Tag Archives: new year’s eve

Steel Trap

IMDB Rating: 5.10
202 votes

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As an extravagant party unfolds on the top floor of an abandoned towering skyscraper, five different guests receive a mysterious text message inviting them to join an exclusive VIP party being held on the 27th floor of the same building. Once there, the five adventurous party-goers and two partycrashers discover the same odd imagean empty room...
Actors
WadeMark Wilson
RobertPascal Langdale
AdamAdam Rayner
Also posted in 2007, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Apartment

IMDB Rating: 8.30
20678 votes

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On 1st November 1959, in New York, C.C. "Bud" Baxter is a popular clerk of "Consolidate Life", an insurance company with 31,259 employees. The secret of his success is a well located apartment where he lives that he sublets for his superiors, making him climb to the executive position of 2nd Administrative Assistant very early. He likes the elevator girl Fran Kubelik, a reserved woman considered a "jackpot" among the executives. Fran is the secret lover of the director Jeff D. Sheldrake, a married man that seduced her convincing that he will divorce his wife to stay with her. When Fran tries to commit suicide in Baxter's apartment after a meeting with Jeff, she stays with Baxter while recovering, and he falls in love for her. Later he has to come up to a decision between his excellent position in the company and his love.
Actors
C.C. 'Bud' BaxterJack Lemmon
Fran KubelikShirley MacLaine
Jeff D. SheldrakeFred MacMurray
Also posted in 1960, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (1)

The Poseidon Adventure

IMDB Rating: 7.00
10262 votes

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At midnight on New Years Eve the S.S. Poseidon is struck by a 90' tidal wave and is capsized. The Reverend Frank Scott leads nine Survivors; an elderly couple, Manny and Belle Rosen headed to Israel to see their grandson; A New York detective and his ex-prostitute wife, Mike and Linda Rogo on their second honeymoon to Italy; A young brother and sister, Robin and Susan Shelby going to meet their parents in Greece; A haberdasher James Martin; a pop singer Nonnie Parry, and a waiter from the ship Acres. They travel from the grand ballroom struggling through, steam, fire and rising water in the up-side-down ship to reach the bottom (the propeller shaft), now the top.
Actors
Rev. Frank ScottGene Hackman
Det. Lt. Mike RogoErnest Borgnine
James MartinRed Buttons
Also posted in 1972, Action, Adventure, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Godfather: Part II

IMDB Rating: 9.00
141221 votes

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The continuing saga of the Corleone crime family tells the story of a young Vito Corleone growing up in Sicily and in 1910s New York; and follows Michael Corleone in the 1950s as he attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
Actors
Don Michael CorleoneAl Pacino
Tom HagenRobert Duvall
Kay CorleoneDiane Keaton
Also posted in 1974, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (1)

Sleepless in Seattle

IMDB Rating: 6.60
26829 votes

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Sam is a recent widower who is seeking someone new. Sam's son Jonah, is also looking for a new mother, so when Jonah puts his father on national radio, hundreds of women write to him. One of the women is Annie. She's engaged to Walter, but he's a bit strange. Annie goes to great lengths to meet Sam.
Actors
Sam BaldwinTom Hanks
Annie ReedMeg Ryan
WalterBill Pullman
Also posted in 1993, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

Trading Places

IMDB Rating: 7.30
19486 votes

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Louis Winthorpe III is a successful Philadelphia commodity broker with mansion, manservant and girlfriend to match. Billy Ray Valentine is a hustling beggar. Winthorpe's employers, the elderly Duke brothers, make a bet that by switching the lifestyle of the two Billy Ray will make good and their man will take to a life of crime. Suddenly Louis finds himself uncomprehendingly with no job, no home and only a new acquaintance, glamorous hooker Ophelia, prepared to help him. So at least in one way things could actually be worse.
Actors
ColemanDenholm Elliott
Louis Winthorpe IIIDan Aykroyd
Duke & Duke EmployeeMaurice Woods
Also posted in 1983, Comedy, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

When Harry Met Sally…

IMDB Rating: 7.60
35408 votes

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Harry and Sally meet when she gives him a ride to New York after they both graduate from the University of Chicago. The film jumps through their lives as they both search for love, but fail, bumping into each other time and time again. Finally a close friendship blooms between them, and they both like having a friend of the opposite sex. But then they are confronted with the problem: "Can a man and a woman be friends, without sex getting in the way?"
Actors
Harry BurnsBilly Crystal
Sally AlbrightMeg Ryan
MarieCarrie Fisher
Also posted in 1989, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

Bridget Jones’s Diary

IMDB Rating: 6.90
36193 votes

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Bridget Jones (Renee Zellweger) is an average woman struggling against her age, her weight, her job, her lack of a man, and her many imperfections. As a New Year's Resolution, Bridget decides to take control of her life, starting by keeping a diary in which she will always tell the complete truth. The fireworks begin when her charming though disreputable boss (Hugh Grant) takes an interest in the quirky Miss Jones and the ups and downs of their ill-fated relationship prove hilarious and touching at once. Thrown into the mix are Bridget's band of slightly eccentric friends and a rather disagreeable acquaintance (Colin Firth) who Bridget cannot seem to stop running into or help finding quietly attractive.
Actors
Honor Blackman
Embeth Davidtz
Bridget JonesRenée Zellweger
Also posted in 2001, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (17)

Money Train

IMDB Rating: 5.10
7682 votes

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Two foster brothers (Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes) work as transit cops. While one's life is as good as it gets, the other's is a pit. After losing his job, getting dumped by his brother, and getting the crap kicked out of him by a loan shark for the umpteenth time, He implements his plan to steal the "money train," a train carrying the New York Subway's weekly revenue. But when things go awry, will his brother be able to save him in time?
Actors
JohnWesley Snipes
CharlieWoody Harrelson
Grace SantiagoJennifer Lopez
Also posted in 1995, Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller | Comments (0)

Rent

IMDB Rating: 7.10
13722 votes

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This film adaptation of Jonathan Larson's Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning rock opera tells the story of one year in the life of a group of bohemians struggling in modern day East Village New York. The story centers around Mark (Anthony Rapp) and Roger (Adam Pascal), two roommates. While a former tragedy has made Roger numb to life, Mark tries to capture it through his attempts to make a film. In the year that follows, the group deals with love, loss, AIDS, and modern day life in one truly powerful story. Rosario Dawson, Jesse L. Martin, Idina Menzel, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Tracie Thoms, and Taye Diggs also star.
Actors
Mark CohenAnthony Rapp
Roger DavisAdam Pascal
Mimi MarquezRosario Dawson
Also posted in 2005, Drama, High IMDB rating, Musical, Romance | Comments (0)
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