Released Date:
1952-05-09
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
115 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (565 Reviews)
Director:
Laslo BenedekGenres:
DramaArthur Miller (play)
Stanley Roberts
Willy Loman is an over-the-hill salesman who faces a personal turning point when he loses his job and attempts to make peace with his family: Willy's long-suffering wife Linda, and Biff and Happy, his troubled sons and his life.
Released Date:
1956-02-05
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
80 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
7.8 (31771 Reviews)
Director:
Don SiegelDaniel Mainwaring (screenplay)
Jack Finney (Collier's magazine serial)
Dr Miles Bennell returns his small town practice to find several of his patients suffering the paranoid delusion that their friends or relatives are impostors. He is initially skeptical, especially when the alleged dopplegèngers are able to answer detailed questions about their victim's lives, but he is eventually persuaded that something odd has happened and determines to find out what is causing this phenomenon. This film can be seen as a paranoid 1950s warning against those Damn Commies or, conversely, as a metaphor for the tyranny of McCarthyism (or the totalitarian system of Your Choice) and has a pro- and epilogue that was forced upon Siegel by the studio to lighten the tone.
Released Date:
1965-10-04
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
108 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
7.5 (2616 Reviews)
Director:
Edward DmytrykPeter Stone (screenplay)
Howard Fast (novel)
Walking down twenty-seven flights of stairs after the power goes out in the New York City office building he is in, David Stillwell emerges outside on the ground level to find that a man he didn't know either jumped or was pushed out a window to his death. That man was Charles Calvin, the head of Unidyne, a humanitarian organization that works toward world peace. David notices other unusual goings-on. What he considers his normal routine that others he knows should recognize, don't. People that he doesn't know seem to know him, such as the beautiful young woman with who he walked down the stairs but who ran off when they got to the bottom. And things that he thought he saw or thought he knew end up not being the case, such as the multiple sub-basement levels he thought were in that office building which don't seem to exist in the clear light of day. When he finally thinks about it, he believes he has some form of amnesia. As an example, he knows that he works as a cost accountant, but he has no idea what a cost accountant is or does. He soon learns that some people are following him and are after something that he has, he not knowing what it is, and that they will shoot to kill if they don't get it. Conversely, the young woman, who he learns is named Shela and was once a love of his, is trying to convince him to cooperate with the people after him if only to save his life. Every direction David turns for official assistance, he comes up not trusting anyone, with the exception of a novice private detective he hires named Ted Caselle. Shela and the people after David all refer to "the major" as the person at the top who wants what David has. David may have to look deep into his troubled psyche to come out of his amnesia to learn who the major is, what he wants, whether David is willing to give it up if he indeed does have it, and that the death of Charles Calvin had some part to play. But David may be dead before he can even make an informed decision to cooperate or not.
Released Date:
1976-06-24
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
123 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
6.2 (2863 Reviews)
Director:
Robert AltmanArthur Kopit (play)
Alan Rudolph (screen story and screenplay)
Robert Altman (screen story and screenplay)
Buffalo Bill plans to put on his own Wild West sideshow, and Chief Sitting Bull has agreed to appear in it. However, Sitting Bull has his own hidden agenda, involving the President and General Custer.
Released Date:
1978-08-03
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
94 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.9 (13102 Reviews)
Director:
Joe DanteRichard Robinson (story)
John Sayles (story)
John Sayles (screenplay)
When flesh-eating piranhas are accidently released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.
Released Date:
1987-07-01
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
120 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (38517 Reviews)
Director:
Joe DanteChip Proser (story)
Jeffrey Boam (screenplay)
Chip Proser (screenplay)
Tuck Pendleton is a cocky pilot, who is taking part in a miniaturization experiment. When some bad guys break into the lab to steal the technology, one of the scientists takes a syringe which contains the miniaturized Tuck and vessel. Now in the vessel is part of the material needed to restore him. But the other part which is the lab is stolen. The scientist's shot but before dying he injects Tuck into Jack Putter, a hypochondriac, who feels that something is wrong with him all the time. When Tuck links himself to Jack's systems, he discovers that something happened. So they go back to the lab, and discover what happened. Now they are told that unless they retrieve the material that was stolen they won't be able to restore Tuck before his oxygen is depleted. Now the government rep decides that the only thing that matters that as long as they have the other half of the material, it is useless to the thieves. So Tuck eggs Jack to go out and find the thieves. They enlist the aid of Tuck's old girlfriend, Lydia, who is a reporter. And it's fortunate for them that she has a lead that pans out.
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