01-2024 every movie I watched this month
by glowinthedarkscars | created - 3 months ago | updated - 3 months ago | PublicMy Ratings System 01=terrible / turned off 02=poor / incompetent film making on every level 03=bad / ok production value but no entertainment value- boring 04=not good / has more faults than good points 05= ok I guess / did not hate it but would not watch again 06= Liked it / enjoyable - entertaining- story well told and acted 07= Really liked it / Happy that I watched- very entertaining 08= Loved it / the kind of movie you want to share with friends 09= Really loved it / pushed all the right buttons - repeat viewings 10= Masterpiece / must see for the film connoisseur
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1. Someone's Watching Me! (1978 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 97 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A woman is being watched in her apartment by a stranger, who also calls and torments her. A cat-and-mouse game begins.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Lauren Hutton, David Birney, Adrienne Barbeau, Charles Cyphers
Votes: 5,187
6.0 70's TV Movie - John Carpenter Directed. It was ok I guess.
2. Godzilla Minus One (2023)
PG-13 | 124 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
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.
Director: Takashi Yamazaki | Stars: Sakura Andô, Minami Hamabe, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Yuki Yamada
Votes: 59,688
10.0 Fantastic!
3. Message to My Daughter (1973 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 74 min | Drama
A confused teenager discovers a stack of tapes recorded years earlier by her dying mother.
Director: Robert Michael Lewis | Stars: Bonnie Bedelia, Kitty Winn, Neva Patterson, Mark Slade
Votes: 140
7.0 70's TV Movie. I enjoyed it . Kitty Winn was awesome.. This movie made me watch Panic in Needle Park
4. Konga (1961)
Unrated | 90 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Dr.Decker comes back from Africa. During one year, he came across a way of growing plants and animals to an enormous size. He brings back a baby chimpanzee and he decides to use his chimp, 'Konga' to 'get rid of them'.
Director: John Lemont | Stars: Michael Gough, Margo Johns, Jess Conrad, Claire Gordon
Votes: 2,165
6.0 - Campy but in an entertaining man in an ape suit kind of way.
5. Captured Mother and Daughter: She Beast (1987)
75 min | Drama
Chizuru, a Japanese high-school girl witnesses the suicide of her close friend and the indifference of her classmates to the bloody spectacle. Later, she walks in on a gang of thugs raping ... See full summary »
Director: Nobuyuki Saitô | Stars: Asako Maekawa, Yoshihiro Katô, Yudo Yoshikawa, Yûko Chiba
Votes: 57
5.0 Pinky Violence - mostly boring - Hahako kankin: Mesu
6. The Panic in Needle Park (1971)
PG | 110 min | Drama
Follows the lives of heroin addicts who frequent "Needle Park" in New York City.
Director: Jerry Schatzberg | Stars: Al Pacino, Kitty Winn, Alan Vint, Richard Bright
Votes: 20,232
8.0 Drugs Drugs Drugs - This is the movie that helped Al Pacino get his part in The Godfather. Spoiler alert = They killed the dog.
7. Summer of Fear (1978 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 98 min | Horror, Thriller
A teenage girl's life is turned upside down after her cousin moves into her house, and as time goes by she begins to suspect that she may be a practitioner of witchcraft.
Director: Wes Craven | Stars: Linda Blair, Lee Purcell, Jeremy Slate, Jeff McCracken
Votes: 3,014
7.0 70's TV Movie - Wes Craven Directed. Has Linda Blair in it but Lee Purcell is the reason you wanna watch this one. She should have gone on to better things!
8. Forever (1978 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Romance
A made-for-TV movie based on Judy Blume's novel Forever.
Director: John Korty | Stars: Stephanie Zimbalist, Dean Butler, John Friedrich, Beth Raines
Votes: 106
8.0 70's TV Movie - Story by Judy Blume - Great soundtrack too .. ahhh Young Love - Coming of age story - Loved it!
9. Better Late Than Never (1979 TV Movie)
120 min | Comedy, Drama
Harry Landers is a feisty senior citizen who refuses to abide by the rules in a stodgy retirement home run by a dour Ms. Davis, in which Harry leads a revolt by the other goated senior citizen residents against the establishment.
Director: Richard Crenna | Stars: Harold Gould, Strother Martin, Tyne Daly, Harry Morgan
Votes: 76
5.0 70's TV Movie - Precursor to Cocoon - Had potential but went nowhere. I did not laugh. I did not smile.
10. Shake Hands with the Devil (1959)
Approved | 111 min | Action, Drama, History
In 1920s Ireland, I.R.A. members are being led by the war mongering Dr. Sean Lenihan (James Cagney), as they fight oppressive British forces.
Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: James Cagney, Don Murray, Dana Wynter, Glynis Johns
Votes: 1,525
7.0 James Cagney Stars! loved it!
11. The Adventures of Hajji Baba (1954)
Passed | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
In Ispahan, Persia, a barber mistakes an emerald ring as the prize to be delivered to a prince known far and wide, only to realize that a runaway Princess is the real treasure awaited, promising to escort her to her final destination.
Director: Don Weis | Stars: John Derek, Elaine Stewart, Thomas Gomez, Amanda Blake
Votes: 666
7.0 Surprisingly good! Story was strong!
12. The Debut (1977)
94 min | Drama, Romance
The delicate story of the impossible love between an older married man and a fourteen-year old schoolgirl.
Director: Nouchka van Brakel | Stars: Marina de Graaf, Gerard Cox, Pleuni Touw, Kitty Courbois
Votes: 522
7.0 Dutch Treat - Sexual awakening in a May December romance . He's 41 and she's 14 - Sounds fucked up right? I laughed when one her friends called her an "old guy fucker" - tastefully done and yet still exploitive.
13. The Odessa File (1974)
PG | 130 min | Drama, Thriller
Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, a journalist in possession of the man's diary investigates the alleged sighting of a former S.S. Captain, who commanded a concentration camp during World War II.
Director: Ronald Neame | Stars: Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell, Mary Tamm
Votes: 12,082 | Gross: $1.11M
7.0 John Voight stars - Great Nazi Spy Thriller!
14. I... For Icarus (1979)
120 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Conspiracy thriller inspired by the conspiracy theories surrounding the assassination of JFK. After a fictional president is assassinated, a determined, tough prosecutor investigates the emerging conspiracy behind it.
Director: Henri Verneuil | Stars: Yves Montand, Michel Albertini, Roland Amstutz, Jean-Pierre Bagot
Votes: 4,572
7.0 French version of the JFK assassination - Pretty Good Thriller!
15. History Is Made at Night (1937)
Passed | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A wealthy divorcée falls for a charming Parisian, but her insanely jealous ex-husband will do anything to get her back.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Charles Boyer, Jean Arthur, Leo Carrillo, Colin Clive
Votes: 2,497
8.0 This movie started me down a rabbit hole of Jean Arthur's other movies - This is a good tear jerker romance - I got misty.
16. Little Miss Marker (1934)
Passed | 80 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Bookie Sorrowful Jones receives a little girl as an IOU.
Director: Alexander Hall | Stars: Adolphe Menjou, Dorothy Dell, Charles Bickford, Shirley Temple
Votes: 1,393
7.0 Love me some Shirley Temple - So adorable!
17. Percy (1971)
R | 103 min | Comedy
Edwin Antony (Hywel Bennett) is emasculated in an accident which kills a young philanderer. Doctors successfully replace his member with that of the dead man, but refuse to tell him the ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Thomas | Stars: Hywel Bennett, Denholm Elliott, Cyd Hayman, Julia Foster
Votes: 470
5.0 It's a movie about the first penis transplant . Takes place in Swingin' London - The Kinks soundtrack is great.. but the story is ridiculously stupid.
18. The Actress (1953)
Passed | 90 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
This is an account of the real life experience of actress/playwright Ruth Gordon.
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Jean Simmons, Teresa Wright, Anthony Perkins
Votes: 1,506
6.0 Ruth Gordon wrote this and that is what makes it enjoyable.
19. The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (1936)
Passed | 82 min | Comedy, Mystery
A wealthy mystery writer uses her doctor ex-husband's non-payment of alimony to coerce him into a reconciliation.
Director: Stephen Roberts | Stars: William Powell, Jean Arthur, James Gleason, Eric Blore
Votes: 2,198
7.0 Murder Mystery with the Thin man - Jean Arthur is great!
20. Adventure in Manhattan (1936)
Passed | 73 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
A reporter meets an actress whose producer is a presumed-dead thief, and stakes his reputation on predicting the next crime.
Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Reginald Owen, Thomas Mitchell
Votes: 842
7.0 Jean Arthur Stars - Crime Mystery Comedy- loved it!
21. More Than a Secretary (1936)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Romance
When the co-owner of a secretarial school visits a magazine editor to find out why he runs through secretaries, she's mistaken for an applicant. Drawn to him, she accepts the position.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Jean Arthur, George Brent, Lionel Stander, Ruth Donnelly
Votes: 652
7.0 Jean Arthur stars - so easy on the eyes!
22. A Lady Takes a Chance (1943)
Passed | 86 min | Comedy, Romance, Western
Facing forty, a NYC spinster on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her unsuitable city suitors.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Jean Arthur, John Wayne, Charles Winninger, Phil Silvers
Votes: 1,458
8.0 Jean Arthur & John Wayne in a Romantic Western Comedy.. You had me at Jean Arthur!
23. Raintree County (1957)
Approved | 182 min | Drama, Romance, War
A student falls in love with a Southern belle, but their relationship is complicated by her troubled past and the onset of the Civil War.
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Marie Saint, Nigel Patrick
Votes: 4,294
5.0 young Liz Taylor & Montgomery Clift.. What could go wrong? well.. lots of things.. Movie is guilty of trying too hard.. everything feels forced and Unnatural.
24. Most Precious Thing in Life (1934)
Approved | 67 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
The Most Precious Thing in Life is a 1934 American film directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Richard Cromwell, Jean Arthur, Donald Cook, Anita Louise, and Mary Forbes. The film tells a ... See full summary »
Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Jean Arthur, Donald Cook, Richard Cromwell, Anita Louise
Votes: 130
6.0 Jean Arthur - It was sappy but I liked it!
25. Godzilla Minus One (2023)
PG-13 | 124 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
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.
Director: Takashi Yamazaki | Stars: Sakura Andô, Minami Hamabe, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Yuki Yamada
Votes: 59,688
10.0 + Godzilla -1 -color - In Black and White on the big screen. It's a love story.. It's a story about redemption.. and it has Godzilla going freaking nuclear!! Holy Shit!!
26. Arizona (1940)
Passed | 125 min | Drama, Western
In Tucson of the 1860s, a pioneer woman struggles to succeed in the freight and cattle business while at risk at the hands of corrupt and violent local businessmen and rampaging Indians.
Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Jean Arthur, William Holden, Warren William, Porter Hall
Votes: 1,491
8.0 Jean Arthur and a young William Holden who I didn't even recognize.. William Warren is fantastic as the Bad Guy.. Is there any role Jean Arthur couldn't play.. Don't miss this one - if you get the chance!
27. Too Many Husbands (1940)
Passed | 81 min | Comedy, Romance
Long-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky remarried...and in no hurry to settle for just one husband.
Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Jean Arthur, Fred MacMurray, Melvyn Douglas, Harry Davenport
Votes: 1,698
5.0 Fucking Fred MacMurray stinking up the screen . and the story is beyond corny.. but it has Jean Arthur in it so I'll shut up complaining.
28. Party Wire (1935)
Approved | 69 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Story of a small-town girl victimized by her gossiping neighbors.
Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Jean Arthur, Victor Jory, Helen Lowell, Robert Allen
Votes: 463
6.0 High Tech drama for the the 1930s - Jean Arthur Stars!
29. The Impatient Years (1944)
Approved | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
To rekindle their love, a divorce judge orders a couple whose marriage is on the rocks to re-enact their four-day breakneck courtship.
Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Jean Arthur, Lee Bowman, Charles Coburn, Edgar Buchanan
Votes: 434
7.0 Jean Arthur Stars - Romantic Comedies - I'm a sucker for them.
30. The Transformers: The Movie (1986)
PG | 84 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
The Autobots must stop a colossal planet consuming robot who goes after the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. At the same time, they must defend themselves against an all-out attack from the Decepticons.
Director: Nelson Shin | Stars: Orson Welles, Robert Stack, Leonard Nimoy, Norman Alden
Votes: 41,964 | Gross: $5.85M
4.0 started but couldn't get into it.. not my cup of tea.
31. All Monsters Attack (1969)
G | 70 min | Action, Adventure, Family
A latchkey child living in the industrial city of Kawasaki confronts his loneliness through his escapist dreams of Monster Island and friendship with Minilla.
Directors: Ishirô Honda, Jun Fukuda, Kengo Furusawa | Stars: Kenji Sahara, Machiko Naka, Tomonori Yazaki, Hideyo Amamoto
Votes: 5,498
4.0 Godzilla needed a bigger role in this one.
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