Black Telephone
"black telephone" Movies and TV Shows
#1
You Only Live Twice
Synopsis:
A mysterious spacecraft captures Russian and American space capsules and brings the two superpowers to the brink of war. James Bond investigates the case in Japan and comes face to face with his archenemy Blofeld.
Starring:
Sean Connery,
Bernard Lee,
Lois Maxwell
#2
Witness for the Prosecution
Synopsis:
When Leonard Vole is arrested for the sensational murder of a rich, middle-aged widow, the famous Sir Wilfrid Robarts agrees to appear on his behalf. Sir Wilfrid, recovering from a near-fatal heart attack, is supposed to be on a diet of bland, civil suits—but the lure of the criminal courts is too much for him, especially when the case is so difficult.
Starring:
John Williams,
Elsa Lanchester,
Marlene Dietrich
#3
WarGames
Synopsis:
High School student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Defense Department's war computer and initiates a confrontation of global proportions. Together with his girlfriend and a wizardly computer genius, David must race against time to outwit his opponent and prevent a nuclear Armaged…
Starring:
Matthew Broderick,
Barry Corbin,
John Wood
Plot:
hacker,
cold war,
computer,
modem,
phreaking,
telephone call,
nuclear attack,
game,
norad,
war game
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#4
The Sting
Synopsis:
Set in the 1930s this intricate caper deals with an ambitious small-time crook and a veteran con man who seek revenge on a vicious crime lord who murdered one of their gang.
Starring:
Harold Gould,
Robert Redford,
Paul Newman
Plot:
con,
con man,
illegal activity,
playing golf,
con artist,
caper,
sting operation,
gangster,
burlesque dancer,
violence
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#5
The Party
Synopsis:
Hrundi V. Bakshi, an accident-prone actor from India, is accidentally put on the guest list for an upcoming party at the home of a Hollywood film producer. Unfortunately, from the moment he arrives, one thing after another goes wrong with compounding effect.
Starring:
Peter Sellers,
Claudine Longet,
Natalia Borisova
Plot:
miniskirt,
upskirt,
short skirt,
running toilet,
overflowing toilet,
clumsy man,
bumbling,
shoe,
elephant,
1960s
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#6
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Synopsis:
After romancing Contessa Teresa di Vicenzo and acquiring valuable information from her crime boss father Marc-Ange Draco, James Bond tracks his arch-nemesis Ernst Stavro Blofeld to his base in the Swiss Alps, uncovering a secret plot to hold the world to ransom.
Starring:
Bernard Lee,
Lois Maxwell,
Diana Rigg
#7
Night of the Living Dead
Synopsis:
A group of people try to survive an attack of bloodthirsty zombies while trapped in a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse.
Starring:
Duane Jones,
Judith O'Dea,
Karl Hardman
#8
Misery
Synopsis:
Novelist Paul Sheldon crashes his car on a snowy Colorado road. He is found by Annie Wilkes, the "number one fan" of Paul's heroine Misery Chastaine. Annie is also dangerously unstable, and Paul finds himself crippled, drugged, and at her mercy.
Starring:
Kathy Bates,
James Caan,
Lauren Bacall
#9
Foreign Correspondent
Synopsis:
The European war was only beginning to erupt across national borders. Johnny Jones, an American crime reporter dispatched by his New York publisher to put a fresh spin on the drowsy dispatches emanating from overseas, has a nose for a good story—which promptly leads him to the crime of fascism and Nazi Germany's designs on European conquest. In attempting to learn more about a seemingly noble pea…
Starring:
George Sanders,
Joel McCrea,
Laraine Day
#10
Commando
Synopsis:
John Matrix, the former leader of a special commando strike force that always got the toughest jobs done, is forced back into action when his young daughter is kidnapped. To find her, Matrix has to fight his way through an array of punks, killers, one of his former commandos, and a fully equipped private army. With the help of a feisty stewardess and an old friend, Matrix has only a few hours to …
Starring:
Arnold Schwarzenegger,
Bill Duke,
Vernon Wells
Plot:
kidnapped daughter,
one man army,
jumping from an airplane,
rescue,
commando,
body count,
female nudity,
dictator,
general,
island
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#11
All About Eve
Synopsis:
From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing. Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critic sees through Eve, admiring her audacity and p…
Starring:
George Sanders,
Anne Baxter,
Bette Davis
#12
The Terminator
Synopsis:
In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, whose unborn son is destined to lead insurgents against 21st century mechanical hegemony. Meanwhile, the human-resistance movement dispatches a lone warrior to safeguard Sarah. Can he stop the virtually indestructible killing machine?
Starring:
Michael Biehn,
Lance Henriksen,
Linda Hamilton
Plot:
robotics,
time travel,
cyborg,
loss of loved one,
future war,
2020s,
action hero,
hero,
parking garage,
tech noir
...
#13
The Shape of Water
Synopsis:
An other-worldly story, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962, where a mute janitor working at a lab falls in love with an amphibious man being held captive there and devises a plan to help him escape.
Starring:
Michael Shannon,
Octavia Spencer,
Michael Stuhlbarg
#14
The Black Phone
Synopsis:
Finney Blake, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of little use. When a disconnected phone on the wall begins to ring, Finney discovers that he can hear the voices of the killer’s previous victims. And they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesn’t happen to Finney.
Starring:
James Ransone,
Madeleine McGraw,
Ethan Hawke
#15
It
Synopsis:
In a small town in Maine, seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems, bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise.
Starring:
Jack Dylan Grazer,
Nicholas Hamilton,
Jake Sim
#16
Independence Day
Synopsis:
On July 2, a giant alien mothership enters orbit around Earth and deploys several dozen saucer-shaped 'destroyer' spacecraft that quickly lay waste to major cities around the planet. On July 3, the United States conducts a coordinated counterattack that fails. On July 4, a plan is devised to gain access to the interior of the alien mothership in space, in order to plant a nuclear missile.
Starring:
Will Smith,
Bill Pullman,
Jeff Goldblum
#17
Die Hard
Synopsis:
NYPD cop John McClane's plan to reconcile with his estranged wife is thrown for a serious loop when, minutes after he arrives at her office, the entire building is overtaken by a group of terrorists. With little help from the LAPD, wisecracking McClane sets out to single-handedly rescue the hostages and bring the bad guys down.
Starring:
Bruce Willis,
Alan Rickman,
Alexander Godunov
#18
Atomic Blonde
Synopsis:
An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents.
Starring:
Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson,
Charlize Theron,
James McAvoy
Plot:
female nudity,
sex scene,
bisexual woman,
based on comic book,
bisexual,
spy,
cold war,
macguffin,
blonde woman,
berlin germany
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