Description: Cult classics from the video store era + newer that have achieved cult status. The good, the bad, the hilarious good-bad, the weird, the ones everyone quotes, the Hollywood cult icons. Get your popcorn!
updated oct 2025
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Big Fur
( 2020 )
World Champion taxidermist Ken Walker builds a life-sized Bigfoot, based on frames from an iconic 1967 movie, and unveils her at the 2015 World Taxidermy Championship. While Walker would love to win Best in Show, his real hope is that putting "Patty" on display will prompt some hunter to open his freezer and pull out the proof that Bigfoot is real. Instead, it's Walker's love life that gets thawed out.
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Rushmore
( 1999 )
A teenager at Rushmore Academy falls for a much older teacher and befriends a middle-aged industrialist. Later, he finds out that his love interest and his friend are having an affair, which prompts him to begin a vendetta.
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Sausage Party
( 2016 )
A sausage strives to discover the truth about his existence.
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Altered States
( 1980 )
A psycho-physiologist experiments with drugs and a sensory-deprivation tank and has visions he believes are genetic memories.
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Naked Lunch
( 1992 )
After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally kills his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in a port town in North Africa.
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Chronos (Short 1985)
( 1985 )
Carefully picked scenes of nature and civilization are viewed at high speed using time-lapse cinematography in an effort to demonstrate the history of various regions.
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El Topo
( 1971 )
A mysterious black-clad gunfighter wanders a mystical Western landscape encountering multiple bizarre characters.
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Brand Upon the Brain!
( 2008 )
Returned home to his long-estranged mother upon a request from her deathbed, a man raised by his parents in an orphanage has to confront the childhood memories that have long haunted him.
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Cowgirls vs. Pterodactyls
( 2021 )
After her husband is taken by a malicious pterodactyl, a schoolteacher enlists the help of a prostitute and a gunslinger to rescue him.
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2001: A Space Odyssey
( 1968 )
When a mysterious artifact is uncovered on the Moon, a spacecraft manned by two humans and one supercomputer is sent to Jupiter to find its origins.
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The Devils
( 1971 )
In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier's protection of the city of Loudun from the corrupt Cardinal Richelieu is undermined by a sexually repressed nun's accusation of witchcraft.
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The Royal Tenenbaums
( 2002 )
The eccentric members of a dysfunctional family reluctantly gather under the same roof for various reasons.
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Johnny Mnemonic
( 1995 )
A data courier, literally carrying a data package inside his head, must deliver it before he dies from the burden or is killed by the Yakuza.
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Team America: World Police
( 2004 )
Popular Broadway actor Gary Johnston is recruited by the elite counter-terrorism organization Team America: World Police. As the world begins to crumble around him, he must battle with terrorists, celebrities and falling in love.
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Cherry 2000
( 1988 )
In 2017, a successful businessman travels to the ends of the earth to find that the perfect woman is always under his nose. He hires a sexy renegade tracker to find an exact duplicate of his android wife.
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America: The Motion Picture
( 2021 )
A chainsaw-wielding George Washington teams with beer-loving bro Sam Adams to take down the Brits in a tongue-in-cheek riff on the American Revolution.
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The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
( 2004 )
With a plan to exact revenge on a legendary shark that killed his partner, oceanographer Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) rallies a crew that includes his estranged wife, a journalist, and a man who may or may not be his son.
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Prometheus
( 2012 )
Following clues to the origin of mankind, a team finds a structure on a distant moon, but they soon realize they are not alone.
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The Amusement Park
( 2021 )
An elderly gentleman goes for what he assumes will be an ordinary day at the amusement park, only to find himself in the middle of a hellish nightmare.
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Zardoz
( 1974 )
In the late 23rd century, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.
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Isle of Dogs
( 2018 )
Set in Japan, Isle of Dogs follows a boy's odyssey in search of his lost dog.
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Wet Hot American Summer
( 2001 )
Set on the last day of camp, in the hot summer of 1981, a group of counselors try to complete their unfinished business before the day ends.
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A Dog's Life
( 1962 )
A "shockumentary" consisting of a collection of mostly real archive footage displaying mankind at its most depraved and perverse, displaying bizarre rites, cruel behavior and bestial violence.
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Used Cars
( 1980 )
When the old owner of a dilapidated used car lot dies due to foul play, his young and ambitious hot-shot salesman and colleagues vow to save the property from falling into the hands of the owner's treacherous brother and used-car rival.
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Halloween III: Season of the Witch
( 1982 )
Kids all over America want Silver Shamrock masks for Halloween. Doctor Daniel Challis seeks to uncover a plot by Silver Shamrock owner Conal Cochran.
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Killer of Sheep
( 1978 )
Set in the Watts area of Los Angeles, a slaughterhouse worker must suspend his emotions to continue working at a job he finds repugnant, and then he finds he has little sensitivity for the family he works so hard to support.
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Trouble Every Day
( 2001 )
Two American newlyweds in Paris experience a love so strong, it almost devours them.
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Psycho
( 1998 )
In Gus Van Sant's remake of Alfred Hitchcock's classic, young female bank employee Marion Crane steals money from her boss in Phoenix, flees town, and arrives at Fairvale, California's rundown Bates Motel, which has secrets of its own.
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But I'm a Cheerleader
( 2000 )
A naive teenager is sent to rehab camp when her straitlaced parents and friends suspect her of being a lesbian.
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Jason X
( 2002 )
Jason Voorhees is cryogenically frozen at the beginning of the 21st century, and is discovered in the 25th century and taken to space. He gets thawed, and begins stalking and killing the crew of the spaceship that's transporting him.
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Æon Flux
( 2005 )
Æon Flux is a mysterious assassin working for the Monicans, a group of rebels trying to overthrow the government. When she is sent on a mission to kill the Chairman, a whole new mystery is found.
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Shaun of the Dead
( 2004 )
The uneventful, aimless lives of a London electronics salesman and his layabout roommate are disrupted by the zombie apocalypse.
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Zoolander
( 2001 )
At the end of his career, a clueless fashion model is brainwashed to kill the Prime Minister of Malaysia.
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I'm Not There
( 2007 )
Ruminations on the life of Bob Dylan, where six characters embody a different aspect of the musician's life and work.
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Back to the Future
( 1985 )
Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown.
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Borat
( 2006 )
Kazakh TV talking head Borat is dispatched to the United States to report on the greatest country in the world.
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Prisoners of the Ghostland
( 2021 )
Set in the treacherous frontier city of Samurai Town where a ruthless bank robber is sprung from jail by wealthy warlord The Governor, whose adopted granddaughter Bernice has gone missing. The Governor offers the prisoner his freedom in exchange for retrieving the runaway. Strapped into a leather suit that will self-destruct within three days, the bandit sets off on a journey to find the young woman and his own path to redemption.
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Venom
( 2018 )
A failed reporter is bonded to an alien entity, one of many symbiotes who have invaded Earth. But the being takes a liking to Earth and decides to protect it.
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Llamageddon
( 2015 )
A killer llama from outer space crash lands on Earth and brings death and destruction to everyone in its path.
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Powaqqatsi
( 1988 )
An exploration of technologically developing nations and the effect the transition to Western-style modernization has had on them.
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The French Dispatch
( 2021 )
Faced with the impending dissolution of The French Dispatch, a factual weekly report on various subjects, old-school editor-in-chief Arthur Howitzer Jr. assembles the crème de la crème of the magazine's loyal expatriate journalists for one final issue. Against the backdrop of picturesque Ennui-sur-Blasé, Paris, France, three main articles unfold, pivoting around tormented genius artists, statuesque prison officers, flamboyant critics, moody idealists, conflicted ace reporters, legendary chefs, and, of course, the police.
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Mommie Dearest
( 1981 )
The abusive and traumatic adoptive upbringing of Christina Crawford at the hands of her mother, screen queen Joan Crawford, is depicted.
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Anaconda
( 1997 )
A "National Geographic" film crew is taken hostage by an insane hunter, who forces them along on his quest to capture the world's largest - and deadliest - snake.
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Tusk
( 2014 )
A brash and arrogant podcaster gets more than he bargained for when he travels to Canada to interview a mysterious recluse... who has a rather disturbing fondness for walruses.
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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
( 2005 )
After being mistaken for an actor, a New York thief is sent to Hollywood to train under a private eye for a potential movie role, but the duo are thrown together with a struggling actress into a murder mystery.
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I Am Legend
( 2007 )
Years after a plague kills most of humanity and transforms the rest into monsters, the sole survivor in New York City struggles valiantly to find a cure.
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The Long Kiss Goodnight
( 1996 )
Government agents come after an amnesiac woman, who gradually remembers her past.
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Don't Look Up
( 2021 )
Two low-level astronomers must go on a giant media tour to warn humankind of an approaching comet that will destroy planet Earth.
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They Live
( 1988 )
They influence our decisions without us knowing it. They numb our senses without us feeling it. They control our lives without us realizing it. They live.
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Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
( 2000 )
An African-American Mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of old finds himself targeted for death by the mob.
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Moonfall
( 2022 )
A mysterious force knocks the moon from its orbit and sends it hurtling on a collision course toward earth.
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Raising Arizona
( 1987 )
When a childless couple--an ex-con and an ex-cop--decide to help themselves to one of another family's quintuplets, their lives become more complicated than they anticipated.
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The Lawnmower Man
( 1992 )
A simple man is turned into a genius through the application of computer science.
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From Dusk Till Dawn
( 1996 )
Two criminals and their hostages unknowingly seek temporary refuge in a truck stop populated by vampires, with chaotic results.
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Thank You for Smoking
( 2006 )
Satirical comedy follows the machinations of Big Tobacco's chief spokesman, Nick Naylor, who spins on behalf of cigarettes while trying to remain a role model for his 12-year-old son.
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Female Trouble
( 1976 )
A spoiled schoolgirl runs away from home, gets pregnant while hitch-hiking, and ends up as a fashion model for a pair of beauticians who like to photograph women committing crimes.
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Bones and All
( 2022 )
Maren, a young woman, learns how to survive on the margins of society.
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The Greatest Beer Run Ever
( 2022 )
A man's story of leaving New York in 1967 to bring beer to his childhood buddies in the Army while they are fighting in Vietnam.
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Asteroid City
( 2023 )
Following a writer on his world famous fictional play about a grieving father who travels with his tech-obsessed family to small rural Asteroid City to compete in a junior stargazing event, only to have his world view disrupted forever.
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Cocaine Bear
( 2023 )
An oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists and teens converge on a Georgia forest where a huge black bear goes on a murderous rampage after unintentionally ingesting cocaine.
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Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
( 2012 )
Johnny Blaze, tortured by the Ghost Rider's curse, gets a chance of redemption through protecting the Devil's son, whose father is pursuing him.
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Ghost Rider
( 2007 )
A motorcycle stuntman who sold his soul becomes a supernatural agent of vengeance.
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The Northman
( 2022 )
A young Viking prince is on a quest to avenge his father's murder.
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The Green Knight
( 2021 )
A fantasy retelling of the medieval story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
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Mad Heidi
( 2022 )
Swiss mountain girl Heidi is abducted by brutal government troops and must defend herself and fight a war against a cheese-fueled machinery of hate.
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Mad God
( 2021 )
A corroded diving bell descends amidst a ruined city and the Assassin emerges from it to explore a labyrinth of bizarre landscapes inhabited by freakish denizens.
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Grosse Pointe Blank
( 1997 )
Professional assassin Martin Blank is sent on a mission to a small Detroit suburb, Grosse Pointe--where, by coincidence, his 10-year high-school reunion party is about to take place.
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R.I.P.D.
( 2013 )
A cop killed by his own partner joins RIPD, an afterlife law enforcement department working to apprehend various monsters disguised as humans living on earth, and gets paired up with a smart-mouthed veteran.
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The Driver
( 1978 )
A getaway driver becomes the latest assignment for a tenacious detective.
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Woodstock
( 1970 )
Oscar-winning musical chronicle that brilliantly captures the three-day rock concert and celebration of peace and love that became a capstone for the Sixties.
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Alphaville
( 1965 )
An agent wrecks the main computer on another planet.
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The Man in the Hat
( 2021 )
The Man in the Hat journeys through France in a Fiat 500 accompanied by a framed photograph of an unknown woman. He is pursued by five angry men in a Citroën Dyane. Why are they chasing him? And how can he shake them off?
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Susie Searches
( 2023 )
An awkward college student who seizes the opportunity to bolster her popularity and her under-the-radar true-crime podcast by solving the disappearance of a classmate.
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Kung Fury (Short 2015)
( 2015 )
In 1985, Kung Fury, the toughest martial artist cop in Miami, goes back in time to kill the worst criminal of all time - Kung Führer, a.k.a. Adolf Hitler.
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Quest for Fire
( 1982 )
This story takes place in prehistoric time when three tribesmen search for a new fire source.
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China Salesman
( 2018 )
A Chinese IT company representative attempts to spoil a conspiracy to start a civil war in an African country orchestrated by an European businessman who is aided by a tough African warrior.
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Repo Men
( 2010 )
Set in the near future when artificial organs can be bought on credit, it revolves around a man who struggles to make the payments on a heart he has purchased. He must therefore go on the run before said ticker is repossessed.
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Dicks: The Musical
( 2023 )
A pair of business rivals discover that they're identical twins and decide to swap places in an attempt to trick their divorced parents to get back together.
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Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
( 2023 )
Black Manta seeks revenge on Aquaman for his father's death. Wielding the Black Trident's power, he becomes a formidable foe. To defend Atlantis, Aquaman forges an alliance with his imprisoned brother. They must protect the kingdom.
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Godzilla vs. Kong
( 2021 )
The epic next chapter in the cinematic Monsterverse pits two of the greatest icons in motion picture history against each other--the fearsome Godzilla and the mighty Kong--with humanity caught in the balance.
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Godzilla Minus One
( 2023 )
Post-war Japan is at its lowest point when a new crisis emerges in the form of a giant monster, baptized in the horrific power of the atomic bomb.
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Godzilla
( 2004 )
After a dinosaur-like beast - awoken from undersea hibernation by atom bomb testing - ravages Tokyo, a scientist must decide if his similarly dangerous weapon should be used to destroy it.
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El Conde
( 2023 )
After living 250 years in this world, Augusto Pinochet, who is not dead but an aged vampire, decides to die once and for all.
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The Boy and the Heron
( 2023 )
In the wake of his mother's death and his father's remarriage, a headstrong boy ventures into a dreamlike world shared by the living and the dead in search of his missing stepmother.
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Dune: Part Two
( 2024 )
Paul Atreides unites with Chani and the Fremen while seeking revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family.
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Saltburn
( 2023 )
A student at Oxford University finds himself drawn into the world of a charming and aristocratic classmate, who invites him to his eccentric family's sprawling estate for a summer never to be forgotten.
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Fall
( 2022 )
Best friends Becky and Hunter find themselves at the top of a 2,000-foot radio tower.
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Frankenstein
( 1931 )
Dr Henry Frankenstein is obsessed with assembling a living being from parts of several exhumed corpses.
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Two Thousand Maniacs!
( 1964 )
Six people are lured into a small Deep South town for a Centennial celebration where the residents proceed to kill them one by one as revenge for the town's destruction during the Civil War.
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The Kentucky Fried Movie
( 1978 )
The daily programming of a fictional local TV channel presented as a series of highly irreverent skits.
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Escape from New York
( 1981 )
In a dystopian 1997, a soldier-turned-bank robber is tasked with rescuing the U.S. President after he crashes into Manhattan, which has been turned into a giant maximum security prison.
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Super Troopers
( 2002 )
Five Vermont state troopers, avid pranksters with a knack for screwing up, try to save their jobs and out-do the local police department by solving a crime.
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American Psycho
( 2000 )
A wealthy New York City investment banking executive, Patrick Bateman, hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he delves deeper into his violent, hedonistic fantasies.
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Dazed and Confused
( 1993 )
The adventures of high school and junior high students on the last day of school in May 1976.
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Showgirls
( 1995 )
A mysterious young drifter who calls herself Nomi Malone hitches a ride to Las Vegas, where she finds work as a stripper and sets about clawing her way to the top of the Vegas showgirls.
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