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TV-Movies I've Seen - From Best to Worst

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1. "Berlin Alexanderplatz" (1980)
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People who added this item 10  Average listal rating (6 ratings) 9.5  IMDB Rating 7.5 
2. "Queen" (1993)
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People who added this item 11  Average listal rating (8 ratings) 6.4  IMDB Rating 6.9 
3. Experiment in Evil (1959)
I would say that this is one of the Renoir's finest works. Fascinating study of split personality.
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People who added this item 2  Average listal rating (2 ratings) 9.5  IMDB Rating 7.6 
4. Martha (1974)
Fassbinder was one of the great masters in cinema who also succeeded in making thought provoking TV-movies. This is a very tragic story about a woman who is married to a sadistic man.

Martha is a woman who can't end the relationship because her husband is disturbingly manipulative. Can she change or does she just have to take all the humiliation? Ending is very memorable and cinematography fantastic as always in Fassbinder's movies.
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People who added this item 15  Average listal rating (10 ratings) 7.4  IMDB Rating 7.3 
5. Death of a Salesman (1985)
Tragic story of a salesman. Wonderful performance by Dustin Hoffman which is one of the best I've seen in any movie. His character is simple minded but sympathetic at same time. This is also probably the best tv-movie Schlöndorff has made.
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People who added this item 122  Average listal rating (82 ratings) 7.4  IMDB Rating 7.7 
6. Duel (1971)
Spielberg's thriller about a man and a truck chasing him is a simple but pretty exciting little movie. I really like the cinematography in this and I actually think it's some of the best in Spielberg's long career.
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People who added this item 31  Average listal rating (18 ratings) 7.9  IMDB Rating 7.8 
7. Saraband (2003)
Ingmar Bergman's last movie isn't anywhere near his masterpieces but it is still full of heart and thoughts. Realistic movie about complex people.
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People who added this item 189  Average listal rating (115 ratings) 6.9  IMDB Rating 6.8 
8. Gia (1998)
Beautiful and sensual portrayal of a fashion model Gia Garangi who was one of the first women in USA to die of AIDS. Angelina Jolie at her very best. Movie is only loosely based on a true story though and it could have used little better editing.
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People who added this item 24  Average listal rating (16 ratings) 5.4  IMDB Rating 6.8 
9. The Lost World (2001)
This adventure movie was a pleasant surprise. This is a classic story about a group of different people who soon find themselves to be face-to-face with the lost world. Good excitement and very good special effects for a TV-movie.
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People who added this item 2  Average listal rating (2 ratings) 7  IMDB Rating 6.9 
10. The Night That Panicked America (1975)
Intelligent and entertaining movie about power of media.
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People who added this item 115  Average listal rating (75 ratings) 6.3  IMDB Rating 6.9 
11. Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999)
Slightly comical movie about birth of Apple and Microsoft. Anthony Michael Hall as Bill Gates is very good in his role.
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People who added this item 68  Average listal rating (42 ratings) 5.6  IMDB Rating
12. The Shining (1997)
This was surprisingly good but it's too long and not coherent enough. Also some of the cgi-creatures looked pretty stupid and there were no real purpose for showing them. Needless to say, Kubrick's version of the story is way better than this.
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People who added this item 316  Average listal rating (219 ratings) 6.5  IMDB Rating 6.8 
13. It (1990)
Most memorable thing in this Stephen King production is the main villain which is an evil clown. It's still pretty scary character but movie needs some editing because there's too many unnecessary scenes. It's still watchable though and there are also quite touching moments in the story.
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People who added this item 14  Average listal rating (6 ratings) 5.7  IMDB Rating 5.7 
14. Body Bags (1993)
Three average but exciting enough horror stories. Best is the first segment "The Gas Station" directed by John Carpenter who also directed segment "Hair". Tobe Hooper directed "Eye".

The Gas Station is a very simple story about a new worker at gas station. He finds out that his boss is absolutely not what he expected him to be.
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People who added this item 1  Average listal rating (1 ratings) 4  IMDB Rating
15. Christie's Revenge (2007)
Young woman Christie starts to blame her uncle for her father's suicide because uncle didn't want to loan money for her father.

Very typical thriller with no big surprises. Good actors saves this movie.
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People who added this item 1  Average listal rating (1 ratings) 6  IMDB Rating 5.3 
16. Hands of a Stranger (1987)
Decent movie about a cop who wants to find his wife's rapist. Armand Assante fits in this kind of role. You can also see young Ben Affleck here!
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People who added this item 17  Average listal rating (14 ratings) 5.4  IMDB Rating 6.4 
17. Flight 93 (2006)
Another movie about famous airplane and it's brave passengers. Too bad there's no real excitement in any scene in this movie and all in all it's quite dull experience.
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People who added this item 1  Average listal rating (1 ratings) 2  IMDB Rating 5.1 
18. Twilight Man (1996)
I don't remember this that well but I guess it's just very typical murder thriller with zero surprises.
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People who added this item 1  Average listal rating (1 ratings) 2  IMDB Rating 4.6 
19. Dead Man's Island (1996)
Another typical tv-thriller. Rich man invites his ex-girlfriend to his great house but there's something special he wants from her. He thinks someone is going to kill him and uses her ex-girlfriend to find out who the potential killer might be.

Visually this is at the same level than typical tv soap operas. It's also way too easy to guess that "big twist" of the story. Most interesting things in this piece of tv-garbage are William Shatner and Traci Lords and all the scenes without them have about zero value in them.
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People who added this item 101  Average listal rating (71 ratings) 5.5  IMDB Rating 5.8 
20. The Langoliers (1995)
When I was younger this was really exciting. But after I watched it when I was older I couldn't get past the atrocious special effects and completely ridiculous story. For example, why those creatures didn't destroy the airplane when the people were in there? That is only one of the many mistakes in the story.
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People who added this item 2  Average listal rating (2 ratings) 1.5  IMDB Rating 2.7 
21. Gargantua (1998)
Aggressively bad Godzilla rip-off with some of the worst special effects of all time. They are very very bad even for a TV-movie. Monster looks like some kind of a plastic robot.
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