Released Date:
1978-04-05
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
110 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (6697 Reviews)
Director:
Louis MalleGenres:
DramaPolly Platt (story)
Polly Platt (screenplay)
Louis Malle (story)
In 1917, in the red light district Storyville, New Orleans, the prostitute Hattie lives with her twelve year-old daughter Violet in the fancy brothel of Madame Nell, where she works. Photographer Ernest J. Bellocq has an attraction to Hallie and Violet and he is an habituè of the whorehouse. One day, Madame Nell auctions Violet's virginity and the winner pays the fortune of US$ 400 to spend the night with the girl. Then Hattie marries a wealthy client and moves to Saint Louis, leaving Violet in the brothel alone. Violet decides to marry Bellocq and she moves to his house. Until the day that Hattie, who has overcome her past, comes to Bellocq's house with the intention to take Violet with her.
Released Date:
1980-07-02
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
104 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.7 (47088 Reviews)
Director:
Randal KleiserHenry De Vere Stacpoole (novel)
Douglas Day Stewart
On a journey to San Francisco, Richard, his father and cousin Emmeline find themselves on a ship about to explode. Rushed to a lifeboat with Paddy Button, the two children escape while their father (and uncle) are on another lifeboat. In the chaos following, the lifeboats are separated. Paddy, Richard and Emmeline find themselves with no food and no water stuck in the middle of nowhere. After some time, the three come across an uncharted paradise, where Paddy quickly teaches the children fishing, hunting and building. After maybe a month or two, Paddy gets very drunk off a barrel of rum found on the island when they first arrive, and drowns in the middle of the night. Emmeline and Richard, now alone and very scared, move location and rebuild their island home. Many years later, the two young teenagers have developed a very real home, but hormones and feelings between the two strain their friendship, until Richard, who is still very determined to reach San Francisco, is let down by Emmeline when a ship passes by the island and she does not light the signal fire. Throwing her out of the home they had built together, Emmeline attempts to survive on her own but is hurt. After Richard finds her dying, he realizes how he really feels for her and manages to save her. Nature runs its course and their friendship turns into love as the couple learn about the facts of life, when Emmeline has a baby and does not understand why.
Released Date:
1981-07-17
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
116 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
4.7 (5136 Reviews)
Director:
Franco ZeffirelliScott Spencer (novel)
Judith Rascoe (screenplay)
Two young teenagers, Jade Butterfield and David Axelrod, fall in love with each other. But the passion is too consuming for Jade's bohemian parents. Her parents try to stop them from seeing each other. But when this doesn't work, David burns down the house and is sent to a mental hospital. This doesn't stop him from seeing her. When he gets out, he goes to look for her and remains in love with her. But in the end, the passion for his first love is too strong and she has to leave or this love will kill both of them.
Released Date:
1984-03-02
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK, USA
Runtime:
111 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
4.7 (879 Reviews)
Director:
Andrew V. McLaglenMenahem Golan (story)
James R. Silke
After her father dies, young Dale takes his place in a trans-African auto race, but ends up being abducted by a desert sheik.
Released Date:
1995-09-29
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
80 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
6.2 (4537 Reviews)
A company that produces a toxic chemical tries to improve its image via a popular spokesperson, Ricky Coogan. Ricky travels to South America to get a first-hand look at the chemical's effects and finds himself at a mutant freak farm. Elijah, who runs the farm, is only too happy to have new subjects on which to try his freak machine. The very chemical that Ricky is supposed to promote is the one responsible for creating the great variety of freaks.
Released Date:
2012-01-14
Languages:
English
Countries:
Canada, UK
Runtime:
90 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
5.7 (3119 Reviews)
Director:
Gary SinyorJane Walker Wood (story)
Steven Manners (story)
Jane Walker Wood (screenplay)
Steven Manners (screenplay)
Gary Sinyor (screenplay)
Goofy Canadian screwup Bob Tree goes trough the yellow pages alphabetically to pick jobs, applies and messes them up every time. In the B's, he arrived at butler and takes a wacky crash-course with the somewhat odd Mr. Butler. Bob gets hired, but really more as babysitter cum housekeeper for Jacques, his fuzzy lover Anne Jamieson and, most of all, her spoiled-rotten kids Bates and Tess, terrible handfuls which his unorthodox methods may at least take by surprise.
Released Date:
2008-08-07
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
100 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.2 (44685 Reviews)
Director:
Ryèhei KitamuraJeff Buhler (screenplay)
Clive Barker (short story "The Midnight Meat Train")
The photographer Leon lives with his girlfriend and waitress Maya waiting for a chance to get in the photo business. When Maya contacts their friend Jurgis, he schedules a meeting for Leon with the successful owner of arts gallery Susan Hoff; she analyzes Leon's work and asks him to improve the quality of his photos. During the night, the upset Leon decides to wander on the streets taking pictures with his camera, and he follows three punks down to the subway station; when the gang attacks a young woman, Leon defends her and the guys move on. On the next morning, Leon discovers that the woman is missing. He goes to the police station, but Detective Lynn Hadley does not give much attention to him and discredits his statement. Leon becomes obsessed to find what happened with the stranger and he watches the subway station. When he sees the elegant butcher Mahogany in the train, Leon believes he might be a murderer and stalks him everywhere, in the beginning of his journey to the darkness.
Released Date:
2008-08-07
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
100 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.2 (44828 Reviews)
Director:
Ryèhei KitamuraJeff Buhler (screenplay)
Clive Barker (short story "The Midnight Meat Train")
The photographer Leon lives with his girlfriend and waitress Maya waiting for a chance to get in the photo business. When Maya contacts their friend Jurgis, he schedules a meeting for Leon with the successful owner of arts gallery Susan Hoff; she analyzes Leon's work and asks him to improve the quality of his photos. During the night, the upset Leon decides to wander on the streets taking pictures with his camera, and he follows three punks down to the subway station; when the gang attacks a young woman, Leon defends her and the guys move on. On the next morning, Leon discovers that the woman is missing. He goes to the police station, but Detective Lynn Hadley does not give much attention to him and discredits his statement. Leon becomes obsessed to find what happened with the stranger and he watches the subway station. When he sees the elegant butcher Mahogany in the train, Leon believes he might be a murderer and stalks him everywhere, in the beginning of his journey to the darkness.
Released Date:
2013-08-09
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
99 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
(1244 Reviews)
Director:
Susan SeidelmanGenres:
ComedyAn unlikely basketball team of unappreciated middle-aged Texas women, all former high school champs, challenge the current arrogant high school girls' state champs to a series of games to raise money for breast cancer prevention. Sparks fly as these marginalized women go to comic extremes to prove themselves on and off the court, and become a national media sensation.
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