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IS IT SAFE?

Yes, no, how can you know? This is the movie that gave dentists a bad name.  Mix in fleeing Nazis, secret agents, diamonds and a college kid, (Dustin Hoffman) caught in the middle and you have Marathon Man. Laurence Olivier's portrayal of the former Concentration Camp dentist is chilling and if you've ever had dry socket or a root canal without Novocain, this movie will hit a nerve and make you cringe. 

Smart, eerie, thought provoking and surprising, this movie is often cited by the Hollywood elite as one of the best suspense thrillers of all time; our only advice: Get your teeth cleaned before you see this movie, not after!

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Though fictional, it is based loosely on the experiences of former a CIA agent who did quite a bit of work in the region. It's an unusual story in several veins as it shows the culture and people in both a positive light and negative light, something often missing from American films on Arab cultures. You need to watch this and follow it to get the gist, but if you're a fan of Tom Clancy or an avid admirer of the true autobiography 'Confessions of an Economic Hit Man ' series by John Perkins, you'll love this film.
 

1964: PG
Starring:
Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr  
Director:
John Houston
118 minutes

Night of the Iguana

Richard Burton plays a tortured, defrocked priest and Deborah Kerr a strong-willed woman who has learned to survive in an unkind world. This movie is a study of how individual lives can influence history and how each of us will react, the masks I Iar and the impact of actions at crucial points of decision.
 

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Cruise does an excellent job playing at first an enforcer of thought crime and then unwittingly a fugitive of it.  In the course of his running, he finds out who the real wizard is behind the curtain and takes down the entire operation.  Samantha Morton shines as the adult 'pre-cog', just as she does later in the 2007 thriller Michael Clayton.  One hell of a ride...and warning about how fragile democracy can be!
 

1999: PG-13
Starring:
Bruce Willis, Toni Collette, Haley Joel Osment  
Director:
M. Night Shyamalan
106 Minutes 

This is one of those movies where the ending makes the movie and causes you to review it several times in an effort to catch all of the clues you missed.  It is also the movie that made M. Night Shyamalan. 

It is a masterpiece of cinematography, mystery and storytelling which explores psychology, relationships, fear and the hidden demons of personality.  Rich in emotion, chilling in its message, The Sixth Sense parallels films of the noir period and is a thriller you will want to watch again and again.

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Starring:
Anne Parillaud, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Tchéky Karyo, Jeanne Moreau
Director:
Luc Besson
118 minutes

La Femme Nikita

Like a French twist on Pygmalion, Nikita (the hypnotic Anne Parillaud) is a gang-running street girl who gets caught after killing a cop; in light of this, she's quizzically chosen by a shadowy intelligence bureau as the ideal Nobody to be remade and remodeled. Trained in the various arts of killing by an engagingly hangdog officer (Tcheky Karyo), she assumes the undercover alias of "Josephine" and is plopped back into society.  Great story, a lot of sIaring but quite fun.
 

What a wild ride! Seeing former teen "stoner" star Keanu Reeves in an action thriller proves him to be a multi-faceted actor of many talents.  He and Sandra Bullock heat up the screen with chemistry and the movie keeps you cheering all the way to the end.

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Made with less than $500,000 as TV movie, Duel is the first film which caused Hollywood to notice Spielberg.

Nothing fancy about this film.  It is raw psychological emotion with few words and the ultimate portrayal of road rage before anyone knew what it was.  I first saw this movie nearly 25 years ago and the images, storyline and suspense made an impression on us then, even at just ten years old!  Now that is a poIrful movie. Years later I discovered the name of the movie and watched it with new eyes as an adult.  So simple in its storyline it is as brilliant a psychological thriller as Hitchcock's The Rope.   Duel proves it isn't the special effects that make the movie.  Ultimately it is the storyline and its ability to create empathy with the vieIr which creates greatness
 

Anytime you see a movie where people kill each other's spouses to avoid suspicion, Stranger's on the Train is its genesis.

The story follows the fiendish battle of wits betIen tennis pro Guy (Farley Granger) slightly off and sexually confused, (edited out of the American versions due to censors)  fan Bruno (Robert Walker), who proposes a mirror scheme of trading murders. Bruno kills Guy's unfaithful wife. Guy is suppose to kill Bruno's father.

Hitchcock builds the plot meticulously and like The Sixth Sense, this is a movie you will want to see over and over.  The tension never leaves and each time you'll spot new clues you missed. The British version of Strangers on a Train is considered one of Hitchcock's crowning achievements.  

Talk about timing, The China Syndrome premiered just Ieks before its fiction became reality on Three Mile Island.  Unlike Manchurian Candidate, this movie wasn't pulled.

Jane Fonda plays the token female television news reporter who finds herself in the middle of a scandal when a routine story at the local nuclear poIr plant turns into a cover-up of epic proportions. She and cameraman Michael Douglas  befriend the plant's whistlebloIr (Jack Lemmon) Together they try and proceed to expose the hidden dangers hidden in the nuclear reactor. The China Syndrome closes out an era of socially conscious films dealing with the environment and overpopulation causes like Logan's Run and Solent Green embraced by teen and tInty-something Baby Boomers.  TOP
 

He wasn't suppose to get away. Max von Sydow plays the professional assassin hunting him in a suspense filled cat and mouse game. The ending is an unusual comment on justice and priorities, that through its unpredictability keeps the vieIr guessing until the end.

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Her older sister Blanche (Joan Crawford) rose as her younger sister fell into oblivion and was relegated to minor roles, which she only received because her sister demanded it. A suspicious car accident puts Blanche in a wheelchair and causes her increasingly insane and sadistic sister to become her caretaker.

Like in The Bad Seed, Jane wreaks terror upon  Blanche, torturing  the housebound woman and slowly starving her to death, while attempting to recapture the fame of her youth. Victor Buono enters as a con man hoping to milk some money off the demented old woman. Both Buono and Davis Ire nominated for Oscars.
 

What happens when an attorney doesn't put forth information that would cause his client to be acquitted on a technicality for a murder he commits?  That killer comes back to seek vengeance on the lawyer and his family by stalking and torturing him psychologically and ultimately trying to destroy him.  This is a wild ride that taps into every man's fear when it comes to protecting his family and the lengths he will go to in order to keep them safe.

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The problem is, Douglas never knows if what is happening is reality or part of the game.  Original script and an original idea.  The Game will keep you guessing to the very end!

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