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tt0051411 | The Big Country | Successful sea captain James McKay (Gregory Peck) travels to the American West to join his fiancée Patricia (Carroll Baker) at the enormous ranch owned by her father, Henry Terrill (Charles Bickford), referred to by all as "The Major." Terrill has been feuding with Rufus Hannassey (Burl Ives), the patriarch of a poorer... | revenge, suspenseful, violence | train | wikipedia | The Big Country was an exception.Jim McKay (Gregory Peck) introduced us to a different kind of man, far different than most stereotypical men of the Wild West.
As Ramon said, "Such a man is very rare."Outside of McKay, my #2 favorite character in the film was Rufus Hannassey (Burl Ives).
The second is a four sided roma... |
tt0057091 | Il gattopardo | Most of the novel is set during the time of the Risorgimento, specifically during the period when Giuseppe Garibaldi, the hero of Italian unification, swept through Sicily with his forces, known as The Thousand. The plot focuses upon the aristocratic Salina family, which is headed by the stoic Prince Fabrizio, a consum... | violence, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt4935418 | Baskin | The film opens with a boy waking from sleep in the middle of the night. He walks to a closed door across the hall from his bedroom and overhears the sound of a woman having sex, which suddenly stops. He walks to the living room, where the television is playing static. He turns off the television and notices a red light... | violence, storytelling | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0794374 | Yihe yuan | Spanning several cities and over a decade, Summer Palace tells the story of Yu Hong (played by Hao Lei), a young woman from the border-city of Tumen, who is accepted to the fictional Beiqing University, a name that evokes either Peking University ("Beida") or Tsinghua University ("Qinghua"). While in school, Yu Hong me... | romantic | train | wikipedia | If we were to think of the backdrop of the movie, set in the late 80's, Tiananmen incident, the chant for democracy, all this would have let you understand that the China then was not a China that many could understand.The China up till the 80s was probably such a controlled and suppressed place to live in, and when th... |
tt0037022 | Little Red Riding Rabbit | Little Red Riding Hood is depicted as a typical 1940s teen-aged girl, a "bobby soxer" with an extremely loud and grating voice (inspired by screen and radio comedian Cass Daley, provided by Bea Benaderet). After she sings the first verse of "Five O'Clock Whistle" in the opening to establish this fact, Bugs pops out of ... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0286855 | Now You Know | On the eve of his bachelor party, Jeremy (Jeremy Sisto) learns that his fiancée, Kerri (Rashida Jones), wants to call off their wedding without providing a reason. He tries to determine what caused this sudden decision. The unmarried couple return to New Jersey to sort out their relationship. When Jeremy gets home, he ... | prank | train | wikipedia | All I have to say is that I saw this movie two years ago (at Kevin Smith's Vulgarthon) and for some reason I've found myself thinking about it and wondering if it ever made it to DVD.
I really liked it and hope that I get an opportunity to not only see this movie again, but also additional work by the multi-talented Je... |
tt0076175 | March or Die | Soon after the Great War, Major Foster (Hackman), the commander of a detachment of the French Foreign Legion, suffers the haunting memories of leading an army of 8,000, now reduced to 200. He has become an alcoholic as a result, and his only friend is his faithful Sergeant, Triand (Rufus Narcy).
Foster arrives in Paris... | violence, cruelty | train | wikipedia | It's just that I get this nagging feeling, that "March or Die," with a little extra input on production values, wider desert shots, more background flashbacks, etc., *could* have been a much more memorable, larger-than-life sort of picture.But what "March or Die" lacks in the sheer epic expanse of other big-name war mo... |
tt0023893 | The Circus Queen Murder | New York Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt (Adolphe Menjou) decides to take a vacation after six years of fighting crime, accompanied by his attractive secretary, Miss Kelly (Ruthelma Stevens). On the train to their destination, they spot a rundown circus, "The Greater John T Rainey Shows", heading to the same place. T... | murder | train | wikipedia | Circus mystery is nicely done with flavorsome atmosphere....
ADOLPHE MENJOU and RUTHELMA STEVENS do a nice job as D.A. and secretary, a sort of Perry Mason and Della Street type of relationship, both of whom are practicing the art of lip reading, which we know is bound to become a plot device in helping to put the murd... |
tt0466856 | ATL | Rashad (T.I.) is a teen living in Atlanta, Georgia with his Uncle, George (Mykelti Williamson) and his little brother Ant (Evan Ross). He and his brother were raised by their uncle George since their parents died in a car accident, and they work with him as part of his custodial company. When not working or finishing h... | flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0093029 | Five Corners | The film is set in The Bronx in 1964. We are introduced to Heinz (John Turturro), the neighborhood bully who has just been released from prison, who wastes no time in letting everyone know he hasn't changed by stirring up trouble again. Heinz has just been released from prison after serving a term for attempted rape, a... | violence, psychedelic, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0024663 | The Three Musketeers | In Venice, the musketeers Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, with the help of Milady de Winter, steal airship blueprints made by Leonardo da Vinci. However, they are betrayed by Milady, who incapacitates them and sells the blueprints to the Duke of Buckingham.
A year later, d'Artagnan leaves his village in Gascony for Paris i... | cult, mystery, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0104254 | FernGully: The Last Rainforest | Crysta is a fairy with a curious nature living in FernGully, a pristine rainforest free from human intervention. The fairies of FernGully once lived in harmony with humans, but, believe them to have gone extinct after being driven away by a malevolent spirit named Hexxus. Crysta is the apprentice of Magi, a motherly-fi... | psychedelic, fantasy, romantic | train | wikipedia | I may sentimentalize movies from my youth, but not the ones that really don't deserve my affection.This one does.Crysta, a simple, innocent, and at times flippant fairy, is an imperfect but funny heroine, and as genuine as they come.
Batty gives Robin Williams another character perfectly suited to his talent -- I watch... |
tt0001227 | The Fugitive | Dr. Richard Kimble, a prominent Chicago vascular surgeon, arrives home to find his wife Helen fatally wounded by a one-armed man. Kimble struggles with the killer but he escapes. The lack of evidence of a break-in, Helen's lucrative life insurance policy, and a misunderstood 9-1-1 call result in Kimble's conviction of ... | melodrama | train | wikipedia | Surprisingly Moving.
"The Fugitive" is a surprisingly moving D.W. Griffith Civil War short with a focus on the home front.
Two sons named John (one from a Union family and one from a Confederate family) go off to war leaving behind their mothers and fiancées.
Their respective foraging parties encounter each other and e... |
tt0415689 | Bunshinsaba | Lee Yoo-jin is a transfer student from Seoul, and along with two of her friends, she is constantly being bullied by a group of classmates. One night, Yoo-jin and her friends decide to place a curse on their enemies by creating a Ouija board on which they write the names of the female bullies. Using the Bunshinsaba curs... | revenge, suspenseful, cruelty, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | Another "ghost seeking revenge" story set in a small Korean town.This movie has low ratings but the fact is, I managed to watch the entire thing through without getting bored.I don't really think this movie is all that scary.
I've been conditioned/used to Asian horror like Ringu and Ju-on so it might be scarier for tho... |
tt0030129 | A Feud There Was | The short begins with an establishing shot of a family stereotypical hillbillies, the Weavers, whose members are all lazy to the point of absurdity. The only thing that awakens the Weavers from their perpetual sloth is the opportunity to feud with their neighbors, the McCoys. After a musical number (then a staple of Me... | psychedelic, violence | train | wikipedia | Look out...here comes Roy Rogers yodeling for Eggbert/Elmer Fudd..
And count Bob Nolan, Tim Spencer and Hugh Farr among the "voices heard" in this 1938 cartoon, that has more then just the morphing of Egghead into Elmer Fudd as an attribute.Warner Bros owned a radio station in L.A. with the call letters of KFWB, so whe... |
tt3677742 | Saturday Night Live: 40th Anniversary Special | The special followed the format of a typical Saturday Night Live episode, extended to 3½ hours instead of the usual 1½, and included a cold open, a monologue, sketches, a short film, commercial parodies, and musical performances. The sketches, most of which were revivals of sketches that appeared over the show's run, m... | comedy, humor, satire | train | wikipedia | Kinda like the Grammys, I do not like the Grammys, but if you like that style....
This special was like the Grammys.
If you like awkward opening musical numbers, odd introductions, people who look like they showed up to get a check and skits that sometimes hit and sometimes don't then you will like this.
I did not real... |
tt0062130 | La più grande rapina del west | A man dressed as a monk accompanied by a woman arrives to Middletown with a statue of St Absalom on a wagon. Jarret and his gang set fire to a hay wagon in the street and during the confusion they rob the bank, and place the gold coins inside the statue, which was parked by the window of the bank office. Then they ride... | western, violence | train | wikipedia | Mediocre Italian Western with Spaghetti all star cast and full of shots , action and fun. Acceptable but middling Western with typical Spaghetti actors as Gerge Hilton and Hunt Powers . A good example of Latino western genre from Italia . It deals with a nasty band under Jarret (Walter Barnes) , being formed by Santo (... |
tt0913425 | Los abrazos rotos | "Harry Caine" is a blind writer who shares his life with his agent Judit and her adult son, Diego. Slowly, events in the present begin to bring back memories of the past. Harry hears that millionaire Ernesto Martel has died; a young filmmaker, Ray X, appears and turns out to be Martel's son, Ernesto, Jr. After Diego is... | revenge, neo noir, realism, romantic, melodrama | train | wikipedia | In Madrid , Harry Caine (Luis Homar) is a blind screenwriter and ex-filmmaker , long time ago was still known by his real name , Mateo Blanco , he is helped by Judit (Blanca Portillo) and her son Diego (Navas) .
The main cast is frankly extraordinary , as Luís Homar as a blind writer who reaches this moment in time , b... |
tt0442683 | Like Father Like Son | Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman who is focused so much on work that he neglects his wife, Midori, and son, Keita. Upon his return home one day, Midori tells him that the hospital where Keita was born needs to speak to them urgently, and Ryota senses trouble. After arriving at the hospital, the couple learns ... | murder | train | wikipedia | "Like Father Like Son" by Huw Nathan.
This is a gripping psychological thriller with plenty of twists and turns.There a number of impressive performances from Tara Fitzgerald (as the Detective Inspector),Jemma Redgrave(as the harassed mother), Robson Green (as the kindly school teacher, who finds himself fighting for b... |
tt0070622 | Sssssss | The movie begins with Dr. Carl Stoner (Martin) selling a mysterious creature in a crate to a carnival owner. It is later discovered that the creature is actually part-man/part-snake, the result of one of Stoner's bizarre experiments. College student David Blake (Benedict) is hired as an assistant by Stoner, an ophiolog... | revenge, cult, murder | train | wikipedia | A doctor who specializes in snakes develops a way to turn a human being into a king cobra!
Sssssss (love that campy title, that's seven S's folks) is an above-average man-becomes-creature horror film.
Also Reb Brown makes for a good bully.So, you don't have to like snakes to enjoy this intelligent old-fashioned horror ... |
tt1311071 | Kill Your Darlings | As a young man in the 1940s, poet Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe) wins a place at Columbia University in New York City. He arrives as a very inexperienced freshman, but soon runs into Lucien Carr (Dane DeHaan), who is very anti-establishment and rowdy.
After a while, Ginsberg discovers that Carr only manages to stay ... | murder | train | wikipedia | But John Krokidas' debut feature film, which takes as its subjects the American poets of the revolutionary Beat Generation, fits in so much more, as it explores a haunting search for life and legacy that teeters close to the edge of death.Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe) arrives at Columbia University keen to start a ... |
tt0064217 | Death of a Gunfighter | In the town of Cottonwood Springs, Texas at the turn of the century, Marshal Frank Patch is an Old West style lawman in a community determined to be modern. When Patch kills drunken Luke Mills in self-defense, the town decides it is time for the marshal to resign. But Patch refuses, reminding the citizens that when he ... | revenge, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0072706 | The Black Bird | When San Francisco private detective Sam Spade dies, his son, Sam, Jr., inherits his father's agency, including the sarcastic secretary, Effie Perine (also known as "Godzilla"). He must also continue his father's tradition of "serving minorities." When Caspar Gutman is killed outside Spade's building, his dying words a... | murder | train | wikipedia | I liked it and watch it all the time.
I liked the movie...thought it was funny, especially the bantering between George Segal and all of the co-stars.
I watched the original version of unfaithful and saw the same actress was in This movie and the french version of unfaithful.
I thought she was hilarious in this movie.I... |
tt4227282 | Wrecker | A husband and wife become stranded on a stretch of road known as Devil's Pass. When their cell phone reception cuts out, they wait for help. Elsewhere, Emily joins her friend Leslie on a road trip after she becomes frustrated with her boyfriend, who she believes may have cheated on her. Emily drives their Ford Mustang ... | suspenseful, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0042622 | Julius Caesar | The play opens with the commoners of Rome celebrating Caesar's triumphant return from defeating Pompey's sons at the battle of Munda. Two tribunes, Flavius and Marrullus, discover the commoners celebrating, insult them for their change in loyalty from Pompey to Caesar, and break up the crowd. There are some jokes made ... | tragedy | train | wikipedia | Caesar, Chicago Gangster?. Back in the 1930s, a reporter named Wallace Irwin wrote a hard-boiled mystery novel spoof called THE JULIUS CAESAR MURDER CASE, in which Caesar and his cronies behaved and talked like cut-throat gangsters...which, when you think about it, they were. I kept thinking of Irwin's novel as I watch... |
tt0082797 | Naseeb | Naseeb, a story of destiny and fate, begins with a lottery ticket. A drunken man who cannot pay his tab trades: so he decides to sell his ticket to the waiter, Namdev (Pran), instead. Namdev purchases this tickt with his three friends Damu (Amjad Khan), Raghu (Kader Khan) and Jaggi (Jagdish Raj). Using a system of draw... | murder | train | wikipedia | It has to certainly be an all time classic for people of my generation who grew up in the 70's and 80's.
To those who live in England, it is of special significance as it was shown on Channel 4 a few times in the mid and late eighties.I cannot begin to describe the story as it is quite complex.
The story continues into... |
tt0024325 | Men Must Fight | Nurse Laura Mattson (Diana Wynyard) and World War I military pilot Lt. Geoffrey Aiken (Robert Young) fall in love after only knowing each other for a few days. Tragically, he is brought to her hospital and, by chance, put under her care after being fatally wounded on his very first mission. After he dies, Laura realize... | anti war | train | wikipedia | Made in 1933 it predicts a world war in 1940, and even shows a catastrophic air-raid on a major city (in this case New York, but it certainly echoes the destruction soon to be unleashed on London, Berlin etc).
The film carefully presents the pacifist and nationalist arguments in an amazingly contemporary way, embodying... |
tt1259014 | L'instinct de mort | === Part 1 ===
Part 1 depicts Mesrine's life from 1959 to 1972, beginning with his time as a member of the French Army during the Algerian War, where he was forced to shoot and kill prisoners and bomb-makers. On his return to France, he moves into his parents' home, where he reunites with his mother and his father. Aft... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | But, were I to be placed in a room with a genuine gangster, I'm certain I would be terrified and would want to get out of there ASAP.The film opens with Mesrine making a decision whilst in the French army and in Algiers whether to follow his superior's orders to shoot the wife of a terrorist suspect or to shoot the sus... |
tt0119987 | The Real Blonde | Joe is an aspiring actor working as a bus boy in a high-class restaurant. His longtime girlfriend Mary works as a cosmetician for the fashion industry and largely supports him with her steady income. Joe is more concerned with expressing himself than getting a paying job, and has been unwilling to accept roles that do ... | satire | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0051673 | Good Day for a Hanging | Eddie Campbell (Robert Vaughn) watches a stagecoach as it rides toward a Nebraska town. Other members of his gang are waiting there to rob the bank. Ben Cutler (Fred MacMurray), owner of the stage line, is on board, and is returning home to be wed to Ruth Granger (Margaret Hayes).
During the holdup, a bank teller is ki... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0047200 | The Mad Magician | Don Gallico (Vincent Price) is a magician, master of disguise, and inventor of stage-magic effects in the late 1800s aspiring to become a star magician under the stage name Gallico the Great. Disguised as The Great Rinaldi, a headlining rival magician, Mr. Gallico performs a number of magic tricks successfully, buildin... | entertaining, murder | train | wikipedia | Even if the revenge story is of old, the plot devices themselves are original- Gallico uses his tricks to kill in more and more inventive ways.
This is essentially a variation on House Of Wax ,in both the plot and the type of role played by the star of both movies ,Vincent Price.In both pictures he plays a talented art... |
tt0819714 | The Edge of Love | The story is based loosely on real events and real people, drawing on David N. Thomas' book Dylan Thomas: A Farm, Two Mansions and a Bungalow.
During the London blitz of World War II, nightclub singer Vera Phillips (Keira Knightley) runs into her first love, the charismatic Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (Matthew Rhys). Their... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0840304 | Ice Spiders | Dan "Dash" Dashiell (Patrick Muldoon) is a retired Olympic skier who works at a ski resort in the mountains of Utah. On a restricted side of the mountain, Dr. April Sommers (Vanessa A. Williams) is working on creating a new breed of spider with several others. When a group of teen skiers arrives at the mountain, Chad (... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0061303 | Super President | The American President James Norcross (voiced by Paul Frees) is given superpowers as the result of a cosmic storm. The President now has increased strength and the Metamorpho-like ability to change his molecular composition at will to any form required (like granite, steel, ozone, water and even electricity). A hidden ... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Coooooollllll!!!!!.
In the 60s this was the coolest cartoon on the air!
The leader of the free world, chief executive one minute, superhero the next.
Able to convert his body into any element he desires.
Okay, it made no sense, but who cares!
I learned a lot about the elements watching this (it's a start, at least!).
T... |
tt0272118 | Haathi Mere Saathi | Orphaned Raju, in the company of four elephants, has to perform with them at street corners, in order to keep alive. The back-story is that as an orphan, they have saved his life from a leopard. In time, he makes it big, and starts Pyar Ki Duniya (The World Of Love), a zoo in which various wild animals reside along wit... | romantic | train | wikipedia | After 30 years, I still loved this movie!.
I first saw this film in India when I was 5 years old.
I remembered that I really liked it then, and was quite pleased to find it 30 years later via the Internet.I'm glad to say that it has lost none of its magic.
The story of Raju and his elephant buddy Ramoo makes for a trul... |
tt0065547 | Chisum | John Chisum (John Wayne), a virtuous, patriarchal land baron, locks horns with greedy Lawrence Murphy (Forrest Tucker), who will stop at nothing to get control of the trade and even the law in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
Chisum is an aging rancher with an eventful past and a paternalistic nature towards his companions ... | revenge, humor, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | McLaglen's western showcases Wayne as John Simpson Chisum, an historical figure who was the largest owner of land, of horses and cattle in New Mexico territory around 1878
The Pecos River runs through the middle of his land
He lets the water flow to all the ranches, big and small
If another man, with more appetitel... |
tt0106601 | Conflict of Interest | Set in Los Angeles, the film opens with Mickey Flannery (McDonald), an Irish cop on the edge whose wife Patty (Hanson) is shot and killed in front of their young son Jason (Katz). Seven years later, after having worked multiple jobs, he returns to his job at the police department in homicide, working under Captain Garl... | murder | train | wikipedia | a treat for cheese lovers!.
OK...we've got Christopher Macdonald as a hardboiled cop (Mickey Flannery - ha!)and a pirate-shirted, eyeliner wearing Judd Nelson as a murderous crime lord (Gideon - hahahaha!).
Laughing yet?
I still laugh until I cry watching this one.
Macdonald is totally hapless in such a serious role (h... |
tt0067749 | Shinbone Alley | A New York City poet named Archy (Eddie Bracken) attempts suicide only to come back as a cockroach. As he learns how to write poetry by hopping on typewriter keys, he grows used to his new life and becomes infatuated with Mehitabel (Carol Channing), the singing alley cat. She instead goes out with the tomcat Big Bill (... | romantic, psychedelic, philosophical | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0382262 | Biohazard Outbreak | Underneath Raccoon City exists a genetic research facility called the Hive, owned by the Umbrella Corporation. A thief steals the genetically engineered T-virus and contaminates the Hive with it. In response, the facility's artificial intelligence, the Red Queen, seals the Hive and kills everyone inside.
Alice awakens ... | psychedelic, violence | train | wikipedia | Good enough.
I got out of the Resident Evil series for awhile.
I recently rented this game on a whim.
It turned out to be pretty good.
I got it for the offline part of it.
It offers some good challenges throughout five scenario's.
You get to pick from eight characters.
Most of the the characters are normal civilians fr... |
tt0160184 | D-Tox | FBI agent Jake Malloy is pursuing a serial killer who specializes in killing police officers. Malloy's former partner becomes one of the victims. While Malloy is at his partner's home, the murderer calls Malloy from Malloy's home while Mary, his girlfriend, is there. The killer tells Malloy that he pursued him four yea... | mystery, murder, suicidal, horror, flashback, revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0097427 | Ghost Writer | A British ghostwriter (Ewan McGregor) is hired by the publishing firm Rhinehart, Inc. to complete the autobiography of former Prime Minister Adam Lang (Pierce Brosnan). His predecessor and Lang's aide, Mike McAra, has recently died in an apparent drowning accident. The writer travels to Old Haven on Martha's Vineyard, ... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0083798 | Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid | In the opening scene, John Hay Forrest (George Gaynes), noted scientist and cheesemaker, dies in a single-vehicle car accident (represented by the car wreck scene from Keeper of the Flame). In the next scene, private investigator Rigby Reardon (Steve Martin) is reading a newspaper when Forrest's daughter, Juliet (Rache... | entertaining, cult, mystery, neo noir, murder | train | wikipedia | If it weren't for the bundles of humour employed, one would almost think at times that this actually is a film noir from the 1940s, so legitimate and believable is the 'feel' or the atmosphere of the film.I cannot believe that some people who commented on this film have said that the plot is merely an excuse to hang ol... |
tt0061735 | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | Joanna Drayton's (Katharine Houghton) unannounced early return from a Hawaiian vacation causes a stir when she brings her new fiancé to her childhood upper-class home in San Francisco. He is John Prentice (Sidney Poitier): a widowed, black physician. Joanna's parents—newspaper publisher Matt Drayton (Spencer Tracy) and... | melodrama | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0276016 | He-Man and She-Ra: A Christmas Special | While everybody else is preparing for Adam's and Adora's birthday, Adam is helping Man-At-Arms finish up the Sky Spy, a space shuttle intended to spy on Skeletor. The moment they head back to the palace, though, Orko gets inside the ship and messes around with the controls, causing the ship to blast off into the sky wi... | good versus evil | train | wikipedia | Perfect fun for 80's kids..
He-Man and She-Ra join forces to stop their respective galleries of rogues, as well as Transformer rip-off villain Horde Prime.
After a convoluted way of joining our world with Eternia (not as bad as the live- action movie) a pair of Earth Children are lost over the Christmas season.
If they... |
tt0092969 | Enemy Territory | Barry (Frank) is a formerly successful insurance executive whose career and life are being destroyed by alcoholism. As the day ends, he is sent to a notorious New York City housing project, the Lincoln Towers, to try and complete a life insurance policy sale to a nice elderly woman named Elva (Foster). Meanwhile, a man... | suspenseful, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | Though made in 1987, 'Enemy Territory' most resembles a drive-in exploitation movie from the seventies.
Silly script, over-acting by all concerned, non-stop action and a dated 'urban' soundtrack all mean one thing - FUN!!!
This is a gritty thriller set in a tower block, where an unfortunate insurance salesman finds him... |
tt0463027 | Descent | On her way back from whitewater rafting with her friends Juno (Natalie Mendoza) and Beth (Alex Reid), Sarah (Shauna Macdonald), along with her husband Paul (Oliver Milburn) and their daughter Jessica (Molly Kayll) get involved in a car accident when Paul is distracted. Paul and Jessica are killed, but Sarah survives.
O... | violence, revenge, sadist | train | wikipedia | It's not a bad movie exactly, but it's one of those films that desperately wants to be a deep comment on human nature while not realizing that its story is practically a genre.
From there it feels to be downhill with poorly developed characterizations giving way to the blatantly "shocking" overextended finale.Rosario D... |
tt0081334 | Phobia | Mehak Deo (Radhika Apte) is a highly talented artist. An unfortunate traumatic event - being molested by a taxi driver, causes her to develop extreme agoraphobia, a condition in which the individual is paranoid about being in public places and dislikes socializing with large groups of unknown people. Mehak’s sister Anu... | mystery, murder | train | wikipedia | OK whodunit..
This certainly is not a great thriller (and it never aspired to be), but if you like low-budget B-movies, then you're likely to agree that it isn't THAT bad, either.
I happen to think that all whodunits are inherently interesting if they're executed with at least a minimum level of competence, and "Phobia... |
tt0341455 | Makdee | Life in Chunni's village is all peace and quiet, and great fun. She fools the villagers including her parents with her impersonation of her twin sister, Munni.
In the village, there is a mansion that is said to be haunted and legend goes that a witch called Makdee (Shabana Azmi) resides there. The legend has it that wh... | prank | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0057565 | Tengoku to jigoku | A wealthy executive named Kingo Gondo (Toshiro Mifune) is in a struggle to gain control of a company called National Shoes. One faction wants the company to make cheap, low quality shoes for the impulse market as opposed to the sturdy but unfashionable shoes currently being produced. Gondo believes that the long-term f... | bleak, neo noir, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0048588 | The Scarlet Coat | In 1780, General Benedict Arnold commands the Continental Army defences at West Point, New York. Major John Bolton (Cornel Wilde), a dragoon officer assigned to counter-intelligence, intercepts and kills a British spy leaving the Storm King Tavern, and captures a letter found on his body. He reports to Gen. Robert Howe... | intrigue, murder | train | wikipedia | At the film's beginning, a card tells us this is to be about Benedict Arnold's unmasking as a traitor.
So, I expected the usual historical action film, depicting the heroic Americans and the villainous British.
And, at first, the film seemed to be going this way.But then, it became richer as it focused not so much on B... |
tt4559006 | Ae Dil Hai Mushkil | In London, a chance meeting between Ayan Sanger and Alizeh Khan ends up with them kissing instinctively. Later, when they break up with their lovers, Lisa D'Souza and Dr. Faisal Khan, the two begin to spend time together at discos, restaurants, and tourist places. While Ayan falls in love with Alizeh, she considers him... | romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | You can't get better-looking actors than Ranbir Kapoor-Aishwarya Rai Bachchan-Anushka Sharma-Fawad Khan..
Love is depicted here only through a few kisses and an unnecessary out-of-place kind of an intimate scene!!What you get is incessant yak-yak (you want to tell these impeccably- styled people to stop and draw breath... |
tt0027593 | The Ex-Mrs. Bradford | Wealthy murder mystery writer Paula Bradford (Jean Arthur) returns from her worldwide travels to see her former husband, surgeon Dr. Lawrence "Brad" Bradford (William Powell). He had divorced her because she was always involving him in real-life murder cases, but she wants him back. When a jockey riding the favorite di... | mystery, murder | train | wikipedia | RKO studios decided to borrow both William Powell from MGM and Jean Arthur from Columbia, for one of their more big budget efforts to cash in on the popularity of The Thin Man. They succeeded to some degree.A lot of folks forget that in addition to and earlier than Nick Charles, Bill Powell also played in a few Philo V... |
tt5820980 | The Love Machine | Robin Stone, a handsome, ambitious newsman for a New York television station, attracts the attention of Judith Austin, wife of Gregory Austin, the head of the IBC network. Concerned about ratings, Greg is encouraged by Judith to hire Robin as IBC's new anchorman. Although he opposes Greg's decision, Danton Miller, the ... | pornographic, murder | train | wikipedia | Awful. I have not watched one of these films in a long time, and after watching this I know why.This one is cliché of a 1980's porn flick. The plot is so cliché that when the one star fantasy turns out to be the "pool guy", I think I have seen that in 100 porn flicks.The cast looks good, and the porn here is softer tha... |
tt0093402 | Leif | Gunnar Volt (Anders Eriksson), the head of the weapons factory Kanoner & Krut ("Cannons & Gunpowder") in the small community of Rotum plans for the upcoming demonstration of a new weapon called "The Fighting Egg". However, this is interrupted by an article in the local newspaper where the signature Leif claims that the... | satire | train | wikipedia | Their best film. 'Leif' is clearly Galenskaparna & After Shave's best feature film, followed by 'Macken'. Leif is one of my favourite Swedish comedies of all time. It's Claes Eriksson's debut as a feature film director, as well as it's the group's first film, so there's a bit of 'pioneer feeling' to it. I really recomm... |
tt2066176 | Any Day Now | Rudy Donatello (Alan Cumming) is a struggling musician and drag performer in a gay nightclub in 1979 West Hollywood, where he meets Paul Fleiger (Garret Dillahunt), a closeted district attorney. Returning home to his apartment, Rudy finds Marco (Isaac Leyva), a 14-year-old with Down syndrome, left alone after his mothe... | queer, storytelling, home movie | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0031864 | Rio Grande | Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke (John Wayne) is posted on the Texas frontier to defend settlers against attacks by marauding Apaches. Col. Yorke is under considerable stress between the Apaches using Mexico as a sanctuary from pursuit and by a serious shortage of troops of his command. The action of the movie is set in the summer... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1416801 | Kill the Irishman | In 1960, Danny Greene and his childhood friends Billy McComber and Art Sneperger are longshoremen at the Cleveland docks. Meanwhile, the members are exploited by corrupt union boss, Jerry Merke and the leadership of the ILA union urges Greene to run against him. Meanwhile, Sneperger can't pay a gambling debt to Clevela... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | As far as i know, the film also had a very limited theater release in the USA, which is a sad thing because this movie was surprisingly good and well-crafted and was one of the best films I've seen in the last months.The film tells the true story of Danny Greene, a tough irish gangster - and let me tell you, it is defi... |
tt0193771 | Bingo | The film opens with a brief, live-action video sequence of the Neo-Futurists performing part of Disregard This Play before a live audience. A man in a strange hat greets a man sitting in a chair and addresses him as "Bingo". When the man in the chair denies being named Bingo, the man in the hat insists that he is, in f... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Surrealistic computer-generated short is an animated wonder.. "Bingo" is the latest entry in the arena of increasingly complex and lifelike computer-generated animations. Chris Landreth sought a subject for a short that would aid in the development of Maya, an animation software package by Alias/Wavefront. He found ins... |
tt0072446 | Ziemia obiecana | The film opens following two American high school acquaintances a few years after graduation now suffering from deep anger and anguish because they are not as successful as they hoped to be. Hancock (Jason Gedrick) is the high school basketball star who gets into college on an athletic scholarship only to lose the scho... | historical | train | wikipedia | This definitely may be Andrzej Wajda's most introspective and interesting film.
The plot grabs you with its humour and depth while Wajda makes magic with the camera.
The Kurowo scene with the poppy flowers is classic...the music calls on nostalgia.
Olbrychski as the scrupleless, handsome Pole...Pszoniak as the hillario... |
tt0765487 | The Wizard of Gore | Magician Montag the Magnificent delivers hectoring speeches about the nature of reality to his audience and then performs mutilation tricks on female "volunteers". The women appear unharmed immediately afterward but later collapse, dead, in public or at home—mutilated in the same grisly fashion suggested by Montag's st... | psychedelic, neo noir, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | What a totally crazy (yet highly admirable) ambition to remake a Herschell Gordon Lewis film and actually add story depth, detailed character drawings, mystery and an atmosphere of morbidity!
Another thing which makes "The Wizard of Gore" a must-see for horror fanatics is the presence of no less than three phenomenal g... |
tt0080215 | The Flame Trees of Thika | Robin Grant (David Robb), his wife Tilly (Hayley Mills) and daughter Elspeth (Holly Aird) move to British East Africa (now called Kenya) to set up a coffee plantation. They meet Piet Roos, a Boer big game hunter and Njombo, a native who goes to work for them. The Grants face many travails in getting established, but th... | flashback | train | wikipedia | A wondrous mini series.
When I saw this back in the eighties, I watched it religiously.
It was an interesting story that kept unfolding week after week.
This is a story about wanting.
The wanting to conquer the African wilderness and make a good life for yourself and your family OR the wanting to break away from a life... |
tt0315110 | Twentynine Palms | With a Russian girl called Katia, a young American photographer called David drives a Hummer from Los Angeles to a motel in the little desert town of Twentynine Palms. As she hardly speaks English and he speaks no Russian, they talk in French, a language in which neither is confident. Much of their communication is the... | dramatic, horror, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1566591 | Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals | Earvin "Magic" Johnson and Larry Bird were rivals on the basketball court but unlikely friends off of it. After Johnson's team won in the 1979 NCAA championship game, Johnson would be drafted first in the 1979 NBA draft by the Los Angeles Lakers. Bird had been selected as an underclassman by the Boston Celtics at the #... | dramatic | train | wikipedia | Wow. As a basketball fan and knowing that HBO does an excellent job with documentaries, I had high expectations for this, and it certainly didn't disappoint.Born in 1981, I never fully appreciated the rivalry as it was happening, but this certainly put it in perspective.
It covers every intricacy of both the rivalry an... |
tt0093857 | Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise | The Lambda Lambda Lambdas from Adams College are packing their suitcases to get ready for a national fraternity convention in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Just before heading to the airport, Lewis' (Robert Carradine) best friend Gilbert (Anthony Edwards) explains to him that he feels stupid that he cannot come, due to bre... | cult | train | wikipedia | A terribly silly but awfully amusing little sequel, it may be a touch predictable, and it is missing Thomas Newman's excellent theme song, but having the same likable characters on hand helps it to be equally as fun as the first film.
They could've make this movie better if they would've kept the nerds at Adam's colleg... |
tt0101070 | Conspiracy of Silence | Father Sweeney (Patrick Casey), a gay Catholic priest living with HIV, commits suicide. His death leads local investigative journalist David Foley (Jason Barry) to write a story that publicly identifies Sweeney as having HIV.
At the local seminary, two students near ordination are expelled because one, Daniel (Jonathon... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | Excellent portrayal of prejudice against Indians..
Miniseries about the killing of an innocent Indian girl and the entire town that failed to bring the guilty to justice.
Set in The Pas, Manitoba, about as far north as civilization goes.
The girl leaves home to get an education, but on one night she gets picked up by a... |
tt2527186 | All Cheerleaders Die | The film opens with Maddy Killian (Caitlin Stasey) recording footage of her childhood friend Alexis (Felisha Cooper) as she prepares for the final days of school before summer break and for cheerleading practice. She discusses how important it is to remain fit and how dangerous cheerleading can be, pointing out how eas... | mystery, murder | train | wikipedia | Having Lucky McKee doing a movie like this might be the biggest surprise though.
And that is a good thing, because the movie works.Giving the cheerleader to do what they want and making this all about women/girls was a really good decision, even if at one or two moments I thought some of the guys where painted to dark,... |
tt0082770 | Montenegro | Marianne Faithfull sings "The Ballad of Lucy Jordan" over the opening credit sequence.
Marilyn Jordan (Susan Anspach) is a bored, depressed American housewife, married to a rich Swedish businessman with two seemingly perfect children. She tries to "spice up" her existence by surprising the family when she eats their en... | comedy | train | wikipedia | It is funny, very erotic, passionate, and riddled with jabs into society's snobbish attitude toward sexual fulfillment
A very wealthy American woman is married to a dull Swedish businessman
When the husband is about to leave for Brazil, she decides to go along with him, but is held up in customs and misses the plane
... |
tt0102303 | Life Stinks | Goddard Bolt (Mel Brooks) is the callous CEO of Bolt Enterprises. Bolt shows little regard for other people's needs or for the environment, and has his eye on the slum of Los Angeles so he can tear it down. Bolt makes a bet with his biggest rival, Vance Crasswell (Jeffrey Tambor), who also has an interest in the proper... | satire | train | wikipedia | Growing up around downtown LA as a kid in the seventies didn't look much different than it does today as far as the kinds of odd characters you'll run into while passing through it and I think this movie really captures some of the authentic types of characters you meet when you really get to know them, but you also ru... |
tt0032264 | The Blue Bird | When poor old widow Berlingot asks Tyltyl and Mytyl, the young son and daughter of her more prosperous neighbors, for the loan of their pet bird to cheer up her ill daughter, Mytyl selfishly refuses. That night, when the children are asleep, the fairy Bérylune enters their home in the semblance of Berlingot, before tra... | whimsical, fantasy | train | wikipedia | After having watched this movie, for the life of me I can't figure out why this picture flopped at the box office when it was released in 1940.
Shirley Temple plays Mytyl, a young girl who is not happy because her family is poor.
Shirley is supported by a wonderful supporting cast such as Spring Byington, who plays her... |
tt0127919 | Tale of the Mummy | In 1948 Egypt, an archeological dig led by Richard Turkel (Christopher Lee) reaches a tomb (of Talos), which is apparently cursed. The hieroglyphics at the entrance warn that all should avoid the place as it has been abandoned by all that is holy. Despite this, they proceed to open the chamber's door only to be blasted... | paranormal | train | wikipedia | This somewhat unknown mummy movie starts excellent, with a great mysterious touch and some nice special effects.
"Tale of the Mummy" is a better than expected though somewhat problematic entry.**SPOILERS**Discovering a long-lost Egyptian tomb, Samantha Turkel, (Louise Lombard) and her team, Bradley Cortese, (Sean Pertw... |
tt0108885 | Ocean Girl | Neri - the title character - is a young girl with an affinity for water, super-human strength, the ability to swim long distances, and super-human lung capacity. She lives alone on an otherwise deserted island, and sleeps in a nest in a tree. Early in the first season, Neri befriends two Australian boys: Jason and Bret... | good versus evil | train | wikipedia | Ocean Girl is the most enjoyable and certainly one of the most intelligent children's series that it has been my good fortune to experience.
Made in the time before now, when the producer's of children's TV believed in quality rather than budget, it carries well on all levels.Far more than just an "alien on earth" prog... |
tt0045828 | The Golden Blade | The movie opens with a raging desert battle between the cities of Basra and Baghdad, during which Basran, the father of Harun (Rock Hudson), is fatally wounded. Before he dies, he gives his son a medallion he has pulled from his killer's neck, and urges him to somehow end the senseless killings.
Harun rides to Bagdad, ... | revenge, action | train | wikipedia | Lively, physically beautiful, with delightful comedy and John Rich's script.
Young Piper Laurie and handsome newcomer Rock Hudson were both featured to great advantage in this clearly-plotted and lively adventure-comedy.
Imaginative veteran Nathan Juran directs very accurately and imaginatively, and the acting by Georg... |
tt0103295 | Xiao ao jiang hu: dong fang bu bai | Linghu Chong, Yue Lingshan and members of the Mount Hua Sect are planning to retire from the jianghu (martial artists' community). They learn that Dongfang Bubai has seized control of the Sun Moon Holy Cult and is secretly plotting with some Japanese rōnin to rebel against the Ming Empire and dominate China. Dongfang B... | good versus evil, tragedy, cult, violence | train | wikipedia | many of the previous comments have cited this film as one the best in the martial arts genre.
it is also, arguably, the central question of Chinese Buddhism.recall that the film premises on the withdrawal of Jet Li's character and his clan from the world of martial arts (the uniquely Chinese, "Jiang-Hu").
the events of... |
tt0063821 | With Six You Get Eggroll | Abby McClure (Doris Day) is a widow with three sons who runs the lumberyard her husband owned. Her matchmaking sister Maxine (Pat Carroll) tricks her into calling widower Jake Iverson (Brian Keith) and inviting him to the business dinner party Abby is having later that night. Not interested in the trouble his sexy, adu... | romantic | train | wikipedia | People have commented that Doris Day's later movies were not as good as the ones from the early '60s, but I disagree.
If you love the classic comedies of Doris Day, I heartily recommend this one..
Sadly, Doris Day's Last Film.
When I saw "With Six You Get Eggroll" in a plush New York theatre, I had no idea that it woul... |
tt0045810 | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | Lorelei Lee (Marilyn Monroe) and Dorothy Shaw (Jane Russell) are American showgirls and best friends. Lorelei has a passion for diamonds, believing that attracting a rich husband is one of the few ways a woman can succeed economically. She is engaged to Gus Esmond (Tommy Noonan), a naïve nerd willing to do or buy anyth... | romantic, satire | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0026599 | The Lady in Scarlet | In New York City, Dr. Phillip Boyer admires an antique clock at the premises of antique dealer Albert J. Sayre, who has apparently missed his appointment with him. Sayre is however, present and covertly watching Boyer. Deciding to buy and with Mrs. Sayre present, Boyer arranges with salesman Arthur Pennyward for the cl... | murder | train | wikipedia | Witty little who-done-it.
Who killed Albert J.
Sayre?
Another witty gem from Chesterfield.
The dialog between sleuth Reginald Denny and his "secretary" Patricia Farr (who died at age 35) is every bit as good as that between Nick and Nora Charles in "The Thin Man" series.
They certainly have an interesting relationship.... |
tt0019591 | A Woman of Affairs | Diana Merrick (Greta Garbo), Neville (John Gilbert) and David (Johnny Mack Brown) were playmates as children, members of the rich British aristocracy. Diana and Neville are in love, but his father (Hobart Bosworth) opposes the match, disapproving the Merrick family's lifestyle. Neville is sent to Egypt for business pur... | romantic | train | wikipedia | A WOMAN OF AFFAIRS (MGM, 1928), directed by Clarence Brown, from the then controversial novel, "The Green Hat" by Michael Arlen, reunites then popular love team of John Gilbert and Greta Garbo in their third collaboration on screen.
Initially teamed under Clarence Brown's direction in the highly popular FLESH AND THE D... |
tt0107034 | The Good Son | In Arizona, 12-year-old Mark Evans (Elijah Wood) has recently experienced the death of his mother, Janice (Ashley Crow). Heading for a business trip to Tokyo, Mark's father Jack (David Morse) drives Mark to the home of his uncle Wallace (Daniel Hugh Kelly) and aunt Susan (Wendy Crewson) in Maine where he will stay duri... | mystery, cruelty, murder, violence, good versus evil, melodrama, suspenseful | train | wikipedia | I think one of the interesting things was that people rated this movie really low because they didn't like the concept of an evil child or they added, there was no WHY concept to the reasons why the character did the things he did.
I think this is where people kind of go, "yeah, this movie is flawed, there's no such th... |
tt0260054 | Gojô reisenki: Gojoe | Set in 12th-century medieval Japan, the film takes place after the war between the Heike and Genji clans, which concluded in the defeat of the latter. However, lurking at the Gojoe bridge in Kyoto, a mysterious force ravages the lands of the Heike. At the same time, Benkei (Daisuke Ryu), a samurai turned Buddhist monk ... | revenge, violence | train | wikipedia | Vibrant and violent samurai action film from the underrated Sogo Ishii.
Gojoe (2000) is a typically vibrant and vivid piece of film-making from Japanese firebrand Sogo Ishii, who remains perhaps one of the most radical and underrated Japanese filmmakers of the last twenty-five years.
Ishii began his directing career in... |
tt0172179 | Black Dahlia | On January 15, 1947, LAPD Detectives Dwight "Bucky" Bleichert and Lee Blanchard investigate the murder and dismemberment of Elizabeth Short, soon dubbed "The Black Dahlia" by the press. Bucky learns that Elizabeth was an aspiring actress who appeared in a pornographic film. Through his investigation, Bucky learns that ... | murder | train | wikipedia | The Greatest Game Ever.
Hopefully some lucky person who hasn't experienced this game yet will read my comments and go out and purchase it.
I actually saw it the other day inside a big bin of ugly and timeworn clearance software that nobody really wants.
I tell you, it hurt me to see a game of this nature dumped into so... |
tt0080297 | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | It is 1973, at the height of the Cold War. George Smiley, former deputy chief of the Circus, has been living in unhappy retirement for a year after an operation in Czechoslovakia, code-named Testify, ended in disaster with the capture of agent Jim Prideaux and resulted in the dismissals of Smiley and his superior, Cont... | murder | train | wikipedia | In six hours of television they lay out piece by piece the background of each of the characters in a slow and gentle manner enabling the viewer to capture a sense of both the person and the time in which they are placed.Irvin permits the story to move in a 'typical English manner', with George Smiley, the principal cha... |
tt0120199 | Space Truckers | At a corporation's base on the Neptunian moon Triton, mercenaries are setting up a defense perimeter to try to hold off an unstoppable cyborg warrior. The commander Saggs and scientist Nabel, seal themselves inside the control room. The cyborg destroys the soldiers' tank and then attacks a helicopter—which crashes into... | cult | train | wikipedia | null |
tt5568438 | Rillington Place | The film begins in 1944 with John Christie murdering his neighbour Muriel Eady: he lures her to his flat in 10 Rillington Place by promising to cure her bronchitis with a "special mixture", then incapacitates her with carbon monoxide gas, strangles her with a piece of rope, and has (implied) sex with her corpse. He bur... | murder | train | wikipedia | The suspense, mood, performances are the best thing I've seen for a very long time- including cinema, TV, or DVD.
Samantha Morton & Tim Roth, whom I've long admired, are nothing short of superb in their understanding of the characters, their tenuous daily existence, the era in which they lived and their relationship.
S... |
tt0051519 | Darby's Rangers | The US Army has decided to form an elite strike force similar to the British Commandos. Major William Darby (James Garner), a staff officer, gets command of the 1st Ranger Battalion, to be formed entirely from volunteers.On June 19, 1942 the 1st Ranger Battalion was sanctioned, recruited, and began training in Carrickf... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1119146 | The Nutcracker | Below is a synopsis based on the original 1892 libretto by Marius Petipa. The story varies from production to production, though most follow the basic outline. The names of the characters also vary. In the original E.T.A. Hoffmann story, the young heroine is called Marie Stahlbaum and Clara (Klärchen) is her doll's nam... | good versus evil, revenge, fantasy, storytelling, flashback | train | wikipedia | A sweet Christmas classic. As far as the Jetlag Christmas outings go, I do prefer Magic Gift of the Snowman, but still find it an improvement on A Christmas Carol. The ending is perhaps abrupt and the voice acting is a little too corny at times, however the animation is overall warm and smooth, and Tchaikovsky's music ... |
tt0117089 | Mosura | Millions of years ago, a titanic terror from another realm arrived to destroy the planet Earth. Named Desghidorah, this three-headed dragon was forced to deal with resistance in the form of a species of highly advanced, enormous moths. These monsters were the protectors of the Elias, a race of tiny, humanlike beings wh... | good versus evil | train | wikipedia | This movie was the first of three solo Mothra adventures following the Heisei Godzilla series.
However, I thought the movie was too kid-oriented and that the final battle was too short.
The monster battles lacked the ferocity of Godzilla battles and Mothra's powers seemed overkill.
Unfortunately he's unsealed the resti... |
tt0030418 | Marie Antoinette | Fourteen-year-old Maria Antonia (Kirsten Dunst) is the beautiful, charming, and naive archduchess of Austria, youngest of Empress Maria Theresa's (Marianne Faithfull) daughters. In 1770, the only one left unmarried among her sisters, she is sent by her mother to marry the Dauphin of France, the future Louis XVI of Fran... | tragedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0060802 | Ostre sledované vlaky | The young Miloš Hrma, who speaks with misplaced pride of his family of misfits and malingerers, is engaged as a newly trained station guard in a small railway station during the Second World War and the German occupation of Czechoslovakia. He admires himself in his new uniform, and looks forward, like his prematurely-r... | humor, satire, murder, storytelling | train | wikipedia | The story centers around a train station in a Czech, German occupied small town and an apprentice train watcher, Milos Hrma, who is confused about his place in the world.
Scattered throughout the film are affable characters such as a pigeon loving, crap covered Train master, a noble, aristocratic woman, a benign, sligh... |
tt0104132 | Double Jeopardy | Nick Parsons (Bruce Greenwood) and his wife Elizabeth (Ashley Judd), known as Libby, are wealthy residents of Whidbey Island, Washington. He buys her a yacht and they set off sailing for the weekend. After a session of love making, Libby falls asleep. She wakes to find her husband missing and blood all over her hands, ... | romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0115822 | Capitaine Conan | In the French infantry on the Macedonian Front during the First World War, Conan, an officer of the élite Chasseurs Alpins, is the charismatic leader of a special squad, many from military prisons, who raid enemy lines at night taking no prisoners. Despising career soldiers, his only friend is the young academic Norber... | violence, cruelty, murder | train | wikipedia | Very good war film.
This is in many ways a very good war film but not in the typical way.
The film opens in the closing days of WW1 on the Eastern Front where Capitaine Conan (Philippe Torreton in a Cesar winning performance) leads a band of ruthless hand to hand fighters, equivalent to a modern special forces unit.
Th... |
tt0105483 | A Stranger Among Us | Emily Eden (Griffith), a hardened New York City homicide detective, goes undercover to investigate the murder of a Hasidic diamond-cutter. To do so, she lives with the family of the Hasidic rebbe (Lee Richardson), an elderly Holocaust survivor who is revered for his wisdom and compassion toward his fellow Jews. He says... | violence, neo noir, murder | train | wikipedia | In New York, Detective Emily Eden (Melanie Griffith) is a tough detective and daughter of a former cop.
When her partner Nick (Jamey Sheridan) is stabbed during an arrest of two drug dealers, Emily is assigned to a case of missing person, Yaakov Klausman, in a Hasidic community.
Emily concludes that Yaakov knew the kil... |
tt1191122 | Kung Fu Panda | Years before the events of the first film, Lord Shen (Gary Oldman), the scion of a peacock clan that rules Gongmen City in ancient China, seeks to weaponize gunpowder, which had recently been invented to create fireworks. After discovering from the court's goat Soothsayer (Michelle Yeoh) that "a warrior of black-and-wh... | violence | train | wikipedia | Wonderful. Quite simply the best animated movie of the year and one of my all time favorites.Both both adults and children will love it. We all laughed out loud again and again. You don't often get that and it is one of the movie's strong points.As you may expect from a movie with "Kung Fu" in its title it does have so... |
tt0150153 | Closure | === Setting and characters ===
Halo 4 takes place in a futuristic science fiction setting in the year 2557, four years after the events of Halo 3. Backstory details that hundreds of thousands of years before the modern era, humans were one of several interstellar civilizations. Following a war with the parasitic Flood,... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0097631 | Judgement | Park Chan-wook draws on a disaster that took place in South Korea to ironically criticize the greed of rampant capitalism. In 1995, in Seoul, a huge shopping centre, the Sampung department Store collapsed, killing about 500 people and injuring many others. This tragedy was caused by human negligence. Half a million dol... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0058241 | Island of the Blue Dolphins | In 1835, a group of white hunters, named the Aleuts, slayed most of an Indian tribe at Ghalas-at inhabiting an island off California, forcing the survivors to flee the island. Young Karana, realizing that her 6-year-old brother, Ramo, has been left behind, returns to the island. Karana and Ramo are left alone, menaced ... | revenge | train | wikipedia | It's been a long time..
I saw this film once when I was in 6th grade (over 3 years ago) as part of a class project.
We were reading the book so my teacher brought this in to watch.
Even though it's been 3 years since I've seen it I'm ready to go back and review it.
The story is of a young Native American Girl who was a... |
tt0048037 | Ensayo de un crimen | Archibaldo de la Cruz (Alonso) is a wealthy Mexican man. As a privileged child during the Mexican Revolution, he witnessed the death of his governess, who died as she told him a fable about a music box that his mother had just given him. Because of the contents of the story and the coincidental timing of the governess'... | psychedelic, comedy | train | wikipedia | EL (1952)/THE CRIMINAL LIFE OF ARCHIBALDO DE LA CRUZ (1955) - Films Sans Frontieres DVD Review.
Following your advice, I recently `relented' to buying from Alapage the two Luis Bunuel Double-Feature discs released in France by Film Sans Frontieres.
After watching them in their entirety, I cannot believe that I, who con... |
tt0163084 | Mama | Distraught after losing his fortune in the 2008 financial crisis, stockbroker Jeffrey Desange kills his business partners and estranged wife before taking his children, three-year-old Victoria and one-year-old Lilly, away from home. Driving dangerously fast on a snowy road, Jeffrey loses control and the car slides down... | insanity, allegory | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0156208 | Front Page Challenge | The long-running series featured notable journalists attempting to guess the recent or old news story with which a hidden guest challenger was linked by asking him or her questions, in much the same manner as the American game shows, What's My Line? and To Tell the Truth. Each round of the game started with news footag... | non fiction | train | wikipedia | Time's Up Panel!. I believe Front Page Challenge was a temporary replacement show that became popular enough to bump the original program. The concept was as follows: A mystery guest (still visible to those at home) would be hidden from the view of the panel, who would have to find clues by asking the guest a time-limi... |
tt2279373 | The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water | A pirate named Burger-Beard travels to Bikini Atoll, where he obtains a magical book with the power to make any text written upon it reality. The book tells the story of SpongeBob SquarePants and his adventures in the underwater city of Bikini Bottom. SpongeBob loves his job as a fry cook at the Krusty Krab fast food r... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | There were also some suggestive themes in the movie, so the adult appeal is definitely back!On the kid side, it was also EXTREMELY different than I've ever seen in SpongeBob. At first, I didn't like how over the top and WEIRD this film was on the kid friendlier side, but I stopped and realized that kids from 1999 and k... |
tt0109442 | Class of 1999 II: The Substitute | John Bolen is the new substitute teacher at a local high school in Bend, Oregon. When he sees some punks ditching class, he confronts them. However, when the lead punk pulls a knife, John uses martial arts to dispatch the students and when a fellow teacher sees the downed punks, John informs the teacher that the punks ... | cult, murder | train | wikipedia | "Class of 1999 II: The Substitute" is a bad movie with terrible plot points.
The story of a substitute teacher, who seems to be a killer android that comes to a high school where a gangster and his dangerous gang are intimidating a teacher that witnessed him killing another student is a complete mess.
sasha mitchell is... |
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