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Desperado

IMDB Rating: 6.80
20818 votes

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With this sequel to his prize-winning independent previous film, "El Mariachi," director Robert Rodriquez joins the ranks of Sam Peckinpah and John Woo as a master of slick, glamorized ultra-violence. We pick up the story as a continuation of "El Mariachi," where an itinerant musician, looking for work, gets mistaken for a hitman and thereby entangled in a web of love, corruption, and death. This time, he is out to avenge the murder of his lover and the maiming of his fretting hand, which occurred at the end of the earlier movie. However, the plot is recapitulated, and again, a case of mistaken identity leads to a very high body count, involvement with a beautiful woman who works for the local drug lord, and finally, the inevitable face-to-face confrontation and bloody showdown.
Actors
El MariachiAntonio Banderas
CarolinaSalma Hayek
BuchoJoaquim de Almeida
Also posted in 1995, Action, Crime, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Heat

IMDB Rating: 8.00
52989 votes

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Neil McCauley is a thief... an expert thief... one of the best. His philosophy in life - become attached to nothing in life that you can't walk away from if the "Heat" is on. His crew of criminals is a high-tech outfit pulling off professional jobs that impress even the likes of Detective Vincent Hanna. But Hanna, a man driven through life only by his work, becomes obsessed, at the expense of his private life, with bringing McCauley down. As McCauley's crew prepare for the score of a lifetime, and Hanna's team tries to bring him in, the two find that they are challenged by the greatest minds on the opposite side of the law that either one has ever encountered.
Actors
Lt. Vincent HannaAl Pacino
Neil McCauleyRobert De Niro
Chris ShiherlisVal Kilmer
Also posted in 1995, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Usual Suspects

IMDB Rating: 8.70
119607 votes

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After a waterfront explosion, Verbal (Kevin Spacey), an eye-witness and participant tells the story of events leading up to the conflagration. The story begins when five men are rounded up for a line-up, and grilled about a truck hijacking (the usual suspects). Least pleased is Keaton (Gabriel Byrne) a crooked cop - exposed, indicted, but now desperately trying to go straight. The cops won't leave him alone, however, and as they wait for their lawyers to post bail, he is talked into doing one more job with the other four. All goes tolerably well until the influence of the legendary, seemingly omnipotent "Keyser Soze" is felt. Although set in the modern day, it has much of the texture of the forties, plus suspense, intrigue (a fairly high body count), and lots of twists in the plot.
Actors
Michael McManusStephen Baldwin
Dean KeatonGabriel Byrne
Fred FensterBenicio Del Toro
Also posted in 1995, Crime, High IMDB rating, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)

Mute Witness

IMDB Rating: 6.80
1707 votes

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Billy Hughes, a mute makeup artist working on a slasher film being shot in Moscow, is locked in the studio after hours. While there she witnesses a brutal murder, and must first escape capture at that time, then keep from being killed before convincing authorities of what she's seen. Plot twists galore follow as Billy tries to stay alive.
Actors
Billy HughesMarina Zudina
Karen HughesFay Ripley
Andy ClarkeEvan Richards
Also posted in 1994, Comedy, High IMDB rating, Horror, Thriller | Comments (0)

Natural Born Killers

IMDB Rating: 6.70
29733 votes

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Delivery boy Mickey Knox (Woody Harrelson) falls in love with customer Mallory Wilson (Juliette Lewis). He soon helps her kill her abusive father (Rodney Dangerfield) and enabling mother (Edie McClurg), beginning their macabre journey down Route 666. Their M.O.: every few miles, they attack everyone within their site, invariably leaving only one person alive to tell the tale. The two are made famous by unscrupulous reporter Wayne Gale (Robert Downy jr.), as they run across the countryside, pursued by the equally sadistic Jack Scagnetti (Tom Sizemore). Just before the trial, a ratings-whoring interview by the same reporter who made them famous leads to pandemonium, not just within the prison itself, but nationwide. A satire of the media, public opinion, and the modern attitude toward violence.
Actors
Tom Sizemore
Tommy Lee Jones
Mickey KnoxWoody Harrelson
Also posted in 1994, Action, Crime, High IMDB rating, Romance, Thriller | Comments (0)

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

IMDB Rating: 7.20
41815 votes

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It hadn't even been a year since a plantation owner named Louis had lost his wife, and now he had lost his will to live. A vampire named Lestat takes a liking to Louis and offers him the chance to become a creature of the night: a vampire. Louis accepts, and Lestat drains Louis' mortal blood and then replaces it with his own turning Louis into a vampire. Louis must learn from Lestat the ways of the vampire.
Actors
Lestat de LioncourtTom Cruise
Louis de Pointe du LacBrad Pitt
ClaudiaKirsten Dunst
Also posted in 1994, Drama, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Horror | Comments (0)

Tombstone

IMDB Rating: 7.50
19244 votes

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A hollywood historical account of Tombstone, Arizona's famed "Shootout at the O.K. Corral" and the events that led up to it. Tension between "the Law" and "the Cowboys" stirs as the Cowboys, led by "Curly Bill" Broscius, accuse the Earps (Wyatt, Virgil, and Morgan) and their outlaw/gambler associate "Doc" Holliday of interefering with their operations inside and outside of town. While fairly accurate in depicting the Earps and Cowboys lifestyles and the Earp/Holliday side of the story, the film leaves out one major point of fact. Historically, the Earps/holliday are accused by the Cowboys (aka the Clanton/MacLaurey gang) of being generally corrupt and specifically responsible for a Wells Fargo robbery which left a man dead and the coach cleaned out. The Earps/Holliday in turn accuse the Clanton/MacLaurey's of the same. Tempers rise over this situation as well as over a court decision finding the Earps not guilty.
Actors
Wyatt EarpKurt Russell
Doc HollidayVal Kilmer
Virgil EarpSam Elliott
Also posted in 1993, Action, Drama, High IMDB rating, Western | Comments (0)

Dracula

IMDB Rating: 7.10
31400 votes

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This version of Dracula is closely based on Bram Stoker's classic novel of the same name. A young lawyer (Jonathan Harker) is assigned to a gloomy village in the mists of eastern Europe. He is captured and imprisoned by the undead vampire Dracula, who travels to London, inspired by a photograph of Harker's betrothed, Mina Murray. In Britain, Dracula begins a reign of seduction and terror, draining the life from Mina's closest friend, Lucy Westenra. Lucy's friends gather together to try to drive Dracula away.
Actors
DraculaGary Oldman
Mina Murray/ElisabetaWinona Ryder
Professor Abraham Van HelsingAnthony Hopkins
Also posted in 1992, Drama, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Horror, Romance, Thriller | Comments (0)

Basic Instinct

IMDB Rating: 6.70
22321 votes

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Former rock star and San Francisco nightclub owner Johnny Boz is found murdered in his bed. Detective Nick Curran is assigned to the case; he has a history of alcoholism and drug abuse although he is clean now. The prime suspect is Catherine Tramell, an attractive and manipulative novelist who had been seeing Boz for a while. Police psychiatrist Beth Gardner (who happens to be Nick's ex-girlfriend) is brought in on the case when it is discovered that Boz's murder was copied directly from one of Catherine's novels. Nick starts to get too involved and everyone seems to be a suspect.
Actors
Det. Nick CurranMichael Douglas
Catherine TramellSharon Stone
Gus MoranGeorge Dzundza
Also posted in 1992, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)

Alien³

IMDB Rating: 6.20
25385 votes

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The film begins on board an escape vessel in which Ripley, Newt, Hicks, and a droid called Bishop are traveling on. The pod crashes on a planet inhabited by prisoners who have been left to govern themselves in a facility, killing Newt, Hicks, and destroying Bishop. Ripley is revived from her cryo-sleep from the prison doctor and soon discovers what happened to her and her remaining crew members. After calling for assistance from the Company they wait for Ripley to be transported off the planet, as she doesn't belong there. After a short time, a shaven-headed Ripley starts discovering that prisoners are being killed in a very similar manner to that of the Aliens she has faced in the previous two films. Once this is discovered, she and the remaining prisoners must devise a plan to kill the Alien that stalks the prison facility, hiding in ventilation shafts. However, she soon discovers that that it isn't the only Alien on the planet. There is also a Queen, but where?
Actors
Ellen RipleySigourney Weaver
DillonCharles S. Dutton
ClemensCharles Dance
Also posted in 1992, Action, Drama, High IMDB rating, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (0)