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7.5

♡ 35

94%

83%

Stephen Frears Director

Uma Thurman as Cécile de Volanges

Keanu Reeves as Chevalier Danceny

Michelle Pfeiffer as Madame de Tourvel

John Malkovich as Vicomte de Valmont

In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex-lover of hers in return for one last night with her. Yet things don’t go as planned.

Tristram Shandy

2005

6.7

♡ 6

88%

66%

actor

Michael Winterbottom Director

Rob Brydon as Capt. Toby Shandy / Rob Brydon

Benedict Wong as Ed

Naomie Harris as Jennie

Gillian Anderson as Widow Wadman

Steve Coogan, an arrogant actor with low self-esteem and a complicated love life, is playing the eponymous role in an adaptation of "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" being filmed at a stately home. He constantly spars with actor Rob Brydon, who is playing Uncle Toby and believes his role to be of equal importance to Coogan's.

The Puppet Masters

1994

5.9

♡ 12

29%

33%

Stuart Orme Director

Keith David as Alex Holland

Bruce Jarchow as Barnes

Will Patton as Dr. Graves

Marshall Bell as General Morgan

The Earth is invaded by alien parasites—AKA 'slugs'—that ride on people's backs and control their minds.

The Count of Monte-Cristo

1975

6.9

♡ 12

David Greene Director

Trevor Howard as Abbe Faria

Richard Chamberlain as Edmond Dantes

Ralph Michael as M. Dantes

Gino Marturano as (uncredited)

A TV adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of. After many years in prison, the old Abbe dies, and Edmond escapes disguised as the dead body. Now free, Edmond must find the treasure the Abbe told him of, so he can use the new-found wealth to exact revenge on those who have wronged him.

Running with Scissors

2006

6.1

♡ 7

32%

56%

husband wife relationship

becoming an adult

Comedy

Drama

loose adaptation

sibling relationship

therapist

Ryan Murphy Director

Brian Cox as Dr. Finch

Patrick Wilson as Michael Shephard

Joseph Fiennes as Neil Bookman

Leslie Grossman as Sue

Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an alcoholic father and an unstable mother, he's handed off to his mother's therapist, Dr. Finch, and spends his adolescent years as a member of Finch's bizarre extended family.

H.P. Lovecraft's Witch House

2021

2.6

♡ 3

38%

14%

Bobby Easley Director

Solon Tsangaras as Brown Jenkin

Bobby Easley as Doctor's Office

Andrea Collins as Keziah Mason

Julie Anne Prescott as Tommi

Graduate student Alice Gilman is running from an abusive past. She seeks refuge in the infamous Hannah house; a historic home with an ominous past. Determined to prove the possibility of alternate dimensions, she unknowingly unlocks a gateway to unimaginable horror. Based on the H.P. Lovecraft's short story The Dreams in the Witch House.

Horror Express

1972

6.5

♡ 26

80%

54%

Eugenio Martín Director

Telly Savalas as Capt. Kazan

Peter Cushing as Dr. Wells

Julio Peña as Inspector Mirov

Christopher Lee as Prof. Sir Alexander Saxton

Mysterious and unearthly deaths start to occur while Professor Saxton is transporting the frozen remains of a primitive humanoid creature he found in Manchuria back to Europe.

The Thing from Another World

1951

7.0

♡ 42

base

Howard Hawks Director

Kenneth Tobey as Captain Patrick Hendry

Norbert Schiller as Dr. Laurence

George Fenneman as Dr. Redding

Douglas Spencer as Scotty

Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost.

Benedetta

2021

French

♡ 70

84%

90%

15th century

based on a true story

Paul Verhoeven Director

Lambert Wilson as Alfonso Giglioli, le Nonce

Daphne Patakia as Bartolomea

Virginie Efira as Benedetta Carlini

Charlotte Rampling as Soeur Felicita, l'abbesse

A 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedetta's shocking religious visions that threaten to shake the Church to its core.

Naked Lunch

1991

6.9

♡ 35

73%

77%

David Cronenberg Director

Peter Weller as Bill Lee

Nicholas Campbell as Hank

Ian Holm as Tom Frost

Julian Sands as Yves Cloquet

Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill's pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meeting the devilish Dr. Benway, Bill gets a drug made from a centipede. Upon indulging, he accidentally kills Joan, takes orders from his typewriter-turned-cockroach, ends up in a constantly mutating Mediterranean city and learns that his hip friends have published his work -- which he doesn't remember writing.

Just One of the Guys

1985

6.5

♡ 32

57%

Lisa Gottlieb Director

William Zabka as Greg Tolan

Robert Fieldsteel as Phil

Sherilyn Fenn as Sandy

Arye Gross as Willie

When Terry Griffith loses her high school's writing competition, she's convinced that it's because she's a girl. So Terry decides to change high schools and pose as a boy to prove her point. Her brother, Buddy, helps her pass as a guy so well that she is soon making friends with the boys at school, including the attractive Rick, who becomes her new best friend. But her gender-swapping makes things difficult when she falls in love with him.

Children of Men

2006

7.9

♡ 240

92%

85%

Alfonso Cuarón Director

Goran Kostic as Bexhill Market Hustler

Michael Caine as Jasper

Julianne Moore as Julian

Charlie Hunnam as Patric

In 2027, in a chaotic world in which humans can no longer procreate, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea, where her child's birth may help scientists save the future of humankind.

Before the Fall

2016

6.1

♡ 8

66%

Byrum Geisler Director

Jason Mac as Chuck Bingley

Jonathan Horvath as George Wickham

Brandi Price as Jane Gardiner

Ralph Watson as Lee's Co-Worker

It's a classic case of opposite attraction: Handsome Ben Bennet is a gay, affluent, stylish attorney at the top of the genteel social set in southern Virginia, while Lee Darcy is a rough-hewn welder with a secret that he nightly tries to blot out with an excess of liquor.

Beautiful Creatures

2013

6.1

♡ 106

47%

54%

Richard LaGravenese Director

Zoey Deutch as Emily Asher

Rachel Brosnahan as Genevieve Duchannes

Emma Thompson as Mrs. Lincoln / Sarafine

Emmy Rossum as Ridley Duchannes

Ethan Wate just wants to get to know Lena Duchannes better, but unbeknownst to him, Lena has strange powers. As Lena's 16th birthday approaches she might decide her fate, to be good or evil. A choice which will impact her relationship forever.

Ella Enchanted

2004

6.3

♡ 58

51%

57%

Tommy O'Haver Director

Hugh Dancy as Char

Anne Hathaway as Ella

Ron Yuan as Red Guard

Andrea Irvine as Tour Guide

Ella lives in a magical world in which each child, at the moment of their birth, is given a virtuous "gift" from a fairy godmother. Ella's so-called gift, however, is obedience. This birthright proves itself to be quite the curse once Ella finds herself in the hands of several unscrupulous characters whom she quite literally cannot disobey. Determined to gain control of her life and decisions, Ella sets off on a journey to find her fairy godmother who she hopes will lift the curse. The path, however, isn't easy -- Ella must outwit a slew of unpleasant obstacles including ogres, giants, wicked stepsisters, elves and Prince Charmont's evil uncle, who wants to take over the crown and rule the kingdom.

How to Train Your Dragon

2010

8.1

♡ 403

Animation

Dean DeBlois Director

Danny Mann as Dragons

Jay Baruchel as Hiccup

David Tennant as Spitelout

Gerard Butler as Stoick

As the son of a Viking leader on the cusp of manhood, shy Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III faces a rite of passage: he must kill a dragon to prove his warrior mettle. But after downing a feared dragon, he realizes that he no longer wants to destroy it, and instead befriends the beast – which he names Toothless – much to the chagrin of his warrior father.

Frankenstein

1931

7.7

♡ 48

94%

87%

James Whale Director

Edward Van Sloan as Doctor Waldman

Mae Clarke as Elizabeth

Colin Clive as Henry Frankenstein

John Boles as Victor Moritz

Henry Frankenstein pieces together body parts in the hope of bringing a human-like creature to life. The mad scientist’s dreams are shattered by his monstrous creation awakening with rage to a world that hates and fears him.

Dorian Gray

2009

6.2

♡ 58

43%

39%

Oliver Parker Director

Ben Barnes as Dorian Gray

Rebecca Hall as Emily Wotton

Colin Firth as Lord Henry Wotton

João Costa Menezes as Soldier

Seduced into the decadent world of Lord Henry Wotton, handsome young aristocrat Dorian Gray becomes obsessed with maintaining his youthful appearance, and commissions a special portrait that will weather the winds of time while he remains forever young. When Gray's obsession spirals out of control, his desperate attempts to safeguard his secret turn his once-privileged life into a living hell.

V for Vendetta

2005