Tag Archives: seduction

The Bonfire of the Vanities

IMDB Rating: 5.10
7638 votes

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Financial "Master of the Universe" Sherman McCoy sees his life unravel when his mistress Maria Ruskin hits a black boy with his car. When yellow journalist Peter Fallow enflames public opinion with a series of distorted tabloid articles on the accident, the case is seized upon by opportunists like Reverend Bacon and mayoral candidate D.A. Abe Weiss.
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Sherman McCoyTom Hanks
Peter FallowBruce Willis
Jed KramerSaul Rubinek
Also posted in 1990, Comedy, Drama | Comments (0)

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
Also posted in 1984, Action, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

8MM 2

IMDB Rating: 4.40
960 votes

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David Huxley is an American politician living in Hungary whom gets blackmailed by an unknown party after being videotaped having sex with his fiancée Tish and a local supermodel. Desperate to find the extortionists, David goes into the sordid Red Light district of Eastern Europe, only to end up kidnapped, leaving Tish to try to come up with a $5 million ransom on her own.
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DavidJohnathon Schaech
TishLori Heuring
Ambassador HarringtonBruce Davison
Also posted in 2005, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Last Seduction

IMDB Rating: 7.10
6106 votes

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Linda Fiorentino plays Bridget, a "femme fatale" who steals her husband's money and leaves from New York. She meets Mike, who falls in love with her and they become lovers. But Mike has no idea about Bridget's past and her plans to use him to get rid of her husband...
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Bridget Gregory/Wendy KroyLinda Fiorentino
Clay GregoryBill Pullman
Phone Sales AgentMichael Raysses
Also posted in 1994, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

IMDB Rating: 8.00
47640 votes

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Based on the 19th century legend of Sweeney Todd and the hit Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Sweeney Todd a.k.a Benjamin Barker returns to London after being sent away by Judge Turpin with the help of a sailor, Anthony Hope. He opens a barber shop above Mrs. Lovett's Meat Pie Shop were she sells "the worst pies in London." With the help of Mrs. Lovett, Todd tries to rid of all the people who have ever done him wrong and hopes to be reunited with his daughter, Joanna, who is now Judge Turpin's ward.
Actors
Sweeney ToddJohnny Depp
Mrs. LovettHelena Bonham Carter
Judge TurpinAlan Rickman
Also posted in 2007, Crime, High IMDB rating, Musical, Thriller | Comments (1)

Beowulf

IMDB Rating: 7.00
11015 votes

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The warrior Beowulf must fight and defeat the monster Grendel who is terrorizing towns, and later, Grendel's mother, who begins killing out of revenge.
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WealthowRobin Wright Penn
Beowulf/Golden Man/DragonRay Winstone
HrothgarAnthony Hopkins
Also posted in 2007, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

One Night at McCool’s

IMDB Rating: 6.10
11328 votes

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After another hard night at McCool's, bartender Randy runs into Jewel. The seductive lady seems to have evaded a rape pretty closely, and when the man comes back, she puts a bullet in his head. After all these events (and others), Randy takes Jewel home, and the two become a couple. Yet Jewel begins to develop into a very demanding girlfriend and drives Randy into committing crimes for her and her elaborate lifestyle. Randy's cousin Carl is driven crazy by Randy's incredibly sexy girl as well as the investigating officer, Detective Dehling.
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RandyMatt Dillon
Bingo CallerMary Jo Smith
Mr. BurmeisterMichael Douglas
Also posted in 2001, Comedy, Crime, High IMDB rating | Comments (3)

To Die For

IMDB Rating: 6.70
12195 votes

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Suzanne Stone (Maretto) knows exactly what she wants. She wants to be a television newscaster and she is willing to do ANYTHING to get what she wants. What she lacks in intelligence, she makes up for in cold determination and diabolical wiles. As she pursues her goal with relentless focus, she is forced to destroy anything and anyone that may stand in her way, regardless of the ultimate cost or means necessary.
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Suzanne Stone MarettoNicole Kidman
Larry MarettoMatt Dillon
Jimmy EmmettJoaquin Phoenix
Also posted in 1995, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Tailor of Panama

IMDB Rating: 6.00
8633 votes

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John LeCarre's spy thriller is brought to the big screen. A British spy (Pierce Brosnan) is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador's mistress. Once there he makes connection with a local tailor (Geoffrey Rush) with a nefarious past and connections to all of the top political and gangster figures in Panama. The tailor also has a wife (Jamie Lee Curtis), who works for the Panamanian president and a huge debt. The mission is to learn what the President intends to do with the Panama Canal. But what the two do is concoct a tremendous fictional tale about former mercenaries who are ready to topple the current government and are willing to work with Britain and the US to do so.
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Geoffrey Rush
Pierce Brosnan
Jamie Lee Curtis
Also posted in 2001, Drama, Thriller | Comments (6)

The Lookout

IMDB Rating: 7.50
1822 votes

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An admired high school hockey player (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) with a bright future foolishly takes a drive in the night with his girl friend and two other friends with his headlights off with devastating results. The former athlete is left with a brain injury that prevents him from remembering many things for extended periods of time. To compensate, he keeps notes in a small notebook to aid him in remembering what he is to do. He also lives with a blind friend (Jeff Daniels) who aids him. Obviously, with the mental incapacitation, he is unable to have meaningful work. Thus he works as a night cleaning man in a bank. It is there he comes under the scrutiny of a gang planning to rob the bank. The leader (Matthew Goode) befriends him and gets him involved with a young woman (Isla Fisher) who further reels him in. After they get close and after reeling him in with his own failures, the bank plan unfolds. Confused but wanting to escape his current existence, he initially goes along with the scheme. After realizing he is being used, he attempts to stop the robbery, which of course immediately goes awry. Bruce McGill and Alberta Watson also co-star as the young man's parents, who still search for the person that was there before the tragic crash.
Actors
LewisJeff Daniels
Chris PrattJoseph Gordon-Levitt
Gary SpargoMatthew Goode
Also posted in 2007, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)