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5.5

♡ 18

20%

central and south america

Adventure

Irwin Allen Director

Ian Wolfe as Burton White

Jill St. John as Jennifer Holmes

Michael Rennie as Lord John Roxton

Fernando Lamas as Manuel Gomez

Professor Challenger leads an expedition of scientists and adventurers to a remote plateau deep in the Amazonian jungle to verify his claim that dinosaurs still live there.

The Gambler

2014

6.0

♡ 88

43%

Rupert Wyatt Director

Sonya Walger as Angelina

John Goodman as Frank

Mark Wahlberg as Jim Bennett

Simon Rhee as Mister Lee's Heavy #2

Literature professor Jim Bennett leads a secret life as a high-stakes gambler. Always a risk-taker, Bennett bets it all when he borrows from a gangster and offers his own life as collateral. Staying one step ahead, he pits his creditor against the operator of an illicit gambling ring while garnering the attention of Frank, a paternalistic loan shark. As his relationship with a student deepens, Bennett must risk everything for a second chance.

They're Playing with Fire

1984

5.1

♡ 14

35%

Howard Avedis Director

Sybil Danning as Diane Stevens

Dominick Brascia as Glenn

Alvy Moore as Jimbo

K.T. Stevens as Lillian Stevens

A married college professor decides to seduce her student, whom she hired as a handyman for her yacht. The hesitant student succumbs to his buxom professor, but their romance is interrupted by her corrupt husband and a masked murderer.

I Used to Go Here

2020

5.6

♡ 12

86%

Kris Swanberg Director

Forrest Goodluck as Animal

Jemaine Clement as David

Zoe Chao as Laura

Cindy Gold as Mrs. Beeter

Following the lackluster launch of her debut novel, 35-year-old writer Kate Conklin receives an invitation from her former professor and old crush to speak at her alma mater. With her book tour canceled and her ego deflated, Kate decides to take the trip, wondering if it might give her the morale boost she sorely needs. Instead, she falls into a comical regression—from misadventures with eccentric twenty-year-olds, to feelings of jealousy toward her former professor’s new favorite student. Striking the balance between bittersweet and hilarious, Kate takes a journey through her past to reevaluate her future.

Detachment

2011

7.7

♡ 82

59%

Tony Kaye Director

Lucy Liu as Dr. Doris Parker

Adrien Brody as Henry Barthes

James Caan as Mr. Charles Seaboldt

Bryan Cranston as Mr. Dearden

A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long enough to form any semblance of sentient attachment.

Lucky Jim

1957

5.9

♡ 2

28%

John Boulting Director

Maureen Connell as Margaret Peel

Jean Anderson as Mrs. Welch

Ronnie Corbett as Professor in opening staff meeting

John Cairney as Roberts

Jim Dixon feels anything but lucky. At the university he has to do the bidding of absent-minded and boring Professor Welch to have any hope of keeping his job. Worse, he has managed to get entangled with unexciting but neurotic Margaret Peel, a friend of the Professor's. All-in-all, the pub is the only friendly place to be. His misery is completed at a dreadful weekend gathering of the Welch clan by the arrival of son Bertrand. Not so much that Betrand is loud-mouthed and boorish - which he is - but that he has as companion Christine Callaghan, the sort of marvellous and unattainable woman Jim can only dream about.

Mr. Wonderful

1993

5.9

♡ 11

53%

Anthony Minghella Director

Matt Dillon as Gus

Luis Guzmán as Juice

Annabella Sciorra as Leonora

John Christopher Jones as Miller

Electrician Gus gets the chance to fulfil a childhood dream by buying an old bowling-alley with some of his friends, but first he must find his ex-wife a new husband so he can stop paying alimony.

Zigeunerweisen

1980

Japanese

6.9

♡ 6

81%

Seijun Suzuki Director

Akaji Maro as Blind Man

Yoshio Harada as Nakasago / Sono's husband

Michiyo Yasuda as Shuko / Aochi's wife

Toshiya Fujita as Toyojiro Aochi

A surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in peculiar ways.

Frostbitten

2006

Swedish

5.5

♡ 3

Anders Banke Director

Thomas Hedengran as Doctor

Sara Arnia as Kajsa Falk

Marielle Söderlund as Schoolchild

Malin Levanon as Ukrainian Vampire

Vampires terrorize a city in Norrbotten, Sweden.

The Gambler

1974

7.1

♡ 21

82%

Karel Reisz Director

James Caan as Axel Freed

James Woods as Bank Officer

Carmine Caridi as Jimmy

Melanie Mayron as Student

New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately Freed is in the clutches of a severe gambling addiction that threatens to destroy him.

The Lost World

1925

7.0

♡ 14

100%

central and south america

brontosaurus

Harry O. Hoyt Director

Lloyd Hughes as Ed Malone

Bessie Love as Paula White

Arthur Conan Doyle as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Gilbert Roland as Undetermined Secondary Role

The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.

Journey to the Center of the Earth

1959

7.0

♡ 36

84%

Henry Levin Director

Arlene Dahl as Carla Goetabaug

Robert Adler as Groom

Alan Caillou as Rector

James Mason as Sir Oliver S. Lindenbrook

An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.

Little Women

1933

7.1

♡ 11

89%

78%

George Cukor Director

Joan Bennett as Amy March

Douglass Montgomery as Laurie

Nydia Westman as Mamie

Samuel S. Hinds as Mr. March

Four sisters come of age during the American Civil War. With their father away fighting, the family, headed by their mother, experiences tribulations, joy, and kindness from their wealthy neighbor and his high-spirited grandson.

Bee Season

2005

5.5

♡ 3

44%

35%

Scott McGehee Director

Kate Bosworth as Chali

Juliette Binoche as Miriam

Richard Gere as Saul

Dann Fink as Special Voicing

Wife and mother Miriam begins a downward emotional spiral as her husband avoids their collapsing marriage by immersing himself in his 11-year-old daughter's quest to become a spelling-bee champion.

Bottoms Up

1960

6.0

♡ 10

Comedy

professor

Mario Zampi Director

Raymond Huntley as Garrick-Jones

Donald Hewlett as Hamley

Jimmy Edwards as Professor Jim Edwards

George Pastell as Swarthy Man

An incompetent boarding school headmaster, Professor Jim Edwards, devises a bizarre plot to raise the profile of his boarding school, and thus save his job, by passing off his bookie's son as a Middle Eastern prince. The headmaster's madcap scheme is further complicated when an official from the Foreign Office arrives and announces that a real prince is to be placed under Edwards supervision, not due to the schools lofty reputation, but that a gang of kidnappers are unlikely to look for the regal child there.

Crimes and Misdemeanors

1989

7.8

♡ 31

92%

Woody Allen Director

Grace Phillips as Bride

Victor Argo as Detective

Mercedes Ruehl as Party Guest

Robin Bartlett as Wedding Guest

A renowned ophthalmologist is desperate to cut off an adulterous relationship…which ends up in murder; and a frustrated documentary filmmaker woos an attractive television producer while making a film about her insufferably self-centered boss.

The Lost World

1992

5.4

♡ 4

15%

central and south america

Adventure

Timothy Bond Director

John Rhys-Davies as Challenger

Eric McCormack as Edward Malone

David Warner as Professor Summerlee

Neil McCarthy as Tarp Henry

Unfazed by ridicule from fellow scientists, professor Challenger (John Rhys-Davies) leads an expedition to investigate rumored sightings of prehistoric life still thriving in the unexplored African jungle. He's joined by a thrill-seeking journalist, his archrival and a beautiful adventurer on a perilous trek through mysterious and uncharted territory, filled with danger and deception. David Warner, Eric McCormack and Tamara Gorski co-star.

Spasms

1983

4.4

♡ 5

17%

William Fruet Director

David Bolt as Customs Officer

Oliver Reed as Jason Kincaid

Miguel Fernandes as Mendez

Al Waxman as Warren Crowley

A gigantic serpent is captured on a remote island and shipped to an American college for experimentation.

Clara

2018

6.7

♡ 47

56%

Akash Sherman Director

Dwight Ireland as CalTech Assistant

Troian Bellisario as Clara

Ennis Esmer as Dr. Charlie Durant

Genelle Williams as Maya

An astronomer becomes obsessed with searching the cosmos for signs of life beyond Earth which leads to a shocking discovery.

Le nez dans le ruisseau

2012