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tt0069753 | Baba Yaga | Valentina Rosselli (Isabelle De Funès) is a Milanese photographer with a knack for controversial shoots. Her friend and lover, Arno (George Eastman), is a director. One night, on her way home, Valentina gets struck by a car driven by a middle-aged blonde (Carroll Baker). She introduces herself as "Baba Yaga" and tells ... | haunting | train | wikipedia | 'Baba Yaga' is a fascinating mess which will appeal to fans of arty Eurotrash like Franco's 'Vampyros Lesbos' and 'Eugenie De Sade' and Bava's 'Lisa And The Devil'..
Corrado Farina seems like an intelligent guy but even he admits that he failed in his attempt to adapt the erotic comics of Guido Crepax to the movie scre... |
tt1855401 | Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie | Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim are two filmmakers who are given a record-setting $1 billion budget to make a movie. The funds are provided by Tommy Schlaaang and the Schlaaang Corporation. The two waste all of their money on the making of Bonjour, Diamond Jim, a three-minute film (based on a poem by "personal shopper ... | bleak | train | wikipedia | Hollywood producer Tommy Schlaaang (Robert Loggia - God knows if he's in on the joke or not, but he's hilarious in the movie) has given the duo a billion dollars to make a movie, and the result is a three minute short starring Johnny Depp (or rather an impersonator - everyone swore it was really Depp!) wearing a suit m... |
tt0300748 | Cómplices al rescate | This is the story "Mariana Cantú" and "Silvana Del Valle Ontiveros", the twins in question. Silvana is taken away from her mother, Rocio, and sister at birth. by Gerardo Ontiveros, who paid the doctor that helped Rocio give birth for one of the twins; as his own sister, Regina, needed an infant to pose as her own daugh... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0026198 | Charlie Chan in Paris | Chan is on his way back from completing the London case—they always mentioned the previous case—to go on "vacation" to Paris, but this is just a way to make people think that he is innocently there. He is on a case for some London bankers and customers who say that some bonds from the Lamartine Bank in Paris are forged... | flashback | train | wikipedia | Charlie Chan goes to Paris, he says on a vacation, but is investigating the Lamartine bank (the richest and most prestigious bank in France) where several forged bonds have circulated across Europe.
Dufresne is murdered by a mysterious beggar, Xavier Marcel and the blame is placed on Yvette Lamartine, daughter of the b... |
tt0023872 | Captured! | British Captain Fred Allison (Leslie Howard) bids farewell to his new wife, Monica (Margaret Lindsay), whom he has only known for six days, and sets out for the war. He ends up a prisoner of war (POW), tortured by the fact that his wife has not written to him since the early days of his two year captivity.
When a fello... | romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | Complicated Love Triangle.
A somewhat far-fetched plot spoils what could have otherwise been an excellent movie with Leslie Howard and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. in the leading roles.
Cast as prisoners in a German POW camp during World War I, Leslie Howard finds out that his wife of just six days has strayed during his two... |
tt0105402 | Sidekicks | Barry Gabrewski is an asthmatic boy who lives with his widowed father, Jerry Gabrewski (Beau Bridges), in Houston, Texas. A loner, Barry has vivid daydreams about being Chuck Norris' sidekick, battling against Norris's movie enemies, who are often personified by Barry's everyday bullies such as Randy Cellini (John Buch... | revenge, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0422419 | Hide and Creep | A southern town is simultaneously attacked by a UFO and zombies (a reference to Plan 9 from Outer Space, although it is unclear whether or not the two are related or coincidental in this film). A government agent (played by John Walker) parachutes in to investigate reports of UFO sightings. Upon arriving, he finds zomb... | violence | train | wikipedia | So if you're a stickler for a multi-million dollar budget and a film that takes itself too seriously, you may well want to avoid Hide and Creep.
On the other hand, if you're like most genre fans and enjoy the occasional humor with your Horror, you should get a kick out of this film.
If you like films along the lines of... |
tt0079540 | Meatballs | Tripper Harrison is the head counselor of a group of new counselors-in-training (CITs) at Camp North Star, a cut-rate summer camp. Camp director Morty Melnick falls victim to Tripper's practical jokes mainly by being taken from his cabin in the middle of the night and relocated to an unusual place.
Rudy Gerner, a lonel... | prank | train | wikipedia | While some of the pranks that takes place in this movie, like carrying the camp director out in his bed and leaving him on the side of a road, strung up in the trees or out on a lake, are a bit over the top some of the other pranks are not.
(Especially during the camp social - while Bill Murray hams it up for the camer... |
tt0256858 | Killers | The Killers is an adaptation of a short story by Ernest Hemingway. The story is divided into three scenes. The first and third scenes were directed by Beiku and Tarkovsky, the second by Gordon.
The first scene shows Nick Adams (Yuli Fait) observing two gangsters (Valentin Vinogradov and Boris Novikov) in black coats an... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0079754 | The Prize Fighter | Set in the 1930s, Bags, an ex-boxer and Shake, his manager have bottomed out as fight trainers. Their latest fighter has lost and fired them. Without a home or even money for food. Bags tells Shake about getting back into the ring, despite Bags' record of 20 losses by knockout (out of 20 fights). One night, while at a ... | depressing | train | wikipedia | The Prize-Fighter is a Champion.
It's not easy making a comedy about the fistic arts.
In the 1940s Danny Kay was successful in "The Kid From Brooklyn", playing a "fighting milkman".
It took almost 40 years for another boxing comedy to make an impact, and that was The Prize-Fighter.Tim Conway plays Depression Era boxer,... |
tt0057225 | Kings of the Sun | Balam (George Chakiris) is the son of the ruler of a Mayan tribe who use wooden swords (with obsidian edges). His father is killed in battle against metal-blade armed rivals led by Hunac Ceel (Leo Gordon). Balam succeeds to the throne, but is convinced by his advisers, including the head priest, to lead his followers a... | romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | "Kings of the Sun" is the story of a civilization burst into full flower
In their profound desire to win favor from the deities, the Mayans made human sacrifice the keystone of their religion
Keeping the Buddhist monk hairstyle as his trademark, Brynner easily steals the show with his virile personality, distinctive ... |
tt0044741 | Ikiru | Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for thirty years. His wife is dead and his son and daughter-in-law, who live with him, seem to care mainly about Watanabe's pension and their future inheritance. At work, he sees constant inaction, including a group of paren... | romantic, philosophical, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt4167720 | The Pack | The film opens with a farmer hearing sounds and going out to his barn to investigate. A short time later his wife awakens from her easy chair by the fireplace to see his cigarette burning in the ashtray but he is not in the house. She goes to find him and hears a noise in the barn. As she enters the barn, she is killed... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0050209 | Boyhood Daze | The cartoon starts with a baseball going through a window, breaking it, and Ralph exclaiming: "Ohhh nooo!" His mother sends him up to his bedroom until his father gets home.
Up in his room, he broods over his mistake and tries to imagine himself as a hero, first by imagining himself as a famous explorer in Africa to re... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Someday they'll all be sorry.
Here we have yet another rarely-seen and under-appreciated cartoon classic by Chuck Jones.
Ralph Phillips' three fantasies after he gets sent to his room for breaking a window are exactly the the sort of thing that any imaginative nine-year-old would think of, and the script is chock full ... |
tt0039360 | The Exile | In 1660, Charles Stuart (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.), deposed as king of England by Oliver Cromwell and the Roundheads, is in exile in the Netherlands with a few loyalists, awaiting the right opportunity to return. Whilst bartering in a local marketplace, he meets Katie (Rita Corday), a Dutch farm owner and flower seller.
... | action | train | wikipedia | Making Dad Proud.
When Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. started his career in silent screen he did not go for the swashbuckling roles that his famous father did.
My guess is he wanted to be judged on his own as a player.
In fact it was his mother who when Fairbanks, Sr. was slow with the child support who got him into film in th... |
tt0376127 | Anniyan | Ramanujam Iyengar alias Ambi is an orthodox Brahmin and a straightforward consumer protection advocate living in Triplicane, Chennai. He expects everyone to follow the law and prosecutes those who violate it. However, his efforts fail as circumstantial evidence always seems to favour the accused. He also fails to raise... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0077355 | Coma | Dr. Susan Wheeler (Geneviève Bujold) is a surgical resident at Boston Memorial Hospital. Wheeler is devastated when a patient, who happens to be her best friend, is pronounced brain dead and ends up in a coma after minor surgery at the hospital.
Looking at the records, Susan finds that over the previous year a number o... | suspenseful, neo noir, murder | train | wikipedia | As a squirrelly doctor at a Boston hospital who smells a rat when her best friend mysteriously goes into an anesthesia-related coma during a routine operation, Genevieve Bujold proves once again what a dynamic presence she is on the screen.
As a mystery-thriller that is so filled with continuity errors, gaps in logic a... |
tt0322389 | George of the Jungle 2 | Five years after socialite Ursula Stanhope left civilization to marry George of the Jungle, George finds himself hard-pressed to fulfill the roles of jungle king, father, and husband. George's stress level increases when the "Mean Lion" challenges him for leadership of the jungle, and when Ursula's mother Beatrice team... | violence, comic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0090424 | Edge of Darkness | === One: Compassionate Leave ===
Yorkshire police officer Ronald Craven (Bob Peck) is returning home with his daughter Emma (Joanne Whalley) having picked her up from a meeting of an environmental organisation at her university campus. On the doorstep of their home Emma is shot dead. The police concentrate their effort... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0349166 | Supernatural | Roma Courtenay (Carole Lombard) is approached by phony psychic Paul Bavian (Alan Dinehart) who claims to have a message from Courtenay's recently deceased brother. After attending a staged seance, Roma suddenly becomes possessed by the malevolent spirit of the executed murderess Ruth Rogen (Vivienne Osborne), who has u... | paranormal | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0176097 | Rocktober Blood | The film opens in a recording studio, where singer Billy "Eye" Harper (Tray Loren) is in a session working on a few tracks with his band and his girlfriend Lynn Starling (Donna Scoggins), also a back up singer. After he finishes the recording, Billy and the rest of the band leave. Despite trying to record her own vocal... | cruelty, murder, violence, insanity, revenge, sadist | train | wikipedia | Full metal meets average slasher flick.
At the movie's best scene the killer is stabbing dancing girls on stage with a sword/mic stand.
The most unexciting and unoriginal moments include a series of phone calls with no one on the line and the obligatory digging up the killer's grave in the night to see if he lives.The ... |
tt0354766 | Never Die Alone | Hardened criminal and drug dealer King David (DMX) returns to his unidentified East Coast city, where he can find redemption by settling an old score with drug lord Moon (Clifton Powell). He keeps tape-recorded journals about his life and is always talking about a woman named Edna. Upon David's return, he meets up with... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | When the unemployed white journalist Paul (David Arquette), who lives in a ghetto, accidentally witness the execution of the Afro-American King David (DMX), he takes the wounded man to the hospital trying to save his life.
Paul finds some cassette tapes in the car, and while listening to them, he becomes aware that Dav... |
tt0119547 | Little Boy Blue | Living in the backwoods of Texas is the dysfunctional and apparently incestuous West family: a psychotic war veteran father, Ray (John Savage), a compliant wife, Kate (Nastassja Kinski), and a 19-year-old son, Jimmy (Ryan Phillippe); who is relegated to a warehouse outside the family home. Ray and Kate seem to be a nor... | murder, violence, sadist, flashback, revenge, storytelling | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0086739 | The Jewel in the Crown | The serial opens in the 1940s during World War II in the fictional Indian city of Mayapore, against the backdrop of the last years of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement. Hari Kumar (Art Malik) is a young Indian man who was educated at 'Chillingborough', a British public school (the British term for an... | revenge, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | I loved The Jewel In The Crown and highly recommend it!
I think it's a very skillful and successful adaptation for TV from fiction.My own views about this series have changed -- from good to better.
I realize now that I watched it then very literally, very matter-of-fact, and saw it mostly as a straightforward series o... |
tt3507142 | Noah | As a young boy, Noah witnesses his father, Lamech, killed by a young Tubal-cain. Many years later, an adult Noah is living with his wife Naameh and their sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth. After seeing a flower grow instantly from the ground and being haunted by dreams of a great flood, Noah takes them to visit his grandfath... | christian film | train | wikipedia | Investigative, insightful and intelligent - Comfort gets uncomfortable and keeps asking more significant questions. "Noah" is an American half-hour documentary film from 2014, so this one will have its 5th anniversary next year and this was written and directed by Ray Comfort and you also hear and see him in here as he... |
tt1274586 | Dying of the Light | The novel takes place on the planet of Worlorn, a world which is dying. It is a rogue planet whose erratic course is taking it irreversibly far from its neighboring stars into a region of cold and dark space where no life will survive. Worlorn's 14 cities, built during a brief window when the world passed close enough ... | revenge | train | wikipedia | I guess it's meant to provide an atmosphere that parallels what is happening in Evan Lake's (Nicolas Cage) mind, and the murky atmosphere is one of the few things Dying of the Light has going for it.
Nicolas Cage carries this movie on his shoulders because his character is really the only semi-developed part about it.
... |
tt1546036 | The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie! | In Bedrock, a drunken and pregnant Toot is informed that someone has come to see her. The visitor turns out to be her old housemate Foxxy Love, who tries to tell her that their lives are in danger. This then flashes back to six months prior. Foxxy discovers that she can swear without being censored. When she discovers ... | absurd, revenge, humor, satire, entertaining | train | wikipedia | but if you have a sense of a humor and aren't afraid to laugh at what many would consider morally repulsive then you will think watching this was worth your time.If anything, you'll be impressed by Hero's new fine-ass lady friend..
The series spoofs several other series and movies, while the movie mainly spoofs "Drawn ... |
tt0024188 | Island of Lost Souls | Shipwrecked traveler Edward Parker (Richard Arlen) is rescued by a freighter delivering animals to an isolated South Seas island owned by Dr. Moreau (Charles Laughton). When Parker objects to the freighter's captain (Stanley Fields) mistreating M'ling (Tetsu Komai), an odd-looking passenger, the captain tosses Parker o... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0071721 | Klansman | In a small town in the South, a young white woman, Sheriff Track Bascomb breaks up a crowd of black and white men molesting a black woman. He visits Breck Stancil, a local land owner who is politically liberal.
White woman Nancy Poteet is sexually assaulted and beaten by a black man. Sheriff Track Bascomb tries to find... | violence, blaxploitation, melodrama | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0756582 | Standoff | A young girl, Bird with her aunt's boyfriend waiting at the car, visits the grave of her parents on the anniversary of their deaths, witnesses and photographs a hitman, Sade, killing people attending a funeral. When her aunt's boyfriend, Roger, comes looking for her, Sade kills him and tries to kill her too, but she fl... | violence, romantic | train | wikipedia | Standoff is absolutely one of the best TV shows on Fox. I wasn't sure how this TV show would be able to create so many hostage situations...
But it isn't the situation which makes the show interesting, it's the character development.
Each character has their own unique background, and it's especially interesting hearin... |
tt0024601 | Sons of the Desert | At a meeting of the Sons of the Desert, a fraternal lodge of which both Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are members, it has been decided that the organization will be holding its annual convention in Chicago in a week and all members have to take an oath to attend. Stan is reluctant to take the oath, but Oliver goads him ... | cult | train | wikipedia | The solemn dark lighting of the opening scene spoofing fraternal organizations, eating the wax fruit, the range of facial expressions of the wives throughout, the shot of the boys from the back sitting facing the fireplace as Stan disses his wife, Stan's wife in hunting regalia returning shotgun in arm carrying ducks, ... |
tt0090798 | Caravaggio | Told in a segmented fashion, the film opens as Caravaggio (Nigel Terry) dies from lead poisoning while in exile, with only his long-time deaf-dumb companion Jerusaleme (Spencer Leigh) (who was given by his family to the artist as a boy) by his side. Caravaggio thinks back to his life as a teenage street ruffian (Dexter... | murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | This makes Caravaggio an interesting person, but a highly complex candidate for a biographic investigation on film.While Derek Jarman's film captures (with delightful conceit) many of the surface details of Caravaggio's life, it's a work of startling genius because it succeeds on a far more profound level.
Jarman tells... |
tt0027280 | Alpine Antics | One day at the Swiss mountains, Oswald is milking a goat which would then run away upon being called by another one passing by. As Oswald's goat jumps out of the scene, the bucket used is kicked off and was all over the rabbit's head. Oswald struggles to remove the pail but is able to get it off on time when he stumble... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0120121 | The Shooter | During a mission in a country where "we are not supposed to be in", sniper Bob Lee and his spotter Don 'Donnie' Fenn are deemed to be expendable and are forced to find their own way out. Donnie is killed. 36 months later, Bob Lee Swagger reluctantly leaves a self-imposed exile from his isolated mountain home in the Win... | revenge, sadist | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0058275 | Limonádový Joe aneb Konská opera | In the frontier town of Stetson City, Arizona, in 1885, business is booming at the Trigger Whisky Saloon. Tornado Lou, the local chanteuse, regales the saloon-goers with a sultry ballad ("Když v báru houstne dým"), while the saloon owner Doug Badman tries in vain to woo her. Two evangelists, Ezra Goodman and his daught... | absurd, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | It is indeed a broad parody of the western movie genre: cliche piled upon cliche, yet still surprising and delightful.
Historical note: the version I saw was dubbed, not subtitled (I long thought it Italian in origin); the tinting was not sepia with yellow highlights, it was just glaring yellow; and it was called "The ... |
tt3380264 | Kill Dil | Tutu (Ali Zafar) and Dev (Ranveer Singh) are two orphans who were raised by a local gangster Bhaiyaji (Govinda) to be assassins. Their life takes a turn when they meet Disha (Parineeti Chopra) at a club and she and Dev fall in love with each other. Dev's indifference towards work starts irritating Bhaiyaji, but Tutu de... | romantic | train | wikipedia | 'Kill Dil' Directed by Shaad Ali has a brisk first-hour, but a bland & boring second, which acts as a deterrent.
'Kill Dil' Synopsis: Two killers – Tutu (Ali Zafar) and Dev (Ranveer Singh) were nurtured by Bhaiyaji (Govinda) who trained them to be sharp shooters.
Things take an unexpected turn when Dev falls in love wi... |
tt0050900 | Ride Out for Revenge | Chief Yellow Wolf and son Little Wolf walk to town (the plight of Yellow Wolf's tribe is so dire they walked to town to save their horses) to meet with army Captain George (Bridges) to seek provisions for the upcoming winter. He wants the Indians relocated off of their own land. He pretends to be interested in Yellow W... | revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2083355 | The Best Man Holiday | Mia Sullivan (Monica Calhoun), wife of Lance Sullivan (Morris Chestnut), has written letters requesting that the old gang should join them for Christmas: Harper Stewart (Taye Diggs) and his almost-nine-month-pregnant wife Robyn (Sanaa Lathan), Julian Murch (Harold Perrineau) and wife Candace Sparks (Regina Hall), her b... | flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0092571 | Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel | The film resumes the story of Anne Shirley, who at 16 had chosen to study for her college degree by correspondence in order to remain at Green Gables to help an aging Marilla, who has eyesight problems, look after the house and farm. Anne now holds a Teacher's Licence after completing the two-year post-secondary course... | romantic | train | wikipedia | This sequel of 'Anne of Green Gables' is beautifully made if one doesn't get indignant about the fact that Kevin Sullivan has not adhered to Montgomery as he did in the first Anne series.
Yes, many characters are missed and I do think that each novel in the Anne series could have been taken separately and dealt with in... |
tt0088513 | The Equalizer | Robert McCall (Denzel Washington) is a retired black ops operative who lives quietly in Boston, Massachusetts and works at a Home Mart hardware store; McCall befriends many of his co-workers and helps a security guard trainee named Ralph pass his qualification exam. McCall promised his recently deceased wife that he wo... | violence, neo noir | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0022788 | The Crooked Circle | Before a boxer dies in an accident, he mentions that he should "get lost like Joe Kelly" to sportswriter Ken Cooper. Now curious what became of Kelly, a former contender, Cooper locates him in a remote town where Joe runs a fishing lodge with his brother, Tommy.
Carol Smith, girlfriend of Tommy, immediately urges Coope... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | The "old dark house" sub-genre that dominated the early talkies rarely fails to disappoint when we re-view the oldies to-day.
Here is one that provides so very many suspicious characters you have to wonder how they will be able to tie up all the loose ends in the 6 reel running time.The Crooked Circle is a gang of coun... |
tt0246879 | Qurbani | Rajesh (Feroz Khan) was a motorcycle stuntman in a circus and is now a thief, expert in breaking open treasuries. In one such robbery, he is being watched by a jolly but shrewd police inspector Amjad Khan (Amjad Khan). Sheela (Zeenat Aman) is a gorgeous disco club dancer and singer. Rajesh and Sheela are in love. Rajes... | cult, murder, romantic | train | wikipedia | Khan Decodes The Formula For Creating Blockbusters in 80s.
The Clint Eastwood of Bollywood, Feroz Khan went way out of the box to deliver a cult ahead of it's time.
This movie offers everything that you would expect of a crime thriller - Fast but on track screenplay, great music, action (couldn't expect anything less f... |
tt0099927 | Ke tu qiu hen | In 1973, 26-year-old Cheung Hueyin is abroad in London studying media. Upon her graduation, she learns that she, unlike her Caucasian roommates, has been rejected the chance for a job interview by the BBC. Receiving a letter from her mother, she returns to Hong Kong to attend her younger sister's wedding. The relations... | dramatic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0103003 | Suburban Commando | Interstellar warrior Shep Ramsey (Hulk Hogan) is on a mission to capture intergalactic despot General Suitor (William Ball). The general kidnapped President Hashina, the ruler of an entire planet. Shep boards Suitor's flagship but is unable to rescue Hashina, who is killed by Suitor who turned into a berserk reptilian ... | good versus evil, cult, psychedelic, comic | train | wikipedia | Out of all the movies Hulk Hogan has starred in this is probably my favourite.Like I said on my summary, it is great fun throughout as Hogan plays intergalactic warrior Shep Ramsey who ends up on Earth after an encounter with evil villains.
It is fun to see Shep adjusting to life on Earth (watch out for one scene where... |
tt0067372 | The Tragedy of Macbeth | === Act I ===
The play opens amidst thunder and lightning, and the Three Witches decide that their next meeting shall be with Macbeth. In the following scene, a wounded sergeant reports to King Duncan of Scotland that his generals—Macbeth, who is the Thane of Glamis, and Banquo—have just defeated the allied forces of N... | dark, realism, murder, violence, atmospheric, tragedy, revenge | train | wikipedia | The action is well mounted and paced so anyone would be able to follow it even if they are not able to completely grasp the language.THE NEGATIVE: Outside of a relentlessly bleak visual style that may be too much for some there really isn't anything negative about it.THE LOWDOWN: This is the best film adaptation to Sha... |
tt0024475 | The Prizefighter and the Lady | While working as a barroom bouncer, sailor Steve Morgan (Max Baer) impresses alcoholic ex-boxing manager "the Professor" (Walter Huston) with his skills. The Professor talks Steve into entering a prize fight with an up-and-coming boxer to make money for both of them.
While out training on the road, Steve is nearly run ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | In her biography, she admits that the only major mistake she made in her career was underestimating the raw physicality and animal presence, as well as the dominating personality, of heavyweight champion-to-be Max Baer for "The Prizefighter and the Lady".
Jack Dempsey, just seven years removed from his championship day... |
tt0014972 | He Who Gets Slapped | Paul Beaumont (Lon Chaney) is a scientist who labored for years alone to prove his radical theories on the origin of mankind. Baron Regnard (Marc McDermott) becomes his patron, enabling him to do research while living in his mansion. One day, Beaumont announces to his beloved wife Marie and the Baron that he has proved... | tragedy, revenge, romantic | train | wikipedia | I think one could argue that "He Who Gets Slapped" is Lon Chaney's best film.
Lon Chaney's performance is heartbreaking, particularly when he carries the cloth heart that has been torn from his breast, but at other moments he is sadistic and vengeful, as when he lets the lions out to kill a scheming circus manager and ... |
tt0398027 | Down in the Valley | In the San Fernando Valley, rebellious teenager October "Tobe" takes a walk with her younger brother, Lonnie. The next day, Tobe goes to the beach with friends, and when they stop for gasoline, they are assisted by Harlan, a young man who affects a folksy, cowboy style. Tobe invites much-older Harlan to the beach. He a... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | The Cowboy character played by Edward Norton seems so simple at first but as he is drawn into the family his character and the truth of his 'being' gradually unravels in ways that left me speechless at the end of the film.
Rory Culkin rounds out the supporting cast showing nice restraint in a confused young boy unable ... |
tt0082507 | Heartbeeps | Val Com 17485 (Andy Kaufman), a robot designed to be a valet with a specialty in lumber commodities, meets Aqua Com 89045 (Bernadette Peters), a hostess companion robot whose primary function is to assist at poolside parties. At a factory awaiting repairs, they fall in love and decide to escape, stealing a van from the... | romantic | train | wikipedia | If you have witnessed Andy Kaufman's slant on comedy, you may understand why I avoided this movie of his for years.
I had to rent it online when recently I finally got the courage to give it a try.My heart sank during the first few seconds of the movie.
There's barely a story here, with the bulk of the movie consisting... |
tt0090436 | The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers | The show is set in the future, some time after the year 2086, when two aliens from the planets Andor and Kirwin travel to Earth to search for allies against the expansionist Crown Empire led by the Queen of the Crown. In return for the help, the two aliens gave mankind construction plans for a hyperdrive device. After ... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0067487 | La notte che Evelyn uscì dalla tomba | Alan (Anthony Steffen) is a wealthy aristocrat who has just been released from a mental institution following the death of his wife, redheaded Evelyn. Having caught Evelyn making out with an unknown man prior to his institutionalization, the psychotic Alan begins luring redheaded strippers and prostitutes to his home t... | insanity, cult, horror, murder, sadist | train | wikipedia | His friend and doctor talks him into remarrying to ease his mental anguish, and that's a piece of advice that he takes upon meeting the ravishing Gladys...Despite the fact that this film is very much a piece of schlock cinema, the director appears to have taken it very seriously, and the result is a film that puts a lo... |
tt0015224 | Peter Pan | Set in London, circa 1900, George and Mary Darling's preparations to attend a party are disrupted by the antics of their boys, John and Michael, acting out a story about Peter Pan and the pirates, told to them by their older sister, Wendy. Their father, who is fed up with the stories that have made his children less pr... | fantasy, action | train | wikipedia | Barrie agreed to allow Famous PlayersLasky to make a movie version of his 1904 Christmas pantomime Peter Pan, he laid down some pretty stiff terms.
Not only was he to have casting approval, but the title cards were to use as far as possible the dialogue of the stage play; the plot line was to keep to the original Thre... |
tt0804425 | Pinky Dinky Doo | Pinky is a seven-year-old girl who lives in Great Big City with her parents, her four-year-old little brother, Tyler, and their pet, Mr. Guinea Pig. When a problem arises, Pinky says,"That gives me an idea" and Tyler says, "Pinky, are you going to make up a story?" and Pinky will say, "Yeserooni positooni!" and dances ... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Yep, you *definitely* don't see that kind of show everyday.. That's a mighty fine 9 out of 10 over there, and if you need to know to what kind of shows I reserve the honour of a 10 out of 10, check out the Backyardigans. Not that the Backyardigans have a LOT more going on than Pinky does, and that's why they are just o... |
tt1182921 | Ninja | Casey Bowman is an American orphan who was adopted into a martial arts dojo in Japan. Because of his perseverance and desire to master bushido, he earns the respect of the dojo's sensei and his daughter Namiko. However, the dojo's top student Masazuka becomes bitter over Namiko's friendship with Casey until one morning... | revenge, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | "Ninja" takes a similar formula and story from those ninja movies from the 80's and combines it with a hard hitting and acrobatic fighting style seen in today's martial arts movies.
This movie was a lot of fun and if you grew up watching ninja and martial arts movies in the 80s like me, you will definitely enjoy it..
S... |
tt0039816 | Seven Were Saved | In 1945, several months after the end of World War II, Army nurse Susan Briscoe (Catherine Craig) is taking an amnesia victim, who was imprisoned by the Japanese, to the United States via transport aircraft, piloted by Captain Allen Danton (Richard Denning). The passengers include the Japanese Colonel Yamura (Richard L... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0081063 | 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... | romantic | train | wikipedia | A Tremendously Overlooked Diamond of a Film!.
Though there may be a tendency to compare the 1980 version of "Little Miss Marker" to the 1934 version (with Shirley Temple as The Kid), writer/director Walter Bernstein captures the very essence of the 1930's with his screenplay and direction, respectively.
One of the reas... |
tt1087900 | Baiohazâdo: Anburera kuronikuruzu | 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 |
tt1786716 | The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn's Quest | === Background ===
The game is presented against the background of the history of the One Ring. At the dawn of the Second Age, after the defeat of the Dark Lord, Morgoth, the elves of Eregion forged the nineteen Rings of Power to help themselves, the dwarves and men rule Middle-earth. However, the elves were unaware th... | good versus evil | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0112638 | Carrotblanca | General Pandemonium (Yosemite Sam as Major Strasser) gets a frantic call from Foghorn Leghorn saying that a secret German document has been stolen, and immediately heads for the Carrotblanca nightclub---the Cafe Au Lait Americain. At the nightclub, Usmarte (Tweety Bird as Ugarte, depicted like Peter Lorre), the actual ... | flashback | train | wikipedia | Delightful spoof on the original classic!.
I first saw this film in the theaters when it was released in 1995 and loved every second of it!
Viewing all the wonderful Warner Brothers characters in a parody of such a timeless masterpiece makes this cartoon short a real gem.
I especially enjoyed Sylvester as Victor Laszl... |
tt0993789 | Un conte de Noël | Junon Vuillard is Abel Vuillard's wife, and the iron-willed matriarch of the Vuillard family. Junon held her family together through many tough times, and although her willpower helped the family survive and prosper, it also has left many bad feelings among her children. Junon is still a handsome woman, and though her ... | flashback | train | wikipedia | Arnaud Desplechin uses Robert Altman's impressionistic approach to film-making taking multiple characters, plots lines then adding Altman's playfulness with cinematic technique to dazzle the viewer with a rich mix of ideas and allusions.
During an introduction to the cast of characters at the beginning of the film, the... |
tt0290223 | Inuyasha | In modern-day Tokyo, Kagome Higurashi lives on the grounds of her family's Shinto shrine with her mother, grandfather and little brother. On her fifteenth birthday, when she goes to retrieve her cat, a centipede demon bursts out of the enshrined Bone Eater's Well (骨喰いの井戸, Honekui no Ido) and drags Kagome into it.
But i... | romantic, psychedelic, fantasy, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | Thankfully, Cartoon Network has put a block of Japan's finest in their red-eye time slot, spearheaded by Inuyasha.The general gist of the plot is Kagome, a modern schoolgirl, winds up in feudal times and must help a half-demon(Inyasha) recover the shards of a jewel of ultimate power.
It takes patience to watch the seri... |
tt0041779 | Rabbit Hood | There is a wall covered with anti-poaching notices and wanted posters of Robin Hood and Little John. Bugs is trying to silence an alarm attached to a carrot he just pulled out of the King's Carrot Patch. He is caught by the Sheriff of Nottingham and is about to be put to the rack when Little John (depicted as a fat goo... | psychedelic, comic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0080738 | The First Deadly Sin | The film opens outside Mount Pleasant Baptist Church on West 81st Street in Manhattan. A man is viciously attacked by another man wielding an ice axe. The attack is intercut with graphic closeups of a woman undergoing surgery. The NYPD arrive to process the scene. The coroner, Dr. Ferguson (Whitmore), shows Detective E... | suspenseful, humor, neo noir, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | Like the book, this is somewhat slow paced and character-driven, but Sinatra does such a good job at making Delany human and making the audience emote for him that the shortcomings seem minimal.
If you are a fan of Sanders, police procedurals, or Frank Sinatra, then this film is certainly worth checking out..
Delaney i... |
tt1280548 | Spielzeugland | The film is set in Nazi Germany in 1942. An Aryan family, the Meißners, and a Jewish family, the Silbersteins, are neighbors and friends. The respective sons in each family, Heinrich Meißner and David Silberstein, discreetly take piano lessons together. The deportation of the Silbersteins to a concentration camp is imm... | flashback | train | wikipedia | "Toyland" is a film that works so brilliantly that it managed to be powerful, thought-provoking and even gut-wrenching than most Hollywood films that are 8 to 10 times longer.
With sparse dialogue, director Jochen Alexander Freydank keeps us hooked throughout this superb short film.Set during the Holocaust, a German wo... |
tt3043590 | Clinger | Fern is a high school student with a problem. her ex-boyfriend Robert returned from the grave as a ghost. Their relationship wasn't entirely a happy one, since Robert was clingy and smothered her, which led to their breakup. Initially, Fren tried to make things work, but quickly determines that a relationship between a... | comedy | train | wikipedia | Low Budget Charm.
I watched Clinger via Amazon Prime and thought it was entertaining.
It did look fairly low budget, but I feel like that was part of the charm of it and it helped forgive the less than stellar performances..
this isn't to knock it, I feel like a lot of my favorite movies out there are a little rough ar... |
tt0056211 | The Magic Sword | George (Gary Lockwood) is the foster son of Sybil (Estelle Winwood), an elderly sorceress. She brought him up after his "royal parents died of the plague" in his infancy. He has fallen in love at first sight with Princess Helene (Anne Helm).
She is kidnapped by the wizard Lodac (Basil Rathbone), who brazenly informs he... | revenge, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0109555 | Darr | The film begins with Kiran (Juhi Chawla), a college student, returning home for Holi celebrations and being obsessively stalked along the way by Rahul (Shah Rukh Khan), her classmate who has a crush on her. Kiran's boyfriend Sunil (Sunny Deol) is a Navy Marine Commando officer, and is on a mission to free a child hosta... | insanity, romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | Mercifully, Yash Chopra's interpretation of "Sleeping with the Enemy" is an extremely stylish and well-made films.Shah Rukh Khan is obsessed with Juhi Chawla (who's looking her very best in here!).
When he realizes that Juhi has a fiance in Sunny Deol, he stops at nothing to make sure she becomes his.Every frame of thi... |
tt0076095 | The Goodbye Girl | Dancer Paula McFadden (Marsha Mason) and her ten-year-old daughter Lucy (Quinn Cummings) live in a Manhattan apartment with her married boyfriend, Tony DeForrest, until one day, he deserts her to go act in a movie in Italy. Before he left and unbeknownst to Paula, Tony subleased the apartment to Elliot Garfield (Richar... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0065850 | Hornets' Nest | In Northern Italy in 1944, the entire population of the village of Reanoto is massacred by the SS under the command of the cruel Sturmbannführer Taussig (Jacques Sernas) for helping the Italian resistance movement. The only survivors are a group of young boys in ages from 7 to 14 led by Aldo (Mark Colleano, son of Bona... | revenge, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | Rock Hudson leads a little army of war waifs in WWII Italy against the Nazis.
So-so wartime movie follows a group of children saboteurs commanded by an Allied officer whose aim is to blow up a dam vital to the Nazis in Italy.
It happens during WWWII when Captain Turner (a moustachioed Rock Hudson )is lone survivor of a... |
tt0024660 | Three Little Pigs | Practical Pig, Fiddler Pig and Fifer Pig are three brothers who build their own houses with bricks, sticks and straw respectively. All three of them play a different kind of musical instrument – Fifer Pig "toots his flute, doesn't give a hoot and plays around all day," Fiddler Pig "with a hey diddle diddle, plays on hi... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Tra-La-La-La-La. One of the most enduring of animated classics is Walt Disney's Three Little Pigs, taken from the old fairy tale about three juvenile little oinkers, only one of whom meets the challenge of the Big Bad Wolf.Coming out as it did in 1933 it's both a metaphor for the Great Depression, the consequence of no... |
tt0383028 | Synecdoche, New York | Theater director Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman) finds his life unraveling. Suffering from numerous physical ailments and growing increasingly alienated from his wife, Adele, an artist, he hits bottom when Adele leaves him for a new life in Berlin, taking their four-year-old daughter, Olive, with her.
After the s... | comedy, avant garde, depressing, murder, allegory, cult, alternate reality, violence, thought-provoking, insanity, absurd, psychedelic, philosophical | train | wikipedia | It's virtually impossible to summarize my feelings on "Synecdoche, New York." This astonishing brain teaser from the mind of Charlie Kaufman affected me deeply, probably more than any film I've yet seen this year.
But watching it is a bracing experience, and it's encouraging to know that there are still filmmakers will... |
tt0038317 | Baby Bottleneck | There is a baby boom of the post-war United States; an overworked stork (a clear Jimmy Durante reference) gets drunk in the Stork Club. There is an emergency delivery in which inexperienced animals, mostly older animals but including four crows attempting to deliver an elephant, take the babies to their parents. As a r... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | A Clampett Classic.
Another Clampett powerhouse!
Fast, funny, frenetic, and nightmarish.
Porky and Daffy run a factory that delivers babies to their expecting parents.
The highlight is Scribner's animation of Porky trying to get Daffy to sit on an unhatched egg.
These scenes are presented without backgrounds, just colo... |
tt0039896 | They Won't Believe Me | After the prosecution rests its case in the murder trial of Larry Ballentine (Robert Young), the defense attorney puts his client on the stand to tell his story.
Larry had married Greta (Rita Johnson) for her money. In flashback, he recounts how he started seeing Janice Bell (Jane Greer) behind his wife's back, innocen... | murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | Cast against type, Robert Young gives one of his finest performances (far more interesting than that in Crossfire), subtly giving his role of philandering but strangely sympathetic heel a depth which may perhaps go by unnoticed by some.
Rita Johnson, in the minimal screen time alloted her, is likewise able to intimate ... |
tt3802404 | Sunset Overdrive | On July 13, 2027, FizzCo releases its new energy drink, OverCharge Delirium XT (also known as OCD), exclusively in Sunset City. In an attempt to sell OCD faster, FizzCo skipped health regulation protocols, in turn causing anyone who drinks it to turn into a violent boil-bodied mutant known as an Overcharge Drinker (OD)... | violence | train | wikipedia | absolutely insane and out of control. the year is 2027 and fizzco has released a contaminated energy drink called overcharge XT that turns anyone who drinks it into crazed mutants. I'm gonna tell you, this is one of the most insane, crazy, ridiculous, extreme, over the top, bloody, gruesome, brutal, out of control game... |
tt0283111 | Van Wilder | Vance “Van” Wilder, Jr. (Ryan Reynolds) is a confident and cheeky-chappy senior in his seventh year at Coolidge College. With no ambition to graduate, Van spends his days driving around campus in his customized golf cart, posing nude for figure drawing classes, organizing soirees for his peers and interviewing for a ne... | entertaining, cult, humor, comedy, adult comedy | train | wikipedia | i didn't expect much coming into this movie, i didn't hear much about it and Van wilder was one of the national lampoon movies without Chevy Chase.
Reynolds did a spectacular job in the movie, but I must say that without the character Taj the movie wouldn't have been as funny.This is more of a guy comedy type movie but... |
tt0027996 | Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | During the Great Depression, Longfellow Deeds (Gary Cooper), the co-owner of a tallow works, part-time greeting card poet, and tuba-playing inhabitant of the (fictional) hamlet of Mandrake Falls, Vermont, inherits 20 million dollars from his late uncle, Martin Semple. Semple's scheming attorney, John Cedar (Douglass Du... | depressing | train | wikipedia | I want to jump into a time machine and go to those days, the days of Mr Deeds, Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur and Frank Capra..
Frank Capra knew that Gary Cooper was made for the part of Longfellow Deeds, he waited until Harry Cohn could get him from Paramount before making this film.
Or is it my favorite?!Just a wholesome, ... |
tt0114234 | Rangeela | A street-toughened orphan by the name of Munna (Aamir Khan) is befriended by some kind folks, whose effervescent daughter Mili (Urmila Matondkar) soon grows to be his best buddy. Both gravitate toward the Mumbai movie industry. While Mili finds occupation as a movie extra, Munna earns his livelihood selling movie ticke... | romantic, humor | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0048312 | The Long Gray Line | The movie is framed as the reminiscences of Master Sergeant Martin Maher (Tyrone Power), who first came to West Point in 1898 as a civilian employee. Arriving from County Tipperary, Ireland, Marty begins as a waiter. When he realizes that enlisted men receive better treatment than do hired laborers, he immediately sign... | romantic, sentimental, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0105636 | Trespass | The film opens with fast-talking businessman and diamond dealer Kyle Miller (Nicolas Cage) speaking to a client over the phone as he returns to his lavish mansion home, his wife Sarah (Nicole Kidman) and his teenage daughter Avery (Liana Liberato). Despite the charming facade, it is immediately clear that the family is... | revenge, cult, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0067445 | Morte a Venezia | The protagonist, Gustav von Aschenbach, travels to Venice for health reasons. There, he becomes obsessed with the stunning beauty of an adolescent Polish boy named Thaddeus who is staying with his family at the same Grand Hôtel des Bains on the Lido as Aschenbach.
While the character Aschenbach in the novella is an aut... | tragedy, romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | Luchino Visconti's "Death in Venice" is a masterpiece of utterly haunting beauty that will capture the imagination of anyone interested in the screen's capacity for breathtaking images.
It is about the struggle within the soul of a man, Gustav von Aschenbach, a composer vacationing in the Venice of 1911.In Mann's book ... |
tt0040367 | A Foreign Affair | In 1947, a United States congressional committee which includes prim Phoebe Frost of Iowa (Jean Arthur) arrives in post-World War II Berlin to visit the American troops stationed there. Phoebe hears rumors that cabaret torch singer Erika von Schlütow (Marlene Dietrich), suspected of being the former mistress of either ... | satire | train | wikipedia | In the opening scenes we see army captain John Lund at the black-market, selling a cake, hand-made by his American sweetheart and coming from the States, to buy a gift for his Berliner lover Marlene Dietrich.
A brilliant, cynical comedy about post-war Berlin goings on...black market, Army officers having affairs with n... |
tt1334106 | X-Men Origins: Wolverine | In 1845, James Howlett, a boy living in Canada, witnesses his father being killed by groundskeeper Thomas Logan. The anxiety activates the boy's mutation: bone claws protrude from his knuckles, and he impales Thomas, who reveals that he is James's real father before dying. James flees along with Thomas's other son Vict... | revenge, violence | train | wikipedia | Just a ridiculous amount of fun.
(X-Box 360 Version).
It is a pretty interesting situation this game has...
the movie (which I actually have not yet seen, so am not going to judge) received very mixed reception, whereas the movie tie-in, which in general are notorious for being thrown together quickly to be released in... |
tt0279113 | The Good Girl | Justine Last (Jennifer Aniston) is a depressed and unmotivated thirty-year-old woman living in a small town in Texas with her husband Phil (John C. Reilly), a house painter who spends most of his free time smoking marijuana with his best friend, Bubba (Tim Blake Nelson). Justine works at Retail Rodeo, the local big-box... | romantic, comedy, depressing, entertaining, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0080638 | Do Aur Do Paanch | Vijay (Amitabh Bachchan) and Sunil (Shashi Kapoor) are petty burglars. They don't go well with each other and are sworn enemies. Their respective bosses command them to go to a school where their task is to abduct a rich man Seth Mathur's (Shreeram Lagoo) son, Bittoo and bring him in so as to demand a huge ransom. Vija... | good versus evil, revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0174157 | El rebelde (Romance de antaño) | The setting is 1922, in French-occupied Vietnam, and anti-French rebellions by peasants have emerged all over the country. In response, the French have activated units of Vietnamese secret agents to track and destroy the rebels. One agent is Le Van Cuong. Although he has a perfect track record, Cuong's conscience is tr... | revenge, melodrama | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0050598 | A King in New York | "One of the minor annoyances in modern life is a revolution." Due to a revolution in his country Estrovia, King Igor Shahdov (Charlie Chaplin) comes to New York City with almost no money, his securities having been stolen by his own Prime Minister. He tries to contact the Atomic Energy Commission with his ideas for usi... | satire | train | wikipedia | "A King in New York" is one of those few films that gets better and better every time you see it.Yes, it's flawed--the sets look shabby, and some of the dialogue is stilted and melodramatic.
Yet despite these shortcomings, AKINY still stands out as a wonderful, playful satire of 1950's America.For those of you who may ... |
tt0312329 | Against the Ropes | At a young age, Jackie Kallen learns about boxing with her father and uncle in a small gym. Later, she becomes the assistant to a Cleveland boxing promoter. Her boss then begins doing business with Sam LaRocca, a sports manager, during a middleweight championship fight.
LaRocca asks afterward what she thought of the fi... | romantic, entertaining | train | wikipedia | Agreeable comedy-drama about boxing world with a likable Meg Ryan as an obstinate promoter.
The movie focuses to Jackie Kallen(Meg Ryan), a Jewish girl from Detroit, a secretary plenty of wide dreams.
After a stake with a famous commissioner(Tony Shalhoub)she becomes a boxing promoter of a young boxer(Omar Epps).Then s... |
tt0033517 | A Date with the Falcon | Scientist Waldo Samson (Alec Craig) has discovered how to manufacture cheap synthetic diamonds that are nearly identical to actual diamonds, as he demonstrates to diamond industry representatives and New York Police Inspector Mike O'Hara (James Gleason). Samson only wishes to provide them for the American defense effor... | comedy, murder | train | wikipedia | This is the second of the Falcon films starring George Sanders.
Who can ever forget George Sanders standing and smoking a cigarette nonchalantly on a window ledge of a New York hotel, while the crowd below gasps and take bets on whether he will jump.
When a policeman forces him inside the window at gunpoint, the street... |
tt4814290 | Te3n | John Biswas (Amitabh Bachchan) is a 70-year-old grandfather who visits the police station regularly. He is desperate to find the kidnapper and murderer of his granddaughter Angela, who died eight years ago. Police inspector Sarita Sarkar (Vidya Balan) has no clues about the case. But he continues to search for the pers... | suspenseful | train | wikipedia | 4 reasons we are watching this - Amitabh Bachchan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Vidya Balan and finally this is the Hindi remake of only one of the best Korean non-derivative thrillers in recent years called Montage that not many people even know about.
This is a story about a grandfather (Amitabh Bachchan), a priest (Nawazudd... |
tt2334715 | La segunda muerte | A young boy, about 9 or 10 years old, and his adult man (if that man is the boy's father or not, is unclear) - but while driving on a low-traffic road does at least the boy see the strange face of a woman, just as a flash lightens up the environment. The day after, is a totally burned body found on the same road. A you... | murder | train | wikipedia | The most perfect supernatural – detective story I have seen, and believe me I have seen it all!. If you are smart and patient you will be rewarded with one great movie and a very interest ending!As I write this, I just finished watching "La Segunda Muerte" "The Second Death", for the second time, back to back. Because ... |
tt0099819 | I Love You to Death | Joey Boca (Kevin Kline) is the owner of a pizza parlor located in Tacoma, Washington, and has been married to Rosalie (Tracey Ullman) for years. Their marriage seems a typical one until Rosalie discovers in the public library that Joey is a womanizer and has been cheating on her for a long time.
Rosalie does not want t... | revenge, comedy | train | wikipedia | But it takes off from that base and becomes a screwball comedy in the classic style.Wonderfully droll performances are given by everyone in this Hitchcock-like farce about a murder that doesn't quite work and a man who just won't die.
Joan Plowright steals every scene she is in -- which isn't easy in a film that is ful... |
tt0014672 | America | Three childhood friends – Surya (Ramesh Aravind), Shashank (Akshay Anand) and Bhoomi (Hema Panchamukhi) – are from the coastal region of Karnataka. After finishing their undergraduate studies, Shashank goes to the US for further studies. Surya is extremely patriotic about India and doesn't want to go anywhere and start... | violence | train | wikipedia | Griffith's story-telling seems a lot less heavy-handed than in his earlier historical epics and his tableaux work is fully integrated into the action.
Lionel Barrymore is an utter swine, Neil Hamilton is poor but dashing and Carol Dempster is....
well, Carol Dempster is most of what is wrong with Griffith in this perio... |
tt0115988 | The Crucible | === Act One ===
Betty Parris, the ten-year-old daughter of Salem preacher Reverend Samuel Parris, lies motionless. The previous evening, Reverend Parris discovered Betty, some other girls, and his Barbadian slave, Tituba, engaged in some sort of ritual in the woods. The village is rife with rumors of witchcraft and a c... | allegory, revenge, satire | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0043564 | French Rarebit | In Paris, France, a delivery truck carrying a crate marked "Carrots from U.S.A." accidentally loses the crate, along with Bugs Bunny, after driving on a bumpy road. As Bugs is trying to figure out where he is, he looks at the Rue de la Paix, the Champs-Élysées, and the Eiffel Tower, he realizes where he is, and decides... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Colorful, But Not Too Humorous.
Bugs, hiding inside a crate of carrots, winds up on the streets of Paris when the crate falls off the truck.
He then meanders down the street and is spotted by competing chefs.
They both think the rabbit is what they need to complete their menus.
The colors in here are magnificent as the... |
tt0049131 | Deduce, You Say | Mr. Watkins' narrates throughout the cartoon. Dorlock Holmes lives on Beeker Street in London. Inside of their apartment, Holmes is busily engaged in "deduction" — tax deduction, that is, hoping to write off such costs as "magnifying glasses and gumshoes, taxi fares, to and from murders". Following a knock on the door,... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | An awkward, angular cartoon which is saved by a great script.
Chuck Jones's 'Deduce, You Say' is one of the least celebrated of his genre spoofs in which he cast Porky and Daffy in well known roles.
Although it is an enjoyable cartoon, 'Deduce, You Say' is undoubtedly inferior to instant classics such as 'Robin Hood Da... |
tt0115683 | Bio-Dome | Bud "Squirrel" Macintosh and Doyle "Stubs" Johnson are best friends who live together. Bud wins a round of Rock, Paper, Scissors and gets to hit Doyle in the head with a book. Their girlfriends Monique and Jen arrive to take them to an Environmental Party when they discover the injured Doyle. The girls learn that the b... | bleak, stupid | train | wikipedia | Great for Pauly Shore fans and for those who enjoy slapstick comedy.
I'm actually quite surprised at the low user rating of 3.8 when movies like "You don't mess with the Zohan" which is possibly the worst film ever made manage to get over 5.0!!!!
Bio-dome is a great "swith-off your brain" type of film which shouldn't b... |
tt0117653 | Silent Trigger | The movie takes place in and around an unfinished city skyscraper, the "Algonquin", where a sniper/spotter team (Waxman and Clegg) set up a firing platform on a top floor. The two arrive independently of each other, two of the Agency's assassins. As they meet, they recognize each other, as they have been on a mission t... | violence, plot twist, flashback | train | wikipedia | Gina Bellman is difficult to watch, being from the UK I'm acquainted with her later (emetic) sitcom work, and seeing her try to hold down a serious role is very funny.
Most of the film is set in the penthouse of a skyscraper (the Algonquin) at night time during heavy thunder and rain.
The rest of the film is shown in f... |
tt0078797 | Arrebato | José Sirgado (Eusebio Poncela) is a frustrated horror film director and heroin addict in a tumultuous relationship with Ana (Celicia Roth). The cousin of his ex-girlfriend Marta, Pedro (Will More), sends him a film, an audio cassette, and the key to his apartment despite the fact that the two have only met twice; once ... | cult, psychedelic, comic | train | wikipedia | Little known masterpiece.
Get hold of it if you can.
Best vampires movie ever without even showing any teeth...If you thing you are committed to your work, see the protagonist of this movie.The director had to adapt to stern constrains in number of characters and locales and still he came up with a modern classic, catc... |
tt0055423 | The Secret Ways | In Vienna, 1956, after Soviet tanks crush the Hungarian uprising, American adventurer Michael Reynolds (Richard Widmark) is hired by an international espionage ring to smuggle a noted scholar and resistance leader, Professor Jansci (Walter Rilla), out of Communist-ruled Hungary during the Hungarian Revolution. Reynolds... | melodrama | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2025667 | Smiley | The plot revolves around the titular Smiley killer, the subject of an Internet myth. Supposedly, if a person on a ChatRoulette-style website types the phrase "I did it for the lulz" three times, their chat partner will be murdered by a killer called Smiley, so named because he mutilated his own face by stitching his ow... | murder, prank | train | wikipedia | null |
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