A small-time conman has his loyalties torn between his estranged mother and his new girlfriend, both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own angles to play.
Casts Anjelica Huston, John Cusack, Annette Bening, Jan Munroe, Robert Weems, Stephen Tobolowsky, Jimmy Noonan, Richard Holden, Henry Jones, Michael Laskin
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Young. Wild. Free.
Whistle Down the Wind
Nine Dead
International Airport
Heat Wave
Flic Story
The Two Jakes
First Name: Carmen
In Country
Huckleberry Finn
Stockholm Marathon
Downhill Racer
Dodes'ka-den
The Crush
Murder in the Dark
Crimes of the Mind
A Dog of Flanders
Cop Killer
Roseanna
Enter the Void
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Young. Wild. Free.
IMDB 1.8 | Jan , 2023
High school senior Brandon is drowning in responsibilities when his world is turned upside down after being robbed at gunpoint by the girl of his dreams.Whistle Down the Wind
IMDB 7.2 | Jul , 1961
When an injured wife-murderer takes refuge on a remote Lancashire farm, the farmer’s three children mistakenly believe him to be the Second Coming of Christ.Nine Dead
IMDB 5.3 | Mar , 2010
Communication is the key to the survival for nine strangers who have been kidnapped by a masked gunman and told that one of them will die every ten minutes until they discover how they are all connected. Who of the nine lives and who dies?International Airport
IMDB 5 | May , 1985
Manager of a large metropolitan airport tries to deal with the stress of his job, and the various characters that work for him.Heat Wave
IMDB 6.2 | Aug , 1990
A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.Flic Story
IMDB 6.4 | Oct , 1975
The film story depicts Emile Buisson, following the death of his wife and child, escaping from a psychiatric institution in 1947 and returning to Paris. Buisson, who three years later would become France's public enemy number one, begins a murderous rampage through the French capital.The Two Jakes
IMDB 6 | Aug , 1990
Real estate developer Jake Berman hires private investigator and war veteran Jake Gittes for some run-of-the-mill matrimonial work. After Berman shoots his wife's lover, who happens to be his business partner, Gittes is drawn into a web of conspiracy and deceit involving the oil reserves beneath Los Angeles. While investigating, Gittes hears a voice from his past that causes him to revisit a traumatic case in Chinatown.First Name: Carmen
IMDB 6 | Dec , 1983
The protagonist is Carmen X, a sexy female member of a terrorist gang. She asks her uncle Jean, a washed-up film director if she can borrow his beachside house to make a film with some friends, but they are in fact planning to rob a bank. During the robbery she falls in love with a security guard. The film intercuts between Carmen's escape with the guard, her uncle's attempt to make a comeback film, and a string quartet attempting to perform Beethoven.In Country
IMDB 5.6 | Sep , 1989
Samantha Hughes, a teenaged Kentucky girl, never knew her father, who died in Vietnam before her birth. Samantha lives with her uncle Emmett, who also served in Vietnam. Emmett hangs around with Tom, Earl, and Pete, three other Vietnam vets who, like Emmett, all have problems of one kind or another that relate to their war experiences. Samantha becomes obsessed with finding out about her father.Huckleberry Finn
IMDB 8 | Aug , 1931
A year after their former exploits, Tom Sawyer's puppy love of Becky Thatcher keeps him home while Huck Finn, chafing under "civilizing" influences like school and shoes, plans to run away. His scapegrace, abusive father intervenes; Tom and black Jim help him escape; and (departing from the novel) all three raft down the Mississippi, where they're joined by two likable rogues and meet pretty orphans Ella and Mary Jane. The latter may change Huck's mind about girls...Stockholm Marathon
IMDB 5 | Jul , 1994
A gardener decides to exact revenge on the men he believes to be responsible for the death of his mentally disturbed wife.Downhill Racer
IMDB 5.8 | Nov , 1969
An ambitious young skier, determined to break all existing records, is contemptuous of the teamwork advocated by the US coach when they go to Europe for the Olympics.Dodes'ka-den
IMDB 7 | Oct , 1970
On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “drives” an imaginary trolley, a homeless father and son designing a dream house, a young woman brutalized at home, drunks, schemers, and saints of small kindnesses. Kurosawa crafts a ragged mosaic of hardship, fantasy, and flickers of grace that keep people moving forward.The Crush
IMDB 6.6 | Apr , 1993
A precocious and obsessive teenager develops a crush on a naive writer with harrowing consequences.Murder in the Dark
IMDB 5.8 | Sep , 1986
A womanizing journalist is on the outs with the cops who want him in jail and a mysterious "thin man" who wants him dead.Crimes of the Mind
IMDB 4.8 | May , 2014
The true story of Carolyn's Raeburn's daughter who graduated from high school at the age of 16. Laura was bright, popular and enthusiastic about the future, but the summer before she was to begin college, an event occurred changing forever the lives of her and her family. Laura visited a boarding ranch in the country to learn horseback riding. And there, she entered a world dominated by a strange and fearsome woman who took control of Laura's mind. She was groomed to replace the woman's dead daughter. Carolyn spent the next five years of her life, much of her sanity and more than half a million dollars to get her daughter back.A Dog of Flanders
IMDB 7 | Mar , 1935
Adaptation of Ouida's sentimental classic about a poor Flemish boy (Frankie Thomas) whose ambition is to become a painter.Cop Killer
IMDB 5.9 | Jan , 1994
A woman is found murdered in a closed amusement park. A young couple who happen to be there at the same time become, without their knowledge, suspects for the murder. They are chased by a large number of police but only Martin Beck believes them to be innocent.Roseanna
IMDB 6 | Oct , 1993
A young American girl is found dead in Gota Kanal, Swedens largest channel. Since there are hardly any clues or evidence at all it seems as if the murder cant be solved. Martin Beck and his men are assigned to the case. Soon they find a likely suspect and together with a police woman they begin a cat and mouse game to catch him. Plot by Mattias Pettersson.Enter the Void
IMDB 7.3 | May , 2010
This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar, a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda. When Oscar is killed by police during a bust gone bad, his spirit journeys from the past -- where he sees his parents before their deaths -- to the present -- where he witnesses his own autopsy -- and then to the future, where he looks out for his sister from beyond the grave.