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#1
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
Synopsis:
A group of heroic warriors has only six days to save the planet in "Mortal Kombat Annihilation." To succeed they must survive the most spectacular series of challenges any human, or god, has ever encountered as they battle an evil warlord bent on taking control of Earth.
Starring:
Brian Thompson,
Robin Shou,
James Remar
#2
To Sir, with Love
Synopsis:
A British Guianese engineer starts a job as a high school teacher in London’s East End, where his uninterested and delinquent pupils are in desperate need of attention and care.
Starring:
Ann Bell,
Sidney Poitier,
Suzy Kendall
#3
They Live
Synopsis:
Nada, a wanderer without meaning in his life, discovers a pair of sunglasses capable of showing the world the way it truly is. As he walks the streets of Los Angeles, Nada notices that both the media and the government are comprised of subliminal messages meant to keep the population subdued, and that most of the social elite are skull-faced aliens bent on world domination. With this shocking dis…
Starring:
Keith David,
Roddy Piper,
Meg Foster
#4
The Ninth Gate
Synopsis:
An all-expenses-paid international search for a rare copy of the book 'The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows' brings an unscrupulous book dealer deep into a world of murder, double-dealing and satanic worship.
Starring:
Johnny Depp,
Frank Langella,
James Russo
Plot:
rare book,
book detective,
bibliophilia,
satanic,
unholy book,
lucifer,
sex,
bare butt,
femme fatale,
reference to don quixote
...
#5
Rebel Without a Cause
Synopsis:
After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems. While searching for some stability, Stark forms a bond with a disturbed classmate, Plato, and falls for local girl Judy. However, Judy is the girlfriend of neighborhood tough, Buzz. When Buzz violently confronts Jim and challenges him to a drag ra…
Starring:
Dennis Hopper,
William Hopper,
James Dean
#6
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Synopsis:
A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.
Starring:
Christopher Lloyd,
Danny DeVito,
Jack Nicholson
#7
Oliver!
Synopsis:
Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the workhouse and joins up with a group of boys headed by the Artful Dodger and trained to be pickpockets by master thief Fagin.
Starring:
Oliver Reed,
Leonard Rossiter,
Ron Moody
#8
La Strada
Synopsis:
When Gelsomina, a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus strongman Zampanò to be his wife and partner, she loyally endures her husband's coldness and abuse as they travel the Italian countryside performing together. Soon Zampanò must deal with his jealousy and conflicted feelings about Gelsomina when she finds a kindred spirit in Il Matto, the carefree circ…
Starring:
Mario Passante,
Giulietta Masina,
Anthony Quinn
#9
Girl, Interrupted
Synopsis:
Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belo…
Starring:
Brittany Murphy,
Winona Ryder,
Jared Leto
#10
Cool Hand Luke
Synopsis:
When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable will. Luke's bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the prison's dreaded solitary confinement cell, "the box," make him a rebel hero to his fellow convicts and…
Starring:
Harry Dean Stanton,
Paul Newman,
Dennis Hopper
Plot:
prison,
fugitive,
escape,
bet,
hard boiled egg,
death,
loss of mother,
eating contest,
egg,
nickname
...
#11
Battle Royale
Synopsis:
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.
Starring:
Sousuke Takaoka,
Tatsuya Fujiwara,
Takeshi Kitano
#12
Andrei Rublev
Synopsis:
An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei Rublev. Drifting from place to place in a tumultuous era, the peace-seeking monk eventually gains a reputation for his art. But after Rublev witnesses a brutal battle and unintentionally becomes involved, he takes a vow of silence and spends time away from his work. As he begins to ease his troubled…
Starring:
Anatoliy Solonitsyn,
Ivan Lapikov,
Nikolay Grinko
Plot:
painter,
genius,
silence,
hunger,
creativity,
guilt,
folklore,
atonement,
religious art,
artist
...
#13
American Graffiti
Synopsis:
A couple of high school graduates spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.
Starring:
Charles Martin Smith,
Ron Howard,
Harrison Ford
Plot:
rock 'n' roll,
car,
california,
street racing,
high school,
drag racing,
drive in restaurant,
brunette,
girl,
blonde
...
#14
Stargate SG-1
Synopsis:
The story of Stargate SG-1 begins about a year after the events of the feature film, when the United States government learns that an ancient alien device called the Stargate can access a network of such devices on a multitude of planets. SG-1 is an elite Air Force special operations team, one of more than two dozen teams from Earth who explore the galaxy and defend against alien threats such as …
Starring:
Claudia Black,
Beau Bridges,
Ben Browder
#15
Orange Is the New Black
Synopsis:
A crime she committed in her youthful past sends Piper Chapman to a women's prison, where she trades her comfortable New York life for one of unexpected camaraderie and conflict in an eccentric group of fellow inmates.
Starring:
Taryn Manning,
Natasha Lyonne,
Jackie Cruz