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tt0304141 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | It opens at the Dursleys' home where Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) lives and is staying, as usual, during the summer holidays. Uncle Vernon's (Richard Griffiths) sister Marge (Pam Ferris) comes to visit and treats Harry with general contempt. She viciously insults him and his parents, angering Harry who unwittingly u... | good versus evil, cult, fantasy, gothic, dark | train | imdb | The error crept in from the very beginning: Chris Columbus took the first two films, and this put the old debate on what kind of movies Harry Potter should be about.
Everything in novels is seen differently every time, because all the reader and viewer sees through the eyes of Harry Potter, and in films through the pri... |
tt4172430 | 13 Hours | The opening text states that there were over 200 American outposts in Libya until 2012. Following the 2011 civil war, the deposition and execution of dictator Muammar Gaddafi, Benghazi became one of the most violent places in the world, forcing the United States to pull their outposts out of there, all except for one c... | anti war, suspenseful, comedy, murder, violence | train | imdb | The story is interesting and somewhat controversial and is a perfect idea for a movie, but it was directed by Michael Bay. For that reason I was expecting a lot of special effects and explosions and didn't think he was the director that should be in charge of this story.
I'm overwhelmed because no one could have known ... |
tt0084504 | The Pirate Movie | Mabel Stanley (Kristy McNichol) is an introverted teenage girl from the United States in a seaside community in Australia as an exchange student. She attends a local pirate festival featuring a swordplay demonstration led by a young curly-haired instructor (Christopher Atkins), who then invites her for a ride on his bo... | cult, action | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0220827 | Non ho sonno | In Turin, Italy, 1983, Detective Ulysses Moretti investigates a murder scene and tells a young boy named Giacomo that he will find his mother's killer, even if it takes the rest of his life.Seventeen years later.Angela, a Rome prostitute, refuses to let a man do "disgusting things" to her and he gives her money and tel... | gothic, murder, violence, horror, suspenseful, sadist | train | imdb | Teaming up Giacomo (Stefano Dionisi), whose mother was killed by "The Dwarf" when he was a child, Moretti tries to solve these recent slew of murders and put to rest the case forever.From the opening, where we have an intense murder on a train, to the end, where the killer is finally revealed and Max Von Sydow recites ... |
tt0257076 | S.W.A.T. | The movie opens with Los Angeles Police Department officers engaged in a violent shootout with four masked bank robbers who have held up a bank in Lincoln Heights. Two of them are in the bank holding hostages, while the other two are engaging the cops. Being only armed with pistols, the officers are hopelessly outnumbe... | neo noir, murder, violence, action, humor, revenge | train | imdb | null |
tt1772250 | La cara oculta | The film opens with Adrián (Quim Gutierrez), a young orchestra conductor, viewing a video of his girlfriend Belén (Clara Lago) telling him she is leaving him. Adrián becomes distraught. While drinking away his sorrows at a bar, he meets Fabiana (Martina Garcia) and they have a relationship where Fabiana moves into the ... | dramatic, revenge, mystery | train | wikipedia | A Spanish orchestra conductor named Adrián (Quim Gutiérrez) receives a video message from his sweetheart Belén (Clara Lago), in which she breaks up with him , after that , she is suddenly disappeared .
It does have mysterious happenings in a big , spooky house along with pain, suffering of one or two scorned women.This... |
tt0086971 | The Black Room | Larry [Jimmy Stathis] thinks it's a dream come true when he rents an exotic "fantasy
room" in a mansion in the Hollywood Hills for only $200 a month. He uses
it for his trysts with various women and then goes home at night to tell
his wife Robin [Clara Perryman] all about them. Robin doesn't believe a word of it, but s... | pornographic, murder | train | imdb | A special film that works despite budget limitations.
The Black Room turned out to be an engrossing semi-masterpiece.
I was expecting mundane from this forgotten horror, but what I saw was more kinky, twisted and sick than I'd imagined.
Something about the acting, the script , the directing or everything was different... |
tt0031951 | Son of Frankenstein | The movie opens with the Universal Pictures globe and star logo and theme song; Title and credits follow. The scene opens with a view of the small village of Frankenstein and the castle high on a hill in the background. An "Eingang Verboten" sign warns all to stay away from the castle, but Ygor (Bela Lugosi) stares out... | revenge, gothic, murder | train | imdb | Baron Wolf von Frankenstein (Basil Rathbone), Henry's son, is on his way to claim his inheritance from his father, and receives a not-too-warm welcome from the small German town that has been frightened out of its wits by Henry's doings with monsters.
Lee has everything played various seriously, even Bela Lugosi's Ygor... |
tt0420332 | Veer-Zaara | Most of the story is revealed as a flashback to 1982 from the prison cell of Veer Pratap Singh. The narrative begins by showing Zaara Haayat Khan (Preity Zinta), an independent, carefree, and sprightly young Pakistani girl travelling to India. Her family is of a political background and a well known family of Lahore. S... | romantic | train | wikipedia | These feelings reflect upon the plot so brilliantly, making this movie Shah Rukh Khan's second best performance, following behind Kal Ho Naa Ho. The Late Madan Mohan has composed brilliant songs which shed light on the journeys of the two star crossed lovers, highlighting both comical and tragic moments in this classic... |
tt1060277 | Cloverfield | Rob (Michael Stahl-David) has taken a job as a vice president for the Slusho company, which necessitates his moving to Tokyo. His brother, Jason (Mike Vogel), and his girlfriend, Lily (Jessica Lucas) throw a surprise going-away party for him. Rob's best friend, Hud (T.J. Miller) is recruited to videotape the event but ... | suspenseful, violence, cult, romantic, flashback | train | imdb | Perhaps the 80 minute run time will bother some people, but on the other hand I think that's better than a film wearing out its welcome.
You're placed with a bunch of characters whom you get to know and eventually must join in their frenzied search for a friend while being subjected to some horrifying imagery and new t... |
tt0097388 | Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan | Following the events of The New Blood, two graduating high school students are aboard a houseboat on Crystal Lake. Jim tells his girlfriend Suzy the legend of Jason Voorhees, before playing a prank on her with a hockey mask and a prop knife. The boat's anchor damages some underwater cables, which shock Jason's corpse a... | murder, violence, horror, cult, revenge, entertaining | train | wikipedia | I know this movie was also cut by the MPAA like was Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood and it is most of people's at least favorite film mine isn't.
Director Rob Hedden also wrote the song for this film Tamara's Bio Project and he performed.I know I said I dislike Friday the 13th Part 3: 3D and Friday the 13th Par... |
tt1086772 | Blended | In the opening scene, Lauren Reynolds (Drew Barrymore) is in the bathroom of a Hooters eatery, talking to her kids' babysitter Tracy (Lauren Lapkus). Lauren's on a blind date which isn't going well while Tracy is dealing with Lauren's rowdy sons Brendan (Braxton Beckham) and Tyler (Kyle Red Silverstein). Tyler is wavin... | comedy, feel-good, adult comedy, romantic | train | imdb | The chemistry between him and Drew Barrymore is as good as 50 First Dates, it was funny, we laughed all the way through, the storyline was fun and held gentle messages to any families in this situation therefore approaching potential sensitive subjects with tact and diplomatic wit.I watch and enjoy a range of film genr... |
tt0116367 | From Dusk Till Dawn | Texas sheriff Edgar McGraw pulls up to an isolated liquor store in Texas called Benny's World of Liquor. Once inside he speaks with the shopkeeper. He then goes to use the restroom. As soon as he is inside the bathroom, The Gecko Brothers, Seth (George Clooney) and Richie (Quentin Tarantino), two desperado-type crimmin... | comedy, murder, cult, violence, horror, psychedelic, humor, action, plot twist, entertaining | train | imdb | The second section is also great because of the horrific violence and as I heard mentioned before, the unique ways on how to kill vampires.The script is witty and full of dark humour, "I have 6 little friends and they all run faster than you.", and the intro is certainly one of the best I have seen in months.
The chara... |
tt1018817 | April Fool's Day | On the weekend leading up to April Fools' Day, a group of college friends, consisting of Harvey, Nikki, Rob, Skip, Nan, Chaz, Kit and Arch, gather to celebrate spring break by spending the weekend at the island mansion of Skip's sister, Muffy St. John. The tone is set almost immediately, with Muffy preparing details ar... | revenge, murder, prank | train | wikipedia | I Know What You Did Last April's Fool Day. In the débutant ball of the socialite Torrance Caldwell (Scout Taylor-Compton) on April, 1st 2007, the jealous and futile millionaire Desiree Cartier (Taylor Cole) dilutes a powerful drug in the champagne of her dislikable acquaintance Milan Hastings (Sabrina Ann Aldridge) and... |
tt0416236 | The Spiderwick Chronicles | The film opens with Arthur Spiderwick (David Strathairn) walking hurriedly into his study. The room is shelved with bugs and odd creatures in jars. He begins to frantically put together a book, and when he binds it and stamps his mark onto the cover, a strange beastly sound is heard outside, creatures of all sorts groa... | fantasy, entertaining | train | imdb | null |
tt1205558 | Hick | The movie starts off in a small town in Nebraska. Luli (Chloë Grace Moretz) sits on the steps of her school, drawing (she is obviously something of a loner with few, if no, friends). Her father, an alcoholic, drives up to the school and crashes into a play structure.The scene cuts to a bar, where Luli's 13th birthday p... | violence, murder, sadist, flashback | train | imdb | Having truly enjoyed the book, I was able to ignore the horrid reviews I'd read and decided I'd go for it anyway.I'll say this: if it weren't for Chloe Moretz and Eddie Redmayne, this film would truly have been a flop.
Characters that had given reasonably substantial meaning to Luli's depicted life on the road, such as... |
tt0083821 | I, Desire | Law student David Balsinger [David Naughton] works as a coroner's aid at the County Coroner's office in Los Angeles. David is busy studying _Constitutional Law_ when they bring in Milton King, attacked by a hooker, two holes in his neck, and all of his blood drained. Shortly thereafter, a priest arrives to see the body... | murder | train | imdb | Underrated Gem of a Horror Film.
David Balsiger (David Naughton) works the night shift at the city morgue, watching over the "cold room".
He's just moved in with his girlfriend, Cheryl Gillen (Marilyn Jones), a nurse.
A corpse shows up with puncture wounds on its neck, drained of its blood.
A priest comes in, apparentl... |
tt0084357 | La morte vivante | Two men break into an old crypt, seeking to dump toxic waste and rob the graves. When an earthquake causes the toxic waste to spill, Catherine Valmont (Françoise Blanchard), a young woman who died several years ago, is resurrected. She viciously kills the thieves and drinks their blood. As Catherine walks aimlessly thr... | violence, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | He has a unique world view and holds a special place in the world of "fantastique" cinema that is indisputable.Still, I find his films a little boring.Case in point THE LIVING DEAD GIRL springs from a simple and fascinating concept of a dead woman, who must drink blood to survive, returning to a château to be with an o... |
tt0351887 | Chin gei bin | Reeve Ekin Cheng is an ace vampire hunter who has just lost his third assistant to some nasty European vampires. Especially their leader, Duke Dekotes Mickey Hardt, with his pointy teeth and superstrengths, determined to bring a new age of darkness upon the earth. Fortunately, Reeve can keep up with them, thanks to the... | violence, action | train | imdb | null |
tt1305591 | Mars Needs Moms | Unbeknownst to humans, there is a thriving, technologically sophisticated society of Martians living below the surface of Mars. The Martians Supervisor (Mindy Sterling), while observing Earth, sees a mother (Joan Cusack) persuading her son, Milo (motion by Seth Green, voice by Seth Dusky), to do his chores. The Martian... | entertaining, sentimental | train | wikipedia | Easily the biggest flop of 2011, and pretty close to of all time, this Disney motion-capture film is about a young boy, Milo, who must save his mother (Joan Cusack) from Martians.
I would probably give it 6.5 out of 10 if I could, but I didn't feel it was as bad as movies I've given 6 out of 10 stars, so I gave it a 7 ... |
tt1535616 | The Divide | As nuclear explosions ravage New York City, residents of an apartment block rush downstairs to escape from the building, only to be forced into the basement by further explosions. Only eight of the residents – Eva (Lauren German) and her boyfriend Sam (Iván González), Josh (Milo Ventimiglia) and his brother Adrien (Ash... | insanity | train | wikipedia | We don't like to think that people are capable of certain things, but in extreme conditions people can be pushed to do the unimaginable.This is the the important point of the film, rather than the storyline, or "how the world ends".
One person even called it torture porn (Im not sure how many movies this reviewer has s... |
tt0245866 | Devil's Prey | The movie opens with a young woman being sacrificed by members of a Satanic cult. The focus then switches to five college kids: Eric, David, Samantha, Joe and Susan. Sam gets given a flyer for a rave and the gang decide to go. The rave is held in a barn and Eric starts selling drugs to people there despite being on par... | murder | train | imdb | Five L.A. teens make the mistake of accepting an anonymous invitation to attend a backwoods rave called 'Straight to Hell' and, wouldn't you know it, that's just what the local sect of Satanists had in mind when they lured them there!
Before you can say trite morality lesson, the kids (who've apparently burned too many... |
tt2310332 | The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies | The third Hobbit film picks up shortly after the second left off. The people of Lake-town are in a panicked frenzy as the dragon Smaug (voice: Benedict Cumberbatch) flies down to exact his revenge. The Master of Lake-town (Stephen Fry) and his deputy Alfrid (Ryan Gage) try to evacuate with the town's treasure while the... | murder, anti war, violence, flashback, good versus evil, insanity, romantic, revenge | train | imdb | Peter Jackson, with this new trilogy, which adapts a somewhat long children's fairy tale into a three-part action epic, each movie being three hours long and delving into completely irrelevant stories that are only hinted at in Tolkien's body of work, has really destroyed his reputation as the Tolkien translator.
Chara... |
tt0422015 | Le couperet | Bruno Davert (José Garcia) is a highly-qualified chemist. After working for fifteen years for a paper company, improving products and saving money to shareholders, the company lets 600 workers go before outsourcing many of the jobs. The result for the company is a 16% increase in dividends to shareholders. Two years af... | comedy, satire, murder | train | imdb | Westlake and Gavras know that in order to pass the message you have to lighten up the atmosphere (a la Truman Show), or else the viewer won't sit the whole movie.
It's a thriller that actually deserves to be called by that over-used adjective 'Hitchcockian' as we gradually identify more and more what the lead character... |
tt0273517 | Darkness | Theres something in this house... Something ancient and dark that remains still, hidden and silent. It can only wait, having been concealed in the shadows for years. In fact, its milieu is darkness. Only in it can it show itself and move. It even takes its name: DARKNESS. Its lived here since someone tried to call it, ... | gothic, murder, stupid, cult, horror, good versus evil, insanity | train | imdb | This movie is not your typical American horror flick (which makes sense since it's a Spanish film).
It's a far cry from the gory, cliché-ridden and painfully explained horror movies that American audiences are used to.Darkness disturbed me on different levels.
The lead actors - especially Anna Paquin, Lena Olin, and Gi... |
tt0083851 | The Draughtsman's Contract | England, 1694. Mrs Herbert (Janet Suzman) and her daughter Mrs Talmann (Anne-Louise Lambert) try to persuade Mr Neville (Anthony Higgins), an artist, to make a series of drawings of Mr and Mrs Herbert's house and estate. Mr Neville finally agrees when Mrs Herbert offers, in addition to paying for each drawing and givin... | allegory, psychedelic, satire, murder | train | imdb | This is not always an easy film to like, it has a coldly clinical approach to its subject and protagonists which produces an intentionally distancing effect.In one scene, the Draughtsman invites the Lady of the House to examine a painting, owned by her husband, in which a complex allegory appears to be being acted out.... |
tt4870838 | Batman: Bad Blood | Batwoman intercepts a group of criminals in Gotham City that includes Electrocutioner, Tusk, Firefly, Killer Moth, and others. When a fight ensues, Batman arrives. They are confronted by the apparent leader of the criminals, a man called the Heretic, who detonates explosives planted within the facility. Batman flings B... | good versus evil, brainwashing, flashback | train | wikipedia | In addition to temporarily being Batman, Dick must not only solve the mystery of his former mentor's disappearance, but keep his crime fighting family cohorts together.Though Batman was fairly absent throughout this movie, I thoroughly enjoyed the new roster of crime fighters added to the roster.
In the end, the story,... |
tt0060128 | Drop Dead Darling | From the moment the movie begins, you are basically blown out of your seat. An old mand and young bride are leaving the chapel for the hotel. As she climbs th hotel staircase she is dropping pieces of clothing left and right. The old man is trying to catch up. In the suite, she sexily removes her stockings, one by one.... | comedy, murder | train | imdb | Dreary, mean film with fabulous bits....
Its really hard to get through this film because the main character, played by Tony Curtis, is despicable -- he is a serial killer!
However, this is a comedy and there are scenes in the film that are truly funny.
In one of the funniest bits is Zsa Zsa Gabor playing his first wif... |
tt0142688 | The Ninth Gate | Dean Corso (Johnny Depp), a New York City rare book dealer, makes his living conning people into selling him valuable antique books for a low price, and then re-selling them to private collectors. Corso meets with wealthy book collector Boris Balkan (Frank Langella), who has recently acquired a copy of the (fictional) ... | dark, mystery, neo noir, murder, paranormal, atmospheric | train | wikipedia | An interesting plot (based on "El Club Dumas", by Arturo Pérez-Reverte), Darius Khondji's brilliant cinematography, Wojciech Kilar's killer background score, Polanski's masterful direction and the overall atmospheric nature of the movie make up for a great watch!
My viewpoint is that there may be untied ends and unansw... |
tt0066921 | A Clockwork Orange | "A bit of the old ultra-violence."The story takes place in London in a dystopian future. "Our humble narrator" Alex DeLarge (Malcolm McDowell) and his droogs, Georgie (James Marcus), Dim (Warren Clarke), and Pete (Michael Tarn), are seated in the Korova Milk Bar stoned on milk laced with narcotics.Shortly, the gang lea... | pornographic, avant garde, comedy, murder, neo noir, psychological, dramatic, cult, alternate reality, violence, atmospheric, insanity, psychedelic, satire, brainwashing, revenge, sadist, prank | train | imdb | A Clockwork Orange is by no means an easy film to get through, as many will be turned off by the scenes of violence and rape.
This is definitely one of the best technically shot movies, another masterpiece of Kubrick like the Space Oddessey.For the uninitiated, set in near future Britain, the movie shows Malcom MacDowe... |
tt1667889 | Ice Age: Continental Drift | Manny becomes over-protective about his teenage daughter Peaches going to the falls to see a teenage mammoth called Ethan. Manny's wife Ellie calms him down and tells him that Peaches is not going to be his little girl forever. Peaches, along with her best friend, a molehog named Louis, go to the falls, but Manny stops... | action | train | imdb | null |
tt1160368 | 12 Rounds | New Orleans. May 16, nighttime. A team of FBI agents, led by Special Agent George Aiken (Steve Harris) and Ray Santiago (Gonzalo Menendez), monitor a street for an international terrorist, named Miles Jackson (Aiden Gillen). Using facial recognition software, they scan different people in the street. Finally, they catc... | murder, violence, revenge, cult, action, suspenseful, sadist | train | imdb | Danny Fisher, played by WWE superstar John Cena, is a New Orleans detective faced with a problem: an old terrorist named Miles he arrested a year back has broken out of jail and has taken Fisher's girl.
'Die Hard 2' was a worthy entry in that series (though it may be the most forgettable), but hey, Harlin does pack the... |
tt0859163 | The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor | In ancient China, Qin Shi Huang, a brutal and tyrannical warlord, unites the country's kingdoms into an empire and becomes The Dragon Emperor. He orders the construction of the Great Wall of China to bury and curse his dead enemies. The Emperor's mystics teach him supernatural mastery over the Five Elements. Years late... | revenge, boring, violence | train | imdb | I was actually looking forward to seeing this movie, I got the opportunity to see it today, I was excited, but unfortunately, we now have Chinese mummies that can do anything that will fit into the CGI budget.
Another disappointment was the recasting of Evelyn, I know Rachel Weisz turned this script down, but she was s... |
tt1425257 | Su Qi-er | Su Can (Vincent Zhao) is a general who leads a military force to save a prince from a large fortress of enemies in the mountains. In return, the prince promises that the Emperor will make him governor of Hu Bei. Su's step brother Yuan is envious of Su, but Su loves him and asks the prince to make Yuan governor instead.... | insanity, revenge, violence | train | imdb | This movie is a work of art in many ways.The Martial Arts displayed are really one of the best I have seen in a long time, yes it relies on flying and jumping everywhere, yet the fight scenes feels visceral enough not to feel to much like a dance.The actors are really awesome, and they managed to make one of the BEST a... |
tt0157358 | Barood | A eight-year-old boy is witness to his father, a reputed police officer, being murdered in broad daylight by four notorious smugglers on Juhu beach, Bombay, India,.Fourteen years later, the boy is now a champion motor cyclist and a breeder of Labradors. He, with the assistance of his pet Labrador Django, seeks revenge.... | revenge, murder | train | imdb | good movie. i got to see this movie yesterday on TV. very good movie indeed. i think it was very much ahead of its times. surprisingly,when most of the filmmakers were making movies in the jungles it was shot at a lavish scale in new york,las vegas, barcelona, madrid, Paris, Switzerland etc. but the film lacked good ac... |
tt0780536 | In Bruges | The movie, a very dark comedy, begins in Bruges (a beautiful medieval city in Belgium) with two Irish hitmen, Ray (Colin Farrell) and Ken (Brendan Gleeson) are standing in a city square checking out the scenery. Instantly we see that Ken is enchanted with Bruges while Ray loathes the place. It is revealed that due to w... | comedy, fantasy, gothic, murder, dark, suspenseful, dramatic, suicidal, cult, violence, atmospheric, flashback, psychedelic, humor, satire, romantic, revenge, entertaining | train | imdb | For those who might not know the name, director Martin McDonagh is an Irish playwright who won the Oscar last year for his short film "Six Shooter" about a chance encounter on a train, and that film's star Brendan Gleeson has returned as Ken, one of two hit men sent to the medieval city of Bruges in Belgium along with ... |
tt0167247 | The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock | One night, Littlefoot's grandfather tells the children a legend about "The Lone Dinosaur", a legendary Longneck who protected the Great Valley from the most ferocious Sharptooth to ever live. During the fight, the Sharptooth was killed and the Lone Dinosaur suffered a scar across his right eye. Soon after the battle, a... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0056193 | Lolita | Set in the 1950s, the film begins in medias res near the end of the story, with a confrontation between two men: one of them, Clare Quilty, drunk and incoherent, plays Chopin's Polonaise in A major, Op. 40, No. 1 on the piano before being shot from behind a portrait painting of a young woman. The shooter is Humbert Hum... | comedy, murder, dramatic, cult, flashback, satire, romantic | train | wikipedia | Yet Kubrick captures the effect of it in camera angles and movements, in timing and point of view.The broadest layer of Nabokov's novel, the parable of the aging culture of Europe trying to revivify itself by debauching the seductive young culture of America, is really missing in the film.
All in all, I thought it was ... |
tt0101316 | L'amant | One cannot speak of "the plot" of the film in the usual sense, since it is the autobiographical story of Duras. As such, the story is driven by the remembrances of the events in her life, rather than a formally constructed story. The story illuminates one and one-half years in the life of the adolescent Duras (Jane Mar... | cult | train | imdb | The story of L'Amant potrays a most complex and provocative relationship between a young French girl (Jane March) and a Chinaman (Tony Leung).
Based on the semi-autobiographical novel of Marguerite Duras, who was born in French colonial Vietnam, this film chronicles the sexual awakening of a young French girl who falls... |
tt0084855 | The Verdict | Frank Galvin (Paul Newman) was once a promising graduate of Boston College Law School and a lawyer at an elite Boston law firm. But he was framed for jury tampering some years back by the firm's senior partner because he was going to expose their corrupt practices. The firm fired him and his marriage ended in divorce. ... | realism | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0264761 | Kissing Jessica Stein | Jessica Stein (Jennifer Westfeldt) is a 28-year-old sensitive, but neurotic, New York journalist who is at the end of her emotional rope. Her brother Dan (David Aaron Baker), is engaged. Her best friend and co-worker Joan (Jackie Hoffman) is pregnant. On top of that, Jessica hasn't dated in a year, and she can't sleep.... | cute, queer | train | imdb | To appease the appetite, `gaydar' commands an ever watchful eye to find those precious tidbits.However, thank heavens for the charming wit and refreshingly real characters in "Kissing Jessica Stein".
The film is a positive reinforcement on the value of relationships to an individual's personal growth and spiritual evol... |
tt1343097 | Luftslottet som sprängdes | Picking up immediately after the events in the previous movie 'The Girl Who Played With Fire', Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) is airlifted to a hospital in Gothenburg. Surgeons remove the bullets from her shoulder, hip, and head, where her father, Alexander Zalachenko, shot her. In the hospital, she meets Dr. Jonasson... | dark, suspenseful, gothic, mystery, psychological, violence, atmospheric, flashback, revenge, historical | train | imdb | Perspective: I am 25, Danish (thus understanding Swedish) and have not read the books.The final movie covering Stieg Larssons Millennium trilogy ties all the pieces together and explains the deeper reasons for Lisbeth Salanders unreasonable treatment by society.Compared to its predecessors, I found the first movie high... |
tt2403021 | The Green Inferno | In the opening shot, a tribesman walks through a rainforest with a child from the same tribe. They hear a loud rumbling noise. It's a bulldozer plowing through the forest.In the United States at Columbia University in New York City, we meet Justine (Lorenza Izzo), a college student. With her roommate Kaycee (Sky Ferrei... | violence, murder | train | imdb | The Green Inferno is a standard Eli Roth fare - gore galore, cannibalism, and occasional humor - set in the Amazon rainforest.
The choice of protagonists points to the change immediately in that it centres on a group of eco aware students who travel into the middle of the Amazonian rain-forest to stage a viral protest ... |
tt1198138 | Obsessed | Taken from www.themoviespoiler.comThe movie opens with a African-American family moving into their new home. The family consists of Derek Charles (Idris Elba), his wife Sharon (Beyonce Knowles) and their baby, Kyle (Nathan and Nicholas Myers). The drive up to their new home and Sharon removes the sold sign and they go ... | insanity, romantic | train | imdb | Stringer Bell, we hardly knew ye.Even Ali Larter didn't come off as psychotic as she could have...perhaps because underneath her lines was the feeling that she was thinking, "What in the world is THIS crap?" Beyonce was a relative nonentity (albeit a well-dressed one), but I'm sure that she and her father bankrolled th... |
tt0892767 | Horsemen | The movie opens with an older man and his dog out on a winter morning hunt, when a strange sight catches his eye. A serving tray on a stand in the middle of a frozen lake. He steps up to investigate, but notices the phrases "Come and See" on several trees surrounding the tray. When he lifts the lid, his eyes widen, but... | revenge, murder, violence, flashback | train | imdb | A recently widowed detective (Dennis Quaid) still grieving over his wife's death discovers a shocking connection between a serial killing spree and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.The film starts out strong, with a great atmosphere and some nice gore effects with things like extracted teeth and whatnot.
By-the-numb... |
tt0076666 | Saturday Night Fever | Anthony "Tony" Manero is a 19-year-old Italian American man from the Bay Ridge neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City. Tony lives with his parents, and works at a dead-end job in a small hardware store. The stagnant monotony of his life is temporarily dispelled every Saturday night when Tony is "king of the dance fl... | realism, cult, humor, romantic, melodrama, revenge, sentimental | train | wikipedia | Travolta plays Tony Manero, a loser in a nowhere job who only feels alive when he is on the dance floor at the local disco.
Soon Tony becomes frustrated with his "station in life" and tells Stephanie he wants out (of Brooklyn).What makes Saturday Night Fever work so much for me is Tony is very typical of a lot of males... |
tt0025913 | Triumph des Willens | TRIUMPH OF THE WILLThis is a documentary of a three day gathering of the Nazi Party faithful in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1934. The film can be subdivided into a number of sequences documenting arrivals, parades, preparations and speeches. Only one scenethe review of the German cavalryactually involved the German military... | historical | train | imdb | null |
tt0183503 | Me Myself I | Pamela Drury is single and works as a serious journalist. She spends her birthday alone and becomes lonely and reflects upon her life and the choices she made and secretly wishes she had gotten married and had children. In a box of photos of old boyfriends, she reflects upon why she broke up with one in particular, Rob... | romantic, alternate reality | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0117306 | Passion | In Milan in 1863, two young lovers are in bed together ("Happiness"). The handsome captain, Giorgio, breaks their reverie by telling Clara that he is being transferred to a provincial military outpost. In the next scene, Giorgio is in the mess hall at the army camp with Colonel Ricci, the unit's commanding officer, and... | romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt0478304 | The Tree of Life | The film begins with a quotation from the Book of Job: "Where were you when I laid the foundations of the Earth?... When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?"
A mysterious, wavering light, resembling a flame, flickers in the darkness. Mrs. O'Brien recalls a lesson taught to her that... | avant garde, cruelty, thought-provoking, flashback, psychedelic, romantic, storytelling | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0972883 | Red | Frank Moses, retired black-ops CIA agent, lives alone in Cleveland, Ohio. Lonely, Frank often chats on the phone with Sarah Ross, a worker at the General Services Administration's Pension Office in Kansas City, Missouri. He creates opportunities to talk to her by tearing up his pension checks and calling her to say the... | revenge, cult, storytelling | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0424880 | Candy | The Candy Candy manga provides a "coming of age story" in the shōjo genre. Candy, an abandoned orphan taken in by the orphanage Pony's Home near Lake Michigan around the start of the 20th century, spent the first years of her life at the orphanage, to where she would often return to repose and to decide her next course... | romantic, realism | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0095925 | Pumpkinhead | The story begins a long time ago, out in the country when a mother, and father try to protect their son from seeing what is about to happen. The relentless revenge demon, Pumpkin is perusing his victim. The man tries to get into the home but the father will not allow it. Pumpkinhead finishes what he started and the lit... | revenge, cult, murder, flashback | train | imdb | The dead boys father has been to see the local Witch, who in turn has summoned the Demon of Vengeance: Pumpkinhead.There's really not a lot of gore here, and no sex whatsoever.
The monster, Pumpkinhead, is really cool looking, created as it was by special effects man Stan Winston, who also directed.
Director Stan Winst... |
tt0056241 | The Miracle Worker | On a night in 1882, at the Alabama home of Captain and Mrs. Keller, a doctor examines a baby in a crib while her parents stand anxiously by. At last he smiles, and tells them the crisis has passed, she will recover from the illness. Her parents respond with joy and relief. Captain Keller (Victor Jory) goes with the doc... | inspiring, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0056264 | Mutiny on the Bounty | One night in Portsmouth, England in 1787, a press gang breaks into a local tavern and presses all of the men drinking there into naval service. One of the men inquires as to what ship they will sail on, and the press gang leader informs him that it is the HMS Bounty. Upon inquiring as to who the captain is, another of ... | action | train | wikipedia | Captain Bligh (Trevor Howard, he was initially reluctant to play , because he felt he was far too old for the part, the real life Lieutenant William Bligh was 33 when the Bounty set sail) will do anything to get there as fast as possible , utilizing any means to keep up a rigid discipline .
This account of the mutiny l... |
tt0380510 | The Lovely Bones | The film starts with Susie Salmon (Saoirse Ronan) reminiscing about her childhood. There was a snow globe with a penguin in it she was worried for since he was all alone. Her father, Jack (Mark Wahlberg) tells her that the penguin has a nice life, since he is stuck in a perfect world. Later that night, Jack makes love ... | fantasy, murder, paranormal, alternate reality, flashback, psychedelic, suspenseful | train | imdb | The bizarre but at the same time beautiful world of the in-between, the pain of the family members over the horrible loss and their unique ways of, not necessarily dealing, but rather living with it, even the sick mind behind the murder - it all works together in creating that viewing experience that is deeply touching... |
tt0114906 | Welcome to the Dollhouse | Eleven-and-a-half-year-old Dawn Wiener is a shy, unattractive, unpopular seventh grader living in a middle-class suburban community in New Jersey. Her seventeen-year-old brother Mark is a nerdy high school student who plays clarinet in a garage band and shuns girls in order to prepare for college. Dawn's younger sister... | comedy, cruelty, depressing, cult, psychedelic, satire | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0100404 | Presumed Innocent | Rozat "Rusty" Sabich (Harrison Ford) is a prosecutor in a mid-Western American city and the right-hand man of Kindle County Prosecuting Attorney Raymond Horgan (Brian Dennehy). Sabich is married with a young son. He arrives at work one day to learn that his colleague Carolyn Polhemus (Greta Scacchi) has been tortured a... | neo noir, murder, violence, flashback, romantic, revenge | train | imdb | We learn, through flashbacks, the story of her affair with Sabich and that she was promiscuous, sleeping with a number of influential men who could help her career, including not only Sabich but also the DA himself.Besides being a legal thriller, "Presumed Innocent" is also a study in contrasts in character- either con... |
tt0227984 | The 51st State | In 1971, a policeman catches Elmo McElroy, a recent college graduate with a degree in pharmacology, smoking marijuana. Because of his arrest and conviction, he is unable to find work as a pharmacologist. In the present day, a drug lord called "the Lizard" calls a meeting of his organisation, hoping to sell a brand new ... | violence, humor, comedy, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | Be warned though if you don't like swearing in your films this isn't the one for you as just about every line contains more than one obscenity.The film stars Samuel L Jackson as an ultra-cool, kilt wearing drugs chemist wanting to make one high-profit deal, Robert Carlyle as a Liverpool gangster and Emily Mortimer as t... |
tt0021380 | Sinkin' in the Bathtub | The film opens with Bosko, a cheerful Negro boy, whistling in his bathtub as the shower fills it with water. The song, appropriately, is "Singin' in the Bathtub." He plucks his toes and his nose to make musical sounds. He even plays the streams of water as if they were harp strings. The bathtub gets into the act, by ri... | psychedelic, humor | train | imdb | Primitive, But Still Entertaining As Well As Historical.
As others have pointed out, this is the first official Looney Tunes cartoon to be released, so it certainly has historical merit.
I like it because it has the odd, early '30s cartoon humor.
It's hard to explain but because it's so dated, it has its own flavor to ... |
tt0051622 | The Fly | The 1958 version of The Fly, written by James Clavell, based on a short story by George Langelaan, opens with title and credits shown over a screen with a small hole. We zoom in progressively until the hole fills the screen and a fly crawls into frame.The opening scene is at night, outside the factory of Delambre Frere... | tragedy, murder, flashback | train | imdb | is there another sound experience that reverberates through a movie like that?Sure, surround sound, THX, all that tech stuff, but the sound as the manifestation of the crime that encircles this story, the horror as the mind tries to put together the images that (finally) is seen in a flashback as this scene bookends th... |
tt0085255 | Blue Thunder | In the Metropolitan Police Astro Division of Los Angeles, which controls all police helicopters, the night shift is about to begin. After checking off the list, Captain Braddock (Warren Oates) is looking for the senior pilot Frank Murphy (Roy Schneider). He orders the rookie observer Lymangood (Daniel Stern) to find Mu... | cult, action, murder | train | imdb | His portrayal of Murphy with its wry humour & very human lapses shares more than a little with a certain Chief Brody, but the use of an aging rebel with little cause as the main character in a technological thriller is still refreshing now.Malcolm McDowell gives the sort of OTT villainous performance that only he can (... |
tt1010271 | The Poughkeepsie Tapes | When police raid a house in a city north of New York, they discover a profoundly disturbing record of one man's ugly crimes. Investigators find over 800 videotapes shot by the killer which present a visual record of his murders in all their horrifying details. Both state and federal law enforcement teams sift through t... | cruelty, murder, violence, insanity, brainwashing, sadist | train | imdb | null |
tt1291150 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | The villainous criminal organization known as the Foot Clan has been terrorizing New York City, led by the ruthless Shredder. Beneath the sewers, the rat sensei Master Splinter (Danny Woodburn) has been training his four sons until they are ready to take Shredder on and become heroes.Meanwhile, Reporter April O'Neil (M... | good versus evil, violence, humor, action, flashback | train | imdb | Like many other people, the original 1990 "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" movie has a very special place in my childhood.
If you can withstand the eyesore that the Turtles' design brings, then there is still a lot of old school TMNT magic to revisit.For the movie's main plot, you have what is essentially the most painfu... |
tt0103773 | Basket Case 3 | The film begins where the second installment ended: Belial and Eve are making love. Susan () has been pregnant for six years but the baby doesn't want to be born, so that puts an end to the hopes of leading a "normal" life sustained by Duane Bradley (Kevin van Hentenryck). Duane sews himself to Belial again, so they ar... | insanity, cult, comedy, murder, violence | train | imdb | Wow. Just when you thought they couldn't possibly twist BASKET CASE's bizarre concept into more of a surreally grotesque hodgepodge of blood, guts, playfulness, insanity, and 'unique individuals' than the first sequel already has-- they do.
If you thought BASKET CASE 2 was weird, then the final entry in Frank Henenlott... |
tt0082220 | Cutter's Way | Cutter's way is hard to put in a category. It's a delicate blend of thriller, comedy, drama, conspiracy, buddy movie (I hate that term, too), incredibly moving acting, incredible noir-ish (not noir) cinematography and one of the most haunting scores in cinema. Richard Bone (Jeff Bridges) is the aimless playboy yin to A... | revenge, neo noir, murder | train | imdb | The pathetic human condition personified in Cutter, Bone, and Mo is so exquisitely rendered as to be tragic...only salvaged by the clear-eyed wit and insight of John Heard's Cutter and the tempered and logical cynicism and indifference offered up by Bone(Jeff Bridges)as the balance that only these begrudging friends co... |
tt3387542 | The Forest | Sara Price (Natalie Dormer), an American woman, receives a phone call from the Japanese police telling her that they think her troubled twin sister Jess is dead, as she was seen going into Aokigahara, a forest at the northwest base of Mount Fuji in Japan known as a popular destination for the suicidal. Despite the conc... | paranormal, violence | train | imdb | Its inherently scary atmosphere is perfect for a good horror movie, but The Forest mostly squanders its promise by degrading it to a hot spot for cheap jump scares.
2014's As Above, So Below took an intrinsically creepy setting, the Paris catacombs, and used an unsettling atmosphere and good scares to make one of the b... |
tt0051790 | Ivan Groznyy. Skaz vtoroy: Boyarskiy zagovor | The opening scene is in the throne room of the King of Poland, which has a floor resembling a giant chess board. The costumes are rich and ornate, and Polonaises, the music of Poland, play in the background throughout. Prince Andrei Kurbsky (Mikhail Nazvanov), formerly a best friend to Ivan, enters to hand his sword to... | revenge, flashback | train | imdb | Ivan the Terrible Part II, the culmination of Eisenstein's career, is easily one of the most brilliant films of all time.Nothing - repeat absolutely nothing - in this film is sub-par.
Eisenstein's compositions create painterly tableaux that can be watched endlessly on pause (especially now that Criterion has issued bot... |
tt1825918 | Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension | The film opens with Phineas (Vincent Martella), Ferb (Thomas Sangster), Candace (Ashley Tisdale), Perry, a.k.a. Agent P (Dee Bradley Baker), and Heinz Doofenshmirtz (Dan Povenmire), who have been captured by the 2nd Dimension Doofenshmirtz and in chains, being led to a large, hairy, caged monster called a "Goozim". The... | alternate reality, humor | train | imdb | If you're a long-time or even a short-time fan of this series, the movie will make you laugh at references to previous episodes.
If it was released in theaters, with crisper animation and better comedic timing, it might be one of the best things Disney has released this decade..
Going into it, I figured this movie woul... |
tt0110793 | Past Tense | In 2034 Belle (Ai-Ai Delas Alas) is in a deep coma. The nurse played a voice recording of Babs (Xian Lim) retelling about their past. The first time Babs saw Belle (Kim Chiu) he already chosen her but Belle doesn't like Babs due to his being obese. Until one day they meet again in the coffee shop after she was rejected... | murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0469641 | World Trade Center | On September 11, 2001, Port Authority Police officers John McLoughlin and Will Jimeno are patrolling the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Midtown Manhattan when they see a plane fly dangerously low overhead. As all of the Police return to the station, they see on TV that the North Tower of the World Trade Center has been... | revenge, flashback | train | wikipedia | Whatever one wants to say about Oliver Stone, he showed a commitment to faithfully telling the story of these two Port Authority cops trapped in the wreckage of the World Trade Center and their worried wives.I liked a lot of the scenes in the beginning, the little mundane details like when Michael Pena's character is g... |
tt4624424 | Storks | In the past, storks were granted the mythic job of manufacturing babies in a factory and transporting them (with the use of beacons) to couples around the world. But one day, a stork named Jasper refused to give up a baby he was assigned to deliver, and destroyed her beacon, effectively orphaning her; an ambitious stor... | good versus evil, revenge, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0096119 | Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland | In 1989, one year after the events of second film, the film opens with Maria (Kashina Kessler) heading to camp. Suddenly, she is chased into an alleyway by a large truck, driven by serial killer Angela Baker (Pamela Springsteen), before being run over. Angela disposes of the body in a trash compactor and poses as Maria... | revenge, comedy, murder | train | wikipedia | Fairly early in the film, our lovable murderess asks, "Why did I think this year would be any different?" And this unlocks why part 3 still works: gone is the chipper camp counselor and her hopes of making good clean friends.
To which the girl replies, "Doesn't everyone?" Like the good girl-scout she is, Angie leads th... |
tt1686902 | Monsters in the Woods | Low budget filmmaker JAYSON (Glenn Plummer) has made the movie of his dreams but to his dismay, it cant sell in Hollywood. The distributors tell him, You have nothing exploitative in your movie. Add some sex scenes, more violence, and maybe well buy your film. The distraught filmmaker approaches his neophyte, semi-psyc... | violence, satire | train | imdb | null |
tt0765432 | Der Baader Meinhof Komplex | On 2 June 1967, the Shah of Iran visits West Berlin and attends a performance at the Deutsche Oper. Angered at his policies in governing Iran, members of the German student movement protest his appearance. The West Berlin police and the Shah's security team attack the protesters and unarmed protester Benno Ohnesorg, is... | avant garde, murder, anti war, violence, flashback, revenge, historical | train | wikipedia | Nevertheless the end credits come a little abruptly.The second problem is that the film tries to show virtually ALL events from the book (only some minor incidents like the Mahler detention, Peter Urbach, the burglaries in registration offices in order to steal blank passports or the visit of Jean-Paul Sartre in Stammh... |
tt0139699 | Varsity Blues | Jonathan "Mox" Moxon (James Van Der Beek) is an academically gifted backup quarterback for the West Canaan High School football team. Despite his relative popularity at school, easy friendships with other players, and smart and sassy girlfriend, Jules Harbor (Amy Smart), Mox is dissatisfied with his life. He wants to l... | adult comedy | train | imdb | True, "Varsity Blues" has those standard teen elements like wild drinking parties, the school slut, etc.
The film dabbles with elements of the sport that probably hit home to some high school football players.
Then James Van Der Beek comes along, and his character is not really concerned with winning or playing footbal... |
tt0085482 | El Norte | Part 1: Arturo XuncaxThe first part takes place in a small rural Guatemalan village called San Pedro and introduces the Xuncax family, a group of indigenous Mayans. Arturo is a coffee picker and his wife a homemaker. Arturo explains to his son, Enrique, his world view and how the indio fares in Guatemalan life, noting ... | tragedy | train | imdb | Gregory Nava's drama, "El Norte," is hands-down the best film ever made about the Latin American immigrant experience in the US.
It's also one of the best films of the 80's.Wonderfully acted and expertly directed, this film will make you think twice about the "invisible" people who clean your house, watch your kids, ma... |
tt1253864 | Immortals | When the world was young, the gods did battle in the sky. The victors ruled on Mt. Olympus and imprisoned the vanquished -- the Titans -- beneath Mt. Tartarus on Earth. Also lost during the battle is the Bow of Epirus, a mighty weapon that can shoot invincible energy arrows.Centuries later, King Hyperion (Mickey Rourke... | murder, cult, violence, flashback, good versus evil, tragedy, revenge | train | imdb | null |
tt0107254 | Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday | The undead serial killer Jason Voorhees returns to Camp Crystal Lake. An undercover government agent lures Jason into a trap set by the FBI, and several armed men blow him to bits, destroying his body. His remains are sent to a morgue, where a coroner becomes possessed by Jason's spirit after ingesting Jason's putrid h... | violence, horror, sadist | train | wikipedia | "Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday" is completely preposterous, out of place and an affront to what had been a dependable horror series.Admittedly, director and co-writer Adam Marcus deserves credit for his boldness.
It essentially breaks the fingers of the hand that feeds it.The failure of "Jason goes to Hell," bot... |
tt0066849 | The Blood on Satan's Claw | THE BLOOD ON SATANS CLAW Ralph Gower (Barry Andrews) is plowing and turns up a skeleton with fur and an eye. He runs back to tell the Judge (Patrick Wymark) and Isobel Banham (Avice Landone as Avice Landon). The Judge refuses to believe it is anything important but Ralph with the help of Isobel persuades him to come an... | violence, cult, murder, atmospheric | train | imdb | See this for Linda Hayden's sexually charged performance as Satan-loving teener Angel Blake, one of British Cinema's more memorable portrayals of pure evil in a petticoat.Possessing a WITCHFINDER GENERAL-type atmosphere, helped immeasurably by Mark Wilkinson's truly beautiful score, this tale of superstition and a Sata... |
tt0047244 | Monster from the Ocean Floor | Opening monologue of the stories people of the Pacific tell about what lays below the ocean we are then told the above water shots were filmed on this shore line, and the underwater shots in the nearby ocean deep.On a beach, Julie Blair (Anne Kimbell) talks to a young boy as she draws the ocean. He talks about the deat... | cult | train | imdb | null |
tt2473682 | Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones | In June 2012, high school graduate Jesse Arista lives with his father, sister and grandmother in Oxnard, California. He begins to enjoy the summer with his best friend, Hector. In the apartment below lives a mysterious woman named Ana, who everyone believes to be a witch. When Ana is found murdered, Jesse and Hector sp... | paranormal, murder, prank | train | wikipedia | Nevertheless staying true to the reason these films are still being made, and fans of real horror, like myself continue to watch them, Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones, rewards its loyal audience with a fairly sensible connection with the previous films and characters.
This time however, I felt like I need to say s... |
tt3062096 | Inferno | Florence, ItalyA team of agents are chasing geneticist Bertrand Zobrist (Ben Foster) through the streets. Zobrist runs up to the top of a tower when he is confronted by Christoph Bouchard (Omar Sy). Bouchard demands that Zobrist tell him the location of something important and potentially dangerous. Zobrist instead dro... | suspenseful, murder, historical fiction, flashback, claustrophobic, romantic | train | imdb | One of the main reasons that I like these books so much is because they provide such a wealth of background historical information so they're a prefect blend of education and entertainment.While it was obviously impractical to include an involved literary discussion of Dante's Inferno in the film, it's a shame that it ... |
tt0052357 | Vertigo | A woman's face gives way to a kaleidoscope of credits, signalling the start of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo to Bernard Hermann's haunting score.A criminal climbs up the rungs of the ladder on a dark San Francisco night. John "Scottie" Ferguson (James Stewart), a detective, and a police officer are hot on his trail. They ... | mystery, murder, cult, atmospheric, flashback, psychedelic, romantic, plot twist | train | imdb | null |
tt1289401 | Ghostbusters | A group of people are taking a tour of the Aldridge mansion in New York City. The tour guide Garrett (Zach Woods) tells the group of Gertrude Aldridge, a disturbed woman that was kept locked in the basement by her father. A candlestick falls over on the table near the basement to creep the group out, but it's just part... | paranormal, haunting, flashback, good versus evil, psychedelic, humor | train | imdb | In the absence of fantasy and original ideas, the Hollywood producers get out of mothballs old stories and they serve us as new, using this time four women instead of four men.
Awful.darned.awful.Working on this film or appearing in it is the movie business equivalent of having McJob. It is low quality, bad for you, bo... |
tt0463998 | Freedom Writers | Woodrow Wilson High School is a formerly high-achieving school which has encountered some difficulties bearing its new racial integration plan. In 1994, in the aftermath of the Los Angeles riots, Erin Gruwell, an enthusiastic young teacher starts at the school. Her enthusiasm is challenged when she finds her class is c... | murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0082199 | Condorman | Woodrow "Woody" Wilkins is an imaginative, yet eccentric, comic book writer and illustrator who demands a sense of realism for his comic book hero "Condorman", to the point where he crafts a Condorman flying suit of his own and launches himself off the Eiffel Tower. The test flight fails as his right wing breaks, sendi... | cult, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0110308 | The Last Seduction | The film opens on busy traffic in New York City, quickly moving to a lead generation room where Bridget Gregory (Linda Fiorentino) oversees the callers. She clearly expects results, offering bonuses and insulting the callers reminding one of them "ask for the sale four times, every time. Got it?" When one of the salesm... | cult, revenge, neo noir, murder, violence | train | imdb | Her character is tough, self-centered, mean-spirited, and sexy femme fatale who absconds with her husband's drug money and tries to get her ninny of a boyfriend to kill him.
An incredibly amoral and very sexy woman (Linda Fiorentino) is on the lam from her husband (Bill Pullman) after stealing thousands of dollars from... |
tt0150992 | Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam | The story begins with Nandini (Aishwarya Rai) a beautiful, yet rebellious favorite daughter of a rich singer. During Diwali, her father decides to invite Samir (Salman Khan) a half-Italian, half-Indian aspiring singer to their home from Italy for a year in order for him to learn music. Nandini is not happy with this ne... | romantic, prank | train | imdb | He has a student coming from Italy named Sameer (Salman Khan) to learn classical music from him.
Sameer meets and falls in love with his beautiful and talented daughter Nandini (Aishwarya Rai).
very near to real life.Acting superb Direction superb Music superba new definition of love and perfect presentation of this ne... |
tt1821658 | The Nut Job | Set in the fictional town of Oakton, year 1959, a group of animals, led by a Raccoon, store food for winter in a giant tree in the park. Among these animals is a selfish purple squirrel named Surly, whose thieving reputation has made him a pariah. His only friend is his rat partner Buddy. Surley's attempt to rob a pean... | comedy | train | imdb | So kudos to the people in charge of making this look the way it does.The story itself has promise: A nut heist that runs concurrently with a bank heist, the squirrel storyline paralleling the human one.
The plot centers around an independent squirrel who, after being banished form his park, looks to earn back the trust... |
tt0116225 | Escape from L.A. | On August 23, 2000, an earthquake reaching 9.6 magnitude hits the city of Los Angeles, causing it to be separated from the continental mainland by flooding the San Fernando Valley (now called the "San Fernando Sea") and turning it into an island from Malibu to Anaheim. Just prior to this, an American presidential candi... | mystery, murder, cult, violence, flashback, humor | train | imdb | null |
tt1663202 | The Revenant | Set in an indeterminate year of the 1820s, the opening scene shows Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio) speaking to his son Hawk (Forrest Goodluck) in an Indian language (Pawnee), telling him that even though he is scared and wants his trouble to be over, he must fight as long as he can grab a breath. As we hear Glass' voice... | revenge, suspenseful, murder, violence, flashback | train | imdb | Take the direction of Alejandro González Iñárritu, combine it with the stunning cinematography of Emmanuel Lubezki and toss in Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy for their acting charms and what do you get?
An extraordinary and masterful film.Fresh off of 'Birdman,' Iñárritu moved straight on to 'The Revenant,' a western-... |
tt0159097 | The Virgin Suicides | In the suburbs of Grosse Pointe, Michigan during the mid-1970s, a group of neighborhood boys — now grown men — reflect upon their memories of the five Lisbon sisters, ages 13 to 17. Unattainable due to their Catholic and overprotective parents, math teacher Ronald and his homemaker wife, the girls — Therese, Mary, Bonn... | comedy, mystery, psychological, cult, atmospheric, flashback, romantic, storytelling, home movie | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0100680 | Stanley & Iris | A recently widowed Iris (Jane Fonda), unskilled middle class woman is forced to go to work at a baking plant. To make ends meet she rents out space to her sister and brother-in-law who have financial and marital problems as well. There is tension in the house and Iris's oldest child, a daughter, seeks escape through th... | romantic | train | imdb | The beauty of the movie is the dance that Robert DeNiro and Jane Fonda do together, starting and stopping, before each has the skills and courage to completely trust each other and move on.
This may not be a memorable classic, but it is a touching romance with an important theme that stresses the importance of literacy... |
tt2436386 | Project Almanac | High school senior David Raskin (Jonny Weston) is testing an experiment with his friends Adam Le (Allen Evangelista) and Quinn Goldberg (Sam Lerner) while David's sister Christina (Ginny Gardner) films it. The video is for a scholarship to MIT University. David shows off an aircraft he made that he can control with a m... | revenge, psychedelic, romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt0119324 | The House of Yes | On Thanksgiving Day, 1983, Georgetown college student Marty Pascal (Josh Hamilton) brings his fiancée, Lesly (Tori Spelling), home to his family's large estate located in McLean, Virginia to meet them for the first time. Marty is obviously nervous and hesitant about the impending introduction of his future wife to his ... | comedy, dark | train | imdb | null |
tt0031225 | Destry Rides Again | Destry rides again! Thomas Jefferson Destry, Jr. (Jimmy Stewart) is the deputy sheriff without a gun. He believes the law and public opinion is the answer to outlaws and gunfights. Bottleneck is a lawless town run by bad guys and gunslingers. Kent (Brian Donlevy), a host of gunslingers, the corrupt Judge Slade (Samuel ... | cult, murder, violence | train | imdb | It is true that there are parody elements in George Marshall's delightful "Destry Rides Again" but the real humor lies not so much in these sorts of antics, nor the heavily laid on inquiries of Marlene Dietrich as to the tastes of the backroom boys, but rather in James Stewart's no-gun Destry characterization
This spr... |
tt1599348 | Safe House | In Cape Town, South Africa, ex-CIA NOC operative turned international criminal Tobin Frost (Denzel Washington) acquires a data storage device from rogue MI6 agent Alec Wade (Liam Cunningham). After the pair is attacked by a team of mercenaries led by Vargas (Fares Fares), Wade is killed and Frost is cornered by the gun... | murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1204977 | Ouija | In the opening scene, two young girls, named Laine and Debbie, are sitting in Laine's room playing with a Ouija board. Debbie tells Laine how to play and how to use the planchette to see any spirits. They say the mantra, "As friends we gathered, hearts are true; spirits near, we call to you." Laine looks through the pl... | paranormal, murder, flashback | train | imdb | "Ouija" has a pretty cool and creepy story to work with, an old spirit board discovered in the attack, suicides and haunting, a creepy legend that connects the board to the house of the suicide girl, it is all perfect horror subject matter.
You can tell money was well spend in production, "Ouija" has all the right comp... |
tt0453451 | Mr. Bean's Holiday | Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson) wins a raffle and claims his prize a holiday involving a train journey to Cannes, a Sony Handycam DCR-HC96, and 200. Bean proceeds to film his trip to the French Riviera beach on the video camera.On the train, Bean buys some coffee. Bean arrives in Paris, France where accidentally taking a tax... | cult, cute, entertaining, stupid | train | imdb | They may not know Rowan's real name, but they know the character.The sad part about this film is that it's absolutely wonderful, and most people in America aren't going to see it because it's rated "PG".
What is so wrong with having a character like Bean, a performance like Atkinson's, that we can't find that part of u... |
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