 |
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 |
 |
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 |
 |
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 |
 |
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 |
 |
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 |
 |
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 |
 |
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 |
 |
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 |
 |
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 |
 |
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 |
