The Man Who Would Be King
Dec 03, 1975 | IMDB 7.5
129 min Watch NowAdventure, Drama
A robust adventure about two British adventurers who take over primitive Kafiristan as "godlike" rulers, meeting a tragic end through their desire for a native girl. Based on a short story by Rudyard Kipling.
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About the Looking for and the Finding of Love
Distant Lights
Sissi: The Young Empress
My Own Private Idaho
Johnny Handsome
Killing Zoe
The Promised Land
American Beauty
Citizen Kane
Dancer in the Dark
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Rebel Without a Cause
Boys Don't Cry
Natural Born Killers
K-PAX
Brotherhood
Rashomon
Starship Troopers
Best F(r)iends: Volume 1
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
IMDB 7.1 | Dec , 2005
Siblings Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter step through a magical wardrobe and find the land of Narnia. There, they discover a charming, once peaceful kingdom that has been plunged into eternal winter by the evil White Witch, Jadis. Aided by the wise and magnificent lion, Aslan, the children lead Narnia into a spectacular, climactic battle to be free of the Witch's glacial powers forever.About the Looking for and the Finding of Love
IMDB 4.5 | Jan , 2005
Director helmut Dietls and Patric Susskinds illustrate a legendary story of two lovers who cant keep themselves away from death.Distant Lights
IMDB 7.4 | Feb , 2003
Lichter is an episodic tale from Hans-Christian Schmid about the life on the border between Germany and Poland. The film sheds light on the everyday stories of escape and desperateness.Sissi: The Young Empress
IMDB 7.1 | Dec , 1956
Sissi is now the empress of Austria and attempts to learn etiquette. While she is busy being empress she also has to deal with her difficult new mother-in-law, while the arch-duchess Sophie is trying to tell the emperor how to rule and also Sissi how to be a mother.My Own Private Idaho
IMDB 7.1 | Feb , 1991
In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor is the rebellious son of a mayor. Together, the two travel from Portland, Oregon to Idaho and finally to the coast of Italy in a quest to find Mike's estranged mother. Along the way they turn tricks for money and drugs, eventually attracting the attention of a wealthy benefactor and sexual deviant.Johnny Handsome
IMDB 6.3 | Sep , 1989
A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and paroled from prison. It appears that he has gone straight, but he is really planning his revenge on the man who killed his mentor and sent him to prison.Killing Zoe
IMDB 6.2 | Oct , 1993
Zed is an American vault-cracker who travels to Paris to meet up with his old friend Eric. Eric and his gang have planned to raid the only bank in the city which is open on Bastille day. After offering his services, Zed soon finds himself trapped in a situation beyond his control when heroin abuse, poor planning and a call-girl named Zoe all conspire to turn the robbery into a very bloody siege.The Promised Land
IMDB 7.3 | Feb , 1975
In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional portrait of rapid industrial expansion is shown through the eyes of one Polish town.American Beauty
IMDB 8 | Sep , 1999
Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.Citizen Kane
IMDB 8 | Apr , 1941
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.Dancer in the Dark
IMDB 7.9 | Sep , 2000
Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and will suffer the same fate without an expensive operation. When life gets too difficult, Selma learns to cope through her love of musicals, escaping life's troubles – even if just for a moment – by dreaming up little numbers to the rhythmic beats of her surroundings.Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
IMDB 6 | May , 2008
Set during the Cold War, the Soviets—led by sword-wielding Irina Spalko—are in search of a crystal skull which has supernatural powers related to a mystical Lost City of Gold. Indy is coerced to head to Peru at the behest of a young man whose friend—and Indy's colleague—Professor Oxley has been captured for his knowledge of the skull's whereabouts.Rebel Without a Cause
IMDB 7.5 | Oct , 1955
After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems. While searching for some stability, Stark forms a bond with a disturbed classmate, Plato, and falls for local girl Judy. However, Judy is the girlfriend of neighborhood tough, Buzz. When Buzz violently confronts Jim and challenges him to a drag race, the new kid's real troubles begin.Boys Don't Cry
IMDB 7.4 | Sep , 1999
A young transgender man explores his gender identity and searches for love in rural Nebraska.Natural Born Killers
IMDB 7.1 | Aug , 1994
Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.K-PAX
IMDB 7.2 | Oct , 2001
Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.Brotherhood
IMDB 4.2 | Jul , 1976
Liao Jiang is the lowest ranking member of a gang that holds up a jewelery store. Subsequently the three other gang members die, and their gold haul goes missing. Liao Jiang and his new gang member Huge Eyes are then forced to turn to a triad gang to help get back their gold from a rival group.Rashomon
IMDB 8.1 | Aug , 1950
Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of justice. Through an ingenious use of camera and flashbacks, Kurosawa reveals the complexities of human nature as four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.Starship Troopers
IMDB 7.1 | Nov , 1997
Set in the future, the story follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry. Rico's military career progresses from recruit to non-commissioned officer and finally to officer against the backdrop of an interstellar war between mankind and an arachnoid species known as "the Bugs."Best F(r)iends: Volume 1
IMDB 5.4 | Sep , 2017
When a drifter befriends a quirky mortician, an unlikely business partnership is formed. Paranoia soon develops, however, and both men are forced to come to terms with the fragility of friendship and loyalty.