Two miners agree to guide a mysterious woman, who has appeared in their camp from nowhere, to a nearby town; but soon, because of her erratic behavior, they begin to suspect that her true purpose is quite different.

Avalanche Express

1979

English

4.9

♡ 4

20%

16%

Action

central intelligence agency (cia)

Monte Hellman Director

Maximilian Schell as Colonel Nikolai Bunin

Cyril Shaps as Sedov

Lee Marvin as Wargrave

Vladek Sheybal as Zannbin

CIA agent Harry Wargrave is sent to aid Gen. Marenkov, a senior Russian official, who is defecting to the west. Wargrave decides they should travel to safety on a train across Europe, the "Atlantic Express". During the journey, they must survive attacks by terrorists and an avalanche, all planned by Russian spy-catcher Nikolai Bunin.

Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out!

1989

English

3.5

♡ 10

11%

Monte Hellman Director

Monte Hellman as Danny

Tara Buckman as Ellie Chapman

Elizabeth Hoffman as Granny

Charles Dierkop as Killer Santa

Ricky Caldwell, the notorious 'Killer Santa Claus', awakens from a six-year coma after being kept alive on life-support by a slightly crazed doctor experimenting with ESP and other special abilities. Ricky targets a young, clairvoyant blind woman, named Laura, whom is traveling with her brother Chris, and his girlfriend Jerri to their grandmother's house for Christmas Eve, and Ricky decides to go after her, leaving a trail of dead bodies in his wake.

Road to Nowhere

2010

English

5.4

♡ 5

76%

Monte Hellman Director

Shannyn Sossamon as Laurel Graham / Velma Duran

Tygh Runyan as Mitchell Haven

Dominique Swain as Nathalie Post

Peter Bart as Self

A passionate filmmaker creating a film based upon a true crime casts an unknown mysterious young woman bearing a disturbing resemblance to the femme fatale in the story. Unsuspectingly, he finds himself drawn into a complex web of haunting intrigue: he becomes obsessed with the woman, the crime, her possibly notorious past, and the disturbing complexity between art and truth. From the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina to Verona, Rome, and London, new truths are revealed and clues to other crimes and passions, darker and even more complex, are uncovered.

Shatter

1974

English

5.1

♡ 4

29%

Monte Hellman Director

Han Chiang as Korean Boxer Lily Li

Lily Li as Mai-Mee

Peter Cushing as Paul Rattwood

Stuart Whitman as Shatter

Shatter, an international contract killer, has been assigned to assassinate the President of a small African country and collect his fee from a bank in the Far East. On arrival in Hong Kong his life is threatened and when the bank denies all knowledge of payment arrangements, he realises he has been drawn into a dangerous game where there are no rules. Amongst the players are the Mafia and several foreign intelligence services and the stakes being played for are deadly.

Iguana

1988

English

6.1

♡ 8

39%

Monte Hellman Director

Maru Valdivielso as Carmen

Fabio Testi as Gamboa

Everett McGill as Oberlus

Michael Madsen as Sebastián

A grotesquely disfigured harpooner called Iguana is severely mistreated by his fellow sailors on a whaling ship in the 19th century. One night he escapes and takes up residence on a remote island. He makes himself ruler of the island and declares war on mankind. Anyone unfortunate enough to wind up on the island with Iguana is subjected to his cruel tyranny.

China 9, Liberty 37

1978

Italian

6.1

♡ 6

43%

Monte Hellman Director

Jenny Agutter as Catherine

Warren Oates as Matthew

Ivonne Sentis as Whore

Sam Peckinpah as Wilbur Olsen

Gunslinger Clayton Drumm is about to be hanged when he is given a chance to live if he agrees to murder Matthew, a miner who has steadfastly refused to sell his land to the railroad company. Matthew’s refusal is a major obstacle to the railroad’s plans for expansion.