Tag Archives: neighbor

Marathon Man

IMDB Rating: 7.60
14066 votes

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Babe's brother appears out of the blue. He does this from time to time because his family never knows where he is, working as a government spy. One of his charges is a nazi war criminal who he has just told is no longer welcome in the United States. The doctor has a fortune hidden in a safety deposit box and is convinced that Babe knows whether or not it is safe to go to pick it up and will stop at nothing to find out.
Actors
Thomas 'Babe' LevyDustin Hoffman
Dr. Christian SzellLaurence Olivier
Henry 'Doc' LevyRoy Scheider
Also posted in 1976, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Life as a House

IMDB Rating: 7.50
17169 votes

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When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for whom quality time means getting high, engaging in small-time prostitution, and avoiding his father.
Actors
George MonroeKevin Kline
Robin KimballKristin Scott Thomas
Sam MonroeHayden Christensen
Also posted in 2001, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Inferno

IMDB Rating: 6.60
3321 votes

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Young poetess Rose Elliot buys a book from a local antique dealer, a diary in Latin of an architect, E. Varelli. She learns of the Three Mothers, and believes her apartment building is one of their houses. She pleads her brother Mark, who is studying musicology in Rome, to come, because she is afraid. Mark's friend Sara reads her letter, which he left behind in class, and discovers the school is run by the Mater Lacrimarum, and is killed for this knowledge. The house of Mater Suspiriorum has already been destroyed, and by the time Mark arrives in New York City, he is investigating his sister's murder.
Actors
Mark ElliotLeigh McCloskey
Rose ElliotIrene Miracle
SaraEleonora Giorgi
Also posted in 1980, High IMDB rating, Horror, Music, Mystery | Comments (0)

The Ice Storm

IMDB Rating: 7.50
22718 votes

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In the weekend after thanksgiving 1973 the Hoods are skidding out of control. Benjamin Hood reels from drink to drink, trying not to think about his trouble at the office. His wife, Elena, is reading self help books and losing patience with her husband's lies. Their son, Paul, home for the holidays, escapes to the city to pursue an alluring rich girl from his prep school. And young, budding nymphomaniac, Wendy Hood roams the neighborhood, innocently exploring liquor cabinets and lingerie drawers of her friends' parents, looking for something new. Then an ice storm hits, the worst in a century. Things get bad...
Actors
Ben HoodKevin Kline
Elena HoodJoan Allen
Janey CarverSigourney Weaver
Also posted in 1997, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Breakfast at Tiffany’s

IMDB Rating: 7.80
27101 votes

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Struggling writer Paul Varjak moves into a New York apartment building and becomes intrigued by his pretty, quirky neighbor Holly Golightly. Holly's lifestyle confuses and fascinates Paul; in public she flits through parties with a sexy, sophisticated air, but when they're alone she changes into a sweetly vulnerable bundle of neuroses.
Actors
Holly GolightlyAudrey Hepburn
Paul 'Fred' VarjakGeorge Peppard
2-EPatricia Neal
Also posted in 1961, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

Keeping Mum

IMDB Rating: 6.80
8232 votes

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Gloria Goodfellow has a normal life in the countryside along with her family. She's the mother of two children, one precocious teenager girl and a timid boy, who's been bullied by a bunch of kids from his school. Occassionally, their peace is disrupted by a neighbor's annoying dog or a meddler neighbor. Gloria's husband, Reverend Walter Goodfellow, is a clumsy but well respected priest, who's preparing to give a speech in a religious convention at Cornwall. One morning a charming, efficient and quite kind lady, Grace Hawkins, arrives to work as a housekeeper at the Goodfellows' house. The family's life will change forever, because Grace will care for its integrity in her own special way. First, Grace will help Walter to relax and find his funny side during masses. Then, Grace finds out that Gloria is having an affair with her golf instructor, a sort of pervert American man, interested in Gloria's daughter as well. Last but not least, Grace will manage herself to get rid of the bullies who are giving a hard time to Petey. Despite this ideal reality, Gloria will discover a secret that Grace has been hiding... for more than 40 years.
Actors
Reverend Walter GoodfellowRowan Atkinson
Gloria GoodfellowKristin Scott Thomas
Grace HawkinsMaggie Smith
Also posted in 2005, Comedy, Crime, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Bell Book and Candle

IMDB Rating: 6.80
2654 votes

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Gillian Holroyd is just your average, modern-day, witch, living in a New York apartment with her Siamese familiar, Pyewacket. But one day a handsome publisher, Shep Henderson walks into her building and Gillian decides she wants him—especially as it turns out he's marrying Merle Kittridge, an old poison penpal from Gillian's college days. So, Gillian casts a spell over Shep. But her powers are in danger of being exorcised by something stronger than the bell-book-and-candle routine: Love.
Actors
Shepherd 'Shep' HendersonJames Stewart
Gillian 'Gil' HolroydKim Novak
Nicky HolroydJack Lemmon
Also posted in 1958, Comedy, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

Towelhead aka Nothing Is Private

IMDB Rating: 7.30
1774 votes

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Against the backdrop of the first Gulf War, Jasira Maroun is 13, physically well developed but naïve and unable to say no. As puberty arrives, her mother sends her from Syracuse to Houston to her curt, up-tight, Lebanese-born father. Over the next few months, Jasira must navigate her father's strict indifference, her discovery of sexual pleasure, the casual racism of a neighbor boy and her classmates, the sexual advances of the boy's father, the proffered friendship of a pregnant neighbor, and her attraction to Thomas, an African-American classmate whom her father forbids her to see. Things happen to her, but can she take responsibility and control, or is tragedy inevitable?
Actors
Jasira MarounSummer Bishil
BarryChris Messina
Gail MonahanMaria Bello
Also posted in 2007, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Because of Winn-Dixie

IMDB Rating: 6.10
2897 votes

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A 10-year-old girl, abandoned by her mother when she was three, moves to a small town in Florida with her father, a preacher. While there, she adopts a stray dog whom she names after the local supermarket where he was found. With her goofy pooch by her side, she meets an eclectic group of townspeople and rekindles an almost lost relationship with her father.
Actors
OpalAnnaSophia Robb
PreacherJeff Daniels
GloriaCicely Tyson
Also posted in 2005, Comedy, Drama, Family, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

The Long Goodbye

IMDB Rating: 7.60
4713 votes

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Chain-smoking, wisecracking private eye Philip Marlowe drives a buddy from LA to the Tijuana border and returns home to an apartment full of cops who arrest him for abetting the murder of his friend's wife. After Marlowe's release, following the reported suicide in Mexico of his friend, a beautiful woman hires him to locate her alcoholic and mercurial husband. Then, a hoodlum and his muscle visit to tell Marlowe that he owes $350,000, mob money the dead friend took to Mexico. Marlowe tails the hood, who goes to the house of the woman with the temperamental husband. As Marlowe pulls these threads together, his values emerge from beneath the cavalier wisecracking.
Actors
Philip MarloweElliott Gould
Eileen WadeNina Van Pallandt
Roger Wade aka Billy Joe SmithSterling Hayden
Also posted in 1973, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)
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