Videotape
"videotape" Movies and TV Shows
#1
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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#2
Universal Soldier
Synopsis:
An American soldier who had been killed during the Vietnam War is revived 25 years later by the military as a semi-android, UniSols, a high-tech soldier of the future. After the failure of the initiative to erase all the soldier's memories, he begins to experience flashbacks that are forcing him to recall his past.
Starring:
Jean-Claude Van Damme,
Jerry Orbach,
Dolph Lundgren
Plot:
soldier,
reporter,
scientist,
super soldier,
top secret,
female reporter,
vietnam war,
severed ear,
flashback,
vietnam
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#3
Trainspotting
Synopsis:
Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends -- Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane, along for the ride. After cleaning up and moving from Edinburgh to London, Mark finds he can't escape the life he left behind when Begbie shows up at his front door on the lam, and a scheming Sick Boy follows.
Starring:
Ewen Bremner,
Ewan McGregor,
James Cosmo
Plot:
filthy toilet,
scotland,
drugs,
drug culture,
scottish,
1990s,
heroin,
voice over narration,
female nudity,
heroin addict
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#4
Tomorrow Never Dies
Synopsis:
A deranged media mogul is staging international incidents to pit the world's superpowers against each other. Now James Bond must take on this evil mastermind in an adrenaline-charged battle to end his reign of terror and prevent global pandemonium.
Starring:
Judi Dench,
Jonathan Pryce,
Michelle Yeoh
#5
The Pelican Brief
Synopsis:
Two Supreme Court Justices have been assassinated. One lone law student has stumbled upon the truth. An investigative journalist wants her story. Everybody else wants her dead.
Starring:
Denzel Washington,
Stanley Tucci,
John Heard
#6
The Life of David Gale
Synopsis:
A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.
Starring:
Kevin Spacey,
Kate Winslet,
Jim Beaver
#7
The Fisher King
Synopsis:
Two troubled men face their terrible destinies and events of their past as they join together on a mission to find the Holy Grail and thus to save themselves.
Starring:
David Hyde Pierce,
Robin Williams,
Kathy Najimy
#8
The Cable Guy
Synopsis:
When recently single Steven moves into his new apartment, cable guy Chip comes to hook him up—and doesn't let go. Initially, Chip is just overzealous in his desire to be Steven's pal, but when Steven tries to end the 'friendship', Chip shows his dark side. He begins stalking Steven, who's left to fend for himself because no one else can believe Chip's capable of such behaviour.
Starring:
Leslie Mann,
Ben Stiller,
Jim Carrey
Plot:
television,
obsession,
revenge,
friendship,
hostage,
kidnapping,
stalking,
police,
younger version of character,
kiss
...
#9
Strange Days
Synopsis:
In the last days of 1999, ex-cop turned street hustler Lenny Nero receives a disc which contains the memories of the murder of a prostitute. With the help of bodyguard Mace, he starts to investigate and is pulled deeper and deeper in a whirl of murder, blackmail and intrigue. Can the pair live to see the new millennium?
Starring:
William Fichtner,
Vincent D'Onofrio,
Angela Bassett
#10
Small Soldiers
Synopsis:
When missile technology is used to enhance toy action figures, the toys soon begin to take their battle programming too seriously.
Starring:
Denis Leary,
David Cross,
Kirsten Dunst
#11
Scream 2
Synopsis:
Two years after the terrifying events that occurred in Woodsboro, Sidney is now attending Windsor College in Cincinnati, and Gale Weathers' best selling book on Sidney's life has now been made into a major motion picture. When two college students are killed in a theatre while watching the new film 'Stab', Sidney knows deep down that history is repeating itself.
Starring:
David Arquette,
Courteney Cox,
Jerry O'Connell
#12
Runaway Jury
Synopsis:
A juror on the inside and a woman on the outside manipulate a court trial involving a major gun manufacturer.
Starring:
John Cusack,
Cliff Curtis,
Rachel Weisz
#13
Runaway Bride
Synopsis:
Ike Graham, New York columnist, writes his text always at the last minute. This time, a drunken man in his favourite bar tells Ike about Maggie Carpenter, a woman who always flees from her grooms in the last possible moment. Ike, who does not have the best opinion about females anyway, writes an offensive column without researching the subject thoroughly.
Starring:
Joan Cusack,
Yul Vazquez,
Donal Logue
#14
Rollerball
Synopsis:
In a corporate-controlled future, an ultra-violent sport known as Rollerball represents the world, and one of its powerful athletes is out to defy those who want him out of the game.
Starring:
James Caan,
Moses Gunn,
Burt Kwouk
Plot:
dystopia,
fictional sport,
shower room,
score,
injury,
placard,
employee,
staff,
corporate sponsorship,
referee
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#15
Road Trip
Synopsis:
From the director of the Hangover trilogy and Joker, Road Trip is a raunchy college comedy classic. After an Ithaca college student films his one-night stand with a beautiful sorority girl, he discovers one of his friends has accidentally mailed the homemade porn tape to his girlfriend. In a frenzy, he must borrow a car and hit the road in a desperate bid to intercept the tape. Featuring a tale…
Starring:
Seann William Scott,
Amy Smart,
Breckin Meyer
#16
Ringu
Synopsis:
A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion a chain of events that puts her own life in danger.
Starring:
Hiroyuki Sanada,
Nanako Matsushima,
Miki Nakatani
#17
Red Dragon
Synopsis:
Former FBI Agent Will Graham, who was once almost killed by the savage Hannibal 'The Cannibal' Lecter, now has no choice but to face him again, as it seems Lecter is the only one who can help Graham track down a new serial killer.
Starring:
Anthony Heald,
Anthony Hopkins,
Ralph Fiennes
#18
Ransom
Synopsis:
When a rich man's son is kidnapped, he cooperates with the police at first but then tries a unique tactic against the criminals.
Starring:
Mel Gibson,
Delroy Lindo,
Donnie Wahlberg
#19
Phantom of the Paradise
Synopsis:
Fledgling singer-songwriter Winslow Leach finds himself double-crossed by the nefarious music producer Swan, who steals both his music and the girl Winslow wants to sing it, Phoenix, for the grand opening of his rock palace, the Paradise. After Swan has Winslow sent to prison for trespassing, Winslow endures a freak accident that leaves him disfigured, after which he seeks revenge on both Swan an…
Starring:
Gerrit Graham,
Paul Williams,
Jessica Harper
#20
Panic Room
Synopsis:
Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg Altman and her young daughter Sarah play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders - Burnham, Raoul and Junior - during a brutal home invasion. But the room itself is the focal point because what the intruders really want is inside it.
Starring:
Dwight Yoakam,
Forest Whitaker,
Jared Leto
Plot:
panic,
panic room,
cat and mouse,
secret room,
female protagonist,
diabetic,
safe room,
containment,
hitchcockian,
deception
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