Tag Archives: psychological drama

The Omen

IMDB Rating: 7.50
19567 votes

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Robert and Katherine Thorn seem to have it all. He is the US Ambassador to Italy and they want for nothing in their lives, except one thing: they do not have children. When Katharine has a stillborn child, Robert is approached by a priest at the hospital who suggest that he take a healthy newborn whose mother has just died in childbirth. Without telling his wife he agrees to to so but after relocating to London, strange events - and the ominous warnings of a priest - lead him to believe that the child he took from that Italian hospital is evil incarnate.
Actors
Leo McKern
Robert ThornGregory Peck
Katherine ThornLee Remick

Sphere

IMDB Rating: 5.50
22845 votes

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1000 feet below the ocean, navy divers discover an object half-a-mile long. A crack team of scientists are deployed to the site in Deepsea Habitats. What they find boggles the mind as they discover a perfect metal sphere. What is the secret behind the sphere? Will they survive the mysterious 'manifestations'? Who or what is creating these? They may never live to find out.
Actors
Samuel L. Jackson
Dustin Hoffman
Sharon Stone

Tightrope

IMDB Rating: 6.20
3464 votes

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A New Orleans detective is leading an investigation into a killer who is raping and murdering women. His enquiries lead him into the seedy side of town where he is no stranger off-duty. All this contrasts with his home life as a single parent with two young girls. Then on the case he meets rape counsellor Beryl Thibodeaux with whom a relationship possibly offering some normalcy starts to develop.
Actors
Capt. Wes BlockClint Eastwood
Det. MolinariDan Hedaya
Leander RolfeMarco St. John

The Living and the Dead

IMDB Rating: 5.80
444 votes

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A descent into Hell is triggered when "Ex-Lord" Donald Brocklebank finds that he must leave Longleigh House for London to find a way to pay for the medical treatments for his wife Nancy. Alone, his over-protected, delusional, adult son, James, fancies himself in charge of the manor house with his terminally ill mother, and barricades the two of them into the house for a series of ever more panicked home treatments, mistakenly protecting her from the arrival of Nurse Mary and any outside help.
Actors
Donald BrocklebankRoger Lloyd-Pack
James BrocklebankLeo Bill
PolicemanNeil Conrich

The Ugly

IMDB Rating: 6.40
1078 votes

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Simon is a confessed serial killer who spent the last five years in a mental hospital because of his state. Dr.Karen Shoemaker wants to get through to him and starts visiting him in the hospital, and his previous life comes to us in flashbacks.
Actors
Simon CartwrightPaolo Rotondo
Dr. MarloweRoy Ward
PhillipPaul Glover

Lolita

IMDB Rating: 7.70
16753 votes

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Humbert Humbert, a divorced British professor of French literature, travels to small-town America for a teaching position. He allows himself to be swept into a relationship with Charlotte Haze, his widowed and sexually famished landlady, whom he marries in order that he might pursue the woman's 14-year-old flirtatious daughter, Lolita, with whom he has fallen hopelessly in love, but whose affections shall be thwarted by a devious trickster named Clare Quilty.
Actors
Prof. Humbert Humbert/NarratorJames Mason
Charlotte Haze/HumbertShelley Winters
Dolores 'Lolita' Haze/Mrs. Richard SchillerSue Lyon

Fearless

IMDB Rating: 7.00
6879 votes

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After a terrible air disaster, survivor Max Klein emerges a changed person. Unable to connect to his former life or to wife Laura, he feels godlike and invulnerable. When psychologist Bill Perlman is unable to help Max, he has Max meet another survivor, Carla Rodrigo, who is racked with grief and guilt since her baby died in the crash which she and Max survived.
Actors
Max KleinJeff Bridges
Laura KleinIsabella Rossellini
Carla RodrigoRosie Perez

The Bounty

IMDB Rating: 6.70
5620 votes

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The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to get his men beyond the reach of British retribution, and the epic voyage of Lieutenant Bligh to get his loyalists safely to East Timor in a tiny lifeboat.
Actors
Fletcher Christian Master's MateMel Gibson
Lieutenant William BlighAnthony Hopkins
Admiral HoodLaurence Olivier

Pacific Heights

IMDB Rating: 6.20
5029 votes

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A yuppie couple buy a large house in an exclusive San Fransisco neighborhood. They renovate it and plan to rent two apartments on the first floor to cover the costs. A prosperous looking man moves in but is not the ideal tenant. He never pays any rent, drives the other tenants away and systematically ruins the lives of his landlords.
Actors
Patty PalmerMelanie Griffith
Drake GoodmanMatthew Modine
Carter HayesMichael Keaton
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