S.F.W.
Jan 20, 1995 | IMDB 6
96 min Watch NowComedy, Drama
An alienated and misanthropic teenager gains sudden and unwanted celebrity status after he's taken hostage by terrorists where his indifference to their threats to kill him makes news headlines.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Welcome to the Rileys
Truth or Consequences, N.M.
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
Jesse Stone: Night Passage
The Accidental Tourist
Fail Safe
Killing Words
The Wave
Fear and Trembling
Pollyanna
Shares in Murder
Your Fault: London
Our Fault: London
A Bride from the North
Estátua!
Teenage Hitchhikers
Le Trou
The Castle of Sand
Who'll Stop the Rain
Reuben, Reuben
SIMILAR MOVIES
Welcome to the Rileys
IMDB 6.6 | Oct , 2010
Years after their teenage daughter’s death, Lois and Doug Riley, an upstanding Indiana couple, are frozen by estranging grief. Doug escapes to New Orleans on a business trip. Compelled by urgencies he doesn’t understand, he insinuates himself into the life of an underage hooker, becoming her platonic guardian.Truth or Consequences, N.M.
IMDB 6.2 | May , 1997
Raymond Lembecke is a con just out of prison after serving time for selling drugs for his mob boss Tony Vago. (Lembecke was innocent and took the rap for Vago.) Lembecke thinks Vago owes him big time so, when his former boss gets him a measly job in a warehouse, he decides on revenge and plans to steal a million dollars worth of drugs from him.The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
IMDB 7.3 | May , 2005
After suffering terrible headaches and stomach cramps, Mr. Lăzărescu, a lonely 63 year-old man, calls for an ambulance, beginning one man’s hellish journey through Bucharest hospitals in search of proper medical care. As the night unfolds, his health starts to deteriorate fast.Jesse Stone: Night Passage
IMDB 6.9 | Jan , 2006
A prequel to "Stone Cold", the story picks up after Jesse Stone is fired from the Los Angeles Police Department. He becomes an unlikely candidate recruited by a town council to become police chief of Paradise, MA, a small fishing town on Boston's North Shore. The board hopes his failed experience will keep him from digging too deep into the town's secrets. His first assignment is to investigate the murder of his predecessor whose death may be tied to a local domestic disturbance case, with connections to money laundering and murder involving some of the town's most affluent names as possible suspects.The Accidental Tourist
IMDB 6.2 | Dec , 1988
After the death of his son, travel writer Macon Leary seems to be sleep walking through life. Macon's wife is having similar problems. They separate, and Macon meets a strange, outgoing woman who brings him 'back down to earth', but his wife soon thinks their marriage is still worth another try.Fail Safe
IMDB 6.9 | Apr , 2000
Cold War tensions climb to a fever pitch when a U.S. bomber is accidentally ordered to drop a nuclear warhead on Moscow.Killing Words
IMDB 6.6 | Aug , 2004
A mild-mannered psychopath plays mind-games with a woman he has tied to a chair in his basement.The Wave
IMDB 6.9 | Oct , 1981
A teacher conducts an experiment in an American high school where students learn how easy it is to be seduced by the same social forces which led to the horrors of Nazi Germany.Fear and Trembling
IMDB 6.4 | Mar , 2003
Amélie, a young Belgian woman, having spent her childhood in Japan, decides to return to live there and tries to integrate in the Japanese society. She is determined to be a "real Japanese" before her year contract runs out, though it precisely this determination that is incompatable with Japanese humility. Though she is hired for a choice position as a translator at an import/export firm, her inability to understand Japanese cultural norms results in increasingly humiliating demotions. Though Amelie secretly adulates her, her immediate supervisor takes sadistic pleasure in belittling her all along. She finally manages to break Amelie's will by making her the bathroom attendant, and is delighted when Amelie tells her the she will not renew her contract. Amelie realizes that she is finally a real Japanese when she enters the company president's office "with fear and trembling," which could only be possible because her determination was broken by Miss Fubuki's systematic torture.Pollyanna
IMDB 7 | May , 1960
A young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see the best in life.Shares in Murder
IMDB 8 | Jan , 1964
Beth Tyson is murdered in her mansion. Chief Inspector Fields, Inspector Bramell and Detective Philbert present three different versions of this crime.Your Fault: London
IMDB 0 | Feb , 2026
Nick and Noah are both embarking on life-changing adventures that are threatening to pull them apart—Nick in business with his father and Noah starting a fresh chapter at Oxford University. Now living separate lives, and meeting new people, they find themselves entangled in temptations, rivalries, and betrayals and their bond is tested like never before. As secrets unravel and temptation rises, they must fight to hold onto each other—or risk losing everything.Our Fault: London
IMDB 0 | Feb , 2026
The concluding chapter of the three-part film series which started with My Fault: London and has been following the forbidden romance between Noah and her stepbrother Nick. In Our Fault: London, Noah and Nick face events that will force them to make a final decision: are they meant to be together or should they part ways?A Bride from the North
IMDB 4.6 | Nov , 1975
Artak has served his military service in the Russian countryside where he meets Valya. But Valya's mother refuses to send her only daughter to “these far highlands, where earthquakes happen all the time”. Artak is forced to ask his contrasting and numerous relatives –Armenian villagers– to visit a remote Russian village to bring a bride to Armenia.Estátua!
IMDB 6 | Aug , 2014
Isabel is a babysitter pregnant of her own child and can't wait to be a mother. Until she meets Joana.Teenage Hitchhikers
IMDB 5.4 | Aug , 1974
Three girls go on the road and run into trouble with the people who give them rides.Le Trou
IMDB 8.3 | Mar , 1960
Four prison inmates have been hatching a plan to literally dig out of jail when another prisoner, Claude Gaspard, is moved into their cell. They take a risk and share their plan with the newcomer. Over the course of three days, the prisoners and friends break through the concrete floor using a bed post and begin to make their way through the sewer system – yet their escape is anything but assured.The Castle of Sand
IMDB 7.3 | Oct , 1974
Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.Who'll Stop the Rain
IMDB 6.5 | Aug , 1978
John, a disillusioned Vietnam War journalist, turns to heroin smuggling. He cons Ray, an equally burnt out veteran into delivering the drugs stateside to his wife. Everything soon falls apart and Ray ends up on the run with John's wife trying to evade crooked narcotics agents.Reuben, Reuben
IMDB 6.2 | Dec , 1983
A drunken Scottish poet who has not written a word in years feels compelled to regain control of his life and work after meeting a beautiful young woman.