Episodes
The Apartment
(1960)
Billy Wilder
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BY JARRYD
Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he’s left with a major problem to solve.
April 2024
Seven Samurai
(1954)
Akira Kurosawa
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BY THE PERFECT 'CAST
A samurai answers a village’s request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food. A giant battle occurs when 40 bandits attack the village.
March 2024
Movie Pool
| Title | Year | Director | Stars | Genres | Synopsis | Runtime | Letterboxd | Submitter | |
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A Touch of Zen | 1971 | King Hu | Hsu Feng, Shih Chun, Pai Ying | Fantasy, Action, Adventure | Ming dynasty noblewoman Yang must escape from the evil eunuch Hsu. She seeks refuge at a decrepit town where she gets assistance from a naïve scholar and a group of mysterious yet powerful monks. | 180 | 4.1 | Jeff |
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Akira | 1988 | Katsuhiro Otomo | Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama | Animation, Action, Science Fiction | A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two teenagers and a group of psychics can stop. | 124 | 4.3 | Brian |
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American Graffiti | 1973 | George Lucas | Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat | Comedy, Drama | A couple of high school graduates spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college. | 110 | 3.7 | Brian |
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Andrei Rublev | 1966 | Andrei Tarkovsky | Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolay Grinko | Drama, History | An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei Rublev. Drifting from place to place in a tumultuous era, the peace-seeking monk eventually gains a reputation for his art. But after Rublev witnesses a brutal battle and unintentionally becomes involved, he takes a vow of silence and spends time away from his work. As he begins to ease his troubled soul, he takes steps towards becoming a painter once again. | 183 | 4.4 | Jeff |
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Assault On Precinct 13 | 1976 | John Carpenter | Austin Stoker, Darwin Joston, Laurie Zimmer | Crime, Action, Thriller | The lone inhabitants of an abandoned police station are under attack by the overwhelming numbers of a seemingly unstoppable street gang. | 91 | 3.8 | Clark |
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Being There | 1979 | Hal Ashby | Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas | Comedy, Drama | A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television. | 130 | 4.1 | Jarryd |
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Bullitt | 1968 | Peter Yates | Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset | Romance, Thriller, Drama, Crime, Action | Senator Walter Chalmers is aiming to take down mob boss Pete Ross with the help of testimony from the criminal’s hothead brother Johnny, who is in protective custody in San Francisco under the watch of police lieutenant Frank Bullitt. When a pair of mob hitmen enter the scene, Bullitt follows their trail through a maze of complications and double-crosses. This thriller includes one of the most famous car chases ever filmed. | 113 | 3.7 | Anders |
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Cabaret | 1972 | Bob Fosse | Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem | Romance, Drama, Music | Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows into a brutal force. | 124 | 4.1 | Jeff |
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Carlito’s Way | 1993 | Brian De Palma | Al Pacino, Sean Penn, Penelope Ann Miller | Thriller, Drama, Crime, Romance | A Puerto-Rican ex-con, just released from prison, pledges to stay away from drugs and violence despite the pressure around him, and lead a better life outside NYC. | 144 | 4.0 | Anders |
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Christine | 1983 | John Carpenter | Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul | Horror | Geeky student Arnie Cunningham falls for Christine, a rusty 1958 Plymouth Fury, and becomes obsessed with restoring the classic automobile to her former glory. As the car changes, so does Arnie, whose newfound confidence turns to arrogance behind the wheel of his exotic beauty. Arnie’s girlfriend Leigh and best friend Dennis reach out to him, only to be met by a Fury like no other. | 110 | 3.5 | Clark |
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Come and See | 1985 | Elem Klimov | Aleksei Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Laucevicius | War, Drama | The invasion of a village in Byelorussia by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family’s wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On returning home, Florya finds his family and fellow peasants massacred. His continued survival amidst the brutal debris of war becomes increasingly nightmarish, a battle between despair and hope. | 142 | 4.6 | Jeff |
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Cool Hand Luke | 1967 | Stuart Rosenberg | Paul Newman, George Kennedy, Luke Askew | Crime, Drama | When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable will. Luke's bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the prison's dreaded solitary confinement cell, "the box," make him a rebel hero to his fellow convicts and a thorn in the side of the prison officers. | 127 | 4.1 | Jeff |
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Dark Star | 1974 | John Carpenter | Brian Narelle, Cal Kuniholm, Dan O'Bannon | Comedy, Science Fiction | A low-budget, sci-fi satire that focuses on a group of scientists whose mission is to destroy unstable planets. 20 years into their mission, they have to battle their alien mascot, that resembles a beach ball, as well as a “sensitive” and intelligent bombing device that starts to question the meaning of its existence. | 83 | 3.1 | Clark |
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Deliverance | 1972 | John Boorman | Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty | Drama, Adventure, Thriller | Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country. | 109 | 3.9 | Clark |
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Double Indemnity | 1944 | Billy Wilder | Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson | Crime, Thriller | A rich woman and a calculating insurance agent plot to kill her unsuspecting husband after he signs a double indemnity policy. Against a backdrop of distinctly Californian settings, the partners in crime plan the perfect murder to collect the insurance, which pays double if the death is accidental. | 107 | 4.3 | Brian |
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | 1964 | Stanley Kubrick | Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden | Comedy, War, Drama | After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop the nuclear strike. | 95 | 4.3 | Jarryd |
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Easy Rider | 1969 | Dennis Hopper | Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper,Jack Nicholson | Adventure, Drama | A cross-country trip to sell drugs puts two hippie bikers on a collision course with small-town prejudices. | 95 | 3.7 | Anders |
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Escape From New York | 1981 | John Carpenter | Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine | Action, Science Fiction | In 1997, the island of Manhattan has been walled off and turned into a giant maximum security prison within which the country’s worst criminals are left to form their own anarchic society. However, when the President of the United States crash lands on the island, the authorities turn to a former soldier and current convict to rescue him. | 99 | 3.6 | Clark |
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From Dusk Till Dawn | 1996 | Robert Rodriguez | George Clooney, Quentin Tarantino, Harvey Keitel | Crime, Action, Thriller, Horror | Seth Gecko and his younger brother Richard are on the run after a bloody bank robbery in Texas. They escape across the border into Mexico and will be home-free the next morning, when they pay off the local kingpin. They just have to survive ‘from dusk till dawn’ at the rendezvous point, which turns out to be a Hell of a strip joint. | 108 | 3.5 | Brian |
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Godzilla | 1954 | Ishiro Honda | Akira Takarada, Momoko Kôchi, Akihiko Hirata | Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction | Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships explode and are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by paleontologist Professor Kyohei Yemani soon discover something more devastating than imagined in the form of a 50 meter tall monster whom the natives call Gojira. Now the monster begins a rampage that threatens to destroy not only Japan, but the rest of the world as well. | 96 | 4.0 | Jeff |
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High Noon | 1952 | Fred Zinnemann | Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Thomas Mitchell | Drama, Western | Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon train. Knowing the outlaw and his gang are coming to kill him, Kane is determined to stand his ground, so he gathers a posse from among the local townspeople. | 85 | 4.0 | Jeff |
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JFK | 1991 | Oliver Stone | Kevin Costner, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Oldman | Drama, History, Thriller | This acclaimed Oliver Stone drama presents the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison. When Garrison begins to doubt conventional thinking on the murder, he faces government resistance, and, after the killing of suspected assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, he closes the case. Later, however, Garrison reopens the investigation, finding evidence of an extensive conspiracy behind Kennedy’s death. | 189 | 4.0 | Jarryd |
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La Dolce Vita | 1960 | Federico Fellini | Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimée | Drama, Comedy | Journalist and man-about-town Marcello struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome’s elite social scene and the stifling domesticity offered by his girlfriend, all the while searching for a way to become a serious writer. | 176 | 4.3 | Jeff |
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Mad Max | 1979 | George Miller | Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne | Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Thriller | Taking place in a dystopian Australia in the near future, Mad Max tells the story of a highway patrolman cruising the squalid back roads that have become the breeding ground of criminals foraging for gasoline and scraps. After some grisly events at the hands of a motorcycle gang, Max sets out across the barren wastelands in search of revenge. | 91 | 3.4 | Anders |
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Mean Streets | 1973 | Martin Scorsese | Harvey Keitel, Robert De Niro, David Proval | Drama, Crime | A small-time hood must choose from among love, friendship and the chance to rise within the mob. | 111 | 3.7 | Jarryd |
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Point Break | 1991 | Kathryn Bigelow | Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves, Gary Busey | Thriller, Crime, Action | In Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers call themselves The Ex-Presidents commit their crimes while wearing masks of Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. The F.B.I. believes that the members of the gang could be surfers and send young agent Johnny Utah undercover at the beach to mix with the surfers and gather information. | 122 | 3.7 | Brian |
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Quiz Show | 1994 | Robert Redford | Ralph Fiennes, Rob Morrow, John Turturro | Mystery, Drama, History | Lawyer Richard Goodwin discovers that ‘Twenty-One’, a successful TV quiz show, is rigged and decides to expose the team behind the show. | 133 | 3.8 | Anders |
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Rashomon | 1950 | Akira Kurosawa | Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Takashi Shimura | Crime, Drama, Mystery | Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, “Rashomon” is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of justice. Through an ingenious use of camera and flashbacks, Kurosawa reveals the complexities of human nature as four people recount different versions of the story of a man’s murder and the rape of his wife. | 88 | 4.2 | Clark |
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Repo Man | 1984 | Alex Cox | Harry Dean Stanton, Emilio Estevez, Tracey Walter | Comedy, Science Fiction | A down and out young punk gets a job working with a seasoned repo man, but what awaits him in his new career is a series of outlandish adventures revolving around aliens, the CIA, and a most wanted ’64 Chevy. | 92 | 3.7 | Brian |
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Rumble Fish | 1983 | Francis Ford Coppola | Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane | Crime, Drama | Rusty James, an absent-minded street thug struggles to live up to his legendary older brother’s reputation, and longs for the days when gang warfare was going on. | 94 | 3.8 | Anders |
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Sanjuro | 1962 | Akira Kurosawa | Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiju Kobayashi | Comedy, Action, Drama | Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa’s tightly paced, beautifully composed “Sanjuro.” In this companion piece and sequel to “Yojimbo,” jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan’s evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a proper samurai on its ear. | 96 | 4.1 | Clark |
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Serpico | 1973 | Sidney Lumet | Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe | Drama, History, Crime | The real-life struggle of an honest New York City cop against a corrupt system. | 130 | 3.9 | Anders |
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Singles | 1992 | Cameron Crowe | Bridget Fonda, Campbell Scott, Kyra Sedgwick | Comedy, Drama, Romance | Romantic comedy about six of Seattle’s young people, most of whom live in the same apartment building and whose lives revolve around the city’s ever-expanding music scene. The interrelated stories about each character’s progress through the singles scene are intriguing and often very funny, and the soundtrack is a grunge fanatic’s dream, with the likes of Soundgarden, Pearl Jam and Mudhoney. | 99 | 3.3 | Brian |
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Slacker | 1990 | Richard Linklater | Richard Linklater, Rudy Basquez, Jean Caffeine | Drama | Austin, Texas, is an Eden for the young and unambitious, from the enthusiastically eccentric to the dangerously apathetic. Here, the nobly lazy can eschew responsibility in favor of nursing their esoteric obsessions. The locals include a backseat philosopher who passionately expounds on his dream theories to a seemingly comatose cabbie, a young woman who tries to hawk Madonna’s Pap test to anyone who will listen and a kindly old anarchist looking for recruits. | 97 | 3.7 | Anders |
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That Thing You Do! | 1996 | Tom Hanks | Tom Hanks, Tom Everett Scott, Liv Tyler | Romance, Music, Drama, Comedy | A Pennsylvania band scores a hit in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as it can, with lots of help from its manager. | 108 | 3.6 | Brian |
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The French Connection | 1971 | William Friedkin | Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider | Crime, Action, Thriller | Tough narcotics detective ‘Popeye’ Doyle is in hot pursuit of a suave French drug dealer who may be the key to a huge heroin-smuggling operation. | 104 | 4.0 | Anders |
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The Godfather | 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola | Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan | Crime, Drama | Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge. | 175 | 4.6 | Jarryd |
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The Hidden Fortress | 1958 | Akira Kurosawa | Toshiro Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Kamatari Fujiwara | Drama, Action, Adventure | In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who guides them to a fortress hidden in the mountains. | 139 | 4.1 | Clark |
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The Killing | 1956 | Stanley Kubrick | Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards | Crime, Thriller | Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George tells his restless wife about the scheme to steal millions from the racetrack where he works, she hatches a plot of her own. | 85 | 4.0 | Jarryd |
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | 1962 | John Ford | John Wayne, James Stewart, Vera Miles | Western | A senator, who became famous for killing a notorious outlaw, returns for the funeral of an old friend and tells the truth about his deed. | 123 | 4.2 | Clark |
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The Parallax View | 1974 | Alan J. Pakula | Warren Beatty, Paula Prentiss, William Daniels | Drama, Thriller, Crime | An ambitious reporter, investigating a senator’s assassination, realizes witnesses to the shooting are systematically dying and discovers a multi-million dollar corporation which serves as a front for the recruitment of political assassins. | 102 | 3.8 | Jarryd |
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The Searchers | 1956 | John Ford | John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles | Western | As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable. | 119 | 3.9 | Jarryd |
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The Sting | 1973 | George Roy Hill | Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw | Drama, Comedy, Crime | Set in the 1930s this intricate caper deals with an ambitious small-time crook and a veteran con man who seek revenge on a vicious crime lord who murdered one of their gang. | 129 | 4.2 | Brian |
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The Third Man | 1949 | Carol Reed | Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard | Mystery, Thriller | In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a “third man” present at the time of Harry’s death, running into interference from British officer Major Calloway, and falling head-over-heels for Harry’s grief-stricken lover, Anna. | 104 | 4.3 | Jeff |
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Thief | 1981 | Michael Mann | James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Robert Prosky | Thriller, Crime, Action | Frank is an expert professional safecracker, specialized in high-profile diamond heists. He plans to use his ill-gotten income to retire from crime and build a nice life for himself complete with a home, wife and kids. To accelerate the process, he signs on with a top gangster for a big score. | 123 | 4.1 | Jarryd |
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Throne of Blood | 1957 | Akira Kurosawa | Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura | History, Drama | Returning to their lord’s castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spirit’s prophecy comes true, Washizu’s scheming wife, Asaji, presses him to speed up the rest of the spirit’s prophecy by murdering his lord and usurping his place. Director Akira Kurosawa’s resetting of William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” in feudal Japan is one of his most acclaimed films. | 108 | 4.3 | Clark, Jeff |
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To Catch a Thief | 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock | Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis | Romance, Thriller, Mystery | To prevent being accused of the crimes, an ex-burglar must catch a thief who’s been copying his style. | 106 | 3.7 | Anders |
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Vertigo | 1958 | Alfred Hitchcock | James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes | Romance, Thriller, Mystery | A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend’s wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her. | 129 | 4.2 | Jarryd |
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WarGames | 1983 | John Badham | Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood | Thriller, Science Fiction, Drama | High School student David Lightman (Matthew Broderick) has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Defense Department’s war computer and initiates a confrontation of global proportions! Together with his girlfriend (Ally Sheedy) and a wizardly computer genius (John Wood), David must race against time to outwit his opponent…and prevent a nuclear Armageddon. | 114 | 3.5 | Brian |
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Yojimbo | 1961 | Akira Kurosawa | Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yoko Tsukasa | Thriller, Drama | A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon and sake merchant Tokuemon to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and unscrupulous men. | 110 | 4.3 | Clark |