1980sMay 19, 2026
A suicidal LAPD detective is partnered with a family-man veteran during a Christmas drug investigation that turns into open warfare. Lethal Weapon is Richard Donner's 1987 American action film about a suicidal Los Angeles Police Department narcotics detective who is…
1980sMay 19, 2026
Tim Burton's comedy about a deceased couple haunting their old house and hiring a deranged bio-exorcist to scare out the living family. Alec Baldwin plays Adam Maitland.
2010sMay 19, 2026
Andrés Muschietti adapts the first half of King's novel about children battling a shape-shifting evil in 1980s Derry, Maine. It is Andrés Muschietti's 2017 American supernatural horror film adapting the first half of Stephen King's 1986 novel, depicting a group…
1980sMay 19, 2026
Joel Schumacher directs the story of teenage brothers moving to a California coastal town where the local cool kids are vampires. The Lost Boys is Joel Schumacher's 1987 American horror-comedy film depicting teenage brothers who move with their divorced mother…
2020sMay 19, 2026
Violent Night is Tommy Wirkola's 2022 American action-comedy depicting Santa Claus, played as a disillusioned former Viking warrior, trapped inside a wealthy family's Connecticut compound as mercenaries take the family hostage on Christmas Eve, leading Santa to fight back with…
1980sMay 19, 2026
Howell, Lowe, Macchio, Dillon, Cruise, Estevez, Swayze. After Johnny kills a Soc during a confrontation in defense of Ponyboy, the boys flee to an abandoned country church where they hide until Johnny suffers fatal injuries rescuing children from the burning…
1980sMay 19, 2026
Hayao Miyazaki's 1988 Studio Ghibli pastoral. Two girls discover forest spirits in rural Japan.
1980sMay 19, 2026
Spielberg's 1982 alien-and-boy fable. Highest-grossing film for over a decade.
2000sMay 19, 2026
Peter Weir's 2003 Patrick O'Brian adaptation. Russell Crowe as Aubrey, Bettany as Maturin.
1980sMay 18, 2026
1989 Amy Heckerling comedy with John Travolta and Kirstie Alley. Bruce Willis voices a sarcastic infant narrator.
1990sMay 18, 2026
Diminishing returns on the talking-baby concept. Travolta and Alley return as James and Mollie, now married with a toddler Mikey and a baby Julie.
2010sMay 17, 2026
Yeon Sang-ho's 2016 Korean zombie film. The whole movie happens on one train.
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