EXTREME MEASURES (1996)

Directed by: Michael Apted

Based on the novel by: Michael Palmer

Starring: Hugh Grant, Gene Hackman, Sarah Jessica Parker, David Morse, Bill Nunn, John Toles-Bey, Paul Guilfoyle, Debra Monk, Shaun Austin-Olsen, Andre De Shields, J.K. Simmons, Peter Appel, Diana Zimmer, Nancy Beatty, Gerry Becker, Gene Ruffini, Bill MacDonald, Simon Reynolds, D. Garnet Harding, Derwin Jordan, Tara Rosling, Martin Roach, Bernard Browne, Sanjay Talwar, Christina Collins, Arlene Duncan, Cheryl Swarts

118 minutes

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

PLOT:

Guy Luthan is a British doctor working at a hospital in New York City. He starts to make unwanted inquiries when the body of a man who died in his emergency room disappears. The trail leads Luthan to the door of eminent surgeon Dr. Lawrence Myrick, but Luthan soon finds himself in danger from people who want the hospital's secret to remain undiscovered.

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THE UNINVITED (1944)

Directed by: Lewis Allen

Based on the novel "Uneasy Freehold" by: Dorothy Macardle

Starring: Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey, Donald Crisp, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Dorothy Stickney, Barbara Everest, Alan Napier, Gail Russell, Holmes Herbert, Betty Farrington, Queenie Leonard, Moyna MacGill, Rita Page, Lynda Grey, Ivan F. Simpson

98 minutes

(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:

A brother and sister move into an old seaside house they find abandoned for many years on the English coast. Their original enchantment with the house diminishes as they hear stories of the previous owners and meet their daughter (now a young woman) who now lives as a neighbor with her grandfather. Also heard are unexplained sounds during the night. It becomes obvious that the house is haunted. The reasons for the haunting and how they relate to the daughter whom the brother is falling in love with, prove to be a complex mystery. As they are compelled to solve it, the supernatural activity at the house increases to a frightening level.

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KEANU (2016)

Directed by: Peter Atencio

Starring: Jordan Peele, Keegan-Michael Key, Tiffany Haddish, Method Man, Nia Long, Will Forte, Luis Guzman, Jason Mitchell, Darrell Britt-Gibson, Jamar Malachi Neighbors, Rob Huebel, Ian Casselberry, Anna Faris, Keanu Reeves

100 minutes

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

PLOT:

Rell's life is changed forever when a cute kitten comes to his door, and he names it Keanu. Unfortunately, one weekend later, Keanu is abducted by persons unknown. Now Rell and his cousin, Clarence, are men on a mission to find Keanu against the odds. Unfortunately, those odds prove to be perilously high as they find Keanu in the care of the ruthless gangster, Cheddar, and he will only part with him for a price. Now for that cute kitten, these two middle class bumblers find themselves neck deep in a dangerous alien world of drugs and gang violence with only their desperate audacity, creativity and sheer dumb luck giving them a chance to survive.

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POINT OF NO RETURN (1993)

Directed by: John Badham

Starring: Bridget Fonda, Gabriel Byrne, Dermot Mulroney, Anne Bancroft, Harvey Keitel, Miguel Ferrer, Olivia d'Abo, Richard Romanus, Geoffrey Lewis, Lieux Dressler, Michael Rapaport, Ray Oriel, Spike McClure, John Capodice, Robert Harvey, Mic Rodgers, Carmen Zapata, John Badham, Lorraine Toussaint, James Handy, Michael Runyard, Bill M. Ryuski, Joe Garcia, Kenny Endoso, Gary Kasper, Peter Vasquez, Jaqueline Koch, Robert Apisa, Leon Herbert, Richard Chapman Jr, Ronnie Rondell Jr

109 minutes

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

PLOT:

Drug addict Maggie Hayward's consistent violence, even in police custody, ends in the execution chamber. However, top secret U.S. government Agent "Bob" arranges a staged death, so Maggie can be elaborately trained as a killer. She gets a new cover identity as saleswoman Claudia Anne Doran. She also finds a housemate, building super J.P., a broad-minded, gentle photographer. The two fall in love, and that complicates her government assignments. His influence extends to breeding in her a conscience that supplants her violent tendencies, and desire to continue work for the agency.

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BUILDING A BUILDING (1933)

Directed by: David Hand

Starring: Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Pegleg Pete (voices) Walt Disney, Marcellite Garner, Pinto Colvig

7 minutes

(NR - suitable for all ages)

PLOT:

Mickey's a shovel operator and laborer at a construction site; Minnie is delivering box lunches; Pete is the foreman. Mickey pays more attention to Minnie than to his work and keeps having accidents (mostly involving the blueprints Pete is holding). Pete steals Mickey's lunch, so Minnie offers him one on the house. While he's eating, Pete kidnaps Minnie; Mickey fights him, but the tide turns when Minnie dumps a load of hot rivets into Pete's pants. They run, and Pete chases them, causing a great deal of damage to the site.

 

NIGHT TRAIN MURDERS (1975)

 (also known as "Last Stop on the Night Train" and "Late Night Trains")

Directed by: Aldo Lado

Starring: Flavio Bucci, Macha Meril, Gianfranco De Grassi, Enrico Maria Salerno, Irene Miracle, Laura D'Angelo, Marina Berti, Franco Fabrizi, Dalila Di Lazzaro

94 minutes

(NR - strong language, adult themes, sexual situations, violence, rape, drug use)

Country of origin: Italy

PLOT:

Margaret and Lisa, high school friends, take the night train from Germany to Verona to spend Christmas with Lisa's family. They flirt mildly with male passengers, including two randy delinquents in their 20s, Blackie and Curly. The four of them end up in a first-class cabin with a well-dressed woman of about 30 who has pornographic photographs in her valise. Egged on by the woman, the thugs and a male visitor to the cabin menace and then assault Margaret and Lisa. Meanwhile, we also see Christmas Eve and morning scenes at Lisa's home, where her parents are polite to each other while discussing divorce. On Christmas morning, they go to the station to meet the girls. Will they be on the train?

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THE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (1960)

Directed by: Roger Corman

Starring: Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles, Dick Miller, Myrtle Vail, Sandra De Bear, Toby Michaels, Leola Wendorff, Lynn Storey, Wally Campo, Jack Warford, Meri Welles, John Herman Shaner, Jack Nicholson, Dodie Drake, Charles B. Griffith, Jack Griffith, Robert Coogan

72 minutes

(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:

A clumsy young man nurtures a plant and discovers that it's carnivorous, forcing him to kill to feed it.

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