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Brave(2012)

PG
| 1h 33min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Kids & Family, Action, Fantasy
3.5/5 (with 6,089 votes)

Brave is set in the mystical Scottish Highlands, where Mérida is the princess of a kingdom ruled by King Fergus and Queen Elinor. An unruly daughter and an accomplished archer, Mérida one day defies a sacred custom of the land and inadvertently brings turmoil to the kingdom. In an attempt to set things right, Mérida seeks out an eccentric old Wise Woman and is granted an ill-fated wish. Also figuring into Mérida’s quest — and serving as comic relief — are the kingdom’s three lords: the enormous Lord MacGuffin, the surly Lord Macintosh, and the disagreeable Lord Dingwall.

Directed by Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman, Steve Purcell
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47 Meters Down: Uncaged(2019)

PG-13
| 1h 30min | Horror, Drama, Adventure
2.8/5 (with 604 votes)

Four teenage girls go on a diving adventure to explore a submerged Mayan city. Once inside, their rush of excitement turns into a jolt of terror as they discover the sunken ruins are a hunting ground for deadly great white sharks. With their air supply steadily dwindling, the friends must navigate the underwater labyrinth of claustrophobic caves and eerie tunnels in search of a way out of their watery hell.

Directed by Johannes Roberts - With John Corbett, Nia Long, Sophie Nélisse, Corinne Foxx, Brianne Tju, Davi Santos, ...
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Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children(2005)

PG-13
| 1h 41min | Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Science Fiction
3.6/5 (with 486 votes)

Two years have passed since the final battle with Sephiroth. Though Midgar, city of mako, city of prosperity, has been reduced to ruins, its people slowly but steadily walk the road to reconstruction. However, a mysterious illness called Geostigma torments them. With no cure in sight, it brings death to the afflicted, one after another, robbing the people of their fledgling hope.

Directed by Tetsuya Nomura
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Ran(1985)

R
| 2h 40min | Action, Drama, History
4.1/5 (with 642 votes)

With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic in scope, the film is Kurosawa's late-life masterpiece, a profound examination of the folly of war and the crumbling of one family under the weight of betrayal, greed, and the insatiable thirst for power.

Directed by Akira Kurosawa - With Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryū, Mieko Harada, Peter, ...
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The Ruins(2008)

R
| 1h 31min | Horror
3.0/5 (with 493 votes)

Americans Amy, Stacy, Jeff and Eric look for fun during a sunny holiday in Mexico, but they get much more than that after visiting an archaeological dig in the jungle.

Directed by Carter Smith - With Jonathan Tucker, Jena Malone, Shawn Ashmore, Laura Ramsey, Joe Anderson, Dimitri Baveas, ...
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Double Dragon(1994)

PG-13
| 1h 29min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
2.2/5 (with 140 votes)

Two brothers have half of a powerful ancient Chinese talisman. An evil gang leader has the other half, and determines to get the brothers' half and have a complete medallion so he can gain absolute power.

Directed by James Yukich - With Mark Dacascos, Scott Wolf, Robert Patrick, Julia Nickson-Soul, Alyssa Milano, Andy Dick, ...
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Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man(1943)

NR
| 1h 14min | Horror
3.1/5 (with 85 votes)

Grave robbers open the grave of the wolf man and awaken him. He doesn't like the idea of being immortal and killing people when the moon is full so tries to find Dr. Frankenstein, in the hopes that the doctor can cure him. Dr. Frankenstein has died; however, his monster is found.

Directed by Roy William Neill - With Lon Chaney Jr., Ilona Massey, Patric Knowles, Lionel Atwill, Bela Lugosi, Maria Ouspenskaya, ...
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Momo(1986)

1h 41min | Comedy, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Kids & Family, Mystery
3.5/5 (with 28 votes)

In the ruins of an amphitheatre just outside an unnamed Italian city lives Momo, a little girl of mysterious origin. She is remarkable in the neighbourhood because she has the extraordinary ability to listen — really listen. By simply being with people and listening to them, she can help them find answers to their problems, make up with each other, and think of fun games.

Directed by Johannes Schaaf - With Radost Bokel, Mario Adorf, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Leopoldo Trieste, Ninetto Davoli, Francesco De Rosa, ...

The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman(1971)

R
| 1h 35min | Horror
2.8/5 (with 18 votes)

Elvira is travelling through the French countryside with her friend Genevieve, searching for the lost tomb of a medieval murderess and possible vampire, Countess Wandessa. They find a likely site in the castle of Waldemar Daninsky, who invites the women to stay as long as they like. As Waldemar shows Elvira the tomb that supposedly houses the countess, she accidentally causes the vampire to come back to life, hungrier than ever. Daninsky has a hidden secret of his own, but will it be enough to save the two girls from becoming Wandessa's next victims?

Directed by León Klimovsky - With Paul Naschy, Gaby Fuchs, Barbara Capell, Patty Shepard, Andrés Resino, Yelena Samarina, ...

Kanal(1957)

1h 36min | War, Drama
3.9/5 (with 49 votes)

During the last few days of the Warsaw Uprising following World War II, a modest group of Resistance members remains. The band must take refuge in the sewers under the orders of leader Zadra, but it's only a matter of time before they will have to emerge. However, when they try, they are met only with intense hostility from the Nazis. Despite their attempts stay resolute through immense mental strain, it becomes increasingly apparent that they may be doomed.

Directed by Andrzej Wajda - With Tadeusz Janczar, Wieńczysław Gliński, Stanisław Mikulski, Emil Karewicz, Vladek Sheybal, Teresa Iżewska, ...

Let the Corpses Tan(2017)

1h 32min | Thriller, Crime, Action, Horror
3.1/5 (with 49 votes)

With a heavy haul of 250 kilograms of gold bullion, the grizzled criminal mastermind, Rhino, and his ruthless gang of cutthroats, head to a ramshackle retreat somewhere in the Mediterranean to lay low on a scorching day of July. However, the unexpected and rather unwelcome arrival of the bohemian writer, Bernier, his muse, Luce, along with a pair of no-joke gendarmes further complicates things, as the frail allegiances will soon be put to the test.

Directed by Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani - With Stéphane Ferrara, Elina Löwensohn, Bernie Bonvoisin, Marc Barbé, Dorylia Calmel, Michelangelo Marchese, ...
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Teenage Caveman(2002)

1h 30min | Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction
1.8/5 (with 23 votes)

In a post-apocalyptic future mankind is lives in a prehistoric manner. After killing his father for sexually assaulting his girlfriend, the son of a tribal leader runs away with a group of his teenage friends. They are taken in by Neil and Judith who introduce them to the vices outlawed by their tribes namely sex and drugs.Neil and Judith, however, are genetically altered indestructible mutants who have their own plans for the future of the human race.

Directed by Larry Clark - With Andrew Keegan, Tara Subkoff, Tiffany Limos
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Calendar(1993)

1h 14min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 8 votes)

A photographer and his wife travel across Armenia photographing churches for a calendar project. Travelling with them is a local man acting as their driver and guide. As the project nears completion, the distance between husband and wife grows.

Directed by Atom Egoyan - With Arsinée Khanjian, Atom Egoyan, Ashot Adamyan

Black Angel(1980)

25min | Fantasy, Adventure
3.4/5 (with 11 votes)

A knight returns home from the Crusades to find his village devastated by disease and his family gone. He roams the forest searching for them, until he finds a mysterious maiden who is being held prisoner by a black knight. In order to free her, he must confront her captor.

Directed by Roger Christian
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Good Will To Men(1955)

9min | Animation, Drama, War
3.0/5 (with 6 votes)

A group of young mice is in the ruins of a church, practicing singing for an upcoming service. After singing an adulterated version of "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing," the mice wonder about the last line, "Good will to men." One of them asks the choirmaster, an old mouse, "What are men?" The old mouse explains that they all killed each other off by building bigger and more destructive weapons, first guns, then missiles, then bombs.

Directed by William Hanna, Joseph Barbera

Senritsu Kaiki World Kowasugi!(2023)

1h 18min | Horror

The research team investigates a crazy supernatural phenomenon and plunges into an even more outrageous situation!

Tama Tū(2004)

17min | War, Comedy
3.4/5 (with 5 votes)

Six Māori Battalion soldiers camped in Italian ruins wait for night to fall. In the silence, the bros-in-arms distract themselves with jokes. A tohu (sign) brings them back to reality, and they gather to say a karakia before returning to the fray. Director Taika Waititi describes the soldiers as young men with "a special bond, strengthened by their character, their culture and each other." Shot in the rubble of the old Wellington Hospital, Tama Tū won international acclaim. Invited to over 40 international festivals, its many awards included honourable mentions at Sundance and Berlin.

Directed by Taika Waititi

Warlock Moon(1973)

PG
| 1h 23min | Horror, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 6 votes)

Young lovers John and Jenny decide to go for a drive in the countryside one day when they happen upon the remains of a long-abandoned resort spa. After doing some exploring, they find that an elderly woman, Agnes Abercrombie, is living in the crumbling building. As they learn the gruesome history of the place, involving cannibalism and a ghost bride, Jenny becomes the victim of violent attacks and supernatural visions. But no one will believe her and now she's stuck in the dilapidated resort overnight. Will she survive until morning?

Directed by William Herbert - With Laurie Walters, Joe Spano

Sightseeing Through Whisky(1907)

6min | Comedy
2.5/5 (with 9 votes)

John, who loves the bottle a little too much, is one of a group of sightseers. Too drunk to follow the party, the reeling drunkard remains on the site of a ruin where he starts having hallucinations.

Directed by Georges Méliès - With Georges Méliès

Thorn Castle(2012)

1h 34min | Kids & Family
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Tutajos is an excellent student whose parents decide to reward his academic achievements with a vacation to the countryside. Robbed of his gadgets and easy city-lifestyle, Tutajos finds himself completely out of his element – until a goodhearted ranger named Matula teaches him how to get back to nature. As Tutajos’ best friend Bütyök joins him on his vacation, the two boys learn the joys of camping, hunting, and living off of the land.

Directed by György Balogh

The Labyrinth(2018)

20min | Documentary
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

A voyage into the labyrinthic memories of a Uitoto man, who worked for the drug Lords in the Colombian Amazon back in the 80s. Following his path between the forest and the ruin of a Narco´s mansion imitating the Carrington mansion in the soap opera Dynasty, the film unfolds the hallucinatory account of a near-death experience.

Lost Cities of the Amazon(2008)

50min | Documentary, History
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Over the centuries, explorers traded tales of a lost civilization amid the dense Amazonian rainforest. Scientists dismissed the legends as exaggerations, believing that the rainforest could not sustain such a huge population—until now. A new generation of explorers armed with 21st-century technology has uncovered remarkable evidence that could reinvent our understanding of the Amazon and the indigenous peoples who lived there. Using CGI and dramatic re-creations, National Geographic re-imagines the banks of the Amazon 500 years ago, teeming with inhabitants living in the Lost Cities of the Amazon.

House of the Wickedest Man in the World(2023)

24min | Documentary

House of the Wickedest Man in the World is the story of a ruined building near the city of Cefalú in Sicily. In the early 1920s, Aleister Crowley, the most famous occultist of his time, lived in the building, practicing magical rituals. In the summer of 1955, Kenneth Anger, considered one of the pioneers of experimental cinema, traveled with sexologist Alfred Kinsey to Sicily to find Aleister Crowley’s temple to shoot a film about the occultist’s time in Cefalú. The Thelema Abbey film was never released.

Visiting Italy(1951)

8min | Documentary
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

This TravelTalk short focuses on the ancient ruins in Rome, the leaning tower of Pisa, and the architecture in Florence, Italy.

Cam - Fear the Dark(2010)

1h 11min | Horror, Thriller
1.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Three friends, equipped only with cameras, venture into an abandoned, but highly secured building. The trip, that began as harmless fun, slowly develops into a night of terror, as they find out, why it is so heavily guarded.