80% from 5 members
A Bronx Tale
De Niro's performance as a father trying to save his son from the grip of gangsters is ironically memorable.
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A Bronx Tale
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Robert De Niro, Chazz Palminteri, Francis Capra
Director: Robert De Niro
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In his directorial debut, two-time Academy Award-Winner Robert De Niro stars as Lorenzo Anello, a hard-working bus driver, who must stand up to the local mob boss if he is to keep his son from falling into a life of crime. The streets of the Bronx are a tough place for a kid to grow up, you ..read more »
72%
from 5,447 members
Alien
Atmospheric film that only needs a 30th anniversary edition in the cinema for all who missed if first time round.
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Alien
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt, Tom Skerritt
Director: Ridley Scott
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Director Ridley Scott's breakthough film, an immensely successful blend of horror and science fiction, is a classic in both genres and spawned a host of sequels and imitators. Starring Sigourney Weaver as warrant officer Ellen Ripley, ALIEN focuses on the crew of the space cargo ship Nostromo, ..read more »
77%
from 49,091 members
Amadeus
Why are the most talented people the most a annoying!
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Amadeus
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge
Director: Milos Forman
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In a lavish 18th Century parlor in Austria, an elderly man is found, by his servant, with his throat slashed. The wound is self-inflicted, and the man is the little-known composer Salieri (F. Murray Abraham), contemporary and adversary of the now-famed, but once reviled, composer Wolfgang Amadeus ..read more »
71%
from 12,524 members
An Inconvenient Truth
We've had alien invasion, nuclear war, natural disaster, asteroid collision and now it's the time of global warming.
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An Inconvenient Truth
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Al Gore
Director: Davis Guggenheim
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A movie based on a PowerPoint presentation by a former presidential candidate may not sound exciting, but once AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH hits its stride viewers may be surprised how compelling the subject matter proves to be. While many high-ranking political figures continue to argue about global ..read more »
72%
from 33,314 members
Apocalypto
Despite the language barrier, an involving film about the reality of the Mayan culture.
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Apocalypto
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Dalia Hernandez, Mayra Serbulo, Gerardo Taracena
Director: Mel Gibson
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As the Maya kingdom faces its decline, the rulers insist the key to prosperity is to build more temples and offer human sacrifices. Jaguar Paw (Rudy Youngblood), a young man chosen for sacrifice, flees the kingdom to avoid his fate.
73%
from 55,238 members
Appleseed
One of the best films from the Japanese sub-culture of Manga.
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Appleseed
on DVD
(2004)
Director: Shinji Aramaki
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It's 2131 AD and the future of the human race hangs in the balance. Female soldier Deunan Knute has survived a major war that has pushed the earth to the brink of destruction. Located in a bombed-out urban wasteland, Deunan is transported to the Utopian city of Olympus and reunited with her ..read more »
65%
from 4,167 members
Blade Runner
Worth seeing just to hear Rutger Hauer's closing lines.
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Blade Runner
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Edward James Olmos
Director: Ridley Scott
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Four illegal humanoids, led by Rutger Hauer, have infiltrated 21st Century Los Angeles. Blade Runner hitman Harrison Ford, is recruited to eliminate the convincing android beings before they cause any damage or create unrest in the paranoid hi-tech urban society.
76%
from 43,285 members
Cars
Great animation that touches real life.
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Cars
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Bob Costas, Ray Magliozzi, Owen Wilson
Director: John Lasseter
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Talking cars rediscover the quirky originality of middle America in this inventive animated film from the folks at Pixar (TOY STORY, FINDING NEMO). Owen Wilson does the voice of arrogant rookie racecar Lightning McQueen, who winds up stranded in the small desert town of Radiator Springs on his way ..read more »
71%
from 42,164 members
Crash
Los Angeles is a difficult place, and for me, this goes some way to explain it. I have to go there to really see it for myself... add to life plan.
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Crash
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon
Director: Paul Haggis
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Crash is a powerful, moving and provocative drama following the intersecting lives of a diverse group of people in Los Angeles. Using a sophisticated, layered structure to tell the stories of a multi-racial group of characters as their lives inter-connect through a sequence of events around a car ..read more »
72%
from 100,348 members
Donnie Darko
Hmmmm. This film had me stuck for words, but definitely see it to make up your own mind.
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Donnie Darko
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Drew Barrymore, Noah Wyle
Director: Richard Kelly
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Writer-director Richard Kelly's bold debut film is a social satire, a dark comedy, a science fiction time-travelling fantasy, and a suburban nightmare about an extremely intelligent, depressive, self-destructive, narcoleptic, gun-toting, sex-crazed, teenaged arsonist: Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal)...read more »
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