East of Eden (film) Although set in early 20th century Monterey, California, much of the film was actually shot on location in Mendocino, California.
Some scenes were filmed in the Salinas Valley. The plot line is loosely based on the biblical story of Cain and Abel. The story is set in 1917, during World War I, in the central California coastal towns of Monterey and Salinas. Cal and Aron are the young adult sons of a farmer and wartime draft board chairman, Adam Trask, with whom they live in the Salinas valley. Adam is a deeply religious Christian. After Adam's idealistic plans for a long-haul vegetable shipping business venture end in a loss of thousands of dollars, Cal decides to enter the bean-growing business, as a way of recouping the money his father lost.
Meanwhile, Aron's girlfriend Abra gradually finds herself attracted to Cal, who seems to reciprocate her feelings. In anger, Cal takes Aron to see what has become of their mother, pushes Aron into Kate's arms, and returns home alone. Dangerous Liaisons. Dangerous Liaisons was theatrically released by Warner Bros.
Pictures on December 16, 1988. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, with praise for Close's and Pfeiffer's performances and the screenplay, production values and costumes. Grossing $34.7 million against its $14 million budget, it was a modest box office success. It received seven nominations at the 61st Academy Awards, including for the Best Picture and won three; Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Costume Design, and Best Production Design.[2][3] Plot[edit]
Amores perros. The title is a pun in Spanish; the word "perros", which literally means "dogs", can also be used to refer to misery, so that it roughly means 'bad loves' with canine connotations.
The film was released under its Spanish title in the English-speaking world, although it was sometimes translated as Love's a Bitch in marketing. The soundtrack includes songs by Latin American rock bands including Café Tacuba, Control Machete, and Bersuit Vergarabat. Safety Not Guaranteed. American science-fiction romantic comedy film Safety Not Guaranteed is a 2012 American romantic comedy film directed by Colin Trevorrow.
It was screened at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award.[3] The film was inspired by a joke classified ad that ran in Backwoods Home Magazine in 1997.[4] Plot[edit] Darius Britt is a disillusioned college graduate who lives at home with her widower father and works as an intern at Seattle Magazine. Hot Tub Time Machine. 2010 American science fiction adventure comedy film directed by Steve Pink Plot[edit] Three estranged, depressed friends—Adam Yates, who was dumped by his girlfriend; henpecked husband Nick Webber-Agnew working a dead-end job; and Lou Dorchen, a jobless, penniless party animal in his 40s—reconnect when Lou is hospitalized for carbon monoxide poisoning.
To cheer him up, Adam and Nick arrange for Lou to join them at Kodiak Valley Ski Resort, where the three enjoyed fun times in their youth; Adam's reclusive nephew Jacob tags along. During a night of heavy drinking in their hotel room's hot tub, the four douse the console with an illegal Russian energy drink called "Chernobly". The next day, the friends go skiing and, after many strange occurrences (1980s fashion, music videos on MTV and Michael Jackson still being black), they realize they have traveled back to 1986.
A cryptic hot tub repairman appears and warns them not to change anything, as it might affect history. John Dies at the End (film) David Wong, a slacker, recalls confronting a zombie skinhead whom he beheaded one year prior and wonders whether an axe that had its handle and head replaced over time is still the same axe.
In the present day, he meets with small time reporter, Arnie Blondestone, to recount the supernatural events that plagued the small, undisclosed city David lives in. Some time ago, David is at a party with his friend John, with acquaintances Fred Chu, Justin White, and Amy Sullivan, who has an amputated hand. David learns that Amy's dog, Bark Lee, has gone missing after biting Robert Marley, a drug dealer who pretends to be Jamaican.
As he leaves the party, David sees Bark next to his car. A frantic, incoherent John calls Dave, demanding he come over at once. As they drive off, David is bitten by the suddenly animate syringe, propelling him through alternate dimensions. Insignificance (film) A meditation on the nature of fame, the film stars Gary Busey, Michael Emil, Theresa Russell, Will Sampson, and Tony Curtis.
On a crowded New York City street, people have gathered to watch a film crew shoot a sequence where The Actress in a white dress is standing on a grate while the rush of wind caused by a huge fan to imitate the subway going by below blows her skirt up around her waist. The Actress's husband, The Ballplayer, watches with obvious discomfort as she is ogled. The Actress, rather than join him afterwards, disappears in a taxi, leaving him behind. She stops at a store and picks up a variety of toys, flashlights, and balloons. Meanwhile, The Professor is in his hotel room, working on pages of mathematical calculations. The Actress appears at the door of the Professor's hotel room, and he invites her in.
Performance (film) The film was produced in 1968 but not released until 1970, as Warner Bros. was reluctant to distribute the film, owing to its sexual content and graphic violence.
It initially received a mixed critical response, but since then its reputation has grown in stature; it is now regarded as one of the most influential and innovative films of the 1970s, as well as in British cinema. Necronomicon (film) 1993 film by Brian Yuzna, Christophe Gans, Shūsuke Kaneko The film is broken into four separate features: "The Library", "The Drowned", "The Cold" and "Whispers".
"The Library" segment is the frame story, which begins and ends the movie. In the frame story of the film, H. P. Memories (1995 film) 1995 Japanese animated science fiction anthology film Memories (also Otomo Katsuhiro's Memories) is a 1995 Japanese animated science fiction anthology film with Katsuhiro Otomo as executive producer, and based on three of his manga short stories.
The film is composed of three shorts: Magnetic Rose (彼女の想いで, Kanojo no Omoide), directed by Studio 4°C co-founder Kōji Morimoto and written by Satoshi Kon; Stink Bomb (最臭兵器, Saishū-heiki), directed by Tensai Okamura of Darker than Black fame and written by Otomo, and Cannon Fodder (大砲の街, Taihō no Machi), written and directed by Otomo himself. The Corona, a deep space salvage freighter, is out on a mission when it encounters a distress signal and responds to it. They come upon a spaceship graveyard orbiting a giant space station.
Three... Extremes. Films[edit] Aging actress Mrs. Li wants to rejuvenate her youth and beauty to attract the attention of her husband, Li, who has secretly taken a mistress behind her back. She buys dumplings from Aunt Mei, a mysterious seller who claims to be much older than she appears. However, to her disgust, she learns that the dumplings are in fact made from aborted fetuses, which Mei takes from a nearby hospital that has a secret abortion facility, as well as working as an abortion midwife herself. Nevertheless, Mrs. Cut[edit] The Age of Shadows. The Age of Shadows (Korean: 밀정; RR: Miljeong; lit. "Emissary") is a 2016 South Korean period action thriller film directed by Kim Jee-woon and written by Lee Ji-min and Park Jong-dae. The film is set in Shanghai and Seoul in the 1920s and stars Song Kang-ho and Gong Yoo.[3][4] It was selected as the South Korean entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.[5][6] The film won the Best Picture award in the Action Features category at the 2016 Fantastic Fest held in Austin, Texas.[7][8] Plot[edit] Korean police captain Lee Jung-chool (Song Kang-ho) has been charged by the Japanese colonial government with rooting out members of the country's resistance movement.
Cast[edit] Production[edit] Breathless (2008 film) Breathless (Korean: 똥파리; RR: Ddongpari; literally "shitfly") is a 2008 South Korean drama film by Yang Ik-june and the story revolves around child abuse and loan sharking. A loan shark named Sang-Hoon finds himself striking a friendship with a troubled schoolgirl, Yeon-Hee, as he faces his own troubled past with his abusive father. Sang-hoon is a foul-mouthed and violent gangster working for an illegal money-lending organization run by his long-time friend and loan shark, Man-shik. The Double Life of Veronique. Plot[edit] In Poland in 1968, a little girl is shown the stars in the winter sky by her mother, who identifies the Christmas Eve star. In France, a little girl is shown one of the first leaves of spring by her mother, who points out the fine veins running through.
In Poland in 1990, a young Polish woman named Weronika (Irène Jacob) is singing at an outdoor concert with her choir when a sudden downpour causes the singers to rush for cover. After Weronika holds the last note alone, she meets her boyfriend, Antek (Jerzy Gudejko), and they go to his apartment to have sex. Possession (1981 film) Possession, an international co-production between France and West Germany, was filmed in West Berlin in 1980. Żuławski's only English-language film, it premiered at the 34th Cannes Film Festival, where Adjani won the Best Actress award for her performance.
The screenplay was written during the painful divorce of Żuławski with actress Malgorzata Braunek. The film was not a commercial success either in Europe or in the United States, where it was released with an edited version, but eventually acquired cult status. Mark is a spy who returns home to West Berlin from a mysterious espionage mission to find that his wife, Anna, wants a divorce. The Saragossa Manuscript (film) Under the Silver Lake. Under the Silver Lake is a 2018 American neo-noir black comedy thriller film written, produced and directed by David Robert Mitchell.
Set in Los Angeles in 2011, it follows a young man (Andrew Garfield) who sets out on a quest to investigate the sudden disappearance of his neighbour (Riley Keough), only to stumble upon an elusive and dangerous large-scale conspiracy. Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno. Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno (French title: L'Enfer d'Henri-Georges Clouzot) is a film directed, written and produced by Henri-Georges Clouzot, cinematography by Andréas Winding and Armand Thirard,[1] which remained unfinished in 1964.
3 Women. My Friend Dahmer (film) Hour of the Wolf. Carnival of Souls. 1962 film by Herk Harvey Carnival of Souls is a 1962 American independent horror film produced and directed by Herk Harvey and written by John Clifford[1] from a story by Clifford and Harvey, and starring Candace Hilligoss. The Witches (1990 film) The Man Who Fell to Earth. 1976 British science fiction film by Nicolas Roeg The Man Who Fell to Earth retains a cult following for its use of surreal imagery and Bowie's first starring film role as the alien Thomas Jerome Newton. It is considered an important work of science fiction cinema and one of the best films of Roeg's career.
Transsiberian (film) Transsiberian is a 2008 psychological thriller film, set on the Trans-Siberian Railway, in which an American couple's journey from China to Russia becomes a nightmare after they befriend a pair of fellow travellers. The Escapist (2008 film) The Day of the Locust (film) Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau. Headhunters (film) Tokyo!
Three (2002 film) The Foul King. The Quiet Family. The Boys from Brazil (film) The Last of Sheila. Locke (film) Bringing Up Baby. Adventures in Babysitting. Bad Times at the El Royale. Sorry to Bother You. Evil Under the Sun (1982 film) Gosford Park. Deathtrap (film) Haiku Tunnel. A Shock to the System (1990 film) Clue (film) Dragged Across Concrete. Bone Tomahawk. Brawl in Cell Block 99. Necronomicon (film) Memories (1995 film) Three... Extremes.
The Age of Shadows. Breathless (2008 film) The Double Life of Veronique. The Cell. Missing (film) The Mission (1986 film) It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Brick (film) Akira (film) Man with a Movie Camera. Rocket Science (film) Safety Not Guaranteed. The Escapist (2008 film) Police Story (1985 film) Three (2002 film) Triangle (2007 film) Triangle (2009 South Korean film) Something Wicked This Way Comes (film) Titus (film) The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. Office Space. Nowhere to Hide (1999 film) Shiri (film) Rubber (2010 film) Gosford Park. Birdy (film) Versus (film) Naqoyqatsi. Qatsi trilogy. The Goodbye Kiss (film) Heavy Metal (film) The Day of the Locust (film) The Leopard (1963 film) Ashes and Diamonds (film) Paisan. The Red Shoes (1948 film) The River (1951 film) Salvatore Giuliano (film) The Searchers (film)
Ugetsu. Five Minutes to Live. They Live by Night. Five Easy Pieces. Animal House. Thieves Like Us (film) Fritz the Cat (film) The Visitor (2007 drama film) Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (film)