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Desert Saints

IMDB Rating: 6.10
1199 votes

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The nature of temptation. Banks is a hit man, the best, usually working for Latin American drug cartels. He picks up solitary women, uses them briefly for a job, then kills them. He's in the Southwest, headed toward Mexico, when he picks up Bennie, a woman leaving an abusive marriage, going to Paradise, Arizona. The film follows three tracks: Banks's slow recruitment of Bennie, the set-up for the hit at a swank resort in Mexico, and the FBI's close pursuit of Banks, whom they want alive in hopes he'll rat out his bosses. Bennie may not be who she seems, and there may be a chink in Banks's tough-guy armor. Guns, money, and a chance at Paradise...
Actors
ConciergeBrent Roam
LarsonShawn Woods
Thug in BlackChristopher Bersh
Also posted in 2000, Action, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Hills Have Eyes

IMDB Rating: 6.50
29735 votes

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Wes Craven produces this remake of his 1977 classic of the same name, about the Carters, an idyllic American family travelling through the great American southwest. But their trip takes a detour into an area closed off from the public, but more importantly from society. An area originally used by the U.S. Government for nuclear testing that was intended to be empty...or so they thought? When the Carter's car breaks down at the old site, they're stranded...or are they? As the Carters may soon realize that what seemed like a car casually breaking down, might actually be a trap. This trap might be perpetrated by the inhabitants of the site who aren't pulling a prank, but are out to set up a gruesome massacre.
Actors
Doug BukowskiAaron Stanford
Ethel CarterKathleen Quinlan
Lynn CarterVinessa Shaw
Also posted in 2006, High IMDB rating, Horror, Thriller | Comments (0)

RV

IMDB Rating: 5.50
10698 votes

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Bob Munro is the dad of a dysfunctional family. He hires an RV to take the family on vacation. However Bob is NOT the best RV steering wheel operator in the neighborhood and the hilarity is added on by the fact that the brakes are about as useful as a chocolate fireguard. Bob first realizes it when the RV rolls (not literally) backwards into a line of shopping carts. Also Bob's job is in danger if he doesn't go to a very important meeting. Before you can say "COME BACK! COME BACK!," things go gloriously, hilariously, Munro-annoyingly wrong due to the lack of brakes, Bob's job, toilet waste not cleared out from the last rental and more hilarious stuff.
Actors
Bob MunroRobin Williams
Jamie MunroCheryl Hines
Cassie MunroJoanna 'JoJo' Levesque
Also posted in 2006, Adventure, Comedy, Family | Comments (0)

Tremors

IMDB Rating: 7.10
20282 votes

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Val ('Kevin Bacon' (qv)) and Earl ('Fred Ward (I)' (qv)) plan to put behind their days as handymen in a small dust bowl town called Perfection. Before they can get to civilization though, they encounter numerous victims of monsters that burrow through the ground. Soon the whole town is camped out on their roofs as Val and Earl lead them to safety.
Actors
Valentine McKeeKevin Bacon
Earl BassettFred Ward
Rhonda LeBeckFinn Carter
Also posted in 1990, Comedy, High IMDB rating, Horror, Sci-Fi | Comments (0)

10,000 BC

IMDB Rating: 5.00
19070 votes

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A prehistoric epic that follows a young mammoth hunter named D'Leh's journey through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe. When a band of mysterious horse-riding warlords raid the Yaghal camp and kidnaps his heart's desire - the beautiful Evolet along with many others, D'Leh is forced to lead a small group of hunters south to pursue the warlords to the end of the world to save her. Driven by destiny, the unlikely band of warriors must battle saber-toothed cats and terror birds in the Levant.
Actors
D'LehSteven Strait
EvoletCamilla Belle
Tic'TicCliff Curtis
Also posted in 2008, Adventure | Comments (0)

Iron Man

IMDB Rating: 8.20
56926 votes

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Tony Stark is the complete playboy who also happens to be an engineering genius. While in Afghanistan demonstrating a new missile he's captured and wounded. His captors want him to assemble a missile for them but instead he creates an armored suit and a means to prevent his death from the shrapnel left in his chest by the attack. He uses the armored suit to escape. Back in the U.S. he announces his company will cease making weapons and he begins work on an updated armored suit only to find that Obadiah Stane, his second in command at Stark industries has been selling Stark weapons to the insurgents. He uses his new suit to return to Afghanistan to destroy the arms and then to stop Shane from misusing his research.
Actors
Tony Stark/Iron ManRobert Downey Jr.
Col. James 'Rhodey' RhodesTerrence Howard
Obadiah Stane/Iron MongerJeff Bridges
Also posted in 2008, Action, Adventure, Drama, High IMDB rating, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (0)

Fast Food Nation

IMDB Rating: 6.30
7998 votes

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Don Anderson (Greg Kinnear) is the Mickey's food restaurant chain's Marketing Director. He is the inventor of the "Big One" the hamburger best seller of Mickey's. An independent research reports the presence of cow's feces in the Big One. So Don is sent to Cody, Colorado, to verify if the slaughterhouse, main supplier of Mickey's, is efficient as it appears and the production process is regular. During his investigations he discovers the horrible truth behind a simple hamburger; the reality is not like we think it is. Don discovers that the mass production system involves from the temp workers like Amber (Ashley Jonhson), to the exploitation of Mexican irregular immigrants. It is not only the meat that is crush in the mincing machine, but all our society.
Actors
RaulWilmer Valderrama
SylviaCatalina Sandino Moreno
CocoAna Claudia Talancón
Also posted in 2006, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Speed Racer

IMDB Rating: 6.60
9093 votes

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Hurtling down the track, careening around, over and through the competition, Speed Racer is a natural behind the wheel. Born to race cars, Speed is aggressive, instinctive and, most of all, fearless. His only real competition is the memory of the brother he idolized-the legendary Rex Racer - whose death in a race has left behind a legacy that Speed is driven to fulfill. Speed is loyal to the family racing business, led by his father, Pops Racer, the designer of Speed's thundering Mach 5. When Speed turns down a lucrative and tempting offer from Royalton Industries, he not only infuriates the company's maniacal owner but uncovers a terrible secret-some of the biggest races are being fixed by a handful of ruthless moguls who manipulate the top drivers to boost profits. If Speed won't drive for Royalton, Royalton will see to it that the Mach 5 never crosses another finish line. The only way for Speed to save his family's business and the sport he loves is to beat Royalton at his own game. With the support of his family and his loyal girlfriend, Trixie, Speed teams with his one-time rival-the mysterious Racer X - to win the race that had taken his brother's life: the death-defying, cross-country rally known as The Crucible.
Actors
Speed RacerEmile Hirsch
Young SpeedNicholas Elia
TrixieChristina Ricci
Also posted in 2008, Action, Family, High IMDB rating, Sport | Comments (0)

Lawrence of Arabia

IMDB Rating: 8.60
36024 votes

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T. E. Lawrence is a young maladjusted lieutenant in the British Army in North Africa during World War One. Unhappy with his current assignment coloring maps, he is ecstatic when he is offered a job as an observer in what is now Arabia. At this point, the story of his life becomes the stuff that legends are made of.
Actors
T.E. LawrencePeter O'Toole
Prince FeisalAlec Guinness
Auda abu TayiAnthony Quinn
Also posted in 1962, Adventure, Biography, Drama, High IMDB rating, War | Comments (0)

Traffic

IMDB Rating: 7.80
56634 votes

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A modern day look at America's war on drugs told through four separate stories that are connected in one way or another. A conservative politician who's just been appointed as the US drug czar learns that his daughter is a drug addict. A trophy wife struggles to save her husband's drug business, while two DEA agents protect a witness with inside knowledge of the spouse's business. In Mexico, a corrupt, yet dedicated cop struggles with his conscience when he learns that his new boss may not be the anti-drug official he made himself out to be.
Actors
Javier RodriguezBenicio Del Toro
Manolo SanchezJacob Vargas
Desert Truck DriverAndrew Chavez
Also posted in 2000, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)
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