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tt0101465 | Black Robe | The film is set in Quebec, New France, 1634. Captain Champlain(Jean Brousseau) approves a proposal by the Jesuits to travel up the St. Lawrence River and restablish contact with a Jesuit mission in the Huron nation. A young Jesuit is chosen to lead the expedition, Father Laforgue(Lothaire Bluteau). Daniel(Aden Young), ... | violence, historical, murder, flashback | train | imdb | This exquisitely photographed film portrays the cultural clash between Europeans (in this case the Europeans happen to be French) and various native tribes in seventeenth century North America without romanticizing either French culture or that of the native peoples.Perhaps the most striking feature of this film from m... |
tt1821694 | RED 2 | Three years after the previous film, while trying to lead a normal life with girlfriend Sarah Ross (Mary-Louise Parker), Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) is approached by Marvin Boggs (John Malkovich), who claims people are still after them, but Frank dismisses him. After appealing a second time, Marvin drives off, and his c... | entertaining, revenge, humor, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0492044 | The Haunting in Connecticut | As the movie opens over the sound of a piano playing we begin to see old black and white photographs, as the photos continue to change you see that the photos are being taken at a funeral home and show family members sitting with the bodies of dead loved ones.From the photos the scene changes to see Sarah Campbell (Vir... | violence, psychedelic, gothic, haunting, flashback | train | imdb | I'm sure it helped that I was in the right mood and the right atmosphere when I saw this movie at a midnight screening at South by Southwest, but The Haunting in Connecticut was a horror movie that really struck a chord with me.I'm a longtime fan of this genre, getting acquainted with all the old classics and cult film... |
tt0405508 | Rang De Basanti | A young, struggling British filmmaker Sue McKinley (Alice Patten) comes across the diary of her grandfather, Mr. McKinley (Steven Mackintosh), who served as a jailer in the Imperial Police during the Indian independence movement. Through the diary, she learns about the story of five freedom fighters who were active in ... | avant garde, murder, cult, violence, flashback, revenge | train | wikipedia | The way each character gradually immerses into scenes from the past leaves you fantasizing about the hard work that has gone in the background to create this, both technically and on the part of the actor.The movie starts on a very high spirit reflecting today's youth mindset who believe that patriotism is something th... |
tt0158983 | South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut | Stan Marsh, Kenny McCormick, Kyle Broflovski, and Eric Cartman go to a cinema to see Terrance and Phillip: Asses of Fire, which stars the boys' favorite Canadian comedy duo Terrance and Phillip. However, the boys are refused entry due to the film being R-rated, so they pay a homeless man to accompany them.
The followin... | comedy, cult, psychedelic, humor, satire, entertaining | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0448075 | The Night Listener | Gabriel Noone (Robin Williams), a popular gay New York City radio show host, is dealing with a separation from his partner, Jess (Bobby Cannavale). Noone is given a memoir written by teenager Pete Logand (Rory Culkin), who chronicles the many years of sexual abuse he suffered at the hands of his parents and their frien... | storytelling | train | wikipedia | Unfortunately, if you read more than 3 lines into that same review, you discovered the poster's reason for disdain: he/she does not like the fact that the director is gay (or that the production team smokes crack...apparently).So, despite the fact that I have never written a review before, I thought this movie deserved... |
tt0369226 | Alone in the Dark | The narrator reads a long, boring story about the existence of an ancient Native American civilization which disappeared for unknown reasons.Present Day. Edward Carnby (Christian Slater) is on board an airplane and has a nightmare, in which he remembers how he hid himself in a high-voltage box as a child, while staring... | gothic, murder, stupid, cult, violence, flashback, good versus evil, psychedelic, romantic | train | imdb | If you don't want to feel slighted you'll sit through this horrible film and develop a real sense of pity for the actors involved, they've all seen better days, but then you realize they actually got paid quite a bit of money to do this and you'll lose pity for them just like you've already done for the film.
I can't g... |
tt0084316 | Megaforce | Hunter: "Remember the name of the place?"Zara: "Lion's Head Hotel, London."The peace-loving Republic of Sardun is facing constant incursions from hostile neighbor Gamibia. Unwilling to retaliate and initiate war, high-ranking Sardunian military officials Major Zara and General Byrne-White arrange a rendezvous with Mega... | good versus evil | train | imdb | Watching the filming at Nevada's dry lakes, it did feel like something monumentous was in the making, but nobody could have imagined just how negative a reaction this movie was going to receive.
There's enough vehicle stunts, random explosions, and weapons futurismo to keep average 12-year-olds very entertained, and I ... |
tt1727776 | Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse | The film starts with Ron the janitor (Blake Anderson) jamming out to "Black Widow" in the halls of a research facility. He enters where Dr. Pieter Morris (Theo Kypri) is working on something. Pieter leaves to get a snack from the vending machine while Ron cleans up. He notices something behind a curtain. There, he find... | comedy, murder, violence, absurd, humor, romantic, revenge | train | imdb | null |
tt0108037 | The Sandlot | The film is told through the perspective of Scotty Smalls, who is reminiscing on his first summer in Los Angeles. In 1962, Smalls moves with his mother and stepfather, Bill, to a new neighborhood, and struggles to make new friends. One afternoon, he decides to follow a group of neighborhood boys, and watches them play ... | cult | train | imdb | So imagine his surprise when he winds up meeting a kid who invites him to play baseball with him and his best friends.
But eventually, the kids grow to like him and teach him the ways of the game, and before long they're having a lot of fun during the summer.
The Sandlot is a great childhood film because it examines ch... |
tt1055366 | Camp Rock | Mitchie Torres is an aspiring young musician who hopes to become a professional singer. Mitchie wants to go to a music camp named "Camp Rock". Since the family cannot afford the tuition, Mitchie's mother, Connie, arranges to cater food for the camp, thus allowing Mitchie to attend. In return, Mitchie must help her moth... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1045658 | Silver Linings Playbook | After eight months of treatment in a mental health facility for bipolar disorder, Patrick "Pat" Solitano (Bradley Cooper) is released into the care of his father Patrizio (Robert De Niro) and mother Dolores (Jacki Weaver). His main focus is to reconcile with his estranged wife, Nikki (Brea Bee). She has moved away and ... | dark, dramatic, violence, flashback, humor, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1496025 | Underworld Awakening | This latest addition to the 'Underworld' series opens six months after the events of the second movie, Underworld: Evolution. The vampire Selene is captured by humans during "The Purge," a massive crusade of war to exterminate vampires and lycans after mankind learns of their existence. Humans call Lycans "Non-Humans" ... | gothic, murder, violence, good versus evil, action, revenge, sci-fi | train | imdb | null |
tt0087469 | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | 1935. At the Club Obi Wan in Shanghai, Indiana Jones and his pal Wu Han (masquerading as a waiter) encounter crime boss Lao Che, who is seeking the remains of Nurhachi, an ancient emperor from the Ming Dynasty. When the deal goes down, Che tries to poison Indy, but chaos ensues, leading to a running gun battle and purs... | mystery, gothic, cruelty, murder, cult, violence, action, brainwashing, romantic, sadist | train | imdb | null |
tt0106364 | Batman: Mask of the Phantasm | A meeting between crime lord Chuckie Sol (Dick Miller) and his cronies starts one night in Gotham City. Sol is instructing his men about the procedure for laundering some new counterfeit bills through their casino when the meeting is interrupted by the Batman. Batman takes out Sols' followers but Chuckie manages to get... | comedy, gothic, murder, neo noir, cult, violence, flashback, good versus evil, insanity, psychedelic, romantic, tragedy, revenge, sadist | train | imdb | null |
tt0409011 | Love Wrecked | Jenny Taylor (Bynes) is a fan of Jason Masters (Chris Carmack), a world famous rock star, but her efforts to meet him are always thwarted by her nemesis, Alexis (Jamie-Lynn Sigler). Hoping to get another chance, Jenny takes a job in Masters' favorite Caribbean resort in St. Luchas with Ryan (Jonathan Bennett) her lifel... | romantic | train | imdb | My friend CK asked me to go along for this movie, as he's a huge Amanda Bynes fan, having followed her television series What I Like About You, and both of us agreed upon her comic potential in She's The Man, which was a pretty fun gender bender movie.With a title like that, there's nothing too cerebral about Lovewreck... |
tt0035429 | Went the Day Well? | The story is told in flashback by a villager, played by Mervyn Johns, as though to a person visiting after the war. He recounts: one Saturday during the Second World War, a group of seemingly authentic British soldiers arrive in the small, fictitious English village of Bramley End. It is the Whitsun weekend so life is ... | tragedy, suspenseful, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0051337 | The 7th Voyage of Sinbad | (Expanded, edited version)The Seventh Voyage of SinbadThe film begins with Sinbad (Kerwin Matthews) on board his ship, with Harufa (Alfred Brown) his chief lieutenant, sailing through a thick fog, en route to Baghdad from the Kingdom of Chandra (1) with a special cargo, the Princess Parisa (Kathryn Grant) (2), accompan... | action, fantasy | train | imdb | It had it all, adventure, fantasy, heroics, monsters, and Harryhausen's stop-frame wizardry that puts half the CGI effects right out of business.I too, saw it as a child and along with JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS, THE GOLDEN VOYAGE OF SINBAD and CLASH OF THE TITANS, bought it years later and played it to standing room only... |
tt0063206 | Kyuketsuki Gokemidoro | Air Japan flight JA307 is enroute from Tokyo's Haneda airport south
to Itami Airport in Osaka. As stewardess Kuzumi Asakura [Tomomi Sato] announces the
flight plan, which will take them over the island of Oshima and the city
of Suzuka, the pilot notices an unusual blood red color to the sky around
them. That's when the... | anti war | train | imdb | This is a slick, well-done horror/sci-fi that blends many elements and does it well.There's some vampires, people's minds being taken over, driven insane, killing each other, invading aliens with sinister plots, and a lot of innocents in peril.
The movie opens with a UFO sighting, and a plane being knocked out of the s... |
tt0800241 | Transsiberian | An American couple, Roy (Woody Harrelson) and Jessie (Emily Mortimer), take the train from Beijing to Moscow as an adventurous side trip on their return home from a Christian mission in China. The gregarious Roy befriends their cabin mates, a Spanish man, Carlos (Eduardo Noriega), travelling with his young Seattle-born... | suspenseful, mystery, neo noir, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0078087 | Piranha | David (Roger Richman) and Barbara (Janie Squire) are two young backpackers who happen upon a military post that seems to be abandoned. They discover a large man-made reservoir and decide to go skinny dipping. Within minutes they are attacked and consumed by some underwater presence, their death screams attracting the a... | tragedy, cult, comedy, violence | train | imdb | Debut film of B horror director Joe Dante is this fun, exciting Jaws spoof that's the best of its kind!
A school of deadly, mutant piranha is released from a government laboratory and it's up to an alcoholic man and his detective love-interest to warn folks down stream!A fast-paced, campy, and humorous ride all the way... |
tt0056194 | The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner | "The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner" begins with Colin Smith (Tom Courtenay) running, alone, along a bleak country road somewhere in rural England. In a brief voiceover, Colin tells us that running is the way his family has always coped with the world's troubles, but that in the end, the runner is always alone ... | romantic, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0052077 | Plan 9 from Outer Space | PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE synopsisCriswell (the Narrator) (Criswell) introduces this story about GRAVE ROBBERS FROM OUTER SPACE and warns the viewer about whether you can stand the shocking truth.As narration continues we see several people gathered around a grave with a small ceremony. An old man (Bela Lugosi) grieves... | horror, cult, humor, murder | train | imdb | While it thoroughly deserves its reputation as a film only worth seeing so that you can enjoy its remarkably amateurish production, on the other hand it seems a bit unfair to label "Plan 9 From Outer Space" as the worst film ever made.
Those qualities put it well ahead of a great many movies that cost a lot more to mak... |
tt0082250 | Death Wish II | The film opens with a grand view of Los Angeles, with a news broadcast in the background detailing an increase in crime in the city. The overview of the city goes until the end of the opening credits where we zoom in on the new house of Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) where the maid, Rosario (Silvana Gallardo), is prepar... | revenge, cult, murder, violence, flashback | train | imdb | Charles Bronson is fantastic as Architect Paul Kersey getting revenge on a muggers who raped and killed his house keeper and his daughter.
Be grateful for Michael Winner's sledgehammer sensitivity because it produced this classic.None of Paul Kersey's (Charles Bronson) remaining family and friends get off lightly in th... |
tt0268995 | The Majestic | In 1951 in the midst of the Second Red Scare, Peter Appleton is an up-and-coming young screenwriter in Hollywood. He learns from studio lawyer Leo Kubelsky and his own attorney Kevin Bannerman that he has been accused of being a Communist because he attended an antiwar meeting in his college years, a meeting he claims ... | romantic, boring, flashback | train | wikipedia | I always felt he had a bright future ahead of him,as talented as the man is.I very much looked forward to the man's film career beginning, but sadly,at least for me anyway,his big screen efforts have left a lot to be desired.Most of Carrey's films have been ridden with oversexed dialog and toilet humor.Finally,a much m... |
tt0114004 | Not of This Earth | As Cheryl is on her way home after making out with her boyfriend, she is accosted by a strange man who mentally immobilizes her, burns
out her eyes with his stare, and drains her blood with a transfusion
device that he keeps in a briefcase. The next morning, a strange man
dressed in black and wearing dark sunglasses, w... | cult | train | imdb | Intentionally cheezy is fun but it isn't that fun. I think the makers of this movie want you to heckle it. It's definitely obvious that the cheese was intentional but more importantly it's real MSTable material With some hilariously bad scenes. Roger Corman is the king of Cheese flicks and this is proof. Just make s... |
tt2528814 | God's Not Dead | AP History teacher Grace Wesley (Melissa Joan Hart), a devout evangelical Christian, notices that one of her students, Brooke Thawley (Hayley Orrantia), is withdrawn following the recent accidental death of her brother. Involved in little more than her studies, Brooke notices Grace's hope-filled attitude, and asks wher... | romantic, intrigue, philosophical | train | wikipedia | I'm a conservative evangelical Christian (a Calvinist in fact), and I am not exactly proud of this movie.At times, it was actually kind of entertaining - mostly because of the laughably bad writing, but near the end there actually were some dramatic moments that affected me.
And to be honest, it doesn't reflect very we... |
tt0758766 | Music and Lyrics | As one of the founding members of the band PoP!, former pop star Alex Fletcher (Hugh Grant) enjoyed considerable fame and success during the 1980s and early 1990s. Fifteen years after PoP! disbanded, Fletcher is a self-acknowledged has-been, reprising his 1980s hits for audiences of his now middle-aged fans. After year... | whimsical, romantic, comedy | train | imdb | null |
tt0104257 | A Few Good Men | Late one evening, at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, two Marines, Private First Class Louden Downey (James Marshall) and Lance Corporal Harold Dawson (Wolfgang Bodison) are arrested for assaulting and killing a fellow Marine of their unit, PFC William Santiago (Michael DeLorenzo).At first it is assumed tha... | dramatic, suspenseful, murder, flashback | train | imdb | In one of the most telling scenes in this movie, Navy Lieutenant Commander Jo Galloway (Demi Moore), a lawyer who is helping to defend two Marines on trial for murder, is asked why she likes these guys so much.
And she replies, `Because they stand on a wall, and they say nothing is going to hurt you tonight, not on my... |
tt0149261 | Deep Blue Sea | At Aquatica, a former submarine refueling facility converted into a laboratory, a team of scientists searches for a cure for Alzheimer's disease. Fluids from the brain tissue of three Mako sharks are harvested. Unknown to the other scientists, Drs. Susan McAlester and Jim Whitlock have violated the code of ethics and h... | violence, humor | train | wikipedia | One of my favorite shark horror monsters movies and favorite Thomas Jane film.
Deep Blue Sea (1999) is my favorite shark monsters horror film and favorite film of Thomas Jane.
The idea about Alzheimer's disease making sharks smart was brilliant.I enjoy this film it is my favorite shark film, a lot of peoples are going ... |
tt0082377 | The Final Conflict | Damien Thorn (Sam Neill), now 32 years old and head of his late uncle's international conglomerate, is appointed Ambassador to Great Britain, the same position his adoptive father held in the first film. Unlike the previous Omen films, the adult Damien is now entirely aware of his unholy lineage, and his destiny.An ali... | gothic, murder, good versus evil, insanity, revenge, sadist | train | imdb | This series certainly hasn't lost it's touch, I'll admit.I suppose it's also very upsetting in places, since Damien is now an adult, in change of the Ambassador position after all this time, but even so, the film is very powerful, and very moving.Once again, the "Omen" series flourishes..
This second sequel to huge hit... |
tt1389762 | Garfield's Pet Force | On the planet Dorkon, Professor Wally (The professor counterpart to Wally) shows Emperor Jon (the Emperor counterpart to Jon Arbuckle) his new invention, The Moscram ray gun, a device powered by the Klopman crystal that can scramble inanimate objects and organisms into new creatures under the user's control. But Empero... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | the very young, and not in heart but mind.
A little context: I, 22 year old, go to movies all the time with both my parents.
There's few movies I can't get anything good out of, so I enjoy watching most.
Even more so knowing my parents are happy in my company.My feelings: Going in the theater with a cheery attitude for... |
tt1170358 | The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug | In a flashback set in the town of Bree on the border of the Shire, Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage) arrives at the Prancing Pony, orders a meal, and notices that he's being watched. The watchers withdraw when Gandalf the Grey (Ian McKellen) joins Thorin. Gandalf urges Thorin to begin a quest to obtain the Arkensto... | mystery, fantasy, murder, boring, violence, flashback, good versus evil, action, romantic, revenge | train | imdb | null |
tt0109324 | Boy Meets Girl | This dark British drama features S&M and centers upon a woman who slowly, fatally tortures the man she keeps captive in her basement. Anne Marie, a French woman, finds her captive, Tevin, in a bar. She is beautiful and he willingly returns to her apartment for a night of love. Instead she spikes his drink. He awakens t... | violence, sadist | train | imdb | One of the many things I love about DVD, as a medium, is the way that so many wonderful films that never got the video release they so richly deserved have being unearthed from the vaults and unleashed on the viewing public - usually a public that can't even remember them from the first time round at that.One such forg... |
tt0104119 | Dolly Dearest | American father, Elliot Wade, obtains ownership of the Dolly Dearest factory in Mexico. Not far from the factory lies the underground, Mayan tomb of Sanzia, or Satan on Earth. An archaeologist breaks into the sarcophagus but is crushed by the stone slab that covers the entrance and the malevolent spirit of Sanzia that ... | cult, gothic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0055408 | Santo vs. las mujeres vampiro | In The Forest of White Pine, a coven of Vampire women living in a castle, has awoken after a sleep of over 200 years.The first one to awaken, is Tandra,the Vampire Priestess, who must prepare to awaken Thorina, the Queen of the Vampire Women. 200 years prior, a woman chosen to be Thorina's successor escaped the clutche... | cult | train | imdb | In the late fifties a horror genre burst onto the Mexican screen:masked wrestlers as super heroes.They were a huge hit in Mexico.As usual K Gordon Murray snapped up the American rights to these films.Most were sold directly to televison as saturday afternoon kiddie fare.These were pretty cool when we were well under 12... |
tt0430576 | The Secret Life of Words | Taciturn, partially deaf Hanna (Polley) is a Yugoslavian native working in a factory in Northern Ireland. She is forced to take a vacation by her boss, who tells her that her co-workers have been offended by her lack of socializing. After overhearing a conversation about a need for a nurse, she takes on a job as privat... | romantic, depressing, murder, storytelling, sentimental | train | wikipedia | The little quirks of the characters liven up the story, as does the interaction between Polley's disturbed nurse and Robbin's rough patient.
the sea, Tim Robbin's eyes, Hanna's beautiful voice and her intense way of holding her feelings, Simon's delightful food in the middle of nowhere..The way it is conceived is someh... |
tt0023948 | Dinner at Eight | One week before her next society dinner, Millicent Jordan (Billie Burke) receives word that Lord and Lady Ferncliffe, whom she and her husband Oliver (Lionel Barrymore), a New York shipping magnate, had met in England the previous year, have accepted her invitation. Overjoyed by this social coup, Millicent is oblivious... | satire, depressing | train | wikipedia | DINNER AT EIGHT takes a first class list of performers at the top of their form (Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow, Billie Burke) and seamlessly, if a bit implausibly, weaves a plot full of comedy & tragedy which allows each star to strut their stuff.Dressler was Hollywood's t... |
tt0091003 | Eliminators | There's a time travelling 1-eyed mad scientist that created a cyborg with a laser on his arm. Said cyborg attempts escape certain dismantlement, which ends up killing some Asian assistant scientist that tried to help him. After escaping using tank treads as legs and shooting lasers at hired goons, he goes to another sc... | cult, violence, flashback, good versus evil, psychedelic, revenge | train | imdb | Seriously, as the amazingly varied collection of characters adds up (river-rat, scientist, robot, ninja, cavemen, Roman soldiers, and on) you will never be bored.
There is a lot to like, for kids or B-movie lovers, but somehow it never degenerates into the lesser-desirable qualities of the "so bad it's good" genre.
Whi... |
tt1323045 | Frozen | Princess Elsa of Arendelle possesses cryokinetic magic, often using it to play with her younger sister Anna. After Elsa accidentally injures Anna with her magic, their parents, the King and Queen, rush both siblings to a colony of trolls led by Grand Pabbie. He heals Anna, but alters her memories to remove traces of El... | violence, cult, psychological, entertaining, suspenseful | train | wikipedia | Her standout scene takes place when she's relaying her fears about what might happen to her puppy if she dies on the lift, and if he'd think she abandoned him.Kudos to Adam Green for shooting this film on location.
There are some gruesome bits, particularly the hand scene from the trailer and a discovery towards the fi... |
tt2479478 | The Ridiculous 6 | In the Old West era, a calm man named Tommy Stockburn (Sandler) is raised by Native Americans, where he is named "White Knife", due to his tendency to use knives. He is due to marry a Native girl named Smoking Fox (Jones). He has a run-in with a gang of bandits with eye patches on their right eyes, led by Will Patch (F... | revenge | train | wikipedia | I just really really liked this as far as Adam Sandler movies go.
Basically put, if you like Adam Sandler at all here and there, give this movie a go.
Particularly a couple cameos that occur during a poker scene.Chances are good if you're a Sandler/Happy Madison fan, you'll enjoy this..
Alternately laugh out loud and v... |
tt0061578 | The Dirty Dozen | In Britain, in the spring of 1944, Allied forces are preparing for the D-Day invasion. Among them are Major John Reisman (Lee Marvin), an OSS officer; his commander, Regular Army Major General Sam Worden (Ernest Borgnine); and his former commander Colonel Everett Dasher Breed (Robert Ryan). The personalities of the thr... | cult, comedy | train | wikipedia | Quentin Tarantino looks like he just might follow through with his threat to make the ultimate "guys on a mission movie" if he gets his 'Inglorious Bastards' on to the big screen, but he'll be pushed to equal 'The Dirty Dozen', the quintessential movie in the genre.
It shouldn't be taken too seriously - I don't think a... |
tt1999995 | Would You Rather | Iris (Brittany Snow), a young woman caring for her sick brother Raleigh (Logan Miller), is unable to afford to his treatment costs. Dr. Barden (Lawrence Gilliard, Jr.), the doctor treating Raleigh, introduces Iris to Shepard Lambrick (Jeffrey Combs), a seemingly philanthropic aristocrat, who offers her a deal: if she c... | mystery, cruelty, realism, murder, stupid, horror, suspenseful, sadist | train | imdb | The ending also felt so flat that it could hardly produce sympathy from the audience, an attempt to cater to the twist-necessitating crowd that has been delved since Saw's low budget first film hit our eyes.
the characters really don't hold much "character" at all), I did enjoy this suspense/horror film because it wasn... |
tt0289652 | Living with the Dead | James Van Praagh (Ted Danson) is a fifty yeared-old man who has his own small business, insomnia at night and leads a lonely life. As his business is going badly, he needs to do something about it, and has the idea of creating the company's own website. He hires a successful professional web designer Midge Harmon (Quee... | murder, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0086984 | Body Double | The film begins and ends with the protagonist, Jake Scully (Craig Wasson), playing the part of a vampire on the set of a low-budget horror film. After he ruins a take by being unable to rise from a coffin due to claustrophobia, a fire breaks out on the set and he is sent home by the director Rubin (Dennis Franz).Scully... | neo noir, murder, violence, atmospheric, flashback, suspenseful | train | imdb | To my enjoyment, I had a few smiles, even laughters, intensity, involving to the storyline, getting that suspense that is needed.This movie is a perfect example to pull of what Hitchcock has done best in "Rear Window" and "Vertigo".
With Body Double, Brian De Palma has another of his "Hitchcock rip-offs", but in quotes... |
tt3470600 | Sing | Set in an animated world controlled by animals, the film starts with a young koala bear named Buster Moon (voice of Matthew McConaughey) going to see his very first musical production as a child. He is utterly enthralled by the show and quickly forms the dream to work in theater. As an adult, Buster has taken over the ... | flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0316396 | Peter Pan | Set in London, circa 1900, George and Mary Darling's preparations to attend a party are disrupted by the antics of their boys, John and Michael, acting out a story about Peter Pan and the pirates, told to them by their older sister, Wendy. Their father, who is fed up with the stories that have made his children less pr... | fantasy, murder, violence, action, romantic, storytelling | train | wikipedia | As a long time lover of the J.M. Barrie stories and play, all I can say is that P.J. Hogan's "Peter Pan" is the Pan movie I have waited my entire life for.
Hogan and company have brought the Barrie work to the screen and have rightly restored to it a child's sense of awe and wonder, of both beauty and terror co-existin... |
tt0079688 | Over the Edge | Carl (Michael Kramer) and his friends, Ritchie (Matt Dillon), Claude (Tom Fergus), and Johnny (Tiger Thompson) are hanging out at The Rec, a recreation center for the kids in New Grenada, a planned community full of condominiums and town homes. The Rec is pretty much the only thing in town for the children, as the Home... | cult, violence | train | imdb | I remember as I watched the movie thinking that the clothes the kids were wearing looked worn just enough, like they had come out of the actors' own closets.
The adults in the movie can't be bothered with them and are more interested in bringing people into New Granada and developing the town rather than meet the needs... |
tt0102138 | JFK | The film opens with a narration (by an uncredited Martin Sheen) showing newsreel footage, including the farewell address in 1961 of outgoing President Dwight D. Eisenhower, warning about the build-up of the "military-industrial complex". This is followed by a summary of John F. Kennedy's years as president, emphasizing... | boring, historical, murder, flashback | train | imdb | JFK runs the difficult task of presenting fact, fiction, conjecture and opinion, twisting them all to present the increasingly difficult to dispute conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone (and according to director Oliver Stone, did not act) in the assassination of President Kennedy.
The film is loaded with... |
tt0211443 | Jason X | In 2008, Jason Voorhees is captured by the U.S. government and is being held at the Crystal Lake Research Facility. Two years later, Rowan LaFontaine, a government scientist, decides to place Jason in cryogenic suspension after several unsuccessful attempts to kill him. While Private Samuel Johnson places a blanket on ... | comedy, murder, violence, flashback, absurd, humor, suspenseful, entertaining | train | imdb | I think is MILES way better then Jason Goes to Hell and Miles way better movie then Hellraiser: Bloodline that was in outer space this movie is just better.7.years ago when I become a fan of Supernatural I heard that Jared Padalecki will be in the reboot Friday the 13th movie I rushed to see this movie.
I watch Friday ... |
tt0375100 | Strandvaskaren | A farmer kills three male students of an exclusive and elitist boarding school called Hallestad. Afterwards, the farmer kills himself by drowning in the river nearby. His body was never found.99 years afterwards, a female student, Rebecca (Sasa Bjurling), is depressed and commits suicide jumping from Hallestad's roof.A... | murder | train | imdb | My brief review of the film.
A very well photographed Swedish horror fiasco, it features a creative range of camera angles and some wonderful camera movement, which keeps the film interesting on a visual level.
Other than the camera-work, it is not at all extraordinary stuff.
It has a formulaic story, a messy plot and ... |
tt0301357 | Good Bye Lenin! | The film opens with old footage from summer 1978 at our old weekend cabin. A boy (Nico Ledermüller) pushes a girl (Jelena Kratz) in a cart while the father films. The boy and girl play in the back yard and around the house.After the titles, a television reporter speaks about a space program while the boy and girl watch... | comedy, dramatic, violence, flashback, satire, romantic, historical, home movie | train | imdb | null |
tt1530509 | The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) | The film opens with the final credits of The Human Centipede (First Sequence), including the closing credits. The camera pulls back, to reveal that this is playing on a portable DVD player, and a man in a toll booth in a parking garage is watching the film. Martin Lomax (Laurence R. Harvey) is an asthmatic, overweight,... | violence, cruelty, murder, sadist, stupid | train | imdb | My friend came home once and said he had just watched a movie called 'The Human Centipede.' He then asked me to imagine what comes to mind when I think of those words.
I had no such problem with The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) as not only does it retain (and amplify) the revoltingness of the original, but strips... |
tt0480269 | Interview | Pierre Peders (Steve Buscemi) is a political journalist who has been assigned an interview with a popular soap opera star, Katya (Sienna Miller). She arrives an hour late, doesn't apologise and immediately succeeds in convincing the maitre d' (David Schechter) to give them the best table, which up to then was occupied.... | dramatic | train | imdb | One night in New York he is assigned to interview a beautiful actress known for B movie horror films and highly sexed cable TV fare of the "Sex in the City" variety.
Her only real claim to fame seems to be that she underwent a breast reduction operation, getting her implants removed.Through a fluke what starts off as a... |
tt0228685 | Oriundi | Brazilian director Ricardo Bravo has fashioned a rare kind of film, a heart-tugger that completely immerses the viewer and moves you to tears. ORIUNDI is an utterly charming love story that is funny, poignant and tragic at the same time. The film is also marked by strong familial undercurrents that are handled with ext... | romantic, horror | train | imdb | null |
tt0388973 | The Girl from Monday | In a future sterilized world, a city without a name is peopled by a population that are all bar-coded on their wrists and are monitored by MMM, the Multi-Media Monopoly a global corporation that runs the country like a business. Sex in this culture is for commercial reasons and those are tied to the continuance and thr... | romantic, avant garde, satire | train | imdb | Betaville.
In which Hartley continues his exploration of the Godard cookbook.
In this case, "Alphaville", with side orders of "The Man Who Fell to Earth" and various Chris Marker 'photoroman' movies.The voice-over is not a cover for the failure to tell the story so much as a yarn-spinning technique along the lines of e... |
tt0024578 | Snow-White | At the beginning of the story, a queen sits sewing at an open window during a winter snowfall when she pricks her finger with her needle, causing three drops of red blood to drip onto the freshly fallen white snow on the black windowsill. Then, she says to herself, "How I wish that I had a daughter that had skin as whi... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | The Strangest Snow White You'l Ever See. This is another of those Betty Boop cartoons that feature two things: music and an insane storyline with wild visuals where crazy things happen one after the other.
I say that because this is not any Snow White story you've ever seen.
It's so strange, and it's almost hard to des... |
tt0092563 | Angel Heart | Angel Heart (1987)An ominous street; midnight, a dark figure walks down an alley, past the sounds of anguish and moaning. A lone cat looks down from the fire escape, a street dog wanders the alley scrounging for food. The dog spots the cat and barks, giving chase only to stop briefly to lap up fresh blood pouring from ... | dark, mystery, neo noir, murder, paranormal, cult, violence, flashback | train | imdb | This unmatched sense of place is a symptom of his stark imagery and sombre lighting which is played out through an amalgamation of film noir and the focal iconography of 50s and 60s French New Wave (the use of elevators, ceiling fans, staircases etc).For many of these reasons and more Angel Heart is a very influential ... |
tt0055452 | The Sinister Urge | The film revolves around a series of murders of young women. The opening scene features an unnamed blonde woman (Betty Boatner) running along a mountain road, wearing only her undergarments. She is clearly scared for her life. She enters a city park and manages to reach a telephone booth. Her attempt to escape her assa... | cult, murder | train | wikipedia | The stuff of which legends are made.In 1995 in beautiful downtown Toronto, when Tim Burton's mighty biopic ED WOOD went into second-run, one of our rep cinemas had a never-to-be-forgotten quadruple bill of films by everyone's favourite cross-dressing auteur.
JAIL BAIT, BRIDE OF THE MONSTER, NIGHT OF THE GHOULS preceded... |
tt0227445 | The Score | After nearly being caught on a routine burglary, master safe-cracker Nick Wells (Robert De Niro) decides the time has finally come to retire from his illegal activities and focus on running his jazz club. Nick's flight attendant girlfriend, Diane (Angela Bassett), encourages this decision, promising to fully commit to ... | suspenseful, comedy, neo noir, boring | train | imdb | null |
tt0303929 | Dracula III: Legacy | NOTE: Sequel to Dracula II: Ascensiion (2003). Dracula III: Legacy can be viewed alone, without having seen I & II, but it helps to know the history of how Uffizi, Luke, and Elizabeth got involved with the hunt for Dracula, to know that Uffizi was "tainted" at the end of Dracula II, and to know what Dracula is referrin... | violence | train | imdb | Actually is quite easy to find catholic priests in these parts of Romania.Brasov, which is my city, has the Black Church, the biggest Gothic style Catholic Cathedral in Eastern Europe!You don't have to know history to check what you are saying at www.wikipedia.comAnyway, for those interested in the Dracula myth, you sh... |
tt0093191 | Der Himmel über Berlin | Note: This film was shot in black/white and color. The Angels cannot see color. Therefore, when the shot is from the angels' point of view, the shot is black and white, and when the shot is from a human point of view, it is in color. There is much poetic language used in this film that simply cannot be properly conveye... | mystery, boring, cult, atmospheric, flashback, psychedelic, philosophical, romantic | train | imdb | A poem continues throughout the movie and ties everything together, repeating "When the child was a child..." and we realize that humans are the children, the ones younger than angels, just learning and enjoying life.
A note to those of you who have only seen the bland, woefully wrong-hearted and half-assed "City of An... |
tt0967945 | The Merry Gentleman | A delicacy of tone transforms Michael Keatons The Merry Gentleman from what might have been a pedestrian tale into a beautifully romantic fable. Directed, photographed, and performed with a precision and style that mark a distinctive directorial debut, the film begins with a woman who leaves an abusive relationship to ... | murder | train | imdb | It makes me go all weak in the knees, sends my heart aflutter.She is the reason I went to see "The Merry Gentleman." I like Michael Keaton, too, and thought his performance in "Game 6" (2005) was exceptionally good.
I wasn't too sure how good a director he would be, but after watching "The Merry Gentleman," I can safel... |
tt0042994 | Stage Fright | Eve Gill (Jane Wyman), an aspiring actress studying at RADA, is interrupted in the middle of a rehearsal by her friend, actor Jonathan Cooper (Richard Todd). The frantic Jonathan explains that he is the secret lover of flamboyant stage actress/singer, Charlotte Inwood (Marlene Dietrich). He claims that Charlotte visite... | insanity, plot twist, murder, romantic, flashback | train | imdb | black comedy that boasts great performances from Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding, Alistair Sim, Sybil Thorndike, Joyce Grenfell, Kay Walsh & Richard Todd.
The scene at the garden party when she switches from Dietrich's cockney maid to Smith's innocent date with every turn is delightful.It is the masterful... |
tt0414161 | Intermedio | In a small California town, Malik (Edward Furlong) along with his former girlfriend Gen (Cerina Vincent) her friend Barbie (Amber Benson), and another friend named Wes (Callard Harris) take a weekend getaway to an old ghost town where Malik and Gen played when they were younger.
They arrive at a long-abandoned prospect... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0114436 | Showgirls | A young woman is hitchiking from what appears to be a truck stop; snow capped mountains are seen in the distance which sets it either in Colorado or an upstate U.S. state. A pickup truck pulls over for her, driven by a man who looks like a shady character. The young woman is unsure about whether she should accept the r... | cult, revenge, satire, boring | train | imdb | null |
tt0233142 | 3000 Miles to Graceland | The film opens outside of Las Vegas, in the scorching Nevada desert. Michael (Kurt Russell) stops at the Last Resort Hotel and Cafe, where he gets a room. As he is going back to his car, a little kid named Jesse (David Kaye) takes two of the custom skullhead valve caps off of Michael's car. Michael chases him, but Jess... | murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0104036 | The Crying Game | British soldier Jody (Forest Whitaker) is lured by Jude while off duty in Ireland an taken captive by Fergus (Stephan Rea), Jude (Miranda Richardson), Maguire (Adrian Dunbar) and others in the IRA. He is held to be exchanged for a IRA prisoner the British are holding.
During the three days Jody is held, he and Fergus b... | murder, plot twist, melodrama, tragedy, revenge, queer | train | imdb | null |
tt0088944 | Commando | Retired Delta Force operator Colonel John Matrix is informed by his former superior Major General Franklin Kirby that all the other members of his former unit have been killed by unknown mercenaries. The mercenaries, among them Bennett, an Australian ex-member of Matrix's team fired for excessive violence, attack Matri... | suspenseful, realism, murder, cult, violence, good versus evil, action, revenge | train | wikipedia | And there is just about everything that should go into an action movie: car chases, explosions, drug-lords, sex, an invincible hero, sitting-duck-like enemies, humor, knife duels, fist fights, rocket launchers, blood, death, bullets, glass, pectorals, muscles, some more muscles, explosions and more explosions.
Lester, ... |
tt0102587 | Omohide poro poro | The film opens in Tokyo, where 27-year-old office worker Taeko Okajima, is planning to take a 10-day vacation. Having previously visited her sister's husband's farm in Yamagata. She had a good time there before, and has decided to go back again.As she prepares for her trip, her mind drifts back to her youth, when she w... | flashback | train | imdb | (1972) or the iconic My Neighbour Totoro (1988); creating a film that is based very much in reality, but abstracted by the more fantastical allusions to childhood and memory.Unlike the more widely regarded Ghibli films, the fantasy elements of Only Yesterday (1991) come from within the narrative; as our central charact... |
tt0099348 | Dances with Wolves | During a US Civil War battle, Union Army Officer Lieutenant John J. Dunbar (Kevin Costner) learns that his injured leg is to be amputated. Seeing the plight of fellow soldiers with amputated legs, Dunbar refuses amputation and attempts suicide by riding a horse across the line of fire, between the opposing Union and Co... | boring, murder, dramatic, violence, flashback, romantic, historical, storytelling, prank | train | imdb | null |
tt1628033 | Top Gear | Hammond travels to the Texas Motor Speedway for the AAA Texas 500 race to explore the world of NASCAR racing. He's interviewing several NASCAR drivers and also rides along in a NASCAR stock car racer with Kyle Petty. Clarkson reviews the Mercedes SLS AMG Roadster. He concludes that is it a modern, flawed, crazed, X-fac... | humor, non fiction | train | imdb | Then there's the "Star in a Reasonably Priced Car" segment, where each week a guest celebrity will come on to do an interview and then race around the Top Gear test track in a budget priced sedan to see how they compare to other famous celebrities who have done the same.
Women will love him, because he's also the cutes... |
tt0325710 | The Last Samurai | In the summer of 1876, Captain Nathan Algren (Tom Cruise), is a disenchanted ex-United States Army captain and an alcoholic. He has been traumatized by his experience fighting in the Civil War and the Indian Wars. In the years following his army service, Algren makes his living by telling war stories to gun show audien... | murder, violence, flashback, psychedelic, romantic, revenge, historical | train | imdb | It was a lot more like Braveheart meets Seven Samurai with elements of inculturation a bit reminiscent of Wolves and Seven Years.Rarely does a movie have excellent acting across the board, but all the Japanese actors were outstanding, and the Americans and Europeans were excellent ...
Even the requisite (American-made ... |
tt0870204 | Boot Camp | This film is the story of a group of unruly teenagers whose parents send them to a rehabilitation boot camp to turn them around. The camp collects each child individually, then delivers them to the boot camp facility on a remote island in Fiji. There are no walls to stop the teenagers from leaving, but escape is imprac... | romantic | train | imdb | The film makes you think about what kind of programs like "ASAP" exists today.
"Tough Love" Boot Camps are portrayed correctly in this movie, and in some cases, the real camps are much more difficult experiences.
Pulling no punches in exposing the cruelty that exists in these rehabilitation centers you frequently find ... |
tt0097239 | Driving Miss Daisy | It is about September of 1948. A wealthy, spunky, and independent 72 year old Jewish widow and former grade school teacher named Daisy Werthan accidentally backs her new Chrysler into her neighbors yard after having put her foot on the accelerator too far. The car is totaled and insurance company has declared her high ... | dramatic, boring | train | imdb | Although it's really more of an extended pair of entwined character portraits--spanning a quarter of a century--it has all of the narrative focus and tightness of a more traditionally structured mystery plot.The character portraits are of Daisy Werthan (Jessica Tandy) and Hoke Colburn (Morgan Freeman).
At the beginning... |
tt0057413 | The Pink Panther | Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus narrates a flashback of a soccer match between France and China. French coach Yves Gluant enters the stadium, wearing the Pink Panther diamond ring, which is seen by his team as a symbol of pride and victory. He kisses his girlfriend, pop star Xania, and whispers something to her. After ... | bleak | train | wikipedia | (Or should I say, every `Clouseau movie,' since I had even seen Adam Arkin's `Inspector Clouseau'?) I discovered tonight, however, that I had never seen the original 1963 classic, `The Pink Panther.' (Or, if I had, I was far too young to appreciate it and had forgotten all but a couple of scenes.)For those not familiar... |
tt0064106 | Le boucher | "Le Boucher" (The Butcher) starts with a wedding ceremony in which Paul, a war veteran , encounters Helene, a school teacher. Paul has taken his father's business and owns a butchery in the village. As the ceremony progressed, both seemed to enjoy each other's company while they ate and chatted merrily. That was a happ... | mystery | train | imdb | null |
tt0870111 | Frost/Nixon | For a quick background, the movie is based on a series of 1977 interviews between television personality David Frost (played by Michael Sheen) and former President Richard Nixon (played by Frank Langella). Frosts interview was the first granted by Nixon after he resigned the presidency. 45 million people watched, and i... | suspenseful, boring, historical, flashback | train | imdb | A remarkable performance by Frank Langella as Richard Nixon transforms this unexpected Ron Howard film into a gripping and unforgettable experience.
This is not a criticism at all, the film has moments of surprisingly real depth and intellectualism, but overall the nature of the script works in its favor, makes those s... |
tt0340855 | Monster | Aileen Wuornos, an aging prostitute, meets Selby at a bar in Daytona Beach. Self-absorbed Selby likes Aileen almost immediately; she likes that 'Lee' wants to attend to her hand and foot and take care of her. At a roller rink, Aileen displays her ability to ascertain men's abnormal sexual proclivities at a glance. They... | dark, depressing, murder, dramatic, violence, tragedy, romantic | train | imdb | The movie itself is one of the most gripping and emotional stories I've ever seen in a film, and, true or not, its right up there with the other great indies depicting the sorry lives of Middle-Americans, such as Boys Don't Cry and, ironically, Monster's Ball.
Before I saw the film, I saw Charlize on The Daily Show, ta... |
tt1748207 | Sound of My Voice | In Los Angeles, substitute schoolteacher Peter and aspiring writer Lorna are a couple in their twenties making a film documentary. Their subject is a secretive cult led by the mysterious Maggie (Brit Marling), whom they plan to expose as a fraud.
When the cult considers Peter and Lorna ready to meet Maggie, they are ma... | cult, psychological, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0373690 | Arsène Lupin | As a boy in the 1880s, Arsène is being taught fencing by his father Théophraste Lupin. They live at the Château of his mother's family, the Dreux-Soubises. When the police tries to arrest Théophraste for thievery, he flees on horseback. Late at night, he returns to persuade Arsène to help him steal jewellery from his u... | revenge, murder, romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt0075261 | Squirm | On the early morning hours on September 29, 1975, in Fly Creek, a small town near the coast in Georgia, a powerful electrical storm rages one night. The high winds topple large high-voltage power lines, and the wires drag and snake along the wet, muddy ground.The next morning, Geri Sanders (Patricia Pearcy) awaits the ... | murder | train | imdb | The 1970's saw a number of nature-strikes-back horror films, like Frogs (1972), Grizzly (1976), Empire of the Ants (1977), Day of the Animals (1977), and Prophecy (1979), but none that were quite as well-made and effectively frightening as this low-budget horror masterpiece!Freak storm blows down power lines in a small... |
tt0066249 | The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes | A dusty box is opened at a lawyers offices, fifty years after being sealed. The box contains Sherlock Holmes memorabilia, such as his cap, his pipe, his magnifying glass, a plaque with the number 221B, a hypodermic needle. Also in the box is a manuscript written by Dr. Watson. It records cases to be suppressed for fift... | psychedelic, humor, atmospheric, sci-fi | train | imdb | This is disappointing to many fans, but in fact is more than most of us have had for a long time, as the somewhat choppy film was often mercilessly cut for television broadcast.Holmes in this case is played by Robert Stephens, an unlikely Holmes in comparison to standards such as Rathbone, Brett, or Gillette, but still... |
tt0283877 | American Psycho II: All American Girl | The film starts with a 12-year-old girl whose babysitter is on a date with serial killer Patrick Bateman. After Bateman kills and starts to dissect her babysitter, the girl stabs him with an ice pick. Fast forward to the present day and the girl, who is named Rachael Newman, is now a college student studying criminolog... | comedy, psychological, murder, violence, flashback, plot twist | train | wikipedia | But this doesn't stop other massive plot holes like the police not checking for DNA when the victim of a car crash is found at the end of the movie AP2:AAG is yet another cynical attempt to sell a stupid movie as a " Black comedy " but this is done in an even more cynical manner since it's a serial killer screenplay ma... |
tt0848228 | The Avengers | Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson), director of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement, and Logistics Division), arrives at S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico, during an evacuation. The Tesseract, an energy source of unknown potential, has activated. It opens a portal through space... | comedy, boring, flashback, good versus evil, humor, action, revenge, entertaining | train | imdb | null |
tt1130988 | JCVD | The film establishes Jean-Claude Van Damme playing himself as an out-of-luck actor. He is out of money; his agent cannot find him a decent production; and the judge in a custody battle is inclined to give custody of his daughter over to his ex-wife. His own daughter rejects him as a father, much to his chagrin. He retu... | comedy, violence, alternate reality, satire, murder | train | wikipedia | It's a kind of dramatic comedy where Jean-Claude Van Damme plays with great conviction his own role in life.
Interesting concept from french director Mabrouk el Mechri: real action star Jean Claude Van Damme is engaged into a bitter legal battle for his daughter's custody.
Yet, remarkable as it may seem, the Muscles fr... |
tt0091777 | Police Academy 3: Back in Training | The film begins in a large garage structure, where Lt. Proctor (Lance Kinsey) and Commandant Mauser (Art Metrano) meet up with former cadets, (now Sgts.) Chad Copeland (Scott Thomson) and Kyle Blankes (Brant van Hoffman). It seems one of the two police academies is getting the axe due to the state government's unwillin... | comedy, prank | train | wikipedia | Yes, combine the first two movies take away most of the cussing and raunchy jokes and you have the start of the very stale Police Academy sequels.
While still suffering from the humor limitations of being rated PG, "Police Academy 3" has sight gags enough to make it worth watching a few times (at least more often than ... |
tt1784670 | The Malay Chronicles: Bloodlines | The story begins with a mysterious man writing about the history of an old Malay kingdom so that people would not forget the history of the early Malay heroes. In 120 AD, the powerful Roman Empire, under the reign of Hadrian, had expanded its rule to the Central Asian countries. During their time of expanding, the grea... | dark | train | wikipedia | Reviewer Raoul Hostettler thinks his local kindergarten could make a better movie that Clash of Empires and so I would like to please book a seat for the opening night.
But then, if Hostettler's local kindy is as good at making movies as he is at writing English, I fear that might be a wasted evening!Yet again (if you'... |
tt0974554 | Elegy | David Kepesh (Ben Kingsley) is an aging although quite virile cultural critic and professor, in a state of 'emancipated manhood.' Previously married, he has a son who has never forgiven him for leaving his mother. His relationships with women are usually casual, brief and sexual in nature. His Pulitzer Prize-winning fr... | flashback | train | imdb | That is until he meets Penelope Cruz's Consuela Castillo, with whom he begins a pretty standard affair and, against all expectations, and much to his dismay, falls in love with her."Elegy" has some seriously good, sure footed performances.
Patrica Clarkson, as Kapesh's long standing mistress, defines hurt and betrayal,... |
tt0421974 | Les chevaliers du ciel | This is the French "Top Gun" circa 2005, and the title would be better translated "The Knights of the Sky"."Walk'n" Marchelli (Benoît Magimel) and "Fahrenheit" Vallois (Clovis Cornillac) are given an assignment to shoot down a rogue Mirage 2000 that has been hijacked by a secret French agency to test preparedness in a ... | murder | train | imdb | null |
tt4319114 | The Last Schnitzel | In not too distant future, Earth is dying.The UN calls for an immediate evacuation to Mars. But while leaders of states launch mass evacuations, the President of the Grand Turkish Republic has his own agenda. He demands to eat a chicken schnitzel for once before leaving Earth or else, no one is going anywhere. Kamil, t... | satire | train | imdb | null |
tt0103110 | Tous les matins du monde | The film begins with a long plan-sequence lasting six minutes on the old, decrepit face of Marin Marais (Gérard Depardieu) who is conducting a master class. As he asks for a viol and starts playing, with tears in his eyes he recalls his old teacher, Monsieur de Sainte Colombe (Jean-Pierre Marielle), and his apparent ow... | romantic | train | imdb | This film knows, but if you don't have some inkling of the answer, you may come away from this film with nothing more than an interesting story set in the music world of 17th century France.
Interrelated, indivisible, and necessary to each other for the severe lessons they teach us as a result of the strength of their ... |
tt0072271 | The Texas Chain Saw Massacre | The film opens on the date of August 18, 1973 by revealing that a cemetery in rural Texas has been vandalized; several gravesites have been desecrated, the bodies dug up and arranged into bizarre "sculptures". Sally Hardesty (Marilyn Burns) and her invalid, wheelchair-bound brother, Franklin (Paul A. Partain), are conc... | dark, avant garde, grindhouse film, gothic, murder, comedy, violence, cult, horror, atmospheric, insanity, tragedy, suspenseful, sadist | train | imdb | With the recent box-office success achieved by the latest remake of 1974's `The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,' it's worth looking back at Tobe Hooper's original horror classic.
Tobe Hopper's 'The Texas Chain Saw Massacre' is a landmark low budget horror movie which must be considered a modern classic.
In this day and age of... |
tt0163978 | The Beach | Richard (Leonardo DiCaprio), a backpacker in Thailand, goes to Southeast Asia with the intention of experiencing something radically different from his familiar life. He meets Daffy (Robert Carlyle), who is crazy and rants on about a beach paradise on a secret island and the parasites of civilization. Daffy later commi... | murder, cult, flashback, insanity, romantic, prank | train | imdb | Taking with him 2 French travellers, Richard sets out to reach the island and finds it inhabited by a mix of people living as a small ideallic community.
However internal conflicts rise up with their arrival and a copy of the map that he gave to some friends threaten to expose the paradise community for it's darker roo... |
tt1928337 | Mine Games | A group of friends is on vacation. Michael (Joseph Cross) and Lyla (Briana Evigan) are a couple, as are TJ (Alex Meraz) and Claire (Julianna Guill). Guy (Ethan Peck) and Rose (Rebecca Da Costa) appear to be unattached and just friends. TJ's cousin Lex (Rafi Gavron) is along for the ride because Lex's dad killed himself... | paranormal, murder | train | imdb | A bunch of friends on vacation in the country discover a disused mine and find something most strange down in its depths.It starts off in conventional fashion, pretty looking youngsters head off to a large cabin in the woods and after nearly running someone down in the road, they arrive at their destination but nothing... |
tt1112736 | A Patriot Act | In this off-shoot of George Orwell's 1984, set in modern-day USA in a small Florida town, Tony is a young waiter who is going through life not doing anything out of the ordinary. The War on Terrorism has been going on for a few years now. A little curious of current events concerning terrorists, he goes to a few Intern... | violence | train | imdb | null |
tt0298845 | In America | The movie opens to a family of 4 nervously trying to cross the border from US into Canada. The father, Johnny (Paddy Considine) tells his two young daughters to remember to say 'we are on holiday'. The INS officials are suspicious, so Christy (Sarah Bolger), the oldest daughter prays to her deceased brother, Frankie. A... | sentimental | train | imdb | null |
tt0119942 | Primary Colors | Well acted drama, adapted from a novel by Joe Klein; has a terrific first half and then falters horribly in the final half hour- almost completely killing the entire movie. Travolta is dead-on as southern Governor Jack Stanton (a thinly veiled charicature of Bill Clinton), who is running for President. The film is show... | satire, atmospheric | train | imdb | "Primary Colors" was definitely better than I thought it would be.First, there was Elaine May's script: Funny, well-written, lean, tender at moments, never taking things to the camp level, like so many modern Hollywood movies do when it doesn't work.
Bates was riveting and harrowing as the faded liberal clinging to her... |
tt0055256 | One, Two, Three | C.R. "Mac" MacNamara is a high-ranking executive in the Coca-Cola Company, assigned to West Berlin after a business fiasco a few years earlier in the Middle East (about which he is still bitter). While based in West Germany for now, Mac is angling to become head of Western European Coca-Cola Operations, based in London... | comedy, entertaining | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0043014 | Sunset Blvd. | The film opens with the camera tracking down Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, California as police cars begin racing down it. The lifeless body of a young man, Joe Gillis (Holden) floats in the swimming pool of a palatial mansion. As the police begin converging on the house Joe's voice narrates, in flashback style, the... | dark, boring, comedy, murder, atmospheric, flashback, satire, melodrama, tragedy | train | imdb | Hack screenwriter Joe Gillis (William Holden) accidentally falls in with faded screen legend Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson).
"Norma Desmond" and "Joe Gillis" are at opposite ends of this warped Hollywood mindset, with Gillis, played by that most cynical of actors, William Holden trying to pay the rent and Norma (Gloria... |
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