Drama
The War Game (1966) NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
The War Game
director: Peter Watkins actor: Michael Aspel / Kathy Staff
other title: La Bombe / El juego de la guerra
A docudrama depicting a hypothetical nuclear attack on Britain. After backing the film's development, the BBC refused to air it, publicly stating "the effect of the film has been judged by the BBC to be too horrifying for the medium of broadcasting." It debuted in theaters in 1966 and went on to great acclaim, but remained unseen on British television until 1985.
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L'Amour braque
director: Andrzej Żuławski actor: Sophie Marceau / Tchéky Karyo
other title: Amour braque - L'amore balordo / Skør kærlighed
After a successful bank robbery, Micky hopes to take back his girlfriend Marie who has been taken from him. On the way to Paris he meets Leon, a neurotic dreamer whom he considers an idiot. Leon can hardly understand what Micky is up to but he follows him everywhere and soon falls in love with Marie.
The Doom Generation (1995) TMDB IMDb NeoDB Douban
The Doom Generation
director: Gregg Araki actor: Rose McGowan / James Duval
other title: Doom Generation / Doom - Geração Maldita
Jordan White and Amy Blue, two troubled teens, pick up an adolescent drifter, Xavier Red. Together, the threesome embarks on a sex- and violence-filled journey through a United States of psychos and quickie marts.
Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban
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.
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Boiler Room
director: Ben Younger actor: Giovanni Ribisi / Vin Diesel
other title: 1 km da Wall Street / O Primeiro Milhão
A college dropout gets a job as a broker for a suburban investment firm and is on the fast track to success—but the job might not be as legitimate as it sounds.
Oct. 25, 2025 watched
Not bad, but not quite as good as the films it name-checks, like Wall Street and Glengarry Glenn Ross.

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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) Douban TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
6.8 (6 ratings) director: Jacques Demy actor: Catherine Deneuve / Nino Castelnuovo
other title: Pigen med paraplyerne / Os Chapéus de Chuva de Cherburgo
This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.
Magnet of Doom (1963) TMDB IMDb
L'Aîné des Ferchaux
director: Jean-Pierre Melville actor: Jean-Paul Belmondo / Charles Vanel
other title: Lo sciacallo / L'Aîné des Ferchaux
Young boxer Michel Maudet is sacked by his manager after a series of match defeats and is forced to look for a new job. He is engaged as secretary to a millionaire named Ferchaux who is in a hurry to flee the country when he discovers he has been implicated in a high-profile fraud.
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Sonny
director: Nicolas Cage actor: James Franco / Brenda Blethyn
New Orleans, 1981. Sonny Phillips, just discharged from the Army, returns home. The only life he's known is as a gigolo, working for his mother, but he wants to leave that behind. However, the job his Army buddy promised doesn't materialize, and he can't escape his past.