Dick Miller
Also Known As: Richard Miller, ディック・ミラー, Richard Dick Miller
Biography: Dick Miller (December 25, 1928 – January 30, 2019) was an American character actor who appeared in more than 180 films, including many produced by Roger Corman. He later appeared in the films of directors who began their careers with Corman, including Joe Dante, James Cameron, and Martin Scorsese, with the distinction of appearing in every film directed by Dante. He was known for playing the beleaguered everyman, often in one-scene appearances. Miller's main roles in films included Gremlins, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Explorers, Piranha, The Howling, A Bucket of Blood, The Little Shop of Horrors, Not of This Earth, Chopping Mall, Night of the Creeps, The Terminator, The 'Burbs, Small Soldiers and Quake. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dick Miller, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: December 25, 1928
Age: 96 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 30, 2019
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The Terminator
Overview: In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, whose unborn son is destined to lead insurgents against 21st century mechanical hegemony. Meanwhile, the human-resistance movement dispatches a lone warrior to safeguard Sarah. Can he stop the virtually indestructible killing machine?
Genres: Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-26
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Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Overview: Young sweethearts Billy and Kate move to the Big Apple, land jobs in a high-tech office park and soon reunite with the friendly and lovable Gizmo. But a series of accidents creates a whole new generation of Gremlins. The situation worsens when the devilish green creatures invade a top-secret laboratory and develop genetically altered powers, making them even harder to destroy!
Genres: Comedy Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-15
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Gremlins
Overview: When Billy Peltzer is given a strange but adorable pet named Gizmo for Christmas, he inadvertently breaks the three important rules of caring for a Mogwai, unleashing a horde of mischievous gremlins on a small town.
Genres: Fantasy Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-06-08
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Innerspace
Overview: Test pilot Tuck Pendleton volunteers to test a special vessel for a miniaturization experiment. Accidentally injected into a neurotic hypochondriac, Jack Putter, Tuck must convince Jack to find his ex-girlfriend, Lydia Maxwell, to help him extract Tuck and his ship and re-enlarge them before his oxygen runs out.
Genres: Action Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-07-01
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Elvira: Mistress of the Dark
Overview: Arriving in the small town of Fallwell, Massachusetts to claim her inheritance, horror hostess Elvira receives a less than enthusiastic reception from the conservative locals -- amongst them, her sinister uncle Vincent, who, unbeknownst to her, is an evil warlock.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-30
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The Grissom Gang
Overview: The Grissom Gang is a remake of the notorious 1949 British melodrama No Orchids For Miss Blandish. Kim Darby plays a 1920s-era debutante who is kidnapped and held for ransom. Her captors are the Grissoms, a family comprised of sadists and morons, and headed by Ma Barker clone Irene Dailey. One of the Grissoms, played by Scott Wilson, takes a liking to his prisoner, which results in a bloody breakdown of the family unit. Both The Grissom Gang and the original No Orchids For Miss Blandish were inspired by the best-seller by James Hadley Chase, though neither film retains Chase's original ending.
Genres: Crime Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-05-28
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Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
Overview: Beginning just before his debut as Frankenstein’s creation, this documentary compellingly explores the life and legacy of a cinema legend, presenting a perceptive history of the genre he personified. Karloff's films were long derided as hokum and attacked by censors, but his phenomenal popularity and pervasive influence endures, inspiring some of our greatest actors and directors into the 21st Century – among them Guillermo Del Toro, Ron Perlman, Roger Corman, and John Landis, all of whom and many more contribute their personal insights and anecdotes.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-09-17
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Cannonball
Overview: Coy "Cannonball" Buckman and his blazing red Pontiac enter the Trans-America Grand Prix, an underground road race spanning the continent in which there are no rules, no speed limits and no heed for the law. En route, Buckman jockeys with an international ensemble of racers for a $100,000 purse. But there are none more important than Cade Redman, his direct competition for a guaranteed spot on the elite Modern Motors racing team.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-06
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1941
Overview: In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub.
Genres: Comedy War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-14
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The Howling
Overview: After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitation center whose inhabitants may not be what they seem.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-21
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Evil Toons
Overview: Four sexy young girls are to clean an old house for the new owners. They get delivered an old book full of magic incantations, and while reading it they accidentally bring a cartoon character to life. The cartoon character likes the blood of young girls...
Genres: Comedy Horror Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-08
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A Bucket of Blood
Overview: Nerdy Walter Paisley, a maladroit busboy at a beatnik café who doesn't fit in with the cool scene around him, attempts to woo his beautiful co-worker, Carla, by making a bust of her. When his klutziness results in the death of his landlady's cat, he panics and hides its body under a layer of plaster. But when Carla and her friends enthuse over the resulting artwork, Walter decides to create some bigger and more elaborate pieces using the same artistic process.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-21
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The Trip
Overview: After his wife leaves him, a disillusioned director dives into the drug scene, trying anything his friend suggests.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-08-23
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The Terror
Overview: Lt. Andre Duvalier awakens on a beach to the sight of a strange woman who leads him to the gothic, towering castle that serves as home to an eerie baron.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-06-17
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The Little Shop of Horrors
Overview: Seymour works in a skid row florist shop and is in love with his beautiful co-worker, Audrey. He creates a new plant that not only talks but cannot survive without human flesh and blood.
Genres: Horror Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-08-05
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Piranha
Overview: When flesh-eating piranhas are accidently released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-08-03
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The 'Burbs
Overview: When secretive new neighbors move in next door, suburbanite Ray Peterson and his friends let their paranoia get the best of them as they start to suspect the newcomers of evildoings and commence an investigation. But it's hardly how Ray, who much prefers drinking beer, reading his newspaper and watching a ball game on the tube expected to spend his vacation.
Genres: Comedy Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-02-17
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Matinee
Overview: A showman introduces a small coastal town to a unique movie experience and capitalizes on the Cuban Missile crisis hysteria with a kitschy horror extravaganza combining film effects, stage props and actors in rubber suits in this salute to the B-movie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-29
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Rock 'n' Roll High School
Overview: A group of rock-music-loving students, with the help of the Ramones, take over their school to combat its newly installed oppressive administration.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-20
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Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight
Overview: Ex-soldier Frank Brayker is the guardian of an ancient key that can unlock tremendous evil; the sinister Collector is a demon who wants the key so he can initiate the apocalypse. On the run from wicked mercenaries for almost 90 years, Brayker finally stops in at a boarding house in New Mexico where — with the help of its residents — he plans to face off against the Collector and his band of ghouls, preventing them from ever seizing the key.
Genres: Horror Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-13
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New York, New York
Overview: An egotistical saxophone player and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and rocky romance, even as their careers begin a long uphill climb.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-21
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Not of This Earth
Overview: An alien from planet Davanna, whose population has developed a terminal blood disease caused by nuclear radiation, is sent to Earth to acquire fresh human blood for his people.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-02-10
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It Conquered the World
Overview: An alien from Venus tries to take over the world with the help of a disillusioned human scientist, as his wife, his best friend and the friend's wife try to intervene.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-14
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Far from Home
Overview: Charlie Cox should have stopped for gas in California. While he's on a cross-country trip with his teenage daughter, Joleen, his car hits empty in a creepy town in Nevada. With nary a drop of fuel to be found, Charlie and Joleen stop for the night at a dilapidated trailer park. There, Joleen catches the eye of two teenage boys, Jimmy and Pinky -- either of whom could be the serial killer currently terrorizing the town.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-06-30
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Chopping Mall
Overview: A group of teenagers that work at the mall all get together for a late night party in one of the stores. When the mall goes on lock down before they can get out, the robot security system activates after a malfunction and goes on a killing spree. One by one the three bots try to rid the mall of the “intruders.” The only weapons the kids can use are the supplies in other stores, or if they can make it till morning when the mall opens back up.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-03-21
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Get Crazy
Overview: Mega-promoter Colin Beverly plans to sabotage the New Year's 1983 concert of small-time operator Max Wolfe. Wolfe's assistants Neil Allen and Willie Loman find romance while trying to save the drugs, violence, and rock and roll from Beverly's schemes.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-08-05
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The Premature Burial
Overview: An artist grows distant from his new wife as an irrational horror of premature burial consumes him.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-03-07
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Naked Paradise
Overview: Gangster Zac Cotton and his two henchmen, Mitch and Sonny, try to get a boat to get off a tropical island after a botched robbery heist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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War of the Satellites
Overview: An "unknown force" declares war against planet Earth when the United Nations disobeys warnings to cease and desist in its attempts at assembling the first satellite in the atmosphere.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-05-18
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Atlas
Overview: Evil king Praximedes convinces superhero Atlas to fight for him, but Atlas eventually sees the king's true nature and turns against him.
Genres: Adventure Action Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-01
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The Undead
Overview: Two psychics place a prostitute under hypnosis in order to learn about her past-life experiences. When they unwittingly send her back in time, she finds herself in the Middle Ages, suspected of being a witch and on the verge of being executed.
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-01
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White Line Fever
Overview: An independent trucker with a pregnant wife fights cargo crooks and the big shot they work for.
Genres: Romance Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-07-16
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Maximum Surge
Overview: When a super computer is linked to a video game network, the computer programmer who designed the game must enter the virtual reality world of his fantasies and defeat the computer before it causes worldwide chaos!
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-06-23
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Hollywood Boulevard
Overview: A Midwestern ingenue arrives in Hollywood to try her luck as an actress. An incompetent agent hooks her up with a production company which specializes in low budget B-movie fair, which starts being plagued by strange, deadly accidents.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-25
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Trapped Ashes
Overview: Trapped in a house of horror, seven people discover that the only way they'll get out alive is to tell their scariest stories.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-12
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Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
Overview: Andrea Beaumont leaves her father to return to Gotham, rekindling an old romance with Bruce Wayne. At the same time, a mysterious figure begins to hunt down Gotham's criminals, wrongly implicating Batman in the murders. Now on the run from the law, Batman must find and stop the culprit, while also navigating his relationship with Andrea.
Genres: Action Animation Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-25
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Carnival Rock
Overview: An ocean-side nightclub owner loves a singer who only has eyes for a gambler.
Genres: Crime Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-01
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Smokey Bites the Dust
Overview: Follows the rivalry between a small-town Southern sheriff and a small-town delinquent who steals cars and then destroys them with the sheriff’s daughter by his side.
Genres: Action Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-01
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Mr. Billion
Overview: An Italian mechanic finds that he has inherited a billion-dollar company from his dead uncle, but he needs to be in San Francisco in 20 days to sign over the will. In the meantime, he is chased by kidnappers and the affected corporation's president.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-03
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Big Bad Mama
Overview: Mama and daughters get forced by circumstances into bootlegging and bank robbing, and travel across the country trailed by the law.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-09-19
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The Hole
Overview: After moving into a new neighbourhood, brothers Dane & Lucas and their neighbour Julie discover a bottomless hole in the basement of their home. They find that once the hole is exposed, evil is unleashed. With strange shadows lurking around every corner and nightmares coming to life, they are forced to come face to face with their darkest fears to put an end to the mystery of THE HOLE.
Genres: Thriller Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-09
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The Aftermath
Overview: After a lengthy space mission, two astronauts (Steve Barkett and Larry Latham) return to an Earth transformed by nuclear war. As renegade gangs and mutants rule Los Angeles, the astronauts join two pretty women and a couple of kids in a growing resistance movement. This sci-fi adventure follows the men as they battle bell-bottomed biker leader Cutter and his brutal gang.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-22
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Armed Response
Overview: One of Tanaka's underlings has stolen a rare statuette that he had planned to use as a peace offering between the local Yakusa and Chinese Tong. He hires two private investigators to exchange ransom money to recover the statuette, but the trade goes down bad and Clay Roth is killed. This angers Roth's brothers and father, all combat veterans, and they go after the people responsible
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-10-01
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Capone
Overview: Young Al Capone catches the eye of Johnny Torrio, a criminal visiting New York from Chicago. Torrio invites Capone to move to Illinois to help run his Prohibition-era alcohol sales operation. Capone rises through the ranks of Torrio's gang and eventually takes over. On top, he works to consolidate his power by eliminating his enemies, fixing elections to his advantage and getting rich. In his spare time, Capone courts the principled Iris Crawford.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-04-16
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Motorama
Overview: A ten year old boy gets tired of life with abusive parents and cashes in his piggy bank and steals a Mustang. He rides off into a surreal America playing "Motorama," a game sponsored by Chimera Gas Company. He has various encounters with different people, and eventually reaches the Chimera Gas Company where he finds they are not playing by the rules of the game.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-10
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Lies
Overview: Struggling actress accepts high paying job to play a rich heiress committed in a lunatic asylum, not knowing she's really being set up as a surrogate for the real girl who'd been murdered.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-01
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Beach Ball
Overview: Edd Byrnes tries to get an ethnic-music-studies grant to buy instruments for his rock and roll group.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-09-29
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Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies
Overview: Hollywood is a town of tinsel and glamour; but there is another Hollywood, a place where maverick independent exploitation filmmakers went toe to toe with the big guys and came out on top.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-02
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Mob Boss
Overview: A nerd becomes the head of his father's crime family.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-16
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Darktown Strutters
Overview: When a prominent abortion clinic owner goes missing along with a string of other black community leaders, her singing daughter and her fellow female biker gang members investigate.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-07
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Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype
Overview: An ugly, misshapen podiatrist ingests a formula made by a colleague and turns into a handsome, devil-may-care (but violent) ladies' man.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-01
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Ski Party
Overview: Two college boys from SoCal attend a spring break vacation at a ski lodge in Idaho to get insider tips on how the president of the ski club manages to attract so many girls as a way to make amends to their girlfriends. Alongside this relatively simple endeavor are ice-skating polar bears, love triangles, musical numbers, and quick-switching in and out of drag to achieve the goal of discovering what went wrong in the boys' romantic lives.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-06-30
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Rock All Night
Overview: Cloud Nine, the local teen hangout, has been taken over by a pair of escaped killers, who hold the local teens hostage. The bartender realizes it's up to him to save the kids.
Genres: Crime Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-01
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Sorority Girl
Overview: A poor-little-rich-girl feels alienated by her mother and enacts a string of revenges on her fellow pupils at a girls' boarding school.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-01
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Summer School Teachers
Overview: A trio of naive, but eager young Midwestern women go to California to teach summer school classes at Regency High School: Perky and willful Conklin T. starts up and coaches an all-female football team, stuffy chemistry teacher Sally Hanson manages to loosen up after she falls hard for a surly juvenile delinquent student, and pert and liberated photography instructor Denise Carter becomes involved with both a two-faced male chauvinist jerk and a more decent and understanding guy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-08-01
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Night Call Nurses
Overview: The sweet and perky Barbara, the sunny Janis, and the responsible Sandra are a trio of young and attractive nurses who work in the psych ward at a hospital. The threesome really have their hands full dealing with nutty patients, creepy stalkers, and black revolutionaries
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-06-01
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The Young Nurses
Overview: Sexy young nurses apply special therapy in their daily rounds, as they work against a drug ring operating out of the hospital
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-01
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Candy Stripe Nurses
Overview: Young, sexy nurses and their hospital adventures: free-loving Sandy tries to cure a rock star of his sexual problems, uptight Dianne has an affair with a druggie star college basketball player all while trying to expose another doctor's malpractice, and juvenile delinquent Marisa has an affair with an accused man, in turn also trying to prove his innocence.
Genres: Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-05-01
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The Student Teachers
Overview: Sexy student teachers at Valley High School give private lessons while being terrorized by a mad rapist
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-09-06
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Runaway Daughters
Overview: Angie, Mary, and Laura are teenage girls who are fed up with their bland and unexciting small town lives. Mary discovers that she's pregnant after having sex with her boyfriend.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-08-12
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Crazy Mama
Overview: Melba Stokes, her mother Sheba and daughter Cheryl embark on a crime spree after their California beauty parlor is repossessed. Their destination is Arkansas, where the three generations of women want to reclaim the family farm.
Genres: Crime Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-06-01
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Attack of the 5 Ft. 2 Women
Overview: Spoof-miester, Julie Brown does a musical send-up of Tonya Harding and Lorena Bobbit's debutante debacles
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-08
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Under the Boardwalk
Overview: It is the final weekend of summer and a group of Californian teenagers are looking forward to an upcoming surf contest. Rival gangs the 'Vals' and the 'Lowks' are confident that they will take home the trophy, but things become complicated when Reef Yorpin - leader of the Lawks - discovers his sister Allie has fallen in love with 'Val' surfer Nick after meeting at a beach party.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-14
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Wild, Wild Winter
Overview: Low-budget beach party rip-off relocated to the slopes, with the plot of Taming of the Shrew loosely pasted on and with beats by the Beau Brummels.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-05
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Apache Woman
Overview: A government agent ventures west to look into reports that Apaches are behind a recent wave of frontier attacks. Begins to suspect a set-up.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-15
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After Hours
Overview: Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-13
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Body Waves
Overview: To prove his independence, a cocky teenager bets his father that he can support himself without the family business. But no one is more surprised than he is when the sex cream he invents actually works!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-05-26
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Starhops
Overview: After the owner of a failing drive-in restaurant sells his establishment, two waitresses and a French chef try to turn it around.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-03-02
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That Guy Dick Miller
Overview: Documentary about veteran character actor Dick Miller, whose career in and outside of Hollywood has spanned almost 200 films across six decades, featuring a diverse range of interviews with directors, co-stars, and contemporaries.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-03-07
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Mona Must Die
Overview: Disillusioned, Eddie is a long-suffering husband who finds passion and happiness with his neighbor, Rachel, a struggling estate agent. Only one thing stands in their way - Mona, Eddie's tyrannical wife who helped Eddie when he was still a recent immigrant, then trapped him in a loveless marriage. As the relationship deepens, the two lovers devise a plan where Rachel is brought into the house as Mona's live-in attendant for Mona must die.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-05-12
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White Dog
Overview: A trainer attempts to retrain a vicious dog that’s been raised to kill black people.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-07-07
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Space Raiders
Overview: A futuristic, sensitive tale of adventure and confrontation when a 10 year old boy is accidentally kidnapped by a spaceship filled with a motley crew of space pirates.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-07-01
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Ghost Writer
Overview: A writer moves into a Malibu beach house, and comes up against the ghost of an actress who supposedly had committed suicide there 30 years previously, but had been murdered by her boyfriend. The ghost asks the writer's help in proving her boyfriend the killer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-07
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It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures
Overview: A 60-minute salute to American International Pictures. Entertainment lawyer Samuel Z. Arkoff founded AIP (then called American Releasing Corporation) on a $3000 loan in 1954 with his partner, James H. Nicholson, a former West Coast exhibitor and distributor. The company made its mark by targeting teenagers with quickly produced films that exploited subjects mainstream films were reluctant to tackle.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-05-01
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Twilight Zone: The Movie
Overview: An anthology film presenting remakes of three episodes from the "Twilight Zone" TV series—"Kick the Can", "It's a Good Life" and "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"—and one original story, "Time Out."
Genres: Horror Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-24
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The Second Civil War
Overview: When a planeload of Pakistani orphans are shipped to his state for permanent relocation, the governor of Idaho defies the president and closes the state's border. News Net Television, a cable news program that makes hay by reporting on political scandals, quickly spins the racist act into an overnight media sensation, creating a divide in national opinion over the issue.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-04
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Targets
Overview: An aging horror-movie icon's fate intersects with that of a seemingly ordinary young man on a psychotic shooting spree around Los Angeles.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-08-15
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The Legend of Lylah Clare
Overview: A dictatorial film director hires an unknown actress to play the lead role in a planned movie biography of a late, great Hollywood star.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-08-21
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11th Victim
Overview: A news anchorwoman from the Midwest comes to Hollywood to learn the truth about the death of her sister, the 11th victim of a killer preying on aspiring actresses, and finds herself possibly the next one on his list despite the help of an overworked cop.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-04-14
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The Woman Who Sinned
Overview: A woman contemplates having an affair, which leads her into a web of deceit, suspense, and murder.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-17
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Fly Me
Overview: Stewardesses battle kung fu killers.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-16
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National Lampoon's Movie Madness
Overview: A parody of film genres composed of three shorts, spoofing personal growth films, glossy soap operas, and police stories.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-23
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Shake, Rattle and Rock!
Overview: In 1950s America, teenage rebellion comes easy when something like rock 'n' roll is viewed as sinful. Looking to have a good time while they're young, Susan, Cookie and Tony -- three teenagers from a small town -- start a nightclub where host Danny Klay introduces the newest rock 'n' roll talent, and everyone can dance the night away. Of course, not everyone in town is happy with the new establishment.
Genres: Drama Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-08-26
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X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
Overview: A doctor uses special eye drops to give himself x-ray vision, but the new power has disastrous consequences.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-07-13
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Game Show Models
Overview: Stuart Guber has decided to drop back into society, by leaving his performance artist girlfriend and accepting a job working for a top record label. Trouble soon arises when his boss concocts the idea of doing a sex themed game show (hosted by character actor legend Dick Miller). Meanwhile, Stuart begins having an affair with the sister of the label’s new superstar (Thelma Houston).
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-11-25
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Truck Turner
Overview: Truck Turner and his partner Jerry, who make their living as bounty hunters in Los Angeles, are hired to hunt down Gator, a pimp who has skipped bail.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-06-26
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Heartbeeps
Overview: Two domestic robots fall in love and run off together.
Genres: Comedy Romance Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-18
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Night of the Creeps
Overview: In 1959, an alien experiment crashes to earth and infects a fraternity member. They freeze the body, but in the modern day, two geeks pledging a fraternity accidentally thaw the corpse, which proceeds to infect the campus with parasites that transform their hosts into killer zombies.
Genres: Horror Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-08-21
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Burying the Ex
Overview: Before horror enthusiast Max can break things off with his girlfriend Evelyn she dies in a bus accident. In time, Max meets another woman only to have Evelyn resurface as a zombie ready to resume their relationship.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-04
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The Dirty Dozen
Overview: 12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy château and kill the Nazi officers vacationing there. The soldiers, most of whom are facing death sentences for a variety of violent crimes, agree to the mission and the possible commuting of their sentences.
Genres: Action Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-06-15
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Amityville 1992: It's About Time
Overview: A hot-shot architect returns home from his latest business trip with a surprise: an ornate old clock rescued out of a soon-to-be-demolished mansion in Amityville, New York, that brings about a seemingly unstoppable demonic force.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-07-16
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Explorers
Overview: Middle schooler Ben spends his free time watching sci-fi films, playing video games and reading comic books. Surprisingly, his affinity for all things fantastical yields a real result – when he has a vivid dream about technology, his prodigy best friend Wolfgang manages to create a working spacecraft. Joined by their buddy Darren, the boys take off into outer space and encounter some very odd extraterrestrial life.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-07-12
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Unlawful Entry
Overview: After a break-in at their house, a couple gets help from one of the cops who answered their call. He helps them install a security system, begins dropping by on short notice and unofficial patrol angling to pry into the couple's problems with the wife. The husband begins wondering if they're getting too much help.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-06-26
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The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood
Overview: Xaviera Hollander has to navigate some sleazy studio politics to see the production of the film version of her memoirs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-06-04
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Corvette Summer
Overview: Ken loves to design and build exotic cars. When the High School shop class project car, a fully tricked out dream Corvette, is stolen, he begins searching for it. His search leads him to Las Vegas, where Vanessa, a teenaged prostitute wannabe, helps him try to track it down.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-02
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I Wanna Hold Your Hand
Overview: If they missed Beatles' first appearance in the U.S.A. they would hate themselves for the rest of their lives! So four young girls from New Jersey set off even though they don't have tickets for the show! The journey is full of surprises and misfortunes but the young ladies are determined to reach their idols.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-04-01
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A Time for Killing
Overview: During the Civil War, Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison and head for the Mexican border. Along the way, they kill a Union courier bearing the news that the war is over. Keeping the message a secret, the captain has his men go on and they soon find themselves in a battle with the Union search party who also is unaware of the war's end.
Genres: Western War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-08-01
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The Andersonville Trial
Overview: A dramatization of the 1865 war-crimes trial of Henry Wirz, commandant of the notorious Confederate POW camp at Andersonville, Georgia.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-17
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Looney Tunes: Back in Action
Overview: Fed up with all the attention going to Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck quits Hollywood, teams up with recently-fired stuntman Damien Drake Jr. and embarks on a round-the-world adventure, along with Bugs and The VP of Warner Bros. Their mission? Find Damien's father, and the missing blue diamond... and stay one step ahead of The Acme Corp., who wants the diamond for their own purposes.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-14
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Gunslinger
Overview: After her husband is gunned down, Rose Hood takes his place as sheriff of a small Western town.
Genres: Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-01
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The Lady in Red
Overview: A farm girl's life turns upside down after she moves to Chicago and becomes trapped in a vicious cycle of prostitution and crime.
Genres: Action Crime Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-07-01
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The Flash III: Deadly Nightshade
Overview: The Scarlet Speedster teams up with the city's previous superhero, The Nightshade, in two adventures.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-31
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The Adventures of Biffle and Shooster
Overview: Feature compilation of four Biffle and Shooster comedy shorts--"The Biffle Murder Case," "Imitation of Wife," "Schmo Boat" and "Bride of Finklestein"--plus five additional songs and sketches.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-16
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Small Soldiers
Overview: When missile technology is used to enhance toy action figures, the toys soon begin to take their battle programming too seriously.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Fantasy Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-07-10
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Number One Fan
Overview: A movie star is being stalked by a one-night stand.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-26
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Angel III: The Final Chapter
Overview: Molly Stewart is now a successful freelance photographer in New York, and after seeing a familiar woman at an art gallery, begins to suspect that she might be her long missing mother. Following her trail to Los Angeles, Molly finds herself in the center of a major crime syndicate who will stop at nothing to execute their diabolical plans.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-10
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Quake
Overview: Set around the tragic events of an earthquake, a young couple experience the horror of being terrorized by a psychotic neighbor in a city where panic and fear is the order of the day.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-06-23
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The Wild Angels
Overview: A motorcycle gang arrives in a small town in search of a motorcycle that has been stolen by a rival gang; but, pursued by the police, one of its members is injured, an event that will cause an orgy of violence and destruction.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-07-20
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The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Overview: Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised crime. In a north-side garage his hoods, dressed as policemen, surprise and mow down with machine-guns the key members of Bugs Moran's rival gang. The film traces the history of the incident, and the lives affected and in some cases ended by it.
Genres: History Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-06-30
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Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors
Overview: Actors, directors and special effects technicians are interviewed at a horror-film convention.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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The Oklahoma Woman
Overview: After six years in jail Steve returns to claim a ranch left him in a will. The town is in the middle of a rough election masterminded by saloon owner Marie. Steve is soon on the side of the opposition candidate and his pretty daughter. The town's tough sheriff is on no-one's side, least of all Steve's
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-15
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All the Right Moves
Overview: Sensitive study of a headstrong high school football star who dreams of getting out of his small Western Pennsylvania steel town with a football scholarship. His equally ambitious coach aims at a college position, resulting in a clash which could crush the player's dreams.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-21
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The Wild Racers
Overview: Promising young racing car driver Joe Joe Quillico leaves the stock car racing scene in the United States in order to pursue Grand Prix racing in Europe. After limited success he manages to win the Spanish Grand Prix. His love life however, is much less successful and his winning on the track only serves to alienate the woman he loves - with unhappy consequences.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-03-27
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Executive Action
Overview: Rogue intelligence agents, right-wing politicians, greedy capitalists, and free-lance assassins plot and carry out the JFK assassination in this speculative agitprop.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-11-07
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Vigilante Force
Overview: In a small town in California, the quiet citizens find their lives disrupted by boisterous, lawless oil-field workers who have infested their community. One resident, Ben Arnold, enlists his brother Aaron, a Vietnam veteran, to assemble a group of men to restore law and order to the town. Though Aaron's crew succeeds, the newfound power goes to some of their heads, and Aaron and Ben must again reclaim the town for the citizens.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-09-09
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Used Cars
Overview: When the owner of a struggling used car lot is killed, it's up to the lot's hot-shot salesman to save the property from falling into the hands of the owner's ruthless brother and used-car rival.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-07-11
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Heart Like a Wheel
Overview: Shirley Muldowney is determined to be a top-fuel drag racer, although no woman has ever raced them before. Despite the high risks of this kind of racing and the burden it places on her family life, she perseveres in her dream.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-04-01
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The Slams
Overview: Rival prison factions surround a Los Angeles convict who has $1.5 million stashed on the outside.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-09-26
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Trail of the Screaming Forehead
Overview: A small town infestation of crawling alien foreheads that begin attaching to people and taking them over collides with a scientist's experiments to extract foreheadazine and things go horribly horribly wrong.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-08
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The Girls on the Beach
Overview: The girls of Alpha Beta need to raise $10,000 in two weeks to save the sorority house. Among their schemes to raise the funds are a beauty contest, a newspaper puzzle, and a baking contest. But when three guys hit the beach with love on their minds, bragging that they know the Beatles, the girls plan a concert with the Fab Four as the main attraction.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-05-12
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Route 666
Overview: Smith, a mob informer hiding out with the Witness Protection Program, decides to make a break for it and hide out in the Arizona desert. The Feds catch up with him and rescue him just before a group of hitmen can manage to silence him for good. In the course of getting Smith away from the mafia thugs, the pair of agents assigned to protect him turn onto an abandoned stretch of highway nicknamed 'Route 666' after the mysterious death of a prison chain gang. As the three continue on their way, they soon discover just what happened to the chain gang, and how the highway earned its name.
Genres: Horror Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-30
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Project X
Overview: A young inductee into the military is given the task of looking after some chimpanzees used in the mysterious 'Project X'. Getting to know the chimps fairly well, he begins to suspect there is more to the secret project than he is being told.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-04-17
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Vortex
Overview: A film noirish atmosphere is created to show detective Lunch (a popular underground musician and poet) plow her way through the plans of a corporate businessman who seeks government defense contracts through real "corporate wars" and the manipulation of politicians.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-09-01
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Moving Violation
Overview: A young drifter and small-town waitress witness a corrupt sheriff murder his own deputy. Framed for the murder and pursued by the sheriff, they run for their life to try and stay alive.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-16
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Corman's World
Overview: A chronicle of the long career of American filmmaker Roger Corman, the most tenacious and ingenious low-budget producer and director in the US film industry, a pioneer of independent filmmaking and discoverer of new talent.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-16
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Machete Maidens Unleashed!
Overview: In the final decades of the 20th century, the Philippines was a country where low-budget exploitation-film producers were free to make nearly any kind of movie they wanted, any way they pleased. It was a country with extremely lax labor regulations and a very permissive attitude towards cultural expression. As a result, it became a hotbed for the production of cheapie movies. Their history and the genre itself are detailed in this breezy, nostalgic documentary.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-15
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Midnight Runaround
Overview: Bounty hunter Jack Walsh heads for a small rural community in Oklahoma to bring back a young bail jumper, only to discover that the entire town has united to defend the young man.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-20
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Hideouser and Hideouser
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Genres: Animation
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2019-02-19
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AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE #1
Overview: Unleashed from the video vaults of the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA), AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE #1 is a brand new compilation of the most electrifying found footage mayhem that you’ll see this week. For our kick-off tape, we’ve curated an hour-long joyride through the hallowed halls of “behind the scenes” horror. Our team has been overwhelmed by the outpouring of love and support during these difficult times. So this is our way of saying thanks! The price is set at 99 cents, which is the lowest possible option that Vimeo offers. We want everyone to be able to enjoy this. But if you’re able to donate more to our non-profit mission, there’s also an option to pay what you want. Thank you for your continued support, and remember: “DIDN’T YOU USED TO BE SATAN?”
Genres: Horror Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-04-08
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Hanukkah
Overview: A group of Jewish teens are getting ready to party for the holidays but are in for a Festival of Frights. With the help of a wise rabbi, they deduce that the murder victims have violated Judaic law and that their only chance at survival is to embrace their faith.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-12-25
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Death Race 2000
Overview: In a boorish future, the government sponsors a popular, but bloody, cross-country race in which points are scored by mowing down pedestrians. Five teams, each comprised of a male and female, compete using cars equipped with deadly weapons. Frankenstein, the mysterious returning champion, has become America's hero, but this time he has a passenger from the underground resistance.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-04-30
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Unleashing the Beast: Making ‘The Howling’
Overview: Documentary featuring director Joe Dante, screenwriter John Sayles, producer Mike Finnell, stars Dee Wallace Stone, Dick Miller, Robert Picardo, and Belinda Balaski.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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The Warlord: Battle for the Galaxy
Overview: The time is the 21st century, after the fall of the Galactic Republic. Technology is at a standstill, families have been dismantled, and those who have survived the destruction now live in a savage age ruled by evil warlords. When a young sister of an outlaw is kidnapped and held captive in another galaxy, an interplanetary scheme is hatched - one that threatens the future.
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-20
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Cutaways
Overview: A character cut from Pulp Fiction meets a characters cut from The Conversation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-23
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Swing Shift
Overview: In 1941 America, Kay and her husband are happy enough until he enlists after Pearl Harbor. Against his wishes, she takes a job at the local aircraft plant where she meets Hazel, the singer from across the way. The two soon become firm friends and with the other girls become increasingly expert workers. As the war drags on, Kay finally dates her trumpet-playing foreman and life gets more complicated.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-04-13
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Amazon Women on the Moon
Overview: Centered around a television station which features a 1950s-style sci-fi movie interspersed with a series of wild commercials, wacky shorts and weird specials, this lampoon of contemporary life and pop culture skewers some of the silliest spectacles ever created in the name of entertainment.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-18
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The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
Overview: THE AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE VAULT is a 2-disc, 500-minute odyssey that collects eight feature-length VHS mixtapes from the crackpots at AGFA—including two that have only ever been available theatrically.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-03-25
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