Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953) |
Lester and Orville accidentally find themselves aboard a rocketship bound for Mars, or so they think. Instead, they wind up landing at the New Orleans Mardi Gras thinking they have landed on the Red Planet. The pair are forced by bank robbers Mugsy and Harry to fly to the planet Venus, where they encounter a civilization consisting entirely of beautiful women. |
Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kid (1952)
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Rocky and Puddin' Head are waiting tables at an inn on Tortuga when a letter given them by Lady Jane for delivery to Martingale gets switched with a treasure map. Kidd and Bonney kidnap them to Skull Island to find said treasure. |
Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953)
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Slim and Tubby are American cops in London to study police tactics. By their own bumbling actions, they wind up in jail. They are bailed out by Dr. Jekyll. Jekyll has been murdering fellow doctors who laugh at his experiments. The boys look to solve the recent murders to get back on the police force, causing many Hyde’s running around London. |
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
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The picture is the first of several films in which the comedy duo meet classic monsters from Universal's horror film stable. In this film, they encounter Count Dracula (Bela Lugosi), Frankenstein's monster (Glenn Strange), and the Wolf Man (Lon Chaney Jr.). Subsequent films pair the duo with the Invisible Man, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and the Mummy. |
Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951) |
Two bumbling private eyes help a man wrongly accused of murder who has become invisible to help clear his name. While Bud and Lou investigate, they come across an invisibility formula which Tommy injects himself rather with than face the police. This sparks an idea for trapping gangster Morgan by having Lou fight champ Rocky Hanlon, with Tommy's help. |
Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops (1955) |
Harry and Willie buy the Edison Movie Studio in the year 1912 from shyster Joseph Gorman. Once at the studio, they find out it belongs to Thomas Edison. They follow Gorman to Hollywood where they find him directing movies as Sergei Trumanoff. They seek to expose him for the crook he is. |
Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer Boris Karloff (1949) |
Freddie Phillips is a bellhop at the Lost Caverns Hotel and finds himself the main suspect of a murder. Hotel detective Casey Edwards looks to help Freddie clear himself. Swami Talpur tries to hypnotize Freddie into confessing, but Freddie is too stupid for the plot to work. Inspector Wellman uses Freddie to get the killer. |
Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955) |
Two Americans, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, who are stranded in Cairo, Egypt, happens to overhear Dr. Gustav Zoomer (Kurt Katch) discussing the mummy Klaris, the guardian of the Tomb of Princess Ara. Apparently the mummy has a sacred medallion that shows where the treasure of Princess Ara can be found. |
Abominable Dr. Phibes, The (1971) |
Dr. Anton Phibes, a famous concert organist and expert in theology and music, is thought to have been killed in a car crash in Switzerland in 1921, while racing home upon hearing of the death of his beloved wife, Victoria, during surgery. Phibes survived the crash, but he was horribly scarred and left unable to speak. He remakes his face with prosthetics and uses his knowledge of acoustics to regain his voice. Resurfacing secretly in London in 1925, Phibes believes his wife was a victim of incompetence on the part of the doctors, and he begins elaborate plans to kill those he believes are guilty. |
Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas, The (1957) |
Dr. John Rollason (Peter Cushing), his wife, Helen (Maureen Connell), and assistant, Peter Fox (Richard Wattis), are guests of the Lama (Arnold Marlé) of the monastery of Rong-buk while on a botanical expedition to the Himalayas. A second expedition, led by Dr. Tom Friend (Forrest Tucker) accompanied by trapper Ed Shelley (Robert Brown), photographer Andrew McNee (Michael Brill) and Sherpa guide Kusang (Wolfe Morris), arrives at the monastery in search of the legendary Yeti or Abominable Snowman. |
Abyss, The (1989) |
When an American submarine sinks in the Caribbean, the U.S. search and recovery team works with an oil platform crew, racing against Russian vessels to recover the boat. Deep in the ocean, they encounter something unexpected during initial investigation of the Montana. A power outage in the team's submersibles leads to Lindsey seeing a strange light circling the sub, which she later calls a "non-terrestrial intelligence" or "NTI". |
Ace Ventura - Pet Detective (1994) |
Ace Ventura (Jim Carrey), is an eccentric Miami-based private detective who specialises in retrieving tame or captive animals. However, he struggles to pay his rent, and is often mocked by the Miami Police Department, led by Lieutenant Lois Einhorn, who finds Ventura insufferable. Ventura rescues a dog being held for ransom. Two weeks before the Miami Dolphins are to play in the Super Bowl, their mascot, a bottlenose dolphin named Snowflake, is kidnapped. Melissa Robinson, the Dolphins’ chief publicist, hires Ventura to find Snowflake. |
Ace Ventura - When Nature Calls (1995) |
The film is the sequel to Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994). In the Himalayas, after a failed rescue mission results in a raccoon falling to its death (a parody of Cliffhanger), Ace Ventura (Jim Carrey), undergoes an emotional breakdown and joins a Tibetan monastery. Once he has recovered, he is approached by Fulton Greenwall, a Britishcorrespondent working for a provincial consulate in the fictional African country of Nibia. Because Ace's presence is troublesome to the monastery, the Grand Abbot gives Ace excuses to justify his departure and sends him off with Greenwall to find the Great White bat 'Shikaka', a sacred animal of the Wachati tribe in Nibia, Africa. |
A Christmas Carol (1951) |
Crotchety Victorian businessman Ebenezer Scrooge (Alastair Sim) has no use for festivity, even at Christmas. After resentfully allowing timid clerk Bob Cratchit (Mervyn Johns) to have the holiday to spend with his loving wife (Hermione Baddeley) and family, Scrooge is swept into a nightmare. The ghost of his late partner, Jacob Marley (Michael Hordern), appears, warning that Ebenezer will be visited by three more spirits who will show the coldhearted man the error of his parsimonious behavior. |
Addams Family Values (1993) |
Gomez and Morticia Addams hire a nanny, Debbie, to take care of their new son Pubert. Unbeknownst to them, Debbie is a serial killer who marries rich bachelors and murders them to collect their inheritances. After Debbie seduces Uncle Fester, Wednesday, the Addams' daughter, becomes suspicious. |
Addams Family, The (1991) |
The film focuses on a bizarre, macabre, aristocratic family who reconnect with who they believe to be a long-lost relative, Gomez's brother, Fester Addams, who is actually the adopted son of a con artist intending to swindle the Addams clan out of their vast wealth and fortune. |
Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The (1989) |
In an unnamed war-torn European city in "The Age of Reason", amid explosions and gunfire from a large Ottoman army outside the city gates, a fanciful touring stage production of Baron Munchausen's life and adventures is taking place. In a theatre box, the mayor, "The Right Ordinary Horatio Jackson", reinforces the city's commitment to reason by ordering the execution of a soldier who had just accomplished a near-superhuman feat of bravery, claiming that his bravery is demoralizing to other soldiers and citizens. |
Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, The (1984) |
Buckaroo Banzai and his mentor Dr. Hikita perfect the "oscillation overthruster", a device that allows one to pass through solid matter. Banzai tests it by driving his Jet Car through a mountain. While passing through it, Banzai finds himself in another dimension, and on returning to his normal dimension, he discovers an alien organism has attached itself to his car. |
A Few Good Men (1992) |
U.S. Marines Lance Corporal Harold Dawson and Private Louden Downey are facing a general court-martial, accused of killing fellow Marine Private William Santiago at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. Naval investigator and lawyer Lieutenant commander JoAnne Galloway (Demi Moore), suspects Dawson and Downey carried out a "code red": a violent extrajudicial punishment. Galloway wants to defend them, but the case is given to Lieutenant (junior grade) Daniel Kaffee (Tom Cruise), an inexperienced and unenthusiastic lawyer with a penchant for plea bargains. |
A Fistful of Dollars (1964) |
Wandering gunfighter Joe arrives in the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among sheriff John Baxter and the three Rojo brothers. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers bearing gold is waylaid by the Rojo brothers, Joe is hired by Esteban to join the gang, but he plays one side against the other. |
After The Thin (1936) |
Recently returned home from vacation, private detective Nick Charles (William Powell) and his socialite wife, Nora (Myrna Loy), are back on the case when Nora's cousin, Selma (Elissa Landi), reports her husband Robert (Alan Marshal) missing. As the duo search for the disreputable Robert, Selma's friend David Graham (James Stewart), who secretly pines for her, aids the investigation. When the three begin to unravel Robert's secret life, the missing persons case turns into one of murder. |
African Queen, The (1951) |
Samuel Sayer (Robert Morley) and his sister Rose (Katharine Hepburn) are British Methodist missionaries in the village of Kungdu in German East Africa at the beginning of World War I in September 1914. Their mail and supplies are delivered by a small steam launchnamed the African Queen, helmed by the rough-and-ready Canadian boat captain Charlie Allnut (Humphrey Bogart), whose coarse behavior they tolerate in a rather stiff manner. During their journey down the river, Charlie... |
Airplane! (1980) |
As a parody film, Airplane! tells its story intermixed between several cut-away scenes, comedic scenes, and visual and running gags. Ex-fighter pilot Ted Striker (Robert Hays), is a traumatized war veteran turned taxi driver. Due to his pathological fear of flying and "drinking problem" (being unable to take a drink without splashing it on his face), he has been unable to hold a responsible job. His wartime girlfriend, Elaine Dickinson (Julie Hagerty), now a flight attendant, leaves him before boarding her assigned flight from Los Angeles to Chicago. Ted drops everything and buys a ticket on the same flight to try to win her back. However, she still continues to reject him during the flight. |
Airport (1970) |
Seven stories tied into one movie! Mel Bakersfeld (Burt Lancaster), the general manager of a Chicago area airport, must contend with a massive snowstorm, the detonation of a bomb on a Boeing 747 and clearing runway 29 of a snowed in Boeing 707 for the ill fated Boeing 747, on which other nuisances are occurring, including a sly, elderly stowaway, Ada Quonsett (Helen Hayes), who has been taking the airport for a ride for years. |
Airport 1975 (1974) |
When the pilot of a small aircraft has a heart attack and crashes his plane into the cockpit of a Boeing 747, several members of the flight crew are killed and the pilot is blinded. Miraculously, the 747 stays in the air on auto-pilot with flight attendant Nancy Prior at the controls. Ground controllers, including her boyfriend Alan Murdock, try to teach her the basics but they soon realize they will have to get a trained pilot into the cockpit. Their first attempt fails and Murdock realizes he will have to do it. Meanwhile, various passengers have their own problems, including a young girl on her way for a life saving operation. |
Alien (1979) |
The commercial space tug Nostromo is on a return trip to Earth with a seven-member crew in stasis: Captain Dallas (Tom Skerritt), Executive Officer Kane (John Hurt), Warrant Officer Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), Navigator Lambert (Veronica Cartwright), Science Officer Ash (Ian Holm) and two Engineers, Parker (Yaphet Kotto) and Brett (Harry Dean Stanton). Detecting a transmission from the nearby planetoid LV-426, the ship's computer, Mother, awakens the crew. Upon investigation, they discover the signal comes from a derelict alien spacecraft and head inside it. They soon discover the remains of a large alien creature, which hatched egg attaches itself to the face Executive Officer Kane. The alien then detaches itself once inside the commerical tug Nostromo spaceship and aggressively proceeds to stalk, attack and kill the crew. |
Alien 3 (1992) |
Crash landing on a barren penal-colony planet with an unwelcomed visitor in tow, Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) contends with a group of hardened convicts while using nothing but her wits to battle a terrifying new breed of alien. The sole survivor of her crashed escape pod, Ripley is rescued from the craft by the remaining inhabitants of Fiorina 161. But Ripley isn't the only new visitor on Fiorina 161; an alien stowaway survived the crash as well. When the inmates start to disappear, the remaining survivors must fight for their lives without weapons to defend themselves. |
Alien: Resurrection (1997) |
Two centuries after Ellen Ripley's death, doctors aboard the space station Auriga clone her using a blood sample taken from Fiorna 161, in hopes of harvesting the queen embryo that was incubating inside of her when she was trapped on the remote penal planet. With the fate of mankind hanging in the balance, Ripley is captured by the aliens and taken to their nest, where she comes face to face with the mutated results of the scientists' experiments. |
Aliens (1986) |
Sigourney Weaver returns as Ellen Ripley, the last surviving crew member of a corporate spaceship destroyed after an attack by a vicious, virtually unbeatable alien life form. The planet where her crew discovered the alien has since been settled by colonists. Ripley predicts disaster, and sure enough, the aliens have infested the colony. With the soldiers picked off one by one, a final all-female showdown brews between the alien queen and Ripley, who's become a surrogate mother to Newt. |
All About Eve (1950) |
Based on a true story, Margo Channing (Bette Davis), is one of the biggest stars on Broadway. But having just turned forty she is worried about what her advancing age will mean for her career. An aspiring actress, Eve Harrington, tattered and forlorn, shows up in Margo's dressing room and Margo takes Eve under her wing, only to have Eve use her and connive against her. |
All This, And Heaven Too (1940) |
Henriette Deluzy-Desportes (Bette Davis) serves as the governess to the children of the Duc de Praslin (Charles Boyer) and his wife, the duchess (Barbara O'Neil). While both the Duc de Praslin and his children adore Henriette, the duchess despises her, and is suspicious of the bond she has formed with her family. As the duchess's behavior toward Henriette grows more and more irrational, it puts into play tragic events that will change all their lives forever. |
Altered States (1980) |
Eddie Jessup (William Hurt ), a scientist, submits himself to a series of mind-expanding experiments in order to doscover man's true place in the univverse. Enclosing himself in a sensory-deprivation chamber and taking hallucinogenic drugs, Jessup hopes to explore different levels of human consciousness, but instead is devolved into an apelike monster. |
Amazing Colossal Man, The (1957) |
While overseeing the atomic tests in the Nevada desert, Army colonel Glenn Manning (Glenn Langan) is exposed to extensive amounts of radiation. As a result, Manning grows, and grows, and grows, at the rate of ten feet per day. This sudden height gain adversely affects the poor man's mind, and soon he's as mad as a hatter. Looking for all the world like Mr. Clean in a diaper, the Colossal Man goes on a murderous rampage, laying waste to numerous landmarks. |
Amazing Transparent Man, The (1959) |
A deranged scientist who needs radioactive chemicals to produce his monstrous experiments devises a formula for invisibility. He gives the formula to an ex-convict so he can steal the chemicals, but the criminal uses his new ability to rob banks instead. |
Amityville Horror, The (1979) |
Based on a true story, George and Kathy Lutz and their three children move into a house that was the site of a horrific murder a year before. They decide to keep the house and try to keep the horror in the past. This is, until George starts to behave weirdly and their daughter, Chelsea, starts to see people. What now follows is 28 days of sheer terror for the family that barely escape. |
American Graffiti (1973) |
It's the last night of the summer in 1962 before Curt Henderson (Richard Dreyfuss) and his good friend Steve Bolander (Ron Howard) have to leave their small town and start college. Throughout a night of cruising, drag racing, fights, and picking up girls, punctuated by popular music of the time, they both struggle with whether or not they have made the right decision and confront the reality of approaching adulthood. |
American Psycho (2000) |
A wealthy New York investment banking executive, Patrick Bateman, hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he delves deeper into his violent, hedonistic fantasies. His murderous impulses are fueled by zealous materialism and piercing envy when he discovers someone else has acquired more than he has. After a colleague presents a business card superior in ink and paper to his, Bateman's blood thirst sharpens, and he steps up his homicidal activities to a frenzied pitch. |
An American Haunting (2005) |
Landowners in 1817 Tennessee, John (Donald Sutherland) and Lucy Bell (Sissy Spacek) experience strange and terrifying events after fellow parishioners find John guilty of loan-sharking and his victim curses the Bell family.The incidents culminate in the daughter's (Rachel Hurd-Wood) possession by demons. |
An American Werewolf in London (1981) |
While wandering the English moors on vacation, college yanks David (David Naughton) and Jack (Griffin Dunne) happen upon a quaint pub with a mysterious patronage who warn them not to leave the road when walking after dark. Irreverent of such advice, the two decide to find a short cut. David wakes up in the hospital with a nasty bite wound to his shoulder; the freshly deceased, and rapidly decomposing, Jack, arrives soon after to deliver the grim news that, unless he commits suicide, David will become a werewolf when the moon is full. |
An American Werewolf in Paris (1997) |
A horror comedy follow-up to An American Werewolf in London (1981). An American man unwittingly gets involved with French werewolves who have developed a serum allowing them to transform at will. |
...And Justice For All (1979) |
An idealistic lawyer who tries to win cases for clients trapped in a hypocritical and corrupt legal system finds himself defending a venal and self-righteous judge accused of rape. The judge wrongly assumes the lawyer's ideals and disdain for the courts will drive him to get an acquittal, despite the evidence and the loathing they have for each other |
Andromeda Strain, The (1971) |
A satellite crashes near a small Arizona town, bringing with it a deadly alien virus. After the townspeople are wiped out by the contagion, a team of scientists bands together to eliminate the virus before it spreads nationwide. |
Angels in the Outfield (1994) |
Roger (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), is a foster child whose irresponsible father promises to get his act together when Roger's favorite baseball team, the California Angels, wins the pennant. The problem is that the Angels are in last place, so Roger prays for help to turn the team around. Sure enough, his prayers are answered in the form of angel Al (Christopher Lloyd), and, before you know it, the Angels' bitter manager (Danny Glover) is watching in amazement as his team starts making the plays -- with the help of angels visible to the audience only. |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) |
Rocky Sullivan (James Cagney) and Jerry Connolly (Pat O'Brien) were brought up in one of New York's toughest neighborhoods, Hell's Kitchen. While his buddy Rocky gets caught up in racketeering in reform school, Jerry decides to become a priest. Years later, Rocky is released from prison and returns to Hell's Kitchen, where Jerry works with at-risk children. Rocky wants a temporary safe haven with his old friend before resuming his life of crime, but Jerry hesitates, testing their relationship. |
Angry Red Planet, The (1959) |
The rocketship MR-1 ("Mars Rocket 1"), returns to Earth after the first manned flight to Mars. At first thought to have been lost in space, the rocket reappears but mission control cannot raise the crew by radio. The ground crew land the rocket successfully by remote control. Two survivors are found aboard: Dr. Iris Ryan (Naura Hayden) and Colonel Tom O'Bannion (Gerald Mohr). When the mission scientists attempt to examine the expedition's data recorders, all they find is a recorded message. An alien voice announces that the MR-1 crew were allowed to leave so they can deliver a message to Earth. |
Annie Hall (1977) |
Comedian Alvy Singer (Woody Allen) examines the rise and fall of his relationship with struggling nightclub singer Annie Hall (Diane Keaton). Speaking directly to the audience in front of a bare background, Singer reflects briefly on his childhood and his early adult years before settling in to tell the story of how he and Annie met, fell in love, and struggled with the obstacles of modern romance, mixing surreal fantasy sequences with small moments of emotional drama. |
Another Thin Man (1939) |
In this third film in the "Thin Man" series based on characters created by mystery writer Dashiell Hammett, retired detective Nick Charles (William Powell) and his wife, Nora (Myrna Loy), accept an invitation to visit family friend Col. Burr MacFay (C. Aubrey Smith) at his Long Island, N.Y., estate. Soon after arriving with their new son, Nick Jr., and family dog Asta in tow, MacFay is murdered, and the Charles family must unravel a mystery that may implicate the most unlikely of suspects. |
Antz (1998) |
Central Park ant drone, Z, longs to be an individual of accomplishment, but Z's colony is a society that puts the value of the colony over personal achievement. Young Z sets his sites on the colony's Queen daughter Bala- who is uninterested until Z successfully mounts a revolution within the colony for the advancement of individuality.
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Apache Drums (1951) |
Thinking to strengthen the town's appeal to outside business, mayor Joe Madden (Willard Parker) decides to rid Spanish Foot of its prostitutes and its most infamous gambler, Sam Leeds (Stephen McNally). No sooner are they run out of town, however, than the prostitutes are killed by marauding Apache Indians. Leeds survives
to bring the news back to town, but the mayor isn't buying his story. It's only after the Apache attack that the townsfolk come to fully appreciate Sam and his gun. |
Apollo 13 (1998) |
NASA must devise a strategy to return Apollo 13 to Earth safely after the spacecraft undergoes massive internal damage putting the lives of the three astronauts on board in jeopardy. |
Apartment, The (1960) |
Insurance worker C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon) lends his Upper West Side apartment to company bosses to use for extramarital affairs. When his manager Mr. Sheldrake (Fred MacMurray) begins using Baxter's apartment in exchange for promoting him, Baxter is disappointed to learn that Sheldrake's mistress is Fran Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine), the elevator girl at work whom Baxter is interested in himself. |
Apt Pupil (1998) |
Sixteen-year-old high school student Todd Bowden has uncovered a deadly secret. Far from suspicion, Nazi war criminal Kurt Dussander has been quietly living in Todd's hometown. Fascinated with the atrocities Dussander committed during the war, Todd begins to blackmail him. In exchange for the teenager's silence, Dussander must reveal his evil past. The two begin a relationship that spirals out of control, producing terrifying results. |
Arachnophobia (1990) |
A deadly species of spider that manages to make its way from the Venezuelan rain forest to a small California town, thanks to the many oversights of entomologist Julian Sands, leads to sudden deaths and the corpses being drained of blood while the spiders grow larger with each kill. The doctor investigating the bizarre occurences, Jeff Daniels, however, suffers from Arachnophobia. |
Argo (2012) |
On Nov. 4, 1979, militants storm the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran, taking 66 American hostages. Amid the chaos, six Americans manage to slip away and find refuge with the Canadian ambassador. Knowing that it's just a matter of time before the refugees are found and likely executed, the U.S. government calls on extractor Tony Mendez (Ben Affleck) to rescue them. Mendez's plan is to pose as a Hollywood producer scouting locations in Iran and train the refugees to act as his "film" crew. |
Armageddon (1998) |
After astronomy students discover a comet-asteroid collision, an asteroid fragment, "the size of the Super Dome", a secret NASA defense crew is dispatched into space. The crew is successful in blasting the comet out of its collision course with earth, but a large chunk, "the size of Texas", veers off toward Singapore. A plan is then devised to send oil drillers to land on the asteroid and drop a nuclear device down a 1000-foot shaft, a scheme calculated to crack the asteroid into two halves. |
Army of Darkness (1993) |
A man is accidentally transported to 1300 A.D., where he must battle an army of the dead and retrieve the Necronomicon so he can return home. |
Around the World Under the Sea (1966) |
The crew of a five-man submarine travels the world oceans, planting sensors on the ocean floor to warn scientists of impending earthquakes. A seires of underwater volcanic eruptions results in the crew nearly being devoured by a sea monster and sucked into a vortex. |
Arrival, The (1996) |
Radio telescope operator named Zane Ziminski (Charlie Sheen) picks up a series of regular signals coming from space. Convinced he has discovered alien transmissions, Ziminski is first chastised and then fired by his boss (Ron Silver). Obsessed, he builds a makeshift radio telescope in his house to find out where the signals were sent. Convinced that they're intended for aliens already hidden on Earth, he tracks them to a bleak, isolated Mexican village, where he joins forces with a female scientist (Lindsay Crouse). Their investigation unveils a massive, planned alien invasion. |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) |
Mortimer Bruster, a drama critic known for his diatribes against marriage, learns on his own wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are homicidal maniacs, and that insanity runs in his family. |
Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001) |
A highly advanced robotic boy longs to become "real" so that he can regain the love of his human mother. |
A Shot in the Dark (1966) |
A murdered corpse is found at the chateau of millionaire Benjamin Ballon. Inspector Clouseau is sent to investigate, but chief inspector Charles Dreyfus is loathe to allow the bumbling Sellers near the case. While Dreyfus barely tolerates Clouseau's idiotic antics, Clouseau tends to the case at hand. |
Assault on a Queen (1966) |
A motley crew of treasure hunters plan to rob the cruise-liner RMS Queen Mary, using a recovered WW2 German submarine. |
Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) |
When police officer Bishop (Austin Stoker) is left in charge of Precinct 13 on the last day it's open, he isn't prepared for the onslaught of a murderous street gang who have come into the possession of an enormous arsenal of guns. Finding himself trapped in the precinct with a pair of secretaries (Laurie Zimmer and Nancy Kyes), a few civilians and a handful of prisoners and all of them facing certain death. |
Astro-Zombies, The (1968) |
Dr. DeMarco (John Carradine), is a mad scientist who engages in bloody murders to develop Astro-Zombies in his basement laboratory, using various bits of his victims, producing creatures on the rampage. |
Astronaut's Wife, The (1999) |
After an explosion in space and subsequent two-minute radio-out period, two astronauts return home to their wives. It seems their wives, however (or is it the astronauts themselves?), have changed, not the same as they were. |
Atlantis, the Lost Continent (1961) |
Anthony Hall is the Greek sailor Demetrius who saves a princess and follows her back to Atlantis where he's locked up by the evil ruler Zaren. Demetrius organizes the other slaves and takes Zaren on. The tussle results in an atomic-powered explosion that sends the famed city to the bottom of the sea. |
Atomic Submarine, The (1959) |
Ships mysteriously disappear on route across the Arctic Sea, and a specially-equipped submarine is sent to investigate. They discover a one-eyed, octopoidal space alien, wreaking havoc upon atomic subs at the North Pole. The monster is determined to take over the world, though it seems ill equipped for that purpose. |
Attack! (1956) |
Europe 1944: Fox company (call sign "Fragile Fox") is a US Army National Guard infantry unit based in a Belgian town near the front line. They are led by Captain Erskine Cooney (Eddie Albert), who appears to be better at handling red tape than combat. When Lieutenant Joe Costa (Jack Palance) sends a squad to take a pillbox, Cooney agrees to provide covering fire but freezes at the critical moment leading to the slaughter of Costa's squad. |
Attack from Space (1965) |
Benevolent aliens from the planet Emerald send superhero Starman to protect Earth from invasion by an evil alien race called the Spherions. When Starman arrives on Earth, he discovers a conspiracy involving Earth's top scientists, and he must root out the traitors and also stop the impending alien invasion. |
Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958) |
Nancy Archer (Allison Hayes ), witnesses the crash landing of a alien spaceship and goes to the local sheriff (George Douglas) with her story, only to be laughed off as a drunken crank. The alien encounter causes her to grow to a giant size and she decides to goe after her cheating husband with revenge on her mind. |
Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957) |
When scientists researching a nuclear fallout go missing, the rescue party encounters a shrinking island with intelligent, murderous giant crabs. |
Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959) |
A backwoods game warden and a local doctor discover that giant leeches are responsible for disappearances and deaths in a local swamp, but the local police don't believe them. Meanwnile, the giant leeches continue dragging locals down to their cave where they slowly feed on them, draining them of their blood. |
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! (1978) |
A group of scientists band together to save the world from mutated killer tomatoes. |
Attack of the Puppet People (1958) |
An eccentric and lonely dollmaker entertains himself by shrinking teenagers and keeping them in his shop. This provides the dollmaker with hours of entertainment until one day he shrinks a rebellious fellow who wants to be big again. |
Audrey Rose (1977) |
A stranger attempts to convince a happily married couple that their daughter is actually his daughter reincarnated. |
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) |
In 1967, British spy Austin Powers thwarts an assassination attempt by his nemesis Dr. Evil in a London nightclub. Dr. Evil escapes in a space rocket disguised as a Big Boy statue, and cryogenically freezes himself. Powers volunteers to be placed into cryostasis in case Dr. Evil returns in the future. |
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) |
Dr. Evil is back and has invented a new time machine that allows him to go back to the 1960s and steal Austin Powers' mojo, the source of his sexual appeal, leaving him "shagless." |
Author! Author! (1982) |
While struggling playwright Ivan Travalian (Al Pacino) tries to get movie actress Alice Detroit (Dyan Cannon) to star in his new Broadway show, his personal life spins out of control. Bored with their marriage, Ivan's wife, Gloria (Tuesday Weld), leaves him -- but she leaves him with not only their son but her children from previous marriages. |
AVP: Alien Vs. Predator (2004) |
During an archaeological expedition on Bouvetøya Island in Antarctica, a team of archaeologists and other scientists find themselves caught up in a battle between the two legends. Soon, the team realize that only one species can win. |