Results found: pulp+fiction

IMDb 8.91994

A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster’s moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three ...

IMDb 6.01972

A seedy writer of sleazy pulp novels is recruited by a quirky, reclusive ex-actor to help him write his biography at his house in Malta.

IMDb 7.52006

Harold Crick is a lonely IRS agent whose mundane existence is transformed when he hears a mysterious voice narrating his life.

IMDb 5.92017

Science fiction has become a reality in our modern criminal justice system. A term originally coined by science fiction author Philip K. Dick, “pre-crime” is a policing technique now used in both ...

IMDb 7.21973

A writer of pulp fiction imagines himself as the dashing hero and his English neighbor as his love interest.

IMDb 3.22005

This film is a spoof along the lines of “Scary Movie” and “Not Another Teen Movie.” It includes parodies of some of the indie film world’s most renowned movies such ...

IMDb 6.61985

Four 1950s cultural icons who conceivably could have met but probably didn’t, fictionally do so in this modern fable of post-WWII America. Visually intriguing, the film has a fluid ...

IMDb 4.81989

Slipstream is a 1989 post-apocalyptic science fiction adventure film. The plot has an emphasis on aviation and contains many common science-fiction themes, such as taking place in a dystopian ...

IMDb 61993

Thad Beaumont is the author of a highly successful series of violent pulp thrillers written under the pseudonym of ‘George Stark’, but when he decides to ‘kill-off’ his alter-ego in a mock ...

IMDb 71994

Ocean Girl is an Australian science fiction TV series aimed for family audiences and starring Marzena Godecki as the lead character. The show is set in the near future, and focuses on an unusual ...

IMDb 8.21995

Koji Morimato’s animated science fiction short story about how the border between reality and illusion on a space station becomes blurry.

2023

Set in a fictional American desert town circa 1955, the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention (organized to bring together students and parents from across the country for ...

IMDb 4.92009

Melissa has a bad case of sibling rivalry, only her competition is a fictional character in her father’s best-selling novel about a teenage super spy. When her father is ...

IMDb 6.91996

After two failed marriages a science fiction writer decides that coming to terms with his mother will improve his chances for a successful relationship, so he moves in with her.

IMDb 5.72023

The bizarre, stranger than fiction tale behind the hit Hollywood movie “Cocaine Bear,” involving international drug smuggling, murder, mayhem, and a mysterious dead body in a suburban ...

IMDb 4.12009

Charlie Price, a former scientist turned science fiction author, starts living one of his novels when the Federal Science Foundation’s weather experiments escape control and turn disastrous.

IMDb 7.11996

During a snowy winter in the small fictional town of Knight’s Ridge, Massachusetts, a group of lifelong buddies hang out, drink and struggle to connect with the women who affect their ...

IMDb 9.22022

A fictional history of two legendary revolutionaries’ journey away from home before they began fighting for their country in the 1920s.

IMDb 3.82009

Set primarily in 1975 in the fictional town of Gatlin, Nebraska this remake of the 1984 original (based on Stephen King’s 1977 short story) centers around traveling couple Burt and Vicky as ...

IMDb 6.31996

‘We come in peace’ is not what those green men from Mars mean when they invade our planet, armed with irresistible weapons and a cruel sense of humor. This star studded cast must play ...

IMDb 6.82022

Follows a reclusive romance novelist who was sure nothing could be worse than getting stuck on a book tour with her cover model, until a kidnapping attempt sweeps them both into a cutthroat ...

IMDb 3.51997

Zany adventure that follows The Spice Girls and their entourage (mostly fictional characters) – manager Clifford, his assistant Deborah, and filmmaker Piers (who is trying to shoot a ...

IMDb 7.51997

Contact is a science fiction film about an encounter with alien intelligence. Based on the novel by Carl Sagan the film starred Jodie Foster as the one chosen scientist who must make some ...

IMDb 6.81971

What does the energy harnessed through orgasm have to do with the state of communist Yugoslavia circa 1971? Only counterculture filmmaker extraordinaire Dušan Makavejev has the answers (or the ...

IMDb 6.52010

An American girl on vacation in Italy finds an unanswered “letter to Juliet” — one of thousands of missives left at the fictional lover’s Verona courtyard, which are ...

IMDb 7.21999

A comedic biopic focused on the life of fictional jazz guitarist Emmett Ray. Ray was an irresponsible, free-spending, arrogant, obnoxious, alcohol-abusing, miserable human being, who was also ...

IMDb 7.81971

In this fictional documentary, U.S. prisons are at capacity, and President Nixon declares a state of emergency. All new prisoners, most of whom are connected to the antiwar movement, are now ...

IMDb 4.52011

Fictional drama based on actual events, about two teenage girls who encounter an Internet predator.

IMDb 5.62002

On February 15, 1992 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, one of the world’s most infamous serial killers, was convicted of 15 counts of murder and sentenced to 937 years in ...

IMDb 6.91972

The film fictionalizes the real relationship between French sculptor Henri Gaudier and Polish writer Sophie Brzeska, twenty years his senior, who came to Paris, she says, for its “creative atmosphere.”