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Alien (1979)
on 21 june 1979 , 1h57
Directed by Ridley ScottOrigin USAGenres Science fiction,
Thriller,
Action,
Adventure,
HorrorThemes Space adventure films,
Monde imaginaire,
Dans l'espace,
Sur une planète fictive,
Films set in the future,
Films about extraterrestrial life,
Space opera,
Children's films,
Films about extraterrestrial life,
Robot filmsActors Tom Skerritt,
Sigourney Weaver,
Veronica Cartwright,
Harry Dean Stanton,
John Hurt,
Ian HolmRating84%
The commercial spacecraft Nostromo is on a return trip to Earth with a seven-member crew in stasis. Detecting a mysterious transmission, possibly a distress signal, from a nearby planetoid, the ship's computer, MOTHER, awakens the crew. Following standard company policy for such situations, the Nostromo lands on the planetoid and Captain Dallas, Executive Officer Kane, and Navigator Lambert head out to investigate. They discover the signal is coming from a derelict alien spacecraft. Inside, they find the remains of a large alien creature whose ribcage appears to have exploded from the inside., 1h52
Directed by Howard ZieffOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Romantic comedy,
RomanceThemes Sports films,
Martial arts films,
Boxing films,
Le boxe anglaiseActors Barbra Streisand,
Ryan O'Neal,
Paul Sand,
Patti D'Arbanville,
Whitman Mayo,
Earl BoenRating54%
Hillary Kramer (Streisand), a successful perfume magnate awakes one morning to find that her accountant has robbed her blind and left for South America. Going through all of her remaining assets she finds a boxer, purchased as a tax write off. She decides to take Eddie "Kid Natural" Scanlon (Ryan O'Neal) who is much more at home giving driving lessons, into the ring and use him as her key to riches. Eddie thinks this will only get him killed and resists., 1h52
Directed by Don SiegelOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Action,
Historical,
CrimeThemes Prison films,
Évasion,
Se déroulant à AlcatrazActors Clint Eastwood,
Patrick McGoohan,
Fred Ward,
Jack Thibeau,
Larry Hankin,
Paul BenjaminRating75%
On January 18, 1960, Frank Morris (Clint Eastwood) arrives at the maximum security prison Alcatraz, having been sent there after escaping from several other prisons. He is sent in to meet the warden (Patrick McGoohan), who curtly informs him that no one has ever escaped from Alcatraz. Eventually he meets his old friends, bank robber brothers John and Clarence Anglin (Fred Ward and Jack Thibeau), and he makes the acquaintance of the prisoner in the cell next to his, car thief Charley Butts (Larry Hankin). Morris befriends numerous other inmates, including English (Paul Benjamin), a black inmate serving two life sentences for killing two white men in self-defense; the eccentric Litmus (Frank Ronzio) who keeps a pet mouse and calls himself Al Capone, and the elderly artist and chrysanthemum grower Doc (Roberts Blossom)., 1h35
Directed by James FrawleyOrigin United-kingdomGenres Comedy,
Musical theatre,
Adventure,
MusicalThemes Films about animals,
Films about films,
Films about music and musicians,
Transport films,
Films about automobiles,
Films about dogs,
Films about pigs,
Mise en scène d'un ours,
Musical films,
Road movies,
Children's films,
Mise en scène d'un mammifèreActors Jim Henson,
Frank Oz,
Jerry Nelson,
Milton Berle,
Richard Hunt,
Mel BrooksRating75%
The Muppets have gathered in a theatre to screen their new biographical film, The Muppet Movie., 1h45
Directed by Arthur HillerOrigin USAGenres HorrorThemes Films about animals,
Natural horror filmsActors Nick Mancuso,
David Warner,
Kathryn Harrold,
Dr. Stephen Macht,
Ben Piazza,
Strother MartinRating52%
Youngman Duran, a deputy on a Hopi Indian reservation in New Mexico, begins to investigate a series of mysterious cattle mutilations. Abner Tasupi, an ancient and embittered medicine man who raised Youngman after his parents died, tells him he has cast a spell to end the world that very night, but Youngman assumes he simply is babbling while under the influence of datura root. The following morning, Youngman finds Abner's bloodless body on the floor of his shack, and nearby he discovers a dead shepherd and most of his flock., 1h50
Directed by Yoshitarō NomuraOrigin JaponGenres Drama,
ThrillerThemes Seafaring films,
Transport filmsActors Ken Ogata,
Shima Iwashita,
Mayumi Ogawa,
Jun Hamamura,
Takanobu Hozumi,
Keizō KanieRating73%
Consumed by the jealousy and power struggles of their own relationships, a man, his mistress and his wife involve three children in their own games-with tragic results. After Sokichi stops providing his mistress with monetary support, she leaves her three children with him, whom she insists are also his, and disappears. Sokichi is bewildered and his wife is livid so with regard only for their own discomfort, they go about remedying their situation.