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tt0070229 | Isn't It Shocking? | The movie opens with a man putting gel on the paddles of what would best be described as a "fibrilator," a device that does the opposite of a defibrillator, it causes someone to have a heart attack. He uses it to electrocute an old woman.
A man (Alan Alda) and a woman are in bed together, The doorbell rings waking them... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0049004 | Between Heaven and Hell | In 1945, on a Pacific island, Sam Gifford (Wagner) is busted from platoon sergeant to private and reprimanded by his battalion commander for striking an officer. Because he had earned a Silver Star, he is given a choice of being sentenced to the United States Disciplinary Barracks in Leavenworth or transferred to Georg... | flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0100095 | Maine Pyar Kiya | Karan (Alok Nath) is a poor mechanic who lives in the countryside with his only daughter, Suman (Bhagyashree). He decides to travel overseas in Dubai so that he can accumulate enough wealth to get his daughter married. He decides to leave his daughter with his family like friend Kishan (Rajeev Verma). Kishan lets Karan... | romantic | train | wikipedia | A True Classic Love Story.
The characters were all well drawn out from the parents to the "bad guys." The "sweet" character of "Suman" was shown to have a different side of her when she become a seductress on the rooftop as she celebrates her birthday with "Prem." The viewer gets to see that side of her which is passio... |
tt0100232 | Navy Seals | The USS Forrestal, an aircraft carrier on station in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, receives a mayday from a cargo ship. The ship reports that they have been attacked, are on fire and adrift. A deployed Navy SH-3 helicopter attempts to rescue the crew, but is downed by a gunboat and the aircrew is captured.
Meanwhile, ... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0042628 | The Kangaroo Kid | In the 1880s, the Remington detective agency sends Tex Kinnane to Australia to track down a notorious gold robber and murderer called John Spengler. In Sydney, Tex makes friends with Baldy Muldoon and travels with him to the small town of Gold Star, where Baldy's wife runs the local saloon. Tex adopts a baby kangaroo a... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0367345 | Joan of Arcadia | In the pilot episode, God appears to Joan and reminds her that she promised to do anything he wanted if he would let her brother survive a car crash that left him a paraplegic. God appears in the form of various people including small children, teenage boys, elderly ladies, transients, or passersby. Joan is asked by Go... | paranormal | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0033558 | Dressed to Kill | Kate Miller (Angie Dickinson) is a sexually frustrated housewife who is in therapy with New York City psychiatrist Dr. Robert Elliott (Michael Caine). During an appointment, Kate attempts to seduce him, but Elliott rejects her advances.
Kate goes to the Metropolitan Museum where she has an unexpected flirtation with a ... | murder | train | wikipedia | Dressed to Kill is one of the most enjoyable 'B' movies I've ever seen.
Lloyd Nolan is terrific as Michael Shayne, detective, and his supporting cast is superb to say the least.
William Demarest is the best hapless police inspector this side of James Gleason, a youthful Henry Daniell plays a stuck up prig to perfection... |
tt0119925 | The Postman | Despite the post-apocalyptic scenario and several action sequences, the book is largely about civilization and symbols. Each of the three sections deals with a different symbol.
The first is the Postman himself, Gordon Krantz, who takes the uniform solely for warmth after he loses everything but his sleeping clothes. H... | boring, murder, cult, violence, humor, alternate history | train | wikipedia | When released in 1997 this breathtaking, thought-provoking epic was largely ignored and limped to a box office gross of $14 million, thanks to some vicious reviews.Lest we forget, Costner made the magnificent Dances With Wolves, but that was in the days when we were told it was okay to like him.
Like Michael Cimino, hi... |
tt5511512 | Trial & Error | Charlie Tuttle (Jeff Daniels) is a partner in a successful law firm, Whitfield and Morris. His boss and future father-in-law sends him to Paradise Bluff, Nevada, to request a continuance in a mail-fraud case involving a distant relative who is believed to be guilty, and is very likely to be adjudged guilty. But the tim... | murder | train | wikipedia | I usually don't enjoy comedy sitcoms, as they are rarely funny and often boring, cliché with second hand humor.
I watched this only because John Lithgow.
I love his work and I think he is delightfully funny.
Trial & Error: Quirky, Fun, Twisty-Turny, and Absolutely Freakin' Hilarious!.
I think "Trial & Error" definitely... |
tt0482424 | Samurai 7 | Samurai 7 tells the story of a village named Kanna. Set in a futuristic world that has just witnessed the end of a massive war, scores of villages are terrorized by Nobuseri bandits. But the Nobuseri are no normal bandits. They were once Samurai, who during the war integrated their living cells with machines to become ... | violence | train | wikipedia | First of all, this high quality anime series comes from the Kurosawa company so it has the blessings of the Kurosawa family for whatever that's worth.At first I was skeptical about the transference of the story to some sort of fantasy future.
While not in league with the strong characters of a "Cowboy Bebop" or other t... |
tt0040076 | Adventures of Don Juan | Late in the reign of Elizabeth I of England, Spanish noble Don Juan de Maraña (Errol Flynn) is repatriated from London to Madrid, following a diplomatic scandal caused by his dalliance with the British fiancée of a Spanish nobleman. The Spanish ambassador in London, Count de Polan (Robert Warwick), an old family friend... | cult, action, romantic | train | wikipedia | She died in 1995 at the age of 75."The Adventures of Don Juan" is well directed by Vincent Sherman and is probably his best remembered movie.
It ranks as one of the cinema's finest duels and Flynn will always be remembered for it even though that amazing leap with the knife was performed by stuntman and B picture actor... |
tt0077621 | Goin' South | Henry Lloyd Moon (Nicholson) is a third-rate outlaw in the late 1860s; a convicted bank robber, horse thief and cattle thief. He is sentenced to be hanged in Longhorn, Texas, to the glee of the locals who gather to watch his execution. A local ordinance dictates that a man condemned of any crime other than murder may b... | comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0092978 | Escape from Sobibor | The film begins with a new trainload of Polish Jews arriving for processing at Sobibor. The German Commandant gives them a welcoming speech, assuring the new arrivals that the place is a work camp. Other SS officers move along the assembled lines of prisoners, selecting a small number who have trade skills (such as gol... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0098156 | R.O.T.O.R. | A leading scientist in the field of police robotics, Dr. J. Barrett C. Coldyron (Gesswein with voice over by Loren Bivens), whose corrupt boss, Division Commander Earl Buglar (Michael Hunter), orders an experimental police robot prototype - dubbed R.O.T.O.R. (Robotic Officer of the Tactical Operations Research/Reserve ... | murder | train | wikipedia | Unfortunately for us, such laws had yet to be invented and this lady behind the counter said that they didn't have RoboCop yet, but they had R.O.T.O.R. Now being young and naïve, we looked at the box and saw that both films had similar letters in their titles and R.O.T.O.R. had a picture of a robot man jumping off a bi... |
tt0171685 | Ratcatcher | The film opens focused upon James's friend Ryan Quinn, being forced to put on his wellington boots to go to visit his father, who is in jail. He'd rather play with James instead and runs off while his mother is not looking. Ryan meets James at the canal and during some rough-house play he is drowned, clearly with James... | romantic | train | wikipedia | i loved ramsay's ability to create intense and harsh situations without slipping into the provocative manipulation that is characteristic of many similar child starring films (think harmony korine).
The film is more about atmosphere than a linear plot, and the lingering, intriguing glimpses it offers of the young chara... |
tt0086112 | The Pirates of Penzance | Act I
On the coast of Cornwall, at the time of Queen Victoria's reign, Frederic celebrates the completion of his twenty-first year and the end of his apprenticeship to a gentlemanly band of pirates ("Pour, oh pour the pirate sherry"). The pirates' maid of all work, Ruth, appears and reveals that, as Frederic's nursemai... | comedy, action | train | wikipedia | History records that Gilbert and Sullivan were personally often at odds when producing their great comic operettas - no doubt that, if they are still monitoring this, they are surprised to find both their humour and their music - despite its limitations in both time and location - still has a great appeal to audiences ... |
tt4361050 | Ouija: Origin of Evil | Set in 1967 Los Angeles, a widow named Alice Zander works out of her suburban home as a spiritual medium, accompanied by her daughters, 15-year-old Paulina "Lina" and 9-year old Doris; although they stage their seances, Alice's real intent is to help people move on. The family is still reeling over the recent death of ... | paranormal | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0108526 | We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story | The film opens with a trio of young bluebirds harassing their youngest sibling, Buster (Blaze Berdahl). As Buster leaves his family, he meets an intelligent orange T. rex named Rex (John Goodman) playing golf. He explains to Buster that he was once a ravaging dinosaur, and proceeds to tell his personal story.
In prehis... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | The basic plot: Four dinosaurs (made more intelligent by a kindly scientist) are given the chance to delight children by coming into the future to live with Dr. Bleeb at the Museum of Natural History.Why it works: Kids love dinosaurs (especially big cuddly talking ones that sound like John Goodman), kindly scientists, ... |
tt0063415 | The Party | A film crew is making a Gunga Din-style costume epic. Unknown Indian actor Hrundi V. Bakshi (Sellers) plays a bugler, but continues to play even after being shot and after the director (Herb Ellis) yells "cut." Bakshi later accidentally blows up an enormous fort set rigged with explosives. The director fires Bakshi imm... | absurd, cult, comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0299551 | Blood Lake | A septet of friends (Andy, Roger, Tricia, Max, Nell, Charlotte and Nicole) travel to a cluster of lakeside cabins, where they unearth a "blood book" that tells the story of Preacher Jacob, a priest who took over the nearby town's congregation in 1896. Jacob had his followers commit mass suicide under the belief that he... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | This has to be the most hilariously awful movie I have ever seen, and clearly the worst slasher film ever.
Features probably the worst acting of any film in recent memory.
Blood Lake (Quick Review) This particularly awful film revolves around a group of poor-acting kids in a cabin on the lake wherein somebody starts ki... |
tt0113682 | Loch Ness | Opening on a pub near Loch Ness, a scientist named Dr. Abernathy steps out for some air. Standing on the shore of the loch, he sees something rise from the water. Astonished, he takes a single photograph before slipping and falling on the rocks, which kills him.
A short time later in Los Angeles, disgruntled freshman c... | paranormal, romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | I think TRAINSPOTTING might be more your line.I'd go further than saying that Ted Danson was "good" in this - it is by far his best movie (with the possible exception of GETTING EVEN WITH DAD).
As discredited, financially strapped and harrassed Dr Dempsey, Danson is bundled off to Loch Ness to disprove Nessie's existen... |
tt0036377 | The Song of Bernadette | François Soubirous (Roman Bohnen), a former miller now unemployed, is forced to take odd jobs and live at the city jail with his wife (Anne Revere), his two sons, and his two daughters. One morning he goes to find work, and is told to take contaminated trash from the hospital and dump it in the cave at Massabielle.
At ... | brainwashing | train | wikipedia | I've never been so moved by a story demonstrating the incredible power of innocence and simplicity as performed by Jennifer Jones in this faithful adaptation of the true story of the now-canonized Bernadette Soubirous.
Bernadette Soubirous, 1844-1879, was a modest, shy, retiring religious girl of strong convictions in ... |
tt0067302 | Kidnapped | The central character and narrator is 17-year-old David Balfour. (Balfour is Stevenson's mother's maiden name.) His parents have recently died, and he is out to make his way in the world. He is given a letter by the minister of Essendean, Mr. Campbell, to be delivered to the House of Shaws in Cramond, where David's unc... | intrigue, action | train | wikipedia | This classic story of romantic adventure by Daniel Mann , filmed in location , comes to life enriched by the brilliant photography , as the color of the Scotland's fields is stunning and being freely based on historical events .
A good clean fun with a legendary Scottish adventurer against the British army , the Red Co... |
tt0079227 | Good Guys Wear Black | Back in 1973, one United States Senator Conrad Morgan (James Franciscus), the chief delegate diplomat in negotiating the terms of the end of Vietnam War, made a deal in Paris, France with Kuong Yen, the North Vietnamese negotiator. The deal called for Yen to release certain key CIA POWs in exchange for Morgan setting u... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0107131 | Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey | Chance, a disobedient American Bulldog (voiced by Michael J. Fox) and narrator of the film, opens by explaining that he is the pet of Jamie Burnford (Kevin Chevalia), but expresses no interest in his owner or being part of a family. He shares his home with Shadow, an older and wiser Golden Retriever (voiced by Don Amec... | feel-good | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2015261 | 11/11/11 | The film starts with a dream sequence depicting Sarah and David Crone being trapped and ultimately dying in their burning home at 11:11.
Joseph Crone wakes in his hotel room on November 7, 2011 at 11:11AM. His manager, Grant, arrives and urges Joseph to write his next novel after telling him that his previous book sold... | murder | train | wikipedia | From then on - the movie deteriorated: unlikable characters, plot full of holes, irrational decisions of the characters and the ending seems like someone got stuck with the screenplay and decided to wrap it up quickly and go home for dinner (don't get me started on the visual effects, either, which, although not being ... |
tt0068575 | Fat City | Billy Tully (Keach), a boxer past his prime, goes to a Stockton, California gym to get back into shape and spars with Ernie Munger (Bridges), an eighteen-year-old he meets there. Seeing potential in the youngster, Tully suggests that Munger look up his former manager and trainer, Ruben (Nicholas Colasanto). Tully later... | cult | train | wikipedia | Fat City is an amazing film, made even more stellar by the casting of Stacy Keach, Jeff Bridges, Candy Clark and Nick Colasanto.
Stacy Keach pulls you into this world, he lives and breathes the character he plays down to the last few minutes of screen time when he takes a look around the rathole of a restaurant he's in... |
tt0094169 | Tough Guys Don't Dance | On the 24th morning after the decampment of his wife, Patty Lareine (Debra Sandlund), Tim Madden (Ryan O'Neal), a former bartender and ex-con who was imprisoned for dealing cocaine, currently struggling to make a living as a writer and who is prone to blackouts, awakens from a two-week bender to discover a tattoo readi... | psychedelic, neo noir, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0032638 | Irene | Upholsterer's assistant Irene O'Dare meets wealthy Don Marshall while she is measuring chairs for Mrs. Herman Vincent at her Long Island estate. Charmed by the young girl, Don anonymously purchases Madame Lucy's, an exclusive Manhattan boutique, and instructs newly hired manager Mr. Smith to offer Irene a job as a mode... | romantic | train | wikipedia | This movie is surprisingly enjoyable..
I saw this film on AMC one rainy Sunday afternoon last month.
I saw that it was listed as a musical and, not being a huge fan of the genre, I was a bit apprehensive.
But, I did get hooked on it after about 10 minutes or so and watched the entire thing.
Even worse..
I LOVED it!!
It... |
tt0029583 | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | Snow White is a lonely princess living with her stepmother, a vain and wicked Queen. The Queen fears that Snow White's beauty surpasses her own, so she forces Snow White to work as a scullery maid and asks her Magic Mirror daily "who is the fairest one of all". For several years the mirror always answered that the Quee... | fantasy, murder, cute, good versus evil, romantic, entertaining | train | wikipedia | The colors are rich and lively, and the multi-plane camera does add some great depth to the movie.As you can tell, for an animation and Disney fan like myself, Snow White is a perfect milestone in the movie world.
There isn't much that hasn't already been said about "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", Walt Disney's firs... |
tt0084728 | Starstruck | Christopher Wilde (Sterling Knight) is a famous pop star and teen idol, whose music is very successful all around the world. Sara Olson (Maggie Castle) of Kalamazoo, Michigan is an obsessive fan of Christopher Wilde who seeks to use her family's trip to Hollywood, California to visit her widowed grandmother as an oppor... | paranormal, satire, entertaining | train | wikipedia | I saw this movie when it was originally released in America in the early 1980's.
I enjoyed the film quite a bit and eventually bought the soundtrack.
I just rented the film on video and it still holds up for me after all these years.
The characters are well drawn and very unique and the dance numbers are just as quirky... |
tt0085121 | 10 to Midnight | 10 To Midnight is a drama that mixes elements of police and slasher films. It portrays the homicidal behavior of Warren Stacy (Gene Davis), a young office equipment repairman who kills women after they reject his sexual advances. And his attempts at flirting are always seen as "creepy" by women, resulting in frequent r... | comedy, suspenseful, cruelty, murder, neo noir, cult, violence, flashback, insanity, revenge, sadist | train | wikipedia | When push comes to shove there really isn't anything standard about "10 to Midnight."The villain is a young, deeply disturbed man who turns on by knifing people to death in the nude, and needless to say the movie is filled with a large amount of nudity.The hero is a veteran homicide detective who decides to stop at not... |
tt0108258 | Surf Ninjas | Johnny and Adam are teenage surfers who live in Los Angeles with their father, Mac. Two weeks before Johnny's 16th birthday, ninjas attack the teenagers, but they are defeated by Zatch, a mysterious warrior with an eye patch. A follow-up attack results in Mac's kidnapping, though Zatch is able to protect the teenagers ... | violence, comic | train | wikipedia | It is one of the most hysterical movies I have ever watched.I saw it first when I was about 10 because my little brother was on a ninja movies kick.
It would be like watching those great movies of the 50s and mocking the dramatics of the women(ya know the screams with the hands on the face kinda deal.) People today ju... |
tt0488604 | The Oxford Murders | In 1993, Martin (Elijah Wood), a US student at the University of Oxford, wants Arthur Seldom (John Hurt) as his thesis supervisor. He idolises Seldom and has learned all about him. He takes accommodation in Oxford at the house of Mrs. Eagleton (Anna Massey), an old friend of Seldom. Also in the house is her daughter, B... | romantic, mystery, philosophical, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0111945 | The Drew Carey Show | === Season 1 (1995–1996) ===
The first season's opening credits consisted of a caricature of Carey — consisting of his face and a yellow tie — singing the Robert McGuire-penned "Moon Over Parma". The song was trimmed for the opening sequence, and the reference to Eastlake in the line "Guide her to Eastlake underneath y... | good versus evil | train | wikipedia | In the 9 years that 'The Drew Carey Show' was on the air it went through 3 big phases.
Like a little weekly Farrelly brother movie, 'Drew Carey' was crude, bawdy humor at its finest.The show had the guts to center around a group of characters that where, without question, losers and made no attempt to glamorize them in... |
tt0043067 | Treasure Island | Young Jim Hawkins Jackie Cooper) and his mother (Dorothy Peterson) run the Admiral Benbow, a tavern near Bristol, England. One dark and stormy night, during a birthday celebration, the mysterious Billy Bones (Lionel Barrymore) arrives and drunkenly talks about treasure. Soon after, Bones is visited by Black Dog (Charle... | insanity, action, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2380408 | Clear History | In 2003, bearded, long-haired Nathan Flomm (Larry David) is an opinionated, obnoxious business associate of Will Haney (Jon Hamm), whose company in San Jose, California is about to introduce a new electric car. Flomm objects to the car being named "the Howard" after Haney’s son, who is himself named after Howard Roark,... | revenge | train | wikipedia | Clear History is like an extended episode of L.D.'s Curb Your Enthusiasm, it has the same spirit, the same jokes, but yet it works.
Clear History centers on Nathan Flomm (L.D.), a marketing executive, who works for and is also a partner with Will Haney (Jon Hamm); they're working on an idea of a revolutionary electric ... |
tt2640962 | Brainwashed | Chess world champion Centowic wants to travel by ship to an important chess tournament. The ship, however, starts behind schedule, because a mysterious and obviously anxious passenger, who is on his way to the port with Bishop Ambrosse, is expected.
During the trip, passengers ask grumpy Centowic to play a chess game, ... | brainwashing | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0036260 | Phantom Lady | After a fight with his wife on their anniversary, Scott Henderson (Alan Curtis), a 32-year-old engineer, picks up an equally unhappy woman in a bar and they take a taxi to see a show. The woman refuses to tell him anything about herself. The star of the show, Estela Monteiro (Aurora Miranda), becomes furious when she n... | insanity, murder | train | wikipedia | A man can't prove his whereabouts when his wife is murdered and can only describe his alibi as an unknown woman wearing a rather distinctive hat The story follows the hero's secretary and a sympathetic policeman as they try to prove his innocence.
Robert Siodmak does a fabulous job with this B noir starring Ella Raines... |
tt0082474 | The Great Muppet Caper | The film begins with Kermit the Frog, Fozzie Bear, and Gonzo the Great commenting on the opening credits from a hot-air balloon and introducing the premise of the movie to the audience. Throughout the film, the characters frequently break the fourth wall, discussing (for example) each other's acting choices and singing... | entertaining | train | wikipedia | A great improvement over the earlier MUPPET MOVIE, which seemed more like a faltering first step into feature film techniques; this has a strong plot, bright characters and keen timing.
It also has great support from the comic greatness of John Cleese, Joan Sanderson, Jack Warden, Robert Morley and Peter Falk.Diana Rig... |
tt0069080 | Pete 'n' Tillie | Pete Seltzer (Matthau) is introduced to Tillie Schlaine (Burnett) at a party. Her friends Gertrude and Bert are the hosts and attempting to fix her up.
Pete is a confirmed bachelor with eccentric habits. When he isn't doing odd motivational research for a San Francisco firm, he plays ragtime piano and makes bad puns. H... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0443693 | The Wild Blue Yonder | In 1943, Capt. Harold "Cal" Calvert (Wendell Corey) is sent on a course at Smoky Hill, Kansas, to learn to fly a new bomber, the Boeing B-29 Superfortress. His instructor is his cousin, Major Tom West (Forrest Tucker), an officer who the other pilots think has shirked his duties by claiming engine trouble on the raid o... | psychedelic, philosophical, flashback | train | wikipedia | Looking at the journey itself and the problems they encountered, a surviving alien recalls the whole thing.It would take a real talent to do it but if you were to take all the elements in the plot here you could easily produce an effects-heavy sci-fi epic that stretches over several films or books.
The use of stock foo... |
tt1648179 | Here Comes the Boom | Former Division I collegiate wrestler Scott Voss is a 42-year-old bored and disillusioned biology teacher at the failing Wilkinson High School. Budget cutbacks at the school jeopardize the continuation of its music program, which would result in its teacher, Marty, being laid off. Concerned for both his colleague and h... | bleak, inspiring | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0341564 | Scarecrow | The story revolves around the relationship between two vagabonds: Max Millan (Gene Hackman), a short-tempered ex-convict, and Francis Lionel "Lion" Delbuchi (Al Pacino), a childlike ex-sailor. They meet on the road in California and agree to become partners in a car wash business, once they reach Pittsburgh.
Lion is on... | revenge, cult, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | Well, here's another amazingly original story: High School student (occasionally seemed like collegego figure) has whore for a mom, lives in a trailer park, and is an "artist" who is ridiculed for his "being all different." Well, of course, this poor ridiculed boy is eventually killed and, here's the original part, hi... |
tt0033076 | The Son of Monte Cristo | In 1865 the proletarian General Gurko Lanen (George Sanders ) becomes the behind-the-scenes dictator of the Grand Duchy of Lichtenburg located in the Balkans. Gurko suppresses the clergy and the free press and imprisons the Prime Minister Baron Von Neuhoff (Montagu Love). The rightful ruler of the Grand Duchy, the Gran... | action | train | wikipedia | This swashbuckler is developed in Europe on the epoch of Napoleon III empire .The Balkanes,steeped in the ancient traditions of romance and chivalry, people hold unswerving loyalty to the throne on which now sits the young great Duchess Zona(Joan Bennett)of Lichtenburg(a country similar to the ¨Prisoner of Zenda¨).She ... |
tt0096237 | Tears in the Rain | Jessie Cantrell's dying wish is that her daughter, Casey, personally take a letter to Lord Richard Bredon who lives in the UK. Though confused by this turn of events, Casey nonetheless sets off from her home in America to fulfill this last request. After a failed attempt to find him at his country residence, she falls ... | flashback | train | wikipedia | story of lasting love.
Those with a cynical view or experience of love need not bother with this movie.
Those who have dreamed that love could be deep and lasting will enjoy this movie but find it unrealistic.
Those who have experienced this type of love will be gratified watching this movie and will find such a love v... |
tt0098692 | Yôjû toshi | The existence of the "Black World" - an alternate dimension populated by supernatural demons - is known to very few humans. For centuries, a pact between the Black World and the world of humans has been observed to maintain peace, and terms must be negotiated and renewed every few hundred years to continue relative har... | pornographic, dark, neo noir, paranormal, violence, psychedelic, sadist | train | wikipedia | Wicked City is one of my favorite anime movies of all time, and here's why: if this movie didn't have a solid plot, it'd be hentai.
Taking place in the future, our hero, Taki who by day is an electrical salesman, & by night, a "Black Guard", is asked by his superiors to guard without failure a known senior negotiator, ... |
tt0457701 | Solar Strike | While a solar probe operated by the fictional Solar and Near Earth Laboratory (SNEL) is obtaining data, a large CME or solar flare destroys the probe. A manned spacecraft, Galileo, is caught in the CME and destroyed; the tragedy is blamed on bad Russian equipment. CMEs knock satellites out of orbit, turning them into d... | suspenseful | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0061250 | Fantastic 4 | Physicist Reed Richards is convinced evolution was triggered millions of years ago on Earth by clouds of cosmic energy in space and has calculated that one of these clouds is soon going to pass near Earth. Together with his friend, astronaut Ben Grimm, Reed convinces Victor Von Doom, his former classmate at MIT and now... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0037263 | The Seventh Cross | The year is 1936. Seven prisoners escape from the fictitious Westhofen concentration camp near Worms, Germany near the Rhine. They represent a cross-section of German society: a writer, a circus performer, a schoolmaster, a farmer, a Jewish grocery clerk, and two prisoners who are apparently political activists. One is... | flashback | train | wikipedia | A truly outstanding film that has not received the distinction that it deserves, despite a first-rate cast and compelling, as well as unique for the time, subject matter.Spencer Tracy plays George Heisler, one of seven prisoners escaping from a German concentration camp in 1936.
The film traces his attempt to establish... |
tt0076070 | The Gauntlet | Ben Shockley, an alcoholic cop from Phoenix, is well on his way to becoming a down-and-out when he is given the task to escort witness Gus Mally from Las Vegas. His superior, Commissioner Blakelock, says that it's a "nothing witness" for a "nothing trial." Mally protests that they are both set up to be killed in a hit,... | cult, revenge, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | A rundown cop who's always on the drink named Ben Shockley is assigned to accompany a foul-mouthed prostitute in Las Vegas to a protection program across the country in Phoenix to testify against highly placed authority figure, although first they have to get through a gauntlet of bad cops and the mob who actually want... |
tt0101523 | The Butcher's Wife | As a clairvoyant, Marina awaits signs from beyond that her true love, whoever he may be, is waiting for her, somewhere. When New York butcher Leo Lemke shows up on the tiny North Carolina island of Ocracoke, where Marina lives, she is convinced that he is the man predestined to be her husband. After the wedding, Marina... | paranormal | train | wikipedia | Demi Moore bold to go with the little known Ocracoke, NC accent....
I think that Demi Moore was bold to go with the little known Ocracoke, NC accent because most people will probably (wrongly) think that she was doing a very bad job at a North Carolinian/Southern USA accent.
The Ocracoke accent sounds like a mixture of... |
tt0107819 | Philadelphia Experiment II | It is nine years after the events of the first movie, and David Herdeg (the survivor of the Philadelphia Experiment), having since settled down with Allison (the woman from 1984) is living alone with his son, Ben, following Allison's death. His business is slowly failing, Ben's school attendance has dropped and the ban... | alternate history | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0092695 | The Brave Little Toaster | Toaster is the leader of a group of appliances consisting of an antique radio, a gooseneck lamp, Lampy; an electric blanket, Blanky; and a vacuum cleaner, Kirby, who belong to their master, Rob. They wait every day at Rob's cottage for his return with an increasing sense of abandonment, causing Blanky to hallucinate ab... | satire | train | wikipedia | What happened to amazing movies like The Brave Little Toaster?
And when I speak of good children's movies I don't mean things like Teletubbies which can mesmerize a two-year old; I mean movies that I can still watch today and adore.
I mean, sure, it's not very adult to have a toaster, a vacuum, a lamp, a blanket, and a... |
tt0028944 | The Good Earth | The story begins on Wang Lung's wedding day and follows the rise and fall of his fortunes. The House of Hwang, a family of wealthy landowners, lives in the nearby town, where Wang Lung's future wife, O-Lan, lives as a slave. However, the House of Hwang slowly declines due to opium use, frequent spending, and uncontroll... | avant garde, cruelty, murder, violence, romantic, revenge | train | wikipedia | Many of today's audiences may find little to enjoy in such a combination, or they may be embarrassed by it, but I revel in it, as cinema such as this, which is delivered with such heart and good will is, especially in these times, nothing short of a gift.The issue of non-Chinese playing Chinese characters has already b... |
tt1922373 | Thor & Loki: Blood Brothers | Loki has become the ruler of Asgard. However, he doesn't have dominion over Hela, the goddess of death. Loki is demanding fealty from everyone in Asgard. Hela asks Loki for the soul of Thor for her "legions in Nifelheim". Lady god Sif is imprisoned at the ending of the first segment.
Karnilla, the queen god of Nornheim... | good versus evil | train | wikipedia | A thing of beauty.
I loved the comic mini series by Rodi and Ribic that came out some years ago and I love the visual take Marvel Knights have created based on it.
This is not superhero "Hulk smash" material, but a powerful character study of a villain.
As in the comic, the visual rendition is lush, even stunning and t... |
tt0457875 | Ek Ajnabee | Colonel Suryaveer "Surya" Singh (Amitabh Bachchan) is a bitter man and ex-Army officer, hired by his friend and former comrade Captain Shekhar Verma (Arjun Rampal) to protect a little girl, Anamika R. Rathore (Rucha Vaidya), who resides in Bangkok, Thailand with her Non-resident Indian (NRI) family. He drinks alcohol f... | revenge, flashback | train | wikipedia | Black - Waqt - Sarkar - Viruddh Big B has given another dashing performance in this "Ek Ajnabee" I thought plot was wafer thin.
Amitabh has given another good performance, I must say he looked great throughout the movie.
First of all it is a plagiarized movie from Denzel Washington's "Man on Fire'.
Still, I enjoyed i... |
tt0138458 | Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned | Four years after the events of The Beast Within, Gabriel Knight and his assistant, Grace, travel to Paris on the invitation of Prince James of Albany, a descendant of the House of Stuart, who seeks their help in protecting his infant son Charlie from beings called "Night Visitors" - bizarre vampire-like creatures that ... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0053428 | Voulez-vous danser avec moi | Against her wealthy industrialist father Albert's wishes, young Virginie (Brigitte Bardot) marries dentist Hervé Dandieu (Henri Vidal). After three months, all passion has disappeared, and after an argument, Hervé leaves the house for a drink at a club. There, he is seduced by Anita Florès (Dawn Addams), a red-headed d... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1452291 | Bananas!* | Fielding Mellish (Woody Allen) is the protagonist, but he does not appear until after the opening credits. The cold open, which featured the assassination of the president of the fictional "banana republic" of San Marcos and a coup d'état that brings Gen. Emilio Molina Vargas (Carlos Montalban) to power, sets up the si... | depressing | train | wikipedia | The film Dole went to court to try and prevent from being shown.
Attending the 2009 Los Angeles Film Festival screening of "Bananas!*" was a freaky, surreal experience.
This controversial documentary from Sweden almost didn't get shown at all.For the first time in my movie-going history, I bore witness to an odd set of... |
tt0160509 | Agnes Browne | In 1967 in Dublin, the unexpected death of Agnes Browne's husband sends her family, consisting of seven children aged between two and fourteen, into emotional turmoil and financial crisis. She is forced to borrow money from a ruthless loan shark named Mr. Billy to make ends meet. She faces her dismal existence by selli... | romantic | train | wikipedia | I think some of the others who commented on this movie were too harsh...it's not meant to be a human drama of great proportions.
In Dublin, 1967, a woman with seven children is suddenly faced with the travails of widowhood in `Agnes Browne,' directed by and starring Anjelica Huston.
After the unexpected death of her hu... |
tt0067651 | Rakhwala | Dharam Singh is the retired army officer. His elder son is a martyr and younger son Satyaprakash (Dinesh Lal Yadav) has completed his studies, Dharam Singh wishes Satyaprakash should join army or police force and guard our nation. But Satyaprakash wants to earn and live a simple family life with Shraddha (Rinku Ghosh).... | murder | train | wikipedia | Seventies Hero Flick. Dharmendra plays Deepak, an honest, hard working son. His family consists of his widowed mother and younger brother Suresh. By luck, he stumbles on a good job, but with the wrong man, Mr. Jwalaprasad. His mother takes his oath to protect his younger brother when on her death bed. She also reveals ... |
tt2933326 | Amor à Vida | === First phase ===
2001 – The story revolves around a wealthy family's struggles for control of the renowned San Magno Hospital, in São Paulo. The hospital belongs to the Khoury family, headed by general practitioner César Khoury (Antonio Fagundes). Most of the family are doctors: Caesar's wife, Pilar (Susana Vieira),... | revenge, romantic | train | wikipedia | interesting. A serie about family, apearences and conflicts, provocative for sexual conotations, mixture of love stories and hate plots , seductive for the Brasilian mark making, as always, the difference in the large universe of Latino soap opera. A serie about power and emotions, giving a dramatic decent plot and nic... |
tt0292411 | King Arthur and the Knights of Justice | The show's premise had King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table trapped in the Cave of Glass by the evil enchantress Queen Morgana. The wizard Merlin, unable to free King Arthur and the Knights himself, searches the timeline for replacement Knights. Merlin finds the quarterback of the New York Knights football te... | good versus evil, action | train | wikipedia | Awesome.
I really liked this show.
I mean it had a great story, great action sequences, and everything that a little kid could want.
It was quality TV and I only wish that kids had today what shows like this offered.
This series, along with gargoyles, spider-man(90s version), x-men, and batman are a few of the handful ... |
tt0032413 | Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet | Paul Ehrlich (Edward G. Robinson) is a physician working in a German hospital. He is dismissed for his constant disregard for hospital rules, which are bound by bureaucratic red tape. The reason for his conflict is his steadily rising interest in research for selective color staining, the marking of cells and microorga... | historical | train | wikipedia | It's very hard to believe that this movie was made in 1940, as much of the plot centers on Dr. Ehrlich's attempts to create a cure for syphilis.
At times, the studio appeared to dance around the whole STD aspect of the disease, but it was extremely daring to try to cover such a taboo topic.It's actually quite amazing t... |
tt0082009 | American Pop | In Imperial Russia during the late 1890s, a rabbi's wife and her young son Zalmie escape to America while the rabbi is killed by the Cossacks. Shortly after their arrival in New York City, Zalmie is recruited by Louie, a performer at a burlesque house, to hand out chorus slips. As Zalmie grows into adolescence, he spen... | cult | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0049211 | The First Texan | Sam Houston, a lawyer and former Governor of Tennessee, travels to San Antonio, Texas to begin a new life. He encounters Jim Bowie, who is determined to free the territory from Mexico's rule.
Bowie is tried for treason. Houston represents him in court and successfully argues that the charge against Bowie must be dismis... | revenge, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0270727 | Villains' Revenge | The game's story is set in the bedroom of the player, presumably a child. Jiminy Cricket (Eddie Carroll) is the guardian of a book in the player's room which features several stories with happy endings. However, the book's happy ending pages are ripped out by a very bored Jiminy Cricket, who has read them so often that... | good versus evil, fantasy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0083496 | The Tube | Detective Jang Do-joon (Kim Suk-hoon) who does not know the meaning of giving up, is hot on the trail of Kang Gi-taek, a deadly terrorist. Kang Gi-taek (Park Sang-min) was an elite secret agent for the government's intelligence agency before getting tossed out for assassinating a key figure.
On the day of the new mayor... | non fiction | train | wikipedia | certainly one of Channel 4's landmarks. along with 'Brookside', The Tube was most definitely one of a handful of long term projects for the all new Channel 4. The overriding factor and viewing appeal of the idea was that in those days, the only terrestrial music shows were on the BBC and they were somewhat superficial.... |
tt0039204 | Body and Soul | An escaped prisoner seeks refuge in the predominantly African-American town of Tatesville, Georgia, by passing himself off as the Rt. Reverend Isaiah T. Jenkins. He is joined in town by a fellow criminal, and the pair scheme to swindle the phony reverend's congregation of their offerings. Jenkins falls in love with a y... | cult | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0039839 | Slick Hare | The cartoon opens with various shots of 1940s celebrities dining and drinking at the Mocrumbo club—including such personalities as Ray Milland (in a spoof of The Lost Weekend, he pays for his drink with a typewriter and receives miniature typewriters as change) and Frank Sinatra (depicted exaggeratedly thin, so much so... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Hollywood Star-Gazing At The 'Mocrumbo'.
We are at the Hollywood exclusive nightclub, "The Mocrumbo," where dinners are $600 apiece (today that translates to thousands).
The entertainment: "Leopold And His Chifafa Five." Leopold is Leopold Stokowski, the conductor who seems to be a favorite of the Looney Tunes crowd.Ea... |
tt0910934 | Urban Justice | In Los Angeles, two rival gangs war with each other: the Hyde Park Gang, led by El Chivo, and the East Side Gangsters, led by Armand Tucker. Vice cop Max Ballister receives a call he assumes to be from his informant, Gary Morrison. Max leaves a romantic dinner with his wife and is gunned down. Max's angry father, Simon... | suspenseful, neo noir, murder, cult, violence, flashback, revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0072824 | The Count of Monte-Cristo | === Summary ===
On the day of his wedding to Mercédès, Edmond Dantès, first mate of the Pharaon, is accused of treason, arrested, and imprisoned without trial in the Château d'If, a grim island fortress off Marseilles. A fellow prisoner, Abbé Faria, correctly deduces that his jealous rival, Fernand Mondego, envious cre... | revenge, action, murder, historical fiction | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0037790 | The Horn Blows at Midnight | Athanael (Jack Benny), the third trumpet player in the orchestra of a late night radio show sponsored by Paradise Coffee (motto: "It's Heavenly"), falls asleep listening to the announcer, who is doing his best to prove it is "the coffee that makes you sleep." Athanael dreams he is an angel (junior grade) and a trumpete... | romantic | train | wikipedia | In his long running radio and television show, Jack Benny often built jokes around THE HORN BLOWS AT MIDNIGHT--a movie described as so awful that it put an end to his movie career.
And if Benny's film appearances were few and far between after 1945, this was more a matter of his incredibly popular radio and television ... |
tt0338094 | The Haunted Mansion | Jim Evers (Eddie Murphy) is a workaholic realtor whose continuous pursuit for new deals leaves very little time with his family. He misses his wedding anniversary with his wife Sara (Marsha Thomason), but to make amends, he suggests going on vacation to a nearby lake. Beforehand, Sara is contacted by the occupants of G... | horror, murder, humor | train | wikipedia | Since I am a fan of the ride, "The Haunted Mansion", I guess I expected this film to be good.
Rick Baker "Monster Maker" is so talented and has done an impressive (as always) job creating a vision from the Haunted Mansion ride that he also admired.If you are a fan of the ride, I would imagine that you would enjoy this ... |
tt0202233 | Anthropophagous 2000 | Three Interpol agents meet at a cave where several corpses have been uncovered. While the other agents go for backup, Steven Bauers investigates the cavern, finding a journal under one of the bodies. Bauers skims through the journal, which tells the story of Nikos Karamanlis, beginning with him lost at sea with his dau... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1233381 | Üç Maymun | A family is dislocated when small failings become extravagant lies. The film opens as a wealthy businessman, Servet, running a campaign for the upcoming election, is driving in his car alone and sleepy, struggling to keep his eyes open. Seconds later he hits and kills a pedestrian in the middle of the road. Servet pani... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0089470 | The Legend of Billie Jean | Billie Jean Davy (Helen Slater), a Corpus Christi, Texas high school girl, rides with her younger brother, Binx (Christian Slater) on his Honda Elite to a local lake to go swimming. At a drive-in, Hubie Pyatt (Barry Tubb), a rowdy local teen, hits on Billie Jean, but Binx humiliates him. At the lake, Hubie takes his re... | cult | train | wikipedia | Full of 80's music (especially the kick-ass Pat Benatar theme song), The Legend of Billie Jean is truly a remarkable film that was overlooked by too many people for its brilliance..
And it's a good exploration into the concept of vigilante justice as a natural response to not only a cumbersome justice system, but also ... |
tt0111732 | With Honors | Monty Kessler, an honors student in the Government program at Harvard University, rooms with art student Courtney Blumenthal, radio DJ and trust fund child Everett Calloway, and neurotic pre-med student Jeff Hawkes. Monty is the pet project of Professor Pitkannan, a Nobel Laureate and government cynic.
While working on... | feel-good | train | wikipedia | Frank was most moved by the film and I take that as the highest possible accolade.In a day and age when so few of us put anything aside as a cushion against hard times, lots of people are one paycheck away from being as homeless as Joe Pesci was here.
Incredibly he accepts the deal.More incredibly the two of them form ... |
tt0906665 | Sukiyaki Western Django | A lone gunman travels to the town of Yuta, which is run by the warring clans of the white-colored Genji and red-colored Heike. After ignoring requests from both clans to join them, he is given shelter by a woman named Ruriko, who takes care of her mute grandson Heihachi. Ruriko tells the gunman that many years ago, the... | western, revenge, murder, storytelling, flashback | train | wikipedia | If Sergio Leone's Once Upon A Time is considered an ode to the American Western with all it's fundamental elements all packed neatly in an 3 and a half hour package of visual splendor than Takashi Miike's Sukiyaki Western Django is an ode to the Italian Western through and through with all the style, violence and sound... |
tt0291400 | Monsieur Batignole | In 1942, in Paris, which was seized by Germany, a grocer Edmond Batignole (Gérard Jugnot) is living with his family in his grocery building. He has a daughter who is soon to be married. His future son-in-law, Pierre-Jean (Jean-Paul Rouve) and his wife wanted the apartment owned by a Jewish family. When the property of ... | murder | train | wikipedia | This does for the German occupation of France what "Life Is Beautiful" did for that of Italy.
The characters are well drawn and the camera sees the German occupation through decidedly French eyes.
Though a very heavy subject, Monsieur Batignole approaches the French collaboration and attempts of two Jewish families to... |
tt0045062 | Rabbit Seasoning | The cartoon finds a row of signs saying it's rabbit season. It is revealed that Daffy Duck is the one putting up the signs, stating that while he knows it's unsporting, he has to have some fun "and besides, it's really duck season."
Elmer Fudd then appears and notices rabbit tracks that Daffy left, leading to Bugs' hol... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | While other people have said this is the weakest of the Chuck Jones "hunting trilogy," I actually think this one's the best.
I always get a kick out of that "Would you like to shoot me now or wait till you get home?" gag.
It's funny how no matter what, it's always Daffy that gets shot, not Bugs.
Oh, and I liked Daffy's... |
tt0056850 | Bandini | The film is set in a prison in around 1934 in pre-Independence India, where Kalyani is serving life imprisonment prison for committing a murder, and we learn the circumstances of her crime in flashback as she divulges it to the jailor. The film is set in Bengal in the 1930s, during the British Raj, where Kalyani (Nutan... | romantic, avant garde, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0089122 | Fair Game | Valerie Plame is employed by the Central Intelligence Agency, a fact known outside the agency to no one except her husband and parents. She is an intelligence officer involved in a number of sensitive and sometimes dangerous covert operations overseas.
Her husband, Joseph C. Wilson, is a diplomat who most recently has ... | revenge, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0479546 | Super Inday and the Golden Bibe | Inday (Marian Rivera) is a simple and innocent province girl with a loving mother. A fallen angel named Goldy (John Lapus) that can transform into a duck mets a tiyanak that was lost her way to heaven,but he refuses for he cannot go to heaven until he gets a person do good and rewards him salvation. Then they met Inday... | good versus evil | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0085867 | The Lords of Discipline | Will McLean, an aspiring novelist, finds life as a "knob" or "plebe" (a first-year cadet in training) at the Carolina Military Institute in Charleston to be physically and emotionally brutal. Will is not interested in a military career, and had only agreed to attend the Institute as a promise to his father, who was an ... | sadist | train | wikipedia | I did not read the novel "The Lords of Discipline" by Pat Conroy so I cannot comment on how successful the movie is in terms of the original material, as some of the other comments are able to do.
This year is going to be slightly different, he finds out early, because a black student (Pierce, played by Mark Breland) h... |
tt0366629 | James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing | Opening in Tajikistan, Bond infiltrates a stronghold where an organization sells a stolen Soviet suitcase bomb. Opening fire and causing conflict, Bond uses the confusion to steal the device and escape.
The game then cuts to Bond detonating a research facility in Egypt, with the intent of destroying a nanobot stolen by... | violence, humor, murder | train | wikipedia | The Best Bond Game Yet. I was finally able to rent this game out yesterday, and I have to say, this game is breathtaking.
Particle effects have also been perfectly integrated, from bright flashes to EXPLOSIONS (and believe me, there will be a LOT).SOUND If you've played the Max Payne games, you already know of the ear-... |
tt2436516 | Go Goa Gone | Hardik (Kunal Khemu) and Luv (Vir Das) are two dope-heads, living with their roommate/friend Bunny (Anand Tiwari). After Hardik loses his job and Luv gets dumped by his girlfriend, both decide to tag along with Bunny to Goa to relax. In Goa, Luv falls for Luna (Puja Gupta), and she invites the guys to a rave party, org... | violence, humor | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0046828 | Carmen Jones | Parachute maker Carmen Jones makes a play for a "fly boy" Air Force man, Joe, who is in love with sweet Cindy Lou and about to marry her on a day pass when Carmen gets into a fight with another woman.
Joe's pass is cancelled in order for him to drive her to the next town to be handed over to the non-military police. In... | violence, murder, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0107978 | RoboCop 3 | After the failure of the Robocop program, OCP is on the verge of bankruptcy after a series of failed business plans and drop of stocks, and are now struggling with their plans to create the new Delta City. To speed up the process, OCP creates an armed force called the Urban Rehabilitators, nicknamed "Rehabs," under the... | violence, neo noir, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | Alas, none of it can save ROBOCOP 3, a film into which very little real effort seems to have gone.When watching ROBOCOP 3, one can't help but think the producers lazily expected the well-established Robocop brand would simply sell itself this time around.
Firstly if you don't like Robocop at all, then obviously leave t... |
tt0069226 | Savages | Best friends Chon (Taylor Kitsch) and Ben (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) are marijuana growers in Laguna Beach, California. Chon, a former Marine, smuggled the seeds for the plants out of Afghanistan. Ben, a University of California, Berkeley graduate in business and botany, cultivates the marijuana. The seeds yield a particul... | satire, storytelling | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0363780 | Lymelife | Set in 1979 Syosset, Long Island, New York, Lymelife follows two families, the Bartletts and the Braggs, who crumble when tangled relationships, real estate problems, and Lyme disease converge in the heart of suburbia. 15-year-old Scott Bartlett is a gentle boy, radically different from his blustery father Mickey and m... | revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0119905 | The Players Club | Diana Armstrong (LisaRaye) arrives at the scene of the raunchy, dysfunctional Players Club. She narrates that she used to work at the club and had begun when she moved out of her parents home after an argument with her father, as she was pregnant with her son. Diana ends up working at a shoe store, when she meets Ronni... | violence | train | wikipedia | "An Ice Cube film"
Wow, that's already big enough.
He is a rapper, a musician who writes songs for films, and is good at it, besides being a low profile artist.
With the production company he has, he could have the highest ego, but he continues on doing his job.In 1998, he got his chance to direct his movie; his first ... |
tt0108447 | The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter | The film opens outside the Winthrop house from the first film, only this time it is swarming with police officers and medical technicians. Howard is being wheeled into an ambulance because he has three deep gashes in his chest, Tanya is put into a police car, and Randolph is carrying Joshua Winthrop's book of spells, w... | violence | train | wikipedia | This might be the only Lovecraft movie sequel to actually adapt a Lovecraft story ("The Statement of Randolph Carter," which actually preceded "The Unnamable") and is a superior sequel.
Completely underutilized David Warner slipped in for one day to shoot a scene as the college chancellor and Rhys-Davies might have bee... |
tt0074719 | Joshua | Brad (Sam Rockwell) and Abby Cairn (Vera Farmiga) are an affluent New York couple with two children. Their firstborn, 9-year-old Joshua (Jacob Kogan), is a child prodigy to such a degree that he thinks and acts decades ahead of his age. He is nearly always clad in conservative business attire and demonstrating limitles... | revenge | train | wikipedia | I remember seeing this movie years ago, and my memories of it were that it was a pretty decent western.
Sadly, time had faded the negative things about this movie.To be sure, there are a few positive things I can say.
Combining the scenery with the musical score makes for some haunting sequences.But most of the movie d... |
tt1175709 | All Good Things | In 1970s New York City, David Marks (Gosling), the son of a powerful real estate tycoon, marries a beautiful working-class student, Katie McCarthy (Dunst). Together they flee New York for country life in Vermont—only to be lured back by David's father (Frank Langella). Upon their return, they buy a beautiful apartment ... | psychological, mystery, murder, dramatic, violence, flashback, romantic, suspenseful, home movie | train | wikipedia | The movie functions mainly as a kind of indictment, and I wonder if it would work were it not for the 'documentary' angle, the movie as crusader for the truth, bringing to light the possible culpability of a real person, abetted by certain friends and family, a man as yet unpunished.The motivations of this character, t... |
tt1599378 | Yoga Hakwon | Hyo-jeong is a co-host of a shopping channel show lingerie. However, she loses her job to her younger, more glamorous, rival, and she also gets into a conflict with her boyfriend, Dong-hoon. Deciding to calm herself, Hyo-jeong heeds to an old friend, Seon-hwa's advice to take up yoga class for a week. Her yoga colleagu... | cruelty, murder, haunting, flashback, psychedelic, suspenseful | train | wikipedia | A Horror Movie About Yoga .
That Works!.
When I first saw an advertisement for this movie on the internet I thought it looked kinda – well – dumb.
How exactly do you take something like yoga and make it exciting?
I suspected that the concept would be fairly shallow and that there would be too much dead weight and/or un... |
tt1996264 | For a Good Time, Call... | After Lauren is dumped by her boyfriend, she is unable to afford a place of her own. Her old friend Jesse informs her of a beautiful apartment right by Gramercy Park, but does not include the fact that his other friend Katie lives there. During their freshman year of college, Lauren had to drive an inebriated Katie hom... | flashback | train | wikipedia | It's also a relationship film, but an impressive variation from the usual romantic comedy angle.Like another film from this year, Giant Mechanical Man, a significant part of this story involves young adults finding themselves along with happiness after what they thought was a serious relationship was ended by the signi... |
tt0008309 | A Modern Musketeer | The film opens with a sequence in which D'Artagnan (Douglas Fairbanks) rides up to a tavern on horseback and ends up brawling with sword and fist with the patrons inside in his haste to approach a fair young stranger. After triumphing, he morphs into modern day Ned Thacker (also played by Fairbanks).
Ned is born and ra... | murder, violence, flashback, action, melodrama, revenge | train | wikipedia | Danish Film Archive's Complete Print of "A Modern Musketeer" Shown On TCM.
Turner Classic Movies showed a complete print of "A Modern Musketeer" last night, March 20, 2008.
The credit at the end identified the movie as a 2006 Danish Film Archive restoration.
His playing a role set in the present does not stop him from ... |
tt0054102 | Murder, Inc. | Abe Reles (Peter Falk) and Bug Workman (Warren Finnerty), two killers from Brooklyn's Brownsville district, meet in the Garment District to meet with Louis "Lepke" Buchalter, kingpin of an organized crime mob, who hires them as the syndicate's hit men.
Their first job is to kill Walter Sage (Morey Amsterdam), a Catskil... | depressing, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
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