5.3

Escape from L.A.

1996, USA

• Actors: Kurt Russell, Steve Buscemi, Peter Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Valeria Golino, Stacy Keach, Pam Grier, Bruce Campbell, Georges Corraface, Michelle Forbes, A.J. Langer, Ina Romeo, Peter Jason, Jordan Baker, Caroleen Feeney, Paul Bartel, Tom McNulty, Jeff Imada, Breckin Meyer, Robert Carradine, Shelly Desai, Leland Orser, Kathleen Blanchard, William Luduena, Gabriel Castillo, William Peña, David Perrone, Nick Danger, Brian Freifield, Isaac Hayes
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
• Director(s): John Carpenter
• Available languages:
  • English English.

The year is 2013 and Snake Plissken is back but this time it's L.A., which through the agency of earthquakes has become an island of the damned. But something has gone wrong in this new moral order, because the President's daughter has absconded to L.A. with a detonation device, and Snake is commandeered to retrieve it. But just below the surface there is a coiled Snake ready to strike.

  8.7

The Usual Suspects

1994, USA, Germany

• Actors: Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio Del Toro, Kevin Pollak, Kevin Spacey, Chazz Palminteri, Pete Postlethwaite, Giancarlo Esposito, Suzy Amis, Dan Hedaya, Paul Bartel, Carl Bressler, Phillipe Simon, Jack Shearer, Christine Estabrook, Clark Gregg, Morgan Hunter, Ken Daly, Michelle Clunie, Louis Lombardi, Frank Medrano, Ron Gilbert, Vito D'Ambrosio, Gene Lythgow, Robert Elmore, David Powledge, Bob Pennetta, Billy Bates, Smadar Hanson, Castulo Guerra
• Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
• Director(s): Bryan Singer
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Following a truck hijack in New York, five conmen are arrested and brought together for questioning. As none of them is guilty, they plan a revenge operation against the police. The operation goes well, but then the influence of a legendary mastermind criminal called Keyser Söze is felt. It becomes clear that each one of them has wronged Söze at some point and must pay back now. The payback job leaves 27 men dead in a boat explosion, but the real question arises now: Who actually is Keyser Söze?

  6.1

Gremlins 2: The New Batch

1989, USA

• Actors: Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, John Glover, Robert Prosky, Robert Picardo, Christopher Lee, Haviland Morris, Dick Miller, Jackie Joseph, Gedde Watanabe, Keye Luke, Kathleen Freeman, Don Stanton, Dan Stanton, Shawn Nelson, Archie Hahn, Leslie Neale, Ron Fassler, Time Winters, Heather Haase, Jason Presson, Lisa Mende, Patrika Darbo, Jerry Goldsmith, Rick Ducommun, John Capodice, Belinda Balaski, Nicky Rose, Paul Bartel, Kenneth Tobey
• Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
• Director(s): Joe Dante
• Available languages:
  • English English.

An army of malevolent little monsters take over a high-tech corporate skyscraper when a cute and intelligent exotic pet is exposed to water. The "Mogwai's" owner joins forces with the Trump-like head of the corporation to regain control.

  6.3

Into the Night

1985, USA

• Actors: Jeff Goldblum, Stacey Pickren, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dan Aykroyd, Carmen Argenziano, Andrew Marton, Sue Dugan, Robert Paynter, Elizabeth Solorzano, David Cronenberg, Robert Moberly, John Hostetter, Dick Balduzzi, Richard Franklin, Cal Worthington, Wes Dawn, Christopher George, Ali Madani, Michael Zand, Hadi Sadjadi, Beruce Gramian, John Landis, Hope Clarke, Eric Lee, Jake Steinfeld, Sue Bowser, Waldo Salt, Viola Kates Stimpson, Bruce McGill, Jon Stephen Fink
• Genre: Action, Drama, Comedy, Thriller
• Director(s): John Landis
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Ed Okin's life is somewhat out of control. He can't sleep, his wife betrays him and his job is dull. One night he starts to drive through Los Angeles and he finally ends in the parking garage of L.A. Airport. Moments later a beautiful young lady jumps onto his bonnet and he finds himself being chased by four Iranians. What follows is a wild chase through the streets of Los Angeles and a very funny one too.

  6.6

Eating Raoul

1981, USA

• Actors: Paul Bartel, Mary Woronov, Robert Beltran, Susan Saiger, Lynn Hobart, Richard Paul, Mark Woods, John Shearin, Darcy Pulliam, Ben Haller, Roberta Spero, Vernon Demetrius, Arlene Harris, Buster Wilson, Marta Fergusson, Garry Goodrow, Richard Blackburn, Hamilton Camp, Pamela Carter, Buck Henry, Anna Mathias, Hanns Manship, Dan Barrows, Allan Rich, Ed Begley Jr., Billy Curtis, Ralph Brannen, John Paragon, Don Steele, Rick Waln
• Genre: Comedy, Horror
• Director(s): Paul Bartel
• Available languages:
  • English English.

When a Paul enters his apartment to find Mary fighting off a swinger who has gotten into the wrong apartement (and thinks that Mary is just playing hard to get) he hits the man with a frying pan, killing him. Their dreams of running a small resturant seem to be in jeopardy until they decide to dispose of the body, keep the wallet, and to advertise for other sexually oriented visitors who are summarily killed, bagged, robbed and disposed of. This goes along quite well until one night a burglar named Raoul breaks in and cuts himself in for a piece of the action.

  6.7

Rock 'n' Roll High School

1979, USA

• Actors: P.J. Soles, Vincent Van Patten, Clint Howard, Dey Young, Mary Woronov, Paul Bartel, Dick Miller, Don Steele, Alix Elias, Loren Lester, Daniel Davies, Lynn Farrell, Herbie Braha, Grady Sutton, Chris Somma, Marla Rosenfield, Barbara Ann Grimes, Terry Soda, Joe Van Sickle, Joey Ramone, Johnny Ramone, Dee Dee Ramone, Marky Ramone, David N. Barber, Rodney Bingenheimer, Rob Bottin, Dinah Cancer, Ann Chatterton, Darby Crash, Sylvia Dante
• Genre: Comedy, Music
• Director(s): Allan Arkush
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Vince Lombardi High School keeps losing principals to nervous breakdowns because of the students' love of rock 'n' roll and their disregard of education. The putative leader of the students is Riff Randell, who loves the music of the Ramones. A new principal, the rock-music-hating Miss Evelyn Togar, is brought in and promises to put an end to the music craze. When Miss Togar and a group of parents attempt to burn a pile of rock records, the students take over the high school, joined by the Ramones, who are made honorary students. When the police are summoned and demand that the students evacuate the building, they do so, which leads to an explosive finale.

  5.7

Piranha

1978, USA

• Actors: Bradford Dillman, Heather Menzies, Kevin McCarthy, Keenan Wynn, Dick Miller, Barbara Steele, Belinda Balaski, Melody Thomas Scott, Bruce Gordon, Barry Brown, Paul Bartel, Shannon Collins, Shawn Nelson, Richard Deacon, Janie Squire, Roger Richman, Bill Smillie, Guich Koock, Jack Pauleson, Eric Henshaw, Robert Vinson, Virginia Dunnam, Hill Farnsworth, Bruce Paul Barbour, Robyn Ray, Mike Sullivan, Jack Cardwell, Sally Bondi, Eric Braeden, Joe Dante
• Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
• Director(s): Joe Dante
• Available languages:
  • English English.

When flesh-eating piranhas are accidently released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.