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Comfort and Joy (1984) IMDb
Comfort and Joy
director: Bill Forsyth actor: Bill Paterson / Eleanor David …
Radio host Alan 'Dickie' Bird witnesses how an icecream van is attacked and destroyed by angry competitors. This leads him into the struggle between two Italian families over the icecream market of Glasgow.
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National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989) TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
director: Jeremiah S. Chechik actor: Chevy Chase / Beverly D'Angelo …
other title: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation - Un Natale esplosivo! / Fars fede juleferie …
It's Christmastime, and the Griswolds are preparing for a family seasonal celebration. But things never run smoothly for Clark, his wife Ellen, and their two kids. Clark's continual bad luck is worsened by his obnoxious family guests, but he manages to keep going, knowing that his Christmas bonus is due soon.
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Volunteers (1985) IMDb WikiData
Volunteers
director: Nicholas Meyer actor: Tom Hanks / John Candy …
other title: Un ponte di guai / Broen, der kvajede sig …
After his rich father refuses to pay his debt, compulsive gambler Lawrence Bourne III joins the Peace Corps to evade angry creditors. In Thailand, he is assigned to build a bridge for the local villagers with the help of American-As-Apple-Pie WSU Grad Tom Tuttle and the beautiful and down-to earth Beth Wexler. What they don't realize is that the bridge is coveted by the U.S. Army, a local Communist force, and a powerful drug lord. Together with the help of At Toon, the only English speaking native, they must fight off the three opposing forces and find out what is right for the villagers, as well as themselves.
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Bad Black
director: Nabwana IGG actor: Nalwanga Gloria / Alan Hofmanis …
A mild-mannered doctor is trained in the art of ass-kicking commando vengeance by a no-nonsense ghetto kid in an effort to regain a family heirloom from Uganda’s toughest gang.
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Future Cops (1993) NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData
超級學校霸王
director: Wong Jing actor: Andy Lau / Jacky Cheung Hok-Yau …
other title: Chao ji xue xiao ba wang
In the year 2043, an evil crime lord is trying to take over the world. Only one government official stands in his way, and plans to send him to prison, so The General and his minions Kent, Thai King, and Toyota travel to the year 1993 to kill the official before he has a chance to get into office. During a battle with The General's minions, the Future Cops Lung, Broom Man, Ti Man, and Ah-Sing hear of their evil plan and devise a plan of their own to travel back in time to protect the official.
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Laser Mission (1989) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Laser Mission
director: BJ Davis actor: Brandon Lee / Debi A. Monahan …
other title: fire mission / Misión láser …
A CIA agent is sent to get Professor Braun before the KGB can seize him as the Prof's knowledge, together with a recently stolen diamond, could be used to make a laser cannon.
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Gremlins (1984) NeoDB TMDB KevGa-NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
Gremlins
7.9 (8 ratings) director: Joe Dante actor: Zach Galligan / Phoebe Cates …
other title: Gremlins - O Pequeno Monstro / Gremlins - Kleine Monster
After receiving an exotic small animal as a Christmas gift, a young man inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet, which unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous creatures on a small town.
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Matinee (1993) NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Matinee
director: Joe Dante actor: John Goodman / Cathy Moriarty …
other title: Panik premiere / Pânico em Florida Beach …
A showman introduces a small coastal town to a unique movie experience and capitalizes on the Cuban Missile crisis hysteria with a kitschy horror extravaganza combining film effects, stage props and actors in rubber suits in this salute to the B-movie.
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
8.3 (6 ratings) director: Robert Zemeckis actor: Bob Hoskins / Christopher Lloyd …
other title: Chi ha incastrato Roger Rabbit / Hvem Snørede Roger Rabbit? …
'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime suspect.
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Slings & Arrows (2003) WikiData TMDB IMDb
Slings & Arrows
director: Bob Martin / Susan Coyne … actor: Paul Gross / Stephen Ouimette …
other title: Slings and Arrows
This darkly comic Canadian series follows the fortunes of a dysfunctional Shakespearean theatre troupe at the fictional New Burbage Festival, exposing the high drama, scorching battles, and artistic miracles that happen behind the scenes.
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Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare (1987) IMDb WikiData
Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare
director: John Fasano actor: Jon Mikl Thor / Jillian Peri …
other title: Im Angesicht der Hölle / Al filo del infierno
At an old farmhouse, a family mysteriously dissapears at the hands of evil. Years later, hair metal band The Tritons comes to the farmhouse, whose barn now features a 24-track recording studio. Lead singer John Triton gets the band to perform their first night in the farmhouse after dinner, and weird little beasties suddenly appear, and strange things start to happen. Band members (and their tagalong girlfriends) begin to act strangely and vanish one by one. Soon, only John Triton remains, and he holds a secret. Finally, the evil shows itself and a battle between heaven and hell ensues....
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Cannibal! The Musical (1996) TMDB WikiData IMDb
Cannibal! The Musical
director: Trey Parker actor: Trey Parker / Matt Stone …
other title: Musical Caníbal / Cannibal: The Musical
Heading through Colorado Territory in search of gold and women, Alferd Packer and his group of bemused companions find themselves lost, starving and musically inspired by the obstacles they confront along the way, including a die-hard Confederate cyclops, a trio of surly trappers, a tribe of Japanese-speaking "Indians," and ultimately, each other.
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The Wrong Mans (2013) WikiData TMDB IMDb
The Wrong Mans
director: James Corden / Mathew Baynton actor: Mathew Baynton / James Corden
other title: The Wrong Mans - Falsche Zeit, falscher Ort / The Wrong Mans - Mauvaise pioche
Comedy thriller about two well-meaning idiots who become entangled in a hideous world of crime, conspiracy and corruption.
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The Red Spectacles (1987) TMDB WikiData IMDb
紅い眼鏡
director: Mamoru Oshii actor: Shigeru Chiba / Machiko Washio …
other title: 紅い眼鏡
Summer 1995. With the arrival of the "Age of Cats", the former Kerberos police unit is now disbanded. However one member remains, a stray dog who returns to his old roost after a three-years exile. This wild dog no longer has a master, but now the "Young Lady of Fate" will guide him on his journey.
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Dark Habits (1983) NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Entre tinieblas
director: Pedro Almodóvar actor: Cristina Sánchez Pascual / Will More …
other title: L'indiscreto fascino del peccato / Negros Hábitos …
After her drug pusher boyfriend overdoses on heroin, a cabaret singer finds refuge from the authorities in a convent for fallen women.
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Kung Fu Hustle (2004) IMDb NeoDB TMDB Douban
功夫
8.6 (28 ratings) director: Stephen Chow actor: Stephen Chow / Yuen Qiu …
other title: Kung Fusion / Kung Fu Zão …
It's the 1940s, and the notorious Axe Gang terrorizes Shanghai. Small-time criminals Sing and Bone hope to join, but they only manage to make lots of very dangerous enemies. Fortunately for them, kung fu masters and hidden strength can be found in unlikely places. Now they just have to take on the entire Axe Gang.
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Clue (1985) Douban TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData
Clue
7.5 (6 ratings) director: Jonathan Lynn actor: Tim Curry / Eileen Brennan …
other title: Signori, il delitto è servito / Clue - O Jogo do Crime …
Clue finds six colorful dinner guests gathered at the mansion of their host, Mr. Boddy -- who turns up dead after his secret is exposed: He was blackmailing all of them. With the killer among them, the guests and Boddy's chatty butler must suss out the culprit before the body count rises.