Tag Archives: loss of parents

Superhero Movie

IMDB Rating: 3.80
4719 votes

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Orphaned high school student Rick Riker is bitten by a radioactive dragonfly, develops super powers (except for the ability to fly), and becomes a hero.
Actors
Rick Riker/DragonflyDrake Bell
Lou Landers/HourglassChristopher McDonald
Uncle Albert AdamsLeslie Nielsen
Also posted in 2008, Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (0)

28 Days Later…

IMDB Rating: 7.30
44477 votes

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A powerful virus escapes from a British research facility. Transmitted in a drop of blood and devastating within seconds, the virus locks those infected into a permanent state of murderous rage. Within 28 days the country is overwhelmed and a handful of survivors begin their attempts to salvage a future, little realising that the deadly virus is not the only thing that threatens them.
Actors
ActivistBindu De Stoppani
ActivistAlex Palmer
ActivistJukka Hiltunen
Also posted in 2002, High IMDB rating, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (22)

Tideland

IMDB Rating: 6.70
3366 votes

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After her mother dies from a methadone overdose, Jeliza-Rose is taken from the big city to a rural farmhouse by her father. As she tries to settle into a new life in a house her father had purchased for his now-deceased mother, Jeliza-Rose's attempts to deal with what's happened result in increasingly odd behavior, as she begins to communicate mainly with her bodiless Barbie doll heads and Dell, a neighborhood woman who always wears a beekeeper's veil.
Actors
Jeliza-Rose/Voices of DollsJodelle Ferland
DellJanet McTeer
DickensBrendan Fletcher
Also posted in 2005, Drama, Fantasy, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

The Da Vinci Code

IMDB Rating: 6.50
56975 votes

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Professor Robert Langdon is in Paris on business when he's summoned to The Louvre. A dead body has been found, setting Langdon off on an adventure as he attempts to unravel an ancient code and uncover the greatest mystery of all time.
Actors
Robert LangdonTom Hanks
Sophie NeveuAudrey Tautou
Sir Leigh TeabingIan McKellen
Also posted in 2006, Drama, High IMDB rating, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)

Bee Season

IMDB Rating: 5.50
1879 votes

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11-year-old Eliza Naumann comes from an odd family; they all divert their emotional frustrations into secret channels. When Eliza unexpectedly begins winning spelling bees, what had been a stable dynamic within the family becomes disrupted; long held secrets emerge, and a latent spiritual yearning is awakened in her withdrawn father Saul and compulsive mother Miriam. As Eliza moves closer and closer to the national spelling bee, the Naumann family finds itself in a spiral of surprising discovery and jarring uncertainty...
Actors
SaulRichard Gere
MiriamJuliette Binoche
ElizaFlora Cross
Also posted in 2005, Drama | Comments (0)

Memoirs of a Geisha

IMDB Rating: 7.00
19841 votes

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In 1929 an impoverished nine-year-old named Chiyo from a fishing village is sold to a geisha house in Kyoto's Gion district and subjected to cruel treatment from the owners and the head geisha Hatsumomo. Her stunning beauty attracts the vindictive jealousy of Hatsumomo, until she is rescued by and taken under the wing of Hatsumomo's bitter rival, Mameha. Under Mameha's mentorship, Chiyo becomes the geisha named Sayuri, trained in all the artistic and social skills a geisha must master in order to survive in her society. As a renowned geisha she enters a society of wealth, privilege, and political intrigue. As World War II looms Japan and the geisha's world are forever changed by the onslaught of history.
Actors
ChiyoSuzuka Ohgo
TanakaTogo Igawa
SakamotoMako
Also posted in 2005, Drama, High IMDB rating, History, Romance | Comments (0)

Evil Dead II

IMDB Rating: 7.70
18441 votes

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Ash - the sole survivor of the original 'Evil Dead' - returns with his girlfriend Linda to the remote cabin in the woods. He discovers a tape recorder that a professor had used to record incantations from the Necronomicon XMortis - the Book of the Dead. When he turns it on, the recording releases a dark, sinister force from the woods. It turns Linda into a zombie, her soul possessed by some hideous demon, and then tries to do the same to Ash. Other people come to help Ash, but one by one they are taken over by the Evil Dead force that also possesses Linda, the Professor, and the Professor's wife...and they try to make sure Ash is...Dead by Dawn!
Actors
Ashley 'Ash' J. WilliamsBruce Campbell
Annie KnowbySarah Berry
JakeDan Hicks
Also posted in 1987, Action, Comedy, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Horror | Comments (0)