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tt0042290 | Bunker Hill Bunny | Bugs, dressed as an American Minuteman defending a wooden fort against the red-coated Sam von Schamm (or Schmamm), the Hessian, defending a large stone fortress. Sam's fortress is heavily armored, bristling with artillery; by contrast, Bugs' defenses are rather pathetic, with only one cannon.
Regardless, Sam is the onl... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Bugs And Sam Fight It Out In 1776.
It's 1776 and the Revolutionary War is on.
No, it's not "Bunker Hill," as the graphic first shows.
It's not "Yorktown," it's the "Battle of Bagle Heights." (Okaaay.)Anyway, the "battle" is strictly between two contestants, the only ones at each fort.
Yosemite Sam, known in this pictur... |
tt0023731 | 20,000 Years in Sing Sing | Cocky Tommy Connors (Spencer Tracy) is sentenced from 5 to 30 years in Sing Sing for robbery and assault with a deadly weapon. His associate, Joe Finn (Louis Calhern), promises to use his contacts and influence to get him freed long before that, but his attempt to bribe the warden to provide special treatment is met wi... | murder | train | wikipedia | A good entry in the early prison-drama cycle.Spencer Tracy is good as the cocky inmate.Arthur Byron has an unusual part as the sympathetic warden of Sing Sing.There aren't too many of them in movies.The action sequences in the movie are expertly handled by Curtiz.Bette Davis does a good job in a small part.Louis Calher... |
tt0042899 | Rocky Mountain | A car pulls up to an historical marker in the desert that reads:
ROCKY MOUNTAIN, also known as Ghost Mountain. On March 26, 1865, a detachment of Confederate cavalry crossed the state line into California under secret orders from Gen. Robert E. Lee to rendezvous at Ghost Mountain with one Cole Smith, with instructions ... | violence | train | wikipedia | It is realistic and reminiscent of "Little Big Horn", starring John Ireland and Lloyd Bridges.As a confederate officer fighting a lost war, Errol and his companions save stranded stage coach travelers from Indians on the warpath.
It's often a miracle there's any scenery left uneaten to finish the movie with!"Rocky Moun... |
tt0368563 | Possession | A newly separated couple Clyde (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and Stephanie Brenek (Kyra Sedgwick) live in different homes. After Clyde picks up their two children, Emily "Em" (Natasha Calis) and Hannah (Madison Davenport), for the weekend, they stop at a yard sale where Em becomes intrigued by an old wooden box that has Hebrew... | murder | train | wikipedia | this time around, I was most disappointed, expecting from the DVD sleeve promotion and the very title of the film, a demonic horror thriller.
No such thing.Another love triangle involving a young woman and two brothers, this is a soppy sentimental love story but I can see where people are coming from in thinking the hu... |
tt0064449 | How to Commit Marriage | Nancy, the 19-year-old daughter of Frank and Elaine Benson (Bob Hope and Jane Wyman), wants to marry David (Tim Matheson), the 20-year-old son of Oliver Poe (Jackie Gleason). What the bride doesn't know is that her parents are about to get a divorce.
Poe, a music promoter, has a hunch something is amiss. He doesn't wan... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0044466 | California Conquest | Don Arturo Bordega (Cornel Wilde) is part of the old Spanish nobility, and a vocal advocate for California'a annexation by the United States. On his way to a secret meeting in support of that goal, he is attacked by bandits led by José Martínez (Alfonso Bedoya), but narrowly escapes. The planned "guest of honor" at the... | violence, action, historical fiction | train | wikipedia | "Historical" Piece - rule over California. California Conquest tells the story of the battle for rule of what will eventually become a state, when gold is found here later. Teresa Wright does a good job as the daughter of a settler who is determined to get her married off to famed explorer John Fremont. As someone else... |
tt0103926 | Careful | Careful is set in Tolzbad, a fictional mountain town under constant threat of devastating avalanches that can be triggered by any loud noise or even a too-large expression of emotion. The people of Tolzbad suppress their emotions as much as possible, living in constant vigilance against losing self-control. An opening ... | comedy, avant garde, bleak, cult, absurd, psychedelic, melodrama | train | wikipedia | Guy Maddin's brilliant and hilarious (particularly for early film buffs) `Careful.' The plot and style of this film have been well explained by other commentaries on this page and elsewhere, so there's no need to go over it again.
In a spoken commentary track with Maddin and screenwriter George Toles (new to this DVD,... |
tt0035799 | Destination Tokyo | On Christmas Eve, the submarine USS Copperfin, under the command of Captain Cassidy (Cary Grant), departs San Francisco on a secret mission. At sea, Cassidy opens his sealed orders, which direct him to proceed first to the Aleutian Islands to pick up meteorologist Raymond (John Ridgely), then to Tokyo Bay to obtain vit... | flashback | train | wikipedia | This movie is a great example of a thriller, not looking to be a non-fiction account of a WWII sub, just a great story with a group of true professionals.
Cary Grant was so compelling in this role that Tony Curtis said he based his famous part in Some Like It Hot on Cary Grant's performance in this picture, and that Cu... |
tt0449010 | Eragon | Arya, elf princess of Ellesméra, runs for her life, carrying a strange stone. A Shade (dark sorcerer) called Durza, subordinate of king Galbatorix, pursues and corners Arya, who uses magic to send the stone away.
Eragon, a farm boy living in the country of Alagaësia with his uncle, is hunting for food when he comes acr... | good versus evil, cult, fantasy, action | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0035774 | Daffy - The Commando | A German commander – Von Vultur – is tempestuously pacing back and forth while fuming and spluttering furiously about how many American commandos have managed to slip into Germany undetected, while a snippet from Wagner's Das Rheingold plays on the soundtrack. He gets a telegram from the "Gestinko Gestapo", threatening... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | This is a good cartoon, and a good example of wartime humor - which by 1943, when the war was really beginning to bite back home in the US, had quite an edge.The phone booth gag is "Is that you, Mert?" a fossilized gag phrase from the period, taken from "Fibber McGee and Molly".
If you like old cartoons, it helps to be... |
tt0028054 | The Old Corral | After witnessing nightclub owner Tony Pearl murdered by gangster Mike Scarlotti (John Bradford), blues singer Eleanor Spenser (Irene Manning) flees Chicago and heads West on a bus. Soon her picture appears in newspapers across the country. The bus makes a stop in Turquoise City, New Mexico, where Martin Simms (Corneliu... | violence | train | wikipedia | Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and .
Only a year after starring in the action serial THE PHANTOM EMPIRE, Gene Autry was already a singing cowboy star.
In this film he costars with sidekick Smiley Burnette and a young Roy Rogers, who does not get individual billing but is grouped along with the Sons of the Pioneers.
A highpoint... |
tt0259393 | Lantana | An unknown woman's body is seen caught in the lantana bush, missing a shoe. Leon (Anthony LaPaglia), a police officer, and Jane (Rachael Blake) have sex in a motel room. They part ways, and we see that Leon and his wife Sonja (Kerry Armstrong) attend Latin dance classes that the recently-separated Jane is also taking. ... | realism, romantic, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | In this starkly realistic examination of love and infidelity among the thirtysomething crowd from down under we learn that you may desire to cheat on your spouse, but it's better if you don't.Leon Zat, a police detective played with an original and striking demeanor by Anthony LaPaglia, cheats on his wife and finds tha... |
tt0060288 | Deadlier Than the Male | Glamorous assassin Irma Eckman (Elke Sommer), disguised as an air stewardess, kills oil tycoon Henry Keller (Dervis Ward) with a booby-trapped cigar aboard his private jet, parachuting away before the plane explodes. She is picked up by a speedboat driven by her partner in crime, the equally beautiful Penelope (Sylva K... | cult, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt4122886 | Day One | When Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard leaves Europe he eventually arrives in the United States where, with the help of Albert Einstein, he persuades the Federal government to build an atomic bomb. General Leslie Groves selects physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to head the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico, where the bom... | suspenseful | train | wikipedia | Hard to Watch but Impressive Short.
Day One (2015) *** 1/2 (out of 4) Of all the live action Oscar nominated shorts this one here from Henry Hughes is certainly the most unpleasant.
It deals with a woman named Feda (Layla Alizada) who is on her first tour in Afghanistan working as an interpreter.
She ends up at the hom... |
tt0226243 | Omikron: The Nomad Soul | === Setting ===
Omikron: The Nomad Soul is set in a futuristic city known as Omikron, which is a densely populated metropolis on the world of Phaenon, the second planet of the star Rad'an. At the start of the game, players are asked by an Omikronian police officer named Kay'l 669 to leave their dimension and enter Omik... | sci-fi | train | wikipedia | Okay so maybe I am just biased by my unending adoration for David Bowie but I am also a big fan of great games and this is one.
Interesting plot to this RPG that is not overdone.
The music and scenarios are unique from every other game I have played.
Lovely :).
Awesome game, here's why.
Omikron: The Nomad Soul will alw... |
tt0272020 | The Last Castle | Lieutenant General Eugene Irwin (Robert Redford) is brought to a maximum security military prison to begin a ten-year sentence for his decision (in violation of a presidential order) to send U.S. troops on a mission in Burundi, resulting in the deaths of eight soldiers. Colonel Winter (James Gandolfini), the prison's c... | violence, murder, sadist | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0061015 | Spinout | Mike McCoy (Elvis), the lead singer for a traveling band who is also a part-time race car driver, enjoys his carefree single life, which is threatened by three different women who seek to marry him.
Enter Cynthia Foxhugh (Shelley Fabares), a spoiled heiress and "daddy's girl", who is determined to get what she wants, n... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Elvis Presley spent most of the 1960s making fluffy lightweight romantic comedies with music, all constructed on a studio assembly line during the waning days of the old Hollywood studio system.
Having said that, some of these films were more tolerable than others.SPINOUT, made at MGM, is one of the most entertaining t... |
tt0961728 | The Escapist | Denis Hopkins (Jonny Lee Miller) seems to have the perfect life, a job as a pilot, a beautiful home and wife Valerie (Paloma Baeza) who is expecting their first child. One night, Denis and Valerie's home is broken into by a borderline psychotic thief named Ricky Barnes (Andy Serkis) who shoots and kills Valerie, coldly... | flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0047969 | Daddy Long Legs | A police offiL
cer finds a baby in a trash can, and Mrs. Lippett, the cruel matron at an orphanage where children are made to work, names her "Jerusha Abbott" (she picks "Abbott" out of a phone book and gets "Jerusha" from a tombstone). The orphan, who comes to be called Judy, does what she can to stand up for the youn... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0369672 | A Love Song for Bobby Long | Following the death of her mother from a drug overdose, eighteen-year-old Purslane (Pursy) Hominy Will (Johansson) leaves a Florida trailer park, where she lives with an abusive boyfriend, to return to her hometown of New Orleans. Her mother Lorraine was a jazz singer, whom Pursy felt neglected her for her career. Purs... | storytelling, melodrama | train | wikipedia | If you like movies that are character driven, then this is one for you to watch.I have never seen Scarlett Johanssen in anything before.
Gabriel Macht also does a good job as Lawson Pines, Bobby Long's former teaching assistant who has accompanied Long into his descent out of a sense of loyalty and guilt.Perhaps the mo... |
tt0349416 | Eulogy | The film opens with Kate Collins walking up to a house. She knocks and a woman answers the door. Kate explains that although she doesn't know her she has a long story to explain.
The story begins with the death of her grandfather, Edmund Collins. The movie then goes on to show how all the family members found out about... | comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0095452 | Kingsajz | Olo Jedlina (Olo is informal for Olgierd) was born a little person, and while serving the government of Drawerland he is permitted to visit Kingsajz. However, after getting few drops of a potion that made him human-sized he decides to stay in Kingsajz for good and by drinking a human soda drink called Polo-Cockta regul... | psychedelic, fantasy | train | wikipedia | one of the freakiest but best movies I've seen. I don't know what it is about Communism and its impact on Polish minds, but any art influenced by a hatred of it comes out awesome. Kingsajz (King Size) is another one of Machulski's satirical masterpieces. Though this movie is brilliant and slightly eerie without any bac... |
tt0465670 | Wilderness | The film starts with the arrival of Callum at a small juvenile facility ran by Jed and consists of Steve, Blue, Jethro, Lindsay, Davie, and Lewis. It is implied that the group gives Davie and Lindsay a hard time. After Steve and Louis get back at the two by urinating on them, Callum discovers Davie has killed himself. ... | revenge, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | It seems strange that there is on one prison guard with this group of about ten juvenile offenders out on a supposedly deserted island and the killer seems almost too effective is dispatching his prey although to be fair it works for the movie in terms of the scariness of the villain and some explanation is provided fo... |
tt0040141 | B.F.'s Daughter | Polly Fulton (Barbara Stanwyck) is the only daughter of rich industrialist B.F. Fulton (Charles Coburn). She is involved in a long engagement to lawyer Bob Tasmin (Richard Hart), a pleasant, dependable gentleman who has the full approval of her family. Then she meets brash intellectual Tom Brett (Van Heflin), who blame... | depressing | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1423894 | Barney's Version | Barney Panofsky (Giamatti) is living with his best friend Boogie (Speedman) in Rome. He marries the mentally disturbed and unfaithful Clara Charnofsky (Lefevre) after she tells him she is pregnant with his child. Barney later finds out the child is not his, and he demands they separate. Clara commits suicide, and a dev... | entertaining, realism, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0103600 | 555 | While making out on the beach, a couple is attacked by a blade-wielding man dressed like a hippie. After beheading the man with a machete, the hippie slashes the woman to death with a dagger, then sexually assaults her corpse. Charged with solving "the Lake Front Butcher" murders (as the media have dubbed them) are Ser... | violence | train | wikipedia | Extremely rare slasher that's slightly different than other films of its kind....
555 is an extremely rare, SOV (shot on video) slasher flick from the 80s that brings something a little different to the table.
The plot concerns a cross-dresser serial killer who kills his victims on the 5th day, of the 5th movie, of the... |
tt1091229 | Chandni Chowk to China | Sidhu (Akshay Kumar) is a lowly vegetable cutter at a roadside food stall in the Chandni Chowk section of Delhi, who consults astrologers, tarot card readers, and fake fakirs despite his foster father Dada's (Mithun Chakraborty) exhortations. When two strangers from China claim him as a reincarnation of war hero 'Liu S... | stupid | train | wikipedia | I think Chandi Chowk to China is a great film and it is fun to watch.
Akshay Kumar is just funny as hell in this film, playing his character Sidhu is just lol.
Director Nikhil Advani and Akshay Kumar are the real stars that have made it a pleasant and interesting movie.
It's really a great entertainer.Akshay Kumar who ... |
tt0104822 | Martial Law | The basic storyline is that Sammo Law, a well-respected Chinese cop, is transferred to America. As he works for the police department, fighting crime in Los Angeles, he is met with a clash in culture. He is also the mentor of Grace "Pei Pei" Chen, an undercover officer. When American techniques do not work, Sammo emplo... | revenge, cult, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt4707940 | Miss Tanakpur Haazir Ho | Sualaal is head of the village, Tanakpur. He is wealthy, chauvinist & impotent. He has married at a late age & his wife Maya is much younger to him. They tend to ignore each other. Arjun a young lad of the village, wins her heart & they meet when Sualaal is not around. Arjun's father gives him lifetime's saving so that... | comedy, satire | train | wikipedia | As Good As Political Satire Can Get.
♦ Grade C+.
There's enough realism in the script or at least in its loud inspiration to watch this comedy drama that speaks volumes about the backward mindset in rural India.Arjun (Rahul Bagga) is a loafer who is falling in love with Maya (Hrishitaa Bhatt), a young and beautiful wom... |
tt0347332 | Khakee | Maharashtra Police seizes a large quantity of arms from a house in the communal riot torn town of Chandigarh. The house belongs to Dr. Iqbal Ansari (Atul Kulkarni), a Muslim doctor. The police conclude that he is an agent for ISI, and is responsible for engineering the riots. Ansari is arrested and is set to be present... | revenge, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | The script was pretty cliched and the melodrama and machismo were turned up way too high (actually *everything* was turned up way too high!), but I found it involving and compelling.The production values in the film are extremely high, and it seems that Indian action scenes have really got a lot better over the past fe... |
tt0037702 | Flame of Barbary Coast | Naive Montana cowboy Duke Fergus (John Wayne) arrives in San Francisco and visits the notorious Barbary Coast. He becomes smitten with the lovely star attraction of the fanciest gambling hall, "Flaxen" Tarry (Ann Dvorak), the "Flame of the Barbary Coast". He gets talked into gambling against the owner (and Flaxen's lov... | violence, romantic | train | wikipedia | Flame of Barbary Coast finds John Wayne as a visiting cowboy from Montana who makes and loses a fortune in a night and goes home busted.
He also finds the love of his life in Ann Dvorak, an entertainer at Joseph Schildkraut's place on the Barbary Coast.Schildkraut figures that Dvorak is his personal property.
As this i... |
tt0126234 | Chamatkar | Sunder Srivastava (Shah Rukh Khan) is a young graduate. His main ambition in life is to fulfil his father's dream of starting a school on his half-acre property in his village, though he has no funds to execute his plans. Sunder's childhood friend Prem, a seasoned conman in Mumbai, convinces the gullible Sunder to mort... | flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0041532 | The Judge | Hank Palmer (Robert Downey Jr.) is a successful defense attorney in Chicago who has been estranged from his family in a small town in Indiana for some time. While in court, he receives a call telling him his mother has died. As he leaves to fly to his hometown of Carlinville, it is revealed that Hank is going through a... | insanity, intrigue, murder | train | wikipedia | quirky crime drama, well-acted by Milburn Stone.
One of the last films directed by the great Elmer Clifton, whose career dates back to the mid-teens and D.W.Griffith, The Judge was also the first production of Ida Lupino's production company, first called Emerald Productions, later called The Filmmakers.This is a quirk... |
tt0120479 | Warriors of Virtue | Ryan Jeffers suffers a disability to his leg preventing him from trying out for sports and fitting in with other kids at school. He is currently the waterboy of his school's football team and has a crush on quarterback Brad's girlfriend. He often seeks escape through comic books and dreams of adventure, hiding the depr... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0939235 | Fallen Angel | Eric Stanton (Andrews), a down-on-his-luck drifter, gets pulled off a bus in the hamlet of Walton because he does not have the $2.25 extra fare to take him to San Francisco. He finds a greasy spoon called Pop's Eats, where Pop (Percy Kilbride) is worried about waitress Stella because she has not shown up for work for d... | revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0036038 | In Old Oklahoma | Eastern school teacher Catherine Allen becomes notorious in 1906 when it is learned that she has authored a romance novel. She decides to move West and begin a new life.
On the train, oil man Jim Gardner makes a pass at her. Catherine asks a cowboy, Dan Somers, to sit nearby as a safety measure. Both are on their way t... | violence | train | wikipedia | I thought Duke did quite well with the light comedy in the first part of the film before getting tough later on.
And he looks as good as he ever did.I liked the opening scene as the camera panned along the train interior catching the comments of the passengers - including, I'm sure, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams who had a f... |
tt0032993 | Road to Singapore | Josh Mallon (Bing Crosby) and Ace Lannigan (Bob Hope) are best friends and work aboard the same ship. As their ship returns to the US after a long voyage, they see all the other sailors being mistreated by their wives and girlfriends, and the two friends pledge never to get involved with women again. Unfortunately, thi... | romantic | train | wikipedia | That was the original casting that Paramount originally had for this first of the Road pictures.You can tell that they did not have a series in mind because the billing was Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, and then Bob Hope.
But when you see Crosby and Hope trying to land a fish and later on singing the Captain Custard son... |
tt1119191 | The Killing Room | Four individuals sign up for a psychological research study only to discover that they are now subjects of a brutal, modern version of the Project MKULTRA indoctrination program. One by one, the subjects are brought into a large, white room, in which the tables and chairs have been bolted to the floor.
They are each gi... | psychological, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | Let me start by saying that a lot of what you're about to read may seem like spoilers, but all of the following plot information is given within the first 10 minutes of the movie.In this movie, the CIA's secret "MK-Ultra" mind-control experiments of the '70s (which really did occur) seem to still be in operation.
This ... |
tt0060390 | Fahrenheit 451 | In the future, a totalitarian government employs a force known as Firemen to seek out and destroy all literature, permitting them to search anyone, anywhere, at any time. One of the Firemen, Guy Montag (Oskar Werner), meets one of his neighbors, Clarisse (Julie Christie), a 20-year-old schoolteacher whose job is hangin... | psychedelic, satire, murder | train | wikipedia | However, one fireman realizes that what he is doing is wrong and decides to go against the degenerate society he lives in.I have read reviews of this movie calling it "boring" and "outdated," and frankly I am amazed by how ignorant some people can be.
The people who made this were not trying to give you a spectacle, th... |
tt0248190 | No Such Thing | Beatrice (Sarah Polley) is a young woman working in a media center under a woman known only as The Boss (Helen Mirren). She receives a recording from her fiancé Jim, who has been sent as part of a small production crew to Iceland to investigate a Monster that lives there. Determined to find her fiancé, Beatrice convinc... | allegory, comedy, fantasy, cruelty, storytelling | train | wikipedia | Imagine that the original "Outer Limits" folks remade "King Kong" in their standard monster style and you have a good idea of "No Such Thing's" look and feel.
Then throw in a little "Mighty Joe Young" banter, "Beauty and the Beast fashions", and "The Song of Bernadette" for good measure.The film is a stylistic masterpi... |
tt2751310 | Sex Ed | Ed Cole (Haley Joel Osment) feels like he is letting his life go by without him. He leaves his job at a bagel shop and works as an after-school detention teacher after impressing the principal (Matt Walsh). He moves out of his apartment, allowing his roommate JT (Glen Powell) to engage in kinky sex with his girlfriend ... | boring, adult comedy | train | wikipedia | Let's get this out of the way first: yes, Haley Joel Osment looks-wise isn't the kid who sees dead people or even his 16-year old self in the wonderful "Secondhand Lions".
is he a really good actor.He carries this movie, he makes what could be a one-note or creepy character come alive.
It helps that he has a terrific s... |
tt0030601 | Porky & Daffy | It all starts at the home of Daffy Duck and Porky Pig. Porky's relationship with Daffy is strained, as he is a lazy sloth. Porky has found an ad inviting all comers to take on a boxing rooster named The Champ. Porky has trouble waking Daffy up, but eventually does so by clanging a dinner platter over his head. This cau... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0067128 | Get Carter | Newcastle-born gangster Jack Carter has lived in London for years in the employ of organised crime bosses Gerald and Sid Fletcher. Jack is sleeping with Gerald's girlfriend Anna and plans to escape with her to South America. But first he must return to Newcastle and Gateshead to attend the funeral of his brother Frank,... | cult, revenge, neo noir, murder | train | wikipedia | Michael Caine stars as Jack Carter, a tough no nonsense operator in the London underworld who returns to his home town of Newcastle Upon Tyne when his brother turns up dead.
Yet Jack is not devoid of heartfelt emotion, his family ties are strong, and there is a point in the film when Jack sheds a tear, it is then when ... |
tt0086017 | No habrá más penas ni olvido | Ricardo Guglielmini is the mayor of Colonia Vela, a small country village in an undisclosed province of central Argentina. He plots with Héctor Suprino, a local Peronist spin doctor, and Reinaldo, a union leader, to get the town's deputy mayor, Ignacio Fuentes, kicked out of office, due to his increasing popularity, wh... | violence, comedy, satire, murder | train | wikipedia | Examines Basis Of Modern Argentine Politics.. Based on a satire by novelist Osvaldo Soriano, this bitter work is also set in the author's abstract rural Argentine village of Colonial Vela in 1974, the year of Juan Perón's death, and is intended as an allegory relating to events that led to a military takeover of the go... |
tt0313670 | Sweet Sixteen | In a few weeks, Scottish teenager Liam will turn 16. The film opens with him using his tripod-mounted telescope outdoors on a clear night to show other children the stars and planets. He and his friends exemplify the violent "ned" subculture; they no longer attend school, but instead, hang around isolated areas or wand... | realism | train | wikipedia | Somescenes are very unnerving and hard to watch simply because thehazing and degradation that the fifteen-year-old characters endureis at the hands of people who behave like insecure playgroundbullies, but are members of a powerful organized crime force.Even though I'm pretty close to the age of the main character, I c... |
tt0076760 | Starship Invasions | The plot concerns the black-clad Legion of the Winged Serpent, a rogue group of human-like telepathic aliens led by Captain Rameses (Christopher Lee). The Legion's home planet Alpha in the Orion constellation is about to be destroyed in the imminent supernova of its star, and Rameses is leading a small force of flying ... | good versus evil, cult, violence | train | wikipedia | I have to agree with the people who say this movie's bad, but disagree with the ones who say it isn't so bad it's good.
In this movie a guy uses a 70s style pocket calculator to compute flightpaths for a flying saucer.
For god's sake DON'T MAKE THEM ANGRY!!" And the robots who look like trash cans...And the sadistic ki... |
tt0085475 | Eddie and the Cruisers | A television reporter named Maggie Foley (Ellen Barkin) investigates the mysterious disappearance of legendary rock star Eddie Wilson (Michael Paré). Flashbacks dramatize Eddie's life and the rise and fall of his rock and roll band, Eddie and the Cruisers.
The band gets its start at a Somers Point, New Jersey club call... | cult | train | wikipedia | The underlying premise of the film, that there was, indeed, a definitive crossover point between the innocent early rock and roll music of the 1950's and the deeper coming of age sounds of the mid to late sixties is quite real.
However, this IS good.It features solid music by John Cafferty, whose "The Dark Side," is pl... |
tt0029501 | Round-Up Time in Texas | After rounding up a large herd of horses in Texas, Gene Autry (Gene Autry) receives a telegram from his brother Tex (Ken Cooper), who is mining diamonds in South Africa. The message states that Tex and his partner, Edward Barclay, have discovered a big strike in the Valley of Suspicion and urges Gene to bring as many h... | comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0049005 | Beyond Mombasa | Matt Campbell (Cornel Wilde) arrives in Kenya, where his brother George is reported missing. A man named Ralph Hoyt (Leo Genn) tells him that George has been killed by members of the "Leopard Men" cult.
Matt is introduced to Hoyt's niece, Ann Wilson (Donna Reed), an anthropologist, who is puzzled by Matt's reluctance t... | insanity, murder | train | wikipedia | BEYOND MOMBASA (George Marshall, 1956) **1/2.
African adventures were constant entertainment fodder throughout the 1950s and beyond, where many a popular star took on the jungle with its wild animals and (often) equally hostile natives; in this case, it was strapping Cornel Wilde – rather ill-at-ease, however, playing ... |
tt0106918 | The Firm | Clive Bissel (nicknamed "Bex", or "Bexy") is a married man with a baby son. He is the leader of a hooligan firm known as the ICC (Inter City Crew). His wife no longer approves of his activities as a football hooligan, which contrast to his respectable job as an estate agent. Even when his baby son injures himself with ... | suspenseful, mystery, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | The lives of Mitch and his wife Abby (Jeanne Triplehorn) are completely and drastically changed when he is hired by the firm, setting up a disorienting atmosphere, especially when strange things start happening, people getting killed by boat bombs and whatnot.
Ed Harris also delivers a good performance as an FBI agent ... |
tt1390398 | Bless Me, Ultima | Set in the small town of Guadalupe, New Mexico just after World War II, Antonio Márez y Luna (Tony) tells his story from the memories of his adult self, who reflects on his growing up. The novel opens as the protagonist, Antonio, approaches the age of seven when his family decides to house Ultima, an elderly curandera.... | good versus evil, magical realism | train | wikipedia | I like the way that in the book for Bless Me, Ultima they really show dichotomy between Antonio's Mom and Dad. Maria wanting Antonio to follow his Luna blood line and Gabriel wanting him to follow his Marez blood.
They did a great job of making this movie and show the conflicts in Antonio's life when he was young.
The ... |
tt1866249 | The Sessions | In Berkeley, California in 1988, Mark O'Brien is a poet who is forced to live in an iron lung due to complications from polio. Due to his condition, he has never had sex. After unsuccessfully proposing to his caretaker Amanda, and sensing he may be near death, he decides he wants to lose his virginity. After consulting... | flashback, revenge, humor, dramatic, home movie | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0045822 | Give a Girl a Break | When the temperamental star of a new Broadway musical revue in rehearsals walks out, director and choreographer Ted Sturgis (Gower Champion) suggests casting an unknown for the role. When it is announced in the newspapers, throngs of hopefuls show up. They sing about their hopes in the song, "Give a Girl a Break." The ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | 'Give a Girl a Break' deserves to be better known; it's certainly not one of MGM's greatest musicals, but it has many bright spots and some pleasant tunes by Burton Lane with excellent lyrics by Ira Gershwin.
Modern viewers will probably be most interested in Bob Fosse's excellent performance, in a supporting role.Some... |
tt0116191 | Emma | Inventor Frederick Smith's wife dies during the birth of their fourth baby, Ronnie, leaving the family in the care of their faithful housekeeper Emma. Twenty years later, after Smith's inventions have made the family rich, the affable Ronnie, who is Emma's favorite, arrives home from college, announcing that he wants t... | romantic, comedy, satire, entertaining | train | wikipedia | I was so impressed with Doug McGrath's film version of the Jane Austen novel "Emma," and I loved the music score by Rachel Portman so much, that when I went to the video store one day and discovered the two had re-united for "Nicholas Nickleby" I immediately rented it without any other consideration.I have read the boo... |
tt0089488 | The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus | === Infancy, youth, and motivation ===
Santa Claus, as a baby, is found in the Forest of Burzee by Ak, the Master Woodsman of the World (a supreme immortal), and placed in the care of the lioness Shiegra; but thereupon adopted by the Wood Nymph, Necile.
Upon reaching young adulthood, Claus is introduced by Ak to human ... | flashback | train | wikipedia | I thought this was a beautiful and surreal stop motion animated film.
I thought it was beautifully done by the Rankin / Bass people- who brought us such classics as Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, The Little Drummer Boy, Frosty the snow man, among many other holiday specials.
Frank Baum, author of The Wizard of Oz. In ... |
tt0083951 | The Flight of Dragons | In an age of medieval fantasy populated by fantastic creatures, the Green Wizard Carolinus, who presides over nature, notices that magic is fading from the world as humanity embraces logic and science instead. Summoning his three magical brothers, he proposes combining their powers to create a "last realm of magic" hid... | good versus evil, cult, fantasy, magical realism | train | wikipedia | What I got was a most profound experience.A land ruled by magic is brought to a perilous crossroads, and an evil wizard (voiced magnificently by James Earl Jones) seeks to bring about war and chaos.
The good wizard Carolinus (voiced by Harry Morgan) seeks help and finds a most unusual ally...a young fantasy game design... |
tt1042497 | Exit Speed | In Texas, Sergeant Archie Sparks (Fred Ward), an MP, has finally caught up with AWOL Corporal Meredith Cole (Julie Mond), who was accused of assaulting a commanding officer. Archie turns his back on Meredith for just a second, and there she goes off and running again.
Cole finds herself on an American Auto Coach bus on... | murder | train | wikipedia | Exit Speed was an interesting movie.
It keep you watching and rooting for the good guys.To put a small synopsis there for you I will say that it was about passengers on a bus that was kidnapped and thru their strengths, weakness, talents, and idiosyncrasies, they band together to survive this crack smoking, nose pierci... |
tt0177516 | The American Dreamer | A voice over says, "No, that's not right." The scenario is repeated with adjustments until the voice is eventually satisfied. The screen fades to Cathy Palmer (JoBeth Williams) sitting at a typewriter, finishing up the story. She seals it in an envelope and sends it off. Later, her husband, Kevin (James Staley), comes ... | philosophical | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0064685 | The Monk | An abandoned baby is taken in by a Spanish monastery, and raised as a monk, christened Capuchin Ambrosio. An exceptional preacher, Ambrosio is respected by all. One day a masked figure by the name of Valerio arrives at the monastery with his godfather, explaining the mask as necessary due to terrible burns inflicted on... | murder | train | wikipedia | "The Monk" could have been a great series for George Maharis. George Maharis gave a brilliant performance as Buz Murdock on "Route 66". For a short period in the 60's, all you could hear about was Maharis (sort of like Don Johnson or David Caruso in later years.) Maharis seemed to have a great future ahead of him. He h... |
tt0039776 | Road to Rio | Scat Sweeney and Hot Lips Barton, two out-of-work musicians, travel the United States trying to find work and stay away from girls. After running from state to state, each time running because of a girl, they try their luck in Louisiana.
They stow away on board a Rio-bound ship, after accidentally starting some fires a... | entertaining | train | wikipedia | Hope and Crosby are great, and romantic moments are designed for Lamour...but let's not forget the wonderful Wiere Brothers.
Considering that The Road to Rio was the fifth in the series, that the formula was down pat, that the plot, as usual, was merely an excuse for spontaneous and not-so-spontaneous bantering by the ... |
tt0069279 | Slaughter | After the father of Vietnam veteran and ex-Green Beret captain Slaughter (Jim Brown) is killed by a car bomb, he becomes obsessed with avenging the murder. He learns it was arranged by a Cleveland organized-crime gang and tracks down the mobster personally responsible, killing a Mafia member in the process. The murdere... | violence, cult, revenge, murder, blaxploitation | train | wikipedia | It kicks off a little slow, but by the time they get to Mexico, things pick up and get pretty smokin' in the conclusion--Jim Brown's entrance to the casino is terriffic, it's got the shock value of having a dwarf thrown through your bay window.
His later entrance to the bad guys' lair from the car is also classic.
Jim ... |
tt2910274 | Obvious Child | After performing a set at her regular comedy club, Donna Stern (Jenny Slate) is dumped in the bathroom by her boyfriend, Ryan (Paul Briganti), who confesses he is leaving her for one of her friends. Donna tailspins into a wave of depression and later drunkenly delivers a terrible set in which she insults her ex-boyfrie... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0039512 | Les jeux sont faits | In a country very similar to France under German military occupation, two people are murdered at the same moment. Ève is poisoned by her influential husband, who wants her money and her naïve younger sister, Lucette. Pierre, a worker and a leader of the resistance, is shot by an informer. Meeting in the afterlife, the ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0093771 | A Prayer for the Dying | The film begins with a small IRA team, including Martin Fallon (Mickey Rourke) and Liam Docherty (Liam Neeson), watching as two British Army Land Rovers approach the roadside bomb they have set for them. At the last minute, a school bus overtakes the army vehicles and detonates the bomb as it passes, killing the childr... | violence, revenge, murder, sadist | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0090974 | Dress Gray | Dress Gray is set during the era of the Vietnam War. A new class of cadets arrives at the Ulysses S. Grant Military Academy for its 100th anniversary. Ten months later one of those new cadets, David Hand (Patrick Cassidy), is found dead, apparently drowned despite being a top swimmer. Following an autopsy, academy phys... | murder, melodrama | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1916728 | Shor in the City | The film revolves around five central characters in the city of Mumbai. Tilak (Tusshar Kapoor) is a small-time publisher of unlicensed books who along with his friends Mandook (Pitobash Tripathy) and Ramesh (Nikhil Dwivedi) kidnaps a famous author and forces him to give the manuscript of his latest book to them so that... | revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0077252 | Blue Movie | The film includes dialogue about the Vietnam War, various mundane tasks and, as well, unsimulated sex, during a blissful afternoon in a New York City apartment. The film was presented in the press as, "a film about the Vietnam War and what we can do about it." Warhol added, "the movie is about ... love, not destruction... | psychedelic, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt6478450 | Shatter Me | Shatter Me follows the narrative of Juliette Ferrars, a 17-year-old girl with a paralyzing and killing touch. She can take living organisms' energy. The book starts out with Juliette in an asylum due to the fact that she murdered a small boy three years prior. It is evident that Juliette is partly insane, both from iso... | dark | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0053003 | Libel | While traveling in London, Jeffrey Buckenham (Massie), a Canadian Second World War veteran, sees Baronet Sir Mark Sebastian Loddon (Bogarde) on television, leading a tour of his grand family home. Buckenham was held in a German POW camp with Loddon, and while watching him, becomes convinced that he is in fact another f... | murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0048527 | Queen Bee | Eva Phillips (Joan Crawford) dominates her Georgia mansion and her husband Avery (Barry Sullivan), an alcoholic mill owner who hates his wife. A cousin, Jennifer Stewart (Lucy Marlow), is pressured into moving in with the family, and she watches in horror as Eva maneuvers to prevent the marriage of Avery's sister Carol... | romantic, melodrama | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0111756 | Wyatt Earp | A teenage Wyatt Earp lives on the family farm. His older brothers, Virgil and James, are away at war serving with the Union Army. Wyatt dreams of war, and packs some belongings, bids his younger brothers and sisters goodbye, and attempts to run away, intending to lie about his age and join the Union Army. He doesn't ma... | cult, historical, murder, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | When his replacement is killed as the law falls away in Dodge, Wyatt returns before moving on to Tombstone but finds his initial run-in with the Clantonhas left harbouring resentments.When I saw this in the cinema, it was hassled by the fact that another, more multiplex-friendly version of the story had just been relea... |
tt0280052 | El pueblo fantasma | The film begins as married New York City businessman Frank Herlihy (Greg Kinnear) is accidentally killed while trying to buy an apartment for his mistress. Shortly afterward, cynical dentist Bertram Pincus (Ricky Gervais) has a near-death experience while under general anesthetic during a colonoscopy. When he recovers,... | revenge | train | wikipedia | A mad Mexican mix of western cliché and vampire lore. A mysterious gunslinger called the Rio Kid appears out of nowhere to kill any hombre foolish enough to boast that he's the fastest draw in the Mexican west and Texan, the son of an infamous bandido, sets out to track down the phantom and redeem his family's honor. J... |
tt0066952 | Count Yorga, Vampire | The scenario opens with narration about superstition and the abilities of vampires. A truck is loaded at the Port of Los Angeles, and as it climbs to a gated mansion in the Southern California hills, the cargo is revealed to be a coffin.
Donna (Donna Anders) hosts a séance in hopes of contacting her recently deceased m... | murder | train | wikipedia | The rest of the cast is adequate, and I think Roger Perry does a wonderful job as a blood specialist who goads Count Yorga one evening into talking about the supernatural.
Soon after, we meet Count Yorga (Robert Quarry), as he conducts a séance to try to contact Donna's (Donna Anders) deceased mother.
It is no mystery,... |
tt0079379 | Julius Caesar | The play opens with the commoners of Rome celebrating Caesar's triumphant return from defeating Pompey's sons at the battle of Munda. Two tribunes, Flavius and Marrullus, discover the commoners celebrating, insult them for their change in loyalty from Pompey to Caesar, and break up the crowd. There are some jokes made ... | tragedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0366276 | Calcutta Mail | Avinash (Anil Kapoor) comes to Calcutta to search for his only son and finds himself engulfed with too many people interested in him. His only lead is a telephone number given to him by a cop before coming to Calcutta. As soon, as he lands in Calcutta, he needs a place to stay. Here, he meets Reema aka Bulbul (Rani Muk... | flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1014775 | Beverly Hills Chihuahua | In Beverly Hills, California, wealthy heiress Vivian "Viv" Ashe leaves her richly pampered pet chihuahua, Chloe, with her irresponsible niece, Rachel, while she embarks on a business trip for ten days. Papi, the gardener Sam's pet Chihuahua of Mexican descent, has an unrequited crush on Chloe, by which she is disgusted... | comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt5333506 | The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Dawnguard | The player character may begin the expansion quest lines in a number of ways. Town guards can be overheard discussing the return of the Dawnguard, or the player character may be approached directly by an Orcish Dawnguard member named Durak and asked to join the order to combat the growing threat of vampires within Skyr... | good versus evil | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0077735 | The Initiation of Sarah | Twin sisters Sarah (Mika Boorem) and Lindsay (Summer Glau) are excited to attend Temple Hill University, where they will likely join Alpha Nu as their mother Trina Goodwin (Morgan Fairchild) was a previous member. Sarah finds herself immediately drawn to Finn, a student adviser that invites them both to Pi Epsilon Delt... | paranormal, revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0125971 | Outside Providence | Timothy "Dildo/Dunph" Dunphy (Shawn Hatosy), is in the Class of 1974 in his high school senior year living in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, comes from a troubled single parent working-class family, and is friends with those that have aspirations which do not exceed smoking marijuana at the water tower that has a view of the... | flashback, revenge, prank, romantic, home movie | train | wikipedia | Outside Providence does not seem like much from the preview, but it turns out to be a surprisingly good comedy..
Outside Providence seems like just another low budget, goofy high school comedy from the preview, but it is really a good movie.
This seems like the premise of the kind of ridiculous high school comedies tha... |
tt0296870 | StarCraft: Brood War | === Setting ===
Brood War takes place in the StarCraft universe, set around the early 26th century. Terran exiles from Earth have colonized a distant area of the Milky Way galaxy called the Koprulu Sector, having established several governments. Eventually, a civil war breaks out and ends with the formation of the Terr... | violence | train | wikipedia | The best game ever.
The whole game is amazing.
You play as the 3 races again after the first Starcraft, this includes new units such as the Medic, Valkerie, Devouerer, Lurker, Corsair, Dark Archon and the Dark Templar, as well as new characters and upgrades.
The game is awesome and i recomend it.
The best thing ever ab... |
tt0101373 | At Play in the Fields of the Lord | A pair of explorers, Lewis Moon and Wolf, become stranded in Mãe de Deus (Portuguese: Mother of God), an outpost in the deep Brazilian Amazon River basin, after their plane runs out of fuel.
The local police commander wants the Niaruna tribe, living upriver, to move their village so they won't be killed by gold miners ... | insanity, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0118954 | Deconstructing Harry | One night, Lucy (Judy Davis) gets a taxi to the home of author Harry Block (Woody Allen). She has just read Harry's latest novel. In the novel, the character Leslie (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) is having an affair with her sister's husband Ken (Richard Benjamin). Lucy is angry because the novel is patently based on her and Ha... | psychedelic, humor | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0489015 | Dangerous Men | The plot of Dangerous Men is somewhat unclear, and changes abruptly towards the middle of the film.
Mina (Melody Wiggins) and her fiancé, Daniel (Coti Cook) are walking on a beach when two bikers, named Tiger and Leo, set upon them. They kill the fiancé and attempt to rape Mina. In the struggle, Leo is killed and Tiger... | revenge | train | wikipedia | Truly awfully great..
I, like most people I assume, wandered into a screening of this film because it fit the time slot and was totally obscure.
I went with four other buddies and I must say we were blow away by how unbelievably terrible it was and how much fun we had at the same time.
Saw it again on Saturday at the L... |
tt0107126 | Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby | After Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm get married and move to Hollyrock, Fred and Barney are both working overtime for Mr.Slate, and Wilma and Betty now own a food delivery service called 'Bone Appetite', but much to Fred's disgust, Wilma is not there to cook for him, he cooks his own TV dinners as well as Barney's.
One day, the... | alternate history | train | wikipedia | Not All That Bad. I have never actually been a fan of "The Flinstones," but this movie is the cutest thing I have ever watched. The thought of Pebbles and Bamm Bamm becoming parents is like a fan fiction come to life. It's just adorable. The animation is excellent and the characters have a certain charm to them. After ... |
tt0346681 | Cama de Gato | Imagine a strong and tender hearted woman, a confused man, and a villain capable of anything for money. We have the perfect love triangle for a classic love story. Cat‘s Cradle tells the tale of a man that hits rock bottom and manages to bounce back through true love. Gustavo, once a poor, kindhearted youngster, is now... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | Unspeakably bad, verbose, pretentious moralist trash.
Though I'd heard that "Cama de Gato" was the worst Brazilian movie of the decade, I watched it giving it a chance; after all, first-time director/producer/writer Alexandre Stockler managed to make his debut feature (shot in video) for just US$ 4,000 and -- though it... |
tt0106307 | Arizona Dream | Axel (Johnny Depp) has a dream about an Eskimo who catches a rare halibut and brings it back to his family in an igloo. Axel's cousin Paul (Vincent Gallo) coaxes Axel from his job tagging fish in New York City to Arizona to attend his uncle Leo's (Jerry Lewis) trophy wedding to a much younger woman (Paulina Porizkova).... | comedy, cult, magical realism, absurd, psychedelic, philosophical, romantic | train | wikipedia | And so on.Arizona Dream, however, is different.The last movie I saw that was truly, in all aspects, perfect was Dog Day Afternoon, a 1975 true story starring Al Pacino and Chris Sarandon.
Your eyes will follow the camera angles, the expressions of the insanely lovable characters, the many things happening in foreground... |
tt0038766 | Mysterious Intruder | Edward Stillwell, the aged proprietor of a music store, hires private detective Don Gale (Dix) to find Elora Lund, a then 14-year-old who vanished seven years ago at the time her mother died. Stillwell can only pay $100, but hints mysteriously that finding Lund could make Gale a rich man.
A young woman claiming to be E... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | The fifth of the seven Richard Dix Whistler's is a complicated hard boiled affair, coming in at just under an hour with the usual high quota of dizzying plot twists to keep you on your toes.
Nicely noirish and a good print lend a doom-laden atmosphere which the excellent cast make the most of, and at warp speed.Seedy p... |
tt0020269 | Piccadilly | Valentine Wilmot's London nightclub and restaurant, Piccadilly Circus, is a great success due to his star attraction, dancing partners Mabel (Gilda Gray) and Vic (Cyril Ritchard). One night, a dissatisfied diner (Charles Laughton) disrupts Mabel's solo with his loud complaint about a dirty plate. When Wilmot investigat... | romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | Tracking through a bustling nightclub kitchen, back into the scullery, amidst steaming washtubs, the camera finds a woman in torn stockings dancing a slow shimmy on a tabletop: a slow upward pan reveals the alluring Anna May Wong in a Pabstian moment of erotic revelation.
In the course of this drama, director E.A. DuPo... |
tt0119428 | Judwaa | Jayantilal 'Ratan' (Deepak Shirke) is a dacoit. SP Malhotra (Dalip Tahil) arrests him. Ratan wounds himself and is taken to hospital for the cure, where Malhotra is waiting for his wife Geeta (Reema Lagoo) who is on labour and she gives birth to twins and the doctor says that both children have reflection mentality, th... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0458242 | Laitakaupungin valot | Koistinen (Janne Hyytiäinen) is a lonely nightwatchman tasked with guarding a shopping mall. He attempts to socialize, but is treated coldly by his manager and subjected to mocking by his colleagues. While he is drinking alone in a bar, he catches the eye of some criminals headed by Lindholm (Ilkka Koivula) who learn o... | neo noir | train | wikipedia | This is the third film in Kaurismäki's "Helsinki Trilogy" (the others are Drifting Clouds (1996) and The Man Without a Past (2002)) While I haven't seen the first, this film shares many thematic and formal elements with the second film, and I enjoyed it just as much.Koistinen is a lonely security guard who is ignored b... |
tt0439533 | Deddo ribusu | Retro and Pandy, two unlikely renegades, awaken naked on Earth with no recollection of their past, but with superior physical abilities. After embarking on a brief but devastating crime spree for food, clothing and transportation in downtown Tokyo, they are captured by authorities and sent to the infamous prison called... | cult, action, psychedelic, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0064516 | Josefine - Das liebestolle Kätzchen | Set in the 1950s, the film begins in medias res near the end of the story, with a confrontation between two men: one of them, Clare Quilty, drunk and incoherent, plays Chopin's Polonaise in A major, Op. 40, No. 1 on the piano before being shot from behind a portrait painting of a young woman. The shooter is Humbert Hum... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Should a Schoolgirl Tell?. I watched the Should A Schoolgirl Tell? print of this film offered by Synergy via Amazon. Right up front, IMDb says 79 min for the German version. The DVD case states 77 min, which might be the accurate run time for the English dubbed version....but Synergy's print runs a scant 67 min. The pr... |
tt0824758 | The Last Station | In 1910, the last year of Leo Tolstoy's life, his disciples, led by Vladimir Chertkov, manoeuvre against his wife, Sofya, for control over Tolstoy's works after his death. The main setting is the Tolstoy country estate of Yasnaya Polyana. Tolstoy and Sofya have had a long, passionate marriage, but his spiritual ideals ... | romantic, avant garde, philosophical | train | wikipedia | This was an excellent historical film based on the relationship between Leo Tolstoy (Christopher Plummer) and his wife, Sofya (Helen Mirren), during Tolstoy's final years.
The main tension comes between Vladimir, who wants Tolstoy to bequeath his copyrights to "The Russian People" and Sofya, who naturally would like th... |
tt0086859 | Against All Odds | Professional football player Terry Brogan (Jeff Bridges) is released by his team. Aging, injured and in need of money, he is contacted by an old acquaintance, the shady gambler and nightclub owner Jake Wise (James Woods), who wants Terry to find Jake's girlfriend Jessie Wyler (Rachel Ward), daughter of the Outlaws' own... | neo noir, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0075930 | God Told Me To | In New York City, a gunman perched atop a water tower opens fire with a high-powered rifle on the crowded streets below, randomly killing fifteen pedestrians. Peter Nicholas (Tony Lo Bianco), a devout Catholic NYPD detective, climbs the tower to talk to the sniper. Before jumping to his death, the gunman tells Nicholas... | paranormal, cult, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0196635 | International Khiladi | News Reporter Payal (Twinkle Khanna) and her camera-man have been assigned the task of interviewing the world's highest ranking criminal don, Devraj (Akshay Kumar), which they accept. In the process, Payal and Devraj fall in love with each other,much to the opposition of Bismillah (Mukesh Khanna), Devraj's guardian on ... | murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | excellent.
Hi, If u r a hard core Akshay fan like me,u cant miss this 1.Superb action,and good twist in the end marks this action film as akshay's one of the best action flicks in his career.Even Twinkle looks good in the movie.At the time of this release akshay was so popular as KHILADI that it got a huge opening in t... |
tt0048317 | Love Me or Leave Me | After kicking a customer for getting fresh, 1920s Chicago nightclub singer Ruth Etting is in jeopardy of losing her job when Martin Snyder intervenes on her behalf. Snyder, known as "The Gimp" to some because of his game leg, owns a laundry business and runs a protection racket, wielding considerable clout.
Etting and ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | The Marty Snyders never change, and Cagney knows it; he stays the self-deluded small-time hood he started out as, who can't accept that he's driven away a woman he can't believe he loves so much.Day, however, rises to a magnanimity that rings hollow.
But her real acting triumph came with this hard-hitting Ruth Etting b... |
tt0047334 | Passion | Christine, an advertising executive, is attempting to gain professional and romantic power over her up-and-coming subordinate, Isabelle, as revenge for her affair with Christine's lover, Dirk. Christine does everything in her power to ruin Isabelle's reputation and relationships. She also tries to fire Isabelle's secre... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | Peculiar Western about a relentless revenge with very good support cast.
This story is set on early California's wild and wicked pioneers days .
It's a particular Western with a magnificent Cornel Wilde seeking vendetta against the killers of his loved ones and a splendid Yvonne De Carlo in double role .
This moving pi... |
tt0816258 | Pokiri | In Hyderabad, two rival mafia gangs headed by Dubai-based don Ali Bhai, and Narayana resort to criminal activities such as extortion, murder, and coercion for various reasons. The new commissioner of police, Sayyad Mohammad Pasha Qadri, focuses on making the city a better place by working at arresting all of them. Pand... | revenge, neo noir, murder, violence, romantic | train | wikipedia | An excellent movie.
Wow, when I first watched this movie, I was blown-away!
It's a very good thriller/comedy/romance/action etc Telugu film.Mahesh's performance is amazing and he is made for this role.
His new haircut is hot and he is so, so Hot in Pokiri!
Prakash Raj should win a award for Pokiri and Ileana is so,so b... |
tt0889671 | Trumbo | Dalton Trumbo is a screenwriter whose talent places him among the elite of Hollywood. However, his active membership in the Communist Party of the USA draws the contempt of staunchly anti-Soviet entertainment-industry figures such as columnist Hedda Hopper and actor John Wayne.
Trumbo is one of 10 screenwriters subpoen... | romantic, depressing, home movie | train | wikipedia | null |
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