THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT (1996)

Directed by: Renny Harlin

Screenplay by: Shane Black

Starring: Geena Davis, Samuel L. Jackson, Tom Amandes, Yvonne Zima, Brian Cox, Patrick Malahide, Craig Bierko, David Morse, G.D. Spradlin, Melina Kanakaredes, Alan North, Matt Clark, Joseph McKenna, Larry King

120 minutes

(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, intense action sequences)

PLOT:

Samantha Caine, suburban homemaker, is the ideal mom to her 8 year old daughter Caitlin. She lives in Honesdale, PA, has a job teaching school and makes the best Rice Krispie treats in town. But when she receives a bump on her head, she begins to remember small parts of her previous life as a lethal, top-secret agent. Her old chums in the Chapter are now out to kill her so she enlists the help of a cheap detective named Mitch. As Samantha remembers more and more of her previous life, she becomes deadlier and more resourceful. Both Mitch and Charly proceed to do the killing thing, the bleeding thing and the shooting thing.

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SHERLOCK GNOMES (2018)

Directed by: John Stevenson

Starring: (voices) Johnny Depp, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Emily Blunt, James McAvoy, Jamie Demetriou, Mary J. Blige, Michael Caine, Maggie Smith, Ashley Jensen, Matt Lucas, Stephen Merchant, Ozzy Osbourne, Julie Walters, Richard Wilson, Julio Bonet, Kelly Asbury, Dan Starkey, Dexter Fletcher, Javone Prince, James Hong, Stephen Wight, John Stevenson

86 minutes

(PG - some rude and suggestive humor)

PLOT:

Sherlock Gnomes and his assistant, Dr. Gnome Watson, storm into London's natural history museum, where their nemesis, a pie mascot named Moriarty, is holding gnomes hostage, planning to smash them. After a brief battle, Moriarty is defeated by getting seemingly crushed by a dinosaur skeleton. Meanwhile, Gnomeo and Juliet, as well as the other gnomes, are moving to London. While there, Gnomeo and Juliet are declared the new leaders of the garden. Noticing that Juliet has cast him aside to improve the garden, Gnomeo leaves to find a flower as a centerpiece, but nearly gets caught in a shop, forcing Juliet to rescue him. Gnomeo and Juliet return to the garden, but then find out that all of the other gnomes have gone missing. Sherlock and Watson show up at the scene to investigate, and after Gnomeo and Juliet help them escape from a sewer flood, Sherlock agrees for them to team up.

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CHRISTINA'S HOUSE (2001)

Directed by: Gavin Wilding

Starring: Allison Lange, Brendan Fehr, Brad Rowe, John Savage, Lorne Stewart, Crystal Buble, Jerry Wasserman, Chilton Crane, Sigrid M. Spade

97 minutes

(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence)

PLOT:

The teenager Christina, her younger brother Bobby, and their father James Tarling moves to a rented house in a small town in Washington to be close to Christina's mother Joanne, who is interned in an asylum. The house is being repaired by Howie Rhodes and Christina has a boyfriend, the bad boy Eddy Duncan. While in the house, Christina hears noises and has a permanent feeling that another person lives there, but her father believes it is the structure being settled. When two teenagers vanish, the weird sheriff Mark Sklar visits the Tarling family, since the last place the teenagers were seen alive was nearby their home. When a dead body is found in a river close to the house, the sheriff investigates the place, trying to find the guilty for the crime.

 

JUAN OF THE DEAD (2011)

Directed by: Alejandro Brugues

Starring: Alexis Diaz de Villegas, Jorge Molina, Andrea Duro, Andros Perugorria, Jazz Vila, Eliecer Ramirez, Antonio Dechent, Blanca Rosa Blanco, Elsa Camp, Susana Pous, Eslinda Nunez, Juan Miguel Mas, Manuel Herrera, Luis Alberto Garcia

96 minutes

(NR - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, gore)

Country of origin: Cuba

PLOT:

Juan is a slacker trying to reconnect with his daughter, who plans to rejoin her mother in Miami. Lazaro, Juan's friend, is trying to connect with his own son, a persistent womanizer. They begin to notice that locals are "going crazy", killing people and eating their flesh, and the recently deceased are returning to life. The Cuban government and the media claim that the zombies are dissidents revolting against the government. Juan starts a business to profit off of killing the zombies, but the group may soon find their own lives at risk.

 

DARK NIGHT OF THE SCARECROW (1981)

Directed by: Frank De Felitta

Starring: Larry Drake, Charles Durning, Robert F. Lyons, Claude Earl Jones, Lane Smith, Tonya Crowe, Jocelyn Brando, Tom Taylor, Richard McKenzie, Ivy Jones, James Tartan, Ed Call, Alice Nunn, John Steadman, Ivy Bethune, Dennis Robertson, Jetta Scelza

96 minutes

(NR - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, violence)

PLOT:

In a small country town, developmentally disabled Bubba Ritter has the mentality of a child and is the best friend of a young local girl. When the girl trespasses into the yard of a house and is attacked by a vicious dog, Bubba saves her but is wrongly accused of killing her by her mother. The postman, Otis P. Hazelrigg, who has a virulent hatred of Bubba, recruits three other vigilante friends of his and after tracking him to an empty cornfield (where he had been hiding in plain view disguised as a scarecrow) the four execute the unarmed Bubba. After learning that Bubba was in fact innocent of attacking the girl, Hazelrigg makes it look as though Bubba had intended to attack them. The four men are brought to trial but are declared not guilty and are immediately released. However, justice comes from beyond the grave, and after being mysteriously visited by the vision of a scarecrow, they are mysteriously killed one by one. leaving Hazelrigg (who is desperately trying to figure out who is behind the killings) to the very last.

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IN A WORLD... (2013)

Directed by: Lake Bell

Starring: Lake Bell, Demetri Martin, Fred Melamed, Rob Corddry, Michaela Watkins, Ken Marino, Nick Offerman, Tig Notaro, Alexandra Holden, Geena Davis, Eva Longoria, Stephanie Allynne, Jason O'Mara, Talulah Riley, Melissa Disney, Olya Milova, Corsica Wilson, Yelena Protsenko, Carly Chaikin, Janicza Bravo, Marc Graue, Joe Cipriano, Mark Elliott, Don LaFontaine, Jeff Garlin, Cameron Diaz

93 minutes

(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations)

PLOT:

An underachieving vocal coach is motivated by her father, the king of movie-trailer voice-overs, to pursue her aspirations of becoming a voiceover star. Amidst pride, sexism and family dysfunction, she sets out to change the voice of a generation.

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THE COLONY (2013)

Directed by: Jeff Renfroe

Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Bill Paxton, Kevin Zegers, Charlotte Sullivan, John Tench, Lisa Berry, Atticus Mitchell, Dru Viergever, Romano Orzari, Michael Mando, Earl Pastko, Julian Richings

93 minutes

(NR - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence)

PLOT:

Groups of people - colonies - are forced underground due to another ice age. Colony 7 goes to check on Colony 5, which they lost contact with. When they get there, they find that the colony has fallen and there is a whole new enemy that they have to face on their way back.

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SAY HEY, WILLIE MAYS! (2022)

 

Directed by: Nelson George

Starring: Willie Mays, Barry Bonds, Reggie Jackson, Dr. Todd Boyd, Dr. Harry Edwards, Faye Davis, Gerald Watkins, Rev. William Greason, John Shea, Jon Miller, Michael Mays, Bob Costas, Vin Scully, Willie Brown, Orlando Cepeda, Ozzie Virgil, Juan Marichal, Tito Fuentes, Miguel "Mike" Murphy, Dusty Baker, Larry Baer

98 minutes

(TV-14 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations)

PLOT:

Archival footage, contemporary interviews and reflection on Willie Mays and his trailblazing influence in and outside baseball too.

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MALIBU'S MOST WANTED (2003)

Directed by: John Whitesell

Screenplay by: Fax Bahr, Adam Small, Jamie Kennedy, Nick Swardson

Starring: Jamie Kennedy, Taye Diggs, Anthony Anderson, Blair Underwood, Regina Hall, Damien Dante Wayans, Ryan O'Neal, Snoop Dogg, Bo Derek, Jeffrey Tambor, Kal Penn, Nick Swardson, Kelli Lefkovitz, Kellie Martin, Greg Grunberg, J.P. Manoux, Terry Crews, Noel Gugliemi, Mike Epps, Felli Fel, Hi-C, Young Dre The Truth, Drop da Bomb, Hal Fishman, Big Boy

86 minutes

(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, violence)

PLOT:

Brad Gluckman is a wannabe rap star from Malibu who acts and talks like he's from the "'hood." Concerned that his son is going to embarrass him during his campaign to become the governor of California, Brad's wealthy father and his campaign manager, hire two trained actors to disguise themselves as "real life gangstaz", and kidnap his son, dropping him off in the "real hood" in Compton, in an effort to scare the ghettofied attitude and behavior out of him.

 

THE HOUSE ON TELEGRAPH HILL (1951)

Directed by: Robert Wise

Based on the novel "The Frightened Child" by: Dana Lyon

Starring: Richard Basehart, Valentina Cortese, William Lundigan, Fay Baker, Gordon Gebert, Steven Geray, Herb Butterfield, John Burton, Katherine Meskill, Mario Siletti, Charles Wagenheim, David Clarke, Tamara Schee, Natasha Lytess

93 minutes

(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:

In the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp, the Polish Victoria Kowelska has lost her husband and family in the war. She befriends her fellow citizen Karin Dernakova, who miss her son Chris that lives with her Aunt Sophie in San Francisco. Karin dies three days before the liberation forces commanded by Major Marc Bennett arrive at the camp and Victoria assumes the identity of her friend to emigrate to the United States. However, she is informed that Aunt Sophie has just died and she stays in a camp for survivors. Four years later, she succeeds to go to the United States and meets Sophie's lawyer. She learns that Alan Spender was assigned Chris' trustee and he invites her to travel with him to San Francisco to see Chris. Along their journey, they get married to each other and Karin has a cold reception from the housekeeper Margaret that raises Chris at the mansion on Telegraph Hill. Karin meets Major Bennett, who is a friend of Alan, in a party at home and she befriends him. Soon Karin is connected to Chris, but when she has a car accident, she suspects that Alan wants to kill Chris and her to keep the money for him. Is she paranoid?

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ESCAPING THE MADHOUSE - THE NELLIE BLY STORY (2019)

Directed by: Karen Moncrieff

Starring: Christina Ricci, Judith Light, Josh Bowman, Anja Savcic, Mark Hildreth, Nikki Duval, Tamara Gorski, Sharon Bajer, Lauren Cochrane, Paul Essiembre

88 minutes

(TV-14 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, violence)

PLOT:

A young journalist looks behind the curtain of a nearby mental hospital, only to uncover the grim and gruesome acts they bestow upon their "patients".

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DOUBLE DRAGON (1994)

Directed by: James Yukich

Based on the video game series developed by: Technōs Japan

Starring: Mark Dacascos, Scott Wolf, Alyssa Milano, Robert Patrick, Julia Nickson, Leon Russom, Kristina Wagner, Nils Allen Stewart, Henry Kingi, George Hamilton, Vanna White, Andy Dick, Cory Milano

95 minutes

(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, sci-fi/fantasy violence)

PLOT:

In the years following the great Los Angeles earthquake, two orphans are raised and trained in martial arts by Satori, who also happens to be the caretaker of one half of a magic amulet. When the evil Koga Shuko finds the other half, he immediately goes on the attack to take Satori's piece and claim the power contained within the amulet. Only Satori's two boys, Billy and Jimmy, can stop Koga from reaching his goal.

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SIBLING RIVALRY (1990)

Directed by: Carl Reiner

Starring: Kirstie Alley, Sam Elliott, Jami Gertz, Bill Pullman, Carrie Fisher, Scott Bakula, Ed O'Neill, Frances Sternhagen, John Randolph, Paul Benedict

88 minutes

(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations)

PLOT:

Marjorie Turner is suffocating. Her younger sister Jeanine has no ambition, and her eight-year marriage to Harry puts her in constant competition with his family (all doctors), with whom he too is competing for affections. One day she snaps while food shopping and beds a mysterious man who dies right afterward. When she forgets her wallet, a vertical-blinds salesman finds it and things really get complicated from there.

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THE KINGDOM (2007)

Directed by: Peter Berg

Starring: Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, Ashraf Barhom, Ali Suliman, Jeremy Piven, Richard Jenkins, Tim McGraw, Kyle Chandler, Frances Fisher, Danny Huston, Kelly AuCoin, Anna Deavere Smith, Minka Kelly, Amy Hunter, T.J. Burnett, Omar Berdouni, Raad Rawi, Mahmoud Said, Trevor St. John, Ashley Scott

110 minutes

(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, intense action sequences)

PLOT:

After a terrorist attack on an American housing compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where families and FBI Agent Francis Manner are murdered, FBI agent Ronald Fleury blackmails the Saudi Arabian consul to get five days of investigation in the location. He travels with agent Grant Sykes, Janet Mayes, and Adam Leavitt to avenge their friend and try to find those responsible for the bombing. The agents find all sorts of difficulties in their investigation, but they are supported by Colonel Faris Al Ghazi, who advises the team how to act in a hostile environment.

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INTRODUCING DOROTHY DANDRIDGE (1999)

Directed by: Martha Coolidge

Based on the biography by: Earl Mills

Screenplay by: Shonda Rimes, Scott Abbott

Starring: Halle Berry, Brent Spiner, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Obba Babatunde, Loretta Devine, Cynda Williams, LaTanya Richardson, Tamara Taylor, Alexis Carrington, William Atherton, D.B. Sweeney, Don Gettinger, Nicholas Hormann, Sharon Brown, Darrian C. Ford, Andre Carthen, Jon Mack, Kerri Randles, Benjamin Brown, Tyrone Wade, Wendi Williams

120 minutes

(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, rape, drug use, some nudity)

PLOT:

Biopic of the multi-talented African-American singer/dancer/actress Dorothy Dandridge. As a teenager, she was part of the Dandridge Sisters night club where she met her first husband, Harold Nicholas. She had difficulties with intimacy however owing to her brutal treatment at the hands of her mother's female lover, whom they referred to as Auntie. The stress of having a mentally disabled child ends her marriage to Harold and the color barrier in Hollywood makes it difficult for her to find meaningful work. Her big break came with the lead role in Carmen Jones, for which she was nominated for a best actress Oscar. She had a relationship with the film's director, Otto Preminger. Although she had never again was given the opportunity or a role as great, she re-married and continued performing. She died of a prescription drug overdose in 1965.

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SECONDS (1966)

Directed by: John Frankenheimer

Based on the novel by: David Ely

Starring: Rock Hudson, Salome Jens, John Randolph, Will Geer, Jeff Corey, Richard Anderson, Murray Hamilton, Karl Swenson, Khigh Dhiegh, Frances Reid, Wesley Addy, John Lawrence, Elisabeth Fraser, Dody Heath, Robert Brubaker, Dorothy Morris, Barbara Werle

107 minutes

(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:

Middle-aged banker Arthur Hamilton is given the opportunity to start a completely new life when he receives calls from his old friend Charlie. The only problem is that Charlie is supposed to be dead. Hamilton is eventually introduced to a firm that will fake his death and create an entirely new look and life for him. After undergoing physical reconstruction surgery and months of training and psychotherapy, Hamilton returns to the world in the form of artist Tony Wilson. He has a nice house in Malibu and a manservant, a company employee who is there to assist him with his adjustment. He finds that the life he had hoped for isn't quite what he expected and asks the company to go through the process with surprising results.

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WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH, THE TOUGH GET GOING (1985)

Directed by: Maurice Phillips

Starring: Billy Ocean, Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito

4 minutes

(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:

Music video for the single, off the English singer's sixth studio album "Love Zone" and "The Jewel of the Nile" soundtrack.

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CHARADE (1963)

Directed by: Stanley Donen

Based on the short story "The Unsuspecting Wife" by: Peter Stone, Marc Behm

Starring: Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau, James Coburn, George Kennedy, Dominique Minot, Ned Glass, Jacques Marin, Paul Bonifas, Thomas Chelimsky

113 minutes

(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:

Dragged into a white-knuckle, cat-and-mouse game to unearth $250,000 allegedly stolen by her estranged and recently deceased husband Charles, Regina Lampert, an elegant American interpreter living in France, crosses paths with dashing perfect stranger Peter Joshua. And as if the terrible sense of loss weren't enough, a trio of ruthless cut-throats picks up the sweet scent of easy profit, bent on finding the lost cash first. As suave but enigmatic Peter dices with death to protect Regina before the situation spins out of control, little by little, a timid relationship forms; however, money corrupts. Now, fragile alliances and dangerous encounters spell trouble, and Regina can only count on herself to unravel the secret. But what are the chances of getting to the bottom of the mystery when trust falters?

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MOTHER, MAY I SLEEP WITH DANGER? (1996)

Directed by: Jorge Montesi

Based on the novel by: Claire R. Jacobs

Starring: Tori Spelling, Ivan Sergei, Lisa Banes, Todd Caldecott, Gabrielle Miller, Lochlyn Munro, Kevin McNulty, Bryn Erin, Suzy Joachim, Teryl Rothery, Fulvio Cecere

90 minutes

(TV-14 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, violence)

PLOT:

Laurel has the boyfriend of her dreams: Kevin. He can and will do anything for her. He is totally devoted to her but the down-side is that he never leaves her alone. When she tries to get some distance he responds with aggression. It finally dawns on Laurel that he is not good for her. Laurel's mother Jessica has already started to suspect that something is wrong with his background.

 

THE LONG WALK HOME (1990)

Directed by: Richard Pearce

Produced by: Taylor Hackford, John Cork

Starring: Sissy Spacek, Whoopi Goldberg, Dwight Schultz, Ving Rhames, Dylan Baker, Erika Alexander, Lexi Randall, Richard Parnell Habersham, Jason Weaver, Crystal Robbins, Cherene Snow, Chelcie Ross, Dan Butler, Philip Sterling, Schuyler Fisk, Mary Steenburgen

97 minutes

(PG - adult language, adult themes, adult situations)

PLOT:

Dramatizes the events in 1955-1956 in Montgomery, Alabama, when blacks boycotted public transport because they were forced to sit at the back. Odessa works as a maid for the Thompsons, and as well as she is treated, she feels it is her duty to walk to work, even if it means she is exhausted, and gets to work late.

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LOST IN AMERICA (1985)

Directed by: Albert Brooks

Starring: Albert Brooks, Julie Hagerty, Maggie Roswell, Michael Greene, Garry Marshall, Donald Gibb, Charles Boswell

91 minutes

(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations)

PLOT:

David and Linda Howard are successful yuppies from LA. When he gets a job disappointment, David convinces Linda that they should quit their jobs, liquidate their assets, and emulate the movie Easy Rider, spending the rest of their lives travelling around America...in a Winnebago! This is a kind of large, luxurious mobile home which suits a 1980's yuppie more than the counterculture dropout approach of the 1960's. His idealized, unrealistic plans soon begin to go spectacularly wrong.

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