Baby Face (1933) |
A young woman, sexually exploited all her life, decides to turn the tables and exploit the hapless men at a big city bank - by gleefully sleeping her way to the top. Lilly (Baby Face) sleeps her way from basement speakeasy bartender, literally floor by floor, to the top floor of a New York office building. Bank sub-manager Jimmy McCoy finds her a job in the bank only to be cast aside as she hooks up with the bank's president. |
Back to the Future (1985) |
Marty McFly is your average, slacker teenager, who is friendly with a wacky inventor named Doc Brown. When Doc creates a time machine out of a DeLorean car, Marty is accidentally transported into the year 1955. There, he stumbles upon a younger version of his mother, who falls in love with him, now he must... |
Back to the Future Part II (1989) |
The second part of the trilogy begins as Doc, Marty and Jennifer take the time-traveling DeLorean into the year 2015 to straighten out the future of the McFly family. But Biff Tannen steals the time machine and gives his younger self a book containing... |
Back to the Future Part III (1990) |
The conclusion of the trilogy sends Marty McFly on a rescue mission to the year 1885, where he must save Doc Brown from death at the hands of yet another member of the Tannen clan. However, there are a number of complications preventing a quick return... |
Bambi (1942) |
In this Walt Disney classic, animated forest fable, a fawn named Bambi is born, destined to become "Prince of the Forest." He soon befriends other woodland creatures such as Flower, a bashful skunk, and Thumper, an outgoing rabbit. As the years pass, they encounter a number of life's lessons in the woods, including the death of Bambi's... |
Bamboo Saucer, The (1968) |
A team of American scientists, under the leadership of a military man, go to Red China to investigate the report of a downed flying saucer. They encounter a similar Russian team with the same object. The two are forced into an uncomfortable alliance... |
Band Wagon, The (1953) |
Famous musical movie star Tony Hunter (Fred Astaire) fears his career may be on the skids, but his friends, Lester (Oscar Levant) and Lily (Nanette Fabray), have written a Broadway vehicle to kick-start his professional life. Tony is ecstatic -- until egotistical director Jeffrey Cordova (Jack Buchanan) joins the project and casts ballerina... |
Barb Wire (1996) |
Set in the year 2017, Barb Wire takes place after democracy has fallen and a fascist military junta has taken over the U.S. government, plotting a second U.S. civil war... |
Barbarella (1967) |
In the far future, a highly sexual woman is tasked with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand. Along the way she encounters various unusua... |
Bat*21 (1988) |
Lt. Col. Iceal Hambleton (Gene Hackman) is shot down behind enemy lines during the waning days of the Vietnam War. His only connection to the outside world is through radio transmission with Capt. Bartholomew "Bird-Dog" Clark (Danny Glover), a pilot who helps him craft an escape plan and maintain his sanity. Lacking survival skills and unfamiliar with the harsh terrain in Vietnam, Hambleton is forced to fight for his life as he witnesses the shocking horrors of war. |
Batman (1966) |
The arch villains of The United Underworld - The Catwoman, The Joker, The Riddler and The Penguin - combine forces to dispose of Batman and Robin as they launch their fantastic plot to control the entire world. From his submarine, Penguin and his coh...
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Batman (1989) |
Visually stunning dark tale of a boy who witnessed the murder of his parents and grows up to become a millionaire, crime fighting super hero. First one up is the Joker, who is trying to gain control of Gotham City... |
Batman Returns (1992) |
Probably the best of the bunch, Batman faces three enemies, Penguin who is running for mayor, crooked businessman Max Shrek, and the mystifying Catwoman. More horror film than comic book tale, it's very dark and brooding.... |
Batman Forever (1995) |
Keaton is replaced by Val Kilmer in a brighter and more lighthearted version of the series. Robin is introduced and the villains are Two Face and the Riddler. The plot revolves around Riddler trying to remove information from the brains of Gothamites... |
Batman & Robin (1997) |
Kilmer is replaced by George Clooney, who hated this movie and publicly criticized it. However some think Clooney's finely nuanced portrayal of Bruce Wayne launched him into superstardom. Batgirl is introduced and the villains are Poison Ivy and Mr.... |
Batman Begins (2005) |
A new restart of the "Batman" franchise under the helm of "Memento" Director Chris Nolan and more in tone with the early "Batman: Year One" style comics. As a boy a young Bruce Wayne watched in horror as his millionaire parents were slain in front of... |
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973) |
Fifth and final entry in Arthur Jacobs Planet of the Apes series, and the least effective. This was relegated to the 'B' category as witness the decreased production values and a less incisive script by John William Corrington and Joyce Hooper Corrin... |
Battlefield Earth (2000) |
In the year 3000, man is no match for the Psychlos, a manipulative race of aliens on a quest for global domination. Led by the seductive and powerful Terl (Travolta), the Psychlos have taken all natural resources for themselves and left mankind behin... |
Battlestar Galactica (1978) |
The story of how the 12 colonies of man are destroyed after a 1000 year war with the evil Cylon Empire. Through deceit, the Cylons are able to destroy the Colonies' entire fleet, except for the Battlestar Galactica, captained by Commander Adama. Adam... |
Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, The (1953) |
As a result of an arctic nuclear test, a carnivorous dinosaur thaws out and starts making its way down the east coast of North America. Professor Tom Nesbitt, only witness to the beast's existence, is not believed, even when he identifies it as a "rh... |
Beast from Haunted Cave (1960) |
Director Monte Hellman (who would later direct a young Jack Nicholson on two low-budget westerns) earned his low-budget wings on Filmgroup's bizarre fusion of hostage/crime thriller and big-rubber-monster flick -- a quirky juxtaposition employed to s... |
Beast of Hollow Mountain, The (1956) |
Man eating T-Rex emerges from a swamp to feast on Mexican peasants. Guy Madison to the rescue! Special effects by King Kong creator Willis O'Brien. Interesting western-monster combo that may well have inspired Harryhausen's Valley of Gwangi .... |
Beastmaster, The (1982) |
Dar, is the son of a king, who is hunted by a priest after his birth and grows up in another family. When he becomes a grown man his new father is murdered by savages and he discovers that he has the ability to communicate with the animals. After tha... |
Beautiful Mind, A (2001) |
From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash, Jr. experienced it all. A mathematical genius, he made an astonishing discovery early in his career and stood on the brink of international acclaim. But the handsome and arro... |
Beetlejuice (1988) |
After being killed in a car crash, a pair of ghosts remains in their home. Trouble begins when a living, breathing couple moves in. The ghosts are unable to scare them away so they hire a bio exorcist and the fun begins.... |
Beginning of the End (1957) |
Reporter Audrey Ames is driving along a highway in Illinois when she is stopped by the military. She then finds out that a small town was destroyed and everyone has seemingly disappeared. She then goes to a lab run by the Department of Agriculture. W... |
Being There (1979) |
A very clever satire. A gardener who has spent his entire life on a walled in estate is thrown out into the streets of Washington D.C. His inane pronouncements, based totally on viewing the world only through television, are treated as profound philo... |
Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla (1952) |
Entertainers Mitchell and Petrillo (Martin & Lewis clones) parachute into the jungles of the Pacific island of Cola-Cola, where they meet primitive tribesmen, the chief's sarong-clad daughter Nona, and mad scientist Dr. Zabor conducting experiments i... |
Believers, The (1987) |
After the death of his wife, police psychiatrist Cal Jamison moves to New York. There he has to help in the investigation of the murder of two youths, who seem to have been immolated during a cult ritual. Jamison believes it's been Voodoo and, ignori... |
Below (2002) |
In the dark silence of the sea during World War II, the submarine U.S.S. Tiger Shark prowls on what should be a routine rescue mission. But for the shell-shocked crew, trapped together in the sub's narrow corridors and constricted spaces, this is abo... |
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970) |
In an effort to find the missing astronaut Taylor (Charlton Heston), James Francisco's goes on a rescue mission to the planet of the apes. Using the information he receives from the ape village that Taylor escaped from, Brent locates him in an underg... |
Ben-Hur (1959) |
Ben-Hur (Charlton Heston) is a wealthy Jew and boyhood friend of the powerful Roman Centurion, Messala. When an accident leads to Ben Hur's arrest, Messala, who has become corrupt and arrogant, makes sure Ben-Hur and his family are jailed and separated. Ben-Hur is sent to work in the galley of a Roman warship. Along the way he unknowingly encounters Christ, the carpenter's son who offers him water. Once aboard ship, his attitude of defiance and strength impresses a... |
Ben-Hur A Tale Of The Christ (1925) |
Judah Ben-Hur (Ramon Novarro) discovers that he has been betrayed by his childhood friend Messala (Francis X. Bushman), leading to separation from his family. Punished for an accident, Ben-Hur is unjustly forced to serve on a Roman ship, where he becomes a friend to the vessel's admiral, Quintus Arrius (Frank Currier). Eventually, Ben-Hur has the chance to... |
Between Two Worlds (1944) |
Several people are killed in a London air raid. They each awake aboard a strange ship which will deliver each of them either to heaven or hell. Their lives and stories are revealed as they individually begin to realize where they are. Summary writ... |
Beware! The Blob (1972) |
A technician brings a frozen specimen of the original Blob back from the North Pole. When his wife accidentally defrosts the thing, it terrorizes the populace, including the local hippies, kittens, and bowlers. Summary written by Jeremy Lunt {durl... |
Beyond The Time Barrier (1960) |
A pilot crashes through the time barrier into the world of 2024, inhabited by the last remnants of civilization.
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Bicentennial Man (1999) |
This film follows the 'life' and times of the lead character, an android (Robin Williams) who is purchased as a household robot programmed to perform menial tasks. Within a few days the Martin family realizes that they don't have an ordinary droid as... |
Big (1988) |
A young boy makes a wish at a fairground machine to be big. He wakes up the following morning to find that his wish has been granted and his body has grown older over night. But he is still the same 12 year old kid on the inside. Now he must learn ho... |
Big Fish (2003) |
The story revolves around a dying father and his son, who is trying to learn more about his dad by piecing together the stories he has gathered over the years. The son winds up re-creating his father's elusive life in a series of legends and myths in... |
Big Lebowski, The (1998) |
Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski is the ultimate LA slacker, until one day his house is broken into and his rug is peed on by two angry gangsters who have mistaken him for Jeffrey Lebowski, the LA millionaire, whose wife owes some bad people some big... |
Big Parade, The (1925) |
Wealthy young idler Jim Apperson (John Gilbert) enlists during the early days of World War I, to the worry of his mother (Claire McDowell) and the pride of his father (Hobart Bosworth). Sent to the front lines in the French countryside, Jim bonds with his working-class bunkmates Slim (Karl Dane) and Bull (Tom O'Brien) and falls in... |
Big Sleep, The (1946) |
Private investigator Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) is hired by General Sternwood to help resolve the gambling debts of his wild young daughter, Carmen (Martha Vickers). Sternwood's older daughter, Vivian (Lauren Bacall), provides assistance when she implies that the situation is more complex, and also involves casino... |
Big Trouble In Little China (1986) |
When trucker Jack Burton agreed to take his friend Wang Chi to pick up his fiancée at the airport, he never expected to get involved in a supernatural battle between good and evil. Wang's fiancée has emerald green eyes, which make her a perfect tar... |
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) |
The world of our distant future is a veritable utopia, thanks to the lyrics of two simple-minded 20th Century rock and rollers, Bill S. Preston, Esq. and Ted "Theodore" Logan. However, a would-be conqueror threatens to throw history off-track by send... |
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) |
Ted "Theodore" Logan and Bill S. Preston esquire won't graduate if they don't do well in their history presentation. This would be both bogus and uncool ! A dude called Rufus comes from the future in a telephone box to help them, as their lives are a... |
Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) |
Prison inmate, Robert Stroud, imprisoned as a young man for committing a murder in Alaska, becomes increasingly withdrawn, until one day a sickly sparrow flies through the bars of his cell. Stroud, using homemade medicines, cures the bird. Fascinated, he begins studying ornithology. |
Birds, The (1963) |
Spoiled socialite and notorious practical joker Melanie Daniels is shopping in a San Francisco pet store when she meets Mitch Brenner. Mitch is looking to buy a pair of love birds for his young sister's birthday; he recognizes Melanie but pretends to... |
Black Cat, The (1934) |
Peter (David Manners) and Joan Allison (Julie Bishop) are honeymooning in Budapest when they meet mysterious scientist Dr. Vitus Verdegast. After a road accident in Hungary, the honeymooners and the enigmatic Dr Werdegast find refuge in the house of the famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig, who shares a dark past with the doctor. |
Black Hole, The (1979) |
The crew of the spaceship Palamino stumbles across the ``lost'' ship U.S.S. Cygnus, hovering on the edge of an immense black hole. Once aboard, they find the ship is manned by robots - it's only human inhabitant, one Dr. Hans... |
Blackmail (1929) |
During a date, Alice White (Anny Ondra) has a fight with her boyfriend, Scotland Yard Officer Frank Webber (John Longden), and decides to leave with an artist named Mr. Crewe (Cyril Ritchard). Whey they get to the artist's flat, Mr. Crewe attempts to force himself on Alice, and she kills him to defend herself. Frank investigates the case and, after realizing Alice is the culprit, seeks to help her... |
Black Pit of Dr. M (1947) |
This grisly Mexican horror film details the attempts of the chief doctor at a sanitarium to contact the spirit of his former partner -- a man executed for a murder he didn't commit -- through a psychic medium. The doc soon regrets his decision when t... |
Black Scorpion, The (1957) |
Volcanic activity frees giant scorpions from the earth who wreak havoc in the rural countryside and eventually threaten Mexico City.... |
Black Sleep, The (1956) |
England, 1872. The night before he is to be hanged for a murder he did not commit, young Dr. Gordon Ramsey is visited in his cell by his old mentor, eminent surgeon Sir Joel Cadm. Cadm offers to see that Ramsey gets a proper burial and gives him a sl... |
Blade (1998) |
Vampires have infiltrated earth. Blade, half man, half vampire, (a Daywalker, day walker, get it), must save the world from their plan to resurrect an ancient blood god and take over the world. Futuristic sword and sorcerer movie.... |
Blade II (2002) |
A rare mutation has occurred within the vampire community. The Reaper. A vampire so consumed with an insatiable bloodlust that they prey on vampires as well as humans, transforming victims who are unlucky enough to survive into Reapers themselves. No... |
Blade Runner (1982) |
Moody, beautifully photographed thriller that gets better with age. Deckard is a Blade Runner, a police man of the future who hunts down and terminates replicants, artificially created humans. He wants to get out of the force, but is drawn back in wh... |
Blade: Trinity (2004) |
As an apocalyptic event takes place that could shift the control of the planet Earth from the hands of humanity to the claws of vampires, the Daywalker, Blade (Snipes) is the only person who can turn the tide of the crisis against the undead blood su... |
Blair Witch Project, The (1999) |
Three film students set out into the Black Hills Forest to make a documentary on the legendary Blair Witch. Armed with a 16mm camera, a Hi8 video camera, and a DAT recorder, every step, word and sound is captured. After wandering around the Black Hil... |
Blast from the Past (1999) |
Brandon Fraser is Adam Weber, the child of an eccentric inventor and his wife. Following a bomb scare in the 1960s that locked the Webers in their bomb shelter for 35 years, Adam Weber must venture out into Los Angeles and obtain food and supplies fo... |
Blob, The (1958) |
Yes that's really Steve McQueen. A relentlessly growing, disgusting red blob is swallowing up people all over town. Teenagers try to save the day, even though now one will listen to them until it's almost too.... |
Blob, The (1988) |
Remake of the 1958 horror sci-fi about a deadly blob which is the spawn of a secret government germ warfare project which consumes everyone in its path. Teenagers try in vain to warn the townsfolk, who refuse to take them seriously, while government... |
Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971) |
On the night before her anniversary, Margaret Fuchs (Valerie Leon) receives an ancient Egyptian ring with a red stone as a birthday gift from her father, Prof. Julian Fuchs (Andrew Keir). Margaret has frequent nightmares about an expedition in Egypt... |
Blues Brothers, The (1980) |
After his release from prison, Jake (John Belushi) reunites with his brother, Elwood (Dan Aykroyd) -- collectively known as the "Blues Brothers." Jake's first task is to save the orphanage the brothers grew up in from closing, by raising $5,000 to pay back taxes. The two are convinced they can earn the money by getting their old band back... |
Body Bags (1993) |
Zip Yourself In Tight! Slip into the crypt for a peek at the "nacre-files" of director John Carpenter (Halloween, The Fog, Christine), in three dead-on tales from today's top terror-moister! Robert Carradine (The Player) and David Naughton (Witchboa... |
Body Snatchers (1993) |
Third version of Finney's novel. Family moves to military base for the summer, but the soldiers are behaving even more strangely than usual. Is it a toxic spill as suggested or is it something more sinister?... |
Boogeyman (2005) |
Set in Chicago, 'Boogeyman' tells the haunting tale of a young man traumatized by memories of terrible events he experienced in his childhood bedroom and who, years later, reluctantly returns home to face his fears of a monstrous entity that could be... |
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000) |
To cash in on all of the "real world" hype of the events in the first film, a man from Burkitsville, Maryland opens a "Blair Witch Hunt" tour, which shows patrons various locations from the original film. A bunch of college students decide to take th... |
Bordello of Blood (1996) |
The old bag of bones 'Cryptkeeper' returns for his second full length feature flick about a funeral home that's a front for a whorehouse run by vampires.... |
Boy and His Dog, A (1976) |
A post-apocalyptic tale based on a novella by Harlan Ellison. A boy communicates telepathically with his dog as they scavenge for food and sex, and they stumble into an underground society where the old society is preserved. The daughter of one of th... |
Boys from Brazil, The (1978) |
Barry Kohler, a young Nazi hunter, tracks down a group of SS officers meeting in Paraguay in the late 1970s. The Nazis, led my Dr Mengele, are planning something. Old Nazi hunter, Ezra Lieberman, is at first uninterested in Kohler's findings. But whe... |
Brain Eaters, The (1958) |
Strange things are happening in Riverdale, Illinois. A huge, seemingly alien structure has been found jutting out of the earth. Sent to investigate the origin of the mysterious object, Senator Walter Powers discovers that parasites from the center of... |
Brain Machine, The (1955) |
A vicious murderer suffers amnesia and his psychiatrist finds his brain waves indicative of violent tendencies. After he escapes and kidnaps the doctor, police follow and soon uncover evidence of gangsters and drug smuggling. -- Kristie Hassen... |
Brain that Wouldn't Die, The (1961) |
A demented (but hopelessly romantic) surgeon keeps his fiancée's disembodied head alive after an auto accident while he searches for a body transplant "donor." Outrageously bad sci-fi shocker, available in its uncut version to show the full, bloody... |
Brainscan (1994) |
A lonely teenage horror-movie fan discovers a mysterious computer game that uses hypnosis to custom-tailor the game into the most terrifying experience imaginable. When he emerges from the hypnotic trance he is horrified to find evidence that the bru... |
Brainstorm (1983) |
Brilliant researchers Lillian Reynolds and Michael Brace have developed a system of recording and playing back actual experiences of people. Once the capability of tapping into "higher brain functions" is added in, and you can literally jump into som... |
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) |
Based on Bram Stoker's classic 1897 novel, this film from Francis Ford Coppola and screenwriter James Victor Hart offers a full-blooded portrait of the immortal Transylvanian vampire. The major departure from Stoker is one of motivation as Count Drac... |
Brazil (1985) |
In an Orwellian vision of the future, the populace are completely controlled by the state, but technology remains almost as it was in the 1970's. Sam Lowry is a civil servant who one day spots a mistake in one of the pieces of paperwork passing throu... |
Breakfast At Tiffany's (1961) |
Struggling writer Paul Varjak moves into a New York apartment building and becomes intrigued by his pretty, quirky neighbor Holly Golightly. Holly's lifestyle confuses and fascinates Paul; in public she flits through parties with a sexy, sophisticated air, but when they're alone she changes into... |
Bride of Chucky (1998) |
Chucky hooks up with another murderous doll, the bridal gown-clad Tiffany, for a Route 66 murder spree with their unwitting hosts, two eloping high-school graduates. Summary written by Rogers Cadenhead {rogers@prefect.com}... |
Bride of Frankenstein (1935) |
Classic sequel to the classic original. Karloff's monster is touching and frightening. Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive, not killed as previously believed. Dr. Frankenstein wants to get out of the evil experiment business... |
Bride of Monster Mania (2000) |
This horror documentary salutes the role of women in fright films, hosted by the Mistress of the Dark herself, Elvira.... |
Brief Encounter (1945) |
Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson (Celia Johnson) is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey (Trevor Howard). Their casual friendship soon develops during their weekly visits into something more emotionally fulfilling than either expected, and they must wrestle with... |
Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957) |
To most outside observers, Bride of the Monster probably seems like a ridiculously inept horror film, and in many ways it is just that. To connoisseurs of the work of director Edward D. Wood Jr., however, it is the biggest budgeted film in his entire... |
Broadway Melody, The (1929) |
Vaudeville sisters "Hank" (Bessie Love) and Queenie Mahoney (Anita Page) take their act to the Broadway stage in New York when Eddie (Charles King), a professional song-and-dance man appearing in a new show, invites his girlfriend Hank to join him. Soon after, Eddie transfers his affections to Queenie, who attempts to do... |
Broadway Meoldy Of 1936 (1935) |
When Broadway producer Robert Gordon (Robert Taylor) struggles to finance his new show, a wealthy widow, Lillian Brent (June Knight), offers him an idea: cast her and she will fund the project. Catching wind of the deal, columnist Bert Keeler (Jack Benny) blasts Gordon for practicing favoritism, which means when Gordon's former sweetheart, talented performer... |
Broadway Meoldy Of 1938 (1937) |
Wealthy Caroline Whipple backs a musical revue by handsome young Steve Raleigh (Robert Taylor). By coincidence, when Mrs. Whipple decides to sell Stargazer, her underachieving racehorse, Sally Lee (Eleanor Powell), who raised the horse, turns out to be a talented dancer in search of work. Frustrated by Steve's attraction to Sally and plans to star her in the show... |
Broadway Meoldy Of 1940 (1940) |
In New York City, the dance team of Johnny Brett (Fred Astaire) and King Shaw (George Murphy) are at the bottom of the heap, and barely scraping by in dance halls. When a producer, Bob Casey (Frank Morgan), catches sight of Brett's moves, he wants to cast him as the dance partner of the Broadway star... |
Brothers Grimm, The (2005) |
The action-adventure tale revolving around the legendary German brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm is set to start shooting around Prague in June. Written by The Ring scribe Ehren Kruger, the fictional plot has the folklore collectors, now called Jake... |
Bruce Almighty (2003) |
Bruce Nolan is a television reporter, who is currently assigned what he considers to be undignified assignments, that has him being the butt of a joke. When he is told that he is being considered for the position of anchorman, he goes out to do a liv... |
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) |
Based loosely on fact, the film tells the story of Wild West outlaws Robert LeRoy Parker, known as Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman), and his partner Harry Longabaugh, the "Sundance Kid" (Robert Redford), who are on the run from a crack US posse after a string of train robberies. The pair, and Sundance's lover, Etta Place (Katharine Ross), flee to Bolivia in search of a more successful criminal career, where they meet their end. |
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992) |
Buffy is a bimbo. That is until one day she comes across a man who informs her that she has been chosen to kill vampires and must now train to do so. With the help of her instructor he learns the kicks, moves and attitude essential to any vampire kil... |
Butterfly Effect, The (2004) |
Evan Treborn grows up in a small town with his single working mom and his friends. He suffers from memory blackouts where he suddenly finds himself somewhere else, confused. Evans friends and mom hardly believes him, thinking he makes it up just to g... |