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tt0022235 | L'opéra de quat'sous | === Overview ===
Set in Victorian London, the play focuses on Macheath, an amoral, antiheroic criminal.
Macheath ("Mackie," or "Mack the Knife") marries Polly Peachum. This displeases her father, who controls the beggars of London, and he endeavours to have Macheath hanged. His attempts are hindered by the fact that th... | satire | train | wikipedia | Life is Money, Food, Sex, Nothing. Feels a bit odd being the 1st post as I would have thought Artheads would have been here years ago describing this one's social significance, contextualising it, contemporary relevances, and dissecting comparisons with the simultaneous German version. As I only happen to like "old" mo... |
tt0492481 | Puccini for Beginners | The story begins with Samantha (Julianne Nicholson) breaking up with Allegra (Elizabeth Reaser), a lesbian author who has had relationship problems in the past. Allegra meets a man named Philip (Justin Kirk) at a party, with whom she feels a connection. The next day, she meets Grace (Gretchen Mol), Philip's ex-girlfrie... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Likable Romantic Triangle Comedy Hamstrung by a Lackluster Lead and Plodding Pacing.
Directed and written by Maria Maggenti ("The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls in Love"), this disheveled 2007 romantic triangle comedy has several likable elements, but it never seems to coalesce into something more resonant.
Th... |
tt1988816 | The Red House | Handicapped farmer Pete Morgan (Edward G. Robinson) and sister Ellen (Judith Anderson) live on an isolated farm with their adoptive daughter, Meg (Allene Roberts) who is actually their niece. They keep to themselves and are viewed as mysterious by the nearby town. Now a teenager, Meg convinces Pete to hire one of her 1... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0020815 | The Dawn Patrol | During World War I, the pilots of an RFC squadron deal with the stress of combat primarily through nightly bouts of heavy drinking. The two aces of the squadron's "A Flight", Courtney (Richard Barthelmess) and Scott (Douglas Fairbanks Jr), have come to hate the commanding officer, Brand (Neil Hamilton), blaming him for... | revenge | train | wikipedia | Terrific war film starring Richard Barthelmess as a veteran British pilot in France whose job is to make raids behind enemy lines in what are basically suicide runs.
What follows breaks up the friendship between Barthelmess and Fairbanks, but the war drones on.Excellent cinematography of aerial fights and bombing raids... |
tt0040723 | Raw Deal | Prisoner Joe Sullivan (Dennis O'Keefe), who has "taken the fall" for an unspecified crime, breaks out of jail with the help of his girl, Pat (Claire Trevor), who also serves as a first-person narrator in the story. Neither is aware that the escape has been facilitated by mobster Rick Coyle (Raymond Burr), a sadistic py... | violence, romantic | train | wikipedia | This movie, a cheap b-production with only one actor with stand-out talent, Claire Trevor, and a young powerful Raymond Burr, manages to seem authentic all the way through because it doesn't hold back on the violence or the threat of violence.
O'Keefe uses two women he knows, his floozy Trevor and the good-girl counsel... |
tt0069097 | Play It Again, Sam | Set in San Francisco, the film begins with the closing scenes of Casablanca, with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. We then see that the main character, Allan Felix (Woody Allen), is watching the film in a cinema, mouth agape. He leaves the cinema regretting that he will never be like Rick.
Apart from apparitions of ... | psychedelic, satire, romantic | train | wikipedia | Directed by Herbert Ross, "Play It Again, Sam" (1972) is Woody Allen's film from the beginning to the final credits.
I am not a fan of "Casablanca" at all but if my favorite Artist is so much in love with it, maybe I should give it another try.When Allan's wife Nancy leaves him, his best friend Dick (Tony Roberts) and ... |
tt2639254 | A Little Chaos | After being given responsibility by King Louis XIV of France for designing and building the Gardens of Versailles, André Le Nôtre interviews candidates for the project, one of whom is a woman with an unconventional sense of gardening, Sabine de Barra. When noticing her move a potted plant in his garden prior to her int... | flashback | train | wikipedia | Rickman plays the French King Louis XIV, Matthias Schoenaerts plays the landscape architect André Le Notre, and Kate Winslet plays Sabine De Barra.
The gardens are just the plot device that brings together all of the main characters in one place at one time.Matthias Schoenaerts is excellent in this movie, as he was in ... |
tt0032643 | It All Came True | Aspiring songwriter Tommy Taylor (Jeffrey Lynn) pins his hopes on the promises of his employer, gambler and gangster "Chips" Maguire (Humphrey Bogart). However, Chips uses the gun he had registered under Tommy's name to kill Monks (Herb Vigran) when he betrays Chips to the police. It turns out Chips had Tommy carry the... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0032427 | Earthbound | EarthBound takes place a few years after the events of Mother. The player starts as a young boy named Ness as he investigates a nearby meteorite crash with his neighbor, Pokey. He finds that an alien force, Giygas, has enveloped and consumed the world in hatred and consequently turned animals, humans, and objects into ... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0034694 | Edge of Darkness | === One: Compassionate Leave ===
Yorkshire police officer Ronald Craven (Bob Peck) is returning home with his daughter Emma (Joanne Whalley) having picked her up from a meeting of an environmental organisation at her university campus. On the doorstep of their home Emma is shot dead. The police concentrate their effort... | romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | For those who haven't seen this film the message was an excerpt from a speech he made probably in late 1940 or 41, and it refers to the resistance of the people of Norway to the occupation by the Nazis.
One of the things that all of the films about Norway during World War II fail to mention is why the Nazis were there ... |
tt0318763 | Timecop: The Berlin Decision | In 2025, Time Enforcement Commission (TEC), the agency that monitors time travel, is still keeping the past safe. Society for Historical Authenticity (SHA) is established to ensure that TEC personnel do not alter history. But the Society's leader, Brandon Miller, believes he has the responsibility to change history bas... | violence, alternate history, murder | train | wikipedia | I thought this film was pretty good, considering a sequel to a movie like Timecop tends to be destined as a flop.
The moral aspects of time travel were touched on nicely enough to make you think, but not too much to tease you and leave you feeling unresolved in much of the theorising unlike Matrix Reloaded.I rate this ... |
tt1718714 | A Night in the Woods | The film follows Londoner Kerry (Anna Skellern) and her American boyfriend Brody (Scoot McNairy) as they travel to Dartmoor for a camping trip. Brody has decided to document their trip with his video camera. He grows irritated and jealous when Kerry invites her cousin Leo (Andrew Hawley), although Brody tries to hide t... | violence, dark | train | wikipedia | It all started with Blair Witch in '99.
There was the less-remembered 'Last Broadcast' which actually preceded Blair Witch but did not capture the imagination in the same way the viral marketing method pioneered by Haxan Films managed to.
Sadly, nothing about 'A Night in the Woods' is special, and it blows several good... |
tt0101788 | Dynasty: The Reunion | The series finale of Dynasty, broadcast in May 1989, had left oil tycoon Blake Carrington shot by a corrupt policeman, his beloved wife Krystle in an off-screen coma and his conniving ex-wife Alexis Colby plunging from a balcony. The Reunion picks up two years later as Blake — having survived the shooting but then conv... | brainwashing, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0233979 | Zapatlela | The Film begins with a Car approaching in Night. Tatya Vinchu (Dilip Prabhavalkar) a famous gangster and his henchman kubdya Khavis enters the cave of Baba chamtkar (Raghvendra Kadkol) in search for mrutunjay mantra, a voodoo spell which can transfer the soul of the chanter to any living or nonliving object. Tatya thre... | haunting | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2275990 | The Bletchley Circle | Susan Gray, Millie, Lucy, and Jean work together at a secret facility at Bletchley to decipher German military codes for the British military, during World War II. After a brief introduction of the four women at Bletchley during the war, the series begins in 1952, seven years after the war's end, when Susan, Millie, Lu... | murder, historical fiction | train | wikipedia | A group of women who worked at Bletchley during the war return to their undervalued prewar existences until one of them happens upon a line of enquiry regarding a spate of murders of young women.
She finds old colleagues from the Bletchley years and they form the eponymous circle to crack the code of the killings.
Not ... |
tt5071886 | Kabali | A Kuala Lumpur–based don Kabaleeswaran alias Kabali (Rajinikanth) is released after spending 25 years in prison on a false charge of starting a massacre at a local Hindu temple that killed many, including his wife Kumudhavalli alias Kumudha (Radhika Apte). He immediately resumes charge of his old gang and soon confront... | revenge, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | Its Awesome!!!Makeup Artist has done a great job.Dunno why people said its draggy, which I totally dint feel.Watch the movie and come to a conclusion, don't listen to what people say( Includes my opinion too).Please do not read reviews and go with the same expectation because people have different tastes.I personally l... |
tt0079156 | Il fiume del grande caimano | A teenage girl purchases a baby American alligator while on vacation with her family at a tourist trap in Florida. After the family returns home to Chicago, the alligator, named Ramón by the girl, is promptly flushed down the family's toilet by her surly, animal-phobic father and ends up in the city's sewers.
Twelve ye... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0131550 | The Final Sacrifice | In the first scene of the film, hooded men chase a lone man through a snowy forest. A shot rings out and the opening credits roll.
The protagonist, Troy McGreggor, finds a map belonging to his late father, who was shot seven years earlier, as the first scene depicts. Troy’s father, Thomas, was an archeologist who met h... | cult | train | wikipedia | "Quest of the Lost City/The Final Sacrifice" (pick your poison) goes one better: the characters are too stupid to keep the plot moving, but it does anyway through sheer coincidence and dumb luck.So we've got this scrawny kid named Troy, who as our story begins is rummaging through some junk his late father left behind ... |
tt0049662 | Raw! Raw! Rooster! | The opening shows Foghorn Leghorn lounging in the barnyard, being fanned and serenaded by several hens, when a telegram arrives saying that his old college roommate, Rhode Island Red, will be paying him a visit. Red is voiced by Daws Butler, and is a takeoff on Jackie Gleason's "Loudmouth" character, Charlie Bratten ("... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Foghorn Leghorn went to college?!.
Honestly, what college would have accepted a guy whose entire life is apparently based on practical jokes?
Maybe Foghorn Leghorn was a member of the Deltas in "Animal House"!
No matter, it should come as no surprise that Foggy's college buddy Rhode Island Red (sort of a New York versi... |
tt1245666 | The Postcard | Near the end of the Second World War, Sadazo Morikawa (Naomasa Musaka) is one of a group of 100 overaged conscripts for the Japanese navy assigned to cleaning duty. Once the cleaning duty has finished, the members are chosen by lottery for various duties. Sadazo is assigned to serve in the Philippines. He thinks he wil... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0035605 | Above Suspicion | In the spring of 1939 in England, Oxford University Professor Richard Myles (Fred MacMurray) and his new bride Frances (Joan Crawford) decide to honeymoon on the continent. Because they are American tourists and therefore "above suspicion," they find themselves commissioned by the British secret service to find an appa... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | If you like the kind of spy-romance yarns spun out by Hollywood in the 1940s--the kind with tongue-in-cheek dialogue that lets you know you're not supposed to take any of it too seriously--you'll enjoy this amusing, yet suspenseful film in which Conrad Veidt plays a "nice guy" for a change.
Honeymooners Joan Crawford a... |
tt0055608 | Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | The new, state of the art nuclear submarine Seaview is on diving trials in the Arctic Ocean. The Seaview is designed and built by scientist and engineering genius Admiral Harriman Nelson (USN-Ret) (Walter Pidgeon). Captain Lee Crane (Robert Sterling) is the Seaview's Commanding Officer. One of the on-board observers is... | insanity, claustrophobic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0033044 | Shooting High | The Carsons and the Pritchards have been feuding in the town of Carson's Corners for generations. The budding romance between Will Carson (Gene Autry) and Marjorie Pritchard (Marjorie Weaver) is now being threatened by the long-standing feud. Margorie's father, Calvin Pritchard (Frank M. Thomas), is the bank president ... | flashback | train | wikipedia | Gene Meets 20th Century Fox. Calling this an Autry Western is a bit of a stretch.
Gene's in it, but his part is overshadowed by an over-emoting Jane Withers whose boisterous personality is, I think, a matter of taste.
Then too, you may need a score card to keep up with the meandering plot that mixes a family feud with ... |
tt0447710 | Torched | While heading out to work, university hospital nurse Deanna is tased and raped in her apartment elevator by a hooded man wearing a surgical mask and medical gloves. The next day, the traumatized Deanna subdues a burglar who breaks into her apartment using the rapist's abandoned stun gun. Deanna, convinced the intruder ... | dark, cruelty, murder, violence, insanity, revenge, sadist | train | wikipedia | Short and sweet tale of rape and revenge.
Torched doesn't reach feature length at only 44 minutes, but it's 44 minutes well spent if you like this kind of thing as director Ryan Nicholson starts the film off nasty, and manages to carry this on throughout.
Right at the start, we witness a nurse being raped and from ther... |
tt0088771 | Barbarian Queen | A peaceful barbarian village prepares to celebrate the wedding of Queen Amethea (Lana Clarkson) to Prince Argan (Frank Zagarino). During preparations for the wedding ceremony, the forces of Lord Arrakur (Arman Chapman) attack the village, taking Argan and Amethea's younger sister Taramis (Dawn Dunlap) along with severa... | violence, pornographic, cult, murder, sadist | train | wikipedia | The Barbarian Queen is Queen Amethea (Lana Clarkson), whose village is burned by evil warriors on the day of her prospective wedding, after which most of the people are killed or enslaved.
Nudity and bondage and fondling yes, but I have to say the most memorable scene occurs when Queen Amethea uses a unique method of e... |
tt1560970 | Neds | Neds is a dark coming-of-age film that follows the story of John McGill, a young boy growing up in 1970s Glasgow. While a brilliant student who excels in his studies at school, his studious nature causes conflicts with his working-class family and the wider, gang-riddled neighbourhood.
John's immediate family consists ... | violence | train | wikipedia | A good film that gives a very accurate portrayal of what life can be like for a young kid growing up in Glasgow.
The film is set in the 70's but the main themes are just as applicable for youngsters in 2011 (trying to fit in, feeling like part of a group/gang).The highlight of the film is the performance of Conor McCar... |
tt0050814 | The Pajama Game | Act I
A strike is imminent at the Sleep-Tite Pajama Factory, where the workers churn out pajamas at a backbreaking pace ("Racing with the Clock"). In the middle of this, a new superintendent, Sid Sorokin, has come from out of town to work in the factory ("A New Town Is a Blue Town"). The union, led by Prez, is seeking ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0037795 | The House on 92nd Street | In 1939, American standout university student Bill Dietrich (William Eythe) is approached by Nazi recruiters due to his German heritage. He feigns interest, then notifies the FBI. FBI agent George Briggs (Lloyd Nolan) tells him to play along.
Dietrich travels to Hamburg, Germany, where he undergoes six months of intens... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0253514 | Purana Mandir | The film opens with a scene taking place some 200 years ago, with the royal procession of Raja Harimansingh of the sultanate of Bijapur, stranded near the Kali Pahari (literally, black mountain). The Raja is concerned because his daughter Princess Rupali has disappeared near the lair of the devil-worshipper Samri (Anir... | revenge, romantic | train | wikipedia | Before there was Raaz, there was Purana Mandir....
Purana Mandir is without any doubt one of the greatest, if not the greatest, Bollywood horror movie ever made.
Directed by the famous Ramsay Brothers, it has a powerful story that grips your attention right from the start, and never let's go.The story concerns a demoni... |
tt0347369 | Jiminy Glick in Lalawood | Jiminy Glick in LaLaWood starts off as an Entertainment Tonight or Access Hollywood spoof, but develops into a murder mystery, with David Lynch played by Martin Short as a makeshift Hercule Poirot.
Jiminy Glick (also played by Short) checks into a spooky hotel where Lynch is at the bar, spouting random scenes for his n... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0076257 | The Kentucky Fried Movie | The Kentucky Fried Movie contains largely unconnected sketches that parody various film genres, including exploitation films. The film's longest segment spoofs early kung-fu films, specifically Enter the Dragon; its title, A Fistful of Yen, refers to A Fistful of Dollars. Parodies of disaster films (That's Armageddon),... | comedy, murder, cult, flashback, absurd, humor, satire | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0182015 | A Cosmic Christmas | Three aliens from an unknown planet, who bear a strong resemblance to the Biblical Magi, visit earth to know the true meaning of Christmas. Peter, a young boy, and Lucy, his goose, are the first to encounter them. Unable to find the true meaning of Christmas in town, Peter takes them to his family's house in the woods.... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0125439 | Notting Hill | William "Will" Thacker owns an independent book store, The Travel Book Co. in Notting Hill. He is divorced and shares his house with an eccentric, care-free Welshman named Spike and has a small, tight knit group of friends that includes his sister, Honey.
Will encounters Hollywood superstar Anna Scott when she enters h... | dramatic, romantic, comedy, psychedelic, entertaining | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0026663 | Mad Love | Tordesillas, 1554. Seventy four years old, Queen Joanna of Castile, called Juana La Loca (Joanna the Madwoman), is still mourning the loss of her husband who died a half century before. Joanna remembers with emotion the man she loved passionately, but who brought her ruin. She does not fear death, she says, because dea... | insanity, romantic, murder, sadist | train | wikipedia | The first one of the two (incidentally, his first work as a director in America), 1932's "The Mummy" is really the most popular, given that it is also one of the best performances by horror icon Boris Karloff; however, it is in the second one where Freund's talents really shine, making this last movie as a director his... |
tt0278343 | 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 | A fine offering for young folks. A three-part special release for children, produced by H.C. Mathews. This will be, if it is rightly exhibited, a fine offering for young folks and will interest their elders, too. For a fairy story it has an ideal setting in the scenes of California, which add greatly to its value, and ... |
tt0126850 | Cyberstalker | Aiden Ashley's family life was torn apart thirteen years earlier when her online stalker tracked her down to her home and in an avalanche of terror, murdered both her parents. Her stalker fled the crime scene without ever revealing his face to Aiden.
As a precaution, Aiden shuns the Internet for the next thirteen years... | cult, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0124937 | Clutch Cargo | The stories centered on Clutch Cargo (voiced by radio actor Richard Cotting), described as "a writer and pilot with a muscular build, a white flat-top hair cut and rugged good looks". As was typical of adventure serials, Clutch Cargo was sent around the world on dangerous assignments. Accompanying him on the assignment... | mystery | train | wikipedia | Strange early TV cartoon..
About forty years ago when I was a child in a Los Angeles suburb I recall seeing this odd cartoon, so different from the others where things moved.
The creators seem to have had this process where they could put images of actors lips moving in the faces of the characters.
Kinda' neat and kind... |
tt0104454 | Howards End | In Edwardian England Helen Schlegel (Helena Bonham Carter) becomes engaged to Paul Wilcox during a moment of passion, while she is staying at the country home of the Wilcox family, Howards End. The Schlegels are an intellectual family of Anglo-German bourgeoisie, while the Wilcox's are conservative and wealthy, headed ... | romantic, boring, historical, melodrama | train | wikipedia | She still remains a sympathetic character up until the very end when she slowly comes back to her senses.Anthony Hopkins also gives one of his best performances as the cold and hypocritical Henry Wilcox.
Even the minor characters like Nicola Duffet's Jackie Bast and Jemma Redgrave's stony-faced Evie Wilcox are notewort... |
tt0097731 | Let It Ride | Jay Trotter drives a cab. His friend Looney, also a cab driver, has a secret microphone in his taxi to record his passengers' conversations. Looney has a tape of two men talking about a horse race and how one of the horses, due to some unethical practice by its owner, is a sure thing to win big. Jay goes to the track t... | boring | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0077413 | Death on the Nile | Jacqueline De Bellefort introduces her fiancé Simon to her friend Linnet Ridgeway in the hope that Linnet will give him a job. Instead, Linnet marries Simon herself and they head off for a honeymoon in Egypt (the same place where Jacqueline had planned her honeymoon with Simon). A bitter Jacqueline follows them to Egyp... | mystery, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0252338 | Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 | Like all other Command & Conquer real-time strategy games, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 contains two separate campaigns, with distinct story lines, one for each playable faction.
After the attempted conquest of Europe depicted in Command & Conquer: Red Alert, the Soviet Union is in utter ruin. Joseph Stalin is dead, ... | alternate reality, alternate history | train | wikipedia | Great continuation on an incredible game series!.
I was totally thrilled with Red Alert.
The game-play was great, the story was sweet and fun never seemed to end.
Red Alert 2 is not only twice as good, but it's twice as addictive!
Great videos really add to the game, along with a cool new Bad Guy.
The missions are grea... |
tt0316732 | Taxi | Taxi portrays director Jafar Panahi as he courses through the streets of Tehran while pretending to be a share taxi driver. He wants to hear a piece of his passengers' life and declines any payment for the services. His earliest passengers include a conservative-minded man who supports capital punishment and a woman su... | flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0040746 | Rope | Two brilliant young aesthetes, Brandon Shaw (Dall) and Phillip Morgan (Granger), strangle to death their former classmate from Harvard University, David Kentley (Dick Hogan), in their apartment. They commit the crime as an intellectual exercise; they want to prove their superiority by committing the "perfect murder".
A... | murder, cult, atmospheric, philosophical, suspenseful, storytelling | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0069525 | You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown | Sally Brown comes home and tells Charlie Brown that she is never going to school again out of frustration with opening her locker ("I can't get my stupid locker open!") The next day Charlie promises he will help with her locker. He tells her that some lockers are a little difficult and touchy, and she needs to make sur... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Charlie Brown in Politics?
Polling results at '11:00'.
The cast of the "Peanuts" gang are getting caught-up in a world of politics, power and promises!!
Watch out!
Because, here comes Lucy, the campaign manager, adviser and publicist for her brother Linus's ill-fated political student body presidential career.
Well, ma... |
tt0045752 | The Farmer Takes a Wife | Dan Harrow goes to work as a driver for Samson Weaver on the Erie Canal, but his heart is set on buying a farm and settling down, even though his father was a canal man. This ambition and his distaste for fighting puzzle Molly Larkins, the girlfriend and cook of Jotham Klore, but she develops a liking for him anyway.
W... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Just enjoy this lighthearted musical.
It's easygoing, middle-of-the-road entertainment so no point taking it too serious or being critical.
I happen to like Betty Grable films and this one is a lovely setting for her to shine in, a very photogenic lady.Dale Robertson, as Daniel, is the farmer who finds work on the cana... |
tt0100994 | Young Guns II | In 1950, attorney Charles Phalen is contacted by an elderly man named "Brushy Bill" Roberts. Brushy Bill tells Phalen that he is dying and wants to receive a pardon that he was promised 70 years before by the Governor of New Mexico, claiming that he is really William H. Bonney aka "Billy The Kid", whom "everyone" knows... | cult, humor, comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0496375 | Prisoners of the Sun | The synopsis continues a plot begun in The Seven Crystal Balls.
Young reporter Tintin, his dog Snowy, and friend Captain Haddock arrive in Callao, Peru. There, they plan to intercept the arrival of the Pachacamac, a ship carrying their friend Professor Calculus, who is being held by kidnappers. Tintin boards the ship a... | paranormal | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0095262 | Kidô senshi Gandamu: Gyakushû no Shâ | Set in a fictional universe in the year 2124 (Universal Century year 0079 according to the Gundam Calendar), the Principality of Zeon has declared independence from the Earth Federation, and subsequently launched a war of independence called the One Year War. The conflict has directly affected every continent on Earth,... | sci-fi | train | wikipedia | Very Good Mecha Anime Film.
Very good Mecha Anime film that puts a good closing story on the original MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM tv series.Very good quality drawing animation.The story however is not friendly to viewers who did not follow the mentioned tv series.Despite this flaw,the film holds up as a classic anime for all fa... |
tt0062301 | The St. Valentine's Day Massacre | An organized crime war breaks out between two rival gangs in Chicago during the Roaring Twenties. The leader of the Southside Mob is the notorious Al Capone, who resents his nemesis George "Bugs" Moran's activity in the city. Moran, too, wants control of the town's bootlegging and gambling operations. His lieutenants P... | cult, suspenseful, neo noir, murder, historical | train | wikipedia | And if it falls short of being a great film, it's a near miss rather than one by a mile.In this dramatization of the final showdown between the South Side and North Side gangs for control of Chicago's underworld in 1929, Jason Robards takes center stage as Al Capone.
Not only does this provide an easily-understood guid... |
tt0022286 | The Public Enemy | As youngsters in 1900's Chicago, Tom Powers (James Cagney) and his lifelong friend Matt Doyle (Edward Woods) engage in petty theft, selling their loot to "Putty Nose" (Murray Kinnell). Putty Nose persuades them to join his gang on a fur warehouse robbery, assuring them he will take care of them if anything goes wrong. ... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | "Public Enemy" brought two things to the screen: the little tough guy, fast-talking, unscrupulous gangster characterization by James Cagney which was to follow him throughout his entire screen career, and the grapefruit scene
Though "Public Enemy" created the Cagney image, he had already appeared in two other gangster... |
tt0084667 | Shakti | Aishwarya (Ileana D'Cruz) is the daughter of central union home minister Mahadevraya (Prabhu Ganesan). Due to security reasons, he doesn't allow his daughter to go on a trip with friends. She nonetheless goes to the trip. She then meets a guide, Shakti (Jr. NTR), who takes the group on a trip to several places. At firs... | murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | "Shakti", to my opinion, is one of the best Indian movies..
The film "Shakti" is one of my favorite movies.
Wonderful, accurate play of the actors Amitabh Bachchan and Dilip Kumar.
And one understands that he could act in both ways: like the hero of Amitabh Bachchan and like the hero of Dilip Kumar.
I love to watch thi... |
tt2231253 | Wild Card | Nick Wild (Jason Statham) is a recovering gambling addict who takes odd jobs in Las Vegas as a "chaperone" (his version of a bodyguard) to support his addiction. After helping a client impress a woman (Sofia Vergara), he accepts a proposition from a young man Cyrus Kinnick (Michael Angarano) to show him around Vegas an... | comedy, suspenseful, neo noir, murder, violence, flashback, revenge, sadist | train | wikipedia | Even seeing Jason in a movie like The raid, would be better than movies like this (wild card).I gave it a 6/10 because i enjoyed it, only because of the fight scenes..
OK, it is not that action filled, and the plot may not be the most original (what plot is anyway?), but I really enjoyed this movie.Jason Statham makes ... |
tt0093286 | It's Alive III: Island of the Alive | This film is set years after the first two. The movie begins with the scene of a woman going into labour in a cab. It is raining at night and the cab driver in panic runs out to get a police officer to help. As the officer goes to deliver the baby he asks the driver to call for an ambulance from a public phone. When th... | cult, satire, violence | train | wikipedia | A father fights for the right for his mutant child to live, the court grants that and his child plus another 4 are sent to an island to live.It was Warners Brothers idea for a third It's Alive film, which would be shot back to back with Return to Salem's Lot. It was meant to be release straight to video with RTSL, but ... |
tt1225292 | Insidious | A married couple Josh (Patrick Wilson) and Renai (Rose Byrne), their sons Dalton (Ty Simpkins) and Foster (Andrew Astor), and infant daughter Cali have recently moved into a new home. One night, Dalton is drawn to the attic when he hears creaking noises and sees the door open by itself. He falls from a ladder while inv... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | This flick has a style of its own. Finally caught this flick, and the arrogant a-hole critics missed it by a mile. This is a low budget independent film, not a $100 million dollar tent-pole movie that's been made a dozen times before. That kid, James Schram as 'Donny' was good, with a great look, energy and authenticit... |
tt0117476 | Riders of the Purple Sage | The events depicted in Riders of the Purple Sage occur in mid-spring and late summer 1871. Early in Riders of the Purple Sage, Jane Withersteen's main conflict is her right to befriend a Gentile. (The word Gentile means "non-Mormon" and is used a lot in the book). Jane Withersteen’s father wished Jane to marry Elder Tu... | revenge | train | wikipedia | If you liked the movie and haven't read the book, read it..
I watched this movie out of curiosity because I have the book and have read it; five times.
That seemed like a lot for a two hour (I believe it was two hours) movie.
I wanted to see how good the movie was and what parts of the book the movie omitted.
I liked t... |
tt0074703 | J.D.'s Revenge | The story centers around Isaac Hendrix (portrayed by Turman), a young college student studying law and a taxi-cab driver in New Orleans. While out on a night of fun with his friends and wife Christella, during a hypnosis act, he becomes an unwilling host for the restless spirit of J.D Walker, a hustler killed during th... | revenge, murder, blaxploitation, melodrama | train | wikipedia | Some of the best scenes in this movie take place after Ike (Glynn Turman) has been totally taken over by the late hustler, J.D. Walker.
Turman does a remarkable job switching back and forth between struggling law student Ike, and J.D., the razor-toting dead hustler out to revenge the death of his younger sister.
We lea... |
tt0160672 | Joe the King | 14-year-old Joe Henry (Noah Fleiss) has spent his life in an abusive household. His father Bob (Val Kilmer) is a raging violent alcoholic, while his mother, Theresa (Karen Young) feels too stressed to pay attention to him and lives in fear of getting caught in the path of her husband's wrath. His brother, about a year ... | violence, autobiographical, romantic | train | wikipedia | by Dane YoussefFrank Whaley's "Joe The King" has been called by the filmmaker himself "semi-autobiographical." And such a story about so much misery just makes to almost want to see it just to see how this guy got where he is today.
Is there a happy ending?" Like lots of actor-helmed vehicles, this one's loaded with bi... |
tt0408191 | The Sisterhood | Two girls, Christine and Reagan, find themselves paired as college roommates. Christine, a diligent student, mourns the recent loss of her parents in an automobile accident. Reagan wants to enjoy all that college has to offer. For her, college equals sex, drugs and rock and roll.
Reagan convinces Christine to come to a... | paranormal | train | wikipedia | Soft-core porn without the skin.
Pretty.Pretty actresses and actors.
Pretty bad script.
Pretty frequent "let's strip to our undies" scenes.
Pretty fair F/X.
Pretty jarring location decisions (the college dorm room looks like a high-end hotel room - probably because it was shot at a hotel).
Pretty bland storyline.
Prett... |
tt2357129 | Jobs | The film opens in 2001 with a middle-aged Steve Jobs (Ashton Kutcher) introducing the iPod at an Apple Town Hall meeting.
It then flashes back to Reed College in 1974. Jobs had already dropped out due to the high expense of tuition, but was still attending classes with the approval of Dean Jack Dudman (James Woods) who... | inspiring, historical | train | wikipedia | The storytelling is painfully straightforward, covering only the principal events of his professional trials and tribulations, and providing little else beyond what is already public knowledge.Developing his imagination for computer programming at Atari, Steve Jobs (Ashton Kutcher) brings in his friend Steve Wozniak (J... |
tt0013520 | Puss in Boots | The tale opens with the third and youngest son of a miller receiving his inheritance—a cat. At first, the youngest son laments, as the eldest brother gains the mill, and the middle brother gets the mules. The feline is no ordinary cat, however, but one who requests and receives a pair of boots. Determined to make his m... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0038238 | The Way to the Stars | Pilot Officer Peter Penrose (John Mills) is posted in the summer of 1940 as a pilot to (the fictional) No. 720 Squadron, at a new airfield, RAF Station Halfpenny Field. He is a very green "15-hour sprog" Bristol Blenheim pilot and is assigned to B Flight, under Flight Lieutenant David Archdale (Michael Redgrave).
When ... | romantic, storytelling, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0035096 | The Mummy's Tomb | The Mummy's Tomb picks up the story thirty years after the conclusion of the previous film. It begins with Steve Banning (Dick Foran) reciting the story of Kharis to his family and evening guests in his Mapleton, Massachusetts home. Footage from The Mummy's Hand appears as Banning tells his tale. As he concludes his ta... | revenge, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0096875 | Catchfire | Conceptual artist Anne Benton (Jodie Foster) creates electronic pieces that flash evocative statements, and her work has begun to attract major media attention.
Driving home one night, Anne suffers a blowout on a deserted road and, while looking for help, witnesses a mafia hit supervised by Leo Carelli (Joe Pesci). Leo... | cult, murder | train | wikipedia | Despite the shameless overacting by almost the entire cast, and, despite the "chop shop" editing of the DVD, and, despite the two famous actors (Charlie Sheen, Joe Pesci) who yanked their names from the credits, and, despite the randomness and somewhat unbelievability of the script, and, despite the movie's tendency to... |
tt0107977 | Robin Hood: Men in Tights | Robin Hood, or Robin of Loxley (Cary Elwes), is captured during the Crusades and is imprisoned at Khalil Prison in Jerusalem. With the help of fellow inmate Asneeze (Isaac Hayes), who was arrested for jaywalking, he escapes and frees the other inmates. Robin is asked by Asneeze to find his son, Ahchoo (Dave Chappelle, ... | comedy, cult, absurd, action, humor, comic, entertaining | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0063456 | Pretty Poison | Dennis Pitt is a disturbed young man on parole from a mental institution who becomes attracted to teenager Sue Ann Stepenek. He tells her that he is a secret agent, and takes her along on a series of "missions" that eventually end in murder. While Dennis is wracked with guilt over both what he has done and what he has ... | cult, comedy, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0114808 | L'uomo delle stelle | A single human narrator from England is transported out of his body via unexplained means. He realizes he is able to explore space and other planets. After exploring a civilization on another planet in our galaxy at a level of development similar to our own that existed millions of years ago thousands of light years fr... | insanity, romantic, avant garde, murder | train | wikipedia | Joe Morelli is a scam artist that loves to prey on innocent people in the poorer regions of Italy.
The movie is set after WWII in a ruined Italy that hasn't come out of its defeat and most of the population is having a hard time eking a life, mainly from the land.Morelli, pretending to be a scout for a big Rome studio ... |
tt0076881 | Victor Frankenstein | In London, ambitious medical student Victor Frankenstein (James McAvoy) attends a circus performance, where he helps save an injured aerialist, Lorelei (Jessica Brown Findlay), by aid of a nameless hunchback (Daniel Radcliffe) enslaved by the circus' ringleader, and who harbors feelings for the girl. Impressed by the h... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1307873 | The Big Bang | Detectives Poley (William Fichtner), Frizer (Thomas Kretschmann), and Skeres (Delroy Lindo) are interrogating Ned Cruz (Antonio Banderas), a Los Angeles private investigator, who tells them that five years earlier, Russian mobster Skinny Faddeev gave $30 million in blood diamonds as an advance to Anton (Robert Maillet)... | neo noir, flashback | train | wikipedia | Antonio Banderas is a private-I tasked with finding a woman, a typically classic theme; but mixed with a lot of modern physics.
Donnie Darko, Interstate 60, Angel Heart, The Ninth Gate, The Kovak Box -- One capable man on an adventure to solve a complex riddle whose questions and experiences become so convoluted as to ... |
tt0068235 | Au Pair Girls | The film opens with four girls arriving at London Heathrow Airport. They are taken to the offices of Overseas Employment Agency which has arranged placements for them. The film then plays out the adventures of each of the four girls.
Anita Sector (Frank) is assigned to Mr and Mrs Anderson. She doesn’t prove popular wit... | pornographic, adult comedy | train | wikipedia | Pretty average English 70s sexploitation comedy, which is worth watching for the utterly gorgeous Gabrielle Drake if nothing else..
'Au Pair Girls' is a cheesy "naughty" sexploitation comedy from the early 70s.
They mixed unsophisticated slapstick comedy, Benny Hill-like double entendres and lots of naked babes.
They a... |
tt0051301 | Peter Gunn | The title character, played by Craig Stevens, is a well-dressed private investigator whose hair is always in place and who loves cool jazz. Where other gumshoes might be coarse, Peter Gunn is a sophisticate with expensive tastes. He operates in a nameless, fictional riverfront city and can usually be found at Mother's,... | neo noir | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0071521 | Freebie and the Bean | Freebie and Bean are a pair of maverick detectives with the SFPD Intelligence Squad. The volatile gratuity-seeking Freebie is trying to get promoted to the vice squad to garner perks for his retirement while the neurotic and fastidious Bean has ambitions to make lieutenant. Against a backdrop of Super Bowl weekend in S... | comedy, violence | train | wikipedia | Freebie(James Caan) is a hot-head and practical joker, while Bean(Alan Arkin) is calm in some ways just as the same as Freebie.
A mainstay on cable in the 70's, Freebie and the Bean is by no means "great" but it certainly is thoroughly entertaining to anyone who doesn't let political correctness stand in their way.This... |
tt0078950 | The Champ | Andy "Champ" Purcell (Wallace Beery) is the former world heavyweight champion, now down on his luck and living in squalid conditions with his eight-year-old son "Dink" in Tijuana, Mexico. Champ attempts to train and to convince promoters to set up a fight for him, but his efforts are consistently stymied by his alcohol... | tragedy | train | wikipedia | This is arguably Jon Voight's finest acting performance with the possible exception of The Odessa File.Jon Voight plays Billy Flynn an ex boxing champion with Ricky Shroder playing his eight year old son, T.J Flynn.
Billy Flynn is now a horse trainer bringing up his son after a divorce some seven years ago when T.J. wa... |
tt0416315 | Wolf Creek | In Broome, Western Australia, 1999, two British tourists, Liz Hunter (Cassandra Magrath) and Kristy Earl (Kestie Morassi), are backpacking across the country with Ben Mitchell (Nathan Phillips), an Australian friend from Sydney. They constantly get drunk at wild, extravagant pool parties and camp out on the beach. Ben ... | cruelty, murder, sadist, violence, cult, atmospheric, insanity, suspenseful, storytelling, home movie | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0161292 | Bleeder | The film follows the friends Leo and Lenny, who lives in Nørrebro, a working-class neighborhood in Copenhagen. Leo lives in a rundown apartment with his girlfriend Louise. Lenny is a shy and quiet film expert who works with his and Leo's mutual friend Kitjo, in a video store that rents out art films as well as a huge c... | revenge, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | 'Bleeder' is a powerful and unforgettable movie comparable to the films of Gaspar Noe. Depressing yes, but highly recommended viewing..
As much as I enjoyed the super-hyped Dogma movies 'Festen', and 'Mifune', going by 'Bleeder' the real Danish director to watch is Nicolas Refn.
The movie's bleak and depressing world v... |
tt1610452 | Band Baaja Baaraat | Bittoo Sharma (Ranveer Singh) is street-smart and fun-loving. He gatecrashes a wedding for the free food, and Shruti Kakkar (Anushka Sharma), an intelligent and quirky girl who is assisting the wedding coordinator, confronts him. Bittoo pretends that he is part of the film crew and makes a video of Shruti's performance... | comedy, romantic, feel-good | train | wikipedia | Maneesh Sharma's directorial debut Band Baaja Baaraat is one of the year's most refreshing and entertaining films.
The movie can be easily set apart from all the recent films made by Yash Raj Films, in that it is very simple and it actually shows the beauty of India through its two main characters of young wedding plan... |
tt0248012 | Fiza | The film is about Fiza (Karisma Kapoor), whose brother, Amaan (Hrithik Roshan), disappears during the 1993 Bombay riots. Fiza and her mother Nishatbi (Jaya Bachchan) desperately hold on to the hope that one day he will return. However, six years after his disappearance, Fiza, fed up with living with uncertainty, resolv... | brainwashing, violence, murder, romantic | train | wikipedia | A realistic, brilliant, powerful and poignant film with an all-time great performance by Karisma Kapoor.
This film is about Fiza, a smart, intelligent and strong young woman who lost her brother Aman seven years ago during the 1993 Mumbai riots.
She meets different people in her way and finally meets her brother, just ... |
tt2180571 | Stranger Within | Ann Collins (Eden), a painter, and her husband, David Collins (Grizzard), are expecting a baby. What confuses the couple is that David has had a vasectomy, and Ann is not supposed to be pregnant. Even though David suspects that Ann has been unfaithful to him, he stays with her. Because Ann had pregnancy troubles in the... | psychological | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0028683 | Camille | The plot follows the two characters who have recently married and are going to Niagara Falls on their honeymoon. Silas Parker (Franco) is a thief who marries Camille Foster (Miller), his parole officer's niece, in hopes it will be his chance to escape to Canada. Silas cannot stand Camille and she is blind to how he rea... | tragedy, melodrama, historical fiction | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0070130 | La grande bouffe | The film tells the story of four friends who gather in a villa for the weekend with the express purpose of eating themselves to death. Bouffer is French slang for "eating" (the Italian abbuffata means "great eating").
The first protagonist, Ugo, owner and chef of a restaurant, "The Biscuit Soup", decides to commit suic... | psychedelic, satire | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0036793 | English Without Tears | The English aristocrat Lady Christabel Beauclerk (Margaret Rutherford) is not only a British delegate at the League of Nations in Geneva but also a fanatical bird fancier. She takes a trip there with her nephew Sir Cosmo Brandon (Roland Culver), her niece Joan Heseltine (Penelope Dudley-Ward) and their faithful butler ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0090865 | Combat High | Best friends Max Mendelsson (Keith Gordon) and Perry Barnett (Wally Ward) are a pair of misfit high school teenagers who always cause trouble at school. After starting the first day by setting a large amount of destructive pranks, the duo are suspended from school. They later get themselves into more trouble when they ... | prank | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0259416 | Malliswari | Malliswari (Katrina Kaif) is the heiress of Raja of Mirzapur (M. Balaiah). Her deceased father wrote in his will that she would inherit the property worth 750 crores after she becomes major at the age of 21. The entire property is under the control of Bhavani Shankar (Kota Srinivasa Rao), who wants to inherit the entir... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0280486 | Bad Company | When a mission to retrieve a stolen suitcase bomb goes bad, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agent Kevin Pope (Rock) is killed. Pope was working undercover as an antiquities dealer under the name Michael Turner. The CIA, which is desperate to complete the mission, discovers that Agent Pope had a twin brother, Jake Hay... | murder | train | wikipedia | Some of it is funny, but to be honest, if you dislike Chris Rock then there will be practically nothing for you.The plot brings the bomb back to the US towards the end in an effort to inject tension and urgency into the action, but it doesn't really work.
Chris Rock also played his role as it should have been played an... |
tt0105179 | Prom Night IV: Deliver Us from Evil | At Hamilton High School's 1957 prom party goers Lisa and Brad leave the festivities to have sex in Brad's car. Before the two can undress, they are distracted by a noise, revealed to be someone putting candles on the hood of the car. After spotting the candles, Lisa has her throat slashed by a metal crucifix wielded by... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0137201 | Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie | One night, the Sprites of the Northern Lights- a group of singing, colorfully garbed sprites who fly around the North Pole, are seen putting on a remarkable light show in front of Santa Claus' workshop, where Santa and his wife, Mrs. Claus witness the whole thing, to celebrate a very special occasion. It is revealed th... | psychedelic, fantasy, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0057212 | Jûsan-nin no shikaku | In 1844 in Japan as the Tokugawa Shogunate faces extinction, Lord Matsudaira Naritsugu of Akashi rapes, tortures, and murders his own citizens at will. He is protected because the Shogun is his half-brother. Sir Doi Toshitsura, the Shogun's Justice, realizes the situation will become more dangerous after Naritsugu asce... | violence | train | wikipedia | Samurai assassins. The story of Thirteen Assassins begins with a vassal of the Akashi clan committing seppuku in front of a daimyo's house. As it turns out, it's in protest to his lord raping and killing a girl and her samurai husband. This scandal is quickly covered up as the Akashi lord happens to be the Shogun's you... |
tt0240402 | The Center of the World | A couple checks into a suite in Las Vegas. In flashbacks we see that he's a computer whiz on the verge of becoming a dot.com millionaire (Peter Sarsgaard), she's a lap dancer at a club (Molly Parker). He's depressed, withdrawing from work, missing meetings with investors. He wants a connection, so he offers her $10,000... | sadist, violence, pornographic, storytelling, flashback | train | wikipedia | A digital camera does not a movie make but Wayne Wang didn't rely on avant-garde technique alone when he decided to revisit the basic boy-meets-girl story.
The man is a socially inept but financially successful engineer so typical of our times and his character is developed and portrayed very realistically by Peter Saa... |
tt0221073 | Chopper | In and out of jail since he was 16, Melbourne standover man Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read (Eric Bana) is serving a 16-year sentence for kidnapping a supreme court judge to get his childhood friend, Jimmy Loughnan (Simon Lyndon), out of the notorious H Division of maximum security Pentridge Prison. To become leader of the... | cult, comedy, cruelty, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0103369 | Bishôjo senshi Sêrâ Mûn | In Minato, Tokyo, a middle-school student named Usagi Tsukino befriends Luna, a talking black cat that gives her a magical brooch enabling her to become Sailor Moon: a soldier destined to save Earth from the forces of evil. Luna and Usagi assemble a team of fellow Sailor Soldiers to find their princess and the Silver C... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0085178 | Ardh Satya | The film opens at a party where Anant Welankar (Om Puri), a police officer, meets Jyotsna Gokhale (Smita Patil), a lecturer in literature at a local college. Anant is a sub-inspector with Bombay police. They seem to hit it off despite some initial skirmishing about ideology, and the friendship blossoms into a relations... | cult, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | A cop story with a difference; Om Puri nails it.
Ardh Satya is an excellently made film.
Govind Nihalani leaves no stone unturned in his portrayal of the trials and tribulations of the main character Anant Velankar.
He never wanted to be a policeman, but he reluctantly accepted the job because circumstances forced him ... |
tt4216984 | The Wolf Man | Sometime in the early twentieth century, after learning of the death of his brother, Larry Talbot (Lon Chaney, Jr.) returns to his ancestral home in Llanwelly, Wales to reconcile with his estranged father, Sir John Talbot (Claude Rains). While there, Larry becomes romantically interested in a local girl named Gwen Conl... | haunting | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0003489 | Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei | In Pompeii 79AD, Glaucus and Jone are in love with each other. Arbaces, the Egyptian High Priest, is determined to conquer her. Glaucus buys the blind slave Nydia who is mishandled by her owner.
Nydia falls in love with him and asks Arbaces for his help. He gives her a potion to make Glaucus fall in love with him. In f... | romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0104843 | Medusa: Dare to Be Truthful | The film begins with the camera panning through pictures of Medusa's album covers and film posters eventually showing her lying in a bed while getting a massage and her hair done. She starts telling the viewers about how lonely she feels since her tour ended. The film then flashes back to when Medusa was rehearsing her... | satire | train | wikipedia | Hysterical!.
Julie Brown hilariously demolishes Madonna's attempt at a rockumentary with gut ripping humor and truly original and catchy songs that rival Madonna's own.
Cinematography and sets are top notch.Kathy Griffin and Chris Elliott offer their own injections of comedy that enhances and compliments this film.
App... |
tt0067828 | A Taste of Evil | Susan Wilcox (Barbara Parkins) is a young woman who was raped by an unknown man when she was a 13-year-old. Traumatized by the experience, she suffered a mental breakdown, did not speak a word for two years, and was entered in a Swiss sanatorium. Upon leaving the psychiatric institution for the first time, she returns ... | flashback | train | wikipedia | I fell asleep watching this movie late one night and woke up assuming I would one day get the opportunity to see it again.
Barbra Stanwyck and Roddy McDowell star in this chilling sleeper about a woman who return home to a country estate after spending years in a mental institution after being abducted there as a child... |
tt3110552 | Hotline Miami | === Plot ===
Hotline Miami, taking place in Miami in 1989, employs an unreliable narrator and events are sometimes presented out of chronological order. The player takes the role of an unnamed man dubbed "Jacket" by fans for his distinctive letterman jacket. One day, Jacket receives a voicemail about a supposed deliver... | psychedelic, neo noir, violence | train | wikipedia | Miami Violence Never Looked So Good.
Hotline Miami is a insane, bloody, and super violent in the depths of the Miami criminal world.
You play as a guy who receives phone-calls every-night making you do the dirty work.
While you're doing the dirty work, you get to wear theses different type of mask which have special ab... |
tt0028355 | Theodora Goes Wild | Theodora Lynn (Irene Dunne) is a Sunday school teacher and former church organist in Lynnfield, Connecticut, raised by two spinster aunts, Mary (Elisabeth Risdon) and Elsie Lynn (Margaret McWade). She also happens to be, under the pen name Caroline Adams, the secret author of a bestselling book that has the straight-la... | comedy | train | wikipedia | The script is beautifully structured and the performances are all terrific -- it's Irene Dunne's best film, and Elizabeth Risdon is wonderful in a smaller role as the aunt.
Irene Dunne plays Theodora Lynn, a proper New England girl.
Secluded all her life with her two prudish aunts and the other puritans of the "highly ... |
tt0043386 | Casque d'or | Marie (Simone Signoret), a woman of considerable beauty, is distressed at her treatment by Roland, a criminal who is a part of a local syndicate. When Marie is introduced to the handsome stranger Georges, a humble carpenter, she falls in love with him instantly, much to the chagrin of Roland. When Roland's jealousy bui... | murder, bleak, flashback, romantic, melodrama, revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0027300 | Anthony Adverse | In 1773, young English beauty Maria Bonnyfeather (Anita Louise) is the new bride of the cruel and devious middle-aged Spanish nobleman Marquis Don Luis (Claude Rains). However, she is pregnant by Denis Moore (Louis Hayward), the man she loved before being forced to marry Don Luis. After the marquis learns of his wife's... | romantic, murder, melodrama | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0084090 | Inseminoid | On a desolate planet, a team of 12 Xeno project scientists are conducting an archaeological excavation of the ruins of an ancient civilisation. Shortly after an underground tomb network is found to contain crystals and wall inscriptions, photographer Dean White (Dominic Jephcott) is engulfed in a rock blast and left in... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | Low production values, low production costs, bad acting, bad dialogue, bad special effects - we found it hilarious (unlike Boggy Creek II, which was just plain awful)After the prologue, the opening line is "Hey wait a minute!" as in "what's this strange thing I've found on this strange alien world" - get the idea?
INSE... |
tt0115341 | Sabrina, the Teenage Witch | The movie centers around Sabrina Sawyer, who is sent to live with her eccentric aunts in Riverdale. On her 16th birthday, Sabrina discovers that she is a witch. Sabrina then develops a crush on Seth, the cutest boy in school who happens to be dating Katie La More, the school's "queen bee." Sabrina has to find a way to ... | paranormal | train | wikipedia | Sabrina The Teenage Witch is a very well produced and funny show because of one good reason, the characters all have great chemistry.
The Story is about a young half witch/ half mortal called Sabrina Spellman (Melissa Joan Hart) and she went to live with her Aunts Hilda (Caroline Rhea) and Zelda (Beth Broderick) and th... |
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