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Journal of a Contract Killer

IMDB Rating: 9.99
94 votes

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Stephanie Komack was a high-class hooker and assassin for the Italian Mob. Now working in London as a waitress, and a single mother to her seven year old daughter, the Mob track Stephanie down and persuade her to do one last job. The hit goes wrong and Stephanie soon realises the stark reality of her failure. They snatch her daughter as punishment, but didn't figure on Stephanie's capacity for revenge! Inspired by true events, JOURNAL OF A CONTRACT KILLER is the gripping story of a woman driven to turn on her paymasters with devastating consequences.
Actors
StephanieJustine Powell
SamAdam Leese
AlessandroJake Canuso
Also posted in 2008, Action, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Hellraiser: Inferno

IMDB Rating: 5.40
3750 votes

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A shady police detective becomes embroiled in a strange world of murder, sadism and madness after being assigned a murder investigation against a madman known only as "The Engineer".
Actors
Det. Joseph ThorneCraig Sheffer
Det. Tony NenonenNicholas Turturro
Dr. Paul GregoryJames Remar
Also posted in 2000, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery | Comments (0)

Wall Street

IMDB Rating: 7.30
24034 votes

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Bud Fox is an ambitious stock trader who will do just about anything to get into the big leagues. He has been actively courting Gordon Gekko, one of the biggest stock speculators on Wall Street. Gekko manipulates the market using inside information and his motto best describes his approach: greed is good. Nothing will stop him from pursuing a good deal and he takes advantage of Bud's burning to desire to succeed. Soon, Bud finds himself getting information from any source and using to gain an advantage. It all comes to a head however when Gekko targets Blue Star airlines, the company where Bud's father has worked for 24 years, secretly planning to break it up and plunder the employees' retirement fund.
Actors
Bud FoxCharlie Sheen
CarolynTamara Tunie
DanFranklin Cover
Also posted in 1987, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

The Lucky Ones

IMDB Rating: 7.50
840 votes

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After suffering an injury during a routine patrol, hardened sergeant TK Poole is granted a one-month leave to visit his fiancé. But when an unexpected blackout cancels all flights out of New York, TK agrees to share a ride to Pittsburgh with two similarly stranded servicemen: Cheever, an older family man who longs to return to his wife in St. Louis, and Colee, a naive private who's pinned her hopes on connecting with a dead fellow soldier's family. What begins as a short trip unexpectedly evolves into a longer journey. Forced to grapple with old relationships, broken hopes and a country divided over the war, TK, Cheever and Colee discover that home is not quite what they remembered, and that the unlikely companionship they've found might be what matters the most.
Actors
Fred CheaverTim Robbins
Colee DunnRachel McAdams
T.K. PooleMichael Peña
Also posted in 2008, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating, War | Comments (0)

Creepshow III

IMDB Rating: 2.10
1319 votes

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There are five new tales of horror and suspense in this follow-up to George A. Romero & Stephen King's 1982 horror anthology classic. In "Alice", a snotty teenage girl gets her just desserts in the form of a demonic universal television remote. In "The Radio", a security guard is driven to the very brink of madness and eventually murder thanks to a possessed radio. Next up, in "Call Girl" a murdering, cold-blooded prostitute accidentally hooks up with a vampire client. In "The Professor's Wife", a demented professor with a taste for pranks tricks his two best students into believing he's getting married. But there's something rather sinister about his new bride-to-be. Lastly, in "Haunted Dog", a cruel miserly doctor kills a homeless man by purposely giving him a contaminated hotdog - a tale of savage revenge from beyond the grave.
Actors
AliceStephanie Pettee
Alice's Family #1 - Father/Detective JacobsRoy Abramsohn
Alice's Family #1 - MotherSusan Schramm
Also posted in 2006, Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Wild Bunch

IMDB Rating: 8.10
16695 votes

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A few months before World War I, an aging band of outlaws led by Pike Bishop rob a Texas bank intent on using the money to retire. When the robbery goes wrong, the gang is forced to flee to Mexico with Bishop's reformed ex-partner, Deke Thornton, in hot pursuit. With nothing to show for the failed robbery, Bishop's gang agrees to steal a shipment of guns for General "Mapache" Juerta, to restore their fortunes. With Thornton closing in, and their association with the evil Juerta trying their conscience, Bishop and co. prepare for their lawless past to catch up with them.
Actors
Pike BishopWilliam Holden
Dutch EngstromErnest Borgnine
Deke ThorntonRobert Ryan
Also posted in 1969, Action, Drama, High IMDB rating, Western | Comments (0)

Kill Me Later

IMDB Rating: 6.00
997 votes

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Her goldfish dead, her lover exposed as a rat, Shawn Holloway leaves her bank post and goes to the roof intent on suicide. Before she can leap, she's taken hostage by Charlie Anders, a fleeing bank robber. He and his partners have stolen a million in cash and plan to escape to Venezuela. Shawn agrees to cooperate if Charlie promises to kill her once he's in the clear. Parts of the plan go awry, so Charlie has time to try to pierce her bleak manner and self pity, and she has time for reflection. As night falls, their interlude ends: they're each alone, Charlie facing prison as the police close in, and Shawn staring down at a river from atop a high bridge.
Actors
Shawn HollowaySelma Blair
Charlie AndersMax Beesley
Agent McGinleyO'Neal Compton
Also posted in 2001, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller | Comments (0)

Weirdsville

IMDB Rating: 7.50
210 votes

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Royce and Dexter are two slackers who live in the strange little town of Weedsville. When Royce's girlfriend Matilda overdose's on their stash and dies, they decide to bury her in an abandoned Drive-In theater. Things get out of control when they discover Satanists performing a ritual sacrifice right where they were going to bury the body...
Actors
Jason TaylorMatt Frewer
SheldonJoey Beck
RoyceWes Bentley
Also posted in 2007, Comedy, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Taxi Driver

IMDB Rating: 8.60
91854 votes

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Vietnam vet Travis Bickle is 26, a loner in the mean streets of New York City, slipping slowly into isolation and violent misanthropy. In solving his insomnia by driving a yellow cab on the night shift, he grows increasingly disgusted by the low-lifes that hang out at night: "Someday a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets." His touching attempts to woo Betsy, a Senator's campaign worker, turn sour when he takes her to a porn movie on their first date. He even fails in his attempt to persuade child prostitute Iris to desert her pimp and return to her parents and school. Driven to the edge by powerlessness, he buys four handguns and sets out to assassinate the Senator, heading for the infamy of a 'lone crazed gunman'...
Actors
Travis BickleRobert De Niro
BetsyCybill Shepherd
WizardPeter Boyle
Also posted in 1976, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (1)

Family Guy Presents: Stewie Griffin - The Untold Story

IMDB Rating: 7.90
14318 votes

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The major sub-plot circles around the youngest Griffin, Stewie, who has a near-death experience at a pool when a lifeguard chair falls on him, but he survives. After having a vision of being in Hell, he decides to change his ways, but this doesn't last long. While watching television, he and Brian spot a man that looks like Stewie. Brian is convinced that he is Stewie's real father, until Stewie learns that the man is actually himself as an adult, taking a vacation from his own time period. Baby Stewie visits thirty years later to discover that his adult self, going by the name Stu, is a single blue-collar middle-aged virgin working at a Circuit City-type store. Meanwhile, Peter and Lois are trying to teach their two older kids, Meg and Chris, to date. In the future, Chris, who hasn't changed much, is working as a cop and is married to a foul-mouthed hustler named Vanessa. Meg is now called Ron, since she had a sex-change after college.
Actors
Stewie Griffin/Peter Griffin/Brian Griffin/Glen Quagmire/Tom Tucker/Stuart 'Stu' Griffin/Additional VoicesSeth MacFarlane
Lois Griffin/Tricia Takanawa/Vanessa/Condoleezza Rice/Additional VoicesAlex Borstein
Chris Griffin/Additional VoicesSeth Green
Also posted in 2005, Adventure, Animation, Comedy, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)
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