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Lady Snowblood (1973) TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
修羅雪姫
8.3 (11 ratings) director: Toshiya Fujita actor: Meiko Kaji / Toshio Kurosawa …
other title: Lady Snowblood: Blizzard from the Netherworld / 修羅雪姫 …
Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother but leave her alive. Later her mother ends up in prison with only revenge to keep her alive. She creates an instrument for this revenge by purposefully getting pregnant. Yuki never knows the love of a family but only killing and revenge.
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Hard Boiled (1992) IMDb TMDB NeoDB Douban WikiData
辣手神探
8.3 (7 ratings) director: John Woo actor: Chow Yun-Fat / Tony Leung Chiu-Wai …
other title: Fervura Máxima / À toute épreuve …
A cop who loses his partner in a shoot-out with gun smugglers goes on a mission to catch them. In order to get closer to the leaders of the ring he joins forces with an undercover cop who's working as a gangster hitman. They use all means of excessive force to find them.
April 18, 2026 watched
Realism is overrated. Insane action all the way!

Rewatched for the umpteenth time a day after the 34th anniversary of its release (16 April 1992).
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The Outfit (1973) IMDb WikiData
The Outfit
director: John Flynn actor: Robert Duvall / Karen Black …
other title: Organizzazione crimini / Revolte in der Unterwelt …
A two-bit criminal takes on the Mafia to avenge his brother's death. Earl Macklin is a small time criminal who is released from prison after an unsuccessful bank robbery only to discover that a pair of gunmen killed his brother.
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The Aristocats (1970) NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Aristocats
director: Wolfgang Reitherman actor: Phil Harris / Eva Gabor …
other title: Gli Aristogatti / Aristocats …
When Madame Adelaide Bonfamille leaves her fortune to Duchess and her children—Bonfamille’s beloved family of cats—the butler plots to steal the money and kidnaps the legatees, leaving them out on a country road. All seems lost until the wily Thomas O’Malley Cat and his jazz-playing alley cats come to the aristocats’ rescue.
April 17, 2026 watched
Rewatched (after 45+? years) in the #Comedon watch party on Mastodon.

It held up better than I'd have guessed, although there are brief moments with racist stereotypes.
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Gunless (2010) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Gunless
director: William Phillips actor: Paul Gross / Sienna Guillory …
other title: Django Gunless / Désarmé …
American gunslinger Sean Rafferty—aka The Montana Kid—is unable to find someone to duel in a Canadian town where no one understands the brutal code of the American Wild West.
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The Octagon (1980) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Octagon
director: Eric Karson actor: Chuck Norris / Karen Carlson …
other title: Mænd uden nåde / A Fortaleza Secreta …
Scott James, a veteran martial arts expert, is recruited as the protector of the wealthy and beautiful Justine after she becomes the target of a ninja clan. When Scott finds out that his ruthless arch-nemesis, McCarn , is involved with the stealthy and dangerous criminals, he is eager to settle old scores. Soon Scott is facing off against McCarn and the entire ninja horde in an effort to take them all down.
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Son of Dracula (1974) WikiData TMDB IMDb
Son of Dracula
director: Freddie Francis actor: Harry Nilsson / Ringo Starr …
other title: Il figlio di Dracula / Young Dracula (the BLOOD-SUCKER with a BEAT!)
Due to be crowned King of the Netherworld by his mentor Merlin the Magician, Count Downe — son of Dracula — falls in love with beautiful mortal Amber and finds himself in conflict with Baron Frankenstein, who is vying for the same honourary title.
April 13, 2026 watched
Meandering mess with a few musical moments of interest. Ringo Starr in particular underwhelms as Merlin.

Watched in #MonsterMiru watch party on Mastodon after #Monsterdon
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The Full Monty (1997) NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData
The Full Monty
director: Peter Cattaneo actor: Robert Carlyle / Mark Addy …
other title: Full Monty - Squattrinati organizzati / Det' bare mænd …
Sheffield, England. Gaz, a jobless steelworker in need of quick cash persuades his mates to bare it all in a one-night-only strip show.
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Son of Dracula (1943) TMDB IMDb
Son of Dracula
director: Robert Siodmak actor: Lon Chaney Jr. / Robert Paige …
other title: Il figlio di Dracula / Draculas Sohn …
Carpathian Count Alucard is invited to the U.S. by a young heiress. Her boyfriend and local officials are suspicious of the newcomer, who is interested in the "virile" soil of the new world.
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Top Dog (1995) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Top Dog
director: Aaron Norris actor: Chuck Norris / Michele Lamar Richards …
other title: Il cane e il poliziotto / Top Dog, el perro sargento …
With his cop companion shot and killed by terrorists, Reno The Dog pairs up with tough cop Jake in thwarting the criminal organization.
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Secondhand Lions (2003) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Secondhand Lions
director: Tim McCanlies actor: Michael Caine / Robert Duvall …
other title: Lições Para Toda Vida / Löwen aus zweiter Hand …
The comedic adventures of an introverted boy left on the doorstep of a pair of reluctant, eccentric great-uncles, whose exotic remembrances stir the boy's spirit and re-ignite the men's lives.
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Superbad (2007) TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb
Superbad
6.8 (8 ratings) director: Greg Mottola actor: Jonah Hill / Michael Cera …
other title: Su×bad: 3 menti sopra il pelo / Super Baldas …
Two co-dependent high school seniors are forced to deal with separation anxiety after their plan to stage a booze-soaked party goes awry.
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Red River (1948) NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData
Red River
director: Howard Hawks actor: John Wayne / Montgomery Clift …
other title: Il fiume rosso / O Rio Vermelho …
Following the Civil War, headstrong rancher Thomas Dunson decides to lead a perilous cattle drive from Texas to Missouri. During the exhausting journey, his persistence becomes tyrannical in the eyes of Matthew Garth, his adopted son and protégé.
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The Hitman (1991) IMDb WikiData
The Hitman
director: Aaron Norris actor: Chuck Norris / Alberta Watson …
other title: Omicidio incrociato / O Destruidor …
After surviving an attempt on his life by his former partner, officer Cliff Garrett (Norris) exacts revenge on those who wronged him by going undercover as a hit man. He works to gain the reputation and trust needed in order to be accepted by the burgeoning Seattle-area criminal underworld, but it is all done in order to take it down from within.
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A Separation (2011) WikiData Douban TMDB NeoDB IMDb
جدایی نادر از سیمین
8.7 (7 ratings) director: Asghar Farhadi actor: Leila Hatami / Payman Maadi …
other title: Nader and Simin, a Separation / Jodaeiye Nader az Simin …
A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer’s disease.
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Beat Street (1984) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Beat Street
director: Stan Lathan actor: Guy Davis / Rae Dawn Chong …
An aspiring DJ, from the South Bronx, and his best friend, a promoter, try to get into show business by exposing people to hip-hop music and culture.
April 6, 2026 watched
Dance/musical movies not usually my thing, but I enjoyed this slice of 80s B Boy life from the Bronx.

Saw the start in the #SundayFunnies watch party on Mastodon, completed later.
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The Monster That Challenged the World (1957) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Monster That Challenged the World
director: Arnold Laven actor: Tim Holt / Audrey Dalton …
other title: Il mostro che sfidò il mondo / O Monstro Que Desafiou o Mundo …
Giants Mollusks are released from the earth by an earthquake and start killing people.
April 6, 2026 watched
Has effects, characters and monsters not as terrible as the usual 1950s fare.

Watched in #Monsterdon watch party on Mastodon.
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