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20 movies and shows

Scream VI
Wed, 08 Mar 2023
Following the latest Ghostface killings, the four survivors leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter.

Scream
Fri, 20 Dec 1996
A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a masked killer who targets her and her friends by using scary movies as part of a deadly game.

Scream 3
Fri, 04 Feb 2000
While Sidney Prescott and her friends visit the Hollywood set of Stab 3, the third film based on the Woodsboro murders, another Ghostface killer rises to terrorize them.

Scream 2
Fri, 12 Dec 1997
Two years after the first series of murders, as Sidney Prescott acclimates to college life, someone donning the Ghostface costume begins a new string of killings.

Scream 4
Wed, 13 Apr 2011
Ten years have passed, and Sidney Prescott has put herself back together thanks to her writing. However, her return to Woodsboro sparks the return of the Ghostface Killer.

This Is the End
Wed, 12 Jun 2013
While attending a party at James Franco's house, Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel and many other celebrities are faced with the apocalypse.

Last Action Hero
Fri, 18 Jun 1993
After his father's death, a young boy finds solace in action movies featuring an indestructible cop. Given a magic ticket by a theater manager, he is transported into the film and teams up with the cop to stop a villain who escapes into the real world.

New Nightmare
Thu, 13 Oct 1994
Cast and crew from A Nightmare on Elm Street are terrorized by Freddy Krueger and his razor-fingered glove as he crosses over into the real world.

Blazing Saddles
Thu, 07 Feb 1974
A town—where everyone seems to be named Johnson—stands in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, robber baron Hedley Lamarr sends his henchmen to make life in the town unbearable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor, so Hedley convinces him to send the town the first black sheriff in the west.

Aprile
Fri, 27 Mar 1998
Nanni Moretti takes another look at the ebbs and flows of life in April 1996, as he becomes a father for the first time and seems unable to focus on his documentary about the upcoming national elections.

Caro diario
Tue, 12 Oct 1993
Nanni Moretti recalls in his diary three slice of life stories characterized by a sharply ironic look: in the first one he wanders through a deserted Rome, in the second he visits a reclusive friend on an island, and in the last he has to grapple with an unknown illness.

Return of the Killer Tomatoes!
Fri, 22 Apr 1988
Crazy old Professor Gangreen has developed a way to make tomatoes look human for a second invasion.

Sorry, We're Dead
Sat, 10 Feb 2024
The ennui of a filmmaker, trapped between aspiration and reality, frames Lana Jing’s quirky, sarcastic, and cinematic-joke filled quarter-life crisis. At her lecture hall job, where aging white men wax on, self-involved, Lana accidentally frames her friend and co-worker when she destroys the only copy of an aging tech-bro’s high-profile lecture. Lana is forced to navigate stop motion animation, a secret admirer, and terrible bridge traffic to sort out a way forward to her destiny… kinda.

Martin Scorsese's Quarantine Short Film
Thu, 28 May 2020
Director Martin Scorsese talks about life in isolation.

The Knob
Tue, 12 Sep 2023
A group of people sit around, trying to figure out what to write for their upcoming movie.

Absolutely Fabulous: A Life
Wed, 28 Oct 1998
During the filming of her very own documentary, 'A Day in My Life', Edina drops in on her mother who's working in a Help the Aged charity shop. There, she reminisces about the people and events which have made her what she is today.

A Splendid Day for Time Travel
Sat, 02 Jan 2021
Oz Normandy attempts to travel back in time to correct a major town wide tragedy.

Super 8½
Thu, 08 Sep 1994
A down-on-his-luck adult film star sees a chance to make a comeback via a lesbian documentary film-maker, but she is exploiting him to get financial backing for her pet project.