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Léon: The Professional
Luc Besson · 1994
Léon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-door neighbors are wiped out by a loose-cannon DEA agent, he becomes the unwilling custodian of 12-year-old Mathilda. Before long, Mathilda's thoughts turn to revenge, and she considers following in Léon's footsteps.
Crimson Peak
Guillermo del Toro · 2015
In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds… and remembers.
Marie Antoinette
Sofia Coppola · 2006
Mitte des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts wird die 14-jährige Marie Antoinette von ihrer Mutter, der österreichischen Kaiserin, mit dem französischen Thronerben Ludwig XVI. verheiratet. Ein großer Druck lastet auf dem jungen Paar, denn sie müssen nicht nur repräsentieren, sondern für einen Erben sorgen. Doch Ludwig verweigert sich allnächtlich, seinen ehelichen Pflichten nachzukommen. Marie langweilt das Leben zu Hofe und so beginnt sie jeden Tag zu einem Fest zu machen. Sie lebt ein pompöses und dekadentes Leben. Dann kommt eines Tages die Revolution über Frankreich und auch Versailles ist nicht mehr sicher.
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
Jaromil Jireš · 1970
Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager living with her grandmother, is blossoming into womanhood, but that transformation proves secondary to the effects she experiences when she puts on a pair of magic earrings. Now seeing the world around her in a different light, Valerie must endure her sexual awakening while attempting to discern reality from fantasy as she encounters lecherous priest Gracian, a vampire-like stranger and otherworldly carnival folk.
American Psycho
Mary Harron · 2000
A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.
Bride of Chucky
Ronny Yu · 1998
Chucky is reborn when his old flame, Tiffany, rescues his battered doll parts from a police impound.
Introducing Chucky: The Making of Child's Play
Greg Grosz · 1988
A vintage featurette about the making of Child's Play (1988).
The Butterfly Effect
Eric Bress · 2004
A young man struggles to access sublimated childhood memories. He finds a technique that allows him to travel back into the past, to occupy his childhood body and change history. However, he soon finds that every change he makes has unexpected consequences.
American Beauty
Sam Mendes · 1999
Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.
Taxi Driver
Martin Scorsese · 1976
A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feed his urge for violent action.
Wild Child
Nick Moore · 2008
Sixteen-year-old Poppy has everything her unlimited credit cards can buy, and a spoiled attitude to match. After a final thoughtless prank, her exasperated father ships her off to boarding school in England. There, Poppy meets her match in a stern headmistress and a class full of girls who will not tolerate her selfishness.
Perras
Guillermo Ríos · 2011
Something terrible is happening in class 3A at Calmecatl Junior High. No one can leave the classroom until the guilty party is found. This is the device that gives us a glimpse of the ethics, games, esthetics and eroticism of these girl-women. It is not easy to say what the subject is, there are so many: the discovery of sexuality, discrimination, chance, drugs, maternity, traditions, betrayals, power, love. A mural of a complex reality from the point of view of twenty-something women in the skin of 14 to 15 year old girls.
Lolita
Adrian Lyne · 1997
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.
Priscilla
Sofia Coppola · 2023
When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a vulnerable best friend.
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.
Buffalo '66
Vincent Gallo · 1998
Billy is released after five years in prison. In the next moment, he kidnaps teenage student Layla and visits his parents with her, pretending she is his girlfriend and they will soon marry.
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.
