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The Moment (2013)
Thriller
After a tumultuous affair between international photojournalist Lee and troubled writer John ends in John's disappearance, Lee lands in a mental hospital to recuperate. She strikes up a friendship with a fellow patient bearing an uncanny resemblance to her missing lover. The pair works to uncover the truth behind the disappearance, but Lee's precarious sanity comes under threat when the clues lead to the last place she would ever expect.
Starring: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Martin Henderson, Alia Shawkat, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Meat Loaf, Alessandra Torresani
Director: Jane Weinstock
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Posted on April 4, 2023 |
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Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989)
Drama
Set in Brooklyn during the 1950s against a backdrop of union corruption and violence. A prostitute falls in love with one of her customers. Also a disturbed man discovers that he is homosexual.
Starring: Stephen Lang, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Burt Young, Peter Dobson, Jerry Orbach, Stephen Baldwin
Director: Uli Edel
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Tags: Burt Young, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jerry Orbach, Peter Dobson, Stephen Baldwin, Stephen Lang, Uli Edel
Posted on June 9, 2021 |
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Awake (2021)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
After a devastating global event wipes out all electronics and eliminated people's ability to sleep, a former soldier may have found a solution with her daughter.
Starring: Gina Rodriguez, Ariana Greenblatt, Frances Fisher, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Barry Pepper, Shamier Anderson
Director: Mark Raso
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Posted on December 6, 2020 |
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Possessor (2020)
Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Possessor follows an agent who works for a secretive organization that uses brain-implant technology to inhabit other people's bodies – ultimately driving them to commit assassinations for high-paying clients.
Starring: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tuppence Middleton, Andrea Riseborough, Sean Bean, Christopher Abbott, Kaniehtiio Horn
Director: Brandon Cronenberg
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Tags: Andrea Riseborough, Brandon Cronenberg, Christopher Abbott, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kaniehtiio Horn, Sean Bean, Tuppence Middleton
Posted on February 23, 2020 |
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Death Ride to Osaka / Girls of the White Orchid (1983)
Crime | Drama
In Los Angeles, the naive and lonely burger waitress and aspirant singer Carol Heath finds an advertisement in the newspaper with a job opportunity in Tokyo. She has a meeting with the agents, the American Cavanaugh and the Japanese Shiro ; she signs the contract in English and Japanese and travels to Japan to work at the White Orchid night-club. She shares a hotel room with a dancer and sooner she discovers the scheme of prostitution in the club that belongs to Yakuza. Alone, without money and her passport, she is protected by Shiro, but pressed by the managers Madame Mori and her husband Hatanaka to be receptive to client's proposals. Meanwhile her former boyfriend returns to LA and seeks her out.
Starring: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Thomas Byrd, Mako, Carolyn Seymour, Richard Narita, Soon-Tek Oh
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
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Posted on December 3, 2019 |
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21 Years: Quentin Tarantino / QT8: The First Eight (2019)
Documentary
A documentary that focuses on the first 21 years of Quentin Tarantino's career and includes interviews with his frequent collaborators.
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Christoph Waltz, Tim Roth, Lucy Liu, Zoë Bell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jamie Foxx, Eli Roth
Director: Tara Wood
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Tags: Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Lucy Liu, Samuel L. Jackson, Tara Wood, Tim Roth, Zoe Bell
Posted on December 22, 2018 |
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White Boy Rick (2018)
Crime | Drama
The story of teenager Richard Wershe Jr., who became an undercover informant for the FBI during the 1980s and was ultimately arrested for drug-trafficking and sentenced to life in prison.
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Richie Merritt, Bel Powley, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Brian Tyree Henry, Jonathan Majors, YG, Bruce Dern, Piper Laurie
Director: Yann Demange
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Tags: Bel Powley, Brian Tyree Henry, Bruce Dern, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jonathan Majors, Matthew McConaughey, Piper Laurie, Richie Merritt, Yann Demange, YG
Posted on June 14, 2018 |
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The Machinist (2004)
Drama | Thriller
An industrial worker who hasn't slept in a year begins to doubt his own sanity.
Starring: Christian Bale, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, John Sharian, Michael Ironside, Lawrence Gilliard Jr.
Director: Brad Anderson
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Posted on May 26, 2018 |
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Annihilation (2018)
Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition where the laws of nature don't apply.
Starring: Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Oscar Isaac, Tessa Thompson, Gina Rodriguez, Sonoya Mizuno
Director: Alex Garland
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Posted on January 18, 2018 |
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LBJ (2016)
Biography | Drama
The story of U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson from his young days in West Texas to the White House.
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, C. Thomas Howell, Bill Pullman, Jeffrey Donovan, Rich Sommer, Richard Jenkins, Michael Mosley, Michael Stahl-David
Director: Rob Reiner
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Tags: Bill Pullman, C. Thomas Howell, Jeffrey Donovan, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Michael Mosley, Michael Stahl-David, Rich Sommer, Richard Jenkins, Rob Reiner, Woody Harrelson
Posted on November 23, 2017 |
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Dolores Claiborne (1995)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A big-city reporter travels to the small town where her mother has been arrested for the murder of an elderly woman that she works for as a maid.
Starring: Kathy Bates, Jennifer Jason Leigh, David Strathairn, John C. Reilly, Eric Bogosian, Christopher Plummer
Director: Taylor Hackford
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Posted on November 14, 2017 |
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Amityville: The Awakening (2017)
Horror | Thriller
A desperate single mother moves with her three children into the notorious, supposedly haunted, real-life Amityville house to try and use its dark powers to cure her comatose son. Things go horribly wrong.
Starring: Bella Thorne, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Cameron Monaghan, Kurtwood Smith, Thomas Mann, Taylor Spreitler
Director: Franck Khalfoun
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Tags: Bella Thorne, Cameron Monaghan, Franck Khalfoun, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kurtwood Smith, Taylor Spreitler, Thomas Mann
Posted on November 5, 2017 |
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Good Time (2017)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
After a heist goes awry, a bank robber tries to free his brother from Rikers Island, all in one night.
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Benny Safdie, Taliah Webster, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Barkhad Abdi, Necro
Director: Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie
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Posted on November 1, 2017 |
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Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle / Mrs. Parker and the Round Table (1994)
Biography | Drama
Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair.
Starring: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Matthew Broderick, Campbell Scott, Gwyneth Paltrow, Andrew McCarthy, Martha Plimpton
Director: Alan Rudolph
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Posted on April 17, 2017 |
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Hateship Loveship (2013)
Drama | Romance
A wild teenage girl orchestrates a romance between her nanny and her father, who is a recovering addict.
Starring: Kristen Wiig, Guy Pearce, Hailee Steinfeld, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Sami Gayle, Christine Lahti
Director: Liza Johnson
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Tags: Christine Lahti, Guy Pearce, Hailee Steinfeld, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kristen Wiig, Liza Johnson, Sami Gayle
Posted on October 8, 2016 |
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Backdraft (1991)
Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A childhood incident has left brothers Stephen and Brian McCaffret mentally scarred, but that doesn't stop them following in their father's footsteps by becoming firefighters. Brian, the more wary of the two, teams up with dogged arson investigator Donald Rimgale after a series of blazes, and finds himself at loggerheads with the more gung-ho Stephen when he is led to suspect someone in his former unit.
Starring: Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, Robert De Niro, Donald Sutherland, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Scott Glenn
Director: Ron Howard
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Posted on March 15, 2016 |
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Anomalisa (2015)
Animation | Comedy | Drama | Romance
Charlie Kaufman's first stop-motion film about a man named Michael Stone, an author of books on the subject of customer service, who struggles with his inability to connect to people. One night, while on a routine business trip, he meets a woman who changes his world view.
Starring: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Noonan, David Thewlis
Director: Duke Johnson, Charlie Kaufman
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Tags: Charlie Kaufman, David Thewlis, Duke Johnson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Noonan
Posted on January 2, 2016 |
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Road to Perdition (2002)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Twelve-year-old Michael Sullivan Jr is curious about what his father does for a living, and one night decides to hide in his car as he goes off to work. It soon transpires that the elder Sullivan is a hitman for the mob, and when young Michael witnesses a killing carried out by the gangster boss' son Connor, it starts off a chain of events which will mark Michael's life forever.
Starring: Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Jude Law, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Stanley Tucci, Daniel Craig
Director: Sam Mendes
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Posted on January 2, 2016 |
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Margot at the Wedding (2007)
Comedy | Drama
Margot and her son Claude decide to visit her sister Pauline after she announces that she is getting married to less-than-impressive Malcolm. In short order, the storm the sisters create leaves behind a a mess of thrashed relationships and exposed family secrets.
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jack Black, John Turturro, Ciarán Hinds, Seth Barrish
Director: Noah Baumbach
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Posted on May 28, 2015 |
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Welcome to Me (2014)
Comedy | Drama
A year in the life of Alice Klieg, a woman with Borderline Personality Disorder who wins Mega-millions, quits her meds and buys her own talk show.
Starring: Kristen Wiig, James Marsden, Linda Cardellini, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Alan Tudyk, Wes Bentley
Director: Shira Piven
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Tags: Alan Tudyk, James Marsden, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kristen Wiig, Linda Cardellini, Shira Piven, Wes Bentley