A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming one himself. He joins a gang of thieves and proceeds to wrest leadership of the gang away from its extremely resentful leader.

The Cavern

2005

English

2.8

♡ 1

6%

Olatunde Osunsanmi Director

Danny Jacobs as Ambrose

Sybil Darrow as Bailey

Mustafa Shakir as Gannon

Ogy Durham as Miranda

In a Asian desert, a team of explorers learn of a newly discovered cave system and set out to explore it. However as soon as they begin the descent, it becomes clear that this was a secret that should have remained below the surface.

Lonely Wives

1972

German

4.4

♡ 32

Hubert Frank Director

Dorit Henke as Anke

Andreas Mannkopff as Ehemann

Ewa Strömberg as Grüne Witwe

Frank Glaubrecht as Reporter

An oft-naked male reporter decides to do an expose on "sexual widows", housewives who are neglected by their busy husbands. - This cheaper sex film is disguised as a report about green widows.

The Groundstar Conspiracy

1972

English

6.0

♡ 5

38%

Lamont Johnson Director

Michael Sarrazin as John David Welles / Peter Bellamy

Christine Belford as Nicole Devon

George Peppard as Tuxan

John Destry as Zabrinski

A break-in and sabotage attempt occurs at a top secret research institute and the culprit is cornered and captured. The problem is that he's been badly injured and claims to have lost his memory entirely. A cat-and-mouse game ensues between investigator Tuxan, the mystery intruder Welles and the people who sent him on the mission.

The Insider

1999

English

7.8

♡ 104

96%

Michael Mann Director

Debi Mazar as Debbie De Luca

Gina Gershon as Helen Caperelli

Russell Crowe as Jeffrey Wigand

Al Pacino as Lowell Bergman

A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.

Thesis

1996

Spanish

7.4

♡ 40

83%

Alejandro Amenábar Director

Ana Torrent as Ángela

Eduardo Noriega as Bosco Herranz

Fele Martínez as Chema

José Luis Cuerda as Profesor 1º

While doing a thesis about violence, Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured to death. Soon she discovers that the girl was a former student at her college...

Medicine Man

1992

English

6.0

♡ 33

17%

pharmaceutical industry

research

Romance

John McTiernan Director

Lorraine Bracco as Dr. Rae Crane

Sean Connery as Dr. Robert Campbell

José Lavat as Government Man

Edinei Maria Serrio Dos Santos as Kalana

An eccentric scientist in the Amazon jungle rejects his research assistant for being a woman, but as bulldozers threaten their work on a potential cancer cure, they learn to collaborate and begin to fall in love.

Forks Over Knives

2011

English

7.7

♡ 19

61%

Lee Fulkerson Director

Alona Pulde as Herself - Doctor

Matthew Lederman as Himself - Doctor

T. Colin Campbell as Himself - Doctor

Lee Fulkerson as Himself - Narrator

Examines the profound claim that most; if not all; of the degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled; or even reversed; by rejecting our present menu of animal-based and processed foods. The idea of food as medicine is put to the test. Cameras follow "reality patients" who have chronic conditions from heart disease to diabetes. Doctors teach these patients how to adopt a whole-foods, plant-based diet as the primary approach to treat their ailments - while the challenges and triumphs of their journeys are revealed.

Salmer fra kjøkkenet

2003

Norwegian

7.3

♡ 2

Bent Hamer Director

Gard B. Eidsvold as Bakkerman

Bjørn Floberg as Grant

Reine Brynolfsson as Malmberg

Jan Gunnar Røise as Vaktmesterassistent

Swedish efficiency researchers come to Norway for a study of Norwegian men, to optimize their use of their kitchen. Folke Nilsson (Tomas Norström) is assigned to study the habits of Isak Bjørvik (Joachim Calmeyer). By the rules of the research institute, Folke has to sit on an umpire's chair in Isak's kitchen and observe him from there, but never talk to him. Isak stops using his kitchen and observes Folke through a hole in the ceiling instead. However, the two lonely men slowly overcome the initial post-war Norwegian-Swede distrust and become friends.

The Nature of Things The Kingdom: How Fungi Made Our World

2018

English

7.8

♡ 3

Annamaria Talas Director

Robert R. Dunn as Self

Anne A. Madden as Self

John Sheppard as Self

You find fungi in Antarctica and in nuclear reactors. They live inside your lungs and your skin is covered with them. Fungi are the most under appreciated and unexplained organisms, yet they could cure you from smallpox and turn cardboard boxes into forests. They could even transform Mars into Eden. There are vastly more fungi species than plants and each and every one of them play a crucial role in life’s support systems. Join us on a journey into the mysterious world of Fungi to witness their beauty, unravel their mysteries and discover how this secret kingdom is essential to life on Earth, and may in fact hold the key to our future.

1408

2007

English

6.8

♡ 179

79%

husband wife relationship

Mystery

new york city

research

Mikael Håfström Director

Samuel L. Jackson as Gerald Olin

Nikky Smedley as Gossipy Woman

John Cusack as Mike Enslin

Kate Walsh as Mike Enslin's ex-wife

A man who specializes in debunking paranormal occurrences checks into the fabled room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel. Soon after settling in, he confronts genuine terror.

Project Grizzly

1996

English

6.4

♡ 4

63%

Peter Lynch Director

Troy Hurtubise as Self

Peter Gzowski as Self

Documentary about the lifelong project of Troy Hurtubise, a man who has been obsessed with researching the Canadian grizzly bear up close, ever since surviving an early encounter with such a bear. The film documents Hurtubise's diligent work to improve his homemade "grizzly-proof" suit of armour, his efforts to test its resilience, and his forays into the Rockies to track down the grizzlies he dreams of meeting. The film manages to capture the humor of the project as well as its sincerity.

Kinsey

2004

English

7.0

♡ 23

90%

Bill Condon Director

Liam Neeson as Alfred Kinsey

Arden Myrin as Emily

David Harbour as Robert Kinsey

Tim Curry as Thurman Rice

Kinsey is a portrait of researcher Alfred Kinsey, driven to uncover the most private secrets of a nation. What begins for Kinsey as a scientific endeavor soon takes on an intensely personal relevance, ultimately becoming an unexpected journey into the mystery of human behavior.

Silkwood

1983

English

7.1

♡ 28

77%

Mike Nichols Director

Diana Scarwid as Angela Cher

Cher as Dolly Pelliker

Kurt Russell as Drew Stephens

Will Patton as Joe

A plutonium processing plant worker is purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured, and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing safety violations.

Hustler White

1996

English

5.8

52%

Rick Castro Director

Alex Austin as Himself

Paul Bellini as Roger's Secretary

David Kendall as Verbose Escort

Reminiscent of Sunset Boulevard, the action is transposed from the silver screen's old backlots to contemporary male prostitution and the pornographic industry.

Black Crab

2022

Swedish

5.7

♡ 60

53%

54%

Action

Adventure

based on novel or book

post-apocalyptic future

Adam Berg Director

Noomi Rapace as

Dar Salim as

Susan Taslimi as Admiral Nordh

David Dencik as Colonel Raad

To end an apocalyptic war and save her daughter, a reluctant soldier embarks on a desperate mission to cross a frozen sea carrying a top-secret cargo.

The Lady Is Willing

1942

English

6.3

♡ 5

67%

Mitchell Leisen Director

Sterling Holloway as Arthur Miggle

Murray Alper as Joe Quig

Eddie Hall as Man Building a Rabbit Cage

Ray Walker as Reporter

Bold, eccentric Broadway performer Elizabeth Madden befuddles her handlers by coming home with a baby she picked up on the street. She wants to keep the baby but has to find a husband to make adoption viable. She offers her new obstetrician Dr. McBain help with his research on rabbits in exchange for marriage - and he accepts. The marriage of convenience turns into a marriage of real love until Dr. McBain's ex-wife comes looking for money.

Instinct

1999

English

♡ 23

27%

Jon Turteltaub Director

Paul Bates as Bluto

Anthony Hopkins as Ethan Powell

John Ashton as Guard Dacks

John Aylward as Warden Keefer

In a prison for the criminally insane, deranged anthropologist Ethan Powell is set to be examined by a bright young psychiatrist, Theo Caulder. Driven by ambition and a hunger for the truth, Caulder will eventually risk everything—even put his very life on the line—in a harrowing attempt to understand the bizarre actions of this madman.

Gappa the Triphibian Monster

4.4

Hiroshi Noguchi Director

Zenji Yamada as Captain of the Kamome-maru

Yôko Yamamoto as Itoko Koyanagi

Yûji Odaka as Prof. Daize Tonooka

Kôtarô Sugie as Reporter #1

An expedition in the South Pacific lands on a tropical island where the natives worship the mysterious deity Gappa. An earthquake opens up an underground cavern and a baby reptile is discovered inside. The natives warn the foreigners to leave the hatching alone, but they don't listen and take it back to a zoo in Japan. Soon after, moma and papa Gappa start smashing Tokyo looking for their kidnapped child.

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