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Mikey and Nicky
Nick is desperate, holed up in a cheap hotel, suffering from an ulcer and convinced that a local mobster wants him killed. He calls Mikey, his friend since childhood, but when Mikey arrives, Nick won't let him in: his moods swing. So begins a long night as Mike tries to take care of Nick, calm him down and get him out of town. Their sojourn - on foot and in a city bus - takes them to a bar, a club, toward a movie theater, to the cemetery where Nick's mom is buried, and to Nick's girlfriend's apartment. Tempers fray and the friendship is tested. Meanwhile, a hit man who's getting information from someone is indeed looking for Nick.

- Metascore81
- 1976
In Praise of Older Women
Andras Vajda grows up in a turbulent, war-torn Hungary, where he procures local girls for the occupying G.I.'s during World War II. Disappointed by girls of his age, he meets Maya, a married women in her thirties, who tutors him in the lessons of love and romance. Maya is only the first of many mature women that Andras will meet through his teenage and young adult life.

- 1978
Keeping Company
A real estate agent and his wife try to advise their eldest daughter about marriage.

- 1940
Return of the Seven
Yul Brynner returns as the good guy dressed in black who calls on five gunfighters (including Robert Fuller, Warren Oates and Claude Akins) to defend a town under siege by vicious outlaws.

- 1966
Plan sexenal
Neither a blackout nor a city curfew will stop young couple Juan and Mercedes from celebrating their new home. But when Mercedes discovers a stranger who claims to be the real Juan, an epic violent confrontation takes place, after which the new, more vigorous, Juan replaces the old, fulfilling a dark, perverse plan.

- 2014
Ratboy
A physically deformed and somewhat feral teenager whose face looks like the snout of a rodent lives in solitude and misery in a city dump. Two rednecks come across his lair and kidnap him. They inform the papers about their find in case someone might want to see or interview the "Ratboy". Only Nikki, a middle-aged fired window dresser pretending to be a reporter shows up. She wants to profit off of the child as well, so she calls the cops who arrest the rednecks and she takes the child with her to her flat. She and her two dummy brothers try to think of a way to profit on the boy, but he tends to get easily agitated and depressed and no one wants anything to do with him except possibly hurt him emotionally or even physically.

- 1986
Vakeel Saab
Three girls find themselves accused of attempt to murder after escaping molestation. Their only hope is an alcoholic lawyer who agrees to take up the case.

- 2021
The Redhead and the Cowboy
Gil Kyle finds himself caught up in the politics and unrest of the American Civil War and soon gets himself framed for a murder. His only alibi is Candace Bronson, who is aiding the Confederate cause and has left the territory to deliver a vital message about a Yankee gold shipment. So he sets off in pursuit, running into desperados, government agents, and guerrilla fighters, who are more interested in profit than ideals.

- 1951
Rolling Thunder
A gang of sadistic thugs murder the wife and child of a Vietnam vet, who, along with his war buddy and a woman, track down and kill the murderers.

- Metascore66
- 1977
A Predator's Obsession
On an idyllic day at the beach, Alison and her younger brother, Kevin, are saved from a vicious shark attack by the brooding and mysterious Daniel. To Alison's mother, Diana, Daniel is a hero. To Alison's boyfriend, Carson, Daniel is a threat whose stories don't quite add up. Daniel charms his way into Diana's heart and home, but Alison grows suspicious of his odd and protective behavior. When Alison's loved ones start to go missing, she discovers Daniel isn't who he says he is, and that he has a dark past with a body count. "Daniel" won't stop until Alison belongs to him, and she must stop him before Kevin and Diana become his next victims.

- 2020
Rider on a Dead Horse
In this action-packed western, three prospectors-Senn (Bruce Gordon, Taylor (Charles Lampkin), and Hayden (John Vivyan)-divide and bury their gold to safeguard it from warring Apaches. Cue a series of double crosses, triple crosses, chases, and shoot-outs as greed drives the three men to murder and betrayal. Lisa Lu costars as a young Chinese woman who becomes caught up in the gold fever, a rare and fascinating example of Asian representation in an American western.

- 1962
Legend of the Lost
Told against the sweeping panoramas of the Sahara Desert, this exotic blend of action, mystery and intrigue has John Wayne and Sophia Loren fighting to survive an arduous journey.

- 1957
Stakeout on Dope Street
Three teenagers find a briefcase with a beat-up old can in it. They throw away the can and pawn the suitcase. When they read in the papers that the can was full of uncut heroin and belonged to a drug dealer who killed two narcotics agents in a shootout, they go back to look for the can, find it, and decide to go into the heroin-selling business. However, the drug dealer's gang also wants the heroin, finds out the boys have it, and sets out to hunt them down and get back their dope.

- 1958
Soho Conspiracy
The plans to put on a charity concert are nearly wrecked by a lawyer who wants to take over a restaurant.

- 1950
These Three
This first film version of "The Children's Hour" uses a heterosexual triangle rather than the play's lesbian theme. The plot concerns schoolteachers Karen Wright and Martha Dobie, who are both in love with Dr. Joe Cardin. The malicious lie of one of their students involves all three in a scandal that disrupts all their lives.

- 1936
Mannequin
Rags-to-riches Hennessey meets newlyweds Jessie and Eddie from his old neighborhood. Eddie plots to have Jessie divorce him, marry Hennessey, divorce Hennessey, then bring Hennessey's money into remarriage with Eddie. His plan goes awry at several points.

- 1937
Somebody Killed Her Husband
A woman's husband is murdered and she and her lover must find the killer or stand accused of doing it themselves.

- 1978
Lost in Yonkers
In 1942 in the Bronx, Evelyn Kurnitz has just passed away following a lengthy illness. Her husband, Eddie Kurnitz, needs to take a job as a traveling salesman to pay off the medical bills incurred, and decides to ask his stern and straight talking mother, from whom he is estranged, if his two young sons can live with her and their Aunt Bella in Yonkers. She reluctantly agrees after a threat by Bella. Despite their Grandma owning and operating a candy store, Jay and Arty don't like their new living situation as they're afraid of their Grandma, and find it difficult to relate to their crazy Aunt Bella, whose slow mental state is manifested by perpetual excitability and a short attention span, which outwardly comes across as a childlike demeanor. Into their collective lives returns one of Eddie and Bella's other siblings, Louie Kurnitz, a henchman for some gangsters. He is hiding out from Hollywood Harry, who wants what Louie stole and is hiding in his small black bag. Jay and Arty's mission becomes how to make money fast so that they can help their father and move back in together, that money which may entail stealing the $15,000 their Grandma has hidden somewhere. Bella's mission is to find a way to tell the family that she wants to get married to Johnny, her equally slow movie theater usher boyfriend, the two who could also use $5,000 of her mother's money to open their dream restaurant. And Louie's mission is to survive the next couple of days.

- 1993
The Redhead from Wyoming
In Wyoming Territory, a range war is brewing between entrenched cattle barons and new settlers. Cattle king Reece Duncan is opposed by ambitious gambler Jim Averell, who imports his old flame, shapely saloon queen Kate Maxwell, and sets her up as an alternative cattle buyer. As matters build toward violence, Kate finds she's being taken advantage of. But her only potential ally in staving off carnage is seemingly mild-mannered sheriff Stan Blaine...who distrusts her.

- 1953
Cool as Ice
The old teen rebel saga is updated for the rap crowd, unfortunately rapper Vanilla Ice is the teen. Ice shows up on a neon-yellow motorcycle which gets everyone's attention, including the female honor student who has never had a rebellious bone in her body.

- Metascore24
- 1991
Rude Boy
Part fiction, part rockumentary, Rude Boy tells the story of a roadie working for the only band that matters: The Clash. Recorded during the band’s early rise in 1978-1979, Rude Boy features the most frenetic live footage of The Clash ever recorded.

- 1980
Plymouth Adventure
The story of the voyage of the "Mayflower" in its historic voyage across the Atlantic to the New World. The passenger list includes John Alden and Priscilla Mullins among those who made the 96-day storm-filled crossing. Along the way the Captain has an ill-starred romance with the wife of a religious fanatic that ends in a sudden, dramatic way off the coast of Cape Cod.

- 1952
Barbie and the Three Musketeers
Just like her famous Musketeer father, the seventeen-year-old dreamer, Corinne (Kelly Sheridan), yearns to become a brave fighter to protect the French royal family. From the rural landscapes of seventeenth century Gascony, the skillful fencer will find herself in Paris along with her feline companion, Miette (Amelia Henderson), and her horse, Alexander (David Kaye), only to discover that girls are not allowed to become Musketeers. Now, more than ever, Corinne wants to follow her dream - and much to her surprise - the fellow scullery maids, Viveca (Kira Tozer), Aramina (Willow Johnson), and Renée (Dorla Bell), share the same passion. Trained by an unexpected sword master, the four talented girls will have to work as one to thwart an insidious plan and defend the life of the young Prince Louis (Mark Hildreth). However, are they meant to be the first female Musketeers?

- 2008
Ajami
Nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, Ajami is a bold crime drama set on the margins of an Arab ghetto. Working with a cast of non-actors in the real streets of Ajami itself, the film deftly meshes characters and conflicts with unsentimental compassion, uncompromising realism, and harrowing violence.

- Metascore82
- 2009