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The Conversation(1974)

PG
| 1h 53min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
3.8/5 (with 707 votes)

Surveillance expert Harry Caul is hired by a mysterious client's brusque aide to tail a young couple. Tracking the pair through San Francisco's Union Square, Caul and his associate Stan manage to record a cryptic conversation between them. Tormented by memories of a previous case that ended badly, Caul becomes obsessed with the resulting tape, trying to determine if the couple is in danger.

Directed by Francis Ford Coppola - With Harrison Ford, Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall, Cindy Williams, John Cazale, Frederic Forrest, ...
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The Perfect Storm(2000)

PG-13
| 2h 10min | Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 959 votes)

In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atlantic. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing boat Andrea Gail.

Directed by Wolfgang Petersen - With George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, William Fichtner, John C. Reilly, Diane Lane, Karen Allen, ...
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The Towering Inferno(1974)

PG
| 2h 45min | Action, Drama, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 382 votes)

At the opening party of a colossal—but poorly constructed—skyscraper, a massive fire breaks out, threatening to destroy the tower and everyone in it.

Directed by John Guillermin, Irwin Allen - With Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Fred Astaire, Susan Blakely, ...
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Untold Scandal(2003)

2h 4min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 24 votes)

In late 1700s Korea, Lady Cho challenges the playboy Lord Jo-won into seducing and sleeping with her husband's coming young, virgin concubine. Lady Cho agrees to sleep with him if he succeeds.

Directed by Je-yong Lee - With Bae Yong-joon, Jeon Do-yeon, Lee Mi-sook, Lee So-yeon, Jo Hyun-jae

Prayers for Bobby(2009)

PG
| 1h 30min | Drama, History, TV Movie
4.0/5 (with 253 votes)

Bobby Griffith was his mother's favorite son, the perfect all-American boy growing up under deeply religious influences in Walnut Creek, California. Bobby was also gay. Struggling with a conflict no one knew of, much less understood, Bobby finally came out to his family.

Directed by Russell Mulcahy - With Sigourney Weaver, Henry Czerny, Ryan Kelley, Austin Nichols, Carly Schroeder, Dan Butler, ...

Beckett(2021)

1h 48min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 282 votes)

An American tourist in Greece finds himself on the run after a tragic accident plunges him into a political conspiracy that makes him a target for assassination.

Directed by Ferdinando Cito Filomarino - With John David Washington, Alicia Vikander, Vicky Krieps, Boyd Holbrook, Panos Koronis, Lena Kitsopoulou, ...

Boiling Point(1990)

1h 36min | Crime, Comedy, Drama
3.4/5 (with 82 votes)

Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. There he meets Uehara, a tough gangster, who is in serious debt to the yakuza and planning revenge.

Directed by Takeshi Kitano - With Takeshi Kitano, Gadarukanaru Taka, Dankan, Yuriko Ishida, Yūrei Yanagi
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The Devil's Own(1997)

R
| 1h 47min | Crime, Thriller, Drama
3.1/5 (with 508 votes)

Frankie McGuire, one of the IRA's deadliest assassins, draws an American family into the crossfire of terrorism. But when he is sent to the U.S. to buy weapons, Frankie is housed with the family of Tom O'Meara, a New York cop who knows nothing about Frankie's real identity. Their surprising friendship, and Tom's growing suspicions, forces Frankie to choose between the promise of peace or a lifetime of murder.

Directed by Alan J. Pakula - With Harrison Ford, Brad Pitt, Margaret Colin, Rubén Blades, Treat Williams, George Hearn, ...
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Kites(2010)

PG-13
| 2h 3min | Drama, Action, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 90 votes)

A wounded man searches for his sweetheart in the Mexican desert while on the run from the police, bounty hunters, and others.

Directed by Anurag Basu - With Hrithik Roshan, Kangana Ranaut, Bárbara Mori, Kabir Bedi, Nicholas Brown, Anand Tiwari, ...
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South Pacific(1958)

2h 37min | Music, Romance / Love, War
3.2/5 (with 44 votes)

Can a girl from Little Rock find happiness with a mature French planter she got to know one enchanted evening away from the military hospital where she is a nurse? Or should she just wash that man out of her hair? Bloody Mary is the philosopher of the island and it's hard to believe she could be the mother of Liat who has captured the heart of Lt. Joseph Cable USMC. While waiting for action in the war in the South Pacific, sailors and nurses put on a musical comedy show. The war gets closer and the saga of Nellie Forbush and Emile de Becque becomes serious drama.

Directed by Joshua Logan - With Rossano Brazzi, Mitzi Gaynor, John Kerr, Juanita Hall, France Nuyen, Ray Walston, ...
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Ghajini(2005)

3h 2min | Action, Romance / Love, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 34 votes)

After being hit by an iron rod, Sanjay Ramaswamy, a business tycoon, suffers from anterograde amnesia. He is unable to remember anything beyond fifteen minutes. Under such circumstances, he sets out on a quest to find the people who were responsible for his lover Kalpana's murder.

Directed by A. R. Murugadoss - With Suriya, Asin, Nayanthara

Paparazzi(2004)

R
| 1h 24min | Action, Drama, Thriller
2.7/5 (with 84 votes)

A rising Hollywood actor decides to take personal revenge against a group of four persistent photographers to make them pay for almost causing a personal tragedy involving his wife and son.

Directed by Paul Abascal - With Cole Hauser, Robin Tunney, Tom Sizemore, Daniel Baldwin, Dennis Farina, Tom Hollander, ...
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Mera Naam Joker(1970)

3h 44min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.8/5 (with 23 votes)

Raju faces many hurdles and disappointments in matters of the heart throughout his life. But as a clown in a circus, he tries to make his audience laugh at the cost of his own sorrows. Along the way, Raju loves and loses, but must always keep a smile on his face because, in the words of his circus manager, "The show must go on.".

Directed by Raj Kapoor - With Raj Kapoor, Manoj Kumar, Rishi Kapoor, Dharmendra, Dara Singh, Padmini, ...

S.F.W.(1994)

R
| 1h 36min | Comedy, Drama
3.0/5 (with 47 votes)

An alienated and misanthropic teenager gains sudden and unwanted celebrity status after he's taken hostage by terrorists where his indifference to their threats to kill him makes news headlines.

Directed by Jefery Levy - With Stephen Dorff, Reese Witherspoon, Jake Busey, Jack Noseworthy, Joey Lauren Adams, Pamela Gidley, ...

Saving Paradise(2021)

1h 42min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 4 votes)

A ruthless corporate raider is forced to return to his small town roots where he suddenly inherits his father's nearly bankrupt pencil factory, which is the heart and soul of the depressed community. With the foreclosure deadline looming, he must decide to either let it close, or join the community's fight to save it.

Neerja(2016)

2h 2min | Drama, Thriller
3.7/5 (with 99 votes)

Neerja is a portrayal on the life of the courageous Neerja Bhanot, who sacrificed her life while protecting the lives of 359 passengers on the Pan Am flight 73 in 1986. The flight was hijacked by a terrorist organization.

Directed by Ram Madhvani - With Sonam Kapoor, Shabana Azmi, Shekhar Ravjiani, Yogendra Tiku, Eisha Chopra

Satanás - Profile of a Killer(2007)

R
| 1h 35min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.7/5 (with 19 votes)

Based on the Mario Mendoza's book and inspired by true events, tells three interconnected stories happening in the eve of the infamous Pozzetto Massacre.

Directed by Andrés Baiz - With Damián Alcázar, Marcela Mar, Teresa Gutiérrez, Vicky Hernández, Patricia Castañeda

Teddy Pendergrass: If You Don't Know Me(2018)

1h 46min | Documentary, Music
3.2/5 (with 31 votes)

The untold and ultimately inspiring story of legendary singer, Teddy Pendergrass, the man poised to be the biggest R&B artist of all time until the tragic accident that changed his life forever at the age of only 31.

Don't Go to Sleep(1982)

1h 33min | Horror, TV Movie
3.3/5 (with 14 votes)

One year after a young girl dies in a car accident, her sister begins seeing visions of her, while the family home is plagued by strange happenings.

Directed by Richard Lang - With Valerie Harper

Savage Pampas(1966)

NR
| 1h 52min | Adventure, Drama, Western
2.6/5 (with 4 votes)

An Army captain in Argentina learns why his lonely men are deserting to an outlaw's gaucho gang.

Directed by Hugo Fregonese - With Robert Taylor, Ron Randell, Marc Lawrence, Ty Hardin, Rosenda Monteros, Ángel del Pozo, ...

The Children of Leningradsky(2005)

34min | Documentary
3.8/5 (with 12 votes)

Since the fall of the Iron Curtain an estimated four million children have found themselves living on the streets in the former countries of the Soviet Union. In the streets of Moscow alone there are over 30,000 surviving in this manner at the present time. The makers of the documentary film concentrated on a community of homeless children living hand to mouth in the Moscow train station Leningradsky. Eight-year-old Sasha, eleven-year-old Kristina, thirteen-year-old Misha and ten-year-old Andrej all dream of living in a communal home. They spend winter nights trying to stay warm by huddling together on hot water pipes and most of their days are spent begging. Andrej has found himself here because of disagreements with his family. Kristina was driven into this way of life by the hatred of her stepmother and twelve-year-old Roma by the regular beatings he received from his constantly drunk father. "When it is worst, we try to make money for food by prostitution," admits ...

Directed by Hanna Polak

Homage(1995)

1h 37min | Thriller, Drama
2.4/5 (with 2 votes)

The young caretaker at the estate of a reclusive woman develops a dangerous obsession with her daughter, a sexy television star. Unexpected twists and turns.

Directed by Ross Kagan Marks - With Blythe Danner, Frank Whaley, Sheryl Lee, Danny Nucci, Bruce Davison, Bob Goen, ...
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Mallu Singh(2012)

2h | Action, Comedy
2.5/5 (with 5 votes)

Anil decides to look for his friend Hari who has been missing since seven years. When he finally locates him in Punjab, Hari claims that he is Harinder Singh and has no connection with Kerala.

Directed by Vyshakh - With Kunchacko Boban, Unni Mukundan, Samvrutha Sunil, Biju Menon, Manoj K. Jayan, Meera Nandan, ...

Spirit(2012)

2h 25min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 12 votes)

Raghunandan (Mohanlal) is a TV show host and a budding novelist. He is a loner and a compulsive alcoholic, the latter of which resulted in his divorce from Meera (Kaniha). Despite this Meera and her husband Alexy (Shankar Ramakrishnan) are his best friends. His alcoholism however starts taking a huge toll on his life and things take a turn for the worst. At this point he meets Maniyan (Nandu) a plumber who is a bigger alcoholic than he is which makes Raghu re-evaluate his relationship with alcohol.

Directed by Ranjith - With Mohanlal, Kanika, Shankar Ramakrishnan, Madhu, Lena, Kalpana, ...

College Kumaran(2008)

2h 34min | Drama
1.2/5 (with 3 votes)

Kumaaran or Captain as students call him is a popular man in college before he decides to join the Army. However, tragic events bring him back home and he runs a canteen at Mahatma College and becomes very popular with the students.

Directed by Thulasidas - With Mohanlal, Vimala Raman, Balachandra Menon

Pisces(2017)

14min | Drama
4.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Two childhood friends, each held captive in time by a tragic moment, travel through the world of memory to find their respective path to freedom.

After Diff'rent Strokes: When the Laughter Stopped(2000)

1h | Drama
2.6/5 (with 2 votes)

You've read the stories, you've seen the documentaries. Now see the movie that brings it all to life.