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tt0144528 | Nutty Professor II: The Klumps | After finding success with a DNA restructuring formula in the first film, Sherman Klump has created another formula which enables those who take it to find the Fountain of Youth. He has also met and fallen in love with a colleague, Denise Gaines, who has developed a method to isolate genetic material and later becomes ... | whimsical, humor, flashback | train | wikipedia | How much one likes `The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps' depends on how much Eddie Murphy you can stand.
Review the number of characters Eddie Murphy plays : Sherman Klump, Buddy Love, Granny Klump, Mama Klump, Papa Klump, Young Papa Klump, Ernie Klump, and Lance Perkinscan.
Ahhh, how fair am I to admit that this movie ... |
tt0032338 | Christmas in July | Dr. Maxford (Raymond Walburn) is thoroughly exasperated. He is supposed to announce on national radio the winners of a slogan contest for his Maxford House Coffee; the first prize is $25,000. Maxford's jury is deadlocked by the stubborn Mr. Bildocker (William Demarest). As a result, the program ends without an announce... | prank | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0035689 | Bombardier | In 1941, at a staff meeting in Washington, D.C., two officers of the U.S. Army Air Corps (and old friends) debate the importance of bombardiers. Major "Chick" Davis (Pat O'Brien) argues that a bombardier, using the top secret American bombsight will be the "spearhead of our striking force." After a year of observing th... | romantic | train | wikipedia | There were a lot of films made by Hollywood during the war years that were designed to drum up support for our troops from the public.
This film is a pretty effective and entertaining example of the genre--having a pretty realistic script and good production values.
Pat O'Brien plays pretty much the same character he p... |
tt0119879 | Perdita Durango | Rosie Perez plays Perdita Durango, a woman who goes to Mexico to scatter the ashes of her dead sister.
In Mexico she is picked up by bank robbing drug dealer Romeo Dolorosa, played by Javier Bardem. He robbed the bank to pay off his debt to loan shark Catalina (Demián Bichir). Romeo also engages in various scams preten... | psychedelic, comedy, cruelty, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0275468 | The Last Minute | The film darkly lampoons success, failure, and show business.
Billy Byrne is famous, the new big thing, yet the film doesn't say what's the great idea that got him there, he is just suddenly on top, everywhere and adored. Women, money, fame, then everything changes and Billy finds himself being rejected, a failure, he ... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Stephen Norrington's "Blade" is undoubtedly a highlight of recent American cinema.
"The Last Minute" is scatterbrained, indecisive and consequently confusing and also too derivative of other hip directors (Danny Boyle, Guy Ritchie)."The Last Minute" is semi-autobiographical of Norrington's experience with the entertain... |
tt0101797 | Edge of Honor | The film begins with an account of impoverished families living on the North-West coast of the United States having taken up arms smuggling to support themselves and their families. A group of said smugglers have just received a shipment of high tech weapons, including one-man portable rocket launchers, but are interce... | revenge, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | Excellent B movie.
I enjoyed the hell out of this movie.
I first saw it when I was eleven years old.
I was a boy scout then and I really thought it was cool.
I'm twenty now and I still like to watch it.
Corey Feldman is cool in it and I love the atmosphere the movie gives off.
It is very violent, but it in an inventive... |
tt2616880 | The Blue Umbrella | A city scene is brought to life by a rainstorm. Many objects along the street – signs, lights, awnings, mailboxes, buildings, drains, drain pipes, rain gutters, windows, doors – appear to come to life and develop faces and expressions of their own, enjoying the shower. People pass on the street under their umbrellas, a... | cute, sentimental | train | wikipedia | The Blue Umbrella is yet another charming Disney/Pixar short.
This is yet another Disney/Pixar computer-animated short shown before their main feature which in this case is Monsters University.
This one has a different look as initially, it looks like real live action with the depiction of city streets in the rain.
But... |
tt0040536 | Letter from an Unknown Woman | A rich and well-known writer, returning home to Vienna from one of many holidays, finds a long letter from an unknown woman. As a teenager she had lived with her poor widowed mother in the same building and had fallen totally in love with both the opulent cultured lifestyle of her neighbour and the handsome charming ma... | melodrama, flashback | train | wikipedia | In the real world ,trains are ominous messengers of death and despair:it's a train which takes Stefan away after their affair,a train which takes the young boy to his death.Stefan (Jourdan)lives his selfish life without seeing anything.Ophuls(spelled Opuls in the cast and credits) shows him as a handsome nice young man... |
tt0048339 | Man with the Gun | Clint Tollinger arrives in town, and is recognized as the "man in grey", a gun for hire who had a reputation for cleaning up other towns. After 14 killings in a year are followed by a night shooting and the burning of a house under construction, and the town marshal tells the town council he's not sure what can be done... | revenge | train | wikipedia | Clint Tollinger arrives in a small western town looking for his estranged wife, who left him and now runs the local show saloon.
The solution may be just as bad as the problem but they take the risk.With a nice dark character with a lot of anger and pain in the front of the film this western is enjoyable tough.
We meet... |
tt0123351 | The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling | The novel's events occupy eighteen books.
The book opens with the narrator stating that the purpose of the novel will be to explore "human nature."
The kindly and wealthy Squire Allworthy and his sister Bridget are introduced in their wealthy estate in Somerset. Allworthy returns from London after an extended business ... | romantic, historical fiction | train | wikipedia | null |
tt3704352 | Bessie | Bessie Smith (Queen Latifah) is a young singer from Chattanooga, Tennessee. She and her siblings are orphaned when their parents, William and Laura, die, leaving their oldest sister, Viola (Khandi Alexander), to raise them. Viola is stern and Bessie's childhood is unhappy. She along with her brother Clarence (Tory Kitt... | depressing, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0395770 | SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom | === Home console versions ===
The game revolves around the theme of robots invading Bikini Bottom, SpongeBob's hometown. Plankton, the evil genius owner of the Chum Bucket, has built a new machine called the Duplicatotron 3000 to produce an army of robots to use to steal the Krabby Patty Secret Formula. After creating ... | violence, comic | train | wikipedia | Awesome!. 75 thumbs Up! 10000000000000000000000000000000000 out of 5 stars! Best game i have ever played! hard and boring in the middle but it pays off extra! once you reach the end it is frustrating not recommended for people who get easily frustrated, but still very awesome! Thank youim blackjacker And I hate boring ... |
tt0083908 | Evil Under the Sun | A quiet holiday at a secluded hotel in Devon is all that Hercule Poirot wants. Inevitably, he connects with the others on holiday. Arlena Marshall is a beautiful actress and a flirtatious young woman with many men attracted to her. She goes to the Jolly Roger Hotel with her husband and stepdaughter, Kenneth and Linda M... | mystery, murder | train | wikipedia | He also plays the definitive Hercule Poirot, the Agatha Christie creation.Evil Under The Sun is done almost like a play, but a good play.
The sun in question, under which this evil takes place, shines down on a privately owned island in the Mediterranean, giving us a warm and exotic location.There isn't one bad perform... |
tt0042324 | Chain Lightning | Lt. Colonel Matt Brennan (Humphrey Bogart), discharged from the military, runs a civilian flying school, where he is reunited with an old US Army Air Force buddy, Major Hinkle (James Brown).
Brennan is offered a job at the Willis Aircraft Company as chief test pilot for an experimental high speed jet fighter known as t... | flashback | train | wikipedia | In 1950, jet planes were a relatively recent phenomenon and their emergence offered new possibilities for the long-defunct test-pilot genre of film
In "Chain Lightning," Bogart is a World War H bomber pilot hired as a test-pilot who, after the death of his designer friend (Richard Whorf), successfully tries out a newl... |
tt0122515 | The Acid House | The 1998 film, directed by Paul McGuigan, dramatises three stories from the book:
"The Granton Star Cause" is a comedy, where Boab is having a very bad day indeed. His parents throw him out so they can indulge in sado-masochism and he is sacked from his job, dumped by his girlfriend and dropped from his football team. ... | comedy, murder, cult, flashback, psychedelic, romantic, revenge | train | wikipedia | "The Acid House" is a series of three short stories penned by "Trainspotting" novelist Irvine Welsh, and true to his style, it is inspired by a terribly bad acid trip.
Being a huge fan of Irvine Welsh, I had high hopes for this film, but I was also aware that it would most likely not be as good as Trainspotting.
It was... |
tt0046398 | Take the High Ground! | In May 1953, a new group of Army recruits at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas encounter their drill sergeants, Sgt. Laverne Holt (Karl Malden) and the tough-as-nails Sgt. Thorne Ryan (Richard Widmark). After Ryan's caustic appraisal of the recruits, Holt vows to make soldiers out of them during their sixteen weeks of basic... | violence | train | wikipedia | An interesting Korean-War era film, starring Richard Widmark and Karl Malden, Take the High Ground depicts sixteen weeks of basic training at Fort Bliss.
The film revolves around the differing personalities of two drill sergeants (Widmark and Malden) as they shape hopeless recruits into combat-ready soldiers.
Widmark's... |
tt0043879 | On Dangerous Ground | Bitter, cynical police detective, Jim Wilson (Robert Ryan), is known for beating information out of suspects and witnesses. His violent tendencies are noticed by both his partners and the police chief. After Wilson ignores the Chief's warnings, he is relegated to a case up-state so that he might cool off. He joins a ma... | revenge, murder, melodrama | train | wikipedia | On Dangerous Ground is directed by Nicholas Ray and stars Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan & Ward Bond.
As the two men track down the killer, Wilson sees much of himself in Brent's anger, but once the guys arrive at Mary Malden's isolated cabin, things shift just a little more.Said to be a favourite of Martin Scorsese, and an i... |
tt0099611 | Frankenhooker | Jeffrey, a young man who lives in New Jersey, is heartbroken after his fiancée Elizabeth is killed by a lawnmower during a cookout. He decides that the only way to confront her loss is to use his science skills to bring her back to life. As her body has been cut into pieces, Jeffrey must take new parts from other women... | cult, comedy, grindhouse film, violence | train | wikipedia | Writer/director Frank Henenlotter had previously made the trash classics 'Basket Case' and 'Brain Damage', both of which are brilliant, and 'Frankenhooker' is just as good.
Frank Henenlotter's Frankenhooker (1990) is a funny horror comedy starring James Lorinz as Jeffrey Franken, a young man who is extremely interested... |
tt0055294 | The Phantom Planet | In 1980 the United States Air Force's Space Exploration Wing has bases on the Moon and is on the eve of a mission to Mars. When another of their two-member crew Pegasus spacecraft mysteriously disappears, rumors begin circulating of "space monsters" and "phantom planets". Mars mission pilot Captain Frank Chapman and hi... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0065938 | Kelly's Heroes | During a thunderstorm in early September 1944, units of the 35th Infantry Division are nearing the French town of Nancy. One of the division's mechanized reconnaissance platoons is ordered to hold their position when the Germans counterattack. The outnumbered platoon also receives friendly fire from their own mortars.
... | comedy, humor, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0483841 | X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse | === Setting ===
X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse is not set in any particular Marvel Comics universe. The game takes place some time after the events of X-Men Legends. The mutant supervillain Apocalypse, having witnessed the X-Men's defeat of Magneto remotely, declares that the Age of Apocalypse is nigh. Prior to t... | good versus evil | train | wikipedia | I love this game!.
My mother bought me this game for my birthday and I have to say I'm glad she did.
The game was fun and exciting.
I don't think its that tuff like the first one, but the cool thing is the X-Men get to work with one of the Brotherhood.
Especially the all so powerful Magneto.
Whats good about the game i... |
tt0093483 | Malone | A floatplane navigates through the Pacific Northwest, landing in Puget Sound. As the well-dressed passenger emerges, ex-CIA agent Richard Malone targets him in his crosshairs, but he is unable to pull the trigger. He burns his Maryland driver's license and heads inland. His Ford Mustang breaks down in a rural Oregon va... | neo noir, murder, cult, violence, good versus evil, revenge, sadist | train | wikipedia | Even though some people state that this film is awful, but they are forgetting that most 80's action films where and this was one of many that was churned out then forgotten.I vividly remember first watching this on video rental and thought it was brilliant and even though it's very dated I still love the film as an 80... |
tt0040000 | The Woman on the Beach | Scott (Robert Ryan), a mounted Coast Guard officer, suffers from recurring nightmares involving a maritime tragedy. He sees himself immersed in an eerie landscape surrounded by a shipwreck and walking over skeletons at the bottom of the sea while a ghostly blond woman beckons him from afar. He thinks he is going mad. B... | intrigue | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0034449 | All Through the Night | Alfred "Gloves" Donahue (Humphrey Bogart), a big-shot Broadway gambler, is alerted by his mother, 'Ma' Donahue (Jane Darwell), that her neighbor, Mr. Miller (Ludwig Stossel), a baker who makes Gloves' favorite cheesecake, is missing. Upon searching the bakery, Gloves finds Miller's dead body. A young singer, Leda Hamil... | murder | train | wikipedia | Humphrey Bogart and a cast of comedians and character actors make it "All Through the Night," a spy story set in New York City.
As propaganda, it goes down easily with a terrific cast and some hilarious moments, particularly when Bogart and Demarest attend a secret meeting posing as Nazis.The plot, of course, is prepos... |
tt0101898 | Flirting | Danny Embling (Noah Taylor), now an awkward, underdeveloped 17-year-old, has been sent away by his parents to the all-male St. Albans boarding school in rural New South Wales, Australia, in the hopes he won’t become a delinquent. The year is 1965 and it has been some time since Danny has had any romantic relationship w... | romantic, sadist | train | wikipedia | This is the best of all the adolescent/coming of age/high school genre films.
His eventual love is a new student at the girls school, she is from Uganda (British educated) and is different enough to be a target of ridicule from her peers.
It is fun to watch, authentic and original at the same time, a coming of age flic... |
tt4934950 | Talvar | The film starts off with an introduction of Joint Director Ashwin Kumar at the annual function of India's premier police investigating agency, the Central Department of Investigation (CDI). At the function (1 April 2008), his senior officers hand him over a double murder case. The film then goes into a flashback of eve... | murder | train | wikipedia | Vishal Bharadwaj and Meghna Gulzar called Talvar as the fictional representation of the Aarushi-Hemraj murder case but the way it is shot and executed you would believe it's for real.
With the likes of Irrfan Khan, Konkana Sen Sharma, Navin Kabi and others, Gulzar had made sure people don't get disturbed by the histrio... |
tt0102202 | Kickboxer 2: The Road Back | One year after the events of the first film, it is revealed that kickboxing brothers Kurt and Eric Sloane have been killed by Tong Po in Thailand. David Sloane (Mitchell), the last surviving brother, struggles to keep the family's Los Angeles kickboxing gym afloat. He offers free kickboxing lessons to local kids, often... | revenge, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0068370 | Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things | The story focuses on a theatre troupe, led by Alan (Alan Ormsby). He is a mean-spirited director, who travels with the others by boat to a small island that is mainly used as a cemetery for deranged criminals, to have a night of fun and games. Once on the island Alan tells his group, which he refers to as his "children... | paranormal, cult, good versus evil, violence | train | wikipedia | It went places I knew instinctively most movies did not, and I loved it for that, as well as the fact that I knew others would NOT like it.The story is nothing remarkable--a bunch of hippy actors invade an island, raise the flesh-eating dead, and die horribly.
Bob Clark is an oddity, to be sure--he went from this to an... |
tt1216515 | Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue | Like the other fairies, Tinker Bell attends fairy camp on the mainland. When she attempts to go find some lost things, Vidia asks her if she's going to the human house, which isn't far from camp. The question makes Tink curious and eventually sneaks off. Vidia follows behind to watch over her. When she reaches the hous... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0409546 | Dae Jang-geum | The story is set in Korea during the reigns of King Seongjong (1457–1494), King Yeonsan (1494–1506) and King Jungjong (1506–1544). The epilogue also spans through King Injong (1544-1545) and King Myeongjong (1545-1567), with last scene depicts around year 1550s.
=== Executions - Episode 1 ===
At the outset, King Seongj... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0112379 | Antonia | Following World War II, the widow Antonia and her daughter Danielle arrive at Antonia's home town where her mother is dying. Antonia turns down an offer of marriage from Farmer Bas, but develops a romance with him anyway. Danielle becomes an artist and expresses interest in raising a child, while rejecting the idea of ... | avant garde, cruelty, murder, fantasy, revenge, flashback, philosophical, romantic, storytelling | train | wikipedia | It is a pleasure to be taken into this kind of world for the 100+ minutes of the film.I strongly disagree with the comments, which the IMDb is currently (as of March 13/04) displaying as being "representative," which states:"If you hold dear the innocence of children, respect God and those who serve Him, and hold dear ... |
tt1763264 | No One Lives | While traveling cross country, couple Betty (Laura Ramsey) and an unidentified man, referred to as "Driver," (Luke Evans) encounter a gang of robbers led by dedicated criminal Hoag (Lee Tergesen), his daughter Amber (Lindsey Shaw), girlfriend Tamara (America Olivo), Amber's boyfriend Denny (Beau Knapp), and the psychop... | revenge, murder, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | What more could an avid horror fan want when such a solid cast gets paired up with one of the most interesting horror directors in the biz in Ryûhei Kitamura, known widely for his direction of the 2000 film "Versus" & more recently for his 2008 "The Midnight Meat Train".
The clash turns bloody as the balance of power s... |
tt0370082 | Yeogo goedam 3: Yeowoo gyedan | In an all-female high school in South Korea, the Jookran High School for Girls, teacher Mrs. Park, nicknamed "Old Fox" due to her sadistic method of teaching, circles several points in the students' yearbooks and calls her former student turned new fellow teacher, Hur Eun-young, that "Jin-ju, is definitely dead, but st... | dramatic, horror | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0172543 | He Died with a Felafel in His Hand | === Prologue ===
Danny (Noah Taylor), enters the lounge of his Sydney flat late at night and discovers that his roommate Flip (Brett Stewart) has died in front of the TV holding a felafel sandwich.
=== House #47: Brisbane, Australia ===
Nine months prior, Danny and Flip are sharing a house in Brisbane, with housemates ... | absurd | train | wikipedia | Noah Taylor plays his part as a washed out and uninspired writer named Danny down to pat even though I think he must have the least amount of dialogue in the film.
I found her performance to be quite convincing and not contrived or overacted like some performances can be in these types of low budget art films.Romane Bo... |
tt0114550 | Stonewall | The drama is a coming-of-age genre film, and centers on fictional Danny Winters, a gay white teenage boy from Indiana, who flees the conservative countryside in the late 1960s and moves to New York City. Shortly before leaving, he is discovered by friends while making love with his boyfriend. His father is upset, and w... | anti war, violence | train | wikipedia | What an eye opener!.
We are set in the year 1969 where Homosexuality is illegal and dressing in drag is likely to get you arrested, if not beaten!Everybody has their own Stonewall story...
Everyone that lived through it will have a fantastic memory to tell anybody that will listen.
Well this film is La Miranda's story.... |
tt0045963 | Kiss Me Kate | Act I
The cast of a musical version of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew is rehearsing for the opening of the show that evening ("Another Op'nin', Another Show"). Egotistical Fred Graham is the director and producer and is starring as Petruchio, and his movie-star ex-wife, Lilli Vanessi, is playing Katherin... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1275863 | Love Aaj Kal | Jai and Meera are a modern-day couple living in London. They are happy with each other, but do not believe in tying each other down so when career beckons, they have a mutual break-up, but remain friends. Meera goes to India, while Jai stays in London, hoping to be called to San Francisco, where working at the Golden G... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0040751 | Ruthless | Act I
Judy Denmark, a bland housewife, is the mother of talented eight-year-old Tina, who declares, "I was born to entertain." At the suggestion that she should postpone her stage ambitions to be a normal child, she replies, "I've had a normal childhood. It's time to move on." Sylvia St. Croix, an overbearing and sleaz... | flashback | train | wikipedia | RUTHLESS is a terrific noir/melodrama - sharply written (by the to-be-blacklisted Alvah Bessie and Gordon Kahn), consistently beautifully photographed (by the underrated Bert Glennon), and truly adventurous in its editing and flash forward-flash backward construction.Zachary Scott is the "ruthless" title character, but... |
tt0074312 | Chinesisches Roulette | Ariane and Gerhard Christ, a wealthy Munich couple, are packing before going off for the weekend, which each intends to spend abroad. While they are away their twelve-year-old daughter Angela, who is disabled and walks with crutches, has to remain home under the care of her governess, Traunitz. Actually, the couple hav... | dramatic, psychological, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0145393 | Pizza, birra, faso | This story takes place in an impoverished district outside Buenos Aires. It tells about a corrupt group of teenage misfits: the not-so-bright Megabom (Alejandro Pous), the asthmatic Pablo (Jorge Sesan), the nerdy Frula (Walter Diaz), and Sandra (Pamela Jordan), the pregnant girlfriend of El Cordobes (Héctor Anglada). A... | murder | train | wikipedia | One of the best low budget Argentine movies ever. This film illustrates a reality that almost all South American countries are living. The story is about four teenagers that have to steal to live, doing whatever they can to obtain some "pesos" . This film features lots of decadent scenes, that show the way of acting of... |
tt0058653 | The Thrill Killers | The story takes place in 1964 in Hollywood, California.
Joe Saxon (Joe Bardo) is an aspiring actor whose outlandish parties and spending worry his wife, Liz (Liz Renay). As per the narrator, he is "trapped in the world of non-reality".
In another scene, we see a young, Greek immigrant named Dennis Kesdekian (Atlas King... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0069467 | Viskningar och rop | Cries and Whispers takes place in a lavish mansion in the 19th century, filled with red carpets and white statuary. It depicts the final days of Agnes (Harriet Andersson), who is near death due to cancer. Her sisters Maria (Liv Ullmann) and Karin (Ingrid Thulin) have returned to the family home to be with her. However ... | insanity, psychedelic, depressing, romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | The Sounds Of Cries And Whispers Or A Study In Red. The idea of this film that is considered by many as Bergman's crown achievement came to him in his house at Faro where he lived by himself for sometime in a melancholy state of mind after a rather painful breakup.
Bergman talked with affection and gratitude about his ... |
tt1509732 | Aisha | Aisha (Sonam Kapoor) is a young, rich, upper class woman who believes that she is perfectly suited for match-making – amongst her friends in particular. Her superficial lifestyle and match-making schemes are constantly criticized by her friend/neighbor Arjun (Abhay Deol), who advises her to stop meddling with the lives... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Sonam Kapoor plays Aisha, who is some sort of a cross between Sex and The City's Carrie (in her quintessential fashion sense) and Cher from Clueless (in her adorable snobbishness).
She's into social services such as protecting animal rights, appreciating and creating arts, and not to forget her newly found talent, matc... |
tt0109034 | Above Suspicion | In the spring of 1939 in England, Oxford University Professor Richard Myles (Fred MacMurray) and his new bride Frances (Joan Crawford) decide to honeymoon on the continent. Because they are American tourists and therefore "above suspicion," they find themselves commissioned by the British secret service to find an appa... | neo noir | train | wikipedia | Christopher Reeve in an excellent TV thriller.
Christopher Reeve ironically plays a homicide detective who's paralyzed from the waist down after a bust goes bad.
His family life isn't all that great either; his wife is cheating on him with his own brother.
One day Reeve asks the two of them to help him end his life...t... |
tt0201580 | The Dying Detective | The picture begins with Moriarty and Holmes verbally sparring on the steps outside the Old Bailey where Moriarty has just been acquitted on a charge of murder due to lack of evidence. Holmes remarks, "You've a magnificent brain, Moriarty. I admire it. I admire it so much I'd like to present it, pickled in alcohol, to t... | murder | train | wikipedia | 3 Early Holmes. Dying Detective, The (1921) ** (out of 4) Sherlock Holmes (Eille Norwood) knows that a man has killed a former partner but he can't prove it unless he finds a dying detective who knows what really happened. Norwood would play Holmes in over thirty films and he's quite good in the role bring an intellige... |
tt0339579 | Ritânâ | Milly (Anne Suzuki) is a soldier from 2084, where humanity is on the verge of extinction because of the "Daggra", an alien race. In mankind's final stronghold in Tibet, Milly leaps into a newly built time portal just before the fortress is overrun. The portal sends her to 2002, where her mission is to kill the first Da... | neo noir, murder, cult, violence, flashback, action, revenge, entertaining, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | The day was set to end, I had two videos in my hands I had just rented an hour before, one of them was "Lost in Translation" and the other one was "The Returner".To make a long story short, my attitude turned pretty sour after viewing the more anticipated "Lost in Translation" and turned on "The Returner" thinking it w... |
tt0284837 | Ali G Indahouse | Ali G is the leader of Da West Staines Massiv, a fictional gang composed of wannabe gangsters from Staines; their chief rivals are Da East Staines Massiv. Da West Staines Massiv are heartbroken to learn that their beloved local leisure centre will be demolished by the local council, so they decide to protest. After he ... | cult, adult comedy, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | A human side to Ali is revealed during the film, the idea of Ali G running for PM is a brilliant, fresh and funny one - and the incessant stupidity of Staines' gangster man is mixed well with the stern, harsh world that is politics.
Ali G's big screen debut was a success in my belief, and should have got into the 6-7 a... |
tt0063256 | Madigan | In New York City's Spanish Harlem, police detectives Dan Madigan and Rocco Bonaro break into a sleazy apartment and arrest Barney Benesch, a hoodlum wanted for questioning by a Brooklyn precinct. Momentarily distracted by the suspect's nude girl friend, the two detectives are outwitted by Benesch, who escapes with thei... | neo noir, murder | train | wikipedia | Detective Daniel Madigan (Richard Widmark) and Detective Rocco Bonaro (Harry Guardino) enter a squalid Manhattan apartment building to pick up Barney Benesch (Steve Ihnat), who is wanted for questioning on a case in Brooklyn.
When Benesch manages to take Madigan and Bonaro's guns away and escape, Police Commissioner An... |
tt0104550 | Jersey Girl | Ollie Trinké (Ben Affleck) is a powerful media publicist in New York City whose wife, Gertie (Jennifer Lopez), dies during childbirth with an aneurysm. To avoid his grief, he buries himself in his work and ignores his new daughter, Gertie, while his father, Bart (George Carlin), takes a month off from work to care for ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0065134 | Two Mules for Sister Sara | A gunslinger named Hogan spots and saves a naked woman from being gang-raped by several bandits whom he shoots and kills. He later learns that the woman, Sara, is a nun working with a group of Mexican revolutionaries who are fighting the French. When Sara requests that Hogan takes her to a Mexican camp, he agrees becau... | cult, avant garde, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | Don Siegel's "Two Mules For Sister Sara" starring Clint Eastwood and Shirley MacLaine is certainly not one of the brilliant Westerns with Eastwood, but it is a very well directed, greatly acted and very amusing little Western comedy with good wit that highly entertains.
Eastwood, who is cool as always, and the lovable ... |
tt0260162 | The Mangler 2 | Joanne 'Jo' Newton, a girl desperate for attention from her workaholic father, ends up going to an upper class private boarding school after a break in at her dad's computer company. The school is getting ready to install a new security system. Jo and several others students are to remain behind while the others leave ... | prank | train | wikipedia | First off, before I start my review, I would like to say that Mangler 2 is the second worst movie of all time (the first movie being Killjoy).
But, what the writers try to do with Mangler 2, is they try to use computers to make the movie at least seem a little smart.
This scene is also example of pathetic choreography:... |
tt0301322 | From Dusk Till Dawn | Fugitive bank robbers and brothers Seth and Richie Gecko are fleeing the F.B.I. and Texas police. They hold up and destroy a liquor store, killing the clerk and a Texas Ranger. Two witnesses they held hostage in the store escape during the shooting. The Geckos still hold a bank clerk hostage in the trunk of their car, ... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | What a waste. Ok this game was a game that never should have been made in the first place. The mere thought of the plot for this is ridiculous, and the graphics are so crappy that it hurts ones eyes just to watch it. Also, Seth has never sounded so gay in his life. There was a reason Clooney only did one of these, and ... |
tt1386697 | Suicide Squad | In the aftermath of Superman's death, intelligence officer Amanda Waller assembles Task Force X, a team of dangerous criminals imprisoned at Belle Reve Prison consisting of elite hitman Deadshot, former psychiatrist Harley Quinn, pyrokinetic ex-gangster El Diablo, opportunistic thief Captain Boomerang, genetic mutation... | comedy, murder, violence, flashback, insanity, psychedelic, humor, romantic, revenge, sadist | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2279864 | Clear History | In 2003, bearded, long-haired Nathan Flomm (Larry David) is an opinionated, obnoxious business associate of Will Haney (Jon Hamm), whose company in San Jose, California is about to introduce a new electric car. Flomm objects to the car being named "the Howard" after Haney’s son, who is himself named after Howard Roark,... | revenge | train | wikipedia | Clear History is like an extended episode of L.D.'s Curb Your Enthusiasm, it has the same spirit, the same jokes, but yet it works.
Clear History centers on Nathan Flomm (L.D.), a marketing executive, who works for and is also a partner with Will Haney (Jon Hamm); they're working on an idea of a revolutionary electric ... |
tt0189575 | The Hidan of Maukbeiangjow | Kaspar (Ele Grigsby) is partnered with Detective Sam Trowel (Hugh Smith). he locates the hideout of a kidnapping and drug ring that Trowel has been unable to find because he is too focused on procedures. Trowel hires safecracker Frederick Fenzer (David Roster) and his bodyguard, Noname (Harlo Cayse), as phoney supplier... | cult | train | wikipedia | (On the surface it looks more like Arthur Penn.) Still, it's a shame we don't see Elizabeth Rush, Ele Grigsby, or David Roster in anything else.A discussion of this film would not be complete without mentioning James DeWitt's score, although some of the suspense scenes rely on library music that tends to punch up the h... |
tt1487118 | Chalet Girl | Kim Mathews (Felicity Jones) is introduced by a television presenter (Miquita Oliver) as a former skateboarding champion whose mother was killed in a car accident. Kim gives up skateboarding and begins working in a fast food burger bar to pay household bills to help her father (Bill Bailey).
When she and her father nee... | comedy, romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0218141 | Deeply | Claire McKay (Julia Brendler)—having suffered the death of her boyfriend—is brought by her mother to Ironbound Island in the hopes that time away from the city will allow her to recover emotionally. On the island where her mother was born, Claire meets an eccentric writer, Celia (Lynn Redgrave), who in flashbacks, rela... | suicidal, fantasy, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1439572 | Perfect Sense | An epidemic begins to spread throughout the globe, causing humankind to lose their sensory perceptions one by one. The story focuses on two people: Susan, one of a team of epidemiologists who are trying to find the causes of the disease, and Michael, a chef who works at a busy restaurant located next to Susan's flat. T... | violence | train | wikipedia | The shared affliction of this story is poetic metaphor; however, like most good art, this film is about its characters, not its literary devices.The cast's performances are not only authentic, they are illuminating; particularly Ewan McGregor's and Eva Green's central couple.
By those prerequisites, we would also be fo... |
tt0787216 | The Three Musketeers | In Venice, the musketeers Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, with the help of Milady de Winter, steal airship blueprints made by Leonardo da Vinci. However, they are betrayed by Milady, who incapacitates them and sells the blueprints to the Duke of Buckingham.
A year later, d'Artagnan leaves his village in Gascony for Paris i... | murder, historical fiction | train | wikipedia | Well at least the Musketeers themselves were enjoyable. Just for the record I do like Burbank Films Australia animations. Wind in the Willows and Peter Pan especially of the ones I've seen on my "low-budget-animation-re-visiting" phase are wonderful. I wanted to like The Three Musketeers, I really did. Before I say why... |
tt0181536 | Finding Forrester | Sixteen-year-old Jamal Wallace (Rob Brown) plays basketball with his friends in New York. A recluse, William Forrester (Sean Connery), lives on the top floor of the building across from the court. The kids regularly notice him watching them. One of the boys dares Jamal to sneak into the apartment and retrieve an item. ... | inspiring, boring | train | wikipedia | A reclusive author, whose only published novel won the Pulitzer Prize, becomes the mentor of an underprivileged and talented sixteen-year-old in `Finding Forrester,' directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Sean Connery and newcomer Rob Brown.
As a person who enjoys good movies, as well as reading and writing, I loved thi... |
tt0082054 | Beau-père | Rémi is a struggling pianist with a wife named Martine, a model who is getting too old to find desirable work, and a 14-year-old stepdaughter Marion. When Martine is killed in a car crash, Marion expresses her desire to stay with Rémi in their apartment, but is taken away by her father Charly, an alcoholic who dislikes... | melodrama | train | wikipedia | I love films such as this..
I really love films such as Beau Pere.
When you read the description of the film (a man in his 30's has a love affair with his 14-yr.
old stepdaughter after his wife dies), you kinda think that it's going to be a study about some middle-aged pervert engaging in immoral acts of both incest an... |
tt0117468 | Retroactive | Karen hitches a ride in Frank's car after hers breaks down. Frank is travelling with his abused wife, Rayanne, on his way to sell stolen computer chips. He discovers Rayanne has been unfaithful to him, leading him to kill her. Karen gets into a shooting match with Frank but escapes, ending up at a laboratory where a sc... | dark, suspenseful, cruelty, murder, violence, alternate reality, flashback, psychedelic, revenge, alternate history | train | wikipedia | Rating: *** out of ****A word of warning before the review: I highly recommend Retroactive and suggest you go out of your way to see it in widescreen because the numerous action scenes and breathtaking desert cinematography are cramped and a pain to watch in pan-and-scan.Relegated to a straight-to-video release, Retroa... |
tt0486731 | U | After sinking a merchant ship from an Allied convoy, German U-boat U-571 has her engines badly damaged by depth charges from a British destroyer. U-571's skipper Kapitänleutnant Gunther Wassner makes a distress call that is intercepted by American intelligence, so the US Navy has submarine S-33 modified to resemble a G... | psychedelic, romantic | train | wikipedia | filled with wonder. How good it is to wake up and remember that animation does not mean Hollywood only. In the last years, we had Japanese Ghibli studios (soon under Disney's control apparently?!), Sylvain Chomet's Belleville triplettes and MICHEL OSLO (loved Azur & Asmar !!). I'm now discovering U by GRÉGOIRE SOLOTARE... |
tt0054890 | The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse | Madariaga "The Centaur" (Pomeroy Cannon), a harsh but popular Argentine landowner, has a German son-in-law whom he dislikes and a French one whose family he openly favors. He is particularly fond of his grandson Julio (Rudolph Valentino), with whom he often carouses at seedy dives in the Boca district of Buenos Aires. ... | romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | Most take exception to the casting of Glenn Ford and classify the film as one of Minnelli's lesser efforts.
It's not that I'm Glenn Ford's greatest fan, but I think he gives one of his finest performances here and is one of the movie's strengths.
The new version tries to be 'more' than a war or anti-war film...The qual... |
tt0113540 | Kids | The film opens with Telly (Leo Fitzpatrick) and a 12-year-old girl making out on a bed. With no adults around, Telly, who is slightly older, persuades the girl, who is a virgin, to have sex with him. Afterwards, he meets his friend, Casper (Justin Pierce), and they talk about his sexual experience very crudely. Telly h... | tragedy, cult, violence | train | wikipedia | I do believe that Larry Clark has a strage obsession with teenage nudity, in every film I've seen of his there has been tons of teenagers having sex, sometimes it spoils the film.Overall the film is powerful and moving, watch it..
This is not a super super film, but it stays with you, which was sort of the point - espe... |
tt0096037 | Satisfaction | Jennie Lee (Justine Bateman) is the lead singer of an all-girl rock band in Baltimore named The Mystery. At her high school graduation, Jennie gives her valedictorian speech at the ceremony while fellow band member, bass guitarist Daryle (Julia Roberts) is accepting a marriage proposal from her high school sweetheart F... | romantic | train | wikipedia | DVD picture quality isn't the greatest but all that teen angst is awesome and Justine Bateman still rocks.
Was a bit surprised to see Julia Roberts who I had no recollection of but Liam Neeson is probably the reason I ended up living in Europe.
Watch some big 80s hair and funny girl band stuff.
Couldn't get over Julia ... |
tt0086145 | The Prodigal Planet | During the final years of the Antichrist's reign, a nuclear war has devastated the earth. The Antichrist and his world government find their grip on power slowly slipping away as Christ's return draws near. One of the lead characters from the previous film, David Michaels (played by William Wellman Jr.), is now part of... | christian film | train | wikipedia | Best film in the series.
THE PRODIGAL PLANET has some flaws but overcomes them and sizes up to be a great family adventure film.
The film, designed for church and youth group viewership has many visual homages to films such as the OMEGA MAN which spice up the film visually.
Visually interesting and well made, this film... |
tt0384814 | Ask the Dust | Arturo Bandini is a struggling writer living in a residential hotel in Bunker Hill, a rundown section of Downtown Los Angeles. Living off the zest of oranges, he unconsciously creates a picture of Los Angeles as a modern dystopia during the Great Depression era. His published short story "The Little Dog Laughed" impres... | romantic, depressing, flashback | train | wikipedia | Set in the new-get-rich town of failed dreams (Los Angeles), the writer is an inexperienced and virginal Colin Farrell, who gradually falls for the uncompromising immigrant waitress Salma Hayek.
This is a movie which, like its hero, has great ambitions but fails pitifully in many of them, yet one which can be treasured... |
tt1273241 | Brotherhood | Frank (Jon Foster) is an active member of fictional fraternity Sigma Zeta Chi, and hazes pledges for initiation by forcing them to believe they are going to rob convenience stores. Adam (Trevor Morgan) and Kevin (Lou Taylor Pucci) are pledges who go with Frank to rob the stores. Before they enter the store, another act... | prank | train | wikipedia | One doesn't need a PhD to predict negative consequences when some college frat boys pressurize a fraternity applicant to carry out a convenience store robbery as part of their induction process.
Needless to say, the hold-up is less than a complete success, and "Brotherhood" finds itself in similar territory to "Very Ba... |
tt1842347 | Damarukam | The protagonist of the movie is born with a divine grace of Lord Shiva (Prakash Raj) and the boy's parents are advised to name him as Mallikarjuna as he is destined to accomplish a great work. During his childhood, Mallikarjuna faces a great tragedy as his parents and grandparents are killed by a huge feline creature w... | good versus evil | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0449573 | California Dreamin' (Nesfarsit) | I'm in Romania, I guess
The plot is based on a true story: in 1999, during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, a train containing American radar equipment required in Kosovo, guarded by a small troop of American and Romanian soldiers, went through Romania and was stopped for four days in a small village on the Bărăgan Plai... | comedy, flashback | train | wikipedia | Cristian Nemescu's California Dreamin' (Unfinished) is furiously funny, outrageously cruel, infinitely critical of Romanians..
"California Dreamin' (Nesfarsit)" is one of the finest movies Romanian cinema has ever produced.
While the unfortunate death of young director Cristian Nemescu left the film unfinished, the mov... |
tt0068290 | Blood from the Mummy's Tomb | An expedition led by Professor Fuchs (Keir) locates the unmarked tomb of Tera (Leon) an evil Egyptian queen. A cabal of priests drugged her into a state of suspended animation and buried all of her evil relics with her. Fuchs is obsessed with Tera and takes her mummy and sarcophagus back to England, where he secretly r... | insanity, violence, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0061780 | The Honey Pot | Struggling actor William McFly (Cliff Robertson) is hired by wealthy Cecil Fox (Rex Harrison) to play his personal secretary for a practical joke. Pretending to be on his deathbed, Fox invites three former lovers to his Venetian palazzo for a final visit: penniless Princess Dominique (Capucine), fading movie star Merle... | romantic, mystery, murder | train | wikipedia | Coming at the end of a prosperous string of all-star mystery films, THE HONEY POT suffered more from a lame title and timing than anything on screen when first released (an even worse title, "Up Pops Murder" didn't help when the film was first released to television).The typically superb script and direction from Josep... |
tt0047233 | Mice Follies | Jerry and Nibbles flood the kitchen and freeze the water, turning the room into an skating rink. The two mice go about their own business, skating and sliding across the frozen floor - until Tom is woken up and peeps through the wall. and while nibbles slips through the ice, he accidentally he pulls off half of Tom's w... | comic | train | wikipedia | Entertaining Tom and Jerry cartoon.
'Mice Follies' is an entertaining short with Tom, Jerry and a second mouse.
Jerry floods the kitchen together with another mouse.
After this they use the freezer to change the flooded kitchen into an ice skating rink.
When Jerry and the other mouse want to do some ice dancing Tom fin... |
tt0068934 | Melinda | Frankie J. Parker is a Los Angeles radio disc jockey. In his spare time, Frankie takes karate lessons at a school run by his friend Charles Atkins. A woman in a rental car, newly arrived from Chicago, listens to Frankie's radio program. They meet at a nightclub owned by another of Frankie's friends, former football pla... | violence, murder, blaxploitation, melodrama | train | wikipedia | Melinda.
of all the blaxplotation films in the 70's, Melinda ranks on my list with Shaft, Superfly, Trouble Man, Cotton comes to Harlem, and such like.
i had'nt seen it since 1974 maybe, and have been looking for it for more than 30 years.
finally, i found it in San Francisco.
the DVD was a good print although you knew... |
tt0077497 | Goodbye Emmanuelle | Emmanuelle (played by Monique Gabrielle) is a free-spirited woman who makes erotic arthouse films and runs a dance studio out of her loft in Paris.
The movie opens with a "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" style montage of Cannes, with a documentary-like narration giving us an overview of the famous film festival held... | pornographic | train | wikipedia | On the other hand.
This movie is probably the most unpopular of 1970's French "Emmanuelle" series because it is definitely the least erotic.
The sex scenes are all pretty brief and tame (especially compared to its immediate predecessor "Emmanuelle 2").
After actually looking attractive in the first sequel, Sylvia Krist... |
tt0113133 | Funny Bones | Tommy Fawkes is the son of comedy legend George Fawkes. After his own Las Vegas comedy act flops with his beloved father in the audience, Tommy returns to Blackpool, England, where he spent the summers of his childhood.
Disguised with a new identity, Tommy intends to seek out unique performers and purchase their acts. ... | violence, comedy, flashback | train | wikipedia | Not really a comedy - more a surreal, sometimes weirdly comic piece about comedians, about families, about the awfulness of having a famous father, about genius, about the problem of what makes a comic funny, about the sublime sadness of failure.
Leslie Caron is heart-rending as his mother, a brave, faded French beauty... |
tt0080645 | Don't Answer the Phone! | Former Vietnam vet, amateur bodybuilder, and talented porno-photographer Kirk Smith is a crazed killer who stalks the streets of Los Angeles, picking up young women, strangling them in lurid fashion, and sexually abusing their dead bodies. Between murders, he carries out twisted religious ceremonies, has imaginary conv... | violence, cult, murder, sadist | train | wikipedia | This was obviously meant to be a standard late-70s total-waste-of-time movie, an excuse to show topless women squirming and thrashing while being strangled, but Nicholas Worth turns it into a must-see.
Don't Answer the Phone is yet another film from the late 70s and early 80s about a psychotic, demented, socially awkwa... |
tt0418195 | Star Wars: Republic Commando | The game is set during the events of the Clone Wars that started at the climax of the movie Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones. In the game, the player takes command of a Clone commando team, made up of elite Clone troopers. These Clone commandos have been specially bred at the clone factories on Kamino. The ... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0067975 | What's the Matter with Helen? | Leonard Hill and Wesley Bruckner are seen being loaded into a paddywagon to face life sentences in prison for the Iowa murder of Ellie Banner. Their mothers, Helen Hill (Shelley Winters) and Adelle Bruckner (Debbie Reynolds) fight a crowd to their car.
In the car, Helen reveals that someone in the crowd cut the palm of... | revenge, murder, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | The most bizarre of the cinematic sub-genres is the so called "The Great Ladies of the Grand Guignol": camp horror films which combined over-the-top melodrama with gothic thrills and always starred by seasoned and almost forgotten actress from hollywood golden age in unflattering roles of either long suffering victims ... |
tt0085862 | Lone Wolf McQuade | The main character, J.J. McQuade (Norris), is a former Marine and a Texas Ranger who prefers to work alone. He lives in an old, run-down house in the middle of nowhere with a pet wolf.
The film opens with McQuade involved in an intense battle with Mexican bandits and a gang of horse thieves from which he emerges unscat... | revenge, cult, comedy, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1480658 | Eddie | The New York Knicks are also-rans in the NBA, their roster filled with players who either lack talent or are too distracted by off-the-court issues. Nonetheless, limousine driver and rabid fan Edwina "Eddie" Franklin (Whoopi Goldberg) attends every Knicks game in the nosebleed section of Madison Square Garden.
During h... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0210413 | Clerks | Dante Hicks, a 22-year-old retail clerk at the Quick Stop convenience store in Leonardo, New Jersey, is called into work on his day off by his boss to cover a few hours for another employee who is sick. Arriving at the store, he finds that the locks to the security shutters are jammed closed with chewing gum, so he han... | comedy, satire, adult comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0047879 | Big House, U.S.A. | In a Colorado national park, a boy having an asthma attack is approached by a nurse, Emily Evans, with a syringe. Frightened of needles, the boy flees into the woods, where Jerry Barker finds him.
Park ranger Erickson tries to calm wealthy Robertson Lambert, the missing boy's frantic father. Barker demands a $200,000 r... | murder | train | wikipedia | Juicy Slice of Thick Ear. The early 1950's witnessed a number of high profile kidnappings of wealthy offspring, the most notorious being the Greenlease grab in Kansas City for which the perpetrators were executed and the arresting detectives jailed for stealing the ransom money!
And a good little kidnapping and prison ... |
tt0066065 | Medea | The first half sums up the story of Jason and the Argonauts as they travel to Medea's barbarian land in search of the golden fleece. In fitting with the soundtrack (which features Iranian classic music, Japanese traditional music and other folklore pieces), Pasolini depicts Medea's people as a tribal people who perform... | tragedy, cult, murder, romantic | train | wikipedia | I first saw Medea in college and was highly critical of it, finding it disappointing on almost all counts: terrible sound editing, cheap film stock, over bright lighting, bizarre, amateurish acting styles, inadequately edited, etc.
Did someone get the wrong reel into the house?Another ten years went by before I watched... |
tt1572491 | Balada triste de trompeta | In 1937, Republican Militia force a circus troupe to fight on their side in the Spanish Civil War. The Funny Clown (Santiago Segura) slaughters dozens of Nationalist troops, armed only with a machete, before being shot and disarmed. While his fellow troupe members are executed, the Funny Clown is sentenced to work as a... | revenge, comedy, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0025948 | Viva Villa! | After seeing his poor father lose his land and be whipped to death for protesting, young Pancho Villa stabs one of the killers, then heads off into the hills of Chihuahua, Mexico during the 1880s. As a grown man, Villa and a band of rebel bandits, including his trusted ally Sierra, kill wealthy landowners and become he... | revenge, murder, historical fiction | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0027630 | Follow the Fleet | Seaman "Bake" Baker (Fred Astaire) and Sherry (Ginger Rogers) are former dance partners, now separated, with Baker in the Navy and Sherry working as a dance hostess in a San Francisco ballroom, Paradise.
Bake visits the ballroom with his Navy buddy "Bilge" (Randolph Scott) during a period of liberty, reuniting with She... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Although in this case like that Jerome Kern confection Roberta that they were in, Follow the Fleet retained Randolph Scott with another singer, this time Harriet Hilliard.Randolph Scott is a career Navy CPO and Fred Astaire is an ex-vaudevillian who enlisted in the Navy to forget Ginger Rogers his former partner.
This ... |
tt0084133 | Incubus | In a lake at a rock quarry, a young woman named Mandy and her boyfriend, Ray, are swimming. The two spend the night at the lake camping, but are attacked by an unseen figure; Ray is killed, and Mandy is taken to the hospital with a ruptured uterus and serious trauma. As the attack occurs, teenager Tim Galen experiences... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | Shocking, well-made chiller is an undervalued tale of atrocious murder and evil forces.Small town doctor tries to discover who, or what, is committing a series of violent sexual murders.Incubus is a tight mystery, with some horrific murder sequences, that builds to an off-beat and eerie climatic twist.
The direction of... |
tt1519931 | Haven | A corrupt and greedy businessman, Carl Ridley (Bill Paxton), is running from the government, with his 18-year-old daughter Pippa (Agnes Bruckner) in tow. Pippa is not happy to leave her friends and comfortable life in Miami for the Cayman Islands.
Arriving in the islands, Ridley is preoccupied. Banks are rapidly closin... | paranormal | train | wikipedia | For any individual who loved the good old classic Twilight Zone episodes, or spent hours before Marathons of X-Files, for every kid who grew up on those wonderfully imaginative Sci-Fi comic books, or embroiled themselves in an unfolding mystery - Haven is for you.
I don't have cable, so I'm not really familiar with a l... |
tt0316188 | Raising Victor Vargas | Victor is a teenager growing up in the Lower East Side of New York City. He is a cocky young man, very sure of himself in his love life. He lives in a small apartment with his strict grandmother, bratty sister Vicki, and his younger brother Nino, who is just coming into his own sexuality and looks up to his girl-crazy ... | romantic, humor, realism | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0025458 | The Man on the Flying Trapeze | Ambrose Wolfinger works as a "memory expert" for a manufacturing company's president; he keeps files of details about all the people President Malloy (Oscar Apfel) meets with, so that Malloy will never be embarrassed about not remembering things when meeting with them. Ambrose supports himself, his shrewish wife Leona ... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | A Singing Popeye Cartoon.
This is an unusual Popeye cartoon in that 98 percent of the dialog is sung - and all of it one song: "The Daring Young Man On The Flying Trepeze." It gets to be a little much after awhile and I'm glad this sort of thing wasn't the normal fare.
In fact, I don't if it ever was done again in a Po... |
tt0836682 | Nocturna | In the aging orphanage, the days pass very uneventfully, but the nights are something quite different; at least for Tim they are. The light reflected from the stars is the only cure for his fear of the dark.
The other kids get mad at Tim after he refuses to retrieve a ball that fell into the basement, due to the darkne... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | The stars at night are big and bright....
It's always nice to accidentally stumble upon a movie that didn't get the praise and recognition it rightly deserved in the first place.
It's even nicer when it's animated.The story starts with Tim, a night-time fearing orphan who takes great refuge with mother nature's night-l... |
tt0051383 | Auntie Mame | Patrick Dennis (Jan Handzlik), orphaned in 1928 when his father unexpectedly dies, is placed in the care of Mame Dennis (Rosalind Russell), his father's sister in Manhattan. Mame is a flamboyant, exuberant woman, who hosts frequent parties with eclectic, bohemian guests. Patrick is quickly introduced to his aunt's free... | queer | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0072867 | I Don't Want to Be Born | Lucy (Collins) is working as a dancer in a sleazy strip joint. Her stage act includes a routine with a dwarf named Hercules (George Claydon). One night after the show, she invites Hercules into her dressing-room for a drink. He declines the drink but starts to rub Lucy's neck and shoulders. Lucy feels uncomfortable but... | paranormal, revenge | train | wikipedia | Joan Collins (?!) plays a woman (good show) who's given birth to an "evil" child, who spends the film apparently viciously assaulting people whilst those of the religious faith find it all terribly intriguing.
The scenes of the aforementioned child attacking people are usually quite laughable, usually comprising of som... |
tt0077525 | Like Father, Like Son | Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman who is focused so much on work that he neglects his wife, Midori, and son, Keita. Upon his return home one day, Midori tells him that the hospital where Keita was born needs to speak to them urgently, and Ryota senses trouble. After arriving at the hospital, the couple learns ... | cruelty, murder, violence, cult, flashback, romantic, tragedy, revenge, sadist | train | wikipedia | Three minutes of non-stop violence, no dialog (not that it needs any), the infamous "urinal scene" and all accompanied by a VERY catchy little song about being in love?!
Finally I get to see The Executioner, on a Danish-subtitled bootleg of all things (and FYI I guess certain bad words don't translate well into Danish;... |
tt0031514 | Le jour se lève | Foundry worker François (Jean Gabin) shoots and kills Valentin (Jules Berry). François then locks himself in his apartment. He is soon besieged by the police, who fail in an attempt to shoot their way into the room. As they regroup to decide how to apprehend him, François begins to reminisce on how he came to be in thi... | tragedy, melodrama, murder, sadist, flashback | train | wikipedia | Marcel Carné movies often were visually a real pleasure to watch and this movie forms no exception on this.It's also a movie that quite heavily relies on its actors to tell its story and to deliver its great dialog, that got specially written by poet scenarist and songwriter Jacques Prévert.
There is something so lyric... |
tt0011742 | Sumurun | A company of travelling performers arrive at a fictional oriental city. It includes the beautiful dancer Janaia, the hunchback clown Yeggar who is lovesick for Janaia and the Old Lady who loves Yeggar. The Slave Trader Achmed wants to sell Janaia to the Sheik for his harem. At the Palace, the Sheik finds out that his f... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | In the Orient, a troupe arrives in a village and the hunchback Yeggar (Ernst Lubitsch) is in love with the dancer Yannaia (Pola Negri), who is desired by every men.
However, Yannaia has been invited by the slave trader Achmed (Paul Biensfeldt) and is enthusiastic to join the harem of the cruel and tyrannical Old Sheik ... |
tt0079963 | Suhaag | The story is about Raj (Akshay Kumar) & Ajay (Ajay Devgan) who are best friends studying in the same college. Madhu (Nagma) & Pooja (Karisma Kapoor) are their respective girlfriends. Raj is from a rich family. He stays with his uncle (Gufi Paintal) as his father (Dalip Tahil) lives in another town. Ajay Sharma was born... | good versus evil, romantic | train | wikipedia | Amitabh-Shashi-manmohan Desai create magic. Do u know that all twins born are not identical? But if one follows Hindi movies he/she is expected to believe that all twins born are identical.So it is quite surprising to see a film-maker actually showing the concept of non-identical twins in a hindi movie and when u come... |
tt0123122 | It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown | It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown takes the form of a musical, presenting a series of different songs. The program does not have a strong unifying plot.
The program begins with Snoopy defeating Peppermint Patty at football, followed by an opening credits sequence in which the dog takes out a boom box and dances to the ti... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Oh my goodness....
...did I ever love this Peanuts special (I was 2-3, what more could you expect?).
I remember renting it God only knows how many times on video with 'She's A Good Skate, Charlie Brown' after it.
I was the biggest Snoopy fan on earth (still love him dearly)!
I remember wearing my spandex Snoopy exercis... |
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