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Young Adult Matters

Lee Hwan

['Lee You-mi', 'Hani', 'Shin Haet-bit', 'Lee Hwan', 'Park Kang-seop', 'Bang Eun-jeong', 'Heo Joon-seok', 'Han Sung-soo', 'Kim Kang-hyun', 'Lee Seung-yeon', 'Hyun Bong-sik', 'Noh Susanna', 'Cho Seong-ha']

['Drama']

['South Korea']

Korean

['Korean']

['Little Big Pictures', 'Don Quixote Entertainment']

sad, emotional

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

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Young Frankenstein

Mel Brooks

['Gene Wilder', 'Teri Garr', 'Marty Feldman', 'Peter Boyle', 'Cloris Leachman', 'Madeline Kahn', 'Kenneth Mars', 'Richard Haydn', 'Liam Dunn', 'Danny Goldman', 'Oscar Beregi Jr.', 'Arthur Malet', 'Richard A. Roth', 'Monte Landis', 'Rusty Blitz', 'Anne Beesley', 'Gene Hackman', 'John Madison', 'John Dennis', 'Rick Norman', 'Rolfe Sedan', 'Terrence Pushman', 'Randolph Dobbs', 'Norbert Schiller', "Pat O'Hara", 'Michael Fox', 'Lidia Kristen', 'Berry Kroeger', 'Ian Abercrombie', 'Mel Brooks', 'Lou Cutell', 'Leoda Richards', 'Clement von Franckenstein', 'Jeff Maxwell', 'Lars Hensen', 'Johnny Marlin', 'Maida Severn', 'Arthur Tovey', 'Max Wagner']

Horror, Comedy, Comedy horror, Science fiction, Fantasy, Slapstick

['USA']

English

['English', 'German']

['Crossbow Productions', 'Gruskoff/Venture Films', 'Jouer Limited', '20th Century Fox']

comedy, feel-good

vote-best-comedy-films-of-all-time, feel-good-movies

Dr. Frederick Frankenstein is a lecturing physician at an American medical school and engaged to Elizabeth, a socialite. He becomes exasperated when anyone brings up the subject of his grandfather Victor Frankenstein, the infamous mad scientist with whom he does not want to be associated, and insists that his surname is pronounced "Fronkensteen".[13] When a solicitor informs him that he has inherited his family's estate in Transylvania after the death of his great-grandfather, the Baron Beaufort von Frankenstein, Frederick travels to Europe to inspect the property. At the Transylvania train station, Frederick is met by a hunchbacked, bug-eyed servant named Igor, whose own grandfather worked for Victor; and a beautiful, young, female assistant named Inga. Hearing that the professor pronounces his name "Fronkensteen", Igor insists that his name is pronounced "Eyegor", rather than the traditional "Eegor". Arriving at the estate, Frederick meets Frau Blücher, the intimidating housekeeper. After discovering the secret entrance to Victor's laboratory and reading his private journals, he decides to resume his grandfather's experiments in re-animating the dead. Frederick and Igor steal the corpse of a recently executed criminal, and he sets to work experimenting on the large corpse. He sends Igor to steal the brain of a deceased "scientist and saint" named Hans Delbrück. Startled by his own reflection and the sound of thunder, Igor drops and ruins Delbrück's brain. Taking a second brain labeled "Abnormal", he returns with it and Frederick transplants it into the corpse, thinking he has transplanted Delbrück's brain. Frederick brings the Monster to life by electrical charges during a lightning storm. It takes its first steps, but, frightened by Igor lighting a match, he attacks Frederick and nearly strangles him before he is sedated. Unaware of the Monster's existence, the townspeople gather to discuss their unease at Frederick continuing his grandfather's work. Inspector Kemp, a one-eyed police inspector with a prosthetic arm, whose German accent is so thick that even his own countrymen cannot understand him,[14] proposes to visit the doctor, whereupon he demands assurance that Frankenstein will not create another Monster. Returning to the lab, Frederick discovers Blücher setting the creature free. She reveals the Monster's love of violin music and her own romantic relationship with Frederick's grandfather. The Monster is enraged by sparks from a thrown switch and escapes the castle. While roaming the countryside, the monster has encounters with a young girl and a blind hermit.[a] Frederick recaptures the monster and locks himself in a room with him. He calms the Monster's homicidal tendencies with flattery and a promise to guide him to success, embracing his heritage as a Frankenstein. At a theater full of illustrious guests, Frederick shows "The Creature" following simple commands. The demonstration continues with Frederick and the Monster, both in top hats and tuxedos, performing the musical number "Puttin' On the Ritz". A stage light suddenly explodes and frightens the Monster, interrupting the performance. The audience boo and throw vegetables at the Monster, who becomes enraged and charges into the audience, where he is captured and chained by police. Back in the laboratory, Inga attempts to comfort Frederick and they have sex on the suspended reanimation table. The monster escapes from prison the same night that Elizabeth arrives unexpectedly for a visit. The monster takes her captive as he flees. Elizabeth falls in love with the monster due to his "enormous Schwanzstucker".[16] While the townspeople hunt for the Monster, Frederick plays the violin to lure his creation back to the castle and recaptures him. Just as the Kemp-led mob storms the laboratory, Frankenstein transfers some of his stabilizing intellect to the Monster who reasons with and placates the mob. After properly welcoming the Monster with his prosthetic accidentally getting pulled out, Kemp then takes the mob members back to his place for a little sponge cake and a little wine while taking a detour to the lumber mill. Sometime later, Frederick and Inga are married. With Elizabeth's hair in a new style,[b] she marries the now erudite and sophisticated Monster. While in bed with Frederick, Inga asks what her new husband got in return during the transfer procedure. Frederick growls wordlessly like the monster and embraces Inga who, as Elizabeth did when abducted by the monster, begins singing the refrain "Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life" as Igor plays music from atop the castle.[17]

Your Name Engraved Herein

Kuang-Hui Liu

['Edward Chen', 'Jing-Hua Tseng', 'Leon Dai', 'Wang Shih-Sian', 'Fabio Grangeon', 'Barry Qu', 'Stone Yang', 'Lance Chiu', 'Mimi Shao', 'Hui-Min Lin', 'Lotus Wang', 'Cheng-Yang Wu', 'Lenny Li', 'David Chiu', 'Chih-ju Lin', 'Soda Voyu', 'Honduras', 'Yi-Ruei Chen', 'Siu Wa Lung', 'Tzu-Yen Chin', 'Qu Youning', 'Ma Nien-Hsien', 'Mountain Kao', 'Waa Wei', 'Jean-François Blanchard']

Romance, Melodrama, Drama

['Canada', 'Taiwan', 'USA']

Chinese

['Chinese', 'English']

['Oxygen Film Studio', 'CMC Entertainment', 'Sony Pictures International Productions', 'Flash Forward Entertainment', 'Bossdom Digiinnovation', 'Taipei Film Commission', 'Parce Que Films']

sad, emotional

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

The film opens with the protagonist Chang Jia-han (Edward Chen), also known as A-han, meeting his school priest and band leader Father Oliver (Fabio Grangeon) to discuss the fight he had just gotten into. Father Oliver assumes the fight was over a girl that A-han likes; A-han does not respond, glancing at Father Oliver in silence. Taking place in Taiwan as martial law ends in 1987, Wang Po Te (Tseng Jing-Hua), known as Birdy, transfers to the same all-boys Catholic high school as A-han. Their first encounter takes place during a training session in the pool where they tell each other what classes they are in. As they test their lung capacity by holding their breath underwater, A-han secretly glances at Birdy, indicating his interest in him. Birdy is seen sneaking into A-han's room to ask him for soap. Meanwhile, A-han and his other friends get ready to sneak out of the dorms. As they are about to jump the wall Birdy returns from outside, coming back after buying food and scaring the group of boys. A-han and his friends end up in a cemetery where they play band songs for a group of girls they intend to hook up with. All of A-han's friends have already begun hooking up while he is sitting there alone. He is suddenly approached by one of the girls, who puts his hand on her breast. She then proceeds to sit on him in an attempt to seduce him. Disappointed at his inability to get an erection, A-han apologizes to her. Another day in band class, Father Oliver gives a lesson to the students to live in the moment ("profiter du moment") and discusses the concept of youth and love with the class. The class asks Father Oliver of his first love and as the story is being told, Birdy and A-han exchange glances and smile at each other. In the evening, Birdy is caught by the dorm head sneaking out for food and disciplined with corporal punishment. A-han goes to the showers to give Birdy ointment for his wounds. As A-han waits for Birdy to finish showering, A-han's friend Horn and his groupies are shown bullying and assaulting a homosexual student. A-han and Birdy are hiding in the shower stall together but as soon as the bullies take off the boy's pants and try to put a lighter to his genitals, A-han runs out of the stall to stop the boys. They try to peer-pressure A-han into beating the boy because of his homosexuality and explain that sinners must be punished. Just as A-han freezes, Birdy steps out of the stall, helps the victim up and both walk away. Horn asks A-han if he and Birdy were in the same stall but he brushes it off after A-han denies this. The same night, Birdy sneaks into A-han's bed, where he shares snacks stolen from the dorm head's office. Later that night, Birdy urinated into the dorm head's car in A-han's presence. After the death of president Chiang Ching-kuo is announced, the two travel to Taipei to mourn on behalf of their school. They grow closer through their adventures in the capital. While in Taipei, Birdy and A-han see a protester (Chi Chia-wei) on a footbridge, holding a sign saying "Homosexuality is not a disease!". Police violently detain the protester, while A-han restrains an outraged Birdy and prevents him from intervening. At a video-salon room while the movie Birdy is playing on the TV screen, A-han leans in to kiss Birdy as he sleeps but is interrupted by room service who tells him not to fool around. They spend intimate moments and have deep conversations throughout their trip but never act on their attraction. The summer following their trip, A-han remains melancholic due to conflicting thoughts about his identity and feelings. He asks his parents to buy him a scooter, which creates tension with his father. A-han waits by the phone until he receives a call from Birdy. After meeting up, the two boys ride on A-han's new scooter his mother buys for him to cheer him up. The pair watch films together at the cinema and steal movie posters from the wall. They sneak into a projection room where Birdy voices his desire to become a filmmaker, asking A-han to go to film school with him in Taipei. They are discovered by the cinema owner and chased out of the room. The next morning, A-han has a wet dream of Birdy. In the following semester back to school, the introduction of a co-educational policy adds a wrinkle as the presence of female students irrevocably changes school dynamics. Despite allowing the matriculation of girls, school officials are still strict on intermingling between the sexes. Horn and his groupies warn A-han to be careful around Birdy, as they are both in the same class H, referring to him as a weirdo. Later, in band class, a school disciplinary official gets into an argument about keeping girls and boys separated. A female student, Wu Ruo-fei (known as Ban-Ban), stands up for herself after the official berates her. Birdy also chimes in, sparking a growing interest between the pair. After facing increasing accusations of being a homosexual and humiliation for performing an effeminate song at a military song competition, Birdy seeks comfort in the arms of Ban-Ban, and as they begin to spend more time together, A-han starts to become increasingly jealous. He enters a chapel and prays for clarity; Birdy walks in and taunts him for his lack of a girlfriend and offers to introduce him to someone. A-han becomes furious at Birdy's nonchalant attitude and accuses him of toying with his feelings. Birdy asks if A-han can stop trying to hang out with him alone. A-han then goes out with a girl he previously met with and she tells him a way to profess love over a pager. A-han immediately sends this message to Birdy, but does not receive a response as Birdy is out with Ban-Ban. At night, A-han helps Birdy steal a giant balloon for a surprise prank. The next morning, the surprise turns out to be a love confession to Ban-Ban from Birdy which upsets A-han. Leaving for some solace, A-han meets an older man who tries to comfort him. When the old man makes a sexual advance, A-han pushes him away and leaves. The scene cuts back to A-han's conversation with Father Oliver where the protagonist says he would rather go to hell. He says that if all gay people go to hell, then more people might understand him there. A-han finds Birdy after he has gotten into an accident and wrecked the scooter. Birdy insists he will fix the scooter but A-han says not to worry. Back at the dorms, A-han helps Birdy shower due to his injury. They soon become intimate, and A-han begins to give Birdy a handjob. Birdy resists but then gives in to his desire. As Birdy climaxes he kisses A-han, but then apologizes. The pair cry and embrace while sharing an intimate moment filled with conflicting emotions of love, pain, shame, and desire. Soon after, Birdy begins to ignore and avoid A-han, confusing him. It is also revealed that Ban-Ban has been expelled from the school with Birdy only being given detention because of the balloon incident. Birdy's father arrives at the school and proceeds to beat him for being disobedient and not focusing on education. A-han tries to stop Birdy from getting hit. The two boys begin fighting with each other after A-han tries to take the blame for the Balloons Incident on his shoulders. The fight gets broken up by the teachers and Father Oliver. Reconnecting back to the present in the conversation between A-han and Father Oliver, Father Oliver talks about his youth and how he used to rebel but tried to stay on path. He then offers to pray for A-han which is interrupted by Horn, who tells A-han to go home. A-han refuses, but Horn tells him that Birdy is there, so A-han immediately runs out of the room to go home and see Birdy. When A-han reaches home, his parents tell him not to fight with his best friend over a girl but A-han is frustrated that he cannot say the truth. After a heated argument with Birdy in which he almost comes out to his parents, A-han runs away from home with Birdy following him. They arrive at an island in Penghu where A-han tries to take out his frustrations by screaming, only to be calmed down by Birdy. They have intimate conversations and go skinny dipping. Laying naked on the beach together, A-han touches Birdy softly then kisses him which Birdy reciprocates. The pair do not see each other again after that. Birdy moves away to focus on his university entrance exams and A-han calls him one last time to confess his love for him by playing him a song (Your Name Engraved Herein theme song by Crowd Lu). The pair both break down and sob longingly due to heartbreak. Many years later at the school's marching band reunion, a middle-aged A-han attends in hopes of meeting Birdy again, without success. A-han then reconnects with Ban-Ban, who is now Birdy's ex-wife and mother of his children. A-han asks how Birdy is to which Ban-Ban responds that they rarely see each other. Ban-Ban notes that Birdy's stubbornness to keep his secret has ruined everyone's lives while wishing Birdy told her earlier on, and remarks that men loving men is innate. A-han later travels to Canada to pay respects at Father Oliver's grave and meets with Father Oliver's former lover. He tells A-han about Father Oliver's struggle to accept his identity as a homosexual man and how he turned to religion to suppress his desires. A-han is still distraught about him being unable to meet with Birdy, only for them to run into each other outside a bar where they reminisce about their love, struggles and relationship. Birdy finally admits that he really loved A-han then and was just unable to accept it himself. As they arrive to A-han's accommodation, he offers Birdy to come inside for a drink to which Birdy declines but accepts an offer to walk together back to his hotel. As they walk together, a younger version of A-han begins singing Your Name Engraved Herein to which younger Birdy joins in. The film ends off with the older pair watching their younger selves singing with each other and skipping through the alley together.

Your Name.

Makoto Shinkai

['Ryunosuke Kamiki', 'Mone Kamishiraishi', 'Ryo Narita', 'Aoi Yuki', 'Nobunaga Shimazaki', 'Kaito Ishikawa', 'Kanon Tani', 'Masaki Terasoma', 'Sayaka Ohara', 'Kazuhiko Inoue', 'Chafurin', 'Yuka Kato', 'Kana Hanazawa', 'Shinya Hamazoe', 'Masami Nagasawa', 'Etsuko Ichihara', 'Yuka Terasaki', 'Takashi Onozuka', 'Kanami Satou', 'Shinjirou Gouda', 'Yasuhiro Kikuchi', 'Tamari Hinata', 'Nozomi Yamane', 'Yuuki Shin', 'Tatsuya Murakami', 'Nodoka Hasegawa', 'Baron Yamazaki', 'Suguru Inoue', 'Ryoko Usami', 'Miho Morisaki', 'Tsuyoshi Minamijima', 'Aika Oomae', 'Tomohiro Yamaguchi', 'Takayuki Nakatsukasa', 'Hiroki Matsukawa', 'Shouko Negoro', 'Yuki Ominami', 'Manami Hanawa', 'Miho Tabata', 'Eriko Tomioka', 'Eiji Yamamoto', 'Yôhei Namekawa']

Animation, Romance, Fantasy, Melodrama, Drama, Supernatural

['Japan']

Japanese

['Japanese']

['CoMix Wave Films', 'TOHO', 'KADOKAWA', 'East Japan Marketing & Communications', 'AMUSE', 'voque ting', 'Lawson Entertainment', '4Kids Entertainment']

animated

vote-best-animated-films-of-all-time, lb_top250

Mitsuha Miyamizu is a high school student in the rural town of Itomori, Japan. Bored of the town, she wishes to be a Tokyo boy in her next life. Soon, she begins to intermittently switch bodies with Taki Tachibana, a boy from Tokyo. On certain days, Taki and Mitsuha wake up in each other's bodies and must live the entire day as the other, reverting when they go to sleep at night. The two set up ground rules for sharing their bodies, communicating via messages on paper, their phones, and their skin. Mitsuha (in Taki's body) sets Taki up on a date with his coworker, Miki Okudera, while Taki (in Mitsuha's body) helps Mitsuha become more popular at school. While in Mitsuha's body, Taki accompanies Mitsuha's grandmother Hitoha and younger sister Yotsuha to the Shinto shrine on a mountain near Itomori, leaving an offering of kuchikamizake made with Mitsuha's saliva. Hitoha explains that God is the ruler over both time and the connections between humans. Mitsuha tells Taki that the comet Tiamat is expected to pass nearest to Earth on the day of the autumn festival. The next day, Taki goes on a date with Miki in his own body; Miki enjoys the date but says she can tell Taki is preoccupied with someone else. Realizing he is falling for Mitsuha, Taki attempts to call her on the phone but cannot reach her. The body-switching stops as inexplicably as it started. Taki, Miki, and their friend Tsukasa travel to Hida to search for Mitsuha. Taki does not know the name of Mitsuha's village, so he sketches the landscape from memory; a restaurant owner in Takayama recognizes the town as Itomori and offers to take Taki and his friends. When they arrive, they find the town almost entirely decimated by fragments that fell from Tiamat. Since the comet passed three years earlier, Taki realizes that he and Mitsuha were separated by three years, her living in 2013 and he in 2016. He finds Mitsuha's name among the 500 people killed by the comet's impact. Taki begins to lose his memories of Mitsuha, seeing her messages disappear from his phone. In a panic, he races to the shrine and drinks the kuchikamizake. He has a vision and recalls that Mitsuha once came to Tokyo to find him; though he did not recognize her, she gave him a red kumihimo ribbon he has worn ever since. Taki awakens in Mitsuha's body on the morning of the festival, where Hitoha speaks directly to him, explaining that the body-switching phenomenon has always been in their family. Realizing he has a chance to save Mitsuha and the entire town, Taki convinces Mitsuha's friends to help him broadcast an emergency signal, evacuating Itomori before the meteor fragments strike. He then heads to the shrine, where Mitsuha has just woken up in Taki's body. As twilight falls;[note 1] their timelines cross, allowing them to meet in person for the first time. Taki returns Mitsuha's ribbon, and they attempt to write their names on each other's palms, but twilight ends before Mitsuha can write hers. She returns to the village to see that the evacuation plan failed but convinces her father, the mayor, to order an evacuation. Beginning to forget Taki, she discovers that he wrote "I love you" on her hand instead of his name. Taki awakens in his own time with no memory. Five years later, Taki is a university graduate struggling to find a job. He is obsessed with the impact of Tiamat, when the villagers of Itomori were miraculously saved by a fortuitous evacuation drill, but cannot remember why. One day, he glimpses Mitsuha, who has moved to Tokyo; they race to find each other. As they pass the stairs of a shrine, Taki calls out to Mitsuha, and the two simultaneously ask each other for their name.

Z

Costa-Gavras

['Yves Montand', 'Irene Papas', 'Jean-Louis Trintignant', 'Jacques Perrin', 'Charles Denner', 'François Périer', 'Bernard Fresson', 'Pierre Dux', 'Georges Géret', 'Magali Noël', 'Marcel Bozzuffi', 'Julien Guiomar', 'Renato Salvatori', 'Jean Bouise', 'Clotilde Joano', 'Maurice Baquet', 'Habib Reda', 'Hassan El-Hassani', 'Gérard Darrieu', 'Jean-Pierre Miquel', 'Sid Ahmed Agoumi', 'Jean Dasté', 'Van Doude', 'Jean-François Gobbi', 'Guy Mairesse', 'Andrée Tainsy', 'Eva Simonet', 'François Chaumette', 'Allel El Mouhib', 'José Artur', 'Raoul Coutard', 'Steve Gadler', 'Gabriel Jabbour', 'Georges Rouquier']

Political cinema, Crime, Political thriller, Mystery, Drama, Suspense, Thriller, Detective fiction, Historical Fiction, Crime Fiction, Classic, Police procedural

['Algeria', 'France']

French

['French', 'Russian']

['Valoria Films', 'Reggane Films', "Office National pour le Commerce et l'Industrie Cinématographique (ONCIC)"]

thriller, essential

100-essential-thrillers, lb_top250

The film centers on the right-wing, military-dominated government of an unnamed Mediterranean state (based on Greece). The story begins with the closing moments of a rather dull government lecture on agricultural policy until the leader of the security police takes over the podium for an impassioned speech describing the government's program to combat leftism by using the metaphors "a mildew of the mind", an infiltration of "isms" and "sunspots". The scene shifts to preparations for a political rally of the opposition faction in which the left-leaning, pacifist deputy is to give a speech advocating nuclear disarmament. There have been attempts by the government to prevent the speech from being delivered. The venue has been changed to a much smaller hall, logistical problems have appeared out of nowhere and the people handing out leaflets about the change of venue are attacked by thugs under the command of the police. On his way to the venue, the deputy is hit on the head by one of the right-wing anticommunist protestors, some of whom are sponsored by the government, but carries on with his sharp speech. As the deputy crosses the street from the hall after giving his speech, a delivery truck speeds past him, and a man on the open truck bed strikes him down with a club. The injury eventually proves fatal, and the police manipulate witnesses to force the conclusion that the deputy was simply run over by a drunk driver. However, the police do not control the hospital, where the autopsy disproves their interpretation. The examining magistrate, with the assistance of a photojournalist, now uncovers sufficient evidence to indict not only the two right-wing militants who committed the murder but also four high-ranking military police officers. The action of the film concludes with one of the deputy's associates rushing to see his widow to give her the surprising news of the officers' indictments. The widow looks distressed and appears not to believe things will change for the better. An epilogue provides a synopsis of the subsequent turns of events. Instead of justice being served, the prosecutor is mysteriously removed from the case, several key witnesses die under suspicious circumstances, the assassins receive relatively short sentences, the officers receive only administrative reprimands, the deputy's close associates die or are deported and the photojournalist is sent to prison for disclosing official documents. The heads of the government resign after public disapproval, but before elections are carried out, a coup d'état occurs, and the military seize power. They ban modern art, popular music, avant-garde novelists, modern mathematics, classic and modern philosophers and the use of the term "Ζ" (Greek: zíta, or Greek: zi, which is used by protesters against the former government), which refers to the deputy and means "He lives."

Z for Zachariah

Craig Zobel

['Margot Robbie', 'Chiwetel Ejiofor', 'Chris Pine']

Romance, Science fiction, Drama, Suspense, Thriller

['Iceland', 'New Zealand', 'Switzerland', 'USA']

English

['English']

['Lucky Hat Entertainment', 'Silver Reel', 'Material Pictures', 'Zik Zak Filmworks', 'Night Fox Entertainment', 'Palomar Pictures']

post-apocalyptic

post-apocalyptic-movies

Ann Burden, the seemingly sole survivor of a recent nuclear apocalypse, lives an agrarian life on her family's valley farmstead with her dog. She is sheltered from the radioactive contaminants outside the valley by rocky hillsides, favorable weather patterns, and an abundant supply of ground-fed water. One day, Ann encounters another survivor, a man named John Loomis. He claims to be an engineer, who, aided by medicines and a radiation suit, walked from a distant government bunker to Ann's valley. John unknowingly bathes in a radioactive spring, and immediately becomes sick with radiation poisoning, but is nursed back to health by Ann, who welcomes him into her home. John regains his strength, and gradually, becomes part of Ann's humble rustic life. He helps Ann pump diesel from local petroleum pumps and gets the farm's long-disused tractor running to expand her gardens for the winter. Ann tells John about her parents and younger brother who left the valley to find other survivors, but never returned. John speculates that he could generate hydro-electricity to power the farmhouse’s dead generator from the nearby waterfall, by using a water-wheel fashioned from the Burden chapel’s planks and beams. Ann is uncomfortable with this proposal, citing her father's involvement as preacher and her own deeply-held Christian beliefs. John chooses to not pursue the project further. Ann and John grow closer, cultivating crops and preparing for long-term winter habitation. Their domestic accord is marred by occasional tensions, notably involving matters of religion and John’s drinking. The two come to the verge of initiating a sexual relationship, but John declines, claiming a sexual relationship will change them, and he needs more time. Mysterious phenomena, including missing eggs and glimpses of a shadowy figure at the chapel, culminate in the arrival of a third survivor, a man named Caleb. Although Ann welcomes Caleb into the house, John resents Caleb, stating "whites belong with whites". John questions Caleb's backstory and motives, while Caleb repeatedly emphasizes the religious connection he shares with Ann, in stark contrast to John. The three survivors slowly settle into a marginally-stable partnership. Both men share post-apocalyptic horrors they witnessed before reaching the valley. John describes a radiation-poisoned child begging him for death and that he couldn't bring himself to oblige. Caleb describes watching the other underground miners kill each other in a fit of claustrophobic paranoia. Later, John privately confides to Ann his belief the dying boy was her long-absent brother and confesses to having killed him out of mercy. Caleb pressures Ann to go forward with the water-wheel project, and work commences on tearing down her father's chapel for materials. Perceiving their mutual attraction, John awkwardly gives Ann consent to pursue a romantic relationship with Caleb, but belies his grief and anger in losing Ann through his remarks. Shortly thereafter, following a celebratory dinner, a heavily intoxicated John tells Ann he loves her before passing out in a bedroom in Ann's home. After failing to wake John, seeming to want his affection, Ann joins Caleb in the adjoining bathroom, where the two engage in sexual activity. The two men finish the water-wheel, moving it and its wooden flume into place atop the waterfall. Encumbered by the bulky radiation suit, Caleb slips twice during his rope-assisted climb up the mossy cliffside. During the second slip, the two men silently lock eyes, both holding the rope, while Caleb teeters on the cliff's edge. John returns to the farmhouse alone. Ann apologizes for her earlier indiscretion and John claims Caleb left in search of other settlements. Ann takes this news badly, chasing after Caleb but not finding him, and lapses into a sullen silence. The farmhouse's electric lights and refrigeration are restored. Ann realizes John has moved her beloved church organ and three pews into the barn. Ann, playing a hymn on the organ, exchanges a glance with John and he prays behind her.

Zack and Miri Make a Porno

Kevin Smith

['Elizabeth Banks', 'Seth Rogen', 'Craig Robinson', 'Gerry Bednob', 'Edward Janda', 'Nicholas Lombardi', 'Chris Milan', 'Jennifer Schwalbach Smith', 'Kenny Hotz', 'Brandon Routh', 'Anne Wade', 'Justin Long', 'Tom Savini', 'Jeff Anderson', 'Jim Norton', 'Jean-Pierre Nutini', 'Alice Eisner', 'David Early', 'Mattt Potter', 'Ricky Mabe', 'Lena Cheney', 'Marie Blanchard', 'Ricki Raxxx', 'Danielle Fortwangler', 'Katelyn Hoffman', 'Ashley Kunich', 'Katie Morgan', 'Jason Mewes', 'Traci Lords', 'Milos Milicevic', 'James W. Smith', 'Tyler Labine', 'Tisha Campbell', 'Lauren Miller', 'Jackson Nunn']

Romance, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Sex comedy, Melodrama, Drama

['USA']

English

['English']

['Blue Askew', 'View Askew Productions', 'The Weinstein Company']

comedy

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Zack Brown and Miriam "Miri" Linky are roommates and have been friends since the first grade. Despite Miri's job at the local shopping mall and Zack's at a coffee shop, their utility bills have been unpaid for months. Their water is shut off before Thanksgiving, and their high school reunion. At the reunion, Miri attempts to seduce her attractive former classmate Bobby Long, while Zack converses with Brandon St. Randy, Bobby's gay porn star boyfriend. After the reunion, the apartment's electricity is turned off. Inspired by Brandon and a viral video of Miri changing clothes for the reunion, Zack convinces a reluctant Miri they should make a pornographic film to earn money. They decide to film a pornographic Star Wars parody, entitled Star Whores. Delaney, the film's producer and Zack's co-worker, rents film equipment and a building to use as a studio. After the first night of filming, the building is demolished, with all the equipment and costumes inside. The man that rented it to them has run off with the money. Later at the coffee shop where Zack works, he finds a hidden camera his boss installed, and decides to use it to replace their film equipment. Zack retools his film to take place in the coffee shop, revamping the film to one with a coffee shop motif, Swallow My Cockuccino. The group shoots the film after hours. Despite insisting that they would not let sex with each other affect their friendship, Zack and Miri soon develop romantic feelings for each other. When it comes time for Zack and Miri to have sex on camera, they find that instead of the clinical sex enacted by the actors in the other scenes, their interlude is romantic and heartfelt. Later the next evening, Zack and Miri are about to discuss their reactions to the scene, when their apartment's electricity and water service return. The rest of the actors and crew reveal that they pooled their resources to pay one month of the couple's bills and are throwing them an early wrap party. At the party, one of the other actresses, Stacey, asks Miri about asking Zack to have sex, since she's nervous about their upcoming scene. Miri realizes she has feelings for Zack, but approves Stacey's request. When Stacey relates this to Zack, the two retreat to Zack's bedroom, much to Miri's dismay. The next evening, Zack is preparing a scene between Stacey and another actor, Lester, that was supposed to have been with Lester and Miri. Zack is dismayed when Miri insists on shooting the scene as originally planned. In the back room, an incredulous Zack asks if she is doing this to retaliate, pointing out that Stacey told him that Miri did not mind her sleeping with Zack. Miri corrects him, clarifying that she did not mind that Stacey offered to sleep with him. Perceiving this to have been some type of test, Zack admits that during the sex scene they filmed together, they were making love and emotionally connected, and that he loves Miri. When Miri does not reciprocate, Zack storms out, quitting the film and his job, and moves out of the apartment. Three months later, Delaney goes to see Zack, now a goon in a costume letting people shoot him with paintball guns during Pittsburgh Penguins hockey games. Delaney convinces him to come to see the unfinished film and help complete it. Zack agrees, and learns that Miri never filmed her sex scene with Lester. Zack goes to Miri's apartment and reveals that he never slept with Stacey; instead, they talked about Miri all night. He proclaims his love to Miri, who reciprocates. In a post-credits scene, Zack and Miri get married and, aided by Delaney and his worker's compensation settlement, start their own video production company, Zack and Miri Make Your Porno, which makes videos for amateur couples.

Zazie dans le Métro

Louis Malle

['Catherine Demongeot', 'Philippe Noiret', 'Hubert Deschamps', 'Carla Marlier', 'Annie Fratellini', 'Vittorio Caprioli', 'Yvonne Clech', 'Odette Piquet', 'Nicolas Bataille', 'Antoine Roblot', 'Marc Doelnitz', 'Jacques Gheusi', 'Louis Lalanne', 'Christine Howard', 'Jacques Dufilho', 'Little Bara', 'Georges Faye', 'De Lannoy', 'Paul Vally', 'Jean-Yves Bouvier', 'Jean-Pierre Posier', 'Jeanne Allard', 'Jacqueline Doyen', 'Arlette Balkis', 'Alegrina', 'Virginie Merlin', 'Irène Chabrier', 'Simone Duhart', 'Max Desrau', 'Claude Confortès', 'Richard Bigotini', 'Claude Berri', 'Sacha Distel', 'Madame Pâquerette', 'Jean Rupert']

Comedy, Adventure, Slapstick, Fantasy

['France']

French

['French']

['Nouvelles Éditions de Films (NEF)']

comedy

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At a Paris railway terminus, Gabriel greets his sister Jeanne, who leaves her ten-year-old daughter Zazie with him and goes off with her latest lover. Gabriel takes the child out to the taxi of his friend Charles, to Zazie's dismay: she wants to go on the Métro but it is on strike. They arrive at Turandot's café, above which Gabriel lodges, and he hands the child over to his wife Albertine, who puts her to bed. Gabriel gets himself ready to go to work, on the way out getting into a dispute with Turandot, who is appalled by Zazie's precocity and filthy language. In the morning, Zazie sneaks out alone but Turandot spots her and follows her. When he tries to take her home, she accuses him of paedophilia and a crowd gathers. Turandot is obliged to slink away and, when Gabriel returns from work, over several glasses tells him what has happened. After talking to Gridoux, the cobbler next door, instead of searching, Gabriel decides to go to bed. Zazie meanwhile is happily exploring Paris, trying every Métro station but all are shut. An elegant man picks her up and takes her to the flea market, where he buys her a pair of jeans and treats her to a dish of mussels. To reward his curiosity about her, she tells him how her mother killed her father gruesomely with an axe but was acquitted. She then describes life with her mother's lover, who got too interested in her, so she has been passed on to her uncle. Sensing that the stranger also is getting too interested in her, she picks up her jeans and leaves. He accuses her of theft and a crowd gathers. He pretends to be a plain-clothes policeman and escorts Zazie back to her uncle's apartment, where a surprised Gabriel submits to the fake cop's interrogation. After a suggestion that Gabriel is prostituting the forward little girl, he is forced to reveal what his night job is: a drag act in a club. After the alleged cop then accuses Gabriel of homosexuality, he is thrown out of the flat and retreats to the bar below. Meanwhile, the café waitress, Mado, takes lunch to Gridoux next door, who is concerned over the nosy stranger. She however wants to talk about the cabbie Charles, who she hopes will marry her. When she goes back to her work, the stranger tries to pump the intractable Gridoux. Gabriel and Charles now set off to show Zazie the sights of Paris. Various adventures and misunderstandings follow, particularly at the top of the Eiffel Tower. Zazie keeps annoying both men by trying to find out if her uncle is really homosexual. He however is a hit with a group of good-looking German girls, who think he is cute. As he walks along with Zazie, still pestering him over his sexuality, the two attract the attention of the overdressed widow Moaque. When the German girls descend on Gabriel and drag him onto their tour bus as their mascot, she finds a policeman to report this kidnapping. The cop, called Trouscaillon and identical to the man who earlier accused Gabriel of pimping and illegal sex, immediately becomes the object of Mouaque's desire. After various adventures and misunderstandings, the three eventually find Gabriel, who has invited the German girls to see his show that night. He then invites Moaque and Trouscaillon to eat with him and Zazie at a restaurant. Seeking attention, Zazie does not behave well. Ringing the bar below his flat, Gabriel asks the waitress Mado to ask his wife Albertine to bring his costume to the club, as he is busy entertaining his friends. Mado tells him that the cabbie Charles has at last proposed, so Gabriel asks the two to join his swelling party. At the club, Gabriel orders champagne for his friends and waits anxiously for his costume. Albertine has however fallen asleep, to be woken by the fake cop from the morning who starts another of his bizarre interrogations. When he moves from words to attempted rape, she jumps out of the window. After his drag act, for which Albertine brought him a dress just in time, he takes everybody off to a bar. What starts with a couple slapping each other turns into a massive saloon brawl, which wrecks the place and brings on an army of cops. The group are rescued by Albertine who shows them a way into the Métro tunnels, through which they can walk in safety as the system is still on strike. In the morning, Albertine carries the sleeping child to the railway station, where her mother Jeanne regrets that she will have to find a better-performing lover. Waking up, Zazie says her experiences have made her a bit more grown-up. Outside, all the escalators of the Métro start up because the strike is over.[1]

Zero Day

Ben Coccio

['Cal Robertson', 'Andre Keuck', 'Serataren Adragna', 'Melissa Banks', 'Joshua Bednarsky', 'Rachel Benichak', 'Carmine DiBenedetto', 'Chelsea Cipolla', 'Christopher Coccio', 'Victoria Everman', 'Joe Falco', 'David Futernick', 'Alyssa Goodin', 'Ryan Janowski', 'Derrick Karg']

['Drama', 'Crime']

['USA']

English

['English', 'German']

['Professor Bright Films']

sad, emotional

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Zero Focus

Yoshitaro Nomura

['Yoshiko Kuga', 'Hizuru Takachiho', 'Ineko Arima', 'Kôji Nanbara', 'Kō Nishimura', 'Sadako Sawamura', 'Yoshi Katō', 'Mutsuko Sakura', 'Takanobu Hozumi', 'Hisao Toake', 'Masao Oda', 'Takamaru Sasaki', 'Toyo Takahashi', 'Mitsuko Ema', 'Junko Hara', 'Kentarô Imai', 'Zenichi Inagawa', 'Akio Isono', 'Michiko Katsura', 'Masanao Kawakane', 'Kazuo Kobayashi', 'Tazuko Kusaka', 'Reiko Minakami', 'Mitsuyo Mizushima', 'Kosuke Nono', 'Isao Suenaga', 'Nobuo Takagi', 'Yoshino Tani', 'Fumio Tooyama', 'Kimiyo Ōtsuka', 'Hideaki Nagai']

Mystery, Drama, Crime film, Suspense, Thriller, Black-and-white, World cinema, Crime Fiction

['Japan']

Japanese

['Japanese']

['Shochiku']

thriller, essential

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One week into newlywed Teiko Uhara's marriage, her husband, ad agency manager Kenichi, leaves on a short business trip to Kanazawa and doesn't return. With a pair of old photographs she found among his belongings, Teiko travels across Japan to search for him, first with the help of her husband's employer, later on her own. After a series of mysterious deaths, including a reception girl of the agency's Kanazawa branch, who turns out to be Kenichi's common law wife, and Kenichi's alleged suicide, all clues lead to Sachiko Murota, wife of a wealthy business partner of her husband. Teiko confronts Mrs. Murota and blames her for murdering Kenichi and everyone who knew of her past as a prostitute in the post-war era. Yet, as Mrs. Murota's confession reveals, the truth is even more complex than that.

Zero for Conduct

Jean Vigo

['Jean Dasté', 'Robert le Flon', 'Du Verron', 'Delphin', 'Léon Larive', 'Madame Émile', 'Louis de Gonzague', 'Raphaël Diligent', 'Louis Lefebvre', 'Gilbert Pruchon', 'Constantin Goldstein-Kehler', 'Gérard de Bédarieux', 'Félix Labisse', 'Georges Patin', 'Georges Vakalo', 'Michelle Fayard']

Comedy, Short, Drama, Narrative

['France']

French

['French']

['Franfilmdis', 'Argui-Film']

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Four rebellious young boys at a repressive French boarding school plot and execute a revolt against their teachers and take over the school.[3]

Zodiac

David Fincher

['Jake Gyllenhaal', 'Mark Ruffalo', 'Anthony Edwards', 'Robert Downey Jr.', 'Chloë Sevigny', 'Elias Koteas', 'John Carroll Lynch', 'Brian Cox', 'Dermot Mulroney', 'Charles Fleischer', 'Zach Grenier', 'Philip Baker Hall', 'James Le Gros', 'Donal Logue', 'Richmond Arquette', 'Bob Stephenson', 'John Lacy', 'Ed Setrakian', 'John Getz', 'John Terry', 'Candy Clark', 'June Diane Raphael', 'Ciara Hughes', 'Lee Norris', 'Patrick Scott Lewis', 'Pell James', 'David Lee Smith', 'Jason Wiles', 'Charles Schneider', 'James Carraway', 'Tom Verica', 'Jimmi Simpson', 'Doan Ly', 'Karina Logue', 'Joel Bissonnette', 'John Mahon', 'Matt Winston', 'Jules Bruff', 'John Ennis', 'J. Patrick McCormack', 'Adam Goldberg', 'Clea DuVall', 'Paul Schulze', 'Adam Trese', 'Penny Wallace', 'John Hemphill', 'Michel Francoeur', 'Thomas Kopache', 'Barry Livingston', 'Christopher John Fields', 'Jack Samson', 'Micah Sauers', 'Zachary Sauers', 'Jessica Baltutis', 'Peter Quartaroli', 'Geoff Callan', 'Michael Hungerford', 'Anna Katarina', 'E.P. McKnight', 'Betty Murphy', 'Jeff Daniel Phillips', 'Shane Woodson', 'Cookie Crawford', 'Cassius M. Willis', 'Judith Drake', 'Phoebe Holston', 'Marty Lodge', 'Cooper Thornton', 'Cazimir Milostan', 'Charlotte Ferguson', 'Phoebe Ferguson', 'Kacey Malmsten', 'Karly Malmsten', 'JD Cullum', 'Stanley B. Herman', 'Roy Lee Jones', 'Michael Rose', "James Joseph O'Neil", 'Rod Damer', 'John Sarno', 'Gloria Grant', 'Brett Rickaby', 'M.F. Bernier', 'Carter Evans', 'Bill Seward', 'Dave Nemeth', 'Ted Garcia', 'Greg Wolf', 'Barry LeBrock', 'Ione Skye', 'David Winston Barge', 'Hayati Akbas', 'Brad Carr', 'Mitchell Fink', 'Erica Ford', 'Tish Hicks', 'Danielle McKee', 'Derris Nile', 'Carmen Plumb', 'Callie Thompson', 'Bud Davis']

Thriller, Documentary, Horror, Mystery, Crime film, True crime, Action, Drama, Psychological thriller, Noir, Suspense, Detective fiction, Crime Fiction, Police procedural, Psychological Fiction, Procedural drama, Political cinema

['USA']

English

['English']

['Paramount Pictures', 'Warner Bros. Pictures', 'Phoenix Pictures']

mystery

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On July 4, 1969, an unknown man attacks Darlene Ferrin and Mike Mageau with a handgun at a lovers' lane in Vallejo, California. Only Mike survives. One month later, the San Francisco Chronicle receives encrypted letters written by the killer calling himself "Zodiac", who threatens to kill a dozen people unless his coded message containing his identity is published. Political cartoonist Robert Graysmith, who correctly guesses that his identity is not in the message, is not taken seriously by crime reporter Paul Avery or the editors and is excluded from the initial details about the killings. When the newspaper publishes the letters, a married couple deciphers one, revealing it indeed did not contain the killer's name. In September, the killer stabs law student Bryan Hartnell and Cecelia Shepard at Lake Berryessa in Napa County; Cecelia dies two days later. At the office, Avery makes fun of Graysmith before they discuss the coded letters. Graysmith interprets the letter, which Avery finds helpful, and he begins sharing information. One of Graysmith's insights about the letters is that Zodiac's reference to man as "the most dangerous animal of them all" is a reference to the 1932 film The Most Dangerous Game, which features the villainous Count Zaroff, a man who hunts live human prey. Two weeks later, San Francisco taxicab driver Paul Stine is shot and killed in the city's Presidio Heights district. The Zodiac killer mails pieces of Stine's bloodstained shirt to the Chronicle along with a taunting letter. San Francisco police inspectors Dave Toschi and his partner Bill Armstrong are assigned to the case by Captain Marty Lee and work closely with Vallejo's Jack Mulanax and Captain Ken Narlow in Napa. Someone claiming to be Zodiac continues to send taunting letters and speaks on the phone with lawyer Melvin Belli on the KGO-TV morning talk show hosted by Jim Dunbar. In 1971, Detectives Toschi, Armstrong, and Mulanax question Arthur Leigh Allen, a suspect in the Vallejo case. They notice that he wears a Zodiac wristwatch, with the same logo used by the killer, and Toschi thinks he is the killer. However, a handwriting expert insists that Allen did not write the Zodiac letters, even though Allen is said to be ambidextrous. Avery receives a letter threatening his life; becoming paranoid, he turns to drugs and alcohol. He shares information with the Riverside Police Department that the killer might have been active before the initial killings, angering Toschi and Armstrong. The case's notoriety weighs on Toschi, who cannot sit through a Hollywood film, Dirty Harry, loosely based on the Zodiac case. By 1978, Avery has moved to the Sacramento Bee. Graysmith persistently contacts Toschi about the Zodiac murders and eventually impresses him with his knowledge of the case. While Toschi cannot directly give Graysmith access to the evidence, he provides names in other police departments where Zodiac murders occurred. Armstrong transfers from the San Francisco Police homicide division, and Toschi is demoted for supposedly forging a Zodiac letter. Graysmith continues his own investigation, profiled in the Chronicle, and gives a television interview about the book he is writing on the case. He begins receiving phone calls from someone breathing heavily. As his obsession deepens, Graysmith loses his job, and his wife Melanie leaves him, taking their children. Graysmith learns that Allen lived close to Ferrin and probably knew her and that his birthday matches the one Zodiac gave when he spoke to one of Melvin Belli's maids. While circumstantial evidence seems to indicate his guilt, the physical evidence, such as fingerprints and handwriting samples, do not implicate him. In 1983, Graysmith tracks Allen to a Vallejo Ace Hardware store, where he is employed as a sales clerk; they stare at each other before Graysmith leaves. Eight years later, after Graysmith's book, Zodiac, has become a bestseller, Mike Mageau identifies Allen from a police mugshot. A textual epilogue indicates that Allen died before police could question him and that the case remains open.

Zola

Janicza Bravo

['Taylour Paige', 'Riley Keough', 'Colman Domingo', 'Nicholas Braun', "Ari'el Stachel", 'Nelcie Souffrant', 'Nasir Rahim', 'Jason Mitchell', 'Ts Madison', 'Latasha Glenn', 'Kalesha Johnson', 'Natalie Mimms', 'Shadae Mitchell', 'Oleika Redd', 'Tommy Foxhill', 'Ben Bladon', 'Tony DeMil', 'Ernest Emmanuel Peeples', 'Joseph Sanders', 'Brett Chesebro', 'Carl Collanus', 'Jay Dersahagian', 'Rusty Dumhoff', 'Mark Fiedler', 'Alex Flash', 'Matt Harding', 'Richard Lariviere', 'Bob Lawton', 'Ernest Lee Wilson, Jr.', 'Josh Locy', 'Pedro Armando Medina', 'Thomas Nash', 'Bill Pierce', 'Michael Worden', 'Kyle Williams', 'Andrew Romano', 'Sophie Hall', 'Angelo Diaz', 'Rico Paris', 'Michael Aceveda', 'Anibal Echevarria Bonet', 'Max Guevara', 'Harold Hernandez', 'David Rodriguez', 'Bernard Lyght', 'Michael Opal', 'Eric Salas', 'Doug Walker', 'Jarquale Stewart', 'Drew Rin Varick', 'Megan Hayes']

Comedy, Dark comedy, Drama, Crime film, Teen, Crime Fiction, Comedy drama

['USA']

English

['English', 'Spanish']

['Killer Films', 'Ramona Films', 'Gigi Films']

sad, road-movie, emotional

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A'Ziah "Zola" King, a self-assured waitress and part-time stripper in Detroit, meets Stefani, an outgoing and crass fellow stripper, while serving her at work. Stefani invites Zola to dance with her at a club that night, and they become friends. The next day, Stefani proposes that Zola join her on a road trip to Tampa, Florida, the location of a strip club where Stefani claims they can make significant money. Zola sets out for Tampa with Stefani, her mysterious roommate X, and Stefani's dimwitted boyfriend Derrek. On arriving in Tampa, Stefani, Zola, and X leave Derrek at a seedy motel while they visit the club where Stefani claims her friends earned over $5,000 in one night. They perform but do not get nearly as much as Stefani insisted they would. Zola learns that Stefani and X have posted photos of her and Stefani in a Backpage advertisement, offering them for sex. Zola tries to leave, but X threatens her, revealing himself to be Stefani's pimp. X takes the women to an upscale hotel, where Stefani proceeds to have sex with a male client. Zola, who doesn't wish to participate, is incredulous when she learns X charges only $150 per client. Zola edits the Backpage ad, changing the rate to $500 to help Stefani earn more money. By the end of the night, Stefani has made over $8,000. X is initially insulted by Zola's intervention but quickly grows impressed. Meanwhile, Derrek, left to his own devices, befriends a man named Dion whom he meets at the motel. When X, Stefani, and Zola return to the motel, X is enraged to discover that Derrek told Dion their reason for visiting Tampa. Worried that Dion and his associates will rob them, X forces the group to flee. After arriving at another hotel, X arranges for Stefani to see more clients at various locations, while a reluctant Zola stands by to ensure Stefani's safety. When Derrek realizes Stefani is again engaging in prostitution, he argues with her, revealing to Zola that Stefani has manipulated other dancers into unwittingly participating in similar prostitution rackets. Zola is angered and loses all trust in Stefani. Derrek and Stefani's quarreling is interrupted when X bursts in with Baybe, his lover, and madam, who is armed with a gun. After calming the situation, X gives Zola a gun for the women's protection, and Stefani and Zola are sent out so Stefani can continue to meet with clients. After Stefani engages in a gang bang at a private residence, the two women visit another hotel, where a client has responded to their Backpage ad. When they knock on the client's door, he grabs Stefani and forces her into the room. A terrified Zola flees and calls X and Derrek on her phone. The three return to the room and find the men inside are Dion and an accomplice, armed with shotguns, who have posed as clients to rob Stefani of her earnings. At gunpoint, X offers the men $50,000 and possession of Zola, if they let him and Derrek leave with Stefani, who has been beaten unconscious. As Zola is digitally penetrated against her will by Dion, X manages to draw the gun Zola has in her purse and then shoots Dion in the throat. They flee the hotel, throwing Dion's guns into the Tampa Bay. They eventually arrive at a large, luxurious home X shares with Baybe. X finally lets Zola leave and proclaims his possession of Stefani. Distraught, Derrek throws himself over a balcony, landing on the concrete below and injuring his head. Zola, Stefani, and X drive Derrek to the hospital. On the way, Stefani proclaims her love for Zola, but the exhausted Zola looks out the window and ignores her.

Zombieland

Ruben Fleischer

['Jesse Eisenberg', 'Woody Harrelson', 'Emma Stone', 'Abigail Breslin', 'Amber Heard', 'Bill Murray', 'Derek Graf', 'Elle Alexander', 'Melanie Booth', 'Chris Burns', 'Blaise Corrigan', 'Sydnie Dawson', 'Justin Price', 'Christina Klein', 'Amir Kovacs', 'Shaun Michael Lynch', 'Lynn McArthur', 'Michelle Sebek', 'Victory Van Tuyl', 'Mike White', 'Cesar Aguirre', 'Daniel Burnley', 'Ernest Dancy', 'Jon Gould', 'Travis Grant', 'Robert Hatch', 'Jeh Howell', 'Amir R. Khan', 'Suzanne LaChasse', 'Kurt McNew', 'Stephen Prouty', 'Ming Qiu', 'Rhett Reese', 'April Rich', 'Cody Rowlett', 'Joan Schuermeyer', 'Brian Stretch', 'Sonya Thompson', 'Clay Walker', 'Steve Warren', 'Travis Young']

Zombie, Horror, Comedy, Action, Zombie comedy, Comedy horror, Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, Adventure, Science fiction

['USA']

English

['English']

['Pariah', 'Columbia Pictures', 'Relativity Media']

comedy, post-apocalyptic

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Two months since a strain of mad cow disease mutated to become infectious to humans and turn them into zombies, survivors of the epidemic are advised to use their city of origin as nicknames when meeting other survivors, to not get too attached to them and protect themselves. Columbus, a former college student with a unique set of zombie survival rules, travels from Austin, Texas, towards Columbus, Ohio, to search for his parents. On the way, he meets Tallahassee, who somewhat reluctantly agrees to give Columbus a ride towards Ohio. On the way, he mentions to Columbus that he misses his puppy, Buck, who was killed by zombies. The pair meet con artist sisters Wichita and Little Rock, who trick Tallahassee and Columbus and steal their weapons and Escalade after Little Rock feigns being bitten by a zombie. The two men find a yellow Hummer H2 loaded with weapons and continue on before running into another trap set by the girls, who take them hostage. Tallahassee steals his gun back and has a stand-off with Wichita, until Columbus intervenes saying that they have bigger problems to worry about, resulting in an uneasy truce between them. The sisters reveal they are going to the Pacific Playland amusement park in Los Angeles, an area supposedly free of zombies. After learning his hometown has been destroyed, and his parents likely killed, Columbus and Tallahassee decide to accompany them to the amusement park. When the group reaches Hollywood, Tallahassee directs them to Bill Murray's house. Tallahassee and Wichita meet Murray, uninfected and disguised as a zombie, and they play a prank on Columbus and Little Rock by having him pretend to be a zombie, only for Columbus to accidentally kill Murray. Columbus soon realizes that "Buck" was actually Tallahassee's son, who got infected and died as a result. Despite Wichita and Columbus falling for each other, Wichita abruptly leaves with Little Rock for Pacific Playland the next morning. Columbus decides to go after Wichita and convinces Tallahassee to join him. At Pacific Playland, the sisters activate all the rides and lights, only to unwittingly draw the attention of many zombies in the area. They become trapped on a drop tower ride as Tallahassee and Columbus arrive. Tallahassee lures the zombies to a game booth and kills several as Columbus heads to the drop tower; he evades and shoots through a horde and safely helps the girls down. Wichita kisses Columbus and reveals her real name: Krista. Deciding to stick together from now on, the group then leaves Pacific Playland.

Zoolander

Ben Stiller

['Ben Stiller', 'Owen Wilson', 'Christine Taylor', 'Will Ferrell', 'Milla Jovovich', 'Jerry Stiller', 'David Duchovny', 'Jon Voight', 'Judah Friedlander', 'Nathan Lee Graham', 'Alexandre Manning', 'Asio Highsmith', 'Alexander Skarsgård', 'Donald Trump', 'Christian Slater', 'Tom Ford', 'Cuba Gooding Jr.', 'Steve Kmetko', 'Tommy Hilfiger', 'Natalie Portman', 'Fabio', 'Lenny Kravitz', 'Gwen Stefani', 'Heidi Klum', 'Mark Ronson', 'Paris Hilton', 'David Bowie', 'Tyson Beckford', 'Fred Durst', 'Lance Bass', "Lil' Kim", 'Garry Shandling', 'Stephen Dorff', 'Sandra Bernhard', 'Claudia Schiffer', 'Veronica Webb', 'Lukas Haas', 'Carmen Kass', 'Frankie Rayder', 'Matt Levin', 'Justin Theroux', 'Andy Dick', 'Woodrow Asai', 'Andrew Wilson', 'Vikram Chatwal', 'Kashana', 'Jonah Luber', 'Michael McAlpin', 'Ève Salvail', 'Shavo Odadjian', 'Eliot Johnson', 'Richard Gladys', 'Amy Stiller', 'John Vargas', 'Jennifer Coolidge', 'Tony Kanal', 'Endre Hules', 'Nora Dunn', 'Ric Pipino', 'Jerry Stahl', 'Jennifer McComb', 'Johann Urb', 'Luc Commeret', 'Herb Lieberz', 'Zoya', 'Colin McNish', 'Darren Copeland', 'Richard Stanley', 'Shabazz Richardson', 'Rohan Quine', 'Svetlana', 'Eric Winzenreid', 'Charles Brame', 'James Marsden', 'Rudy Segura', 'Randall Slavin', 'Patton Oswalt', 'Irina Pantaeva', 'Stan Chu', 'Kum Ming Ho', 'Theo Kogan', 'Lam Bor', 'Angel 11:11', 'Luther Creek', 'Dechen Thurman', 'Kenny Max', 'Kina', 'David Pressman', 'Godfrey', 'Taj Crown', 'Richie Rich', 'King', 'Frederic Fekkai', 'Kevyn Aucoin', 'Boris Kachscovsky', 'Mitch Winston', 'Mason Webb', 'Alexa Nikolas', 'Victoria Beckham', 'Gavin Rossdale', 'Winona Ryder', 'Vince Vaughn', 'Billy Zane', 'Amanda Lepore', 'Klara Landrat', 'Paulo Pascoal', 'Anne Meara']

['Comedy']

['USA']

English

['English']

['Paramount Pictures', 'Village Roadshow Pictures', 'Scott Rudin Productions', 'Red Hour']

comedy

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In New York City, male model Derek Zoolander is at a low point; he is ousted as the top male fashion model by rising star Hansel McDonald, his roommates and colleagues are killed in a "freak gasoline-fight accident", and an attempt to reconnect with his southern New Jersey working-class relatives ends with the family rejecting him. Meanwhile, fashion mogul Jacobim Mugatu and Derek's agent Maury Ballstein are charged by the fashion industry with finding a model who can be brainwashed into assassinating the new progressive-leaning Prime Minister of Malaysia, whose policies will prohibit them from retaining cheap child labor in the country. Mugatu hires Derek, whom he had never worked with, to star in the next runway show for his brainwashing plan. It involves Derek being conditioned to attempt the assassination when the song "Relax" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood is played. Matilda Jeffries, feeling responsible for Derek's downfall as she wrote a scathing Time article about him, becomes suspicious of Mugatu's offer. She tells her concerns to Derek, but he ignores her. After receiving info through calls from former hand model J.P. Prewett, Matilda and Derek meet him in a cemetery. Prewett reveals that the fashion industry has been behind several of history's political assassinations, including Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy, and the brainwashed models are soon killed after they have completed their task. Mugatu's cronies attack the group, forcing Derek and Matilda to flee. They go to Hansel's home, the last place they believe Mugatu will think to look. Derek, Hansel, and Matilda bond, the two male models resolving their differences while partaking of Hansel's collection of narcotics and participating in group sex with Matilda and others. Derek and Hansel break into Maury's office to find evidence of the assassination plot, but they cannot operate his computer to find them. Derek goes to the runway, and Mugatu's DJ plays a remix version of "Relax". This activates Derek's mental programming, only for it to stop after Hansel breaks into the DJ booth and shuts off the turntable. After Hansel smashes the computer on the floor (since he took Matilda saying the incriminating files were "in the computer" literally), a guilt-ridden Maury admits to the conspiracy. Mugatu then attempts to kill the Prime Minister himself by throwing a shuriken at him, but Derek stops it by unleashing his ultimate model look, "Magnum". In Derek's rural hometown, his father Larry watches the event on television, and proudly acknowledges Derek as his son while Mugatu is arrested. A few years later, Derek, Hansel, and Maury start "The Derek Zoolander Center for Kids Who Can't Read Good and Who Wanna Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too". Derek and Matilda have a son named Derek Zoolander Jr., who has already developed his first modeling look.

Zootopia

Byron Howard, Rich Moore

['Jason Bateman', 'Ginnifer Goodwin', 'Idris Elba', 'Jenny Slate', 'Nate Torrence', 'Bonnie Hunt', 'Don Lake', 'Tommy Chong', 'J.K. Simmons', 'Octavia Spencer', 'Alan Tudyk', 'Shakira', 'Raymond S. Persi', 'Della Saba', 'Maurice LaMarche', 'Phil Johnston', 'Fuschia!', 'John DiMaggio', 'Katie Lowes', 'Gita Reddy', 'Jesse Corti', 'Tommy Lister Jr.', 'Josh Dallas', 'Leah Latham', 'Rich Moore', 'Kath Soucie', 'Peter Mansbridge', 'Byron Howard', 'Jared Bush', 'Mark Rhino Smith', 'Josie Trinidad', 'John Lavelle', 'Kristen Bell', 'Evelyn Wilson Bresee', 'Hewitt Bush', 'Jill Cordes', 'Madeleine Curry', 'Terri Douglas', 'Melissa Goodwin Shepherd', 'Zach King', 'Dave Kohut', 'Jeremy Milton', 'Pace Paulsen', 'Fabienne Rawley', 'Bradford Simonsen', 'Claire K. Smith', 'Jackson Stein', 'David A. Thibodeau', 'Hannah G. Williams']

Animation, Children's film, Animated cartoon, Comedy, Adventure, Family film, Buddy, Crime film, Mystery, Crime Fiction, Buddy cop

['USA']

English

['English']

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

comedy, animated

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In a world inhabited by anthropomorphic animals, Judy Hopps, a rabbit from rural Bunnyburrow, fulfills her childhood dream of becoming the first rabbit police officer in the city of Zootopia. On her first day at the Zootopia Police Department (ZPD), she is given parking duty by Chief Bogo, and is hustled by two con artist foxes, Nick Wilde and Finnick, during her shift. The next day, she abandons her post to arrest small-time crook Duke Weaselton for stealing a bag of crocus bulbs. Later, while Chief Bogo is reprimanding Judy, Mrs. Otterton visits his office, pleading for her husband Emmitt, one of 14 missing predators, to be found. Without first seeking approval, Judy volunteers, and Bogo attempts to fire her for insubordination, but the city's assistant mayor, Dawn Bellwether, praises Judy for taking the assignment. Bogo begrudgingly agrees, but demands Judy to resign if she fails to solve the case within 48 hours. Having ascertained that Nick was the last to see Emmitt, Judy blackmails Nick into helping her by covertly recording his confession to tax evasion. They track a limousine that picked up Emmitt and find his belongings inside. They learn that the limousine is owned by Mr. Big, an arctic shrew crime boss whom Nick has a history with. Mr. Big reveals that Emmitt unexpectedly "went savage" and mindlessly attacked the limousine's chauffeur, Manchas, a black jaguar. Judy and Nick interrogate Manchas, who explains that Emmitt yelled about "Night Howlers" before attacking him. Manchas suddenly turns savage himself and chases Judy and Nick. Judy traps Manchas and calls the ZPD for help, but Manchas vanishes before backup arrives. Bogo demands Judy's resignation, but Nick reminds him that Judy still has ten hours to solve the case. After leaving the scene with Judy, Nick reveals that as a child, he was bullied by his peers because they had prejudiced beliefs about foxes. At City Hall, Bellwether allows Judy and Nick to access Zootopia's traffic cameras, which reveal Manchas was abducted by timberwolves, whom Judy assumes are the Night Howlers. Following the wolves, Judy and Nick locate Emmitt, Manchas and the other missing predators, who are all "savage" and imprisoned in an asylum. Zootopia's mayor, Leodore Lionheart, had ordered their capture, and is trying to secretly ascertain what caused their feral behavior. Lionheart and the asylum staff are arrested, and Bellwether becomes the new mayor. Judy, praised for solving the case, asks Nick to join the ZPD as her partner. At a press conference, Judy accidentally implies the savageness epidemic was caused by the physiology that all predators possess. Disappointed and offended by the remarks, Nick abandons Judy, whose comments subsequently incite fear and discrimination against predators throughout Zootopia. Wracked with guilt, she quits her job and returns to Bunnyburrow. While managing her parents' vegetable stand, Judy learns that Night Howlers are actually Midnicampum flowers, which have severe, lasting psychotropic effects if ingested. Realizing that someone is deliberately using the flowers to turn predators savage, she returns to Zootopia and reconciles with Nick. Aided by Mr. Big, they interrogate Weaselton, who admits that a ram named Doug hired him to steal the Night Howler bulbs. They find Doug in a laboratory hidden in Zootopia's subway, where he manufactures a serum from the Night Howlers to use against predators via a dart pistol. Judy and Nick obtain a serum gun as evidence after a dangerous chase in the subway, but before they can reach the ZPD, Bellwether confronts them in the Natural History Museum and reveals herself to be the mastermind of a prey-supremacist conspiracy. Judy and Nick become trapped in an exhibit, and Bellwether shoots Nick with the serum gun, then orders the ZPD to capture him, but Judy and Nick reveal that they had replaced the darts with blueberries and recorded Bellwether's confession. Bellwether and her accomplices are arrested for their crimes, while the still-imprisoned Lionheart publicly denies knowledge of her scheme, insisting that imprisoning the infected predators was a "wrong thing for the right reason". The predators are rehabilitated and Judy is reinstated into the ZPD. Months later, Nick graduates from the police academy, becoming Judy's partner and the first fox police officer.

mid90s

Jonah Hill

['Sunny Suljic', 'Katherine Waterston', 'Lucas Hedges', 'Na-kel Smith', 'Olan Prenatt', 'Gio Galicia', 'Ryder McLaughlin', 'Alexa Demie', 'Fig Camila Abner', 'Liana Perlich', 'Ama Elsesser', 'Judah Estrella Borunda', 'Mecca Allen', 'Aramis Hudson', 'Sonny Greenback', 'Teren Delvon Jones', 'Chad Muska', 'Donovon Piscopo', 'Kevin White', 'Aaron Meza', 'Rick Howard', 'Chico Brenes', 'Donny Barley', 'Harmony Korine', 'Jahmin Assa', 'Jerrod Carmichael', 'Jax Malcolm', 'Kasey Elise', 'Zachary Read', 'Craig Reed']

Comedy, Teen, Coming-of-age story, Drama, Tragicomedy, Comedy drama

['USA']

English

['English']

['A24', 'Waypoint Entertainment', 'Scott Rudin Productions']

sad, emotional

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In 1996, 13-year-old Stevie lives in Palms, Los Angeles with his physically abusive older brother Ian and single mother Dabney. One day, Stevie bikes past Motor Avenue Skateshop, admires the boastful camaraderie of the skateboarders outside, and returns the following day. Back home, he trades with his brother for a skateboard, brings it to the shop and befriends young skater Ruben, who introduces him to the rest of the group: charismatic leader Ray, loudmouth "Fuckshit", and quiet "Fourth Grade". Although an inexperienced skater, Stevie is drawn to the group and aspires to imitate their daredevil behavior and anti-social attitudes. Stevie is nicknamed "Sunburn" by Ray during a conversation, and his acceptance into the group causes Ruben to resent him. While attempting a skateboard trick across an open section between two rooftops, Stevie falls and suffers a head injury. Dabney becomes concerned about his turn towards recklessness and his new friends, but Stevie has already made up his mind that he is sticking with the group. Ian has a tense standoff with Fuckshit as Stevie watches, but Ian appears intimidated by the group and leaves before a fight can break out. Stevie begins smoking, drinking, and experimenting with marijuana. At a party, he has his first kiss and sexual experience with an older teenage girl named Estee, despite the clear age difference. After Stevie comes home intoxicated, he and Ian get into a violent fight. Ian has an emotional breakdown when Stevie says that he has no friends and, following the conflict, a distressed Stevie attempts to asphyxiate himself with a cord from a SNES controller, one of several self-harm incidents. The next day, Dabney forbids Stevie from hanging out with the boys. Stevie lashes out and refuses to obey. Having alienated his mother and brother, Stevie sits alone behind the skate shop. Ray consoles Stevie, telling him that even though he thinks his life is bad, the other boys have it worse: Fourth Grade is poor to the point of not being able to afford socks, Ruben's mom is an abusive drug addict, Fuckshit's reckless partying is worsening, and Ray lost his younger brother, who was hit by a car a few years prior. Ray then takes Stevie out to skate at night, and they fall asleep outside the Santa Monica Courthouse. The shop hosts a party in back of the store. Ray hopes to make a career in skating, and chats up two professionals as potential sponsors. Fuckshit, who is drunk and high, tries to sabotage Ray's chances by embarrassing him in front of the pros. Stevie, who has been drinking heavily, is provoked into a brawl with Ruben. Discouraged by the undisciplined behavior of his friends, Ray tells everyone to go home. However, an intoxicated Fuckshit insists on driving the group to another party. After some convincing, Ray reluctantly agrees, and the group heads off. Talking animatedly and driving inattentively, Fuckshit crashes and flips the car on its side. Stevie is knocked unconscious and is rushed to the hospital. Stevie later awakens in a hospital bed, and sees Ian in a chair alongside him. Ian gives Stevie a container of orange juice to comfort him. Dabney enters the hospital and sees Stevie's friends, asleep in the waiting room. Moved by the fact they are there for Stevie, Dabney encourages them to visit Stevie's room. They appear willing to reconcile with each other after the previous night's events. Fourth Grade, who has been filming their adventures throughout the film, says he has something to show them. He plugs his camera into a TV to play them a skate video of their daily activities. Fourth Grade has titled the film "Mid90s".

tick, tick... BOOM!

Lin-Manuel Miranda

['Andrew Garfield', 'Alexandra Shipp', 'Robin de Jesús', 'Michaela Jaé Rodriguez', 'Ben Levi Ross', 'Jonathan Marc Sherman', 'Vanessa Hudgens', 'Joshua Henry', 'Bradley Whitford', 'Judith Light', 'Laura Benanti', 'Danielle Ferland', 'Micaela Diamond', 'Utkarsh Ambudkar', 'Gizel Jiménez', 'Kate Rockwell', 'Aneesa Folds', 'Joel Perez', 'Anna A. Louizos', 'Robyn Goodman', 'Judy Kuhn', 'Danny Burstein', 'Lauren Marcus', 'Richard Kind', 'Tariq Trotter', 'Janet Dacal', 'Kenita R. Miller', 'Eddy Lee', 'Jared Loftin', 'Kurt Crowley', 'Ryan Vasquez', 'Joanna Adler', 'Sheila Tapia', 'Ricardo Zayas', 'Travis Patton', 'Christopher Jackson', 'Jelani Alladin', 'Andrew Bancroft', 'Chris Sullivan', 'Luis A. Miranda Jr.', 'Kelly Watson', 'Chuck Cooper', 'André De Shields', 'Renée Elise Goldsberry', 'Joel Grey', 'Wilson Jermaine Heredia', 'Beth Malone', 'Howard McGillin', 'Brian Stokes Mitchell', 'Bebe Neuwirth', 'Adam Pascal', 'Bernadette Peters', 'Phylicia Rashād', 'Chita Rivera', 'Daphne Rubin-Vega', 'Phillipa Soo', 'Chad Beguelin', 'Nick Blaemire', 'Eli Bolin', 'Jason Robert Brown', 'Eisa Davis', 'Amanda Green', 'Quiara Alegría Hudes', 'Joe Iconis', 'Tom Kitt', 'Alex Lacamoire', 'Steven Levenson', 'Jaime Lozano', 'Dave Malloy', 'Matthew McCollum', 'Grace McLean', 'Helen Park', 'Stephen Schwartz', 'Marc Shaiman', 'Matthew Sklar', 'Georgia Stitt', 'Shaina Taub', 'Jeanine Tesori', 'Stephen Trask', 'Sean McDaniel', 'Victoria Theodore', 'Bryndon Cook', 'Debbie Tjong', 'Charles Conforti', 'Derrick Delgado', 'Mason Versaw', 'Javiel Sellas', 'Barbara Ames', 'James C. Nicola', 'Roger Bart', 'Emily Juean Stillings', 'Jennifer Laroche', 'Lauren Yalango-Grant', 'Ayo Janeen Jackson', 'Lucy Struever', 'Stephanie Crousillat', 'Gaby Diaz', 'Ilia Jessica Castro', 'Marie Rose Baramoski', "Keisha 'Sparkle' Hughes", 'Lane Napper', 'Kyle McIntire', 'Sean Ryan', 'Christopher Grant', 'Austin Goodwin', 'Carlos Gonzalez', 'Elizabeth Chestang', 'Callan Bergmann', 'Kyle Richard Robinson', 'Erin N. Moore', 'Taeler Cyrus', 'Spencer Clark', 'Ehizoje Azeke', 'Chloe N. Crade', 'Maira Barriga Toyama', 'Christine Seinicki', 'Purdie Baumann', 'Erin Monteleone', 'Noah Lentini', 'Jacob Patrick Wasson', 'Adriel Flete', 'Dwany Guzman', 'Victoria Caban', 'Melody Rose', 'Alexia Belrose', 'Lin-Manuel Miranda', 'Stephen Sondheim', 'Ken Holmes', 'Jonathan Larson']

Musical, Biography, Drama, Musical Drama

['USA']

English

['English', 'Spanish']

['Imagine Entertainment', '5000 Broadway Productions']

sad, emotional

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Jon is an aspiring composer for musical theater, who lives in SoHo, New York. The year is 1990, and as his 30th birthday approaches Jon is worried about his aging and lack of achievement ("30/90"). Michael, a friend of Jon's since childhood, gave up acting to pursue a more lucrative career in marketing. Susan, Jon's girlfriend, is a dancer who teaches ballet to "wealthy and untalented children". On the roof of his apartment building, Jon reveals that he is nervous about an upcoming workshop of his newest musical, SUPERBIA. When Susan comes to join him, he comments on her dress and how beautiful it makes her look ("Green Green Dress"). The next morning, Susan asks Jon about the possibility of leaving New York. Jon is torn between following his dream of composing and opting for security and family in a different career ("Johnny Can’t Decide"). His reverie is cut short when he remembers his day job as a waiter in a SoHo diner ("Sunday"). After work, Michael picks Jon up in his brand new BMW to show Jon his new apartment. Michael exults at the thought of a life of luxury ("No More"), and pressures Jon further to consider changing his career path. He agrees to accompany Michael to work the next day and visit a brainstorming session at his firm. Back at home, Jon plans to spend the remainder of the evening composing, but is interrupted by a call from Susan ("Therapy"). At Michael's office, the brainstorming session involves naming a cooking fat substitute through a convoluted process. Jon sees the futility of the process and his unwillingness to cooperate gets him removed from the meeting. As Jon drives Michael to the airport for a business trip, they argue about the meeting. Michael tells Jon that the life Susan wants doesn't sound bad, and that he wishes his job could give him the chance to settle down ("Real Life"). After dropping Michael off, Jon goes to a rehearsal for SUPERBIA, but not before stopping to get a snack of Twinkies ("Sugar"). At the market, he spies Karessa Johnson, one of his actors for SUPERBIA. She reveals a similar weakness for Twinkies, and this leads to a sudden friendship between the two. After the rehearsal, Susan sees Jon and Karessa walking together and becomes jealous. Jon begs Susan to stay and be with him. Despite this, she leaves for home, and Jon thinks about what may have happened to make her behave this way ("See Her Smile"). The next morning, Jon arrives early at the theater for the workshop of SUPERBIA. Karessa steals the show with her performance of “Come to Your Senses”. Jon gets many congratulations, but no offers to produce the show, and so, in his eyes, the workshop has been a failure. Jon visits Michael and tells him that he is through with music. Michael says that while he enjoys how he makes a lot more money now, he finds the job to be banal and unrewarding. The two argue, and Jon yells at Michael for not understanding fear or insecurity. Michael responds by telling Jon that he is HIV-positive. Shocked, Jon leaves quickly and wanders through Central Park until he finds himself at the closed Delacorte Theater. He finds an old rehearsal piano and begins to play it while collecting his thoughts. Jon ponders on whether the amount of sacrifice required for his career in music is worth it, and whether those telling him to "have it all, play the game" are right ("Why"). Ultimately, he realizes that he will only be happy as a professional composer, no matter what hardships that may bring. The next morning is Jon's thirtieth birthday party ("30/90 (Reprise)"). He sees Susan, who is getting ready to leave. She gives him his birthday gift: a thousand sheets of blank manuscript paper. They agree to write to each other, and she leaves. The phone rings, and the caller is Jon's idol, Stephen Sondheim. Sondheim leaves Jon his contact information so they can meet and discuss SUPERBIA. Jon realizes that he is surrounded by friends and that his talents are finally being recognized ("Louder than Words").[4][5]

¡Three Amigos!

John Landis

['Chevy Chase', 'Steve Martin', 'Martin Short', 'Alfonso Arau', 'Tony Plana', 'Patrice Martinez', 'Jorge Cervera Jr.', 'Kai Wulff', 'Abel Franco', 'Fred Asparagus', 'Jon Lovitz', 'Joe Mantegna', 'Philip Gordon', 'Michael Wren', 'Gene Hartline', 'William B. Kaplan', 'Sophia Lamour', 'Santos Morales', 'Phil Hartman', 'Tino Insana', 'Craig Berenson', 'Joshua Gallegos', 'Norbert Weisser', 'Brian Thompson', 'Hector Elias', 'Hector Morales', 'Betty Carvalho', 'Benita Andre', 'Dyana Ortelli', 'Humberto Ortiz', 'Candy Castillo', "Jeff O'Haco", 'Loyda Ramos', 'Carl La Fong', 'Randy Newman', 'Rebecca Ferratti', 'Brinke Stevens']

Comedy, Action, Western, Adventure, Drama, Buddy

['USA']

English

['English', 'Spanish']

['L.A. Films', 'Orion Pictures', 'HBO', 'Orion']

comedy

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In 1916, the bandit El Guapo and his gang collect tribute from the Mexican village of Santa Poco. Carmen, daughter of the village leader, searches for someone who can rescue her townspeople. Visiting a village church, she sees a silent film featuring The Three Amigos, a trio of gunfighters who protect the vulnerable. Believing them to be real heroes, Carmen sends a telegram asking them to come and stop El Guapo. Lucky Day, Dusty Bottoms, and Ned Nederlander, the actors who portray the Amigos, demand a salary increase for their next project and are fired by their boss Harry Flugelman. He has them evicted from the studio mansion, banned from his lot, and the clothes they borrowed from wardrobe repossessed. They soon receive Carmen's telegram, misinterpreting it as a job offer to perform a show in Santa Poco. The Amigos break into the studio to retrieve their costumes and head for Mexico. At a cantina near Santa Poco, a sharpshooting German pilot inquires about El Guapo and demands respect for his friends who will arrive soon. The Amigos stop at the cantina in costume soon afterward and are assumed to be the German's friends. They mistake the fearful patrons for star-struck fans and perform a cheerful song and dance ("My Little Buttercup"). After they leave, the German's associates arrive and shoot up the cantina when the off-guard patrons mock their fine clothes. Carmen picks up the Amigos and takes them to the village, where they are pampered in the best house in town. The next morning, when El Guapo's men raid the village, the Amigos do a Hollywood-style stunt show that leaves the men bemused. The bandits ride off, making the villagers think they have defeated the enemy. The village throws a victory party for the Amigos. The next morning, El Guapo and his gang come to Santa Poco and call them out, but they think it's another show. After Lucky is shot, they realize they are confronting real bandits and beg for mercy, explaining that they are harmless actors. El Guapo decides they are not worth killing, orders the village looted, and kidnaps Carmen. The Amigos leave Santa Poco in disgrace. Ned persuades Lucky and Dusty to go after El Guapo and become real heroes. They try summoning a magical swordsman to locate El Guapo, but Dusty botches the ritual and shoots the swordsman. At his hideout, El Guapo prepares for his 40th birthday party, when he will accept a shipment of weapons from the German and then bed Carmen. The Amigos find the hideout by following the German's plane and swing in from the outer wall with mixed results. Lucky is immediately captured and chained in a dungeon, Dusty crashes into Carmen's room, and Ned ends up suspended from a piñata. Lucky frees himself, but Dusty and Ned are discovered and held captive. The German, having idolized Ned's quick-draw and gun-spinning pistol skills in childhood, challenges him to a shootout. Ned kills the German and Lucky holds El Guapo at gunpoint long enough for Carmen and the Amigos to escape in the German's plane. Returning to Santa Poco with El Guapo's army in pursuit, the Amigos rally the villagers to stand up for themselves with their best talent, sewing. The bandits arrive and are shot at by Amigos from all sides, forcing them to retreat as El Guapo takes a fatal wound. The villagers, all dressed as Amigos, gather around him. He compliments the Three Amigos on their cleverness, then shoots Lucky in the foot before dying. The villagers offer the Amigos all the money they have, but the Amigos refuse it with: "Our reward is that justice has been done." They then ride off into the sunset.