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1	00 Schneider – Jagd auf Nihil Baxter	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/00_Schneider_%E2%80%93_Jagd_auf_Nihil_Baxter	1,994	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films:_numbers	{"Directed by": "Helge Schneider", "Written by": "Helge Schneider, Brötchen", "Produced by": "Hanno Huth", "Starring": "Helge Schneider, Helmut Körschgen, Andreas Kunze", "Cinematography": "Christoph Schlingensief", "Edited by": "Andrea Schumacher", "Music by": "Helge Schneider", "Release date": "22 December 1994 ( 1994-12-22 )", "Running time": "90 minutes", "Country": "Germany", "Language": "German"}	["00 Schneider – Jagd auf Nihil Baxter ( Hunt for Nihil Baxter ) is a German comedy-film directed by Helge Schneider . It was released on 22 December 1994.", "He wrote the script as well as the music, did film direction , and played the main character and several additional roles.", "The funny clown Bratislav Metulskie is found dead in the \"Apollo\" circus. Retired inspector 00 Schneider is asked to take over the case. Schneider and his aged sidekick Körschgen investigate the murder and soon identify a suspect by the name of Nihil Baxter. The passionate art collector is a little nuts and does not cultivate social contacts at all. Inspector Schneider investigates at the circus and pays Baxter a visit. Baxter makes up an alibi and claims that he was working on a painting when the murder took place. Körschgen finds out that the picture is an imitation. When Baxter tries to escape to Rio by plane after he stole a sculpture from the practice of Dr. Hasenbein, 00 Schneider and his sidekick are also on board. As they are incognito, they are able to arrest the criminal with the help of the world-famous \"sniffer dog nose\" pilot.", "Helge Schneider has described his second film as his best. The film is a colorful kaleidoscope of characters, scenes and locations. Even more than the other Schneider films, this one is characterized by a loose, often almost superfluous basic plot, which Schneider repeatedly tilts, twists or even abandons with great pleasure. An avant-garde sequence in the Neandertal Museum in Mettmann, for example, which is accompanied by an opera parody sung by Schneider himself (Schneider sings the operating instructions for a Uher tape recorder backwards), turns out to be the detective's dream. What was most important to Schneider was the portrayal of the characters' lives and everyday lives. Added to this was his special way of filming: basically without a script.", "Filming took place in Schneider's hometown of Mülheim an der Ruhr and in the rest of the Ruhr area, such as in Gelsenkirchen, where the Circus Apollo performed in the so-called Kesselpark .", "With the inspector, Schneider brings a character to the screen that he developed in his crime novels and had already introduced in Texas: Doc Snyder Holds the World in Suspense . An important stylistic feature of the novels is the exaggerated depiction of violence that is absurd, which was not implemented in the film in this form. But even this 00 Schneider has a latent arbitrariness and brutality, for example when he destroys a little boy's scooter. A scene in which he fights with Nihil Baxter did not make it into the final version of the film.", "Schneider can be seen in four roles in the film: as Inspector 00 Schneider, as criminal Nihil Baxter, as amateur surgeon Dr. Hasenbein and as pop star Johnny Flash, which required the sometimes complicated use of doubles. Schneider deliberately chose a double who did not look like him. A scene with the inspector, Körschgen and Nihil Baxter in the same room became a technical challenge when Körschgen was also unable to take part due to illness.", "Other double roles are played by Andreas Kunze (as Mrs. Inspector 00 Schneider and as a tiger in the circus) and Thomas Busch (as secretary and double of Helge Schneider).", "The cars used in the film are a Jaguar E-Type, a Peugeot 404 and a Triumph TR3.", "[ 1 ]"]	tt0109000	2025-06-27 14:21:02
2	One Night of Love	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Night_of_Love	1,934	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films:_numbers	{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/75/Onenightoflove.JPG/250px-Onenightoflove.JPG", "Directed by": "Victor Schertzinger", "Written by": "Charles Beahan (story) Dorothy Speare (story) James Gow S.K. Lauren Edmund H. North", "Produced by": "Harry Cohn", "Starring": "Grace Moore Tullio Carminati Lyle Talbot", "Cinematography": "Joseph Walker", "Edited by": "Gene Milford", "Music by": "Alfred Newman Victor Schertzinger Louis Silvers Howard Jackson", "Distributed by": "Columbia Pictures", "Release date": "September 5, 1934 ( 1934-09-05 )", "Running time": "83 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Languages": "English Italian", "Budget": "$500,000 [ 1 ]", "Box office": "$2,500,000 (worldwide rentals) [ 1 ]"}	["One Night of Love is a 1934 American Columbia Pictures romantic musical film set in the opera world, starring Grace Moore and Tullio Carminati . The film was directed by Victor Schertzinger and adapted from the story Don't Fall in Love , by Charles Beahan and Dorothy Speare.", "In the relatively new use of sound recordings for film, One Night of Love was noted at the time for its innovative use of vertical cut recording , for which Columbia Pictures received an Academy Scientific and Technical Award . It also won the Academy's first Award for Best Original Score .", "Opera singer Mary Barrett ( Grace Moore ) leaves to study music in Milan , Italy to the disappointment of her family in New York City. Mary gets a job at the Cafe Roma, where Giulio Monteverdi ( Tullio Carminati ), a famous vocal coach, hears her sing. Giulio promises to make Mary a star if she will allow him to control her life. He also tells her that there cannot be any romance between the two of them, as that would distract from the process of growing her talent. Mary discovers she has stagefright as she prepares for a tour of provincial opera houses , however Giulio helps her overcome it.", "Years later, still under Giulio's tutelage, Mary begins to tire of his dominance and discipline. The two meet one of Giulio's old pupils, Lally ( Mona Barrie ), while in Vienna . Lally once tried to be romantic with Giulio, but was rejected. This past history renders Mary jealous and she pretends to have laryngitis . Mary thinks Giulio has gone to Lally to rekindle a romance, and so visits Bill Houston ( Lyle Talbot ), a longtime friend who has proposed marriage. In a jealous huff, Mary decides not to sing that night in order to punish Giulio. Giulio realizes what is going on and tells Mary that Lally will replace her on stage, but then proposes to Mary.", "She decides to go on, and Mary's performance of Bizet 's Carmen wins her an invitation to the Metropolitan Opera , her dream venue. Giulio, however, still does not believe that she is ready for such a venue. Later at dinner, Lally lies to Mary by telling her that she is still involved with Giulio. On the night of her debut in Madame Butterfly , Mary is too nervous to go on stage until she sees Giulio in his usual place in the prompter's box. [ 2 ]", "The complete proscenium and part of the wings and seating plan of the Metropolitan Opera House were duplicated for this production and occupied the whole of Columbia's largest sound stage . [ 3 ]", "Moore's recording and performance of the Un bel di aria from Madame Butterfly did not go smoothly, as she had trouble hitting the high notes. According to a later biography, she flew into a rage and blamed the orchestra. However, when studio boss Harry Cohn asked Columbia music director, Morris Stoloff , what the problem was, Stoloff replied, \"There's nothing wrong with the orchestra. These are the original Puccini orchestrations.\" Moore was then told that either she went back to the recording stage or she would be responsible for paying the day's salary for the entire orchestra, and she returned and recorded the aria. [ 4 ]", "Grace Moore's title song \"One Night of Love\" was composed by Victor Schertzinger himself, with lyrics by Gus Kahn . The lyrics began \"One Night Of Love, When two hearts are one\". It was later recorded by Anna Moffo as the title track of a 1965 crossover album.", "One Night of Love was selected as one of the ten best pictures of 1934 by Film Daily ' s annual poll of critics. [ 5 ]", "Through October 1936 One Night of Love had theater rentals in the U.S. and Canada of over $733,000 according to Variety magazine surveys of the time. [ 6 ] The film earned an estimated $2.5 million worldwide. [ 1 ] Although it did not do well in rural areas and small towns, One Night of Love was the first Columbia film to gain important bookings in the powerful Loews chain of theaters, which was a milestone in Columbia's progress. [ 4 ]", "At the Academy Awards , the film won two out of six nominations, as well as a Technical Award.", "The film was also recognized by the American Film Institute :"]	tt0025601	2025-06-27 14:21:02
3	A	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_(1965_film)	1,965	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films:_A	{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/62/A_VideoCover.jpg/250px-A_VideoCover.jpg", "Directed by": "Jan Lenica", "Written by": "Jan Lenica", "Produced by": "Boris von Borresholm", "Cinematography": "Georges Maillet Renate Ruhr", "Edited by": "Renate Ruhr", "Music by": "Georges Delerue Bernard Parmegiani", "Production company": "Film Boris von Borrisholm", "Distributed by": "Alpha Film Group Atlas Film", "Release date": "1 February 1965 ( 1965-02-01 )", "Running time": "9 minutes 57 seconds", "Country": "West Germany", "Language": "French"}	["A [ 1 ] is a 1965 short film animated by Jan Lenica .", "It involves a writer tormented by a giant letter \"A\". He frees himself from the \"A\" only to encounter a \"B\". [ 2 ] [ 3 ]", "Production began in late 1964, and the film premiered at the Oberhausen Film Festival in February 1965. It was considered lost until it was found as a part of a 1973 episode of Screening Room [ 4 ] [ 5 ] and uploaded to YouTube in 2016. A quotation by Eugène Ionesco is featured at the end of the film."]	tt2854450	2025-06-27 14:21:02
4	One Night with the King	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Night_with_the_King	2,006	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films:_numbers	{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7a/One_night_with_the_king_poster.jpg/250px-One_night_with_the_king_poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Michael O. Sajbel", "Screenplay by": "Stephan Blinn", "Based on": "Hadassah: One Night with the King by Tommy Tenney and Mark Andrew Olsen", "Produced by": "Stephan Blinn Richard J. Cook Laurie Crouch Matthew Crouch Lawrence Mortorff", "Starring": "Tiffany Dupont Luke Goss John Rhys-Davies John Noble Tommy \"Tiny\" Lister James Callis Jonah Lotan Peter O'Toole Omar Sharif", "Cinematography": "Steven Bernstein", "Edited by": "Gabriella Cristiani Stephan Blinn", "Music by": "J. A. C. Redford", "Production company": "Gener8Xion Entertainment", "Distributed by": "8x Entertainment", "Release date": "October 13, 2006 ( 2006-10-13 )", "Running time": "123 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$20 million", "Box office": "$13.7 million"}	["One Night with the King is a 2006 American religious epic film produced by Matt Crouch and Laurie Crouch of Gener8Xion Entertainment , directed by Michael O. Sajbel, and starring Peter O'Toole , Tiffany Dupont , John Rhys-Davies , and Luke Goss .", "The screenplay by Stephan Blinn is based on Tommy Tenney and Mark Andrew Olsen's novel Hadassah: One Night with the King . One Night with the King is a dramatization of the Biblical story of Esther , who risked her life by approaching the King of Persia to request that he save the Jewish people.", "Despite being a critical and commercial failure , it received a 2007 CAMIE Award for Goss' portrayal of King Xerxes . [ 1 ]", "The film is set in Susa , Persia (modern-day Iran ). King Xerxes holds a great feast for all the people to attend. An orphaned Jewish woman, Hadassah, longs to go to Jerusalem to see the Holy Land and prepares to leave with the caravan along with her friend, Jesse. They stop by the king's feast before he goes marching to war to avenge his father's death . Hadassah and Jesse witness the king summoning Queen Vashti . Queen Vashti was opposed to the war, desiring King Xerxes to enhance his kingdom instead. She holds her own feast in protest against the war. When the king summons her to his feast, she refuses to come, stating, \"I am queen and I will not lower my dignity. Or shame my crown by wearing it before your drunk and thinly veiled war council\". Because of this, King Xerxes is advised to banish her and select a more worthy queen.", "All beautiful unmarried women in the city of Susa are brought to Xerxes. Under the command of her overprotective cousin, Mordecai, Hadassah does not reveal her nationality or family and changes her name to \"Esther\" (after the Babylonian goddess Ishtar ). Eventually she is taken in with the rest of the selected women and given cosmetics, perfumes and treatments under the care of Hegai , the king's royal eunuch. Through her quick wit, intelligence and integrity, she becomes Hegai's favorite.", "On their night with the king, each female candidate is allowed to bring along whatever she wishes from the harem. She goes in the evening and returns in the morning to a second harem. She will not be able to return to the king unless she pleases him and he summons her by name. During their preparation, Hegai discovers that Esther can read and listens to her reading to the other contenders. He admires her bravery. Late into the night, he brings her to King Xerxes to read to him. She starts reading from the assigned scroll and then begins telling the love story of Jacob and Rachel (from the Old Testament). The king is amused and intrigued and dismisses her, saying that she shall read to him again. Esther falls in love with the king. When it is Esther's turn for her \"one night with the king\", she only wears what Hegai advises. She wins the king's favor by revealing her heart to him. He chooses her and crowns her queen.", "Meanwhile, Haman the Agagite is promoted to the highest-ranking official. He has all the king's servants at the royal gate to kneel before him. Mordecai refuses, declaring that he will only kneel before God and the king. He announces himself before Haman to be a son of Abraham, a Jew. Haman, filled with vengeance and hatred, seeks to destroy Mordecai and all his people because generations earlier; Jews persecuted his forefathers.", "Esther discovers the plot and breaks protocol by going before the king unsummoned, risking her life to plead for her people. The king spares her life out of his love for her. She invites the king and Haman to a banquet and there reveals her nationality and Haman's plot to kill the Jews. The king, overwhelmed by her revelation, leaves the banquet. Haman then attacks Esther. The king saves her and commands Haman be hanged on the gallows he had erected to hang Mordecai. After Haman is taken away for his execution, the king goes to Esther's side. Esther asks, \"What made you come back\"?. And the king responds with, \"I saw the stars\". Then King Xerxes kisses Esther.", "Mordecai is made a prince of Persia and issues a royal decree in his own name, with flashbacks of Esther being made queen and the crowd of Jews cheering in the streets. Mordecai proclaims, \"I order this decree sent out under the great seal of Mordecai, Prince of Persia, a Jew\".", "The film generally adheres to the main plot of the Biblical version. However, the film adds stylistic elements not present in the Biblical story, as well as depicting several non-Biblical minor characters. [ citation needed ]", "The movie's Premiere Night took place at Mann Bruins Theater in Los Angeles, California. The movie, filmed entirely in the state of Rajasthan, India , was released in theaters on October 13, 2006. During its opening weekend, it earned $4,120,497 in theaters. By the end of its theatrical run, the film had earned $13,395,961 domestically, [ 2 ] and $13,728,450 worldwide.", "The movie was filmed entirely in the state of Rajasthan , India. [ 3 ]", "Jeannie Tenney wrote and sang \"One Night with the King\", which can be heard during the final credits. She was a co-author with her husband, Tommy Tenney (also a producer of the film), of the book upon which the film is based .", "The Genius Club [ 4 ] from writer/director Tim Chey [ 5 ] was also released theatrically in 2006 .", "One Night with the King was released to theaters on October 13, 2006. During its opening weekend, it earned $4,120,497 in theaters. By the end of its theatrical run, the film had received $13,395,961 domestically, with $13,728,450 worldwide. [ 6 ] Subsequent DVD sales were strong at $20,688,299, more than making up for production costs. [ 7 ]", "One Night with the King received a generally negative reception, garnering a 17% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes , based on 24 reviews, with an average of 4.4 out of 10. [ 8 ]", "V.A. Musetto of the New York Post , noting that, \"The cinematography and sets look great, but the script is a bummer. It's overlong, overwrought and overblown.\" [ 9 ]", "The film received better views from the Christian community. The film was awarded four Doves by the Dove Foundation and received the Dove Family-Approved Seal. [ 10 ] MovieGuide has also reviewed the film fairly favourably, giving it 3 out of 4 stars, saying that \"despite some minor flaws, [it] brings back the biblical epic in an entertaining, inspiring way.\" [ 11 ] The movie has also been endorsed by the American Bible Society . [ 12 ]", "The British Board of Film Classification granted this motion picture a PG certificate, noting that it contained \"images of moderate battle violence\". [ 13 ]", "In the US, One Night With The King is also rated PG by the MPAA for violence, some sensuality and thematic elements . [ 14 ]"]	tt0430431	2025-06-27 14:21:03
5	One More Time	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_More_Time_(1970_film)	1,970	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films:_numbers	{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f1/One_More_Time_%281970_movie_poster%29.jpg/250px-One_More_Time_%281970_movie_poster%29.jpg", "Directed by": "Jerry Lewis", "Written by": "Michael Pertwee", "Produced by": "Milton Ebbins", "Starring": "Sammy Davis Jr. Peter Lawford", "Cinematography": "Ernest Steward", "Music by": "Les Reed", "Distributed by": "United Artists", "Release date": "May 1970 ( 1970-05 )", "Running time": "92 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English"}	["One More Time is a 1970 American comedy film directed by Jerry Lewis [ 1 ] and starring Sammy Davis Jr. and Peter Lawford . It was filmed in 1969 and released in May, 1970 by United Artists . It is a sequel to the 1968 film Salt and Pepper .", "Chris Pepper and Charlie Salt lose their nightclub and turn to Pepper's aristocratic twin brother for help. He refuses to help them, and is then found murdered. Pepper assumes his identity, and soon discovers that he was a diamond smuggler, and was murdered by his accomplices. Salt and Pepper band together to put the criminals behind bars.", "One More Time is the only film that Jerry Lewis directed in which he did not star, although he does have a role as the off-screen voice of the bandleader.", "The film was released on DVD on January 25, 2005.", "Slightly before the release of the film, per the era's customary timing, a novelization of the screenplay was released by Popular Library . The author was Michael Avallone ."]	tt0066183	2025-06-27 14:21:03
6	The Hound of the Baskervilles	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hound_of_the_Baskervilles_(1972_film)	null	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films:_H	{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e7/Stewart_Holmes.jpeg", "Genre": "Crime Horror Mystery", "Based on": "The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle", "Screenplay by": "Robert E. Thompson", "Directed by": "Barry Crane", "Starring": "Stewart Granger Bernard Fox William Shatner", "Country of origin": "United States", "Original language": "English", "Executive producer": "Richard Irving", "Producer": "Stanley Kallis", "Cinematography": "Harry L. Wolf", "Editor": "Bill Mosher", "Running time": "74 minutes", "Production company": "Universal Television", "Network": "ABC", "Release": "February 12, 1972 ( 1972-02-12 )"}	["The Hound of the Baskervilles is a 1972 American made-for-television horror mystery film directed by Barry Crane and starring Stewart Granger as Sherlock Holmes and Bernard Fox as Doctor Watson . The movie is based on Arthur Conan Doyle 's 1902 Sherlock Holmes novel The Hound of the Baskervilles .", "The Hound of the Baskervilles was the first American color version of the tale, [ 1 ] and was produced by ABC-TV for their ABC Movie of the Week . [ 2 ] The production was one of three pilots for a series of television movies featuring literary sleuths with the others being The Adventures of Nick Carter starring Robert Conrad , and A Very Missing Person with Eve Arden as Hildegarde Withers . [ 2 ] The production utilized sets from other productions, mainly horror films. [ 3 ]", "Ratings were poor and reviews were bad [ 4 ] [ 5 ] which caused the proposed series of tele-films to be shelved. [ 5 ]", "The Los Angeles Times called it \"laborious, talky, often poorly staged and it suffers intermittently with show and tell direction\" although it thought Granger and Fox were \"quite acceptable\" in their roles. [ 6 ]"]	tt0068719	2025-06-27 14:21:04
7	Kiwi!	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi!	2,006	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films:_J%E2%80%93K	{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Kiwi_opening_screen.png/250px-Kiwi_opening_screen.png", "Directed by": "Dony Permedi", "Written by": "Dony Permedi", "Produced by": "Dony Permedi", "Edited by": "Dony Permedi", "Music by": "Tim Cassell", "Release date": "May 5, 2006 ( 2006-05-05 )", "Running time": "3 minutes", "Country": "United States"}	["Kiwi! is a 2006 computer-generated animation short film created by Dony Permedi as his Master's Thesis project at the School of Visual Arts in New York City . The music was composed and performed by Tim Cassell. The short gained widespread popularity online after being uploaded to YouTube , becoming a notable Internet phenomenon . Unofficial versions of the film have been paired with the song \" Mad World \" by Gary Jules , and have circulated widely as viral videos .", "The animation follows a kiwi bird that painstakingly nails rows of trees horizontally along the face of a steep cliff. Once finished, the kiwi climbs to the top of the cliff, dons an aviator's helmet, and leaps off. As the kiwi falls, the camera perspective shifts sideways, revealing that the trees simulate a forest floor—allowing the bird to feel as if it is flying. A tear forms in its eye as it flaps its tiny wings, momentarily fulfilling its dream. The video ends ambiguously, with a sound that has been interpreted by viewers as either a crash or the opening of a parachute.", "Kiwi! has received a large following for its deep meaning and heart touching manner. One of the most popular activities in the fan base is to create an alternate ending (usually one where the kiwi survives). As of August 23, 2024 [update] , the animation has been viewed over 49 million times. It won official recognition on March 26, 2007, when viewers voted it the Most Adorable video of 2006 in the first annual YouTube Video Awards. [ 1 ] This was an event large enough to draw international media attention [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] with ABC News describing Kiwi! as \"so cute it hurts\" [ 2 ] while the International Herald Tribune , critical of the awards, characterized the video as being \"sweet but dull.\" [ 4 ]"]	tt1051713	2025-06-27 14:21:05
8	How High	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_High	2,001	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films:_H	{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a2/How_High_poster.JPG/250px-How_High_poster.JPG", "Directed by": "Jesse Dylan", "Written by": "Dustin Abraham", "Produced by": "Pamela Abdy Danny DeVito James Ellis Shauna Garr Michael Shamberg Stacey Sher", "Starring": "Method Man Redman Obba Babatundé Mike Epps Jeffrey Jones Fred Willard", "Cinematography": "Francis Kenny", "Edited by": "Larry Bock", "Music by": "Rockwilder", "Production companies": "Jersey Films Native Pictures", "Distributed by": "Universal Pictures", "Release date": "December 21, 2001 ( 2001-12-21 )", "Running time": "103 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$12–20 million [ 1 ] [ 2 ]", "Box office": "$31.3 million [ 2 ]"}	["How High is a 2001 American stoner comedy film directed by Jesse Dylan in his feature film directorial debut and written by Dustin Lee Abraham . In the film, Method Man and Redman portray two cannabis users who are visited by the ghost of a deceased friend after smoking his ashes; the ghost helps with their exams, and they receive scholarships to Harvard University .", "How High was produced by Jersey Films and Native Pictures and distributed by Universal Pictures . The film was released on December 21, 2001, and received generally negative reviews from critics. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] A sequel, titled How High 2 , was released in 2019.", "Two underachieving potheads , Silas ( Method Man ) and Jamal ( Redman ) are visited by the ghost of Silas's recent deceased friend Ivory (Chuck Deezy). Ivory was cremated and Silas used his ashes as fertilizer for a new batch of marijuana . While sitting in the parking lot before taking their \"THC\" (Testing for Higher Credentials, a parody of the SAT and an allusion to tetrahydrocannabinol ) exams for college, Silas has his marijuana but no cigar while Jamal has a cigar but nothing left to smoke, leading them to team up in Silas's car.", "They soon discover that smoking Silas's new batch summons the ghost of the recently deceased Ivory, visible to just the two of them. Ivory tells them the test answers as they take the test and they both score perfect results. Several dubious colleges offer the pair scholarships , but none of them are appealing. Eventually, Chancellor Huntley ( Fred Willard ), under pressure to increase minority admissions, persuades them to go to Harvard University .", "Once there, they meet Bart (Chris Elwood), captain of the rowing team, his girlfriend Lauren ( Lark Voorhies ), I Need Money ( Al Shearer ), and their roommates Jeffrey (Justin Urich) and Tuan (Trieu Tran). Once they are settled in, they visit Dean Carl Cain ( Obba Babatundé ) who tells them that per the terms of their scholarship, they must maintain a minimum grade point average of 2.0 in order to remain, or else face expulsion .", "Jamal joins the rowing team hoping to outrank Bart. Silas enrolls in a botany class to develop his \"herbal\" skills, and they both enroll in black history . Throughout the semester, they pass every test with the help of Ivory. Silas continues to woo and study with Lauren, while Jamal dates the U.S. vice president's ( Jeffrey Jones ) daughter Jamie ( Essence Atkins ).", "Also during the first half of the semester , they pull pranks and steal, which angers Bart, Jeffrey (who is pledging for a Final Club ), and Dean Cain. Things go downhill after Silas and Jamal's raucous Halloween party. At the party, Gerald ( T. J. Thyne ), the volunteer officer whose bicycle was stolen and crushed by I Need Money, steals and smokes the Ivory plant, leaving the pair without access to Ivory.", "Silas begins working on a truth serum for his Botany class, using plant extracts. Silas concludes that, if his experiment works, he will earn an A in Botany, and a guarantee of a next semester. His experiment fails numerous times. Before midterms Jamal suggests they go to a graveyard, dig up a \"smart dead guy\", and smoke his remains which they attempted to do so with John Quincy Adams . Whereas Silas suggests simply that they study hard for a few hours a day while high . They try Silas's plan, but it does not pan out, as they end up failing almost all of their midterm exams.", "Desperate to stay in Harvard, they try Jamal's plan, but it proves fruitless, as well. Meanwhile, Gerald, who has morphed into a complete stoner, sees Ivory during one of his binges, and, at Ivory's behest, returns the remnants of the Ivory plant to Jamal and Silas. Due to Gerald's abuse of the plant very little remains and Jamal and Silas continue to fail their classes, which pleases Dean Cain.", "With the last final exam approaching, Jamal and Silas resign themselves to give up. However, Jeffrey reminds Silas of his guarantee of another semester if he can successfully fix his truth serum experiment. Silas ultimately does, having found a solution in which the last of Ivory's leaves could be used to counteract nausea.", "Nonetheless, because of their low grades, Jamal and Silas do not receive an invitation to the Harvard Alumni party. Dean Cain, clearly thrilled with this result, tells Bart he does not have to worry about the pair showing up or staying in Harvard. However, that changes when Jamie invites them both as her dates, as her father is an alumnus. At the party, Silas makes things a bit more interesting by testing out his truth serum experiment, which proves successful.", "At Lauren's presentation at the alumni party of Benjamin Franklin 's artifacts, she shocks everyone with her discovery: the artifacts turn out to be a bong . Ivory even shows up with Benjamin Franklin to confirm the bong's authenticity. Dean Cain is outraged by this finding, but the Chancellor decides that he has had it with the Dean and fires him. Jamal and Silas are proud that the serum worked, a celebration that was almost short-lived, as Dean Cain returns and unsuccessfully attempts to kill them both with an axe in anger. He is eventually apprehended by Secret Service . At the end, Jamal and Silas are able to stay, Jamal and Jamie get approval of Jamie's father to date, and Lauren leaves Bart for Silas because Bart \"can't satisfy her\".", "How High collected $7.1 million during its opening weekend, ranking in fifth place at the box office below The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring , Ocean's Eleven , Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius and Vanilla Sky . [ 5 ]", "On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes , How High has an approval rating of 25% based on 59 reviews, with an average rating of 3.9/10. The website's critical consensus reads, \"How High is a sloppily constructed stoner movie filled with lame, vulgar jokes.\" [ 3 ] On Metacritic , the film received a score of 29 based on 21 reviews, indicating \"generally unfavorable\" reviews. [ 4 ]", "Mike Clark of USA Today gave the film two and a half stars out of four. He concluded that it did not have enough material \"to sustain its 91 minutes\" but did have enough \"low-grade laughs\" for its target audience. [ 6 ]", "Writing for the San Francisco Chronicle , Bob Graham noted that \"It looks like a movie somebody hallucinated and put up on the screen\". He praised some humorous scenes such as the exhumation of John Quincy Adams, but criticized an abrupt ending. [ 7 ]", "Entertainment Weekly rated it third in their \"Best Stoner Movie\" top ten list. [ 8 ] It also won the Stony Award for Best Stoner Movie in 2002. [ 9 ]", "How High was released on DVD and VHS on May 21, 2002. [ 10 ]", "In May 2002, a sequel to How High was reported as being written by Don D. Scott (the co-writer of Barbershop ), with Method Man and Redman reprising their roles. [ 11 ]", "In October 2008, Redman revealed that a script for the sequel was still in the middle of being written, stating that \"we wanna represent all the smokers\", believing that since How High , no one has done justice on a stoner film. [ 12 ] In April 2009, it was reported that Redman blamed Universal Pictures for the film's delay, stating: \"They're not opening that money door for us to shoot it. We promoted the shit out of that movie. We got the whole world waiting for a How High 2 .\" [ 13 ]", "In December 2010, Redman confirmed that Universal Pictures was indeed holding the rights to How High , so the chances of How High 2 coming out were slim. [ 14 ] In April 2013, Method Man told TMZ that the script was being written by Dustin Lee Abraham, who wrote the first one, but it all would depend on Universal if the film would happen. [ 15 ] In November 2015, Redman stated How High 2 would be released in 2017. [ 16 ]", "In 2017, there was a written script, confirmed by Matt \"M-80\" Markoff. [ 17 ] Redman stated that the script was being rewritten, and he expected production to begin late 2017, early 2018; he also stated he and Method Man could move on to something other than the sequel. The two men confirmed they would not reprise their roles in the sequel because \"the business wasn't right\". [ 18 ]", "The sequel was greenlit by MTV and Universal 1440 Entertainment in June 2018. The film takes place in Atlanta and production began September 25, 2018, starring Lil' Yachty and D.C. Young Fly . MTV announced How High 2 would premiere on April 20 , 2019, with Mike Epps reprising his role as Baby Powder. [ 19 ]"]	tt0278488	2025-06-27 14:21:05
9	Mythri	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythri_(2015_film)	2,015	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films:_M	{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Nuvola_apps_arts.svg/20px-Nuvola_apps_arts.svg.png", "Directed by": "Giriraj", "Written by": "Giriraj", "Produced by": "N. S. Rajkumar", "Starring": "Mohanlal Puneeth Rajkumar Adithya Bharadwaj Kalabhavan Mani Ravi Kale Archana Atul Kulkarni Jagadish H. M.", "Cinematography": "A. V. Krishna Kumar Kiran", "Edited by": "K. M. Prakash Sagar Dass", "Music by": "Ilaiyaraja", "Production company": "Omkar Movies", "Distributed by": "Kishore Films", "Release date": "February 20, 2015 ( 2015-02-20 )", "Running time": "137 minutes", "Country": "India", "Language": "Kannada", "Released": "16 January 2015 ( 2015-01-16 )", "Recorded": "2014", "Genre": "Feature film soundtrack", "Length": "24 : 32", "Label": "Anand Audio", "Producer": "Ilayaraaja", "External audio": "External audio Official Audio Jukebox on YouTube"}	["Mythri ( transl. Alliance ) is a 2015 Indian Kannada -language social drama film written and directed by Giriraj and produced by N. S. Rajkumar under the banner of Omkar Movies. [ 1 ] It stars Mohanlal and Puneeth Rajkumar in extended cameo roles, and features Adithya Bharadwaj, Archana and Atul Kulkarni in substantial roles. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Ilaiyaraaja scored the music for the film and Krishna Kumar handled the cinematography. The film is a social drama, and also focuses on relationships in the time of liberalisation. [ 4 ] The film was declared a success at box-office. [ 5 ]", "Mythri was released worldwide on 20 February 2015 and garnered widespread critical acclaim. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The film was praised for its strong and realistic plot, cast performance, cinematography and social message. Some critics called it one of the best films made in Kannada. [ 8 ] The partially reshot Malayalam version titled My Hero Mythri was released on 12 June 2015 in Kerala . It had Kalabhavan Mani reprising the role played by Ravi Kale in the original, and also had Anu Joseph and Sajitha Betti in the additional scenes. [ 9 ] The film won the Karnataka State Film Award for Third Best Film .", "Siddarama is a 10 year-old intelligent slum dweller, who lives with his mother, working in an agarbatti factory to make ends meet. One of Siddarama's pranks leads him into lock-up , and his mother requests help from Gooli Prathap/Kaala Pratapan, a pimp who runs a human trafficking business and also has political ambitions. Once Siddarama is released, Pratap sets his eyes on Siddarama's mother. Siddarama is also a huge fan of Puneeth Rajkumar and bunks classes in order to see Puneeth's film shooting .", "During the shooting, he also gets a chance to interact with Puneeth and share his scrapbook . Later, Siddarama is in juvenile prison , whose warden is very strict, where he develops good relations with his fellow inmate Johnson; it is Johnson who sees Siddarama's potential to achieve big in life. Siddarama is encouraged by Johnson and gets selected to Karunada Kotyadipathi , hosted by Puneeth and being a step away from winning ₹ 1 crore (US$120,000).", "After the show, Puneeth meets DRDO scientist Mahadev Ghodke, who requests him not to take the show further as Siddarama is the one who murdered his son. Shocked, Puneeth tells that it is not in his hands to do so. Mahadev expresses his unhappiness and walks away. Mahadev devises a plan to kill Gooli Prathap/Kaala Pratapan by devising a bomb and also reaches Pratap's cabinet office with the bomb. At the same time, Puneeth asks Siddarama the final question, which he is unable to answer.", "Siddarama uses the Phone-a-friend option and calls Mahadev to help him with the answer. Without any prejudice, Mahadev gives the right answer, where Puneeth reveals about Siddarama's involvement in the murder of Mahadev's son. Distraught, Siddharama reveals that he didn't kill the boy and that Gooli Prathap/Kaala Pratapan's henchmen had killed the boy where he is forced by Gooli Prathap/Kaala Pratapan and his henchmen to take the blame. After learning this, Mahadev leaves the office, and the bomb detonates killing Gooli Prathap/Kaala Pratapan and his henchman, who were checking the contents of the suitcase. Mahadev then adopts Siddarama as his own son.", "In April 2013, actor Mohanlal [ 10 ] announced that his next project would be a Kannada film along with Puneeth Rajkumar by tweeting about it. [ 11 ] Producer Rajkumar said that it will not be a full-fledged Puneeth film and Puneeth allotted a 20-day call sheet for the project. [ 12 ] \"Rajesh Nair, a close friend of Mohanlal helped us to get the actor into Sandalwood again. We will start shoot by next month, once Puneeth is back from his US trip\", added the producer. The film was titled Mythri in July. [ 13 ] The makers had zeroed in on Hindi film actress Radhika Apte , however, the actress had prior commitments because of which she couldn't act in the film. [ 14 ] Archana was selected to play the female lead role opposite Mohanlal. [ 15 ] Director Giriaj said that he was planning to rope in either Bhavana or Parvati Menon to play the other heroine role in the film. [ 16 ] A few days later, Bhavana confirmed that she will be doing a special appearance in the film. [ 17 ]", "The first shot of the film was taken in May in a scene with actor V. Ravichandran filmed by Raghavendra Rajakumar. [ 18 ] In July Mohanlal had completed his portion with Archana [ 1 ] and Giriraj stated that 50 per cent of the shooting had been completed. [ 16 ]", "Veteran music director Ilaiyaraaja has composed 5 songs for the film. The audio rights are sold to Anand Audio label. Mythri audio CD was released on 16 Jan 2015, Friday evening at Citadel Hotel in Bengaluru . Music Ilayaraja was present with actor Puneeth Rajakumar, directors Soori, Shashank, Nagshekhar, Giriraj, producer Vajreshwari Kumar and others on the dais. At the absence of Mohanlal he wished the team with a recorded video message shown at the function. [ 19 ] Puneeth Rajkumar's daughters Drithi and Vanditha on Friday evening released the songs of the film which has been released by Anand Audio. [ 20 ]", "Mythri received overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics. [ 6 ] Deccan Chronicle rated 4.5 out of 5 stars and called it \"Brilliant\" and \"The best sandalwood movie in the recent times\" praising the screenplay, acting and direction \"Mythri has none of the so-called ‘must-haves’ – like heroism, fights, lavish sets, glamour, masala and more importantly item songs for a box office.\", \"Giriraj has penned the script with utmost care while balancing the storyline while depicting it through sheer artistic excellence\". [ 21 ] The New Indian Express called it as \"A feel good movie of our times\" and said \"This realistic film is important because of its combination of a social message with universal appeal\" and stated \"Mythri is one of the most sensible and a feel-good Kannada films in recent times. Giriraj's film's strengths lie in its narrative force combined with elements of joy, suspense and reality along with the overall vision of the director and the energy of the actors. The film boasts a good starcast with great music by Ilayaraaja\" and praised its camera work, editing and cast performances including the kids. \"The real star of the film is the content that creates a contrast between the rich and the poor. With the summer holidays just weeks away, Mythri can be one of the best holiday films for the entire family\". [ 22 ]", "The Times of AP rated 4.5 out of 5 stars and elaborated \"Mythri is a strong script about the life a junevile. Focusing on the dreadful social problems, Giriraj has wrote a wonderful story.\" \"It is for the first time Puneeth Rajkumar is seen as an actor in a movie. Mohanlal is at his best in his character, Mohanlal and Veda Sastry's pairing up as a couple is feast for the viewers.\" \"Mythri is a full package. It has good cinematography and very well written screenplay. The movie gets a ‘thumbs up' for its technical aspects. Mythri has been successful to show the cruel reality of the society. Overall, Mythri is a best movie which ends with a special and a strong message to society\". Also praised the music from Ilayaraaja. [ 23 ] Bangalore Mirror rated 4.5 out of 5 stars and said \"Mythri is one of the most sensible films Sandalwood has churned out in recent years\". And called it \"A bond that lasts forever\". \"There is no masala elements, and yet Mythri is not an art film that was made for awards. It is silver screen magic in its truest sense that does not treat audience as dumb people who seem to be in need for superlative stimulants\". \"Giriraj chooses his subjects and characters well. Unlike regular commercial film-makers, he shows reality in human form. Giriraj deserves all the applause for his conviction and narrative style. This one is a total delight\". [ 24 ]", "The Hans India called it \"A very realistic take on life showcasing present day challenges. Watch it for Puneeth and Mohanlal's stellar performances. Dialogues are a big plus.\". And praised its music, social message for parents and youngsters and the plot. [ 25 ] The Times of India rated 4.5 out of 5 stars and said \"Mythri is worth watching. After Jatta, director B M Giriraj and producer Rajkumar are back with another masterpiece. Highlighting the life of children of a lesser god, Giriraj has packed the movie with sentiments and action sprinkled with humour to make it appealing to all types of audience\". Also praised the music from Ilayaraaja, cast performances and A. V Krishnakumar's camera work. [ 26 ] The Hindu stated \"It is undoubtedly one of the most sensible films made in Kannada cinema in recent years. 'Mythri' can be described as an attempt to silence those who argue that Kannada film is like stagnant water and that there are no experimental scripts. Still it's not an art film, 'Mythri' is a model of a perfect blend of art and commercial elements.\" [ 27 ]", "NamCinema.com rated 4.5 out of 5 stars and concluded that \"On the whole there are certain movies which give feel good factor when watched and Mythri surely is one such movie. Such movies should be made in future so that the positive intent of such movies should creep into people even if it means one or two would watch\" [ 28 ] Cochin Talkies rated the movie 4.14 out of 5 and wrote: \"Mythri is really a thought provoking film and a class act which you can't miss. We spend lots of money to see other language films which are just masala entertainers and nothing much, specially from Kannada or Telugu. But Mythri is a change for you, a real change and we mean it. Go for it and don't miss it.\" [ 29 ]", "The film was released in 250 theatres across Karnataka . The opening day collection was ₹ 1.75 crore (US$210,000) in the state. The film registered an average 70% occupancy in multiplexes and 80—90% occupancy in single screens in the Friday morning shows. [ 30 ] According to International Business Times , the film received good collections in the opening weekend. [ 31 ] The rush of female audience in the first week was a big surprise in Karnataka , usually they are seen from the third week. [ 32 ] The film completed 150 days run in Karnataka. [ 33 ]", "Veteran music director Ilaiyaraaja has composed 5 songs for the film. The audio rights are sold to Anand Audio label. Mythri audio CD was released on 16 Jan 2015, Friday evening at Citadel Hotel in Bengaluru . Music Ilayaraja was present with actor Puneeth Rajakumar, directors Soori, Shashank, Nagshekhar, Giriraj, producer Vajreshwari Kumar and others on the dais. At the absence of Mohanlal he wished the team with a recorded video message shown at the function. [ 19 ] Puneeth Rajkumar's daughters Drithi and Vanditha on Friday evening released the songs of the film which has been released by Anand Audio. [ 20 ]", "Mythri received overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics. [ 6 ] Deccan Chronicle rated 4.5 out of 5 stars and called it \"Brilliant\" and \"The best sandalwood movie in the recent times\" praising the screenplay, acting and direction \"Mythri has none of the so-called ‘must-haves’ – like heroism, fights, lavish sets, glamour, masala and more importantly item songs for a box office.\", \"Giriraj has penned the script with utmost care while balancing the storyline while depicting it through sheer artistic excellence\". [ 21 ] The New Indian Express called it as \"A feel good movie of our times\" and said \"This realistic film is important because of its combination of a social message with universal appeal\" and stated \"Mythri is one of the most sensible and a feel-good Kannada films in recent times. Giriraj's film's strengths lie in its narrative force combined with elements of joy, suspense and reality along with the overall vision of the director and the energy of the actors. The film boasts a good starcast with great music by Ilayaraaja\" and praised its camera work, editing and cast performances including the kids. \"The real star of the film is the content that creates a contrast between the rich and the poor. With the summer holidays just weeks away, Mythri can be one of the best holiday films for the entire family\". [ 22 ]", "The Times of AP rated 4.5 out of 5 stars and elaborated \"Mythri is a strong script about the life a junevile. Focusing on the dreadful social problems, Giriraj has wrote a wonderful story.\" \"It is for the first time Puneeth Rajkumar is seen as an actor in a movie. Mohanlal is at his best in his character, Mohanlal and Veda Sastry's pairing up as a couple is feast for the viewers.\" \"Mythri is a full package. It has good cinematography and very well written screenplay. The movie gets a ‘thumbs up' for its technical aspects. Mythri has been successful to show the cruel reality of the society. Overall, Mythri is a best movie which ends with a special and a strong message to society\". Also praised the music from Ilayaraaja. [ 23 ] Bangalore Mirror rated 4.5 out of 5 stars and said \"Mythri is one of the most sensible films Sandalwood has churned out in recent years\". And called it \"A bond that lasts forever\". \"There is no masala elements, and yet Mythri is not an art film that was made for awards. It is silver screen magic in its truest sense that does not treat audience as dumb people who seem to be in need for superlative stimulants\". \"Giriraj chooses his subjects and characters well. Unlike regular commercial film-makers, he shows reality in human form. Giriraj deserves all the applause for his conviction and narrative style. This one is a total delight\". [ 24 ]", "The Hans India called it \"A very realistic take on life showcasing present day challenges. Watch it for Puneeth and Mohanlal's stellar performances. Dialogues are a big plus.\". And praised its music, social message for parents and youngsters and the plot. [ 25 ] The Times of India rated 4.5 out of 5 stars and said \"Mythri is worth watching. After Jatta, director B M Giriraj and producer Rajkumar are back with another masterpiece. Highlighting the life of children of a lesser god, Giriraj has packed the movie with sentiments and action sprinkled with humour to make it appealing to all types of audience\". Also praised the music from Ilayaraaja, cast performances and A. V Krishnakumar's camera work. [ 26 ] The Hindu stated \"It is undoubtedly one of the most sensible films made in Kannada cinema in recent years. 'Mythri' can be described as an attempt to silence those who argue that Kannada film is like stagnant water and that there are no experimental scripts. Still it's not an art film, 'Mythri' is a model of a perfect blend of art and commercial elements.\" [ 27 ]", "NamCinema.com rated 4.5 out of 5 stars and concluded that \"On the whole there are certain movies which give feel good factor when watched and Mythri surely is one such movie. Such movies should be made in future so that the positive intent of such movies should creep into people even if it means one or two would watch\" [ 28 ] Cochin Talkies rated the movie 4.14 out of 5 and wrote: \"Mythri is really a thought provoking film and a class act which you can't miss. We spend lots of money to see other language films which are just masala entertainers and nothing much, specially from Kannada or Telugu. But Mythri is a change for you, a real change and we mean it. Go for it and don't miss it.\" [ 29 ]", "The film was released in 250 theatres across Karnataka . The opening day collection was ₹ 1.75 crore (US$210,000) in the state. The film registered an average 70% occupancy in multiplexes and 80—90% occupancy in single screens in the Friday morning shows. [ 30 ] According to International Business Times , the film received good collections in the opening weekend. [ 31 ] The rush of female audience in the first week was a big surprise in Karnataka , usually they are seen from the third week. [ 32 ] The film completed 150 days run in Karnataka. [ 33 ]"]	tt4471488	2025-06-27 14:21:06
10	The Lyre of Delight	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lyre_of_Delight	1,978	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films:_L	{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/de/A_Lira_do_Del%C3%ADrio.jpg/250px-A_Lira_do_Del%C3%ADrio.jpg", "Directed by": "Walter Lima Jr.", "Written by": "Walter Lima Jr.", "Produced by": "Walter Lima Jr.", "Starring": "Anecy Rocha", "Cinematography": "Dib Lutfi", "Release date": "1978 ( 1978 )", "Running time": "105 minutes", "Country": "Brazil", "Language": "Portuguese"}	["The Lyre of Delight ( Portuguese : A Lira do Delírio ) is a 1978 Brazilian drama film directed by Walter Lima Jr. [ 1 ] The film was selected as the Brazilian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 51st Academy Awards , but was not accepted as a nominee. [ 2 ]"]	tt0074804	2025-06-27 14:21:06
11	Neuilly Yo Mama!	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuilly_Yo_Mama!	2,009	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films:_N%E2%80%93O	{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/db/Neuilly-sa-mere.jpg/250px-Neuilly-sa-mere.jpg", "French": "Neuilly sa mère !", "Directed by": "Gabriel Julien-Laferrière", "Screenplay by": "Philippe de Chauveron, Marc de Chauveron", "Produced by": "Djamel Bensalah Isaac Sharry", "Starring": "Samy Seghir", "Cinematography": "Pascal Gennesseaux", "Edited by": "Jean-François Elie", "Distributed by": "TFM Distribution", "Release date": "12 August 2009 ( 2009-08-12 ) (France)", "Running time": "97 minutes", "Country": "France", "Language": "French", "Budget": "$5.6 million", "Box office": "$22.2 million [ 1 ]"}	["Neuilly Yo Mama! ( French : Neuilly sa mère ! [nøji sa mɛʁ] ) is a 2009 French comedy film directed by Gabriel Julien-Laferrière [ fr ] . It stars Samy Seghir as a beur teenager who moves from the housing projects to the upscale neighbourhood of Neuilly-sur-Seine . Because of its use of social inequality as a comedic device, it has been compared to the 1988 French comedy Life Is a Long Quiet River ( La vie est un long fleuve tranquille ). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] A sequel, titled Neuilly sa mère, sa mère! , was filmed in 2018.", "A word-for-word translation of the film's title is \"Neuilly his/her mother!\". The title is a play on the vulgar French insult nique ta mère (\"screw your mother \"), in which Neuilly effectively serves as a euphemism .", "Fourteen-year-old Sami (Samy Seghir) is a beur (a French person of Maghrebi descent) living in Chalon-sur-Saône , a relatively poor city in the Burgundy region. When his widowed mother ( Farida Khelfa ) takes a job working on a boat, she sends Sami to live with her sister Djamila ( Rachida Brakni ), who is married to Frenchman Stanislas de Chazelle ( Denis Podalydès ). They live in the upscale neighborhood of Neuilly-sur-Seine , an affluent suburb of Paris , with Stanislas' two children from his prior marriage: Charles (Jérémy Denisty), who aspires to be a politician someday, and Caroline (Chloé Coulloud). At first Charles resents Sami's presence in his house, but they gradually become friends. Sami enrolls in classes at Saint-Exupéry, a private school there.", "Sami is made fun of by many of his classmates at school, particularly Guilain Lambert ( Mathieu Spinosi ). He impresses the blonde violinist Marie ( Joséphine Japy ), however, with his tender side: during a music class one of the pieces moves him to tears by making him think of his friends back in Chalon. He and Marie become friends. Guilain, who also has his eye on Marie, gets revenge by tricking Sami into eating pork (which Sami cannot eat, as it is haraam ), and Sami retaliates by beating up Guilain. Marie chides Sami, saying she will not tolerate violent boys, but they soon make up. Later, though, when Guilain and Charles end up running against one another in the class elections, Guilain hires a local thug Malik (Booder) to mug Sami and Charles. They manage to escape from Malik and his thugs, but Malik gives Sami a black eye in the process; when Marie sees the black eye, she becomes angry with Sami, thinking he got in a fight again.", "Sami and Charles decide to throw a party in their house, to try to win votes for Charles for the class delegate election. Marie comes to the party and has forgiven Sami, but before they can talk Malik and his friends show up to trash the house. Some friends Sami invited from Chalon (Shaiko Dieng and Pierre Louis Bellet), however, soon arrive, and with their help the partygoers give Malik a beating and chase him and his thugs away. Malik finds Guilain and, thinking Guilain set him up, gives him a beating that sends him to the emergency room. Guilain and his mother encounter Sami's aunt Djamila and uncle Stanislas at the hospital, and tell them that the beating was Sami's fault. Djamila, enraged, returns home and tells Sami she is sending him back to his mother.", "Marie finds Malik and pays him to tell the school headmistress (Josiane Balasko) that he is responsible for Guilain's beating, however he refuses the cash and told her that he had already told the story to the headmistress. The Headmistress informs Djamila, and she forgives Sami. Charles wins the election with the help of a well-written letter to the class, and goes on to meet all of Sami's friends back in Chalon, urging them to remember his name and vote for him in the future. Sami stays in Neuilly-sur-Seine, and begins a romantic relationship with Marie.", "The film's title track was recorded by Faf Larage and Magic System . [ 5 ]", "Cyril Perraudat, reviewing for cinema-france.com, gives the film a score of 5 out of 10, calling it \"a pile of clichés \" (\" un tas de clichés \") and saying it will not be remembered (\" ne restera pas dans les mémoires \"), although he praises Seghir's acting in the role of Sami. [ 6 ] Cine'Magic, in that blog's review, states that the film is boring and too \" déjà-vu \". [ 7 ] Marwan Chahine of Libération magazine, on the other hand, praised the film's political jokes and allusions to political personalities. [ 4 ]"]	tt1349856	2025-06-27 14:21:07
12	Paattali Magan	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paattali_Magan	1,990	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films:_P	{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/bd/Paattali_Magan.jpg/250px-Paattali_Magan.jpg", "Directed by": "Senthilnathan", "Written by": "Kovai Mani Nanjai Thangam", "Produced by": "Kovai Mani", "Starring": "Arjun Sindhu M. N. Nambiar", "Cinematography": "Kesavan", "Edited by": "Satti Babu", "Music by": "Sangeetha Rajan", "Production company": "Anbu Lakshmi Films", "Release date": "16 February 1990 ( 1990-02-16 )", "Running time": "113 minutes", "Country": "India", "Language": "Tamil"}	["Paattali Magan ( transl. The proletariat's son ) is a 1990 Indian Tamil language drama film directed by Senthilnathan and produced by Kovai Mani. The film stars Arjun , Sindhu and M. N. Nambiar . It was released on 16 February 1990. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]", "The soundtrack was composed by Sangeetha Rajan . [ 3 ] [ 4 ]"]	tt12409906	2025-06-27 14:21:08
13	Neuilly sa mère, sa mère!	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuilly_sa_m%C3%A8re,_sa_m%C3%A8re!	2,018	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films:_N%E2%80%93O	{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fd/Neuilly_sa_m%C3%A8re%2C_sa_m%C3%A8re%21.jpg/250px-Neuilly_sa_m%C3%A8re%2C_sa_m%C3%A8re%21.jpg", "Directed by": "Gabriel Julien-Laferrière", "Written by": "Djamel Bensalah Marc de Chauveron Isaac Sharry", "Produced by": "Djamel Bensalah Isaac Sharry", "Starring": "Denis Podalydès Samy Seghir Jérémy Denisty Sophia Aram Joséphine Japy", "Edited by": "Jean-François Elie Vincent Trisolini", "Music by": "Charlie Nguyen Kim", "Production companies": "Miroir Magique ! Vito Films", "Distributed by": "SND Films", "Release date": "8 August 2018 ( 2018-08-08 )", "Country": "France", "Language": "French", "Budget": "$8.2 million [ 1 ]", "Box office": "$9 million [ 2 ]"}	["Neuilly sa mère, sa mère! ( .mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%} pronounced [nøji sa mɛʁ sa mɛʁ] ), also known as Neuilly sa mère! 2 , is a 2018 French comedy film directed by Gabriel Julien-Laferrière [ fr ] . [ 3 ] This is the sequel of Neuilly Yo Mama! released in 2009.", "UniFrance shows the English title Straight Outta Neuilly . [ 4 ]", "In 2008, Sami Benboudaoud discovered the hell of Neuilly-sur-Seine , Paris Region .", "10 years later, while everything is going well for Sami, who brilliantly finishes his studies in political science, nothing is going well for his cousin Charles de Chazelle. Since the defeat of his idol Nicolas Sarkozy in the presidential elections, he has fallen into a deep depression when his family loses all their fortune and has to leave Neuilly. Rejected by all, the Chazelle find refuge at Sami in Nanterre . From then on, for Sami and the inhabitants of his city, life will never be a long calm river again.", "Principal photography on the film began on October 3, 2017, and lasted til the end of the year. [ 5 ]"]	tt7489740	2025-06-27 14:21:09
14	series	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranormal_Activity_(film_series)	null	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films:_P	{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3a/Paranormal_Activity_logo.jpg", "Created by": "Oren Peli", "Original work": "Paranormal Activity", "Owners": "Blumhouse Paramount Global", "Years": "2007–2021", "Film(s)": "Paranormal Activity (2007) Paranormal Activity 2 (2010) Paranormal Activity 3 (2011) Paranormal Activity 4 (2012) Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (2014) Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension (2015) Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin (2021)"}	["Paranormal Activity is an American supernatural horror franchise consisting of seven films and additional media. Created by Oren Peli , the original film premiered in 2007 and was widely released in 2009.", "The films are typically based around various families who become haunted by an evil demon known as \"Tobi\" that stalks, terrifies and ultimately murders several members of the family and other bystanders during the course of the films. The series makes use of production cameras set up as security cameras or other recording devices in an attempt to present the films as found footage .", "The series has received overall mixed reviews across all films. The first and third films received generally positive critical reception, the second and fifth films received more mixed reviews, and the fourth, sixth and seventh received mostly negative reviews. The series was financially successful, making strong profits based on return on investment . The series as a whole has grossed over thirty times the overall budget.", "Set in October 2006, a young couple, Katie and Micah, who have recently moved to a new house in San Diego , California , are terrorized by a demon that has stalked Katie since childhood. The film is designed to look like a found footage -styled film with Micah filming the activity in their house.", "Set in August to October 2006, beginning two months before the events of the first film, Katie's sister Kristi and her family reside in Carlsbad, California , where they experience strange activity after her baby, named Hunter, is born. The film uses security cameras and in some scenes, a hand-held camera to film the activity in the house.", "Set in September 1988, it focuses on a younger Katie and Kristi, who live with their mother Julie and her boyfriend, Dennis, in Santa Rosa, California . They experience sightings and then encounter \"Tobi\" the demon for the very first time. Concerned, Dennis decides to set up a few cameras around the house with the help of his friend Randy, who also encounters \"Tobi\" as well. There are many cameras set around the house, one of which is attached to a small oscillating fan that moves the camera back and forth from the kitchen area to the living room and vice versa. The film also uses a hand-held camera handled mainly by Dennis.", "Set in November 2011, the film focuses on Alex Nelson and her family residing in a neighborhood in Henderson, Nevada . The family began to experience hauntings, concerning Alex's adopted brother, Wyatt, after Katie and her mysterious son, Robbie, move in across the street. Alex is helped by her boyfriend, Ben, to film the activity via MacBook webcams, a video camera , an iPhone camera and Kinect technology.", "Set in June 2012, the film follows a Latino community in Oxnard, California , where a group of high school graduates deal with the demon of a mysterious cult which has \"marked\" one of them. They document their experiences using basic tools of recording and with clues from the previous films to try to understand what is happening to them. The Marked Ones is the last film in the series to feature Katie Featherston.", "Set in December 2013, the film follows the Fleeges, a family of three who, after having relocated to a house in Santa Rosa, California , discover several tapes, set in 1992, that show Katie and Kristi in the midst of their initiation ritual to enter a demonic coven. The family begins to be haunted by the demon when the daughter, Leila, is targeted as she was born on the same date as Hunter from Paranormal Activity 2 . Along with normal recorders, the family also discovers a unique video recorder that can visibly show supernatural happenings, which they use to record the increasing paranormal activities.", "A seventh and final installment, Next of Kin , [ 1 ] was directed by William Eubank with a script by Christopher Landon . [ 2 ] Originally scheduled for release on March 19, 2021, [ 3 ] the film was delayed to October 29. [ 4 ] Due to the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cinema , the project skipped its theatrical release and was instead released via streaming , as a Paramount+ exclusive film. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Set in March 2021, it follows a young woman named Margot who, alongside her small film crew, attempts to make a documentary on an Amish community to try and find out more about Margot's mysterious past, only for them to discover the horrific secrets the town holds.", "First-time director Oren Peli had been afraid of ghosts his whole life, even fearing the comedy film Ghostbusters , but intended to channel that fear into something positive and productive. Peli took a year to prepare his own house for shooting, going so far as to repaint the walls, add furniture, put in a carpet, and build a stairwell. In this time, he also did extensive research into paranormal phenomena and demonology stating, \"We wanted to be as truthful as we could be.\" The decision to make the supernatural entity in the story a demon was a result of the research pointing to the most malevolent and violent entities being \"demons.", "The phenomena in the film take place largely at night—the vulnerability of being asleep, Peli reasoned, taps into a human being's most primal fear, stating, \"If something is lurking in your home there's not much you can do about it.", "Attempting to focus on believability rather than action and gore, Peli chose to shoot the picture with a home video camera. In deciding on a more raw and stationary format (the camera was almost always sitting on a tripod or something else) and eliminating the need for a camera crew, a \"higher degree of plausibility\" was created for the audience and they were \"more invested in the story and the characters\". Peli says that the dialogue was \"natural\" because there was no real script. Instead, the actors were given outlines of the story and situations to improvise, a technique known as \"retroscripting\" used in the making of The Blair Witch Project .", "In casting the movie, Peli auditioned \"a few hundred people\" before finally meeting Katie Featherston and Micah Sloat . He originally auditioned them individually and later called them back to audition together. Peli was impressed with the chemistry between the actors, saying, \"If you saw the footage, you would've thought they had known each other for years.\" During a guest appearance on The Jay Leno Show on November 3, 2009, Sloat and Featherston explained they each saw the casting call on LACasting. Featherston noted they were originally paid $500 for their work.\nThe film was shot out of sequence due to Peli's self-imposed seven-day shooting schedule, though Peli would have preferred the story unfold for the actors as he had envisioned it. Sloat, who controlled the camera for a good deal of the film, was a former cameraman at his university's TV station. \"It was a very intense week\", Peli recalled, stating that the film would be shot day and night, edited at the same time, and would have the visual effects applied to it as the acting footage was being finalized.", "Paramount and DreamWorks hired screenwriter Michael R. Perry to create Paranormal Activity 2 . Oren Peli, the director of the first film, served as a producer for this prequel. Kevin Greutert , director of Saw VI , was initially hired to direct the prequel; however, Lions Gate Entertainment exercised a clause in Greutert's contract to have him direct the final film in the Saw film series . Both of the actors from the first film, Katie Featherston and Micah Sloat, reprise their roles in the prequel . Tod Williams directed Paranormal Activity 2 , which started production in May 2010 and was released in October the same year.", "Paranormal Activity 3 and 4 were directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman , documentary filmmakers who were well known for their feature debut Catfish . Production on the third entry began in June 2011, with a release October 21 of the same year. Filming for the fourth film commenced in June 2012, with a release of October 19.", "A Latin American -themed fifth film, Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones was released on January 3, 2014. Oren Peli , the creator of the franchise, returned to produce the film, while Christopher Landon , a screenwriter who had worked on the prior three entries in the series, served as the writer and director.", "The sixth film in the series, Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension , [ 7 ] was announced to be released on October 25, 2013. [ 8 ] However, in August 2013, the release date was pushed back to October 24, 2014. [ 9 ]", "On September 17, 2014, the film's title was finalized and the release date was set on March 27, 2015, [ 10 ] later changed to October 23, 2015. [ 7 ]", "In September 2013, it was confirmed that Gregory Plotkin, a film editor who had edited every release in the series since Paranormal Activity 2 , would make his directorial debut with the sixth film. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Oren Peli , the creator of the franchise, and Jason Blum would return to produce the sixth film. In late September 2013, Paramount hired Almanac writers Jason Pagan and Andrew Stark to write the screenplay. [ 13 ] Though series writer Christopher Landon said that several sequels would follow The Ghost Dimension to wrap up the story, [ 14 ] producer Jason Blum later confirmed that the film would indeed be the last in the series. [ 15 ]", "He said:", "A seventh film was released on October 29, 2021.", "In December 2009, a short digital comic entitled Paranormal Activity: The Search for Katie was released for the iPhone . [ 44 ] It was written by Scott Lobdell [ 45 ] and features art from Mark Badger . [ 46 ]", "As part of the promotional campaign for Paranormal Activity 4 , the studio created a group of online accounts, including a Youtube account under the name “ Jacob Degloshi ”. In a series of posted videos set a year after the events of the film, Alex Nelson's friend Sarah, who appears in the film itself, is chased by Tobi while her father researches VHS tapes that include previously unreleased footage from the second and third films. [ 47 ] [ 48 ]", "An augmented reality game called Paranormal Activity: Sanctuary developed by Ogmento, was released in 2011. This mobile game was the first location-based augmented reality game ever produced, and combined vision-based AR with user-generated content and geo-social elements. [ 49 ]", "A video game called Paranormal Activity: The Lost Soul was released on August 15, 2017, for Microsoft Windows and PS4 . The game was engineered for VR and made use of the PlayStation VR for the PlayStation as well as Oculus Rift and HTC Vive for Windows, but VR was not required for play. [ 50 ] The game was nominated for \"Best Sound Design for an Indie Game\" at the 16th Annual Game Audio Network Guild Awards. [ 51 ]", "A video game Paranormal Activity: Found Footage developed by DarkStone Digital and published by DreadXP will be released sometime in 2026. [ 52 ]", "A documentary about the making of the films called Unknown Dimension: The Story of Paranormal Activity , was released on October 29, 2021. [ 53 ]", "A non-canon Japanese-language Paranormal Activity sequel was released in 2010. It follows Haruka Yamano, who was in a car accident that broke her legs. She stayed home with her brother while their father was away as strange activity started happening in the house. It is later revealed that Haruka killed the possessed Katie in the car accident, causing the demon to transfer to her.", "A stage play based on the films also called Paranormal Activity written by Levi Holloway and directed by Felix Barrett premiered at the Courtyard at Leeds Playhouse on July 4, 2024, for a limited run until August 3. [ 54 ]", "Paranormal Activity: True Tales of Possession was released in July 2024 on Audible in collaboration with Paramount Pictures Audio, where the lead actors of the first film Katie Featherston and Micah Sloat examining real-life stories of demonic possession, tracing the phenomenon from its earliest known accounts to its modern-day headlines. [ 55 ]"]	null	2025-06-27 14:21:09
15	Take All of Me	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_All_of_Me	1,976	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films:_T	{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ee/Dedicato_a_una_stella.jpg/250px-Dedicato_a_una_stella.jpg", "Directed by": "Luigi Cozzi", "Screenplay by": "Luigi Cozzi Michele Delle Aie Danielle Del Giudice Sonia Molteni [ 1 ]", "Story by": "Sonia Molteni [ 1 ]", "Produced by": "Mario Cotone [ 1 ]", "Starring": "Richard Johnson Pamaela Villoresi Maria Antonietta Beluzzi", "Cinematography": "Roberto D'Ettore Piazzoli [ 1 ]", "Edited by": "Angelo Curti [ 1 ]", "Music by": "Stelvio Cipriani [ 1 ]", "Production company": "A-Esse Cinematografica [ 1 ]", "Release date": "15 August 1976 ( 1976-08-15 )", "Running time": "91 minutes [ 1 ]", "Country": "Italy [ 1 ]"}	["Take All of Me ( Italian : Dedicato a una stella / Dedicated to a Star ) is an Italian melodrama film written and directed by Luigi Cozzi . [ 2 ] [ 3 ]", "A young woman named Stella is dying in a hospital of leukemia. A man named Richard Lansky who arrives at the hospital is mistaken for her relative and he is told of Stella's prognosis. The accidental occurrence results in the two forming a romantic relationship in the short period of time Stella has left to live.", "David McGillvray reviewed the film in the Monthly Film Bulletin and stated that the film \"pulled out all the stops to contrive a three-handkercheif weepie unsurpassed since the days of Love Story .\" [ 1 ] McGillvray praised the film as \"flawlessly photographed by Roberto D'Ettore Piazolli\" but found that the film \"all too often one's tears are stemmed by the usual doubts. Why, for instance, is Richard so callous to a girl he knows is dying of leukaemia? And why, in particular, does Stella have so much faith in a composer whose ability is clearly limited to writing bland scores of the type that accompanies this film?\" [ 1 ]"]	tt0189467	2025-06-27 14:21:10
16	Take Aim at the Police Van	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_Aim_at_the_Police_Van	1,960	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films:_T	{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Take-aim-at-the-police-vanj.jpg/250px-Take-aim-at-the-police-vanj.jpg", "Directed by": "Seijun Suzuki", "Written by": "Shinichi Sekizawa Kazuo Shimada (Story)", "Produced by": "Ryoji Motegi", "Starring": "Michitaro Mizushima Mari Shiraki Misako Watanabe Shinsuke Ashida", "Cinematography": "Shigeyoshi Mine", "Edited by": "Akira Suzuki", "Music by": "Koichi Kawabe", "Production company": "Nikkatsu", "Distributed by": "Janus Films [ 1 ]", "Release date": "January 27, 1960 ( 1960-01-27 )", "Running time": "79 minutes", "Country": "Japan", "Language": "Japanese"}	["Take Aim at the Police Van ( 十三号待避線より: その護送車を狙え , Jūsangō taihisen yori: Sono gosōsha o nerae ) is a 1960 Japanese film directed by Seijun Suzuki and starring Michitaro Mizushima.", "The Nikkatsu Company conceived Take Aim at the Police Van as a borderless action film, a studio subgenre with internationalized characters and setting. Contract director Seijun Suzuki had previously worked mainly on pop song films, a youth subgenre in which the films were built around an already popular song, and yakuza films with an occasional film noir bent. [ 2 ] It also marked the beginning of his practice of co-writing his films. [ 3 ] Leading man Michitaro Mizushima had also starred in Suzuki's Underworld Beauty two years earlier. He was atypical of borderless action films by virtue of his age, forty-eight at the time, as they typically featured Nikkatsu's younger stars such as Yujiro Ishihara and Akira Kobayashi . [ 2 ]", "Take Aim at the Police Van was released in Japan by the Nikkatsu Company on January 27, 1960. [ 4 ] It was subsequently released in a five-film DVD box set, titled Nikkatsu Noir , in North America on August 25, 2009, under The Criterion Collection 's Eclipse label. The set focuses on noir-themed Nikkatsu Action films and also includes I Am Waiting (1957), Rusty Knife (1958), Cruel Gun Story (1964) and A Colt Is My Passport (1967) with liner notes by film historian Chuck Stephens. [ 5 ]", "The A.V. Club ' s Noel Murray felt the film holds up against contemporary Hollywood film noir . Rating it less abstract than Seijun Suzuki 's films of a few years later, he highlighted its vim and social candor and named it \"[a testament] to how artists pumping out quickie exploitation product can often work in truths about their times that prestige filmmakers can't.\" [ 6 ]"]	tt0054325	2025-06-27 14:21:10
17	Tammy Tell Me True	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammy_Tell_Me_True	null	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films:_T	{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/cc/Tammy_Tell_Me_True.jpg/250px-Tammy_Tell_Me_True.jpg", "Directed by": "Harry Keller", "Written by": "Oscar Brodney", "Based on": "Tammy Tell Me True by Cid Ricketts Sumner", "Produced by": "Ross Hunter", "Starring": "Sandra Dee John Gavin Beulah Bondi Charles Drake Virginia Grey Julia Meade", "Cinematography": "Clifford Stine", "Edited by": "Otto Ludwig", "Music by": "Percy Faith", "Production company": "Ross Hunter Productions", "Distributed by": "Universal Pictures", "Release date": "July 26, 1961 ( 1961-07-26 ) (New York City)", "Running time": "97 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Box office": "$2.5 million [ 1 ]"}	["Tammy Tell Me True is a 1961 American Eastmancolor comedy film directed by Harry Keller and starring Sandra Dee and John Gavin , Beulah Bondi , Charles Drake , Virginia Grey and Julia Meade .", "The film, the second in the series , was based on Cid Ricketts Sumner 's 1959 novel of the same name, which the New York Times had described as \"a cheerful change of pace from current novels of conflict and depression\". [ 2 ]", "Tammy is waiting to hear from her lover Pete, who has gone to agricultural college. She decides to go to college to improve herself. Tammy becomes a paid companion for a crusty old lady and falls for a handsome man.", "Sandra Dee was announced for the lead role in September 1960. [ 3 ]", "The Welsh singer Dorothy Squires wrote the words and music to the title song \"Tammy Tell Me True\".", "The Chicago Tribune called it \"calculated cuteness... relieved by a likeable performance from Sandra Dee.\" [ 4 ] The Washington Post called it \"infinitely inferior to the first Tammy , everything about the film is false, especially the aggressive Sandra Dee, whose primpsy whimsy wardrobe cannot disguise the acquisitive gaze in her give-away eyes.\" [ 5 ]", "In a 1974 interview, Gavin criticised the film but said it \"haunts the tube like a permanent miasma . You can't do worse than that.\" [ 6 ]"]	tt0055503	2025-06-27 14:21:12
18	Tár	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A1r	2,022	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films:_T	{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/19/T%C3%A1r_poster.jpg/250px-T%C3%A1r_poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Todd Field", "Written by": "Todd Field", "Produced by": "Todd Field Alexandra Milchan Scott Lambert", "Starring": "Cate Blanchett Noémie Merlant Nina Hoss Sophie Kauer Julian Glover Allan Corduner Mark Strong", "Cinematography": "Florian Hoffmeister [ 1 ]", "Edited by": "Monika Willi [ 2 ]", "Music by": "Hildur Guðnadóttir [ 3 ]", "Production companies": "Standard Film Company EMJAG Productions", "Distributed by": "Focus Features (United States) Universal Pictures (international)", "Release dates": "September 1, 2022 ( 2022-09-01 ) ( Venice ) October 7, 2022 ( 2022-10-07 ) (United States) March 2, 2023 ( 2023-03-02 ) (Germany)", "Running time": "158 minutes", "Countries": "United States Germany", "Language": "English", "Box office": "$29.3 million [ 4 ] [ 5 ]"}	["Tár is a 2022 psychological drama film written and directed by Todd Field . Cate Blanchett stars as Lydia Tár, a world-renowned conductor, whose life unravels after she is accused of misconduct. The supporting cast includes Nina Hoss , Noémie Merlant , Sophie Kauer , Julian Glover , Allan Corduner , and Mark Strong .", "Tár premiered at the 79th Venice International Film Festival in September 2022, where Blanchett won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress . Following a three-week limited theatrical release , it received a wide release on October 28, 2022 through Focus Features . Tár received critical acclaim, especially for Blanchett's performance and Field's screenplay and direction. At the 95th Academy Awards , Tár was nominated for 6 awards, including Best Picture . Blanchett won the BAFTA , Golden Globe , and Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress, and was nominated for the Academy Award and Screen Actors Guild Award in the same category. Since its release, it has been regarded as one of the best films of the 2020s and the 21st century. [ 6 ] [ 7 ]", "Lydia Tár is chief conductor of a Berlin orchestra. Lydia heavily relies on Francesca, her personal assistant and confidant. While being interviewed by Adam Gopnik at The New Yorker Festival , Lydia promotes her upcoming live recording of Mahler's Fifth Symphony and memoir Tár on Tár . She meets with Eliot Kaplan, an investment banker and amateur conductor who co-founded the Accordion Foundation with Lydia to support aspiring female conductors. They discuss technique, replacing Lydia's assistant conductor Sebastian, and filling a vacant cello position in Berlin.", "As a guest lecturer, Lydia holds a masterclass at Juilliard . When a student expresses his reluctance to study J. S. Bach 's works due to their social views, she encourages the class to focus on the music and the composer’s contributions rather than his personal life. The debate escalates, and Lydia and the student exchange insults. Later that night Lydia anonymously receives a first edition of Vita Sackville-West 's novel Challenge . The title page has been embellished with a handdrawn kené pattern, a personal reminder of her trip to Perú. She tears up the page and then throws it away, along with the book.", "Lydia flies back to Berlin, where she lives with her wife Sharon, who is concertmaster of the orchestra, and their adopted daughter Petra. Before a blind audition for the cello position, Lydia spots a young Russian candidate, Olga Metkina, in the bathroom. Lydia changes her scorecard to ensure Olga a spot in the orchestra and grants her a soloist position in the companion piece, Elgar's Cello Concerto . Lydia's attraction to Olga causes her relationships with Francesca and Sharon to grow strained.", "Krista Taylor is a promising young musician who has been blacklisted after getting on the bad side of Lydia, who was her former mentor. After sending desperate emails to Francesca, Krista kills herself, and her parents plan to sue. Lydia instructs Francesca to delete the emails and retain a lawyer. Lydia informs Sebastian of his replacement. Incensed, he indicates the orchestra is aware of her favoritism and that it suggests inappropriate behavior. Due to Sebastian's accusations, Lydia decides to not promote Francesca to assistant conductor.", "Lydia is haunted by an increasing sensitivity to sound , vivid surreal nightmares, daytime hallucinations, chronic pain, and enigmatic patterned scribbles resembling those Krista once made. While jogging in the park, Lydia hears a screaming woman in the distance. While trying to complete a composition \"For Petra\", she is disturbed by the sound of a medical device next door, where her neighbor is caring for her dying mother. A manipulatively edited cellphone video of Lydia's Juilliard class goes viral, and an article accusing her of sexual predation appears in the New York Post . Lydia urgently tries to reach Francesca, who has resigned from her position and is now working with Krista's lawyers on their deposition. Furious, Lydia breaks into Francesca's home to find that it is completely empty and abandoned. Lydia takes the front page of the proofs to Tár on Tár , which Francesca renamed Rat on Rat . Lydia, accompanied by Olga, returns to New York City to attend the deposition in the lawsuit of Krista's parents and to promote her book; they are met by protestors. During the deposition, the plaintiffs ask Lydia about incriminating emails between her and Krista that Francesca provided.", "In Berlin, Lydia is removed as conductor due to the controversy. Furious over the allegations and Lydia's lack of communication, Sharon bars her from seeing their daughter. Lydia retreats to her old studio and grows increasingly depressed and deranged. She sneaks into the live recording she was supposed to conduct and assaults Eliot, who replaced her as conductor. Advised to lie low by her management agency, she returns to her modest childhood home on Staten Island , where certificates of achievement bearing her birth name, Linda Tarr, hang on the wall. She tears up watching an old VHS of Young People's Concerts in which Leonard Bernstein discusses the meaning of music. Her brother Tony arrives and admonishes her for forgetting her roots.", "Sometime in the future, Lydia finds work conducting in the Philippines. Seeking a massage, the hotel concierge sends her to a brothel fronting as a massage parlor; the young women sit in a semicircle with numbers on their robes. Number 5 looks directly at Lydia, who rushes outside to vomit. Later on, she conducts a live performance of the score for the video game series Monster Hunter in front of an audience of cosplayers .", "It was announced in April 2021 that Blanchett would star in and executive-produce the film, which would be written and directed by Todd Field . [ 14 ] [ 15 ] In a statement accompanying the teaser trailer in August 2022, Field said that he wrote the script for Blanchett, and that he would not have made the film if she had declined it. [ 16 ] In September 2021, Nina Hoss and Noémie Merlant joined the cast, and Hildur Guðnadóttir became the film's composer. [ 17 ]", "Filming began in August 2021 in Berlin . [ 18 ] In an interview with The Guardian in October, Mark Strong revealed that he had finished filming scenes for the film. [ 19 ] In November, it was reported that Sophie Kauer , Julian Glover , Allan Corduner and Sylvia Flote had joined the cast. [ 20 ] (Kauer is a British-German classical cellist who studied at the Royal Academy of Music .) [ 21 ] All diegetic music was recorded live on-set, including Blanchett's piano playing, Kauer's cello, and the Dresden Philharmonic 's performances. [ 22 ] [ 23 ]", "Tár had its world premiere at the 79th Venice International Film Festival on September 1, 2022, [ 24 ] and had its first North American screening at the 49th Telluride Film Festival on September 3, 2022. [ 25 ] It had a limited theatrical release on October 7, 2022, then expanded to wide release on October 28. [ 26 ] [ 20 ]", "The film was released for VOD on November 15, 2022, followed by a Blu-ray , DVD , and 4K UHD release on December 20. [ 27 ] By March 9, 2023, according to Samba TV , the film had been streamed on Peacock in 458,000 households in the US since the Oscar nomination announcement on January 24. JustWatch also reported it to be, by February 21, the third most-streamed Best Picture nominee in Canada. [ 28 ] [ 29 ]", "A concept album was released on October 21, 2022, featuring Guðnadóttir's score with the London Contemporary Orchestra conducted by Robert Ames , and a rehearsal of Gustav Mahler's Fifth Symphony with Blanchett conducting the Dresden Philharmonic. Cellist Sophie Kauer plays Elgar's Cello Concerto on the album, backed by the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Natalie Murray Beale. [ 30 ] For the week ending November 5, 2022, the Tár concept album topped Billboard magazine's Traditional Classical Albums at number one. [ 31 ]", "John Mauceri served as consultant on Field's script, helping inform the tenor and accuracy of Lydia Tár's comments on classical music and musicians. [ 32 ]", "Tár grossed $6.8 million in the United States and Canada, and $22.4 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $29.2 million. [ 5 ] [ 4 ]", "In the United States and Canada, it made $158,620 from four theaters in its opening weekend. The $39,655 per-screen average was the second highest of 2022 for a limited release. In its second weekend the film made $330,030 from 36 theaters. In its third weekend it made $500,035 from 141 theaters, and there was speculation in the trades that Tár was an example that there was still a place for \"adult-minded fare\". [ 33 ] [ 34 ] [ 35 ] However, once Tár expanded to 1,087 theaters in its fourth weekend, leaving the limited specialty house run for the multiplex, it made only $1.02 million, finishing 10th. Audiences surveyed by PostTrak over the weekend gave the film a 72% positive score, with 42% saying they would definitely recommend it. [ 36 ] In its second week of wide release, it made $729,605 (marking a drop of 30%). [ 37 ]", "Some commentators attributed the poor US domestic box office performance to the film's subject matter alienating a general audience. [ 38 ] Others noted a larger trend in US art houses, 40% of which had permanently shuttered during the COVID-19 pandemic , struggling to regain their core 40–70 year-old audience, an audience more prone to health concerns and still hesitant to return to the cinema. [ 39 ] [ 40 ] The New York Times reported that Tár \"cost at least $35 million including marketing,\" and that it and similar highbrow films from established filmmakers such as Paul Thomas Anderson 's Licorice Pizza , Guillermo del Toro 's Nightmare Alley , and Steven Spielberg 's The Fabelmans had \"failed to find an audience big enough to justify their costs\". [ 41 ] 78% of the film's box office takings were overseas. [ 42 ]", "On Rotten Tomatoes , 91% of 356 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 8.3/10. The website's consensus reads, \"Led by the soaring melody of Cate Blanchett's note-perfect performance, Tár riffs brilliantly on the discordant side of fame-fueled power.\" [ 43 ] Metacritic , which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 93 out of 100, based on 59 critics, indicating \"universal acclaim\". [ 44 ]", "Owen Gleiberman in his Venice Film Festival Daily Variety review wrote: .mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}", "A. O. Scott of The New York Times writing from the Telluride Film Festival and later from the New York Film Festival stated:", "Justin Chang for the Los Angeles Times regarded the film as:", "Alissa Wilkinson, writing for Vox , observed:", "Reviewing the film for The Hollywood Reporter , David Rooney wrote:", "Anthony Lane of The New Yorker stated:", "Lane's colleague Richard Brody disagreed and argued in his capsule review that Tár was:\n“a regressive film that takes bitter aim at so-called cancel culture and lampoons so-called identity politics .\" Brody laments Field's \"absence of style\" in filming the music and he accuses the film of \"conservative button-pushing\" with a narrow aesthetic, failing to achieve dramatic unity. [ 53 ]", "Martin Scorsese presenting Field with the 2022 New York Film Critics Circle Awards Best Film of the Year, said,", "Paul Thomas Anderson presenting Field with the Director Medallion at the 75th annual DGA Awards said,", "In an interview with The Sunday Times , conductor Marin Alsop shared her dislike of the film, calling it \"anti-woman\", saying \"I was offended: I was offended as a woman, I was offended as a conductor, I was offended as a lesbian. To have an opportunity to portray a woman in that role and to make her an abuser – for me that was heartbreaking.\" [ 56 ] In response, Blanchett told BBC Radio 4 , the film was a \"meditation on power, and power is genderless\", and that while her character shares similarities with Alsop, it is a complete work of fiction. [ 57 ]", "Writing in The Guardian , conductor Alice Farnham thanked Blanchett, Field, and the film for \"taking up the baton for female conductors\", and for normalising their image. [ 58 ] Critic Emily Bootle also defended the film in the i newspaper writing: \"This is a film about power [but] sometimes we have to tolerate grey areas.\" [ 59 ] Film critics Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo also disagreed with the interpretation that Tár is \"anti-woman.\" [ 60 ]", "Writing for Time , Stephanie Zacharek went further: \" Tár doesn't offer anything as comfortable as redemption, and it asks us to fall in love, at least a little, with a tyrant. ... Lydia Tár ... knows that the power of a question is greater than that of a slogan.\" [ 61 ]", "Music professor Ian Pace discussed the issue in The Conversation : \"It would be rash to assume that such a figure could never act in a predatory and exploitative manner. This is not just an issue of identity, but power and the opportunities it provides for the reckless.\" [ 62 ] Conductor Don Baton (a pen name) in City Journal agreed. [ 63 ]", "Film critic John McDonald for the Australian Financial Review wrote: \"Had it been a male conductor, the story would have been a cliché. Had it been a celebration of female power, it would have been no less superficial ... Field has taken the 'Maestro myth' that portrays the conductor as a kind of hypermale and shown that the same issues may apply to a woman.\" [ 64 ] [ 65 ] Several other conductors and musicians wrote in defense of the film. [ 66 ]", "Yo Yo Ma told indiewire \"Todd has created such a striking film. Cate Blanchett’s Lydia Tár demands that we wrestle with two of art’s most difficult questions: what gives art its power and what role does power play in art?\" [ 67 ]", "In her critique for The New York Review of Books titled \"The Instrumentalist\", prize-winning novelist and professor Zadie Smith commended Cate Blanchett's performance, [ 68 ] and the classroom scene at the Juilliard School was described by A. O. Scott as \"a mini-course in the dos and don'ts of contemporary pedagogy.\" [ 69 ] [ 70 ]", "Critic Amanda Hess wrote in The New York Times , \"The online cancellation of an artistic giant can be a tedious subject, but in Tár , it acquires sneaky complications ... Tár offers up a work into which we can sublimate our own Schadenfreude and sympathy for abusers. Thanks to Blanchett's luminous performance and Field's puzzle-box storytelling, we are freed to obsess.\" [ 71 ]", "Film critic Howie Movshovitz, [ 72 ] critic and essayist Philippa Snow ( ArtReview ), [ 73 ] Murielle Joudet ( Le Monde ) [ 74 ] and Guillaume Orignac ( Cahiers du Cinéma ) draw attention to the film's creative open-endedness, allowing audiences to draw their own conclusions about its significance and meaning. [ 75 ]", "The New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg argued that Tár is \"a film about cancel culture , making it the rare piece of art that looks squarely at this social phenomenon that has roiled so many of America's meaning-making institutions ... Tár demonstrates that all this flux and uncertainty is very fertile territory for art. Hopefully its success – many are predicting it will win a Best Picture Oscar – will encourage others to take on similarly thorny and unsettled issues. Hysteria about cancel culture can encourage artistic timidity by overstating the cost of probing taboos. In truth, there's a hunger out there for work that takes the strangeness of this time and turns it into something that transcends polemic.\" [ 76 ] Similarly, Ara Osterweil in Art Forum wrote, \"Todd Field's brilliant character study (...) suggest(s) that the ritual excommunications of cancel culture may be as exaggerated as the generic fantasies enacted by Tár’s gamer audience.\" [ 77 ]", "Austrian musicologist and anthropologist Bernd Brabec alleged that part of Lydia Tár's biography read aloud by Adam Gopnik mines his CV . [ 78 ] [ 79 ] In response, Brabec wrote an open letter [ 80 ] to director Todd Field. In the letter, Brabec takes offence at the film mirroring particulars of his academic background and criticizes what he characterized as unfortunately minimal and shallow treatment of the Shipibo-Konibo people in the plot of the film. However, Amanda M. Smith, associate professor of Latin American and Culture at the University of California wrote in ReVista , the Harvard Review of Latin America, \"Shipibo-Konibo cosmovision is not merely decorative in the film. It organizes the narrative's internal conflicts and reveals Tár as a tale of shamanic justice in a world where the Global North continues to take from the Global South.\" [ 81 ]", "Because the film was released in the United Kingdom in January 2023, Tár was included in Sight and Sound ' s Best Films of 2023, [ 82 ] and sat atop the polls of New Statesman [ 83 ] and Time Out , with Phil de Semlyen of Time Out writing \"Blanchett's Oscar-nominated performance has rightly earned the lion's share of plaudits, but the superb acting is buoyed by Field's subtly off-kilter visual style, lending the 'ripped from the headlines' narrative a hint of Kubrickian uncanniness.\" [ 84 ] The Guardian also chose Tár as best film of the year, with critic Wendy Ide writing, “Todd Field's creation of the magnificent, monstrous fictional conductor Lydia Tár, inhabited down to the last shred of cruelty and ambition by the remarkable Cate Blanchett, is exceptional: a savage, slippery account of rampant narcissism brought down to earth.” [ 85 ] In April 2024 the historian Simon Heffer , expressing his opinion in The Sunday Telegraph , wrote Tár is \"the finest American film of the century.\" [ 86 ]", "The March 2023 issue of New York magazine listed Tár alongside Citizen Kane , Sunset Boulevard , Dr. Strangelove , Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid , The Conversation , Nashville , Taxi Driver , The Elephant Man , Pulp Fiction , There Will Be Blood , Roma , and In the Bedroom , also directed by Field, as \"The Best Movies That Lost Best Picture at the Oscars\". [ 87 ]", "The March 2024 issue of IndieWire listed Tár , and In the Bedroom , also directed by Field, as \"Best Picture Nominees that Deserved to win the Oscar\", stating, \"Todd Field's portrait of the talent and ego of a world-renowned conductor is some of the most riveting and ambitious filmmaking in recent memory. Tár feels like a movie people will be talking about and debating long after the ceremony where it lost fades from memory.\" [ 88 ] The June 2025 issue ranked the film at number 4 on its list of \"The 100 Best Movies of the 2020s (So Far).\" [ 6 ]", "In June 2025, filmmaker Matthew Weiner named it one of his favorite films of the 21st century. [ 7 ] That same month, it ranked at number 67 on The New York Times ' list of \"The 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century.\" [ 7 ]", "Among other accolades, Tár received six Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture , Best Director , Best Actress for Blanchett, Best Original Screenplay , Best Cinematography , and Best Film Editing . [ 89 ]"]	tt14444726	2025-06-27 14:21:12
19	Tara	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara_(2001_film)	2,001	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films:_T	{"Directed by": "Leslie Small", "Starring": "Isaiah Washington Ice-T A.J. Johnson Tonea Stewart Steve Warren", "Music by": "Adam Berry", "Release date": "2001 ( 2001 )"}	["Tara is a 2001 film, known in the United States as Hood Rat . [ 1 ] Directed by Leslie Small , it was released direct-to-video , and was poorly received. It focuses on a soft homeless man who befriends a rat he names Tara."]	tt0277370	2025-06-27 14:21:12
20	Xero	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xero_(film)	2,010	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films:_X%E2%80%93Z	{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/81/Xero2010Poster.jpg/250px-Xero2010Poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Jack the Zipper", "Produced by": "Rockford Kabine", "Starring": "Jade Starr Jayme Langford Franziska Facella Devi Lynne Zoe Minx", "Music by": "Rockford Kabine", "Release date": "21 June 2010 ( 2010-06-21 )", "Running time": "62 minutes", "Country": "Germany"}	["Xero is a 2010 German experimental all-girl pornographic film by American director Jack the Zipper and German composer and producer Rockford Kabine .", "Xero is an aesthetic and gloomy trip into a world of lesbian erotic , eschaton phantasies and Japanese zen -tradition. It is both a movie and musical album by composer and producer Rockford Kabine. The movie derives its effect from the close liaison of pictures and sound. Artistic references are the works of Alejandro Jodorowsky and the Japanese Pink film - exploitation genre, as well as the soundtracks of Ennio Morricone ."]	tt1825205	2025-06-27 14:21:14
21	Yachakan	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yachakan	1,951	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films:_X%E2%80%93Z	{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/70/Yachakan.jpg", "Directed by": "R. Velappan Nair", "Written by": "P. S. Nair", "Screenplay by": "P. S. Nair", "Produced by": "K. S. Akhileswarayyar", "Starring": "Prof. M. P. Manmathan Kottarakkara Sreedharan Nair Miss Kumari", "Cinematography": "R. Velappan Nair", "Edited by": "K. D. George", "Music by": "S. N. Chaami (S. N. Ranganathan)", "Production company": "Kairali Productions", "Distributed by": "Central Pictures Release, Kottayam", "Release date": "12 September 1951 ( 1951-09-12 )", "Country": "India", "Language": "Malayalam"}	["Yachakan is a 1951 Indian Malayalam -language film, directed by R. Velappan Nair and produced by K. S. Akhileswarayyar. [ 1 ] The film stars Prof. M. P. Manmathan , Kottarakkara Sreedharan Nair and Miss Kumari . The musical score is by S. N. Chaami (S. N. Ranganathan). [ 2 ]"]	tt0253958	2025-06-27 14:21:14
22	Year of the Dog	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_of_the_Dog_(film)	2,007	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films:_X%E2%80%93Z	{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/76/Yeardogpost1-1.jpg/250px-Yeardogpost1-1.jpg", "Directed by": "Mike White", "Written by": "Mike White", "Produced by": "Mike White Ben Le Clair Dede Gardner", "Starring": "Molly Shannon Peter Sarsgaard John C. Reilly Laura Dern Regina King Thomas McCarthy Josh Pais", "Cinematography": "Tim Orr", "Edited by": "Dody Dorn", "Music by": "Christophe Beck", "Production company": "Plan B Entertainment", "Distributed by": "Paramount Vantage", "Release date": "January 20, 2007 ( 2007-01-20 )", "Running time": "93 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Box office": "$1.6 million"}	["Year of the Dog is a 2007 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Mike White (in his directorial debut), and starring Molly Shannon , Laura Dern , Regina King , Thomas McCarthy , Josh Pais , John C. Reilly and Peter Sarsgaard . The film tells the story of a woman who goes from having one pet dog at home to becoming a vegan and an animal rights activist.", "It premiered on January 20, 2007, at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival .", "Peggy is a 40-something administrative assistant with no social or love life. She is closest to her dog, Pencil. Late one evening he refuses to come in, so a sleepy Peggy leaves him out overnight. The next morning she finds him in her neighbor Al's yard, whimpering in pain. The vet can't save him, Pencil dies of poisoning.", "People in Peggy's life are sympathetic but most don't understand her grief. Best friend Layla tells her Pencil kept her from finding romance. Her emotionally sterile sister-in-law Bret and brother Pier are too self-absorbed to notice.", "Peggy's neighbor, Al, asks her out. Starting out well, oblivious to Peggy's reaction, he shares that he shot his own dog while hunting then shows off his knife collection and hunting trophies. She asks to see his garage, seeking the poison that killed Pencil. Al makes a pass which Peggy rejects.", "Peggy gets a call from Newt from the SPCA who was present when Pencil died as he has a dog for her to adopt: Valentine, a King Shepherd with behavioral problems. Newt agrees to help train him, and they begin to spend a lot of time together.", "Through Newt, Peggy is exposed to veganism and animal rights . She becomes a vegan and begins helping him to get various animals adopted. Chastised by her boss Robin for her commitment, she retaliates by donating to various animal-related charities using a business checkbook and forging Robin's signature.", "Peggy and Newt share a kiss, Newt declining to go any further, which she mistakes for chivalry. When she confesses her feelings he reveals that he is celibate and asexual . Peggy reacts badly, shutting Newt out and focusing on her new relationship with Valentine.", "Valentine's sporadically violent behavior worsens without Newt's instruction. He bites Peggy and his continual barking causes Al to complain. She responds rudely, as she is sure something in his garage poisoned Pencil.", "Peggy's animal rights interest deepens, particularly the prevention of animal testing and support of farms keeping animals out of slaughterhouses. Her new belief system is looked at flippantly by Pier and Bret; when she announces she is a vegan, he says it won't last long.", "Over New Year's, Peggy babysits Pier's children, leaving Valentine with Newt. She takes Lissie and Benji to a rescued animal farm to introduce them to their \"adopted\" chicken (a charity sponsorship) she got them for Christmas . Intensely moved by the experience, Peggy wants to show them a slaughterhouse, but the children freak out.", "Peggy gets drunk and, showing Lissie the rack of furs in her mother's closet, when she asks her opinion of them she says it's \"mean\". Peggy passes out and in the morning finds the furs ruined in the bathtub full of water. She goes to Newt's to get Valentine and finds him weeping. Valentine killed his crippled dog Buttons, so Newt had Valentine put down as he knew Peggy couldn't do it.", "Rushing to the pound, Peggy is too late to save Valentine. She impulsively adopts 15 dogs slated to die, saying she works with the SPCA and will find them all homes. At work, Peggy is confronted by her boss, who has discovered the fraudulent checks and fires her.", "Peggy's life falls apart, she barely leaves home, which is practically destroyed by the dogs. Al complains, saying if she does not control them he will. While she is out, Newt confiscates the dogs and leaves a warning notice from the SPCA.", "Erroneously blaming Al, Peggy sneaks into his house and finds molluscicide with a hole chewed into the corner, confirming her suspicions about Pencil's death. Zombie-like, she drags the bag through the house, leaking poison pellets everywhere. She takes one of Al's hunting knives and hides. When he and his girlfriend return home, Peggy attacks them with the knife. Al wrestles it away from her and calls the police.", "Pier and Bret try to help. Peggy's boss will rehire her if she pays back everything and goes to counseling. When they ask why Peggy attacked Al, she says she wanted him to experience being hunted.", "Peggy returns to work and is greeted warmly. But an internet search soon leads her to an upcoming animal rights protest. Sending an email to her coworkers, boss, Newt, Pier, and Bret, she says she must follow her soul. She abandons her former life, heading off to the protest, content that fighting for animals is her greater reason for living (not child-rearing, career, or intimate human relationships).", "On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , 70% of 144 critics' reviews are positive. The website's consensus reads: \" Year of the Dog is a warm and quirky comedy that never condescends to its eccentric characters.\" [ 1 ] Metacritic , which uses a weighted average , assigned the film a score of 70 out of 100, based on 31 critics, indicating \"generally favorable\" reviews. [ 2 ]", "Associated Press film critic David Germain named the film the #10 best film of 2007. [ 3 ]", "The film won Best Feature Film at the 22nd Genesis Awards .", "The film received a limited release on April 13, 2007, and on its opening weekend grossed $108,223 in seven theaters. The film's widest release was in 152 theaters in its fifth week. [ 4 ]", "The film grossed $1,596,953 worldwide — $1,540,141 in the United States and Canada and $56,812 in other territories. [ 5 ]"]	tt0756729	2025-06-27 14:21:15
23	You'll Never See Me Again	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27ll_Never_See_Me_Again	null	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films:_X%E2%80%93Z	null	null	tt0070943	2025-06-27 14:21:17
24	Yesterday's Wife	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yesterday%27s_Wife	1,923	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films:_X%E2%80%93Z	{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Yesterday%27s_Wife_lobby_card.jpg/250px-Yesterday%27s_Wife_lobby_card.jpg", "Directed by": "Edward LeSaint", "Written by": "Evelyn Campbell", "Produced by": "Harry Cohn", "Starring": "Irene Rich Eileen Percy Lottie Williams", "Cinematography": "King D. Gray", "Production company": "CBC Film Sales Corporation", "Distributed by": "CBC Film Sales Corporation", "Release date": "August 15, 1923 ( 1923-08-15 )", "Running time": "56 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "Silent (English intertitles )"}	["Yesterday's Wife is a lost [ 1 ] 1923 American silent comedy-drama film directed by Edward LeSaint and starring Irene Rich , Eileen Percy , and Lottie Williams . The film was released by the CBC Film Sales Corporation , which would later become Columbia Pictures . [ 2 ] [ 3 ]", "As described in a film magazine review, [ 4 ] following a mutual misunderstanding, a divorce decree parts Gilbert and Megan Armes. She becomes a companion to an old lady while Gilbert weds Viola, who is frivolous and a flirt. Megan and her former husband meet years later at a fashionable resort and find that they are still in love with each other. Viola is drowned in a boating accident. Megan and Gilbert re-marry."]	tt0014628	2025-06-27 14:21:18
25	Yellow Crow	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Crow	1,957	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films:_X%E2%80%93Z	{"Directed by": "Heinosuke Gosho", "Written by": "Keiji Hasebe Kennosuke Tateoka Shigeko Yuki (dialogue)", "Produced by": "Jirō Kaga Yoshishige Uchiyama", "Starring": "Chikage Awashima Yūnosuke Itō Kōji Shitara Yoshiko Kuga Kinuyo Tanaka", "Cinematography": "Yoshio Miyajima", "Edited by": "Makoto Nagata", "Music by": "Yasushi Akutagawa", "Production company": "Kabuki-za", "Distributed by": "Shochiku", "Release date": "27 February 1957 ( 1957-02-27 ) (Japan) [ 1 ] [ 2 ]", "Running time": "103 minutes", "Country": "Japan", "Language": "Japanese"}	["Yellow Crow ( 黄色いからす , Kiiroi Karasu ) is a 1957 Japanese drama film directed by Heinosuke Gosho . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]", "Kiyoshi Yoshida is a 9 year old boy who loves to draw. Although he shows some talent, his teacher is worried because he draws only in black and yellow, which can mean according to color psychology that the child has no parents or is unhappy in his family.", "Yellow Crow was screened at the Museum of Modern Art in 2022 as part of its \"Beyond Ozu: Hidden Gems of Shochiku Studios\" retrospective. [ 5 ]"]	tt0050591	2025-06-27 14:21:18
26	Your Lie in April	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Your_Lie_in_April_(film)	2,016	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films:_X%E2%80%93Z	{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/72/Your_Lie_in_April_%28film%29_poster.jpeg", "Kanji": "四月は君の嘘", "Directed by": "Takehiko Shinjō", "Screenplay by": "Yukari Tatsui", "Based on": "Your Lie in April by Naoshi Arakawa", "Produced by": "Takashi Ishihara Kōhei Furukawa Minami Ichikawa", "Starring": "Kento Yamazaki Suzu Hirose Anna Ishii Taishi Nakagawa Yuka Itaya Rei Dan", "Cinematography": "Mitsuru Komiyama", "Edited by": "Junnosuke Hogaki", "Music by": "Ryō Yoshimata [ 1 ]", "Production companies": "C&I entertainment Fuji TV Kodansha Toho", "Distributed by": "Toho", "Release date": "September 10, 2016 ( 2016-09-10 )", "Running time": "122 minutes [ 2 ]", "Country": "Japan", "Language": "Japanese", "Box office": "¥1.42 billion ( $13.05 million ) [ 3 ]"}	["Your Lie in April ( Japanese : 四月は君の嘘 , Hepburn : Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso ) is a 2016 Japanese youth music romance film directed by Takehiko Shinjō, written by Yukari Tatsui [ ja ] , starring Suzu Hirose and Kento Yamazaki and based on the manga series of the same name written and illustrated by Naoshi Arakawa . [ 1 ] [ 4 ] It was released in Japan by Toho on September 10, 2016. [ 2 ]", "Kōsei Arima is a piano prodigy who has won many awards due to his precision, timing, and ability to switch between tempos easily, earning him the moniker \"the human metronome \". He achieved so much because he was meticulously taught by his terminally ill mother, Saki, who was abusive and demanding. When, as a seven-year-old, she slapped him after a victory that she deemed unwarranted, he declared his refusal to play the piano ever again and wished that she died. Indeed, Saki died the following day; this caused Kōsei to experience a mental breakdown during a recital, making him unable to hear sounds from the piano. Since then, Kōsei quit playing piano in public.", "Ten years later, [ a ] in April, Kōsei is invited by his childhood friends Tsubaki Sawabe and Ryōta Watari to go on a double date with them and Kaori Miyazono, whom Tsubaki says is attracted to Watari. Kaori, as it turns out, is a bubbly children-loving violinist. She plays the violin in an unorthodox manner, refusing to follow the cues and instead creating her own flow that nevertheless impresses the audience. One of her competitions requires a pianist to accompany her, so Kaori forces Kōsei to come out of retirement and accompany her. During the competition, Kōsei experiences a breakdown again, but Kaori encourages him to restart the recital, despite the fact that it will disqualify her. He succeeds and while Kaori is disqualified, the organizers invited her to play at a gala concert. For the gala, Kaori picks Love's Sorrow , a piece that Saki used to play as a lullaby for her son. Kōsei is initially hesitant, but his mother's pianist friend, Hiroko Seto, tells him that it would be a good chance to prove to his mother what a pianist he has become.", "During the concert, Kaori is unexpectedly hospitalized, so Kōsei plays the piece as a piano solo. Kaori is later discharged and, as a punishment for not visiting her in the hospital, forces Kōsei to be Watari's \"substitute\" for a date the two had planned. The two visit the school that night, where Kaori reveals that she had lied about the date, as she is still hospitalized but does not want her illness to make her helpless. When she faints, Kōsei takes her to the hospital but otherwise is unable to say anything else. Watari correctly deduces that Kōsei is in love with Kaori and encourages him to meet and confess to her. Meanwhile, Tsubaki anguishedly declares her own love for Kōsei and reveals that she agreed to introduce Kaori because she hoped that would make Kōsei turn to her. Afterwards, Kōsei confesses to Kaori as the two share a meal on the hospital rooftop. He also tells her that he will join a piano competition for the first time in ten years. Hearing that he wishes to play music with her again, Kaori decides to undergo a risky surgery scheduled on the day of Kōsei's contest. During the competition, Kōsei is aided by an apparition of Kaori playing violin alongside him.", "In spring of the following year, Kōsei opens a letter written by Kaori, who did not survive the surgery. He learns that Kaori had been admiring him since they were young children and had decided to study violin so she could someday play music with him. When she learned that her illness was terminal , she transformed her image and personality drastically so as to avoid having regrets. She also requests him to apologize to Tsubaki and Watari in her place. She told him that she had loved him all this time and not Watari, which was her lie in April.", "The theme song of the film is \"Last Scene\" by Ikimono-gakari , [ 4 ] with \"君なんだよ\" by wacci playing during Kaori and Kōsei's date. On January 29, 2016, it was announced that Your Lie in April will getting a live-action film which was released on September 10, 2016. [ 5 ]", "The film was third placed on its opening weekend, with ¥244.6 million in gross and 200,036 admissions. [ 6 ] By the end of 2016, the film had grossed ¥1.42 billion ( $13.05 million ) in Japan. [ 3 ]"]	tt5672048	2025-06-27 14:21:19
27	Zoop in South America	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoop_in_South_America	2,007	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films:_X%E2%80%93Z	{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4c/Zoop_in_South_America_FilmPoster.jpeg/250px-Zoop_in_South_America_FilmPoster.jpeg", "Directed by": "Johan Nijenhuis", "Screenplay by": "Johan Nijenhuis Wijo Koek", "Produced by": "Johan Nijenhuis Alain de Levita", "Cinematography": "Willem Helwig", "Edited by": "Sándor Soeteman", "Music by": "Martijn Schimmer Mario Zapata", "Production company": "Nijenhuis & de Levita Film & TV", "Distributed by": "Independent Films", "Release date": "19 July 2007 ( 2007-07-19 )", "Running time": "90 minutes", "Country": "Netherlands", "Language": "Dutch"}	["Zoop in South America ( Dutch : Zoop in Zuid-Amerika ) is a 2007 Dutch youth film directed by Johan Nijenhuis . The film received a Golden Film for 100,000 visitors."]	tt0920476	2025-06-27 14:21:20
28	Zapping	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapping_(film)	1,999	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films:_X%E2%80%93Z	{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2a/Zapping_%28film%29_poster.jpg/250px-Zapping_%28film%29_poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Juan Manuel Chumilla Carbajosa", "Written by": "Juan Manuel Chumilla Carbajosa", "Produced by": "Francisco Ramos", "Starring": "Alberto San Juan Natalia Dicenta Paz Vega Eduard Fernández", "Cinematography": "Teo Delgado", "Edited by": "Ángel Hernández Zoido", "Music by": "Miguel Franco Alejandro Ibáñez", "Production company": "Aurum Producciones", "Distributed by": "Aurum", "Release dates": "June 1999 ( 1999-06 ) ( Málaga ) 6 August 1999 ( 1999-08-06 ) (Spain)", "Country": "Spain", "Language": "Spanish"}	["Zapping is a 1999 Spanish satirical thriller film written and directed by Juan Manuel Chumilla Carbajosa [ es ] which stars Alberto San Juan , Natalia Dicenta , Paz Vega , and Eduard Fernández .", "Scorned middle-class housewife Ana María tries to win back her husband Alberto (a sci-fi fan dating younger nurse Elvira, in turn chased by jealous and psychopatic ex-boyfriend Ramiro) via a television show. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]", "The film is an Aurum Producciones production. [ 3 ] It boasted a budget of 160 million ₧ . [ 5 ]", "The film premiered at the 2nd Málaga Film Festival in June 1999. [ 5 ] Distributed by Aurum, [ 3 ] it was released theatrically in Spain on 6 August 1999. [ 2 ]", "Jonathan Holland of Variety deemed the film to be a \"a surreal, formally confused but visually daring take on the power of the televised image\". [ 3 ]"]	null	2025-06-27 14:21:21
29	Vasantha Maligai	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasantha_Maligai	1,972	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films:_U%E2%80%93W	{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Vasantha_Maligai.jpg/250px-Vasantha_Maligai.jpg", "Directed by": "K. S. Prakash Rao", "Story by": "Kousalya Dev", "Based on": "Prema Nagar (Telugu)", "Produced by": "D. Ramanaidu", "Starring": "Sivaji Ganesan Vanisri", "Cinematography": "A. Vincent", "Edited by": "K. A. Marthand Narasimha Rao", "Music by": "K. V. Mahadevan", "Production company": "Vijaya Suresh Combines", "Release date": "29 September 1972 ( 1972-09-29 )", "Running time": "162 minutes", "Country": "India", "Language": "Tamil"}	["Vasantha Maligai ( transl. Palace of Spring ) is a 1972 Indian Tamil -language romance film directed by K. S. Prakash Rao and produced by D. Ramanaidu . The film stars Sivaji Ganesan and Vanisri , and is the Tamil remake of the 1971 Telugu film Prema Nagar .", "Vasantha Maligai was released on 29 September 1972 and became a major commercial success, running at the box office for nearly 750 days. A digitally restored version of the film was released on 8 March 2013, and another one on 21 June 2019.", "Anand is a rich playboy and an alcoholic. Aboard an aeroplane, he meets Latha, an air hostess. Latha lives with her father, mother, two brothers, and a sister. Her elder brother resides at home with his wife, but Latha is the highest earning member of the family. Latha's mother objects to her being an air hostess; she begs her to change profession so that she can be home at more decent hours.", "While Anand is celebrating his birthday in a pub near his home, Latha arrives at the same pub for a job interview with the manager. However, the lustful manager, in the guise of interviewing her, tries to rape her. Anand hears Latha screaming, subdues the manager, rescues Latha, then drives her home. The next day, Latha goes to Anand's house to return the coat he had lent her the night before. She then asks him for a job, to which he agrees, hiring her as his secretary.", "The next day Anand shows her around his house, and she meets his mother, elder brother Vijay, and sister-in-law. Latha soon notices that Anand is an alcoholic, and therefore wishes to resign, but a servant begs her not to because Anand's behaviour has changed for the better since meeting her.", "Anand's fiancée comes to his home and starts ranting that she no longer wishes to marry him because he is an alcoholic. Meanwhile, his sister-in-law, who concludes that Latha has come to steal Anand's affections, disturbs his mother with these comments. Latha, however, assures the mother, after everyone has left the table, that she will, in fact, try and stop Anand from drinking. Later on, she catches him drinking with his servant Panchavarnam. His servant runs away upon seeing her, but Anand continues to drink. Latha throws the glass after arguing with him, infuriating Anand into throwing a glass bottle onto her forehead.", "When Anand realises what he has done, he destroys all his bottles, promising Latha that he will never drink again. He confides in her the anguish of his soul, how when he was young both his father and his Ayya died. After this transformative incident, he announces that he is going to build a new palace for himself and the girl that he truly loves. He will call the palace \"Vasantha Maligai\" (palace of spring).", "Anand brings Latha to this new house; everyone in his family goads Latha to find out who this mysterious woman is. Latha, too, is curious to meet the girl of Anand's heart. He then shows her her own reflection in a separate room revealing that she is the girl of his affections. However, Vijay witnesses this and runs to tell his mother. He conjures up a story about Latha having stolen his wife's jewellery. Hearing this, Anand becomes suspicious of Latha. He asks Latha about it, but she runs away, dejected that he could suspect her of such wrongdoing. Fortunately, Anand learns about Vijay's malicious plan.", "Anand confesses his ignorance and apologises. But Latha does not forgive him. Anand loses his composure and becomes seriously ill. Meanwhile, Latha receives a marriage proposal. Anand's mother goes to apologise to Latha while Latha hands her an invitation to her wedding. Anand's mother shows this to her son, who then decides to attend the wedding. Latha is shocked to see him. She meets him privately to reconcile their differences, but her sister-in-law and the groom's mother spot them and announce it to the guests who depart, botching Latha's marriage. All of a sudden, Anand's mother enters the room and declares that Latha should marry Anand. When Latha arrives at the palace, she is shocked to see Anand's condition. She does not know that, out of desperation and lovesickness, he drank poison. As soon as Latha enters the room he collapses. Anand is hospitalised and after recovering, he re-unites with Latha.", "Vasantha Maligai is a remake of the 1971 Telugu film Prema Nagar . D. Ramanaidu , the producer of the Telugu film, returned to produce the Tamil remake. [ 4 ] A. Vincent worked as the cinematographer. [ 5 ] J. Jayalalithaa initially signed on to play the female lead, but could not continue due to her mother's death; the role later went to Vanisri . [ 6 ]", "The music was composed by K. V. Mahadevan , with lyrics by Kannadasan . [ 7 ] The song \"Oru Kinnathai\" was remixed by Yathish Mahadev in Indira Vizha (2009). [ 8 ]", "Vasantha Maligai was released on 29 September 1972. [ 9 ] Kanthan of Kalki praised Vanisri's performance, but criticised the screenplay. [ 10 ] The film was one of the biggest successes for Ganesan, running for over 750 days in theatres. It held the record of running the highest continuous full-house showings in Madras . The film had 271 continuous full-house screenings in all the three theatres it was released, namely, Shanthi, Crown, and Bhuvaneswari. [ 11 ] It was also successful in Sri Lanka where it ran for two years, becoming the first Indian Tamil film to achieve this feat. [ 12 ] The film initially had Anand dying in the climax, but three days after its release it was changed into one where he survives. [ 13 ]", "A digitally restored version of Vasantha Maligai was released on 8 March 2013. [ 14 ] The restoration was done by P. Srinivasan of Sai Ganesh Films at a cost of ₹ 10 million (equivalent to ₹ 19 million or US$220,000 in 2023), consuming five months of work. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] M. Suganth of The Times of India rated the digital version 4.5 out of 5 stars saying, \"To be frank, the opening 20 minutes are as choppy a ride as that experienced by the characters in the introductory scene.\" He continued, \"But forget K V Mahadevan's songs, forget Krishnarao's dazzling sets and forget the leading man. This film still holds up so well – 40 years after its release – because of the writing and characterisation. Yes, for a film that is dismissed as melodramatic romance, the writing (Balamurugan) is quite nuanced.\" He concludes that the film is \"further proof that old is indeed gold.\" [ 2 ]", "Another digitally restored version was released on 21 June 2019. [ 17 ] The restoration on this version was done by Groupcom Systems who remastered it in DI colour, besides other technology upgrades such as DTS , 4K Sony and 2K Qube. [ 18 ]", "Vasantha Maligai is included alongside various other hit Sivaji Ganesan films in the compilation DVD 8 Ulaga Adhisayam Sivaji . [ 19 ]", "In Kalyana Galatta (1998), Rajagopalan ( Sathyaraj ) does a spoof on song \"Yaarukkaga\" and imitates Anand's mannerisms. [ 20 ] In En Purushan Kuzhandhai Maadhiri (2001), Angusaamy ( Vadivelu ) who is drunk will be seen singing \"Kudimagane\". [ 21 ] In Manal Kayiru (1982), Kittumani ( S. Ve. Shekher ) sings \"Yemandha Sonagiri\" with his situation being similar to Anand. [ 22 ] In Sivaji: The Boss (2007), the title character ( Rajinikanth ) and Tamizhselvi ( Shriya Saran ) imitate the song \"Mayakkam Enna\". [ 23 ]"]	tt0254845	2025-06-27 14:21:21
30	Zutto Mae Kara Suki Deshita	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zutto_Mae_Kara_Suki_Deshita	2,016	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films:_X%E2%80%93Z	{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cd/Zutto_Mae_Kara_Suki_Deshita_poster.jpeg", "Kanji": "ずっと前から好きでした。～告白実行委員会～", "Directed by": "Tetsuya Yanagisawa", "Screenplay by": "Yoshimi Narita", "Based on": "Kokuhaku Jikkō Iinkai ~Ren'ai Series~ by HoneyWorks", "Produced by": "Shunsuke Saito [ 1 ]", "Starring": "Hiroshi Kamiya Haruka Tomatsu Yuki Kaji Kana Asumi Kenichi Suzumura Aki Toyosaki Tsubasa Yonaga", "Edited by": "Aya Hida [ 1 ]", "Production companies": "Aniplex Dentsu Fuji Television Network Incs Toenter Kadokawa Lawson MCIP Holdings Movic Music Ray'n Qualia Animation [ a ]", "Distributed by": "Aniplex", "Release date": "April 23, 2016 ( 2016-04-23 )", "Running time": "63 minutes", "Country": "Japan", "Language": "Japanese", "Box office": "¥70.5 million [ 2 ]"}	["Zutto Mae Kara Suki Deshita: Kokuhaku Jikkō Iinkai ( ずっと前から好きでした。～告白実行委員会～ ) , also known by its English title I've Always Liked You , [ 3 ] is a 2016 anime romance film directed by Tetsuya Yanagisawa , written by Yoshimi Narita and produced by Qualia Animation . [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The film is based on the Kokuhaku Jikkō Iinkai ~Ren'ai Series~ Vocaloid song project by HoneyWorks . [ 4 ] It revolves around a group of high school friends, who struggle to confess their love .", "Zutto Mae Kara Suki Deshita: Kokuhaku Jikkō Iinkai was released in Japan by Aniplex on April 23, 2016 and is available on Crunchyroll . [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] A sequel titled Suki ni Naru Sono Shunkan o was released on December 17, 2016 in Japan.", "The movie is centered on a group of high school friends who struggle to confess their love. The story begins when Natsuki Enomoto confesses to her childhood friend Yu Setoguchi. The movie cuts to its opening, Blooming into the Color of Love (\"Koi-iro ni Sake\"). After the opening, an embarrassed Natsuki denies her love for Yu and calls it a \"practice confession.\" The next day Natsuki is confronted by her friends, Akari Hayasaka and Mio Aida, and admits her failed confession. Her friends cheer her on and discuss Mio's love life; Mio has feelings for her close friend Haruki Serizawa. Although Mio and Natsuki are having problems confessing their love, Akari remains untroubled by the possibility of unrequited love. However, she is the main focus of a boy in her class named Sota Mochizuki, who has been in love with her since the opening ceremony of school. Sota, nicknamed Mochita by his friends, has never talked to Akari and constantly has conversations with his devilish conscience about whether to confess his love. As Sota is feeling alone in his battle to tell Akari, he notices that one of his classmates, Koyuki Ayase, is secretly in love with Natsuki. Koyuki has changed his look, no longer wearing glasses and having cut his hair.", "After school, Natsuki goes over to Yu's house and plays videos game with his sister, Hina Setoguchi. When Yu arrives home they begin studying and Natsuki asks Yu what he would do if she got a boyfriend. He responds he would support her, even though he is secretly in love with her. The next day Sota musters up the courage to say good morning to Akari and tells her about her bedhead, making it the first time they have spoken to one another. She tells him it is their little secret and he falls in love with her more, pondering who she could like. At lunch, Natsuki, Mio, and Akari are talking about their guy troubles when Koyuki gives Natsuki tickets to a HoneyWorks concert. Ecstatic, she accepts and chases after him to ask him questions about merchandise while her friends question if the concert is a date or not. After school, Natsuki decides not to hang out with Yu and instead picks out her outfit for the concert. Natsuki's brother, Kotaro Enomoto, asks about Hina, whom he likes, and Natsuki teases him which results in bickering. The scene shifts to Yu's home where he is eating dinner with Hina. Hina comments on Kotaro's temper and how he will never get a girlfriend.", "The next morning Yu is returning a DVD to Natsuki and learns about her concert date with Koyuki. The two fight about her outfit, but are actually fighting about their relationship. Natsuki goes to the concert and has a great time until one of the songs (Diagnosis: Lovesickness (\"Byoumei Koi Wazura\")) makes her realize she is in love with Yu. Koyuki walks her home and notices Natsuki looking at Yu's house. Thinking about Natsuki and Yu's previous fight, Koyuki hugs Natsuki and tries to confess, saying he would not make her sad as Yu had. Koyuki is interrupted by Yu and the two argue about their hidden feelings in front of Natsuki, who begins to cry. Yu ends the conversation by leading Natsuki home. That night, Yu tries but fails to text Natsuki about his feelings. The next morning before school, the two pretend as if nothing has happened and walk together. Once at school, Koyuki apologizes to Natsuki.", "On a train to school, Sota, still thinking over Akari, sees a trio of students from another school and gives up his seat to one of them and heads over to the next train car. Akari, riding on the same train, notices his act of kindness. Later during lunch, Sota gets motivation from Koyuki and musters his courage to confess his love to Akari; she accepts his confession and they walk to a cake shop after school.", "Meanwhile, Haruki gets advice from their teacher, Mr. Akechi, about his feelings for Mio. Natsuki recalls a memory of witnessing a first-year student delivering an unsuccessful confession to Yu. Troubled, Natsuki goes to Mio for advice. Afterward, she musters her own personal courage and tells Yu to wait for her. The next day after school, she gathers her courage and confesses, but Yu still thinks that he was not the one she loves. He tells her she passed her confession rehearsal and wishes her luck in the real one. As he is about to leave, he is confronted by a crying Natsuki who finally tells him that the practice was a lie and her confessions were actually real. Yu embraces her, telling her that he accepts her feelings. The ending credits, Our Fraction of a Second (\"Ippun Ichibyou Kimi to Boku no\"), plays.", "In the mid-credits, Koyuki silently congratulates Natsuki in the background for finally confessing to Yu and getting accepted. Meanwhile, Hina is seen standing at the school lockers holding a letter, possibly a love letter that was meant for someone. After the credits, Natsuki barges into Yu's bedroom and wakes him, questioning his feelings for her since he didn't explicitly say that he loves her. After much pestering, Yu admits that he loves her. Natsuki is flustered and scolds him for saying it so abruptly, but happily hugs him.", "The chief animation director and character designer is Maki Fujii. [ 4 ] The opening song is \"Koi-iro ni Sake\" by CHiCO with HoneyWorks and the ending theme is \"Ippun Ichibyou Kimi to Boku no\" ( 一分一秒君と僕の ) by HoneyWorks meets Sphere . [ 4 ] [ 9 ]", "The film was 8th placed on its opening weekend at the Japanese box office, with 50,528 admissions; it grossed ¥70.5 million . [ 2 ]"]	null	2025-06-27 14:21:22
31	Vasu	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasu_(film)	2,002	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films:_U%E2%80%93W	{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/37/Vasu_Poster.jpg", "Directed by": "A. Karunakaran", "Written by": "Story & Screenplay : A. Karunakaran Dialogues : Trivikram Srinivas", "Produced by": "K. S. Rama Rao", "Starring": "Venkatesh Bhumika Chawla", "Cinematography": "R. Ramesh Babu", "Edited by": "Marthand K. Venkatesh", "Music by": "Harris Jayaraj", "Production company": "Creative Commercials", "Release date": "10 April 2002 ( 2002-04-10 )", "Running time": "147 minutes", "Country": "India", "Language": "Tamil", "Released": "2002", "Recorded": "2002", "Genre": "Feature film soundtrack", "Length": "34 : 10", "Label": "Ayngaran", "Producer": "Harris Jayaraj"}	["Vasu: Voice Of Youth is a 2002 Indian Telugu -language musical romantic comedy film co-written and directed by A. Karunakaran , and produced by K. S. Rama Rao under the Creative Commercials banner. It stars Venkatesh and Bhumika Chawla with music composed by Harris Jayaraj .", "Vasu marked Venkatesh's 50th film as an actor. The film won two Nandi Awards .", "After graduation, Vasu runs a college canteen and a music school and teaches music for seven years to make his living. His father Rao is an IPS officer and wants him to appear for Civil Services examinations to take up an IPS career, but Vasu has different plans for his future: he dreams of becoming a musician and a singer.", "One day, a young IPS officer Subramanyam comes to Vasu's place to seek the blessings of Rao. He admits that Rao is the source of inspiration for him to become an IPS officer. Vasu's father feels dejected that his son does not heed his advice to take civil service exams. Meanwhile, Vasu spots a beautiful girl Divya on the street. He plays every possible trick to woo her, but all his plans backfire and make him appear foolish in Divya's eyes.", "Rao spots his son bashing up men in the streets and asks him to leave the house and stay outside, to which he does. Divya goes to Vasu's place along with her luggage when Vasu is about to leave the house. Later, Vasu learns that Divya is the daughter of Vasu's father's childhood friend and sees this as an opportunity to get close to Divya. He returns to his home and promises that he will not touch music again and concentrate only on his studies, but he secretly pursues his musical ambitions.", "Vasu passes the preliminary auditions of the Music Talent search conducted by Sony Music Company. When Rao spots the letter from Sony, he argues with his son and asks him to either be there in the house and study for IPS or leave home to pursue his dream of becoming a musician. Meanwhile, both Vasu and Divya fall in love with each other, but they never express their feelings towards each other. Vasu's sister loves Divya's brother, and it is okayed by the parents of both parties. It is also revealed that Divya already okayed a man named Manohar by looking at his photograph (this is much before she met Vasu).", "Vasu is on the stage to prove himself as a singer and musician in the final auditions of Sony Talent Search. Divya and Manohar are to marry on the same day, and Vasu's sister is to marry Divya's brother. Vasu wins the prize at the audition and sits in a park mourning his heartbreak. Then, his father and sister arrive, and his father apologizes for his opinion of Vasu's career. It is revealed then that Divya did not marry that day along with Vasu's sister as she loved Vasu. In the end, the lovers unite, and the two couples' marriages are rescheduled.", "Music composed by Harris Jayaraj in his Telugu debut. The music was released on ADITYA Music Company. (The audio got unanimous hit talk all over airplay and within 4 days of its release it had sold over 2 lakhs. [ 1 ] The peppy number \"Sportive Boys\" topped the charts for many weeks.) The song \"Paataku Pranam\" is inspired from Michael Jackson 's \" Billie Jean \". [ 2 ]", "Jeevi of Idlebrain.com rated the film three out of five and wrote that \"Karunakaran concentrated too much on the character of hero and did not really expand the role of heroine, which is very uncharacteristic of him (if we look the way he beautifully explored the roles of heroines in Toli Prema and Yuvakudu ). That hero orientation for Vasu has robbed off the family story tag this film\". [ 4 ] Gudipoodi Srihari of The Hindu wrote that \"Venkatesh is as ebullient as he has been in other films. Bhoomika has a limited role. But for the last part, where she encourages Vasu to take to music, her character remains passive. The comedy is worse, because of senseless and tasteless scenes\". [ 5 ] A critic from Sify wrote that \"Director Karunakaran has tried to re-work his Tolliprema where career, love and affection to parents form the base of the story but in Vasu it has fallen flat! The only highlight of the film is the brilliant music of Harris Jayaraj. However Vasu lacks soul and style\". [ 6 ] Andhra Today wrote \"Venkatesh in a novel get-up along with fine music and well conceived scenes make the movie special. Although the message is an old one, the director succeeds in narrating it neat and straight to the audience. The scenes with the hero and heroine are very entertaining. Major part of this success can be attributed to dialogues written by Trivikram\". [ 7 ]", "Reviewing the Tamil dubbed version Vetri , K. N. Vijiyan of New Straits Times wrote \"There are no surprises in the story and it is very predictable. The climax is also unbelievable\". [ 8 ]", "Music composed by Harris Jayaraj in his Telugu debut. The music was released on ADITYA Music Company. (The audio got unanimous hit talk all over airplay and within 4 days of its release it had sold over 2 lakhs. [ 1 ] The peppy number \"Sportive Boys\" topped the charts for many weeks.) The song \"Paataku Pranam\" is inspired from Michael Jackson 's \" Billie Jean \". [ 2 ]", "Jeevi of Idlebrain.com rated the film three out of five and wrote that \"Karunakaran concentrated too much on the character of hero and did not really expand the role of heroine, which is very uncharacteristic of him (if we look the way he beautifully explored the roles of heroines in Toli Prema and Yuvakudu ). That hero orientation for Vasu has robbed off the family story tag this film\". [ 4 ] Gudipoodi Srihari of The Hindu wrote that \"Venkatesh is as ebullient as he has been in other films. Bhoomika has a limited role. But for the last part, where she encourages Vasu to take to music, her character remains passive. The comedy is worse, because of senseless and tasteless scenes\". [ 5 ] A critic from Sify wrote that \"Director Karunakaran has tried to re-work his Tolliprema where career, love and affection to parents form the base of the story but in Vasu it has fallen flat! The only highlight of the film is the brilliant music of Harris Jayaraj. However Vasu lacks soul and style\". [ 6 ] Andhra Today wrote \"Venkatesh in a novel get-up along with fine music and well conceived scenes make the movie special. Although the message is an old one, the director succeeds in narrating it neat and straight to the audience. The scenes with the hero and heroine are very entertaining. Major part of this success can be attributed to dialogues written by Trivikram\". [ 7 ]", "Reviewing the Tamil dubbed version Vetri , K. N. Vijiyan of New Straits Times wrote \"There are no surprises in the story and it is very predictable. The climax is also unbelievable\". [ 8 ]", "Jeevi of Idlebrain.com rated the film three out of five and wrote that \"Karunakaran concentrated too much on the character of hero and did not really expand the role of heroine, which is very uncharacteristic of him (if we look the way he beautifully explored the roles of heroines in Toli Prema and Yuvakudu ). That hero orientation for Vasu has robbed off the family story tag this film\". [ 4 ] Gudipoodi Srihari of The Hindu wrote that \"Venkatesh is as ebullient as he has been in other films. Bhoomika has a limited role. But for the last part, where she encourages Vasu to take to music, her character remains passive. The comedy is worse, because of senseless and tasteless scenes\". [ 5 ] A critic from Sify wrote that \"Director Karunakaran has tried to re-work his Tolliprema where career, love and affection to parents form the base of the story but in Vasu it has fallen flat! The only highlight of the film is the brilliant music of Harris Jayaraj. However Vasu lacks soul and style\". [ 6 ] Andhra Today wrote \"Venkatesh in a novel get-up along with fine music and well conceived scenes make the movie special. Although the message is an old one, the director succeeds in narrating it neat and straight to the audience. The scenes with the hero and heroine are very entertaining. Major part of this success can be attributed to dialogues written by Trivikram\". [ 7 ]", "Reviewing the Tamil dubbed version Vetri , K. N. Vijiyan of New Straits Times wrote \"There are no surprises in the story and it is very predictable. The climax is also unbelievable\". [ 8 ]"]	tt1649430	2025-06-27 14:21:24
32	Vaira Nenjam	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaira_Nenjam	1,975	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films:_U%E2%80%93W	{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a6/Vaira_Nenjam.jpg", "Directed by": "C. V. Sridhar", "Written by": "C. V. Sridhar", "Produced by": "C. V. Sridhar", "Starring": "Sivaji Ganesan Padmapriya", "Cinematography": "P. Rajagopal", "Edited by": "N. M. Shankar", "Music by": "M. S. Viswanathan", "Production company": "Chitralaya", "Release date": "2 November 1975 ( 1975-11-02 )", "Country": "India", "Language": "Tamil"}	["Vaira Nenjam ( transl. Diamond heart ) is a 1975 Indian Tamil -language action thriller film [ 1 ] written, directed and produced by C. V. Sridhar . The film stars Sivaji Ganesan , Padmapriya , R. Muthuraman and K. Balaji . It is a remake of Sridhar's own 1973 Hindi film Gehri Chaal . The film was released on 2 November 1975.", "After the failure of his previous directorial Alaigal (1973), Sridhar decided to make an action film with Ganesan in lead role after Sridhar felt audiences were being more receptive to action films than classic films. [ 2 ] The film was titled Hero 72 , [ 3 ] [ 4 ] with Sridhar opting to make it a Tamil-Hindi bilingual, with Jeetendra starring in the Hindi version that was later titled Gehri Chaal . Production on the Tamil version that was later titled Vaira Nenjam progressed slowly because of call sheet issues of Ganesan; Gehri Chaal was completed and released much earlier. [ 2 ] In between the delays, Sridhar made Urimaikural (1974) starring M. G. Ramachandran . [ 5 ]", "All songs were composed by M. S. Viswanathan and penned by Kannadasan . [ 6 ] The song \"Sentamizh Paadum\" attained popularity. [ 7 ]", "Vaira Nenjam was released on 2 November 1975. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Kanthan of Kalki said the film, despite its title, was not lustrous like a real diamond. [ 10 ] Arthur Paris from Film World wrote, \"The film has no soul, no life and is at once dull, pedestrian and moronic\". [ 11 ] The film was successful only with B and C centre audiences. [ 12 ]"]	tt1431186	2025-06-27 14:21:26
33	The War Lord	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_Lord	1,965	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films:_U%E2%80%93W	{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/73/Warlordposter.jpeg/250px-Warlordposter.jpeg", "Directed by": "Franklin J. Schaffner", "Screenplay by": "John Collier Millard Kaufman", "Based on": "The Lovers 1956 play by Leslie Stevens", "Produced by": "Walter Seltzer", "Starring": "Charlton Heston Richard Boone Rosemary Forsyth Maurice Evans Guy Stockwell", "Cinematography": "Russell Metty", "Edited by": "Folmar Blangsted", "Music by": "Jerome Moross Hans J. Salter", "Color process": "Technicolor", "Production company": "Court Productions", "Distributed by": "Universal Pictures", "Release date": "November 17, 1965 ( 1965-11-17 )", "Running time": "123 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$3,500,000"}	["The War Lord is a 1965 American drama historical film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and starring Charlton Heston . The film, which concerns medieval warfare and culture in 11th-century Normandy , is an adaptation of the play The Lovers by Leslie Stevens . The film also features Richard Boone , Rosemary Forsyth , Guy Stockwell , Maurice Evans , Niall MacGinnis , Henry Wilcoxon and James Farentino , with Jon Alderson, Allen Jaffe, Sammy Ross, and Woodrow Parfrey . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ]", "Chrysagon de la Cruex is a Norman knight whose Duke gives him a Flemish village to rule and protect, commanding him to keep their goodwill. He and his men arrive in time to beat off Frisian raiders who leave behind a boy, the son of their leader, who conceals his identity. Chrysagon encounters Bronwyn, his future love, as she is being harassed by his own men. Gradually he finds himself falling for the girl he has rescued. Odins, the village chief, later asks Chrysagon's permission for Bronwyn to marry Odins' son Marc, to whom Bronwyn has been betrothed since childhood. Chrysagon approves, but soon regrets the decision. He wants Bronwyn for himself.", "He later learns that the pagan practice of \" droit du seigneur \", though condemned by the church, still survives. Bronwyn and Marc are married in church and also in a riotous pagan celebration. Chrysagon appears at the latter to claim the right of the lord to sleep with a virgin on her wedding night. While three men restrain Marc, Odins declares that Chrysagon has the right, but all must be done according to the ancient ways, which are rooted in the sacrifice of a virgin to ensure fruitful harvests. Otherwise it is rape. Chrysagon agrees to the Druid way, to prepare a ring of fire in a high place, with his men “wearing iron and standing.” Bronwyn will be brought at the rising of the moon and reclaimed at sunrise.", "Odins leads the torchlit procession past Chrysagon's men standing as an armed guard, to the chamber at the top of the keep. He tells her she can go but confesses his love for her. She loves him too. Odins comforts his son.", "Bronwyn and Chrysagon watch the sunrise. He puts his father's ring on her hand and tells his brother he will not give her up.", "Marc admits that Chrysagon had the right but he and the villagers are outraged when Bronwyn is not returned. They do not realize that she is staying of her own free will.", "The village sends Marc to contact the Frisians, with evidence that the boy is alive. Bronwyn and Chrysagon are on top of the keep . He talks of carrying her to a far place, after his duty to his Duke is done. They see the Frisians hacking at the drawbridge and sound the alarm. Chrysagon climbs down to attack them, wearing only his braies .", "The raiders lay siege to the place, nearly all the village is with them. They call for the boy. Draco demands ransom. Later he leaves, alone, perhaps for help.", "The besiegers bring up a battering ram . Lacking a grappling hook , Bors slides down to retrieve the anchor of a boat. They use it to overturn the battering ram into the moat . That night, sheltering behind hurdles , the Frisians set fire to the doors. The defenders use hot oil, which burns up the drawbridge.", "The Friesians and villagers build a siege tower , with a bridge that will carry them to the top of the keep. Suddenly, huge boulders and balls of fire descend on the siege tower. It is Draco, come with help from the Duke, including a catapult . He has also been given the demesne . He attacks Chrysagon, who stabs him unwillingly in the struggle. Draco falls to his death.", "Chrysagon takes the boy to the Frisian camp. The leader offers him a place with them, and sanctuary for Bronwyn, who Chrysagon calls “my lady”. Chrysagon plans to go to the Duke and mend things for the people. But Marc jumps from a high tree wielding a sickle , wounding Chrysagon under his arm and running for Bronwyn, he is knocked over by Bors and becomes impaled on a tree branch. Chrysagon confers the fief to one of his men, until he returns. Bors and Chrysagon, clutching his wounded side, ride off.", "The film's score was composed by Jerome Moross . The main musical theme was released as a guitar instrumental by The Shadows . A soundtrack album was released by Decca Records in 1965. [ 6 ]", "On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 67% based on reviews from 9 critics. [ 3 ]", "Critics largely lauded its \"gritty\" realistic portrayal of the times, both in physical aspects, such as armor and weapons, structures and scenes, but also in its portrayal of social circumstances and behaviors of Medieval lords and serfs. [ 3 ] [ 5 ]", "Medieval historian Andrew E. Larsen praises the movie's realistic portrayal of the physical objects and social relationships of the time. But he asserts the film's presentation of paganism among the serfs is an extreme exaggeration, and that the key \"custom\" of \" droit du seigneur \" was mythical. He criticizes the film's romanticizing of \"what is, essentially, rape,\" adding that—while such rapes have happened, at the time—they lacked any legal standing. [ 4 ]"]	tt0059896	2025-06-27 14:21:27
34	Warm Spring	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warm_Spring_(film)	2,002	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films:_U%E2%80%93W	{"Directed by": "Wulan Tana", "Written by": "Wulan Tana", "Produced by": "Shui He Li", "Starring": "Tian Chengren Qi Ruyi Zhang Yan Hao Yang Yu Weijie", "Cinematography": "Lei Zhi", "Edited by": "Zhou Xinxia", "Release date": "2003 ( 2003 )", "Running time": "100 min.", "Country": "China", "Language": "Mandarin"}	["Warm Spring ( Chinese : 暖春 ; pinyin : Nuǎn Chūn ) is a 2003 Chinese film produced by Shanxi Film Studio .", "Wulan Tana was the director and writer of this film which won her the Golden Rooster Award for Best Directorial Debut in 2003 . The film was also named one of three Best Films at the 2004 Hundred Flowers Awards . [ citation needed ]", "Seeking refuge from abusive foster parents, 8-year-old orphan Xiao Hua runs away and finds safety under the care of a poor, illiterate old man from another village. Despite his lack of money and despite being taunted by friends, the elderly man does everything in his power to protect the young child he believes was delivered to him by fate.", "Xiao Hua works hard and forms a close bond with the old man, whom she calls Grandpa, but the old man's daughter-in-law, who can't conceive, tries desperately to send Xiao Hua away. The grandpa sends her to school and gradually Xiao Hua thaws the hearts of the old man's son Baozhu and daughter-in-law Xiangcao. Toward the movie's end it is disclosed by the village head that the old man's son Baozhu is also an adopted orphan like Xiao Hua.", "Years later Xiao Hua becomes the first college graduate from the village. She becomes a rural teacher to repay the kindness of the village which adopted her.", "As of 2012 [update] the film has been rated 7.8 out of 10 in over 15,000 ratings on Douban . [ 1 ]", "Many cinemas promoted the film by offering refunds for any viewers not moved to tears; almost no refunds were claimed. [ citation needed ]"]	tt1054024	2025-06-27 14:21:31
35	The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Water_Horse:_Legend_of_the_Deep	2,007	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films:_U%E2%80%93W	{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/90/The_Water_Horse_Poster.jpg/250px-The_Water_Horse_Poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Jay Russell", "Screenplay by": "Robert Nelson Jacobs", "Based on": "The Water Horse by Dick King-Smith", "Produced by": "Jay Russell Douglas Rae Robert Bernstein Barrie M. Osborne", "Starring": "Emily Watson Alex Etel Ben Chaplin David Morrissey Brian Cox", "Cinematography": "Oliver Stapleton", "Edited by": "Mark Warner", "Music by": "James Newton Howard", "Production companies": "Revolution Studios Walden Media Ecosse Films Beacon Pictures", "Distributed by": "Columbia Pictures (through Sony Pictures Releasing )", "Release dates": "25 December 2007 ( 2007-12-25 ) (United States) 8 February 2008 ( 2008-02-08 ) (United Kingdom)", "Running time": "112 minutes [ 1 ]", "Countries": "United States United Kingdom New Zealand", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$40 million [ 2 ]", "Box office": "$104 million [ 3 ]"}	["The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep (stylised on-screen as simply The Water Horse ) is a 2007 fantasy film directed by Jay Russell and written by Robert Nelson Jacobs , based on Dick King-Smith 's children's novel The Water Horse . It stars Alex Etel as a young boy who discovers a mysterious egg and cares for what hatches out of it: a \" water horse \" (loosely based on the Celtic water horse ) which later becomes the fabled Loch Ness Monster . The film also stars Emily Watson , Ben Chaplin and David Morrissey .", "The film was produced by Revolution Studios and Walden Media , in collaboration with Beacon Pictures , and was distributed by Columbia Pictures . Visual effects were completed by the New Zealand –based companies Weta Digital and Weta Workshop . [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The Water Horse was released in the United States on 25 December 2007 and in the United Kingdom on 8 February 2008. [ 6 ]", "In present-day Scotland , a couple of American tourists meet an old man who, upon request (after seeing the surgeon's photo ) tells them about the Loch Ness Monster and why the photo is a fake.", "In 1942 during World War II , a boy named Angus MacMorrow lives in the manor house of Lord Killin on Loch Ness with his mother Anne MacMorrow and his sister, Kirstie. Lewis Mowbray comes to work as a handyman there. Angus' father Charles, the former handyman, is a sailor in the Royal Navy , missing since his ship was sunk in the war a year earlier. Angus is unable to accept that he won't return.", "One day, while collecting seashells, Angus discovers a large, mysterious egg in the tide pool , and an unknown creature hatches, which he calls 'Crusoe' after Robinson Crusoe . He decides to keep the creature a secret, eventually telling his sister and Lewis. Lewis explains that it is a genderless \" Water Horse \" that lays one egg, then dies before it hatches.", "Royal Artillery troops arrive at the house, commanded by Captain Thomas Hamilton – a friend of Lord Killin. An artillery battery is set up near the lake to defend against German U-boats while the troops set up on the grounds. Meanwhile, Lewis decides Crusoe is so big they have to free it in the loch.", "Captain Hamilton proclaims Lewis to be a bad influence, and Angus' mother allows him to teach Angus some discipline. After a few days of training, he escapes, returning to the lake and a full-grown Crusoe, who gets Angus to ride on its back. After some time, it begins to dive. Angus protests diving, later enjoys himself and finally overcomes his phobia.", "The next day, Captain Hamilton takes the MacMorrow family to a hill overlooking Loch Ness; Crusoe is almost hit by an exploding shell during a firing demonstration. Angus interrupts to save Crusoe from injury or death, enraging Hamilton and irritating his mother, who doesn't believe him. He is punished, having to be in his room at six every night for a month.", "Two fishermen who had seen Crusoe, try to take a photo of the creature for fame and fortune. When they can't photograph the real thing due to the bombardment, they create an imitation. (The result is the real-life faked photo of The Loch Ness Monster known as \" The Surgeon's Photo \".) It interests a few soldiers, who go out to hunt it.", "Sneaking out of his room with his sister's help, Angus visits the lake, calling for Crusoe. Crusoe rises, still in shock and fear from the earlier bombardment, nearly bites off Angus's hand before sinking back into the loch. Hamilton's dog Churchill, having smelled Crusoe from the shore, alerts the soldiers of its presence before being eaten by Crusoe. Crusoe then surprises the soldiers, capsizing their boat but not before one of them sends out an SOS to Hamilton, who thinks the Germans are attacking. At the loch, Angus calls out to Crusoe, who is attacking Strunk. In his attempt to calm Crusoe, Angus wades into the lake, slips and sinks.", "Crusoe rescues Angus and Lewis revives him. When his mother arrives, she finally believes him when she sees Crusoe. The nearby artillery battery soon opens fire upon Crusoe, mistaking it for a German U-boat. Angus, Hamilton, Anne and Lewis lead Crusoe to safety at the net, where Crusoe escapes into the sea.", "At sunrise, Angus finally accepts his father is dead before they watch Crusoe go. It is implied that Anne is also ready to move on, having fallen in love with Lewis. Over the years, several people claim spotting it but Angus never sees Crusoe again while others say that it returns, seeking Angus.", "The tourists thank the old storyteller and ask for his name, which he reveals to be Angus MacMorrow. Outside the pub, a mother calls out to her son William, who is walking down the beach. He spots a large \"rock\", which has an iridescent blue shell just like Crusoe's, hinting that Crusoe has left a descendant behind to become the next Water Horse.", "Director Jay Russell first read Dick King-Smith's book years before the film was actually made. \"With the technology where it was at the time and the cost of that technology, we couldn't get it made then,\" said Russell. \"Technology needed to catch up. It did, and it allowed us to do things I envisioned without it costing $300 million.\" [ 7 ]", "Filming took place in 2006 in New Zealand , Scotland and at Miramar Studios in Wellington . Most of the film was shot in New Zealand, with Queenstown's Lake Wakatipu doubling for a Scottish Loch. The filmmakers found that some of the landscape and geography there was similar to Scotland. However Russell said, \"There was no way I was going to make a movie about the Loch Ness monster and not shoot at least part of it in Scotland.\" [ 8 ]", "The scenes in and around the MacMorrow family's house were shot on the 100-year-old Ardkinglas Estate on the shores of Loch Fyne in Scotland. The owners of the estate continued to live in the house while the crew was filming there. [ 9 ]", "Visual effects on the film were handled by New Zealand visual effects specialists Weta Digital and Weta Workshop who mainly did Crusoe . Most of the roughly 600 effects shots in the film involved Crusoe. And many of those shots involved the creature (Crusoe) interacting with water, which, in terms of the history of computer graphics , has always been a particularly difficult substance to deal with. [ 10 ] \nIn terms of the design of the creature, Weta Digital tried to not humanise him but instead based some of his expressions on real animals such as a dog. \"We wanted to create something which seemed familiar, but was unique at the same time,\" said Russell. \"As a result, Crusoe's face is a combination of a horse, a dog, an eagle and a giraffe .\" [ 11 ] When creating his movements and body shape at various stages of growth, the animators referenced animals ranging from baby birds to seals to whales . [ 10 ]", "The score was composed by James Newton Howard . Sinéad O'Connor contributed to the soundtrack with \"Back Where You Belong\".", "The Water Horse was formerly scheduled for two different release dates in North America: 21 September 2007 and 7 December 2007. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] No reason has been given as to why either date was dropped, but the film was released across 2,772 screens [ 14 ] in the United States, Canada and Mexico on Christmas Day of 2007. [ 15 ] The MPAA rated the film PG for some action and peril, mild language and brief smoking. [ 16 ]", "Many release dates ranging from January 2008 to April 2008 were set for worldwide audiences including the United Kingdom (8 February), France (13 February), Russia (6 March) and India (4 April). [ 15 ]", "A promotional poster for the film, featuring silhouettes of Etel's character and Crusoe on the loch, was seen as early as June 2006 during the New York Licensing Show alongside promotional art for the Disney Fairies and Kung Fu Panda . [ 17 ] Another poster that features Etel's character with Crusoe on the loch during the daytime was released in October 2007. [ 18 ] Two teaser trailers were released in quick succession in June 2007. The first was a teaser created specifically for the Rock Ness Music Festival on 9 and 10 June, [ 19 ] but was leaked onto the internet and later pulled. [ 20 ] A different trailer [ 21 ] was released to Yahoo.com on 22 June 2007 and became the official teaser. [ 22 ] Internet promotion includes several different official different websites in the English (with individual websites for the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia), Spanish, [ 23 ] French [ 24 ] and Russian [ 25 ] languages. They were launched by Sony in early November 2007 and feature photos, video clips, a video blog, games and information on the film's plot and production. [ 26 ] Another website was created by the film's production companies, asecretthisbig.com, and is dedicated to the examination of the Loch Ness Monster 's existence in reality. [ 27 ] Additionally, the film has a YouTube account which features the video blogs from the official website, as well as additional video content. [ 28 ] Two sweepstakes were created for The Water Horse . The first, \"See It To Believe It,\" awarded the winner with a family trip to the Aquarium of the Pacific . The second, \"Unloch the Legend\" awarded the winner with a family trip to Scotland. [ 29 ] A 15-meter \"water screen\" was used to project a moving image, with sound, of the Water Horse in Tokyo Bay . [ 30 ]", "The film received generally positive reviews from critics. As of 2024, the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 74% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 90 reviews with an average rating of 6.7/10, classifying the film as \"fresh\", reaching the consensus that \" The Water Horse is a fine family film. It takes a classic tale and infuses it with extra imagination, sly humor, heart, and inventive special effects.\" [ 31 ] Metacritic reported the film had an average score of 71 out of 100, based on 24 reviews, indicating \"generally favorable reviews\". [ 32 ] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of \"A-\" on an A+ to F scale. [ 33 ]", "Pete Hammond of Maxim magazine gave the film 4 stars out of 5, saying \"It's not only the perfect holiday movie, but perhaps the most wondrous film of its kind since E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial touched down.\" Hammond said the character Angus is \"expertly played by Alex Etel,\" said the film was \"skillfully directed by Jay Russell\", and said the special effects were \"stunning\" and \"rival the year's best.\" [ 34 ] RogerEbert.com awarded the film three and a half stars out of four, complimenting the film's \"real story about complex people\" and the \"first rate supporting performances\" of Emily Watson , Ben Chaplin and Brian Cox . [ 35 ]", "The film was a moderate box office success and grossed about $9 million during its opening weekend. As of October 2010, the film has grossed a total of $103,071,443 worldwide due to gaining about $40.4 million in the United States and about $62.1 million in foreign countries, according to the website Box Office Mojo. [ 36 ]", "The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray on 8 April 2008 by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment . [ 37 ]"]	tt0760329	2025-06-27 14:21:31
36	The Wyvern Mystery	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wyvern_Mystery	2,000	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films:_U%E2%80%93W	{"Based on": "The Wyvern Mystery by Sheridan Le Fanu", "Teleplay by": "David Pirie", "Directed by": "Alex Pillai", "Starring": "Naomi Watts Derek Jacobi", "Country of origin": "United Kingdom", "Original language": "English", "No. of series": "1", "No. of episodes": "2", "Running time": "118 min.", "Network": "BBC", "Release": "5 March ( 2000-03-05 ) – 12 March 2000 ( 2000-03-12 )"}	["The Wyvern Mystery is a 2000 BBC TV miniseries directed by Alex Pillai and starring Naomi Watts and Derek Jacobi . The TV series is based on Sheridan Le Fanu 's 1869 novel."]	tt0237934	2025-06-27 14:21:33
37	Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyrmwood	2,014	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films:_U%E2%80%93W	{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c5/Wyrmwood_2014_film_poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Kiah Roache-Turner", "Written by": "Kiah Roache-Turner Tristan Roache-Turner", "Produced by": "Tristan Roache-Turner", "Starring": "Jay Gallagher Bianca Bradey Leon Burchill Keith Agius Berynn Schwerdt Luke McKenzie", "Cinematography": "Tim Nagle", "Edited by": "Kiah Roache-Turner", "Music by": "Michael Lira", "Production company": "Guerilla Films", "Release dates": "19 September 2014 ( 2014-09-19 ) (Fantastic Fest) 12 February 2015 ( 2015-02-12 )", "Running time": "98 minutes", "Country": "Australia", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$160,000 [ 1 ]", "Box office": "$106,916 [ 2 ]"}	["Wyrmwood (also known as Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead ) is a 2014 Australian action - horror film directed by Kiah Roache-Turner and starring Jay Gallagher, Bianca Bradey , Leon Burchill , Keith Agius, Berynn Schwerdt and Luke McKenzie . The screenplay concerns a mechanic who finds himself faced with zombie hordes. Roache-Turner's directorial debut , [ 3 ] it had its world premiere on 19 September 2014 at Fantastic Fest . [ 4 ]", "Mechanic Barry lives in the Australian outback with his wife Annie and daughter Meganne. During a meteor shower , Barry's sister Brooke is attacked in her Bulla, Victoria studio by her model and her assistant, who have suddenly become zombies. She calls Barry and warns him to get out of the city. He, Annie, and Meganne don gas masks and fight their way to the family car. When Meganne and Annie remove their gas masks they become infected and zombify, and Barry is forced to kill them with a nailgun. He runs out of nails before he can kill himself.", "Chalker, another survivor, finds Barry and knocks him unconscious when Barry attempts to kill himself with Chalker's gun. Barry asks Chalker to take him to Brooke's studio, unaware that a paramilitary group has taken her captive in the back of a truck that serves as a mobile lab for mad scientist Doc. While Doc experiments on the zombies and Brooke, Chalker's truck stops working. Chalker and Barry continue on foot, and Benny, another survivor, mistakenly kills Chalker. Benny, who previously had to kill his infected brother, and Barry team up and come upon a garage staffed by Frank and his assistant. Frank explains that all flammable liquids have become useless. However, the group accidentally discovers zombie breath and blood are flammable, and they devise a zombie-powered engine. During their escape, Frank's assistant becomes infected and is used as fuel.", "Barry, Benny, and Frank discover zombies stop breathing flammable gas at night, enabling them to run faster. As they hole up in the truck overnight, Frank says he believes the zombies resulted from the meteor shower; as told in the Bible, a star called Wyrmwood has fallen, making part of the world bitter. After waking up from a nightmare, Barry catches a zombie on fire and accidentally sets the truck's compressor alight. While putting out the fire, Frank is bitten and asks Barry to shoot him; Barry does. The next day, Barry and Benny encounter paramilitaries in an electric-powered truck. The two drivers, after revealing that those with an A negative blood type are not affected by the disease, offer to lead Barry and Benny to Brooke, who they claim is in custody nearby. Meanwhile, Brooke learns she can now telepathically control zombies as a result of the experiments. With the help of several zombies, she kills Doc, escapes the truck, and joins Barry and Benny.", "Barry's truck stalls after the soldiers accidentally kill the zombie powering it. While taking a pit stop for Brooke to fetch them a zombie, Benny is shot in the stomach. When they later pull over to take care of Benny, the soldiers catch up and subdue them. The soldiers reveal their plan is to decapitate Brooke and take her head to their commanding officer. Barry plans to kill them all in an explosion, but Benny instead sacrifices himself to turn into a zombie so Brooke can control him to overpower the soldiers. He kills two of the three soldiers, but the captain kills him and shoots Brooke in the chest. Barry challenges him to a fistfight but ends up shot when the captain retrieves his pistol. After shooting a zombie, the captain's face is splattered with zombie blood, and Barry ignites his head with the matches. Before Barry can shoot him, Brooke rises and commands a horde of zombies to eat the captain alive.", "Barry and Brooke, back on the road, come across the lab truck again. They ask the soldiers what they have in the back of the truck; when they refuse to answer, Brooke commands a new group of zombies to attack them and tear them apart.", "The film premiered as Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead [ 5 ] on 19 September 2014 as part of the Fantastic Fest . [ 6 ] The limited theatre release was on 12 February 2015, [ 7 ] It was originally supposed to have a one night only theatrical release in Australia, opening on 74 screens, but an overwhelming response and sold out sessions across the country saw its run being extended for weeks in some cinemas. [ 8 ] It was followed by a Video on Demand release, over IFC Midnight on 13 February 2015. [ 9 ]", "In Australia , the film opened at 76 cinemas on 12 February 2015 for limited time. The film earned US$66,362 during its opening weekend. It would go on to gross a total of US$106,916 domestically. [ 10 ] Due to the budget being higher, the film was considered a flop.", "The film review website Metacritic surveyed 9 critics and assessed 5 reviews as positive, 3 as mixed, and 1 as negative. It gave a weighted average score of 54 out of 100, which it said indicated \"mixed or average reviews\". [ 11 ] The similar website Rotten Tomatoes surveyed 38 critics and, categorizing the reviews as positive or negative, assessed 31 as positive and 7 as negative. Of the 38 reviews , it determined an average rating of 6.3 out of 10. It gave the film a score of 82% and summarized the critical consensus, \"Rough around the edges but inspired at its core, Wyrmwood is a giddy variation on the zombie genre that will sate gore hounds' appetite for mayhem.\" [ 12 ]", "Twitch Film and The Hollywood Reporter both praised the film, [ 13 ] and Twitch Film commented that the film's script is original. [ 14 ] Variety also commented upon this element, as they enjoyed the character of Brooke \"being injected with a chemical concoction that somehow gives her the ability to control the hungry hordes\" and that \"other nifty little touches, such as Frank and Barry's discovery that zombie blood can be used as a substitute for gasoline, Brooke's psychic powers bring something fresh to a horror subgenre that's received a particularly heavy flogging in recent years.\" [ 15 ] Shock Till You Drop also gave a favorable review, stating that they found it to be an \"impressive feature debut\". [ 16 ] IGN awarded it 7.5 out of 10, saying \"Wyrmwood may tread familiar ground, but it's still a bloody good time.\" [ 17 ]", "Wyrmwood was reviewed in The West Australian : \"with clear inspirations in Dawn of the Dead , The Evil Dead , Bad Taste , Re-Animator and ... Mad Max , from its Gothic-looking helmets, masks and weapons to its retro-fitted vehicles, Wyrmwood looks and plays a lot better than its $160,000 budget suggests.\" [ 18 ]", "In February 2015, a plan for a sequel was announced, with a potential return of the original actors Jay Gallagher, Bianca Bradey, Leon Burchill, Luke McKenzie, and Yure Covich. The release was proposed for early 2017, after the release of a “mental ghost\" film, from Kiah & Tristan Roache-Turner. [ 19 ]", "The Roache-Turner brothers later announced that, due to the positive response to the film, their next project would in fact be the Wyrmwood sequel, in the form of a 10-episode TV series titled Wyrmwood: Chronicles of the Dead . The team released a short teaser for the series on 19 May 2017, featuring Gallagher and Bradey reprising their roles as Barry and Brooke. [ 20 ] The brothers also worked on a sci-fi horror film, Nekrotronic , as they developed the series.", "In August 2020, funding was announced for a sequel titled Wyrmwood Apocalypse . Set in a post-apocalyptic world, this film follows soldier Rhys on an arc of redemption as he turns against his evil bosses to join forces with a group of rebel survivors. Together they help save a little girl's sister from death at the hands of the military. [ 21 ]", "The sequel Wyrmwood: Apocalypse was released in 2021."]	tt2535470	2025-06-27 14:21:34
38	Wyscig pokoju – Warszawa-Berlin-Praga	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyscig_pokoju_%E2%80%93_Warszawa-Berlin-Praga	1,952	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films:_U%E2%80%93W	{"Directed by": "Joris Ivens", "Release date": "1952 ( 1952 )", "Running time": "48 minutes", "Countries": "Poland East Germany", "Language": "Polish"}	["Wyscig pokoju – Warszawa-Berlin-Praga is a Polish-East German film based on the Peace Race . It was released in 1952."]	tt0045341	2025-06-27 14:21:35
39	Wyoming Renegades	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyoming_Renegades	1,954	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films:_U%E2%80%93W	{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/46/Wyrompos.jpg/250px-Wyrompos.jpg", "Directed by": "Fred F. Sears", "Screenplay by": "David Lang", "Story by": "David Lang", "Produced by": "Wallace MacDonald", "Starring": "Philip Carey Gene Evans Martha Hyer", "Cinematography": "Lester White", "Edited by": "Edwyn H. Bryant", "Color process": "Technicolor", "Production company": "Columbia Pictures", "Distributed by": "Columbia Pictures", "Release date": "March 27, 1955 ( 1955-03-27 )", "Running time": "72 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English"}	["Wyoming Renegades is a 1955 American Western film directed by Fred F. Sears and starring Philip Carey , Gene Evans and Martha Hyer . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ self-published source ]", "The film opens with the shortest pre-credit sequence that introduces the members of the \"Hole in the Wall\" gang and silent. One of the members goes inside the house and puts the fire on while the door stays open. Outside the house, the door starts to close, segues into the opening credits.", "Brady Sutton ( Phil Carey ), a former member of the \"Hole in the Wall\" gang, wants to go straight. He returns to his home town, Broken Bow, and sweetheart Nancy Warren ( Martha Hyer ), to set up a blacksmith business. At the bank he sees one of the gang casing the joint.", "He warns the sheriff that he believes the gang will attempt a robbery that night. The sheriff arranges with the bank to move all the money to the jailhouse, but one of the gang sees them. That night Butch Cassidy ( Gene Evans ) and the gang raid the jail, but two of them are killed and the raid fails. However, Brady is implicated in the robbery attempt and escapes town with the aid of Charlie Veer ( Douglas Kennedy ). Veer wants to join up with Cassidy’s gang and persuades Brady to take him to Cassidy's hideout, \"The Hole in the Wall\". Some of the gang want to lynch Brady, but Cassidy agrees to take him back. Veer divulges that the bank is planning to move the money out by train the following night. Cassidy plans to rob the train. Veer turns out to be a Pinkerton agent and goes to the telegraph office at Broken Bow to send a message to the agency to alert the sheriff and put a posse on the train. However, Cassidy is one step ahead and had already got to the telegraph operator, having forced him to send a bogus message. Cassidy then kills the operator. Meanwhile Brady, having second thoughts about returning to a life of crime, attempts to stop the robbery. Veer admits to Brady that he is a Pinkerton agent and still believes there will be a posse on the train. The robbery goes ahead, but there is neither posse nor money on the train. Cassidy kills Veer and takes Nancy hostage. Brady tries to escape with Nancy, but both are recaptured by Cassidy. Believing the money is still at the bank in Broken Bow, Cassidy plans another raid. But knowing the sheriff will be waiting with a posse, he persuades Nancy to send the sheriff off on the wrong trail, or he will kill Brady. She agrees and the sheriff and his men ride out of town. Cassidy and the gang raid the town, but Nancy has mustered the womenfolk and the robbery fails. Most of the gang are killed and Cassidy is captured. Brady and Nancy are re-united."]	tt0048814	2025-06-27 14:21:36
40	The Wyoming Wildcat	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wyoming_Wildcat	1,925	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films:_U%E2%80%93W	{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/The_Wyoming_Wildcat.jpg/250px-The_Wyoming_Wildcat.jpg", "Directed by": "Robert De Lacey", "Written by": "Percy Heath", "Starring": "Tom Tyler Billie Bennett Frankie Darro", "Cinematography": "John W. Leezer", "Production company": "Robertson-Cole Pictures Corporation", "Distributed by": "Film Booking Offices of America", "Release date": "November 1, 1925 ( 1925-11-01 )", "Running time": "50 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "Silent (English intertitles )"}	["The Wyoming Wildcat is a 1925 American silent Western film directed by Robert De Lacey and starring Tom Tyler , Billie Bennett , and Frankie Darro . [ 1 ]", "As described in a film magazine review, [ 2 ] Phil Stone, a young cowboy, makes two enemies by rescuing a boy and his dog from an evil pair of ranchers, and, after he goes to work on a ranch owned by a Blendy Betts, the enemies begin operations. There follows a period of peril during which both hero and heroine nearly lose their lives. When Blendy is kidnapped and ends up in the river, Phil comes to her rescue. In the end, the desperate pair of scheming rangers are defeated and the young woman ranch owner and her employee are married."]	tt0016554	2025-06-27 14:21:36
41	Wyoming Wildcat	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyoming_Wildcat	1,941	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films:_U%E2%80%93W	{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Wyoming_Wildcat.jpg/250px-Wyoming_Wildcat.jpg", "Directed by": "George Sherman", "Screenplay by": "Bennett Cohen Anthony Coldeway", "Story by": "Bennett Cohen", "Produced by": "George Sherman", "Starring": "Don \"Red\" Barry Julie Duncan Frank M. Thomas Syd Saylor Dick Botiller Edmund Cobb", "Cinematography": "William Nobles", "Edited by": "Lester Orlebeck", "Music by": "Cy Feuer William Lava", "Production company": "Republic Pictures", "Distributed by": "Republic Pictures", "Release date": "January 6, 1941 ( 1941-01-06 )", "Running time": "56 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English"}	["Wyoming Wildcat is a 1941 American western film directed by George Sherman and written by Bennett Cohen and Anthony Coldeway . The film stars Don \"Red\" Barry , Julie Duncan , Frank M. Thomas , Syd Saylor , Dick Botiller and Edmund Cobb . The film was released on January 6, 1941, by Republic Pictures . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]", "Soldier Bill Gannon returns to Wyoming, after being released from service in the Spanish-American war. However, when he gets there, he discovers that his father has turned into an outlaw, due to the dishonesty and bad faith of others. His father still cares for him and does not want him to be involved in the bandit life; so, he pushes his son away. Bill moves somewhere else and gets a job, as a guard on a stagecoach route. Too bad it's the stagecoach his father's gang was about to steal."]	tt0034404	2025-06-27 14:21:36
42	Wyoming Outlaw	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyoming_Outlaw	1,939	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films:_U%E2%80%93W	{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2c/Wyoming_Outlaw_poster.jpg/250px-Wyoming_Outlaw_poster.jpg", "Directed by": "George Sherman", "Screenplay by": "Jack Natteford Betty Burbridge", "Based on": "Based on characters by William Colt MacDonald", "Produced by": "William A. Berke", "Starring": "John Wayne Ray Corrigan Raymond Hatton", "Cinematography": "Reggie Lanning", "Edited by": "Tony Martinelli", "Music by": "William Lava", "Distributed by": "Republic Pictures", "Release date": "June 27, 1939 ( 1939-06-27 )", "Running time": "56 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English"}	["Wyoming Outlaw is a 1939 American \" Three Mesquiteers \" Western film directed by George Sherman and starring John Wayne , Ray Corrigan , and Raymond Hatton . [ 1 ] Wayne played the lead in eight of the fifty-one films in the series."]	tt0032146	2025-06-27 14:21:37
43	Wyoming Mail	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyoming_Mail	1,950	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films:_U%E2%80%93W	{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/23/Wyoming_Mail_poster.jpg/250px-Wyoming_Mail_poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Reginald Le Borg", "Screenplay by": "Harry Essex Leonard Lee", "Story by": "Robert Hardy Andrews", "Produced by": "Aubrey Schenck", "Starring": "Stephen McNally Alexis Smith", "Cinematography": "Russell Metty", "Edited by": "Edward Curtiss", "Color process": "Technicolor", "Production company": "Universal International Pictures", "Distributed by": "Universal Pictures", "Release date": "October 18, 1950 ( 1950-10-18 )", "Running time": "87 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English"}	["Wyoming Mail is a 1950 American Western film directed by Reginald Le Borg and starring Stephen McNally , Alexis Smith . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]", "In 1869, when the railroad mail service is threatened by frequent bandit attacks, the authorities assign federal postal inspector Steve Davis to infiltrate a gang. A former professional boxer, he poses as an escaped convict and joins the criminal operation in order to destroy it from inside. [ 4 ]", "Wyoming Mail is a western genre Technicolor movie with “ B ” financing. The picture’s talented cast and director were limited by an undistinguished screenplay: “the cast was certainly superior to the plot of the film.” [ 5 ] The railroad scenes were filmed on the Sierra Railroad in Tuolumne County, California . [ 6 ] The action involving pursuit of the mail trains by mounted bandits were filmed from camera trucks by cinematographer Russell Metty . [ 7 ] LeBorg was particularly pleased with one scene he worked into the production:", "The New York Times ranked Wyoming Mail slightly above the average for Hollywood westerns. That the story involves the purloining of the US mail rather than cattle rustling “may not be an original twist but it does have its refreshing moments.” The reviewer offers measured praise for the featured players. [ 9 ]"]	tt0043149	2025-06-27 14:21:37

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Wikipedia Movies Dataset

Dataset Description

This dataset contains 58.1k movie information scraped from Wikipedia's "List of films" pages. The data includes basic movie metadata, infobox information, and introductory text from individual movie Wikipedia pages.

NOTE: This is an uncleaned dataset containing raw scraped data. The content is sourced from Wikipedia and is not owned by the dataset creator. All content remains under Wikipedia's licensing terms.

Dataset Summary

Source: Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
Pages Scraped: Wikipedia's "List of films" pages (A-Z, numbers)
Languages: English

Data Collection Process

The dataset was collected using a Scrapy spider that:

Crawled Wikipedia's "List of films" pages organized alphabetically
Extracted movie links from these list pages
Visited individual movie Wikipedia pages
Scraped structured data from movie infoboxes
Extracted introductory paragraphs and metadata

Dataset Structure

Data Fields/Columns

Column	Type	Description
`title`	String	Movie title as extracted from Wikipedia
`movie_url`	String	Full URL to the movie's Wikipedia page
`year`	String/Integer	Release year (when available)
`source_url`	String	URL of the Wikipedia list page where movie was found
`table_data`	JSON	Structured data from movie's infobox table (uncleaned)
`info`	Array	Movie Info and Plot summary
`imdb_id`	String	IMDB ID (when available in Wikipedia page)
`created_at`	Timestamp	When the record was scraped

Column Details

`table_data`

Contains structured information from the movie's Wikipedia infobox, which may include:

Director(s)
Producer(s)
Writer(s)
Starring cast
Release date
Runtime
Budget
Box office
Genre
Country of origin
Language
And other metadata fields

`info`

Array of introductory paragraphs from the movie's Wikipedia page, typically containing:

Movie info
Plot summary

Data Quality Notes

Uncleaned Data: Contains raw scraped content with potential inconsistencies.
Missing Values: Fields may be empty or null.
Duplicate Detection: No deduplication has been performed.

Known Issues

Not all movies have complete information.
Year information may be missing or inaccurate.
Some entries may contain unescaped HTML or special characters
Data reflects Wikipedia content at time of scraping

Disclaimer

All scraped content belongs to Wikipedia and its contributors. This dataset simply provides a structured export of publicly available information for research purposes.

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