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The Player (1992) NeoDB Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb
The Player
director: Robert Altman actor: Tim Robbins / Greta Scacchi
other title: I protagonisti / O Jogador
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?
Cinema of Vengeance (1994) IMDb TMDB
Cinema of Vengeance
director: Toby Russell actor: Cynthia Rothrock / Yuen Biao
other title: Le furie del cinema
A documentary study of martial arts films and their leading protagonists. Included are profiles of such artists as Bruce Lee, Cynthia Rothrock, Jackie Chan, Jean-Claude Van Damme and John Woo favorite Chow Yun-Fat.
Nov. 23, 2025 watched
Fascinating (for us fans) documentary on the history & development of Hong Kong martial arts & action films, featuring interviews with the people who make the magic happen. And lots of great clips from movies! (Which I have put into a collection here: https://eggplant.place/collection/69ChUBekkGbNHa0VeIGmSz

I'm sure watched this on VHS in the 90s. Rewatched in #KungFuSat #WatchParty on Mastodon.
1990s Action Documentary HongKong MartialArts
Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) TMDB NeoDB Douban WikiData IMDb
Birdman of Alcatraz
director: John Frankenheimer actor: Burt Lancaster / Karl Malden
other title: L'uomo di Alcatraz / Manden fra Alcatraz
After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair, Stroud's life gains new meaning when he happens upon a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise yard and nurses it back to health. Despite having only a third grade education, Stroud goes on to become a renowned ornithologist and achieves a greater sense of freedom and purpose behind bars than most people find in the outside world.
Diabolique (1955) Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb KevGa-NeoDB
Les Diaboliques
8.5 (6 ratings) director: Henri-Georges Clouzot actor: Véra Clouzot / Simone Signoret
other title: I diabolici / Rædslernes hus
The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely duo -- his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly flaunts. The women become increasingly unhinged by a series of odd occurrences after Delassalle's corpse mysteriously disappears.
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB Douban
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
director: Jake Kasdan actor: John C. Reilly / Jenna Fischer
other title: Walk Hard - La storia di Dewey Cox / A Vida é Dura
Following a childhood tragedy, Dewey Cox follows a long and winding road to music stardom. Dewey perseveres through changing musical styles, an addiction to nearly every drug known and bouts of uncontrollable rage.
Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho (1934) IMDb WikiData
Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho
director: Fred Waller actor: Cab Calloway / Sidney Easton
This jazz musical short has a comedy plot about marital infidelity. Bandleader Cab Calloway plays a ladies man who dates the wife (Fredi Washington) of a train porter who is frequently absent from home. Calloway and his Orchestra perform "Zaz-zuh-zaz" and "The Lady with the Fan" at the Cotton Club in Harlem.
Come and See (1985) NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB
Иди и смотри
director: Elem Klimov actor: Aleksei Kravchenko / Olga Mironova
other title: Va' e vedi / Gå og Se
The invasion of a village in Byelorussia by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On returning home, Florya finds his family and fellow peasants massacred. His continued survival amidst the brutal debris of war becomes increasingly nightmarish, a battle between despair and hope.
Nov. 19, 2025 watched
Wrenching tale of a boy during the Nazi invasion of the USSR and the horrors he witnesses. Based on tales of survivors brought to the screen by director Elem Klimov after a years-long battle with Soviet censors in his last film, and especially scary now that fascism is on the rise again.

Watched in #EuroKino #WatchParty on Mastodon
1980s Drama ElemKlimov EuroKino Tragedy
Tomb Invader (2018) WikiData IMDb
Tomb Invader
director: James Thomas actor: Gina Vitori / Tammy Klein
other title: Invasores de tumbas
Archaeologist Alabama Channing sets off to uncover the ancient tomb of Quin Shi Haung, which promises riches and answers to family mysteries.
Alligator 2: The Mutation (1991) IMDb WikiData
Alligator 2: The Mutation
director: Jon Hess actor: Joseph Bologna / Dee Wallace
other title: Alligator 2 - Die Mutation / Alligator 2 - The Mutation
A giant mutated alligator runs riot in a small town after the sewer system washes it into a lake.
Alligator (1980) IMDb TMDB
Alligator
director: Lewis Teague actor: Robert Forster / Robin Riker
other title: Alligator: Uhyret under byens gader / Der Horror-Alligator
A baby alligator is flushed down a toilet and survives by eating discarded lab animals that have been injected with growth hormones. The now gigantic animal escapes the city sewers and goes on a rampage, pursued by a cop and a big-game hunter.
Secret Admirer (1985) IMDb TMDB WikiData
Secret Admirer
director: David Greenwalt actor: C. Thomas Howell / Lori Loughlin
other title: L'ammiratore segreto / O Admirador Secreto
An anonymous love letter left in Michael Ryan's locker on the last day of school wreaks havoc on his life and the lives of everyone who comes in contact with it.
Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks (2019) NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks
director: Serge Ou actor: Alan Hofmanis / Alien Ness
other title: Pugni d'acciaio e calci kung fu
The fantastic story of how an ancient martial art, Chinese kung fu, conquered the world through the hundreds of films that were produced in Hong Kong over the decades, transformed Western action cinema and inspired the birth of cultural movements such as blaxploitation, hip hop music, parkour and Wakaliwood cinema.
Yes, Madam! (1985) TMDB IMDb
皇家師姐
director: Corey Yuen Kwai actor: Michelle Yeoh / John Shum Kin-Fun
other title: Yes, Madam / Ultra Force 2
Two unlucky thieves break into a just murdered man's hotel room and steal his passport with a hidden microfilm wanted by a triad boss. Two ass-kicking women cops—one Chinese, one British—are on the case.
The Producers (1968) TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban
The Producers
director: Mel Brooks actor: Zero Mostel / Gene Wilder
other title: Per favore, non toccate le vecchiette! / Forår for Hitler
Broadway producer Max Bialystock and his accountant, Leo Bloom plan to make money by charming wealthy old biddies to invest in a production many times over the actual cost, and then put on a sure-fire flop, so nobody will ask for their money back – and what can be a more certain flop than a tasteless musical celebrating Hitler.
Singin' in the Rain (1952) TMDB Douban IMDb NeoDB WikiData
Singin' in the Rain
8.0 (9 ratings) director: Gene Kelly / Stanley Donen actor: Gene Kelly / Donald O'Connor
other title: Cantando sotto la pioggia / Syng i sol og regn
In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen partner struggle to make the difficult transition to talking pictures.
Mohawk (1956) IMDb WikiData
Mohawk
director: Kurt Neumann actor: Scott Brady / Rita Gam
other title: La principessa di moak / L'attaque de Fort Douglas
An artist working in a remote army post is juggling the storekeeper's daughter, his fiancée newly arrived from the east, and the Indian Chief's daughter. But when a vengeful settler manages to get the army and the braves at each other's throats his troubles really begin.
Terminus (1987) WikiData IMDb
Terminus
director: Pierre-William Glenn actor: Johnny Hallyday / Karen Allen
A lone driver navigates a high-tech truck through dangerous territory in a deadly cross-country racing sport. After the guidance system fails, a new driver must bond with the truck's AI while dodging attacks and uncovering sinister plots.
Nov. 12, 2025 watched
Mad Max influenced-sci-fi that's an incomprehensible mess by the end of which I didn't know or care what happened to the characters.

Only earns that half-star by having Jürgen Prochnow in a red troll wig.
1980s Action ActionSciFi France JohnnyHallyday
Over the Top (1987) IMDb TMDB WikiData
Over the Top
director: Menahem Golan actor: Sylvester Stallone / Robert Loggia
other title: O Lutador / Over the Top : Le Bras de fer
Lincoln Hawk a hard-luck big-rig trucker takes us under the glaring Las Vegas lights for all the boisterous action of the World Armwrestling Championship. Relying on wits and willpower, Hawk tries to rebuild his life by capturing the first-place prize money, and the love of the son he abandoned years earlier into the keeping of his rich, ruthless father-in-law.