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tt0062711 | Barbarella | In The Future, a beautiful astronomatrix named Barbarella (Jane Fonda) floats through the galaxy in her spaceship, the Alpha-7. Suddenly she receives an urgent call on her monitor from none other than the President of Earth (Claude Dauphin). He informs her that a young scientist named Durand-Durand went missing sometim... | pornographic, avant garde, cruelty, fantasy, adult comedy, cult, good versus evil, psychedelic, romantic, entertaining | train | imdb | null |
tt0094963 | The Dead Pool | Fame finally catches up with Harry Callahan. His testimony against crime kingpin Lou Janero puts the mobster in prison and Callahan on the cover of San Francisco Magazine as the city's ace crime fighter. Callahan is attacked by Janero's men at a turnoff near the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge while driving. He knocks... | suspenseful, comedy, neo noir, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1073105 | The Descent: Part 2 | Two days after the events of the first film, a traumatized and blood-covered Sarah (Shauna Macdonald) escapes the cave with no memory of the events. She is taken to a hospital, where it is found that some of the blood on her belongs to Juno Kaplan (Natalie Mendoza). Sheriff Vaines (Gavan O'Herlihy) takes his deputy Ele... | violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | In fact, one scene at the end tries to tie up a major story thread from the previous movie, but it simply comes off as tacky and against the grain of the characters we have come to know.The final nail in the tragically shoddy coffin is the ending, which is also funny whether intentional or not.Related Recommendations: ... |
tt1982229 | Siti hyunteo | Lee Yoon-Sung (Lee Min-Ho) works at the Blue House for the National Communication Network Team. He graduated from M.I.T. in the U.S. and possesses elite skills as an I.T. engineer. At the Blue House, Yoon-Sung meets Kim Na-Na (Park Min-Young), who works as a bodyguard there. The two people fall for each other even thou... | revenge | train | imdb | I've been making the rounds here on IMDb offering up reviews of Korean TV shows over the last year or so (because they're sorely lacking), and tonight it's review time for City Hunter.
This show aired in the summer of 2011, and it's not half bad.SPOILERS AHEAD!I see four other people have reviewed this series already (... |
tt0082642 | The Last Chase | Movie opens with roar of race car engine, clunking out on the back stretch of deserted race oval. Stands are empty. Cut to the driver as he goes to the gas pumps and finds them padlocked. Next cut to him looking for someone - shouts back to guy sweeping up about the gas. The janitor says says something like "I can get ... | cult, flashback | train | imdb | I first saw this movie,shortly after it came out--1981,and since then I have had the chance to see it at least three more times,(Wish I had the foresight to record it !)I really like the character that Burgess Meridith plays,he certainly know how to throw in a "Twist" or two.
OK, I'll be the first to admit that this fi... |
tt2359810 | Raanjhanaa | Kundan Shankar (Dhanush) is the only son of a Tamil Hindu parents settled in Varanasi. Since his childhood, Kundan has had a strong and obsessive one-sided love for Zoya Haider (Sonam Kapoor), a Muslim girl residing in the same neighborhood. He always attempts to be around her but gets slapped several times in the proc... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Sonam looks sober and does her part with full conviction, Supporting cast especially Kundan's friend "Murari" is fun to watch.4> Dialogues has everything from catchphrases, roughness to desi gaaliyan of UP.Overall, it is a very good film after such a long time as we don't come across these days in bollywood :).
especia... |
tt0337824 | And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself | Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa (Antonio Banderas) finds himself without adequate funding to finance his war against the military-run government. He also finds himself at odds with the Americans because of the Hearst media empire's press campaign against him. To counter both of these threats, he sends emissaries to ... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0154153 | Andha Naal | On the night of 11 October 1943, the Japanese bombed the Indian city of Madras (now known as Chennai), causing commotion all over the city. In Triplicane the next morning, Rajan (Sivaji Ganesan), a radio engineer and communications researcher, is found murdered with his own hand gun. His neighbor Chinnaiah Pillai (P. D... | mystery, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0101917 | Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare | In 1999, Freddy Krueger has returned and killed nearly every child and teenager in the town of Springwood, Ohio, excluding Alice Johnson and her son Jacob, who are revealed to have moved away. The only surviving teenager, known only as "John Doe", finds himself confronted by Freddy in a dream and wakes up just outside ... | comedy, gothic, murder, cult, horror, violence, flashback, good versus evil, insanity, psychedelic, sadist | train | wikipedia | Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, the sixth installment of the Nightmare on Elm Street series and once again another bad sequel.
This is the last of the "Elm Street" films until Wes Craven resurrected Freddy into a different, darker style in "New Nightmare" and the silly but surprisingly enjoyable spin-off horror fil... |
tt0070634 | The Satanic Rites of Dracula | === Introduction ===
In 1974, a Secret Service agent (Maurice O'Connell) barely escapes from an English country house, in which satanic rituals are celebrated. Before he dies of his wounds, he reveals to his superiors that four prominent members of society – a government minister, a peer, a general and a famous scienti... | gothic, murder, paranormal, cult, violence, good versus evil | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0092513 | Adventures in Babysitting | Chris Parker is awaiting the arrival of her boyfriend, Mike Toddwell, to pick her up for a date. When he arrives, he devastates her by canceling their plans to go to a French restaurant in downtown Chicago due to his sister becoming ill. Brokenhearted, Chris has her best friend Brenda come over, and while she is there,... | cult | train | imdb | I saw this movie when it first came out in the summer of 1987 (a year after "Ferris Bueller" which "Adventures" bares somewhat of a resemblence to) and while I was watching the film it felt to me like I was part of the adventure.
Elisabeth Shue is terrific in her first leading role as Chris Parker, a 17-year-old high s... |
tt1413527 | Evil Things | Five college students leave New York City for a weekend in the country, and 48 hours later they vanished without a trace.
To celebrate Miriam's (Elyssa Mersdorf) birthday, Miriam's Aunt Gail (Gail Cadden) gives her use of a large country home in the Catskills for the weekend. Miriam invites her friends Cassy (Laurel Ca... | violence, dark, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0381681 | Before Sunset | Nine years before, Jesse and Céline had met and had a brief encounter in Vienna. Jesse's new novel, This Time, was inspired by that night, and becomes a bestseller. He does a book tour in Europe, including Paris. He does a reading at the noted bookstore, Shakespeare and Company. Flashbacks express elements of his time ... | boring, violence, flashback, psychedelic, philosophical, romantic, storytelling, sentimental | train | wikipedia | If, on the other hand, you like good dialogue, well formed characters, and aren't quite jaded enough to have given up completely on the idea of true love, don't miss this film..
I'd been longing to see this one as I'd always thought 'Before Sunrise' was one of the most honest, most real films I'd ever seen, but at the ... |
tt0233841 | Baran | We do not accept embedded links in plot synopses, please remove it to continue.
It is winter in Teheran. Lateef is 17. He works in a building construction managed by MEMAR, the site foreman. Lateef's job is to serve tea and prepare food for the workers with whom he is always quarrelling. The workers come from all ... | romantic | train | imdb | What I initially perceived to be a movie about a group of men working at a building site, was indeed a powerful story of unselfish love.
With the way love and sex is treated in many movies, it was wonderful to see how one could feel the love and devotion of one person of another without as much as a touch or kiss.
I wa... |
tt0097368 | The Fly II | Several months after the death of Seth Brundle, his lover Veronica is giving birth to their son at Bartok Industries, the company that funded Brundle's experiments. The labor is very painful, and her accomplice Stathis Borans is dragged away from the procedure after he objects to her treatment. She eventually gives bir... | revenge, cult | train | imdb | But even though The Fly 2 doesn't quite pack the emotional wallop or sophistication of part one, it's still an enjoyable slice of hokey B-movie monster madness that should particularly appeal to those who love a bit of splatter with their big-bug action.Part Two begins as Veronica, the pregnant girlfriend of tragic dec... |
tt0060827 | Persona | Persona begins with images of camera equipment and projectors lighting up and projecting dozens of brief cinematic glimpses, including a crucifixion, an erect penis, a tarantula spider, clips from a comedic silent-film reel first seen in Bergman's Prison (depicting a man trapped in a room, being chased by Death and Sat... | mystery, avant garde, psychological, cult, violence, psychedelic, sentimental | train | imdb | Although Elisabeth remains silent, the relationship between the women is a pleasant one--until a rainy day, too much alcohol, and Elisabeth's silence drives Alma into a series of highly charged personal revelations.It is at this point that the film, which has already be super-saturated with complex visual imagery, begi... |
tt0128445 | Rushmore | Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman) is a precocious and eccentric 15-year-old attending the prestigious boy's school Rushmore Academy. Max is the president, and in some cases founder, of numerous extracurricular clubs and organizations within the school, and is infinitely more devoted to these activities than he is to his ... | cult, comedy, psychedelic, romantic, clever | train | imdb | Wes Anderson reaches cinematic excellence with Rushmore, a story about Max Fischer a young man who's trying to find his own place in the world.
Wes Anderson's Rushmore is a movie full of everything that modern day cinematic crap movies lack; dry humor, unique writing, music that makes a scene unforgettable, and real he... |
tt0054033 | The Little Shop of Horrors | Seymour Krelboyne (Jonathan Haze) is a clumsy assistant at an unassuming flower shop on the dreary Skid Row in Los Angeles. His boss, Gravis Mushnick (Mel Welles) is constantly frustrated with him, and is on the verge of firing him. Seymour's co-worker, the beautiful and sweet Audrey Fulquard (Jackie Joseph) begs Mushn... | cult, comedy, satire, murder, romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt0082748 | Mil gritos tiene la noche | Boston, 1942. A mother walks into a room and catches her son, Timmy, doing a jigsaw puzzle of a naked female. Very irrigated, she says she is going to burn it. She order her son to get her a plastic bag which to dispose of the remains. Tommy instead takes an axe from a closet and murders his mother. He then saws her de... | cruelty, grindhouse film, murder, cult, horror, violence, insanity, sadist | train | imdb | As in most slasher movies there are plenty of suspects to choose from, including a scary looking gardener (cult favourite Paul Smith, 'Midnight Express', 'Crimewave'), a Professor of Anatomy (Jack Taylor, who appeared in a few Jess Franco classics like 'Succubus' and 'Eugenie'), and the Dean (Edmund Purdom, 'The Fifth ... |
tt0087365 | Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | Scotland, 1885. The young John Clayton of the house of Greystoke (Paul Geoffrey) plans a voyage to Africa, to one of the colonies near the coast, along with his pregnant wife, Alice (Cheryl Campbell). John bids farewell to his father, the Sixth Earl of Greystoke (Ralph Richardson).Months later, off the coast of Equator... | comedy, murder, cult, violence, romantic, tragedy, revenge | train | imdb | null |
tt0063452 | The Power | Dr. Jim Tanner has always been an expert on human endurance. As the film opens, he is the chairman of a committee of scientists, based at the laboratory of the Space Research Commission in San Marino, CA, tasked to find the limits of human endurance, and those factors that could best enable a human being, say a prospec... | murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0099878 | Jetsons: The Movie | The company "Spacely Sprockets and Spindles" is in dire trouble. Their latest project, dubbed the 'Orbiting Ore Asteroid,' has had numerous technical setbacks, doing only 3 days of work in over 6 months. To make matters worse, the vice-president in charge of operations, Alexander Throttle-bottom, has run off, making th... | romantic | train | imdb | This movie with it's flaws made it great!
The message of the movie is that family comes first!
A Good Movie Based On The Classic Cartoon Series.
I've been watching Jetsons The Movie for many years.
Out of all the movies that were based on Hanna-Barbera cartoons, I have to say that is one of the better ones.
While it's ... |
tt2855648 | Madras Cafe | The plot opens in Jaffna, where a bus full of passengers is stopped by armed men. They take all of them out and kill them mercilessly. A little girl tries to escape, but is shot and killed immediately.
The movie then moves to Kasauli, where a bearded man, later revealed to be Vikram Singh (John Abraham) wakes up after ... | violence, romantic | train | wikipedia | 'Madras Cafe' is unarguably a gem of a movie that belongs to a rare genre of Bollywood cinema and deserves much more attention and applause than what it's being receiving.The film is based on the backdrop of the Sri Lankan civil war in the late 1980's and early 1990's.
Its tells the conspiracy behind the assassination ... |
tt0816711 | World War Z | Former UN employee Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt), his wife Karin (Mireille Enos) and their two daughters wake and enjoy a family breakfast. Gerry tells the youngest daughter he quit his job to spend more time with the family. On the TV is some news about strife and talk of martial law. Later, they sit in heavy Philadelphia tr... | boring, murder, violence, flashback, action, entertaining | train | imdb | What struck me about it was how much of a wasted opportunity it was, given how interesting and entertaining the source material is.Having read the book World War Z, I could tell from the trailers for this movie that it wouldn't exactly be a faithful adaptation.
The book features a lot of setpiece action scenes, and to ... |
tt0085959 | The Meaning of Life | The film begins with a stand-alone 17-minute supporting feature entitled The Crimson Permanent Assurance (directed by Terry Gilliam). Set in London, England in present day 1983, a group of elderly office clerks in a small accounting firm rebel against their emotionlessly efficient, yuppie corporate masters. They comman... | comedy, cult, violence, psychedelic, absurd, satire, philosophical, humor, entertaining | train | imdb | null |
tt0049096 | The Court Jester | During the main titles, Danny Kaye, dressed as a jester, sings the clever song, Life Could Not Better Be, with lyrics that are apropos to the actors or technicians who are being introduced. A narrator introduces the film while the audience sees a cadre of horsemen riding along the English coastline: "This is the story ... | fantasy, whimsical, action, humor, romantic, entertaining | train | imdb | From the finger snapping sequence through the end of the film is one long build up with increasingly outrageous situations, until we finally arrive at pandemonium, complete with tens of acrobatic midgets battling a cadre of knights in a scene remarkably prescient of the anarchic screwball comedies of the latter half of... |
tt0058548 | Santa Claus Conquers the Martians | On the planet Mars, the Martian's Leader named Kimar notices a listlessness that seems to be taking ahold of the children of Mars. This is evident when he finds his own children (Bomar & Girmar) spending much time watching Earth Programs on the videoscope. Kimar's wife, Momar, suggests that he seek advice from Chochem,... | absurd, cult, psychedelic | train | imdb | null |
tt0165832 | Interstate 60: Episodes of the Road | The story begins in a bar, where two men are discussing a thesis statement for an upcoming paper. One of them asserts that out of all the different realms of the world, America has no mythological character that grants wishes. Their conversation is interrupted by a man (Wayne Robson) who claims that they are wrong, and... | comedy, psychological, murder, whimsical, alternate reality, psychedelic, romantic, entertaining | train | imdb | null |
tt0097958 | National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation | Open: A 2 minute animation of Santa arriving at the Griswold family house and putting presents under the tree.We open with Clark and Ellen singing Christmas carols in the car on the way to a Christmas tree lot out in the country. As Audrey and Rusty are increasingly uninterested in Clark's plan to put on the perfect Gr... | comedy, humor, entertaining | train | imdb | null |
tt0827990 | Aladdin | The story begins when a young boy named Aladdin is wandering the streets of his city in search of some sort of employment. Aladdin walks up to a seemingly noble man offering to be his servant for one day for the price of three eggs, however, the man rejects the offer even when Aladdin offers to work for the price of tw... | fantasy | train | imdb | "Bad Movie" to the 3rd Degree. Generally, when one watches a bad movie, it is in one of two categories: i) it is bad in a funny way, or ii) it is so bad that it isn't enjoyable, even to poke fun. This movie, however, transcends "normal bad" and becomes "Bad to the 3rd Degree," or "so bad that if you are not personally ... |
tt0208092 | Snatch | The film opens as we see boxing promoter Turkish (Jason Statham) and his naive partner Tommy (Stephen Graham), sitting nervously before an unseen man, in London. Turkish gives a brief narration about the circumstances, then the movie really takes off. We then jump to Antwerp, where gangster and compulsive gambler Frank... | comedy, dark, neo noir, murder, cult, violence, flashback, clever, psychedelic, humor, entertaining | train | imdb | This time however, it all looks somewhat slicker and better funded, and alongside the British regulars are the odd American celebrity (Brad Pitt, Benicio Del Toro).Everyone in the film puts in an excellent performance, but Pitt stands out as a charismatic and near-incomprehensible Gypsy boxer.Like Ritchie's earlier fil... |
tt0436058 | Band Camp | The spin-off movie focuses on Matt Stifler (Tad Hilgenbrinck), the younger brother of Steve Stifler from the previous American Pie films. Matt is eager to enter the family business of making porno films, so he can prove to his older brother that he is "up to the standards of the Stifmeister." Stifler and his friends pl... | prank | train | imdb | I have to admit, that i was expecting the forth edition to the American Pie series, with its almost complete absence of original characters (Except for Jim's Dad and the Sherminator) to be dreadful.
Thankfully its actually pretty good, Tad Hilgenbrinck (Matt Stifler) pulls off an incredible performance as the Stifmeist... |
tt0052293 | Thunder Road | Lucas Doolin evades arrest by agents of the Alcohol, Tobacco and Treasury Department, led by Troy Barrett. Upon returning to his home in a country valley, a local liquor transporter is killed in an ambush. His father suspects that the ambush was set up by Kogan, an outside racketeer trying to muscle in. Luke resists Ko... | revenge, cult, murder, violence | train | imdb | The longest running feud in US history, the century-long White-Baker Feud (also called the Clay County Wars) was resurrected due to the two clans' competition in tanking the moon throughout Appalachia.Inherently a sad but realistic work, Mitchum's excellent performance and an honest, understated script give us a snapsh... |
tt0107076 | Hard Target | The film opens with a man being chased by a gang of armed men near New Orleans. One armed man in particular, carrying a hi-tech crossbow, seems intent on killing the man himself. The man being chased reaches the river and runs across a wooden boat dock but is shot twice by the man with the crossbow. One of the bolts hi... | comedy, murder, violence, cult, action, revenge, sadist | train | imdb | Hard Target (1993) is one of the greatest and the best action packed movie in a John Woo-Van-Damme Style!
International superstar Jean-Claude Van Damme teams up with world-famous action director John Woo for this electrifying thriller Van Damme is the target of an evil mercenary (Lance Henriksen) who recruits homeless ... |
tt0264616 | Frailty | (some of the following content first appeared on realmoviereview.com)Fenton Meiks (Matthew McConaughey) walks into an FBI office late one evening and announces that he has information about a serial killer known as the God's Hands Killer that he will only give to the lead investigator. When Agent Wesley Doyle (Powers B... | insanity, plot twist, psychedelic, murder, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0095271 | Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers | The film opens on October 30, 1988, nearly ten years after Michael Myers's last murderous rampage in Haddonfield, Illinois. An ambulance from Smith's Grove, IL makes its way along the road in a thunderstorm toward the Ridgemont Federal Sanitarium, where Michael, who has been in a coma since then, has been incarcerated.... | good versus evil, cult, horror, murder, violence | train | imdb | null |
tt1483025 | Planet Hulk | The Hulk's allies on Earth decide he is too dangerous, so they put him in a shuttle and attempt to send him to a peaceful world. He awakens on board the shuttle before it arrives at its intended destination. When he goes into a fit of rage, breaking his restraints, he also causes enough damage to veer it off course, re... | violence, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0425151 | Jimmy and Judy | Jimmy and Judy is the latest cross country crime spree film to appear on the silver screen,
and on dvd. The film follows the youth angst genre of crime films that was first started
by The Doom Generation, and Natural Born Killers.Edward Furlong (Terminator 2) stars as Jimmy, and Rachael Bella costars as Judy. James Eck... | cruelty, murder, violence, cult, romantic, revenge | train | imdb | I then realized that that must be the reason why it's being shown at this mainstream theater rather than being confined to the Esquire or the Mariemont theaters.Jimmy and Judy is one of those relentless gritty and voyeuristic couple-on-the-run movies.
It's all about the effect of alienation, vindication most people onl... |
tt0282209 | Darkness Falls | In 1827, a small group of people settled around a bay; among them was a newlywed couple, Sonny and Matilda Dixon. The town soon began to grow due to its quickly developing fishing industry. Local stores began to spring up, and people started to cultivate the land.However, in 1836, tragedy struck the small town, now cal... | revenge, fantasy, dark, murder, flashback | train | imdb | My husband is a pretty stoic guy, and because I love and have seen so many horror movies at this point, I'm afraid I'm a little jaded, and have frequently been disappointed when it comes to horror movies that have come out past 1983."Darkness Falls" delivered the goods.
The sets, lighting and sound effects were so cree... |
tt0115956 | Courage Under Fire | While serving in the Gulf War, Lieutenant Colonel Serling (Denzel Washington) accidentally destroys one of his own tanks during a confusing night-time battle, killing his friend, Captain Boylar. The US Army covers up the details and transfers Serling to a desk job.
Later, Serling is assigned to determine if Captain Kar... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | This movie has 2 stories that that run side by side, depicting the same image of war from different perspectives.Denzel's story is one of sadness and guilt over the death of a friend during the Gulf war, a friend that he himself killed in a 'Friendly Fire' incident, during the confusion of battle.
His country won't let... |
tt0109424 | Chung Hing sam lam | The film comprises two different stories, told one after the other, each about a romance involving a policeman. Except for a brief moment when the first story ends and the second begins, the two stories do not interconnect. However, the three main characters from the second story each momentarily appear during the firs... | neo noir, cult, psychedelic, murder, romantic | train | wikipedia | The two main characters in this half of the film, a police officer played dolefully by Takeshi Kaneshiro, and a heroin smuggler played icily by Bridgitte Lin, interact for only ten percent of the story, but their meeting leaves them both with memories that will last life time.
Wong Kar-Wai uses a decidedly unique filmi... |
tt0079766 | Quadrophenia | The film, set in 1964, follows the life of Jimmy Cooper (Phil Daniels), a young London Mod. Disillusioned by his parents and a dull job as a post room boy in an advertising firm, Jimmy finds an outlet for his teenage angst by taking amphetamines, partying, riding scooters and brawling with Rockers, accompanied by his M... | cult | train | imdb | A young man joins the British mod movement and gains a feeling of belonging and importance, but this makes him even more disenfranchised from his boring 9 to 5 life.Britain's answer to Rebel Without A Cause is based around a fair-to-middling Who concept album (they financed the movie too) and was made on a modest budge... |
tt3195644 | Insidious: Chapter 3 | A prequel set before the haunting of the Lambert family. Elise Rainier reluctantly agrees to use her spiritual ability to contact the dead in order to help Quinn Brenner, a teenage girl whose mother Lillith has recently passed. Quinn believes that Lillith has been attempting to reach out to her through the spirit world... | paranormal, flashback | train | imdb | I found the characters pretty flat and uninteresting and the story less imaginative than the previous installments.That said, as a stand alone it's not a bad horror film, especially considering it was a first attempt at directing by the guy who usually does the screenplay.
Supernatural horror plenty of weird phenomenon... |
tt1201167 | Funny People | George Simmons (Adam Sandler) is an extremely successful comedian and actor. But he is very self-absorbed, lonely and estranged from his family by choice. He is subsequently diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia and is informed that traditional treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation would be unlikely to benefit ... | bleak, dramatic, comedy, humor | train | imdb | But I suppose that doesn't get people in to see the movie.After all, the film stars Adam Sandler and Seth Rogen (who have wonderful rapport), among many other, uh, funny people, and is written and directed by Judd Apatow, the director of "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" and "Knocked Up." Of course the trailers have been playin... |
tt0109676 | Drop Zone | Aboard a commercial airliner, U.S. Marshals Terry (Malcolm-Jamal Warner) and Pete Nessip (Wesley Snipes), are escorting computer expert Earl Leedy (Michael Jeter) to a high security prison. When an apparent terrorist hijack attempt blows a hole in the (Boeing 747) airliner, Terry is sucked out to his death, and the ter... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1976009 | Victor Frankenstein | Before meeting Dr. Victor Frankenstein, then-nameless hunchback Igor (Daniel Radcliffe) worked as a circus clown known as Felix the Clown, and as physician for a traveling circus. Due to his hunchback, everyone treats him poorly, but Igor is very smart and draws beautifully detailed pictures of human anatomy in his spa... | flashback, revenge, gothic, sci-fi | train | imdb | null |
tt0026912 | The Raven | The Raven--synopsis**NOTE: Spencer Charters was billed as Geoffrey Pinkey in the credits but actually played Col. Bertram Grant.Ian Wolfe was billed as Col. Bertram Grant in the credits but actually played Geoffrey.The character of Dr. Jerry Holden is listed in the credits and captions as Jerry Halden.They are list... | insanity, revenge, cruelty, murder, sadist | train | imdb | null |
tt0061496 | Prescription: Murder | A wealthy, sophisticated middle-aged couple celebrates their 10th wedding anniversary with a well-to-do party of society's elite. Senators, judges, assistant district attorneys, and successful doctors.His wife, Carol Flemming (Nina Foch) brings out the cake, and just as the party's getting started - Dr. Ray Flemming (G... | murder | train | imdb | Filmed about three years before the great man was given a regular series, in an uncanny way it both stands alone and acts as a guide to what was to come.The Columbo formula is in place: immediate suspicion leads to the hounding of the suspect until Columbo's psychological pressure is too much to bear and the victim is ... |
tt0374536 | Bewitched | After a couple of movies flopped badly, a film star, Jack, agrees to a TV role as Darrin in a revival of Bewitched. His intent is to make Darrin the major part. He wants an unknown to play Elizabeth Montgomery's role (Samantha) so she won't try to upstage him. A real witch trying to act human becomes romantically inter... | romantic, comedy, cute | train | imdb | There were so many ways this movie could have went instead of disappointing the true die hard Bewitched fans.Weak plot, undefined characters, I truly felt as if someone said, "OK, we're bored with this, let's piece it together and call it a day." It would been nice if Isabel could have been seen as someone who was smar... |
tt0102070 | Hudson Hawk | In an introductory scene, Leonardo da Vinci is in his studio, working on a variety of projects. The largest, a complex mechanical machine which focuses the sun's rays, is intended to turn lead into steel, but when activated, it turns out that the machine has turned the lead into something far more valuable: gold. Reali... | comedy, murder, cult, absurd, humor, psychedelic | train | imdb | When Bruce Willis made The Last Boy Scout later that year, one reviewer said "He gets punched in the mouth so many times, he must feel like he's still reading reviews of Hudson Hawk" Willis wrote the story for this film, so I'm sure this must have particularly hurt him, this film put his career in the toilet before Pul... |
tt1212419 | Hereafter | On assignment in Thailand, French television journalist Marie Lelay (Cécile de France) is shopping for souvenirs for her lover Didier (Thierry Neuvic)'s children. She finds a stand where a mother and her daughter work; they sell gifts to Marie for a dollar. Didier looks over the balcony and witnesses the 2004 Indian Oc... | paranormal | train | wikipedia | Moments arrive and disappear and the the people shift, move, appear and disappear.I think most of us need some kind of assurance that it all goes on forever, that our open windows aren't just blacked over and sealed at death.Clint Eastwood has made a quiet, reflective, thoughtful film on this condition, this need for f... |
tt0120211 | Still Breathing | As the movie begins we see Fletcher (Brendan Fraser) who seems very interested in a collage. He even needs an espresso to get him on the right track.In Hollywood, California we meet Rosalyn (Joanna Going) who seems to have given up on two things that she once thought were life's truths, one was that there was a perfect... | romantic | train | imdb | Combining eccentricity with serendipity, Still Breathing is still, almost ten years after it was first released, one of the best fate-filled and wistfully magical love stories of all time.
Take one somewhat unusual street performer who is mystically drawn towards his soul mate - a hardened con artist miles away, and th... |
tt0037749 | The Great Flamarion | In a highly popular stage show sharp shooter Flamarion (Erich von Stroheim) keeps his audience enthralled with his keen abilities at target-shooting with a set of pistols in a high-profile display of talent. One of his assistants Connie Wallace (Mary Beth Hughes) dutifully plays the role of grateful actor as long as th... | murder | train | imdb | Von Stroheim mavens should appreciate the movie, though, as should devotees of Dan Duryea, who plays a hard-drinking, done-wrong hoofer..
Film Noir Gem with great performances from von Stroheim, Hughes, and Duryea.
"The Great Flamarion" is an undiscovered little gem of a film from Rebublic that features von Stroheim as... |
tt1321511 | Old Boy | Joe Doucett (Josh Brolin) is a marketing salesman, but his drinking and roving eye causes him to lose deals. He's estranged from his wife, and misses his daughter's 3rd birthday party. He buys a toy duck from a street vendor, then disappears.Joe wakes up in a small room, where he is fed (primarily Chinese food) and pro... | revenge, neo noir, murder, violence, flashback | train | imdb | For viewers unfamiliar with the history behind Spike Lee's "Oldboy," the 2013 film is a remake of the cult-classic 2003 South Korean film of the same name, directed by Chan-wook Park.
Iconic director Spike Lee's "Oldboy" is as a handsomely shot piece of genre entertainment, but it fails in its attempt to define itself,... |
tt0094734 | Beverly Hills Vamp | Three nerds--Brock [Tim Conway, Jr], Russell [Tom Shell], and Kyle [Eddie Deezen] -- want to make a movie. They take their script to Brock's Uncle Aaron Pendleton [Jay Richardson], a "famous" movie director in Hollywood. While Uncle Aaron is reading the script, the boys do a little sightseeing. First stop is a call gir... | adult comedy | train | imdb | Great movie.
I would like to say that i find Beverly Hills Vamp a great movie especially with Jillian Kesner in it.
She makes me hot like butter and i always liked films with female vampires in it.
You could say it's one of my weaknesses.Too bad we didn't see more of it, and that she died so soon.
A sequel would be in ... |
tt1179034 | From Paris with Love | The movie opens with James Reece (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) driving through the streets of Paris in a black SUV to work. Reece works in the American Embassy as an aide to Ambassador Bennington (Richard Durden), the U.S. Ambassador to France. Taking a delivery of some forms from the Ambassador's secretary, he goes over Benn... | violence, humor, murder, romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt0397065 | House of Wax | The movie begins with a scene set in 1974. A woman is boiling hot wax to make wax masks while her young son is eating his breakfast in a high chair. Suddenly the father comes in holding a near hysterical second son who is kicking and screaming wildly. The second child needs to be strapped down in his high chair due to ... | good versus evil, violence, murder | train | imdb | Using their third brother as a connection with the exterior, it's pretty much arguable that the Sinclair twins should obtain the money necessary to buy the wax, in a WWII-type fashion.So, that aside, I think the movie deserves a lot more than it gets, and nobody should lose the chance to watch it.
House Of Wax is prett... |
tt0096463 | Working Girl | This film is the story of a young woman's rise to success and the unconventional road she took to get there. Tess McGill (Melanie Griffith) is a secretary trying to get ahead at her Manhattan financial conglomerate. She is 30-years-old and earned her college business degree at night school. She rides the Staten Island ... | romantic, comedy | train | imdb | null |
tt0280665 | Femme Fatale | Mercenary thief Laure Ash (Rebecca Romijn) participates in a diamond heist at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival in France. The plan is for Laure to steal a necklace of valuable diamonds from the ensemble of a female attendant named Veronica (Rie Rasmussen). Posing as a French photojournalist, Laure gains access to the fest... | cult, suspenseful, murder, flashback | train | imdb | Brian De Palma's 'Femme Fatale' is pure movie-making.
Not if you love a film that embraces the visual splendour and techniques that make cinema a unique art form.Femme Fatale sees De Palma returning to his forte: the suspense thriller.
His first original screenplay in 10 years, De Palma writes a tightly-plotted tale th... |
tt0113855 | Mortal Kombat | The series takes place in a fictional universe consisting of eighteen surviving realms which, according to in-game backstories, were created by the Elder Gods. The Mortal Kombat: Deception manual described six of the realms as: "Earthrealm, home to such legendary heroes as Liu Kang, Kung Lao, Sonya Blade, Johnny Cage, ... | murder, cult, alternate reality, violence, flashback, good versus evil, psychedelic, humor, revenge | train | wikipedia | Following up the spectacular disaster of competing fighting game turned movie, Mortal Kombat succeeded where Street Fighter failed.
Not a fantastic movie nor one that goes in my top ten, but Mortal Kombat (without a doubt) is one of the better game-based-films.MK wisely avoids inventing plot in unwelcomed places and st... |
tt2085059 | Black Mirror | The show looks inwards, at the darker aspects of humanity and society. This is done through the theme of technology, hence the second meaning. The black mirror is the screen that rules our lives. Taking contemporary phenomena (ranging from the wild popularity of talent shows on TV to the impact of social media and smar... | dark, satire | train | imdb | What makes "Black mirror" so great is the attention to detail and inter/intrapersonal relationships and how the main character would feel and experience its brave new world.
As the show's creator Charlie Brooker ('Dead Set') puts it: "...They (the different stories) are all about the way we live now – and the way we mi... |
tt0102492 | My Girl | In the summer of 1972, Vada Sultenfuss is an 11-year-old girl and a hypochondriac. Harry Sultenfuss, Vada's father, is an awkward widower and funeral director who does not understand his daughter, so he constantly ignores her. Their house, which operates as the town funeral home, has led his daughter to develop an obse... | dramatic, sentimental | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0048424 | The Night of the Hunter | Night of the Hunter opens in the stars, where Rachel Cooper (Lillian Gish) tells the children (and the audience) a Southern Gothic parable regarding the importance of childhood and the dangers of "wolves in sheep's" clothing.Several children play hide and go seek near a farmhouse. One of the kids finds a prime hiding s... | mystery, depressing, murder, allegory, atmospheric, good versus evil, romantic, storytelling | train | imdb | I still hear the lullaby singing sweetly in my head, like a hazy, haunting dream that won't go away.From the opening scene of the beautiful Lillian Gish and her children, watching over the world in a starry sky, this movie just sinks you into a mesmeric fairy tale land.
Robert Mitchum gives one of his very best perform... |
tt0094137 | 3 Men and a Baby | Peter Mitchell, an architect, Jack Holden, an actor, and Michael Kellam, a cartoonist, move into & remodel a Manhattan penthouse. After a large housewarming party, Jack leaves to film a movie in Turkey. Before he leaves the country, he calls his roommates and tells them that a friend of his needs a small package held a... | comedy | train | imdb | The plot may be pretty unrealistic, the ending kooky & unbelievable, and don't get your morals from it, but all in all...it's great fun to watch.The story revolves around three carefree bachelors (Peter, Michael, and Jack) who share a New York City apartment.
While actor Jack is away shooting a movie, a baby is left ou... |
tt0050766 | Night of the Demon | Before the credits, there is footage of a stone circle with a voiceover concerning demon worship and witchcraft over the centuries which still endure today.The film starts with Professor Harrington (Maurice Denham) drving through the night to Lufford Hall, the magnificent residence of Dr. Julian Karswell (Niall MacGinn... | paranormal, cult | train | imdb | Niall McGinnis holds sway here as the impish leader of a Satanic cult, who swiftly dispatches of his critics by summoning a huge, horrific demon to rip them to shreds.Into this isolated world walks psychologist John Holden, played by yet another seriously underrated actor, Dana Andrews.
Andrews, who made a name for him... |
tt0377109 | The Ring Two | A nervous teen male tries to make his date watch a "scary" video. A friend calls to find out if he was able as it has been seven days, but water seeps into the room, going out he sees the girl has her eyes covered. Samara crawls from the TV and the teens (Kelly Stables and Daveigh Chase) scream.Newspaper reporter Rache... | good versus evil | train | imdb | null |
tt1313092 | Animal Kingdom | After his mother overdoses, 17-year-old Joshua "J" Cody (James Frecheville) asks his estranged grandmother, Janine "Smurf" Cody (Jacki Weaver), for help, and she invites him to move in with her. Smurf is the affectionate matriarch of a Melbourne crime family that uses her home as a base. Her home is also being watched ... | comedy, suspenseful, neo noir, murder, boring, violence, romantic, tragedy, revenge | train | wikipedia | The other is Guy Pearce, who plays the detective trying to both solve the cases and rescue young Josh, played by newcomer James Frecheville.Not only is this the type of story that sucks you in, it is a reminder of just how distracting movie stars can be a to film.
Using the character of seventeen-year-old J as a sort o... |
tt0209958 | The Cell | Child psychologist Catherine Deane (Jennifer Lopez) is hired to conduct an experimental virtual reality treatment for coma patients: a "Neurological Cartography and Synaptic Transfer System" device managed by Drs. Henry West and Miriam Kent that allows her to enter a comatose mind and attempt to coax them into consciou... | dark, psychological, cult, alternate reality, violence, horror, atmospheric, psychedelic, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | The last time I reviewed a film helmed by a music video director, I was very angry at what I'd seen (`Mystery Men'), but Tarsem Singh spares us the fish-eye lenses and commercial overindulgences and decides to concentrate on presenting an astonishing visual and audible journey into the mind of a serial killer in `The C... |
tt1082886 | The Wackness | In New York City in 1994, Luke Shapiro (Josh Peck) is trading marijuana in exchange for therapy from his psychiatrist, Dr. Jeffery Squires (Ben Kingsley). Luke graduates from high school but while dealing at a party, he finds out that Justin (Aaron Yoo) and other people have gone away for the summer, except him and his... | pornographic, romantic, dramatic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0031381 | Gone with the Wind | The film opens in Tara, a cotton plantation owned by the proud Gerald O'Hara (Thomas Mitchell), a self-made man of Irish descent, in the Confederate State of Georgia near Atlanta. The date is April 1861. He and his wife, Ellen (Barbara O'Neil), have three beautiful daughters; Suellen (Evelyn Keyes), Carreen (Ann Ruther... | romantic, boring, historical, murder, melodrama | train | imdb | null |
tt0120917 | The Emperor's New Groove | Kuzco, a young selfish Inca emperor, rejects the appearances of potential brides and throws an elderly man out the window for "throwing off his groove." After Kuzco fires his conniving advisor, Yzma, for abusing her power, she comes up with a scheme to take the throne with the help of Kronk, her dim-witted but jovial h... | cult, entertaining, flashback | train | wikipedia | "The Emperor's New Groove" is stylistically a break from Disney tradition - it's closer in tone to the Genie in "Aladdin" or some of their TV shows than most of their movies, making a refreshing change.
the only talking animal has a good excuse for yapping in the voice of David Spade, the only romantic relationship is ... |
tt0054632 | L'année dernière à Marienbad | Since man first became aware of time with the passing of the seasons, the nature of time has been challenging philosophers and scientists alike. Starting with the "flux doctrine" of "Heraclitus," according to which everything is constantly altering ("You cannot step twice in the same river"), to Henry Bergson, who was ... | avant garde, mystery, cult, alternate reality, flashback, psychedelic, romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt2402157 | The November Man | In the opening scene set in Montenegro in 2008. A man, David Mason (Luke Bracey) is having lunch with a woman he is attracted to. He flirts with her and kisses her. His mentor, Peter Devereaux (Pierce Brosnan) walks up to him as the woman leaves and chides him for trying to have a relationship in their line of work. Pe... | revenge, neo noir, murder, violence, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0181875 | Almost Famous | The film is a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story concerning William Miller.The story opens with William (Michael Angarano) at a young age, where we find him living at home with his mother Elaine (Frances McDormand) and his sister Anita (Zooey Deschanel) in San Diego, California. While William gets along well wit... | dramatic, romantic, humor, boring | train | imdb | Aside from bringing up questions of journalistic ethics, this dilemma mirrors much of what people in all wakes of life deal with daily.Almost Famous is realistic, funny, touching, and one of those rare movies that makes you feel like you've gained something just for having seen it.
Fox without ever getting corraled int... |
tt0120693 | Half Baked | Thurgood (Dave Chappelle), Scarface (Guillermo Diaz), Brian (Jim Breur) and Kenny (Harland Williams) are childhood friends who discover marijuana. They grow up together and live in an apartment in New York. During a smoke, they send Kenny to get food. Kenny sees a horse, and starts feeding it treats. The horse dies (it... | cult, comedy, storytelling, flashback | train | imdb | Dave Chapelle is very funny in the lead and to me is a better lead comedy actor than the likes of Martin Lawrence and even Chris Rock.
Its a funny screenplay, decent comedic direction and good performances, worth a look for any fan of comedy, pot or cinema..
Especially with the funny acting of Jim Breuer, Dave Chappell... |
tt1174732 | An Education | It is the early 1960's, and Jenny (Carey Mulligan) is a bright young schoolgirl quickly approaching her 17th birthday. Jenny's parents have sacrificed much so that her schooling can get her into Oxford, with her doing everything from learning Latin to playing the Cello.One day, having been caught in the rain, a much ol... | romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt1951266 | The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 | In the opening scene, Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) is getting vocal therapy after being nearly choked to death by Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) in the previous film. Once she can properly speak, she sees her younger sister Primrose "Prim" Everdeen (Willow Shields) entering Peeta's cell. The programming inflic... | suspenseful, murder, anti war, violence, good versus evil, romantic, brainwashing, revenge, sci-fi | train | imdb | You can sense this in the film which does not have much of a plot, scenes that are purely filler and the story just crawls because the book that it is based on has been split into two which means more padding than a model wearing a Wonderbra.Panem is in chaos Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) plans to assassinate President S... |
tt0430105 | Four Brothers | On a cold, snowy night in Detroit, an El Camino car follows another around town. The car that the Camino is following parks and the driver gets out and walks into a convenience store. The driver is Evelyn Mercer (Fionnula Flanagan), a good-natured, elderly woman. She catches a young boy named Darnell (Tahliel Hawthorne... | comedy, neo noir, murder, violence, cult, humor, revenge | train | imdb | If you had ever told me that I would end up really liking a movie starring Marky Mark from the Funky Bunch and the lead singer of Outkast (the perpetrators of one of the most annoying songs in recent history - Hey Ya) then I would've laughed right in your face.
Wrongs have to be made right, and the brothers decide they... |
tt3039902 | Candy from Strangers | A strange boy is being chased by a suspicious white van. He hides from his pursuers, stumbling upon a young girl playing outside with her 2 best friends. He motions her towards him. For a split second, the young girl thought she saw the boy's eyes change yet she remains unafraid as he was the most beautiful boy she had... | romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt0218067 | The Calling | The movies opens with an American girl, Kristie [Laura Harris] being shot at the ocean shore and falling into the surf. She awakens in the hospital and Father Mulin [Peter Waddington] is with her. He asks if she wishes to be forgiven; initially unable to speak, she squeezes his hand. She then tells the story in flashba... | murder | train | imdb | A young American woman gets married with a famous British newscaster, and apparently lives a perfect life in the Isle of Man until she discovers that his husband is part of a satanic cult trying to start the Antichritst's reign over Earth.Sounds familiar?
This movie gives more than a nod to horror classics "Rosemary's ... |
tt0029811 | Young and Innocent | Christine Clay (Pamela Carme), a famous actress, receives a surprise visit from Guy (George Curzon), a husband she hasn't seen in eight years. Guy reminds her he "dragged her out of the gutter to make her a star". He's furious that she left him, outraged over her "silly Reno divorce" and indignant that she is playing a... | comedy, mystery, murder | train | imdb | Derrick de Marney is engaging as the unjustly accused hero Robert Tisdall, and his character is balanced nicely by good performances from the rest of the cast (several of whom appeared in more than one of Hitchcock's British movies).As is often the case with Hitchcock's British pictures, the title is capable of multipl... |
tt0243327 | Ides of March | Stephen Meyers is the junior campaign manager for Pennsylvania Governor Mike Morris, a Democratic presidential candidate, competing against Arkansas Senator Ted Pullman in the Democratic primary election. Both campaigns are attempting to secure the endorsement of North Carolina Democratic Senator Franklin Thompson, who... | suspenseful, violence | train | wikipedia | On Video?.
I saw the trailer for this on You Tube, it looks fantastic, Does anyone have a copy on DVD, I"ll even take a copy from another region besides the USA.
Its the only Gary Daniles film I don't have yet.
The acting and the fight scenes seem really good, I also see that it has a been given another title in the US... |
tt0097179 | DeepStar Six | In the opening scene, McBride (Greg Evigan) and Joyce Collins (Nancy Everhard) are woken when their alarm clock goes off. He mumbles something then passes it off as a dream about being underwater. She recalls it is the third time he's had the same dream. They go on to discuss Captain Laidlaw, how good his life is, with... | suspenseful, sci-fi, claustrophobic, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0758730 | AVPR: Aliens vs Predator - Requiem | Two Predators load several live Alien facehuggers and his dead comrade onto a ship, intending to return to the Predator homeworld. Unbeknownst to all, the dead comrade was impregnated with an Alien before dying. The alien bursts from the corpse's chest, then quickly grows into a Predator-Alien hybrid (Tom Woodruff, Jr)... | violence, cult, murder, sadist | train | imdb | As warring alien and predator races descend on a small town, where unsuspecting residents must band together for any chance of survival and they find themselves caught up in a battle between the two legend beings .Stirring but inferior sequel with plenty of thrills , chills , suspense , disgusting special effects and l... |
tt1974419 | The Neon Demon | The movie opens up with beautiful blond teenage girl, named Jesse (Elle Fanning), sprawled out across a love seat. Blood trickles down her body and onto the love seat and the floor beneath her. She is being photographed by Dean (Karl Glusman), a young amateur photographer whom she met on the Internet. The shoot gives D... | comedy, avant garde, suspenseful, murder, neo noir, violence, flashback, psychedelic, romantic, revenge | train | imdb | null |
tt1979320 | Rush | The following is based on a true story. The film opens at the German Grand Prix in Nurburgring in 1976. Niki Lauda (Daniel Bruhl) looks to the sky and narrates that he and James Hunt (Chris Hemsworth) have long been considered rivals, though he doesn't know why people think that. As the race commences, the two of them,... | flashback | train | imdb | In 1976, the rivalry between two brilliant racing car drivers, the British James Hunt and the Austrian Nikki Lauda, came to a head in the almost literally life-and-death struggle of the Formula One championship.
American director Ron Howard ("Apollo 13", "A Beautiful Mind", "Frost/Nixon") and British scriptwriter Peter... |
tt0335245 | The Ladykillers | [In this adaptation of the original, the setting of the film is moved from London to Saucier, Mississippi, home of a riverboat casino. Actual filming, however, took place in Natchez, due to the real Saucier being situated in Harrison County and not bordering the Mississippi River.]In a quiet, beautiful community Mrs. M... | entertaining, comedy, boring, murder, flashback | train | imdb | As a remake this movie falls flat, as a stand alone movie its not too bad and will appeal more to a younger audience and probably mostly American one at that.Here is the problem with remakes - If you make it exactly like the original then there is little point in remaking it, if you just change the country what is the ... |
tt1027820 | The Incident | Asylum Blackout is a horror thriller from the movie director Alexandre Courtes. The story starts with George (Rupert Evans) working in the kitchen of a mental hospital called Sans Asylum. Georges dream is to hit it big in the rock industry with his band mates Max (Kenny Doughty) and Ricky (Joseph Kennedy) but unfortuna... | insanity, murder | train | imdb | I was watching this expecting it to be another run of the mill low budget flick, especially with the rating which almost convinced me not to watch it at all.Any movie that has you really thinking about it after its over is way better than the fluff I have seen come out recently and this one had me pondering the ending ... |
tt0156408 | La classe de neige | La Classe de NeigeA grey Renault is being driven along a highway leading into the mountains. Nicolas (Clement van den Bergh), a boy of about twelve, is sitting in the back seat, napping. On the dashboard are photos of Nicolas, his little brother Tom, and his mother. His father (François Roy) is driving.A teacher, Miss ... | fantasy, murder, sadist, violence, haunting, flashback, romantic, storytelling | train | imdb | Simply ,"la classe de neige" is Claude Miller's best work since "la meilleure façon de marcher" (1975,his debut).These works comprise intriguing similarities: both take place in a children community.The first movie,which featured the excellent Patrick Bouchitey and Patrick Dewaere,focused on two camp counselors ,and th... |
tt0295297 | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | While home with the Dursleys for the summer, Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) is not getting any mail from his friends, Ron (Rupert Grint) and Hermione (Emma Watson). On his twelfth birthday (July 31) Harry is visited by Dobby, a house-elf, who warns Harry that he will be in mortal danger if he returns to Hogwarts. Harr... | good versus evil, cult, fantasy, action, mystery | train | imdb | Just the movie "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" became more sinister, frightening and full of dangers.Characters have not changed.
His choice."Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" - a magical, mysterious, full of magic, amazing and terrible creatures canvas director Chris Columbus.
Apparently J.K. Rowling ... |
tt1707386 | Les Misérables | === Volume I – Fantine ===
The story begins in 1815 in Digne, as the peasant Jean Valjean, just released from 19 years' imprisonment in the Bagne of Toulon—five for stealing bread for his starving sister and her family and fourteen more for numerous escape attempts—is turned away by innkeepers because his yellow passpo... | suspenseful, sentimental, murder, historical, melodrama | train | wikipedia | Featuring some bravura performances from an all-star cast including Anne Hathaway (Oscar winner), Hugh Jackman (Oscar nominated), Russell Crowe, Sacha Baron Cohen and Helena Bonham Carter.
Set against the sweeping backdrop of 19th-century France, 'Les Mis' tells an enthralling and emotional story of passion, love and r... |
tt0482088 | Hors de prix | Jean (Gad Elmaleh) is a waiter and bartender at a luxury French hotel. He is shy and soft-spoken, and seems out of place among the wealthy and pretentious patrons who surround him. While working the nearly-empty barroom one night, an elderly guest invites him to take a break, smoke a cigar, and have a drink. Jean event... | psychedelic, satire, entertaining, romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt0086320 | Sleepaway Camp | Over the opening credits, we see a closed-down summer camp in the fall that is called Camp Arawak.The film opens in the summer of 1975, with a family consisting of divorcée John Baker (Dan Tursi) and his two children, Angela and Peter, out on a lake near a summer camp in upstate New York. After their small boat acciden... | grindhouse film, murder, cult, horror, violence, flashback, insanity | train | imdb | And the ending, my friends, is what makes Sleepaway Camp worth the watch.
Robert Hiltzik's "Sleepaway Camp" is one of the most memorable slasher movies ever made.Of course the acting and dialogue are terrible,but writer/director Robert Hiltzik manages to create very creepy atmosphere throughout,the killings are origina... |
tt1480684 | The League | The beauty of search engine optimization is the simplification in finding exactly what you are looking for with as little as three key words. And, finding The League was exactly that typing sport movies into the search engine and refining the search by adding soccer; I found a show that would stay with me for a while t... | humor | train | imdb | None of the characters are particularly likable (I personally like Pete best), but you end up really attached to them, but the comedy is just so clever, fast and observational as well as horrible but there are some big names that have graced it's episodes from the world of Football and there's a great few eps with Jeff... |
tt0120889 | What Dreams May Come | While vacationing in Switzerland, pediatrician Chris Nielsen (Robin Williams) meets artist Annie Collins (Annabella Sciorra). They are attracted to each other, and bond as if they had known each other for a long time. They marry and have two children, Ian (Josh Paddock) and Marie (Jessica Brooks Grant). Their idyllic l... | thought-provoking, alternate reality, flashback, psychedelic, philosophical, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt3205802 | How to Get Away with Murder | The first eight episodes alternate between small flashes of events happening on December 12th,2014 (the night of Sam Keatings' murder) and the main part of that episode. This main part of these episodes takes place some weeks before December the 12th (a countdown is shown in each episode).At the start of the semester, ... | murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0480687 | Hall Pass | Rick (Owen Wilson) and Fred (Jason Sudeikis) are best friends, as are their wives, Maggie (Jenna Fischer) and Grace (Christina Applegate). They are both unhappy with their married lives and missing the old days when they were single. Realizing this, their wives talk to their friend Dr. Lucy (Joy Behar) and decide to gi... | comedy, entertaining | train | wikipedia | I wish I had not watched the movie because I will never get the time I spent watching this garbage back and should sue the idiot directors This is a non stop penis joke and awkwardly explicit male nudity type of movie that fails to deliver anything original tries to force its jokes to happen.This movie is pretty much f... |
tt1278340 | Død snø | A woman, Sara, is being chased through the snows of Norway. She is ultimately cornered and eaten by zombies wearing World War II Nazi SS uniforms.
Seven students on Easter vacation arrive at a small cabin near Øksfjord. The cabin is owned by Sara, Vegard's girlfriend. The group begins to drink and party until a mysteri... | cult, comedy, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0790724 | Jack Reacher | In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a man drives a van into a parking garage across the Allegheny River from PNC Park (home of the Pittsburgh Pirates) and parks in a space that had been blocked off to keep cars from parking too close to some construction materials. He oddly puts a quarter in the parking meter for thirty minut... | comedy, mystery, neo noir, murder, violence, plot twist, flashback, action, suspenseful | train | imdb | I have never read the Jack Reacher books, so cannot compare Cruise to the title character.
Like the action movies just referenced, you thrill to watching a strongly defined protagonist outsmart, outfight and outmaneuver the bad guys.Which brings me to the character of Jack Reacher and the casting of Tom Cruise.
In the ... |
tt0206634 | Children of Men | On November 16th, 2027, a brief newscast (done by newsreaders Mishal Husain & Rob Curling) reports on the state of the world: women have become infertile and no children have been born for 18 years. Most of the world's societies have collapsed and in Britain all foreigners have been declared illegal immigrants and are ... | mystery, neo noir, murder, depressing, realism, bleak, allegory, violence, cult, thought-provoking, atmospheric, romantic, sci-fi | train | imdb | It's a cinéphile's dream come true; it's a masterpiece in the true sense of the word.'Children of Men' is a gut-wrenching look at an all too possible future, but it also works as a heart-stopping, adrenaline-rush-inducing piece of entertainment featuring some of the most breathtaking camera work you'll ever see.The per... |
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