Attack of the 50 Foot Woman is a 1958 American low-budget science fiction feature film directed by Nathan H. Juran (credited as Nathan Hertz) from a screenplay by Mark Hanna. The story concerns the plight of a wealthy heiress whose close… Continue Reading
Bad Lieutenant is a 1992 American crime drama film directed by Abel Ferrara. The film stars Harvey Keitel as the eponymous “bad lieutenant”. The screenplay was written by actress-model Zoë Lund, who also plays a small role in the film.… Continue Reading
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is a 1970 American schlock melodrama, in which three girls come to Hollywood to make it big, but find only sex, drugs and sleaze. The film starred Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Marcia McBroom, John… Continue Reading
Goodfellas is a 1990 American crime film directed by Martin Scorsese. It is a film adaptation of the 1986 non-fiction book Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi, who co-wrote the screenplay with Scorsese. The film follows the rise and fall of Lucchese… Continue Reading
Delicatessen is a 1991 French film, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, starring Dominique Pinon and Karin Viard. It is set in an apartment building in a post-apocalyptic France of an ambiguous time period. The story focuses on the… Continue Reading
Duel is a 1971 television (and later full-length theatrical) thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Richard Matheson. It stars Dennis Weaver as a terrified motorist stalked on a remote and lonely road by the mostly unseen driver… Continue Reading
Cyborg, known in the UK as Cyborg 009, is a 1989 American martial-arts science fiction film directed by Albert Pyun. Jean-Claude Van Damme stars as Gibson Rickenbacker, a mercenary who battles a group of murderous marauders led by Fender Tremolo… Continue Reading
Cape Fear is a 1991 American psychological thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese and a remake of the 1962 film of the same name. It stars Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange and Juliette Lewis and features cameos from… Continue Reading
Der Himmel über Berlin (Wings of desire in the english version) is a 1987 Franco-German romantic fantasy film directed by Wim Wenders. The film is about invisible, immortal angels who populate Berlin and listen to the thoughts of the human… Continue Reading
Carrie is a 1976 American supernatural horror film, in which a young, abused and timid 17-year-old girl discovers she has telekinesis, and gets pushed to the limit on the night of her school’s prom by a humiliating prank. The film is… Continue Reading
Sid and Nancy (also known as Sid and Nancy: Love Kills) is a 1986 British biopic directed by Alex Cox. The film portrays the life of Sid Vicious (Gary Oldman), bassist of the seminal punk rock band the Sex Pistols,… Continue Reading
Paris, Texas is a 1984 drama film directed by Wim Wenders and starring Harry Dean Stanton, Dean Stockwell, Nastassja Kinski, and Hunter Carson. The plot focuses on an amnesiac (Stanton) who, after mysteriously wandering out of the desert, attempts to revive… Continue Reading
Stand by me is a 1986 American coming of age drama comedy film directed by Rob Reiner. Based on the novel The Body by Stephen King, the title is derived from the Ben E. King song of the same name,… Continue Reading
Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo (Christiane F in the english version) is a 1981 German film directed by Ulrich Edel that portrays the drug scene in West Berlin in the 1970s, based on the non-fiction book of the same name… Continue Reading
Bitter Moon is a 1992 Franco-British-American romantic thriller film directed by Roman Polanski and starring Hugh Grant, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emmanuelle Seigner and Peter Coyote. The film crosses the line into intentional camp more often than not in its tale of… Continue Reading
Blow-Up is a 1966 film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni about a fashion photographer, played by David Hemmings, who believes he may have witnessed a murder and unwittingly taken photographs of the killing. It was Antonioni’s first entirely English-language film. The plot was… Continue Reading
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a 1975 American drama film directed by Miloš Forman, based on the 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey, in which upon admittance to a mental institution, McMurphy, a… Continue Reading
The Fly is a 1986 American science fiction horror film directed and co-written by David Cronenberg. The film stars Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis and John Getz; and tells the story of a brilliant but eccentric scientist, who begins to transform into… Continue Reading
37°2 le matin (Betty Blue) is a 1986 French film about Zorg, a handyman working in France, maintaining and looking after the bungalows. He lives a quiet and peaceful life, working diligently and writing in his spare time. One day Betty walks… Continue Reading
The Warriors is a 1979 American cult action thriller drama film directed by Walter Hill and based on Sol Yurick’s 1965 novel of the same name. Like the novel, the film borrows elements from the Anabasis by Xenophon. The film opened… Continue Reading