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Films on this page:

Habitat, Hair, HairBrained, Hairspray, Hairspray (2007), Half Baked, The Half of It, Halloween, Halloween 4, Halloween Heroes, Ham On Rye, The Hamiltons, The Happening, Happy Birthday, Happy Campers, Happy Gilmore, Happy Log, Harriet the Spy: Blog Wars, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, A Haunted House 2, The Haunting in Connecticut, The Haunting of Seacliff Inn, Heart of the Beholder, Hearts in Atlantis, Heaven Sent, The Heavenly Kid, Hell High, Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II, Hellphone, Hide and Go Shriek, High School Musical 3, High School U.S.A., Hijacking Hollywood, The History of Love, A History of Violence, The Hitman, Home Invasion, A Home of Our Own, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Hoosiers, Horrible Bosses, The Horror Show, Hostage, Hotel for Dogs, House Arrest, House II, House of D, The House of Tomorrow, House of Wax, The House with A Clock In Its Walls, How To Be, How To Be a Man, How To Beat A Bully, How to Deal, Humboldt County.

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Habitat cover

1 chucks rating
PG

Habitat. (1997) Balthazar Getty, Tchéky Karyo, Alice Krige, Kenneth Welsh, Laura Harris, Brad Austin, Mathew Mackay, Christopher Heyerdahl, Kristen Holden-Ried. Written and directed by Rene Daalder. In a future world where Earth’s ozone layer has been completely destroyed, a brilliant but obsessed scientist, Hank Symes uses illegally obtained biological materials for an experiment that he hopes will save the world. In the course of his work, a terrible accident occurs, transforming him into a fantastic otherworldly lifeform and changing his house into a huge living entity which threatens all who enter.

Categories: Drama, Science Fiction.

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Hair cover

2.5 chucks rating
PG

Hair. (1988) Treat Williams, John Savage, Beverly D’Angelo, Annie Golden, Dorsey Wright, Don Dacus, Cheryl Barnes. Directed by Milos Forman. This filmed version of the groundbreaking Broadway musical about the protest movement in the sixties is the story of Claude Bukowski, a farm boy from the country who comes to New York City to be inducted into the army. His adventures begin when he runs into a hippie “happening” in Central Park, falls in love with Sheila, a beautiful free-spirited girl, and is befriended by Berger, the hippies pacifist leader.

Categories: Drama, Musical.

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Hair Brained cover

2.5 chucks rating
PG-13

HairBrained. (2013) Alex Wolff, Brendan Frazier, Julia Garner, Michael Oberholtzer, Greta Lee. Directed by Billy Kent. When 14-year old genius Eli Pettifog is rejected from Harvard, he ends up at third rate Whittman College. His roommate is 41-year-old freshman Leo Searly, a washed up gambler who enrolled at the college to escape the real world. But Leo and Eli become friends and Eli gets his revenge against the Ivy League colleges by going after them one by one in a Collegiate Mastermind tournament.

Category: Comedy.

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Hairspray cover

2 chucks rating

PG

Hairspray. (1988) Divine, Sonny Bono, Ruth Brown, Deborah Harry, Ricki Lake, Clayton Prince, Leslie Ann Howard, Pia Zadora, Jerry Stiller. Directed by John Waters. It’s 1962, and Tracy Turnblad has the biggest boufant on her block and all the right moves to be a star on Baltimore’s local dance show. But Tracy’s blue collar background, looks, and desire to include everyone doesn’t sit well with the all-white in crowd that has been controlling who appears on the show.

Categories: Comedy, Teenagers.

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Hairspray cover

3 chucksrating

PG

Hairspray. (2007) Nikki Blonsky, John Travolta, Amanda Bynes, Christopher Walken, Queen Latifa, Michelle Pfeiffer, James Marsden, Zac Efron, Elijah Kelley. Directed by Adam Shankman. Pleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad teaches 1962 Baltimore a thing or two about integration after landing a spot on a local TV dance show.

Categories: Comedy, Drama, Musical.

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Half Baked cover

2 chucks rating

R

Half Baked. (1998) Dave Chappelle, Guillermo Díaz, Jim Breuer, Harland Williams, Rachel True, Clarence Williams III, Laura Silverman, Tommy Chong. Directed by Tamra Davis. The story of three not so bright men who come up with a series of crazy schemes to get a friend out of jail.

Categories: Comedy, Crime.

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The Half of It cover

3 chucksrating

PG-13

The Half of It. (2020) Leah Lewis, Daniel Diemer, Alexxis Lemire, Wolfgang Novogratz, Collin Chou, Becky Ann Baker. Written and directed by Alice Wu. When smart but cash-strapped teen Ellie Chu agrees to write a love letter for a jock, she doesn't expect to become his friend — or fall for his crush.

Categories: Comedy, Romance.

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Halloween cover

2.5 chucks rating
R

Halloween. (2007) Malcolm McDowell, Brad Dourif, Scout Taylor-Compton, Daeg Faerch, Tyler Mane, Clint Howard, Sheri Moon Zombie, Skyler Gisondo, Adam Weisman. Written and directed by Rob Zombie. This is a remake of the original John Carpenter Halloween film. The retelling of the slasher story includes a chilling new introduction that finally reveals the secrets behind Michael Myer’s disturbing childhood.

Category: Horror.

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Halloween 4 cover

1.5 chucks rating
R

Halloween 4. (1988) Donald Pleasance, Ellie Cornell, Danielle Harris, Beau Starr, George P. Wilbur, Sasha Jenson. Directed by Dwight H. Little. Ten years after his original massacre, Michael Myers awakens and returns to Haddonfield to kill his seven-year-old niece on Halloween. Can Dr. Loomis stop him?

Category: Horror.

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Halloween Heroes cover

1.5 chucks rating
NR

Halloween Heroes. (2021) Brayden Lacer, Joseph Moreland, Richie Acevedo, James Dickey, Ella Kate Brown, Bobby Lacer, Kylynn Ellenburg, Ryleigh Elizabeth Jordan, Tyler May, Kaylee Kennedy. Written and directed by Jason Campbell. When a group of teens from Henderson Middle School become magically infused with the powers of their Halloween costumes, they band together to investigate several local spooky legends.

Categories: Religious, Family.

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Ham On Rye cover

2.5 chucks rating

TV-14

Ham On Rye. (2019) Haley Bodell, Audrey Boos, Gabriella Herrera, David Croley Broyles, Adam Torres, Luke Darga, Sam Hernandez, Blake Borders, Cole Devine, Timothy Taylor, Gregory Faalatek. Written and directed by Tyler Taormina. A bizarre rite of passage at the local deli determines the fate of a generation of teenagers, leading some to escape their suburban town and dooming others to remain.

Categories: Comedy, Drama.

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The Hamiltons cover

2 chucks rating

R

The Hamiltons. (2006) Cory Knauf, Samuel Child, Joseph McKelheer, Mackenzie Firgens, Rebekah Hoyle, Brittany Daniel, Al Liner, Jena Hunt, Tara Glass, Jenna Smith. Written and directed by the Butcher Brothers. The older brothers and sister of a seemingly ordinary family recovering from the death of their parents turns out to have a dark and deadly secret. Francis, the youngest member has a dilemma — will he reveal what’s going on or stay loyal to his brothers and sister.

Category: Horror.

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The Happening cover

1.5 chucks rating
R

The Happening. (2008) Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, John Leguizamo, Ashlyn Sanchez, Betty Buckley, Spencer Breslin, Robert Bailey Jr. Written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Suddenly and inexplicably, the behavior of everyone in Central Park in New York City changes in a most bizarre and horrible way — they all become suicidal and kill themselves. As the strange behavior spreads throughout the city and beyond, science teacher Elliot, his wife, Alma, and Jess, the young daughter of a friend, flee the city to escape the weird force of nature.

Categories: Science Fiction/Fantasy, Action/Adventure.

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Happy Birthday cover

2.5 chucks rating
R

Happy Birthday. (2016) Matt Bush, Riley Litman, Tristin Mays, Britne Oldford, Vanessa Lengies, Matthew Willig, Robert Miano, Steven Tyler. Written and directed by Casey Tebo. When two friends embark on a journey to Mexicali for a birthday celebration, things take a dark turn after they take drugs and find themselves kidnapped and held for ransom.

Categories: Drama, Horror.

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Happy Campers cover

1.5 chucks rating
R

Happy Campers. (2001) Brad Renfro, Dominique Swain, Keram Malicki-Sánchez, Emily Bergl, Jordan Bridges, Justin Long, Jaime King, Peter Stormare. Written and directed by Daniel Waters. When the only adult camp counselor is struck by lightning, seven hormone-filled college counselors are left in charge of a summer camp full of high maintenance kids.

Categories: Comedy, Teenagers.

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Happy Gilmore cover

2.5 chucks rating

PG

Happy Gilmore. (1996) Adam Sandler, Christopher McDonald, Julie Bowen, Frances Bay Carl Weathers, Jared van Snellenberg, Allen Covert, Kevin Nealon. Directed by Dennis Duggan. Happy Gilmore, a failed hockey player discovers that his hockey slap shot transfers to a 400 yard tee shot on the golf course. When his grandmother loses her house to the IRS, Happy decides to earn the house back by competing on the professional golf circuit.

Categories: Comedy, Sports.

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Happy Log cover

2 chucks rating

NR

Happy Log. (2016) Caleb Meadows, Brock Patrick Kaufman, Jim Tabor, Brian Matney, Billy DeVille, Ladson Deyne, BreAnn DuCote, Bowie Hamilton, Valora McCrea. Written and directed by Gary R. Thiesman. In 1959, two 12-year-old best friends from Mississippi Bayou country go on their on their first overnight fishing trip out in the wild on the Wolf River. The boys get into trouble when a mob hitman out to collect unpaid gambling debts and his prisoner he is threatening to kill, a local man known to the boys, stumble into their campsite.

Categories: Adventure, Crime and Mystery.

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Harriet The Spy: Blog Wars cover

2.5 chucks rating
PG

Harriet The Spy: Blog Wars. (2010) Jennifer Stone, Kristen Booth, Wesley Morgan, Doug Murray, Shauna MacDonald, Jason Bucker, Jayne Eastwood. Directed by Ron Oliver. Aspiring writer Harriet Welsch is determined to become class blogger. But her nemesis Marion Hawthorne is competing against her. When her movie producer father signs teenaged heartthrob Skander Hill to star in a film, Harriet now has access to the perfect subject for her blog. But things don’t work out the way Harriet expects.

Category: Comedy.

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince cover

3 chucksrating

PG-13

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. (2009) Daniel Radcliff, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Jim Broadbent, Geraldine Somerville, Bonnie Wright, Julie Walters Brandon Gleason, Gary Oldman, Maggie Smith, Robbie Coltrane, Michael Gambon. Directed by David Yates. As Harry Potter begins his 6th year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, he discovers an old book marked mysteriously “This book is the property of the Half-Blood Prince” and begins to learn more about Lord Voldemort’s dark past.

Categories: Action/Adventure, Science Fiction/Fantasy.

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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix cover

4 chucks rating
PG-13

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. (2007) Daniel Radcliff, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Imelda Staunton, Evanna Lynch, Ralph Fiennes, Brandon Gleason, Gary Oldman, Maggie Smith, Robbie Coltrane, Michael Gambon. Directed by David Yates. With their warning about Lord Voldemort’s return scoffed at, Harry and Dumbledore are targeted by the Wizard authorities as an authoritarian bureaucrat slowly seizes power at Hogwarts.

Categories: Action/Adventure, Science Fiction/Fantasy.

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A Haunted House 2 cover

1.5 chucks rating
R

A Haunted House 2. (2014) Marlon Wayans, Jaime Pressly, Cedric the Entertainer, Essence Atkins, Gabriel Iglesias, Missi Pyle, Ashley Rickards, Affion Crockett. Directed by Michael Tiddes. Having exorcised the demons of his ex, Malcolm is starting fresh with his new girlfriend and her two children. After moving into their dream home, however, Malcolm is once again plagued by bizarre paranormal events.

Categories: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror.

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The Haunting in Connecticut cover

2.5 chucks rating
PG-13

The Haunting in Connecticut. (2009) Kyle Gallner, Virginia Madsen, Martin Donovan, Amanda Crew, Elias Koteas. Directed by Peter Cornwell. After a family is forced to relocate for their son’s health, they begin experiencing supernatural behavior in their new home, which turns out to be a former mortuary and the site of unspeakable crimes.

Categories: Drama, Horror.

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The Haunting of Seacliff Inn cover

2 chucks rating

PG-13

The Haunting of Seacliff Inn. (1994) Ally Sheedy, William R. Moses, Lucinda Weist, Tom McCleister, Shannon Cochran, Louise Fletcher. Directed by Walter Klenhard. Susan and Mark Enright buy an old Victorian home on the northern California coast and plan to open a bed and breakfast while mending their troubled marriage. But things go awry when Susan starts seeing apparitions in the house luring her to the brink of madness.

Categories: Drama, Mystery, Fantasy.

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Heart of the Beholder cover

3 chucksrating

R

Heart of the Beholder. (2005) Barbara Allyne-Bennet, Carrie Armstrong, Conrad Bachmann, Priscilla Barnes, April Barnett, Roseanne Benjamin, Sarah Brown, Katelin Chesna Henke, Samantha Coker, Stella Croxon, Chloe Moretz. Written and directed by Ken Tipton. A St. Louis family is prosecuted for refusing to remove Martin Scorsese’s controversial film, The Last Temptation of Christ, from their videocassette rental stores.

Categories: Drama.

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Hearts in Atlantis cover

3 chucksrating

PG-13

Hearts in Atlantis. (2001) Anthony Hopkins, Anton Yelchin, Hope Davis, Mika Boorem, David Morse, Alan Tudyk, Tom Bower, Celia Weston, Adam LeFevre, Will Rothhaar, Timothy Reifsnyder. Directed by Scott Hicks. Bobby Garfield, an aging man reflects on his life at age 11 in a summer that changed his life and that of his two best friends, Carol and Sully. Into their lives comes a mysterious new boarder with psychic powers, who befriends Bobby but generates distrust from his mother.

Categories: Drama, Mystery, Coming of Age.

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Heaven Sent cover

3 chucksrating

PG

Heaven Sent. (1994) David Bowe, Wilford Brimley, Vincent Kartheiser, Geoffrey Lower, Mary Beth McDonough. Directed by Craig Clyde. Eddie Chandler is a young kid who has been hanging out with the wrong crowd against the wishes of his single mom His life goes under dramatic change when he commits a petty crime and is seriously injured by a car while fleeing the scene. Mistakenly brought to heaven by a novice angel, he gets a second chance to turn his life around when he is returned to earth under the guidance of the angel. But his real test comes when his mom suddenly faces grave danger.

Categories: Drama, Family.

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The Heavenly Kid cover

2.5 chucks rating
PG-13

The Heavenly Kid. (1985) Jason Gedrick, Lewis Smith, Jane Kaczmarek, Richard Mulligan. Directed by Carey Medoway. Nerdish bullied Lenny Barnes gets divine intervention to educate him in the ways of love from an angel who needs to earn his way into heaven.

Categories: Comedy, Fantasy, Teenagers

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Hell High cover

1 chucks rating
R

Hell High. (1986) Jason Brill, Christopher Cousins, Maureen Mooney, Millie Prezioso, Karen Russell, Christopher Stryker. Directed by Douglas Grossman. A group of four “misfit” teenagers decide to harass a new teacher at their school, but things go a wrong and they accidentally kill her. Only she isn’t really dead but has turned into a murderous zombie who goes after the misfits, one by one.

Category: Horror

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Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II cover.

2.5 chucks rating
R

Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II. (1987) Michael Ironside, Wendy Lyon, Justin Louis, Lisa Schrage, Richard Monette, Terri Hawkes, Brock Simpson, Judy Mahbey, Wendell Smith. Directed by Bill Pittman. Twenty years after being accidentally burned to death at her prom, the evil spirit of Mary Lou Maloney possesses a young girl in order to get revenge and be prom queen regardless of who stands in her way.

Category: Horror.

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Hellphone cover

3 chucksrating

R

Hellphone. (2007) Jean-Baptiste Maunier, Jennifer Decker, Benjamin Jungers, Vladimir Consigny, Edouard Collin, Baptiste Caillaud, Anaïs Demoustier, Judith Chemla, Quentin Grosset, Géraldine Martineau, Donna Baltron. Written and directed by James Muth. Sid and Pierre, a teenager and his best friend living in Paris who are viewed as losers by others, find their lives are radically changed when Sid acquires a cellphone which he discovers has special powers to influence events and attract the pretty high school girl he is in love with.

Categories: Horror, Comedy, Coming of Age

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Hide and Go Shriek cover

1 chucks rating
R

Hide and Go Shriek. (1988) Brittain Frye, Donna Baltron, George Thomas, Ria Pavia, Rebunkah Jones, Annette Sinclair. Directed by Skip Schoolnik. Eight teenagers sneak into a furniture warehouse for an all night graduation party. A game of hide-and-seek turns into a grisly nightmare as a murderous night watchman starts to pick off the members of the group.

Category: Horror

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High School Musical 3: Senior Year cover

3 chucksrating

G

High School Musical 3: Senior Year. (2008) Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Grabeel, Corbin Bleu, Monique Coleman, Olesya Rulin, Chris Warren Jr, Ryne Sanborn, KayCee Stroh, Bart Johnson. Directed by Kenny Ortega. As seniors in high school, Troy and Gabriella struggle with the idea of being separated from one another as college approaches. Along with the rest of the Wildcats, they stage a spring musical to address their experiences, hopes and fears about their future.

Categories: Drama, Musical.

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High School U.S.A. cover

3 chucksrating

NR,

would be PG

High School U.S.A. (1983) Michael J. Fox, Anthony Edwards, Nancy McKeon, Todd Bridges, Lauri Hendler, Dana Plato, Bob Denver, Tony Dow, Angela Cartwright, Dwayne Hickman, Tom Villard, Michael Zorek, Crystal Bernard and Crispin Glover. Directed by Rod Amateau. The “haves”, led by preppy jock aristocrat Beau Middleton, and the “have nots”, led by class clown Jay Jay Manners, go at each other with a series of pranks designed to turn the head of the school’s beautiful prom queen in this comedy about the social structure at a midwestern high school.

Categories: Comedy, Teenagers.

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Hijacking Hollywood cover

3 chucksrating

R

Hijacking Hollywood. (1997) Henry Thomas, Scott Thompson, Mark Metcalf, Neil Mundt, Nicole Gann, Helen Duffy, Paul Hewitt, Art LeFleur. Directed by Neil Mundt. A newly-hired production assistant for the upcoming blockbuster Moby Dick 2 puts up with daily abuse from the psychotic producer and his equally crazy production coordinator as he learns about the business from the ground up. Things change when his roommate devises a scheme to steal the reels of the film’s super expensive special effects scenes and hold them for ransom.

Category: Comedy.

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The History of Love cover.

2.5 chucks rating
NR

The History of Love. (2016) Sophie Nélisse, Gemma Arterton, Derek Jacobi, Elliott Gould, Torri Higginson, Jamie Bloch, Alex Ozerov-Meyer, Mark Rendall, Masa Lizdek, Julian Bailey, Scott Eliasoph, William Ainscough. Written and directed by Radu Mihaileanu. The story of a long-lost book that mysteriously reappears and connects an old man searching for his son with a girl seeking a cure for her mother's loneliness.

Categories: Drama, Romance.

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A History of Violence cover

3.5 chucks rating

R

A History of Violence. (2005) Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, Ed Harris, Ashton Holmes, William Hurt, Peter MacNeill, Heidi Hayes. Directed by David Cronenberg. A small town family is thrust into the spotlight after Tom Stahl, the father, is declared a hero in the media after taking out two thugs trying to rob and kill the employees at his diner. Later when some mobsters from Philadelphia appear at the diner and say they know Tom under another name, his family and the sheriff begin to wonder if Tom is really who he says he is.

Categories: Crime and Mystery, Drama, Action/Adventure, Sexually Explicit.

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The Hitman cover

2.5 chucks rating
R

The Hitman. (1991) Chuck Norris, Michael Parks, Al Waxman, Alberta Watson, Salim Grant, Ken Pogue. Directed by Aaron Norris. Cliff Garret, a good cop betrayed and left for dead by his crooked partner, manages to survive and vows to get revenge at any cost. He does so by going undercover as a ruthless hitman, infiltrating the mob underworld to pursue his ex-partner and those who hired him.

Categories: Action/Adventure.

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home invasion cover

2 chucks rating

PG-13

Home Invasion. (2016) Jason Patric, Natasha Henstridge, Liam Dickinson, Scott Adkins, Kyra Zagorsky. Directed by David Tenant. When a wealthy woman and her stepson are targeted by a trio of expert thieves in their remote mansion, her only form of help comes from a call with a security systems specialist.

Categories: Action/Adventure, Crime.

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A Home of Our Own cover

3 chucksrating

PG

A Home of Our Own. (1993) Kathy Bates, Edward Furlong, Clarissa Lassig, Sarah Schaub, Miles Feulner, Amy Sakasitz, T. J. Lowther, Soon-Tek Oh. Directed by Tony Bill. Feisty and independent Frances Lacey is determined to turn bad times into good. Abandoned by her husband, fed up with her supervisor’s harassment, worried about her oldest son’s increasing delinquency, and tired of Los Angeles, she packs her six kids into a rundown car and heads east to a small town in Idaho. Finding a partially built but now abandoned farm house, she persuades the owner to let her stay and renovate the place in exchange for work as she pursues the difficult task of raising her kids and going after the American dream on a shoestring.

Categories: Drama, Family.

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Honey, I Shrunk the Kids cover

3 chucksrating

PG

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. (1989) Rick Moranis, Robert Oliveri, Matt Frewer, Marcia Strassman, Kristine Sutherland, Thomas Wilson Brown, Jared Rushton, Amy O’Neill. Directed by Joe Johnston. A preoccupied inventor accidentally shrinks his kids down to 1/4-inch tall and tosses them out in the trash. Now the kids face incredible dangers as they try to make their way home through the jungle of their own backyard!.

Categories: Comedy, Family, Science Fiction/Fantasy.

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Hoosiers cover

4 chucks rating
PG

Hoosiers. (1986) Gene Hackman, Dennis Hopper, Barbara Hershey, Brad Doyle, Steve Hollar, Brad Long, David Neidorf, Kent Poole, Wade Schenck, Scott Summers, Maris Valainis. Directed by David Anspaugh. This classic story of a small town basketball team that comes from nowhere to the state finals is considered by some critics to be the best sports film ever made. This film is worth a look just to return to the days when teams were defined by their black or white Chuck Taylor high tops.

Categories: Drama, Sports.

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Horrible Bosses cover

2 chucks rating

R

Horrible Bosses. (2011) Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis, Jennifer Aniston, Colin Farrell, Kevin Spacey, Jamie Foxx. Directed by Seth Gordon. Three friends conspire to murder their awful bosses when they realize they are standing in the way of their happiness.

Categories: Comedy, Crime and Mystery.

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The Horror Show cover

2 chucks rating

R

The Horror Show. (1989) Lance Henriksen, Brion James, Rita Taggart, Dedee Pfeiffer, Aron Eisenberg, Thom Bray. Directed by James Isaac. A serial killer is placed in an electric chair for execution, but instead of dying he becomes a supernatural evil force. His first goal, get revenge on the cop who put him there.

Categories: Horror, Crime and Mystery.

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Hostage cover

3 chucksrating

R

Hostage. (2005) Bruce Willis, Kevin Pollak, Jimmy Bennett, Michelle Horn, Ben Foster, Jonathan Tucker, Marshall Allman, Serena Scott Thomas, Rumer Willis. Directed by Florent Siri. Jeff Talley, a failed police hostage negotiator now a police chief in a small California town, must save the lives of a local family held hostage. But the situation turns out to be more complex than it initially seems, and the chief’s family also are taken hostage, forcing Talley to use every skill and trick that he knows to try and save them.

Categories: Drama, Action/Adventure, Crime and Mystery.

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Hotel for Dogs cover

3 chucksrating

PG

Hotel for Dogs. (2009) Emma Roberts, Jake T. Austin, Don Cheadle, Johnny Simmons, Kyla Pratt, Troy Gentile, Lisa Kudrow, Kevin Dillon. Directed by Thor Freudenthal. Two orphaned foster kids not allowed to keep their pet dog secretly take in stray dogs at a vacant hotel.

Categories: Comedy, Family.

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House Arrest cover

2.5 chucks rating
PG

House Arrest. (1996) Kyle Howard, Russel Harper, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Pollak, Amy Sakasitz, Wallace Shaun, Jennifer Love Hewitt. Directed by Harry Winer. High schooler Grover Beindorf and his younger sister Stacy, desperate to keep their parents from getting a divorce, hold them prisoner in the basement in order to force them to reconcile. When the neighborhood kids hear about it, they think it’s a great idea, and soon the Beindorf basement is filled with parents.

Categories: Comedy, Family.

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House II: The Second Story cover

2 chucks rating

PG-13

House II: The Second Story. (1987) Arye Gross, Jonathan Stark, Royal Dano, Bill Maher, John Ratzenberger, Lar Park-Lincoln, Amy Yasbeck. Written and directed by Ethan Wiley. Jesse and his girlfriend inherit a mysterious family mansion and soon discover that his 170-year-old great great grandfather has been brought back from the dead by the supernatural powers of an ancient Aztec skull.

Categories: Horror, Fantasy, Comedy.

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House of D cover

2.5 chucks rating
PG-13

House of D. (2004) Anton Yelchin, Robin Williams, Téa Leoni, Erykah Badu, David Duchovny, Frank Langella, Zelda Williams, Magali Amadei, Olga Sosnovska, Harold Cartier. Written and directed by David Duchovny. To reconcile with his 13-year-old son and estranged wife, Tom Warshaw, an American artist living in Paris, revisits the events and people who changed his life back in Grenwich Village, New York in 1973.

Categories: Drama, Coming of Age, Family.

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The House of Tomorrow cover

3 chucksrating

NR

The House of Tomorrow. (2017) Asa Butterfield, Alex Wolff, Maude Apatow, Nick Offerman, Ellen Burstyn. Directed by Peter Livoisi. Sebastian, a shy home-schooled teenager living in domed house and shrine to Buckminster Fuller has his life changed when he meets up with iconoclastic Jared who encourages him to become a punk rocker.

Categories: Comedy, Teenagers.

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House of Wax cover

2 chucks rating

R

House of Wax. (2005) Elisha Cuthbert, Chad Michael Murray, Brian Van Holt, Paris Hilton, Jared Padalecki, Jon Abrahams, Robert Ri’chard, Dragicia Debert. Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra. A group of friends on their way to a college football game falls prey to a pair of murderous brothers in an abandoned small town. They discover that the brothers have expanded upon the area’s main attraction, the House of Wax, and created an entire town filled with the wax-coated corpses of unlucky visitors. Now the group must find a way out before they too become permanent exhibits in the House of Wax.

Categories: Horror, Crime and Mystery.

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The House WIith A Clock In Its Walls cover

2.5 chucks rating
PG

The House With A Clock In Its Walls. (2018) Jack Black, Cate Blanchett, Owen Vacarro, Sunny Suljic, Kyle MacLachlan, Renée Goldsberry, Colleen Camp, Braxton Bjerken. Directed by Eli Roth. A young orphan named Lewis Barnavelt aids his sorcerer uncle in locating a clock with the power to bring about the end of the world.

Categories: Comedy, Family, Fantasy.

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How to Be cover

2 chucks rating

NR,

would be PG-13

How To Be. (2008) Robert Pattinson, Rebecca Pidgeon, Powell Jones, Alisa Arnah, Jeremy Hardy, Michael Irving, Mike Pearce, Johnny White. Directed by Oliver Irving. A young man having an existential crisis convinces a Canadian self-help guru to come to London and become his personal life coach.

Categories: Comedy, Drama.

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How to Be a Man cover

2 chucks rating

R

How To Be A Man. (2013) Gavin McInnes, Liam Aiken, Megan Neuringer, Marissa Redanty, Helen Rodgers. Directed by Chadd Harbold. When former comedian Mark McCarthy is faced with a rare form of cancer, he hires a young, impressionable cameraman to document his crude and comical lessons on what it means to be a man for his unborn son.

Categories: Comedy, Sexually Explicit.

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How To Beat A Bully cover

2 chucks rating

NR,

would be PG

How To Beat A Bully. (2015) Grant McLellan, Eric Lauritzen, Elise Angell, Ian Tucker, Bryan Yoshi Brown, Kade Pait, Vince Donvito, Micah Lyons. Directed by Doug Bilitch. When a new kid named Cory moves to town, he's picked on by the school bullies. To protect himself, he doesn't use his fists-he uses his brain instead! He scares the bullies off by fibbing that his father is a hit man for the mob. Word quickly spreads around and gets the attention of the REAL mobsters in town, too. Now his dad has the problem! As shenanigans between the family and the mobsters ensue, Cory must find a way to make things right. This is an American remake of De Boskampis.

Categories: Comedy, Family.

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2 chucks rating

PG-13

How to Deal. (2004) Mandy Moore, Allison Janney, Trent Ford, Alexandra Holden, Dylan Baker, Nina Foch, Mackenzie Astin. Directed by Clare Kilner. A high school student is convinced that true love doesn’t exist based on the crazy relationships around her. All seems lost until she meets a new boy who tries to show her what love is really all about.

Categories: Comedy, Romance.

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2.5 chucks rating
R

Humboldt County. (2008) Jeremy Strong, Fairuza Balk, Peter Bogdanovich, Frances Conroy, Madison Davenport, Brad Dourif, Chris Messina. Written and directed by Darren Grodsky and Danny Jacobs. When Peter Hadley, an uptight and disillusioned medical student, is failed by one of his professors who happens to be his father, he seeks to escape. After a one night stand with a nightclub singer named Bogart, he ends up on a road trip to Humboldt County where he meets and is embraced by Bogart’s eccentric marijuana farming extended family.

Category: Drama.

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