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Taxandria (1996) [Movie] TMDB

Taxandria

director: Raoul Servais actor: Armin Mueller-Stahl / Elliott Spiers …

other title: 达仙德里亚

A lighthouse guardian leads a young prince towards an imaginary world, Taxandria, where the boy learns about the power of love and the value of liberty. A totalitarian regime has forbidden time: time watches have been confiscated, photo cameras are illegal as they freeze a point in time. A typical Servais theme: a power is oppressed by a constraint that denies what is best in the individual, and therefore has to be twisted in various ways, to establish an entirely artificial world, that has rules that may question some of the rules of our world at this side of the mirror.

Piranha (1978) [Movie] TMDB

Piranha

director: Joe Dante actor: Bradford Dillman / Heather Menzies …

other title: 食人鱼

When flesh-eating piranhas are accidently released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.

Scarlet Street (1945) [Movie] TMDB

Scarlet Street

director: Fritz Lang actor: Edward G. Robinson / Joan Bennett …

other title: 血红街道

Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris's work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Cross allows it because he is in love with Kitty, but his love will only let her get away with so much.

Up in the Air (2009) [Movie] TMDB

Up in the Air

director: Jason Reitman actor: George Clooney / Vera Farmiga …

other title: 寡佬飛行日記 / 型男飛行日誌 …

Corporate downsizing expert Ryan Bingham spends his life in planes, airports, and hotels, but just as he’s about to reach a milestone of ten million frequent flyer miles, he meets a woman who causes him to rethink his transient life.

Hellzapoppin' (1941) [Movie] TMDB

Hellzapoppin'

director: H. C. Potter actor: Ole Olsen / Chic Johnson …

other title: 地狱机械舞

Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way.

A Matter of Life and Death (1946) [Movie] TMDB

A Matter of Life and Death

director: Emeric Pressburger / Michael Powell actor: David Niven / Kim Hunter …

other title: 太虛幻境 / 平步青云

When a young RAF pilot miraculously survives bailing out of his aeroplane without a parachute, he falls in love with an American radio operator. But the officials in the other world realise their mistake and dispatch an angel to collect him.

Wild Side (1996) [Movie] TMDB

Wild Side

director: Donald Cammell actor: Anne Heche / Christopher Walken …

other title: 狂野边缘

A bank accountant who moonlights as a high-priced call girl becomes embroiled in the lives of a money launderer, his seductive wife, and his bodyguard.

The Abominable Snowman (1957) [Movie] TMDB

The Abominable Snowman

director: Val Guest actor: Forrest Tucker / Peter Cushing …

other title: 极地战将

A kindly English botanist and a gruff American promoter lead an expedition to the Himalayas in search of the legendary Yeti.

Something in the Dirt (2022) [Movie] TMDB

Something in the Dirt

director: Justin Benson / Aaron Moorhead actor: Aaron Moorhead / Justin Benson …

other title: 異聞檔案 / 尘中之物

When neighbors John and Levi witness supernatural events in their LA apartment building, they realize documenting the paranormal could inject some fame and fortune into their wasted lives.

Ikarie XB 1 (1963) [Movie] TMDB

Ikarie XB 1

director: Jindřich Polák actor: Zdeněk Štěpánek / František Smolík …

other title: 宇宙终点之旅

The year is 2163. Starship Ikaria XB 1 embarks on a mission deep into space in search of alien life. During their perilous journey the crew confront the effects of a malignant dark star, the destructive legacy of the 20th century and, ultimately, the limits of their own sanity.

The Fall (2006) [Movie] TMDB

The Fall

director: Tarsem Singh actor: Lee Pace / Catinca Untaru …

other title: 魔幻旅程 / 魔幻旅程 …

In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastic story about 5 mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality starts to blur as the tale advances.

I Am Sam (2001) [Movie] TMDB

I Am Sam

director: Jessie Nelson actor: Sean Penn / Michelle Pfeiffer …

other title: 不一樣的爸爸 / 他不笨，他是我爸爸 …

Sam, a neurodivergent man, has a daughter with a homeless woman who abandons them when they leave the hospital, leaving Sam to raise Lucy on his own. But as Lucy grows up, Sam's limitations as a parent start to become a problem and the authorities take her away. Sam convinces high-priced lawyer Rita to take his case pro bono and in turn teaches her the value of love and family.

Hi Diddle Diddle (1943) [Movie] TMDB

Hi Diddle Diddle

director: Andrew L. Stone actor: Adolphe Menjou / Martha Scott …

other title: 钻石与罪犯

When the bride's mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom's father orchestrates a scheme of his own to set things right. He is aided by a cabaret singer, while placating a jealous wife.

The Cars That Ate Paris (1974) [Movie] TMDB

The Cars That Ate Paris

director: Peter Weir actor: John Meillon / Terry Camilleri …

other title: 巴黎食人车

After the death of his brother on the road, unemployed and unstable drifter Arthur Waldo stays for a while in the rural Australian town of Paris as the guest of the mayor, who hopes he will become a permanent member of the Paris population. Arthur soon realizes the quaint hamlet has a sinister secret: they orchestrate car accidents and rob the victims. Survivors are brought to the local hospital, lobotomized, and used for a local doctor's experiments.

The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (1972) [Movie] TMDB

The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid

director: Philip Kaufman actor: Cliff Robertson / Robert Duvall …

other title: 血洒北城

The gangs of Jesse James and Cole Younger join forces to rob the First National Bank in Northfield, Minnesota, but things do not go as planned.

Pacific Rim (2013) [Movie] TMDB IMDb

Pacific Rim

director: Guillermo del Toro actor: Charlie Hunnam / Rinko Kikuchi …

other title: 悍戰太平洋 / 環太平洋 …

Using massive piloted robots to combat the alien threat, earth's survivors take the fight to the invading alien force lurking in the depths of the Pacific Ocean. Nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless enemy, the forces of mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes who now stand as earth's final hope against the mounting apocalypse.

Persuasion (1995) [Movie] TMDB

Persuasion

director: Roger Michell actor: Amanda Root / Ciarán Hinds …

other title: 劝导

Anne Elliot, the daughter of a financially troubled aristocratic family, is persuaded to break her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a young sea captain of meager means. Years later, money troubles force Anne's father to rent out the family estate to Admiral Croft, and Anne is again thrown into company with Frederick -- who is now rich, successful, and perhaps still in love with Anne.

Young Frankenstein (1974) [Movie] TMDB

Young Frankenstein

director: Mel Brooks actor: Gene Wilder / Teri Garr …

other title: 新科學怪人 / 新科学怪人

A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback, a pretty lab assistant and the elderly housekeeper. Young Frankenstein believes that the work of his grandfather was delusional, but when he discovers the book where the mad doctor described his reanimation experiment, he suddenly changes his mind.

Robin and Marian (1976) [Movie] TMDB

Robin and Marian

director: Richard Lester actor: Sean Connery / Audrey Hepburn …

other title: 羅賓漢與瑪莉安 / 罗宾汉与玛莉安

Robin Hood, aging none too gracefully, returns exhausted from the Crusades to woo and win Maid Marian one last time.

A Bay of Blood (1971) [Movie] TMDB

Ecologia del delitto

director: Mario Bava actor: Claudine Auger / Luigi Pistilli …

other title: Ecologia del delitto / 血之海灘 …

An elderly heiress is killed by her husband who wants control of her fortunes. What ensues is an all-out murder spree as relatives and friends attempt to reduce the inheritance playing field, complicated by some teenagers who decide to camp out in a dilapidated building on the estate.