Posts Tagged ‘cult-director’

Fargo (1996)

Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Macy, William H. | Buscemi, Steve | Stormare, Peter | Rudrüd, Kristin | Presnell, Harve | Denman, Tony | Houston, Gary | Wingert, Sally | Schweickhardt, Kurt | Kokernot, Larissa | Peterman, Melissa | Reevis, Steve | Keith, Warren | Edelman, Steve | Anderson, Sharon
Directors: Coen, Joel | Coen, Ethan
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Fargo is based on true events that occurred in Minnesota in 1987 with the names changed to protect the victims. Jerry works in his father-in-law’s car dealership and has gotten himself in financial problems. He tries various schemes to come up with money needed for a reason that is never really explained. It has to be assumed that his huge embezzlement of money from the dealership is about to be discovered by father-in-law. When all else falls through, plans he set in motion earlier for two men to kidnap his wife for ransom to be paid by her wealthy father (who doesn’t seem to have the time of day for son-in-law). From the moment of the kidnapping, things go wrong and what was supposed to be a non-violent affair turns bloody with more blood added by the minute. Jerry is upset at the blood shed, which turns loose a pregnant sheriff from MN who is tenacious in attempting to solve the three murders in her jurisdiction.

Jaws (1975)

Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Scheider, Roy | Shaw, Robert | Dreyfuss, Richard | Gary, Lorraine | Hamilton, Murray | Gottlieb, Carl | Kramer, Jeffrey | Backlinie, Susan | Filley, Jonathan | Rebello, Chris | Mello, Jay | Fierro, Lee | Voorhees, Jeffrey | Kingsbury, Craig | Nevin, Dr. Robert
Directors: Spielberg, Steven
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Martin Brody is the new police chief of Amity, an island resort town somewhere in New England. He has a wife named Ellen, and two sons named Michael and Sean. On a Summer morning, Brody is called to the beach, where the mangled body of Summer vacationer Chrissie Watkins has washed ashore. The medical examiner tells Brody that it could have been a shark that killed Watkins. Mayor Larry Vaughn, who is desperate to not lose the money that will be brought in by 4th of July tourists, wants Brody to say Watkins’s death was caused by a motorboat propeller instead of a shark, because the thought of a shark in Amity’s waters would drive tourists away from Amity. It looks like Vaughn is a mayor who puts money ahead of people’s lives. Shark expert Matt Hooper believes Watkins was killed by a shark. Hooper is proven right a few days later, when Alex Kintner is killed by the shark that killed Watkins. Looking for the quickest solution, Vaughn tells all of the local fishermen to let him know if they see the shark. A shark hunter named Quint offers to find the shark and kill it, but Vaughn thinks Quint’s price of $10,000 is too high. When a tiger shark is killed and hauled in by a couple of boaters, Vaughn hastily says that the shark crisis is over, but Hooper says the shark that’s been killing people a huge great white shark is still in Amity’s waters, but Vaughn leaves the beaches opened because all he cares about is the 4th of July tourist money. On the 4th of July, Vaughn encourages people to swim at the beach, and Hooper is proven right again when the shark kills a man, biting the man’s leg off. Michael, who was in the water at the time of the attack, is taken to the hospital, where he’s treated for shock after watching the shark kill the guy. Brody asks Vaughn to hire Quint to find the shark. Because his own kids were at that beach too, Vaughn agrees to hire Quint to find the shark. Quint, Hooper, and Brody are sent out to sea in Quint’s boat, the Orca, ready to do whatever it takes to find the shark.

Reservoir Dogs (1992)

Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Keitel, Harvey | Roth, Tim | Madsen, Michael | Buscemi, Steve | Penn, Chris | Tierney, Lawrence | Brooks, Randy | Baltz, Kirk | Tarantino, Quentin | Bunker, Edward | Wright, Steven | Turner, Rich | Steen, David | Cosmo, Tony | Polyi, Stevo
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Six criminals, who are strangers to each other, are hired by a crime boss Joe Cabot to carry out a diamond robbery. Right at the outset, they are given false names with an intention that they won’t get too close and concentrate on the job instead. They are completely sure that the robbery is going to be a success. But when the police show up right at the time and the site of the robbery, panic spreads amongst the group members and one of them is killed in the subsequent shootout along with a few policemen and civilians. When the remaining people assemble at the premeditated rendezvous point (a warehouse), they begin to suspect that one of them is an undercover cop.

Beetle Juice (1988)

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Baldwin, Alec | Davis, Geena | McEnroe, Annie | Page, Maurice | Stanger, Hugo | Keaton, Michael | Mittelman, Rachel | O'Hara, Catherine | Saunders, J. Jay | Ettlinger, Mark | Jones, Jeffrey | Ryder, Winona | Shadix, Glenn | Martinez, Patrice | Daly, Cindy
Directors: Burton, Tim
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The Deetz’s gothic daughter discovers the Maitands in the attic and befriends them. She finds their after life handbook which is eventually confiscated by the family’s interior decorator who is fascinated by the paranormal, and during a seance,conjures up the Maitlands. Most of the trouble starts as the free lance bio-excorist, Beetlejuice gets involved.

Cronos (1993)

Monday, February 18th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror
Countries: Mexico
Actors: Luppi, Federico | Perlman, Ron | Brook, Claudio | Isabel, Margarita | Shanath, Tamara | Giménez Cacho, Daniel | Martínez, Mario Iván | de Bernal, Farnesio | Colombo, Juan Carlos | Martínez de Hoyos, Jorge | Rodríguez, Luis | Álvarez, Javier | Moscoso, Gerardo | Lobo, Eugenio | Olivera, Adriana
Directors: Toro, Guillermo del
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An aging antique dealer, Jesus Gris, happens upon an elegant mechanized scarab. When opened, it painfully stabs whomever is holding it, but the wound brings youthful vigor and a vampire’s need for blood. The device is relentlessly pursued by a dying tycoon, Dieter de la Guardia, whose nephew Angel, reluctant to see his uncle live a moment longer, must still do the old man’s bidding. Meanwhile, Gris’s desires endanger his own granddaughter, Aurora.

Tideland (2005)

Monday, February 18th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Fantasy
Countries: Canada | UK
Actors: Ferland, Jodelle | McTeer, Janet | Fletcher, Brendan | Tilly, Jennifer | Bridges, Jeff | Taylor, Dylan | Anderson, Wendy | Crooks, Sally | Adair, Alden | Gilliam, Harry | Wolkowski, Kent
Directors: Gilliam, Terry
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After her mother dies from a methadone overdose, Jeliza-Rose is taken from the big city to a rural farmhouse by her father. As she tries to settle into a new life in a house her father had purchased for his now-deceased mother, Jeliza-Rose’s attempts to deal with what’s happened result in increasingly odd behavior, as she begins to communicate mainly with her bodiless Barbie doll heads and Dell, a neighborhood woman who always wears a beekeeper’s veil.

Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover, The (1989)

Monday, February 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Horror
Countries: France | Netherlands | UK
Actors: Richard Bohringer | Gambon, Michael | Mirren, Helen | Howard, Alan | Roth, Tim | Hinds, Ciarán | Olsen, Gary | Stewart, Ewan | Ashton-Griffiths, Roger | Cook, Ron | Smith, Liz | Gillespie, Emer | Henfrey, Janet | Breeveld, Arnie | Alleff, Tony
Directors: Greenaway, Peter
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The wife of a barbaric crime boss engages in a secretive romance with a gentle bookseller between meals at her husband’s restaurant. Food, colour coding, sex, murder, torture and cannibalism are the exotic fare in this beautifully filmed but brutally uncompromising modern fable which has been interpreted as an allegory for Thatcherism.

Cry-Baby (1990)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Depp, Johnny | Amy Locane | Tyrrell, Susan | Bergen, Polly | Pop, Iggy | Lake, Ricki | Lords, Traci | McGuire, Kim | Burrows, Darren E. | Mailer, Stephen | Webb, Kim | Wendl, Alan J. | Donahue, Troy | Stole, Mink | Dallesandro, Joe
Directors: Waters, John
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Allison is a “square” good girl who has decided she wants to be bad and falls hard for Cry-Baby Walker, a Greaser (or “Drape” in John Waters parlance). Spoofing Elvis movies and Juvenile Delinquency scare films of the ’50s, this movie follows the adventures of Cry-Baby who, though he is sent to juvie, is determined to cross class (and taste) boundaries to get Allison back.

Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Elwes, Cary | Lewis, Richard | Rees, Roger | Yasbeck, Amy | Blankfield, Mark | Chappelle, Dave | Hayes, Isaac | Cavanagh, Megan | Kramer, Eric Allan | Porretta, Matthew | Ullman, Tracey | Stewart, Patrick | DeLuise, Dom | Van Patten, Dick | Ridgely, Robert
Directors: Brooks, Mel
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The standard story of Robin Hood: Evil Prince John is oppressing the people while good King Richard is away on the Crusades. Robin steals from the tax collectors, wins an archery contest, defeats the Sheriff, and rescues Maid Marian. In this version, however, Mel Brooks adds his own personal touch, parodying traditional adventure films, romance films, and the whole idea of men running around the woods in tights.

Spaceballs (1987)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Brooks, Mel | Moranis, Rick | Pullman, Bill | Zuniga, Daphne | Candy, John | Wyner, George | Rivers, Joan | Van Patten, Dick | Winslow, Michael | Yarnell, Lorene | Hurt, John | Viscuso, Sal | Graham, Ronny | Bullock, JM J. | Bevis, Leslie
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King Roland of the planet Druidia is trying to marry his daughter Princess Vespa (Daphne Zuniga) to Prince Valium, but Vespa is kidnapped by the evil race of the Spaceballs. The Spaceballs ask Roland a tremendous ransom: all the air of Druidia (you see, the air of Spaceball had serious pollution problems…). The King decides to offer a generous amount of money to a space rogue, Lone Starr, to persuade him to save Vespa. What follows is the parody of a _LOT_ of famous SF movies.