Fletch is a fish out of water in small-town Louisiana, where he's checking out a tumbledown mansion he's inherited. When a woman he flirts with turns up dead, he becomes a suspect and must find the killer and clear his name.

Thank God It's Friday

1978

English

5.5

♡ 9

36%

los angeles, california

Music

rebellious youth

Robert Klane Director

Valerie Landsburg as Frannie Al Fann

Al Fann as Sam

Andrea Howard as Sue

Jeff Goldblum as Tony

It's Friday and everyone is going to the hottest new disco in Los Angeles. The Commodores are scheduled to play if Floyd shows up with the instruments and Nicole dreams of becoming a disco star. Other characters are there to win the dance contest, or to put a little excitement into a fifth anniversary.

The Cross and the Switchblade

1970

English

6.0

♡ 7

72%

Action

based on novel or book

Don Murray Director

Jonelle Allen as Bishop Deb

Alex Colon as Mingo

Erik Estrada as Nicky Cruz

David Connell as Pusher

David Wilkerson's first five years in New York City, where he ministered to disillusioned youth, encouraging them to turn away from the drugs and gang violence they were involved with.

Andy Hardy Meets Debutante

1940

English

6.6

♡ 2

87%

George B. Seitz Director

Mickey Rooney as Andy Hardy

Addison Richards as Mr. Benedict

Lester Dorr as Photographer

Ethelreda Leopold as Sirocco Club Dining Extra

Judge Hardy takes his family to New York City, where Andy quickly falls in love with a socialite. He finds the high society life too expensive, and eventually decides that he liked it better back home.

Sailor Suit and Machine Gun

1981

Japanese

6.3

♡ 3

Action

based on novel or book

fish out of water

japan

japanese film

japanese high school girl

Romance

yakuza

Shinji Sômai Director

Hiroko Yakushimaru as Izumi Hoshi

Yuki Kazamatsuri as Mayumi Sandaiji

Tatsuya Oka as Tetsuo, Izumi's Friend

Shingo Yanagisawa as Tomoo, Izumi's Friend

A high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organization, which seeks to repair its fortunes under her leadership.

Kenny Begins

2009

Swedish

5.7

♡ 3

31%

Mats Lindberg Director

Bill Skarsgård as Pontus

Pernilla August as Rektorn

Christoffer Nordenrot as Sodukos assistent

Josephine Bornebusch as Underhuggare 3

Kenny Starfighter is probably the most hopeless student the Hero academics of the galaxy has ever had. But in his desperate attempt in graduating he accidentally crashes on earth and discovers Pontus, an earthling who accidentally stumbled upon an intergalactic crystal which gave him inhuman strength. Now Kenny must save Pontus from Rutger Oversmart who wants the powers from the crystal for himself and Pontus must save Kennys faith from failing school and ending up as a hairdresser.

Doc Hollywood

1991

English

6.3

♡ 39

66%

Michael Caton-Jones Director

Michael J. Fox as Ben Stone

Woody Harrelson as Hank

Mel Winkler as Melvin the Mechanic

Amzie Strickland as Violet, Welcoming Committee

After leaving Washington D.C. hospital, plastic surgeon Ben Stone heads for California, where a lucrative practice in Beverly Hills awaits. After a car accident, he's sentenced to perform as the community's general practitioner.

City Slickers

1991

English

6.8

♡ 35

87%

Ron Underwood Director

Noble Willingham as Clay Stone

Jake Gyllenhaal as Danny Robbins

Jayne Meadows as Mitch's Mom

Daniel Stern as Phil Berquist

Three New York businessmen decide to take a "Wild West" vacation that turns out not to be the relaxing vacation they had envisioned.

The Iceman Cometh

1989

Cn

6.6

♡ 9

Clarence Yiu-leung Fok Director

Corey Yuen as Bum

Biao Yuen as Fong Sau-Ching

Maggie Cheung as Polla

Elvis Tsui as Scientist

When 16th-century Ming guard Fong Sau-Ching sets out to capture vicious rapist Fung San, both men end up falling into a glacier to be frozen in time. Thawed out by scientists over 300 years later, the confused guard must learn to cope with the modern world and continue in his quest to vanquish his opponent.

Miss Congeniality

2000

English

6.3

♡ 83

41%

Donald Petrie Director

Benjamin Bratt as Eric Matthews

Steve Monroe as Frank Tobin

Sandra Bullock as Gracie Hart

Michael Caine as Victor Melling

When the local FBI office receives a letter from a terrorist known only as 'The Citizen', it's quickly determined that he's planning his next act at the Miss America beauty pageant. Because tough-as-nails Gracie Hart is the only female Agent at the office, she's chosen to go undercover as the contestant from New Jersey.

Pushing Hands

1991

Chinese

7.2

♡ 3

Ang Lee Director

Victor Chan as Gangster

William Leone as Homeless Man

B.C. Lee as Waiter Lee

Peter Lurie as Waiter Wu

Mr. Chu is an elderly widower who teaches tai chi chuan in Beijing. He moves to America to live with his son's family, but finds the cultural adjustment difficult. Since his daughter-in-law is a white woman who does not speak Chinese, Mr. Chu's son, Alex, must mediate.

Stillwater

2021

English

6.6

♡ 148

75%

father daughter relationship

Tom McCarthy Director

Abigail Breslin as Allison

Matt Damon as Bill

Anne Le Ny as Leparq

Camille Cottin as Virginie

Bill Baker, an American oil-rig roughneck from Oklahoma, travels to Marseille to visit his estranged daughter, Allison, who is in prison for a murder she claims she did not commit. Confronted with language barriers, cultural differences, and a complicated legal system, Bill builds a new life for himself in France as he makes it his personal mission to exonerate his daughter.

Brannigan

1975

English

6.1

♡ 11

48%

Douglas Hickox Director

Charles Pemberton as Arthur

Ralph Meeker as Capt. Moretti

Anthony Booth as Freddy

Harry Fielder as Passerby near Tower Bridge

A hard-nosed Chicago cop is sent to London to bring back an American mobster being held for extradition. Brannigan in his Irish-American way brings American law to the people of Scotland Yard but has to contend with a stuffy old London first.

Stir Crazy

1980

English

6.7

♡ 30

69%

wrongful imprisonment

Sidney Poitier Director

Craig T. Nelson as Deputy Ward Wilson

Erland van Lidth as Grossberger

Jonathan Banks as Jack Graham

Lee Purcell as Susan

New Yorkers Skip Donahue and Harry Monroe have no jobs and no prospects, so they decide to flee the city and find work elsewhere, landing jobs wearing woodpecker costumes to promote the opening of a bank. When their feathery costumes are stolen and used in a bank robbery, they no longer have to worry about employment — they're sent to prison.

Coogan's Bluff

1968

English

6.4

♡ 28

95%

Don Siegel Director

Clint Eastwood as Coogan

Eve Brent as Hooker

Marjorie Bennett as Mrs. Fowler

Seymour Cassel as Young Hood

Coogan, an Arizona deputy sheriff goes to New York to pick up a prisoner. While escorting the prisoner to the airport, he escapes and Coogan heads into the city to recapture him.

Encino Man

1992

English

5.9

♡ 53

17%

los angeles, california

prom

Les Mayfield Director

Sean Astin as Dave

Robin Tunney as Ella

Jonathan Ke Quan as Kim

Megan Ward as Robyn Sweeney

High school misfits Stoney and Dave discover a long-frozen primeval man buried in their backyard. But the thawed-out Link—as the boys have named him—quickly becomes a wild card in the teens' already zany Southern California lives. After a shave and some new clothes, Link's presence at school makes the daily drudgery a lot more interesting.

Dark Shadows

2012

English

6.2

♡ 178

35%

Tim Burton Director

Eva Green as Angelique Bouchard

Johnny Depp as Barnabas Collins

Chloë Grace Moretz as Carolyn Stoddard

David Selby as Guest

Vampire Barnabas Collins is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate and family have fallen into ruin.

Tokyo Cowboy

2023

English

7.0

♡ 7

92%

person in a strange world

tokyo, japan

Marc Marriott Director

Masashi Arifuku as Matsuyama

Robin Weigert as Peg

Ryô Iwamatsu as President Miwa

Jun Kunimura as Wada

Brash businessman Hideki (Arata Iura) convinces his Tokyo bosses he can turn a profitless Montana cattle ranch into a premiere-performing asset. However, when his Japanese Wagyu-beef expert fails him, Hideki is poised to fail unless he identifies a missing element that's key to the transformation: himself.

My Favorite Martian

1999

English

5.1

♡ 23

13%

Donald Petrie Director

Michael Bailey Smith as Big Guard

Wallace Shawn as Coleye

Christine Ebersole as Mrs. Brown

Michael Dempsey as Van Gundy

Ambitious television reporter Tim O'Hara stumbles upon a martian whose spaceship has accidentally crashed on Earth. Thinking this is his ticket to a Pulitzer Prize, Tim makes plans to expose the martian, who, posing as Tim's Uncle Martin, takes human form and has plans of his own. In fact, all of Tim's efforts to divulge the truth are systematically thwarted by the resourceful alien, who ultimately recruits Tim to help him repair his ship for a return to Mars.

Kindergarten Cop 2

2016

English

4.4

♡ 48

29%

Don Michael Paul Director

Dolph Lundgren as Agent Reed

Carolyn Adair as Felicity

Fiona Vroom as Michelle

Michael Adamthwaite as Sokol

Assigned to recover sensitive stolen data, a gruff FBI agent goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher, but the school's liberal, politically correct environment is more than he bargained for.

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Miss Congeniality

Pushing Hands

Stillwater

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Stir Crazy

Coogan's Bluff

Encino Man

Dark Shadows

Tokyo Cowboy

My Favorite Martian

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