Birdcage
"birdcage" Movies and TV Shows
#1
Pinocchio
Synopsis:
A wooden puppet embarks on a thrilling adventure to become a real boy.
Starring:
Joseph Gordon-Levitt,
Keegan-Michael Key,
Tom Hanks
#2
The Five Devils
Synopsis:
Vicky lives with her mother Joanne and father Jimmie, a man struggling to find his place. When Vicky's aunt Julia arrives after being released from prison, her presence brings back the past in a violent, magical way.
Starring:
Noée Abita,
Adèle Exarchopoulos,
Sally Dramé
#3
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Synopsis:
Fred C. Dobbs and Bob Curtin, both down on their luck in Tampico, Mexico in 1925, meet up with a grizzled prospector named Howard and decide to join with him in search of gold in the wilds of central Mexico. Through enormous difficulties, they eventually succeed in finding gold, but bandits, the elements, and most especially greed threaten to turn their success into disaster.
Starring:
Walter Huston,
Humphrey Bogart,
Bruce Bennett
Plot:
mexico,
gold,
sierra madre mountains,
greed,
mining,
paranoia,
desert,
national film registry,
afi,
year 1925
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#4
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Synopsis:
When Sally hears that her grandfather's grave may have been vandalized, she and her paraplegic brother, Franklin, set out with their friends to investigate. After a detour to their family's old farmhouse, they discover a group of crazed, murderous outcasts living next door. As the group is attacked one by one by the chainsaw-wielding Leatherface, who wears a mask of human skin, the survivors must…
Starring:
Marilyn Burns,
Allen Danziger,
Paul A. Partain
Plot:
leatherface,
cannibal,
chainsaw,
rural setting,
american horror,
hitchhiker,
texas,
cannibalism,
independent film,
summer
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#5
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
Synopsis:
Holmes and Dr. Watson take on the case of a beautiful woman whose husband has vanished. The investigation proves strange indeed, involving six missing midgets, villainous monks, a Scottish castle, the Loch Ness monster, and covert naval experiments.
Starring:
Christopher Lee,
Geneviève Page,
Colin Blakely
#6
The Passenger
Synopsis:
David Locke is a world-weary American journalist who has been sent to cover a conflict in northern Africa, but he makes little progress with the story. When he discovers the body of a stranger who looks similar to him, Locke assumes the dead man's identity. However, he soon finds out that the man was an arms dealer, leading Locke into dangerous situations. Aided by a beautiful woman, Locke attemp…
Starring:
Jack Nicholson,
Steven Berkoff,
Maria Schneider
Plot:
desert,
sahara desert,
reporter,
africa,
journalist,
hotel,
escape,
war correspondent,
gunrunner,
stolen identity
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#7
The Parent Trap
Synopsis:
Two identical twin sisters, separated at birth by their parents' divorce, are reunited years later at a summer camp, where they scheme to bring their parents back together. The girls, one of whom has been living with their mother and the other with their father, switch places after camp and go to work on their plan, the first objective being to scare off a gold-digger pursuing their father.
Starring:
Cathleen Nesbitt,
Crahan Denton,
Charles Ruggles
#8
The Nutty Professor
Synopsis:
A timid, nearsighted chemistry teacher discovers a magical potion that can transform him into a suave and handsome Romeo. The Jekyll and Hyde game works well enough until the concoction starts to wear off at the most embarrassing times.
Starring:
Richard Kiel,
Norman Alden,
Henry Gibson
Plot:
chemistry,
professor,
potion,
nerd,
jekyll and hyde,
cocktail,
piano playing,
goofball,
teacher student relationship,
laboratory
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#9
The Night of the Hunter
Synopsis:
In the Deep South, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.
Starring:
Shelley Winters,
Peter Graves,
James Gleason
Plot:
widow,
preacher,
southern gothic,
spanking,
psychopath,
cult film,
money,
doll,
death,
promise
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#10
The Ladykillers
Synopsis:
Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.
Starring:
Alec Guinness,
Peter Sellers,
Herbert Lom
Plot:
poetic justice,
bank robbery,
old lady,
string quintet,
caper,
cockatoo,
weapon,
pistol,
car,
automobile
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#11
The Birds
Synopsis:
Chic socialite Melanie Daniels enjoys a passing flirtation with an eligible attorney in a San Francisco pet shop and, on an impulse, follows him to his hometown bearing a gift of lovebirds. But upon her arrival, the bird population runs amok. Suddenly, the townsfolk face a massive avian onslaught, with the feathered fiends inexplicably attacking people all over Bodega Bay.
Starring:
Veronica Cartwright,
Rod Taylor,
Suzanne Pleshette
Plot:
bird attack,
california,
paranoia,
1960s,
unsolved mystery,
nature run amok,
attic,
female protagonist,
based on short story,
bird
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#12
Spy Game
Synopsis:
On the day of his retirement, a veteran CIA agent learns that his former protégé has been arrested in China, is sentenced to die the next morning in Beijing, and that the CIA is considering letting that happen to avoid an international scandal.
Starring:
Brad Pitt,
Catherine McCormack,
Robert Redford
#13
Rocky V
Synopsis:
A lifetime of taking shots has ended Rocky’s career, and a crooked accountant has left him broke. Inspired by the memory of his trainer, however, Rocky finds glory in training and takes on an up-and-coming boxer.
Starring:
Sylvester Stallone,
Richard Gant,
Talia Shire
Plot:
boxer,
fighting movie,
gym,
muscleman,
strongman,
fist,
punching,
sweat,
rocky balboa jr character,
limo
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#14
Rocky II
Synopsis:
After Rocky goes the distance with champ Apollo Creed, both try to put the fight behind them and move on. Rocky settles down with Adrian but can't put his life together outside the ring, while Creed seeks a rematch to restore his reputation. Soon enough, the "Master of Disaster" and the "Italian Stallion" are set on a collision course for a climactic battle that is brutal and unforgettable.
Starring:
Sylvester Stallone,
Carl Weathers,
Talia Shire
#15
Rear Window
Synopsis:
A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
Starring:
James Stewart,
Raymond Burr,
Thelma Ritter
Plot:
wheelchair,
voyeur,
apartment,
amateur detective,
based on short story,
window,
photograph,
director cameo,
suspense,
neighbor
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#16
Poltergeist
Synopsis:
Steve Freeling lives with his wife, Diane, and their three children, Dana, Robbie, and Carol Anne, in Southern California where he sells houses for the company that built the neighborhood. It starts with just a few odd occurrences, such as broken dishes and furniture moving around by itself. However, when he realizes that something truly evil haunts his home, Steve calls in a team of parapsycholo…
Starring:
Craig T. Nelson,
Michael McManus,
JoBeth Williams
#17
Paycheck
Synopsis:
Michael Jennings is a genius who's hired – and paid handsomely – by high-tech firms to work on highly sensitive projects, after which his short-term memory is erased so he's incapable of breaching security. But at the end of a three-year job, he's told he isn't getting a paycheck and instead receives a mysterious envelope. In it are clues he must piece together to find out why he wasn't paid – an…
Starring:
Colm Feore,
Ben Affleck,
Aaron Eckhart
#18
Le Samouraï
Synopsis:
After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts, finds himself caught between a persistent police investigator and a ruthless employer, and not even his armor of fedora and trench coat can protect him.
Starring:
Alain Delon,
François Périer,
Jean-Pierre Posier
#19
Kiss Me Deadly
Synopsis:
One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum. Thugs waylay them and force his car to crash. When Hammer returns to semi-consciousness, he hears Christina being tortured until she dies. Hammer, both for vengeance and in hopes that "something big" is behind it all, decides to pursue the case.
Starring:
Cloris Leachman,
Wesley Addy,
Nick Dennis
#20
Hellraiser
Synopsis:
An unfaithful wife encounters the zombie of her dead lover while the demonic cenobites are pursuing him after he escaped their sadomasochistic underworld.
Starring:
Andrew Robinson,
Simon Bamford,
Doug Bradley