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Slaughter High
Nerd Marty Rantzen is an outcast at Doddsville County High School. He is seduced by his sexy classmate Carol and they go to the girls' locker room to have sex. However, it is a cruel April Fool's prank from eight mates who record him naked and humiliate him until the moment the coach stops them. Martin goes to the laboratory to work on his science project and two mates give him a marijuana cigarette with something mixed in that makes him feel sick. While he goes to the bathroom, Skip messes with his substances. Marty returns to the lab and accidentally provokes a fire in the place and is disfigured by nitric acid. Years later, eight former students receive an invitation to a reunion in the high school on April 1, and Carol calls her friend Susan about it. They find a derelict locked school, but when it starts to rain, they break into the school and learn from former janitor Digby that the school has been abandoned for five years and will be demolished. Further, now he is the caretaker and will leave the place at midnight. They find a room with beer, cakes, and candies and decide to celebrate the reunion. But soon they learn that this is a malignant plot of Marty seeking revenge and they are locked in the school.

- 1985
Simple Men
Bitter about being double-crossed by the women he loved, (and with the police after him to boot), Bill vows to seduce the next woman he sees, then throw her away. His brother Dennis, meanwhile, is equally determined to track down their long lost father, a revolutionary who has been in hiding for 20 years. For different reasons, both leave New York and head for Long Island, out of money, and short on ideas. D:"Long Island is a a terminal moraine." B:"What's that?" D:"It's the material left behind when a glacier recedes." D:"Gee, then what the hell are we waiting for?"

- 1992
Chungking Express
Wong Kar-Wai's movie about two love-struck cops is filmed in impressionistic splashes of motion and color. The first half deals with Cop 223, who has broken up with his girlfriend of five years. He purchases a tin of pineapples with an expiration date of May 1 each day for a month. By the end of that time, he feels that he will either be rejoined with his love or that it too will have expired forever. The second half shows Cop 663 dealing with his breakup with his flight attendant girlfriend. He talks to his apartment furnishings until he meets a new girl at a local lunch counter.

- Metascore78
- 1994
Executive Power
While protecting the U.S. President, Secret Service agent Nick Sager helps him to dispose of the body of a young girl, who accidentally died during an adulterous encounter. Some time later, a few weeks before the elections, the disillusioned ex-agent is approached by his former partner. The President's former aide, and one of few people who knew about the cover-up, is found dead in mysterious circumstances.

- 1997
The Eiger Sanction
Dr. Jonathan Hemlock (Clint Eastwood) is an art history professor and collector who finances his hobby by performing the odd sanction (assassination) for an obscure government bureau. He is forced to take a case where he must find out which of the members of a mountain climbing team is the Russian killer he has been given as a target by joining an expedition to climb the treacherous Eiger.

- Metascore61
- 1975
The Patriot
Doctor Wesley McClaren, an immunologist in Ennis, Montana, has turned down an offer to join his friend Richard Bach, who lives in Atlanta, Georgia and is the head of a unit called the Biological Response Team (BRT). Wesley and his daughter Holly live on a farm in Ennis, and a farmhand named Frank lives with them. Just over the hill from the farm, a 52-day standoff against militia leader Floyd Chisolm has ended. Floyd has decided to be his own attorney in court. Everyone is shocked when Floyd spits on Judge Tomkins. After the hearing, Tomkins starts feeling sick. Holly, as usual, stops at Wesley's office after school so she can go home with him. On their way home, Wesley gets a call on his mobile phone. Wesley rushes to the hospital with Holly and tells her to wait in the doctors' lounge, then he's taken to see Tomkins, who looks awful. Wesley is told that Tomkins collapsed in his chambers at the court building. Wesley sees a cop collapse while Tomkins has a seizure. Wesley calls Richard and tells him to send the BRT. Army medical units are sent in, and Ennis is sealed off. Wesley tells Frank to stay in town instead of going to the farm, then tells Holly to stay where she is, because the town is dealing with an outbreak. Richard arrives in town and talks to Wesley, who knows that some kind of toxin has been released. Wesley asks Richard about an anti-toxin, then they go to Tomkins' room, where he has died. Richard tells Wesley that the toxin is a warfare product called NAM37, which is 10 times more potent than anthrax. Richard also tells Wesley that a technician working for NAM37's developers stole a big sample of it and was detained by security in Billings, Montana one day after the NAM37 was sold to Floyd, but the technician killed himself before anyone could ask him any questions. After buying the NAM37, Floyd infected himself and started the outbreak by spitting on Tomkins. So far, 94 people have been infected, and the NAM37 has killed 5 people. Wesley takes a sample of Holly's blood, and Floyd is visited in jail by his right-hand man and medical expert Nate Pogue, who has also been infected, and the anti-toxin Floyd bought along with the NAM37 only slows the NAM37 down instead of being a cure. Floyd's plan was to start the outbreak, then use the anti-toxin on himself. Floyd tells Pogue to get him out so they can get the anti-toxin that the Army has brought into town. Later, a group of men led by Pogue return to the jail, where they kill all of the guards and get Floyd out. Floyd and Pogue go to the hospital with their men and take the hospital hostage in hopes of getting the anti-toxin, only to discover that the Army's anti-toxin is the same anti-toxin Floyd bought. Richard explains that there have been times when NAM37 has mutated, and when it does, the anti-toxin doesn't work. Pogue sees Holly's blood sample, which shows that she's been infected, but somehow, her body is fighting it off and she's OK. Floyd wants Holly found. When one of Floyd's men finds Holly in the lounge and tries to grab her, Wesley beats him up and goes to the farm with Holly and Frank. Floyd's men head to Wesley's farm, where Frank ambushes them and kills them all except for one man, who kills him. Wesley and Holly take off with Frank's body and ride their horses to Holly's grandpa's farm and give Frank a proper burial. Wesley takes a blood sample from his friend Ann, and just like Holly, Ann's body is fighting off the NAM37. Leaving Holly at her grandpa's house, Wesley and Ann go to an underground lab where he used to work, where they plan to come up with a cure. Pogue, who is still at the hospital with Floyd, thinks he has found a cure, but he needs Holly's blood to isolate it. After Wesley finds the reason why Ann and Holly are not being affected by the virus, Wesley and Holly go home--where Holly is kidnapped by Floyd's men. Now Wesley must go to Floyd's headquarters to rescue Holly.

- 1998
Astonishing
Mandy receives a DVD on which a mysterious man tells her she's going to lose her husband, her current lifestyle, and her identity. Mandy goes see a shrink, but nothing comes of it. Then one evening she and her husnand Kenny get into an auto accident. Three weeks later Mandy wakes up, and the world has gone topsy-turvy. Kenny's assistant Fiona has usurped her identity as Mandy, and everyone else is recognizing Mandy as Fiona.

- 2004
Mummy Maniac
Inspired by true events, get ready to meet the ultimate serial killer, who captures his victims and wraps them up like mummies!

- 2007
The Six Wives of Henry Lefay
Henry Lefay has been married before. Depending on how you count, he's been married either five or six times. So when Henry is vacationing in Mexico and gets killed in a para-sailing accident, things get awfully complicated for all the wives involved. His daughter, Barbie, feels guilty for getting mad at him over his womanizing ways, and she feels responsible for keeping the funeral an honorable and dignified affair. But one crazy ex-wife, one hateful ex-wife, two first wives, one current wife, and one future wife all have their own plans for how Henry Lefay should be put to rest.

- 2009
Home of the Giants
A story about basketball and befriending. Gar is a high-school journalist who, while covering the team to the state championship, is best friends with the team's main "star," Matt Dunbar. Matt's older brother persuades him to steal money from a drug dealer's home. Gar tags along, but things go horribly wrong. One question to ask is "Will the Giants win the big game?"

- 2007
Triad Wars
In the midst of a violent gang war one powerful triad leader is faced with losing a grip on his power. As his empire slowly crumbles and his trust of those closest to him dwindles violence escalates as the triad starts clashing with other triads among the Hong Kong community. Face with his only option he'll resort to violent ways to regain his status and reclaim the respect of his triad.

- 2008
The Caller
France 1944: during an aerial bombardment, two boys are separated from their parents; the older one helps the younger. Jump ahead to contemporary Manhattan where chief financial officer Jimmy Stevens punishes his company's murderous practices in Third World countries by setting up its stock release to fail. He knows they'll kill him in retaliation; he asks for two weeks. By telephone, using a voice disguising device, he hires a private detective, Frank Turlotte, to watch ... Jimmy. What's going on? Jimmy goes to the park where he reads a book and talks to children; he visits his aged mother. Frank observes it all. The two-week deadline approaches. What's Jimmy's game?

- Metascore33
- 2008
The Last Boy Scout
A down and out cynical detective teams up with a down and out ex-quarterback to try and solve a murder case involving a pro football team and a politician.

- Metascore52
- 1991
It's Only Money
Lester is a clumsy and awkward TV repair man who is nevertheless gifted technically. In helping out a friend, he is drawn into a mystery involving a missing heir in a rich family. He begins to notice little things, like how much those family portraits look like him. Surely..no..he can't be...can he ?

- 1962
Once Were Warriors
Set in urban Auckland (New Zealand) this movie tells the story of the Heke family. Jake Heke is a violent man who beats his wife frequently when drunk, and yet obviously loves both her and his family. The movie follows a period of several weeks in the family's life showing Jake's frequent outburst of violence and the effect that this has on his family. The youngest son is in trouble with the police and may be put into a foster home while the elder son is about to join a street gang. Jake's daughter has her own serious problems which are a key element in the plot.

- Metascore77
- 1994
Underworld U.S.A.
A teenager who witnesses the murder of his father vows to exact revenge on the four mobsters involved in the killing.

- 1961
The Barefoot Contessa
At Maria Vargas' funeral, several people recall who she was and the impact she had on them. Harry Dawes was a not very successful writer/director when he and movie producer Kirk Edwards scouted her at a shabby nightclub where she worked as a flamenco dancer. He convinces her to take a chance on acting and her first film is a huge hit. PR man Oscar Muldoon remembers when Maria was in court supporting her father who was accused of murdering her mother. It was Maria's testimony that got him off and she was a bigger star than ever. Alberto Bravano, one of the richest men in South America, sets his sights on Maria and she goes off with him - as much to make Edwards angry as anything - but he treats her badly. When she meets Count Vincenzo Torlato-Favrini they fall deeply in love. They are married but theirs is not to be a happy life.

- Metascore70
- 1954
The Day of the Beast
When a rogue priest discovers the exact date The Antichrist will be born, he'll enlist a Death Metal record store clerk and a cheesy TV psychic for an urban spree of gore, sacrilege and twisted humor.

- 1995
Immortality
Steven is multi-talented, handsome, and a expert seducer of women. He craves intimacy with women, literally cannot live without it, and is in search of the perfect woman, but all of his relationships end tragically. Eventually he meets Anne, a strong woman who is different, better than the others. However, soon it becomes clear that this is a relationship that only one of them will survive. The title refers to a quote from Francis Bacon about crocodiles, who shed tears when they devour their prey.

- Metascore58
- 1998
Mimic 2
When a cockroach-spread plague threatened to decimate the child population of New York City in the original Mimic, biologist Susan Tyler and her research associates developed a crossbreed species of insect, the "Judas Breed" and introduced them into the environment, where they were to spread a toxin, lethal to the cockroaches. The plan worked until the bugs evolved to mimic their next prey.....humans! Just when they were all thought to be dead, the giant Judas bugs are back, and this time they've mutated to take on human form!

- 2001
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
CW Briggs is a veteran insurance investigator, with many successes. Betty Ann Fitzgerald is a new employee in the company he works for, with the task of reorganizing the office. They don't like each other - or at least that's what they think. During a night out with the rest of the office employees, they go to watch Voltan, a magician who secretly hypnotizes both of them, in order to use them for his dirty schemes. The next evening already, Briggs makes his first robbery, and when he wakes up in the morning he has no memory of it. Things get really complicated when he starts investigating the case. Will he be able to uncover... himself?

- Metascore52
- 2001
Novocaine
Dr. Frank Sangster is a straitlaced dentist who, because of one innocent lie, finds his tidy, prosperous life transformed into a comic quagmire of illicit sex, illegal drugs, and inexplicable murder in this brilliantly offbeat, bitingly comedic film.

- Metascore45
- 2001
Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.
Forty-two years after her first visit in Tokyo, Mothra returns to warn mankind that they must return Mechagodzilla, along with Godzilla's bones, to the sea, for the dead must not be disturbed. If not, dire consequences will follow. However, Godzilla is once again on the rampage, and Mechagodzilla is Japan's only defense.

- 2003
Perilous
A lawyer is on a business trip to St. Petersburg. When a beautiful woman on the run runs into him and asks for help, he is thrown into a dangerous world of jewel thieves and gangsters.

- 2000