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Bottom Live 3: Hooligan’s Island

IMDB Rating: 7.60
230 votes

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Filmed in Bristol during their '97 stage tour, Adrian Edmondson and Rik Mayall again adopt their characters of Eddie and Richie from the television series "Bottom", this time being stranded on a desert island with no food, and even worse, no booze or pornography to keep them occupied. Things get even worse during the second act when they discover that a French visitor has left a large nuclear device on the island during the night to conduct weapons testing in the pacific.
Actors
Edward HitlerAdrian Edmondson
Richard RichardRik Mayall
Also posted in 1997, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Bubba Ho-tep

IMDB Rating: 7.50
15220 votes

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Based on the Bram Stoker Award nominee short story by cult author Joe R. Lansdale, Bubba Ho-tep tells the "true" story of what really did become of Elvis Presley. We find Elvis (Bruce Campbell) as an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home, who switched identities with an Elvis impersonator years before his "death", then missed his chance to switch back. Elvis teams up with Jack (Ossie Davis), a fellow nursing home resident who thinks that he is actually President John F. Kennedy, and the two valiant old codgers sally forth to battle an evil Egyptian entity who has chosen their long-term care facility as his happy hunting grounds.
Actors
ElvisBruce Campbell
JackOssie Davis
The NurseElla Joyce
Also posted in 2002, Comedy, High IMDB rating, Horror, Mystery | Comments (0)

C.H.U.D.

IMDB Rating: 4.60
1554 votes

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A rash of bizarre murders in New York City seems to point to a group of grotesquely deformed vagrants living in the sewers. A courageous policeman, a photo journalist and his girlfriend, and a nutty bum, who seems to know a lot about the creatures, band together to try and determine what the creatures are and how to stop them.
Actors
George CooperJohn Heard
A.J. 'The Reverend' ShepherdDaniel Stern
Captain BoschChristopher Curry
Also posted in 1984, Horror | Comments (0)

The Romantic Englishwoman

IMDB Rating: 6.40
216 votes

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What is real and what is fiction? Faced with writer's block with his novel, Lewis Fielding turns to a film script about a woman finding herself after his wife Elizabeth returns from Baden Baden. She didn't quite find herself there but had a brief encounter in a lift with a German who says he is a poet. Now the German is in England, gets himself invited to tea where he claims he admires Fielding's books. Which one does he like the best? "Tom Jones." Amused at being confused with the other Fielding, the novelist works the German into the plot.
Actors
Elizabeth FieldingGlenda Jackson
Lewis FieldingMichael Caine
ThomasHelmut Berger
Also posted in 1975, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Teeth

IMDB Rating: 5.90
316 votes

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High school student Dawn works hard at suppressing her budding sexuality by being the local chastity group's most active participant. Her task is made even more difficult by her bad boy stepbrother Brad's increasingly provocative behavior at home. A stranger to her own body, innocent Dawn discovers she has a toothed vagina when she becomes the object of violence. As she struggles to comprehend her anatomical uniqueness, Dawn experiences both the pitfalls and the power of being a living example of the vagina dentata myth.
Actors
DawnJess Weixler
BradJohn Hensley
Dr. GodfreyJosh Pais
Also posted in 2007, Comedy, Horror | Comments (0)

Drowning Mona

IMDB Rating: 5.30
5460 votes

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When Mona's key won't fit in her Yugo, she tries it in her son's; when it works, she borrows his car. The brakes fail; she goes through the guard rail, into the river, and drowns. When police chief Rash learns that the brake lines were cut, he looks for a murderer. Suspect one: Mona's dim son Jeff, whom she constantly denigrated. Suspect two: her husband Phil, whom she constantly belittled and who's having an affair with Rona, a waitress with a secret of her own. Suspect three: Jeff's landscape partner Bobby, who wants Jeff out, has yelled at Mona that he'd like to rip out her ovaries, and who is soon to be Rash's son-in-law. Can Rash find the killer and keep Bobby out of jail?
Actors
Chief Wyatt RashDanny DeVito
Mona DearlyBette Midler
Ellen RashNeve Campbell
Also posted in 2000, Comedy, Crime, Mystery | Comments (0)

Little Voice

IMDB Rating: 6.90
6580 votes

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After the death of her father, Little Voice or LV (played by Jane Horrocks) becomes a virtual recluse, never going out and hardly ever saying a word. She just sits in her bedroom listening to her father's collection of old records of Shirley Bassey, Marilyn Monroe and various other famous female singers. But at night time, LV sings, imitating these great singers with surprising accuracy. One night she is overheard by one of her mother's boyfriends, who happens to be a talent agent. He manages to convince her that her talent is special and arranges for her to perform at the local night club, but several problems arise.
Actors
Mari HoffBrenda Blethyn
LVJane Horrocks
BillyEwan McGregor
Also posted in 1998, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating, Music, Romance | Comments (0)

Flirting with Disaster

IMDB Rating: 6.70
6188 votes

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Five months after the birth of his son, Mel Coplin remains unable to name the child until he has met his own biological parents and discovered who he "really is." He, his wife Nancy, and his social-worker-in-training Tina Kalb jet off to California to meet his birth mother—who turns out not to be his mother, due to an error with the agency's adoption records. The quartet sets out in search of Mel's real parents, with tensions growing because of the sexual chemistry lacking between Mel and Nancy and growing between Mel and Tina.
Actors
Mel CoplinBen Stiller
Nancy CoplinPatricia Arquette
Tina KalbTéa Leoni
Also posted in 1996, Comedy, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Diary of the Dead

IMDB Rating: 7.00
433 votes

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A group of young film students run into real-life zombies while filming a horror movie of their own.
Actors
FredNick Alachiotis
Zombie TrooperMatt Birman
BikerGeorge Buza
Also posted in 2007, High IMDB rating, Horror, Thriller | Comments (0)

New Jack City

IMDB Rating: 6.10
6572 votes

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In 1989, Nino Brown, a small time drug dealer, is convinced by one of his fellow thugs that the wave of the future is in the cocaine derivative, crack. Brown sees potential in crack and sets out to establish himself as chief kingpin by killing off his rivals and even going as far as to take over a whole apartment complex. Out to stop him are undercover cops Scottie Appleton and Nick Paretti. Appleton especially wants to get Nino because of the fact that he murdered Scottie's mother as part of a gang initiaton. Also involved is Pookie, a former crackhead who wants to bring down Nino as well.
Actors
Nino BrownWesley Snipes
Scotty AppletonIce-T
Gee MoneyAllen Payne
Also posted in 1991, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)