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Night of the Living Dead

IMDB Rating: 8.00
29448 votes

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Chaos descends upon the world as the brains of the recently deceased become inexplicably reanimated, causing the dead to rise and feed on human flesh. Speculation rests on a radiation-covered NASA satellite returning from Venus, but it only remains a speculation. Anyone who dies during the crisis of causes unrelated to brain trauma will return as a flesh-eating zombie, including anyone who has been bitten by a zombie. The only way to destroy the zombies is to destroy the brain. As the catastrophe unfolds, a young woman visiting her father's grave takes refuge in a nearby farmhouse, where she is met by a man who protects her and barricades them inside. They both later discover people hiding in the basement, and they each attempt to cope with the situation. Their only hope rests on getting some gasoline from a nearby pump into a truck that is running on empty, but this requires braving the hordes of ravenous walking corpses outside. When they finally put their plans into action, panic and personal tensions only add to the terror as they try to survive.
Actors
BenDuane Jones
BarbraJudith O'Dea
Harry CooperKarl Hardman
Also posted in 1968, High IMDB rating, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Color Purple

IMDB Rating: 7.60
21677 votes

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This film follows the life of Celie, a young black girl growing up in the early 1900's. The first time we see Celie, she is 14 - and pregnant - by her father. We stay with her for the next 30 years of her tough life...
Actors
AlbertDanny Glover
Celie JohnsonWhoopi Goldberg
Shug AveryMargaret Avery
Also posted in 1985, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

The Shining

IMDB Rating: 8.50
130887 votes

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A novelist - Jack Torrance take a job interview as winter caretaker of the isolated, old, huge and beautiful Overlook Hotel. In the interview, Jack is told by the manager himself, that the previous caretaker - Grady, chopped his family and later killed himself with a shotgun. Ignoring the story, Jack brings his wife - Wendy and his son Danny. It happens that Danny, has a mysterious power known as "The Shining" that shows him things from the past and future. Some of the visions come from Tony - "the little boy who lives in Danny's mouth". Danny meets Hallorann - the hotel cook in their first day arriving at the Overlook, who also has this "Shining" and he warns him about the hotel and the sinister Room 237. As the days go by, Danny has visions of previous guests and employees who died at the hotel years before, meanwhile Jack starts driving into insanity, turning more and more aggressive, at the point that Danny and Wendy gets convinced that Jack might try to do the same thing, Grady did.
Actors
Jack TorranceJack Nicholson
Wendy TorranceShelley Duvall
Danny TorranceDanny Lloyd
Also posted in 1980, High IMDB rating, Horror, Thriller | Comments (0)

Finding Forrester

IMDB Rating: 7.20
29141 votes

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Jamal Wallace is an inner-city kid from the Bronx who has an aptness at basketball and a genius at writing. While always a C student, Jamal comes to the attention of a prestigious New York prep school when he scores highly on his standardized tests. While Jamal is given a heavy load at his new school, both he and the school know that the real reason they took him on is for his prowess on the court. Befriended by fellow student Claire and helped along by Pulitzer-prize winning author and recluse William Forrester, Jamal pursues his dreams both on and off the court while overcoming obstacles placed by his bitter literature teacher. As Jamal is shaped by Forrester, he finds that he is changing the old writer as well, forcing him to confront his past...and his future.
Actors
William ForresterSean Connery
Jamal WallaceRob Brown
Prof. Robert CrawfordF. Murray Abraham
Also posted in 2000, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

IMDB Rating: 7.70
8693 votes

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Joey Drayton brings her fiancé, Dr. John Prentice, home to sunny San Francisco to meet her affluent parents. Their liberal persuasions are now put to the test, for although the young man is an ideal choice (he's highly and internationally respected in the medical field, and he's impeccably mannered, handsome, well dressed and of a respectable California family), he's black. The film, which covers one busy day in the Drayton home, is essentially a drawing-room comedy, a series of cross-conversations between the young doctor and the girl's parents, and finally between all sets of parents and offspring. A simple dinner is extended to include the doctor's parents, who fly up from Los Angeles for the evening, and the crusty but benevolent old Irish priest, a friend of the family. Thus, the title of the film . . .
Actors
Matt DraytonSpencer Tracy
Dr. John Wade PrenticeSidney Poitier
Christina DraytonKatharine Hepburn
Also posted in 1967, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

The Family That Preys

IMDB Rating: 3.30
2574 votes

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Alice Pratt, a hard working religious woman, raised her two daughters while managing a simple bar of her own. Her snobbish and arrogant daughter Andrea graduated in Economic Science and works in a construction corporation while her sister Pam stayed with Alice and worked in the bar. Andrea is married to construction worker Chris, who works in the same corporation as his wife but dreams of starting up his own business. However she is being unfaithful to him - with their boss William Cartwright. William is the son of Alice's best friend, the wealthy Charlotte Cartwright. While Alice travels with Charlotte on a road trip, the ambition and infidelity of William triggers a series of events that will affect relationships in both families.
Actors
Alice PrattAlfre Woodard
AndreaSanaa Lathan
ChrisRockmond Dunbar
Also posted in 2008, Drama | Comments (0)

Serpico

IMDB Rating: 7.70
18255 votes

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Frank Serpico is a young, inexperienced cop who starts out on patrol. Later, he starts to work as an undercover cop who busts all sorts of criminals, but mostly drug dealers and pushers. Since Serpico is a young man living in the 70's, he lives as one. His image, based on how others look on him, shows him as just a 'hippie' and the criminals he busts have no idea he is really an undercover officer. Everything is working out well, except the money situation. Serpico refuses to accept money, as the other officers do. He feels this isn't right, and wants to expose the situation. Who he thought were his friends now turn into his enemies when Serpico takes the stand on a grand jury investigation. He continues to work undercover, and his life is placed into jeopardy at the hands of his colleagues.
Actors
Officer Frank SerpicoAl Pacino
Chief Sidney GreenJohn Randolph
Tom KeoughJack Kehoe
Also posted in 1973, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Devil in a Blue Dress

IMDB Rating: 6.50
5296 votes

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It is 1948 in LA and Ezikeal "Easy" Rawlins, an African-American World War II veteran, is looking for work. At his friend's bar, he is introduced to a white man, DeWitt Albright, who is looking for someone to help him find a missing white woman assumed to be hiding somewhere in LA's Black community. This woman, Daphane Monet, happens to be the fiancée of a wealthy "blue blood," Todd Carter, who is currently the favorite in the city's mayoralty race. Daphane Monet is known to frequent the Black jazz clubs in LA. Easy, innocently, accepts Albright's offer; however, he quickly finds himself amidst murder, crooked cops, ruthless politicians, and brutalizing hoodlums. This is a Chandler-esque "who-done-it" with an African-American theme.
Actors
Ezekiel 'Easy' RawlinsDenzel Washington
DeWitt AlbrightTom Sizemore
Daphne MonetJennifer Beals
Also posted in 1995, Comedy, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Defiant Ones

IMDB Rating: 7.70
3077 votes

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Joker Jackson and Noah Cullen are two convicts on a chain gang who hate each other. After a truck prison accident, they flee and are pursued by the police. While they're chained, the two are dependent on one another. When they eventually get rid of their chains, their hostility has been changed into fellowship and respect.
Actors
John 'Joker' JacksonTony Curtis
Noah CullenSidney Poitier
Sheriff Max MullerTheodore Bikel
Also posted in 1958, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Always Outnumbered

IMDB Rating: 7.00
921 votes

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An ex-con moves to L.A. to find work and creates a disturbance by fighting for a position. More importantly he touches the lives of many of his neighbors including an older man dying of cancer, a young married couple whose husband is too proud to accept a lesser position which causes strife with his wife, and a young boy on the verge of getting in trouble with street gangs.
Actors
Socrates FortlowLaurence Fishburne
DarrylDaniel Williams
Right BurkeBill Cobbs
Also posted in 1998, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)
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