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tt0093010 | Fatal Attraction | Dan Gallagher (Michael Douglas) is a successful, happily married New York attorney living in Manhattan when he meets Alexandra (Alex) Forrest (Glenn Close), an editor for a publishing company, through business. While his wife, Beth (Anne Archer), and daughter, Ellen (Ellen Hamilton Latzen), are out of town for the week... | violence, revenge, suspenseful, murder, cult | train | imdb | null |
tt1492966 | Louie | Louis C.K. writes, directs and stars in this show about a stand-up comedian, mostly performing late night shows at small clubs and restaurants. He is a single father living with his two school-going daughters. Episodes focus on events in his everyday life, and are bookended by clips from his stand-up routine. C.K. is t... | psychedelic | train | imdb | I hate giving the 10-star rating because it appears exaggerated and the best I can do to avoid people looking down on the review/plea for people to watch this program is to say, "It's the best at what it's trying to be." I'm not going to use that statement to save my ass here because I'm not sure what this show is tryi... |
tt1851988 | Ko | Ashwin Kumar (Jiiva) is a photojournalist working for the private newspaper Dina Anjal. He witnesses Naxalites robbing a local bank. He chases them and manages to click photos of the robbers. When he tries to escape, he is stopped by a young woman Renuka 'Renu' (Karthika Nair) who assumes he is the culprit and helps th... | murder | train | wikipedia | Racy all through, it is a movie that is worth a watch .....Great Film !!!!.
The movie starts off with a bank robbery and Jeeva's breathtaking bike chase...This itself attracts everyone...Jeeva(Ashwin) is a sharp and smart photographer who stands against crimes and manages politicians whenever required and finally trap ... |
tt0092746 | Cherry 2000 | In the year 2017, the United States has fragmented into postapocalyptic wastelands and limited civilized areas. One of the effects of the economic crisis is a decline in manufacturing, and heavy emphasis on recycling aging 20th-century mechanical equipment. Society has become increasingly bureaucratic and hypersexualiz... | cult | train | wikipedia | Man Meets Robot, Ditches Robot for Hot Babe with Gun. Cherry 2k is a low budget one-off adaptation of the Mad Max concept mixed in with futurist technology ideas and a very cool love story.
Fortunately, Cherry 2000 bucked this trend and deserves a spot on the shelf of any cult classic and/or Sci-fi movie collector..
Bu... |
tt0059678 | The Satan Bug | Lee Barrett, a private investigator and former intelligence agent discharged for his outspoken views, is approached by a man with a tempting offer to join a political organization opposing bioweapons. His refusal proves the correct response, as the man is an impersonator sent by his former boss Eric Cavanaugh to test h... | neo noir, murder, cult, violence, insanity, suspenseful | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0419294 | The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada | South of Texas, in the desert. A jeep driven by one man wearing army clothes stops on the road. The man and his buddy see coyotes in the distance eating something behind some rocks. The buddy shoots the coyote, and they both go to see what's happening.THE FIRST BURIAL OF MELQUÍADES ESTRADAPeter "Pete" Perkins (Tommy Le... | realism, revenge, murder, violence | train | imdb | Although it takes place in modern day Texas, its main character Pete Perkins, superbly played by Tommy Lee Jones, seems to be living resolutely in the past.
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada(2005) ****Tommy Lee Jones steps up to the plate and takes a big first swing with 'Three Burials.' This is a movie that capt... |
tt0209077 | Ken Park | The opening of the film depicts teenager Ken Park (nicknamed "Krap Nek", which is his first and last name spelled and pronounced backward) skateboarding across Visalia, California. He arrives at a skate park, where he casually sits in the middle of it, sets up a camcorder, smiles, and shoots himself in the temple with ... | violence, murder, romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | "Ken Park" demands that the viewer suspend that response, look beyond any arousal or outrage generated from the explicit sexuality and focus on the relationships in the film (of which sex is merely the expression).
Living in Australia, there has been a lot of controversy about this movie, leading to the government bann... |
tt2693664 | Young Ones | In a post draught-apocalyse USA, people would literally kill for water. Ernest Holm lives with his son Jerome and daughter Mary in their small town house and field. While everybody has left, Ernest stays, believing that the land will grow once more if only theres irrigation. Ernest gets water for his family by trading ... | violence, boring, murder, romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt1333125 | Movie 43 | Movie 43 is a series of different sketches containing different scenes and scenarios.
=== The Pitch ===
Produced and directed by Peter Farrelly and written by Rocky Russo, Jeremy Sosenko, and Ricky Blitt
The film is composed of multiple comedy shorts presented through an overarching segment titled "The Pitch", in which... | comedy, fantasy, murder, adult comedy, violence, flashback, humor | train | wikipedia | I don't know, maybe I just have a strange sense of humor, but I thought this movie was funny.
It isn't even that I'm a prude or hate gross-out humor, I'm 18 for crying out loud- I just have the ability to recognize when someone put actual effort and thought into making a movie funny and when Hollywood is laughing AT US... |
tt0029171 | Love from a Stranger | Carol Howard (Ann Harding) is young woman who works in London at a very ordinary clerical job. She wins a fortune, ninety thousand pounds, in a French lottery. According to what we find later, this is 36 times the price of a nice cottage in the country. She walks off her job and returns to her modest apartment to talk ... | insanity, romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt0087981 | Razorback | Jake Cullen (Bill Kerr) is babysitting his grandson at his house in the Australian outback when a massive razorback boar attacks him, smashing through his house and dragging away his grandson to devour alive. Jake is accused of murdering the child and while his account of the events are met with considerable skepticism... | revenge, violence | train | wikipedia | Despite the apparent ridiculousness of the plot, this movie is better than one might expect.Beth Winters, a Canadian reporter, has come to the small Australian Outback town of Gamulla to shoot a story about the local dog food packing plant, which uses the meat of poached kangaroos in its product.
And there are some pre... |
tt0049515 | Mohawk | A wagon train courses across the Cherry Valley in New York, headed for Ft. Alden. As members of various indian tribes comprising the Iroquois Nation watch, two women riding on a wagon are worried about possible danger. The man driving the wagon tells them that the indians are currently peaceful, but can't be trusted to... | revenge, murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0421073 | Street Kings | Tom Ludlow (Keanu Reeves) is a disillusioned L.A. Police Officer, rarely playing by the rules and haunted by the death of his wife. The movie opens with Tom Ludlow waking up, having been drinking the night before. Working undercover, he meets with two Korean gangsters in a parking lot, who are looking to buy a machine ... | violence, neo noir, murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0051205 | Womaneater | The title and credits are shown over a painting of a jungle at dusk. We open with a view of the Thames River. A man enters the Explorers Club. In a comfortable club room, Dr. James Moran (George Coulouris) is discussing an interesting tale recounted by a deceased colleague by the name of Ashby. Dr. Patterson (Norman Cl... | murder | train | imdb | null |
tt1327194 | The Lucky One | Is there really such a thing as destiny? Is Fate shadowing our movements, stacking the deck, or are all our momentsordinary and extraordinaryrandom?A Marine (Zac Efron) has seemingly defied the odds during three tours of duty in Iraq. The story opens in Iraq, where U.S. Marine Sergeant Logan Thibault is on his third to... | romantic | train | imdb | From what I've heard, the books are exceptional, however, the movies always fall short.Logan (Zac Efron) is a marine who serves three tours in Iraq.
He recognizes a tower in the picture and walks with his German shepherd, Zeus, from Colorado all the way to Louisiana.Of course, Logan and the woman, Beth (Taylor Schillin... |
tt0490076 | All the Boys Love Mandy Lane | At a Texas high school, Mandy Lane (Amber Heard) is a popular outsider. Fellow student, Dylan, (Adam Powell) invites her to a party at his house and she accepts with the provision that her best friend Emmet (Michael Welch) can attend also. At the party, Dylan and Emmet clash so Emmet goes to sit on the roof overlooking... | horror, murder | train | imdb | Too much of this film is subjective; some shots are excellent and stylised but the content leaves a lot to be desired; some of the gore is well done; in the q & a on the DVD the lead actress talks about awkwardness in Mandy Lane's character as she took her clothes off to join the group in a lake - I saw a classic playb... |
tt0097770 | Lock Up | Frank Leone (Sylvester Stallone), a skilled mechanic and football player, in Hoboken, New Jersey is a model prisoner nearing the end of his sentence in Norwood, a low security prison. He occasionally spends time outside prison in his garage fixing cars and looking at pictures of his childhood and high school football y... | comedy, cruelty, murder, neo noir, violence, flashback, melodrama, revenge, sadist | train | imdb | Oh, what a rare treat!The best acting is not Stallone's (no surprise there) but that of Donald Sutherland's portrayal of the sadistic and bloodthirsty prison warden.
Have to say right off that I can't believe the low rating for this one here, because it delivers everything that a Stallone fan would want, if one is load... |
tt1276104 | Looper | In 2044, the United States has suffered economic collapse, causing severe social decay and growth in organized crime. In addition, a strange mutation has occurred in 10% of the population, giving them minor telekinetic powers, manifested by their ability to float small objects. They are referred to as TKs. Thirty years... | boring, neo noir, murder, suspenseful, psychological, paranormal, mystery, violence, alternate reality, flashback, clever, tragedy, revenge, sci-fi | train | imdb | I think its fair to say that Joseph Gordon-Levitt is well on his way to being "one to watch", Bruce Willis pops back to life here, clearly enjoying himself again, (although i wouldn't say this is solely a Bruce Willis movie in that definition).This is a brilliant movie experience, its an wholly original and entertainin... |
tt1328634 | New York | In the United States in 2008, the FBI arrest Omar Aijaz (Neil Nitin Mukesh) after finding guns in the trunk of a taxi cab he owned. Omar, a young Muslim man originally from Delhi, is then taken into custody and interrogated by FBI Agent Roshan (Irrfan Khan), also a Muslim man originally from South Asia who has been liv... | revenge, mystery | train | wikipedia | Another thing which i noticed in this movie , which was not something bad to do but the part when Omar goes As under cover agent seemed like a scene from the departed.As far as the performances go i was very impressed by Neil Nitin Mukesh , you just can't believe it's his third movie and proves himself a scene stealer.... |
tt0052279 | Teenage Cave Man | The movie opens with black and white images of prehistoric cave art. A narrator tells us, "In the beginning there was chaos and eternal night. And a voice said, 'let there be light' and the dark was separated from the night. There was created the waters and the land and there were made the sun to rule the day and the m... | murder | train | imdb | Okay: low budget, bad acting, cheesy spliced-in scenes from other "dinosaur" movies.
Conceived in the era of the 1950's nuclear holocaust scare, TEENAGE CAVEMAN is an inspired (albeit low-budget) reflection of this period's fears and a worthy attempt by producer/director Roger Corman to present more serious subject ma... |
tt1074929 | Adoration | Simon is a young orphan being raised under the care of his uncle Tom. The early scenes of the film show him filming his conversation in the hospital with his dying grandfather. Through the eyes of Simon we see the grandfather as a caring, wise man, while through the perspective of his uncle we see the racist, backwards... | storytelling, flashback | train | imdb | Simon (Devon Bostick), a young high school student, tells his class that his Lebanese father Sami (Noam Jenkins) was a terrorist who attempted to blow up a plane with a bomb carried by his pregnant wife, Rachel (Rachel Blanchard), a talented violinist.
He (Simon) imagines having a father who is a demon; he wants to go ... |
tt6075386 | Lobo | "Sunny Jim Story Arc":
Lobo made a bet with an escaped con named Sunny Jim to which one could have sex with a human waitress first. Lobo carved up Sunny Jim's face badly so Sunny can lose the bet. However, he took Darlene from Dooley-7 so he can sell her for 2,000 credits at Tubo's Swap Meet. Lobo followed the con to t... | violence, humor, satire, murder | train | imdb | A Second look. Well I decided to watch the rest of the show today and it's not really that bad as I thought it was.Lobo this show is definitely not for kids as due to the over excessive violence and strong language.Overall it's not a bad mini series but they could learn to animated and draw better because that seems to... |
tt0091969 | Slaughter High | At Doddsville County High School, Carol (Caroline Munro) leaves the geek Marty (Simon Scuddamore) down the hallway, both laughing about doing it. She leads Marty to the girls locker room as, unbeknownst to Marty, a group of people follow. Marty goes into a shower stall and undressed, and Carol lets the people inside th... | dark, cruelty, murder, adult comedy, cult, violence, revenge, sadist | train | imdb | Disfigured and back for revenge, sporting a Joker/Jester mask (pretty creepy looking, might i add), Marty begins to kill off those teens one by one many years later, after he manages to make them believe that their old abandoned high school is having a reunion.
That being said, it also relies heavily on the standard sl... |
tt0050414 | From Hell It Came | The movie opens with title and credits running over a long shot of a tropical Pacific Island village of huts.The opening scene is of a palm covered beach and cuts to an assembly of natives performing a ceremony. The seated Witch Doctor, Tano (Robert Swan), stabs a voodoo doll in the heart with a knife. Tano pronounces ... | revenge | train | imdb | null |
tt0488906 | Zinda | The film is about a rich, successful business man named Balajeet "Bala" Roy (Sanjay Dutt), who lives a blissful life with his beautiful wife, Nisha Roy (Celina Jaitley). Nisha is expecting their first child together. Bala is suddenly captured for an unknown reason and kept alive in a cell without knowing who his captiv... | revenge, neo noir, violence, flashback | train | imdb | I found myself in tears of laughter at how bad this really was in every way possible.I think the most tickling moment is when they tried to re enact the "hammer" fight scene with a hugely inflated Sanjay Dutt - it was like seeing a hippo on speed - the original was one of the most memorable fight scenes ever choreograp... |
tt1398426 | Straight Outta Compton | Compton, South-Central Los Angeles, California. 1986Easy-E (Jason Mitchell) is in the middle of a drug deal that's breaking bad. Guns are pulled. Threats are made. The police appears and raids the block and E barely makes it out of the house and escapes to freedom across the rooftops.Meanwhile, Dr. Dre (Corey Hawkins) ... | violence | train | imdb | null |
tt0100814 | Tremors | Valentine "Val" McKee (Kevin Bacon) and Earl Bassett (Fred Ward) are two good-for-nothing odd-job workers. They usually mend fences and railings, help farmers in a sleepy town called Perfection, and take care of cows. They have the use of a down-trodden truck, and not much money to their names. The live near a dry dust... | cult, comedy, psychedelic, humor, prank | train | imdb | Since then, I have seen the movie about ten more times (at least), and still get a kick out of it.Tremors is basically a landlocked variation on 'Jaws' and those 1950s giant bug movies: the isolated town of Perfection, Nevada (population 16), finds itself under seige by four monstrous, subterranean wormlike creatures, ... |
tt0116213 | Eraser | During the opening credits, a man (later identified as John Kruger) (Arnold Schwarzenegger) gets dressed in ninja clothing, and then loads his gun. There are scattered images of Social Security papers, a passport, a birth certificate, etc. The man burns the means of ID; one of the pictures burning is of a woman (later ... | violence, action, neo noir, murder | train | imdb | A decade ago, this Arnold Schwarzenegger action flick was fairly hot stuff but I wonder if it would have the impact today since special effects are so much better and we've seen so many of these type of action stories in the past 10 years.One of Arnold's keys to his successful career in films was simply that his movies... |
tt0218839 | Best in Show | Best in Show is presented as a documentary of five dogs and their owners destined to show in the Mayflower Kennel Club Dog Show, held in Philadelphia. Segments of the documentary continuously cycle among owners and handlers as each prepares to leave for the show, arrives at the hotel, prepares backstage, handles their ... | comedy, boring, psychedelic, absurd, humor, satire, entertaining | train | wikipedia | When the advertising for Best in Show had the tagline "From the Team That Brought You Waiting for Guffman", a fair number of critics out there implied in their reviews that only people that are familiar with the film or its filmmakers and cast would have a good time seeing this film.
We have the loveable and gullable H... |
tt0427944 | Thank You for Smoking | The film opens with Nick Naylor (Aaron Eckhart) appearing on Joan Lunden's daytime talk show, along a doctor, a senator's aide, and a teenage boy with cancer. As he's introduced, the audience spits at him. The screen freezes, spittle in midair, while Naylor explains what he does for a living in a voice over. He works f... | comedy, boring, dark, murder, clever, satire, romantic, entertaining | train | imdb | The film is basically about his profession as he spins the news, pitches a movie idea, dodges a subpoena, has an affair with a reporter (Katie Holmes), tries to spend time with his son (Cameron Bright), and has lunch with an alcohol lobbyist (Maria Bello) and a firearms rep (David Koechner) - where they literally compa... |
tt0421994 | Imagine Me & You | Rachel (Piper Perabo) is a young woman living in North London, England who is getting married to Heck (Matthew Goode), a local stockbroker. Rachel is getting ready by trying on her wedding dress while her bossy mother Tess (Celia Imrie) and adorably dazed father Ned (Anthony Head) are overjoyed at their eldest daughter... | romantic, cute, queer, feel-good | train | imdb | null |
tt0364725 | Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story | The movie opens with an infomercial for Globo Gym America Corp. We are introduced to White Goodman (Ben Stiller) - who talks about how Globo Gym is a beacon of human physical fitnes extremes, and then he is talking about how he's the company's first customer and the creator of the Globo Gym lifestyle. Then it's reveale... | comedy, humor, entertaining, flashback | train | imdb | She takes a liking to the 'underdog' owner of the Average Joe gym though, and helps them in their plan to win a Dodgeball contest in order to get the money they owe.
Dodgeball is an 'obscure' sport that mostly consists of throwing a ball to hit your opponent (look it up on the Net - Dodgeball fans take it quite serious... |
tt0094847 | The Cat Came Back | Old Mr. Johnson is busy practicing his Tuba, when an incessant knocking is heard at his door. Unable to concentrate, he angrily flings the door open, only to find a little yellow cat in a purple bassinet on his doorstep. Intrigued by the cute cat, Mr. Johnson brings him inside. Finding an old baby rattle of his, Mr. Jo... | psychedelic | train | imdb | null |
tt0310851 | The Case of the Whitechapel Vampire | Someone... or something... is killing the monks at the abbey in Whitechapel, and Sherlock Holmes [Matt Frewer] and Dr Watson [Kenneth Welsh] have been called to investigate. Rumor is that it's the work of a vampire brought back from a recent mission in Guiana. In all cases, the victims have been found with two large pu... | paranormal, murder | train | imdb | null |
tt1646958 | Autobiografia lui Nicolae Ceausescu | Cinemas propagandistic power is in full effect in Andrei Ujicas montage epic, The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu, a contemporary fresco starring Romanias fallen ruler and his wife, Elena. A radical and chilling project, the film concludes the filmmakers trilogy exploring the end of communism which began with the la... | cult, historical | train | imdb | null |
tt0087597 | The Last Starfighter | Alex Rogan is a teenager living in a trailer park with his mother and younger brother, Louis. Alex often plays Starfighter, an arcade game in which the player defends "the Frontier" from Xur and the Ko-Dan Armada in a space battle. He becomes the game's highest-scoring player, and is approached by the game's inventor, ... | good versus evil, cult | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0061074 | Le colt cantarono la morte e fu... tempo di massacro | New Mexico, 1866. Tom Corbett (Franco Nero) is a prospector who receives a message from a family friend named Carradine (Janos Bathra), telling him to return immediately to the home where he'd lived with his wealthy widowed mother. Years earlier upon her death, she left the house and land to Tom's brother Jeff, and ins... | western, cult, murder, violence | train | imdb | null |
tt0101410 | Barton Fink | Barton Fink (John Turturro) is a playwright who while he's just released his first play on Broadway garnering good reviews, he doubts his own talent. He gets called to Hollywood to write screenplays, and accepts. He checks in at the Earle, a huge hotel with an eerie atmosphere where Chet (Steve Buscemi), the receptioni... | mystery, neo noir, murder, cult, absurd, psychedelic, plot twist | train | imdb | null |
tt1318025 | Hierro | Una madre llamada Julia (Miriam Correa) va conduciendo de noche a toda pastilla. Su hijo Mateo está sentado en el asiento del copiloto y la madre intenta ponerle el cinturón de seguridad con el coche en marcha, por el que el coche acaba saliéndose de la carretera. La madre queda herida, y su hijo Mateo (Hugo Arbues) ha... | suspenseful, mystery, atmospheric | train | imdb | null |
tt0053946 | Inherit the Wind | Based on the famous Scopes Monkey trial of 1925 a Tennessee school teacher Bertram Cates (Dick York) is arrested for teaching his students Darwin's theory of evolution. The case receives national attention and one of the newspaper reporters (Gene Kelly) arranges to bring in renowned defense attorney and athiest Henry D... | dramatic, boring, historical | train | imdb | Inherit the Wind is a dramatization of the famous Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925 when a biology teacher was arrested and challenged a law passed by the Tennessee State legislature making it a crime to teach anything other than the account of creation as set down in the Book of Genesis.
Dick York is the biology teacher her... |
tt0116583 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | On a street in Paris, during the Middle Ages, a Gypsy named Clopin performs puppet shows for children. Before starting his next show, he draws attention to the bells ringing in the nearby Cathedral of Notre Dame. He offers to tell the tale of the mysterious bell-ringer--who he is, and how he came to the cathedral:Twent... | psychedelic, cruelty, violence, romantic | train | imdb | I think the only problem with Hunchback is the fact that Disney refused to accept that this is a serious, relatively adult motion picture and would not make any animated movie, no matter how serious, without obnoxiously cute little critters (i.e., the gargoyles) bouncing around to entertain the kiddies, or huge marketi... |
tt0395251 | The Producers | === Act I ===
In New York in 1959, theatre producer Max Bialystock opens "Funny Boy", a musical version of Hamlet ("Opening Night"). It is terrible, and the show closes after one performance. Max, who was once called the King of Broadway, tells a crowd of down-and-outs of his past achievements and vows to return to for... | entertaining, humor, murder | train | wikipedia | The Producers (2005) **** Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Uma Thurman, Will Farrell, Gary Beach, Roger Bart Dir. Susan StromanI don't think the critics know what they are talking about.
Based on the 1968 film starring Zero Maestel and Gene Wilder, and the smash hit on Broadway, the story of a failing Producer named Max... |
tt0081318 | Paura nella città dei morti viventi | In New York City, during a séance held in the apartment of medium Theresa, Mary Woodhouse (Catronia MacColl) experiences a traumatic vision of a priest, Father Thomas (Fabrizio Jovine), hanging himself from a tree branch in the cemetery of a remote village called Dunwich. When the images overwhelm her, Mary breaks the ... | cruelty, grindhouse film, gothic, murder, paranormal, cult, violence, horror, atmospheric, psychedelic, sadist | train | imdb | Like most of Fulci's horror movies and Italian horror in general, plot and logic take a back seat to gore and stunning visual set pieces.
Fulci's horror film about the dead coming back to life on a small location of Dunwich with inspiration on famous novelist H.P. Lovecraft .
A journalist named Peter Bell (Christopher ... |
tt1194271 | Against the Dark | Prologue: "Once the infection hit, there was little time to react. People did what they could but, since no one was immune to the effects of the virus, authorities were ultimately helpless as the virus rapidly spread. All who became exposed and survived an initial attack began their own relentless quest for blood, atta... | suspenseful, murder, violence | train | imdb | I actually heard from a few people that he took the script just for fun and support this movie.Skip this piece of crap and wait for Ruslan to come out, as that actually looks like it could be in comparison to Urban Justice and Pistol Whipped..
I have noticed that some people are glad to see Steven Seagal move his caree... |
tt0064116 | C'era una volta il West | In the desert Southwest of America during the waning days of the Old West, three gunmen (Jack Elam, Woody Strode, Al Mulock) approach an isolated train depot; two are wearing duster overcoats. The men take over the station and settle in to wait for the train. When the train finally comes, a nameless harmonica-playing s... | suspenseful, murder, western, dramatic, cult, violence, atmospheric, flashback, good versus evil, action, revenge | train | imdb | Leone's masterful storytelling and Morricone's crazy, beautiful, epic soundtrack; desperate, haunted faces which look like the barren landscapes the story is set in and a plot that unfolds with impeccable pacing to culminate in THE ultimate western finale.As in Leone's previous films, music isn't just used to add to th... |
tt0082498 | Happy Birthday to Me | At the Crawford Academy campus located in Massachusetts, Bernadette (Lesleh Donaldson) is leaving night classes to meet her friends. After an encounter with the authoritarian headmistress Mrs. Patterson (Frances Hyland), Bernadette gets into her car when she is attacked by someone in the back seat wearing all black clo... | revenge, cult, murder, violence, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt1365050 | Beasts of No Nation | Agu is a cheerful pre-teen boy playing barefoot with his friends in an African village. He lives in a Christian home, a modest but clean family dwelling with a father, mother, teenage brother, senile grandfather and infant sister. There is talk of war, sounds of gunfire in the distance and UN troops but the family has ... | violence | train | imdb | A gripping account of modern day war seen through a child's eyes, Beasts of No Nation is easily one of the best of the year.The first thing you'll notice is how beautiful the film is.
Director and cinematographer Cary Fukunaga makes sure you remember the reality of this not-so-fictional story, paralleling Agu's family ... |
tt0077188 | Autostop rosso sangue | Somewhere in northern California, Walter Mancini (Franco Nero), an alcoholic reporter, and his spitful wife Eve (Corrine Clery) are on a road trip with a trailer heading back to Los Angeles. Their marriage is strained over their long conflict over Walter's drinking, and Eve's suspected infidelity. During an overnight s... | cult, violence | train | imdb | A tough one about self-hatred, mayhem and self- destruction: Franco Nero as a down-&-out reporter, Corinne Clery as his sexy, completely hollow spouse, plus David Hess doing his usual good- humored-and-mean-as-hell thing.
There are clear-cut villains (no surprises: David Hess) in this film, but the complete absence of ... |
tt0260991 | Gongdong gyeongbi guyeok JSA | Two North Korean soldiers are killed in the DMZ at a North Korean border house, before Sergeant Lee Soo-hyeok (Lee Byung-hun), a South Korean soldier on border duties, attempts to flee back to the South Korean side. The southern troops rescue him while the gunfire erupts and, two days later, the fragile relationship be... | tragedy, violence, murder | train | imdb | Fusing a Hollywood-style 'who-dunnit' with an intellectually poignant essay on Korean geopolitics, 'Joint Security Area' ('JSA') offered a surprisingly moving twist to an otherwise engaging film.
'JSA' perceptively explored a modern day Korean psyche - that heartfelt desire for kinship and unity between the people of b... |
tt1221188 | Eloïse | Die 18-jährige Asía liegt im Krankenhaus. An ihrer Seite die besorgte Mutter und der liebevolle Freund. Doch der konventionelle Schein trügt. Rückblenden erzählen von Asías Leben vor dem Unfall: Ihre Freundinnen genießen das neue Leben als Studentinnen in vollen Zügen shoppen, trinken, lästern, knutschen. Asía findet d... | tragedy | train | imdb | Girl meets girl, etc..
Eloïse's Lover, originally entitled Eloïse (2009) was directed by Jesús Garay.
It is listed as a film in Spanish, but it's actually in Catalan, the language of the region that includes Barcelona.This movie is, unfortunately, a pretty stereotypic lesbian love story.
A young college student is more... |
tt0083987 | Gandhi | The story begins with the assassination of Mohandas K. "Mahatma" Gandhi in India in 1948. The following funeral procession is a long one and his body is conveyed on a jeep covered in flowers.The story flashes back to Gandhi's early days as an attorney in the late 1800s in South Africa. He is thrown off a train for sitt... | violence, historical, murder | train | imdb | Yet men, governments, dignitaries from all over the world, have joined hands today to pay homage to the little brown man in the loin cloth, who led his country to freedom."This quote is from the funeral scene in the 1982 film "Gandhi".
Throughout the long film you forget you are watching an actor playing the part of a ... |
tt0183288 | Halloween Is Grinch Night | In Whoville, on a night known as "Grinch Night", which commences when a "Sour-Sweet Wind" blows and a chain of events causes the Gree-Grumps and Hakken-Krakks to prompt The Grinch into terrorizing the Whos, as he believes such nights are the perfect nights for a Grinch Night. Later, Euchariah, a polite little Who with ... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1129423 | Fireproof | Captain Caleb Holt (Kirk Cameron) is a firefighter in Albany, Georgia and firmly keeps the cardinal rule of all firemen, "Never leave your partner behind". But Caleb's home life is an altogether different story; his seven-year marriage to his wife Catherine (Erin Bethea) is on the verge of implosion. Neither one unders... | christian film | train | imdb | Selfless love and service as the keys to a joyful marriage are not exclusive to any religion.A great movie for married couples - very thought provoking..
Making a movie that tackles real life marriage problems head on is challenging, and not always easy to watch.
I'm an Evangelical Quaker (basically, a Christian who be... |
tt0813980 | 24 | Sangala, Africa (Don't feel bad if you don't know where it is, it's fictional.)Men drive through the streets of a shantytown with machine guns and young boys in the back of a truck. A man reports to his colonel that he has five boy soldiers.
At the training camp, boys no older than 14 practice shooting with automatic w... | cult, suspenseful, murder, violence | train | imdb | Of course 24 fans around the world were devastated with the writers strike and in turn the postponed "day 7" of 24, but instead of us fans having to endure another month of suspense and agony waiting on the arrival of the seventh season of 24, we were given a 24 (made for T.V.) movie known as 24 Redemption and yes Jack... |
tt0109506 | The Crow | "People once believed that when someone dies, a crow carries their soul to the land of the dead. But sometimes, something so bad happens that a terrible sadness is carried with it and the soul can't rest. Then sometimes, just sometimes, the crow can bring that soul back to put the wrong things right."October 30, Devil'... | comedy, dark, gothic, murder, neo noir, fantasy, realism, allegory, cult, violence, atmospheric, flashback, good versus evil, romantic, tragedy, revenge | train | imdb | null |
tt0039694 | The Paradine Case | The police arrest Maddalena Anna Paradine (Alida Valli) for poisoning her late husband, Col. Paradine. She claims innocence, and hires solicitor Sir Simon Flaquer (Charles Coburn) and barrister Anthony (a.k.a Tony) Keane (Gregory Peck, with an occasional British accent) as her defense team. Anthony Keane is very succes... | cruelty, murder | train | imdb | The build-up of the character within a few minutes of reel time for the viewer is considerably intelligent right up to the loud slamming of the cell door and the effect it has on the inmate (Hitchcock's own phobia?).The second sequence that is unforgettable for me is the camera zooming in on Ann Todd's naked shoulder f... |
tt0118928 | Dante's Peak | Dr. Harry Dalton, a volcanologist with the United States Geological Survey, and his associate/partner Marianne attempt to escape an erupting volcano in Colombia. While trying to escape the ash and falling debris, Marianne is killed when a lump of cooled lava comes through the roof of Harry's truck and strikes her in th... | tragedy, suspenseful | train | imdb | null |
tt0100168 | Mo' Better Blues | The film begins with a scene set in Brooklyn, New York in 1969. A group of four boys walk up to Bleek Gilliam's brownstone and ask him to come out and play baseball with them. Bleek's mother insists that he continue his trumpet lesson, to his chagrin. His father becomes concerned that Bleek will grow up to be a sissy, ... | violence, melodrama | train | wikipedia | After the commercial and critical success of "Do The Right Thing," in which Lee announced his arrival as a major player, he choose to follow up his breakthrough with a more personal film.
If you examine history, it seems all iconoclasts choose to do so after their first big success ("The Conversation," "Close Encounter... |
tt2381249 | Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation | Impossible Missions Force Agent William Brandt (Jeremy Renner) is directing two members of his team, Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg) and Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames), in an attempt to retrieve a package from a cargo plane that's about to take off in Minsk, Belarus. Luther is connecting Benji to the plane's electronics by hack... | suspenseful, murder, violence, flashback, humor, revenge | train | imdb | One may draw parallels between the events that have happened in this film to some of the recent events in our world, but I see it as a clever way for the franchise to keep up with our times.'Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation' is without a doubt one of the most exciting films I've had the pleasure of experiencing this ye... |
tt0120663 | Eyes Wide Shut | Bill and Alice Harford (Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman), a well-to-do Manhattan couple, have been married for nine years. Bill is a doctor with his own private practice and Alice is a full-time mother, though she has managed an art gallery in the past. They have a seven-year-old daughter named Helena (Madison Eginton), w... | pornographic, mystery, cruelty, murder, neo noir, psychological, cult, atmospheric, psychedelic, suspenseful, storytelling | train | imdb | Maybe only guys like Kubrick or Cruise will ever really know if they do or not.Many people might disagree with me when I say Eyes Wide Shut is one of the greatest films.
The thing a lot of folks haven't liked about Stanley Kubrick's films is the fact that he always seemed to think the audience needed some points driven... |
tt0277744 | Dead Heat | Pally LaMarr (Kiefer Sutherland) is a 35-year-old Boston cop who is forced into medical retirement due to a heart condition. Depressed and thinking of suicide, his on-again-off-again estranged wife Charlotte (Radha Mitchell) suggests he spend some quality time with his step-brother Ray (Anthony LaPaglia). Charlotte and... | suicidal | train | imdb | Great chemistry makes a fun movie.
I ordered this DVD without even seeing the movie first, because I am a fan of both Kiefer Sutherland and of Anthony LaPaglia.
From the little I read about it, I thought it was gonna be a straight drama, so, what a pleasant surprise to find so much humor in the movie.
Kiefer, after wor... |
tt0467200 | The Other Boleyn Girl | When Catherine of Aragon fails to produce a male heir to the English throne, the Duke of Norfolk and his brother in law Thomas Boleyn scheme to install the latter's elder daughter Anne in the court of Henry VIII as the king's mistress and potential mother of his son, thereby furthering their own political ambitions. Th... | dramatic, romantic, intrigue, historical, atmospheric | train | imdb | null |
tt0309593 | Final Destination 2 | It begins with a TV newsman talking about Flight 180 and its survivors and who got killed. Only one person survived, Clear Rivers (Ali Larter).Then we meet Kimberly (A.J. Cook), who is going on a road trip with her friends.They start their trip. She is driving with her one girl friend and two stoners in the back. Her d... | paranormal, violence, sadist | train | imdb | Well the makers of Final Destination 2 choose to use the basic same formula of the hugely enjoyable first film, only adding more black humour into the crazy death design broth.
Ali Larter returns for a second helping, and she in turn is joined by a bunch of no mark actors waiting for death, which is perfectly fine for ... |
tt0287740 | Syphon Filter 3 | Gabe, Mujari, and Lian are mourning Teresa Lipan in Whispering Woods. Hadden is then seen talking to Aramov, who complains that with administration pulls, he could end it. Hadden responds by saying he has other plans for Gabe Logan, that hearings have been scheduled and that he has to blame a party.At the Senate house ... | violence, flashback | train | imdb | What happened to the music?. When I played Syphon Filter 2, I was blown away. The music fit the atmosphere of the game, but the only drawback was the characters' faces, which only showed a pair of "lines" for eyes and that was it. Moving to SF3, they finally added faces to the characters, but now the MUSIC is empty. ... |
tt0211933 | Awake | The Tagline is a gross misrepresentation of statistics. The actual estimate of awarness during anesthesia is 1:14000 for high risk patients to as low as 1:42000.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Capital-investment firm chief Clay Beresford (Christensen) i... | revenge, boring, murder, flashback | train | imdb | Some parts of "Awake" are good, but some are merely okay.Like many thrillers, telling much about the plot defeats the purpose of seeing the movie.
His low-key handling of the film makes for an interesting, almost dreamy approach, but I don't know if it works like it's supposed to, because I have a feeling that it decre... |
tt0862856 | Trick 'r Treat | The movie includes four interwoven tales:Opening: A couple dressed as a robot and Flash Gordon return to their home, the front lawn decorated with numerous 'ghost-crows' (scarecrow-style ghosts) and lit pumpkins. The robot, Emma (Leslie Bibb), takes a jack-o'-lantern to blow out the light but her boyfriend, Henry (Tahm... | comedy, murder, bleak, violence, cult, horror, suspenseful, home movie | train | imdb | Dougherty's film is the celluloid embodiment of that je ne sais quoi that has made Halloween such an alluring holiday for generations of kids (and adults) alike.As I said, Trick 'r Treat is a horror anthology which interweaves tales that all take place on Halloween night, similar to such genre classics as Creepshow and... |
tt0115751 | Breaking the Waves | BREAKING the WAVES
The story was about love, faith and confidence. A small coastal village in North Scotland, in 1970s.The village neighborhood didnt like foreigners, especially when those people worshiped different religions. The public of this village were very pious. In un-developed regions, women arent allowed to p... | psychological, boring, bleak, melodrama, tragedy, romantic, sadist | train | imdb | Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves is the kind of film that makes me proud to be a film-goer and exceeds anything I could have possibly expected from the man who made Element of Crime.
Anyway, you get the picture
The film stars Emily Watson as Bess, a shy and neurotic girl who is filled with joy to be with her new hu... |
tt0082158 | Chariots of Fire | In 1919, Harold Abrahams (Ben Cross) enters the University of Cambridge, where he experiences anti-Semitism from the staff, but enjoys participating in the Gilbert and Sullivan club. He becomes the first person to ever complete the Trinity Great Court Run – running around the college courtyard in the time it takes for ... | inspiring, historical, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0096283 | Tonari no Totoro | On a warm, sunny day, 10-year-old Satsuki (English: Dakota Fanning; Japanese: Noriko Hidaka) and 4-year-old Mei (English: Elle Fanning; Japanese: Chika Sakamoto) Kusakabe drive with their father, Tatsuo (English: Tim Daly; Japanese: Shigesato Itoi), along a rural road towards their new home. The girls are excited about... | cute, fantasy, magical realism, boring, feel-good | train | imdb | There are points that it is hilarious, a few points where it makes one slightly nervous, the animation is outstanding (as with all Miyazaki films), and aside from lacking a little bit in plot (what movie doesn't nowadays?), the story is wonderful.One of the things that makes this film shine, at least for me, is that th... |
tt0055018 | The Innocents | The film begins by showing a pair of clasped hands, and a woman's voice is heard, whispering that all she ever wanted was to help the children, not hurt them, and that more than anything, she loves children.In the first scene, Miss Giddens (Deborah Kerr) is applying for a job as a governess. It is her first position, b... | cruelty, gothic, horror, atmospheric, haunting, suspenseful | train | imdb | null |
tt0120902 | The X Files | The film opens in 35,000 B.C., in what will become North Texas. Entering a cave, two cavemen hunters stumble upon a large extraterrestrial life form. One is killed by the alien; the other fights back, stabbing the alien to death, but is infected by a black oil-like substance that crawls into his skin. In 1998, in the s... | cult, action, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2937696 | Everybody Wants Some!! | Thursday, August 28, 1980Jake Bradford (Blake Jenner) arrives at his college three days before the start of classes. He enters the baseball house to the members of the team. He first meets McReynolds (Tyler Hoechlin) and Roper (Ryan Guzman), who both razz Jake for being a pitcher. He goes upstairs and meets Niles (Just... | prank | train | imdb | was a perfect film for this moment: it consists of little more than a bunch of overly-competitive jocks joking with each other, partying, and trying to get laid over the course of three days before school even starts.
Always did, when I was younger, avoid the bullying sexist jock and unless you are enamoured, you may n... |
tt0122151 | Lethal Weapon 4 | In this installment of the Lethal Weapon series, Lorna Cole is pregnant with Martin Riggs' baby; they are not married but both are thinking about it and have misgivings and fears. Murtaugh's daughter Rianne is also pregnant and has secretly married Lee Butters, a young cop who works at the same precinct as Murtaugh and... | comedy, murder, cult, violence, action, entertaining | train | imdb | null |
tt0094291 | Wall Street | New York City, 1985. Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen) is an ambitious, young junior stockbroker at Jackson Steinem & Co. a local Wall Street stock and trading firm, desperate to get to the top. He wants to become involved with his hero, the corporate raider Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas), a ruthless and legendary Wall Street pl... | revenge, cult, comedy, violence | train | imdb | Michael Douglas's performance as Gekko won a deserved Oscar in 1988 and makes "Wall Street" required viewing.There are two schools of thought when it comes to money.
"Money itself isn't lost or made, it's simply transferred," he tells his young protégé Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen).No question writer-director Oliver Stone fe... |
tt0103759 | Bad Lieutenant | After dropping off his two young sons at Catholic school, an NYPD Lieutenant (who is never named) takes a few bumps of cocaine and drives to the scene of a double murder in The Bronx. Wandering away, the Lieutenant finds a drug dealer and gives him a bag of drugs from a crime scene, smoking crack during the exchange; t... | dark, depressing, realism, neo noir, murder, cult, violence | train | wikipedia | People are probably right enough when they comment that this entire film essentially hinges on Harvey Kietel's impassioned performance as the corrupt and deeply troubled lieutenant of the title.
The exact identity of his character is never revealed, but the title informs us he's a 'bad lieutenant', a label seemingly co... |
tt1781922 | No Escape | In an unnamed country in Southeast Asia, the prime minister is in a meeting with a diplomat about a crisis. Moments later, gunshots are heard. A security agent runs toward the sound and sees both the prime minister and diplomat dead, murdered by a group of rebels. The man encounters the armed rebels, and, realizing he ... | revenge, suspenseful, murder, violence, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0221027 | Blow | The film opens to a young George (Jesse James) and his parents Fred (Ray Liotta) and Ermine (Rachel Griffiths). Fred files for bankruptcy and loses everything. Fred tries to instill George with a belief that money is not important.A grown-up George (Johnny Depp) moves to Southern California with his friend "Tuna" (Etha... | flashback, romantic, murder, violence, home movie | train | imdb | null |
tt0105462 | Stalin | Siberia, 1917. Russia is mired in the third bloody year of the First World War, fighting against Germany. The brutal war and the Tsar's inept, autocratic rule have created an atmosphere ripe for revolution. Josef Dzhugashvili (Robert Duvall), a 38-year-old Georgian using the revolutionary nickname of "Koba," has been e... | suspenseful, intrigue, cruelty, murder, sadist | train | imdb | To appreciate this film you might read any one of the best accounts of Stalin's dictatorship by Roy Medvedev, Dmitri Volkogonov, Edvard Radzinsky, Simon Sebag Montefiore, or Donald Rayfield.
Other reviewers on this site have noted how well Robert Duvall captures Stalin's surly, crude, cunning, sadistic, paranoid person... |
tt0060174 | Blood Bath | Antonio "Tony" Sordi [William Campbell] lives in a studio under an old belltower where he spends his time painting, just as his ancestor Erno Sordi did five hundred years ago. The only difference is that Erno Sordi was convicted of conspiring with the devil and was burned at the stake, whereas Antonio Sordi sells his p... | murder, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0343788 | The Hillz | The film follows the experiences of a promising athlete named Steve and his friends who live in a small southern California town. Steve's three friends, Duff, Seb, and T, all come from wealthy families and spend most of their time getting high, drinking at parties, and harassing Ahkmed, a convenience store clerk. After... | violence, comedy, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2326612 | The Captive | (NOTE: The story is told in a non-linear fashion. Many scenes in the movie are flashbacks, which are likewise not in chronological order.)The camera pans along snow-covered landscape and into the home of Mika (Kevin Durand), who stands near his window while Japanese Kabuki opera plays on a wall-mounted TV screen. As Mi... | flashback | train | imdb | I was very undecided about going to see this movie due to this bad habit of reading reviews on IMDb. It is not the first time a low rated movie turns out to be great, but it is certainly the greatest contrast between reviews and the actual movie.
Its funny that one of the reoccurring lines in the dialog between the fat... |
tt0085694 | The House on Sorority Row | The story begins on June 19, 1961 with a doctor arriving at a foreboding house on a dark and stormy night. The patient is Dorothy Slater (Lois Kelso Hunt) who has gone into labor and is moaning in pain. He berates the nurse (Jean Schertler) saying she was supposed to keep an eye on her. There are complications with the... | cult, revenge, murder, prank | train | imdb | It's up there with "Halloween's" followers like "Friday the 13th," "Prom Night," "My Bloody Valentine" and "Sleepaway Camp." Unlike most slice-and-dice movies, "The House On Sorority Row" actually has a plot, some good acting from the cast, a mysterious killer, and it's not that bloody.The plot revolves around the 7 gi... |
tt1486185 | Red Riding Hood | Set during a cold winter in a snow-covered forest during an undeterminate year of the Medivel times, Valerie (Amanda Seyfried) is a young woman living in the small village of Daggerhorn. She is in love with the woodcutter Peter (Shiloh Fernandez), but her parents Cesaire (Billy Burke) and Suzette (Virginia Madsen) have... | mystery, fantasy, gothic, murder, cult, romantic | train | imdb | You'd be hard pressed to find a better example of a film ruined by trying to be too many things to too many people than Red Riding Hood, which opens Friday and, by all rights, should close Saturday.The most obvious audience Hood hopes to attract is fans of the Twilight film series, snagging the director of the first fi... |
tt0066540 | WUSA | Reinhart (Paul Newman) drifts into New Orleans and rescues Geraldine (Joanne Woodward), from a pimp's knife, buys her a steak and they shack up. He gets a job at WUSA, a right-wing radio station as a news, sports and weather reader. Their neighbor, Rainey (Anthony Perkins) is a do-gooder who is doing a survey of welfar... | allegory, violence, murder | train | imdb | This one of my favorite movies of all time with Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Antony Perkins, Cloris Leachman and Pat Hingle all at their best.
Reinhart (Newman), a man who's washed up as a musician becomes a "communicator" at WUSA, a right-wing radio station in New Orleans.
I'm part of a pattern in someone else's head... |
tt2349460 | Grace Unplugged | Grace Unplugged is an Inspirational movie starring Amanda AJ Michalka as 18 year old Christian singer/songwriter, Grace Rose Trey. Beautiful, highly talented and restless, Grace is so far undiscovered outside church. She performs there each Sunday with her gifted father Johnny, the praise music director at Freedom Comm... | romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt0051756 | I Married a Monster from Outer Space | The movie opens with title and credits shown with the Earth over a star field background. We zoom in on the Earth, and then fade to a pastoral scene of a park with a lake in the small town of Norrisville. A car drives up a two-lane road and pulls into the parking lot of the local bar and restaurant, King's. Two men exi... | allegory, cult, murder | train | imdb | Both Gloria Talbott and Tom Tryon as the leading actors, give good understated performances, and in the final scene, Tryons' alien becomes a terribly pathetic creature whose only desire was to see the continuation of his race.
When Gloria goes to the local doctor for help in battling the aliens, he quickly realizes tha... |
tt2381941 | Focus | Con man Nicky Spurgeon (Will Smith) goes to a bar in New York City. There, he sees a beautiful young blonde woman (Margot Robbie) with another man, who seems to be pestering her. She escapes from him - he later falls asleep, drunk - and goes to Nicky's table. Her name is Jess. They go upstairs to her hotel room and sta... | revenge, psychological, comedy, flashback | train | imdb | That's when Will Smith and Margot Robbie come to life, they are at their best when they are given more to work with and they keep the movie interesting.
But much later when the big twist came I wasn't shock or surprised.I probably would have had a better experience of the film if there were hidden clues leading up to t... |
tt0185937 | The Blair Witch Project | Three film students go to Burkittsville, Maryland to make a documentary on the Blair Witch legend. The director is Heather Donahue (Heather Donahue), her main cameraman is Joshua Leonard (Joshua Leonard) and Michael Williams (Michael C. Williams) is the sound crew. The three go missing, but a year later their footage i... | dark, comedy, boring, paranormal, cult, horror, atmospheric, tragedy, suspenseful | train | imdb | If I see a believable character screaming in hysterical fear at something I cannot see, my own brain creates demons for my night's dreams, demons far more mighty than anything CGI graphics or a latex mask could portray.This film will stay in your thoughts for some while..
"The Blair Witch Project" is one darn good movi... |
tt0078740 | The Concorde... Airport '79 | December 1979. An American-owned French operated Concorde super-sonic jet takes off from the Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris. Captain Paul Metrand (Alain Delon) makes conversation with Isabelle (Sylvia Kristel), the purser whom is his current lover. They land at Dulles Airport in Washington DC.Maggie Whalen (Susan B... | murder | train | imdb | In fact, it is so bad they advertised it as a comedy!The plot is inane: wealthy weapons manufacturer (Robert Wagner) is confronted by television anchorwoman/girlfriend (Susan Blakely), who tells him she has evidence that he is selling secrets to the Russians and is going to expose him.
The movie is only half over, so ... |
tt0283084 | Tuck Everlasting | Tuck Everlasting opens in the present day, in the town of Treegap. Cars and pedestrian traffic make their way through the streets. Jesse Tuck (Jonathan Jackson) rides his motorcycle through the town and makes his way to a gated house on the outskirts. He takes off his helmet and looks at the estate wistfully.A narrator... | philosophical, murder, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0814314 | Seven Pounds | Tim Thomas (Smith), while carelessly sending a text message while driving, veers across the center line into oncoming traffic and causes a multi-car crash in which seven people die: six strangers and his fiancée, Sarah Jenson (Robinne Lee).
Two years later, in a bid for atonement, Tim sets out to save the lives of seve... | thought-provoking, dramatic, romantic, psychedelic, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0087263 | Firstborn | It is the Spring of 1984 in a middle-class New Jersey suburb. Opening up to some very bad 80's pop-rock playing on a clock radio, fifteen year old Jake Livingston is looking outside of his bedroom window and sees a lighted up Chevy Blazer pulling up in his driveway with his mother giving the man driving it a kiss goodn... | violence, romantic | train | imdb | Nobody seems to like this drama, probably because it IS at times very depressing and downbeat...and the ending DOES tie things up a little too neatly after going over the top melodramatically.
It's extremely well-acted by all (especially Christopher Collet and a rare dramatic turn from Teri Garr)and the early parts of ... |
tt0110413 | Léon | Léon (Jean Reno) is a hitman (or "cleaner" as he would rather be known) living a solitary life in New York City's Little Italy. Most of his work comes from a mafioso named Tony (Danny Aiello), who operates from the "Supreme Macaroni Company" retail store. Léon spends his idle time engaging in calisthenics, nurturing a ... | comedy, suspenseful, neo noir, murder, allegory, cult, violence, dramatic, flashback, psychedelic, humor, action, romantic, tragedy, revenge, sentimental | train | imdb | When she turns to him for help, he learns about living a normal life, even if the circumstances which unite them are far from normal.The performance delivered by then twelve-year old Natalie Portman as Mathilda is nothing short of brilliant.
So begins one of the stranger relationships in silver screen history, but one ... |
tt0039912 | The Trap | Calamity ensues at the beach villa in Malibu, California, where Cole King's theater ensemble resides, when one of the showgirls, Adelaide, is challenging Marcia, who is Cole's girl and the star of the show.Marcia retaliates by threatening to reveal Adelaide's secret marriage to a doctor by the name of George Brandt. Sh... | violence, mystery, murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0053976 | Jungfrukällan | In medieval Sweden, prosperous Christian Per Töre sends his daughter, Karin, to take candles to the church. Karin is accompanied by her pregnant servant Ingeri, who secretly worships the Norse deity Odin. Along their way through the forest on horseback, Ingeri becomes frightened when they come to a stream-side mill and... | psychological, suspenseful, murder, paranormal, violence, good versus evil, tragedy, revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0066380 | Vampyros Lesbos | Linda Westinghouse [Ewa Strömberg], a lawyer with the Istanbul firm of Simpson & Sons, is sent to Anatolia to handle the inheritance of Countess Nadine Carody, recipient of the entire estate of Count Dracula of Hungary. To Linda's surprise, Nadine [Soledad Miranda] is the strange woman who has been haunting her dreams ... | pornographic, cult, atmospheric | train | imdb | In the night, she has erotic dreams in which appears a sexy vixen vampiress (the Spanish Soledad Miranda, her pseudonym, Susann Korda, was created by director Jesús Franco , and she was destined to become a legend) , and makes passionate love to her, from which she's unable to defend herself .
Soledad was destined to b... |
tt0086610 | Xtro | Sam Phillips and his child Tony are playing outside their farm. The father is abducted by a strong light. Three years later, the light returns, and plants a seed. A half-human, half-alien creature grows up, and when it moves it is run over by a car. Ben is attacked and killed when he looks for the crash victim. Jane, h... | good versus evil, violence, tragedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2660888 | Star Trek Beyond | In the opening scene, Captain James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) is meeting with the Teenaxi people to make a treaty between them and their enemies, the Fenopians. Kirk is holding an artifact that he claims is a gift of peace from the Fenopians, but the Teenaxi leader (Shea Wigham) considers it a threat. He rolls down to confr... | murder, violence, good versus evil, humor, revenge, sci-fi | train | imdb | Star Trek to me isn't about motorcycles and loud music, it's more about exploring science fiction concepts and themes through great storytelling (which this film has very little of).
After the noisy and irretrievably stupid (though reasonably entertaining) Into Darkness, I wasn't desperate to watch this one, but when I... |
tt0118571 | Air Force One | The film begins with an American Special Forces unit capturing General Ivan Radek (Jurgen Prochnow), the dictator of Kazakhstan. Radek's regime had caused an enormous amount of bloodshed for Kazakhstan, and there was word that his stockpiling of nuclear weapons would have plunged the world into a second cold war. His c... | suspenseful, action, murder, violence | train | imdb | null |
tt1303235 | Blue Ridge | Paranoid and unpredictable, J.T. (Eric Sweeney) lives a solitary life of used tires and decaying trailers. Despite his situation, J.T. wins the love of Sara (Audra Smith), an innocent young girl alone in the world after losing the last of her family. Together they naively plan for a new life at the beach, operating an ... | romantic, murder | train | imdb | Temporarily Fixed TeeVee. There isn't the slightest feel that this is a first film.
The way things are framed, and the rhythm of the edits are first class.The main actors are superb.
There is no story to speak of, just enough events to serve the purpose of the thing, which is to allow a visit into a world where every q... |
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