Carnival of Souls is a 1962 American independent horror film starring Candace Hilliness. Its plot follows a young woman whose life is disturbed after a car accident, finding herself drawn to the pavilion of an abandoned carnival. Set to an organ score by Gene Moore, Carnival of Souls relies more on atmosphere than… Continue Reading
Candy is a 1968 sex farce film directed by Christian Marquand based on the 1958 novel by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg, from a screenplay by Buck Henry. High school student Candy (former Miss Teen Sweden Ewa Aulin) seemingly descends to Earth from space. In the relatively simple satiric plot, she naively… Continue Reading
Bolero is a 1984 American romantic drama film starring Bo Derek, and written and directed by her husband John Derek. The film centers on the protagonist’s sexual awakening and her journey around the world to pursue an ideal first lover who will take her virginity. Executive producer and Cannon… Continue Reading
Wait Until Dark is a 1967 psychological horror thriller film directed by Terence Young. It stars Audrey Hepburn as a young blind woman, Alan Arkin as a violent criminal searching for some drugs, and Richard Crenna as another criminal, supported by Jack Weston, Julie Herrod, and Efrem Zimbalist Jr. To immerse viewers in the suspense of… Continue Reading
John and Mary is a 1969 American romantic drama film directed by Peter Yates. It stars Dustin Hoffman and Mia Farrow in the title roles, directly on the heels of Midnight Cowboy and Rosemary’s Baby, respectively (as well as Bullitt for Yates). John and Mary begins the morning after John and Mary meet in a… Continue Reading
9½ Weeks is a 1986 American erotic romantic drama film directed by Adrian Lyne. The film is based on the 1978 memoir of the same name by Austrian-American author Ingeborg Day. It stars Kim Basinger as Elizabeth McGraw and Mickey Rourke as John Gray. McGraw is a New York City art gallery employee who has… Continue Reading
Three O’Clock High is a 1987 high-school comedy film, directed by Phil Joanou, written by Richard Christian Matheson and Thomas Szollosi; the executive producer was Aaron Spelling. The plot is loosely connected to the 1952 western classic, High Noon, where a sherriff is forced into a showdown with a notorious criminal… Continue Reading
10 is a 1979 American romantic comedy film written, produced and directed by Blake Edwards; 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 office hits, the film made superstars of… Continue Reading
Less Than Zero is a 1987 American drama film directed by Marek Kanievska, very loosely based on Bret Easton Ellis’ novel of the same name. The film stars Andrew McCarthy as Clay, a college freshman returning home for Christmas to spend time with his ex-girlfriend Blair (Jami Gertz) and… Continue Reading
The Apartment is a 1960 American comedy-drama film that was produced and directed by Billy Wilder, and which stars Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, and Fred MacMurray. Calvin Clifford (C. C.) “Bud” Baxter (Jack Lemmon) is a lonely office drudge at a national insurance corporation in a high-rise building… Continue Reading
Really bizarre, drama, fantasy, drug film combo. A man spends time in his lonely mansion, picks up a loose chick and brings her home. The man’s wife turns up and the two femmes ignore him for some lesbian fun. Things… Continue Reading
Creepshow is a 1982 elemental black comedy and horror anthology film directed by George A. Romero and written by Stephen King, making this film his screenwriting debut. The film’s ensemble cast included Hal Holbrook,Adrienne Barbeau, Fritz Weaver, Leslie Nielsen, Ted Danson and E. G. Marshall, as well as Stephen King himself in his film acting… Continue Reading
Style Wars is an American 1983 documentary on hip hop culture and its American roots, directed by Tony Silver and produced in collaboration with Henry Chalfant. The film has an emphasis on graffiti, although bboying and rapping are covered to a lesser extent. The film was originally aired on PBS television… Continue Reading
A Bronx Tale is a 1993 American crime drama film set in the Bronx during the turbulent era of the 1960s. It was the directorial debut of Robert De Niro that follows a young Italian-American teenager in The Bronx, New York as his path in life is guided by two father figures, played… Continue Reading
Diner is a 1982 American comedy-drama written and directed by Barry Levinson. The film is Levinson’s screen directing debut, and the first of Levinson’s four “Baltimore Films” set in his hometown during the 1940s, ’50s, and ’60s. Set in the northwest section of Baltimore, Maryland, during the… Continue Reading
Sweet Sugar is a 1972 blaxploitation women in prison film directed by Michel Levesque, about a woman sentenced to work on a chain gang. A prostitute, Sugar Bowman, agrees to serve two years working on a sugar-cane plantation rather than go to jail on a… Continue Reading
D.O.A. A Right of Passage is a 1980 rockumentary film directed by Lech Kowalski (his premiere film as a director) about the origin of punk rock. The rockumentary takes interview and concert footage of some of punk rock’s earliest bands… Continue Reading
Wall Street is a 1987 American drama film, directed and co-written by Oliver Stone, which stars Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Daryl Hannah and Martin Sheen. The film tells the story of Bud Fox (Sheen), a young stockbroker who becomes involved with Gordon Gekko (Douglas), a wealthy, unscrupulous corporate raider. Stone made the film… Continue Reading
Made in Britain is a 1983 British television film written by David Leland, and directed by Alan Clarke, about a 16-year-old racist skinhead named Trevor, and his constant confrontations with authority figures. It was originally broadcast on ITV on 10 July 1983 as the fourth in an untitled series… Continue Reading
Labyrinth is a 1986 American adventure fantasy film directed by Jim Henson, executive produced by George Lucas, and based upon conceptual designs by Brian Froud. The film stars David Bowie as Jareth and Jennifer Connelly as Sarah. The plot revolves around 15-year-old Sarah’s quest to reach the center of an enormous otherworldly maze… Continue Reading
The Man Who Fell to Earth is a 1976 British science fiction drama film directed by Nicolas Roeg and written by Paul Mayersberg, based on Walter Tevis’ 1963 novel of the same name, about an extraterrestrial who crash lands on Earth seeking a way to ship water to his planet, which is… Continue Reading
The Castle is a 1997 Australian comedy film directed by Rob Sitch. The film’s title is based after the English saying, repeatedly referred to in the film, “a man’s home is his castle”. Its humour plays on the national self image, most notably the concept of… Continue Reading
Gremlins is a 1984 American comedy horror film directed by Joe Dante and released by Warner Bros. The film is about a young man who receives a strange creature called a mogwai as a pet, which then spawns other creatures who transform into small, destructive, evil monsters. This story… Continue Reading
Wild at Heart is a 1990 American crime thriller film written and directed by David Lynch, and based on Barry Gifford’s 1989 novel of the same name. Both the book and the film revolve around Sailor Ripley and Lula Pace Fortune, a young couple from Cape Fear, North… Continue Reading
Mannequin is a 1987 romantic comedy fantasy film starring Andrew McCarthy, Kim Cattrall and James Spader between others.. Directed and written by Michael Gottlieb, the film was also co-written by Edward Rugoff, the film tells about a chronically underemployed artist named Jonathan Switcher (played by McCarthy) who gets a… Continue Reading
Il gatto a nove code (The cat o’nine tails in the english version) is a 1971 Italian thriller (giallo) film written and directed by Dario Argento. Although it is the middle entry in Argento’s so-called “Animal Trilogy” (along with The Bird with the Crystal Plumage and Four… Continue Reading
The legendary Edward D. Wood co-wrote and appears in this remake of his equally legendary 1956 classic The Violent Years. The film is also known as Five loose women. The story focuses on the exploits of a gang of young… Continue Reading
Солярис (Solaris in the english version)) is a 1972 Russian science fiction art film adaptation of Polish author Stanisław Lem’s novel Solaris (1961). The film was co-written and directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. The film is a meditative psychological drama occurring mostly aboard a space station orbiting the fictional planet Solaris. The… Continue Reading
The Witches is a 1990 fantasy–horror film based on the book of the same name by Roald Dahl. It was directed by Nicolas Roeg and produced by The Jim Henson Company for Lorimar Film Entertainment and Warner Bros, starring Anjelica Huston, Mai Zetterling, Rowan Atkinson and Jasen Fisher. As in the novel, the plot takes place in an alternate… Continue Reading
99 women (Der Heisse Tod in the german version) is a 1969 women’s prison exploitation film directed by Jesús Franco. New inmate Marie arrives at an island prison in the women’s sector and receives the number 99. The inmates are controlled… Continue Reading
Road House is a 1989 American action film directed by Rowdy Herrington and starring Patrick Swayze as a bouncer at a newly refurbished roadside bar who protects a small town in Missouri from a corrupt businessman. Sam Elliott also plays a bouncer, the mentor, friend and foil of Swayze’s character. The cast also includes Kelly Lynch as… Continue Reading
Love Potion No. 9 is a 1992 movie starring Sandra Bullock and Tate Donovan. Inspired by the famous doo-wop song of the same title, it’s about a special elixir (Love Potion No. 8) that enables a person to make people of the opposite sex become completely infatuated with them by… Continue Reading
Mask is a 1985 American drama film directed by Peter Bogdanovich, starring Cher, Sam Elliott, and Eric Stoltz.Dennis Burkley and Laura Dern are featured in supporting roles. Cher received the 1985 Cannes Film Festivalaward for Best Actress. The film is based on the life and early death of Roy L. “Rocky” Dennis, a boy who suffered… Continue Reading
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover is a 1989 British-French romantic black comedy crime drama film written and directed by Peter Greenaway, starring Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren and Alan Howard in the titular roles. The wife of an oafish restaurant owner becomes bored with her husband and… Continue Reading
Top Secret! is a 1984 action comedy film directed by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker, whose previous picture had been Airplane! It stars Val Kilmer (in his first feature film), Lucy Gutteridge, Omar Sharif,Peter Cushing, Michael Gough and Jeremy Kemp. Top Secret! lampoons practically every film genre. Specifically, however, this is a hybrid… Continue Reading
Coffy is a 1973 Blaxploitation film written and directed by American filmmaker Jack Hill. The story is about a black female vigilante played by Pam Grier. Coffy is notable in its depiction of a strong female lead (a capable nurse), something rare in the genre at the time, and also in its then-unfashionable anti-drug message. It was remade… Continue Reading
Wild Style is a 1983 hip hop film produced by Charlie Ahearn. Released theatrically in 1983 by First Run Features and later re-released for home video by Rhino Home Video, it is regarded as the first hip hop motion picture. Wild Style takes place in early… Continue Reading
Carlito’s Way is a 1993 American crime drama film directed by Brian De Palma, based on the novels Carlito’s Way and After Hours by Judge Edwin Torres. The film follows the life of Carlito Brigante after he is released from prison and vows to go straight and retire. However,… Continue Reading
The Evil Dead is a 1981 American horror film written and directed by Sam Raimi and executive produced by Raimi and Bruce Campbell, who also stars alongside Ellen Sandweiss and Betsy Baker. The Evil Dead focuses on five college students vacationing in an isolated cabin in a remote wooded area. After… Continue Reading
Rear Window is a 1954 American mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by John Michael Hayes based on Cornell Woolrich’s 1942 short story “It had to be murder“, in which a wheelchair bound photographer spies on his neighbours from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them… Continue Reading