Tag Archives: director

Synecdoche, New York

IMDB Rating: 7.60
7255 votes

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A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.
Actors
Caden CotardPhilip Seymour Hoffman
Adele LackCatherine Keener
OliveSadie Goldstein
Also posted in 2008, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

King Kong

IMDB Rating: 8.10
29305 votes

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Master showman Carl Denham has fallen on hard times due to the depression, and mounts an expedition to the mysterious Skull Island to find another showpiece. He takes along adventurer Jack Driscoll and the down-on-her-luck gorgeous blonde Ann Darrow with him to spice up the show. Arriving on the island, they discover it is home to gigantic beasts like dinosaurs, and ruling over all is Kong, a 30 foot tall gorilla. The natives kidnap Ann as a sacrifice for Kong, and the other crew members head into the dangerous island interior to rescue her.
Actors
Ann DarrowFay Wray
Carl DenhamRobert Armstrong
John 'Jack' DriscollBruce Cabot
Also posted in 1933, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Horror, Thriller | Comments (0)

Designing Woman

IMDB Rating: 6.80
1076 votes

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On a vacation, sports journalist Mike meets designer Marilla. They fall in love and marry right away. However back at home they realize that they're living in different worlds and know nothing about each other and exes and angry mobsters get in the way of their happily ever after though.
Actors
Mike HagenGregory Peck
Marilla Brown HagenLauren Bacall
Lori ShannonDolores Gray
Also posted in 1957, Comedy, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

42nd Street

IMDB Rating: 7.70
3109 votes

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The source from which all modern musicals flow: An ailing Broadway director returns to produce one final show, but his leading lady is injured and must be replaced by a novice. Call it dated, but it's aged to perfection, and the final twenty minute sequence will leave you tapping your toes, with a smile on your face and a song in your heart. Movies—never mind musicals—just don't get any better than this.
Actors
Julian MarshWarner Baxter
Dorothy BrockBebe Daniels
Pat DenningGeorge Brent
Also posted in 1933, Drama, High IMDB rating, Musical, Romance | Comments (0)

Ed Wood

IMDB Rating: 8.10
50456 votes

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The life of Edward D. Wood,Jr, hailed as the worst director (of 'Plan 9 From Outer Space', 'Glen or Glenda?' and 'Bride of the Monster') of all time.
Actors
Ed WoodJohnny Depp
Bela LugosiMartin Landau
Dolores FullerSarah Jessica Parker
Also posted in 1994, Biography, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Boogie Nights

IMDB Rating: 7.70
45529 votes

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Everyone's born with one special thing, and Eddie Adams uses his humongous "asset" to take the world of film pornography by storm. Things get ugly though when success leads to drugs and ruin. Will Dirk clean up and get back on top? Will Amber see her son? Will Rollergirl ever take off her skates?!
Actors
Maurice T. RodriguezLuis Guzmán
Jack HornerBurt Reynolds
Amber Waves/MaggieJulianne Moore
Also posted in 1997, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

For Your Consideration

IMDB Rating: 6.20
4320 votes

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Hollywood send-up. No-name actors are making a low-budget period drama called "Home for Purim," when an anonymous post on the Internet suggests that one performance is Oscar-worthy. Then, two more cast members get Oscar-related press: buzz in "Variety" and appearances on TV prompt the studio executives to insist on changes in the script in anticipation of a blockbuster. Jump ahead a few months to the days before Oscar nominees are announced: just the possibility of a nomination has changed the actors' lives. Agents, publicists, make-up artists, local celebrity reporters, and other bit players round out the backstage ensemble. Hooray for Hollywood!
Actors
Marilyn HackCatherine O'Hara
Studio Gate GuardStephen Rannazzisi
Sandy LaneEd Begley Jr.
Also posted in 2006, Comedy, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Scream 3

IMDB Rating: 5.30
25679 votes

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STAB 3: RETURN TO WOODSBORO is currently in production, and a killer is on the loose cutting corners cast wise. The murders draw a reporter, ex-cop, and young woman to the set of the movie inspired by their life. They soon find out that they are dealing with a trilogy, and in a trilogy...anything can happen.
Actors
Dwight 'Dewey' RileyDavid Arquette
Sidney PrescottNeve Campbell
Gale WeathersCourteney Cox
Also posted in 2000, Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (29)

Orgazmo

IMDB Rating: 5.80
8661 votes

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Joe Young is a young Mormon actor who preaches the word of God in LA and can't get anything from it. One day he stumbles on the set of new porno movie shot by well known porn director Maxxx Orbison. Maxxx chooses Joe for the title part in his new movie Captain Orgazmo. Joe soon befriends short and skinny Ben Chapleski (his sidekick in the film), who invented a ray-gun which emits a light beam that causes the most intense orgasm in whoever it hits (called Orgasmorator). Unexpectedly movie Captain Orgazmo becomes a cult hit, and Joe's girlfriend Lisa accidentally sees the movie in the video store - and the problems begin.
Actors
Joe Young/OrgazmoTrey Parker
Ben Chapleski/Choda BoyDian Bachar
LisaRobyn Lynne Raab
Also posted in 1997, Comedy, Sci-Fi | Comments (0)

Catch and Release

IMDB Rating: 5.60
1390 votes

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After the sudden death of her fiancé, Gray Wheeler finds comfort in the company of his friends: lighthearted and comic Sam, hyper-responsible Dennis, and, oddly enough, his old childhood buddy Fritz, an irresponsible playboy whom she’d previously pegged as one of the least reliable people in the world. As secrets about her supposedly perfect fiancé emerge, Gray comes to see new sides of the man she thought she knew, and at the same time, finds herself drawn to the last man she ever expected to fall for.
Actors
Gray WheelerJennifer Garner
FritzTimothy Olyphant
DennisSam Jaeger
Also posted in 2006, Comedy, Drama, Romance | Comments (0)
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