In co-writer/director John Dahl's visually-stylistic neo-noir crime drama-thriller - the sleeper film (rated R mostly for graphic violence) was Dahl's debut feature film. He would go on to direct two ...

In director Dennis Hopper's contemporary, nihilistic erotic thriller and neo-noir - its themes were blackmail, adultery, murder and double-crossing twists and turns within a love-triangle amongst a ...

Lawrence of Arabia (1962) is the filmic retelling of Britishman T. E. Lawrence's heroic, autobiographical account of his own Arabian adventure, published in "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom" (originally ...

Greatest Opening Film Lines and Quotes: These are many of the best-known opening lines, fade-ins, and first words of dialogue heard throughout cinematic history - the initial opening words of films ...

The mid-to-late 70s and early 80s inaugurated a period of low-brow, teasy, R-rated sexy, US-made teen comedies (horror films not usually included) with gratuitous nudity, mindlessly weak plots, and ...

The Wild Bunch (1969) is director/co-writer Sam Peckinpah's provocative, brilliant yet controversial Western, shocking for its graphic and elevated portrayal of violence and savagely-explicit carnage, ...

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The Sound of Music (1965) was an exceptionally successful film in the mid-1960s - at the time of its release, it surpassed Gone With the Wind (1939) as the number one box office hit of all time. It ...

"I'll meet you tonight under the moon. Oh, I can see you now, you and the moon. You wear a necktie so I'll know ya." ...

It employed both revolutionary, never-before-seen techniques and traditional visual-special effects (including miniature models, matte paintings, rear projection, and stop motion). For example, both ...

Stanley Kubrick's landmark, science fiction classic has become the best science-fiction film of all time about exploration of the unknown - it was also an unconventional horror film about how ...

Name and/or Secret Identity: a special name, that possibly described their superhero type; also a secret or special identity or alter-ego (many superheroes have dual identities or names - civilian and ...