Ellen Lewis
#1
Killers of the Flower Moon
Synopsis:
When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one—until the FBI steps in to unravel the mystery.
Starring:
Jesse Plemons,
Robert De Niro,
Leonardo DiCaprio
Plot:
1920s,
osage tribe,
courtroom,
based on book,
native american,
murder,
greed,
oklahoma,
oil,
osage indian
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#2
The Kill Room
Synopsis:
A hitman, his boss, an art dealer and a money-laundering scheme that accidentally turns the assassin into an overnight avant-garde sensation, one that forces her to play the art world against the underworld.
Starring:
Samuel L. Jackson,
Jennifer Kim,
Maya Hawke
#3
Silence
Synopsis:
Two Jesuit priests travel to seventeenth century Japan which has, under the Tokugawa shogunate, banned Catholicism and almost all foreign contact.
Starring:
Liam Neeson,
Tadanobu Asano,
Andrew Garfield
Plot:
japan,
torture,
sword,
beheading,
crisis of faith,
head cut off,
faith,
prisoner,
missionary,
17th century
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#4
The Wolf of Wall Street
Synopsis:
A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.
Starring:
Jonah Hill,
Margot Robbie,
Jon Bernthal
#5
Her
Synopsis:
In the not so distant future, Theodore, a lonely writer purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user's every needs. To Theodore's surprise, a romantic relationship develops between him and his operating system. This unconventional love story blends science fiction and romance in a sweet tale that explores the nature of love and the ways that technology isolates and conne…
Starring:
Matt Letscher,
Rooney Mara,
Amy Adams
Plot:
loneliness,
divorce,
future,
artificial intelligence,
masturbation,
original story,
joy,
no opening credits,
crying,
anxiety
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#6
Shutter Island
Synopsis:
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.
Starring:
Mark Ruffalo,
Jackie Earle Haley,
Ben Kingsley
Plot:
surprise ending,
neo noir,
mental asylum,
cave,
memory,
filicide,
plot twist,
psycho thriller,
delusion,
containment
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#7
Revolutionary Road
Synopsis:
A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.
Starring:
Michael Shannon,
Kate Winslet,
David Harbour
Plot:
hearing aid,
sex scene,
sex in car,
husband wife relationship,
cigarette,
office,
marriage,
beach,
shower,
bare chested male
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#8
Mamma Mia!
Synopsis:
An independent, single mother who owns a small hotel on a Greek island is about to marry off the spirited young daughter she's raised alone. But, the daughter has secretly invited three of her mother's ex-lovers in the hopes of finding her biological father.
Starring:
Colin Firth,
Julie Walters,
Stellan Skarsgård
Plot:
bride,
jukebox musical,
wedding,
playing against type,
greece,
band,
architect,
triple f rated,
f rated,
female protagonist
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#9
The Devil Wears Prada
Synopsis:
Andy moves to New York to work in the fashion industry. Her boss is extremely demanding, cruel and won't let her succeed if she doesn't fit into the high class elegant look of their magazine.
Starring:
Anne Hathaway,
Emily Blunt,
Stanley Tucci
#10
Van Helsing
Synopsis:
Famed monster slayer Gabriel Van Helsing is dispatched to Transylvania to assist the last of the Valerious bloodline in defeating Count Dracula. Anna Valerious reveals that Dracula has formed an unholy alliance with Dr. Frankenstein's monster and is hell-bent on exacting a centuries-old curse on her family.
Starring:
David Wenham,
Shuler Hensley,
Kevin J. O'Connor
Plot:
werewolf,
dracula,
vampire,
creature,
bride,
vampire hunter,
frankenstein's monster,
human versus monster,
orchestra,
costume
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#11
13 Going on 30
Synopsis:
After total humiliation at her thirteenth birthday party, Jenna Rink wants to just hide until she's thirty. With a little magic, her wish is granted, but it turns out that being thirty isn't as always as awesome as she thought it would be!
Starring:
Jennifer Garner,
Mark Ruffalo,
Judy Greer
#12
Gangs of New York
Synopsis:
It's 1863. Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the psychotic gangland kingpin, Bill the Butcher, who murdered his father years earlier. With an eager pickpocket by his side and a whole new army, Vallon fights his way to seek vengeance on the Butcher and restore peace in the area.
Starring:
Brendan Gleeson,
John C. Reilly,
Liam Neeson
#13
Stepmom
Synopsis:
Jackie is a divorced mother of two. Isabel is the career minded girlfriend of Jackie’s ex-husband Luke, forced into the role of unwelcome stepmother to their children. But when Jackie discovers she is ill, both women realise they must put aside their differences to find a common ground and celebrate life to the fullest, while they have the chance.
Starring:
Jena Malone,
Susan Sarandon,
Ed Harris
#14
Meet Joe Black
Synopsis:
When the grim reaper comes to collect the soul of megamogul Bill Parrish, he arrives with a proposition: Host him for a "vacation" among the living in trade for a few more days of existence. Parrish agrees, and using the pseudonym Joe Black, Death begins taking part in Parrish's daily agenda and falls in love with the man's daughter. Yet when Black's holiday is over, so is Parrish's life.
Starring:
Brad Pitt,
Anthony Hopkins,
Jake Weber
#15
Pleasantville
Synopsis:
Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom called "Pleasantville," and find a world where everything is peachy keen all the time. But when Jennifer's modern attitude disrupts Pleasantville's peaceful but boring routine, she literally brings color into its life.
Starring:
Jeff Daniels,
Tobey Maguire,
Reese Witherspoon
Plot:
trapped in tv,
1950s,
censorship,
symbolism,
rebellion,
color,
mural,
art,
small town,
utopia
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#16
Dead Man
Synopsis:
Wounded and branded an outlaw, a young accountant named William Blake flees gunmen and travels the frontier. Nobody, an outcast Native American, aides Blake along a journey beyond the frailty of life as his physical existence grows thin.
Starring:
Crispin Glover,
Johnny Depp,
John Hurt
#17
Casino
Synopsis:
In early-1970s Las Vegas, low-level mobster Sam "Ace" Rothstein gets tapped by his bosses to head the Tangiers Casino. At first, he's a great success in the job, but over the years, problems with his loose-cannon enforcer Nicky Santoro, his ex-hustler wife Ginger, her con-artist ex Lester Diamond and a handful of corrupt politicians put Sam in ever-increasing danger.
Starring:
Robert De Niro,
James Woods,
Joe Pesci
Plot:
crime epic,
las vegas nevada,
casino,
mafia,
gambling,
gambling syndicate,
rise and fall,
american mafia,
mob boss,
mafia boss
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#18
Scent of a Woman
Synopsis:
Charlie Simms is a student at a private preparatory school who comes from a poor family. To earn the money for his flight home to Gresham, Oregon for Christmas, Charlie takes a job over Thanksgiving looking after retired U.S. Army officer Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade, a cantankerous middle-aged man who lives with his niece and her family.
Starring:
Bradley Whitford,
June Squibb,
Al Pacino
#19
A League of Their Own
Synopsis:
As America's stock of athletic young men is depleted during World War II, a professional all-female baseball league springs up in the Midwest, funded by publicity-hungry candy maker Walter Harvey. Competitive sisters Dottie Hinson and Kit Keller spar with each other, scout Ernie Capadino and grumpy has-been coach Jimmy Dugan on their way to fame.
Starring:
Tom Hanks,
Geena Davis,
Lori Petty
#20
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
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