Stories by @masterofcool
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Lost in Translation (1983)
A fading American movie star named Bob Harris lands in Tokyo for an ad film and ends up meeting Charlotte, a recent college graduate who's left behind by her photographer husband. Gradually, the two discover a friend within each other.

Mandy (1988)
In 1983, Richard "Red" Miller sets out to settle the scores with a deranged hippie cult when they disrupt his peaceful life, wreaking havoc in his haven and kidnapping his beloved wife, Mandy Bloom.

Shoot 'Em Up (1987)
After saving a newborn infant from assassins, carrot-crunching gunman Mr. Smith teams up with a prostitute named Donna Quintano to protect the baby from further attacks. With hit man Karl Hertz hot on their trail, Smith and Donna uncover a dying senator's plot to harvest bone marrow from babies just like the one in their arms.

Shoot 'Em Up (1997)
After saving a newborn infant from assassins, carrot-crunching gunman Mr. Smith teams up with a prostitute named Donna Quintano to protect the baby from further attacks. With hit man Karl Hertz hot on their trail, Smith and Donna uncover a dying senator's plot to harvest bone marrow from babies just like the one in their arms.

Jojo Rabbit (1989)
In 1945, nearing the end of World War II, Johannes "Jojo" Betzler is a lonely German boy who discovers that his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his imaginary friend -- Adolf Hitler -- Jojo must confront his blind nationalism as World War II continues to come to a fortunate end.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1996)
Ferris Bueller, a high school student, fakes sickness in order to stay at home and spends the rest of the day with his best friend and girlfriend while Edward Rooney, the Dean of Students tries to spy on him.

Jumanji (1985)
Two children come across a magical board game. While playing, they meet Alan Parrish, a man who was trapped in the game 26 years before, and attempt to free him while also facing different kinds of danger.

Holes (1988)
A boy is wrongfully accused of theft and is sent to a brutal camp, where the camp warden and her staff force the children under their care to mysteriously dig holes all day long in the desert. Their rehabilitation is questioned however, as they think something sinister is involved.

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (1991)
A young boy named Jacob Portman travels back in time to 1943 where he discovers a house full of children with supernatural abilities run by Miss Peregrine. Soon, he must help protect their home from terrifying enemies called Hollowgasts.

Collateral (1984)
Max Durocher, a taxi cab driver, is left shocked after he learns that his passenger, Vincent, is an assassin who is on a deadly mission to kill people. However, he must stop Vincent before it's too late.

Vanilla Sky (1991)
David Aames, a publishing magnate, becomes the victim of a car crash, which scars his face. The incident changes him and compels him to question the existing reality of his life.

Daybreakers (1989)
When humans are turned into vampires following a plague, a researcher springs into action to save the world from crumbling.

Daybreakers (1989)
When humans are turned into vampires following a plague, a researcher springs into action to save the world from crumbling.

The Help (1991)
In Jackson, Mississippi, 1963, Southern society girl Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan returns from College with dreams of being a writer. She turns her small town on its ear by choosing to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent white families. Only Aibileen, the housekeeper of Skeeter's best friend, will talk at first. But as the pair continue the collaboration, more women decide to come forward, and as it turns out, they have quite a lot to say.

Valkenvania (1990)
A financer named Chris Thorne meets a spurned lover named Diane Lightson and agrees to take her to a business meeting. However, on the way there, they get arrested in a financially bankrupt town and are taken to the local court. They then try to escape from the mad and sadistic judge.

Room (1990)
After seven years of being held captive in an isolated shed by a kidnapper, Joy Newsome and her five-year old son Jack, both manage to escape the confinement and gain their freedom.

Animal House (1988)
In 1962, Faber College freshmen Larry Kroger and Kent Dorfman seek to join a fraternity. After being rejected by the snooty Omega Theta Pi House, they try at the notoriously rowdy Delta Tau Chi House, and get in. The trouble is, the college dean has it in for the Deltas, so he has them put on "Double Secret Probation" and secretly assigns Omega's president the task of having their charter revoked.

Ready Player One (1993)
In the year 2045, the planet is on the brink of chaos and collapse, but people find salvation in the OASIS: an expansive virtual reality universe created by eccentric James Halliday. When Halliday dies, he promises his immense fortune to the first person to discover a digital Easter Egg that's hidden somewhere in the OASIS. When young Wade Watts joins the contest, he finds himself becoming an unlikely hero in a reality-bending treasure hunt through a fantastical world of mystery, discovery and danger.

It: Chapter Two (1999)
In 1996, set 27 years after the events of the first film, the Losers Club receive a call from their old friend Mike Hanlon that Pennywise is back. They decide to honor their promise and return to their old town in order to put an end to the evil shape-shifting entity's reign of terror once and for all.

It: Chapter One (1997)
In 1969, seven helpless and bullied children are forced to face their worst nightmares and defeat an ancient evil named Pennywise, a shape-shifting clown who torments children before devouring them.