Posts Tagged ‘1970s’

54 (1998)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
54
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada
Actors: Ryan Phillippe | Salma Hayek | Neve Campbell | Mike Myers | Sela Ward | Breckin Meyer | Sherry Stringfield | Ellen Albertini Dow | Cameron Mathison | Noam Jenkins | Jay Goede | Patrick Taylor | Heather Matarazzo | Skipp Sudduth | Aemilia Robinson
Directors: Mark Christopher
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Mike Myers stars as the late Steve Rubell, real-life owner and cocaine-addict of New York’s notorious Studio 54 in a fictionalized portrayal of ’70s disco.

Private Parts (1997)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Private Parts
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada
Actors: Howard Stern | Robin Quivers | Mary McCormack | Fred Norris | Paul Giamatti | Gary Dell'Abate | Jackie Martling | Carol Alt | Richard Portnow | Kelly Bishop | Henry Goodman | Jonathan Hadary | Paul Hecht | Allison Janney | Michael Murphy
Directors: Betty Thomas
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Having always wanted to be a disc-jockey, Howard Stern works his way painfully from radio at his 1970’s college to a Detroit station. It is with a move to Washington that he hits on an outrageous off-the-wall style that catches audience attention. Despite his on-air blue talk, at home he is a loving husband. He needs all the support he can get when he joins NBC in New York and comes up against a very different vision of radio.

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Life and Death of Peter Sellers, The
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada
Actors: Geoffrey Rush | Charlize Theron | Emily Watson | John Lithgow | Miriam Margolyes | Peter Vaughan | Sonia Aquino | Stanley Tucci | Stephen Fry | Henry Goodman | Alison Steadman | Peter Gevisser | David Robb | Richard Ayoade | Edward Tudor-Pole
Directors: Stephen Hopkins
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Based on the biography of the same name. The Life and Death of Peter Sellers is the story of the comic actor, who would later immortalize bumbling Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther series. From his beginnings in show business as a variety performer to his ultimate success as a movie star, Peter Sellers was a man of many faces. But it was also that moniker that caught up with his personal life, when Sellers was a man without an identity and only a library of oddball characters to make up for his personality. Focusing on his rising success and his family life, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers is the story of a man whose personal life clashed with stardom, while he was an individual completely immersed in the characters he portrayed.

House of D (2004)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
House of D
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada
Actors: Robin Williams | Téa Leoni | Anton Yelchin | Magali Amadei | Erykah Badu
Directors: David Duchovny
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By working through problems stemming from his past, Tom Warshaw (Duchovny), an American artist living in Paris, begins to discover who he really is, and returns to his home to reconcile with his family and friends.

Gia (1998)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Gia
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada
Actors: Angelina Jolie | Elizabeth Mitchell | Eric Michael Cole | Travis Kylie | Faye Dunaway | Louis Giambalvo
Directors: Michael Cristofer
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Fact-based story of top fashion model Gia Marie Carangi follows her life from a rebel working in her father’s diner at age 17 to her death in 1986 at age 26 from AIDS, one of the first women in America whose death was attributed to the disease. In between, she followed a downward spiral of drug abuse and failed relationships.

Frailty (2001)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Frailty
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada
Actors: Matthew McConaughey | Powers Boothe | Matthew O'Leary | Jeremy Sumpter | Luke Askew | Levi Kreis | Derk Cheetwood | Missy Crider | Alan Davidson | Cynthia Ettinger | Vincent Chase | Gwen McGee | Edmond Scott Ratliff | Rebecca Tilney
Directors: Bill Paxton
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Fenton Meeks (Matthew McConaughey), comes forth to tell the FBI that his brother Adam may be the serial killer who calls himself God’s Hands, who the FBI has been searching for. The film uses flashbacks to show Meeks’ childhood with a father (Bill Paxton) who believed he was on a mission from God to destroy demons that inhabit human bodies. Fenton saw his dad as evil, while Adam saw him as a hero.

The Time Machine (2002)

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Time Machine, The
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada
Actors: Mark Addy | Guy Pearce | Phyllida Law | Laura Kirk | Josh Stamberg | John W. Momrow | Sienna Guillory | Max Baker
Directors: Simon Wells
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The Virgin Suicides (1999)

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Virgin Suicides, The
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada
Actors: James Woods | Kathleen Turner | Kirsten Dunst | Josh Hartnett | Michael Paré | Scott Glenn | Danny DeVito | A.J. Cook | Hanna R. Hall | Leslie Hayman | Chelse Swain | Anthony DeSimone | Lee Kagan | Robert Schwartzman | Noah Shebib
Directors: Sofia Coppola
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The lives of an eclectic group of men who live in an affluent American suburb in the ’70s are forever changed by their obsession with five doomed sisters.

Apollo 13 (1995)

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Apollo 13
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada
Actors: Tom Hanks | Bill Paxton | Kevin Bacon | Gary Sinise | Ed Harris | Kathleen Quinlan | Mary Kate Schellhardt | Emily Ann Lloyd | Miko Hughes | Max Elliott Slade | Jean Speegle Howard | Tracy Reiner | David Andrews | Michele Little | Chris Ellis
Directors: Ron Howard
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It had been less than a year since man first walked on the Moon, but as far as the American public was concerned, Apollo 13 was just another “routine” space flight–until these words pierced the immense void of space: “Houston, we have a problem.” Stranded 205,000 miles from Earth in a crippled spacecraft, astronauts Jim Lovell (Hanks), Fred Haise (Paxton) and Jack Swigert (Bacon) fight a desperate battle to survive. Meanwhile, at Mission Control, astronaut Ken Mattingly (Sinise), flight director Gene Kranz (Harris) and a heroic ground crew race against time–and the odds–to bring them home.

Cry Freedom (1987)

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Cry Freedom
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada
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Donald Woods is chief editor at the liberal newspaper Daily Dispatch in South Africa. He has written several editorials critical of the views of Steve Biko. But after having met him for the first time, he changes his views. They meet several times, and this means that Woods and his family get attention from the security police. When Steve Biko dies in police custody, he writes a book about Biko. The only way to get it published is for Woods himself to illegally escape the country.

The Ice Storm (1997)

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
Ice Storm, The
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada
Actors: Kevin Kline | Joan Allen | Sigourney Weaver | Henry Czerny | Tobey Maguire | Christina Ricci | Elijah Wood | Adam Hann-Byrd | David Krumholtz | Jamey Sheridan | Kate Burton | William Cain | Michael Cumpsty | Maia Danziger | Katie Holmes
Directors: Ang Lee
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In the weekend after thanksgiving 1973 the Hoods are skidding out of control. Benjamin Hood reels from drink to drink, trying not to think about his trouble at the office. His wife, Elena, is reading self help books and losing patience with her husband’s lies. Their son, Paul, home for the holidays, escapes to the city to pursue an alluring rich girl from his prep school. And young, budding nymphomaniac, Wendy Hood roams the neighborhood, innocently exploring liquor cabinets and lingerie drawers of her friends’ parents, looking for something new. Then an ice storm hits, the worst in a century. Things get bad…

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Bad Dreams (1988)

Monday, May 4th, 2009
Bad Dreams
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada
Actors: Jennifer Rubin | Bruce Abbott | Richard Lynch | Dean Cameron | Harris Yulin | Susan Barnes | John Scott Clough | Elizabeth Daily | Damita Jo Freeman | Louis Giambalvo | Susan Ruttan | Sy Richardson | Missy Francis | Sheila Scott-Wilkenson | Ben Kronen
Directors: Andrew Fleming
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In the mid-’70s, a cult group called Unity Field commits mass suicide, but a young girl survives. After being in a coma for thirteen years she wakes up in a psyche ward, not remembering the incident. The psychiatrist tries to help her remember, but she begins seeing the leader of the cult talking to her from the grave, and the other members of her therapy group begin to commit suicide around her. Or is it suicide?

Payback: Straight Up – The Director’s Cut (2006)

Friday, April 24th, 2009
Payback: Straight Up – The Director’s Cut
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada
Actors: Hugh Bonneville | Stephen Cinabro | James Coburn | Jack Conley | Richard Cotovsky | William Devane | Bill Duke | Mel Gibson | John Glover | Gregg Henry | Gene Kelly | David Paymer | Roderick Peeples | Christian Stolte | Sterling Wolfe
Directors: Brian Helgeland
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Porter is shot by his wife and best friend and is left to die. When he survives he plots revenge.

Pick-up (1975)

Monday, March 23rd, 2009
Pick-up
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada
Actors: Jill Senter | Alan Long | Gini Eastwood | John Winter | Gerald Kaplan
Directors: Bernard Hirschenson
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Sexy hippie chicks Carol and Maureen get more than they bargained for when they hitch a ride with groovy hippie dude Chuck in his nifty mobile bus home. The trio get lost in the Florida Everglades following a fierce rain storm and embark on a startling spiritual journey of self-discovery.

Seed (2007)

Friday, March 20th, 2009
Seed
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada
Actors: Michael Paré | Will Sanderson | Ralf Moeller | Jodelle Ferland | Thea Gill | Andrew Jackson | Brad Turner | Phillip Mitchell | Mike Dopud | John Sampson | Tyron Leitso | Michael Eklund | John Hainsworth | Vincent Walker | William 'Big Sleeps' Stewart
Directors: Uwe Boll
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After a seemingly undead man is bound and buried alive, he digs himself back to the surface and seeks bloody vengeance on those who caused him his suffering.