34 Movies Starring Willem Dafoe

To Live and Die in L.A.

To Live and Die in L.A.

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1985-11-01

Languages:

English, Arabic, Spanish

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

116 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (19363 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Gerald Petievich (novel)

William Friedkin (screenplay)

Gerald Petievich (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Two cops in Los Angeles try to track down the vicious criminal Eric Masters. Then, one of them is killed by Masters and the other one swears revenge no matter what the cost. After that, the hunt becomes an ob- session and the law he once swore to uphold becomes meaningless to him.

Platoon

Platoon

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1987-02-06

Languages:

English, Vietnamese

Countries:

UK, USA

Runtime:

120 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

8.1 (265331 Reviews)

Director:

Oliver Stone

Genres:

DramaWar

Fullplot:

Chris Taylor is a young, naive American who gives up college and volunteers for combat in Vietnam. Upon arrival, he quickly discovers that his presence is quite nonessential, and is considered insignificant to the other soldiers, as he has not fought for as long as the rest of them and felt the effects of combat. Chris has two non-commissioned officers, the ill-tempered and indestructible Staff Sergeant Robert Barnes and the more pleasant and cooperative Sergeant Elias Grodin. A line is drawn between the two NCOs and a number of men in the platoon when an illegal killing occurs during a village raid. As the war continues, Chris himself draws towards psychological meltdown. And as he struggles for survival, he soon realizes he is fighting two battles, the conflict with the enemy and the conflict between the men within his platoon.

The Last Temptation of Christ

The Last Temptation of Christ

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1988-09-22

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, Canada

Runtime:

164 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (37063 Reviews)

Director:

Martin Scorsese

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Nikos Kazantzakis (novel)

Paul Schrader (screenplay)

Fullplot:

The carpenter, Jesus of Nazareth, tormented by the temptations of demons, the guilt of making crosses for the Romans, pity for men and the world, and the constant call of God, sets out to find what God wills for Him. But as His mission nears fulfillment, He must face the greatest temptation; the normal life of a good man. Based, not on the Gospels, but on Nikos Kazantzakis' novel of the same name.

Mississippi Burning

Mississippi Burning

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1989-01-27

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

128 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (61013 Reviews)

Director:

Alan Parker

Fullplot:

Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his former Sheriff partner.

Wild at Heart

Wild at Heart

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1990-08-17

Languages:

English, Spanish

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

125 min

Rated:

NC-17

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (56627 Reviews)

Director:

David Lynch

Cast:

Writer:

Barry Gifford (novel)

David Lynch (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Lula's psychopathic mother goes crazy at the thought of Lula being with Sailor, who just got free from jail. Ignoring Sailor's probation, they set out for California. However their mother hires a killer to hunt down Sailor. Unaware of this, the two enjoy their journey and themselves being together... until they witness a young woman dying after a car accident - a bad omen.

Light Sleeper

Light Sleeper

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1992-03-13

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

103 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (3444 Reviews)

Director:

Paul Schrader

Genres:

CrimeDrama

Fullplot:

A drug dealer with upscale clientele is having moral problems going about his daily deliveries. A reformed addict, he has never gotten over the wife that left him, and the couple that use him for deliveries worry about his mental well-being and his effectiveness at his job. Meanwhile someone is killing women in apparently drug-related incidents.

Clear and Present Danger

Clear and Present Danger

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1994-08-03

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

141 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (64538 Reviews)

Director:

Phillip Noyce

Cast:

Writer:

Tom Clancy (novel)

Donald Stewart (screenplay)

Steven Zaillian (screenplay)

John Milius (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Jack Ryan is back and this time the bad guys are in his own government. When Admiral James Greer becomes sick with cancer, Ryan is appointed acting CIA Deputy Director of Intelligence. Almost before he can draw a breath in his new position, one of the president's closest friends and his family are murdered in their sleep by what appears to by drug cartels. Ryan is called in to investigate, but unknown to him the CIA has already sent a secret field operative to lead an illegal paramilitary force in Colombia against cartels. Things get even more complicated when his team is set up and he loses an agent in the field and a friend of his wife's, who was the murdered agent's secretary, is murdered that same day. Ryan must then risk not only his career, but his life to expose the truth behind the mystery.

Tom & Viv

Tom & Viv

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1994-12-02

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK, USA

Runtime:

115 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (1222 Reviews)

Director:

Brian Gilbert

Cast:

Writer:

Michael Hastings (play)

Michael Hastings

Adrian Hodges

Fullplot:

In 1915, T.S. (Tom) Eliot and Vivienne Haigh-Wood elope, but her longstanding gynecological and emotional problems disrupt their planned honeymoon. Her father is angry because Tom's poetry doesn't bring in enough to live on, but her mother is happy Viv has found a tender and discreet husband.

Victory

Victory

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1997-07-31

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK, France, Germany

Runtime:

99 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.2 (373 Reviews)

Director:

Mark Peploe

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Joseph Conrad (novel)

Mark Peploe (adaptation)

Mark Peploe (screenplay)

Frederick Seidel (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Axel Heyst lives on a secluded island near the Dutch East Indies port of Surabaya. The year is 1913. While on personal business to the port, he visits the hotel owned by racist German Schomberg. An all-woman orchestra plays in the hotel each night, and orchestra owner, San Giacomo agrees to "sell" one of the girls, Alma, to Schomberg. She asks Heyst to save her from the villains and they escape to his island and live there with native servant Wang. Schomberg points sinister Mr. Jones and his two fellow bandits to that island, saying that the fortune lies ahead of them there.

The English Patient

The English Patient

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1996-12-06

Languages:

English, German, Italian, Arabic

Countries:

USA, UK

Runtime:

162 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (131121 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Michael Ondaatje (novel)

Anthony Minghella (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Beginning in the 1930's, "The English Patient" tells the story of Count Almèsy who is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almèsy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics that is later revealed in a series of flashbacks while Almèsy is on his death bed after being horribly burned in a plane crash.

Speed 2: Cruise Control

Speed 2: Cruise Control

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1997-06-13

Languages:

English, American Sign Language, Portuguese

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

121 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

3.7 (57010 Reviews)

Director:

Jan de Bont

Cast:

Writer:

Graham Yost (characters)

Jan de Bont (story)

Randall McCormick (story)

Randall McCormick (screenplay)

Jeff Nathanson (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Annie Porter, the woman who was held on a bus with a bomb attached to it that will go off if it slows down. She dated the cop who saved her but broke up with him because he was constantly putting his life in danger. She would then date a guy named Alex who is also a cop but told her that he does a mundane assignment. But she eventually learns that he works for the same unit that the other guy worked for and is also addicted to danger. She wants to break up with but he surprises her with a cruise. She agrees to go. And he's planning to propose to her. But when he notice another passenger act peculiarly, he can't help but try to find out what's up with him. He's Geiger, a computer man who designed the ship's systems, who was fired. He then takes over the ship's systems and sets it on a course that will send it into a tanker. Alex tries to stop him.

eXistenZ

eXistenZ

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1999-04-23

Languages:

English

Countries:

Canada, UK

Runtime:

97 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (72693 Reviews)

Fullplot:

Allegra Geller, the leading game designer in the world, is testing her new virtual reality game, eXistenZ with a focus group. As they begin, she is attacked by a fanatic assassin employing a bizarre organic gun. She flees with a young marketing trainee, Ted Pikul, who is suddenly assigned as her bodyguard. Unfortunately, her pod, an organic gaming device that contains the only copy of the eXistenZ game program, is damaged. To inspect it, she talks Ted into accepting a gameport in his own body so he can play the game with her. The events leading up to this, and the resulting game lead the pair on a strange adventure where reality and their actions are impossible to determine from either their own or the game's perspective.

New Rose Hotel

New Rose Hotel

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1999-03-19

Languages:

English, German, Japanese

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

93 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

4.8 (3363 Reviews)

Director:

Abel Ferrara

Cast:

Writer:

William Gibson (short story)

Abel Ferrara (screenplay)

Christ Zois (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Maas and Hosaka are two large Corporations in the future world. They are fighting to get control over the best minds of the world. The best is Hiroshi and at the moment he is working for the Maas Corporation. Fox has accepted an offer to persuade Hiroshi to go over to the Hosaka Corporation. Sandii is a little Italian girl from Japan and she should be the way to get to Hiroshi. X is the man who should train Sandii to break Hiroshi's Heart. But if X falls in love with Sandii? And if the Hosaka Corporation breaks the agreement? And if Sandii is not a little Italian girl?

Spider-Man

Spider-Man

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2002-05-03

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

121 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (494371 Reviews)

Director:

Sam Raimi

Cast:

Writer:

Stan Lee (Marvel comic book)

Steve Ditko (Marvel comic book)

David Koepp (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Based on Marvel Comics' superhero character, this is a story of Peter Parker who is a nerdy high-schooler. He was orphaned as a child, bullied by jocks, and can't confess his crush for his stunning neighborhood girl Mary Jane Watson. To say his life is "miserable" is an understatement. But one day while on an excursion to a laboratory a runaway radioactive spider bites him... and his life changes in a way no one could have imagined. Peter acquires a muscle-bound physique, clear vision, ability to cling to surfaces and crawl over walls, shooting webs from his wrist ... but the fun isn't going to last. An eccentric millionaire Norman Osborn administers a performance enhancing drug on himself and his maniacal alter ego Green Goblin emerges. Now Peter Parker has to become Spider-Man and take Green Goblin to the task... or else Goblin will kill him. They come face to face and the war begins in which only one of them will survive at the end.

Shadow of the Vampire

Shadow of the Vampire

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2001-01-26

Languages:

English, German, Luxembourgish

Countries:

UK, USA, Luxembourg

Runtime:

92 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (32976 Reviews)

Genres:

DramaHorror

Fullplot:

Shadow of the Vampire is a film about the making of a German all time classic silent horror-movie from 1922 called Nosferatu-Eine Symphonie des Grauens (Nosferatu-a Symphony of Horror). The production of Nosferatu had to deal with a lot of strange things (some crew members disappeared, some died). This movie focuses on the difficult relationship between Murnau, the director, and Schreck, the lead actor.

Animal Factory

Animal Factory

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2000-08-01

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

94 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (10314 Reviews)

Director:

Steve Buscemi

Genres:

CrimeDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Edward Bunker (novel)

Edward Bunker (screenplay)

John Steppling (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Ron, who's young, slight, and privileged, is sentenced to prison on marijuana charges. For whatever reason, he brings out paternal feelings in an 18-year prison veteran, Earl Copan, who takes Ron under his wing. The film explores the nature of that relationship, Ron's part in Earl's gang, and the way Ron deals with aggressive cons intent on assault and rape. There's casual racism, too, in the prisoners and the guards, a strike called by Black prisoners, and the nearly omnipresence of hard drugs. Ron's lawyer is working on getting Ron out quickly, Earl has a shot at parole, and death seems to be waiting in the next cell. Will prison turn Ron into an animal?

Pavilion of Women

Pavilion of Women

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2001-11-16

Languages:

English, Mandarin

Countries:

China, USA

Runtime:

116 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.9 (879 Reviews)

Director:

Ho Yim

Cast:

Writer:

Pearl S. Buck (novel)

Luo Yan (screenplay)

Paul Collins (screenplay)

Fullplot:

In 1938, Ailian is the forty years old wife of a wealthy man, Mr. Wu, who belongs to the traditional Wu Family in China. In order to get rid off her sexual obligations with her husband, Ailian gives Chiuming, a very young concubine to him. Andre is an American priest and doctor who takes care of an orphanage and becomes the tutor of her eighteen years old son Fengmo Wu. Father Andre starts giving classes to Fengmo, Ailian and Chiuming. Then, two forbidden loves will rise: between the priest and the first wife, and between the son and the concubine, having the invasion of China by the Japanese in a big picture.

Edges of the Lord

Edges of the Lord

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2001-10-12

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, Poland

Runtime:

95 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

(2924 Reviews)

Fullplot:

Polish 12 year-young city Jew Romek gets a crash-course in Catholicsim from his daddy ('stay hanging by your arms till your prayers are perfect') so he can be sent away and escape deportation (Auschwitz?) hiding in the country where the clergy found a host, Gniecio's simple peasant family, posing as their city relative. Gniecio's eldest son Vladek proves rather tyrannical but no brighter then gullible junior Tollo, who takes a role play in catechism class to 'become' a Last Supper character, in his case Jesus, to the extreme, even training for a crucifixion from a tree. Neighbor Batylin and his wife are executed by the Nazis when their illegally kept pig is found. Kluba plays a dirty trick when Gniecio tries to sell his in the city; his son is as problematic for the boys, who meanwhile play involving a single girl-playmate, Maria, who takes Romek in when he's stupidly thrown out by his widowed host by mistake. The horror of war itself suddenly shows its ugly head again, big time and in weird ways with unforeseen consequences...

Finding Nemo

Finding Nemo

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2003-05-30

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

100 min

Rated:

G

IMDB Ratings:

8.2 (600064 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Andrew Stanton (original story by)

Andrew Stanton (screenplay)

Bob Peterson (screenplay)

David Reynolds (screenplay)

Fullplot:

A clown fish named Marlin lives in the Great Barrier Reef loses his son, Nemo. After he ventures into the open sea, despite his father's constant warnings about many of the ocean's dangers. Nemo is abducted by a boat and netted up and sent to a dentist's office in Sydney. So, while Marlin ventures off to try to retrieve Nemo, Marlin meets a fish named Dory, a blue tang suffering from short-term memory loss. The companions travel a great distance, encountering various dangerous sea creatures such as sharks, anglerfish and jellyfish, in order to rescue Nemo from the dentist's office, which is situated by Sydney Harbor. While the two are doing this, Nemo and the other sea animals in the dentist's fish tank plot a way to return to Sydney Harbor to live their lives free again.

Auto Focus

Auto Focus

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2002-11-01

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

105 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (11116 Reviews)

Director:

Paul Schrader

Cast:

Writer:

Robert Graysmith (book)

Michael Gerbosi

Fullplot:

In 1965, Bob Crane, who had achieved some earlier success as a television supporting actor, was working as a successful morning radio DJ at KNX Los Angeles. Despite enjoying his work, photography (especially of the female form) and drumming, Crane wanted to be a movie star. So it was with some reluctance that he accepted the title starring role in a new television sitcom called Hogan's Heroes (1965), a WWII POW comedy. To his surprise, the show became a hit and catapulted him to television stardom. The fame resulting from the show led to excesses and a meeting with home video salesman and technician John Carpenter, with who he would form a friendship based on their mutual interests, namely excessive sex (for Crane, purely heterosexual sex) and capturing nude females on celluloid. His fame allowed Crane to have as much sex as he wanted, which was incongruent to his somewhat wholesome television friendly image, and the way he portrayed himself to almost everyone except Carpenter and his extramarital sex partners. His sex addiction was somewhat known but ignored by his high school sweetheart/first wife Anne Crane nèe Terzian, but well known by his second wife, Patti Olson, better known as Sigrid Valdis, his Hogan's Heroes co-star. Especially after the end of Hogan's Heroes in 1971, this incongruence and his friendship with Carpenter, with who he would have a continuing love/hate relationship, would contribute to both his professional and personal downfall.

xXx: State of the Union

xXx: State of the Union

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2005-04-29

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

101 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

4.3 (47331 Reviews)

Director:

Lee Tamahori

Cast:

Writer:

Rich Wilkes (characters)

Simon Kinberg

Fullplot:

Agent Augustus Gibbons has selected an imprisoned former US Navy SEAL Darius Stone, a new agent in the XXX program, travels to Washington D.C., where they track a splinter faction of the U.S. military that attempts to overthrow the U.S. government and assassinate the President, led by Secretary of Defense and former 4-Star General George Deckert, Stone's former commanding officer whom he once led a mutiny against. But he's been targeted for assassination by a radical splinter group of dissenters deep within the United States government. The new XXX agent must uncover the insurgents from within. It is the nation's only hope to stop the first coup d'etat in American history.

Manderlay

Manderlay

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2005-06-03

Languages:

English

Countries:

Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, France, Germany, UK, Italy

Runtime:

139 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (17649 Reviews)

Director:

Lars von Trier

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

After gangster Mulligan's cars colony, fleeing northern justice, finds a hiding place in Alabama, spoiled, naive daughter Grace refuses to travel on after seeing the Manderlay cotton plantation being run under slavery rules, called Mam's law, inclusive flogging. She keeps half of dad's goons as guard to force the dying matriarch-owner's heirs, which she shamelessly dispossesses and reduces to 'staff', to taste destitution under absurd, gun-imposed contracts. The 'slaves' are made free partners, supposed to vote for progress after lessons from Grace. But almost all her democracy-pupils prove fickle, dumb and selfish, except old Willem. Her and their ignorance in Southern planting and crafty Dixie ways means more problems are created then solved. By the time dad returns to pick her up or abandon her for good, she's the one who has learned and changed the most.

Control

Control

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2005-03-31

Languages:

English

Countries:

Aruba, USA

Runtime:

101 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.2 (6052 Reviews)

Director:

Tim Hunter

Cast:

Writer:

Todd Slavkin

Darren Swimmer

Fullplot:

Lee Ray Oliver grew up from abused kid to sociopath, inevitably condemned to death, but wakes up in the morgue after the 'lethal' injection. Dr. Michael Copeland offers him a choice: the real killer drug or 'volunteering' as life-long test person for his pharmaceutic experiment, Anagress, meant to suppress violent tendencies but side-effects unknown. After vicious escape attempts, Lee Ray finally develops genuine remorse and tries to make-up with Gary Caputo, who Lee shot in the head, leaving him mentally a child. Brother Bill Caputo's hate for ruining both of their lives is however redoubled, with tragic consequences.

Go Go Tales

Go Go Tales

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2011-01-07

Languages:

English

Countries:

Italy, USA

Runtime:

96 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

5.8 (962 Reviews)

Director:

Abel Ferrara

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Abel Ferrara

Scott Pardo (screenplay)

Fullplot:

A screwball comedy centered on a Manhattan go-go dancing club, where a financial struggle between the owner, his accountant and his silent partner brother threatens the business's future.

John Carter

John Carter

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2012-03-09

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

132 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (198544 Reviews)

Director:

Andrew Stanton

Cast:

Writer:

Andrew Stanton (screenplay)

Mark Andrews (screenplay)

Michael Chabon (screenplay)

Edgar Rice Burroughs (story)

Fullplot:

John Carter, a Civil War veteran, who in 1868 was trying to live a normal life, is "asked" by the Army to join, but he refuses so he is locked up. He escapes, and is pursued. Eventually they run into some Indians, and there's a gunfight. Carter seeks refuge in a cave. While there, he encounters someone who is holding some kind of medallion. When Carter touches it, he finds himself in a place where he can leap incredible heights, among other things. He later encounters beings he has never seen before. He meets a woman who helps him to discover that he is on Mars, and he learns there's some kind of unrest going on.

Adam Resurrected

Adam Resurrected

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2008-12-12

Languages:

English

Countries:

Germany, USA, Israel

Runtime:

106 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (2957 Reviews)

Director:

Paul Schrader

Genres:

DramaWar

Cast:

Writer:

Yoram Kaniuk (novel)

Noah Stollman (screenplay)

Fullplot:

"Adam Resurrected" follows the story of Adam Stein, a charismatic patient at a mental institution for Holocaust survivors in Israel, 1961. He reads minds and confounds his doctors, lead by Nathan Gross. Before the war, in Berlin, Adam was an entertainer--cabaret impresario, circus owner, magician, musician--loved by audiences and Nazis alike until he finds himself in a concentration camp, confronted by Commandant Klein. Adam survives the camp by becoming the Commandant's "dog", entertaining him while his wife and daughter are sent off to die. Years later we find him at the Institute. One day, Adam smells something, hears a sound. "Who brought a dog in here?" he asks Gross. Gross denies there is a dog but Adam finds him--a young boy raised in a basement on a chain. Adam and the boy see and recognize each other as dogs--and their journey begins. "Adam Resurrected" is the story of a man who once was a dog who meets a dog who once was a boy.

Anamorph

Anamorph

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2008-08-05

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

107 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.5 (7897 Reviews)

Director:

Henry Miller

Fullplot:

Stan is a quiet, solitary detective in New York City. A few months ago, he solved a gruesome case of serial murders, although an undercover police officer lost her life. A new set of similar murders begins: the bodies are elaborately displayed and the killer uses equipment from art and early movie making in the tableau, or he leaves a clue as to where the investigators are to stand to get the full artistic effect. Stan is paired with a younger detective, Carl, whom he brushes off when Carl wants to get to know him. As pieces fall in place, it's a race to prevent the next killing, quite possibly someone close to Stan.

Antichrist

Antichrist

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2009-05-20

Languages:

English

Countries:

Denmark, Germany, France, Sweden, Italy, Poland

Runtime:

108 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (80010 Reviews)

Director:

Lars von Trier

Genres:

DramaHorror

Fullplot:

A couple lose their young son when he falls out of a window while they are having sex in another room. The mother's grief consigns her to hospital, but her therapist husband brings her home intent on treating her depression himself. To confront her fears they go to stay at their remote cabin in the woods, "Eden", where something untold happened the previous summer. Told in four chapters with a prologue and epilogue, the film details acts of lustful cruelty as the man and woman unfold the darker side of nature outside and within.

Fireflies in the Garden

Fireflies in the Garden

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2008-07-17

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

120 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (9840 Reviews)

Director:

Dennis Lee

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Robert Frost (poem)

Dennis Lee

Fullplot:

A family with an abusive father, a sensitive son, and a mother out of her depth: we see them when Michael is about 12 and when he's in his 30's, a writer of romance novels, going home for his mother and sister's college graduations. We go back and forth between the two periods: when Michael is a boy, the pressure builds until a break is threatened and there's a fight; during his trip home, there's an unexpected death, and renewed relationships between father and son, Michael and his aunt, and Michael and his aunt's young children. Michael's estranged wife joins them for the funeral.

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2010-07-08

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, Germany

Runtime:

91 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (7104 Reviews)

Director:

Werner Herzog

Cast:

Writer:

Herbert Golder

Werner Herzog

Fullplot:

The police are called to a murder scene and quickly discover that the murderer, the victim's son, is holed up in his house with two hostages. Through a series of interviews with both the murderer's fiancèe and his theatre director the police piece together a picture of a man losing touch with reality.

The Hunter

The Hunter

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2011-10-06

Languages:

English

Countries:

Australia

Runtime:

100 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (27630 Reviews)

Director:

Daniel Nettheim

Cast:

Writer:

Alice Addison (screenplay)

Wain Fimeri (original adaptation)

Daniel Nettheim (original adaptation)

Julia Leigh (based on the novel by)

Fullplot:

The independent and lonely hunter Martin David is hired by the powerful biotech company Red Leaf to hunt down the last Tasmanian tiger. Red Leaf is interested in the DNA of the animal and Martin travels to Tasmania alone. He poses as a researcher from a university and lodges in the house of Lucy Armstrong. Martin learns that Lucy's husband has been missing for a long time and he befriends her children, Sass and Bike. When Martin goes to the village, he has a hostile reception from the locals. Along the days, Martin spends his days in the Tasmanian wilderness chasing the Tiger and becomes closer and closer to the Armstrong family. But Red Leaf wants results no matter the costs.

4:44 Last Day on Earth

4:44 Last Day on Earth

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2012-12-19

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, Switzerland, France

Runtime:

82 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

4.5 (3806 Reviews)

Director:

Abel Ferrara

Fullplot:

A look at how a painter and a successful actor spend their last day together before the world comes to an end.

John Wick

John Wick

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2014-10-24

Languages:

English, Russian, Hungarian

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

101 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (190907 Reviews)

Fullplot:

John Wick is a mob hit man who, upon falling in love, quits. 5 years later, his wife dies and to make sure he's not alone she arranges for a dog to be brought to him after her death. Later, some men wanting his car break in and beat him up and kill his dog. When he recovers, he sets to get the ones who killed his dog. He learns that the leader is the son of his former employer. And the man wanting to protect his son, tries to take care of Wick but he's still as good as he was.

Pasolini

Pasolini

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2014-09-25

Languages:

English, Italian, French

Countries:

France, Belgium, Italy

Runtime:

84 min

IMDB Ratings:

5.8 (1022 Reviews)

Director:

Abel Ferrara

Cast:

Writer:

Maurizio Braucci

Abel Ferrara (based on an idea by)

Nicola Tranquillino (based on an idea by)

Fullplot:

A kaleidoscopic look at the last day of Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1975.

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