Headache
"headache" Movies and TV Shows
#1
What's Up, Doc?
Synopsis:
The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.
Starring:
Austin Pendleton,
Kenneth Mars,
Michael Murphy
#2
Viridiana
Synopsis:
Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana resembles his dead wife. Viridiana has secretly despised this man all her life and finds her worst fears proven when Jaime grows determined to seduce his pure niece. Viridiana becomes undone as her un…
Starring:
Silvia Pinal,
José Calvo,
Margarita Lozano
Plot:
nun,
novice,
da vinci last supper,
suspected rape,
wedding veil,
drugged,
barefoot,
suicide by hanging,
jumping rope,
female feet
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#3
Videodrome
Synopsis:
As the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn is desperate for new programming to attract viewers. When he happens upon "Videodrome," a TV show dedicated to gratuitous torture and punishment, Max sees a potential hit and broadcasts the show on his channel. However, after his girlfriend auditions for the show and never returns, Max investigates the truth behind Videodrome and discovers that th…
Starring:
Julie Khaner,
James Woods,
Jack Creley
Plot:
snuff film,
hallucination,
surrealism,
suicide,
satire,
cyberpunk,
cult,
body horror,
canuxploitation,
illegality
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#4
Vanilla Sky
Synopsis:
David Aames has it all: wealth, good looks and gorgeous women on his arm. But just as he begins falling for the warmhearted Sofia, his face is horribly disfigured in a car accident. That's just the beginning of his troubles as the lines between illusion and reality, between life and death, are blurred.
Starring:
Michael Shannon,
Timothy Spall,
Jason Lee
Plot:
dream,
death,
mask,
nightmare,
amnesia,
lucid dream,
remake,
car accident,
love,
virtual reality
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#5
Tokyo Story
Synopsis:
The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.
Starring:
Chishū Ryū,
Nobuo Nakamura,
Eijirô Tôno
Plot:
doctor,
widow,
teacher,
selfishness,
hairdresser,
estrangement,
family reunion,
post world war two,
marriage,
loneliness
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#6
The Dead Zone
Synopsis:
Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the past, present and future life of anyone with whom he comes into physical contact.
Starring:
Tom Skerritt,
Nicholas Campbell,
Christopher Walken
#7
Taxi Driver
Synopsis:
A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feed his urge for violent action.
Starring:
Robert De Niro,
Albert Brooks,
Jodie Foster
#8
Sullivan's Travels
Synopsis:
Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterpiece until he has suffered, dons a hobo disguise and sets off on a journey, aiming to "know trouble" first-hand. When all he finds is a train ride back to Hollywood and a beautiful blonde companion, he redoubles his efforts, managing to land himself in more trouble than he bargained for when he los…
Starring:
Porter Hall,
Joel McCrea,
Robert Warwick
#9
Spellbound
Synopsis:
When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the real Dr. Edwardes is dead and fears he may have killed him, but cannot recall anything. Dr. Peterson, however is convinced his impostor is innocent of the man's murder, and joins hi…
Starring:
Gregory Peck,
Ingrid Bergman,
Norman Lloyd
#10
Psycho
Synopsis:
When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.
Starring:
John McIntire,
Martin Balsam,
Simon Oakland
Plot:
motel,
shower,
money,
maniac,
stabbed with a knife,
surprise ending,
suspense,
serial killer,
theft,
homicidal maniac
...
#11
Pi
Synopsis:
A mathematical genius discovers a link between numbers and reality, and thus believes he can predict the future.
Starring:
Ajay Naidu,
Sean Gullette,
Mark Margolis
Plot:
cult film,
the letter pi,
torah,
mathematician,
headache,
obsession,
mathematics,
computer,
nosebleed,
conspiracy
...
#12
Pickup on South Street
Synopsis:
In New York City, an insolent pickpocket, Skip McCoy, inadvertently sets off a chain of events when he targets ex-prostitute Candy and steals her wallet. Unaware that she has been making deliveries of highly classified information to the communists, Candy, who has been trailed by FBI agents for months in hopes of nabbing the spy ringleader, is sent by her ex-boyfriend, Joey, to find Skip and retr…
Starring:
Thelma Ritter,
Richard Widmark,
Jean Peters
#13
Lost Highway
Synopsis:
A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.
Starring:
Bill Pullman,
Patricia Arquette,
Michael Massee
#14
L'Âge d'Or
Synopsis:
The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.
Starring:
Gaston Modot,
Jean Aurenche,
Lya Lys
Plot:
surrealism,
absurd humor,
cult film,
dark comedy,
controversy,
cow,
avant garde,
satire,
absurdism,
bloody body of a child
...
#15
Kindergarten Cop
Synopsis:
Hard-edged cop John Kimble gets more than he bargained for when he goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher to get the goods on a brutal drug lord while at the same time protecting the man's young son. Pitted against a class of boisterous moppets whose antics try his patience and test his mettle, Kimble may have met his match … in more ways than one.
Starring:
Cathy Moriarty,
Linda Hunt,
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#16
Johnny Mnemonic
Synopsis:
In a dystopian 2021, Johnny is a data trafficker who has an implant that allows him to securely store data too sensitive for regular computer networks. On one delivery run, he accepts a package that not only exceeds the implant's safety limits—and will kill him if the data is not removed in time—but also contains information far more important and valuable than he had ever imagined. On a race aga…
Starring:
Udo Kier,
Dolph Lundgren,
Barbara Sukowa
Plot:
implanted memory,
cyberpunk,
virtual reality,
cyberspace,
based on story,
glasses,
hitman,
erased memory,
destroyed bridge,
hotel
...
#17
Garden State
Synopsis:
Andrew returns to his hometown for the funeral of his mother, a journey that reconnects him with past friends. The trip coincides with his decision to stop taking his powerful antidepressants. A chance meeting with Sam - a girl also suffering from various maladies - opens up the possibility of rekindling emotional attachments, confronting his psychologist father, and perhaps beginning a new life.
Starring:
Ian Holm,
Natalie Portman,
Peter Sarsgaard
Plot:
funeral,
cat,
home,
actor,
pills,
implied sex,
sex scene,
voyeur,
sitting in a bathtub,
wet clothes
...
#18
Barefoot in the Park
Synopsis:
In this film based on a Neil Simon play, newlyweds Corie, a free spirit, and Paul Bratter, an uptight lawyer, share a sixth-floor apartment in Greenwich Village. Soon after their marriage, Corie tries to find a companion for mother, Ethel, who is now alone, and sets up Ethel with neighbor Victor. Inappropriate behavior on a double date causes conflict, and the young couple considers divorce.
Starring:
Robert Redford,
Jane Fonda,
Charles Boyer
#19
8½
Synopsis:
Guido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged by his doctors to rest, Anselmi heads for a luxurious resort, but a sorry group gathers—his producer, staff, actors, wife, mistress, and relatives—each one begging him to get on with the show. In retreat from their dependency, he fantasizes about past women and dreams of his childhood.
Starring:
Barbara Steele,
Caterina Boratto,
Marcello Mastroianni
Plot:
film director,
adultery,
surrealism,
man wears eyeglasses,
mistress,
spa,
actress,
whip,
egotism,
telepathy
...
#20
The Return of the Living Dead
Synopsis:
When foreman Frank shows new employee Freddy a secret military experiment in a supply warehouse in Louisville, Kentucky, the two klutzes accidentally release a gas that reanimates corpses into flesh-eating zombies. As the epidemic spreads throughout the town, and the creatures satisfy their hunger in gory and outlandish ways, Frank and Freddy fight to survive with the help of their boss and a mys…
Starring:
John Philbin,
Thom Mathews,
Jonathan Terry
Plot:
female frontal nudity,
naked dead woman,
living dead,
female nudity,
crematorium,
poison gas,
paramedic,
undead,
cemetery,
punk
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