Captain Scarface (1953)


Director: Paul Guilfoyle
Genres: Action | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Country: USA
Language: English
Release Date: 15 October 1953 (USA)

The Banos has exploded and sunk at sea, but another freighter, also called the Banos, is now loading at a South American port, under the command of a man known as 'Captain Scarface'. On shore at the Los Rios Hotel, a number of passengers are waiting to board the ship. Sam Wilton is in trouble, and needs to get back to the USA quickly. Ilse Yeager is waiting to be reunited with her father, who arrives with Mr. Kroll, an associate of Captain Scarface. A man named Clegg, who has just completed some work for the captain, also arrives and demands money from Kroll. Meanwhile, the captain is expecting Dr. Yeager, whom he plans to force into helping him on a mission of destruction.

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Uncle Was a Vampire (1959)


Director: Steno
Genres: Comedy | Horror
Country: Italy | France
Language: Italian
Release Date: 28 October 1959 (Italy)
Also Known As: Hard Times for Dracula

Baron Osvaldo Lambertenghi is forced to sell his ancestral castle; when it's converted into a hotel, he stays on as a bellboy. His mysterious uncle arrives--and turns out to be a vampire. When his uncle vampirizes Osvaldo, the newly-minted blood-sucker gallops about the castle sipping from the necks of dozens of beautiful female guests.

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Curse of the Blood Ghouls (1964)


Director: Roberto Mauri
Genres: Horror
Country: Italy
Language: Italian
Release Date: 19 May 1964 (West Germany) 
Also Known As: Curse of the Blood Ghouls

On their wedding night, a newlywed couple find themselves menaced by a bloodthirsty vampirer.
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The House of the Devil (1896)


Director: Georges Méliès
Genres: Short | Horror
Country: France
Also Known As: The Haunted Castle

A bat flies into an ancient castle and transforms itself into Mephistopheles himself. Producing a cauldron, Mephistopheles conjures up a young girl and various supernatural creatures, one of which brandishes a crucifix in an effort to force the devil-vampire to vanish.

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Frankenstein (1910)


Director: J. Searle Dawley
Genres: Short | Horror | Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Language: English
Release Date: 18 March 1910 (USA)

Frankenstein, a young medical student, trying to create the perfect human being, instead creates a misshapen monster. Made ill by what he has done, Frankenstein is comforted by his fiancée but on his wedding night he is visited by the monster. A fight ensues but the monster, seeing himself in a mirror, is horrified and runs away. He later returns, entering the new bride's room, and finds her alone.

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The Cosmic Man (1959)


Director: Herbert S. Greene
Genres: Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Country: USA
Language: English
Release Date: 17 February 1959 (USA)

The latest UFO, a white globe levitating in a California canyon, is investigated by the Air Force, aided by physicist Karl Sorensen. Just big enough for one "man", the object seems impenetrable, but that night a half-invisible being visits the town, and a strange bundled-up man takes a room at Angela Green's mountain lodge, the investigators' headquarters. Sorensen thinks the Cosmic Man is benevolent, but to the colonel he represents either danger...or military advantage.

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The Evil of Frankenstein (1964)


Director: Freddie Francis
Genres: Horror
Country: UK
Language: English
Release Date: 8 May 1964 (USA)

Penniless, Baron Frankenstein, accompanied by his eager assistant Hans, arrives at his family castle near the town of Karlstaad, vowing to continue his experiments in the creation of life. Fortuitously finding the creature he was previously working on, he brings it back to a semblance of life but requires the services of a mesmerist, Zoltan, to successfully animate it. The greedy and vengeful Zoltan secretly sends the monster into town to steal gold and 'punish' the burgomaster and the chief of police, which acts lead to a violent confrontation between the baron and the townspeople.

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The Storm Warriors (2009)


Directors: Danny Pang, Oxide Chun Pang
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong
Language: Cantonese | English
Release Date: 17 December 2009 (Hong Kong)

Based on the comic book series "Fung Wan" and directed by The Pang Brothers comes the incredible story of two friends, Wind and Cloud, who find themselves up against a very powerful warlord intending to invade their country. In order to protect their land these two friends seek the help of the all-powerful master. Through extensive training Wind and Cloud expose themselves to the "evil" ways to increase their powers of element. When the intensive battle begins their friendship will be tested when one finds it hard to be righteous and easy to be evil.


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The Storm Riders (1998)


Director: Wai-Keung Lau (as Andrew Lau)
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong
Language: Cantonese
Release Date: 18 July 1998 (Hong Kong)

Lord Conquer is a great and mighty warlord who wants to take over the world. To do so, he must defeat another warrior named Sword Saint; but the battle is prophesized to take place in ten years. Lord Conquer's servant, Mud Buddah, says that he can make himself invincible by then if he can make two certain children into his disciples. Those children are Whispering Wind and Striding Cloud. But Lord Conquer discovers that if Wind and Cloud were to unite against him, they could overthrow him. He tries to avoid this by marrying his daughter Charity to Wind. Cloud intervines and Lord Conquer accidentally kills Charity. Meanwhile, the time has come for Lord Conquer's duel with Sword Saint. He shows his true intentions by turning against Cloud and Wind. Now it's a free-for-all battle between Lord Conquer, Sword Saint, Cloud, and Wind. And only one will emerge the victor! 

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Horror of Dracula (1958)


Director: Terence Fisher
Genres: Horror
Country: UK
Language: English
Release Date: 16 June 1958 (UK)

After Jonathan Harker attacks Dracula at his castle (apparently somewhere in Germany), the vampire travels to a nearby city, where he preys on the family of Harker's fiancée. The only one who may be able to protect them is Dr. van Helsing, Harker's friend and fellow-student of vampires, who is determined to destroy Dracula, whatever the cost.

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The Theory of Everything (2014)


Director: James Marsh
Genres: Biography | Drama | Romance
Country: UK | Japan | USA
Language: English | French
Release Date: 26 November 2014 (USA)

The Theory of Everything is the story of the most brilliant and celebrated physicist of our time, Stephen Hawking, and Jane Wilde the arts student he fell in love with whilst studying at Cambridge in the 1960s. Little was expected from Stephen Hawking, a bright but shiftless student of cosmology, given just two years to live following the diagnosis of a fatal illness at 21 years of age. He became galvanized, however, by the love of fellow Cambridge student, Jane Wilde, and he went on to be called the successor to Einstein, as well as a husband and father to their three children. Over the course of their marriage as Stephen's body collapsed and his academic renown soared, fault lines were exposed that tested the lineaments of their relationship and dramatically altered the course of both of their lives.


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Zombieland (2009)


Director: Ruben Fleischer
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Horror | Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Language: English
Release Date: 2 October 2009 (USA)

Searching for family. In the early twenty-first century, zombies have taken over America. A shy and inexperienced college student in Texas has survived by following his 30 rules: such as "look in the back seat," "double-tap," "avoid public restrooms." He decides to travel to Ohio to see if his parents are alive. He gets a ride with a boisterous zombie-hating good-old boy headed for Florida, and soon they confront a young woman whose sister has been bitten by a zombie and wants to be put out of her misery. The sisters were headed to an LA amusement park they've heard is zombie free. Can the kid from Ohio get to his family? And what about rule thirty one?

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Blood: The Last Vampire (2009)


Director: Chris Nahon
Genres: Action | Horror | Thriller
Country: Hong Kong | France | China
Language: English | Japanese
Release Date: 4 June 2009 (Hong Kong) 

In 1970, the four hundred year-old skilled samurai Saya is sent to the Kanto High School in an American military base in Tokyo by the Council, a secret society that has been hunting vampires for centuries. Saya has the appearance of a teenager but is the tormented half-breed creature with the soul of her human father and the powers and need of blood of her vampire mother. She is obsessed to face the powerful demon Onigen that killed her father. In the base, Saya saves Alice McKee, who is the daughter of General McKee and commander of the base, from the attack of several vampires. When General McKee is killed by a member of the Council, Alice runs to the hotel where Saya is lodged. They join forces and go to the countryside to chase Onigen. 

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Blood Out (2011)


Director: Jason Hewitt
Genres: Action | Crime | Thriller
Country: USA
Language: English
Release Date: 26 April 2011 (USA)

David is a small-time hood in a big-time gang, killed for wanting out to marry his girlfriend. His older brother, Michael, a deputy sheriff in a meth-riddled town near Baltimore, leaves the force, gets a set of tattoos, and joins his brother's crew after claiming to be just out of prison and on the run. He proves his abilities, glad to wreak justice on other gangs and corrupt cops, and he may have a chance at revenge during a summit of North and South American drug traffickers. There are obstacles: a curious female lieutenant of a local thug, a federal investigation he may be stepping on, and the plight of his brother's pregnant girlfriend. Can he complete his mission?

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Damage (2009)


Director: Jeff King (as Jeff F. King)
Genres: Action | Drama
Country: USA | Canada
Language: English
Release Date: 8 October 2010 (South Africa)

An ex-con battles it out in the cage to pay for the operation that would save the daughter of his victim. Along the way he finds fatherly love, and friendship, in the most unlikely of places.


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The White Viking (1991)


Director: Hrafn Gunnlaugsson
Genres: Adventure | Drama
Country: Norway | Denmark | Sweden | Iceland
Language: Icelandic
Release Date: 1 November 1991 (Iceland)

Norway in the 10th century. Askur, son of the powerful Thorgeir marries Embla, daughter of one of the few remaining landowners in Norway, in a pagan ceremony. King Olav, a ruthless Christian, wants to remove all traces of non-Christian beliefs and captures the two of them during the ceremony. In order to free Embla, Askur must go to Iceland and convert the people there to Christianity.


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The King Is Dead! (2012)


Director: Rolf de Heer
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Thriller
Country: Australia
Language: English
Release Date: 12 July 2012 (Australia)

A young couple buy a house but their neighbor is a drug dealer who originates many troubles so they create a plan to move him out.

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44 Inch Chest (2009)


Director: Malcolm Venville
Genres: Crime | Drama
Country: UK
Language: English
Release Date: 15 January 2010 (UK)

Colin is in agony, shattered by his wife's infidelity. However, he has friends who do more than stand by -- they kidnap the wife's French lover and hold him prisoner so that Colin can restore his manhood with revenge. A kangaroo court takes place and as the situation escalates Loverboy's life hangs in the balance as Colin wrestles with revenge, remorse, grief and self pity, all the while egged on by his motley crew of friends who just want him to get on with it so they can get down the pub. 


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1 Day (2009)


Director: Penny Woolcock
Genres: Drama
Country: UK | Canada
Language: English
Release Date: 2009 (Canada)

1 Day follows 24 hours in the life of Flash, an inner-city hustler who's day steadily gets worse when he finds out local gang leader Angel is being released from prison and wants his £500k he left with him for safekeeping.

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4.3.2.1. (2010)


Directors: Noel Clarke, Mark Davis
Genres: Crime | Thriller
Country: UK
Language: English
Release Date: 2 June 2010 (UK)

While Jo (Roberts) is chained down in a dead end supermarket job, her friends are all out on their own separate adventures: Cassandra (Egerton) is jetting off to New York to meet her Internet boyfriend; Kerrys (Warren-Markland) is on a one woman crusade fighting for female liberation and Shannon (Lovibond) is on a one way trip to meet her maker. But a chance encounter with some diamond thieves sends their separate worlds on a collision course with not only each other, but fate itself. These 4 girls are about to have 3 days they will never forget, spanning to 2 cities. That is ... if they survive.

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Burlesque (2010)


Director: Steve Antin (as Steven Antin)
Genres: Drama | Music | Musical | Romance
Country: USA
Language: English | Ukrainian
Release Date: 24 November 2010 (USA)

The Burlesque Lounge has its best days behind it. Tess, a retired dancer and owner of the venue, struggles to keep the aging theater alive, facing all kinds of financial and artistic challenges. With the Lounge's troupe members becoming increasingly distracted by personal problems and a threat coming from a wealthy businessman's quest to buy the spot from Tess, the good fortune seems to have abandoned the club altogether. Meanwhile, the life of Ali, a small-town girl from Iowa, is about to change dramatically. Hired by Tess as a waitress at the Lounge, Ali escapes a hollow past and quickly falls in love with the art of burlesque. Backed by newfound friends amongst the theater's crew, she manages to fulfill her dreams of being on stage herself. Things take a dramatic turn though when Ali's big voice makes her become the main attraction of the revue.

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The Fighter (2010)


Director: David O. Russell
Genres: Biography | Drama | Sport
Country: USA
Language: English
Release Date: 17 December 2010 (USA) 

The Fighter is a drama about boxer "Irish" Micky Ward's unlikely road to the world light welterweight title. His Rocky-like rise was shepherded by half-brother Dicky, a boxer-turned-trainer on the verge of being KO'd by drugs and crime.

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016)


Director: Dave Green
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi
Country: USA | Hong Kong | China | Canada
Language: English
Release Date: 3 June 2016 (USA)

The Turtles continue to live in the shadows and no one knows they were the ones who took down Shredder. Vernon is the one everyone thinks is the one who took Shredder down. April O'Neill does some snooping and learns a scientist named Baxter Stockman is working for Shredder. He plans to break him out while he's being transported. April tells the turtles, who try to stop it but can't. Stockman tries to teleport Shredder but he some how ends up in another dimension and meets a warlord named Krang who instructs Shredder to assemble a teleportation device he sent to Earth a long time ago. He gives Shredder some mutagen which he uses to transform two criminals who were also in the transport with him, Rock Steady and Bebop, into mutants. They then set out to find the device. April saw the transformation while investigating Stockman. She takes the mutagen and is chased by Shredder's minions, the Foot Clan. She is saved by a man named Casey Jones who was the one transporting Shredder. The ... 

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Bachelor Night (2014)


Directors: Maximilian Elfeldt, Jeff Newman
Genres: Comedy
Country: USA
Language: English
Release Date: 12 August 2014 (USA)

When a bachelor party and a bachelorette party cross paths in Vegas, only the best man and the maid of honor can save their friends from a night of epic "mistakes."

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