it, and they smell sulfur (which Nathan says is the smell of the Devil), and the boys see a shadow move up the stairs.
Burke takes the flashlight from Roy and goes to investigate with Randy. Roy and Nathan go into a bedroom and talk, and Nathan says he feels as if he'll never leave that house. He hears the voice again and Roy goes to see if the guys are back. Nathan sees his father and closes his eyes tight, when Roy enters the room again. He tells Nathan not to look at whatever he's seeing anymore and kisses him. Roy gets down on his knees and proceeds to fellate Nathan, when Burke and Randy find them. Roy storms out of the room, and Nathan hears the voice again, and is suddenly knocked unconscious. A shadow of a person carries him up the stairs.
In the attic, Burke rapes Nathan, and realizing what he's done, disgusted with himself, he breaks an arm off a rocking chair and knocks Nathan over the head with it. Blood starts pooling on the floor beneath Nathan's head, and Burke leaves him in the attic. When Roy and Randy find Nathan early the next morning, he appears to be dead. Roy tells Randy to go on and find Burke, whom he says he doesn't believe at this point about what happened. Roy cries once Randy leaves, then Roy leaves too. The police arrive, bringing Nathan's father who tearfully covers Nathan's face with a blanket.
Nathan awakens as if he's resurrected from the dead, gets up and leaves the plantation house. He wanders for a long time still dazed from the blow to his head. Finally he sees Roy coming out of Sunday evening church, but Roy is with his family, so Nathan wanders around some more waiting for Roy to get home. Nathan's mother leaves his father, and Nathan, his head now clear, finds Roy crying in the barn where Nathan slept while hiding from his father. As Roy looks up, he sees Nathan and hugs him.
At the end of the story, Roy is driving the bus and looks in the mirror to an empty seat, but when he looks a second time, Nathan is there smiling at him.
|
Dream Lover
| 1,993
|
Nicholas Kazan
|
['James Spader', 'Mädchen Amick', 'Fredric Lehne', 'Bess Armstrong', 'Larry Miller', 'Kathleen York', 'Kate Williamson', 'Tom Lillard', 'William Shockley', 'Carl Sundstrom', 'Irwin Keyes', 'Joel McKinnon Miller', 'Joseph Scoren', 'Archie Lang', 'Clyde Kusatsu', 'Alexander Folk', 'Michael Chow', 'Talya Ferro', 'Sandra Kinder', 'Peter Zapp', 'Armando Pucci', 'Janel Moloney', 'Jeanne Bates', 'Shawne Rowe', 'Robert David Hall', 'Scott Coffey', 'Lucy Butler', 'Harriet C. Leider', 'Gretchen Becker', 'Blair Tefkin', 'Paul Ben-Victor', 'Ava Dupree', 'Erick Avari', 'Michael Milhoan', 'Eleanor Zee', 'Cassie Cole', 'Timothy Johnson', 'Lena Banks', 'Michael McKay']
| 2.87
| 2
|
Drama, Suspense, Mystery, Thriller
| 103
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Propaganda Films', 'PolyGram Filmed Entertainment']
| 9,596
|
toxic-relationship
|
toxic-destructive-relationships
| null |
Ray Reardon, a successful architect, divorces his wife, and goes to a gallery opening to meet a woman. While there, he bumps into a woman, making her spill wine on herself, and she verbally abuses him. A week later, he runs into the woman, Lena Mathers, at the supermarket. She apologizes for her behavior and the two go to dinner. They have sex the next day, marry shortly thereafter, and become parents.
Despite his happiness in the marriage, Ray becomes suspicious after catching Lena in several lies about her past. An assistant for one of his clients went to Swarthmore College one year before Lena but, while the assistant remembers the university president dying of a heart attack while giving a university wide talk, Lena has no recollection of the president, thinking he was another student. A woman meets the couple at a restaurant but Lena says the woman has confused her for a woman named "Sissy" from Piru, Texas. A few years later, Ray visits Piru, Texas and is told by a town resident that a picture of Lena shown by Ray is Sissy, nickname for Thelma. He visits the family home and meets Lena's parents, who recognize him and know his name. He finds out that alleged beatings of Lena as a child by her mother did not happen (admitted by Lena) and that Lena told her parents Ray was an employee of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Ray becomes increasingly paranoid when his wife sports bruises that she will not explain and begins doing things that indicate she is having an affair. During a tense confrontation, Lena taunts Ray by claiming to have had an affair with an unnamed friend of his and refusing to tell Ray if their children are biologically his. Ray hits Lena, who then has him arrested and committed to a mental hospital for observation.
Despite an attempt to prove that Lena has been lying, the judge finds Ray to be mentally incompetent and orders him held for six months. Shortly after Ray has been committed, Lena privately admits to him that his suspicions about her were correct and that she had planned this for years to get his money.
Ray devises a plan of revenge. He convinces his friend Elaine to tell Lena that she made a mistake in her "master plan". Elaine suspects Lena has been having an affair with Larry, who secretly bought a house in New Zealand without Elaine's knowledge and might be an escape plan by Lena.
Lena shows up at his birthday party to talk to him. Ray lures her away from the attendants who are supposed to be supervising him and tells her that having him declared insane was the "mistake" because he could not now be held legally accountable for killing her. He proceeds to strangle her to death on the lawn.
|
Dream of a Rarebit Fiend
| 1,906
|
Edwin S. Porter, Wallace McCutcheon Sr.
|
['John P. Brawn']
| 3.52
| 2
|
Comedy, Short, Silent
| 7
|
['USA']
|
No spoken language
|
['No spoken language']
|
['Edison Studios']
| 5,551
|
fantasy
|
filmsrankedcom-200-greatest-fantasy-films
| null |
The Rarebit Fiend gorges on Welsh rarebit at a restaurant. When he leaves, he begins to get dizzy as he starts to hallucinate. He desperately tries to hang onto a lamppost as the world spins all around him. A man helps him get home. He falls into bed and begins having more hallucinatory dreams.
During a dream sequence, the furniture begins moving around the room. Imps emerge from a floating Welsh rarebit container and begin poking his head as he sleeps. His bed then begins dancing and spinning wildly around the room before flying out the window with the Fiend in it.
The bed floats across the city as the Fiend floats up and off the bed. He hangs off the back and eventually gets caught on a weathervane atop a steeple. His bedclothes tear and he falls from the sky, crashing through his bedroom ceiling. The Fiend awakens from the dream after falling out of his bed.
|
Dreams
| 1,990
|
Akira Kurosawa
|
['Akira Terao', 'Mitsuko Baisho', 'Toshie Negishi', 'Mieko Harada', 'Mitsunori Isaki', 'Toshihiko Nakano', 'Yoshitaka Zushi', 'Hisashi Igawa', 'Chosuke Ikariya', 'ChishÅ« RyÅ«', 'Martin Scorsese', 'Masayuki Yui', 'Tetsuo Yamashita', 'Misato Tate', 'Catherine Cadou', 'Mieko Suzuki', 'Ryûjirô Oki', 'Masaaki Sasaki', 'Motohiro Toriki', 'Shû Nakajima', 'Masuo Amada', 'Sakae Kimura', 'Meikyo Yamada', 'Tetsu Watanabe', 'Tetsuya Ito', 'Hiroshi Miyasaka', 'Toshiya Ito', 'Takashi Itô', 'Yasuhito Yamanaka', 'Haruka Sugata', 'Noriko Hayami', 'Yûko Ishiwa', 'Sachiko Oguri', 'Fujio Tokita', 'Michio Hino', 'Michio Kida', 'Noriko Honma', 'Haruko TÅgÅ', 'Reiko Nanao', 'Shin Tonomura', 'Junpei Natsuki', 'Shigeo Katô', 'Saburô Kadowaki', 'Goichi Nagatani', 'Shizuko Azuma', 'Yoshie Kihira', 'Yukie Shimura', 'Setsuko Kawaguchi', 'Kumeko Otowa', 'Masahiko Sakata']
| 4.19
| null |
Adventure, Fantasy, Drama, Magical Realism, World cinema
| 119
|
['USA', 'Japan']
|
Japanese
|
['Japanese', 'English', 'French']
|
['Warner Bros. Pictures', 'Akira Kurosawa USA']
| 82,999
|
fantasy
|
filmsrankedcom-200-greatest-fantasy-films
| null |
The film does not have a single narrative, but is rather episodic in nature, following the adventures of a "surrogate Kurosawa" (often recognizable by his wearing Kurosawa's trademark hat) through eight different segments, or "dreams", each one titled.
|
Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend: The Flying House
| 1,921
|
Winsor McCay
| null | 3.53
| null |
Animation, Short
| 11
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'No spoken language']
|
['Rialto Productions']
| 1,046
|
animated
|
vote-best-animated-films-of-all-time
| null |
Plot section not found.
|
Dredd
| 2,012
|
Pete Travis
|
['Karl Urban', 'Olivia Thirlby', 'Lena Headey', 'Wood Harris', 'Langley Kirkwood', 'Tamer Burjaq', 'Joe Vaz', 'Rakie Ayola', 'Junior Singo', 'Luke Tyler', 'Jason Cope', 'Domhnall Gleeson', 'Warrick Grier', 'Rachel Wood', 'Andile Mngadi', 'Porteus Xandau', 'Emma Breschi', 'Shoki Mokgapa', 'Yohan Chun', 'Eden Knowles', 'Desmond Lai Lan', 'Deobia Oparei', 'Patrick Lyster', 'Travis Snyders', 'Scott Sparrow', 'Marty Kintu', 'Nicole Bailey', 'Daniel Hadebe', 'Francis Chouler', 'Edwin Perry', 'Karl Thaning', 'Michele Levin', 'Chad Phillips']
| 3.61
| 4
|
Action, Cyberpunk, Science fiction, Adventure, Drama, Suspense, Thriller, Crime Fiction
| 95
|
['South Africa', 'UK', 'USA', 'India']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Rena Film', 'DNA Films', 'Reliance Big Entertainment', 'IM Global', 'Peach Trees']
| 281,714
|
superhero, post-apocalyptic
|
post-apocalyptic-movies, superhero-movies
| null |
In 2080, most of the United States is a dystopic post nuclear war wasteland known as the Cursed Earth. On the east coast lies Mega-City One, a violent metropolis with 800 million residents and 17,000 serious crimes reported daily. The only force for order are the Judges, who act as judge, jury, and executioner. The Chief Judge tasks veteran officer Judge Dredd with assessing potential recruit Cassandra Anderson, who marginally failed the aptitude tests to become a Judge, believing her powerful psychic abilities can help in the Judges' failing war against crime. Dredd warns Anderson that disobedience, incorrect sentencing, or being disarmed will result in an automatic fail.
In a 200-storey slum tower block called Peach Trees, drug lord Madeline "Ma-Ma" Madrigal has three rogue drug dealers skinned and infused with Slo-Mo—an addictive new drug that reduces the user's perception of time to 1% of normal—before throwing them down the atrium from the top floor. Dredd and Anderson arrive to investigate and learn of a drug den, which they raid. They arrest Ma-Ma's henchman Kay, whom Anderson psychically detects was involved in the executions, and Dredd decides to take him in for questioning. In response, Ma-Ma's forces seize the tower's security control room and seal the building using its nuclear blast shields to prevent the Judges from leaving or summoning help.
Ma-Ma instructs the residents to kill the Judges or hide, forcing Dredd and Anderson to confront dozens of armed thugs. They reach the seventy-sixth floor where Ma-Ma and her men launch an assault with rotary cannons that tear apart the walls and kill numerous residents, although the Judges evade harm. Dredd and Anderson breach an exterior wall and summon backup. Angered by the innocent deaths caused during Ma-Ma's assault, Dredd beats Kay for information, deducing she is desperate to prevent him from being interrogated. Anderson intervenes and psychically torments Kay into revealing that Peach Trees is the center of Slo-Mo production and distribution. Although Anderson recommends waiting for backup to arrive, Dredd insists on pursuing Ma-Ma. A pair of armed teens confront the Judges and, while they are distracted, Kay frees himself and disarms Anderson, capturing and taking her by elevator to Ma-Ma's base on the top floor. Meanwhile, Judges Volt and Guthrie arrive to support Dredd, but Ma-Ma's computer expert convinces them that the blast doors are malfunctioning and cannot be opened.
While Dredd works his way toward Ma-Ma, she calls in the corrupt Judges Lex, Kaplan, Chan, and Alvarez, who dismiss Volt and Guthrie and enter the building. Kay tries to execute Anderson with her Lawgiver gun, but the DNA scanner does not recognize him and the gun explodes, destroying his arm before Anderson neutralizes him. Anderson escapes and kills Kaplan after reading her mind while, elsewhere, Dredd runs out of ammunition after killing Chan and Alvarez. Dredd is cornered and shot by Lex, but he stalls Lex long enough for Anderson to arrive and kill him.
Anderson obtains the access code to Ma-Ma's apartment from the mind of her computer expert and releases him after viewing his memories of torture and coercion at Ma-Ma's hands. Dredd admonishes her decision to release a suspect as a fail point and a crime, but she reminds him she already failed the assessment by being disarmed, and considers the computer expert a victim. The Judges infiltrate Ma-Ma's apartment where they kill most of her enforcers, although Anderson is shot and wounded. Ma-Ma reveals that, if Dredd kills her, a device on her wrist will detonate explosives on the top floors, destroying the building. Reasoning that the detonator's signal will not reach the explosives from the ground floor, Dredd forces Ma-Ma to inhale Slo-Mo and throws her down the atrium to her death.
With order restored, the Judges leave Peach Trees as reinforcements arrive. Dredd tells Anderson her assessment is complete and she surrenders her badge before leaving. The Chief Judge asks Dredd about Anderson's performance; he responds that she has passed.
|
Drive
| 2,011
|
Nicolas Winding Refn
|
['Ryan Gosling', 'Carey Mulligan', 'Bryan Cranston', 'Albert Brooks', 'Oscar Isaac', 'Christina Hendricks', 'Ron Perlman', 'Kaden Leos', 'Jeff Wolfe', 'James Biberi', 'Russ Tamblyn', 'Joe Bucaro III', 'Tiara Parker', 'Tim Trella', 'Jimmy Hart', 'Tina Huang', 'Andy San Dimas', 'John Pyper-Ferguson', 'Craig Baxley Jr', 'Kenny Richards', 'Joe Pingue', 'Dieter Busch', 'Chris Muto', 'Rachel Dik', 'Cesar Garcia', 'Steven Knoll', 'Mara LaFontaine', 'Teonee Thrash', 'Ralph Lawler', 'Rio Ahn', 'Laurene Landon']
| 3.93
| 3.5
|
Action, Romance, Neo-noir, Noir, Crime film, Heist, Thriller, Suspense, Drama, Mystery, Indie film, Crime Thriller
| 100
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['FilmDistrict', 'Bold Films', 'Marc Platt Productions', 'OddLot Entertainment', 'Motel Movies', 'Newbridge Film Capital']
| 1,819,047
|
road-movie, heist
|
heist-movies, road-movies-1
| null |
A man in Los Angeles (billed as "The Driver") works as a mechanic, stunt double, and criminal-for-hire getaway driver. His jobs are all managed by auto shop owner Shannon, who persuades Jewish-American mobster Bernie Rose and his half-Italian partner Nino "Izzy" Paolozzi to purchase a stock car for the Driver to race as a legitimate business for them all.
The Driver grows close to his new neighbor, Irene, and her young son, Benicio, but their relationship is interrupted when Irene's husband, Standard Gabriel, is released from prison. Standard owes protection money and is assaulted by Albanian gangster Chris Cook, who demands that he rob a pawn shop for $40,000 to pay off the debt. Cook threatens Benicio and Irene, leading the Driver to offer to act as the getaway driver for Standard and Blanche, Cook's accomplice.
At the pawn shop, Blanche exits with a bag of money, but Standard is shot and killed by the store owner. Pursued by another car, the Driver and Blanche hide at a motel, where he forces her to admit that the bag contains $1 million, which she and Cook planned to take for themselves with Cook's henchmen in the other car. Ambushed by the henchmen, Blanche is shot in the head and the Driver is forced to kill both gunmen.
Shannon offers to hide the money, but the Driver declines. He tracks Cook to a strip club and forces him to reveal that Nino was behind the robbery. The Driver calls Nino, who dismisses his offer to return the money and be left alone, instead sending a hitman to the Driver and Irene's apartment building. The Driver tells an angry Irene about his involvement with her husband's death, and they enter the elevator with the assassin. Noticing the man's gun, the Driver kisses Irene before brutally stomping the assassin to death, horrifying Irene.
The Driver confronts Shannon, who reveals that he called Bernie about the money and unwittingly mentioned Irene. Furious, the Driver tells Shannon to flee as Nino will surely hunt them both. At his pizzeria, Nino reveals to Bernie that a low-level Philadelphia mobster stashed the money at the pawn shop to set up a new operation; anyone tied to the robbery could lead the East Coast mob to them, and must be killed.
Bernie murders Cook and, when Shannon refuses to divulge the Driver's whereabouts, fatally slashes Shannon's forearm with a straight razor. Finding Shannon's corpse at the auto shop, the Driver disguises himself with a rubber stuntman's mask and follows Nino from the pizzeria to the Pacific Coast Highway. Ramming Nino's car onto a beach, the Driver drowns him in the ocean. He calls Irene and tells her that he will not return, explaining that she and Benicio were the best part of his life.
The Driver meets with Bernie, who promises that Irene will be safe in exchange for the money. At the Driver's car, Bernie stabs him in the stomach, but he stabs Bernie to death and manages to drive away, leaving Bernie's corpse and the money behind. Irene knocks on the Driver's apartment door and walks away when no one answers. Severely wounded, the Driver drives into the night.
|
Drive-Away Dolls
| 2,024
|
Ethan Coen
|
['Margaret Qualley', 'Geraldine Viswanathan', 'Beanie Feldstein', 'Joey Slotnick', 'C.J. Wilson', 'Colman Domingo', 'Pedro Pascal', 'Bill Camp', 'Matt Damon', 'Connie Jackson', 'Annie Gonzalez', 'Gordon MacDonald', 'Sam Vartholomeos', 'John Menchion', 'Michael Counihan', 'Abby Hilden', 'Haley Holmes', 'Fatima Fine', 'Sam Mazzei', 'Jordan Zatawski', 'Samsara Yett', 'Savanna Ziegler', 'Michael Worden', 'Braxton McCollum', 'Daniel Kirkman', 'Layne Lazor', 'Phil McFall', 'Angelo Maldonado Jr.', 'Cristina Contreras', 'Michael Edelstein', 'Micaela Minner', 'Billy Hough', 'Alex Halpern', 'Angela Boehm', 'Josh Flitter', 'Miley Cyrus', 'Briana Bui', 'Finn David', 'Sullivan David', 'Liggera Edmonds-Allen', 'Daniel Johnson', 'Sam McCrea', 'Spencer Mustine', 'Lisa Naso', 'Olivia Pagone', 'Roger Petan', 'Patrick Raffaele', 'Hilda Ivette Rodriguez', 'Lynda B Schneider', 'Bill Smith', 'Jayden Solovey']
| 2.85
| null |
Comedy, Action, Road, Adventure, Thriller, Crime Fiction
| 85
|
['UK', 'USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Working Title Films', 'Focus Features', 'Mike Zoss Productions']
| 198,199
|
road-movie
|
road-movies-1
| null |
At a bar in Philadelphia in 1999, a man named Santos sits in a booth, nervously clutching a briefcase. He exits in a hurry and is followed by the bartender, who murders and decapitates him in an alley.
Elsewhere in Philadelphia, Jamie and Sukie are lovers whose relationship falls apart due to Jamie's infidelity. After Sukie kicks her out of their apartment, Jamie learns that her friend Marian is planning a trip to Tallahassee, Florida, and decides to tag along. They head into a drive-away car service, where someone can transport a car one-way for another client. Due to a misunderstanding, they are given a car that someone else has already booked for a trip to Tallahassee.
Moments later, a trio of criminals—Arliss, Flint, and Chief—come to the shop to pick up the car headed to Tallahassee. They find that Jamie and Marian have taken it by accident, along with unspecified cargo that is part of their illegal dealings.
While Marian wants to go straight to Tallahassee, Jamie constantly tries to convince Marian to loosen up by taking detours and trying to have casual sex at lesbian bars along the way. Marian prefers to read Henry James' The Europeans but slowly comes out of her shell due to Jamie's prodding.
When the pair finally enter Florida, their car gets a flat tire. They open the trunk and find the briefcase Santos was holding and a basket containing Santos' head and a smoky white substance (likely dry ice or liquid nitrogen).
Jamie and Marian are followed by Arliss and Flint, who are led on a wild goose chase by a soccer team who had invited Jamie and Marian to a party. When Jamie and Marian check into a hotel using Jamie's credit card, the mob is tipped off to their location. Jamie convinces Marian that she needs to have a positive sexual experience to enjoy life more, and they have sex.
The next morning, Arliss, Flint, and the Chief arrive in Tallahassee, while Jamie decides to use the contents of Santos' briefcase: a collection of dildos that were created from plaster casts of men's erect penises. Marian is shocked, but Jamie insists that she just wants the sexual release that Marian had the night before.
Immediately after Jamie climaxes, Arliss and Flint burst into their room, retrieve Santos' head and the briefcase, and abduct the women at gunpoint. The women are tied to chairs in the backroom at a dog racing track. The Chief arrives to meet them all and explains that the sex toys are based on the genitals of powerful public figures, including one that was molded from Senator Channel's penis.
Channel is fearful that his reputation will be ruined if anyone learns of the dildo, which Jamie had used and left behind in the hotel room. After the gangsters have an argument that leads to Flint shooting the other two dead and running away, Jamie and Marian escape. They decide to blackmail Channel.
Sukie has also been en route to Tallahassee in her capacity as a police officer after Jamie tipped her off. Jamie and Marian meet Channel at a lesbian bar and give him the dildo in exchange for one million dollars. Sukie intercepts them as they exit, and Channel turns back around to try and kill the women. Sukie shoots him. Channel survives, but his reputation is ruined when newspapers begin publishing articles about his criminal connections and the dildo collection.
The next day, Jamie and Marian meet with Marian's aunt at their hotel. Jamie casually mentions that she and Marian plan to go to Massachusetts, as same-sex marriage is legal there. As the trio drive away, a bellhop races to give them a bag that they have left behind, which contains two plaster casts Jamie had made of the dildo modeled after Channel's penis.
|
Driving Miss Daisy
| 1,989
|
Bruce Beresford
|
['Morgan Freeman', 'Jessica Tandy', 'Dan Aykroyd', 'Patti LuPone', 'Esther Rolle', 'Joann Havrilla', 'William Hall Jr.', 'Alvin M. Sugarman', 'Clarice F. Geigerman', 'Muriel Moore', 'Sylvia Kaler', 'Carolyn Gold', 'Crystal R. Fox', 'Bob Hannah', 'Ray McKinnon', 'Ashley Josey', 'Jack Rousso', 'Fred Faser', 'Indra A. Thomas', 'Trilby Beresford', 'Dean DuBois', 'Jay Freer', 'Jen Harper', 'D. Taylor Loeb']
| 3.32
| null |
Comedy, Romance, Drama, Tragicomedy
| 99
|
['UK', 'USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'Hebrew (modern)']
|
['Warner Bros. Pictures', 'Majestic Films International', 'Allied Filmmakers', 'The Zanuck Company']
| 88,026
|
oscar-winner
|
oscar-winning-films-best-picture
| null |
In 1948, Daisy Werthan, or Miss Daisy, a 72-year-old wealthy, Jewish, widowed, retired schoolteacher, lives alone in Atlanta, Georgia, except for a black housekeeper, Idella. When Miss Daisy accidentally drives her 1946 Chrysler Windsor into her neighbor's yard, her 40-year-old son, Boolie, buys her a Hudson Commodore and hires 60-year-old Hoke Colburn, a black chauffeur, as Miss Daisy can no longer drive anymore due to her being a high risk with the insurance company. Boolie tells Hoke that Miss Daisy may not appreciate his efforts, but she cannot fire him, because Boolie is his employer. At first, Miss Daisy refuses to let anyone drive her, but Hoke's patience pays off, and she reluctantly accepts the first two trips; one to the Piggly Wiggly supermarket, the other to her synagogue. Then she tries to get Boolie to fire Hoke after discovering a can of salmon missing from her pantry. However, Hoke, unprompted, admits to eating the salmon, and offers a replacement.
As Miss Daisy and Hoke spend time together, she comes to appreciate his many skills. She teaches him to read for the first time using her teaching skills and resources. After Idella dies in the spring of 1963, rather than hire a new housekeeper, Miss Daisy decides to care for her own house and have Hoke do the cooking and the driving. Meanwhile, Hoke buys the cars in which he drives Miss Daisy, after they are traded in for newer models, and he negotiates a higher salary with Boolie.
The film explores racism against African Americans and antisemitism in the South. After her synagogue is bombed, Miss Daisy realizes that she is also a victim of prejudice. American society is undergoing radical changes, and Miss Daisy attends a dinner at which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gives a speech.
Boolie declines when she invites him to the dinner, suggesting that Miss Daisy invite Hoke. She waits until the last moment, asking Hoke to be her guest during the car ride to the event. She attends the dinner alone while Hoke, who is insulted by the manner of the invitation, listens to the speech on the car radio, outside.
One morning in 1971, Hoke arrives at the house to find Miss Daisy agitated and showing signs of dementia: she believes that she is a young teacher again. Hoke calms her down. In that conversation, she calls Hoke her "best friend." Boolie arranges for Miss Daisy to enter a retirement home.
In 1973, Hoke, now 85 and rapidly losing his eyesight, retires. Boolie, now 65, drives Hoke to the retirement home to visit Miss Daisy, now 97.[6] The two catch up, and Hoke gently feeds her Thanksgiving pie. The final scene is an image of the black Cadillac driving on a road.
|
Drop Dead Gorgeous
| 1,999
|
Michael Patrick Jann
|
['Kirsten Dunst', 'Ellen Barkin', 'Denise Richards', 'Kirstie Alley', 'Allison Janney', 'Sam McMurray', 'Mindy Sterling', 'Brittany Murphy', 'Amy Adams', 'Laurie A. Sinclair', 'Shannon Nelson', 'Tara Redepenning', 'Sarah Stewart', 'Alexandra Holden', 'Brooke Elise Bushman', 'Matt Malloy', 'Michael McShane', 'Will Sasso', 'Lona Williams', 'Nora Dunn', 'Adam West', 'Seiko Matsuda', 'Thomas Lennon', 'Richard Narita', 'Patti Yasutake', 'Richard Ooms', 'Amanda Detmer', 'Claudia Wilkens', 'Casey Garven', 'Jacy King', 'Mo Gaffney', 'Mary Gillis', 'Dale Dunham', 'Terry Hempleman', 'Chris Carlson', 'James Cada', 'Kristin Rudrüd', 'John T. Olson', 'Ashley Dylan Bullard', 'Allyson Kearns', 'Tom Gilshannon', 'Eric D. Howell', 'Matthew G. Park', 'Luke Ingles', 'Nick Ingles', 'Jimmie D. Wright', 'Peter Aitchinson', 'Mary Rehbein', 'Jeany Park', 'Robert-Bruce Brake', 'Bruce Linser', 'Tiffany Engen', 'Jennifer Baldwin Peden', 'Annalise Nelson', 'Samantha Harris', 'Kari Ann Shiff', 'Mark Dahlen', 'Jeff Tatum', 'Paul Cram', 'Kregg Janke', 'Kayla Laursen', 'Amy Lithander', 'Larissa Lowthorp', 'Josh Minnie', 'Jamie Olsen', 'Don Patterson', 'Robb Ross', 'Darla Rothman', 'Joel Thingvall', 'David William Watts', 'Lisa Woods']
| 3.83
| null |
Romance, Comedy, Mockumentary, Dark comedy, Melodrama, Drama, Thriller
| 98
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Capella International', 'KC Medien AG']
| 105,878
|
comedy
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
In 1995, the small, conservative town of Mount Rose, Minnesota, is preparing for their annual local qualifying pageant for the national Sarah Rose Cosmetics American Teen Princess Pageant. A film crew is in town to document the pageant and its lead-up. One of the interviewees is 17-year-old Amber Atkins, who signs up for the pageant in the hopes of winning a college scholarship and following in the footsteps of her idol Diane Sawyer.
Among the other contestants are Rebecca ("Becky") Leeman, the daughter of the richest man in town. Becky's mother Gladys is the head of the pageant organizing committee and a former winner. Because of the business connections between the Leemans' furniture store and the pageant judges, many fear the contest will be rigged. In the days leading up to the pageant, many odd events occur around town, such as contestant Tammy Curry being killed when her threshing machine explodes, and the death of a boy Becky liked who was interested in Amber, which is ruled as a hunting accident. Amber considers dropping out when her mother Annette’s trailer explodes but remains in the competition to make her mother proud. At the dress rehearsal, a stage light knocks out contestant Jenelle Betz and renders her deaf.
On the night of the pageant, Amber's dance costume disappears. She accuses Becky of stealing it and they have a fight backstage. Pageant choreographer Chloris Klinghagen gives Amber a new costume; however, organizer Iris Clark says she can't perform as the new costume was not approved weeks ago. Amber's fellow contestant, Lisa Swenson, takes pity on her and drops out to give Amber her costume. Amber is able to perform her tap dance number and receives a standing ovation. For her performance, Becky sings "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" while dancing with a life-sized Jesus doll on a crucifix, which amuses and horrifies the audience.
The pageant announces the winners: cheerleader Leslie Miller is second runner-up, Amber is first runner-up, and Becky wins. During Becky's victory parade the next day, she is killed in a freak accident when her elaborate swan float bursts into flames and explodes. A grief-stricken Gladys flies into a blind rage, admitting to being responsible for all the shenanigans, and is immediately arrested. Amber is crowned the new pageant winner. At the state competition, Amber wins the title by default after the other contestants get food poisoning. She receives an all-expenses-paid trip to the national pageant as a prize, but upon arrival, she and the other state winners are devastated to find that Sarah Rose Cosmetics was shut down for tax evasion, meaning there will be no national pageant. This sends all the contestants except Amber into a rage-fueled rampage where they vandalize the company’s property.
A few years later, Gladys escapes from prison and becomes involved in a police standoff at the Mount Rose supermarket, declaring her intent to take revenge on Amber. During the six-hour standoff, a television reporter at the scene is hit by a stray bullet. Amber quickly picks up the microphone and takes over to report the story, impressing the news station with her poise and confidence. Amber becomes co-anchor of the evening news for Minneapolis–St. Paul WAZB-TV, thus fulfilling her dream of possibly becoming the next Diane Sawyer.
|
Drugstore Cowboy
| 1,989
|
Gus Van Sant
|
['Matt Dillon', 'Kelly Lynch', 'James Remar', 'James Le Gros', 'Heather Graham', 'Beah Richards', 'Grace Zabriskie', 'Max Perlich', 'William S. Burroughs', 'Eric Hull', 'John Kelly', 'George Catalano', 'Janet Baumhover', "Ted D'Arms", 'Neal Thomas', 'Stephen Rutledge', 'Robert Lee Pitchlynn', 'Roger Hancock', 'Michael Parker', 'Ray Monge', 'Gus Van Sant']
| 3.69
| null |
Drama, Crime film, Indie film, Road
| 102
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Avenue Pictures']
| 73,603
|
road-movie
|
road-movies-1
| null |
In 1971, 26-year-old Bob Hughes leads a nomadic group of drug addicts—his wife Dianne, his best friend Rick, and Rick's teenage girlfriend Nadine—who travel across the Pacific Northwest robbing pharmacies and hospitals to support their habits.
After stealing from a Portland, Oregon, pharmacy, they drive home to get high, and are visited by David, a local low-life seeking hard-to-find Dilaudid. Bob claims they have none, but offers to trade him morphine for speed. Initially reluctant, David is persuaded to trade and leaves. Later, police officers led by Detective Gentry, who correctly assumes the group is responsible for the pharmacy robbery, raid and wreck their apartment in an unsuccessful search for the stolen drugs, which Dianne has buried outside.
After moving to another apartment, Bob realizes that Gentry has the group under surveillance. Bob proceeds to devise an elaborate ruse which results in one of the policemen, Trousinski, being mistaken for a peeper by a neighbor who shoots and injures him. The next day, a furious Gentry assaults Bob. Believing a hex has been brought upon them, the group goes "crossroading" and robs a drugstore via an open transom. They find their haul includes vials of pure powdered Dilaudid worth thousands of dollars each. Declaring that, "when you're hot, you're hot," Bob convinces Dianne that he should rob a hospital.
During the robbery, Bob is almost captured, and the group returns to their motel to find Nadine has fatally overdosed on a stolen bottle of Dilaudid. According to Bob, she has also put "the worst of all hexes" on them by leaving a hat on her bed. After temporarily storing Nadine's body in the motel's attic, they are alerted by the motel manager that their room was previously booked for a sheriffs' convention, and they must check out. Bob, suffering tremendous anxiety and stress-induced visions of handcuffs and prison, sneaks the body out of the motel in a garment bag. Before burying Nadine in a forest, Bob tells Dianne that he is going to get clean and begin a 21-day methadone treatment program. Shocked by Bob's decision, Dianne refuses to join him.
Bob moves into a long-stay motel in Portland and gets a low-level manufacturing job. At the methadone clinic, he encounters an elderly, drug-addicted priest named Tom, whom Bob remembers from his days as an altar boy. Gentry pays a visit to the motel and says that Trousinski has been making threats against Bob, whom Gentry encourages staying sober. Bob later witnesses David bullying a young man who supposedly owes him money. Bob intervenes and lets the man escape, much to David's frustration.
One night, Dianne arrives at the motel and reveals that she is now in a relationship with Rick, the group's new leader. Dianne asks Bob what happened on the road to make him change his life, and he answers that Nadine's death, the hex she put on them, and the possibility of serious prison time contributed to his decision. He reveals a deal he made with a higher power: if he could get Nadine's body out of the motel, past the cops, and into the ground, he would straighten out his life. Bob suggests Dianne stay the night with him, but she declines, and gives Bob a package of drugs before leaving. Bob gives the drugs to Tom (who rejects all of them except for a bottle of Dilaudid). Returning to his room, Bob is attacked by two masked figures, one of whom is David, who thinks he has drugs. Bob tells them that he is clean, but David does not believe this and shoots him. A neighbor phones for help, and Bob is loaded onto a stretcher. Asked who shot him, Bob tells Gentry it was "the hat."
While riding in the ambulance, Bob concludes via a voice-over that he has "paid his debt to the hat" and so can return to his former lifestyle without breaking his commitment. He is amused by the perceived irony of the police driving him to a hospital — "the fattest pharmacy in town."
|
Drunken Master II
| 1,994
|
Lau Kar-leung
|
['Jackie Chan', 'Anita Mui Yim-Fong', 'Ti Lung', 'Lau Kar-leung', 'Andy Lau Tak-Wah', 'Felix Wong', 'Hoh Wing-Fong', 'Ram Chiang', 'Bill Tung', 'Ken Lo', 'Chin Ka-Lok', 'Ho-Sung Pak', 'Lau Siu-Ming', 'Suki Kwan Sau-Mei', 'Hon Yee-Sang', 'Mars', 'Chan Tat-Kwong', 'William Duen Wai-Lun', 'Yi-Sheng Han', 'Wing-Fong Ho', 'Lau Ga-Yung', 'Louis Roth', 'Yvonne Yung Hung', 'Bao Fang', 'Vindy Chan', 'Hsu Hsia', 'Alan Chan Kwok-Kuen', 'Tai Bo', 'Pak Yan', 'Sam Wong Ming-Sing', 'Johnny Cheung Wa', 'Chan Hiu-Ying', 'Rocky Lai Keung-Kun']
| 3.91
| 4.5
|
Action, Comedy, Kung fu, Martial Arts, Adventure
| 102
|
['Hong Kong']
|
Cantonese
|
['Cantonese']
|
['Orange Sky Golden Harvest', 'Hong Kong Stuntman Association', 'Paragon Films Ltd.']
| 55,028
|
action, top-rated
|
letterboxds-top-250-action-films
| null |
The film is set in early 20th century China. Wong Fei-hung, along with his father Wong Kei-ying and servant Tso, is on the way home to Canton after a trip to the Northeast when he encounters Fu Wen-chi, a former top candidate in the Qing era's military examination. After an exchange of blows, Wong and Fu accidentally switch the boxes they had been fighting over. Wong ends up with the Imperial Seal while Fu gets the ginseng that Wong's father had bought for a client. Unknown to Wong, the Imperial Seal is one of numerous Chinese artifacts that the British consul is trying to smuggle out of China to Britain.
Back in Canton, Wong gives the client a root from his father's favourite bonsai to pass off as the ginseng. Wong's stepmother, Ling, complicates things when she tries to help Wong by loaning her necklace for money for Wong to buy a new ginseng; their neighbours mistakenly believe that the Wongs are in financial difficulty. In the meantime, the British consul sends his henchmen to track down Wong and seize the Imperial Seal. A fight breaks out between Wong and the henchmen when the latter try to snatch a bag from Ling, thinking that it contains the Seal. At Ling's instigation, Wong gets drunk and uses drunken boxing to beat up the henchmen until his father shows up and stops him. The older Wong is furious at his son for embarrassing their family by getting drunk and fighting in public. To make matters worse, the client falls sick after consuming the fake ginseng and his wife informs Wong's father about it. After he learns the truth behind the ginseng and bonsai, the older Wong becomes so angry that he hits his son and chases him out of the house.
When Wong tries to drown his sorrow by drinking heavily, he gets beaten up and publicly humiliated by the henchmen because he is too drunk to fight back. After his family saves him and brings him home, Wong feels deeply ashamed of his drunken behaviour and apologizes to his father, saying that he will never drink again. Meanwhile, Fu Wen-chi visits the Wong residence and tells them about the British consul's smuggling operation. The next day, Fu and Wong are attacked at a restaurant by the Axe Gang, a group of thugs hired by the consul. Fu is fatally shot and the Imperial Seal is taken by the consul's men. Before dying, Fu implores Wong and his friends to retrieve the Seal and stop the consul from stealing Chinese artifacts.
One night, Wong and his friend, Tsang, disguise themselves and break into the British consulate. They are caught, assaulted and held for ransom by the consul, who demands that Wong's father sells his land in exchange for their release; the older Wong reluctantly agrees. Later, Wong's friends discover that the British consul is planning to smuggle the stolen artifacts out of Canton using boxes meant for steel shipments. They inform Wong and Tsang, who then join the workers in a violent protest at the British-owned steel factory against the consul's abuses. Out of desperation, he breaks his promise and drinks again in order to use drunken boxing technique to overcome John, the consul's chief enforcer. After a long fight, Wong and his friends defeat the consul's henchmen and put an end to the smuggling operation. At the end of the movie, a Chinese general presents the Wongs a commemorative plaque to honor them for their service to the country and to offer Wong a job, only to find that Wong has suffered a bad hangover due to his drinking.
|
Dry Ground Burning
| 2,022
|
Adirley Queirós, Joana Pimenta
|
['Léa Alves da Silva', 'Joana Darc Furtado', 'Andreia Vieira', 'Gleide Firmino', 'Mara Alves', 'Débora Alencar']
| 3.68
| null |
Documentary, Science fiction, Drama, Narrative, Crime Fiction
| 153
|
['Brazil', 'Portugal', 'USA']
|
Portuguese
|
['Portuguese', 'English']
|
['Cinco da Norte', 'Terratreme Filmes']
| 5,222
|
sci-fi, top-rated
|
letterboxds-top-250-science-fiction-films
| null |
Plot section not found.
|
Duck Amuck
| 1,953
|
Chuck Jones
|
['Mel Blanc']
| 4.31
| null |
Animation, Comedy, Children's film, Short
| 7
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Warner Bros. Pictures', 'Warner Bros. Cartoons']
| 32,121
|
comedy, animated
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time, vote-best-animated-films-of-all-time
| null |
The cartoon's title sequence and opening scene suggest Daffy Duck is to star as a musketeer, and he appears, boldly engaging in an action scene with a fencing foil. As he thrusts the foil and advances, the background abruptly disappears, leaving a plain white screen. Confused by this, Daffy turns to the animator and asks them to complete the scenery. However, the animator fills in a new background that has nothing to do with the previous scene. Daffy returns and starts to repeat his opening scene, but quickly notices the different background and leaves, returning in a different costume and altering his performance to match the new scene. The animator substitutes several different unrelated backgrounds, each time prompting Daffy to change costumes until the background finally disappears completely again.
While Daffy tries to reason with the animator, he becomes completely erased and, upon asking where he is, he gets redrawn as a cowboy with a guitar. Daffy tries to play it, but there is only silence. Using a sign ("sound please"), he requests sound and is granted various non-guitar sound effects. Daffy also finds himself generating random sound effects when he tries to speak, and finally regains his voice when he becomes enraged and shouts angrily at the animator.
Regaining his composure, Daffy demands some new scenery and is given an amateurish line-art cityscape background in pencil. Daffy unpleasantly asks for color, prompting the animator to slap various colors and patterns all over him, for which he harshly scolds the animator. All but Daffy's eyes and beak is erased and, upon asking where the rest of him has gone, he is redrawn as a bizarre mismatched creature. As Daffy walks off, he becomes aware of not feeling quite like himself; the animator creates a mirror and, upon seeing his hideous self, Daffy shrieks in alarm before scolding the animator again. Everything is erased and Daffy is redrawn this time in a sailor suit. Daffy seems to be pleased with this and begins to sing "The Song of the Marines" as the animator draws an ocean scene with an island in the background, but draws nothing under Daffy, resulting in him falling into the ocean and surfacing on the island. When he requests a close-up, the screen contracts around him, at which he says that is not a close-up and screams for a proper close-up; the camera zooms up uncomfortably close to his angry bloodshot eyes. He walks away muttering a sarcastic thanks to the animator.
As Daffy tries once again to negotiate with the animator to have an understanding, a black curtain falls on him. After failing to keep the curtain up with a stick (and trying to push the curtain up), Daffy goes ballistic and rips it apart. Now at the end of his rope, Daffy demands for the cartoon to resume, only to become even more frustrated when the animator attempts to end it. Daffy suggests that he and the animator go their separate ways and, hoping against hope that nothing further will happen, begins a dance routine which is quickly interrupted when the film runs out of alignment, resulting in two Daffys on the screen. They argue with each other and almost start a fight, but one Daffy is quickly erased just before the other attempts to get physical.
Daffy is then drawn into an airplane, which he excitedly flies around in until a mountain is drawn in his path. The plane crashes into it (off-screen), leaving Daffy with nothing but the plane's steering wheel and windshield. He jumps out of the plane's remains and floats downward with his parachute, which is replaced with an anvil. Crashing to the ground, a disoriented Daffy hammers the anvil while dizzily reciting "The Village Blacksmith". The animator changes the anvil into an artillery shell, which explodes after a few more hammer strikes. Daffy finally snaps and angrily demands to know who the animator is, only to have the animator draw a door which closes on Daffy. The camera pulls back and the animator is revealed to be Bugs Bunny at a drawing table, who turns around and says to the audience, "Ain't I a stinker?".
|
Duck Soup
| 1,933
|
Leo McCarey
|
['Groucho Marx', 'Harpo Marx', 'Chico Marx', 'Zeppo Marx', 'Margaret Dumont', 'Raquel Torres', 'Louis Calhern', 'Edmund Breese', 'Leonid Kinskey', 'Charles Middleton', 'Edgar Kennedy', 'Edward Arnold', 'Wade Boteler', 'Sidney Bracey', 'E.H. Calvert', 'Davison Clark', 'Louise Closser Hale', 'Carrie Daumery', 'Maude Turner Gordon', 'Florence Wix', 'Joseph Crehan', 'Mario Dominici', 'Edmund Mortimer', 'Charles West', 'Verna Hillie', 'Edward LeSaint', 'George MacQuarrie', 'Frederick Sullivan', 'Eric Mayne', 'Edwin Maxwell', "Dennis O'Keefe", 'Leo Sulky', 'Dale Van Sickel', 'William Worthington']
| 3.93
| 3.5
|
Comedy, War, Musical, Comedy music
| 69
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Paramount Pictures']
| 85,792
|
comedy
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
Wealthy widow Gloria Teasdale is asked to give twenty million dollars to the small, financially struggling nation of Freedonia. She agrees, but only if the current leader steps down and Rufus T. Firefly is appointed leader. Meanwhile, Ambassador Trentino of the neighboring country of Sylvania is scheming to provoke a revolution in Freedonia in order to annex it. He sends two spies, Chicolini and Pinky, to Freedonia to find out information about Firefly. To his disappointment, Chicolini and Pinky end up spying on the wrong man, but he agrees to give them another chance.
To collect information on Firefly, Chicolini and Pinky pose as peanut vendors and station their food cart outside of Firefly's office. Firefly hires Chicolini as Freedonia's Secretary of War. A short time later, Firefly's secretary, Bob Roland, warns Firefly of Trentino's scheme. Roland advises Firefly to insult Trentino, hoping that he will slap Firefly in response; this will give Firefly an excuse to ban Trentino from entering Freedonia again. Firefly agrees to the plan, but after a series of personal insults exchanged with Trentino, the plan goes awry when Firefly slaps Trentino instead. The incident brings the two countries to the brink of war. But in the midst of possible battle, Firefly and Trentino are both attempting to woo Mrs. Teasdale in the hopes of getting their respective hands on her late husband's wealth.
Trentino learns from Sylvanian spy Vera Marcal that Freedonia's plans of war are in Mrs. Teasdale's possession. He tells Vera to assist Chicolini and Pinky in stealing the plans. Chicolini is eventually caught by Firefly and put on trial, during which Firefly again slaps Trentino, causing him to officially declare war on Freedonia. Overcome with excitement for the war, everyone at the trial begins singing and dancing. Chicolini and Pinky join Firefly and Roland in the anarchic battle.
The war is going badly against Freedonia as they are suffering heavy damage and casualties. Army morale is breaking down amid a series of violent mishaps. Firefly and the others take refuge in Teasdale's hideout, but the house is soon overrun, and Sylvanian troops begin to invade, including Trentino himself. When the others catch him among the other soldiers they pin him in a makeshift pillory and Firefly, Chicolini, Pinky, and Roland throw fruit at him. Trentino surrenders, but Firefly tells him, "Sorry, you'll have to wait till the fruit runs out". When Mrs. Teasdale victoriously begins singing the Freedonian national anthem, the four men start throwing fruit at her.
|
Dude Bro Party Massacre III
| 2,015
|
Jon Salmon, Tomm Jacobsen
|
['Alec Owen', 'Patton Oswalt', 'Paul Prado', 'Olivia Taylor Dudley', 'Nina Hartley', 'Greg Sestero', 'Ben Gigli', 'Joey Scoma', 'Kelsey Gunn', 'Brian Firenzi', 'Maria Del Carmen', 'Mike James', 'Jimmy Wong', 'Michael Rousselet', 'Nick Kocher', 'Brian McElhaney', 'Andrew W.K.', 'Larry King', 'Tomm Jacobsen', 'Erik Sandoval', 'Chelsea St. John', 'Christiann Castellanos', 'Skyler Rousselet', 'Maura Murphy', 'Logan Olson', 'Rocky Collins', 'Jon Worley', 'Matt Hargreaves', 'Ian Ahern', 'Laura Cebrick', 'Ela Darling', 'Becktoria', 'John Francis Daley', 'Suziey Block', 'Katie Johnson', 'Jon Brence', 'Andrew Schulz', 'Desmond Dolly', 'Benji Dolly', 'Timothy Ciancio', 'Katie Matthews', 'Clayton LaDue', 'Rachel Ann Mullins', 'Jessee Foudray', 'Lily Cade', "Dan O'Brien", 'Katy Stoll', 'Soren Bowie', "Daniel O'Brien", 'Robert Daniel Sloan', 'Dartanian Sloan', 'Karalynn Dunton', 'Thomas Ridgewell']
| 3.33
| null |
Horror, Comedy
| 101
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'French']
|
['Snoot Entertainment', '5-Second Films']
| 8,344
|
comedy
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
Delta Bi member Brock Chirino talks to his therapist about the multiple slasher-related attacks on his fraternity because of their pranks. The sorority house mother was trapped in a burning building and vowed revenge on them during one. While member Road Doggie loses his frisbee outside, the mother throws a buzzsaw at his mouth, partially decapitating him. Inside, Cindy performs oral sex on C-Trunk, only for the mother to sneak under the bed and kill them both with a harpoon, before stabbing Coach Handsey with a javelin in the locker room. The mother goes on a rampage, hacking one to death in the shower with two meat cleavers, stabbing one through the mouth with a javelin, and decapitating one with a machete. After Scooter's head explodes, Brock and his friend Samzy manage to kill the mother, only for her daughter to cut off her face and use it as a mask, taking up the name Motherface.
Motherface begins her own rampage, slashing people's throats and electrocuting them, even killing the Delta Bi's weed dealer Tito by hacking him in the throat with a wooden sign. After shredding Dolphman's face with a blender, Brock lights Motherface on fire and kills her. In the present day, the therapist grabs a pair of scissors and, revealing herself to be the new Motherface and the previous Motherface's sister, slashes Brock's throat. Brock's brother Brent joins Delta Bi while trying to discover his brother's killer. He befriends a crippled Nedry, Samzy, Derek, Todd, and his girlfriend Samantha, Turbeaux, who is scared of dogs, ZQ, Sizzler, Turtleneck, Flannel Bro, and a beer addicted Spike. During a prank, Nedry and Brent accidentally cause a plane crash, which makes Pepperstone recap their previous pranks, which include blowing up a dam in Old Parchtown. Because of the plane crash, Dean Pepperstone sends Delta Bi to the lake house. After they leave, Motherface stabs Pepperstone to death.
Delta Bi meets with the river raft salesman, Paddy, whose family died during a flood caused in the past by Delta Bi. Delta Bi gets the rafts and leaves behind Nedry. They arrive at the house and begin to clean it up. Motherface spies Paddy on a raft and almost shoots him with an arrow, only for Paddy to commit suicide by shooting himself through the mouth. Later at the house, Brent goes into the attic and finds Samzy, who tries to dance with Brent, only for Brent to accidentally drop his head on the floor, snapping his neck. Motherface cuts the power, and Delta Bi sends Derek to fix it. Motherface rams a hoe into the back of Derek's head, pushing it into the circuit and electrocuting him to death. She ambushes Spike, trying to find more beer, and kills him by stabbing him in the head with a beer tap and draining his brains. She also makes him drink his own blood.
Samantha and Todd have sex in a tent before Motherface stabs Todd through the tent with a machete. Samantha is oblivious and falls asleep. ZQ and Sizzler go into the woods, and a tree crushes ZQ before Motherface bisects him. The next day, Delta Bi finds ZQ's corpse and runs into the house, with Turbeaux knocking out Samantha with a baseball bat. Samzy reveals that he has a robot duplicate in the attic, but Brent realizes that he has killed him. Motherface throws his head through the window and uses a device to make Samzy rip out his tongue by the lake before drowning him. Motherface then rips out Sizzler's heart and flushes his insides down a toilet.
Turbeaux is locked in a room full of dogs and uses a gun to shoot himself. Samantha finds Sizzler's body and reveals to Brent that Todd impregnated her before Motherface appears behind her with a fire poker and stabs her through the stomach, killing her child. Motherface then pulls the poker up, vertically slicing Samantha in half. Brent finds a badly wounded Flannel and Turtleneck Bro in the woods before Motherface stabs both of their heads with a javelin. Motherface attacks Brent with a tomahawk, but Nedry saves him, only for Motherface to throw a tomahawk into Nedry's head, killing him. The spirits of all the dead Delta Bi strengthen Brent, and he uses the power to beat Motherface to death.
|
Dude, Where's My Car?
| 2,000
|
Danny Leiner
|
['Ashton Kutcher', 'Seann William Scott', 'Jennifer Garner', 'Marla Sokoloff', 'Kristy Swanson', 'David Herman', 'Hal Sparks', "Charlie O'Connell", 'John Toles-Bey', 'Christian Middelthon', 'Dave Bannick', 'James Vincent', 'Bob Clendenin', 'Mary Lynn Rajskub', 'Kevin Christy', 'Kristoffer Ryan Winters', 'Cleo King', 'Fabio', 'Andy Dick', 'Brent Spiner', 'Jodi Ann Paterson', 'Mitzi Martin', 'Nichole Hiltz', 'Linda Kim', 'Mia Trudeau', 'Kimmarie Johnson', 'Keone Young', 'Christopher Darga', 'Marc Lynn', 'Pat Finn', 'Cinco Paul', 'Dwight Armstrong', 'Joyce Giraud', 'Brendan Hill', 'John Melendez', 'Ryan Christian']
| 2.64
| null |
Comedy, Action, Romance, Science fiction, Mystery
| 83
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'Japanese', 'Polish', 'French']
|
['20th Century Fox', 'Wayne Rice/Gil Netter Productions', 'Alcon Entertainment']
| 175,792
|
comedy
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
Best friends and roommates Jesse and Chester awaken with hangovers and no memory of the previous night. The answering machine contains an angry message from their twin girlfriends Wilma and Wanda as to their whereabouts. The two also learn they have almost been fired from their pizza delivery jobs, and they find the cabinets in their kitchen are full of containers of pudding. They emerge from their home to find Jesse's car missing (leading to the titular question) and with it their girlfriends' first-anniversary presents. Because the girls have promised them a "special treat", which Jesse and Chester take to mean sexual intercourse, the men desperately begin retracing their steps in an attempt to discover where they left the car.
Along the way, they encounter a transgender stripper, a belligerent speaker box operator at a Chinese restaurant's drive-through, two tattoos they discover on each other's backs, UFO cultists led by Zoltan (who later hold the twins hostage), a Cantonese-speaking Chinese tailor, the Zen-minded Nelson and his cannabis-loving dog Jackal, beautiful Christie Boner, her aggressive jock boyfriend Tommy and his friends, two hard-nosed police detectives, and a reclusive French ostrich farmer named Pierre. They also meet two groups of aliens, one group being five attractive women, the other being two Norwegian men, searching for the "Continuum Transfunctioner": an extraterrestrial device that the Jesse and Chester accidentally acquired the night before.
The search for both the car and the Transfunctioner leads Jesse and Chester to the local arcade and mini-golf course, Captain Stu's Space-O-Rama. Once inside, they encounter Zoltan and his cultists who give them Wilma and Wanda in exchange for a toy that Jesse and Chester try to pass off as the Transfunctioner. Tommy, Christie, and the jocks arrive along with Nelson and his dog, whom they release after Tommy snatches the fake Transfunctioner from Zoltan. The two sets of aliens arrive and notify everyone of the real Continuum Transfunctioner: a Rubik's Cube that Chester has been working hard the whole movie to solve. He then solves it on the spot, causing the device to shapeshift into its true form.
The boys are warned that once the five lights on the device stop flashing, the universe will be destroyed. Jesse and Chester must determine which group of aliens is there to protect the universe and which is there to destroy it. Both claim to be the protectors of the universe, stating that they were with Jesse and Chester the previous night, which Jesse and Chester still cannot remember anything of. The two correctly choose the Norwegian men after they successfully answer their question about the previous night by stating they got a hole-in-one at the 18th hole at the arcade's miniature golf park and won a lifetime supply of pudding. At the last second, they deactivate the Transfunctioner, saving the universe.
Enraged, the five alien women merge into a beautiful 50-foot giantess clad in a purple bra and matching miniskirt. She devours Tommy alive in front of Christie (who reacts with indifference), and gives chase to Jesse and Chester. The cultists tell them to activate the Photon Accelerator Annihilation Beam on the Transfunctioner. However, the button that activates it is too far in to reach. Chester suddenly remembers a nature show from earlier in the day, with chimpanzees using sticks to gather food through small holes, and applies the same logic with a straw to push the recessed button, destroying the alien. Tommy survives, but Christie breaks up with him in favor of Nelson.
The protectors thank Jesse, Chester, and the twins for saving the world, and erase their memories of the adventure. The protectors park the duo's car, a Renault Le Car, behind a mail truck for them to find the following morning. Jesse and Chester salvage their relationships with the twins and discover the special treat from the girls turns out to be matching berets with Jesse and Chester's names embroidered in the front. The protectors leave a gift for their girlfriends (and, for the two men): breast enhancement necklaces. Jesse, Chester, and the twins go out for Chinese food in Jesse's car, while arguing about what their tattoos say.
|
Due Date
| 2,010
|
Todd Phillips
|
['Robert Downey Jr.', 'Zach Galifianakis', 'Michelle Monaghan', 'Jamie Foxx', 'Juliette Lewis', 'Danny McBride', 'RZA', 'Matt Walsh', 'Brody Stevens', 'Jakob Ulrich', 'Naiia Ulrich', 'Todd Phillips', 'Bobby Tisdale', 'Sharon Conley', 'Nathalie Fay', 'Emily Wagner', 'Steven M. Gagnon', 'Paul Renteria', 'Marco RodrÃguez', 'Mimi Kennedy', 'Tymberlee Hill', 'Keegan-Michael Key', 'Aaron Lustig', 'Charlie Sheen', 'Jon Cryer', 'Haji Abdullah', 'Jeremy Ambler', 'Madeline Brumby', 'Joseph Harold', 'Sarah Reagin Clemmensen']
| 2.85
| null |
Comedy, Action, Drama, Road, Adventure, Buddy, Thriller
| 95
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English', 'Spanish']
|
['Legendary Pictures', 'Green Hat Films', 'Warner Bros. Pictures']
| 253,760
|
road-movie
|
road-movies-1
| null |
Peter Highman, a successful architect, is due to fly home from Atlanta to Los Angeles to be with his wife Sarah, who is about to give birth. On the way to the airport, he has a chance encounter with Ethan Tremblay with his dog Sonny, who is going to Los Angeles to be an actor and is planning to scatter his recently deceased father's ashes at the Grand Canyon. When Ethan misuses the words "terrorist" and "bomb" while talking to Peter, they are both escorted off the plane. Peter, now on the No Fly List and missing his wallet, agrees to drive with Ethan to Los Angeles.
Ethan stops to buy marijuana, and Peter discovers that they are nearly out of money. Since Peter has no I.D., he gets his wife to wire money to Ethan, but discovers Ethan had the money wired to his stage name instead of his legal name. When the Western Union employee refuses to accept Ethan's "Stage name I.D." it leads to a violent altercation.
After a night at a rest stop, Peter decides to drive off and abandon Ethan, but realizes that he has forgotten to unload the ashes of Ethan's father when he left. This causes him to wrestle with his conscience, before deciding to return, and covering for his absence by saying he had gone to buy breakfast. Ethan takes over driver duty so Peter can get some rest after a sleepless night, but he falls asleep at the wheel and crashes the car. Peter calls his friend, Darryl, for assistance and decides to part with Ethan, but Darryl persuades Peter otherwise. They arrive at Darryl's house for rest. During their conversation, Ethan discovers hints that Sarah may have been unfaithful, triggering Peter to question Sarah's timely pregnancy. Darryl throws both of them out after mistakenly drinking some of Ethan's father's ashes, which were stored in a coffee tin.
Darryl lets them use his Range Rover to make the rest of the trip. Ethan and Peter get high and begin to bond, but Ethan then mistakenly drives to the Mexico–United States border. Despite assuring Peter that he'll handle the situation, Ethan flees, and Peter is arrested for possession of marijuana. The Mexican Federal Police lock Peter up, but Ethan steals a truck and breaks him out, causing several car crashes in the process.
Peter decides to stop at the Grand Canyon for Ethan, who finally scatters his father's ashes. Peter then confesses that he tried to leave Ethan at the rest area. Ethan makes a confession of his own: he has had Peter's wallet and I.D the entire time. Peter seemingly forgives him but then attacks Ethan in a rage, but is interrupted by a call from Sarah, who has just gone into labor. Peter and Ethan leave for California. Ethan finds a gun in the truck and he accidentally shoots Peter. Arriving at the hospital where Sarah is in labor, Peter passes out from loss of blood.
Sarah delivers the baby safely, and Peter expresses his discomfort at his new daughter being named Rosie Highman. Ethan leaves to meet with a Hollywood agent while telling Peter to call him. At the end, Ethan guest stars on an episode of his favorite television program, Two and a Half Men, with Peter and Sarah watching it in bed with their daughter. Ethan texts Peter during the episode, indicating that the two have become friends.
|
Duel
| 1,971
|
Steven Spielberg
|
['Dennis Weaver', 'Jacqueline Scott', 'Eddie Firestone', 'Lou Frizzell', 'Gene Dynarski', 'Lucille Benson', 'Tim Herbert', 'Charles Seel', "Shirley O'Hara", 'Alexander Lockwood', 'Amy Douglass', 'Dick Whittington', 'Carey Loftin', 'Dale Van Sickel', 'Shawn Steinman']
| 3.81
| 4
|
Horror, Thriller, Action, Television, Road, Adventure, Drama, Suspense, Mystery, Psychological thriller, Psychological Fiction
| 89
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Universal Television', 'American Broadcasting Company (ABC)']
| 122,042
|
top-rated, thriller, action, essential, road-movie
|
road-movies-1, letterboxds-top-250-action-films, 100-essential-thrillers
| null |
David Mann, a middle-aged salesman from Los Angeles driving on a business trip in a Plymouth Valiant sedan, encounters a dilapidated old rusty Peterbilt 281 tanker truck driving slowly in the Mojave Desert. Mann passes the truck but it speeds up, roars past him, then resumes driving slowly. When Mann overtakes and passes it again, the truck blasts its horn. Mann pulls into a gas station and the truck parks next to him, with Mann only able to see the boots of the driver walking on the other side. Mann phones his wife, who is upset with him after an argument the previous night. The station attendant tells Mann he needs a new radiator hose, but Mann scoffs, believing that the attendant is trying to sell him an unnecessary replacement part.
|
Duel to the Death
| 1,983
|
Tony Ching Siu-Tung
|
['Norman Tsui Siu-Keung', 'Damian Lau Chung-Yan', 'Flora Cheung', 'Eddy Ko Hung', 'Cheng Mang-Ha', 'Hsiu-hsien Chiang', 'Shou-fu Chin', 'Hon Kwok-Choi', 'Yeong-mun Kwon', 'Lau Chi-Ho', 'Lau Yat-Fan', 'Chris Lee Kin-Sang', 'Huang-hsi Liu', 'Tam Chuen-Hing', 'Wilson Tong', 'Wan Fat', 'Wang Ho', 'Stephan Yip Tin-Hang', 'Leung Shing-Hung', 'Kam Shan']
| 3.89
| 4
|
['Action', 'Drama']
| 86
|
['Hong Kong']
|
Cantonese
|
['Cantonese']
|
['Orange Sky Golden Harvest']
| 5,646
|
action, top-rated
|
letterboxds-top-250-action-films
| null |
In the 16th century, during the Ming dynasty era, every ten years the greatest swordsman from Japan faces the greatest swordsman from China in a duel to the death for their nation's honor. As a duel approaches, Chinese champion Ching Wan (Damian Lau) and Japanese champion Hashimoto[a] (Norman Chui) uncover a plot to rig the fight.
Ching Wan, known as "Lord of the Sword", is a peaceful and contemplative martial artist who has trained with Shaolin monks as well as a mischievous hermit. By contrast, Hashimoto is a pitiless yet honorable samurai. One night after drinking with his compatriots Hashimoto is engaged by a masked assassin, after a brief but intense clash Hashimoto wins but realizes he inadvertently killed his sensei; his master using his death to cement the Samurai's resolve as a final lesson before the duel.
Throughout the days leading up to the duel, ninja led by a Japanese official under orders by the Shogun of Japan collude with the Chinese wardens to kidnap famous fighters and sabotage the duel for Hashimoto so that Japan may study and improve upon their martial arts; as well as that the head of a famous Chinese sword school can credit his students as champions of China upon Hashimoto's death. The honorable samurai, however, does not go along with the plan, Hashimoto instead wants a fair duel. Ching Wan as well rebuffs his Chinese compatriots, telling them that they are only pawns in the Shogun's plan.
Together, Ching Wan and Hashimoto fight the various conspirators and manage to free the captives. Afterwards, Ching Wan sees no point in going forward with the duel, having grown weary of the bloodshed the duel had fueled, but Hashimoto believes it his duty to complete what he had journeyed out to do, and kills Ching Wan's master to force his hand. The two warriors engage in a gravity-defying sword fight around a rocky coastline.
In one final charge, both swordsmen mortally wound one another, Hashimoto cutting off his opponent's left hand fingers and right arm, while Ching Wan spears the samurai through the gut; both warriors getting gravely injured in the process. They then gauge each other with a glare before quietly staring out into the ocean from opposite directions, with Hashimoto stabbing his own foot with his sword to stand up and Bo Ching-wan holding his missing arm. As each men wait to see who will fall over dead first, the story ends with no clear winner.
|
Dumb and Dumber
| 1,994
|
Peter Farrelly
|
['Jim Carrey', 'Jeff Daniels', 'Lauren Holly', 'Teri Garr', 'Charles Rocket', 'Karen Duffy', 'Mike Starr', 'Felton Perry', 'Hank Brandt', 'Brad Lockerman', 'Victoria Rowell', 'Brady Bluhm', 'Cam Neely', 'Rob Moran', 'Joe Baker', 'Kathryn Frick', 'Zen Gesner', 'Lawrence Kopp', 'Clint Allen', 'Connie Sawyer', 'Lin Shaye', 'Mike Watkiss', 'Harland Williams', 'Diane Kinerk', 'Lisa Stothard', 'Sean Gildea', 'Charles Rahi Chun', 'Helen Boll', 'Fred Stoller', 'Hillary Matthews', 'Karen Ingram', 'Jesse Borja', 'Vené L. Arcoraci', 'Anna Anka', 'Samantha Carpel', 'Elaine Wood', 'Bruce Bowns', 'Denise Vienne', 'Nancy Farrelly', 'Catalina Izasa', 'Samatha Pearson', 'Ken Duvall', 'Cecile Krevoy', 'George Bedard', 'Bill Beauchene', 'Gary Sivertsen', 'John Stroehman', 'Terry Mullany', 'Brad Blank', 'Mark Miosky', 'Mike Cavallo', 'Tom Leasca', 'Kevin Sheehan', 'Kenny Griswold', 'Brian Mone', 'Brad Norton', 'Chris Spain', 'Paul Pelletier', 'Mark Levine', 'Billy Smith', 'Mark Charpentier', "James 'Sporty' Ahern", 'Jim Blake', 'Traci Adell', 'Anita Rice', 'Pam Nielson', 'Nancy Barker', 'Brad Lowder', 'Doug Caputo', 'James Horrocks', 'Clemens E. Franek', 'Valentina Marie Lomborg', 'Kirsten Maryott', 'Bryan Moss', 'Irene Santiago', 'Craig Patterson', 'Josh Shipley', 'John Yost', 'Rick Barker', 'Jaclyn Bernstein', 'Don Shanks']
| 3.34
| null |
Comedy, Animation, Adventure, Screwball comedy
| 107
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['New Line Cinema', 'Motion Picture Corporation of America']
| 604,970
|
comedy, road-movie
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time, road-movies-1
| null |
Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne, two dimwitted young men, are best friends and roommates living in Providence, Rhode Island. Lloyd, a chip-toothed limousine driver, falls in love with Mary Swanson, a woman he is driving to the airport. She leaves a briefcase in the terminal. Lloyd attempts to return it, unaware that it contains ransom money for her kidnapped husband, Bobby, and that she left it for her husband's captors, Joe "Mental" Mentalino and J. P. Shay. Her Aspen-bound plane has departed, leading to Lloyd running and falling out of the jetway.
Fired for leaving the scene of an accident, Lloyd returns to his apartment and learns that Harry, who works as a dog groomer, has also been fired for showing up late to a dog show with the dogs covered in food. Mental and Shay follow Lloyd home from the airport in pursuit of the briefcase. Mistaking the crooks for debt collectors, the two flee the apartment and return to find that Mental and Shay have ransacked the apartment and decapitated Harry's parakeet, Petey. Lloyd suggests they head to Aspen to find Mary and return her briefcase. Harry agrees, and they leave the next day.
Mental and Shay catch up to the duo. Posing as a hitchhiker, Mental is picked up by Harry and Lloyd while Shay secretly follows them. However, Harry and Lloyd annoy Mental with their childish antics. During a lunch stop, the duo pranks Mental by putting chili peppers in his burger, unaware that he has a stomach ulcer. When Mental reacts adversely, they accidentally give him rat poison pills (which he had planned to use on them) after mistaking them for his medication, thus killing him. In response, police wait to intercept the two on the road to Colorado, but Lloyd takes a wrong turn and drives all night through Nebraska. Harry gives up on the journey and decides to walk home, but Lloyd persuades him to continue after trading the van for a minibike.
The two arrive in Aspen but cannot find Mary. Harry attacks Lloyd in frustration, breaking the briefcase open by accident. After discovering the money, the two spend it on a hotel suite, clothes, and a car. They learn that Mary and her family are hosting a gala and prepare to attend by getting makeovers and renting outlandishly gaudy tuxedoes. At the gala, Harry, attempting to lure Mary over to Lloyd, reluctantly agrees to go skiing with her the next day and lies to Lloyd that he got him a date. The next day, Lloyd finds out that Harry lied and spent the day with her himself.
In retaliation, Lloyd pranks Harry by serving him a coffee laced with a heavy dose of laxatives, causing Harry to spontaneously defecate in a broken toilet at Mary's apartment bathroom. Lloyd arrives at Mary's house and informs her that he has her briefcase. He takes her to the hotel, shows her the briefcase, and confesses his love, but she rejects him because she is married. Nicholas Andre, an old friend of the Swansons and the mastermind behind Bobby's kidnapping, shows up.
Lloyd learns from Andre of Mary’s marriage to Bobby, and Andre learns that Lloyd and Harry spent the ransom money. Furious, he takes Lloyd and Mary hostage and takes Harry hostage when he returns. An argument leads Nicholas to shoot Harry, who plays dead before ineptly returning fire. Before Nicholas can fire another shot, an FBI team led by Beth Jordan (whom Harry had met at a gas station and Lloyd met earlier at the bar) raids the suite, where Beth tells Harry and Lloyd that the FBI and police had been following them. Harry reveals that they gave him a bulletproof vest and gun when he arrived. Nicholas and Shay are arrested, and Mary and Bobby are reunited. The next day, Harry and Lloyd begin walking home because their purchases were confiscated and their minibike broke down. Harry tells Lloyd that they will get their "break" one day, and they play a game of tag as they walk back to Rhode Island.
|
Dumb and Dumber To
| 2,014
|
Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
|
['Jim Carrey', 'Jeff Daniels', 'Laurie Holden', 'Rachel Melvin', 'Kathleen Turner', 'Rob Riggle', 'Tembi Locke', 'Paul Blackthorne', 'Brady Bluhm', 'Patricia French', 'Steve Tom', 'Don Lake', 'Eddie Shin', 'Atkins Estimond', 'Tommy Snider', 'Lindsay Ayliffe', 'Matthew Cardarople', 'Bill Murray', 'Grant James', 'Taylor St. Clair', "Erin Allin O'Reilly", 'Walt Arnett', 'Erika Bierman', 'Kassidy Claire', 'Carly Craig', 'Bryan Dilbeck', 'Dalton E. Gray', 'Michael McCrudden', 'June Shannon', 'Maia Moss-Fife', 'Jeff Sumner', 'Julius Sharpe', 'Dave Walpole', 'Elizabeth Cooper', 'Michael Yama', 'Nancy Byers Farrelly', 'Derek Holland', 'Brendan Boyle', 'Swizz Beatz', 'Mike Cerrone', 'Sean Gildea', 'Brett Wyman', 'Jo Helton', 'Edward Barbanell', 'Mariann Neary', 'John Imlay', 'Jon Barinholtz', 'Lucas Daniels', 'Carter Hicks', 'Baxter Cooper Rogers', 'Sandra Dorsey', 'Arielle Liberman', 'Jon Barry', 'Jesse Gines', "Robin O'Neal Sorensen", 'Chris Randall Sorensen', 'Daniel Greene', 'Will Coogan', 'Caryle Seim', 'Danny Murphy', 'Paul Bednarz', 'Jennifer Cocker', 'John Deifer', 'Gregory Fears', 'Abigail Gamache', 'William Goodrum', 'Walter Hendrix III', 'Angela Kerecz', 'John Merical', 'Rhomeyn Johnson', 'Nancy Yee']
| 2.29
| null |
Action, Comedy, Adventure, Buddy, Drama
| 110
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['New Line Cinema', 'Universal Pictures', 'Conundrum Entertainment', 'Red Granite Pictures']
| 185,503
|
comedy
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
For 20 years a catatonic Lloyd Christmas has been committed to a mental institution ever since he discovered Mary Swanson was already married at the end of the first film. During a visit, Lloyd's best friend Harry Dunne pleads with him to snap out of it, then discovers that Lloyd has pranked him by faking his condition the entire time.
Harry reveals he needs a kidney transplant, and learns he cannot get one from his parents because he was adopted as a baby. Harry's dad gives him his mail that has been piling up since he moved out. It includes a 1991 postcard from ex-girlfriend Fraida Felcher, stating she is pregnant and needs Harry to call. Upon contacting her, Fraida reveals that she had a daughter named Fanny, who she gave up for adoption. She once wrote Fanny a letter, only for it to be returned and instructed to never contact her again.
Hoping Fanny can provide a kidney, Lloyd and Harry drive to Oxford, Maryland, where she now lives. Dr. Bernard Pinchelow and his wife Adele are Fanny's adoptive parents. Fanny, who has taken the name Penny, is going to a KEN Convention in El Paso, Texas to give a speech on her father's life work. Bernard had wanted Penny to deliver a package to one of the convention heads but, being dim-witted, she ends up forgetting the package and her cellphone.
Adele is secretly trying to poison Bernard to have his fortune, with the help of her secret lover, family housekeeper Travis Lippincott. Harry and Lloyd arrive to inform the Pinchelows of their situation. Bernard realizes Penny forgot the package, which he says contains an invention worth billions. Adele suggests that Harry and Lloyd deliver the package to Penny. Travis accompanies them, hoping to get the box for himself and Adele. He becomes increasingly annoyed with the duo, and attempts to kill them after they pull a near death-causing prank on him, although he ends up dying in a train collision. Adele hears of the death from Travis's twin brother Captain Lippincott, a former military man who agrees to help her kill Harry and Lloyd.
The duo arrives at the convention, where Harry impersonates Bernard. They are invited to a seminar, but get into an argument when Harry discovers that Lloyd has developed a romantic attraction to Penny, having seen her photo earlier. Lloyd is escorted out of the convention due to not being on the attendance list. He gets a call from Penny and informs her that he is in town with her dad. Lloyd meets her at a restaurant and deduces that he, not Harry, is Penny's father.
Adele arrives at the convention with Lippincott and exposes Harry as a fraud, telling the convention heads that he stole the package. Fraida also arrives and triggers the fire alarm to create a diversion after she and Penny are denied entry. As the building is evacuated, Harry runs into Fraida and Penny, only to have Lippincott and Adele corner them with guns. Lloyd returns, having been to Mexico to have one of his own kidneys removed for Harry. FBI agents also bust in with Bernard, who reveals that he has been aware of Adele's plot and that his package only contains cupcakes. Fraida learns that it was Adele, not Penny, who wrote "do not contact again" on Fraida's letter. Angered by the unraveling of her scheme, Adele attempts to shoot Penny, but Harry takes the bullet for her and is injured. Adele and Lippincott are arrested.
Harry is rushed to a hospital where he reveals that he was pranking Lloyd about needing a kidney. During that moment, the doctor revealed inside Lloyd's cooler was not his kidney, but a pork chop, indicating that Lloyd was scammed. Fraida reveals that Penny's actual biological father is not Harry or Lloyd but their deceased high school friend, Peter "Pee-Stain" Stainer. She also points out they couldn't have been Penny's father as she never had sex with either of them. As the duo leave El Paso, they spot two gorgeous young women walking in their direction. The dimwitted duo then push the two beauties into a bush as a joke and holler "Bush Club". Harry and Lloyd run off and high-five each other.
In a post-credits scene, Harry and Lloyd inadvertently toss milkshakes onto the windshield of Sea Bass, the trucker whom the duo had scammed in the first film, leading to him angrily bearing down on them in his truck. A false advertisement for "Dumb and Dumber For" is then shown, with a camouflaged Captain Lippincott appearing from the advert and walking off-screen.
|
Dumbo
| 1,941
|
Ben Sharpsteen, Norman Ferguson
|
['Edward Brophy', 'Margaret Wright', 'Verna Felton', 'Sarah Selby', 'Noreen Gammill', 'Dorothy Scott', 'Herman Bing', 'Cliff Edwards', 'Jim Carmichael', 'Nick Stewart', 'Hall Johnson', 'James Baskett', 'Sterling Holloway', 'John McLeish', 'Billy Bletcher', 'Eddie Holden', 'Malcolm Hutton', 'Harold Manley', 'James MacDonald', 'Jack Mercer', 'Tony Neil']
| 3.38
| 4
|
Animation, Drama, Comedy, Musical, Children's film
| 64
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Walt Disney Productions']
| 547,389
|
animated
|
vote-best-animated-films-of-all-time
| null |
In Florida, while a large circus spends the off-season in its winter grounds, a flock of white storks delivers many babies to the animals. One elephant, Mrs. Jumbo, does not receive her baby, and keeps scanning the sky. The next spring, the circus sets out on a new tour. A belated stork catches up with a moving train named Casey Jr. and drops off the expected baby elephant, Jumbo Jr. The other elephants are initially delighted, until they see the baby has revealed far-oversized ears, and hurtfully nickname him "Dumbo". Mrs. Jumbo shows her baby great care and love, defending him from teasing by the others.
Being clumsy due to his ears, Dumbo is made into a sideshow attraction. When some rowdy boys started to bully Dumbo and his ears, Mrs. Jumbo spanks their leader and throws hay bales at them. The circus staff quickly remove Dumbo from the pen, causing Mrs. Jumbo to fly into a rage, eventually dousing the circus’s ringmaster in a water tub. She is subsequently deemed mad and locked up in a cage, while Dumbo is blamed for the incident, and is still bullied by the others.
After scaring off the other elephants, Timothy, a mouse that travels with the circus, befriends Dumbo and decides to make him a star. He whispers in the ringmaster's ear while the latter sleeps, convincing him to try a new stunt with Dumbo as the top of a pyramid of elephants. Dumbo trips on his ears during the show and knocks over the pyramid, injuring the others and causing the big top to collapse. After, all elephants exile Dumbo permanently as he is put in with the clowns' firemen act, regularly jumping from a "burning building" prop into a vat of pie filling. Despite his newfound popularity, he hates the new performance and is upset.
Timothy decides to take Dumbo to see Mrs. Jumbo, but they cannot see each other's faces and can only intertwine trunks. Meanwhile, the clowns decide to increase the popularity of their fireman act by dangerously raising the platform Dumbo jumps from. In celebration of the plan, they drink champagne, and a bottle of it falls into a water vat. Crying after visiting his mother, Dumbo has an unsettling case of the hiccups, so Timothy takes him to the vat for some water, only to discover that the water was the champagne. Both of them get drunk, and hallucinate pink elephants.
While recovering the next morning, Dumbo and Timothy are later discovered asleep high up in a tree by Dandy Crow and his gang of crows. Initially making fun of Timothy's assertion that Dumbo flew with his ears while being drunk, the crows are soon moved by Dumbo's sad story. They decide to help Timothy, giving him a "magic feather" to help Dumbo fly. Holding the feather, Dumbo does indeed take off a second time. He and Timothy return to the circus with plans to surprise the audience.
During the clowns' fire act, Dumbo jumps off the platform and prepares to fly. He drops the feather, but Timothy assures him it was only a psychological aid. As Dumbo successfully flies about the big top, much to the audience’s delight, he throws a trunkful of peanuts to the other elephants as payback. Dumbo gains fame and fortune, Timothy becomes his new manager and signs him to a Hollywood contract, and Mrs. Jumbo is freed. She and Dumbo are given a private coach on Casey Jr., and the crows wave goodbye to the duo as they travel away.
Note: The scene where Casey Jr. climbs a hill is a reference to Watty Piper’s The Little Engine That Could.
|
Dune
| 1,984
|
David Lynch
|
['Kyle MacLachlan', 'Francesca Annis', 'Patrick Stewart', 'Linda Hunt', 'José Ferrer', 'Freddie Jones', 'Brad Dourif', 'Richard Jordan', 'Virginia Madsen', 'Silvana Mangano', 'Everett McGill', 'Sting', 'Kenneth McMillan', 'Jack Nance', 'Siân Phillips', 'Jürgen Prochnow', 'Leonardo Cimino', 'Paul L. Smith', 'Dean Stockwell', 'Max von Sydow', 'Alicia Witt', 'Sean Young', 'Danny Corkill', 'Honorato Magaloni', 'Judd Omen', 'Molly Wryn', 'Angélica Aragón', 'Thomas Ebert', 'Humberto Elizondo', 'Ricardo Hill', 'Ernesto Laguardia', 'David Lynch', 'Ramón Menéndez', 'Ana Ofelia MurguÃa', 'Claudia RamÃrez', 'Julieta Rosen', 'John Sabol', 'Margarita Sanz', 'Jacqueline Voltaire', 'José Luis GarcÃa Mainou']
| 2.78
| 4
|
Science fiction, Adaptation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Adventure, Cult film, Thriller
| 137
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['The De Laurentiis Company']
| 299,216
|
sci-fi, top-rated, fantasy
|
filmsrankedcom-200-greatest-fantasy-films, letterboxds-top-250-science-fiction-films
| null |
In the year 10,191, the known universe is ruled by the Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV. The most valuable substance in the empire is the spice melange, which extends life and expands consciousness. The spice also allows the Spacing Guild to fold space, allowing safe, instantaneous interstellar travel. The Guild’s leader demands Shaddam clarify a conspiracy that could jeopardize spice production. Shaddam reveals that he has transferred power and control of the planet Arrakis, the only source of the spice, to House Atreides. However, once the Atreides arrive, they will be attacked by their archenemies, the Harkonnen, alongside Shaddam's own Sardaukar troops. Shaddam fears the Atreides due to reports of a secret army that they are amassing.
Lady Jessica, the concubine of Duke Leto Atreides, is an acolyte of the Bene Gesserit, an exclusive sisterhood with advanced physical and mental abilities. As part of a centuries-long breeding program to produce the Kwisatz Haderach, a mental "superbeing" whom the Bene Gesserit would use to their advantage, Jessica was ordered to bear a daughter but disobeyed and bore a son, Paul Atreides. Paul is tested by Reverend Mother Mohiam to assess his impulse control and, to her surprise, passes the test.
The Atreides leave their homeworld Caladan for Arrakis, a barren desert planet populated by gigantic sandworms. The native people of Arrakis, the Fremen, prophesy that a messiah will lead them to freedom and paradise. Duncan Idaho, one of Leto's loyalists, tells him that he suspects Arrakis holds vast numbers of Fremen who could prove to be powerful allies. Before Leto can form an alliance with the Fremen, the Harkonnen launch their attack. Leto's personal physician who is also secretly a Harkonnen double-agent, Dr. Wellington Yueh, disables the shields, leaving the Atreides defenseless. Idaho is killed, Leto is captured, and nearly the entire House of Atreides is wiped out by the Harkonnen. Baron Harkonnen orders Mentat Piter De Vries to kill Yueh with a poisoned blade. Leto dies in a failed attempt to assassinate the Baron using a poison-gas tooth implanted by Yueh in exchange for sparing the lives of Jessica and Paul, killing Piter instead.
Paul and Jessica survive the attack and escape into the deep desert, where they are given sanctuary by a sietch of Fremen. Paul assumes the Fremen name Muad'Dib and emerges as the messiah for whom the Fremen have been waiting. He teaches them to use Weirding Modules—sonic weapons developed by House Atreides—and targets spice mining. Over the next two years, spice production is nearly halted due to Paul's raids. The Spacing Guild informs the Emperor of the deteriorating situation on Arrakis.
Paul falls in love with young Fremen warrior Chani. Jessica becomes the Fremen's Reverend Mother by ingesting the Water of Life, a deadly poison, which she renders harmless by using her Bene Gesserit abilities. As an after-effect of this ritual, Jessica's unborn child, Alia, later emerges from the womb with the full powers of an adult Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother. In a prophetic dream, Paul learns of the plot by the Emperor and the Guild to kill him. When Paul's dreams suddenly stop, he drinks the Water of Life and has a profound psychedelic trip in the desert. He gains powerful psychic powers and the ability to control the sandworms, which he realizes are the spice's source.
The Emperor amasses a huge invasion fleet above Arrakis to wipe out the Fremen and regain control of the planet. He has the Baron's older nephew Glossu "The Beast" Rabban beheaded and summons the Baron to explain why spice mining has stopped. Paul launches a final attack against the Harkonnen and the Emperor's Sardaukar at Arrakeen, the capital city. Riding atop sandworms and brandishing sonic weapons, Paul's Fremen warriors easily defeat the Emperor's legions. Alia assassinates the Baron while Paul confronts the Emperor and fights the Baron's younger nephew Feyd-Rautha in a duel to the death. After killing Feyd, Paul demonstrates his newfound powers and fulfills the Fremen prophecy by causing rain to fall on Arrakis. Alia declares him to be the Kwisatz Haderach.
|
Dune: Part Two
| 2,024
|
Denis Villeneuve
|
['Timothée Chalamet', 'Zendaya', 'Rebecca Ferguson', 'Javier Bardem', 'Josh Brolin', 'Austin Butler', 'Florence Pugh', 'Dave Bautista', 'Christopher Walken', 'Léa Seydoux', 'Stellan SkarsgÃ¥rd', 'Charlotte Rampling', 'Souheila Yacoub', 'Roger Yuan', 'Babs Olusanmokun', 'Alison Halstead', 'Giusi Merli', 'Kait Tenison', 'Tara Breathnach', 'Akiko Hitomi', 'Imola Gáspár', 'Alison Adnet', 'Hamza Baissa', 'Hassan Najib', 'Jasper Ryan-Carter', 'Elbooz Omar Ahmed Fathie', 'Abdelkarim Hussein Seli Mohamed Hassanin', 'Joseph Beddelem', 'Xavier Alba Royo', 'Rachid Abbad', 'Affif Ben Badra', 'Botond Bóta', 'Abdelaziz Boumane', 'Abdellah Echahbi', 'Zouhair Elakkari', 'Noureddine Hajoujou', 'Mohamed Mouraoui', 'Adil Achraf Sayd', 'Hamza Sayd', 'Hopi Grace', 'Havin Fathi', 'Kincsö Pethö', 'Cat Simmons', 'Burt Caesar', 'Remi Fadare', 'Amer El-Erwadi', 'Tedroy Newell', 'Oxa Hazel', 'Hajiyeva Pakiza', 'Leon Herbert', 'Sima Rostami', 'Yvonne Campbell', 'Joseph Charles', 'Vic Zander', 'Dylan Baldwin', 'Marcia Tucker', 'Nicola Brome', 'Kathy Owen', 'Huw Novelli', 'Moe Bar-El', 'Serhat Metin', 'Amra Mallassi', 'Adam Bloom', 'Luis Alkmim', 'Jordan Long', 'Omar A.K.', 'ZdenÄk DvoÅáÄek', 'Billy Clements', 'Anton Valensi', 'Lex Daniel', 'Dominic McHale', 'Paul Boyle', 'Niall White', 'Tony Cook', 'Gábor Szemán', 'Jonathan Gunning', 'Will Irvine', 'Alan Mehdizadeh', 'Rex Adams', 'Molly Mcowan', 'Ana Cilas', 'Kajsa Mohammar', 'Sára Bácsfalvi', 'Zsófia Kocsis', 'Matthew Sim', 'Steve Wall', 'Italo Amerighi', 'Tim Hilborne', 'Cecile Sinclair', 'Tracy Coogan', 'Zoe Kata Kaska', 'Jimmy Walker', 'Rand Faris', 'Fouad Humaidan', 'Manaf Irani', 'Dora Kápolnai-Schvab', 'Joelle', 'Anya Taylor-Joy', 'Peter Sztojanov Jr.', 'Alexandra Tóth']
| 4.44
| 4.5
|
Action, Science fiction, Adventure, Fantasy, Drama
| 167
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Legendary Pictures']
| 2,071,934
|
sci-fi, top-rated
|
letterboxds-top-250-science-fiction-films
| null |
Following the destruction of House Atreides by House Harkonnen, Princess Irulan, the daughter of Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV, journals about her father's betrayal of the Atreides. On Arrakis, Stilgar's Fremen troops accompany Paul Atreides and his pregnant Bene Gesserit mother, Lady Jessica, to Sietch Tabr. Some Fremen suspect they are spies, while Stilgar and others see signs of the prophecy that a mother and son from the "Outer World" will bring prosperity to Arrakis.
The Fremen accept Paul but Stilgar tells Jessica she must succeed Sietch Tabr's dying Reverend Mother by drinking the Water of Life—a drug fatal for males and untrained women. She uses her Bene Gesserit training to transmute the liquid and survive, inheriting the memories of all past Reverend Mothers. The liquid prematurely awakens the mind of her unborn daughter, Alia, allowing Jessica to communicate with her. They agree to focus on convincing the more skeptical northern Fremen of the prophecy. Chani and her friend, Shishakli, correctly believe the prophecy was fabricated to manipulate the Fremen, but Chani begins to respect Paul after he declares that he only intends to fight alongside the Fremen, not to rule them.
Paul and Chani fall in love as Paul immerses himself in Fremen culture: learning their language, becoming a Fedaykin fighter, riding a sandworm, and raiding Harkonnen spice operations. Paul adopts the Fremen names "Usul" and "Muad'Dib". Due to the continuing spice raids, Baron Vladimir Harkonnen replaces his nephew, Rabban, as Arrakis's ruler with his cunning and sadistic younger nephew, Feyd-Rautha. Lady Margot Fenring, a Bene Gesserit, is sent to evaluate Feyd-Rautha as a prospective Kwisatz Haderach and secure his genetic lineage.
Jessica travels south to unite with Fremen fundamentalists who believe most strongly in the prophecy. Paul remains in the north, fearful that his visions of an apocalyptic holy war will come to pass if he goes south as a messiah. During a raid on a smuggler spice harvester, Paul reunites with Gurney Halleck, who leads Paul to the hidden atomic warhead stockpile of House Atreides. Feyd-Rautha unleashes a devastating attack on the northern Fremen, destroying Sietch Tabr, killing Shishakli, and forcing Paul and the survivors to journey south. Upon arrival, Paul drinks the Water of Life and falls into a coma. This angers Chani, but Jessica compels her to mix her tears with the liquid, which awakens Paul. Now possessing clairvoyance across space and time, Paul sees an adult Alia on water-filled Arrakis. He also sees a singular path to victory among all possible futures, and that Jessica is Baron Harkonnen's daughter.
Paul meets with the southern Fremen war council, galvanizing the crowd by demonstrating his ability to discern their deepest thoughts. He declares himself the Lisan al Gaib and sends a challenge to Shaddam, who arrives on Arrakis with Irulan and the Sardaukar. As Shaddam chastises the Harkonnens for their failures, the Fremen launch an offensive, using atomics and sandworms to overpower the Sardaukar. Paul executes the Baron and captures Shaddam. Meanwhile, Gurney leads an assault on Arrakeen, intercepting and killing Rabban.
Paul challenges Shaddam for the throne and, to Chani's dismay, demands to marry Irulan. Previously summoned by the Baron, the Great Houses arrive in orbit, ready to invade the planet, but Paul threatens to destroy the spice fields with atomic weapons if they intervene. Feyd-Rautha volunteers to be Shaddam's champion, and Paul kills him in a duel. Irulan agrees to Paul's request for marriage on the condition that her father lives. Shaddam surrenders, but the Great Houses reject Paul's ascendancy, so he orders the Fremen to attack the orbiting fleet. As Stilgar leads the Fremen onto the captured Sardaukar ships, Jessica and Alia reflect on the beginning of Paul's holy war. Chani refuses to bow to Paul and departs alone on a sandworm.
|
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
| 1,982
|
Steven Spielberg
|
['Henry Thomas', 'Drew Barrymore', 'Robert MacNaughton', 'Peter Coyote', 'Dee Wallace', 'Erika Eleniak', 'K.C. Martel', 'C. Thomas Howell', 'Sean Frye', "David M. O'Dell", 'Richard Swingler', 'Frank Toth', 'Robert Barton', 'Michael Darrell', 'David Berkson', 'David Carlberg', 'Milt Kogan', 'Alexander Lampone', 'Rhoda Makoff', 'Robert Murphy', 'Richard Pesavento', 'Tom Sherry', 'Susan Cameron', 'Will Fowler Jr.', 'Barbara Hartnett', 'Diane Lampone', 'Mary Stein', 'Mitch Suskin', 'Ted Grossman', 'James Kahn', 'Anne Lockhart', 'Melissa Mathison', 'Debra Winger', 'Lori Randolph']
| 3.84
| 5
|
Children's film, Science fiction, Action, Fantasy, Adventure, Family film, Melodrama, Drama
| 115
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Universal Pictures', 'Amblin Entertainment']
| 1,657,348
|
sci-fi, top-rated
|
letterboxds-top-250-science-fiction-films
| null |
A race of diminutive aliens visit Earth at night to gather plant specimens in a California forest. One alien, fascinated by the distant lights of a San Fernando Valley neighborhood, separates from the group, before U.S. government agents arrive and chase the startled creature. The aliens are forced to depart before the agents can find them, leaving their lone member behind. While the agents search the forest, the creature takes shelter in a shed belonging to the family of ten-year-old Elliott Taylor. Initially scared by the creature, who runs away, Elliott spends the following day leaving a trail of Reese's Pieces to lure it back to his home, where he hides it in his room.
The following morning, Elliott feigns illness to stay off school and play with the creature, whom he dubs E.T. Elliott eventually introduces E.T. to his older brother, Michael, and seven-year-old sister Gertie, who agree to keep it hidden from their hardworking, single mother, Mary. When the children ask about his origins, E.T. displays telekinetic abilities by levitating several balls to represent his planetary system, and later demonstrates other extraordinary abilities by reviving a dead chrysanthemum and instantly healing a cut on Elliott's finger. As Elliott bonds with the creature, he begins to feel E.T.'s thoughts and emotions, being startled simultaneously with E.T. when the creature accidentally opens an umbrella in a different room.
At school, Elliott becomes intoxicated because, at home, E.T. is drinking beer and watching television. Sensing E.T.'s desire to be rescued, Elliott impulsively frees the frogs about to be vivisected in his biology class, inspiring the other children to follow his lead, and romantically kisses a girl he likes because E.T. is watching John Wayne kiss Maureen O'Hara in The Quiet Man (1952); Elliott is sent to the principal's office for his disruptive behavior. Inspired by a Buck Rogers comic strip, depicting the character calling for help with a communication device, E.T. decides to build a makeshift device to "phone home", using various parts around the Taylor home. E.T. also learns to speak English, and requests the children's help to build the device. They agree to help find the missing components, unaware that the agents have become suspicious they are harboring the alien.
On Halloween, the children disguise E.T. as a ghost and Elliott sneaks it to the forest, where they set up the device to call its people. Elliott begs E.T. to stay on Earth with him, before falling asleep and waking alone in the forest the following morning. He returns home to his worried family, while Michael searches for E.T., finding it pale and weakened, lying by a culvert. He takes E.T. home, where Elliott is also growing weaker, and reveal the creature to Mary just before government agents invade and quarantine the house. The lead agent, Keys, asks for Elliott's help to save E.T., stating that meeting aliens was his childhood dream and he considers E.T's arrival a genuine miracle. However, as the psychic bond between Elliott and E.T. fades, E.T. dies while Elliott returns back to normal. Left alone with the deceased alien, Elliott expresses his love to E.T. and its heart begins to glow and it is revived and restored to health. E.T. tells Elliott that its people are returning.
Elliott and Michael flee with E.T. on their bikes, flanked by Michael's friends who help them evade the pursuing authorities. Heading towards a roadblock, E.T. levitates the boys to safety and lands them in the forest. E.T.'s ship arrives, and it says goodbye to Michael and Gertie, who gives E.T. the chrysanthemum it previously revived. Elliott tearfully asks E.T. to stay, but it places its glowing finger on Elliott's head, affirming it will always be with him. The children, Mary, and Keys observe as E.T. boards the ship, which blasts off into space, leaving a rainbow in the sky.
|
Eagle vs Shark
| 2,007
|
Taika Waititi
|
['Loren Taylor', 'Jemaine Clement', 'Joel Tobeck', 'Brian Sergent', 'Craig Hall', 'Rachel House', 'Morag Hills', 'Bernard Stewart', 'Taika Waititi', 'David Fane', 'Cohen Holloway', 'Gentiane Lupi', 'Chelsie Preston Crayford', 'Adam Gardiner', 'Jackie van Beek', 'Miranda Manasiadis', 'Ban Abdul', 'Mike King', 'Madeleine Sami', 'Anna Horsley', 'Dylan Taylor', 'Cori Gonzalez-Macuer', 'Aaron Cortesi', 'Kura Sanderson', 'Riley Brophy', 'Rosie Graham', 'Justin Wu', 'Monique Bradley', 'Lukasz Pawel Buda', 'Rachel Forman', 'Matt Whelan', 'Tyrell Samia', 'Tammy Davis', 'Julian Arahanga', 'Tanea Heke']
| 3.38
| null |
Romance, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Melodrama, Drama, Indie film
| 87
|
['New Zealand']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Whenua Films', 'Unison Films', 'New Zealand Film Commission']
| 46,876
|
comedy
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
Lily, a shy, wistful girl, is a songwriter when no one is listening. She works at a Wellington fast food restaurant and has a crush on Jarrod, a geek who works in a video game store. One day, Jarrod gives Lily an invitation to his "dress as your favourite animal" party to pass along to her workmate Jenny, who throws it away. Lily retrieves it and shows up at the party with her caring and supportive brother Damon.
The party is sparsely attended with what are apparently teenage and adult customers of Jarrod's store, all dressed extravagantly in animal costumes. Jarrod is impressed with Lily's shark costume as well as her remarkable video game skills. They go to Jarrod's room and he learns Lily's parents both died of heart attacks. He says his brother and mother are dead, too. They kiss and have brief sex.
The following day, Jarrod invites Lily on a date but fails to turn up. He later comes by Lily's house to apologise, saying he was depressed and needed to be alone. He confides that he plans to confront his high-school bully Eric, but has no car to get to his "hometown". Damon agrees to drive Jarrod and Lily to his hometown. Along the way, Damon offers them apples, which will become the representation of Jarrod and Lily in several claymation scenes throughout the film.
Upon arriving, Lily discovers that Jarrod's family is just as bizarre as Jarrod himself. His sister and brother-in-law sell all kinds of questionable products, like make-up kits and jumpsuits. Jarrod's father is a withdrawn man who uses a wheelchair. Jarrod's nine-year-old daughter Vinny, the product of a random sexual encounter who Jarrod sees only occasionally, also lives with Jarrod's family. They don't have room in the house, so Jarrod and Lily have to sleep in a tent in the yard.
It becomes clear his father's favourite son was Jarrod's brother Gordon, an accomplished athlete. Jarrod spends his time trying to win his dad's affection and training for his impending fight with Eric. Jarrod learns from his friend, computer geek Mason, that Eric will be in town the next day.
Gordon's equally successful fiancée Tracy comes over, and it seems Jarrod's father also loves her more than Jarrod. Jarrod breaks up with Lily, saying he's too busy with his revenge mission and "too complex" for a relationship. Lily is visibly upset but tries to hide it. Jarrod takes flowers over to Tracy's house and spends the day with her on the beach.
Lily and Vinny push Jarrod's father around town, coming to a hill. He angrily refuses to go any further and goes home. Lily and Vinny continue up the hill where the little girl reveals that Gordon did not die saving a child from a fire as Jarrod had said, but by committing suicide throwing himself off the cliff. Later, Lily learns Jarrod lied about his mother's death, too.
At a family dinner, Lily tells a silly joke, making everybody laugh. Jarrod appears jealous. Later, Jarrod's father watches an old tape where Gordon wins a race. Feeling even more alienated, Jarrod falsely announces that he is dating Tracy. Annoyed by Jarrod's behaviour, Lily decides to attend a local party, where she gets drunk and dances with a lot of boys while Jarrod jealously looks on. She spends the night in the bushes, and in the morning Jarrod berates her for making him worry.
That afternoon, Jarrod, with his family and friends watching, confronts Eric and finds out that Eric has lost the use of his legs. Eric apologises for having been a bully, but Jarrod attacks him anyway. Eric easily overpowers Jarrod, and only relents when Jarrod's father intervenes. Depressed, Jarrod runs off and retreats into himself. Lily follows him and attempts to cheer him up. Then she tells him she is going home the following day, but that it could change. At the bus stop, Jarrod is waiting for her with a bouquet of lilies. They reconcile and journey back on the bus together.
|
Easy A
| 2,010
|
Will Gluck
|
['Emma Stone', 'Penn Badgley', 'Amanda Bynes', 'Dan Byrd', 'Thomas Haden Church', 'Patricia Clarkson', 'Cam Gigandet', 'Lisa Kudrow', 'Malcolm McDowell', 'Aly Michalka', 'Stanley Tucci', 'Fred Armisen', 'Juliette Goglia', 'Jake Sandvig', 'Morgan Rusler', 'Nikki Tyler-Flynn', 'Braeden Lemasters', 'Mahaley Patel', 'Jameson Moss', 'Blake Hood', 'Bryce Clyde Jenkins', 'Neil Soni', 'Stacey Travis', 'Bonnie Burroughs', 'Eddie Applegate', 'Norma Michaels', 'Yolanda Snowball', 'Andrew Fleming', 'Johanna Braddy', 'David Gore', 'Lalaine', "D'Anthony Palms", 'Ryan Parker', 'Rawson Marshall Thurber', 'Chris De Lorenzo', 'Jillian Johnston', 'Nancy Karr', 'Clay Black', 'Brad Etheridge', 'Veerta Motiani', 'Michael Strauss', 'Lance Kerfuffle', 'Drew Koles', 'Max Crumm', 'Jeremiah Hu', 'Jessica Jann', 'Danni Katz', 'Jason Kropik', 'Micah Van Hove', 'Yoshi Sudarso', 'Julianne Celeste', 'Bobby C. King', 'Kristin Quick']
| 3.42
| 3.5
|
Comedy, Romantic comedy, Teen, Romance, Melodrama, Drama
| 93
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Screen Gems', 'Olive Bridge Entertainment']
| 1,341,261
|
comedy
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
The story is narrated by Olive Penderghast, a seventeen-year-old high school girl living in Ojai, California, speaking into her webcam.
Olive lies to her best friend, Rhiannon Abernathy, about going on a date in order to get out of a camping trip with Rhiannon's hippie parents, instead hanging around the house all weekend listening to Natasha Bedingfield's "Pocketful of Sunshine" from a musical greeting card her grandmother sent her. The following Monday, Rhiannon presses Olive until she lies about losing her virginity to a college boy. Marianne Bryant, a prudish devout Christian, overhears her telling the lie and it soon spreads throughout the school. The school's church group, run by Marianne, decides to "save" Olive from her supposed promiscuity. Olive confides the truth to her friend Brandon, who is bullied by other students for being gay. He asks her to pretend to have sex with him at a party so the other students will believe he is straight, to which she agrees.
After a fight with Rhiannon, Olive decides to counteract the harassment by embracing her new reputation as the school tramp. She begins to wear more provocative clothing and stitch a red "A" onto her clothes, inspired by Hester Prynne from Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter, which she has been reading in English class. Boys who have had no previous luck with girls beg Olive to increase their popularity by letting them claim they have had sex with her, which she does in exchange for gift cards to various stores. Things get worse when Micah, Marianne's boyfriend, contracts chlamydia from sleeping with Mrs. Griffith, the school guidance counselor, and blames Olive. As Mrs. Griffith's husband, Mr. Griffith, is Olive's favorite teacher, she accepts the blame to spare their marriage.
The church youth group, which now includes Rhiannon, begins harassing Olive in an attempt to get her to drop out of school. She is asked out on a date by Anson, Rhiannon's crush, which ends badly when he tries to bribe Olive to actually have sex with him and not just pretend that she did.
Olive later reconnects with Todd, her childhood crush and the school mascot, who tells her he does not believe the rumors because she lied for him when he was not ready for his first kiss years ago. She decides to ask everyone she lied for to help her by telling everyone the truth, but nobody is willing to relinquish their newfound popularity. When Mrs. Griffith also refuses to tell the truth, Olive threatens to expose her affair, but Mrs. Griffith says no one would believe her. Out of spite, Olive immediately tells Mr. Griffith, who subsequently separates from his wife.
After talking with her open-minded mother, Olive comes up with a plan – she performs a song-and-dance number at a school pep rally to draw people's attention and tells them to watch her webcast later that night, promising an online sex show with Todd when in reality, it is the webcast that has served as the narrative device for the film. As Olive is concluding her webcast, Todd comes by her house riding a lawn mower. She signs off by saying that she may lose her virginity to him sooner or later, but declares it "nobody's goddamn business". Olive texts Rhiannon and apologizes for lying to her. She goes outside to meet Todd and the two share a kiss before riding off on the lawn mower.
|
Easy Rider
| 1,969
|
Dennis Hopper
|
['Peter Fonda', 'Dennis Hopper', 'Jack Nicholson', 'Antonio Mendoza', 'Phil Spector', 'Mac Mashourian', 'Warren Finnerty', 'Tita Colorado', 'Luke Askew', 'Luana Anders', 'Sabrina Scharf', 'Sandy Brown Wyeth', 'Robert Walker Jr.', 'Robert Ball', 'Carmen Phillips', 'Ellie Wood Walker', 'Michael Pataki', 'George Fowler Jr.', 'Keith Green', 'Hayward Robillard', 'Arnold Hess Jr.', 'Buddy Causey Jr.', 'Duffy Lafont', 'Blase M. Dawson', 'Paul Guedry Jr.', 'Suzie Ramagos', 'Elida Ann Hebert', 'Rose LeBlanc', 'Mary Kaye Hebert', 'Cynthia Grezaffi', 'Colette Purpera', 'Toni Basil', 'Karen Black', 'Lea Marmer', 'Cathé Cozzi', 'Thea Salerno', 'Anne McClain', 'Beatriz Monteil', 'Marcia Bowman', 'David C. Billodeau', 'Johnny David', 'Susan Brewer', 'Garrett Cassell', 'Bridget Fonda', 'Justin Fonda', 'Virgil Frye', 'Dan Haggerty', 'Helena Kallianiotes', 'Carrie Snodgress']
| 3.75
| null |
Road, Comedy, Adventure, Drama, Teen, Indie film, Coming-of-age story
| 95
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Columbia Pictures', 'Pando Company Inc.', 'BBS Productions']
| 172,961
|
road-movie
|
road-movies-1
| null |
Wyatt and Billy are freewheeling motorcyclists. After smuggling cocaine from Mexico to Los Angeles, they sell their haul and receive a large sum of money. With the cash stuffed into a plastic tube hidden inside the Stars & Stripes-painted fuel tank of Wyatt's California-style chopper, they ride eastward aiming to reach New Orleans, Louisiana, in time for the Mardi Gras festival.
During their trip, Wyatt and Billy stop to repair a flat tire on Wyatt's bike at a farmstead in Arizona and have a meal with the farmer and his family. Later, Wyatt picks up a hippie hitch-hiker, and he invites them to visit his commune, where they stay for the rest of the day. The notion of "free love" appears to be practiced, with two of the women, Lisa and Sarah, seemingly sharing the affections of the hitch-hiking commune member before turning their attention to Wyatt and Billy. As the bikers leave, the hitch-hiker gives Wyatt some LSD for him to share with "the right people, at the right time".
Later, while riding along with a parade in New Mexico, the pair are arrested for "parading without a permit" and thrown in jail. There, they befriend lawyer George Hanson, who has spent the night in jail after overindulging in alcohol. After the mention of having done work for the ACLU along with other conversation, George helps them get out of jail and decides to travel with Wyatt and Billy to New Orleans. As they camp that night, Wyatt and Billy introduce George to marijuana. As an alcoholic and a "square", George is reluctant to try it due to his fear of becoming "hooked" and it leading to worse drugs but quickly relents.
Stopping to eat at a small-town Louisiana diner, the trio attracts the attention of the locals. The girls in the restaurant think they are exciting, but the local men and a police officer make denigrating comments and taunts. Wyatt, Billy, and George decide to leave without any fuss. They make camp outside town. In the middle of the night, a group of locals attack the sleeping trio, beating them with clubs. Billy screams and brandishes a knife, and the attackers leave. Wyatt and Billy suffer minor injuries, but George has been bludgeoned to death. Wyatt and Billy wrap George's body in his sleeping bag, gather his belongings, and vow to return the items to his family.
They continue to New Orleans and find a brothel George had told them about earlier in the film. Taking prostitutes Karen and Mary with them, Wyatt and Billy wander the parade-filled streets of the Mardi Gras celebration. They end up in a French Quarter cemetery, where all four ingest the LSD the hitch-hiker had given to Wyatt. Later at their campsite, while Billy enthusiastically recounts their travels, Wyatt melancholically muses that they "blew it" in their quest.
The next morning, as they are overtaken on a two-lane country road by two local men in an older pickup truck, the passenger in the truck reaches for a shotgun, saying he will scare them. As they pass Billy, the passenger fires, and Billy has a lowside crash. The truck passes Wyatt who has stopped, and Wyatt rides back to Billy, finding him lying flat on the side of the road and covered in blood. Wyatt tells Billy he's going to get help and covers Billy's wound with his own leather jacket. Wyatt then rides down the road toward the pickup as it makes a U-turn. Passing in the opposite direction, the passenger fires the shotgun again, this time through the driver's-side window. Wyatt's riderless motorcycle flies through the air and comes apart before landing and becoming engulfed in flames.
|
Ecce Bombo
| 1,978
|
Nanni Moretti
|
['Nanni Moretti', 'Luisa Rossi', 'Lina Sastri', 'Piero Galletti', 'Susanna Javicoli', 'Cristina Manni', 'Lorenza Ralli', 'Maurizio Romoli', 'Carola Stagnaro', 'Fabio Traversa', 'Giorgio Viterbo', 'Paolo Zaccagnini', 'Sandro Conte', 'Fabrizio De Taddeo', 'Mauro Fabretti', 'Simona Frosi', 'Giampiero Mughini', 'Vincenzo Vitobello', 'Glauco Mauri', 'Alberto Abruzzese', 'Luciano Agati', 'Agenore Incrocci', 'Benedetta Bini', 'Roberto De Lellis', 'Pier Farri', 'Nadia Fusini', 'Valentina Galletti', 'Cristiano Gentili', 'Filippo La Porta', 'Giovanni Pietro Lombardo', 'Gaetano Marchione', 'Augusto Minzolini', 'Rossana Canghiari', 'Luigi Moretti', 'Antonio Pane', 'Carla Taviani']
| 3.64
| null |
Comedy, Dark comedy, Drama
| 103
|
['Italy']
|
Italian
|
['Italian']
|
['Filmalpha', 'Alphabeta Film']
| 8,572
|
feel-good
|
feel-good-movies
| null |
Michele Apicella, Goffredo, Mirko and Vito are four highschool friends who were on the forefront of the political protests that characterized the second half of the 1960s. Now a few years older, the four friends are no longer politically active and struggle to come to terms with their present. Intellectually marginalized and disenchanted with contemporary society, they form a collective consciousness group to try to understand what to do with themselves. Another friend, Cesare, decides to join them although he has mixed feelings about the whole experience, leading a relatively comfortable life. Things change when Michele starts a relationship with Cesare's girlfriend Flaminia.
|
Ed Wood
| 1,994
|
Tim Burton
|
['Johnny Depp', 'Martin Landau', 'Sarah Jessica Parker', 'Patricia Arquette', 'Jeffrey Jones', 'Bill Murray', 'Lisa Marie', 'Jim Myers', 'G. D. Spradlin', "Vincent D'Onofrio", 'Mike Starr', 'Max Casella', 'Brent Hinkley', 'Juliet Landau', 'Clive Rosengren', 'Norman Alden', 'Leonard Termo', 'Ned Bellamy', 'Danny Dayton', 'Ross Manarchy', 'Bill Cusack', 'Stanley DeSantis', 'Biff Yeager', 'Joseph R. Gannascoli', 'Carmen Filpi', 'Lisa Malkiewicz', 'Melora Walters', 'Conrad Brooks', 'Don Amendolia', 'Reid Cruickshanks', 'Lionel Decker', 'Edmund L. Shaff', 'Gene LeBell', 'Bobby Slayton', 'Gretchen Becker', 'John Rice', 'Catherine Butterfield', 'Mary Portser', 'King Cotton', 'Don Hood', 'Matthew Barry', 'Ralph Monaco', 'Anthony Russell', 'Gregory Walcott', 'Charles C. Stevenson Jr.', 'Rance Howard', 'Vasek Simek', 'Vinny Argiro', 'Korla Pandit', 'Patti Tippo', 'Ray Baker', 'Louis Lombardi', 'Jesse Hernandez', 'Jim Boyce', 'Ben Ryan Ganger', 'Charlie Holliday', 'Tommy Bertelsen', 'Adam Drescher', 'Ric Mancini', 'Daniel Riordan', 'Mickey Cottrell', 'Lena Banks', 'Maurice LaMarche', 'Ada Tai', 'Arlene Tai', 'Rayder Woods', 'Ralph Moratz', 'Bill Blair', 'Ryan Holihan']
| 4.06
| 4.5
|
Comedy, Fantasy, Drama, Comedy drama
| 127
|
['USA']
|
English
|
['English']
|
['Touchstone Pictures']
| 197,497
|
comedy
|
vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time
| null |
In 1952, aspiring writer and director Ed Wood is struggling to enter the film industry. Upon hearing of an announcement in Variety magazine that producer George Weiss is trying to purchase Christine Jorgensen's life story, Ed meets with Weiss to direct a now fictionalized film titled I Changed My Sex!, but is not hired. Ed then meets his longtime idol, horror film actor Bela Lugosi, with whom he becomes friends. Ed soon persuades Weiss to let him direct the film by convincing him that having a star in the film would sell tickets, and they could sign Lugosi for a low price. At the same time, Ed shows the film's completed script to his girlfriend, Dolores Fuller, and soon reveals that he is secretly a transvestite, having worn women's clothing for personal comfort since childhood. This discovery causes their relationship to be strained, as Fuller has a difficult time accepting it.
During production for Glen or Glenda, Ed and Weiss argue over the film's title and subject matter, but Weiss eventually plays by Ed's rules, on the condition that the film's footage meets seven reels. As filming gets going, with the story now about a transvestite, Ed takes to film production with an unusual approach; shooting only one take per scene, giving actors very little direction, and using stock footage to fill in gaps. The movie is released to critical and commercial failure, preventing Ed from getting work at Weiss' Screen Classics or making a partnership with Warner Bros. executive Feldman (who at first believes the film to be a practical joke played on him by William Wellman). On the advice of Fuller, Ed decides to finance his next film independently. In his efforts to fund Bride of the Atom, Ed gets Bela a guest spot on a TV variety show, and meets The Amazing Criswell, who helps Ed in selling himself better. He also meets and befriends Tor Johnson after a wrestling match, and casts him as Lobo. During this time, Ed discovers that Lugosi has developed a morphine addiction.
Following a failed fundraising dinner at the Brown Derby, Ed meets Loretta King, whom he mistakes for a wealthy heiress; he asks her to fund the film and ends up casting her as the lead instead of Fuller, with Fuller being assigned a smaller role, which further strains her relationship with Ed. Filming begins but is halted when it is revealed that Loretta is actually poor, so Ed convinces meat packing industry tycoon Don McCoy to continue funding the film, who agrees as long as his son is cast as the lead and the film ends with an explosion. When filming wraps up, with the title being changed to Bride of the Monster, Fuller breaks up with Ed at the wrap party out of frustration at Ed's cross-dressing, his circle of misfit friends, and the poor quality of Ed's movies. Lugosi attempts to conduct a double suicide with Ed after the government cuts off his unemployment benefit, but is talked out of it. Lugosi checks himself into rehab to cure his drug addiction, and Ed meets Kathy O'Hara, who is visiting her father there. He takes her on a date and reveals his transvestism to her, which she accepts, and they begin a relationship. After Lugosi is checked out of rehab, he and Ed shoot a film with Lugosi outside his home. Ed and company (along with TV horror icon Vampira) later attend the premiere of Bride of the Monster, where an angry mob chases them out of the theater.
Afterwards, Lugosi passes away, leaving Ed without a star. After learning that his landlord's church is struggling to produce a series of religious films about the twelve apostles, Ed convinces him to allow his church to fund his script for a sci-fi film, Grave Robbers from Outer Space, which could result in a box-office success and generate enough money for the landlord's dream project. Ed hires Vampira, Tor, Criswell, and Kathy's chiropractor Dr. Tom Mason to star in the film (the latter being a stand-in for Lugosi), and he and all his friends partake in a baptism ceremony at the church. During filming, Ed has conflicts with the Baptists over the title, script content, Tor's slurring through his lines, and Ed's B movie directing style, eventually renaming the film Plan 9 from Outer Space. Ed soon leaves the set out of frustration to go to the nearest bar, where he has an encounter with filmmaker Orson Welles, who rekindles Ed's inspiration by advising him to assert his vision and resist artistic changes imposed onto him by sponsors. Filming finishes with Ed taking action against his producers' wishes.
Plan 9 from Outer Space is first shown in a huge premiere, attended by dozens of people, where Ed introduces the film in honor of Lugosi, and as the film plays, he quietly states his belief that this film will be his most well-known. After the film ends, a proud Ed and Kathy go to Las Vegas to get married. Closing texts reveal that Ed was unable to gain mainstream success in the film industry before his death in 1978, and was posthumously named "Worst Director of All Time", though that honor ended up earning him worldwide acclaim and a new generation of fans.
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