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Raising Arizona

IMDB Rating: 7.50
31003 votes

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Colourful and unconventional slapstick comedy. Ex-con Hi and ex-cop Ed meet, marry and long for a child in the wilds of Arizona. When Ed discovers she's barren the God-given solution is presented: to snatch a baby from a set of quins. Thus begins a series of kidnappings, capers and rum goings-on that revolve around the helpless yet universally-loveable child. Hi's convict friends, his boss, and even the Lone Biker Of The Apocalypse become involved in the ever-twisting plot in the quest to own the baby.
Actors
H.I. McDunnoughNicolas Cage
Edwina 'Ed' McDunnoughHolly Hunter
Nathan Arizona Huffhines, Sr.Trey Wilson
Also posted in 1987, Action, Comedy, Crime, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Street Kings

IMDB Rating: 7.30
8569 votes

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Tom Ludlow is a veteran LAPD cop who finds life difficult to navigate after the death of his wife. When evidence implicates him in the execution of a fellow officer, he is forced to go up against the cop culture he's been a part of his entire career, ultimately leading him to question the loyalties of everyone around him.
Actors
Detective Tom LudlowKeanu Reeves
Captain Jack WanderForest Whitaker
CoatesCommon
Also posted in 2008, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Little Kidnappers

IMDB Rating: 5.00
113 votes

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Loosely based on a '50's movie of the same name, it tells the story of two young orphan boys who travel by themselves from the Old country to join their father's family in Canada. There they encounter their stern disciplinarian grandfather who has alienated himself from some of his neighbors. There is particularly no love lost between the grandfather and his Dutch neighbors, who he generalizes as being responsible for his son's death in the Boor War. A side product of this animosity is that it is keeping apart the boy's aunt and her Dutch doctor suitor. The two boys change everything though when they find a young baby on the beach...
Actors
James MacKenzieCharlton Heston
Willem HooftBruce Greenwood
Mrs. MacKenziePatricia Gage
Also posted in 1990, Crime, Drama | Comments (0)

Under Fire

IMDB Rating: 7.00
1679 votes

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Nicaragua 1979: Star photographer Russel Price covers the civil war against president Somoza. Facing the cruel fighting - people versus army - it's often hard for him to stay neutral. When the Guerillas have him take a picture of the leader Rafael, who's believed to be dead, he gets drawn into the happenings. Together with his reporter friends Claire and Alex he has to hide from the army.
Actors
Russell PriceNick Nolte
OatesEd Harris
Alex GrazierGene Hackman
Also posted in 1983, Drama, High IMDB rating, War | Comments (0)

The Black Cauldron

IMDB Rating: 6.20
3753 votes

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Taran is an assistant pigkeeper with boyish dreams of becoming a great warrior. However, he has to put the daydreaming aside when his charge, an oracular pig named Hen Wen, is kidnapped by an evil lord known as the Horned King. The villain hopes Hen will show him the way to The Black Cauldron, which has the power to create a giant army of unstoppable soldiers. With the aid of a stubborn princess, an exaggerating bard, and a pestering creature called Gurgi, Taran will try to save the world of Prydain from the Horned King. As the new friends face witches, elves, magic swords, and the Cauldron itself, Taran starts to learn what being a hero really means and that some things are more important than glory.
Actors
TaranGrant Bardsley
EilonwySusan Sheridan
DallbenFreddie Jones
Also posted in 1985, Adventure, Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

An American Crime

IMDB Rating: 8.20
253 votes

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Based on a true story that shocked the nation in 1965, the film recounts one of the most shocking crimes ever committed against a single victim. Sylvia and Jennie Fae Likens, the two daughters of traveling carnival workers are left for an extended stay at the Indianapolis (3850 E. New York St. is hardly suburban, nor was it in 1965, by any stretch of the imagination.) home of single mother Gertrude Baniszewski and her seven children. Times are tough, and Gertrude's financial needs cause her to make this arrangement before realizing how the burden will push her unstable nature to a breaking point. What transpires in the next three months is both riveting and horrific, leaving one child dead and the rest scarred for life.
Actors
Sylvia LikensEllen Page
Gertrude BaniszewskiCatherine Keener
Jennie Fae LikensHayley McFarland
Also posted in 2007, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Batman

IMDB Rating: 6.20
5810 votes

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When the four greatest arch super-criminals ever to plague Gotham City join forces, their only objective can only be the entire world! Armed with Penguin-personalized a pre-atomic submarine, an army of ruthless pirates, exploding sharks and octopi, and an arsenal of polaris missiles, the Penguin, the Joker, the Riddler and Catwoman have set their sights on the United World Security Council! Can the dynamic duo, Batman and Robin, stop the United Underworld before its too late? Will they save the Security Council from almost certain dehydration? Can they possibly save the free world from the four most powerful villains it has ever seen? One hint: The worst is yet to come...!
Actors
Bruce Wayne/BatmanAdam West
Dick Grayson/RobinBurt Ward
The Catwoman/Comrade Kitanya 'Kitka' Irenya Tantanya Karenska AlisoffLee Meriwether
Also posted in 1966, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Broken

IMDB Rating: 5.20
681 votes

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After dating a wonderful man, Hope comes back home, sees her daughter Jennifer and goes to sleep. She wakes-up in the woods with a psychopath, fighting to survive for more than forty days and asking information about her daughter to the stranger.
Actors
The ManEric Colvin
Atesh Salih
HopeNadja Brand
Also posted in 2006, Horror, Thriller | Comments (0)

Candyman

IMDB Rating: 6.30
8874 votes

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Helen Lyle (Virginia Madsen) is writing a paper on urban legends when she hears about the Candyman (Tony Todd), who was once an ex-slave-turned-artist name Daniel Robitaille, who had an affair his client's daughter. Robitaille's right hand was sawn off, he was covered in honey, and stung to death by bees. If anyone says the word "Candyman" five times in a mirror, he'll appear behind that person, a bloody hook as a replacement for his hand, and kill him. A series of unsolved murders is happening in the Cabrini Green projects and Helen is using this to help with her paper. The residents say the Candyman is to blame, but Helen doesn't believe it. Until she meets the man with a hook for a hand. Now, he's begun to murder her friends and no one believes her. Can Helen clear her name and stop the Canydman from killing anyone else?
Actors
Helen LyleVirginia Madsen
The Candyman/Daniel RobitailleTony Todd
Trevor LyleXander Berkeley
Also posted in 1992, Drama, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)

Raiders of the Lost Ark

IMDB Rating: 8.70
174706 votes

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The year is 1936. A professor who studies archeology named Inidana Jones is venturing in the jungles in South America searching for a golden statue. Unfortunately, he sets off a deadly trap doing so, miraculously, he escapes. Then, Jones hears from a museum curator named Marcus Brody about a biblical artifact called The Ark of the Covenant, which can hold the key to humanly existence. Jones has to venture to vast places such as Nepal and Egypt to find this artifact. However, he will have to fight his enemy Renee Belloq and a band of Nazis in order to reach it.
Actors
Indiana JonesHarrison Ford
Marion RavenwoodKaren Allen
Dr. Rene BelloqPaul Freeman
Also posted in 1981, Action, Adventure, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)