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one of my very favorite movies - superb music, minimal dialog. brilliant moments of comedy
NRaleighLiberal
Oct 2014
#13
A mis-treated adopted, boy, his friends, and his school are terrorized by an evil force
Yavin4
Oct 2014
#24
A huge, soulless corporation seeks to buy a quaint picturesque village for industrial purposes.
Aristus
Oct 2014
#31
A story about 3 generations of a family in Florida from frontier to modern life. nt
ohnoyoudidnt
Oct 2014
#36
Explosion, Hot barely dressed woman, Explosion, Very Big Explosion with Aliens and more
dr.strangelove
Oct 2014
#44
His brother was executed for falsely being acccused of stealing his own cow during the Civil War. nt
ohnoyoudidnt
Oct 2014
#45
a supernatural being descends from the heavens, gathers a band of followers, heals with a touch,
KurtNYC
Oct 2014
#48
A Lithuanian immigrant moves to America and gets a job in the Chicago meat packing industry. nt
ohnoyoudidnt
Oct 2014
#53
Book: Paris gendarme stumped by the murder of two women in a locked sealed room...
Chan790
Oct 2014
#62
Incompetent loser blows up a movie set too early, irate producer invites him over by mistake
DFW
Oct 2014
#72
They seek him here, they seek him there, those Frenchies seek him everywhere...
distantearlywarning
Oct 2014
#90
But it has the funniest nicknames (and I dare you to watch without laughing)
sakabatou
Oct 2014
#269
Movie: Robots get really bored with watching a car travel during the opening scene.
sakabatou
Oct 2014
#95
Book: An orphan returns home, gets rich, starts a new religion, then gets eaten by his friends.
baldguy
Oct 2014
#109
Movie: A federal agent in Chicago hampers the work of an enterprising American job creator
petronius
Oct 2014
#116
Three (actually 4) French guys, brandishing swords, kill a bunch of people.
Art_from_Ark
Oct 2014
#133
Here's a short clip. But it does show the film title. Don't read if Ya still want to guess
Paulie
Oct 2014
#328
man in white suit defends justice even when all around him thinks a kid is a thug.
Paulie
Oct 2014
#149
Movie: Morgan freeman is God. Then he makes someone else God, until that person is overwhelmed.
UrbScotty
Oct 2014
#163
Genetic superman in future Utopia refuses to marry until he finds the meaning of life
First Speaker
Oct 2014
#180
There's two that immediately come to mind...both based off stories by Stephen King.
Chan790
Oct 2014
#211
Short novel: The funeral of a man killed in a car crash as perceived by his young son
Lydia Leftcoast
Oct 2014
#215
Musical comedy film about the struggle for succession to the throne in medieval England
pinboy3niner
Oct 2014
#238
I remembered a movie like this and thought Donald O'Connor, but it was Danny Kaye.
betsuni
Oct 2014
#246
A nobody becomes top dog in an extreme war environment until it all comes crashing down
pinboy3niner
Oct 2014
#248
Movie moral: When drag racing do not wear loose sleeves that might catch on door handle
pinboy3niner
Oct 2014
#252
Humpty Dumpty was murderd after being used for genetic-engineering experiments.
krispos42
Oct 2014
#283
“Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets and then teams up
SteveG
Oct 2014
#296
A hit man holds a cab driver hostage while killing people in various parts of Los Angeles.
Initech
Oct 2014
#309
James Bond travels to exotic locales in search of a computer disk that could start WWIII.
Initech
Oct 2014
#310
Disgruntled employee burns down building after getting fired and being denied a piece of cake.
Initech
Oct 2014
#312
Top secret government agency assembles six super heros to stop New York City from being destroyed.
Initech
Oct 2014
#313
A group of actors filming a Vietnam war movie get roped into a real Vietnam war.
Initech
Oct 2014
#314
London's top police officer is transferred to a small town where he unlocks a death-filled mystery.
Initech
Oct 2014
#315
A billionaire heir is held hostage in the middle east, comes back and builds a suit of armor.
Initech
Oct 2014
#317
A boxer takes a fall and makes off with the cash, ending up in a pawnshop basement of horrors n/t
Duer 157099
Oct 2014
#319
Two men wanted for murder in Alabama reach out to their sleazy New Jersey based lawyer cousin.
Initech
Oct 2014
#330
A young Indian boy and a man eating tiger are the sole survivors of a deadly ship crash.
Initech
Oct 2014
#332
An astronaut narrowly escapes death 15 times before heading her way back to earth.
Initech
Oct 2014
#333
A reporter and a hacker team up to solve an infamous unsolvable murder/kidnapping case.
Initech
Oct 2014
#337
A baseball manager and his assistant come up with a new formula to win games and it works.
Initech
Oct 2014
#338
A musical playwright and his accountant set out to make the world's worst musical and succeed.
Initech
Oct 2014
#339