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tt0210609 | China Gate | Sergeant Brock (Gene Barry) and Goldie (Nat King Cole) are American Korean War veterans now serving as French Foreign Legion mercenaries in the First Indochina War. Angie Dickinson plays Brock's wife, a "half caste" Chinese Eurasian named "Lucky Legs" who resorts to smuggling to feed her five-year-old son she had with ... | good versus evil, violence, revenge, murder, sadist | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0038395 | Canyon Passage | In 1856, ambitious freight company and store owner Logan Stuart (Dana Andrews) agrees to escort Lucy Overmire (Susan Hayward) home to the settlement of Jacksonville, Oregon, along with his latest shipment. Lucy is engaged to Logan's best friend, George Camrose (Brian Donlevy). The night before they depart, however, Log... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0078330 | Stranger in Our House | The story concerns a young woman named Julia (Lee Purcell) who goes to live with her aunt's family after she loses both her parents and their housekeeper in a car crash. Although they haven't seen her in ten years, Julia's aunt Leslie, her husband Tom (Jeremy Slate), her son Peter (Jeff East), daughter Rachel (Linda Bl... | cult, romantic | train | wikipedia | Linda Blair is this film's main draw today, but Lee Purcell is the real star of the show: at first I wasn't too sure about her, but she has the mysteriously seductive presence that her role calls for, and her performance literally gets better by the minute.
This may be a Wes Craven movie, but it is also a TV movie, so ... |
tt1781775 | Beneath the Darkness | Vaughn Ely is a beloved native of a small Texas town with a dark secret. Formerly the star quarterback, now he's the local mortician. When Ely discovers that his wife Rosemary is cheating on him with the high school English teacher's husband, David Moore, he makes sure they can't do it again. First, he kills Rosemary, ... | flashback | train | wikipedia | When one of them gets murdered it's up to the others to prove the morticians guilt.The movie follows a lot of the classic thriller trappings and pitfalls.
No one believes the kids story despite the obvious weirdness of the mortician character played brilliantly by Dennis Quaid with tongue planted firmly in cheek.
There... |
tt0968264 | The Conspirator | On April 14, 1865, five days after the Civil War ends with the South's surrender to the North at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, lawyer and Union veteran Frederick Aiken, with his friends, William Thomas Hamilton and Nicholas Baker, and girlfriend, Sarah Weston, celebrate. Later that same night, Southerner Lewis Payn... | revenge, sentimental, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0206314 | Joy Ride | Rob and Candy are holed up in a motel room, using methamphetine and having sex. When they run out of drugs, Rob convinces Candy to use the CB to lure a trucker to their room, so they can rob him. Rusty Nail responds to Candy's summons. When Rob answers the door, Rusty realizes he's been tricked and takes the pair capti... | dark, suspenseful, cruelty, murder, romantic, revenge, prank | train | wikipedia | "Joy Ride" is an extremely entertaining road-set horror/thriller that was surprisingly quite good.
The film is about Lewis (Paul Walker), a college coed who decides to buy himself a car and take off across the desert to pick up a would-be-girlfriend, Venna (Leelee Sobieski) in Colorado for a road trip together.
After h... |
tt0027521 | The Devil-Doll | Paul Lavond (Barrymore), who was wrongly convicted of robbing his own Paris bank and killing a night watchman more than seventeen years ago, escapes Devil's Island with Marcel (Henry B. Walthall), a scientist who is trying to create a formula to reduce people to one-sixth of their original size. The intended purpose of... | revenge, murder, melodrama | train | wikipedia | Disguised as an old woman, an escaped convict uses the creations of a pair of mad scientists to further his schemes of personal revenge.Director Tod Browning, master of the macabre, had another winner with this little horror/science fiction film.
The actual story itself - with tiny, shrunken people being used to carry ... |
tt0417001 | Must Love Dogs | Sarah Nolan, an attractive 40-year-old divorced preschool teacher, is urged by her family to date more. Although they show her photos of men with whom they want to set her up, Sarah does not seem interested in pursuing any relationships. Jake Anderson, another recent divorcee, finds himself in a similar position; his l... | romantic | train | wikipedia | She then finds herself caught between two men, as she starts seeing the father of one her students (Mulroney) and a man who she meets through the dating service who seems far too perfect (Cusack).Must Love Dogs is a familiar yet enjoyable romantic comedy that should keep you entertained for a while.
The film works well... |
tt0255198 | Gojira tai Megagirasu: Jî shômetsu sakusen | The prologue of the film acknowledges the events of the first Godzilla film (using the present Godzilla monster rather than the 1954 monster), while inventing its own timeline, explaining that the capital of Japan was moved from Tokyo to Osaka. The film takes place in an alternate universe with advanced technology, exp... | revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1937506 | The Philly Kid | Following ten years in a Louisiana prison after being wrongly convicted of assault and murder of a police officer, NCAA champion wrestler Dillon is paroled. Back in his home neighborhood in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, his friend Jake is in deep trouble with gamblers, and Dillon agrees to pay off his debt by cage fighting. ... | murder | train | wikipedia | OK, It's not an epic, and it certainly could have some smoother edits, but as jaded as I can be after roughly 5000 movies I think that this is a very good film.First remember the genre'.
Fun,engaging and well acted,Wes Chatham,Devon Sawa, Sarah Butler,and Adam Mervis do a lot to develop believable and vulnerable charac... |
tt1055335 | Transformers: Animated | === Pilot episodes ===
The series began with a three-part pilot called "Transform and Roll Out!". Stellar cycles (centuries) after the Autobots won the great war for Cybertron against the Decepticons, an Autobot maintenance crew led by Optimus Prime and consisting of Ratchet, Bulkhead, Prowl, and Bumblebee discover the... | sci-fi | train | wikipedia | More social themes like corruption, propaganda, the problems of single parenthood and "empty nest syndrome"(especially after the point where Sari "grows up) are thrown in in the later seasons allowing even older audiences to look at Transformers as not just a show to promote toys.Mentioning Sari, she is the mandatory "... |
tt0038612 | Home on the Range | Maggie is the only cow left on the Dixon Ranch after Alameda Slim (a cattle rustler capable of stealing 500 in a single night) stole all the rest of Mr. Dixon's cattle. Dixon sells Maggie to Pearl, a kind and elderly woman who runs a small farm called Patch of Heaven. The local Sheriff arrives to tell Pearl that her ba... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | gimmicks galore. As the genre wears on, I guess it becomes increasingly dependent on gimmicks. Well, perhaps these'll be enough to trip your trigger: pretty scenery filmed in color; a plot that emphasizes the importance of the game preserve (complete with much scene-stealing by the animals); the singing cowboy, reinf... |
tt0087197 | Electric Dreams | Miles Harding is an architect who envisions a brick shaped like a jigsaw puzzle piece that could enable buildings to withstand earthquakes. Seeking a way to get organized, he buys a personal computer to help him develop his ideas. Although he is initially unsure that he will even be able to correctly operate the comput... | cult, romantic | train | wikipedia | The story of a boy, a girl, and a computer trying to find the meaning of love could have easily been a ridiculously campy movie, but instead is played out with a lighthearted sincerity.
Lenny Von Dolen's portrayal of architect Miles Harding is done well, conveying the feelings of insecurity and wonder of falling in lov... |
tt0093407 | Less Than Zero | Clay Easton (Andrew McCarthy) is a straitlaced college freshman on the east coast, who returns home to Los Angeles, California, for Christmas to find things very different from the way he left them. His high school girlfriend, Blair (Jami Gertz), has become addicted to cocaine and has been having sex with his high scho... | romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1468381 | Undocumented | Filmmakers Travis, William, Liz, Davie, and Jim are filming a documentary on illegal Mexican immigrants. After interviewing several of Davie's family members and harassing an employer of illegal immigrants named Whitaker, the group accompanies a large group of immigrants including Davie's cousin Alberto and his wife an... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0079428 | The Lady Vanishes | English tourist Iris Henderson (Margaret Lockwood) arrives at the "Gasthof Petrus" inn in the country of Bandrika, "one of Europe's few undiscovered corners". Iris is returning to Britain to marry a "blue-blooded cheque chaser", but an avalanche has blocked the railway line. The stranded passengers are forced to stay t... | comedy, intrigue | train | wikipedia | The original is a classic and generally considered the best of Hitchcock's early British films.
But if you forget about the comparisons and let this remake stand on its own, it's actually pretty decent: good-looking, beautifully scored, and well-cast, even in the secondary roles.
The two leads are likably goofy (they d... |
tt0112041 | Streets of Laredo | A trio of outlaws, Jim Dawkins (Holden), Loren Renning (Carey), and Reuben "Wahoo" Jones (Bendix), rob a stage. But when a young lady, Rannie Carter (Freeman), is menaced by rich and ruthless Charley Calico (Alfonso Bedoya) after her father is killed, the robbers come to her rescue. They run him off, then pay old Pop L... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | Granted, both the original Lonesome Dove novel and film are unique works of extremely fascinating classic story telling.
Streets of Laredo obviously has a great deal to live up to and, when viewed or read in conjunction with Dove, it does suffer in the sense that our familiarity is slightly snubbed.
Violent death or at... |
tt0061576 | Dio perdona... Io no! | Bill San Antonio accuses his old friend and partner Cat of cheating at cards. Bill orders the others out and tells his henchman Bud to set fire to the house. Then they have a stand-up duel and Bill falls. When Cat emerges from the house the gang follows Bill’s orders – Cat is allowed to leave. After the funeral the men... | western, revenge, murder, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | Unusual, But Great Spencer/Hill Spaghetti Western.
I Don't!" is not only the first film with both Bud Spencer and Terence Hill in the leading parts, it is also one of their best movies.
I Don't!" is not one of the usual Spencer/Hill comedies, but a pretty brutal and rather serious Spaghetti Western.The movie starts wit... |
tt0435653 | The Gravedancers | An unidentified young woman, alone in a room, is attacked by an invisible assailant, who hangs her in the stairway of her house. As she dies, she drops an ornate black envelope.
A year later, former college friends Sid (Marcus Thomas), Kira (Josie Maran), and Harris (Dominic Purcell) go out drinking after a funeral. Th... | paranormal, murder, sadist | train | wikipedia | "The Gravedancers", one of the 8 Films To Die For at the After Dark Horrorfest, is a surprisingly original little supernatural horror movie.
Definitely one of the better films to be part of the After Dark Horror Fest, "The Gravedancers" is a pretty original movie that captures the style of '70s and '80s supernatural ho... |
tt2628316 | Green Street 3: Never Back Down | Danny Harvey was once the leader of the Green Street Elite, a group of hooligans supporting their beloved West Ham United. However, grown tired of the lifestyle, he leaves home and sets up shop as a mixed martial arts gym owner in Northern Ireland. After being confronted by some Irish goons for some protection money, D... | revenge, flashback | train | wikipedia | The truth is that this part of the trilogy Green Street is not like the previous movies.
This film doesn't care about the violence between the football fans and its bad consequences.
The movie is just showing us some people, who are training to compete in an underground fighting tournament.
Of course the leading actor ... |
tt0033152 | The Thief of Bagdad | Ahmed (Douglas Fairbanks) robs as he pleases in the city of Baghdad. Wandering into a mosque, he tells the holy man (Charles Belcher) he disdains his religion; his philosophy is, "What I want, I take."
That night, he sneaks into the palace of the caliph (Brandon Hurst) using a magic rope he stole during ritual prayers.... | fantasy, murder | train | wikipedia | This is an exception: A genuinely magical film, one of the best fantasy films ever made.A beautiful film made in the most glowing of technicolors, it tells the simple story of a boy thief (Sabu) meeting a dethroned prince (the gorgeous John Justin), and helping him defeat the wonderfully evil usurper Conrad Veidt.
The... |
tt0026191 | Ceiling Zero | Old pals Jake Lee (Pat O'Brien), Tex Clarke (Stuart Erwin) and Dizzy Davis (James Cagney) flew together in the Army during World War I. Almost 20 years later, Jake is the manager of the Newark, New Jersey branch of Federal Airlines, a New York-based airline company. Tex works as an airmail pilot and Dizzy, also still f... | depressing | train | wikipedia | The Flawed Aviator.
Mail pilot Dizzy Davis (James Cagney) is a daredevil and a womanizer like a textbook example.
After he dropped a scheduled flight because of a rendezvous, his friend and colleague Texas Clarke (Stuart Erwin) stands in for him.
Due to bad sight, the plane meets with an accident while landing, and Tex... |
tt1712170 | Alex Cross | Dr. Alex Cross (Tyler Perry) is a psychologist and police lieutenant who lives in Detroit with his wife Maria (Carmen Ejogo) and their children. After learning Maria is pregnant, Cross considers accepting a job as an FBI profiler. Meanwhile, a man (Matthew Fox) participates in an underground fighting match and seduces ... | violence, revenge, murder, sadist, flashback | train | wikipedia | Skeptics may think Tyler Perry was a bad choice to fill in a young Morgan Freeman's shoes but he was absolutely fine in the role.
It's just impossible to be drawn to the character, and you'd think with a title like Alex Cross that we'd get a deep look into the mind of the title character, but instead they spoon-feed us... |
tt0118492 | Timecop | By the year 1994, time travel has been developed and is used for illicit purposes. The Time Enforcement Commission (TEC) has been established to police the use of time travel, with Senator Aaron McComb overseeing operations and financing. Police officer Max Walker has been offered a position with the TEC but is unsure ... | alternate reality | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1625856 | Badrinath | Bheeshma Narayan (Prakash Raj) is a religious guru who prepares an army for the protection of all the ancient Hindu temples from terrorists. Of all the valiant and talented warriors in this elite army, Badrinath (Allu Arjun) is one who is groomed by Bheeshma Narayan and wishes to make Badri his successor. Once, a group... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1972591 | King Arthur: Legend of the Sword | Mordred, an iron fisted warlock, and his armies lay siege to Camelot, seeking to establish the dominance of magic-wielding mages over humankind. Uther Pendragon, king of the Britons, infiltrates Mordred's lair and beheads him, destroying his forces and saving Camelot. Later that evening, Uther's treacherous brother Vor... | historical fiction | train | wikipedia | If you actually want a movie where you know everything already starting from the story, characters and twists then I'd call you the stupidest ever.
Yes this isn't your typical king Arthur movie, and that adds even more to the awesomeness of it.amnt saying the movie is flawless, no movie is, but it was great starti... |
tt0113271 | The Haunting of Helen Walker | An unnamed narrator listens to Douglas, a friend, read a manuscript written by a former governess whom Douglas claims to have known and who is now dead. The manuscript tells the story of how the young governess is hired by a man who has become responsible for his young nephew and niece after the deaths of their parents... | paranormal, haunting | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1372686 | Coriolanus | The play opens in Rome shortly after the expulsion of the Tarquin kings. There are riots in progress, after stores of grain were withheld from ordinary citizens. The rioters are particularly angry at Caius Marcius, a brilliant Roman general whom they blame for the grain being taken away. The rioters encounter a patrici... | tragedy | train | wikipedia | Ralph Fiennes captured the timeless concepts that Shakespeare expressed in his play brilliantly - so much so that I feel there will be strong/visceral audience reaction to the film's depiction of themes that reflect in today's front page stories.
This film ranks with Kenneth Brannagh's "Henry V" and Baz Luhrmann's "Wil... |
tt0345074 | Connie and Carla | Connie (Nia Vardalos) and Carla (Toni Collette) are two performers whose lifelong friendship and co-obsession with musical theater have brought nothing but career dead ends. Despite this they continue their optimism, hosting a variety act at an airport lounge. After accidentally witnessing a mafia hit in Chicago, they ... | murder | train | wikipedia | Her silly and girlish character is a winner....especially after opening an unknown package in the car.Nia Vardalos will never win an acting award, but still has fun developing her own roles that she clearly writes for herself.
You'll be hardpressed to find better on screen chemistry between any two people that will be ... |
tt0054469 | Where the Boys Are | The main focus of Where the Boys Are is the "coming of age" of four girl students at a midwestern university during spring vacation. As the film opens, Merritt Andrews (Dolores Hart), the smart and assertive leader of the quartet, expresses the opinion in class that premarital sex might be something young women should ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Whether it was meant to be or not, this film is one of decisions, learning, and friendships that are strengthened due to the experiences four college girls share during Spring Break in Ft. Lauderdale.
It's a testament to how well this film has held up for the past forty-three years, not an easy task considering it's su... |
tt0434179 | Marebito | Masuoka (Shinya Tsukamoto) carries a camera everywhere he goes. He becomes obsessed with the idea of fear when he sees a frightened man shove a knife in his eye to commit suicide. Wishing to understand the fear that the man must have felt before his death, Masuoka descends into a labyrinthine underground area beneath t... | murder | train | wikipedia | Thanks to his series of ghost stories, "Ju-on", Japanese director Takashi Shimizu has become one of the most recognized names of the New Wave of Asian horror cinema, the movement of young Asian directors that since the late 90s has produced some of the best and most original horror movies of the last years.
The enormou... |
tt0023685 | The Wet Parade | In the early 20th Century, with the Prohibition Era approaching, two families come undone over the evils of alcohol.
The drinking of Roger Chilcote costs him everything, including all his family's money after gambling it away, after his daughter Maggie May's repeated attempts to persuade him to quit. Chilcote commits s... | insanity, murder | train | wikipedia | It's difficult to find old movies that I haven't already seen, so it was with great anticipation that I watched The Wet Parade, 1932, for the first time.
The best part is that this intensely dramatic flick was made a full year before prohibition ended, so the full flavor of the alcohol-soaked theme really hits home.
Th... |
tt0203247 | Avengers | The Asgardian Loki encounters the Other, the leader of an extraterrestrial race known as the Chitauri. In exchange for retrieving the Tesseract,2 a powerful energy source of unknown potential, the Other promises Loki an army with which he can subjugate Earth. Nick Fury, director of the espionage agency S.H.I.E.L.D., an... | good versus evil | train | wikipedia | Insults the comics.
This really bad series insults the classic comics at every turn.
Everything that was great about the comics is twisted and ripped apart here.
The stories are bad, but the characters are even worse, most of all Hawkeye.
If anyone from the show reads this I suggest you do the following.
1) Bring back ... |
tt0072812 | Conduct Unbecoming | Around 1880, two young British officers arrive to join a regiment in India. One, Lieutenant Drake (Michael York), from a middle-class background, is extremely eager to make the right impression while the other, Lieutenant Millington (James Faulkner), the son of a General, is keen to get out as soon as possible and deli... | suspenseful, prank, storytelling, flashback | train | wikipedia | Definitely Underrated Film.
"Conduct Unbecoming" is a sort of thriller settled in a British regiment in colonial India.
The widow of a heroic officer is assaulted by an unrevealed comrade in arms and an investigation takes place.In my opinion, though not a classic and not even perhaps a great movie, this film is a most... |
tt0107554 | Menace II Society | Caine Lawson and his best friend Kevin Anderson (O-Dog) enter a local store to buy malt liquor, but are suspiciously watched and goaded by a Korean storekeeper and his wife to hurriedly pay and leave. As they leave, the storekeeper makes a remark to O-Dog about his mother, angering O-Dog. An argument begins, but soon t... | comedy, suspenseful, neo noir, murder, bleak, cult, revenge, violence, flashback, romantic, blaxploitation | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0050933 | Sayonara | Major Lloyd "Ace" Gruver (Marlon Brando), the son of a U.S. Army general, is stationed at Itami Air Force Base near Kobe, Japan. He falls in love with a Japanese entertainer, Hana-ogi (Miiko Taka), who is a performer for a Takarazuka-like theater company, whom he meets through his enlisted crew chief, Airman Joe Kelly ... | romantic, melodrama | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0038854 | The Postman Always Rings Twice | Frank Chambers (John Garfield) is a hobo who stops at a rural diner for a meal and ends up working there. The diner is operated by a beautiful young woman, Cora Smith (Lana Turner), and her much older husband, Nick (Cecil Kellaway).
Frank and Cora start to have an affair soon after they meet. Cora is tired of her situa... | cult, murder | train | wikipedia | Based on Cain's sexual novel this underplays the explicit references but turns the subtle stuff way up - the film opens with a `Man Wanted' sign, while Cora is so well played that there's no doubt what she's offering.
Cain (author of "Double Indemnity") was a gritty unsentimental story of a low-class drifter and bum, F... |
tt4190530 | Anthropoid | It is the height of Nazi occupation in Europe.
In December 1941, two agents from the Czechoslovak government-in-exile, Jozef Gabčík (Cillian Murphy) and Jan Kubiš (Jamie Dornan) are parachuted into their occupied homeland. Jozef is injured when he crashes through a tree upon landing, but both men set out to find their ... | revenge, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | "Anthropoid" opens with two resistance fighers, Jan Kubis a Czech (Jamie Dornan) and Jozef Gabcik, a Slovak (Cillian Murphy), being parachuted into Czechoslovakia after their training in England.
On 27 May 1942, at a tight street corner in Prague, two resistance parachutists - the Czech Jan Kubi and the Slovak Jozef G... |
tt0160910 | Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Dark Forces II | The game is set one year after the events of Return of the Jedi. The player controls Kyle Katarn, who made his first appearance as a mercenary in Dark Forces. On Nar Shaddaa, Katarn meets with an information broker droid named 8t88 who tells Katarn that his father, Morgan Katarn, was killed by a Dark Jedi named Jerec, ... | revenge, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0207485 | Fainaru fantajî II | === Characters ===
Final Fantasy II features four playable characters as well as several secondary characters who are only briefly controlled by the player. Primary characters include Firion (フリオニール, Furionīru, "Frioniel" in the Japanese release and English NES prototype), a resident of the country of Fynn and the main... | tragedy | train | wikipedia | Brilliant.
Final Fantasy II was a game I arrived upon during a mad rush to play every Final Fantasy game that ever was.
I had played 1, 6, 7 and most of 5 when I found it for the NES emulator, completely translated, and it blew me away.
The music is downright haunting, and the plotline, although odd, is totally grippin... |
tt0028203 | Romeo and Juliet | 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, revenge, action, murder | train | wikipedia | ROMEO AND JULIET, the scions of old Verona's two most powerful families, become the playthings of fate & the fools of fortune.This was a Very Big Film for MGM in 1936.
Several choice roles were available for MGM's brightest stars and the part of Juliet would be the desire of every young actress on the lot.Almost predic... |
tt0289800 | O Clone | In the early 1980s, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Jade (Giovanna Antonelli), a young Muslim girl is orphaned when her mother dies and has to go to Morocco where her uncle Alí lives. The problem is that Jade was living in a country with a culture very different from that of an Islamic country. Thus, once she arrives in Morocc... | romantic | train | wikipedia | The best soap opera of the beginning of 21st century.
Topics like drugs, two similar religions, forbidden love and ethics are mixed by Gloria Perez very well..
What do you get when you mix the story of two young lovers and the making of a human clone?
You get an interesting story by way of a Brazilian telenovela (soap ... |
tt0068278 | Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant | Petra von Kant (Carstersen) is a prominent fashion designer based in Bremen. The film is almost totally restricted to her apartment's bedroom, decorated by a huge reproduction of Poussin's Midas and Bacchus (c.1630), which depicts naked and partially clothed men. The room also contains numerous life-size mannequins for... | violence, murder, sadist, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0083909 | The Executioner's Song | The movie is about the final nine months of the life of Gary Gilmore, beginning with his release from prison at the age of 35 after serving 12 years for robbery in Indiana. He is allowed to fly to Utah to live with Brenda Nicol, a distant cousin who was close to him and agrees to sponsor him. She tries to help him get ... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0374271 | Tere Naam | Radhe Mohan (Salman Khan) is a college rowdy who uses violence as the only way to deal with people. He lives with his brother, a Magistrate (Sachin Khedekar), and his sister-in-law (Savita Prabhune), who is the only person who seems to understand him properly, and their little daughter Binti.
Radhe wins the elections t... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0113097 | Forget Paris | At a restaurant in New York City, Andy prepares to introduce his friends to his fiancée, Liz. As the couple waits for the rest of the party to arrive, Andy tells Liz the story of how his friends Mickey and Ellen came to fall in love. As each of Andy's friends arrive, more of the story is unfolded.
Mickey Gordon is a Na... | boring, flashback | train | wikipedia | Forget Paris is admittedly a film carried almost entirely by Billy Crystal, but with such witty delivery, he's perfect.
Rose-tinted views of Paris, alongside near slapstick sketches in the States, makes for a fast-paced tale that you can just sit back and enjoy.Mickey (Crystal) travels to France to bury his father, onl... |
tt0029440 | The Prince and the Pauper | Tom Canty, youngest son of a poor family living in Offal Court, London, has always aspired to a better life, encouraged by the local priest (who has taught him to read and write). Loitering around the palace gates one day, he sees a prince (the Prince of Wales – Edward VI). Coming too close in his intense excitement, T... | violence, action | train | wikipedia | Twain Classic, with Flynn in Support of the Mauch Twins!.
In 1937, the WB, capitalizing on Errol Flynn's spectacular performances in CAPTAIN BLOOD and THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE, cast him in four films, with varying degrees of success.
The best, by far, was William Keighley and William Dieterle's production of the... |
tt0107912 | Quick | Seoul, 2004. A group of bikers are joy-riding through the streets and while their leader the teenage Han Ki-su (Lee Min-ki) is tearfully berated by girlfriend Chun-shim (Kang Ye-won) for scorning her. The biker Kim Myung-shik (Kim In-kwon) is attracted to Chun-shim watches dolefully. Following some heavy traffic, Ki-su... | cult, murder | train | wikipedia | Formula flick with clever twist.
The plot has a clever little twist, the titled assassin to a woman!
Teri Polo is excellent, and veteran character actor Jeff Fahey plays his role with a somewhat sadistic cheerfulness.
Tia Carrera, fresh off from Wayne's World, expands herself as Fahey's police partner.
Martin Donovan i... |
tt0400690 | Jûbei ninpûchô: Ryuhogyoku-hen | In Edo period-Japan, the Yamashiro clan mines gold in secret, and sends a shipment to the Toyotomi Shogun of the Dark as payment for his protection. The Shogun of the Dark intends to use the gold to buy advanced Spanish weaponry and overthrow the current government, the Tokugawa Shogunate. The ship runs aground onto Mo... | psychedelic, comedy, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0044157 | The Two Mouseketeers | Jerry and Nibbles are two mouseketeers who decide to help themselves to a lavish royal banquet. Tom has been ordered to guard the spread from the King's Mouseketeers with his life, under threat of execution by beheading from the guillotine. Jerry and Nibbles enter the castle hall through a stained-glass window. Jerry r... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0040397 | Gorilla My Dreams | "Sweet Dreams, Sweetheart" plays briefly under the title card, and the cartoon opens with a trail of carrot tops floating on the seas. Bugs is stranded in a barrel in the middle of the ocean, but he doesn't seem to mind - he's reading Esquire magazine (considered an "adults only" magazine at that time) and singing the ... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Artwork, Puns Best Part Of This 'Toon.
Bugs, floating in a barrel in the ocean but unperturbed by it all, washes ashore on "Bingzi- Bangzi - Land of the Ferocious Apes." After some beautiful artwork showing the jungle, we come across some apes lying around reading books with titles such as "Apes Of Wrath" and "Our Vine... |
tt0788026 | Beau Brummell: This Charming Man | Brummell shares an intimate moment with Prince George while advising him on his wedding outfit (which is incorrectly shown in the film as a ceremonial dress) and, invites him to dinner along with his friends. He is appointed as royal sartorial advisor by the newly dandified Prince and all debts of his are dropped as wo... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0057254 | The List of Adrian Messenger | A writer named Adrian Messenger (John Merivale) believes a series of apparently unrelated "accidental" deaths are actually linked murders. He asks his friend Anthony Gethryn (George C. Scott), recently retired from MI5, to help clear up the mystery. However, Messenger's plane is bombed while he is en route to collect e... | murder | train | wikipedia | John Huston displays an indiscreet lack of subtlety, taxing our tolerance with a somewhat modern English whodunit with an extra publicity stunt: Numerous major Hollywood actors are announced to appear in the film, but are all thickly concealed in John Chambers' make-up design: Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, Tony Curtis ... |
tt0025410 | Little Miss Marker | The film tells the story of "Marky" (Shirley Temple), whose father gives her to a gangster-run gambling operation as a "marker" (collateral) for a bet. When he loses his bet and commits suicide, the gangsters are left with her on their hands. They decide to keep her temporarily and use her to help pull off one of their... | revenge, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0067983 | Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? | Mrs. Forrest, in the eyes of the staff and children at an orphanage, is a sweet, kind-mannered and children-loving widow, who throws a lavish annual Christmas party at her mansion, Forrest Grange (known to the orphans as the "Gingerbread House") for ten of the best-mannered children at the orphanage. But secretly, she ... | insanity | train | wikipedia | Who Slew Auntie Roo is still one of the most cleverly constructed films of the 70s.An interesting and fascinating take on the Hansel and Gretel story.
He died leaving her his fortune and creepy mansion called "Forrest Grange" Their little 7 year old daughter Katherine died after falling off a banister that she was slid... |
tt0490134 | Ghostboat | HMS Scorpion, a British submarine that had gone missing in the Baltic Sea during the Second World War, surfaces in the path of a Russian freighter in 1981. The vessel is returned to British custody. Naval Intelligence is interested in the case because it seems that, for the first time, a ship has returned from "the Dev... | haunting | train | wikipedia | Quite a lot of CGI in this piece of ITV telly, but not to the extent that it takes away from the acting or the story.
In this age where people want more and more 'instant classics', this will probably not impress some people who will see it as a predictable story with an equally predictable ending.
David Jason can easi... |
tt0902290 | I Sell the Dead | While awaiting his execution for murder and grave robbery, Arthur Blake (Dominic Monaghan) is visited by Father Duffy (Ron Perlman), who wishes to obtain a statement from the condemned to be used as a cautionary tale. Arthur denies that he is a murderer, a crime for which his former partner, Willie Grimes (Larry Fessen... | comedy, gothic, murder, flashback, revenge, storytelling | train | wikipedia | null |
tt3684500 | Downhill | At an expensive English boarding school for boys, Roddy Berwick (Ivor Novello) is School Captain and star rugby player. He and his best friend Tim Wakely (Robin Irvine) start seeing a waitress Mabel (Annette Benson). Out of pique, she tells the headmaster that she is pregnant and that Roddy is the father. In fact it wa... | violence | train | wikipedia | Bad trip.
Yes pun intended.
Although if you're looking for humor, you shouldn't stop and watch this.
Unless you like laughing at how bad some things are.
Like the dialog, or the "acting".
The story in general and some of the special effects too.
Is there any saving grace?
One of the accidental fun of course - and I gue... |
tt0117260 | Original Gangstas | The movie opens to a narration detailing the poor economic state of a gang-ridden Gary. The narrator explains to the audience of how the city came into such a state. After the opening narrative, the scene switches to the base of operations for the Rebels, a local street gang, and a one-on-one basketball game between a ... | violence, revenge, murder, blaxploitation | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0093148 | Harry and the Hendersons | George Henderson (John Lithgow) is returning to his Seattle home with his family from a camping trip in the nearby Cascade mountains when they hit something with the family station wagon. George investigates, and discovers to his horror and awe, that they have hit a Sasquatch. Thinking they have killed it, they decide ... | comedy | train | wikipedia | In fact, it touched me so much to see how something that is often portrayed as scary was so gentle and caring.From the introduction when Harry is first discovered (in a rather unfortunate way) to the end of the movie, the Hendersons learn that Harry is more human than they ever thought, and that he has a bigger heart t... |
tt0051850 | The Legend of Sleepy Hollow | From the listless repose of the place, and the peculiar character of its inhabitants, who are descendants from the original Dutch settlers, this sequestered glen has long been known by name of Sleepy Hollow ... A drowsy, dreamy influence seems to hang over the land, and to pervade the very atmosphere.
The story is set ... | psychedelic, horror, storytelling, romantic | train | wikipedia | I love this animated short!
The music is great, and Bing Crosby does a wonderful job as the narrator.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a truly wonderful gem, that I personally think is underrated.
Bing Crosby, a great actor and singer, narrates and sings, and I thought he was sublime, so effective and expressive.
Of cour... |
tt0047366 | Princess of the Nile | Egypt, 1249: The father of Princess Shalimar has fallen under the spell of the sinister Shaman, who drugs him and tries to keep daughter Shalimar a prisoner. She knows a secret passage, however, and slips away at night to entertain the oppressed villagers of Hanwan by disguising herself as Taura, a popular dancer in th... | intrigue | train | wikipedia | She plays a sultry-innocent 13th-century princess who rouses her people to save Egypt from the ambitions of a powerful Beduin (Michael Rennie) and joins her forces with the son of the Caliph of Baghdad (Jeffrey Hunter) to save her trembling throne...
She also finds time to fulfill a great deal of exotic dancing...
Her ... |
tt0072267 | The Terminal Man | Harry Benson, an extremely intelligent (IQ 144) computer programmer in his 30s, suffers from epilepsy. He often has seizures which induce a blackout, after which he awakens to unfamiliar surroundings with indications of unpredictably violent behavior on his part. He also suffers from delusions that computers will rise ... | murder, cult, violence, insanity, tragedy, suspenseful, sadist | train | wikipedia | The only one who thinks with heart as well as head is the Joan Hackett character, and the clash between her and the good 'ol boys of science is both profound and heartbreaking.I urge anyone with an IQ larger than their shoe size to ignore the negative comments and give this film a chance.
It's the kind of film we could... |
tt0116790 | Kolja | The film begins in 1988 as the Soviet bloc is beginning to disintegrate. František Louka, a middle-aged Czech man dedicated to bachelorhood and the pursuit of women, is a concert cellist struggling to eke out a living by playing funerals at the Prague crematorium. He has lost his previous job at the Czech Philharmonic,... | romantic, historical, storytelling | train | wikipedia | Take the old formula of two mismatched people being forced to live together, and rejuvenate it by losing the cliches and adding excellent script and direction, and utterly superb acting by all the cast, especially the two leads (the grouch and the boy).
Set in the twilight of Communist rule in Czechoslovakia, we find L... |
tt0461642 | 7 Zwerge - Der Wald ist nicht genug | Hansel and Gretel are lost in the forest. Gretel thinks to see a dwarf in the bushes but it is a disgusting humanlike creature. It scares Hansel and Gretel who run further into the woods. Bubi appears not much later and he asks the creature his name. The creature only reveals to be "The Evil One" and nobody else knows ... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | Simply awful and unwatchable.
A really bad sequel.
Part 1 had a lot of funny moments - part 2 is just bad (in a boring way) and obviously made to squeeze money out of the fans.Shame on you, Otto Waalkes!The only slightly amusing moment in the film is Helge Schneider who apparently seems to be pis*ed about the other cha... |
tt0095188 | Funny Farm | Andy Farmer (Chase) is a New York City sports writer who moves with his wife, Elizabeth (Smith) to the seemingly charming town of Redbud, Vermont, so he can write a novel. They do not get along well with the residents, and other quirks arise such as being given exorbitant funeral bills for a long-dead man buried on the... | comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0086251 | The Scarlet and the Black | In 1943, the Nazi military occupies Rome. Pope Pius XII (John Gielgud) is approached by General Max Helm and SS Head of Police for Rome Lieutenant Colonel Herbert Kappler (Christopher Plummer). The Colonel expresses concern that escaped Allied prisoners may attempt to seek refuge in the Vatican, and requests permission... | suspenseful | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0116488 | Hard Core Logo | The movie is about a documentary team that follows the reunion of Hard Core Logo. Joe Dick gets the band back together ostensibly for an anti-gun benefit after hearing Canadian punk rock legend Bucky Haight, and personal mentor, is shot. They begin the tour in Vancouver and travel to Edmonton, via Winnipeg. On the way ... | comedy, violence, satire, romantic, storytelling, home movie | train | wikipedia | This is a more ambitious movie, and its mood is much darker -- while it has its comic moments, it's not a film to watch when you're feeling down.This particular American viewer had no trouble with the Canadian references -- yes, we can tell Canadian cities apart and know exactly which Quebeckers the bassist was talking... |
tt0092494 | *batteries not included | Frank and Faye Riley (Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy), an elderly couple who run an apartment building and café in the run-down East Village neighborhood, come under threat by a nearby property development. The development manager, Lacey, sends a hoodlum named Carlos and his gang of thugs to bribe the couple and their t... | cute | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0358273 | Walk the Line | In 1968, as an audience of inmates at Folsom State Prison cheer for Johnny Cash's band, he waits backstage near a table saw, reminding him of his early life.
In 1944, Johnny, then known as J.R., grows up the son of a sharecropper on a cotton farm in Dyess, Arkansas. He is known for his singing of hymns, while his broth... | romantic, humor, boring, sentimental | train | wikipedia | Short of a computer generated Cash walking around in his own bio-pic like one of those John Wayne beer commercials this is the definitive representation.And yet Phoenix may not give the best performance in the film.Reese Witherspoon more than holds up her end in a role that easily could have been reduced to a clichéd b... |
tt0857376 | Gabriel | Since the beginning of time, Heaven and Hell have fought over Purgatory and the souls trapped inside it. Each side has sent seven warriors: archangels (Arcs) from Heaven, fallen angels (Fallen) from Hell. They must assume human form to enter purgatory. Hell has attained control, transforming purgatory into a dark, seed... | good versus evil, paranormal, gothic | train | wikipedia | Their is action in this film, but it is depicted a lot more realistically than most people probably would have liked.At the end of the day, this is not the horrible movie that the first reviewer is making it out to be.
Oh sure, it has a Jesus-like story arc much like the Matrix and a good vs bad that pretty much every ... |
tt0398533 | Onegai Twins | Please Twins! is a story about three high-school students: Maiku Kamishiro, Karen Onodera, and Miina Miyafuji. The three were drawn together by a photograph of their childhood home which later makes all of them seek out the house in the picture. However, the picture shows only two children, a boy and a girl. The three ... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Spin off with a lighthearted mood. Onegai Teacher is my favorite anime, bar none. The first thing that I noticed about Onegai Twins was that it was more sexual Then Onegai Teacher, and far less Sci-fi, doing away with the starships and the Galaxy Federation, although on a few occasions you do see Transfers used. The st... |
tt0080641 | The Dogs of War | Having escaped from Central America, mercenaries James Shannon, Drew, Derek, Michel, Terry and Richard, get an offer from a British businessman, Roy Endean. He is interested in "certain resources" in the small African nation of Zangaro, which is run by the brutal dictator, General Kimba.
Shannon goes on a reconnaissanc... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | It concerns a military coup in an African country and stars Christopher Walken and Tom Berenger , though he has said in interviews that around half of his role was omitted from the final release print .
It deals with mercenary James Shannon (Christopher Walken) , on a reconnaissance job to the African nation of Zangaro... |
tt0057608 | Twice-Told Tales | Each of the three sequences is introduced by Vincent Price (in a voice-over). Price also stars in all three narratives.
=== "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" ===
Two elderly friends, Carl Heidegger (Sebastian Cabot) and Alex (Price), meet to celebrate Heidegger's 79th birthday. They discover that Heidegger's fiancée from 38... | romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | This is a compilation of three short films based on Nathaniel Hawthorne works--Heidegger's Experiment, Rappaccini's Daughter and The House of Seven Gables.
But if you're not acclimated to the style, it takes some getting used to.It's definitely worth getting used to, because these three short films by director Sidney S... |
tt0062365 | Thunder Alley | A race car driver, Tommy Callahan, retires after a blackout causes the death of another driver on the motorway. After the accident, he begins working at a Pete Madsen's "Thrill Circus" as a stunt driver. There he meets the proprietor's daughter, Francie, who also drives there, and her boyfriend Eddie Sands.
Bored by hi... | flashback | train | wikipedia | Funicello's swan song at AIP.
Thunder Alley was the last film Annette Funicello made for American International Pictures, and to some extent the reasons become clear during a viewing.1967 was a transitional period at AIP.
The Beach Party movies (1963-1966) had run out of steam, but the studio had not yet moved into the... |
tt0117247 | One Fine Day | Melanie Parker (Michelle Pfeiffer) is an architect and divorced single mother to son, Sammy (Alex D. Linz). Her day gets off to a bad start when she is late to drop him off at school, due to the forgetfulness of fellow single parent Jack Taylor (George Clooney), a New York Daily News reporter whose daughter, Maggie (Ma... | romantic, comedy, fantasy | train | wikipedia | In "One Fine Day" Jack Taylor (George Clooney) and Melanie Parker (Michelle Pfeiffer) meet when their children miss a school field trip, and after much bickering they finally agree to take shifts in watching their kids.
Yes, you may think its cheesy that Jack's a famed newspaper columnist bringing down a mob member and... |
tt0372172 | Gun Survivor 4: Biohazard - Heroes Never Die | Underneath Raccoon City exists a genetic research facility called the Hive, owned by the Umbrella Corporation. A thief steals the genetically engineered T-virus and contaminates the Hive with it. In response, the facility's artificial intelligence, the Red Queen, seals the Hive and kills everyone inside.
Alice awakens ... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0068612 | Fritz the Cat | In a New York City park, hippies have gathered with guitars to sing protest songs. Fritz and his buddies show up in an attempt to meet girls. When a trio of attractive females walk by, Fritz and his friends exhaust themselves trying to get their attention, but find that the girls are more interested in the crow standin... | pornographic, avant garde, adult comedy, cult, violence, psychedelic, humor, satire, philosophical | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0124501 | Evil Come Evil Go | "Sister" Sarah Jane Butler, a hymn-humming religious fanatic who believes God has chosen her to cleanse the world of those who have sex for pleasure, seduces a bar patron, and guts him after the two leave together. Sarah then drives to Los Angeles, and lures another man to his death, scrawling "God is Love, not Sex" on... | pornographic, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | Weird mix of religious fanaticism, sex, gore.
This film, a weird cross-breed of horror and soft-core porn, is one of the more original low budget flicks from the 70s.
Apparently intended for the grindhouse crowd(and coming near the end of that era), this movie mixes sex with religious fanaticism and gore.
Sister Sarah ... |
tt0024756 | We're in the Money | Ginger Stewart (Joan Blondell) and Dixie Tilton (Glenda Farrell) are offered $1000 by ditsy lawyer Homer Bronson (Hugh Herbert) to serve subpoenas on reluctant witnesses for a breach of promise lawsuit brought by Claire LeClaire against wealthy C. Richard Courtney (Ross Alexander). They have a deadline, as a new state ... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | early instance of inanimate objects coming to life.
There were a few instances during the 1930-35 Warner Bros.
cartoons when inanimate objects came to life, but the Termite Terrace perfected the genre in the late '30s.
"We're in the Money" has a gaggle of toys dancing to the title song in a department store.
Frank Tash... |
tt0047714 | House Party | In their high-school cafeteria, Peter, also known as "Play" (Christopher "Play" Martin) announces to his friends Christopher aka "Kid" (Reid) and Bilal (Martin Lawrence) that he will be having a party at his house that night, as his parents are on vacation. The reluctant Bilal is to be the DJ. Kid is then involved in a... | non fiction | train | wikipedia | The best and longest running daytime variety show.. Art Linkletter's House Party ran from 1952-1969 due totally to the easy going style of Art Linkletter himself. It was a half hour format airing at 11:30AM on the West Coast that featured a variety of special guests, games,and popular interviews with young school child... |
tt0246500 | Who Is Cletis Tout? | The film is told primarily in flashback, as the film first follows a hitman, Critical Jim (Tim Allen), who follows and holds at gunpoint a man he believes is Cletis Tout - but who actually is Finch (Christian Slater). Because Critical Jim is so fond of film noir and other classic films (such as Casablanca and Breakfast... | bleak, boring | train | wikipedia | I have avoided this movie since the day it came out, firstly it had Tim Allen in it, second that poster looked hideous and thirdly it was an ensemble piece.
It just looked stupid, I had heard it was good, but the name, the poster and the Tim Allen thing all made me walk past this movie over and over again in the video ... |
tt0063293 | Il mercenario | On the northern side of the Mexico–United States border, Sergei "Polack" Kowalski, a well-groomed, greedy mercenary, attends a circus performance where he recognizes the show's lead rodeo clown as Paco Roman. During the performance, Kowalski reminisces on how he and Paco fought together as revolutionaries against the M... | western, avant garde, sadist | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0034902 | Invisible Agent | The grandson of Dr. Jack Griffin, the original Invisible Man, has emigrated to the United States and now runs a print shop in Manhattan under the assumed name of Frank Raymond (Jon Hall). In his shop he is confronted by four armed men who reveal that they know his true identity. One of the men, Conrad Stauffer (Cedric ... | sadist | train | wikipedia | I actually didn't even know about this film, let alone not knowing its ties to the Universal Studios' Invisible Man series.
Anyhow, the grandson gets offered a fortune to sell his grandfather's secret formula to the Nazis, but refuses and goes undercover as a spy for the United States using the formula to spy on the Na... |
tt1233301 | Ironclad | A prologue describes how the barons of England, aided by the Knights Templar, fought against tyrannical King John in a war that lasted more than three years. It ended with the King signing the Magna Carta, a document granting rights to all English freemen.
King John regrets succumbing to the pressure of the barons to s... | violence, action, cruelty, sadist | train | wikipedia | Once again, the "Michael Bay Effect" has ruined a film that would have otherwise looked excellent, and wasted the work of an obviously talented action choreographer.Despite its flaws, fans of mud'n'blood, hack'n'slash mini-epics will find plenty to like in 'Ironclad'.
Real history does not generally run smoothly nor is... |
tt0234354 | Novocaine | Generally, the film is a dark and quirky "tragicomedy". The "everyman" protagonist, Dr. Frank Sangster (Steve Martin), is a dentist with a fairly pleasant but rather innocuous, ordinary and uneventful life. But all of this gets derailed, and Frank's life descends into an increasingly complex mess, from the minute a bea... | suspenseful, comedy, murder, claustrophobic | train | wikipedia | And there couldn't have been a more thrilling cast to watch on screen.Novocaine is a suspense thriller, as well as an extremely funny movie.
Steve Martin is believable as a dentist who sees his life spiraling out of control after a series of cascading lies sets him up as a murder suspect.
If you want to see a pretty go... |
tt2063008 | The Road | A father and his young son journey across post-apocalyptic America some years after an extinction event. Their names are never revealed in the story. The land is covered with ash and devoid of life. The boy's mother, pregnant with him at the time of the disaster, committed suicide shortly after giving birth.
Realizing ... | murder | train | wikipedia | It starts in 2008 when three youngsters were terrorized by a driver-less red car one night when they happened to pick this particular road on which to practice driving.
The story shifts to 1998, when two sisters (one of them Rhian Ramos) whose red car overheated on that same road, only to fall victims to a quiet but me... |
tt3506492 | Lolita from Interstellar Space | Lolita (Anna Morna), a young woman from a far off planet, hands in an essay on Earth culture which she receives a poor grade. Her professor Zarron (Mick Manning) sends her down to Earth to study the culture. Lolita arrives on Earth and meets 3 college roommates Sara (Christine Nguyen), Brandy (Karlie Montana), and Joe ... | pornographic | train | wikipedia | Unexpectedly Expected. Somehow I thought this wasn't porn, only to find that it was in fact the most awkward fap I've had with friends.. Worth Watching For Anna Morna & Karlie Montana. Lolita from interstellar space 2014 is just another parody of science fiction films with a touch of Lolita character i have seen a lot ... |
tt1264115 | The Trial | On his thirtieth birthday, the chief cashier of a bank, Josef K., is unexpectedly arrested by two unidentified agents from an unspecified agency for an unspecified crime. The agents' boss later arrives and holds a mini-tribunal in the room of K.'s neighbor, Fräulein Bürstner. K. is not taken away, however, but left "fr... | murder | train | wikipedia | If you see it stars Matthew Modine than make sure you catch it.The film opens with Modine who has been unable to come to grips with the death of his wife and children ready to blow the top of his head off with a revolver.
As he's ready to do the deed, a phone call comes.It's from Judge Rance Howard who wants to get Mod... |
tt2300975 | Jessabelle | The pregnant Jessabelle "Jessie" Laurent (Sarah Snook) is about to move to her fiancé, Mark's (Brian Hallisay) house when their car is hit by a truck, killing Mark and causing Jessie's miscarriage. Two months afterward, the wheelchair-bound Jessie moves in with her estranged father, Leon (David Andrews) in St. Francis,... | haunting | train | wikipedia | As a devout Horror fan with a declared preference towards ghost stories and hauntings, I had looked forward to seeing another usual film of the genre, mediocre yet frightening and fun to watch.While Jessabelle is light-years away from competing with the sub- genres best like The Grudge or Dead Silence, it completes the... |
tt0091982 | Le solitaire | The policeman Stan Jalard and his colleague Simon Lecache are rather fed up with police work. They are toying with the idea to quit police service in order to run a hotel on the Antilles. Single father Lecache has already asked his son Christian about it. But at the very evening when Lecache tells Jalard that his son a... | revenge | train | wikipedia | Belmondo takes the lion's share.. Jacques Deray,who recently died, made several commendable works ,even if he never made a masterpiece:"la piscine" "un papillon sur l'épaule" or in his latter days "un crime".But "le solitaire" has nothing going for it:here Deray is Belmondo's drudge,trying to direct a star who overplay... |
tt0026095 | La bandera | Curfew bells are ringing at night in Paris, while a man and his drunken girlfriend Jacqueline walk down the street. Pierre Gilieth comes out of house #25 looking very frightened, both Pierre Gilieth and Jacqueline accidentally collide while consumed in their distraction. Pierre Gilieth decides to walk away but leaves a... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | Riffraff Beau Geste..
"La bandera" is one of Julien Duvivier's most famous movies,but it seems a bit dated now.People who saw a version of "Beau Geste" cannot help but be struck by the similarities between the two stories:the "legion etrangere" ,as a way out when the police is hot on your heels.But whereas Beau Geste c... |
tt0039883 | Take My Life | Nicholas "Nicky" Talbot attends the London debut of his wife, opera singer Philippa Shelley, at Covent Garden. After her successful performance, Nicky runs into former girlfriend Elizabeth Rusman backstage, a musician in the orchestra, who asks for his help. She gives him her address before Philippa appears (and keeps ... | murder | train | wikipedia | "Take My life" is one of the better films of its era in British film making.
A Rank Film that catched the attention of Hollywood and brought its leading actress Greta Gynt to the film capitol of the world.
The merits of "Take My Life" is in its fast paced and skillfully directed hands of Ronald Neame.
The feeling of su... |
tt0126478 | My Tale Is Hot | Ben-Hur Ova (played by Little), who has a loving and devoted wife, Miassis (played by Reddy), is voted the "World's Most Faithful Husband" by Ladies House Companion magazine.
Lucifer U. Devil (played by Gardens) is upset because there have not been enough new souls in Hell. The last "major" arrival was Adolf Hitler. Lu... | humor | train | wikipedia | There is a short version of this film out there. I recently got the DVD "Satanis/Sinthia" from Netflix--a particularly cheesy and not especially good collection of super-low budget films about the Devil. One is a documentary about the Church of Satan and the other is a sex film that I skipped--it just wasn't interestin... |
tt0109836 | Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | In 1794 Captain Walton leads a troubled expedition to reach the North Pole. While their ship is trapped in the ice of the Arctic Sea, the crew discovers a man, Victor Frankenstein, traveling across the Arctic on his own. Victor proceeds to tell Walton and the crew his life story.
Victor grows up in Geneva with his adop... | revenge, gothic, murder, violence, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | (I think Christopher Lee hated this movie and equally class-dripping Bram Stoker's Dracula because he felt that they were competing in the same area.) There's the classic monsters (Robert DeNiro!), the period sets, the lovely heroines in the lovely period costumes, the beautiful and suitably turbulent score...
I have n... |
tt0075683 | L'animal | Michel Gauché (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is a professional film stuntman who works with his fiancée Jane Gardner (Raquel Welch). However minutes after their long planned marriage they are called to perform a car stunt for a movie but it goes wrong, as a brake problem causes their car to fall and they end up in a hospital wit... | comedy, action | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0271320 | TV Funhouse | Every episode had a different theme to it (e.g., "Hawaiian Day" or "Astronaut Day") and saw the Anipals usually getting into some sort of trouble, not wanting to do whatever their happy-go-lucky host had in mind for the day. The Comedy Central version of TV Funhouse premiered in December 2000 and was not picked up for ... | comedy, insanity, psychedelic, absurd, humor, satire | train | wikipedia | null |
tt3390572 | Haider | In 1995, during the insurgency in Kashmir, Hilaal Meer (Narendra Jha), a doctor, agrees to perform an appendectomy on the leader of a pro-separatist militant group. To avoid detection, he performs the surgery at his house, much to the chagrin of his wife Ghazala (Tabu), who questions his allegiance. The following day, ... | tragedy, insanity, revenge, neo noir, murder | train | wikipedia | Be it that of Shahid Kapoor (Haider/Hamlet) who performs a complex role with the kind of award worthy chutzpah that should silence all his detractors once and for all.
The setting is one of the reasons Haider, Vishal Bhardwaj's adaptation of Hamlet, works.
Compared to Bhardwaj's earlier two Shakespeare adaptations, Maq... |
tt0338133 | Dandelion | In a small town of rolling fields and endless skies, isolated 16-year-old Mason Mullich lives in a world where families exist in fragmented silence and love seems to have gone missing. Mason lives with his mother, father and mentally ill uncle. Mason's father is a local politician running for office and is stern, and s... | romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | I was at a film festival securing my seat for the movie that followed Dandelion, and so in turn had to watch it.
When I read the write-up for it in the program all I could think was, "Jeez, I have to sit through this really bad and boring movie to watch the movie I want to see" *sigh*.
For all of those who have yet to ... |
tt1251757 | Middle Men | In 2004 Houston, Jack Harris drives with several million dollars in a duffel bag to deliver to Russian mobsters, worried about the safety of his wife Diana and their children. In 1997 Los Angeles, Jack helps a sick friend co-managing a nightclub. Wayne Beering and Buck Dolby are best friends renting together. The drug-... | murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | As a viewer I have no idea which is really true and which is fiction but one thing true is that it's never boring.Buck and Wayne are two genius guys who actually don't know that they are about to become millionaires by creating world's first porn site which requires a membership payment to access.
This is where Jack Ha... |
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