Tag Archives: well

Heaven Can Wait

IMDB Rating: 6.70
5421 votes

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Joe Pendleton is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him to heaven only to discover that he wasn't ready to die, and that his body has been cremated. A new body must be found, and that of a recently murdered millionaire is chosen. His wife and accountant, the murderers, are confused by this development, as he buys the L.A. Rams in order to once again quarterback them into the Superbowl.
Actors
Joe PendletonWarren Beatty
Betty LoganJulie Christie
Mr. JordanJames Mason
Also posted in 1978, Comedy, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Sport | Comments (0)

Bad Day at Black Rock

IMDB Rating: 7.90
4384 votes

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John J. Macreedy doesn't know it, but when he steps off the train at the jerkwater town of Black Rock, he will soon find himself the object of fear, hatred, and even a murder plot! The altruistic Macreedy came to Black Rock to hand over a posthumous military award to a local man whose son had died gallantly in the Second World War. What Macreedy couldn't know when he stepped off of that train was that the town had a shameful secret, one that must be kept at all costs.
Actors
John J. MacreedySpencer Tracy
Reno SmithRobert Ryan
Liz WirthAnne Francis
Also posted in 1955, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller, Western | Comments (0)

The Painted Veil

IMDB Rating: 7.50
4185 votes

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Kitty Fane (Watts) is a frivolous young English woman who longs for romance and excitement, trapped in a loveless marriage to a staid Shanghai researcher. When her husband (Norton) learns she has had an affair, he volunteers to fight a cholera epidemic in China's war-torn interior. Dr. Fane forces his wife to accompany him on the difficult and hazardous journey, endangering her life in the process.
Actors
Kitty FaneNaomi Watts
Walter FaneEdward Norton
Charlie TownsendLiev Schreiber
Also posted in 2006, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

The Da Vinci Code

IMDB Rating: 6.50
56975 votes

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Professor Robert Langdon is in Paris on business when he's summoned to The Louvre. A dead body has been found, setting Langdon off on an adventure as he attempts to unravel an ancient code and uncover the greatest mystery of all time.
Actors
Robert LangdonTom Hanks
Sophie NeveuAudrey Tautou
Sir Leigh TeabingIan McKellen
Also posted in 2006, Drama, High IMDB rating, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)

Sahara

IMDB Rating: 6.00
15875 votes

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Searching for a treasure on the River Niger, Dirk Pitt thwarts the attempted assassination of a beautiful U.N. scientist investigating a disease that is driving thousands of North Africans to death. The suspected cause of the raging epidemic is vast, unprecedented pollution that threatens to extinguish all life in the world's seas. Racing to save the world from environmental catastrophe, Pitt and his team run a gauntlet between a billionaire French industrialist and a bloodthirsty West African tyrant. In the scorching desert, Pitt uncovers the truth behind his life-long quest - the fate of a Civil War ironclad. Now, amidst the blazing, shifting sands of the Sahara, Dirk Pitt will make a desperate stand — in a battle the world cannot afford to lose!
Actors
Steve Zahn
Penélope Cruz
Matthew McConaughey
Also posted in 2005, Action, Adventure, Comedy | Comments (4)

The Ring Two

IMDB Rating: 5.10
15562 votes

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Six months after encountering Samara and her killer video tape, Rachel Keller and her son Aiden leave the city to live in a small rural town where they think they'll be safe. Soon after they arrive, however, Rachel hears about a college student who died nearby in circumstances similar to Samara's past victims. Now it appears that Aiden's life is in danger from Samara once more, and Rachel must investigate the little girl's past if she wants to save her son.
Actors
Rachel KellerNaomi Watts
Max RourkeSimon Baker
Aidan KellerDavid Dorfman
Also posted in 2005, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (3)

Batman Begins

IMDB Rating: 8.30
116254 votes

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In tone with the early "Batman: Year One" style comics. As a boy a young Bruce Wayne watched in horror as his millionaire parents were slain in front of his eyes, a trauma which led him to become obsessed with revenge but his chance is cruelly taken away from him by fate. After disappearing to the East where he seeks counsel with the dangerous but honorable ninja cult leader known as Ra's Al-Ghul, he returns to his now decaying Gotham City overrun by organized crime and dangerous individuals manipulating the system whilst the company he inherited is slowly being pulled out from under him. The discovery of a cave under his mansion, and a prototype armored suit leads him to take on a new persona, one which will strike fear into the hearts of men who do wrong - he becomes, Batman. In the new guise, and with the help of rising cop Jim Gordon, Batman sets out to take down the various nefarious schemes in motion by individuals such as mafia don Falcone, the twisted doctor/drug dealer Jonathan 'The Scarecrow' Crane, and a mysterious third party that is quite familiar with Wayne and waiting to strike when the time is right.
Actors
Bruce Wayne/BatmanChristian Bale
AlfredMichael Caine
Henri DucardLiam Neeson
Also posted in 2005, Action, Adventure, Crime, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Scary Movie 3

IMDB Rating: 5.30
19681 votes

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Roving reporter Cindy Campbell sets out to find a hard news story in the middle of television sweeps. She soon uncovers an outrageous onslaught of globe-threatening developments including alien invaders, killer videotapes, freaky crop circles, prophecies of The One, eerie-eyed children, ambitious white rappers and even a run-in with Michael Jackson. Faced with conspiracies of massive proportions, and a crew of very strange people following her around, Cindy must fight to stop evil from taking over the world yet again.
Actors
Denise Richards
Leslie Nielsen
BeccaPamela Anderson
Also posted in 2003, Comedy, Horror | Comments (2)

The Ring

IMDB Rating: 7.30
48527 votes

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Rachel Keller is a journalist investigating a videotape that may have killed four teenagers (including her niece). There is an urban legend about this tape: the viewer will die seven days after watching it. If the legend is correct, Rachel will have to run against time to save her son's and her own life.
Actors
Rachel KellerNaomi Watts
Noah ClayMartin Henderson
Aidan KellerDavid Dorfman
Also posted in 2002, Drama, High IMDB rating, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (14)

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

IMDB Rating: 8.70
232790 votes

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An ancient Ring thought lost for centuries has been found, and through a strange twist in fate has been given to a small Hobbit named Frodo. When Gandalf discovers the Ring is in fact the One Ring of the Dark Lord Sauron, Frodo must make an epic quest to the Cracks of Doom in order to destroy it! However he does not go alone. He is joined by Gandalf, Legolas the elf, Gimli the Dwarf, Aragorn, Boromir and his three Hobbit friends Merry, Pippin and Samwise. Through mountains, snow, darkness, forests, rivers and plains, facing evil and danger at every corner the Fellowship of the Ring must go. Their quest to destroy the One Ring is the only hope for the end of the Dark Lords reign!
Actors
Everard ProudfootNoel Appleby
Frodo BagginsElijah Wood
Sam GamgeeSean Astin
Also posted in 2001, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, High IMDB rating | Comments (54)