Tag Archives: afterlife

Heaven Can Wait

IMDB Rating: 6.70
5421 votes

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Joe Pendleton is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him to heaven only to discover that he wasn't ready to die, and that his body has been cremated. A new body must be found, and that of a recently murdered millionaire is chosen. His wife and accountant, the murderers, are confused by this development, as he buys the L.A. Rams in order to once again quarterback them into the Superbowl.
Actors
Joe PendletonWarren Beatty
Betty LoganJulie Christie
Mr. JordanJames Mason
Also posted in 1978, Comedy, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Sport | Comments (0)

Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey

IMDB Rating: 5.60
13589 votes

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For many years now, at Bill and Ted University of the future, the people of the world have been excellent to each other. But fed-up with Bill and Ted's peaceful world and even more fed up with heavy metal, Chuck De Nomolos decides to do something about it. De Nomolos creates cyborg versions of Bill and Ted, who travel back to 1990 with orders to kill the human versions of Bill and Ted, win the Battle of the Bands, and pave the way for De Nomolos to take over the future. In 1990, Bill and Ted are sent to hell by the cyborgs. Cyborg Bill and cyborg Ted make time with the real Bill and Ted's girlfriends Joanna and Elizabeth and prepare to take the human Bill and Ted's place in the Battle of the Bands. With the help of their friend Rufus, the human Bill and Ted are forced to find a way out of hell, deal with the Grim Reaper, and talk to God himself, in their mission to get to the Battle of the Bands and stop the two cyborgs.
Actors
Ted Logan/Evil TedKeanu Reeves
Bill S. Preston, Esq./Granny Preston/Evil Robot BillAlex Winter
Grim Reaper/English Family MemberWilliam Sadler
Also posted in 1991, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi | Comments (0)

Wristcutters: A Love Story

IMDB Rating: 7.50
1173 votes

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A film set in a strange afterlife way station that has been reserved for people who have committed suicide.
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ZiaPatrick Fugit
MikalShannyn Sossamon
EugeneShea Whigham
Also posted in 2006, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

Beetle Juice

IMDB Rating: 7.20
37342 votes

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The Deetz's gothic daughter discovers the Maitands in the attic and befriends them. She finds their after life handbook which is eventually confiscated by the family's interior decorator who is fascinated by the paranormal, and during a seance,conjures up the Maitlands. Most of the trouble starts as the free lance bio-excorist, Beetlejuice gets involved.
Actors
AdamAlec Baldwin
BarbaraGeena Davis
Jane ButterfieldAnnie McEnroe
Also posted in 1988, Comedy, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Horror | Comments (0)

The Others

IMDB Rating: 7.70
53473 votes

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A woman named Grace (Kidman) is living with her two children Anne and Nicholas (Mann and Bentley) on an almost empty island in their huge mansion. Grace's husband is a soldier in WWII and Grace has given her husband up for dead. Everything seems peaceful for her, but when three mysterious servants are given jobs at the house, terrifying secrets are unlocked that even Grace cannot handle.
Actors
Grace StewartNicole Kidman
Mrs. Bertha MillsFionnula Flanagan
Charles StewartChristopher Eccleston
Also posted in 2001, Drama, High IMDB rating, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (27)

The Crow

IMDB Rating: 7.50
35476 votes

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A poetic guitarist Eric Draven is brought back to life by a crow a year after he and his fiancée are murdered. The crow guides him through the land of the living, and leads him to his killers: knife thrower Tin-tin, drugetic Funboy, car buff T-Bird, and the unsophisticated Skank. One by one, Eric gives these thugs a taste of their own medicine. However their leader Top-Dollar, a world-class crime lord who will dispatch his enemies with a Japanese sword and joke about it later, will soon learn the legend of the crow and the secret to the vigilante's invincibility.
Actors
Eric DravenBrandon Lee
SarahRochelle Davis
Sergeant AlbrechtErnie Hudson
Also posted in 1994, Action, Crime, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Just Like Heaven

IMDB Rating: 6.90
13330 votes

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Elizabeth Masterson (Reese Witherspoon), a dedicated Doctor in San Francisco, had almost no time for anything. When her sister with two kids set her up on a date, she gets into a tragic car crash and gets in a coma. Meanwhile, an artist named David Abbott (Mark Ruffalo) moves into San Francisco and coincidentally, into Elizabeth's apartment for rent. While at the apartment, Elizabeth's spirit haunts him. She doesn't remember who she is, who her family is, and what she did - All that she remembered was her apartment and where everything was. To settle the arguments, Dacid agrees to figure out who Elizabeth really is. When they get close to figuring out who she is, they eventually find love in each other and as they finally know who she really is, they learn that fate really has put them both together.
Actors
Elizabeth MastersonReese Witherspoon
David AbbottMark Ruffalo
Jack HouriskeyDonal Logue
Also posted in 2005, Comedy, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

Gladiator

IMDB Rating: 8.20
147070 votes

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Maximus is a powerful Roman general, loved by the people and the aging Emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Before his death, the Emperor chooses Maximus to be his heir over his own son, Commodus, and a power struggle leaves Maximus and his family condemned to death. The powerful general is unable to save his family, and his loss of will allows him to get captured and put into the Gladiator games until he dies. The only desire that fuels him now is the chance to rise to the top so that he will be able to look into the eyes of the man who will feel his revenge.
Actors
MaximusRussell Crowe
CommodusJoaquin Phoenix
LucillaConnie Nielsen
Also posted in 2000, Action, Adventure, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (50)

What Dreams May Come

IMDB Rating: 6.30
13496 votes

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Soul mates Chris ('Robin Williams (I)' (qv)) and Annie ('Annabella Sciorra' (qv)) couldn't be happier, having married each other and had two wonderful children. Unforutnately, tragedy strikes when they lose them both in a car accident, and then again for Annie many years later when Chris is killed in another accident. What Chris finds is a Paradise unlike anything he ever imagined, where he is guided by Albert ('Cuba Gooding Jr.' (qv)), the first doctor he interned under and is helped to see his children once again. Unfortunately, when Annie takes her life in despair, she does not venture to the same plane of existence. Taking it upon himself to rescue her, Chris ventures into the pit of Hell with Albert and a Tracker ('Max von Sydow' (qv)) to save his wife from the damnation she doesn't even know she is forcing on herself. This is a beautiful story that reminds us that love is stronger than death.
Actors
Chris NielsenRobin Williams
Albert LewisCuba Gooding Jr.
Annie Collins-NielsenAnnabella Sciorra
Also posted in 1998, Drama, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (3)

Ghost

IMDB Rating: 6.80
21815 votes

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Sam and Molly are a very happy couple and deeply in love. Walking back to their new apartment after a night out at the theatre, they encounter a thief in a dark alley, and Sam is murdered. He finds himself trapped as a ghost and realises that his death was no accident. He must warn Molly about the danger that she is in. But as a ghost he can not be seen or heard by the living, and so he tries to communicate with Molly through Oda Mae Brown, a psychic who didn't even realise that her powers were real.
Actors
Sam WheatPatrick Swayze
Molly JensenDemi Moore
Oda Mae BrownWhoopi Goldberg
Also posted in 1990, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Romance, Thriller | Comments (0)