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Island of Lost Souls (1932)
Island of Lost Souls
Erle C. Kenton actor: Charles Laughton / Richard Arlen …
other title: L'isola delle anime perdute / Insel der verlorenen Seelen …
An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself as the self-styled demigod to a race of mutated, half-human abominations.
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The Old Man and the Sea (1958)
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John Sturges actor: Spencer Tracy / Felipe Pazos …
other title: Il vecchio e il mare / Der alte Mann und das Meer …
Santiago is an aging, down-on-his-luck, Cuban fisherman who, after catching nothing for nearly 3 months, hooks a huge Marlin and struggles to land it far out in the Gulf Stream.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Norman Taurog actor: Tommy Kelly / May Robson …
other title: Le avventure di Tom Sawyer / Toms Abenteuer …
Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witnessing a murder.
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
★ 7.6 12 ratings
Don Siegel actor: Kevin McCarthy / Dana Wynter …
other title: L'invasione degli ultracorpi / De stjålne kroppe …
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
Watched
Aug. 31, 2026
I much prefer the 1978 version but this still had its moments of tension.

Watched in the #ReMonsterdon watch party on Mastodon.
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The Dunwich Horror (1970)
The Dunwich Horror
Daniel Haller actor: Sandra Dee / Dean Stockwell …
other title: Le vergini di Dunwich / Altar do Diabo …
Dr. Henry Armitage, an expert in the occult, goes to the old Whateley manor in Dunwich looking for Nancy Wagner, a student who went missing the previous night. He is turned away by Wilbur, the family's insidious heir, who has plans for the young girl. But Armitage won't be deterred. Through conversations with the locals, he soon unearths the Whateleys' darkest secret — as well as a great evil.
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I, Claudius (1976)
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Martin Lisemore / Herbert Wise … actor: Derek Jacobi / Siân Phillips …
other title: Jeg, Claudius / Eu, Cláudio …
Acclaimed blackly comic historical drama series. Set amidst a web of power, corruption and lies, it chronicles the reigns of the Roman emperors - Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula and finally Claudius.
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Brideshead Revisited (1981)
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Derek Granger actor: Jeremy Irons / Anthony Andrews …
other title: Retorno a Brideshead / Wiedersehen mit Brideshead …
Agnostic Charles Ryder is seduced by the allure of the Flytes, a wealthy aristocratic family. Although he finds himself at odds with their strong Catholicism, his ties to the family deepen for the decades between the two world wars.
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Silver Bullet (1985)
Silver Bullet
Daniel Attias actor: Gary Busey / Everett McGill …
other title: 银色子弹 / 狼魔 …
The small city of Tarker's Mills is startled by a series of sadistic murders. The population fears the work of a maniac, but sightings of a mysterious, hairy creature soon spread. People lock themselves up at night, but there's one boy who's still outside…
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Tell No One (2006)
Ne le dis à personne
Guillaume Canet actor: François Cluzet / Marie-Josée Croze …
other title: Non dirlo a nessuno / Fortæl det ikke til nogen …
A man receives a mysterious email appearing to be from his wife, who was murdered years earlier. As he frantically tries to find out whether she's alive, he finds himself being implicated in her death.
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The Outfit (1973)
The Outfit
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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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Rouben Mamoulian actor: Fredric March / Miriam Hopkins …
other title: Il dottor Jekyll / Dr. Jekyll und Mr. Hyde …
Dr. Henry Jekyll believes that there are two distinct sides to men - a good and an evil side. He believes that by separating the two, man can become liberated. He succeeds in his experiments with chemicals to accomplish this and transforms into Hyde to commit horrendous crimes. When he discontinues use of the drug, it is already too late.
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Lonesome Dove (1989)
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actor: Robert Duvall / Tommy Lee Jones …
other title: Weg in die Wildnis / Paloma solitaria …
A pair of longtime friends and former Texas Rangers crave one last adventure before hanging-up their spurs. After stealing over a thousand head of cattle from rustlers south of the border, they recruit an unlikely crew of hands to drive the herd 3,000 miles north to the grasslands of Montana.
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No Escape (1994)
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Martin Campbell actor: Ray Liotta / Lance Henriksen …
other title: Fuga da Absolom / Flugten fra Absolom …
In the year 2022, a ruthless prison warden has created the ultimate solution for his most troublesome and violent inmates: Absolom, a secret jungle island where prisoners are abandoned and left to die. But Marine Captain John Robbins, convicted of murdering a commanding officer, is determined to escape the island in order to reveal the truth behind his murderous actions and clear his name.
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Screamers (1995)
Screamers
Christian Duguay actor: Peter Weller / Jennifer Rubin …
other title: Screamers - Urla dallo spazio / Screamers - Tödliche Schreie …
SIRIUS 6B, Year 2078. On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding, self-replicating race of killing devices known as Screamers designed for one purpose only — to hunt down and destroy all enemy life forms.
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The Foreigner (2017)
The Foreigner
★ 6.4 8 ratings
Martin Campbell actor: Pierce Brosnan / Jackie Chan …
other title: O Estrangeiro / El extranjero
Quan is a humble London businessman whose long-buried past erupts in a revenge-fueled vendetta when the only person left for him to love – his teenage daughter – dies in an Irish Republican Army car bombing. His relentless search to find the terrorists leads to a cat-and-mouse conflict with a British government official whose own past may hold the clues to the identities of the elusive killers.
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Night and the City (1950)
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Jules Dassin actor: Richard Widmark / Francis L. Sullivan …
other title: I trafficanti della notte / Foragidos da Noite …
Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed up when he taps her for yet another loan.
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The Warriors (1979)
The Warriors
★ 7.2 6 ratings
Walter Hill actor: Michael Beck / William James Remar …
other title: I guerrieri della notte / Krigerne …
Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for Cyrus' death. Before you know it, the cops and every gangbanger in town is hot on the Warriors' trail.
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Miami Blues (1990)
Miami Blues
George Armitage actor: Alec Baldwin / Jennifer Jason Leigh …
other title: 迈阿密特别行动 / Balada de Miami …
After Junior is released from prison, he plans on starting a new life in Miami. But when he kills a man in the airport, he flees the scene and finds Susie, a mild-mannered prostitute searching for stability. The two opposites become romantically involved, and Junior steals a badge and gun from a veteran detective. Using the officer's identity, Junior embarks on a crime spree and convinces Susie that he is the perfect man.