Average rating: 5.00   100% from 2 members


Pleasantville

surreal, funny wierd!!
  • Pleasantville on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Tobey Maguire,  Joan Allen,  Reese Witherspoon
    Director: Gary Ross
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Two modern American teenagers are sucked into their television set and end up living in a black-and-white fifties sitcom. Bewildered by their new world's naivete and innocence, they slowly start to add color and spice to the town's life. Eventually, however, they begin to question their influence, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 6,272 members

Leon

an amazing film- what more can i say!!
  • Leon (1994)
    Starring: Gary Oldman,  Jean Reno,  Natalie Portman
    Director: Luc Besson
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A murder on the streets of New York leads to a deadly game of cat and mouse while an orphaned twelve-year-old girl becomes caught in the middle...
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 81% from 77,734 members
    Not currently released

Not Without My Daughter

thoughtprovoking

The Beastmaster

great film
  • The Beastmaster (1982)
    Starring: Marc Singer,  Tanya Roberts,  Rip Torn
    Director: Don Coscarelli
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A heroic slave girl and a barbarian warrior face the intimidating dangers of a wild and primitive world, including a race of cannibalistic Bat-Men, and a battle against a fiendish cult and it's demonic leader.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 1,472 member
    Not currently released

Beloved

this film does toni morrison justice
  • Beloved on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Oprah Winfrey,  Danny Glover,  Thandie Newton
    Director: Jonathan Demme
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Jonathan Demme directs this mysterious and potent drama based on Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. Years after the Civil War, in Ohio, a former slave named Sethe (Oprah Winfrey) lives in a small house on some land outside of Cincinnati with her grown daughter, Denver (..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 1,069 member

The Breakfast Club

a classic 80s phenomena
  • The Breakfast Club on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Molly Ringwald,  Ally Sheedy,  Emilio Estevez
    Director: John Hughes
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When five high school students from different social groups are forced to spend a Saturday together in detention, they find themselves interacting with and understanding each other for the first time. A jock (Emilio Estevez), a criminal (Judd Nelson), a princess (Molly Ringwald), a basket case (..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 13,661 members

Blue Velvet

a david lynch classic
  • Blue Velvet on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Kyle MacLachlan,  Isabella Rossellini,  Dennis Hopper
    Director: David Lynch
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A deeply shocking and insidiously funny film, David Lynch's offbeat vision uncovers the nasty underside of small-town America. When a young man finds a human ear in a field, he embarks on an investigation into the dark world of a dangerous psychopath, which leads him to a beautiful nightclub singer...read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 14,962 members

A Clockwork Orange

not one for the kids, deep, thoughtprovoking, horrifying, surrealism. stanley kubrick has done it again
  • A Clockwork Orange on DVD (1971)
    Starring: Malcolm McDowell,  Patrick Magee,  Michael Bates
    Director: Stanley Kubrick
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    From its opening shot of Malcolm McDowell staring with evil intent directly into the camera (which pulls back to reveal him drinking a glass of milk), Stanley Kubrick's brilliant CLOCKWORK ORANGE announces itself as a completely new kind of viewing experience. Banned in Britain for decades, the ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 26,835 members

Crash

amazingly and weirdly uncomfortable but great viewing
  • Crash on DVD (1996)
    Starring: James Spader,  Holly Hunter,  Deborah Unger
    Director: David Cronenberg
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Set tomorrow or the day after, in a world where sensation has replaced communication, Crash tells the story of James Ballard, a commercial director in the throes of a troubled relationship with his wife, Catherine. One day, Ballard is involved in a car accident that results in the other driver's ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 7,842 members

Sex, Lies And Videotape

does exactly what it says on the tin!!
  • Sex, Lies And Videotape on DVD (1989)
    Starring: James Spader,  Peter Gallagher,  Andie MacDowell
    Director: Steven Soderbergh
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Steven Soderbergh explodes onto the scene with this provocative, intelligent drama about infidelity and voyeurism. Ann Milaney (Andie MacDowell) lives in a comfortable Louisiana home with her lawyer husband, John (Peter Gallagher). She spends her days fretting over the insurmountable problems of ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 3,901 members




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