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The Peacemaker
Date Added 2006-10-15 Rating 5.8 / 10.0
Number 556 Year 1997
Length 2:04 Director Mimi Leder
Category Action
Two trains crash somewhere in Russia, one carrying a nuclear payload. A nuclear explosion follows the crash and the world is on alert... However, White House nuclear expert Dr. Julia Kelly (Nicole Kidman) doesn't think it was an accident... Special Forces Intelligence Officer Colonel Thomas Devoe (George Clooney) doesn't think so either... Together they must unravel a conspiracy that goes from Europe to New York, to stop a terrorist who has no demands......
The Witches of Eastwick
Date Added 2006-10-15 Rating 4.0 / 10.0
Number 562 Year 1987
Length 1:58 Director George Miller
Category Fantasy, Comedy, Fantasy Comedy, Black Comedy
The Witches of Eastwick, a memorable comedy with a dark edge, is based upon a novel by John Updike. On Thursday nights three female friends -- Alex (Cher), Sukie (Michelle Pfeiffer), and Jane (Susan Sarandon) -- meet to chug martinis, learn Chinese aphrodisiac cooking and lament the scarcity of eligible men. As they sit around, they fantasize about and describe their idea of the ideal male. Arriving in town the following day is Satan, disguised as mysterious stranger Darrell Van Horn (Jack Nicholson). One by one, Van Horne seduces each of the women. Then, strange things begin to happen. When the town matriarch Felicia (Veronica Cartwright) publicly denounces Van Horne, she sustains a nasty compound...
Thief
Date Added 2006-10-15 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 563 Year 1981
Length 2:02 Director Michael Mann
Category Crime, Crime Thriller, Post-Noir (Modern Noir), Caper
In Thief, James Caan plays Frank, a professional jewel thief who wants to marry Jessie (Tuesday Weld) and settle down into a normal life. In order to achieve his dream of a family, Frank--who is used to working solo--has to align himself with a crime boss named Leo (Robert Prosky), who will help him gain the money he needs to begin his domestic life. Frank plans to retire after the heist, yet he finds himself indebted to Leo and he struggles to break free. Thief is the first feature film from director Michael Mann and it seethes with his stylish, atmospheric direction. Though his cool approach may put off some viewers, it's a distinctive...
To Live and Die in L.A.
Date Added 2006-10-15 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 567 Year 1985
Length 1:54 Director William Friedkin
Category Thriller, Crime Thriller, Police Detective Film, Action Thriller
Other Semi-Forced Subtitles
William Friedkin's crime thriller, based on a book by U.S. Secret Service agent Gerald Petievich, concerns an arrogant Secret Service official who wants to get his man at any price. Willem Dafoe plays Eric Masters, an ultra-smooth counterfeiter who has managed to sidestep the police for years. He is so up-front about his dealings, in fact, that when some undercover agents try to make a deal with him at his health club, Eric tells them, "I've been coming to this gym three times a week for five years. I'm an easy guy to find. People know they can trust me." But when young and eager Secret Service agent Richard Chance (William L. Petersen) finds out...
Unforgiven
Date Added 2006-10-15 Rating 10.0 / 10.0
Number 569 Year 1992
Length 2:15 Director Clint Eastwood
Category Western, Revisionist Western, Outlaw (Gunfighter) Film
Dedicated to his mentors Sergio Leone and Don Siegel, Clint Eastwood's 1992 Oscar-winner examines the mythic violence of the Western, taking on the ghosts of his own star past. Disgusted by Sheriff "Little Bill" Daggett's decree that several ponies make up for a cowhand's slashing a whore's face, Big Whiskey prostitutes, led by fierce Strawberry Alice (Frances Fisher), take justice into their own hands and put a $1000 bounty on the lives of the perpetrators. Notorious outlaw-turned-hog farmer William Munny (Eastwood) is sought out by neophyte gunslinger the Schofield Kid (Jaimz Woolvett) to go with him to Big Whiskey and collect the bounty. While Munny insists, "I ain't like that no more," he needs the...
Ice Station Zebra
Date Added 2006-10-14 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 452 Year 1968
Length 2:28 Director John Sturges
Category Action, Spy Film, Action Thriller
A top-secret Soviet spy satellite -- using stolen Western technology -- malfunctions and then goes into a descent that lands it near an isolated Arctic research encampment called Ice Station Zebra, belonging to the British, which starts sending out distress signals before falling silent. The atomic submarine Tigerfish, commanded by Cmdr. James Ferraday (Rock Hudson), is dispatched with orders to get to Ice Station Zebra carrying three passengers, a Englishman going by the name of David Jones (Patrick McGoohan), a Soviet turncoat named Boris Vaslov (Ernest Borgnine), and an American Marine officer, Captain Anders (Jim Brown), who is supposed to command the Marine unit assigned to the mission. Jones is problem enough, as he is...
Misery
Date Added 2006-10-14 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 507 Year 1990
Length 1:47 Director Rob Reiner
Category Thriller, Psychological Thriller
Adapted from a Stephen King novel, Rob Reiner's Misery cast James Caan as a writer at a career crossroads. The film opens with Paul Sheldon (Caan) completing work on his latest novel, a break from his popular series of novels featuring the character Misery Chastain. He gets into a severe car accident and is saved by Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates), a reclusive woman who nurses him back to health. Annie is a huge fan of the Misery novels, and she finishes reading the new one while Paul is convalescing. She becomes enraged when she discovers that Paul has killed off Misery. Annie injures Paul's foot severely so that he is unable to leave her house,...
Repo Man
Date Added 2006-10-14 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 525 Year 1984
Length 1:34 Director Alex Cox
Category Comedy, Sci-Fi Comedy, Crime Comedy
Alex Cox's directorial debut was a wickedly funny and willfully bizarre story that became a major cult item once it began making the art-house rounds a year after its release (an initial run in a string of Southern grind houses and drive-ins, where it was billed as an action film, was a resounding failure). Having lost his job and his girlfriend, punk rocker Otto (Emilio Estevez) meets a guy named Bud (Harry Dean Stanton) who offers him $25 to drive his wife's car out of a "bad area." When a handful of angry people start chasing Otto, he realizes that something is up, and he discovers that Bud repossesses cars for a living. With...
Screamers
Date Added 2006-10-14 Rating 5.7 / 10.0
Number 532 Year 1995
Length 1:48 Director Christian Duguay
Category Action
(SIRIUS 6B, Year 2078) On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding, self-replicating race of killing devices known as Screamers designed for one purpose only -- to hunt down and destroy all enemy life forms But man's greatest weapon has continued to evolve without any human guidance, and now it has devised a new mission: to obliterate all life. Col. Hendricksson (Peter Weller) is commander of a handful of Alliance soldiers still alive on Sirius 6B. Betrayed by his own political leaders and disgusted by the atrocities of this never-ending war, Hendricksson decides he must negotiate a separate peace with the New Economic Bloc's...
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Date Added 2006-10-14 Rating 6.4 / 10.0
Number 536 Year 2004
Length 1:46 Director Kerry Conran
Category Action
In 1939, an intrepid reporter in New York City makes a connection between the story she's covering-- of famous scientists suddenly disappearing around the world, and a recent attack on the city by giant robots. Determined to find the solution to these happenings, she seeks the help of her ex-boyfriend, the captain of a mercenary legion of pilots. The two are investigating the case when the robots attack the city again, though in a stroke of luck, Sky Captain's right hand man is able to locate their source. They then set off on an adventure in search of the evil mastermind behind these schemes, who is bent on creating a utopia and destroying the current...
The Break-Up
Date Added 2006-10-14 Rating 5.8 / 10.0
Number 541 Year 2006
Length 1:45 Director Peyton Reed
Category Comedy
In a bid to keep their luxurious condo from their significant other, a couple's break-up proceeds to get uglier and nastier by the moment....
Being John Malkovich
Date Added 2006-10-13 Rating 10.0 / 10.0
Number 412 Year 1999
Length 1:52 Director Spike Jonze
Category Fantasy, Comedy, Fantasy Comedy, Workplace Comedy
Would you pay money to journey into the mind of the star of Con Air, The Killing Fields, and In The Line of Fire? Puppeteer Craig Schwartz (John Cusack) is having money problems, so he takes a temporary job as a file clerk on the seventh-and-a-half floor of a large office building. One day, while rummaging behind a cabinet, he finds a small door that leads to the center of the mind of actor John Malkovich (played by, you guessed it, John Malkovich). Craig discovers that entering the portal allows him to become John Malkovich for a brief spell, and in time he and his beautiful but aloof co-worker Maxine (Catherine Keener) get the...
Fire in the Sky
Date Added 2006-10-13 Rating 4.0 / 10.0
Number 445 Year 1993
Length 1:38 Director Robert Lieberman
Category Science Fiction, Mystery, Docudrama, Alien Invasion Films
One of the most famous real-life UFO abduction cases on record becomes this character-driven drama from sci-fi screenwriter Tracy Torme. D.B. Sweeney stars as Travis Walton, a forestry worker who disappears one night during an encounter with a flying saucer. Authorities treat with skepticism the outrageous story related by the only witnesses to the event, Travis' five co-workers, who include his best friend and future brother-in-law, Mike Rogers (Robert Patrick). A state lawman (James Garner) finds a tabloid newspaper in the crew's pickup truck and quickly ascertains that tensions had arisen between Walton and a surly fellow logger (Craig Sheffer), leading him to conclude that a murder cover-up is underway. However, all of the men...
Gone In 60 Seconds
Date Added 2006-10-13 Rating 3.0 / 10.0
Number 450 Year 2000
Length 1:57 Director Dominic Sena
Category Action, Chase Movie, Caper, Action Thriller
In this action thriller, a master car thief has his skills pushed to the limit. Randall "Memphis" Raines (Nicolas Cage) can steal practically any car that crosses his path. While he has done well in his life of crime, he knows that there's a short future in theft, and he wants to get out of the business. But his retirement plans are interrupted when his younger brother Kip (Giovanni Ribisi) gets in trouble with a dangerous crime boss. To get his brother out of harm's way, Randall agrees to a profitable but risky scheme to steal 50 luxury cars in one night, with the help of several other car thieves, including Sara "Sway" Wayland (Angelina...
Mean Machine
Date Added 2006-10-13 Rating 4.0 / 10.0
Number 462 Year 2001
Length 1:38 Director Barry Skolnick
Category Comedy, Prison Film, Sports Comedy
The classic Burt Reynolds football-behind-bars flick The Longest Yard crosses the pond and gets an appropriate British accent in the process in this rough-and-tumble mixture of sports and action-comedy. Danny Mehan (Vinnie Jones) was one of the biggest stars in British football (what Americans call soccer), until he was caught rigging a game during a championship tournament. In the wake of this scandal, Danny's career takes a nosedive and his life spins out of control, until he finally ends up in prison for three years on an assault and battery conviction. Danny discovers there are a number of football fans behind bars who still hate him for fixing the game, but Danny has one powerful...
Silent Hill
Date Added 2006-10-13 Rating 3.0 / 10.0
Number 535 Year 2006
Length 2:05 Director Christophe Gans
Category Horror, Supernatural Thriller, Gothic Film
A mother and daughter flee to a strange abandoned town to seek out answers to the daughter's nightly psychological turmoil in Brotherhood of the Wolf director Christophe Gans' adaptation of the popular survival horror video game. Sharon (Jodelle Ferland) is a very sick child, yet rather than seeing her child suffer the cruel indignities of the medical profession, Rose (Radha Mitchell) ignores her husband's (Sean Bean) pleas and absconds with her ailing daughter to the fog-enshrouded town of Silent Hill. A town drenched in darkness and inhabited by a strange collection of menacing specters, Silent Hill seemingly swallows young Sharon whole upon arrival. Determined to get her daughter back at any cost, Rose sets out...
When Do We Eat?
Date Added 2006-10-13 Rating 4.0 / 10.0
Number 572 Year 2005
Length 1:26 Director Salvador Litvak
Category Comedy, Domestic Comedy
An old-fashioned Jewish father vows to bring his stubborn family together after being slipped a dose of ecstasy during the annual Passover celebration in director Salvador Litvak's psychedelic Seder comedy. Family patriarch Ira Stuckman (Michael Lerner) has taken a few tips from his hard-nosed father, Arthur (Jack Klugman), when it comes to matters of the family. A strict disciplinarian with little tolerance for tomfoolery, stubborn Ira is insistent that the whole family come together for the Seder feast despite their lingering disagreements. When Ira's son, Zeke (Ben Feldman), drops a hit of ecstasy into his father's meal in hopes of opening the old man's eyes up to a "new perspective," the once curmudgeonly father turns...
21 Grams
Date Added 2006-10-12 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 404 Year 2003
Length 2:05 Director Alejandro Gonz
Category Drama, Psychological Drama, Ensemble Film
Mexican filmmaker Alejandro Gonz...
Chappelle's Show: The Lost Episodes
Date Added 2006-10-12 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 416 Year 2003
Length 1:08 Director
Category Comedy, Sketch Comedy/Skit Show, Variety Show
# DVD Features: * Bonus unaired sketches * Bonus performances by John Legend and Dead Prez * Commentary by co-stars Charlie Murphy and Donnell Rawlings * "The Fabulous Making of Chappelle's Show" featurette * Deleted scenes * Blooper reel ...
Curious George
Date Added 2006-10-12 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 421 Year 2006
Length 1:26 Director Matthew O'Callaghan
Category Children's/Family, Family-Oriented Adventure, Animal Picture
The naughty little monkey from Margret Rey and H.A. Rey's beloved children's stories makes the leap to the big screen in this animated adaptation. Ted (voice of Will Ferrell) is an explorer with a large yellow hat who is good friends with Bloomsberry (voice of Dick Van Dyke), who runs a natural history museum. Bloomsberry's greedy son, Bloomsberry Junior (voice of David Cross), wants to tear down his dad's museum and put a parking ramp in its place, but the elder Bloomsberry is convinced that a spectacular new exhibit could save the museum from the wrecking ball. Ted heads to Africa on an expedition to find some special artifacts that will keep his friend in...
Dogma
Date Added 2006-10-12 Rating 5.0 / 10.0
Number 440 Year 1999
Length 2:08 Director Kevin Smith
Category Comedy, Religious Comedy, Satire, Road Movie
Would you believe that the last living descendent of Jesus Christ is a woman working at an abortion clinic in Illinois? And that she's been sent on a holy mission with two minor characters from Clerks and Mallrats as her guides? Prepare to suspend any and all disbelief as you watch the religious satire Dogma, the fourth film from writer/director Kevin Smith. Bethany (Linda Fiorentino) has been disappointed in life and has found her faith severely tested after her husband leaves her when she discovers she cannot have children. So Bethany is all the more puzzled when she's approached by Metatron (Alan Rickman), a grumpy angel. Metatron wants her to help him stop Bartleby (Ben...
Executive Decision
Date Added 2006-10-12 Rating 5.0 / 10.0
Number 442 Year 1996
Length 1:40 Director Stuart Baird
Category Action, Action Thriller
In this action thriller, a group of Islamic terrorists, led by Nagi Hassan (David Suchet), highjacks a 747 jetliner with 400 passengers aboard, but Lt. Col. Austin Travis (Steven Seagal), a United States intelligence agent, is convinced that this isn't an ordinary case of air piracy. His suspicions are soon confirmed; Hassan's men have obtained a large cache of stolen Soviet nerve gas, and they are using the 747 to smuggle the deadly gas into the United States, where they intend to use it to wipe out Washington D.C. and possibly the entire East Coast. As the jet approaches the U. S., engineer Dennis Cahill (Oliver Platt) designs a plan in which a military plane...
Johnny Was
Date Added 2006-10-12 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 459 Year 2005
Length 1:33 Director Mark Hammond
Category Action
Johnny Doyle escapes a violent past in Ireland to lie low in London, until his former mentor Flynn breaks out of Brixton Prison, hell bent on derailing the Irish peace process with a few well-placed bombs. Unable to escape Brixton, they are trapped together in Johnny's anything-but-safe safe house, sandwiched between a Rastafarian reggae pirate radio station upstairs and a West Indian 'Yardie' crack-dealing gangster, Julius, downstairs. As the charismatic Flynn finds common ground with the Yardies, Johnny fights to realize a peace process of his own, but makes the mistake of falling for Julius's girlfriend Rita, causing all-out war. A thriller in the vein of Lock Stock and The Long Good Friday, in which...
Metallica: Escape from Seoul
Date Added 2006-10-12 Rating
Number 504 Year
Length 0:00 Director
Category
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Minority Report
Date Added 2006-10-12 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 506 Year 2002
Length 2:24 Director Steven Spielberg
Category Science Fiction, Sci-Fi Action, Tech Noir, Paranoid Thriller, Chase Movie
Other Special Edition
Based on a short story by the late Philip K. Dick, this science fiction-thriller reflects the writer's familiar preoccupation with themes of concealed identity and mind control. Tom Cruise stars as John Anderton, a Washington, D.C. detective in the year 2054. Anderton works for "Precrime," a special unit of the police department that arrests murderers before they have committed the actual crime. Precrime bases its work on the visions of three psychics or "precogs" whose prophecies of future events are never in error. When Anderton discovers that he has been identified as the future killer of a man he's never met, he is forced to become a fugitive from his own colleagues as he tries...
Nacho Libre
Date Added 2006-10-12 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 513 Year 2006
Length 1:30 Director Jared Hess
Category Comedy, Anarchic Comedy, Buddy Film, Sports Comedy
Jared Hess (of Napoleon Dynamite fame) directs this bizarre comedy starring Jack Black as Nacho, a young man who works as a cook in the Mexican monastery where he was raised. When the institution faces a financial crisis, Nacho decides that he must come to the aid of the house of God (as well as the beautiful young nun who has recently joined the order) by competing in the local Lucha Libre tournament. Donning a spandex outfit, mask, and cape, Nacho becomes a hero for the ages -- but can he win the heart of a woman of the cloth? -- Cammila Albertson ...
Narc
Date Added 2006-10-12 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 514 Year 2002
Length 1:45 Director Joe Carnahan
Category Thriller, Crime, Police Detective Film, Crime Thriller
Suspended from the police force following an undercover drug bust gone horribly awry, Detroit undercover narcotics officer Nick Tellis (Jason Patric) is reluctantly goaded back into active duty in hopes that he can help to crack the case of a slain fellow officer. Promised reinstatement in the force in exchange for his efforts, Tellis is paired with the victim's volatile ex-partner Henry Oak (Ray Liotta) and soon begins to actively seek the killer in an increasingly complex case. A recent father whose wife fears for her husband's safety and begs him not to take back to the dangerous streets, Tellis struggles with his conscience as he navigates a twisting road of half-realized truths, shifting loyalties...
Pirates of the High Seas
Date Added 2006-10-12 Rating 6.7 / 10.0
Number 521 Year 1950
Length 4:20 Director Spencer Gordon Bennet, Thomas Carr
Category Action
Two ex-Navy buddies travel to a tropical island to help search for a fugitive Nazi and a fortune in diamonds stolen by him during WWII, and encounter multiple dangers at the hand of a gang also seeking the treasure for the island's corrupt governor....
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Date Added 2006-10-12 Rating 3.0 / 10.0
Number 527 Year 1993
Length 1:45 Director Mel Brooks
Category Comedy, Parody/Spoof, Slapstick
Mel Brooks directed and co-wrote this satiric comedy which lampoons a number of cinematic treatments of the legend of Sherwood Forest, including Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and The Adventures of Robin Hood. Robin Hood (Cary Elwes) comes home after fighting in the Crusades to learn that the noble King Richard (Patrick Stewart) is in exile and that the despotic King John (Richard Lewis) now rules England, with the help of the Sheriff of Rottingham (Roger Rees). Robin Hood assembles a band of fellow patriots to do battle with John and the Sheriff, including Asneeze (Isaac Hayes) and his son Ahchoo (Dave Chappelle), the blind watchman Blinkin (Mark Blankfield), Will Scarlet O'Hara (Matthew Porretta), and...
Robots
Date Added 2006-10-12 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 528 Year 2005
Length 1:30 Director Chris Wedge, Carlos Saldanha
Category Children's/Family, Sci-Fi Comedy, Family-Oriented Adventure
For this follow-up to their mega-hit Ice Age, directors Carlos Saldanha and Chris Wedge team with the screenwriting duo behind Parenthood and City Slickers, Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel. Robots stars Ewan McGregor as the voice of Rodney Copperbottom, an idealistic robot who wants to convince his electronic brethren to come together and work toward making the world a better place. As the story unfolds, Rodney faces opposition from an evil corporation headed by Big Weld (Mel Brooks) and finds some unlikely allies in the form of a ragtag group of misfit robots called the Rusties and voiced by the likes of Drew Carey and Amanda Bynes. Stanley Tucci and Dianne Wiest provide the voices...
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