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Wonka 2023

7.3 /10

Willy Wonka – chock-full of ideas and determined to change the world one delectable bite at a time – is proof that the best things in life begin with a dream, and if you’re lucky enough to meet Willy Wonka, anything is possible.

Run Time: 117 Min . MMPA: 8 . Release: Dec 06, 2023

Director: Director: Paul King,

Stars: Timothe Chalamet, Calah Lane, KeeganMichael Key, Hugh Grant, Paterson Joseph,

The Shout 1978

6.6 /10

A traveller by the name of Crossley forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has learned to displace his host.

Run Time: 86 Min . MMPA: 17 . Release: Jun 16, 1978

Director: Director: Jerzy Skolimowski,

Stars: Alan Bates, Susannah York, John Hurt, Robert Stephens, Tim Curry,

The Tenant 1976

7.6 /10

A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in France where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.

Run Time: 126 Min . MMPA: 17 . Release: May 26, 1976

Director: Director: Roman Polanski,

Stars: Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, Bernard Fresson, Shelley Winters,

Diabolique 1996

5.4 /10

The wife and mistress of a cruel school master collaborate in a carefully planned and executed scheme to murder him. The plan goes well until the body, which has been strategically dumped, disappears. The psychological strain starts to weigh on the two women when a retired police investigator begins looking into the man's disappearance on a whim.

Run Time: 107 Min . MMPA: 18 . Release: Mar 22, 1996

Director: Director: Jeremiah S Chechik,

Stars: Sharon Stone, Isabelle Adjani, Chazz Palminteri, Kathy Bates, Spalding Gray,

Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical 2022

7.2 /10

An extraordinary young girl discovers her superpower and summons the remarkable courage, against all odds, to help others change their stories, whilst also taking charge of her own destiny. Standing up for what's right, she's met with miraculous results.

Run Time: 117 Min . MMPA: 8 . Release: Nov 25, 2022

Director: Director: Matthew Warchus,

Stars: Alisha Weir, Emma Thompson, Lashana Lynch, Stephen Graham, Andrea Riseborough,

Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff 1979

5.9 /10

An abusive sexual relationship between a white spinster schoolteacher and a young black janitor in 1956 Kansas complicates her struggle to come to grips with her sexuality and emotions.

Run Time: 90 Min . MMPA: 17 . Release: Apr 13, 1979

Director: Director: Marvin J Chomsky,

Stars: Anne Heywood, Donald Pleasence, Robert Vaughn, Earl Holliman, Carolyn Jones,

Beau Pere 1981

7 /10

Rémi is a man trapped in a deteriorating marriage. When his wife is unexpectedly killed in a car accident, Rémi is left with his stepdaughter, Marion, who chooses to stay with him rather than live with her birth father. After the initial shock passes, Rémi is caught off-guard when Marion begins expressing her attraction to him. Initially repulsed, Marion's mature beauty wears him down as he finally caves to her seductions.

Run Time: 123 Min . MMPA: 13 . Release: Sep 15, 1981

Director: Director: Bertrand Blier,

Stars: Patrick Dewaere, Ariel Besse, Maurice Ronet, Genevive Mnich, Maurice Risch,

The Heartbreak Kid 2007

5.8 /10

Eddie, the 40-year-old confirmed bachelor finally says "I do" to the beautiful and sexy Lila. But during their honeymoon in Mexico, the woman of his dreams turns out to be a total nightmare, and the guy who could never pull the trigger realizes he’s jumped the gun.

Run Time: 116 Min . MMPA: 17 . Release: Oct 05, 2007

Director: Director: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly,

Stars: Ben Stiller, Malin kerman, Michelle Monaghan, Jerry Stiller, Rob Corddry,

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile 2019

6.7 /10

A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy, from the perspective of his longtime girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.

Run Time: 111 Min . MMPA: 16 . Release: May 02, 2019

Director: Director: Joe Berlinger,

Stars: Zac Efron, Lily Collins, Kaya Scodelario, John Malkovich, Jim Parsons,

The Glass Room 2019

5.4 /10

Liesel Landauer and her friend Hana are linked by a lifelong relationship and an exceptional house built by the architect Von Abt for Liesel and her husband Viktor in Czechoslovakia in the early 1930s.

Run Time: 104 Min . MMPA: 15 . Release: Mar 14, 2019

Director: Director: Julius evk,

Stars: Hanna Alstrm, Karel Roden, Carice van Houten, Claes Bang, Roland Mller,

The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun 2015

5.5 /10

She’s the most beautiful, most short-sighted, most sentimental, most perplexing, most obstinate, most untrustworthy and most troubling of heroines. The lady in the car has never seen the sea. On the run from the police, she keeps telling herself that she’s not crazy… Only...

Run Time: 93 Min . MMPA: 17 . Release: Aug 05, 2015

Director: Director: Joann Sfar,

Stars: Freya Mavor, Stacy Martin, Benjamin Biolay, Elio Germano, Thierry Hancisse,

To Die For 1995

6.8 /10

Suzanne Stone wants to be a world-famous news anchor and she is willing to do anything to get what she wants. What she lacks in intelligence, she makes up for in cold determination and diabolical wiles. As she pursues her goal with relentless focus, she is forced to destroy anything and anyone that may stand in her way, regardless of the ultimate cost or means necessary.

Run Time: 106 Min . MMPA: 17 . Release: Sep 22, 1995

Director: Director: Gus Van Sant,

Stars: Nicole Kidman, Matt Dillon, Joaquin Phoenix, Casey Affleck, Illeana Douglas,