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The Haunted (1991) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Haunted
director: Robert Mandel actor: Sally Kirkland / Jeffrey DeMunn …
other title: La casa delle anime perdute / De hjemsøgte …
When the Smurl family moves into a duplex, they find out it's haunted. When the Catholic Church is no help, they reach out to famous demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren
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Winter Kill (1974) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Winter Kill
director: Jud Taylor actor: Andy Griffith / John Larch …
Someone is shooting the residents of a mountain resort town. Sheriff McNeill (Andy Griffith) must figure out the connection that links the victims and find the sniper before he (or she) kills again, and before the town council relieves him of duty.
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Mame (1974) IMDb TMDB
Mame
director: Gene Saks actor: Lucille Ball / Bea Arthur …
other title: Ante todo, mujer
The madcap life of eccentric Mame Dennis and her bohemian, intellectual arty clique is disrupted when her deceased brother's 10-year-old son Patrick is entrusted to her care. Rather than bow to convention, Mame introduces the boy to her free-wheeling lifestyle, instilling in him her favorite credo, "Life is a banquet, and most poor sons of bitches are starving to death."
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Maid for Each Other (1992) IMDb TMDB
Maid for Each Other
director: Paul Schneider actor: Dinah Manoff / Nell Carter …
In this hilarious crime caper, a rich woman and her maid happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time -- and now, they're hotfooting it away from vicious mobsters who want to fit them for a couple pairs of cement overshoes. Can they stay free -- and alive -- long enough to gather evidence against the mobsters?
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Diane (2019) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Diane
director: Kent Jones actor: Mary Kay Place / Jake Lacy …
Diane is a devoted friend and caretaker, particularly to her drug-addicted son. But as those around her begin to drift away in the last quarter of her life, she is left to reckon with past choices and long-dormant memories.
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Murder at the Mardi Gras (1978) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Murder at the Mardi Gras
director: Ken Annakin actor: Barbi Benton / Didi Conn …
other title: Delitto a New Orleans
A bubble-brained Philadelphia waitress witnesses a murder during the Mardi Gras festivities in New Orleans and finds herself stalked by the killer.
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The Stranger Within (1974) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Stranger Within
director: Lee Philips actor: Barbara Eden / George Grizzard …
other title: The Stranger Within - Die Saat des Grauens / Die Saat des Alien
Who is the father of Ann Collins’ baby? Her husband had a vasectomy years ago. And Ann hasn’t been with another man. Even more mysterious: as the baby grows inside her, Ann begins to change. She is beset by strange illnesses, pours tablespoons of salt on her food, turns the thermostat to 50 degrees, speed-reads academic tomes. But much bigger shocks are yet to come. Barbara Eden stars in this hypnotic, swiftly paced blend of horror and sci-fi from Richard Matheson, the popular and prolific writer who also penned the novel I AM LEGEND and several notable THE TWILIGHT ZONE scripts.
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Thumb Tripping (1972) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Thumb Tripping
director: Quentin Masters actor: Meg Foster / Michael Burns …
other title: Highway Tramper
Gary and Shay are two happy-go-lucky flower children who hitchhike in the beautiful Big Sur-Monterey area of California.
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Fourteen Hours (1951) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Fourteen Hours
director: Henry Hathaway actor: Paul Douglas / Richard Basehart …
other title: La 14ª ora / Vierzehn Stunden …
A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of being not capable to make his girlfriend happy, rises on the ledge of a building with the intention of committing suicide. A policeman makes every effort to argue him out of it.
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Bone (1972)
Bone
director: Larry Cohen actor: Yaphet Kotto / Andrew Duggan …
When a criminal breaks into the Beverly Hills home of a wealthy couple experiencing marital problems, he unwillingly provides the spouses with an unlikely resolution to their conflicts as well as a solution to his own secret.
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The Martian Chronicles (1980) IMDb TMDB
The Martian Chronicles
director: Ray Bradbury actor: Rock Hudson / Darren McGavin …
other title: Cronache marziane / Die Mars Chroniken …
The Martian Chronicles deals with the exploration of Mars and the inhabitants there.
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Monkey Shines (1988) IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB
Monkey Shines
director: George A. Romero actor: Jason Beghe / John Pankow …
other title: Monkey Shines - Esperimento nel terrore / Eksperiment i terror …
A quadriplegic man is given a trained monkey help him with every day activities, until the little monkey begins to develop feelings, and rage, against its new master and those who get too close to him.
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Mikey and Nicky (1976)
Mikey and Nicky
director: Elaine May actor: Peter Falk / John Nicholas Cassavetes …
other title: Mikey e Nicky / Jogo Mortal …
Nick is desperate, holed up in a cheap hotel, suffering from an ulcer and convinced that a local mob boss wants him killed. Terrified, he calls Mikey, his friend since childhood and a fellow gangster. So begins a long night…
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St. Elmo's Fire (1985)
St. Elmo's Fire
director: Joel Schumacher actor: Emilio Estevez / Rob Lowe …
other title: Kliken fra St. Elmo / O Primeiro Ano do Resto das Nossas Vidas …
Reluctant to let go of college life, a close-knit team of seven friends--irresponsible saxophone player Billy, young Republican Alec, his girlfriend Leslie, struggling journalist Kevin, drama queen Jules, lovesick waiter Kirby, and Wendy, a social worker with a heart of gold--realise the party is over. And as the burdens of maturity close in on the young dreamers, the complexities of adulthood and the daily struggle of growing up put their sacred friendship to the test. But everyone knows life is not a bed of roses. It won't be easy, but when all is said and done, what will it take for St. Elmo's clique to find its place in the real world?
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Marley & Me (2008)
Marley & Me
★ 6.8 (5 ratings) director: David Frankel actor: Owen Wilson / Jennifer Aniston …
other title: Io & Marley / Marley & Eu …
A newly married couple, in the process of starting a family, learn many of life's important lessons from their trouble-loving retriever, Marley. Packed with plenty of laughs to lighten the load, the film explores the highs and lows of marriage, maturity and confronting one's own mortality, as seen through the lens of family life with a dog.