Burning
"burning" Movies and TV Shows
#1
The Butterfly Effect
Synopsis:
A young man struggles to access sublimated childhood memories. He finds a technique that allows him to travel back into the past, to occupy his childhood body and change history. However, he soon finds that every change he makes has unexpected consequences.
Starring:
Eric Stoltz,
Amy Smart,
Logan Lerman
#2
Quo Vadis
Synopsis:
Set against the back drop of Rome in crisis, General Marcus Vinicius returns to the city from the battle fields and falls in love with a Christian woman, Lygia. Caught in the grip of insanity, Nero's atrocities become more extreme and he burns Rome, laying the blame on the Christians. Vinicius races to save Lygia from the wrath of Nero as the empire of Rome collapses around them.
Starring:
Finlay Currie,
Robert Taylor,
Peter Ustinov
#3
Halloween II
Synopsis:
After failing to kill stubborn survivor Laurie and taking a bullet or six from former psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis, Michael Myers has followed Laurie to the Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, where she's been admitted for Myers' attempt on her life. The institution proves to be particularly suited to serial killers, however, as Myers cuts, stabs and slashes his way through hospital staff to reach his …
Starring:
Jamie Lee Curtis,
Donald Pleasence,
Charles Cyphers
#4
Equilibrium
Synopsis:
In a dystopian future, a totalitarian regime maintains peace by subduing the populace with a drug, and displays of emotion are punishable by death. A man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system.
Starring:
Dominic Purcell,
Christian Bale,
Angus Macfadyen
Plot:
dystopia,
suppression of emotion,
gun fu,
law,
brainwashing,
one against many,
one man army,
anti state,
post apocalypse,
neo noir
...
#5
Dreamcatcher
Synopsis:
Four boyhood pals perform a heroic act and are changed by the powers they gain in return. Years later, on a hunting trip in the Maine woods, they're overtaken by a vicious blizzard that harbors an ominous presence. Challenged to stop an alien force, the friends must first prevent the slaughter of innocent civilians by a military vigilante ... and then overcome a threat to the bond that unites the…
Starring:
Jason Lee,
Morgan Freeman,
Thomas Jane
#6
Carrie
Synopsis:
Carrie White, a shy and troubled teenage girl who is tormented by her high school peers and her fanatically religious mother, begins to use her powers of telekinesis to exact revenge upon them.
Starring:
Amy Irving,
John Travolta,
P.J. Soles
#7
Cape Fear
Synopsis:
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey Cady has been released, and he intends to teach S…
Starring:
Nick Nolte,
Robert De Niro,
Jessica Lange
Plot:
revenge,
violence,
houseboat,
home invasion,
bible quote,
torture,
family relationships,
finger sucking,
sexual violence,
adultery
...
#8
Blood and Black Lace
Synopsis:
Isabella, a young model, is murdered by a mysterious masked figure at a fashion house in Rome. When her diary, which details the house employees many vices, disappears, the masked killer begins killing off all the models in and around the house to find it.
Starring:
Cameron Mitchell,
Eva Bartok,
Thomas Reiner
#9
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
...
#10
The Story of O
Synopsis:
The beautiful O is taken by her boyfriend, Rene, to a bizarre retreat, where she is trained in bondage and sexual perversion...
Starring:
Udo Kier,
Corinne Cléry,
Alain Noury
Plot:
rape victim,
upskirt,
no panties,
doggystyle sex,
sex orgy,
orgy,
bisexual girl,
nipples,
female nudity,
bondage
...
#11
Cannibal Holocaust
Synopsis:
A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes.
Starring:
Paolo Paoloni,
Robert Kerman,
Francesca Ciardi
#12
Watchmen
Synopsis:
In a gritty and alternate 1985 the glory days of costumed vigilantes have been brought to a close by a government crackdown, but after one of the masked veterans is brutally murdered, an investigation into the killer is initiated. The reunited heroes set out to prevent their own destruction, but in doing so uncover a sinister plot that puts all of humanity in grave danger.
Starring:
Stephen McHattie,
Billy Crudup,
Jackie Earle Haley
#13
The Thing
Synopsis:
Members of an American scientific research outpost in Antarctica find themselves battling a parasitic alien organism capable of perfectly imitating its victims. They soon discover that this task will be harder than they thought, as they don't know which members of the team have already been assimilated and their paranoia threatens to tear them apart.
Starring:
Keith David,
Kurt Russell,
Wilford Brimley
Plot:
antarctica,
isolation,
paranoia,
alien creature,
body horror,
shapeshifting,
cult film,
ambiguous ending,
1980s,
ancient astronaut
...
#14
The Imitation Game
Synopsis:
Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II.
Starring:
Mark Strong,
Benedict Cumberbatch,
Allen Leech
Plot:
world war two,
code,
computer,
gay slur,
russian spy,
1940s,
london england,
bullying,
suicide,
gay interest
...
#15
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Synopsis:
At the urging of his gargoyle pals, Quasimodo leaves the solitary safety of his Notre Dame tower against the wishes of his guardian, the evil Judge Claude Frollo. He ventures out to the Festival of Fools and finds his first true friend, a Romani woman named Esmeralda, who entrusts him with a secret. When the secret is revealed, Quasi soon finds himself fighting to save the people and city he love…
Starring:
Jason Alexander,
Kevin Kline,
Demi Moore
Plot:
gypsy,
cathedral,
15th century,
cruelty,
goat,
france,
paris france,
hunchback,
based on novel,
good versus evil
...
#16
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
Synopsis:
When a younger girl called Emily Rose dies, everyone puts blame on the exorcism which was performed on her by Father Moore prior to her death. The priest is arrested on suspicion of murder. The trial begins with lawyer Erin Bruner representing Moore, but it is not going to be easy, as no one wants to believe what Father Moore says is true.
Starring:
Colm Feore,
Tom Wilkinson,
Jennifer Carpenter
#17
Only the Brave
Synopsis:
Members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots battle deadly wildfires to save an Arizona town.
Starring:
Geoff Stults,
Thad Luckinbill,
James Badge Dale
Plot:
helicopter,
wildfire,
baby,
firefighter,
forest fire,
based on true story,
natural disaster,
fire,
horse,
hospital
...
#18
Midsommar
Synopsis:
Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities.
Starring:
Florence Pugh,
Jack Reynor,
Will Poulter
Plot:
cult,
grief,
burned alive,
human sacrifice,
suicide,
funeral pyre,
panic attack,
female nudity,
death of parents,
paganism
...
#19
Dunkirk
Synopsis:
The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.
Starring:
Fionn Whitehead,
Damien Bonnard,
Aneurin Barnard
Plot:
world war two,
1940s,
soldier,
beach,
evacuation,
military,
army,
yacht,
sinking ship,
survival
...