Results found: story

IMDb 5.51983

Charlie’s ex-wife disappears, and he goes to where she grew up–a rural town in the midwest–to look for her. But, surprisingly, nobody knows about her or any of her many ...

IMDb 5.81983

A collection of short stories. In one a woman who leaves her house late at night to drive to the store while a killer is loose encounters some problems. In the second an arcade whiz kid’s ...

IMDb 6.61983

The fictionalized story of Daniel, the son of Paul and Rochelle Isaacson, who were executed as Soviet spies in the 1950s. As a graduate student in New York in the 1960s, Daniel is involved in the ...

IMDb 41983

The film is an odd retelling of the story of Hercules battling the wizard Minos, who uses “science” in an attempt to take over the world. Hercules must stop him and rescue his ...

IMDb 51983

This is the story about Joy who falls in love with an older man (she has been looking for her missing father all her life), and then travels around Paris with him and his other female companion, ...

IMDb 81983

A powerful statement against war, Barefoot Gen is a story about the effect of the atomic bomb on a boy’s life and the lives of the Japanese people. Based on the acclaimed manga by Nakazawa ...

IMDb 6.41983

A story about a brain surgeon who tries to end his unhappy marriage to spend more time with a disembodied brain.

IMDb 5.21983

Nightmares of the past haunt the beautiful, mysterious Olivia (Suzanna Love), a London resident who begins a passionate affair with American businessman Mike (Easy Rider’s Robert Walker, ...

IMDb 4.81983

This is the story of Starflight One, the world’s first “hypersonic plane,” which flies faster and higher than any other commercial jet. On the night of its maiden flight from ...

IMDb 7.61982

Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks ...

IMDb 7.31982

The true story of Frances Farmer’s meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.

IMDb 7.81982

The Plague Dogs is a 1982 animated film based on the 1977 novel of the same name by Richard Adams. The story is centred on two dogs named Rowf and Snitter, who escape from a research laboratory ...

IMDb 7.61982

The story about a blue-collar Boston bar run by former sports star Sam Malone and the quirky and wonderful people who worked and drank there.

IMDb 7.11982

In this fact-based film, Gary Gilmore, an Indiana man who just finished serving a lengthy stay in prison, tries to start anew by moving to Utah. Before long, Gary begins an ill-advised romance ...

IMDb 6.71982

Here is the story of a beautiful, proud, and tough loner, a sailor named Querelle, whose commanding officer Seblon worships and desires him from afar. Querelle turns on his drug-smuggling partner ...

IMDb 7.21982

After the passing away of their parents, Ravi Anand, the eldest of seven brothers, takes it upon himself to raise them – albeit a little wild and kinda animal-like. The brothers all sport ...

IMDb 6.91982

The Tang emperor is betrayed by one of his generals, who installs himself as emperor in the East Capital. The son of one of his slave workers escapes to the Shaolin Temple, learns kung fu, and ...

IMDb 8.31982

A story of identical twins and mistaken identities based on Shakespeare’s play A comedy of errors.

IMDb 7.81981

The marquess of Grillo is a good-natured, clever and women-loving man who is always inventing stories and cracking all types of jokes. The film tells the story of his life.

IMDb 6.91981

Megan Carter is a reporter duped into running an untrue story on Michael Gallagher, a suspected racketeer. He has an alibi for the time his supposed crime was committed but it involves an ...

IMDb 7.11981

A teacher plays a mental game with some of his students. Based on a true story.

IMDb 3.51981

In the prehistory of man, 12,000 years ago, two members of a superhuman tribe abuse the treasured secret of eternal youth. They use the methods of ritual cannibalism on the children of their own ...

IMDb 71981

In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective characters, Sarah and Charles. Both actors are involved ...

IMDb 7.21981

The Chosen follows the story of two teenage boys determined to remain friends despite the deep differences between their two families. Set in New York during the 1940s, this provocative film ...

IMDb 3.41981

The Tarzan story from Jane’s point of view. Jane Parker visits her father in Africa where she joins him on an expedition. A couple of brief encounters with Tarzan establish a (sexual) bond ...

IMDb 71981

Young history buff Kevin can scarcely believe it when six dwarfs emerge from his closet one night. Former employees of the Supreme Being, they’ve purloined a map charting all of the holes ...

IMDb 7.41981

The film follows four families, with different nationalities (French, German, Russian and American) but with the same passion for music, from the 1930s to the 1960s. The various story lines cross ...

IMDb 8.31981

This movie tells the story of Omar Mukhtar, an Arab Muslim rebel who fought against the Italian conquest of Libya in WWII. It gives western viewers a glimpse into this little-known region and ...

IMDb 5.91981

A writer of horror stories is invited to a “monster club” by a mysterious old gentleman. There, three gruesome stories are told to him; between each story some musicians play their ...

IMDb 6.31981

George Romero’s unusual story of a modern-day Renaissance troupe whose participants follow a medieval code of honor.