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x 10   Oct 5, 1979 Blake Edwards A temptingly tasteful comedy for adults who can count.
10 is a 1979 romantic comedy film directed by Blake Edwards and starring, Dudley Moore, Julie Andrews, Robert Webber, and Bo Derek, in her first major film appearance. Considered a trend-setting film at the time, and one of the year's biggest box...
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water...
x 54   Aug 28, 1998 Mark Christopher Welcome to the Party.
54 (also known as Studio 54) is a 1998 American drama film written and directed by Mark Christopher, starring Ryan Phillippe, Salma Hayek, and Neve Campbell. It also stars Mike Myers as Steve Rubell, the co-founder of Studio 54, a New York City...
Sex. Drugs. Disco. Everything was in excess.
You've never been anywhere until you've been here.
x 69   Jul 10, 2004 Sang-il Lee  
69 is a 2004 film adaptation of Ryu Murakami's novel 69.
x 101 101 1989 D. A. Pennebaker  
101 is a live album and documentary by Depeche Mode released in 1989 chronicling the final leg of the band's Music for the Masses Tour and the final show at the Pasadena Rose Bowl. Group member Alan Wilder is credited with coming up with the name;...
Chris Hegedus
David Dawkins
x 300 /m/08l4rns Dec 9, 2006 Zack Snyder Prepare for glory!
300 is a 2007 American fantasy action film based on the 1998 comic series of the same name by Frank Miller. It is a fictionalized retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae. The film was directed by Zack Snyder, while Miller served as executive producer...
Pledged to crush!
Spartans, tonight, we dine in hell!
This is where we fight, this is where they die!!
Thirsty for Spartan blood!
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x 1900   Aug 16, 1976 Bernardo Bertolucci  
1900 (Italian: Novecento, "Twentieth Century") is a 1976 Italian epic film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, starring Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda, Donald Sutherland, Alida Valli, and Burt Lancaster. Set in Bertolucci's ancestral...
x 1941   Dec 14, 1979 Steven Spielberg A Comedy Spectacular!
1941 is a 1979 period comedy film directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, and featuring an ensemble cast including Dan Aykroyd, Ned Beatty, John Belushi, John Candy, Christopher Lee, and Toshiro Mifune. The film is...
x 1969   Nov 18, 1988 Ernest Thompson  
1969 is a 1988 drama film starring Robert Downey, Jr., Kiefer Sutherland, and Winona Ryder. It was written and directed by Ernest Thompson. The original music score is composed by Michael Small. The film deals with the Vietnam War and the resulting...
x 1984 1984.jpg Oct 10, 1984 Michael Radford Big Brother is Watching...
Nineteen Eighty-Four (sometimes 1984) is a 1984 British science fiction film, based upon George Orwell's novel of the same name, following the life of Winston Smith in Oceania, a country run by a totalitarian government. The film was written and...
George Orwell's Terrifying Vision Comes To The Screen.
The year of the movie. The movie of the year.
x 2046 2046_key_art_432.jpg May 20, 2004 Wong Kar-wai  
2046 is a 2004 Hong Kong film (filmed in Shanghai) written and directed by Wong Kar-wai. It is a loose sequel to the 1991 Hong Kong film Days of Being Wild and the 2000 Hong Kong film In the Mood for Love. It follows the aftermath of Chow Mo-wan's...
x ¡Three Amigos!   Dec 12, 1986 John Landis  
Three Amigos (marketed as ¡Three Amigos!) is a 1986 American western comedy film directed by John Landis and written by Lorne Michaels, Steve Martin, and Randy Newman. Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, and Martin Short star as the title characters, three...
x ¿Quién es el señor López? ¿Quién es el señor López? Feb 2006 Luis Mandoki  
¿Quién es el señor López? (Spanish for "Who is Mr. Lopez?") is a 2006 film made by film director Luis Mandoki. It is a political non-fiction film about Mexican presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador and the Mexican general election, 2006...
x ...And Justice for All   Jun 29, 1979 Norman Jewison This man needs the best lawyer in town. But the problem is... he is the best lawyer in town.
For the Metallica album, see And Justice for All ...And Justice For All is a 1979 courtroom drama film, directed by Norman Jewison. The movie stars Al Pacino, John Forsythe, Jack Warden, Lee Strasberg, Jeffrey Tambor, Christine Lahti, Craig T....
x What Have I Done To Deserve This?   Oct 25, 1984 Pedro Almodóvar  
What Have I Done to Deserve This? (Spanish: ¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto?) is a 1984 film by Pedro Almodóvar. The title is sometimes given with an exclamation mark at the end rather than a question mark. Almodóvar has described his fourth film...
x *batteries not included   Dec 18, 1987 Matthew Robbins Five ordinary people needed a miracle. Then one night, Faye Riley left the window open.
*batteries not included is a 1987 family-science fiction film directed by Matthew Robbins about small extraterrestrial living machines that save an apartment block under threat from property development. The story was originally intended to be...
x "Weird Al" Yankovic: The Ultimate Collection   1993 Francis Delia  
"Weird Al" Yankovic: The Ultimate Collection is a VHS release of "Weird Al" Yankovic's music videos. The VHS was only available by ordering from a toll-free telephone number. It includes music videos from The "Weird Al" Yankovic Video Library and...
Jay Levey
Scott Norlund
Dror Soref
Robert K. Weiss
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x "Manos": The Hands of Fate \"Manos\": The Hands of Fate Nov 5, 1966 Hal Warren  
Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966) is an American horror film written, directed, produced by, and starring Harold P. Warren. It is widely recognized to be one of the worst films ever made. In 1993, the television comedy series Mystery Science Theater...
x "Weird Al" Yankovic Live!   Nov 23, 1999 Michael Dimich  
"Weird Al" Yankovic Live! is a live video recording of "Weird Al" Yankovic's concert during the Touring With Scissors tour, at the Marin County Civic Center, in San Rafael, California, on October 2, 1999. For legal reasons, video clips and several...
x "Weird Al" Yankovic: The Ultimate Video Collection   Nov 4, 2003 Jay Levey  
"Weird Al" Yankovic: The Ultimate Video Collection is a DVD by "Weird Al" Yankovic which features all 24 music videos Yankovic created up to the release of the DVD. Also included are bonus features including on-screen lyrics, a photo gallery, 5.1...
"Weird Al" Yankovic
x "Weird Al" Yankovic: The Videos   Jan 1998 Francis Delia  
"Weird Al" Yankovic: The Videos is a DVD and laserdisc release of every "Weird Al" Yankovic music video to date. The DVD contains 21 music videos. It is out of print, and since has been replaced with the more comprehensive "Weird Al" Yankovic: The...
Jay Levey
Scott Norlund
Dror Soref
Robert K. Weiss
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x 16 Vayathinile   1977 Bharathiraja  
16 Vayathinile (English: At the Age of Sixteen) (Tamil: 16 வயதினிலே) is a 1977 Tamil feature film directed by Bharathiraja. The film stars Kamal Haasan, Rajinikanth and Sridevi. The film's score and soundtrack are composed by Ilaiyaraaja. The film...
x 15, Park Avenue   2005 Aparna Sen  
15 Park Avenue is a 2005 National Film Award winning English-language Indian film directed by Aparna Sen. 30-something Mitali aka Meethi (Konkona Sen Sharma) suffers from Schizophrenia and is taken care of by her much older, divorced sister Anjali...
x 20 Million Miles to Earth 2557355blu-ray_20_million_miles_to_earth-50th.jpg 1957 Nathan Juran Out-Of-Space Creature Invades the Earth!
20 Million Miles to Earth is a 1957 American science fiction film written by Bob Williams and Christopher Knopf from an original treatment by Charlott Knight. The film was produced by Charles H. Schneer's Morningside Productions for Columbia...
x 36 Hours   Jan 28, 1965 George Seaton  
36 Hours is a 1965 American suspense film, based on the short story "Beware of the Dog" by Roald Dahl, starring James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, and Rod Taylor, and directed by George Seaton. An American officer is deceived into believing that he has...
x 2 Fast 2 Furious   Jun 3, 2003 John Singleton 2Tuff
2 Fast 2 Furious is a 2003 American street racing action film directed by John Singleton. It is the second film in The Fast and the Furious film series following The Fast and the Furious (2001). It stars Paul Walker, Tyrese Gibson, Eva Mendes, Devon...
x 99 River Street   1953 Phil Karlson  
99 River Street is a 1953 film noir, starring John Payne, Evelyn Keyes, Brad Dexter, Frank Faylen, and Peggie Castle. The film was directed by Phil Karlson, produced by Edward Small, with cinematography by Franz Planer. Ernie Driscoll is a former...
x Betty Blue betty.jpg Apr 9, 1986 Jean-Jacques Beineix  
Betty Blue is a 1986 French film. Its original French title is 37°2 le matin, which means "37.2°C in the Morning". (37.2°C [99°F] is the normal morning temperature of a pregnant woman.) The film was directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix and stars...
x 8mm 8mm Feb 19, 1999 Joel Schumacher Some doors should never be opened.
8mm is a 1999 American mystery thriller film, directed by Joel Schumacher and written by Andrew Kevin Walker. It stars Nicolas Cage as a private investigator who delves into the world of snuff films. Private investigator Tom Welles is contacted by...
You are never prepared for the truth.
You can't prepare for where the truth will take you.
Be careful when you kill a monster, that you don't become one yourself.
x 5 Card Stud 5 Card Stud 1968 Henry Hathaway  
5 Card Stud is a 1968 Western, released by Paramount Pictures. Directed by Henry Hathaway, the script, based on a novel by Ray Gaulden, was written by Marguerite Roberts, who also wrote the screenplay of True Grit for Hathaway the following year....
x 7G Rainbow Colony   Oct 15, 2005 Selvaraghavan  
7G Rainbow Colony is a 2004 Tamil drama film written and directed by Selvaraghavan, starring Ravi Krishna, who debuted in this film, and Sonia Agarwal in lead roles, with music scored by Yuvan Shankar Raja and cinematography handled by Arvind...
x 3-Iron   2004 Kim Ki-duk Leere Häuser
3-Iron (빈집, Bin-jip, meaning Empty House) is a 2004 Korean film directed by Kim Ki-duk. The plot revolves around the relationship between a young drifter and an abused housewife. The film is notable for the lack of dialogue between its two main...
x 11 Harrowhouse   Sep 26, 1974 Aram Avakian This is like no robbery you've ever imagined.
11 Harrowhouse is a 1974 British film directed by Aram Avakian. It was adapted by Charles Grodin based upon the novel by Gerald A. Browne with the screenplay by Jeffrey Bloom. It stars Charles Grodin, Candice Bergen, James Mason, Trevor Howard and...
THE CHALLENGE: Steal 12 billion dollars in uncut diamonds. THE TASK: Break into the most securely guarded fortress devised by man. THE PLAN: Use amateurs armed with ingenuity, guts, a cockroach, a thin cord, and a vacuum cleaner. THE RISK: Death.
Ultra Suspense. The best seller made America hold its breath for 225 pages. Now it shatters your nerves with the most incredible robbery on film.
x 3:10 to Yuma 3:10 to Yuma Aug 7, 1957 Delmer Daves  
3:10 to Yuma is a 1957 American western film starring Glenn Ford and Van Heflin and directed by Delmer Daves. The film was based on the short story by Elmore Leonard. The film was well received on release and is still highly regarded today. A remake...
x 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea   Dec 23, 1954 Richard Fleischer  
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a 1954 adventure film starring Kirk Douglas as Ned Land, James Mason as Captain Nemo, Paul Lukas as Professor Pierre Aronnax, and Peter Lorre as Conseil. It was the first science fiction film produced by Walt Disney...
x 2010: The Year We Make Contact   Dec 7, 1984 Peter Hyams We are not alone.
2010 (also known as 2010: The Year We Make Contact) is a 1984 American science fiction film written and directed by Peter Hyams. It is a sequel to Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, and is based on Arthur C. Clarke's novel 2010:...
x 8 Mile /m/09p_nzz Sep 8, 2002 Curtis Hanson Lose Yourself In the Music
8 Mile is a 2002 American hip-hop drama film written by Scott Silver, directed by Curtis Hanson, and starring Eminem, Mekhi Phifer, Brittany Murphy, and Kim Basinger. The film is an account of a young white rapper named Jimmy "B-Rabbit" Smith Jr. ...
x 681 AD: The Glory of Khan   1981 Lyudmil Staykov  
681 AD: The Glory of Khan (Bulgarian: 681 г.: Величието на хана) is an 1981 three-part Bulgarian historical action and drama film telling the story of khan Asparuh and the events around the founding of the medieval Bulgarian state in 681 AD. It was...
x 100 Girls   Sep 25, 2001 Michael Davis He met the girl of his dreams. If only he can meet her again.
100 Girls is a 2000 comedy film written and directed by Michael Davis. It tells the story of a college student's (Jonathan Tucker) efforts to find a mystery girl with whom he had sex on an elevator during a black out. After leaving a party at a...
x 40 Days and 40 Nights   Mar 1, 2002 Michael Lehmann One man is about to do the unthinkable. No sex. Whatsoever. For... 40 Days and 40 Nights
This article refers to Michael Lehmann's 2002 film. For the 2007 Matthew Chapman book, see 40 Days and 40 Nights (book). 40 Days and 40 Nights is a 2002 romantic comedy film directed by Michael Lehmann, written by Rob Perez and starring Josh...
This March, sex takes a holiday
One man is going to find out what it's like...
Easier said than done
It's Easy to Say But Harder To Do!
x 50 Cent: The New Breed   Apr 15, 2003 Don Robinson  
50 Cent: The New Breed is a 2003 documentary by rapper 50 Cent. It stars 50 Cent, Eminem, Dr. Dre, Lloyd Banks, Tony Yayo, and others, distributed by Interscope Records. 50 Cent: The New Breed is directed and produced by Don Robinson and Damon...
Damon Johnson
x 3: The Dale Earnhardt Story   Dec 11, 2004 Russell Mulcahy  
3: The Dale Earnhardt Story (sometimes referred to as The Dale Earnhardt Movie) is a 2004 television movie produced by ESPN documenting the life of NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt, his poor upbringing in Kannapolis, North Carolina, his rise to...
x 200 Motels   Nov 10, 1971 Frank Zappa  
200 Motels is a 1971 American-British musical surrealist film cowritten and directed by Frank Zappa and Tony Palmer and starring The Mothers of Invention, Theodore Bikel and Ringo Starr. The film covers a loose storyline about The Mothers of...
Charles Swenson
Tony Palmer
x 61* 61-blu-ray.jpg Apr 28, 2001 Billy Crystal  
61* is a 2001 American sports drama film directed by Billy Crystal. It stars Barry Pepper as Roger Maris and Thomas Jane as Mickey Mantle on their quest to break Babe Ruth's 1927 single-season home run record of 60 during the 1961 season of the New...
x 24 Hour Party People 24 Hour Party People Apr 5, 2002 Michael Winterbottom  
24 Hour Party People is a 2002 British film about Manchester's popular music community from 1976 to 1992, and specifically about Factory Records. It was written by Frank Cottrell Boyce and directed by Michael Winterbottom. The film was entered into...
x 8 Million Ways to Die   Apr 25, 1986 Hal Ashby  
8 Million Ways to Die is a 1986 American crime film. This was the final film directed by Hal Ashby, and the first attempt to adapt the popular Matthew Scudder detective stories of Lawrence Block for the screen. The screenplay was written by Oliver...
x 10th & Wolf   Aug 18, 2006 Robert Moresco  
10th & Wolf is a 2006 film about the Mafia directed by Robert Moresco. It is based on a true story of a mob war in South Philadelphia. The film stars James Marsden, Giovanni Ribisi and Brad Renfro and features appearances by Dennis Hopper, Val...
x 25th Hour   Dec 16, 2002 Spike Lee This life was so close to never happening
25th Hour is a 2002 American drama film directed by Spike Lee and is based on the novel The 25th Hour written by David Benioff, who also wrote the screenplay. The film stars Edward Norton, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Pepper, Rosario Dawson, Anna...
x 48 Hrs.   Dec 8, 1982 Walter Hill The boys are back in town. Nick Nolte is a cop. Eddie Murphy is a convict. They couldn't have liked each other less... They couldn't have needed each other more. And the last place they ever expected to be is on the same side. Even for... 48 HRS.
48 Hrs. is a 1982 American action comedy film directed by Walter Hill, starring Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy as a cop and convict, respectively, who team up to catch a cop-killer. The title refers to the amount of time they have to solve the crime....
x 28 Days Later DAYS.jpg Nov 1, 2002 Danny Boyle The Days Are Numbered
28 Days Later is a 2002 British horror film directed by Danny Boyle. The screenplay was written by Alex Garland, and the film stars Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Brendan Gleeson, Megan Burns, and Christopher Eccleston. The plot depicts the...
Be Thankful For Everything, For Soon There Will Be Nothing...
Day 1: Exposure - Day 3: Infection - Day 8: Epidemic - Day 20: Evacuation - Day 28: Devastation
x 21 Grams l_43519_0315733_a9f7faf7.jpg Sep 5, 2003 Alejandro González Iñárritu  
21 Grams is a 2003 American drama film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and written by Guillermo Arriaga. It stars Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Danny Huston, and Benicio del Toro. Like Arriaga's and González Iñárritu's previous film, Amores perros...
x 3 Women   Apr 3, 1977 Robert Altman 1 woman became 2/2 women became 3/3 women became 1.
3 Women is a 1977 American film directed by Robert Altman, starring Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek, and Janice Rule. The story came directly from a dream Altman had, which he did not fully understand, but nonetheless adapted into a treatment,...
x 9th Company 9th Company 2005 Fyodor Bondarchuk  
The 9th Company (Russian: 9 Рота) is a 2005 Russian–Finnish–Ukrainian film directed by Fyodor Bondarchuk about the Soviet War in Afghanistan. The film follows a band of young recruits from a farewell ceremony with friends and family back home. They...
x 45 Minutes from Hollywood   Dec 26, 1926 Fred Guiol  
45 Minutes From Hollywood (1926) is an American two-reel silent film released by Pathé Exchange. At the time, it was known as a Glenn Tryon vehicle, but today it is best remembered as the second instance of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy appearing in...
x 102 Dalmatians   Nov 22, 2000 Kevin Lima A spotless new tail is going to be unleashed.
102 Dalmatians is a 2000 live-action film, produced by Walt Disney Pictures and starring Glenn Close as Cruella de Vil. It is the sequel to 101 Dalmatians, a live-action remake of the 1961 Disney animated feature of the same name. In the film,...
x 16 Years of Alcohol   Aug 14, 2003 Richard Jobson  
16 Years of Alcohol is a 2003 drama film written and directed by Richard Jobson, based on his 1987 novel. The film is Jobson's first directorial effort, following a career as a television presenter on BSkyB and VH-1, and as the vocalist for the...
x 1942: A Love Story 1942: A Love Story Jul 15, 1994 Vidhu Vinod Chopra  
1942: A Love Story is a 1994 Bollywood film starring Anil Kapoor, Manisha Koirala, Jackie Shroff, Anupam Kher, Danny Denzongpa, and Pran. The film was the first ever to be given a U/A rating while featuring a scene, previously considered...
x 12B   May 15, 2001 Jeeva  
12B is a 2001 Tamil romantic film directed and co-written by Jeeva. The film featured Shaam in his debut along with Jyothika and Simran in the leading roles. Vivek, Moon Moon Sen and Sunil Shetty play other pivotal role in the film which had music...
x 2009 Lost Memories 2009 Lost Memories Feb 1, 2002 Lee Si-myung  
2009 Lost Memories is a 2002 South Korean science fiction action thriller film directed by Lee Si-myung. It was distributed by CJ Entertainment and was released on February 1, 2002. In the year 2009, where Korea is still under Japanese rule,...
x 16 Blocks   Mar 3, 2006 Richard Donner 1 Witness... 118 Minutes...
16 Blocks is a 2006 crime thriller film directed by Richard Donner. It stars Bruce Willis, Mos Def, and David Morse. The movie unfolds in the real time narration method. Jack Mosley is an alcoholic and burned-out NYPD detective. After working all...
x 15 Minutes   Mar 1, 2001 John Herzfeld Some people will kill for their...15 MINUTES. Now, two of New York's finest must stop the madness.
15 Minutes is a 2001 film starring Robert De Niro, Edward Burns and Karel Roden. It is about a homicide detective and a fire marshal who must stop a couple of Eastern European murderers from videotaping their killing and becoming sensationalized by...
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