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, 1h47
Genres Drama
Actors Werner Dissel, Jörg Schüttauf, Judith Richter
Rating69%
Daniel Brenner is an architect in his late thirties. Despite a top university degree, he has to spend his professional life with bus shelters and telephone booths. Then he receives the appealing commission to design a cultural center for a satellite town. Brenner accepts under the condition that he will be allowed to select his own team. Their plan to create a non-conventional construction fails. His wife and their common daughter leave the country for West Germany. Broken and desillusioned, Brenner collapses in front of the project’s inauguration tribune.

Directed by Andy Sidaris
Genres Thriller, Action, Spy, Romance
Themes Spy films, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Sexploitation films
Actors Julie Strain, Aki Aleong, Gerald Okamura, Nicholas Georgiade, Al Leong
Rating42%
A security agency becomes involved in a violent conflict over possession of a rare diamond.

, 1h16
Directed by Tim Burton, Henry Selick
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Musical theatre, Fantasy, Horror, Musical, Animation
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Christmas films, Musical films, Children's films, Santa Claus in film
Actors Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, Patrick Stewart, Catherine O'Hara, William Hickey, Glenn Shadix
Rating78%
The story starts in a forest called Holiday Woods with seven trees containing doors leading to towns representing various holidays: Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Halloween and the Fourth of July. Halloween Town is a fantasy world filled with citizens such as deformed monsters, ghosts, ghouls, goblins, vampires, werewolves and witches. Jack Skellington, a skeleton known as The Pumpkin King, leads them in organizing the annual Halloween holiday. However, in a monologue, Jack reveals he has grown weary of the same routine year after year, and wants something more. Wandering dejectedly in the woods, he stumbles across the seven holiday doors and accidentally opens a portal to Christmas Town, whose residents are charged with organizing the annual Christmas holiday. Impressed by the bright and cheery feeling and style of Christmas, Jack presents his findings and his understanding of Christmas, to the Halloween Town residents. However, they fail to grasp his meaning and compare everything to their ideas of Halloween, although there is one Christmas character they can relate to: the fearsome lobster-like king of Christmas Town who flies at night, named "Sandy Claws". Meanwhile, Jack who barely understands Christmas himself, obsessively tries to study the holiday but fails to grasp any further meaning of it. He ultimately decides that since he cannot understand it, he should improve it, and announces that the citizens of Halloween Town will take over Christmas this year.

, 1h9
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Horror, Animation
Themes Ghost films
Actors Leonard Nimoy, Ray Bradbury, Alex Greenwald, Edan Gross, Andrew Keegan, Darlene Carr
Rating76%
The film opens to the voice of a narrator (Ray Bradbury) describing one small town's preparations for Halloween night. Four friends are shown at their respective homes donning costumes excitedly: Jenny as a witch, Ralph as a mummy; Wally as a monster; and finally Tom Skelton as a skeleton. They all hurry so as not be late meeting up with each other and the infamous Pip (described as their communal best friend and as a truly amazing person and friend which the narrator asserts by saying, "Some say that on the day he was born, all the soda pop bottles in the world fizzled over. Pipken, who could yell louder, sing better, and eat more popcorn. Pip, the greatest boy who ever lived"). Jenny, Wally, Ralph and Tom meet up, but Pip is absent. Believing it a trick, as Pip would never miss his favorite holiday, the four head to Pip's home on the edge of town.

, 1h45
Directed by Yolande Zauberman
Genres Drama
Themes Films about children, Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Vladimir Machkov, Hélène Lapiower, Oleg Yankovsky, Aleksandr Kaliaguine, Rolan Bykov, Alekseï Serebryakov
Rating66%
In 1930s Poland Christian boy Ivan goes to live with a Jewish family to learn a trade. He becomes friends with Abraham, the son of the family. However, anti-Semitism is rife in their environment, and they flee to escape an upcoming conflict. Journeying together, they demonstrate their inseparability.

, 1h36
Directed by Stuart Margolin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Children's films
Actors Mary-Kate Olsen, Mary-Kate et Ashley Olsen, Ashley Olsen, Cloris Leachman, Phil Fondacaro, Eric McCormack
Rating58%
Kelly (Mary-Kate Olsen) and Lynn Farmer's (Ashley Olsen) parents, Don (Eric McCormack) and Christine (Kelli Fox), are deeply in debt and in danger of losing their home. During the Halloween season, they visit Christine's cold and cruel Aunt Agatha (Cloris Leachman) to ask for a loan, which is immediately refused. While the girls wait outside, they meet Agatha's grave digger (Wayne Robson) who tells them the story of Agatha's twin sister Sophia (also played by Cloris Leachman) who is trapped inside the house. He explains to the girls that Agatha’s home once belonged to a powerful witch who, before being burned at the stake 200 years before, had hidden her moonstone, the rare gem which gave her power. As children, Agatha and Sophia, tired of being twins, heard the tale and began looking for the stone in hopes of using its power to no longer be identical anymore. Agatha found the moonstone but hid it from her sister and instead began using the magic it possesses to make her sister’s life miserable. Years later on Halloween, Sophia and her fiancé George, now Agatha's butler, prepared to elope and begin their life together, but Agatha, out of jealously and rage, casted a spell that banished her sister into the netherworld through a mirror, which she keeps hidden in the attic. On the 7th year at midnight, this Halloween, the spell will become permanent and there will be no way for Sophia to be rescued.

, 1h31
Directed by Carl Reiner
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Themes Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Armand Assante, Sherilyn Fenn, Kate Nelligan, Sean Young, Christopher McDonald, Tony Randall
Rating56%
Ned Ravine, who's both a police officer and a lawyer (who often defends the people he arrests), believes that he knows everything about women, and says that he'll throw away his badge if anyone ever proves him wrong. While on a stakeout, he encounters a seductive woman named Lola Cain; the next day, Lola shows up at his law office, saying that she needs him to look over some papers she's come across. Meanwhile, Max Shady, who was just released from prison after seven years, starts stalking Ned, planning to kill him for failing to successfully defend Max in court.

Directed by Graeme Clifford
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Crime
Actors Andie MacDowell, Liam Neeson, Viggo Mortensen, Chad Power, Jack Thompson, Günter Meisner
Rating50%
When Bessie Faro's (Andie MacDowell) husband Johnny (Viggo Mortensen) dies in a plane crash in Veracruz, Mexico, she finds that his air cargo business is deeply in the red. When she visits the airline's terminal in Veracruz, she finds a packet of baseball cards that have been marked up by Johnny. Recognizing his system for marking betting slips at race tracks, she decodes the cards and realizes that they indicate a bank account. When she tries to withdraw money from the account, she is denied. She realizes that the account is in the name of the player on the card, Onix Concepción.

, 1h5
Directed by Donald Farmer
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Rape and revenge films
Actors Camille Keaton, Melissa Moore, Mike Smith, Donald Farmer
Rating22%
A woman named Jennifer Hills is driving. When she gets out of her car she takes her book and takes a walk in the woods. She gets tired so she stop and goes by the river. She takes a rest and starts to read. A group of four men stalk her. They then rape her leaving her for dead. Five years later a woman is in a bar and meets a strange man named Tommy talks to her. She tells him to piss off. When the singer starts to sing the woman leaves. She sees Tommy who slits her throat and stabs her. Meanwhile Jennifer is now in law school. Her teacher makes fun of her and he says to the class after two weeks Jennifer recovered and killed them. She shot one in the head, she hacked up the other two and stabbed the last one. She was never charged. Jennifer then feels sad so she leaves the class. She meets her friend Sam. Jennifer tells Sam for them to get out of town, so she does. The two start the car and go. They discuss Jennifer's life and what happened. When they stop for gas Sam meets Tommy. Tommy starts to flirt with her but she slaps him. A man named Dwayne saves her and they decide to flirt. Sam tells him where she and Jennifer are staying at. When Jen and Sam get there Sam is shocked to see the place so horrid and ugly. She decides to go out for air. After a little bit Sam is lost. She sees a cottage which is Tommy's. When she goes in she sees Dwayne. They kiss passionately but then Dwayne rapes her on the couch and on the bed. Tommy stabs her, killing her in the process. The next day Jennifer is worried so she decides to look for her. When she goes back to the gas station Dwayne and Tommy tell her where she is. They take her to the cabin where she sees Sam dead. Jennifer escapes from the house and runs out. Tommy catches her but she hits him multi times with a branch knocking him out. When she stops to rest Dwayne sneaks up on her and rapes her. Tommy finds them and stabs Jennifer leaving her for dead. After a little bit Jennifer gets up and wants revenge. She runs out the woods and sees a car. She goes in the car and drives away. A little while later at the gas station the sheriff enters. He talks to the two boys and tells them that Jennifer and Sam haven't been seen and they moved into the cottage. The men claim they no nothing about them. The sheriff warns them and tells them not to go near since they found a dead body in the room but they were never charged. After this Dwayne goes to the bar and gets drunk. When he gets out he takes a walk in the woods and then hears something. He sees Jennifer with a chainsaw and runs. She chases him but he trips. She chainsaws his head in half killing him. Meanwhile Tommy is treating the dead body of a girl and Sam's body as if they were alive. Jennifer goes in front of the house with a shotgun, yelling at Tommy to leave. Tommy escapes from the house and runs away but Jennifer yells at him to stop. He does and she shoots him in the testicles. He begs her to come and help him. The film ends with Jennifer walking away smiling and leaving Tommy to die like they did to her.