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Saving Private Ryan

IMDB Rating: 8.40
172681 votes

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Opening with the Allied invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944, members of the 2nd Ranger Battalion under Cpt. Miller fight ashore to secure a beachhead. Amidst the fighting, two brothers are killed in action. Earlier in New Guinea, a third brother is KIA. Their mother, Mrs. Ryan, is to receive all three of the grave telegrams on the same day. The United States Army Chief of Staff, George C. Marshall, is given an opportunity to alleviate some of her grief when he learns of a fourth brother, Private James Ryan, and decides to send out 8 men (Cpt. Miller and select members from 2nd Rangers) to find him and bring him back home to his mother...
Actors
Captain John H. MillerTom Hanks
Sergeant Mike HorvathTom Sizemore
Pvt. Richard ReibenEdward Burns
Also posted in 1998, Action, Drama, High IMDB rating, War | Comments (1)

30 Days of Night

IMDB Rating: 7.00
10860 votes

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This is the story of an isolated Alaskan town that is plunged into darkness for a month each year when the sun sinks below the horizon. As the last rays of light fade, the town is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires bent on an uninterrupted orgy of destruction. Only the small town's husband-and-wife Sheriff team stand between the survivors and certain destruction.
Actors
Sheriff Eben OlesonJosh Hartnett
MarlowDanny Huston
Stella OlesonMelissa George
Also posted in 2007, High IMDB rating, Horror, Thriller | Comments (0)

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.
Actors
WealthowRobin Wright Penn
Beowulf/Golden Man/DragonRay Winstone
HrothgarAnthony Hopkins
Also posted in 2007, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

The Incredible Melting Man

IMDB Rating: 2.80
973 votes

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Astronaut exposed to cosmic rays outside of Saturn's rings returns to Earth and begins to melt away. Escaping from the hospital, he wanders around the backwoods looking for human flesh to eat.
Actors
Steve WestAlex Rebar
Dr. Ted NelsonBurr DeBenning
General Michael PerryMyron Healey
Also posted in 1977, Horror, Sci-Fi | Comments (0)

Shoot ‘Em Up

IMDB Rating: 7.40
11583 votes

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Late at night, in an unnamed U.S. city, a solitary man sits at a bus stop. A pregnant woman runs by, pursued by a man with a gun. With reluctance, the man at the bus stop rescues her and assists with the baby's delivery, while additional pursuers fire at them, including the gang's particularly nasty leader, an intuitive man named Hertz. Our hero, known only as Smith, determines to save the child and find out why Hertz wants the baby dead. At a local bordello, he tries to employ a lactating hooker to watch the child, but things quickly escalate, and this makeshift family is soon on the run. Heavy metal music calms the baby. Why? A laboratory, a gun factory, and a presidential campaign all figure in Smith's search for the child's ultimate safety.
Actors
SmithClive Owen
HertzPaul Giamatti
Donna QuintanoMonica Bellucci
Also posted in 2007, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Saw IV

IMDB Rating: 6.40
10108 votes

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Jigsaw and his apprentice Amanda are dead. Now, upon the news of Detective Kerry's murder, two seasoned FBI profilers, Agent Strahm and Agent Perez, arrive in the terrified community to assist the veteran Detective Hoffman in sifting through Jigsaw's latest grisly remains and piecing together the puzzle. However, when SWAT Commander Rigg is abducted and thrust into a game, the last officer untouched by Jigsaw has but ninety minutes to overcome a series of demented traps and save an old friend or face the deadly consequences.
Actors
Jigsaw/JohnTobin Bell
HoffmanCostas Mandylor
Agent StrahmScott Patterson
Also posted in 2007, Crime, High IMDB rating, Horror, Thriller | Comments (0)

Jeepers Creepers

IMDB Rating: 5.40
16892 votes

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Brother and sister, Trish and Darry are taking the long country road home on a break from college when along the way, they encounter a reckless driver trying to ram them off the road - the driver being a strange looking man donning shabby clothing, who seems to have sinister intentions. The siblings soon find themselves investigating the basement of an old decrepit chapel in the middle of nowhere, where there lies horrors that they least expect.
Actors
Patricia 'Trish' JennerGina Philips
Darry JennerJustin Long
The Creeper/Bald CopJonathan Breck
Also posted in 2001, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller | Comments (0)

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

IMDB Rating: 6.80
42283 votes

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Ron Burgundy (Ferrell) is the top-rated anchorman in San Diego in the '70s. When feminism marches into the newsroom in the form of ambitious newswoman Veronica Corningstone (Applegate), Ron is willing to play along at first-as long as Veronica stays in her place, covering cat fashion shows, cooking, and other "female" interests. But when Veronica refuses to settle for being eye candy and steps behind the news desk, it's more than a battle between two perfectly coiffed anchor-persons... it's war.
Actors
Ron BurgundyWill Ferrell
Veronica CorningstoneChristina Applegate
Brian FantanaPaul Rudd
Also posted in 2004, Comedy, High IMDB rating | Comments (4)

The Lost Boys

IMDB Rating: 6.80
17466 votes

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Financial troubles force a recent divorcee and her teenage sons Mike and Sam to settle down with her father in the California town of Santa Carla. At first, Sam laughs off rumours he hears about vampires who inhabit the small town. But after Mike meets a beautiful girl at the local amusement park, he begins to exhibit the classic signs of vampirism. Fearing for his own safety, Sam recruits two young vampire hunters to save his brother by finding and destroying the head vampire.
Actors
Michael EmersonJason Patric
Sam EmersonCorey Haim
Lucy EmersonDianne Wiest
Also posted in 1987, Comedy, High IMDB rating, Horror, Thriller | Comments (1)

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)