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tt1212450 | Lawless | In 1931, the Bondurant brothers — Forrest, Howard, and Jack — are running a successful moonshine business in the Piedmont region of Virginia. The brothers use their gas station and restaurant as a front for their illegal manufacturing business with the assistance of Jack's disabled friend and engineer, Cricket. Jack wi... | boring, depressing, murder, dramatic, violence, revenge | train | wikipedia | Then they mightily praise Oldman and Pearce for great acting when they were, in fact, just playing northern urban gangsters who like to behave over the top---the very thing that disgusts southern sensibilities.The folks making those review comments have probably spent too much time watching movies based on comic books ... |
tt0072856 | Death Race 2000 | In 1979, the United States collapsed, resulting in massive civil unrest and economic collapse. The government restructured into a totalitarian regime under martial law. To pacify the population, the government has organized the Transcontinental Road Race, where a group of drivers is driving across the country in their ... | comedy, murder, violence, cult, psychedelic, humor, satire, sadist | train | wikipedia | Ostensibly, the film is about a race involving five participants - Frankenstein (Carradine), Machine Gun Joe Viterbo (Stallone), Calamity Jane (Woronov), Mathilda the Hunn, and Nero the Hero - all of comic book stature.
Directed by the late Paul Bartel ('Eating Raoul', 'Lust In The Dust')), co-produced by b-grade legen... |
tt0236493 | The Mexican | Brad Pitt has been working for a mobster who is in prison because Pitt accidentally ran a red light and hit the mobster's car. When the police arrived, they found a body in the mobster's trunk. The guy was alive but was obviously going to be murdered. The mobster was sentenced to 5 years in prison. Pitt has been forced... | comedy, boring, murder, flashback, revenge, storytelling | train | imdb | Personally I had a very good time watching this movie, but it seems like I'm one of the few.
I know, it's not done to say that you liked to see Julia Roberts play a certain role and Brad Pitt can never be good as a comical actor...
A couple working on the give-and-take aspects of their relationship, an exquisitely craf... |
tt0081383 | Prom Night | Inside an old abandoned building, four children are playing a game in which they all hide while one of them looks for the others, calling out "the killer is coming!" Young Kim and her two twin siblings, Alex and Robin, walk by and see the children playing. Kim and Alex leave, but Robin lingers, hoping to join the game.... | grindhouse film, cruelty, murder, cult, horror, violence, revenge, sadist | train | imdb | null |
tt0109550 | Temnye vody | At the beginning of the film a priest is shown in a church studying a strange ancient book. Outside there a violent storm is raging. The church begins to collapse and the priest is impaled by the spike on top of a fallen crucifix. Later a nun is shown bearing a strange pagan amulet to the edge of the sea. As she stands... | violence, cult, psychedelic, murder, gothic | train | imdb | null |
tt1185834 | Star Wars: The Clone Wars | The film begins with a narrator explaining the state of the Clone Wars instead of an opening crawl like its predecessors. The Separatists control the majority of the hyperlanes, leaving Republic forces stranded in different parts of the Outer Rim. Jabba the Hutt's son Rotta is kidnapped as part of a plan to make the Hu... | good versus evil, violence, fantasy, action | train | imdb | The rest of you, like me will have a blast watching this thing.This movie is basically an extended pilot for a soon to premiere animated series and it plays as such.
The heart of the Star Wars franchise has always been its fun, and this is a cartoon...they're taking advantage of the opportunity to take the explosive la... |
tt4196450 | The Birth of a Nation | === Part 1: Civil War of United States ===
The film follows two juxtaposed families. One is the Northern Stonemans: abolitionist U.S. Representative Austin Stoneman (based on the Reconstruction-era Representative Thaddeus Stevens), his daughter, and two sons. The other is the Southern Camerons: Dr. Cameron is married t... | murder | train | wikipedia | Nate Parker's film sheds no new light on the brutality of slavery and does his absolute best to make sure you despise the white villains in this as anyone should as they are portrayed with much relish from the actors especially Jackie Earle Haley's menacing slave owner that serves as the main villain of the film.
The B... |
tt0039262 | The Chinese Ring | Charlie Chan (Roland Winters) is a private investigator living in San Francisco. One day a Chinese princess comes to visit him in his home. She has just arrived from the East by boat. The princess manages to give Chan’s butler Birmingham Brown (Mantan Moreland) an artifact - an ancient heirloom ring - before she is sho... | mystery | train | wikipedia | Okay entry for Winters in his debut as Chan, following Sidney Toler's death.
Roland Winters is a perfectly good Chan - the role was defined by the time this episode in the series was made, so he basically just had to show up and recite the lines to get the job done.
Although Victor Sen Young shows up as Tommy, he plays... |
tt0493430 | Jackass Number Two | Jackass Number Two is a compilation of various stunts, pranks and skits, and essentially has no plot. The film opens with an introduction of the nine cast members while they're being chased by bulls in a neighborhood. One by one, the cast members are taken down by the stampede, until only Johnny Knoxville and Bam Marge... | humor, entertaining, prank | train | imdb | null |
tt0108330 | This Boy's Life | In the fall of 1957, Toby Wolff (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his mother Caroline (Ellen Barkin) are driving from Florida to Utah in search of better luck after Caroline was beat up by her latest boyfriend. Caroline has bought a geiger counter and intends to get rich on uranium in Salt Lake City even though no uranium has be... | violence | train | imdb | I heard of this movie before, but I had no knowledge of what it was about, and basically rented it because it looked good and Robert DeNiro is the star--my Number One favorite actor.
And that he is, but you must see his performance in this movie before regarding him as "just another pretty face." He was still in his e... |
tt1470171 | Abandoned | Mary Walsh (Brittany Murphy), a bank manager, accompanies her boyfriend Kevin Peterson (Dean Cain) to the hospital for outpatient surgery on his leg. She is told by nurse Amanda (America Young) at the hospital that Kevin's operation will take approximately an hour and recommends that Mary go to the cafeteria for coffee... | flashback | train | imdb | You'll notice that the guns sound like cap guns.Beyond its predictability, I think what bothered me most was the amateurish acting of everyone except Murphy and the Lieutenant; even Cain was poor.
It had an very hitchcock like vibe to it as the innocent Mary Walsh who is played by the lovely Brittany Murphy what is tra... |
tt0119567 | The Lost World: Jurassic Park | The movie opens with an incident on the island of Isla Sorna (code-named "Site B" by the InGen company), located in the vicinity of Isla Nublar, where the film "Jurassic Park" took place.A British couple has stopped along the coast to relax, and their daughter has gone off on her own. She soon encounters a group of Com... | mystery, boring | train | imdb | The Lost World: Jurassic Park continues the story of John Hammond as he summons chaos theorist Ian Malcolm to his home with some startling information, while nearly everything at his Jurassic Park had been destroyed, his engineers happened to have a second site, where other dinosaurs were kept in hiding.
Steven Spielbe... |
tt1073241 | Nothing But the Truth | Robert Bennett (Richard Dix) is a stockbroker who is very carefree with other people's money. Encouraging clients to buy stocks in companies that are failing is all in a day's work to him. His fiancée Gwenn Burke (Dorothy Hall) has to raise $40,000 for a charity project, comes to him with $10,000 to invest from her cha... | murder, storytelling, flashback | train | wikipedia | The fact that writer and director Rod Lurie spent 13 years in the newspaper business is evident throughout, making for one of the most compelling and believable portrayals of what it is like to be a political reporter for a major newspaper since All the President's Men. Kate Beckinsale (the reporter) and Vera Farmiga (... |
tt0756683 | The Man from Earth | The movie begins with Professor John Oldman (David Lee Smith) packing his belongings onto his truck preparing to move to a new home. His colleagues show up to give him an unexpected farewell party: Harry (John Billingsley, a biologist); Edith (Ellen Crawford, a fellow professor and devout Christian); Dan (Tony Todd, an... | psychological, boring, fantasy, thought-provoking, cult, philosophical, historical, storytelling | train | imdb | A sci-fi film with absolutely no special effects, relying solely on the story and a room-full of actors.A highly recommended film that needs some concentration and thought to fully appreciate, and that might even cause a tear if you become fully immersed.
Jerome Bixby's "The Man from Earth" stands proudly among the bes... |
tt1440292 | Submarine | Oliver Tate (Roberts) is a 15 year-old Swansea boy in 1986 who is convinced that he is an unrivalled genius who is widely loved by his classmates, when in fact he is pretentious and socially alienated. He is in love with a mischievous but straight-talking girl named Jordana (Paige) in his year, and goes as far as bully... | psychological, entertaining | train | imdb | There's nothing better than walking into a screen to see the debut film by a writer and director – one that you have only heard very little about – and walking away 90 minutes later feeling more moved, entertained and uplifted by a movie than you have been in years.Perhaps cinema-goers in the mid 1990s had this experie... |
tt0065553 | 5 bambole per la luna d'agosto | At a desert island retreat owned by wealthy industrialist George Stark (Teodor Corra), a group of people have assembled for a weekend getaway of relaxation. Foremost among the guests is Professor Gerry Farrell (William Berger), an inventor/scientist who is badly in need of a vacation. While the first night passes uneve... | cult, horror, murder | train | imdb | Art direction and cinematography are as distinctive as any of Bava's other giallo films of the period, but the garbled script to what is essentially little more than a standard body-count movie really lets this one down.
The late Italian director Mario Bava (1913-1980) made a handful of genuinely great films, like Blac... |
tt1148204 | Orphan | The movie opens at a hospital. Kate Coleman (Vera Farmiga) and her husband, Jon (Peter Sarsgaard) walk in and Kate is clearly pregnant and clearly in labor. While Jon registers at the front desk in the lobby, Kate is wheeled towards the delivery room, but a painful contraction hits and Kate sees she is bleeding heavily... | psychological, murder, horror, good versus evil, insanity, suspenseful | train | imdb | null |
tt1220634 | Resident Evil: Afterlife | Four years later after the events of Extinction, Alice (Milla Jovovich) and her clones lead the assault to attack Umbrella HQ, located in Tokyo, slaying the entire branch except for Albert Wesker (Shawn Roberts), who escapes in a tiltrotor plane and detonates a bomb that leaves a massive sinkhole; however, the real Ali... | murder, violence, flashback, good versus evil, psychedelic, revenge, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0314331 | Love Actually | The film begins with a voiceover from David (Hugh Grant) commenting that whenever he gets gloomy about the state of the world he thinks about the arrivals terminal at Heathrow Airport, and the pure uncomplicated love felt as friends and families welcome their arriving loved ones. David's voiceover also relates that all... | comedy, boring, cult, cute, feel-good, psychedelic, satire, melodrama, romantic, entertaining | train | wikipedia | Romantic comedies make me cringe and I avoid them like the plague so you can imagine the foul mood I was in when I was forced to watch this film.And the introductory voice-over by Hugh Grant as we watch an airport full of people hugging made me want to commit an act of violence - either against the people who forced me... |
tt0243017 | Waking Life | Waking Life is about an unnamed young man living an ethereal existence that lacks transitions between everyday events and eventually progresses toward an existential crisis. For most of the film, he observes quietly but later participates actively in philosophical discussions involving other characters—ranging from qui... | boring, psychological, thought-provoking, cult, alternate reality, psychedelic, satire, philosophical, storytelling | train | wikipedia | This film is best for those who have sat around thinking about the big questions in life for long periods of time, dying for someone to talk to about them.
I saw this movie for the first time late last night and 5 minutes before it started I had fallen asleep and was hoping I'd be able to make it all the way through th... |
tt1298649 | The Watch | In the town of Glenview, Ohio, Evan Trautwig (Ben Stiller) is an active participant in the community and senior manager of the local Costco store. His life is disrupted when the store's night security guard is murdered. The local police have no leads, and show no interest in investigating further. Determined to find th... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | Somebody else said that this isn't a cinematic masterpiece and that's pretty much what i agree with, but it wasn't meant to be, it had some refreshing dialogue that wasn't so much punchlines, but funny conversations,the whole movie itself was just funny in general, the plot was ridiculous but at the same time it was re... |
tt0120201 | Starship Troopers | In the distant future, several hundred years after a revolution by Galactic War Veterans overthrew the world's governments and imposed a militaristic regime titled 'The Global Federation of Earth', humanity is at tense diplomatic relations with an alien race whose homeworld is the planet Klendathu (one of many planets ... | comedy, murder, paranormal, cult, violence, good versus evil, humor, satire, romantic, entertaining, sci-fi | train | imdb | But guess what: it is fun (by the truckload - at least if you have a pitch-black sense of humour and you do realise what this film is and what it wants to achieve).Paul Verhoeven was a master at making Sci-Fi films which worked both as perfect mainstream popcorn cinema and as very intelligent social commentary on the d... |
tt0063522 | Rosemary's Baby | New York City, fall of 1965: Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse (Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes) are a young married couple who rent an apartment in the gothic and splendorous Bramford building in Manhattan. At first, their friend and current landlord Edward "Hutch" Hutchins (Maurice Evans) tries to dissuade them from doing so... | murder, horror, atmospheric, good versus evil, psychedelic, suspenseful | train | imdb | Roman Polanski knows this and utilizes it brilliantly, opening the film with stunning aerial shots of the skyline and focusing in on the ornate castle amongst the skyscrapers and tenements.The acting is fantastic, particularly Mia Farrow, who is the only person I can envision as Rosemary.
Horror as we know it came into... |
tt0069293 | Solyaris | This is the summary for the 169-minute English-subtitled dvd version.During the opening credits, the chorale-prelude in F minor by Johann Sebastian Bach is playing.Part One:Plants move gracefully through a flowing stream of water. A man, Chris Kelvin (Donatas Banionis), stands silently amidst lush plant life and a ripp... | mystery, boring, psychological, cult, atmospheric, flashback, psychedelic, romantic | train | imdb | Two truths drive this film: the inadequacy of human-kind to understand the Universe, and the inadequacy of human-kind to understand the human heart.As such, using Lem's original idea, Tarkovsky successfully, explores these themes.We are drawn in, through hauntingly beautiful imagery, to the internal struggles of Kris K... |
tt0302297 | After School Special | Three highschool teenagers are sex obsessed, without being able to get it. Instead, Matt keeps peeping into the women's gym class dressing room. Fred can't talk to girls but their sight prompts him to constantly masturbate in the school's toilets. Deacon attends sex education, but instead of listening to the older teac... | pornographic, home movie | train | imdb | This movie was almost extremely entertaining.
Nevertheless, the movie does manage to draw you...kind of...to the plight of the protagonists.
There were many areas for improvement, but you got what you came for with this movie: hot teen breasts and bad acting.
It just fits(it is a movie about making pornos).
Yes, the ac... |
tt0494238 | Inkheart | A voiceover tells us that storytellers have always existed, but there are the rare few who are "Silvertongues" who can bring characters to life. Often, they don't know they possess the gift.Mortimer Folchart (Brendan Fraser) is one of these "Silvertongues." In an opening shot, we see Mortimer (or 'Mo' as he's called by... | fantasy | train | imdb | One night he brings out various characters named Capricorn and Basta from Inkheart , a book written by Fenoglio (Jim Broadbent) whose story is set in Middle Age and plenty of magical beings.
I thought he was a good actor anyway, but the moment he came on I had to stop and think "wow!", and I continued to be impressed t... |
tt2650986 | Nordvest | Northwest is one of the most impoverished multi-ethnic areas of Copenhagen. 18-years-old Casper lives in Northwest with his mother, younger brother and his little sister. Casper struggles to make ends meet based on selling stolen goods to one of the neighborhood pack leaders. When organized crime hits Northwest the hie... | violence, murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0088680 | After Hours | New York City. Paul Hackett (Griffin Dunn) is a lonely and bored computer word-processing consultant who wants more in his life than just going to work and going home every boring day of his life. One day involves teaching a new trainee, named Lloyd (Bronson Pinchot), the works of the computer. Paul leaves the office b... | comedy, dark, murder, cult, absurd, psychedelic, queer | train | imdb | So if you were a fan of Scorsese's frantic camera work in Goodfellas and Casino, this film is for you.It really does put you on edge - as a viewer, you really want Dunne's character to get back home - but everything possible that could happen to him - happens.
All the rules go out the window for Dunne's character, beca... |
tt0066115 | Myra Breckinridge | Myron Breckinridge (Rex Reed) is already waiting at the surgery room to have his pinus removed by the surgeon (John Carradine). The scenery is a bit weird anyway, because there is public watching the surgery, clapping, making comments, and there is in the background a lady (Thordis Brandt) kind of dancing /cracking a w... | pornographic, cult, satire | train | imdb | (The later HBO series "Dream On" also used this technique but I think this movie did it much better.) Rex Reed is perfectly cast as Myron, a gay man who decides on having a sex change (though Reed vehemently insisted throughout filming that he *wasn't* playing a gay man...
The book "Myra Breckinridge" is marvelous, and... |
tt0178130 | Cleopatra | Passion. Power. History.For over two-thousand years, the legend of the beautiful Queen of the Nile has stirred the imagination. Ascending to the throne at a mere seventeen years of age, Cleopatra (Leonor Varela) ruled as Egypt's last Pharaoh for twenty-two years. Easily winning the heart of Roman Emperor Julius Caesar ... | violence, murder | train | imdb | null |
tt1657507 | Colombiana | Bogota, Columbia. A man, named Fabio, is speaking to Don Luis, a drug lord and his boss. Fabio tells him he is quitting and handing over all the book keeping on the cartel to another associate. Don Luis smiles and says he will miss him and they toast to Fabio's life. Fabio leaves and Don Luis motions to Marco (Jordi Mo... | murder, violence, revenge, action, comic, romantic | train | imdb | A lot of action left to be seen and overall it's a good intro to the movie.2 - Cast & Characters: Ahhh Zoe Zoe!
Among his most famous films are Léon: The Professional (which introduced American audiences to Jean Reno and Natalie Portman), Nikita (which has been remade into an American film and two American TV shows so ... |
tt0094898 | Coming to America | Akeem Joffer, the heir to the throne of Zamunda (a fictional African kingdom), lives a pampered lifestyle with every daily task performed by servants. Akeem has become fed up with this and wishes to do more for himself. The final straw comes when his parents, King Jaffe and Queen Aeoleon, present him with an arranged b... | cult, fantasy, satire, comedy | train | wikipedia | The first part of this movie, showing Eddie Murphy's life as an African prince, is one of the funniest things I have ever seen.
After several years of starring in rowdy action comedies and con man capers, Eddie Murphy gets a chance to deliver a more restrained performance with this film and he manages to do so very wel... |
tt0375063 | Sideways | Miles Raymond is an aspiring – but unsuccessful – writer, a wine aficionado and a divorced, depressed, borderline alcoholic middle-aged English teacher living in San Diego, who takes his soon-to-be-married actor friend and former college roommate, Jack Cole, on a road trip through Santa Ynez Valley wine country. Though... | comedy, dark, depressing, humor, satire, romantic, entertaining | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1067106 | A Christmas Carol | Dickens divided the book into five chapters, which he labelled "staves".
=== Stave one ===
The story begins on a cold and bleak Christmas Eve in London, seven years after the death of Ebenezer Scrooge's business partner, Jacob Marley. Scrooge, an old miser, hates Christmas and refuses an invitation to Christmas dinner ... | horror | train | wikipedia | One small gripe, as was present with Up, the glasses still make everything darker and subsequently duller; especially as this picture is intentionally not well-lit to begin with.We all know the famous Charles Dickens novel for which this is based on and Zemeckis stays faithfully close to it, unworried about making a fa... |
tt0421715 | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | The film opens up with a tight close up of a very old woman on her deathbed in the hospital. Theres a terrible storm raging outside the window. Clearly in pain, the old woman is struggling to speak and her daughter (Julia Ormond) is at her bedside. We can tell the mother is at the end of her life because when she cries... | boring, depressing, dramatic, magical realism, flashback, historical fiction, philosophical, melodrama, romantic, entertaining, sentimental | train | imdb | null |
tt0092644 | Beverly Hills Cop II | Beverly Hills Police Captain Andrew Bogomil, Detective Billy Rosewood, and Sergeant John Taggart are trying to figure out who is behind the "Alphabet Crimes," a series of mostly high end store robberies distinguished by their monogrammed envelopes with an alphabetical sequence the assailants leave behind. Complicating ... | comedy, murder, cult, violence, humor, entertaining | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0048393 | Mr. Arkadin | Prologue: (narrated by Orson Welles) A small airplane with no one on board was flying along the Mediterranean coast near Barcelona . . . Opening shot shows an empty airplane in flight.Credits roll.At night, between the containers on a Naples pier, first we see a man running, then another, staggering, (Gregoire Aslan), ... | cult, suspenseful, murder, flashback | train | imdb | I've always liked Orson Welle's "Mr Arkadin." At least I've been compelled to watch it an awful lot of times, in any case.
This is yet another film Welles made that was taken from him during the editing stages by the people putting up the money.Until the recent release of the exhaustive Criterion "Complete Mr. Arkadin"... |
tt2869728 | Ride Along 2 | The film starts in Miami on the boat of crime lord Antonio Pope. His hacker A.J. is going through a list on the computer. Pope calls Port Commissioner Griffin on the phone and accuses him of stealing money from him. With one of his hitmen in the room, Pope has Griffin killed in his apartment, then orders his hitmen to ... | violence, comedy, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0111667 | The War | The War tells the story about a young boy named Stu (Elijah Wood) and his father Stephen (Kevin Costner), who is a recovering war veteran. Stu, his sister Lidia Simmons (Lexi Randall), and their friends are determined to build the ultimate tree fort during their summer break. Stu's father has equally high hopes of rebu... | tragedy | train | imdb | Costner turns out to have a very strong "supporting" role because the movie really is about Elijah Woods' character and the other kids who find out about the real war we human beings seem to fight daily.
After Costner's character was faced with killing people in the Vietnam war, he fully understood that love was the on... |
tt0133412 | Best Laid Plans | A used, but still burning, cigarette falls on a small stack of paper, setting it alight.Nick (Alessandro Nivola) stands in a bar in the small town of Tropico, Nevada. He sits at his booth where he's joined by a college friend named Bryce (Josh Brolin), who's almost finished accreditation toward becoming an English teac... | neo noir, murder, violence, flashback, humor, suspenseful | train | imdb | null |
tt0082348 | Excalibur | In ancient England, warfare reigns between Uther Pendragon (Gabriel Byrne) and the Duke of Cornwall (Corin Redgrave). To bring peace, Merlin (Nicol Williamson) secures the mystical sword Excalibur from the Lady of the Lake (Hilary Joyalle) and gives it to Uther. Impressed by this symbol of power and Uther's promise of ... | psychedelic, cult, historical, violence, historical fiction | train | imdb | The Best Theatrical Re-Telling of the Arthurian Legend--Largely Based on Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur (1485).
Late in the film, King Arthur is about to fight his last battle against his estranged son Mordred.
Thereafter the first, and one of the greatest, attempts to bring the stories into a novelistic form was written i... |
tt0116260 | Eye for an Eye | Karen McCann(Sally Field),Is A Woman With Everything To Live For. She Is Happily Married To Mack(Ed Harris),And Has 2 Daughters,17-year old,Julie(Olivia Burnette), And Six-year old Megan(Alexandra Kyle). She Lives In A Nice House In Santa Monica,California,And Has A Good Job In A Museum. However,Her World Is Shattered ... | violence, revenge, murder, sadist | train | imdb | But Karen isn't done with him yet; she will do whatever she can in her power 'til there is justice for her daughter and another victim of his.I loved "Eye for an Eye", it's a terrific movie that is very well acted.
I cried during this movie, during the scene where Karen is on the phone with her daughter, Julie while sh... |
tt0119217 | Good Will Hunting | Though Will Hunting (Matt Damon) has genius-level intelligence (such as a talent for memorizing facts and an intuitive ability to prove sophisticated mathematical theorems), he works as a janitor at MIT and lives alone in a sparsely furnished apartment in an impoverished South Boston neighborhood. An abused foster chil... | psychological, cute, feel-good, flashback, humor, inspiring | train | imdb | Sure, Will Hunting's genius is profoundly unrealistic.Yet I'm giving this one 10 out of 10.I don't know whether Matt and Ben have ever been in therapy, but they certainly understand a lot about the human psyche, how it ducks responsibility, and pushes blame onto others, how it dismisses the real gifts it has and concen... |
tt0045919 | Island in the Sky | A simple group of commercial flyers, post WWII, one plane is downed in uncharted Canadian tundra, dead of winter, wicked cold. Limited resources. Other pilots start a search. Simple, huh? Remember...No GPS, No Radar, Limited radio and supplies! And that relentless bitter cold! But wait. These aren't ordinary commercial... | flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt1596346 | Soul Surfer | In 2003, teenager Bethany Hamilton lives in Kauai, Hawaii with her parents Tom and Cheri, and two brothers, Noah and Timmy. All are surfers, but she and her best friend Alana Blanchard have grown up with a passion for the sport and enter a competition. Her church youth ministry leader, Sarah Hill, is disappointed when ... | inspiring, christian film | train | wikipedia | AnnaSophia Robb does a spectacular job of playing Bethany Hamilton, a 13 year-old girl determined to continue doing what she loves after losing an arm to a shark.
Based on the true story of Bethany Hamilton, a 13 year old competitive surfer with big dreams and a courageous spirit.
But her dreams turn into a nightmare a... |
tt0062737 | Blackbeard's Ghost | Steve Walker (Dean Jones) arrives in a Maryland seacoast town, to take the position of track coach at Godolphin College. The night of his arrival coincides with a charity bazaar at the hotel where he will be boarding — Blackbeard's Inn, named after the notorious English pirate Captain Edward Teach and now run by the Da... | romantic, action, comic | train | wikipedia | Peter Ustinov, is a great pirate for the kids to enjoy.A good Disney movie, and a great family movie..
Watching Blackbeard's Ghost yesterday put me in mind of the late Robert Newton and his portrayal of Blackbeard in a classic film from the Fifties.
And he dominates the film completely.Dean Jones who was Disney's major... |
tt3748528 | Rogue One | The film begins with the traditional text: A LONG TIME AGO IN A GALAXY FAR FAR AWAY... but instantly leaps to the action. No opening crawl.In the early years of the Galactic Empire, an Imperial ship lands on a planet. Lyra Erso (Valene Kane) runs to warn her husband, Galen Erso (Mads Mikkelsen) and their young daughter... | suspenseful, murder, violence, flashback, good versus evil, tragedy, revenge | train | imdb | null |
tt0373889 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | During another summer with his Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon, Harry Potter and Dudley are attacked by Dementors. After using magic to save Dudley and himself, Harry is expelled from Hogwarts, but the decision is later rescinded. Harry is whisked off by a group of wizards (including the real Mad-Eye Moody, Professor Lup... | good versus evil, cult, fantasy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0783238 | The Dead Girl | The Dead Girl is a quintet of stories about seemingly unrelated people whose lives converge around the murder of a young woman (portrayed by Brittany Murphy). The characters in the film are linked not only by their connection to her murder, but also by the difficult hand life has dealt them. The film scrutinizes their ... | atmospheric, violence, murder, romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt0056868 | Billy Liar | Billy Fisher (Tom Courtenay) works by day as a clerk in an undertaker's office but lives his dreams in his own imaginary world. He is having such a dream when the film begins in which he is a returning war hero passing through crowds of applauding people. He is soon brought back to reality by his mother's call for brea... | fantasy, whimsical, flashback, psychedelic, melodrama, storytelling | train | imdb | Tragi-comic misadventures of a young man who invents a fantasy world as cover for his troubles and dreary middle-class existence in sixties Yorkshire.Billy Liar was always a terrific film, but like so many of its kitchen-sink contemporaries (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, A Kind of Loving) it has actually grown in ... |
tt1189340 | The Lincoln Lawyer | Moderately successful criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller (Matthew McConaughey) operates around Los Angeles County out of a Lincoln Town Car driven by a former client working off his legal fees (hence the title). Haller has spent most of his career defending garden-variety criminals, until he lands the case of his ... | plot twist, murder, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt5895028 | 13th | The 13th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution abolished slavery. But it also included a provision many people don't know about and that is what this documentary brings to view. "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist." Tha... | tragedy, violence, cruelty, murder, sadist | train | imdb | null |
tt0090163 | Threads | It is March, 1984. In Sheffield, England, young Ruth Beckett & Jimmy Kemp are out in the country above Sheffield when a U.S. F-4 Phantom flies past overhead from the nearby R.A.F. Finningley base. Sheffield, the 4th-largest city in Britain, is close to a prominent R.A.F. Base and also has a major component of steel, en... | violence, murder, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0052564 | The Angry Red Planet | The movie opens with a night shot of the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. Next is an aerial view of the Pentagon Building during the day. A limousine is escorted to the Pentagon by police motorcycles. Two military officers exit the vehicle and walk briskly to a conference room. Major General George Treegar (Paul Ha... | cult | train | imdb | null |
tt0034587 | Cat People | While sketching a panther at the zoo, Serbian fashion artist Irena Dubrovna [Simone Simon] meets American Oliver Reed [Kent Smith]. She invites him to her apartment for tea. A few months later, they are married.Irena is a strange and lonely woman with no friends. She has a fascination with panthers, but animals don't s... | cult, murder | train | imdb | Had he shown Norman's "mother" from "Psycho" killing the girl in the shower in greater detail, the horror of the scene would have been more greatly ineffective as compared to just how haunting it is today.Jacques Tourneur obviously understood this idea and used it to his advantage in "Cat People." An experienced direc... |
tt0488414 | Omkara | Omkara Shukla or Omi (Ajay Devgan) is a bahubali, a sort of political enforcer. He is the leader of a gang which commits political crimes for the local politician Tiwari Bhaisaab (Naseeruddin Shah). Ishwar 'Langda' Tyagi (Saif Ali Khan) and Keshav 'Kesu Firangi' Upadhyay (Vivek Oberoi) are his closest lieutenants.
The ... | tragedy, brainwashing, cult, comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0023227 | Minnie the Moocher | A Jewish mother and father scold their daughter, Betty Boop, not for her revealing dress, but for refusing to eat. Pa yells at her so much that his head becomes a phonograph playing the same old record. Betty runs away from the table. Even Ma is getting sick of Pa's yelling, so she turns over the record to play some mu... | psychedelic | train | imdb | The Betty Boop cartoon 'Minnie the Moocher' has an advantage: at least the second half is entertaining whether you like the cartoon itself or not since Cab Calloway's famous song with the same name plays there.
Before the cartoon starts we see the real Calloway doing one of his dance moves, another little thing to make... |
tt0081573 | Superman II | Before the destruction of Krypton, the criminals General Zod, Ursa and Non are sentenced to banishment into the Phantom Zone. Years later, the Phantom Zone is shattered near Earth by the shockwave of a space-borne hydrogen bomb. The three criminals are freed and find themselves with superpowers granted by the yellow li... | good versus evil, revenge, action, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1183251 | Beyond a Reasonable Doubt | Shreveport, Louisiana TV reporter C. J. Nicholas (Jesse Metcalfe) is convinced that District Attorney Mark Hunter (Michael Douglas) is corrupt, following an unbroken string of convictions based only on circumstantial evidence. After flirting with Assistant D.A. Ella Crystal (Amber Tamblyn) to obtain an evidential video... | suspenseful, mystery, neo noir, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | The only thing which stood out for me in the mediocre film Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (2009) was seeing the logo of the company RKO during the opening credits.Sure, it is a modernized digital version (I wish they had kept the "retro" look), but it was still nice to see that that legendary studio keeps being active (or m... |
tt0448011 | Knowing | The movie opens at an elementary school named William Dawes, in Lexington, Massachusetts, 1959. In the playground, we see Lucinda Embry (Lara Robinson) staring into the distance as if she is witnessing some catastrophic event. As she stares, whispering sounds are heard in the background. The teacher, Miss Taylor (Danie... | paranormal, thought-provoking, mystery, stupid | train | imdb | null |
tt0074483 | The Enforcer | In Marin County, two gas company men are lured by a scantily-clad woman (Jocelyn Jones) to a remote spot in Mill Valley and killed by Bobby Maxwell (DeVeren Bookwalter). Maxwell's gang, the People's Revolutionary Strike Force (PRSF), plans to use the gas men's uniforms and van as part of an ambitious series of crimes t... | comedy, neo noir, murder, violence, humor, revenge | train | wikipedia | In this third chapter from the Book of Dirty Harry Callahan, there's plenty of action as Harry breaks in a new partner and goes after a ruthless bunch, some self-proclaimed revolutionaries who are nothing more than common criminals, in `The Enforcer,' directed by James Fargo, and starring Clint Eastwood and Tyne Daly.
... |
tt0181865 | Traffic | The film begins in Mexico, where police officer Javier Rodriguez Rodriguez (Del Toro) and his partner, Manolo, stop a drug transport and arrest the couriers. Their arrest is interrupted by General Salazar (Milian), a high-ranking Mexican official. The general decides to hire Javier and instructs him to locate and appre... | realism, murder, violence, flashback, humor, suspenseful | train | imdb | Now, with the release of his latest film, Traffic, Soderbergh stands to earn Oscar nominations for Best Director and Best Picture for both of these movies.
It's no wonder, either, as Traffic is one of the most gripping films to hit theatres in 2000.Traffic takes on the complex issues involved with the war on drugs in t... |
tt0338512 | Deux frères | Set in 1920s French Indochina, two tigers are separated as cubs after the ancient temple where they live is disturbed by Aidan McRory (Guy Pearce) who intends to steal and sell the ancient statues.Two tiger cubs are playing when one (later named Sangha) comes upon a young civet. Sangha chases the civet into its burrow ... | violence, flashback | train | imdb | I loved this movie, not just for the obvious reasons of being a tiger loving artist that loves all animal films anyway.
This movie was making a statement regarding how these beautiful creatures are being hunted to extinction!How sad to have to hunt down and kill an animal to prove your manhood or to use them for mistak... |
tt0361127 | The Woodsman | Bacon plays Walter, a convicted child molester returning home to Philadelphia after a 12-year stint in prison. Walter finds that his friends and family have abandoned him, with the exception of his brother-in-law, Carlos (Benjamin Bratt). He gets a job at a lumber mill, where he meets Vicki (Kyra Sedgwick), one of the ... | dark, boring, thought-provoking, violence, dramatic, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0034493 | I bambini ci guardano | After spending the day at the park with her son, Prico (Luciano de Ambrosis), Nina (Isa Pola) leaves the family to be with her lover, Roberto (Adriano Rimoldi). Embarrassed at being the subject of gossip in their condominium building, Prico's father Andrea (Emilio Cigoli) sends his son to stay with Nina's sister (Dina ... | bleak | train | imdb | This distinguishes the film from the better known Italian neo realist works which typically take place against a backdrop of poverty and deprivation.
The story is seen through the eyes of their young son, Prico.Far more obscure than de Sica's other work, this is still nonetheless a classic because it endures, the story... |
tt0083387 | The Blue and the Gray | The plot revolves around the families of two sisters; Maggie Geyser and Evelyn Hale. The Geysers are southern farmers and slave owners in Charlottesville, Virginia. The Hales own a small newspaper in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The Geysers are generally indifferent to the issue of slavery but are sympathetic to the South... | violence | train | imdb | I first saw this mini-series while in 5th grade history class as part of our studies on the Civil War, and I thought it was excellent.
Although the movie certainly takes dramatic license (the main character, a young Southerner who relocates to the north after becoming disillusioned with the cruel treatment of slaves, e... |
tt1563069 | Jersey Shore | The gang still misses Vinny, who has gone back home to his mother. Nobody really misses The Situation, who has disappeared because everybody ignored his birthday. Later, the not-so-spectacular six get a visit from Danny, who is upset that he is short workers and that those workers he does have are lazy and terrible. He... | non fiction | train | imdb | Show fighting, swearing, drunkenness, lies and manipulation as being cool and in amongst young adults in their 20s over and over again so other young people can act just like that thinking its something to capitalize on..
Out of all of the bad reality shows on the air today, this has got to be the absolute worst of the... |
tt0078767 | The Amityville Horror | In 1974, Ronald DeFeo, Jr. murdered his family at their house at 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New York. He claimed that he was persuaded to kill them by voices he heard in the house.
One year later, married couple George and Kathy Lutz move into the house along with Kathy's three children from a previous marriage, B... | gothic, murder, cult, haunting, flashback, romantic | train | wikipedia | George (James Brolin) and Kathleen Lutz (Margot Kidder) buy a "dream house" in Amityville, New York for a "dream price".
I'm a fan of camp and "so bad it's good"; Amityville's performances often attain both.The commentary on the new DVD is amusing given the 1970s publicity that the book and film depicted a true hauntin... |
tt0069186 | Rivelazioni di un maniaco sessuale al capo della squadra mobile | In a prosperous small provincial town in Southern Italy, a naked woman is discovered murdered and mutilated. By her body are a number of photographs of her having sex with her lover, his face having been cut out. At the morgue, the chief pathologist suggests to the detective in charge of the case, Inspector Capuano, th... | murder, cult, horror, flashback, insanity, suspenseful | train | imdb | null |
tt0175880 | Magnolia | In the opening prologue, a narrator goes over three events of incredible coincidence:1) Sir Edmund William Godfrey, a resident of Greenberry Hill, London, was killed by three vagrants looking to rob his pharmacy. The surnames of these men were Green, Berry, and Hill.2) Reno blackjack dealer Delmer Darion went scuba div... | bleak, cult, murder, romantic, sentimental | train | imdb | Phillip Seymour Hoffman is absolutely outstanding as the only character who is "normal." His performance has made me smile and shake my fist in the air the three times I've seen Magnolia since it opened.
This film is not for everyone, but, if you want to see glorious filmmaking, acting, writing, and characters in acti... |
tt0100758 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | The camera pans over an aerial view of New York City as news reporter April ONeil (Judith Hoag) covers a story about a string of mysterious, and seemingly organized, thefts occurring across the city. We see various scenes of members of the gang, known as the Foot Clan, stealthily stealing various items from people righ... | murder, cult, violence, flashback, good versus evil, psychedelic, humor, revenge | train | imdb | The best Ninja Turtles Action movie of all time my number 1 personal favorite.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) is actually a cult classic Epic Action film and one of the best movies.
The original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) is the only film for me that I absolutely love to death!
I grew up with Teenage Muta... |
tt0163818 | Sat sau ji wong | The film starts with a brief recollection of the "Killing Angel", a dangerous assassin that has been operating in most of southeast Asia. The Killing Angel has no known accomplices or colleagues, is not affiliated with any government, religious, or criminal organization, and to this date their true identity has still r... | revenge, violence | train | imdb | That's alot!), and they call upon all the assassins of Hong Kong to find this hitman, and kill him.Jet Li's character, Fu, is a rookie hitman who's low on cash.
The end is pretty predictable (but the identity of the killer who killed the mafia boss is probably supposed to come as a surprise.
Good acting all round (watc... |
tt1253863 | 300: Rise of an Empire | Note: this film is actually a prequel as well as a sequel to the original '300' film (with the events happening before, concurrently, and after the events of the previous film).In the opening scene, Queen Gorgo (Lena Headey) narrates about King Darius (Igal Naor) leading his army of Persians into Greece in the Battle o... | murder, violence, historical fiction, good versus evil, flashback, revenge, sadist | train | imdb | null |
tt0078754 | All That Jazz | Joe Gideon is a theater director and choreographer trying to balance work on his latest Broadway musical with editing a Hollywood film he has directed. He is a workaholic who chain-smokes cigarettes, and without a daily dose of Vivaldi, Visine, Alka-Seltzer, Dexedrine, and sex, he wouldn't have the energy to keep up th... | tragedy, comedy, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0081764 | Without Warning | A young man and his father go hunting in a mountain area with forests somewhere in the American Midwest. Before they get to hunt anything, which the son is not to eager to do anyway, both of them get killed by strange flying jellyfish-like creatures which hit them and penetrate their skin with sharp-tipped tentacles.So... | cult, murder | train | imdb | some people are brutally killed and mutilated by an unknown stranger, and it's the turn of a bunch of teenagers and war veterans to find out that an illegal alien has landed and is hunting for humans for his horrible collection...Although this movie shows lots of stereotypes and well-known topics from many horror movie... |
tt0083015 | S.O.B. | The story is a satire of the film industry and Hollywood society. The main character, Felix Farmer (Richard Mulligan), is a phenomenally successful film producer who has just made the first major flop of his career, to the dismay of his movie studio, resulting in the loss of his own sanity. Felix attempts suicide four ... | satire | train | wikipedia | Hey he got his wife to go topless and his wife was Julie Andrews - he must have heard cash registers in his mind like Richard Mulligan's character when he decides to put his wife in a porno=erotic something or other to make zillions of dollars.
Everyone and everything is a target and he hits it almost every time."S.O.B... |
tt1190539 | Chugyeogja | Eom Joong-ho is a dishonest ex-detective turned pimp who is in financial trouble because two of his girls have gone missing. One night he sends Mi-jin, one of his few remaining girls, to a customer. He then realizes that this is the same person who was the last to see his missing girls. Believing that this man is resel... | dark, suspenseful, cruelty, murder, violence, flashback, revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1343727 | Dredd | The future United States is a dystopic irradiated wasteland known as the Cursed Earth. On the east coast lies Mega-City One, a violent metropolis with 800 million residents and 17,000 crimes reported daily. The only force for order are the Judges, who act as judge, jury and executioner. Judge Dredd is tasked by the Chi... | dark, comedy, neo noir, murder, mystery, paranormal, allegory, violence, psychedelic, action, satire, suspenseful, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | Director Pete Travis tackled the problem of filming a comic book by making something that looks nothing like a comic book and more like an action movie shot on location, with a simple linear plot that keeps rolling and never slows down.Megacity 1 is made markedly less futuristic than the comic in order to become so bel... |
tt0113118 | Friday | An African-American family wake up one Friday morning and get ready for an average Friday of work and school. Craig (Ice Cube) gets a call from his former girlfriend, abusing him and accusing him of going out with another woman. He gets out of his bed, angry and frustrated, and goes and gets cereal, then his Dad (John ... | entertaining, revenge, cult, comedy, flashback | train | imdb | His high pitched voice and mannerisms are classic.Hard-core rapper Ice Cube, after appearing in such hard-hitting films as Boyz 'N the Hood and Higher Learning, played his first comic role in this picture he co-wrote with frequent musical collaborator DJ Pooh.
Craig (Ice Cube) manages to get fired on his day off (thoug... |
tt0047573 | Them! | A young girl is found wandering in shock in the New Mexico desert near White Sands by two state troopers. When they investigate they find that the trailer that she was staying in with her parents and sibling had been destroyed. They also find that kindly old Gramps Johnson who ran the local store was also killed in a m... | cult, horror | train | imdb | It was about giant ants and started a horde of pathetic clones that followed it, but none have even come close to matching this movie's effectiveness.Atomic testing in New Mexico that went on in 1945 creates a horde of giant ants.
There is even a monologue at the end of the movie which explains that things have changed... |
tt0024727 | The Vampire Bat | When the villagers of Kleinschloss start dying of blood loss, the town fathers suspect a resurgence of vampirism, but police inspector Karl Breettschneider remains skeptical. Scientist Dr. Otto von Niemann, who cares for the victims, visits a patient who was attacked by a bat, Martha Mueller. Martha is visited by a men... | murder | train | wikipedia | Maude Eburne and Dwight Frye make a good comedy team.This budget movie brings in elements from "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" with Dr. Niemann using the power of suggestion to make a somnambulist carry out his orders, from "Frankenstein" by using the human blood to help create life in the laboratory, and "Dracula" since... |
tt0450232 | 16 Blocks | Jack Mosley (Bruce Willis) is an alcoholic, burned-out N.Y.P.D. detective. Despite a late shift the night before, his lieutenant orders him to escort a witness, Eddie Bunker (Mos Def), from local custody to the courthouse 16 blocks away to testify on a police corruption case before a grand jury at 10 a.m. Bunker tries ... | violence, suspenseful, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | A reviewer emailed me that "Midnight Run" not only has a story like "16 Blocks" but Bruce Willis' character Jack Mosley has a name that is a composite of the movie names for two of the leading roles in "Midnight Run": Robert De Niro's Jack Walsh and Yaphet Kotto's FBI Agent Alonzo Mosely.
Though the story may seem like... |
tt1117385 | Felon | Family man Wade Porter (Stephen Dorff) is living the American Dream with his girlfriend Laura (Marisol Nichols) and their son Michael: they have a nice house, Wade has just raised a loan to make his company grow and they are going to get married. However, their dream becomes a nightmare when Wade unintentionally kills ... | realism, violence, murder | train | wikipedia | However, the film also shows that even in these circumstances, there are great acts of humanity and compassion.A very good movie, definitely worth the watch.
At first I wasn't expecting much as the last film I saw with Val Kilmer-Conspiracy-I shut off 15 minutes into it in disgust.Felon, is an excellent film with great... |
tt0066847 | Blood Thirst | Adam Rourke [Robert Winston], a wise-cracking sex-crime specialist from New York, who
talks to himself and carries an old, lifesize dummy named Harvey in his
suitcase, is called to Manila by old friend and chief inspector of
homicide, Captain Miguel Ramos [Vic Diaz]. Girls have been turning up dead, found
hanging upsid... | cult, murder | train | imdb | Made in the Philippines (around '62 or '63, I would guess, despite its official release date of 1971) on an obviously limited budget, the picture is wonderfully well photographed in black and white with some moody, noir touches.
The lead, Robert Winston, is quite good-looking, albeit modestly talented.
The usual, grind... |
tt0118528 | 12 Angry Men | In a New York City courthouse a jury commences deliberating the case of an 18-year-old boy from a slum, on trial for allegedly stabbing his father to death. If there is any reasonable doubt they are to return a verdict of not guilty. If found guilty, the boy will receive a death sentence.
In a preliminary vote, all jur... | murder | train | wikipedia | Jack Lemmon takes on the voice of dissent (the Fonda role), while George C Scott is the redneck extremist (played earlier by Lee J Cobb).
Scott), and a man who just wants to get out of there, even if it means making an unjust choice, Juror #7(Tony Danza).Lemmon, Scott, Williamson, Stahl, and even Danza put on great per... |
tt0362120 | Scary Movie 4 | Shaquille O'Neal and Dr. Phil wake up chained in a bathroom (spoofing Saw). Shaq has to make a free throw with a huge rock in order to get the saw down to cut off their legs (spoofing Shaq's famous difficulties at the free-throw line). Shaq and Dr. Phil have only two minutes to free themselves of their leg braces befor... | cult, boring, stupid | train | imdb | The Wayans' relied far too much on lame sexual humour and gross-out jokes and I enjoy slapstick far more than that.Not that Scary Movie 4 doesn't have its fair share of (hilarious) crude jokes.
That's the level of the humour in this movie, and if you are entertained by violent slapstick, people getting hit by cars, sex... |
tt0918940 | The Legend of Tarzan | In the late 1800's, a conference was held to divide up the African Congo region. King Leopold of Belgium seized control of the land's minerals, which resulted in large profits for his country. When the resources began to run dry, Leopold sent Captain Leon Rom (Christoph Waltz) to secure more minerals.Rom leads a large ... | comedy, murder, violence, historical fiction, good versus evil, flashback, humor, action, revenge | train | imdb | After a great opening scene, there is the filmic equivalent of "dead air" for about 35 minutes and when the script does finally get in gear it stumbles and falls, subject to a wildly disjointed narrative and equally bizarre editing.Alexander Skarsgård has been impressive in other films (a race driver, a superhero) and ... |
tt0119698 | Mononoke-hime | Note: This synopsis describes the English version of the film. See the Discuss tab for details. Princess Mononoke is a fantasy adventure: the story of an epic struggle between humanity and nature, where nature is represented by ancient, vengeful gods. The story's tangle of competing interests -- cursed monsters, an ass... | dark, fantasy, dramatic, cult, violence, atmospheric, psychedelic, action, tragedy, romantic, historical | train | imdb | There are at least half a dozen well developed characters threaded through the story, and their animation is wonderful in displaying subtle character.The original Japanese soundtrack has some amazing singing and draws upon some of the best talent available for voices - in Japan, Miyazake is universally known and this w... |
tt0085750 | Jaws 3-D | The oldest son from the first two Jaws films, Michael Brody (played by Dennis Quaid) now works for SeaWorld in Florida, which is preparing for the launch of its new "Undersea Kingdom," a set of tunnels where people can "view the wonders of the deep without ever getting wet." The film opens with a great white following ... | prank | train | imdb | null |
tt0070074 | Frankenstein: The True Story | Victor Frankenstein (Leonard Whiting) is a newly trained doctor, and engaged to Elizabeth Fanshawe (Nicola Pagett). After Victor's younger brother, William accidentally drowns, Victor renounces his belief in God and declares that he would join forces with the devil if he could learn how to restore his brother to life.
... | violence, romantic, cruelty, murder, gothic | train | wikipedia | The all-star British/American cast and the production design gave it the old-time feel of early films from both the Universal and Hammer Studios genres, yet the sharp writing by Don Bachardy and Christopher Isherwood lent an almost Merchant-Ivory sense of credibility that most films of this kind can't even hope to pull... |
tt0165854 | The Limey | Wilson (Terence Stamp) snarls to a black screen "Tell me. Tell me. Tell me about Jenny." cuing the Who's song "The Seeker to play as we get our first look at Wilson, an aged but determined looking man, who makes his way from the airport to a hotel room. He looks at a newspaper clipping about a woman's death and at a Ca... | comedy, suspenseful, neo noir, murder, mystery, dramatic, violence, flashback, revenge, storytelling | train | imdb | Terence Stamp was especially good in this film, and Luis Guzman provided one of the best screen roles by a Mexican-American.
In `The Limey', Terrence Stamp plays Wilson, a career criminal who, upon being released from prison in England, finds out that his estranged daughter has died (or perhaps been murdered) in Los An... |
tt0031851 | The Return of Doctor X | Nervy "New York Morning-Dispatch" reporter Walter 'Wichita' Garrett [Wayne Morris]
has just scored an interview with prominent stage star Angela Merrova [Lya Lys], who
has invited him to her apartment in the Park Vista Hotel. When Walt gets
there, he finds to his horror that Miss Merrova has been murdered. Someone
has ... | murder | train | imdb | In "The Return of Doctor X," with his chalky makeup and streaked hair, Bogart resembles a punk rocker before his time.The film is not bad entertainment.
After digging up Quesne's body and in a hurry to leave, morris tells the caretaker to "put it back," then rushes off.The acting is top notch with the best performance ... |
tt0259324 | Ghost Rider | The movie opens with the voice of the Caretaker (Sam Elliot) relating the legend of the Ghost Rider - a damned soul condemned to walk the earth and obey the Devil's orders. A Ghost Rider had been sent to collect a parchment known as the Contract of San Venganza, which holds the power of 1000 evil souls. The Ghost Rider... | paranormal, psychedelic, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0068230 | Asylum | The young Dr. Martin goes to a job interview at a psychiatric hospital. Thinking he would meet Dr. Star, he instead meets with his assistant Dr. Rutherford. Dr. Martin is confused until he finds out that Dr. Star can not interview him because he has just gone insane! Dr. Star is now a patient instead of the director.
D... | cult | train | imdb | Dr. Martin speaks to four different patients in an attempt to discover who used to be the psychiatrist and each patient relates to him their own particular terrifying story.Robert Bloch, the man responsible for writing the novel of one of horrors greatest movies, Psycho (1960), writes for us four intriguing and plea... |
tt0084726 | Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan | A female Vulcan sits in the command chair on the bridge of the U.S.S. Enterprise. While the senior crew and some cadets work at their consoles, the officer, Saavik (Kirstie Alley), makes a log entry, then orders Commander Sulu (George Takei) to project a course to avoid entering the Neutral Zone at the Klingon frontier... | brainwashing, revenge, murder, violence, stupid | train | imdb | That was the best thing about the series - that it touched on topics that were (pardon the expression) universal, no matter the species.Everyone is uniformly fine right down the line, especially Montalban's Khan (returned from the "Space Seed" episode of the original series); all hatred, vengeance and single-minded of ... |
tt0045826 | Glen or Glenda | Glen or Glenda tells two stories. One is about Glen (Edward D. Wood Jr.), who secretly dresses as a woman but is afraid to tell his fiancée. The other is about Alan ('Tommy' Haynes), a pseudohermaphrodite who undergoes a painful operation to become a woman.Both stories are told by Dr. Alton (Timothy Farrell). There's a... | cult, psychedelic, flashback | train | imdb | It's telling that the extreme-religious-conservative Medved brothers were the ones who named Ed Wood "worst director of all time." They must have thought they were really sticking it to Ed Wood for making all those subversively weird films involving crossdressing and homosexuals and society's outcasts.
If you're lookin... |
tt0065466 | Beyond the Valley of the Dolls | The film concerns three young women, Kelly McNamara (Dolly Read), Casey Anderson (Cynthia Myers), and Petronella "Pet" Danforth (Marcia McBroom), who are in a rock trio called The Kelly Affair. Harris Allsworth (David Gurian) is their manager and Kelly's boyfriend. At the beginning of the film, Kelly gets the idea to r... | pornographic, murder, cult, violence, absurd, humor, satire, comic, melodrama | train | imdb | One of the all-time great cult films, BVD is an energetic, imaginative parody of Valley of the Dolls and other such dippy Hollywood melodramas.
The ending has to be seen to be believed, and even then....The acting is very good (though Dolly Read's natural British and fake American accents are openly battling throughout... |
tt0075029 | The Outlaw Josey Wales | Josey Wales, a Missouri farmer, is driven to revenge by the murder of his wife and young son by a band of pro-Union Jayhawker militants. The murderers were from Senator James H. Lane's Kansas Brigade, which included Captain Terrill.
After grieving and burying his wife and son, Wales joins a group of pro-Confederate Mis... | murder, anti war, cult, violence, flashback, humor, revenge, sadist | train | wikipedia | Even when matched up against his Oscar-winning 1992 film UNFORGIVEN, THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES must rank as being among Clint Eastwood's finest turns both in front of and behind the camera.
Having displayed a solid feel for the director's chair with 1971's PLAY MISTY FOR ME and 1973's HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER, Eastwood took th... |
tt0427327 | Hairspray | In May of 1962, Baltimore teenager Tracy Turnblad (Nikki Blonksy) prepares for school while displaying optimistic appreciation of her drab neighborhood in which she sees so much beauty ("Good Morning Baltimore"). Tracy, who has a passion for dance and bouffant hairstyles, is something of a social outcast among her clas... | comedy, entertaining | train | imdb | It was very well written and the cast proved that even more.If you want to have a fun time at the movies, I really recommend Hairspray.
Obviously a big-budget, flashy musical remake of a John Waters film is never going to be as subversive or as comically edgy as its predecessors, but one of the good things about HAIRSP... |
tt1661382 | Grudge Match | In their prime, Pittsburgh boxers Henry "Razor" Sharp (Sylvester Stallone) and Billy "The Kid" McDonnen (Robert De Niro) become rivals after two fights, one in which Kid beats Razor and one in which Razor beats Kid, the only defeats of their careers. Before they have a rematch, Razor announces his retirement without ex... | sentimental | train | wikipedia | null |
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