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Creepshow

IMDB Rating: 6.30
7489 votes

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Cult classic anthology from two of horrors big wigs, Romero and Stephen King, the film contains 5 sections, held together with 50's style comic images. A murdered man returns from the grave demanding his Father's Day cake and death ensues, a meteor's space ooze causes anything and anyone that comes in contact with it to grow (special appearance by Stephen King himself), a scheming vengeful husband buries his wife and her lover in sand to await death at high tide, a professor selects his nagging negative wife to become a tasty snack for a strange crated creature, and finally, a mean ole millionaire with an intense insect phobia becomes the prey of an army of cockroaches.
Actors
Henry NorthrupHal Holbrook
Dexter StanleyFritz Weaver
Richard VickersLeslie Nielsen
Also posted in 1982, Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (0)

Narc

IMDB Rating: 7.40
13051 votes

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An undercover narc dies, the investigation stalls, so the Detroit P.D. brings back Nick Tellis, fired 18-months ago when a stray bullet hits a pregnant woman. Tellis teams with Henry Oak, a friend of the dead narc and an aggressive cop constantly under the scrutiny of internal affairs. They follow leads, informants turn up dead, Nick's wife is unhappy he's back on the street, Henry's protective of the dead cop's wife. Nick reads and re-reads the case file, broods, watches Oak's heavy-handed style, sometimes joining in. The brass want to close out the case, Nick and Henry stay on it, and bits of evidence point them to an auto body shop. What actually happened; will Nick ever know?
Actors
Elvin DowdDan Leis
Det. Sgt. Nick TellisJason Patric
Walter DandridgeLloyd Adams
Also posted in 2002, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

True Romance

IMDB Rating: 7.80
46902 votes

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Clarence Worley, a penniless hipster in Detroit with a love for Elvis meets a mysterious hooker paid to meet him named Alabama on his birthday in a theater at night. Falling in love, he makes it his mission to dispose of her past, namely her violent pimp, Drexl Spivey. Defeating him and unknowingly taking a vast fortune of Cocaine, the two fight to sell the white gold in Los Angeles as Drexl's associates fight to reclaim it in a bloody romantic thriller full to the brim with style.
Actors
Clarence WorleyChristian Slater
Alabama WhitmanPatricia Arquette
Dick RitchieMichael Rapaport
Also posted in 1993, Action, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance, Thriller | Comments (0)

No Country for Old Men

IMDB Rating: 8.90
12096 votes

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Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon some dead bodies, a stash of heroin and more than $2 million in cash near the Rio Grande.
Actors
Sheriff Ed Tom BellTommy Lee Jones
Anton ChigurhJavier Bardem
Llewelyn MossJosh Brolin
Also posted in 2007, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Romper Stomper

IMDB Rating: 6.80
8489 votes

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Nazi skinheads in Melbourne take out their anger on local Vietnamese, who are seen as threatening racial purity. Finally the Vietnamese have had enough and confront the skinheads in an all-out confrontation, sending the skinheads running. A woman who is prone to epileptic seizures joins the skins' merry band, and helps them on their run from justice, but is her affliction also a sign of impurity?
Actors
Russell Crowe
Daniel Pollock
Jacqueline McKenzie
Also posted in 1992, Action, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Blade II

IMDB Rating: 6.50
31932 votes

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A rare mutation has occurred within the vampire community. The Reaper. A vampire so consumed with an insatiable bloodlust that they prey on vampires as well as humans, transforming victims who are unlucky enough to survive into Reapers themselves. Now their quickly expanding population threatens the existence of vampires, and soon there won't be enough humans in the world to satisfy their bloodlust. Blade, Whistler (Yes, he's back) and an armory expert named Scud are curiously summoned by the Shadow Council. The council reluctantly admits that they are in a dire situation and they require Blade's assistance. Blade then tenuously enters into an alliance with The Bloodpack, an elite team of vampires trained in all modes of combat to defeat the Reaper threat. Blade's team and the Bloodpack are the only line of defense which can prevent the Reaper population from wiping out the vampire and human populations.
Actors
RushSantiago Segura
LighthammerDaz Crawford
PriestTony Curran
Also posted in 2002, Action, High IMDB rating, Horror, Thriller | Comments (0)

Doom

IMDB Rating: 5.20
23576 votes

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In 2046, in a research facility in Mars, some subjects are released and the place is kept in quarantine. A team of Marines, leaded by Sarge (The Rock), is assigned to rescue the personnel and retrieve the research data, with the support of Dr. Samantha Grimm (Rosamund Pike), the twin sister of the Marine John "Reaper" Grimm (Karl Urban). While in the mission, Samantha finds a dark hidden secret about the monsters and the researches.
Actors
John GrimmKarl Urban
Samantha GrimmRosamund Pike
GoatBen Daniels
Also posted in 2005, Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (0)

Virtuosity

IMDB Rating: 5.20
7162 votes

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The Law Enforcement Technology Advancement Centre (LETAC) has developed SID version 6.7: a Sadistic, Intelligent, and Dangerous virtual reality entity which is synthesized from the personalities of more than 150 serial killers. LETAC would like to train police officers by putting them in VR with SID, but they must prove the concept by using prisoners as test subjects. One such prisoner is ex-cop Parker Barnes. When SID manages to inject his personality into a nano-machine android, it appears that Barnes might be the only one who can stop him.
Actors
Lt. Parker BarnesDenzel Washington
Madison CarterKelly Lynch
SID 6.7Russell Crowe
Also posted in 1995, Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Mist

IMDB Rating: 7.90
4869 votes

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After a violent storm attacks a town in Maine, an approaching cloud of mist appears the next morning. As the mist quickly envelops the area, a group of people get trapped in a local grocery store -among them, artist David Drayton and his five-year-old son. The people soon discover that within the mist lives numerous species of horrific, unworldly creatures that entered through an inter-dimensional rift, which may or may not have been caused by a nearby military base. As the world around them manifests into a literal hell-on-earth, the horrified citizens try desperately to survive this apocalyptic disaster.
Actors
David DraytonThomas Jane
Mrs. CarmodyMarcia Gay Harden
Amanda DunfreyLaurie Holden
Also posted in 2007, Drama, High IMDB rating, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (1)

American Gangster

IMDB Rating: 8.30
28094 votes

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Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. As a result, his product is superior to what is currently available on the street and his prices are lower. His alliance with the New York Mafia ensures his position. It is also the story of a dedicated and honest policeman, Richie Roberts, who heads up a joint narcotics task force with the Federal government. Based on a true story.
Actors
Frank LucasDenzel Washington
Det. Richie RobertsRussell Crowe
Huey LucasChiwetel Ejiofor
Also posted in 2007, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (1)