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tt1046894 | Black Widow | Mark Sherwin (Ayres) is driving in the country when he notices a man lying at the side of the road. Assuming the man is the victim of a hit-and-run, he stops to offer assistance, only to be coshed and left stunned while his wallet and car are stolen. On recovering his senses, he staggers towards a nearby farmhouse wher... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0758751 | Grey Gardens | The film is based on the life stories of the eccentric paternal aunt and first cousin of Jackie Kennedy, both named Edith Bouvier Beale. The elder Edith Bouvier Beale was the sister of Jackie Kennedy's father John Vernou Bouvier III and was referred to as "Big Edie", her daughter was referred to as "Little Edie". The B... | sentimental | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0188453 | Birthday Girl | John Buckingham (Ben Chaplin), a lonely St Albans bank clerk, orders a mail-order bride Nadia (Nicole Kidman) from Russia on the Internet. John is uncomfortable and shy, but Nadia is sexually bold. Though Nadia cannot speak English and John cannot speak Russian, they soon bond. Later on, a man she introduces as her cou... | flashback, home movie | train | wikipedia | Roughly one part crime drama to two parts offbeat love story, `Birthday Girl' is a nifty little British film that gives Nicole Kidman a chance to strut her stuff as an actress.
Here she gets to play a Russian `mail order bride' (though, of course, in the modern world she is actually ordered off the internet) who's come... |
tt0015758 | Don Q Son of Zorro | Don Diego de la Vega (Zorro)'s son, Cesar (Douglas Fairbanks), is in Spain finishing his education. While Cesar is showing off to friends his remarkable prowess with the whip, he accidentally clips off the feather shako on the hat of Don Sebastian (Donald Crisp) of the Palace Guard. Although Cesar apologizes immediatel... | good versus evil, romantic, action, flashback | train | wikipedia | A really GOOD sequel!.
Film sequels were a novelty in 1925, when DON Q, SON OF ZORRO marked a big profit for United Artists.
Then and now, it is considered to be a better film than the original, THE MARK OF ZORRO (1920), which made star and producer Douglas Fairbanks the personification of the Swashbuckler five years e... |
tt1150934 | Anacondas 4: Trail of Blood | A baby anaconda, which was captured at the end of the previous film, is being used for experiments by a man named Peter Reysner, who creates a hybrid of the blood orchids from Borneo that enabled the anaconda to grow so large and live so long, and creates a serum for cell regeneration. After the test seemingly works fo... | flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0088885 | The Care Bears Movie | Mr. and Mrs. Cherrywood are a middle-aged couple who run an orphanage. Mr. Cherrywood tells the orphans a story about the Care Bears and Care-a-Lot, their home in the clouds. In the story, Friend Bear and Secret Bear travel looking for people to cheer up. They meet Kim and Jason, two lonely orphaned children. Friend Be... | good versus evil, revenge, storytelling, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0102484 | Murder in New Hampshire: The Pamela Wojas Smart Story | The film opens to the actual murder. Three teenage boys are holding a knife to the throat of a man. They are demanding his wedding ring, and he is begging for his life. The boy holding the knife says "he can't do it." Another boy draws a pistol, says "God Forgive me", and shoots him to death. The three boys run out of ... | murder | train | wikipedia | She's A Bad Mama Jama.
98 I was a freshman in college when the Pamela Smart trial was all the rage on television, radio, newspapers, etc.
I followed the proceedings with great interest, and when the TV film "Murder In New Hampshire" premiered on CBS, I watched with anticipation.
I wanted to know what drove this young w... |
tt0841032 | The Perfect Holiday | Benjamin (Chestnut) is an aspiring songwriter who attempts to break into the music business by giving a copy of his recording track of a Christmas album to a rap artist named J-Jizzy (Charles Q. Murphy). Nancy (Union) is a divorced mother, who is too busy taking care of her three children to take care of herself. Her d... | romantic, prank | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1375710 | El Dorado | Cole Thornton (John Wayne), a gunslinger-for-hire, is hired by wealthy rancher Bart Jason (Ed Asner) to help him in a range war with the McDonald family in the town of El Dorado. The local sheriff, an old friend of Thornton, J. P. Harrah (Robert Mitchum) gives Cole more details that Jason had deliberately left out, inc... | murder | train | wikipedia | Making up for a poor script with an abundance of stunts and chases.
I am a total sucker for adventure movies.
I have watched all the best of them; Indiana Jones; Romancing the Stone; National Treasure; The Da Vinci Code; King Solomon's Mines; Jewel of the Nile.
And now I have watched one of the poorest attempts at repl... |
tt0036860 | Gents Without Cents | The Stooges are small-time song-and-dance performers who are having trouble rehearsing due to loud tapping that is going on one story above them. When they go to give the rowdies a piece of their mind, three lovely ladies named Flo (Lindsay Bourquin), Mary (Laverne Thompson) and Shirley (Betty Phares) come to the door.... | comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0102103 | Impromptu | Since getting divorced, Baroness Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin, previously Baroness Dudevant, the successful and notorious writer of sensational romance novels now living under the pseudonym George Sand, in Paris, has been in the habit of dressing like a man. In her romantic pursuit of the sensitive Chopin, whose music ... | violence | train | wikipedia | But the core of "Impromptu" explores love, jealousy, and the process of artistic creation in ways that keep the film captivating for the most jaded modern viewer.Judy Davis capably assumes the mantle of convention-bucking authoress George Sand, providing a fiery counterpart to Hugh Grant's self-deprecating (and effecti... |
tt0087692 | The Master of Ballantrae | At the Durrisdeer estate in Scotland in 1745, Jamie Durie (Errol Flynn), his younger brother Henry (Anthony Steel) and their father Lord Durrisdeer (Felix Aylmer) receive news of the Jacobite rising. Their retainer, MacKellar (Mervyn Johns), recommends that one brother join the uprising while the other remains loyal to... | action | train | wikipedia | I love it!.
Okay, I disagree with all previous comments.I find this "Master of Ballantrae" a memorable, exciting and effective adaptation of the novel, and much closer to the book than the previous version with Errol Flynn.
Sure, some of the accents sound forced, and some of the acting is melodramatic and over-the-top-... |
tt0805619 | Stir of Echoes: The Homecoming | Ted Cogan (Rob Lowe) is a United States National Guard captain commanding a National Guard unit in Iraq. When a van pulls into his checkpoint, he orders it to stop, but it does not. He orders his men to fire a warning shot, but they shoot up the van instead.
A few booms and crackles later, an Iraqi girl comes out of th... | murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0102951 | Soapdish | Celeste Talbert, the long-time star of the daytime drama The Sun Also Sets, is targeted by her ambitious co-star Montana Moorehead; Montana connives to supplant Celeste as the show's star by promising sexual favors to its producer, David Seton Barnes. To make the audience hate Celeste's character, Montana and David com... | revenge, comedy, satire, melodrama | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0029118 | The Last Gangster | During Prohibition, gangland kingpin Joe Krozac (Edward G. Robinson) returns from Europe with a new wife, Talya (Rose Stradner), who is unaware of his criminal background. The Kile brothers have muscled in on his territory in his absence, so he orders their assassinations. Three are killed, but "Acey" Kile (Alan Baxter... | revenge, depressing, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0119731 | Murder at 1600 | In a restroom in the White House in Washington, D.C., a janitor finds White House secretary Carla Town (Mary Moore) dead. Metropolitan Police homicide Detective Harlan Regis (Wesley Snipes), whose apartment house is awaiting demolition in favor of a parking lot, is put on the case. At the White House, Regis is introduc... | suspenseful, neo noir, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | Beach and Hodgin have also humanized Regis: he is about to be evicted a fact that is quickly introduced in the film's opening sequence and he and his fellow tenants' problem is solved in a refreshing way.Diane Lane plays a Secret Service agent, Nina Chance, who begins to suspect a cover-up at the White House and as... |
tt0063297 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | The play consists of four interconnecting plots, connected by a celebration of the wedding of Duke Theseus of Athens and the Amazon queen, Hippolyta, which is set simultaneously in the woodland and in the realm of Fairyland, under the light of the moon.
The play opens with Hermia, who is in love with Lysander, resistan... | psychedelic, fantasy, romantic | train | wikipedia | There were little jumps and quirks in this production by the Royal Shakespeare Company - but in reality they merely added to the otherworldly and ethereal overall effect.
The cast was superb - and for those who only know Judi Dench as dowdy or as Queen Elizabeth, in this film she plays the queen of the fairies, Titani... |
tt1711478 | In Harm's Way | John Wayne stars as U.S. Navy Captain Rockwell "Rock" Torrey, a divorced "second generation Navy" son of a career Chief Petty Officer. A Naval Academy graduate and career officer, Torrey is removed from command of his heavy cruiser for "throwing away the book" when pursuing the enemy and then being torpedoed by a Japan... | revenge, suspenseful, violence | train | wikipedia | Dull, simple, predictable, boring. Dull, simple, predictable, boring. Another low rent production, predictable plot, etc., all in all comes to a waste of time. Indie movies are sometimes good but this one is pure low ball values, no real script, plot, low budget, etc. Low budget is no barrier to good work, but in this ... |
tt0082361 | Der Fan | Gaurav Chandana (Shah Rukh Khan) is a Delhi-based die-hard and obsessive fan of Bollywood superstar Aryan Khanna (also Shah Rukh Khan); Aryan is Gaurav's whole life. Gaurav's face bears an uncanny similarity to Aryan's, which helps him win the local talent show competition impersonating Aryan. He then embarks on a jour... | pornographic, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0120530 | Wong fei hung VI: Sai wik hung see | Wong Fei-hung, Clubfoot and "13th Aunt" cross the Pacific Ocean to America to visit Bucktooth So, who has opened a Po-chi-lam clinic there. While traveling by carriage through the wilderness, they pick up a friendly cowboy named Billy, who is almost dying of thirst. When the party stops to have lunch, a bunch of hostil... | cult | train | wikipedia | Excellent martial-arts movie..
This is one of the best movies in the "Once upon a time in China" series.
Funny once in a while with its goofy Chinese humour and filled with fast fightingsequences that are beyond us "normal" people.
:) The synchronized sound is, as usual not the best, but it does the trick...
Enjoyable ... |
tt0213117 | The Neverhood | The titular Neverhood is a surreal landscape dotted with buildings and other hints of life, all suspended above an endless void. However, the Neverhood itself is bizarrely deserted, with its only inhabitants being Klaymen (the main protagonist and player character), Willie Trombone (a dim individual who assists Klaymen... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Only two words can describe this fantastic frenzy of a fun and frisky form of gaming: "Wow" and "Excellent".I can't describe it to its full extent.
The creators of this game put so much time, effort, and ability into creating Klaymen's world that, although I have played through the game literally five or more times ov... |
tt0861350 | Header | Imprisoned for involuntary manslaughter during a carjacking, Travis Clyde Tuckton is released from prison in 2003, and shacks up with his disabled grandfather, Jake Martin, in the old shoemaker's secluded West Virginia home. Jake elects to teach Travis everything he knows, starting with the family tradition of "headers... | cult | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1994577 | The Pastor's Wife | Mary Winkler is a housewife and mother of three daughters who is married to Matthew Winkler, a pastor who is admired by many in his community for his friendliness and his views about family values. To many in town the Winklers are seen as a perfect family with Matthew as a perfect husband and wonderful father and Mary ... | murder | train | wikipedia | The Pastor's wife.
I was a member of a Baptists church for over 2 years.
The Pastor's Wife portrays a fairly accurate account of the women in my church who firmly believe that the men in the family have the final say.
The wedding vows too are fairly accurate in as much as the 'love, honour and obey' that were originall... |
tt0242994 | Va savoir | After three years away, the actress Camille returns to Paris in an Italian troupe run by her lover Ugo, who is touring Europe with an Italian-language production of a minor Pirandello play. Camille is nervous because she still has feelings over leaving her lover Pierre, who she tracks down in a park. He seems unchanged... | absurd, intrigue, romantic | train | wikipedia | Having read many of the comments of "Va Savoir" here, (admittedly mostly from the other side of the Atlantic), I was surprised by the amount of hostility towards this film.Whilst I admit that it may have benefited from a little judicious editing, perhaps down to around two hours, this seems to me to be a well acted and... |
tt0266452 | Death to Smoochy | Randolph Smiley is the host of "The Rainbow Randolph Show", a popular children's tv show. Despite his friendly appearance on-stage, off-stage he is an arrogant and corrupt businessman who accepts bribes from parents who want to put their kids on his show. After an FBI sting exposes him, Randolph is fired and his show i... | comedy, murder, cult, flashback, psychedelic, satire, revenge | train | wikipedia | If you love Robin Williams and think he's one of the funniest men in the planet, if you're a fan of the great Edward Norton, if you think Catherine Keener is really hot, if you think Danny DeVito is a genius or if you simply wanna have a barrel of laughs--"Death to Smoochy" will keep you alive with pleasure.My score: ... |
tt0076299 | The Last Wave | The film opens with a montage of scenes of daily life in Australia in the 1970s: a rural school in the desert, the main street of an outback town, a traffic jam in the city, all being affected by unusually adverse weather conditions that suddenly appear. Only the local Aboriginal people seem to recognize the cosmologic... | psychedelic, mystery, murder, atmospheric | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1649444 | [Rec]³: Génesis | Koldo and Clara are about to celebrate their wedding day. The wedding is filmed by Koldo's cousin, Adrián, and their wedding photographer, Atun, plus footage cuts from other guests' mobile phones and cameras. The guests travel to the wedding reception, held in a huge mansion, on chartered coaches. Adrián films his uncl... | violence, comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0117473 | The Rich Man's Wife | Josie Potenza is the trophy wife of workaholic Hollywood producer Tony Potenza, but their marriage is crumbling due to his increased drinking resulting from stress at work. She convinces him to join her for a romantic getaway at a secluded lakeside cabin, but when it becomes obvious his concerns about the studio are go... | murder | train | wikipedia | Peter Greene as one of the vilest villains I've seen in a while, and Clea Lewis as the greedy, vindictive wife of the best friend.Let's not forget Halle Berry.
All in all, I don't think you can lose by spending a little time with this movie, but I have to warn you: There are more plot holes in it than there are pot ho... |
tt0073896 | White Line Fever | === Backstory ===
Sam Hummer was a local truck driver from Tucson, Arizona who worked for a Tucson-based produce-shipper called "Red River". His driving partners were Duane Haller and "Pops" Dinwiddie. Eventually Sam's son, Carrol Jo, is old enough to ride with his father and the two of them then become partners as wel... | violence | train | wikipedia | The CB radio craze was at its height when this movie first came out (I saw it on a double bill with "Jaws" at an outdoor)and the country was fascinated by the lives of long distance truckers.
These concepts coalesce in this fast-paced and tough action movie.Carroll Jo Hummer is an independent long haul trucker whose wh... |
tt2309021 | We Are What We Are | During a torrential downpour, a woman, later identified as Emma Parker, confusedly staggers into a store as the butcher receives a delivery. After several attempts to address her, she finally responds and explains that the foul weather has strongly affected her. The butcher says that it will get worse before it gets be... | dramatic, horror, atmospheric | train | wikipedia | But first, a little information about the premise: the film is a remake of a 2010 Mexican horror film that I was unfamiliar with, and it follows a family known as the Parkers.
As a massive storm batters the town, the family matriarch dies and the father, Frank (Bill Sage), is left to care for three children: Iris (Amby... |
tt1038023 | Ghost Rider | Over one hundred years ago , The Devil, Mephistopheles, sends his bounty hunter of the damned, the Ghost Rider, to retrieve a document known as "The Contract of San Venganza", a list of a thousand corrupt souls. Seeing that the contract would give Mephistopheles the power to unleash Hell on Earth, the Rider refuses to ... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0368343 | Three Way | The film starts in San Diego. Lew (Dominic Purcell) finds out that his wife is having an affair with another man. He grabs his gun and goes to seek revenge but finds both of them dead in the bed. He fears that the police would suspect him because he has had a bad past, so he dumps the bodies and his gun in the sea alon... | romantic, neo noir, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | Some truly stupid behavior (excused, in part, by every criminal in this movie being a rank amateur) hampers an otherwise passable crime movie about sloppy blackmailing, sloppy kidnapping, and not-always-sloppy plots within plots.
Despite the foolish actions, the dialogue and performances are good, especially those of D... |
tt0083701 | Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales | Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck have to sell books for Rambling House. They go their separate ways and experience many wacky things. For instance, while flying through a winter storm, Daffy ran into a house owned by Porky Pig and briefly stayed there while taking place of a stuffed duck which he merely destroyed. Meanwhile, ... | storytelling | train | wikipedia | I'll be honest.
I actually liked this!.
At 18, I am a huge Looney Tunes fan.
As a little girl, I loved watching them and laughing at the manic wit, marvelling at the colourful animation and admiring the playful and energetic music, not to mention loving the witty characters(especially Bugs and Daffy) and the fresh dial... |
tt1988591 | Death Race: Inferno | Death Race owner R.H. Weyland (Ving Rhames) has been forced to sell the rights to Niles York (Dougray Scott), a British billionaire who acquired the rights by hostile takeover. York reveals he intends to relocate Death Race to the deserts of South Africa as a Transcontinental Race. Before leaving, Weyland arranges Carl... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0232960 | Woh Kaun Thi? | On a rainy night, the highly reputed Dr. Anand is driving. He sees a woman standing in the road and gives her a lift. She introduces herself as Sandhya. As soon as she steps in the car, the wipers eerily stop working. He's even more spooked when the lady shows him the way when it isn't visible and guides him outside a ... | suspenseful, murder, romantic | train | wikipedia | Watch the film to find out.
is the first out of three Raj Khosla-directed thrillers starring Sadhana in the lead, the other two being Mera Saaya (1965) and Anita (1967).
Actually, all three films have similar concepts and are all successful, although Mera Saaya is my favourite.
The movie starts on one rainy night when ... |
tt0117991 | Twelfth Night or What You Will | Viola is shipwrecked on the coast of Illyria and she comes ashore with the help of a captain. She lost contact with her twin brother, Sebastian, whom she believed to be drowned. Disguising herself as a young man under the name Cesario, she enters the service of Duke Orsino through the help of the sea captain who rescue... | romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | Trevor Nunn's beautifully photographed and acted, deftly written film is one of the most enjoyable adaptations of a Shakespeare play ever made.
Helena Bonham Carter is pitch perfect as the beautiful Olivia, who in "deep mourning" for her dead brother, falls in love with Cesario (who happens to be a woman named Viola dr... |
tt0076591 | Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown | The Peanuts gang heads off to Camp Remote somewhere in the mountains. Charlie Brown is accidentally left behind by the bus while at a desolate rest stop. He is then forced to hitch a harrowing ride on Snoopy's motorcycle in order to make the rest of the journey to the camp, accompanied by rock guitar type riffs while h... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Definitely the best Charlie Brown film ever.
As usual Peppermint Patty wants to be in control of everything, but this is a movie were everyone gets to do their bit.
In fact, one couldn't help but feel lonely as Charlie Brown spent the night studying in a big city in "A Boy Named Charlie Brown"; as Snoopy got kicked out... |
tt0038356 | The Big Snooze | In this cartoon-within-a-cartoon, Bugs and Elmer are in the midst of their usual hunting-chasing scenario. After Bugs tricks Elmer into running through a hollow log and off a cliff three times (a comic triple of sorts originally used in Avery's All this and Rabbit Stew. In fact, the same animation sequence was recycled... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | I don't know any of the details surrounding Bob Clampett's departure from Warner Bros., but in this, his last cartoon for them, was one of the weirdest from a long list of strange entries from him.
I don't think he got along well with the new studio imposed producer, Edward Selzer.
Leon Schlesinger, the previous one, a... |
tt0062229 | Le samouraï | Hitman Jef Costello (Delon) lives in a single-room Parisian apartment whose spartan furnishings include a little bird in a cage. A long opening shot shows him lying on his bed, smoking, when the following text appears on-screen:
There is no greater solitude than that of the samurai unless it is that of the tiger in the... | murder, violence, atmospheric, claustrophobic, romantic, suspenseful | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0082562 | Innamorato pazzo | Cristina, the princess of a fictional monarchical state named San Tulipe, is visiting Rome with her father, Gustavo VI, who is trying to appeal to Italy's national bank for a loan to buoy his country's financial crisis. Bored and rebellious, Cristina sneaks away from the embassy and decides to engage in a sightseeing t... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0143016 | The Zodiac Killer | The film is a highly fictionalized telling of a month in the life of the Zodiac Killer (played by Hal Reed). The film follows the killer (whose identity as the Zodiac Killer is not revealed until the end of the first act of the film) and a friend, Grover (a drunk, toupee wearing truck driver who is divorced from his wi... | violence, cult, cruelty, murder, sadist | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0094017 | The Spirit | In a cat-filled mausoleum in Central City, Denny Colt, also known as "The Spirit", receives a call from Detective Sussman, about a major case that could involve "The Spirit's" arch-nemesis, "The Octopus". The Spirit dons his costume and travels across rooftops, while delivering a voice-over soliloquy, about the city be... | cult | train | wikipedia | A decent, well-intentioned attempt at a classic character.
I just saw this unsold pilot for the first time since it aired in 1987, and I was pleasantly surprised to find out that it was much better than I remembered.
Sam Jones looked great as the Spirit and he played the part in a tongue-in-cheek manner that was just r... |
tt0113633 | Bullet to Beijing | Harry Palmer (Michael Caine) is forced into early retirement from MI5. He receives a telephone call offering a mysterious job opportunity.
Harry flies to St. Petersburg, Russia, where he is met by Nikolai (Jason Connery). They are followed and shot at by Chechens, before Nick (as Harry insists on calling him) and Natas... | intrigue, murder | train | wikipedia | BULLET TO BEIJING amusing return of Harry Palmer.
After 30 years Harry Palmer ( Michael Caine) returns a bit older but still amused and amusing.
In the one I own, Sue Lloyd makes a brief appearance as Harry's old girl friend Jean, now a blonde, sexy widow.
However, I though Caine, Connery and Michael Gambon were all fi... |
tt1308138 | Hua Mulan | The poem starts with Mulan sitting worriedly at her loom, as one male from each family is called to serve in the army to defend China from invaders. Her father is old and weak and her younger brother is just a child, so she decides to take his place and bids farewell to her parents, who support her. She is already skil... | violence, murder, romantic | train | wikipedia | Words escape me at the moment, but this review can say it all for me: http://yingweitan.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/movie-review-mulan-2009/ Also, the comment at the bottom of the article is very insightful.Differing from the usual route of Chinese epic movies, which usually portrays huge battle scenes, extravagant costum... |
tt0454776 | Amazing Grace | In 1796, William Wilberforce is severely ill and taking a recuperative holiday in Bath, Somerset, with his cousin, Henry Thornton. It is here that William is introduced to his future wife, Barbara Spooner. Although he initially resists any romantic overtures, she convinces him to relate the story of his career.
The sto... | historical, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1133993 | Serious Moonlight | When Louise, a high-powered attorney (Meg Ryan), discovers that her husband Ian (Timothy Hutton) is about to leave her for another woman Sara (Kristen Bell), she prevents him from doing so by binding him to a chair with duct tape. She tries to persuade and convince him that he still loves her, but everything she says f... | romantic, comedy | train | wikipedia | If you enjoy films like "War of the Roses", you should like this one.Basically this is a love-triangle story about a man (Tim Hutton) whose planning on leaving his wife (Meg Ryan) of 14 years for a much younger woman (Kristin Bell).
Unfortunately, Kristin Bell bores us with her very two-dimensional performance.The plot... |
tt0334754 | Yossi & Jagger | Yossi (Ohad Knoller) commands a company of soldiers in the snow-covered mountains near Lebanon. In secrecy, he leads a passionate romantic relationship with his second-in-command officer, Lior (Yehuda Levi), who is called Jagger by everyone for his rock star-like handsomeness and his lip-syncing Mick Jagger. The pair, ... | tragedy, romantic, sentimental | train | wikipedia | It also cemented the fact that all you need for a truly moving film is (no kidding!) a good story, good characters, good acting (not stars hamming it and ISO of an Oscar - gag), good cinematography, a good script with good dialogue and good direction.
I'm not a big fan of handheld camera cinema verite BS, but there is ... |
tt0035575 | Yankee Doodle Dandy | In the early days of World War II, Cohan comes out of retirement to star as President Roosevelt in the Rodgers and Hart musical I'd Rather Be Right. On the first night, he is summoned to meet the President at the White House, who presents him with a Congressional Gold Medal (in fact, this happened several years previou... | melodrama, flashback | train | wikipedia | Unlike today's biographies, this is a very positive story about a man who brought patriotism alive during World War I with such inspirational songs as "It's A Grand Old Flag" and "Over There." For some of us, listening to these songs can bring a tear or two.Cagney is his normal riveting self and Joan Leslie certainly m... |
tt0053980 | Kala Bazar | Raghuvir (Dev Anand) is a poor bus conductor who is fired from the job after getting into an argument with a passenger. With an ailing mother (Leela Chitnis) and two younger siblings to take care of, Raghu doesn't know how to provide for his family. When he passes by a cinema hall and sees Kalu (Rashid Khan) selling mo... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Another memorable movie from the house of Dev Anand's Navketan.. Dev Anand again plays the role of an anti-hero with a lot of restraint and deftness. A rare film, by Indian standards, where the heroine is shown falling in love twice. Wahida Rehman is initially in love with Vijay Anand, who, having gone abroad for highe... |
tt3121332 | Nasty Baby | The film centers on European-looking, South American immigrants, Freddy and Mo, a gay couple trying to have a baby with the help of their friend Polly. Freddy is also a performance artist who is attempting to make a short film entitled Nasty Baby which features himself portraying a screaming infant. Freddy's sperm coun... | murder | train | wikipedia | "Nasty Baby" by filmmaker Sebastián Silva takes you on a back ally tour of the character of ordinary people.
This movie starts off pleasant enough with likable, real character; but from the start there is a slow burn that is building towards some unwanted destination.
This movie takes you around the big attractions of ... |
tt0058257 | Kashmir Ki Kali | Wealthy and pampered Rajiv Lal (Shammi Kapoor) is the only son of widowed Rani Maa. At the silver jubilee anniversary of the mill that his father, the late Sanjiv Lal opened, he announces a bonus of 5 lakh rupees for all the workers, annoying his mother. A servant at the house, Karuna (Mridula Rani), suggests marrying ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0043726 | The Late Edwina Black | The domineering Edwina Black has just died, and the general feeling appears to be of relief rather than grief. The local community whispers that her death is a disguised blessing for all concerned, particularly her henpecked widower Gregory (Farrar) and downtrodden personal companion Elizabeth (Fitzgerald). Unknown to ... | murder | train | wikipedia | The Old Dark House.
Edwina Black has died and an autopsy shows she was poisoned with arsenic.
Meanwhile, her widower and his secretary (played by the wonderful Geraldine Fitzgerald), who have been waiting for her to die, are preparing to go off to the Continent.
While the police inspector (played slowly and perfectly b... |
tt0119931 | 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... | cult, flashback | train | wikipedia | Not what I was expecting, but alright nonetheless. I basically saw this movie through happenstance, and had no expectations whatsoever. I will admit to being shallow and expressing disappointment at not seeing Natasha Henstidge topless, but besides that, this movie was enjoyable. It has the feel of a converted stagepla... |
tt0104549 | Jennifer Eight | Former Los Angeles policeman John Berlin is teetering toward burnout after the collapse of his marriage. At the invitation of an old friend and colleague, Freddy Ross, Berlin heads to rural northern California, for a job with the Eureka police force. Instead, Berlin prickles his new colleagues, especially John Taylor, ... | murder | train | wikipedia | It's absolutely entertaining, with great performances from pretty much everybody, but especially Andy Garcia and Lance Henrikson.It plays out like a good mystery/thriller should: Frustrating twists and turns, brooding atmosphere and music, and layer after layer of clues that you know are building to a big time climax.
... |
tt1034306 | Dorothy Mills | Jane Morton (Carice van Houten), a psychiatrist in mourning after the accidental death of her son, is assigned the case of Dorothy Mills (Jenn Murray), a 15-year-old girl from a small Irish island, accused of attempting to murder a baby while babysitting.
The film starts with Jane at a psychiatric hospital speaking to ... | psychedelic, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1206585 | Winx Club: Il segreto del Regno Perduto | In season 1, Bloom, a 16-year-old girl from Earth, discovers she has magical abilities when she saves Stella, a fairy princess from Solaria. Stella persuades Bloom to enroll in Alfea, a school for fairies in the Magical Dimension. There, she meets roommate Flora and apartment mates Tecna and Musa; together they form th... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | Possible reasons for lower ratings and things that make it unique. The secret the lost kingdom has become on of my favorite movies. The point of it was to tie up lose ends from the show but leave room for it to expand; in my opinion, they did an excellent job. While the fans being unused to the cgi graphics , the peopl... |
tt0304262 | Katakuri-ke no kôfuku | The Katakuris are a four-generation family of failures: patriarch Masao Katakuri (Kenji Sawada), his wife Terue (Keiko Matsuzaka), his father Jinpei (Tetsurō Tamba), his formerly criminal son Masayuki (Shinji Takeda), his divorced daughter Shizue (Naomi Nishida), her child Yurie (Tamaki Miyazaki, who narrates the film)... | absurd, psychedelic, comedy, flashback | train | wikipedia | It's an absurdist mix of horror, surrealism, a musical, claymation, a black comedy, and one of those progressively "going to hell in a handbasket" films ala After Hours (1985), Very Bad Things (1998) or My Boss' Daughter (2003).
All of the individual elements are superb, but director Takashi Miike simply abandons too m... |
tt1316554 | Kuroshitsuji | In Victorian-era London lives a young boy named Ciel Phantomhive. Ciel lives with his wealthy parents in a manor in England. On the night of his tenth birthday, Ciel comes across his mother, father, and dog dead and surrounded by flames. The manor was set on fire, and he is captured by cultists. He is sold by his kidna... | psychedelic, murder | train | wikipedia | It all depends on the person, so if you really want to know if it is good or bad, watch it for yourself and don't take someone's word for it (you might be missing out on something great!) This show will woo you if you give it the chance to!
The characters, mainly Sebastian and Ciel, were really intriguing and had this ... |
tt0369610 | Jurassic World | Following the demise of dinosaur-themed Jurassic Park, a new resort called Jurassic World opens in its place on Isla Nublar years later. The Masrani Global Corporation – owner of the genetics company InGen that creates the dinosaurs – has been operating the successful tourist destination for the past ten years. Brother... | violence, satire | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0154683 | Jigoku | A young Tokyo theology student, Shirō (Shigeru Amachi), is set to marry his girlfriend, Yukiko (Utako Mitsuya), the daughter of his professor, Mr. Yajima. After announcing the engagement, Shirō's dark and unsettling colleague, Tamura (Yôichi Numata), drives Shirō home, suggesting that Shirō had been sleeping with Yukik... | revenge, psychedelic, violence | train | wikipedia | If good movie is sin Jigoku will surely take you to hell.
It's somewhat bizarre combination of drama, horror, film noir and art house where happy moments are more rare than good movies in Hollywood.While the hell sequences of Jigoku seem to gather most of the attention I think that the story as a whole is what makes th... |
tt0113071 | First Knight | The film's opening text establishes that King Arthur (Sean Connery) of Camelot, victorious from his wars, has dedicated his reign to promoting justice and peace and now wishes to marry. However, Malagant (Ben Cross), a Knight of the Round Table, desires the throne for himself and rebels.
The film opens with Lancelot (R... | romantic, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | Exciting medieval story that deals with a love triangle between legendary characters as Lancelot , Guinevere and Arthur.
The classic story of romantic adventure come to life enriched in glamorous color and with such great stars as Richard Gere (roving spirit Lancelot), Julia Ormond (wonderful Guinevere), and of course ... |
tt1753813 | Les adieux à la reine | In 1789, on the eve of the French Revolution, the court at the Palace of Versailles still live their routines, relatively unconcerned by the increasing turmoil in Paris a mere twenty miles away. The routines are seen through the eyes of the young Sidonie Laborde, who serves Queen Marie Antoinette.
When news about the s... | violence | train | wikipedia | Farewell, My Queen is a French film that covers three days in the life of servant Sidonie.
A different take on the oft-told story of Marie Antoinette and the storming of the Bastille, this French film focuses on the difficult behind-the-scenes life at Versailles.
The film does a credible job of showing the majestic cos... |
tt0482629 | The Ultimate Gift | When his rich grandfather, Howard "Red" Stevens (James Garner), dies, Jason (Drew Fuller) does not expect to inherit anything from his multi-billion-dollar estate. He strongly resents his grandfather because his father had died while working for him. There is an inheritance, in fact, but it comes with a condition: Jaso... | inspiring | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2763304 | T2 Trainspotting | It has been 20 years since Mark "Rent boy" Renton stole from his friends the money they had made in a drug deal and fled the country. He has apparently made a decent – but unfulfilling – life for himself in Amsterdam, and returns to Edinburgh to make contact with those in his former life. Daniel "Spud" Murphy continues... | revenge, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0097635 | Jésus de Montréal | In Montreal, an unknown actor named Daniel is hired by a Roman Catholic site of pilgrimage ("le sanctuaire") to present a Passion play in its gardens. The priest, Father Leclerc, requests Daniel "modernize" the classic play the church has been using, which he considers dated. Despite working with material others consid... | comedy | train | wikipedia | With actual events, people, words and thoughts from Jesus' life being transposed to our modern times.
Daniel Coulombe is recruited by Father LeClerc to jazz up the traditional Passion play (a dramatic representation of the events leading to the passion and Crucifixion of Jesus) staged in Montreal's Catholic Sanctuary.
... |
tt3290276 | Jailbait | Randy (Pitt), a 20-year-old convict, is taken to his cell. He is greeted by his new cellmate, Jake (Guirgis), a veteran prisoner serving a life sentence. Randy explains that he is serving 25 years for spray painting his neighbor's Mercedes-Benz.
The next morning, Jake begins telling Randy a story about the worst sexual... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | Jailbait: The harrowing true story of how beautiful Thai model Sara Malakui Lane became contractually obligated to make movies for The Asylum production company.
Well here is another one, and it is dreadful but you are still going to watch it for the same reason I did, because Sara Malakui Lane is fine as hell and she ... |
tt1456941 | Tomorrow, When the War Began | The film begins with a video log by Ellie. She asks the camera how she can tell their story. She suggests to herself "from the beginning."
Country high school student Ellie (Caitlin Stasey) sets off on a camping trip to "hell's Gate", with close childhood friend Corrie (Rachel Hurd-Wood), together with Corrie's boyfrie... | violence, action, murder, romantic | train | wikipedia | The cast is good enough and you can't complain about the visuals but the script is flawed, due to the makers eagerness into focusing on the teen- romance aspects of the movie instead of the survival aspect.For instance there is a scene where the gang have a potentially lethal mission going on and 2 girls can't stop cha... |
tt0110944 | Rapa Nui | There are two classes of people: Long Ears and Short Ears. Long Ears, marked by large wooden plugs in their earlobes and a certain tattoo, are the ruling class. The working-class Short Ears have no ear plugs and a different tattoo. Young men from each Long Ear tribe compete in the annual Birdman Competition. The winner... | historical, murder | train | wikipedia | This was the first film in a long time that truly forced me to get involved with the characters, not in a cliched good versus evil kind of way, but a good versus good "how the hell are they going to get out of this one?" kind of way.
Okay, so some aspects of the film do not deliver with the same power, and some of the ... |
tt0234652 | Sanctimony | In an anonymous American town, Tom Gerrick is a Wall Street Whiz Kid. He's also a serial killer. Six victims have had their eyes cut out, six their ears cut off and three their tongues removed. By the time he gets to his fourth 'tongue' victim, Gerrick is getting sick of his success. Detectives Jim Renart and Dorothy S... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1699199 | Thor: God of Thunder | The game begins in medias res with Asgard being invaded by the Jötun (frost giants from Niflheim). Thor, meanwhile, is training with Sif and his brother Loki. Their training is interrupted, however, by the arrival of the jötuns. While Loki leaves to inform Odin about the invasion, Thor is left to fight alone after Sif ... | good versus evil, violence | train | wikipedia | I looked at this game tonight wondering why I left it lying there for nearly a year... now I have removed all doubt. I can play some movie based games. However I think exploring what has basically been seen on the big screen has it's problems. One of them being the movie has too little action and the result then is con... |
tt0030293 | Joy of Living | Margaret 'Maggie' Garret is the star of a new musical show, 'Glamour", having come up the hard way, following the family tradition of stage performance. She now earns a large salary but is devastated to learn that she is deeply in debt. She has worked extremely hard to make the show a success, but spends huge sums on a... | comedy | train | wikipedia | That's what people wanted to see, to keep their minds off their troubles.And they wanted to see beautiful people and certainly stars Irene Dunne and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. fill that bill.
Dunne is a musical comedy star on Broadway who has these leeches of a family dependent on her.
Experience the Joy of Living.I'm conv... |
tt0110889 | Priest | A centuries long war between humans and vampires has devastated the planet's surface and led to a theocracy under an organization called The Church. They constructed giant walled cities to protect mankind and developed a group of elite warriors, the Priests, to turn the tide against the vampires. The majority of the va... | brainwashing, romantic, queer, entertaining, flashback | train | wikipedia | 'Priest' is a complex film, dealing with hard issues of incest and homo-sexuality, but first with the conflict between the priest mission as a moral leader and the Procustian laws of the Catholic church he needs to obeye by.
Father Greg Pilkinton (Linus Roache) is a young, dedicated, idealistic and yet conservative (co... |
tt0064155 | Charro! | Jess Wade, a former member of a gang of outlaws led by Vince Hackett, is tricked into believing that an old flame of his and Vince's, Tracy Winters, wanted to meet him in a seedy Mexican saloon. Jess later sees Billy Roy Hackett, Vince's younger brother, summoning Vince and the other members of the gang into the saloon... | cult, violence | train | wikipedia | In it was "Charro." I thought it looked refreshing to see Elvis play a more serious role instead of the usual musical.
Elvis Presley plays Jesse Wade who tries to leave a gang of thieves led by Victor French.
I don't know what makes me enjoy this movie more, being an Elvis fan or being a fan of western movies (my favor... |
tt1843221 | Nadunisi Naaygal | Samar (Veera Bahu), an eight-year-old motherless boy lives with his father in Mumbai. The father leads a colourful life indulging his sexual passions. Samar is sexually abused by his father and is rescued by his neighbour, a middle aged single woman Meenakshi Amma (Swapna Abraham). She names him Veera, takes him under ... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0064055 | The Babysitter | Jennifer (Alicia Silverstone) is a beautiful teenager who is hired to babysit the children of Harry Tucker (J.T. Walsh) and his wife, Dolly Tucker (Lee Garlington), while they attend a party hosted by their friends, Bill Holsten (George Segal) and his wife, Bernice Holsten (Lois Chiles). Harry often fantasizes about Je... | cult | train | wikipedia | Surprisingly hard-edged Patricia Wymer cult film.
This familiar story of an older man/younger woman is surprisingly hard-edged.
Bikers, hippies, free love and jail bait mix surprisingly well in this forgotten black-and-white indie effort.
Lead actress Patricia Wymer, as the titular "Candy," gives the finest performance... |
tt0246674 | Harikrishnans | The Harikrishnans ( Mohanlal and Mammootty ) are one of the most famous lawyer duos in India. To avoid confusion one is called as Krishnan (Mohanlal) and Hari(Mammooty) the other as . They head the organization called Harikrishnan Associates, which consists of around 300 lawyers. They get engaged in a murder case of Gu... | murder | train | wikipedia | Well made commercial entertainer. Harikrishnans is a well made commercial entertainer by Fazil which has all the typical ingredients like comedy , drama , romance , action and suspense. The real highlight of the movie is the amazing chemistry between the lead actors Mammooty and Mohanlal , their comic scenes are too go... |
tt0038300 | Angel on My Shoulder | After his release from prison, gangster Eddie Kagle (Paul Muni) is killed by his partner in crime, Smiley Williams (Hardie Albright). Kagle ends up in Hell, where "Nick" (Claude Rains) offers him a chance to escape hell and avenge his own death in exchange for help with a problem. Kagle looks exactly like Judge Frederi... | revenge, romantic | train | wikipedia | Judge Parker and Eddie Kagle are both played by the great Paul Muni.
And he does a few "Scarface" pantomime moments, brief elegant gestures, that show what a truly great screen presence he could be.The crucial scene in ANGEL ON MY SHOULDER is where Eddie, brought back from Hades by the Devil and now inhabiting the body... |
tt0119123 | Fire Down Below | After the Korean War, Americans Tony (Lemmon) and Felix (Mitchum) own a tramp boat, the Ruby, which they use for small-scale smuggling around the Caribbean, along with a third crewman, Jimmy Jean (Edric Connor). One day, their bartender contact, Miguel (Anthony Newley), introduces them to an American businessman who ha... | violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | Steven Seagal is one of those actors with a totally winning personality
He is simply an authority figure, a killing machine with a heart of purest gold
I can't help it; I like the guy.In 'Fire Down Below,' he is an outsider posing as a church sponsored carpenter while he works for the Environmental Protection Agency ... |
tt0238924 | The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys | Set in the early 1970s in a suburban town in the Southern United States, the film follows the lives of protagonist Francis Doyle (Emile Hirsch), and three of his friends, Tim Sullivan (Kieran Culkin), Wade Scalisi (Jake Richardson), and Joey Anderson (Tyler Long). The four boys all attend a private Catholic school name... | revenge, cruelty, romantic, prank | train | wikipedia | 'The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys' is actually a great coming-of-age tale set in the Catholic school setting of the 1970s.
or their interpretation of it.The two boys in 'The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys' are Francis Doyle (Emile Hirsch - The Girl Next Door, The Emperor's Club) and Michael Sullivan (Kieran Culkin - Ig... |
tt4468634 | Certain Women | Certain Women explores a handful of intersecting lives across Montana.
Lawyer Laura Wells (Laura Dern) has been dealing with a disgruntled client, Fuller (Jared Harris), for eight months. Out of work after a work place injury caused a disability he has taken to visiting Laura repeatedly at her office. As he will not li... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Pretty much every day life for some of us, nothing exciting, as much drama as watching the neighbor let the dog out...and sometimes that's more interesting than this film was.Apparently this is one of the director's best works.
Writer/director Kelly Reichardt (Wendy and Lucy, 2008) has adapted the short stories from Ma... |
tt0071773 | Lost in the Stars | In August 1949, in the South African village of Ndotsheni ("The Hills of Ixopo"), the black Anglican priest of St. Mark's Church, the Rev. Stephen Kumalo, learns from a letter from his brother (John Kumalo, who lives in Johannesburg) that their sister is in trouble. Stephen decides to travel to Johannesburg to help his... | murder | train | wikipedia | Worthwhile Yet Rarely Seen Version Of The Broadway Musical. Alan Paton's novel CRY THE BELOVED COUNTRY made for a dramatic musical with a score by Kurt Weill. American Film Theater's adaption of it contains excellent performances by Brock Peters, Clifton Davis, Melba Davis, Paula Kelly (her musical number is one of th... |
tt0301390 | The Heart of Me | In 1934 after the death of her father, Madeleine, a proper and repressed well-off housewife, invites her free-spirited sister, Dinah, to stay with her and her husband Rickie in her elegant London home. The couple have a young son, Anthony. Madeleine has always been secretly jealous and resentful of Dinah, a raffish boh... | romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | The story of an upper class English man falling passionately in love with his wife's sister was so involving I completely forgot myself for the duration of the film (and from what I could see,so did the rest of the audience).
One of the wonderful things about it was that during the course of the story I both liked and... |
tt0116422 | Glory Daze | 22 year-old Jack Freeman is graduating from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a degree in art, and is hurting from a recent breakup with his ex-girlfriend Dina. He shares a house called "El Rancho" with four friends: Rob is also graduating, and preparing to move to Los Angeles with his girlfriend Joanie, th... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Like many people have said before, if you've ever been in a similar situation, this film will resonate deeply!
Obviously that makes just as much sense as people who loved it, not everyone can relate to the story or understand the journey, but i wouldn't want people to be put off from seeing it purely on the strength of... |
tt0094037 | Stewardess School | Philo and George are about to land a plane, only for Philo to accidentally knock out his contact lenses and Philo cannot see the controls, causing the plane to malfunction and crash into a skyscraper. The destruction is then revealed to be a simulator and the duo was taking an exam in pilot school, causing the two to b... | pornographic | train | wikipedia | Good 80's film..
This is another film that is not as bad as it's rating.
Yes it is a comedy that gets most of it's laughs from sex jokes but that is definitly nothing new.
The acting in the movie was okay for some but of course it does not take much acting in these films.
It was really a naughty film and does show nudi... |
tt0142244 | Doragon bôru Z: Sûpâ saiyajin da Son Gokû | Dragon Ball Z picks up five years after the end of the Dragon Ball anime, with Son Goku as a young adult and father to his son Gohan. A humanoid alien named Raditz arrives on Earth in a spacecraft and tracks down Goku, revealing to him that he is his long-lost big brother and that they are members of a nearly extinct e... | good versus evil, violence | train | wikipedia | It's not that bad.
This is one of the worst DB Z movies but non of them sucked so this is a pretty good movie.
I liked the storyline , a namek (like Picolo)wants to turn Earth in a spaceship and he starts by clouding the sky.
After the intro they start fighting and fighting and fighting and fighting and when they finis... |
tt0097136 | Cutting Class | The plot revolves around the return of Brian Woods (Leitch), a "problem teen." He has just been released from a mental hospital; he was admitted after the suspicious death of his father, who crashed and died while driving a car with cut brakes. He falls in love with classmate Paula Carson (Jill Schoelen), but the local... | revenge, mystery, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | The killings take a back seat to comedy scenes starring Martin Mull and Roddy McDowell, the latter of whom is pretty funny (Although McDowell often took crappy parts just for a paycheck- It's hard to imagine him getting excited over the script for "Laserblast"- he was never dull).To the film's credit, the identity of t... |
tt0036443 | Titanic | In 1996, treasure hunter Brock Lovett and his team aboard the research vessel Akademik Mstislav Keldysh search the wreck of RMS Titanic for a necklace with a rare diamond, the Heart of the Ocean. They recover a safe containing a drawing of a young woman wearing only the necklace dated April 14, 1912, the day the ship s... | intrigue | train | wikipedia | Really exiting is the film from collision till sinking, i.e. when the real drama emerges and the splendid special effects do their jobs; not one aspect of the outlined drama is forgotten, it is fast-paced and very well directed.Of the cast it is Sybille Schmitz who excels, while other members also do a very good job; t... |
tt0074384 | Death at Love House | While on a tour in Hollywood, a young couple, Joel and Donna Gregory (Robert Wagner and Kate Jackson), arrive at the house of Lorna Love, an infamous actress who died in 1935. There, they meet with housekeepers Clara Josephs (Sylvia Sidney) and Oscar Payne (Bill Macy), to investigate the mystery behind Lorna and finish... | paranormal | train | wikipedia | However, this film deserves it's place among the campy horror flicks of the 70's and early 80's.
Along the lines of "The Monster Club" and "The Night Stalker" .Starring The one and only Angel herself, Kate Jackson, this film is almost an exact replica of her earlier film debut, "Night Of Dark Shadows".
Obscenely slow p... |
tt3121860 | Backtrack | Troubled psychotherapist Peter Bowers suffers from nightmares and eerie visions ever since the death of his daughter Evie in a street accident a year earlier, which he blames himself for after he was briefly distracted by something in a store window and failed to notice her veer off the sidewalk. His wife Carol suffers... | paranormal | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0117774 | The Substitute | Jonathan Shale (Berenger) is a mercenary and a Vietnam veteran who returns home to Miami after a botched covert operation in Cuba in which three men from his platoon were killed. He surprises his girlfriend, Jane Hetzko (Diane Venora) at her apartment and is warmly welcomed. On the outside, Jane is a schoolteacher at i... | violence, humor, comedy, murder, revenge | train | wikipedia | But as a B-movie where the teachers get revenge, the bad guy dope-peddling punks and principal get their due, it is a virtual "The Patriot" for the high school system.
You can't help but smile and root and rejoice when punk after punk gets thrown out the upper floor window by Beringer while the principal relaxes in his... |
tt1595656 | To the Wonder | Neil (Ben Affleck) is an American traveling in Europe who in Paris meets and falls in love with Marina (Olga Kurylenko), a Ukrainian divorcée who is living with her 10-year-old daughter Tatiana (Tatiana Chiline). Basking in their new romance, the lovers travel to Mont St. Michel, the island abbey off the coast of Norma... | boring | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0060261 | I crudeli | Colonel Jonas is a fanatical and unrepentant Confederate who led a regiment called the Hellbenders in the recently ended Civil War. Similar to Edmond O'Brien's character in Rio Conchos, he is determined to reorganise the Southern Army and defeat the Union. With his sons Ben, greedy Nat, and rapist Jeff, he massacres Un... | western, cult, revenge, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2091384 | Panjaa | Jaidev (Pawan Kalyan) is an accomplished hitman and the most trusted aide of Bhagavan (Jackie Shroff), who is the supreme don of Kolkata. Jaidev remains loyal to him as he helped in seeking revenge with the people who raped his mother and sister when he came to Kolkata in his childhood after his father's death. They sh... | romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0317198 | Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason | The film begins shortly before Bridget's mother's (Gemma Jones) annual Turkey Curry Buffet. Bridget (Renée Zellweger) is ecstatic about her relationship with Mark Darcy (Colin Firth). However, Bridget's confidence in her relationship is shattered when she meets Mark's colleague, the beautiful Rebecca Gillies (Jacinda B... | absurd, comedy, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | It doesn't even look like they bothered to send Renee to makeup or wardrobe she (as Bridget) was pleasantly plump in the first film, but never dowdy.
And the movie makes it seem like Mark is at that point never tries to change Bridget, never gets angry and her constant mishaps amuse more than annoy.
Note to filmmak... |
tt0210061 | Final Fantasy VI | === Setting ===
Final Fantasy VI takes place on a large, unnamed world. During the course of the game, its geography and landscape change due to various developments in the game's plot. During the first half of the game, the world is divided into three major continents and referred to as the World of Balance. The north... | good versus evil, insanity, tragedy | train | wikipedia | The most powerful moment in the game, in fact, is easily Celes' decision to end it all when the world goes to hell (though the opera scene is truly emotional as well).This game changed gaming.
It's 16-bit graphics often tell more story and emotion than the others can even hope for, and it's got the best villain ever (K... |
tt0120728 | The Last Days of Disco | In the "very early 1980s," Alice Kinnon and Charlotte Pingress, two recent college graduates, work in a New York City publishing house as poorly paid readers. After work one night, they are able to enter an exclusive disco nightclub, where Alice is hoping to socialize with Jimmy Steinway, who works in advertising and u... | clever | train | wikipedia | No, not a rehash of Boogie Nights, but the third instalment, following Metropolitan and Barcelona, of Whitman's `yuppie' odyssey.This New York yarn centres on publishing assistants Charlotte (flawless snotty American accent by Kate Beckinsale) and her best friend/biggest rival Alice (Chloe Sevigny).
A bit like Friends,... |
tt0245562 | Windtalkers | During World War II, USMC Cpl Joseph F. 'Joe' Enders rallies himself to return to active duty with the aid of his pharmacist, Rita. He previously survived a gruesome battle on the Solomon Islands against the Imperial Japanese Army that killed his entire squad and left him with a scar on his neck and almost deaf in his ... | cult, suspenseful, murder, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | I just watched the director's cut on DVD after having seen the theatrical cut some time ago.Plot summary: In WWII, a code based on the Navajo language was used to securely communicate between US troops in the Asian Pacific, without the Japanese eavesdropping.
We follow two Navajo code talkers and their US Marine "bodyg... |
tt2196844 | American Burger | American Burger follows the stories of a bunch of stereotypical American school students (Nerds, Jocks & Cheerleaders) on a culture trip through Europe. Among the students are Fat Nerd (Liam Macdonald) & Preppy Nerd (Benjamin Brook), Camera Nerd (Charlie Petersson) & Wonky Eyes Nerd (Ben Thorton) and Nice Cheerleader (... | comedy, murder, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2802850 | Fargo | In the winter of 1987, Jerry Lundegaard, the sales manager at a Minneapolis Oldsmobile dealership, is desperate for money. He floated a $320,000 GMAC loan and collateralized it with nonexistent dealership vehicles; GMAC is asking questions. Dealership mechanic and paroled ex-convict Shep Proudfoot refers Jerry to Gaear... | violence, dark, murder | train | wikipedia | You don't have to have seen the original Coen film to enjoy this series, nor does it spoil anything for you if you have seen it: the new TV-show 'Fargo' is entirely its own beast.
So far, the only thing the series and the film do have in common is the title and the (fake) premise that both are - allegedly - based on tr... |
tt0110186 | Jason's Lyric | Jason (Allen Payne) is a responsible young man who has a job in a television repair shop and lives at home with his hard-working mom (Suzzanne Douglas). Joshua (Bokeem Woodbine) is the younger brother just released from prison. He is a volatile, disturbed ex-con who is obviously bound for a violent end. Joshua deals dr... | violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | Unforgettable..
Boy meets girl.
There are a mountain of movies that attempt to tell a love story and disappoint and fall flat.
JASON'S LYRIC is...
unforgettable -- a love movie to enjoy many times.The greatest strength to this love story is the same as the key strength in the world-wide hit LONG VACATION tv series expo... |
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