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5.1

♡ 10

9%

wedding

Gary Sinyor Director

Renée Zellweger as Anne

James Cromwell as Priest

Nancy O'Dell as Questioning Bride

Romy Rosemont as Rita

Jimmie is seeing his single friends get married one by one. He isn't too worried until his girlfriend Anne catches the bouquet at his friend Marco's wedding. Suddenly, his wild mustang days are numbered. He finally decides to propose to her, but he sticks his foot in his mouth and botches the proposal. Being insulted by the defeatist proposal, Anne leaves town on an assignment. After she's gone, he finds out that his recently-deceased grandfather's will stipulates that he gets nothing of a multi-million dollar fortune unless he's married by 6:05pm on his 30th birthday: tomorrow! Not being able to find Anne, Jimmie begins backtracking through his past girlfriends to find a wife.

Basic Instinct

1992

7.1

♡ 192

56%

sexual obsession

Paul Verhoeven Director

Sharon Stone as Catherine Tramell

Mary Pat Gleason as Juvenile Officer

Irene Olga López as Maid

David Wells as Polygraph Examiner

Catherine, a novelist with an insatiable sexual appetite, becomes a prime suspect when her boyfriend is brutally murdered -- a crime she had described in her latest story.

Thieves' Highway

1949

7.5

♡ 1

100%

truck crash

truck driver

Jules Dassin Director

Richard Conte as Nick Garcos

Walter Baldwin as Officer Riley

Joseph Pevney as Pete

Robert Foulk as Taller Cop at Roadside Bar

Nick Garcos comes back from his tour of duty in World War II planning to settle down with his girlfriend, Polly Faber. He learns, however, that his father was recently beaten and burglarized by mob-connected trucker Mike Figlia, and Nick resolves to get even. He partners with prostitute Rica, and together they go after Mike, all the while getting pulled further into the local crime underworld.

The Mistress of Spices

2005

5.5

♡ 10

11%

42%

based on novel or book

spice

woman director

Paul Mayeda Berges Director

Dylan McDermott as Doug

Padma Lakshmi as Geeta

Anupam Kher as Geeta's Grandfather

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan as Tilo

Tilo is an Indian shopkeeper in America with an ability to see the future and a magical connection to powerful spices, which she uses to help her customers satisfy their various needs and desires. One day she falls in love with an American man. But the spices forbid it.

Dragon Fight

1989

Cn

5.9

♡ 14

Action

Crime

martial arts

Billy Hin-Shing Tang Director

Barry Wong as Drug Dealer

Nina Li Chi as Kuen Jet Li

Jet Li as Lei Kwok-Lap

Stephen Chow as Yau

Jimmy and Tiger are members of the Chinese national wushu team. The two are in Los Angeles to perform exhibitions. However, for Tiger, he plans to defect to L.A. to make a name for himself. When Jimmy learns of Tigers plan to defect, an attempt to stop him fails and Jimmy ends up missing his flight to China. Now a fish out of water, Jimmy's only hope is Andy, a wisecracking youngster in L.A. Meanwhile, Tiger works for a mafia boss. When Tiger loses a fortune in cocaine in a detergent box that Andy accidentally took, Andy and Jimmy soon have no choice but to face the wrath of Tiger and his men. Their only ally is Penny, the girlfriend of Tiger's boss. Two men who were once best friends have now become bitter enemies.

What's Up, Doc?

1972

7.7

♡ 13

88%

screwball comedy

Peter Bogdanovich Director

Austin Pendleton as Frederick Larrabee

Ryan O'Neal as Howard Bannister

Stan Ross as Musicologist

Jerry Summers as Smith's Cab Driver

The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.

The Laughing Policeman

1973

6.4

♡ 7

59%

Stuart Rosenberg Director

Joseph Bernard as Avakian's Brother

Louis Guss as Gus Niles

Cathy Lee Crosby as Kay

Val Avery as Pappas

When a gunman opens fire on a crowded city bus in San Francisco, Detective Dave Evans is killed, along with the man he'd been following in relation to a murder. Evans' partner, Sgt. Jake Martin, becomes obsessed with solving the case.

Sita Sings the Blues

2008

7.5

♡ 5

100%

suspicion

Nina Paley Director

Alaudin Ullah as Mareecha / Hanuman

Aseem Chhabra as Narrator - Shadow Puppet 1

Annette Hanshaw as Sita

Pooja Kumar as Surphanaka

Utilizing the 1920s jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw, the epic Indian tale of exiled prince Ramayana and his bride Sita is mirrored by a spurned woman's contemporary personal life, and light-hearted but knowledgeable discussion of historical background by a trio of Indian shadow puppets.

It Came from Beneath the Sea

1955

5.9

♡ 7

60%

Robert Gordon Director

Kenneth Tobey as Cmdr. Pete Mathews

William Bryant as Helicopter Pilot

S. John Launer as Naval Doctor With Stethoscope

Herschel Graham as Restaurant Patron

A giant octopus, whose feeding habits have been affected by radiation from H-Bomb tests, rises from the Mindanao Deep to terrorize the California Coast.

House of Sand and Fog

2003

7.5

♡ 57

74%

tragedy

Vadim Perelman Director

Frances Fisher as Connie Walsh

Jennifer Connelly as Kathy

Ron Eldard as Lester

Carlos Gómez as Lt. Alvarez

Behrani, an Iranian immigrant buys a California bungalow, thinking he can fix it up, sell it again, and make enough money to send his son to college. However, the house is the legal property of former drug addict Kathy. After losing the house in an unfair legal dispute with the county, she is left with nowhere to go. Wanting her house back, she hires a lawyer and befriends a police officer. Neither Kathy nor Behrani have broken the law, so they find themselves involved in a difficult moral dilemma.

The Spiders - Episode 1: The Golden Sea

1919

German

6.5

♡ 4

Fritz Lang Director

Harry Frank as

Paul Morgan as Diamantenexperte

Carl de Vogt as Kay Hoog

Ressel Orla as Lio Sha

In San Francisco, well-known sportsman Kay Hoog announces to a club that he has found a message in a bottle with a map drawn by a Harvard professor who has gone missing. The map tells of a lost Incan civilization that possesses an immense treasure. Hoog immediately plans an expedition to find it. But Lio Sha, the head of a criminal organization known as the Spiders, is determined to get the treasure for herself and plans a rival expedition.

Flower Drum Song

1961

6.9

79%

72%

Action

based on play or musical

stowaway

Henry Koster Director

Ron Nyman as Club Patron

Victor Sen Yung as Frankie Wing

Paul Sorensen as TV Sheriff

James Shigeta as Wang Ta

A young woman arrives in San Francisco's Chinatown, from Hong Kong, with the intention of marrying a rakish nightclub owner, unaware he is involved with one of his singers.

Masterminds

1997

5.3

♡ 9

13%

Roger Christian Director

Patrick Stewart as Bentley

Andrew Kavadas as Happy Boy #4

Alan Van Sprang as Happy Boy #7

Callum Keith Rennie as Ollie

A rebellious teen uses his talent for pranks to outwit the security consultant who has taken the students at his prestigious private school hostage.

Doctor Dolittle

1998

animal human communication

5.4

♡ 71

Action

based on novel or book

tiger

veterinarian

Betty Thomas Director

Eddie Murphy as Dr. John Dolittle

Mark Adair-Rios as Intern

Garry Shandling as Male Pigeon

Jenna Elfman as Owl

A successful physician and devoted family man, John Dolittle seems to have the world by the tail, until a long suppressed talent he possessed as a child, the ability to communicate with animals is suddenly reawakened with a vengeance! Now every creature within squawking distance wants the good doctor's advice, unleashing an outrageous chain of events that turns his world upside down!

Pal Joey

1957

6.6

♡ 9

75%

singer

George Sidney Director

Robert Reed as Boy Friend

John Roy as Guest at Charity Ball

Pierre Watkin as Mr. Forsythe

John Hubbard as Stanley

An opportunistic singer woos a wealthy widow to boost his career.

Please Stand By

2017

6.7

♡ 55

58%

los angeles, california

manuscript

runaway

Ben Lewin Director

Alice Eve as Audrey

Amy Tolsky as Bus Passenger

Toni Collette as Scottie

Dakota Fanning as Wendy

A young autistic woman runs away from her caregiver in order to boldly go and deliver her 500-page Star Trek script to a writing competition in Hollywood. On an adventure full of laughter and tears, Wendy follows the guiding spirit of Mr. Spock on her journey into the unknown.

You Kill Me

2007

6.4

♡ 33

79%

serial killer

John Dahl Director

Bill Pullman as Dave

Ben Kingsley as Frank Falenczyk

Téa Leoni as Laurel Pearson

Luke Wilson as Tom

While drying out on the West Coast, an alcoholic hit man befriends a tart-tongued woman who might just come in handy when it's time for him to return to Buffalo and settle some old scores.

Try Harder!

2021

7.3

♡ 2

97%

high school graduation

san francisco