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Tatia Rosenthal

['Geoffrey Rush', 'Anthony LaPaglia', 'Samuel Johnson', 'Ben Mendelsohn', 'Barry Otto', 'Joel Edgerton', 'Claudia Karvan', 'Leeanna Walsman', 'David Field', 'Tom Budge', 'Leon Ford', 'Henry Nixon', 'Roy Billing', 'Brian Meegan', 'Jamie Katsamatsas', 'Ursula Yovich', 'Josef Ber']

Animation, Comedy, Drama

['Australia', 'Israel']

English

['English']

['Lama Films', 'Australian Film Finance Corporation', 'Fortissimo Films', 'New South Wales Film & Television Office', 'yes', 'Crossfield', 'Sherman Pictures']

animated

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The film mainly focuses on Dave Peck, who is unemployed but prefers the search for the meaning of life to the search for gainful employment. While looking in a magazine, Dave finds an advertisement for a book that will tell him the meaning of life "for the low price of $9.99." Dave, fascinated by this, begins his journey in his Sydney apartment to find the true meaning of life. As the film progresses, stories of Dave's family and neighbours are woven in and examine the post-modern meaning of hope.

(500) Days of Summer

Marc Webb

['Joseph Gordon-Levitt', 'Zooey Deschanel', 'Geoffrey Arend', 'Chloë Grace Moretz', 'Matthew Gray Gubler', 'Clark Gregg', 'Patricia Belcher', 'Rachel Boston', 'Minka Kelly', 'Charles Walker', 'Ian Reed Kesler', 'Darryl Alan Reed', 'Valente Rodriguez', 'Yvette Nicole Brown', 'Nicole Vicius', 'Natalie Boren', 'Maile Flanagan', 'Darryl Sivad', 'Gregory A. Thompson', 'Michael Bodie', 'John Mackie', 'Jacob Stroop', 'Kevin Michael', 'Sid Wilner', 'Richard McGonagle', 'Jean-Paul Vignon', 'Bryan Anthony', 'Sybil Azur', 'Cheryl Baxter', 'Gustavo Carr', 'John R. Corella', 'Nadine Ellis', 'Alejandro Estornel', 'Nathaniel Flatt', 'Reshma Gajjar', 'Tiffany Granath', 'Jennifer Hamilton', 'Brandon Henschel', 'Michael Higgins', 'Kenneth Hughes', 'Alexandra Nicole Hulme', 'John Jacquet Jr.', 'Jennifer Lee Keyes', 'Tim Lacatena', 'Rebecca Lin', 'Gelsey Weiss', 'Katie Malia', 'Anthony Marciona', 'Christopher Martinez', 'Vivian Nixon', 'Tracy Phillips', 'Nathan Prevost', 'Jamie Shea', 'Ryan Thomas', 'Christian Vincent', 'Jull Weber', 'Olivia Howard Bagg', 'Chris Connell', 'Samantha Krutzfeldt', 'Kathryn Weisbeck', 'Eileen Álvarez', 'Jennifer Hetrick', 'Pleasant Wayne']

Romance, Comedy, Comedy drama, Melodrama, Drama, Indie film

['USA']

English

['English', 'French', 'Swedish']

['Fox Searchlight Pictures', 'Watermark Pictures', 'Dune Entertainment III']

sad, comedy, emotional

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Tom Hansen is an aspiring architect who works as a writer at a greeting card company. He meets Summer Finn, a new employee. They discover that they have a similar taste in music. Later, at a karaoke night for their work, they talk about love. Tom believes in it, but Summer does not. Tom's friend and co-worker McKenzie drunkenly reveals that Tom likes Summer, which he asserts is only "as friends", something Summer agrees with. A few days later, Summer spontaneously kisses Tom in the office. Summer is not looking for a serious relationship. Tom agrees to a casual relationship. That night they have sex; Tom is elated. Over the first several months of their relationship, they grow closer. Both Tom's friends and his preteen half-sister Rachel push him to ask Summer where they are in their relationship, though Summer brushes this off, saying that it should not matter if they are both happy. One night, Tom gets into a fight with a man who tries to pick Summer up in a bar, causing their first argument. They make up and Summer concedes Tom deserves some certainty, but demanding she promise to always feel the same way about him would be impossible for anyone to make. Slowly, their relationship becomes less passionate and they begin to continuously argue. Summer quits the greeting card company and breaks up with Tom, citing their obvious unhappiness. Tom's boss moves him to the consolations department, as his depression is making him unsuitable for happier events. Tom goes on a blind date with a woman named Alison. Tom spends the date talking about Summer until Alison leaves exasperated. Months later, Tom attends co-worker Millie's wedding and tries to avoid Summer on the train, but she spots him and invites him for coffee. They have a good time at the wedding, dance together, and Summer catches the bouquet. She invites Tom to a party at her apartment, falling asleep on his shoulder on the ride back. He attends the party, hoping to rekindle their relationship, but barely interacts with Summer, spending most of the night drinking alone, until he spots her engagement ring. Tom leaves devastated. Further depressed, he only leaves his apartment for alcohol and junk food. After a few days, he returns to work hung over and, after an emotional outburst, quits. Rachel tells Tom that she does not believe Summer was "the one" and that he is only remembering happy memories of the relationship. Tom thinks harder, finally seeing moments of incompatibilities he overlooked, and warning signs he missed on the day of the breakup. One day, Tom finds the energy to get out of bed and rededicates himself to architecture, as Summer had encouraged him to do. He assembles a portfolio and secures job interviews. Summer visits Tom at his favorite spot in the city. He tells her he left the office, and notes that she got married, which he cannot comprehend as she never wanted to be someone's girlfriend. Summer says she got married because she felt sure, which she did not with Tom. When he says he was wrong about true love existing, she counters that he was right about it, just wrong about it being with her. She tells him she is glad he is doing well. Tom wishes her happiness. On Wednesday, May 23, Tom meets a woman applying for the same job. He finds she shares his favorite spot and invites her for coffee afterwards. She politely declines, then changes her mind. Her name is Autumn.

12 Angry Men

Sidney Lumet

['Martin Balsam', 'John Fiedler', 'Lee J. Cobb', 'E.G. Marshall', 'Jack Klugman', 'Edward Binns', 'Jack Warden', 'Henry Fonda', 'Joseph Sweeney', 'Ed Begley', 'George Voskovec', 'Robert Webber', 'Rudy Bond', 'Tom Gorman', 'James Kelly', 'Billy Nelson', 'John Savoca', 'Walter Stocker', 'John Gavin']

Thriller, Trial drama, Legal drama, Drama, Crime film, Mystery, Detective fiction, Crime Fiction, Classic, Police procedural

['USA']

English

['English']

['United Artists', 'Orion-Nova Productions']

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On a hot summer day in the New York County Courthouse, the trial phase has just concluded for an impoverished 18-year-old boy accused of killing his abusive father. The judge instructs the jury that if there is reasonable doubt, the jurors must return a verdict of "not guilty". If the defendant is found guilty, he will receive a mandatory death sentence via the electric chair. The verdict must be unanimous. At first, the case seems clear. A neighbor testified to witnessing the defendant stab his father, from her window, through the windows of a passing elevated train. Another neighbor testified that he heard the defendant threaten to kill his father, and the father's body hitting the floor; then, as he ran to his door, he saw the defendant running down the stairs. The boy had recently purchased a switchblade of the same type that was found, wiped of fingerprints, at the murder scene, but claimed he lost it. In a preliminary vote, all jurors vote "guilty" except Juror 8, who believes there should be some discussion before the verdict. He says he cannot vote "guilty" because reasonable doubt exists. When his first few arguments (including producing a recently purchased knife nearly identical to the murder weapon that was thought to be unique) seemingly fail to convince any of the other jurors, Juror 8 suggests a secret ballot, from which he will abstain; if all the other jurors still vote guilty, he will acquiesce. The ballot reveals one "not guilty" vote. Juror 9 reveals that he changed his vote; he respects Juror 8's motives, and agrees there should be more discussion. Juror 8 argues that the train noise would have obscured everything the second witness claimed to have overheard. Jurors 5 and 11 change their votes. Jurors 5, 6 and 8 further question the second witness's story, and question whether the death threat was figurative speech. After looking at a diagram of the witness's apartment and conducting an experiment, the jurors determine that it is impossible for the disabled witness to have made it to the door in time. Juror 3, infuriated, argues with and tries to attack Juror 8, yelling a death threat; jurors 5, 6 and 7 physically restrain Juror 3. Jurors 2 and 6 change their votes; the jury is now evenly split. Juror 4 doubts the defendant's alibi, as the boy did not recall specific details. Juror 8 tests Juror 4's own memory to make a point. Jurors 2 and 5 point out the father's stab wound was angled downwards, although the boy was shorter than his father. Juror 7 changes his vote out of impatience rather than conviction, angering Juror 11. After another vote, jurors 1 and 12 also change sides, leaving only three "guilty" votes. Juror 10 goes on a bigoted rant, causing Juror 4 to forbid him to speak for the remainder of the deliberation. When Juror 4 is pressed as to why he still maintains a guilty vote, he declares that the woman who saw the killing from across the street stands as solid evidence. Juror 12 reverts to a guilty vote. After watching Juror 4 remove his spectacles and rub the impressions they made on his nose, Juror 9 realizes that the first witness was constantly rubbing similar impressions on her own nose, indicating that she also was a habitual glasses wearer, even though she chose not to wear her glasses in court. Juror 8 remarks that the witness, who was trying to sleep when she saw the killing, would not have had glasses on or the time to put them on, making her story questionable. Jurors 4, 10 and 12 all change their votes, leaving Juror 3 as the sole dissenter. Juror 3 vehemently and desperately tries to convince the others of his argument, but realizes that his strained relationship with his own son makes him wish the defendant guilty. He breaks down in tears and changes his vote to "not guilty". As the others leave, Juror 8 graciously helps Juror 3 put on his coat. The defendant is acquitted off-screen. As the jurors leave the courthouse, Jurors 8 and 9 reveal their surnames to each other before parting ways.

12 Years a Slave

Steve McQueen

['Chiwetel Ejiofor', 'Michael Fassbender', "Lupita Nyong'o", 'Benedict Cumberbatch', 'Paul Dano', 'Sarah Paulson', 'Adepero Oduye', 'Scoot McNairy', 'Paul Giamatti', 'Brad Pitt', 'Michael Kenneth Williams', 'Alfre Woodard', 'Chris Chalk', 'Taran Killam', 'Bill Camp', 'Kelsey Scott', 'Bryan Batt', 'Quvenzhané Wallis', 'Garret Dillahunt', 'Dwight Henry', 'Dickie Gravois', 'Ashley Dyke', 'Cameron Zeigler', 'Tony Bentley', 'Christopher Berry', 'Mister Mackey Jr.', 'Craig Tate', 'Storm Reid', 'Tom Proctor', 'Marc Macaulay', 'Vivian Fleming-Alvarez', 'Douglas M. Griffin', 'John McConnell', 'Marcus Lyle Brown', 'Richard Holden', 'Rob Steinberg', 'Anwan Glover', 'James C. Victor', 'Liza J. Bennett', 'Nicole Collins', 'J.D. Evermore', 'Andy Dylan', 'Deneen Tyler', 'Mustafa Harris', 'Gregory Bright', 'Austin Purnell', 'Thomas Francis Murphy', "Andre De'Sean Shanks", 'Kelvin Harrison Jr.', 'Scott M. Jefferson', 'Isaiah Jackson', 'Topsy Chapman', 'Devin Maurice Evans', 'Jay Huguley', 'Devyn A. Tyler', 'Willo Jean-Baptiste', 'Jason Ament', 'Jon Arthur', 'Sean Paul Braud', 'Blake Burt', 'Carroll Burt', 'Edward J. Clare', 'JJ Coker', 'Haylie Creppel', 'Justin Edward Davis', 'Jim Johnson', 'Mark Joyce', 'John C. Klein', "Gerard 'Jerry' Lewis", 'Kevonte Mcdonald', 'Ritchie Montgomery', 'Jason Owen', 'Shawn Parsons', 'Haley Powell', 'Wayne Pére', 'Terrell Ransom Jr.', 'Erin Rementer', 'Andre Robinson', 'Corrina Roshea Bobb', 'Jarett Shorts', 'Chaz Smith', 'Tyler Soerries', 'Tre Tureaud', 'Justin Christopher Vaughn', 'Bob Walker', 'Caroline Grace Williamson', 'Timothy Wyant']

History, Historical drama, Melodrama, Drama

['USA', 'UK']

English

['English']

['New Regency Pictures', 'Plan B Entertainment', 'River Road Entertainment', 'Regency Enterprises', 'Film4 Productions']

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Solomon Northup is a free African-American man in 1841, working as a violinist and living with his wife and two children in Saratoga Springs, New York. Two white men, Brown and Hamilton, offer him short-term employment as a musician in Washington, D.C.; instead, they drug Northup and deliver him to James H. Birch, the owner of a slave pen. Northup proclaims his freedom, only to be violently beaten and tortured. He is shipped to New Orleans with other slaves, who tell him he must adapt if he wants to survive in the South. Slave trader Theophilus Freeman gives Northup the identity of "Platt," a runaway slave from Georgia, and sells him to plantation owner William Ford. Ford takes a liking to Northup and gives him a violin. Tensions between Northup and plantation carpenter John Tibeats break when Northup defends himself from Tibeats and beats him with his whip. Tibeats and his men prepare to lynch Northup but are stopped by the overseer. Northup is left on tiptoes with the noose around his neck for hours before Ford arrives and cuts him down. Northup attempts to explain his situation, but Ford sells him to plantation owner Edwin Epps. Epps, unlike Ford, is abusive and sadistic to his slaves. Northup meets Patsey, a favored slave and Epps' top cotton picker. Epps regularly rapes Patsey, and his jealous wife abuses her. Cotton worms destroy Epps' crops, so he leases his slaves to neighbor Judge Turner's plantation for the season. Turner favors Northup and allows him to fiddle at a celebration and keep his earnings. Northup returns to Epps and pays white field hand and former overseer Armsby to mail a letter to his friends in New York. Armsby takes Northup's money but betrays him. Epps questions and threatens Northup, but Northup convinces him that Armsby is lying. Northup burns the letter. Patsey is caught by Epps going to a neighboring plantation to acquire soap, as Mrs. Epps will not let her have any. Epps orders Northup to whip Patsey, which he reluctantly does, but Epps demands he strike her harder, eventually taking the whip and beating Patsey nearly to death. Enraged and regretting what he did, Northup destroys his violin. Northup begins constructing a gazebo with Canadian laborer Samuel Bass. Bass, citing his Christian faith, strongly opposes slavery and castigates Epps, earning his enmity. Northup reveals his kidnapping to Bass and asks for help sending his letter. Bass hesitates because of the risk but agrees. The local sheriff arrives, and Northup recognizes his companion as Mr. Parker, a shopkeeper he knew in New York. As they embrace, Epps furiously protests and tries to prevent Northup from leaving but is rebuffed. Northup bids farewell to Patsey and rides off to his freedom. Northup returns home to reunite with his wife and children. His daughter, who is now married, introduces his grandson and namesake, Solomon Northup Staunton. He apologizes for his long absence while his family comforts him. A textual epilogue recounts Northup's unsuccessful lawsuits against Brown, Hamilton, and Birch; the 1853 publication of Northup's slave narrative memoir, Twelve Years a Slave; his role in the abolitionist movement; and the absence of information regarding his death and burial.

13 Assassins

Takashi Miike

['Koji Yakusho', 'Takayuki Yamada', 'Yûsuke Iseya', 'Goro Inagaki', 'Kazue Fukiishi', 'Hiroki Matsukata', 'Tsuyoshi Ihara', 'Ikki Sawamura', 'Arata Furuta', 'Sousuke Takaoka', 'Rokkaku Seiji', 'Kazuki Namioka', 'Koen Kondo', 'Yuma Ishigaki', 'Masataka Kubota', 'Masachika Ichimura', 'Matsumoto Hakuō II', 'Seiyo Uchino', 'Ken Mitsuishi', 'Ittoku Kishibe', 'Mikijiro Hira', 'Mitsuki Tanimura', 'Takumi Saitoh', 'Shinnosuke Abe', 'Meguru Katô', 'Kazutoshi Yokoyama', 'Megumi Kagurazaka', 'Hajime Inoue']

Action, Adventure, Martial Arts, Drama, Thriller, Historical Fiction, Costume drama

['Japan', 'UK']

Japanese

['Japanese']

['TOHO', 'Sedic International', 'Toei Studios Kyoto', 'OLM', 'TV Asahi Music', 'IMAGICA', 'TV Asahi', 'dentsu', 'Shogakukan', 'The Asahi Shimbun', 'Asahi Broadcasting Corporation', 'Nagoya Broadcasting Network', 'Kyushu Asahi Broadcasting', 'Television Hokkaido Broadcasting', 'Yahoo! Japan', 'TSUTAYA Group', 'Hiroshima Home Television', 'Sedic Deux', 'Raku Film', 'Recorded Picture Company', 'HanWay Films']

action, top-rated

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In 1844, during the Edo Period, the Tokugawa Shogunate is in decline. Lord Matsudaira Naritsugu of Akashi sadistically rapes, tortures, mutilates and murders nobles and commoners, but is protected by the Shōgun, his half-brother. With Naritsugu due to ascend to the Shogunate Council, the Shōgun's Justice Minister, Sir Doi Toshitsura, realizes that this ascendance will cause civil war between the Shōgun and the many feudal lords Naritsugu has offended. The Mamiya clan's feudal lord publicly commits seppuku as a protest against the Shōgun's refusal to punish Naritsugu, who had personally murdered the feudal lord's entire family. When the Shōgun insists upon Naritsugu's promotion, Sir Doi hires a trusted older samurai, Shimada Shinzaemon, to assassinate Naritsugu. However, Naritsugu's loyal retainers led by Hanbei, an old contemporary of Shinzaemon, learn of the plot by spying on Doi. Shinzaemon gathers ten more samurai, including his nephew, Shinrokurō, plus one rōnin, to attack Naritsugu during his official journey from Edo to Akashi. Before Naritsugu leaves, Hanbei confronts Shinzaemon over the plot. The assassins decide to ambush Naritsugu at the town of Ochiai, predicting that he will insist on carrying out his pre-announced visit of Naegi and thus pass through Ochiai. During the assassins' journey to Ochiai, they stop at a town where they are attacked by rōnin paid off by Hanbei. Fearing more attacks, the assassins leave the roads, instead trekking through the mountains, but lose their way. They rescue a hunter, Kiga Koyata, who guides them to Ochiai and volunteers to become the thirteenth assassin. The assassins enlist the help of Makino, a feudal lord whose daughter-in-law was raped and son murdered by Naritsugu. Using troops with firearms, Makino blocks the official highway, forcing Naritsugu to take a detour. Makino then commits seppuku to conceal his involvement in the conspiracy. Sensing a trap, Hanbei advises Naritsugu to avoid Naegi, but Naritsugu refuses as this would publicly embarrass him. Naritsugu acknowledges that visiting Naegi is unsafe, but also exciting. Meanwhile, the assassins, with the legal authority and generous financial assistance of Doi, buy the help of Ochiai to convert the town into an elaborate maze of booby traps and camouflaged fortifications. Naritsugu and his retinue arrive at Ochiai, with reinforcements arranged by Hanbei, increasing their number from 70 to 200. As Ochiai's civilians escape, the 13 assassins trap Naritsugu's party in Ochiai. A lengthy battle begins, with the assassins first using arrows and explosives, then using swords for melee combat, with the exception of Koyata, who fights with rocks in slings and with sticks. While many of Naritsugu's retainers are killed, Naritsugu is aroused by the bloodshed of the battle and declares that when he ascends to the Shogunate Council, he will start wars reminiscent of the Sengoku Period. While most of the Akashi forces are defeated, at least 10 of the assassins perish, with several fighting until they collapsed dead from their injuries. Eventually, Shinzaemon and Shinrokurō confront Naritsugu, Hanbei and two remaining retainers. Shinzaemon argues that Naritsugu will ruin the realm, but Hanbei insists on loyalty to his master. Shinzaemon duels Hanbei and decapitates him after kicking mud into Hanbei's eyes, while Shinrokurō slays the last two Akashi retainers. Naritsugu kicks Hanbei's severed head away and announces that the people and the samurai have only one purpose: to serve their lords. Shinzaemon counters that that lords cannot live without the support of the people and that, if a lord abuses his power, the people will rise up against him. Naritsugu and Shinzaemon mortally wound each other. Crying, crawling in the mud, and experiencing rare fear and pain, Naritsugu thanks Shinzaemon for causing the most exciting day of Naritsugu's life. Naritsugu is decapitated by Shinzaemon, who succumbs to his wounds. Shinrokurō wanders through the carnage and Koyata runs up, appearing virtually unharmed despite being impaled through the neck by Naritsugu and slashed in the stomach by Hanbei and appearing to fall dead. Koyata dismisses his previous injuries as trivial. This unusual development and Shinrokuro's amazement and question if Koyata is immortal subtly suggests that Koyata could be a Japanese trickster deity who joined the assassins either to help them, or simply for his own entertainment. Shinrokurō and Koyata leave separately, with Shinrokurō intending to become a bandit or travel to America, while Koyata vows to elope with his lover. An epilogue states that Naritsugu's death was officially attributed to illness, and that 23 years later, the Tokugawa Shogunate was overthrown during the Meiji Restoration.

2001: A Space Odyssey

Stanley Kubrick

['Keir Dullea', 'Gary Lockwood', 'William Sylvester', 'Douglas Rain', 'Daniel Richter', 'Leonard Rossiter', 'Margaret Tyzack', 'Robert Beatty', 'Sean Sullivan', 'Frank Miller', 'Ed Bishop', 'Edwina Carroll', 'Heather Downham', 'Penny Brahms', 'Maggie London', 'Chela Matthison', 'Judy Kiern', 'Alan Gifford', 'Ann Gillis', 'Vivian Kubrick', 'Kenneth Kendall', 'Kevin Scott', 'Martin Amor', 'Bill Weston', 'Glenn Beck', 'Mike Lovell', 'John Ashley', 'Jimmy Bell', 'David Charkham', 'Simon Davis', 'Jonathan Daw', 'Péter Delmár', 'Terry Duggan', 'David Fleetwood', 'Danny Grover', 'Brian Hawley', 'David Hines', 'Tony Jackson', 'John Jordan', 'Scott MacKee', 'Laurence Marchant', 'Darryl Paes', 'Joe Refalo', 'Andy Wallace', 'Bob Wilyman', 'Richard Woods', 'S. Newton Anderson', 'Sheraton Blount', 'Ann Bormann', 'Julie Croft', 'Penny Francis', 'Marcella Markham', 'Irena Marr', 'Krystyna Marr', 'Kim Neil', 'Jane Pearl', 'Penny Pearl', 'Burnell Tucker', 'John Swindells', 'John Clifford', 'Stanley Kubrick', 'Anthony Jackson', 'Frank W. Miller']

Science fiction, Horror, Animation, Action, Adventure, Cyberpunk, Mystery, Drama, Suspense, Thriller, Classic

['UK', 'USA']

English

['English', 'Russian']

['Stanley Kubrick Productions', 'Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer']

sci-fi, top-rated

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In a prehistoric veld, a tribe of hominins is driven away from its water hole by a rival tribe. The next day, they find an alien monolith has appeared in their midst. The tribe then learn how to use a bone as a weapon and, after their first hunt, return to drive their rivals away with it. Millions of years later, Dr Heywood Floyd, Chairman of the United States National Council of Astronautics, travels to Clavius Base, an American lunar outpost. During a stopover at Space Station Five, he meets Russian scientists who are concerned that Clavius seems to be unresponsive. He refuses to discuss rumours of an epidemic at the base. At Clavius, Floyd addresses a meeting of personnel to whom he stresses the need for secrecy regarding their newest discovery. His mission is to investigate a recently found artefact, a monolith buried four million years earlier near the lunar crater Tycho. As he and others examine the object and are taking photographs, it emits a high-powered radio signal. Eighteen months later, the American spacecraft Discovery One is bound for Jupiter, with mission pilots and scientists Dr Dave Bowman and Dr Frank Poole on board, along with three other scientists in suspended animation. Most of Discovery's operations are controlled by HAL, a HAL 9000 computer with a human-like personality. When HAL reports the imminent failure of an antenna control device, Bowman retrieves it in an extravehicular activity (EVA) pod, but finds nothing wrong. HAL suggests reinstalling the device and letting it fail so the problem can be verified. Mission Control advises the astronauts that results from their backup 9000 computer indicate that HAL has made an error, but HAL blames it on human error. Concerned about HAL's behaviour, Bowman and Poole enter an EVA pod so they can talk in private without HAL overhearing. They agree to disconnect HAL if he is proven wrong. HAL follows their conversation by lip reading. While Poole is floating away from his pod to replace the antenna unit, HAL takes control of the pod and attacks him, sending Poole tumbling away from the ship with a severed air line. Bowman takes another pod to rescue Poole. While he is outside, HAL turns off the life support functions of the crewmen in suspended animation, killing them. When Bowman returns to the ship with Poole's body, HAL refuses to let him back in, stating that their plan to deactivate him jeopardises the mission. Bowman releases Poole's body and opens the ship's emergency airlock with his remote manipulators. Lacking a helmet for his spacesuit, he positions his pod carefully so that when he jettisons the pod's door, he is propelled by the escaping air across the vacuum into Discovery's airlock. He enters HAL's processor core and begins disconnecting most of HAL's circuits, ignoring HAL's pleas to stop. When he is finished, a prerecorded video by Heywood Floyd plays, revealing that the mission's actual objective is to investigate the radio signal sent from the monolith to Jupiter. At Jupiter, Bowman finds a third, much larger monolith orbiting the planet. He leaves Discovery in an EVA pod to investigate but is pulled into a vortex of coloured light, observing bizarre astronomical phenomena and strange landscapes of unusual colours as he passes by. Finally he finds himself in a large neoclassical bedroom where he sees, and then becomes, older versions of himself: first standing in the bedroom, middle-aged and still in his spacesuit, then dressed in leisure attire and eating dinner, and finally as an old man lying in bed. A monolith appears at the foot of the bed, and as Bowman reaches for it, he is transformed into a foetus enclosed in a transparent orb of light floating in space above the Earth.

2046

Wong Kar-wai

['Tony Leung Chiu-wai', 'Gong Li', 'Faye Wong', 'Takuya Kimura', 'Zhang Ziyi', 'Carina Lau', 'Chang Chen', 'Dong Jie', 'Maggie Cheung', 'Thongchai McIntyre', 'Wang Sum', 'Siu Ping-lam', 'Akina Hong Wah', 'Farini Cheung Yui-ling', 'Sabrina Cheung', 'Jiang Xinyu', 'Benz Kong To-Hoi', 'Alice Lee', 'Fei-lin Miao', 'Berg Ng Ting-Yip', 'Ben Yuen Foo-Wah', 'Ronny Ching Siu-Lung', 'Li Hsiao-Ming', 'Cheung Kwok-Hung']

Romance, Melodrama, Science fiction, Fantasy, Drama

['Germany', 'Hong Kong', 'China', 'France', 'Italy']

Chinese

['Chinese', 'Cantonese', 'English', 'Japanese']

['Shanghai Film Group', 'Orly Films', 'Jet Tone Films', 'Paradis Films', 'Classic Productions', 'Precious Yield']

sci-fi, top-rated, fantasy

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There are four main story arcs, listed in approximate order below. In typical Wong fashion, they are presented in non-chronological parts. Knowledge of Days of Being Wild and In the Mood for Love is assumed, but not necessary to understand 2046.

20th Century Women

Mike Mills

['Annette Bening', 'Lucas Jade Zumann', 'Greta Gerwig', 'Elle Fanning', 'Billy Crudup', 'Alison Elliott', 'Thea Gill', 'Vitaly Andrew LeBeau', 'Olivia Hone', 'Waleed Zuaiter', 'Curran Walters', 'Darrell Britt-Gibson', 'Alia Shawkat', 'Nathalie Love', 'Cameron Protzman', 'Victoria Bruno', 'John Billingsley', 'Cameron Gellman', 'Finnegan Seeker Bell', 'Zoë Nanos', 'Lauren Foley', 'Gareth Williams', 'J. Francisco Rodriguez', 'Zoë Worth', 'Finn Roberts', 'Laura Slade Wiggins', 'Rick Gifford', 'Paul Tigue', 'Matthew Foster', 'Kirk Bovill', 'Victoria Hoffman', 'Christina Offley', 'Randy Ryan', 'Diana Bostan', 'Toni Gaal', 'Hans-Peter Thomas', 'Kai Lennox', 'Paul Messinger', 'Eric Wentz', 'Samantha Gros', 'Britt Sanborn', 'Alexis Milan Turner', 'Catherine Zelinsky', 'Boyce Buchanan', 'Kyle Olivia Green', 'Sam Marsh', 'Antonia Marie Vivino', 'Sara Pelayo', 'Annabelle Lee', 'Avi Boyko', 'Tyler Leyva', 'Cameron Simon', 'Jesse Sanes', 'Sam Bosson', 'Patrick Pastor', 'Ian Logan', 'Trent Bowman', 'Justin Rivera', 'Desmond Shepherd', 'Joshua Burge', 'Daniel Dorr', 'Christopher Carroll', 'Hayden Gold', 'Alex Wexo', 'Pete Mason', 'Padraic Cassidy', 'Matthew Cardarople', 'Toni Christopher', 'Tanya Young']

Comedy, Drama, Comedy drama

['USA']

English

['English']

['Annapurna Pictures', 'Archer Gray', 'Modern People']

coming-of-age-movies-that-made-us-feel-seen

In 1979, 15-year-old Jamie Fields lives in Santa Barbara with his 55-year-old single mother, Dorothea, and their two tenants: Abbie Porter, a 24-year-old photographer being treated for cervical cancer, and William, a carpenter and mechanic. Jamie's best friend is 17-year-old Julie Hamlin, who often spends the night with Jamie, but chooses not to have sex with him because she believes it would destroy their friendship. Concerned she is having trouble connecting with her son, Dorothea asks Abbie and Julie to help raise him, but Jamie responds to this news by running away to Los Angeles with some friends to attend a rock concert. When he gets back, Julie tells him she had unprotected sex and is worried she will get pregnant. Jamie accompanies Abbie to a doctor's appointment, where she learns she is cancer-free, but will likely be unable to have children, and he reads a magazine article about home pregnancy tests. He buys one for Julie, and it comes back negative. To thank Jamie for his support, Abbie makes him a mixtape, and she begins to confide in him, such as about how she moved back home from New York after her cancer diagnosis, but her mother could not handle the fact that the cancer was caused by her use of DES, a fertility drug, while Abbie was in utero, so Abbie moved in with Dorothea. One day, after seeing Julie sneak out Jamie's window, Dorothea talks with her, and they end up discussing the fact that Dorothea has not had any real relationships since Jamie's father left years earlier. Dorothea asks Abbie to show her "the modern world," so they go to a punk club, where William kisses Dorothea, but she rejects him due to his sexual relationship with Abbie. After Dorothea leaves, Abbie gets in a fight and William tells her he no longer wants to sleep with her. Abbie goes to talk to Jamie and, finding him in bed with Julie, says Julie is disempowering Jamie and tells the teens to not get stuck in Santa Barbara. Later, Jamie asks Abbie to take him to the club, and he gets drunk and kisses a woman. Meanwhile, Dorothea teaches William how to pursue a relationship, as opposed to a one-night stand. When Abbie tells Dorothea about Jamie's night, Dorothea is not upset, though she is wistful that, as his mother, she can never see what Jamie is like out in the world. Abbie lends Jamie some books about feminism, and he finds them interesting, but Dorothea thinks they are too much for him and scolds Abbie. At a dinner party, Abbie says she is tired because she is menstruating, and, frustrated by the discomfort the word causes, she makes all of the men at the table say "menstruation". This inspires Julie to talk about her first period and her first sexual encounter, which ends the gathering. Jamie tells Julie he no longer wants her to spend the night if she just wants to talk. Hurt, she suggests they take a road trip up the coast. At a hotel, Jamie says he loves Julie, but she says they are too close to have sex. They argue, and Julie accuses Jamie of being like "the other guys", so Jamie storms off. Julie calls Dorothea, but by the time she, Abbie, and William arrive, Jamie has returned. Dorothea tells Jamie that she asked Abbie and Julie for help because she wants Jamie to be happier than she is, and he says he thought they were doing fine already. The two make up and return to Santa Barbara on their own, and Dorothea talks openly about her feelings and dreams for the first time. An epilogue reveals that Julie will go on the pill, attend NYU, lose touch with Jamie and Dorothea, fall in love, move to Paris, and choose to never have children. Abbie will stay in Santa Barbara, get married, set up a photography studio in her garage, and successfully give birth to two sons. William will live with Dorothea for another year, move to Sedona, open a pottery store, get married, get divorced, and remarry. Dorothea will meet a man in 1983 and stay with him until her death from metastatic lung cancer in 1999. Years after Dorothea's death, Jamie will get married and have a son, to whom he will try, unsuccessfully, to describe Dorothea.

21 Jump Street

Phil Lord, Christopher Miller

['Jonah Hill', 'Channing Tatum', 'Brie Larson', 'Dave Franco', 'Rob Riggle', 'DeRay Davis', 'Ice Cube', 'Dax Flame', 'Chris Parnell', 'Ellie Kemper', 'Jake Johnson', 'Nick Offerman', 'Holly Robinson Peete', 'Johnny Pemberton', 'Stanley Wong', 'Justin Hires', 'Brett Lapeyrouse', 'Lindsey Broad', 'Caroline Aaron', 'Joe Chrest', 'Geraldine Singer', 'Dakota Johnson', 'Rye Rye', 'Valerie Tian', 'Jaren Mitchell', 'Johnny Simmons', 'Keith Kurtz', 'Randal Reeder', 'Peter Epstein', 'Anthony Molinari', 'Luis Da Silva Jr.', "Dominic 'Taz' Alexander", 'Mike Seal', 'Spencer Boldman', 'Joe Nin Williams', 'Chad Hessler', 'Kevin Michael Murphy', 'Victor Paguia', 'Chanel Celaya', 'Carol Sutton', 'Andrea Frankle', 'Tiffney Wagoner', 'Andrea Madison', 'Hristo Birbochukov', 'Candi Brooks', 'Turner Crumbley', 'Haley Farris', 'Brittney Alger', 'Joshua Nelms', 'Courtney Jarrell', 'Melissa Cordero', 'Beau DeLatte', 'Charles Ferrara', 'Mark Adams', 'Brian H. Rossitto', 'Peter DeLuise', 'Johnny Depp', 'D.J. Mills']

Comedy, Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Detective fiction, Crime Fiction

['USA']

English

['English']

['Columbia Pictures', 'Relativity Media', 'Original Film', 'Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer', 'Stephen J. Cannell Productions', 'SJC Studios']

comedy

vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time

In 2005, unpopular-yet-scholarly student Morton Schmidt and popular-yet-underachieving athlete Greg Jenko miss their school prom, Schmidt being rejected by the girl he was trying to ask to be his date and Jenko being barred from attending due to failing grades. Seven years later, the duo meets again at the police academy and become friends and partners on bicycle patrol. They catch a break when they arrest Domingo, the leader of a one-percenter motorcycle gang, but are forced to release him after they fail to read him his Miranda rights. The duo is reassigned to a revived scheme from the 1980s, which specializes in infiltrating high schools. Captain Dickson assigns them to contain the spread of a synthetic drug called HFS ("Holy Fucking Shit") at Sagan High School. He gives them new identities and enrolls them as students, giving them class schedules fitting their previous academic performances; Jenko taking mostly arts and humanities, and Schmidt taking mostly science classes, but the duo mixes up their identities. Schmidt gets a lead on HFS from classmate Molly, and he and Jenko meet the school's main dealer, popular student Eric. The two take HFS in front of him to maintain their cover, and then rush to the bathroom and attempt to vomit the HFS out of their systems, but are unsuccessful. Eric takes a liking to Schmidt, who develops a romantic interest in Molly. Jenko becomes friends with the students in his AP Chemistry class and finds himself becoming more interested in geeky hobbies and academic pursuits. Schmidt and Jenko throw a party at Schmidt's parents' house, where they are living during the course of their assignment, and invite Eric. During the party, a fight breaks out between Schmidt, Jenko, and some party crashers from another high school. Schmidt wins the fight, impressing Eric and gaining his trust. Jenko's friends hack Eric's phone to enable them to listen in on his conversations. The phone hack reveals information about an upcoming meeting between Eric and his supplier. Jenko happens to overhear conversations between Schmidt and Eric, where he catches Schmidt making disparaging comments about him. A rift between the duo grows and their official police work suffers. Schmidt and Jenko later track Eric to a cash transaction with the distributors of HFS—the motorcycle gang from the park—and a chase ensues on the freeway. They return to school, argue, and eventually begin fighting, which disrupts the school play. They are expelled from school and fired from the Jump Street program. Eric, stressed and terrified, recruits Schmidt and Jenko as security for a deal taking place at the school prom. While dressing for the prom, Schmidt and Jenko rekindle their friendship. At the prom, Schmidt is forced to reveal his identity as a cop, upsetting Molly. When they go to the penthouse, they discover that the supplier is the physical education teacher, Mr. Walters, who created the drug accidentally and started selling it to the students to supplement his teacher's salary and pay alimony to his ex-wife. Having caught Eric smoking marijuana, he was able to persuade him to be his dealer. The motorcycle gang arrives for the deal, but Molly, high on the HFS, interrupts them and starts arguing with Schmidt. As a result, gang leader Domingo recognizes Schmidt and Jenko and orders his men to kill them. Two of the gang members then reveal themselves to be undercover DEA agents Tom Hanson and Doug Penhall, former members of the 21 Jump Street program. Domingo orders his men to shoot Hanson and Penhall; in the ensuing exchange of gunfire, Hanson and Penhall are both mortally wounded. Mr. Walters and Eric escape with the money and Molly as a hostage; the gang, Schmidt, and Jenko follow close behind. Jenko creates a homemade bomb and uses it to kill the gang. Mr. Walters shoots at Schmidt but Jenko takes the bullet to his arm, sparing Schmidt's life. In response, Schmidt shoots Mr. Walters, unintentionally severing his penis. They arrest Mr. Walters and Eric, successfully reading the former his Miranda rights. Schmidt and Molly share a kiss while Eric and Mr. Walters get arrested. Both officers are congratulated and reinstated in the Jump Street program as Dickson gives them a new assignment: infiltrating a college.

21 Ways to Ruin a Marriage

Johanna Vuoksenmaa

['Armi Toivanen', 'Essi Hellén', 'Aku Hirviniemi', 'Riku Nieminen', 'Pamela Tola', 'Hannele Lauri', 'Vesa Vierikko', 'Niina Lahtinen', 'Aarre Karén', 'Eila Roine', 'Miia Nuutila', 'Jarkko Niemi', 'Krisse Salminen', 'Eero Ritala', 'Mari Perankoski', 'Frans Isotalo', 'Meiju Lampinen', 'Juha-Pekka Mikkola', 'Laura Vehkanen', 'Sami Samuel Kosonen', 'Misa Palander', 'Iikka Forss', 'Saara Saastamoinen', 'Jussi Puhakka', 'Minna Rimpilä', 'Miska Kajanus', 'Elina Hietala', 'Anna-Stina Backström', 'Hannes Suominen', 'Onni Leppänen', 'Ronja Porthan', 'Tuomas Klaavo', 'Mikko Mäkelä', 'Eila Kupsu', 'Viktor Toikkanen', 'Susanna Laine', 'Sami Kuronen', 'Ville Klinga']

Romance, Comedy, Drama

['Finland']

Finnish

['Finnish']

['Dionysos Films']

toxic-relationship

toxic-destructive-relationships

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211

York Alec Shackleton

['Nicolas Cage', 'Dwayne Cameron', 'Michael Rainey Jr.', 'Ori Pfeffer', 'Sean James', 'Michael Bellisario', 'Weston Cage', 'Sophie Skelton', 'Cory Hardrict', 'Pavel Vladimirov', 'Sapir Azulay', 'Derek Horse', 'Alexandra Dinu', 'Raymond Steers', 'Katie Manning', 'Keith D. Evans', 'Nick Donadio', 'Aaron Cohen', 'Mark Basnight', 'François Coetzer', 'Fedi Bashur', 'Aleksander Karastoyanov', 'Jamieson Urquhart', 'Laura Giosh', 'Velizar Binev', 'Atanas Srebrev', 'Shari Watson', 'Eric Ali', 'Petar Mitev', 'Stowe Blankenship', 'Jordan Aboutall', 'Brian Manning', 'Brenda Galaz-Magyar', 'Mackenzie Evans', 'Vitaly Zdorovetskiy', 'Sam Cig', 'J.R. Esposito', 'Amanda Cerny', 'Jeko Bogoslovov', 'Ivan Kaloshev', 'Shauna Small', 'Liza Mircheva', 'Owen Davis', 'Bleona', 'Jonathan Yunger', 'Maya Markova', 'Orlin Pavlov', 'Manal El-Feitury', "Rachel O'Meara"]

Action, Thriller, Adventure, Drama, Crime film, Suspense, Historical Fiction, Crime Fiction

['USA']

English

['English']

['Millennium Media', 'Nu Image Bulgaria', '211 Productions']

heist

heist-movies

In Afghanistan, disgruntled and ruthless mercenaries Tre, Rob, Luke, and Hyde torture a war profiteer who owes them money. Before they kill him, he discloses it has been wired to a bank in the city of Chesterford, Massachusetts. Interpol Agent Rossi is reassigned from an operation in Kabul to investigate the mercenaries. In Chesterford, quiet high school student Kenny Ralston is suspended for fighting off a bully. The school's vice principal informs Kenny's mother, emergency department nurse Shawnee Ralston, that Kenny must go on a police ride-along or face expulsion. Kenny is assigned to Chesterford Police Department Officer Mike Chandler and his son-in-law Officer Steve MacAvoy. Mike, a widower whose relationship with his daughter Lisa is deteriorating, learns from Steve that Lisa is pregnant. Kenny and the officers do not get along, and Kenny records an incident where the officers hold a suspect at gunpoint, frustrating Mike, who feels people who record police are obstructing their duties. Elsewhere, the mercenaries prepare to rob the Chesterford bank for the wired money, worth $1.3 million. Hyde plants an IED in a diner elsewhere in Chesterford to provide a diversion, and the mercenaries rob the bank, taking numerous hostages. While on a coffee break nearby, Mike notices an illegally-parked SUV outside the bank. Tre and Hyde detonate the IED, destroying the diner. The Chesterford PD dispatches all available units to the explosion, issuing Captain Horst situational command, and Shawnee's hospital prepares to receive casualties, while Rossi is ordered to assist the Chesterford PD. However, Mike, having warmed up to Kenny, chooses to stay in their beat and keep him around, to Steve's chagrin. Agitated at Mike and Steve's refusal to leave, Hyde opens fire on their cruiser, forcing it to crash. Steve calls for backup and rescues Kenny, and the officers return fire and kill Hyde while Kenny attempts to record the shootout. Mike learns Steve is injured and prepares a makeshift tourniquet. Meanwhile, Rossi arrives in Chesterford as police begin to divert their attention to the robbery. Backup arrives, including Officers Hanson and Jacobs and attempts to medevac Steve, but the robbers shoot numerous hostages, bystanders, and officers, including Jacobs. Steve, fearing he will die, asks Kenny to record a farewell message for Lisa. Backup eventually manages to extract Steve, but Kenny is separated from Mike in the bank's parking lot. At the hospital, Shawnee and EMTs treat the casualties from the diner and the bank, including Steve and Jacobs. Lisa arrives at the hospital and learns from Jacobs that Mike is still at the scene looking for Kenny; Shawnee overhears their conversation and begins to worry just as Kenny calls to tell her he is safe. By now, a massive police presence has formed at the bank, including the Massachusetts State Police, Chesterford PD SWAT, Horst, and Rossi. As Mike and Hanson head to the parking lot to search for Kenny, Tre releases the hostages; however, Horst finds an IED in a hostage's pocket and sacrifices himself to protect others from the blast. With the hostages secured, SWAT assaults the bank but are repelled by the robbers. Rob and Luke charge out to battle the police but are killed while Tre escapes into the parking lot and fires on Kenny and the officers, killing Hanson and injuring Mike. As Tre prepares to execute Mike, Kenny pulls Hanson's sidearm just as Rossi arrives, and both shoot and kill Tre. Mike and Kenny are extracted from the scene and are met by Lisa and Shawnee. One year later, Mike arrives home to a birthday party held for him by his friends and family, including Steve, Lisa, Kenny, and Mike’s new granddaughter. As he joins the celebrations, he asks Kenny to take pictures for him.

22 Jump Street

Phil Lord, Christopher Miller

['Jonah Hill', 'Channing Tatum', 'Peter Stormare', 'Wyatt Russell', 'Amber Stevens West', 'Jillian Bell', 'Ice Cube', 'Keith Lucas', 'Kenneth Lucas', 'Nick Offerman', 'Jimmy Tatro', 'Caroline Aaron', 'Craig Roberts', 'Marc Evan Jackson', 'Joe Chrest', 'Eddie J. Fernandez', 'Rye Rye', 'Johnny Pemberton', 'Stanley Wong', 'Dax Flame', 'Diplo', 'Tyler Forrest', 'John Bostic', 'Richard Grieco', 'Dustin Nguyen', 'Ian Hoch', 'Kate Adair', 'Drew Cross', 'Katrina Despain', 'Oscar Gale', 'Janeline Hayes', 'Jackie Bohne', 'Jason R.A. Foster', 'Toby Nichols', 'Toby Holguin', 'Eddie Perez', 'Mickey Facchinello', 'Tom Ventura', 'Brian Schacter', 'Sam Schweikert', 'Jack Maloney', 'Rob Riggle', 'Dave Franco', 'Queen Latifah', 'Patton Oswalt', 'H. Jon Benjamin', 'Anna Faris', 'Bill Hader', 'Seth Rogen', 'Will Forte', "Ramiro 'Ramir' Delgado Ruiz", 'Vanessa Amaya', 'Chris Angerdina', 'John L. Armijo', 'Eric Berris', 'Libby Blake', 'Renaldo Brady', 'Emanuel Brooks', 'Tom Bui', 'Gustavo Cardozo', 'Blas Sien Diaz', 'Eddie Eniel', 'Joseph Fischer', 'Julian Garnik', 'Juan Gaspard', 'Kurt Grossi', 'Lyle R. Guidroz', 'Christopher Heskey', 'Skyler Joy', 'Adam Karchmer', 'Kurt Krause', 'Joshua Lamboy', 'Jaci LeJeune', 'Ashlyn McEvers', 'Anna Medley', 'David Stephen Mitchell', 'Jesse Moore', 'Jean Pierre Prats', 'Anthony Ramsey', 'Lisa Raziano', 'Gus Rhodes', 'Edwin Richardson', 'Jeff Sanders', 'Larissa Santiago', 'William Schaff', 'Robert Segari', 'Carl Singleton', 'Anne Speed', 'Sean Stevens', 'John Teal Jr.', 'Steve Terada', 'Joseph Uzzell', 'Donald Watkins', 'Stephen Daniel Wayne', 'Steven Williams', 'Michael Wozniak', 'Jesse Yarborough', 'Don Yesso', 'Ahmed Zakzouk']

Comedy, Action, Buddy cop, Buddy, Crime, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller, Detective fiction, Crime Fiction, Police procedural

['USA']

English

['English']

['Columbia Pictures', 'Original Film', 'MRC', 'LStar Capital', 'Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer', 'Stephen J. Cannell Productions', '75 Year Plan Productions', 'Storyville Films', 'JHF Productions', '33andOut Productions']

comedy

vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time

Two years following their success in the 21 Jump Street program, Schmidt and Jenko are back on the streets investigating narcotics trafficking. However, after failing in the pursuit of a group of drug dealers led by "The Ghost", Deputy Chief Hardy puts the duo back on the undercover program to work for Captain Dickson – now located across the street at 22 Jump Street. Their assignment is to go undercover as college students and locate the supplier of a synthetic drug known as "WHY-PHY" (Work Hard? Yes, Play Hard? Yes) that killed a student photographed buying it on campus from a dealer. At college, Jenko befriends a pair of jocks named Zook and Rooster, who soon become the prime suspects of the investigation. Jenko starts attending parties with the jocks who do not take as kindly to Schmidt. Meanwhile, Schmidt gets the attention of an art student, Maya, by feigning an interest in slam poetry. After hitting it off immediately, the two have sex together, to the chagrin of Maya's roommate Mercedes, and Schmidt later finds out that Maya is the daughter of Captain Dickson, whom Schmidt bragged to about "getting laid", much to his dismay. Despite sleeping together, Maya tells Schmidt not to take it seriously, and he starts to feel left out as Jenko bonds more and more with Zook who encourages him to join the football team. When Schmidt and Jenko are unable to identify the dealer, they visit Mr. Walters and Eric in prison for advice (with Eric being in a forced relationship with Mr. Walters, who received a vagina after Schmidt shot his penis off), and Walters points out a unique tattoo on the arm of the dealer in the photograph. Whilst hanging out with Zook and Rooster, Jenko notices that Rooster does not have the tattoo but sees it on Zook's arm. Schmidt and Jenko are invited to join a fraternity led by the jocks, but Schmidt refuses, furthering the tension between the two as Jenko passes their requirements. They later realize that Zook is not the dealer but rather another customer. Soon afterwards, they find The Ghost and his men on campus, but The Ghost again evades them. Jenko reveals to Schmidt that he has been offered a football scholarship with Zook and is uncertain about his future as a police officer. After a car chase across campus, Schmidt reveals his true identity and moves out of the dorm, angering Maya. Spring break arrives, and Schmidt goes after The Ghost. He is joined by Jenko, so the two can have one final mission together. The pair head to the beach where The Ghost is likely to be dealing WHY-PHY. Inside a bar, they find Mercedes, who is The Ghost's daughter, giving instructions to other dealers. The pair, backed up by Dickson and the rest of Jump Street, ambush the meeting, causing the Ghost to flee and Mercedes to take Dickson as a hostage. Schmidt chases after Mercedes, and after a scuffle apprehends her with the help of Dickson and Maya. The Ghost attempts to escape in a helicopter; Schmidt and Jenko manage to jump across to it and both let go, where Jenko then throws a grenade into the helicopter. The Ghost celebrates his victory prematurely while the grenade explodes. Jenko tells Schmidt that he still wants to be a police officer as he believes their differences help their partnership, and the two reconcile in front of a cheering crowd. Dickson approaches them claiming to have a new mission undercover at a medical school. During the end credits, Jenko and Schmidt go on a variety of undercover missions to different schools, which are portrayed as 21 fictional sequels, one in which Schmidt is played by Seth Rogen (which only Jenko seemed to notice) after a contract dispute with Jonah Hill; an animated series; a video game; an electronic target game; and a toy line. One mission features Detective Booker while another sees the return of The Ghost, who somehow survived the helicopter explosion. The post-credits scene shows Eric and Mr. Walters lying in bed together, with Mr. Walters suggesting that he's pregnant with Eric's child.

28 Days Later

Danny Boyle

['Cillian Murphy', 'Naomie Harris', 'Brendan Gleeson', 'Megan Burns', 'Christopher Eccleston', 'Noah Huntley', 'Luke Mably', 'Stuart McQuarrie', 'Ricci Harnett', 'Leo Bill', 'Junior Laniyan', 'Ray Panthaki', 'Sanjay Rambaruth', 'Marvin Campbell', 'Christopher Dunne', 'Emma Hitching', 'Alex Palmer', 'Bindu De Stoppani', 'Jukka Hiltunen', 'David Schneider', 'Alexander Delamere', 'Kim McGarrity', 'Toby Sedgwick', 'Justin Hackney', 'Adrian Christopher', 'Richard Dwyer', 'Nick Ewans', 'Terry John', 'Paul Kasey', 'Sebastian Knapp', 'Nicholas James Lewis', 'Jenni Lush', 'Tristan Matthiae', 'Jeffrey Rann', 'Joelle Simpson', 'Al Stokes', 'Steen Young']

Horror, Zombie, Science fiction, Action, Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, Drama, Suspense, Thriller

['UK']

English

['English', 'Spanish']

['DNA Films']

sci-fi, post-apocalyptic, top-rated

post-apocalyptic-movies, letterboxds-top-250-science-fiction-films

A highly contagious, aggression-inducing virus called the "rage virus" is unleashed in Great Britain after an infected chimpanzee is freed from its cage in a laboratory in Cambridge by a group of animal rights activists. Within seconds of exposure after freeing the enraged chimp, one of the activists succumbs to the virus and immediately infects another, becoming the patient zero of the incoming epidemic. The virus spreads rapidly across Great Britain, resulting in total societal collapse. Twenty-eight days after the initial outbreak, bicycle courier Jim, who had an accident and fell into a coma prior to the outbreak, awakens in St Thomas' Hospital in London, which has been completely deserted with visible signs of catastrophe. After wandering the streets of London and entering a church, Jim is chased by infected humans before being rescued by survivors Selena and Mark, who take Jim to their place of refuge in a streetside store. At Jim's request, the group travel on foot to his parents' house in Deptford, where he learns that they died by suicide, leaving a note in which they prayed he did not wake up. The group decide it is too late to return to their place of refuge, and stay the night. While the others are asleep, Jim lights a candle to reminisce over photos and memories of his family, in so doing accidentally attracting the infected with the light. Shortly thereafter, Mark gets an open wound on his arm which is exposed to infected blood during an attack, prompting Selena to immediately kill him before he can turn. Jim and Selena encounter cab driver Frank and his daughter Hannah at Balfron Tower, from whom they learn of a military broadcast offering protection at a blockade in Manchester. With supplies dwindling, Frank asks Jim and Selena to accompany him and Hannah to the blockade, which they accept. The group travels to Manchester in Frank's cab, but upon arriving, they find the blockade deserted. As the group struggles to plot their next move, Frank is infected when a drop of blood falls into his eye. The soldiers arrive shortly afterwards and shoot Frank dead. The remaining survivors are brought to a fortified mansion under the command of Major Henry West. However, the safety promised by the soldiers turns out to be a ruse when West reveals to Jim that the broadcast was intended to lure female survivors into sexual slavery. Major West has Jim and Sergeant Farrell taken out to be shot after they refuse to go along with his plan, but Jim escapes after Farrell creates a distraction. While hiding in a pile of bodies, Jim sees a jet contrail in the sky, showing proof of outside survivors for the first time. After luring West away from the mansion, Jim releases Private Mailer, an infected soldier kept chained for observations, resulting in the death or infection of all of West's men. Jim, Selena, and Hannah attempt to leave in Frank's cab, but West, who sneaked into the back seat, shoots Jim. Hannah retaliates by putting the cab in reverse, allowing Mailer to pull West through the rear window and kill him, while the three survivors drive off. Another twenty-eight days later, Jim recovers at a remote cottage in Cumbria, where the infected are shown lying openly in the roads, emaciated and dying of starvation. As a RAF Hawker Hunter jet flies overhead, Jim, Selena, and Hannah unfurl a huge cloth banner spelling the word "HELLO". The three survivors optimistically watch the jet as the pilot spots them.

28 Weeks Later

Juan Carlos Fresnadillo

['Robert Carlyle', 'Rose Byrne', 'Jeremy Renner', 'Harold Perrineau', 'Catherine McCormack', 'Imogen Poots', 'Mackintosh Muggleton', 'Idris Elba', 'Amanda Walker', 'Shahid Ahmed', 'Garfield Morgan', 'Emily Beecham', 'Jordan El-Balawi', 'Meghan Popiel', 'Stewart Alexander', 'Philip Bulcock', 'Chris Ryman', 'Tristan Tait', 'William Meredith', 'Thomas Garvey', 'Tom Bodell', 'Andrew Byron', 'Sarah Finigan', 'Roderic Culver', 'Maeve Malley-Ryan', 'Ed Coleman', 'Karen Meagher', 'Amanda Lawrence', 'Drew Rhys-Williams', 'Raymond Waring', 'Kish Sharma', 'Jane Thorne', 'Matt Reeves', 'Dean Alexandrou', 'Gareth Clarke', 'Debbie Kurup', 'Selina Lo', 'João Costa Menezes', 'Jude Poyer', 'Katie Borland', 'Pip Henderson', 'Jason Curle', 'Simon Delaney']

Horror, Action, Science fiction, Disaster, Drama, Suspense, Thriller

['Spain', 'UK', 'USA']

English

['English']

['DNA Films', 'Figment Films', 'Sociedad General de Cine S.A.', 'UK Film Council', 'Fox Atomic', 'Koan']

post-apocalyptic

post-apocalyptic-movies

During the original outbreak of the Rage virus, Don, his wife Alice, and four more survivors hide in a cottage on the outskirts of London. They hear a terrified boy pounding at their door and Don lets him in. Minutes later, they discover that infected people have followed the boy. Don pleads with Alice to leave the boy but she refuses so he abandons them and escapes on a boat while Alice, the boy, and the rest of the survivors are presumably killed. After the infected begin to die of starvation, NATO forces take control of Britain. Twenty-eight weeks after the outbreak, an American force, under the command of Brigadier General Stone, brings in settlers. Among the new arrivals are Don and Alice's children, Tammy and Andy, who were out of the country during the outbreak. They are admitted to District One, a heavily guarded safe zone on the Isle of Dogs, where they are reunited with their father. Within hours of arriving, and ignoring multiple severe verbal and signage warnings, Tammy and Andy ignore all possible consequences and sneak out of the safe zone, returning to their former home to collect old family photographs. Andy finds Alice alive in a delirious, semi-conscious state. The three are discovered by American soldiers and taken back to District One, where they are placed in isolation. Alice is taken to a quarantine room, where she is tested by Scarlet, a United States Army medical officer, and found to be an asymptomatic carrier of the Rage virus. Don makes an unauthorized visit to Alice, begging her to forgive him. They kiss and Don is infected. He savagely kills her and goes on a rampage. Scarlet rescues Tammy and Andy, aware that their genetic makeup might hold the key to a cure. Don starts a domino effect of rapid rage infection. Amidst the chaos, American soldiers cannot distinguish between panicked survivors and rampaging infected, and are told to shoot everyone. One of the snipers, Sergeant Doyle, unable to keep complying with the order, escapes with Scarlet, Tammy, and Andy as the U.S. Air Force firebombs District One. Don is among the infected who survive the bombings and escapes into abandoned London. Doyle's pilot friend Flynn arrives by helicopter to pick up Doyle but tells him to leave the civilians and head to Wembley Stadium. Doyle ignores his instructions and escorts the trio to Wembley. They break into an abandoned Volvo V70 to escape nerve gas released to kill the infected but are unable to start the car. As American soldiers with flamethrowers draw near, Doyle exits the car to push-start it and is burned alive. Scarlet and the kids escape into the London Underground, but Don kills Scarlet and bites Andy. Tammy shoots Don dead. Andy remains symptom-free but a carrier of the Rage virus. They are picked up by Flynn, who flies them over the destruction of District One they precipitated, then onwards to France. Twenty-eight days later, a French-accented voice requesting help is heard from the radio in Flynn's abandoned helicopter. A group of the infected emerge at the Paris Métro with a view of the Eiffel Tower, revealing that the virus has spread to continental Europe.

3 Idiots

Rajkumar Hirani

['Aamir Khan', 'R. Madhavan', 'Sharman Joshi', 'Kareena Kapoor Khan', 'Boman Irani', 'Omi Vaidya', 'Rahul Kumar', 'Mona Singh', 'Javed Jaffrey', 'Olivier Lafont', 'Parikshat Sahni', 'Farida Dadi', 'Amardeep Jha', 'Mukund Bhatt', 'Ali Fazal', 'Arun Bali', 'Supriya Shukla', 'Dushyant Wagh', 'Akhil Mishra', 'Atul Tiwari', 'Achyut Potdar', 'Chaitali Bose', 'Jayant Kripalani', 'Rajeev Ravindranathan', 'Shoaib Ahmed']

Hindi cinema, Comedy, Romance, Adventure, Melodrama, Comedy drama, Drama, Tragicomedy, Coming-of-age story

['India']

Hindi

['Hindi', 'English']

['Vidhu Vinod Chopra Productions', 'Vinod Chopra Films']

comedy

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Chatur Ramalingam, a successful vice-president, reminds his old college rivals Farhan Qureshi and Raju Rastogi about a bet he made with their classmate and Chatur's nemesis Rancho ten years ago. Chatur has returned to India to conclude a business deal with Phunsukh Wangdu, a famous inventor. The three go to Shimla to find Rancho, reminiscing about their time at the Imperial College of Engineering (ICE) in Delhi. In college, Rancho was passionate about learning and often clashed with the strict college president, Dr. Viru Sahastrabuddhe ("Virus"). When a student named Joy Lobo is denied graduation by Virus for not submitting a project, Rancho tries to help but finds Joy has committed suicide by hanging. Rancho confronts Virus about the intense pressure on students, but Virus dismisses him. One night, Rancho, Farhan, and Raju crash a wedding party, not realising it is for Virus's daughter Mona. Mona's younger sister, Pia, is initially upset with Rancho but starts liking him after he exposes her materialistic fiancé Suhas. Pia breaks up with Suhas. Virus warns Farhan and Raju about associating with Rancho, so Raju moves in with Chatur, a competitive student who relies on rote learning. Rancho and Farhan prank Chatur by altering his Hindi speech, leading to his humiliation. Furious, Chatur challenges Rancho to see who is more successful in ten years. Before their final exams, Raju’s father has a heart attack. Rancho and Pia help save him. Virus bets Rancho that neither Farhan nor Raju will get a job after graduation. Rancho tells his friends why they struggle: Farhan's passion is photography, not engineering, and Raju lacks confidence. Farhan and Raju promise to confront their issues if Rancho confesses his feelings for Pia. They drunkenly break into Virus's house, and Farhan and Raju urinate on his letterbox. Virus notices Raju at his doorstep and threatens to expel him unless he betrays Rancho. Not wanting to disappoint his family or to betray Rancho, Raju attempts suicide but survives, leading Virus to revoke the expulsion. Raju succeeds in the interview and gets a job, and Farhan convinces his father to let him become a photographer. Humiliated at Raju's success, Virus sets a difficult exam to fail Raju so he cannot claim the job. With Pia’s help, Rancho and Farhan steal the exam paper, but Raju refuses to cheat and throws it away. They are nonetheless caught and are all expelled. Following the trio's expulsion, Pia, having given the office key to the trio, finally confronts her older sister, Mona, and her father by revealing that her brother had actually committed suicide due to the pressure his father had put him through into becoming an engineer, since he wanted to pursue his own dream by becoming a writer instead, but only to simply write a suicide note. On a stormy night, a pregnant Mona goes into labour while unable to reach a hospital, but successfully delivers her baby with Rancho's, Farhan's and Raju's help. In gratitude, Virus forgives the three, reluctantly passing down his space pen to Rancho as a mark of honor. On graduation day, Rancho disappears. In the present, Farhan, Raju, and Chatur reach Shimla and find out that the real Rancho was a different man. Their friend was actually Chhote, the son of Rancho’s family's gardener, who took Rancho’s place to get an education and earn a degree for him. The real Rancho tells them Chhote’s address in Ladakh. On the way, they stop Pia’s wedding with Suhas in Manali and convince her to join them. In Ladakh, they find a school run by their friend. Chatur mocks Rancho, thinking he is merely a teacher, but is shocked to realize that he is actually Phunsukh Wangdu, the person he is eager to make a business deal with. Chatur accepts defeat, and the friends run away laughing.

300

Zack Snyder

['Gerard Butler', 'Lena Headey', 'Dominic West', 'David Wenham', 'Vincent Regan', 'Michael Fassbender', 'Tom Wisdom', 'Andrew Pleavin', 'Andrew Tiernan', 'Rodrigo Santoro', 'Giovani Cimmino', 'Stephen McHattie', 'Greg Kramer', 'Alex Ivanovici', 'Kelly Craig', 'Eli Snyder', 'Tyler Neitzel', 'Tim Connolly', 'Marie-Julie Rivest', 'Sebastian St. Germain', 'Peter Mensah', 'Arthur Holden', 'Michael Sinelnikoff', 'John Dunn-Hill', 'Dennis St John', 'Neil Napier', 'Dylan Smith', 'Maurizio Terrazzano', 'Robert Paradis', 'Kwasi Songui', 'Alexandra Beaton', 'Frédéric Smith', 'Loucas Minchillo', 'Nicholas Minchillo', 'Tom Rack', 'David Francis', 'James Bradford', 'Andrew Shaver', 'Robin Wilcock', 'Kent McQuaid', 'Marcel Jeannin', 'Jere Gillis', 'Jeremy Thibodeau', 'Tyrone Benskin', 'Robert Maillet', 'Patrick Sabongui', 'Leon Laderach', 'Dave Lapommeray', 'Vervi Mauricio', 'Charles Papasoff', 'Isabelle Champeau', 'Veronique-Natale Szalankiewicz', 'Maéva Nadon', 'David Thibodeau', 'David Schaap', 'Jean Michel Paré', 'Stewart Myiow', 'Andreanne Ross', 'Sara Giacalone', 'Ariadne Bourbonnière', 'Isabelle Fournel', 'Sandrine Merette-Attiow', 'Elisabeth Etienne', 'Danielle Hubbard', 'Ruan Vibegaard', 'Geneviève Guilbault', 'Bonnie Mak', 'Amélie Sorel', 'Caroline Aspirot', 'Gina Gagnon', 'Tania Trudel', 'Stéphanie Aubry', 'Mercedes Leggett', 'Stephania Gambaroff', 'Chanelle Lamothe', 'Sabrina-Jasmine Guilbault', 'Manny Cortez Tuazon', 'Cindy', 'Atif Y. Siddiqi', 'Camille Rizkallah', 'Trudi Hanley', 'Neon Cobran', 'Gary A. Hecker']

War, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Superhero, Drama, Historical Fiction

['UK', 'USA']

English

['English']

['Virtual Studios', 'Legendary Pictures', 'Hollywood Gang Productions', 'Atmosphere Entertainment MM', 'Nimar Studios', 'Warner Bros. Pictures', 'Cruel & Unusual Films']

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Dilios, a hoplite in the Spartan army, narrates the story of a Spartan king named Leonidas I from childhood to kingship through the Spartan child-rearing system and the Battle of Thermopylae. A Persian herald arrives at Sparta demanding "earth and water" as a token of submission to King Xerxes. He urges Leonidas to submit and insults Queen Gorgo. In response, Leonidas and the Spartan soldiers throw the herald and his envoy into a bottomless pit. Leonidas then visits the Ephors, proposing a strategy to drive back the Persians through Thermopylae to funnel the Persians into a narrow pass, giving the Greeks' heavy infantry the advantage over the numerically superior Persian light infantry. The Ephors warn Leonidas that the Carneia is approaching and that Sparta should not wage war during that time. They consult the Oracle, who decrees that Sparta should honor the Carneia. As Leonidas angrily departs, an agent from Xerxes appears alongside a Spartan politician, Theron, rewarding the Ephors for their covert support. Although the Ephors have denied him permission to mobilize Sparta's army, Leonidas gathers 300 soldiers. Theron and the Council confront Leonidas about defying the Ephors by going to war. Leonidas suggests they will not go but depart for war shortly after that. They are joined by a few thousand Arcadians and other Greeks led by Daxos. They reach Thermopylae, watching a storm sinking many Persian navy ships at the Aegean Sea. The Spartans then scouted out a large Persian encampment and constructed the wall, using slain Persian scouts as mortar. Meanwhile, Leonidas encounters Ephialtes, a deformed Spartan whose parents fled Sparta to spare him certain infanticide. Ephialtes asks to join Leonidas' army and warns him of a secret goat path the Persians could use to outflank and surround the Spartans. Though sympathetic, Leonidas rejects him since his deformity could compromise the phalanx formation. The battle begins soon after the Spartans' refusal to lay down their weapons. Because of the narrowed pathway, the Spartans repel many waves of the advancing Persian army. Xerxes personally approaches Leonidas and offers him immense wealth and power in exchange for his submission. Leonidas declines and mocks the inferior quality of Xerxes' warriors. Xerxes sends in his elite guard, the Immortals, accompanied by the monstrous Uber Immortal, but the Greeks are once again victorious. On the second day, Xerxes sends in new waves of armies, including war elephants and an armored rhinoceros, with no success. Meanwhile, an embittered Ephialtes has defected to Xerxes and reveals the secret path in exchange for wealth, women, and a uniform. The Arcadians retreat upon learning of Ephialtes' betrayal, but the Spartans choose to stay. Leonidas orders an injured but reluctant Dilios to return to Sparta and inform his compatriots of what has happened. In Sparta, Queen Gorgo attempted to persuade the Spartan Council to reinforce the 300 Spartan soldiers making their last stand. Gorgo comes to Theron for help, having been allowed to make her plea to the Council, but Theron rapes her in exchange for his needed assistance, and the next day betrays her and attempts to defame her as an adultress before the Council. Gorgo kills Theron, revealing a bag of Xerxes' gold in his robe. Acknowledging his betrayal, the Council unanimously agrees to send reinforcements. On the third day, the Persians, led by Ephialtes, traverse the secret path, encircling the Spartans. Xerxes' general again demands their surrender, but the Spartans refuse, and Stelios kills the general. Angered, Xerxes orders his troops to attack. Leonidas throws his spear at Xerxes, slicing his face to prove the God-King's mortality. Leonidas and the remaining Spartans fight to the last man until they finally succumb to an arrow barrage. Dilios concludes his tale before the Spartan Council. Inspired by Leonidas's sacrifice, the Greeks mobilize an army, with Sparta leading the charge. Dilios, now head of the Spartan-led Greek army, gives a rousing emotional speech in tribute of King Leonidas and the 300 who sacrificed their lives a year prior. He then leads the Spartan-led Greek army into battle against the Persians, beginning the Battle of Plataea.

303

Hans Weingartner

['Mala Emde', 'Anton Spieker', 'Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey', 'Thomas Schmuckert', 'Jörg Bundschuh', 'Hannah Ley', 'Caroline Erikson']

Romance, Comedy, Road, Melodrama, Drama

['Germany']

German

['German', 'Hungarian']

['Kahuuna Films', 'NEUESUPER', 'Starhaus Produktionen']

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When Jule (Mala Emde) picks up hitchhiker Jan (Anton Spieker [de]) a love story unfolds.

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

Cristian Mungiu

['Anamaria Marinca', 'Laura Vasiliu', 'Vlad Ivanov', 'Alexandru Potocean', 'Luminița Gheorghiu', 'Adi Cărăuleanu', 'Liliana Mocanu', 'Doru Ana', 'Ion Sapdaru', 'Cerasela Iosifescu', 'Tania Popa', 'Teodor Corban', 'Eugenia Bosânceanu', 'Mărioara Sterian', 'Georgeta Păduraru Burdujan', 'Geo Dobre', 'Mădălina Ghițescu', 'Cătălina Harabagiu', 'Sânziana Tarța', 'Adina Cristescu', 'Constantin Bojog', 'Cristina Burbuz']

['Drama']

['Belgium', 'Romania']

Romanian

['Romanian']

['Saga Film', 'Mobra Films', 'CNC']

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In 1987, two university students in an unnamed Romanian town, Otilia Mihărtescu and Gabriela "Găbița" Drăguț, are roommates in a dormitory. When Găbița becomes pregnant, the two young women arrange a meeting with Mr. Bebe in a hotel, where he is to perform an illegal abortion. At the college dorm, Găbița and Otilia review the items they need for the day. As Găbița nervously sits and waits, Otilia bargains and buys soap and cigarettes from the dormitory shop. Afterwards, Otilia takes a bus to visit her boyfriend Adi, from whom she borrows money. Adi asks Otilia to visit his family that night, as it is his mother's birthday. Otilia initially declines but relents after Adi becomes upset. Otilia heads to the Unirea hotel, where Găbița has booked a room, only to be informed by an unfriendly receptionist that there is no reservation under Găbița's last name. Otilia visits another hotel, the Tineretului, and after much begging and haggling, is able to book a room at an expensive rate. After speaking with Găbița on the telephone, Otilia goes to a rendezvous point to meet with Bebe, although he had asked Găbița to meet him personally. Mr. Bebe grows angry upon hearing that Găbița is not at the planned hotel. At the Tineretului, Bebe discovers that Găbița's claim that her pregnancy was in its second or third month was a lie, and that it has been at least four months. This changes the procedure and also adds the risk of a murder charge. While the two women were certain that they would pay no more than 3,000 lei for the abortion, it slowly becomes clear that Bebe expects both women to have sex with him. Desperate and distressed, Otilia has sex with Bebe, as does Găbița. Bebe then performs the abortion by injecting a probe and an unnamed fluid into Găbița's uterus and leaves Otilia instructions on how to dispose of the fetus when it comes out. Otilia is exasperated by Găbița's lies but continues to help and care for her. Otilia leaves Găbița at the Tineretului to attend Adi's mother's birthday party. She is still disturbed but stays and has dinner with Adi's mother's friends, who are mostly doctors. They converse about trivial matters while Otilia and Adi remain silent. After Otilia accepts a cigarette in front of Adi's parents, one of the guests starts talking about lost values and respect for elders. Adi and Otilia retreat to his room, where she tells him about Găbița's abortion. They begin debating what would happen if it were Otilia who was pregnant, as Adi is opposed to abortion. After the argument, Otilia calls Găbița from Adi's house. Găbița does not answer, so Otilia decides to return to the hotel. When Otilia enters the hotel room, Găbița is lying on the bed, and she tells Otilia that the fetus has been expelled and is in the bathroom. Otilia wraps the fetus with some towels and puts it in a bag, while Găbița asks her to bury it. Otilia walks outside, finally climbing to the top of a building, as Mr. Bebe had suggested, and drops the bag in a trash chute. She returns to the Tineretului and finds Găbița sitting in its restaurant. Otilia sits and tells Găbița that they are never going to talk about the episode again. Otilia stares blankly at Găbița.

5 Centimeters per Second

Makoto Shinkai

['Kenji Mizuhashi', 'Yoshimi Kondou', 'Satomi Hanamura', 'Risa Mizuno', 'Ayaka Onoue', 'Yuka Terasaki', 'Yuko Nakamura', 'Masami Iwasaki', 'Ryou Naitou', 'Hiroshi Shimozaki', 'Takahiro Hirano', 'Akira Nakagawa', 'Yoshiko Iseki', 'Suguru Inoue', 'Rion Kako', 'Rika Nakamura', 'Miki Suga', 'Mika Sakenobe', 'Yumiko Atashika', 'Yukako Saito']

Anime, Animation, Romance, Melodrama, Drama

['Japan']

Japanese

['Japanese']

['CoMix Wave Films']

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The story is set in Japan, beginning in the early 1990s up until the present day (2008),[a] with each act centered on a boy named Takaki Tōno.[3]

8½

Federico Fellini

['Marcello Mastroianni', 'Anouk Aimée', 'Sandra Milo', 'Claudia Cardinale', 'Rossella Falk', 'Barbara Steele', 'Madeleine Lebeau', 'Caterina Boratto', 'Eddra Gale', 'Guido Alberti', 'Mario Conocchia', 'Bruno Agostini', 'Cesarino Miceli Picardi', 'Jean Rougeul', 'Mario Pisu', 'Yvonne Casadei', 'Ian Dallas', 'Mino Doro', 'Nadia Sanders', 'Georgia Simmons', 'Edy Vessel', 'Tito Masini', 'Annie Gorassini', 'Rossella Como', 'Mark Herron', 'Marisa Colomber', 'Neil Robinson', 'Elisabetta Catalano', 'Eugene Walter', 'Hazel Rogers', 'Gilda Dahlberg', 'Mario Tarchetti', 'Mary Indovino', 'Frazier Rippy', 'Francesco Rigamonti', 'Giulio Paradisi', 'Marco Gemini', 'Giuditta Rissone', 'Annibale Ninchi', 'Dina De Santis', 'Eva Gioia', 'Maria Tedeschi', 'Antonio Acqua', 'Giulio Calì', 'Franco Caracciolo', 'Olimpia Cavalli', 'Sonia Gessner', 'Mathilda Calnan', 'Nadia Balabine']

Comedy, Science fiction, Fantasy, Drama, Classic, Comedy drama

['Italy', 'France']

Italian

['Italian', 'German', 'English', 'French']

['Cineriz', 'Francinex']

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Guido Anselmi, a famous Italian film director, is suffering from "director's block". Stalled on his new science fiction film that includes thinly veiled autobiographical references, he has lost interest amidst artistic and marital difficulties. While attempting to recover from his anxieties at a luxurious spa, Guido hires a well-known critic to review his ideas for his film, but the critic blasts them. Guido has recurring visions of an Ideal Woman, whom he sees as key to his story. His mistress Carla comes to visit him, but Guido puts her in a separate hotel. The film production crew relocates to Guido's hotel in an unsuccessful attempt to get him to work on the film. Guido admits to a cardinal that he is not happy. The cardinal offers little insight. Guido invites his estranged wife Luisa and her friends to join him. They dance, but Guido abandons her for his production crew. Guido confesses to his wife's best friend Rosella that he wanted to make a film that was pure and honest, but he is struggling with something honest to say. Carla surprises Guido, Luisa, and Rosella outside the hotel, and Guido claims that he and Carla ended their affair years earlier. Luisa and Rosella call him on the lie, and Guido slips into a fantasy world where he lords over a harem of women from his life, but a rejected showgirl starts a rebellion. The fantasy women attack Guido with harsh truths about himself and his sex life. When Luisa sees how bitterly Guido represents her in the film, she declares that their marriage is over. Guido's Ideal Woman arrives in the form of an actress named Claudia. Guido explains that his film is about a burned-out man who finds salvation in this Ideal Woman. Claudia concludes that the protagonist is unsympathetic because he is incapable of love. Broken, Guido calls off the film, but the producer and the film's staff announce a press conference. Guido attempts to escape from the journalists and eventually imagines shooting himself in the head. Guido realizes he was attempting to solve his personal confusion by creating a film to help others, when instead he needs to accept his life for what it is. He asks Luisa for her assistance in doing so. Carla tells him that she figured out what he was trying to say: that Guido cannot do without the people in his life. The men and women hold hands and walk briskly around the circle with Guido and Luisa joining them last.

9

Shane Acker

['Elijah Wood', 'Christopher Plummer', 'Martin Landau', 'John C. Reilly', 'Crispin Glover', 'Jennifer Connelly', 'Fred Tatasciore', 'Alan Oppenheimer', 'Tom Kane', 'Helen Wilson']

Animation, Horror, Action, War, Fantasy, Adventure, Science fiction, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction

['Canada', 'Luxembourg', 'Russia', 'USA']

English

['English']

['Tim Burton Productions', 'Relativity Media', 'Arc Productions', 'Starz Animation', 'Focus Features']

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A Beautiful Mind

Ron Howard

['Russell Crowe', 'Jennifer Connelly', 'Ed Harris', 'Paul Bettany', 'Christopher Plummer', 'Josh Lucas', 'Adam Goldberg', 'Anthony Rapp', 'Judd Hirsch', 'Jason Gray-Stanford', 'Austin Pendleton', 'Vivien Cardone', 'Jillie Simon', 'Victor Steinbach', 'Tanya Clarke', 'Thomas F. Walsh', 'Jesse Doran', 'Kent Cassella', 'Patrick Blindauer', 'John Blaylock', 'Roy Thinnes', 'Anthony Easton', 'Cheryl Howard', 'Josh Pais', 'David B. Allen', 'Michael Esper', 'Erik Van Wyck', 'Rance Howard', 'Jane Jenkins', 'Darius Stone', 'Valentina Cardinalli', 'Teagle F. Bougere', 'Amy Walz', 'Tracey Toomey', 'Jennifer Weedon', 'Yvonne Thomas', 'Holly Pitrago', 'Isadore Rosenfeld', 'Tom McNutt', 'Alex Toma', 'Bryce Dallas Howard', "Ryan O'Connor"]

Thriller, Drama, Romance, Action, War, Melodrama, Historical drama, Mystery

['USA']

English

['English']

['Universal Pictures', 'DreamWorks Pictures', 'Imagine Entertainment']

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In 1947, John Nash arrives at Princeton University as a co-recipient, with Martin Hansen, of the Carnegie Scholarship for Mathematics. He meets fellow math and science graduate students Sol, Ainsley, and Bender, as well as his roommate Charles Herman, a literature student. Determined to publish his original idea, Nash is inspired when he and his classmates discuss how to approach a group of women at a bar. Nash argues that a cooperative approach would lead to better chances of success, which leads him to develop a new concept of governing dynamics. His theory earns him an appointment at MIT where he chooses Sol and Bender over Hansen to join him. In 1953, Nash is invited to the Pentagon to decipher encrypted enemy telecommunications. Bored with his work at MIT, he is recruited by the mysterious William Parcher of the United States Department of Defense with a classified assignment: to identify hidden patterns in magazines and newspapers to thwart a Soviet plot. He is given an implanted diode that gives him a passcode to access a drop spot at a mansion. Nash becomes increasingly obsessive with his work and grows paranoid. John Nash received no money from the Pentagon or United States Department of Defense for his secret job. Nash falls in love with a student, Alicia Larde, and they eventually marry. After a shootout between Parcher and Soviet agents, Nash tries to quit his assignment but is forced to continue. While delivering a guest lecture at Harvard University, Nash believes he's being pursued by Soviet agents and is forcibly sedated. He awakens to a psychiatric facility under the care of Dr. Rosen. Dr. Rosen tells Alicia that Nash has schizophrenia and that Charles, Marcee, and Parcher exist only in his imagination. Alicia, Sol and Bender investigate her husband's study, which shows various news and magazine clippings. Alicia uncovers the stack of unopened "classified documents" from the drop point and brings them to Nash, revealing the truth of his assignment. Overcome with shock, Nash slices his arm open to uncover the diode, which doesn't exist. Nash is given a course of insulin shock therapy and eventually released. Frustrated with the side effects of his antipsychotic medication, he secretly stops taking it and starts encountering Parcher, who urges him to continue his assignment in a shed near his home. In 1956, Alicia discovers Nash has relapsed and rushes home. She finds that Nash had left their infant son in the running bathtub, convinced "Charles" was watching the baby. Alicia calls Dr. Rosen, but Nash accidentally hits her and the baby, believing he's saving them from Parcher. As Alicia flees with the baby, Nash realizes that all of them have looked the same ever since he first encountered them, and concludes they must be hallucinations. Against Dr. Rosen's advice, Nash chooses not to be hospitalized again, believing he can deal with his symptoms himself with Alicia's support. Nash returns to Princeton, approaching his old rival Hansen, now head of the mathematics department, who allows him to work out of the library and audit classes. Over the next two decades, Nash learns to ignore his hallucinations and, by the late 1970s, is allowed to teach again. In 1994, Nash is awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on game theory and is honored by his fellow professors. At the ceremony in Stockholm, he dedicates the prize to his wife. Nash reencounters Charles, Marcee, and Parcher after the ceremony, but ignores them as he, Alicia, and their son leave.

A Better Tomorrow

John Woo

['Ti Lung', 'Chow Yun-fat', 'Leslie Cheung', 'Emily Chu Bo-Yee', 'Waise Lee Chi-Hung', 'Tien Feng', 'John Woo', 'Sek Yin-Tsi', 'Kenneth Tsang', 'Wang Hsieh', 'Leung Ming', 'Chan Chi-Fai', 'Kam Hing-Yin', 'Tsui Hark', 'Pierre Tremblay', 'To Wai-Wo', 'Lau Shung-Fung', 'Shing Fu-On', 'Shing Fui-On', 'Hung San-Nam', 'Yeung Sai-Gwan', 'Wong Wai-Tong', 'Chu Tak-Wai', 'Te-Wei Chu', 'Chan Ming-Wai', 'Cheung Wing-Hon', 'Hon Nin-Sang', 'Woo Wing-Tat', 'Ma Yuk-Sing', 'Pan Yung-Sheng', 'Wei Ho Tu', 'Sing-Kwong Tsang', 'Chang Seng-Kwong', 'Lam Foo-Wai', 'Hsin Nan Hung', 'Hsiu Chuan Yang', 'Mak Wai-Cheung', 'Ma Hon-Yuen', 'Danny Ng Wai-Yip']

Action, Gangster, Drama, Crime film, Suspense, Thriller, Detective fiction, Crime Fiction, Neo-noir, Police procedural, Crime-Drama

['Hong Kong']

Cantonese

['Cantonese', 'English']

['Cinema City Co., Ltd.', 'Film Workshop']

action, top-rated

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Sung Tse-Ho is a senior member of a powerful Hong Kong triad, managing a lucrative printing and distributing operation that produces counterfeit American bank notes. Ho is a respected member of the organization, entrusted with the most important transactions. Mark Lee[8] is his best friend, bodyguard, and business partner. The prologue follows a day in the life of Ho and Mark as they watch a fresh batch of counterfeit notes being printed and meet with foreign clients to trade their product for counterfeit Hong Kong dollar notes. Meanwhile, Ho's younger brother, Kit, has just graduated high school and is currently training to join the police. Ho hides his criminal life from his brother and encourages Kit's career choice, while their ailing father pleads for Ho to leave his life of crime. Ho agrees, deciding that he will retire from the triad after his next deal in Taiwan. Shing, a low-ranking triad member, joins Ho after he agrees to mentor him. However, they are ambushed by the Taiwanese triads, leading to a shootout in which Ho and Shing flee into a sewage tunnel entrance, pursued by local law enforcement. Ho tells Shing to run and surrenders to the police in order to buy time for him to escape, leading to a three-year prison sentence. After learning of the deal, the triads attempt to kidnap Ho's father as leverage to ensure Ho's silence in prison; Ho's father is fatally stabbed before Kit and his girlfriend Jackie manage to subdue the attacker. With his dying breath, he pleads Kit to forgive his brother for his criminal actions, and an enraged Kit blames Ho for their father's death. Later, Mark travels to Taiwan to get answers from the Taiwanese triad. He visits a restaurant where the gangster who planned the ambush is dining and kills him following a shootout with his bodyguards. However, Mark's leg is injured in the process, leaving him crippled and requiring a leg brace. After Ho is released from prison, he is approached by a corrupt policeman, who offers to take him back to triad headquarters so he can rejoin his old organization. Ho, determined to start a new life, declines the offer and instead begins working for a taxi company run by another ex-con named Ken. During one of his shifts, Ho encounters Mark, and he discovers that his old friend is now a bitter, broken shell of his former self after Shing stripped him of his position in the triad and cast him aside in his rise to power. When they reunite, Mark urges Ho to confront Shing, but Ho refuses. Ho then seeks out Kit, now a police officer, in hopes of reconciling. However, Ho is harshly rebuffed by Kit, who still blames Ho for their father's death and because his relation to Ho is preventing him from advancing his career. In an effort to prove himself and further distance himself from his brother, Kit becomes obsessed with bringing down Shing, despite Ho's warnings. Shing, hearing of Ho's return to Hong Kong, tries to persuade him to return and help expand their triad into drug trafficking, but Ho refuses. Shing then has his men attack the taxi company, severely beat Mark, and lure Kit into a trap that leaves him critically wounded. Though Ho is still hesitant to take action, Mark is eventually able to persuade Ho to retaliate. Mark steals a computer tape containing printing plate data from the counterfeiting business and they then discover that it was Shing who set up the ambush three years prior. Meanwhile, Shing sets up triad leader Yie and shoots him dead; the witnesses are told to lie to the police that Ho was the killer. Ho and Mark then use the tape to blackmail Shing in exchange for money and an escape boat. Ho ensures that the tape is passed to Kit as proof of Shing's crimes. Using Shing as a hostage, Ho and Mark take the money to a pier, where Shing's men await. There, Ho implores Mark to escape by himself in the boat, and Mark hesitantly agrees. After Mark's departure, Kit arrives on the scene intending to arrest Shing, but ends up being taken hostage. A deal is made to exchange Shing for Kit, but the negotiation spirals into first a standoff and eventually a shootout. Ho and Kit work together against Shing's men, and are overwhelmed. Mark, hearing the sounds of gunfire, quickly returns to the scene. Ho, Kit and Mark kill several of Shing's henchmen, but also suffer injuries in the process. During a lull in the gunfight, Ho attempts to make peace with Kit but is rebuffed again. Mark then reprimands Kit, telling him that Ho's present actions have atoned for the past. As the three are distracted however, Mark is fatally shot in the back by Shing. As the police approach, Shing mocks Ho and Kit, proclaiming that once he enters police custody, his money and power will ensure his swift release. Kit then hands Ho his gun, allowing him to fatally shoot Shing. As Kit watches Shing's body fall to the ground, Ho suddenly handcuffs himself to Kit. The two brothers then begin walking together towards the gathered crowd of police.

A Bittersweet Life

Kim Jee-woon

['Lee Byung-hun', 'Kim Yeong-cheol', 'Shin Min-a', 'Kim Roi-ha', 'Hwang Jung-min', 'Lee Ki-young', 'Oh Dal-su', 'Kim Hae-gon', 'Kim Han', 'Jin Goo', 'Lee Hang-soo', 'Oh Kwang-rok', 'Jeon Kuk-hwan', 'Lee Seung-ho', 'Kim Sung-oh', 'Lee Han-sol', 'Domashchenko Vadym', 'Sonny', 'Nico', 'Kim Soo-nam', 'Kang Young-gu', 'Heo Myeong-haeng', 'Jeong Goo-jin', 'Wang Deok-sang', 'Jang Jae-yong', 'Lee Ahn-gyoo', 'Jeon Na-hyeon', 'Eric Mun', 'Park Jin-woo', 'Woo Sang-jeon', 'Jeong Gye-soon', 'Jung Yu-mi', 'Choi Si-yeong', 'Lee Jae-ook', 'Ahn Jang-hyeok', 'Hwang Dong-seok', 'Kim Pan-seon', 'Jeong Won-kyeong', 'Jo Seon-haeng', 'Kim In-oh', 'Seo Jeong-hee', 'Kim Hyo-hyeon', 'Choi Hyo-hyeon', 'Song Sang-ook', 'Kwak Min-ho', 'Kim Hee-jin', 'Kim Byeong-gook', 'Hong Eun-mi', 'Kim Jae-ok', 'Ryoo Chang-hoon', 'Park Jong-min', 'Lee Kyeong-won', 'Kim Ji-hoon', 'Yoo Joo-hyeon', 'Lee Ji-hee', 'Song Jae-ha', 'Kang Min-hee', 'Kwon Ye-ji', 'Park So-jeong', 'Jo Jung-hee', 'Kwon Chae-yeong', 'Jeon Hye-min', 'Kim Eun-ji', 'Jo Seung-ryong', 'Kim Tae-hee', 'Yoo Sang-seob', 'Kim Dae-yong', 'Jeong Yun-Heon', 'Yoon Jin-yool', 'Jang Han-seung', 'Seo Joon-ha', 'Jeong Mi-hye', 'Choi Chang-kyun', 'Park Seon-woong', 'Oh Yoo-jin', 'Park Seong-gyoon']

Action, Adventure, Drama, Crime film, Thriller, Detective fiction, Police procedural

['South Korea']

Korean

['Korean', 'Russian']

['Bom Film Productions', 'CJ Entertainment']

action, top-rated

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Kim Sun-woo (Lee Byung-hun) is a high-ranking enforcer and loyal subordinate of crime boss Kang (Kim Yeong-cheol). The two share concerns over business tensions with Baek Dae-sik (Hwang Jung-min), a son from a rival family. Recently, Sun-woo had beaten up Baek's men for overstaying their welcome at their nightclub. Kang, preparing to leave on a business trip, assigns Sun-woo to shadow his young mistress Hee-soo (Shin Min-ah), whom he fears is having an "affair" with another man. As Sun-woo performs his duty — following Hee-soo, and escorting her to a music recital — he becomes quietly enthralled by the girl's beauty as glimpses into his lonely, empty personal life become prevalent. When he does come to discover Hee-soo and her lover at her home, he beats up the man and prepares to inform Kang. However, he changes his mind and spares the two on the condition that they no longer see each other again, earning him Hee-soo's enmity. Later, a man asks Sun-woo to apologize for beating up Baek's men, but he refuses. Agitated, he gets drunk in his apartment, and is kidnapped by Baek's henchmen. They prepare to kill him, but Kang saves him with a phone call. Kang, who has learned of his attempted cover-up of Hee-soo's affair, questions his motive, but he doesn't answer. Kang orders his men to torture Sun-woo, but gives him a chance to fix his mistake. Instead, Sun-woo escapes and vows revenge. Sun-woo delivers Hee-soo a farewell gift, then attempts to buy a handgun. The deal goes bad and he ends up killing the arms dealers. This incurs a vendetta with the brother of one of the dealers, who goes to the nightclub he works at. Sun-woo lures Baek to an ice rink and kills him, getting injured in the process. Undeterred, he arrives at the night club and kills his way in. Confronting Kang, Sun-woo vents over how badly he has been treated despite his years of loyalty. Receiving no justification, Sun-woo kills Kang. Baek's henchmen, who have been trailing Sun-woo, shoot at him and Kang's henchmen. Sun-woo emerges as the only survivor of the battle, just as the arms dealer's brother appears. Bleeding profusely, Sun-woo recalls watching Hee-soo's music recital. That was the only time he was seen smiling. The arms dealer's brother then executes him. The film ends with a continuation of an earlier scene, where Sun-woo looks out of a window at the city below him. After making sure he's alone, he begins to shadowbox his reflection in the glass, looking very happy.

A Boy Named Charlie Brown

Bill Melendez

['Peter Robbins', 'Pamelyn Ferdin', 'Glenn Gilger', 'Andy Pforsich', 'Sally Dryer', 'Bill Melendez', 'Ann Altieri', 'Erin Sullivan', 'David Carey', 'Linda Mendelson', 'Christopher DeFaria']

Animation, Comedy, Musical, Children's film, Drama, Comedy drama

['USA']

English

['English']

['United Feature Syndicate (UFS)', 'Cinema Center Films', 'Lee Mendelson Film Productions', 'Bill Melendez Productions']

animated

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When Charlie Brown's baseball team loses their first league game of the season, he becomes morose that he will never win anything. On the way to school one day, Lucy jokingly suggests to Charlie Brown that he’d enter the school spelling bee. However, Linus encourages him to participate despite the jeers of Lucy, Violet, and Patty. Charlie Brown nervously enters the spelling bee and defeats his classmates. As he studies for the school championship, he and Linus sing a song about the spelling mnemonic "I Before E" as Snoopy accompanies them on a Jew's harp. During class, Charlie Brown freezes when challenged with perceive, but recovers when Snoopy plays the song's accompaniment outside the classroom window and wins (although he misspells maze as M-A-Y-S causing him to scream and thus is sent to the principal’s office). His classmates cheerfully follow him home. Lucy proclaims herself his agent. However, they then tell Charlie Brown that he must now take part in the National Spelling Bee in New York City, and he is again filled with self-doubt. As Charlie Brown boards the bus for New York, Linus reluctantly offers him his blanket for good luck, and the other kids cheer for him. Back at home, Linus suffers terrible withdrawal after being separated from his blanket, and convinces Snoopy to go with him to New York to find Charlie Brown and recover it. They find Charlie Brown exhausted from studying for the spelling bee in his hotel room, without any knowledge of the blanket's whereabouts. After an exhaustive search that leads Linus outside the hotel, he returns to find Charlie Brown using the blanket as a shoe-shine cloth. Charlie Brown competes in the spelling bee with Linus and Snoopy in the audience and the rest of the kids watching it on television at home. One-by-one, the other contestants are eliminated until only Charlie Brown and one other boy remain. However, after Charlie Brown spells several words correctly, he is eliminated when he accidentally (and ironically, given that Snoopy is a beagle) misspells beagle as B–E–A–G–E–L, much to the despair of him and his friends. Lucy, who is equally ashamed that Charlie Brown lost, says that he made her mad and turns off the TV. Despite being the national runner-up, Charlie Brown returns home depressed and defeated. The next day, Linus visits a moody and morose Charlie Brown, who has spent the entire day in bed and refuses to see or talk to anybody. Linus tells him that all the kids missed him and that they won their first game of the season, worsening Charlie Brown's bad mood, saying he will never return to school or do anything again. However, Linus points out that the world did not end despite Charlie Brown’s defeat. After Linus leaves, he thinks for a moment, gets dressed, and goes outside. He sees the other kids playing, and when he spots Lucy as she plays with a football, he sneaks up behind her to kick it. She pulls it away and welcomes him home and they look at us as the film ends.

A Brighter Summer Day

Edward Yang

['Chang Chen', 'Lisa Yang', 'Chang Kuo-Chu', 'Elaine Jin', 'Chuan Wang', 'Han Chang', 'Chiang Hsiu-Chiung', 'Stephanie Lai', 'Wang Chi-tsan', 'Lawrence Ko', 'Tan Chih-Kang', 'Chang Ming-Hsin', 'Jung Chun-Lung', 'Hui-Kuo Chou', 'Chi-Chung Liu', 'Ching-Hsiang Ho', 'Chang-Ta Tsai', 'Tsung-Ming Lee', 'Hsiao-Tsui Tang', 'Ming-Ying Chiang', 'Hung-Ming Lin', 'Wang Bosen', 'Hung-Yu Chen', 'Tien-Hsiang Yang', 'Hsiao-Wei Liao', 'Cheng-Ching Lin', 'Ming-Hsun Lee', 'Tai-song Chen', 'Ming-Che Lee', 'Ming-Che Lee', 'Yi-Cheng Chung', 'Chia-Hsien Ho', 'Kang-Nien Cheng', 'Hsien-Liang Hsu', 'Chih-Chien Tang', 'Chien-Hung Tseng', 'Yiwen Cao', 'Martin Liu', 'Yi-Chun Chang', 'Yuan Ling', 'Alex Yang', 'Joyce Ni Shu-Chun', 'Weiming Wang', 'Ye-Ming Wang', 'Chien-Hsiung Cheng', 'De-Hai Chu', 'Pei-Min Shih', 'Liang-Tso Liu', 'Hang Shen', 'Yang-Yeh Fu', 'Lee Ching-Foo', 'Yi-Wen Chen', 'Jen-Chieh Lin', 'Cheng Yuan-Cheng', 'Yi-Chin Tsai', 'Feng Guoqiang', 'Yu-Lung Yin', 'Hsu Ming', 'Chin Tsai', 'Cho Ming', 'Wen-Yen Chang', 'Lien-Lien Hsiao', 'Emily Y. Chang', 'King Shih-Chieh', 'Lih-Ching Lin', 'Ru-Yun Tang', 'Chiu-Yun Lu', 'Chin Ling Tsao', 'Chin Ling Tsao', 'Hsiao Chih-wen', 'Liang-Yueh Chen', 'Li-Hua Chen', 'Ko-Chung Chang', 'Te-Ming Lu', 'Hsiao Ai', 'Hsi-Sheng Chen', 'Shu-Chuan Huang', 'Hung-Shen Shen', 'Meng Chi-Liang', 'Hung Hung', 'Ting-Ni Ma', 'Hu Hsiang-Ping', 'Pao-Kuei Sun', 'Vicky Chiang', 'Ming-Yang Shih', 'Li-Mei Chen', 'Chen Shiang-Chyi', 'Te-Nan Lai', 'Ju-Ping Lin', 'Danny Deng', 'Ming-Yu Shih', 'Heng-Cheng Lin', 'Yi-Hua Shih', 'Kuo-Chih Shu', 'Chang-Ju Kuo', 'Miao-hui Kao', 'Chang-Hao Liu', 'Hsieh Chung-Mou', 'Chung-Chang Tuan', 'Te-chien Hou', 'Tsu-Yun Lang', 'Tang Shiang-Chu', 'Lai-Fu Chen', 'Min-Nen Lee', 'Yu Wei-Yen', 'Dao Nan Wang', 'Chuang Wu', 'Le-Chin Wu', 'Tzu-Chiang Lee', 'Liping Yang', 'Katherine Hui-ling Chou', 'Yuen Ming-Hung', 'Bo Yuan']

Romance, Crime, Melodrama, Drama, Crime film, Crime Fiction, Coming-of-age story

['Taiwan']

Chinese

['Chinese', 'English']

['Yang & His Gang Filmmakers']

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Chang Chen (nickname Si'r), a junior high student in 1959 Taipei, is forced to attend night school after failing a test. This upsets his father, a career government worker, who is aware of and worried about the delinquency rampant among night school students. The next morning, Si'r and his father listen to a radio broadcast of distinguished students. In 1960, Si'r, along with his best friend, Cat, spy on an actress changing clothes during the filming of a drama in a movie studio. Caught by a guard, they steal his flashlight and flee back to school. Si'r, noticing movement in a darkened classroom, turns on the flashlight and startles a pair of lovers but does not see their faces. Two gangs, the Little Park Boys and their rivals the 217s, are introduced. Si'r is not a member of either gang but he is closer to the Little Park Boys. The Little Park Boys are led by Honey, who is hiding in Tainan from police after killing one of the 217s over his girlfriend, Ming. Sly leads the gang in his absence. Sly and Si'r become rivals after Si'r gets Sly in trouble, believing him and his girlfriend, Jade, to be the pair of lovers he saw. Meanwhile, Si'r and Ming meet by chance and become friends. Sly proposes a truce, arranging a concert with members from both gangs. Honey unexpectedly resurfaces and berates Sly for setting up the concert; however, he realizes the gang respects Sly more. The night before the concert, Honey "bequeaths" Ming to Si'r, believing him to be a stable boyfriend. The next night, Honey appears outside of the concert hall, antagonizing the 217s. Honey takes an ostensibly friendly walk with the 217's leader, Shandong, only to be killed when Shandong pushes him in front of an oncoming car. The Little Park Boys do not believe police reports that it is an accident, and plot revenge; they murder the 217s, including Shandong, during a typhoon, using weapons acquired by Ma, one of Si'r's wealthy classmates. Sly and the surviving Little Park Boys go into hiding. The same night, Si'r's father is arrested by secret police and interrogated about his past connections with the Chinese Communist Party. While eventually freed, he is demoted. Si'r starts dating Ming and seems to be improving academically. However, she reveals her flirtations with other boys, including an older doctor, bothering Si'r. The next day, Si'r is expelled after lashing out at the doctor and smashing a light bulb. He promises to pass his transfer exams to get into day school, upsetting Ming, who knows this means she will see him less. Later, Sly emerges from hiding and apologizes to Si'r for their past feud and reveals that Ming and Ma are dating. Devastated, Si'r begins dating Jade, but he upsets her and she bitterly reveals that the girl he saw kissing Sly was Ming, not her. After threatening Ma at his home, Si'r steals Cat's knife and waits outside the school for him. Instead, he sees Ming and berates her for her promiscuity, saying that he is her only hope. Ming chides Si'r for being selfish and trying to change her; like the world, she cannot be changed. He stabs her to death and breaks down. Si'r is sentenced to death but the media frenzy around the case provokes the sentence to be changed to 15 years imprisonment. In Si'r's now-barren house, his mother unexpectedly finds Si'r's school uniform. As she sobs, the radio broadcasts a list of distinguished students.

A Brighter Tomorrow

Nanni Moretti

['Nanni Moretti', 'Margherita Buy', 'Silvio Orlando', 'Barbora Bobuľová', 'Mathieu Amalric', 'Jerzy Stuhr', 'Anger Zsolt', 'Teco Celio', 'Valentina Romani', 'Flavio Furno', 'Giuseppe Scoditti', 'Valerio Da Silva', 'Angelo Galdi', 'Arianna Pozzoli', 'Francesco Brandi', 'Laura Nardi', 'Arianna Serrao', 'Blu Yoshimi', 'Michele Eburnea', 'Sun Hee You', 'Elena Lietti', 'Benjamin Stender', 'Francesco Rossini', 'Federica Sandrini', 'Carolina Pavone', 'Corrado Augias', 'Renzo Piano', 'Chiara Valerio', 'Enrico Cerretti', 'Simone Proietti', 'Giulia Lazzarini', 'Alba Rohrwacher', 'Jasmine Trinca', 'Lina Sastri', 'Anna Bonaiuto', 'Renato Carpentieri', 'Dario Cantarelli', 'Rosario Lisma', 'Beniamino Marcone', 'Fabio Traversa', 'Mariella Valentini', 'Elio De Capitani', 'Claudio Morganti', 'Gigio Morra', 'Silvia Nono']

Comedy, Drama, Comedy drama

['France', 'Italy']

Italian

['Italian', 'English', 'French', 'Hungarian', 'Korean']

['Sacher Film', 'Fandango', 'RAI Cinema', 'Le Pacte', 'France 3 Cinéma', 'Canal+', 'Ciné+', 'France Télévisions', 'Kinology']

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A Bug's Life

John Lasseter

['Dave Foley', 'Kevin Spacey', 'Julia Louis-Dreyfus', 'Hayden Panettiere', 'Phyllis Diller', 'Richard Kind', 'David Hyde Pierce', 'Joe Ranft', 'Denis Leary', 'Jonathan Harris', 'Madeline Kahn', 'Bonnie Hunt', 'Michael McShane', 'John Ratzenberger', 'Brad Garrett', 'Roddy McDowall', 'Edie McClurg', 'Alex Rocco', 'David Ossman', 'Carlos Alazraqui', 'Jack Angel', 'Bob Bergen', 'Kimberly J. Brown', 'Rodger Bumpass', 'Anthony Burch', 'Jennifer Darling', 'Rachel Davey', 'Debi Derryberry', 'Paul Eiding', 'Jessica Evans', 'Bill Farmer', 'Sam Gifaldi', 'Brad Hall', 'Jess Harnell', 'Brenden Hickey', 'Kate Charlotte Hodges', 'Denise Johnson', 'David L. Lander', 'John Lasseter', 'Sherry Lynn', 'Mickie McGowan', 'Courtland Mead', 'Christina Milian', 'Kelsey Mulrooney', "Ryan O'Donohue", 'Jeff Pidgeon', 'Phil Proctor', 'Jan Rabson', 'Jordan Ranft', 'Brian M. Rosen', 'Rebecca Schneider', 'Francesca Marie Smith', 'Andrew Stanton', 'Hannah Swanson', 'Russi Taylor', 'Travis Tedford', 'Ashley Tisdale', 'Lee Unkrich', 'Jordan Warkol', 'Pat Fry', 'Kath Soucie']

Animation, Children's film, Action, Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy, Drama

['USA']

English

['English']

['Walt Disney Pictures', 'Pixar']

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A colony of ants, led by the elderly Queen and her daughter Princess Atta, live in the middle of a seasonally dry creekbed on a small hill known as "Ant Island". Every summer, they are forced to give food to a gang of grasshoppers, led by Hopper. One day, Flik, a courageous but clumsy inventor ant, inadvertently destroys the food offering with his grain harvester. Hopper discovers this, and demands twice as much food as compensation. When Flik earnestly suggests the ants enlist the help of bigger bugs to fight the grasshoppers, Atta sees it as a way to get rid of Flik and sends him off. Flik travels to "the city", a heap of trash under a trailer. Flik mistakes a troupe of jobless Circus Bugs for the warrior bugs he seeks. The bugs, in turn, mistake Flik for a talent agent, and agree to travel with him back to Ant Island. During a welcome ceremony after their arrival, the Circus Bugs and Flik discover their mutual misunderstandings. The Circus Bugs attempt to leave, but are pursued by a nearby bird; while fleeing, they rescue Atta's younger sister Dot from the bird, gaining the ants' respect. At Flik's request, the Circus Bugs continue the ruse of being "warriors", thus enabling them to continue enjoying the ants' hospitality. Learning that Hopper fears birds inspires Flik to build a crewed ornithopter disguised as a bird to scare away the grasshoppers. Meanwhile, Hopper reminds his gang of the ants' superior numbers, warning them the ants will rebel if not kept in line. The ants finish constructing the fake bird. During the subsequent celebration, the Circus Bugs' old supervisor, P.T. Flea, arrives, seeking to rehire them and blowing their cover; the ants exile Flik and the Circus Bugs, and desperately try gathering food for a new offering. Hopper returns, sees the mediocre offering, and takes over the island. He then demands the ants' own winter food supply, planning to execute the Queen afterward. Overhearing the plan, Dot persuades Flik and the Circus Bugs to return to Ant Island. After the Circus Bugs distract the grasshoppers long enough to rescue the Queen, Flik deploys the bird. It initially fools the grasshoppers, but P.T., who is also fooled, sets the bird on fire. Realizing the deception, Hopper has Flik publicly beaten and proclaims the ants are lowly life forms who live only to serve the grasshoppers. Flik asserts Hopper actually fears the colony, because he has always known what they are capable of. This inspires the ants and the Circus Bugs to fight back against the grasshoppers, driving all but Hopper and his brother Molt away. The ants shove Hopper into the circus cannon to shoot him off of the island, but rain suddenly begins to fall. In the ensuing chaos, Hopper frees himself from the cannon and abducts Flik. The Circus Bugs and Atta pursue, with the latter catching up to Hopper and rescuing Flik, who lures Hopper to the real bird's nest. Believing the bird is another fake, Hopper taunts it, until it grabs him and feeds him to its chicks. With the anthill now at peace, Flik improves his inventions to help gather food for the ants. Flik and Atta become a couple, and proceed to send Hopper's affable brother Molt and a few ants to help P.T. and the Circus Bugs on their new tour. Atta and Dot become the new Queen and Princess. The ants celebrate their victory and congratulate Flik as a hero. They then bid a fond farewell to the circus troupe.

A Canterbury Tale

Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

['Eric Portman', 'Sheila Sim', 'Dennis Price', 'John Sweet', 'Charles Hawtrey', 'Esmond Knight', 'Hay Petrie', 'George Merritt', 'Edward Rigby', 'Freda Jackson', 'Betty Jardine', 'Eliot Makeham', 'Parry Jones Jr.', 'Beresford Egan', 'Esma Cannon', 'Anthony Holles', 'Maude Lambert', 'Wallace Bosco', 'Charles Paton', 'Jane Millican', 'Michael Golden', 'John Slater', 'Graham Moffatt', 'Judith Furse', 'Barbara Waring', 'Jean Shepeard', 'Margaret Scudamore', 'Joss Ambler', 'H.F. Maltby', 'Eric Maturin']

Comedy, War, Drama, Buddy, Mystery, Thriller, Road, Classic, Comedy drama

['UK']

English

['English']

['Independent Producers', 'The Archers', 'J. Arthur Rank Organisation']

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The story concerns three young people: British Army Sergeant Peter Gibbs, U.S. Army Sergeant Bob Johnson, and a "Land Girl", Miss Alison Smith. The group arrive at the railway station in the fictitious small Kent town of Chillingbourne (filmed in Chilham, Fordwich, Wickhambreaux and other villages in the area), near Canterbury, late on Friday night, 27 August 1943. Peter has been stationed at a nearby Army camp, Alison is due to start working on a farm in the area, and Bob left the train by mistake, hearing the announcement "next stop Canterbury" and thinking he was in Canterbury. As they leave the station together Alison is attacked by an assailant in uniform, who pours glue on her hair before escaping. It transpires that this has happened to other women, and the mystery attacker is known locally as "the glue man". Alison asks Bob if he will spend the weekend in Chillingbourne to help her solve the mystery. The next day, while riding a farm cart in the countryside, Alison meets Peter, who surrounds her cart with his platoon of three Bren Gun Carriers. Alison agrees to meet Peter again. The three decide to investigate the attack, enlisting the help of the locals, including several small boys who play large-scale war games. The three use their detective skills to identify the culprit as a local magistrate, Thomas Colpeper, a gentleman farmer and pillar of the community, who also gives local history lectures to soldiers stationed in the district. Alison interviews all the glue man's victims to identify the dates and times of their attacks. Gibbs visits Colpeper at his home and steals the fire watch roster listing the nights Colpeper was on duty in the town hall, whilst a paper drive for salvage by Johnson's boy commandos lets Johnson discover receipts for gum used to make glue sold to Colpeper. The dates of the attacks correspond with Colpeper's night watches, for which he wore a Home Guard uniform kept in the town hall. On their train journey to Canterbury on the Monday morning, Colpeper joins the three in their compartment. They confront him with their suspicions, which he does not deny, and they discover that his motive is to prevent the soldiers from being distracted from his lectures by female company, as well as to help keep the local women faithful to their absent British boyfriends. In Colpeper's words, Chaucer's pilgrims travelled to Canterbury to "receive a blessing or to do penance". On arriving in the city of Canterbury, devastated by wartime bombing, all three young people receive blessings of their own. Alison discovers that her boyfriend, believed killed in the war, has survived after all; his father, who had blocked their marriage because he thought his son could do better than a shopgirl, finally relents. Bob receives long-delayed letters from his sweetheart, who is now a WAC in Australia. Peter, a cinema organist before the war, gets to play the music of Johann Sebastian Bach on the large organ at Canterbury Cathedral, before leaving with his unit. He decides not to report Colpeper to the Canterbury police, as he had planned to do.

A Cat in Paris

Jean-Loup Felicioli, Alain Gagnol

['Dominique Blanc', 'Bruno Salomone', 'Jean Benguigui', 'Bernadette Lafont', 'Oriane Zani', 'Patrick Ridremont', 'Jacques Ramade', 'Jean-Pierre Yvars', 'Bernard Bouillon', 'Philippe Hartmann', 'Patrick Descamps', 'Yves Barbaut', 'Line Wiblé']

Action, Animation, Children's film, Crime, Adventure, Drama, Crime film, Mystery, Thriller, Detective fiction, Police procedural

['France', 'Netherlands', 'Switzerland', 'Belgium']

French

['French']

['Folimage', 'Digit Anima', 'France 3 Cinéma', 'Gébéka Films']

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A black cat with red stripes leads a double life. During the night, he accompanies a cat burglar named Nico (who calls him Mr. Cat), who performs heists to steal jewels. During the day, he lives with a girl named Zoé (who calls him Dino). Zoé, who lost her voice after the loss of her father, has become distant from her mother Jeanne who works as a police superintendent, and is looked after by a nanny named Claudine. Nico gives Dino a fish-shaped bracelet, which he passes on to Zoé. At the police station, Jeanne briefs her colleagues on protecting the Colossus of Nairobi statue, which cost her husband his life at the hands of the notorious Victor Costa. Victor Costa intends to have another go at the statue while it is being moved, with help from his codenamed accomplices, M. Bébé (Mr. Baby), M. Hulot, M. Grenouille (Mr. Frog), and M. Patate (Mr. Potato). Back at home, Jeanne takes interest in the fish-shaped bracelet and brings it to her colleague Lucas. Lucas deduces that the bracelet matches up with burgled items from Rue Mouffetard. That night, Zoé sneaks out of her house and follows Dino. She spies Victor's lot, and finds Claudine is working for Victor and has been gaining insight on police movements. Zoé is spotted, but is rescued by Nico. Nico takes Zoé to hide in the zoo, but Victor's gang pick up her trail. Zoé escapes in a boat. Lucas finds a lead on the robberies trailing directly to Nico's residence. When Nico returns to find Zoé at his place, he is arrested by Jeanne and Lucas, presumably having kidnapped Zoé. Jeanne leaves Zoé in Claudine's custody and goes with Lucas to find Victor. Unable to convince Jeanne and Lucas of Zoé's predicament, Nico escapes in order to find Zoé. Jeanne is able to confirm that Nico's claim about Zoé is true. Claudine has taken Zoé to Costa's house, where she is locked away. Thanks to Claudine's perfume, Dino follows the scent and leads Nico to the house. Nico is able to whisk Zoé away after he cuts the power and dons his night goggles. Victor pursues Nico and Zoé to Notre Dame. Nico falls while trying to mislead Victor, but is saved by Jeanne, who has just arrived at the scene. As Victor captures Zoé, Jeanne, with Nico and Dino, come to the rescue. Nico has to save Dino when Victor pushes the cat over the edge of a nearby crane, leaving Jeanne to confront Victor. Plucking up her courage, Jeanne saves her daughter and strikes Victor, putting him in a hallucinatory trance. Before Jeanne can help Victor, the gang leader swings from the crane to what he imagines is the Colossus of Nairobi, but falls to his death to a truck below. The rest of the gang, including Claudine, are arrested and Zoé regains her voice. Nico reforms himself, gives up thievery, and becomes a member of the family, while Dino becomes the household pet. Nico gives Jeanne a snow globe with the Cathedral of Notre Dame in it as a Christmas present.

A Charlie Brown Christmas

Bill Melendez

['Peter Robbins', 'Christopher Shea', 'Tracy Stratford', 'Cathy Steinberg', 'Chris Doran', 'Sally Dryer', 'Ann Altieri', 'Geoffrey Ornstein', 'Karen Mendelson', 'Bill Melendez']

Animation, Comedy, Musical, Children's film, Short, Family film

['USA']

English

['English']

['United Feature Syndicate (UFS)', 'Lee Mendelson Film Productions', 'Bill Melendez Productions']

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On their way to join their friends ice skating on a frozen pond, Charlie Brown confesses to Linus van Pelt that, despite all the things he likes about the Christmas season, he is still depressed. After Linus' reproach, and a put-down from Violet Gray, he visits Lucy van Pelt's psychiatric booth and tells her his problem. She suggests that he direct the group's annual Christmas play to get him involved, and he accepts. Charlie Brown becomes even more discouraged by his observations of Christmas' commercialization as he heads for the rehearsal: Lucy laments over not receiving real estate for Christmas; Snoopy decorates his doghouse for a neighborhood lights and display contest; and Charlie Brown's younger sister Sally asks him to write a greedy letter to Santa Claus. At the rehearsal, Charlie Brown finds a play fit for the 1960s with dancing, lively music, an uncooperative cast and a "Christmas Queen" (Lucy). Unable to control the cast, Charlie Brown decides the play needs a more "proper mood", and recommends a Christmas tree; Lucy suggests a big, pink aluminum tree, then sends him and Linus to get one. At the tree lot, Charlie Brown picks the only real tree there, a small sapling. Linus questions his choice, but Charlie Brown believes that once decorated, it will be perfect. When they return, however, Lucy, Violet, Patty and Frieda scorn him and the tree and walk away laughing. Crestfallen, Charlie Brown loudly asks if anyone knows what Christmas is all about; Linus says he does, walks to center stage, asks for a spotlight, drops his security blanket, recites the annunciation to the shepherds, picks up his blanket, returns and says, "That's what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown." Realizing that he does not have to let commercialism ruin his own Christmas, Charlie Brown takes the tree home to decorate it and show the others that it will work in the play. The others realize that they were too hard on Charlie Brown and quietly follow him after listening to Linus' speech. He stops at Snoopy's doghouse, which had won the lights and display contest, and hangs a large red Christmas ball on his tree. The ornament's weight causes the tiny tree to bend to the ground. Believing he has killed the tree, Charlie Brown, dejected, walks away. The others arrive at Snoopy's doghouse and as they all start to see its potential, Linus gently uprights the drooping tree and wraps his blanket around its base to give it some support. After the others give the tree a makeover using more decorations from the doghouse, even Lucy concedes to Charlie Brown's choice. The kids then start humming "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing". Hearing them, Charlie Brown returns to see that the sapling is now a magnificent Christmas tree. All the kids shout, "Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown!", and then sing "Hark" with Charlie Brown joining in as snow begins to fall.

A Chinese Ghost Story

Tony Ching Siu-Tung

['Leslie Cheung', 'Joey Wong', 'Wu Ma', 'Lau Siu-Ming', 'Lam Wai', 'Zhilun Xue', 'David Wu', 'Wong Jing', 'Chiang Kam', 'Huang Ha', 'Sze Mei-Yee', 'Yau Cheung Yeung']

Horror, Action, Romance, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Melodrama, Science fiction, Fantasy, Drama, Thriller, Supernatural

['Hong Kong']

Cantonese

['Cantonese']

['Cinema City', 'Film Workshop', 'Golden Princess Film Production Ltd.']

fantasy

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Ning Choi-san, a timid debt collector, goes to a rural town to collect taxes but fails and runs out of money.[5] [6] He has no choice but to take shelter in a deserted temple in the forest on the outskirts of the town. That night, he meets a beautiful and alluring young maiden, Nip Siu-sin, and falls in love with her. In the morning, however, after he recalls that night's events, he becomes increasingly fearful and superstitious because Yin Chik-ha, a Taoist priest, told him that the people he saw in the temple are ghosts. That night, he returns to the temple and confirms his theory that Nip is actually a ghost. Nip tells Ning her story of how she became eternally bound to the servitude of a sinister Tree Demoness. She explains that as long as her remains are buried at the foot of the tree, her spirit will be forever enslaved by the Tree Demoness. Ning attempts to free her from her suffering, so he seeks help from Yin Chik-ha. Yin fights with the Tree Demoness and attempts to free Nip's soul but fails. As punishment for betraying her master, Nip's soul is banished to the Underworld. Ning is unwilling to give up on Nip and he insists that Yin help him. Yin reluctantly opens a temporary portal into the Underworld and brings Ning along to search for Nip. As the Underworld is full of spirits, they have a hard time finding her. Ning and Nip are eventually able to see each other briefly near dawn when they manage to leave the Underworld. When sunlight shines on the urn containing Nip's cremated remains, Ning uses a curtain to shield the urn to prevent Nip's soul from being destroyed by exposure to sunlight. Before leaving for good, she tells him that the only way to save her soul is to rebury her remains at a more auspicious burial site. Ning follows her instructions and, acting on Yin's advice, he buries her remains near the crest of a hill. He burns a joss stick for her and prays for her soul while Yin watches solemnly behind him. Ning and Yin are then seen riding off seeking a new adventure, with rainbow visible in the sky above them.

A Christmas Carol

Robert Zemeckis

['Jim Carrey', 'Gary Oldman', 'Colin Firth', 'Robin Wright', 'Cary Elwes', 'Bob Hoskins', 'Daryl Sabara', 'Steve Valentine', 'Sage Ryan', 'Amber Gainey Meade', 'Ryan Ochoa', 'Bobbi Page', 'Ron Bottitta', 'Fionnula Flanagan', 'Samantha Hanratty', 'Julian Holloway', 'Jacquie Barnbrook', 'Lesley Manville', 'Molly C. Quinn', 'Fay Masterson', 'Leslie Zemeckis', 'Paul Blackthorne', 'Michael Hyland', 'Kerry Hoyt', 'Julene Renee', 'Raymond Ochoa', 'Callum Blue', 'Matthew Henerson', 'Aaron Rapke', 'Sonje Fortag']

Animation, Horror, Comedy, Action, Children's film, Family film, Fantasy, Drama, Suspense, Thriller

['USA']

English

['English']

['Walt Disney Pictures', 'ImageMovers Digital']

animated

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In Victorian-era London, Ebenezer Scrooge, a greedy, penny-pinching, and lonely moneylender, refuses to partake in the merriment of Christmas. On Christmas Eve, he declines his cheerful nephew Fred's invitation to the annual Christmas dinner party and dismisses two gentlemen who are collecting money for charity. His loyal employee Bob Cratchit requests to not work on Christmas Day so he can spend time with his family, to which Scrooge reluctantly agrees. That night, Scrooge encounters the shackled ghost of his late business partner Jacob Marley in his bed chambers. Marley warns Scrooge to repent his ways or suffer a worse fate, before informing him that three spirits will visit him and guide him away from this miserable existence. At one o'clock, Scrooge is visited by the candle-like Ghost of Christmas Past, who shows him visions of his childhood and early adult life. They see his lonely boarding school days, his relationship with his beloved sister Fan and his time as an apprentice for moneylender Nigel Fezziwig. The young Scrooge meets a young woman named Belle, with whom he falls in love, but his focus on accruing wealth drives them apart. Seeing this, a devastated Scrooge extinguishes the Ghost's flame and returns home. Scrooge next meets the merry Ghost of Christmas Present, who shows how others find joy on Christmas Day. Scrooge and the Ghost visit Bob's house, learning his family is content with their small dinner and meagre home. Scrooge starts to take pity on Bob's ill son Tiny Tim, whom the rapidly ageing Ghost comments might not survive until next Christmas. They next visit Fred's house, where Fred insists the guests raise a toast to Scrooge in spite of his stinginess and general ill will. Before the Ghost withers away, he shows Scrooge the evils of "Ignorance" and "Want". Soon after, the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come takes Scrooge into the future where a recent death elicits no sympathy from London's inhabitants. After being chased across London by the Ghost, Scrooge sees his charwoman Mrs. Dilber trade the deceased's possessions to fence named Old Joe as well as the deceased's body. The Ghost also shows Scrooge the Cratchits' home, where they find Bob and his family mourning Tiny Tim. Later, Scrooge is led to a nearby cemetery, where the Ghost points out his own grave, revealing Scrooge as the man who died. Scrooge desperately vows to change his ways before falling into his empty coffin and finding himself returned to his bedroom in the present. Discovering it is Christmas Day, a gleeful Scrooge begins spreading happiness and joy around London, surprising the Cratchits with a turkey dinner, agreeing to give money to the gentlemen's charity, and then attending Fred's Christmas dinner. The next day, Scrooge raises Bob's salary and pledges his support for the Cratchits. Scrooge becomes a father figure to Tiny Tim, who overcomes his ailments and is restored to health, and now treats everyone with kindness, generosity, and compassion, thus embodying the Christmas spirit.

A Christmas Story

Bob Clark

['Peter Billingsley', 'Melinda Dillon', 'Darren McGavin', 'Jean Shepherd', 'Ian Petrella', 'Scott Schwartz', 'Tedde Moore', 'R.D. Robb', 'Zack Ward', 'Yano Anaya', 'Jeff Gillen', 'Leslie Carlson', 'Jim Hunter', 'Patty Johnson', 'Drew Hocevar', 'David Edward', 'Dwayne McLean', 'Helen E. Kaider', 'John Wong', 'Johan Sebastian Wong', 'Fred Lee', 'Dan Ma', 'Rocco Bellusci', 'Tommy Wallace', 'Court Benson', 'Leigh Brown', 'Bob Clark', 'Giada Dobrzenska', 'Dave Duff', 'Jordan-Patrick Marcantonio', 'Gary A. Jones', 'Kristephan Warren-Stevens', 'Don Geyer', 'Kathryn Hayzer', 'John Kennedy', 'Bill Kravitz', 'Julie Matthews', 'Christine Powrie', 'Quinn Smith', 'Lori Randolph']

Comedy, Action, Children's film, Drama, Family film

['USA']

English

['English']

['Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer']

comedy

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The film is presented in a series of vignettes, with narration provided by the adult Ralphie Parker. As a 9-year-old boy in 1940, all Ralphie wants for Christmas is a Red Ryder Carbine Action 200-shot Range Model air rifle. Ralphie's desire is rejected by his mother, his teacher Miss Shields, and a disgruntled Santa Claus at Higbee's department store, all of whom give him the same warning: "You'll shoot your eye out". On Christmas morning, Ralphie receives some presents that he enjoys but is disappointed not to find the rifle among them. Ralphie's father ("The Old Man") directs him to one last box hidden in the corner, which proves to contain the rifle. Ralphie eagerly hurries outside to try it out, but when he shoots at the metal target he has set up, the BB ricochets and knocks off his glasses. Ralphie accidentally steps on and breaks the glasses while trying to find them; he makes up a cover story about an icicle falling from the roof of the garage and hitting him in the face, which fools his mom and keeps him from getting in trouble. That night, Ralphie goes to sleep with the gun by his side, as his adult self reflects that it was the best Christmas present he had ever received or would ever receive.

A Clockwork Orange

Stanley Kubrick

['Malcolm McDowell', 'Patrick Magee', 'Carl Duering', 'Michael Bates', 'Warren Clarke', 'James Marcus', 'Michael Tarn', 'Miriam Karlin', 'Adrienne Corri', 'Sheila Raynor', 'Philip Stone', 'Aubrey Morris', 'Clive Francis', 'John Clive', 'Paul Farrell', 'Michael Gover', 'Godfrey Quigley', 'Madge Ryan', 'Anthony Sharp', 'Pauline Taylor', 'Margaret Tyzack', 'Steven Berkoff', 'Lindsay Campbell', 'David Prowse', 'Barrie Cookson', 'Jan Adair', 'Gaye Brown', 'Peter Burton', 'John J. Carney', 'Alec Wallis', 'John Savident', 'Vivienne Chandler', 'Richard Connaught', 'Prudence Drage', 'Carol Drinkwater', 'Lee Fox', 'Cheryl Grunwald', 'Gillian Hills', 'Craig Hunter', 'Shirley Jaffe', 'Virginia Wetherell', 'Neil Wilson', 'Katya Wyeth', 'Jack Arrow', 'Shane Shelton', 'Norman Gay', 'Katharina Kubrick']

Thriller, Science fiction, Action, Drama, Crime film, Suspense, Mystery, Detective fiction, Police procedural

['UK']

English

['English']

['Warner Bros. Pictures', 'Hawk Films', 'Kubrick Productions', 'Polaris Productions Limited']

sci-fi, top-rated

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In a futuristic Britain, Alex DeLarge is the leader of a gang of "droogs": Georgie, Dim, and Pete. One night, after getting intoxicated, they engage in an evening of "ultra-violence", which includes beating a vagrant in the street, and a fight with a rival gang. They drive to the country home of writer Frank Alexander and trick his wife into letting them inside. They beat Alexander to the point of crippling him, and Alex violently rapes Alexander's wife while singing "Singin' in the Rain". The next day, while absent from school, Alex is approached by his probation officer, PR Deltoid, who is aware of Alex's activities and cautions him. Alex's droogs express discontent with petty crime and want more equality and high-yield thefts, but Alex asserts his authority by attacking them. Later, Alex invades the home of a wealthy "cat-lady" and bludgeons her with a phallic sculpture while his droogs remain outside. On hearing sirens, Alex tries to flee, but Dim smashes a bottle in his face, stunning Alex and leaving him to be arrested. Deltoid brings word that the woman has died of her injuries, and Alex is convicted of murder and sentenced to 14 years in prison. Two years into the sentence, Alex eagerly takes up an offer to be a test subject for the Minister of the Interior's new Ludovico technique, an experimental aversion therapy for rehabilitating criminals within two weeks. Alex is strapped to a chair, his eyes are clamped open, and he is injected with drugs. He is then forced to watch films of sex and violence, some of which are accompanied by the music of his favourite composer, Ludwig van Beethoven. Alex becomes nauseated by the films and, fearing the technique will make him sick upon hearing Beethoven, begs for an end to the treatment. Two weeks later, the Minister demonstrates Alex's rehabilitation to a gathering of officials. Alex is unable to fight back against an actor who taunts and attacks him and becomes ill upon seeing a topless woman. The prison chaplain complains that Alex has been robbed of his free will; the Minister asserts that the Ludovico technique will cut crime and alleviate crowding in prisons. Alex is released from prison, only to find that the police have sold his possessions to provide compensation to his victims and his parents have let out his room. Alex encounters an elderly vagrant whom he attacked years earlier, and the vagrant and his friends attack him. Alex is saved by two policemen but is shocked to find they are his former droogs Dim and Georgie. They drive him to the countryside, beat him, and nearly drown him before abandoning him. Alex barely makes it to the doorstep of a nearby home before collapsing. Alex wakes up to find himself in the home of Mr Alexander, who is now using a wheelchair. Alexander does not recognise Alex from the previous attack, but knows of him and the Ludovico technique from the newspapers. He sees Alex as a political weapon and prepares to present him to his colleagues. While bathing, Alex breaks into "Singin' in the Rain", causing Alexander to realise that Alex was the person who assaulted his wife and him. With help from his colleagues, Alexander drugs Alex and locks him in an upstairs bedroom. He then plays Beethoven's Ninth Symphony loudly from the floor below. Unable to withstand the sickening pain, Alex attempts suicide by jumping out of the window. Alex survives the attempt and wakes up in hospital with multiple injuries. While being given a series of psychological tests, he finds that he no longer has aversions to violence and sex. The Minister arrives and apologises to Alex. He informs Alex that the government has had Mr Alexander institutionalised. He offers to take care of Alex and get him a job in return for his co-operation with his election campaign and public relations counter-offensive. As a sign of goodwill, the Minister brings in a stereo system playing Beethoven's Ninth. Alex then contemplates violence and has vivid thoughts of having sex with a woman in front of an approving crowd, thinking to himself, "I was cured, all right!"

A Close Shave

Nick Park

['Peter Sallis', 'Anne Reid']

Animation, Comedy, Children's film, Short, Adventure, Crime film, Mystery, Thriller, Crime Fiction, Fantasy

['UK']

English

['English']

['Aardman']

animated

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Wallace and his dog, Gromit, operate a window cleaning business. Wallace falls for the wool shopkeeper Wendolene Ramsbottom. Her sinister dog, Preston, rustles sheep to supply the shop. After a lost sheep wanders into the house, Wallace places him in his Knit-o-Matic, which shears sheep and knits the wool into jumpers. Wallace names the sheep Shaun. Preston steals the Knit-o-Matic blueprints. When Gromit investigates, Preston captures him and frames him for the sheep rustling. Gromit is arrested and imprisoned, while Wallace's house is inundated with sheep. Wallace and the sheep break Gromit out of jail and hide out in the fields. Wendolene and Preston arrive in the lorry to round up the sheep. When Wendolene demands Preston stop the rustling, he locks her in the lorry with the sheep and drives away, intent on turning them into dog food. Wallace and Gromit give chase on their motorcycle. When Gromit's sidecar detaches, he activates its aeroplane mode and resumes the chase from the air. Wallace becomes trapped in the lorry and he, Wendolene, and the sheep are transported to Preston's factory, where Preston has built an enormous Knit-o-Matic. The captives are loaded into the wash basin, but Shaun escapes. Shaun activates neon signs to reveal the factory's location to Gromit, who attacks Preston. Shaun sucks Preston into the Knit-o-Matic, removing his fur and revealing him to be a robot. Wendolene explains that Preston is a creation of her inventor father. The Knit-o-Matic makes a sweater of Preston's fur and dumps it on his head, obscuring his vision. Shaun pushes Preston into the dog food mincing machine, crushing him. Gromit is exonerated and Wallace rebuilds Preston as a harmless remote-controlled dog. Afterwards, Wallace is saddened when Wendolene leaves and tells him that she is allergic to cheese. When he tries to cheer himself up with some cheese, he finds that Shaun has eaten it all.

A Dog's Will

Guel Arraes

['Matheus Nachtergaele', 'Selton Mello', 'Rogério Cardoso', 'Denise Fraga', 'Diogo Vilela', 'Luís Melo', 'Virginia Cavendish', 'Bruno Garcia', 'Enrique Díaz', 'Maurício Gonçalves', 'Aramis Trindade', 'Marco Nanini', 'Paulo Goulart', 'Lima Duarte', 'Fernanda Montenegro']

Comedy, Action, Romance, Western, Adventure, Drama

['Brazil']

Portuguese

['Portuguese']

['Lereby Produções', 'Globo Filmes']

comedy

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João Grilo[a] (Matheus Nachtergaele) and Chicó (Selton Mello) are two poor men living in an arid, desert-like region of North-East Brazil in the 1930s.[3] João is constantly hungry and malnourished, relying on his charm and silver tongue to fool the townsfolk for his own gain. Chicó is a handsome but cowardly man who tells outlandish stories about his past. Upon arriving in Taperoá, the two look for work from the town's baker. The baker's wife, Dora, dotes on her dog, who is fed luxurious food. When João and Chicó steal the dog's food, it accidentally eats theirs and quickly falls ill. Desperate for help, Dora begs the duo to have the priest to bless her dog. João first attempts to convince the priest to bless the dog by saying it is owned by Major Antônio Morais, a wealthy landowner in the area, and later has the priest perform funeral rites for the dog by saying it left the church money in its will. The Bishop, initially infuriated at the priest for this, walks back immediately once he learns he is able to take some of the money. Dora seduces Chicó and attempts to sleep with him before being visited by her other suitor, the town bully Vicentão, and then her husband. João takes a job assisting Major Antônio Morais and his daughter Rosinha, who is in town seeking a blessing from the priest. Vicentão and Corporal Setenta are smitten with Rosinha, but she immediately falls in love with Chicó. Morais wants to marry off Rosinha to a rich man and promises a dowry of a piggy bank filled with coins as left by her grandmother. João devises a plan to pit Vicentão and Corporal Setenta against each other which leaves Chicó the last suitor standing. Dressed up as a wealthy and educated man, Chicó asks for Rosinha's hand in marriage from Morais but Chicó talks him into paying 200 crowns to the priest for church renovations. Morais decides to pay for the renovations on Chicó's behalf, but he requests the “skin off his back” in the case that Chicó should fail to pay him back. Unable to pay the debt, the duo make a plan to fake Chicó's death with a blood filled balloon with João riding into town pretending to be a bandit. On the day, actual bandits, led by the ferocious Severino, raid the town and begin looting and killing. Severino rounds up the baker and his wife, the two church leaders, and João and Chicó, planning to shoot them all outside of the church. João decides to trick Severino into believing that his harmonica was blessed and now brings people back to life. To convince Severino, he stabs Chicó in the blood-filled balloon and Chicó plays dead and then “resurrects” after João plays the instrument. Severino agrees to be shot and is killed, but João is shot himself while trying to run away from the scene. Arriving in the afterlife, the six dead members are all placed under trial by the Devil (Luís Melo). He is joined by Jesus Christ, who oversees the trial. João begs for the Virgin Mary's help and she arrives to convince Jesus to be forgiving. Before being executed, the baker forgave his wife for her adultery and the two church leaders forgave those who shot them - enough for them to land in purgatory instead of hell. Severino is absolved as his bandit ways started when police members killed his family as a child. The Devil attempts to take João but he is granted a second chance at life having been a poor but hopeful man his entire life. Upon reviving, the duo donate all the money taken from the dead townsfolk in the name of the Virgin Mary. Chicó and Rosinha get married, attempting to use the dowry to pay off his debt, but it ends up being filled with worthless coins. Using a technicality (that the skin off his back should not come with a drop of blood), they manage to evade their debt. All three now penniless, they bump into Jesus Christ posing as a hungry man on the road and share their bread with him.

A Few Good Men

Rob Reiner

['Tom Cruise', 'Jack Nicholson', 'Demi Moore', 'Kevin Bacon', 'Kiefer Sutherland', 'Kevin Pollak', 'James Marshall', 'J.T. Walsh', 'Christopher Guest', 'J.A. Preston', 'Matt Craven', 'Wolfgang Bodison', 'Xander Berkeley', 'John M. Jackson', 'Noah Wyle', 'Cuba Gooding Jr.', 'Lawrence Lowe', 'Joshua Malina', 'Oscar Jordan', 'John M. Mathews', 'Aaron Sorkin', 'Alex Wexo', 'Frank Cavestani', 'Jan Munroe', 'Ron Ostrow', 'Matthew Saks', 'Harry Caesar', 'Michael DeLorenzo', 'Geoffrey Nauffts', 'Arthur Senzy', 'Cameron Thor', 'David Bowe', 'Gene Whittington', 'Maud Winchester', 'Jack Serino']

War, Drama, Comedy, Action, Romance, Trial drama, Legal drama, Legal thriller, Suspense, Mystery, Thriller, Detective fiction, Crime Fiction, Police procedural

['USA']

English

['English', 'French']

['David Brown Productions']

mystery

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At the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, Private William Santiago, a United States Marine, is tied up and beaten in the middle of the night. After he is found dead, Lance Corporal Harold Dawson and Private First Class Louden Downey are accused of his murder and face a court-martial. Their defense is assigned to United States Navy JAG Corps Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee, a callow lawyer with a penchant for plea bargains. Another JAG attorney, Lieutenant Commander Joanne Galloway, Kaffee's superior, suspects something is amiss. Santiago died after he broke the chain of command to ask to be transferred away. Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Markinson advocated for Santiago to be transferred, but Base Commander Colonel Nathan Jessep ordered Santiago's platoon commander, Lieutenant Jonathan James Kendrick, to "train" Santiago on the basis they are all at fault for Santiago's substandard performance. Galloway suspects that Dawson and Downey carried out a "code red" order: a violent extrajudicial punishment. Galloway is bothered by Kaffee's blasé approach, and Kaffee resents Galloway's interference. Kaffee and Galloway question Jessep and others at Guantanamo Bay and are met with contempt from the colonel. When Kaffee negotiates a plea bargain with the prosecutor, US Marine Judge Advocate Captain Jack Ross, Dawson and Downey refuse, insisting that Kendrick gave them the "code red" order, that they never intended to kill Santiago, and that it would be dishonorable to pursue a plea bargain. Kaffee intends to get removed as counsel, but at the arraignment, Kaffee unexpectedly enters a plea of not guilty for the defendants. He says that he was chosen to handle the case because he was expected to accept a plea, and the matter would then be kept quiet. Markinson meets Kaffee in secret and says that Jessep never ordered a transfer for Santiago. The defense establishes that Dawson had been denied promotion for smuggling food to a Marine who had been sentenced to be deprived of food. Dawson is portrayed in a good light, and the defense, through Downey, proves that "code reds" had been ordered before. But under cross-examination, Downey says that he was not present when Dawson received the supposed "code red" order. Markinson, ashamed that he failed to protect a Marine under his command and unwilling to testify against Jessep, his longtime friend, commits suicide before he can testify. Without Markinson's testimony, Kaffee believes the case lost. He returns home in a drunken stupor, lamenting that he fought the case instead of taking a deal. Galloway encourages Kaffee to call Jessep as a witness, despite the risk of being court-martialed for challenging a high-ranking officer without evidence. At the Washington Navy Yard court, Jessep spars with Kaffee's questioning, but is unnerved when Kaffee points out a contradiction in his testimony. Kaffee also calls into question Jessep's claim that Santiago was to be put on the first flight home. Upon further questioning, and disgusted by Kaffee's attitude, Jessep extols the military's, and his own, importance to national security. Kaffee asks if Jessep ordered the "code red", to which he bellows "You're goddamn right I did!". Jessep tries to leave the courtroom but is arrested. Dawson and Downey are cleared of the murder and conspiracy charges but found guilty of "conduct unbecoming" and will be dishonorably discharged. Downey does not understand what they did wrong; Dawson says that they failed to defend those too weak to fight for themselves. Kaffee tells Dawson that it is not necessary to wear a patch on one's arm to have honor. Dawson acknowledges Kaffee as an officer and renders a salute. Kaffee and Ross exchange pleasantries before Ross departs to arrest Kendrick.

A Field in England

Ben Wheatley

['Reece Shearsmith', 'Michael Smiley', 'Julian Barratt', 'Richard Glover', 'Ryan Pope', 'Peter Ferdinando', 'Sara Dee', 'Laura Obiols']

Horror, Drama, Comedy, History, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller, Historical Fiction

['UK']

English

['English']

['Rook Films', 'Film4 Productions']

comedy

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During a battle of the English Civil War, an alchemist's assistant named Whitehead flees from the strict Commander Trower. Whitehead is saved by a rough soldier named Cutler, who kills Trower before he can apprehend Whitehead. Whitehead then meets two army deserters, the gruff veteran Jacob and the witless Friend. The four leave the battleground in search of an ale house that Cutler claims is nearby. Cutler instead leads them to a field with many mushrooms growing in it, where he cooks a meal with some mushrooms and encourages the others to eat, which they share—save for Whitehead who is fasting. Following their meal they haul an Irishman, the Wizard O'Neill, seemingly out of the ground using a rope wrapped around a strangely carved wooden post buried in the ground. O'Neill is a rival alchemist for whom Cutler works; and who had stolen documents from Whitehead's master, which Whitehead is trying to recover. O'Neill quickly asserts authority over the group and tells them of a treasure hidden somewhere in the field.[3] The group goes to O'Neill's camp, where O'Neill tortures Whitehead into subservience to use him as a human divining rod. After using Whitehead to locate the treasure, which it turns out is near the camp, O'Neill orders Jacob and Friend to dig for it while he leaves Cutler to supervise, and goes to sleep in a tent. Jacob soon succumbs to the influence of the hallucinogenic mushrooms, and after several hours of digging he attacks Friend. Cutler laughs and urinates on them, and when Jacob attempts to attack him, Cutler accidentally shoots Friend. Whitehead is unable to save him, and Friend dies, telling Jacob to deliver a message to his wife, telling her that he hates her. Cutler is forced to finish digging by himself, while Jacob lies down in the undergrowth, and Whitehead deposits Friend's corpse in a thicket. Cutler eventually nears reaching the treasure, attracting the attention of O'Neill, who discovers Jacob and Whitehead gone. Reaching where Friend's corpse is, O'Neill pursues Whitehead, who ingests a considerable quantity of mushrooms, heightening his awareness but suffering a hallucinatory experience, wherein he conjures a violent wind to blow away the camp's tent. Cutler discovers that the "treasure" is just a skull, which he shoots in anger. Jacob comes back to join Whitehead in escaping from O'Neill. Cutler angrily berates O'Neill, blaming him for trusting Whitehead and lying to him about the alehouse — which was simply a ploy to entice Jacob and Friend — and abuses him. O'Neill promptly kills Cutler and then pursues Whitehead and Jacob, who scavenge Cutler's weapons and return to the overturned camp. As they are preparing for an attack, Friend appears alive and reveals their location to O'Neill. As Jacob throws Friend to the ground to stop him, O'Neill shoots Jacob in the gut, but Jacob returns fire breaking O'Neill's leg. Jacob dies from his injuries, after he and Whitehead surmise that the treasure was the friendship they shared. Friend brandishes Cutler's pike and charges O'Neill, but O'Neill kills him with his last shot. Whitehead takes advantage of the situation to finally kill O'Neill by shooting him in the back of the head. Whitehead buries his friends' corpses in the hole and leaves the field. Wearing O'Neill's clothes, he gathers his master's stolen documents and returns to the hedgerow where he first met Cutler, Jacob and Friend, from which battle sounds are rising. After he wades through the hedge, he sees Friend, Jacob and himself standing together.

A Fish Called Wanda

Charles Crichton

['Jamie Lee Curtis', 'John Cleese', 'Kevin Kline', 'Michael Palin', 'Maria Aitken', 'Tom Georgeson', 'Cynthia Cleese', 'Patricia Hayes', 'Geoffrey Palmer', 'Mark Elwes', 'Neville Phillips', 'Peter Jonfield', 'Jeremy Child', 'Stephen Fry', 'Ken Campbell', 'Al Hunter Ashton', 'Roger Hume', 'Roger Brierley', 'Llewellyn Rees', 'Michael Percival', 'Kate Lansbury', 'Andrew MacLachlan', 'Roland MacLeod', 'Robert Putt', 'Pamela Miles', 'Sharon Marino', 'Patrick Newman', 'David Simeon', 'Barrie Holland']

Romance, Comedy, Crime, Dark comedy, Farce, Heist, Crime film, Screwball comedy, Mystery, Thriller, Gangster, Detective fiction, Crime Fiction, Police procedural, Caper story

['UK', 'USA']

English

['English', 'Italian', 'Russian']

['Prominent Features', 'Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer', 'Fish Productions']

comedy, heist

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London-based gangster George Thomason plans a jewel heist with his right-hand man, Ken Pile, an animal lover with a stutter. They bring in two Americans: con artist Wanda Gershwitz and weapons expert Otto West, a volatile anglophobe. Wanda and Otto are lovers, but pretend to be siblings so Wanda can work her charms on Ken and George. The heist succeeds and the gang escapes with a large sum in diamonds, which they hide. Wanda and Otto then betray George to the police and he is arrested. They return to collect the loot, with Wanda planning to double-cross Otto as well, but it is gone: suspecting duplicity, George had moved it to a safe deposit box and given Ken the key. Wanda sees Ken hide it in his fish tank, steals it, and conceals it in her locket. To learn where the box is, Wanda decides to seduce George's barrister, Archie Leach. He is in a loveless marriage and quickly falls for her, but Otto's jealous interference causes their liaisons to go disastrously wrong. When Wanda accidentally leaves her locket at Archie's house his wife, Wendy, finds it and delightedly assumes it was a gift for her. Wanda demands that Archie retrieve her keepsake, but Wendy will not give it up. He then fakes a robbery at his home as a cover for its disappearance. It too is interrupted and foiled by Otto. Archie is later able to retrieve the locket, and returns it to Wanda at their next tryst, this time unraveled by innocent intruders. Realizing he will be unable to give her all she seeks; he subsequently telephones her to call off their affair. Otto arrives at Archie's house seeking to apologise for his rudeness, but Wendy overhears their conversation and learns of Archie's liaison. George asks Ken to eliminate the Crown's only eyewitness to the robbery, the elderly Eileen Coady. Ken repeatedly tries, but each time accidentally kills one of her three small dogs instead, causing him great distress. Finally, the last grisly death gives Mrs Coady a fatal heart attack. With no witness, George seems poised to be released. He gives instructions to Ken, revealing the location of the diamonds. When Otto learns that Ken knows this, he tortures him into revealing it by tying him up and putting various items of food up his nostrils and in his mouth before eating all of his pet tropical fish one by one, leaving Ken's favorite, named Wanda, until last. Ken divulges that the diamonds are at the Cathcart Towers Hotel near Heathrow Airport, but does not know that Wanda has the key. Even with Otto's knowledge and Wanda's key, the two still need George to remain in prison. Testifying as a defense witness at his trial, Wanda unexpectedly gives evidence incriminating him. Archie is stunned by her statements and flubs his questioning, inadvertently calling her "darling". Wendy, watching from the public gallery, declares their marriage dead. Promising less prison time, Archie asks George about the diamonds and learns of Otto and Wanda's complicity and that Ken knows their location. Archie sees Wanda fleeing the court and shunts her into his car. With his career and marriage ruined, Archie resolves to cut his losses, throw in with her, steal the loot, and flee to South America together. They race to Ken's flat. While Archie interrogates him, Otto steals Archie's car, with Wanda in it. Archie painstakingly draws out from an uncontrollably stuttering Ken that the safe deposit box is at an airport hotel. They then set out for Heathrow on Ken's moped. Otto and Wanda recover the diamonds, but Wanda double-crosses him and saps him unconscious in a Heathrow broom cupboard. She reluctantly boards her flight to Rio de Janeiro without Archie. Otto recovers, steals a boarding pass, and makes his way to the tarmac, where he is confronted by Archie. Otto is about to kill him, but is stalled while Ken approaches on a steamroller, seeking vengeance for his fish. Otto finds he has stepped in wet concrete and cannot move. Ken runs him over. Archie joins Wanda aboard the plane. Improbably, Otto again appears seeking to derail things between them. Covered in encrusted cement, he clings outside their window until he is blown off during take-off. An epilogue relates that Archie and Wanda were married in Rio, had seventeen children, and founded a leper colony; Ken became Master of ceremonies at SeaWorld; and Otto became the Minister of Justice for South Africa.

A Ghost Story

David Lowery

['Casey Affleck', 'Rooney Mara', 'McColm Cephas Jr.', 'Kenneisha Thompson', 'Grover Coulson', 'Liz Cardenas', 'Barlow Jacobs', 'Richard Krause', 'Dagger Salazar', 'Sonia Acevedo', 'Carlos Bermudez', 'Yasmina Gutierrez', 'Kimberly Fiddes', 'Daniel Escudero', 'Kesha', 'Jared Kopf', 'Afomia Hailemeskel', 'Will Oldham', 'Brea Grant', 'Augustine Frizzell', 'Jonny Mars', 'Rachel Ballard', 'Bryan Pitts', 'Rob Zabrecky', 'Sara Tomerlin', 'Margot Tomerlin', 'Sylvie Tomerlin', 'Savanna Walsh', 'Derrick Halverston', 'David Miller', 'Hector Escalante', 'Randy E. Aguebor', 'Joel David Taylor', 'Monalisa Amidar', 'Phillip Amidar', 'Stan Sanders', 'Marcella Langdon', 'CG. Lewis III', 'Alvis Lewis', 'David Fraga', 'Kimberly Gail Williams', 'Tanya Foster', 'Giovannie Cruz', 'Paulie Killgore', 'Otis Harris', 'Kathy Jordan', 'Scooter Walsh', 'William Sydney', 'David Helms', 'Jordan Jett Raines', 'Kelli Holdridge', 'Taylor Anne Ramsey', 'Alexis Fleisig', 'Kris Youmans', 'Da-Voncia Hendricks', 'Neken Williams', 'Kevin Jacobs', 'Chris Gardner', 'Nainoa McKeague', 'Savanna Sears', 'Andrew Tinker', 'Juan Fiol', 'Constance Jones', 'Rachel Chambers', 'Jacie Scott', 'Nikita Patel', 'Brandi Price', 'David Keller', 'Jim Johnson', 'Aaron Roberts', 'Branton Ellerbee', 'David Pink', 'David Lowery']

Horror, Romance, Fantasy, Melodrama, Drama, Suspense, Mystery, Thriller

['USA']

English

['English']

['Sailor Bear', 'Zero Trans Fat Productions', 'Ideaman Studios']

sad, emotional

sad-movies-if-you-feel-like-you-need-to-cry

A woman (credited as "M") mentions to her musician husband (credited as "C") that as a child, she moved residences frequently and took to hiding little notes wherever she lived. C is resistant to M's desire to move, creating tension within their relationship. When he finally acquiesces, they hear a loud bang while asleep, the source of which they are unable to identify. Shortly afterwards, C is killed in a car accident nearby. At the hospital, M covers his body with a sheet before departing. C awakens as a ghost, invisible to the living. Still covered with the sheet, he wanders through the hospital. A door of light opens before him, but he makes no attempt to approach it and it closes. C walks home and sees Linda, his landlord, drop off a pie. M arrives and eats the pie until she vomits. Unable to communicate with her, C watches M grieve before proceeding with her life. In the house next door, he sees another ghost covered by a flower-print sheet who says that they are waiting for someone, though they do not remember who. Upon discovering that M is dating another man, C jealously creates disturbances inside the house. Later, M listens to one of C's songs and recalls the first time he played it for her. She moves away, but first writes a note and hides it in a gap between some molding, which she paints over. C picks at the paint but is unable to reach the note. Later, a Spanish-speaking single mother moves into the house with her young son and daughter. C watches them eat, play the piano and celebrate Christmas. The children begin to sense his presence and become frightened. One night, he knocks a framed photo of the family off the piano and smashes dishes in the kitchen. The family moves out and the ghost continues scraping at the paint. At a party thrown by the next occupants, a woman says she has stopped working on her novel and a man responds by claiming all creative pursuits are pointless, as the universe will eventually end. The partygoers notice the lights flicker. The house is abandoned and becomes derelict. C's efforts to retrieve the note are interrupted by a bulldozer crashing through a wall. The house next door is also torn down; the flower-print ghost, while standing amongst the ruins, says "I don’t think they’re coming" and disappears from beneath its sheet. A skyscraper is built where the house was; once it is finished, C views a futuristic cityscape from the balcony before jumping off the ledge. The celestial sphere rotates in reverse, and C finds himself in a field in the 19th century with a man who is driving stakes into the ground. The man's wife and three daughters arrive in a covered wagon, and the family prepares to build a house. The youngest daughter writes a note and hides it under a rock while humming the tune of C's song. Native Americans attack and kill the family, and C watches the girl's corpse decay. Back in the house, which is empty except for the piano, C sees himself and M enter and look around. His life in the house repeats itself; he witnesses their last argument, and upon hearing his past self finally give in, he sits down heavily at the piano, creating the bang that had earlier startled the couple. Later, C watches his earlier ghost-self watch M leave the house for the last time. He finally retrieves the note and, upon reading it, disappears, his empty sheet collapsing to the floor.

A Goofy Movie

Kevin Lima

['Bill Farmer', 'Jason Marsden', 'Rob Paulsen', 'Jim Cummings', 'Kellie Martin', 'Kevin Lima', 'Jenna von Oy', 'Joey Lawrence', 'Julie Brown', 'Wayne Allwine', 'Wallace Shawn', 'Florence Stanley', 'Frank Welker', 'Pat Buttram', 'Pauly Shore', 'Aaron Lohr', 'Tevin Campbell', 'Jo Anne Worley', 'Brittany Alyse Smith', 'Robyne Richards', 'Klee Bragger', 'Herschel Sparber', 'Dante Basco', 'Sheryl Bernstein', 'Corey Burton', 'Pat Carroll', 'Elizabeth Daily', 'Carole Holliday', 'Steve Moore', 'Brian Pimental', 'Jason Willinger']

Animation, Comedy, Action, Romance, Musical, Children's film, Adventure, Melodrama, Drama, Family film, Coming-of-age story, Comedy music

['Australia', 'Canada', 'France', 'USA']

English

['English']

['Walt Disney Pictures', 'Walt Disney Animation', 'Phoenix Animation Studios', 'Pixibox', 'Walt Disney Animation', 'Walt Disney Feature Animation']

comedy, animated

vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time, vote-best-animated-films-of-all-time

Max Goof is an average teenager who pines after his classmate Roxanne, worships the pop star Powerline, and has a tense relationship with his clumsy, old-fashioned father Goofy, whom he fears turning into. On the last day of school before summer vacation, Max, with help from his friends P.J. and Bobby, hijacks a school assembly and dances while lip syncing to a Powerline song. The performance succeeds in making Max a school celebrity, and he invites Roxanne with him to a viewing party of a live broadcast of Powerline's upcoming concert in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, after learning from school principal Mazur that Max is becoming a juvenile delinquent, Goofy decides to curb his behavior by immediately leaving on a father-son fishing trip to Lake Destiny, Idaho. Unable to admit the truth to Roxanne, Max tells her that not only are he and Goofy traveling to Los Angeles to see the concert in person, but that Powerline has invited them onstage. Goofy and Max hit the road, visiting a run-down possum-themed amusement park where Goofy embarrasses Max. The next day, they run into P.J. and his father Pete while camping. Goofy takes his son fishing and shows him the "Perfect Cast" fishing technique, accidentally luring Bigfoot to their camp and forcing Goofy and Max to spend the night in the car with Bigfoot outside. While Goofy sleeps, Max alters the map's route to Los Angeles. The next morning, Goofy makes Max the navigator of the trip, and the two enjoy several stops together. That night, while staying at the same motel, Pete overhears a conversation between Max and P.J. and informs Goofy that Max has tricked him into traveling to Los Angeles. Goofy still believes Max will do the right thing, but the next morning, Max chooses the route to California, and a frustrated Goofy stops the car at the Grand Canyon and thumps away. With the brake loose, the car rolls away; Goofy and Max chase after it and end up riding the car down the Colorado River. After a brief argument, Goofy says no matter how old Max gets he will always be his son, and the two finally reconcile. After learning about Max's promise to Roxanne, Goofy decides to take him to the concert. The two nearly plummet down a waterfall, but Max saves Goofy using the Perfect Cast technique. Goofy and Max arrive at the concert, sneak on to the stage, and dance with Powerline, delighting Roxanne. Max and Goofy return home in a barely-functioning car and Max tells Roxanne the truth; she admits she always liked him and they make plans to go out. The car explodes, ejecting Goofy right into the air and falling through the porch roof of Roxanne's house, and Max proudly introduces his father to his new girlfriend.

A Grand Day Out

Nick Park

['Peter Sallis']

Action, Animation, Comedy, Children's film, Short, Adventure, Science fiction, Fantasy, Drama

['UK']

English

['English']

['Aardman', 'NFTS']

animated

vote-best-animated-films-of-all-time

During a bank holiday, the cheese-loving inventor Wallace and his dog Gromit search for places to spend time together. Unable to find someplace to go, Wallace makes some tea and gets some crackers from the cupboard, but finds they have run out of cheese. Believing that the moon is made of the stuff, they build a rocket, and, with some initial difficulty, launch into space. When they land, as they look for a place to sample the lunar landscape, they encounter a coin-operated robot resembling an oven on wheels. Wallace inserts a coin, but nothing happens. Some time after the two leave their initial picnic spot, the robot activates and assesses the belongings and dishes left behind, taking some of them as clean-up. The robot also discovers one of Wallace's skiing magazines, suddenly developing a yearning to travel to Earth to ski there. As it further assesses the evidence of its new visitors, it repairs a discarded piece of the cheese landscape, issues a parking ticket for the rocket, and is annoyed by an oil leak from the craft. Discovering Wallace is the culprit, the robot sneaks up and is about to strike him with a clubbing baton, but the money Wallace inserted runs out, and it turns off. Wallace, unaware of any trouble, hits his head on the baton anyways as he gets up, but takes it as a souvenir, inserts another coin, and prepares to leave with Gromit. Reactivating a bit later, the robot sees the two in their preparations. It hurriedly follows, hoping to travel with them to Earth. Wallace sees the robot and panics, assuming that the robot is angrily pursuing them for taking the cheese, and he and Gromit retreat into the rocket. They attempt to start the engine, but discover that in their panic they neglected to light the rocket's fuse. Unable to climb the ladder to get into the rocketship, the robot cuts into the fuselage with a can opener. As it fumbles around in the dark, it accidentally knocks a fuel line open and ignites the vapours. The resulting explosion throws the robot clear, but also starts the engine and the rocket safely lifts off anyways. The robot sadly and angrily resigns itself to its inability to go to Earth, until it realises that the strips of fuselage it held onto can be fashioned into crude skis. As it now-happily skis around the lunar landscape, the robot waves goodbye to Wallace and Gromit as they return home.

A Hard Day's Night

Richard Lester

['John Lennon', 'Paul McCartney', 'George Harrison', 'Ringo Starr', 'Wilfrid Brambell', 'Norman Rossington', 'John Junkin', 'Victor Spinetti', 'Anna Quayle', 'Deryck Guyler', 'Richard Vernon', 'Edward Malin', 'Lionel Blair', 'Robin Ray', 'Alison Seebohm', 'David Janson', 'Bridget Armstrong', 'Roger Avon', 'Bruce Beeby', 'Isla Blair', 'John Bluthal', 'Pattie Boyd', 'Andre Charisse', 'Phil Collins', 'Sheila Fearn', 'Rosemarie Frankland', 'Bob Godfrey', 'Kenneth Haigh', 'Susan Hampshire', 'Victor Harrington', 'Julian Holloway', 'Clare Kelly', 'David Langton', 'Al Lewis', 'Jeremy Lloyd', 'Derek Nimmo', 'Margaret Nolan', 'Jim Brady', 'Charlotte Rampling', 'Gordon Rollings', 'Edina Ronay', 'Marianne Stone', 'Noel Trevarthen', 'Michael Trubshawe', 'Neil Wilson']

Music, Comedy, Musical, Indie film, Comedy music, Musical Drama

['UK']

English

['English', 'German', 'French']

['Proscenium Films', 'Walter Shenson Films', 'Maljack Productions', 'United Artists']

comedy

vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time

The four Beatles evade a horde of fans while boarding a train for London to film a televised variety show concert. En route, they meet Paul McCartney's trouble-making Irish grandfather, John. Before arriving in London, the band entertains some schoolgirls and plays cards with their manager, Norm, and road manager, Shake. They are quickly driven from the station to a hotel and begin to feel confined. Norm brings each Beatle a pile of fan mail and tasks them with answering each letter, but they sneak out to party. Norm and Shake catch them and order them back to the room, where they find out that Paul's grandfather has gone to a gambling club using an invitation sent to Ringo; they track him down and bring him back to the hotel. The next day, the Beatles arrive at a TV studio for rehearsals. The television producer assumes bad faith in them due to something Paul's grandfather said. After a mundane cocktail reception where the group tease reporters with comic and evasive answers to interview questions, they leave through a fire escape and cavort in a field until forced off by its caretaker. Back in the studio, they are separated when a woman thinks she recognises John Lennon but cannot recall who he is. George Harrison is mistaken for an actor, dragged into an advertising agent's office, and auditioned for a clothing advertisement, but offends the agent by calling the shirts he is presented with "grotesque". The band returns to rehearse a second song and, after a quick trip to makeup, smoothly goes through a third before earning a break. An hour before the final run-through, Ringo Starr is cajoled into chaperoning Paul's grandfather to the studio canteen for tea. He takes issue with a book Ringo is reading and manipulates him into going out "parading" to experience life rather than reading about it in books. Ringo tries to have a quiet drink in a pub, takes pictures, walks alongside the River Thames, and rides a bicycle along a railway station platform.[b] After being ejected from the pub for nearly injuring a parrot with a dart and accidentally causing a woman to fall into a newly dug hole at a construction site, Ringo is apprehended by a policeman. He is shortly joined by Paul's grandfather, who had triggered a ruckus attempting to sell Beatles photos with autographs he had forged. The grandfather antagonises the policemen at the station before running back to the studio to tell the others about Ringo. Norm sends the other three Beatles to retrieve him, which leads to a Keystone Cops-style foot chase. Arriving back at the studio with only minutes to spare before airtime, the Beatles deliver a smashing performance to an audience of screaming, delirious fans. Immediately afterwards, a helicopter whisks the group away toward a "midnight matinée" engagement in Wolverhampton. Paul tosses the forged autographs out of the helicopter as it takes off.

A Hero Never Dies

Johnnie To

['Leon Lai', 'Sean Lau Ching-Wan', 'Fiona Leung', 'Yoyo Mung Ka-Wai', 'Lam Suet', 'Keiji Sato', 'Yuen Bun', 'Henry Fong Ping', 'Yen Shi-Kwan', 'Michael Lam Wai-Leung', 'Wong Tin-Lam', 'Cheung Chi-Ping', 'Lu Ching-Ting', 'Law Wing-Cheong', 'Philip Keung Hiu-Man', 'Chiu Chi-Shing']

Action, Adventure, Noir, Drama, Crime film, Mafia, Thriller, Gangster, Detective fiction, World cinema, Crime Fiction, Police procedural, Action Thriller, Action/Adventure

['Hong Kong']

Cantonese

['Cantonese', 'Chinese', 'Thai', 'English']

['Film City (Hong Kong) Limited', 'Milkyway Image']

action, top-rated

letterboxds-top-250-action-films

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A League of Their Own

Penny Marshall

['Tom Hanks', 'Geena Davis', 'Lori Petty', 'Madonna', "Rosie O'Donnell", 'Megan Cavanagh', 'Tracy Reiner', 'Bitty Schram', 'Ann Cusack', 'Anne Ramsay', 'Freddie Simpson', 'Renée Coleman', 'Robin Knight', 'Patti Pelton', 'Kelli Simpkins', 'Neezer Tarleton', 'Connie Pounds-Taylor', 'Kathleen Marshall', 'Sharon Szmidt', 'Pauline Brailsford', 'David Strathairn', 'Garry Marshall', 'Jon Lovitz', 'Bill Pullman', 'Justin Scheller', 'Eddie Jones', 'Alan Wilder', 'Michael Haley', 'Don S. Davis', 'Janet Jones', 'Brenda Ferrari', 'Téa Leoni', 'Laurel Cronin', 'Wantland L. Sandel Jr.', 'Joe Krowka', 'Harry Shearer', 'Blaire Baron', 'Ryan Howell', 'Brian Boru Gleeson', 'David Franks', 'Ryan Olsen', 'Ellie Weingardt', 'Larissa Collins', 'Douglas Blakeslee', 'Joey Slotnick', 'Brian Flannery', 'Stephen Feagley', 'Rae Allen', 'Gregory Sporleder', 'Eddie Mekka', 'Stephen Mailer', 'Raymond L. Chapman', 'Joette Hodgen', 'Lynn Cartwright', 'Kathleen Butler', 'Eunice Anderson', 'Vera Johnson', 'Patricia Wilson', 'Mark Holton', 'Barbara Erwin', 'Betty Miller', 'Eugenia McLin', 'Barbara Pilavin', 'Marvin Einhorn', 'Shirley Burkovich', "Dolores 'Pickles' Dries", 'Shelly Adlard', 'Vickie Buse', 'K.C. Carr', 'Julie Croteau', 'Tonya Gilles Koch', 'Kirsten Gretick', 'Stacey Gustaferro', 'Lisa Handirk', 'Cheryl Jones', 'Shelly Niemeyer', 'Sally Rutherford', 'Lita Schmitt', 'Amanda Walker', 'Brenda Watson', 'Clint Calvert', 'Del Close', 'Sarah Cosgrove-Gaumond', 'Cris Cunningham', 'Doug Decker', 'Andrea Helene', 'Gary Houston', 'David L. Lander', 'Kindra Marra', 'Megan McCarthy', 'Ed Quinn', 'Phil Russell', 'Keith Schrader', 'Ray Toler', 'Robin Wyatt']

Action, Drama, Comedy, War, Children's film, Sports, Comedy drama

['USA']

English

['English']

['Columbia Pictures', 'Parkway Productions']

friendship

favorite-friendship-driven-movies

In 1988, Dottie Hinson attends the opening of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League exhibit at the Baseball Hall of Fame. She sees pictures of many former teammates and friends, prompting a flashback to 1943. With World War II threatening to shut down Major League Baseball (MLB), Chicago Cubs owner Walter Harvey persuades his fellow owners to bankroll a women's league. Ira Lowenstein is put in charge. Scout Ernie Capadino attends an industrial-league softball game in Oregon and likes what he sees in Dottie, the catcher for a local dairy. She is not interested, and is happy with her life, waiting for her husband Bob to return from the war. Her younger sister, Kit Keller, however, is desperate to escape and make something of herself. Capadino is unimpressed by Kit's batting and refuses to watch her pitch, but agrees to take her along if she changes Dottie's mind. Dottie agrees for her sister's sake. Dottie and Kit travel to Harvey Field in Chicago for tryouts; en route, they force Capadino to accept homely second baseman Marla Hooch. They meet taxi dancer Mae "All-the-Way-Mae" Mordabito and her best friend, bouncer Doris Murphy, soft-spoken right fielder Evelyn Gardner, illiterate left fielder Shirley Baker, pitcher/shortstop and former Miss Georgia beauty queen Ellen Sue Gotlander, left field/relief pitcher Betty "Spaghetti" Horn, first baseman Helen Haley and Alice "Skeeter" Gaspers. They and five others constitute the Rockford Peaches, while 48 others make up the Racine Belles, the Kenosha Comets and the South Bend Blue Sox. The Peaches are managed by former star, Cubs slugger Jimmy Dugan, a cynical alcoholic. He initially treats the whole concept as a joke, forcing Dottie to take over as on-field leader, initially. Dugan is also abrasive toward his players. The team travels with Evelyn's spoiled, bratty son Stillwell and team chaperone Miss Cuthburt. With a Life magazine photographer in the stands, Lowenstein begs the players to do something spectacular, as the league has attracted little attention. Dottie obliges, catching a popped-up ball behind home plate while doing a split. The resulting photograph makes the magazine cover. A publicity campaign draws more people to the ballgames, but the owners remain unconvinced. The teammates bond. Marla marries a man named Nelson whom she met on a raucous roadhouse outing and leaves the team for the rest of the season, Mae teaches Shirley to read, and Evelyn writes a team song. Lowenstein promotes Dottie as the face of the league, making Kit resentful. Their sibling rivalry intensifies, resulting in Kit's trade to the Racine Belles. The Peaches end the season with the league's best record, qualifying for the World Series. Jimmy gives Betty a telegram, informing her that her husband was killed in action in the Pacific Theater. Grief-stricken, she leaves the team. That evening, Dottie receives a surprise when Bob shows up, having been wounded and discharged from the Army. Jimmy discovers that Dottie is going home with Bob. Unable to persuade her to play in the World Series, he tells her she will regret her decision. The Peaches face the Belles in the World Series, which goes the full seven games. Dottie rejoins the Peaches for the seventh game, while Kit is the starting pitcher for the Belles. With the Belles leading by a run in the top of the ninth, Dottie drives in the go-ahead run. Kit is distraught, but gets a second chance when she comes to bat with two outs in the bottom of the ninth. She gets a hit and, ignoring the third base coach's sign to stop, scores the winning run by knocking her sister over at the plate and dislodging the ball from Dottie's hand. The sellout crowd convinces Harvey to give Lowenstein the owners' support. After the game, the sisters reconcile before Dottie leaves with Bob. Back in the present at Cooperstown, Dottie is reunited with the other players, including Kit, Capadino and Lowenstein; she sees that Jimmy died a year earlier, in 1987. The surviving Peaches sing Evelyn's team song and pose for a photo. During the closing credits, they play baseball once again at Doubleday Field.

A Letter to Three Wives

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

['Ann Sothern', 'Linda Darnell', 'Jeanne Crain', 'Kirk Douglas', 'Paul Douglas', 'Jeffrey Lynn', 'Barbara Lawrence', 'Connie Gilchrist', 'Florence Bates', 'Hobart Cavanaugh', 'John Davidson', 'Franklyn Farnum', 'Celeste Holm', 'Mae Marsh', 'Thelma Ritter', 'Carl Switzer', 'James Adamson', 'Joe Bautista', 'Patti Brady', 'Ralph Brooks', 'Sayre Dearing', 'Sam Finn', 'Stuart Holmes', 'Wilbur Mack', 'George Offerman, Jr.', 'Cosmo Sardo', 'Charles Tannen', 'Ruth Vivian']

Romance, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Melodrama, Mystery, Drama, Tragicomedy

['USA']

English

['English']

['20th Century Fox']

toxic-relationship

toxic-destructive-relationships

Friends Deborah Bishop, Rita Phipps and Lora Mae Hollingsway are just about to take a group of children on a riverboat outing when they receive a message from Addie Ross informing them that she has taken one of their husbands as a lover. However, Addie does not specify which woman's husband is involved in the affair. In flashbacks, each woman considers reasons why it might be her husband. The first flashback involves Deborah, who was raised on a farm. Her first experience with the outside world came when she joined the Navy WAVES during World War II, where she met her future husband Brad. When they return to civilian life, Deborah does not feel welcome in Brad's sophisticated social circle. Adding to her insecurity, she learns that everyone expected Brad to marry Addie, a woman whom all three husbands lavish their attention. Deborah is comforted by Brad's friend Rita, who writes stories for radio soap operas. Her husband George is an English teacher. While Rita wishes that George would be more ambitious, he is disappointed that his wife caters to her boss, Mrs. Manleigh. Rita is so intent on pleasing Mrs. Manleigh that she forgets her husband's birthday and invites the Manleighs for dinner. George forgives Rita's mistake but, to George's delight, a birthday gift of a rare Brahms recording arrives from Addie. Lora Mae grew up in poverty. She pursues Porter, the older, divorced owner of a statewide chain of department stores where she works. Matters come to a head when Lora Mae sees a picture of Addie on the piano in Porter's mansion. She tells him that she wants her picture on a piano and his home to become hers. He tells her that he is not interested in marriage, and she ends the relationship. However, he proposes to Lora Mae and skips a party at Addie's house. Back in real time, the women return from the outing. Rita is overjoyed to find George at home after attending a play rehearsal. They reconcile and she vows to not allow herself to no longer be at Mrs. Manleigh's mercy. Porter is late coming home, causing Lora Mae to think he has left with Addie. When he appears and hears his wife's suspicions, he accuses her of being happy at the thought of establishing grounds to divorce him and reap a big chunk of his fortune. A domestic worker tells Deborah that Brad will not be coming home that night. Heartbroken at her perceived loss, she visits the country club dance unaccompanied along with the two other couples. When Porter complains about Lora Mae dancing with another man, Deborah tells him that he has no idea how much she really loves him; still, Porter is certain that Lora Mae only sees him as a money source. Unable to take the strain any longer, Deborah decides to leave, announcing that Brad has left with Addie. Porter stops her, confessing it was he who planned to flee with Addie, but he had changed his mind. As Deborah leaves to find her late-working husband, Porter tells Lora Mae that admitting his intended abandonment in front of witnesses is enough for her to divorce him and claim everything that she wants. To his shock, she ignores it by saying that she has not heard a word that he said. Finally convinced of her love, Porter is overjoyed and asks her to dance. The voice of the still unseen Addie Ross then bids the audience a good night.

A Long Way Down

Pascal Chaumeil

['Pierce Brosnan', 'Aaron Paul', 'Imogen Poots', 'Toni Collette', 'Sam Neill', 'Rosamund Pike', 'Tuppence Middleton', 'Joe Cole', 'Josef Altin', 'Zara White', 'Shola Adewusi', 'Diana Kent', 'Leo Bill', 'Enrique Arce', 'Christos Tolera', 'Honey Epstein', 'Ilan Goodman', 'Priyanga Burford', 'Evelyn Duah', 'Therese Bradley']

Romance, Comedy, Drama

['UK', 'Germany']

English

['English']

['BBC Film', 'Wildgaze Films', 'Finola Dwyer Productions', 'HanWay Films', 'DCM Pictures']

feel-good

feel-good-movies

Martin Sharp is contemplating suicide on New Year's Eve on the roof of the Toppers Building, high above London's streets. He is interrupted by a woman, Maureen, who has the same fate in mind. She shyly offers to wait her turn, until two other strangers, a young woman named Jess and a pizza deliverer called J.J., also turn up. Martin is recognised by the others, having been a popular television personality before going to prison for a relationship with a girl who turned out to be 15. After talking things over, the four strangers form a pact, vowing to wait at least until Valentine's Day before again attempting suicide. Maureen has a disabled son she adores, but little life beyond that. Jess is the daughter of a politician and their relationship is strained after her older sister disappeared without a trace. J.J. is an American who once played in a band, but while his three new acquaintances are suicidally depressed, he claims that he is terminally ill with cancer. To profit from misfortune, Martin hatches a scheme that makes them the talk of London, claiming their mass suicide was interrupted by a vision. They end up on his old TV chat show, where Martin's former co-host Penny makes her guests feel humiliated and even more depressed. The four go on vacation to get away from London's attention. They enjoy each other's company until it is revealed that J.J.'s claim about cancer is a lie and the intervention of a journalist named Kathy drives them apart. After the vacation, the four resume their lives. When Maureen's son Matty suffers a heart attack, Jess and Martin visit Maureen in the hospital but J.J. cannot be contacted. They realise it is Valentine's Day and that their pact has ended. All four end up back in London on the very same rooftop with the other three coaxing J.J. away from the edge successfully. On New Year's Eve that year, they video call each other. Martin is looking after his daughter, Maureen is enjoying herself at a New Year's party, and J.J. and Jess are in a happy relationship.