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Death Warrant

IMDB Rating: 4.90
2906 votes

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Storyline
In an abandoned house, detective Louis Burke confronts a maniac called the Sandman. Although the Sandman nearly kills Burke, Burke manages to stop him with a bullet. Sixteen months later, Burke joins a task force put together by the governor to investigate a series of unexplained deaths in the Harrison Penitentiary. While Burke poses as an inmate, attorney Amanda Beckett acts the role of his wife. In the penitentiary, Burke is forced to survive in an environment so dismal and filthy that it makes a public restroom in New York City look like a room in a five star hotel. Burke does succeed in befriending a few of the inmates, including Hawkins and Priest, who help him with the investigation. More inmates are mysteriously murdered. Burke's cell-mate is killed, and prison guard DeGraff puts Burke in solitary confinement, where he's interrogated and beaten. As if that's not enough, the Sandman ends up at Harrison. As it turns out, the prisoners are being murdered for their body organs. Back on the outside, Beckett attends a party given by Vogler, the state's attorney general. Just as she's preparing to tell him about the murders at the prison, Beckett receives a call from her assistant, who identifies Vogler's henchman Keane as the man behind the murders, which also involve Dr. Gottesman, the surgeon who harvests the organs to be sold to people who are in desperate need of them. The assistant's suspicions are confirmed when Vogler tries to kill Beckett. Burke begins an escape from the penitentiary, pursued by the Sandman and hundreds of angry inmates who have been set free and armed with the knowledge that Burke is a cop. Burke and the Sandman have brutal showdown in which Burke tries to get the Sandman out of the way so he can go after Vogler, Keane, and Gottesman.
Actors
Louis BurkeJean-Claude Van Damme
HawkinsRobert Guillaume
Amanda BeckettCynthia Gibb

Iris

IMDB Rating: 7.10
6092 votes

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A moving and tender depiction of the novelist Iris Murdoch's descent into Alzheimer's Disease, covering the period from just before her marriage to intellectual John Bayley until her death. The film is based on the two books by John Bayley (Iris, Iris & The Friends).
Actors
Young Iris MurdochKate Winslet
Young John BayleyHugh Bonneville
Iris MurdochJudi Dench

Shortbus

IMDB Rating: 6.80
9109 votes

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Numerous New York City-dwellers come to the exclusive club Shortbus to work out problems in their sexual relationships. Rob and Sophia are a happily married couple, except for the fact that she has never experienced sexual climax. This irony follows her to work, because she is a couples counselor who frequently has to deal with the sexual issues other couples have. Two of her patients are Jamie and James, a gay couple who have been monogamous for five years and counting. James wants to bring other men in to the relationship, and his own history with depression may hint at an ulterior motive. Ceth (Pronounced like Seth) may be the perfect addition to their family, but Caleb, a voyeur from across the street, may have his own ideas about that. Sophia visits Severin, a dominatrix with secrets of her own to reveal.
Actors
JamesPaul Dawson
JamiePJ DeBoy
RobRaphael Barker

My Own Private Idaho

IMDB Rating: 7.00
11579 votes

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Surreal character study focusing on the friendship between two male hustlers, Mike and Scott, in Portland, Oregon. They live on the streets, do drugs, and sell themselves to men and women. Mike is quiet, gay and suffers from narcolepsy. Abandoned as a child, he is obsessed with finding his long-lost mother. Scott is the rebellious son of a high-ranking family, who lives this life mostly to embarrass his father. Mike is in love with Scott, who still maintains he is straight and insists that his wild lifestyle on the streets is only temporary. Together, they embark on a quest to find Mike's mother, traveling from Portland to Idaho to Italy, with Scott picking up a beautiful girl along the way.
Actors
Mike WatersRiver Phoenix
Scott FavorKeanu Reeves
Richard WatersJames Russo

Tigerland

IMDB Rating: 7.20
11698 votes

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In September 1971, a platoon of recruits arrives in Ft. Polk, LA, for infantry training before leaving for war. The final week takes place in Tigerland, a swamp similar to Vietnam. Jim Paxton has enlisted; he wants to experience everything and write books later. He befriends Roland Bozz, a cool Texan with a gift for getting into trouble and for helping misfits get discharges. At least one sociopath in the platoon hates Bozz, even as the sergeants grudgingly recognize his leadership abilities. As the platoon heads into its week in Tigerland, Paxton's body gives out, Bozz makes plans to go AWOL, and the sociopath gets hold of live ammo. Is the Louisiana swamp more dangerous than the DMZ?
Actors
Pvt. Roland BozzColin Farrell
Pvt. Jim PaxtonMatthew Davis
Pvt. MiterClifton Collins Jr.

Hatchet

IMDB Rating: 5.90
5083 votes

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A motley crew of tourists embark on a boat ride of the haunted Louisiana bayous where they learn the terrifying tale of local legend "Victor Crowley"; a horribly disfigured man who was tragically and accidentally killed with a hatchet by the hands of his own father. But when the boat sinks and the ghost story turns out to be real, the group tries desperately to escape the swamp with their lives...and all of their pieces.
Actors
BenJoel Moore
MarcusDeon Richmond
Victor Crowley/Mr. CrowleyKane Hodder

Smart People

IMDB Rating: 6.60
3507 votes

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Into the life of a widowed professor comes a new love and an unexpected visit from his adopted brother.
Actors
Prof. Lawrence WetherholdDennis Quaid
Chuck WetherholdThomas Haden Church
James WetherholdAshton Holmes

The Last Dragon

IMDB Rating: 6.10
3001 votes

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A young man searches for the "master" to obtain the final level of martial arts mastery known as the glow. Along the way he must fight an evil martial arts expert and an rescue a beautiful singer from an obsessed music promoter.
Actors
Leroy GreenTaimak
Eddie ArkadianChristopher Murney
Sho'nuff/The Shogun of HarlemJulius Carry

The Last House on the Left

IMDB Rating: 5.70
7039 votes

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After kidnapping and butchering two teenagers, a gang of rapists and murderers unknowingly seeks refuge with the parents of one of the victims.
Actors
Krug StilloDavid Hess
Fred 'Weasel' PodowskiFred J. Lincoln
Junior StilloMarc Sheffler

Love Is the Drug

IMDB Rating: 5.80
111 votes

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Storyline
A love triangle among recent high school graduates proves deadly.
Actors
Jonah BrandJohn Patrick Amedori
Lucas MitchellD.J. Cotrona
Troy DanielsJonathon Trent
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