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tt0108624 | Yi tin to lung gei: Moh gaau gaau jue | Zhang Wuji and his parents return from an isolated island and travel to Mount Wudang to celebrate his grandteacher Zhang Sanfeng's 100th birthday. Several martial artists attempt to force Zhang Wuji's parents to reveal the whereabouts of his godfather, Xie Xun, but they refuse and commit suicide in defiance. Zhang Wuji... | revenge, cult, psychedelic, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0339334 | The Magic Roundabout | The film begins as the wizard Zebedee, a red jack-in-the-box-like creature, is having a nightmare about being chased by a rampaging blue jack-in-the-box creature.
The film then starts with Dougal sneaking around the carousel. He goes so far as to place a tack in the road to pop a sweet cart's tyre, thinking to be rewar... | good versus evil, revenge | train | wikipedia | I'd watched the original Magic Roundabout from a very young age, and one false step could have ruined both versions for good.However, the filmmakers managed to make a perfect balance of "old" and "new" to bring out a whole new film, featuring characters that reminded me of the originals, but didn't try to take their pl... |
tt0042418 | The Ducksters | Porky Pig is on a radio quiz show called Truth or AAAAHHH!!, a somewhat macabre parody of the popular quiz show Truth or Consequences (but with potentially fatal consequences) hosted by Daffy Duck, sponsored by "Eagle Hand Laundry" ("If your eagle's hands are dirty, we'll wash them clean!"), and broadcast by the Ajax B... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | GOOD illustrated radio.
It was Chuck Jones who coined the phrase "illustrated radio" to describe the excessively talky style of limited animation introduced to television by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera in the 1960s (ironically, the two directors responsible for the inspired Tom and Jerry cartoons of the 1940s and '50s, ... |
tt4978274 | Priceless | Jean (Gad Elmaleh), a waiter/barman at a luxury hotel, is mistaken to be a millionaire by Irène (Audrey Tautou), a gold digger who convinces wealthy men to fund her lavish lifestyle in exchange for companionship and sex. Irène's elderly lover gets drunk and falls asleep on her birthday, so she goes to the bar in the ho... | suspenseful, intrigue, christian film | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0018925 | The Gallopin' Gaucho | Mickey is introduced riding on a rhea instead of a horse as would be expected (or an ostrich as often reported). He soon reaches local bar and restaurant Cantina Argentina. He enters the establishment with the apparent intent to relax with some drinking and smoking.( On the wall a wanted sign for Mickey saying El gauch... | action | train | wikipedia | A Girl Tries To Fit In Her Mom's Shoes.
This cartoon is one of the shorts Walt Disney produced after his contract in the Oswald business concluded.
It also among the earliest cartoons to feature Mickey Mouse.One thing that intrigues me is the girl mouse who wears pumps that are too big for her (She probably borrowed th... |
tt2675978 | Dedh Ishqiya | Khaalujaan "uncle dear" (Naseeruddin Shah) and his nephew Babban (Arshad Warsi), a thief duo, pose as a Nawab and his attendant, and manage to run away with a prized necklace from a jewellery shop. During the police chase, they get separated; Babban escapes, while Khalujaan is injured. Months later, Babban traces Khalu... | flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0045469 | Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | A rash of murders (by an unknown "monster") is plaguing London, and police are baffled. A newspaper reporter, Bruce Adams (Craig Stevens), finds one of the murder victims while coming home from a bar at night and calls the police. The next day, two American policemen, Slim (Bud Abbott) and Tubby (Lou Costello), who are... | romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2191701 | Grown Ups 2 | Three years after the events of the first film, Lenny Feder has relocated his family back to his Connecticut hometown of Stanton where he and his friends grew up.
In the film's opening in the Feder household, Lenny wakes up to find a wild deer standing next to his bed. Lenny tries to get his wife Roxanne to open the wi... | comedy | train | wikipedia | There I sat, in stone-cold silence, not completely watching, but observing Grown Ups 2, one of the most desperate comedies of the year.
Smiling maybe twice, groaning several times, rolling my eyes several more, and eventually closing them for a few seconds trying to imagine what a movie like this could've been if the q... |
tt2126362 | Stitches | Richard Grindle (Ross Noble), a clown with the stage name "Stitches", is having sex with a woman in his van. While they are having sex, she notices an egg encased in a glass tube with a face painted on it. Stitches explains that "they" made him do it when he signed up. Stitches arrives late at Tommy's (Ryan Burke) tent... | revenge, prank | train | wikipedia | Ross does a brilliant job bringing his character to life, and the story and kids wrapped around the concept are just tacky enough to reek of stereotype, but just different enough to keep you entertained and smiling (such as Bulger doing the splits at the gym, or the 'bully' actually being the only character in a stable... |
tt6359096 | Echoes | Anna (Kate French) has a burgeoning career as a writer. With her blog and screenwriting, she’s well on her way to achieving her dreams. Sadly, her sleep paralysis is so severe it’s beginning to hinder her work. She’s constantly popping pills in order to keep it at bay but nothing is really working. Her agent boyfriend ... | tragedy, violence, haunting | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0048421 | New York Confidential | Charlie Lupo is a gangster who runs the New York branch of a crime syndicate. He is a widower with a grown daughter, Kathy and a new lover, Iris.
Hit man Nick Magellan of the Chicago mob impresses Lupo, who hires Magellan to be his bodyguard. They form a friendship and Kathy is attracted to Nick, but he resists her adv... | violence, cruelty, murder | train | wikipedia | Conte takes on Crawford in mid-50s look at mobsters as organization men.
In Russell Rouse's New York Confidential, Broderick Crawford plays a darker extension of his Harry Brock character in Born Yesterday.
But five years later, in the wake of the televised Kefauver hearings which brought the scope of organized crime t... |
tt0206963 | My First Mister | In an effort to secure employment at the upscale Century City Mall in Los Angeles, Jennifer (Sobieski), an 18-year-old "goth-punk" girl who just graduated from high school, makes a nuisance of herself at a clothing store run by 49-year-old Randall Harris (Brooks), who eventually hires her on a trial basis as a stockroo... | gothic | train | wikipedia | `American Beauty' and more recently `Ghost World' carried the usual criticism of this socially questionable alliance, from downright damage in the former to uncertainty about how it could ever work in the latter.In `My First Mister,' starring Albert Brooks and Leelee Sobieski, the union works so beautifully in the firs... |
tt1492723 | At Risk | Win Garano, an Apache nicknamed "Geronimo", is working for Monique "Money" Lamont in the Boston DA's department. Lamont is running for Governor of Massachusetts using the concept of "at risk" to try to gain votes, saying that everyone is at risk from crime but when she becomes governor it is the criminals who will be a... | murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | Could have been, would have been, should have been - it definitely wasn't, worth watching.
This is one of two Patricia Cornwell novels to film, i.e.
"At Risk" and "The Front" that feature Andie McDowell as a Boston district attorney and are appearing on one of our lesser cable channels here in New Zealand.
I would agre... |
tt0043013 | The Sundowners | Irish-Australian Paddy Carmody (Robert Mitchum) is a sheep drover and shearer, roving the sparsely-populated back country with his wife Ida (Deborah Kerr) and son Sean (Michael Anderson, Jr.). They are sundowners, constantly moving, pitching their tent whenever the sun goes down. Ida and Sean want to settle down, but P... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0095178 | Fresh Horses | Cincinnati college senior Matt Larkin (Andrew McCarthy) seems to have a picture perfect life: he is well-liked at his mid-western college, that he is soon to graduate, fiancée, friends, parties and good times. But when Matt meets Jewel (Molly Ringwald), his carefully constructed house of cards falls apart and changes h... | depressing | train | wikipedia | And why?Silly questions aside, Fresh Horses is a film with an adult story aimed at using the onscreen chemistry of Andrew McCarthy and Molly Ringwald, (who were first paired as everyone knows in the excellent Pretty In Pink) in a serious love story.
Ringwald is Jewel, a mysterious country girl, all pink lips and tousle... |
tt0058544 | San daikaijû: Chikyû saidai no kessen | Police Detective Shindo (Yosuke Natsuki) is assigned to guard Princess Selina Salno of Selgina (Akiko Wakabayashi) during the Princess' visit to Japan, due to a suspected assassination plot. Although Shindo is smitten with Selina's photograph, her plane never makes it to Japan, as it is destroyed by a bomb en route. At... | murder | train | wikipedia | Many fans of Japanese monster movies regard the late 50s/early 60s as the Golden Age,and they are generally right.There is a terrific feel to the Toho Studios films made in that period-imaginative,exciting,fun without generally descending into camp,a good stock company of actors,etc.This film,to call it by it's western... |
tt0466854 | Jayam | The story is centered in a village where the parents of first cousins Sujatha (Sadha) and Raghu (Gopichand) decide that they will be married to each other when they become adults. As a child, Sujatha's uncle gives her anklets, which she wears as she grows up. As they grow older, Raghu is caught smuggling money from his... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0473488 | A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints | Present Day: Dito is a successful writer in Los Angeles. One day, after being urged by his mother, Flori, and his friend, Nerf, Dito visits his childhood home, Astoria, New York, because his father has suddenly become very ill. The film switches back and forth between the present and flashbacks with Dito's memories in ... | violence, murder, romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0457397 | Killer7 | === Setting ===
Killer7 takes place in an alternate version of Earth in the early 21st century. After a treaty ends all international conflict, the world powers destroy all nuclear weapons by firing them into the upper atmosphere and intercepting them with other missiles. This event becomes known as "Fireworks" and sym... | insanity, psychedelic, avant garde, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt4903242 | The Detour | Piano player Al Roberts (Tom Neal) is drinking coffee at a roadside diner in Reno, hitchhiking east from California, when a fellow patron plays a song on the jukebox that reminds him of his former life in New York City. At the time, Al was bitter about squandering his talent working in a cheap nightclub. After his girl... | satire | train | wikipedia | (I live outside the US and don't have TBS.) I reluctantly watched the pilot episode and trust me when I tell you this, if you have any sense of humor, you will love this show.
It just goes to show how some people watch TV/MOVIES and think that everything should be true to life.
It's said that this story is based on the... |
tt0096061 | Scrooged | Frank Cross is an inconsiderate and arrogant executive in the IBC television network headquarters. He is preparing an extravagant live production of A Christmas Carol on Christmas Eve, forcing the network's staff, including his assistant Grace Cooley, to work on the holiday. He also fires the meek Eliot Loudermilk for ... | cult, comedy, satire, entertaining, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0036172 | The More the Merrier | Retired millionaire Benjamin Dingle (Charles Coburn) arrives in Washington, D.C. as an adviser on the housing shortage and finds that his hotel suite will not be available for two days. He sees an ad for a roommate and talks the reluctant young woman, Connie Milligan (Jean Arthur), into letting him sublet half of her a... | comedy | train | wikipedia | And it remains a mystery how a sexy, sassy, down-to-earth and abundantly funny film such as this could ever be forgotten.In the Washington of 1943, with the housing crisis brought on by the war, single working girl Jean Arthur feels compelled to do her bit and let out half of her apartment.
Well-to do businessman Charl... |
tt0322622 | The Hound of the Baskervilles | Dr James Mortimer asks Sherlock Holmes to investigate the death of his friend, Sir Charles Baskerville. Sir Charles was found dead on the grounds of his Devonshire estate, Baskerville Hall, and Mortimer now fears for Sir Charles's nephew and sole heir, Sir Henry Baskerville, who is the new master of Baskerville Hall. T... | gothic, murder | train | wikipedia | While Richard Roxburgh is a really good Holmes, Ian Hart is outstanding as Dr. Watson.
Ian Hart brought a fuller dimension to the Dr. Watson character to this Hound of the Baskervilles that many other version have not.
The BBC, here in England, have just broadcast the latest version of Arthur Conan Doyle's classic Sher... |
tt0270980 | My Boss's Daughter | Tom Stansfield (Ashton Kutcher) is a researcher at a publishing company who works under the tyrannical Jack Taylor (Terence Stamp). Tom has a crush on his boss' daughter, Lisa Taylor (Tara Reid), who is completely controlled by her overprotective father. She reveals to Tom that her father is making her house-sit on the... | comedy, entertaining | train | wikipedia | The entire (from my point of view) film was based around Tom house-sitting due to a misunderstanding whereby he thought he would actually have been dating Lisa Taylor, the character who is the title's daughter of the title's boss.
If you have not seen the film you may be shocked to learn that this house-sitting period ... |
tt0399877 | What the #$*! Do We (K)now!? | Filmed in Portland, Oregon, What the Bleep Do We Know!? presents a viewpoint of the physical universe and human life within it, with connections to neuroscience and quantum physics. Some ideas discussed in the film are:
That the universe is best seen as constructed from thoughts and ideas rather than from matter.
That ... | pornographic, psychological, murder, violence, flashback, psychedelic, philosophical, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0071292 | Open Season | In the peaceful town of Timberline, 900-pound (408 kg) grizzly bear Boog enjoys a captive, but pampered existence and spends his day as the star attraction of the town's nature show while at night living in the garage of park ranger Beth, who raised him since he was a cub. One day, the sadistic hunting fanatic Shaw dri... | murder, sadist | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0298590 | Valkyrie Profile | === Characters ===
There are 24 playable characters in the game. However, some of them can only be obtained in hard mode.
Lenneth is the primary protagonist of Valkyrie Profile, a recently awakened warrior-maiden and servant of Odin, who has been tasked with recruiting the einherjar to fight with the Æsir in their war ... | tragedy | train | wikipedia | Best RPG game on the Playstation.. Ah, finally, I get to see "valkyrie profile" on the movie site, so I just can't refuse!I think Lenneth Valkyrie, the main heroine of this game, is a very good, empowering role model for girl gamers, much better than Lara Croft or Tifa Lockhart. Lenneth is smart, takes crap from no one... |
tt0063611 | Skammen | A husband and wife, Jan and Eva, are former violinists who are living on a farm on a rural island during a civil war. Their radio and telephone do not work, and Eva expresses frustration at Jan's apparent preference of escapism from the conflict, while they debate whether they can have children and if Jan is selfish. T... | bleak, allegory | train | wikipedia | "Shame" is less symbolic than some of Bergman's works, and, an intense, psychological study of a married couple, Jan and Eva, (Max von Sydow & Liv Ullmann) who have their personal problems like anyone else, but suddenly find their otherwise quiet Swedish island life completely upset by a civil war.
When Liv Ullman's ch... |
tt0275947 | Avenging Angelo | Years ago, a mob boss named Lucio Malatesta (George Touliatos) pinned the murder of rival Sammy Carboni (Gino Marrocco) on another rival named Angelo Allieghieri (Anthony Quinn), which led to Sammy's son Gianni vowing revenge.
Frankie Delano (Sylvester Stallone) has spent his life safeguarding Angelo as well as Angelo'... | violence, comedy, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0806147 | Extreme Movie | The film is a series of vignettes with Matthew Lillard's sex advice is intercut within every couple segments. Mike (Ryan Pinkston) tries to impress his crush, Stacy (Cherilyn Wilson). Fred (Michael Cera) meets a girl (Joanna Garcia) online and they arrange for "menacing action", only for Fred to break into the wrong ap... | romantic | train | wikipedia | One of the better "Movie" films - if that sounds like faint praise, it's because it is!.
The people behind "Extreme Movie" are the same people who brought you "Not Another Teen Movie" which is one of the better spoof movies of recent years.This is not the kind of movie you'd let grandma watch.
A film about teenagers an... |
tt0433744 | What It's Like Being Alone | === Pilot ===
The pilot of the series aired with some anticipation. Beforehand, columnist Randall Denley had written that "I suspect [it] will be the highlight of the evening," noting the series had been described as "wondrous and fiendishly humorous." The first episode, titled "The Gurney Orphanage For Beginners," fea... | comedy | train | wikipedia | The Truth About Being Alone....
From the comment titled "What It's Like Being Amazed"***A wondrous and fiendishly humorous stop-motion animation series about freak orphans who are desperately trying to get adopted.
(yadda yadda yadda...)***Clearly, this post was written by Peyton himself - no other human being would di... |
tt0945586 | Repo! The Genetic Opera | By the year 2056, an epidemic of organ failures has devastated the planet. The megacorporation GeneCo provides organ transplants on a payment plan. Clients who default on payments are hunted down by Repo Men: skilled assassins contracted by GeneCo to repossess organs, usually killing the clients in the process. The CEO... | sci-fi | train | wikipedia | The Best Movie EVER!. A lot of people don't like this movie, and I think I know why. Many do not understand what is going on, due to the high vocabulary and constant musical numbers. This movie should at least be given a chance to all. I have always been a fan of musicals, and this movie has everything. Incredible musi... |
tt0091541 | The Money Pit | Attorney Walter Fielding and his classical musician girlfriend, Anna Crowley, learn of Walter Sr.'s wedding to a woman named Florinda shortly after fleeing the country for embezzling millions of dollars from their musician clients. The next morning, they are told they need to vacate the apartment they are subletting fr... | comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0009620 | The Sinking of the Lusitania | The film opens with a live-action prologue in which McCay busies himself studying a picture of the Lusitania as a model for his film-in-progress. Intertitles boast of McCay as "the originator and inventor of Animated Cartoons", and of the 25,000 drawings needed to complete the film. McCay is shown working with a group ... | tragedy | train | wikipedia | The Sinking of the Lusitania (1918) *** (out of 4) This WWI propaganda piece is from Winsor McCay, the famed animator who decided to use his skills and so something quite different.
This film documents the German attack on the Lusitania ship, which was carrying 2000 people when it was hit by a couple torpedoes and sank... |
tt1885336 | Perversion | Vitório Palestrina is a playboy millionaire who passes his days sleeping with, abusing, and discarding women in a small village. After seducing a young woman named Silvia, he brutally rapes her, biting off one of her nipples in the process. He keeps the nipple in a glass case as a trophy. When his actions become public... | suspenseful, violence | train | wikipedia | A very neat no-budget homage to Grindhouse-style exploitation horror cinema. Well, well, well......We have quite the curiosity here ladies & gents! A fairly ambitious & ballsy no-budget Grindhouse-style exploitation horror film under the title of Perversion. How well does it live up to this title?Well, if you find your... |
tt0038866 | Racketeer Rabbit | Bugs Bunny, looking for a place to pass the night, happens on an abandoned farm house, which, unbeknownst to Bugs, is the hideout of two gangsters, Rocky and Hugo. After claiming "Huh! Sounds like Inner Sanctum" while opening the squeaky front door, he drills a hole in the ground, dons a nightcap, descends in a manner ... | psychedelic, comic | train | wikipedia | "Its curtains for ya Rocky...
curtains, see!".
Bugs stars with Robinson and Lorre in one of the finest gangster cartoons ever!As our story begins we find Bugs making himself at home in a large, deserted house.
No sooner does he get to sleep than he is awaken by two mobsters returning from robbing the bank, Rocky and Hu... |
tt0065327 | Night Gallery | Rod Serling appeared in a dark art gallery setting and introduced a trilogy of supernatural tales by unveiling paintings that depicted each segment. The three canvases produced for the pilot were painted by Jaroslav "Jerry" Gebr (who was head of the Scenic Arts Department at Universal Studios). The original pilot theme... | paranormal, comedy | train | wikipedia | In spite of the fact that it was mostly reviled by critics and not a few viewers, when it originally ran on NBC back in the early '70's, it now has garnered a cult following and I can definitely see why.GALLERY in its own way, did for horror anthologies what TWILIGHT ZONE did for science fiction and fantasy.
One story ... |
tt0059083 | Dark Intruder | The film opens, after the murder of a woman in dark alley by a mysterious caped figure, on a scene between Kingsford and his fiance Eveleyn Lang (Meredith). Kingsford is an expert on the supernatural and along with his dwarf assistant Nikola (Charles Boldender) he is called in by police to uncover the scheme of a Sumer... | paranormal | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0084287 | Made in Britain | The play begins with Trevor being tried in court charged with throwing a brick through the window of a Pakistani man, Mr. Shahnawaz. He has also been charged with shoplifting from Harrods. Trevor is defiant when questioned by the judge. Trevor's social worker, Harry Parker (Eric Richard) takes him to Hooper Street Resi... | comedy | train | wikipedia | Tim Roth blasted to the forefront of edgy screen actors with this bravura tour-de-force performance for British TV in 1982.
Seeing Tim Roth for the first time in this film, you wouldn't initially be sure you were watching an actor play a part.
Only through the dramatic pace and development of the film and the inclusion... |
tt0042825 | The Outriders | With the Civil War nearing an end, rebel soldiers Will Owen, Jess Wallace and Clint Priest are released in Missouri from a Union stockade. A bandit leader and Confederate sympathizer, Keeley, recruits them to join a wagon train run by Don Chaves that is carrying a million dollars' worth of gold bullion.
The men see it ... | violence | train | wikipedia | Decent Western with spectacular outdoors , colorful photography , nice direction and great cast.
MGM Western movie with glimmer Technicolor cinematography , impressive landscapes and including romance of the daring pioneers of the West .
Late in the American Civil War, from an Union prison called Camp Benton, our hands... |
tt1924394 | The Angels' Share | In the opening scenes, the protagonists are sentenced to hours of community payback. During his first community payback session, Robbie (Paul Brannigan), under the guidance of Harry (John Henshaw), is interrupted and taken to the hospital by Harry as his girlfriend, Leonie (Siobhan Reilly), has gone into labour. At the... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0104525 | Invader | In the opening sequence, four airmen from Clark Air Base in Washington D.C. frantically attempt to escape the base. A contingent of soldiers soon blocks their path. Most of the escapees are shot, but one sees a flying saucer which burns him to a crisp with its energy weapon.
Frank Mccall (Hans Bachmann) is an overquali... | brainwashing | train | wikipedia | Alien technology out for world domination!.
Entering untrodden B-movie territory when in 1992 independent filmmaker Philip J.
Cook got legendary Israeli producer Menahem Golan to executive produce his sophomore outing Invader.
With a screenplay far too ambitious for its budgetary means, the result became an undefinable... |
tt0094799 | Bright Lights, Big City | The film follows one week in the life of 24-year-old Jamie Conway (Michael J. Fox). Originally from Pennsylvania, Jamie works as a fact-checker for a major New York magazine, but because he spends his nights partying with his glib best friend Tad (Kiefer Sutherland) and his frequent cocaine abuse, he's on the verge of ... | flashback | train | wikipedia | There is a surprising appearance from the wonderful Jason Robards which, shamefully, is uncredited according to IMDb. Considering the size of his role this is kind of odd.Negatives: Phoebe Cates seemed completely unconvincing as a model and Michael J.
And that last point sums up the problems with this film: it eventual... |
tt0294968 | The Time Machine | The book's protagonist is an English scientist and gentleman inventor living in Richmond, Surrey, in Victorian England, and identified by a narrator simply as the Time Traveller. The narrator recounts the Traveller's lecture to his weekly dinner guests that time is simply a fourth dimension and his demonstration of a t... | sci-fi | train | wikipedia | I Have A Confession To Make .... ...... And that is I'm " reviewing " something I have never seen . If the IMDb don't accept this review I perfectly understand because we don't want to open the floodgates where people submit things they haven't seen , though I have seen many reviews ( Before the ten lines minimum rule ... |
tt0045274 | Umberto D. | Police disperse an organized street demonstration of elderly men demanding a raise in their meager pensions. One of the marchers is Umberto D. Ferrari, a retired government worker.
He returns to his room, and finds that his landlady has rented it out for an hour to an amorous couple. She threatens to evict Ferrari at t... | bleak, violence | train | wikipedia | Throughout the movie, we see Umberto struggle to find money to pay rent to his horrible landlady, love his dog Flike, and deal with the loneliness and disillusionment of the postwar era."Umberto D" is a character-driven film.
As I watched Umberto D., by Oscar nominated actor and legendary Oscar winning director Vittori... |
tt0119872 | The Peacekeeper | United States Air Force Major Frank Cross is in trouble with the "brass" again. This time he's made an unauthorized humanitarian relief flight and dropped sacks of rice to starving Kurds. To the press, he's a hero, but the Pentagon would like to court martial him. It can't because the President wants the highly photoge... | revenge, suspenseful, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0432402 | Factory Girl | Edie Sedgwick (Sienna Miller) is a young heiress studying art in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She moves to New York City, where she is introduced to pop art painter and film-maker Andy Warhol (Guy Pearce). Intrigued by the beautiful socialite, he asks her to perform in one of his underground movies. Soon she is spending t... | romantic, storytelling, flashback | train | wikipedia | In reality, she was rejected by the factory friends and many others for the drugs she brought with her everywhere, she was not introduced to them at the factory as the movie shows.Hickenlooper seems to me to be trying to say that Edie Sedgwick, that fresh faced wasp in knee socks and pearls who left Cambridge with sket... |
tt0470765 | For Your Consideration | Character actress Marilyn Hack (O'Hara), despite having been in the entertainment industry for 30 years, is best known for playing a blind prostitute in a film from the late 1980s. Victor Allen Miller (Shearer) is also an acting veteran who is known to the public as the hot-dog wearing mascot for a kosher line of frank... | satire | train | wikipedia | It is a brave, and ultimately, a rewarding choice for a director who has built his impeccable reputation on the strength of his mockumentaries.Like its predecessors Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, and A Mighty Wind, For Your Consideration is largely improvised, and reunites the same winning cast.
Furthermore, having... |
tt0411951 | Tekken | Mere moments after Jin Kazama's departure from the Hon-Maru dojo, G Corporation helicopters approach and begin deploying Jack-4s pods into the building. Heihachi Mishima and his son, Kazuya, are awoken to a squadron bursting through the walls. At first, the two battle the Jacks together until Kazuya leaves Heihachi for... | revenge, sci-fi, murder, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2552498 | Jack the Giant Killer | This plot summary is based on a text published ca. 1760 by John Cotton and Joshua Eddowes, which in its turn was based on a chapbook ca. 1711, and reprinted in 'The Classic Fairy Tales' by Iona and Peter Opie in 1974.
The tale is set during the reign of King Arthur and tells of a young Cornish farmer's son named Jack w... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2082415 | Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed | In August 1944, the Allies have invaded German-occupied France. Nazi Captain Erich Neumann (Lincoln Hoppe) speaks over the phone, comforting his family as he is concerned for their safety. Afterwards, he executes two French men. On the early morning of August 15, paratroopers from the 517th Parachute Regimental Combat ... | flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2852406 | Omar | Omar (Adam Bakri) is a Palestinian baker who frequently climbs the West Bank barrier to visit his lover Nadia (Leem Lubany), a high-school girl whom he intends to marry. After being beaten and humiliated by a group of Israeli soldiers, Omar and his childhood friends Tarek (Eyad Hourani) and Amjad (Samer Bisharat) stage... | revenge, violence, romantic | train | wikipedia | The 3 friends (Omar, Tarek & Amjad) plus the sister Nadia are constantly kept off balance by the political tensions that come from living in Palestine.
This Oscar-nominated Palestinian film may not be as "fair and balanced" in its depiction of the seemingly endless and intractable Mid East conflict as some might wish i... |
tt0159142 | You're in the Super Bowl, Charlie Brown! | The special begins with Snoopy, as the world-famous Coach, getting his football team, The Birds, ready. It consists entirely of Woodstock and his tiny friends. The announcer says, this game will decide the Eastern Champ for the "AFL" (Animal Football League). They are playing the team "The Cats" a ferocious group of ca... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Super Bowl. I gave You're in the Super Bowl, Charlie Brown a seven. This movie was a pretty good movie because it was an escape from cliché Charlie Brown movies, I personally thought that it was not a classic but at least original. The plot gave what it promised, and didn't exactly draw things out very long as other mo... |
tt1640459 | Hobo with a Shotgun | A hobo arrives by boxcar in Hope Town, its welcome sign repainted to read "Scum Town". The town is ruled by "The Drake" and his sadistic sons Ivan and Slick. The Hobo sees an amateur film maker shooting a "Bumfight" movie. As he pushes his shopping cart through the streets, a bloodied man screams for assistance. Two ca... | comedy, murder, cult, violence, absurd, satire, revenge, sadist | train | wikipedia | The chunks of the movie that involve crazy old Rutger Hauer blasting through waves of baddies in brutal fashion and the bizarre acts of violence perpetrated by the films antagonists are easily the highlights, and they never fail to delight with their brilliant, twisted gore effects.
This is a great example of a movie t... |
tt0221735 | Kadokyaputa Sakura | Cardcaptor Sakura takes place in the fictional Japanese city of Tomoeda which is somewhere near Tokyo. Ten-year-old Sakura Kinomoto accidentally releases a set of magical cards known as Clow Cards from a book in her basement created and named after the sorcerer Clow Reed. Each card has its own unique ability and can as... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | I am also a 17 year old male, and I love CCS -both the Manga and the Anime- it's so imaginative and well thought through, each character has his/her own personality and the're own hobbies and love interests.
It is aimed more towards girl readers/watchers, but this is probably due to the team of writers (CLAMP) are all ... |
tt1693039 | Pinocchio | The story begins with an inventor named Geppetto making a robot, Pinocchio, as his son. Meanwhile, an evil mayor named Scamboli is building a technological city called "Scamboville" to get rid of nature. He also hates all children, except for his beloved daughter, Marlene. When Marlene expresses concerns to Scamboli ab... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0060440 | Furankenshutain no kaijû: Sanda tai Gaira | As the film opens, a small boat is seen chugging through stormy seas. A giant octopus appears from the ocean and seems bent on killing the sole crew member on deck. Suddenly, the octopus releases the man and retracts its tentacles from the boat. Relieved, the sailor peers out the porthole to see Gaira, a large green ma... | good versus evil | train | wikipedia | The classic seen in this movie is when the Green Gargantua comes ashore near a hotel/apartment complex and tears the walls off exposing people inside.
If you love Godzilla, Gamera, and other giant monster film I strongly recommend that you do what I did and buy War of the Gargantuas today!.
"War Of The Gargantuas" come... |
tt2015304 | Baaz | The 16th century, the Malabar Coast. General Barbosa (KN Singh) signs a treaty with the queen (Sulochana) of a small state giving the Portuguese right to trade in exchange for military protection. With the help of the queen's nephew Jaswant (Ramsingh), he begins to meddle in the administration as well. He arrests merch... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2387559 | Delivery Man | David Wozniak (Vince Vaughn) is a hapless deliveryman for his family's butcher shop, pursued by thugs to whom he owes $80,000. His girlfriend Emma, an NYPD officer (Cobie Smulders) is pregnant with his child. One day, David returns from work to find a lawyer representing a sperm bank (where he gave 693 donations and ea... | dramatic, cute | train | wikipedia | When David (Vince Vaughn) finds out he's the father to 533 children through donations he made to a fertility clinic 20 years ago, he learns that a fraction of them want to meet him.
I have seen a lot of Vince Vaughn films and have to say I am not a big fan of his, he sometimes shines like in the Internship, but mainly ... |
tt0030382 | The Lone Ranger | In 1933, a boy, Will, who idolizes the legendary Lone Ranger, encounters the elderly Comanche Native American Tonto at a sideshow in a San Francisco fair. Tonto proceeds to recount his experiences with that Old West adventurer.
In 1869, lawyer John Reid returns home to Colby, Texas via the uncompleted Transcontinental ... | insanity, violence, cruelty | train | wikipedia | My favorite serial..
This is simply the best serial ever made and it's a crying shame that the original print has been lost (or destroyed as some claim).
It was filmed at Lone Pine, Ca., the perfect location for the perfect serial.
The 1940 condensation "Hi Yo Silver" is too short, leaving out many key elements, but fo... |
tt0082406 | The Fox and the Hound | After a young red fox is orphaned, Big Mama the owl, Boomer the woodpecker, and Dinky the finch arrange for him to be adopted by a kindly farmer named Widow Tweed. Tweed names him Tod, since he reminds her of a toddler. Meanwhile, her neighbor, a hunter named Amos Slade, brings home a young hound puppy named Copper and... | tragedy, revenge, romantic | train | wikipedia | This is one of my favorite animated movies of all time, it's innocent, it's simple, it's lovely, and just a wonderful tale about the most unlikely pair becoming the best of friends.
The Fox and the Hound, yeah, it does go a little overboard on the cuteness factor with baby Tod and baby Copper, but this is when Disney r... |
tt0105001 | Night and the City | Harry Fabian (Widmark) is an ambitious American hustler and con man operating in London, always looking for a better deal. He maintains a fractured relationship with the honest Mary Bristol (Tierney), nightclub owner and businessman Phil Nosseross (Sullivan), and Helen (Withers), who is Phil's estranged wife. While att... | neo noir | train | wikipedia | This has a depressing feel of inevitability about it - you can see the problems in Fabian's plans long before they happen, giving the film a feel of small time from the very start.
The story is therefore quite compelling, despite it being very low key, the only weakness being the romance subplot and the fact that it is... |
tt1821478 | Kaavalan | Bhoominathan (Vijay) idolises Muthuramalingam (Rajkiran), a rich powerful landlord, and at the request of his parents, he accepts to work for Muthuramaingam as his bodyguard. There enters Muthuramalingam's rival, who has lost his daughter since she committed suicide, the reason being rejection by Muthuramalingam's son.... | revenge, murder, romantic | train | wikipedia | A Heart touching love story after a long time in Tamil cinema.
Then the movie becomes a bit slow (in a good way).
He should work with vijay in another movie with a meatier role.Roja did her part well.
Yaradhu was the best (of all the movies released in the recent time.
All the Songs were well placed in a Tamil movie.
O... |
tt0997047 | College Road Trip | The film is about Melanie Porter (Raven-Symoné), a 17-year-old college-bound girl who is getting ready to graduate from high school and really wants to go to Georgetown University. However, her father James Porter (Martin Lawrence), the chief of police in the quiet Chicago suburb where they live, is overprotective of M... | comedy, satire, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0119167 | Funny Games | George and Ann Farber, their son Georgie, and their dog arrive at their lake house. Their next-door neighbour, Fred, is seen with two young men, Peter and Paul, who seem to be friends or relatives. They find Fred reacting somewhat awkwardly. Fred and Paul come over to help put the boat into the lake. Lucky, the dog, ke... | violence, dark, murder, sadist | train | wikipedia | I've never seen such great acting in a German language movie (the film is Austrian - just to be precise); the script is full of surprises and the whole film has a tightness that is very rare; every little detail is in the right place.Michael Haneke always likes to challenge his audience, but even among his more controv... |
tt0006206 | Les vampires | === Episode 1 – "The Severed Head" ===
Philipe Guérande (Édouard Mathé), a reporter working for the newspaper "The Paris Chronicle" who is investigating a criminal organisation called the Vampires, receives a telegram at work stating that the decapitated body of the national security agent in charge of the Vampire inve... | revenge, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | Lensed in an eerily abandoned Paris in 1915, Louis Feuillade's stark chapterplay LES VAMPIRES is a grim and powerful work which is worlds apart from the later glitz and polish of the golden age serials produced by the American studios.It should be noted that serials were nothing new at this point in time.
Formative eff... |
tt0301082 | Gekijô-ban Kâdokaputâ Sakura | Cardcaptor Sakura takes place in the fictional Japanese city of Tomoeda which is somewhere near Tokyo. Ten-year-old Sakura Kinomoto accidentally releases a set of magical cards known as Clow Cards from a book in her basement created and named after the sorcerer Clow Reed. Each card has its own unique ability and can as... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0049201 | The Fastest Gun Alive | Son of a notorious fast-drawing sheriff, George Kelby Jr. (Ford) and his wife Dora (Jeanne Crain) settle down in the peaceful town of Cross Creek under assumed identities to avoid having to continually face men out to become famous for shooting down the "fastest gun alive". Now known as George Temple, he becomes a mild... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0171259 | Earthly Possessions | Thirty-five-year-old Charlotte Emory has felt trapped her whole life in Clarion, Maryland--first by her embarrassingly eccentric parents, then by her preacher-husband whom she married too young, and eventually by "his variously afflicted brothers, a daughter who won't answer to her own name, a house full of refugees, a... | flashback | train | wikipedia | I thought this was quite a good movie.
It stirred something in me.I thought that Charlotte and Jake had real passion.
picturing people in their situation doing the things they did.I really liked it because it was so different and unpredictable.
Well, I rented this film because I like "Hostage and Kidnapper fall in lov... |
tt0016544 | The Wizard of Oz | The film begins in Kansas, which is depicted in a sepia tone. Dorothy Gale lives with her dog Toto on the farm of her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry. Dorothy's dog gets in trouble with a mean neighbor, Miss Almira Gulch, when Toto bites her. However, Dorothy's family and the farmhands are all too busy to pay her any attention... | flashback | train | wikipedia | This is a pretty weird adaptation of the "Wizard of Oz", bearing only a passing resemblance either to the original book or to the beloved Judy Garland version.
Frankly, most of it isn't really very good, although for those who enjoy silent films there are some points of historical interest.Instead of the more familiar ... |
tt0071688 | Jakob, der Lügner | In a Jewish ghetto in German-occupied Poland, a man named Jakob is caught on the streets after curfew. He is told to report to a German military office where he finds the officer in charge passed out drunk. The radio is running and Jakob hears a broadcast about the advances of the Soviet Army. Eventually, Jakob sneaks ... | comedy, fantasy, murder, suicidal, violence, flashback, tragedy | train | wikipedia | The Best East German Film Ever Made.
The visuals of Aryan supremacy in Leni Reifenstahl's Nazi propaganda films, images of mountains of dead Jews and extremely inhumane conditions in death camps in Schindler's List, serve not merely to drive the film narrative but stir our emotions as well.
These images have conditione... |
tt0052698 | Classe tous risques | French gangster Abel Davos, having been tried in absentia and sentenced to death, flees to Italy with his wife and their two children. After a successful holdup in Milan with an accomplice Raymond, they try to re-enter France by boat, but while landing at a deserted cove by night are surprised by two customs officers. ... | violence, neo noir, murder | train | wikipedia | Odd one should be able to stumble into "Classe Tous Risques" only by chance; it should be on any "best of film-noir" list, including IMDb's.Lino Ventura is as good as ever; knowing of his dire, delicate family situation gives extra weight to his almost expressionless face and brief dialogues.
Belmondo's restrained perf... |
tt0030993 | You Can't Take It with You | A successful banker, Anthony P. Kirby (Edward Arnold), has just returned from Washington, D.C., where he was effectively granted a government-sanctioned munitions monopoly, which will make him very rich. He intends to buy up a 12-block radius around a competitor's factory to put him out of business, but there is one ho... | entertaining | train | wikipedia | Ask someone my age, who would now be 25, what the best movie of all time is, they're likely to say Pulp Fiction or Fight Club.Not to take away from today's movies, but for anyone who has not gone back and viewed classic Capra, such as "You Can't Take it With You," then they are truly missing out.This movie is pure magi... |
tt0114697 | Top Dog | The film opens as two white nationalists destroy an apartment complex in which most of the residents are minorities. Veteran police officer, Sgt. Lou Swanson, and his police dog, Reno, investigate the crime and realize the explosives are military in style. Their investigation takes them to the harbor, where they find a... | violence, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0025464 | Manhattan Melodrama | On June 15, 1904, the ship General Slocum catches fire and sinks in New York's East River. Two boys, Blackie Gallagher (Mickey Rooney) and Jim Wade (Jimmy Butler), are rescued by a priest, Father Joe (Leo Carrillo), but are orphaned by the disaster. They are taken in by another survivor, Poppa Rosen (George Sidney), wh... | murder | train | wikipedia | 'Manhattan Melodrama' may not have the stylistic finish to it to make it a great message movie about contemporary 30s issues, but it does go a long way towards that end, and is never less than engaging.Clark Gable is the happy-go-lucky gangster Blackie who is being tried for murder by his boyhood best friend Jim, Willi... |
tt0119115 | Fierce Creatures | The film opens with Willa Weston (Jamie Lee Curtis) arriving in Atlanta to take a high ranking position in a company recently acquired by Octopus Inc.'s owner, Rod McCain (Kevin Kline). But Rod informs her that he has already sold the company where she was to work. Willa then agrees to run another recent acquisition, M... | cult, comedy, humor | train | wikipedia | "Fierce Creatures" was marketed as a somewhat adventurous endeavour in teaming up much of the old team from the highly acclaimed "A Fish called Wanda" to do another film that was completely different and had nothing the same, except much of the cast.Does this have the same sparkle?
Put in charge is Rollo Lee (John Clee... |
tt2053352 | Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel | The film features recorded audio and filmed interviews of Vreeland, as well as interviews with colleagues, family, and friends of Vreeland. Beginning with an exploration of Vreeland’s childhood, the film offers a glimpse of fashionable Paris during the Belle Époque, a time when Vreeland had access to exciting and influ... | romantic, philosophical, storytelling, home movie | train | wikipedia | An audacious lady who became the First Name of Fashion in "Modern Times ". Her first name Diana is pronounced "Deeanna). Unsure if that was to sound better with Vreeland or was the original pronunciation. It would surprise me not one whit if she suddenly changed it because it went better - that is the audaciousness of ... |
tt0463034 | You, Me and Dupree | Molly (Kate Hudson) and Carl (Matt Dillon) are preparing for their wedding day in Hawaii, until Carl's friend Neil (Seth Rogen) interrupts to say that Randolph Dupree (Owen Wilson) got lost. They drive off together to pick up Dupree, who appeared to have hitched a ride with a light plane after landing on the wrong isla... | prank | train | wikipedia | I'm one of about three movie reviewers to boldly make that claim, but doggone on it, I'm sticking by it.Granted, my enjoyment was heightened due to the fact that I kept my expectations low and didn't have to pay to see the movie, but I was entertained all the same.It's only fair that I be perfectly honest and admit I'm... |
tt0479199 | Buried Alive | Rene is in the bath having a conversation with her cousin Zane, who is in the bathroom with her. He pushes her underwater, and she begins to drown. While looking up at his face from under the water, she sees the visage of an old woman above her. She awakes with a start, having fallen asleep and begun to drown. Her boyf... | revenge, prank | train | wikipedia | The unfortunate thing about this film is that Kurtzman adds nothing special to his resume: while the directing overall seems much tighter than "Wishmaster", the story he was given to work with just isn't as enjoyable.
Most of all Buried Alive goes a good thirty or forty minutes before anything scary or gory happens, an... |
tt0116661 | It's in the Water | Alex is a married Junior Leaguer with a penchant for interesting shoes. Her Junior League chapter's annual project is to volunteer at Hope House, an AIDS hospice that recently opened in her home town of Azalea Springs, Texas. Alex and her League friends, including her friend Sloan, tour Hope House. Alex runs into her b... | romantic, satire | train | wikipedia | I can tell you that Kelli Herd is a brilliant, bold story-teller with a great sense of timing.
Barbara Lassiter (mom) is too much, I remember when they were shooting the scene where she is lecturing her daughter Alex about her gay kiss,noting "Couldn't you have done something like this on the weekend?" The scene when s... |
tt0116762 | Keys to Tulsa | The story revolves around a perpetual loser and slacker named Richter Boudreau (Eric Stoltz). Richter is from a privileged background in Tulsa, Oklahoma and works as a movie reviewer at a local newspaper only because his sour mother Cynthia (Mary Tyler Moore) pulled strings for him to land the job. He is dissatisfied w... | murder, melodrama | train | wikipedia | A twisted plot and good acting.
Forget what some of those other reviewers said--this is a good movie!
(Perhaps the plot twists were a little too challenging for them to follow.) The acting is great--especially Deborah Unger and James Spader.
And Mary Tyler Moore does a great holier-than-thou slut-turned-society-swell.
... |
tt1795096 | Behzat Ç.: Bir Ankara Polisiyesi | Behzat Ç. is a rough, violent, and morally ambiguous police officer who is the head of the homicide department in Ankara. His team consists of five people: Harun, Hayalet (Ghost), Akbaba (Vulture), Cevdet, Selim and Eda. Behzat Ç and his team usually work together with the public prosecutor Esra, who later becomes his ... | murder | train | wikipedia | The Legend Series Behzat Ç..
Through this series I liked Ankara.
Behzat Ç is a rough, violent and morally ambiguous police officer who is the head of the homicide department in Ankara.
Behzat Ç and his team usually work together with the public prosecutor Esra, who later becomes his love interest.
I wish though that al... |
tt0416316 | Volkodav iz roda Serykh Psov | The setting of the film is a high fantasy Dark Ages Europe, in which desperate and bloodthirsty warlords fight brutal battles in their eternal quest for overlordship. Yet their swords, shields, lances, spears and arrows are all brittle, prone to wear and tear, and dull, protracting their campaigns against each other wi... | revenge, violence | train | wikipedia | A Mixed Bag. Russia's first proper foray into Tolkeinesque fantasy cinema, WOLFHOUND, based on the first novel of a tetralogy by Maria Semyonova about a last-of-his-tribe mighty warrior, is a mixed bag on the one hand, it is formulaic, derivative and uneven in terms of acting and pacing; on the other, there is enough... |
tt0146984 | The Legend of Bagger Vance | As an old man having his sixth heart attack while playing golf, Hardy Greaves (Jack Lemmon), contemplates how his wife used to ask him (before her passing) why he insisted on playing "a game that seems destined to kill" him. Explaining his love for the game, he begins the story of his childhood idol; Rannulph Junuh (Ma... | romantic, boring, depressing, storytelling, flashback | train | wikipedia | advises him over i think 14 days the logic of war and why he has to fight and make things right..the movie: rannulph has lost his swing or the will to play golf...
Basketball movies meanwhile often rely on the street/hip hop connection and are just as loud, but with a slightly more gritty edge to them, provided you com... |
tt0105488 | Strictly Ballroom | Strictly Ballroom tells the story of an Australian ballroom dancer, Scott Hastings (Paul Mercurio), and his struggle to establish his personal style of dance on his way to win the Pan-Pacific Grand Prix Dancing Championship. Scott's steps are not strictly ballroom. Scott comes from a family with a history of ballroom d... | psychedelic, satire, romantic | train | wikipedia | Best Dance movie ever, Greatest choreography and costumes; also a good Romance with its moments.
That's Baz Luhrmann, who is an expert at swinging a visual feast; and Strictly Ballroom is his red curtain trio opening(together with Romeo+Juliet and Moulin Rouge!).
Here are some unforgettable and timelessly cult scenes a... |
tt0180316 | Women Talking Dirty | The story begins with Cora (Helena Bonham Carter) and Ellen (Gina McKee), two women in their thirties who are living in Edinburgh. While they are getting ready at a mirror they begin to discuss life and romance. The story then catapults itself into the past before the two women met and where their story really begins.
... | flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0431420 | Stone Cold | Jesse Stone (Tom Selleck) is the police chief of Paradise, Massachusetts, a small coastal town north of Boston. A former homicide detective in Los Angeles, Jesse was fired from the LAPD because of a drinking problem that began following his divorce. He was hired for the Paradise position by the corrupt president of the... | suspenseful, violence | train | wikipedia | Acting is OK all around, especially from the underrated Tom Selleck, who does a fine job portraying the flinty, laconic police chief Jesse Stone, whose dialogue seems to come right out of a Hemingway novel.
"Stone Cold" is a 2005 made for television film noir starring Tom Selleck.
While the plot is rather simplistic, T... |
tt0037075 | Ministry of Fear | In wartime England during the Blitz, Stephen Neale (Ray Milland) is released from Lembridge Asylum. While waiting for a train to London, Neale visits a village fête hosted by the Mothers of Free Nations charity. He guesses the weight of a cake for a shilling, apparently failing to guess the cake's true weight, and is u... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt4430212 | Drishyam | Georgekutty (Mohanlal) is an orphan who had dropped out of school after his 4th grade. Now he is a businessman running a cable TV service in a rural area. He is married to Rani (Meena) and they have two daughters, Anju (Ansiba Hassan) and Anu (Esther Anil). His only interest apart from his family is watching films. He ... | murder | train | wikipedia | Casting – 4/5Acting – 4.5/5Story – 5/5Screenplay – 5/5Editing – 5/5Cinematography – 4/5Background Score – 4/5Wow, finally a good thriller movie after a long time.
The protagonist is a middle-class Goan Vijay Salgaonkar( Ajay Devgn) for whom his family's well being is paramount.Ajay plays the role of a 5th class school-... |
tt0057465 | The Sadist | Three high school teachers, Ed, Doris, and Carl, are driving through California's Antelope Valley on their way to a Dodgers game in Los Angeles. The group’s Chevrolet Bel Air has some trouble and they are forced to pull off to a gas station/junkyard on the side of the road. After examining the vehicle Ed concludes that... | cult, grindhouse film, murder | train | wikipedia | It's also worth noting that it's subdued shocks are more effective than the graphic shocks seen in the majority of those later films.The acting is fine all around, but the film belongs to Arch Hall Jr. Long considered a camp king, he is chilling as the Starkweather-inspired sadist.
A cackling Charlie Tibb (Arch Hall Jr... |
tt1267379 | Dead Space: Downfall | An alien artifact, identified as a possible "second Marker", is discovered on the planet Aegis VII. The Church of Unitology uses its influence to send the mining ship USG Ishimura to retrieve this holy relic.
While the ship approaches, they receive radio reports of an outbreak of violent behavior among the colonists. T... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0889595 | Dream Boy | Fifteen-year-old Nathan Davies (Stephan Bender) moves to St. Francisville, Louisiana, a small Southern town with his parents (Thomas Jay Ryan and Diana Scarwid) and starts to befriend the older boy next door, Roy (Maximillian Roeg), fellow high school student and bus driver, who is in a relationship with Evelyn (Rooney... | horror, murder, storytelling | train | wikipedia | Half way through things about Nathan become clearer--and more disturbing--and the movie gets dark.I read the book years ago and loved it but I hated the ending cause it's so ambiguous.
I bought this movie cautiously because I didn't think it could be as good as the book and I was curious HOW they would end it.
Bender a... |
tt0118615 | Anaconda | While shooting a documentary about a long-lost Indian tribe, the Shirishamas, on the Amazon River, director Terri Flores (Jennifer Lopez) and members of her crew—including cameraman Danny Rich (Ice Cube), production manager Denise Kalberg (Kari Wuhrer), her boyfriend, sound engineer Gary Dixon (Owen Wilson), visionary ... | insanity, cult, comedy, suspenseful | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0038053 | Saratoga Trunk | In 1875, Clio Dulaine (Ingrid Bergman), the illegitimate daughter of an aristocratic New Orleans Creole father and a light-skinned Creole woman of color who was his placée, returns from Paris to her birthplace in Rampart Street to avenge her mother's mistreatment at the hands of her father's family, the Dulaines. Years... | revenge, melodrama | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0036328 | Salute to the Marines | Having being stationed in the Philippines for years as a member of the United States Marine Corps, NCO Sgt. Maj. William Bailey (Beery) is retired after serving for 30 years. This happens several months prior to the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor and their laying siege to the South Pacific.
When the Japanese invade t... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Classic Wartime Film.
First one needs to remember this film was made DURING the war.
Anti Japanese resentment following Pearl Harbor and things like the Bataan Death March were running high.
And make no mistake, this film is pretty heavy on the anti Japanese message.But that is also one of the things that makes it inte... |
tt0103850 | Bob Roberts | Bob Roberts takes place in Pennsylvania in 1990. It depicts a fictitious senatorial race between a conservative Republican folk singer, Bob Roberts (Tim Robbins), and the incumbent Democrat, Brickley Paiste (Gore Vidal). The film is shot through the perspective of Terry Manchester (Brian Murray), a British documentary ... | cult, satire | train | wikipedia | It's also as paranoid as a junkie, and almost proudly one sided, which might be why it has slipped into relative obscurity - it's a film that could be very easily dismissed as a piece of left-wing propaganda, directed by and starring Tim Robbins, an outspokenly leftist actor.But, Bob Roberts is a film that deserves a l... |
tt1086334 | Manhunt 2 | In 2007, at the Dixmor Asylum for the Criminally Insane, a severe thunderstorm causes the security system at the asylum to momentarily go offline, opening the cell doors throughout the facility, resulting in the populace wandering freely through the corridors. Two such inmates are Daniel Lamb (Ptolemy Slocum) and Leo K... | murder, sadist | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0299892 | The Flintstones: On the Rocks | Several years after the events of the original series, Fred and Wilma's marriage is in serious jeopardy, as Wilma is growing tired of Fred's attitude, especially while Barney and Betty are enjoying a happy life well into their marriage, to the point that a visit to a family therapist results in a physical altercation b... | psychedelic, alternate history | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0062155 | Privilege | The story is presented as a narrated documentary, set in a near-future 1970s England, and concerning a disillusioned pop singer, Steven Shorter (Paul Jones), who is the most-loved celebrity in the country. His stage show involves him appearing on stage in a jail cell with handcuffs, beaten by police, to the horror and ... | violence, romantic, satire, sadist, flashback | train | wikipedia | Privilege is one of those `lost' rarely screened masterpieces that always seem to end up on some critic's top-ten list, but you almost never know anyone who has seen the film.
Paul Jones (lead singer of Manfred Mann) plays Steve Shorter, a British manufactured rock-n-roll icon, who is shaped and molded into a tool used... |
tt0486728 | De tre musketerer | 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... | historical fiction | train | wikipedia | Refresh view on the as-world-old story of the 3 musketeers. So far the longest and biggest animation of the best Latvian cartoon makers. Everybody has seen some movie about three musketeers, but, be assured, this, you haven't seen yet! The original story of musketeers is there, but, it's told in a very different way. T... |
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