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tt2071475 | Hitman: Absolution | Set after the events of Hitman: Blood Money, the game begins with Agent 47 detailing his relationship with his handler Diana Burnwood whom he had trusted until she, without explanation, betrayed the International Contract Agency (ICA) by sabotaging their funding and database, using the subsequent confusion to vanish. A... | violence | train | wikipedia | As a longtime Hit-man fan, I was eager to play the follow-up to 2006's "Blood Money," but as the years ticked by, I began to think it wasn't going to happen.
Either that, or the programmers would take too long and we'd end up with a product like "Duke Nukem Forever." Luckily, the time spent making this latest installme... |
tt0039320 | Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome | Just out of jail, Gruesome (Boris Karloff) goes to the Hangman's Knot saloon, where his old crime crony, Melody (Tony Barrett), is now playing piano. Gruesome takes him to a plastics manufacturer, where X-Ray (Skelton Knaggs) and a mysterious mastermind are in possession of a secret formula and hatching a sinister plot... | cult, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | While none of the four Dick Tracy films made by RKO in the 1940's are particularly extraordinary they're fun, the actors are charming, and the atmosphere of the films is nice and seedy.
M. Learned) in with the bargain basement film noir that manages to set the films somewhat apart from other crime-themed B-films of the... |
tt2095568 | All Things to All Men | After a stakeout, Parker, a dirty cop, arrests the son of mob boss Joseph Corso. Parker uses the arrest as leverage against Corso and forces him to recruit Riley, a thief that Parker wants to entrap. After Corso threatens him, Riley reluctantly agrees to perform a burglary for Corso, unaware that he is being manipulate... | mystery | train | wikipedia | Good performances, weak script, unoriginal plot..
It is a very complicated movie and I soon lost my way.
My main criticism is that I was always aware that I was watching a movie.
Either he wasn't watching it at all or his interpretation was somewhat misguided.I found this to be a good movie typical of the type of Engli... |
tt0255819 | Baby Boy | A 20-year-old man named Joseph "Jody" Summers (Tyrese Gibson) lives with his 36-year-old mother Juanita (Adrienne-Joi Johnson), in South Central Los Angeles. He spends most of his time with his unemployed best friend Sweetpea (Omar Gooding), and does not seem interested in becoming a responsible adult. However, he is f... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1270850 | The Waiting City | Fiona (Radha Mitchell) and Ben (Joel Edgerton) are a couple from Australia—she is a successful, self-starting lawyer while he is a relaxed, easy-going musician. Fiona and Ben, who want to adopt a child, travel to India for what they imagine will be a quick and simple process. However, once they arrive in Calcutta (now ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | I saw this film recently at the Sydney Film Festival and I still can't stop thinking about it.
I don't think I've ever been taken so far away and felt so close to home.I can't recommend this film enough and without giving too much away have to say this is one of the most stand out films I have seen in a very long time.... |
tt0187819 | Doug's 1st Movie | Doug Funnie (Tom McHugh) and Skeeter Valentine (Fred Newman) discover a monster (Frank Welker) that lives in Lucky Duck Lake. Believing the monster is evil, they are scared of him at first, but later on, they find him to be nice. Despite this, however, the monster is proof that their friend Beebe Bluff's wealthy father... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | I looked up this movie on Wikipedia a few weeks ago to see what it was about.
When I read the plot summary, I honestly thought that somebody had trolled the page and typed in the weirdest s*** they could think of.
Then, after checking IMDb's plot summary, I realized that it was ACTUALLY ABOUT A FRIENDLY MONSTER NAMED H... |
tt4836846 | Midnight Sun | The Earth's orbit has been perturbed, causing Earth to slowly fall into the sun.
A prolific artist, Norma, and her landlady, Mrs. Bronson, are the last people in their New York apartment building. All their neighbors have either moved North, where it is cooler, or perished from the extremely high temperatures. At twent... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0051009 | The Steel Bayonet | Tunisia 1943
As the end of the North African Campaign draws to a close, and the German and Italian forces are being pushed back on Tunis. A company of British Infantry are tasked with holding a small Arab farm against an expected last-ditch counter-attack; the farm's water tower will be used as an observation point by ... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0098219 | Romero | During the 1977 El Salvadoran presidential election, public unrest is at an all-time high over fears of election fraud. In the midst of a guerrilla uprising, the military regime sends death squads to detain, torture and kill anyone who speaks out against its terrible human rights record. The military also prevents aver... | avant garde, cruelty, murder, violence, christian film, tragedy, suspenseful, sadist | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0114057 | Othello | === Act I ===
Roderigo, a poor and dissolute gentleman, complains to his friend Iago, an ensign, that Iago has not told him about the secret marriage between Desdemona, the daughter of a Senator named Brabantio, and Othello, a Moorish general in the Venetian army. Roderigo is upset because he loves Desdemona and had as... | tragedy, revenge, intrigue, murder, romantic | train | wikipedia | I rented this film mainly to see Kenneth Branagh once again, but was totally surprised by the entire cast, especially Laurence Fishbourne who portrayed Othello brilliantly.
Branagh brought a depth to Iago that I hadn't seen before, especially during the scene on the beach when he and Othello hug.
Director Oliver Parker... |
tt0045680 | The Desert Song | French General Birabeau has been sent to Morocco to root out and destroy the Riffs, a band of Arab rebels, who threaten the safety of the French outpost in the Moroccan desert. Their dashing, daredevil leader is the mysterious "Red Shadow". Margot Bonvalet, a lovely, sassy French girl, is soon to be married at the fort... | violence | train | wikipedia | I like music as long as it has a melody and there's nothing more melodious than an operetta.
The Desert Song is filled with wonderful melodies and Gordon MacRae and Kathryn Grayson sing them to perfection in this third film adaption of the Romberg-Harbach-Hammerstein operetta.The real surprise for most people is that t... |
tt0180037 | Paperback Hero | The film follows the adventures of a truck driver, Jack Willis, from rural Australia after he writes a bestselling novel. Being embarrassed by its romantic content, he uses the name of his female friend as a pen name. When a publisher decides to take the author "Ruby Vale" on, he is suddenly faced with a problem. He te... | romantic | train | wikipedia | The film "Paperback Hero" is the latest Australian film to make it's way overseas.
Starring Claudia Karvan and Hugh Jackman, "Paperback Hero" will delight anyone who enjoys a good romantic comedy.Karvan and Jackman are well known in Australia, Karvan as a film actress and Jackman as a musical theatre actor.
Both are we... |
tt1543024 | Left 4 Dead 2 | Like its predecessor, Left 4 Dead 2 is set in the aftermath of a worldwide pandemic of an infectious disease known as the "Green Flu", which rapidly transforms humans into zombie-like creatures and mutated forms that demonstrate extreme aggression towards non-infected (much like the infected in 28 Days Later). Few huma... | violence | train | wikipedia | In it, four strangers named Nick (a gambler and conman), Rochelle (A news producer), Coach (A health teacher and coach), and Ellis (a mechanic) team up to survive an outbreak of the "Green Flu" which causes people to behave like zombies (the Infected).
The Smoker- An Infected with a long tongue that can snatch survivor... |
tt0024679 | Tomorrow at Seven | A man unveils a valuable painting he picked up for $50,000 and is killed. A card with a large black ace (of spades) is put on his chest. Another “Black Ace” victim. The killer sends his victims a Black Ace card, warning them they are to die and then kills them, his way of taunting the police. Neil Broderick, an author,... | suspenseful, murder | train | wikipedia | The Black Ace warns his victims ahead when the time will come for them to die.
Interwoven into this basic premise is a young Chester Morris going to a Mr. Thorton Drake because he knows all there is to be known about the Black Ace. Morris is writing a book, meets a cute secretary that can introduce him, and all the mai... |
tt0058534 | Roustabout | Musician Charlie Rogers (Elvis Presley) is fired from a gig at a teahouse run by Lou (Jack Albertson) after brawling with several college students in the parking lot. After a night in jail, Charlie hits the road on his Honda 305 Superhawk motorcycle. He spots Cathy Lean (Joan Freeman) driving with her father Joe (Leif ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Elvis has one of his better roles since Flaming Star, as he plays a angry young man named Charlie Rogers, who is not that likable at all.
Maggie offers him a job as a roustabout in her carnival until his bike is repaired.Elvis sheds the family friendly 60s image for this role.
Barbara Stanwyck shines as Maggie, who liv... |
tt0250469 | Killjoy | The film begins with a boy named Michael, a kid who has a crush on a beautiful girl named Jada but is always rejected because Jada is stuck with a gangster, Lorenzo (Johnson). When Michael comes close to her, he is beat up by Lorenzo and his homeboys, T-Bone and Baby Boy. But Michael is secretly involved in black magic... | revenge | train | wikipedia | And what Little plot there was, was revealed to us in the last 10 (maybe even 5) minutes of the movie.I can without doubt tell you that the sequel (released in 2001) is 10X better than Killjoy 1 by far...
There are a lot of different flavors of bad, and Killjoy is a veritable cornucopia of them.I guess this is supposed... |
tt0093980 | Sister, Sister | The story starts out with Caroline Lovejoy (Carroll) singing in the church choir at the local church. It is later revealed that she is having an intense affair with the church's reverend. She later comes home to find her younger sister, Sissy (Cara), with her boyfriend, Johnny. It is expressed that Sissy is an aspiring... | gothic, murder | train | wikipedia | A Perfect Suspense Thriller.
Not to be confused with the TV show of the same name, Sister Sister the movie is a Suspense Thriller!
If you are expecting a comedy about twins separated at birth make sure you read the DVD box and go pick something else.Set on the beautiful and mysterious bayou's of Louisiana.
It follows t... |
tt2312262 | Dick Figures: The Movie | A meteor speeds towards Earth while characters of the series are dropped off a bus for elementary school. After Blue accidentally walks onto the 5th graders' playground, Broseph, the leader of the 5th Graders, has them beat up Blue. They are interrupted by the arrival of the meteor which crashes into Broseph, killing h... | allegory, flashback | train | wikipedia | Before this movie is watched it's important to remember what it is, namely a film geared at people familiar with the franchise.By producing the film independently it contains the same humour, animation and production quality as the web series, but in a refreshingly new form.
There's some notably well put-together scene... |
tt0081595 | A Tale of Two Cities | === Book the First: Recalled to Life ===
Dickens's famous opening sentence introduces the universal approach of the book, the French Revolution, and the drama depicted within:
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Wonderful movie, full of emotion.
I thought this was an incredible movie, especially for being an '80's movie.
Most movies from the '80's hardly impress me, but this was an undoubtable exception.
We watched this in my history class and I was honestly shocked at the emotion and feeling put into every part and the realis... |
tt0070935 | Yaadon Ki Baaraat | The film uses the familiar Bollywood theme of siblings separated by fate. Gangland killers assassinate an honest man who defied them, killing his wife as well. The couple's three sons flee the massacre and lose contact with each other. They grow up in entirely different circumstances and are re-united only when one of ... | revenge, murder, romantic | train | wikipedia | Fantastic 70's action packed flick.....
Dodgy fashions, wacky sets and simply one of the greatest Hindi film soundtracks ever.
The film is an acquired taste for some.
This isn't your average happy family love flick with everyone dancing around huge larger than life sets.
This is more of a gritty dark painful film full ... |
tt2866360 | Coherence | The film involves eight people at a dinner party. During their dinner, there is a comet that is passing over them. This causes their house and the occupants to intertwine with multiple such houses and occupants from other realities. There is a dark zone in between the realities. When someone passes through the dark zon... | mystery, dramatic, alternate reality, psychological | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0942896 | Mosaic | Aspiring young actress Maggie Nelson (Anna Paquin) gains chameleon-like powers after she is exposed to an electrical storm and a magic rune which her father, an Interpol agent, had brought home to study after it was found at the scene of a murder at a New York City museum. Her powers are from a secret and ancient race ... | good versus evil, psychedelic, violence, romantic | train | wikipedia | With Stan Lee's name practically being synonymous with half of the major comic book titles, one only has to add his name to the title in order to sell a new product to certain audiences.
Thanks to the wonders of DVD-Video and the collector's market, however, we can enjoy this effort at creating a new franchise, as well... |
tt0088485 | Bleak House | Sir Leicester Dedlock and his wife Lady Honoria live on his estate at Chesney Wold. Unknown to Sir Leicester, Lady Dedlock had a lover, Captain Hawdon, before she married and had a daughter by him. Lady Dedlock believes her daughter is dead.
The daughter, Esther, is in fact alive and being raised by Miss Barbary, Lady ... | romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | "Bleak House" is hands down the finest adaptation of a Charles Dickens Novel ever put on screen.
The late, great Denholm Elliot was perfectly cast as the noble John Jardyce and Diana Rigg was sheer perfection as the doomed Ladty Dedlock.
The film captures the essence of Dickens era and is extremely faithful to the book... |
tt0117918 | Tin Cup | Roy "Tin Cup" McAvoy (Kevin Costner) is a former golf prodigy who has little ambition. He owns a driving range in West Texas, where he drinks and hangs out with his pal Romeo Posar (Cheech Marin) and their friends. Dr. Molly Griswold (Rene Russo), a clinical psychologist, wants a golf lesson. She asks Roy because he kn... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1621446 | The Task | Six terrified people, Shoe (Ashley Mulheron), Randall (Marc Pickering), Toni (Amara Karan), Dixon (Texas Battle) and brother and sister Stanton (Tom Payne) and Angel (Antonia Campbell-Hughes), are kidnapped to take part in a new reality show which will see them spending a night in an abandoned prison to win $20,000. Sh... | paranormal, plot twist, murder, haunting | train | wikipedia | So basically this movie is a mix between the film "Are you scared" and an old MTV show called "Fear", and lets just say that mix doesn't work very well in this case.The film is insanely slow, things really don't pick up until about an hour in, and even then its nothing special.
The first hour is basically just a bunch ... |
tt1468829 | Cherry Tree Lane | In a house at Cherry Tree Lane, distant couple Christine (Rachael Blake) and Mike (Tom Butcher) are eating dinner while their son, Sebastian, is out at football practice. When the doorbell rings and Christine goes to answer it, the couple is attacked by Rian (Jumayn Hunter), Asad (Ashley Chin), and Teddy (Sonny Muslim)... | revenge, sadist | train | wikipedia | I was tricked into watching this film by a review, so I feel obligated to give my own so there will be no more casualties..!This movie can not really be called a thriller: there is no real suspense and nothing is surprising;you can tell how things will evolve from the first minute that the actual "plot" starts.I actual... |
tt0042619 | Journal d'un curé de campagne | An idealistic young priest arrives at Ambricourt, his new parish. He is not welcome. The girls of the catechism class laugh at him in a prank, whereby only one of them pretends to know the Scriptural basis of the Eucharist so that the rest of them can laugh at their private conversation. His colleagues criticize his di... | bleak | train | wikipedia | Journal d'un cure de Campagne is about a young priest who, whilst suffering from an illness, is assigned to a new parish in a French country village.
As he becomes estranged, and to an extend outcast by the townspeople, he increasingly relies on his faith for strength and comfort, however even this begins to fade as he... |
tt0092105 | Tough Guys | Harry Doyle (Lancaster) and Archie Long (Douglas) are gangsters who've served a 30-year prison sentence for hijacking a Southern Pacific train called The Gold Coast Flyer, ready to collect Social Security.
Their parole officer, Richie Evans (Carvey), who seems to be more of a fan of historically notable criminals than ... | violence | train | wikipedia | It was too bad, because it was a funny film, and would turn out to be the best comedy buddy film of the films that they did together.Harry and Archie (Lancaster and Douglas) pulled off one of the smoothest and most impressive railway train robberies in American history back in 1947.
That in the end, the battle of youth... |
tt0043040 | This Side of the Law | David Cummins (Kent Smith) is trapped in a dry cistern and wondering whether he will die there. The largest portion of the rest of the film is a flashback to a week earlier then forward, detailing the events that landed him in that precarious pit.
A bright but down-and-out vagrant is tapped by a police officer for look... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | Fun Thriller.
This Side Of the Law is a rather fun thriller from the early fifties and concerns a man hired to impersonate someone else, a greedy family and other unwholesome things.
The cast is decidedly of the second-string variety; however that doesn't make it bad.
Kent Smith and Viveca Lindfors were both talented p... |
tt0083530 | Airplane II: The Sequel | In the near future, the Moon has been colonized and supports a station on its surface. A lunar shuttle known as Mayflower One is being rushed to launch from Houston. The head of the ground crew, The Sarge (Chuck Connors), does not like what is occurring, but he defers to the airline's management.
On the flight crew are... | entertaining, flashback | train | wikipedia | More-of-the-same sequel sees Robert Hays, Julie Haggerty, and Lloyd Bridges(among a few others) return as they are now involved with the first lunar space shuttle that is accidentally sent into a collision course with the sun after a computer malfunction.
Once again only Ted Striker can land the ship, and save their li... |
tt0384819 | Azumi | Azumi focuses upon the life of the titular young female assassin. The manga begins an indeterminate number of years after the Battle of Sekigahara. As Azumi begins her duty, the manga introduces its characters into mainstream history. Many of the early missions that Azumi undertakes are the assassinations of the promin... | revenge, murder, violence, romantic | train | wikipedia | As things start going downhill for the assassins, Azumi begins to doubt herself and begins to long for the life of a normal Japanese woman.This film is all about sword-fights and Kitamura delivers more than he probably should.
I really think if 10 minutes of slow-motion sword fights were cut this movie would flow much ... |
tt1327935 | Maniac Cop | In New York City, a waitress on her way home is assaulted by two muggers and seeks aid from a police officer, who breaks her neck. Over the next two nights, this "Maniac Cop" commits more murders, prompting Lieutenant McCrae (Tom Atkins), who was told by his superiors to suppress eyewitness accounts that the killer was... | revenge, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2146960 | Vazhakku Enn 18/9 | The story is narrated through flashbacks. Velu (Sri), a teenager, works in a roadside shop. He meets Jyothi (Urmila Mahanta), who is a maidservant at a few of the nearby apartments. Velu falls in love with Jyothi. Aarthy (Manisha Yadav) lives in one of the apartment buildings. Dinesh (Mithun Murali) is a student who re... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0297162 | Half Past Dead | In San Francisco, Sasha Petrosevitch (Steven Seagal) is a Russian car thief who's brought in by criminal Nick Frazier (Ja Rule) to work for crime boss Sonny Eckvall (Richard Bremmer), who apparently shot and killed Sasha's wife. After some time, FBI Special Agent Ellen "E. Z." Williams (Claudia Christian) and her team ... | violence, comedy, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | Back before she got to the high court, Thorson was the judge who tried and sentenced Weitz and she's there as a witness to the execution that gets delayed.Fortunately for all concerned Steven Segall is in the joint with his criminal buddy Ja Rule and he organizes the cons to resist.People who go to see Steven Segall mo... |
tt0377981 | Gnomeo & Juliet | Mrs. Montague and Mr. Capulet (Julie Walters and Richard Wilson) are two elderly neighbours who despise each other. When they leave their respective gardens, their garden gnomes come alive. The Montague garden is filled with blue-hat gnomes, and the Capulet garden has red-hat gnomes. Like their human gardeners, the gno... | revenge | train | wikipedia | Yes, the movie is predictable from start to finish, but I say: "So what!" It's supposed to be a family/kids movie and we all know that this movie is not going to end like the real Romeo and Juliet.
Gnomeo and Juliet meet, and the rest is history as they say.Of course, the film can't follow the original play exactly - t... |
tt0051874 | La llorona | Jacques comes back after a long absence to his wife Dominique and their daughter Lola in their isolated house, located on a hill in Haute-Provence. Dominique cry. She had driven him because she can not stand the way he cry. Jacques helplessly to the excesses of his emotion. She understand this time he loves another wom... | murder | train | wikipedia | La Llorona. This is a literal retelling of the Crying Woman legend, present in many Latin American countries, a symbol of the native woman who "betrayed" her people by becoming the mistress of a conquistador, and also of the "bad mother" –in this case, a VERY bad mother, "a la Medea"– who kills the children she had wit... |
tt0353324 | The Crow: Wicked Prayer | James "Jimmy" Cuervo (Edward Furlong), paroled after serving a prison sentence for killing a rapist in a fight, lives with his dog in a mobile home in Lake Ravasu on the Raven Aztec reservation. Jimmy plans to start a new life with his girlfriend, Lily (Emmanuelle Chriqui), and leave the town for good. Lily's priest fa... | comedy, suspenseful, gothic, murder, neo noir, paranormal, cult, violence, flashback, good versus evil, insanity, psychedelic, humor, romantic, tragedy, revenge, sadist | train | wikipedia | I don't think it was his fault; what he could do, he did do but the role just didn't have much.The plot is lacking seriously, the mythology is entirely corrupted (The Crows power does NOT come from love thank you very much), and the fight scenes, aside from the initial murder, are pathetic.Which is a shame really becau... |
tt1555747 | Fubar II | In Calgary, Terry (David Lawrence) and Dean (Paul Spence) are tired of barely scraping by on menial jobs. Recently evicted from their rented house, they are out of options until their old buddy and "party leader", Troy (better known as Tron) (Andrew Sparacino) gets them high-paying jobs laying oil pipeline in Fort McMu... | satire | train | wikipedia | Enjoyed that!.
I'm a big fan of the original, so naturally i was quite sceptical going into this film.In a lot of sequels the characters are being exploited for the sake of gags and to disguise a lack of story.
in this case it was the opposite, because the story here feels much more prominent and thought through than i... |
tt0044851 | Lost in Alaska | The time is the 1890s, and the place is San Francisco. George Ball (Lou Costello) and Tom Watson (Bud Abbott) are firemen who rescue 'Nugget' Joe McDermott (Tom Ewell) from committing suicide by drowning. Joe wants to die because his girlfriend, Rosette (Mitzi Green) no longer loves him. The boys keep an eye on him and... | suicidal | train | wikipedia | Did you do something to your hair?"Costello: "Yeah, she put it on her head"!"Lost in Alaska" does have some inspired moments, and most of them are in the first half, like the "sleeping in 2-hour shifts" routine, or Costello's response to a sign that says "Use the axe only in case of fire" ("Got a match?").
But when A&C... |
tt0043554 | Fort Defiance | A stranger, Ben Shelby, rides up to a ranch outside Fort Defiance, Arizona, looking for Johnny Tallon. He meets Johnny's blind brother, Ned, and saves him from being trampled by a horse.
Ned and his Uncle Charlie run the ranch in Johnny's absence. Ben becomes better acquainted with them but declines their offer to stay... | revenge | train | wikipedia | We should all have a friend like Ben Shelby!.
Nice guy, Ned Tallon, now blind, is waiting for older brother, Johnny, to come home from the war and help get the ranch back on its feet.
A newly arrived stranger, Ben Shelby, reports that Johnny deserted his outfit, costing many men their lives, then became a bank robber a... |
tt0084591 | Reuben, Reuben | Gowan McGland (Tom Conti) is a creatively blocked Scottish poet who ekes out a day-to-day existence by exploiting the generosity of strangers in an affluent Connecticut suburb, where he recites his verse to various arts groups and women's clubs. Gowan is something of a leech, cadging expensive dinners from well-off pat... | romantic | train | wikipedia | A genuinely funny and moving comic tragedy.
On paper, a comic fable about a randy, drunken, fading poet sounds like a recipe for disaster, but to the enormous credit of all involved, this film works very well indeed.
Obviously a strong central performance is essential in films like this, and Tom Conti provides just tha... |
tt1774580 | Splatterhouse | Two college students, Rick Taylor and Jennifer Willis, take refuge from a storm in West Mansion, a local landmark known as "Splatterhouse" for the rumors of hideous experiments purportedly conducted there by Dr. West, a renowned and missing parapsychologist. As they enter the mansion and the door shuts behind them, Jen... | violence, comedy | train | wikipedia | 'I'm the only chance you've got, Rick-o'.
Nerdy, weakling college student Rick Taylor lies dying on the floor in the lobby of the massive West Mansion.
His girlfriend Jennifer has been kidnapped (the plot of every beat-em-up ever) by the maniacal Doctor West.
A mask topples out of a nearby sarcophagus, it speaks to him... |
tt0326862 | Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem | The action in Eternal Darkness is divided between four principal locations. The game skips back and forth through time when the player begins or ends each chapter. The locations include the Forbidden City in Persia, a Cambodian temple in Angkor Thom, the Oublié Cathedral in Amiens, France, and the Roivas family mansion... | insanity, cult, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0145600 | Brave New World | The novel opens in London in AF 632 (AD 2540 in the Gregorian calendar). The society is illuminated by the activities of the novel's central characters, Lenina Crowne and Bernard Marx, and others. Lenina, a hatchery worker, is socially accepted and contented, but Bernard, a psychologist in the Directorate of Hatcheries... | satire, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | Initially John is taken by the society but gradually he begins to see that the world is not as he wants it.For a major film to attempt to bring a major novel to the screen is a brave move, but for a cheap TVM to have a stab at it is even more of a risk.
Films should make you think - but surely not to the point where yo... |
tt0038007 | The Purple Monster Strikes | Astronomer Cyrus Layton is working late one night on his new airplane design in his observatory. He witnesses what he believes is a meteorite landing in the far distance. He contacts his niece Sheila and asks her to bring Craig Foster to the observatory to help analyze his discovery; he then sets out to search for the ... | mystery, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0114885 | Waiting to Exhale | "Friends are the People who let you be yourself—and Never let you forget it"
Waiting to Exhale is a story about four African-American women—Savannah, Robin, Bernadine, and Gloria—who go through different stages of love and life.
Savannah "’Vannah" Jackson is a successful television producer who holds on to the belief t... | revenge | train | wikipedia | This movie (while have some "man-bashing" elements) is more about the friendship of four strong real black women who represent a little part of most women in society.
It's nice to see that black women had a movie about them, and thanks to the star power of Whitney Houston it became no.1 and was a big hit.
I am actually... |
tt0026742 | Murder in the Fleet | Captain John Winslow (Arthur Byron) is notified by the Secretary of the Navy that his cruiser will be receiving a new firing control gear manufactured by World Electric company, which is supposed to revolutionize naval warfare. The gear vanishes and is quickly located by intelligence officers where it is being transpor... | revenge, murder, romantic | train | wikipedia | Entertaining mystery set aboard navy cruiser.
Someone aboard the USS Carolina is attempting to sabotage an important, secret gunnery system's field test...
by murdering those installing it.
Plenty of suspects abound as there are many visitors aboard the ship while it is in port.
Overall an entertaining mystery set aboa... |
tt0423195 | Sigaw | Marvin is protagonist savors his independence in a newly acquired unit of an old apartment building. He is frequently visited by his girlfriend Pinky. Except for the occasional noise from an apartment unit down the hallway, the place is almost perfect for Marvin. At the end of the hallway is where Anna lives with her y... | haunting | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0038477 | The Diary of a Chambermaid | In Normandy at the end of the 19th Century, a beautiful and ambitious young chambermaid named Célestine (Lea Seydoux) enters the service of her new employers, the Lanlaire family, which consists of a bitter wife and her perverted husband. Monsieur Lanlaire has a reputation for molesting and impregnating his chambermaid... | romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0050549 | Island in the Sun | The film follows several characters, black, white and mixed race, and their relationships. It also chronicles the social inequality between the British who colonized the island, and the native population. Maxwell Fleury (James Mason) is a white plantation owner's son who suffers from an inferiority complex and makes ra... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0092240 | The Wraith | Bright lights descend from the night sky, revealing a sleek, all black Dodge M4S Turbo Interceptor, driven by a helmeted, black-clad figure, who will be come to known as "The Wraith."
In the town of Brooks, Arizona, Packard Walsh (Nick Cassavetes) is the insane evil leader of a gang of car thieves that coerces people w... | violence, revenge, cult, murder, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0038959 | So Goes My Love | Farmer's daughter Jane Budden (Myrna Loy) sells her entire pig herd and moves to Brooklyn to find a husband. On the way to the home of her cousin, Garnet Allison (Molly Lamont), Jane runs into Hiram Maxim (Don Ameche), an eccentric inventor who is her cousin's neighbor. Jane scandalizes local society by saying she will... | flashback | train | wikipedia | Really a biopic, not a comedy..
Based on Hiram Percy Maxim's memoir, 'A Genius in the Family,' this film attempts, rather poorly, to explore the comedic aspects of Maxim's relationship to his father, Hiram Steven Maxim.
Taken by itself, it's a rather superficial film about the man who revolutionized the machine gun, by... |
tt0023382 | Red Dust | On a rubber plantation in French Indochina during the monsoon season, the plantation's owner/manager Dennis Carson (Gable), a prostitute named Vantine (Harlow), and Barbara Willis (Astor), the wife of an engineer named Gary Willis (Gene Raymond) are involved in a love triangle. Carson abandons an informal relationship ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0487037 | Mammoth | Leo and Ellen are a successful New York couple, totally immersed in their work. Leo is the creator of a booming gaming website, and has stumbled into a world of money and big decisions. He has to board a business flight to Thailand in order to sign a contract. What ensues in the next few days is a critique on the socia... | flashback | train | wikipedia | Not a *good* movie exactly, but a significant improvement over most Sci-Fi Channel original movies.
The more serious scenes tended to just slow the movie down.If you like Vincent Ventresca (Invisible Man), he does some decent work with a not too great script.
There are some other good actors too, but they don't quite m... |
tt0995863 | Rest Stop: Don't Look Back | In 1972, the Winnebago family encounters the Driver (Brionne Davis) standing on the side of the road next to the yellow pickup, out of gas. Once in the R.V., Mrs. Winnebago begins to flirt heavily with the Driver, asking Scotty, her physically deformed child, to take a picture with his camera.
Later that night, Mr. Win... | violence | train | wikipedia | The corporal Tom Hilts (Richard Tillman) returns from overseas to his hometown Argyle, Texas, for a ten days leave with the intention to seek our his brother Jess (Joey Mendicino), who disappeared one year ago while heading to California with his girl-friend Nicole (Julie Mond).
He drives his truck with his girlfriend ... |
tt0037136 | None Shall Escape | The film centres on the trial of Wilhelm Grimm as a war criminal. Each character witness provides a flashback scene to a previous part of Grimm's life. In the trial, it is revealed that Grimm (Alexander Knox), who fought for Germany in the First World War and lost a leg in battle, returns after the war to the small Ger... | flashback | train | wikipedia | That is amazing considering the terrible films that came out right after WWII -- particularly the "liberation" of Dachau.
It is clear that, as of the middle of the war, we knew exactly what was happening to the Jews.
The sequence that shows a "transport" is vivid, almost as if based upon an actual newsreel (the Nazis l... |
tt0104782 | Léolo | In Mile End, Montreal, Léo Lauzon is a young boy living in a tenement with his dysfunctional family, who serves as the unreliable narrator. He uses his active fantasy life and the book L'avalée des avalés by Québécois novelist Réjean Ducharme to escape the reality of his life. He feels his father is insane and denies b... | insanity, psychedelic, dark | train | wikipedia | This was only director Jean-Claude Lauzon's second film, and sadly he never got to make more than two; he died in a plane crash while he was preparing his third film.A beautiful, unforgettable work of art, albeit not one for the easily offended.My vote: 10 out of 10Favorite films: http://www.IMDb.com/list/mkjOKvqlSBs/L... |
tt0029310 | Night Must Fall | Mrs. Bramson (Dame May Whitty) is an irascible elderly woman who holds court in a small English village. She pretends to need a wheelchair, and impulsively threatens to fire her maid, Dora (Merle Tottenham), for allegedly stealing and breaking china. Meanwhile, the household learns that the police have searched a nearb... | murder | train | wikipedia | Dame May Whitty also gives an excellent performance as the abrasive but gullible and neurotic Mrs. Bramson.A good movie doesn't have to have a lot of action and chase scenes.
Roz Russell, in plain-Jane getups, plays a definite third wheel to Robert Montgomery's charming psycho and Dame May Whitty's steely but dependent... |
tt0443496 | Edmond | Edmond Burke is a middle-aged Seattle businessman who visits a tarot fortune teller on the way home. She claims Edmond "is not where [he] belongs." He decides to make changes in his life, beginning by leaving his wife. At a bar, Edmond tells a fellow patron he hasn't had sex in a while and that marriage took away his m... | murder, cult, philosophical, violence | train | wikipedia | At first glance, horror meister Stuart Gordon would not seem the obvious choice to direct an emotional psycho-drama cinematic rendering of a David Mamet play, yet with Edmond, he displays a deft touch for the material and allows the actors to carry the day.Originally penned as a stage play, Edmond tells the story of na... |
tt0109116 | Andaz | This film tells the story of a widow Sheetal (Hema Malini) who is left devastated after the death of her husband Raj, (Rajesh Khanna). She is left with a son to look after and teaches in a school. One of her students is the daughter of widower Ravi (Shammi Kapoor). The children become instrumental in getting the single... | prank | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0284110 | Fainaru fantajî X | === Setting and characters ===
Final Fantasy X is set in the fictional world of Spira, consisting of one large landmass divided into three subcontinents, surrounded by small tropical islands. It features diverse climates, ranging from the tropical Besaid and Kilika islands, to the temperate Mi'ihen region, to the frigi... | good versus evil, psychedelic, plot twist, romantic | train | wikipedia | Final Fantasy, considered by many to be the greatest video game RPG series ever, hell even having been one of the first and defining ones, makes the jump to the Playstation 2 with it's God-Knows-How-Many bits of power.
Video game RPGs were once known for sacrificing graphics in favor of a lenghtly story and intricate c... |
tt0024866 | Beauty and the Beast | A widower merchant lives in a mansion with his six children, three sons and three daughters. All his daughters are very beautiful, but the youngest, Beauty, is the most lovely, as well as kind, well-read, and pure of heart; while the two elder sisters, in contrast, are wicked, selfish, vain, and spoiled. They secretly ... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | Mary Jane???.
There is some controversy in the world of Looney Tune & Merrie Melody fandom if the main character of this short, the little girl who enters The Land of Slumber, is indeed the long-running comic book character Mary Jane.Sniffles the mouse was once described as "Chuck Jones' first star", but he only appear... |
tt0084395 | Class Reunion | The novel is about 43-year-old Dr. Ernst Sebastian, a lawyer who works as an Untersuchungsrichter (investigating judge) in the fictional town of Sankt Nikolaus during 1927. One Saturday afternoon a middle-aged man called Franz Adler, who has been arrested for the murder of a prostitute, is brought before him. During th... | murder, prank | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0301196 | Die Hard | On Christmas Eve, NYPD Detective John McClane arrives in Los Angeles. He aims to reconcile with his estranged wife, Holly, at the Christmas party of her employer, the fictional Nakatomi corporation. McClane is driven to the party by Argyle, an airport limousine driver. While McClane changes clothes, the party is disrup... | good versus evil, suspenseful, violence | train | wikipedia | Excellent game for its time. 10/10, Console: NESStoryline: For New York City cop, John McClane, facing Christmas without his estranged wife and two children was too much to take. Armed with presents, McClane boards a plane for Los Angeles, hoping to patch up his marriage.McClane arrives at his wife's office building, t... |
tt0233043 | Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish | === Summary ===
Destinos recounts the story of Los Angeles-based lawyer Raquel Rodríguez who is hired by the family of Fernando Castillo (Augusto Benedico). He had discovered that his first wife, Rosario, did not die in the Spanish Civil War as he had believed, but had survived and had an unknown child. In the course o... | melodrama, flashback | train | wikipedia | Sure, everyone in our class pretends to hate "Destinos," and I'm sure our Spanish-speaking foreign exchange student is comatose through these things, but I think they're rather fun.
The story itself could probably have been played out in a half hour, but they drag the plot out so much it keeps you in suspense.
I seriou... |
tt0115243 | Lexx: The Dark Zone | The main characters of the series are the Lexx and its crew. The crew consists of the captain of the Lexx, Stanley H. Tweedle, the love slave Zev/Xev, the undead former assassin Kai, last of the Brunnen-G, and the love-crazed robot head 790. Together they are looking for a new home. The background conflict of the serie... | psychedelic, comedy, gothic, humor | train | wikipedia | The first episode sees Stanley H Tweedle (A security guard who accidently destroyed 94 reform planets, played to perfection by Brian Downey), Zev Belringer of B3k (A young woman who was transformed into a love slave forfailing to perform her wifely duties, a freak accident occured during her transformation leaving her ... |
tt0494652 | Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins | Dr. R.J. (Roscoe) Stevens (Martin Lawrence) is a talk-show sensation who has discarded his simple Southern awkward-boy past and the awkward boy he used to be to dispense motivational advice to millions of adoring fans. With reality TV series Survivor winner, Bianca Kittles (Joy Bryant) on his arm and enough cash in his... | flashback | train | wikipedia | A successful talk show host leaves Los Angeles to reunite with his family in the Deep South.By the end of this movie's trailer, you would've thought "Oh, not again." No, that's what you were thinking.
Also, this movie had some pretty decent jokes, much better than many other comedies released this time who use clichéd ... |
tt0111080 | Savate | 1865. Joseph Charlegrand is a former French soldier whose best friend and comrade was murdered by an officer of the French Foreign Legion in Mexico. Looking for the murderer, Charlegrand is heading for a martial arts tournament in the United States because the murderer takes his pride in being a skilled fighter.
On his... | violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0341495 | Chek law dak gung | The movie opens with the assassination of a man of unknown identity. A team of three CIA officers, including Jack Chen (Daniel Wu), a rookie, watch through surveillance as a sexy female assassin named Fiona Birch (Marit Thoresen) enters the man's heavily guarded apartment suite and, after having sex with him, kills him... | violence, revenge, murder, romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0893532 | Kill Theory | An unnamed man is sitting in a psychiatrist's office, being released from an insane asylum. Three years ago, he and three friends were mountain climbing, when an accident left them all suspended on one rope that was fraying. Being the closest to the top, the man chose to cut the rope to save himself and dropped the oth... | revenge, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | A welcome new take on the slasher genre, Kill Theory starts out quite well, but soon deteriorates into TV teen-soap territory because of the ill thought out character relationships.The titular kill theory of the villain only works because the characters are pretty shallow and have a common backstory straight out of a b... |
tt0295725 | Time Changer | Bible professor Russell Carlisle (D. David Morin) confronts and lectures a boy who has stolen marbles from his neighbors, calling his action unjust. The year is 1890 and Carlisle has written a new manuscript entitled The Changing Times, which promotes good morals without discussing Christ. The book is on track to recei... | christian film | train | wikipedia | Accordingly, I would suspect that TIME CHANGER will be strongly embraced by the Christian community and fans of movies such as "LEFT BEHIND" and "THE OMEGA CODE." The film is well made and especially well acted with a fine cast.
Not only that, but the film focuses on obedience to the Jesus of the Bible, which includes... |
tt0056553 | Tall in the Trap | In the Old West town of Dry Gulp, Jerry - wanted for "cheese rustlin'" - steals a piece of cheese at the general store. When the shopkeeper angrily demands action, the sheriff hires the "fastest trap in the West" to Jerry's horror, a dramatic scene shown before the start. This turns out to be Tom, who comes to town rid... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0093435 | Lung foo fong wan | William Dudley (Leslie Nielsen) is a corrupt mayor of a nameless Midwestern U.S. city who has allowed an oil refinery to be built right in the center of town, far from any river, lake or reservoir. On one typical hot summer day, Herman Stover (Jonathan Welsh), a dangerously disturbed employee at the works has been deni... | cult, neo noir, murder, violence, romantic | train | wikipedia | John Woo's films, and his subsequent transplant to Hollywood is probably the most publicized outcome of the phenomenon, but there are other, more obscure directors and films that have guided some of today's action film success stories.Ringo Lam is a contemporary of John Woo, and it seems that his 1987 film CITY ON FIRE... |
tt0013086 | Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler | Part I — The Great Gambler: A Picture of the Time (Part I - Der große Spieler: Ein Bild der Zeit)
Dr. Mabuse is a criminal mastermind, doctor of psychology, and master of disguise, armed with the powers of hypnosis and mind control, who oversees the counterfeiting and gambling rackets of the Berlin underworld. He visit... | paranormal, cult | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1833844 | Berberian Sound Studio | British sound engineer Gilderoy (Toby Jones) arrives at the Berberian film studio in Italy to work on what he believes is a film about horses. During a surreal meeting with Francesco, the film's producer, Gilderoy is shocked to find the film is actually an Italian giallo film, The Equestrian Vortex. He nonetheless begi... | insanity, psychedelic, horror, psychological, atmospheric | train | wikipedia | 'Berberian Sound Studio' is a film about an English sound technician (Toby Jones) who is used to creating sound effects for children's TV shows, who travels to Italy to work on a horror film.
The atmosphere created by the soundtrack was electric and it felt like hearing the world with new ears when I left the picture h... |
tt0064158 | Che! | === Part 1: The Argentine ===
In Havana 1964, Che Guevara is interviewed by Lisa Howard who asks him if reform throughout Latin America might not blunt the "message of the Cuban Revolution."
In 1955, at a gathering in Mexico City, Guevara first meets Fidel Castro. He listens to Castro’s plans and signs on as a member o... | melodrama, violence, avant garde, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | A few months ago I saw the highly acclaimed docudrama on Fidel on Showtime, and this film, while not as good as the Showtime drama, is not all that much worse either.First the bad stuff.
Jack Palance's portrayal of Fidel Castro must rank as one of the worst performances ever to appear on screen.
no matter what, I highl... |
tt0906788 | Zombies! Zombies! Zombies! | Searching for the cure for cancer, a scientist creates a chemical that promotes cell growth. After being visited by a drug addict, the drugs and the cure are mixed up and misused by him and several prostitutes. They become zombified and begin biting people nearby. A small group of exotic dancers team up with the prosti... | violence | train | wikipedia | Low Budget...some bad reviews...but I liked it!.
I had read a few negative reviews about this movie, so maybe I wasn't expecting much...but I liked it.
From reading the Horror sites, I already knew that this was made by some first-time filmmakers, horror fans, who had funded the entire movie on their personal credit ca... |
tt0131704 | The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle | 35 years since their show's cancellation in 1964, Rocket "Rocky" J. Squirrel and Bullwinkle J. Moose have been relegated to reruns. Their home, Frostbite Falls, has been destroyed by deforestation, Rocky has lost his ability to fly and the show's unseen Narrator now lives with his mother, spending his time narrating hi... | satire | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0104645 | Kshatriya | The story is about two warring royal Kshatriya Rajput families in Rajasthan, India, based in Mirtagarh and Surjangarh. The Mirtagarh family is headed by Maharaja Bhavani Singh (Sunil Dutt), his wife Maheshwari Devi (Raakhee), his daughter Divya (Dolly Minhas) and younger brother Jaswant Singh (Vinod Khanna). Surjangarh... | murder | train | wikipedia | A True Indian Epic!. In my humble opinion, this is one of India's greatest films of the 1990s. The wealth on talent on show has never been equalled in any other indian film.The story is basically about two warring families in Rajisthan, and how various members of each family try to end this feud. The film climaxes with... |
tt0185481 | Meikyû monogatari | === Labyrinth Labyrinthos ===
The short follows Sachi (Hideko Yoshida/Cheryl Chase), a girl locked in a game of hide-and-seek with her cat Cicerone. Her search leads her to an old longcase clock which doubles as a doorway to a labyrinth world. The world is filled with supernatural oddities and characters, such as cardb... | paranormal | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0041838 | Samson and Delilah | Samson, a Danite Hebrew placed under Nazirite vows from birth by his mother Hazelelponit, is engaged to a Philistine woman named Semadar. At their wedding feast, Samson loses a bet with his wedding guests because of Semadar and attacks 30 Philistines to strip them of their cloaks to pay his betting debt. When his deeds... | good versus evil, revenge, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | DeMille took off a couple of years now between films to create the opulent splendor that typifies his work.Well Samson and Delilah abounds in opulence.
She never had much acting skill, but all she has to do is be seductive and that no one could do better.And Victor Mature away from his home studio of 20th Century Fox w... |
tt0825245 | Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight | The film begins with the return of a group of friends consisting of Tanis Half-Elven, Sturm Brightblade, Caramon Majere, Raistlin Majere, Flint Fireforge, Tasslehoff Burrfoot. Kitiara Uth Matar, the half sister of the twins Caramon and Raistlin, was supposed to be there as well, but for reasons unexplained at the time ... | cult | train | wikipedia | Actually, my great hope is that this is just the setting stage for a feature film that knows it's audience.I implore wizards of the coast to stop making things that suck for the sake of money.
The story works, but no thanks to the movie makers.I really like the books, Hickman and Weis write good fiction, the Dragonlanc... |
tt0308426 | Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy | === Setting ===
The game is set on a fictional planet incorporating fantasy elements, which consists of small and not very technically advanced settlements, surrounded by varying environments and abandoned ruins. One major hub is Sandover Village, home of the two protagonists; Jak, a silent 15-year-old boy and his best... | good versus evil | train | wikipedia | A worthy successor to Crash Bandicoot..
Naughty Dog, a company that makes games exclusively for the PlayStation 2, delivered a worthy replacement for the loss of their great Crash Bandicoot series with Jak And Daxter: The Precursor Legacy.
I own this game and I love it.Made in the vein of a Disney cartoon, and featurin... |
tt0097531 | How to Get Ahead in Advertising | The movie is a farce about a mentally unstable advertising executive, Denis Dimbleby Bagley (played by Grant), who suffers a nervous breakdown while making an advert for pimple cream. Ward plays his long-suffering but sympathetic wife. Richard Wilson plays John Bristol, Bagley's boss.
Bagley has a crisis of conscience ... | comedy, dark, insanity, absurd, psychedelic, satire | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0116477 | Hamlet | === Act I ===
The protagonist of Hamlet is Prince Hamlet of Denmark, son of the recently deceased King Hamlet, and nephew of King Claudius, his father's brother and successor. Claudius hastily married King Hamlet's widow, Gertrude, Hamlet's mother, and took the throne for himself. Denmark has a long-standing feud with ... | murder, dramatic, insanity, romantic, tragedy, revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0250371 | The Other Side of Heaven | During the 1950s, John Groberg, who grew up in Idaho Falls, is called on a mission to Tonga. There he will spend three years as Elder Groberg teaching about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His first adventures are just in getting there, including a short time in a Fijian jail.
When Elder Groberg does g... | romantic | train | wikipedia | No, I'm not Mormon, I'm actually an Assembly of God Christian, however that does not overshadow my appreciation for this movie.The depiction of the people of Tonga is accurate.
The crying and grieving took place for 1 full day (24 hours - day and night) while different groups of people from all the villages on the isla... |
tt0114371 | Search and Destroy | Middle-aged Martin Mirkhein (Griffin Dunne) is a complete failure. He's run a successful business into debt, his marriage is falling apart, and now he owes the IRS $147,956 in back taxes. Martin may not have much going for him but he has read "Daniel Strong," a best-selling, self-help novel by the popular TV guru Dr. W... | satire | train | wikipedia | A great movie that somehow slipped under everyones radar..
Hope it sits well with you....I have to say that this movie is one of the rare pieces of film that shows what can be accomplished with no money at all, or little money.Scene to scene, moment to moment, it is the essence of what a "low budget movie" can accompli... |
tt0756573 | October Road | Nick Garrett (Bryan Greenberg) left home ten years ago to go backpacking in Europe for a few weeks—and the brief trip ended up lasting for a decade. He left behind his girlfriend Hannah (Laura Prepon), best friend Eddie (Geoff Stults), and his family. Garrett is now a famous author and screenwriter living in New York C... | flashback | train | wikipedia | I stumbled across October Road after watching Grey's Anatomy last Thursday.
I wasn't immediately hooked from the first moment like I was with Grey's Anatomy but it was definitely one of the better pilot episodes that I've seen in my life.
Being right after Grey's is going to help it a lot I think.
I hope that ABC will ... |
tt0059170 | Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! | Three wild, uninhibited go-go dancers—Billie, Rosie, and Varla, dance at a club before racing their sports cars across the California desert. They play a high-speed game of chicken on the salt flats and encounter a young couple, Tommy and Linda, out to run a time trial. After breaking Tommy's neck in a fight, Varla kid... | pornographic, comedy, grindhouse film, murder, cult, violence, atmospheric | train | wikipedia | Then things move to the barren California desert for drag races, catfights, murders, straining blouses, and a lot of torrid action and satirically overwrought melodrama.Tura Satana, Haji, and Lori Williams have terrific screen presence as the three tough-as-nails villainesses.
Three go-go dancers - Varla (Tura Satana),... |
tt2140037 | Jane Got a Gun | Jane and her husband Bill "Ham" Hammond live in an isolated house with their five-year-old daughter Katie. One day Ham returns home with several serious bullet wounds. As Jane is attending to his injuries, Ham tells her that "the Bishop Boys are coming". This is a gang of vicious criminals, led by John Bishop, that Ham... | revenge, suspenseful, murder, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | She has picked some stinker roles in the past however she proved IMO she is no longer just the pretty face and she has honed her craft to be a very good actor.Blows my mind that IMDb is only giving this movie a rating of 5.9 I am a big fan of westerns and I don't hand out high ratings with a whim or fancy.Good to see E... |
tt0853096 | Death of a President | Broadcast in the year 2008, the film is presented in a TV documentary style format, combining talking head interviews, news coverage clips and video surveillance footage surrounding the assassination of U.S. President George W. Bush in Chicago around a year earlier on 19 October 2007. The president is fatally shot by a... | anti war, revenge, alternate reality, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | A lot of these reviews seem to be by either US Americans who have yet to see this film, and are so insecure about their patriotism they have to come on to IMDb and slate it, or seemingly by people who made up their mind before watching it and refuse to change their stance after doing so.The point of the film is NOT som... |
tt0022403 | Smart Money | Nick Venizelos (Robinson), a prosperous small-town barber, provides his customers with gambling in his back room. He is so lucky that one suggests he go to the big city to take on famous gambler named Hickory Short. Not lacking in self-confidence, Nick puts up half of the $10,000 stake himself, while the others raise t... | revenge | train | wikipedia | While he was well-known for his gangster roles, this character isn't a saint by any stretch, but he's far from vicious or deadly like "Little Caesar".
Cagney, at this point, was the lesser star and has a rather small role in the film as Robinson's right-hand man.
The breakout film, THE PUBLIC ENEMY, was released just b... |
tt0126004 | La rose de fer | A young woman and man meet at a wedding reception and arrange a date. They meet at a railway station and go for a picnic and bike ride. They arrive at the entrance of a lonely cemetery and go inside.
Once inside the huge cemetery, the woman becomes anxious. The man calms her and persuades her to enter a crypt with him.... | insanity, cult, psychedelic, gothic | train | wikipedia | La Rose De Fer (the Iron Rose) is one of the most sensual and beautiful horror films I've ever seen.
When the characters eventually enter the cemetery, 'The Iron Rose' gets somehwat tedious, with the heroes merely wondering amid the tombstones, uttering nonsensical lines from time to time.
The film was clearly made pur... |
tt0113303 | Hideaway | After killing two women and ritualistically arranging their bodies as a sacrifice to Satan, a Devil worshipper (Sisto) invokes a Satanic verse in a room filled with candles and Satanic imagery. He then commits suicide by throwing himself onto an athame in order to damn his soul.
Hatch Harrison (Goldblum) is on a drive ... | murder, paranormal, cult, horror, violence, insanity, sadist | train | wikipedia | Okay, maybe the scripting wasn't pure Shakespeare, maybe the plot was a little tenuous, or a little unoriginal, but still, a little credit where it's due please.I admit, I was expecting from the write-up a second rate TV movie, but ended up with a deranged grin plastered across my face.
I haven't read Dean Koontz's nov... |
tt0119802 | Snitch | The film opens with Jason Collins (Rafi Gavron) video-chatting with his childhood best friend Craig Johnson (James Allen McCune). Craig brings up a box drugs that he is attempting to move and attempts to persuade Jason to let Craig ship the drugs to his house, offering him a share of the profit. Despite Jason's relucta... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0103251 | White Palace | 27-year-old St. Louis advertising executive, Max Baron (James Spader), has completely shut himself off from the world in the two years since the auto accident that killed his wife Janey (Maria Pitillo). On the way to his friend's bachelor party, Neil (Jason Alexander), Max picks up 50 burgers from a diner called White ... | paranormal, romantic | train | wikipedia | White palace has a great sexual dynamic, clearly Susan Sarandon's character (Nora Baker) is a sexually charged self confident woman who is at least 10 years or so older than James Spader's character (Max Baron).
This movie shows how deep attraction and passion can change people's lives (perhaps for the better) and over... |
tt0279781 | Sorority Boys | The story starts out with the regular lives of three friends—Dave (Barry Watson), Adam (Michael Rosenbaum), and Doofer (Harland Williams)—who are head of the Social Committee in a frat house called KOK (Kappa Omicron Kappa). Spence, the socially-awkward KOK President, is hazing a group of new pledges, when Adam and Dav... | humor, prank | train | wikipedia | Naturally, much of the laughs come as the "girls" are forced to adjust to their new roles and dealing with stuff like leg shaving and walking (badly) in heels, although in the process these formerly crude horndogs learn to start appreciating women as more than just object to either lust after (if they're hot) or make f... |
tt0019422 | Steamboat Willie | Mickey Mouse pilots a river steamboat, suggesting that he himself is the captain. He cheerfully whistles "Steamboat Bill" and sounds the boat's three whistles. Soon the real captain, Pete, appears and orders Mickey off the bridge. Mickey blows a raspberry at Pete, and then Pete attempts to kick him but Mickey rushes aw... | revenge, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0083111 | Southern Comfort | The film begins in the spring and documents Eads' life through the following winter. Eads falls in love with Lola, a transgender woman. He spends those remaining warm days in the company of his "chosen family": Maxwell, Cas, and "the rest". That summer, his mother and father drive ten hours to visit Robert, who is stil... | tragedy, violence, humor | train | wikipedia | I have been an enthusiastic fan of Walter Hill's 1981 film, Southern Comfort, since childhood, and I believe that it is one of the most perfect movies of that decade in terms of its ability to maintain intensity to a nail-biting conclusion.
Unlike contemporary survival horror movies where one never gets the impression ... |
tt0120478 | Star Kid | Spencer Griffith (Joseph Mazzello) is a shy seventh grader and 12-year-old boy. He has a crush on a school girl named Michelle (Lauren Eckstrom). Spencer's life changes when a mysterious meteorite crashes into a nearby junkyard. Investigating the site, he finds that the "meteorite" is actually a small rocket carrying a... | good versus evil, revenge, psychedelic, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
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