Released Date:
1984-04-06
Languages:
English, Russian
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
115 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (8192 Reviews)
Director:
Paul MazurskyPaul Mazursky
Leon Capetanos
A Russian circus visits the US. A clown wants to defect, but doesn't have the nerve. His saxophone playing friend however comes to the decision to defect in the middle of Bloomingdales. He is befriended by the black security guard and falls in love with the Italian immigrant from behind the perfume counter. We follow his life as he works his way through the American dream and tries to find work as a musician.
Released Date:
1987-11-13
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
101 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (104621 Reviews)
Director:
Paul Michael GlaserStephen King (novel)
Steven E. de Souza (screenplay)
Set in a totalitarian society. Ben Richards is a cop who was blamed for a massacre which wasn't his fault. He would be sent to prison and breaks out with some other inmates. He tries to escape but the woman whom he dragged into his plan turns him over to the authorities. Damon Killian, who is the host of THE RUNNING MAN a game show wherein convicted felons are given the chance to run to freedom but have to elude the stalkers; men who hunt them down and kill them in gruesome manners. When he learns that Richards has been caught, he wants him to be the show's next contestant. After being brought to Killian, Richards turns him down, Killian then reveals to Richards that his two friends who were in prison with him and who broke out with him have been caught, so unless Richards does the show they will. But on the night of the show, Richards is set to go but Killian also reveals that Richards' two friends are going with him. Richards tells Killian that he will be back. But first !
Released Date:
1988-04-29
Languages:
English, Spanish
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
120 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (17772 Reviews)
Director:
Dennis HopperMichael Schiffer (screenplay)
Michael Schiffer (story)
Richard Di Lello (story)
A confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barrios of L.A. about to explode in violence in this look at the gang culture enforced by the colors that members wear.
Released Date:
1989-06-02
Languages:
English, German
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
103 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.8 (8591 Reviews)
Director:
Robert BiermanA publishing executive is visited and bitten by a woman and starts exhibiting erratic behavior. He pushes his secretary to extremes as he tries to come to terms with his delusions. The woman continues to visit and as his madness deepens, it begins to look as if some of the events he's experiencing may be hallucinations.
Released Date:
1994-04-01
Languages:
English, Spanish
Countries:
Portugal, Germany, Denmark, USA, France
Runtime:
140 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (15888 Reviews)
Director:
Bille AugustIsabel Allende (novel)
Bille August
Chile, second half of the 20th century. The poor Esteban marries Clara and they get a daughter, Blanca. Esteban works hard and eventually gets money to buy a hacienda, eventually to become a local patriarch. He becomes very conservative and is feared by his workers. When Blanca grows up, she falls in love with a young revolutionary, Pedro, who urges the workers to fight for socialism. It is unavoidable that Pedro and Esteban are pitted against each other. Esteban tries to stop the love affair between Pedro and his daughter by all means possible but soon Blanca becomes pregnant and has a daughter. The void between father and daughter seems unbridgeable when Blanca moves in with Pedro.
Released Date:
1996-01-24
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
110 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (905 Reviews)
Director:
Robert M. YoungEdward Pomerantz (novel)
Edward Pomerantz (screenplay)
Joe and Betty run a fish market and have sunk into a comfortable, if somewhat boring life. Enter the drifter Nick, who takes a job in the store and a place in their home. He proceeds to awaken Joe's hope in the future as well as Betty's sexual passions. Until their son Danny returns home and notices the changes...
Released Date:
2006-08-18
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
97 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
3.8 (18318 Reviews)
Director:
Martha CoolidgeJohn Quaintance
Jessica O'Toole
Amy Rardin
The silver spoon daughters of the late cosmetics empire founder Victor Marchetta, Avan and Tanzie, never even took an interest in the business, happy to let it be run by their and the firm's administrator, Tommy Katzenbach, while they lead socialite lives, aiming at a marriage with soap star Mic Rionn. Suddenly a scandal wrecks the firm's stock and their family reputation. Their credit cards are canceled, one of them torches the mansion, the other hands their sports-car to a thief mistaken for a parking valet. So they end up living with their Latina former cleaning lady. Help to investigate whether the firm is really best sold to competitor Fabiella, as Tommy claims, comes from hunky lab technician Rick, whom the previously mistook for the inexistent firm parking lot attendant, and Henry Baines, whose free law for the poor charity they didn't even consider for sponsoring.
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