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In a Lonely Place (1950) IMDb TMDB Skybridge WikiData Douban
In a Lonely Place
director: Nicholas Ray actor: Humphrey Bogart / Gloria Grahame …
other title: Il diritto di uccidere / Matar ou Não Matar …
A screenwriter with a violent temper is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him. However, she soon starts to have her doubts.
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The Petrified Forest (1936) TMDB IMDb WikiData Douban
The Petrified Forest
director: Archie Mayo actor: Leslie Howard / Bette Davis …
other title: La foresta pietrificata / A Floresta Petrificada …
Gabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day penniless intellectual Alan drifts into the joint and the two strike up a rapport. Soon enough, notorious killer Duke Mantee takes the diner's inhabitants hostage. Surrounded by miles of desert, the patrons and staff are forced to sit tight with Mantee and his gang overnight.
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Beverly Hills Cop (1984) NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData Skybridge
Beverly Hills Cop
6.4 (5 ratings) director: Martin Brest actor: Eddie Murphy / Judge Reinhold …
other title: Beverly Hills Cop - Un piedipiatti a Beverly Hills / Frækkere end politiet tillader …
Fast-talking, quick-thinking Detroit street cop Axel Foley has bent more than a few rules and regs in his time, but when his best friend is murdered, he heads to sunny Beverly Hills to work the case like only he can.
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Cruel Jaws (1995) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Cruel Jaws
director: Bruno Mattei actor: David Luther / George Barnes Jr. …
other title: Fauci Crudeli - Cruel Jaws / The Beast - Unheimliche Tiefe …
A tiger shark bred by the Navy as a killing machine is wreaking havoc in the sleepy tourist town of Hampton Bay.
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Jaws: The Revenge (1987) IMDb TMDB NeoDB WikiData Douban
Jaws: The Revenge
director: Joseph Sargent actor: Lorraine Gary / Lance Guest …
other title: Lo squalo 4 - La vendetta / Dødens gab 4: Hævnen …
After another deadly shark attack, Ellen Brody decides she has had enough of New England's Amity Island and moves to the Caribbean to join her son, Michael, and his family. But a great white shark has followed her there, hungry for more lives.
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Jaws 3-D (1983) IMDb TMDB NeoDB Douban WikiData
Jaws 3-D
director: Joe Alves actor: Dennis Quaid / Bess Armstrong …
other title: Lo squalo 3 / Dødens gab 3 …
A giant thirty-five-foot shark becomes trapped in a SeaWorld theme park and it's up to the sons of police chief Brody to rescue everyone.
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Jaws 2 (1978) IMDb WikiData TMDB NeoDB Douban Skybridge
Jaws 2
4.2 (5 ratings) director: Jeannot Szwarc actor: Roy Scheider / Lorraine Gary …
other title: Lo squalo 2 / Dødens gab 2 …
Police chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terrorizing the waters.
July 11, 2026 watched
Reminds me of the old Russian joke. Two old friends bump into each other in December. One asks: "How was your year?" The other replies. "So-so. Worse than last year, but better than the next!"

This entry in the Jaws franchise was definitely not as good as the 1st one, but will better than the ones to come! :D

Rewatched (for the first time in decades) in "Jaws July" in the #FridayThrillerClub watch party on Mastodon.
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Independence Day (1996) Douban NeoDB TMDB IMDb Skybridge WikiData
Independence Day
6.9 (18 ratings) director: Roland Emmerich actor: Will Smith / Bill Pullman …
other title: Dia da Independência / Dia de la independencia
Strange phenomena surface around the globe. The skies ignite. Terror races through the world's major cities. As these extraordinary events unfold, it becomes increasingly clear that a force of incredible magnitude has arrived. Its mission: total annihilation over the Fourth of July weekend. The last hope to stop the destruction is an unlikely group of people united by fate and unimaginable circumstances.
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Jaws (1975) NeoDB Douban DeaDvey's Reviews IMDb TMDB Skybridge
Jaws
8.0 (46 ratings) director: Steven Spielberg actor: Roy Scheider / Robert Shaw …
other title: Lo squalo / Dødens gab …
When the seaside community of Amity finds itself under attack by a dangerous great white shark, the town's chief of police, a young marine biologist, and a grizzled hunter embark on a desperate quest to destroy the beast before it strikes again.
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Roadgames (1981) IMDb TMDB
Roadgames
director: Richard Franklin actor: Stacy Keach / Jamie Lee Curtis …
other title: Drønhed asfalt / Truck Driver …
A truck driver plays a cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious serial killer in a van who lures young female hitchhiker victims on a desolate Australian highway.
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52 Pick-Up (1986) TMDB IMDb WikiData
52 Pick-Up
director: John Frankenheimer actor: Roy Scheider / Ann-Margret …
other title: 52 gioca o muori / Afpresning …
Harry Mitchell is a successful Los Angeles manufacturer whose wife is running for city council. His life is turned upside down when three blackmailers confront him with a videotape of him with his young mistress and demand $100,000. Fearing that the story will hurt his wife's political campaign if he goes to the police, Harry pretends that he will pay the men, but does not follow through.
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Outbreak (1995) Douban TMDB NeoDB KevGa-NeoDB IMDb WikiData Skybridge
Outbreak
director: Wolfgang Petersen actor: Dustin Hoffman / Rene Russo …
other title: Virus letale / Outbreak - Fora de Controlo …
A deadly airborne virus finds its way into the USA and starts killing off people at an epidemic rate. Col. Sam Daniels' job is to stop the virus spreading from a small town, which must be quarantined, and to prevent an over reaction by the White House.
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The Stepford Wives (1975) NeoDB IMDb KevGa-NeoDB TMDB Douban Skybridge
The Stepford Wives
8.1 (8 ratings) director: Bryan Forbes actor: Katharine Ross / Paula Prentiss …
other title: La fabbrica delle mogli / Dukke-kvinderne …
Joanna Eberhart has come to the quaint little town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all too perfect behavior of the female residents.
June 6, 2026 watched
Still scarily relevant. Perhaps even more so now as we approach the technological capability & many men don't seem any more accepting of women as real people with their own minds.

Watched at some point decades ago, rewatched in the #FridayThrillerClub watch party on Mastodon.
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Falling Down (1993) TMDB IMDb NeoDB Douban ReviewDB Skybridge WikiData
Falling Down
7.4 (9 ratings) director: Joel Schumacher actor: Michael Douglas / Robert Duvall …
other title: Un giorno di ordinaria follia / Um Dia de Raiva …
An ordinary man frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them.
May 30, 2026 watched
When people are raised with certain expectations, to some those expectations not being met seems to justify victimhood. Even when they're the bad guy.

Rewatched for the first time in decades in #FridayThrillerClub watch party on Mastodon.
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Get Low (2010) Douban IMDb Skybridge TMDB WikiData
Get Low
director: Aaron Schneider actor: Robert Duvall / William James Murray …
other title: Get Low - A Lenda de Felix Bush / Am Ende des Weges …
A movie spun out of equal parts folk tale, fable and real-life legend about the mysterious, 1930s Tennessee hermit who famously threw his own rollicking funeral party... while he was still alive.