 8 Mile 2002  R, 118 min.
Genre: Drama / Musical
Director: Curtis Hanson
Cast: Eminem, Kim Basinger, Mekhi Phifer, Brittany Murphy, Eugene Byrd, Omar Benson Miller, Taryn Manning, De'Angelo Wilson, Chloe Greenfield, Larry Hudson, Evan Jones, Proof, Mike Bell, Michael Shannon
Eminem takes on the role of a total loser, Jimmy Smith Jr, who lives in the rundown Detroit neighborhood of 8 Mile. Better known as "Rabbit," Jimmy is determined to overcome his problems with stage fright and become a successful rapper. Eminem's song "Lose Yourself" won the Academy Award for Best Song.
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 Batman 1989 PG-13, 126 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Fantasy / Thriller
Director: Tim Burton
Cast: Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger, Robert Wuhl, Pat Hingle, Billy Dee Williams, Jack Palance, Michael Gough, Tracey Walter, Jerry Hall, Lee Wallace, William Hootkins, Mac McDonald
Take Michael Keaton as the brooding, romantic millionaire Bruce Wayne/Batman; add Jack Nicholson as the colorful yet demented criminal mastermind, The Joker; put them in dark and sinister Gotham City; and you have the makings of a good film. The Caped Crusader must stop his evil nemesis (in makeup) from wiping out the entire city with acid. Good fun.
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Bless the Child 2000  R, 107 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Chuck Russell
Cast: Kim Basinger, Jimmy Smits, Rufus Sewell, Ian Holm, Angela Bettis, Christina Ricci, Holliston Coleman, Lumi Cavazos, Eugene Lipinski, Michael Gaston
Raised by her Aunt Maggie (Kim Basinger), young Cody (Holliston Coleman) just might be the next Messiah. But when Cody's birth mother and her new husband–a Satanic cult leader (Rufus Sewell)–take off with the young girl, the kidnapping coincides with the work of a serial killer. Enter FBI agent John Travis (Jimmy Smits) who soon joins forces with Maggie in an attempt to rescue Cody and, in the process, save the world.
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Blind Date 1987  PG-13, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Blake Edwards
Cast: Bruce Willis, Kim Basinger, John Larroquette, Mark Blum, William Daniels, Graham Stark, Joyce Van Patten, George Coe, Phil Hartman
Bruce Willis is an upwardly mobile professional. Just when his blind date with a beautiful blonde (Kim Basinger) looks like it might be the start of something great, she has a drink and turns the night into a living hell. Not only does she almost destroy a restaurant, she has a jealous ex-boyfriend (John Larroquette). A real Bomb!
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 Cellular 2004  PG-13, 94 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: David R. Ellis
Cast: Kim Basinger, Chris Evans, William H. Macy, Eric Christian Olsen, Jessica Biel, Jason Statham, Richard Burgi, Eddie Driscoll, Eric Etebari, Adam Taylor Gordon, Bryan Holly, Brendan Kelly
A desperate Jessica (Kim Basinger) pieces together a telephone to call for help after she has been kidnapped. As luck would have it, she connects with slacker Ryan (Chris Evans) who ineptly takes on the task of saving Jessica and her family.
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 The Door in the Floor 2004 R, 111 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Tod Williams
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Kim Basinger, Jon Foster, Elle Fanning, Mimi Rogers, Bijou Phillips, Louis Arcella, John Rothman, Kristina Valada-Viara, Robert LuPone, Harvey Loomis, Larry Pine
After their teenage sons are killed in a car accident, Ted (Jeff Bridges) and Marion (Kim Basinger) each finds their own destructive means to deal with the tragedy.
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Elvis Has Left the Building 2004  PG-13, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy / Adventure
Director: Joel Zwick
Cast: Kim Basinger, John Corbett, Annie Potts, Sean Astin, Denise Richards, Mike Starr, Phill Lewis, Philip Charles MacKenzie, Tom Hanks, Angie Dickinson, Pat Morita, David Leisure
Harmony Jones (Kim Basinger) has always been an Elvis fan, but now she finds that Elvis impersonators she meets are dying in her presence. Matters come to a head when Harmony drives her car into a car carrying Elvis impersonators and kills them, and her immediate reaction is to flee the scene. Now, on the run from the FBI, Harmony meets NYC lawyer Miles Taylor (John Corbett) but suspects that he is also an Elvis impersonator and rejects his advances because she is afraid she will jinx him.
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Even Money 2007 R, 108 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mark Rydell
Cast: Kim Basinger, Danny DeVito, Kelsey Grammer, Nick Cannon, Ray Liotta, Forest Whitaker, Carla Gugino, Grant Sullivan, Jay Mohr, Cassandra Hepburn, Tim Roth, Texas Battle, Robert Miano
Struggling novelist Carolyn (Kim Basinger) has gambled away her husband Tom's (Ray Liotta) money at the casino and has befriended its magician Walter (Danny DeVito). Meanwhile, Clyde (Forest Whitaker) owes bookie Victor (Tim Roth) big gambling debts and has been threatened with death if he doesn't get his basketball star brother Godfrey (Nick Cannon) to shave points off a big game. Then there is Detective Bruner (Kelsey Grammer) who is on the trail of that bookie Victor. The lives of these gamblers weave together onto a tragic course as the big college basketball game draws near.
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Fool for Love 1985 R, 106 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Altman
Cast: Sam Shepard, Kim Basinger, Harry Dean Stanton, Randy Quaid, Martha Crawford, Louise Egolf, Sura Cox, Jonathan Skinner, Lon Hill
Cowboy Eddie (Sam Shepard) cannot live without the love of May (Kim Basinger), and his often-pitiful attempts to win her attention are the focus of this film.
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The Getaway 1994 R, 115 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Adventure / Romance / Thriller
Director: Roger Donaldson
Cast: Alec Baldwin, Kim Basinger, Michael Madsen, James Woods, David Morse, Jennifer Tilly, James Stephens, Richard Farnsworth, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Burton Gilliam, Royce D. Applegate, Alex Colon, Daniel Villarreal, Scott McKenna, Justin Williams
In this violent film–a remake of the 1972 movie–gangster Jack Benyon (James Woods) arranges for Doc McCoy's (Alex Baldwin) release from a Mexican jail after making a deal with Doc's wife Carol (Kim Basinger). The deal involves Doc holding up an Arizona race track, and Doc, along with Rudy (Michael Madsen) and Frank (Philip Seymour Hoffman), pulls off the heist. But, problems follow, and Doc and Carol try to escape to Mexico with their stolen million dollars.
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I Dreamed of Africa 2000 PG-13, 112 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Hugh Hudson
Cast: Kim Basinger, Vincent Perez, Liam Aiken, Garrett Strommen, Eva Marie Saint, Daniel Craig, Lance Reddick, Connie Chiume, James Ngobese, Ian Roberts
The memoir of Kuki Gallmann, Italian expatriate, is brought to the screen in this compelling story of Kuki's personal life in Africa where she begins life anew. Newly married to a Kenyan rancher, Paolo (Vincent Perez), Kuki (Kim Basinger) takes her young son Emanuele (Liam Aiken at seven and Garrett Strommen at 17) from the safety of their home in a Venetian villa to the ranch in Africa where they learn survival against harsh realities.
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 L.A. Confidential 1997  R, 138 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Director: Curtis Hanson
Cast: Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, James Cromwell, David Strathairn, Kim Basinger, Danny DeVito, Paul(2) Guilfoyle, Ron Rifkin, Matt McCoy, Paolo Seganti, Steve Rankin, Graham Beckel, Elisabeth Granli, Sandra Taylor
This crime story is set in Hollywood in the 1950s and features police detectives Jack Vincennes and Bud White (Kevin Spacey and Russell Crowe) whose ethical behavior is definitely suspect. Then there is Ed Exley (Guy Pearce) who is a "strictly by the book" cop despite the fact that his captain, Dudley Smith (James Cromwell), tries to get him to relax his morals. In this atmosphere, crimes are investigated, but it is not always the guilty who pay. This film, based on James Ellroy's novel, is one of the year's best. Two Oscars were received, including Best Supporting Actress (Kim Basinger for her role as call-girl Lynn Bracken); seven other nominations were received, including Best Picture and Director.
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 The Man Who Loved Women 1983 R, 110 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Blake Edwards
Cast: Burt Reynolds, Julie Andrews, Kim Basinger, Marilu Henner, Cynthia Sikes, Tracy Vaccaro, Jennifer Edwards, Barry Corbin, Sela Ward, Denise Crosby
Burt Reynolds plays a man who is helpless when it comes to falling for the opposite sex. In fact, the chase has taken over his life. Julie Andrews plays his psychiatrist in this funny, but sometimes slow, remake of the 1977 film.
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The Marrying Man 1991 R, 115 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jerry Rees
Cast: Kim Basinger, Alec Baldwin, Robert Loggia, Elisabeth Shue, Armand Assante, Paul Reiser, Fisher Stevens, Peter Dobson, Steve Hytner, Jeremy Roberts, Big John Studd, Tony Longo
Rich playboy Charley (Alec Baldwin) is engaged to Adele (Elisabeth Shue), the daughter of Hollywood executive Lew Horner (Robert Loggia). But at his bachelor party, Charley immediately falls for the bar's singer, Vicki (Kim Basinger). Off to bed they go, but her boyfriend, mobster Bugsy Seigel (Armand Assante), catches them in the act, and the adventures begin. This Neil Simon screenplay is based on the 1950s' love affair between Harry Karl and Marie McDonald who married each other four times while Marie still carried on an affair with Bugsy Seigel.
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My Stepmother Is an Alien 1988 PG-13, 108 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Richard Benjamin
Cast: Dan Aykroyd, Kim Basinger, Jon Lovitz, Alyson Hannigan, Joseph Maher, Seth Green, Harry Shearer, Ann Prentiss, Wesley Mann, Tony Jay
A spaceship from a doomed planet lands in Southern California carrying in it an alien (Kim Basinger) who just happens to have a snake that she carries in her purse. Her mission is to find an inept scientist (Dan Aykroyd) who might be able to re-create a ray that has affected the gravity on her planet.
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Nadine 1987 PG, 82 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Robert Benton
Cast: Kim Basinger, Jeff Bridges, Gwen Verdon, Rip Torn, Glenne Headly, Jerry Stiller, Jay Patterson, William Youmans, Mickey Jones, Gary Grubbs
Two appealing, though not very bright, characters become involved in solving a murder. When a beautician (Kim Basinger) needs help, she goes to her estranged husband (Jeff Bridges). Together, they try to keep one step ahead of danger.
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 The Natural 1984 PG, 134 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Barry Levinson
Cast: Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, Kim Basinger, Wilford Brimley, Barbara Hershey, Robert Prosky, Richard Farnsworth, Joe Don Baker, Darren McGavin, John Finnegan, Alan Judge, Paul Sullivan Jr., Robert Rich III, Michael Madsen
Nineteen-year-old farm boy Roy Hobbs (Paul Sullivan Jr.) arrives on the baseball scene with his homemade bat "Wonderboy." He is ready to try out for the Chicago Cubs when his dreams hit a snag. A mysterious woman, Harriet Bird (Barbara Hershey), shoots him with a silver bullet forcing Roy to drop out of baseball. Now, 15 years later, Roy (Robert Redford) is back in baseball as a 35-year-old rookie with the New York Knights where he becomes the star player attracting fans AND women, including sultry siren Memo Paris (Kim Basinger) and his high-school girlfriend Iris Gaines (Glenn Close). It is an old-fashioned story of good triumphing over evil. The climax of Roy's home-run hit is a classic. The film received four Oscar nominations, including Glenn Close for Best Supporting Actress.
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 Never Say Never Again 1983 PG, 134 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama / Thriller
Director: Irvin Kershner
Cast: Sean Connery, Barbara Carrera, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Max von Sydow, Kim Basinger, Edward Fox, Bernie Casey, Alec McCowen, Michael Medwin, Ronald Pickup, Pamela Salem, Rowan Atkinson, Valerie Leon, Milos Kirek, Anthony Sharp
In this remake of "Thunderball" (1965), James Bond is back, and this time it is Sean Connery playing the indomitable Agent 007. SPECTRE has stolen two cruise missiles from the U.S. and is planning to use them in its plot to carry out nuclear blackmail against NATO countries. Bond's mission is to recover the missiles from the evil Maximilian Largo (Klaus Maria Brandauer), and he gets help from Largo's mistress Domino (Kim Bassinger) when he heads to the Bahamas in search of the missiles.
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 Nine 1/2 Weeks 1986  R, 112 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
aka: 9 1/2 Weeks
Director: Adrian Lyne
Cast: Mickey Rourke, Kim Basinger, Margaret Whitton, David Margulies, Christine Baranski, Karen Young, William DeAcutis, Dwight Weist, Roderick Cook, Victor Truro, Justine Johnston, Kim Chan, Cintia Cruz, Lee Lai Sing, Rudolph Willrich
Wealthy businessman John (Mickey Rourke) and recently divorced, art gallery dealer Elizabeth (Kim Basinger) begin an erotic affair filled with raunchy sex. Elizabeth's world is thrown into chaos, and she has trouble thinking straight–until nine 1/2 weeks later when Elizabeth realizes that John is using her and that their relationship is unhealthy. She walks out the door and down the lonely streets crying over her doomed love affair.
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No Mercy 1986 R, 108 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller
Director: Richard Pearce
Cast: Richard Gere, Kim Basinger, Jeroen Krabbe, George Dzundza, William Atherton, Charles S. Dutton, Ray Sharkey, Bruce McGill, Carl Gordon, Gary Basaraba, Terry Kinney, Marita Geraghty, Aleta Mitchell, Fred Gratton, Dionisio
While posing as hit men to look into a contract out on crime boss Losado (Jeroen Krabbe), Chicago cops Eddie Jillette (Richard Gere) and Joe Collins (Gary Basaraba) run into trouble and Collins is killed. Jillette's search for the assassin leads him to New Orleans where he searches for Michel Duval (Kim Basinger). She was the girlfriend of Paul Deveneux (Terry Kinney) who was also assassinated, and Jillette uses her to find Collins' murderer.
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People I Know 2002 R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Daniel Algrant
Cast: Al Pacino, Kim Basinger, Ryan O'Neal, Tea Leoni, Richard Schiff, Bill Nunn, Robert Klein, Mark Webber, Eldon Bullock, Juliet Papa, Ramsey Faragallah, Brian McConnachie
As an almost-over-the-hill press agent (Al Pacino) prepares for a charity benefit, he may have witnessed the murder of a druggie starlet (Tea Leoni). Now he scrambles to learn the truth–not realizing that the key lies in her video recorder, which he now has in his possession.
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Pret-a-Porter 1994  R, 132 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Ready to Wear
Director: Robert Altman
Cast: Kim Basinger, Tim Robbins, Julia Roberts, Sally Kellerman, Linda Hunt, Tracey Ullman, Stephen Rea, Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Danny Aiello
The week-long unveiling of Paris designs is an "event" captured by this film. If you like fashion excess and shallow (but good-looking) people hopping into bed, this is the film for you. Actually, when subplots are deleted, this film is, in itself, one big satire on the fashion industry.
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The Sentinel 2006 PG-13, 105 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Clark Johnson
Cast: Michael Douglas, Kiefer Sutherland, Eva Longoria Parker, Martin Donovan, Ritchie Coster, Kim Basinger, Blair Brown, David Rasche, Kristin Lehman, Raynor Scheine, Chuck Shamata, Paul Calderon, Raoul Bhaneja, Yanna McIntosh, Clark Johnson
When a plot is suspected that involves assassinating President Ballentine (David Rasche), all of the White House Secret Service agents are given polygraph tests. Over-the-hill agent Pete Garrison (Michael Douglas) has been secretly "servicing" the First Lady (Kim Basinger), and he fails the test. Even though his failure is for the wrong reason, Garrison is relieved of his duties. But, Garrison perseveres in trying to save the President's life, and his efforts lead to a confrontation with his once-good friend and fellow agent David Breckinridge (Kiefer Sutherland).
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Wayne's World 2 1993 PG-13, 94 min.
Genre: Comedy / Musical
Director: Stephen Surjik
Cast: Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Christopher Walken, Tia Carrere, Heather Locklear, Kim Basinger, James Hong, Chris Farley, Drew Barrymore, Charlton Heston, Ralph Brown, Rip Taylor, Lee Tergesen, Dan Bell, Tim Meadows
In this sequel to "Wayne's World" (1992), Wayne (Mike Myers) and Garth (Dana Carvey) are trying to stage a rock concert, "Waynestock," with famous name stars. Meanwhile, Garth is attracted to Honee Hornee (Kim Basinger), and Wayne is still with Cassandra (Tia Carrere). But, Cassandra's new manager, Bobby Cohn (Christopher Walken) is trying to lure her away from Wayne–and the laughs continue.
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1. 8 Mile (2002)
2. Batman (1989)
3. Bless the Child (2000)
4. Blind Date (1987)
5. Cellular (2004)
6. Cool World (1992)
7. The Door in the Floor (2004)
8. Elvis Has Left the Building (2004)
9. Even Money (2007)
10. Final Analysis (1992)
11. Fool for Love (1985)
12. The Getaway (1994)
13. I Dreamed of Africa (2000)
14. L.A. Confidential (1997)
15. The Man Who Loved Women (1983)
16. The Marrying Man (1991)
17. Mother Lode (1982)
aka: Search for the Mother Lode: The Last Great Treasure
18. My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988)
19. Nadine (1987)
20. The Natural (1984)
21. Never Say Never Again (1983)
22. Nine 1/2 Weeks (1986)
aka: 9 1/2 Weeks
23. No Mercy (1986)
24. People I Know (2002)
25. Pret-a-Porter (1994)
aka: Ready to Wear
26. The Real McCoy (1993)
27. The Sentinel (2006)
28. Wayne's World 2 (1993)
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