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Films that made a big flop
Here are films that made flops in the box office, that did cost more than they earned.
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Live by Night (2017)
, 2h9Directed by Ben Affleck, Dennis Lehane, Rand Ravich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Gangster films
Actors Sienna Miller, Ben Affleck, Chris Messina, Zoe Saldana, Elle Fanning, Chris Cooper
Set in the 1920s, the story follows Joe Coughlin, the prodigal son of a Boston police captain. After moving to Ybor City, Coughlin becomes a bootlegger and a rum-runner and, later, a notorious gangster.
Diplomacy (2013)
, 1h28Directed by Volker Schlöndorff
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Fantasy, Action, Historical
Themes Théâtre, Political films, Films based on plays, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Niels Arestrup, Luke Evans, André Dussollier, Sarah Gadon, Dominic Cooper, Burghart Klaußner
As the Allied Forces move toward Paris, Adolf Hitler commands Gen Dietrich von Choltitz to destroy the city. Choltitz sends a team to demolish the city's famous land-marks and to overflow the Seine, led by Lt Hegger and advised by a captured Parisian engineer named Mr Lanvin. The land-marks being targeted include the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, the Place de la Concorde, the Notre Dame de Paris.
Foodfight! (2012)
, 1h27Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Horror, Animation
Actors Charlie Sheen, Eva Longoria, Hilary Duff, Wayne Brady, Robert Costanzo, Larry Miller
Foodfight! takes place in the "Marketropolis" supermarket. After closing time, the supermarket transforms into a city in which all the citizens are personified well-known marketing icons, A.K.A. "Ikes". The story opens with the protagonist Dex Dogtective (Sheen) saving kittens before he tells his friend, Daredevil Dan (Brady), that he is about to ask his girlfriend Sunshine Goodness (Duff) to marry him. However, Dan attempts to draw a picture of Dex proposing but crashes and Sunshine goes to assist Dan before Dex can propose. Dan returns, but has no idea of what happened to Sunshine.
K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)
, 2h18Directed by Kathryn Bigelow
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes La fin du monde, Seafaring films, Politique, Transport films, Underwater action films, Submarine films, Political films, Arme nucléaire, Disaster films, Films about seafaring accidents or incidents
Actors Harrison Ford, Liam Neeson, Peter Sarsgaard, Joss Ackland, John Shrapnel, Donald Sumpter
In 1961, the Soviet Union launches its first ballistic missile nuclear submarine, the K-19. The ship is led by Captain Alexei Vostrikov, aided by executive officer Mikhail Polenin. Polenin, the original captain, and the crew have served together for some time but Vostrikov's appointment is alleged to have been aided by his wife's political connections. During his first inspection, Vostrikov discovers the submarine's reactor officer to be drunk and asleep on duty. Vostrikov sacks the officer and orders Polenin to request a replacement. The new reactor officer, Vadim Radtchenko, arrives direct from nuclear school having just been fresh from the naval academy, annoying Polenin who thinks Vostrikov was too punitive on the former reactor officer who was competent despite his momentary lapse of judgment. Also, during the preparation period for the sub's launch, the ship's medical officer is killed when struck by an oncoming truck, and is subsequently replaced by the command's foremost medical officer, an army officer who has graciously offered himself in the submarine's time of need, but also privately admits to Vostrikov that as an army officer he has never been out to sea and suffers from motion sickness. During the K-19's official launch, the bottle of champagne fails to break when it strikes the bow; the sailors nervously glance at each other due to this customary sign of bad luck.
Valentin Valentin (2015)
, 1h46Directed by Pascal Thomas
Origin France
Genres Comedy thriller, Crime
Actors Marilou Berry, Vincent Rottiers, Marie Gillain, Arielle Dombasle, Geraldine Chaplin, Alexandra Stewart
The beautiful and shy Valentin, all the women fall in love, has much to do between his insatiable mistress, Claudia, the jealous husband of it, Freddy, his selfish and immature mother, alcoholic neighbor, Jane, the concierge Antonia, the three neighboring youth 5th Floor, Noor, Florence and especially Elodie, and a mysterious young Chinese tiger lilies, held in slavery in the house opposite.
The Thirst for Gold (1993)
, 1h26Directed by Gérard Oury
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Actors Tsilla Chelton, Albert Dray, Catherine Jacob, Marine Delterme, Christian Clavier, Bernard Haller
Urbain Donnadieu, PDG d'une entreprise de maisons préfabriquées, a été élevé par sa grand-mère, Zézette, dans le culte du profit. Avare de première classe, il a volé 60 000 francs par jour à son entreprise, qu'il a transformés en lingots. Il voudrait bien les faire passer en Suisse. Il décide donc de cacher les lingots dans les briques d'une des maisons qu'il doit livrer, une idée qu'il va regretter. Tout irait pour le mieux si son épouse, Fleurette, agent du fisc et son amant, Jacques, chauffeur et meilleur ami d'Urbain, ne venaient pas mettre leur nez dans ce plan...
Renegades (2017)
, 1h43Origin France
Genres War, Thriller, Action
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Sullivan Stapleton, J. K. Simmons, Charlie Bewley, Sylvia Hoeks, Joshua Henry, Dimitri Leonidas
A team of Navy SEALs discover an immense treasure hidden in a Bosnian lake.
Big is Beautiful (2012)
, 1h40Directed by Charlotte de Turckheim
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Medical-themed films, Obésité, Films about disabilities
Actors Victoria Abril, Lola Dewaere, Catherine Hosmalin, Grégory Fitoussi, Mehdi Nebbou, Julia Piaton
The young, round and lovely Nina is married to Gaspard, who, unfortunately, rather likes very thin women. The couple move to Paris and Nina is preparing to launch a sophisticated line of swimwear. Because of her love for her husband, Nina accepts his ambiguous gift: a slimming treatment at Brides-les-Bains, considered "the last hope of the fat". There, she makes two flamboyant friends. Sophie, a lawyer from Marseille who likes to control everything, including herself. Émilie is a caregiver whose weight has begun to affect her health and her love life yet her motto remains, "Big is beautiful".
Zoom (2006)
, 1h27Directed by Peter Hewitt
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Comedy science fiction films, Superhero films, Robot films
Actors Tim Allen, Spencer Breslin, Ryan Newman, Kevin Zegers, Kate Mara, Michael Cassidy
Decades prior to the start of the film, the American military sponsored a superhero group called "Team Zenith." Its leaders were Jack Shepard, a.k.a. "Captain Zoom", who possessed super-speed, and his brother, Connor, a.k.a. "Concussion", who could project sonic blasts. The military tried to increase the team's powers by exposing them to an experimental form of radiation called "Gamma-13". This caused Concussion to become more powerful, but it also reversed his personality. Thinking Zoom and the team betrayed him, Concussion went insane and killed his teammates Marksman, Ace, and Daravia. Concussion was believed to be killed by Zoom in an explosion, but he had been sent into another dimension instead. Zoom lost his powers, and his brother.
The Postman (1997)
, 3hDirected by Kevin Costner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, War, Action, Adventure, Romance, Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
Themes Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Films based on science fiction novels, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films, Arme nucléaire, Disaster films
Actors Kevin Costner, Will Patton, Larenz Tate, Olivia Williams, James Russo, Daniel von Bargen
In an alternate history year of 1998, an unspecified apocalyptic event known only as "The Doomwar" erased almost all technology and caused societal collapse, sending the continents back to the Dark Ages. Fifteen years later, in post-apocalyptic 2013, pockets of survivors in more rural areas have formed small villages to maintain some semblance of civilization, while others have joined militias and warlords that prey on survivors. Horses are the standard for travel, and bartering has replaced currency.
Osmosis Jones (2001)
, 1h35Directed by Frères Farrelly, Tom Sito, Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Crime, Animation
Themes Medical-themed films, Buddy films, Children's films
Actors Chris Rock, Laurence Fishburne, David Hyde Pierce, Brandy, William Shatner, Molly Shannon
Frank Detorre (Bill Murray) is a widowed slovenly zookeeper at the Sucat Memorial Zoo in Rhode Island. Much to the frustration of his young daughter, Shane (Elena Franklin), he eats compulsively unhealthy and has minimal concern for germs or disease. While trying to eat a hard-boiled egg with mayonnaise and salt, it is stolen from him by a chimpanzee. He gets it back, but not before it falls into the filth of the chimp's habitat. When Shane is disgusted by him about to eat it he uses the "ten second rule" as a justification for the unsanitary act.
Scoob! (2020)
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Crime, Animation
Actors Frank Welker, Zac Efron, Amanda Seyfried, Will Forte, Tracy Morgan, Ken Jeong
L'histoire raconte commence Scooby-Doo a rencontré Sammy, Fred, Daphné et Véra et la création de Mystères associés, avant de relever leur plus grand défi à ce jour:un complot pour invoquer le chien fantôme Cerberus.
Lolita (1997)
, 2h17Directed by Adrian Lyne
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about children, Films about families, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Films about pedophilia, Road movies
Actors Jeremy Irons, Melanie Griffith, Dominique Swain, Frank Langella, Keith Reddin, Ben Silverstone
In 1947, Humbert Humbert (Jeremy Irons), a European professor of French literature, travels to the United States to take a teaching position in New Hampshire. He rents a room in the home of widow Charlotte Haze (Melanie Griffith), largely because he sees her adolescent daughter Dolores (Dominique Swain), also called "Lo", while touring the house. Obsessed from boyhood with girls of this age (whom he calls "nymphets"), Humbert is immediately smitten with Lo and marries Charlotte just to be near her.
Oceans (2010)
, 1h43Directed by Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud
Origin France
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about animals, Environmental films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Documentaire animalier, Documentary films about environmental issues, Documentary films about nature, Children's films
Actors Pierce Brosnan, Jacques Perrin, Rie Miyazawa, Pedro Armendáriz (fils), Oleg Basilashvili, Jiang Wen
Oceans presents details and facts about the journey of the ocean. The film begins on a beach and there are boys and one of them wonders what the ocean is. The scene cuts to the Galapagos where a clan of marine iguanas and horseshoe crabs wander.
Monster Trucks (2016)
, 1h44Directed by Chris Wedge
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about music and musicians, Children's films
Actors Jane Levy, Lucas Till, Amy Ryan, Rob Lowe, Frank Whaley, Danny Glover
Tripp, un lycéen, s'ennuie profondément dans sa ville natale. Il décide de construire un monster truck avec des pièces détachées trouvées dans une casse. Après un accident aux abords d’un site de forage pétrolier, il fait la rencontre d'une créature étrange souterraine. Tripp découvre par ailleurs que ce « monstre » a le goût et un talent certain pour la vitesse.