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Summer of Sam

IMDB Rating: 6.50
14231 votes

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Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American South Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.
Actors
VinnyJohn Leguizamo
RichieAdrien Brody
DionnaMira Sorvino
Also posted in 1999, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance, Thriller | Comments (0)

Narc

IMDB Rating: 7.40
13051 votes

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An undercover narc dies, the investigation stalls, so the Detroit P.D. brings back Nick Tellis, fired 18-months ago when a stray bullet hits a pregnant woman. Tellis teams with Henry Oak, a friend of the dead narc and an aggressive cop constantly under the scrutiny of internal affairs. They follow leads, informants turn up dead, Nick's wife is unhappy he's back on the street, Henry's protective of the dead cop's wife. Nick reads and re-reads the case file, broods, watches Oak's heavy-handed style, sometimes joining in. The brass want to close out the case, Nick and Henry stay on it, and bits of evidence point them to an auto body shop. What actually happened; will Nick ever know?
Actors
Elvin DowdDan Leis
Det. Sgt. Nick TellisJason Patric
Walter DandridgeLloyd Adams
Also posted in 2002, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Basketball Diaries

IMDB Rating: 6.90
12964 votes

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Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll's epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction. As a member of a seemingly unbeatable high school basketball squad, Jim's life centers around the basketball court and the court becomes a metaphor for the world in his mind. A best friend who is dying of leukemia, a coach ("Swifty") who takes unacceptable liberties with the boys on his team, teenage sexual angst, and an unhealthy appetite for heroin — all of these begin to encroach on young Jim's dream of becoming a basketball star. Soon, the dark streets of New York become a refuge from his mother's mounting concern for her son. He can't go home and his only escape from the reality of the streets is heroin for which he steals, robs and prostitutes himself. Only with the help of Reggie, an older neighborhood friend with whom Jim "picked up a game" now and then, is he able to begin the long journey back to sanity.
Actors
Jim CarrollLeonardo DiCaprio
Jim's MotherLorraine Bracco
Chanting WomanMarilyn Sokol
Also posted in 1995, Biography, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Sport | Comments (0)

Being There

IMDB Rating: 7.90
16999 votes

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A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television. After a run in with a limousine, he ends up a guest of a woman (Eve) and her husband Ben, an influential but sickly businessman. Now called Chauncey Gardner, Chance becomes friend and confidante to Ben, and an unlikely political insider.
Actors
Chance the GardenerPeter Sellers
Eve RandShirley MacLaine
Benjamin Turnbull RandMelvyn Douglas
Also posted in 1979, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Underdog

IMDB Rating: 3.50
2539 votes

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A lab accident gives a hound named Shoeshine some serious superpowers — a secret that the dog eventually shares with the young boy who becomes his owner and friend.
Actors
UnderdogJason Lee
Dr. Simon BarsinisterPeter Dinklage
Dan UngerJames Belushi
Also posted in 2007, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi | Comments (0)

Fantastic Voyage

IMDB Rating: 6.80
3536 votes

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Scientist Jan Benes, who knows the secret to keeping soldiers shrunken for an indefinite period, escapes from behind the Iron Curtain with the help of CIA agent Grant. While being transferred, their motorcade is attacked. Benes strikes his head, causing a blood clot to form in his brain. Grant is ordered to accompany a group of scientists as they are miniaturized. The crew has one hour to get in Benes's brain, remove the clot and get out.
Actors
GrantStephen Boyd
CoraRaquel Welch
Gen. CarterEdmond O'Brien
Also posted in 1966, Adventure, High IMDB rating, Sci-Fi | Comments (0)

Event Horizon

IMDB Rating: 5.90
23098 votes

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A rescue crew in space comes to investigate and if possible, rescue a government spaceship gone missing for seven years. When they board the ship, they learn that the ship has been somewhere beyond space and brought something back with it that is an unspeakable evil.
Actors
Captain MillerLaurence Fishburne
Dr. William WeirSam Neill
Peters, Med TechKathleen Quinlan
Also posted in 1997, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (1)

Snakes on a Plane

IMDB Rating: 6.70
38082 votes

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When Sean Jones witnesses a murder, he is asked to fly from Hawaii to Los Angeles to testify against the notorious gangster Eddie Kim. However, Kim has paid an assassin to release a crate-full of deadly snakes loose when the plane is 30,000 feet in the air. Only FBI agent Neville Flynn can protect Sean and rally the passengers together in hope of landing in L.A. alive.
Actors
Neville FlynnSamuel L. Jackson
Claire MillerJulianna Margulies
Sean JonesNathan Phillips
Also posted in 2006, Action, Adventure, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Valiant

IMDB Rating: 5.60
3746 votes

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The animated comedy tells the story of a lowly wood pigeon named Valiant, who overcomes his small size to become a hero in Great Britain's Royal Air Force Homing Pigeon Service during World War II. The RHPS advanced the Allied cause by flying vital messages about enemy movements across the English Channel, whilst evading brutal attacks by the enemy's Falcon Brigade.
Actors
ValiantEwan McGregor
BugsyRicky Gervais
Von TalonTim Curry
Also posted in 2005, Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, War | Comments (0)

Northfork

IMDB Rating: 6.30
1911 votes

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In a near-empty Northfork orphanage, Father Harlan gently tends to Irwin, a eight-year-old who lies between a dreamstate and death. As orphanage caretaker Harlan reads aloud about Northfork's years-ago forced evacuation to make way for a hydro-electric dam, Irwin's imagination takes flight. While a team of six men evacuate the last remaining citizens of the town, Irwin, too, invents a cast of characters to prepare himself for his own evacuation.
Actors
Walter O'BrienJames Woods
Father HarlanNick Nolte
MayorDouglas Sebern
Also posted in 2003, Drama, Fantasy, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)