Tag Archives: cynical

Serial Mom

IMDB Rating: 6.30
7577 votes

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A picture perfect middle class family is shocked when they find out that one of their neighbors is receiving obscene phone calls. The mom takes slights against her family very personally, and it turns out she is indeed the one harassing the neighbor. As other slights befall her beloved family, the body count begins to increase, and the police get closer to the truth, threatening the family's picture perfect world.
Actors
Beverly R. SutphinKathleen Turner
Eugene Sutphin, D.D.S.Sam Waterston
Misty SutphinRicki Lake
Also posted in 1994, Comedy, Crime, High IMDB rating, Horror | Comments (0)

The Last Seduction

IMDB Rating: 7.10
6106 votes

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Linda Fiorentino plays Bridget, a "femme fatale" who steals her husband's money and leaves from New York. She meets Mike, who falls in love with her and they become lovers. But Mike has no idea about Bridget's past and her plans to use him to get rid of her husband...
Actors
Bridget Gregory/Wendy KroyLinda Fiorentino
Clay GregoryBill Pullman
Phone Sales AgentMichael Raysses
Also posted in 1994, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Lolita

IMDB Rating: 7.70
16753 votes

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Humbert Humbert, a divorced British professor of French literature, travels to small-town America for a teaching position. He allows himself to be swept into a relationship with Charlotte Haze, his widowed and sexually famished landlady, whom he marries in order that he might pursue the woman's 14-year-old flirtatious daughter, Lolita, with whom he has fallen hopelessly in love, but whose affections shall be thwarted by a devious trickster named Clare Quilty.
Actors
Prof. Humbert Humbert/NarratorJames Mason
Charlotte Haze/HumbertShelley Winters
Dolores 'Lolita' Haze/Mrs. Richard SchillerSue Lyon
Also posted in 1962, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

The Apartment

IMDB Rating: 8.30
20678 votes

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On 1st November 1959, in New York, C.C. "Bud" Baxter is a popular clerk of "Consolidate Life", an insurance company with 31,259 employees. The secret of his success is a well located apartment where he lives that he sublets for his superiors, making him climb to the executive position of 2nd Administrative Assistant very early. He likes the elevator girl Fran Kubelik, a reserved woman considered a "jackpot" among the executives. Fran is the secret lover of the director Jeff D. Sheldrake, a married man that seduced her convincing that he will divorce his wife to stay with her. When Fran tries to commit suicide in Baxter's apartment after a meeting with Jeff, she stays with Baxter while recovering, and he falls in love for her. Later he has to come up to a decision between his excellent position in the company and his love.
Actors
C.C. 'Bud' BaxterJack Lemmon
Fran KubelikShirley MacLaine
Jeff D. SheldrakeFred MacMurray
Also posted in 1960, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (1)

Heathers

IMDB Rating: 7.30
17437 votes

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Dear Diary: Veronica Sawyer is sick of being part of the Heathers, the most powerful clic of Westerberg High; making fun of Martha Dunnstock ("Dumptruck"), the fat girl, or doing some stupid polls is something she'll never get used to. Meanwhile she meets JD, a cool rebel guy who wouldn't mind shooting a gun at school just to make his point. Remington University's party is where Veronica has to go as a Heather, and there's where she gets her ultimatum as a Heather from Heather Chandler, the head of the Heathers. So Veronica and her lover JD "accidentally" kill Heather Chandler and manage to cover it up by making a suicide note. Will this be just the beginning of the assasination-turned-suicide serie of Westerberg High which nor the FBI, the CIA or the PTA would be able to stop? Or will Veronica be able to pull herself together and stop her psychotic lover from killing absolutely EVERYONE at school?
Actors
Veronica SawyerWinona Ryder
Jason 'J.D.' DeanChristian Slater
HeatherShannen Doherty
Also posted in 1989, Comedy, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Mystery, Romance | Comments (0)

Trading Places

IMDB Rating: 7.30
19486 votes

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Louis Winthorpe III is a successful Philadelphia commodity broker with mansion, manservant and girlfriend to match. Billy Ray Valentine is a hustling beggar. Winthorpe's employers, the elderly Duke brothers, make a bet that by switching the lifestyle of the two Billy Ray will make good and their man will take to a life of crime. Suddenly Louis finds himself uncomprehendingly with no job, no home and only a new acquaintance, glamorous hooker Ophelia, prepared to help him. So at least in one way things could actually be worse.
Actors
ColemanDenholm Elliott
Louis Winthorpe IIIDan Aykroyd
Duke & Duke EmployeeMaurice Woods
Also posted in 1983, Comedy, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

The Money Pit

IMDB Rating: 5.70
10555 votes

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A young couple sinks their life savings into a house that was trashed by a rock group to the extent that it no longer has a main stairway or water. This creates strains on their relationship. Every home owner will recognize some of the situations they encounter.
Actors
Walter Fielding, Jr.Tom Hanks
Anna Crowley Beissart/Anna FieldingShelley Long
Max Beissart, the MaestroAlexander Godunov
Also posted in 1986, Comedy | Comments (0)

The Firm

IMDB Rating: 6.60
24382 votes

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Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't refuse. Seduced by the money and gifts showered on him, he is totally oblivious to the more sinister side of his company. Then, two Associates are murdered. The FBI contact him, asking him for information and suddenly his life is ruined. He has a choice - work with the FBI, or stay with the Firm. Either way he will lose his life as he knows it. Mitch figures the only way out is to follow his own plan...
Actors
Mitch McDeereTom Cruise
Abby McDeereJeanne Tripplehorn
Avery TolarGene Hackman
Also posted in 1993, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Shooter

IMDB Rating: 6.80
7706 votes

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Bob Lee Swagger, one of the world's great marksmen and the son of a Congressional Medal of Honoree, is a loner living in the Rockies. He's left the military, having been hung out to dry in a secret Ethiopian mission a few years before, when he's recruited by a lisping colonel to help find a way that the President of the US might be assassinated in one of three cities in the next two weeks. He does his work, but the shot is fired notwithstanding and Bob Lee is quickly the fall guy: wounded and hunted by thousands, he goes to ground and, aided by two unlikely allies, searches for the truth and for those who double-crossed him. All roads lead back to Ethiopia.
Actors
Bob Lee SwaggerMark Wahlberg
Nick MemphisMichael Pena
Colonel Isaac JohnsonDanny Glover
Also posted in 2007, Action, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Cruel Intentions

IMDB Rating: 6.60
39996 votes

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Kathryn makes a bet that her step-brother, Sebastian, won't be able to bed Annette (a virgin, who wants to wait until marriage) before the start of the school year. If he loses, Kathryn gets his Roadster, if he wins, he gets Kathryn
Actors
Drew Snyder
Kathryn MerteuilSarah Michelle Gellar
Sebastian ValmontRyan Phillippe
Also posted in 1999, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance, Thriller | Comments (0)