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Lick the Star
HDA clique of school girls devise a secret plan that they code-name "Lick the Star".
Butter
HDCorrupt record company executives kill a singing sensation with a drug overdose rather than letting her leave their label and join another company. They then frame her foster brother/manager for the murder, forcing him to go on the run and try to get the goods on the real killers.
American Dragons
HDTwo cops from different worlds team up to solve the murder of a powerful businessman.
Stranger in Town
HDNew to a small town, a city teen grows suspicious of a man who befriended him and his single mother.
Modern Vampires
HDCount Dracula is in L.A., running a hideous club scene, and he's angry that a rogue vampire, posing as a streetwalker, is slashing. He's also unhappy that Dallas, a youthful undead and former protégé, is in town. The rogue slasher, Nico, serendipitously picks Dallas as a victim; after discovering each other's nature, they become lovers. In fear of the Count, Dallas's coterie urges him to kill Nico, but he refuses. Meanwhile, a Viennese vampire hunter, Van Helsing, arrives in L.A. and hires the Crips to help him. They're soon following Nico and Dallas. When they capture her, Dallas wants to deal: spare Nico and he'll lead the hunters to Dracula. It's time for stake and bake.
Apt Pupil
HDNeighborhood boy Todd Bowden (Brad Renfro) discovers that an old man living on his block named Arthur Denker (Sir Ian Mackellan) is a Nazi war criminal. Bowden confronts Denker and offers him a deal: Bowden will not go to the authorities if Denker tells him stories of the concentration camps in World War II. Denker agrees and Bowden starts visiting him regularly. The more stories Bowden hears, the more it affects his personality.
Kirikou and the Sorceress
HDIn a troubled African village, an unusual baby is born.
Mea culpa
HDFranck and Simon are both good cops and partners. Simon has been troubled since he killed three in a drunk driving accident, but when Simons son witnesses a murder, and is hunted by ruthless killers, he's efficiently back.
Bullet
HDA tough cop takes the law into his own hands when his grandson is kidnapped.
Son of God
HDThe life story of Jesus is told from his humble birth through his teachings, crucifixion and ultimate resurrection.resurrectionreference to godloinclothbare chested malemale protagonist20 morePlot summaryPlot synopsis
Happy Face Killer
HDSerial killer Keith Jesperson murders at least eight women over a five-year span and taunts authorities with disturbing letters and scribbled confessions signed with a happy face.
A Thought Unchained
HDMafia daughter Suki finds herself at the wrong end of a drug deal and left for dead. New love Roy moves in to sweep her off of her feet and save her life. Together, they decide to strike back at the person responsible for Suki's near death experience: her mother.
Jawbreaker
HDThree of the most popular girls at Reagan High accidentally kill the prom queen with a jawbreaker when a kidnapping goes horribly wrong.
The Minus Man
HDAimless Vann Siegert takes a bizarre turn in life and becomes a serial killer, tracking down the miserable, the self-destructive and those who otherwise seem willing to die.
At the Devil's Door
HDWhen ambitious young real estate agent Leigh is asked to sell a house with a checkered past, she crosses paths with a disturbed girl whom she believes is the runaway daughter of the couple selling the property. When Leigh tries to intervene and help her, she becomes entangled with a supernatural force that soon pulls Leigh's artist sister Vera into its web - and has sinister plans for both of them.
Girl, Interrupted
HDBased on writer Susanna Kaysen's account of her 18-month stay at a mental hospital in the late 1960s.
The Mod Squad
HDThree problem teens sent to jail are offered a deal to work with an undercover cop, uncover an intricate drug ring and are caught in a deadly set-up. With cops on their trail, they have little time to solve the case and clear thei...
Never Been Kissed
HDChicago Sun Times copy editor Josie Gellar (25), who was desperate to graduate from perfectionist copy editor to reporter, gets her chance when the goody owner orders the editor to cover the high-school scene by undercover. Josie, who was a frustrated, ridiculed nerd, gets a popular make-over from her drop-out, naturally funny brother Rob Geller. Both siblings find love and joys of youth again. But in Josie's case, it's sensitive bachelor teacher Sam Coulson, who enjoys sophisticated conversation. As the publication deadline approaches, the price of blowing their cover seems ever more daunting, yet inevitable unless she sacrifices her career.
Redball
HDTwo detectives are assigned to solve a series of grisly murders of children committed by a killer dubbed "Mr. Creep
Uninvited Guest
HDDebbie, a secretary and Howard, a script writer are celebrating their wedding anniversary at home. Or so she thought. A special night together turns into a nightmare when Howard lets a man, Silk into the house to use the phone. Besides the car trouble that brought him to the door, he also brings along a string of frightening murders. Debbie then finds out that her husband and best friend, Tammy set a hit on her, just to earn a lot of money. But all of that backfires on everyone, especially Debbie, who gets shot by her own husband and dies, but still gets revenge on him after her demise.
Monster High: Frights, Camera, Action!
HDWhen Draculaura is led to believe she's the rightful heir to the vampire throne, she and her best ghoulfriends are whisked away to Transylvania for a royal coronation to die for. But they soon discover the hunt for the queen is no...
Ten
HDTen women find themselves in a vacant mansion on Spektor Island in December, 1972. Each believes she's traveled to the house on business, but they all agree that something seems strange. For one thing, the entire house is full of ...
There Are No Saints
HDA man nicknamed "the Jesuit," is imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. When his wife is murdered and his son kidnapped and taken to Mexico, he devises an elaborate and dangerous plan to rescue his son and avenge the murder.
The General's Daughter
HDThe naked corpse of Captain Elisabeth Campbell, daughter of Lieutenant General "Fighting Joe" Campbell, is found staked out on the urban warfare range of Fort MacCallum. Army CID detectives and ex-lovers Paul Brenner and Sara Sunhill are called in to investigate, and find themselves wrapped up in a maelstrom of sexual impropriety and misguided face-saving.
A Murder of Crows
HDA disbarred lawyer takes credit for a late friend's book, which becomes a smash hit but the tables turn on him sooner than he suspected.
Candyman: Day of the Dead
HDThe Candyman is back, trying to convince his descendent, an artist, to join him.
Two Hands
HDA 19 year old (Heath Ledger) finds himself in debt to a local gangster (Bryan Brown) when some gang loot disappears and sets him on the run from thugs. Meanwhile two street kids start a shopping spree when they find the missing money. Rose Byrne co-stars as a country girl with whom Ledger starts a romance on his trip.
The Substitute 3: Winner Takes All
HDProfessional mercenary Karl Thomasson, his friend Macy, and an albanian girl are being held in a brutal Kosovo prison where Macy is severely beaten. Just before he dies, Macy gives Karl a medal to give to Macy's daughter Nicole Stewart, who is a professor of english at Eastern Atlantic University on Long Island in New York. Karl and the Albanian girl then escape, and Karl kills their two captors. Three months later, Karl shows up at the university and visits Nicole, who is reluctant to accept Macy's medal because due to his military obligations, Macy was out of Nicole's life more than he was in it. Soon after Karl visits Nicole, she is brutally beaten up. When Karl hears of this, he has his friends Ed Lincoln and Rahmel help him take over as Nicole's substitute under a false name, then Karl brings another mercenary friend named Andy in on the investigation of the beating so Andy can work with Karl, Ed, and Rahmel. Karl believes it was a member of the football team who did it then he discovers that members of the team have been doing steroids. Karl doesn't completely know what's going on until he and his mercenary friends investigate people such as head coach Bill Braden and Tony Lo Russo, the son of local crime boss Vincent "Vinnie The Brick" Lo Russo. This is when innocent lives are in the most danger. Can Karl and his mercenary crew stop the evil forces behind the steroid plot whoever they are?
Stage Fright
HDA snobby musical theater camp is terrorized by a blood-thirsty killer who hates musical theater.
Drive Me Crazy
HDNicole (Melissa Joan Hart) and Chase (Adrian Grenier) are neighbors but are from two very different worlds. Despite their differences their love lives have a common theme. Their most recent plans for love have fallen through putting them both in a desperate state to fix them. Both Nicole and Chase conspire to pretend to find a romantic interest in each other, with the hopes of attracting the "ones who got away" from them. Leading up to the big school dance, Chase and Nicole find that their scam worked out better than they had planned.opposites attractteenage protagonistrivalrivalryprom91 morePlot summaryAdd synopsisTaglines
The Straight Story
HDSeventy-three year old Alvin Straight is a simple living and stubborn man who lives on his social security. He needs to do things on his own terms. He is in failing health. Both his hips are shot, which requires him to use two canes to walk. He is diabetic. He has emphysema from years of smoking. And he has poor eyesight. Beyond the obvious maladies, he doesn't tell his mentally disabled daughter Rose, who lives with him, of many of these issues. He learns that his brother Lyle Straight, from who he has been estranged for ten years, has just suffered a heart attack. Because of both his and Lyle's mortality, Alvin wants to make peace with his brother before it's too late, which means traveling from his home in the rural town of Laurens, Iowa to Lyle's home in rural Mount Zion, Wisconsin. As with other issues in his life, he needs to make the trip on his own terms, which means on his own. As he doesn't possess a driver's license and since his eyesight is bad, he decides to make the trip driving his aged riding lawn mover towing a trailer which will carry his gear and double as his sleeping quarters. After one mis-start, he is on his way. On that trip, he affects and is affected by those he encounters. But he just hopes that he can finish the trip the way he started it, and before either he, Lyle or the lawn mower give out for good.
Crazy in Alabama
HDAn abused wife heads to California to become a movie star while her nephew back in Alabama has to deal with a racially-motivated murder involving a corrupt sheriff.