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tt0109770 | The Fantastic Four | Childhood friends Reed Richards and Ben Grimm have worked together on a prototype teleporter since youth, eventually attracting the attention of Professor Franklin Storm, director of the Baxter Foundation, a government-sponsored research institute for young prodigies. Reed is recruited to join them and aid Storm's chil... | good versus evil, revenge, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0080310 | 'Breaker' Morant | In Pretoria, South Africa, in 1902, Major Charles Bolton (Rod Mullinar) is summoned to a meeting with Lord Kitchener (Alan Cassell). He is told that three officers of the Bushveldt Carbineers—Lieutenants Harry Morant (Edward Woodward), Peter Handcock (Bryan Brown), and George Witton (Lewis Fitz-Gerald) -- have been arr... | murder, anti war, violence, flashback, tragedy, historical | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0028492 | Westward Whoa | Beans and his companions are travelling and exploring in a wagon train. At the front, Beans plays an accordion, and Little Kitty strums a banjo. The two also sing while the rest harmonize. Soon the travellers set up camp in the woods and enjoy their night.
Ham and Ex sneak out to explore a bit, but then they notice som... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | It's Sad To See A Complete Character Go So Early. Although Beans can be spotted moving in Plane Dippy, this cartoon marks his last regular appearance. After watching a few Beans films, I knew the cat was something more complex than the hog who stole the spotlight from him. I can only wonder what kind of perception film... |
tt4547056 | The Girl with All the Gifts | Twenty years ago humanity was infected by a variant of the fungus Ophiocordyceps unilateralis. The infected, referred to as "hungries", quickly lose their mental powers and feed on the flesh of healthy humans. The disease spreads through blood and saliva, but can also spread through spores created by the fungus. In Eng... | dark, haunting, sentimental | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0457376 | Demento | Fiona Belli is an 18-year-old girl who recently moved to college. While visiting her parents, she is involved in a car accident, and awakens in a cage in the dungeon of a castle. Her memories of the incident are hazy. Noting that the cage that keeps her prisoner has been left unlocked, she steps out and begins searchin... | insanity, psychedelic, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1435513 | Hysteria | An American, Chris Smith, wakes up in an English hospital unable to remember anything of his life before a recent car accident.
Four months later he has recovered physically but has still not retrieved his memory. His amnesia is being treated by a psychiatrist, Dr. Keller, who tells him that his bills are being paid by... | historical | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0071198 | The Bat People | Dr. John Beck, recently married, decides to take his wife, Cathy, spelunking in Carlsbad Cavern for their honeymoon. While there on a tour, the couple gets lost in the bat cave. Dr. Beck, who specializes in bats, is bitten by a fruit bat. He then, inexplicably, begins to transform into a vampire bat. He visits a doctor... | violence | train | wikipedia | The only one who could talk some sense to him was his wife.Directed by Jerry Jameson (Airport '77, Raise the Titanic) made a watchable but disjointed horror film that attempts to be truly scary but fails.
Moss gives a good performance and there's early make-up effects work by the late five time Oscar-Winner,Stan Winsto... |
tt1135500 | Homecoming | After having lived in the United States for several years, Teddy brings his wife, Ruth, home for the first time to meet his working-class family in North London, where he grew up and which she finds more familiar than their arid academic life in America.
Much sexual tension occurs as Ruth teases Teddy's brothers and fa... | insanity, romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0082479 | Antropophagus | A pair of Germans visiting a remote Greek island go to the beach, and are slaughtered by someone who emerges from the ocean. On the mainland, five travelers are preparing to tour the islands, and are joined by Julie, who asks for a ride to an island that some friends of hers live on. The only one who objects to this de... | dark, cruelty, grindhouse film, murder, cult, violence, flashback, sadist | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0097235 | The Dream Team | Dr. Jeff Weitzman (Dennis Boutsikaris) is a psychologist working in a sanitarium in New Jersey. His primary patients are Billy, Henry, Jack and Albert. Billy (Keaton) is the most normal of the group and their unofficial leader, though he is a pathological liar with delusions of grandeur and violent tendencies. Henry (L... | satire, murder | train | wikipedia | In the hands of lesser a director and less talented actors, THE DREAM TEAM's plot about four mental patients loose in Manhattan would be silly and childish.
The four patients are Michael Keaton, as a loose tempered but charming liar, Peter Boyle as an ex-executive who now believes he is Jesus Christ, Christopher Lloyd ... |
tt2005164 | Breathless | Michel (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is a youthful criminal who is intrigued with the film persona of Humphrey Bogart. After stealing a car in Marseille, Michel shoots and kills a policeman who has followed him onto a country road. Penniless and on the run from the police, he turns to an American love interest Patricia (Jean Se... | comedy, murder | train | wikipedia | "Raising Arizona" type humor but the movie isn't as funny.
A movie you laugh at even though you know you shouldn't.
"We are in Texas there are no accidents.
There's alive and there's dead." Lorna (Gershon) is very upset with her husband Dale (Kilmer) after years of prison for robbing convenience stores he is free.
She ... |
tt0416960 | Marmoulak | Reza Mesghaly, known as Reza the Lizard, is a thief known in criminal circles for his ability to bare-handedly climb all walls (from which he derives his name, "the Lizard", or "Marmoulak" in Persian). At the very beginning of the film, he is arrested and charged with armed robbery, a crime that as revealed near the en... | comedy, satire | train | wikipedia | Hilarious and powerful..
I had the chance of watching this excellent movie yesterday at the Montreal World Film Festival.
This is the second Iranian film that I've seen (the first was 'Taste of Cherry') and I'm enchanted.This is the story of a thief who has an extraordinary agility at climbing walls just like a lizard ... |
tt1334439 | The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian | 1,300 Narnian years after the events of the previous movie, Caspian, a Telmarine prince and heir to the Telmarine throne, is informed by mentor Doctor Cornelius that his uncle, Miraz, is plotting to kill him and seize the throne for himself and his newborn heir. Cornelius gives him Queen Susan's ancient magical horn, i... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0205214 | The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns | An American businessman, Jack Woods (Randy Quaid), ostensibly wants to spend a calm holiday in the sleepy Irish town Kerry and rents a cottage there. During a hike, he sees Irish beauty Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Orla Brady) swimming naked. Kathleen catches him and chases him off, but Jack is smitten with her beauty. That e... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0079453 | The Legend of Sleepy Hollow | From the listless repose of the place, and the peculiar character of its inhabitants, who are descendants from the original Dutch settlers, this sequestered glen has long been known by name of Sleepy Hollow ... A drowsy, dreamy influence seems to hang over the land, and to pervade the very atmosphere.
The story is set ... | murder | train | wikipedia | The best Ichabod ever..
I love this version of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
Jeff Goldblum is the best Ichabod Crane I have ever seen.
Unfortunately, I have only seen it maybe every other Halloween, shown on various local stations that don't advertise their lineups in the TV guide.
Also unfortunately, the film is aging ... |
tt0062194 | Return of the Gunfighter | An old gunslinger Ben Wyatt (Robert Taylor) is released from prison after five years. He meets Lee Sutton (Chad Everett), who is on the run for killing a man in a gunfight. Wyatt finds that his close friends the Domingos have been killed. He takes Sutton, who is weak from being wounded in the gunfight, to find Anisa Do... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | The Weary Gunfighter.
Probably the best role Robert Taylor had in the last five years of his life was in this made for television western, Return of the Gunfighter.
Though no new dramatic trails are broken here, Taylor is just right for the part of a character very much like Gregory Peck's Jim Ringo in The Gunfighter.U... |
tt0019729 | The Broadway Melody | Eddie Kearns (Charles King) sings "The Broadway Melody", and tells some chorus girls that he brought the Mahoney Sisters vaudeville act to New York to perform it with him in the latest revue being produced by Francis Zanfield (Eddie Kane). Harriet "Hank" Mahoney (Bessie Love) and her sister Queenie Mahoney (Anita Page)... | humor | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0028258 | The Singing Vagabond | At a St. Louis opera house in 1860, a singer in blackface named Jerry Barton, known as "King of the Minstrels", comes backstage and asks his sweetheart, Lettie Morgan (Ann Rutherford), to elope. Lettie's Aunt Hortense, fearing that Barton is a fortune hunter, tells Lettie she is not the heiress she thought she was and ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Action Packed Oater That Should Please Gene Autry Fans. The opening musical/comedy skit may be a bit much and even downright offense to the modern viewer, but it does provide a historical glimpse of a dead art form, the minstrel show, which evolved into vaudeville and thus found a place in early Hollywood movies. Since... |
tt0043343 | Bird of Paradise | As a yacht sails into an island chain in the South Pacific, a large number of natives in pontoon boats sail out to greet them. The natives dive for the trinkets the yacht's crew throws them. A shark arrives, scaring most of the natives away. Attempting to catch a shark by throwing it bait that has been tied to a harpoo... | romantic | train | wikipedia | I will never forget when I saw "Bird of paradise" and I have never forgotten the name Debra Paget.
I was 16 years old, it was in 1952 and the movie was shown at the local cinema, a tiny place hiding under the pine trees in the village in mid-Sweden where I grew up.
Of course the volcano's eruption immediately stopped w... |
tt0108517 | Warlock: The Armageddon | In the distant past, Druids have stopped the rise of Satan's son using six magical rune stones that create light to vanquish the darkness. While the Druids perform a ritual upon a woman Satan has selected, they are attacked by Christians who feel their work is Satanic. Most of the Druids die and the rune stones are sca... | good versus evil, cult, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | The characters weren't near as annoying as that girl who lost her bracelet in the original, and the Warlock was actually given some pretty cool lines and parts.
Yes, because the early nineties were a cheesey time, but sometimes it's fun to look back at the past and smile.If you like cheap, cheesey horror films, this on... |
tt0109053 | Against the Wall | The docudrama is a partially fictionalized account of the four-day Attica Prison riot in 1971 at the Attica Correctional Facility, where prisoners took over much of state prison to protest inhumane conditions. The movie is focused on rookie prison guard Michael Smith (Kyle Maclachlan) and inmate Jamaal X (Samuel L. Jac... | revenge, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1278322 | Colin | Injured in the arm, Colin arrives home to the house he shares with Damien only to find it empty. While cleaning his wound in the kitchen sink, he is attacked by Damien, now a zombie. He manages to "kill" Damien by stabbing him multiple times in the head with a kitchen knife, but soon afterwards becomes a zombie himself... | violence | train | wikipedia | Quite frankly I was expecting this unknown low-budget horror to be as awful as it sounded, but it actually turned out to be the best movie of the night in many ways.
The director and main star of the film were both in attendance, and I had a chance to congratulate Marc Price on creating a damn fine little movie on what... |
tt0378306 | Shadow of Fear | To learn more about the Mysterons and Mars, Spectrum has conceived "Operation Sword". The objective is to place a space probe in orbit around Mars to capture detailed images of the surface. Although the Mysterons destroy a first probe, a second — Mini-Sat 5 — successfully lands on the Martian moon Phobos to carry out s... | murder | train | wikipedia | "Shadow of Fear" draws upon the elements of suspense from the famous genre of film noir.
All three films focus on a secret male society that goes outside the law to protect the interests and advance the agendas of its members.
I admired director Rich Cowan's camera angles and stylish cinematography in "Shadow of Fear."... |
tt0039160 | The Arnelo Affair | A lawyer's wife, Anne Parkson(Frances Gifford) is bored and neglected. She begins meeting with one of her husbands clients, a nightclub owner Tony Arnelo (John Hodiak) for interior design work. One afternoon she arrives at Tony's and soon after Tony's girlfriend shows up. The girlfriend is upset by Anne being there and... | murder | train | wikipedia | More romantic weeper than noir, Arnelo Affair bulges with lost opportunities.
In The Arnelo Affair, the letter `A' keeps cropping up again and again - as a monogram on a dressing gown, a compact, a key.
Ostensibly it signifies one of the two main characters: Tony Arnelo (John Hodiak ), a predatory nightclub owner, or A... |
tt0089789 | The Peanut Butter Solution | Michael Baskin is an average 11-year-old boy. His father, Billy Baskin, is a struggling artist and temporary sole caregiver of the children while his wife attends to the needs of her recently deceased father in Australia. Upon hearing the news that an abandoned mansion has recently burned down, Michael and his friend C... | absurd, cult, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | There's peanut butter mixed with flies and other gross stuff, super fast-growing hair, paintings that come to life, a sugar trail being washed away, and other random images.
I wonder if this movie was actually inspired by a dream, or by someone picking random words out of a dictionary maybe?Anyway, I loved it and longe... |
tt0434541 | Macbeth | === Act I ===
The play opens amidst thunder and lightning, and the Three Witches decide that their next meeting shall be with Macbeth. In the following scene, a wounded sergeant reports to King Duncan of Scotland that his generals—Macbeth, who is the Thane of Glamis, and Banquo—have just defeated the allied forces of N... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0469318 | Dark Country | Newly weds Dick (Thomas Jane) and Gina (Lauren German) decide to head across the Nevada desert for their honeymoon, driving at night to beat the heat. Before they head off, a stranger warns Dick to be careful, as couples have been known to get lost, and to stick to the Interstate. Shortly afterward, the couple realize ... | violence, neo noir, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0317447 | Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick | The game begins three years after the events of "Hail to the King". Ash Williams is telling the story of his battles with the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis to an Asian man, and then starts to tell the story of how he ended up with the man in the first place through a series of flashbacks.
=== Dearborn, Michigan: Last Night ==... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0922547 | Parasomnia | Danny Sloan is an art student who works in a record shop. He visits his friend Billy (Dov Tiefenbach), who is in drug rehab in hospital. Billy suggests Danny goes to see the "psycho ward" before he leaves, to see Byron Volpe (Patrick Kilpatrick), a serial killer kept in a padded cell after being convicted of murdering ... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0078880 | Bloodrage | A young man named Richard visits Beverly, a local prostitute, and runs into her boyfriend, a police officer named Ryan, on the way into Beverly's home. Richard and Beverly get into an argument, which ends with Richard accidentally shoving Beverly through a window, killing her. Richard cleans up the scene, evades Ryan w... | revenge, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | More like raging hormones..
A psychotic young man heads to New York after murdering a prostitute of a small town.
Thinking that he has escaped the police, he tries to live a normal life, but he encounters the very sleazy life of the city and goes about fixing up the problems, like knocking more prostitutes.
On his trai... |
tt0074657 | Hugó, a víziló | The harbor of Zanzibar becomes infested with a group of vicious sharks, which makes it impossible for trading ships to dock. In an attempt to fix the problem, the Sultan charges his advisor, Aban-Khan, to bring twelve hippos from Africa into the harbor to keep the sharks away. His idea works well enough, but once the h... | cult, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | I first saw this film when I was about 4 (a whole 24 years ago!), and have been enchanted by it ever since.
A wonderful tale of morality - about how money corrupts and the importance of not forgetting those who help you.
But the message diffuses into you, as you become lost in the fantastic animation (think Disney Fant... |
tt2344508 | Night of the Living 3D Dead | In this latest interpretation, the characters Barb and her brother Johnny arrive late for their aunt's funeral and find the cemetery overrun with zombies. After Johnny abandons her, Barb flees the cemetery and is rescued by Ben, a local college student. The two seek refuge in the nearby farmhouse of the Cooper family (... | suspenseful, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0033928 | Murder by Invitation | The relatives of Cassandra "Cassie" Denham, an old unmarried lady living in New York who is reputedly good for three million dollars, try to make a judge declare her unable to take care of herself financially. The attempt fails, and in charge of handing in the petition is Cassie's nephew Garson Denham, a lawyer. Instea... | murder | train | wikipedia | An old lady is taken to court by her heirs because they feel she is wasting her fortune and that she should be put away for her own safety.
Turning the tables on the greed family in the courtroom she insists that any of her heirs who want a piece of her money show up at her house that night.
What happens next is a very... |
tt0026129 | Bordertown | The opening titles explain that American corporations are using the North American Free Trade Agreement by opening large maquiladoras right across the United States–Mexico border. The maquiladoras hire mostly Mexican women to work long hours for little money in order to produce mass quantity products.
Lauren Adrian (Je... | insanity, murder | train | wikipedia | The idea of the poor Mexican immigrant that wants to better himself, only to see people step all over him, is at the center of this tale.Juan Ramirez, the young lawyer, trying to defend the victim of an accident caused by the young and reckless Dale Elwell, is defeated by a much more experienced Anglo lawyer, who happe... |
tt0907852 | Exposed | A police detective investigates the circumstances behind his partner's death. The mysterious case leads to an attempted police cover-up and a dangerous secret involving an unlikely young woman. The two parallel story lines initially appear to have little in common, but as events gradually unfold in the two separate urb... | suspenseful, murder, romantic | train | wikipedia | Very tightly executed thriller. Had this recommended to me from a friend. Watched it last night on Amazon VOD and enjoyed it very much. A very dark, exciting and unpredictable story. I also really liked the acting, the actors all did an amazing job. The writing is very good too, and I feel like they did a really good j... |
tt1570989 | Tiny Furniture | Having been dumped by her boyfriend after graduation, Aura (Lena Dunham) moves back home to her mother's loft in TriBeCa for the summer. Aura's plan is to save money until her friend Frankie finishes her degree at Oberlin College and can move to the city so that they can be roommates. Aura's mother Siri is a successful... | psychedelic, boring | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0086802 | Snorks | The Snorks are a race of small, colorful beings that live happily in the undersea world of Snorkland. They have snorkels on their heads, which are used to propel them swiftly through the water. As evidenced by the cartoon series, when a Snork becomes excited their tube makes a "snork" sound. They have much of the same ... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0095990 | Return of the Living Dead: Part II | The story begins with a military truck transporting barrels of Trioxin. The soldier, driving the vehicle through a downpour, is unaware when a barrel breaks loose and falls into a river. The next morning, a young boy, Jesse Wilson, is at the cemetery with two local bullies. The trio investigate the Trioxin tank that th... | cult, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0084044 | Hajji Washington | A fictionalized account of the first Iranian ambassador in the United States, Hajji Hossein-Gholi Noori, a loyal Qajar statesman who goes to Washington to found the embassy. After meeting with President Grover Cleveland, Haji proudly rents a mansion and hires several servants and staff, however there are no Iranians in... | alternate history | train | wikipedia | null |
tt6581364 | Koi Laut Ke Aaya Hai | The story revolves around the Shekhari Rajput family – a blind brother Rishabh and his younger sister Geetanjali. The story begins with the love Story of Geetanjali and Captain Abhimanyu Singh Rathore, a military officer. Though refused by her brother, Geetanjali disobeys him and marries Abhimanyu. This outrages Rishab... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Koi Laut Ke Aaya Hai. A review on actors:-Surbhi Jyoti (Geetanjali)- Surbhi is a wonderful actress. However she did not impress me much in the first episodes. I felt she over acted at many places. She has the potential to do much much better. She did too much in some places. She was nice as a serious person but the liv... |
tt3148890 | Embrace of the Vampire | Charlotte is a "chaste" good girl, who is having some very bad dreams about sex. Her dreams are the only place where her dream lover is a dark, handsome vampire; however, that is a bit of a dilemma for her real-life boyfriend, who is not quite as fascinating as the vampire dream boy. Charlotte is given the choice betwe... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt3398252 | Samurai Cop 2: Deadly Vengeance | In 1991, after taking down the Katana crime organization, Detective Joe Marshall plans to settle down with his wife Jennifer when she is suddenly murdered at a park. Twenty-five years later, Fuj Fujiyama has reorganized Katana Inc., but they are in the middle of a gang war with the Shinjuku and Ginza clans. He informs ... | violence, cruelty, sadist | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0308674 | Oomai Vizhigal | A group of college girls, driving a light blue matador, arrive at Chola Picnic Village. They book a hotel room by a picnic spot. At night they go out to the beach, light a bonfire, and enjoy singing and dancing. After the song ends, the girls return to the hotel. One of the girls, Vasanthi, separates from the group. Sh... | murder | train | wikipedia | Oomai Vizhigal (U/A)---------Rating:4/5. Oomai Vizhigal (U/A)---------Rating:4/5Extraordinary suspense thriller.... but a very long movie.....A group of college girls come in a light blue matador to Chola Picnic Village.They take a room in a hotel at that Picnic Spot.It becomes night and it is a full moon day. They go ... |
tt0059601 | Una pistola per Ringo | The film opens as the films protagonist, a gunfighter known as "Angel Face" or Ringo, kills four men in a gunfight. He is then arrested for manslaughter and locked up in the city jail where he awaits trial.
Meanwhile, Major Clyde and his daughter Ruby are celebrating Christmas with several guests on their ranch. They a... | western, violence | train | wikipedia | This is one of the better Spaghetti Westerns I've watched but whose reputation despite the popularity of the title character seems to me to be relatively underrated (and the film itself criminally unavailable in an affordable DVD edition; the same thing goes for its follow-up, THE RETURN OF RINGO [1965]).While pret... |
tt0084972 | Alvin & the Chipmunks | A tree that the chipmunks Alvin (Justin Long), Simon (Matthew Gray Gubler) and Theodore (Jesse McCartney) live in is cut down and driven to Los Angeles. Once in L.A., the Chipmunks meet struggling songwriter and composer David Seville (Jason Lee) who had his latest song rejected by JETT Records executive Ian Hawke (Dav... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Childhood memories....
Another Saturday morning cartoon I have a soft spot for...I even got a Chipmunks coloring book for Christmas one year!
Cute characters and stories, and I thought it was so cool that Alvin, Simon and Theodore sang and did videos to the hot pop songs of the day (Up Where We Belong, Hungry Like The ... |
tt0066064 | The McKenzie Break | At a Prisoner of War (POW) camp for Germans in the north of Scotland, Kapitän zur See Willi Schlüter (Helmut Griem) - a submariner – challenges the authority of the camp’s embattled Commanding Officer, Major Perry (Ian Hendry). British Army Captain Jack Connor arrives to investigate what's happening at the McKenzie POW... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | An irish intelligence officer (Keith) has been given the unwanted task of figuring out what is going on in a british P.O.W. camp for german officers.
He suspects the captives, under command of a submarine captain (Griem) are planning a major prison break, and during his investigation has several confrontations with his... |
tt0085692 | The Hound of the Baskervilles | Dr James Mortimer asks Sherlock Holmes to investigate the death of his friend, Sir Charles Baskerville. Sir Charles was found dead on the grounds of his Devonshire estate, Baskerville Hall, and Mortimer now fears for Sir Charles's nephew and sole heir, Sir Henry Baskerville, who is the new master of Baskerville Hall. T... | murder, haunting | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0263491 | Jis Desh Mein Ganga Rehta Hain | Gangaram alias Ganga (Govinda) lives a simple, straightforward life in a small village with his mom and dad (Shivaji Satham and Reema Lagoo), and his girlfriend, Saawni (Sonali Bendre). When the time comes for Ganga to marry, his parents inform him that his biological parents live in the city and want him to settle the... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Rustic Comedy.
A typical Govinda movie, with lots of wise cracks and goof ups.....but HILARIOUS !Strictly for Govinda fans only......anyone else, Handle with Care as it tends to go a bit overboard.
But all in all, a good movie with loads of good peppy tracks which pop in regularly..Downer - The 2 heroines.
Saving Grace... |
tt0037270 | Sheriff of Las Vegas | The Duchess Alice Fleming, living in Las Vegas, Nevada promises to help the local schoolteacher Ann Carter (Peggy Stewart) with her “wild” boyfriend, Tom Blackwell (Jay Kirby). Red Ryder is asked to lend a hand by the Duchess but when he does, he discovers Tom drunk in the saloon owned by Dan Sedley (William Haade). Re... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0096018 | Running on Empty | Mike (Terry Serio) is a young man who is a budding street racer, and owner of a Ford Falcon GT-HO Phase III. His best mate and mechanic, Tony (John Agius), are both steel workers by day, but when they aren't working, they are racing.
Fox (Richard Moir) is the top street racer of the area, and owner of a Dodge Challenge... | anti war, romantic, avant garde, dramatic | train | wikipedia | The best reason to watch this film is of course the performance by River Phoenix, which now that he's dead, we will never know if he could have topped this.
Although it wasn't a box office hit, I believe it will be remembered as one of Director Sidney Lumet's best films and certainly the best one to watch if you want t... |
tt0069466 | The Visitors | Bill Schmidt and his long-term girlfriend Martha Wayne and their young son Hal live in a small Connecticut farmhouse owned by Martha's overbearing father. One snowy winter Sunday, two of Bill's ex-army buddies, Mike and Tony, arrive. A few years ago, they had all served together in Vietnam in the same platoon but later... | revenge, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | If you look at this in terms of Kazan's career and the way he puts his own experience in every film (even though I'm sure he'd rather not, but he just can't help himself), this is a masterpiece.
A haunting Vietnam aftermath game by Elia Kazan.
CoW was based on a real story, this fictional 1972 film shows what happened ... |
tt1085382 | Chicago Overcoat | Lou Marazano was once a feared hit man, but his reputation has dimmed significantly twenty years after his retirement. Unable to help his daughter financially after her ex-husband fails to pay child support, he asks the street boss, Lorenzo Galante, for work. Though reluctant to give him the job, Galante sends him to k... | revenge, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0251285 | Myst III: Exile | Exile begins 10 years after the events of Riven, when the Stranger arrives at the home of Atrus and his wife Catherine. Atrus is a scientist and explorer who has mastered an ancient practice known as the Art: he can create links to different worlds, called Ages, by writing special books. This ability is by an ancient c... | revenge, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | In terms of graphics, Riven was a simple step up from Myst.
But Myst III adds a whole new level of realism to the franchise.The main new feature is that you can look anywhere you want in any direction withing the photo-realistic worlds when before you could only look at a limited amount of certain things.
The graphics ... |
tt0361240 | Spartacus | In the 1st century BC, the Roman Republic has slid into corruption, its menial work done by armies of slaves. One of these, a proud and gifted man named Spartacus (Kirk Douglas), is so uncooperative in his servitude that he is sentenced to fight as a gladiator. He is trained at a school run by the unctuous Roman busine... | violence | train | wikipedia | The TV miniseries opens in Gaul 72 B.C. where the Romans put an end to Varinia's world making her a slave
Meanwhile Spartacus (Goran Visnjic) is free from the hell of the gold mines of Egypt to be trained as gladiator in the establishment of Lentulus Batiatus (Ian McNeice).Most of "Spartacus" contains many of the mini... |
tt0059269 | A High Wind in Jamaica | A hurricane hits the isle of Jamaica in 1870. The Thorntons (Nigel Davenport and Isabel Dean), parents of five children, feel it is time to send the children to England for a more civilized upbringing and education.
During the voyage, pirates board the ship and take the children captive. The pirate captain, Chavez (Ant... | violence, action, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0099677 | The Golden Boat | The Golden Boat is inspired by American police series, mixed with Mexican soaps operas, and immersed in the artistic context of the Underground Art scene of the early 90’s of New York. In the street, a young student of philosophy and criticism at Village Voice, Israel Williams, meets Austin, an old man hurt and despera... | absurd, psychedelic, comedy, satire, violence | train | wikipedia | Decent first American film by Raoul Ruiz. Raoul Ruiz's first American movie is something of a parody of American TV with a few pinches of Mexican soap operas. Violence is treated as a normal means of interaction and it rarely has any real consequences. The film is structured as a series of episodes about Israel, a self... |
tt0385940 | The Perfect Husband: The Laci Peterson Story | The film is told through the perspectives of Scott and Laci Peterson's friends, who trusted and supported Scott until they could not believe him anymore.
Laci Peterson was a pregnant mother-to-be. On Christmas Eve, 2002, she disappeared. Her husband Scott Peterson (Dean Cain), and her family go out to search for Laci, ... | murder | train | wikipedia | Living in a country where media coverage of the Laci Peterson story was minimal, this TV-film did a great job of depicting the tragic events.
The pace was good and the story telling was thoughtful without getting complicated.
Dean Cain was fantastic (as always) in his role as Scott Peterson, and Tracy Middendorf was gr... |
tt0216707 | Dil Kya Kare | Anand Kishore (Ajay Devgan), an architect, his wife, Kavita (Mahima Chaudhry), and their only child, an adopted daughter, Neha (Akshita Garud), live a happy and serene life in Delhi, India. Their happy and lovely life together is turned upside down when Kavita finds out that Neha is being stalked by a woman named Nandi... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0091024 | Extremities | Marjorie (Fawcett) is a young woman who works in a museum and lives with two female roommates, Pat (Woodard) and Terry (Scarwid) in Los Angeles. One night, while getting into her car, she is attacked at knifepoint by a masked assailant (Russo), who forces her to touch him sexually.
Marjorie manages to escape, but not b... | revenge, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0120619 | Break Up | Gary Grobowski (Vince Vaughn) and Brooke Meyers (Jennifer Aniston) meet at Wrigley Field during a Chicago Cubs game and begin dating, eventually buying a condominium together. Gary works as a tour guide in a family business with his brothers, Lupus (Cole Hauser) and Dennis (Vincent D'Onofrio). Brooke manages an art gal... | flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0073076 | Grey Gardens | The film is based on the life stories of the eccentric paternal aunt and first cousin of Jackie Kennedy, both named Edith Bouvier Beale. The elder Edith Bouvier Beale was the sister of Jackie Kennedy's father John Vernou Bouvier III and was referred to as "Big Edie", her daughter was referred to as "Little Edie". The B... | cult, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0029354 | Orphan of the Pecos | Rancher Hank Gelbert (Lafe McKee) receives a visit from his foreman, Jess Brand (Forrest Taylor), who wants to see Gelbert's daughter Ann. Knowing that Brand is only interested in Ann to get money to pay off his gambling debts, Gelbert tells him to clear off his property. As Gelbert opens his safe to pay Brand his last... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0097050 | Koneko monogatari | The film opens in 1986 on Nippon Farm with a mother cat named Moth Ari who has given birth to kittens. One of the kittens is named Milo ("Chatran" (チャトラン, Chatoran) in the Japanese version), and has a habit of being too curious and getting himself into trouble. He finds a pug-nosed pug puppy named Otis ("Poosky" (プー助, ... | cute | train | wikipedia | "The Adventures of Milo and Otis" is a wonderful film about a pair of cute animals, an orange cat named Milo and a pug named Otis, who have been separated from each other and their home.
Milo and Otis, best friends since birth, grow up on a small farm and lightheartedly enjoy their youth together, having fun with the o... |
tt0119923 | Post coïtum animal triste | Christopher and Leslie are a couple in their mid to late 20s who have no-strings-attached sex on a regular basis. After another get-together, they debate and argue over the meaning of their relationship and the nature of sex vs. love, with each of them claiming that the other is the only one developing feelings, before... | pornographic, murder, storytelling, flashback | train | wikipedia | if you've ever fell in this kind of LOVE.
This is really a nice story, very true as my own experience, I believe anyone who ever been to that state or close to, things might go so tragic like that, The film is a truly reminder for all of us ---don't ever be that way when you fall in love, the ending could be whole lot ... |
tt1329177 | K-11 | Raymond Saxx Jr. is a powerful record producer who wakes from a drug-induced blackout to find himself locked up and classified in the segregated "K-11" unit for LGBT inmates. Plunged into a nightmarish world ruled by a transgender diva named Mousey, Raymond is truly a fish out of water. Complicating matters are a troub... | violence | train | wikipedia | Not great, but not bad..
There will be people hating on this film because of various reasons, but I loved the story, even though it could have been much much better, I'd say this is rather rushed, but I wouldn't say it's bad.
This homosexual prison camp never came across my mind, at least it doesn't seem to exist in my... |
tt0025132 | Forsaking All Others | Ever since Jeff Williams (Clark Gable) was a child, he has been in love with Mary Clay (Joan Crawford). Returning from Madrid, Spain, he wants to propose to her firsthand. However, he comes to a halt, as he finds out that she is being married to Dillon 'Dill' Todd (Robert Montgomery) the very next day. The three had be... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Clark Gable returns from Madrid (we are not told what he was doing there nor really what anyone does for a living) in order to propose to Joan Crawford.
Clark has secretly loved Joan since they were children but in his absence, Joan has agreed to marry Robert Montgomery who she has loved since they were children.
Enter... |
tt0273982 | Poolhall Junkies | Obsessed by the world of pool, Johnny (Mars Callahan) could be one of the best. But his mentor and "trainer" Joe (Chazz Palminteri), a shady hustler who decides how and who Johnny plays, is holding him back from his dream. When the day finally comes, Johnny breaks from Joe, which leads to only one thing—violence. Joe i... | revenge | train | wikipedia | Poolhall Junkies is one of those little sweet pieces of film that can hold your attention throughout, get you to grin even when a joke isn't that funny, and let the viewer know debut filmmakers, such as Gregory "Mars" Martin, can still serve a purpose in a widening scumish movie season.Martin plays Johnny Doyle, a pool... |
tt0048713 | That's My Mommy | A mother duck is sleeping on her nest of eggs, but one of the egg suddenly rolls from the nest and begins to hatch. The duckling, Quacker, slips under a sleeping Tom outside and hatches underneath him, causing Quacker to assume Tom as his mother. While the duckling snuggles next to his "mommy", Tom places two sticks ac... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Perhaps a little too short, but very funny and sweet.
I love Tom and Jerry, and I enjoyed That's My Mommy.
And yes, I like Little Quacker, he is very engaging and cute, not annoying like some people make him out to be.
The cartoon is perhaps too short at only 6 minutes, but it moves very quickly and is very satisfying.... |
tt0060416 | Un fiume di dollari | Tyler is obsessed with the horror film The Hills Run Red, considered the scariest movie ever made, with the deranged serial killer Babyface in the lead role. However, the film's director, Wilson Wyler Concannon, disappeared years ago and there is no known copy of the movie. Tyler's obsession with the film leads him to ... | western, revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | Pleasant Spaghetti Western with usual nasty Henry Silva who steals the show as a merciless gunfighter.
A soldier named Brewster (Thomas Hunter) is taken prisoner in Fort Wilson .
The conflict is a simple one between avenger Brewster , now named Houston, and oppressors, nasties bandits commanded by cruel foreman (Henry ... |
tt0108560 | Who's the Man? | Doctor Dré and Ed Lover are two bumbling barbers at a Harlem barbershop. Knowing full well that cutting hair is not their calling, their boss, friend, and mentor Nick (Jim Moody) tells the two maybe they should try out for the police academy. They refuse at first ,but Nick threatens them with unemployment. Crazily enou... | cult, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0169247 | So Weird | === Season 1 ===
The season began with Fiona Phillips on tour with her famous rocker mother Molly, brother Jack, a skeptic, bus driver Ned, his wife Irene, and their son Clu. Stringing together all of Fi's paranormal encounters was her search to communicate with her father, who died when she was three years old. Fi fir... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | So Weird is like a PG-version of "The X-Files".
It explores paranormal phenomena but in a way that is still suitable for younger kids.The first and second seasons were good and entertaining.
Instead of Cara DeLizia as Fi, we see Alexz Johnson as Annie.
The explanation is that Fi moved away to live life as a normal girl... |
tt0173443 | Watch the Shadows Dance | A tight-knit group of high school students studies karate with Steve Beck (Vince Martin), a former soldier in an unnamed war. They begin working at 5:00 a.m., which makes them sleepy in Sonia Spane's (Joanne Samuel) class. Spane is Beck's former lover, and she complains to him about the relentless schedule of his class... | murder | train | wikipedia | a much-underrated effort.
technically - (sound / camera / scenery / lights) this is not the greatest effort ever but the film has so much going for it!
In the not too distant future youngsters play ninja/paintball games in an abandoned power station by night, and during the day they attend their studies which include m... |
tt0042665 | Last Holiday | George Bird (Guinness), an ordinary, unassuming salesman of agricultural implements, visits a physician for a routine check-up and is told he has Lampington's Disease, a newly identified condition which allows him only a few weeks to live. He accepts the doctor’s advice to take his savings and enjoy himself in the litt... | comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0058642 | Tini zabutykh predkiv | In a small Hutsul village in the Carpathian mountains of Ukraine, a young man, Ivan, falls in love with the daughter of the man who killed his father. Though their families share a bitter enmity, Ivan and Marichka have known each other since childhood. In preparation for their marriage, Ivan leaves the village to work ... | insanity, psychedelic, romantic, melodrama | train | wikipedia | The first half of the film deals with that love and the second with Ivan's downfall after she dies in an accident.Shadows would probably not appeal to someone looking for great acting, strong characterizations and emotional pull.
Not exactly commercial fare, Shadows is a stunningly beautiful looking film and in fact a ... |
tt0453557 | Timesplitters: Future Perfect | The game begins in 2401 when the space marine, Sergeant Cortez, is leaving the space station that he destroyed at the end of TimeSplitters 2. His ship crash lands on the future Earth and two fellow marines greet him. Sergeant Cortez follows his squad of marines through the valley and battles unknown masked figures and ... | absurd, psychedelic, dark, gothic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0406650 | The Chumscrubber | Troy Johnson (Josh Janowicz), the supplier of prescription drugs to fellow high school students in the fictional southern California town of Hillside, commits suicide. Troy's best friend Dean Stiffle (Jamie Bell), is prescribed more antidepressants by his psychiatrist father Bill (William Fichtner) after discovering th... | violence, comedy, boring | train | wikipedia | Some lucky distributor is going to make bank off of this great film by a skilled director and soulful screenwriter.Although I was pleasantly surprised as famous face after famous face came on the screen, Jamie Bell (main character Dean) is without equal.
Suburbia pops up on the screen, one house at a time, and it's the... |
tt1185242 | Finding Bliss | After a long humbling year temping as a traffic cop on a studio lot, Jody is faced with the hard decision of taking the only well-paying industry job she has yet been offered — editing porn at Grind Productions, a profitable adult film company run by former porn star Irene Fox (Kristen Johnston).
At first horrified by ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | "Finding Bliss" is just a middle-of-the-road, soft-core film about a young film-maker struggling to succeed in Hollywood.
Unfortunately it doesn't play out much better than just a student film itself.It begins with every cliché and plot advance you expect to find in a chick flick.
I found "Finding Bliss" to just be a H... |
tt0278315 | Arjun Pandit | Arjun Pandit (Sunny Deol) is madly in love with Nisha (Juhi Chawla), a model. He gets her kidnapped by his men and wants to celebrates her birthday, but she tells him that she does not like him.
In the past, Arjun Dixit (Arjun Pandit) was a peaceful, God-loving man who lived in Haridwar. He is a professor at a universi... | romantic, revenge, murder, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | Whoo!.
Arjun Pandit is truly one of the most mind-blowing action movies I have ever seen!
Sunny Deol's character is somewhat different as he plays a simple, god-fearing yoga professor, who believes in nonviolence.
Later circumstances lead him into a web of deceit and danger, as he eventually learns the truth and become... |
tt0035170 | Panama Hattie | Act I
Hattie Maloney owns a night club in the Panama Canal Zone where she also performs. Three sailors from the S.S. Idaho, Skat Briggs, Windy Deegan and Woozy Hoga, ask her to sing at a party they are organizing ("Join It Right Away"). Nick Bullet, Hattie’s fiance, is a wealthy Navy officer. They are about to meet his... | romantic | train | wikipedia | I felt it my patriotic duty to write a comment, since this movie was commentless.
A little background: I'm a big fan of Cole Porter, Ann Sothern, musicals, and 40's movies, and had been wanting to see this film for a while before I actually saw it this afternoon.
I saw another 30's Cole Porter musical turned into 40's... |
tt0050763 | Night Passage | On the way to meet his former boss, railroad tycoon Ben Kimball (Jay C. Flippen), Grant McLaine (Stewart) rescues a young boy, Joey Adams (Brandon deWilde), from Concho (Robert J. Wilke). Ben informs Grant that his payroll has been robbed three times already by a gang led by Whitey Harbin (Dan Duryea) and the Utica Kid... | cult, revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0045886 | Houdini | In the 1890s, young Harry Houdini (Tony Curtis) is performing with a Coney Island carnival as Bruto, the Wild Man, when Bess (Janet Leigh), a naive onlooker, tries to protect him from the blows of Schultz (Sig Ruman), his "trainer." Harry then appears as magician The Great Houdini and, spotting Bess in the audience, in... | paranormal | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0085031 | The Hitchhiker | While travelling through Utah, Jack Carter picks up a hitchhiker, but kicks him out after a few minutes due to the man hitting on him. Hours later, Jack stops in a secluded area, and begins digging a grave for the woman he had bound and gagged in the back of his pickup truck.
Four women (Melinda, Patty, Kristina, and D... | revenge, violence | train | wikipedia | One of the best suspense and thriller series in TV history..
"The, Hitchhiker" had it all mixed into every episode a little suspense, drama, terror, revenge, sex, and fun.
This series always kept you on the edge of your seat you never knew what was going to happen, every episode was well written and the acting was clev... |
tt2055709 | Penthouse North | Sara Taylor is a photojournalist stationed in Afghanistan. She enters a building, in which she espies a woman crying for help. She raises her camera to take a photo of the woman before realizing that the baby the woman is carrying is actually a bomb. The bomb explodes, leaving Sara permanently blind.
Having returned to... | murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | You might like this movie if you enjoyed: Columbus Circle (1996), Brake (2012)Long Story Short: Sarah (Michelle Monaghan), a former Military photojournalist, has lost her sight due to an incident in Afghanistan.
It turns out that Ryan does have a secret and, which gets Sarah in great danger.Review: I have never heard o... |
tt0251806 | Long Time Dead | The film begins showing people using a ouija board in Morocco. Throughout the scene, something is seen from first person perspective coming at high speed towards the people.
The main film begins with four housemates (Rob (Joe Absolom), Liam (Alec Newman), Stella (Lara Belmont) and Spencer(James Hillier) ) deciding to g... | murder | train | wikipedia | A random group of young adults who are some combination of roommates/friends takes time out from their busy partying schedule to play with an improvised Ouija board, when they accidentally call forth a djinn who tells them that they will all die.Long Time Dead is quite a mess, made all the more frustrating by occasiona... |
tt0333780 | Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde | Elle Woods wants her Chihuahua, Bruiser, to reunite with his mother, because she would like Bruiser's mom to attend Elle and Emmett's wedding. Elle hires a detective to find Bruiser's mother, only to discover that the owner of her dog's mother is C'est Magnifique, a cosmetics company that uses Bruiser's mother for "tes... | stupid | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0059314 | Inside Daisy Clover | In the mid-1930s, Daisy Clover (Natalie Wood) is a teenage tomboy, who lives in a ramshackle trailer with her eccentric mother (Ruth Gordon) on a California beach and dreams of Hollywood stardom. She submits a song recording to the well-known film producer Raymond Swan (Christopher Plummer), who puts her under contract... | cult, depressing, romantic, melodrama | train | wikipedia | Still, the look and atmosphere of the film are really extraordinary, and Christopher Plummer gives off sparks of neurotic heat as the head of the movie studio.
Robert Redford is a good screen match for Natalie, although his love-interest role is steeped in the hypothetical; Wood herself runs hot and cold, though she ha... |
tt0420408 | Hercules | Hercules is the leader of a band of mercenaries composed of the spear-wielding prophet Amphiaraus of Argos, the knife-throwing thief Autolycus of Sparta, the feral warrior Tydeus of Thebes, the Amazon archer Atalanta of Scythia and his nephew storyteller Iolaus of Athens. Hercules is said to be the demigod son of Zeus,... | murder | train | wikipedia | Additionally, the DVD showed that it contained the full frame version, which it did not and subtitles, which it did not.Check out the Sci Fi channel for showings.Love this movie..
The point of the movie was not the heroics, nor the political intrigue, nor the subplots, nor the eye candy (though, I have to admit Paul Te... |
tt0025532 | Murder on the Blackboard | Miss Withers (Edna May Oliver) discovers the dead body of her colleague, music teacher Louise Halloran (Barbara Fritchie), in a schoolroom. She summons her old friend, Inspector Oscar Piper (James Gleason), but by the time he arrives, the corpse has disappeared. Having watched the only entrance (other than a fire exit ... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0085061 | My Cousin Rachel | On the coast of Cornwall, the boy Philip Ashley is raised by his older and wealthy cousin Ambrose on a large estate. When the weather in Cornwall threatens Ambrose's health, he leaves the estate for a warmer climate, making his way to Florence and leaving Philip behind with his godfather, Nick Kendall. In Florence, Amb... | romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0038666 | Kamennyy tsvetok | The story is told from the point of view the old storyteller Slyshko.
The skilled gemcutter Prokopych is getting old, and the landlord's bailiff forces him to take an apprentice. Prokopych tries to teach several boys, but none of them understands "the soul of stone". Eventually he picks a young boy Danilo, who appears ... | romantic, fantasy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0038924 | The Seventh Veil | Francesca Cunningham (Ann Todd) is a suicidal mental patient under the care of Dr. Larsen (Herbert Lom). Under hypnosis, Larsen leads her to describe her life events that brought her to attempt suicide. The film largely consists of a series of flashbacks in which Francesca talks about her life, removing successive "vei... | psychological, atmospheric, melodrama | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0091341 | Kin-dza-dza! | The film is set in 1980s Moscow. Uncle Vova, a generic but gruff construction foreman is relaxing at home after a stressful day at work. His wife asks him to buy some groceries so Vova goes out to the nearest store. Standing right in the city centre on Kalinin Prospekt, a barefoot man dressed in a tattered coat appeals... | psychedelic, absurd, cult, satire, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1006947 | The Raven | "The Raven" follows an unnamed narrator on a dreary night in December who sits reading "forgotten lore" by a dying fire as a way to forget the death of his beloved Lenore. A "tapping at [his] chamber door" reveals nothing, but excites his soul to "burning". The tapping is repeated, slightly louder, and he realizes it ... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | TV (non)Mystery movie. There was so much affectation in the acting and accents, I honestly couldn't wait for 'The Raven' to dispatch each of the characters. Why were these South African actors given an Australian dialogue coach to help them deliver English 'toff' accents? And I swear I heard a Welsh accent early on, wh... |
tt0409799 | Cashback | Aspiring artist Ben Willis develops insomnia after a painful breakup with his girlfriend, Suzy. To take his mind off Suzy and to occupy the extra waking hours he has recently gained, Ben begins working at a local Sainsbury's supermarket, where he meets colourful co-workers. Among them is his colleague Sharon, with whom... | prank, flashback | train | wikipedia | When I first watched this movie I couldn't get past the nudity enough to see the art.
I watched it again and started to see that the nudes were so perfect they were more like mannequins than anything else.
How can a movie about night-fill at a supermarket possibly be any good?
Add Sean Biggerstaff , humour, and an outs... |
tt1984279 | The Swan Princess Christmas | Princess Odette and Prince Derek are on their way to Queen Uberta's castle to celebrate their first Christmas together. Unbeknownst to them, the evil sorcerer Rothbart has returned from the dead as a spirit and enlisted a black cat named Number 9 for help by promising him nine extra lives. Number 9 lures Derek to the c... | revenge, fantasy, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0028127 | Porky's Poultry Plant | Porky Pig is running his own poultry plant consisting of chickens, chicks, ducks and geese. Porky does his daily morning corn feeding. Later Porky sadly looks at photos of some of his chickens all taken away by a chicken-hawk and he shakes his fists at the poster of that chicken-hawk, vowing to get that hawk once and f... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Firsts.
A remarkable cartoon for the period.
First, it was Carl Stallings' debut as Termite Terrace's musical director, a position he would hold for twenty years, producing a remarkable body of work.
Second, it was Frank Tashlin's second directorial credit -- his first was three years before for Van Beuren -- and his m... |
tt0026744 | Murder on a Honeymoon | On a short flight to Catalina Island off the California coast, a passenger named Roswell T. Forrest (Brooks Benedict) gets sick. Hildegarde Withers (Edna May Oliver) and the others aboard are startled when he is found dead upon landing. It appears to be murder to Miss Withers, but she has a tough time convincing local ... | revenge | train | wikipedia | Another delightful entry with Edna May Oliver as amateur sleuth....
This time a murder takes place on a seaplane enroute to Catalina Island and all of the passengers become suspects.
Needless to say, a few red herrings are thrown into the plot but it's all eventually solved after Hildegarde Withers (Edna May Oliver) ca... |
tt0083578 | Arth | Pooja (Shabana Azmi), who grew up as an orphan girl and always dreamt of owning a house, becomes insecure when she finds out that she and her husband, Inder (Kulbhushan Kharbanda), have to leave the apartment they rent. The twist that occurred when Inder gives her the keys of a new house proves to be double-edged, when... | melodrama | train | wikipedia | Mahesh Bhatt was one of the finest filmmakers of the 1980s in the Hindi film industry.
Most of his films of that period, whether it's Arth, Saaransh or Kaash, dealt with subjects most people have to deal with in their lives.
Arth is one of his finest works and is perhaps the most famous of his films of that time.
The m... |
tt0068655 | Le grand blond avec une chaussure noire | Bernard Milan, the second-in-command of France's Counter-Espionage department, is out to discredit his chief Louis Toulouse so that he can supplant him. When a French heroin smuggler who has been arrested in New York claims that the drug smuggling was a secret mission on the orders of French Counter-Espionage (actually... | cult, comic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0120532 | The Woodlanders | The story takes place in a small woodland village called Little Hintock, and concerns the efforts of an honest woodsman, Giles Winterborne, to marry his childhood sweetheart, Grace Melbury. Although they have been informally betrothed for some time, her father has made financial sacrifices to give his adored only child... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
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