Released Date:
1956-06-14
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
92 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
7.7 (1758 Reviews)
Director:
Richard BrooksPaddy Chayefsky (teleplay)
Gore Vidal (screenplay)
At breakfast, Jane announces that she and Ralph are getting married the next week. All Jane and Ralph want is a small wedding with the immediate family and no reception. This is because Janes parents are poor and Jane and Ralph can borrow a car for their honeymoon. However, at dinner that night all Ralph's parents talk about are the big weddings they gave their daughters and everything escalates. All of a sudden, it is a big wedding breakfast with hundreds of guests. The problem is that for 12 years, Tom has been saving money to buy his own cab and license, but now that he can, all of his money is going towards a wedding neither he, or Jane or Ralph really want.
Released Date:
1958-06-28
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
116 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (8733 Reviews)
Director:
Richard FleischerCalder Willingham (screenplay)
Dale Wasserman (adaptation)
Edison Marshall (novel)
Einar and Eric are two Viking half-brothers. The former is a great warrior whilst the other is an ex-slave, but neither knows the true identity of the other. When the throne of Northumbria in Britain becomes free for the taking, the two brothers compete against one another for the prize, but they have very different motives - both involving the princess Morgana, however.
Released Date:
1960-07-27
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
111 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (290 Reviews)
Director:
Richard WilsonGenres:
CrimeRichard Collins
Bertram Millhauser
Movie deals with organized crime "protection" rackets. Small shopkeepers are forced to pay for protection or else be brutalized or killed.
Released Date:
1967-06-15
Languages:
English, German, French, Spanish, Latin
Countries:
UK, USA
Runtime:
150 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.8 (49462 Reviews)
Director:
Robert AldrichNunnally Johnson (screenplay)
Lukas Heller (screenplay)
E.M. Nathanson (novel)
A Major with an attitude problem and a history of getting things done is told to interview military prisoners with death sentences or long terms for a dangerous mission; To parachute behind enemy lines and cause havoc for the German Generals at a rest house on the eve of D-Day.
Released Date:
1969-06-18
Languages:
English, Spanish, German
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
145 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
8.1 (59133 Reviews)
Director:
Sam PeckinpahWalon Green (screenplay)
Sam Peckinpah (screenplay)
Walon Green (story)
Roy N. Sickner (story)
In the Wild Bunch the movie opens with a group of aging outlaw's final score, a bank robbery. The event concludes with a violent and overtly bloody shootout that would generally mark the finale of a movie. This is correct in that it marks the finale of an era, for the characters and the world they live in. They simply can no longer keep up, the times are changing, technology advancing, and they're style of life is getting left behind in the dust that they spent so long galloping through. They abandon their careers for the simpler life of retirement. They enjoy this time, they live their fantasies. During this time the law is always on their tracks, bounty hunters. The further into their fantasy they get, the closer their demise seems to get. When one of their own is captured they are faced with the choice of escape or what is certainly a suicide mission to attempt and free their fallen behind comrade. For them it is not a choice. They all die in what can only be described as a nauseatingly gore filled bloodbath of a battle. They might have succeeded in removing themselves from the wild west however they could not be separated what is inherently their nature. The west was only wild because the wild bunch were present, they influenced their surroundings, not the other way around. It is only after the final shoot out that the bounty hunters catch up with them, now only bullet riddled corpses. They never got caught, they could never get caught because they were already trapped in their own personalities. They turned themselves in to their instincts. The vacation, the fantasy, was bound to end and they knew it.
Released Date:
1972-12-13
Languages:
English, Hebrew
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
117 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (31045 Reviews)
Paul Gallico (novel)
Stirling Silliphant (screenplay)
Wendell Mayes (screenplay)
A passenger ship, on her way to the scrap yard is pushed to her limits by the new owners to save on the dismantling fees. A tidal wave hits her, flipping her over so that all the internal rooms are upside down. A priest takes a mixed band of survivors on a journey through the bowels of the ship in an attempt to survive.
Released Date:
1975-07-01
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
86 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
4.6 (2056 Reviews)
Director:
Robert FuestGenres:
HorrorGabe Essoe
James Ashton
Gerald Hopman
A bunch of Satanists in the American rural landscape have terrible powers which enable them to melt their victims. However one of the children of an earlier victim vows to destroy them.
Released Date:
1977-04-03
Languages:
English, Syriac
Countries:
Italy, UK
Runtime:
382 min
IMDB Ratings:
8.7 (10997 Reviews)
A reverent depiction of the life of Christ using the Gospel accounts.
Released Date:
1977-05-19
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA, UK
Runtime:
101 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
5.7 (719 Reviews)
Director:
Tom GriesMuhammad Ali (based on: "The Greatest: My Own Story" by)
Herbert Muhammad (based on: "The Greatest: My Own Story" by)
Richard Durham (based on: "The Greatest: My Own Story" by)
Ring Lardner Jr. (screenplay)
Muhammad Ali stars as himself in this dramatised version of his life story up to the late 1970s. It includes his Olympic triumphs as Cassius Clay, his conversion to Islam, his refusal of the Army draft and the legal battle after being stripped of his World Title.
Released Date:
1978-08-24
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA, UK
Runtime:
110 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
6.3 (10483 Reviews)
Director:
Sam PeckinpahBill L. Norton (screen story and screenplay)
Bill Fries (song)
While driving through the Arizona desert, Albuquerque based independent trucker Martin Penwald - who goes by the handle "Rubber Duck" - along with his fellow truckers "Pig Pen" and "Spider Mike", are entrapped by unscrupulous Sheriff Lyle "Cottonmouth" Wallace using a key tool of the trucker's trade, the citizens' band (CB) radio. Rubber Duck and Cottonmouth have a long, antagonistic history. When this encounter later escalates into a more physical one as Cottonmouth threatens Spider Mike, a man who just wants to get home to his pregnant wife, Rubber Duck and other the truckers involved, including Spider Mike, Pig Pen and "Widow Woman", go on the run, figuring the best thing to do being to head to New Mexico to avoid prosecution. Along for the ride is Melissa, a beautiful photographer who just wanted a ride to the airport. As news of what happened spreads over the CB airwaves, other truckers join their convoy as a show of support. Cottonmouth rallies other law enforcement officers throughout the southwest, they who soon learn that stopping Rubber Duck, the face of the now highly public standoff, is not as easy as shooting him and the truck due to his highly explosive cargo. As the standoff escalates, New Mexico Governor Jerry Haskins joins the fray, he who sees the strong public support for the truckers being something on which he can capitalize politically.
Released Date:
1979-11-14
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA, UK
Runtime:
150 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (5386 Reviews)
Director:
Delbert MannPaul Monash (screenplay)
Erich Maria Remarque (novel)
Paul Baumer is a young German who, along with his graduating high school classmates, enlist in the German Imperial Army during the First World War. Originally thinking war would be a great adventure, Paul and his friends discover exactly the opposite as the war drags on and one by one the members of the class are killed in action until only Paul remains.
Released Date:
1981-07-10
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK, USA
Runtime:
99 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (82303 Reviews)
Director:
John CarpenterIn the future, crime is out of control and New York City is a maximum security prison. Grabbing a bargaining chip right out of the air, convicts bring down the President's plane in bad old Gotham. Gruff Snake Plissken, a one-eyed lone warrior new to prison life, is coerced into bringing the President, and his cargo, out of this land of undesirables.
Released Date:
1988-11-11
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
100 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.8 (309 Reviews)
Director:
Paul MorrisseyAlan Bowne (additional dialogue)
Paul Morrissey (story)
Spike Fumo is an Italian kid apsiring to be a boxer. He falls in love with a rich girl, who turns out to be the daughter of a Mafia boss. Spike is threatened to leave Bensonhurst by the mob, and then goes to a poverty-stricken Puerto Rican part of Brooklyn.
Released Date:
1996-03-29
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
82 min
Rated:
G
IMDB Ratings:
5.3 (3688 Reviews)
Mark Young (story)
Kelly Ward (story)
Arne Olsen (screenplay)
Kelly Ward (screenplay)
Mark Young (screenplay)
Charlie and Itchy have return to Earth to find Gabriel's Horn, but along the way they meet up with a sweet young boy named David, who ran away from home. And a beautiful Irish setter named Sasha LaFleur set them straight. But time is running out, and if Charlie is going to secure the valuable horn, he will have to prove himself worthy of his wings by taking on two incredible villains in a hair-raising, breathtaking race to the finish!
Released Date:
2010-10-06
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
6.3 (129 Reviews)
Director:
Greg SwartzGenres:
DramaElderly dementia patient must decide whether to leave this world under his own conditions before he loses his dignity or give in to his loving supportive family and nursing home roommates' appeals to fight on and risk losing it.
Released Date:
2012-04-27
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
99 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
6.1 (197 Reviews)
Director:
Elia PetridisErnest Borgnine plays Rex Page, an old man who is bitter about never becoming famous and having lived a life without any meaning. After suffering a stroke, he ends up in a nursing home staffed by Latin American immigrants. Put off by the situation, Rex focuses his energy on getting out, which places him at odds with the Latino workers. However, their relationship takes on new meaning when it is discovered that he once shook hands with Vicente Fernandez, a Mexican singer, producer and actor idolized throughout Latin culture. The employees soon begin to treat Rex like the celebrity he's always dreamed of being.
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