2009, Movies watched in
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1. Rope (1948)
Approved | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Two men attempt to prove they committed the perfect crime by hosting a dinner party after strangling their former classmate to death.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Dick Hogan
Votes: 153,637
2. Howlers of the Dock (1960)
83 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Follows the adventures of a group of friends, teddy boys and rock and roll chicks whose crazy, fun-loving habits inspire jiving from some of Rome's citizens, and bitter complants from ... See full summary »
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Joe Sentieri, Elke Sommer, Mina, Adriano Celentano
Votes: 146
3. Parigi o cara (1962)
106 min | Comedy
A Roman prostitute leads a bizarre life in the Italian capital until fate brings her to Paris, where the woman dreams of a bright future but has to face a surreal and unwelcoming reality.
Director: Vittorio Caprioli | Stars: Franca Valeri, Vittorio Caprioli, Fiorenzo Fiorentini, Margherita Girelli
Votes: 82
4. Another Gay Movie (2006)
Not Rated | 92 min | Comedy, Romance
Four gay high school friends make a pact to lose their virginity before they go to college.
Director: Todd Stephens | Stars: Michael Carbonaro, Jonathan Chase, Jonah Blechman, Mitch Morris
Votes: 9,459 | Gross: $0.65M
5. The Opposite of Sex (1998)
R | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A 16-year-old girl visits her gay half-brother and ends up seducing his boyfriend, thus wreaking havoc on all of their lives.
Director: Don Roos | Stars: Christina Ricci, Martin Donovan, Lisa Kudrow, Lyle Lovett
Votes: 21,762 | Gross: $5.88M
6. Nights of Cabiria (1957)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
A waifish prostitute wanders the streets of Rome looking for true love but finds only heartbreak.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Giulietta Masina, François Périer, Franca Marzi, Dorian Gray
Votes: 51,939 | Gross: $0.75M
7. Star Pilot (1966)
PG | 91 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
A spaceship from Hydra crashes on Sardinia. Aliens take a scientist, his daughter, technicians and spies hostage to fix their ship. After repairs, aliens abduct the humans but they rebel, sending the ship into deep space.
Director: Pietro Francisci | Stars: Leonora Ruffo, Mario Novelli, Roland Lesaffre, Kirk Morris
Votes: 614
8. 8½ (1963)
Not Rated | 138 min | Drama
A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimée, Claudia Cardinale, Sandra Milo
Votes: 125,190 | Gross: $0.05M
9. Son of the Bride (2001)
R | 123 min | Comedy, Drama
A dissatisfied 40-year-old, separated and without time for his own daughter and girlfriend must rethink his life when his father decides to marry his mother, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, by church.
Director: Juan José Campanella | Stars: Ricardo Darín, Héctor Alterio, Norma Aleandro, Eduardo Blanco
Votes: 16,510 | Gross: $0.62M
10. Gli uomini, che mascalzoni... (1932)
64 min | Comedy, Romance
Bruno, a young Milanese driver, falls in love with Mariuccia, dependent on a perfumery. Wanting to impress her, he shows up for their first date, in his employer's car.
Director: Mario Camerini | Stars: Lia Franca, Vittorio De Sica, Cesare Zoppetti, Aldo Moschino
Votes: 466
11. Johnny Suede (1991)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A struggling young musician and devoted fan of Ricky Nelson wants to be just like his idol and become a rock star.
Director: Tom DiCillo | Stars: Brad Pitt, Richard Boes, Cheryl Costa, Michael Luciano
Votes: 4,446 | Gross: $0.09M
12. Youth Without Youth (2007)
R | 124 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
A love story wrapped in a mystery. Set in World War II Europe, a professor is changed by a cataclysmic event and explores the mysteries of life.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Tim Roth, Alexandra Maria Lara, Bruno Ganz, André Hennicke
Votes: 14,187 | Gross: $0.24M
13. Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)
PG-13 | 120 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A bored married couple is surprised to learn that they are both assassins hired by competing agencies to kill each other.
Director: Doug Liman | Stars: Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Adam Brody, Vince Vaughn
Votes: 541,497 | Gross: $186.34M
14. Ghosts, Italian Style (1967)
G | 92 min | Comedy, Fantasy
Married couple Pasquale and Maria live in a palace supposedly haunted by ghosts and pay no rent. When Pasquale finds some food in the cupboard. he thinks the ghosts are at work, but it is ... See full summary »
Director: Renato Castellani | Stars: Sophia Loren, Vittorio Gassman, Mario Adorf, Aldo Giuffrè
Votes: 589
15. L'inquilina del piano di sopra (1978)
Comedy
Director: Ferdinando Baldi | Stars: Lino Toffolo, Silvia Dionisio, Pippo Franco, Liana Trouche
Votes: 34
16. Hercules and the Captive Women (1961)
Unrated | 94 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Strong yet sleepy Hercules discovers that the Queen of Atlantis is plotting to take over the world with superhuman warriors.
Director: Vittorio Cottafavi | Stars: Reg Park, Fay Spain, Ettore Manni, Luciano Marin
Votes: 1,633
17. Be Cool (2005)
PG-13 | 118 min | Comedy, Crime, Music
Disenchanted with the movie industry, Chili Palmer tries the music industry, meeting and romancing a widow of a music executive on the way.
Director: F. Gary Gray | Stars: John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Dwayne Johnson, Vince Vaughn
Votes: 72,184 | Gross: $56.05M
18. Hercules and the Tyrants of Babylon (1964)
Unrated | 86 min | Adventure, Fantasy
Hercules fights to free the people of Babylon from an evil sorceress.
Director: Domenico Paolella | Stars: Peter Lupus, Helga Liné, Mario Petri, Livio Lorenzon
Votes: 576
19. Il commissario Pepe (1969)
107 min | Comedy, Drama
A police commissioner in a little town in the Italian Venetian province investigates a prostitution ring run by two pensioners; during his investigations he also learns that a former ... See full summary »
Director: Ettore Scola | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Silvia Dionisio, Tano Cimarosa, Giuseppe Maffioli
Votes: 496
20. Vogliamo i colonnelli (1973)
98 min | Comedy
Italy 1973. Giuseppe Tritoni (Ugo Tognazzi) is an ultra-right-wing congressman that doesn't agree anymore with his fascist party policy. He contacts many Italian Army officers and built a ... See full summary »
Director: Mario Monicelli | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Claude Dauphin, Duilio Del Prete, Giuseppe Maffioli
Votes: 657
21. Bus Stop (1956)
Approved | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A naive but stubborn cowboy falls in love with a saloon singer and tries to take her away against her will to get married and live on his ranch in Montana.
Director: Joshua Logan | Stars: Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray, Arthur O'Connell, Betty Field
Votes: 12,769
22. Trastevere (1971)
98 min | Comedy
A missing dog wanders through the Trastevere district of Rome and pass into the hands of several temporary owners.
Director: Fausto Tozzi | Stars: Nino Manfredi, Rosanna Schiaffino, Vittorio Caprioli, Ottavia Piccolo
Votes: 179
23. The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960)
PG | 123 min | Biography, Drama, History
A chronicle of Oscar Wilde's libel suit against the Marquis of Queensberry and the tragic turn his life takes because of it.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Peter Finch, Yvonne Mitchell, James Mason, Nigel Patrick
Votes: 1,120
24. Alfredo, Alfredo (1972)
R | 98 min | Comedy, Romance
Alfredo, a timid young Italian, lusts after and woos the beautiful Maria Rosa. But when he manages to marry her, he discovers life is not nearly so blissful as he expected.
Director: Pietro Germi | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Stefania Sandrelli, Carla Gravina, Saro Urzì
Votes: 1,184 | Gross: $0.15M
25. Hercules, Samson & Ulysses (1963)
Approved | 93 min | Adventure, Fantasy
Two strongmen set out to hunt down a murderous sea monster. Their ship is wrecked and they end up in the Holy Land where Hercules is assumed to be Samson who is a wanted man. The two team up to survive.
Director: Pietro Francisci | Stars: Kirk Morris, Iloosh Khoshabe, Liana Orfei, Diletta D'Andrea
Votes: 697
26. Seven Beauties (1975)
R | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, War
The defense of honor, a strong value in Neapolitan society, and its effects on the life of everyman Pasquale Frafuso.
Director: Lina Wertmüller | Stars: Giancarlo Giannini, Fernando Rey, Shirley Stoler, Elena Fiore
Votes: 6,486 | Gross: $0.01M
27. Poppy (1952)
90 min | Comedy
A high school girl, enamored by her young teacher, follows him and discovers that his home life holds many secrets.
Directors: Marcello Marchesi, Vittorio Metz | Stars: Walter Chiari, Anna Maria Ferrero, Carlo Campanini, Luisa Rossi
Votes: 27
28. Satiricosissimo (1970)
92 min | Comedy
Ciccio loves very much the novel Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter, although his friend Franco does not understand him.
Director: Mariano Laurenti | Stars: Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia, Edwige Fenech, Giancarlo Badessi
Votes: 110
29. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)
R | 88 min | Comedy, Drama
A television actress encounters a variety of eccentric characters after embarking on a journey to discover why her lover abruptly left her.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Julieta Serrano, Rossy de Palma
Votes: 46,454 | Gross: $7.18M
30. Open Your Eyes (1997)
R | 119 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A very handsome man finds the love of his life, but he suffers an accident and needs to have his face rebuilt by surgery after it is severely disfigured.
Director: Alejandro Amenábar | Stars: Eduardo Noriega, Penélope Cruz, Chete Lera, Fele Martínez
Votes: 73,244 | Gross: $0.37M
31. Boy Culture (2006)
Unrated | 88 min | Drama, Romance
A successful male escort describes in a series of confessions his tangled romantic relationships with his two roommates and an older, enigmatic male client.
Director: Q. Allan Brocka | Stars: Derek Magyar, George Jonson, Patrick Bauchau, Darryl Stephens
Votes: 5,947 | Gross: $0.22M
32. Costa Azzurra (1959)
84 min | Comedy
Various short stories. Giovanna arrives from Rome with her husband Alberto for a film audition. The journalist Gino comes to interview the great industrial Signore Carsoli. The famous ... See full summary »
Director: Vittorio Sala | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Rita Gam, Antonio Cifariello, Elsa Martinelli
Votes: 168
33. The Bigamist (1956)
110 min | Comedy
A traveling salesman is sent to prison after being accused of bigamy, while his wife and son are forced to consider leaving him permanently.
Director: Luciano Emmer | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Franca Valeri, Giovanna Ralli, Marisa Merlini
Votes: 236
34. Amor de hombre (1997)
Not Rated | 88 min | Comedy, Drama
In 1990s Spain, the strong friendship between a gay man and his female best friend is tested by his entering into a relationship with another man. The girlfriend, used to getting all the ... See full summary »
Directors: Yolanda García Serrano, Juan Luis Iborra | Stars: Loles León, Andrea Occhipinti, Pedro Mari Sánchez, Armando del Río
Votes: 530
35. Kinsey (2004)
R | 118 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A look at the life of Alfred Kinsey, a pioneer in the area of human sexuality research, whose 1948 publication "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" was one of the first recorded works that saw science address sexual behavior.
Director: Bill Condon | Stars: Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O'Donnell, Peter Sarsgaard
Votes: 50,960 | Gross: $10.21M
36. Oh, Carmela! (1990)
PG-13 | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, War
During the Spanish Civil War, a group of comics lightens the days of the Republican troops. Tired of life in the front lines, they make their way to Valencia, accidentally entering enemy land and falling prisoner.
Director: Carlos Saura | Stars: Carmen Maura, Andrés Pajares, Gabino Diego, Armando De Razza
Votes: 3,336 | Gross: $0.30M
37. Mater natura (2005)
94 min | Comedy
Desiderio is a young transsexual who prostitutes for a living. After meeting Andrea, she falls in love with him and decides to leave the street, not knowing that he is about to get married.
Director: Massimo Andrei | Stars: Maria Pia Calzone, Valerio Foglia Manzillo, Enzo Moscato, Vladimir Luxuria
Votes: 91
38. The Moralist (1959)
120 min | Comedy
Augustino works as the General Secretary of Social Morality Union and takes fight to all kinds of mundane vices - striptease, nudity in movies and commercials. He is incorrupt and ... See full summary »
Director: Giorgio Bianchi | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Vittorio De Sica, Franco Fabrizi, Christiane Nielsen
Votes: 415
39. Day for Night (1973)
PG | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.
Director: François Truffaut | Stars: Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Léaud, François Truffaut, Valentina Cortese
Votes: 24,784 | Gross: $0.02M
40. A Serious Man (2009)
R | 106 min | Comedy, Drama
Larry Gopnik, a Midwestern physics teacher, watches his life unravel over multiple sudden incidents. Though seeking meaning and answers amidst his turmoils, he seems to keep sinking.
Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen | Stars: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Sari Lennick, Fred Melamed
Votes: 149,921 | Gross: $9.19M
41. District 9 (2009)
R | 112 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Violence ensues after an extraterrestrial race forced to live in slum-like conditions on Earth finds a kindred spirit in a government agent exposed to their biotechnology.
Director: Neill Blomkamp | Stars: Sharlto Copley, David James, Jason Cope, Vanessa Haywood
Votes: 716,857 | Gross: $115.65M
42. Avatar (2009)
PG-13 | 162 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A paraplegic Marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home.
Director: James Cameron | Stars: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez
Votes: 1,386,454 | Gross: $760.51M
43. The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button (2009 Video)
175 min | Documentary
A documentary about the making of David Fincher's 2008 film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. The documentary follows the project's beginning during the 1990s, filming on location in New Orleans, and its complex CGI post-production.
Director: David Prior | Stars: David Fincher, Kathleen Kennedy, Joshua Donen, Frank Marshall
Votes: 36,448
44. Inglourious Basterds (2009)
R | 153 min | Adventure, Drama, War
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same.
Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Eli Roth, Mélanie Laurent
Votes: 1,584,139 | Gross: $120.54M
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