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Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey

IMDB Rating: 5.60
13589 votes

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For many years now, at Bill and Ted University of the future, the people of the world have been excellent to each other. But fed-up with Bill and Ted's peaceful world and even more fed up with heavy metal, Chuck De Nomolos decides to do something about it. De Nomolos creates cyborg versions of Bill and Ted, who travel back to 1990 with orders to kill the human versions of Bill and Ted, win the Battle of the Bands, and pave the way for De Nomolos to take over the future. In 1990, Bill and Ted are sent to hell by the cyborgs. Cyborg Bill and cyborg Ted make time with the real Bill and Ted's girlfriends Joanna and Elizabeth and prepare to take the human Bill and Ted's place in the Battle of the Bands. With the help of their friend Rufus, the human Bill and Ted are forced to find a way out of hell, deal with the Grim Reaper, and talk to God himself, in their mission to get to the Battle of the Bands and stop the two cyborgs.
Actors
Ted Logan/Evil TedKeanu Reeves
Bill S. Preston, Esq./Granny Preston/Evil Robot BillAlex Winter
Grim Reaper/English Family MemberWilliam Sadler
Also posted in 1991, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi | Comments (0)

Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure

IMDB Rating: 6.60
20184 votes

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When best friends Bill S. Preston and Ted "Theodore" Logan are in danger of being seperated and having their band, Wyld Stalyns broken up because they're failing history, a time traveler from the future gives them a telephone booth so they can travel through time and ace their history report.
Actors
Ted LoganKeanu Reeves
Bill S. Preston, Esq.Alex Winter
RufusGeorge Carlin
Also posted in 1989, Adventure, Comedy, High IMDB rating, Sci-Fi | Comments (0)

Serial Mom

IMDB Rating: 6.30
7577 votes

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A picture perfect middle class family is shocked when they find out that one of their neighbors is receiving obscene phone calls. The mom takes slights against her family very personally, and it turns out she is indeed the one harassing the neighbor. As other slights befall her beloved family, the body count begins to increase, and the police get closer to the truth, threatening the family's picture perfect world.
Actors
Beverly R. SutphinKathleen Turner
Eugene Sutphin, D.D.S.Sam Waterston
Misty SutphinRicki Lake
Also posted in 1994, Comedy, Crime, High IMDB rating, Horror | Comments (0)

Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane

IMDB Rating: 5.50
465 votes

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Slick-talking Bob and Sid run a bankrupt used-car lot. They used to work for Danny Woo, whose lot next door is the most successful one in Needles. Danny's still their friend, and what with his sick wife, Bob and Sid agree to cover for him during an IRS investigation into his finances. Meanwhile, a series of murders and an FBI investigation focus on a Pontiac convertible with a mysterious cargo originating in the Andes. Bob and Sid's shady supplier offers them $250,000 to stash the car on their lot for a couple days; Bob's reluctant, but Sid sees this as their ticket out. They say yes, then try to run a double cross on the Pontiac's mysterious and ruthless owner.
Actors
Sid FrenchJoe Carnahan
Bob MelbaDan Leis
FBI Agent JaredKen Rudulph
Also posted in 1998, Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller | 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)

Soul Survivors

IMDB Rating: 3.40
3727 votes

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College freshman Cassandra "Cassie" (Melissa Sagemiller) steps into a nightmare of otherworldly visitations after surviving a devastating car accident. Haunted by a grim reaper of a far different kind, her only hope is to cling to chance encounters with her lost love Sean (Casey Affleck) and the aid of a mysterious young priest named Father Jude (Luke Wilson). It is the spirit of Sean, her soul mate, who guides her to love, but it is her friends Matt (Wes Bentley), Annabel (Eliza Dushku) and Annabel's morose friend Raven (Angela Featherstone) who try to draw her to the dark side.
Actors
Angela Robinson
CassieMelissa Sagemiller
MattWes Bentley
Also posted in 2001, Drama, Horror, Thriller | Comments (0)

A Nightmare on Elm Street

IMDB Rating: 7.30
25389 votes

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On Elm Street, Nancy Thompson (Langenkamp) and a group of her friends including Tina Gray (Wyss), Rod Lane (Garcia) and Glen Lantz (Depp) are being tormented by a clawed killer in their dreams named Freddy Krueger (Englund). Nancy must think quickly, as Freddy tries to pick off his victims one by one. When he has you in your sleep, who is there to save you?
Actors
Lt. ThompsonJohn Saxon
Marge ThompsonRonee Blakley
Nancy ThompsonHeather Langenkamp
Also posted in 1984, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Horror, 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)

Romper Stomper

IMDB Rating: 6.80
8489 votes

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Nazi skinheads in Melbourne take out their anger on local Vietnamese, who are seen as threatening racial purity. Finally the Vietnamese have had enough and confront the skinheads in an all-out confrontation, sending the skinheads running. A woman who is prone to epileptic seizures joins the skins' merry band, and helps them on their run from justice, but is her affliction also a sign of impurity?
Actors
Russell Crowe
Daniel Pollock
Jacqueline McKenzie
Also posted in 1992, Action, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)