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tt0081036 | The Lathe of Heaven | In Portland, Oregon, in the near future, George Orr is charged with misuse of multiple prescription medications, which he was taking to keep himself from dreaming; he volunteers for psychiatric care to avoid prosecution, and is assigned to the care of licensed oneirologist William Haber. Orr's explanation of his drug a... | alternate reality | train | wikipedia | I had public television on several days ago (March 10, 2001) and "Lathe of Heaven" was starting on their series "Movies Worth Taping".
It was made in 1987 as the first made-for-public-TV film, and is based on a novel by Ursula Le Guin.This movie explores the notion of "effective dreaming", where one's dreams actually c... |
tt0106417 | Gekijô-ban - Bishôjo senshi Sêrâ Mûn R | === Make Up! Sailor Guardian ===
Usagi and Chibiusa overhear two girls talking about the Sailor Guardians after they see a poster. As the girls debate over the smartest, most elegant, strongest, and the leader of the Sailor Guardians, Usagi grandly claims those titles for herself. Chibiusa shakes her head at Usagi's de... | romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0252684 | Manic | After brutally beating another teen with a baseball bat during a baseball game, Lyle Jensen, an impulsive and aggressive teen, is admitted to the juvenile psychiatric ward of a hospital along with other troubled teens: Tracy, Chad, Michael, Kenny, and Sara. Lyle is placed in a room with Kenny, a reticent 13-year-old, a... | romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0067411 | McCabe & Mrs. Miller | In 1902 Washington State, a gambler named John McCabe (Warren Beatty) arrives mysteriously and mumbling to himself in the town of Presbyterian Church (named after its only substantial building, a tall but mostly unused [in the film] chapel). McCabe quickly takes a dominant position over the town's simple-minded and let... | cult, humor, murder, atmospheric, romantic | train | wikipedia | Leonard Cohen's songs don't seem an ordinary choice for a western, but Robert Altman was no ordinary director, and his "McCabe & Mrs. Miller" was definitely not your traditional western.
And, more than anything, it's a love story.John McCabe (Warren Beatty), charismatic but no so smart, sets up a whorehouse in the Old ... |
tt0166485 | Anna and the King | Anna Leonowens (Jodie Foster) is a British widow who has come to Siam with her son Louis (Tom Felton) to teach English to the dozens of children of King Mongkut (Chow Yun-fat). She is a strong-willed, intelligent woman for her time, and this pleases the King. Mongkut wants to modernize Siam, thinking this will help his... | historical, murder | train | wikipedia | For it was clear that Anna was as much changed by Siam and the King as he and the children were by her.I was highly impressed with the performance turned in by Yun-Fat Chow.
I assumed it would be a re-make either of the original 1946 movie or the better known Rodgers and Hammerstein musical of 1956.In actual fact, the ... |
tt0066894 | Carry on Henry | The film opens with a passage, which states:
This film is based on a recently discovered manuscript by one William Cobbler, which reveals that Henry VIII did in fact have two more wives. Although it was first thought that Cromwell originated the story, it is now known to be definitely all Cobbler's... from beginning to... | historical fiction | train | wikipedia | CARRY ON HENRY may not have had quite the same effect - such is the unshakeable British obsession with the past, one of the film's main targets - but it's always nice to see that someone else found A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS and THE LION IN WINTER to be pompous tripe as well.HENRY, like CARRY ON UP THE KHYBER, is an example... |
tt0061037 | Le streghe | During a holiday with his grandmother Helga (Mai Zetterling) in Norway, Luke Eveshim (Jasen Fisher) is told stories about "real" witches, female demons with a genocidal hatred for children, all of whom emit an odor obnoxious to witches. Helga tells him that her childhood friend was taken and cursed to spend the rest of... | adult comedy | train | wikipedia | Mangano, the wife of famed producer Dino de Laurentiis, gets a royal showcase here, portraying five different women in five short films, each directed by a noted Italian director.
In the first (and lengthiest) one, she is a beleaguered movie star who hides away in the large ski chalet of an acquaintance and is promptly... |
tt0070034 | Enter the Dragon | Lee (Bruce Lee), a highly skilled Shaolin martial artist from Hong Kong is approached by Braithwaite, a British intelligence agent investigating suspected crime lord Han (Shih Kien). Lee is persuaded to attend a high-profile martial arts competition on Han's private island in order to gather evidence that will prove hi... | suspenseful, murder, cult, violence, flashback, good versus evil, revenge | train | wikipedia | In the years since his bizarre and tragic death, martial arts legend and master Bruce Lee has become a sort of icon within the Kung-fu movie circuit.The last film that he completed before his death, 1973's "Enter the Dragon," has become not only a masterful showcase for Lee's talents (both fighting and acting), but in ... |
tt0115714 | Bloodsport III | Bloodsport III reintroduces the character Alex Cardo (Daniel Bernhardt) from Bloodsport II. As Alex gambles in a casino, masked men steal money and a package from the casino, but not before Alex beats up several of the men. After the robbery, the casino owner convinces Alex to retrieve the package (a bag of diamonds) f... | violence | train | wikipedia | Third time harms....
Daniel Bernhardt returns as Alex Cardo as he tells in flashback to his son, how his mentor James Hong was killed, how he wins the kumite against "The Beast" who is a titan and along the way discusses how he met the lad's mother.
Also on how the kid's grandfather was a no good scumbag, in other word... |
tt0823333 | Blade: The Series | In the pilot, Krista Starr returns from military service in Iraq to learn that her twin brother, Zack, has died under mysterious circumstances. Her investigation reveals that Zack was a "familiar" - a kind of indentured servant who agrees to do a vampire's bidding in the hopes that his "master" will eventually reward h... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0056732 | El Ángel Exterminador | During a formal dinner party at the lavish mansion of Señor Edmundo Nóbile and his wife, Lucia, the servants unaccountably leave their posts until only the major-domo is left. After dinner the guests adjourn to the music room, where one of the women, Blanca, plays a piano sonata. Later, when they might normally be expe... | comedy, avant garde, allegory, insanity, absurd, psychedelic, satire | train | wikipedia | The key to this movie is setting up the central plot, and the director does such a good job of it that after a while; we don't care that the film is based on an idea that makes no sense at all, and are just able to run with it.
That was what Luis Bunuel used to answer when asked about the meaning of one of his least ac... |
tt0338466 | Stuck on You | Conjoined twins Bob and Walt Tenor try to live as normally as possible. Outgoing and sociable Walt aspires to be a Hollywood actor, however, whereas shy, introverted Bob prefers the quiet life. They run Quikee Burger, a diner in Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard, that guarantees free meals to customers whose orders are n... | romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | I went into the cinema with friends and said: "It's a Farrelly Brothers film; you can guess the level of humour." There's Something About Mary I love, but let's face it -- the humour is quite crass, even if the movie does have some heart.
Walt decides to move to California to try his luck at the big time, and although ... |
tt0056896 | California | A deserter who had been an Army lieutenant, Jonathan Trumbo is hired to guide a wagon train bound for California during the California Gold Rush. When a woman named Lily Bishop is accused of cheating at poker in a saloon, farmer Michael Fabian invites her to join the wagon train over Trumbo's strenuous objections. Trum... | violence, action | train | wikipedia | kind of a historical story.... Jock Mahoney and Faith Domergue star in this film, which wants to tell a story of California's fight for statehood. Michael O'Casey's mother was a Hernandez, proud Californian, but when O'Casey comes to town to get her a tombstone, the town is on the verge of a battle scene. General Miche... |
tt0083936 | Fighting Back | The film opens with Philadelphia TV reporters viewing and broadcasting a news story about violence in society since JFK Assassination in 1963. With the increase in crime, Philadelphia is becoming unsafe. Proud Italian-American John D'Angelo (Tom Skerritt) runs a deli in town. While driving with his wife, Lisa (Patti Lu... | murder | train | wikipedia | Streets of Philadelphia
The grim, early 80's vigilante edition.
First of all I concur with all my fellow reviewers who can't seem to fathom that "Death Vengeance" is still so underrated, unknown and unavailable on DVD.
This is a cult movie in the purest definition of the term, for crying out loud, with an acclaimed d... |
tt0214874 | The Legend of Sleepy Hollow | From the listless repose of the place, and the peculiar character of its inhabitants, who are descendants from the original Dutch settlers, this sequestered glen has long been known by name of Sleepy Hollow ... A drowsy, dreamy influence seems to hang over the land, and to pervade the very atmosphere.
The story is set ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0119472 | Knockin' on Heaven's Door | Two patients (Martin Brest and Rudi Wurlitzer) meet in a hospital, just after learning that both have an untreatable disease. They start talking about their death that is to come very soon. When they find a bottle of tequila, Martin finds out that Rudi has never seen the sea. Martin tells Rudi that all they talk about ... | comedy, humor | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0029926 | Blondes at Work | Lieutenant Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) is in trouble with his boss, who suspects him of leaking police information to his girlfriend reporter Torchy Blane (Glenda Farrell). Torchy and Steve have an argument because Torchy keep getting story after story for her newspaper. They agreed that they will not exchange infor... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0102609 | Other People's Money | Lawrence "Larry the Liquidator" Garfield (Danny DeVito) is a successful corporate raider who has become rich buying up companies and selling off their assets. With the help of a computerized stock analyzing program called Carmen, Garfield has identified New England Wire & Cable as his next target. The struggling compan... | satire | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0044487 | Le carrosse d'or | The Viceroy of a remote 18th century Peruvian town has purchased a magnificent golden coach from Europe. The Viceroy hints of his intention to give the coach to his mistress, the Marquise, but has decided to pay for it with public funds, since he plans to use it to overawe the populace and flatter the local nobility, w... | atmospheric | train | wikipedia | I once read a review in which the critic expressed the opinion that Anna Magnani's looks couldn't make it likely that the male characters of the plot fell in love with her.
But this is a complete misunderstanding of the story, it is not because of her beauty they love her, but because she makes them laugh, she brings t... |
tt0398808 | Bridge to Terabithia | Jesse "Jess" Aarons (Josh Hutcherson) is a 12-year-old aspiring artist living with his financially struggling family in Lark Creek. He rides the bus to school with his little sister May Belle (Bailee Madison), where he avoids the school bully Janice Avery (Lauren Clinton). In class, Jess is teased by classmates Scott H... | paranormal, fantasy, storytelling | train | wikipedia | After seeing it, I struggled to think of a better way of marketing this film, without giving away its ending or taking away the only audience that still seems to watch PG movies, kids.After watching it, however, I couldn't imagine taking anyone under ten to see it, nor could I imagine anyone under ten enjoying it as mu... |
tt0094597 | 976-EVIL | The movie centers around cousins Spike (Patrick O'Bryan) and Hoax (Stephen Geoffreys), both teenagers who live with Hoax's overtly religious mother Lucy (Sandy Dennis). While Spike is the neighborhood motorcycle bad boy, Hoax is an introverted nerd. Even though Spike genuinely cares for his cousin and protects him from... | horror, cult, revenge, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | There are lots of times when you know that someone is going to die, and he draws it out to the point where it is almost painful to watch (I obviously can't give examples without ruining it.) So, I recommend it to anyone who likes horror..
Actor Robert Englund, who had played nightmare-invading/teen throat-slashing Fred... |
tt0272607 | Farz | Secret Agent 116 named Gopal has been assigned the case of homicide of a fellow secret agent (303) by the head of CID, who (303) found evidence that can help identify the perpetrators. During this investigation, Gopal meets with lovely Sunita, and both end up falling in love with each other. The traitor responsible for... | revenge | train | wikipedia | Decent action flick!.
Farz is definitely a good action-packed cop thriller worth watching.
Sunny Deol fits the cop role, which is obviously tailor made for him.
This movie has tons of mind-blowing action and thrills.
The action is superb!
His introduction and the climax are very well-done like everything else.
Jackie S... |
tt0490847 | Double Tap | Leslie Cheung plays Rick Pang, a shooting champion who is also a gun expert who tinkers with his pistols and modified its magazine to perfect his technique known as 'double tap' which is the terminology for a shooter placing two shots in the same exact spot, to maximize marksmanship in any competition.
In a shooting co... | comedy, neo noir, murder, flashback, good versus evil, romantic, tragedy, revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0303714 | Barbershop | On a cold winter, Calvin Palmer, Jr. (Ice Cube) decides he has had enough of trying to keep open the barbershop his father handed down to him. He cannot borrow, revenues are falling, and he seems more interested in get-rich-quick schemes to bring in easy money. Without telling his employees, or the customers, he sells ... | entertaining, blaxploitation | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0073650 | Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma | In 1944 in the Republic of Salò, the Fascist-occupied portion of Italy, four wealthy men of power, the Duke, the Bishop, the Magistrate and the President, agree to marry each other's daughters as the first step in a debauched ritual. They recruit four teenage boys to act as guards (dressed with uniforms of Decima Flott... | avant garde, cruelty, murder, bleak, thought-provoking, cult, sadist, violence, insanity, humor, satire, tragedy, storytelling | train | wikipedia | Pier Paolo Pasolini, as is well known, was murdered not long after he finished work on this, his most audacious and confrontational film, yet even the most casual viewing of SALO begs the question - had he not been murdered, would he have taken his own life anyway?
Every sequence, every shot and practically every momen... |
tt2328813 | Trudno byt bogom | A group of 30 scientists travel from Earth to a nearly-identical alien planet that is culturally and technologically centuries behind. The inhabitants of this planet have brutally suppressed a renaissance movement, murdering anybody they consider to be an intellectual, and thus the planet is stuck in the middle ages. A... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0181836 | The Specials | The superhero team the Specials has never achieved great popularity or prestige, partially because unlike other super teams it is not corporation-friendly and has been unable to secure merchandising deals. Without the corporate or private financial resources of more well-established teams, the Specials often get underr... | cult, satire | train | wikipedia | Nifty low-budget variant on MYSTERY MEN, with a script that's about four times as good.
And there is a lovely scene--not really funny, but you can feel the audience beaming at it--in which a mongoloid "space orphan," dandled like a pinhead mascot through most of the movie, takes the stage at a techno nightclub and brea... |
tt1740047 | 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... | comedy, dark, psychedelic, entertaining | train | wikipedia | The Trip, the television program, is a poignant, rambling, beautiful little series, starring comedians Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon as fictionalized versions of themselves.The Trip, the film, which I was able to catch at a packed SIFF screening, is an edited version of the television show.
The film does often get those ... |
tt0071240 | Born Innocent | Christine 'Chris' Parker (Linda Blair) is a 14-year-old runaway who, after getting arrested one too many times, is sentenced to do time in a girls' juvenile detention center, which doubles as a reform school for the girls. It is slowly revealed that Christine Parker comes from an abusive home; her father (Richard Jaeck... | melodrama | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0330229 | Dolls | The film features three primary sets of characters, each within their own distinct story:
A young man (Matsumoto, played by Hidetoshi Nishijima) who rejects his engagement to his fiancée (Sawako, played by Miho Kanno) to marry the daughter of his company's president. When his former fiancée attempts suicide and ends up... | romantic, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0054821 | Le doulos | Maurice Faugel, just released from prison after serving a six-year sentence, meets a friend, Gilbert, who is appraising the value of jewels from a recent heist. Maurice is planning a robbery the next day with two accomplices, Silien and Rémy. Maurice kills Gilbert with Gilbert's own gun and steals the jewels as well as... | revenge, neo noir, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | DOULOS: THE FINGER MAN (Jean-Pierre Melville - France/Italy 1962).Jean-Paul Belmondo is the duplicitous Silien, underworld criminal and police informer and Serge Reggianni as the dogged villain Faugel.
That's probably why Alain Delon became Melville's first choice in his later films, because Delon naturally had a much ... |
tt0024069 | Gold Diggers of 1933 | The "gold diggers" are four aspiring actresses: Polly (Ruby Keeler), an ingenue; Carol (Joan Blondell), a torch singer; Trixie (Aline MacMahon), a comedian; and Fay (Ginger Rogers), a glamour puss.
The film was made in 1933, during the Great Depression and contains numerous direct references to it. It begins with a reh... | depressing | train | wikipedia | His choreography for the big production numbers is one of the most impressive thing he did for the movies.The film is a sweet story about young hopefuls in New York trying to make it in the musical theater.
In fact, this film, as well as others of that era, served as an excuse for people that were facing a hard time ma... |
tt0061081 | The Texican | The town of Rimrock, Arizona is run by political boss Luke Starr (Broderick Crawford). When one of Starr’s henchmen wishes to escape from Starr he meets with the editor of the town newspaper, Roy Carlin (Víctor Vilanova) to ask his help. Starr discovers the meeting and he and his loyal henchmen shoot the both of them; ... | western, revenge, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0045316 | Way of a Gaucho | In 1875 Argentina, a young gaucho kills another man in a duel. His prison sentence is commuted to join the army. He serves under the tough Major Salinas, but soon grows tired of military life and deserts. He becomes Val Verde and leads a band of gauchos to resist the increasing encroachment of railroad agents into the ... | violence | train | wikipedia | Twentieth-Century Fox put together this unusual little adventure story, filmed almost entirely on location on the Argentinian Pampas.
It's the tale of a proud young Gaucho and his long struggle against injustice.
Rory Calhoun never quite made it as a big star, but he carries this one ably enough, though I found his unr... |
tt0434124 | Kinky Boots | In the town of Northampton, in the East Midlands of England, Charlie Price is attempting to save the family shoe factory, which has been floundering since his father died. While on a business trip to London to sell the company's extra stock, Charlie encounters a woman being harassed by drunken hoodlums and intervenes t... | queer, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0079915 | Skullduggery | The film follows a group of young adults who come together to play a fantasy role playing game, while working at a costume rental store. One of the players is a young man named Adam (Thom Haverstock) who is the descendent of a long line of men who are all cursed by the devil. While working at the community college thea... | paranormal, murder | train | wikipedia | Oh, Skullduggery, you horrible little cow patty of a film.
Your actors are stiff and couldn't read the dialogue for an Ovaltine commercial with a sense of conviction, your plot is incomprehensible and filled to the brim with pompous symbolism no one buts its filmmakers could explain, and in the end, you just plain stin... |
tt0418096 | Rakht | The story is about a young widow named Drishti Nair (Bipasha Basu). She is a psychic and has the gift of seeing into the future of anybody. After her break up with boyfriend Manav (Abhishek Bachchan) who truly loved her but had to move away to a different city, Drishti moves to a small remote village, where she meets M... | paranormal, violence, murder | train | wikipedia | Night Shyamalan Indian Style.
Bipasha Basu is caked with so much makeup t'would make Barbie squirm.
Oof. Her acting talents leave a lot to be desired, her Hindustani diction sucks and frankly I do not see her going places in films; at least films with any substance.
Sanjay Dutt gives another wooden performance and Suni... |
tt3908142 | The Love Witch | The film opens with Elaine, a beautiful young witch, driving to Arcata, California to start a new life after the death of her husband Jerry. It is heavily implied that Elaine murdered him. Once there she rents a room in a Victorian home owned by Elaine's mentor Barbara and kept up by its interior decorator, Trish Manni... | romantic, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | With it fresh in my memory, I was looking forward to seeing 2016's "The Love Witch" - directed by Anna Biller - which seemed like a perfect companion piece.
And she isn't afraid to use all the witchery in the book to get him, but things just seem to keep going wrong, and the men usually end up dead.On its surface, "The... |
tt0041210 | Brimstone | Revelation
Dakota Fanning plays Liz, who lives with her husband and two children (one is a 14 yr old boy from her husband's prior marriage, the other is a young girl) in the old west. She is a midwife, but is mute and communicates through sign language. A new reverend (Guy Pearce) comes to their church. The moment Liz ... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0075232 | The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella | Prince Edward of Euphrania returns home after being sent to meet the princess Selena of Carolsveld, whom his parents have arranged for him to marry. However, The Prince reveals he did not propose to the princess he was visiting, and angrily denounces arranged marriages ("Why Can't I Be Two People?"). Edward decides to ... | romantic, fantasy, historical fiction | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0021015 | Juno and the Paycock | === Act I ===
Juno and the Paycock takes place in the tenements of Dublin in 1922, just after the outbreak of the Irish Civil War, and revolves around the misfortunes of the dysfunctional Boyle family. The father, "Captain" Jack (so called because of his propensity for telling greatly exaggerated stories of his short c... | boring | train | wikipedia | Most people don't like this film, not realizing that a) it's one of Hitchcock's very first British films, on a low budget; and b) that it's not a thriller or suspense film, but based on a masterfully written comic tragedy by Irish playwright Sean O'Casey.
Though most seem to think Sara Allgood is the standout as Juno, ... |
tt0220008 | RoboCop: Prime Directives | Thirteen years after the events of RoboCop, RoboCop has become outdated and tired. Delta City (formerly Detroit) is now considered the safest place on Earth, and he is no longer viewed as particularly necessary.
The first half of the series focuses on Alex Murphy's former partner, John T. Cable, who is slain by RoboCop... | good versus evil, violence, murder, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | At one point, when RoboCop visits his own gravesite, the suit's chin-guard seems to be floating independently from the rest of the RoboHelmet, careening away from Fletcher's jaw by several maddening inches.Furthermore, those who are familiar with Julian Grant's decidedly unimpressive B-movie oeuvre (most especially the... |
tt0041085 | Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff | Prominent criminal attorney Amos Strickland (Nicholas Joy) checks into the Lost Caverns Resort Hotel. His murdered body is later discovered by the bellboy, Freddie Phillips (Lou Costello), who is implicated in the crime. Casey Edwards (Bud Abbott), the house detective, tries to clear Freddie, but Inspector Wellman (Jam... | mystery, murder | train | wikipedia | Much of Abbott and Costello's late 40s/early 50s output put them in parodies of various film genres--this one is a parody of murder mysteries.
We have here the excellent slapstick performances of straight man Bud Abbott and comic genius Lou Costello,combined with the always menacing Boris Karloff,though here he is much... |
tt0037509 | Along the Navajo Trail | Deputy U.S. Marshal Roy Rogers poses as a wandering poet, finding and defeating a group of bad guys who, for reasons they keep to themselves, are trying to oust a girl and her father from their ranch. As the plot develops, it is revealed that they want the ranch so they can sell it to a company that wants to run an oil... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1440129 | Battleship | In 2005, scientists discover in the Gliese system an extrasolar planet, which is named Planet G, believed to be the closest planet to Earth having conditions nearly identical to Earth. In 2006, NASA completes the construction of a transmission device in Hawaii that is five times more powerful than any before it, and a ... | good versus evil, violence | train | wikipedia | Nothing slows down a good action flick like a damn love story in the background, or the hero dealing with his feelings or, worse still, putting brats in the line of fire.
1. I came in with low expectations - I was expecting something horrible, boring, long and pointless, but despite myself I liked it, I laughed at the ... |
tt0026752 | Mutiny on the Bounty | One night in Portsmouth, England in 1787, a press gang breaks into a local tavern and presses all of the men drinking there into naval service. One of the men inquires as to what ship they will sail on, and the press gang leader informs him that it is the HMS Bounty. Upon inquiring as to who the captain is, another of ... | action | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0087682 | Maria's Lovers | In the spring of 1946, Ivan, an American soldier, returns home psychologically scarred after spending some time in a Japanese prison camp during World War II. Once back in his small Pennsylvania town, Ivan settles in, trying to put his life back together while living with his stoic peasant father.
Shortly after his arr... | romantic | train | wikipedia | A signature Nastassja Kinski film..
Set in the immediate post World War II in the small rural picturesque American town of Brownsville, Pennsylvania among Yugoslavian immigrants, `Maria's Lovers' follows a young soldier with the name of Ivan Bibec, played by John Savage, who has been discharged from the Army, into his ... |
tt2244901 | I Give It a Year | Ambitious high-flyer Nat (Rose Byrne) and struggling writer Josh (Rafe Spall) fall in love at first sight at a party. After seven months together they decide to marry. The film highlights their struggles during their first year of marriage, switching back and forth from flashbacks of the year's action to a marriage-gui... | comedy, adult comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0053502 | The Flintstones | In Bedrock, Slate and Co. executive vice-president Cliff Vandercave and secretary Miss Sharon Stone discuss their plan to swindle the company of its vast fortune and flee, and that they need one of their employees to be responsible for it. Fred Flintstone loans his best friend and neighbor Barney Rubble money so that h... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | The characters here (Fred, Barney, Wilma, Betty, Dino, Pebbles, Bamm-Bamm, Mr. Slate, Mrs. Slaghoople, etc.) have expressions and personalities which are instantly recognizable to an audience.
I don't know why the Hanna-Barbera team weren't able to duplicate the quality of this show in terms of its writing and voice-ca... |
tt0159401 | The Debt Collector | The film opens in late 1970s Edinburgh; Nicky Dryden (Billy Connolly) is arrested by Gary Keltie (Ken Stott) for his part in enforcing the collection of money owed to a loan shark.
Soon the film moves into the present time. Dryden has left prison and changed his ways. He is now a feted sculptor married to journalist Va... | revenge, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | I found that the words of the Greeks came back to me as I was watching The Debt Collector.
All the male lead characters were capable of violence, and it made me wonder how close we all are from such displays.The Debt Collector is a story of hatred gone to extremes.
and how it is much more important, if difficult to for... |
tt1723124 | Inbred | Four young offenders: Tim, Sam, Dwight, Zeb and their caretakers: Kate and Jeff travel to a Yorkshirian village called Mortlake to do community service, staying in a little cottage. On their first day they decide to have a drink at the local pub where they meet Jim: the bartender. The next day they go salvage abandoned... | murder | train | wikipedia | The acting and production values are first class, the story is great and the dark humour running throughout the film is very entertaining.
(I hesitate to use the term "black humour" in case the reviewer who thought this film was racist is offended - eee- by-gum, talk about missing the point!).
Gory 'film-within-a-film'... |
tt0040758 | Saraband for Dead Lovers | The film is structured around ten acts with a prologue and epilogue.
It opens with the camera on Marianne standing by a table covered with photographs. It is a well-lit room, and she addresses the viewer. She picks one picture up after another; they are in no particular order, being just heaped all over the table. Some... | romantic | train | wikipedia | This film is about a scandal that almost changed history.
Unless you study geneology, you probably are unaware of the exact line of descent of the present Royal Family of England.
Most people don't really think about it but the House of Windsor has only had that name since 1917 (when it's German name was changed in Wor... |
tt2963076 | Remember Me | In 1991 in New York City, Alyssa "Ally" Craig is waiting with her mother for the subway when they are mugged by two young men who shoot her mother after boarding the train.
Ten years later, Ally is a student at New York University and lives with her father, Neil, a New York Police Department detective. Tyler Hawkins au... | sci-fi | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2950850 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows | A year after their battle with Shredder, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michelangelo, still live beneath the sewers of New York City, having allowed Vern Fenwick to take the credit for Shredder's defeat. At Grand Central Station, April O'Neil discovers and informs the turtles that s... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0070351 | The MacKintosh Man | Joseph Rearden, a British Intelligence agent, arrives in London and makes a rendezvous with MacKintosh, the head of his organisation, in a discreet office located just off Trafalgar Square. MacKintosh and his deputy, Mrs Smith, inform him of a simple way to steal diamonds which are transported via the postal service to... | humor, action, sadist | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0286594 | Doctor Sleep | Following the events of The Shining, after receiving a settlement from the owners of the Overlook Hotel, Danny Torrance remains psychologically traumatized as his mother Wendy slowly recovers from her injuries. Angry ghosts from the Overlook still want to consume Danny to inherit his phenomenal "shining" power and even... | suspenseful, cult, philosophical, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt3186880 | The Wolf Among Us | === Setting ===
The Wolf Among Us is set in the year 1986, nearly twenty years before the events of Fables. For years, many of the magical lands described in myth, legend, and folklore (known as The Homelands) have been occupied by an enigmatic tyrant known as the Adversary. To escape the Adversary's totalitarian regim... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0323120 | Loving Annabelle | Annabelle Tillman, the daughter of a senator, is sent to a Catholic boarding school after being expelled from two of her previous schools. Simone Bradley, a poetry teacher at the school, is in charge of her dormitory. Annabelle shares the dormitory with an amiable classmate, Kristen. She also shares a room with Katheri... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Putting aside the inner struggle Simone was fighting of wanting to show her love for Annabelle along with the conflict of the student, teacher, relationship that would definitely have legal ramifications, who would want to have to face the grave consequences of making such a professional and moral choice...which strugg... |
tt0109518 | Cyborg Cop II | Crime boss Jesse Starkraven leads his gang in an attack on a drug den not cooperating with Starkraven's demands; the assault quickly turns into a hostage situation when police arrive. Renegade DEA agent Jack Ryan arrives and attempts to negotiate with Starkraven, however this fails when Starkraven recognizes Ryan as th... | violence | train | wikipedia | Over the top B-grade action silliness which turns out surprisingly fun!.
With a misleading title (there is no Cyborg Cop, only a criminal "converted" to a Cyborg who escapes and goes on a rampage), a director who doesn't exactly have a clean track record, filmed in a foreign country trying to pass off as USA and a rath... |
tt0119196 | The Gingerbread Man | Rick Magruder (Kenneth Branagh) is a divorced lawyer with a reputation for underhanded dealings and protecting criminals. After another successful trial, Magruder celebrates at a party hosted by his firm, becoming increasingly drunk. As he stumbles out of the party, he has a chance meeting with a woman named Mallory Do... | fantasy, neo noir, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0119484 | Kull the Conqueror | Kull battles for the right to join Valusia's elite Dragon Legion until he told General Taligaro that he is a barbarian from Atlantis, the general explaining that only 'noble blood' is accepted. Taligaro then learns that the Valusian King Borna has gone mad and is slaughtering his heirs, riding to Valusia with Kull foll... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | The screenplay writer must have read Howard's book, since there are literal quotes like `By this axe I rule!', which Kull exclaims during the coronation, yet again, this movie is no serious attempt to capture the raw, barbarian spirit of Howard's heroes.
Never having bothered with Xena, Hercules or any of these modern ... |
tt0243152 | Black Orchid | Rose Bianco (Sophia Loren) a florist widowed by a famous gangster, looks for happiness with widower Frank Valente (Anthony Quinn). Rose is dealing with her son Ralph in a work farm for troubled boys, while for Frank, his grown up daughter Mary (Ina Balin) takes care of everything for him. Noble and Mary love each other... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | This one comes on the ABC often, and almost every time it does I manage to catch it either watching it or setting tape to record it.
It's a great little film.
It's a great little film.
Just sits around the hour mark but for that hour you have a lot of stuff packed in.The leads were believable despite the short run time... |
tt0251110 | Gypsy 83 | 25-year-old Gypsy Vale (Sara Rue) and 18-year-old Clive Webb (Kett Turton) are two goths living in Sandusky, Ohio. Gypsy's parents, Ray (John Doe) and Velvet Marlene Wallace, once were in a band together, and Gypsy now aspires to be a famous singer, like her idol, Stevie Nicks. She is hesitant, because of the disappear... | gothic | train | wikipedia | Gypsy (Sara Rue) is a 20-something girl working a dead-end job in an Ohio suburb, where she lives with her clueless but loving father (John Doe, of seminal punk band X).
Her best friend, Clive (Kett Turton), is a creative gothy teen in the process of coming-out.
When they find out about NYC's "Night of 1,000 Stevies" t... |
tt0119304 | Home Fries | The film opens at Burger-Matic, where Henry Lever (Chris Ellis) orders a milkshake at the drive-thru. At the window, he tells the attendant, Sally Jackson (Drew Barrymore), that his wife knows about their affair. She asks him if he has also told his wife about her pregnancy. On his way home, he encounters a ferocious w... | comedy, murder | train | wikipedia | I remember seeing the adverts for it and thinking it looked mildly interesting, but that it was a piece of romantic comedy fluff that I could wait and rent or something and watch at home without inflicting $20 in movie tickets and an evening of "Chick Flick" on my Husband.
The Marketing Department, apparently didn't wa... |
tt0106080 | The Nanny | Jewish-American Fran Fine turns up on the doorstep of British Broadway producer Maxwell Sheffield (Charles Shaughnessy) to sell cosmetics after having been both dumped and fired by her boyfriend and employer Danny Imperialli. Instead, she finds herself the nanny of Maxwell's three children, Maggie, Brighton, and Grace.... | humor | train | wikipedia | Fran Drescher does an outstanding job as Fran, and the rest of the cast are equally good, especially Daniel Davis and Lauren Lane, As Niles and CC.
For some reason, her character was the worst of the lot.Renee Taylor was especially funny, as it seemed Sylvia was always eating or thinking about food and Ann Morgan Guibe... |
tt5371446 | Final Score | The film focuses on Suwikrom "Per" Amaranon, a middle class Thai student in his senior year at Suankularb Wittayalai School in Bangkok, and his three friends, Big Show, Lung and Boat. They are depicted as average students, not especially studious but are still obedient of their parents and are hopeful of their prospect... | non fiction | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1606392 | Win Win | Small-town New Providence, New Jersey, attorney Mike Flaherty (Paul Giamatti) moonlights as a wrestling coach and struggles to keep his practice solvent, while shielding his wife Jackie (Amy Ryan) and their two young girls, Abby and Stella, from the extent of the problem. When his court-appointed client, Leo Poplar (Bu... | entertaining | train | wikipedia | Paul Giamatti – a true everyman actor – delivers a wonderful performance as a lawyer and wrestling coach struggling with the challenges of family and money in New Jersey.
One thing we learn early on is that Mike intentionally misled the judge in Leo's case, giving the impression that he would be actively taking care of... |
tt0039482 | I Walk Alone | Frankie Madison (Burt Lancaster) and Noll "Dink" Turner (Kirk Douglas) are rum-running partners during Prohibition. They get into a shootout with some would-be hijackers after their liquor, attracting the attention of the police. The two men split up, but not before making a bargain that if one is caught, he will still... | murder | train | wikipedia | I suspect the screenplay was tailored to showcase producer Wallis's top 3 new stars, especially Scott who gets a lot of romantic dialog along with sultry screen time.
It's the kind of movie where the stars are more memorable than the story.Scott and Douglas, for example, really shine.
For his part, Lancaster does well ... |
tt0430484 | The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear | === Part 1. "Baby It's Cold Outside" ===
The first part of the series explains the origins of Islamism and neoconservatism. It shows Egyptian civil servant Sayyid Qutb, depicted as the founder of modern Islamist thinking, visiting the U.S. to learn about its education system, then becoming disgusted at what he judged a... | murder | train | wikipedia | If not, it's even more essential viewing.'The Power of Nightmares' is a brave piece of television that runs completely against the grain of most media representation of the state of our world.
It's quite chilling to see how much of the prism through which we view the world is a construct of frankly mad idealogues (and ... |
tt1444258 | Demonic Toys: Personal Demons | Appeared to take place right after the events of Demonic Toys, an unknown stranger with a pair of gloved hands picks up the pieces of the destroyed toys and starts stitching them together. The only toys the perpetrator could fix correctly were Baby oopsie daisy and Jack Attack. The unidentified man then puts the toys i... | paranormal | train | wikipedia | Good horror B-Movie.
The evil toys totally make this movie, there is something about them I really really like.
If you don't like horror movies, b-movies and all that, then why you watching this movie?
Of course you wont like it.
However, this was a decently made low-budget movie.Other makers of low budget horror shoul... |
tt0000225 | La belle et la bête | A widower merchant lives in a mansion with his six children, three sons and three daughters. All his daughters are very beautiful, but the youngest, Beauty, is the most lovely, as well as kind, well-read, and pure of heart; while the two elder sisters, in contrast, are wicked, selfish, vain, and spoiled. They secretly ... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt5377564 | U Turn | Rachana (Shraddha Srinath), an intern, with The Indian Express, a daily newspaper, is working on an article on the incidents at a Bangalore flyover. She also has a crush on the crime reporter Aditya, whose help she seeks for research material on accidents on the flyover. She finds that each day some motorists move the ... | suspenseful | train | wikipedia | 8/10..Thanks Pawan Kumar for bringing the much-needed road-safety message hard-hittingly and convincingly in a very innovative way from your movie 'U-Turn'.
Being a Kannadiga, I am ashamed to say that when driving on roads and following traffic rules, Bengalureans behavior is most inhumane, indiscipline, inconsiderate ... |
tt0814077 | Devil Girl | Devil Girl follows the story of Fay on her trip across Route 66 after the death of her father, who happened to be a mechanic. Fay takes her father's muscle car and his wedding ring, and departs from her home after saying her farewells to her sister.
The story simultaneously follows the events of an overly medicated, no... | psychedelic, flashback | train | wikipedia | awesome cult movie!. In a world where teenage vampires are the pop norm, "Devil Girl" is a welcome breath of fresh air. An aggressive soundtrack, creepy, surreal imagery and a fast paced mind f@%! of a story makes for a really unique counter culture film.While admittedly the story is far from typical,(and frankly, oddl... |
tt0037457 | What's Cookin' Doc? | The plot centers on the Academy Awards presentation. The action begins with actual color film footage of various Hollywood scenes (edited from A Star Is Born), narrated by Robert C. Bruce. It leads up to the Big Question of the evening: Who will win "the" Oscar? The film shows the stereotypical red carpet arrivals of s... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | I've seen other things just as racist as this and they are not banned..
This is a very good Bugs Bunny episode which is banned because it has some racial references to Native Americans.
I have seen this in other things which have not been banned, so I personally think it was rather silly to ban this.
And anyway, in tho... |
tt0093780 | The Principal | Rick Latimer (Jim Belushi) is a high-school teacher with a drinking problem. Spotting his ex-wife Kimberly (Sharon Thomas Cain) in a bar one night, Rick gets into a fight with the man she's with, culminating in his beating the hapless man's car with a baseball bat.
The board of education finds that Rick's behavior is r... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | 'The Principal' is one of those films where Belushi could have been nominated for Best Actor, and Louis Gossett Jr. for Best Supporting Actor...The film has some great scenes, a good story and character development, and a decent soundtrack...The film is pretty hard-edged, though has elements of comedy...overall - an un... |
tt0053941 | Im weißen Rößl | It is summertime at the Wolfgangsee. Josepha Vogelhuber, the young, attractive but resolute owner of the White Horse Inn, has been courted for some time by her head waiter, Leopold Brandmeyer. While appreciating his aptness for the job, she mistrusts all men as potential gold-diggers, rejects Leopold's advances and lon... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Childhood''s memories. I saw this when I was a child and even today I can remember the title track and "Was Kann Des Sigismund Dafür, Daß Er so Schön Ist ?" which was translated into French as "On A Le Béguin Pour Célestin" .I can remember Josepha the inn's owner and her butler ,Leopold ,in love with her.Then the guest... |
tt0255702 | Wishcraft | A high school student named Brett Bumpers (Weston) receives a mysterious package one day. It contains a bull penis totem with a note explaining that it will grant him three wishes. His first wish is for Samantha (Alexandra Holden) to go with him to a spring dance. The next day, Samantha invites him to the dance, and he... | murder | train | wikipedia | This movie plays out better than "Cherry Falls" in the long run (CF peeters out and turns into a predictable slasher film in the end; this film does not).Also, the chemistry between the leads is good and the movie doesn't overextend itself and play up the supernatural too much with cheesy special effects they probably ... |
tt0343095 | This Girl's Life | Moon (Juliette Marquis) is a down-to-earth young woman who happens to be one of the most popular adult film stars. She finds no fault in using her sexuality as a means of profit. While she is in the process of renewing her contract, her personal life remains a delicate issue as her father (James Woods) suffers from Par... | pornographic, violence | train | wikipedia | I also heard James Woods gave a great performance in this film not to mention the thought that I may get to see some very attractive eye candy.
James Woods does a knock out job in this movie and yes you get to see some very attractive naked girls.
I know it sounds like a cheesy two bit soft core film, but the story mov... |
tt0112255 | 3 Ninjas Knuckle Up | Rocky (Michael Treanor), Colt (Max Elliott Slade), Tum Tum (Chad Power) defend "Truth, Justice and the American Way", once more - this time, protecting a Native American village and the rest of society against a Toxic Waste Company.
During a summer the boys are staying with Grandpa Mori when they encounter a group assa... | cult, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0129290 | Patch Adams | A suicidal Hunter "Patch" Adams (Robin Williams) commits himself into a mental institution. Once there, he finds that using humor, as opposed to the indifferent sessions provided by their doctor, to help his fellow patients gives him a purpose in life. Because of this he wants to become a medical doctor and two years l... | avant garde, dramatic, cult, suicidal, psychedelic, humor, inspiring, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0072954 | L'esorciccio | Lankester Merrin is a veteran Catholic priest and exorcist who is on an archaeological dig in Iraq. There he finds an amulet that resembles the statue of Pazuzu, a demon whom Merrin had defeated years before. Merrin then realizes the demon has returned to seek revenge.
Meanwhile, in Georgetown, actress Chris MacNeil is... | cult | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0107012 | Il giovane Mussolini | The movie starts off with Mussolini arriving in a small town in 1901 and getting a job as a school teacher; he is subsequently fired for having sex with the headmaster's daughter. This would be a common theme throughout the movie. After giving up on teaching, he works as a builder on the new University of Geneva campus... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0099316 | Crazy People | Emory Leeson is an advertising executive who experiences a nervous breakdown. He designs a series of "truthful" advertisements, blunt and bawdy and of no use to his boss Drucker's firm.
One of his colleagues, Stephen Bachman, checks him into a psychiatric hospital. Emory goes into group therapy under the care of Dr. Li... | insanity | train | wikipedia | Nor is it the most believable plot - but it is funny, whimsical and charming, and occasionally surreal.
If you want a film to brighten up your life, this fits the bill just nicely.
The supporting cast are also very engaging, being far more than just a backdrop to Moore and Hannah.
I saw this movie back when it was in t... |
tt0060558 | Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter | Sometime in the early 1880s, Dr Frankenstein’s evil granddaughter Maria has moved to the American West with her brother Rudolph, in order to use the prairie lightning storms in her experiments on immigrant children snatched from a dying town. Maria is very much in charge, killing the children and replacing their brains... | cult | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0115781 | Bullet | Nearing retirement, maverick Los Angeles-based detective Frank "Bullet" Marasco is assigned to hunt down the notorious drug baron Carlito Kane, following a tipoff from Leroy, who is later whacked to death with a golf club due to interrupting Kane's golf game. Bullet and his team storm one of Kane's hideouts but fail to... | cult, violence | train | wikipedia | It's a pity that the grittiness of this film made it unacceptable to so many, but for those of us who have known people stuck in the quicksand of inner-city life despite their best instincts (and loved them in spite of their mistakes), "Bullet" rings so sadly true.
Rourke, Adrien Brody, and particularly Ted Levine elev... |
tt0025680 | Private Lessons | Philip "Philly" Fillmore (Eric Brown) is a 15-year-old high school student and the son of a rich businessman in Albuquerque who has left town on an extended trip during summer break, leaving the young man in the passing care of Nicole Mallow (Sylvia Kristel), a sexy French housekeeper, and Lester Lewis (Howard Hesseman... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2097331 | The Family Fang | Annie and Buster Fang are the children of famous performance artists who, in the late 80s and early 90s, perform public interactive pieces with audiences who are unaware that they are performers and whose acts typically involve their children whom they film and credit as child A (Annie) and child B (Buster).
Annie grow... | flashback | train | wikipedia | It is a portrait of psychological abuse conducted by parents in the name of art with sinister undercurrents always beneath the surface.Internationally renowned Caleb Fang (Christopher Walken) and his wife Camille (Maryanne Plunkett) are performance artists dedicated to disrupting the conventions of normality.
Their chi... |
tt0062819 | Commandos | It is the middle of World War II, and in the deserts of Africa, Sgt. Sullivan (Lee Van Cleef) puts together a group of Italian-Americans into disguise as Italian soldiers in order to infiltrate a North African camp held by the Italians. Sullivan, along with Dino (Romano Puppo), was one of three that survived from the P... | violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | This is one of the easiest to find Italian war films, and it's really not too shabby, either
On the eve of the American landings in North Africa, a band of Italian-American soldiers are recruited for a special mission behind the enemy lines.
The main conflict is between Sergeant Sullivan (Lee Van Cleef, "The Good, the... |
tt0265998 | Baiorensu jakku: herusuuindo hen | The series takes place in the ruins of the Kanto region, after a massive earthquake (which in the OVAs was triggered by a Comet strike) dubbed 'The Great Kanto Hellquake'. Cut off from the rest of the world, The survivors of the disaster are divided between the strong and the weak. Violence Jack is uncovered amongst th... | violence | train | wikipedia | Violence Jack 3: why me?. Violence Jack 3: why me? This is the third time I'm putting my mental health at risk to review this for you all, so I hope you get something out of it.Overview: At this point, I don't think Violence Jack needs much of an introduction. If you're one of those backwards people who like to watch m... |
tt0022827 | Doctor X | Reporter Lee Taylor (Lee Tracy) is investigating a series of pathological murders that have taken place over a series of months in New York City. The murders always take place at night, under the light of a full moon (the newspapers dubbing them the "Moon Killer Murders"). Furthermore, each body has been cannibalized a... | murder, atmospheric | train | wikipedia | Doctor X combines a spooky old house with a mad scientist horror story, and as directed by Michael Curtiz in early two-strip Technicolor, it's a quite good show even by today's standards.Lionel Atwill's Doctor X is a scientist who runs a medical research institute in New York City near where a series of grisly murders ... |
tt0061995 | La morte non conta i dollari | Lawrence White returns to his hometown and reopens the investigation about the murder of his father. At the same time arrives Boyd, who frequently gets into fights. Doc Lester, who is the one behind the murder, hires Boyd and makes him the sheriff to stop White. However, it turns out that "Boyd" is the real Lawrence Wh... | western, revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0412798 | Half Light | Rachel Carlson (Moore) is a successful American murder mystery author living in London with her five-year-old son, Thomas (Balawi) and her second husband, Brian (Cusick), a successful book editor that has been unable to get any of his own works published. His mother being too busy working on her latest novel to play wi... | violence, horror, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | There are enough twists and turns in the plot to keep you guessing, even if you think you have it worked out within the first half, as we both did, you'll doubt yourself from then on in.My one criticism is the start of the film.
It feels somewhat piecemeal and directionless, perhaps on purpose to mirror the main charac... |
tt0195685 | Erin Brockovich | In 1993, Erin Brockovich (Julia Roberts) is an unemployed single mother of three children, who has recently been injured in a traffic accident with a doctor and is suing him. Her lawyer, Ed Masry (Albert Finney), expects to win, but Erin's explosive courtroom behavior under cross-examination loses her the case, and Ed ... | dramatic, inspiring | train | wikipedia | If I didn't know it was based on a "true" story I might have dismissed this movie as "unrealistic", particularly in the first half hour or so when it started off like another Julia Roberts comedy.
The only thing bigger than Julia Roberts' chest in "Erin Brockovich" is the heart this film has.
Nothing bad actually happe... |
tt0209440 | The Turn of the Screw | An unnamed narrator listens to Douglas, a friend, read a manuscript written by a former governess whom Douglas claims to have known and who is now dead. The manuscript tells the story of how the young governess is hired by a man who has become responsible for his young nephew and niece after the deaths of their parents... | insanity, haunting | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0081182 | La mort en direct | The film is set in a future where death from illness has become extremely unusual. When Katherine Mortenhoe (Romy Schneider) is diagnosed as having an incurable disease, she becomes a celebrity and is besieged by journalists. The television company NTV (headed by Vincent Ferriman) offers her a large sum of money if she... | tragedy | train | wikipedia | Bertrand Tavernier's tale of a critically ill woman hounded by a television network for its popular show 'Deathwatch' could be looked back in 1980 as almost a premonition in these times of reality TV and their popularity with today's viewing public.A strong cast portrays a simple, if at times ponderous story dealing th... |
tt0770739 | Dead & Deader | After communications to a small medical outpost in Cambodia was cut off, a U.S. special-forces squad was sent to investigate. After they failed to report back, a second squad is sent. As they approach the outpost, they are attacked by zombies. After killing the zombies, they are attacked by an infected researcher who c... | violence | train | wikipedia | One thing I've always liked about Sci-Fi channel is their fun movies they like to produce themselves.
Army Lt. Bobby Quinn (Dean Cain) and his platoon are assigned to a special trip to Cambodia to find out why a secret scientific lab stopped sending communications to the United States, and upon arriving at the secret l... |
tt0073326 | Ma Ge Bo Luo | Marcus Nang (Will Yun Lee), an ace hitman in the underworld was summoned to meet with three professional colleagues in a luxury hotel suite after completing a recent contract. The first to arrive are Cordelia Leigh (Mercedes Renard) and Chase (Oliver Williams). The sexy Cordelia is Marcus’s ex-girlfriend and an equally... | revenge | train | wikipedia | Marco Polo joined by powerhouse kung fu cast in HK costume epic.
THE FOUR ASSASSINS (aka MARCO POLO, 1975) is that rare Hong Kong kung fu film which features a westerner in a pivotal, heroic role.
Set at the time of Italian explorer Marco Polo's historic expedition to China, during the reign of Mongol ruler Kublai Khan... |
tt0109035 | Above the Rim | Kyle Watson (Duane Martin) is a talented basketball player who is about to graduate from high school. While he waits to find out if he will receive a scholarship to Georgetown University, he finds himself in a difficult dilemma over a playground basketball tournament. He must decide whether to play for and follow his w... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | This movie had an all star cast as the up and coming Marlon Wayans,Tupac Shakur,Leon,Duane Martin,Henry Simmons,Bernie Mac,and the lovely Tonya Pinkins.
The beginning was a little off when Leon dreamed of his best friend's death and then focused mainly on Duane Martin's basketball skills,and him trying to get into Geor... |
tt0054483 | The World of Suzie Wong | Robert Lomax is a young Englishman who, after completing his National Service, goes to work on a plantation in British Malaya. During his time in Malaya, Lomax decides to pursue a new career as an artist for a year.
Lomax visits Hong Kong in search of inspiration for his paintings. He checks into the Nam Kok Hotel, not... | tragedy | train | wikipedia | The setting is Hong Kong in the late fifties
The film tells the story of a bittersweet love affair between an American architect who has decided to try painting and a wonderful Asian girl who uses with vigor and diligence her essentially dirty trade in a turmoil of mischievous fantasy
Suzie Wong (Nancy Kwan), attract... |
tt0038964 | Solid Serenade | Near a house is a doghouse labeled "Killer" with a dog (Spike) in it. Tom pokes his head over the wall and spots a female cat (Toodles Galore) in the window. Tom brings along his string instrument (possibly a double bass or cello), then wakes up Spike and neutralizes him by whacking him in the head with a mallet and ty... | comic | train | wikipedia | Hep-Cat Tom Gets It On, Musically.
Tom gets to do some picking early on as he torments and then ties up "Killer" the watchdog.
Tom wants to serenade some cat-beauty in the window and needs the dog out of the way.
Tom then shows us his musical talent - and it's hilarious - as he sings Cab Calloway-swing-style and plays ... |
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