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Bubba Ho-tep

IMDB Rating: 7.50
15220 votes

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Based on the Bram Stoker Award nominee short story by cult author Joe R. Lansdale, Bubba Ho-tep tells the "true" story of what really did become of Elvis Presley. We find Elvis (Bruce Campbell) as an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home, who switched identities with an Elvis impersonator years before his "death", then missed his chance to switch back. Elvis teams up with Jack (Ossie Davis), a fellow nursing home resident who thinks that he is actually President John F. Kennedy, and the two valiant old codgers sally forth to battle an evil Egyptian entity who has chosen their long-term care facility as his happy hunting grounds.
Actors
ElvisBruce Campbell
JackOssie Davis
The NurseElla Joyce
Also posted in 2002, Comedy, High IMDB rating, Horror, Mystery | Comments (0)

Shine

IMDB Rating: 7.50
17016 votes

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Based on the true story of Australian pianist David Helfgott, this delightful movie charts the early and traumatic early years. Telling the story in flashback we see David as he grows up and into a child prodigy while his father abuses him and his siblings with the memory of his childhood in Europe and the loss of his family in the concentration camps. David finally breaks away from his father and goes away to study overseas, he later suffers a breakdown and returns to Australia and a life in an institution. Many years later he is released and through several twists of fate (in reality even more unlikely than film portrays) he starts playing a piano in a bar before finally returning to the concert hall.
Actors
David Helfgott - AdultGeoffrey Rush
TonyJustin Braine
SylviaSonia Todd
Also posted in 1996, Biography, Drama, High IMDB rating, Music, Romance | Comments (0)

The Sleeping Dictionary

IMDB Rating: 6.40
1902 votes

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In 1936, the expatriated young and naive just-graduated British John Truscott (Hugh Dancy) arrives to the Sarawak, a British colony, to work in the Iban society. The beautiful Selima (Jessica Alba) is assigned to be his "sleeping dictionary", to live and sleep with him and teach him the language and habits of the locals. The reluctant John and Selima fall in love for each other in a forbidden romance.
Actors
SelimaJessica Alba
AggieBrenda Blethyn
John TruscottHugh Dancy
Also posted in 2003, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

Oxygen

IMDB Rating: 6.10
1840 votes

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A masochistic cop (Maura Tierney), who hides her predilection from her cop husband (Terry Kinney), gets involved in pursuing a kidnapper nicknamed Harry for Harry Houdini (Adrien Brody), who has kidnapped a rich woman (Laila Robins) and has buried her somewhere in Manhattan while demanding a ransom from her tycoon husband (James Naughton). Failure to pay the ransom within 24 hours will lead the kidnapper to abandoning the woman. Dylan Baker also appears as the fed that is assigned to the case.
Actors
Det. Madeline FosterMaura Tierney
HarryAdrien Brody
Clark HannonJames Naughton
Also posted in 1999, Crime, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Juice

IMDB Rating: 6.50
3302 votes

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4 Harlem teens, Q, Bishop, Raheem and Steel, are out skipping school one day when they find out an old friend was killed in a shootout at a bar. After this, Bishop tells his friends that they have no respect, or juice. To get some, they rob a corner grocery store, but the lunatic Bishop intentionally shoots the clerk for no apparent reason. They run into an alley where Raheem tells Bishop to give him the gun, they fight, and Raheem gets shot. Only the other 3 know what happened, and Bishop wants to get rid of them too.
Actors
QOmar Epps
BishopTupac Shakur
SteelJermaine 'Huggy' Hopkins
Also posted in 1992, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Beverly Hills Cop

IMDB Rating: 7.20
28873 votes

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Detroit cop Axel Foley is delighted when he receives a surprise visit from his best friend Mikey Tandino, who lives in California. Not long after Mikey arrives in Detroit, Mikey is killed, right in front of Axel, by a man named Zack. Axel follows Zack to Beverly Hills, California, where Beverly Hills police department Lieutenant Andrew Bogomil assigns Detective Billy Rosewood and Rosewood's partner, Sergeant John Taggart, to keep an eye on Axel. Axel visits his friend Jenny Summers, who works in an art gallery. With Jenny's help, Axel discovers that Zack works for Jenny's boss, Victor Maitland, the man who owns the art gallery. Maitland is a drug kingpin who is using the gallery as a front, and Maitland had Zack kill Mikey after Maitland accused Mikey of stealing some of Maitland's bonds. With the help of Jenny, Billy, and Taggart, Axel does what he can to make sure Maitland and Zack won't kill any more people.
Actors
Det. Axel FoleyEddie Murphy
Det. William 'Billy' RosewoodJudge Reinhold
Det. Sgt. John TaggartJohn Ashton
Also posted in 1984, Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Reservoir Dogs

IMDB Rating: 8.40
130246 votes

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Six criminals, who are strangers to each other, are hired by a crime boss Joe Cabot to carry out a diamond robbery. Right at the outset, they are given false names with an intention that they won't get too close and concentrate on the job instead. They are completely sure that the robbery is going to be a success. But when the police show up right at the time and the site of the robbery, panic spreads amongst the group members and one of them is killed in the subsequent shootout along with a few policemen and civilians. When the remaining people assemble at the premeditated rendezvous point (a warehouse), they begin to suspect that one of them is an undercover cop.
Actors
Mr. White/Larry DimmickHarvey Keitel
Mr. Orange/Freddy NewandykeTim Roth
Mr. Blonde/Vic VegaMichael Madsen
Also posted in 1992, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (1)

First Snow

IMDB Rating: 7.10
560 votes

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Wound tight and cocky, Jimmy Starks (Pearce) is a smooth-talking salesman certain he's on the verge of a big break. Even when his car stalls in the middle of nowhere, a roadside soothsayer (Simmons) assures him a windfall is on its way. But although Jimmy should be happy when his boss suddenly agrees to financially back his business venture, he starts to become paranoid instead. As his girlfriend Deirdre (Perabo) and his best friend/ business partner Ed (Fichtner) watch him slowly come unwound, Jimmy wonders if a past betrayal of his friend, newly paroled Vince (Whigham), could be catching up to him. And, as the weather turns cold, Jimmy can't help but fear the mysterious seer's other prediction... that they'll be no tomorrow after the first snow.
Actors
JimmyGuy Pearce
DeirdrePiper Perabo
EdWilliam Fichtner
Also posted in 2006, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (1)

The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover

IMDB Rating: 7.00
8092 votes

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The wife of a barbaric crime boss engages in a secretive romance with a gentle bookseller between meals at her husband's restaurant. Food, colour coding, sex, murder, torture and cannibalism are the exotic fare in this beautifully filmed but brutally uncompromising modern fable which has been interpreted as an allegory for Thatcherism.
Actors
Richard BorstRichard Bohringer
Albert SpicaMichael Gambon
Georgina SpicaHelen Mirren
Also posted in 1989, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating, Horror | Comments (0)

Art School Confidential

IMDB Rating: 6.40
3896 votes

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Convinced that art school will put him on the path to fame, Jerome (Minghella) must come to terms with his anemic talent, as he watches the girl of his dreams fall in love with another student. Then, strangely, he's arrested as a suspected murderer — only to discover that crime might actually pay.
Actors
JeromeMax Minghella
AudreySophia Myles
SandyJohn Malkovich
Also posted in 2006, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)