Dennis Hopper
1) Blue velvet
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A college student stumbles across a bizarre mystery and wants to know more. The strange world he's found lurking beneath his hometown picture-postcard veneer is about to become much stranger.
2) Firestarter
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Firestarter: An eight-year-old girl has the amazing ability to start fires with just a glance. But can this power and the love of her father save her from the sinister government agency, "the Shop, " which wants her destroyed?
Firestarter 2: Years ago, a secret government drug experiment produced a dangerously gifted child. When she becomes enraged, she unleased her pyrokinetic powers. The child is now a woman who has spent the past 10 years on the...
3) Speed
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Jack Traven is a L.A.P.D. SWAT team specialist. He and his partner diffuse a bomb planted in an office elevator, saving the passengers inside. Later, he is sent to diffuse a bomb that the same revenge-driven extortionist has planted on a bus. But until he does, Jack and a passenger must keep the bus speeding through the streets of Los Angeles at more than 50 miles per hour-- or the bomb will explode.
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Zombies have become the dominant population, and they've begun to show signs of undead intelligence and gathering power. The wealthiest human survivors live comfortably in a luxury high-rise building that is barricaded within a safe zone. The wealthy ignore the horrors of the outside world while armed scavengers stage raids in the zombie-zone to gather much-needed food and supplies. Riley and Cholo are mercenaries-for-hire; Kaufman is their nefarious...
5) Elegy
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Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his state of 'emancipated manhood' thrown into tragic disarray. David is a renowned college professor whose life is turned inside out when he becomes involved in a passionate relationship with Consuela. Consuela is a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher. As their sexual relationship evolves, an incredible love story is born.
7) Black Widow
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Debra Winger and Theresa Russell star in Bob Rafelson's complex psychological thriller about a beautiful serial killer whose victims are wealthy men. A lonely federal agent tracks down the alluring seductress only to be turned inside out when she falls under the killer's potent spell herself.
8) Choke
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Blackmail and revenge are the going price for covering up murder in this riveting thriler.
9) River's edge
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Based on an actual event, a close-knit group of teenagers discover that one of their own has killed his girlfriend. Emotionally ill-prepared, they struggle to differentiate between friendship and responsibility.
10) Rumble fish
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Matt Dillon and Mickey Rourke star as two brothers whose desire to break out of their urban trap eventually leads to death for one and a new beginning for the other.
11) 10th & Wolf
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Marine Sgt. Tommy Santoro thought he had left his family's ties to the mafia behind. But a visit from the F.B.I. sends him home to the tightly knit South Philly neighborhood of 10th and Wolf to face the biggest dilemma of his life.
12) Rumble fish
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Criterion collection volume 869
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A street punk worships his older brother, who is the leader of a gang.
14) Speed
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L.A.P.D. SWAT team specialist, Jack Traven, is sent out to diffuse a bomb that a revenge-driven extortionist has planted on a city bus. Annie, one of the passengers on that bus, must now keep the bus speeding through the streets of L.A. at more than 50 miles per hour. If she goes below 50, the bomb on board the bus will detonate.
15) Knockaround guys
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"When you're in the mob, there's no room for mistakes or feelings. Matty finds this out the hard way when his crew loses a bag of cash in a remote town in the Midwest while trying to live up to his mob boss father's aspirations. When Matty's childhood friend Marbles fails to retrieve the money, his best friend Taylor hatches a plan to get it back, but crooked cops control the town and the situation spirals out of control. Uncle Teddy rolls into town...
16) The hot spot
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"Harry Madox is a handsome drifter who is not above larceny to make ends meet. After staging a daring daylight robbery at a local bank, he receives an alibi from an unexpected ally: Dolly Harshaw, a sexy and mysterious local woman who has her own plans for him. But when Harry falls for another beautiful woman, he incurs Dolly's wrath and finds himself caught in a maze of jealousy, betrayal and murder in which escape is impossible and danger is the...
17) Backtrack
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A woman who has witnessed a mob assassination becomes a target for death. She adopts a new identity and is quickly discovered by the mob killer. He has only one problem; he falls in love with her instead of killing her.
18) Leo
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For a class assignment, a troubled young boy named Leo, begins to write to Stephen, a convicted felon in prison. Through their letters, Stephen has a lifeline to the outside world and Leo finds fatherly strength and guidance as he struggles with his mother's tragic past. When he is released from prison, Stephen sets out on a journey to help the boy and perhaps in the process, he can redeem himself. On his way, some co-workers help him, while others...
20) Ticker
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A cop on the edge must team up with the cool-headed leader of the bomb squad to stop a terrorist from continuing his series of deadly bombings.