Noise (2007)

Actors: Emilie Maison (miscellaneous crew), Tim Robbins (actor), Colleen Camp (actress), William Baldwin (actor), David Margulies (actor), Danielle Wilson (miscellaneous crew), William Hurt (actor), Joseph Zolfo (producer), Lee Percy (editor), Keir O'Donnell (actor), Helen Hanft (actress), Joel Diamond (actor), Joaquin Diego Prange (miscellaneous crew), Seth Copans (miscellaneous crew), Brother Eden Douglas (actor),

Plot: In long flashbacks, David Owen looks back to when he lived in Manhattan with his wife and baby. The unnecessary noises of the city interrupt his life to the point that he takes a baseball bat to the windshield of cars whose alarms are blaring. After a few arrests, his wife kicks him out. On his own, he learns to avoid arrest and leaves a calling card as "The Rectifier" when he breaks into an offending car. Gruska, an enterprising young reporter, tracks him down. He tells her his story, they become lovers, and she organizes a petition drive for a ballot initiative to ban car alarms. The mayor becomes the Rectifier's bête noire. Can David fight City Hall and win?

Keywords: anger, arrest, baseball-bat, black-comedy, breaking-the-fourth-wall, broken-window, car-alarm, car-thief, cellist, cello
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Drama,
Taglines: The difference is I do something about it.

Quotes:

Ekaterina Filippovna: You know the secret of power is to make it unresponsive. The more arbitrary it is, the more cruel and irrational, the more we respect it. The more we love it.

Helen Owen: Close the window, you know... don't think about it.::David Owen: I can't.::Helen Owen: You can't close the window?::David Owen: What if I want it open?

[first lines]::David Owen: See this guy? I know this guy. He's a car thief. He knows that most car alarms operate by a simple electric sensor. Jiggle the door, you complete a circuit, and trigger the siren.::Car Thief: I've been stealing cars since I was 14, and the truth is, alarms make my job easier not harder. Say somebody is walking by and sees me fiddling with the ignition.::Car Thief: [in car with alarm going off] So sorry ma'am. These stupid alarms, ya know?

David Owen: Who the fuck is Evan?::Helen Owen: David...::David Owen: Is it a boy or a girl?::Helen Owen: He's Katelyn's father.::David Owen: Katelyn... The fat one?::Helen Owen: No that's Minerva, Katelyn's the redhead.::David Owen: Oh I like her, she's sexy.::Helen Owen: David, she's seven.

David Owen: This was my job now. My calling. Yeah alright, like Jonas Salk.

Car Thief: Ya know it's funny, the alarm right in your ear can drive you crazy. But from further away it can sound kinda nice... sort of plaintive.

Forceful Juror: [about defendant] Don't tell me that one's a judge, too.::Tiny Juror: No, he's an idiot.

[last lines]::Officer Moretti: What did he do?::Arresting Officer: Busted into a car who's alarm was going off. Who's gonna take him down to central booking?::Officer Moretti: He busted into a car cuz the alarm was going off? Jesus Christ, what if everybody did that?::Arresting Officer: If everyone did it, people would turn off their damned alarms, now wouldn't they?

Window Theory (2005)

Actors: Ron Jeremy (actor), Alan Pao (actor), Carly Pope (actress), John Cassini (actor), Alan Pao (producer), James Duval (actor), Corey Large (producer), Corey Large (actor), Corey Large (writer), Paul Johansson (actor), Tom Lenk (actor), Alexandra Holden (actress), Andrew Putschoegl (director), Donald Gibb (actor), Brian Hartman (producer),

Plot: In Los Angeles, the twenty-five years old reckless wolf playboy Ethan Humphries lives in night-clubs scoring women supported by his parents, without working or studying. When his high-school friend Bradley accidentally tells him that his former best friend Jeff will get married in a couple of days, Ethan immediately travels to his hometown. He meets Brad, who is studying in the medical school, and the shy Sean, who is studying psychology, and recalls his glorious high school days, but his friends do not tell the name of the bride to him. While meeting Jeff in a bar in the night, Ethan finds that his fiancée is his former high-school sweetheart Stephanie. After meeting Stephanie, Ethan questions whether he is still in love with she, or only recalling a passion from his past.

Keywords: ex-girlfriend, friend, marriage
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance,
Taglines: He's got a formula, but hasn't got a clue.

Quotes:

Megan: [mocking Stephanie doing her wedding vows] I, Stephanie, take you, Jeff, to be my boring workaholic husband, for richer or way richer, through security and wealth, as long as we both stay hot!

C.H.U.D. (1984)

Actors: Jay Thomas (actor), Kelly Nichols (actress), John Heard (actor), J.C. Quinn (actor), Bill Raymond (actor), Sam McMurray (actor), Daniel Stern (actor), Jon Polito (actor), Ray Baker (actor), Frankie Faison (actor), Graham Beckel (actor), John Goodman (actor), Eddie Jones (actor), Daniel Stern (writer), Patricia Richardson (actress),

Plot: A rash of bizarre murders in New York City seems to point to a group of grotesquely deformed vagrants living in the sewers. A courageous policeman, a photo journalist and his girlfriend, and a nutty bum, who seems to know a lot about the creatures, band together to try and determine what the creatures are and how to stop them.

Keywords: 1980s, acronym-in-title, african-american, african-american-man, answering-machine, answering-machine-message, apartment, argument, bag-lady, bar
Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi,
Taglines: Ugly. Slobbering. Ferocious. Carnivorous. They're not staying down there, anymore! You Won't Want To Know What It Means. A recent article in a New York newspaper reported that there were large colonies of people living under the city... The paper was incorrect. What is living under the city is not human. C.H.U.D. is under the city.

Quotes:

Mrs. Monroe: Cooper, you son of a bitch. I'm in jail. I only get one phone call. You think I wanna waste it talking to some goddamn fucking machine?

Captain Bosch: Are you kidding? Your guy's got a camera. Mine's got a flamethrower.

A.J. 'The Reverend' Shepherd: You Cooper?::George Cooper: Yeah.::A.J. 'The Reverend' Shepherd: You all right?::George Cooper: Who are you?::A.J. 'The Reverend' Shepherd: I run the soup kitchen.::George Cooper: On Kenmann.::A.J. 'The Reverend' Shepherd: Right... right. This is crazy. C'mon.::George Cooper: Thank God they deliver.

A.J. 'The Reverend' Shepherd: What are you trying to hide?... You saw it. You saw the monster!::Wilson: Is that what you're going to tell the papers? That you're afraid of monsters?::A.J. 'The Reverend' Shepherd: That's exactly what I'm gonna tell them if you don't fill me in.

[the police are returning Mrs. Monroe's bags after interrogation]::Mrs. Monroe: How do I know you didn't take anything?::Officer Crespi: How do I know you didn't give us anything?

A.J. 'The Reverend' Shepherd: N-R-C. You know what this is? This thing detects accumulated radiation. They wear these things in nuclear power plants.::Captain Bosch: How do you know that?::A.J. 'The Reverend' Shepherd: I used to be a nuclear physicist...::[Bosch looks at him incredulously]::A.J. 'The Reverend' Shepherd: I saw it on TV.

Val: Gog... and Magog.::Captain Bosch: Yeah... well... uh, Val, I understand you used to live underground. What made you change your mind?::Val: On each side of the throne there are four living creatures filled with eyes in front *and* behind.::Captain Bosch: Creatures? Talking about your friends? They still down there?::Val: I know your work. You go by the name of being alive and you are dead.::Captain Bosch: Now listen, pal... [Val whips out a big knife and Bosch jumps back, startled]::Val: They have the power to shut the sky. [quivering] They have the power to shut the sky.

A.J. 'The Reverend' Shepherd: [Shepherd is growing tired of Bosch's evasive answers] It doesnt wash, Bosch.

Murphy: You must be a pretty important fella, fella.

Premature Burial (1962)

Actors: John Dierkes (actor), Dick Miller (actor), Alan Napier (actor), Heather Angel (actress), Hazel Court (actress), Samuel Z. Arkoff (producer), Roger Corman (producer), Edgar Allan Poe (writer), Ronald Stein (composer), Roger Corman (director), Ronald Sinclair (editor), Ray Milland (actor), Gene Corman (producer), Jonathan Haze (miscellaneous crew), Brendan Dillon (actor),

Plot: Emily Gault arrives at the Carrell mansion determined to rekindle an old relationship with Guy Carrell, despite the disapproval of his sister, Kate. Guy overcomes his all-consuming fear of being buried alive long enough to marry Emily but soon becomes obsessed again, building a crypt designed to guarantee that he will not fall prey to his most dreaded nightmare. Trying to prove that he has been cured of his phobia, he opens his father's tomb and is shocked into a catatonic state. His worst fears are realized as he is lowered into a grave and covered over, apparently never to learn that the treachery of someone very dear to him was directly responsible for his predicament.

Keywords: alcoholic-drink, attempted-murder, bad-temper, bed, bedroom, brother-sister-relationship, burial, buried-alive, cat, catalepsy
Genres: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller,
Taglines: Within the Coffin I Lie...ALIVE!

Quotes:

Guy Carrell: Can you possibly conceive it. The unendurable oppression of the lungs, the stifling fumes of the earth, the rigid embrace of the coffin, the blackness of absolute night and the silence, like an overwhelming sea.

The Earl of Chicago (1940)

Actors: James Conaty (actor), Lowden Adams (actor), David Clyde (actor), Edward Arnold (actor), Jimmy Aubrey (actor), Frank Baker (actor), George Anderson (actor), Harry Allen (actor), Billy Bevan (actor), Ted Billings (actor), Barlowe Borland (actor), Matthew Boulton (actor), John Burton (actor), E.E. Clive (actor), Alec Craig (actor),

Plot: Silky has always moved booze. In prohibition, he smuggled it from Canada, but now that it is legal, he produces his own brand. Seven years before, he sent Doc to prison because Doc was an honest man. Now that he is getting out, Silky wants an honest man as his general manager. When an English solicitor arrives to show that Silky is the new Earl of Gorley, Doc sees his chance to get Silky out of the way. But Silky takes Doc with him to England to see about selling his holdings and taking the money. While Doc knows that none of the property can be sold, he does not tell Silky. While Silky is shown all his duties and responsibilities, Doc is busy bankrupting his business in Chicago.

Keywords: based-on-book, chicago-illinois, distiller, england, frame-up, gangster, murder, nobility, parliament, revenge
Genres: Drama,

The Mighty Treve (1937)

Actors: Erville Alderson (actor), Robert McKenzie (actor), Noah Beery Jr. (actor), Spencer Charters (actor), Georgie Billings (actor), Heinie Conklin (actor), Robert Dudley (actor), Hobart Cavanaugh (actor), Earle Foxe (actor), Chester Gan (actor), Edmund Cobb (actor), William Gould (actor), Edward Hearn (actor), Samuel S. Hinds (actor), Charles Murphy (actor),

Plot: A young man and his sheepdog, Treve, are given a job on a sheep-ranch by the niece of the owner. The uncle is an eccentric with a cowering fear of dogs even though dogs are required as herders on sheep ranches. The dig saves the rancher's life and then wins a number of prizes at a dog show. Later the owners of the surrounding ranches accuse Treve of being a sheep killer though the killer is a three-legged wolf. The ranchers are preparing to execute Treve.

Keywords: 1930s, animal-cruelty, arizona, automobile, b-movie, b-western, blood, brutality, cattle-ranch, cattleman
Genres: Drama, Western,
Taglines: A Thrilling ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE NOVEL Comes to the Screen! (original poster)

The Midnight Patrol (1932)

Actors: Arthur Hoerl (writer), William Bailey (actor), Ray Cooke (actor), Robert Elliott (actor), J.C. Fowler (actor), Earle Foxe (actor), Mack Swain (actor), Regis Toomey (actor), George Jeske (writer), C.C. Burr (producer), Eddie Kane (actor), Wilfred Lucas (actor), Jack Mower (actor), Mischa Auer (actor), Franklin Pangborn (actor),

Plot: Her prison term complete, a beautiful chorus girl is quickly taken away from the prison gates in a taxicab, leaving the reporter sent to interview her beaten and bewildered. A few minutes later as he is about to leave the scene the chlorine's body comes hurtling at him from the same taxicab. Murder and a baffling crime with a solution that comes backstage during the rehearsal of a musical comedy.

Keywords: 1930s, broadway-manhattan-new-york-city, chorus-girl, cigarette-smoking, independent-film, killer, killing, low-budget-film, manhattan-new-york-city, murder
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery,

A Honeymoon Adventure (1931)

Actors: Basil Dean (producer), Basil Dean (writer), John Paddy Carstairs (writer), Maurice Elvey (director), Harold Huth (actor), Jack Lambert (actor), Benita Hume (actress), Robert English (actor), Polly Emery (actress), Fanny Wright (actress), Walter Armitage (actor), Margery Binner (actress), Frances Rose Campbell (actress), Peter Hannen (actor), Cecily Fraser (writer),

Genres: Crime, Drama,

Easy Going Gordon (1925)

Actors: Grover Jones (writer), Ashton Dearholt (actor), Harris Gordon (actor), Duke Worne (director), J. Gordon Russell (actor), Kathryn McGuire (actress), Fernando Gálvez (actor), B. Berger (miscellaneous crew), Roy Cushing (actor),

Genres: Action,

Dangerous Waters (1919)

Actors: Arthur Edmund Carewe (actor), William Desmond (actor), Walter Perry (actor), Marguerite De La Motte (actress), Ida Lewis (actress), Joseph Franz (director), Jesse D. Hampton (miscellaneous crew), George Elwood Jenks (writer), Jesse D. Hampton (miscellaneous crew), William De Vaull (actor), Beatrice La Plante (actress), Park Frame (director),

Genres: Drama,