Breaking A Window
"breaking a window" Movies and TV Shows
#1
Three Colors: Blue
Synopsis:
Julie is haunted by her grief after living through a tragic auto wreck that claimed the life of her composer husband and young daughter. Her initial reaction is to withdraw from her relationships, lock herself in her apartment and suppress her pain. But avoiding human interactions on the bustling streets of Paris proves impossible, and she eventually meets up with Olivier, an old friend who harbo…
Starring:
Juliette Binoche,
Julie Delpy,
Emmanuelle Riva
Plot:
trauma,
loss of child,
liberty,
telling a joke,
mourning,
accidental death,
widow,
paris france,
f rated,
female protagonist
...
#2
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
#3
The Towering Inferno
Synopsis:
At the opening party of a colossal—but poorly constructed—office building, a massive fire breaks out, threatening to destroy the tower and everyone in it.
Starring:
Paul Newman,
Faye Dunaway,
Steve McQueen
#4
The Thing from Another World
Synopsis:
Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost.
Starring:
Douglas Spencer,
Kenneth Tobey,
Margaret Sheridan
#5
The Last Man on Earth
Synopsis:
When a disease turns all of humanity into the living dead, the last man on earth becomes a reluctant vampire hunter.
Starring:
Vincent Price,
Umberto Raho,
Franca Bettoia
#6
The Killers
Synopsis:
Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank ro…
Starring:
Burt Lancaster,
Edmond O'Brien,
Ava Gardner
#7
Suspiria
Synopsis:
An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.
Starring:
Udo Kier,
Alida Valli,
Jessica Harper
#8
Straw Dogs
Synopsis:
David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David and his wife relocate to the small town in rural Cornwall where Amy was raised. There, David is ostracized by the brutish men of the village, including Amy's old flame, Charlie. Eventually the taunts escalate, and two of the locals rape Amy. This sexu…
Starring:
Dustin Hoffman,
Susan George,
Peter Vaughan
Plot:
rape,
home invasion,
outsider,
sexual assault,
small town,
sexual violence,
hanged cat,
breasts,
trauma,
rural setting
...
#9
Starsky & Hutch
Synopsis:
Join uptight David Starsky and laid-back Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson as they're paired for the first time as undercover cops. The new partners must overcome their differences to solve an important case with help from street informant Huggy Bear and persuasive criminal Reese Feldman.
Starring:
Ben Stiller,
Owen Wilson,
Carmen Electra
#10
Stage Fright
Synopsis:
A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.
Starring:
Jane Wyman,
Marlene Dietrich,
Miles Malleson
#11
Scarlet Street
Synopsis:
Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris's work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Cross allows it because he is in love with Kitty, but his love wil…
Starring:
Edward G. Robinson,
Joan Bennett,
Dan Duryea
#12
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
#13
Point Break
Synopsis:
In Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers who call themselves The Ex-Presidents commit their crimes while wearing masks of Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. Believing that the members of the gang could be surfers, the F.B.I. sends young agent Johnny Utah to the beach undercover to mix with the surfers and gather information.
Starring:
Keanu Reeves,
John Philbin,
Patrick Swayze
Plot:
bank robbery,
surfer,
title directed by female,
male bonding,
robbery,
gang,
gangster,
criminal,
investigation,
masked robber
...
#14
Play Misty for Me
Synopsis:
A brief fling between a male disc jockey and an obsessed female fan takes a frightening, and perhaps even deadly turn when another woman enters the picture.
Starring:
Clint Eastwood,
Don Siegel,
John Larch
#15
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
#16
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Synopsis:
When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be buried in the family mausoleum, Louis avenges his mother's death by attempting to murder every family member who stands between himself and the family fortune. But when he finds himself torn between his longtime love and the widow of one of his victim…
Starring:
Hugh Griffith,
Alec Guinness,
Valerie Hobson
Plot:
actor playing multiple roles,
great britain,
prison,
murder,
jealousy,
heir,
widow,
edwardian era,
social class,
black comedy
...
#17
Killer's Kiss
Synopsis:
The film revolves around Davey Gordon, a 29 year old welterweight New York boxer in the end of his career, and his relationship with a dancer and her violent employer.
Starring:
Frank Silvera,
Jamie Smith,
Irene Kane
#18
Just Married
Synopsis:
Tom Leezak and Sarah McNerney fall in love and plan to get married, despite opposition from Sarah's uptight, rich family. When they do get married, and get a chance to prove Sarah's family wrong, they go on a European honeymoon and run into disaster after disaster. They have to decide whether the honeymoon from hell and a few pre-marital mistakes are worth throwing away their love and marriage.
Starring:
Thad Luckinbill,
Brittany Murphy,
Ashton Kutcher
Plot:
honeymoon,
marriage,
bare chested male,
underwear,
american abroad,
nosebleed,
tow truck,
toilet,
venice italy,
traffic reporter
...
#19
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Synopsis:
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
Starring:
Kevin McCarthy,
Dana Wynter,
Larry Gates
#20
High Noon
Synopsis:
Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon train. Knowing the outlaw and his gang are coming to kill him, Kane is determined to stand his ground, so he attempts to gather a posse from among the local townspeople.
Starring:
Lloyd Bridges,
Lon Chaney Jr.,
Grace Kelly