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Video Store Cult Movie Section
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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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Movie: 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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Movie: Catch-22 ( 1970 )
A man is trying desperately to be certified insane during World War II, so he can stop flying missions.
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Movie: Scanners ( 1981 )
A scientist trains a man with an advanced telepathic ability called "scanning" to stop a dangerous Scanner with extraordinary psychic powers from waging war against non scanners.
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Movie: Head ( 1968 )
The Monkees are tossed about in a psychedelic, surrealist, plotless, circular bit of fun fluff.
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Movie: Logan Lucky ( 2017 )
Two brothers attempt to pull off a heist during a NASCAR race in North Carolina.
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Movie: Delicatessen ( 1992 )
Post-apocalyptic surrealist black comedy about the landlord of an apartment building who occasionally prepares a delicacy for his odd tenants.
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Movie: The French Dispatch ( 2021 )
Faced with the impending dissolution of The French Dispatch, a factual weekly report on various subjects, old-school editor-in-chief Arthur Howitzer Jr. assembles the crème de la crème of the magazine's loyal expatriate journalists for one final issue. Against the backdrop of picturesque Ennui-sur-Blasé, Paris, France, three main articles unfold, pivoting around tormented genius artists, statuesque prison officers, flamboyant critics, moody idealists, conflicted ace reporters, legendary chefs, and, of course, the police.
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Movie: Forbidden Planet ( 1958 )
When Commander Adams and his crew are sent to investigate why there were no communications from a previous mission to a planet explored 20 years earlier by scientists, he finds only two survivors, Dr. Morbius and his daughter. Unknown to Adams, Morbius has made a discovery, a discovery of great power, and has no intention of sharing it with anyone.
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Movie: Hedwig and the Angry Inch ( 2001 )
A gender-queer punk-rock singer from East Berlin tours the U.S. with her band as she tells her life story and follows the former lover/band-mate who stole her songs.
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Movie: Barbarella ( 1968 )
Barbarella, an astronaut from the 41st century, sets out to find and stop the evil scientist Durand Durand, whose Positronic Ray threatens to bring evil back into the galaxy.
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Movie: 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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Movie: 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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Movie: Freaks ( 1932 )
A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.
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Movie: Thank You for Smoking ( 2006 )
Satirical comedy follows the machinations of Big Tobacco's chief spokesman, Nick Naylor, who spins on behalf of cigarettes while trying to remain a role model for his twelve-year-old son.
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Movie: Kung Fury ( 2015 )
In 1985, Kung Fury, the toughest martial artist cop in Miami, goes back in time to kill the worst criminal of all time - Kung Führer, a.k.a. Adolf Hitler.
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Movie: House Party ( 1990 )
Kid decides to go to his friend Play's house party, but neither of them can predict what's in store for them on what could be the wildest night of their lives.
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Movie: Pootie Tang ( 2001 )
"The Man" is baffled by a chill hero's invincible weapon: gibberish.
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Movie: Cloud Atlas ( 2012 )
An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.
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Movie: The Lawnmower Man ( 1992 )
A simple man is turned into a genius through the application of computer science.
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Movie: Queen & Slim ( 2019 )
A couple's first date takes an unexpected turn when a police officer pulls them over.
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Movie: A Scanner Darkly ( 2006 )
An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result.
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Movie: To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar ( 1995 )
Three drag queens travel cross-country until their car breaks down, leaving them stranded in a small town.
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Movie: Grey Gardens ( 1975 )
An old mother and her middle-aged daughter, the aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy, live their eccentric lives in a filthy, decaying mansion in East Hampton.
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Movie: Ed Wood ( 1994 )
Ambitious but troubled movie director Edward D. Wood Jr. tries his best to fulfill his dreams, despite his lack of talent.
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Movie: Blow-Up ( 1967 )
A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. Then he meets a mysterious beauty, and also notices something frightfully suspicious on one of his photographs of her taken in a park. The fact that he may have photographed a murder does not occur to him until he studies and then blows up his negatives, uncovering details, blowing up smaller and smaller elements, and finally putting the puzzle together.
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Movie: The Devils ( 1971 )
In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier seeks to protect the city of Loudun from the corrupt establishment of Cardinal Richelieu. Hysteria occurs within the city when he is accused of witchcraft by a sexually repressed nun.
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Movie: Zoolander ( 2001 )
At the end of his career, a clueless fashion model is brainwashed to kill the Prime Minister of Malaysia.
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Movie: The Kentucky Fried Movie ( 1978 )
A series of short, highly irreverent, and often tasteless skits.
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Movie: The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert ( 1994 )
Two drag performers and a transgender woman travel across the desert to perform their unique style of cabaret.
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Movie: Rushmore ( 1999 )
The extracurricular king of Rushmore Preparatory School is put on academic probation.
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Movie: As Above, So Below ( 2014 )
Miles of twisting catacombs lie beneath the streets of Paris, the eternal home to countless souls. When a team of explorers ventures into the uncharted maze of bones, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead. A journey into madness and terror, As Above, So Below reaches deep into the human psyche to reveal the personal demons that come back to haunt us all.
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Movie: Better Off Dead ( 1985 )
After his girlfriend ditches him for a boorish ski jock, Lane decides that suicide is the only answer. However, his increasingly inept attempts bring him only more agony and embarrassment. Filled with the wildest teen nightmares.
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Movie: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street ( 2007 )
The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, aka Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett.
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Movie: Zardoz ( 1974 )
In the distant future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.
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Movie: The Straight Story ( 1999 )
An old man makes a long journey by lawnmower to mend his relationship with an ill brother.
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Movie: Exit Through the Gift Shop ( 2010 )
The story of how an eccentric French shop-keeper and amateur film-maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner. The film contains footage of Banksy, Shephard Fairey, Invader and many of the world's most infamous graffiti artists at work.
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Movie: Woodstock ( 1970 )
The film chronicle of the legendary 1969 music festival.
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Movie: Titus ( 2000 )
Titus returns victorious from war, only to plant the seeds of future turmoil for himself and his family.
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Movie: The Boys from Brazil ( 1978 )
A Nazi hunter in Paraguay discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.
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Movie: Alphaville ( 1965 )
A U.S. secret agent is sent to the distant space city of Alphaville where he must find a missing person and free the city from its tyrannical ruler.
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Movie: But I'm a Cheerleader ( 2000 )
A naive teenager is sent to rehab camp when her straitlaced parents and friends suspect her of being a lesbian.
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Movie: Godzilla ( 1954 )
American nuclear weapons testing results in the creation of a seemingly unstoppable, dinosaur-like beast.
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Movie: Zelig ( 1983 )
"Documentary" about a man who can look and act like whoever he's around, and meets various famous people.
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Movie: Straw Dogs ( 1971 )
A young American and his English wife come to rural England and face increasingly vicious local harassment.
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Movie: 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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Movie: Hairspray ( 1988 )
A 'pleasantly plump' teenager teaches 1962 Baltimore a thing or two about integration after landing a spot on a local TV dance show.
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Movie: A Boy and His Dog ( 1975 )
A post-apocalyptic tale based on a novella by Harlan Ellison. A boy communicates telepathically with his dog as they scavenge for food and sex, and they stumble into an underground society where the old society is preserved. The daughter of one of the leaders of the community seduces and lures him below, where the citizens have become unable to reproduce because of being underground so long. They use him for impregnation purposes, and then plan to be rid of him.
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Movie: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang ( 2005 )
A murder mystery brings together a private eye, a struggling actress, and a thief masquerading as an actor.
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Movie: The Core ( 2003 )
The only way to save Earth from catastrophe is to drill down to the core and set it spinning again.
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Movie: Pi ( 1998 )
A paranoid mathematician searches for a key number that will unlock the universal patterns found in nature.
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Movie: The Producers ( 1968 )
Producers Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom make money by producing a sure-fire flop.
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Movie: Cherry 2000 ( 1987 )
In 2017, a successful businessman travels to the ends of the earth to find that the perfect woman is always under his nose. He hires a sexy renegade tracker to find an exact duplicate of his android wife.
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Movie: Willard ( 2003 )
A young man with an unusual connection to rats uses them at his own sociopathic will.
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Movie: The Man in the Hat ( 2021 )
The Man in the Hat journeys through France in a Fiat 500 accompanied by a framed photograph of an unknown woman. He is pursued by five angry men in a Citroën Dyane. Why are they chasing him? And how can he shake them off?
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Movie: THX 1138 ( 1971 )
In the twenty-fifth century, a time when people have designations instead of names, a man, THX 1138, and a woman, LUH 3417, rebel against their rigidly controlled society.
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Movie: Billy Jack ( 1971 )
Ex-Green Beret hapkido expert saves wild horses from being slaughtered for dog food and helps protect a desert "freedom school" for runaway.
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Movie: Bubba Ho-Tep ( 2003 )
Elvis and JFK did not die, and today they're roommates in an East Texas nursing home whose residents are being killed by an ancient Egyptian Soul Sucker named Bubba Ho-Tep. This movie is endearing and vulgar in about the right proportion.
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Movie: Häxan ( 1929 )
Part history lesson followed by re-enactments with actors, this film depicts the history of witchcraft from its earliest days through to the present day (in this case,1922 or thereabouts). The result is a documentary-like film that must be among the first to use re-enactments as a visual and narrative tool. From pagan worship to satanic rites to hysteria, the film takes you on a journey through the ages with highly effective visual sequences.
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Movie: Magic Mike ( 2012 )
A male stripper teaches a younger performer how to party, pick up women, and make easy money.
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Movie: Catacombs ( 2007 )
Victoria visits her sister in Paris and goes to a rave in the catacombs under the city, on her first night. The remains of over 6,000,000 people are there and something evil is lurking in the tunnels.
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Movie: Anna and the Apocalypse ( 2018 )
A zombie apocalypse threatens the sleepy town of Little Haven - at Christmas - forcing Anna and her friends to fight, slash and sing their way to survival, facing the undead in a desperate race to reach their loved ones. But they soon discover that no one is safe in this new world, and with civilization falling apart around them, the only people they can truly rely on are each other.
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Movie: Un Chien Andalou ( 1929 )
Un chien andalou is a short starring Pierre Batcheff, Simone Mareuil, and Luis Buñuel. Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí present 21 minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery.
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Movie: The Bride of Frankenstein ( 1935 )
Mary Shelley reveals the main characters of her novel survived: Dr. Frankenstein, goaded by an even madder scientist, builds his monster a mate.
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Movie: High Life ( 2018 )
A father and his daughter struggle to survive in deep space where they live in isolation.
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Movie: Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance ( 2012 )
Johnny Blaze, tortured by the Ghost Rider's curse, gets a chance of redemption through protecting the Devil's son, whose father is pursuing him.
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Movie: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus ( 2010 )
A traveling theater company gives its audience much more than they were expecting.
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Movie: Super Troopers ( 2002 )
Five Vermont state troopers, avid pranksters with a knack for screwing up, try to save their jobs and out-do the local police department by solving a crime.
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Movie: Dead Ringers ( 1988 )
Twin gynecologists take full advantage of the fact that nobody can tell them apart, until their relationship begins to deteriorate over a woman.
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Movie: High Fidelity ( 2000 )
Rob, a record store owner and compulsive list maker, recounts his top five breakups, including the one in progress.
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Movie: A Zed & Two Noughts ( 1985 )
Twin zoologists lose their wives in a car accident and become obsessed with decomposing animals.
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Movie: Koyaanisqatsi ( 1983 )
A collection of expertly photographed phenomena with no conventional plot. The footage focuses on nature, humanity and the relationship between them.
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Movie: Us ( 2019 )
A family's serene beach vacation turns to chaos when their doppelgängers appear and begin to terrorize them.
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Movie: Lolita ( 1962 )
A middle-aged college professor becomes infatuated with a fourteen-year-old nymphet.
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Movie: Buck Rogers in the 25th Century ( 1979 )
A 20th century astronaut emerges out of 500 years of suspended animation into a future time where Earth is threatened by alien invaders.
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Movie: The Green Knight ( 2021 )
A fantasy retelling of the medieval story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
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Movie: Crash ( 1997 )
After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims who use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they produce to try to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife.
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Movie: Tampopo ( 1987 )
A truck driver stops at a small family-run noodle shop and decides to help its fledgling business. The story is intertwined with various vignettes about the relationship of love and food.
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Movie: J.R. 'Bob' Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius ( 2019 )
The Church of the SubGenius has been called "the most aggressively preposterous theology the world has ever known!" But what is the Church? Filmmaker Sandy K. Boone explores the underground movement that has galvanized the imaginative, the artistic, the nerdy, even the deranged - to examine the simmering dystopia in their culture, and do absolutely nothing about it - except, maybe, poke fun at it all.
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Movie: Strangers on a Train ( 1951 )
Bruno Antony thinks he has the perfect plot to rid himself of his hated father, and when he meets tennis player Guy Haines on a train he thinks he's found the partner he needs to pull it off. His plan is relatively simple: Two strangers each agree to kill someone the other person wants gone. For example, Guy could kill his father and he could get rid of Guy's wife Miriam, freeing him to marry Anne Morton, the beautiful daughter of a U.S. Senator. Guy dismisses it all out of hand, but Bruno goes ahead with his half of the "bargain" and disposes of Miriam. When Guy balks, Bruno makes it clear that he will plant evidence to implicate Guy in her murder if he doesn't get rid of his father. Guy had also made some unfortunate statements about Miriam after she had refused to divorce him. It all leads the police to believe Guy is responsible for the murder, forcing him to deal with Bruno's mad ravings.
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Movie: Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai ( 1999 )
An African-American Mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of old finds himself targeted for death by the mob.
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Movie: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ( 1920 )
Hypnotist Dr. Caligari uses a somnambulist, Cesare, to commit murders.
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Movie: Stop Making Sense ( 1984 )
Considered by critics as the greatest concert film of all time, the live performance was shot over the course of three nights at Hollywood's Pantages Theater in December of 1983 and features Talking Heads' most memorable songs.
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Movie: The Skin I Live In ( 2011 )
A brilliant plastic surgeon, haunted by past tragedies, creates a type of synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
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Movie: Thelma & Louise ( 1991 )
Two best friends set out on an adventure, but it soon turns around to a terrifying escape from being hunted by the police, as these two girls escape for the crimes they committed.
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Movie: Showgirls ( 1995 )
Nomi, a young drifter, arrives in Las Vegas to become a dancer and soon sets about clawing and pushing her way to become the top of the Vegas showgirls.
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Movie: Flesh Gordon ( 1974 )
Emperor Wang (the Perverted) is leader of the planet Porno and sends his mighty "Sex Ray" towards Earth, turning everyone into sex-mad fiends. Only one man can save the Earth, football player Flesh Gordon. Along with his girlfriend Dale Ardent and Professor Flexi-Jerkoff, they set off towards the source of the Sex Ray, unaware of the perils that face them!
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Movie: The Bad Batch ( 2017 )
In a desert dystopia, a young woman is kidnapped by cannibals.
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Movie: Horns ( 2014 )
In the aftermath of his girlfriend's mysterious death, a young man awakens to find strange horns sprouting from his forehead.
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Movie: The Blair Witch Project ( 1999 )
Three film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind.
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Movie: 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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Movie: Used Cars ( 1980 )
When the owner of a struggling used car lot is killed, it's up to the lot's hot-shot salesman to save the property from falling into the hands of the owner's ruthless brother and used-car rival.
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Movie: The Atomic Cafe ( 1982 )
Disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed to reassure Americans that the atomic bomb was not a threat to their safety.
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Movie: And Now for Something Completely Different ( 1971 )
An anthology of the best sketches from the first and second seasons of Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969).
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Movie: Death Race 2000 ( 1975 )
In a dystopian future, a cross country automobile race requires contestants to run down innocent pedestrians to gain points that are tallied based on each kill's brutality.
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Movie: El Mariachi ( 1993 )
A traveling mariachi is mistaken for a murderous criminal and must hide from a gang bent on killing him.
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Movie: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown ( 1988 )
A television actress encounters a variety of eccentric characters after embarking on a journey to discover why her lover abruptly left her.
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Movie: Sword of Vengeance ( 2015 )
Vengeance is the driving force behind a shadow walker's return to Norman conquered Saxon lands after the Battle of Hastings and a brutal repression of it's people by a cruel lord.
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Movie: Walkabout ( 1971 )
Two city-bred siblings are stranded in the Australian Outback, where they learn to survive with the aid of an Aboriginal boy on his "walkabout": a ritual separation from his tribe.
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Movie: 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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Movie: Beowulf ( 2007 )
The warrior Beowulf must fight and defeat the monster Grendel, who is terrorizing Denmark, then Grendel's Mother, who begins killing out of revenge.