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tt1881002 | Maggie | In the present-day Midwestern United States, society struggles to function in the aftermath of a zombie pandemic barely under control (Necroambulism). Maggie Vogel (Abigail Breslin) calls her father from a broken city under curfew; her voicemail urges that he not seek her and that she loves him. Her arm was bitten. Kno... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0075161 | The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea | Much of the story is told following the actions of Noburu Kuroda, an adolescent boy living in Yokohama, Japan, who does well in school but is secretly "Number Three" in an adolescent group of boys who reject conventional morality and are led by their schoolmate, the "Chief". Noburu discovers in his chest of drawers a s... | revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0135666 | Takkar | Takkar revolves around the lives of three characters — Ravi Malhotra (Sunil Shetty), Mohini (Sonali Bendre) and Inspector De Costa (Naseeruddin Shah). Ravi is a freelance photographer, in love with Mohini, who works hard to make a living so they can be together. Inspector De Costa is an efficient but corrupt cop who ta... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0109139 | Another Woman | Marion Post (Gena Rowlands) is a New York philosophy professor past the age of 50 on a leave of absence to write a new book. Due to construction work in their building, she sublets a furnished flat downtown to have peace and quiet.
Her work there is interrupted by voices from a neighboring office in the building where ... | melodrama | train | wikipedia | Surprisingly Pleasant.
I was cleaning my workroom this afternoon, and the movie I had put on finished, and "Another Woman" came on.
Not usually watching TV movies, I thought of changing channels, but I was busy.
Imagine my surprise when I realized that, for a Harlequin movie, it was well-scripted and the cast quite go... |
tt0000488 | The Land Beyond the Sunset | Joe is an impoverished New York newsboy who lives with his abusive grandmother. While selling papers, he is given a ticket for a children's excursion sponsored by the Fresh Air Fund.
The next morning, Joe sneaks out of his tenement home to join the excursion, where he sees the countryside and the ocean for the first ti... | fantasy, storytelling | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1265998 | Afro Samurai: Resurrection | Afro spent his days making wooden sculptures of historical people and follows the rule of not wearing the No. 1 headband, until Jinno and Sio take the headband and Rokutaro's mandible. Sio tells Afro that she will resurrect and use Rokutaro for vengeance.
Brother 3 cheats the dice game and tells Afro that Shichigoro ha... | revenge, psychedelic, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1407064 | Max Payne 3 | === Setting ===
According to Rockstar's president Sam Houser, it was their intention to start a new chapter of Max Payne's life with the game: "This is Max as we've never seen him before, a few years older, more world-weary and cynical than ever." The press release states that since the last game, Max has left New York... | neo noir, murder, violence, flashback, good versus evil, revenge | train | wikipedia | The graphics, are great, good light affect, rain affect, the atmosphere is fantastic and the voice actors did an amazing job in this game, especially James Mccaffery (Mx Payne voice actor).
This got to be one of the best games that you could get today, it has superb multi-player, a fantastic story and some of the great... |
tt0125879 | Lulu on the Bridge | Jazz saxophone player Izzy Maurer (Harvey Keitel) is shot in the chest during a performance at a jazz club by a deranged man. Izzy survives the seven-hour operation, but loses his left lung, ending his music career. A young aspiring actress named Celia Burns (Mira Sorvino) walks into the Chez Pierre restaurant in New Y... | romantic, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | This is mainly a two-actor film with Harvey Keitel playing a low-key (at least for him!) character and Mia Sorvino playing his young girlfriend.
I could not have imagined where the story finally ended up, but it requires a lot of imagination to understand it (think, "Where does the mind go when it loses consciousness?
... |
tt0086690 | Cover Up | In a small Midwestern town, Roger Phillips is found dead. When insurance investigator Sam Donovan (O'Keefe) arrives looking into the apparent suicide, all clues lead him to suspect murder. The man was shot, but there are no powder burns on the body (which would indicate he was not shot at close range) nor was a pistol ... | revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt4616250 | The Perfect Weapon | Jeff Sanders (Jeff Speakman) leads a double life: by day, he is a simple, unassuming construction worker, and by night, an expert Kenpo student and master of his craft.
When Jeff lost his mother as a teenager, he became an outcast and frequently lashed out at his family and society in an attempt to assuage his anger. H... | violence | train | wikipedia | No danger of any accidental spoilers here....this absolute rubbish so called movie is a spoiler from start to finish.The most absurd part of it is that the actors seem to be reading from cue cards and are operating under some strange rule that says that they must all speak at the same speed..ie..
so many words per minu... |
tt1935065 | Not Suitable for Children | Jonah (Ryan Kwanten) is a young man without a care in the world. At one of his parties, the power goes out because Jonah has not paid his electric bill, but it gets turned back on thanks to his neighbor. Jonah meets up with Becky (Kathryn Beck) and they retreat up to his room away from the party, only for Becky to find... | comedy | train | wikipedia | I enjoy a good romantic comedy once on a while.The Australian film industry hasn't done much to make a genuine, funny or exceptional film in the genre, example, "I Love You Too" and "Any Questions For Ben".But hearing good things about this film drew me to it, and as a romantic comedy or not it works.
Its the third fil... |
tt0079770 | Quintet | The story takes place during a new ice age. The camera tracks a blank, frozen, seemingly deserted tundra until two blurry, distant figures can just be made out. They are the seal hunter Essex (Paul Newman) and his pregnant companion, Vivia (Brigitte Fossey), the daughter of one of Essex's late hunting partners. They ar... | bleak, revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | Altman's Quintet has to be considered more than just flawed: As so many other reviewers have pointed out, the ideas behind the film, even some of the choices in depicting those ideas, ought to work--and yet very little in this difficult film does.
The partially fogged camera lens--I remarked to my wife that it has to b... |
tt5275886 | Under the Gun | At a Miami nightclub, gangster Bert Galvin offers to take singer Ruth Williams under his wing and to New York, helping her career. She agrees once it is made clear that their relationship will be strictly business.
On the road, they stop for dinner at Claude's Restaurant, where Bert knows the owner. The local sheriff, ... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0138289 | Ambushed | Mid-level drug dealers Eddie and Frank grow restless with their limited growth potential and set up a meeting with their supplier, Madsen. Instead of negotiating, Frank impulsively murders Madsen and takes his cocaine. Eddie's excitement quickly turns to apprehension when he hears about Madsen's death, but Frank talks ... | violence | train | wikipedia | A movie about racial problems blended with good action..
This movie is generally okay but, it's not a movie I would call fantastic.
The movie generally has a good plot and a bit of adequate directing.
But however, the movie has a very poor setting which makes it look like a typical TV movie.
On the other hand, the movi... |
tt0212123 | Dulhan Ek Raat Ki | Ashok (Dharmendra) and Nirmala (Nutan) meet on a railway platform in Dehradun, and then consequently in town as well, and are attracted to each other. Nirmala discovers that her mother (Leela Chitnis) has mortgaged their house to pay for her education, so she gets a job as nurse to a wealthy blind woman (Mumtaz Begum).... | murder | train | wikipedia | Lovely film!. Dulhan ek raat ki is a heart-breaking but ultimately very sweet movie about pure love being destroyed by an act of wretched callousness, and how it changes the lives of those involved. Nutan is just lovely, playing all the right notes and proving once again that she was one of the great Hindi actresses. D... |
tt0042539 | Halls of Montezuma | During World War II, a Marine battalion prepares to land on a large Japanese-held island in the Pacific. Lieutenant Colonel Gilfillan (Richard Boone) warns the men that it will be a tough mission, and that they have been ordered to take prisoners in order to gain information about the Japanese fortifications. Below dec... | violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0036896 | Hare Ribbin' | The short opens with a dog with a Russian accent (a la Bert Gordon's "Mad Russian") hunting for a rabbit by sniffing a trail. He happens upon Bugs who begins to torment the dog. This prompts a chase, which leads to a nearby lake where the rest of the story continues. Most of the action takes place underwater.
Eventuall... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0241307 | Chrono Cross | === Characters ===
Chrono Cross features a diverse cast of 45 party members. Each character is outfitted with an innate Element affinity and three unique special abilities that are learned over time. If taken to the world opposite their own, characters react to their counterparts (if available). Many characters tie in ... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0299478 | Saraband | The film is structured around ten acts with a prologue and epilogue.
It opens with the camera on Marianne standing by a table covered with photographs. It is a well-lit room, and she addresses the viewer. She picks one picture up after another; they are in no particular order, being just heaped all over the table. Some... | bleak, dramatic, violence, flashback, insanity, romantic | train | wikipedia | Bergman brings back two actors/friends he's worked with numerous times, Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson, and uses their characters from his film/TV series Scenes from a Marriage for a higher purpose than to rake in the bucks.
This time around (unlike Sven Nykvist's perfect work on 'Marriage', a kind of pre-Dogma 95 st... |
tt0104695 | Leap of Faith | Faith healer Jonas Nightengale (Steve Martin) makes a living traveling across America holding tent revival meetings and conducting purported "miracles". He is helped by his friend and manager Jane Larson (Debra Winger), and an entourage of fellow con artists.
Their truck breaks down in the fictional town of Rustwater, ... | romantic, satire | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0210382 | The Weight of Water | In March 1873, two Norwegian-born women who lived on the desolate Smuttynose Island, one of the Isles of Shoals off the coast of Maine and New Hampshire, were brutally murdered. Maren Hontvedt, a sister of one of the victims, survived by hiding in a sea cave until dawn. The murdered women were her older sister Karen Ch... | violence, cruelty, murder, romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | In both movies, we get two different stories running simultaneously: one, a mystery set in the past, and, the other, a personal drama located in the present, involving a group of characters reflecting on and trying to make sense of the events that took place a century or so earlier.The story-within-a-story in `The Weig... |
tt3425936 | Él | The film opens during a foot washing ceremony in a Christian church where a man named Francisco sees an attractive young woman from across the room. They have seen each other many times before, and she seems reluctant to engage him. She leaves the church and escapes Francisco, despite his attempt to chase after her. An... | autobiographical | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1678051 | Soldiers of Fortune | Robert Clay, a noble America hero of humble means trying to do his best to help the war effort in the fictional capital Olancho in a small South American republic, but he meets a rich lady and they fall in love during the revolution. Robert Clay is the engineer and general manager of the Valencia Mining Company in Olan... | revenge, humor, murder, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | Sean Bean is a good actor and there was some others in the movie that made my wife and I decide to give it a shot.
If the overall quality of the opening sequence wasn't enough to set the tone, the subsequent scene of Christian Slater playing cards should do the trick.My only question is: surely actors have to know duri... |
tt0280030 | Return to Never Land | In World War II, Jane Darling is Wendy's daughter who refuses to believe in stories about Peter Pan. She is mistakenly abducted by Captain Hook and his crew, who sail through the sky on their pixie-dust enchanted ship, evade an air raid alert and escape back to Neverland.
There, Hook plans to feed Jane to the octopus (... | psychedelic, fantasy | train | wikipedia | I've enjoyed liberal interpretations before - Hook and Finding Neverland, for example - but this movie completely trashed whatever character Peter Pan is supposed to have.
Whatever beautiful messages Peter Pan has about nostalgia and childhood, "Return to Neverland" turns them upside down at worst, and simply ignores t... |
tt0190419 | Ghulam | Siddharth "Siddhu "Marathe (Aamir Khan) is a Mumbai tapori, a boxing champion. His brother, Jaidev "Jai" (Rajit Kapur), is the accounts manager and right hand man for Raunak "Ronnie" Singh (Sharat Saxena), a former boxing champion who ostensibly runs a travel agency but in reality rules the local community by terrorisi... | murder | train | wikipedia | shows what a great actor amir khan is!.
i was not a big amir khan's fan before this movie but after watching "ghulam" it not only made me amir khan's fan but also at the same he stamped himself as the bollywood ace..."Ghulam" shows the sudden change in the life of sidharth who first being non-serious in his life soon r... |
tt1449175 | Hamlet | === Act I ===
The protagonist of Hamlet is Prince Hamlet of Denmark, son of the recently deceased King Hamlet, and nephew of King Claudius, his father's brother and successor. Claudius hastily married King Hamlet's widow, Gertrude, Hamlet's mother, and took the throne for himself. Denmark has a long-standing feud with ... | tragedy, insanity, revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | Being an American rather new to Shakespeare, I have come to discover that Hamlet is my favorite play, and as of today the David Tennant and Patrick Stewart version provides the breakthrough to understanding this complicated play.
I have watched all versions of Hamlet available and was quick to check out the newest one;... |
tt0049743 | Seven Men from Now | Ben Stride (Randolph Scott) walks into a desert cave encampment during a nighttime rainstorm. He encounters two men taking shelter next to a fire and asks to join them. Stride tells the men he's from the town of Silver Springs, which provokes a mysterious reaction from the two men. They discuss a robbery and murder tha... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0472468 | King Arthur | Arthur (Clive Owen) is portrayed as a Roman cavalry officer, also known as Artorius Castus, the son of a Roman father and a Celtic mother, who commands a unit of Sarmatian auxiliary cavalry in Britain at the close of the Roman occupation in 467 A.D. Arthur is loyal to Rome and a devout Catholic, but follows the teachin... | violence, action | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2073070 | Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster | Based in a small town in the state of Uttar Pradesh, Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster is a story packed with intrigue betrayal and ambition between a beautiful Raani (Mahi Gill), her Raja husband (Jimmy Shergill) and an ambitious young man Babloo (Randeep Hooda).
The Raja and his Raani live in their ancestral royal house trying... | neo noir | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0045897 | I Confess | Father Michael Logan (Clift) is a devout Catholic priest in Ste. Marie's Church in Quebec City. He employs German immigrants Otto Keller (O. E. Hasse) and his wife Alma (Dolly Haas) as caretaker and housekeeper. Otto also works part-time as a gardener for a shady lawyer called Villette.
The film begins late one evening... | melodrama, romantic, suspenseful, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | "I Confess" is one of Alfred Hitchcock's least famous films, and it's easy to see why: there is no mystery (we know who the killer is right from the start); there is some suspense but no major set-pieces; there is very little humor (no Cary Grant-type wisecracks here).
I wouldn't rank it among Hitchcock's best, but it ... |
tt0077289 | California Suite | In Visitor from New York, Hannah Warren is a Manhattan workaholic who flies to Los Angeles to retrieve her teenaged daughter Jenny after she leaves home to live with her successful screenwriter father William. The bickering divorced couple is forced to decide what living arrangements are best for the girl.
Conservative... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0490170 | Love Story 2050 | Karan Malhotra (Harman Baweja) is a spirited and happy-go-lucky boy who does not follow the rules. Sana (Priyanka Chopra) is the opposite of Karan: a sweet and shy girl who lives life by the rules. Even though they are completely opposite, they fall in love, leading to a magical love story.
A scientist, Dr. Yatinder Kh... | good versus evil, romantic, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0400717 | Open Season | In the peaceful town of Timberline, 900-pound (408 kg) grizzly bear Boog enjoys a captive, but pampered existence and spends his day as the star attraction of the town's nature show while at night living in the garage of park ranger Beth, who raised him since he was a cub. One day, the sadistic hunting fanatic Shaw dri... | revenge, comedy | train | wikipedia | To me, I really felt relieved to see some humor and scenes similar to the old Looney Tunes cartoons that used to be considered great, but are now considered evil and horrible.I took my 4 year old daughter to see this movie as well, and she absolutely loved it.
Unfortunately, the story was bland and the jokes were only ... |
tt0238552 | Replicant | Edward "The Torch" Garrotte (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is a serial killer who has a penchant for killing women and setting them on fire. All of his victims are also mothers. Detective Jake Riley (Michael Rooker) is a Seattle police detective who has spent three years chasing Garrotte. Just days before Jake's retirement Ga... | comedy, neo noir, murder, violence, flashback, good versus evil, suspenseful, sadist | train | wikipedia | I used to be Jean-Claude Van Damme's biggest fan back when I was 13 or so, having seen HARD TARGET on video and then watching every subsequent Van Damme movie up to MAXIMUM RISK (which for some reason I just didn't feel like watching).
The problem was that his acting has usually been so stiff that it's hard to root for... |
tt0168856 | Hjælp! Jeg er en fisk | The film follows the adventures of three children: a skateboarding mischief-maker named Fly, his sweet younger sister, Stella, and their cousin Chuck, a cautious, intelligent and overweight genetics prodigy. When their babysitter, Aunt Anna, falls asleep, the three children sneak off to go fishing only to stumble acros... | cult | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0027438 | The Charge of the Light Brigade | In 1854, Major Geoffrey Vickers (Errol Flynn) and his brother, Captain Perry Vickers (Patric Knowles), are stationed at the fictional city of Chukoti in India, with the 27th Lancers of the British Army during the period of East India Company dominance over the Indian subcontinent. Perry has secretly betrayed Geoffrey b... | violence, cult, murder, romantic | train | wikipedia | Errol Flynn, riding high with the spectacular success of CAPTAIN BLOOD, re-teamed with co-star Olivia de Havilland and director Michael Curtiz in this epic tale, owing far more to Rudyard Kipling's prose than Tennyson's poem, or any attempt at historical accuracy.
Flynn, with his trademark moustache restored, is Major ... |
tt1663647 | Help | The story is set in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1963. Aibileen Clark is an African-American maid who works for Elizabeth Leefolt, a white woman suffering from postpartum depression. Aibileen's best friend is Minny Jackson, a plain-spoken African-American maid known for her culinary skills who works for Hilly Holbrook's se... | murder | train | wikipedia | A waste of time!.
This movie is basically a copy of The Grudge and The Ring.
Most of the scenes are taken from these movies, with a bit of bollywood dance masala.
The acting performance of most of the characters was bad with an exception of S.
Goshal.
The story was weak and predictable.
Bollywood should set up a censor... |
tt0065054 | Sweet Charity | === Act I ===
The young woman Charity Hope Valentine is a taxi dancer at a dance hall called the Fandango Ballroom in New York City. With a shoulder bag and a heart tattooed on her left shoulder, Charity meets her boyfriend Charlie in Central Park. While Charlie silently preens himself, Charity speaks the pick-up lines... | tragedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2155391 | The Midnight Game | Perky blonde teenager Kaitlan (Renee Olstead) has decided to invite over a few of her friends after she finds that her parents are leaving her home alone for the weekend. She's planning for a small, relatively quiet get together with her friends Jenna (Valentina de Angelis) and Rose (Shelby Young), but Kaitlan soon fin... | insanity | train | wikipedia | Underwhelming.
This movie had so much promise with the pagan rituals and the interesting plot.
I had been waiting a good while to find it.
Even though it did bring in the over played teenagers playing a dare style situation on each other and trying to scare the girl into the boys arms, it still maintained value.
Unfort... |
tt0323463 | Ocean Ave. | Soap opera actor Timothy Adams plays cop Thomas "Thom" O'Keefe, who is working on the case of a prostitute-murdering serial killer. Thom's father, the police commissioner, Jamie O'Keefe (Marc Macaulay), has been involved in other illegal activities for years. When Thom finds out about his father criminal life, he flips... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0084438 | Oliver Twist | In the 1800s, young orphan Oliver Twist is forcibly brought to a workhouse in an unidentified town In England on his ninth birthday. He and the other resident children are treated poorly and given very little food. Facing starvation, the boys select Oliver (through a lottery) to ask for more food at the next meal, whic... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0250462 | Karnan | Unmarried princess Kunti is blessed by the Sun god with a baby boy, which she abandons in the Ganges to avoid embarrassment. The boy is rescued and adopted by charioteer Athirathan and is named Karnan. Years later, the now-grown up Karnan realises that Athirathan is only his adoptive father and feels heartbroken. He do... | tragedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0070238 | Jeremy | Jeremy Jones (Benson) is a shy, bespectacled Jewish fifteen-year-old living in a New York City apartment with his parents, who are busy with their own pursuits and leave him mostly on his own. He attends a private high school that focuses on the performing arts, where he is a serious student of cello who aspires to mus... | romantic | train | wikipedia | There was a girl my age that I liked a lot, that I took to the movie and we both identified with the main characters.
This movie was recently released in DVD.
We've all experienced those feelings in real life and I'd love to go through it all again.
Love coming of age...Robby Benson and Glynnis O'Connor were perfect in... |
tt0026385 | Frisco Kid | In San Francisco in the 1850s, a city where gold fever has left shipowners short-handed, Bat Morgan, a sailor come ashore is robbed and nearly shanghaied aboard another ship. Managing to escape, he sticks around town to pay back those responsible and then to take a cut in the action in the vice district. Organizing the... | romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | For James Cagney's second costume picture and first in a 19th century setting, Warner Brothers took him to San Francisco's Barbary Coast for the Frisco Kid. Cagney's first costume role was in the all star production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Personally though I think this film is better.Cagney is fresh off a sealin... |
tt0116752 | Kauas pilvet karkaavat | Ilona Koponen (Kati Outinen), a head waitress at Dubrovnik restaurant, is married to Lauri (Kari Väänänen), a tram driver. The couple live in a small, modestly furnished apartment in Helsinki. As they both come home from work late one night, Lauri surprises Ilona with a new television which he purchased on store credit... | comedy | train | wikipedia | I never used to like Kaurismäki films, mainly because I didn't understand them and thought they were boring.
The thing with Kaurismäki films is that you can watch them without understanding them and still like them or you can understand them and not like them etc.
There are people like Lauri and Ilona.
Lauri as played ... |
tt1821641 | The Congress | Robin Wright plays a fictional version of herself, an aging actress with a reputation for being fickle and unreliable, so much so that nobody is willing to offer her roles. Her son, Aaron, suffers from Usher syndrome that is slowly destroying his sight and hearing. With the help of Dr. Barker (Paul Giamatti), Robin is ... | boring, satire, philosophical, sentimental | train | wikipedia | And when I am saying anti-Holocaust I mean against its use for financial or propaganda purposes, like most Hollywood movies about the subject.The story is weird, wonderful, but a little (a bit more, actually) confusing.
The first half an apocalyptic of cinema's future, the movie continues with a full animated second ha... |
tt0205700 | Titus | A boy eating lunch in a 1950s-style kitchen plays war with his surrounding toys. A bomb blast outside the window frightens him under the table from where he is rescued and taken to an Amphitheatre, where an invisible audience cheers. An army resembling the Terracotta Army enters; Romans under the command of Titus Andro... | flashback | train | wikipedia | A Ground-breaking high wire act between tragedy and comedy - the best and most unique sitcom since "Seinfeld".
Network: FOX; Genre: Sitcom, Dysfunctional Family Sitcom; Content Rating: TV-14 (for language, violence, nudity, strong sexual content, crude humor & dark, adult content); Available: DVD; Classification: Moder... |
tt0412637 | Delirious | Jack Gable is the lead writer and producer of the soap opera Beyond Our Dreams. Consumed by his work, he harbors an unspoken attraction to Laura Claybourne, the selfish actress playing the lead character, Rachel Hedison.
Jack crosses paths with Louise, who is there to audition for the part of Janet DuBois, a character ... | satire | train | wikipedia | In the opening scene I thought I recognized a friend of mine in a minor role and while waiting for him to reappear and see if it was in fact him I found myself captivated with this brilliant little indie until the end.
But in this movie they are well worth taking a closer look at.Les Galantine (Steve Buscemi) is the dr... |
tt0119988 | Caught Up | Daryl Allen (Bokeem Woodbine), who narrates, is an ex-con. After serving time on drug charges, he plans to get his life straight, open up a nightclub and be a part of his son Jerome's life. His friend Trip offers to give him money for his business and Daryl accepts. Daryl drives Trip to the bank, unaware he's taking pa... | paranormal, revenge, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | Bad luck and poor choices.
This is got to be one of the most confusing urban thrillers I have ever seen.
A young man did a five year bid after being involved in a bank robbery thanks to his coke-head buddy.
Daryl plans were to open a nightclub and had a major set back that sent him to prison because of the bank robbery... |
tt0040582 | Mexican Hayride | Joe Bascomb (Lou Costello) chases con man Harry Lambert (Bud Abbott) to Mexico City, after Harry apparently swindled him (and some friends) in an oil stock scam back in the United States. Joe's ex-girlfriend, Mary (Virginia Grey) has hired Harry as her agent, and is going by the name 'Montana', passing herself off as a... | entertaining | train | wikipedia | So It's A Hayride.
I don't know why people think so poorly of this film.
Although it seems a little odd the way it begins in the middle of the story, it ticks along at a good rate; Pat Costello has an effective repartee with Lou, which is very interesting; Luba Malina, Fritz Feld, Sid Fields and Chris-Pin Martin are al... |
tt0070078 | From Beyond the Grave | Four customers purchase (or take) items from Temptations Limited, an antiques shop whose motto is "Offers You Cannot Resist". A nasty fate awaits those who cheat the shop's Proprietor (Peter Cushing).
The Gatecrasher
Edward Charlton (David Warner) purchases an antique mirror for a knockdown price, having tricked the Pr... | good versus evil, revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0129924 | FernGully 2: The Magical Rescue | Crysta is taking care of three baby animals and demonstrating greater control over nature. She and Pips begin a small contest over who can grow the more impressive plant, while Pips expresses a desire to see more of the outside world.
Suddenly, Batty Koda arrives in a panic, warning that human poachers are right behind... | psychedelic, fantasy | train | wikipedia | The original FernGully is one of my all time favourites, it is funny, beautifully animated, moving and even scary in places.
However, the sequel, while I didn't think was as awful as the cheap and unnecessary Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy To The Rescue, was very disappointing.
Third, the baby animals and Budgie are very swee... |
tt0103893 | Buffy the Vampire Slayer | High school senior Buffy Summers (Kristy Swanson) is introduced as a stereotypical, shallow cheerleader at Hemery High School in Los Angeles. She is a carefree popular girl whose main concerns are shopping and spending time with her rich, snooty friends and her boyfriend, Jeffrey. While at school one day, she is approa... | comedy, revenge, cult, satire, murder | train | wikipedia | When I began watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer the TV series, and saw Joss Whedon's true vision for the story, I realize he must have been furious at how the studio basically rewrote his script.
Joss Whedon writing, Donald Sutherland, Rutger Hauer, Paul Reubens (playing the dark side of Pee-Wee Herman), then teen-idol ... |
tt0159382 | Croupier | Jack Manfred (Clive Owen) is an aspiring writer going nowhere fast. To make ends meet and against his better judgment, he takes a job as a croupier. The interview was set up by his father, a small-time hustler back home in South Africa.
Jack finds himself drawn into the casino world, and the job gradually takes over hi... | revenge, neo noir, murder, violence, romantic | train | wikipedia | Jack Manfred (Clive Owen) is a struggling writer, who on the advice of his father takes a job as a croupier at a local casino, a job he previously held when he lived in South Africa.
Mike Hodges' film 'Croupier' tells the stark story of Jack Manfred, a writer who sells his soul to work in a casino.
He has obviously had... |
tt0037816 | Incendiary Blonde | A tomboy named Mary Louise "Texas" Guinan lands a job with a Wild West show after proving she can ride a bucking bronco. The rodeo's new owner is Romero "Bill" Kilgannon, who doubles Texas's pay after the attention she gets from saving a toddler's life from a runaway wagon at a show.
Tim Callahan comes along, looking f... | revenge, murder, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0396184 | Pusher II | The film opens some time after the original film with Tonny serving out his last day of a prison sentence. His cell-mate delivers a monologue advising Tonny to conquer his fear. He then reminds Tonny that he owes him money, but has chosen to give him more time out of respect for Tonny's father, the Duke, a vicious gang... | cult, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2187884 | Escape from Tomorrow | A montage shows visitors on the rides at Walt Disney World Resort and the many visuals and animatronics that accompany the rides. It ends with a man losing his head while riding Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. On the last day of a family vacation at Walt Disney World, Jim White gets fired by his boss during a phone call... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | And this guy is supposed to be a parent.Perhaps Moore wants us to be uncomfortable watching him, maybe there's things to be said about man's desire for young women, but it's not the kind of meaningful discomfort that really makes a viewer think, it feels thrown in there as a character quirk.
It can be interesting and e... |
tt0035959 | A Guy Named Joe | Pete Sandidge (Spencer Tracy) is the reckless pilot of a North American B-25 Mitchell bomber flying out of England during World War II. He is in love with Women Airforce Service Pilot Dorinda Durston (Irene Dunne), a civilian pilot ferrying aircraft across the Atlantic. "Nails" Kilpatrick (James Gleason), Pete's comm... | sentimental | train | wikipedia | Spencer Tracy is good, so was Van Johnson in that part!
Ward Bond is always so good at anything he dose, he is such a great SUPPORTING actor he supports and complements, he always seems to be the character he is playing.Yet, again I must say Irene Dunne is a Jewel, she does every character in such a believable manner y... |
tt0412915 | The Librarian: Quest for the Spear | Flynn Carsen (Noah Wyle), a perpetual college student with 22 academic degrees, is kicked out of college by his professor, who tells Flynn that he lacks real life experience and needs to experience life outside of college. Flynn's mother, Margie (Olympia Dukakis), is constantly worried about her son and encourages him ... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0454515 | The Noah | As a young boy, Noah witnesses his father, Lamech, killed by a young Tubal-cain. Many years later, an adult Noah is living with his wife Naameh and their sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth. After seeing a flower grow instantly from the ground and being haunted by dreams of a great flood, Noah takes them to visit his grandfath... | avant garde, allegory, cult, insanity, absurd, psychedelic, satire | train | wikipedia | A poetic comment on the human condition..
Truly remarkable.
A one-man film that held my full attention for almost two hours.
The storyline is deceptively simple given the complexity of the issues raised: the sole survivor of a nuclear holocaust tries to cope with his new reality by reconstructing, piece by piece, an im... |
tt0355742 | Manmadhudu | Abhiram (Nagarjuna Akkineni) is a manager in an ad agency, owned by his paternal uncle Prasad (Tanikella Bharani). He despises women and expresses his hatred every minute of every day. But his office is populated by women as it is an ad agency and he has to live with it. Prasad appoints Harika (Sonali Bendre) as the ne... | flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0060464 | Gojira, Ebirâ, Mosura: Nankai no daiketto | After Yata (Toru Ibuki) is lost at sea, his brother Ryota (Toru Watanabe) steals a yacht with his two friends and a bank robber, the crew runs afoul of the giant lobster Ebirah, and washes up on the shore of Letchi Island, where a terrorist organization manufactures heavy water for their purposes, as well as a chemical... | entertaining | train | wikipedia | This movie also features a spectacular safecracking scene in which the bank robber jimmies a lock on what looks like the door to a bank vault, the plucky castaways nip inside -- and then nip outside even faster, saying, "It's a nuclear reactor!!!" I would recommend this film to anyone..
But, other than that, the film ... |
tt4057758 | Renaissance | The film opens in a future Paris with scenes establishing the kidnapping of 22-year-old scientist Ilona Tasuiev, who works for the megacorporation Avalon. The focus transitions to police captain Barthélémy Karas, as he defuses a hostage situation by killing the hostage-takers. Afterwards Karas is given the job of solvi... | tragedy, psychedelic, psychological, storytelling, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0283900 | L'auberge espagnole | Xavier (Romain Duris), a 24-year-old French student, leaves his country for the ERASMUS programme in Barcelona as part of his professional pursuits, despite it being against the wishes of his girlfriend Martine (Audrey Tautou). On the flight there, he meets a young French couple, a doctor and his wife (Anne-Sophie), wh... | comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0073363 | Maynila: Sa mga kuko ng liwanag | Júlio Madiaga is a probinciano, a young rustic from the island of Marinduque, who arrives in Manila. From time to time, Júlio would pass by the corner of Ongpin and Misericordia, as he stares at a peculiar building from a distance. While pursuing his quest, he has to work in order to survive the conditions of the urban... | murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | Lino Brocka's masterful study of a man's loss of innocence is a centerpiece of great Filipino cinema.
The tale of young innocents traveling to the infamous city of Manila, and losing their way, has been told countless times, but "Manila: In the Claws of Neon" was the first, and this unflinching look at urban decay must... |
tt0113228 | Grumpier Old Men | The feud between Max (Walter Matthau) and John (Jack Lemmon) has cooled and both of them patch things up, and their children, Melanie (Daryl Hannah) and Jacob (Kevin Pollak), have become engaged. Meanwhile, John is enjoying his marriage to new wife Ariel (Ann-Margret).
The spring and summer fishing season is in full sw... | revenge, comedy, prank | train | wikipedia | GRUMPIER OLD MEN is a neat follow-up, as we find how Max Goldman (Matthau) finds his new mate, Maria Ragetti (Sophia Loren).
It also settles the future of Max's son Mayor Jacob Goldman (Kevin Pollak) and John Gustafson's (Lemmon's) daughter Melanie (Darryl Hannah), and gives a bitter-sweet farewell to John's father (Bu... |
tt0037764 | Hare Tonic | Elmer Fudd has purchased Bugs Bunny at a local grocery store (with a sign visible in the window offering a special on "Fresh Hare") and is taking him home to make a meal. As he walks along, he sings the tune of "Shortnin' Bread", substituting "Wabbit Stew". Bugs pops out of Elmer's basket, munching on a carrot that was... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Chuck Jones directs a remarkably strong picture, considering his frequent stumbling early in his career; Elmer Fudd has never been stupider.
Elmer Fudd buys Bugs Bunny from a meat market as he anticipates a nice rabbit stew.
Bugs climbs out of his basket to tell him he's been robbed: the rabbit's gone!
Incredibly, Elme... |
tt0069159 | Una ragione per vivere e una per morire | This is a story derivative of The Dirty Dozen, but set during the American Civil War. Eli is to be hanged for looting, when he and some other men condemned to death are pardoned, providing that they follow former US colonel Pembroke in an attempt to recapture Ft Holman, which he earlier had surrendered to the Confedera... | western, revenge, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0105932 | The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. | === Background ===
The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., is set in a fictional American Old West of 1893. Robber barons control the financial and industrial interests of the West from the boardrooms of San Francisco's Westerfield Club. The famous U.S. Marshal Brisco County, Sr. (R. Lee Ermey) has apprehended a gang of ... | sci-fi | train | wikipedia | Billy Drago was a great villain as John Bly, a character that appeared in a story arc running through the season.
Bruce Campbell and Julius Carry had great chemistry.
I also liked how Brisco and Bowler weren't friends at first, but rather were more like competitors, and only after several episodes of crossing paths and... |
tt0072348 | Tough Guys | Harry Doyle (Lancaster) and Archie Long (Douglas) are gangsters who've served a 30-year prison sentence for hijacking a Southern Pacific train called The Gold Coast Flyer, ready to collect Social Security.
Their parole officer, Richie Evans (Carvey), who seems to be more of a fan of historically notable criminals than ... | blaxploitation, revenge, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | Italian Poliziotti meets Blaxploitation!.
Uomini Duri aka "Three Tough Guys" is an Italian made action film from 1974.
Isaac Hayes stars as Lee, a framed Chicago ex-cop who teams up with Father Charlie played by Lino Ventura.
Together they fight for answers and revenge in a million dollar bank heist.
Fred Williamson in... |
tt0101121 | Homefront | Two years after the raids of a gang's meth lab where his cover was broken, former DEA Agent Phil Broker (Jason Statham) and his daughter Maddy (Izabela Vidovic) have moved to a small Louisiana town where Maddy's deceased mother grew up. Maddy gets into a schoolyard fight with a bully named Teddy Klum; when Broker comes... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Great post-WW2 based drama that ABC killed.
Based on the time period after WW2 ended, different families, all somehow connected, strive to get on with their lives despite personal losses.
A very well written, directed, acted and produced show that kept audiences returning each week to see each new episode, only to be c... |
tt0034465 | Arabian Nights | The story starts at a harem in Persia, where the elderly overseer bids his young charges to read the story of Haroun al-Rashid (Hall) and his wife Sherazade (Montez), unfolding the film's plot in the process.
Sherazade, a dancer in a wandering circus owned by Ahmad (Billy Gilbert) - whose troupe also includes Sinbad th... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Arabian Nights is one of the best early Technicolor efforts out of Hollywood and it really shows.
For the men, there's the gorgeous Maria Montez (OK, so the boys will enjoy her too.) For the ladies, the costuming will simply amaze you.
Seeing it on video has allowed me to revisit that past time when as a child the worl... |
tt1773039 | Sella Turcica | While serving in the Middle East, Sergeant Bradley Roback and his squad vanished while on patrol, their equipment and vehicles being found abandoned, with no signs of a struggle. Days after their disappearance, Brad and ten of the other twelve missing soldiers turned up unconscious outside of their base. When the men w... | violence, cult, psychedelic, romantic, melodrama | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0068315 | Brian's Song | The movie begins as Chicago Bears running back Gale Sayers (Williams) arrives to team practice as an errant punt is sent to Sayers. Running back Brian Piccolo (Caan) goes to retrieve the ball, and Sayers flips it to him. Before Sayers meets with coach George Halas (Jack Warden) in his office, Piccolo tells him – as a p... | prank | train | wikipedia | Billy Dee Williams and James Caan were just starting out their careers and TV movies were still fairly new.
In times of racial trouble, inner family strife, and complete distrust of your fellow man, this movie showed what the world would really be like if people got rid of "oneupmanship" and lived life for life itself.... |
tt0058648 | The Thin Red Line | United States Army Private Witt goes AWOL from his unit and lives among the carefree Melanesian natives in the South Pacific. He is found and imprisoned on a troop carrier by First Sergeant Welsh of his company. The men of C Company, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division have been brought to Gua... | anti war | train | wikipedia | This version of James Jones' book follows the plot of the novel closely and actually received very high praise from the author himself.
Jones wrote a letter to the director saying "Very rarely does an author get to write a letter to a filmmaker to say that he has captured the author's intention to the highest level pos... |
tt0403217 | Last Days | Grunge rocker Blake escapes rehab and walks home through a long forest, also swimming through a lake then lighting a fire for the night. The next day, he gets home and changes his clothes. He walks around in the house with a shotgun pointing it at his sleeping roommates Scott, Luke, Asia, and Nicole. He is greeted by Y... | avant garde, storytelling | train | wikipedia | Van Sant has drawn this fall out over 90 minutes where, lets be honest, not a great deal actually happens.To some viewers this has given the film a tragic and haunting quality that has produced a lot of insight into the man Blake.
Van Sant has written these last days and based them on Kurt Cobain but I would have liked... |
tt0485887 | Creepshow | === Prologue ===
A young boy named Billy gets yelled at and slapped by his father, Stan, for reading a horror comic titled Creepshow. Stan reminds his wife that he had to be hard on Billy because he does not want their son to be reading such "crap". As Billy sits upstairs cursing his father with hopes of him rotting in... | comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0213090 | The Meaning of Life | The film begins with the short film The Crimson Permanent Assurance, where a group of elderly office clerks work in a small accounting firm. They rebel against yuppie corporate masters, transform their office into a pirate ship, and raid a large financial district. The rest of the film is split into seven chapters made... | comedy, psychedelic, philosophical | train | wikipedia | Amplify the Ping Machine!. I really don't think there is a better exposure you can get to British humor than the Python group and while I'm sure I'll be threatened with many a flesh wound, this movie is their most hilarious, mostly because instead of telling a cohesive story, it contains shorter vignettes of the stages... |
tt0238891 | I cento passi | The film opens with Peppino as a small child singing the popular song “Nel blu, dipinto di blu” with his brother in the back seat of a car on the way to a family gathering. The family is one of good standing in the social community and they are celebrating the fact that they have such a good life. In this scene the rel... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0094958 | Dayavan | After having witnessed his dad being killed by the local police, and being orphaned and homeless, Shakti Velu develops a hatred and distrust of the police in India. He is befriended by another homeless boy named Shanker, who asks him to accompany him to Bombay's slums, where they live with a kind-hearted Muslim named K... | romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | Perhaps Vinod's Best.
It is perhaps Vinod's best movie.
Vinod was a talented and original actor but it was pity that he left the film industry for a long interval.
This interruption caused much damage to his career otherwise he might be among great heroes.
Dayavan is a good movie telling the crude realities of criminal... |
tt3958918 | The War Within | The War Within is the story of Hassan, a Pakistani engineering student in Paris, who is apprehended by American intelligence services for suspected terrorist activities. After his interrogation, Hassan undergoes a radical transformation and embarks upon a terrorist mission, surreptitiously entering the United States to... | christian film | train | wikipedia | Wow!
This movie blew me away....
This film is incredibly well done and full of powerful truths.
I would highly recommend this movie to anyone!
This is one of the best Christian films that has been made.
I look forward to sharing it with friends and family, both believers and non-believers.
This is great film for anyone... |
tt0406375 | Zathura: A Space Adventure | Brothers Walter (Josh Hutcherson) and Danny (Jonah Bobo) can never seem to get along with each other, or with their older teen-aged sister, Lisa (Kristen Stewart). While staying at their divorced father's home while he is away at work and Lisa is asleep, the boys discover an old clockwork-driven space-themed board game... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0097778 | Look Who's Talking | Mollie is an accountant living in New York City who has an affair with Albert, a womanizing executive who is married with two children, and becomes pregnant. During her pregnancy, Mollie and Albert keep their indiscretion secret, under the idea she was artificially inseminated, and that Albert plans to leave his wife B... | comedy, fantasy, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0246729 | Khiladiyon Ka Khiladi | Khiladiyon Ka Khiladi is about the deadly game of survival in a ruthless world of crime and sleaze. A criminal don, Maya (Rekha), hosts illegal wrestling matches in U.S (New York) and has the full support of the local Police Commissioner. Ajay Malhotra has relocated to U.S and has started his own orchestra with the hel... | violence, cruelty, sadist | train | wikipedia | Possibly the best Indian action film!.
Khiladiyon Ka Khiladi is a pleasure to watch.
It is one of the best Indian action films, and who would be a better choice for the leading role in the film if not the action hero himself, Akshay Kumar?
The film is well shot, well cast, with great and catchy songs, good camera work,... |
tt0193995 | Hansel and Gretel | Hansel and Gretel are the young children of a poor woodcutter. When a great famine settles over the land, the woodcutter's second, abusive wife decides to take the children into the woods and leave them there to fend for themselves, so that she and her husband do not starve to death, because the kids eat too much. The ... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | Hansel and Gretel: Made in the United States.
Despite its European, "old world" look, Hansel and Gretel was made in New York City.
Indeed the comments to the contrary are a tribute to the filmmakers' success in evoking a genuine fairy tale style.
Nonetheless, the film was shot using conventional stop-motion puppets (no... |
tt0248568 | Treasure Island | Young Jim Hawkins Jackie Cooper) and his mother (Dorothy Peterson) run the Admiral Benbow, a tavern near Bristol, England. One dark and stormy night, during a birthday celebration, the mysterious Billy Bones (Lionel Barrymore) arrives and drunkenly talks about treasure. Soon after, Bones is visited by Black Dog (Charle... | action | train | wikipedia | This two-hour commercial from the Isle of Man Tourist Bureau bears only a superficial resemblance to the Stevenson novel.
And Jack Palance rasps out an engaging Silver but it's disappointing to see his name spelt wrong in the credits.
Palance fans might like to see him tackle one of literature's most famous old coots, ... |
tt0059727 | The Skull | In the 1800s, Pierre, a phrenologist (Maurice Good), robs the grave of the recently buried Marquis de Sade. He takes the Marquis' severed head and sets about boiling it to remove its flesh, leaving the skull. Before the task is done, Pierre meets an unseen and horrific death.
In modern-day London, Christopher Maitland ... | psychedelic, flashback | train | wikipedia | The Skull is probably the best film Amicus produced,based on a chilling short story by Robert Bloch and directed with visual flair by Freddie Francis it tells the story of a writer on Demonology ; Christopher Maitland(Peter Cushing excellent as usual) who is offered a skull and a fleshbound book originally belonging to... |
tt0044426 | Blackbeard, the Pirate | The film follows British Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard (Keith Andes), who sets out to earn a reward by proving that privateer Henry Morgan (Torin Thatcher) also engages in piracy.
Maynard poses as a surgeon on board the ship of pirate Charles Bellamy, who he believes is in league with Morgan. Once Maynard and fellow s... | violence, action | train | wikipedia | It's just a VERY good showcase for the ultimate pirate actor, Robert Newton, who fits the role so perfectly as to become THE pirate to be imitated in every pirate movie to follow.
Every scene belongs to him and every word of dialogue he speaks is the learning base for future "pirates" of the silver screen.Not a Newton ... |
tt0094080 | The Survivalist | The film takes place when oil production has ceased, which has resulted in a total economic collapse, the fall of society, and a severe drop in the population.
The Survivalist is first seen burying a man's body. He is then shown to be living efficiently in the wild. He harvests crop for food (as animal meat is scarce),... | cult, murder | train | wikipedia | This could only have been made in the Cold War 1980s.
Not to be confused with the pulp novel series.
A small nuclear device is detonated in Siberia and sends the world into a cold war panic.
Back in Texas, Jack Tillman (Steve Railsback), a sort of doomsdayer-lite, is fully prepared for the chaos erupting.
He gets his f... |
tt3114390 | Kill La Kill | Honnouji Academy (本能字学園, Honnōji Gakuen) is a fictional high school situated in Tokyo Bay, Japan on the island of Honnō City. The school is dominated by its fearsome student council led by Satsuki Kiryuin. Its students wear Goku Uniforms (極制服, Gokuseifuku, from gokusei (極製?, "finest quality") + seifuku (制服?, "school un... | brainwashing, revenge, flashback | train | wikipedia | This is that sort of anime that can be serious at times but shouldn't be taken seriously by the audience.
The animations is somewhat rough but impressive although some 3D models of backgrounds look bland but it shouldn't put off the viewer considering that fact that its not the reason they are watching this.
The action... |
tt4694618 | Annie | In 1933, during The Great Depression, a young orphan named Annie is living in the Hudson Street Orphanage in New York City. One night, Annie comforts one of the youngest orphans by singing to her. The orphanage's cruel and alcoholic supervisor Agatha Hannigan hears the singing and punishes the orphans by making them cl... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0106763 | Double, Double Toil and Trouble | Kelly (Mary-Kate Olsen) and Lynn Farmer's (Ashley Olsen) parents, Don (Eric McCormack) and Christine (Kelli Fox), are deeply in debt and in danger of losing their home. During the Halloween season, they visit Christine's cold and cruel Aunt Agatha (Cloris Leachman) to ask for a loan, which is immediately refused. While... | good versus evil, flashback | train | wikipedia | Hmmmm....
The Olsen twins are at it again - this time though, they're quite a bit younger (made when Full House was still being aired) - about six - yet still manage to put in okay performances despite their young age.Here the play sisters (*twin* sisters, even!) who run away from their parents whilst trick-or-treating... |
tt1047494 | Meet the Browns | In Chicago, Brenda Brown-Davis (Angela Bassett) is a struggling single mother of three (Mike Jr, Lena, and Tosha). One day she receives a letter stating that her father, whom she has never met, has died. On the same day, the plant where she and her friend Sheryl (Sofia Vergara) work closes so she loses her job which ad... | melodrama | train | wikipedia | My theater that I work at got Meet the Browns, I have never ever seen a Tyler Perry movie, so this would be my first.
I just don't understand why people are being so harsh with this movie, I felt like it was just a decent and uplifting film.
Angela Bassett, who must of made a deal with the devil to look that good at 50... |
tt1675192 | Take Shelter | In Lagrange, Ohio, Curtis LaForche (Michael Shannon) has apocalyptic dreams and visual and auditory hallucinations of rain "like fresh motor oil", swarms of menacing black birds, and being harmed by people close to him. He hides all of this from his wife, Samantha (Jessica Chastain), and their deaf daughter, Hannah (To... | psychological, depressing, boring | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0060862 | The Professionals | During the Mexican Revolution, Rancher J.W. Grant hires four men, who are all experts in their respective fields, to rescue his kidnapped wife, Maria from Jesus Raza, a former revolutionary leader-turned-bandit.
Henry "Rico" Fardan is a weapons specialist, Bill Dolworth is an explosives expert, the horse wrangler is Ha... | romantic, humor, action | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1606610 | Heavy Rain | === Characters ===
There are four main playable characters. The player controls one character at a time, generally playing different characters in each chapter of the game. The characters were voiced, motion captured, and modeled after several actors; the three males are modeled after their voice actors, while the fema... | violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0103303 | Year of the Gun | In 1978, David Raybourne is an American novelist who lives in Rome and works as a journalist in a small English-language newspaper. He is romantically involved with Lia, the estranged wife of an Italian Industrialist, and befriended by Italo Bianchi, a politically left-leaning lecturer at a Rome university.
The movie r... | murder | train | wikipedia | Tepid drama based on terrorism in Italy.
This is a rather two dimensional drama about some Americans who find themselves embroiled in the terrorist activities of the Red Brigade in Italy.
The Americans are passionate idealists who have a lot of sex and the terrorists are the usual wooden movie sociopaths.
The plot is i... |
tt1407972 | Wai dor lei ah yut ho | In Hong Kong, Cheng Lai-sheung (Josie Ho) works two jobs with the hope of earning enough money to buy her own apartment with a view of the Victoria Harbour. In mixed chronological order, we see scenes from Lai-sheung's past. In her childhood, her family and friends are evicted from their low-rent housing so that develo... | violence, satire | train | wikipedia | The bloody mainframe of the film's structure is accompanied by an interesting side-story that serves to justify all the bloodshed and also to provide some social commentary, but all this is secondary to the rivers of blood.
And God saw it was good.Ho-Cheung Pang's "Dream Home" proves that well-made genre pictures satis... |
tt0867418 | Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy! | Fred is treating the Mystery Inc. gang to share in his birthday present: a mystery cruise, compliments of his parents Skip and Peggy. While preparing for the ship launch, Scooby and Shaggy have a creepy encounter with a sinister-looking cloaked man, whom the duo are sure is up to no good. The gang meet the hyper Cruise... | psychedelic, horror | train | wikipedia | Yo ho ho and a whole load of Scooby fun!.
I really enjoyed Scooby Doo: Pirates Ahoy!
and I honestly think it is one of the better movies in the Scooby Doo franchise.
Like any film with pirates, it was fun, colourful and hugely enjoyable, and my only complaints are that it is too short, and I wasn't hugely keen on Frank... |
tt0069765 | Bang the Drum Slowly | Henry Wiggen (Moriarty) is a star pitcher for the New York Mammoths, a fictitious Major League Baseball team. He is a valuable player to his manager Dutch but is in a dispute with the team's ownership, holding out for a new contract and more money. Henry has a sideline as an insurance salesman working for the Arcturus ... | dramatic | train | wikipedia | Both are nice to watch, playing very easy-going non-offensive characters.Moriarty plays a pitcher on a pennant-contending team who lovingly looks after his not-so-smart-but-dying teammate and friend (De Niro).
As nice a film as it is, there is one warning: a lot profanity by the manager (Vincent Gardenia) but it's not ... |
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