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2000s / Action / Science Fiction / Superhero

Spider-Man 3 (2007)

In this third installment of the popular superhero franchise, Peter Parker (Maguire, Seabiscuit) is all set to pop the question to the love of his life, Mary Jane Watson (Dunst, Marie Antoinette).  Unfortunately, every time he gets...

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1980s / Action / Comedy / Thriller

Beverly Hills Cop (1984)

In the mid-1970s, Don Simpson relocated to Beverly Hills for a job developing films for Paramount Pictures. A mechanic’s son from Anchorage, Alaska, Simpson felt out of place residing among the wealthy elite. After...

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1980s / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy

The Golden Child (1986)

The Golden Child is said to have been originally conceived of as a more serious adventure, intended to star Mel Gibson, but those plans fell through.  When Eddie Murphy (Beverly Hills Cop, Trading Places) became available,...

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2000s / Thriller

Vacancy (2007)

David (Wilson) and Amy (Beckinsale) are a bitterly bickering couple whose marriage is on the skids, detouring down a windy rural road for hours, completely lost. When car troubles force them off the road, they have...

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1980s / Action / Horror / Thriller

The Hitcher (1986)

The mad hitchhiker film didn’t start with The Hitcher, but that didn’t stop it from leaving an indelible mark on the subgenre. Prior to its release, there had been 1947’s The Devil Thumbs a Ride, the...

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1990s / Mystery / Thriller

The Game (1997)

You have to concede at least a certain brilliance to any consciously manipulative film in which a man looks into the eyes of a puppet, only for the puppet (represented by a dummy, a...

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2000s / Action / Horror / Science Fiction / Thriller

Grindhouse (2007)

The term “grindhouse” is attributed to a style of films that were regularly churned out in the 1970s that were predicated on delivering exploitative, sensationalist subject matter in order to entertain a defined audience...

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2000s / Thriller

88 Minutes (2007)

Al Pacino plays a Seattle college professor and part-time FBI forensic psychiatry expert, Jack Gramm, who made a name for himself as the chief witness for the prosecution in the death penalty case against...

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1990s / Comedy / Thriller

Payback (1999)

Two small time thieves named Val (Henry, Star Trek: Insurrection) and Porter (Gibson, Lethal Weapon 4) put the moves on a Chinese gang to steal $140,000.  They are supposed to split it evenly, but Val needs the money...