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Music
The Sound of Music
Robert Wise · 1965
In the years before the Second World War, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children, and brings a new love of life and music into the home.
Drama
Challengers
Luca Guadagnino · 2024
Tennis player turned coach Tashi has taken her husband, Art, and transformed him into a world-famous Major champion. To jolt him out of his recent losing streak, she signs him up for a "Challenger" event — close to the lowest level of pro tournament — where he finds himself standing across the net from his former best friend and Tashi's former boyfriend.
Valley of the Dolls
Mark Robson · 1967
Inspirada en una novela de Jacqueline Susan. Despiadado retrato del mundo del espectáculo. Las protagonistas son tres jóvenes aspirantes a la fama. Una de ellas (Sharon Tate) averigua que tiene cáncer y que no podrá seguir haciendo películas pornográficas. Otra es una ambiciosa cantante (Patty Duke) que, incapaz de asimilar el éxito, se convierte en una adicta a las pastillas. La tercera, una remilgada joven de Nueva Inglaterra (Barbara Parkins), tiene que conformarse con hacer spots publicitarios y acaba también enganchada a las drogas.
The Virgin Suicides
Sofia Coppola · 2000
A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents.
All of Us Strangers
Andrew Haigh · 2023
One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor Harry, which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life.
Titanic
James Cameron · 1997
101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets aboard the ship. Rose tells the whole story from Titanic's departure through to its death—on its first and last voyage—on April 15, 1912.
Adventure
Jumanji
Joe Johnston · 1995
When siblings Judy and Peter discover an enchanted board game that opens the door to a magical world, they unwittingly invite Alan -- an adult who's been trapped inside the game for 26 years -- into their living room. Alan's only hope for freedom is to finish the game, which proves risky as all three find themselves running from giant rhinoceroses, evil monkeys and other terrifying creatures.
Jurassic Park
Steven Spielberg · 1993
Généticien de génie, le professeur John Hammond a recréé de nombreuses espèces de dinosaures à partir d'une goutte de sang prélevée sur un moustique fossilisé. Démiurge naïf et généreux, dépassé par ses propres ambitions, il projette d’ouvrir un gigantesque et terrifiant parc d'attractions. Mais la pureté de son rêve se heurte à la cupidité des hommes et, plus grave, à la violence latente, indomptable de la Nature.
Comedy
Drop Dead Gorgeous
Michael Patrick Jann · 1999
In a small Minnesota town, the annual beauty pageant is being covered by a TV crew. Former winner Gladys Leeman wants to make sure her daughter follows in her footsteps; explosions, falling lights, and trailer fires prove that. As the Leemans are the richest family in town, the police are pretty relaxed about it all. Despite everything, main rival (but sweet) Amber Atkins won't give up without a fight.
Horror
The Shining
Stanley Kubrick · 1980
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
X
Ti West · 2022
In 1979, a group of young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when their reclusive, elderly hosts catch them in the act, the cast find themselves fighting for their lives.
The Love Witch
Anna Biller · 2016
A modern-day witch uses spells and magic to get men to fall in love with her, with deadly consequences.
Romance
Mamma Mia!
Phyllida Lloyd · 2008
A spirited young bride-to-be living with her single mother on a small Greek island secretly invites three of her mother's ex-boyfriends in hope of finding her biological father to walk her down the aisle.
Serendipity
Peter Chelsom · 2001
Although strangers Sara and Jonathan are both already in relationships, they realize they have genuine chemistry after a chance encounter – but part company soon after. Years later, they each yearn to reunite, despite being destined for the altar. But to give true love a chance, they have to find one another again.
Sleepless in Seattle
Nora Ephron · 1993
After the death of his mother, a young boy calls a radio station in an attempt to set his father up on a date. Talking about his father’s loneliness soon leads to a meeting with a young female journalist, who has flown to Seattle to write a story about the boy and his father.
When Harry Met Sally...
Rob Reiner · 1989
During their travel from Chicago to New York, Harry and Sally debate whether or not sex ruins a friendship between a man and a woman. Eleven years later, and they're still no closer to finding the answer.
Thriller
Scream
Wes Craven · 1996
A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a masked killer who targets her and her friends by using scary movies as part of a deadly game.
Uncategorized
Practical Magic
Griffin Dunne · 1998
As mulheres da família Owens tem poderes mágicos. Mas uma maldição as persegue há mais de duzentos anos: qualquer homem que se apaixona por uma delas, morre. Descendentes da bruxa que começou este feitiço, Sally (Sandra Bullock) e Gillian (Nicole Kidman) são duas irmãs que foram criadas por suas tias (Dianne Wiest e Stockard Channing). Já adultas, enquanto Sally se mostra bastante reservada, Gillian foge de casa para ter o primeiro de muitos namorados. Após algum tempo, Sally se casa e tem duas filhas, mas seu marido acaba morrendo atropelado. Até que chega o momento em que ela deve ajudar Gillian, que se envolveu com Jimmy Angelov (Goran Visnjic), um búlgaro agressivo que as ameaça. Sentindo que correm perigo, as duas o envenenam, mas, temendo as conseqüências de tal ato, Gillian convence Sally que o melhor é trazê-lo de volta a vida. Uma decisão que trará uma série de complicações com polícia e com seus próprios poderes.
Pierrot le Fou
Jean-Luc Godard · 1965
Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.
