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Wrath of the Wind (1970) IMDb WikiData
La collera del vento
director: Mario Camus actor: Terence Hill / Maria Grazia Buccella …
other title: La collera del vento / Mission hævn …
A mute gunslinger takes on an oppressive landlord in 19th century Valencia and falls in love with a local woman.
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The Commitments (1991) TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Commitments
director: Alan Parker actor: Robert Arkins / Michael Aherne …
other title: Os Commitments / Die Commitments …
Jimmy Rabbitte, just a thick-ya out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First he needs musicians and singers: things slowly start to click when he finds three fine-voiced females virtually in his back yard, a lead singer (Deco) at a wedding, and, responding to his ad, an aging trumpet player, Joey "The Lips" Fagan.
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Amazing Grace (1974) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Amazing Grace
director: Stan Lathan actor: Slappy White / Moms Mabley …
A widow tries to influence the local mayoral election in Baltimore, Maryland, after she discovers that a black candidate is being used by the incumbent mayor to further his own reelection efforts.
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Millennium (1989) IMDb WikiData
Millennium
director: Michael Anderson actor: Kris Kristofferson / Cheryl Ladd …
other title: Milénio / Millennium - Die 4. Dimension …
An investigator seeking the cause of an airline disaster discovers the involvement of an organisation of time travellers from a future Earth irreparably polluted who seek to rejuvenate the human race from those about to die in the past. Based on a novel by John Varley.
Feb. 3, 2026 watched
Cheryl Ladd is a time-travelling David Bowie impersonator who screws up all time by screwing Kris Kristofferson.

Watched in the #MondayActionMovie watch party on Mastodon.
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Blooded Treasury Fight (1979) NeoDB IMDb WikiData
血肉磨坊
director: Pao Hsueh-Li actor: Michael Chan Wai-Man / David Chiang Da-Wei …
other title: Lutte Féroce à Shaolin / 血肉磨坊 …
Master thief Chow Kwan-hai is the only person who knows the location of a stash of valuable pearls. With the help of a mismatched gang of criminals, assassins and pickpockets, Chow leads a suicidal mission to the Bloody Mill to find the treasure and hopefully make it back alive.
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Wet Hot American Summer (2001) IMDb WikiData TMDB
Wet Hot American Summer
director: David Wain actor: Janeane Garofalo / David Hyde Pierce …
The setting is Camp Firewood, the year 1981. It's the last day before everyone goes back to the real world, but there's still a summer's worth of unfinished business to resolve. At the center of the action is camp director Beth, who struggles to keep order while she falls in love with the local astrophysics professor. He is busy trying to save the camp from a deadly piece of NASA's Skylab which is hurtling toward earth. All that, plus: a dangerous waterfall rescue, love triangles, misfits, cool kids, and talking vegetable cans. The questions will all be resolved, of course, at the big talent show at the end of the day.
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Dead for a Dollar (2022) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Dead for a Dollar
director: Walter Hill actor: Christoph Waltz / Willem Dafoe …
other title: Morto per un dollaro / Caçadores de Recompensas …
In 1897, veteran bounty hunter Max Borlund is deep into Mexico where he encounters professional gambler and outlaw Joe Cribbens — a sworn enemy he sent to prison years before. Max is on a mission to find and return Rachel Kidd, the wife of a wealthy businessman, who as the story is told to Max, has been abducted by Buffalo Soldier Elijah Jones. Max is ultimately faced with a showdown to save honor.
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Assassin (1986) IMDb WikiData
Assassin
director: Sandor Stern actor: Robert Conrad / Karen Austin …
other title: Special Terminator C.I.A. / Asesino
A retired agent from an Intelligence Agency is contacted by the Agency in order to stop an ultra-secret robot who is killing some government officials. That will be not an easy task, because the robot looks human and it was specifically built to be an efficient killer, not to mention that it is almost invulnerable.
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Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018) NeoDB Douban Douban TMDB IMDb
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
6.5 (8 ratings) director: David Slade actor: Fionn Whitehead / Craig Parkinson …
other title: Black Mirror - Bandersnatch / Black Mirror : Bandersnatch …
In 1984, a young programmer begins to question reality as he adapts a dark fantasy novel into a video game. A mind-bending tale with multiple endings.
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Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (2024) Sukkertoppen IMDb KevGa-NeoDB TMDB NeoDB Douban
九龍城寨
6.6 (74 ratings) director: Soi Cheang actor: Raymond Lam Fung / Louis Koo …
other title: Kowloon Walled City / Crepúsculo dos Guerreiros: Walled In …
Set in the 1980s, troubled youth Chan Lok-kwun accidentally enters the Walled City, discovers the order amidst its chaos, and learns important life lessons along the way. In the Walled City, he becomes close friends with Shin, Twelfth Master and AV. Under the leadership of Cyclone, they resist against the invasion of villain Mr. Big in a series of fierce battles. Together, they vow to protect the safe haven that is Kowloon Walled City.
Jan. 25, 2026 watched
Some *very* impressive triad martial arts action in the Walled City of Kowloon in the 80s

Watched in #KungFuSat watch party on Mastodon
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Rambo (2008) NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB Douban
Rambo
director: Sylvester Stallone actor: Sylvester Stallone / Julie Benz …
other title: John Rambo
In Thailand, ex-Green Beret John James Rambo joins a group of mercenaries to venture into war-torn neighboring Myanmar to rescue a group of Christian aid workers who have been kidnapped by a ruthless local infantry unit.
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Hot Rod (2007) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Hot Rod
director: Akiva Schaffer actor: Andy Samberg / Jorma Taccone …
other title: Hot Rod - Uno svitato in moto / Hot Rod - Loucos Sobre Rodas …
For Rod Kimble, performing stunts is a way of life, even though he is rather accident-prone. Poor Rod cannot even get any respect from his stepfather, Frank, who beats him up in weekly sparring matches. When Frank falls ill, Rod devises his most outrageous stunt yet to raise money for Frank's operation -- and then Rod will kick Frank's butt.
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Compañeros (1970) TMDB
Vamos a matar, compañeros
director: Sergio Corbucci actor: Franco Nero / Tomas Milian …
other title: Vamos a matar, compañeros / Companheiros …
Arms dealer Yolaf Peterson aims to make a sale to guerilla Mongo, but the money is locked in a bank safe, the combination known only to Professor Xantos, a prisoner of the Americans. Yolaf agrees to free Xantos, accompanied by reluctant guerilla Basco, but a former business partner of Yolaf's- John 'The Wooden Hand', has other ideas.
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TripFall (2000) TMDB IMDb WikiData
TripFall
director: Serge Rodnunsky actor: Eric Roberts / John Ritter …
other title: Ostaggi della follia / Tripfall - Das Todestrio …
A serial killer turns the life of a family on vacation into a nightmare.
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Mars Attacks! (1996) Douban NeoDB WikiData TMDB IMDb
Mars Attacks!
6.6 (9 ratings) director: Tim Burton actor: Jack Nicholson / Glenn Close …
other title: Marte Ataca!
A fleet of Martian spacecraft surrounds the world's major cities and all of humanity waits to see if the extraterrestrial visitors have, as they claim, "come in peace." U.S. President James Dale receives assurance from science professor Donald Kessler that the Martians' mission is a friendly one. But when a peaceful exchange ends in the total annihilation of the U.S. Congress, military men call for a full-scale nuclear retaliation.
Jan. 19, 2026 watched
People slag it off, and sure it has issues, but I always enjoy it!

TIL it was Alex Cox (Repo Man) who came up with the idea.

Rewatched (for the 7th? 8th? time) in #MonsterMiru watch party on Mastodon (after #Monsterdon).
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Mothra (1961) TMDB IMDb WikiData
モスラ
director: Ishirō Honda actor: Frankie Sakai / Hiroshi Koizumi …
other title: Mothra bedroht die Welt / MOTHRA …
Shipwreck survivors found on the presumably uninhabited Infant Island leads to a scientific expedition that discovers a surviving native population along with the Shobijin, tiny twin fairy priestesses of the island's mythical deity called Mothra. After the fairies are kidnapped by an exploitative businessman named Clark Nelson, Mothra sets out to rescue them.