Released Date:
1985-04-12
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
104 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
5.8 (15362 Reviews)
Director:
Susan SeidelmanBored Roberta spots a regular personal ad in the paper titled 'Desperately Seeking Susan'. She heads off to New York, following one of the ads, and finds Susan. When Susan sells her jacket, Roberta - trying to emulate her mystery ad writer - buys the jacket and wears it. Little does she know someon is looking for the jacket - and its owner...
Released Date:
1986-08-29
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK
Runtime:
97 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
2.9 (3895 Reviews)
Director:
Jim GoddardJohn Kohn (screenplay)
Robert Bentley (screenplay)
Tony Kenrick (from the novel "Faraday's Flowers")
Glendon Wasey is a fortune hunter looking for a fast track out of China. Gloria Tatlock is a missionary nurse seeking the curing powers of opium for her patients. Fate sets them on a hectic, exotic, and even romantic quest for stolen drugs. But they are up against every thug and smuggler in Shangai.
Released Date:
1987-08-07
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
92 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
4.6 (7112 Reviews)
Director:
James FoleyAndrew Smith (story)
Andrew Smith (screenplay)
Ken Finkleman (screenplay)
Four years unjustly jailed haven't dampened the spirits or determination of Nikki Finn. Th spunky parolee sets out to clear her name - and sets the Big Apple spinning in deliriously funny ways.
Released Date:
1989-11-03
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
93 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
5.6 (909 Reviews)
Director:
Howard BrooknerHoward Brookner (screenplay)
Colman deKay (screenplay)
Damon Runyon (short stories)
This musical is based on four short stories by Damon Runyon. In one tale, gambler Feet Samuels sells his body to science just as he realizes that Hortense loves him and that he would rather live than die. In another story, Harriet's parrot is killed, and she has problems dealing with her loss. Then, there is a gambler, "Right", who has bloodhounds on his trail when he becomes a murder suspect. Finally, "The Brain" is bleeding profusely, and his friends search for a way to save his life through a blood transfusion.
Released Date:
1991-05-24
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
120 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
(6895 Reviews)
Director:
Alek KeshishianFrom the rain of Japan, through threats of arrest for 'public indecency' in Canada, and a birthday tribute to her father in Detroit, this documentary follows Madonna on her 1990 'Blond Ambition' concert tour. Filmed in black and white, with the concert pieces in glittering MTV color, it is an intimate look at the work of the music performer, from a prayer circle with the dancers before each performance to bed games with the dance troupe afterwards.
Released Date:
1992-07-01
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
128 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (66350 Reviews)
Director:
Penny MarshallKim Wilson (story)
Kelly Candaele (story)
Lowell Ganz (screenplay)
Babaloo Mandel (screenplay)
During World War II when all the men are fighting the war, most of the jobs that were left vacant because of their absence were filled in by women. The owners of the baseball teams, not wanting baseball to be dormant indefinitely, decide to form teams with women. So scouts are sent all over the country to find women players. One of the scouts, passes through Oregon and finds a woman named Dottie Hinson, who is incredible. He approaches her and asks her to try out but she's not interested. However, her sister, Kit who wants to get out of Oregon, offers to go. But he agrees only if she can get her sister to go. When they try out, they're chosen and are on the same team. Jimmy Dugan, a former player, who's now a drunk, is the team manager. But he doesn't feel as if it's a real job so he drinks and is not exactly doing his job. So Dottie steps up. After a few months when it appears the girls are not garnering any attention, the league is facing closure till Dottie does something that grabs attention. And it isn't long Dottie is the star of the team and Kit feels like she's living in her shadow.
Released Date:
1993-01-15
Languages:
English
Countries:
Germany, USA
Runtime:
99 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
4.3 (10790 Reviews)
Director:
Uli EdelA millionaire is found dead of heart failure handcuffed to the bed with a home video tape of him and his lover. When cocaine is found in his system, and his will leaves $8 million to his lover, they arrest her on suspicion of murder. Her lawyer succumbs to her charms, and he begins a torrid and kinky affair with her. As new evidence turns up during trial, he begins to wonder if he's defending a murderer.
Released Date:
1993-11-19
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA, Italy
Runtime:
108 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.7 (2663 Reviews)
Director:
Abel FerraraGenres:
DramaEddie Israel is a moviemaker. He is beginning the shooting of "The mother of mirrors", starring Francis Burns and Sarah Jennings. "The mother of mirrors" is the story of the last night of a couple falling into decay. Eddie is very demanding with the actors, and the heavy atmosphere of the film acts upon the daily life of the protagonists.
Released Date:
1995-12-25
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
98 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (71428 Reviews)
Allison Anders
Alexandre Rockwell
Robert Rodriguez
Quentin Tarantino
This movie features the collaborative directorial efforts of four new filmmakers, each of whom directs a segment of this comedy. It's New Year's Eve at the Mon Signor Hotel, a former grand old Hollywood hotel, now fallen upon hard times. Often using physical comedy and sight gags, this movie chronicles the slapstick misadventures of Ted, the Bellhop. He's on his first night on the job, when he's asked to help out a coven of witches in the Honeymoon Suite. Things only get worse when he delivers ice to the wrong room and ends up in a domestic argument at a really bad time. Next, he foolishly agrees to watch a gangster's kids for him while he's away. Finally, he finishes off the night refereeing a ghastly wager.
Released Date:
1995-12-25
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
98 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (71626 Reviews)
Allison Anders
Alexandre Rockwell
Robert Rodriguez
Quentin Tarantino
This movie features the collaborative directorial efforts of four new filmmakers, each of whom directs a segment of this comedy. It's New Year's Eve at the Mon Signor Hotel, a former grand old Hollywood hotel, now fallen upon hard times. Often using physical comedy and sight gags, this movie chronicles the slapstick misadventures of Ted, the Bellhop. He's on his first night on the job, when he's asked to help out a coven of witches in the Honeymoon Suite. Things only get worse when he delivers ice to the wrong room and ends up in a domestic argument at a really bad time. Next, he foolishly agrees to watch a gangster's kids for him while he's away. Finally, he finishes off the night refereeing a ghastly wager.
Released Date:
1997-01-10
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
135 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
6.3 (27994 Reviews)
Director:
Alan ParkerTim Rice (book)
Alan Parker (screenplay)
Oliver Stone (screenplay)
High-flying, adored! The film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical depicting the infamous real-life story of Eva "Evita" Duarte de Peron, the wife of President Juan Peron, who rose from poverty to become the most famous Argentine woman in history. Her huge political influence and constant charity works earned her scorn and fear from the military and upper classes but adoration and love from the workers and descamisados. Evita's legendary life is displayed before your eyes as the most hated and most beloved woman in Argentina.
Released Date:
2000-03-03
Languages:
English, French
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
108 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
4.7 (9025 Reviews)
Director:
John SchlesingerA comedy-drama about best friends - one a straight woman, Abbie, the other a gay man, Robert - who decide to have a child together. Five years later, Abbie falls in love with a straight man and wants to move away with her and Robert's little boy Sam, and a nasty custody battle ensues.
Released Date:
1995-12-25
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
98 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (71392 Reviews)
Allison Anders
Alexandre Rockwell
Robert Rodriguez
Quentin Tarantino
This movie features the collaborative directorial efforts of four new filmmakers, each of whom directs a segment of this comedy. It's New Year's Eve at the Mon Signor Hotel, a former grand old Hollywood hotel, now fallen upon hard times. Often using physical comedy and sight gags, this movie chronicles the slapstick misadventures of Ted, the Bellhop. He's on his first night on the job, when he's asked to help out a coven of witches in the Honeymoon Suite. Things only get worse when he delivers ice to the wrong room and ends up in a domestic argument at a really bad time. Next, he foolishly agrees to watch a gangster's kids for him while he's away. Finally, he finishes off the night refereeing a ghastly wager.
Released Date:
2002-10-11
Languages:
English, Greek, Italian
Countries:
UK, Italy
Runtime:
89 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
3.6 (12680 Reviews)
Director:
Guy RitchieAmber is 40, beautiful, rich, spoiled, and arrogant beyond measure. Nothing makes this woman happy, including her wealthy but passive husband (Tony), a pharmaceutical kingpin. When Tony takes her on a private cruise from Greece to Italy, Amber is unimpressed at this impromptu no-frills vacation, and takes out her anger on the ship's first mate, Giuseppe. When a storm leaves the two shipwrecked on a deserted island, however, the tables suddenly turn...
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