Brian De Palma, a list by Mousa A

8.3

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82

/20252/

82

/12650/

4.1

/1387619/

78

/82/

93

/30667/

65

/9/

4.0

age 18+

After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the state, controlling nearly all the cocaine that comes through Miami. But increased pressure from the police, wars with Colombian drug cartels and his own drug-fueled paranoia serve to fuel the flames of his eventual downfall.

82

7.4

/74178/

73

/2269/

74

/1612/

4.1

/254871/

88

/59/

81

/803/

86

/15/

4.0

While recording sound effects for a slasher flick, Jack Terry stumbles upon a real-life horror: a car careening off a bridge and into a river. Jack jumps into the water and fishes out Sally from the car, but the other passenger is already dead — a governor intending to run for president. As Jack does some investigating of his tapes, and starts a perilous romance with Sally, he enters a tangled web of conspiracy that might leave him dead.

80

7.9

/245368/

78

/4389/

78

/3361/

4.1

/179136/

84

/51/

91

/4454/

66

/25/

3.5

Free after years in prison, Carlito Brigante intends to give up his criminal ways, but it's not long before the ex-con is sucked back into the New York City underworld. Reconnecting with his dancer girlfriend, Carlito gets entangled in the shady dealings of his friend Dave Kleinfeld, who also serves as his lawyer. An encounter with shifty gangster Benny Blanco sets the duo on a dangerous path.

80

7.4

/225416/

73

/6774/

73

/4163/

3.9

/795479/

94

/81/

77

/8904/

86

/21/

3.5

age 15+

Withdrawn and sensitive teenager Carrie White faces bullying from classmates and abuse from her fanatically pious mother. When she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers, things take a dark and violent turn.

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7.8

/350792/

78

/8347/

77

/6012/

3.8

/291218/

83

/76/

89

/7512/

79

/16/

2.5

age 16+

Elliot Ness, an ambitious prohibition agent, is determined to take down Al Capone. In order to achieve this goal, he forms a group given the nickname “The Untouchables”.

76

7.3

/25498/

75

/883/

75

/723/

4.1

/137341/

82

/68/

84

/890/

67

/9/

Singer-songwriter Winslow Leach seeks revenge on the nefarious music producer Swan, who steals both Winslow's music and his favorite singer for the grand opening of Swan's new rock palace, the Paradise.

74

7.1

/51215/

72

/1121/

71

/966/

3.6

/30454/

82

/50/

75

/692/

75

/24/

3.0

During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.

73

7.0

/55388/

69

/1412/

69

/1072/

3.6

/112995/

83

/60/

74

/578/

74

/16/

3.0

After witnessing a mysterious woman brutally slay a homemaker, prostitute Liz Blake finds herself trapped in a dangerous situation. While the police thinks she is the murderer, the real killer is intent on silencing her only witness.

72

6.8

/44191/

68

/1212/

68

/879/

3.8

/102651/

78

/41/

65

/472/

69

/18/

3.5

After losing an acting role and his girlfriend, Jake Scully finally catches a break: he gets offered a gig house-sitting in the Hollywood Hills. While peering through the beautiful home's telescope one night, he spies a gorgeous woman dancing in her window. But when he witnesses the girl's murder, it leads Scully through the netherworld of the adult entertainment industry on a search for answers—with porn actress Holly Body as his guide.

71

6.8

/23172/

67

/473/

66

/428/

3.6

/57219/

86

/50/

71

/380/

70

/16/

3.0

Inquisitive journalist Grace Collier is horrified when she witnesses her neighbor, fashion model Danielle Breton, violently murder a man. Panicking, she calls the police. But when the detective arrives at the scene and finds nothing amiss, Grace is forced to take matters into her own hands. Her first move is to recruit private investigator Joseph Larch, who helps her to uncover a secret about Danielle's past that has them both seeing double.

69

7.2

/512308/

73

/20931/

70

/9714/

3.6

/734080/

67

/165/

71

/15930/

59

/29/

3.0

age 13+

When Ethan Hunt, the leader of a crack espionage team whose perilous operation has gone awry with no explanation, discovers that a mole has penetrated the CIA, he's surprised to learn that he's the prime suspect. To clear his name, Hunt now must ferret out the real double agent and, in the process, even the score.

67

6.7

/13199/

65

/272/

66

/308/

3.5

/26246/

77

/31/

58

/127/

59

/10/

3.0

A wealthy New Orleans businessman becomes obsessed with a young woman who resembles his late wife.

65

6.3

/18739/

64

/456/

63

/388/

3.3

/24300/

79

/33/

50

/239/

64

/12/

3.0

When a devious plot separates CIA agent Peter Sandza from his son, Robin, the distraught father manages to see through the ruse. Taken because of his psychic abilities, Robin is being held by Ben Childress, who is studying people with supernatural powers in hopes of developing their talents as weapons. Soon Peter pairs up with Gillian, a teen who has telekinesis, to find and rescue Robin.

63

6.2

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61

/825/

61

/630/

3.4

/27029/

49

/137/

49

/542/

60

/30/

4.0

A $10-million diamond rip-off, a stolen identity, a new life married to a diplomat. Laure Ash has risked big, won big. But then a tabloid shutterbug snaps her picture in Paris, and suddenly, enemies from Laure's secret past know who and where she is. And they all want their share of the diamond heist. Or her life. Or both.

62

5.6

/4460/

61

/78/

55

/104/

3.0

/7229/

89

/18/

42

/51/

3.0

Three friends in New York City discuss how to dodge the draft and Vietnam, JFK's assassination, voyeurism, computer dating, and everything else.

59

6.1

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63

/202/

60

/179/

3.2

/6639/

44

/108/

45

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52

/30/

3.5

age 17+

A fictional documentary discusses the effects the Iraq war has had on soldiers and local people through interviews with members of an American military unit, the media, and local Iraqis.

65

58

6.1

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67

/141/

63

/201/

3.5

/21305/

77

/13/

54

/85/

Vietnam vet Jon Rubin returns to New York and rents a rundown flat in Greenwich Village. It is in this flat that he begins to film, 'Peeping Tom' style, the people in the apartment across the street. His obsession with making films leads him to fall in with a radical 'Black Power' group, which in turn leads him to carry out a bizarre act of urban terrorism.

56

6.1

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62

/463/

60

/377/

3.3

/25120/

64

/42/

41

/293/

42

/24/

Child psychologist Carter Nix is a loving and caring family man, but under this appearance lies a dark and troubled past. Grappling with the consequences of this past on his own psyche and the influence of his returning father and violent brother Cain, Carter becomes involved in a series of murders and kidnappings. Meanwhile, his wife Jenny rekindles an old love affair, placing herself in the crosshairs of her increasingly unstable husband.

55

5.6

/6795/

60

/124/

54

/113/

2.8

/4551/

29

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42

/81/

62

/15/

3.5

Harry Valentini and Moe Dickstein are both errand boys for the Mob. When they lose $250,000, they are set up to kill each other. But they run off to Atlantic City and comedy follows.

54

5.3

/25214/

55

/677/

52

/442/

2.9

/19495/

36

/75/

25

/286/

54

/22/

4.0

age 18+

The rivalry between the manipulative boss of an advertising agency and her talented protégée escalates from stealing credit to public humiliation to murder.

51

6.1

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64

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61

/1458/

3.4

/83245/

42

/71/

35

/1139/

52

/24/

1.0

All bets are off when shady homicide cop Rick Santoro witnesses a murder during a boxing match. It's up to him and lifelong friend, Naval intelligence agent Kevin Dunne, to uncover the conspiracy behind the killing. At every turn, Santoro makes increasingly shocking discoveries that even he can't turn a blind eye to.

48

5.7

/79213/

63

/2650/

59

/1519/

2.8

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23

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30

/1441/

34

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2.5

age 10+

When the first manned mission to Mars meets with a catastrophic and mysterious disaster after reporting an unidentified structure, a rescue mission is launched to investigate the tragedy and bring back any survivors.

47

5.6

/79445/

58

/1527/

56

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2.7

/38595/

31

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27

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49

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age 18+

In 1940s Los Angeles, two former boxers-turned-cops must grapple with corruption, narcissism, stag films and family madness as they pursue the killer of an aspiring young actress.

46

4.5

/7142/

51

/603/

46

/293/

2.5

/8621/

34

/71/

18

/28/

40

/20/

3.5

age 17+

Seeking justice for his partner’s murder by an ISIS member, a Copenhagen police officer finds himself caught in a cat and mouse game with a duplicitous CIA agent who is using the killer as a pawn to trap other ISIS members.

44

5.6

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58

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56

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2.7

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15

/54/

26

/267/

27

/27/

2.5

After his mistress runs over a black teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotlight; A down-and-out reporter breaks the story and opportunists clamber to use it to their advantage.

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28

5.2

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46

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49

/21/

2.7

/1705/

60

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41

/12/

A young businessman goes to a magic expert to learn hardness and skill with his cynical and greedy collaborators. He becomes a very good tap dancer, but will he be able to get free of his old boss?

45

27

5.3

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45

/28/

45

/25/

2.8

/2855/

27

/282/

Naive young Karen wants to help her struggling amateur filmmaker boyfriend Christopher raise enough money so he can divorce his wife. Meanwhile, jolly psycho-prankster Otto stalks the building where Christopher is shooting a low-grade adult movie in order to keep himself afloat.

49

27

5.0

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48

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56

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2.8

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39

/24/

A cult guru urges a shy disciple to make life a movie and be its star.

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24

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48

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43

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2.5

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19

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Young Charlie begins to develop a case of cold feet as his upcoming wedding looms nearer. Desperate to throw the wedding plans off the track, Charlie tries a variety of tactics, including attempting to rekindle the relationship between his fiancée Josephine and her former boyfriend.

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18

5.0

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30

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61

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3.1

/735/

33

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Filmed stageplay based on the ancient greek play The Bacchae written by Euripides. This play is performed by members of The Performance Group, an NYC experimental theater group who has made their own personal adaptation of this ancient text.

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11

5.1

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23

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61

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3.0

/664/

Woton Wretchichevsky has a disfigured face, dresses in a cloak and mask, and stalks couples to burn them with a blowtorch. He is also a sculptor of steel and garbage installations. One day, one of his creations comes to life in the form of a young woman. She flees from him when he tries to express his love by pointing his blowtorch at her.

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10

5.9

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30

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53

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