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tt1956618 | Screwed | Willard (Norm Macdonald) is an overworked, underpaid chauffeur who works for a mean-spirited pie heiress named Mrs. Crock (Elaine Stritch), just as his father did before him. All Willard wants for Christmas is a new uniform, as the one he currently wears is the one his father was buried in, but Crock gives him a cheap ... | adult comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0048452 | Ordet | The film centers around the Borgen family in rural Denmark. The devout widower Morten, patriarch of the family, prominent member of the community, and patron of the local parish church, has three sons. Mikkel, the eldest, has no faith, but is happily married to the pious Inger, who is pregnant with their third child. J... | insanity | train | wikipedia | She has the most elemental kind of Christian faith, and trusts that her husband's essential goodness of heart will lead him back to the fold.All these characters and forces come together in a terrible crisis when Inger goes into premature labor.
I'll not divulge the climax, for you should have the same experience of wo... |
tt1349451 | Butter | Destiny (Shahidi) is a ten-year-old foster child in Iowa who gets placed with Ethan (Corddry) and Jill Emmet (Silverstone). While visiting the Iowa State Fair by herself, she wanders into the exhibit of the winning butter sculpture, a life-sized Last Supper, and skillfully finishes the Holy Grail cup, which impresses t... | satire, entertaining | train | wikipedia | However, I figured it deserved a chance considering my love of Olivia Wilde especially, but also the other big names like Hugh Jackman, Jennifer Garner, Ashley Greene, and so on.
In small-town Iowa, an adopted girl discovers her talent for butter carving and finds herself pitted against an ambitious local woman in thei... |
tt4103992 | Seeds of Yesterday | Thirteen years after If There Be Thorns, Cathy and Chris arrive at Foxworth Hall, which has been re-built by Bart, for his 25th birthday party. Bart has remained obsessed with Malcolm and has an estranged relationship with his mother and uncle/step-father due to their incestuous relationship. He's even changed his last... | insanity | train | wikipedia | 'Seeds' concludes a whirlwind of a series in dramatic fashion.
The last installment in the Dollanganger series, which is hopefully never going to continue.
We began with Flowers in the Attic, a isolated story that was fairly interesting, and then Petals on the Wind, which was underwhelming at best, and then If There Be... |
tt0058390 | The Naked Kiss | Kelly (Constance Towers) is a prostitute who shows up in the small town of Grantville, just one more burg in a long string of quick stops on the run after being chased out of the big city by her former pimp. She engages in a quick tryst with local police chief Griff (Anthony Eisley), who then tells her to stay out of h... | suspenseful, murder, bleak, violence, flashback, melodrama, romantic, storytelling, home movie | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0426911 | Archangel | An English expert on Soviet history, Dr. Kelso (Daniel Craig) arrives in Moscow for a conference on Stalin. After the conference, an old man says that he has important information for Dr. Kelso. In Hotel Ukraine, where Dr. Kelso is staying, Papu Rapava (the name of the old man) tells how he, as a security guard in 1953... | murder, historical fiction | train | wikipedia | This series piques the conspiracy fanatic to see beyond the need for popular 007-esque shoot-em-up scenes from Daniel Craig, and delves more fully into the cultural dissonance and still-oppressed lifestyles in today's Russia.
Archangel Set in contemporary Moscow and the frozen northern town of Archangel, the drama revi... |
tt0417229 | Venky | Venkateswarlu (Ravi Teja) is a wayward youth in Vizag who roams around with his friends Suribabu (Srinivasa Reddy), Ramana (Chitram Seenu) and Bujji (Ramachandra) all the time. One day he - along with his three buddies - accidentally gets selected in police selections. Venky and his friends embark on a journey from Viz... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1525366 | Grabbers | Garda Ciarán O'Shea (Richard Coyle), an alcoholic, initially resents his new partner, Garda Lisa Nolan (Ruth Bradley), a workaholic seeking to impress her superiors by volunteering for temporary duty in a remote Irish island. After discovering mutilated whale corpses, the quiet community slowly comes to realise that th... | horror, comedy, humor | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0974662 | The Velveteen Rabbit | A stuffed rabbit sewn from velveteen is given as a Christmas present to a small boy. The boy plays with his other new presents and forgets the velveteen rabbit for a time. These presents are modern and mechanical, and they snub the old-fashioned velveteen rabbit. The wisest and oldest toy in the nursery, the Skin Horse... | psychedelic, romantic | train | wikipedia | Disregard other reviews. This is a great family film.. I enjoyed this with my 3 youngest children (4,7,10). We all thought this was a great film.I liked how they intertwined real and cartoon in the movie. Speaking of cartoon, even though about half the film was in cartoon format, I did not loose interest in the film li... |
tt1884457 | The Package | The film follows Tommy Wick (Steve Austin), a man tasked with delivering a mysterious package to "The German" (Dolph Lundgren), a dangerous crime lord. Along the way Wick is attacked repeatedly by a rival gang that wants what he is carrying, eventually he discovers that his cargo is not what he was initially thought it... | comedy, murder, violence, revenge, humor, suspenseful, sadist | train | wikipedia | It looks pretty good and shows-off some stylish non Action camera work and a strong if padded plot that is not bad.There is enough here for Fans and maybe even enough for Slummers who dropped in just to make fun but found it reluctantly enjoyable.
The Story Thread keeps things strung together as it weaves familiar fist... |
tt2959536 | Apparition | On May 21, 1973, six people conduct The Charles Experiment, a parapsychological experiment, in which they stare at a drawing of a deceased man, Charles Reamer, hoping to summon his spirit. Years later, four college students, Patrick (Tom Felton), Lydia (Julianna Guill), Ben (Sebastian Stan) and Greg (Luke Pasqualino) a... | murder | train | wikipedia | Clouded House.
On a dark and stormy night, attractive Katrina Law (as Lori) arrives at a farmhouse mansion.
We learn she's going to live there and marry strange boyfriend Jody Quigley (as Doug).
We know Mr. Quigley is strange due to how he sets up a scene to scare Ms. Law, before proposing to her.
Also, nobody but a se... |
tt1821700 | Waar | Major Mujtaba Rizvi (played by Shaan Shahid) is a former Pakistan Army officer, who took an early retirement. The plot involves a counter-terrorism operation being conducted in the northwestern tribal region of Pakistan, led by Ehtesham Khattak (played by Hamza Ali Abbasi) and coordinated by his sister, Javeria Khattak... | revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0097438 | Gleaming the Cube | Brian Kelly is an underachieving high school student in Orange County, California. An avid skateboarder along with many of his friends, Brian is frequently at odds with his parents for his increasingly reckless behavior, which has landed him in jail on more than one occasion. The only person in the family Brian can rel... | tragedy, cult, revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | This movie just about wraps up the "rad" pop culture of the 1980's, and puts it into one film.
The skateboarding is incredible, and it features Tony Hawk who developed into the #1 skater in the world.
While this movie might not be realistic, it made me laugh all the way through.
The best scene by far involves Tony Hawk... |
tt0366548 | Happy Feet | Every emperor penguin sings a unique song called a "heartsong" to attract a mate. If the male penguin's heartsong matches the female's song, the two penguins mate. Norma Jean, a female penguin, falls for Memphis, a male penguin and they become mates. They lay an egg, which is left in Memphis' care, while Norma Jean lea... | cute | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0121955 | South Park | While on a school field trip to a candy factory, Butters spots actor Tom Cruise working there, packing fudge into boxes. Stan, who previously told Cruise that his acting is not as good as others' in "Trapped in the Closet", accidentally insults him again by calling him a "fudge packer", as Cruise claims to be fly fishi... | comedy, adult comedy, violence, absurd, psychedelic, satire, humor, prank | train | wikipedia | And it's funny how people still react the same way to the show as they did 20 years ago:The self-proclaimed flag bearers for our nation's moral standards still can't see anything in the show beyond its naughty language and (perceived) vulgarity (and while half of them are genuinely offended by the show for those reason... |
tt4635372 | Masaan | Set in present-day Varanasi, the plot of Masaan follows two seemingly separate stories that converge eventually.
The first of these tells the story of Devi. The film opens with her and her fellow student, Piyush, checking into a hotel room. They are interrupted during sex when the police bursts in, after being tipped o... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0090291 | War and Love | The film begins with Major Rajendran (Suresh Krishna) being killed by the Pakistani terrorists in the Indo-Pak border and the war between India and Pakistan begins. Pakistani Army led by General Jaffer Khan (Mukesh Rishi) sends a battalion to capture a village on the Indian side of the Line of Control. Indian Army Brig... | romantic, autobiographical | train | wikipedia | A touching love story amidst the horror of 'The holocaust'. I saw this one when i was young and right about the time i was beginning to have some of my teenage crushes. It taught me about how it felt when you lose something you cherish-your loved ones.I saw it again recently and i felt the pain of the characters in thi... |
tt0076167 | Hum Kisise Kum Naheen | The story begins with a wealthy man selling his entire estate in Africa, converting it to diamonds. He carries them in a belt. He suffers a heart attack in the washroom and requests a passerby to deliver the diamonds to his son, Rajesh (Rishi Kapoor).
The man is chased by goons who are after the diamonds. He hides them... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0047490 | Sign of the Pagan | During the fifth century, the Roman Empire is divided into two parts: the West, with its capital in Rome, run by Emperor Valentinian III, and the East, with its capital in Constantinople, run by Emperor Theodosius.
The Empire is under attack by the Huns under Attila. Roman soldier Marcian is carrying a message from Val... | murder | train | wikipedia | For a tough guy, Marcian was very eager to volunteer details of his mission when he was captured by Attila, and I don't know he he got intelligence of the pagan hordes' move on Rome and was able to rush some of his troops to its defence across considerable distances.
Panther like Jack Palance sporting a Fu Manchu moust... |
tt0140888 | Central do Brasil | Dora is a retired schoolteacher who has become embittered. She works at Rio de Janeiro's Central Station, writing letters for illiterate customers, in order to make ends meet. She can be impatient with her customers and sometimes does not mail the letters that she writes, putting them in a drawer or even tearing them u... | realism, bleak, dramatic, cute, romantic, sentimental | train | wikipedia | She is retired now, but in order to make ends meet, she sets a letter writing desk at Rio's train station where she writes letters dictated to her by the illiterate and eager people who can't do the job as they want to communicate with distant family and friends through Dona Dora.
Josue also realizes that Dora, in her ... |
tt0046927 | 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, ... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0384832 | Jigoku Kôshien | It's every high school baseball team's dream to go to the legendary Koshien Stadium Tournament. For the first time in years, Seido High School has a chance—star player Gorrila Matsui has finally given the team an opportunity to succeed. Most delighted at this prospect is Principal Kocho. His hopes are dashed, however, ... | absurd, psychedelic, murder, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | Battlefield Baseball (2003) is a fine adaptation of a Japanese manga comic.
One day his worse fears come true when he looks into the paper and finds his team playing against the undead brutal team from Gedo.
Unless he can convince the new transfer student to play for his school's baseball team.
Find out when you watch ... |
tt0087852 | Ordeal by Innocence | While serving a sentence for killing Rachel Argyle, his adoptive mother – a crime he insisted he didn't commit – Jacko Argyle dies in prison. His own widow, Maureen, believed him to be responsible. Two years later, the man who could have supported Jacko's alibi suddenly turns up; and the family must come to terms not o... | neo noir, murder | train | wikipedia | Mediocre rendition based on Agatha Christie novel with big name cast and atmospheric setting.
In this realization of yet another Agatha Christie novel there is a good cast who gives average acting , nice set design , a twisted intrigue and logic absent .
An American Paleontologist called Dr. Arthur Calgary (Donald Suth... |
tt0256276 | Possession | A newly separated couple Clyde (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and Stephanie Brenek (Kyra Sedgwick) live in different homes. After Clyde picks up their two children, Emily "Em" (Natasha Calis) and Hannah (Madison Davenport), for the weekend, they stop at a yard sale where Em becomes intrigued by an old wooden box that has Hebrew... | murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | The clues come in the form of journal entries, love letters and snippets of enigmatic poetry that, when pieced together, afford a glimpse into the inner yearnings of these two young, but essentially unrequited lovers.As a narrative, `Possession' runs on two parallel tracks, one set in modern times (that's where the det... |
tt1148165 | Bran Nue Dae | In Broome in 1969, Willie Johnson (Rocky McKenzie) is having trouble wooing his girl Rosie (Jessica Mauboy), who ends up with a bandleader named Lester (Dan Sultan). His mother Theresa (Ningali Lawford) sends him back to boarding school in Perth to continue his education for the priesthood. One night, he and several ot... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0043794 | The Medium | === Act 1 ===
The medium's parlor
Monica, Madame Flora's daughter, and Toby, a mute servant boy rescued from "the streets of Budapest" play dress-up. When Madame Flora, or "Baba" as they call her, arrives home drunk, she violently chastises them for not preparing for that night's seance. Soon the guests arrive, Mr. and... | paranormal | train | wikipedia | Performances of a lifetime. This film certainly did not lack for admirers in its own day.It took the Cannes Award for best lyrical drama(lyrical is not exactly the best word to describe what is going on)and received BAFTA and Oscar nominations.It was a conversation piece for years after."Were you ever able to see it?" ... |
tt0034241 | Sun Valley Serenade | Ted Scott (John Payne) is a band pianist whose publicity manager decides that, for good press, the band should adopt a foreign refugee. The band goes to Ellis Island to meet the girl and soon discovers that the refugee isn't a 10-year-old child, but a young woman, Karen Benson (Sonja Henie). The surprise comes right be... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Anyone who has ever paid a visit to the mountain-cradled village of Sun Valley, Idaho knows that one of the luxuries of staying in its well know resort, of the same name, is that you can view this charming "boy-meets-girl, and then another girl" romantic-musical-comedy, 24 hours a day!
If you are very lucky, as I was d... |
tt0410650 | Species III | Hours after the events of the previous film, the medical van transporting the lifeless Eve has lost its way, but when the co-driver tries to radio their superiors, the driver stops and holds him at gunpoint. They are ambushed by the "half-breed" alien child hiding in the van, who kills the co-driver with his tongue. Th... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2145829 | Robot Overlords | Not long after the invasion and occupation of Earth by a race of powerful robots wanting human knowledge and ingenuity, humans are confined to their homes. Leaving without permission would be to risk their lives. Monitored by the electronic implants in their necks, the robot sentries are able to track the movements of ... | good versus evil, revenge, romantic | train | wikipedia | I've never posted a review before.I'm sick to death of reading reviews from nobodies full of self-aggrandising rubbish of the look-at-me-I'm-so-knowledgeable kind.When I read IMDb reviews I want to know the answer to one question: is this film worth watching.Answer: Yes.Extra comment for people who need more: It is not... |
tt0079180 | The Frisco Kid | Rabbi Avram Belinski (Wilder), newly graduated at the bottom of his class from the yeshiva, arrives in Philadelphia from Poland en route to San Francisco where he will be a congregation's new rabbi. He has with him a Torah scroll for the San Francisco synagogue. Belinski, an innocent, trusting, and inexperienced travel... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0054176 | Peter Pan | Set in London, circa 1900, George and Mary Darling's preparations to attend a party are disrupted by the antics of their boys, John and Michael, acting out a story about Peter Pan and the pirates, told to them by their older sister, Wendy. Their father, who is fed up with the stories that have made his children less pr... | fantasy, action | train | wikipedia | It was preserved in color, which is a miracle considering there were virtually no color sets in existence then.Mary Martin is great as Peter (she was 47 years old when she did this very acrobatic role!), but Cyril Ritchard pretty much steals the production from her with his Hook.
I think I can add some information.The ... |
tt1408253 | Ride Along | James Payton is a detective, on an undercover operation where fake passports are being smuggled into Atlanta by a man named "Omar". After a shootout with the smugglers, and a car chase that leaves one injured, the lieutenant leading the case ask James to drop the case on "Omar", something James doesn't do.
Ben Barber, ... | violence, humor, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0105943 | As Time Goes By | Second Lieutenant Lionel Hardcastle (Geoffrey Palmer) and Middlesex Hospital nurse Jean Pargetter (Judi Dench) met in the summer of 1953 and fell head over heels in love, calling her "Pooh", but then Lionel was posted to Korea. He wrote, but Jean didn't receive his letter (it becomes a topic in a later episode). Becaus... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0062782 | Carry On... Up the Khyber | Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond (Sid James) is Queen Victoria's Governor in the British India province of Khalabar near the Khyber Pass. The province is defended by the feared 3rd Foot and Mouth Regiment (The Devils in Skirts), who are said to not wear anything under their kilts. When Private Widdle (Charles Hawtrey) is found ... | satire, historical fiction | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0174269 | Tierra de pasiones | In a beautiful valley where the most exquisite grapes are farmed, an intense and sizzling love story will flourish between Valeria San Roman, a beautiful woman with a strong character, which has given her the strength to face life's deceptions, and Francisco Contreras, renowned publisher, widower and a man of will.
Val... | melodrama | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0095936 | Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak | Dhanakpur village farmer Thakur Jaswant Singh (Alok Nath) and Dhanraj Singh (Dalip Tahil) are brothers. They have a younger sister Madhumati, who was used, made pregnant and ditched by Ratan Singh (played by Arjun), the son of Thakur Raghuveer Singh from a big Rajput family. The family refuses Jaswant Singh's request t... | tragedy, revenge, murder, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2073661 | Stranded | The episode begins with Jerry and George at a drug store to purchase medicine where George becomes involved in an altercation with the cashier (played by Gwen Shepherd), accusing her of short-changing him ten dollars. He is removed by the security guard. George gets invited to a party on Long Island and brings Elaine a... | revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt3569788 | Naan Sigappu Manithan | In the middle of the night, Indhiran (Vishal), accompanied by his two friends, Sathish (Jagan) and Karuna (Sunder Ramu), purchases a gun illegally from a local gangster. Back home, Indhiran stares at his wishlist and recalls his past.
Since childhood, Indhiran has been suffering from narcolepsy, a rare disorder, which ... | violence, murder, romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | His Sleep keeps us wide awake....
In the footprints of Ghajini, Chandramukhi, Anniyan we have in our hands another well made disorder-based-thriller.
Though the grandiose, as in the case of the former movies, is missing the plot has been kept simple and to the point and hence strikes a chord among the viewers.Vishal's ... |
tt0046799 | Boot Polish | Belu (Baby Naaz) and Bhola (Ratan Kumar) are left in the care of their wicked aunt Kamla (Chand Burque) after their mother dies. She forces them to beg in the streets and takes their money.
A bootlegger named John uncle (David Abraham) teaches them self-respect and to work for a living instead of begging. They save to ... | satire | train | wikipedia | Immensely Rich Cinematic Experience.
"There is no difficulty such that you cannot overcome it and no height such that you cannot reach it; you must keep trying." Raj Kapoor...I saw Boot Polish once when I was a student in Michigan many years ago and I never forgot it.
I was thrilled to be able to see it again this week... |
tt0500092 | Serial Experiments Lain | The series focuses on Lain Iwakura, an adolescent middle school girl living in suburban Japan, and her introduction to the Wired, a global communications network which is similar to the Internet. Lain lives with her middle-class family, which consists of her inexpressive older sister Mika, her emotionally distant mothe... | sci-fi | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0279331 | Dark Blue | Set in Los Angeles, in April 1992, Dark Blue takes place from a few days before and during the acquittal of four officers in the beating of black motorist Rodney King and the subsequent L.A. riots. The film begins with footage of the Rodney King beating and switches to a scene showing Sergeant Eldon Perry (Kurt Russell... | violence, neo noir, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0067866 | El topo | El Topo is traveling through a desert on horseback with his naked young son, Hijo. They come across a town whose inhabitants have been slaughtered, and El Topo hunts down and kills the perpetrators and their leader, a fat balding Colonel. El Topo abandons his son to the monks of the settlement's mission and rides off w... | avant garde, murder, allegory, cult, violence, atmospheric, psychedelic, satire, revenge | train | wikipedia | I have seen three movies by Alejandro Jodorowsky - 'El Topo', 'The Holy Mountain' and 'Santa Sangre' - each are amazing, but 'El Topo' to me is the most successful.
I doubt whether anyone but Jodorowsky himself truly "gets it", but it is still the most watchable and entertaining of the three, and the best introduction ... |
tt0071519 | Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell | Baron Victor Frankenstein (Cushing) is housed at an insane asylum where he has been made a surgeon at the asylum, and has a number of privileges, as he holds secret information on Adolf Klauss, the asylum's corrupt and perverted director (John Stratton). The Baron, under the alias of Dr. Carl Victor, uses his position ... | violence, gothic, murder | train | wikipedia | "Frankenstein And The Monster From Hell" of 1974 is the final entry to Hammer's Frankenstein series, director Terence Fisher's last film, and arguably the goriest Hammer production (maybe along with "Scars Of Dracula" from 1971).
The last Frankenstein film from Hammer is a vastly underrated, grim, eerie and excellent f... |
tt0814129 | Half-Life 2: Episode One | === Setting ===
The original Half-Life takes place at a remote laboratory called the Black Mesa Research Facility. The player takes on the role of Gordon Freeman, a scientist involved in an accident that opens an inter-dimensional portal to the world of Xen and floods the facility with hostile alien creatures. After th... | alternate reality, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | For the hardcore fans of the series, it's a must!!!.
First off, the main thing you notice when playing this game is it's length.
In about three hours, its done and the only thing to do then is to wait for episode 2, but, of course, it's a trilogy so when it's all put together, it'll make one big game.
The game is prett... |
tt1413495 | Paranoia | Adam Cassidy is a low-level inventor who works for a corporation run by Nicholas Wyatt. After being fired for insubordination, Adam uses the company's credit card to pay for bottle service for his friends at a club. Wyatt and his enforcer, Miles Meachum, blackmail Adam into becoming a corporate spy for Wyatt by threate... | comedy, suspenseful, neo noir, murder, intrigue, flashback, revenge | train | wikipedia | Firstly they don't have much screen time and the time they do have seems to have been filmed in a hurry with little effort put into it by anyone.The main character is that of Liam Hemsworth, who plays Adam Cassidy; the best he has going for him is that he a good looking guy.
It is a shame because I was excited to get t... |
tt0117110 | Muppet Treasure Island | Jim Hawkins is a young orphan who lives in the Admiral Benbow in England with his best friends Gonzo and Rizzo. Jim listens to the tales of Billy Bones, who tells of his former captain, Captain Flint, who buried his treasure trove on a remote island and executed his crew so only he would own the island's map. One night... | action | train | wikipedia | I got that feeling during Muppet Treasure Island, and as a result it is one of my favorite movies.
The jokes and asides were too, too funny (like Gonzo finding Henry Kissinger's book Diplomacy' in Captain Billy Bones' trunk), the songs were fun and catchy, and the pace was brisk and exciting.
Tim Curry looked like he w... |
tt0462199 | The Black Mirror | The story largely takes place at Black Mirror, the ancestral manor of the Gordon family located in England in the 1980s. The protagonist, Samuel Gordon, is forced to return to Black Mirror after 12 years absence upon hearing of the death of his grandfather, William Gordon. Despite occurring under mysterious circumstanc... | murder | train | wikipedia | Atmospheric, mildly interesting game ruined by terrible ending. I'm not really all that interested in adventure games for the PC, to be honest. I was really into them on the Commodore 64 back in the 80s, which is weird considering how much more visual and dynamic they are these days. The Black Mirror does have some gor... |
tt0074205 | The Big Bus | Coyote Bus Lines' scientists and designers work feverishly to complete Cyclops, a state-of-the-art articulated jumbo bus, enabling man to achieve a new milestone in bussing: non-stop service between New York City and Denver. Almost immediately after the bus's engine is equipped with nuclear fuel, a bomb goes off, criti... | absurd, comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1124062 | Caminhos do Coração | The plot develops around Maria Luz who is accused of killing Dr. Socrates Mayer, owner of one of the largest private clinics in the country, Progênese. Dr. Júlia, an affiliated physician of Progênese created genetically modified human beings, mutants with superpowers. Júlia has always maintained a secret laboratory on ... | psychedelic, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1629375 | Room 33 | === 1926 ===
Elizabeth (Lady Gaga) goes to the Murder House to visit Dr. Charles Montgomery (Matt Ross), revealing that she is three weeks pregnant. Before the abortion, the nurse is skeptical about Elizabeth's abnormally low body temperature. During the process, the baby attacks the nurse assisting Charles with the op... | violence | train | wikipedia | It's about what you're expecting..
What you're promised: a group of roller derby girls and a few guys crash at a abandoned, haunted insane asylum.
Oooh, creepy.What you get: many shots of girls wearing very little clothing, a killer ghost, and quite a few scenes of people walking down hallways in an abandoned building.... |
tt0097230 | Dracula's Widow | The film, situated in Hollywood, or Tinsel Town as the narrator (Lt. Lannon/Josef Sommer) calls it, opens with Hollywood House of Wax owner Raymond Everett (Lenny von Dohlen) receiving a delivery of some valuable antiques from Poenari, Romania. He anxiously takes delivery of a sixth crate even though he was only expect... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | Time For a Vampire Turkey!.
The young owner (Lenny Von Dohlen) of a waxworks in Hollywood receives six instead of five ordered chests with Romanian antiques.
He does not know that Vanessa (Sylvia Kristel), widow of Count Dracula, sleeps in the sixth chest.Why does this have such a terrible rank on IMDb?
I have given it... |
tt0110948 | Raw Justice | New Orleans journalist Donna Stiles (April Bogenschutz) is in her home one night, preparing to take a shower, when a man sneaks into her home and kills her.
Donna's father, mayor David Stiles (Charles Napier), calls on Donna's former fiancee, cop-turned-bounty hunter Mace (David Keith), to stop chasing bail-jumpers and... | revenge, comedy, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | I love this film, i dare you to watch it and not laugh at the series of lame gags and poorly co-ordinated action scenes.
I didn't think it was possible but this film manages to be both nonsensical and predictable at the same time.
Around about this time Pamela Anderson must have been one of the most famous TV actresses... |
tt0275491 | La mala educación | In 1980 Madrid, young film director Enrique Goded is looking for his next project when he receives the unexpected visit of an actor looking for work. The actor claims to be Enrique's boarding school friend and first love, Ignacio Rodriguez. Ignacio, who is using now the name Ángel Andrade, has brought with him a short ... | mystery, neo noir, murder, boring, dramatic, revenge, flashback, romantic, queer | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0081494 | Shao Lin da peng da shi | The story opens at a fabric dyeing mill. The quality of the dyes has noticeably worsened, and the factory owner, Wang, and his subordinate chief, Boss Wa, decide to hire some Manchu overseers to improve the work. Wang decides to cut the workers' salary to pay the mercenaries, and when the workers protest they are vicio... | revenge | train | wikipedia | This movie is one of the many "Kung Fu" action films made in Asia in the late '70s - early '80s, full of cheap sound effects, dubbed dialog and lightning fast martial arts action.
But unlike most films of this genre it also has a decent plot and lots of great comedy.
When workers of a dye factory are forced out of thei... |
tt0057773 | The Munsters | The Munsters live at 1313 Mockingbird Lane in the city of Mockingbird Heights, a fictional suburb in California. The running gag of the series is that the family, while decidedly odd, consider themselves fairly typical working-class people of the era. Herman, like many husbands of the 1960s, is the sole wage-earner in ... | horror | train | wikipedia | Save for the cable-TV comedies, adventurous shows like "The Munsters" don't get made today.
What a bunch of great characters these were (with kudos to Al Lewis and--God bless him--Fred Gwynne).
They may have been ugly, they may have been weird and they may have been totally eccentric but they loved each other and cared... |
tt0089604 | Missing in Action 2: The Beginning | Ten years before freeing the US POWs from a brutal General, Colonel James Braddock (Chuck Norris) was held in a North Vietnamese POW camp run by sadistic Colonel Yin (Soon-Teck Oh), who forces the POWs to grow opium for a French drug runner named François (Pierre Issot), and tries to get Braddock to admit to and sign a... | revenge, cult, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | Which we already saw in sporadic flashbacks in the first movie.Missing in Action 2: The Beginning shows the capture of Colonel Braddock (Chuck Norris) during the Vietnam war in the 1970s, his captivity with other American POWs in a brutal prison camp, and his plans to escape.
Norris and his crew are holed up in a priso... |
tt0220757 | Shool | The film opens with a late night telephone call from Patna asking to speak to Bachchu Yadav (Sayaji Shinde), an MLA (Member of the Legislative Assembly) of the ruling political party in Bihar. Bachchu Yadav' lackeys trace their boss to a prostitute's abode, where he receives the telephone and is informed that his party... | good versus evil, murder, tragedy | train | wikipedia | strong performance by manoj bajpai.
Shool is an excellent crime drama about corruption and murky politics in India.
This plot isn't anything new, but what makes the movie work is the mind-blowing performance of Manoj Bajpai as an honest cop trying to do his job in a corrupt environment.
With his work in this film, Bajp... |
tt0103044 | Gam yuk fung wan II: To faan | Like the first film, this follows the fraternal bond of two inmates, once again Ching, but this time with "Brother Dragon", a boss of the "Black Rats" gang. Ching escapes the prison in order to see his son, Leung was placed in an orphanage after his grandmother died, and gets into trouble with "Assassin"'s replacement,... | sadist | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0144700 | 101 Dalmatians: The Series | American video game designer Roger Dearly (Jeff Daniels) lives with his pet dalmatian Pongo in London. One day, Pongo sets his eyes on a beautiful female dalmatian named Perdy. After a frantic chase through the streets of London that ends in St. James's Park, Roger discovers that Pongo likes Perdy. Her owner, Anita Cam... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | I absolutely love the series 100-percent!.
I think the series is a brilliant addition to the whole 101 Dalmatians franchise.
It blends together all the different versions of the story: the live-action film, the animated film, and the original Dodie Smith book.
My favourite characters from the show are Lucky, because he... |
tt0008891 | 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... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0102590 | Once Around | The Bellas are a close-knit family of Italian-Americans living in Boston, Massachusetts. Joe, the head of the family, owns a construction company. He's been married to Marilyn for 34 years and they have 3 children—Tony, Renata and Jan. Jan is about to get married, leading Renata to wonder why boyfriend Rob has not yet ... | dramatic, romantic, home movie | train | wikipedia | It is a richly textured, completely unique character study of a youngish woman named Renata, played superbly by Holly Hunter in what is arguably her best performance.
Renata comes from a close Italian family outside of Boston, and has drifted from job to job without much confidence or direction.
A compelling and utterl... |
tt0862707 | Goldilocks and the Three Bears | In Southey's tale, three anthropomorphic bears – "a Little, Small, Wee Bear, a Middle-sized Bear, and a Great, Huge Bear" – live together in a house in the woods. Southey describes them as very good-natured, trusting, harmless, tidy, and hospitable. Each of these "bachelor" bears has his own porridge bowl, chair, and b... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2461520 | Man Down | A U.S. Marine named Gabriel Drummer (Shia LaBeouf) has a wife, Natalie (Kate Mara), and a son, Jonathan (Charlie Shotwell). Jonathan gets bullied at the school because Natalie said "I love you" to him in front of his schoolmates. Gabriel and Jonathan come up with "man down" as a secret code for "I love you". Before ser... | alternate reality | train | wikipedia | Wow the critics went hard on this film and I don't know why.It's probably one of the most under-rated films I've seen, and I'm glad I did, as it was excellent.I'm not a huge Shia LaBeouf fan but his performance in this was outstanding!
Although I'm not a fan of back and forth time lines (I actually hate too much of it)... |
tt0161981 | Sureiyâzu | The powerful teenage sorceress Lina Inverse and her traveling companion and self-styled archrival Naga the Serpent, having been reunited after Naga was (once again) hired against Lina, obtain two discounted tickets for a tour to the fabled hot springs of Mipross Island. However, they discover almost immediately that th... | good versus evil, psychedelic, fantasy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0267130 | Yodha | In an unknown location in the Nepalese Himalayas, a young monk (played by Siddharth) is about to be crowned the Rinpoche of the monastery, when a gang of black magicians led by an unnamed character (played by Puneet Issar) kidnap him. It is revealed that the leader of the black magicians wishes to make a human sacrific... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0038321 | Badman's Territory | Just north of Texas and west of the Oklahoma border is "Badman's Territory", a region not yet governed by statehood. This is where Jesse James and brother Frank head after a train robbery, along with their partner, Coyote.
Mark Rowley, a lawman, and his deputy brother Johnny are after the James gang. So is a ruthless U... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0097768 | Lobster Man from Mars | Young filmmaker Stevie Horowitz (Dean Jacobson) eagerly awaits a meeting with big shot Hollywood film producer J.P. Shelldrake (Tony Curtis). Shelldrake has been desperately searching for a way to avoid problems with the IRS and unpaid millions owed them in back taxes. His brilliant yet overpaid accountant (Phil Procto... | absurd, cult | train | wikipedia | Dircector's Statement about the DVD.
It took two weeks to write and ten years to finish.
In 1977 writer Bob Greenberg and I were offered $50,000 to make a science fiction movie.
We thought that instead of trying to hide the low budget, we would make it a central theme using the gimmick of a film-within-a-film.Such was ... |
tt0047424 | Rogue Cop | Christopher Kelvaney is a crooked police officer who takes bribes and payoffs from criminals and other nefarious folk. His brother Eddie is a young member of the police force who is honest and loyal.
In a penny arcade, a drug dealer is stabbed to death by a man who claims the territory for himself, and Eddie witnesses ... | murder | train | wikipedia | Audiences had seen the crooked cop with the straight-arrow younger brother (The Man Who Cheated Himself); the shantoozie with a past (Gilda, Dead Reckoning, The Last Crooked Mile); the slick mobster beyond the reach of the law with his alcoholic, trophy mistress (Key Largo, Railroaded,The Big Heat); the street-savvy ol... |
tt0085052 | Mansfield Park | At the age of 10, Fanny Price is sent to live with her wealthy uncle and aunt, Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram, as her own parents do not have enough money to support their many children. Once at Mansfield Park, Fanny meets her cousins Tom, Maria, Edmund, and Julia, as well as Fanny's other maternal aunt, Mrs Norris. Fanny... | romantic | train | wikipedia | It stayed very faithful to the book and unlike a few of the other reviews I read here, I did not find it at all dull nor did i find the acting lacking in any fashion.
That being said, the 1983 Mansfield Park still has a distinctive on-location look and the cast is uniformly strong - Sylvestra Le Touzel has just the rig... |
tt0061189 | The Wild Angels | In between sprees featuring drugs, fights, sexual assault, loud revving Harley chopper engines and bongo drums, the Angels ride out to Mecca, California in the desert to look for the Loser's stolen motorcycle. They blame a group of Mexicans in a repair shop, and the two groups brawl. The police arrive, chasing the Ange... | cult | train | wikipedia | Many a Peter Fonda poster from "Wild Angels" went up on bedroom walls as parents pondered where they had gone wrong.The gang in "Wild Angels" did not wear Hells Angels colors, they were "Angels-San Pedro" although some Hells Angels from the Long Beach chapter actually appeared in the film.
AI's biker films had very col... |
tt0460943 | The Ritual | Dr. Alice Dodgson (Jennifer Grey) is fired from a hospital due to her involvement in the death of a patient. With few options, she decides to take a job as a nurse in Jamaica caring for Wesley Claybourne (Daniel Lapaine), a young man apparently suffering from encephalitis. Alice falls in love with Wesley, but she fears... | suspenseful | train | wikipedia | Horrible.
Serial killer Wayne Montgomery was inadvertently "outed" in December 2006, after DNA evidence linked him and his wife Andrea to a series of brutal unsolved murders in the small town of Claymont, Delaware - as well as the disappearance of their own daughter Monica.
However, Andrea was the only one arrested.
Au... |
tt0038346 | Behind Green Lights | Police Lieutenant Sam Carson spots Walter Bard's bullet-ridden corpse in a car brazenly left in front of the police station. Carson questions Janet Bradley after finding her name in the dead man's appointment book. She admits that the Bard had been blackmailing her friend for $20,000, and that she went to see him, thou... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0178965 | Vampires | A team of Vatican sponsored vampire hunters led by Jack Crow rids an abandoned house of vampires in the middle of New Mexico, only to be wiped out by a master vampire called Valek. Only two members of the team survive, Jack Crow and Tony Montoya as well as a prostitute named Katrina who was bitten by Valek. Crow later ... | good versus evil, murder | train | wikipedia | Very low budget vampire movie without much cohesion. VAMPIRES is an exceptionally low budget vampire movie, filmed in 1986. It doesn't make much sense in terms of editing or narrative cohesion. The story is set at a girl's school which hides a very dark secret and the headmistress is involved. If you think this all sou... |
tt0245622 | Five Children and It | The film begins with five children (Robert, Cyril, Jane, Anthea and The Lamb), that let their father go to the fight in World War I. That's in 1914, but the children are asked to stay at their uncle's house with his son, Horace. While exploring the house, Robert finds a locked door in the Greenhouse and brings the othe... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | Enchanting children's fantasy with genuine escapism..
This was made as a six part serial for the BBC in 1991.
It was very successful and much of this is due to the quirky charm of the Psammead, a sand fairy.
The story is a faithful adaptation of E.Nesbit's classic novel and possesses all of the enchantment and magic of... |
tt0115819 | Alferd Packer: The Musical | The film begins with a reenactment of the gruesome events of cannibalism as described by the prosecuting attorney during Alferd Packer's trial in 1883. Packer insists that things happened differently than what has been recounted, and begins to tell his story to journalist Polly Pry through flashback.
In 1873, a group o... | cult, comedy, murder, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0050419 | Funny Face | Maggie Prescott (Kay Thompson) is a fashion magazine publisher and editor, for Quality magazine, who is looking for the next big fashion trend. She wants a new look for the magazine. Maggie wants the look to be both "beautiful" and "intellectual". She and famous fashion photographer Dick Avery (Fred Astaire) want model... | philosophical | train | wikipedia | The DVD format we watched recently seems to have been transferred with great care as the colors have a vibrant look, something that wasn't the case with the technique used during that era that made colors fade.The film owes its appeal to Audrey Hepburn, an actress not known for being a singer, or a dancer, but who had ... |
tt0048477 | Pecos Pest | Jerry receives a telegram from his Uncle Pecos, saying he is on his way to the big city from Texas for a guitar solo and will be staying with his nephew for the night; Pecos then arrives shortly after. The mustached mouse (who stutters in a fashion similar to Porky Pig) gives Jerry a performance on his guitar, playing ... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Very good Tom and Jerry-I love Uncle Pecos!!!.
This cartoon introduces (for the only appearance, sadly) Jerry's Uncle Pecos (voiced by Shug Fisher, who also plays the "gee-tar" here, marvelously) who is gonna be a star on TV.
A word of advice: stay on his good side.
You do not want to rile this boy at all!
I wonder if ... |
tt0062395 | The Trip | Paul Groves (Peter Fonda), a television commercial director, takes his first dose of LSD while experiencing the heartbreak and ambivalence of divorce from his beautiful but adulterous wife (Susan Strasberg). He starts his trip with a "guide," John (Bruce Dern), but runs away and abandons him out of fear.
Experiencing r... | cult, psychedelic, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2573750 | Gulaab Gang | The Gulaab Gang members are activists and vigilantes in Bundelkhand Uttar and Madhya Pradesh. They wear pink sarees and take up issues like domestic violence, the dowry system, rape, electricity matters, and education. Their fierce leader, Rajjo (Madhuri Dixit), locks horns with a conniving and shrewd politician, Sumit... | revenge, violence | train | wikipedia | First, i would like to appreciate the director for making movie on gulabi gang.
After watching the movie i started surfing online about gulabi gang and it's leader sampat pal.
when it comes to the movie,you may watch it once for madhuri and juhi.
Soumik Sen's 'Gulaab Gang' released amidst some controversy especially th... |
tt0097967 | Next of Kin | Truman Gates (Patrick Swayze), raised in Appalachia, has migrated to Chicago to become a police officer. Married to Jessie (Helen Hunt), who is pregnant, he seems to have made the transition from hillbilly to respectable lawman. When the local coal mine closes, Truman persuades his younger brother Gerald (Bill Paxton) ... | revenge, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1071812 | Mao's Last Dancer | In the era of Mao's Cultural Revolution (in the 60s), 11-year-old Chinese boy Li Cunxin resides in a rural village commune in Shandong Province, destined to labour in the fields. As often occurred in those times, government officials fanning out across the nation seeking young candidates for centralized training arrive... | avant garde, storytelling, flashback | train | wikipedia | Mao's last Dancer tells the true story of Chinese ballet dancer Li Cunxin who grew up in rural poverty in Mao's communist before being given the opportunity to dance in the West in the early 80s.
Li is forced to examine his conscience as he must choose between his career, family, culture, politics and love whilst havin... |
tt0037077 | The Miracle of Morgan's Creek | Trudy Kockenlocker (Betty Hutton) is a small-town girl with a soft spot for soldiers. She wakes up one morning after a wild farewell party for a group of them to find that while drunk the night before, she married a soldier whose name she can't remember, except that "it had a z in it. Like Ratzkywatzky [...] or was it ... | comedy, satire, flashback | train | wikipedia | This movie may be the best comedy produced during World War II, especially in reference to the timing and the language related to the humorous treatment of a serious subject.
Often overlooked, The Miracle Of Morgan's Creek ranks with Sturges' absolute best work.Sturges takes an almost Capra-esque WWII America and turns... |
tt0139157 | Dil Ek Mandir | Sita (Meena Kumari) is married to Ram (Raj Kumar) who is diagnosed to have cancer. Ram is admitted to a hospital where he is to be treated by Dr. Dharmesh (Rajendra Kumar). Dr. Dharmesh is Sita's former love and both of them are very much uncomfortable to interact in front of Sita's husband. Sita suspects that Dr. Dhar... | romantic | train | wikipedia | A heart touching movie with finest performances. Dil Ek Mandir is a heart touching movie.I would proudly say that every character performs to a great extent.The songs are like honey which can even make a hard heart a soft one.Meena Kumari's one of truly finest performance which you cannot forget till your death. Rajend... |
tt0020784 | Congo Jazz | As Bosko is hunting in the jungle, a tiger creeps up behind him and gives him a lick. Finding his gun useless, Bosko tries to flee. After being chased and having his body stretched and his head slapped off, Bosko pulls out a flute and begins playing music, which greatly entertains the tiger. Bosko and the tiger play pa... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Bosko does some of what Bugs Bunny later did.
Bosko, in case you've never heard of him, was the original Looney Tunes star, appearing in the cartoons from 1930 until 1933, when his creators moved to MGM.
In "Congo Jazz", the character hunts animals.
What's interesting is that in the instance of an attack by a gorilla, ... |
tt0059434 | Massacro al Grande Canyon | After finding and killing the Slade brothers, who have murdered his father, Wes Evans returns home to Arriba Mesa. The judge offers him to be sheriff and Cooley, the holder of the office and a friend of Wes, is anxious to step down. Wes however only wants to settle down, but when he learns that his love Nancy (who beli... | western, violence | train | wikipedia | Undercooked Pasta With Historical Significance. The court is still out on this one. The second of Sergio Corbucci's Euro Westerns that I have managed to track down lacks the punch that he would find in DJANGO and represents a genre in search of it's form. It's actually a very unique looking production, using exteriors ... |
tt0099171 | Box-Office Bunny | The action takes place in a massive movie theater, called "Cineminium". It is a 100-screen multiplex, constructed right above Bugs' rabbit hole. When Bugs surfaces within the theater, usher Elmer Fudd attempts to drive him away. Meanwhile, Daffy finds the admission fee of the multiplex to be too high for his tastes. He... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Good, but nothing terribly exceptional..
Though this is a good, enjoyable cartoon, they did much better ones later on, like Carrotblanca.
This is almost like the first Star Trek feature, which would have been welcomed with open arms and glee no matter what, just for existing.
This is really a patchwork of old bits with... |
tt4730986 | Divines | Dounia is a teenage girl living in a housing project on the outskirts of Paris with her mother. She and her best friend Maimouna hustle for money, shoplifting from supermarkets and then reselling their wares on the streets to their classmates.
The two girls have a secret hiding place in the catwalk of a local theatre w... | violence | train | wikipedia | Scene after scene, the characters, the settings, the relationship, each and every element comes in your face with incredible strength; from classroom argument to daughter-mother interaction, nothing is easy and nothing doesn't hurt.
Praise must of course go towards the main character, surprisingly multifaceted, rich an... |
tt0106350 | The Ballad of Little Jo | Josephine Monaghan (Amis) is a young society woman who is seduced by her family's portrait photographer, and as a result, bears an illegitimate child. She is expelled from her family and home in disgrace, and with no other resources, she leaves her newborn son under the care of her sister and heads West.
On the road, J... | violence | train | wikipedia | Suzy Amis' performance has stuck with me since I first saw this movie in 1994.As for the story, yes it's hard to believe that no one would notice a "man" who never had any facial hair, whose voice was fairly high and had such narrow shoulders but despite the unrealistic premise, it's a good story that keeps your attent... |
tt0030035 | Daffy Duck in Hollywood | At Wonder Studios, producer I.M. Stupendous is interrupted in his office by Daffy asking for an acting position, and quickly responds "No!" and breaks the fourth wall by stating, "Y'know, that duck's screwy!" The phone rings and Daffy pops out of it saying "You're correct, absolutely correct!", pinching Stupendous's no... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0141974 | The War Zone | 15-year-old Tom (Freddie Cunliffe) is upset after his family move from London to a rural house in Devon, where he misses his friends. He lives with Dad (Ray Winstone), 18-year-old sister Jessie (Lara Belmont), and Mum (Tilda Swinton), who is in the late stages of pregnancy. Tom and Jessie are close to each other and ev... | murder, storytelling, sadist | train | wikipedia | The actors are in their natural appearances with not much make-up: Tilda Swinton you see her with the pregnant creased skin-folds of a tummy inelegance; the two teenagers (Lara Belmont as Jessie, Freddie Cunliffe as Tom) in their casual demeanor/slouching poses; Ray Winstone as the seemingly unsuspicious father who loo... |
tt0123322 | What Have We Learned, Charlie Brown? | The special opens with Charlie Brown back home, assembling a photo album of pictures taken from the trip. His younger sister, Sally, approaches and asks him how it went. From there, it is shown in a flashback:
As they begin to head back from the chateau to the train station for the return trip to London (where they wou... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0046754 | The Barefoot Contessa | Down on his luck, a washed-up movie director and writer Harry Dawes (Humphrey Bogart) is reduced to working for abusive, emotionally-stunted business tycoon Kirk Edwards (Warren Stevens), who has decided that he wants to produce a film to stroke his monumental ego. Looking for a glamorous leading lady, they go to a Mad... | romantic, fantasy, satire, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2325002 | Freezer | Robert Saunders (Dylan McDermott) wakes up to find himself bound and locked inside a meat locker. After he is able to cut himself loose, two Russian mobsters Kiril and Stepan enter the freezer to question him. It becomes apparent that neither understand English, but before they leave they tell a confused Robert they wa... | boring | train | wikipedia | Robert (Dylan McDermott) wakes up in a walk-in freezer with hands and feet bound.
There will be some big twist at the end so I decided to hang for a while or until Robert dies from hypothermia.
Hmmmm
..Two Russian heavies come in and demand to know where the money is and, of course, Robert has no way of knowing what t... |
tt0050870 | Pyaasa | Vijay (Guru Dutt) is an unsuccessful poet whose works are not taken seriously by publishers or his brothers (who sell his poems as waste paper). Unable to bear their taunting that he is a good-for-nothing, he stays away from home and is often out on the streets. He encounters a good-hearted prostitute named Gulabo (Wah... | cult, romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0466460 | Khosla Ka Ghosla! | Kamal Kishore Khosla (Anupam Kher) is a middle-class man living in New Delhi. He is a simple man with simple tastes. The film begins with a dream sequence where Khosla sees his death, the irony being that nobody really cares about his demise; instead his children and neighbours are more occupied with banal small talk. ... | cult | train | wikipedia | The forte of this movie lies in its simplicity, sincerity and substance and much of that credit goes to the director Divakar Banerjee.At the crust of the movie are two of the finest actors in the country today; Anupam Kher as the ordinary middle class fifty six year old man (Khosla)in Delhi whose only drive in life is ... |
tt0099991 | The Last of the Finest | The film opens at Canyon Park where narcotics cop Frank Daly (Dennehy) is coaching his partners Wayne Gross (Pantoliano), Ricky Rodriguez (Fahey), and Howard Jones (Paxton) during a flag football game. After the game, Daly tells Captain Joe Torres (Darrow) that his team is working on a major bust. He asks Torres to hel... | suspenseful, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0065488 | The Boys in the Band | The film is set in an Upper East Side apartment in New York City in the late 1960s. Michael, a Roman Catholic sporadically employed writer and recovering alcoholic, is preparing to host a birthday party for his friend Harold. Another of his friends, Donald, a self-described underachiever who has moved from the city, ar... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Kenneth Nelson's performance as Michael doesn't help: it's like an acting class exercise, all shrieking and hysterics.While the ensemble as a whole is strong, Leonard Frey's brilliant, definitive Harold enables him to walk off with the film.
The straight Cliff Gorman does fine work as the flaming, ultimately touching E... |
tt0034389 | Whistling in the Dark | Wally Benton (Red Skelton) is the star of a mystery series on radio, The Fox, which he writes himself, inventing for each episode a crime that has "only one loophole" so the criminal can be caught. He is about to elope with Carol Lambert (Ann Rutherford), but his agent (Eve Arden) tells him he must go out with the spon... | romantic, cult, murder | train | wikipedia | A great comedy mystery film!.
While many pass this off as a B movie it is, indeed, a first class comedy that is well-written and acted.
Red Skelton is great as Wally Benton better known to radio fans as The Fox.
Ann Rutherford is perfect as Wally's fiance Carol Lambert.
Conrad Veidt leads a very well cast gang of crimi... |
tt0091836 | Reform School Girls | The film is a satire of the women in prison film genre and deliberately implements many of the tropes commonly found in such films. Such scenes include nude shower scenes, fight scenes, and a suggested romantic relationship between one of the inmates and an administrator. The overall plot involves a new influx of girls... | violence, cult, cruelty, sadist | train | wikipedia | "Reform School Girls" is a deliciously exaggerated entry in the Women In Prison genre.
Linda Carol plays Jenny, a newcomer to a reform school named Pridemore Juvenile Facility, who mixes it up with both the overbearing head matron Edna (corpulent, big haired Pat Ast, who's an absolute riot) and swaggering top dog convi... |
tt0112408 | Attack of the 60 Foot Centerfold | The three finalists for Plaything Magazine's "Centerfold of the Year" are Inga (Raelyn Saalman), Betty (Tammy Parks) and Angel Grace (J. J. North). During a photoshoot, Betty makes some rather scathing remarks regarding Angel's appearance. Angel becomes self-conscious, and goes to Dr. Lindstrom (John LaZar) at his clin... | cult, adult comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
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