Monkey Shines
Monkey Shines
Monkey Shines
Watch TrailerWatch Movie
1988
1h 53m
6.3(340 votes)
Horror
Science Fiction
Drama
Thriller

Overview

A quadriplegic man is given a trained monkey help him with every day activities, until the little monkey begins to develop feelings, and rage, against its new master and those who get too close to him.

Where to Watch

Rent

Amazon Video

Links & Resources

IMDbView

Social & External

IMDb

Production Companies

Orion Pictures

Videos & Trailers

3 videos

Cast & Crew

30 members
Acting

Jason Beghe

Allan Mann

Jason Beghe
Acting

John Pankow

Geoffrey Fisher

John Pankow
Acting

Kate McNeil

Melanie Parker

Kate McNeil
Acting

Joyce Van Patten

Dorothy Mann

Joyce Van Patten
Acting

Christine Forrest

Maryanne Hodges

Christine Forrest
Acting

Stephen Root

Dean Burbage

Stephen Root
Acting

Stanley Tucci

Dr. John Wiseman

Stanley Tucci
Acting

Tom Quinn

Charlie Cunningham

No Image
Acting

Janine Turner

Linda Aikman

Janine Turner
Acting

William Newman

Doc Williams

William Newman
Acting

Tudi Wiggins

Esther Fry

No Image
Acting

Patricia Tallman

Party Guest

Patricia Tallman
Acting

David Early

Anesthetist

David Early
Acting

Eric Morgan Stuart

Unknown Role

Eric Morgan Stuart
Acting

Brad Long

BAMF in Red Jacket

No Image
Acting

Robert Hendren

Orderly

Robert Hendren
Acting

Debra Gordon

E.R. Nurse

Debra Gordon
Acting

Kate English

Scrub Nurse

No Image
Acting

Rik Billock

Garbage Man

No Image
Acting

Christina Galesi

Nurse

No Image
Acting

Leslie Dane Shapiro

Nurse

No Image
Acting

Alice Shure

Nurse

No Image
Acting

Melanie Verlin

Vandal

No Image
Acting

Anthony DiLeo Jr.

Vandal

No Image
Acting

Lia Savini

Child Playing

No Image
Acting

Mitchell Baseman

Child Playing

No Image
Acting

Tina Romero

Child Playing

Tina Romero
Acting

Michael Naft

Young Allan

No Image
Acting

Chuck Baker

Ambulance Driver

No Image
Acting

Frank Welker

Special Animal Voices (voice)

Frank Welker

Similar Movies

The Possession of Joel Delaney
5.6
1972

The Possession of Joel Delaney

An upper-class Manhattan divorcee comes to believe that her brother is possessed by the spirit of a serial killer who beheaded young women in Spanish Harlem.

Movie
Bruiser
5.5
2000

Bruiser

After years of being browbeaten and walked on, a man wakes one day wearing an expressionless mask, fitted with a personality that enables him to take revenge.

Movie
Tsubaki Sanjuro
6.4
2007

Tsubaki Sanjuro

"Tsubaki Sanjuro" is a remake of Sanjuro (1962) by Akira Kurosawa. Sanjuro returns with sharper, faster, subtler sword, talking and perception. He uses them to settle the trouble and uses them good!

Movie
Ghost Track
3.5
2022

Ghost Track

A young teenager named Morris dies tragically on a train line, his friends helpless to save him. Now adults, his former friends find the spirit of Morris seems to be out for revenge.

Movie
The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan
7.0
2018

The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan

Shoji Segawa was a quiet and inconspicuous boy, but, for the first time, he is recognized by people after winning the National Middle School Shogi Tournament. At the age of 26, his dream of becoming a professional shogi player collapses due to an age restriction. After he quits playing shogi, he becomes desperate. With the support of his peers, including Yuya Suzuki, and his love of shogi, Shoji Segawa begins to play shogi again. A miracle happens to him.

Movie
Curse of the Black Cat
4.9
1977

Curse of the Black Cat

A notable opera singer tries to commit suicide because of a emotional breakdown. While hospitalized in a psychiatric clinic, her daughter cautiously approaches the man she considers to be the blame for the state of her mother in order to gain her revenge.

Movie
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
6.2
1976

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

Concerned about his friend's cocaine use, Dr. Watson tricks Sherlock Holmes into travelling to Vienna, where Holmes enters the care of Sigmund Freud. Freud attempts to solve the mysteries of Holmes' subconscious, while Holmes devotes himself to solving a mystery involving the kidnapping of Lola Deveraux.

Movie
Nothing But the Night
6.1
1973

Nothing But the Night

When various trustees of the Van Traylen Orphanage begin dying in close order, it's at first written off as a coincidence. But, when a school bus accident very nearly takes out three more of them along with a group of orphans, Col. Bingham and his pathologist friend, Mark, begin looking into the deaths. They come to think the answer lies with one of the girls on the bus, who has vivid memories of things she could not possibly have seen.

Movie
Metropolis
8.1
1927

Metropolis

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

Movie
Apocalypse Now
8.3
1979

Apocalypse Now

At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.

Movie
A History of Violence
7.2
2005

A History of Violence

An average family is thrust into the spotlight after the father commits a seemingly self-defense murder at his diner.

Movie
2001: A Space Odyssey
8.1
1968

2001: A Space Odyssey

Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.

Movie
Twelve Monkeys
7.6
1995

Twelve Monkeys

In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But when Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990 instead of 1996, he's arrested and locked up in a mental hospital. There he meets psychiatrist Dr. Kathryn Railly and the son of a famous virus expert who may hold the key to the Army of the 12 Monkeys; thought to be responsible for unleashing the killer disease.

Movie
War of the Worlds
6.5
2005

War of the Worlds

Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.

Movie
Memento
8.2
2000

Memento

Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating his wife's killer, however, is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rare, untreatable form of short-term memory loss. Although he can recall details of life before his accident, Leonard cannot remember what happened fifteen minutes ago, where he's going, or why.

Movie
Blade Runner
7.9
1982

Blade Runner

In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.

Movie
The Elementary Particles
6.1
2006

The Elementary Particles

Based on Michel Houellebecq's controversial novel, Atomised (aka The Elementary Particles) focuses on Michael and Bruno, two very different half-brothers and their disturbed sexuality. After a chaotic childhood with a hippie mother only caring for her affairs, Michael, a molecular biologist, is more interested in genes than women, while Bruno is obsessed with his sexual desires, but mostly finds his satisfaction with prostitutes. But Bruno's life changes when he gets to know the experienced Christiane. In the meantime, Michael meets Annabelle, the love of his youth, again.

Movie
Anatomy of a Murder
7.8
1959

Anatomy of a Murder

Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local innkeeper after his wife claimed that he raped her. Over the course of an extensive trial, Biegler parries with District Attorney Lodwick and out-of-town prosecutor Claude Dancer to set his client free, but his case rests on the victim's mysterious business partner, who's hiding a dark secret.

Movie
Gladiator
8.2
2000

Gladiator

After the death of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, his devious son takes power and demotes Maximus, one of Rome's most capable generals who Marcus preferred. Eventually, Maximus is forced to become a gladiator and battle to the death against other men for the amusement of paying audiences.

Movie
Léon: The Professional
8.3
1994

Léon: The Professional

Léon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-door neighbors are wiped out by a loose-cannon DEA agent, he becomes the unwilling custodian of 12-year-old Mathilda. Before long, Mathilda's thoughts turn to revenge, and she considers following in Léon's footsteps.

Movie

Recommended Movies

Monkey Trouble
5.7
1994

Monkey Trouble

Dodger, a criminal monkey, belongs to a crooked street performer but escapes his life of crime only to end up in the arms of Eva, an innocent little girl whose mother has no idea that her daughter is harboring a fugitive.

Movie
Monkey Business
6.9
1931

Monkey Business

Four stowaways get mixed up with gangsters while running riot on an ocean liner.

Movie
Shakma
5.3
1990

Shakma

A murderous baboon escapes from a laboratory and roams the research building, and begins to kill some teenagers who are also in the building playing a Dungeons-and-Dragons type game.

Movie
11 Minutes
5.5
2015

11 Minutes

The lives of urbanites intertwine in a world where anything can happen at any time.

Movie
C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud
4.4
1989

C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud

A military experiment to create a race of super-warriors goes awry, as legions of murderous zombies are unleashed upon a suburban neighborhood.

Movie
Comedy Central Roast of David Hasselhoff
6.9
2010

Comedy Central Roast of David Hasselhoff

Time to hassle the Hoff at the rudest, raunchiest television event of the year--The Comedy Central Roast of David Hasselhoff. From running in slo-mo on the beach to inspiring Germany with the power of cheesy pop--it's almost too easy.

Movie
Sunset
5.7
1988

Sunset

Tom Mix and Wyatt Earp team up to solve a murder at the Academy Awards in 1929 Hollywood.

Movie
The Driller Killer
5.2
1979

The Driller Killer

An artist slowly goes insane while struggling to pay his bills, work on his paintings, and care for his two female roommates, which leads him taking to the streets of New York after dark and randomly killing derelicts with a power drill.

Movie
Link
6.2
1986

Link

Young graduate student Jane Chase becomes the new assistant to an eccentric zoology professor at the remote home he shares with two brilliant chimpanzees and an elderly orangutan butler named Link. But when one of the chimps is found dead and the professor mysteriously disappears, Link becomes dangerously aggressive towards Jane. Now, the time for “monkey business” is over and the true terror is about to begin.

Movie
Sugar Daddy
6.4
2021

Sugar Daddy

When a struggling musician can't afford her rent, she signs up for a website where rich older men pay to date younger women. Her new money-making venture sends her down a dark rabbit hole that forces her to grow up fast, shaping her music, and how she sees the world.

Movie
The Butcher's Wife
5.7
1991

The Butcher's Wife

A clairvoyant woman thinks that she's met her future husband because she's seen him in a dream. They marry and he takes her back to his butcher shop in New York city, where her powers tend to influence everyone she meets while working in the shop. Through her advice, she helps others and eventually finds the true man of her dreams.

Movie
The Raven
6.3
1963

The Raven

A magician who has been turned into a raven turns to a former sorcerer for help.

Movie
Wolfen
5.9
1981

Wolfen

A New York City cop and an expert criminologist trying to solve a series of grisly deaths in which the victims have seemingly been maimed by feral animals discover a sinister connection between the crimes and an old legend.

Movie
B. Monkey
5.8
1999

B. Monkey

When wistful introvert Alan Furnace meets quick-witted bombshell Beatrice, he has no idea of her secret life as "B. Monkey" -- the top thief-for-hire in London's criminal underworld. Charmed by Furnace's innocent and chivalrous ways, Beatrice resolves to reform. But to cash in on her first chance at real love, she must escape her former partner in crime, the ruthless Paul Neville -- and a dark past that seems to haunt her every step.

Movie
Superstition
6.1
1982

Superstition

A witch put to death in 1692 swears vengeance on her persecutors and returns to the present day to punish their descendants.

Movie
The Keep
5.6
1983

The Keep

Set during World War II, a German army garrison is sent to guard a mountain pass in a village in Romania's Carpathian mountains and sets up barracks in an ancient stone fortress. Two of the soldiers unwittingly release a mysterious entity that kills or corrupts those within its influence, drawing the attention of a Gestapo commander, a Jewish scholar, and a mysterious traveller.

Movie
Birdboy: The Forgotten Children
7.4
2015

Birdboy: The Forgotten Children

Teenagers Birdboy and Dinki have decided to escape from an island devastated by ecological catastrophe: Birdboy by shutting himself off from the world, Dinki by setting out on a dangerous voyage in the hope that Birdboy will accompany her.

Movie
Chances Are
6.6
1989

Chances Are

Louie Jeffries is happily married to Corinne. On their first anniversary, Louie is killed crossing the road. Louie is reincarnated as Alex Finch, and twenty years later, fate brings Alex and Louie's daughter, Miranda, together. It's not until Alex is invited to Louie's home that he begins to remember his former life, wife and best friend. Of course, there's also the problem that he's attracted to Louie's/his own daughter.

Movie
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
6.6
1963

X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes

A doctor uses special eye drops to give himself x-ray vision, but the new power has disastrous consequences.

Movie
Curious George: Royal Monkey
7.6
2019

Curious George: Royal Monkey

Join your favorite monkey as he takes on his most regal role yet in the all-new movie, Curious George: Royal Monkey. After disrupting a meeting with a stuffy royal family, George accidentally trades places with the king's snooty monkey, Philippe. While Philippe puzzles Ted with his flawless manners, George travels to the castle where his fun-loving antics raise eyebrows and bring shy Princess Isabel out of her shell. Featuring all-new music from Andy Grammer, this king-sized adventure reminds us all that doing what you love is the key to happiness.

Movie