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Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973)
ゴジラ対メガロ
★ 5.4 5 ratings
Jun Fukuda actor: Katsuhiko Sasaki / Yutaka Hayashi …
other title: Ai confini della realtà / King Kong - Dämonen aus dem Weltall …
Inventor Goro Ibuki creates a humanoid robot named Jet Jaguar. It is soon seized by an undersea race of people called the Seatopians. Using Jet Jaguar as a guide, the Seatopians send Megalon as vengeance for the nuclear tests that have devastated their society.
Watched
Sept. 8, 2024
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
★ 7.3 15 ratings
Philip Kaufman actor: Donald Sutherland / Brooke Adams …
other title: Terrore dallo spazio profondo / Stjålne kroppe …
The residents of San Francisco are becoming drone-like shadows of their former selves, and as the phenomenon spreads, two Department of Health workers uncover the horrifying truth.
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Aliens (1986)
Aliens
★ 8.2 42 ratings
James Cameron actor: Sigourney Weaver / Carrie Henn …
other title: Aliens - Scontro finale / Aliens - det endelige opgør …
Ripley, the sole survivor of the Nostromo's deadly encounter with the monstrous Alien, returns to Earth after drifting through space in hypersleep for 57 years. Although her story is initially met with skepticism, she agrees to accompany a team of Colonial Marines back to LV-426.
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Twins of Evil (1971)
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★ 6.3 6 ratings
John Hough actor: Peter Cushing / Dennis Price …
other title: Le figlie di Dracula / As Servas de Drácula …
While dabbling in Satanism, Count Karstein resurrects Mircalla Karnstein who initiates him into vampirism. As a rash of deaths afflicts the village, Gustav the head of Puritan group leads his men to seek out and destroy the pestilence. One of his twin nieces has become inflicted with the witchcraft but Gustav's zeal and venom has trapped the innocent Maria, threatening her with a tortuous execution, whilst Frieda remains free to continue her orgy of evil.
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Tentacles (1977)
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★ 2.8 5 ratings
Ovidio G. Assonitis actor: John Huston / Shelley Winters …
other title: Tentacoli / Kæmpeblæksprutten …
Several people disappear from and at the sea. Their bodies are found gnawed to the skeleton, even the marrow is missing. The scientists have no idea which animal could do such things. Dr. Turner begins to suspect that the company which builds a tunnel beneath the bay might have poisoned the environment and caused an octopus to mutate to giant dimensions...
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Alien (1979)
Alien
★ 8.6 57 ratings
Ridley Scott actor: Tom Skerritt / Sigourney Weaver …
other title: Alien, le huitième passager / Alien - Das unheimliche Wesen aus einer fremden Welt …
During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.
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Harvey (1950)
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Henry Koster actor: James Stewart / Josephine Hull …
other title: Meu Amigo Harvey / Mein Freund Harvey …
The story of Elwood P. Dowd who makes friends with a spirit taking the form of a human-sized rabbit named Harvey that only he sees (and a few privileged others on occasion also.) After his sister tries to commit him to a mental institution, a comedy of errors ensues. Elwood and Harvey become the catalysts for a family mending its wounds and for romance blossoming in unexpected places.
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The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
The Darjeeling Limited
★ 6.5 17 ratings
Wes Anderson actor: Owen Wilson / Adrien Brody …
other title: Il treno per il Darjeeling / Darjeeling Limited …
Three American brothers who have not spoken to each other in a year set off on a train voyage across India with a plan to find themselves and bond with each other -- to become brothers again like they used to be. Their "spiritual quest", however, veers rapidly off-course (due to events involving over-the-counter pain killers, Indian cough syrup, and pepper spray).
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The Wicker Man (1973)
The Wicker Man
★ 8.4 32 ratings
Robin St. C. Hardy actor: Edward Albert Arthur Woodward / Christopher Lee …
other title: L'uomo di vimini / Offerfesten …
Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. Stranger still, however, are the rituals that take place there.
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Gamera: Guardian of the Universe (1995)
ガメラ 大怪獣空中決戦
Shusuke Kaneko actor: Tsuyoshi Ihara / Shinobu Nakayama …
other title: Gamera - Guardian of the Universe / ガメラ 大怪獣空中決戦 …
A great duel of supersonic speed. A ship runs aground on a mysterious atoll leading to an investigation by insurance representative Kusanagi, who discovers an ancient bead that he gives to his daughter Asagi. Meanwhile, ornithologist Nagamine investigates reports of a new species of large bird named Gyaos. As the Gyaos begin to attack, an ancient guardian with a bond to Asagi emerges.
Watched
Aug. 4, 2024
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Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975)
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★ 6.0 6 ratings
Ishirō Honda actor: Katsuhiko Sasaki / Tomoko Ai …
other title: Distruggete Kong! La terra è in pericolo / Die Brut des Teufels …
A submarine expedition to salvage the remains of Mechagodzilla is thwarted by a massive dinosaur named Titanosaurus. An Interpol investigation leads biologist Ichinose to uncover the work of Dr. Mafune and his mysterious daughter Katsura. Aligned with the Black Hole Aliens, Katsura's life becomes entwined with the resurrected machine.
Watched
July 14, 2024
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Invaders from Mars (1953)
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William Cameron Menzies actor: Jimmy Hunt / Arthur Franz …
other title: Gli invasori spaziali / Os Invasores de Marte …
In the early hours of the night, young David Maclean sees a flying saucer land and disappear into the sand dunes just beyond his house. Slowly, all of the adults, including his once loving parents, begin to act strangely.
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Godzilla Minus One (2023)
ゴジラ-1.0
★ 7.1 51 ratings
Takashi Yamazaki actor: Ryunosuke Kamiki / Minami Hamabe …
other title: ゴジラ-1.0
In postwar Japan, Godzilla brings new devastation to an already scorched landscape. With no military intervention or government help in sight, the survivors must join together in the face of despair and fight back against an unrelenting horror.
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Son of Godzilla (1967)
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Jun Fukuda actor: Tadao Takashima / Bibari Maeda …
other title: Il figlio di Godzilla / Frankensteins Monster jagen Godzillas Sohn …
Reporter Goro Maki stumbles upon scientists conducting weather experiments on Sollgel Island in the South Seas. He discovers the island is inhabited by giant mantis and a woman named Saeko who's been cast away since the death of her father. The pair soon find a helpless infant monster that Godzilla must adopt and learn to raise as one of his own.
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Logan's Run (1976)
Logan's Run
★ 6.0 7 ratings
Michael Anderson actor: Michael York / Richard Jordan …
other title: Flucht ins 23. Jahrhundert / Flugten fra fremtiden …
In the 23rd century, inhabitants of a domed city freely experience all of life’s pleasures — but no one is allowed to live past 30. Citizens can try for a chance at being “renewed” in a civic ceremony on their 30th birthday. Escape is the only other option.
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It Came from Outer Space (1953)
It Came from Outer Space
Jack Arnold actor: Richard Carlson / Barbara Rush …
other title: Destinazione... Terra! / Invasion fra Mars …
Author and amateur astronomer John Putnam and schoolteacher Ellen Fields witness an enormous meteorite come down near a small town in Arizona. Putnam becomes a local object of scorn when, after examining the object up close, he announces that it is a spacecraft, and that it is inhabited...
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April 14, 2024
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Beyond the Time Barrier (1960)
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Edgar G. Ulmer actor: Robert Clarke / Darlene Tompkins …
other title: Al di là della barriera del tempo / Le Voyageur de l'espace …
In 1960, a pilot testing an experimental rocket powered aircraft accidentally flies into the future and finds himself in a sealed city whose people suspect he is a spy from outside their walls, but who want to keep him to procreate with the ruler's daughter because the majority of the inhabitants are sterile.