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Waiting for Guffman

Christopher Guest

['Christopher Guest', 'Eugene Levy', 'Fred Willard', "Catherine O'Hara", 'Michael Hitchcock', 'Larry Miller', 'Parker Posey', 'Bob Balaban', 'Don Lake', 'David Cross', 'Paul Dooley', 'Lewis Arquette', 'Matt Keeslar', 'Brian Doyle-Murray', 'Paul Benedict', 'Deborah Theaker', 'Margaret Bowman', 'Scott Williamson', 'Linda Kash', 'James McQueen', 'Turk Pipkin', 'Jerry Turman', 'Miriam Flynn', 'Jill Parker-Jones', 'Jean Fuller', 'Paul Robertson', 'Richard Macdowell', 'Johnny Reno', 'Tracy Rosenkrans', 'CJ Vanston', 'Tony Edwards', 'Lou Christie', 'James Douglas', 'Daniel Fahey', 'Shane Felux', 'Joseph T. Garrity', 'Kathy Lamkin', 'Bob Odenkirk']

Comedy, Mockumentary, Musical, Documentary, Drama, Indie film

['USA']

English

['English']

['Pale Morning Dun']

comedy

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In the fictional small town of Blaine, Missouri, a few residents prepare to put on a community theater production led by eccentric director Corky St. Clair. The show, a musical chronicling the town's history titled Red, White and Blaine, is to be performed as part of the town's 150th-anniversary celebration. Cast in the leads are Ron and Sheila Albertson, married travel agents who are also regular amateur performers; Libby Mae Brown, a perky Dairy Queen employee; Clifford Wooley, a "long time Blaineian" and retired taxidermist, who is Red, White and Blaine's narrator; Johnny Savage, a handsome and oblivious mechanic, whom Corky goes out of his way to get into the play; and Dr. Allan Pearl, a tragically square dentist determined to discover his inner entertainer. High-school teacher Lloyd Miller is the show's increasingly frustrated musical director. Corky has used connections from his "off-off-off-off-Broadway" past to invite Mort Guffman, a Broadway producer, to critique Red, White and Blaine. Corky leads the cast to believe that a positive review from Guffman could mean their show might go all the way to Broadway. The program itself is designed to musically retell the history of Blaine, whose founding father was a buffoon incapable of distinguishing the geography of middle Missouri from the Pacific coastline. The viewer also learns why the town obtusely refers to itself as "the stool capital of the United States." The music is a series of poorly performed songs such as "Nothing Ever Happens on Mars", a reference to the town's supposed visit by an unidentified flying object, and "Stool Boom". (The DVD contains "This Bulging River" and "Nothing Ever Happens in Blaine", which were edited from the cinema release.) Central to the film are Corky's stereotypically gay mannerisms. He supposedly has a wife called Bonnie, whom no one in Blaine has ever met or seen. He uses her to explain his habit of shopping for women's clothing and shoes. When Johnny is forced by his suspicious father to quit the show, Corky takes over his roles, which were clearly intended for a young, masculine actor, playing a lusty young frontiersman, a heartbroken soldier, and a little boy wearing a beanie and shorts. Corky never sheds his dainty demeanor, bowl haircut, lisp, or earring in spite of his historical roles, and his face is pasted with an overkill of stage rouge and eyeliner. Corky is also faced with creating his magic on a shoestring budget, at one point quitting the show after storming out of a meeting with the city council, which turns down his request for $100,000 to finance the production, but the distraught cast and persuasive city fathers convince Corky to return. At the show's performance, Guffman's seat is seen to be empty, much to the dismay of the cast. Corky reassures them that Broadway producers always arrive a bit late for the show, and sure enough, a man soon takes Guffman's reserved seat. The show is well received by the audience, whereupon Corky invites the assumed Guffman backstage to talk to the actors. The man is actually Roy Loomis, who has come to Blaine to witness the birth of his niece's baby, but he did enjoy the show. Corky then reads a telegram stating that Guffman's plane was grounded by snowstorms in New York City, meaning that, like the "Godot" being spoofed, the real Guffman never arrives. An epilogue shows the fates of the cast: Libby Mae is now living in Sipes, Alabama, where she moved after her father was paroled, and working at the Dairy Queen. Allan and the Albertsons have pursued their dreams of being entertainers, Ron and Sheila traveling to Los Angeles, California, to work as extras, and Allan now performing for elderly Jews in Miami, Florida retirement communities. Corky has returned to New York City, where he has opened a Hollywood-themed novelty shop, which includes such items as Brat Pack bobblehead dolls, My Dinner with Andre action figures, and The Remains of the Day lunch boxes.

Waiting for the Hearse

Alejandro Doria

['Luis Brandoni', 'China Zorrilla', 'Antonio Gasalla', 'Julio De Grazia', 'Betiana Blum', 'Juan Manuel Tenuta', 'Mónica Villa', 'Enrique Pinti', 'Darío Grandinetti', 'Cecilia Rossetto', 'Andrea Tenuta', 'Lidia Catalano', 'Clotilde Borella', 'José Andrada', 'Jorge Santos', 'Matías Puelles', 'Gloria Necon', 'Miguel Ángel Porro', 'Gofredo Colombo', 'Juan Acosta', 'Rafael Rodríguez']

Comedy, Drama

['Argentina']

Spanish

['Spanish']

['Rosafrey SRL', 'Susy Suranyi y Asociados']

comedy

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The Musicardi family's octogenarian widow, Ana María de los Dolores Buscaroli, called Mamá Cora by everybody (Antonio Gasalla), has four children: Antonio (Luis Brandoni), Sergio (Juan Manuel Tenuta), Emilia (Lidia Catalano) and Jorge Musicardi (Julio De Grazia), whom she lives with and who is going through financial troubles. This situation, plus lack of space and constant generational conflicts, makes Susana, Jorge's wife (Mónica Villa), beg her siblings-in-law to take their mother with any of them for a while after Mamá Cora misunderstood her and ruined part of the meal Susana had labored over. Susana storms into Sergio's house, who's getting ready with his perfidious wife Elvira (China Zorrilla) and their daughter Matilde (Andrea Tenuta) to welcome, with a classic Sunday meal, nouveau riche Antonio and his wife Nora (Betiana Blum), who ascended socially and economically in unclear circumstances during Argentina's last dictatorship. Despite Susana's pleading, no one wants to house Mamá Cora. After what happened with Susana, Mamá Cora decides to go out and stop bothering everyone for some hours. She ends up in the house across Sergio's babysitting the son of Dominga, the neighbor. When nobody can find her after the fight with Susana and they hear news about the discovery of an old lady's disfigured body after committing suicide by throwing herself under a train, the remorseful clan comes to the hastened conclusion that Mamá Cora killed herself so she would stop being a bother. Heartbroken, they arrange a funeral and invite a large number of Mamá Cora's relatives, friends and acquaintances. The conmotion attracts Mamá Cora's attention from up on Dominga's terrace. Years of troubles, resentment and intrigues come up between all of the Musicardis while they prepare the service for their matriarch. In the middle of her own vigil, Mamá Cora reappears, leaving everybody astonished. She is convinced to go to a funeral for the old lady who had committed suicide, a Hungarian woman whose body was sent to the Musicardi family by mistake, so she won't discover she stumbled upon her own funeral. The rest of the family stays behind and reflects on the events of the afternoon.

Waiting...

Rob McKittrick

['Ryan Reynolds', 'Anna Faris', 'Justin Long', 'David Koechner', 'Luis Guzmán', 'Chi McBride', 'John Francis Daley', 'Kaitlin Doubleday', 'Rob Benedict', 'Alanna Ubach', 'Vanessa Lengies', 'Emmanuelle Chriqui', 'Wendie Malick', 'Jordan Ladd', 'Max Kasch', 'Andy Milonakis', 'Dane Cook', 'J.D. Evermore', 'Anne Ewen', 'Clay Chamberlin', 'Travis Resor', 'Pat Hazell', 'Skyler Stone', 'Jordan Werner', 'Todd Voltz', 'Skylar Duhe', 'Lauren Swinney', 'Wayne Ferrara']

Comedy, Indie film

['USA']

English

['English', 'Russian']

['LIFT Productions', 'Eden Rock Media', 'Lions Gate Films']

comedy

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The film takes place during a single day at "Shenaniganz", a franchise restaurant. Dean, who has been working there for four years, learns from his mother that a schoolmate recently graduated from college and has secured a high-paying job in electrical engineering. Dean's co-worker Monty takes new employee Mitch through his training, introducing him to the staff both in the restaurant and kitchen. Monty also shows Mitch the "Penis Showing Game", where the male staff deliberately expose their genitalia to their unsuspecting coworkers, as well as the ways the staff deal with rude and entitled customers. In one scene food is sent back which the kitchen staff then gladly contaminate with spit, dandruff and other unsavory bits. The remaining wait staff are Serena, Monty's ex-girlfriend; Natasha, the underage hostess who shares a mutual attraction with Monty; Amy, who is Dean's girlfriend; Calvin, a hopeless romantic who cannot urinate in public, and Naomi, a constantly angry waitress. Managing them is Dan, who offers Dean the chance to compete with Calvin for the position of Assistant Manager. An altercation with a customer who left a pitiful tip to Dean results in Dan demanding an answer from him by the end of the day. As the day winds down, Dean is left on his own during the final hour of business. Two new guests arrive, one of which Dean quickly realizes is Chet, his successful schoolmate. Initially annoyed, Dean is humbled by Chet when he leaves Dean $100 for his $30 meal, rendering in a $70 tip. Chet reiterates, 'You look like you need it more than me', which Dean had retorted to the earlier customer. Dean is called to Dan's office to give his decision regarding the promotion, and turns it down and to instead return to college for a more promising future. As the shift ends, the staff head to a party at Monty and Dean's house, where Monty refrains from having sex with Natasha as she is not of legal age yet, but promises they will the following week after her birthday. Mitch, who had been unable to speak all day, largely due to Monty's interruptions, finally rants about the entire staff and quits. Prior to leaving, Mitch exposes his genitals in the form of "The Goat", which head chef Raddimus had said earlier would grant him instant god-status. Monty declares his allegiance to Mitch, having now replaced Dean in his absence. In a post-credits scene, Dan is shown arriving at the home of the customer that Dean had insulted earlier, incorrectly believing it to be the location of the party. The customer angrily demands from Dan the milkshake he was earlier promised.

Waking Life

Richard Linklater

['Ethan Hawke', 'Julie Delpy', 'Wiley Wiggins', 'Bill Wise', 'Alex Jones', 'Steven Soderbergh', 'Ken Webster', 'Charles Gunning', 'Lorelei Linklater', 'Trevor Jack Brooks', 'Glover Gill', 'Lara Hicks', 'Ames Asbell', 'Leigh Mahoney', 'Sara Nelson', 'Jeanine Attaway', 'Erik Grostick', 'Robert C. Solomon', 'Kim Krizan', 'Eamonn Healy', 'J.C. Shakespeare', 'David Sosa', 'Otto Hofmann', 'Aklilu Gebrewold', 'Carol Dawson', 'Lisa Moore', 'Steve Fitch', 'Louis Mackey', 'Alex Nixon', 'Kelly Rebecca Nichols', 'Steven Prince', 'Mary McBay', 'Kregg A. Foote', 'Jason T. Hodge', 'Guy Forsyth', 'John Christensen', 'Caveh Zahedi', 'David Jewell', 'Adam Goldberg', 'Nicky Katt', 'Jason Liebrecht', 'Brent Green', 'RC Whittaker', 'Hymie Samuelson', 'David Martinez', 'Ryan Power', 'Tiana Hux', 'Timothy "Speed" Levitch', 'Steve Brudniak', 'Marta Banda', 'Charles Murdock', 'Mona Lee Fultz', 'Edith Mannix', 'Bess Cox', 'Louis Black', 'Richard Linklater', 'Kierstin Cunnington']

Animation, Action, Drama, Comedy, Adult animation, Documentary, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller, Experimental, Docufiction

['USA']

English

['English']

['Line Research', 'Thousand Words', 'Flat Black Films', 'Detour Filmproduction', 'Independent Film Channel']

animated

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An unnamed young man lives an ethereal existence that lacks transitions between everyday events and eventually progresses toward an existential crisis. He observes quietly but later participates actively in philosophical discussions involving other characters — ranging from quirky scholars and artists to everyday restaurant-goers and friends — about such issues as metaphysics, free will, social philosophy, and the meaning of life. Other scenes do not even include the protagonist's presence but rather focus on a random isolated person, a group of people, or a couple engaging in such topics from a disembodied perspective. Along the way, the film also touches upon existentialism, situationist politics, posthumanity, the film theory of André Bazin, and lucid dreaming, and makes references to various celebrated intellectual and literary figures by name. Gradually, the protagonist begins to realize that he is living out a perpetual dream, broken up only by occasional false awakenings. So far, he is mostly a passive onlooker, though this changes during a chat with a passing woman who suddenly approaches him. After she greets him and shares her creative ideas with him, he reminds himself that she is a figment of his own dreaming imagination. Afterward, he starts to converse more openly with other dream characters, but he begins to despair about being trapped in a dream. The protagonist's final talk is with a character (played by Richard Linklater) whom he briefly encountered previously in the film. This last conversation reveals this other character's view that reality may be only a single instant that the individual interprets falsely as time (and, thus, life); that living is simply the individual's constant negation of God's invitation to become one with the universe; that dreams offer a glimpse into the infinite nature of reality; and that in order to be free from the illusion called life, the individual need only accept God's invitation. The protagonist is last seen walking into a driveway when he suddenly begins to levitate, paralleling a scene at the start of the film of a floating child in the same driveway. The protagonist uncertainly reaches toward a car's handle but is too swiftly lifted above the vehicle and over the trees. He rises into the endless blue expanse of the sky until he disappears from view.

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

Jake Kasdan

['John C. Reilly', 'Jenna Fischer', 'Raymond J. Barry', 'Kristen Wiig', 'Tim Meadows', 'Harold Ramis', 'Frankie Muniz', 'Chris Parnell', 'Margo Martindale', 'Matt Besser', 'Nat Faxon', 'Conner Rayburn', 'Chip Hormess', 'Terrence Beasor', 'Honeyboy Edwards', 'Gerry Black', 'Aron Johnson', 'Jack Donovan Saperstein', 'Taylor Hubert', 'Christopher Hurt', 'Matt Price', 'John Maynard', 'E.J. Callahan', 'Rance Howard', 'Craig Robinson', 'Paul Bates', 'Patrick Faucette', 'Phil Rosenthal', 'Martin Starr', 'Oscar Dillon', 'Jack McBrayer', 'Molly C. Quinn', 'John Ennis', 'Ed Helms', 'Jack White', 'Angela Little', 'Odette Annable', 'Tyler Nilson', 'Deanna Brooks', 'Ian Roberts', 'Steve Bannos', 'Willow Geer', 'David Doty', 'Jack Kehler', 'Gerry Bednob', 'David Krumholtz', 'Tim Bagley', 'Jane Lynch', 'Skyler Gisondo', 'Kshitij Pendurkar', 'Simon Helberg', 'Jacques Slade', 'Danica Rozelle', 'Lurie Poston', 'Maggie Mannion', 'Jackson Browne', 'Jewel', 'Lyle Lovett', 'Stacey Scowley', 'Ajla Hodžić', 'Ghostface Killah', 'Otis Williams', 'Ron Tyson', 'Terry Weeks', 'Joe Herndon', 'Bruce Williamson', 'Eddie Vedder', 'Jack Black', 'Paul Rudd', 'Justin Long', 'Jason Schwartzman', 'Patrick J. Adams', 'Clement Blake', 'Patrick Duffy', 'Morgan Fairchild', 'Paul Feig', 'Amber Hay', 'John Michael Higgins', 'Jonah Hill', 'Neil Ironfield', 'Cheryl Ladd', 'Cheryl Tiegs', 'Serria Tawan', 'Rae Sunshine Lee', 'Gregg Lee', 'Adam Herschman', 'Debbie Yeh']

Comedy, Musical, Drama, Comedy music, Musical Drama

['USA']

English

['English']

['Apatow Productions', 'Columbia Pictures']

comedy

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In Springberry, Alabama, 1946, young Dewey Cox accidentally cuts his brother Nate in half with a machete. His father blames him for Nate's death and the trauma causes him to lose his sense of smell. Dewey meets a blues guitarist who discovers his life experience instilled in him a natural affinity for playing blues. In 1953, Dewey performs at a school talent show and drives the crowd wild with his song "Take My Hand," and his father kicks him out of the house, calling it the "Devil's music". A 14-year-old Dewey leaves Springberry with his 12-year-old-girlfriend Edith; they soon marry and have a baby. Working at an all-African American nightclub, Dewey replaces singer Bobby Shad onstage and impresses Hasidic Jew record executive L'Chaim. While recording a rockabilly rendition of "That's Amore", he is berated by an executive. A desperate Dewey performs "Walk Hard," a song inspired by a speech he gave Edith, which restores the executive's belief in Judaism and rockets him to superstardom. The song quickly becomes a hit and Dewey becomes caught up in the rock 'n' roll lifestyle. He soon performs his first concert as the following act to Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, and The Big Bopper. Dewey is introduced to marijuana by his drummer Sam and becomes unfaithful to Edith. Dewey's father informs him that his mother has died while dancing to Dewey's song and blames Dewey's music for her death. Distraught, Dewey finds Sam using cocaine and partakes, resulting in a cocaine-fueled punk rock performance. Choir-girl Darlene Madison enters Dewey's life, and he produces several sexually suggestive hit records amid their courtship. He weds Darlene while still married to Edith, which leads to both women leaving him, after which Dewey purchases drugs from an undercover cop. After he serves time in prison and in rehab, Darlene returns. They move to Berkeley, California in 1966 during the counterculture movement. Dewey's new singing style is compared to that of Bob Dylan, which he angrily denies. In the next scene, a music video shows that Dewey's new song mimics Dylan's style, including opaque lyrics ("The mouse with the overbite explained/how the rabbits were ensnared/ and the skinny scanty sylph/ trashed the apothecary diplomat/ inside the three-eyed monkey/ within inches of his toaster-oven life."). On a band visit to India, Dewey takes LSD with the Beatles, leading to a Yellow Submarine-esque hallucination. Dewey becomes consumed with creating his masterpiece Black Sheep (a homage to Brian Wilson's Smile). The band resents his insane musical style and abusive behavior and breaks up; Darlene, also unable to deal with him, leaves him for Glen Campbell. During another stint in rehab, Dewey is visited by the ghost of Nate, who ridicules his self-pity and tells him to start writing songs again. In the 1970s, Dewey now hosts a CBS variety television show but is unable to compose a masterpiece for his brother. Nate reappears and urges him to reconcile with their father. Dewey and his father wind up dueling with machetes; despite having trained years for this moment, his father cuts himself in half, forgives Dewey for Nate's death, tells him to be a better father, and dies. Dewey breaks down and destroys almost everything in his home. Dewey is approached by one of his illegitimate children and decides to reconnect with his many offspring. In 1992, a divorced Darlene returns to him. Finally realizing what is most important, Dewey regains his sense of smell and remarries her. In 2007, L'Chaim's son Dreidel informs Dewey of his popularity with young listeners through rapper Lil' Nutzzak's sampling of "Walk Hard." Dewey learns he is to receive a lifetime achievement award. They want him to sing a song at the ceremony, but Dewey is reluctant, fearing his old temptations. However, with his family's support, he reunites with his band and is finally able to create one great masterpiece, summing up his entire life with his final song, "Beautiful Ride," while also deciding against trying a drug offered to him. A title card reveals that Dewey died three minutes after this final performance, which then also reads "Dewford Randolph Cox, 1936–2007." A post-credits scene is a short black-and-white clip of "the actual Dewey Cox, April 16, 2002" (still played by Reilly).

Walkabout

Nicolas Roeg

['Jenny Agutter', 'Luc Roeg', 'David Gulpilil', 'John Meillon', 'Robert McDarra', 'Peter Carver', 'John Illingsworth', 'Hilary Bamberger', 'Barry Donnelly', 'Noeline Brown', 'Carlo Manchini']

Action, Adventure, Drama, Survival

['USA']

English

['English']

['Si Litvinoff Film Production', 'Max L. Raab Productions']

road-movie

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A teenage girl and her younger brother live with their parents in a modest high rise apartment in Sydney. One day their father drives them into the Outback, still in their school uniforms, ostensibly for a picnic. As they prepare to eat, the father draws a gun and fires at the children. The boy believes it to be a game, but the daughter realises her father is attempting to murder them, and flees with her brother, seeking shelter behind rocks. She watches as her father sets their car on fire and shoots himself in the head. The girl conceals the suicide from her brother, retrieves some of the picnic food, and leads him away from the scene, attempting to walk home through the desert. By the middle of the next day, they are weak and the boy can barely walk. Discovering an oasis with a small water hole and a fruit tree, they spend the day playing, bathing, and resting. By the next morning, the water has dried up. They are then discovered by an Aboriginal boy. He does not speak English, much to the girl's frustration, but her brother mimes their need for water and the newcomer cheerfully shows them how to draw it from the drying bed of the oasis. The three travel together, with the Aboriginal boy sharing kangaroo meat he has caught from hunting. The boys learn to communicate to some extent using words from each other's languages and gestures; the girl makes no such attempts. While in the vicinity of a plantation, a white woman walks past the Aboriginal boy, who simply ignores her when she speaks to him. She appears to see the other children, but they do not see her, and they continue on their journey. The children also discover a weather balloon belonging to a nearby research team working in the desert. After drawing markings of a modern-style house, the Aboriginal boy eventually leads them to an abandoned farm, and takes the small boy to a nearby road. The Aboriginal boy hunts down a water buffalo and is wrestling it to the ground when two white hunters appear in a truck and nearly run him over. He watches in shock as they wantonly shoot several buffalo with a rifle. The boy then returns to the farm, but passes by without speaking. Later, the Aboriginal boy lies in a trance among a slew of buffalo bones, having painted himself in ceremonial markings. He returns to the farmhouse, catching the undressing girl by surprise, and initiates a courtship ritual, performing a dance in front of her.[5] Although he dances outside all day and into the night until he becomes exhausted, she is frightened and hides from him, and tells her brother they will leave him the next day. In the morning, after they dress in their school uniforms, the brother takes her to the Aboriginal boy's body, hanging in a tree. Showing little emotion, the girl wipes ants from the dead boy's chest. Hiking up the road, the siblings find a nearly-deserted mining town where a surly employee directs them towards nearby accommodation. Years later, a man arrives home from work as the now adult girl prepares dinner. While he embraces her and relates office gossip, she either imagines or remembers a time in which she, her brother, and the Aboriginal boy are playing and swimming naked in a billabong in the Outback.

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Steve Box, Nick Park

['Peter Sallis', 'Ralph Fiennes', 'Helena Bonham Carter', 'Peter Kay', 'Nicholas Smith', 'Liz Smith', 'John Thomson', 'Mark Gatiss', 'Vincent Ebrahim', 'Geraldine McEwan', 'Edward Kelsey', 'Dicken Ashworth', 'Robert Horvath', 'Pete Atkin', 'Noni Lewis', 'Ben Whitehead', 'Christopher Fairbank', 'James Mather', 'William Vanderpuye', 'Nigel Pilkington']

['Adventure', 'Family', 'Comedy', 'Animation']

['UK', 'USA']

English

['English']

['Aardman', 'DreamWorks Animation']

comedy, animated

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As Tottington Hall's annual giant vegetable competition approaches, cheese-loving inventor Wallace and his beagle Gromit provide a humane pest control business known as "Anti-Pesto", protecting people's vegetables from rabbits. One evening, after capturing rabbits found in the garden of Lady Tottington using his "Bun-Vac 6000", Wallace uses his latest invention, the "Mind Manipulation-O-Matic", to brainwash them into disliking vegetables. As they brainwash the rabbits, Wallace accidentally sets the Bun-Vac to "BLOW", and his brain is fused with a rabbit, forcing Gromit to destroy the machine. The transfer appears to have worked, as the rabbit shows no interest in vegetables. They name the rabbit Hutch and place him in a cage. That night, a giant rabbit-like creature devours many people's vegetables, and the duo fails to respond. During a town meeting the next day, the creature is revealed to be the Were-Rabbit. Hunter Victor Quartermaine offers to hunt the creature, but Tottington persuades the townsfolk to give Wallace and Gromit a second chance. After Anti-Pesto unsuccessfully tries to trap the rabbit, Wallace suspects that Hutch is the beast and has Gromit lock him in a high-security cage. However, Gromit discovers a footprint trail leading into Wallace's bedroom and finds a pile of half-eaten vegetables inside, revealing that Wallace is the real culprit. After celebrating his success with Tottington, Wallace is cornered in the forest by Victor, who vies for Tottington's affections and fortune. Wallace transforms into the Were-Rabbit under the full moon and flees. Now seeing the perfect chance to eliminate his rival, Victor obtains three "24-carrot" gold bullets from the town's vicar, Reverend Clement Hedges, to use against Wallace. On the day of the vegetable competition, Gromit reveals to Wallace that the experiment has swapped his and Hutch's personalities; the latter now carries his human traits and is the only one who can fix the Mind-O-Matic. Tottington visits and informs Wallace of Victor's plan; as the moon rises, Wallace begins to transform again and hastily forces Tottington to leave. Victor arrives and attempts to shoot Wallace, but Gromit helps Wallace to escape. Once Victor is gone, Gromit and Hutch devise a plan to save Wallace. At the competition, after using up all his gold bullets, Victor takes an elephant gun and the Golden Carrot trophy to use as ammunition. Wallace carries Tottington atop Tottington Hall and reveals his true identity to her. Meanwhile, Gromit subdues Victor's dog, Philip, in a dogfight using aeroplanes taken from a fairground attraction. Gromit then steers his plane into Victor's line of fire as he shoots at Wallace, causing the bullet to hit the plane instead. The damaged plane falls, and Wallace jumps to grab Gromit, breaking his fall before they both land onto a table of Crackers in a cheese tent. Tottington then whacks Victor in the head with a giant carrot and dumps him before Gromit quickly disguises Victor as the female Were-Rabbit, causing the townspeople and Philip to chase him away. Wallace morphs back to his human self and appears dead, but Gromit revives him with Stinking Bishop cheese, undoing the curse. Tottington awards Gromit the Golden Carrot for his valor and converts the grounds of Tottington Hall into a nature reserve for Hutch and the other rabbits.

Waltz with Bashir

Ari Folman

['Ari Folman', 'Mickey Leon', 'Ori Sivan', 'Yehezkel Lazarov', 'Ronny Dayag', 'Shmuel Frenkel', 'Zahava Solomon', 'Ron Ben-Yishai', 'Dror Harazi']

Animation, History, War, Documentary, Drama, Mystery

['Australia', 'Belgium', 'Finland', 'France', 'Germany', 'Israel', 'Switzerland', 'USA']

Hebrew (modern)

['Hebrew (modern)', 'Arabic', 'German', 'English']

["Les Films d'Ici", 'Razor Film Produktion', 'ITVS International', 'ARTE', 'Bridgit Folman Film Gang', 'YLE', 'RTBF', 'SBS']

animated

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In 2006, Ari Folman meets with Boaz, an old friend who tells Ari he is being haunted by a recurrent nightmare in which 26 rabidly angry dogs run toward his home through the streets of Tel Aviv, destroying everything in their way. Boaz explains that, during the 1982 Lebanon War, the other soldiers in his unit knew he would not be able to kill a human, so they gave him the job of killing the dogs when they infiltrated a village at night so the animals would not alert the villagers to their presence, and he vividly remembers each of the 26 dogs he killed. Ari is surprised to find that, although he had also fought in the conflict during his stint as an infantry soldier in the Israel Defense Forces, he recalls nothing of his deployment. Troubled by this, later that night he has a vision of his younger self and two other soldiers bathing at night in the Mediterranean just off the coast of Beirut under the light of flares descending over the city. He recognizes the vision as being connected to the Sabra and Shatila massacre, but he cannot remember enough to put this fragment in context. Early the next morning, Ari rushes off to see a childhood friend, who is a professional therapist. His friend advises him to seek out others who were in Beirut at the time of the massacre to gain a better understanding of what happened and, hopefully, revive his own memories. The friend further explains that, given the nature of human memory, the vision might not be an exact record of what actually occurred, though it certainly relates to matters of great importance to Ari's inner world. Ari interviews friends and other soldiers who fought in the war, as well as a psychologist specializing in PTSD and Israeli TV reporter Ron Ben-Yishai, who was in Beirut covering the war when the massacre took place. Eventually, Ari's memories start to come back into focus, and he remembers that he "was in the second or third ring" of soldiers in the city, as his unit fired flares into the sky at night in support of the Israeli-allied Lebanese Christian Phalange militia while they perpetrated the massacre in retaliation for the assassination of Bachir Gemayel. While he did not know what the militia was up to until after they were finished, he concludes that the holes in his memory were a defense mechanism, as his younger self had felt as responsible for the massacre as those who actually carried it out. The film ends with the animation dissolving into actual news footage of the aftermath of the massacre.

War and Peace

Sergey Bondarchuk

['Ludmila Savelyeva', 'Sergey Bondarchuk', 'Vyacheslav Tikhonov', 'Viktor Stanitsyn', 'Kira Golovko', 'Oleg Tabakov', 'Sergei Yermilov', 'Irina Gubanova', 'Anatoli Ktorov', 'Antonina Shuranova', 'Anastasiya Vertinskaya', 'Boris Smirnov', 'Irina Skobtseva', 'Vasili Lanovoy', 'Oleg Efremov', 'Nikolai Tolkachyov', 'Yelena Tyapkina', 'Klavdiya Polovikova', 'Eduard Martsevich', 'Angelina Stepanova', 'Gemma Firsova', 'Galina Kravchenko', 'Boris Zakhava', 'Nikolay Trofimov', 'Giuli Chokhonelidze', 'Nikolai Rybnikov', 'Aleksandr Borisov', 'Nonna Mordyukova', 'Aleksandr Semin', 'Mikhail Khrabrov', 'Stanislav Chekan', 'Viktor Murganov', 'Vladislav Strzhelchik', 'Vadim Safronov', 'Nikolai Bubnov', 'Ivan Solovyov', 'Yuri Chekulayev', 'Pyotr Savin', 'Andrey Smirnov', 'Vasiliy Badayev', 'Herberts Zommers', 'Jānis Grantiņš', 'D. Eizental', 'Jean-Claude Ballard', 'Georgi Millyar', 'Boris Molchanov', 'Lev Polyakov', 'Georgi Shapovalov', 'Ivan Turchenkov', 'Nikolai Khryashchikov', 'Semen Svashenko', 'Aleksandr Kuznetsov', 'Aleksandr Lebedev', 'Nikolay Smorchkov', 'Ivan Zhevago', 'Alexey Bahar', 'Mikhail Vorobyov', 'Aleksandr Degtyar', 'Ye. Shalamov', 'A. Boldyrev', 'Denis Sivakov', 'N. Sorokin', 'Vladimir Prikhodko', 'Daniil Netrebin', 'Yelena Stroyeva', 'S. Uspenskaya', 'Marina Dobrovolskaya', 'N. Fogel', 'Larisa Borisenko', 'Viktor Matisen', 'Yelena Yelina', 'Nikolay Lebedev', 'Aleksandr Fadeyev', 'Nadezhda Kollen', 'Vergiliy Renin', 'Zoya Smirnova-Nemirovich', 'Alfred Rebane', 'Yu. Ovsyannikov', 'Yuliya Dioshi', 'Erwin Knausmüller', 'Aleksandr Barushnoy', 'Georgiy Kurovskiy', 'Vladimir Maslatsov', 'P. Alekseyev', 'Yu. Rossinol', 'V. Lutsekovich', 'Aleksandr Ponomarenko', 'A. Kin', 'Vladimir Mashchenko', 'Aleksandr Smirnov', 'Nikolai Alekseyev', 'Kira Petrova-Sokolovskaya', 'Zoya Dvizhkova', 'Veronika Polonskaya', 'Lev Kramarevsky', 'Elena Vanke', 'A. Begak', 'Dmitry Begak', 'Aleksey Sezeman', 'Nikolay Sibeikin', 'G. Ivanov', 'Yu. Chyuveleva', 'S. Makovskaya', 'Valentina Yermilova', 'Yuriy Grigorev', 'Yevgeniya Khovanskaya', 'Olga Mikhajlova', 'Georgi Rybakov', 'Vladimir Lapin', 'Ye. Lyutsau', 'Nikolay Grinko', 'Sergey Nikonenko', 'Leonid Vidavskiy', 'Aleksandr Gruzinsky', 'Aleksandr Mombeli', 'Georgi Svetlani', 'Tatyana Makhova', 'Yuri Vetrov', 'Vasiliy Matov', 'Aleksey Glazyrin', 'Leonid Nedovich', 'T. Kazankova', 'Rodion Alexandrov', 'V. Islavin', 'Yu. Kryuchkov', 'Ivan Vasilyenko', 'Boris Batashev', 'Vladimir Fromgoldt', 'Galina Shostko', 'Zoya Rupasova', 'G. Mityakov', 'G. Edzhubov', 'Aleksandr Komissarov', 'Vladimir Levchenko', 'Vasily Likhachev', 'Apollon Yachnitskiy', 'Svetlana Konovalova', 'V. Kosarikhin', 'Labina', 'N. Afrikyants', 'N. Avetisova', 'V. Alakhverdova', 'Nikolai Aparin', 'Vladimir Seleznyov', 'Pyotr Kiryutkin', 'Robert Chumak', 'Aleksei Kuznetsov', 'Oleg Shtoda', 'Yuri Leonidov', 'Lyudmila Davydova', 'Iya Arepina', 'Leonid Brusin', 'Rada Volshaninova', 'Anna Timiryova', 'Leonid Yevtifyev', 'Anatoli Zhukov', 'Alfred Zinovyev', 'Aleksandra Danilova', 'Mikhail Bocharov', 'Vasiliy Krasnoshchyokov', 'Mikhail Pogorzhelsky', 'Anatoliy Ivanov', 'Semyon Safonov']

['Romance', 'Drama', 'War', 'History']

['USSR']

Russian

['Russian', 'German', 'French', 'Hungarian']

['Mosfilm']

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War for the Planet of the Apes

Matt Reeves

['Andy Serkis', 'Woody Harrelson', 'Karin Konoval', 'Terry Notary', 'Steve Zahn', 'Amiah Miller', 'Ty Olsson', 'Michael Adamthwaite', 'Toby Kebbell', 'Gabriel Chavarria', 'Sara Canning', 'Judy Greer', 'Devyn Dalton', 'Aleks Paunovic', 'Alessandro Juliani', 'Max Lloyd-Jones', 'Timothy Webber', 'Lauro David Chartrand-DelValle', 'Shaun Omaid', 'Roger Cross', 'Mercedes de la Zerda', 'Doug Chapman', 'James Pizzinato', 'Chad Rook', 'Dean Redman', 'Steve Baran', 'Sandy Robson', 'Levi Meaden', 'Billy Wickman', 'Albert Nicholas', 'Kyle Horton', 'Paul Luongo', 'Thomas Potter', 'Mathew Yanagiya', 'Skye Notary', 'Willow Notary', 'Finn Notary', 'Phoenix Notary', 'Sadie Aperlo', 'Matilda Aperlo', 'Andrew Alexander Reeves']

War, Action, Science fiction, Adventure, Drama, Thriller

['USA']

English

['English']

['20th Century Fox', 'TSG Entertainment', 'Chernin Entertainment']

sci-fi, post-apocalyptic, top-rated

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

Five years following the Battle of San Francisco,[a] a U.S. Army battalion known as "Alpha-Omega" (AΩ) aided by apes derogatorily called "donkeys", searches for Caesar's ape colony. A platoon assault an ape outpost, but the apes repel the attack and kill all but four humans and a donkey gorilla named Red. Caesar releases the captured humans as a peacekeeping gesture, but Red escapes after attacking Winter. Caesar's young son Blue Eyes and Rocket return from a scouting expedition to report they have found an oasis that could serve as a safer home. That night, the Colonel of AΩ leads a team to infiltrate the colony and kills Cornelia and Blue Eyes, mistaking the latter for Caesar. Cornelius, Caesar's younger son, manages to survive the attack by hiding while the Colonel escapes. Caesar, followed by Rocket, Maurice, and Luca, decide to serve as decoys while the tribe journeys to the oasis. In an abandoned village, Caesar kills a human in self-defense and finds his mute daughter, whom Maurice - with Caesar's begrudging consent - takes guardianship of, giving her a rag doll. They encounter Winter, now working for AΩ after giving away their hideout, having faked the attack by Red and letting him escape, and confront him. He reveals that the Colonel is heading north to meet up with the rest of the military forces. Caesar accidentally kills Winter in retribution for his wife and son, and to prevent him from alerting the soldiers. As they follow the Colonel, Caesar's group discovers several dead soldiers who have been executed by their own troops; a fatally wounded survivor is revealed to be mute, just like the girl. Caesar's group chases someone who has stolen one of their horses and discovers the thief is another intelligent ape, Bad Ape, who matured in isolation. He guides them to a former weapons depot-turned quarantine facility in the mountains that serves as the base for the militia. A human patrol kills Luca, and an enraged Caesar tells Maurice, Rocket, Bad Ape, and the mute girl to turn back. Caesar attempts to infiltrate the base and discovers his tribe has been captured and forced into labor there before he is caught by Red. Caesar deduces that the militia are using the apes to barricade the facility in order to fend off the incoming military forces, which intend to attack rather than reinforce the militia. The Colonel reveals that the Simian Flu virus has mutated, causing infected humans to mentally devolve into primitive animals, depriving them of their intelligence. After killing his infected son, he ordered his own troops to kill any carriers before they could infect others. This led to a conflict with his superiors, who believed the disease could still be cured, and are coming to forcibly relieve the Colonel of his command. The Colonel has ordered Caesar to be tortured, starved him, and left him exposed to the cold. The mute girl, named Nova by Maurice, sneaks into the facility to feed Caesar. Rocket allows himself to be captured to prevent Nova from being seen so he and Caesar can formulate a plan to escape. The Colonel later confiscates the doll Nova left for Caesar, but the other apes escape via an underground tunnel. The military arrives and attacks the facility, and the apes are caught in the crossfire. During the chaos, Caesar sneaks into the Colonel's quarters to kill him, only to find that he has been infected by the virus after handling Nova's doll. Caesar refuses to kill the Colonel, instead allowing him to kill himself. Caesar then attempts to destroy a fuel tank but is critically wounded by Preacher, one of the soldiers he released earlier. At the sight of the apes being killed, Red has a change of heart and kills Preacher before being executed. Caesar blows the fuel tank, causing an avalanche that buries both armies, and flees up the trees with the rest of the apes and Nova. The apes and Nova resume their journey to the oasis. As they arrive, Maurice discovers Caesar's wound and promises that Cornelius will know who his father was and what he did for the apes. With his colony safe in their new home, Caesar peacefully passes away.

Warrior

Gavin O'Connor

['Joel Edgerton', 'Tom Hardy', 'Nick Nolte', 'Jennifer Morrison', 'Frank Grillo', 'Kevin Dunn', 'Maximiliano Hernández', 'Bryan Callen', 'Sam Sheridan', 'Fernando Chien', 'Jake McLaughlin', 'Vanessa Martinez', 'Denzel Whitaker', 'Carlos Miranda', 'Nick Lehane', 'Laura Chinn', 'Capri Thomas', 'Lexi Cowan', 'Noah Emmerich', 'Dan Caldwell', 'Timothy "Skyskrape" Katz', 'Julia Stockstad', 'Josh Rosenthal', 'Kurt Angle', 'Erik Apple', 'Anthony Johnson', 'Nate Marquardt', 'Roan Carneiro', 'Daniel Stevens', 'Anthony N.', 'Hans Marrero', 'Yves Edwards', 'Amir Perets', 'Anthony Tambakis', 'Jimmy Cvetic', 'Jace Jeanes', 'Jake Digman', 'Richard Fike', "Andre' Mason", 'James Houk', 'Aaron Kleiber', 'Raymond Rowe', 'Lambert R. Strayer', 'Roman Vasylyshyn', 'Jonathan Matthew Anik', 'Rashad Evans', 'Stephan Bonnar', 'Michelle Dawn Mooney', 'Tim Bickel', 'Jack Fisher', 'Jeff Hochendoner', 'Armon York Williams', 'Adam Christian Stanley', 'James Dreussi', 'Kevin P. Hanley', 'Tammy Townsend', 'Etta Cox', 'Sandy Notaro', 'Francesca Ortenzio', 'Jaime Sinue Aguirre', 'Tracy Campbell', 'Thomas McCue', "Gavin O'Connor"]

Martial Arts, Action, Sports, Adventure, Melodrama, Drama

['USA']

English

['English']

['Lionsgate', 'Mimran Schur Pictures', 'Solaris Film', 'Filmtribe']

action, top-rated

letterboxds-top-250-action-films

A melancholy U.S. Marine Thomas "Tommy" Riordan visits his father, Paddy Conlon, a recovering alcoholic who has returned to his Catholic faith in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As a child, Tommy had to run away from Paddy with his dying mother due to Paddy being an abusive alcoholic, and has never forgiven him. Paddy tries to convince him that he has changed, but to no avail. The next day, Tommy enters a gym where he quickly knocks out Pete "Mad Dog" Grimes, one of the world's best middleweight fighters; a video of the fight goes viral on the Internet. Learning about a winner-takes-all mixed martial arts tournament called Sparta, whose winner will receive $5 million, Tommy asks Paddy to help him train for the tournament, but only under the condition that Paddy does not try to reconcile their relationship. Tommy pledges to win and then donate the entire $5 million purse to Pilar, the widow of Manny, one of his friends in the corps. Tommy's older brother Brendan, a high school physics teacher and former MMA fighter, is struggling to provide for his wife, Tess, and their two daughters. He had to mortgage his house in Philadelphia to pay for his younger daughter's open heart surgery, and is now in danger of losing it. To increase his income, Brendan starts battling amateur fighters for money. He is suspended without pay after details of his secret life spread around the school. Paddy meets Brendan in his driveway to try to reconcile with him, albeit unsuccessfully, and to tell him that Tommy is back in town. Brendan seeks the training of old friend Frank Campana and begins competing in smaller venue fights. After the fighter Frank planned to enter into the Sparta tournament is injured, Brendan convinces Frank to enter him as a replacement. When the brothers separately enter the tournament, it is revealed that Tommy is angry at Brendan for bailing out on him and instead staying behind for Tess when Tommy and their mother left Paddy; Tommy was left to care for their mother when she became terminally ill. Brendan claims that he was helplessly in love with Tess and that he has forgiven his father for the wrong he has done, but Tommy is unconvinced and walks away. Meanwhile, the video of Tommy beating Grimes attracts the attention of a Marine, who tells the press that Tommy saved his life in Iraq, by ripping off the back hatch of a drowning tank. Although Tommy becomes a national hero, his military records reveal that he deserted after everyone else in his unit was killed in a friendly fire bombing. He reveals his plan for his winnings. The military police will take him into custody but will wait until after the tournament is over. Over two fights, Brendan and Tommy have contrasting fortunes: Tommy quickly and brutally knocks out opponents, all while barely speaking, while Brendan is outmatched physically but uses Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu to force grappling submissions. The night before the final day, Paddy attempts to talk to Tommy about his actions in Iraq. Tommy angrily dismisses his father, letting out all his pent up emotions. As a result, Paddy relapses and starts drinking again. Seeing his father in pain, Tommy calms and comforts him, thus resurrecting their relationship. In the semifinals, Tommy is matched up with Mad Dog Grimes, knocking him unconscious almost immediately, and the commentators claim this is one of the fastest knockouts in MMA history. Brendan is matched up with undefeated Russian wrestler Koba, who dominates him in two rounds. In round three, Brendan swings for the fences, making the bout a back and forth battle. In the closing moments of the final round, Koba takes Brendan's back from the clinch and Brendan goes for a rolling kneebar. As Koba attempts to escape the position, Brendan quickly reverses and readjusts the kneebar, narrowly winning by submission. Tommy and Brendan's relationship is revealed to the world when they are the tournament's last remaining fighters. Brendan shows desire to reconcile, but Tommy, still in pain, shows no interest in doing so. Tommy wins the first two rounds, but Brendan eventually dislocates Tommy's shoulder with an omoplata arm-lock. Brendan wants to tell the referee about Tommy's dislocated shoulder and end the fight, but his coach suggests otherwise. As the fourth round starts, Brendan insists Tommy give up as Tommy only has use of one arm. Tommy continues to fight, Brendan unloads a barrage of strikes trying to win. Tommy asks Brendan to continue hitting him as the fourth round ends. At the start of Round 5, Brendan realizes he has to force Tommy to submit, and he traps him in a rear naked choke. As they struggle on the canvas, Brendan apologizes to Tommy and tells him that he loves him. Tommy submits after hearing the words. Brendan and Campana tactfully avoid the referees and the doctors checking in on Tommy. The reconciled brothers exit the ring as their father walks away into the background smiling.

Wasteland

Jonni Peppers

['Aster Pang', 'Sam Lane', 'Haein Michelle Heo', 'Charlotte Pryce', 'Jenna Caravello', 'Victoria Vincent', 'Rob GIlliam', 'Kai Lynn Jiang', 'Emily Martinez', 'Noah Malone', 'Lorenzo Fresta', 'Isabel Higgins']

['Science Fiction', 'Animation', 'Comedy', 'Drama']

['USA']

English

['English']

sci-fi, top-rated

letterboxds-top-250-science-fiction-films

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Watchmen

Zack Snyder

['Malin Åkerman', 'Patrick Wilson', 'Billy Crudup', 'Matthew Goode', 'Jackie Earle Haley', 'Jeffrey Dean Morgan', 'Carla Gugino', 'Laura Mennell', 'Matt Frewer', 'Stephen McHattie', 'Rob LaBelle', 'Gary Houston', 'James M. Connor', 'Mary Ann Burger', 'John Shaw', 'Robert Wisden', 'Jerry Wasserman', 'Don Thompson', 'Frank Novak', 'Sean Allan', 'Garry Chalk', 'Stephanie Belding', 'Michael Kopsa', 'William S. Taylor', 'Chris Burns', 'Malcolm Scott', 'Danny Wattley', 'Nhi Do', 'Walter Addison', 'David MacKay', 'Keith Martin Gordey', 'Fulvio Cecere', 'Ted Cole', 'Mark Acheson', 'John Destry', 'Chris Gauthier', 'L. Harvey Gold', 'Jay Brazeau', 'Jesse Reid', 'Manoj Sood', 'Dan Payne', 'Niall Matter', 'Apollonia Vanova', 'Glenn Ennis', 'Darryl Scheelar', 'Clint Carleton', 'Brett Stimely', 'Carrie Genzel', 'Greg Travis', 'Greg Armstrong-Morris', 'Andrew Colthart', 'Bruce Crawford', 'Sal Sortino', 'Eli Snyder', 'Lori Watt', 'Tony Bardach', 'John Kobylka', 'Carmen Lavigne', 'J.R. Killigrew', 'Steven Stojkovic', 'Martin Reiss', 'Frank Cassini', 'John R. Taylor', 'Tara Frederick', 'Daryl Shuttleworth', 'Jaryd Heydrick', 'Ron Chartier', 'Carly Bentall', 'Matt Drake', 'Haley Guiel', 'Sonya Salomaa', 'Tyler McClendon', 'Salli Saffioti', 'Neil Schell', 'Michael Eklund', 'Deborah Finkel', 'Louis Chirillo', 'Marsha Regis', 'Patrick Sabongui', 'John Tench', 'Santo Lombardo', 'Jason Schombing', 'Darren Shahlavi', 'Marshall Virtue', 'Colin Lawrence', 'Chris Weber', 'Alessandro Juliani', 'Alison Araya', 'Sahar Biniaz', 'Matthew Harrison', 'Bernadeta Wrobel', 'Youri Obryvtchenko', 'Heidi Iro', 'Kit Noon', 'Parm Soor', 'Cristina Menz', 'Lynn Colliar', 'Tony Ali', 'Katie Bennison', 'Ian Farthing', 'Calvin Lee', 'Alexander Mandra', 'Isabelle Champeau', "Ashley O'Connell", 'Mark Gash', 'Suzanne E. Smith', 'Agam Darshi', 'Tom McBeath', 'Kevin McNulty', 'Mark Docherty', 'Clay St. Thomas', 'Dale Wolfe', 'Ken Tremblett', 'Dawn Chubai', 'Manuelita Kinsey', 'Tamara Stanners', 'Sahara Davis', 'Dave Hospes', 'Greig Hospess', 'Ali Dunn', 'Jeffrey Frieler', 'Kurt Evans', 'Sylvesta Stuart', 'Terence Kelly', 'Mi-Jung Lee', 'Ted Friend', 'Tiffany Burns', 'Michael Adamthwaite', 'Danny Woodburn', 'Zack Snyder', 'Clay Enos']

Superhero, Action, Drama, Science fiction, Adventure, Mystery, Adaptation, Neo-noir, Thriller, Crime Fiction, Action/Adventure

['USA']

English

['English']

['Warner Bros. Pictures', 'Paramount Pictures', 'Legendary Pictures', 'DC', 'Lawrence Gordon Productions', 'Lloyd Levin Productions']

superhero, mystery

superhero-movies, 101-greatest-mystery-movies

In 1985, a man living in a Manhattan apartment watches news about escalating Cold War tensions and the response from five-term President Richard Nixon when an unknown assailant attacks and hurls him to the street below. Throughout the opening credits, a montage reviews the rise of costumed crime-fighters from 1939 to 1977, culminating in public backlash and the passage of an anti-vigilante act. Rorschach, a vigilante detective who operates illegally, discovers that the dead man was Edward Blake, better known as "the Comedian", a costumed hero who worked for the government. Suspecting that other vigilantes could be attacked, Rorschach warns members of his former team, the Watchmen.[17] Rorschach's former partner Dan Dreiberg believes he is paranoid but relays his concerns to Adrian Veidt, a crime-fighter turned businessman. Rorschach later visits Doctor Manhattan, a physicist whose accidental superpowers make him a national security asset, but Manhattan is preoccupied with energy research and ignores him. At Blake's funeral, Manhattan, Veidt and Dreiberg each recall the Comedian's pessimism in his later years about the Watchmen's mission. After the service, a lone mourner pays his respects. Rorschach tracks down and questions the mourner, former supervillain Edgar Jacobi. Jacobi says that Blake had recently broken into his apartment while he was sleeping — tearful, unmasked, and incoherent. Rorschach is astonished but doubts that Jacobi would tell a lie so bizarre. During a press interview with Doctor Manhattan, an investigative journalist tells him that several people who had been in contact with Manhattan have developed cancer, including his former girlfriend. As other reporters mob Manhattan with questions, he snaps and exiles himself to Mars. Alone, Manhattan reflects on his existence and his regrets at being turned into a weapon. In his absence, the Warsaw Pact countries make aggressive moves, and Nixon prepares for war. Veidt survives an assassination attempt, suggesting that Rorschach's "mask-killer" theory is correct. Dreiberg takes in Laurie Jupiter, a second-generation vigilante and estranged lover of Manhattan, to whom Dreiberg is attracted. Rorschach's investigation of the assassin leads him back to Jacobi. Rorschach finds Jacobi dead and himself framed for Jacobi's murder. After a battle with police, Rorschach is arrested and unmasked as a low-born vagrant. In prison, Rorschach defends his vigilantism to a psychiatrist, saying he cannot ignore evil and the people who cause it. Dreiberg and Jupiter, after donning their costumes and saving multiple people from a burning building, make love. Imprisoned crime boss Big Figure stages a riot as a cover for assassinating Rorschach. The attack fails, and Rorschach kills Big Figure and his accomplices before leaving the prison with Dreiberg and Jupiter, who have arrived to break him out. Manhattan teleports Jupiter to Mars while Dreiberg joins Rorschach's investigation of the Blake murder. Evidence points them to Veidt as the mastermind; they find him at an Antarctic hideout, where he has just overseen the activation of Doctor Manhattan's energy reactors in New York City and other locations across the planet. On Mars, Jupiter tries to convince Manhattan that humanity is worth saving. She succeeds only when he learns that Jupiter is Blake's illegitimate daughter, a fact so unlikely (as Blake had once tried to rape Jupiter's mother) that it restores his respect for life. Veidt admits orchestrating Manhattan's exile, staging the assassination, framing Rorschach, and killing Blake, who was spying on his activities. He has also executed the final step of his plan: turning the world against Manhattan by rigging his reactors to explode, killing 15 million people. Manhattan returns with Jupiter to a devastated New York, pieces together what has happened, and teleports to Veidt's hideout. After a brief struggle, Veidt shows him that the world's countries have put aside their rivalries to focus on a common enemy: Doctor Manhattan. Realizing the logic of Veidt's plan, the Watchmen agree to keep his secret, except for Rorschach, whom Manhattan reluctantly kills to preserve the new global peace. Manhattan departs permanently for another galaxy while Dreiberg rebukes Veidt's moral sacrifice, and Jupiter finally comes to terms with her parentage. A New York tabloid editor, disgusted that there is no war to report on, tells a staff member to choose something to publish from a pile of reader submissions that contains Rorschach's journal.

Water Lilies

Céline Sciamma

['Pauline Acquart', 'Louise Blachère', 'Adèle Haenel', 'Warren Jacquin', 'Christel Baras', 'Marie Gili-Pierre', 'Alice de Lencquesaing', 'Claire Pierrat', 'Barbara Renard', 'Esther Sironneau', 'Jérémie Steib', 'Yvonne Villemaire', 'Christophe Vandevelde', 'Céline Sciamma']

Romance, Comedy, Melodrama, Coming-of-age story, Drama

['France']

French

['French']

['Balthazar Productions', 'Lilies Films']

sad, emotional

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

The film tracks the sexual awakenings of three 15-year-old girls, Marie, Anne and Floriane, in a middle-class suburb of Paris over the course of a single summer. After observing a school synchronised swim competition, Marie becomes interested in Floriane, the team captain of The Stade Francais Swimmers. Marie's best friend, Anne, is also on a synchronised swimming team. Anne develops a crush on François after he walks in on her changing in the pool locker room. Marie expresses an interest in joining the team in order to become closer to Floriane, who the other girls regard as a "slut". Floriane and Marie make a deal; in return for helping her sneak out to meet François, Floriane will get Marie into the team meetings. As they spend more time together, Marie starts to see less of Anne. Anne becomes resentful towards Marie for ignoring her. Marie tells Anne that she was spending time at her cousin's. Anne accepts this explanation. Floriane confesses to Marie that she has not yet had sex, despite her reputation. Floriane tells Marie that the rest of the girls on the team make up rumors because they do not like her. In fact, Floriane does not have any female friends. Floriane recounts instances of sexual harassment she has experienced at the hands of older men. When Floriane asks Marie if she has any similar stories to tell, Marie is quiet and Floriane tells her that she is lucky. After a swim practice, Marie feels affronted when she sees Floriane kissing François. Floriane tells Marie that she is afraid of what will happen if François discovers that she is a virgin. Floriane and Marie visit a nightclub, where Floriane attempts to find an older man in order to lose her virginity. Floriane finds a man and kisses him in his car, but is interrupted by Marie. Floriane thanks Marie for the interruption, and later tells Marie that she wants Marie to be her "first", but Marie rejects her. Later that day, Marie meets Anne at a shopping mall, where Anne shoplifts a necklace. When the two eat lunch at McDonald's, Marie tells Anne that she is repulsed by Anne and her immature behavior and leaves. Anne enters the male swimming pool locker room and gives François the necklace, which he then gives to Floriane. Floriane tells Marie that François wants to see her that night when her parents are not at home. Marie accepts Floriane's request for her to be her "first", and uncomfortably fingers her in bed. François and Anne later have sex at Anne's house, but François avoids kissing her. The next day, Anne tells Marie that Floriane did not have sex with François, and admits to never having been kissed. Marie kisses Anne, and tells Anne that she likes somebody. Anne assumes that Marie has a heterosexual crush. At a swimming team party, François's attempts to have sex with Anne a second time but she spits in his mouth instead. In the locker room, Marie and Floriane finally share a passionate kiss. Floriane indicates that she is going back to the party. Floriane tells Marie to 'save her' if the guy she talked to earlier at the party turns out to be 'an ass'. Marie and Anne jump into the pool fully clothed. They float on their backs in the pool together, while Floriane dances alone at the party, oblivious to the effect that her actions have had upon Marie and Anne.

Watership Down

Martin Rosen

['John Hurt', 'Richard Briers', 'Michael Graham Cox', 'John Bennett', 'Ralph Richardson', 'Simon Cadell', 'Terence Rigby', 'Roy Kinnear', "Richard O'Callaghan", 'Denholm Elliott', 'Lynn Farleigh', 'Mary Maddox', 'Zero Mostel', 'Harry Andrews', 'Hannah Gordon', 'Nigel Hawthorne', 'Clifton Jones', 'Derek Griffiths', 'Michael Hordern', 'Joss Ackland', 'Michelle Price']

Animation, Action, Children's film, Adventure, Fantasy, Drama, Thriller, Family film, Indie film, Adaptation

['UK']

English

['English']

['Nepenthe Productions', 'Watership Productions']

animated

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In Lapine language mythology, the world was created by the god Frith. All animals were grass eaters, living harmoniously. The rabbits multiplied, and their appetite led to a food shortage. Frith ordered the rabbit prince, El-Ahrairah, to control his people, but was scoffed at. In retaliation, Frith gave special gifts to every animal, making some into predators to hunt the rabbits. Satisfied that El-Ahrairah had learned his lesson, Frith gave rabbits the gifts of speed and cunning. In the present, in a warren near Sandleford, a rabbit seer named Fiver has an apocalyptic vision when he and his older brother Hazel come across a signboard; it says a residential development is coming, but they cannot read it. The two beg the chief rabbit to order an evacuation; the chief dismisses them, and orders Captain Holly, the head of the warren's Owsla police force, to stop those trying to leave. Fiver and Hazel manage to escape with six other rabbits named Bigwig, Blackberry, Pipkin, Dandelion, Silver, and Violet. They journey through the woods, avoiding several dangerous situations; until Violet – the group's only doe – is killed by a hawk. The others eventually meet a rabbit named Cowslip, who invites them to his warren, where a farmer leaves Cowslip's group ample vegetables. They are grateful, but Fiver leaves when he senses something unsettling in the atmosphere. Bigwig follows, berating Fiver for causing tension. When a snare catches Bigwig, Bigwig's friends manage to free him, and Fiver realizes that the farmer is protecting and feeding Cowslip's warren so that he can snare rabbits for his own meals. The group returns to its journey. The rabbits discover Nuthanger Farm, which contains a hutch of domesticated does. Before they can free the females, the farm cat and dog chase them away. Later, they are found by Captain Holly, who recounts the destruction of Sandleford by humans as well as an encounter with vicious rabbits called the "Efrafans". Fiver finally finds the hill he envisioned, Watership Down, where the group settles in with Hazel as their new chief. They soon befriend an injured black-headed seagull named Kehaar, who flies out in search of does. That night, the rabbits return to Nuthanger Farm to attempt to free the does, but Hazel's leg is shot and the rest are forced to retreat. Fiver follows a vision of the mythical Black Rabbit to his injured brother. Kehaar returns and, while pecking out buckshot from Hazel's leg with his beak, reports of the many does at the overcrowded Efrafa warren. Captain Holly describes it as a dangerous totalitarian state, but Hazel feels they must go there. Bigwig infiltrates the warren and is made an Owsla officer by their cruel chief, General Woundwort. Bigwig recruits several potential escapees to his cause, including Blackavar and Hyzenthlay. With Kehaar's help, the escapees use a boat to float down the river. That night, Kehaar leaves for his homeland, but promises to return in winter. Efrafan trackers eventually find Watership Down. Woundwort rejects Hazel's offer of peace, and demands that all deserters must be turned over or Watership Down will be wiped out. While the Watership rabbits barricade their warren, Fiver slips into a trance, in which he envisions a dog named Bob running loose in the woods. His mumblings give Hazel an idea; he chews through the Nuthanger Farm watchdog's leash, and Blackberry, Dandelion and Hyzenthlay bait the animal into following them to the warren. Meanwhile, when the Efrafans break through the warren's defences, Woundwort goes in alone; Blackavar attacks him but is easily killed. Bigwig ambushes Woundwort and they fight to a standstill. When Bob arrives and starts attacking the Efrafans, Woundwort abandons Bigwig and emerges from the warren, refuses to flee and he stands his ground until Bob notices him, and Woundwort fearlessly attacks Bob. However, no trace of Woundwort is ever found, which leaves his fate a mystery. Several years later, an elderly Hazel is visited by the Black Rabbit, who invites him to join his own Owsla, assuring him of Watership Down's perpetual safety. Reassured, Hazel accepts and dies peacefully. His spirit follows the visitor through the woodland and trees towards the Sun, which metamorphoses into Frith, and the afterlife, as Frith's parting advice to El-Ahrairah is heard once more.

Waterworld

Kevin Reynolds

['Kevin Costner', 'Dennis Hopper', 'Jeanne Tripplehorn', 'Tina Majorino', 'R. D. Call', 'Gerard Murphy', 'Michael Jeter', 'Rick Aviles', 'Kim Coates', 'Chaim Jeraffi', 'Sab Shimono', 'Zitto Kazann', 'Rita Zohar', 'Jack Black', 'Zakes Mokae', 'Jack Kehler', 'Leonardo Cimino', 'Lanny Flaherty', 'Robert A. Silverman', "Henry Kapono Ka'aihue", 'Neil Giuntoli', 'Robert Joy', 'John Fleck', 'Greg Goossen', 'William Preston', 'John Toles-Bey', 'Ari Barak', 'Chris Douridas', 'Alexa Jago', 'Sean Whalen', 'Robert LaSardo', 'Lee Arenberg', 'Doug Spinuzza', 'Hal Douglas', 'Anne Gaybis', 'Annie Costner', 'John Otrin', 'Michael Haddad', 'Heidi Miller']

Action, Science fiction, Adventure, Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, Drama, Thriller

['USA']

English

['English']

['Gordon Company', 'Davis Entertainment', 'Universal Pictures', 'Licht/Mueller Film Corporation']

post-apocalyptic

post-apocalyptic-movies

In 2500,[4] sea level rises had swallowed every continent on Earth underwater. The remains of human civilization live on rugged, floating communities known as atolls, having long forgotten about living on land. A "Dryland" may exist somewhere in the ocean, though some refuse to believe that it does, calling it a myth. The Mariner, a lone drifter, arrives at an atoll on his trimaran to trade dirt, a rare commodity, for other supplies. When the locals see that the Mariner is a mutant, with gills and webbed feet, several accost him and he kills one in self-defense. As a result, the Mariner is sentenced to be drowned in a pit of organic sludge. Before this can happen, however, the atoll is attacked by the Smokers, a gang of pirates seeking Enola, a young girl. According to their leader, the Deacon, she has a map to Dryland tattooed on her back. Enola's guardian, Helen, attempts to escape with her on a gas balloon dirigible created by inventor Gregor, who accidentally releases it with only himself onboard. Helen frees the Mariner, on the condition he take both of them with him. The three go to the open sea aboard the trimaran, escaping the Smokers. Later, when the Smokers send a seaplane to find the Mariner's boat, Helen shoots it with a harpoon. Its cable causes damage to the boat before being severed, causing the Mariner to cut Helen's hair (and later Enola's) as punishment. During their quest, the trio encounter another drifter who is killed by the Mariner after a trade-gone-wrong, as well as a trap set by the Smokers, and a mutated shark the Mariner kills for food. Helen believes humans once lived on land and demands to know where the Mariner collected his dirt. In a homemade diving bell, he shows her the underwater remains of Denver, Colorado and the soil on the ocean's floor, seeming to disprove Helen's belief. When they surface, they find that the Smokers have caught up, threatening to kill them if they do not surrender Enola, who hides aboard the boat. The Smokers capture Enola and try to kill Helen and the Mariner before the two dive underwater, where he uses his gills to help Helen breathe. Before the Smokers leave, they set the boat on fire, destroying it. While looking through the floating wreckage of the boat, the Mariner locates National Geographic magazines and compares their images to the drawings Enola liked to make, realizing she was drawing Dryland objects. Gregor, having followed the boat's smoke in his dirigible, finds Helen and the Mariner and takes them to a new makeshift atoll inhabited by the survivors of the first attack. From there, the Mariner takes a captured Smoker's jet ski to chase down the Deacon at the Smokers' base of operations, the remains of the Exxon Valdez. The Deacon orders the crew to start rowing the "Deez" after bluffingly announcing that he has decoded the map on Enola's back. With all of the Smokers below deck to row, the Mariner confronts the Deacon, threatening to ignite the oil reserves in the hold unless Enola is returned. The Deacon calls the Mariner's bluff, knowing that it would destroy the ship, but to his shock, the Mariner drops a flare into the oil reservoir. The ship is engulfed in flames, and begins to sink. The Mariner rescues Enola, escaping via a rope from Gregor's balloon with Helen and the Atoll Enforcer aboard. The Deacon fires on the balloon, shaking Enola into the ocean. As the Deacon and some of his men converge on her, the Mariner makes an impromptu bungee jump from the balloon to grab Enola before the Deacon and his men collide on their jet-skis, inducing an explosion, which kills the three. Gregor later identifies Enola's tattoo as coordinates with reversed directions. Following the map, the balloon party discover Dryland, covered with vegetation and wildlife. They also find a hut with the remains of Enola's parents. The Mariner, feeling that he does not belong on Dryland, takes an old wooden catamaran from the island and departs, as Helen and Enola bid him farewell.

Wax, or The Discovery of Television Among the Bees

David Blair

['David Blair', 'Father Bessarion', 'William S. Burroughs', 'Florence Ormezzano', 'Meg Savlov']

Documentary, Science fiction, Drama, Indie film, Experimental

['USA', 'Germany']

English

['English']

['David Blair Productions', 'ZDF']

sci-fi, top-rated

letterboxds-top-250-science-fiction-films

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Wayne's World

Penelope Spheeris

['Mike Myers', 'Dana Carvey', 'Rob Lowe', 'Tia Carrere', 'Lara Flynn Boyle', 'Donna Dixon', 'Chris Farley', 'Brian Doyle-Murray', 'Michael DeLuise', 'Meat Loaf', 'Robert Patrick', 'Alice Cooper', "Ed O'Neill", 'Colleen Camp', 'Lee Tergesen', 'Kurt Fuller', 'Mike Hagerty', 'Charles Noland', 'Ione Skye', 'Frank DiLeo', 'Robin Ruzan', 'Frederick Coffin', 'Carmen Filpi']

Comedy, Music, Musical

['USA']

English

['English', 'Cantonese']

['Paramount Pictures']

comedy

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

In Aurora, Illinois, rock music fans Wayne Campbell and Garth Algar host a public-access television show, Wayne's World, from Wayne's parents' basement; a broadcast of Wayne's World catches the attention of television producer Benjamin Kane. While out cruising with friends in Garth's car, the Mirthmobile, Wayne stops to admire a 1964 Fender Stratocaster in a shop window. They later go to a nightclub, where they avoid Wayne's troubled ex-girlfriend Stacy while Wayne falls for Cassandra Wong, vocalist and bassist of the band Crucial Taunt, and impresses her with his Cantonese. Benjamin meets with Wayne and Garth to purchase the rights to the show for $5,000 each, which Wayne uses to purchase the Stratocaster. Benjamin attempts to court Cassandra using his wealth and good looks, distracting Wayne and Garth with all-access tickets to an Alice Cooper concert in Milwaukee while offering to produce a music video for Crucial Taunt. At the show, Wayne and Garth make the acquaintance of a bodyguard to music producer Frankie Sharp, head of Sharp Records. While filming the revamped Wayne's World under Benjamin's oversight, Wayne and Garth find adjusting to the professional studio environment challenging. Their contract obliges them to give a promotional interview to their sponsor, Noah Vanderhoff, who owns a franchise of amusement arcades. After Wayne ridicules Vanderhoff on the show, he is fired, leaving Garth to host the show on his own. This infuriates Garth and jeopardizes their friendship. Jealous of the attention Benjamin is giving Cassandra, Wayne attempts to prevent her from participating in the Crucial Taunt music video shoot, and she breaks up with him for his distrust. Wayne and Garth reconcile and hatch a scheme to win Cassandra back by getting her a record deal. They plan to ensure that Frankie Sharp hears Crucial Taunt play. While Garth and their friends infiltrate a satellite station with the aid of Benjamin's assistant, Wayne goes to Cassandra's video shoot but embarrasses himself in an attempt to expose Benjamin's ulterior motive. Cassandra initially tells him to go home, but realizing Benjamin is up to no good, she changes her mind and leaves for Aurora with Wayne while he apologizes. The Wayne's World crew hacks into Sharp's satellite television and broadcasts the Crucial Taunt performance from Wayne's basement, where Sharp and Benjamin converge. Sharp declines to offer Crucial Taunt a record contract. As a result, Cassandra breaks up with Wayne permanently. She and Benjamin depart to a tropical resort. Stacy reveals she is pregnant with Wayne's child. An electrical fire destroys Wayne's house and kills Garth. Dissatisfied with this ending, Wayne and Garth turn to the film's audience and halt proceedings. They restart the scene and unmask Benjamin as "Old Man Withers" in a Scooby-Doo parody ending. Still unsatisfied, they restart again with a "mega happy ending," in which Cassandra successfully signs a record contract and rekindles her relationship with Wayne. Garth begins a relationship with a waitress he has fantasized over, while a reformed Benjamin learns that money and good looks do not necessarily bring happiness. During the credits, both Wayne and Garth wait until the credits finish to fade to black.

Ways to Live Forever

Gustavo Ron

['Ben Chaplin', 'Emilia Fox', 'Greta Scacchi', 'Robbie Kay', 'Alex Etel', 'Ella Purnell', 'Natalia Tena', 'Phyllida Law', 'Eloise Barnes', 'Fiona Dolman', 'Matt Stubbs', 'Hellena Taylor']

Children's film, Drama, Family film

['Spain', 'UK']

English

['English']

sad, emotional

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

Plot section not found.

We Grown Now

Minhal Baig

['Blake Cameron James', 'Gian Knight Ramirez', 'S. Epatha Merkerson', 'Avery Holliday', 'Ora Jones', 'Lil Rel Howery', 'Jurnee Smollett']

['Drama']

['USA']

English

['English']

['Participant', 'Symbolic Exchange', 'Stage 6 Films']

friendship

favorite-friendship-driven-movies

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We Need to Talk About Kevin

Lynne Ramsay

['Tilda Swinton', 'John C. Reilly', 'Ezra Miller', 'Jasper Newell', 'Rock Duer', 'Ashley Gerasimovich', 'Siobhan Fallon Hogan', 'Alex Manette', 'Kenneth Franklin', 'Leslie Lyles', 'Paul Diomede', 'Michael Campbell', 'J. Mallory McCree', 'Mark Elliot Wilson', 'James Chen', 'Lauren Fox', 'Blake DeLong', 'Andy Gershenzon', 'Kelly Wade', 'Ursula Parker', 'Jason Shelton', 'Simon MacLean', 'Erin Darke', "Annie O'Sullivan", 'Georgia X. Lifsher', 'Aaron Blakely', 'Polly Adams', 'Suzette Gunn', 'Joseph Melendez', 'Rebecca Dealy', 'Louie Rinaldi', 'Johnson Chong', 'Kimberley Drummond', 'Leland Alexander Wheeler', 'Daniel Farcher', 'Jennifer Kim', 'Caitlin Kinnunen', 'J.J. Kandel', 'Maryann Urbano', 'Jose Joaquin Perez', 'Tah von Allmen', 'Joseph Basile', 'Susan-Kate Heaney', 'Jeffrey Mowery', 'Paul Marra', 'Francesca Murdoch']

Thriller, Psychological thriller, Drama, Suspense, Mystery

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

English

['English']

['BBC Film', 'Independent', 'UK Film Council', 'Footprint Investment Fund', 'Piccadilly Pictures', 'Lipsync Productions', 'Artina Films', 'Rockinghorse Films', 'Caemhan', 'Panaramic', 'Beryl Betty', 'Atlantic Swiss Productions', 'KanZaman Productions']

sad, emotional

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

Eva Khatchadourian, once a successful travel writer, lives alone in a rundown house and works in a travel agency near a prison, where she visits her son Kevin, who is convicted of mass-murdering students at his high school. As she copes with the hostility of her neighbors, she reflects upon her memories of raising him. A reluctant mother, Eva views Kevin as detached and difficult from childhood. He appears to loathe and deliberately antagonize Eva, who struggles to bond with him. As a baby, he cries incessantly, but only around her; as a child, he resists toilet training, rebuffs Eva's attempts at affection, and shows no interest in anything. He behaves like a happy, loving son in front of his father Franklin, who dismisses Eva's concerns and makes excuses for Kevin's behavior. One day, Eva's frustration with Kevin drives her to throw him against the wall, breaking his arm. Kevin tells Franklin he fell and uses the incident to manipulate Eva. When Kevin is confined to bed with a fever, he shows affection towards Eva for the first time as she reads Robin Hood, though his spiteful personality returns as soon as he recovers. Franklin gives Kevin a bow and arrow and teaches him archery. Sometime later, Eva gives birth to her and Franklin's second child Celia, a lively and cheerful girl towards whom Kevin is instantly disdainful. A few years later, Celia's pet guinea pig mysteriously goes missing. Eva finds its remains in the garbage disposal the next day, which she unclogs with drain cleaner. Celia is blinded in one eye after being exposed to the cleaner while Kevin was tasked with watching her, requiring her to wear a glass eye in its place. Eva suspects Kevin injured his sister on purpose, but Franklin defends him. Tired of Eva's distrust of their son, Franklin discusses divorce with her, and Kevin overhears their conversation. Three days before his 16th birthday, Kevin uses bicycle locks to trap several students in the school gymnasium and murders them with his bow and arrows. After witnessing Kevin's arrest and the bodies of his victims being carried away, Eva returns home to discover that Kevin has murdered Franklin and Celia as well. On the second anniversary of the massacre, Eva visits Kevin in prison; his demeanor has changed to demure and frightened in his anticipation of being transferred to an adult prison. Eva finally asks him why he committed the murders. Kevin responds that he used to think he knew but is no longer sure. Eva embraces Kevin and leaves.

We're the Millers

Rawson Marshall Thurber

['Jennifer Aniston', 'Jason Sudeikis', 'Emma Roberts', 'Will Poulter', 'Ed Helms', 'Nick Offerman', 'Kathryn Hahn', 'Molly C. Quinn', 'Tomer Sisley', 'Matthew Willig', 'Luis Guzmán', 'Thomas Lennon', 'Mark L. Young', 'Ken Marino', 'Laura-Leigh', 'Crystal Nichol', 'D.A. Obahor', 'Brett Gentile', 'Kelly Collins Lintz', 'Sam Richardson', 'Lynn Talley', 'Alan Gilmer', 'Denielle Fisher Johnson', 'Deborah Chavez', 'Kevin Dorff', 'Rawson Marshall Thurber', 'Kurt Grossi', 'Dave McElhaney', 'Brendan Hunt', 'Scott Adsit', 'Vickie Eng', "Lunden De'Leon", 'Joey Nappo', 'Joshua Mikel', 'Matt Schweppe', 'Tonya Bludsworth', 'Matthew Cornwell', 'Marcus Viscidi', 'Andrea Alcorn', 'Martin Edward Andazola', 'Loren Anthony', 'Joshua R. Aragon', 'Lionel Archuleta', 'Laura Avery', 'Del Baron', 'Alyssa Bauman', 'Christine Bear', 'Jenique Bennett', 'Ashley Blankenship', 'Kristi Booher', 'Rachel Brewer', 'Crystal M. Craven', 'Robert Crayton', 'Christian Daniels', 'Lindsay Davis', 'Todd Davis', 'Michael J. Flanagan', 'Tait Fletcher', 'Lauren Frandsen', 'William Frasca', 'Amanda Fresquez', 'Lawrence Gilligan', 'Randy Grazio', 'Albert Guzman', 'Rebecca Harran', 'Karen M. Hudson', 'Joe W. Lacey', 'Saeri Lee', 'Natalia Marie', 'Cathy Mattson', 'Brian Patrick Moize', 'Robb Moon', 'Patrick V. Murphy', 'Matt Perkinson', 'Danny Pollack', 'Ed Ricker', 'John Henry Scott', 'Amanda Quinn Sherrick', 'Bernard Sintim', 'Nathan Marcus Smith', 'Michael E. Stogner', 'Nick Thies', 'Shane Thompson', 'Melissa Veal', 'Millie Wannamaker', 'Anthony Williams', 'Tyler Gene', 'Vernon Bradley', 'Julian Wondolowski']

Comedy, Adventure, Crime film, Mystery, Thriller, Detective fiction, Police procedural

['UK', 'USA']

English

['English']

['New Line Cinema', 'Newman/Tooley Films', 'Bad Version', 'Slap Happy Productions', 'Heyday Films', 'BenderSpink', 'Warner Bros. Pictures']

comedy

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

In Denver, low-level marijuana dealer David Clark is robbed of his money and stash, some of which he owes to his supplier and college acquaintance Brad Gurdlinger. Gurdlinger forces him to smuggle marijuana from Mexico to clear his debt. Realizing that attempting to get through customs alone would be suspicious, David hires his neighbors—a stripper stage-named Rose; local runaway Casey; and naïve, recently abandoned teenager Kenny—to pose as his wife, daughter, and son, dubbing themselves the "Millers". When the Millers reach the compound, they learn it is far more marijuana than told, not "a smidge" as Gurdlinger described, but two tons. They are stopped by authorities twice, but get by on bribery and sheer luck. Due to the extra load from the marijuana on the RV, one of the radiator hoses breaks. The Fitzgeralds (consisting of father Don, mother Edie, and daughter Melissa), a family vacationing in an RV whom the Millers had encountered at the border, catch up to them and tow them to a repair shop. On the way, they learn that Don is a DEA agent, alarming them. Kenny develops a crush on Melissa. After he reveals that he has never kissed a girl, Casey and Rose give him kissing lessons; Melissa sees them and assumes they are in an incestual relationship. Gurdlinger misled David, as the marijuana is stolen from cartel boss Pablo Chacon. The next day, when the Millers head to the shop for the RV, Chacon and his henchman One-Eye are waiting for them. As he prepares to kill the Millers, they disclose they are not a real family and did not know they were stealing from him. Rose is given a chance to prove that she is a stripper by dancing, and when she gets close to Chacon, she turns a steam vent onto him. The Millers then escape in the RV, with Kenny behind the wheel. Due to Kenny's erratic driving, the RV veers off the highway and crashes. In the commotion, a tarantula that snuck aboard the RV in Mexico crawls up Kenny's leg and bites his testicles. After Kenny has a severe allergic reaction to the bite, the Millers head to the hospital. This setback further delays the delivery of the drugs, but David renegotiates with Gurdlinger for a fee of $500,000 on the condition that he arrives that night. When Kenny is finally released from the hospital, David rushes him to the RV in a wheelchair and accidentally tips him over. In the ensuing argument, David inadvertently reveals how much he is getting paid, in comparison to how little he offered to pay each of the others. Disgusted by the revelation, Rose, Casey, and Kenny part company with him. David drives away, leaving them at the local carnival. David regrets abandoning his companions, so returns to the carnival. After he apologizes to the trio for not being upfront with them, trio agrees to rejoin him as he drives the rest of the way home. As the Millers make their way to the RV, One-Eye finds them but, before he can shoot them, Don comes out of his camper and subdues him. Chacon then comes around the corner with Melissa held at gunpoint and is about to kill them all; however, he is momentarily distracted by the 4th of July fireworks, so David and Kenny subdue him. Kenny kisses Melissa, prompting David to kiss Rose. Don arrests Chacon but lets the Millers leave. Gurdlinger reveals that he never intended to pay David for smuggling the marijuana. When David delivers it to him, DEA agents arrive and take him into custody thanks to David's tip. Don tells David that he and any witnesses of the crime will be placed into witness protection until Gurdlinger and Chacon's trials. Later, the Millers - now under witness protection together until the trials - are seen at a suburban house with marijuana plants growing in the backyard.

Wedding Crashers

David Dobkin

['Owen Wilson', 'Vince Vaughn', 'Christopher Walken', 'Rachel McAdams', 'Isla Fisher', 'Jane Seymour', 'Ellen Albertini Dow', "Keir O'Donnell", 'Bradley Cooper', 'Ron Canada', 'Henry Gibson', 'Dwight Yoakam', 'Rebecca De Mornay', 'David Conrad', 'Jennifer Alden', 'Geoff Stults', 'Diora Baird', 'Kathryn Joosten', 'Naureen Zaim', 'Norma Michaels', 'James Carville', 'Will Ferrell', 'John McCain', 'Lindsay Schoneweis', 'Kelsey Wedeen', 'Rachel Sterling', 'Camille Anderson', 'Ivana Bozilovic', 'Tanaya Nicole']

Comedy, Romance, Melodrama, Drama, Buddy

['USA']

English

['English']

['Avery Pix', 'New Line Cinema', 'Tapestry Films']

comedy

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

John Beckwith and Jeremy Grey are Washington, D.C. divorce mediators who crash weddings under false identities to meet and have sex with women. At the end of a season of successful crashes, Jeremy takes John to the wedding of the eldest daughter of the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, William Cleary. Once inside, the pair set their sights on Cleary's other daughters, Gloria and Claire. During the reception, Jeremy has sex with Gloria on a nearby beach; she tells him afterward that she was a virgin. Gloria is possessive and quickly becomes obsessed with Jeremy, and Jeremy urges John to escape the reception with him. Meanwhile, John attempts to court Claire, the maid of honor, but is interrupted by her hotheaded boyfriend, Sack Lodge, who is unfaithful and disrespectful behind her back. When Gloria invites Jeremy and John to an extended weekend retreat at their family compound in Maryland, John overrules Jeremy and accepts in an effort to get closer to Claire. John and Jeremy become acquainted with the Clearys. The Secretary's wife Kathleen comes on to John sexually while Gloria's brother, Todd, tries to seduce Jeremy during the night. Gloria continues to lavish unwanted sexual attention on Jeremy, massaging his penis at a family dinner and later rapes him after tying his wrists and ankles to a bedframe. Sack also repeatedly injures Jeremy during a game of touch football. At dinner, John spikes Sack's wine with eye drops to make him sick and get more time to connect with Claire. John and Claire continue to bond the next day during a sailing trip. The suspicious Sack takes John and Jeremy on a hunting trip and pranks them, resulting in Jeremy getting shot in the buttocks. While Jeremy recovers, John and Claire go on a bike ride to a secluded beach. Claire finally admits she is not sure how she feels about Sack and ends up kissing John passionately. Meanwhile, Gloria tends to Jeremy's wounds and reveals to him that she lied about being a virgin when they met. Jeremy realizes that he has been played and that he may be in love with Gloria. While John is confessing his attraction to Claire, they are interrupted by Jeremy being chased out of the house. Sack, who had been investigating them, reveals John and Jeremy's real identities to the family. Betrayed, Claire turns on John, and the Secretary tells them to leave. Over the following months, John attempts to reach Claire, but she refuses to see him. Expecting Jeremy to aid him, he attempts to sneak into the engagement party for Claire and Sack but is caught and beaten by Sack. Confronting Jeremy about abandoning him, John learns that Jeremy has secretly continued his relationship with Gloria. Betrayed and brokenhearted, John spirals into depression, crashes weddings alone, and becomes nihilistic and suicidal. Meanwhile, as Claire and Sack plan their wedding, Claire's doubts about her future with Sack grow. Jeremy proposes to Gloria and tries to ask John to be his best man, but John turns him away. John visits Jeremy's former wedding-crashing mentor, Chazz Reinhold, who convinces a reluctant John to crash a funeral with him. At the funeral, John reconsiders his belief in love and marriage after seeing the grieving widow. He rushes to Jeremy's wedding and joins the wedding mid-ceremony to Jeremy's delight. Claire is upset by his appearance, prompting John to regret his past behavior and profess his love for her in front of the congregation. Sack interrupts, but Claire finally tells him that she can not marry him. Sack tries to attack John, but Jeremy intervenes and knocks him out, and John and Claire kiss. After the wedding, the two couples drive away from the ceremony and discuss crashing another wedding together.

Weekend

Jean-Luc Godard

['Mireille Darc', 'Jean Yanne', 'Jean-Pierre Kalfon', 'Yves Afonso', 'Yves Beneyton', 'Juliet Berto', 'Michèle Breton', 'Michel Cournot', 'Lex De Bruijn', 'Omar Diop', 'Jean Eustache', 'Jean-Claude Guilbert', 'Paul Gégauff', 'Blandine Jeanson', 'Louis Jojot', 'Valérie Lagrange', 'Jean-Pierre Léaud', 'Ernest Menzer', 'Daniel Pommereulle', 'Isabelle Pons', 'Helen Scott', 'Georges Staquet', 'László Szabó', 'Virginie Vignon', 'Anne Wiazemsky']

Comedy, Dark comedy, Short, Adventure, Drama

['France', 'Italy']

French

['French']

['Cinecidi', 'Comacico', 'Les Films Copernic', 'Lira Films']

comedy, road-movie

vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time, road-movies-1

Roland and Corinne Durand are a bourgeois couple. Each has a secret lover and conspires to murder the other. They drive to Corinne's parents' home in the country to secure her inheritance from her dying father, resolving to resort to murder if necessary. The trip becomes a chaotic journey through a French countryside populated by bizarre characters and punctuated by violent car accidents. After their own Facel-Vega is destroyed in a collision, they wander through a series of vignettes involving class struggle and figures from literature and history, such as Louis Antoine de Saint-Just and Emily Brontë. In a metafictional touch, some scenes show the characters in the film being self-aware such as a driver asking Roland after being flagged down, "Are you in a film or reality?", the film's real actors from the Italian co-production being mentioned during Corinne and Roland's search for a car to Oinville (to which they never specify further as to which Oinville they are referring to), and various intertitles which are a defining feature to Godard's films. When Corinne and Roland eventually arrive at her parents' place, they discover that her father has died and her mother refuses to give them a share of the spoils. They kill her and hit the road again, only to fall into the hands of a group of hippie revolutionaries (calling themselves the Seine and Oise Liberation Front) that support themselves through theft and cannibalism. Killed during an escape attempt, Roland is chopped up and cooked.

Weekend at Bernie's

Ted Kotcheff

['Andrew McCarthy', 'Jonathan Silverman', 'Catherine Mary Stewart', 'Terry Kiser', 'Don Calfa', 'Catherine Parks', 'Eloise DeJoria', 'Gregory Salata', 'Louis Giambalvo', 'Ted Kotcheff', 'Margaret Hall', 'Timothy Perez', 'Mark Kenneth Smaltz', 'Anthony Mannino', 'Polly Segal', 'Robert L. Horen', 'Bruce Paul Barbour', 'Jason Woliner', 'Dan Cox', 'Steve Howard', 'Lorri Lindberg', 'Jack Hallett', 'John Bennes', 'Augustina Berlings', 'Mert Hatfield', 'Jack Canon', 'Nello Tare', 'Joyce Bowden', 'Stefanos Miltsakakis', 'Dan Preston', 'Jean Liles', 'Lisa Sherrill Gannon', 'Rachel Lewis', 'Dan Wargo', 'Patricia Roseman', 'David Arey', 'Ronald Ross', 'George Cheung', 'Lou Criscuolo', 'Edwin Little Dean', 'Stephen Fischer', 'Cindy Foster Jones', 'Richard W. Boucher', 'Leslie Sternchak', 'Tina Diane King', 'Scooby Vincent', 'Anthony Welch', 'Skeet Ulrich']

Comedy, Action, Dark comedy, Adventure, Farce, Buddy, Mystery, Slapstick, Crime Fiction, Screwball comedy

['USA']

English

['English']

['Gladden Entertainment', '20th Century Fox']

comedy

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Larry Wilson and Richard Parker are two low-level financial employees at an insurance company in New York City. While going over actuarial reports, Richard discovers a series of payments made for the same death. He and Larry take their findings to the CEO, the wealthy and hedonistic Bernie Lomax, who commends them for discovering the insurance fraud and invites them to his beach house in The Hamptons for the Labor Day weekend. Unbeknownst to the pair, Bernie is behind the fraud. Nervously meeting with his mob partner Vito, Bernie asks to have the two killed to cover up the discovery. After Bernie leaves, Vito orders that Bernie himself be killed for sleeping with Vito's girlfriend Tina. Bernie arrives before the pair and plans the murders with hitman Paulie on the phone, unaware the conversation is being recorded on his answering machine. Paulie arrives and kills Bernie with a lethal heroin injection, then stages it as self-inflicted accidental overdose. When Larry and Richard arrive they find Bernie's body but before they can call the authorities, guests arrive for a party that Bernie usually hosts every weekend. To the pair's amazement, the guests are too busy partying to notice he is dead, with his dopey grin from the injection and sunglasses concealing his lifeless state. Fearing implication in Bernie's death, and wanting to enjoy the luxurious house for the weekend, Larry proposes he and Richard maintain the illusion that Bernie is still alive, which Richard finds absurd. He changes his mind when Gwen Saunders, a summer intern for the company with whom he has a flirtatious relationship, also arrives. After the party, a drunken Tina arrives at the house and demands the pair direct her to Bernie. However, she also fails to realize the situation and has sex with his corpse. One of Vito's mobsters witnesses this and, mistakenly thinking Bernie's assassination failed, notifies Vito, who sends Paulie back. The next morning, Richard is appalled to discover Larry furthering the illusion by manipulating Bernie's limbs. He attempts to call the police but instead activates the phone message detailing Bernie's plot against them. Unaware of how Bernie died, they mistakenly believe they are still the targets of a mob hit and, as Bernie had said not to kill them while he was in the area, decide to use Bernie's corpse as a shield. All of their attempts to leave the island are thwarted, as they repeatedly misplace and recover Bernie's body, and eventually are forced to return to Bernie's home. Meanwhile, while they are not looking, Paulie makes numerous other assassination attempts, and grows unhinged at his repeated "failures". Gwen, who has been trying to talk to Bernie, was walking on the beach when she sees Larry and Richard with the body. This forces Larry and Richard to reveal his death to her. Paulie then arrives and repeatedly shoots the corpse before turning his attention to Larry, Richard, and Gwen. Chasing after the trio, Paulie corners Larry, who subdues him. The police arrive and arrest Paulie, taking him away in a straitjacket as he continues to insist Bernie is still alive. Gwen invites Richard to stay with her family for the week while Larry decides to go home to give them space. Bernie's body is loaded into an ambulance. However, the gurney rolls away and topples off the boardwalk, dumping the body onto the beach right behind the trio, who run away in terror. Afterwards, a young boy, who earlier buried the body in the sand, comes along and starts burying it again.

Welcome to the Dollhouse

Todd Solondz

['Heather Matarazzo', 'Victoria Davis', 'Christina Brucato', 'Christina Vidal', 'Siri Howard', 'Brendan Sexton III', 'Telly Pontidis', 'Herbie Duarte', 'Scott Coogan', 'Daria Kalinina', 'Matthew Faber', 'Josiah Trager', 'Ken Leung', 'Dimitri Iervolino', 'Rica Martens', 'Angela Pietropinto', 'Bill Buell', 'Eric Mabius', 'Stacey Moseley', 'Will Lyman', 'Elizabeth Martin', 'Zsanné Pitta', 'Richard Gould', 'Beverly Hecht', 'Teddy Coluca', 'Tommy McCarthy', "James O'Donoghue", 'Deanna Barillari', 'Molly Howe', 'Lorelei Mahoney']

Comedy, Indie film, Dark comedy, Drama, Coming-of-age story, Tragicomedy

['USA']

English

['English']

['Suburban Pictures']

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Twelve-year-old Dawn Wiener is a shy and unpopular seventh-grader living in a middle-class suburban community in New Jersey. Her older brother Mark is a nerdy high school student who plays clarinet in a garage band and shuns girls in order to prepare for college. Her younger sister Missy is spoiled and manipulative; she pesters Dawn and dances around the house in a tutu. Her mother Marj is a shrewish woman who dotes on Missy and sides with her in disputes with Dawn. Her father Harv is a meek man who sides with Marj over Dawn. Her only friend is an effeminate sixth-grade boy named Ralphy, with whom she shares a dilapidated clubhouse in her backyard. At school, Dawn is ridiculed and her locker is covered in graffiti. Her teacher unfairly gives her detention after one of her bullies (Brandon McCarthy) tries to copy her answers on a test. Later, Dawn gets in trouble again after accidentally hitting another teacher in the eye with a spitball in self-defense when Brandon and his friends bully her during an assembly. Mark's classmate Steve Rodgers, a handsome and charismatic aspiring rock musician, agrees to join the band in exchange for Mark's help in school. Dawn pursues him romantically when they spend time together, though one of Steve's former girlfriends tells her that she has no chance of being with him. After Dawn calls Brandon a "retard" during a confrontation, he threatens her with rape. His first attempt to assault her after school fails, but shortly afterward, he phones her, ordering her to meet him again the next day. When she complies, he takes her to a junkyard, where he starts an earnest conversation with her and kisses her instead. At dinner that evening, when she refuses to tear down her clubhouse to make room for her parents' 20th anniversary party, Marj tells Mark and Missy to destroy it anyway, and gives them Dawn's share of dessert. Dawn and Brandon spend time in her clubhouse, but she confesses to him her feelings for Steve, causing him to storm out. Ralphy, who was spying on them, tries to comfort Dawn, but she angrily rejects him when he insults Brandon, leaving her with no friends. At the anniversary party, Dawn intends to proposition Steve, but gets cold feet and is rebuffed. Steve plays with Missy, who pushes Dawn into a kiddie pool. That evening, the family watches a videotape of the party, laughing when Dawn falls into the water. Later, Dawn smashes the tape and briefly brandishes her hammer over Missy as she sleeps. A few days later, Brandon is arrested and expelled from school for suspected drug dealing. Meanwhile, Harv's car breaks down and Marj has to pick him up. She instructs Dawn to tell Missy to get a ride home with her ballet teacher, but she chooses not to after arguing with Missy, who is kidnapped as a result. Dawn visits Brandon's home and meets his mentally challenged brother and aggressive father. She tells Brandon that she wants to be his girlfriend, but he tells her that he is running away to New York City to avoid being sent to a reformatory. After they kiss, an argument about him dealing drugs ensues, with him saying that one of his friends is the real culprit. Regardless, he asks Dawn if she will come with him, but she declines and he leaves through his bedroom window. When Marj is informed that Missy's tutu was found in Times Square, Dawn goes to New York City to look for her. After a night of searching, she phones home and Mark tells her that Missy was found alive and unharmed by police after being abducted by a pedophilic neighbor. Dawn returns to town and her classmates ridicule her as she delivers a thank-you speech. Mark later tells her that she cannot expect school life to get any better until high school. On a bus ride to Walt Disney World for a concert tour, Dawn sits among her fellow choir members and unenthusiastically joins them in singing the school anthem.

Wendy and Lucy

Kelly Reichardt

['Michelle Williams', 'Wally Dalton', 'Will Oldham', 'John Robinson', 'David Koppell', 'Max Clement', 'Sid Shanley', 'Dave Hubner', 'Michelle Worthey', 'Roger D. Faires', 'Boggs Johnson', 'Tanya Smith', 'Michael Brophy', 'John Breen', 'Deneb Catalan', 'Skeeter Greene', 'Marilyn Faith Hickey', 'Jeanine Jackson', 'Brenna Beardsley', 'Winfield Jackson', 'Gabe Nevins', "Connor O'Shea", 'Josh Larson', 'Ayanna Berkshire', 'Dan Wilson', 'Greg Schmitt', 'Will Patton', 'David Rives Curtright', 'Larry Fessenden', 'Holly Cundiff', 'Lucy', 'James Yu', 'George Haapala', "Deirdre O'Connell", 'M. Blash']

Drama, Indie film

['USA']

English

['English']

['Glass Eye Pix', 'filmscience', 'Field Guide Films']

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A young woman, Wendy Carroll, is traveling to Alaska with her dog Lucy, where she hopes to find work at a cannery. They become stranded in Oregon when their car breaks down, and she lacks the funds to repair it. At a supermarket, she leaves Lucy outside while she attempts to shoplift dog food. After a meeting with the store clerk and the manager, Wendy is apprehended and taken to the police station. After paying a fine, Wendy is released from police custody. She hurries to the grocery store, but Lucy is gone. After many failed efforts to track Lucy down, with the help of a security guard, she discovers that Lucy has been taken to a dog pound and rehomed. When Wendy visits the mechanic to pick up her car, she learns her engine needs to be rebuilt, which would exceed the car's worth. Abandoning her car and nearly penniless, Wendy goes to the home where Lucy lives. She tearfully promises to return and departs on a Northbound train.

Werckmeister Harmonies

Béla Tarr

['Lars Rudolph', 'Peter Fitz', 'Hanna Schygulla', 'Alfréd Járai', 'Gyula Pauer', 'János Derzsi', 'Mihály Kormos', 'Putyi Horváth', 'Éva Almássy Albert', 'Péter Dobai', 'László feLugossy', 'Barna Mihók', 'Sandor Bese', 'Enikő Börcsök', 'Irén Szajki', 'György Barkó', 'Lajos Dobák', 'András Fekete', 'Gyuri Dósa Kiss', 'Józsi Mihályfi', 'Kati Lázár', 'Viktor Lois', 'Béla Máriáss', 'Mátyás Dráfi', 'József Ropog']

Drama, Mystery

['France', 'Germany', 'Hungary', 'Italy']

Hungarian

['Hungarian', 'Slovak']

['Magyar Mozgókép Alapítvány', '13 Productions', 'ARTE', 'Fondazione Montecinemaverita', 'Goëss Film', 'Magyar Televízió Müvelödési Föszerkesztöség (MTV) (I)', 'Nemzeti Kultúrális Alapprogram', 'Országos Rádió és Televízió Testület (ORTT)', 'Studio Babelsberg', 'Von Vietinghoff Filmproduktion (VVF)', 'ZDF', 'RAI']

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In an unnamed, desolate and isolated small town in Hungary[N 1] during a winter season in recent times,[N 2] János Valuska, a young newspaper-delivery man, conducts a performance with drunken bar patrons about the total eclipse of the sun, which disturbs, then silences the animals. It finishes with the grand return of the warm sunlight. János is devoted to his ’uncle’ György Eszter, a composer and musicologist, who is like a father to him. György records his observations about the imperfection and compromise of the musical scale, as defined by Werckmeister. György proposes changes to the natural scale to make its harmonies more natural. János goes to the post office to pick up his newspapers for delivery. The workers are unsettled by the ominous signs of the circus' arrival and the cloud that settles over each town it visits. A “circus” built around a huge stuffed smelly whale and its star performer, "The Prince", who is never seen, come to town in the night. János sees them arrive and philosophizes about God and the whale. György's estranged wife, Tünde, tries to leverage her political and social status by giving György a list of names to recruit for the "Clean Up the Town movement," with the blessing of the police chief, and demands that György become chairman of the movement, or else she will move back in with him that very evening. She sends her suitcase ahead of her with János. György's struggling cobbler brother, Uncle Lajos, takes the list and passes it on to the agitated crowd in the town square who are unhappy with the failing public services. János is accosted by a thug in front of the open truck housing the whale. Tünde sleeps with the drunk gun-toting police chief. The presence of the whale and the “Prince” stir up the crowd. János overhears the circus master losing control of his faceless Prince, who speaks (in Slovakian[6]) through a translator of revolutions and ruins. The circus master is afraid of consequences and disowns him. The Prince, now free, inflames the mob who holding clubs, march, then run into a hospital,[N 3] drag inmates out of their beds and beat them. When the rioters finally find a helpless old naked patient, who is all skin and bones, they see in him their impotent, sad and powerless selves and withdraw silently. After the riot, János comes across the diary of a rioter. It explains that the rioters did not know what they were angry with; so they were angry at everything. Then it recounts the mob's horrendous rape of two post-office girls. On his way home, he witnesses from a distance a meeting between Tünde and a military officer. They depart together on a military vehicle to reclaim the town, accompanied by soldiers and a tank. János then comes across the body of Lajos, who was killed in the riot. János is told, by Lajos's wife, to leave for his own safety, as his name was on a list held by the rioters. János runs away on the railroad tracks but is intercepted by a helicopter. He finds himself committed to a mental institution with caged beds (a tool of the time for dealing with political dissidents). When György visits him, János simply stares into the blank space and does not respond to György, who recounts to János what has happened since the riot. György has been evicted from their house but gets to live in a shed in the garden whilst his wife, Tünde, with her new status as a collaborator, now occupies the big house with the police chief. György tells János, in the ward, that, if he is released from the mental institution, they can live contentedly together in the shed with his piano. György also mentions that he has re-tuned the piano so that is now like any other, a personal capitulation apparently abandoning any present hopes of reform. János just stares into the blank space. The film ends with György walking through the town square and looking directly into the eye of the abandoned whale, then walking away and looking back at the now sad and disheveled whale and the “circus” destroyed by the rioters the night before. The whale's rotting carcass is slowly enveloped by the thickening fog.

West Side Story

Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise

['Natalie Wood', 'Richard Beymer', 'Russ Tamblyn', 'Rita Moreno', 'George Chakiris', 'Simon Oakland', 'Ned Glass', 'William Bramley', 'Tucker Smith', 'Tony Mordente', 'David Winters', 'Eliot Feld', 'Bert Michaels', 'David Bean', 'Robert Banas', 'Scooter Teague', 'Harvey Evans', 'Tommy Abbott', 'Susan Oakes', 'Gina Trikonis', "Carole D'Andrea", 'Jose De Vega', 'Jay Norman', 'Gus Trikonis', 'Eddie Verso', 'Jaime Rogers', 'Larry Roquemore', 'Robert E. Thompson', 'Nick Navarro', 'Rudy Del Campo', 'Andre Tayir', 'Yvonne Wilder', 'Suzie Kaye', 'Nobuko Miyamoto', 'Martin Abrahams', 'John Angelo', 'John Astin', 'Francesca Bellini', 'Jacqulin Cole', 'Roy Goldman', 'Elaine Joyce', 'Priscilla Lopez', 'Lou Ruggiero', 'Penny Santon', 'Pat Tribble', 'Gary Troy', 'Marni Nixon', 'Roxanne Tunis']

Romance, Comedy, Musical, Melodrama, Tragedy, Drama, Crime film, Thriller, Detective fiction, Tragicomedy, Police procedural

['USA']

English

['English', 'Spanish']

['Seven Arts Productions', 'The Mirisch Company']

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In New York City in 1957, two teenage gangs compete for control on the Upper West Side. The Jets, a group of whites led by Riff, brawl with the Sharks, Puerto Ricans led by Bernardo. Lieutenant Schrank and Officer Krupke arrive and break it up. The Jets challenge the Sharks to a rumble to be held after an upcoming dance. Riff wants his best friend Tony, a co-founder and former member of the Jets, to fight at the rumble. Riff invites Tony to the dance, but Tony says he senses something important is coming. Riff suggests it could happen at the dance. Tony finally agrees to go. Meanwhile, Bernardo's younger sister, Maria, tells her best friend and Bernardo's girlfriend, Anita, how excited she is about the dance. At the dance, the two gangs and their girls refuse to intermingle. Tony arrives; he and Maria fall in love instantly, but Bernardo angrily demands that Tony stay away from her and sends her home. Riff proposes a midnight meeting with Bernardo at Doc's drug store to settle the rules for the rumble. Anita argues that Bernardo is overprotective of Maria, and they compare the advantages of Puerto Rico and the US mainland. Tony sneaks onto Maria's fire escape where they reaffirm their love. Krupke, who suspects the Jets are planning something, warns them not to cause trouble. The Sharks arrive, and the gangs agree to a showdown the following evening under the highway, with a one-on-one fistfight. When Schrank arrives, the gangs feign friendship. Schrank orders the Sharks out and fails to discover information about the fight. The next day at the bridal shop where they work, Anita accidentally tells Maria about the rumble. Tony arrives to see Maria. Anita, shocked, warns them about the consequences if Bernardo learns of their relationship. Maria makes Tony promise to prevent the rumble. Tony and Maria fantasize about their wedding. The gangs approach the area under the highway. Tony arrives to stop the fight, but Bernardo antagonizes him. Unwilling to watch Tony be humiliated, Riff initiates a knife fight. Tony intervenes, leading to Bernardo stabbing and killing Riff. Tony kills Bernardo with Riff's knife, and a melee ensues. Police sirens blare, and everyone flees, leaving behind the dead bodies. Maria waits for Tony on the roof of her apartment building; her fiancé Chino (an arranged engagement) arrives and tells her what happened. Tony arrives and asks for Maria's forgiveness. He plans to turn himself in to the police. Maria is devastated but confirms her love for Tony and asks him to stay. The Jets and their new leader, Ice, reassemble outside a garage and focus on reacting to the police. Anybodys arrives and warns them that Chino is after Tony with a gun. Ice sends the Jets to warn Tony. A grieving Anita enters the apartment while Tony and Maria are in the bedroom. The lovers arrange to meet at Doc's, where they will pick up getaway money to elope. Anita spots Tony leaving through the window and chides Maria for the relationship with Bernardo's killer, but Maria convinces her to help them elope. Schrank arrives and questions Maria about the rumble. Maria sends Anita to tell Tony that Maria is detained from meeting him. When Anita reaches Doc's, the Jets harass and even try to rape her, when Doc appears and intervenes. Anita angrily lies, saying that Chino has killed Maria. Doc banishes the Jets, gives Tony his getaway money and delivers Anita's message. Tony, distraught, runs into the streets, shouting for Chino to kill him, too. In the playground next to Doc's, Tony spots Maria and they run toward each other, only for Chino to shoot Tony. The gangs arrive to find Maria holding Tony, who dies in her arms. Maria takes the gun from Chino and threatens to shoot everyone, blaming their hate for the deaths. Schrank and Krupke arrive to arrest Chino, and the gangs end their feud by uniting to carry Tony's body away in a funeral procession with Maria following.

Wet Hot American Summer

David Wain

['Janeane Garofalo', 'David Hyde Pierce', 'Michael Showalter', 'Marguerite Moreau', 'Paul Rudd', 'Zak Orth', 'Christopher Meloni', 'A.D. Miles', 'Molly Shannon', 'Gideon Jacobs', 'Ken Marino', 'Joe Lo Truglio', 'Michael Ian Black', 'Liam Norton', 'Amy Poehler', 'Bradley Cooper', 'Marisa Ryan', 'Elizabeth Banks', 'Gabriel Millman', 'Kevin Sussman', 'Kevin Thomas Conroy', 'Christopher Cusumano', 'Cassidy Ladden', 'Madeline Blue', 'Nina Hellman', 'Peter Salett', 'Judah Friedlander', 'Jacob Shoesmith Fox', 'Whitney Vance', 'Benjamin Coppola', 'H. Jon Benjamin', 'Jake Fogelnest', 'Ian Helfer', 'Jordan MacLean', 'Avi Setton', 'Kyle Gallner', 'Kathleen Pandolfo', 'Zachary Montgomery-Wicks', 'Danny Hopkins', 'Christopher Connors', 'Matt Carmeci', "Stephen O'Brien", 'Timothy Gasiewski', 'Angel Berlane', 'Christi Berlane', 'Bob Walz', 'Joseph Kariuki', 'Donna Mitchell', 'Joe Bryan', 'Christine Loebsack', 'Sandra Kennedy', 'Dan Klein', 'Samm Levine', 'Keith Oney']

Romance, Comedy, Satire, Melodrama, Farce, Drama, Indie film

['USA']

English

['English']

['Eureka Pictures', 'North Coast Group']

comedy

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The film shows the last full day of a 1981 summer camp named Camp Firewood, located near Waterville, Maine, concentrating on the experiences of the camp counselors, most of whom are students aged around 16. The interleaved story threads meet in the evening at the camp talent show: Cook Gene, a Vietnam War veteran, clumsily tries to hide his various sexual fetishes. But after being encouraged by a talking can of vegetables, he proudly admits them all in front of the packed food hall, to great applause. Zealous drama instructors Ben and Susie try to organize a talent show to be held on the last evening. Ben is in love with counselor McKinley. They have passionate sex and are later symbolically married by Beth in a ceremony by the lake. Beth forces Ben and Susie to give the last slot of their talent show to strange outsider Steve. He surprises everyone when during his time on stage an intense storm breaks out inside and outside the venue, seemingly created only with the power of Steve's mind. He receives a wild ovation. Counselor Coop is secretly in love with counselor Katie, but she is dating attractive but obnoxious and inconsiderate lifeguard Andy, who cheats on her, e.g. with counselor Lindsay. Katie has decided to find a girl for Coop and when they spend time together during the day, Katie develops feelings for him. Eventually they kiss, but Katie soon returns to Andy and tells Coop that they made a mistake. A devastated Coop is found by Gene, who performs a rigorous training regimen with him. A newly buff Coop impresses Katie at the talent show and she declares her love for him. But when both bid farewell the next morning, she explains that she has returned to Andy again, even though she knows he is a terrible boyfriend, because he is very attractive and she is only interested in sex at the moment, leaving Coop speechless. Camp director Beth is attracted to Henry, an associate professor of astrophysics who vacations near the camp. She asks him to come over and teach the campers about space. After rudely rejecting her first, he changes his mind and does science projects with a group of nerdy children, bonding with them and getting closer to Beth, eventually sleeping with her. Henry and the children discover that a piece of Skylab will deorbit this evening and will probably impact the camp. They build a contraption to pinpoint the precise location: the talent show venue. Henry thinks he can modify the machine so that it can influence the path of the space debris. After he and the children use the modified machine near the talent show during the storm, the debris lands harmlessly on the grass. Counselor Victor tries to give the impression that he has sexual experience, but is secretly a virgin. He is promised sex by the promiscuous Abby this night, but is told by Beth to go on a rafting trip with several campers and Neil. He abandons them at the river, steals the van and tries to return to Abby. He crashes the van, but reaches the camp on foot in the evening, where Abby has forgotten about him. When Neil and the children get lost on the river, Neil abandons them on the raft to look for Victor. He finds him at the camp and brings him back to the river, just in time to save the children. Arts and crafts instructor Gail has a nervous breakdown during class. The children perform a group therapy session with her, during which she admits that she is not yet over her ex-husband Ron. With the help of the children, especially Aaron, she finally finds the courage to reject Ron when he arrives during the talent show and asks her to come back to him. The next morning, Gail and Aaron declare their love for each other.

Whale Rider

Niki Caro

['Keisha Castle-Hughes', 'Rawiri Paratene', 'Vicky Haughton', 'Cliff Curtis', 'Grant Roa', 'Mana Taumaunu', 'Rachel House', 'Taungaroa Emile', 'Tammy Davis', 'Mabel Wharekawa', 'Rawinia Clarke', 'Tahei Simpson', 'Roi Taimana', 'Elizabeth Skeen', 'Rutene Spooner', 'John Sumner', "Jane O'Kane"]

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

['Germany', 'New Zealand']

English

['English', 'Māori']

['South Pacific Pictures', 'Pandora Film', 'ApolloMedia', 'New Zealand Film Production Fund', 'New Zealand Film Commission', 'NZ on Air', 'Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen']

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The film's plot follows the story of Paikea Apirana. The village leader should be the first-born son, a direct patrilineal descendant of Paikea, the Whale Rider, he who rode on top of a whale (Tohora) from Hawaiki. Pai is originally born a twin, but her twin brother and her mother died during childbirth. Pai is female and so technically cannot inherit the leadership. While her grandfather, Koro, later forms an affectionate bond with his granddaughter, carrying her to school every day on his bicycle, he also condemns her and blames her for conflicts within the tribe. After the death of his wife and despite overwhelming pressure from Koro, Pai's father refuses to assume traditional leadership or finish the waka that he had started building for the baby son; instead, he moves to Germany to pursue a career as an artist. At one point, Paikea decides to live with her father because her grandfather says he doesn't want her. However, as they are driving away, she finds that she cannot bear to leave the sea as the whale seems to be calling her back. Pai tells her father to return her home. Koro leads a cultural school for the village's first-born boys, hoping to find a new leader. He teaches the boys to use a taiaha (fighting stick), which is traditionally reserved for males. Pai is interested in the lessons, but is discouraged and scolded by Koro for doing so. Pai feels that she can become the leader (although no woman has ever done so) and is determined to succeed. Her grandmother, Nanny, tells Pai that her second son, Pai's uncle, had won a taiaha tournament in his youth while he was still slim and so Pai secretly learns from him. She also secretly follows Koro's lessons. One of the students, Hemi, is also sympathetic towards her. Koro is enraged when he finds out, particularly when she wins a taiaha fight against Hemi. Koro is devastated when none of the boys succeeds at the traditional task of recovering the rei puta (whale tooth) that he threw into the ocean, the mission that would prove one of them worthy of becoming leader. With the loss of the rei puta, Koro in despair calls out the ancient ones, the whales. In an attempt to help, Pai also calls out to them and they hear her call. One day Pai, her uncle, her uncle's girlfriend Shilo, and others take the boat to where Koro flung the rei puta into the sea. Pai confidently declares she'll find it and dives into the water. She finds the rei puta, which means that she is the rightful leader. Nanny does not think Koro is ready to accept this and does not tell him. Pai, in an attempt to bridge the rift that has formed, invites Koro to be her guest of honour at a concert of Māori chants that her school is putting on. Unknown to all, she had won an interschool speech contest with a touching dedication to Koro and the traditions of the village. However, Koro was late, and as he was walking to the school, he notices that numerous southern right whales are beached near Pai's home. The entire village attempts to coax and drag them back into the water, but all efforts prove unsuccessful, and even a tractor does not help. Koro sees that as a sign of his failure and despairs further. He admonishes Pai against touching the largest whale because she has "done enough" damage with her presumption. When Koro walks away, Pai climbs onto the back of the largest whale (traditionally said to belong to the legendary Paikea) on the beach and coaxes it to re-enter the ocean. The whale leads the entire pod back into the sea; Pai submerges completely underwater before being thrown off the whale's back. Fearing Pai is lost, Nanny reveals to Koro that his granddaughter found the rei puta, and Koro realises the error of his ways. When Pai is found and brought to the hospital, Koro declares her the leader and asks for her forgiveness. The film ends with Pai's father, grandparents, and uncle coming together to celebrate her status as the next leader, as the finished waka is hauled into the sea for its maiden voyage. In voiceover, Pai declares, "My name is Paikea Apirana, and I come from a long line of chiefs stretching all the way back to the Whale Rider. I'm not a prophet, but I know that our people will keep going forward, all together, with all of our strength."

What About Bob?

Frank Oz

['Bill Murray', 'Richard Dreyfuss', 'Julie Hagerty', 'Charlie Korsmo', 'Kathryn Erbe', 'Tom Aldredge', 'Susan Willis', 'Roger Bowen', 'Fran Brill', 'Brian Reddy', 'Doris Belack', 'Melinda Mullins', 'Marcella Lowery', 'Margot Welch', 'Barbara Andres', 'Aida Turturro', 'Joan Lunden', 'Dennis Scott', 'Richard Fancy', 'Cortez Nance Jr.', 'Reg E. Cathey', 'Tom Stechschulte', 'Russell Bobbitt', 'Stuart Rudin', 'Charles Thomas Baxter', 'Donald J. Lee Jr.', 'Lori Tan Chinn']

Comedy, Farce

['USA']

English

['English']

['Touchstone Pictures', 'Touchwood Pacific Partners 1']

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Bob Wiley suffers from multiple phobias, which make leaving his New York City apartment difficult. Despite regular therapy, he makes little progress and constantly seeks reassurance from his therapists. Exhausted by Bob's high-maintenance needs and invasion of personal boundaries, one therapist refers him to the egotistical Dr. Leo Marvin, who believes his recently published book Baby Steps will make him a household name. Despite not reading the book yet, Bob feels good about their initial session, but Leo dismisses him in a rush, as he is leaving for a month-long family vacation. Unable to cope, Bob contacts Leo via his telephone exchange and tries to find out where he is, but Leo refuses him. Bob pays someone to impersonate Leo's sister Lily to get past the switchboard operator again. However, Leo tells Bob he cannot trust him if he continues to lie. Bob then disguises himself as a homicide detective, telling the switchboard operator that Bob committed suicide and discovers that Leo is at Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire. Annoyed, Leo suggests Bob "take a vacation" from his problems. Bob seems to have made a breakthrough, but the next morning, he tells Leo that he will also be vacationing at Lake Winnipesaukee as a guest of the Guttmans, who hold a grudge against Leo for purchasing the lakeside home they had been saving for years to buy. Leo rejects Bob's attempts at friendship to maintain professional distance, but Bob bonds with Leo's family. Bob begins to enjoy life, going sailing with Leo's daughter, Anna, and helping Leo's son, Siggy, learn how to dive, which Leo had been unsuccessfully trying to do for years. After Leo aggressively pushes Bob into the lake, Leo's wife, Fay, forces him to apologize. She then invites Bob to dinner, and he accepts, believing that Leo's hostility against him is either accidental or part of his therapy. After dinner, a thunderstorm forces Bob to spend the night. He stops touching everything with tissues, progressing in overcoming his germaphobia. Leo wants Bob out of the house early the next morning before Good Morning America arrives to interview him about Baby Steps. The TV crew, oblivious to Leo's reluctance, suggests including Bob on the show. Leo humiliates himself during the interview, while Bob is relaxed and speaks highly of Leo, the family, and the book, inadvertently stealing the spotlight. Leo attempts to have Bob institutionalized, but he is soon released after befriending the hospital staff. He tells them therapy jokes, demonstrating his sanity and showing that he has made real progress thanks to his time with the Marvin family. Forced to retrieve Bob, Leo abandons him in the middle of nowhere, but Bob quickly gets a ride back to Leo's while various mishaps delay Leo. Returning after nightfall, Leo is surprised by a birthday party Fay planned for him and is delighted to see his beloved sister Lily. When Bob appears, putting his arm around Lily, Leo attacks him. Still oblivious to Leo's feelings, Fay explains the truth. Bob finally understands and agrees to leave. Leo breaks into a general store, stealing a shotgun and 20 pounds of explosives, and kidnaps Bob at gunpoint. He leads him deep into the woods and ties him up with the explosives, calling it "death therapy", and returns to the house, gleefully preparing his cover story. Believing the explosives are props serving as a metaphor for his problems, Bob applies Leo's Baby Steps approach and frees himself of his restraints and remaining fears. Bob reunites with the Marvins and praises Leo for curing him. Leo asks where the explosives are as Bob says they are in the house, which promptly explodes into flames, to the Guttmans' delight. Leo is rendered catatonic and institutionalized. Bob later marries Lily, and, upon their pronouncement as husband and wife, the still-catatonic Leo finally regains his senses and screams, "No!", but the sentiment is lost in the family's excitement at his recovery, and Leo is forced to accept Bob as his new brother-in-law. A closing text reveals that Bob went back to college and became a psychologist, then wrote a best-selling book titled Death Therapy, for which Leo is suing him for the rights.

What We Do in the Shadows

Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi

['Jemaine Clement', 'Taika Waititi', 'Jonny Brugh', 'Cori Gonzalez-Macuer', 'Stu Rutherford', 'Ben Fransham', 'Jackie van Beek', 'Elena Stejko', 'Jason Hoyte', "Karen O'Leary", 'Mike Minogue', 'Chelsie Preston Crayford', 'Ian Harcourt', 'Ethel Robinson', 'Brad Harding', 'Isaac Heron', 'Yvette Parsons', 'Madeleine Sami', 'Aaron Jackson', 'Morgana Hills', 'Morag Hills', 'Frank Habicht', 'Moose Kapua', 'Denis Welch', 'Mario Gaoa', 'Kura Forrester', 'Luke Bonjers', 'Rhys Darby', 'Simon Vincent', 'Cohen Holloway', 'Duncan Sarkies', 'Nathan Meister', 'Tanemahuta Gray', 'Nathan Gray', 'Ruby Vincent', 'Jaxon Cook', 'Matthew Harvey-White', 'Matt Dravitzki', 'Roland Hunter', 'Stan Alley', 'Lucy Marinkavich', 'Melanie Hamilton', 'Ana Flaherty', 'Aaron Lewis', 'Belle Gwilliam', 'Rodney Cook', 'Jennifer Martin', 'Emma Draper', 'Natalie Crane', 'Emma Smith']

Comedy, Horror, Vampire, Mockumentary, Comedy horror, Supernatural

['New Zealand', 'USA']

English

['English', 'German']

['Unison Films', 'Defender Films', 'Funny or Die', 'New Zealand Film Commission', 'Resnick Interactive Development']

comedy

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A documentary crew follows four vampire housemates—Viago, Vladislav, Deacon, and Petyr—who share a flat in the Wellington suburb of Te Aro. All of the vampires possess supernatural powers, including levitation and the ability to transform into animals. Viago is a 17th century dandy who originally traveled to New Zealand in the 1940s in search of Katherine, the love of his life; Vladislav is a 12th century former tyrant known as "Vladislav the Poker", who is haunted by memories of his nemesis "the Beast"; and Deacon is a 19th century former peddler and the "young rebel" of the group who was turned into a vampire by Petyr—a reclusive, ancient vampire who behaves like a feral animal and resembles Count Orlok. Each night, Viago, Vladislav, and Deacon take the bus into town and prowl the streets of Wellington for people to kill. Deacon's human familiar, Jackie, runs errands for the vampires and cleans up the gore left behind by their feeding. A married mother, Jackie hopes to attain immortality, but is frustrated that Deacon will not turn her into a vampire as promised. Deacon requests that Jackie bring virgins to the flat so that the vampires can feed on them. She lures a woman who insulted her in primary school and her ex-boyfriend Nick to the flat. Though neither are actually virgins, the woman is killed, and Nick is chased throughout the flat and manages to get outside, only to be caught by Petyr, who turns him into a vampire. Two months later, the vampires accept Nick into their group and bond with his human friend Stu, a computer analyst who introduces them to modern technology. Viago uses the Internet to find Katherine, who is now a 96-year-old widow living in a rest home in Wellington, and also briefly reconnects with his old servant Philip. Despite being able to get his new friends into popular bars and clubs, Nick struggles to adapt to life as a vampire. Nick is also held in contempt by Deacon, who resents Nick's newfound popularity and his careless revealing of his vampirism to strangers he meets. One of these strangers, a vampire hunter, breaks into the flat basement during the day and kills Petyr by exposing him to sunlight. The vampires are furious when they discover Nick has indirectly caused Petyr's death, and Deacon tries to kill Nick before being interrupted by a police welfare check, but Viago hypnotizes them into not noticing anything out of the ordinary. Once the police leave, Nick is banished from the flat by the remaining vampires, though Stu is permitted to come as he pleases. Several months later, the vampires receive an invitation to the annual Unholy Masquerade, hosted for the local undead population of vampires, zombies, and witches. Vladislav refuses to attend after learning that "the Beast" will be the guest of honor. When Viago and Deacon arrive at the ball, they find in attendance Nick, Stu and Jackie, the latter of whom has been turned into a vampire by Nick. "The Beast" is revealed to be Vladislav's ex-girlfriend Pauline, and when Stu and the camera crew are discovered to be living humans, the party guests threaten to kill and feed on them. Vladislav arrives and fights with Pauline's new boyfriend Julian. Stu impales Julian on a flagpole, and the vampires and camera crew escape the ball with him, only to encounter a rival pack of werewolves who transform under the full moon. Stu and one of the cameramen are mauled. Believing Stu to be dead, the vampires run away and grieve for him. After an indeterminate amount of time, Nick returns to the flat with Stu, who reveals he has survived the attack and was transformed into a werewolf. With Stu's urging, the pack visits the vampires along with Stu, and Nick's banishment is rescinded as well. Though momentarily apprehensive, Deacon invites the werewolf pack inside. Viago also reconnects and rekindles his romance with Katherine, whom he turns into a vampire. Scenes during the credits reveal that Vladislav has gotten back together with Pauline, repeating his cycle of self-inflicted torture over his relationship with her; and Jackie's husband is now serving as her familiar. A post-credits scene shows Deacon attempting to hypnotize the audience to forget the events of the film.

What's Eating Gilbert Grape

Lasse Hallström

['Johnny Depp', 'Juliette Lewis', 'Leonardo DiCaprio', 'Mary Steenburgen', 'Darlene Cates', 'Laura Harrington', 'Mary Kate Schellhardt', 'Kevin Tighe', 'John C. Reilly', 'Crispin Glover', 'Penelope Branning', 'Tim Green', 'Susan Loughran', 'Robert B. Hedges', 'Mark Jordan', 'Cameron Finley', 'Brady Coleman', 'Tim Simek', 'Nicholas Stojanovich', 'Libby Villari', 'Kay Bower', 'Joe Stevens', 'Mona Lee Fultz', 'George Haynes', 'Daniel Gullahorn', 'David H. Kramer', 'Brent Bratton', 'Kirk Hunter', 'Buck Reynolds', 'David Stanford']

Romance, Comedy, Melodrama, Drama, Tragicomedy, Indie film, Adaptation

['USA']

English

['English']

['Paramount Pictures']

sad, emotional

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In the small town of Endora, Iowa, Gilbert Grape is busy caring for Arnie, his mentally disabled younger brother who is about to turn 18, as they wait for the many tourists' trailers to pass through town during an annual Airstreamers' Club gathering at a nearby recreational area. His father had hanged himself seventeen years earlier; since then, his mother, Bonnie, has spent most of her days on the couch watching television and eating. With Bonnie's morbid obesity leaving her unable to care for her children on her own, Gilbert has taken responsibility for repairing the old house and being protective of Arnie, who has a habit of climbing the town's water tower, as well as trees, while his sisters, Amy and Ellen, do the other housework. A new FoodLand supermarket has opened, threatening the small Lamson's Grocery where Gilbert works. Gilbert is having an affair with a married woman to whom he delivers groceries. When her husband finds out, there's a horrible scene involving Gilbert, the man's children, and their wading pool. The husband later dies, in an apparent suicide. A young woman named Becky and her grandmother are stuck in town when the International Harvester Travelall pulling their trailer breaks down. Gilbert's unusual life circumstances threaten to get in the way of their budding romance. To spend time with Becky to watch the sunset, Gilbert leaves Arnie alone in the bath. He returns home late and finds Arnie still in the bath the following morning, shivering in the now-cold water; his guilt is compounded by his family's anger and Arnie's subsequent aquaphobia. Becky becomes close to both Gilbert and Arnie. While they are distracted during one of their talks, Arnie returns to the water tower that he is always trying to climb. Arnie is arrested after being rescued from the top of the tower, causing Bonnie — who has not left the house in more than seven years — to become the laughing stock of the town as she goes to the police station, forcing Arnie's release. Soon, Arnie ruins two birthday cakes: the first, which Amy has lovingly made, accidentally; and the second, a replacement from FoodLand, which he dips into, having found it in the refrigerator. Arnie tries to run away from his bath, and in his frustration, Gilbert finally snaps, hitting Arnie several times. Guilty and appalled at himself, Gilbert flees, driving away in his truck. Arnie also runs to Becky, who takes care of him for the evening, and helps him overcome his aquaphobia, until he is picked up by his sisters. After some soul-searching, aided by Becky, Gilbert returns home during Arnie's 18th birthday party to make amends to his family for running out, and to receive Arnie's reluctant forgiveness. He also apologizes to his mother for his behavior, and vows not to be ashamed of her or let her be hurt anymore. She acknowledges how much of a burden that she has become to the family, and he forgives her. Gilbert also introduces Bonnie to Becky, something he had been reluctant to do. Following the party, Bonnie climbs the stairs to her bedroom for the first time since her husband's suicide. Arnie tries to wake her, but discovers that she has died. With no way to remove her body from the second floor, the police make plans to return with a crane the next day. The family instinctively knows that there will be a crowd of people there to get a laugh, instead of paying their respects. Wanting to keep her death from becoming a mockery, the family removes the furniture and belongings from the house, after which Gilbert lights a match to burn the house to the ground with her body still inside. A year later, Amy gets a job managing a bakery in the Des Moines area, while Ellen looks forward to switching schools and living in a bigger city. Gilbert waits by the side of the road with Arnie, waiting for the tourist trailers to come again. As part of the convoy, Becky arrives with her grandmother and picks them both up. Gilbert tells Arnie, "We can go anywhere."

What's Opera, Doc?

Chuck Jones

['Mel Blanc', 'Arthur Q. Bryan']

['Comedy', 'Animation', 'Music']

['USA']

English

['English']

['Warner Bros. Cartoons']

comedy

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Dressed as the demigod Siegfried (and cutting a less than impressive figure as such), Elmer Fudd is pursuing Bugs Bunny when he finds rabbit tracks and arrives at Bugs' hole. Elmer jams his spear into the hole while singing "Kill the wabbit!" repeatedly to the tune of Ride of the Valkyries. Bugs sticks his head out of another rabbit hole and converses with Elmer about his spear and magic helmet. This prompts a display of Elmer-as-Siegfried's "mighty powers". Bugs flees in fear, and the chase begins. Elmer stops in his tracks at the sight of the beautiful Valkyrie Brünnhilde (Bugs in drag). "Siegfried" and "Brünnhilde" exchange endearments and perform a short ballet (based on the Venusberg ballet in Tannhäuser). Bugs' true identity is exposed when his headdress falls off, enraging Elmer. Bugs discards his disguise, and the chase begins anew. Elmer's wrath causes a storm to brew, tearing apart the mountains where Bugs has fled. Upon seeing Bugs' intact yet seemingly lifeless body as a drop of rain from a flower lands on the rabbit, Elmer regrets his wrath and tearfully carries the rabbit off to Valhalla in keeping with the Wagnerian theme per Act III of the Valkyries. Bugs briefly breaks the fourth wall and raises his head to address the audience in his normal speaking voice, "Well, what did you expect in an opera? A happy ending?" before going back to playing dead.

What's Up, Doc?

Peter Bogdanovich

['Barbra Streisand', "Ryan O'Neal", 'Madeline Kahn', 'Kenneth Mars', 'Austin Pendleton', 'Michael Murphy', 'Philip Roth', 'Sorrell Booke', 'Stefan Gierasch', 'Mabel Albertson', 'Liam Dunn', 'John Hillerman', 'George Morfogen', 'Graham Jarvis', 'Randy Quaid', 'M. Emmet Walsh', "Kevin O'Neal", 'Eleanor Zee', 'Paul Condylis', 'Fred Scheiwiller', 'Carl Saxe', 'Jack Perkins', 'Paul B. Kipilman', 'Gil Perkins', 'Christa Lang', 'Stan Ross', 'Peter Eastman', 'Eric Brotherson', 'Elaine Partnow', 'George Burrafato', 'Jerry Summers', 'Mark Thompson', 'Don Bexley', 'Leonard Lookabaugh', 'Candace Brownell', 'Sean Morgan', "Patricia O'Neal", 'Joe Alfasa', 'Chuck Holison', 'Cosmo Sardo', 'Sylvester Stallone']

Romance, Comedy, Screwball comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Drama, Classic

['USA']

English

['English']

['Saticoy Productions', 'Warner Bros. Pictures']

comedy

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Dr. Howard Bannister, a musicologist from the Iowa Conservatory of Music in Ames, Iowa, has travelled to San Francisco to compete for a research grant offered by Frederick Larrabee. Howard is accompanied by his tightly wound, overbearing fiancée Eunice Burns. As the two check into the Hotel Bristol, Howard runs into the charming trouble-magnet Judy Maxwell in the hotel's drugstore. She never finished college, but nevertheless has amassed a considerable amount of knowledge from all of the academic institutions from which she was expelled. She begins to pursue Howard and lodges herself in the hotel without paying. Howard has brought with him a plaid overnight bag containing igneous "tambula" rocks that have certain musical properties, unaware that three other parties are staying on the same floor of the Bristol with identical bags. The mysterious "Mr. Smith" has illegally obtained a bag containing top-secret government papers, which government agent "Mr. Jones" is on a mission to recover. Wealthy socialite Mrs. Van Hoskins has a bag containing her sizable collection of valuable jewels that hotel employees Harry and Fritz attempt to steal. Judy's bag is filled with her clothing and a large dictionary. Over the course of the evening, the four parties unwittingly take one another's bags. Judy, masquerading as Eunice at the musicologists' banquet, uses her humor, wit, and academic knowledge to charm everyone except Howard's Croatian competitor, Hugh Simon. Unable to overcome Judy's pretense—and realizing Larrabee's infatuation with her might win him the grant—Howard denies knowing the real Eunice when she hysterically tries to enter the banquet. Judy later intrudes into Howard's hotel room. His struggle to hide her presence from Eunice while the thieves attempt to recover the jewels lead to a fire and the destruction of the room. Ultimately, Howard ends up with the jewels, Judy with the documents, Mr. Smith with Judy's clothes, and the thieves with the rocks. The following day, everyone makes their way to a reception in Larrabee's upscale Victorian home, where a fight breaks out involving guns, furnishings, and thrown pies. Howard and Judy take all four bags and flee through San Francisco, first on a delivery bike, and then in a decorated Volkswagen Beetle stolen from a wedding party, pursued by Mr. Smith, Mr. Jones and the jewel thieves, who also have taken Eunice, Larrabee and Simon hostage. They go through Chinatown disrupting a parade, down Lombard Street, through a panel of glass, through wet cement, and eventually into San Francisco Bay at the ferry landing, after causing several collisions. Everyone ends up in a courtroom, where Judge Maxwell, already on the brink of a nervous breakdown, tries to clear up the matter but only succeeds in finding his daughter Judy as the cause of all the trouble. Later, after the bags have been returned to their rightful owners, Howard and Judy find themselves at the airport again. "Mr. Smith" is pursuing "Mr. Jones", who is now back in possession of the government papers, while the thieves plan their escape from the country. Mrs. Van Hoskins pays for the considerable damage and splits the remaining $50 of the reward she had offered among those who helped retrieve her jewels. Eunice appears with Larrabee and Simon, who won the grant. However, he is exposed by Judy as a plagiarist, thus getting Howard the grant after all. Eunice leaves Howard for Larrabee. Howard boards a plane back to Iowa alone, only to find Judy in the seat behind him. He declares his love for her and apologizes for what he said earlier. Judy responds, "Love means never having to say you're sorry",[a] to which Howard replies, "That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard." As the two kiss, a scene from the Looney Tunes cartoon What's Up, Doc? is screened on the plane.

What's in a Name

Alexandre de La Patellière, Matthieu Delaporte

['Patrick Bruel', 'Valérie Benguigui', 'Charles Berling', 'Guillaume de Tonquédec', 'Judith El Zein', 'Françoise Fabian', 'Yaniss Lespert', 'Miren Pradier', 'Alexis Leprisé', 'Juliette Levant', 'Bernard Murat']

Comedy, Drama

['France', 'Belgium']

French

['French', 'German']

['Chapter 2', 'Pathé', 'M6 Films', 'Nexus Factory', 'M6', 'uFilm', 'uFund', 'Canal+', 'TF1 Films Production']

comedy

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When Harry Met Sally...

Rob Reiner

['Meg Ryan', 'Billy Crystal', 'Bruno Kirby', 'Carrie Fisher', 'Steven Ford', 'Lisa Jane Persky', 'Michelle Nicastro', 'Gretchen Palmer', 'Robert Alan Beuth', 'David Burdick', 'Joe Viviani', 'Harley Jane Kozak', 'Joseph Hunt', 'Kevin Rooney', 'Franc Luz', 'Tracy Reiner', 'Kyle T. Heffner', 'Kimberley LaMarque', 'Stacey Katzin', 'Estelle Reiner', 'John Arceri', 'Peter Day', 'Connie Sawyer', 'Kuno Sponholz', 'Charles Dugan', 'Katherine Squire', 'Al Christy', 'Frances Chaney', 'Bernie Hern', 'Rose Wright', 'Aldo Rossi', 'Dona Hardy', 'Peter Pan', 'Jane Chung Chun', 'Bob Ader', 'Nicholas Glaeser', 'Randy James', 'Stanley Moore', 'Larry Sherman', 'Marilyn Spanier', 'John Speredakos', 'Terry Vaughan', 'Anthony Welch']

Romantic comedy, Romance, Comedy, Melodrama, Science fiction, Drama

['USA']

English

['English']

['Castle Rock Entertainment', 'Nelson Entertainment']

comedy, feel-good, friendship

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In 1977, Harry Burns and Sally Albright graduate from the University of Chicago. Harry is dating Sally's friend Amanda Reese, leading to Harry and Sally ride-sharing to New York City. Sally is attending journalism school there and Harry has a job waiting. During the drive, Harry and Sally discuss their differing ideas about relationships; Sally disagrees with Harry's assertion that men and women cannot be friends as "the sex part gets in the way". They stop at a diner, and when Harry tells Sally she is very attractive, she angrily accuses him of making a pass. They part company in New York, never intending to see each other again. Five years later in 1982, Harry and Sally find themselves on the same flight. Sally is dating Harry's neighbor Joe, and Harry is engaged to Helen, which surprises Sally, as it seems uncharacteristically optimistic of him. Harry suggests they become friends, forcing him to qualify his previous position about the impossibility of male-female friendships. They separate, concluding that they will not be friends. Five years later in 1987, Harry and Sally run into each other at a bookstore. They have coffee and talk about their previous relationships; Sally and Joe have broken up and Helen has left Harry for another man. They agree to pursue a friendship and have late-night phone conversations, go to dinner, and spend time together discussing their love-lives. During a New Year's Eve party, Harry and Sally find themselves growing attracted to each other and share an awkward midnight kiss. They remain friends and set each other up with their respective best friends, Marie and Jess. When the four go out, neither Marie nor Jess is attracted to Harry or Sally and instead immediately fall for each other. Soon after, the two are engaged. One night, Sally tearfully calls Harry to say that her ex, Joe, is getting married. Harry goes to Sally's apartment to comfort her but they end up having sex. Harry leaves the next morning, feeling awkward and filled with regret. Their friendship cools until they have a heated argument at Jess and Marie's wedding reception. Harry attempts to mend their relationship, but Sally feels that they can no longer be friends. At a 1988 New Year's Eve party with Jess and Marie, Sally misses Harry. He is spending New Year's Eve at home, watching Dick Clark's 16th annual New Year's Rockin' Eve. Before midnight, Harry walks around the city. As Sally is about to leave the party, Harry appears and declares his love for her. She claims he is only there because he is lonely, but he lists the many reasons he loves her. Harry and Sally marry three months later, exactly 12 years and three months after their first meeting. The film contains several interspersed segments of older couples discussing how they met. The true stories, gathered by Nora Ephron, are reenacted by actors. The final couple interviewed, before the closing credits, is Harry and Sally.

When Marnie Was There

Hiromasa Yonebayashi

['Sara Takatsuki', 'Kasumi Arimura', 'Nanako Matsushima', 'Susumu Terajima', 'Toshie Negishi', 'Ryoko Moriyama', 'Kazuko Yoshiyuki', 'Hitomi Kuroki', 'Hiroyuki Morisaki', 'Takuma Otoo', 'Hana Sugisaki', 'Bari Suzuki', 'Shigeyuki Totsugi', 'Ken Yasuda', 'Yo Oizumi', 'Yuhko Kaida', 'Renge Ishiyama']

Animation, Anime, Comedy, Children's film, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Coming-of-age story, Psychological thriller, Psychological Fiction

['Japan']

Japanese

['Japanese']

['Studio Ghibli', 'Hakuhodo DY Media Partners', 'KDDI', 'Nippon Television Network Corporation', 'TOHO', 'dentsu', 'Universal Studios Home Entertainment', 'The Walt Disney Company (Japan)', 'Mitsubishi']

sad, animated, emotional

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Anna Sasaki is a 12-year-old girl with low self-esteem living in Sapporo with her foster parents, Yoriko and her husband. One day, Anna suffers an asthma attack at school. At the doctor's recommendation to send Anna to a place where the air is clean, Yoriko decides to have her spend summer break with Yoriko's relatives, Setsu and Kiyomasa Oiwa, who live in a rural seaside town located between Kushiro and Nemuro.

When the Wind Blows

Jimmy T. Murakami

['Peggy Ashcroft', 'John Mills', 'Robin Houston', 'James Russell', 'David Dundas', 'Matt Irving', 'Bernard Montgomery', 'Harry S. Truman', 'Joseph Stalin', 'Winston Churchill']

Animation, Comedy, War, Drama, Disaster

['UK']

English

['English']

['Penguin Books', 'British Screen Productions', 'TVC London', 'Meltdown Productions', 'Film4 Productions']

sci-fi, animated, top-rated

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Jim Bloggs and his wife Hilda are an aging couple, living in an isolated cottage in rural Sussex, in southeast England. Jim frequently travels to the local town to read newspapers and keep abreast of the deteriorating international situation regarding the Soviet–Afghan War, which is threatening to escalate into an all-out nuclear conflict between the Western Allies and the Soviet Union. Hearing a radio news report stating that a war may be only days away, Jim follows the instructions outlined in the government-issued Protect and Survive pamphlets to build a fallout shelter, including covering the windows with white paint and readying sacks to lie down in when a nuclear strike hits. Despite apprehension, Jim and Hilda are confident they can survive, as they did the Second World War, and that a Soviet defeat will ensue. As a radio transmission warns of an imminent ICBM strike, the couple rush to their shelter, just escaping as distant shock waves batter their home. They emerge after a few nights to find that all utilities, services and communications have been destroyed but with a misunderstanding of why their usual services are not functioning, with Jim speculating that most have temporarily ceased due to "wartime measures". Jim and Hilda remain stoic and try to resume their daily routine, preparing tea and dinners on a camping stove, noting numerous errands they will have to run once the crisis passes, and trying to renew their evaporated water stock with rainwater. Fallout dust is visible in the air throughout the house. Jim believes that a rescue operation will soon be launched to help civilians. They venture outside where radioactive ash has blocked out the sun and caused heavy fog. They are oblivious to the dead and dying animals strewn across the landscape, the destroyed buildings of the nearby town and the scorched vegetation outside their cottage. Their initial optimism eventually begins to fade due to the prolonged isolation, lack of food and water, growing radiation sickness, and absence of communication from the authorities. Jim worries that the Soviet military will soon invade, experiencing a vision where a Soviet soldier breaks into their house. Hilda, whose symptoms are worsening, encounters a rat in the dried toilet, which traumatises her. Coupled with her worsening symptoms - bloody diarrhea, bleeding gums - she begins to lose hope. Jim tries to comfort her, still optimistic that he may be able to get medications for her from the chemist. After a few days, the Bloggs are practically bedridden, and Hilda is despondent when her hair begins to fall out. Jim clings to his belief that emergency services will eventually arrive, but they never do. Near death, Hilda suggests they lie down in the paper sacks. Jim, now resigned to their fate, agrees. As they crawl into the sacks Jim tries reciting prayers, including Psalm 23, but, forgetting the lines, starts to read "The Charge of the Light Brigade", whose militaristic and ironic undertones distress the dying Hilda, who weakly asks him not to continue. Finally, Jim's voice mumbles away into silence as he finishes the line, "...rode the Six Hundred..." Outside the shelter, the smoke and ash-filled sky begins to clear, revealing the sun rising through the gloom. As the credits end, a Morse code signal taps out "MAD" - mutual assured destruction.

Where Is the Friend's House?

Abbas Kiarostami

['Babek Ahmed Poor', 'Ahmed Ahmed Poor', 'Kheda Barech Defai', 'Iran Outari', 'Ait Ansari', 'Sadika Taohidi', 'Ali Djamali', 'Biman Mouafi', 'Aziz Babai', 'Nader Ghoulami', 'Akbar Mouradi', 'Teba Slimani', 'Mohammad Reza Parvaneh', 'Farahanka Brothers', 'Maria Chdjari', 'Hamdallah Askar Poor', 'Kadiret Kaoiyen Poor', 'Hager Faraz Poor', 'Mohamed Hocine Rouhi', 'Rafia Difai', 'Agakhan Karadach Khani', 'Mohammad Reza Nematzadeh']

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

['Iran']

Persian (Farsi)

['Persian (Farsi)']

['Kanoon', 'Farabi Cinema']

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Ahmad, a grade schooler, watches as his teacher berates a fellow student, Mohammad Reza, for repeatedly failing to complete the homework in his notebook, threatening expulsion on the next offense. When Ahmad returns home, he realizes he has accidentally taken Mohammad Reza's notebook. Against his mother's orders, he sets out in search for Mohammad Reza's house, encountering false leads, dead ends, and distractions as he attempts to enlist adults in his search, most of whom ignore him or cannot answer his questions. When night falls and he has been unable to find his friend's house, Ahmad goes home and does the homework for his friend. The next day the homework is deemed excellent by the teacher.

Where the Red Fern Grows

Norman Tokar

['Stewart Petersen', 'James Whitmore', 'Beverly Garland', 'Jack Ging', 'Lonny Chapman', 'Jill Clark', 'Jeanna Wilson', 'Bill Thurman', 'Bill Dunbar', 'Rex Corley', 'John Lindsey', 'Garland McKinney']

Drama, Children's film, Adventure, Family Drama, Adaptation

['USA']

English

['English']

['Doty-Dayton Production']

sad, emotional

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Twelve-year-old Billy Coleman is obsessed with coon dogs and coon hunting, but good dogs cost money that his family cannot afford. However, he sees several good dogs belonging to others, including a man named Mr. Kyle. One day Billy's father mentions that there's a Bluetick pup for sale at his grandpa's store. Billy runs to see it, only to have the Pritchard boys talk their father into buying it just to spite Billy. Billy's grandpa tells him that if he wants dogs he has to earn them. He begins working multiple jobs and finally earns the fifty dollars two puppies will cost. By that time, the price has dropped by five dollars each. Billy orders the dogs, but they arrive in Tahlequah, Oklahoma 30 miles away, because the mail stage won't carry live animals. Billy sneaks out of the house in the night and travels to Tahlequah. He uses his leftover ten dollars to buy presents for his family; overalls for Papa, dress cloth for Mama and candy for his younger sisters. Billy picks up the pups at the depot and carries them home in a gunny sack. He has to stop overnight and encounters a cougar which snarls at him until he makes a fire to scare it off. The next day Billy passes a tree with the names Dan and Ann carved inside a heart on the trunk. He names the female puppy Little Ann and the male Old Dan. Once Billy gets the puppies home he sets out to train them to be the best dogs in the Ozarks, using a coonskin to teach them to scent trail. On the night of Billy's first hunt, the dogs go after a coon almost immediately but the coon foils them by crossing the river. Billy catches up with the dogs and tells them he is ashamed of them. He forces them to swim the river and pick up the track on the other bank. The dogs tree the coon up an enormous tree, and Billy starts trying to chop it down with his small hatchet even though it seems impossible. Finally he calls on God to help him and a strong wind blows the tree over. Billy's dogs become famous in that part of the country. One day, he runs into the Pritchard boys again down at Grandpa's store. They tell him about a ghost coon that runs on their land and which no dog has ever been able to tree. They then antagonize Billy until he bets them that Dan and Ann can tree the ghost coon. On the hunt, Dan and Ann tree the coon in an old mill. Billy refuses to kill it, saying it deserves to live because it fooled every dog in the country. He and the Pritchards get into a fight. At the same time, the Pritchard dog, Old Blue, gets loose and begins fighting Dan and Ann. Ruben Pritchard pulls Billy's hatchet out of his belt and runs toward the dogs. Billy trips him, and Ruben falls on the hatchet and dies. After Ruben's funeral, Billy tells his family he is never going hunting again. A few days later, Grandpa invites the whole family over to Sunday dinner. At the dinner, he tells them about a championship coonhunt that will be held soon and convinces Billy to enter. At the coonhunt, Billy wins the right to hunt in the championship round, along with two other hunters, one of whom is Mr. Kyle and his pair of Treeing Walker Coonhounds. On the final night of the coonhunt, a thunderstorm blows up. Dan and Ann tree one coon and are on the way to another one when Grandpa trips and sprains his ankle. Nobody notices as they chase after the dogs. Dan and Ann have three raccoons up a single tree. Just then, Billy notices that Grandpa is missing. He calls the dogs off the coons, even though Papa tells him it's impossible, and sends them to find Grandpa and they succeed. The next day is the awards ceremony. Mr. Kyle is given the prize, but he gives it to Billy instead, saying that he earned it but not to get too cocky because he and his Walkers were going to whip Billy and his Redbones next year. Not long after the championship hunt, Billy is out hunting with Dan and Ann when they start barking up a cliff. A cougar jumps off and the dogs attack it before it can get to Billy. During the fight, Billy manages to get out his hatchet and kill a cougar, but not before it mortally injures Old Dan. Billy carries Dan home but he dies. They bury him down by the river. After Dan's death, Little Ann loses the will to live and dies on his grave a couple of weeks later. Billy buries her beside him. Billy's parents decide to use the prize money from the coonhunt to move the whole family to Tulsa to operate a store. On the day they are leaving, Billy walks down by the river to Dan and Ann's graves. A red fern, which according to American Indian legend can only be planted by an angel, is growing between the two and Billy calls the family down to see it. Seeing the red fern satisfies Billy that what happened is for the best and he goes to Tulsa with his family.

Where the Wild Things Are

Spike Jonze

['Max Records', 'Catherine Keener', 'James Gandolfini', 'Lauren Ambrose', "Catherine O'Hara", 'Forest Whitaker', 'Chris Cooper', 'Paul Dano', 'Spike Jonze', 'Pepita Emmerichs', 'Mark Ruffalo', 'Max Pfeifer', 'Madeleine Greaves', 'Joshua Jay', 'Ryan Corr', 'Steve Mouzakis', 'Michael Berry Jr.', 'Vincent Crowley', 'Sonny Gerasimowicz', 'Nick Farnell', 'Sam Longley', 'Angus Sampson', 'Mark McCracken', 'John Leary', 'Alice Parkinson', 'Garon Michael', 'James Epinfaniou', 'Joshua Evans', 'Tess Grimshaw Lloyd', 'Lucas Haynes', 'Nathan Veal', 'Skyler Brigmann', 'Kalia Prescott']

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

['Germany', 'USA']

English

['English']

['Warner Bros. Pictures', 'Legendary Pictures', 'Village Roadshow Pictures', 'Playtone', 'Wild Things Productions', 'KLG Film Invest']

fantasy

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Max is a lonely 9-year-old boy[8] with an active imagination and divorced parents. His older sister, Claire, does nothing when her friends crush Max's snow fort with him inside during a snowball fight. Out of frustration, Max messes up her bedroom and destroys a frame he made for her. Later, his mother, Connie, invites her boyfriend Adrian to dinner. Max becomes upset with her for not spending time with him that evening as they had agreed. Wearing his wolf suit, he begins to wreak havoc among the house. As Connie scolds him, he lashes out by biting her on the shoulder. She yells at him and he runs away from home, scared by what transpired. At the edge of a pond, Max finds a small boat that he boards. Eventually, Max reaches an island that is home to a group of seven large monsters called the Wild Things - namely, Carol, Ira, Judith, Alexander, Douglas, the Bull, and KW. Carol is in the middle of a destructive tantrum caused by the departure of KW. Max tries joining in on the mayhem, but finds himself facing the suspicious anger of the Wild Things. When they contemplate eating him, Max convinces them that he is a king with magical powers capable of bringing harmony to the group. They crown him as their new king. Shortly after, KW returns, and Max declares a "wild rumpus" in which the Wild Things smash trees and tackle each other, before going to sleep in a pile with Max at the center. Carol takes Max on a tour of the island, showing him a model he built depicting what he wishes the island looked like. Inspired by this, Max orders the construction of an enormous fort. When KW brings her two owl friends, Bob and Terry, to the fort, a disagreement ensues as Carol feels they are outsiders. To release their frustrations, Max divides the tribe into "good guys" and "bad guys" for a dirt clod fight. However, Alexander is injured during the game, and Carol berates KW for jokingly stepping on his head, prompting the latter to leave once again. Max finds Alexander alone in the fort, whereupon he reveals that he knows Max is not a king with magical powers, but warns him never to let Carol know. However, Douglas reveals the truth when Carol throws another tantrum in the middle of the night over the state of the fort and Max's failure to fulfill his duties as a king. Enraged, Carol rips off Douglas's right arm - though only sand pours from the wound - before chasing Max into the forest and attempting to eat him. Max is saved by KW, who hides him in her stomach. After Carol leaves, KW explains to Max how difficult their lives are, with Carol's tantrums only making matters worse. Max realizes what his mother is going through and decides to leave the island. Max finds the crushed remains of Carol's model island and leaves a token of affection for him to find. Max finds Carol and tells him he is going home because he is not a king. The other Wild Things escort Max to his boat. Carol runs to join them after finding Max's token and arrives in time to see him off. He starts to howl and Max howls back; all the other Wild Things join in. Carol looks at KW, and she smiles kindly at him. Returning home, Max is embraced by his mother, who gives him a bowl of soup, a piece of chocolate cake, and a glass of milk. She sits with him as he eats and he watches as she falls asleep at the table.

Whip It

Drew Barrymore

['Elliot Page', 'Alia Shawkat', 'Marcia Gay Harden', 'Kristen Wiig', 'Drew Barrymore', 'Landon Pigg', 'Juliette Lewis', 'Zoë Bell', 'Daniel Stern', 'Eve', 'Andrew Wilson', 'Sarah Habel', 'Shannon Eagen', 'Jimmy Fallon', 'Ari Graynor', 'Carlo Alban', 'Eulala Scheel', 'Har Mar Superstar', 'Austin Bickel', 'Danny Mooney', 'Nina Kircher', 'Mary Callaghan Lynch', 'Mark Boyd', 'Douglas Minckiewicz', 'Sydney Bennett', 'Rachel Bockheim', 'Chloé Trueheart', 'Barbara Coven', 'Patrick Moug', 'Wallace Bridges', 'John Lepard', 'Kerri St. Aubin', 'Kristen Adolfi']

Comedy, Adventure, Drama, Teen, Sports, Comedy drama

['USA']

English

['English']

['Dune Entertainment', 'Mandate Pictures', 'Vincent Pictures', 'Flower Films', 'Rye Road Productions', 'Babe Ruthless Productions', 'Barry Mendel Productions', 'Fox Searchlight Pictures', 'Mandate International']

comedy

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Bliss Cavendar is a teenager in the small town of Bodeen, Texas. She has lost interest in the beauty pageants her mother, former beauty queen Brooke, pressures her to win. While shopping in Austin with her mother, Bliss is intrigued by three roller derby team members she encounters. She and her friend Pash attend a roller derby bout where they see the "Holy Rollers" defeat the "Hurl Scouts". Bliss lies about her age and tries out for the Hurl Scouts, who give her the derby name "Babe Ruthless", and she becomes friendly with teammates "Maggie Mayhem", "Bloody Holly" and "Smashley Simpson". The Hurl Scouts, while enthusiastic and close knit, rarely win, but chant, "We're number two!" after losing a match, to the frustration of their coach, Razor. "Iron Maven" of the Holy Rollers resents Bliss's talent and youth. Bliss soon realizes she needs to be merciless in roller derby, which also changes other aspects of her life. She stands up to a bully at school and starts dating a lanky musician named Oliver, to whom she loses her virginity before he leaves on a tour, taking a T-shirt Bliss gave him to remember her by, in exchange for his jacket. The Hurl Scouts continue to lose. Razor convinces them to change their ways after paying their rivals to use one of his plays against them, showing them how much better they could be. The team begins rising in the ranks, soon heading for a championship match against the Holy Rollers. Bliss's parents discover her involvement in roller derby when Pash is arrested at the arena for underage drinking. Pash is furious with Bliss for leaving her alone, which led to her arrest. When Bliss's parents demand she give up roller derby, she runs away from home and stays with Maggie, discovering she has a young son. Maggie gives Bliss perspective on the difficulties of being a parent. Bliss sees a picture of Oliver on social media with another girl, who is wearing her t-shirt. Heartbroken, she goes home to her mother, who comforts her. Bliss gives up roller derby and resumes her pageant career so as not to hurt her family or friends any further, and reconciles with Pash. On the day of the pageant, which is the same day as the roller derby championship, Bliss's father convinces his wife to let Bliss abandon the pageant and go join the Hurl Scouts in their championship game. Before the game begins, Bliss is approached by Oliver, who denies cheating on her, but she dumps him anyway for never calling her while he was away. The Hurl Scouts narrowly lose the championship match to the Holy Rollers, but they still happily come together and chant, "We're number two!" She and Iron Maven come to a mutual respect. Bliss's mother is still not entirely supportive of roller derby, but accepts that Bliss now knows what makes her happy and is charting her own course in life.

Whiplash

Damien Chazelle

['Miles Teller', 'J.K. Simmons', 'Paul Reiser', 'Melissa Benoist', 'Austin Stowell', 'Chris Mulkey', 'Nate Lang', 'Charlie Ian', 'Jayson Blair', 'Kavita Patil', 'Damon Gupton', 'Suanne Spoke', 'Max Kasch', 'Kofi Siriboe', 'C.J. Vana', 'Tarik Lowe', 'Tyler Kimball', 'Rogelio Douglas Jr.', 'Adrian Burks', 'Joseph Bruno', 'Michael D. Cohen', 'Jocelyn Ayanna', 'Keenan Henson', 'Janet Hoskins', 'April Grace', "Clifton 'Fou Fou' Eddie", 'Calvin C. Winbush', 'Marcus Henderson', 'Tony Baker', 'Henry G. Sanders', 'Sam Campisi', 'Jimmie Kirkpatrick', 'Keenan Allen', 'Ayinde Vaughan', 'Shai Golan', 'Yancey Wells', 'Candace Roberge', 'Krista Kilber', 'Stephen Hsu', 'Herman Johansen', 'Wendee Lee', 'Joseph Oliveira', 'Michelle Ruff', 'Daniel Weidlein']

Music, Indie film, Drama, Musical Drama

['USA']

English

['English']

['Bold Films', 'Blumhouse Productions', 'Right of Way Films']

sad, emotional

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Jazz drummer Andrew Neiman attends the prestigious Shaffer Conservatory in New York City, hoping to leave a legacy like that of his idol Buddy Rich. Terence Fletcher, the conductor of the Shaffer Conservatory Studio Band, recruits him to play in the Studio ensemble as an alternate for core drummer Carl Tanner. Andrew discovers that Fletcher, although encouraging at first, is relentlessly strict and verbally and physically abusive towards his students. When Andrew fails to keep tempo on Hank Levy's "Whiplash" during his first ensemble rehearsal, Fletcher throws a chair at him, slaps his face, and berates him. Determined to impress Fletcher, Andrew excessively practices, often until his hands blister and bleed. After their first set at a jazz competition, Andrew misplaces Tanner's sheet music. Tanner cannot play without the sheets, so Andrew replaces him to perform "Whiplash" from memory, which leads Fletcher to promote him to core drummer. However, Andrew is taken aback when Fletcher abruptly reassigns the position to Ryan Connolly, a drummer from a lower-level ensemble within Shaffer. Because of his single-mindedness toward music, Andrew clashes with his family and breaks up with his girlfriend, Nicole, to focus on his ambitions. One day, Fletcher begins rehearsal by announcing that Sean Casey, a former member of the Studio Band, died in a car accident. Fletcher then pushes the three drummers to play at a faster tempo on "Caravan", keeping them for a grueling five-hour practice before Andrew earns back the core position. On the way to the next competition, Andrew's bus gets a flat tire. He rents a car but arrives late and forgets his drumsticks at the rental office, irritating Fletcher. Andrew races back and retrieves them, but his car is hit by a truck on the way back. Heavily injured, he crawls from the wreckage and runs to the theater, arriving bloodied and weak just as the ensemble enters the stage. He fails at playing "Caravan", and Fletcher halts the performance to dismiss him from the band. Enraged, Andrew attacks Fletcher onstage and as a result is expelled from Shaffer. At his father Jim's request, Andrew meets a lawyer representing the parents of the late Sean Casey, who, it is revealed, had actually hanged himself after suffering from depression and anxiety inflicted by Fletcher's abuse. Casey's parents want Fletcher held accountable, and Andrew reluctantly agrees to testify anonymously, leading Shaffer to terminate Fletcher. Andrew abandons drumming but encounters Fletcher months later playing piano at a jazz club. Over a drink, Fletcher admits his teaching methods were harsh but insists they were necessary to motivate his students. Citing a story where Jo Jones allegedly threw a cymbal at Charlie Parker as an example, Fletcher says that the next jazz musician to live up to Parker's legacy would never let discouragement stop them. He invites Andrew to perform with his professional band at a New York JVC Jazz Festival, playing the same songs from the Shaffer Studio Band; Andrew accepts. Andrew calls Nicole to invite her to the performance but learns she is in a new relationship. At the festival, Fletcher tells Andrew he knows he testified against him. As revenge, Fletcher leads the band into a song Andrew does not know. After a disastrous performance, Andrew walks offstage, humiliated. Jim embraces him backstage, but Andrew returns, reclaims the drum kit, and cuts off Fletcher's introduction to the next tune by cueing the band into "Caravan". Initially angered, Fletcher resumes conducting. As the piece finishes, Andrew continues into an unexpected improvised solo. Impressed, Fletcher nods in approval before cueing the final chord.

Whisper of the Heart

Yoshifumi Kondo

['Yoko Honna', 'Issey Takahashi', 'Takashi Tachibana', 'Shigeru Muroi', 'Minami Takayama', 'Mayumi Izuka', 'Yorie Yamashita', 'Keiju Kobayashi', 'Naohisa Inoue', 'Shigeru Tsuyuguchi', 'Toshio Suzuki', 'Maiko Kayama', 'Yoshimi Nakajima', 'Mai Chiba', 'Satoru Takahashi', 'Akiko Sakaguchi', 'Hiromi Yasuda', 'Tatsuya Okada', 'Yoshihiro Imai', 'Suguru Egawa', 'Shiro Kishibe', 'Mitsuaki Ogawa']

Anime, Animation, Romance, Children's film, Musical, Musical genre, Adventure, Melodrama, Coming-of-age story, Drama, Teen

['Japan']

Japanese

['Japanese']

['Studio Ghibli', 'Nippon Television Network Corporation', 'Tokuma Shoten', 'Hakuhodo']

animated, feel-good

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Shizuku Tsukishima is a 14-year-old student at Mukaihara Junior High School, where she is best friends with Yūko Harada. She lives in Tokyo with her parents Asako and Seiya and older sister Shiho, and is keen on creative writing. One evening, she looks through the checkout cards in her library books and discovers they were all checked out previously by someone named Seiji Amasawa. Over the next few days, she encounters a boy who annoys her by teasing her about "Concrete Roads", a set of original lyrics describing Tama New Town that Shizuku based on the song "Take Me Home, Country Roads". Finding a cat riding a train, Shizuku follows it to discover an antique shop run by Shirō Nishi. In the shop is a cat statuette nicknamed The Baron. Shizuku is ecstatic about finding "a place where stories begin". Shizuku later encounters the boy again at the antique shop. He shows her the workshop, where she discovers that he is learning to make violins to pursue his dream of becoming a master luthier. She begs him to play the violin for her, and he agrees, but on the condition that she sings along. The pair perform "Take Me Home, Country Roads". The boy is revealed to be Seiji, Nishi's grandson, and Shizuku and Seiji finally befriend each other. Seiji admits that he admires Shizuku's talents and that he had been checking out a large number of books in the hopes that she would eventually notice him. Days after, Seiji leaves for Cremona, Italy for a two-month study with a master violin-maker. Inspired by him pursuing his dream, Shizuku decides to pursue her writing seriously during the two months. She asks Nishi if she can write a story featuring the Baron, to which Nishi grants his consent in exchange for being the first to read her story. Shizuku concocts a fantasy story featuring herself as the protagonist, the Baron as the male hero looking for his lost love, Louise, and the cat from the train (a neighborhood stray who is, among other names, known as "Moon" and "Muta") as the antagonist. Devoting her time to her writing, Shizuku stays up until early in the morning, and her school grades drop. She argues with her family over her grades and future. As she continues to push herself, her anxiety mounts. When her story is complete, Nishi reads it and gives his honest assessment. Shizuku bursts into tears as the stress of the last two months turns into relief. Nishi consoles her and tells her the real-life story of the Baron. When he studied in Germany in his youth, he found his first love, a woman named Louise. Nishi discovered the twin statuettes of the Baron and his female companion in a cafe, but as the female one was away for repairs, the shopkeeper would only allow Nishi to buy the Baron if Louise agreed to hold onto its companion so they could be reunited. However, the two lovers and their cat statues were separated during World War II. Deciding she needs to learn more about writing, and that she wants to attend high school, Shizuku announces to her mother that she will resume studying for her high school entrance exams. The next morning, she wakes up and sees Seiji outside on his bicycle, having returned a day earlier. Seiji tells Shizuku he will return to Cremona after attending high school in Tokyo. The two ride Seiji's bike to a lookout and watch the sunrise, where Seiji professes his love for Shizuku and proposes that they marry in the future; she happily accepts.

White Bird in a Blizzard

Gregg Araki

['Shailene Woodley', 'Eva Green', 'Christopher Meloni', 'Shiloh Fernandez', 'Gabourey Sidibe', 'Thomas Jane', 'Angela Bassett', 'Dale Dickey', 'Sheryl Lee', 'Jacob Artist', 'Mark Indelicato', 'Ava Acres', 'Tia Barr']

Comedy, LGBTQ, Fantasy, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller, Indie film, Coming-of-age story

['USA', 'France']

English

['English']

['Why Not Productions', 'Wild Bunch', 'Desperate Pictures', 'Orange Studio']

sad, emotional

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In 1988, when Katrina "Kat" Connors was 17, her beautiful but mercurial mother, Eve, disappeared without a trace. The story weaves back-and-forth with flashbacks of Eve's past life and the present day. In the flashbacks, Eve was a wild girl who gradually changed into a domesticated housewife after marrying Brock, an ordinary man who leads an uneventful life. While Kat explores her blossoming sexuality with her handsome but dim-witted neighbour and schoolmate, Phil, Eve struggles to deal with aging and quenching her youthful wildness. She tries to be sexy when Brock is away, even luring Phil's attention. After Eve disappears, Kat deals with her abandonment without much issue, occasionally releasing her own wild side, seducing the detective investigating her mother's disappearance. The film then jumps forward three years to the spring of 1991. On a break from college, Kat returns home and seems unfazed to learn that her father is in a relationship with a co-worker. The detective Kat has been having an affair with informs her that Brock might have killed Eve after catching her cheating. Kat dismisses this theory, just as she did three years previously. When she mentions it to her friends Beth and Mickey, they tell her they suggested this same theory to her and she dismissed them as well. Kat suspects Phil of having slept with Eve and confronts him the night before she is to return to college, but Phil angrily denies it and tells her that her father knows where her mother is. Kat has recurring dreams of her mother stranded in the snow, and starts to unpack Brock's locked basement freezer but is interrupted when he walks in on her. She asks him if he does in fact know where she is, but he denies having any knowledge of her whereabouts. Believing her father, Kat bids him goodbye and tearfully boards her flight, returning to college. It is revealed that he went out to a bar shortly afterward and drunkenly admitted to murdering Eve and that he had moved Eve's body from the freezer to a nearby hill the night before Kat unpacked it. He is arrested and hangs himself with a sheet in his jail cell. When Eve's body is found, it is revealed that the body had been frozen for so long that after it was buried, that it had melted away. The film ends with a flashback of Eve's death. Returning home from shopping the afternoon of her disappearance, Eve found Brock and Phil in bed together. Phil dashed off and Eve began laughing hysterically at Brock, incredulous. A humiliated Brock repeatedly begged her to stop, but Eve continued laughing until he grabbed her by the throat and strangled her to death.

White Chicks

Keenen Ivory Wayans

['Shawn Wayans', 'Marlon Wayans', 'Frankie Faison', 'Terry Crews', 'Faune Chambers Watkins', 'Rochelle Aytes', 'Lochlyn Munro', 'Eddie Velez', 'Busy Philipps', 'Jessica Cauffiel', 'Jennifer Carpenter', 'John Heard', 'Jaime King', 'Brittany Daniel', 'Maitland Ward', 'Anne Dudek', 'John Reardon', 'Steven Grayhm', 'Drew Sidora', 'Casey Lee', 'Heather McDonald', 'Kevin Blatch', 'Taras Kostyuk', 'Zoltan Barabas', 'Brad Loree', 'Paul Lazenby', 'David James Lewis', 'Ben Nemtin', 'Suzy Joachim', "Kerbie O'Neill", 'Shannon Dagg', 'Jennifer Berry', 'Patrick Baynham', 'Kristi Angus', 'Marshall Virtue', 'John Moore', 'Fraser Aitcheson', 'James Michalopolous', 'Ricardo Scarabelli', 'Liam Ranger', 'Zack Nicholson', 'Luciana Carro', 'Michael Gordin Shore', 'Lillianne Lee', 'Melissa Panton', 'Kathryn Schellenberg', 'Heather Robertson', 'Joanne Pesusich', 'Jennifer Oleksiuk', 'David Manske', 'Evangeline Lilly']

Comedy, Crime film, Mystery, Detective fiction, Police procedural

['USA']

English

['English']

['Columbia Pictures', 'Revolution Studios', 'Wayans Bros. Entertainment', 'Gone North Productions']

comedy

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

FBI agents Marcus Anthony II and Kevin Copeland ruin a drug bust accidentally. Their boss offers them a reprieve if they escort sisters Brittany and Tiffany Wilson safely to a weekend-long fashion event in the Hamptons. The Wilsons are the rich, shallow socialite daughters of Wilson Cruiseliners CEO Andrew Wilson, whom the police suspect will become the next victims in a string of high-profile kidnappings. On the drive, the sisters' dog leaps out of the car window, causing Kevin to lose control. The sisters suffer minor facial cuts. With the sisters refusing to be seen with cut faces, Kevin sends them into hiding; he has a makeup expert friend create prosthetic disguises so he and Marcus can replace them. Kevin as Brittany and Marcus as Tiffany meet the sisters' three best friends – Lisa Anderson, Karen Googlestein, and Tori Wilson – and their rivals: the Vandergeld sisters, Heather and Megan. Unbeknownst to Kevin and Marcus, they are being watched by colleagues, Vincent Gomez and Jake Harper, and their boss, Chief Elliott Gordon, who are undercover posing as hotel staff. At the hotel, pro basketball player Latrell Spencer is attracted to Marcus/Tiffany, and Kevin sets his sights on New York One News reporter, Denise Porter. At the Vandergelds' annual charity auction, Latrell wins a dinner date at a restaurant with Marcus/Tiffany. While Latrell takes Marcus/Tiffany to a restaurant, Kevin, believing Denise likes rich men, pretends to be Latrell and takes Latrell's car to drive Denise to Latrell's house. There, he hears about Ted Burton turning the tables on Heather and Megan's father, Warren. With Kevin becoming romantically involved with Denise and Marcus/Tiffany unsuccessfully trying to reject Latrell, their combined antics put them under Gomez and Harper's suspicion. At a nightclub, after winning a dance-off against the Vandergelds, Kevin and Marcus learn from Karen that Warren is penniless and has been taking loans from her father, meaning that Warren is the mastermind behind the kidnappings. The next day, the real Brittany and Tiffany arrive at the hotel and discover they are being impersonated. The sisters arrive in the Hamptons, exposing their "clones", as does Marcus' wife, Gina, assuming that he is cheating on her. Realizing the Wilsons are being impersonated by men, Gomez and Harper aim to expose them, but inadvertently strip down the real Brittany and Tiffany in front of Gordon, resulting in the sisters punching Harper in the face. After Gomez and Harper are suspended, a furious Gordon fires Kevin and Marcus. Having lost both his job and possibly Gina, Marcus scolds Kevin for always dragging him into trouble. Later, Kevin and Marcus discover that Warren had embezzled money through his charity. Marcus convinces Kevin to not tell Gordon, to redeem themselves with Gomez and Harper's help. Again posing as the Wilsons, they are chosen for the final fashion show. The Vandergelds are furious the Copelands/Wilsons have replaced them on the catwalk, but the real Brittany and Tiffany also perform in the event. Karen rejects the callous Heath, and Marcus punches him in the face. During the show, the Vandergeld sisters try to sabotage their "rivals", but end up being humiliated by Karen, Lisa, and Tori. The real Brittany and Tiffany appear and expose Kevin and Marcus, causing mass confusion. Warren begins the kidnapping, but incorrectly captures Marcus/Tiffany and Brittany. This begins a fight between the Copeland brothers and Heath and Russ, accomplices in the kidnappings. Warren soon captures the real sisters and explains his financial troubles to his wife and daughters, unaware that his confession is being filmed. In the ensuing scuffle, Kevin is nearly shot trying to protect Denise, Latrell is shot trying to protect Marcus/Tiffany, and Kevin shoots Warren in the shoulder. Marcus and Kevin capture Warren, while Gomez and Harper apprehend Heath and Russ. Afterward, their true identities are revealed, and Latrell is more dismayed that Marcus is not white, not that he is a man. Warren, Heath, and Russ are arrested, while Gordon reinstates the Copeland brothers, Gomez, and Harper. Marcus clears things with Gina, Kevin and Denise begin a relationship, and Latrell wins over the real Brittany and Tiffany. Tori, Lisa, and Karen admit they liked Brittany and Tiffany a lot more when Marcus and Kevin were them, and the five agree to remain friends and go shopping together.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Robert Zemeckis

['Bob Hoskins', 'Christopher Lloyd', 'Joanna Cassidy', 'Charles Fleischer', 'Kathleen Turner', 'Stubby Kaye', 'Alan Tilvern', 'Richard LeParmentier', 'Lou Hirsch', 'Betsy Brantley', 'Joel Silver', 'Paul Springer', 'Richard Ridings', 'Edwin Craig', 'Lindsay Holiday', 'Mike Edmonds', 'Morgan Deare', 'Danny Capri', 'Christopher Hollosy', 'Jean-Paul Sipla', 'Laura Frances', 'Joel Cutrara', 'Billy J. Mitchell', 'Eric B. Sindon', 'Ed Herlihy', "James O'Connell", 'Eugene Gutierrez', 'April Winchell', 'Mae Questel', 'Mel Blanc', 'Tony Anselmo', 'Mary T. Radford', 'Joe Alaskey', 'David L. Lander', 'Fred Newman', 'June Foray', 'Wayne Allwine', 'Russi Taylor', 'Les Perkins', 'Richard Williams', 'Pat Buttram', 'Jim Cummings', 'Jim Gallant', 'Frank Sinatra', 'Tony Pope', 'Peter Westy', 'Cherry Davis', 'Jack Angel', 'Jeff Arbaugh', 'Corey Burton', 'Nancy Cartwright', 'Amy Irving', 'Mickie McGowan', 'Frank Welker', 'Tina Simmons']

Animation, Action, Comedy, Children's film, Dark comedy, Adventure, Fantasy, Noir, Mystery, Drama, Crime film, Buddy, Suspense, Thriller, Detective fiction, Police procedural

['USA']

English

['English']

['Amblin Entertainment', 'Silver Screen Partners III', 'Touchstone Pictures']

comedy, mystery, animated

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In 1947 Los Angeles, animated cartoon characters, or "toons", co-exist with humans, often employing their skills to entertain as film stars. Private detective Eddie Valiant, once a staunch ally of the toons alongside his brother and co-worker Teddy, has become a depressed alcoholic following Teddy's murder by an unknown toon five years earlier. Maroon Cartoon Studios owner, R.K. Maroon, upset about the recent poor performance of his toon star Roger Rabbit, hires Eddie to investigate rumors that Roger's glamorous toon wife Jessica is having an affair with Marvin Acme, owner of both the Acme Corporation and Toontown, the animated metropolis in which toons reside. After watching Jessica perform at The Ink and Paint Club, Eddie secretly photographs her and Acme playing patty-cake. He shows the pictures to Roger, who becomes distraught and flees, refusing to believe Jessica was unfaithful. The next morning, Acme is found murdered and evidence at the scene implicates Roger as a suspect. Eddie meets Judge Doom, the sinister human judge of Toontown—having bribed the electorate to gain their votes—and his five weasel minions, the Toon Patrol. Doom confirms he plans to execute Roger using the "Dip", a chemical concoction of acetone, benzene, and turpentine which is capable of destroying the otherwise invulnerable toons. Roger's toon co-star, Baby Herman, suggests to Eddie that Acme's missing will—which supposedly bequeaths Toontown to the toons—may have been the killer's true motive. Eddie returns to his office and finds Roger waiting. Roger insists he has been framed and Eddie reluctantly agrees to help after finding evidence of Acme's will; he hides Roger in a bar tended by his girlfriend Dolores. Jessica tells Eddie that Maroon threatened Roger's career unless she posed for the compromising photos. Meanwhile, Dolores's research uncovers that Cloverleaf Industries recently bought the city's Pacific Electric railway system and will purchase Toontown at midnight unless Acme's will is found. Doom and the Toon Patrol find Roger, but he and Eddie escape with help from Benny, a toon taxi cab. Sheltering in a local theater, Eddie sees a newsreel of Maroon selling his studio to Cloverleaf. While Eddie goes to the studio to interrogate Maroon, Jessica abducts Roger. Maroon denies involvement in Acme's murder, admitting he intended to blackmail Acme into selling his company as otherwise Cloverleaf would not buy the studio. Maroon is assassinated and Eddie spots Jessica fleeing the scene. Assuming she is the assailant, he reluctantly follows her into Toontown, choosing to discard the last of his alcohol. After saving Eddie from being shot by Doom, Jessica reveals her actions were to ensure Roger's safety and it was Doom who killed Acme and Maroon. Acme gave his will to Jessica for safety but, when she examined it, the paper was blank. Doom and the Toon Patrol capture Jessica and Eddie, bringing them to Acme's factory. Doom reveals he is the sole shareholder of Cloverleaf and plans to erase Toontown with a Dip-spraying machine so he can build a freeway in its place, and decommission the railway system to force people to use it. When Roger unsuccessfully attempts to save Jessica, the couple is tied onto a hook in front of the machine's sprayer. Eddie distracts the weasels by performing a comedic vaudeville act full of pratfalls, causing them to die of laughter before he kicks their leader into the Dip. Doom is flattened by a steamroller while fighting with Eddie, but he survives, revealing he is actually a disguised toon and Teddy's murderer. Struggling against Doom's toon abilities, Eddie empties the machine's Dip supply, spraying and dissolving Doom to death. The machine crashes through the wall into Toontown, where it is destroyed by a train. As police and toons gather at the scene, Eddie realizes that Acme's will was written on the blank paper in temporarily invisible ink, confirming the toons inherit Toontown. Having regained his sense of humor, Eddie happily enters Toontown alongside Dolores, Roger, Jessica, and the toons.

Who Killed Captain Alex?

Nabwana IGG

['Kakule William', 'Sserunya Ernest', 'G. Puffs', 'Bukenya Charles', 'Kavubu Muhammed', 'Kasumba Isma', 'Nakyambadde Prossy', 'Faizat Muhammed', 'Bisaso Dauda', 'Musisi David', 'V.J. Emmie', 'Nabwana IGG']

Action, Comedy, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller, Crime Fiction

['Uganda']

English

['English', 'Ganda']

['Ramon Film Productions', 'Wakaliwood']

action, top-rated

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Captain Alex, one of the most decorated officers in the Uganda People's Defence Force, is sent out to capture the crime boss Richard and his Tiger Mafia, a criminal organization that controls the drug trade of the city of Kampala. Alex sets up camp in the village of Wakaliga. After doing so, his soldiers go to a bar where a fight ensues between them and the villagers. Alex breaks it up and takes them out of the bar. Alex and his soldiers locate the Tiger Mafia during a drug deal and infiltrate it. In the following fight, Richard's brother is captured. Richard berates his men, shoots his wife Ritah in his fit of rage, and then swears revenge against Alex. He orders a spy to seduce Alex in his tent and sends the mafia to capture him later that night. However, Alex is killed by an unknown source, leaving the mafia and his soldiers in disarray. Captain Alex's brother, a Ugandan shaolin monk named Bruce U[note 1] arrives at Kampala the next morning in search of the murderer and finds a Tiger Mafia card in Alex's tent. Elsewhere, the mafia tells Richard that Alex is dead; Richard becomes irate because he wanted Alex brought to him. Bruce goes to a shaolin temple where he fights the other martial artists until the master appears. Bruce asks the master for help on his quest for vengeance, but the latter declines. Bruce goes to the forest to train for his quest on his own. After sleeping in a tree, he discovers Ritah, who has amnesia after being shot by her husband. Bruce, unaware that she was part of the Tiger Mafia, comes to her aid. After training in a nearby lake, he discovers that Ritah was a member of the mafia due to a tattoo with the mafia's initials. Ritah regains her memory and agrees to take Bruce to the Tiger Mafia base. The UPDF hires a new military leader who formulates a plan to attack the mafia's base. However, his plan is overheard by Richard through the phone of a turncoat police officer. Richard gathers the mafia at the base to prepare and sends one of his men to steal an attack helicopter to bomb Kampala to serve as a distraction for the government. Bruce invades the mafia's base, but is captured and brought to Richard, who orders three of his men to fight him with combat skills. Bruce holds his own for some time but is eventually overwhelmed. The military bombs the base with a helicopter, forcing the mafia into a forest where they fight the UPDF. After the chaotic fighting, the entire mafia is dead and only Richard remains. He strips the gun off one of his deceased men, kills a number of soldiers, and takes down the military helicopter but is eventually shot and captured. The Ugandan government places Kampala under martial law, and Alex's killer is never identified.

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Mike Nichols

['Richard Burton', 'Elizabeth Taylor', 'George Segal', 'Sandy Dennis', 'Agnes Flanagan', 'Frank Flanagan']

Comedy, Dark comedy, Drama, Thriller

['USA']

English

['English', 'Latin']

['Chenault Productions', 'Warner Bros. Pictures']

toxic-relationship, comedy

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George, an associate professor of history at a small New England college, and his wife Martha, the daughter of the university president, return home drunk from a party. Martha has invited a young married couple she met at the party for a drink. The guests arrive—Nick, a biology professor, and his wife, Honey—just before 2:30 a.m. As the four drink, Martha and George engage in scathing verbal abuse in front of Nick and Honey. The younger couple is first embarrassed and later entangled. Martha angers George by telling Honey about their son, who will celebrate his 16th birthday the next day. Martha's divulging of this information sets off another fight between the two. Nick confesses to George that he was attracted to Honey for her family's money and married her only because he mistakenly believed she was pregnant. George describes his own marriage as one of never-ending accommodation and adjustment, then admits he considers Nick a threat. George also tells a story about a boy he grew up with who had accidentally killed his mother and, years later, his father and lived out his days in a mental hospital. Nick admits he aims to charm and sleep his way to the top and jokes that Martha would be a good place to start. When their guests propose leaving, a drunken George insists on driving them home. They approach a roadhouse, and Honey suggests they stop to dance. While Honey and George watch, Nick suggestively dances with Martha, who continues to mock and criticize George. George unplugs the jukebox and announces the game is over. In response, Martha alludes to the fact he may have murdered his parents like the protagonist in his unpublished novel, prompting George to attack Martha until Nick pulls him away from her. George tells the group about a second novel he has written about a teacher and his wife who marry because of her false pregnancy and family money. Honey realizes Nick told George about their past and runs from the room. Another argument leads Martha to drive off with Nick and Honey, leaving George to make his way back home on foot, where he sees the shadows of Martha and Nick in the bedroom. Through Honey's drunken babbling, George begins to suspect that her pregnancy was in fact real and that she secretly had an abortion. He then devises a plan to get back at Martha. When Martha accuses Nick of being sexually inadequate, he blames his performance on the liquor he has consumed. Martha and George argue about their son and George announces he has received a telegram saying their son has been killed in a car accident. As Martha begs George not to "kill" their son, Nick realizes the truth: Martha and George had never been able to have children and filled the void with an imaginary son. George explains that their one mutually agreed upon rule was to never mention the son to anyone else, and that he "killed" him because Martha broke that rule by mentioning him to Honey. The young couple departs quietly, and George and Martha are left alone as the day begins to break outside. George starts singing the song "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", and Martha responds, "I am, George, I am", while the two hold hands.

Why Don't You Play in Hell?

Sion Sono

['Jun Kunimura', 'Shinichi Tsutsumi', 'Hiroki Hasegawa', 'Gen Hoshino', 'Fumi Nikaido', 'Tomochika', 'Tak Sakaguchi', 'Itsuji Itao', 'Jyonmyon Pe', 'Hiroyuki Onoue', 'Tasuku Nagaoka', 'Akihiro Kitamura', 'Megumi Kagurazaka', 'Daisuke Kuroda', 'Kazuki Namioka', 'Sakiko Bokumoto', 'Motoki Fukami', 'Tarô Suwa', 'Hiroshi Honjomaru', 'Arata Yamanaka', 'Ōmiya Ichi', 'Donpei Tsuchihira', 'Matsuri Hashimoto', 'Yuki Ishii', 'Haruki Mika', 'Tetsu Watanabe', 'Shimako Iwai', 'Riko Narumi', 'Denden', 'Kenjirou Ishimaru', 'Hakase Suidobashi', 'Akaji Maro', 'Mickey Curtis', 'Kyōko Enami', 'Akira Yamamoto', 'Takamitsu Nonaka', 'Hideo Nakaizumi', 'Tsugumi', 'Yoshiki Takahashi', 'Manji Edogawa', 'Nanoka Hara', 'Yoshino Imamura', 'Atsuko Fukuda']

Horror, Action, Drama, Comedy, Dark comedy, Adventure, Martial Arts, Suspense, Thriller

['Japan']

Japanese

['Japanese']

['GANSIS', 'King Records', 'KH Capital', 'BizAsset', 'T-JOY']

comedy, action, top-rated

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Three teenagers who are passionate about cinema, including wannabe director Hirata, meet a young thug named Sasaki who they see as a potential Japanese Bruce Lee. They welcome Sasaki into their movie-making club, the "Fuck Bombers", mentored by an elderly projectionist who specializes in 35mm film. In the meantime, a yakuza war rages. Boss Muto grapples with the assassins of a rival gang who invaded his home to attack his wife. To defend herself, she kills almost all of them and ends up in prison. The only survivor, Ikegami, has a brief encounter with Mitsuko, the 10-year-old daughter of Muto and child star of a toothbrush commercial. Escaping from the crime scene and covered in blood, Ikegami is filmed by the enthusiastic Fuck Bombers. Muto's yakuza clan defeats the rival group by killing their boss. Ikegami becomes the defeated clan's new boss and proposes a truce. He turns his gang headquarters into a castle inspired by samurai films, with all the criminals wearing kimonos. Meanwhile, Hirata leaves a prayer to the God of Cinema at a small shrine in the hopes that one day the Fuck Bombers will make a movie that will be remembered forever. Ten years pass and their mission seems to have failed: the Fuck Bombers film club has not made a memorable film and the projectionist has died. Sasaki, feeling hopeless and depressed about having not made a successful movie, abandons his friends. Meanwhile, the war between Muto's yakuza and Ikegami's yakuza has continued. Mitsuko, now an actress, has run away from her current project, a film whose production impressed Muto's wife (Mitsuko's mother), who is about to be released from prison; she has always wanted her daughter to become a famous actress, while Mitsuko has been feeling that her roles have been beneath her and wants to quit the business. While being chased, Mitsuko hides in a phone booth and runs into Koji, who has been in love with her since he saw her commercial on TV as a child. Mitsuko doesn't know him, but she hires him to be her "lover" for a day to help hide her, and drags him along into her violent adventures. Muto is informed by the director of Mitsuko's movie that they cannot wait for her any longer, and that they have hired a replacement actress. In the meantime, Muto's men capture Mitsuko and Koji. Muto, convinced that Koji is the man Mitsuko ran away from the set with, tries to kill Koji. Mitsuko convinces her father to spare Koji by telling him that Koji is a movie director and the only director who could film her properly. Muto decides to use Koji to make his own movie for his wife, starring his daughter. Muto rents his own film equipment and builds a set with his subordinates. One of them suggests that, to kill two birds with one stone, the film could be built around their inevitable confrontation with Ikegami. Koji, feeling overwhelmed by the impossible task before him, escapes. He finds himself in front of the same shrine used by the Fuck Bombers ten years ago, where he is captured again by the yakuza. This causes him to vomit so profusely that it reveals the prayer left and signed by Hirata. Koji and Mitsuko decide to find Hirata to help Koji direct the movie. Though they give Koji and his two camera people (the other original Fuck Bombers) few details about the project, Hirata immediately agrees to direct when he learns they have money and 35mm film. Hirata rekindles his friendship with Sasaki and meets the rest of Muto's yakuza, who have now become a semi-professional movie crew. Hirata also convinces Ikegami, who is lost in an irrational love for Mitsuko, to collaborate with this cinematic operation. Ikegami, still entranced by Mitsuko and remembering when he met the Fuck Bombers 10 years ago, accepts the offer. Hirata insists, for dramatic purposes, that all men are armed only with katanas. The fight begins, with full camera, lighting, and sound crews amid the action. Hirata treats the fight as a movie sequence, and yells "Cut!" when he wants a different angle on the action; the yakuza pause their fighting in these moments and take direction from Hirata, even while injured or dying. In the massacre, Muto is decapitated and Koji's hand is chopped off. Koji and Mitsuko confess their mutual love before a katana is lodged in his head. As revenge for the death of his boss, one of Muto's men shoots Ikegami with a gun, and the massacre gets out of control as the rival yakuza clans begin shooting each other. The steadycam and trolley operator begin shooting everyone without distinction, but they both die behind the camera. Suddenly the police arrive and kill Koji, Ikegami, Mitsuko, and then Sasaki. While the police slaughter the remaining survivors, Hirata gets up from the pile of corpses and begins to retrieve all the rolls of film from the cameras scattered around Ikegami's castle. Hysterical and covered with blood, he runs through the streets, shouting "Fuck Bombers!" and "We have the movie!" He imagines the cine-club being re-opened and the cast and crew coming back to life (though all bearing evidence of their injuries) for the premiere of the film, which is titled "Why Don't You Play in Hell?". The audience applauds wildly. Back in reality, Hirata runs through the streets shouting "Fuck Bombers" until a voice (presumably Sion Sono's) yells to cut, and some crew members can be seen emerging in the background.

Wild Boys of the Road

William A. Wellman

['Frankie Darro', 'Edwin Phillips', 'Rochelle Hudson', 'Dorothy Coonan Wellman', 'Sterling Holloway', 'Arthur Hohl', 'Ann Hovey', 'Minna Gombell', 'Grant Mitchell', 'Claire McDowell', 'Robert Barrat', 'Willard Robertson', 'Ward Bond', 'Wade Boteler', 'George Cooper', 'Charley Grapewin', 'Milton Kibbee', 'Sidney Miller', 'Adrian Morris', 'Louis Natheaux', 'George Offerman, Jr.', 'Bess Flowers', 'Marlo Dwyer', 'Lee Shumway', 'Lee Phelps', 'Alan Hale Jr.', 'Beaudine Anderson']

Action, Drama, Adventure, Classic

['USA']

English

['English']

['First National Pictures', 'Warner Bros. Pictures']

road-movie

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One Saturday night, Eddie Smith (Frankie Darro), Tommy Gordon (Edwin Phillips) and Eddie's girlfriend Grace (Rochelle Hudson) go to the high school prom. Casually chatting about the unemployment situation, Tommy tells Eddie that he is going to drop out of high school to look for work to help support his struggling family. Eddie offers to speak to his father (Grant Mitchell) about getting him a job, only to discover that his father has lost his job. Eddie sells his beloved car and gives the money to his father, but when his father remains unemployed, the bills keep piling up, and the family is threatened with eviction. Eddie and Tommy decide to leave home to ease the burden on their families. Eddie leaves a note, then they board a freight train, where they meet Sally (Dorothy Coonan), another teenager, who is hoping her aunt in Chicago can put her up for a while. They have to jump from the train, and end up in a milk transfer station, where many teens in similar dire straits hop aboard another train. When they reach Chicago, they are met by the police, who inform them and other hobos that the unemployment crisis has hit Chicago as well. Most of the transients are sent to detention, but Sally has a letter from her aunt, so they let her through. She claims her companions are her cousins; the kindly policeman is skeptical, but lets them go. Sally's Aunt Carrie (Minna Gombell) welcomes all three into her apartment, which is in reality a brothel. She warmly welcomes the three, and starts to feed them, however, before they even have a chance to eat, the place is raided by the police. The trio hastily depart, climbing out a window, and continue their rail journey east. Nearing Columbus, Ohio, one girl (Ann Hovey), caught alone in a railcar, is raped by the train brakeman (an uncredited Ward Bond). When the others find out, they start punching the assailant. By accident, the brakeman falls out of the train to his death. A little later, as the train approaches the city, everyone jumps off. Tommy hits his head on a switch stand and falls across the track in front of an oncoming train. He crawls desperately towards safety, but his foot gets mangled and his leg has to be amputated. They live in "Sewer Pipe City" near Cleveland, Ohio for a while, until the city authorities decide to shut it down to discourage vagrancy, prompted in part by Eddie's theft of a misfitting prosthetic leg for Tommy. Finally, the three end up living in the New York City Municipal Dump. Eddie finally lands a job, but needs to find $3 to pay for a coat which the job requires. They panhandle to raise the money. When two men offer Eddie $5 to deliver a note to a movie theater cashier across the street, he jumps at the chance. The note turns out to be a demand for money. Eddie is arrested, and the other two are taken in as well when they protest. The judge (Robert Barrat) cannot get any information out of them, particularly about their parents. However, Eddie's embittered speech moves him. He dismisses the charges and promises to get Eddie's job back for him. He also promises to help the other two, and assures them that their parents will be back to work soon.

Wild Strawberries

Ingmar Bergman

['Victor Sjöström', 'Bibi Andersson', 'Ingrid Thulin', 'Gunnar Björnstrand', 'Jullan Kindahl', 'Folke Sundquist', 'Björn Bjelfvenstam', 'Naima Wifstrand', 'Gunnel Broström', 'Gertrud Fridh', 'Sif Ruud', 'Gunnar Sjöberg', 'Max von Sydow', 'Åke Fridell', 'Yngve Nordwall', 'Per Sjöstrand', 'Gio Petré', 'Gunnel Lindblom', 'Maud Hansson', 'Ann-Marie Wiman', 'Eva Norée', 'Lena Bergman', 'Monica Ehrling', 'Per Skogsberg', 'Göran Lundquist', 'Helge Wulff', 'Peder Hellman', 'Vendela Rudbäck', 'Ulf Johansson', 'Erik Nordgren', 'Josef Norman', 'Gunnar Olsson', 'Harry Asklund']

Romance, Melodrama, Drama, Classic

['Sweden']

Swedish

['Swedish', 'Latin']

['SF Studios']

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Grouchy, stubborn, and egotistical Professor Isak Borg is a widowed 78-year-old physician who specialized in bacteriology. Before specializing, he served as a general practitioner in rural Sweden. He sets out on a long car ride from Stockholm to Lund to be awarded the degree of Doctor Jubilaris 50 years after he received his doctorate from Lund University. He is accompanied by his pregnant daughter-in-law Marianne who does not much like her father-in-law and is planning to separate from her husband, Evald, Isak's only son. Evald does not want her to have the baby, their first. During the trip, Isak is forced by nightmares, daydreams, old age, and impending death to reevaluate his life. He meets a series of hitchhikers, each of whom sets off dreams or reveries into Borg's troubled past. The first group consists of two young men and their companion, a woman named Sara who is adored by both men. Sara is a double for the love of Isak's youth. He reminisces about his childhood at the seaside and his sweetheart Sara, with whom he remembered gathering strawberries, but who instead married his brother. The first group remains with him throughout his journey. Next Isak and Marianne pick up an embittered middle-aged couple, the Almans, whose vehicle had nearly collided with theirs. The pair exchanges such terrible vitriol and venom that Marianne stops the car and demands that they leave. The couple reminds Isak of his own unhappy marriage. In a dream sequence, Isak is asked by Sten Alman, now the examiner, to read "foreign" letters on the blackboard. He cannot. So, Alman reads it for him: "A doctor's first duty is to ask forgiveness," from which he concludes, "You are guilty of guilt."[3] He is confronted by his loneliness and aloofness, recognizing these traits in both his elderly mother (whom they stop to visit) and in his middle-aged physician son, and he gradually begins to accept himself, his past, his present, and his approaching death.[4][5][6] Borg finally arrives at his destination and is promoted to Doctor Jubilaris, but this proves to be an empty ritual. That night, he bids a loving goodbye to his young friends, to whom the once bitter old man whispers in response to a playful declaration of the young girl's love, "I'll remember." As he goes to his bed in his son's home, he is overcome by a sense of peace, and dreams of a family picnic by a lake. Closure and affirmation of life have finally come, and Borg's face radiates joy.

Wild at Heart

David Lynch

['Nicolas Cage', 'Laura Dern', 'Willem Dafoe', 'J.E. Freeman', 'Crispin Glover', 'Diane Ladd', 'Calvin Lockhart', 'Isabella Rossellini', 'Harry Dean Stanton', 'Grace Zabriskie', 'Sherilyn Fenn', 'Glenn Walker Harris Jr.', 'Marvin Kaplan', 'William Morgan Sheppard', 'David Patrick Kelly', 'Freddie Jones', 'John Lurie', 'Jack Nance', 'Pruitt Taylor Vince', 'Gregg Dandridge', 'Frances Bay', 'Sheryl Lee', 'Charlie Spradling', 'Blair Bruce Bever', 'Sally Boyle', 'Peter Bromilow', 'Lisa Ann Cabasa', 'Frank A. Caruso', 'Frank Collison', 'Eddy Dixon', 'Brent David Fraser', 'Cage S. Johnson', 'Valli Leigh', 'Nicholas Love', 'Daniel Quinn', 'Mia M. Ruiz', 'Billy Swan', 'Koko Taylor', 'Ed Wright', 'Darrell Zwerling', 'Debra Lamb']

Action, Romance, Comedy, Road, Dark comedy, Adventure, Noir, Drama, Crime film, Suspense, Mystery, Thriller, Detective fiction, Indie film, Police procedural

['USA']

English

['English']

['Samuel Goldwyn Company', 'Propaganda Films', 'PolyGram Filmed Entertainment']

road-movie

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Lovers Lula and Sailor are separated after he is jailed for killing a man who attacked him with a knife; the assailant, Bobby Ray Lemon, was hired by Lula's mother, Marietta Fortune. Upon Sailor's release, Lula picks him up outside prison, where she hands him his snakeskin jacket. They go to a hotel where she reserved a room, make love, and go to see the speed metal band Powermad. At the club, Sailor gets into a fight with a man who flirts with Lula, and then leads the band in a rendition of the Elvis Presley song "Love Me". Later, back in their hotel room, after making love again, Sailor and Lula finally decide to run away to California, breaking Sailor's parole. Marietta arranges for private detective Johnnie Farragut—her on-off boyfriend—to find them and bring them back. But unbeknownst to Farragut, Marietta also hires gangster Marcelles Santos to track them and kill Sailor. Santos's minions capture and kill Farragut, sending Marietta into a guilt-fueled psychosis. Unaware of all the events happening back in North Carolina, Lula and Sailor continue on their way until they witness—according to Lula—a bad omen: the aftermath of a two-car accident, and the only survivor, a young woman, dying in front of them. With little money left, Sailor heads for Big Tuna, Texas, where he contacts his old acquaintance, Perdita Durango, who might be able to help them, although she secretly knows Lula's mother has a contract out for his murder. At an outdoor party, Lula and Sailor meet Bobby Peru, a career criminal. Lula, who has been feeling ill, tells Sailor she is pregnant with his child. While Sailor is changing their car's oil, Lula waits for him in the hotel room. Peru enters the room and threatens to sexually assault Lula, forcing her to ask him to have sex with her before leaving, stating he has no time. This traumatizes Lula, who was also raped as a child. Not knowing about Peru's abuse of Lula, Sailor agrees to accompany him to a bar. Over beers, Peru enlists Sailor's help in robbing a nearby feed store, which allegedly keeps $5,000 in cash on hand. The robbery goes spectacularly wrong when Peru unnecessarily shoots the two store clerks. Peru then admits to Sailor that he has been hired to kill him, and Sailor realizes he has been given a pistol with dummy ammunition. Chasing Sailor out of the store, Peru is about to kill him when the sheriff's deputy opens fire on him and Peru blows his own head off with his own shotgun. Sailor is arrested and sentenced to six years in prison. While Sailor is in jail, Lula has their child. Upon his release, Lula decides to reunite with him. Rejecting her mother's objections over the phone, she throws water over her mother's photograph and goes to pick up Sailor with their son. When they meet Sailor, he reveals he will be leaving them both, having decided that mother and son are better off without his influence. While he is walking a short distance away, Sailor encounters a gang whose members surround him. He insults them, and they quickly knock him out. While unconscious, he sees a vision in the form of Glinda the Good Witch, who tells him, "Don't turn away from love, Sailor." When he awakens, Sailor apologizes to the men, tells them he realizes the error of his ways, and then runs after Lula. The photograph of Marietta, in Lula's house, sizzles and vanishes. As there is a traffic jam on the road, Sailor begins to run over the roofs and hoods of the cars to get back to Lula and their child in the car. Sailor sings "Love Me Tender" to Lula, having earlier said that he would only sing that song to his wife.

Willow

Ron Howard

['Warwick Davis', 'Val Kilmer', 'Joanne Whalley', 'Jean Marsh', 'Patricia Hayes', 'Billy Barty', 'Pat Roach', "Gavan O'Herlihy", 'David Steinberg', 'Phil Fondacaro', 'Mark Northover', 'Tony Cox', 'Kevin Pollak', 'Rick Overton', 'Maria Holvoe', 'Julie Peters', 'Dawn Downing', 'Mark Vande Brake', 'Zulema Dene', 'Ruth Greenfield', 'Kate Greenfield', 'Kenny Baker', 'Ashley C. Williams', 'Michael Cotterill', 'Joanna Dickens', 'Jennifer Guy', 'Ron Tarr', 'Jack Purvis', 'Sallyanne Law', 'Robert Gillibrand', 'Fred Wood', 'Gerald Staddon', 'David Sibley', 'Craig Salisbury', 'Bob Ramsey', 'Nosher Powell', 'Greg Powell', 'Nathan Phillips', 'Stéphanie Lhorset', 'Arnold Lee', 'Cheryl Howard', 'Andrew Herd', 'Raymond Griffiths', 'Owain Griffiths', 'Rusty Goffe', 'John Ghavan', 'Valerie Gale', 'Margarita Farrell', 'Malcolm Dixon', 'Samantha Davis', 'Kim Davis', 'John Cumming', 'Gerry Crampton', 'Sadie Corre', 'Willie Coppen', 'Kenneth Coombs', 'Peter Burroughs', 'Hayley Burroughs', 'Alan Bennett', 'Michael Henbury Ballan', 'Edwin Alofs', 'Paul Markham']

Fantasy, Adventure, Action, Romance, Comedy, Children's film, Melodrama, Science fiction, Drama, Costume drama

['USA']

English

['English', 'Japanese']

['Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer', 'Lucasfilm Ltd.', 'Imagine Entertainment']

fantasy

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In a fantasy world, the evil sorceress Queen Bavmorda of Nockmaar hears of a prophecy that a child with a special rune birthmark will bring about her downfall. She imprisons all pregnant women in her realm. The child is born, but her mother persuades the midwife to smuggle the baby out of the castle. Bavmorda sends her Nockmaar Hounds after the midwife. With the hounds closing in on her, the midwife sets the baby adrift on a tuft of grass in a river before succumbing to the hounds. Meanwhile, Bavmorda sends her daughter Sorsha and an army led by General Kael to hunt down the baby. Downriver, a village of Nelwyn (a race of dwarves) prepares for a festival. The baby is found by the children of farmer and aspiring sorcerer Willow Ufgood, and his family takes her in. At the festival, a Nockmaar hound arrives and attacks cradles. After Nelwyn warriors kill it, Willow presents the baby to the village leader as a possible reason for the hound's appearance. The leader orders the baby must return to a Daikini (the Nelwyn's name for "tall people") family, so Willow and volunteers set out with the baby to find one. At a crossroads, they find Madmartigan, a mercenary trapped in a crow's cage, who offers to take the baby in exchange for his freedom. Most Nelwyn think they should give him the baby, but Willow and his friend Meegosh refuse, causing the others to leave for home. After meeting Madmartigan's old comrade Airk, riding with an army to attack Bavmorda, Willow agrees to Madmartigan's terms. On the way home, Willow and Meegosh discover that some brownies have stolen the baby, and pursue them. They are captured by the brownies, but Fairy Queen Cherlindrea frees them and explains the baby is Elora Danan, the foretold Princess of Tir Asleen. She gives Willow a magic wand and sends him to find aging enchantress Fin Raziel. Willow sends Meegosh home, and continues the journey in the company of two brownies. At a tavern, he re-encounters Madmartigan, who is disguising himself as a woman to hide from his mistress's husband Llug. Sorsha and Kael's army arrives, but Madmartigan is revealed as a man to Llug, who starts a brawl which helps Willow and Madmartigan escape with Elora. Madmartigan allows Willow to follow him to the lake where Raziel lives. They are captured soon thereafter, along with Raziel, who was turned into a brushtail possum by Bavmorda. Willow tries to restore her, but turns her into a rook. One of the brownies accidentally doses Madmartigan with love potion. He declares undying love for Sorsha, but she is skeptical. Willow's party flees, finding Airk and the remnants of his army after Bavmorda defeated them. When the Nockmaar army pursues, Madmartigan takes Sorsha hostage, and they flee once more. However, Sorsha escapes. Willow's party arrives at Tir Asleen, only to find it cursed and overrun with trolls. Kael's army arrives, and Madmartigan and Willow attempt to fend them off. Willow accidentally turns a troll into a giant two-headed monster with the wand, and in the ensuing chaos, Kael kidnaps Elora. Sorsha, realizing she loves Madmartigan, defects to his side. Airk's army arrives, but Kael escapes with Elora and makes his way to Nockmaar Castle. Bavmorda prepares a ritual to banish Elora from the world forever. Willow's party and Airk's army arrive at Nockmaar Castle, but Bavmorda casts a spell to turn them all into pigs. Willow, having used the wand to protect himself, finally restores Raziel to her human form. She breaks Bavmorda's spell, and Willow's army tricks their way into the castle. Kael slays Airk, but Madmartigan avenges him, as Willow, Sorsha, and Raziel confront Bavmorda in the ritual chamber. Bavmorda incapacitates Raziel and Sorsha. Willow uses sleight-of-hand to trick Bavmorda into thinking he made Elora disappear. Bavmorda, unnerved, moves to attack him, but in doing so accidentally completes the ritual while standing over the altar, banishing herself. During celebrations at the restored Tir Asleen, Willow is gifted a spellbook by Raziel. Leaving Elora in the care of Madmartigan and Sorsha, Willow returns home to his village and family in triumph.

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Mel Stuart

['Gene Wilder', 'Peter Ostrum', 'Jack Albertson', 'Paris Themmen', 'Nora Denney', 'Julie Dawn Cole', 'Roy Kinnear', 'Denise Nickerson', 'Leonard Stone', 'Michael Bollner', 'Ursula Reit', 'Diana Sowle', 'Aubrey Woods', 'David Battley', 'Günter Meisner', 'Peter Capell', 'Werner Heyking', 'Peter Stuart', 'Franziska Liebing', 'Ernst Ziegler', 'Dora Altmann', 'Pat Coombs', 'Michael Goodliffe', 'Kurt Großkurth', 'Stephen Dunne', 'Bob Roe', 'Madeline Stuart', 'Gloria Manon', 'Walker Edmiston', 'Victor Beaumont', 'Tim Brooke-Taylor', 'Jack Latham', 'Michael Gahr', 'Shin Hamano', 'Ed Peck', 'Frank Delfino', 'Rudy Borgstaller', 'Malcolm Dixon', 'George Claydon', 'Rusty Goffe', 'Ismed Hassan', 'Norman McGlen', 'Angelo Muscat', 'Pepi Poupee', 'Marcus Powell', 'Albert Wilkinson']

['Comedy', 'Family', 'Fantasy']

['USA']

English

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

['Wolper Pictures']

comedy, fantasy

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Charlie Bucket, a poor paperboy, passes Willy Wonka's chocolate factory, where a tinker tells him that nobody ever enters or leaves the building. Charlie's Grandpa Joe reveals that Wonka had shut down the factory due to espionage from rival confectioners; production resumed three years later, but the factory remained closed to the public and the new workers are unknown. Wonka announces that he has hidden five Golden Tickets in Wonka Bars; the finders of the tickets will receive a tour of the factory and a lifetime supply of chocolate. The first four tickets are found by gluttonous Augustus Gloop, spoiled Veruca Salt, gum-chewer Violet Beauregarde, and television-obsessed Mike Teevee. A mysterious man is seen whispering to each winner. One day, Charlie finds money in a gutter and uses it to buy a Wonka Bar that contains the fifth ticket. On his way home, he encounters the man who spoke to the other winners. Introducing himself as Arthur Slugworth, one of Wonka's competitors, the man offers Charlie money for a sample of Wonka's new invention, the Everlasting Gobstopper. Arriving home with the Golden Ticket, Charlie chooses Grandpa Joe as his chaperone. The next day, Wonka greets the children at the front gates of the factory and leads them inside, where they are made to sign a contract. The tour begins in the Chocolate Room, where the visitors meet Wonka's workforce: little people known as Oompa-Loompas. The children receive Everlasting Gobstoppers in the Inventing Room. One by one, each child is expelled from the tour except for Charlie: Augustus is sucked up a pipe after falling into the Chocolate River, Violet chews an experimental gum and swells into a giant human blueberry, Veruca falls down a garbage chute in the Egg Room, and Mike is shrunk to the size of a chocolate bar after misusing the Wonkavision teleporter. At one point, Charlie and Grandpa Joe sample Fizzy Lifting Drinks, causing them to float dangerously close to a fan; they descend safely by burping. When the tour is over, Wonka refuses to give Charlie and Grandpa Joe their chocolate prize on the grounds that they violated the contract by taking the Fizzy Lifting Drinks. Grandpa Joe plans to give the Gobstopper to Slugworth out of spite, but Charlie chooses to return it instead. Wonka declares Charlie the winner of the contest, revealing that "Slugworth" is actually one of his employees, and that the offer to sell the Gobstopper was a test of character. Wonka explains that he created the contest to find a worthy successor and invites Charlie and his family to come and live in the factory.

Wind River

Taylor Sheridan

['Jeremy Renner', 'Elizabeth Olsen', 'Gil Birmingham', 'Graham Greene', 'Jon Bernthal', 'Kelsey Asbille', 'Teo Briones', 'Tantoo Cardinal', 'Matthew Del Negro', 'Hugh Dillon', 'Julia Jones', 'James Jordan', 'Eric Lange', 'Martin Sensmeier', 'Apesanahkwat', 'Althea Sam', 'Tokala Black Elk', 'Tyler Laracca', 'Shayne J. Cullen', 'Dallin Tusieseina', 'Austin R. Grant', 'Ian Bohen', 'Gabriel Casdorph', 'Mason D. Davis', 'Chris Romrell', 'Blake Robbins', 'Norman Lehnert', 'Ian Roylance', 'Gus Sheridan', 'Dana Anquoe', 'Duy Beck', 'David Cardona', 'Teresa Duran-Norvick', 'Devin Hansen', 'Tara Karsian']

Thriller, Western, Action, Crime film, Drama, Suspense, Mystery, Indie film, Crime Fiction

['France', 'UK', 'USA']

English

['English']

['Savvy Media Holdings', 'Thunder Road', 'Film 44', 'Acacia Filmed Entertainment', 'Riverstone Pictures', 'Voltage Pictures', 'Synergics Films', 'Star Thrower Entertainment', 'Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana', 'The Fyzz', 'Wild Bunch']

mystery

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During the winter on the Wind River Indian Reservation, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Agent Cory Lambert discovers the frozen body of 18-year-old Natalie Hanson of the Northern Arapaho tribe. FBI Special Agent Jane Banner arrives to investigate the possible homicide. Banner learns from Natalie's father, Martin, that his daughter was dating a new boyfriend whose name he does not know. Natalie's autopsy shows signs of blunt trauma and rape and confirms Lambert's deduction that Natalie died from pulmonary hemorrhage caused by inhaling subzero air. The medical examiner refuses to classify the death as a homicide, so Banner cannot get additional help from her supervisors. Lambert is informed by Natalie's brother Chip that Natalie's boyfriend is Matt Rayburn, a security guard at a nearby oil-drilling site. Lambert and Banner soon find Matt's naked, mutilated body in the snow. Lambert reveals to Banner that his 16-year-old daughter Emily died in a similar manner to Natalie three years earlier, and the case remains unsolved. Banner, tribal police Chief Ben Shoyo, and other law enforcement officers visit the drilling site, where Curtis, the security supervisor, and several security guards meet them. They claim Matt left a few days prior following an argument with Natalie. One guard mentions they heard about Natalie's body being found, and Banner states that Natalie's name has not been released to the public. The guards claim they learned it by monitoring a police scanner. One of Banner's team notices the guards slowly surrounding them and draws his weapon. The confrontation quickly escalates into an armed standoff which Banner defuses. In a flashback, Matt's drunken colleagues barge into his trailer while he is in bed with Natalie. Matt is provoked to violence, and the other guards retaliate while Pete rapes Natalie. Matt is beaten to death, but his attempt to fight back allows Natalie to try to escape by running cross-country to the mobile home where her brother lives. In the present, Lambert traces the tracks from where Matt's corpse was found back to the drilling camp. As Banner and the others approach Pete's trailer, Lambert radios a warning to Shoyo. Pete responds to a veiled warning from Curtis by firing a shotgun through the door, wounding Banner. A gunfight ensues, and Shoyo and the other officers are killed. As the remaining guards prepare to execute Banner, Lambert kills four with his rifle. A wounded Pete flees on foot, but Lambert apprehends him. At Gannett Peak, Lambert forces Pete to confess before offering him the same chance Natalie had: try to stay alive by running to a distant road barefoot and wearing lightweight clothing. Pete runs but quickly succumbs as his lungs give out from the frigid air. Lambert visits Banner in the hospital and praises her toughness. He visits with Martin and they share grief over the deaths of their daughters. A title card states that missing persons statistics are kept for every demographic group except Native American women, whose numbers remain unknown.

Windy City Heat

Bobcat Goldthwait

['Perry Caravello', 'Don Barris', 'Tony Barbieri', 'Bobcat Goldthwait', 'Dane Cook', 'Jimmy Kimmel', 'Adam Carolla', 'William Perry', 'Carson Daly', 'Lisa Arch', 'Toby Huss', 'Bob Legionaire', 'Geoff Pierson', 'Laura Silverman', 'Tom Stern', 'Toshi Toda', 'Tom Kenny', 'Charlie Adams', 'Kitana Baker', 'Tammy Faye Bakker', 'Johann Benét', 'Veena Bidasha', 'Neena Bidasha', 'Scott Hartman', 'Tom Hughes', 'Sal Iacono', 'Subash Kundanmal', 'Tawanna Browne', 'Julia Lea Wolov', 'Dana Goodman', 'Eric Marseglia', 'Peewee Piemonte', 'James Price', 'Jill Sundeen', 'Wayne Wilderson', 'Vini Kanal', 'Roger Rose', 'Paul Motley', 'Colin Quinn', 'Dave Sheridan']

Comedy, Documentary, Television, Mockumentary, Reality

['USA']

English

['English', 'Japanese']

['Comedy Central Films']

comedy

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Perry Caravello believes he has been given a chance to star in a movie called Windy City Heat, a crime film about a "sports private eye" named Stone Fury. However, there is no such film, as the entire project is an elaborate prank played on him by Don Barris and Mole with the help of producers Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Carolla and real celebrity cameos including Carson Daly, Dane Cook, Tammy Faye Bakker, and William "The Refrigerator" Perry. Caravello's participation in the "film" begins with the audition process, where he is introduced to Daly, who is also up for the lead role of Stone Fury (and is dressed exactly like Caravello). After a botched audition, interrupted numerous times by Barris and Mole, he eventually wins the role over Daly (later in the movie, he is shown a wall of stars that have also been considered but crossed off, including Harrison Ford, Brad Pitt, and Robert De Niro). The plot of the movie revolves around a dubious story involving Fury trying to track down the actual refrigerator of William "Refrigerator" Perry and the pants of Ernie Banks (Perry appears as himself, while actor Paul Motley portrays Banks). Caravello appears in most scenes with Barris and Mole, who portray Chicago Outfit gangsters "Big Lou" and "Brock," the antagonists of the film. Windy City Heat is directed by Bobcat Goldthwait, who is the actual director in addition to playing the director of the fake film-within-the-film, wearing jodhpurs and only speaking to people through a bullhorn. Caravello is followed around by at least fifteen cameras (some of which are hidden) during the filming process. He is told from the beginning that he is being recorded and interviewed for the film's DVD extras. Some of the pranks include repeatedly dumping him into a dumpster filled with manure; making him drink a milkshake made of coffee, Chinese food, raw egg, pizza, and beer during while filming multiple takes of a scene, giving him a case of severe diarrhea; and bringing in a stunt double to film Caravello's sex scene with his leading lady, which Caravello is told involves actual sexual penetration on set. Along the way, Barris and Mole continue to egg him on, performing a balancing act of pushing his buttons and stroking his ego. The stress increasingly infuriates Caravello and frequently leads him to scream in a high-pitched shriek. Barris regularly tells Caravello to "Unleash the Fury!" Throughout the filmmaking process, Caravello is introduced to several individuals involved with the production, purported to be real people, whose names are identical to historical and cinematic figures. Such individuals include the eccentric English producer of the movie, "John Quincy Adams" (whom Caravello never meets in person and who only calls when Mole leaves the room), casting director "Roman Polanski" (Cook), studio receptionist and soon to be co-star "Susan B. Anthony" (Lisa Arch, credited as Lisa Kushell), Japanese "money man" "Hiroshima Nagasaki" (Toshi Toda), who backs out of financing the production when Mole knocks over a table of junk food, limo driver and aspiring rock musician "Travis Bickle" (Dave Sheridan), set photographer "Ansel Adams" (Toby Huss), production assistant "Frances Farmer" (Laura Silverman), Caravello's personal assistant "Burt Ward" (Eric Marseglia), and merchandising agents "Sacco and Vanzetti" (Scott Hartman and Wayne Wilderson). Notable exceptions to this naming convention include attorney "Sol Stienbergowitz-Greenbaum" (Sal Iacono) and Santiago (Tom Kenny), a wardrobe assistant who mistakes Caravello for Luke Perry, provoking a homophobic outburst that Caravello attributes to a homosexual encounter with a casting agent in 1992. Caravello never questions these coincidences on film aside from expressing doubts as to the identity of a man purporting to be Charlton Heston (Bob Legionaire), who refuses to leave Caravello's assigned trailer. To placate him, he suavely offers the old man a cameo in the film, which he enthusiastically accepts with humorous results. The film culminates in an intentionally hindered race to the fake film's "one time only screening," during which the Big 3 are delayed by a number of setbacks, finally making it in time to see only a select few scenes of the film. They finally arrive at the theater and discover that Caravello's name is misspelled on the marquee. A running gag in the movie is that whenever Caravello's name appears in print, it is usually misspelled. The film itself (what is actually shown of it) features laughably unrealistic special effects, lines of dialogue ripped from Casablanca, Chinatown and Gone with the Wind, ludicrously named characters such as "Jiggly Wrigley" and even a dinosaur, which is inserted into the film at the insistence of Yurgi (Tom Stern), a Romanian pornographic film producer who takes over as the film's new financier. Immediately following the screening, Caravello is met with an enthusiastic round of applause from the audience and is presented with an oversized and extravagant trophy from the "President of Show Business" (Geoff Pierson). The film ends with a montage backed by Louis Prima's version of "When You're Smiling".

Wings

William A. Wellman

['Clara Bow', 'Charles "Buddy" Rogers', 'Richard Arlen', 'Jobyna Ralston', 'El Brendel', 'Richard Tucker', 'Gary Cooper', 'Gunboat Smith', 'Roscoe Karns', 'Julia Swayne Gordon', 'Henry B. Walthall', 'Arlette Marchal', 'Nigel De Brulier', 'Hedda Hopper', 'George Irving', 'William A. Wellman', 'Rod Rogers', 'Charles Barton', 'Thomas Carr', 'Thomas Carrigan', 'Margery Chapin', 'Andy Clark', 'Hal George', 'Dick Grace', 'Douglas Haig', 'William Hickey', 'Sgt. Jiggs', 'Jane Laurell', 'Robert Livingston', 'James Pierce', 'Evelyn Selbie', 'Frank Tomick', 'Carl von Haartman', 'Gloria Wellman', 'Percy Williams', 'Zalla Zarana']

Action, Drama, Romance, War, Silent

['USA']

No spoken language

['No spoken language']

['Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation']

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Jack Powell and David Armstrong are rivals in the same small American town, both vying for the attentions of pretty Sylvia Lewis. Jack fails to realize that "the girl next door", Mary Preston, is desperately in love with him. The two young men both enlist to become combat pilots in the Army Air Service. When they leave for training camp, Jack mistakenly believes Sylvia prefers him, but she actually prefers David and lets him know about her feelings, but is too kindhearted to turn down Jack's affection. The two men endure a rigorous training period, where they are enemies. But during a bloody boxing match, they realize each other's courage and become best friends. Upon graduating, they are sent to France to fight against Imperial Germany. Jack and David are billeted together. Their tent mate is Cadet White, but their acquaintance is all too brief; White is killed in an air crash the same day. Mary joins the war effort by becoming an ambulance driver. She later learns of Jack's reputation as the ace known as "The Shooting Star" and encounters him while on leave in Paris. She finds him, but he is too drunk to recognize her. She takes him back to his room and puts him to bed, but when two military police barge-in while she is innocently changing from a borrowed dress back into her uniform in the same room, she is forced to resign and return to the United States. The climax of the story comes with the epic Battle of Saint-Mihiel. David is shot down and presumed dead. However, he survives the crash landing, steals a German biplane, and heads for the Allied lines. By a tragic stroke of bad luck, Jack spots the enemy aircraft and, bent on avenging his friend, begins an attack. He is successful in downing the aircraft and lands to retrieve a souvenir of his victory. The owner of the land where David's aircraft crashed urges Jack to come to the dying man's side. He agrees and becomes distraught when he realizes what he has done. David consoles him, and before he dies, forgives his comrade. At the war's end, Jack returns home to a hero's welcome. He visits David's grieving parents to return his friend's effects. During the visit, he begs their forgiveness for causing David's death. Mrs. Armstrong says it is not Jack who is responsible for her son's death, but the war. Then, Jack is reunited with Mary and realizes he loves her.

Wings of Desire

Wim Wenders

['Bruno Ganz', 'Solveig Dommartin', 'Otto Sander', 'Curt Bois', 'Peter Falk', 'Hans Martin Stier', 'Elmar Wilms', 'Sigurd Rachman', 'Beatrice Manowski', 'Lajos Kovács', 'Bruno Rosaz', 'Laurent Petitgand', 'Chick Ortega', 'Otto Kuhnle', 'Christoph Merg', 'Peter Werner', 'Teresa Harder', 'Jürgen Heinrich', 'Annelinde Gerstl', 'Mick Harvey', 'Nick Cave', 'Blixa Bargeld', 'Susanne Vierkötter', 'Paul Busch', 'Karin Busch', 'Irene Moessinger', 'Franky', 'Daniela Nasimcova', 'Bernard Eisenschitz', 'Didier Flamand', 'Rolf Henke', 'Scott Kirby', 'Franck Glemin', 'Jerry Barrish', 'Jeanette Pollak', 'Christian Bartels', 'David Crome', 'Käthe Fürstenwerth', 'Werner Schönrock', 'Bernd Ramien', 'Erika Rabau', 'Silvia Blagojeva Itscherenska', 'Sultan Meral', 'Olivier Picot', 'Jochen Gliscinsky', 'Erich Schupke', 'Margarete Hafner', 'Oliver Herder', 'Margitta Haberland', 'Ralf Strathmann', 'Walter Ratayszak', 'Charlotte Oberberg', 'Lubinka Kostic', 'Gisela Westerboer', 'Andreas Valentin', 'Wolf-Dirk Vogeley', 'Ruth Rischke', 'Familie Ayik', 'Simon Bonney', 'Harry Howard', 'Rowland S. Howard', 'Thomas Wydler', 'Roland Wolf', 'Kid Congo Powers', 'Denis Rodriguez', 'Dieta von Aster', 'Gustav Geisler', 'Paul Geisler', 'Lorenz Geisler', 'Slađana Kostić', 'Benedikt Schumann', 'Nicolas Roth', 'Marcus Stenzel', 'Benjamin Ferchow', 'Mario Meyer', 'Mark Leuschner', 'Tibor Dahlenburg', 'Lia Harder', 'Mascha Noak', 'Vera Butzek', 'Donald Behrendt', 'Patric Kreuzer', 'Simone Säger', 'Gerdi Hofmann', 'Ulrike Schirm', 'Hans Marquardt', 'Heimke Karl', 'Klaus Mausolf', 'Özyer Hüsinye', 'Jean-Claude Lezin', 'Thierry Noir', 'Matthias Maaß', 'Henry Luczkow', 'Louis Cochet', 'Lina Otto', 'Johanna Penski']

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

['France', 'Germany']

German

['German', 'English', 'Hebrew (modern)', 'Spanish', 'Japanese', 'French', 'Turkish']

['Argos Films', 'Wim Wenders Stiftung', 'WDR', 'Road Movies', 'Argos Film Productions']

fantasy

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In a Berlin divided by the Berlin Wall, two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, watch the city, unseen and unheard by its human inhabitants. They observe and listen to the thoughts of Berliners, including a pregnant woman in an ambulance on the way to the hospital, a young prostitute standing by a busy road, and a broken man who feels betrayed by his wife. Their raison d'être is, as Cassiel says, to "assemble, testify, preserve" reality. Damiel and Cassiel have always existed as angels; they were in Berlin before it was a city, and before there were any humans. Among the Berliners they encounter in their wanderings is an old man named Homer, who dreams of an "epic of peace". Cassiel follows the old man as he looks for the then-demolished Potsdamer Platz in an open field, and finds only the graffiti-covered Wall. Although Damiel and Cassiel are pure observers, visible only to children, and incapable of any interaction with the physical world, Damiel begins to fall in love with a profoundly lonely circus trapeze artist named Marion. She lives by herself in a caravan in West Berlin, until she receives the news that her group, the Circus Alekan, will be closing down. Depressed, she dances alone to the music of Crime & the City Solution, and drifts through the city. Meanwhile, actor Peter Falk arrives in West Berlin to make a film about the city's Nazi past. Falk was once an angel, but, having grown tired of always observing and never experiencing, renounced his immortality to become a participant in the world. Also growing weary of infinity, Damiel's longing is for the genuineness and limits of human existence. He meets Marion in a dream, and is surprised when Falk senses his presence and tells him about the pleasures of human life.

Winnie the Pooh

Stephen J. Anderson, Don Hall

['Jim Cummings', 'Bud Luckey', 'Craig Ferguson', 'Travis Oates', 'Tom Kenny', 'Kristen Anderson-Lopez', 'Wyatt Dean Hall', 'Jack Boulter', 'Huell Howser', 'John Cleese', 'Lisa Linder', 'Robert Lopez']

Action, Animation, Comedy, Adventure, Musical, Children's film, Drama, Family film, Tokusatsu, Comedy music

['USA']

English

['English']

['Walt Disney Animation Studios', 'Walt Disney Pictures']

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The film's setting takes place inside a book, which tells about the adventures of Christopher Robin and his friends Winnie the Pooh (Pooh for short), Piglet, Rabbit, Eeyore, Tigger, Owl, Kanga, and Roo, who all live in the Hundred Acre Wood. One morning, Pooh discovers that he has run out of honey and while searching for more, he visits Eeyore's home to notice that the latter's tail has gone missing. Pooh, Owl, and Christopher Robin organize a contest for anyone who can find a replacement tail for Eeyore, with the prize being a pot of honey per Pooh's request, but it proves unsuccessful. Sometime later, Pooh, who is still searching for honey, decides to visit Christopher Robin, only to find a note written by him. Unable to read the note's words, Pooh has Owl read it, but the latter's poor reading comprehension skills lead everyone in the wood to believe that Christopher Robin has been abducted by a creature called the "Backson". In response, Rabbit comes up with a plan to stop the creature by leaving a trail of items leading to a pit in order to trap him. Elsewhere, Tigger, who disagrees with Rabbit's plan, decides to hunt down and attack the Backson. He soon finds Eeyore, who was accidentally left behind by the gang and decides to take the donkey under his wing. During the training, Tigger dresses up as the Backson to teach Eeyore how to fight, though the latter soon escapes. While struggling to follow through with Rabbit's plan, Pooh falls into the Backson pit after finding an empty honey pot above it. After the rest of the group discover this, they reunite with Eeyore, who found an anchor for a replacement tail while hiding from Tigger, and decide to use the anchor to free Pooh, but its weight pulls everyone but Piglet in. Piglet tries going to Christopher Robin's house to find a rope to rescue everyone, but he is startled by Tigger in his Backson costume, and a comical chase ends with both of them getting trapped in the pit along with letters from the book's text, which Pooh uses to build a latter for everyone to climb out. Afterwards, the group reunite with Christopher Robin, who explains that the real reason for his disappearance was that he was at school. Still hungry, Pooh continues his search for honey. He soon visits Owl's house, where he discovers that Owl has been using Eeyore's tail as a bell pull, unaware of who it belonged to. As Pooh leaves Owl's to return Eeyore's tail, Owl offers him to stay for some honey, but Pooh, ignoring his hunger, declines. As a reward for this act of selflessness, everyone in the Hundred Acre Wood presents Pooh with a giant honey pot, much to his delight. In a post-credits scene, a real Backson, who is revealed to be a very nice and gentle creature, discovers the trail of items that Pooh and his friends left and ends up falling into the pit.

Winter Light

Ingmar Bergman

['Gunnar Björnstrand', 'Ingrid Thulin', 'Gunnel Lindblom', 'Max von Sydow', 'Allan Edwall', 'Kolbjörn Knudsen', 'Olof Thunberg', 'Elsa Ebbesen-Thornblad', 'Tor Borong', 'Bertha Sånnell', 'Helena Palmgren', 'Eddie Axberg', 'Lars-Owe Carlberg', 'Ingmari Hjort', 'Stefan Larsson', 'Johan Olafs', 'Lars-Olof Andersson', 'Christer Öhman']

Drama, Classic

['Sweden']

Swedish

['Swedish']

['SF Studios']

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In the final moments of Pastor Tomas Ericsson's noon service, only a handful of people are in attendance, including fisherman Jonas Persson and his pregnant wife Karin, and Tomas's ex-mistress, the atheistic Märta. After the service, Tomas, though coming down with a cold, prepares for his three o'clock service in another town. Before he leaves, however, the Perssons arrive to speak to him. Jonas has become morose after hearing that China is developing an atomic bomb. Tomas speaks to the man briefly, but asks Jonas to return after taking his wife home. No sooner have the Perssons left than substitute teacher Märta enters, and she attempts to comfort the miserable Tomas, and asks if he's read the letter she wrote to him. He has not, and tells her of his failure to help Jonas, and wonders if he will have anything to say, since he is without hope as well. Märta states her love for Tomas, but also her belief that he does not love her. She leaves, and Tomas reads her letter. In the letter, Märta describes Tomas's neglect of her, relating a story of how a rash that disfigured her body repulsed him, and neither his faith nor his prayers did anything to help her. She writes of how her family was warm and loving without religion, and expresses bewilderment at his indifference to Jesus. Tomas finishes the letter, and falls asleep. Awakened by the return of Jonas, Tomas clumsily tries to provide counsel, before finally admitting that he has no faith as well. He says his faith was an egotistical one – God loved humanity, but Tomas most of all. Serving in Lisbon during the Spanish Civil War, Tomas could not reconcile his loving God with the atrocities being committed, so he ignored them. Tomas finally tells Jonas that things make more sense if we deny the existence of God, because then man's cruelty needs no explanation. Jonas leaves, and Tomas faces the crucifix and declares himself finally free. Märta, who has been lurking in the chapel, is overjoyed to hear this, and embraces Tomas, who again does not respond to her affections. They are interrupted by the widow Magdalena, who tells them that Jonas has just committed suicide with a rifle. Tomas drives, alone, to the scene, and stoically helps the police cover Jonas's body with a tarp. Märta arrives on foot, and she and Tomas drive off to her home, where she invites him in to take some medicine for his cold. Waiting in Märta's classroom attached to her house, Tomas finally lashes out at her, telling her first that he rejected her because he was tired of the gossip about them. When that fails to deter her affections, Tomas then tells her that he was tired of her problems, her attempts to care for him, and her constant talking, and that Märta could never measure up to his late wife, the only woman he has ever loved. Though shocked by the attack, Märta agrees to drive with him to the Persson house. Informed of Jonas's suicide, Karin collapses onto the stairs and wonders how she and her children will go on. Tomas makes a perfunctory offer of help, and leaves. Arriving for the three o'clock service at the second church, Tomas and Märta find the building empty except for Algot, the handicapped sexton, and Fredrik, the organist. In the vestry, Algot questions Tomas about the Passion. Algot wonders why so much emphasis was placed on the physical suffering of Jesus, which was brief in comparison to the many betrayals he faced from his disciples, who denied his messages and commands, and finally from God, who did not answer him on the cross. He asks, "Wasn't God's silence worse?" Tomas, who has been listening silently, answers yes. Meanwhile, Fredrik tells Märta that she should leave the small town and Tomas and live her life, rather than stay and have her dreams crushed like the rest of them, but she chooses to start praying. Fredrik and Algot wonder if they should have a service since no one has shown up. Tomas still chooses to hold it, and the bells are rung. He begins the service reciting the Sanctus: "Holy Holy Holy, Lord God Almighty; heaven and earth are full of your glory."

Wish I Was Here

Zach Braff

['Zach Braff', 'Kate Hudson', 'Joey King', 'Mandy Patinkin', 'Ashley Greene', 'Josh Gad', 'Jim Parsons', 'Michael Weston', 'Pierce Gagnon', 'Alexander Chaplin', 'Leslie David Baker', 'James Avery', 'Ato Essandoh', 'Mark Thudium', 'Allan Rich', 'Cody Sullivan', 'Bruce Nozick', 'Matt Winston', 'Taylor Bagley', 'Jennifer Terry', 'Jackie Johnson', 'Bob Clendenin', 'Silvia Curiel', 'Nichole Galicia', 'Andrew Anderson', 'Bill Blair', 'Donald Faison', 'Max Wright']

Comedy, Children's film, Drama

['France', 'USA']

English

['English']

['Wild Bunch', 'Worldview Entertainment', 'Double Feature Films', 'Second Stix Films', 'Focus Features']

feel-good

feel-good-movies

Aidan Bloom is a 35-year-old father of two struggling to be an actor in Los Angeles while his wife, Sarah, works a tedious data entry job. In order to send their kids, Tucker and Grace, to a Jewish school, they rely on help from Aidan's father, Gabe, who insisted they go to an Orthodox Jewish day school. When Gabe reveals his cancer has returned, he tells Aidan that he has decided to put the rest of his money into a new stem cell treatment, meaning his grandchildren can no longer afford to attend their school. After school administrator Rabbi Twersky refuses to provide any aid to the Blooms, Sarah suggests that Aidan homeschool their kids, and their adventure of self-discovery begins. Through teaching them about life his way, Aidan gradually discovers some of the parts of himself he could not find. Aidan takes the kids on a field trip, camping in the desert. Another day, they are able to test drive an Aston Martin, as Grace is wearing a wig and the salesman mistakenly believes she is dying. Another he works with the kids fixing up their yard, referring to it as Mr. Miyagi learning (referring to The Karate Kid), working to repair the fence and pool. Aidan fools a wealthy neighbor's maid into believing he and the kids are there to clean the pool so he can teach Grace to swim. Aidan's brother Noah is a virtual shut-in who can only be bribed to babysit for his brother. He also refuses to see his dying father, from whom he is estranged. Noah falls for his neighbor Janine who is a furry costume maker, which gives him the idea to impress her by making a costume for San Diego Comic-Con. He does go, and gets the girl. As Gabe nears death, he calls to ask Aidan to come, bringing his favorite ice cream and Noah. He surprisingly leaves the convention to join them at Gabe's side. Aidan grows closer to his wife and children, his faith through the support of young Rabbi Rosenberg, his brother and his father. The family moves onward and upward. We see Grace happily starting high school. Sarah stands up against her harasser at work, she getting one year of severance pay, and he many hours of obligatory anti-sexual harassment training and is fired. Aidan gets a job teaching acting.

With a Friend Like Harry...

Dominik Moll

['Laurent Lucas', 'Sergi López', 'Mathilde Seigner', 'Sophie Guillemin', 'Liliane Rovère', 'Dominique Rozan', 'Michel Fau', 'Victoire de Koster', 'Laurie Caminata', 'Lorena Caminata']

Comedy, Crime, Dark comedy, Drama, Suspense, Mystery, Thriller, Psychological thriller, Psychological Fiction, Crime Comedy

['France']

French

['French']

['La Sofica Sofinergie 5', 'Diaphana Films', 'MG Films', 'M6 Films', 'Canal+', 'CNC']

thriller, essential

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Middle-class couple Michel (Laurent Lucas) and Claire (Mathilde Seigner) are taking their three daughters, Jeanne, Sarah, and Iris, on a trip to see Michel's parents. The car has no air conditioning and the children are feeling sick, so the family decides to make a rest stop and turn back. At the rest stop, Michel runs into Harry (Sergi López), a high school acquaintance of Michel's who he hasn't seen for years. Harry is doing very well for himself, and is traveling with his girlfriend Plum (Sophie Guillemin) to show her Switzerland. Harry asks if he and Plum can come back to Michel's house for a drink, and Michel accepts. Michel's summer home is a run-down house that the family plans to fix up. Michel finds that his father has renovated the bathroom without his consent. At dinner, Harry reminds Michel of a poem he had published in a school newspaper, as well as a science fiction story, The Flying Monkeys; he then offers to help the family out however he can, claiming money is no object. The next day, after Michel tries to fill in a deep well in the front yard, the family car dies in the middle of the road, but Harry purchases a new one for them, despite Michel and Claire's protests. Amidst all this, Michel hears from his parents, who insist on coming to his house instead; Michel's father is not supposed to drive, so Michel insists on picking them up. When he brings them to the house, Harry and Plum are there, and Harry sees the pressure they put on Michel. Harry and Plum leave to stay in a hotel for the night. But Harry sneaks out, steals a van, and goes to Michel's parents' house, claiming Michel is in trouble and they should follow him. They get in the car and follow him, but Harry tricks them into driving off the road and over a cliff, killing them both. Michel is distraught to learn his parents are dead, and the family attends their funeral. After the funeral, Harry gives Michel's brother Eric a ride home. Eric insults Michel and makes fun of his poem. Harry arrives back at the house on his own, claiming Eric thumbed a ride; Michel's daughter sees Harry trying to hide Eric's corpse in the back seat. Harry disposes of the body that night. Amidst all this family tragedy, Michel feels inspired to start writing The Flying Monkeys again but flies into a rage when Claire interrupts his writing. Harry tells Michel that he believes Claire is holding him back. The family has dinner with Plum and Harry again, and Harry tells Plum that Michel insulted her. She runs to the bathroom, crying; Michel goes up to apologize, and Plum kisses him while Harry leaves. Michel apologises to Claire and is inspired by Harry's favourite food to write a more personal story called The Eggs. In the night, Harry returns, killing Plum and enlisting Michel for help disposing of her body in the well. When Michel realise Harry plans to do the same to Claire, he stabs Harry with a knife and drops his body down the same well. Michel stays up all night filling in the well, surprising Claire, who also tells him that she read The Eggs and thinks it is brilliant. The film closes as the family goes on another trip in the car Harry bought them.

Withnail & I

Bruce Robinson

['Richard E. Grant', 'Paul McGann', 'Richard Griffiths', 'Ralph Brown', 'Michael Elphick', "Daragh O'Malley", 'Michael Wardle', 'Una Brandon-Jones', 'Noel Johnson', 'Irene Sutcliffe', 'Llewellyn Rees', 'Robert Oates', 'Anthony Wise', 'Eddie Tagoe']

['Comedy', 'Drama']

['UK']

English

['English', 'Latin']

['Handmade Films', 'Cineplex-Odeon Films']

comedy

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In September 1969, two unemployed young actors, flamboyant alcoholic Withnail and contemplative Marwood, live in a messy flat in Camden Town, London. Their only regular visitor is their drug dealer, Danny. One morning, the pair squabble about housekeeping and then leave to take a walk. In Regent's Park, they discuss the poor state of their acting careers and the desire for a holiday; Marwood proposes a trip to a rural cottage near Penrith owned by Withnail's wealthy uncle Monty. They visit Monty that evening at his luxurious Chelsea house. Monty is a melodramatic aesthete, who Marwood infers is homosexual. The three briefly drink together as Withnail casually lies to Monty about his acting career. He further deceives Monty by implying that Marwood attended Eton College ("the other place"), whilst a lithograph of Harrow School seen earlier in the flat suggests that both Monty and Withnail were educated there. Withnail persuades his uncle to lend them the cottage key and they leave. Withnail and Marwood drive to the cottage the next day but find the weather cold and wet, the cottage without provisions and the locals unwelcoming—in particular a poacher, Jake, whom Withnail offends in the pub. Marwood becomes anxious when he later sees Jake prowling around the cottage and suggests they leave for London the next day. Withnail in turn demands that they share a bed in the interest of safety but Marwood refuses. During the night, Withnail fears that the poacher wants to harm them and climbs under the covers with Marwood, who angrily leaves for a different bed. Hearing the sounds of an intruder breaking into the cottage, Withnail again joins Marwood in bed. The intruder turns out to be Monty, with supplies. The next day, Marwood realises Monty's visit has ulterior motives when he makes aggressive sexual advances upon him; Withnail seems oblivious to this. Monty drives them into town and gives them money to buy wellington boots but they go to a pub instead, and then to a small cafe where they cause a disturbance. Monty is hurt, though he forgets the offence as the three drink and play poker. Marwood is terrified by the thought of Monty's further sexual overtures and wants to leave immediately, but Withnail insists on staying. Late in the night, Marwood tries to avoid Monty's company but is eventually cornered in the guest bedroom as Monty demands sex. Monty also reveals that Withnail, during the visit in London, lied that Marwood was a closet homosexual. Marwood lies that Withnail is the closeted one and that the two of them are in a committed relationship, which Withnail wishes to keep secret from his family and that this is the first night in six years that they have not slept together. Monty, a romantic, believes this explanation and leaves after apologising for coming between them. In private, Marwood furiously confronts Withnail. The next morning, they find Monty has left for London, leaving a note wishing them happiness together. They continue to argue. A telegram arrives from Marwood's agent with a possible offer of work and he insists they return. As Marwood sleeps in the car, Withnail drunkenly speeds most of the way back until pulled over by the police who arrest him for driving under the influence. The pair return to the flat to find Danny and a friend named Presuming Ed squatting. Marwood calls his agent and discovers he is wanted for the lead part in a play but will need to move to Manchester to take it. The four share a huge cannabis joint but the celebration ends when Marwood learns they have received an eviction notice for unpaid rent, while Withnail is too high to care. Marwood—with new haircut—packs a bag to leave for the railway station. He turns down Withnail's offer of a goodbye drink, so Withnail walks with him to the station. In Regent's Park, Marwood reciprocates Withnail saying that he will miss him, and then leaves. Alone with bottle of wine in hand, Withnail performs "What a piece of work is a man!" from Hamlet to the wolves in a nearby Zoo enclosure, and then turns to walk home in the rain.

Witness for the Prosecution

Billy Wilder

['Tyrone Power', 'Marlene Dietrich', 'Charles Laughton', 'Elsa Lanchester', 'John Williams', 'Henry Daniell', 'Ian Wolfe', 'Torin Thatcher', 'Norma Varden', "Una O'Connor", 'Francis Compton', 'Philip Tonge', 'Ruta Lee', 'Patrick Aherne', 'Don Ames', 'Walter Bacon', 'Eddie Baker', 'Benjie Bancroft', 'John Barton', 'Brandon Beach', 'George Blagoi', 'Arline Bletcher', 'Danny Borzage', 'Tex Brodus', 'George Bruggeman', 'George Calliga', 'Steve Carruthers', 'Albert Cavens', 'Oliver Cross', 'Harry Denny', 'Helen Dickson', 'Minta Durfee', 'Marjorie Eaton', 'Franklyn Farnum', 'Bess Flowers', 'Herschel Graham', 'Marion Gray', 'Stuart Hall', 'Art Howard', 'Michael Jeffers', 'Colin Kenny', 'Paul Kruger', 'Jeanne Lafayette', 'Wilbur Mack', 'Frank McLure', 'Ottola Nesmith', "William H. O'Brien", "J. Pat O'Malley", 'George Pelling', 'Fred Rapport', 'Jack Raine', 'Waclaw Rekwart', 'Leoda Richards', 'John Roy', 'Edna Smith', 'Scott Seaton', 'Cap Somers', 'Bert Stevens', 'Jeffrey Sayre', 'Norbert Schiller', 'Arthur Tovey', 'Ben Wright', 'Glen Walters', 'Joe Gilbert']

Trial drama, Legal drama, Legal thriller, Noir, Drama, Crime film, Suspense, Mystery, Thriller, Detective fiction, Classic, Police procedural

['USA']

English

['English', 'German']

['Edward Small Productions', 'United Artists']

mystery

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Senior barrister Sir Wilfrid Robarts, who is recovering from a heart attack, agrees to defend Leonard Vole over the objections of Robarts' private nurse Miss Plimsoll, as Sir Wilfrid's doctor has warned against taking on criminal cases. Vole is accused of murdering Emily French, a wealthy, childless widow who had fallen in love with him and named him as the main beneficiary in her will. When Sir Wilfrid speaks with Vole's German wife Christine, he finds her rather cold and self-possessed, but she does provide an alibi, although it is not entirely convincing. During the trial in the Old Bailey, the Crown introduces testimony that Mrs. French had seen Vole with a younger woman and planned to confront him, but Sir Wilfrid believes his client to be innocent. To his shock, Christine is also summoned as a prosecution witness. While a wife cannot be compelled to testify against her husband, Christine was still married to Otto Helm, a man now living in Soviet occupation zone of Germany, when she wed Vole (who was serving with the Royal Air Force in the British occupation zone and married her to help her escape to the West). Christine testifies that Leonard returned home right after the murder and explained that Mrs. French confronted him and he killed her to avoid being disinherited in her will. Christine states that she never loved Leonard, and her conscience has forced her not to lie. Now terrified for his client's life, Sir Wilfrid is contacted by a Cockney woman who offers to sell him letters written by Christine to a male lover named Max. The handwriting is genuine, and the woman has a legitimate reason for providing the letters: her face was disfigured by Max. During cross examination, Sir Wilfred reads the letters, which include an account of Max and Christine planning to frame Leonard, who is acquitted of murder, much to the crowd's delight. Sir Wilfrid feels troubled and is proved correct when Christine, brought into the courtroom for safety after being assailed by the departing crowd, tells him that he had her help in the case. Sir Wilfrid told Christine before the trial that an alibi contributed by a loving wife would not be believed by a jury, so she posed as a hateful, double-crossing wife. She also wrote letters to a non-existent lover and played the disfigured Cockney woman who gave Sir Wilfred the same letters, in order to discredit her own testimony. Christine admits that she loves Leonard and saved him, but she knew all along that he was guilty. Christine has actually told the truth upon the witness stand; Leonard did, in fact, confess to Mrs. French's murder. Leonard, who has overheard Christine, gleefully boasts that he indeed manipulated and murdered Mrs. French. Sir Wilfrid, who genuinely believed in his client's innocence, is infuriated; but the law is now powerless because of British double jeopardy laws (since overturned). Christine learns, however, that Leonard has indeed been having an affair with the much younger woman seen by Mrs. French, for whom he also plans to abandon her. Leonard smugly announces, though she will now be tried for perjury, he and Christine are now even, as they both saved each other's lives. A devastated Christine grabs a knife and kills Leonard and as she is arrested, Sir Wilfrid decides to further delay his retirement to serve as Christine Vole's defense attorney.

Wizards

Ralph Bakshi

['Bob Holt', 'Jesse Welles', 'Richard Romanus', 'David Proval', 'Mark Hamill', 'Jim Connell', 'Steve Gravers', 'Barbara Sloane', 'Angelo Grisanti', 'Hyman Wien', 'Christopher Tayback', 'Peter Hobbs', 'Tina Romanus', 'Susan Anton', 'Liz Bakshi', 'Ralph Bakshi', 'Victoria Bakshi', 'Hans Conried', 'Charles Gordone', 'Heinrich Himmler', 'Adolf Hitler', 'Viktor Lutze', 'Will Ryan', 'Susan Tyrrell']

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

['USA']

English

['English']

['Bakshi Productions', '20th Century Fox']

animated

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

Earth has been devastated by a nuclear war. It takes 2 million years for the radioactive clouds to allow sunlight in. The humans who survived the apocalypse have been transformed into mutants, while humanity's true ancestors – trolls, fairies, elves and dwarves – resurface and live in the idyllic land of Montagar. While her people celebrate 3,000 years of peace, Delia, queen of the fairies, falls into a trance and gives birth to twin wizards: the kindhearted Avatar and his evil, mutated brother Blackwolf. After Delia's death years later, Blackwolf attempts to usurp her leadership, but Avatar defeats him in a magical duel. Blackwolf leaves Montagar, vowing to return and "make this a planet where mutants rule". Three thousand years later, Blackwolf leads the dark land of Scortch, where he and his army of mutants and other evil creatures (orcs, goblins, trolls, satyrs, dragons, etc.) salvage and restore ancient technology. He tries to attack Montagar twice, but is foiled when his mutant warriors become bored or sidetracked in the midst of battle. Blackwolf then discovers an old projector and reels of Nazi propaganda footage from World War II, using his magic to enhance it for psychological warfare: inspiring his own soldiers while horrifying enemy troops into submission.

Wolf Children

Mamoru Hosoda

['Haru Kuroki', 'Yukito Nishii', 'Aoi Miyazaki', 'Takao Osawa', 'Momoka Ohno', 'Amon Kabe', 'Takuma Hiraoka', 'Megumi Hayashibara', 'Tadashi Nakamura', 'Tamio Ohki', 'Tomie Kataoka', 'Hajime Inoue', 'Shota Sometani', 'Taichi Masu', 'Kumiko Aso', 'Bunta Sugawara', 'Takashi Kobayashi', 'Mitsuki Tanimura', 'Yasuko Egawa']

Anime, Animation, Drama, Romance, Comedy, Children's film, Adventure, Melodrama, Fantasy, Family film, Sports, Coming-of-age story

['Japan']

Japanese

['Japanese']

['Studio Chizu', 'Madhouse', 'Nippon Television Network Corporation', 'KADOKAWA Shoten', 'VAP', 'D.N. Dream Partners', 'Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation', 'TOHO']

animated

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In Tokyo, Hana falls in love with an enigmatic man during her second year of college, who eventually reveals himself to be a wolf man. They later have two children, a daughter named Yuki (Snow) and a son named Ame (Rain). Their father is killed in an accident while hunting for food shortly after Ame's birth. Hana's life as a single mother is difficult; she has to hide the children as they constantly switch between their human and wolf forms, and they often get into fights. After she receives noise complaints and a visit from social services who are concerned that the children have not had vaccinations, Hana moves the family to the countryside away from prying neighbors. She works hard to repair a dilapidated house, but struggles to sustain the family on their own crops. With help from a strict old man named Nirasaki, she learns to farm sufficiently and befriends some of the locals. One day, Ame almost drowns in a river while trying to hunt a kingfisher. Yuki rescues him, and Ame becomes more confident in his wolf abilities. Yuki begs her mother to enroll her in a public school, and Hana accepts on the condition that Yuki keeps her wolf nature secret. Yuki soon makes friends at school while Ame is bullied by his school peers. Meanwhile, Ame often skips school and becomes more interested in the forest and takes lessons from an elderly fox about survival in the wild. In fourth grade, Yuki's class receives a new transfer student, Sōhei, who realizes something is unusual about her. When he pursues the matter by cornering her, Yuki gets increasingly angry, leading her to transform into a wolf and inadvertently injuring his ear. At the meeting with their parents and teachers, Sōhei claims a wolf attacked him, absolving Yuki of the blame, and the two become friends. Yuki chastises Ame for not going to school. When he refuses, they get into a physical fight. Two years later, the elementary school is let out early due to treacherous weather. As Hana is about to leave to retrieve her, Ame disappears into the forest to help his dying fox teacher, and Hana follows him. Yuki and Sōhei are left alone at school. Yuki reveals her ability to Sōhei and confesses that it was really her who attacked him. He tells her he already knew, and promises to keep her secret. While searching for Ame, Hana slips and falls off a cliff. She sees a vision of the children's father telling her that Yuki and Ame will find their own paths in life, and that she raised them well. Ame finds Hana and carries her to safety. She awakens to see him fully transform into an adult wolf and run off into the mountains. Realizing he has found his own path, she happily but tearfully accepts his goodbye. One year later, Yuki leaves home to move into a middle school dormitory. Ame's wolf howls are heard far and wide in the forest. Hana, now living alone, reflects that raising her wolf children was like a fairy tale, and feels proud of the way she raised them.

Wolf Creek

Greg McLean

['John Jarratt', 'Cassandra Magrath', 'Kestie Morassi', 'Nathan Phillips', 'Gordon Poole', "Guy O'Donnell", 'Phil Stevenson', 'Geoff Revell', 'Andy McPhee', 'Aaron Sterns', 'Michael Moody', 'David Rock', 'Teresa Palmer', 'Paul Curran', 'Aaron J. March', 'Sean Gannon', 'Darren Humphreys', 'Isabella Reimer']

Horror, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Drama, Suspense, Mystery

['Australia', 'USA']

English

['English', 'Swedish']

['Dimension Films', 'Australian Film Finance Corporation', 'South Australian Film Corporation', '403 Productions', 'True Crime Channel', 'Mushroom Pictures']

road-movie

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In 1999, two British tourists, Liz Hunter and Kristy Earl, are backpacking across Australia with Ben Mitchell, an Australian friend. Ben buys a dilapidated car for their journey from Broome to Cairns, Queensland via the Great Northern Highway. The trio makes a stop at Wolf Creek National Park. Hours later, they discover that their watches have stopped and the car will not start. After dark, a man named Mick Taylor comes across them and offers to tow them to his camp to repair the car. The group goes with him to an abandoned mining site several hours south of Wolf Creek. Mick regales them with tall stories of his past while making a show of fixing their car. He then gives the group water which causes them to fall unconscious. Liz awakens gagged and tied in a shed. She breaks free and hears Mick torturing Kristy in a garage; it is implied that Mick had sexually assaulted her. Liz sets the now-dismantled car on fire to distract him, and goes to help Kristy. When Mick returns, she shoots him with his rifle, the bullet hitting him in the neck. The women attempt to flee in Mick's ute. Mick stumbles out of the garage and shoots at them before giving chase. The women evade him by pushing his ute off a cliff before returning to the site to get another car. Liz leaves the hysterical Kristy outside, telling her to escape on foot if Liz does not return in five minutes. Liz enters another garage and discovers Mick's large stock of cars and travellers' possessions, including video cameras. She watches the playback on one of them and is horrified to see Mick "helping" other travellers stranded at Wolf Creek. She picks up Ben's camera and notices Mick's ute in the footage; he had followed them long before they got to Wolf Creek. She gets into a car but Mick appears in the backseat and stabs her with a bowie knife. Liz crawls out and he hacks her fingers off, then severs her spinal cord, paralyzing her. He interrogates her as to Kristy's whereabouts. By dawn, Kristy has reached a highway and is discovered by a passing motorist. He attempts to help her but is shot dead by Mick with a hunting rifle. Mick gives chase, prompting Kristy to take off in the dead man's car. Kristy sideswipes Mick's car into a ditch when he pulls up alongside and begins to get away, but Mick emerges and shoots out her back tyre causing her in turn to drive into a ditch, rolling the car. She attempts to crawl away, but is shot dead. Mick bundles her body and the dead motorist into the back of his car and torches the car. Ben awakens nailed to a mock crucifix in a mine shaft. He extracts himself and enters the camp in early daylight. He escapes into the outback, but becomes dehydrated and passes out beside a dirt road. He is discovered by a Swedish couple who take him to Kalbarri, where he is airlifted to a hospital. A series of title cards state that despite several police searches, no trace of Liz or Kristy has ever been found. Early investigations into the case were disorganised, hampered by confusion over the location of the crimes, a lack of physical evidence and the alleged unreliability of the only witness. After four months in police custody, Ben was cleared of suspicion. The film ends with Mick walking into the sunset with his rifle.

Wolfwalkers

Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart

['Honor Kneafsey', 'Eva Whittaker', 'Sean Bean', 'Simon McBurney', 'Tommy Tiernan', 'Maria Doyle Kennedy', 'Jon Kenny', 'John Morton', 'Nora Twomey', 'Oliver McGrath', 'Paul Young', 'Niamh Moyles', 'Ben Andrews', 'Jerome Burelbach', 'Vince Drews', 'Seamus Greene', 'Gilbert Johnston', 'Luke Mandie', 'Ian Sanderson', 'Jack Caldwell', 'Eoin Cleary', 'Marguerita Hanlon', 'Jacob Holden', 'Clare Keating', 'Orla Keating', 'Caolán Lulias', 'Patrick McGrath', 'Daisy Moran', 'Dylan Muldowney', "Mark O'Connell", "Róisín O'Shea", 'Philip Brennan', 'Jim Carroll', 'Richie Cody', 'Brendan Corcoran', 'Michael Culleton', 'Sarah Doyle', 'Amy Dunne', 'Gilly Fogg', 'Jennifer Hughes', 'Michael McGrath', 'Ken McGuire', 'Desirée Meade', 'Graham Mills', 'Aoibhin Murphy', 'Mags Murphy', "Aaron O'Dea", "Cara O'Doherty", 'Aoife O’Neill', 'Jacqueline Purcell', 'Muireann Ryan', 'Alan Slattery', 'David Thompson', 'Eleanor Walsh']

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

['China', 'France', 'Ireland', 'Luxembourg', 'USA']

English

['English', 'Irish']

['Cartoon Saloon', 'Melusine Productions', 'Value&Power Culture Communications', 'Film Fund Luxembourg', 'Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland', 'Broadcasting Authority of Ireland', 'Haut et Court', 'Canal+', 'RTÉ', 'OCS', 'Pôle Image Magelis', 'Folivari', 'GKIDS']

friendship

favorite-friendship-driven-movies

In Ireland in 1650, the residents of the town of Kilkenny are working to clear the nearby woods under orders from the authoritarian Lord Protector (who resembles the historical Oliver Cromwell), putting them at odds with a wolf pack who have been terrorizing the villagers. English hunter Bill Goodfellowe, with his rebellious daughter Robyn, has been summoned to Kilkenny by the Lord Protector to exterminate the wolves. Bill goes out into the woods to place traps for the wolves, leaving his daughter alone at home. Wanting to help Bill, Robyn secretly follows him with her pet falcon, Merlyn, in an attempt to kill a wolf. However, she soon finds herself in the middle of the wolf pack's raid on farm sheep. After accidentally shooting Merlyn with her crossbow while trying to kill a wolf, Robyn watches a mysterious girl take him into the woods and follows them. Upon finding Merlyn miraculously healed, she is startled into a trap when one of the wolves confronts her. The wolf begins trying to help her escape, but she mistakes this for aggression and tries to fight it, causing it to bite her. Once out of the trap, Merlyn and the wolf lead Robyn to the wolves' den, where she discovers the wolf is the same girl from earlier. The girl, Mebh, explains she is a "Wolfwalker", whose spirit leaves her body and becomes a wolf when she sleeps. Robyn comes to befriend Mebh, and also learns that her dormant mother Moll's spirit has not yet returned in her search for a new home for their pack, leaving Mebh alone to take care of them. Returning home, Robyn tries to convince Bill of the existence of Wolfwalkers, but he instead scolds her for going into the forest, and insists that she take up work to occupy herself. The next morning, while working at the scullery, as ordered by the Lord Protector, Robyn is drawn into his chambers by a mysterious voice coming from a concealed cage, but is soon ushered out by the head maid. That night, as she sleeps, Robyn discovers her soul has left her body and has become a wolf. Shocked and confused, Robyn returns to the woods where Mebh reveals her bite has turned Robyn into a Wolfwalker like her, and helps her get accustomed to her new form. Upon returning to Kilkenny, Robyn is drawn into the Lord Protector's manor where she finds Moll's wolf form inside the cage. Moll tells Robyn that Mebh and the pack must leave the forest, as the Lord Protector plans to burn it down to wipe them out. The Lord Protector, seeking to restore control of the town, assures the townspeople that he can tame the wolves, and by extension, nature itself. He ignores Robyn's pleas to let Moll go and demotes Bill for failing to eliminate the wolves. Fearing separation from each other, Robyn and Bill tend to their duties. Mebh, having waited for Robyn to return on a promise from the previous night, enters Kilkenny and finds Robyn, who attempts to relay her mother's warning, but Mebh, hurt by Robyn's refusal to help rescue her mother out of concern for her safety, resolves to do it alone. The Lord Protector presents the captured Moll before the townspeople, showing his control over the wolves. An enraged Mebh attempts to free her but when Bill restrains her, Moll bites him. Mebh vows to return with her pack to rescue her mother before finally fleeing. The Lord Protector orders Bill to kill Moll and leads his army to burn the forest down. However, Robyn protects Moll from Bill, before she frees and reunites her with Mebh before she and her pack can attack Kilkenny, earning Mebh's forgiveness. Bill follows them and shoots Moll, causing Moll's wolf form to become a spirit and return to her human form in the den, with Robyn's wolf form, Mebh, and the wolves following it. The Lord Protector and his army arrive and begin burning the forest. As Mebh works to heal a grievously wounded Moll using the same magic used on Merlyn, Robyn and the pack stall the soldiers. Mebh summons Robyn and her pack back, realizing she needs them present to heal Moll, but Robyn is knocked unconscious after disabling the army's cannon. Before the Lord Protector can kill her, Bill, due to Moll's bite, becomes a Wolfwalker and protects her. After being bitten by Bill and horrified by now being a Wolfwalker, the Lord Protector lets himself plummet into a waterfall to his death, praying for salvation as he falls. Robyn and Bill return to the den and help Mebh revive Moll, and accept her invitation to stay with the pack and embrace their new identities as Wolfwalkers. They set off to find a new home, ending with a content Bill and Moll driving their caravan while the two girls sleep in the back as their wolf forms, surrounded by the pack, race each other through the trees.

Woman in the Dunes

Hiroshi Teshigahara

['Eiji Okada', 'Kyōko Kishida', 'Hiroko Itō', 'Kōji Mitsui']

Comedy, Drama, Suspense, Thriller

['Japan']

Japanese

['Japanese']

['Teshigahara Productions']

lb_top250

Schoolteacher and amateur entomologist Niki Junpei leaves Tokyo on an expedition to a rural coastal village to collect tiger beetles and other insects that live in sandy soil. After a long day of searching, he misses the last bus ride back to the city. A village elder and some of the other locals suggest that he stay the night at their village. Junpei agrees and is guided down a rope ladder to a hut at the bottom of a sand dune, the home of a young woman. He learns that she lost her husband and daughter in a sandstorm a year ago and now lives alone; their bodies are said to be buried under the sand somewhere near the hut. After dinner, the woman goes outside to shovel the sand into buckets, which the villagers reel in from the top of the dune. Junpei offers to help, but she refuses, telling him that he is a guest and there is no need for him to help on the first day. The next morning, Junpei gets ready to leave but finds that the rope ladder has been pulled up. Unable to escape, as the sand surrounding the hut is too steep and does not give him enough grip to climb, he quickly realises that he is trapped and expected to live with the woman and assist her in digging the sand, which is sold to cement manufacturers on the black market. He begrudgingly accepts this role, which the woman has long accepted without question. Junpei becomes the widow's lover but hopes to escape. One evening, he climbs out of the pit with an improvised grappling hook and runs away, with the villagers in pursuit. Unfamiliar with the geography of the area, he becomes trapped in quicksand. The villagers free him and return him to the hut. Junpei eventually resigns himself to his situation but requests time each day to see the nearby sea; the villagers agree on the condition that he has sex with the woman while they watch. Junpei agrees, but she refuses and fends him off. Through his persistent efforts to trap a crow as a messenger, he discovers a way to draw water from the damp sand at night by capillary action and becomes absorbed in perfecting the technique. When the woman becomes ill from an ectopic pregnancy, the villagers take her to a doctor; they leave the rope ladder down, but Junpei chooses to stay, telling himself that he can still escape after showing the villagers his method of water production. The film's final shot is of a police report stating that Junpei has been missing for seven years.

Woman in the Moon

Fritz Lang

['Willy Fritsch', 'Gerda Maurus', 'Klaus Pohl', 'Fritz Rasp', 'Gustav von Wangenheim', 'Tilla Durieux', 'Margarete Kupfer', 'Alexa von Porembsky', 'Gerhard Dammann', 'Heinrich Gotho', 'Alfred Loretto', 'Gustl Gstettenbaur']

Romance, Comedy, Science fiction, Adventure, Melodrama, Drama, Silent, Black-and-white, Indie film, World cinema

['Germany']

No spoken language

['No spoken language']

['UFA', 'Fritz Lang-Film']

sci-fi, top-rated

letterboxds-top-250-science-fiction-films

Plot section not found.

Wonder

Stephen Chbosky

['Jacob Tremblay', 'Julia Roberts', 'Owen Wilson', 'Izabela Vidovic', 'Noah Jupe', 'Millie Davis', 'Bryce Gheisar', 'Mandy Patinkin', 'Danielle Rose Russell', 'Daveed Diggs', 'Mark Dozlaw', 'Rukiya Bernard', 'Jennifer March', 'Elle McKinnon', 'Ty Consiglio', 'Kyle Breitkopf', 'James A Hughes', 'J. Douglas Stewart', 'Ali Liebert', 'Joseph Gordon', 'Cameron Roberts', 'Erika McKitrick', 'Nadji Jeter', 'Ben Immanuel', 'Jason McKinnon', 'Izzy Lieberman', 'Hannah Hoberman', 'Michael Alan Healy', 'Sônia Braga', 'Nicole Oliver', 'Emily Delahunty', 'Lucia Thain', 'Sasha Neuhaus', 'Rachel Hayward', 'Callahan Brebner', 'Caleb Gordon', 'Grayson Maxwell Gurnsey', 'Emily Giannozio', 'Haley Goldin', 'Maccie Margaret Chbosky', 'Victoria V. Cruz', 'Yan-Kay Crystal Lowe', 'Steve Bacic', 'Jason Tremblay', 'William Dickinson', 'Emma Tremblay', 'Armen Bagdasarov', 'Lidya Jewett', 'Kaelyn Breitkopf', 'Gidget', 'Brayden Snow', 'Andre Robinson', 'Alyssa Andronyk', 'Wilson Chieng', 'Dallas Snow', 'Justin Snow', 'Kayzhia Snow', 'Amber Snow', 'Elayna Sing', 'Ann Evans', 'Abigail Friend', 'Razvan Orban', 'Kari Staten']

Children's film, Comedy, Family film, Melodrama, Drama, Coming-of-age story

['Canada', 'Hong Kong', 'USA']

English

['English']

['Lionsgate', 'Participant', 'Walden Media', 'Mandeville Films', 'TIK Films']

feel-good

feel-good-movies

August "Auggie" Pullman is a 10-year-old boy living in Brooklyn with his parents, Isabel and Nate, older sister, Via, and their dog, Daisy. Auggie was born with a rare medical facial deformity, mandibulofacial dysostosis, and has been homeschooled by Isabel, but as he approaches fifth grade, she and Nate enroll him at Beecher Prep, a private middle school. When the school year begins, Auggie is ostracized, but he soon forms a close friendship with a classmate, Jack Will. For Halloween, Auggie dresses as Ghostface from the previous year when Daisy ruins his planned Boba Fett costume. While entering his homeroom, Auggie overhears Jack, who does not recognize him, joining Julian Albans, the class bully, and his friends, Amos Conti, Miles Noury, and Henry Joplin, in making fun of Auggie behind his back. Auggie feigns sick, forcing his mother to abandon her mother-daughter day with Via to pick him up. Though she is hurt, Via convinces Auggie to go trick-or-treating with her, as she has been rejected by her own best friend, Miranda Navas. Afterwards, Auggie begins avoiding Jack. Auggie forms a new friendship with another classmate, Summer Dawson, confiding in her about his split with Jack. When Jack asks Summer why Auggie is avoiding him, she says "Ghostface". Jack realizes his mistake and resolves to make it up to Auggie by being his partner for the science fair instead of partnering with Julian and Amos. When Julian confronts Jack about it and calls Auggie a freak, they get into a fight. Outraged, Julian ends his friendship with Jack. Jack is suspended for two days, and the principal, Mr. Lawrence Tushman, reads Jack's letter about defending Auggie. Jack then apologizes to Auggie via Minecraft, and they reconcile. Meanwhile, Via has been feeling left out as her parents spend more time looking after Auggie than her. Via signs up for the drama club after meeting theater nerd Justin Hollander, with whom she begins a romantic relationship. Via is selected as Miranda's understudy for the lead role in the school's production of Our Town, but on opening night, Miranda feigns illness to let Via take her place after learning that Via's family is in attendance while her own is not. Via gives a moving performance, earning a standing ovation, and reconciles with Miranda. Auggie's popularity and circle of friends grow after he and Jack win first prize at the science fair, but Julian and his friends continue to bully Auggie. Mr. Tushman confronts Julian and his parents with evidence, including hate notes and a class picture with Auggie photoshopped out. Julian's mother admits she deleted Auggie from the picture, defends Julian's actions, and insists that students should not be exposed to Auggie. Despite her threats to pull funding, Julian is suspended for two days, forcing him to miss an upcoming nature retreat. As they leave, his mother declares that Julian will not be back in the fall. However, Julian apologizes to Mr. Tushman, and the latter forgives him. At the nature retreat, Auggie and Jack are threatened by a trio of seventh graders from another school, but Amos, Miles, and Henry defend them. At the graduation ceremony, Auggie thanks Isabel for enrolling him in school and is given the Henry Ward Beecher Medal for his strength and courage throughout the school year.

Wonder Woman

Patty Jenkins

['Gal Gadot', 'Chris Pine', 'Connie Nielsen', 'Robin Wright', 'Danny Huston', 'David Thewlis', 'Saïd Taghmaoui', 'Ewen Bremner', 'Eugene Brave Rock', 'Lucy Davis', 'Elena Anaya', 'Lilly Aspell', 'Lisa Loven Kongsli', 'Ann Wolfe', 'Ann Ogbomo', 'Emily Carey', 'James Cosmo', 'Wolf Kahler', 'Alexander Mercury', 'Martin Bishop', 'Flora Nicholson', 'Pat Abernethy', 'Freddy Elletson', 'Sammy Hayman', 'Michael Tantrum', 'Philippe Spall', 'Edward Wolstenholme', 'Ian Hughes', 'Marko Leht', 'Steffan Rhodri', 'Andrew Byron', 'Dominic Kinnaird', 'Rachel Pickup', 'Ulli Ackermann', 'Frank Allen Forbes', 'Peter Stark', 'Rainer Bock', 'Josh Bromley', 'Jennie Eggleton', 'Eva Dabrowski', 'Harvey James', 'George Johnston', 'Danielle Lewis', 'Florence Kasumba', 'Eleanor Matsuura', 'Josette Simon', 'Doutzen Kroes', 'Hayley Warnes', 'Caitlin Burles', 'Jemma Moore', 'Samantha Win', 'Brooke Ence', 'Madeleine Vall', 'Hari James', 'Jacqui-Lee Pryce', 'Betty Adewole', 'Caroline Winberg', 'Lizzie Bowden', 'Kattreya Scheurer-Smith', 'Rekha Luther', 'Thaina Oliveira', 'Ooooota Adepo', 'Zinnia Kumar', 'Toma McDonagh', 'Amber Doyle', 'Freddy Carter', 'Fred Fergus', 'Tim Pritchett', 'Gana Bayarsaikhan', 'Camilla Roholm', 'Stephanie Haymes-Roven', 'Nia Burke', 'Dee Lewis Clay', 'Tori Letzler', 'Mayling Ng', 'Zack Snyder', 'Lee Neville', 'Ana Cilas']

Animation, Action, Superhero, War, Science fiction, Adventure, Drama

['USA']

English

['English', 'German']

['Atlas Entertainment', 'Cruel & Unusual Films', 'DC Films']

superhero, fantasy

superhero-movies, filmsrankedcom-200-greatest-fantasy-films

In present-day Paris, Diana Prince receives a photographic plate from Wayne Enterprises of herself and four men taken during World War I, prompting her to recall her past. Diana, the daughter of Queen Hippolyta, is raised on the hidden island of Themyscira, home to the Amazons, women warriors created by the Olympian gods to protect mankind. Hippolyta tells Diana the story of how Ares became jealous of humanity and orchestrated its destruction. When the other gods attempted to stop him, Ares killed all but Zeus, who used the last of his power to wound him and force his retreat. Before dying, Zeus left the Amazons a weapon, the "god-killer", to prepare them for Ares' return. Hippolyta reluctantly agrees to let her sister, Antiope, train Diana as a warrior. In 1918, Diana rescues US pilot Captain Steve Trevor when his plane crashes off the Themysciran coast. The island is soon invaded by German soldiers, who had been pursuing him. The Amazons wipe out the German landing force, with Antiope sacrificing herself to save Diana. Steve is interrogated with the Lasso of Hestia and reveals that a great war is consuming the outside world and that he is an Allied spy. He has stolen a notebook from the Germans' chief chemist, Dr. Isabel Maru, who is attempting to engineer a deadlier form of mustard gas under the orders of General Erich Ludendorff. Believing Ares to be responsible for the war, Diana arms herself with the "god-killer" sword, the lasso, and armor before leaving Themyscira with Steve. In London, they deliver Maru's notebook to the Supreme War Council, where Sir Patrick Morgan is trying to negotiate an armistice with Germany. Diana translates Maru's notes, revealing that the Germans plan to release the deadly gas at the Western Front. Although forbidden by his commander to act, Steve, with secret funding from Morgan, recruits Moroccan spy Sameer, Scottish marksman Charlie, and Native American smuggler Chief Napi to help prevent the gas from being released. The team reaches the front in Belgium. Diana goes alone through No Man's Land and destroys the enemy trench, liberating the nearby village of Veld with the aid of the Allied forces. The team briefly celebrates, taking a photograph in the village, where Diana and Steve fall in love. The team learns that a gala will be held at the nearby German High Command. Steve and Diana separately infiltrate the party; he intends to locate the gas and destroy it and she hopes to kill Ludendorff, believing that he is Ares. Steve stops her to avoid jeopardizing his mission, but this allows Ludendorff to unleash the gas on Veld, killing its inhabitants. Blaming Steve for intervening, Diana pursues Ludendorff to a base where the gas is being loaded into a bomber aircraft bound for London. Diana fights and kills him, but is confused and disillusioned when his death does not stop the war. Sir Patrick appears and reveals himself to be Ares. He tells Diana that although he has subtly given humans ideas and inspirations, it is ultimately their decision to resort to violence, as they are inherently corrupt. When Diana attempts to kill Ares with the "god-killer" sword, he destroys it before revealing to Diana that she is the "god-killer", since she is the daughter of Zeus. While the two battle, Steve's team destroys Maru's laboratory. Steve hijacks and pilots the bomber carrying the poison to a safe altitude and detonates it, blowing up the plane and himself. Ares attempts to direct Diana's rage and grief at Steve's death by convincing her to kill Maru, but the memories of her experiences with Steve cause her to realize that humans have goodness within them. She spares Maru and redirects Ares's lightning into him, definitively killing him. Later, the team celebrates the end of the war. In the present day, Diana sends an email to Bruce Wayne thanking him for the photographic plate of her and Steve. She continues to fight on the world's behalf as Wonder Woman.

Wonder Woman 1984

Patty Jenkins

['Gal Gadot', 'Chris Pine', 'Kristen Wiig', 'Pedro Pascal', 'Robin Wright', 'Connie Nielsen', 'Lilly Aspell', 'Amr Waked', 'Kristoffer Polaha', 'Natasha Rothwell', 'Ravi Patel', 'Oliver Cotton', 'Lucian Perez', 'Gabriella Wilde', 'Kelvin Yu', 'Stuart Milligan', 'Shane Attwooll', 'David Al-Fahmi', 'Kevin Wallace', 'Wai Wong', 'Doutzen Kroes', 'Hari James', 'Betty Adewole', 'Camilla Roholm', 'Jessie Graff', 'Brontë Lavine', 'Briony Scarlett', 'Jade Johnson', 'Miranda Chambers', 'Moe Sasegbon', 'Gwendolyn Osborne-Smith', 'Hayley Warnes', 'Lyon Beckwith', 'Ryan Watson', 'Jimmy Burke', 'Brandon Thane Wilson', 'Oakley Bull', 'Andy Riddle', 'Rey Rey Terry', 'Tina Edwards', 'Bill Debrason', 'Rick Kain', 'Vickie Warehime', 'Mike D. Anderson', 'Christopher Crutchfield Walker', 'Gina Grinkemeyer', 'Cassandra Newman', 'Valerie Leonard', 'Susan Smythe', 'Bob Cusack', 'John Bucy', 'Patrick Gover', 'Tracy Tobin', 'Mitch Holson', 'Ashley Gladden', 'Spencer Trinwith', 'Parker Damm', 'Caroline Coleman', 'Summer Snead', 'Tori Beverly', 'Raquel Merediz', 'Vince Eisenson', 'Asim Chaudhry', 'Danny Morgan', 'Tessa Bonham Jones', 'Philip Philmar', 'Mensah Bediako', 'Russell Barnett', 'Peter Brooke', 'Jarren Dalmeda', 'Jasmine Clark', 'Jonathan Ajayi', 'Tomos Vaughan-Williams', 'Avi Rothman', 'Belinda Mayne', 'Orlando James', 'Bruce McKinnon', 'Ed Birch', 'Aykut Hilmi', 'Zaydun Khalaf', 'Nerea Palacios', 'Altahay Ramos Martín', 'Joanne Henry', 'Patrick Lyster', 'Sam Sheridan', 'Paul Boyd', 'Vincent Jerome', 'Akie Kotabe', 'Kenneth Jay', 'Jasmine Hyde', 'Paul McQuaid', 'Gabriel Constantin', 'Alex Delescu', 'Mish Boyko', 'Constantine Gregory', 'Michael Poole', 'Joe Palka', 'Jean H. Miller', 'Mike Sengelow', 'Paul Connaughton', 'Wendy Albiston', 'Rhonda Overby', 'Lambro Demetriou', 'Jonny Barry', 'Luis Torrecilla', 'Sarah Barlondo', 'Matt Costello', 'Evan Bittner', 'Archie L. Harris Jr.', 'Stephanie Waters', 'Thomas Clay Strickland', 'Chi-Lin Nim', 'Michael Kaurene', 'Michael Gabel', 'Orlando Gonzalez', 'Dan De Luca', 'Ahmed Hussien', 'Tony Zarouel', 'Naithan Ariane', 'Joel Morris', 'Michael Salami', 'Kosha Engler', 'Asa Sheridan', 'Alma Varsano', 'Maya Varsano', 'Jaron Varsano', 'Tilly Winford', 'Victoria Broom', 'Hamza Siddique', 'Colin Stinton', 'Andy Cheung', 'Katharine Pickering', 'Karis McCabe', 'Saskia Neville', 'Jenny Pacey', 'Mikayla-Jade Barber', 'Candice Carbine', 'Donna Forbes', 'Chantal Nell', 'Lynda Carter', 'Maggie Lovitt', 'Chad Tyler', 'Lucas N. Hall', 'Mimi Michaela Konoza', 'Brittney Aleah']

Action, Superhero, Fantasy, Adventure, Science fiction, Drama

['USA']

English

['English']

['Warner Bros. Pictures', 'The Stone Quarry', 'DC Films', 'Atlas Entertainment']

superhero

superhero-movies

As a child, Diana participates in an athletic competition on Themyscira against adult Amazons. After being knocked off her horse, she takes a shortcut and remounts, but misses a checkpoint. Antiope removes her from the race for cheating, explaining that anything worthwhile must be obtained honestly, while her mother Hippolyta advises her to be patient in her pursuit of glory and honor. In 1984, Diana is working at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., while secretly performing heroic deeds as Wonder Woman. New museum employee Barbara Minerva, a shy geologist and cryptozoologist, has trouble getting noticed by her co-workers, but quickly finds a friend in Diana. The FBI asks the museum to identify stolen antiquities from a robbery that Wonder Woman recently foiled; Barbara and Diana notice a Latin inscription on one artifact (the Dreamstone) claiming to grant the holder one wish. Neither one openly takes the inscription seriously, but after Diana saves Barbara from an assailant by secretly using her powers, Barbara wishes she was strong, sexy, and cool "like" Diana and thus unintentionally acquires the same superpowers. Because Diana yearns for Steve Trevor, her lover who died heroically, he is resurrected in another man's body and they are reunited. Failing businessman Maxwell "Max Lord" Lorenzano steals the Dreamstone, hoping to use its power to save his nearly bankrupt oil company. His wish is to "become" the stone and gain its powers: whenever he grants someone else's desire, he can take what he wants from the wisher. This soon results in worldwide chaos, destruction, and instability. Diana discovers that the Dreamstone was created by Dolos/Mendacius, The God of Lies, also known as the Duke of Deception. It grants a user's wish but exacts an equally strong toll unless they renounce the wish or destroy the stone. Although Diana's powers and Barbara's humanity begin to diminish, neither is willing to renounce her wish. Max visits the U.S. President, who wishes for more nuclear missiles as protection against the Soviets, but these are detected, bringing the world to the brink of nuclear war. Max also learns of a new and secret satellite system that can broadcast to anyone in the world. Since his powers are causing his body to deteriorate, he plans to grant wishes globally to steal strength and life force from the viewers and regain his health. Diana and Steve confront him, but Barbara sides with Max, overpowering Diana and escaping with him on Marine One. Steve convinces Diana to renounce her wish and let him go, restoring her to full strength. Donning the armor of Asteria, the greatest of all Amazon warriors, Diana flies to the satellite headquarters and again battles Barbara, who has transformed into a humanoid cheetah after wishing to become an apex predator. After a brutal fight that ends in a lake, Diana overcomes Barbara with an electric shock, then pulls her out of the water. Diana confronts Max and uses her Lasso of Truth to communicate with the world through him, persuading everyone to renounce their wish. She then shows him visions of his unhappy childhood and of his son, Alistair, who is frantically searching for his father amid the chaos. Realizing the error of his ways, Max renounces his wish and reunites with Alistair, simultaneously renouncing everyone else's wishes, and turning Barbara back to normal. In the present day, it is winter, and Diana meets the man whose body Steve possessed. In a mid-credits scene, Asteria is revealed to be alive, living among humans and also secretly heroic.

Wood & Stock: Sex, Oregano and Rock'n'Roll

Otto Guerra

['Zé Victor Castiel', 'Sepé Tiaraju', 'Rita Lee', 'Janaína Kremer', 'Tom Zé', 'Felipe Mônaco', 'Léo Machado', 'Michele Frantz', 'Otto Guerra', 'Heinz Limaverde', 'Júlio Andrade', 'Geórgia Reck', 'Cleo de Paris', "John's", 'Getúlio da Boca', 'Antônio Carlos Falcão', 'Cláudia Meneghetti', 'Marta Machado', 'Cristiano Scherer', 'Fred Messias', 'Bibiana Graeff', 'Rodrigo Rheinheimer', 'Matheus Walter', 'King Jim']

['Comedy', 'Animation']

['Brazil']

Portuguese

['Portuguese']

['Otto Desenhos Animados', 'Downtown Filmes', 'VideoFilmes']

animated

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

Plot section not found.

Words on Bathroom Walls

Thor Freudenthal

['Charlie Plummer', 'Molly Parker', 'Walton Goggins', 'Andy García', 'Taylor Russell', 'AnnaSophia Robb', 'Beth Grant', 'Devon Bostick', 'Lobo Sebastian', 'Aaron Dominguez', 'Reinaldo Faberlle', 'Jeris Donovan', 'Iain Tucker', 'Sean Michael Weber', 'Drew Scheid', 'Anthony J. Police', 'Ellie Dusek', 'Blaque Fowler', 'Cruz Abelita', 'Evan Whitten', 'Shea Brianne Wixson', 'Pam Smith', 'Justin Matthew Smith']

Romance, Comedy, Teen, Melodrama, Drama, Comedy drama

['USA']

English

['English']

['LD Entertainment']

sad, emotional

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

After a psychotic break causes him to accidentally burn a classmate’s arm, high school senior Adam Petrazelli is then diagnosed with schizophrenia. He first self-treats by intensely focusing on cooking, which calms him. His symptoms - chiefly hallucinations of three people - worsen until he is put on a drug trial. At stressful times, his three regular "visitors" are Rebecca, a New Age hippie; Joaquin, the smutty best friend; and the overprotective and often violent "The Bodyguards"; as well as a "dark" threatening voice that represents Adam's fears of the unknown. Adam transfers to St. Agatha's Catholic School. There, he meets Maya Arnez, a feisty, intelligent girl and class valedictorian. Adam gets Maya to tutor him and finds she helps him feel better, so he takes his new medication regularly. This reduces his visions, with only the side effect being muscle twitching. He takes a romantic interest in Maya and the two become close, but he does not disclose his condition to her out of fear of stigmatization. Adam also starts to regularly confide in Father Patrick, the sympathetic school priest, about his fears and anxieties. When Maya doesn't show to a tutoring session, Adam visits her home. He discovers that her family is struggling financially, and she is embarrassed and angry about his unannounced visit. Once Maya realizes he doesn't care about her background, she continues tutoring him. She invites him to her restaurant job where she has him cook for her, but a taste test leads Adam to the realization his medication is negatively affecting his taste buds. Adam decides to stop taking his medications, unbeknownst to his mother Beth and stepfather Paul. His moods become imbalanced and his delusions return. The news that Beth is expecting a new baby with Paul also gives rise to Adam's insecurities about being unwanted and feeling like a burden. Nevertheless, Adam's grades improve so much that his essay is selected to be read at graduation. He asks Maya to the prom and she accepts. Beth finds out Adam has stopped his medication and confronts him. Sister Catherine, the school's headmistress, is informed about the incident and about what happened at his last school. He is temporarily suspended, with the reasoning that it is for the students' safety. Adam lashes out at Paul, believing that an email Paul wrote to Sister Catherine the previous night is behind the suspension. The suspension bars Adam from attending the prom, but he goes anyway. Before he leaves, he takes an overdose of his medication, believing it will help the night go smoothly. He meets Maya there, but as they dance, the dark voice plagues him and he begins to act erratically. Sister Catherine tries to kick him out, but his delusions cause him to push her to the ground, run to the catwalk, and fall over the edge. Adam wakes in the hospital to see Beth and Paul. Maya shows up to visit, but he breaks down when the visions overwhelm him. He yells at her and tells her to leave. He is expelled from St. Agatha's and placed in a psych ward. Father Patrick visits and tells Adam he wasn't aware of his struggles, saying he will pray for him. Beth brings Adam a printed copy of the email Paul sent to St. Agatha's. Contrary to what Adam thought, Paul supported his stepson and wrote that suspending him would be cruel. Realizing how much he cares, Adam runs to catch up with him and Beth, hugging Paul for the first time and accepting him as a fatherly figure. Beth and Paul take Adam to St. Agatha's graduation ceremony, where, despite Sister Catherine's attempt to stop him, he gathers the courage to address the student body calmly, with the support of Father Patrick. He quotes his essay in which he discusses both his condition and battle with schizophrenia, saying he wished he hadn't hidden his illness. After he leaves the auditorium, Maya runs after him. Adam apologizes for not telling her about his illness, at which point they express their mutual love and share a kiss. Adam is able to receive his high school diploma and realizes his dream of attending culinary school. As he celebrates the birth of his new sibling with his parents and Maya, it is shown that the voices are still present, but he has learned to live alongside them.

World of Tomorrow

Don Hertzfeldt

['Julia Pott', 'Winona Mae', 'Sara Cushman']

Animation, Comedy, Short, Science fiction, Drama

['USA']

English

['English']

['Bitter Films']

animated

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

A young girl, Emily is contacted by a clone of her future self from 227 years in the future, created as a means of achieving immortality. They then travel to the clone's time and visit the Outernet, a future version of the Internet, where they explore memories of the clone's life. The first memory is one from the clone Emily's childhood, where a male clone without a brain, nicknamed "David", is kept in stasis. Emily visits him until his death at age 72. Other memories the pair involve various jobs and loves of Emily's both on the moon and in outer space. Upon her return to Earth, the clone Emily opened an art gallery exhibiting anonymous memories. Here she meets a descendant clone of David, which ends prematurely with his own death, thus ending his family life. Last, clone Emily reveals that in sixty days, Earth will be destroyed by a meteoroid. She reveals the true reason that she contacted Emily Prime: to retrieve an important memory from her original source before her own death, that of the original Emily and her mother walking together, which the clone had forgotten. The specific memory will comfort her in the days leading to Earth's destruction. Emily Prime returns home.

World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts

Don Hertzfeldt

['Julia Pott', 'Winona Mae', 'Jesse Cilio']

Animation, Comedy, Short, Science fiction, Fantasy

['USA']

English

['English']

['Bitter Films']

animated

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

Plot section not found.

World's Greatest Dad

Bobcat Goldthwait

['Robin Williams', 'Alexie Gilmore', 'Daryl Sabara', 'Evan Martin', 'Geoff Pierson', 'Henry Simmons', 'Mitzi McCall', 'Jermaine Williams', 'Lorraine Nicholson', 'Morgan Murphy', 'Toby Huss', 'Tom Kenny', 'Jill Talley', 'Bruce Hornsby', 'Krist Novoselic', 'Bobcat Goldthwait', 'Tony V.', 'Naomi Glick', 'Dan Spencer', 'Zachary Vitale', 'Ellyn Jameson', 'Michael Thomas Moore', 'Ray Buckley', 'Rebecca Erwin Spencer', 'Cheri Minns', 'Zazu', 'Mable Mae', 'Deborah Horne', 'Riley Dean Stone', 'Ray Buckley', 'Zoe']

Drama, Romance, Comedy, Satire, Dark comedy, Indie film, Tragicomedy

['USA']

English

['English']

['Magnolia Pictures', 'Jerkschool Productions']

comedy

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

Lance Clayton is a single father and high school English teacher who dreams of becoming a famous writer, but his previous novels have all been rejected by publishers. His 15-year-old son Kyle is a sex-obsessed, underachieving misanthrope who is a student at the school where Lance teaches an unpopular poetry class. Kyle's poor academic performance and vile behavior gain the attention of the school principal, who advises Lance to transfer Kyle to a special-needs school. One night, Lance discovers that Kyle has died in an autoerotic asphyxiation accident in his bedroom. To salvage his son's dignity, Lance stages Kyle's death as a suicide. He hangs Kyle in a closet and posts a fake suicide note on his body. A classmate obtains the suicide note from police records and publishes it in the school newspaper. The note strikes a chord with the students and faculty, and many students suddenly claim to have been friends with Kyle, touched by how deep and intelligent he shows himself to be in his writings. Enjoying the attention that his writing is finally receiving, Lance decides to write and publish a phony journal that was supposedly written by his son before his death. Kyle becomes somewhat of a post-mortem cult phenomenon at the school, and Lance begins to receive the adoration that he has always desired. He becomes much more interesting to his girlfriend Claire, a fellow teacher who had previously shown an interest in their younger colleague Mike. Andrew, Kyle's sole friend, finds Kyle's suicide note and journals highly uncharacteristic based on Kyle's personality when he was alive, but Lance brushes Andrew off when Andrew confronts him. The journal attracts the attention of book publishers, and Lance lands a television appearance on a national talk show. The school principal decides to rename the school library in Kyle's honor. At the library dedication, Lance feels guilt for exploiting his son's death for his own benefit, as well as animosity toward those feigning fondness for Kyle. While giving a speech, Lance decides that he can no longer continue the charade and confesses to everyone that Kyle's death was accidental, and that he wrote the suicide note and journal. Predictably, Lance is denounced by the students and faculty, including Claire, and simultaneously realizes that it is better to be alone than to be with people who make him feel alone. Despite being generally despised, Lance feels reborn and dives naked into the school's swimming pool. Outside, Andrew tells Lance that he knew the truth all along but nevertheless enjoyed his writing, and encourages him to keep writing. The two happily watch a zombie movie at Lance's home with his neighbor Bonnie.

Wrath of Man

Guy Ritchie

['Jason Statham', 'Holt McCallany', 'Josh Hartnett', 'Scott Eastwood', "Darrell D'Silva", 'Babs Olusanmokun', 'Jeffrey Donovan', 'Eddie Marsan', 'Andy García', 'Niamh Algar', 'Alex Ferns', 'Laz Alonso', 'Deobia Oparei', 'Chris Reilly', 'Raúl Castillo', 'Post Malone', 'Lyne Renee', 'Rocci Williams', 'Anthony Molinari', 'Tadhg Murphy', 'Matthew Illesley', 'Rebecca Calder', 'Jason Wong', 'Alessandro Babalola', 'Eli Brown', 'Cameron Jack', 'Montana Manning', 'Josh Cowdery', 'Eve Macklin', 'Fernando Martinez', 'Stevee Davies', 'James Warren', 'Sam Shoubber', 'Daniel Joseph Woolf', 'Leonardo Lacaria', 'Khalid Ghajji', 'Anthony Elfonzia', 'Martin Bratanov', 'Phoebe Farnham', 'Mark Shrimpton', 'Dee Pearce', 'Cain Aiden', 'Stephanie Mae', 'Christian Sanderson', 'Luke Lynch', 'Rob Delaney', 'Puneet Tyagi', 'Gerald Tyler']

Action, Thriller, Heist, Comedy, Action Thriller, Crime, Crime film, Adventure, Crime Thriller, Drama, Suspense, Mystery, Crime Fiction

['UK', 'USA']

English

['English']

['Miramax', 'Toff Guy Films', 'Flic Films', 'Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer']

heist

heist-movies

In Los Angeles, an armored truck robbery leaves two guards and a bystander dead, which sets off a series of events told in four acts.

Wreck-It Ralph

Rich Moore

['John C. Reilly', 'Sarah Silverman', 'Jack McBrayer', 'Alan Tudyk', 'Jane Lynch', 'Rich Moore', 'Raymond S. Persi', 'Mindy Kaling', 'Jamie Elman', 'Adam Carolla', 'Horatio Sanz', 'Katie Lowes', 'Kevin Deters', "Ed O'Neill", 'Phil Johnston', 'Roger Craig Smith', 'Dennis Haysbert', 'Edie McClurg', 'Jess Harnell', 'Joe Lo Truglio', 'Rachael Harris', 'Skylar Astin', 'Maurice LaMarche', 'Stefanie Scott', 'John DiMaggio', 'Josie Trinidad', 'Cymbre Walk', 'Tucker Gilmore', 'Brandon Scott', 'Tim Mertens', 'Gerald C. Rivers', 'Martin Jarvis', 'Brian Kesinger', 'Reuben Langdon', 'Kyle Hebert', 'Jamie Sparer Roberts', 'Ava Acres', 'Isabella Acres', 'Bob Bergen', 'David Boat', 'Mike Carlsen', 'Reed Buck', 'David Cowgill', 'Jim Cummings', 'Terri Douglas', 'Sandy Fox', 'Eddie Frierson', 'Earl Ghaffari', 'Emily Hahn', 'Jennifer Hale', 'Daniel Kaz', 'Dave Kohut', 'Lauren MacMullan', 'Mona Marshall', 'Scott Menville', 'Laraine Newman', 'Paul Pape', 'Lynwood Robinson', 'Trenton Rogers', 'Jadon Sand', 'Kath Soucie', 'April Stewart', 'Fred Tatasciore', 'Jennifer Christine Vera', 'Elizabeth Daily', 'Will Deters', 'Debi Derryberry']

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

['USA']

English

['English']

['Walt Disney Animation Studios', 'Walt Disney Pictures']

animated

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

When Litwak's Arcade closes, the video game characters leave their in-game roles and socialize via a power strip called Game Central Station. Wreck-It Ralph, the villain of platform game Fix-It Felix, Jr., is frustrated with his assigned role. After being excluded from his game's 30th-anniversary party, Ralph decides to win a medal, convinced that it will earn him respect. Upon learning that the first-person shooter Hero's Duty awards medals, Ralph sneaks into Hero's Duty and obtains a medal after getting past insectoid monsters known as Cy-Bugs. Ralph accidentally launches himself in an escape shuttle with a Cy-Bug inside and crash-lands in Sugar Rush, a confectionery-themed kart racing game. With Ralph gone, his game is labeled "out of order", putting it at risk of being unplugged. Fix-It Felix, Jr. himself leaves the game to find Ralph, allying with Sergeant Calhoun, the heroine of Hero's Duty. Calhoun tracks the Cy-Bug, as Cy-Bugs behave as a virus once outside their game. Felix worries Ralph will meet the same fate as Turbo, the protagonist of the racing game TurboTime, who grew envious of a new RoadBlasters cabinet's success and invaded it, resulting in both games being unplugged. In Sugar Rush, racer Vanellope von Schweetz steals Ralph's medal and uses it to buy her way into the nightly race that determines which characters will be playable the next day. King Candy, the ruler of Sugar Rush's world, forbids her to race, as she is a glitch. Vanellope promises to get the medal back if Ralph helps her win; he helps her build a new kart and teaches her to drive inside Diet Cola Mountain. Meanwhile, Calhoun and Felix arrive in Sugar Rush, where they fall into "Nesquik-sand", work together to escape, and begin to fall in love. King Candy hacks into Sugar Rush's code and retrieves the medal, giving it back to Ralph. He claims that if Vanellope becomes a playable character, her glitching will lead to Sugar Rush being labeled out of order and unplugged, and Vanellope, unable to leave the game due to being a glitch, will die. Ralph decides he cannot allow Vanellope to race and destroys her kart. Meanwhile, Calhoun abandons Felix when he unintentionally reminds her of her late fiancé, who was eaten by a Cy-Bug. Felix is imprisoned by King Candy's assistant, Sour Bill, while Calhoun discovers that the Cy-Bug has multiplied exponentially. Upon returning to Fix-It Felix, Jr., which has been evacuated, Ralph notices an image of Vanellope on the Sugar Rush cabinet. He returns to Sugar Rush and interrogates Sour Bill, who reveals that King Candy damaged Vanellope's code. King Candy's edits to the code also have ensured no one but himself knows Vanellope's true role. However, if Vanellope completes a race, the game will reset itself, deleting all of King Candy's changes. Ralph frees Vanellope and Felix from prison. Felix fixes Vanellope's kart. Vanellope belatedly enters the race, but the Cy-Bugs emerge and start destroying the game. Calhoun, Felix, and Ralph help evacuate the characters. Unaware of the Cy-Bugs, King Candy attempts to ram Vanellope off the track, causing them both to glitch. The glitching unmasks King Candy as Turbo, who secretly took over Sugar Rush after surviving the unplugging of TurboTime. Vanellope flees as Turbo is devoured by a Cy-Bug, which fuses with him into an insectoid monster. As glitches cannot leave their games, Vanellope is unable to evacuate. Remembering from Hero's Duty that a beacon will draw and destroy the Cy-Bugs, Ralph battles Turbo who stalled him and collapses the Mentos roof of Diet Cola Mountain, creating a glowing eruption that lures and destroys Turbo and the Cy-Bugs. Vanellope rescues Ralph and crosses the finish line. The game resets, revealing her as the true ruler of Sugar Rush, though she keeps her glitching ability, considering it an advantage. Ralph returns to his game, content with his role as a villain and finally respected by his fellow characters. Felix and Calhoun marry, and Ralph watches Vanellope become Sugar Rush's favorite character.

Wrong

Quentin Dupieux

['Jack Plotnick', 'Eric Judor', 'Alexis Dziena', 'Steve Little', 'Bob Jennings', 'William Fichtner', 'Arden Myrin', 'Todd Giebenhain', 'Regan Burns', 'Mark Burnham', 'Maile Flanagan', 'Cole Jensen', 'Flying Lotus', 'Gary Valentine']

Comedy, Mystery, Drama

['USA']

English

['English']

['Realitism']

comedy

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

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X-Men

Bryan Singer

['Hugh Jackman', 'Patrick Stewart', 'Ian McKellen', 'Famke Janssen', 'James Marsden', 'Halle Berry', 'Anna Paquin', 'Tyler Mane', 'Ray Park', 'Rebecca Romijn', 'Bruce Davison', 'Matthew Sharp', 'Brett Morris', 'Rhona Shekter', 'Kenneth McGregor', 'Shawn Roberts', 'Donna Goodhand', 'John Nelles', 'George Buza', 'Darren McGuire', 'Carson Manning', 'Scott Leva', 'Aron Tager', 'Kevin Rushton', 'Doug Lennox', 'David Nichols', 'Malcolm Nefsky', 'Sumela Kay', 'Shawn Ashmore', 'Katrina Florece', 'Alex Burton', 'Quinn Wright', 'Daniel Magder', 'Matt Weinberg', 'Madison Lanc', 'Stan Lee', 'Marsha Graham', 'Amy Leland', 'Adam Robitel', 'David Lawrence Brown', 'Ben Jensen', 'Tom DeSanto', 'Todd Dulmage', 'Dan Duran', 'Elias Zarou', 'David Black', 'Robert R. Snow', 'David Hayter', 'Cecil Phillips', 'Dave Allen Clark', 'Deryck Blake', 'Ilke Hincer', 'Ron Sham', 'Jay Yoo', 'Grigori Miakouchkine', 'Eleanore Comes', 'Giuseppe Gallaccio', 'Rupinder Brar', 'Abi Ganem', 'Joey Purpura', 'Manuel Verge', 'Wolfgang Müller', 'Ralph Zuljan', 'Andy Grote', 'Eric Bryson', 'Ben Champniss', 'Cheryl De Luca', 'Jeremy Durgana', 'Wesley Finucan', 'Kyler Fisher', 'Brandon Marc Gagne', 'Matthew Galliford', 'Gary Goddard', 'Matt Granger', 'Cyprian Lerch', 'Donald MacKinnon', 'Brian Peck', 'Peter Schindelhauer', 'Jimmy Star', 'Daniel Vivian', 'Quentin Wright']

Action, Science fiction, Superhero, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller

['USA']

English

['English']

["The Donners' Company", 'Bad Hat Harry Productions', '20th Century Fox', 'Marvel Entertainment Group']

superhero

superhero-movies

In 1944 Nazi-occupied Poland, fourteen-year-old Erik Lehnsherr is separated from his parents upon entering the Auschwitz concentration camp. While attempting to reach them, he causes a set of metal gates to bend toward him because of his mutant ability to generate magnetic fields, but is knocked out by guards. In the present day, U.S. Senator Robert Kelly attempts to pass a "Mutant Registration Act" in Congress, which would force mutants to reveal their identities and abilities. Nearby, telepathic mutant Charles Xavier sees Lehnsherr, who now goes by the name "Magneto", in attendance and is concerned with how he will respond to the Registration Act. In Meridian, Mississippi, seventeen-year-old Marie accidentally puts her boyfriend into a coma after kissing him, because of her mutant ability to absorb the power and life force of others. Adopting the name "Rogue", she flees to Alberta and meets Logan, also known as "Wolverine", a mutant with superhuman healing abilities and metal claws that protrude from between his knuckles. Sabretooth, a member of Magneto's Brotherhood of Mutants, attacks them on the road, but two members of Xavier's X-Men, Cyclops and Storm, save them. Logan and Rogue are brought to Xavier's school for mutants in Westchester County, New York. Believing that Magneto is interested in capturing Logan, Xavier asks him to stay while he investigates the matter. Meanwhile, Rogue enrolls in the school as a new pupil and develops a crush on cryokinetic mutant Bobby Drake. Brotherhood members Toad and Mystique abduct Senator Kelly, bringing him to their hideout on the uncharted island of Genosha. Magneto uses Kelly as a test subject for a machine powered by his magnetic abilities that generates a field of radiation, which induces mutations in normal humans. Taking advantage of his newfound mutation, Kelly later escapes. Rogue visits Logan during the night while he is having a nightmare. Startled, he accidentally stabs her, but she manages to absorb his healing ability and recover. Mystique, disguised as Drake, later convinces Rogue that Xavier is angry with her and that she must leave the school. Xavier uses his mutant-locating machine Cerebro to find Rogue at a train station, and the X-Men go to retrieve her. Meanwhile, Mystique enters Cerebro and sabotages it. Having left ahead of Storm and Cyclops, Logan finds Rogue on a train and convinces her to return. Before they can leave, Magneto arrives, incapacitates Logan and subdues Rogue, revealing it was her whom he wants rather than Logan. Although Xavier attempts to stop him by mentally controlling Sabretooth, he is forced to release his hold when Magneto threatens the police who have converged on the station, allowing the Brotherhood to escape with Rogue. Kelly arrives at the school, and Xavier reads his mind to learn about Magneto's machine. Realizing the strain of powering it nearly killed him, the X-Men deduce he intends to transfer his powers to Rogue and use her to power it at the cost of her life. Kelly's body rejects his mutation, and his body dissolves into liquid. Xavier attempts to locate Rogue using Cerebro, but Mystique's sabotage incapacitates him, and he falls into a coma. Fellow telepath and telekinetic Jean Grey fixes Cerebro and uses it, learning that the Brotherhood plans to place their machine on Liberty Island and use it to "mutate" the world leaders meeting at a summit on nearby Ellis Island. The X-Men scale the Statue of Liberty, battling and overpowering the Brotherhood while Magneto transfers his powers to Rogue and activates the machine. As Logan confronts and distracts Magneto, Cyclops blasts him away, allowing Logan to destroy the machine. He transfers his powers to Rogue, rejuvenating her while incapacitating himself. Xavier and Logan recover from their comas. The group also learns that Mystique escaped the island battle and is impersonating Kelly. Xavier gives Logan a lead to his past at an abandoned military installation in Canada before visiting Magneto, now imprisoned in a complex constructed of polycarbonate. Magneto warns him that he intends to escape one day and continue the fight; Xavier replies that he will always be there to stop him.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Gavin Hood

['Hugh Jackman', 'Liev Schreiber', 'Danny Huston', 'Lynn Collins', 'Kevin Durand', 'Dominic Monaghan', 'Taylor Kitsch', 'Daniel Henney', 'Ryan Reynolds', 'Will.i.am', 'Tim Pocock', 'Julia Blake', 'Max Cullen', 'Troye Sivan', 'Michael-James Olsen', "Peter O'Brien", 'Aaron Jeffery', 'Alice Parkinson', 'Philip A. Patterson', 'Anthony Gee', 'Adelaide Clemens', 'Karl Beattie', "Tom O'Sullivan", 'Myles Pollard', 'Stephen Anderton', 'Chris Sadrinna', 'Septimus Caton', 'Matthew Dale', 'Nathin Art Butler', 'Peter Barry', 'David Ritchie', 'Asher Keddie', 'Socratis Otto', 'Stephen Leeder', 'James D. Dever', 'Martin Obuga', 'Rita Affua Connell', 'John Shrimpton', 'Henry Browne', 'Tahyna MacManus', 'Daniel Negreanu', 'Alexandra Davies', 'Don Battee', 'Evan Sturrock', 'Rob Flanagan', 'Hakeem Kae-Kazim', 'Alison Araya', 'Eric Breker', 'Eileen Bui', 'Adrian G. Griffiths', 'Byron Chief-Moon', 'Mike Dopud', 'Beatrice King', 'Kanako Takegishi', 'Panou', 'Johnson Phan', 'Elizabeth Thai', 'Jade Tang', 'Joelle Tang', 'Scott Adkins', 'Warwick Young', 'Dennis Kreusler', 'Patrick Stewart']

Action, Superhero, Science fiction, Adventure, Drama, Thriller

['USA']

English

['English']

["The Donners' Company", 'Seed Productions', '20th Century Fox', 'Marvel Entertainment', 'Dune Entertainment']

superhero

superhero-movies

In 1845, James Howlett, a boy living in the Northwest Territories, witnesses his father's murder by groundskeeper Thomas Logan. Anxiety activates the boy's mutation: bone claws that protrude from his knuckles, and he impales Thomas, who reveals that he is James' biological father before dying. James flees with Thomas' other son, Victor Creed, James' half-brother, who has sharp claw nails and a healing factor mutation like James. They spend the next century as soldiers, fighting in the American Civil War, both World Wars, and the Vietnam War. In Vietnam, the increasingly violent Victor attempts to rape a Vietnamese woman and kills a senior officer who tries to stop him. James returns to Victor and, ignorant of his brother's intent, rushes to defend him. The pair are sentenced to execution by firing squad, which they survive. Major William Stryker offers them membership in Team X, a group of mutants including marksman Agent Zero, katana-wielding mercenary Wade Wilson, teleporter John Wraith, super-strong and invulnerable Fred Dukes, and technopath Chris Bradley. They join the team for a few missions, with James using the alias Logan, but Victor and the group's lack of self-control and empathy causes Logan to leave. Six years later, Logan works as a logger in Canada, where he lives with his girlfriend Kayla Silverfox. Stryker and Zero approach Logan, reporting that Wade and Bradley have been killed, revealing someone is targeting the team. Logan refuses to rejoin Stryker, but after finding Kayla's bloodied body in the woods, he realizes that Victor is responsible. He finds Victor at a bar but loses the subsequent fight. Stryker explains that Victor has gone rogue and offers Logan a way to become strong enough to get his revenge. Logan undergoes a painful operation to reinforce his skeleton with adamantium, a virtually indestructible metal. Stryker orders that Logan's memory be erased so he can be used as their personal weapon, but Logan overhears and escapes to a nearby farm, where an elderly couple takes him in. Zero kills the couple the following morning and tries to kill Logan, but Logan takes down Zero's helicopter, killing him as he swears to kill both Stryker and Victor. Logan locates Wraith and Dukes at a boxing gym in Las Vegas. Dukes, who has ballooned in size due to a guilt-induced eating disorder, explains that Victor still works for Stryker, hunting down mutants for Stryker to experiment on at his new laboratory, located at "The Island". Dukes also mentions Remy "Gambit" LeBeau, the only one who escaped from the island and therefore knew its location. Wraith and Logan find Gambit in New Orleans, and then both fight Victor, who kills Wraith and extracts his DNA. Agreeing to help release mutants that Stryker has captured, Gambit takes Logan to Stryker's facility on Three Mile Island. Logan learns that Kayla is alive, having been forced by Stryker into surveilling him in exchange for her sister's safety. However, Stryker refuses to release her sister and denies Victor the adamantium bonding promised for his service, claiming that test results revealed Victor would not survive the operation. Stryker activates Wade, now known as Weapon XI, a "mutant killer" with the powers of multiple mutants. As Logan and Victor fight off Weapon XI, Kayla is mortally wounded while leading the captive mutants to Professor Charles Xavier and safety. After Logan kills Weapon XI, Stryker arrives and shoots Logan in the head with an adamantium bullet, rendering him unconscious. Before Stryker can shoot Kayla, she grabs him and uses her mutant power to persuade him to turn around and walk away until his feet bleed, then succumbs to her injuries. Logan regains consciousness but has lost his memory. He notices his dog tags read "Logan" on one side and "Wolverine" on the other; he pauses upon noticing Kayla's body but does not recognize her. In a mid-credits scene, Stryker is detained for questioning by MPs in connection with the death of General Munson, whom Stryker murdered to protect his experiment. In a post-credits scene, Weapon XI's hand crawls out of the rocks and touches his head, which awakens and shushes the screen, revealing that he has survived being decapitated.

X-Men: Apocalypse

Bryan Singer

['James McAvoy', 'Michael Fassbender', 'Oscar Isaac', 'Jennifer Lawrence', 'Nicholas Hoult', 'Rose Byrne', 'Tye Sheridan', 'Sophie Turner', 'Evan Peters', 'Kodi Smit-McPhee', 'Olivia Munn', 'Alexandra Shipp', 'Lucas Till', 'Josh Helman', 'Ben Hardy', 'Lana Condor', 'Warren Scherer', 'Rochelle Okoye', 'Monique Ganderton', 'Fraser Aitcheson', 'Abdulla Hamam', 'Hesham Hammoud', 'Antonio Daniel Hidalgo', 'Al Maini', 'Berdj Garabedian', 'Ally Sheedy', 'Anthony Konechny', 'Emma Elle Paterson', 'Manuel Sinor', 'Gustave Ouimet', 'Lukas Penar', 'Ryan Hollyman', 'Joanne Boland', 'Nabeel El Khafif', 'Manuel Tadros', 'Abanoub Andraous', 'Aladeen Tawfeek', 'Carolina Bartczak', 'T. J. McGibbon', 'Davide Chiazzese', 'Sebastian Naskrent', 'Boris Sichon', 'Martin Skorek', 'Kamil Orzechowski', 'Michael Terlecki', 'Ahmed Osman', 'Ziad Ghanem', 'Moataz Fathi', 'Tómas Lemarquis', 'James Loye', 'Zehra Leverman', 'Herb Luft', 'Stan Lee', 'Joan Lee', 'Stephen Bogaert', 'John Bourgeois', 'Conrad Coates', 'Dan Lett', 'Adrian G. Griffiths', 'Shawn Campbell', 'Joe Cobden', 'Henry Hallowell', 'Danielle Dury', 'Naomi Frenette', 'Aj Risi', 'Raphaël Dury', 'Ilan Rosenberg', 'Erika Heather Mergl', 'Tauntaun', 'Mary-Piper Gaudet', 'Josh Madryga', 'Scott Cook', 'Allen Keng', 'Tally Rodin', 'Francis Limoges', 'Tsu-Ching Yu', 'Karl Walcott', 'Desmond Campbell', 'Ian Geldart', 'John Ottman', 'Linda Joyce Nourse', 'Zeljko Ivanek', 'Christopher B. MacCabe', 'Chris Cavener', 'Ronald Tremblay', 'Joseph Bellerose', 'Philippe Hartmann', 'Sebastien R. Teller', 'Alexander Peganov', 'Simon Therrien', 'Patrice Martre', 'James Malloch', 'Vladimir Alexis', 'Jason Deline', 'Hugh Jackman', 'T.J. McGibbon']

Action, Superhero, Science fiction, Adventure, Fantasy, Drama

['USA']

English

['English', 'Arabic', 'German', 'Polish', 'Russian', 'Swahili']

["The Donners' Company", 'Bad Hat Harry Productions', 'Genre Films', 'Hutch Parker Entertainment', '20th Century Fox', 'Marvel Entertainment', 'TSG Entertainment']

superhero

superhero-movies

In 3600 BC, the aged but powerful mutant En Sabah Nur rules ancient Egypt. Following a ceremony in which his consciousness is transferred into another man's body in order to gain his healing factor, he and his four followers, the Horsemen of Apocalypse are betrayed by conspirators. In the process, his followers are killed and he is entombed alive. In 1983, Scott Summers manifests his mutant powers to shoot concussive kinetic energy blasts from his eyes, so his older brother Alex takes him to Professor Charles Xavier's educational institute, hoping that Xavier and Hank McCoy will teach him to control his mutation. Scott meets and befriends Jean Grey upon arriving. In Egypt, En Sabah Nur is awakened by Moira MacTaggert while following a group of worshippers. He meets a mutant who can control weather, Ororo Munroe, and learns about humanity. Determined that humanity has lost its way, he plans to remake the world. Munroe becomes his follower after he enhances her power. Meanwhile, in Communist Poland, Erik Lehnsherr lives happily with his wife Magda and daughter Nina. During the worldwide disturbances caused by En Sabah Nur, Erik uses his powers to save a coworker during an earthquake, alerting the Milicja Obywatelska. They hold his daughter hostage in the forest to lure him into turning himself in, and as tensions rise, Nina heartbrokenly demonstrates her animal communication mutant powers, and the police accidentally kill his wife and daughter in the ensuing confusion. In despair, Erik kills the police. In East Berlin, shape-shifting mutant Raven, revered as a mutant hero following the attack on Washington, D.C., rescues Kurt Wagner from a cage fight and requests black marketeer Caliban to transport Kurt to America. He reveals Erik's situation to her, leading Raven to take Kurt herself in hopes of requesting Charles to find and rescue Erik. En Sabah Nur recruits Caliban's assistant Psylocke and another cage fighter Angel, and enhances both of their powers. En Sabah Nur finds Erik and takes him back to Auschwitz, showing him the true extent of his powers; Erik destroys the camp and joins En Sabah Nur. When Xavier contacts Erik, En Sabah Nur remotely accesses Cerebro and forces Xavier to make countries launch their nuclear arsenals into space to prevent interference. He and his Four Horsemen arrive at the mansion and kidnap Xavier. Alex attempts to stop them but causes an explosion that destroys the mansion. Peter Maximoff, having learned he's Erik's biological son, arrives and uses his super-speed to evacuate everyone except Alex, who got killed in the explosion prior to his arrival. Colonel William Stryker's forces, believing Xavier to be responsible, capture Hank, Raven, Peter, and Moira, and take them for interrogation. Scott, Jean, and Kurt secretly follow them and liberate their comrades using Stryker's experiment Weapon X, whose memories Jean partially restores. Erik uses his powers to alter the Earth's magnetic field, causing destruction across the planet. En Sabah Nur plans to transfer his consciousness into Xavier's body to gain his psychic powers. Xavier sends a telepathic distress call to Jean and the others, who travel to Cairo to battle En Sabah Nur and his Four Horsemen. They rescue Xavier and flee in a plane. When Angel and Psylocke attack the plane, Nightcrawler teleports his friends away. Psylocke manages to jump safely and escape, but Angel is killed in the plane crash. Erik and Ororo turn on En Sabah Nur and, with Scott's help, keep him occupied physically while Xavier fights him telepathically in the astral plane. Xavier begs Jean to unleash the full strength of her abilities, and she incinerates En Sabah Nur. Xavier restores Moira's memory and they rekindle their relationship. Erik and Jean help reconstruct the school, but Erik turns down Xavier's offer to stay and help teach; Peter decides not to tell Erik yet that he is Erik's son. Using confiscated Sentinels,[5] Hank and Raven train the new X-Men recruits: Scott, Jean, Ororo, Kurt, and Peter. In a post-credits scene, vials of Weapon X's blood are placed in a briefcase belonging to the Essex Corporation.

X-Men: Days of Future Past

Bryan Singer

['Hugh Jackman', 'James McAvoy', 'Michael Fassbender', 'Patrick Stewart', 'Ian McKellen', 'Jennifer Lawrence', 'Halle Berry', 'Nicholas Hoult', 'Anna Paquin', 'Elliot Page', 'Peter Dinklage', 'Shawn Ashmore', 'Omar Sy', 'Evan Peters', 'Josh Helman', 'Daniel Cudmore', 'Fan Bingbing', 'Adan Canto', 'Booboo Stewart', 'Evan Jonigkeit', 'Famke Janssen', 'James Marsden', 'Lucas Till', 'Mark Camacho', 'Zehra Leverman', 'Alexander Felici', 'Jan Gerste', 'Massimo Cannistraro', 'Mike Dopud', 'Lee Villeneuve', 'Andreas Apergis', 'Robert Montcalm', 'Gregg Lowe', 'Jaa Smith-Johnson', 'Alex Ivanovici', 'Alain Dahan', 'Freddy Bessa', 'Patricia Tougas', 'Michael Lerner', 'Chris Claremont', 'Len Wein', 'François Paquette', 'Zabryna Guevara', 'Angela Galuppo', 'Milo Chang Sigel', 'Kiana Chang Sigel', 'Victor Cornfoot', 'Brent Skagford', 'Kyle Gatehouse', 'John-Sébastien Côté', 'Stéphane Julien', 'Taris Tyler', 'Darryl Scheelar', 'Thai-Hoa Le', 'Johnny Tran', 'Gregory Hlady', 'Dang Quoc Thinh', 'Vladimir Aksenov', 'Jimmy Chan', 'Julian Casey', 'Robert Crooks', 'Matt Cooke', 'Tim Post', 'Jason Deline', 'Karine Vanasse', 'Pierre Leblanc', 'Jude Beny', 'Arthur Holden', 'Sean Curley', 'Susanna Fournier', 'Andrew Peplowski', 'John Sanford Moore', 'Moe Jeudy-Lamour', 'Harry Strandjofski', 'Brianna Bone', 'Neil Napier', 'Jason Koehler', 'Miya Shelton-Contreras', 'Mizinga Mwinga', 'Christian Jadah', 'Brendan Pedder', 'Bryan Singer', 'Kelsey Grammer']

Action, Superhero, Science fiction, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller

['USA']

English

['English', 'French', 'Russian', 'Vietnamese']

['Bad Hat Harry Productions', "The Donners' Company", '20th Century Fox', 'Marvel Entertainment', 'TSG Entertainment', 'Genre Films']

superhero, post-apocalyptic

post-apocalyptic-movies, superhero-movies

In a dystopian 2023, Sentinel robots hunt and kill mutants, as well as humans who either possess the genetic potential to have mutant offspring or try to protect them. In Moscow, they attack X-Men survivors Kitty Pryde, Colossus, Blink, Warpath, Bishop, Iceman, and Sunspot. The mutants sacrifice themselves to buy Kitty enough time to send Bishop's consciousness a few days into the past to warn the others of the coming attack and ensure their survival. Having averted the attack, the group retreats to a remote Chinese temple and are joined by Storm, Logan, Charles Xavier, and Erik Lehnsherr. Xavier explains that the Sentinels were originally conceived by Bolivar Trask, a weapons designer whom Raven Darkhölme assassinated in 1973. In response, the government captured Raven and experimented on her, using her DNA to create Sentinels capable of adapting to any mutant power. Xavier plans to go back in time to 1973 and prevent Trask's assassination in the hopes of altering the future. However, upon learning that time-traveling too far would kill Xavier, Logan volunteers instead, as his regenerative abilities would allow him to survive. Awakening in 1973, Logan goes to the X-Mansion, learning from Hank McCoy that the school has been closed for years due to the Vietnam War, and Lehnsherr has been imprisoned for assassinating JFK. A young, broken Xavier has turned to alcoholism and frequently uses a serum that allows him to walk, but at the cost of his telepathic abilities. Hoping to reunite with Raven, Xavier agrees to help Logan. They recruit Peter Maximoff, a mutant with superhuman speeds, and break Lehnsherr out of The Pentagon. Raven discovers Trask has been experimenting on mutants and plots to assassinate him at the Paris Peace Accords, but Xavier, McCoy, and Logan foil her attempt. Lehnsherr attempts to kill Raven, believing this would change the future, so McCoy fights him, allowing Raven to escape but publicly exposing them as mutants. Trask takes advantage of this and convinces President Nixon to authorize the Sentinel program. Lehnsherr retrieves his helmet and secretly takes control of Trask's Sentinel prototypes by infusing them with steel. Returning to the X-Mansion, Xavier abandons the serum and, by reading Logan's mind, communicates with his future self, who inspires him to protect the future between mutants and humans. After Xavier uses his mutant-tracking computer Cerebro to find Raven, he, McCoy, and Logan travel to Washington, D.C. to stop her from assassinating Trask. At a ceremony where Nixon unveils the Sentinels, the three search for Raven. Lehnsherr appears, activates the Sentinels, and barricades the White House by lifting the RFK Stadium over it. During the battle, Lehnsherr impales Logan with a rebar and throws him into the Potomac River. Nixon, Trask, and a disguised Raven retreat to the White House Bunker. However, Lehnsherr rips the bunker out of the building to kill everyone inside. In 2023, the X-Men make their last stand as an onslaught of Sentinels attacks the temple, with most of the mutants perishing while trying to buy more time. In 1973, Raven reveals herself and subdues Lehnsherr with a plastic gun, saving Nixon and his cabinet. Before she can kill Trask, Xavier telepathically convinces her to spare him, leading the public to realize that a mutant saved the President. As a result, the Sentinel program is decommissioned, altering the timeline and erasing the dark future of 2023 from history. The mutants in the past depart separately; Trask is later arrested for selling military secrets to foreign governments. Logan reawakens in 2023 at the X-Mansion to find that Xavier's school is thriving and the X-Men are all alive, including Rogue, Jean Grey, and Scott Summers. Logan asks Xavier for information about modern history from 1973 to the present. Upon realizing that the Logan from the original timeline has returned, Xavier assents. Back in 1973, Logan is rescued by Raven, having disguised herself as Major William Stryker. In a post-credits scene set in ancient Egypt, a crowd chants to En Sabah Nur, who telekinetically elevates rocks to build pyramids as his Four Horsemen observe from afar.

X-Men: First Class

Matthew Vaughn

['James McAvoy', 'Michael Fassbender', 'Rose Byrne', 'Jennifer Lawrence', 'Kevin Bacon', 'January Jones', 'Nicholas Hoult', 'Oliver Platt', 'Jason Flemyng', 'Lucas Till', 'Edi Gathegi', 'Caleb Landry Jones', 'Zoë Kravitz', 'Matt Craven', 'Álex González', 'Rade Å erbedžija', 'Glenn Morshower', 'Laurence Belcher', 'Bill Milner', 'Morgan Lily', 'Beth Goddard', 'Éva Magyar', 'Corey Johnson', 'Demetri Goritsas', 'Don Creech', 'James Remar', 'Ludger Pistor', 'Wilfried Hochholdinger', 'Greg Kolpakchi', 'Andrei Zayats', 'Ray Wise', 'Michael Medeiros', 'Olek Krupa', 'Yuri Naumkin', 'Gene Farber', 'David Agranov', 'Katrine De Candole', 'James Faulkner', 'Annabelle Wallis', 'Juan Herrera', 'Greg Savage', 'Jarid Faubel', 'Gregory Cox', 'Josh Cohen', 'David Crow', 'Kieran Patrick Campbell', 'Sasha Pieterse', 'Brendan Fehr', 'Michael Ironside', 'Jason Beghe', 'Venya Manzyuk', 'Tony Curran', 'Randall Batinkoff', 'Peter Stark', 'Leonard Redlich', 'Carlos Peres', 'Sean Brown', 'Neil Fingleton', 'Georg Nikoloff', 'Arthur Darbinyan', 'Hugh Jackman', 'Rebecca Romijn', 'David Joseph Martinez', 'Johnny Otto', 'Josh Ramsay']

Action, War, Superhero, Science fiction, Adventure, Drama, Action/Adventure, Thriller, Fantasy

['USA']

English

['English', 'German', 'Spanish', 'French', 'Russian']

["The Donners' Company", 'Bad Hat Harry Productions', '20th Century Fox', 'Marvel Entertainment']

superhero

superhero-movies

In 1944, at the Auschwitz concentration camp, Nazi officer Klaus Schmidt witnesses a young Erik Lehnsherr bending a metal gate with his mind upon being separated from his parents. Schmidt brings Lehnsherr into his office and tells him to move a coin on his desk. When Lehnsherr cannot do it, Schmidt kills his mother. Distraught, Lehnsherr's magnetic power manifests, destroying the room. Meanwhile, at a mansion in Westchester County, New York, young telepath Charles Xavier meets Raven, whose natural form is blue-skinned scales and a shapeshifter, and invites her to live with him. In 1962, Lehnsherr is tracking Schmidt, while Xavier earns his doctorate from the University of Oxford. In Las Vegas, CIA officer Moira MacTaggert follows US Army Colonel Hendry into the Hellfire Club, where Hendry meets with Schmidt (now called Sebastian Shaw), mutant telepath Emma Frost, cyclone-producing Riptide, and teleporter Azazel. Threatened by Shaw and teleported to the Joint War Room, Hendry advocates deploying nuclear missiles in Turkey. Shaw, an energy-absorbing mutant whose powers have kept him young, later kills Hendry. MacTaggert, seeking Xavier's advice on mutation, takes him and Raven to the CIA, where they convince Director McCone that mutants exist and that Shaw is a threat. Another CIA officer sponsors the mutants and invites them to the secret "Division X" facility. MacTaggert and Xavier find Shaw as Lehnsherr is attacking him, and Xavier rescues Lehnsherr from drowning before Shaw escapes. Xavier brings Lehnsherr to Division X, where they meet Hank McCoy, a mutant scientist with prehensile feet. Xavier uses McCoy's mutant-locating device, Cerebro, to seek and recruit other mutants; Angel Salvadore, Armando Muñoz / Darwin, Alex Summers / Havok, and Sean Cassidy / Banshee. Xavier, Lehnsherr, and MacTaggert lead a CIA mission to the Soviet Union to capture Frost and discover Shaw intends to start World War III, triggering mutant ascendency. Azazel, Riptide, and Shaw attack Division X, killing everyone but the mutants, whom Shaw invites to join him. Salvadore accepts, but when Summers and Muñoz retaliate, Shaw kills Muñoz. In Moscow, Shaw compels the generals to have the USSR install missiles in Cuba. Wearing a helmet that blocks telepathy, Shaw follows the Soviet fleet in a submarine to ensure the missiles break a U.S. blockade. In the meantime, Xavier takes the remaining recruits back to his mansion where they focus on harnessing their abilities. McCoy believes Raven's DNA may provide a "cure" for their appearance and manages to get a cure ready, but Raven, after being persuaded by Lehnsherr, decides she does not want to hide her identity and refuses the cure. McCoy uses the cure on himself but it backfires, giving him blue fur and leonine aspects. With McCoy piloting, the mutants and MacTaggert take a jet to the blockade line, where Xavier uses his telepathy to influence a Soviet sailor to destroy the ship carrying the missiles, and Lehnsherr uses his magnetic power to lift Shaw's submarine from the water, depositing it on land. During the ensuing battle, Lehnsherr seizes Shaw's helmet, allowing Xavier to immobilize Shaw. While Shaw is helpless, Lehnsherr reveals he shares Shaw's exclusivist view of mutants but desires to avenge his mother, and pushes the Nazi coin he has been carrying since childhood through Shaw's brain, killing him. Unable to risk releasing Shaw, Xavier is forced to experience Shaw's death. Both fleets fire at the mutants in fear, but Lehnsherr intercepts their barrage. As he turns their arsenal back toward the fleet, MacTaggert tries to stop Lehnsherr by shooting him, but he deflects the bullets, one of which hits Xavier in the spine when he intervenes between the two. Lehnsherr rushes to help Xavier and, distracted, allows the artillery to fall harmlessly into the ocean. Parting with Xavier over their differing views on the relationship between mutants and humans, Lehnsherr leaves with Salvadore, Azazel, Riptide, and Raven. Later, a wheelchair-using Xavier and his mutants return to the mansion, where he intends to open a school. MacTaggert promises never to reveal Xavier's location, but Xavier makes sure of this by wiping her memories. Meanwhile, Lehnsherr, now naming himself Magneto, and the other Hellfire Club members free Frost from her prison.

X-Men: The Last Stand

Brett Ratner

['Hugh Jackman', 'Halle Berry', 'Ian McKellen', 'Patrick Stewart', 'Famke Janssen', 'Anna Paquin', 'Kelsey Grammer', 'James Marsden', 'Rebecca Romijn', 'Shawn Ashmore', 'Aaron Stanford', 'Vinnie Jones', 'Elliot Page', 'Ben Foster', 'Dania Ramirez', 'Michael Murphy', 'Shohreh Aghdashloo', 'Josef Sommer', 'Bill Duke', 'Daniel Cudmore', 'Eric Dane', 'Desiree Zurowski', 'Adrian Hough', 'Haley Ramm', 'Chris Claremont', 'Stan Lee', 'Cayden Boyd', 'Tanya Newbould', 'Anthony Heald', 'Cameron Bright', 'Connor Widdows', 'Kea Wong', 'Shauna Kain', 'Luke Pohl', 'Julian Richings', 'Lloyd Adams', 'Richard Yee', 'Via Saleaumua', 'Meiling Melançon', 'Omahyra Mota', 'Clayton Watmough', 'Ken Leung', 'Julian Christopher', 'Brad Kelly', 'Makenzie Vega', 'Mi-Jung Lee', 'Benita Ha', 'Ron James', 'R. Lee Ermey', 'Lance Gibson', 'Aaron Pearl', 'Chelah Horsdal', 'John Pyper-Ferguson', "Brenna O'Brien", 'Justin Callan', 'Alex Ferris', 'Peter Kawasaki', 'Ron Blecker', 'Emy Aneke', 'David Smith', 'Olivia Williams', "Tony Stef'Ano"]

Action, Superhero, Science fiction, Adventure, Fantasy, Suspense, Thriller

['USA']

English

['English']

["The Donners' Company", '20th Century Fox', 'Marvel Entertainment']

superhero

superhero-movies

In 1986, Charles Xavier and Magneto meet young Jean Grey at her parents' house to invite her to join their school, the X-Mansion. Ten years later in 1996, industrialist Warren Worthington II discovers his son is a mutant, as the latter tries to cut off his wings. In the present, Worthington Labs announces an inoculation, to suppress the X-gene that gives mutants their abilities and offers the "cure" to any mutant who wants it. The cure interests some mutants such as Rogue, who cannot touch anyone without harming them, while others are wary of it. Magneto re-establishes his Brotherhood of Mutants with those who oppose the cure, warning it will be weaponized to exterminate the mutant race. With help from Pyro, Callisto, and several other mutants, Magneto attacks a mobile prison and frees Mystique, Multiple Man, and Juggernaut. Mystique shields Magneto from a cure dart and loses her mutant abilities, so he abandons her. Cyclops, still distraught over the loss of Grey, drives to her resting location at Alkali Lake. Grey suddenly appears to Cyclops, but kills him as they kiss. Sensing trouble, Xavier sends Logan and Storm to investigate. When they arrive, they find only telekinetically floating rocks, Cyclops' glasses, and an unconscious Grey. At the X-Mansion, Xavier explains that when Grey sacrificed herself to save them, she also freed the "Phoenix", a dark alternate personality with godlike destructive potential which Xavier had telepathically repressed. Logan is disgusted to learn of this psychic tampering with Grey's mind but, once she awakens, he discovers that she killed Cyclops and is not the woman he once knew. The Phoenix emerges, knocks out Logan, and escapes to her childhood home. Learning of Grey's return, Magneto and the Brotherhood arrive at the house at the same time as the X-Men, with Magneto and Xavier both vying for Grey's loyalty until the Phoenix resurfaces. She destroys the house and disintegrates Xavier, then leaves with Magneto. Interrogating a depowered Mystique, the FBI discovers Magneto's base in the woods and raids it. However, the detected human heat signatures in the camp are Multiple Man and his copies. Magneto and the Brotherhood attack Alcatraz with the intention to kill a young mutant named Jimmy, whose genome is used to create the cure. They overwhelm the military troops until the remaining X-Men arrive to confront them. During the fight, Kitty Pryde saves Jimmy from Juggernaut, and Logan distracts Magneto for Hank McCoy to inject him with the cure, nullifying his powers. The Phoenix awakens and begins destroying anyone within range of her powers. Logan realizes that only he can stop the Phoenix due to his healing factor and adamantium skeleton. When Logan approaches her, Grey momentarily gains control and begs him to kill her. A devastated Logan is forced to fatally stab Grey, thus killing the Phoenix. Sometime later, mutant rights are finally obtained and Xavier's school is still operating with Storm as headmistress. The President of the United States appoints McCoy as ambassador to the United Nations. Rogue, having taken the cure, rekindles her relationship with Iceman. Meanwhile, Magneto sits at a chessboard in San Francisco, seemingly human and weak, and as he gestures toward a metal chess piece, it wobbles slightly. Elsewhere, Moira MacTaggert, while checking on a comatose patient,[a] is startled when he greets her with Xavier's voice.

X2

Bryan Singer

['Patrick Stewart', 'Hugh Jackman', 'Ian McKellen', 'Halle Berry', 'Famke Janssen', 'James Marsden', 'Rebecca Romijn', 'Brian Cox', 'Alan Cumming', 'Bruce Davison', 'Anna Paquin', 'Shawn Ashmore', 'Aaron Stanford', 'Kelly Hu', 'Michael Reid MacKay', 'Katie Stuart', 'Ty Olsson', 'Daniel Cudmore', 'Cotter Smith', 'James Kirk', 'Jill Teed', 'Alf Humphreys', 'Kea Wong', 'Chiara Zanni', 'Jackie A. Greenbank', 'Michael Soltis', 'Michael David Simms', 'David Fabrizio', 'Roger Cross', 'Richard Bradshaw', 'Bryce Hodgson', 'Glen Curtis', 'Greg Rikaart', 'Shauna Kain', 'Alfonso Quijada', 'Rene Quijada', 'Brad Loree', 'Sheri G. Feldman', 'Connor Widdows', 'Peter Wingfield', 'Charles Siegel', 'Steve Bacic', 'Michasha Armstrong', 'Robert Hayley', 'Mark Lukyn', 'Kendall Cross', 'Keely Purvis', 'Dylan Kussman', 'Jason S. Whitmer', 'Aaron Pearl', 'Aaron Douglas', 'Colin Lawrence', 'Richard C. Burton', 'Michael Joycelyn', 'Nolan Gerard Funk', 'Devin Douglas Drewitz', 'Jermaine Lopez', 'Sideah Alladice', 'Kurt Max Runte', 'Benjamin Glenday', 'Lori Stewart', 'Ted Friend', 'Mi-Jung Lee', 'Marrett Green', 'Jill Krop', 'Brian Peck', 'Layke Anderson', 'Michael Dougherty', 'Dan Harris', 'Bryan Singer', 'Nikita Ramsey', 'Jade Ramsey', 'Valerie Tian']

Action, Superhero, Science fiction, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller

['USA']

English

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

["The Donners' Company", 'Bad Hat Harry Productions', '20th Century Fox', 'Marvel Enterprises']

superhero

superhero-movies

At the White House, brainwashed teleporting mutant Nightcrawler attacks the President of the United States, wounding many agents; he is shot and retreats. Meanwhile, Logan explores an abandoned military installation at Alkali Lake in Alberta for clues to his past, but finds nothing. Jean Grey has been having premonitions and struggles to concentrate as her powers become increasingly difficult to control. Later, Logan returns to Professor Xavier's school for mutants, and Xavier tracks Nightcrawler using Cerebro. Xavier and Cyclops go to question the imprisoned Magneto about the attack, while Grey and Storm retrieve Nightcrawler. Military scientist Colonel William Stryker approaches the President and receives approval to investigate Xavier's mansion for their ties to mutants in the wake of the recent attack. Stryker's forces invade the school and abduct some of the students. Colossus leads the remaining students to safety while Logan, Rogue, Iceman, and Pyro escape, and Stryker's assistant Yuriko Oyama captures Cyclops and Xavier. During the attack, Logan confronts Stryker, who addresses him as "Wolverine" and seems to know about his past. The shape-shifting Mystique gathers information about Magneto's prison and helps him escape while also discovering schematics for a second Cerebro. Logan, Rogue, Iceman, and Pyro visit Iceman's parents and brother in Boston, and then meet up with Storm, Grey, and Nightcrawler. The X-Jet is attacked by fighter jets while flying back to the mansion and is shot down, but Magneto saves them from crashing. Magneto explains to the group that Stryker has built the second Cerebro to use it and Xavier to telepathically kill every mutant on the planet. Stryker's son, Jason, is a mutant with mind-controlling powers, whom Stryker will use to force Xavier to do this. Stryker had also previously used Jason's powers to orchestrate Nightcrawler's attack as a pretense to gain approval to invade Xavier's mansion. Magneto also tells Logan that Stryker was the man who grafted adamantium onto his bones and is responsible for his amnesia. Grey reads Nightcrawler's mind and determines that Stryker's base is underground in a dam at Alkali Lake. Disguised as Logan, Mystique infiltrates Stryker's base, letting the rest of the mutants in while she and Magneto head to disable Cerebro before the brainwashed Xavier can activate it. Storm and Nightcrawler rescue the captured students, and Grey fights a mind-controlled Cyclops; their battle frees Cyclops but damages the dam, which begins to rupture. Logan finds Stryker in an adamantium smelting lab and remembers it as where he received his adamantium skeleton. Logan fights and kills Yuriko, then chases Stryker to a helicopter pad and chains him to the helicopter's wheel. Magneto stops Cerebro and, using Mystique impersonating Stryker to command Jason, has Xavier redirect its powers on humans. The two subsequently use Stryker's helicopter to escape, accompanied by Pyro, who has been swayed to Magneto's views. Nightcrawler teleports Storm inside Cerebro, where she creates a snowstorm to break Jason's concentration and free Xavier from his control. The X-Men flee the dam as water engulfs it, killing Stryker, but the X-Jet loses all power and struggles to take flight as the flood water rushes towards them. Grey sneaks off the jet and telepathically wishes the team goodbye. She holds back the water and raises the jet above it as flames erupt from her body, until she lets go and allows the flood to crash down upon her, presumably killing her. The X-Men give Stryker's files to the President, and Xavier warns him that humans and mutants must work together to build peace. Back at the school, Xavier, Cyclops, and Logan remember Grey, and Xavier begins to hold a class. Meanwhile, a Phoenix-like shape rises from the flooded Alkali Lake.

Y Tu Mamá También

Alfonso Cuarón

['Diego Luna', 'Gael García Bernal', 'Maribel Verdú', 'Daniel Giménez Cacho', 'Diana Bracho', 'Verónica Langer', 'María Aura', 'Emilio Echevarría', 'Marta Aura', 'Silverio Palacios', 'Ana López Mercado', 'Andrés Almeida', 'Nathan Grinberg', 'Giselle Audirac', 'Arturo Ríos', 'Juan Carlos Remolina', 'Liboria Rodríguez', 'Mayra Sérbulo', 'Andrea López', 'Amaury Sérbulo', 'Jorge Vergara']

Romance, Comedy, Road, Adventure, Melodrama, Sex comedy, Drama, Classic, Comedy drama

['Mexico']

Spanish

['Spanish']

['Bésame Mucho Pictures', 'Anhelo Productions']

road-movie

road-movies-1

Two Mexican teenage best friends, working-class Julio and upper-class Tenoch, are having sex with their respective girlfriends before the girls depart on a trip to Italy. Without their girlfriends around, the boys take the opportunity to live as bachelors. At a wedding, they meet Luisa, the Spanish wife of Tenoch's cousin Jano. Trying to impress Luisa, the boys talk about a fictitious secluded beach called Boca del Cielo (Heaven's Mouth). However, she declines their invitation to accompany them there. She later visits a doctor, after which she receives a phone call from a drunken Jano, who tearfully confesses that he cheated on her. The next day, she calls Tenoch and asks if their offer to accompany them to the beach is still open. Although Julio and Tenoch have little idea where they will actually go, the three set off and drive through rural Mexico. They talk about their relationships and sexual experiences to pass the time; the boys boast about their exploits, while Luisa speaks of Jano and recalls her first love, who died in a motorcycle accident. During an overnight stop, Luisa leaves a tearful message on Jano's answering machine explaining that she has left him. Tenoch enters her motel room in search of shampoo but finds her crying. She seduces him and the two have sex. Julio sees them through the open door and, upset, walks away. He later tells Tenoch he had sex with Tenoch's girlfriend. The next day, Luisa notices tension between the boys, so she has sex with Julio to "equalize" their perceived status. An upset Tenoch then reveals that he has had sex with Julio's girlfriend. Julio and Tenoch begin fighting, but stop when Luisa threatens to leave. Driving along the coastal road that evening, they happen upon an isolated beach that is actually called Boca del Cielo. Making camp there, they begin to relax and enjoy the ocean, along with the company of a local family. After their campsite is ransacked by a herd of wild pigs, they spend the night in a nearby village, where Luisa makes another phone call to Jano to bid him an affectionate but final farewell. Luisa, Julio, and Tenoch get drunk that evening and joke about their sexual transgressions. Julio and Tenoch reveal that they each have frequently had sex with the other's girlfriend. Julio adds that he had sex with Tenoch's mother, but it is unclear whether he is serious. The three dance together sensually and then retire to their room. As Luisa kneels between the boys and stimulates them both, they embrace and kiss each other passionately. The next morning, the boys wake up naked together. Tenoch goes outside to vomit, and the boys are eager to return home. The narrator explains that their journey back was quiet and uneventful and that Luisa stayed behind to explore the nearby coves, as well as that the boys' girlfriends broke up with them and they stopped hanging out. A year later, after a chance encounter in Mexico City, Julio and Tenoch go for coffee together. They awkwardly catch up on each other's lives and news of their mutual friends. Tenoch informs Julio that Luisa died of cancer a month after their trip, and that she had been aware of her prognosis during the time they spent together. Tenoch excuses himself because his current girlfriend is waiting for him, and tells Julio that he will see him later; the narrator, however, reveals that they will never see each other again.

Yeelen

Souleymane Cissé

['Issiaka Kane', 'Balla Moussa Keita', 'Aoua Sangare', 'Ismaila Sarr', 'Niamanto Sanogo', 'Soumba Traore', 'Koke Sangare', 'Youssouf Tenin Cissé', 'Sidi Diallo', 'Bremira Dumbla', "Seyba M'Baye", 'Djemori Traoré', 'Youssouf Coulibaly', 'Sibiri Kone', 'Toumani Soumaoro', 'Dounanke Traoré', 'Zan Doumbla', 'Manzon Coumare', 'Souleymane Coumare', 'Tienon Fone', 'Sekou Konote', 'Nadje Doumbla']

Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy, Drama, Coming-of-age story

['Burkina Faso', 'France', 'Germany', 'Japan', 'Mali']

Bambara

['Bambara', 'Fula, Fulah, Pulaar, Pular']

['Les Films du Carrosse', 'Atriascop Paris', 'Burkina Faso Ministry of Life and Culture', 'French Ministry of Cooperation and Development', 'Les Films Cissé', 'Mali Government', 'Midas', 'UTA', 'CNC', 'French Ministry of Foreign Affairs', 'Ministère de la culture', 'WDR']

fantasy

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Nianankoro's father Soma is a part of the order of Komo, who practice magic, but he uses his powers for self-gain. He becomes determined to kill his son after receiving a vision that his son will cause his death. Aided by his mother, Nianankoro steals several of his father's sacred fetishes and leaves his village to seek out his uncle for help. Soma pursues him with the aid of an enchanted pylon that tracks his son's location and breaks all barriers that deter it. As he travels, Nianankoro encounters a hyena who tells him his destiny is to be great. Passing through the territory of the Fulas, he is thought to be a thief and captured. Their king Rouma Boli orders him killed, but Nianankoro creates magic that freezes his guards and declares they cannot kill him. Impressed, King Rouma offers Nianankoro his freedom in exchange for aid against a rival tribe. When the tribe attacks, Nianankoro summons a swarm of bees and a fire that drives their attackers away. The king thanks Nianankoro and asks him to cure his wife Attou's infertility. Nianankoro creates an enchantment, but he and Attou are overcome by lust and sleep together. That night they return to Rouma to confess their crime, and the king reluctantly orders them married and to leave. Nianankoro and Attou continue their travels while his father remains in pursuit. Soma sacrifices an albino man and a wild dog to appease the gods who grant him power to hunt his son. He then meets with the Komo and warns them that Nianankoro intends to disperse their magic for all the people to use. Nianankoro and Attou reach his uncle Djigui, who was blinded long ago when he chose to use the artifact of Kore's Wing for his people. He gives the relic to Nianankoro and tells him and Attou, who is pregnant, that their children will become a nation who will face hardship and be sold in slavery, but ultimately prosper. Taking Kore's wing, Nianankoro leaves to confront his father and gives his cloak to Attou to in turn give to his son. She takes refuge with Djigui as they prepare for incoming devastation. Reaching his father, Nianankoro attempts to reason with him but is dismayed to find his father cannot bear to share his power and only wants him dead. They call upon the power of their artifacts, Soma with his pylon and Nianankoro with Kore's Wing, turning themselves into an elephant and a lion, respectively. The power of Kore creates a blinding wave that kills them both and transforms the land around them into sand. After their deaths, Attou and her young son come to the site and find two eggs. Her son takes the egg of his father and his mother gives him Kore's Wing, and they leave the desert.

Yellow Submarine

George Dunning

['Paul Angelis', 'John Clive', 'Dick Emery', 'Geoffrey Hughes', 'Lance Percival', 'Peter Batten', 'George Harrison', 'John Lennon', 'Paul McCartney', 'Ringo Starr']

Animation, Comedy, Musical, Children's film, Adventure, Fantasy

['UK', 'USA']

English

['English']

['Apple Corps', 'TVC London', 'United Artists', 'King Features Syndicate']

animated

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

Pepperland is a cheerful, music-loving paradise under the sea, home to Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The titular Yellow Submarine rests on an Aztec-like pyramid on a hill. At the edge of the land is a range of high blue mountains. The land falls under a surprise attack from the music-hating Blue Meanies, who live beyond the mountains. The attack starts with a music-proof glass globe that imprisons the band. The Blue Meanies fire projectiles and drop apples (a reference to the Beatles' then-new company Apple Corps)[10] that render Pepperland's residents immobile as statues, and drain the entire countryside of colour. In the last minutes before his capture, Pepperland's elderly Lord High Mayor sends Fred to get help. The Apple Bonkers "bonk" the Mayor with several large apples as Fred takes off in the Yellow Submarine. He travels to Liverpool, where he follows a depressed Ringo to "The Pier", a building on the top of a hill, and persuades him to return to Pepperland with him. Ringo collects his mates John, George, and Paul. The four decide to help Old Fred, and journey with him back to Pepperland in the submarine. In the Sea of Nothing, they meet Jeremy Hillary Boob Ph.D., a short and studious creature. Ringo invites the Boob to join them aboard the submarine. They arrive at the Foothills of the Headlands, where they are accidentally separated from the submarine and Fred. They then find themselves in the Sea of Holes, where Ringo picks up a hole and puts it in his pocket. Jeremy is kidnapped by a Blue Meanie, and the group finds their way to Pepperland. Reuniting with Old Fred and reviving the apple-bonked Lord Mayor, they look upon Pepperland's now-miserable, grey landscape. The Beatles dress up as Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and steal some instruments. The four rally the land to rebellion. The Chief Blue Meanie retaliates by sending out the Dreadful Flying Glove, which John defeats. Pepperland is restored to colour as its residents revive and flowers re-bloom. Ringo uses the hole in his pocket to release the Lonely Hearts Club Band, and they join the Beatles in combating the Meanies' multi-headed dog. Ringo then rescues Jeremy, who performs some "transformation magic" on the Chief Blue Meanie, causing the Meanie to bloom roses and sadly concede defeat. John extends an offer of friendship, and the Chief Blue Meanie has a change of heart and accepts, confessing that he is related to the Bluebird of Happiness. We then see the real Beatles, who playfully show us their souvenirs. George has the submarine's motor, Paul has "a little 'love'," and Ringo has "half a hole" in his pocket (having apparently given the other half to Jeremy). Ringo points out John looking through a telescope, which prompts Paul to ask what he sees. John replies that "newer and bluer Meanies have been sighted within the vicinity of this theatre" and claims "there is only one way to go out.... Singing!" There is a short reprise of "All Together Now", which ends with translations of the song's title in various languages appearing in sequence on the screen.

Yi Yi

Edward Yang

['Wu Nien-jen', 'Issey Ogata', 'Elaine Jin', 'Kelly Lee', 'Jonathan Chang', 'Hsi-Sheng Chen', 'Su-Yun Ko', 'Tao Chuang Cheng', 'Shu-shen Hsiao', 'Adriene Lin', 'Pang Chang Yu', 'Ru-Yun Tang', 'Hsu Shu-Yuan', 'Hsin-Yi Tseng', 'Yung-Feng Lee', 'Shi-hui Chin', 'Wu Jie', 'Kuo-Chih Shu', 'Leon Dai', 'Mei-Yun Yu', 'Chi-Tung Yu', 'Lawrence Ko', 'Liang-Tso Liu', 'Li-Hua Chen', 'Yi-Wen Chen', 'Shau-Ching Sung', 'Luo Bei An', 'Antonio Lee', 'Danny Deng', 'Ray Fan', 'Chien-Hsiung Cheng', 'Cheng Yuan-Cheng', 'Ju-Yin Tsai', 'Jerry Sun', 'Tzu-chieh Miao', 'Tang Tsung Sheng', 'Wang Chi-tsan', 'Jianchang Li', 'Kenjiro Tsuda', 'Wei-Ning Wu', 'Hui-Ling Chang', 'Hsu Kuei-ying', 'Allen Lu', 'Shih-Ping Yang', 'Tzu-Yen Yeh', 'Cheryl Yang', 'Wan-Yun Lee', 'Hsiao-Wei Lin', 'Yiting Wu', 'Cheng-Kai Wang', 'Nien-Chu Hsieh', 'Shi-Chi Chen', 'Kuang-Ting Hsiang', 'Yen-Chun Lin', 'Hsin-yi Wen', 'An-yi Wen', 'Tzu-Ai Tsai', 'Yao-Wen Liu', 'Wei-Chun Wu', 'Szu-Chia Huang', 'Ming-Min Yeh', 'Yilian He', 'Katherine Lee', 'Tricia Chen', 'Christine Cheng', 'Fiona Chen', 'Cheng-Wan Pieh', 'Kate Yeung', 'Shih-hue Tu', 'Yu-Lung Yin', 'Lien-Lien Hsiao', 'Xianghua Ye', 'Sharon Mao', 'Liang-Hsin Hsieh', 'Mitsu Sudo', 'Kiyotaka Ueno', 'Norihiko Hashimoto', 'Christian Storms', 'Azusa Naito', 'Hui-Hui Chiang', 'Stephanie Michelle Lord', 'Morgan Reynolds', 'Tamara Robertson', 'Song-en Hu', 'Shou-yao Liu', 'Kai-Li Peng', 'Edward Yang']

Romance, Comedy, Musical, Musical genre, Drama

['Japan', 'Taiwan']

Chinese

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

['Omega Project', 'AtomFilms', 'Nemuru Otoko Seisaku Iinkai', 'Capitol Films']

sad, emotional

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The Jian family—father NJ, mother Min-Min, daughter Ting-Ting, son Yang-Yang—is a middle-class family in Taipei. At the wedding of Min-Min's younger brother A-Di, NJ runs into his ex-girlfriend Sherry, who gives him her number before leaving. Sherry is married to an American and lives in Chicago. After the reception, Min-Min's mother, who lives with the family, suffers a stroke that leaves her comatose. She is put on life support and the doctor urges the Jians to talk to her daily. NJ is dissatisfied with his job, and his company is struggling financially. To secure a client named Mr. Ota, NJ's colleagues ask him to take Ota out for dinner, to which he reluctantly agrees. They get along well and NJ takes Ota to a bar, where Ota sings and plays the piano. That night, NJ phones and leaves a message for Sherry, apologizing for leaving her abruptly 30 years ago. Meanwhile, Min-Min becomes depressed by her mother's condition and leaves for a remote Buddhist retreat. After a failed investment, A-Di is kicked out of the house and asks his ex-girlfriend Yun-Yun for help. A-Di is allowed to return upon the birth of his child but a fight breaks out at the baby shower when Yun-Yun shows up uninvited. A-Di and his wife reconcile after she discovers him passed out due to a gas leak at their house. Ting-Ting feels guilty because her grandmother collapsed while taking out the trash Ting-Ting was supposed to take out. She befriends her new neighbor, Lili. After Lili breaks up with her boyfriend Fatty, he begins to relay letters for Lili through Ting-Ting. Fatty soon becomes attracted to Ting-Ting and asks her out. After their second date, the two check into a hotel room, but they hesitate and leave. Later, Ting-Ting sees Lili back together with Fatty and is later berated by Fatty himself. Ting-Ting becomes depressed and talks to her grandmother, asking her to wake up. She learns the next day that Fatty has been arrested for killing Lili's teacher, who was in a sexual relationship with both Lili and her mother. At home, Ting-Ting dreams of being comforted by her grandmother. Unwilling to speak to his grandmother because he feels like she cannot hear him, Yang-Yang starts taking photographs. To punish him for leaving school to buy film, Yang-Yang is forced to face a wall while his teacher circulates his photographs among the other students. Later, after seeing the girl who torments him (because she likes him) swimming, Yang-Yang teaches himself how to swim to learn more about his tormenter. NJ is sent by his company to Tokyo to continue talks with Ota; Sherry also flies to Japan. The two reunite and recount their past; Sherry remains affected by NJ's abrupt departure and NJ attempts to resolve their tensions. They travel to another city and check into a hotel, but when NJ insists on separate rooms, Sherry berates him and breaks down. They return to Tokyo and check back into their respective rooms; before leaving, NJ tells Sherry that he has never loved anyone else. The next day, NJ is informed by his colleague that they have secured a deal with another client and he is to return to Taipei immediately. In response, NJ berates his colleague for abandoning Ota. Later, NJ goes to check on Sherry's room, learning that she has already checked out. Upon her mother's death, Min-Min returns home and is reunited with her family. At the funeral, NJ's colleague urges him to come back to work, but he refuses. In front of her shrine, Yang-Yang recites an intimate monologue. He recounts their time together, his hope of finding where she went, and a desire to "tell people what they don't know, show them what they can't see." He concludes his poem by saying how his newborn cousin reminds him of her, always saying she is old, as he always wanted to say along with her, "I am old too."

Yojimbo

Akira Kurosawa

['Toshirō Mifune', 'Tatsuya Nakadai', 'Yōko Tsukasa', 'Isuzu Yamada', 'Daisuke Katō', 'Seizaburō Kawazu', 'Takashi Shimura', 'Hiroshi Tachikawa', 'Yōsuke Natsuki', 'Eijirō Tōno', 'Kamatari Fujiwara', 'Ikio Sawamura', 'Atsushi Watanabe', 'Susumu Fujita', 'Kyū Sazanka', 'Kō Nishimura', 'Takeshi Katō', 'Ichirō Nakatani', 'Sachio Sakai', 'Akira Tani', 'Namigoro Rashomon', 'Yoshio Tsuchiya', 'Gen Shimizu', 'Jerry Fujio', 'Yutaka Sada', 'Shin Ōtomo', 'Shōichi Hirose', 'Hideyo Amamoto', 'Shōji Ōki', 'Fuminori Ōhashi', 'Hiroshi Kiyama', 'Senkichi Ōmura', 'Noriko Honma', 'Ryusuke Nishio', 'Naoya Kusakawa', 'Nadao Kirino', 'Mitsuo Tsuda', 'Shinpei Takagi', 'Jun Ōtomo', 'Akio Kusama', 'Yasuzō Ogawa', 'Hiroshi Takagi', "Jun'ichirō Mukai", 'Takuzō Kumagai', 'Ichirō Chiba', 'Haruya Sakamoto', 'Rinsaku Ogata', 'Takeo Ogushi', 'Yoko Terui', 'Hiromi Mineoka', 'Michiko Kawa']

Action, Samurai cinema, Comedy, Jidaigeki, Adventure, Martial Arts, Drama, Suspense, Thriller, Indie film, Costume drama, Classic

['Japan']

Japanese

['Japanese']

['TOHO']

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In 1860, during the final years of the Edo period,[b] a rōnin wanders through a desolate countryside. Coming to a fork in the road, he chooses which path to take at random. Stopping at a farmhouse for water, the rōnin overhears an elderly couple lamenting that their only son has run off to join the "gamblers" in a nearby town, which is overrun with criminals and contested by two rival yakuza gangs. In the town, the rōnin stops at a small izakaya (tavern). The owner Gonji advises him to leave. Gonji tells the rōnin that the two warring bosses, Ushitora and Seibei, are fighting over the lucrative gambling trade run by Seibei. Ushitora had been Seibei's right-hand man until Seibei decided that his successor would be his son Yoichiro, a useless youth. The town's mayor, a silk merchant named Tazaemon, had long been in Seibei's pocket, so Ushitora aligned himself with the local sake brewer, Tokuemon, proclaiming him the new mayor. After sizing up the situation and recognizing that no one in town cares about ending the violence, the stranger says he intends to stay, as the town would be better off with both sides dead. He convinces the weaker Seibei to hire his services by effortlessly killing three of Ushitora's men. When asked his name, he sees a mulberry field and states his name is Kuwabatake ("mulberry field") Sanjuro ("thirty-years-old") (桑畑三十郎).[c] Seibei decides that with the ronin's help, it is time to deal with Ushitora. Sanjuro eavesdrops on Seibei's wife, who orders Yoichiro to prove himself by killing the ronin after the upcoming raid, saving them from having to pay him. Sanjuro leads the attack on Ushitora's faction, but then "resigns" over Seibei's treachery, expecting both sides to massacre each other. His plan is foiled due to the unexpected arrival of a bugyō (a government official), which prompts both Seibei and Ushitora to make a bloodless retreat. The bugyō leaves soon after to investigate the assassination of a fellow official in another town. Overhearing the assassins discussing the hit in Gonji's tavern, Sanjuro later captures them and sells them to Seibei. Then he comes to Ushitora and tells him Seibei's men caught the assassins. Alarmed, Ushitora generously rewards Sanjuro for his "help," and kidnaps Yoichiro to exchange for the two assassins. At the swap, Ushitora's brother Unosuke kills the assassins with a pistol. Anticipating this, Seibei reveals he had ordered the kidnapping of Tokuemon’s mistress. The next morning, she is exchanged for Yoichiro. Sanjuro learns that the mistress, Nui, is a local farmer's wife. After he sold her to Ushitora to settle a gambling debt, Ushitora gave her to Tokuemon as chattel to gain his support. After tricking Ushitora into revealing where Nui is held, Sanjuro kills the guards and reunites the woman with her husband and son, ordering them to leave town immediately. He comes to Ushitora and informs him that Seibei is responsible for killing his men. The gang war escalates, with Ushitora burning down Tazaemon's silk warehouse and Seibei retaliating by trashing Tokuemon's brewery. After some time, Unosuke becomes suspicious of Sanjuro and the circumstances surrounding Nui's escape, eventually uncovering evidence of the ronin's betrayal. Sanjuro is severely beaten and imprisoned by Ushitora's thugs, who torture him to find out Nui's whereabouts. When Ushitora decides to eliminate Seibei once and for all, Sanjuro escapes. Smuggled out of town in a coffin by Gonji, Sanjuro witnesses the brutal end of Seibei and his family. Sanjuro recuperates in a small temple near a cemetery. Upon learning Gonji has been captured by Ushitora, he returns to town. In a final confrontation with Ushitora, Unosuke, and their gang, Sanjuro dispatches them. He spares a terrified young man (the son of the elderly couple from the opening of the film) and sends him back to his parents. As Sanjuro surveys the damage, a now insane Tazaemon comes out of his home in a samurai outfit and stabs Tokuemon to death. Sanjuro frees Gonji, proclaims that the town will be quiet from then on, and departs.

You Can Live Forever

Sarah Watts, Mark Slutsky

["Anwen O'Driscoll", 'June Laporte', 'Liane Balaban', 'Antoine Yared', 'Hasani Freeman', 'Deragh Campbell', 'Marc-Antoine Auger', 'Jude Ferus', 'Tim Campbell', 'Xavier Roberge', 'Lenni-Kim', 'Howard Rosenstein', 'Bentley Hughes', 'Jordan Sawyer', 'Juliette Gariépy']

Romance, Drama

['Canada', 'USA']

English

['English', 'French']

['Prospector Films', 'Good Deed Entertainment']

sad, emotional

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After the sudden death of her father, Jaime Buckley is sent by her mother to live with her aunt Beth and uncle Jean-François in a small town in Quebec, home to a devout Jehovah's Witness congregation. Jaime is reluctantly convinced to attend the congregation's meeting, where she catches the eye of Marike, the daughter of the congregation's leader, Frank. The two strike a connection, and Marike invites Jaime to dinner with her family, meeting Frank and Marike's older sister Amanda. Jaime tells Marike about her dream to travel to Europe to see cities like London, Barcelona, Prague, and Lucca, in particular mentioning the Guinigi Tower. Marike briefly tells Jaime about her mother before revealing that she left the Jehovah's Witness community and is treated as dead. At school, Jaime makes friends with another student named Nate, who is not a member of the Jehovah's Witnesses and is incredulous about their non-celebration of occasions like birthdays or Christmas. Marike invites Jaime to see the Cyclorama of Jerusalem, where she tells Jaime about the coming paradise. Jaime attends dinner again with Marike's family, who ask if she has been baptized. She spends the night with Marike, and is surprised at their physical closeness. The next day, Marike notices Jaime's interactions with Nate and later questions her relationship with him before giving her a drawing of the Guinigi Tower. After spending a day together on field service, Jaime and Marike's friendship becomes much closer. At the next meeting, Marike's boyfriend Marc-Olivier introduces Jaime to his friend Simon and Amanda becomes suspicious of Jaime's influence on Marike. Nate finds out that it is Jaime's birthday and takes her out to a cáfe for cake, but Marike and Amanda run across the pair. Jaime is told by Beth and Jean-Francois that due to her perceived influence over Marike, the two will only be allowed to interact in supervised environments such as Bible study. Marike gives Jaime a small piece of a meteorite as a gift, and Jaime tells her that her mother's condition has improved and that she is wanted back at home. After a Bible study session, the pair are walking home when Marike asks her to pray. Marike says a short prayer before kissing Jaime and walking away, and the two agree to go out on field service again. Marike suggests that they go on a double date with Marc-Olivier and Simon. At the movie with the boys, the two briefly sneak away together to the washroom, then again outside Jaime's house when she forgets her scarf. Marike opens up to Amanda about still thinking about their mother. Later, during the next school day, Jaime convinces Marike to skip class, and they hold a mock baptism in a bathtub. While resting together, Jaime tells Marike that she was previously in a relationship with another girl, and points out that Marike still has a boyfriend. Later, the pair are walking together and stop to look at a shop. Jamie reassures Marike that her previous relationship is in the past and the two kiss; however, they are spotted by a passing Jean-François, who informs Frank. Jamie meets Marike in the loft and asks if she will leave with her, and Marike agrees to talk to her father and smooth things over. At the next meeting, Frank unexpectedly announces Marike's engagement to Marc-Olivier, causing Jaime to run from the room. A confused and distraught Jaime later confronts Marike, who said that the marriage was her idea, believing that she and Jaime can be together in paradise. Jaime responds that she cannot go along with this plan as she does not share the same religious beliefs, and Marike replies that she can believe enough for both of them. Following this, Jaime moves back to Ontario. In an epilogue set an unspecified number of years later, a college-aged Jaime returns to the small town and is picked up at the train station by Marike. Jaime meets Marike's infant son, Luca, and tells her that she traveled to Europe as the pair had previously talked about. Marike tells Jaime that she secretly had Beth give her the latter's postcards to read. At the end of the film, when Jaime is about to get out of the car, Marike stops her, and a teardrop falls down Jaime's cheek when Marike says no in reply to her question "Not gonna let me go?"

You Can't Take It with You

Frank Capra

['Jean Arthur', 'James Stewart', 'Lionel Barrymore', 'Edward Arnold', 'Mischa Auer', 'Ann Miller', 'Spring Byington', 'Samuel S. Hinds', 'Donald Meek', 'H.B. Warner', 'Halliwell Hobbes', 'Dub Taylor', 'Mary Forbes', 'Lillian Yarbo', "Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson", 'Clarence Wilson', 'Josef Swickard', 'Ann Doran', 'Christian Rub', 'Bodil Rosing', 'Charles Lane', 'Harry Davenport', 'Irving Bacon', 'Ward Bond', 'James Burke', 'Eddy Chandler', 'Anne Cornwall', 'Nell Craig', 'Edgar Dearing', 'Pat Flaherty', 'Robert Greig', 'Kit Guard', 'John Hamilton', 'Edward Hearn', 'Russell Hicks', 'Edward Keane', 'Pert Kelton', 'Edwin Maxwell', 'Frank McLure', 'Charles McMurphy', 'James Millican', 'Edward Peil Sr.', 'Ian Wolfe', 'Eugene Anderson Jr', 'Stanley Andrews', 'William Arnold', 'Johnny Arthur', 'Frank Austin', 'Harry A. Bailey', 'Joseph E. Bernard', 'Beatrice Blinn', 'Charles Brinley', 'Beatrice Curtis', 'Betty Farrington', 'John Ince', 'Stella LeSaint', 'Margaret Mann', 'Tina Marshall', 'Eva McKenzie', 'Fred Parker', 'George C. Pearce', 'Ed Randolph', 'Frances Raymond', 'Bert Starkey', 'Dorothy Vernon', 'Bess Wade', 'Gladys Blake', 'Joe Bordeaux', 'Ralph Brooks', 'Stanley Brown', 'Gloria Browne', 'Wallis Clark', 'Chester Clute', 'Nick Copeland', 'Dick Curtis', "Sidney D'Albrook", 'Lew Davis', 'Lester Dorr', 'Jack Gardner', 'William Lally', 'Gene Morgan', 'Vernon Dent', 'Kay Deslys', 'Florence Dudley', 'Almeda Fowler', 'Alice Keating', "Georgia O'Dell", 'Dagmar Oakland', 'Rosemary Theby', 'Homer Dickenson', 'Oliver Eckhardt', 'Sterrett Ford', 'Jesse Graves', 'Louis King', 'Bob Kortman', 'Ralph McCullough', 'Clive Morgan', 'Cy Schindell', 'Harry Semels', 'Ernest Shields', 'S.S. Simon', 'Victor Travis', 'Roland Dupree', 'Edward Earle', 'Jim Farley', 'Eddie Fetherston', 'James Flavin', 'Byron Foulger', 'Dick French', 'Carlton Griffin', 'Dick Rush', 'Bruce Sidney', 'Harry Stafford', 'Carlie Taylor', 'Joe Geil', 'Billy Wolfstone', 'Chuck Hamilton', "Oscar 'Dutch' Hendrian", 'Harry Hollingsworth', 'Paul Irving', 'Boyd Irwin', 'Eddie Kane', 'Frank Mills', 'Bruce Mitchell', 'Wedgwood Nowell', 'Blanche Payson', 'Lee Phelps', 'Hilda Plowright', 'Doris Rankin', 'Ky Robinson', 'Frank Shannon', 'C.L. Sherwood', 'Edwin Stanley', 'Bert Stevens', 'Laura Treadwell', 'John Tyrrell', 'Walter Walker', 'Pierre Watkin', 'Pat West', 'Larry Wheat', 'Alex Woloshin', 'Bess Flowers']

Romance, Comedy, Screwball comedy, Romantic comedy, Melodrama, Drama, Classic

['USA']

English

['English', 'Russian']

['Columbia Pictures']

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Successful banker Anthony P. Kirby has just returned from Washington, D.C., where he was effectively granted a government-sanctioned munitions monopoly, which will make him very rich. He intends to buy a 12-block radius around a competitor's factory to put him out of business, but one household refuses to sell. Kirby instructs his real-estate broker, John Blakely, to offer the household a huge sum, and if they still refuse, to cause trouble for the family. Meanwhile, Grandpa Vanderhof convinces a bank accountant named Poppins to quit work and pursue his dream of making animated toys. Kirby's son, Tony, a vice president in the family company, has fallen in love with a company stenographer, Alice Sycamore. When Tony proposes marriage, Alice is worried that her family would be looked upon poorly by Tony's rich and famous family. In fact, Alice is the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, led by Vanderhof. Vanderhof describes the living arrangement as "lilies of the field" in that they engage in work they enjoy and run their own businesses. Granddaughter Essie makes and sells candy, her husband Ed Carmichael is a musician and printer, her father Paul manufactures fireworks in the basement with resident DePinna, and so on. Unbeknownst to the players, Alice's family lives in the house that will not sell. Vanderhof is protecting not only his property but the families and businesses in the twelve-block area Kirby wants. Kirby and his wife strongly disapprove of Tony's choice for marriage. Tony not only loves Alice but feels she encourages his taste for spontaneous fun and farcical humor. Before she accepts, Alice forces Tony to bring his family to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, but when Tony purposely brings his family on the wrong day (reasoning that he would rather the two families meet as they are, not in a formal "stuffed-shirt" setting), the Sycamore family is caught off-guard, and the house is in disarray. As the Kirbys are preparing to leave after a rather disastrous meeting, the police arrive in response to what they perceive as printed threats on flyers, made by Ed as Independence Day promotions ("the revolution is coming", etc.) for Paul's fireworks. When the fireworks in the basement go off, they arrest everyone in the house. Held in the drunk tank preparing to see the night-court judge, Mrs. Kirby repeatedly insults Alice and makes her feel unworthy of Tony, while Grandpa explains to Kirby the importance of having friends, and that despite all the wealth and success in business, "you can't take it with you". At the court hearing, the judge allows for Grandpa and his family to settle the charges for disturbing the peace and making illegal fireworks by assessing a fine, for which Grandpa's neighborhood friends pitch in to pay. He repeatedly asks why the Kirbys were at the Vanderhof house. When Grandpa, attempting to help Kirby, says it was to talk over selling the house, Alice has an outburst and says it was because she was engaged to Tony, but is spurning him because of how poorly she has been treated by his family. This causes a sensation in the papers, and Alice flees the city. With Alice gone, Grandpa decides to sell the house, thus meaning all his neighbors must vacate to prepare for building the new factory. Now, the Kirby companies merge, creating a huge fluctuation in the stock market and ruining Ramsey, Kirby's competitor. Ramsey dies after confronting Kirby for being ruthless and a failure of a man, saying he too will end up ruined, alone and friendless. Kirby realizes Ramsey is right, he is heading for the same fate, and leaves the meeting where the contract signing is scheduled to occur. Tony quietly confronts his father, saying he's quit the company and never wanted it in the first place. As the Vanderhofs are vacating the house, Tony tries to speak with Alice. Kirby arrives and talks privately with Grandpa, sharing his realization. Grandpa responds by inviting him to play "Polly Wolly Doodle" on the harmonica that Kirby gave him. The two let loose with the rest of the family joining in the merriment, and Alice decides to reunite with Tony. Later, at the dinner table, Grandpa says grace for the Sycamore family and the Kirbys, revealing that Kirby has sold back the houses on the block.

You, the Living

Roy Andersson

['HÃ¥kan Angser', 'Eric Bäckman', 'Patrik Anders Edgren', 'Björn Englund', 'Lennart Eriksson', 'Pär Fredriksson', 'Elisabeth Helander', 'Gunnar Ivarsson', 'Leif Larsson', 'Jessika Lundberg', 'Jessica Nilsson', 'Jörgen Nohall', 'Waldemar Nowak', 'Olle Olson', 'Kemal Sener', 'Jan Wikbladh', 'Göran Holm', 'Catharina Dahlin']

Comedy, Musical, Documentary, Dark comedy, Drama, Tragicomedy, Comedy drama, Comedy music

['Denmark', 'France', 'Germany', 'Japan', 'Norway', 'Sweden']

Swedish

['Swedish']

['Roy Andersson Filmproduktion', 'Coproduction Office', 'Société Parisienne de Production', 'Thermidor Filmproduktion', '4 1/2', 'SVT', 'ARTE France Cinéma', 'WDR/Arte', 'stylejam']

comedy

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Young Adult

Jason Reitman

['Charlize Theron', 'Patton Oswalt', 'Patrick Wilson', 'Elizabeth Reaser', 'Collette Wolfe', 'Jill Eikenberry', 'Richard Bekins', 'Mary Beth Hurt', 'Kate Nowlin', 'Jenny Dare Paulin', 'Rebecca Hart', 'Louisa Krause', 'Elizabeth Ward Land', 'Brian McElhaney', 'Hettienne Park', 'John Forest', 'Rightor Doyle', 'Brady Smith', 'Tim Young', 'Erin Darke', 'Jee Young Han', 'Ella Rae Peck', 'Aleisha Allen', 'Matt Wilson', 'Orlagh Cassidy', 'Charles Techman', 'Emily Meade', 'Neil Hellegers', 'Michael Nathanson', 'Landyn Banx', 'Kirsten Gregerson', 'J.K. Simmons', 'Joel Thingvall', 'Julie E. Davis', 'Fredrika Dukes', 'John Edel', 'Rosemary Howard', 'Eric Pierson']

Comedy, Tragicomedy, Drama, Comedy drama

['USA']

English

['English']

['Paramount Pictures', 'Mandate Pictures', 'Indian Paintbrush', 'Mr. Mudd', 'Right of Way Films', 'Denver & Delilah Productions']

comedy

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Mavis Gary is a 37-year-old divorced, alcoholic ghost writer of a series of young adult novels, on deadline with her editor to finish the last book of the soon-to-be-canceled series. Mavis receives an e-mail with a picture of the newborn daughter of her high school boyfriend Buddy Slade and his wife Beth. Believing it to be a sign she and Buddy are meant to be together, Mavis leaves Minneapolis, returning to her hometown of Mercury, Minnesota, to reclaim her life with him, under the pretext of overseeing a real estate deal. Arriving after listening to "The Concept" by Teenage Fanclub from an old mixtape Buddy gave her in high school, Mavis arranges to meet him the next day at a local sports bar for old times' sake. Beforehand, she goes alone to the bar Woody's. There she reconnects with a former classmate she barely remembers, Matt Freehauf, who became disabled after being beaten by jocks who erroneously assumed he was gay. He tells her that her plan to reclaim Buddy is irrational and selfish, but she ignores him. The following day, Mavis meets Buddy at the sports bar, where they see Matt again, as he is the bar's bookkeeper. On their way out, Buddy invites her to a performance of Beth's "mom rock band". Mavis spends another night getting drunk with Matt, who distills homemade bourbon in his garage where he lives with his sister Sandra. On another outing with Matt, Mavis also runs into a handicapped cousin who lives locally. When she attends the gig, the other moms are resentful of Mavis, whom they remember as the "psychotic prom queen bitch". As Beth's band performs, the lead singer dedicates their opening song to Buddy from Beth; "The Concept". Angry, Mavis tries to get Buddy's attention on her, but she comes off as cringey. Beth wants to stay out longer, so Mavis offers to drive the drunk Buddy home. On the lawn, they share a kiss that is quickly broken up when the babysitter opens the front door to greet them. The next day, after an awkward encounter with her parents, who didn't know she was in town, Mavis is invited to Buddy's daughter's naming ceremony. She later brings Matt to their old high school to get drunk again, and he tells her to grow up. The following day, Mavis attends the party, where she declares her love for Buddy, but he rebuffs her. Everyone at the party is called out to the lawn to await a surprise he has prepared for Beth. A drunk Mavis collides with Beth, who accidentally spills punch on Mavis's dress. She insults her and, in a profanity-laced tirade, tearfully reveals that she became pregnant with Buddy's baby years ago but had a miscarriage at three months. Buddy, who has been preparing a drum-set gift for Beth in the garage, opens the garage door and belatedly learns what has transpired. Mavis asks him why he invited her. He reveals it was Beth's idea, as she feels sorry for Mavis thinking she is suffering from a mental illness and loneliness. Humiliated, Mavis leaves and visits Matt, where she breaks down in tears and, later, initiates sex. The following morning, while Matt sleeps, Mavis has coffee in the kitchen with Sandra, who still idolizes her. Mavis talks about needing to change herself, but Sandra says she is better than the rest of Mercury and should not change. Mavis says she agrees and prepares to return to Minneapolis. Sandra asks to go with her but Mavis declines and leaves alone. In a diner on her way home, Mavis writes the ending of the book, in which the main character graduates high school, quickly leaves her past behind, and looks forward to the future. Afterward, in the parking lot, she glances at the crumpled bumper of her car, before driving off.