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Tango & Cash

IMDB Rating: 5.40
9008 votes

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Ray Tango is a Los Angeles narcotics cop who dresses in fancy suits, wears wire-rim glasses, and talks to his stockbroker more than he talks to his mother. Gabriel Cash is a Los Angeles narcotics cop who has long, disheveled hair, and dresses in worn-out sweatshirts. Even though they are rivals, Tango and Cash are the two best narcs in LA, which infuriates drug kingpin Yves Perret. Perret wants Tango and Cash out of the way, so Perret frames them for the murder of an undercover FBI agent. Perret's plan is to have Tango and Cash killed in prison in order to avoid risking all-out war with the LAPD. But Tango and Cash accept a plea bargain that will give them 18 months in a minimum-security prison, then Perret arranges for their destination to be diverted to a maximum-security prison where Perret's minions proceed to torture Tango and Cash. Tango and Cash are forced to work together in a spectacular escape from the prison. After the escape, Tango and Cash set out to prove their innocence, and Cash has a romance with Tango's sister Catherine "kiki" Tango.
Actors
Raymond 'Ray' TangoSylvester Stallone
Gabriel 'Gabe' CashKurt Russell
Katherine 'Kiki' TangoTeri Hatcher
Also posted in 1989, Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller | Comments (0)

Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

IMDB Rating: 8.20
98361 votes

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The Empire is more than halfway through construction of a new Death Star - almost twice as big, but more than twice as powerful. When completed, it will spell certain doom for Luke Skywalker and the Rebels. Han Solo is a prisoner of crime lord Jabba the Hutt, and Princess Leia soon finds herself in the gangster's hands. Luke Skywalker, aided by C-3PO and R2-D2, makes his way into Jabba's palace, hoping to secure his friends' freedom. But the Hutt has no intention of doing so and tries to kill them all. After escaping from Jabba and the sands of Tatooine, they regroup with the Rebel fleet, which is massing for an attack against the new satellite battle station at Endor. Lando Calrissian is pressed into action to lead the Rebel fighter attack, while Han is put in charge of a group of soldiers to take out the shield generator protecting the Death Star. Luke, however, surrenders to Vader's soldiers on Endor, and is taken in front of Vader's boss - the Galactic Emperor - on the Death Star for final corruption to the Dark Side of the Force. The fleet of Imperial Star Destroyers ambushes the Rebels, cutting them off. Worse, the new Death Star begins turning its giant laser on the Rebel carriers. It appears that nothing will stop the Empire's triumph - unless things start to change quickly...
Actors
Luke SkywalkerMark Hamill
Han SoloHarrison Ford
Princess Leia OrganaCarrie Fisher
Also posted in 1983, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Sci-Fi | Comments (0)

Scarface

IMDB Rating: 8.00
38403 votes

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When Castro opened the port at Mariel Harbor, thousands of Cubans fled to the United States. One is a young tough named Antonio (Tony) Montana, who, with his friend Manny Ray, starts in with Miami's cocaine trade. He survives attack by chainsaw after a deal goes bad, and several other attempts by other dealers to eliminate him. Eventually the grandiose Montana becomes head of a cocaine cartel. But his enemies start coming after him, and his paranoia threatens to drive Montana's empire into the ground...
Actors
Tony MontanaAl Pacino
Manny RiberaSteven Bauer
ElviraMichelle Pfeiffer
Also posted in 1983, Action, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Once Upon a Time in America

IMDB Rating: 8.20
23571 votes

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Epic, episodic, tale of the lives of a small group of New York City Jewish gangsters spanning over 40 years. Told mostly in flashbacks and flash-forwards, the movie centers on small-time hood David 'Noodles' Aaronson (Robert De Nero) and his lifelong partners in crime; Max (James Woods), Cockeye (William Forsythe) and Patsy (James Hayden) and their friends from growing up in the rough Jewish neighborhood of New York's Lower East Side in the 1920s, to the last years of Prohibition in the early 1930s, and then to the late 1960s where an elderly Noodles returns to New York after many years in hiding to look into the past.
Actors
David 'Noodles' AaronsonRobert De Niro
Maximilian 'Max' BercoviczJames Woods
Deborah GellyElizabeth McGovern
Also posted in 1984, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

IMDB Rating: 7.80
50014 votes

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While visiting the Earth at Night, a group of alien botanists is discovered and disturbed by an approaching human task force. Because of the more than hasty take-off, one of the visitors is left behind. The little alien finds himself all alone on a very strange planet. Fortunately, the extra-terrestrial soon finds a friend and emotional companion in 10-year-old Elliot, who discovered him looking for food in his family's garden shed. While E.T. slowly gets acquainted with Elliot's brother Michael, his sister Gertie as well as with Earth customs, members of the task force work day and night to track down the whereabouts of Earth's first visitor from Outer Space. The wish to go home again is strong in E.T., and after being able to communicate with Elliot and the others, E.T. starts building an improvised device to send a message home for his folks to come and pick him up. But before long, E.T. gets seriously sick, and because of his special connection to Elliot, the young boy suffers, too. The situation gets critical when the task force finally intervenes. By then, all help may already be too late, and there's no alien spaceship in sight.
Actors
ElliottHenry Thomas
MaryDee Wallace-Stone
MichaelRobert MacNaughton
Also posted in 1982, Drama, Family, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Sci-Fi | Comments (8)

The Border

IMDB Rating: 6.20
1092 votes

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A border agent involved in drug smuggling decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman's baby is put up for sale on the black market.
Actors
Charlie SmithJack Nicholson
CatHarvey Keitel
MarcyValerie Perrine
Also posted in 1982, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Caligula (Caligola)

IMDB Rating: 4.60
6847 votes

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The rise and fall of the notorious Roman Emperor Caligula, showing the violent methods that he employs to gain the throne, and the subsequent insanity of his reign - he gives his horse political office and humiliates and executes anyone who even slightly displeases him. He also sleeps with his sister, organises elaborate orgies and embarks on a fruitless invasion of England before meeting an appropriate end. There are various versions of the film, ranging from the heavily- truncated 90-minute version to the legendary 160-minute hardcore version which leaves nothing to the imagination (though the hardcore scenes were inserted later and do not involve the main cast members).
Actors
Emperor Gaius Germanicus Caesar (Caligula)Malcolm McDowell
Julia DrusillaTeresa Ann Savoy
CaesoniaHelen Mirren
Also posted in 1979, Drama, History | Comments (0)

The Godfather

IMDB Rating: 9.10
148964 votes

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The story begins as "Don" Vito Corleone, the head of a New York Mafia "family", oversees his daughter's wedding. His beloved son Michael has just come home from the war, but does not intend to become part of his father's business. Through Michael's life the nature of the family business becomes clear. The business of the family is just like the head of the family, kind and benevolent to those who give respect, but given to ruthless violence whenever anything stands against the good of the family. Don Vito lives his life in the way of the old country, but times are changing and some don't want to follow the old ways and look out for community and "family". An up and coming rival of the Corleone family wants to start selling drugs in New York, and needs the Don's influence to further his plan. The clash of the Don's fading old world values and the new ways will demand a terrible price, especially from Michael, all for the sake of the family.
Actors
Don Vito CorleoneMarlon Brando
Michael CorleoneAl Pacino
Santino 'Sonny' CorleoneJames Caan
Also posted in 1972, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

The Birds

IMDB Rating: 7.80
29918 votes

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Guaranteed to make you want to stop bird-watching and put the old bird feeder to the ax—at least for a while. The whole thing starts when Melanie Daniels is crossing a lake and is nipped by a gull. Gradually, incidence of bird damage to humans by pecking increases. Glass windows splinter before diving birds, children are sent home from school to safety, townspeople take refuge in a lunchroom, Miss Daniels in a phone booth, and finally everyone hides in homes tightly boarded up against repeated attacks by the birds. It's enough to make you kick the next pigeon you come across.
Actors
Mitch BrennerRod Taylor
Lydia BrennerJessica Tandy
Annie HayworthSuzanne Pleshette
Also posted in 1963, Drama, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Horror, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Barefoot Contessa

IMDB Rating: 6.90
1813 votes

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While in the burial of Countess Torlato-Favrini, her friend Harry Dawes and her acquaintance Oscar Muldoon recalls parts of her past. When the wealthy Kirk Edwards hires director and screenplay writer Harry Dawes, they travel to Spain with the public relations Oscar Muldoon to see the dancer of a nightclub Maria Vargas and invite her for an audition, since they need a new face for their next movie. Maria, a naive woman with simple origins, is convinced by Harry to go to Hollywood and becomes a famous star and a close friend of Harry and his girlfriend Jerry. Along her successful career, Maria lives personal dramas including lack of adaptation for her new lifestyle, is unable to love and is disputed by the powerful millionaires Kirk Edwards and Alberto Bravano. When she meets the noble and handsome Count Vincenzo Torlato-Favrini in the French Riviera, she believes that she found her prince charming and her life becomes a fairy tale. But after the wedding, she sees that her Cinderella's castle of dreams has become a pumpkin.
Actors
Harry DawesHumphrey Bogart
Maria VargasAva Gardner
Oscar MuldoonEdmond O'Brien
Also posted in 1954, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Mystery, Romance | Comments (0)
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