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tt5215952 | Goksung | A Japanese man has recently arrived at a little village in the mountains of South Korea, living in a secluded house. A mysterious disease starts spreading among the villagers, causing a rash which precedes violent murderous outbreaks followed by stupor and eventually death.
Police officer Jong-goo, who is investigating... | paranormal, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | It's like one of those optical illusions or Escher drawings that appear to describe a physical object, but in fact don't make physical sense.Accordingly, whether one enjoys this movie or not boils down to whether one can be content with a movie that is technically well-made (cinematography, acting, costumes, etc.), but... |
tt0081187 | The Mountain Men | Bill Tyler (Heston) is an argumentative, curmudgeonly mountain man. Henry Frapp (Keith) is Tyler's good friend and fellow trapper. Together, they trap beaver, fight Native Americans, and drink at a mountain man rendezvous while trying to sell their "plews", or beaver skins, to a cutthroat French trader named Fontenelle... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | `Got sand in her, she does,' Brian Keith says when an Indian woman wants to latch on to Charlton Heston; which leads to the normal function of having a mate, and that becomes the main story because the squaws mate from the Blackfoot tribe pursues in getting her back.
The Wyoming Grand Teton national park is an excelle... |
tt0304669 | The Santa Clause 2 | Eight years have elapsed since Scott Calvin took on the mantle of Santa Claus and became subject to The Santa Clause. Now he is at the top of his game at the North Pole and could not be happier, at least until Head Elf Bernard and Curtis, the Keeper of the Handbook of Christmas break the news that there is another clau... | prank | train | wikipedia | Good Christmas Fun. It's been quite a while since I've seen the first Santa Clause movie, but I remember being quite surprised by it.
Released November 1st, 2002Director: Michael LembeckStarring: Tim Allen, Elizabeth Mitchell, Nicole Leroux, Judge Reinhold, Spencer Breslin, Wendy Crewson, Eric Lloyd, Kevin Pollak, Moll... |
tt0086350 | Special Bulletin | A "Special Bulletin" slide interrupts commercials on the fictional RBS television network for its TV shows. A TV crew covering a dockworkers' strike are caught in the middle of a firefight between the U.S. Coast Guard and the crew of a tugboat sitting at a dock in Charleston, South Carolina. The coast guardsmen surrend... | anti war, satire | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0092548 | American Ninja 2: The Confrontation | Now promoted to Army Rangers, Joe Armstrong (Michael Dudikoff) and Curtis Jackson (Steve James) are sent to a remote Caribbean island to aid the Marine Corps in investigating the disappearance of many of its soldiers. The commanding officer, "Wild Bill" Woodward (Jeff Weston) briefs them on the situation: four marines ... | violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | American Ninja 2: The Confrontation is the best movie in the whole series and one of the best action movies I have ever seen.
But what makes this movie great is the unbelievable amount of action: ninja fights on a beach, bar fights, car chases, explosions, more explosions, sword fights.
Because ninjas look cool and hav... |
tt0082206 | Coup de torchon | In a little town in French West Africa in 1938, Lucien Cordier is the only policeman. Unable or unwilling to impose his authority, he is treated with scorn by everybody. His sexy wife Huguette has brought a lover, Nono, to live openly with them, claiming he is her brother. Lucien fancies the mischievous young bride Ros... | psychedelic, humor, murder | train | wikipedia | It's surreal, funny, tragic, strange, and somehow all holds together.Noiret is wonderful, and a great foil for Huppert, with his hang-dog looks and understated acting.
Bertrand Tavernier has taken the novel "TOP 1280" by Jim Thompson set in North Carolina and produced a riveting French film noir set in Senegal in 1938.... |
tt5523174 | Pichaikkaran | Arul (Vijay Antony) is a rich businessman based out of Palladam, Tirupur district. His mother Bhuvaneshwari (Dheepa Ramanujam) is the person behind the growth of their textile business following her husband’s early death. Avinashi (Muthuraman) is her brother-in-law who is money minded and has plans to grab Arul’s prope... | romantic, sentimental | train | wikipedia | excellent thought,nice movie to watch.
the movie script goes in a smooth manner , another hit to Mr.vijayantony.
The movie portrays the changeover in life of a rich businessman to beggar for the sake of his mother.
used the characters effectively good direction by director a unique title and with unique concept want to... |
tt0116289 | Feeling Minnesota | Freddie (Cameron Diaz) is a former stripper marrying Sam (Vincent D'Onofrio) to repay a debt owed to nightclub owner Red (Delroy Lindo). When Freddie meets Jjaks (Keanu Reeves), Sam's brother, they instantly fall in love. Jjaks and Freddie decide to run off together, eventually staying in a motel. After realizing that ... | comedy | train | wikipedia | Most films starring Keanu Reeves or Cameron Diaz are a safe bet for a big Hollywood blockbuster.
Watching this movie on running trait in all the characters stood out, their quirkiness.
I watched this with a couple of friends, they too liked it, but we each noticed and laughed at different things.I also loved the consta... |
tt1673734 | Jamesy Boy | James Burns (Spencer Lofranco) is in prison for selling guns, drug possession and illegal possession of a firearm. Some years earlier, his mother Tracy (Mary-Louise Parker) attempts to enroll him in school, but is turned away due to his past in juvenile detention. One night, James meets Crystal (Rosa Salazar) and Drew ... | violence, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | This isn't a perfect movie but I do recommend this & was surprised by how good it was.
I think I let them down by convincing myself I never had a choice to begin with." James (Lofranco) has been in and out of correction facilities his entire life since he was 8.
While not nearly as powerful the movie did remind me a li... |
tt0067741 | Shaft | NYPD Detective John Shaft II (Samuel L. Jackson) is called in to investigate the racially motivated murder of Trey Howard (Mekhi Phifer), committed by Walter Wade, Jr. (Christian Bale), the son of a wealthy real estate tycoon. Shaft briefly meets a potential eyewitness to the murder, Diane Palmieri (Toni Collette), but... | grindhouse film, murder, cult, violence, atmospheric, suspenseful, blaxploitation | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0073091 | The Happy Hooker | As prostitutes are arrested in New York, a flashback begins to the life of one of them, a Dutch secretary Xaviera Hollander (Redgrave) who moved to New York in hopes of marrying her fiancé Carl (Nicholas Pryor), whom she met whilst visiting her sister in South Africa.
Observing how Carl does not help her take her bags ... | adult comedy, flashback | train | wikipedia | One of my all-time favorites.
I loved this film from the first time I saw it, on cable, as a kid.
It's the first movie I ever saw that was about sex from beginning to end but could've been rated G, or at least PG.
No one is shown having sex, and it's discussed in such a clinical way it DOES become the "business of plea... |
tt0108810 | Im Namen des Gesetzes | The series is based on the long-running U.S. television series Law & Order and uses a similar narrated intro and scene change titles.
=== Mistakes ===
The police officers and prosecutors act in the same way the detectives and district attorneys in Law & Order do, although they actually interact different in Germany. Es... | violence | train | wikipedia | In the name of the law. In the name of the law, the work of police and prosecutors is described. Well, a German series. |
tt0061752 | Hasta el viento tiene miedo | The film is about a group of students in an exclusive college for women, led by Claudia (Alicia Bonet) who decide to investigate a local tower that has figured prominently in disturbing and recurring dreams Claudia has been having. The dream also features a hanged woman's body. They are suspended from school for their ... | paranormal, revenge, suspenseful, murder, haunting | train | wikipedia | Nowadays, I am rather bored with the same movies about spiteful little ghosts of teenage girls or resentful children who want to give someone a message or simply punish their murderers.
Don't get the wrong idea about me, I am not trying to be rude or offensive, but horror movies nowadays tend to be way too similar when... |
tt1306980 | 50/50 | Adam Lerner is a 27-year-old public radio journalist in Seattle with girlfriend and artist Rachael, of whom best friend and co-worker Kyle disapproves. While Kyle is brash and outspoken, Adam is more introverted and mild-mannered.
After experiencing harsh pains in his back, Adam is diagnosed with schwannoma neurofibros... | comedy, romantic, humor, entertaining, sentimental | train | wikipedia | So, trust me when I tell you, that this movie gets it.It gets what it is like to receive a horrific diagnosis out of the blue, the numbness and shock of dealing with it, the well meaning friends and acquaintances who say the stupidest things ("every time I feel sorry for myself, I just think of you..."), and those frie... |
tt0459327 | Gie | Soe Hok Gie grew up in a lower-middle class Chinese Indonesian family in Jakarta. In his early teens, young Gie had developed a fascination in concepts and idealisms advocated by world class intellectuals. Combined with a fighter's passion, faithfulness to friends, and a heart filled with genuine care for others and fo... | flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0284328 | Mujhe Kucch Kehna Hai | The story revolves around a sensitive young adult named Karan (Tusshar), who frequently skips college. Despite his poor academic performance, he displays other talents. He is clever, an excellent musician, and plays in a band. His father constantly expresses his disappointment in him which often leads to Karan having o... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Despite the fact that this movie got average commercial success and it's a remake of a Telugu movie - Tholi Prema (1998), it is to be acknowledged that it's a good movie.
It is a romantic movie but it portrays silent love in the hearts of teenagers who are hesitant to express their feelings to their love-interest becau... |
tt0063819 | Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day | The story begins when Winnie the Pooh is on his way to his thoughtful spot. Today is a very windy day. But as Pooh sits thinking, Gopher pops out of the ground and advises Pooh to leave the spot because of it being "Winds-day". Pooh having misunderstood his warning goes across the Hundred Acre Wood to wish everyone a h... | psychedelic, cute, entertaining | train | wikipedia | A wonderful piece of whimsy.
Winnie the Pooh has always been a favorite of mine.
The original stories are in the realm of the Mary Poppins stories, i.e., difficult to translate to film.
In this instance, Disney has managed to transfer the charm of the Pooh stories intact to the screen.
Winnie is simply adorable as an a... |
tt0270880 | Champion | The film CHAMPION is a tale about a man who has a quest, a dream to be the best of the best. The film centres on four main characters, namely Rajveer Singh (Sunny Deol), a simpleton from a village in Punjab, whose sole dream in life is to become a super-cop and wipe off all crime. After, training, he gets his first pos... | murder, prank | train | wikipedia | Good!. Champion is an interesting action thriller, and it is true to its title, as Sunny Deol is the cop hero in this movie. Overall, the film has enough thrills to keep you at the edge of your seat. Early in the movie, the mini tussles with that kid are kind of fun before Sunny becomes his hero. Sunny's introduction i... |
tt1520494 | BlinkyTM | In the near future, where robotics have greatly evolved, Alex (Max Records) is looking for the normal loving family that he doesn't have - his parents (played by Jenni Fontana and James Nardini) are always too busy fighting with each other to worry about the effect on him. After seeing an advertisement for a domestic r... | plot twist, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | A bit more subtlety would have made it better but the effects are very well done.
A boy decides he wants a robot companion like the friendly, smiling Blinky that he sees on the TV adverts.
His parents oblige and he finds himself with a great friend and servant who never tires and always does what he is told.
However, ... |
tt1533013 | Beautiful Boy | The film opens up with home videos of a husband and wife at the beach with their young son. A young man reads a short story about a boy and girl; saying that they didn't know it, but their lives would one day irrevocably change. Bill (Michael Sheen) and Kate (Maria Bello) are a married couple who are tightly wound and ... | murder | train | wikipedia | Mom Kate (Maria Bello) is a typical concerned parent, wanting her child to do well; Dad Bill (Michael Sheen) asks is Sam needs any money and is doing well, and he hangs up.
The next morning, the terrible news: Sam has shot 18 students and teachers in his college before killing himself.The movie wisely shows us nothing ... |
tt1525835 | Gantz | A pair of high school students, Kei Kurono and Masaru Kato, are hit by a subway train in an attempt to save the life of a drunk homeless man who had fallen onto the tracks. Following their deaths, Kurono and Kato find themselves transported to the interior of an unfurnished Tokyo apartment, where they meet Joichiro Nis... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0416243 | Submerged | Chris Cody (Steven Seagal) is a top-ranked mercenary who took part in an undercover operation to stop a major terrorist strike on U.S. soil; a strike that the UN refused to believe was about to happen. Cody had to break a number of laws in order to do the job, and he's in a military prison.
At the U.S. Embassy in Monte... | brainwashing, suspenseful, comedy, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | Clever tricks such as close editing in the fight scenes so you can't actually see Seagal isn't doing anything very impressive, dark lighting to hide his jowls and breadth and loose clothing so as to not accentuate his less than athletic physique.Anyway, the movie involves Seagal and a ragtag group of ex navy bad-arses ... |
tt0043340 | The Big Night | On the New Jersey Shore in the 1950s, two Italian immigrant brothers from Abruzzo own and operate a restaurant called "Paradise." One brother, Primo, is a brilliant, perfectionist chef who chafes under their few customers' expectations of "Americanized" Italian food. Their uncle's offer for them to return to Rome to he... | revenge | train | wikipedia | A teenager on the verge of becoming a man watches his father get beaten to a pulp by a gangster.
This leads to the teen going on a short odyssey for vengeance, where he discovers some ugly things about himself and his father.This is a short b-movie without much story, concentrating on the passionate lives of hard folks... |
tt2096672 | Dumb and Dumber To | Twenty years after the events of the first film, Lloyd Christmas has been committed at Baldy View Sanitarium, a mental institution, ever since his doomed romance with Mary Swanson (from the first film). During a recent visit, Harry Dunne discovers that Lloyd pranked him into thinking he was handicapped the entire time.... | revenge, prank, flashback | train | wikipedia | But I feel like that disclaimer only goes so far, because frankly, the original "Dumb and Dumber" is one of the funniest films I've ever seen -- endlessly quotable, thoroughly likable.
The key to the movie, I think, is that there's an underlying sweetness to the humor: Lloyd and Harry (Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels) are ... |
tt0203230 | You Can Count on Me | As children, Sammy and Terry Prescott lose their parents to a car accident. Years later, Sammy (Laura Linney), a single mother and lending officer at a bank, still lives in her childhood home in Scottsville, New York, while Terry (Mark Ruffalo) has drifted around the country, scraping by and getting in and out of troub... | tragedy, realism | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0171356 | Gun Shy | Charlie Mayeaux (Liam Neeson) is an undercover DEA agent suffering from anxiety and gastrointestinal problems after a bust gone wrong. During the aforementioned incident, his partner was killed and he found himself served up on a platter of watermelon with a gun shoved in his face just before back-up arrived. Charlie, ... | psychedelic, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | Although there are several parts of the film which exercise Neeson's great gifts for interaction, most of the movie scenes are hampered with too many issues and little cohesion and this makes for awkward moments.
He gets involved more deeply into trying to do a decent job and in the process, he falls in love with the w... |
tt2118720 | Segunda mano | Owen (Rico Blanco) and Mariella (Angelica Panganiban) are fighting in a car by a lake. It appears that Owen has left his wife to be with Mariella, and is angry that Mariella is not willing to make the same sacrifice. The fight turns violent and Mariella tries to escape from the car. The scene cuts to flashback.
Mariell... | paranormal, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | The Entire Film Feels "Second-Hand". Being a fan of Pinoy horror films, this was the film that I was most looking forward to seeing in this year's Metro Manila Film Festival. The fact that it earned an A rating from the Film Ratings Board was the added push I needed to clear up some time from the busy holiday schedule ... |
tt0260113 | 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 | Julius Caesar at the English National Opera. While not the most ideal production of Julius Caesar- there are some cuts of arias and within them also- there are many things to love about this production from English National Opera. The best production is for me the Glyndebourne production directed by David McVicar, whil... |
tt0460792 | Fast Food Nation | Don Anderson is the Mickey's hamburger chain marketing director who helped develop the "Big One", its most popular menu item. When he learns that independent research has discovered a considerable presence of fecal matter in the meat, he travels to the fictitious town of Cody, Colorado to determine if the local Uni-Glo... | romantic, satire | train | wikipedia | The first time I tried was a few years back, after reading Eric Schlosser's non-fiction work, FAST FOOD NATION.
Unfortunately, Richard Linklater's narrative interpretation of Schlosser's novel is nowhere near as nauseating or as a big a turn-off as the feeling of a Big Mac sitting at the bottom of your stomach.The deci... |
tt0381429 | Somersault | Heidi (Cornish), a somewhat isolated, sexually promiscuous teenager living in the suburbs of Canberra, flees her home after her mother, Nicole, finds Heidi kissing Nicole's boyfriend. Isolated and alone, she initially travels to Snowy River with the promise of a job offer, however after phoning the person who informed ... | romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0050706 | Mon oncle | M. Hulot (Jacques Tati) is the dreamy, impractical, and adored uncle of nine-year-old Gérard Arpel, who lives with his materialistic parents, M. and Mme. Arpel, in an ultra-modern geometric house and garden, Villa Arpel, in a new suburb of Paris, situated just beyond the crumbling stone buildings of the old neighborhoo... | psychedelic, humor, satire, prank | train | wikipedia | null |
tt3582040 | Boomerang | Father Lambert (Wyrley Birch), a priest, is shot dead on a Bridgeport, Connecticut street at night. The police, led by Chief Robinson (Lee J. Cobb), fail to immediately find the murderer. It soon becomes a political hot potato, with the police accused of incompetence, and the city's reform-minded administration comes u... | flashback | train | wikipedia | Maybe the problem is the story.
It starts off very effectively; a car containing two people who are bickering loudly goes off the road, and both are injured.
The reasons for the argument are brought out during the film.
I had no concerns about the acting since Laurent Lafitte, Melanie Laurent and Audrey Dana handle the... |
tt0109607 | The Desperate Trail | On a stagecoach in the old West, Marshall Bill Speakes (Sam Elliott) is escorting his prisoner Sarah O'Rourke (Linda Fiorentino) to her hanging. Also in the stage are Jack Cooper (Craig Sheffer), Mamie Hollister (Robin Westphal), and her husband Zeb Hollister (John Furlong). The stage is attacked by three men (Boots So... | revenge, suspenseful, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0165057 | Rude Awakening | In 1969 New York City, two hippies, Fred Wook (Eric Roberts) and Jesus Monteya (Cheech Marin), flee the US to avoid arrest by the FBI and hide out in the jungles of Central America. Fred is an idealist, working on an underground newspaper with his friend Sammy (Robert Carradine), while Jesus is a stoner whose brain has... | comedy, cult, dark, adult comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0251426 | Tarazu | Police Inspector Ram Yadav (Akshay Kumar) is an honest, handsome, and incorruptible young man. He lives with his sister-in-law, Shakuntala (Shashi Sharma), and elder brother, Raj (Anil Dhawan). A lovely yet petty thief, Pooja (Sonali Bendre) admires Ram so much that she moves into his house in the guise of a maid-serva... | good versus evil, revenge, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | 1997 worst year for Akki. Akshay Kumar is a decent actor and no I will not deny this even if he has acted in some of the worst Bollywood films ever. It was the 1997-1999 period that was his worst where his films came and all of them proved to be nothing but back to back failures. The worst part is that some of these fi... |
tt0048561 | Romeo i Dzhulyetta | The play, set in Verona, Italy, begins with a street brawl between Montague and Capulet servants who, like their masters, are sworn enemies. Prince Escalus of Verona intervenes and declares that further breach of the peace will be punishable by death. Later, Count Paris talks to Capulet about marrying his daughter Juli... | tragedy, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0099188 | Buried Alive | Rene is in the bath having a conversation with her cousin Zane, who is in the bathroom with her. He pushes her underwater, and she begins to drown. While looking up at his face from under the water, she sees the visage of an old woman above her. She awakes with a start, having fallen asleep and begun to drown. Her boyf... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | Interesting revenge movie, with a dark tone that sucks you in from the start, a creepy soundtrack that fits the movie perfectly, beautifully designed sets, and great acting from the three leads, especially Leigh as a truly despicable person.
You really feel for Matheson's character and are rooting for him to take reven... |
tt0093476 | Maid to Order | Jessie Montgomery (Ally Sheedy) is a spoiled rich girl in her mid 20's whose hard partying lifestyle and lack of self-respect as well as a lack of respect for others is starting to wear thin on her widowed father Charles (Tom Skerritt), a wealthy philanthropist, and on her boyfriend Brent (Jason Beghe), who breaks up w... | alternate reality, satire | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0028478 | The Walking Dead | In 1972 North Vietnam, short-timer Marines are dispatched by helicopter to conduct their last mission: to evacuate the survivors from a POW camp abandoned by the Viet Cong. The landing zone - which they expect to be cold - is actually hot (under fire) and after a short fight, only four members of the rescue mission sur... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | This film has stood the test of time well, and is a nice, taut story of a man wrongly accused of a crime, miraculously brought back to life, and eventually seeking vindication and justice from those that did him wrong.
THE WALKING DEAD (Warner Brothers, 1936), directed by Michael Curtiz, is an interesting little item f... |
tt0048605 | The Seven Year Itch | Richard Sherman (Tom Ewell) is a nerdy, faithful, middle-aged publishing executive with an overactive imagination and a mid-life crisis, whose wife, Helen (Evelyn Keyes), and son, Ricky (Butch Bernard), are spending the summer in Maine. When he returns home with the kayak paddle Ricky accidentally left behind, he meets... | pornographic, humor, satire, adult comedy | train | wikipedia | Along the days, he spends some time with the girl and feels tempted by her, but later he misses his family and travels to meet them."The Seven Year Itch" is a naive and innocent romantic comedy in accordance with the contemporary moral standards, but actually this feature tested the limits of censorship in a time when ... |
tt0368774 | The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things | Sarah (Asia Argento) becomes involved with a series of men who treat her and Jeremiah (Jimmy Bennett) poorly, and she uses them as an excuse to abandon her son. She disappears to Atlantic City with her boyfriend, Emerson (Jeremy Renner), and then abandons him; Emerson returns to their home and rapes Jeremiah. After a t... | autobiographical | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0090095 | Subway | Having stolen some compromising documents from a powerful and successful entrepreneur/gangster at a party, a man known as Fred (Lambert) escapes from the police and takes refuge in the underground world of the Paris Métro stations and tunnels. There he joins the dwellers and befriends several colourful characters, incl... | revenge, cult, murder, romantic | train | wikipedia | At the time, a huge box-office hit in its native France - and as a result of the rising popularity of lead actors Christopher Lambert and Isabelle Adjani, something of a cult film in the UK - Subway (1985) was seen as a companion piece to Jean Jacques Beineix's earlier art-house classic, Diva (1981).
Together, these tw... |
tt0480011 | Straightheads | Adam, a 23-year-old self-employed security technician, is hired by a businesswoman, Alice Comfort, to set up a security system in her flat. After finishing the work, Adam falls asleep on a lawnchair on her roof-garden. When Alice arrives home and finds him there, she impulsively asks him to accompany her to a housewarm... | revenge, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | Gillian Anderson was probably the best thing about the film but I don't really buy Danny Dyer playing opposite her and there were certain scenes that were unintentionally humorous because of this.
Great to see Gillian Anderson on screen again, and to be honest i would not have predicted this role for her however she wa... |
tt0073015 | Framed | Mining engineer Mike Lambert (Glenn Ford) takes a temporary job driving a truck. When the brakes fail while coming down a steep highway, he steers his way through a small town and is lucky to just dent the pickup of Jeff Cunningham (Edgar Buchanan). Jeff demands Mike's employer pay for the damage, but the man refuses. ... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0823668 | Screamers | In the year 2078, the planet Sirius 6B, once a thriving mining hub, has been reduced to a toxic wasteland by a civil war between the mining company, known as the New Economic Bloc (NEB), and the Alliance, a group of former mining and science personnel. Five years into the war, Alliance scientists created and deployed A... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0385586 | Nekojiru-sô | Nyāko (にゃーこ), the older sister of Nyatta (にゃっ太), lies very ill in her room. By accident, Nyatta drowns in the bathtub and, whilst being clinically dead, sees his sister leaving the house holding hands with the Japanese version of Ksitigarbha (known as Jizou in Japanese) and proceeds to follow them. Nyatta tries to take... | psychedelic, dark | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0087428 | The Hotel New Hampshire | This novel is the story of the Berrys, a quirky New Hampshire family composed of a married couple, Win and Mary, and their five children. The parents, both from the small town of Dairy, New Hampshire, fall in love while working at a summer resort hotel in Maine as teenagers. There they meet a Viennese Jew named Freud w... | comedy, satire, romantic | train | wikipedia | Then you discover the other bizarre characters and their relationships and the movie becomes, to me at least, extremely lovable.Admittedly, Rob Lowe's acting isn't up to much, and that's glaringly obvious here, but it doesn't destroy the film, and there's great work, as usual, from Jodie Foster to compensate.Basically,... |
tt0112757 | The Cure | Set in a small town of Stillwater, Minnesota, Erik (Brad Renfro) is a 13-year-old adolescent loner with an emotionally abusive and neglectful workaholic mother, Gail (Diana Scarwid) who hardly spends time with him. His father, who treated Erik considerably better than his mother, lives in New Orleans. Dexter (Joseph Ma... | tragedy | train | wikipedia | The story is focused on the friendship between two young boys Erik and Dexter, eleven and twelve years old, who are very different from each other but they are becoming the best (and only) friends.
The movie also is full of incredibly powerful and emotional symbolism, (particularly strong with Erik's shoe) which also g... |
tt0210719 | The Great Gatsby | In 1929, Nick Carraway, a World War I veteran, is receiving treatment for alcoholism at a psychiatric hospital. He talks about Jay Gatsby, the most hopeful man he had ever met. Nick's doctor suggests that he writes his thoughts down, since writing is Nick's passion.
In the summer of 1922, Nick moves from the Midwest to... | tragedy, romantic, depressing, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0118735 | Blackrock | Blackrock is an Australian beachside working-class suburb where surfing is popular among youths like Jared (Laurence Breuls). His first serious girlfriend is Rachel (Jessica Napier), who comes from a much wealthier part of the city. One day, Ricko (Simon Lyndon), a surfer popular among the local youths, returns from an... | tragedy, revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | Stunning acting from a young cast.
The subject matter is completely galling, that of a mass rape and subsequent murder of a teenage girl.
This movie's strength however should not be underestimated.
It doesn't really attempt to moralise or provide answers, it simply examines the interactions of the teenagers affected by... |
tt0034946 | Kings Row | The film commences in 1890 in the small midwestern town of Kings Row, focusing on five children. They are 1) Parris Mitchell (Robert Cummings), who lives with his grandmother; 2) Cassandra Tower (Betty Field), daughter of Dr. Alexander Tower (Claude Rains); 3) the wealthy and fun-loving orphan Drake McHugh (Ronald Reag... | romantic, murder, sadist, melodrama | train | wikipedia | Betty Field did an outstanding job as the doomed Cassie.The film also deals with a sadistic surgeon played by Charles Coburn, in a terrific brief dramatic performance.
We see the class differences among Drake, Dr. Mitchell (Cummings) and in a terrific performance, Ann Sheridan as a girl from the wrong side of the track... |
tt0926762 | Loft | Five married men share ownership of an upmarket loft, which they use to discreetly meet their respective mistresses. When the body of a murdered woman is found in that loft, the men begin to suspect each other of having committed the gruesome crime, as they are the only ones with keys to the premises. Through flashback... | intrigue, revenge, mystery, murder, plot twist | train | wikipedia | Highly recommended Belgian movie Loft (2008), proved to be a very engaging cinematic fare about five married men renting a state-of-the-art loft apartment as a playground for their extramarital affairs and a meeting point for encounters with their mistresses, one of them, eventually, becoming an object of a crime scene... |
tt0427528 | Mercenary for Justice | CIA dirty deeds man John Dresham (Luke Goss) and Black Ops organiser Anthony Chapel (Roger Guenveur Smith) hire John Seeger (Steven Seagal) and his crew for a mission in the French-controlled Galmoral Island in Southern Africa. They tell them they are helping the locals when in reality they just want to get rich on oil... | revenge, violence | train | wikipedia | If you've kept up with Seagal's direct-to-video career (as I diligently have) "Mercenary for Justice" is certainly a step in the right direction.
Second, although there's more gun-play than Aikido, Seagal performs in all his own action sequences (no stunt/body doubles) and the fight choreography is relatively classic S... |
tt0116705 | Jingle All the Way | Howard Langston is a workaholic mattress salesman with no time for his wife, Liz, and his 9-year-old son, Jamie — especially when compared to next door "superdad" divorcee, Ted Maltin, who continually puts Howard in a bad light. After missing Jamie's karate class graduation, Howard resolves to redeem himself by fulfill... | comic | train | wikipedia | By throwing a social commentary joke over the heads of audiences instead of into their minds, and then by delivering a biting message that stands just as true today as it did when it first came out, Jingle All The Way went from disappointment to one of the most realistic holiday films ever, despite its lack of realism.... |
tt0042007 | Undertow | Miguel (Cristian Mercado) is a young fisherman of Cabo Blanco, a small village in northern Peru with specific traditions regarding death. He is married to Mariela (Tatiana Astengo), who is pregnant with their first son, but he also has a secret affair with a male painter called Santiago (Manolo Cardona).
Santiago accid... | murder | train | wikipedia | Pretty much pure plot, still, one of the bricks making up the noir cycle.
There's more to Undertow than the first screen credit of young `Roc' Hudson (in fact his tiny role as a police detective barely registers).
It's one of a handful of noirs that William Castle directed before turning his attention to, and making hi... |
tt0024537 | The Secret of Madame Blanche | Sally Sanders (Irene Dunne) is an American showgirl visiting London in 1898 when she marries Leonard St. John (Phillips Holmes), much to the displeasure of his wealthy and snobbish father, Aubrey St. Johns (Lionel Atwill), who cuts off his son. The couple moves to France. When Leonard is unable to provide a living for ... | melodrama | train | wikipedia | Irene Dunne scores....
another winner is this Madame-X-type film about mother love.
She plays a classy stage performer who marries the spoiled son (Phillips Holmes)of a selfish rich man (Lionel Atwill).
The son commits suicide after the father cuts him off and Dunne then loses the baby to the evil old man.
She fends fo... |
tt5463338 | Bastion | Set in a dark, dystopian world of the near future, the Cold War never ended and instead has seen the other side gain the upper hand. The British Prime Minister (John Alcock) addresses the nation as the newly formed CSR (Coalition of Socialist Republics), headed by the USSR and the People’s Republic of China is tipped t... | psychological | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0220627 | Maelström | The story is told by a fish (with the voice of Pierre Lebeau). In Quebec during the autumn of 1999, twenty-five-year-old Bibiane Champagne (Marie-Josée Croze), head of three clothing boutiques, is being crushed by the expectations put on her for being the daughter of a celebrity, Flo Fabert. She resorts to drugs and al... | psychedelic, romantic | train | wikipedia | There are opening scenes to movies, and then there's Maelstrom!
The tale is simple, easy to follow, but I won't give it away - the unusual coincidences and twists in this film should be experienced fresh.
However, the course of the story brings the viewer various emotions; frustration and disdain at a young woman engag... |
tt0098625 | We're No Angels | Three convicts – Joseph, Albert and Jules – escape from prison on Devil's Island just before Christmas and arrive at a nearby French colonial town. They go to a store managed by the Ducotel family, the only one to give supplies on credit. While there, they notice its roof is leaking, and offer to fix it. They do not ac... | comedy | train | wikipedia | The acting is perfect for this script, DeNiro and Penn are so funny and also serious when is needed.
For the people of our days a comedy is something like Scary Movie or a movie that makes you laugh every minute because of something stupid.
But "We're No Angels" is funny, is romantic, is serious, is educative, is simpl... |
tt2337576 | Scooby-Doo! WrestleMania Mystery | Scooby-Doo and Shaggy win an all-expenses-paid stay at WWE City to watch WrestleMania after beating the hardest level of the organization's latest video game. At the insistence of the duo, Fred, Daphne, and Velma agree to join them on the trip to WWE City. Upon their arrival, the Mystery Machine crashes on a ditch afte... | horror | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0167116 | Desert Saints | Arthur Banks (Kiefer Sutherland) is an Ivy League-educated hitman for Latin American drug cartels who picks up solitary women, uses them as cover for a hit, then kills them. His trademark is a bullet with a tungsten core. Over the years, he has become wary of the FBI's attempts to catch him, including by use of satelli... | violence, neo noir, philosophical | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0465339 | Madlax | The first half of the series alternates between the two leads. Madlax is one of the most efficient special ops agents for hire in the war-torn Gazth-Sonika, while Margaret Burton is a sleepy, clumsy amnesiac living in Nafrece, a country styled after France. When a "picture book", presumably given to Margaret by her lat... | paranormal, brainwashing, romantic | train | wikipedia | An excellent piece of Japanese animation.
These last year Japan has been producing really few nice material, from 24 minutes propaganda of toys and cars to blackmail oriented themes (just for adults), it was nothing really good to see, even sagas like Gundam were suffering a "pussification" (come on guys, Kira, Athrun,... |
tt0024747 | Waltzes from Vienna | Waltzes from Vienna begins the sound of the fire brigade horn and the clip-clop of horses’ hooves, as the firemen race towards a fire at Ebezeder’s Café. Upstairs from the café, Resi and Schani are oblivious to the danger, lost in a love duet that concludes with Schani telling Resi that he has dedicated his newest song... | romantic | train | wikipedia | This is a fairly entertaining pre-War cheaply made British musical comedy which sadly fails in a number of ways: it was the 3rd film with Jessie Matthews and Edmund Gwenn, and definitely the least satisfying of them; it was Hitchcock directing a non-thriller with his heart not in it; Hitchcock and Matthews didn't get o... |
tt0065501 | A Bullet for Pretty Boy | Oklahoma farmer Charles Floyd marries Ruby. At the reception, some goons insult Ruby and Charles attacks them. This results in Floyd's father and one of the goons being killed. Floyd is convicted of the crime and sent to work on the chain gang.
Several years later Floyd escapes from prison and takes refuge in a brothel... | neo noir, suspenseful, depressing, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0113443 | It's My Party | It's My Party chronicles a two-day party hosted by Nick Stark (Eric Roberts) a gay architect who, having been diagnosed with progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, will fall into a state of mental lapse lasting for months until his death. He decides to host a party for his family and friends, at the end of which h... | queer | train | wikipedia | ..well, almost.For me, the emotions start pouring over me when I empathize with all of Nick's loving friends, including his former lover Brandon, who are somewhat supportive of his decision, yet really not ready to let him go quite yet.As someone else mentioned, the wink that Nick gives Brandon, signalling his forgiven... |
tt1484521 | 30 Beats | The plot is set in New York City over three days in the lives of 10 different characters who interact with each other in various sexual encounters which follows from one character to the next.
It begins when a young woman, named Julie (Condola Rashad), meets at a loft with her former anthropology professor, named Adam ... | paranormal | train | wikipedia | I love Jennifer Tilly. And I got to see Jennifer Tilly do a great role here in 30 Beats!Ten people, ten little stories. Summer in New York City, people are hot and horny! Each character is linked to another in some way ... and each one is seeking sexual satisfaction.That's the story, these ten people can only find sati... |
tt4018316 | My Name Is Nobody | Jack Beauregard (Henry Fonda) is an aging gunslinger who wants to retire peacefully to Europe. The film opens with three gunmen attempting to ambush him in a barbershop. After he has dispatched them, the barber's son asks his father if there is anyone in the world faster than Beauregard, to which the barber replies, "F... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0109642 | Dolores Claiborne | Dolores Claiborne (Kathy Bates) works as a domestic servant on a Maine island. The film opens with Dolores having a struggle with her elderly, paralyzed employer Vera Donovan (Judy Parfitt) in her mansion, after which Vera falls down the staircase. Dolores ransacks the kitchen and is then caught by a mailman as she sta... | dramatic, violence, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | Somehow this gripping, brilliantly-acted thriller was overlooked and underrated when it was first released in 1995, but it's probably the best movie ever made from a Stephen King story.Kathy Bates has never been better.
She's better here than about ten Oscar-winning actors I can think of, put together -- a one-woman te... |
tt0067185 | Harold and Maude | Harold Chasen (Bud Cort) is a young man obsessed with death. He stages elaborate fake suicides, attends funerals and drives a hearse, all to the chagrin of his socialite mother (Vivian Pickles). She sets him up appointments with a psychiatrist, but the doctor is befuddled by his case and fails to get Harold to talk abo... | comedy, dark, cute, cult, psychedelic, humor | train | wikipedia | I first came to Harold and Maude from a suggestion from an eccentric friend who I thought I would humor by tracking down a 34-year-old movie.
Not that the list means anything, it didn't include DUMB & DUMBER the funniest damn movie ever made, but I agreed with this choice.Bud Cort is Harold, a morbid teenage boy neglec... |
tt0104437 | Honey I Blew Up the Kid | Five years after inventor Wayne Szalinski shrunk his children, his family have moved to Nevada, and welcomed a new son, mischievous two-year old Adam. Wayne’s wife Diane leaves on a Friday with their daughter Amy for college, leaving Wayne to look after Adam and their teenage son Nick, who struggles with puberty. He de... | cult | train | wikipedia | Here's another example of the sequel being slightly better than the original, at least in my humble opinion.
However, the original ("Honey, I Shrunk The Kids") was nothing super, not something you'd call a "classic." It was "pretty good." This one is "good." It had more laughs and less irritating kids.
The little kid i... |
tt0252444 | Rabbit-Proof Fence | Set in 1931, two sisters, 14-year-old Molly and 8-year-old Daisy, and their 10-year-old cousin Gracie live in the Western Australian town of Jigalong. The town lies along the northern part of Australia's rabbit-proof fence, which runs for several thousand miles.
Thousands of miles away, the official Protector of Wester... | melodrama, boring, historical, depressing, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0049130 | Death of a Scoundrel | Clementi Sabourin, a wealthy and scandalous businessman, is found dead. Police come to investigate, and when they question Bridget Kelly, who found the body, she tells them everything she knows about his past.
A Czech refugee, missing and believed dead, Sabourin one day turns up to find his love Zina is now married to ... | murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0114127 | The Piano Lesson | Act 1, Scene 1 Boy Willie and Lymon arrive in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from Mississippi and enter the Charles' household at five in the morning. They have brought a truck of watermelons to sell. Against Doaker's advice, Boy Willie wakes his sister Berniece, and tells her of Sutter's death. Berniece accuses Boy Willie ... | depressing | train | wikipedia | Excellent play & film!.
I first viewed this film in a literature class in 2003, and it quickly became one of my favorites.
It rather saddens me that so many people complain that there's no story, no action.
There is a lot of story to this film, if you want to take the time to watch and appreciate it.
Not every movie ha... |
tt0083906 | Eureka | Eureka is a drama set mainly in rural Kyushu, Japan, and is almost entirely shot in sepia tone. It tells the story of the lasting effects of a violent experience on three people, a teenage brother and sister, Naoki and Kozue Tamura and a bus driver, Makoto Sawai. These three are the sole survivors after the bus is hija... | violence, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0094606 | The Accidental Tourist | Macon Leary (William Hurt) is a Baltimore writer of travel guides for reluctant business travelers, which detail how best to avoid unpleasantness and difficulty.
His marriage to his wife Sarah (Kathleen Turner) is disintegrating in the aftermath of the murder of their twelve-year-old son, Ethan. Sarah eventually leaves... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0034368 | Wabbit Twouble | Elmer, riding in his old jalopy to a Conga beat, makes his way to Jellostone National Park (a pun on Yellowstone National Park) while looking forward to rest and relaxation. Elmer pitches a tent near Bugs Bunny's rabbit hole, and sets up camp by putting a fire stove, a mirror and a table to wash his face, and a hammock... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0057122 | Gunfighters of Casa Grande | Joe Daylight is on the run along with members of his outlaw gang, The Kid, Doc and Henri. After fleeing from a bank robbery, they manage to elude the posse chasing them after crossing into Mexico. The gang had agreed to meet up later to divide up the money, however Daylight instead tells them that he has used the money... | western, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0107979 | Robot Wars | By 2041, North America has been ravaged by "the great toxic gas scare of 1993": large swaths of land have been turned into inhospitable desert, where bands of raiders called "Centros" attack transports. The former United States have been assimilated into a Western bloc called the North Hemi. The opposing Eastern bloc i... | cult, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0085224 | The Being | In the fictional town of Pottsville, Idaho citizens begin disappearing. Young Michael Smith, son of Marge Smith (Dorothy Malone) is the first to vanish. A young man is decapitated while fleeing from an unseen assailant, and patrons in a drive-in theater are brutally murdered inside their vehicles. At each scene a pile ... | cult, revenge | train | wikipedia | ripoff of some earlier toxic waste monster movies.
Martin Landau plays a 'scientist' who is heading up a toxic waste dump research project who tries at first to stand in the detective's way, but then conceded that 'yes in fact, there is a problem in Pottsville...' Along the way we meet some awful actors and actresses a... |
tt0108768 | Fantaghirò 4 | A mysterious black cloud is travelling across the land, bringing death and destruction wherever it goes. Fantaghirò is helping the people of her kingdom escape to safety when she crosses paths with young Prince Parsel. Parsel is chasing the black cloud because it took his castle, and he is trying to find a way to get i... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Star Wars in fairy tale land. Let's recall the three films preceding this one:1) Fantaghiro falls in love and unites three war-torn kingdoms 2) Fantaghiro fights an evil sorceress 3) The evil sorceress becomes a sidekick and Fantaghiro fights an evil sorcerer and now: 4) The evil sorceress remains a sidekick and the ev... |
tt0432291 | The Fog | As the Californian coastal town of Antonio Bay is about to celebrate its 100th anniversary, paranormal activity begins to occur at the stroke of midnight. Town priest Father Malone is in his church when a piece of masonry falls from the wall, revealing a cavity containing an old journal, his grandfather's diary from a ... | revenge, murder, storytelling, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0076804 | Telefon | After the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Soviet Union planted a number of long-term, deep-cover sleeper agents all over the United States, spies so thoroughly brainwashed that even they did not know they were agents and can be activated only by a special code phrase (a line from Robert Frost's poem "Stopping by Woods on a S... | brainwashing | train | wikipedia | The Robert Frost poem, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," utilized to trigger the drug-induced hypnotized Soviet agents to finish their mission becomes a pun for KGB agent Maj. Grigori Borzov (Bronson)when ready to give alluring Barbara (Lee Remick) a tumble in the hay.
Borzov looks KGB agent Barbara lustfully in ... |
tt1859603 | The Guest House | Rachel is a rebellious 18-year-old musician who lives with her father, Frank, at their Los Angeles home. Before leaving on a business trip one morning, her father informs her that his new employee, a recent college graduate named Amy, will be coming to stay in their guest house for a few days while she gets settled. Am... | pornographic, gothic | train | wikipedia | The Guest House is not, by any stretch of imagination, a "good movie." However, it is an enjoyable, easy to watch romp in lesbian fantasy-land.
If you are looking for flowing dialog, lack of cliché's, though- provoking storyline conflict, then this film is not for you.
However, if you would like to check out of the rea... |
tt0783601 | Trainwreck: My Life as an Idiot | American Loser is a comedy-drama based upon the experiences of comedian Jeff Nichols; it follows Jeff as he encounters a remarkable variety of personal and emotional problems.
Edging closer to his thirties Jeff (Seann William Scott) has a heavy drinking problem coupled with ADHD, dyslexia, and a mild case of Tourette s... | flashback | train | wikipedia | Funny and engaging.
I saw this film at SIFF last night with my g/f and her mother.I didn't research the film at all, just looked at the description and gave it a go.
So when the opening credits said it was a true story, i thought it was a joke.
It wasn't.The movie itself moves along very well and the main character pus... |
tt0034913 | Japoteurs | The story begins with a shot of the front page of the Daily Planet. The headline reads "World's Largest Bombing Plane Finally Completed." The man reading the newspaper is Japanese, he stands up and looks at a picture of the Statue of Liberty in his office, then pushes a button on his desk, and the picture changes into ... | psychedelic, comic | train | wikipedia | LOOK, Up In the Sky!
It's a Bird!
It's a Plane!
It's a JAPOTEUR!
Hollywood Wartime Efforts even included making up new words!.
FOLLOWING the business coup of the year of 1941, Max and Dave, the Brothers Fleischer were removed from their own Studio by Paramount Pictures Corporation.
Former employees such as Seymour Knei... |
tt0038977 | Springtime for Thomas | When the first day of Spring sets in, Jerry wants to play with Tom, but Tom's attention has become fully focused on Toodles Galore, a very feminine white cat, who is sunbathing outside. It is love at first sight, and as Tom rushes to pick up Toodles' handkerchief, she blows a kiss him, knocking him lovesick. As Toodles... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | How Easily We Males Are Ruined By A Beautiful Female.
This cartoon might be the ultimate - and wildly exaggerated - example of how us men can make such fools of ourselves over beautiful women.
We are just putty in their hands!It's springtime and Tom is love, so much so they doesn't even pay attention when Jerry rips of... |
tt1456603 | Release | Father Jack Gillie (Daniel Brocklebank) enters prison a guilty man, convicted for a crime that sees the Church abandon him, his congregation desert him and his faith challenged. His fellow inmates believe he's been convicted of paedophilia and begin to plant the seed of doubt into the mind of his teenage cellmate; Rook... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0259442 | The Monkey's Mask | A young woman called Mickey (Abbie Cornish) reads a poem to an audience at a bar. When she leaves, she gets into an unseen person's car.
Jill Fitzpatrick (Porter) is a former police officer and a private detective who investigates missing persons. She gets a job to look for Mickey, who has been missing for two weeks. J... | murder | train | wikipedia | Dorothy Porter's book "The Monkey's Mask" was a groundbreaker on numerous levels.
Furthermore, Porter took a harboiled detective/ noir narrative and relocated it from the streets of NY or LA to seamy inner-city Sydney.
Where once we had misogynist male gumshoes(i.e. Sam Spade), Porter gave us Jill Fitzpatrick, a female... |
tt0421357 | Hagane no renkinjutsushi | === Setting ===
Fullmetal Alchemist takes place in an alternate history, in the fictional country of Amestris (アメストリス, Amesutorisu). In the world, alchemy is one of the most-practiced sciences; Alchemists who work for the government are known as State Alchemists (国家錬金術師, Kokka Renkinjutsushi) and are automatically give... | psychedelic, comedy, violence, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | If you watch them all together, it begins and ends so quickly you feel like you've been hit by a truck when it finally DOES end.Full Metal Alchemist is a prime example of excellent story writing.
In short: If your an anime fan, or just dipping your toes, FullMetal Alchemist is a showcase of wonderful characters and plo... |
tt2084989 | Upstream Color | The film starts with a man (mentioned in the credits as the "Thief") who appears to be harvesting a type of larva for the unusual effects it has on the human mind when ingested.
At a club, Kris (Amy Seimetz) is tasered and kidnapped by the Thief. He drugs her with a strange capsule, inducing a sort of hypnotic suscepti... | dark, avant garde, murder, allegory, psychedelic, brainwashing | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1281374 | Don McKay | Don McKay (Thomas Haden Church) is a lonely high school janitor who one day receives a letter from his high school sweetheart, Sonny (Elisabeth Shue). In it, she asks him to come visit her back in their home town, because she is dying of an unnamed disease. At first he is reluctant because he had been a suspect in a mu... | neo noir | train | wikipedia | I didn't really know what to expect; it appeared to be a thriller and although I would categorize it as that, I was surprised at how funny it was.Seriously, the whole audience seemed to be caught up in the plot - the pace and the twists and turns leave you a little breathless at times, but belly-laughing as well.
I'm a... |
tt0194376 | Silent Hill | All the plots of the installments in the Silent Hill series, except Shattered Memories, share a common setting: the foggy rural American town of Silent Hill, which is a fictitious location set in the northeastern United States: some games specifically reference the town as being located in Maine, whereas in the film, t... | good versus evil, violence, suspenseful, gothic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0113828 | Les misérables | === Volume I – Fantine ===
The story begins in 1815 in Digne, as the peasant Jean Valjean, just released from 19 years' imprisonment in the Bagne of Toulon—five for stealing bread for his starving sister and her family and fourteen more for numerous escape attempts—is turned away by innkeepers because his yellow passpo... | romantic, murder, melodrama | train | wikipedia | And sometimes that quest for justice and truth must be mounted against all odds, as in this 1995 version of `Les Miserables,' written for the screen and directed by Claude Lelouch.
An imaginative retelling of the Hugo classic, Lelouch updates the story to the Twentieth Century, beginning with the stroke of midnight tha... |
tt0487156 | In Her Line of Fire | 'Air Force Two', the aeroplane carrying the Vice-President of the United States and his staff, is flying over the South Pacific, when it's damaged by an electrical storm. It's forced to ditch in the ocean off the coast of the (fictional) country of San Pietro, near Solomon Islands.
As the few survivors make it onto a b... | suspenseful, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | If you like action flicks it is quite entertaining.
Why the plane crashed in the first place is uncertain, when the plane crossed over the island it's engines where running and the pilot had both elevator and aileron control judging by the way it maneuvered around obstacles on the island.
The crash was of course necess... |
tt0140379 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | The play consists of four interconnecting plots, connected by a celebration of the wedding of Duke Theseus of Athens and the Amazon queen, Hippolyta, which is set simultaneously in the woodland and in the realm of Fairyland, under the light of the moon.
The play opens with Hermia, who is in love with Lysander, resistan... | romantic, fantasy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0113264 | Harrison Bergeron | In the year 2081, amendments to the Constitution dictate that all Americans are fully equal and not allowed to be smarter, better-looking, or more physically able than anyone else. The Handicapper General's agents enforce the equality laws, forcing citizens to wear "handicaps": masks for those who are too beautiful, ra... | comedy, satire | train | wikipedia | I had no idea what it was, and it had the familiar TV-movie feel but it also had something compelling which kept my interest so I sat and watched it through.I was amazed by this film, partly because of the scope, partly because of the parallels I could see in the world around me (which have only increased since), partl... |
tt1632479 | Call of Duty: Black Ops | === Single-player ===
==== Characters and setting ====
Call of Duty: Black Ops takes place during the 1960s in the Cold War, around 20 years after the events of World at War. It focuses on CIA clandestine black operations carried out behind enemy lines. Missions take place in various locations around the globe such as ... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | An awesome game.Singleplayer campaign is very fun and interesting,but it's not a COD style and that's probably why so many people don't like it.In my opinion every Call Of Duty had a good story,especially first MW and it was always a good thing,of course.But this time they overdid it.In FPS,story should be there just s... |
tt0436992 | Doctor Who | Following the Master's trial and execution at the hands of the Daleks, the Doctor, currently in his seventh incarnation, is transporting the Master's remains to Gallifrey via his TARDIS. En route, the box with the remains breaks open and an ooze leaks out, infecting the TARDIS. The Doctor is forced to make an emergency... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0110510 | Midnight Run for Your Life | Lorna Bellstratten (Walters), a waitress with dreams of being in show business, is duped by her drug-dealer boyfriend Michael Vega (Guastaferro) into delivering a bomb to an undercover cop. Though Lorna survives the explosion (intended to kill her and the cop), she finds herself—as the only material witness to the crim... | comedy, violence, romantic | train | wikipedia | An entertaining movie! Where is the DVD?. All of the fans of "Midnight Run" label this movie as extremely bad. Not at all. This movie has everything but the cursing.Midnight Run for Your Life was fantastic.Christopher McDonald plays Jack Walsh very well. Melora Walters is a perfect Lorna Bellstratten. The story for thi... |
tt0083207 | Timon of Athens | In the beginning, Timon is a wealthy and generous Athenian gentleman. He hosts a large banquet, attended by nearly all the main characters. Timon gives away money wastefully, and everyone wants to please him to get more, except for Apemantus, a churlish philosopher whose cynicism Timon cannot yet appreciate. He accepts... | satire | train | wikipedia | null |
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