Welcome to Criticker: Home of insanely accurate recommendations!

Jack Deth is a kind of cop/bounty hunter in the bleak Los Angeles of the future. He's become obssessed with chasing Whistler - an evil criminal who uses powerful hypnotic powers to convert people into zombie like creatures known as trancers. Whistler has managed to escape through time travel and is loose in 1980s L.A. but Deth is on his trail. (imdb)

A poignant, humorous allegory about the curative powers of story. (imdb)

Kemal Sunal plays a foolish garbage man, who falls in love with a municipality officer's fiancee (wikipedia.org)

The true story of a young woman named Sybil, whose childhood was so harrowing to her that she developed at least 16 different personalities. (imdb)

A young girl whose sister was murdered by werewolves helps an investigator track down a gang of the beasts through the U.S. and Europe. (imdb)

A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning a slave who turns to the rising tide of Christianity in the hopes of pursuing freedom while also falling in love with his master, the famous female philosophy professor and atheist Hypatia of Alexandria.

A scheming raccoon fools a mismatched family of forest creatures into helping him repay a debt of food, by invading the new suburban sprawl that popped up while they were hibernating...and learns a lesson about family himself. (imdb)

A pre-teen girl grows up in a house of prostitution in the Storyville section of New Orleans in 1917. (imdb)

After more than 20 years on death row, a convicted murderer petitions the court asking to be executed. But as he tells his story, it gradually becomes clear that nothing is quite what it seems. This film is a stylistically daring experiment in storytelling, in effect a one-man play constructed from a four-day interview. (bbc.co.uk)

John Travolta stars as a local disco kingpin at the peak of his popularity. Once a week, after six full days of work in a Brooklyn paint store, Tony (Travolta) douses himself with Brut cologne, dons a floral bodyshirt, gabardine pants and platform shoes - and ritualistically prepares himself for "Saturday Night Fever." Through the influence of Stephanie - his more sophisticated dance partner - and Tony's brother - a disillusioned priest - Tony begins to question the way his views life and the narrowness of his perspective. (Paramount Pictures)