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tt2450186 | V/H/S/2 | Tape 49/frame narrativeThis story follows two private investigators, Larry and Ayesha, as they investigate the disappearance of a young male college student. Upon entering the student's home, they discover a large stack of TV sets and VHS tapes, and a laptop with a still-recording video on it. They stop the recording a... | murder, paranormal, violence, cult, horror, entertaining, prank | train | imdb | null |
tt0382992 | Stealth | In the near future, the United States Navy develops an aviation program to deal with international terrorists and other enemies of the state quickly and quietly, and project controller Captain George Cummings (Sam Shepard) is authorized to develop new technology to achieve these objectives. The project's first brainchi... | stupid | train | wikipedia | 'Short Circuit' meets 'Top Gun' in Rob Cohen's CGI-packed action-fest Stealth, in which a trio of ridiculously attractive elite US fighter pilots (Josh Lucas, Jamie Foxx and Jessica Biel) must do battle with the latest in aeronautical warfare technology—an Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle (UCAV), flown by a computer call... |
tt0107818 | Philadelphia | Andrew Beckett (Tom Hanks) is a senior associate at the largest corporate law firm in Philadelphia. Although he lives with his partner Miguel Álvarez (Antonio Banderas), Beckett is not open about his homosexuality at the law firm, nor the fact that he has AIDS. On the day he is assigned the firm's newest and most impor... | dramatic, cult, queer, romantic, home movie | train | imdb | Denzel Washington was well cast as the homophobic lawyer who ultimately takes Hanks' case, and Mary Steenburgen is surprising in an uncharacteristic villain role.Ron Vawter, who played one of the lawyers in the firm from which Hanks was fired, and also appeared in Silence of the Lambs, was himself suffering from AIDS a... |
tt1233219 | My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done | The film begins with Detective Havenhurst driving with his partner Detective Vargas. They receive a call and drive to the scene of a murder. As they push their way through the crowd at the crime scene, they see Brad McCullum leaving with a coffee cup. Inside the house, the detectives find the body of Mrs. McCullum who ... | psychedelic, murder, flashback | train | imdb | It concerns a man whom, after acting in and becoming obsessed with a Greek play, chooses to do that which his character does; kill his mother with a sword used as a prop in the production.
Brad, a brooding man-child who lives with his mom, gradually goes nuts, saying and doing increasingly unhinged (and funny) things t... |
tt1104083 | Little Ashes | In 1922, 18-year old Salvador Dalí (Robert Pattinson) arrives at university in Madrid. The Residencia de Estudiantes, or student residences, is a modern environment which encourages Spain's brightest young minds. Salvador, who is determined to become a great artist, soon catches the attention of the Resi's social elite... | romantic, psychedelic, murder, violence, flashback | train | imdb | I have no explanation as to why some critics gave Little Ashes bad reviews other than it just wasn't your typical movie and they couldn't understand that.This movie tells a beautiful and fascinating story (read the synopsis beforehand it helps).The acting is excellent.The accents sound/are authentic (when Dali sounds A... |
tt0944114 | Lieksa! | The heart of the film is the Koppelo family. Worn out after a number of travels, but united and strong, this family is proud of their history. They have their share of misfortunes but never stop believing in themselves: We are not just any gang of vagabonds; we are part of world history!Members of the Koppelo family we... | dramatic, romantic, historical | train | imdb | A good film.
Before i watched this film i read different reviews about this film and with some sites rating it around 5 out of 10 i was a bit put off it, but after i watched the music video from the film i decided to give it a go.
But i am glad i have watched the film, the shots are beautiful and well made edit.
The st... |
tt0254334 | The Fourth Angel | Jack Elgin is the European editor of The Economist, which is based in London, England. Jack has a wife named Maria and three kids named Joanne, Julia, and Andrew. Jack subtly changes the family vacation from a lazy week of Mediterranean fun and sun in Corfu, Greece, to a tour of India, because of a story he has to cove... | romantic, revenge, neo noir, violence, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0075860 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | In what appers to be the Sonoran Desert; in or near Mexico, a cartographer named David Laughlin (Bob Balaban) is introduced to a French-speaking man named Claude Lacombe (renowned French director François Truffaut). Though David has been hired as Mr Lacombe's interpreter, he explains that he is actually a cartographer ... | mystery, dramatic, humor | train | imdb | null |
tt0403358 | Nochnoy dozor | THE SETTING: In the world that is modern Moscow, there exists a parallel realm known as the Gloom (kind of like the Astral Plane). Certain humans with special powers can pass in and out of the Gloom. They are known as the Others and have co-existed with humans for as long as humanity has existed. The Others are soldier... | murder, cult, violence, alternate reality, atmospheric, flashback, good versus evil, psychedelic, humor, revenge | train | imdb | null |
tt0120524 | Wishmaster | The narrator, Angus Scrimm, in his only words in the film, introduces the audience to the creatures called "djinn***" ***(which are actually mohammedian efreets; correction should concern every following mistake)." with the following statement:Once, in a time before time, God breathed life into the universe. And the li... | cult, horror, violence | train | imdb | A lot of the potential isn't taken full advantage of (the 90 minute runtime keeps things to the bare minimum) but it sets up enough mythology to justify three sequels, the first sequel being the only decent one, however.The plot focuses on the Djinn, that's Wishmaster to you, and his efforts to take over the world.
The... |
tt0180093 | Requiem for a Dream | Harry Goldfarb (Jared Leto) and Tyrone Love (Marlon Wayans) are two friends who live in Brooklyn, New York. They regularly do various drugs paid for by such petty thefts as Harry pawning his mother's TV set. Sara Goldfarb (Ellen Burstyn), Harry's mother, is a widow living alone in Brighton Beach who must regularly buy ... | dark, boring, depressing, murder, psychological, dramatic, cult, atmospheric, insanity, psychedelic, romantic, tragedy, revenge, sentimental | train | imdb | null |
tt0215750 | Enemy at the Gates | In 1942, following the invasion of the Soviet Union the year before, Vasily Zaitsev (Jude Law), a shepherd from the Ural Mountains who is now a soldier in the Red Army, finds himself on the front lines of the Battle of Stalingrad. Forced into a suicidal charge by barrier troops against the invading Germans, he uses imp... | violence, suspenseful, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | More important is the masterful manner of speech of the actors - Bob Hoskins' gutteral exultations as Ukrainian potato farmer Nikita Krushchev; Joseph Fiennes' pompous and proud intonations as the political officer; Jude Law's common man for the peasant turned soldier; Ed Harris with the clipped and crisp tones of a Ge... |
tt5207116 | X: Past Is Present | K is a film maker, may be around 45 years of age, who is in a party. It is made clear that he is a womanizer. He meets a beautiful young girl whose mothers name is Sherene who was his first girlfriend. He remembers Sherene as flash back where he refuses her sexual advance on his birthday and leaves her.He meets this be... | avant garde, flashback | train | imdb | An experiment that doesn't work until its last 10 minutes with the 'Biryani'..
For a change let me narrate the basic structure of this gutsy experiment wherein a middle-aged director meets a young beautiful girl in a bar and while talking to her remembers his passionate moments lived with 10 different women in the vari... |
tt0833557 | Visioneers | George Washington Winsterhammerman lives an ordinary life. He has a wife, a kid, a house and a boat. Every day George gets in his minivan and goes to work as a Level Three Tunt at the Jeffers Corporation, the largest and most profitable corporation in the history of humankind. Though he lives an utterly comfortable lif... | psychedelic, comedy, satire, depressing | train | imdb | Its not likely to bring glee to the eyes of those that usually adorn the walls of the local multiplex.The film is pretty good satire.
Some of the satire was lacking any subtlety; I'm thinking of the life coach who tries to cure Zach.Many people have compared this to Brazil, its a fair comparison.
The story follow Georg... |
tt0045609 | Cat-Women of the Moon | Moon rocket 4 launches from Earth the crew is pinned to their chairs by the enormous G forces created by the liftoff. On the radio frantic calls come from Earth asking them to report immediately. Finally the pressure eases and the commander of the flight Laird Grainger (Sonny Tufts) begins checking on the crew. Helen S... | murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0066344 | Scrooge | Five children sing before doors in 19th century London. Scrooge sends them away without any money.His nephew Fred enters his countinghouse, and suggests that 7PM on Christmas Eve is too late to be working. Mr. Cratchett mumbles, "Hear, hear!" but Scrooge threatens him with the loss of his job. Fred invites him to dinne... | flashback | train | imdb | The fact that this version is an English production also helps considerably in the credibility department - the accents are authentic.Aside from the scene in "hell", this film is admirably true to the spirit and content of Dicken's text, with some inevitable cuts which frankly, I didn't miss.
By contrast, Albert Finney... |
tt4550098 | Nocturnal Animals | The movie begins with obese women, dancing naked. After a long while, we see that this is part of an art show which also features the same naked women on display in the gallery. The show is being curated by Susan (Amy Adams). That night, she drives home, pulling into her multi-million dollar estate overlooking the glim... | revenge, murder, flashback | train | imdb | I've seen lots of movies, I don't discriminate, terror, drama, action, animated you name it, I can perfectly differentiate between a bad from a good movie, I don't need the biased comments of the so called movie critics on IMDb. Thanks God I didn't pay attention to all the misguided comments about this movie, Nocturnal... |
tt0146336 | Urban Legend | On a dark and rainy night, a young woman, named Michelle Mancini (Natasha Gregson Wagner), is driving her pickup truck, listening to a college campus radio DJ. After nearly colliding with another car, she realizes that she is almost out of gas and pulls into the nearest gas station, a creepy looking, run-down place in ... | revenge, gothic, murder, violence, flashback | train | imdb | And yet, most of them made a profit, perhaps BECAUSE they were flashier and sexier than those earlier pictures, and because they were designed for a wider demographic than 'mere' horror fans.Jamie Blanks' URBAN LEGEND is a case in point: Most reviews ran the gamut from harsh dismissal to faint praise, yet the movie is ... |
tt0096874 | Back to the Future Part II | The movie opens where Back to the Future left off: October 26, 1985. Marty (Michael J. Fox) opens the garage door and sees his 4X4, the one he longed for in Back to the Future. Jennifer Parker (now played by Elisabeth Shue) asks for a ride. Marty tells her that she is a sight for sore eyes, and wants to look at her. Sh... | entertaining, comedy, mystery, fantasy, cult, alternate reality, humor, alternate history | train | imdb | null |
tt0070297 | The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires | Transylvania 1804: Kah [Shen Chan], High Priest of a temple in Pang Kwei in the Szechuan province of China, has obviously traveled a long way on foot to ask for Dracula's help. Kah's temple has fallen out of power. He requests that Dracula [John Forbes-Robertson] resurrect seven vampires in order to restore it. Dracula... | cult, murder, violence, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0083922 | Fanny och Alexander | The story is set during 1907–09 (with an epilogue in 1910), in the Swedish town of Uppsala where Alexander (Bertil Guve), his sister Fanny (Pernilla Allwin) and their well-to-do family, the Ekdahls, live. The siblings' parents are both involved in theater and are happily married until their father, Oscar (Allan Edwall)... | psychedelic, gothic, magical realism, sentimental | train | wikipedia | The first time I saw this film was in 1984, on tv and with a much shorter version than the one released in England in 2002, which is the full 300-plus minute original.That day I was scared -really scared- watching the scene where Alexander is been helped to let out his most evil thoughts by Ishmael, a completely myster... |
tt0067756 | Silent Running | Silent Running takes place in the not-so-distant future, at a time in which Earth's plant life has been decimated. Only a few specimens of flora have been preserved, and are currently in space in a fleet of orbiting greenhouses.Freeman Lowell (played by Bruce Dern) is the main character, one of four extraterrestrial fo... | comedy, murder, cult, atmospheric, flashback, psychedelic, claustrophobic, inspiring | train | imdb | By far the best to come out of this program was 'Silent Running', an ecologically-minded 'message film' that stands out today as one of the truly great films of the science-fiction genre.Bruce Dern stars as Freeman Lowell, a futuristic Park Ranger minding Earth's last forests, sealed in gigantic domes aboard an equally... |
tt0093137 | Hamburger Hill | The movie opens with a still photo of 3rd Squad, 1st Platoon:Rifleman Pvt. Vincent Languilli (Anthony Barree)Rifleman Pvt. Ray Motown (Michael Patrick Boatman)Rifleman/Machine gunner Pvt. David Washburn (Don Cheadle)Radioman Pvt. Harry Murphy (Michael Dolan)3rd Squad XO Pvt. Elliott McDaniel (Don James)3rd Squad Leader... | insanity, violence, anti war | train | imdb | null |
tt1205489 | Gran Torino | Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood), a retired Polish American Ford automobile assembly line worker and Korean War veteran, haunted by memories of that conflict, lives with his Labrador Retriever Daisy in a changing Highland Park, Michigan neighborhood which is dominated by immigrants. At the start of the movie, Walt is att... | comedy, murder, realism, dramatic, cult, cute, violence, humor, tragedy, revenge | train | imdb | I have seen twenty eight films from Clint Eastwood as director and have liked the vast majority of them, and loved a good number of them (my average rating for the 28 films is 7.9).
Walt Kowalski may have similarities with Dirty Harry, and could possibly be read as a significantly older version of Harry (it's a stretch... |
tt0118715 | The Big Lebowski | A tumbleweed rolls up a hillside just outside of Los Angeles as a mysterious man known as The Stranger (Sam Elliott) narrates about a fella he wants to tell us about named Jeffrey Lebowski. With not much use for his given name, however, Jeffrey goes by the name The Dude (Jeff Bridges). The Stranger describes Dude as on... | comedy, avant garde, neo noir, dark, anti war, cult, violence, flashback, psychedelic, absurd, satire, humor, entertaining | train | imdb | It's actually kind of hard to describe this movie (and what's so great about it) to people who don't already know it and love it; as with many cult films, The Big Lebowski will either speak to you (in which case you will become a fervent follower of His Dudeness and abide by his code for the rest of your life) or, if i... |
tt0086541 | Videodrome | Max Renn (James Woods) is the president of CIVIC-TV (Channel 83, Cable 12), a sleazy Toronto UHF television station specializing in sensationalistic programming. Displeased with his station's current lineup (which mostly consists of softcore pornography), Renn is on a seemingly endless quest for something that isn't so... | dark, suspenseful, gothic, murder, mystery, cult, alternate reality, violence, flashback, insanity, psychedelic, satire, philosophical, brainwashing, revenge, sci-fi | train | imdb | This surreal, mind-bending thriller is quite possibly the strangest and most provocative film that cult director David Cronenberg has ever made.Manager of a cable television station stumbles across a mysterious, sadistic program that begins to induce horrific visions for our hero.
Most of Cronenberg's films have some k... |
tt1767382 | Silent House | Note: This is a remake of the 2010 Spanish-language low-budget Uruguayan horror film 'La Casa Muda'. Both the original and this remake were (allegedly) shot in one take with no actual cuts or edits with a single camera, similar to the 1948 experimental film 'Rope' by Alfred Hitchcock.We begin with an overhead shot of a... | flashback | train | imdb | But regrettably, "Open Water" directors Chris Kentis and Laura Lau's decision to remake a low-budget 2010 Uruguayan film also includes its main gimmick: filming the entire movie in one (supposedly) unbroken, continuous take.
And therein lies the problem.This film, while ambitious on a technical level, demonstrates the ... |
tt0094608 | The Accused | The Accused (1988)The controversial rape-themed drama The Accused opens with an exterior shot of a bar, The Mill, located somewhere along the highways of Washington. Ominous music plays as the sky turns to black. A young man named Kenneth Joyce (Bernie Coulson) appears rushing outside of the bar. Before long, the waili... | revenge, violence, flashback | train | imdb | It has the rare gift of touching the viewer viscerally for the entire duration -- discomfort being the feeling.This isn't virtuoso film-making like "The Godfather", but at the same time I can think of no greater compliment for a movie than it truly opened my eyes to a new perspective that I was not mature enough to gra... |
tt0045555 | The Big Heat | Homicide detective Sergeant Dave Bannion (Glenn Ford) is an honest cop who investigates the death of fellow officer Tom Duncan. It would seem to be an open-and-shut case, suicide brought on by depression, but Bannion is then contacted by the late cop's mistress, Lucy Chapman (Dorothy Green), who claims that it could no... | violence, cult, revenge, murder, sadist | train | imdb | Fritz Lang, a man who knew the business like no other, is seen at the top of his craft with this interesting film noir that pays off in unexpected ways.
Surprisingly, Ms. Grahame and Mr. Ford show a lot of chemistry in their scenes together.The others in the film do good work under Mr. Lang's direction.
Ford is so good... |
tt1731701 | Barely Lethal | The girls of Prescott Academy are taught practically since birth how to become trained assassins. Their number one rule is "no attachments". Number 83 (Hailee Steinfeld) has always had curiosity of the world outside the Academy, however. Despite her excellent work in the field, she has dreamt of a normal life. Her ment... | revenge, violence | train | imdb | Haley Stanford plays lead role of a girl who wants to be a 'Normal teenager and experience a life of school and boys' but is unable to due to her training as a child to be an assassin.
Good cast with this movie to, Nice to see Jessica Alba and Jaime King making an appearance.
After a viewing at 1am I am pretty satisfie... |
tt0106449 | Body Bags | 'Prologue'A creepy-looking coroner (John Carpenter) introduces three different horror tales involving his current work which are cadavers in "body bags".'The Gas Station'Anne (Alex Datcher) is a young college student who arrives for her first job at working the night shift at an all-night filling station. The attending... | cult, murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0253556 | Reign of Fire | The film opens at an unspecified date in the early 21st century. During construction on the London Underground, workers penetrate an underground cave. A huge dragon emerges from hibernation, incinerating the workers with its breath. The only survivor is a boy, Quinn Abercromby (Ben Thornton), whose mother, Karen (Alice... | dark, fantasy, action | train | wikipedia | If this had been advertised as a more human film about after these Dragons have completely wasted everything, I really think this could've been seen as a good film.
It unfortunately set expectations high in the wrong sort of viewers by a mind-blowingly epic trailer.Christian Bale, Gerard Butler and Matthew McConaughey ... |
tt0119822 | As Good as It Gets | The entire movie takes place in New York City, except for a brief trip near the end to near Baltimore, Maryland.The protagonist, Melvin Udall (Jack Nicholson) is a cranky, bigoted, intelligent, wealthy writer suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). He is happy with his life, and spends most of his time insi... | comedy, psychological, dramatic, feel-good, psychedelic, romantic, entertaining | train | imdb | That's the simple formula Brooks uses in all of his work, but, for me, he has never created so much charm, warmth and sensibility as he did in `As good as it gets'.Characters write the screenplay in this movie, and everything that happens - happens because of what they are.
Jack Nicholson brings one of the best perform... |
tt0112281 | Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls | After failing the rescue attempt of a raccoon in the Himalayas (a parody of the opening to the film Cliffhanger), Ace Ventura undergoes an emotional breakdown and goes on a personal soul-searching quest by becoming a Tibetan monk. He is approached by Fulton Greenwall, a British correspondent working for a provincial co... | cult, humor, comedy | train | imdb | null |
tt0070698 | Sisters | Danielle Breton (Margot Kidder) is a model and would-be-actress hired to pretend that she is a blind woman so that an inssurance seller Philip Woode (Lisle Wilson) would have to decide if he is going to look her undressing or not as part of The Peeping Toms, a hidden camera programme. He doesn't look to her at the chan... | avant garde, murder, paranormal, cult, good versus evil, insanity, satire, claustrophobic | train | imdb | Kidder is of course the star of the movie, but equally memorable is De Palma regular William Finley ('The Phantom Of The Paradise', 'Eaten Alive') in a wonderfully creepy performance as one of twins ex-husband.
Kidder and Finley and De Palma's assured direction, which includes a brilliant murder sequence and cool use o... |
tt0940642 | Minyeo-neun goerowo | Hanna is an overweight phone sex employee and a secret vocalist for Ammy, a famous lion seal pop singer who actually lip syncs as she cannot sing. Instead of being famous for her own amazing vocal talent, Hanna hides behind Ammy's performance stage and sings during Ammy's concerts, and records all of Ammy's songs. One ... | romantic | train | imdb | The movie does not take itself too seriously like a lot of Korean movies that are all like "OMG LET'S BE FUNNY FOR THE FIRST HALF AND MAKE IT ALL DEPRESSING IN THE SECOND HALF!" While it provides many laughs, the story is still touching and meaningful.
And what's amazing is that Kim Ah-Jung did all of her own singing, ... |
tt2024469 | Non-Stop | Bill Marks (Liam Neeson) sits in his SUV at an airport drinking whiskey and arguing with someone on the phone. He wearily goes to the departure gates, and has a smoke, while eyeing the passengers. A man stands beside him and asks for a light and mentions he is going to Amsterdam, but Bill refuses to make small talk. As... | revenge, suspenseful, murder, violence | train | imdb | Even if you don't like Liam Neeson, this movie is worth seeing and is a guaranteed good time.
This is an action-thriller starring Liam Neeson as U.S. Air Marshal Bill Marks who, while boarding a flight to London, receives text messages from an unknown assailant, threatening that if he doesn't transfer $150 million to a... |
tt0050531 | I Was a Teenage Frankenstein | The movie starts with title and credits running over a background of gray boxes.The opening shot is the edifice of a University Building. Professor Frankenstein (Whit Bissell) is guest lecturing to colleagues. His topic is transplantation. Dr. Randolph (Marshall Bradford) interrupts the lecture to ask, "Professor Frank... | murder | train | imdb | Teen-age Frankenstein, for faults in other areas, is one of the few to allow the Monster a goal: he expresses his loneliness and desire for companionship.So for everyone who hasn't seen this film yet because of volumes of "Best of..." books, give it a try.
This is top of the line 1950's B movie schlock.And it is wonder... |
tt2318092 | Endless Love | The opening scene is a high school graduation, class of 2014. Jade Butterfield (Gabriella Wilde), a shy but beautiful young woman, is graduating. She is going to be attending Brown University in the fall. She stands alone after the ceremony, while everyone else laughs with friends and takes pictures together. Jade quie... | romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt0988849 | Donkey Punch | The movie begins with seaside views of Mallorca, Spain. In a hotel bathroom is Tammi (Nichola Burley) face-up in the bathtub. She gets up from the tub and starts to shave her armpits when she accidentally cuts herself. Her friends Lisa (Sian Breckin) and Kim (Jaime Winstone) come in and Lisa tells her that shes gorgeou... | murder | train | imdb | null |
tt2561546 | The Town That Dreaded Sundown | October 31, 2013. In the small town of Texarkana located on the state line of Arkansas and Texas, the local drive-in theater is hosting the Halloween annual showing of the 1976 film 'The Town That Dreaded Sundown' based on the true story of the Phantom Killer who murdered several people in and around Texarkana in 1946.... | revenge, murder, flashback | train | imdb | So when I first heard about there will be a new TTTDS, I thought it'd be another pointless, some cash-in effort but last night after watching this new take on T3DS, I'd like to admit...I was pleasantly surprised!!Directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon (the most frequent director of American Horror Story), this new film is a s... |
tt1921064 | Pompeii | The film opens with a quote from Pliny the Younger commenting on the cries of devastation heard from the citizens of Pompeii, intercut with images of the victims encased in solid magma.Britannia, 62 A.D. The film opens showing a Celtic village of horsemen. A young boy named Milo walks out of his tent to discover his pe... | murder, violence, flashback, romantic, melodrama, revenge | train | imdb | null |
tt0827782 | Return to House on Haunted Hill | Ariel Wolfe is the sister of Sara Wolfe, a survivor of a massacre some years ago in the "Hill House" sanatorium, which was decades ago guided by the insane psychiatrist Dr. Vannacutt. Sara claimed that phantoms had killed her friends, but no one believed her. When Sara commits suicide, Ariel tries to find out the reaso... | cruelty, murder, violence, flashback, insanity, romantic, sadist | train | imdb | null |
tt0893402 | Franklyn | The action switches between contemporary London and Meanwhile City, a gothic-like metropolis in a fantasy world.Meanwhile City is a place in which religion is the rule. Everyone must adhere to some sort of faith, be it Christianity, Buddhism or 7th Day Nail Varnishers or Washing Machine Purists. John Preest is a masked... | fantasy, neo noir, boring, gothic, flashback, insanity | train | imdb | I've just come back from the premiere at the London film festival and I've thoroughly enjoyed, it but before I say anything, do not expect it to be "a mix between V for Vendetta and the Dark knight" which is a complete nonsense I read earlier, it's nothing like it.
I think it's going to be hard sell as it is unlike any... |
tt0076574 | Providence | Providence (no spoilers)CLIVE Langham (played by John Gielguld) is an old writer with health problems who still enjoys the gifts of life, as his gusto of his daily white wine. He is a storyteller and he tells us of his family, especially of his sons. He has two sons: one is CLAUDE Langham, the official one, a successfu... | flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt2752772 | Sinister 2 | The film opens in an identical style to the first movie: a snuff movie depicting a family being hung up like scarecrows in a corn field with sacks over their heads and burned alive when a lighter is thrown into a trail of petrol. It is revealed to be the nightmare of nine-year-old Dylan Collins, who is staying in a rur... | paranormal, murder, home movie | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2039393 | The Gambler | After his grandpa dies, Jim Bennett goes straight to a Mr. Lees illegal casino. He plays a few hands of blackjack, winning at first, but ends up owing Lee and a gangster Baraka big time. Both men give him exactly one week to come up with the money. Jim continues his days as an English professor. A student, Amy, is one ... | suspenseful, philosophical, flashback | train | imdb | No he isn't going to play Jabba the Hut in the next Star Wars release.Yes I did stay for the entire movie hoping that the final scene would somehow raise the stature of the film.
It was a movie that not everyone is going to like because not everyone is going to relate to Mark Wahlberg's character.
With Rupert Wyatt's T... |
tt0839880 | Lake Dead | Three sisters venture out to the home of their recently deceased grandfather, along with a few of their friends, to learn more about a possible inheritance, the Lake Motel. Their father begs them not to go, but being teens, they don't listen. They encounter a family living in their grandfather's cabin, which consists o... | violence, murder | train | imdb | Sooner they finds that their unknown relatives are deranged psychos."Lake Dead" is an average slasher B-movie and has an unoriginal story that I have seen many times: "The Hills Have Eyes", "Wrong Turn", I can not count many movies with stories similar to the original "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" plus a collection of ... |
tt0086973 | Blame It on Rio | Matthew Hollis (Michael Caine) is married to Karen (Valerie Harper), and father to teenaged daughter, Nikki (Demi Moore). Victor (Joseph Bologna), Matthew's colleague and best friend, who is going through a divorce, is father to 17-year-old Jennifer (Michelle Johnson).
Matthew's marriage is not going well for reasons n... | pornographic, romantic, adult comedy | train | wikipedia | I've loved the movie ever since.Everyone knows the premise---Michael Caine and Joseph Bologna take their teenage daughters, Michelle Johnson and Demi Moore to Rio for a vacation.
He is extremely funny in this movie and I can only imagine how much fun he had making it----a guy in his 40s getting to spend a few weeks in ... |
tt1545106 | Vamps | BFF gets a new meaning with Goody (a well-preserved CLUELESS alumni Alicia Silverstone) and Stacey (Bettie Page reborn pale-skinned beauty Krysten Ritter) living up the night. Goody's been around, like forever, like even before the electric light bulb was invented. She got sired by a stem vampire, Cisserus, and is the ... | murder | train | imdb | Perfect for me :) I would recommend to anyone who likes vampire movies, comedies or cheeky dramas with some slightly twisted humor..
Alicia Silverstone is hilarious and adorable, and Krysten Ritter is even better than she was on Breaking Bad (which is practically impossible in my opinion.) This could be my favorite Sil... |
tt0114720 | Tremors II: Aftershocks | While Earl and Val became wealthy with their discovery of the Graboids, Earl lost most of his fortune through an ostrich farm and other investments. Earl is approached by two men, Grady Hoover and Señor Ortega. Ortega knows that Earl and Val dealt with the Graboids previously. He informs Earl that there are more of the... | cult | train | imdb | Fred Ward and Michael Gross return from the first movie.(Kevin Bacon not making a comeback shows a little elitism on his part I think.
The film takes the Graboids a little farther up the evolutional chain this time, and the effects are still good for the small budget.
I think everyone agrees with the statement that thi... |
tt2319889 | Jannat 2 | Sonu's world is shaken to the core when he realises, after his marriage to Jhanvi, that Jhanvi's estranged father, Mangal Singh Tomar (Manish Choudhary), is actually the leader of the guns/arms business in Delhi. Soon enough, Sonu becomes a police informant for ACP Pratap, who has been looking for Mangal. Becoming a po... | tragedy, romantic, neo noir | train | wikipedia | One Thing is For Sure, Mahesh Bhatt Always Hits the Bulls Eye. After Normal Success Of A Mediocre film Like Blood Money, He has filled his accounts with Jannat 2, Taking the name of a Successful Blockbuster of 2008 ,Planting a Good Music and Imran Hashmi.
But there is more in Jannat 2 , Randeep Hooda's Best Performance... |
tt0044750 | Invasion, U.S.A. | In a small Manhattan bar, several people sit around drinking and talking, as a news reporter on a television set in a corner tells about world tensions and the news. Several of the customers ask Tim the bartender to turn off the set, and he mutes the volume.The group includes:
Vince Potter - a television/radio news rep... | murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0097757 | The Little Mermaid | Ariel, a sixteen-year-old mermaid princess, is dissatisfied with life under the sea and curious about the human world. With her best fish friend Flounder, Ariel collects human artifacts and goes to the surface of the ocean to visit Scuttle the seagull, who offers very inaccurate and comical knowledge of human culture. ... | fantasy, cute, good versus evil, psychedelic, romantic, entertaining | train | imdb | The film is a cinematic classic that tells the story of a young mermaid princess who just wants to be human so she makes a deal with an evil sea witch to get her wish, but she loses her beautiful voice in the process and she must be kissed by her true love to get it back.
I remember watching this movie when I was a lit... |
tt0043924 | A Place in the Sun | George Eastman (Montgomery Clift), is the poor nephew of rich industrialist Charles Eastman (Herbert Heyes), who takes a job in his uncle's factory. Despite George's family relationship to the owner, the rich Eastman family treats him as an outsider and gives him the humblest job available in the factory and no entree ... | murder | train | imdb | His cousin Earl Eastman (Keefe Brasselle) advises him that there are many women in the factory and the basic rule is that he must not hang around with any of them.George meets the worker of the assembly line Alice Tripp (Shelley Winters) in the movie theater and they date.
George is pressed by the situation that ends i... |
tt0089901 | Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins | Sam Macon (Fred Ward) is an NYPD cop. One night, he breaks up a mugging, and then is pushed into the river in his car.Sometime later, he awakes in a hospital, with a new face. MacCleary (J.A. Preston) tells him his new name is Remo Williams (based on a name on a bedpan), and that Remo now works for an organization that... | comedy, murder, cult, violence, humor, philosophical, revenge, sadist | train | imdb | This is a movie best enjoyed on a slow Saturday afternoon when you don't feel like going out and just want to zone out for a few..Put this one in your VCR and enjoy the absolutely wonderful score by Craig Safan (this movie's got one the best theme songs I've ever heard)The interplay between Fred Ward and Joel Grey (the... |
tt0042546 | Harvey | Elwood P. Dowd is an endlessly pleasant & delightfully eccentric bachelor living in a small town that isn't quite aware that its newest citizen is a 6'3" white rabbit named "Harvey," that only certain people can see. After supposedly meeting this rabbit - its origins attributed to the Celtic legend of the Pooka - Dowd'... | insanity, comedy, cute, entertaining | train | imdb | null |
tt0061040 | Sugar Colt | Tom Cooper (Hunt Powers a.k.a Jack Betts) is the owner and main teacher of the Academy for the Spiritual Freedom of Women, and his real name is Rocco. In there, some women (Patrizia Giammei, Mara Krupp and Elisabetta Velinska) learn how to shoot and they practice on pictures of their annoying relatives: husbands, aunts... | western | train | imdb | Pleasant Spaghetti/Paella Western co-produced by Italy and Spain with lots action , thrills , fights and comedy.
1866 , New Mexico territory , the Civil war has finished .
The General Lee troops and Union soldiers go back home .
Among them a regiment of ¨Sharp shooters¨ of the II brigade of riflemen .
But the Infantry ... |
tt1645170 | The Dictator | ----INCLUDING THE UNRATED VERSION----The film opens with the news showing the nuclear threat of Wadiya led by the leader Admiral General Aladeen (Sacha Baron Cohen). The news tells about the life of Aladeen: When he was born in 1973, he did not know his mother and we see apparently the attendant nurse killed his mother... | murder, adult comedy, violence, flashback, satire, entertaining | train | imdb | null |
tt0489461 | Coisa Ruim | This is a tale about how a family deals with a possible haunting in their new country home in rural Portugal. When a successful professor inherits the huge, beautiful home, his family assumes that he will sell it and enjoy the proceeds. They after all, have always enjoyed a very comfortable life in the city, and never ... | revenge | train | imdb | Surprise!
One of the best "mystery" films ever is...
Portuguese!.
This movie is one of the best movies in the "horror/mystery" category I've ever seen...
In a small village, lost in the middle of Portugal, some myths and beliefs still subsists, although the progress registered in towns.
People still think that the Devi... |
tt0205873 | The Dish | Parkes (Australia), has a huge dish in the middle of a sheep paddock. It will transmit the first landing of humanity on the Moon, and the famous Neil Armstrong's moonwalk. They will be the ones broadcasting the moonwalk to a world audience which will remain the highest for many years to come.Cliff Buxton (Sam Neill) go... | comedy, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0054777 | The Curse of the Werewolf | The story is set in 18th Century Spain. A beggar is imprisoned by a cruel marquis after making inappropriate remarks at the nobleman's wedding. The beggar is forgotten, and survives another fifteen years. His sole human contact is with the jailer and his beautiful mute daughter (Yvonne Romain). The aging, decrepit Marq... | cult, gothic, murder | train | wikipedia | A very involving Hammer production that chronicles the history and life of Leon (Reed) who becomes cursed at birth causing him to turn into a werewolf when the moon is full.
This was a highly unusual werewolf film and I am actually surprised that Hammer films went on to make many Dracula sequels but not werewolf ones, ... |
tt0084887 | Warlords of the 21st Century | All remaining reserves of petroleum have finally run out; forcing people to ration the few remaining containers of gasoline left on the earth against mercenaries and warlords. Straker and his men (accompanied by his daughter Corlie - played by Annie McEnroe) find a vast supply of diesel fuel in a compound once thought ... | violence | train | wikipedia | "Warlords of the 21st Century" aka "Battletruck" (as it is known to me) was a movie that I saw once when I was about eleven years old.
This low budget "Mad Max"-like action flick is no blockbuster, nor is it surprising since the storyline is very straightforward..
But the battletruck itself looks scary, the music is a ... |
tt0878804 | The Blind Side | The Blind Side is based on the remarkable true story of Baltimore Ravens' offensive left tackle Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron). Michael grew up in the inner city housing projects with his mother in Memphis, Tennessee aptly named "Hurt Village." Michael's story begins with his being homeless and coming from a broken home ... | inspiring, action, feel-good, sentimental, flashback | train | imdb | He took the material he was given and played the role very well.However, this film is pure Hollywood sap, a "feel good" movie that picks and chooses factual elements and builds a fictional tale around them.
It resonates with white suburban do-gooder audiences, but it's just not accurate.In truth, Michael Oher was alrea... |
tt0112697 | Clueless | Cher Horowitz (Alicia Silverstone), a wealthy, popular 15-year-old, lives in Beverly Hills with her widowed father, Mel (Dan Hedaya), in an enormous house, enjoying the luxurious life that Mel provides as a very successful lawyer. Though good-natured, Cher is naive and caught up in a superficial lifestyle revolving aro... | cult, comedy, satire, entertaining, romantic | train | imdb | This film became the standard for a spate of 1990's high school flicks set on the west coast that borrowed many of its elements.The story focuses on Cher Horowitz (Alicia Silverstone), who is the most popular girl at Beverly Hills H.S.
But what Clueless did was update the classic story by coating it with high school dr... |
tt0838232 | The Pink Panther 2 | The film begins in England. At a local museum, a tour guide is showing a group to the Magna Carta. When they arrive, they see that the Magna Carta is missing. The only thing left is a card that says: "The Tornado."In Italy, a monk is showing people where the Shroud of Turin is stored in the church, only to discover tha... | bleak, murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0057993 | Danza macabra | CASTLE OF BLOOD synopsis **NOTE: In the European version the actors are listed by their real Italian names. In the US version they were given American-sounding names. Below they are referred to in their real Italian names.**On a cold dark night a man is seen outside the Four Devils Tavern in London, looking around. Ent... | gothic | train | imdb | The man takes the dare in spite of the warning.Once inside the tension begins to rise as the man is joined by previous occupants of the house.He is forced to watch their very own violent deaths as they are repeated this particular night every year.The ghosts then try to lure the young man into joining them,even the gho... |
tt0089013 | Dèmoni | While riding the subway to class, music student Cheryl (Natasha Hovey) is given a free pass to a movie theater by a silent, imposing man wearing a metal mask (Michele Soavi). She persuades her classmate, Kathy (Paola Cazzo), to skip class and go to the film with her. There they meet two young men, George (Urbano Barber... | cruelty, murder, violence, cult, horror, sadist | train | imdb | This has got to be one of the best Italian horror flicks ever made, which is no surprise considering it was produced by Dario Argento, master of Italian horror himself.The plot can be summed up with one sentence: people are trapped in a movie theater with a horde of ugly, long-clawed demons and must fight to stay alive... |
tt0087796 | Night Shadows | In the opening scene, a man wearing a uniform with EPA stamped on the right sleeve, investigates an old house in the dead of night. After finding footprints and a strange yellow substance on the ground, he enters the house through the basement door and after looking around, finds an arm belonging to a dead person. Sudd... | murder | train | imdb | After being forced off the road by locals, the two brothers Cameron end up at the nearest town -Goodland- but there's nothing good awaiting them, besides the aggressive rednecks, they'll also come face-to-face with some "nasty" residents.With all the bad reviews i've read, I was expecting yet another boring 80's movie ... |
tt0060049 | 5 tombe per un medium | TERROR-CREATURES FROM THE GRAVE synopsis **NOTE: In the European version, actors names are their real Italian names. In the US version, they were changed to more American-sounding names. Below they are listed in their Italian names.**A man is drinking in a local pub. Suddenly a hand is seen at the door, trying to get i... | revenge, gothic | train | imdb | null |
tt1149362 | Das weiße Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte | The action takes place in a German village in the fifteen months that precede World War I.Among the people who live there are a baron, who is a large landowner and a local moral authority, his estate manager, a pastor with his many children, a widowed doctor and a schoolteacher who is thinking of getting married. It is... | dark, suspenseful, cruelty, mystery, thought-provoking, violence, atmospheric, revenge, sadist | train | imdb | Fans of Michael Haneke's more morally shocking films such as 'Funny Games', 'Benny's Video' or the draining 'Time of the Wolf' might find themselves surprised by the quieter and slower analysis of evil in his latest work 'Das Weisse Band'.
This is the question Haneke appears to be exploring here (just as was a central ... |
tt0093185 | The Hidden | In the opening scene, a man named Jack DeVries (Chris Mulkey), robs a Los Angeles Wells Fargo bank, and kills all of the security guards inside. DeVries leads the Los Angeles Police Department on a high-speed chase, during which he forces an innocent motorist and several LAPD patrol cars off the road.In the meanwhile, ... | comedy, dark, murder, cult, violence, psychedelic, revenge | train | imdb | null |
tt0056937 | Cleopatra | The movie opens in 48 B.C. shortly after the Battle of Pharsalus where Julius Caesar (Rex Harrison) has defeated Pompey's army in a brutal civil war for control of the Roman Republic. Caesar learns that Pompey has fled to netrual Egypt, hoping to enlist the support of the young teenage Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII (Richard O'S... | violence, murder, melodrama | train | imdb | Cleopatra is a film of myths.A massively troubled production combined with the extraordinary love affair between Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton made for plenty of hype.But what really matters nearly 40 years on is the film itself.At this distance it is possible to see the film for what it is.
A grand example of th... |
tt0057078 | La frusta e il corpo | In a nameless Baltic country in the 19th Century, Kurt Menliff (Christopher Lee) arrives at his seaside castle after many years of wondering through Europe. But he is not warmly received for everyone knows that he is a sadist who gets sexual gratification from whipping his lovers. His former lover is Nevenka Menliff (D... | gothic, sadist | train | imdb | Irresistible and genuine Gothic scares, combined with atmospheric camera-work and breath-taking scenery
Welcome to yet another visual masterpiece directed by the greatest horror genius of all time: Mario Bava!
La Frusta E Il Corpo/The Whip & The Body(1963) is an excellent gothic masterpiece that was ahead of its time ... |
tt0089348 | Invasion U.S.A. | In the opening scene, a group of Cuban refugees on a boat sailing for the United States. They are at first met by what appears to be a U.S. Coast Guard boat, with armed personnel. The Guardsmen suddenly kill all the refugees and take several bags of cocaine hidden in the boat. It is revealed that the armed personnel we... | revenge, cult, murder, violence | train | imdb | The film begins with a laughably goofy set-up for a political thriller and ends up being a series of loosely connected action scenes with Chuck making his heroic appearance and taking out the badguys with the very bomb they intended to plant.
This movie is hilarious!!Chuck Norris is the funniest action hero since Charl... |
tt0102690 | Popcorn | Maggie (Jill Schoelen) has nightmares about a man, and tells so to Suzanne, (Dee Wallace-Stone). She's preparing a script about a girl named Sarah, so she doesn't have time for Mark (Derek Rydall). Mr Davis (Tony Roberts) will find his students' film with three Z-series films with surprises. The students agree: Tina (F... | horror, cult, revenge, murder | train | imdb | This may look very much like a redundant and unpleasant horror comedy about the umpteenth serial killer wasting a group of film students but, if you give it a chance, you'll be pleasantly surprised.
This has got to be one of my old favorite horror flicks, I remember renting this when it first came out, and I loved it s... |
tt0991178 | Battlestar Galactica: Razor | Battlestar Galactica: Razor tells the story of the first mission of Lee 'Apollo' Adama (Jamie Bamber) as commander of the battlestar Pegasus. Flashbacks interleaved with the main story show what happened to Pegasus during and after the Cylon attack on the Twelve Colonies, as well as some events at the end of the First ... | suspenseful, melodrama | train | imdb | null |
tt0365737 | Syriana | U.S. energy giant Connex is losing control of key Middle East oil fields in a kingdom ruled by the al-Subaai family. The emirate's foreign minister, Prince Nasir (Alexander Siddig), has granted natural gas drilling rights to a Chinese company, greatly upsetting the U.S. oil industry and government. To compensate for it... | thought-provoking, violence, suspenseful, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | Stephen Gaghan is a good writer, and he provides a nice summary of the film's action in its final moments.What emerges from this tangled puzzle is a web of corruption and self-interest, all fueled by the need for oil.
And in the film's most chilling plot strand, we see how the struggle for oil feeds the radical Islam m... |
tt0215545 | Bamboozled | In a New York City residence, Pierre Delacroix (Damon Wayans) rises to begin his daily routine. Brushing his teeth, he gives us by voice over a definition of satire. He tells us that with the rise of the Internet, video and interactive games, his field as a television writer has seen a drop in popularity. Meanwhile, in... | tragedy, avant garde, satire, murder, melodrama | train | imdb | The film "Bamboozled" has caught a lot of heat for it's portrayal of blackface (an issue that wasn't really talked about until the release of "Bamboozled") Writer Pierre Delacroix (Damon Wayans) sees his pitches for TV shows being rejected one after another.
Add to this the fact that, besides clips of Good Times and Th... |
tt0451850 | Paheli | The movie is narrated by two puppets, voiced by Naseeruddin Shah and his real-life wife Ratna Pathak Shah.
Enthusiastic young Lachchi (Rani Mukerji) is to be married to Kishan (Shah Rukh Khan), the son of the rich merchant Banwarlal (Anupam Kher). Kishan is a dutiful son who honors his father's wish to start a new, far... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0085980 | My Tutor | The movie opens with scenes of an aerobics class juxtaposed with a classroom of students taking an examination. The movie's two protagonists are featured in these scenes, with Terry Green (Caren Kaye) participating in the aerobics and Bobby Chrystal (Matt Lattanzi) taking, not very well it turns out, his last high scho... | cult | train | wikipedia | Yes, this is one of the early entries into the unending series of sexploitation movies about male teenagers with raging hormones looking for relief.
But also, yes, I quite enjoyed it and gave it a respectable viewers rating - so I have a little explaining to do, even though I do not fully understand why this somewhat s... |
tt0185014 | Wonder Boys | Professor Grady Tripp (Michael Douglas) is a novelist who teaches creative writing at an unnamed Pittsburgh university. He is having an affair with the university chancellor, Sara Gaskell (Frances McDormand), whose husband, Walter (Richard Thomas), is the chairman of the English department in which Grady is a professor... | romantic, entertaining | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0158131 | Purgatory | It is the late 1800s in a small, peaceful western town until a violent evil gang of bank robbers pay a visit. Led by ruthless, bloodthirsty Blackjack Britton (Eric Roberts), they take the bank. Things are progressing well, until a random troop of military soldiers ride into town. Then all hell breaks loose in the dusty... | cult, murder, violence | train | imdb | Purgatory is one such film for myself.Purgatory, a TNT TV production, is that rare old beast of the Western fused with fantastical or supernatural elements.
From dime novels and hero worship to first kills and first loves, Sonny is our conduit and the key holder to the gates of redemption for many of the Wild West's le... |
tt0200465 | The Bank Job | Petty-criminal-gone-straight Terry Leather (Jason Statham) owns a failing car-sales garage and feels harassed by two debt-collectors. His friend, the photographer Kevin Swain's (Stephen Campbell Moore) ex-girlfriend, a former model named Martine Love (Saffron Burrows) offers Terry a chance to earn enough money to never... | entertaining, violence, avant garde, neo noir, murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0078856 | Beyond the Poseidon Adventure | The capsized luxury liner S.S. Poseidon is still afloat after six survivors have been rescued via helicopter.
Tugboat captain Mike Turner (Michael Caine) discovers the shipwreck. Accompanied by second mate Wilbur (Karl Malden) and passenger Celeste Whitman (Sally Field), he heads out to claim salvage rights, as the tug... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | The characters are unwaveringly pathetic and annoying (and in many cases, just thinly disguised versions of folks from the original film.) Boyle is mercilessly loud and obnoxious, taking Ernest Borgnine's "type" to a new level of irritation.
I also have to give the film credit for that little bits of continuity, like L... |
tt0077559 | Wu du | The movie opens with Yang Tieh caring for his elderly teacher. The teacher is very ill and the treatments Yang Tieh administers are ceasing to be effective. Teacher believes that his time is up, and he is dying. He tells Yang Tieh that there is no longer time to put off what he needs Yang Tieh to do. He has been instru... | cult, grindhouse film, murder, violence | train | imdb | The Five Deadly Venoms is a great kung-fu action movie wrapped in a whodunnit mystery.
There are all the usual telltale signs of a kung-fu flick: great choreography, awful dubbing, different "styles" of fighting, and a wide range of greatly exaggerated, often cheesey human emotions.
Occasionally it's even able to fire ... |
tt0181315 | Subspecies: The Awakening | NOTE: Sequel to Subspecies III: Bloodlust (1994).Picking up where Subspecies III left off, Radu is a flaming corpse
impaled on a tree branch. He falls to the ground and lands in a pool of
water near the bloodstone which he picks up and then runs into his castle
before the morning sun can destroy him. After restoring hi... | cult, violence | train | imdb | null |
tt1043726 | The Legend of Hercules | In 1200 BC ancient Greece, King Amphitryon of Tires invades the shores of Argos. The two massive armies face each other, prepared for battle. Amphitryon strikes a bargain with the rival King Galenus: the two will fight to the death, to the victor goes his adversary's kingdom and army. The two engage in combat and Amphi... | good versus evil, revenge, murder, violence, romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt0094072 | Summer School | At Ocean Front High School in Los Angeles, it is the last day of school before summer vacation. The gym teacher, Freddy Shoop (Mark Harmon), could not care less about his job and is ready to vacation in Hawaii with his young girlfriend, Kim.Students get called to the office by the Vice Principal, Phil Gills (Robin Thom... | violence, comedy | train | imdb | null |
tt0091369 | Labyrinth | Sarah Williams (Jennifer Connelly) was a teenager with a large imagination and love for fantasy stories, so much so that she enacted her favorite storybook, the Labyrinth, whenever she could. She happened to have been pretending that she was the heroine in her story while wandering in the park near her house when the c... | fantasy, cult, good versus evil, psychedelic, humor, sci-fi | train | imdb | null |
tt0098273 | Sea of Love | New York City homicide detective Frank Keller is a burned-out alcoholic. His wife left him and married one of his colleagues, and he is depressed about reaching his 20th year on the police force. He is assigned to investigate the murder of a man in Manhattan, shot dead while face down in his bed, naked, listening to an... | mystery, neo noir, murder, haunting | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0045737 | Escape from Fort Bravo | The year is 1863. The Civil War still rages. Far off in the Arizona desert, vanquished Confederate soldiers are being held at Fort Bravo by their Union captors. Surrounding them all is the monumental, inhospitable terrain and the implacably hostile Mescalero Apaches.Captain Roper (William Holden) of the US Army drags a... | violence | train | imdb | William Holden is Captain Roper, a strict commanding officer in charge of a large group of Confederate prisoners in a dry heat stockade at Fort Bravo, Arizona, in 1863...He is disliked by his captors as well by his captives because of his displeasing behavior toward the escapees whom he invariably recaptures...
A main ... |
tt0099528 | The Exorcist III | The film begins with the point of view of someone wandering through the streets of Georgetown, a voice informing us "I have dreams... of a rose... and of falling down a long flight of stairs." The point of view shows a warning of evil about to arrive later that night at a church. Demonic growls are heard. Leaves and ot... | cruelty, murder, cult, horror, violence, insanity, psychedelic, sadist | train | wikipedia | If, like me, you appreciate horror films that are both scary and made for grown-ups, 'Exorcist III' is refreshing and memorable for its intelligent, non-ironic journey into darkness and for its refusal (bar that ending) to dumb down for the kids.
'Exorcist III' is literary beyond 'Scream's' self-referential trivia-chas... |
tt0306909 | Gonggongui jeog | The film's plot pits a tough loose-cannon cop, Kang Chul-jung, and a psychopathic killer, Cho Kyu-hwan, against each other. Kang typifies the anti-hero cop genre, taking bribes and stealing drugs from criminals. His career is in a slump and internal affairs are investigating his actions. The antagonist Cho, on the othe... | murder | train | imdb | Simple story here, a cop chases down a psychotic serial killer.
He is the only one who believes that this respected, wealthy, family man is the serial killer, and so must bring about some under-handed methods whilst keeping the politicians off his back.
What the film lacks in story it makes up for in complex relations ... |
tt0101787 | Dying Young | Beautiful, carefree Hilary O'Neil is devastated when she finds her boyfriend in bed with another woman. She moves out of their apartment and in with her mother, with whom she doesn't really get along. She sees a newspaper advertisement for a live-in female companion to assist someone who is ill. The only requirements a... | tragedy | train | imdb | It is a film that focuses on a man, Victor (Campbell) dying of leukemia and his internal struggles of wanting to be carefree and wanting total companionship from the Hillary (Roberts), the woman he hires to take care of him.
If they had fully developed Vincent'Onofrio's character then this could have been a beautiful a... |
tt0080040 | Tourist Trap | Eileen (Robin Sherwood) and her boyfriend Woody (Keith McDermott) are driving through the desert. When their car gets a flat, Woody goes to find a gas station. Their friends Becky (Tanya Roberts), Jerry (Jon Van Ness) and Molly (Jocelyn Jones) are traveling separately in a different vehicle. They reach Eileen waiting a... | insanity, cult, murder | train | wikipedia | For being close to 26 years old, the film has stood up extremely well - a creepy back woods setting, decent effects, and few hidden surprises in the script; it's worthwhile viewing for any horror enthusiast.
There was a time, back before USA became the home of Emmy-award winning programming, when you could turn on the ... |
tt0043859 | No Highway | Mr. Dennis Scott (Jack Hawkins) shows up for his first day of work as Chief of Metallurgy at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, England, UK, and reports to Sir John (Ronald Squire), the Director. Sir John immediately hands Scott over to Major Pearl (Maurice Denham), aka "The Pearl of Great Price," for a tou... | suspenseful | train | imdb | The story revolves around a new advanced design commercial airliner called "Reindeer", in service in the UK and an aeronautical engineer (portrayed by Stewart) who suspects that the aircraft might have a design problem that could result in a structural failure of the vertical tailplane from metal fatigue...
After one o... |
tt0406816 | The Guardian | The plot follows Senior Chief Petty Officer Ben Randall (Kevin Costner) and Airman Jake Fischer (Ashton Kutcher) at the United States Coast Guard's Aviation Survival Technician (AST) Program. Ben Randall is the top rescue swimmer who continues to work against regulation past the age of 40. Jake Fischer is a hot-shot ca... | suspenseful, action, sentimental | train | imdb | But for the most part, the movie tells the tale of two lives that come together, and after some time, help each other heal old wounds.As girlie as it sounds, Costner and, as much as I try not to like him, Kutcher do actually work quite well together and compliment each other very well in the movie.As critics have state... |
tt3365778 | Respire | The film begins with Charlie (Joséphine Japy) waking up to the sound of her parents arguing. It appears Charlie's mother, Vanessa (Isabelle Carré) is accusing Charlie's father (Radivoje Bukvic) of cheating with a woman from work. Charlie and her father have a nonchalant attitude towards the argument, suggesting that he... | murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0080025 | Time After Time | In 1893 London, England, popular writer Herbert George "H.G." Wells (Malcolm McDowell) displays a time machine to his skeptical dinner guests. After explaining how it works (including a "non-return key" that keeps the machine at the traveler's destination and a "vaporizing equalizer" that keeps the traveler and machine... | murder, violence, cult, romantic, alternate history, sci-fi | train | imdb | The time travel effects are cheesy and mercifully few, but the film puts story and character way above visual effects, making for a good trade off.Malcolm McDowell is H.G. Wells who, in this movie, actually invents a time machine rather than just writing about one.
There, he enters Wells' time machine and escapes to th... |
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