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tt0034556 | The Bulleteers | The story begins as the clock strikes midnight. A strange, bullet-shaped rocket-car blows right through the police department, leaving an explosion in its wake. The paper the next day reports the destruction of the building and bafflement of the police. Perry White calls Lois Lane and Clark Kent into his office. Just a... | psychedelic, violence | train | wikipedia | Superman Versus Perverted Science.
A SUPERMAN CartoonThree evil inventors have developed a fantastic `bullet car' - shaped like a rocket, it can fly and destroy any building by simply crashing through it.
After smashing the Metropolis Police Headquarters, the extortionists demand a huge payment, which the mayor refuses... |
tt0053351 | They Came to Cordura | In 1916, as U.S. soldiers chase after Pancho Villa, Army Major Thomas Thorn (Gary Cooper) is assigned to be a battlefield observer and reward heroism. He has been suggested for this duty by a Colonel Rogers (Robert Keith), who is 63 years old and impatiently yearning to be promoted to general before mandatory retiremen... | anti war, violence | train | wikipedia | This is in response to comments on 'They Came to Cordura' regarding its dramatic weakness and flawed camera work and editing.The flaws may be real, but they might not be the fault of the filmmaker (writer-director Robert Rossen).Reportly, the film was taken out of Rossen's hands by the studio and drastically cut and re... |
tt0062384 | Torture Garden | Five people visit a fairground sideshow run by showman Dr. Diabolo (Burgess Meredith). Having shown them a handful of haunted house-style attractions, he promises them a genuinely scary experience if they will pay extra. Their curiosity gets the better of them, and the small crowd follows him behind a curtain, where th... | cruelty, murder, haunting | train | wikipedia | Amicus always managed to get great casts for their anthological films especially, and the fact that one or two decent American actors/actresses are present here merely, emphasises the point.Burgess Meredith plays Dr. Diablo with marvellous relish in the linking story about a fairground charlatan who presides over "the ... |
tt2585548 | Babysitter Massacre | On Halloween, a babysitter is sent several threatening text messages, the last of which reads, "I'm not in the house... yet". Moments later, the sitter is grabbed by a man in a white mask, who duct tapes her to a chair, rips three of her fingernails out, and slits her throat. Elsewhere, Angela chats with her neighbor, ... | violence | train | wikipedia | It is exactly what you think it is!.
You already know if you will like it or not based off the title and trailer.
No smoke and mirror show here, this is a straight up slasher movie.
In this day and age where anyone with a camera phone can make a movie it is hard to create something on a budget that can truly affect the... |
tt0105622 | Topâzu | A timid Japanese college student, Ai (愛, lit. "love"), works as a specialty prostitute for an exclusive escort agency that caters to wealthy, mostly perverted, Japanese men in Tokyo. To please her clients, she has to play out elaborate fantasy scenarios involving sexual humiliation and light SM/bondage.
The first two-t... | insanity, psychedelic, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0047422 | River of No Return | Set in the Northwestern United States in 1875, the film focuses on taciturn widower Matt Calder (Robert Mitchum), who has recently been released from prison after serving time for killing one man while defending another. He arrives in a boomtown tent city in search of his ten-year-old son Mark (Tommy Rettig), who was l... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0097889 | Miracle Mile | The film takes place in a single day and night. The film opens with the two main characters, Harry (Anthony Edwards) and Julie (Mare Winningham), meeting at the La Brea Tar Pits and immediately falling in love. After spending the afternoon together, they make a date to meet after her shift ends at midnight at a local c... | cult, comedy, violence | train | wikipedia | Miracle Mile is one of my favourite films -I know it has its rough edges but I fell in love the first time I saw it at the University of Portsmouth film society ten years ago.
Usually the device is used in suspense movies, but has become popular recently in art house cinema like Timecode and Russian Ark.The set-up is s... |
tt0033616 | Footsteps in the Dark | Francis Warren (Errol Flynn) appears to have a normal life handling investments, but secretly he writes lurid detective novels under the pseudonym F.X. Pettijohn. His other career is unknown to wife Rita (Brenda Marshall) or to anyone but Inspector Mason (Alan Hale), who mocks the books, insisting that true crime is mu... | suspenseful, mystery, murder | train | wikipedia | a well crafted mystery and a touch of romance and light comedy thrown in for good measure, a hidden gem.
a hidden gem, shows the wide variety of skills errol flynn possessed but was not given credit for until much later.
errol could really act, he had an excellent comedic touch and really makes this well written myster... |
tt0056595 | The Tom and Jerry Cartoon Kit | The cartoon begins with a demonstration for the Tom and Jerry Cartoon Kit, with which "anyone can now enter the lucrative field of animated cartoons." The items in the kit include the following:
"One mean, stupid cat" (Tom)
"One sweet, lovable mouse" (Jerry)
"Assorted deadly weapons" (a knife, a hammer, and a stick of ... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | When I saw this cartoon on Cartoon Network, I saw the credits the dreaded words "directed by Gene Deitch" - I thought, this was going to be another stupid Deitch T&J short.Actually, it's a somewhat UNDERSTANDABLE toon that is the best of the Deitch era of T&J - and that's saying something.Sure the Eastern European anim... |
tt0084917 | The World According to Garp | The story deals with the life of T. S. Garp. His mother, Jenny Fields, is a strong-willed nurse who wants a child but not a husband. She encounters a dying ball turret gunner known only as Technical Sergeant Garp, who was severely brain damaged in combat. Jenny nurses Garp, observing his infantile state and almost perp... | romantic, comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0116147 | Drive | The unnamed Driver works as a mechanic, a movie double, and a stunt driver, as well as a criminal-for-hire getaway driver. He is managed in all jobs by auto shop owner Shannon, who persuades Jewish mobsters Bernie Rose and Nino to purchase a car for the Driver to race. The Driver meets his new neighbor, Irene, and beco... | cult, suspenseful, violence | train | wikipedia | It's quite the action experience for direct-to-video fare, the fight choreography is great, Dacascos is at the top of his form and is better than anyone I've seen in the kick-kick genre of late.
As far as martial arts films go this still has the best fight sequences outside of Hong Kong.
Kadeem Hardison co-stars as Mal... |
tt0033512 | Dangerously They Live | In New York City, German agents arrange for Jane Graystone (Nancy Coleman) to take a taxi driven by one of their own men. The abduction goes awry when the taxi collides with another vehicle. Both driver and passenger are taken to the hospital in an ambulance attended by intern Dr. Mike Lewis (John Garfield). On the way... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0044962 | Never Wave at a WAC | A divorced socialite and daughter - Jo McBain (Rosalind Russell) - of a United States senator - Andrew McBain (Paul Douglas) - would like to join her boyfriend, who just left for Paris, where he has been transferred, with two other military comrades. After speaking with her father, he has the idea of her joining the ar... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Amusing lark.
I stumbled across this movie one sleepness night and rarely have I ever enjoyed insomnia so much.
It has to be the inspiration for Goldie Hawn's "Private Benjamin" and the innocence of the era in which this movie was made (1952) seems to add to the enjoyment.The film quality and overall production seems t... |
tt0137279 | The Woman in White | Walter Hartright, a young art teacher, encounters and gives directions to a mysterious and distressed woman dressed entirely in white, lost in London; he is later informed by policemen that she has escaped from an asylum. Soon afterward, he travels to Limmeridge House in Cumberland, having been hired as a drawing maste... | insanity, romantic, gothic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0287883 | Süper Baba | Charlie McCready (Bob Crane) tries to wrest his daughter Wendy (Kathleen Cody) from her childhood friends, whom he believes have no ambition. He especially disapproves of her boyfriend, Bart (Kurt Russell). Initially he makes a few attempts to bridge the generation gap, but he fails, especially during the surfing scene... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0146253 | Ruddigore | === Act I ===
In the town of Rederring, in Cornwall, a chorus of professional bridesmaids frets that there have been no weddings for the last six months. All of the eligible young men are hopeful of a union with Rose Maybud, the prettiest maiden in the village, yet they are too timid to approach her. The desperate brid... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0032536 | Go West | A drifter identified only as "Friendless" (Keaton) sells the last of his possessions, keeping only a few trinkets and a picture of his mother. Unable to find a job in the city, he goes west and manages to get a job at a cattle ranch despite having no experience. Meanwhile, a neglected cow named Brown Eyes fails to give... | humor | train | wikipedia | Despite not having a reputation as one of the better Marx Brothers films, I still found this to be a typical MB movie with crazy scenes and a few songs.
Once again, Chico comes up with the funniest lines.I think this is a solid comedy and an underrated Marx Brothers film .
The consensus is that Go West is passable, at ... |
tt0111897 | Blue Seed | Momiji Fujimiya thought she was just an ordinary high school student. One day, she is confronted on her way to school by a cat-eyed man with blue magatama beads embedded in his hands, who then attempts to kill her. Momiji is confused and terrified this strange man's sudden desire to kill her; he also refers to her as K... | paranormal | train | wikipedia | If you like this sort of thing, you'll love this.
I must always say, when dealing with anime, that it's an acquired taste.
Not everyone enjoys it; some folks down right despise it.
But if you enjoy it, well, this is a high quality piece of action/sci-fi.
The american dub is pretty horrendous at spots, and it's a touch ... |
tt0758798 | Weirdsville | Nothing much happens in the lives of 20-something pals Dexter and Royce except for getting high and hanging out with Royce’s girlfriend, Matilda ('Mattie'). This all changes one evening in Northern Ontario town Weedsville when Mattie overdoses on a stash of Dexter and Royce’s drugs — drugs fronted by local drug kingpin... | comedy, flashback | train | wikipedia | I liked Trainspotting when it came out, but if there was one criticism you could make it was that the film took itself a little too seriously.
If you're looking for an enjoyable and refreshing 90 minutes that restores your faith in low budget films, buy a ticket..
From Jaws as a lady, to a Canadian romp of Satanists, g... |
tt0401244 | The Baxter | Eliot is a dependable and reliable—though thoroughly average—young man with a streak of bad luck, terminally typecast as a nice guy in a life that mimics the clichés of typical romantic comedies. In high school he was stood up by his date on Prom night when her ex-boyfriend, the most popular kid in school, swept her of... | whimsical, romantic, psychedelic, satire, flashback | train | wikipedia | I'm actually looking forward to bringing my parents to see it, because not only do I think they'll really enjoy it, but I feel like it's finally one of those "movies their weird artsy daughter likes" that I can show them and know that they won't be either appalled over or baffled by.This is in NO way intended to imply ... |
tt0086944 | Be Somebody... or Be Somebody's Fool! | Be Somebody touched upon about a dozen key points:
Shyness - A young actress asserts herself by using her temper.
Roots - Mr. T says "Ya can't know where you're going if ya don't know where you're from" and explains the symbolism of his gold chains.
Anger - Mr. T tells kids to use their anger, not lose it, but fails to... | cult | train | wikipedia | I have to say that because I am a real fan of this movie, I read through all the comments on it here, just because I am really curious to see what people think of it.
Most of the people I've showed it to (and believe me, this tape saw some heavy action during college years at St. John's in Santa Fe; some of you out the... |
tt0070165 | Heavy Traffic | The film starts out in live action, introducing the protagonist Michael Corleone, a 22-year-old virgin (inaccurately referred to as 24 in the movie's trailer) playing pinball in New York City. The scene then transitions into animation. New York has a diseased, rotten, tough, and violent atmosphere. Michael's Italian fa... | pornographic, cult, violence, psychedelic, humor, satire | train | wikipedia | Bakshi's most personal work is a completely outlandish, crude, overtly abstract New York satire.
Heavy Traffic is, like many of Ralph Bakshi's films, a like it or hate it affair, but for those that respond to it, the film provides many a surprising attack on sensibility, decency, and what it means to get by in urban sp... |
tt0366996 | The Saddest Music in the World | During the Great Depression in 1933 in Winnipeg, Canada, baroness Helen Port-Huntley (Isabella Rossellini) announces a competition to find the saddest music in the world, as a publicity stunt to promote her company, Muskeg Beer, as Prohibition is about to end in the United States. The prize is $25,000 "Depression-era d... | comedy, avant garde, depressing, flashback, absurd, psychedelic, melodrama, romantic | train | wikipedia | I would have to see the film again, but I would like to go back and see it again to determine the link between the scenes which are suddenly shot in color as compared to the grainy black and white images that grace the rest of the film.Despite the quizzical looks from the three fellow moviegoers who occupied the theatr... |
tt1496872 | Siva Manasula Sakthi | Siva (Jiiva) and Sakthi (Anuya) meet on a train from Coimbatore and strike up a friendship. Siva introduces himself as an army officer and Sakthi as an air hostess. The two part ways on arrival in Chennai, but Siva promises to meet her soon. He pays a visit to the airline company where Sakthi claimed to work, with his ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0073636 | Rooster Cogburn | Because of his drunkenness and questionable use of firearms, aging U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn (John Wayne) has been stripped of his badge. But he's given a chance to redeem himself after a village in Indian Territory is overrun by a gang of violent, ruthless criminals, who've killed an elderly preacher, Rev. George G... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | As the gang of outlaws bid a hasty retreat, they stumble upon Eula (Hepburn), her minister father, and several Indians including a teen-aged boy named Wolf.The plot is simple and had their characters been played by any other actors besides Wayne and Hepburn, the film would have been mediocre at best.
Well, maybe it's j... |
tt0100456 | The Rainbow Thief | Rudolf Von Tannen is an eccentric millionaire who cares for no one but his dalmatians. One night he welcomes his guests - all of them related to him, expecting to cash in his fortune once he passes away - to a dinner party. The dogs are fed caviar and the people are given bones to eat. This sends them away in anger. Th... | allegory, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | while only director, it still is, and feels, looks and sounds like, a Jodorowsky film, a very good one. How criminal is this - the only format that has *ever* been available for The Rainbow Thief in America is on VHS. Imagine this, a film starring Omar Sharif, Peter O'Toole and Christopher Lee, regardless of who direct... |
tt0061955 | La mariée était en noir | As the film opens, Julie Kohler (Jeanne Moreau) tries to throw herself out of an upstairs window, but is stopped by her mother (Luce Fabiole). Julie is dressed in black and is obviously grief-stricken. In the next scene, she is more composed, telling her mother she is going on a long trip, and counting out five piles o... | revenge | train | wikipedia | The Bride Wore Black (1968) is noted as being director François Truffaut's gleeful homage/pastiche of the cinema of Alfred Hitchcock, with the usual characteristics of deception and retribution, cool cinematography and a lush score by none other than Bernard Hermann all being co-opted alongside some nicely subtle allus... |
tt0213096 | Muppet Classic Theater | It consists of six stories from the fairy tale tradition, all performed by the Muppet characters and narrated by Rizzo and Gonzo at the Muppet Theater:
=== The Three Little Pigs ===
Papa Pig tells his three children Andy, Randy, and Sandy (played by Miss Piggy) that it's time for them all to live on their own. Papa tel... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | Nothing to write home about but certainly no failure.
The Muppets are still the Muppets.
I agree that since Jim Henson died, it seems to take a lot more effort to put together something worthy of their original off the wall charm, but it can and has be done in Muppet Christmas Carol and Muppets Tonight!.
Muppet Classic... |
tt0335119 | Girl with a Pearl Earring | Griet (Scarlett Johansson) is a shy girl living in the Dutch Republic in 1665. Her father, a Delftware painter, has recently gone blind, rendering him unable to work and putting his family in a precarious financial situation. To help matters, Griet is sent to work as a maid in the household of famed painter Johannes Ve... | dramatic, boring, historical, sentimental | train | wikipedia | The film is breathtaking alone in the fact that the production team, led by cinematographer Eduardo Serra, production designer Ben Van Os, and art director Christina Shaeffer, manages to capture Vermeer's filling, oil-based colors, and light into every scene.
And this is where the film spends most of its fictional focu... |
tt0058138 | Gertrud | Gertrud, a former opera singer in Stockholm in the early 20th century, is married to the lawyer and politician Gustav Kanning. Gertrud tells her husband that he has become more in love with his career and status than with her. She also tells him that she has met another man who loves her more than anything else, and th... | flashback | train | wikipedia | Now, of course, all three films are considered masterpieces but while "Vertigo" and "The Searchers" were commercial films aimed at a mass audience, "Gertrud" was strictly art-house, the kind of film critics were expected to like.
It was a time for young film-makers and Dreyer was an old man.
Of course, hindsight is a g... |
tt0096244 | Tequila Sunrise | Dale "Mac" McKussic (Mel Gibson) is a former drug dealer trying to go straight. His close friend Nick Frescia (Kurt Russell) is a Detective Lieutenant with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department who, in spite of their long-term relationship going back to high school, is duty-bound to bring Mac to justice if he is ... | romantic, neo noir | train | wikipedia | A dark brooding piece, that is as meditative and murky as it is tightly written for suspense and twists, Tequila Sunrise focuses on the expectations that conventional mores place upon our freedom to interct and even love whomever our heart bids us.Gibson plays a drug dealer with, if not a conscience, at least a code of... |
tt0100464 | Rising Storm | === Setting ===
Rising Storm takes place in a fictional forest just like the previous three books. The forest is home to four Clans of wild cats, ThunderClan, WindClan, RiverClan and ShadowClan. In the middle of the book, Fireheart and Bluestar take a visit to Moonstone, which is a stone in an abandoned mine north-west... | satire, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0174226 | Someday You'll Find Her, Charlie Brown | Charlie Brown is watching a football game on television when he spots a girl in the stands that just made his heart melt. He is then crushed when the game ends and he feels he may never see her again. Not determined to lose what he feels is his true love, he enlists Linus to help him find her.
First they go to the foot... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | You're a stalker, Charlie Brown. Charlie Brown enlists Linus' assistance to help him find a pretty little girl he spotted in the crowd in a televised football game. The key problem with this particular Peanuts romp is that it unfortunately lacks the sweet warmth and sharp wit of your standard Peanuts outing. Instead so... |
tt0087337 | Give My Regards to Broad Street | Paul (Paul McCartney) is stuck in a traffic jam in his chauffeur-driven car on his way to an interview. He day-dreams that he is driving himself in a flashier car crammed with modern technology around the countryside when he gets a call from Steve (Bryan Brown) that Harry (Ian Hastings), a reformed criminal, is missing... | autobiographical | train | wikipedia | Sure, I love the Beatles.And sure, I respect Paul McCartney--especially when he has the courage to make mistakes.
And he does admit himself that he messed this particular film up in the book "Paul McCartney: 20 Years On His Own".I expected the film to be lousy and all, and hoped for at least a few nice musical performa... |
tt0078806 | The Attic | Emma (Moss) has a strong aversion towards her family's new house, especially the attic. After moving in, she becomes miserable and reclusive. The rest of her family also seems unhappy and unsettled. The situation escalates one day when Emma is in the attic alone. All of a sudden someone who looks exactly like Emma atta... | revenge | train | wikipedia | Works if you're in the right mood....
This is NOT a horror film.
Like its "prequel," "The Killing Kind," it's more a psychological study of how nasty parents can really mess up their children's lives, and how ironically nasty life can be.Louise, brilliantly played by the wonderful, under-utilized and now-departed actre... |
tt1010048 | Slumdog Millionaire | 18-year-old Jamal Malik, an Indian Muslim from the Juhu slum, is a contestant on the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, and is one question away from the grand prize. However, before the ₹20 million (US$310,000) question, he is detained and tortured by the police, who suspect him of cheating because of t... | fantasy, murder, realism, dramatic, cult, cute, violence, flashback, feel-good, psychedelic, melodrama, romantic, sentimental | train | wikipedia | There has already been some talk coming from Telluride that this film is set to be this year's 'Juno.' It does have the same distributor and it is set for the same release period, and for anyone who hears this buzz, they will definitely not be disappointed.During the premiere of the final cut (in the words of director ... |
tt1124377 | John Rabe | The film begins in Nanking during late 1937, where German businessman John Rabe, director of the local Siemens subsidiary, and his wife Dora have resided for almost thirty years. The thought of transferring management to his successor Fliess and returning to Berlin is a substantial professional setback for him. During ... | romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0094955 | The Dawning | The film opens with Angus Barrie (Anthony Hopkins), an Irish Republican Army member, walking through hills, and coming to rest on a beach, where there is a little hut. Meanwhile, Nancy Gulliver (Rebecca Pidgeon) having just left school, burns all her books in happiness. It is her birthday, and her aunt (Jean Simmons) h... | melodrama | train | wikipedia | Lovely little movie.... No big drama. No overblown action. Just a beautifully-filmed little movie that tells a simple story against a background of Irish political upheaval. Rebecca Pidgeon plays a sheltered, shabby-genteel girl just turning eighteen, who still has a bit of the outward appearance and behavior of a chil... |
tt0374102 | Open Water | Daniel Kintner (Daniel Travis) and Susan Watkins (Blanchard Ryan) are a couple frustrated that their hard-working lives do not allow them to spend much time together. They decide to head out on a scuba-diving vacation to help improve their relationship. On their second day, they join a group scuba dive. A head count is... | boring | train | wikipedia | A short and sweet gimmick movie about two people who are stranded in the middle of the ocean when their scuba diving boat leaves without them and then face the ordeal of slowly dying (of dehydration and/or exposure) or quickly dying (gobbled up by sharks).The obvious question of course is: can a director pull off a vis... |
tt0089826 | Porky's Revenge | During the semi-final basketball game, the cheerleaders promise them an orgy if they win. The boys do so. After the game, they are led to one of the girls' homes, and everyone strips down to their underwear and jumps in a swimming pool. In the pool, the girls throw their underwear out. The boys do likewise, and swim to... | cult, humor | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0068732 | Images | Wealthy housewife and children's author Cathryn (Susannah York) receives a series of disturbing and eerie phone calls in her home in London one dreary night. The female voice on the other end, sometimes cutting in on other phone conversations, suggests mockingly to her that her husband Hugh (René Auberjonois) is having... | bleak, psychedelic, suspenseful, atmospheric, claustrophobic | train | wikipedia | (Were the movie not lost in obscurity, you might think her an antecedent for Jack Torrance and Barton Fink.) As she copes with the would-be-regular-guy puttering of her schmucky husband (Rene Auberjonois, in a role rightly intended for Michael Murphy), two other loathsome men flit into her life--the husband's buddy, an... |
tt0173932 | It Was My Best Birthday Ever, Charlie Brown! | The special begins with Linus roller-skating all over town. On his way back from a birthday party, he passes by a garden where he hears someone singing ("O Mio Babbino Caro") As he enters the garden, he learns that a little girl named Mimi is the person that was singing. After Linus and Mimi spend time gardening togeth... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Certainly not up to the standard of earlier specials.
I really did not like this video.
The music was corny and the characters did not act like themselves.
The sole redeeming feature was that they got a child who could actually sing, to do the bit with the singing.
By the way, in case you're wondering (I was), I went a... |
tt0112642 | Casper | Following the death of her father, neurotic and spoiled heiress Carrigan Crittenden discovers he has only left her Whipstaff Manor in Friendship, Maine. Carrigan and her attorney Dibs discover a vast treasure allegedly is in the manor, but they find it is haunted by a friendly ghost named Casper and his obnoxious prank... | paranormal, haunting, absurd, psychedelic, entertaining, sentimental | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2339505 | Kochadaiiyaan | A young boy named Rana, who hails from the kingdom of Kottaipattinam, leaves his family, despite his twin brother Sena pleading him not to do so. The boy soon meets with an accident while rowing in the river and is eventually discovered by some fishermen from the neighbouring kingdom of Kalingapuri, a rival of Kottaipa... | flashback | train | wikipedia | Yes, this movie really deserves a great applause, ignore about how or what the story is but the attempt and hard work that went into the making of this film deserves an applause.
Kochadaiiyaan may boast of all that motion capture technology, but put side by side Hollywood exploits such as Tin Tin, it comes off as an am... |
tt0029606 | A Star Is Born | Esther Hoffman, an aspiring singer-songwriter, meets John Norman Howard, a famous, successful and self-destructive singer/songwriter rock star, whom, after a series of coincidental meetings, she finally starts dating. Believing in her talent, John gives her a helping hand and her career begins to eclipse his.
Writer an... | tragedy, satire, melodrama | train | wikipedia | Fredric March brings all of it on the screen, providing one of his best performances here.If you would like to become an actor, I believe you should watch this movie and Mr. March's way of acting.
I had not watched this movie until today, passing up each opportunity over the years to view it, as I feared it would not l... |
tt0067303 | ¡Viva la muerte... tua! | In priestly disguise, the con artist Orlowsky learns from a last confession about a village where a treasure is hidden. He seeks out the Mexican bandit Max Lozoya, who knows more about its precise location – (part of) the instructions is tattooed on his ass.
At the same time, the Irish journalist Mary O'Donnell wants t... | western, cult | train | wikipedia | Entertaining Spaghetti/Paella/Schnitzel Western co-produced by Italy/Spain/Germany.
Tua!" - Italy (original title) or "Don't Turn the Other Cheek" - USA title or ¨Viva La Muerte Tuya¨- Spanish title , is an amusing Western plenty of action , shoot'em up , humor and fun .
A radical journalist , A Russian prince , A Mexi... |
tt0033874 | The Man Who Came to Dinner | The play is set in the small town of Mesalia, Ohio in the weeks leading to Christmas in the late 1930s. The exposition reveals that the famously outlandish New York City radio wit Sheridan Whiteside ('Sherry' to his friends) is invited to dine at the house of the well-to-do factory owner Ernest W. Stanley and his famil... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0244000 | American Outlaws | A group of Confederate guerillas are trying to raid the Union Army, very late in the American Civil War. The southerners are ambushed, but thanks to the sharp-shooting of Frank James (Gabriel Macht) and the distracting and at the same time clever antics of Jesse James (Collin Farrell), the guerillas manages to survive ... | violence, historical, murder, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0089504 | Lost in America | David and Linda Howard are typical 1980s yuppies in Los Angeles who are fed up with their lifestyle. He works in an advertising agency and she for a department store. But after he fails to receive a promotion he was counting on and is instead asked to transfer to the firm's New York office, David angrily insults his bo... | cult, satire | train | wikipedia | Albert Brooks and Julie Hagerty are perfect as the classic yuppie couple that decide to set out on the open road after a series of strange circumstances.
"I'll just check my $100,000 a year job file." Brooks is also great when he tries to reason with the casino owner, and arguing with Hagerty over her inability to use ... |
tt1440266 | Pina | The film presents extracts from some of the most noted dance pieces by Pina Bausch in the Tanztheater ("dance theater") style of which Bausch was a leading exponent. The extracts are from four pieces: Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), Café Müller, Kontakthof, and Vollmond. These are complemented with intervie... | boring | train | wikipedia | At moments I was moved nearly to tears, I wanted to answer the question Pina reportedly put often to her dancers, "what do you long for," with the answer "beauty—and this could serve for now." I saw this tonight at Vancouver International Film Festival in 3D on the strength of its description and Wenders being the dire... |
tt0048773 | The Vanishing American | The film opens long ago in Monument Valley, after tribes of Native Americans have defeated other ancient cliff dwellers; afterwards, Europeans arrived to conquer the Native Americans. Later, in the early 20th Century, a tribe of Navajo are living on a reservation overseen by an individual who hates Native Americans, na... | murder | train | wikipedia | A spirited woman comes to the defense of exploited native -americans. Marion Warner (Audrey Totter) inherits property in Navaho country controlled by ruthless Indian agent Morgan (Forrest Tucker) and his henchman Glendon (Jim Davis). Because the property is a source of water in this arid country, Morgan covets it. He a... |
tt3136146 | Midnight Delight | Midnight Delight is an American anthology film set in a smoking lounge. It features nine vignettes of comedy, wit and reality that follows strangers in high spirits, crossing paths during nights of exploration. These curious visitors reflect on daily existence, societal curiosities, and along the way demystify the stat... | cult, comedy, satire, philosophical, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0095556 | Lucky Stiff | Prologue
Ten characters in a quasi-Greek Chorus inform the audience of the zany plot's twists to come. One of them, a man wearing dark glasses and silk pyjamas, is murdered (Something Funny's Going On).
Act I
English shoe salesman Harry Witherspoon spends his Friday night taking inventory in a shoe shop, dreaming of a ... | comedy | train | wikipedia | I loved it.
Mind you I seem to be in the minority but the reason i loved this movie is because it is fun and silly.
Whether it was intended to be or not i am not sure.
I guess it depends what you are looking for.
The first time i saw this movie, i was home on the couch late night looking for something to give me a brai... |
tt0093088 | Ghost Fever | Buford (Sherman Hemsley) and Benny (Luis Ávalos) are two Greendale County, Georgia police officers sent to serve an eviction notice for an historic plantation. Two ghosts named Andrew Lee (Myron Healey), a former owner of the plantation, and Jethro (also played by Hemsley), a former slave, decide to prevent their old h... | paranormal, plot twist, haunting, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0097257 | Earth Girls Are Easy | Three furry aliens—the blue Mac, the yellow Zeebo, and the red Wiploc–are traveling in a space ship. It's been a long time since they've had female companionship, and they receive a broadcast showing human females. They are titillated by these "hairless", shapely creatures, and when they discover that the broadcast cam... | cult, romantic | train | wikipedia | Former real life Hollywood couple Jeff Goldblum & Geena Davis made 3 films together, two of them comedies, one of them serious.
Then after boldly going where no Hollywood couple had ever gone before in said remake of "The Fly", they returned to light hearted comedy with our film here "Earth Girls Are Easy".I've often t... |
tt0099733 | Happily Ever After | The film starts as the Looking Glass recaps the story of "Snow White." The wicked Queen has been vanquished and the kingdom is at peace as Snow White and the Prince prepare to marry. Meanwhile, back at the castle, the Queen's animal like minions are celebrating their freedom by throwing a party for themselves. Then, th... | revenge | train | wikipedia | I caught all Lord Malice's gay innuendos, and laughed my butt off, because I never saw it that way before.Unlike what some people may say, I think this is a fun movie, and the music isn't really that bad considering the expenses that went into the feature.
The strange part is that the lady who played snow white actuall... |
tt0075409 | W.C. Fields and Me | The story begins in 1924 in New York City, where W. C. Fields is a Ziegfeld Follies headliner, and ends with his 1946 death in California at age 66. In between, it dramatizes his life and career with emphasis on the latter part of both, when the "Me" of the title, Carlotta Monti, played a prominent role, with a number ... | depressing | train | wikipedia | One of the two panned-and-banished 1976 Universal star bios..worth another look..
In 1976, Universal spent significant money to bring two golden-age Hollywood biopics to the screen: Gable and Lombard and W.C. Fields and Me.
Both were panned, gave little return on the money spent, and have been relegated to rarely seen,... |
tt0071691 | Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle | The film follows Kaspar Hauser, who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy his time, devoid of all human contact except for a man, wearing a black overcoat and top hat, who feeds him.
One day, in 1828, the same man takes Hauser out of his cell, teaches him a... | mystery, atmospheric | train | wikipedia | EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF AND GOD AGAINST ALL (Werner Herzog - West Germany 1974).Lacking a traditional narrative or dramatic structure and full of obscure images, this film feels more like a hypnotic dreamlike experience.
It also features one the more enduring trends in Herzog's work: the featuring of individuals with exc... |
tt0044609 | Feed the Kitty | This cartoon is the first of a short series directed by Jones and using the characters of Marc Anthony and Pussyfoot (Marc Anthony's barks and grunts courtesy of an uncredited Mel Blanc).
Marc Anthony, a massive-chested bulldog, tries to intimidate a cute little stray kitten with his ferocious barking and grimacing. No... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1617145 | Mørke sjeler | Dark Souls has a minimalistic plot. Historical events in this world and their significance are often implicit and left to player interpretation rather than fully shown or explained. Most of the story is given to the player through dialogue from characters within the game, flavor text from items, and world design.
The o... | violence, revenge, satire, dark, murder | train | wikipedia | "Dark Souls".
If Abel Ferrara's DRILLER KILLER and Larry Cohen's THE STUFF were dropped inside a Magimix and the resulting concoction seasoned with a dusting of tongue-in-cheek humour it'd likely end up looking something like Mathieu Peteul and Cesar Ducasse's DARK SOULS.The film opens with a teenage girl named Johanna... |
tt0420835 | Opal Dream | The film begins by introducing Kellyanne Williamson, playing with imaginary friends Pobby and Dingan. The family of Rex Williamson—his wife, Anne, daughter Kellyanne and son Ashmol—have moved to Coober Pedy, known as the "opal capital of Australia", because Rex believed he could make a fortune in mining opal. So far he... | storytelling | train | wikipedia | Heartwarming family movie about imaginary friends.
I saw this movie at the 2006 International Film Festival of Rotterdam.Heartwarming family movie about imaginary friends.The 9 year old daughter of a family in an opal mining town enjoys company of two imaginary friends.
She becomes ill after something happens to them.
... |
tt0027139 | Tumbling Tumbleweeds | Gene Autry (Gene Autry) returns to his home after a five-year absence as a singing cowboy with a group of strolling players that includes Smiley (Smiley Burnette) and Eightball (Eugene Jackson), who sell Dr. Parker's Painless Panacea. Gene's father, a cattle barron and one of the original "nesters" in the West, was rec... | murder | train | wikipedia | Anyone can dance if they are properly persuaded.
Surprisingly enjoyable Western where Gene solves the murder of his father, rights the wrongs attributed to his old friend, and gets both the horse and the girl all in just over one hour!
The writing is clever and Gene's acting is both more fluid and his lines more subt... |
tt0374474 | 13 Seconds | Seconds is a mystery dealing with the obsession with eternal youth and a mysterious organization which gives people a second chance in life.
Arthur Hamilton (John Randolph) is a middle-aged man whose life has lost purpose. He's achieved success, but finds it unfulfilling. His love for his wife has dwindled and he seldo... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0036748 | Days of Glory | The film begins in North Africa where large numbers of indigènes (French Algerian Tirailleurs as well as Tunisian or Moroccan Goumiers) have been recruited into the French First Army of the Free French Forces, that has been formed to liberate France of the Nazi occupation in World War II.
Saïd, an impoverished goat her... | revenge, violence | train | wikipedia | Days of Glory was the first relatively big budget film Jacques Tourneur was given opportunity to direct after success of his horror trilogy (Cat People, I walked with the Zombie and Leopard Man).The particularity of this picture is that it was a debut film for all of it's cast of actors including Gregory Peck who later... |
tt0016288 | Riders of the Purple Sage | The events depicted in Riders of the Purple Sage occur in mid-spring and late summer 1871. Early in Riders of the Purple Sage, Jane Withersteen's main conflict is her right to befriend a Gentile. (The word Gentile means "non-Mormon" and is used a lot in the book). Jane Withersteen’s father wished Jane to marry Elder Tu... | revenge | train | wikipedia | The Beauties of Nature.
This is the old story, familiar to everyone who has seen more than three westerns.
What is remarkable about this movie is the contrasts in beauty: superb scenes of nature fill the screen: towering mountains, cattle moving slowly over the sprawling prairies, high waterfalls filling the vistas sh... |
tt0157583 | Enigma | Alex Holbeck (Martin Sheen) is recruited as a CIA agent. He is sent to East Berlin on a mission to steal an Enigma code scrambler. This is part of an attempt to stop the Russian assassination of five Soviet dissidents which is planned for Christmas Day. What Alex doesn't know is that the CIA already has a code scramble... | murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | While 'Enigma' looks good and plays fairly well as a decent espionage film, the viewer who knows the factual background of this piece of fiction will probably be disappointed.
The best part for me was the recreation of the physical setting at wartime Bletchley Park, especially the Enigma machines themselves and the fam... |
tt0311110 | It Runs in the Family | The story involves a highly successful New York City family, each with its set of problems, and highlights the difficulties of the father-son relationship. Mitchell Gromberg is dealing with health problems resulting from a stroke. (Kirk Douglas himself suffered a stroke in 1996.) His son Alex works as a lawyer in the f... | prank | train | wikipedia | I think the only person who's not a member of the Douglas clan in 'It Runs In The Family' is director Fred Schepisi.
This is the first time that Kirk & Michael have worked together since the son's bit part in dad's '66 war drama 'Cast A Giant Shadow'.
Bernadette Peters and Rory Culkin round out the headlining cast as t... |
tt4513736 | Stick It | Haley Graham (Missy Peregrym) is a rebellious 17-year-old who has a run-in with the law when she and two friends go biking through a residential construction site. Haley is arrested and forced by a judge to return to the regimented world of competitive gymnastics. Haley was once considered one of the most talented gymn... | sadist, revenge, flashback, tragedy, romantic, storytelling | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0012532 | Orphans of the Storm | Just before the French Revolution, Henriette takes her close adopted sister Louise to Paris in the hope of finding a cure for her blindness. She promises Louise that she will not marry until Louise can look upon her husband to approve him. Lustful aristocrat de Praille (whose carriage kills a child, enraging peasant fa... | revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0170896 | Cold War | One midnight, a Hong Kong Police Force Emergency Unit (EU) van carrying advanced equipment and five police officers goes missing. As the police investigate the case, they became aware that the terrorists possess detailed knowledge of the police's procedures and have planned several steps ahead, even possibly breaching ... | cruelty | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0481797 | Youth Without Youth | In 1938, Dominic Matei (Tim Roth), a 70-year-old professor of linguistics, pining after the love of his youth, Laura (Alexandra Maria Lara), travels to Bucharest, the city where he and she met at university. Feeling that his fruitless search for the origin of human language has condemned him to a solitary, wasted life,... | philosophical, psychedelic, avant garde, suicidal, flashback | train | wikipedia | I felt really good watching a legendary filmmaker like Coppola before the special screening (in Bucharest), walking on the stage and thanking sincerely to the Romanian cast and crew, and in the end, thanking all of us "for Mircea Eliade".
It will change the way you feel about time and life, the way Eliade changed Coppo... |
tt0021156 | Morocco | The film is set in the late 1920s. It opens in Morocco, with the French Foreign Legion returning from a campaign. Among them is Légionnaire Private Tom Brown (Gary Cooper). Meanwhile, on a ship bound for Morocco is the disillusioned nightclub singer Amy Jolly (Marlene Dietrich). Wealthy La Bessière (Adolphe Menjou) att... | revenge, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0367027 | Shortbus | Set in contemporary New York City, Shortbus revolves around Sofia Lin (Sook-Yin Lee), who is married to the handsome but unambitious and slightly dim-witted Rob (Raphael Barker). She works as a couples counselor/sex therapist. She comes into contact with a couple: A slightly egotistical former child star Jamie (PJ DeBo... | cute, humor, queer | train | wikipedia | Set in modern-day New York City, a heterogeneous group of straights, gays and transgenders find common ground at Shortbus, an underground salon where people are free to explore their most carnal sexual desires with random hookups and nightlong orgies sometimes even finding bits of wisdom along the way.The superb cast... |
tt0282687 | Life or Something Like It | Lanie Kerrigan (Angelina Jolie), a successful reporter for a Seattle television station, interviews a self-proclaimed prophet, Jack (Tony Shalhoub), to find out if he really can predict football scores. Instead, Prophet Jack not only predicts the football score, and that it would hail the next day, but also that she wo... | paranormal, romantic, boring, prank | train | wikipedia | It attempts to address the question `if you suddenly discovered that you might only have a week more to live, how would you spend that remaining time and what changes would you make to your life?' Perhaps because this IS a romantic comedy, the best the film can manage to do within the tight strictures of the format is... |
tt0424600 | The Andromeda Strain | After a U.S. government satellite crashes near the town of Piedmont, New Mexico, almost all of the town's inhabitants die instantly. Suspecting that the satellite brought back an alien germ, the military activates an elite scientific team it had previously assembled for just this type of emergency.
Dr. Jeremy Stone, th... | good versus evil, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | (And even so, A&E managed to stuff in almost 80 minutes of commercials in the two night run.) Ridiculous plot lines that go nowhere (the Geraldo-style reporter, "vent-mining"), unnecessary time-waster shots of animals eating each other (all just to establish the infection vector of a rat dropped onto a group of Nationa... |
tt0080979 | Kagemusha | In Japan's Sengoku period, Takeda Shingen, daimyō of the Takeda clan, meets with his brother Nobukado, and an unnamed thief whom the latter met by chance and spared from crucifixion due to the thief's uncanny resemblance to Shingen. The brothers then agree that he would prove useful as a double, and they decide to use ... | bleak | train | wikipedia | Kagemusha (shadow warrior in Japanese) is the story of a thief who is to be hanged, but is saved by a warlord's brother, Katsuyori Takeda, because of a peculiar resemblance to the king Shingen Takeda.
Neither he, nor any modern man trying to live an identity larger than himself--including the artist who, like the kagem... |
tt1850397 | The Loft | Five married men share ownership of an upmarket loft, which they use to discreetly meet their respective mistresses. When the body of a murdered woman is found in that loft, the men begin to suspect each other of having committed the gruesome crime, as they are the only ones with keys to the premises. Through flashback... | murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | The premise of the movie is the best part about it: Five guys have the keys to a secret loft where they can freely cheat on their wives, but one day they find a dead girl on the bed and have to figure out who did it.
I really tried to like it, it's just hard to care about a movie when you're just watching a bunch of st... |
tt0103395 | Dangerous Curves | Pat Delaney is working in a circus as one of the female bareback riders. She is in love with Larry Lee, an arrogant trapeze artist and the circus' biggest act. He does not seem to notice her, though, as he is used to being adored by tons of women. He is in a relationship with Zara, a manipulative vamp.
Larry's boss war... | intrigue | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0098014 | Offerings | John Radley's childhood was not a particularly nice one; his father's abandonment, an abusive mother, bullied by neighborhood kids and his pets had a tendency to die on him. Only his first crush Gretchen ever treated him with kindness.
But this all ended when he was goaded into performing a balancing act, whereupon a m... | cult, revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | It is dialogue like this which make "Offerings," an otherwise blatant "Halloween" rip-off, a worthy entry into the slasher genre.
The film is such a blatant "Halloween" rip-off, from everything to the music, to the plot elements, and even some scenes, it is surprising it ever got green-lighted in the first place.
And t... |
tt0041328 | Easy Living | Star professional quarterback Pete Wilson (Victor Mature) thinks nothing of his future after football, not even after longtime teammate Bill "Holly" Holloran (Gordon Jones) is released by the team. Pete gets advance after advance on his salary from Anne (Lucille Ball), the secretary of team owner and coach Lenahan (Llo... | romantic | train | wikipedia | (But this was in an era of nickel pay-phone calls, when college football coaches made $3200 a year.) The other story centers on the quarterback's troubled relationship with his ambitious, social-climbing wife who's not above using her seductive charm to make a success of her interior decorating business.
(This may h... |
tt0040946 | Wake of the Red Witch | The film is about an ongoing rivalry between two men of the sea: Mayrant Sidneye (Luther Adler) owner of the shipping company Batjak Limited, and Captain Ralls (John Wayne).
The first part of the film depicts Captain Ralls as the ruthless master (captain) of the Red Witch, Batjak's flagship. For reasons not entirely cl... | violence, romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | DeMille's answer to "Gone With the Wind," an epic called "Reap the Wild Wind," the Duke wanted to make a similar themed film but with more complex characters.
John Wayne made "Wake of the Red Witch," a terrific follow-up that remakes elements of the original film but creates completely new situations and characters, an... |
tt1535970 | The Ledge | Detective Hollis Lucetti (Terrence Howard) receives news from a doctor that he has been sterile his entire life. Upon reaching home, he questions his wife about who their children's father is.
The story switches to Gavin Nichols (Charlie Hunnam), an atheist, standing on a ledge as if to jump to his death. A small crowd... | boring, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0054001 | Komisario Palmun erehdys | The film opens with a scene of guests arriving at the crime-themed dinner party of Bruno Rygseck, the rich and decadent heir of the Rykämö concern. The guests are his cousins Airi and Aimo Rykämö, Airi's fiancé Erik Vaara, who works for the concern and strongly dislikes Bruno, and Irma Vanne, the daughter of vuorineuvo... | insanity, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0071941 | Once | A thirty-something busker performs with his guitar on Grafton Street, a Dublin shopping district and chases a man who steals his money. Lured by his music, a young Czech flower seller talks to him about his songs. Delighted to learn that he repairs hoovers, she insists that he fix her broken hoover. The next day she re... | good versus evil, allegory | train | wikipedia | Good and Evil clash and, naturally, the innocent suffer..
Filmed on a beach, with only three actors, and with absolutely no talking, this story centers on the conflict between the Creator, who has the power to create plants and animals, and the Destroyer, who tries but can not create life.
At first the Destroyer tries ... |
tt0050758 | Naya Daur | The film is set in post-independence India, where industrialization is slowly creeping in. The focus is on tongawallahs who earn their living transporting people on tongas (horse carts). Their livelihood is threatened when the son of a rich landlord (Jeevan) begins operating a bus service in the town, which he subsidiz... | cult | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0096378 | Vibes | Lauper plays Sylvia Pickel (pronounced with an emphasis on the "kel", as she points out), a trance-medium who has contact with a wisecracking spirit guide named Louise. She first began communicating with Louise after falling from a ladder at the age of twelve and remaining comatose for two weeks. Subsequently, Louise t... | paranormal, cult, murder | train | wikipedia | I like Jeff Goldblum in just about every movie he does, including this one, though here as Nick he seems a bit more distracted than usual.
If I always wanted an intricate intellectual acting masterpiece with minimal music and scenery, I'd watch 12 Angry Men (1957) another dozen times, but Vibes is just the thing for li... |
tt0059319 | The Ipcress File | The novel is framed as the unnamed protagonist delivering his personal report on "the IPCRESS affair" directly to the Minister of Defence, thus making the novel itself the 'IPCRESS File' of the title. The events begin soon after his transfer from military intelligence to WOOC(P), a small civilian intelligence agency re... | comedy, neo noir, murder, realism, cult, intrigue, brainwashing, suspenseful | train | wikipedia | This London is still coming to terms with the end of World War II and the advent of a modern world.Working Class Palmer is an unwilling Home Office agent with criminal tendencies who is more interested in a pay rise so that he can indulge his true passion, gourmet cooking, than serving his country.
This perspective is ... |
tt0200800 | Leptirica | An old miller hears strange sounds coming from the woods. While he sleeps, a millstone suddenly stops working and a strange human-like creature with black hands and long teeth and nails bites his neck.
After the opening scene, the film turns to a romance between a poor young man Strahinja (Petar Božović) and a beautifu... | cult | train | wikipedia | Unfortunetally its TV movie made with TV camera so you never have impression of a real movie...But that kind of work has many achievements because you simply don't expect that kind of HORROR in that form of film-making!Makeup is brilliant!!!
Acting is beutyfull - all professional, academic actors - which is not the cas... |
tt0053629 | Bombai Ka Babu | Babu and Malik are two inseparable friends who live in a small town in India. One day they decide to play a prank and steal something but get caught. While Malik's dad came to bail out and stand as surety for him, Babu has no one to do so and ends up in the juvenile centre. When the two grow up, Malik becomes a Police ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt3131456 | A Very Merry Mix-Up | A beautiful antique store owner, Alice Chapman (Alicia Witt), travels to her fiancé's home town alone to meet her future in-laws for the first time at their Christmas gathering. Her fiancé, successful realtor Will Mitchum (Scott Gibson), tells her he will join them after closing an important business deal. Upon her arr... | storytelling | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0124879 | Simon Birch | Simon Birch believes that God made him for a special, heroic purpose. Simon and his best friend Joe Wenteworth are both outcasts in their tiny New England town: Joe is the illegitimate son of the town beauty, and Simon, at age 12, is so small that he still plays the infant Jesus in the church Christmas pageant. In the ... | dramatic, philosophical, sentimental | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0056368 | Premature Burial | In "The Premature Burial", the first-person unnamed narrator describes his struggle with things such as "attacks of the singular disorder which physicians have agreed to term catalepsy", a condition where he randomly falls into a death-like trance. This leads to his fear of being buried alive ("The true wretchedness", ... | revenge, gothic, murder | train | wikipedia | This stems, perhaps, from the fact that Ray Milland steps in for Vincent Price here, making it the odd one out among the series of Corman's Poe adaptations.Ray Milland must have seemed a rather offbeat choice at the time given his reputation of being one of Hollywood's most charming and debonair leading man.
I sure wou... |
tt0414853 | Barnyard | Otis is a carefree cow who prefers playing with his friends rather than accept responsibility. His adoptive father Ben is the leader of the barnyard. After Otis interrupts a barnyard meeting with his wild antics, Ben has a talk with his son, warning him that he will never be happy if he spends his life partying without... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | This type of story didn't start in 1994 - the plot is ancient, with even Disney admitting that it was based on some of their earlier films, Hamlet and - get this - Exodus from the Bible (not including the fact that it was alleged that the whole movie was stolen from "Kimba the White Lion, but that's another matter).
It... |
tt0056436 | Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam | The film opens at the ruins of an old haveli in Calcutta, where a group of labourers are busy pulling down what remains. When the workers break off for lunch, the overseer (Guru Dutt) wanders through the haveli. As he sits at a place there begins a flashback to the end of the 19th century.
The lower-class and educated ... | tragedy, satire, murder | train | wikipedia | This is not only one of the best Hindi films that I have ever seen, it is also one of the greatest movies I have seen.But first things first, MEENA KUMARI, a queen among beautiful women, looks so breath-taking, sometimes you really have to catch your breath and stop staring at her face in wonder.
The movie with lush bl... |
tt0061458 | Per il gusto di uccidere | At the start of the story the band of Sanchez ambushes a military transport escorting $100,000 to Omaha. He leaves together with two men to take the money to Mexico, while the other gang members dress in the uniforms of the dead soldiers and continue the transport, to use this as a cover to enter and rob the bank of Om... | western | train | wikipedia | Spaghetti/Chorizo Western starred by an American actor , Craig Hill , and a Spanish , Jorge Martin ..
Spaghetti with Gazpacho Western full of noisy action , thrills , plot twists and shootouts .
The movie contains typical particularities Spaghetti, as is full of fury, sadism , bloodbaths , and portentous close-ups of e... |
tt0219822 | Human Nature | Most of the film is told as flashback: Puff (Rhys Ifans) testifies to Congress, Lila Jute (Patricia Arquette) tells her story to the police, while a dead Nathan Bronfman (Tim Robbins) addresses an unseen audience in the netherworld.
Lila is a woman with a rare hormonal imbalance which causes thick hair to grow all over... | comedy, psychological, murder, flashback, psychedelic, satire | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0070654 | Scream Bloody Murder | As his father works on a tractor, young Matthew turns it on and kills him with it, damaging his own left hand in the process. Matthew is subsequently placed in a psychiatric hospital, and his mangled limb is replaced with a hook. At the age of eighteen, Matthew is released from the asylum, and returns home, discovering... | grindhouse film, murder, cult, horror, violence, insanity | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0082210 | El crack | The whole story takes place in Madrid, Spain and New York in December 1980. Germán Areta is a 43-year-old private detective in Madrid. He previously spent 12 years as a Police Detective and now has his own Private Eye agency solving mostly "routine" cases like marital infidelities, working absences, minor celebrity-rel... | neo noir | train | wikipedia | notable Spanish noir film. I don't know why this film is called "El Crack" ("the Crack"). i searched in my English dictionary, and i found that "to crack" is to solve a mystery. probably it refers to that.the film is dedicated to north-American crime-novel writer Dashiell Hammet. i haven't read any novel of Sam Spade..... |
tt0035017 | La main du diable | The guests at an isolated hotel cut off by an avalanche are surprised when Roland Brissot, a man missing his left hand, shows up, carrying only a small casket. He asks the innkeeper if there is a cemetery adjoining the ruins of a nearby abbey and is disappointed when the answer is no. Then two shots ring out. The polic... | paranormal | train | wikipedia | Excellent Horror Film Needs More Attention.
Carnival of Sinners (1943) *** 1/2 (out of 4) Excellent French horror film from director Maurice Tourneur about a talentless painter (Pierre Fresnay) who is given the opportunity to buy a mysterious chest and with it a certain power that will bring greatness and fame.
It does... |
tt0444182 | Indigènes | The film begins in North Africa where large numbers of indigènes (French Algerian Tirailleurs as well as Tunisian or Moroccan Goumiers) have been recruited into the French First Army of the Free French Forces, that has been formed to liberate France of the Nazi occupation in World War II.
Saïd, an impoverished goat her... | romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | Their goodness and patriotism are unmistakable and Saïd (Jamel Debbouze) remarks how "If I liberate a country, it's my country, even if I've never even been there." Here is a good-hearted contingent of North African soldiers who hope to catch some of the victory's glory, but whom are repeatedly shifted to the backseat ... |
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