Attack the Block (2011) Joe Cornish, John Boyega, Jodie Whittaker, Alex Esmail, Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi

Attack the Block (2011)
Joe Cornish writes and directs this British sci-fi comedy action adventure starring Jodie Whittaker, Luke Treadaway and Nick Frost. While being robbed by a gang of thugs outside the South London tower block where she lives, trainee nurse Sam (Whittaker)’s hooded attackers suddenly break off their assault when a meteorite hits a nearby carpark. As Sam flees the scene, the gang members fend off an attack from a small alien being that has emerged from the crash-site, killing it in the process, and carrying off their prize to their rooftop lair. But now, as Sam and the police search for the gang, a new wave of meteorites fall. With the gang emboldened by their latest victory, they prepare to face their new-found enemy, only to be confronted with an army of much larger, savagely vicious alien monsters, hellbent on finding their comrade.
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Lust for Frankenstein (1998) Jesús Franco, Michelle Bauer, Lina Romay, Analía Ivars, Horror, Sexploitation, Erotic

Lust for Frankenstein (1998)
An erotic adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein by the Exploitation King Jesús Franco. Moira Frankenstein (Lina Romay – Sexorcismes and Lulu’s Talking Ass) is tormented by strange dreams and by apparitions of her grandfather’s ghost, Dr. Frankenstein himself. The mad scientist teaches Moira how to finish what he started and give a second life to his creation: a female version of the Creature served with a penis to more completly fulfill all sexual desires. The Creature promises to serve as a slave to Moira if she follows the instructions left behind by her original master and provides some freshly collected human blood to revive her. The Creature and Moira enter a relationship that goes beyond servitude and sex. Their love will take them to kill forever more.
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La marge / The Streetwalker (1976) Walerian Borowczyk, Sylvia Kristel, Joe Dallesandro, André Falcon, Drama, Erotic

La marge (1976)
Sigismond (Joe Dallesandro) is a man lost in an erotic haze which clouds his judgment. Early in the film, it is evident that the man has a physically passionate relationship with his wife, with whom he has a son. While on a business trip to Paris, he comes under the spell of a famous, beautiful prostitute (Sylvia Kristel) who resembles his wife. However, his efforts to monopolize her attention are not appreciated by her pimp, and he is severely beaten. When he gets a letter informing him of the death of his wife and son, he is totally devastated.
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The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) Wes Anderson, Gene Hackman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Anjelica Huston, Comedy, Drama

The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman) and his wife, Etheline (Anjelica Huston), had three children – Chas, Margot, and Richie – and then they separated. Chas (Ben Stiller) started buying real estate in his early teens and seemed to have an almost preternatural understanding of international finance. Margot (Gwyneth Paltrow) was a playwright and received a Braverman Grant of $50,000 in the ninth grade. Richie (Luke Wilson) was a junior champion tennis player and won the U.S. Nationals three years in a row. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums was subsequently erased by two decades of betrayal, failure, and disaster. The Royal Tenenbaums is a hilarious, touching, and brilliantly stylized study of melancholy and redemption from Wes Anderson.
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Killing Me Softly (2002) Chen Kaige, Heather Graham, Joseph Fiennes, Natascha McElhone, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller

Killing Me Softly (2002)
London website designer Alice was happy in a stable relationship with reliable, somewhat boring Jake, but quickly dumps him after falling in love at first sight and having wild sex with an overbearing hot hunk, even before she discovers it’s the famous mountaineer Adam Tallis, a studly celebrity about whom a book is just being promoted. In no time they get married, despite anonymous warnings not to trust him. In Adam’s presence she enjoys being his slavish sex-toy, but when alone at his place can’t resist snooping into his past, thus finding out about women falling out of love with him and concluding her climbing rescuer is scarily, dangerously jealous, but she has no proof.
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The Sex Thief (1974) Martin Campbell, Jennifer Westbrook, David Warbeck, Henry Rayner, Comedy

The Sex Thief (1974)
GoldenEye and Casino Royale director Martin Campbell’s first film was a low-budget sex romp called The Sex Thief, intended as an homage to the James Bond series. Irresistible to women, the roguish title character (David Warbeck) channels his inner Connery, muttering witty double entendres, relishing the danger of his secret mission, forever sidetracked by beautiful women.
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The Towering Inferno (1974) John Guillermin, Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, William Holden, Action, Thriller, Drama

The Towering Inferno (1974)
Doug Roberts, Architect, returns from a long vacation to find work nearly completed on his skyscraper. He goes to the party that night concerned he’s found that his wiring specifications have not been followed and that the building continues to develop short circuits. When the fire begins, Michael O’Halleran is the chief on duty as a series of daring rescues punctuate the terror of a building too tall to have a fire successfully fought from the ground.
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The Time Machine (1960) George Pal, Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Yvette Mimieux, Adventure, Romance, Sci-Fi

The Time Machine (1960)
On January 5, 1900, a disheveled looking H.G. Wells – George to his friends – arrives late to his own dinner party. He tells his guests of his travels in his time machine, the work about which his friends knew. They were also unbelieving, and skeptical of any practical use if it did indeed work. George knew that his machine was stationary in geographic position, but he did not account for changes in what happens over time to that location. He also learns that the machine is not impervious and he is not immune to those who do not understand him or the machine’s purpose. George tells his friends that he did not find the Utopian society he so wished had developed. He mentions specifically a civilization several thousand years into the future which consists of the subterranean morlocks and the surface dwelling eloi, who on first glance lead a carefree life. Despite all these issues, love can still bloom over the spread of millennia.
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High Noon (1952) Fred Zinnemann, Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Thomas Mitchell, Western

High Noon (1952)
On the day he gets married and hangs up his badge, lawman Will Kane is told that a man he sent to prison years before, Frank Miller, is returning on the noon train to exact his revenge. Having initially decided to leave with his new spouse, Will decides he must go back and face Miller. However, when he seeks the help of the townspeople he has protected for so long, they turn their backs on him. It seems Kane may have to face Miller alone, as well as the rest of Miller’s gang, who are waiting for him at the station…
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Starship Troopers (1997) Paul Verhoeven, Casper Van Dien, Denise Richards, Dina Meyer, Action, Sci-Fi

Starship Troopers (1997)
From the bridge of the Fleet Battlestation Ticonderoga, with its sweeping galactic views, to the desolate terrain of planet Klendathu, teeming with shrieking, fire-spitting, brain-sucking special effects creatures, acclaimed director Paul Verhoeven crafts a dazzling epic based on Robert A. Heinlein’s classic sci-fi adventure about the courageous soldiers who travel to the distant and desolate Klendathu system for the ultimate showdown between the species.
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Commis d’office / Legal Aid (2009) Hannelore Cayre, Roschdy Zem, Jean-Philippe Écoffey, Mathias Mlekuz, Comedy, Thriller

Commis d'office (2009)
Antoine Lahoud (Roschdy Zem) est un avocat pénaliste déçu par le milieu judiciaire. Il s’occupe de cas minables et se retrouve un peu par défaut, spécialiste des commissions d’office. Il est repéré par Henry Marsac (Jean-Philippe Écoffey), un avocat à la réputation plus que sulfureuse. Ce dernier le flatte et l’engage pour la défense de gros truands et le fait goûter aux joies de l’argent facile, et du sentiment grisant de la réussite…
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Despair (1978) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Dirk Bogarde, Andréa Ferréol, Klaus Löwitsch, Drama

Despair (1978)
Germany in the early 1930s. Against the backdrop of the Nazis’ rise, Hermann Hermann, a Russian émigré and chocolate magnate, goes slowly mad. It begins with his seating himself in a chair to observe himself making love to his wife, Lydia, a zaftig empty-headed siren who is also sleeping with her cousin. Hermann is soon given to intemperate outbursts at his workers, other businessmen, and strangers. Then, he meets Felix, an itinerant laborer, whom he delusionally believes looks exactly like himself. Armed with a new life insurance policy, he hatches an elaborate plot in the belief it will free him of all his worries.
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