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Jaws (1975)
Jaws
8.0 (46 ratings) director: Steven Spielberg actor: Roy Scheider / Robert Shaw …
other title: Lo squalo / Dødens gab …
When the seaside community of Amity finds itself under attack by a dangerous great white shark, the town's chief of police, a young marine biologist, and a grizzled hunter embark on a desperate quest to destroy the beast before it strikes again.
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Priest of Love (1981) WikiData IMDb
Priest of Love
director: Christopher Miles actor: Ian McKellen / Janet Suzman …
other title: Sacerdote del amor
Following the banning and burning of his novel, "The Rainbow," D.H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, move to the United States, and then to Mexico. When Lawrence contracts tuberculosis, they return to England for a short time, then to Italy, where Lawrence writes "Lady Chatterley's Lover."
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Thunder of Gigantic Serpent (1988) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Thunder of Gigantic Serpent
director: Lee Chiu actor: Pierre Kirby / Edowan Bersma …
other title: Terror Serpent
A secret formula that can cause plants and animals to expand a thousand-fold in size is stolen by a terrorist group. During a wild chase and shoot-out, the formula is lost. It's found by a little girl who accidently gives the formula to her pet snake. After the snake grows to an immense size, it follows and protects her. When the terrorists go after the girl, the snake begins destroying everything in its path.

Hong Kong cut and paste edit of the 1987 Taiwanese film "大蛇王" (King of Snake) with new scenes.
June 29, 2026 watched
Take a Taiwanese monster film, splice in some pointless white guys, Australian flags & Tangerine Dream, & you've got Thunder of Gigantic Serpent!

Watched in #MonsterMiru watch party after #Monsterdon on Mastodon.
GodfreyHo MonsterMiru Snake Monster HongKong
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Have Sword, Will Travel (1969)
保鏢
director: Chang Cheh actor: David Chiang Da-Wei / Ti Lung …
other title: Le invincibili spade delle tigri volanti / Die Todespagode des gelben Tigers …
Ying Ke-Feng, head of Peerless Manor, is an expert swordsman whose escort business transports 200,000 taels of silver to the capital each year. This year, however, he is afflicted with an infirmity that renders him unable to use his sword.
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Roadgames (1981) IMDb TMDB
Roadgames
director: Richard Franklin actor: Stacy Keach / Jamie Lee Curtis …
other title: Drønhed asfalt / Truck Driver …
A truck driver plays a cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious serial killer in a van who lures young female hitchhiker victims on a desolate Australian highway.
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The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy (2000) WikiData IMDb TMDB Skybridge
The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy
director: Greg Berlanti actor: Timothy Olyphant / Zach Braff …
other title: Il club dei cuori infranti / O Clube dos Corações Partidos …
A close-knit group of gay friends share the emotional roller coster of life, relationships, the death of friends, new beginnings, jealousy, fatherhood and professional success. At various stages of life's disarray, these young men share humorous and tragic relationships and always have each other to rely on.
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The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
The Man Who Could Cheat Death
director: Terence Fisher actor: Anton Diffring / Hazel Court …
other title: L'uomo che ingannò la morte / Den Tod überlistet …
Dr. Bonner plans to live forever through periodic gland transplants from younger, healthier human victims. Bonner looks about 40; he's really 104 years old. But people are starting to get suspicious, and he may not make 200.
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The Tingler (1959) IMDb TMDB
The Tingler
director: William Castle actor: Vincent Price / Philip Coolidge …
other title: Il mostro di sangue / Força Diabólica …
A pathologist experiments with a deaf-mute woman who is unable to scream to prove that humans die of fright due to an organism he names The Tingler that lives within each person on the spinal cord and is suppressed only when people scream when scared.
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The Million Dollar Duck (1971)
The Million Dollar Duck
director: Vincent McEveety actor: Dean Jones / Sandy Duncan …
other title: Un papero da un milione di dollari / Panik i andedammen …
Professor Dooley takes home a duck from his research laboratory as a toy for his son, but soon finds out that it lays golden eggs.
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52 Pick-Up (1986) WikiData IMDb TMDB
52 Pick-Up
director: John Frankenheimer actor: Roy Scheider / Ann-Margret …
other title: 52 gioca o muori / Afpresning …
Harry Mitchell is a successful Los Angeles manufacturer whose wife is running for city council. His life is turned upside down when three blackmailers confront him with a videotape of him with his young mistress and demand $100,000. Fearing that the story will hurt his wife's political campaign if he goes to the police, Harry pretends that he will pay the men, but does not follow through.
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Runaway (1984) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Runaway
director: Michael Crichton actor: Tom Selleck / Cynthia Rhodes …
other title: Døden løber løbsk / Runaway - Spinnen des Todes …
In the near future, a police officer specializes in malfunctioning robots. When a robot turns out to have been programmed to kill, he begins to uncover a homicidal plot to create killer robots... and his son becomes a target.