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Cast a Deadly Spell (1991) NeoDB Douban WikiData TMDB IMDb
Cast a Deadly Spell
director: Martin Campbell actor: Fred Ward / David Warner …
other title: Omicidi e incantesimi / Feitiço Mortal …
In a fantastical 1940s where magic is used by everyone, a hard-boiled detective investigates the theft of a mystical tome.
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Big Business (1988) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Big Business
director: Jim Abrahams actor: Bette Midler / Lily Tomlin …
other title: Affari d'oro / Alle disse kvinder …
In the 1940s in the small town of Jupiter Hollow, two sets of identical twins are born in the same hospital on the same night. One set to a poor local family and the other to a rich family just passing through. The dizzy nurse on duty accidentally mixes the twins unbeknown to the parents. Our story flashes forward to the 1980s where the mismatched sets of twins are about to cross paths.
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By Dawn's Early Light (1990) TMDB IMDb WikiData
By Dawn's Early Light
director: Jack Sholder actor: Powers Boothe / Rebecca De Mornay …
other title: Codice Trinity- Attacco all'alba / Condition Red …
A nuclear warhead launched by Soviet insurgents protesting the waning Cold War destroys the Ukrainian city of Donetsk. The destruction sets off a race between American and Soviet politicians to prevent a nuclear holocaust. While the U.S. president feverishly works to keep the military and political machine from going into overdrive, various subordinates panic. When the president is believed to be killed in a helicopter crash, zealous advisers take over.
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Countdown to Looking Glass (1984) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Countdown to Looking Glass
director: Fred Barzyk actor: Scott Glenn / Michael Murphy …
A fictional confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the Strait of Hormuz, the gateway to the Persian Gulf. The narrative of the film details the events that lead up to the initial exchange of nuclear weapons from the perspective of an on-going news broadcast.
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The Thing from Another World (1951) IMDb TMDB
The Thing from Another World
director: Christian Nyby actor: Kenneth Tobey / Margaret Sheridan …
other title: La cosa da un altro mondo / Manden fra Mars …
Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost.
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Battlefield Earth (2000) NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB Douban
Battlefield Earth
director: Roger Christian actor: John Travolta / Barry Pepper …
other title: Battaglia per la Terra / A Reconquista …
In the year 3000, man is no match for the Psychlos, a greedy, manipulative race of aliens on a quest for ultimate profit. Led by the powerful Terl, the Psychlos are stripping Earth clean of its natural resources, using the broken remnants of humanity as slaves. What is left of the human race has descended into a near primitive state. After being captured, it is up to Tyler to save mankind.
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Freejack (1992) NeoDB IMDb TMDB WikiData Douban
Freejack
director: Geoff Murphy actor: Emilio Estevez / Mick Jagger …
other title: Freejack - In fuga nel futuro / Corrida Contra o Futuro …
Time-traveling bounty hunters find a doomed race-car driver in the past and bring him to 2009 New York, where his mind will be replaced with that of a terminally ill billionaire.
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The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) NeoDB TMDB KevGa-NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
8.0 (10 ratings) director: David Zucker actor: Leslie Nielsen / Priscilla Presley …
other title: Una pallottola spuntata / Høj pistolføring …
When the bumbling Lieutenant Frank Drebin investigates events following the shooting of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.
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The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991) Douban TMDB IMDb NeoDB WikiData
The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear
7.2 (8 ratings) director: David Zucker actor: Leslie Nielsen / Priscilla Presley …
other title: Una pallottola spuntata 2½ - L'odore della paura / Høj pistolføring 2½: Lovens lange næse …
Bumbling lieutenant Frank Drebin is out to foil the big boys in the energy industry, who intend to suppress technology that will put them out of business.
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Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult (1994) NeoDB Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
7.8 (5 ratings) director: Peter Segal actor: Leslie Nielsen / Priscilla Presley …
other title: Una pallottola spuntata 33⅓ - L'insulto finale / Høj pistolføring 33⅓: Den ultimative fornærmelse …
Frank Drebin is persuaded out of retirement to go undercover in a state prison. There he has to find out what top terrorist, Rocco, has planned for when he escapes. Adding to his problems, Frank's wife, Jane, is desperate for a baby.
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Barcelona (1994) NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
Barcelona
director: Whit Stillman actor: Taylor Nichols / Chris Eigeman …
During the 1980s, uptight Ted Boynton is a salesman working in the Barcelona office of a Chicago-based company. He receives an unexpected visit from his cousin Fred, a naval officer who has come to Spain on a public relations mission for a U.S. fleet. Not exactly friends in the past, Ted and Fred strike up relationships with women in the Spanish city and experience conflicts -- Ted with his employer, and Fred with the Barcelona community.
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Metropolitan (1990) Douban WikiData IMDb TMDB
Metropolitan
director: Whit Stillman actor: Edward Clements / Chris Eigeman …
other title: Metropolitan - Verdammt, bourgeois, verliebt
A radical student is adopted by a group of young New Yorkers, serves as a catalyst to alter his and their lives. Gathering in a Manhattan apartment, the group of friends meet to discuss social mobility, Fourier's socialism and play bridge in their cocoon of upper-class society - until they are joined by a man with a critical view of their way of life.
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The Lady Eve (1941) TMDB IMDb WikiData NeoDB Douban
The Lady Eve
director: Preston Sturges actor: Barbara Stanwyck / Henry Fonda …
other title: Lady Eva / As Três Noites de Eva …
It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herself to Charles, this time as an aristocrat named Lady Eve Sidwich.
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The Electric Horseman (1979) TMDB IMDb NeoDB Douban WikiData
The Electric Horseman
director: Sydney Pollack actor: Robert Redford / Jane Fonda …
other title: Il cavaliere elettrico / Den lysende rytter …
A former champion rodeo rider is reduced to using his saddle skills to promote a breakfast cereal in a gaudy Las Vegas show. When he's asked to perform with a $12 million horse, he discovers it is being doped to remain docile. He flees into the desert astride the beast in an act of defiance. A story-hungry female reporter gives chase.
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The Frighteners (1996) Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Frighteners
director: Peter Jackson actor: Michael J. Fox / Trini Alvarado …
other title: Sospesi nel tempo / Agarrem-me esses Fantasmas …
Once an architect, Frank Bannister now passes himself off as an exorcist of evil spirits. To bolster his facade, he claims his "special" gift is the result of a car accident that killed his wife. But what he does not count on is more people dying in the small town where he lives. As he tries to piece together the supernatural mystery of these killings, he falls in love with the wife of one of the victims and deals with a crazy FBI agent.
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Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) IMDb NeoDB Douban WikiData
Odds Against Tomorrow
director: Robert Wise actor: Robert Ryan / Harry Belafonte …
other title: Strategia di una rapina / Wenig Chancen für morgen …
An old-time crook plans a heist. When one of his two partners is found out to be a black man tensions flare.
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This Gun for Hire (1942) NeoDB IMDb TMDB Douban WikiData
This Gun for Hire
director: Frank Tuttle actor: Veronica Lake / Robert Preston …
other title: Il fuorilegge / Die Narbenhand …
Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new employee, Ellen, on a train out of town. Although Ellen is engaged to marry the police lieutenant who's hunting down Raven, she decides to try and set the misguided hit man straight as he hides from the cops and plots his revenge.
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The Return of the Living Dead (1985) TMDB IMDb WikiData NeoDB Douban
The Return of the Living Dead
7.3 (6 ratings) director: Dan O'Bannon actor: Clu Gulager / James Karen …
other title: Il ritorno dei morti viventi / Ligene er ligeglade …
When foreman Frank shows new employee Freddy a secret military experiment in a supply warehouse in Louisville, Kentucky, the two klutzes accidentally release a gas that reanimates corpses into flesh-eating zombies. As the epidemic spreads throughout the town, and the creatures satisfy their hunger in gory and outlandish ways, Frank and Freddy fight to survive with the help of their boss and a mysterious mortician.