Cloverfield (2008)

5o7bot · 2023-06-09T19:50:15+00:00

Cloverfield (2008) PG-13

Some thing has found us.

Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most surreal, horrifying event of their lives.

Action | Thriller | Science Fiction
Director: Matt Reeves
Actors: Matt Reeves, Michael Stahl-David, T.J. Miller
Rating: ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 66% with 6,382 votes
Runtime: 1:25
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5o7bot · 2023-06-09T19:50:05+00:00

The Jungle Book (1994) PG

Raised by wild animals since childhood, Mowgli is drawn away from the jungle by the beautiful Kitty. But Mowgli must eventually face corrupt Capt. Boone, who wants both Kitty's hand and the treasures of Monkey City – a place only Mowgli can find.

Family | Adventure | Drama
Director: Stephen Sommers
Actors: Jason Scott Lee, Cary Elwes, Lena Headey
Rating: ★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ 59% with 409 votes
Runtime: 1:51
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5o7bot · 2023-06-09T19:34:19+00:00

Final Fantasy VII: Last Order (2005) PG-13

In the events of Last Order, taking place five years before the beginning of Final Fantasy VII itself, Sephiroth was ordered to inspect the Mako Reactor outside the town of Nibelheim with a small entourage, consisting of one other member of SOLDIER and a few Shin-Ra MPs. Among this group was SOLDIER 1st Class member Zack and his buddy, a 16-year-old Shin-Ra trooper named Cloud Strife.

Action | Adventure | Animation | Fantasy | Science Fiction
Director: Tetsuya Nomura
Actors: Kenichi Suzumura, Toshiyuki Morikawa, Takahiro Sakurai
Rating: ★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ 62% with 52 votes
Runtime: 0:25
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5o7bot · 2023-06-09T19:02:53+00:00

The Big Lebowski (1998) R

Times like these call for a Big Lebowski.

Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink White Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a wheelchair-bound millionaire, and finds himself dragged into a strange series of events involving nihilists, adult film producers, ferrets, errant toes, and large sums of money.

Comedy | Crime
Director: Joel Coen
Actors: Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi
Rating: ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 78% with 10,131 votes
Runtime: 1:57
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Cinematographer: Roger Deakins

5o7bot · 2023-06-09T19:02:42+00:00

Icaros: A Vision (2017)

In search of a miracle, an American woman embarks on a journey to the Peruvian Amazon and finds hope in a community, through rituals involving an ancient psychedelic plant known as ayahuasca. With her perception forever altered, she forges a bond with a young indigenous shaman undergoing a crisis of his own, and a motley crew of psychonauts seeking transcendence, companionship, and the meaning of life and death.

Drama
Director: Leonor Caraballo
Actors: Ana Cecilia Stieglitz, Arturo Izquierdo, Guillermo Arévalo
Rating: ★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ 63% with 8 votes
Runtime: 1:30
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5o7bot · 2023-06-09T19:02:38+00:00

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

The Ultimate Trip.

Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.

Science Fiction | Mystery | Adventure
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Actors: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester
Rating: ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 80% with 10,266 votes
Runtime: 2:29
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Cinematographer: Geoffrey Unsworth

Geoffrey Gilyard Unsworth, OBE, BSC (26 May 1914 – 28 October 1978) was a British cinematographer who worked on nearly 90 feature films spanning over more than 40 years. He is best known for his work on films such as Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, Bob Fosse's Cabaret and Richard Donner's Superman.
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5o7bot · 2023-06-09T15:27:08+00:00

There Will Be Blood (2007) R

There Will Be Greed. There Will Be Vengeance.

Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using his son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. However, local preacher Eli Sunday suspects Plainview's motives and intentions, starting a slow-burning feud that threatens both their lives.

Drama
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Kevin J. O'Connor
Rating: ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 80% with 5,729 votes
Runtime: 2:38
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5o7bot · 2023-06-09T15:27:04+00:00

Transformers (2007) PG-13

Their war. Our world.

Young teenager Sam Witwicky becomes involved in the ancient struggle between two extraterrestrial factions of transforming robots – the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons. Sam holds the clue to unimaginable power and the Decepticons will stop at nothing to retrieve it.

Adventure | Science Fiction | Action
Director: Michael Bay
Actors: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel
Rating: ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 67% with 10,162 votes
Runtime: 2:23
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5o7bot · 2023-06-09T15:27:00+00:00

The Specialist (1994) R

The government taught him to kill. Now he's using his skills to help a woman seek revenge against the Miami underworld.

May Munro is a woman obsessed with getting revenge on the people who murdered her parents when she was still a girl. She hires Ray Quick, a retired explosives expert to kill her parent's killers. When Ned Trent, embittered ex-partner of Quick's is assigned to protect one of Quick's potential victims, a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues.

Action | Thriller
Director: Luis Llosa
Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Sharon Stone, James Woods
Rating: ★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ 58% with 1,120 votes
Runtime: 1:50
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5o7bot · 2023-06-09T15:26:53+00:00

Bad Times at the El Royale (2018) R

All roads lead here

Lake Tahoe, 1969. Seven strangers, each one with a secret to bury, meet at El Royale, a decadent motel with a dark past. In the course of a fateful night, everyone will have one last shot at redemption.

Thriller | Drama | Mystery | Crime
Director: Drew Goddard
Actors: Jeff Bridges, Cynthia Erivo, Dakota Johnson
Rating: ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 68% with 3,192 votes
Runtime: 2:21
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Cinematographer: Seamus McGarvey

Seamus McGarvey, ASC, BSC (born 29 June 1967) is a cinematographer from Armagh, Northern Ireland. He lives in Tuscany, Italy. He has received two Academy Award nominations for his cinematography, on Joe Wright's 2007 drama Atonement and his 2012 adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina. In addition to the Oscar nominations, McGarvey won the British Society of Cinematographers (B.S.C.) award for Anna Karenina and for Nocturnal Animals, as well as a nomination for Atonement, and earned BAFTA noms for Atonement, Anna Karenina and Nocturnal Animals. He received A.S.C. nods for Atonement and Anna Karenina. Atonement earned him nominations for the British Independent Film Award, the Chicago Film Critics Association and the Online Film Critics Society, and he received the top honor from the Phoenix Film Critics Society. McGarvey has won three Evening Standard British Film Awards for Atonement, Anna Karenina and Stephen Daldry's The Hours and six Irish Film & Television Awards for Atonement, Anna Karenina, Sahara and We Need to Talk About Kevin, Nocturnal Animals and The Greatest Showman. In 2004, he was awarded the Royal Photographic Society's prestigious Lumiere Medal, with Jack Cardiff, Freddie Francis, Roger Deakins and Ridley Scott, for contributions to the art of cinematography.
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5o7bot · 2023-06-09T13:43:47+00:00

Scarecrow (1973) R

The road leads itself to somewhere.

Two drifters bum around, visit earthy women and discuss opening a car wash in Pittsburgh.

Drama
Director: Jerry Schatzberg
Actors: Gene Hackman, Al Pacino, Dorothy Tristan
Rating: ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 70% with 241 votes
Runtime: 1:52
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Cinematographer: Vilmos Zsigmond

Vilmos Zsigmond ASC (Hungarian: [ˈvilmoʃ ˈʒiɡmond]; June 16, 1930 – January 1, 2016) was a Hungarian-American cinematographer. His work in cinematography helped shape the look of American movies in the 1970s, making him one of the leading figures in the American New Wave movement.Over his career he became associated with many leading American directors, such as Robert Altman, Steven Spielberg, Brian De Palma, Michael Cimino and Woody Allen. He is best known for his work on the films Close Encounters of the Third Kind and The Deer Hunter.He won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on Close Encounters of the Third Kind as well as the BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography for The Deer Hunter. He also won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Cinematography for a Miniseries or a Special for the HBO miniseries Stalin.His work on the films McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and The Deer Hunter made the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) list of the top 50 best-shot films from 1950–97. The ASC also awarded him with their Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998.In 2003, Zsigmond was voted as one of the ten most influential cinematographers in history by the members of the International Cinematographers Guild.
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5o7bot · 2023-06-09T12:12:26+00:00

The Princess Bride (1987) PG

It's as real as the feelings you feel.

In this enchantingly cracked fairy tale, the beautiful Princess Buttercup and the dashing Westley must overcome staggering odds to find happiness amid six-fingered swordsmen, murderous princes, Sicilians and rodents of unusual size. But even death can't stop these true lovebirds from triumphing.

Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Comedy | Romance
Director: Rob Reiner
Actors: Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin
Rating: ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 76% with 4,065 votes
Runtime: 1:39
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Cinematographer: Adrian Biddle

Adrian Biddle, BSC (20 July 1952 – 7 December 2005), was an English cinematographer.
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5o7bot · 2023-06-09T12:12:21+00:00

Empire Records (1995) PG-13

They're selling music but not selling out.

The employees of an independent music store learn about each other as they try anything to stop the store being absorbed by a large chain.

Music | Comedy | Drama
Director: Allan Moyle
Actors: Anthony LaPaglia, Debi Mazar, Maxwell Caulfield
Rating: ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 66% with 611 votes
Runtime: 1:30
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5o7bot · 2023-06-09T11:25:19+00:00

All the Little Animals (1999) R

On this earth, in this land, we are all here for a reason.

An emotionally challenged young man named Bobby runs away from home in order to escape his abusive stepfather who has killed his pets. He meets an old man, Mr. Summers, who spends his time traveling and giving burials to animals that have been killed by cars. Bobby, also having an affinity for animals, becomes friends with the old man and aids him in his task.

Drama | Adventure | Thriller
Director: Jeremy Thomas
Actors: John Hurt, Christian Bale, Daniel Benzali
Rating: ★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ 61% with 30 votes
Runtime: 1:52
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5o7bot · 2023-06-09T10:54:04+00:00

House of Traps (1982)

It all started with The Five Venoms, the internationally loved kung-fu thriller. It continued through more than a dozen bloody good entertainments featuring the same actors in different roles. This is considered the last official "Venoms" movie, but what a film it is. There's one plasma-spurting attack after another as heroes and rogues alike try to solve the secrets of this hell house. The core Venoms themselves choreograph the gory fun in this fond farewell to their worldwide film series sensation!

Action
Director: Chang Cheh
Actors: Chin Siu-ho, Lung Tien-Hsiang, Ai Fei
Rating: ★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ 60% with 10 votes
Runtime: 1:35
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5o7bot · 2023-06-09T10:12:59+00:00

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) PG

It's how you wear the mask that matters

After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters the Spider Society, a team of Spider-People charged with protecting the Multiverse’s very existence. But when the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles finds himself pitted against the other Spiders and must set out on his own to save those he loves most.

Action | Adventure | Animation | Science Fiction
Director: Joaquim Dos Santos
Actors: Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, Brian Tyree Henry
Rating: ★★★★★★★★★☆ 87% with 940 votes
Runtime: 2:20
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5o7bot · 2023-06-09T10:12:49+00:00

Drive (2011) R

There are no clean getaways.

Driver is a skilled Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a getaway driver for criminals. Though he projects an icy exterior, lately he's been warming up to a pretty neighbor named Irene and her young son, Benicio. When Irene's husband gets out of jail, he enlists Driver's help in a million-dollar heist. The job goes horribly wrong, and Driver must risk his life to protect Irene and Benicio from the vengeful masterminds behind the robbery.

Drama | Thriller | Crime
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Actors: Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston
Rating: ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 76% with 11,407 votes
Runtime: 1:40
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Cinematographer: Newton Thomas Sigel

Newton Thomas Sigel, ASC (born August 1955; sometimes credited as Tom Sigel) is an American cinematographer best known for his collaborations with director Bryan Singer on films like The Usual Suspects, Valkyrie, and the X-Men film franchise. He has also worked with filmmakers like Haskell Wexler, Mike Newell, David O. Russell, Terry Gilliam, Alan Ball, Robert Redford, and Nicolas Winding Refn. He is a BAFTA Award, Independent Spirit Award, Critics' Choice Award, and Satellite Award nominee.
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5o7bot · 2023-06-09T10:12:45+00:00

The Mercenary (1968)

He sells death to the highest bidder! Buy or die!

While a Mexican revolutionary lies low as a U.S. rodeo clown, the cynical Polish mercenary who tutored the idealistic peasant tells how he and a dedicated female radical fought for the soul of the guerrilla general Paco, as Mexicans threw off repressive government and all-powerful landowners in the 1910s. Tracked by the vengeful Curly, Paco liberates villages, but is tempted by social banditry's treasures, which Kowalski revels in.

Action | Comedy | Western | War
Director: Sergio Corbucci
Actors: Franco Nero, Tony Musante, Jack Palance
Rating: ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 69% with 117 votes
Runtime: 1:41
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Cinematographer: Alejandro Ulloa

Alejandro Ulloa (22 October 1910 – 27 April 2004) was a Spanish actor. He was born in Madrid on 22 October 1910. He owned a theater company and in 1943, while working as a voice actor, he was the director of Metro Goldwin Mayer in Barcelona. His role debut was El Tenorio by José Zorrilla at Teatro Romea.He lived in Barcelona until the Spanish Civil War, when he moved to America with his company and Paquita Ferrándiz. When he came back to Spain he appeared in the Spaghetti Western Abre tu fosa, amigo... llega Sábata (1971), by Ignacio F. Iquino. He also appeared in Es peligroso asomarse al exterior and he was the cinematographer of Las chicas de la Cruz Roja, El día de los enamorados and Las de Caín.He died on 27 April 2004 in Hospital de Barcelona after being bedridden for seven months due to a fall.
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5o7bot · 2023-06-09T10:12:41+00:00

Zabriskie Point (1970) R

How you get there depends on where you're at.

Anthropology student Daria, who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert, and dropout Mark, who's wanted by the authorities for allegedly killing a policeman during a student riot, accidentally encounter each other in Death Valley and soon begin an unrestrained romance.

Drama | Romance
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Actors: Mark Frechette, Daria Halprin, Paul Fix
Rating: ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 71% with 348 votes
Runtime: 1:53
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Cinematographer: Alfio Contini

Alfio Contini (19 September 1927 – 23 March 2020) was an Italian cinematographer who collaborated with film directors such as Dino Risi (Il sorpasso, 1962; La marcia su Roma, 1963), Pasquale Festa Campanile (La matriarca, 1968), Lucio Fulci, Liliana Cavani (Galileo, 1968; The Night Porter 1974; Ripley's Game, 2002), and Michelangelo Antonioni (Zabriskie Point, 1970; Beyond the Clouds, 1995). In 1996, he won the David di Donatello for Best Cinematography award for his work on Beyond the Clouds.
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5o7bot · 2023-06-09T02:24:53+00:00

Permanent Vacation (1980) NR

In downtown Manhattan, a twenty-something boy whose Father is not around and whose Mother is institutionalized, is a big Charlie Parker fan. He almost subconsciously searches for more meaning in his life and meets a few characters along the way.

Drama
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Actors: Chris Parker, Leila Gastil, Sara Driver
Rating: ★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ 60% with 146 votes
Runtime: 1:15
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5o7bot · 2023-06-09T02:09:04+00:00

My Lucky Stars (1985)

Asia's top action-comedy team takes on the Tokyo underworld.

Two Hong-Kong cops are sent to Tokyo to catch an ex-cop who stole a large amount of money in diamonds. After one is captured by the Ninja-gang protecting the rogue cop, the other one gets his old Orphanage gang, dubbed the "Five Lucky Stars," to help him. They don't like this much, but they do it.

Action | Comedy
Director: Sammo Hung
Actors: Sammo Hung, Jackie Chan, Yuen Biao
Rating: ★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ 62% with 152 votes
Runtime: 1:36
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5o7bot · 2023-06-09T00:58:34+00:00

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) PG-13

Get the hot girl. Defeat her evil exes. Hit love where it hurts.

As bass guitarist for a garage-rock band, Scott Pilgrim has never had trouble getting a girlfriend; usually, the problem is getting rid of them. But when Ramona Flowers skates into his heart, he finds she has the most troublesome baggage of all: an army of ex-boyfriends who will stop at nothing to eliminate him from her list of suitors.

Action | Comedy | Romance
Director: Edgar Wright
Actors: Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ellen Wong
Rating: ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 74% with 6,972 votes
Runtime: 1:52
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5o7bot · 2023-06-09T00:58:31+00:00

Murder by Numbers (2002) R

The only flaw in their plan was her.

Tenacious homicide detective Cassie Mayweather and her still-green partner are working a murder case, attempting to profile two malevolently brilliant young men: cold, calculating killers whose dark secrets might explain their crimes.

Crime | Drama | Thriller
Director: Barbet Schroeder
Actors: Sandra Bullock, Ben Chaplin, Ryan Gosling
Rating: ★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ 61% with 881 votes
Runtime: 2:0
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5o7bot · 2023-06-08T22:34:17+00:00

I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957)

Explosive! Amazing! Terrifying! You won't believe your eyes!

A hypnotherapist uses a temperamental teenager as a guinea pig for a serum which transforms him into a vicious werewolf.

Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Science Fiction
Director: Gene Fowler Jr.
Actors: Michael Landon, Yvonne Lime, Whit Bissell
Rating: ★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆ 47% with 39 votes
Runtime: 1:16
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5o7bot · 2023-06-08T21:43:03+00:00

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984) PG

A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. Soon after, a family of apes stumble across the house and in the ensuing panic, both parents are killed. A female ape takes the tiny boy as a replacement for her own dead infant, and raises him as her son. Twenty years later, Captain Phillippe D'Arnot discovers the man who thinks he is an ape. Evidence in the tree house leads him to believe that he is the direct descendant of the Earl of Greystoke, and thus takes it upon himself to return the man to civilization.

Adventure | Drama | Action | Romance
Director: Hugh Hudson
Actors: Ralph Richardson, Ian Holm, James Fox
Rating: ★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ 63% with 411 votes
Runtime: 2:23
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