Description: Cult classics from the video store era + newer that have achieved cult status. The good, the bad, the hilarious good-bad, the weird, the ones everyone quotes, the Hollywood cult icons. Get your popcorn! updated mar 2024
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Rubber
( 2010 )
A homicidal car tire, discovering it has destructive psionic power, sets its sights on a desert town once a mysterious woman becomes its obsession.
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Rosemary's Baby
( 1968 )
A young couple moves in to an apartment only to be surrounded by peculiar neighbors and occurrences. When the wife becomes mysteriously pregnant, paranoia over the safety of her unborn child begins to control her life.
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Rollerball
( 1975 )
In a corporate-controlled future, an ultra-violent sport known as Rollerball represents the world, and one of its powerful athletes is out to defy those who want him out of the game.
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Robin Hood: Men in Tights
( 1993 )
A spoof of Robin Hood in general, and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) in particular.
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Road House
( 2024 )
Ex-UFC fighter Dalton takes a job as a bouncer at a Florida Keys roadhouse, only to discover that this paradise is not all it seems.
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Road House
( 1989 )
A tough bouncer is hired to tame a dirty bar.
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R.I.P.D.
( 2013 )
A cop killed by his own partner joins RIPD, an afterlife law enforcement department working to apprehend various monsters disguised as humans living on earth, and gets paired up with a smart-mouthed veteran.
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Reservoir Dogs
( 1992 )
When a simple jewelry heist goes horribly wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspect that one of them is a police informant.
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Repo! The Genetic Opera
( 2008 )
A worldwide epidemic encourages a biotech company to launch an organ-financing program similar in nature to a standard car loan. The repossession clause is a killer, however.
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Repo Men
( 2010 )
Set in the near future when artificial organs can be bought on credit, it revolves around a man who struggles to make the payments on a heart he has purchased. He must therefore go on the run before said ticker is repossessed.
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Repo Man
( 1984 )
A young punk, recruited by a car repo agency, finds himself in pursuit of a Chevrolet Malibu with a huge, $20,000 bounty--and something otherworldly stashed in its trunk.
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Reign of Fire
( 2002 )
A brood of fire-breathing dragons emerges from the earth and begins setting everything ablaze, establishing dominance over the planet.
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Reefer Madness
( 1938 )
Cautionary tale that features a fictionalized take on marijuana use. A trio of drug dealers lead innocent teenagers to become addicted to "reefer" cigarettes by holding wild parties with jazz music.
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Rear Window
( 1954 )
A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his Greenwich Village courtyard apartment window, and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder, despite the skepticism of his fashion-model girlfriend.
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Rams
( 2015 )
In a remote Icelandic farming valley, two brothers who haven't spoken in 40 years have to come together in order to save what's dearest to them - their sheep.
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Raising Arizona
( 1987 )
Recidivist hold-up man H.I. McDonnough and police woman Edwina marry, only to discover they are unable to conceive a child. Desperate for a baby, the pair decide to kidnap one of the quintuplets of furniture tycoon Nathan Arizona. The McDonnoughs try to keep their crime secret, while friends, co-workers and a feral bounty hunter look to use Nathan Jr. for their own purposes.
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Rad
( 1986 )
The story of one young man, Cru Jones, who has the intensity and desire to win a BMX race called Helltrack.
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Quest for Fire
( 1981 )
This story takes place in prehistoric time when three tribesmen search for a new fire source.
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Queen & Slim
( 2019 )
A couple's first date takes an unexpected turn when a police officer pulls them over.
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Quadrophenia
( 1979 )
Jimmy Cooper loathes his dead-end job and his working-class parents. He seeks solace with his mod clique, scooter riding, and drugs, only to be disappointed.
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Purple Rain
( 1984 )
A young musician, tormented by an abusive situation at home, must contend with a rival singer, a burgeoning romance, and his own dissatisfied band, as his star begins to rise.
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Pulp Fiction
( 1994 )
The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster and his wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.
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Psycho
( 1998 )
A young female embezzler arrives at the Bates Motel, which has terrible secrets of its own.
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Psycho
( 1960 )
A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
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Prometheus
( 2012 )
Following clues to the origin of mankind, a team finds a structure on a distant moon, but they soon realize they are not alone.
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Prisoners of the Ghostland
( 2021 )
Set in the treacherous frontier city of Samurai Town where a ruthless bank robber is sprung from jail by wealthy warlord The Governor, whose adopted granddaughter Bernice has gone missing. The Governor offers the prisoner his freedom in exchange for retrieving the runaway. Strapped into a leather suit that will self-destruct within three days, the bandit sets off on a journey to find the young woman and his own path to redemption.
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Princess Mononoke
( 1997 )
On a journey to find the cure for a Tatarigami's curse, Ashitaka finds himself in the middle of a war between the forest gods and Tatara, a mining colony. In this quest he also meets San, the Mononoke Hime.
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Powaqqatsi
( 1988 )
An exploration of technologically developing nations and the effect the transition to Western-style modernization has had on them.
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Pootie Tang
( 2001 )
"The Man" is baffled by a chill hero's invincible weapon: gibberish.
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Polyester
( 1981 )
A suburban housewife's world falls apart when she finds that her pornographer husband is serially unfaithful to her, her daughter is pregnant, and her son is suspected of being the foot-fetishist who's been breaking local women's feet.
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Polar
( 2019 )
A retiring assassin suddenly finds himself on the receiving end of a hit, contracted by none other than his own employer seeking to cash in on the pensions of aging employees.
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Planet of the Apes
( 1968 )
An astronaut crew crash-lands on a planet in the distant future where intelligent talking apes are the dominant species, and humans are the oppressed and enslaved.
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Plan 9 from Outer Space
( 1959 )
Evil aliens attack Earth and set their terrible "Plan 9" in action. As the aliens resurrect the dead of the Earth to destroy the living, our lives are in danger.
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Pink Floyd: The Wall
( 1982 )
A confined but troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.
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Pink Flamingos
( 1976 )
Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive".
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Pieles
( 2017 )
In a strange world where people share numerous deformities, the same problem we all face challenges each of them: to find someone who accepts you as you are. Sometimes, that means finding yourself first.
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Pi
( 1998 )
A paranoid mathematician searches for a key number that will unlock the universal patterns found in nature.
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Pet Sematary
( 1989 )
After tragedy strikes, a grieving father discovers an ancient burial ground behind his home with the power to raise the dead.
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Pee-wee's Big Adventure
( 1985 )
When eccentric man-child Pee-wee Herman gets his beloved bike stolen in broad daylight, he sets out across the U.S. on the adventure of his life.
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Peeping Tom
( 1960 )
A young man murders women, using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror.
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Pathfinder
( 2007 )
A Viking boy is left behind after his clan battles a Native American tribe. Raised within the tribe, he ultimately becomes their savior in a fight against the Norsemen.
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Paris Is Burning
( 1990 )
A chronicle of New York's drag scene in the 1980s, focusing on balls, voguing and the ambitions and dreams of those who gave the era its warmth and vitality.
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Parasite
( 2019 )
Greed and class discrimination threaten the newly formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan.
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Pan's Labyrinth
( 2007 )
In the Falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.
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One Million Years B.C.
( 1966 )
Prehistoric man Tumak is banished from his savage tribe and meets pretty Loana who belongs to a gentler coastal tribe but he must fight caveman Payto to win her favors.
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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
( 2019 )
A faded television actor and his stunt double strive to achieve fame and success in the final years of Hollywood's Golden Age in 1969 Los Angeles.
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Oldboy
( 2003 )
After being kidnapped and imprisoned for fifteen years, Oh Dae-Su is released, only to find that he must find his captor in five days.
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Okja
( 2017 )
A young girl risks everything to prevent a powerful, multinational company from kidnapping her best friend - a fascinating beast named Okja.
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Office Space
( 1999 )
Three company workers who hate their jobs decide to rebel against their greedy boss.
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O Brother, Where Art Thou?
( 2001 )
In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them.
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Nosferatu
( 1922 )
Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife.
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Night of the Living Dead
( 1968 )
A ragtag group of Pennsylvanians barricade themselves in an old farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls that are ravaging the Northeast of the United States.
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Network
( 1976 )
A television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor's ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit.
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Natural Born Killers
( 1994 )
Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and psychopathic serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.
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National Lampoon's Animal House
( 1978 )
At a 1962 college, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those troublemakers have other plans for him.
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Napoleon Dynamite
( 2004 )
A listless and alienated teenager decides to help his new friend win the class presidency in their small western high school, while he must deal with his bizarre family life back home.
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Naked Lunch
( 1992 )
After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally kills his wife, and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in a port town in North Africa.
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Mulholland Drive
( 2001 )
After a car wreck on Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
( 1939 )
A naive youth leader is appointed to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate. His idealistic plans promptly collide with corruption at home and subterfuge from his hero in Washington, but he tries to forge ahead despite attacks on his character.
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Moonfall
( 2022 )
A mysterious force knocks the moon from its orbit and sends it hurtling on a collision course toward earth.
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Moon
( 2009 )
Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planet's power problems.
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail
( 1975 )
King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table embark on a surreal, low-budget search for the Holy Grail, encountering many, very silly obstacles.
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Monos
( 2019 )
Teenage commandos perform military training exercises by day and indulge in youthful hedonism by night, an unconventional family bound together under a shadowy force know only as The Organization. After an ambush drives the squadron into the jungle, both the mission and the intricate bonds between the group begin to disintegrate.
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Mommie Dearest
( 1981 )
The abusive and traumatic adoptive upbringing of Christina Crawford at the hands of her mother, screen queen Joan Crawford, is depicted.
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Minotaur
( 2006 )
When the villagers offer their brethren as a sacrifice to the Minotaur, Theo (Tom Hardy) sets off on a harrowing quest to the labyrinth to kill the evil bull-god.
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Minority Report
( 2002 )
In a future where a special police unit is able to arrest murderers before they commit their crimes, an officer from that unit is himself accused of a future murder.
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Midsommar
( 2019 )
A couple travels to Northern Europe to visit a rural hometown's fabled Swedish mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.
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Midnight Cowboy
( 1969 )
A naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process.
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Metropolis
( 1927 )
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
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Memento
( 2001 )
A man with short-term memory loss attempts to track down his wife's murderer.
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Melancholia
( 2011 )
On the night of her wedding, Justine (Kirsten Dunst) is struggling to be happy even though it should be the happiest day of her life. It was an extravagant wedding paid for by her sister and brother-in-law who are trying to keep the bride and all the guests in line. Meanwhile, Melancholia, a blue planet, is hurtling towards the Earth. Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg), Justine's sister, is struggling to maintain composure with fear of the impending disaster.
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Martha Marcy May Marlene
( 2011 )
Martha has run away from an abusive hippie-like cult where she was living as Marcy May for two years. She turns to her sister and brother-in-law who take her in and want to help her. The problem is Martha is having a hard time separating dreams from reality and when haunting memories of her past keep resurfacing, she may need more help than anyone is able to give her.
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Mars Attacks!
( 1996 )
Earth is invaded by Martians with unbeatable weapons and a cruel sense of humor.
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Marihuana
( 1936 )
A young girl slowly becomes a dope pusher.
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Man on Wire
( 2008 )
On August 7, 1974, Philippe Petit, a French wire walker, juggler, and street performer days shy of his 25th birthday, spent 45 minutes walking, dancing, kneeling, and lying on a wire he and friends strung between the rooftops of the Twin Towers. Uses contemporary interviews, archival footage, and recreations to tell the story of his previous walks between towers of Notre Dame and of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, his passions and friendships, and the details of the night before the walk: getting cable into the towers, hiding from guards, and mounting the wire. It ends with observations of the profound changes the walk's success brought to Philippe and those closest to him.
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Mandy
( 2018 )
The enchanted lives of a couple in a secluded forest are brutally shattered by a nightmarish hippie cult and their demon-biker henchmen, propelling a man into a spiraling, surreal rampage of vengeance.
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Man Bites Dog
( 1993 )
A film crew follows a ruthless thief and heartless killer as he goes about his daily routine. But complications set in when the film crew lose their objectivity and begin lending a hand.
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Magnolia
( 1999 )
An epic mosaic of interrelated characters in search of love, forgiveness, and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.
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Magic Mike XXL
( 2015 )
It's been three years since Tampa based Mike Lane transitioned from the life of a stripper - his stage name being Magic Mike - to his dream of starting his own custom furniture business, those three years mixed in terms of the goods and bads for him personally. His ex-troupe, the Kings of Tampa, minus who was their boss, Dallas, stop off in Tampa from their current home base in Miami on a road trip to a stripper convention in Myrtle Beach. As the remaining troupe members are nearing the end of their stripping lives, they, like Mike, who are at an advanced age beyond that of most strippers, they see this convention as their final hurrah in this life. Mike decides to join his old friends on the road trip to this send off. The current troupe members start to have their own dreams about their futures in being with Mike, while Mike has his own envy of his friends in his current life not being everything he hoped it would be. But especially without Dallas at the helm, the troupe members are feeling a bit lost, with Mike trying to inspire them, which he may or may not be able to do. As they make several stops along the way, they encounter many groups of women, which may demonstrate whether their thoughts about what to do at the convention is a good idea in if they still have what it takes. Beyond these encounters with women, the trip itself hits its bumps, with Mike needing to call in some favors and mend some bridges even to make it to Myrtle Beach, it not certain if those at the other end will accept Mike's pleas for help or his apologies.
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Magic Mike
( 2012 )
A male stripper teaches a younger performer how to party, pick up women, and make easy money.
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Magical Mystery Tour
( 1967 )
Magical Mystery Tour is a TV movie starring John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. The Beatles charter a special bus for a surreal mystery tour.
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Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
( 1981 )
In the post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland, a cynical drifter agrees to help a small, gasoline rich community escape a horde of bandits.
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Mad Heidi
( 2022 )
Swiss mountain girl Heidi is abducted by brutal government troops and must defend herself and fight a war against a cheese-fueled machinery of hate.
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Mad God
( 2021 )
A corroded diving bell descends amidst a ruined city and the Assassin emerges from it to explore a labyrinth of bizarre landscapes inhabited by freakish denizens.
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Machete
( 2010 )
After being set-up and betrayed by the man who hired him to assassinate a Texas Senator, an ex-Federale launches a brutal rampage of revenge against his former boss.
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Lucy
( 2014 )
A woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.
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Lucky
( 2017 )
Lucky follows the spiritual journey of a 90-year-old atheist and the quirky characters that inhabit his off the map desert town.
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LSD: Love, Sex Aur Dhokha
( 2010 )
A video camcorder, a store security camera, and concealed cameras candidly expose lives in three loosely-linked tales.
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Lost Highway
( 1997 )
Anonymous videotapes presage a musician's murder conviction, and a gangster's girlfriend leads a mechanic astray.
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Looper
( 2012 )
In 2074, when the mob wants to get rid of someone, the target is sent into the past, where a hired gun awaits - someone like Joe - who one day learns the mob wants to 'close the loop' by sending back Joe's future self for assassination.
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Lolita
( 1962 )
A middle-aged college professor becomes infatuated with a fourteen-year-old nymphet.
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Logan's Run
( 1976 )
An idyllic science fiction future has one major drawback: life must end at the age of thirty.
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Logan Lucky
( 2017 )
Two brothers attempt to pull off a heist during a NASCAR race in North Carolina.
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Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
( 1998 )
Eddy persuades his three pals to pool money for a vital poker game against a powerful local mobster, Hatchet Harry. Eddy loses, after which Harry gives him a week to pay back 500,000 pounds.
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Locke
( 2014 )
Ivan Locke, a dedicated family man and successful construction manager, receives a phone call on the eve of the biggest challenge of his career that sets in motion a series of events that threaten his carefully cultivated existence.
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Local Hero
( 1983 )
An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.
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Llamageddon
( 2015 )
A killer llama from outer space crash lands on Earth and brings death and destruction to everyone in its path.
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Life of Brian
( 1979 )
Born on the original Christmas in the stable next door to Jesus Christ, Brian of Nazareth spends his life being mistaken for a messiah.
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Legion
( 2010 )
When a group of strangers at a dusty roadside diner come under attack by demonic forces, their only chance for survival lies with an archangel named Michael, who informs a pregnant waitress that her unborn child is humanity's last hope.
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Lake Michigan Monster
( 2020 )
An eccentric ship captain and a crew of specialists plot revenge against the most mysterious creature of the deep -- the Lake Michigan Monster.
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kronickurves : Excellent episode. Betty's outfits are perfect.